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

[NotFromHere]

On the other hand - McJob? Frankenfood? Is this in current usage enough for dictionary inclusion?

SPRINGFIELD, Mass., June 30 — A former dot-commer working a McJob was listening to some headbangers while laying out the last of his dead presidents for longnecks and some less than heart-healthy Frankenfood. Confused? Consult the new edition of the Collegiate Dictionary from the folks at Merriam-Webster.
ONCE A DECADE, Merriam-Webster updates its best-selling dictionary. The 11th edition, available in bookstores Tuesday, includes 10,000 new words and more than 100,000 new meanings and revisions among its 225,000 definitions.
Pop culture remains a vibrant source of new words, with such additions as “headbanger” (defined as both a hard rock musician and a fan), “dead presidents” (paper currency), “McJob” (low paying and dead-end work), “Frankenfood” (genetically engineered food) and “longneck” (beer served in a bottle with a long neck).
Some of the new words have been a longtime getting the widespread assimilation that merits a move from the unabridged dictionary to the Collegiate. The citation file on the Yiddish exclamation “oy,” for example, dates back to the immigrant waves of the 1890s. Others have zoomed into the language with the speed of the Internet.
Oy, get back to your McJob - full story here

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by evenodds
The LA Times reports on the new JAQK magazine:

JAQK (that's jack, ace, queen, and king) mag, due out next spring. His target reader is a gambling guy who likes to spend -- not bank -- his winnings. "I can see us doing stories on traveling in the south of France on 5,000 euros a day," says a JAQK editor, "or taking a two-week trip on the Trans-Siberian Railway or visiting all the best martini bars in the world."

http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/s...w29jun29.story

E5000 a day is a serious vacation. I wonder if they'll do the article about the guy who has to hitchhike back to LA from the south of France, because he blew all his vacation money in Monte Carlo on day 2.

I also like this tidbit:

JAQK will not be about physical risk, though — at least not about taking risks for the sheer adrenaline rush, for the thrill of living on the edge, close to danger. Skydiving, bungee-jumping and parasailing will find no place in JAQK.

"We're not interested in people who put their lives in peril for no real reason," says Mike Pesca, 31, the executive editor in charge of the Risk section of the magazine.

Lives in peril--who'd want to read about that? Money in peril-- That's a golden idea!

Isn't this Cigar Afficianado without a cover picture of a celebrity smoking a cigar?

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

MIA Chef has been spotted in Missouri:



Ollie (the "show me" state) Ramone

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by taxwonk

But I do not think I'm forever young, asshat. I am old. I like it. It gives me perspective. It gives me judgement. It reduces the time I have to spend on my hair. Best of all, it allows me to ignore stupid shit that the younger crowd thinks is so fucking important. Like appletinis, big ass clunky shoes that look amazingly like what janitors wear, dating in general, and worrying about whatever restaurant is trendy at the moment.

Call me a Peter Pan again, and I'll get ahold of your Mama and she'll have your ass chicken hawking in Times Square all summer vacation, you little piece of shit.

Love,

Taxwonk

Classic post.

Those clunky shoes are not attractive or stylish - they are clown shoes and they look like shit with a suit. Nothing says "dumb kid" like a nitwit in a Hugo Boss suit and fat thick soled clunkers. Not only are those wheels reminiscent of what a janitor would wear, they are also similar to the sort of medically corrective shoes worn by the elderly, handicapped and mentally retarded. I find it perfectly fitting that Kenneth Cole and Ferragamo have made a mint selling shoes for the retarded to the crowd of people who tend to buy those clunky shoes.

Fruity "martini" = fruity drinker. I'll have a bourbon on the rocks, my wife can have the fucking appletini. If you have a penis and you need your booze lathered in fruit juice, you probably give great head.

Trendy restaurants make me thank god I never "clubbed." Although it is damn funny to watch what passes for Eurotrash in Philly.

[str8outavannuys]

Hey gang. So after a 12 hour marathon yesterday that included 2 tournaments and a live game (net result -$85), I've decided again that I'm a compulsive gambler and am completely giving up the bet. Anyone have any luck in kicking addictions? Last time I gave up gambling, it was for three years and I did it myself. I attended 2 Gamblers' Anonymous meetings but didn't care for the heavy Christian overtones.

Anyways, I think (hope) that announcing here that June 30, 2003 is my last day of gambling and might help me hold to it. Besides, who needs poker when one is gambling for much higher stakes by buying a house at the height of the hottest house market in Los Angeles history?

str8.

[purse junkie]

I'm sad that the word "comb-over" even needs to exist enough to be included in the new edition.

Gentlemen, please don't do it, ever. Because one of these days I will have an aggressive flash of sympathy and have to assault some sap and shave his head in the street rather'n let him continue to live that way.

P(tho' I know I needn't lecture the Board metrosexuals on this point)J

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys

Anyways, I think (hope) that announcing here that June 30, 2003 is my last day of gambling and might help me hold to it. Besides, who needs poker when one is gambling for much higher stakes by buying a house at the height of the hottest house market in Los Angeles history?

str8.

I bet you can't quit.

(Sorry, couldn't resist)

[NotFromHere]

Hey Leagl...Bill Frist says you're a criminal in your own home. You gonna take that? I know this seems like a topic for politics, but since he has a "comb-over" I thought it would be appropriate here. But move it if you'd like.

WASHINGTON, June 30 — The Senate majority leader said Sunday he supports a proposed constitutional amendment to ban homosexual marriage in the United States.
SEN. BILL FRIST, R-Tenn., said the Supreme Court’s decision last week on gay sex threatens to make the American home a place where criminality is condoned.
The court on Thursday threw out a Texas law that prohibited acts of sodomy between homosexuals in a private home, saying that such a prohibition violates the defendants’ privacy rights under the Constitution. The ruling invalidated the Texas law and similar statutes in 12 other states.
“I have this fear that this zone of privacy that we all want protected in our own homes is gradually — or I’m concerned about the potential for it gradually being encroached upon, where criminal activity within the home would in some way be condoned,” Frist told ABC’s “This Week.”
“And I’m thinking of — whether it’s prostitution or illegal commercial drug activity in the home — ... to have the courts come in, in this zone of privacy, and begin to define it gives me some concern.”
Asked whether he supported an amendment that would ban any marriage in the United States except a union of a man and a woman, Frist said: “I absolutely do, of course I do.
Do you really need to amend the constitution?

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Sparklehorse
Slate, jumping off the NYTimes piece, also has something posted on metrosexuality. It borders on beating a dead horse to post but I loved this line: You can be girly and a pig, watch a Pamela Anderson cartoon while doing your nails.

Well, shit. If it's in Slate, it ain't counterculture any more. We need a hip new FB-cool term to describe metrosexuality, lest the coin lose its lustre by excessive prole handling.

I vote for "wax fruit."

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Hey Leagl...Bill Frist says you're a criminal in your own home. You gonna take that? I know this seems like a topic for politics, but since he has a "comb-over" I thought it would be appropriate here. But move it if you'd like.

WASHINGTON, June 30 — The Senate majority leader said Sunday he supports a proposed constitutional amendment to ban homosexual marriage in the United States.
SEN. BILL FRIST, R-Tenn., said the Supreme Court’s decision last week on gay sex threatens to make the American home a place where criminality is condoned.

What an idiot. Threaten to make having jailbait mistresses on the side truly criminal and half the goddamned Congress'll have to back off. What is the freakin' fuss over this issue?

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by purse junkie
What an idiot. Threaten to make having jailbait mistresses on the side truly criminal and half the goddamned Congress'll have to back off. What is the freakin' fuss over this issue?

Apparently Bill's never had a "Lewinsky" or else he's not sure what all sodomy includes.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Well, shit. If it's in Slate, it ain't counterculture any more. We need a hip new FB-cool term to describe metrosexuality, lest the coin lose its lustre by excessive prole handling.

I vote for "wax fruit."

I think being in the Chicago Trib is worse than Slate. Middle America knows about it now...

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
“I have this fear that this zone of privacy that we all want protected in our own homes is gradually — or I’m concerned about the potential for it gradually being encroached upon, where criminal activity within the home would in some way be condoned,” Frist told ABC’s “This Week.”

So well spoken.

But I'm still confused. What do we want protected "in our own homes"? I didn't realize Mr. Frist owned the home in which Mr. Lawrence was buggering Mr. Garner. Indeed, I thought that Mr. Lawrence owned the home. Perhaps Mr. Frist believes in communal ownership of property.*

Whatever it is, I'm sure it's well thought out, because you can't rise to a position of leadership in today's GOP on Christian demogoguery and illicit kitten vivisection alone.

*It's a well-known fact that homosexuals are always asking for special rights, like the right to own private property.

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Hey Leagl...Bill Frist says you're a criminal in your own home. You gonna take that? I know this seems like a topic for politics, but since he has a "comb-over" I thought it would be appropriate here. But move it if you'd like.

Yeah well, I can't help it if he doesn't like it when I go down on my girlfriend(s). What does he want from me? Tickets to the show?

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
So well spoken.

But I'm still confused. What do we want protected "in our own homes"? I didn't realize Mr. Frist owned the home in which Mr. Lawrence was buggering Mr. Garner. Indeed, I thought that Mr. Lawrence owned the home. Perhaps Mr. Frist believes in communal ownership of property.*

Whatever it is, I'm sure it's well thought out, because you can't rise to a position of leadership in today's GOP on Christian demogoguery and illicit kitten vivisection alone.

*It's a well-known fact that homosexuals are always asking for special rights, like the right to own private property.

You're right. It is confusing. It sounds like he's saying that he is afraid that the zone of privacy is being encroached upon - in the same breath he wants the zone of privacy eliminated but just for homosexuals. If he's going after criminal activity in the home...what will become of my meth lab?