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

[Beelzebubba]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
I will run off with the stripper I met this weekend instead. I will....)

But does she squirt?

http://nerve.com/regulars/ididitfors...dex.asp?page=1

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
WAsn't there big national coverage of allowing judges to pack heat a few years back?

No, that was airline pilots.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
What's "judge" got to do (got to do) with it? I believe Texas has concealed carry laws. So I could be packing heat in my purse. You might keep that in mind if we ever meet (in TX).

I once received a lovely catalog in the mail containing stylish and ladylike holsters/handbags for your gun (pink leather armpit holster, anyone?). I believe because I once ordered a cop I know a cheerful "old-fashioned corner policeman helping a kiddie" type Christmas ornament.

Anyway, tempted as I was from an accessories standpoint, alas I do not own firearms.

[NotFromHere]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sazerac

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
If I were homeless, ... In fact, I'd pick LA.

I agree. Those homeless in the park by the pier in Santa Monica look pretty damn content.

I knew a guy who ran away from home as a teenager, hooked up with an older gentleman who travelled to Hawaii with him as a "companion" who then decided to stay. He lived on the beaches of Maui for a year. That's what you gotta do if you're homeless.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
No, that was airline pilots.

That's this year. I'm waiting for Sidd to come back with a report. But maybe it was loosening (further) the concealed weapons laws of Texas, or soemthing.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
That's this year. I'm waiting for Sidd to come back with a report. But maybe it was loosening (further) the concealed weapons laws of Texas, or soemthing.

That, the heat, the hurricanes, the tornados, and the scorpions my best friend in college kept finding in his house whenever he went home, make me slightly wary of going to Texas. Anything else about it I should know about before I visit?

Originally posted by ltl/fb
What's "judge" got to do (got to do) with it? I believe Texas has concealed carry laws. So I could be packing heat in my purse. You might keep that in mind if we ever meet (in TX).

Texas has concealed carry laws, but not in courtrooms. Judges traditionally arm themselves, but now I believe it is on the books - they may have to have a conceal/carry permit to take a gun into the courtroom, however.

I don't know a crim defense lawyer who doesn't keep a loaded gun in em's desk. They have not as much faith in their own clients as they want us to have.

-T(not packing)L

[ms. naughty diplomat]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Which big American city has the best (i.e., polite, non-aggressive, mentally normal but down on their luck) panhandlers? I say Chicago, but I don't have a lot of nationwide street experience.

not sure about the best, but i've like to nominate atlanta as having the worst. at least from what i've seen, atlanta seems to have the highest percentage of really agressive and threatening homeless people. between the homeless, maniac drivers, and the extreme heat and humidity, it quickly becomes obvious why no one ever walks there.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Beelzebubba
But does she squirt?

http://nerve.com/regulars/ididitfors...dex.asp?page=1

That was absolutely hilarious. But the following line will stay with me for a few days, in an unpleasant bad-Mexican-food sort of way:

"I envisioned a time when the streets of Carthage, Sparta and Babylon were awash with unencumbered vaginal juices."

Ugh.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
The guy is a genius about getting on TV. If you watch the local news and there's a story involving a crowd downtown -- a protest, etc. -- he's there, holding his sign.

Does he also attend various sporting events wearing a rainbow wig and carrying the bible citation sign? Haven't seen him in years, but he was everywhere.

Anne

I can't remember the citation. Wasn't John 23:6 or something like that?

Originally posted by purse junkie
That, the heat, the hurricanes, the tornados, and the scorpions my best friend in college kept finding in his house whenever he went home, make me slightly wary of going to Texas. Anything else about it I should know about before I visit?

There's no scorpions around Houston (ok, maybe 1 or 2, but I've never seen one), only snakes and if you can't deal with a little venom, then you're just a wimp. We're the Friendship State - how bad can it be?

-T(My mom spotted a bobcat just north of town last week - very cool)L

edited to add - and the traffic. You should definitely be prepared for that if you visit.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by purse junkie
That, the heat, the hurricanes, the tornados, and the scorpions my best friend in college kept finding in his house whenever he went home, make me slightly wary of going to Texas. Anything else about it I should know about before I visit?

Fire ants and the green salsa at Taqueria Arandas.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by purse junkie
That, the heat, the hurricanes, the tornados, and the scorpions my best friend in college kept finding in his house whenever he went home, make me slightly wary of going to Texas. Anything else about it I should know about before I visit?

We're generally a friendly lot. That can be a little disconcerting to some people from northern locales.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
Does he also attend various sporting events wearing a rainbow wig and carrying the bible citation sign? Haven't seen him in years, but he was everywhere.

Anne

I can't remember the citation. Wasn't John 23:6 or something like that?

John 3:16.

And he's in jail for kidnapping or something. Which would explain why he hasn't been seen in a while.

There was a movie made about him a few years back called something like Rainbow Man.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
John 3:16.

And he's in jail for kidnapping or something. Which would explain why he hasn't been seen in a while.

There was a movie made about him a few years back called something like Rainbow Man.

Thanks!! I will be able to sleep tonight.

From IMDB:
Remember that man in the rainbow-colored Afro wig who carried the "John 3:16" sign? During the 70s and 80s he seemed to be everywhere: at televised baseball and football games, shuttle launches, and hundreds of other events. So who was he, and what ever happened to him? In Sam Green's award-winning new "slapstick tragedy," we find out. And the truth involving an unhappy childhood, a kidnapped hotel maid, and three life sentences in prison is stranger than fiction...

IMDB link here