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Oliver_Wendell_Ramone · 04-07-2003, 06:02 PM

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Originally posted by purse junkie
I have this image of a verging-on-long-in-the-tooth woman secretly terrified of age and inevitable decay cavorting endlessly in front of a mirror chanting, "I'm so hot! I'm so hot! I'm still so hot!"

Interesting. I, otoh, have this image of a youthful metrosexual in Seattle chuckling over his sock drawer.

andViolins · 04-07-2003, 06:02 PM

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Originally posted by paigowprincess
Ah, DC. Our nation's SLUT capital*

*Short Little Umbrella Toters.

Something like this?

ABBAKiss · 04-07-2003, 06:03 PM

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Originally posted by JustForFun
JFF making the whole thing even stupider

My point was, everyone looks "similar to" to everyone else in one way or another. Post a picture of your actual self, or shut up about it.

bilmore · 04-07-2003, 06:03 PM

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Originally posted by JustForFun
. . . However, every pic I find that shows a woman with defined abs, the woman has arms that are too bulky compared to mine.

Great. Another pencil-armed aging skeletor who couldn't do a pull-up if her shoes were on fire. Just what we need. (We need better icons.)

evenodds · 04-07-2003, 06:04 PM

Caro, Adams Win Arts Pulitzers
By ERIN McCLAM, Associated Press Writer

"NEW YORK - The 2003 Pulitzer Prize for biography was awarded Monday to Robert A. Caro for "Master of the Senate," the third volume of his biography of Lyndon Johnson.

It was the second Pulitzer captured by Caro, who won in 1975 for his acclaimed biography "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York."

"Master of the Senate" won the National Book Award in November. The third of four planned volumes, it deals with Johnson's rise from his election to national office in the late 1940s to his ascension as Senate majority leader in 1954.

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The prize for fiction went to "Middlesex," by Jeffrey Eugenides, a Detroit native now living in Berlin with his wife and daughter. His first novel, "The Virgin Suicides," was an international best seller. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...pulitzers_arts

taxwonk · 04-07-2003, 06:05 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
No, I meant fundamental appeal in a basic, primal sense; that Marilyn's vulnerability taps into, for some men, a protective urge, which may be mixed with sexual desire.

Like you, I don't think she was the single icon of beauty, just one icon (as in image, symbol, or emblem). Personally, I don't get it.

I'd rather be Lauren Bacall or Audrey Hepburn any day.

I'd take it one step further. Not only is there not just one icon or fundamental notion of beauty, there isn't a fundamental form.

I agree that I would probabaly find Liv Tyler more attractive than Mia in a lingerie photo spread, I would not either one out from under the covers. And I certainly wouldn't go attributing some inherent moral or social superiority to Liv based on her dress size.

They both have the same eyes, capable of being both innocent and alluring at the same time. And those are what I find myself drawn to to begin with.

I just find the whole obssession with size rEdiculous to begin with. Too much either way is unattractive.

robustpuppy · 04-07-2003, 06:07 PM

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Originally posted by evenodds
Caro, Adams Win Arts Pulitzers

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...pulitzers_arts

And today's from the ridiculous to the sublime award goes to evenodds!

JustForFun · 04-07-2003, 06:08 PM

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Originally posted by ABBAKiss
My point was, everyone looks "similar to" to everyone else in one way or another. Post a picture of your actual self, or shut up about it.

ABBAKiss, the brillance of your post is unrivaled. Why don't we all post pictures of ourselves, and if we don't, then none of us can make any comments about how we look IRL, 'kay?

ABBAKiss · 04-07-2003, 06:10 PM

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Originally posted by JustForFun
ABBAKiss, the brillance of your post is unrivaled. Why don't we all post pictures of ourselves, and if we don't, then none of us can make any comments about how we look IRL, 'kay?

Terrific!

Tyrone Slothrop · 04-07-2003, 06:12 PM

Haven't read any of the LBJ books, but the Caro book about Robert Moses (

) is amazing. Huge, but amazing. It explains so much of why New York is designed the way it is (usually because that's what Moses wanted to do). And Moses' personal story is a little like King Lear. At 1246 pages, not to pick up if you've got JFF's biceps, but it's very compelling.

ThurgreedMarshall · 04-07-2003, 06:16 PM

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Originally posted by lawyer_princess
As much as I love Marilyn, I doubt that she would have made it today. Her sex appeal developed over time, and I just don't think she would get her foot in the door. Norma Jean was a very pretty girl, but the world is full of super skinny pretty girls.

Did you click on this link? Because if you did, you would see what I'm saying. This body with her face would not be turned down today. She looks 100 times better than paltrow in this picture:
http://www.marilynmonroe.ca/camera/galleries/costumes/

TM

SlaveNoMore · 04-07-2003, 06:18 PM

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Originally posted by JustForFun
Why don't we all post pictures of ourselves, and if we don't, then none of us can make any comments about how we look IRL, 'kay?

We did last year on FB naked day. Don't tell me you weren't there, dude?

not7y(I'm sure this guy has those photos on his C drive)S

Flinty_McFlint · 04-07-2003, 06:19 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
A group of friends were raving recently about Sealab 2021. I think that "best thing on TV" was used at one point during the discussion. Note: 100% of the ravers were male. I have no idea if that statistic is relevant to adoration of the show.

The Brak Show, Aqua Teen Hungerforce and Sealab 2021 are all pretty funny, Sealab 2021 being the funniest IMHO. But also check out Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law--I think it's sometimes the funniest of the bunch, but I'm probably biased. 15 minute segments, just like the above--one episode was a dead on satire of The Sopranos, except it starred Fred Flintstone. Check it out sometime.

robustpuppy · 04-07-2003, 06:19 PM

I ventured over to Stalinboard today and caught sight of the following moniker:

Once Hugo Black

Funny, offensive, not offensive but distasteful, whaddaya think?

lawyer_princess · 04-07-2003, 06:56 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Did you click on this link? Because if you did, you would see what I'm saying. This body with her face would not be turned down today. She looks 100 times better than paltrow in this picture:
http://www.marilynmonroe.ca/camera/galleries/costumes/

TM

Yes, I had clicked on it. I guess we'll never know.