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

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch

Plus, Swatch just opened some glitzy new stores here. Brace yourself. No doubt you'll get premiums for "vintage" on eBay.

Probably outable, but what the hell. A couple of years ago, the band of my watch broke when I was in Vegas, so I picked up a Swatch in the Swatch store in Ceasers. I have since picked up five or six swatches and ten or twenty bands, and I haven't yet bothered to get the band on my (nicer) watch repaired. I have been told that a swatch store opened in the new wing of the Galleria, so I'll be able to do my swatch shopping locally. I mix and match the bands with my outfits, and I always get compliments/comments on them.

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Probably outable, but what the hell. A couple of years ago, the band of my watch broke when I was in Vegas, so I picked up a Swatch in the Swatch store in Ceasers. I have since picked up five or six swatches and ten or twenty bands, and I haven't yet bothered to get the band on my (nicer) watch repaired. I have been told that a swatch store opened in the new wing of the Galleria, so I'll be able to do my swatch shopping locally. I mix and match the bands with my outfits, and I always get compliments/comments on them.

PLF can now flounce about with a new watch because Swatch has launched a line of watches called "Irony."

http://www.swatch.com/fs_index.php?h...ns&unter=irony

[purse junkie]

They came, they fought, they went out for ice cream together:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/....ap/index.html

(Spree: rather disconcerting photo of monster tot)

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
To paraphrase the first Austin Powers movie, "I can't believe George Michael is gay. Never saw that one coming. Women loved him..." NTTAWWT

Watching VH-1 Classic (no, I don't own stock) with the wife, she turns to me during "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" and says, "How did we not know?" The next six videos answered her question --- they all looked like that in 1984.

Except Eddie Van Halen.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by purse junkie
(Spree: rather disconcerting photo of monster tot)

He's getting aggressively recruited by the 4-H. No word yet on whether it's as a contender or as livestock.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Watching VH-1 Classic (no, I don't own stock) with the wife, she turns to me during "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" and says, "How did we not know?" The next six videos answered her question --- they all looked like that in 1984.

Except Eddie Van Halen.

Reminds me of a line from Curb Your Enthusiasm: larry and jeff, discussing a married HBO executive who was so traumatized after larry jokingly called him a "c**t" for failing to play a great poker hand that he had to take a leave of absence and explore his life --

Larry: "they all thought he was an effeminate heterosexual ..."
Jeff: (shaking his head knowingly) "there's no such thing!"
Larry: "exactly, there's no such thing!"

NTTAWWT.

This show, it's like a new lover for me. I can't stop thinking about it, everything it does is wonderful, it always makes me laugh, I can't wait to see it when I get home ...

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
My guess is that Dat will be the next to go, and if he's smart, he'll go head to head with Geoff, who is also on thin ice.

Geoff is smarter than that, as he proved this week - no way he votes for Dat and sets himself up to be challenged. He votes for one of the alliance.

[NotFromHere]

OK, first the idiot terrorists have made it impossible to wear clothing to the airport. First you had to take of your coat. Now it's shoes - ALL shoes. Then they swab the purse for narcotics. Don't even wear a belt. I'm coming naked next time.

Now, idiots at the ballpark will what? Make it so I have to walk through a metal detector to go to a game, walk by the bomb sniffing dogs, take off my coat and shoes? Confiscate my cell phone? What idiot decides to bring an M-80 to a ballgame and then light it?

From SF Gate
Poor crowd behavior at the Coliseum is an ongoing trend. Tuesday's game was interrupted briefly in the third inning when a "cherry bomb" was thrown from the third deck and exploded in the first deck behind the A's bullpen, injuring an 8-year-old boy.

"The first thing I thought was that it was a gun, that's what it sounded like," outfielder Terrence Long said.

The boy was taken to a local hospital with burns on his legs, and Coliseum security personnel quickly took a suspect into custody, according to Jim Young,

the A's director of public relations. One security officer said there were three perpetrators, all teenagers, but that two were minors.
In April, a patron threw a cell phone at Texas outfielder Carl Everett, hitting him in the head, and the same week a fan was involved in a scuffle in the stands and then bit a police officer's finger down to the bone.

"The fans here get a bad rap, but we've got great fans, true fans," Long said. "It's the people that come to one game in a blue moon who throw cell phones and fireworks, a couple people who are jerks, that make all the fans look bad, but it's not true."


idiots everywhere ruining my life

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
I've had this problem because the site doesn't seem to update the cookie to recognize my most recent visit. The little box on the left of the home page will say "you have one new message" until I've hit "mark all forums read." Also true of the "new posts" indicator.

Any idea why the cookie isn't updating?

Yes, because the cookie actually lasts for a period of time and then it expires. Presently it lasts for 2000 seconds. It is the same reason the flashing image that shows you that a thread has a new post stays up even though you read the post already. It doesn't respond to the fact you read the post, it responds to the cookie expiring.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
OK, first the idiot terrorists have made it impossible to wear clothing to the airport. First you had to take of your coat. Now it's shoes - ALL shoes. Then they swab the purse for narcotics. Don't even wear a belt. I'm coming naked next time.

Now, idiots at the ballpark will what? Make it so I have to walk through a metal detector to go to a game, walk by the bomb sniffing dogs, take off my coat and shoes? Confiscate my cell phone? What idiot decides to bring an M-80 to a ballgame and then light it?

From SF Gate
Poor crowd behavior at the Coliseum is an ongoing trend. Tuesday's game was interrupted briefly in the third inning when a "cherry bomb" was thrown from the third deck and exploded in the first deck behind the A's bullpen, injuring an 8-year-old boy.

You go to the Oakland Coliseum, you takes your chances.

What I want to know is, what the hell is up with the restrictions on driving at the airport. Does someone think that forcing cars to circle instead of letting you sit at the curb by passenger arrivals is going to stop international terrorism? If I wanted to kill a lot of people with a car bomb at the airport, I'd drive to the curb and blow the car up. I wouldn't idle there for several minutes first. WTF?

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Larry: "they all thought he was an effeminate heterosexual ..."
Jeff: (shaking his head knowingly) "there's no such thing!"
Larry: "exactly, there's no such thing!"

Has anyone seen the promos on Bravo for their new reality show starting soon, in which a group of fashion-sensitive gay men will completely re-do a schlumpy straight guy?

If they would take on the endlessly proper-but-bland Dockers-and-golf-polo crowd up this way, I would be quite grateful.

[leagleaze]

Well, it seems all is well in the land of Leagl's house again. The cats are happy, the little one is no longer making strange noises and whacking the bigger one, the bigger one still looks a little confused.

It must have been the bath.

Freaky.

Anyway thanks everyone for the advice. As it turned out, it just took care of itself.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
PLF can now flounce about . . .

Nice try.

Everyone knows he prances, not flounces.

[MisterEbola]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I wonder if he has any precognative abilities.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I missed the first two weeks. The first half of the show, the comics are working for exemptions. Last week they had to bring their own audience (i.e. recruit random people on the street in Venice Beach) to a comedy show later that day. Apparently this is something very new comics have to do when they're starting out. Tess won that exemption. This week, they had to pitch a sit-com to a focus group, and the focus group got to decide which pitch was the best idea. Dat, the only comic who has admitted to wanting to be on a sit-com, won the exemption. In the second half of the show, the comics challenge (each comic states affirmatively that he or she knows that he or she is funnier than another comic) one another, and the person who gets the most challenges gets to go head to head with any one of the comics that challenged em. The challenger and challengee do their acts in front of a live audience, who votes to decide which one is funnier. The loser goes home.

Dat is funny on stage, and I agree with Ollie that he may prove tougher to oust than the coalition thinks, but he's an unfunny person on his off time. Last week he showed the group his journal, complete with graphics, that noted each routine that he's done over the years, how many laughs each joke got, and how long the audience laughed. He was completely serious.

My god! He is that asshole in law school who still outlines in this third year. Who starts outlining the first week of law school. But who always got Bs and Cs anyway. Takes things way too seriously and works way too hard and makes the life enjoying types a little nervous. I hate him!

So what happens after the are down to the final six or whatever? Doesnt the show change?