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

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
All jokes aside, this guy was acting like (trying to act like) the creme of the crop and his folks' house is only worth $700k? You need at least a $2 million abode to talk like that. I guess true old money wouldn't have even thought about writing that email though, right Paigow?

How is the house valued and when was it purchased? I fight tooth and nail to keep the "value" of my house down for tax purposes, but I do all sorts of things to it to bring the "value" up for resale purposes. In my county, which can't be too differenlty structured than Tarrent County, the tax assessor can only start with the purchase price, and they can't raise the value beyond a certain percentage each year. So the value according to the tax assessor may be very different from what the market considers its value to be. Also, the dollar goes a hell of a lot further for real estate purposes in Texas, especially a smaller town like Ft. Worth, than it does in lots of other parts of the contry.

My guess is that the idiot probably goes to/went to Ft. Worth Country Day with a bunch of similarly situated idiots, and really thought he was all that.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Watchtower
Maybe we would all be better off praying for guidance for Mr. Robertson?

I'd propose that Watchtower lead us in the first Fashion Board prayer session (if that's not too 1899 for Paigow).

Anyone else have anything to pray for?

[MisterEbola]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Oh right. My mistake. They have beaucoup bucks. Maybe the intern is a Bass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hiding under a different name. Do the Basses actually live in Ft. Worth?

I saw an episode of Cops not too long ago which featured Ft. Worth. Some dumpy neighborhoods mixed in there.

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

O.K., here's a rather strange experience I had on the train last night...

I'm sitting on the train home minding my own business, reading and listening to a CD with headphones on. Train is less than half full, with a large number of people who I'd call regulars, since I see them fairly often. Among them are a number of not unattractive ladies, some my age and others a few years younger. One of them happens to be sitting across the aisle from me. I think I'd seen her a few times before, but we've never met or even spoken.

Anyway, we get to a stop about 3 stops before mine, and she gets up to leave. When she does she stands up facing me and hands me a folded piece of paper. Being a little taken aback, I took it and said "thanks" to her, without removing my headphones, thinking maybe it fell out of my bag or something. She didn't say anything else and left the train.

After the train starts up, I look at the paper and find a name and phone number on it which I can only assume is hers... If that's the case, she probably failed to notice the wedding band I always wear.

Now, this sort of thing hardly ever happened to me when I was single, and it happens now. Not wanting to have Mrs. Hand find the note and misconstrue things, I plan on tossing the note and explaining my unavailability to the young lady the next time I see her. I'm not going to call her. Any problems with this approach? Does anybody else besides me, especially guys, find this whole approach by her (assuming that's what it was) a little bit creepy?

[andViolins]

Originally posted by Watchtower
The idea of praying for guidance or even praying for your own needs and desires or the needs and desires of others around you makes a lot of sense to me. I believe that Jehovah is just and caring and will listen to our prayers; but Jehovah is also all knowing and works in mysterious ways. The presumption of the Pat Robertson's of the world is to claim to know both what Jehovah desires for us and how Jehovah will steer us there. Pat Robertson, like many others, has fallen to the temptation to pray for Jehovah to do what Pat desires rather than to pray for guidance from above.

All I said to my wife was, "That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah!"



aV

[MisterEbola]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand


Now, this sort of thing hardly ever happened to me when I was single, and it happens now. Not wanting to have Mrs. Hand find the note and miscontrue things, I plan on tossing the note and explaining my unavailability to the young lady the next time I see her. I'm not going to call her. Any problems with this approach? Does anybody else beside me, especially guys, find this whole approach by her (assuming that's what it was) a little bit creepy?

Isn't it ironic how things work that way? Perhaps the married status imbues a level of confidence that the opposite sex finds appealing.

Anyhow, its a lot better than some of the ads that I see in the Washington City Paper from lamers who catch fleeting glimpses of other people on the Metro.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Oh right. My mistake. They have beaucoup bucks. Maybe the intern is a Bass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hiding under a different name. Do the Basses actually live in Ft. Worth?

I'm sure that for tax purposes their primary residences are all there. They also usually make it back to town for building dedications in their honor and such.

Oh, and, their lawyers are there.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by MisterEbola
Isn't it ironic how things work that way? Perhaps the married status imbues a level of confidence that the opposite sex finds appealing.

So first you enrage the pc police and now you invoke irony? Are you a plant just trying to increase page hits for leagl?

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by MisterEbola
Isn't it ironic how things work that way?

There was a time I would have confidently answered: "Yes, it is ironic." But now, thanks to the dissemblers and obfuscaters of the board, most of whom are named Penske, I can no longer be so sure.

[Watchtower]

This board has gotten very quiet. Is it because I posted on religion? Sorry (you should all be more comfortable with religion; lighten up!). And if you want a prayer session, I'm your guy.

Maybe I can change the subject. I did tell my wife about the board and the last discussion, and she kindly said that she'd be happy to shave her muff any way I'd like (but she also said she already considers it a religious experience -- can I have a collective "awwwww" to that?). But she wants me to do something like that for her, too. I was thinking a small tatoo of a cross in a nearby location. Anyone have any better thoughts?

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by MisterEbola
Isn't it ironic how things work that way?

Like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife.

[ms. naughty diplomat]

Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
Thank goodness for that. But I suspect most fans of Pat believe themselves to be more religious than others.

you mean like these people

http://www.daytondailynews.com/opini...s/peters1.html

(editorial cartoon giving deserved barbs to pat robertson people who watch the 700 club)

oh, i agree with idea of praying for pat robertson's redemption. at times like these i really think that the call that he got to enter the ministry came from some party other than God.

mnd

[MisterEbola]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife.

Augh! Ohh! Don't mention her/it!!!!!!

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Watchtower
Sorry (you should all be more comfortable with religion; lighten up!).

I don't like your judgmental attitude.

[MisterEbola]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
So first you enrage the pc police and now you invoke irony? Are you a plant just trying to increase page hits for leagl?

Sorry, no. I only suck up to the department chair since he or his designated sock signs/authorizes my paycheck and determines my raise/bonus.