Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by evenodds
Putting aside our own personal feelings about the (mis)representations about the site, it is a fascinating story of corporate public relations. Essentially, it's a puff piece for West, engendered to reinforce their image to law firm managers who might have been concerned about West's involvement in the GAs after so many state bar journals wrote about the spilt, and drew the connection in the first place.

I say, well done, Heather. She used enough quotes to not make it look as if she cut and pasted their entire press release.

Heh. Frankly, I had been waiting for something like this to happen. I figured all the other articles good such a good job of conveying our point of view, sooner or later someone would just say, hey they wanted to curse so they left. Or worse.

[evenodds]

This morning, I awoke and tried to unravel the disturbing dream I had last night that I had cheated on the OddMan with a member of the New Jersey Nets.

Inside the dream, I kept wondering why was I having an affair, and why with Richard Jefferson, since he is a child.

Fully awake, I realized it was from watching Unfaithful last night, and then falling asleep to sports center while waiting for the OddMan to call from Canada.

Unfaithful is an interesting movie that could have been great had it been directed by anyone other than Adrian Lyne. Diane Lane is extraordinary and fully deserved all of the accolades bestowed upon her for that performance.

Just don't watch it too close to bedtime . . .


Edited to specify which Net, at the suggestion of one of our more perverse members (Leagl) who assumed I had an affair with the entire team.

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
from realityblurred --

Taking a break from finding America's most something somebody, NBC's debuts For Love or Money tonight. The show follows a bachelor's search for a partner from a group of "15 beautiful girls [who] come for love but are surprised to learn in the first episode that there is also a million dollar prize at stake -- but the winner and the bachelor will not know that she ultimately must choose between the man of her dreams or $1 million." The show's bachelor is a 33-year-old laywer, Rob, and his 15 suitors all appear to have nearly the exact same haircut.

Why are there so many lawyers on these shows, do you think?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by evenodds
Putting aside our own personal feelings about the (mis)representations about the site, it is a fascinating story of corporate public relations. Essentially, it's a puff piece for West, engendered to reinforce their image to law firm managers who might have been concerned about West's involvement in the GAs after so many state bar journals wrote about the spilt, and drew the connection in the first place.

I say, well done, Heather. She used enough quotes to not make it look as if she cut and pasted their entire press release.

E/O, you summed it up perfectly.

The article wasn't meant to be informative. In fact, it wasn't even really an article. It was a piece on Westlaw. We just happened to be in it.

And NotBob, this:

"Finally, it is possible that Heather wrote a superb, balanced, informative, and detailed story, which was promptly sliced and diced by an editor to fit the mold."

makes no sense to me. Who cares? Blaming the author or the editor or the primary shareholder of Law.com really isn't the point. The point is they screwed up the article and didn't even attempt to address the real reasons behind the move. Hell, Leagle said they had our side of the story but decided to treat that as "background." What? Clearly she approached the story from one side only. Our side of the story is not background to Westlaw's side. If you don't tell it properly, or at all, you don't have a news article. You have an advertisment for WestLaw.

TM

[leagleaze]

Ah well.

What do they say, any publicity is good publicity?

Perhaps those similarly inclined (or at least very foul mouthed?) will come join us

The last time we had an article in a major publication we got 100+ new members. We'll have to see what happens.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Why are there so many lawyers on these shows, do you think?

Too socially retarded from excessive life-hours spent billing to be able to get a date the normal way. Plus, who doesn't want a harem of avaricious attractive bimbos offering sexual favors in exchange for a chance at a 'win'?

[evenodds]

Originally posted by purse junkie
Too socially retarded from excessive life-hours spent billing to be able to get a date the normal way. Plus, who doesn't want a harem of avaricious attractive bimbos offering sexual favors in exchange for a chance at a 'win'?

Plus in our cultural shorthand "attorney" means wealthy and smart.

[dtb]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Other women's saying yes raises a new host of worries (disease, pregnancy, hubby thinking with his little head and dissipating the marital assets, etc.)

I have read that a cheap husband is statistically the least likely to cheat on his wife (which, if true, there is one less thing I have to worry about...)

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by leagleaze
... sooner or later someone would just say, hey they wanted to curse so they left. Or worse.

Sounds like a good time to go forward with the online dating idea.

[Seven of Nine]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Heather and I spoke at length about our reasons for leaving...

t sure was a funny thing when he said it originally, but it doesn't look like she is using it as a joke to me. It rather looks to be a continued attack upon us for using foul language.

In that case, FUCK HEATHER.



Seven (pardon my French) of Nine

[Connect_the_Dots]

Originally posted by dtb
I have read that a cheap husband is statistically the least likely to cheat on his wife (which, if true, there is one less thing I have to worry about...)

Actually, I think an unattractive husband is the least likely to cheat. I don't know if it's because ugly people are inherently more moral because suffering actually does build character; or it may just be that no one wants to sleep with ugly people.

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by Connect_the_Dots
Actually, I think an unattractive husband is the least likely to cheat. I don't know if it's because ugly people are inherently more moral because suffering actually does build character; or it may just be that no one wants to sleep with ugly people.

How do you explain Springer, Ricki, Jenny, etc. then? I recently caught a portion of Maury Povich (it must have been Memorial Day?) in which some really ugly young husband cheated on an equally freaky looking young wife with some other chick from their town. The wife was even more upset than she otherwise would have been, she said, because the mistress "has no effing nose."

?????

Apparently this woman has some disorder where she has no protuding portion of her nose, just two holes. She was apparently the town whore, so someone wanted to sleep with the ugly girl.

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
They also seem to have trained him to have a Joe Millionaire look as much as possible.

That said, the outcome was made rather clear when he told Katie Couric that if she had been on the show, he would have picked her. Sure, he's kissing up and probably being facetious, but that doesn't sound like a man who found true love. And if he did, true love took the money and ran. Wouldn't you? I mean, $1m vs. a guy you met only a few weeks before? You can buy a lot of love with $1m.

How about some spoiler space, asshole?

Did you try out for the show?

[bridge of love]

Originally posted by Connect_the_Dots
Actually, I think an unattractive husband is the least likely to cheat. ...........it may just be that no one wants to sleep with ugly people.

this theory is like communism, it sounds good on paper but.....
I know some really ugly people who cheat. it may be that cheating is tawdry, and the really ugly learn to accept tawdry as the standard early on, so cheating is normal, and the ugly thus sleep together with less inhibition, or reliance on society's institutions like marriage.

[evenodds]

Perhaps "Deco" will be the cocktail of Summer 2003:

Potent Absinthe Mix Stirs Up Controversy

LONDON (Reuters) - Absinthe, the fiery tipple with purported hallucinogenic properties, has stirred up fresh controversy in Britain where it will go on sale in nightclubs and bars next month packaged to be mixed with beer.

"Deco" comes with a small bottle of Kronenbourg lager with a shot of absinthe attached. The idea is to down the 45 percent-strong absinthe and drink the five-percent strength lager as a chaser.

Popularly held responsible for painter Vincent Van Gogh's mutilation of his own ear, absinthe has been banned in many countries but was never outlawed in Britain.

Full text: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...in_absinthe_dc