Fashion Board 12-09-03 through 1-08-04

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch

(Especially when Penske is offering.)

If you must know, we also ordered a half-bottle of white.

And sorry, but the wine-pairing is for people incapable of making a decision on their own.

Concur. Are you free for dinner tomorrow night? I know where I can get a cheap plane ticket.

Penske

ps to Paigow: That was my entry for today's
"The Not So Inside Inside Joke of the Day That Isn't Really Funny"

What do I win?!?!?!

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
Well, it's all protein anyway.

Don't get the conversation rolling this way unless you are prepared to learn about the urea percentages in a shot of "protein". Word to the wise.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Hamilton has a series of re-releases of some of their classic watches from the 30s through the 50s, all under $500, and all quite nice. I have several of them and I love them all.

How many watches do you need? I have one dressy one and one sport, and no one sees either as I wear french cuffed shirts (go ahead, call me a fucking nancy boy). If I wasn't in dire need of the date, which I constantly forget, I'd probably have no reason to wear a watch at all.

I assume you're a collector.

Funniest thing is the automatic that is supposed to be such a mechanical materpiece runs fast and the dressy one with the quarts movement has been almost perfect.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
No.

So long as you pull out the platinum plastic tomorrow night after hours.

Fuck! You beat to The Not So Inside Inside Joke of the Day That Isn't Really Funny punch line! Bastard.

Maybe I'm just too preternaturally funny to win that award...

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Jack Manfred
As watches are so important, and as I'm in the market for a new one...

Can anyone suggest a day-date watch that doesn't look like something worn by a Bennigan's manager?

I don't go to Bennigan's, so I'm not exactly sure what you're looking for, but I am a fan of Hamilton watches. My brother wears this one:



edited to say: scroll, then post

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Not Me
Let's just use a bit of common sense here, eh? Do you have any idea what a woman who can eat like that looks like?

Yes. I married one. She's not fat. Ditto any number of other women I've had big, multi-course, expensive meals with.

Thin women are thin for a reason.

For a variety of reasons, sometimes including things like exercise and balancing a generally healthy diet with the occasional splurge.

And when you consistently don't eat like that, you cannot do it even on a special occassion.

On special occasions, I try to go places where you don't pay for food by its weight. Chateau Lafite does not have more calories than Thunderbird. And I make it a nice, long, relaxed meal with lots of conversation -- I can see why that option doesn't work for you.

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Don't get the conversation rolling this way unless you are prepared to learn about the urea percentages in a shot of "protein". Word to the wise.

I don't know that I've ever been called "wise" on this board before. A genius, yes. But wise? I'm flattered.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
How many watches do you need? I have one dressy one and one sport, and no one sees either as I wear french cuffed shirts (go ahead, call me a fucking nancy boy).

Gianni Agnelli wore his watch over his french cuffs.

[SlaveNoMore]

Sidd Finch
And sorry, but the wine-pairing is for people incapable of making a decision on their own.

Nonsense. You get paid to boss around my friends - and apparently you're good at it.

Whereas a sommelier gets paid a lot to match wines I've never heard of with my food.

It's called expertise.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
So long as you pull out the platinum plastic tomorrow night after hours.

Depends. Do you put out after a big meal?

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
And your point? I already said, I get a nice bottle of wine.

Speaking of "nice bottle of wine" I had a 2001 Caymus cab last night, and it was excellent. Since we went through two bottles, and three glasses of champagne, I'm guessing that the bill approached the $400-450 range, but there were four of us.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Nonsense. You get paid to boss around my friends - and apparently you're good at it.

Give it break, you already won today, do you have to rub it in?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by purse junkie
Right. The main thing wrong with spending $15k on a watch is that most of us can't.

Oh perfect little Gucci bag...no vapid society skeletor would ever love you so much as I....

Well neither a $500 dinner nor a $15k watch is as stupid as that rock you buy when you get engaged. A watch at least does something and dinner is generally enjoyable (unless its French cuisine, which is overpriced shit... call me a rube all you like, but French food is just fatty crap no other restaurant knows how to prepare and a bunch of desserts so rich you'd never eat them were you not at a "special French restuarant"), but a diamond does NOTHING. I love that the wife digs it, and that her friends think I have a good eye for picking stones, and I like the idea thatits a phycial manifestation of our marriage, but I think all those things could be accomplished much much more cheaply.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
I don't know that I've ever been called "wise" on this board before. A genius, yes. But wise? I'm flattered.

Word.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by bilmore
Probably. I just can't DO those Roman numeral thingies.

The difference, I think, is that I don't buy the mink potscrubber or the jewel-encrusted tent peg. A good tent peg is almost a zenlike thing, but adding rubies around the top and then speaking of value seems . . . well . . . different.

No, the difference, my hairy little friend, is that one has value to you and the other does not. Surely one so firmly in the libertarian camp as yourself can appreciate that value and utility as economic concepts are purely subjective.

Now quit picking on my prettty little toys, Fishface.