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

[Sparklehorse]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Yeah, in Woostah. Were you wearing your faux ripped acid washed jeans with the comb in the back pocket, authentic Patriots varsity jacket and black reeboks when you drank Zima, you wicked cool guy?

What's the source of your obsession with Worcester? I'm curious, particularly since there are plenty of small cities in CT that also have blue collar populations that you could be ridiculing. Your jokes need some diversity.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Respectable people did not used to appear any the less respectable as a concession to summer heat. They had summer wardrobes made of lighter materials, but these featured the same items as their winter counterparts, including ties and jackets, long skirts and stockings.

This whole problem can be avoided by spending the summer in San Francisco. (Cue the Mark Twain quote.) Sometimes when the fog burns off, we find tourists in shorts with chattering teeth, warming their hands over burning Fodor's guides.

Originally posted by Sparklehorse
What's the source of your obsession with Worcester? I'm curious, particularly since there are plenty of small cities in CT that also have blue collar populations that you could be ridiculing. Your jokes need some diversity.

It aint about blue collardom. Its just that Woostah is the mother of all Massholes, a very unique breed of americana.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
People are constantly shocked to learn I am hetero.

I get that all the time too, NTTAWWT. Apparently because I'm annoyed by sexism and only get around to wearing makeup other than lipstick on weekends, if then.

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
SONOFABITCH. Where was the spoiler space?

1. You were the one who was making predictions on here about the match.

2. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't recall us ever using spoilers space for sporting events, even those held elsewhere in the world, and I specifically recall no such spoiler space being used during last year's Tour De France, last year's World Cup, or last year's British Open.

Edited to add that I am not opposed to it (as it detracted from my enjoyment of last year's Tour), but it didn't occurred to me to do so and it wasn't done maliciously (sorry to disappoint).

[Connect_the_Dots]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
People are constantly shocked to learn I am hetero.

Maybe somtimes you are unintentionally sending out something that they sometimes pick up on some of their gaydars. When someone is a gay, that someone is sometimes the last to know--unless they make gay urine-drinking movies in law school for $2500, those people usually know pretty early on.

Originally posted by purse junkie
I get that all the time too, NTTAWWT. Apparently because I'm annoyed by sexism and only get around to wearing makeup other than lipstick on weekends, if then.

For me it is my recently shorn hair (very short), and my rather muscular physique. NTTAWWT. I wish I was gay. But vaginas are just too weird for me to go there.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic

Ah, well. Miss Manners doesn't pretend that hers is the prevailing taste. If it were, the bustle would be back, and ladies could use their stair machines to practice walking with a train.

Why any woman would advocate bringing back the bustle is beyond me. Anything that makes my ass bigger is not going to be enthusiastically received in these (hind)quarters.

[Connect_the_Dots]

Originally posted by purse junkie
I get that all the time too, NTTAWWT. Apparently because I'm annoyed by sexism and only get around to wearing makeup other than lipstick on weekends, if then.

Could there a sub-concious reason that you picked an avatar that is based on someone who is, arguably, the first gay cartoon character on television? I say "arguably" because there are those that would say--incorrectly--that Batman and Robin were the first cartoon gay couple. You know, Bruce is the rich bachelor and "Dick" Ward is his live-in boy toy and they play around in masks and belts and tools in a cave that looks suspiciously like an S&M dungeon. Clearly this is the result of an overactive imagination. THere are a million reasons that a single millionaire would take in a teen boy and make him wear a mask and run around a dark cave in spandex. I can't think of any off the top of my head but there must be a lot of them.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
I wish I was gay.

Lisa Marie Presley recently said something similar in an interview. Of course, having previously been married to MJ, going out with an actual woman wouldn't be much of a stretch.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
The biggest shock I can cause is telling people I'm a transactional attorney. People are shocked or flat-out don't believe me. This applies to everyone. Rich, poor, black, white, young, old. Although, based on experience, I can spot a Biglaw lawyer from 50 feet (and can identify one from earshot as easy as pie), I fail to understand what it is about lawyers that make regular people think they all look the same. Hell, there are more lawyers, than rats (may be hard to tell the two apart, but I digress), why wouldn't people think we come in all shapes, colors, sizes and personality types?

TM

It's funny when people are shocked that I'm an attorney and when I ask why, they don't know what to say. One person said that I don't seem bitchy enough. Another person (this dentist - not my regular dentist - a specialist) looked flustered and said I was too pretty to be a lawyer. I suppose there was a compliment in there somewhere. Another person said I was too young (not knowing my age). Mostly people just say some variation of "you just don't seem the type to be a lawyer" - I suppose because they think lawyers are all very aggressive and I'm not really. I guess I just do a good job of hiding the fact that I'm an uberbitch.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by purse junkie
I get that all the time too, NTTAWWT. Apparently because I'm annoyed by sexism and only get around to wearing makeup other than lipstick on weekends, if then.

You sure it isn't because you look like Velma?

I think that people are often surprised that I am an attorney, but when they hear that I am transactional, it usually appeases them. Single men assume that I am a lot younger than I actually am, and are surprised when I tell them my age (even after they know that I am a lawyer who has been doing it for a few years). Of course I take that as a complement.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by LessinSF
last year's Tour De France

Edited to add that I am not opposed to it (as it detracted from my enjoyment of last year's Tour), but it didn't occurred to me to do so and it wasn't done maliciously (sorry to disappoint).

We should certainly enforce spoiler space for any European sporting event people watch on tape.

Speaking of the Tour, it's official that Cipo will not be invited.

E/O

[pony_trekker]

Is funnier than shit. (Can I say that here?) My nephew is now real buddy buddy with all those guys. IF I had money I would back that director in a movie.

[Anne Elk]

People are shocked at my age (assume that I am 10-15 years younger), and at the fact that Mr. Elk and I are of different races.