Fashion Board 1-08-04 through 02-03-04

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by spookyfish
Will this board allow you to use umlauts?

How about tildes?

Just wondering.

Coltrane used umlauts on Politics, but he copied them in.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
The only thing that gets my goat is that by talking the Yankees out of offering him arbitration "just in case" - he prevented the Yankees from getting compensatory draft picks from the Astros. That is a dick move.

Otherwise, I (and Thurgreed, I'm sure) stand by this assessment:

2003:
Mussina, Pettite, Clemens, Wells, Weaver

2004:
Mussina, Vasquez, Brown, Contreres, Lieber.

But for Mussina, we've gotten better at every spot in the rotation. And but for Lieber, we've gotten a lot younger, too.

And to think that I refrained from posting a Yankees Schadenfreude Haiku (tm) about Roger yesterday out of sympathy for you people.*

But, come on. This "we have a better rotation now" thing? Do you actually believe that? I will bet you a beer -- no, a bottle of Black Bushmills -- that not one of the "new/2004" pitchers in the above rotations you listed will match the wins of the "old/2003" pitchers. And that includes comparing Mussina 2004 to Mussina 2003. (Yeah, I'm taking a risk with leaving Weaver in there, but I'll stand by it.)

Hey, maybe George can get some revenge on the Astros by signing Mike "I have no idea how those scuffs got on the ball" Scott. Or Nolan Ryan.

*And by "you people," I mean "Yankee fans" in general. Not just slave and TM.

Originally posted by spookyfish
Will this board allow you to use umlauts?

How about tildes?

Just wondering.

My actual job continues to be more compelling. Purse Junkie, why don't you tell us about some of your recent purse purchases?

[Watchtower]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Lightbulb here.

So PJ is anti-Christian and you're anti-intellectual.

What is a Christian intellectual to do on these boards?

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
For some mysterious reason, I never got spam from the beastiality porn websites, etc.

If it makes you feel any better, people in the midwest farming states never got those kinds of spam.

Too close to home, I think.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
That's Bürger to you.

Re: Umlauts, I guess so.

Shouldn't that be Bürger-meister?

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by evenodds
Since today's posts are less interesting than Paigow's actual job, here is a job-related poll:

If you could have any job (with lack of talent or experience being no bar to success), what would you choose?

First baseman, mid-market major league baseball team. Aw, screw it, make me a starting pitcher. More realistically though (I did it in college), hockey play-by-play announcer.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by Watchtower
So PJ is anti-Christian and you're anti-intellectual.

What is a Christian intellectual to do on these boards?

It's anti-intellectual to stomp a light bulb?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
what is really surprising is that Hey Ya is such a popular song bc it sucks. Actually, that isnt surprising. Its the Jim Carrey of songs

Hey ya is still hot and rising. Its suckiness makes it more the Will Farrell than the Jim Carrey.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by Watchtower
What is a Christian intellectual to do on these boards?

Look up "oxymoron" in the dictionary, and get back to us.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
what is really surprising is that Hey Ya is such a popular song bc it sucks. Actually, that isnt surprising. Its the Jim Carrey of songs

It was played at a $75,000 bat mitzvah* I attended recently. I could not shake it like a Polaroid picture, so instead I shook it like I'm at a bat mitzvah, which comports better with my dance floor skills anyway.

Contrary to expectations, neither Beyonce nor Lucy Liu got on the floor. (Hi str8!)

*I hate to perpetuate stereotypes, but there was a lot more open speculation about what things cost than at any goy event I've ever attended. Of course, the subject is a lot less interesting when your parents dropped over $400 on your First Holy Communion brunch, since much of that was spent on the sheet cake.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by purse junkie
It's anti-intellectual to stomp a light bulb?

Lightbulbs are the universal symbol of coming to a realization. Hence, anti-intellectual. Or, that's what I got out of it. Even though sometimes lightbulbs appear over the tops of dumb people's heads when at 35 they realize that Mom and Dad are filling the stockings at Xmas.

[SlaveNoMore]

paigowprincess
what is really surprising is that Hey Ya is such a popular song bc it sucks. Actually, that isnt surprising. Its the Jim Carrey of songs

This, coming from the Regis Philbin of posters.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
the Regis Philbin of posters.

an annoying sidekick that outlives them all, and eventually becomes very popular?

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Watchtower
What is a Christian intellectual to do on these boards?

Step into the light, and bathe in the warm glow. It is love itself. Welcome to Fu.