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

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Where had I gotten this crazy, fucked-up idea that Texas had some Mexicans living there?

There is a non-blonde woman mostly hidden behind the Senator.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
There is a non-blonde woman mostly hidden behind the Senator.

He's GOT to be wearing toenail polish. Anybody who's a slave to the blowdryer and curling iron had to have painted his toes!!

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Or a stun gun and testicle clamps

Well yes. But those are standard equipment, so I already claimed that I could also avoid those.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Aren't they? (Not just women, but the nature of relationships.) They just put it differently.

No. Because they believe women should be beasts of burden.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
There is a non-blonde woman mostly hidden behind the Senator.

If she's just as proud of her little brown one, why'd she stick her in the back row with the boys?

P.S. Someone should tell Mr. Tripplehorn that white backgrounds are unflattering to him and his poplin suit.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
No. Because they believe women should be beasts of burden.

I know you deliberately set up for this, but I have to say it after the Ziggy/Iggy/Mick discussion.

I'll never be your beast of burden.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
No. Because they believe women should be beasts of burden.

Does that one involve testicle clamps? I can't remember.

[ias_39]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch

Where had I gotten this crazy, fucked-up idea that Texas had some Mexicans living there?

Mestizos work as day laborers in your suburb; criollos do not. Someone paler than you could be Mexican.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Where had I gotten this crazy, fucked-up idea that Texas had some Mexicans living there?

We're here. We've been here for 11 generations.

Doesn't mean we're likely to end up on a Republican Senator's staff.

[ias_39]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan

<Mexicans're> here. <Mexicans've> been here for 11 generations. Doesn't mean <Mexicans're> likely to end up on a Republican Senator's staff.

Given that the Governor of Florida has one on his staff, regularly, don't be so sure. Unless you've got it on the QT that the good Senator doesn't have a detachable staff.

[str8outavannuys]

S(of course, nothing topped "Bumfights")D

Damn, how could I forget Bumfights in my list of favorite "ripped from the headlines" L&O episodes? I'm so stupid, stupid.

Mr. Hand: Your tale of sordidness on the train got surprisingly little response in these parts. Let me belatedly tell you "Good job, man. Well done. I'm getting a wedding band ASAP." But details, please. What did she look like? What was she wearing? Did she glide her french tipped-nails over your french tip as she handed you the note? C'mon man, for god's sake. We need to know.

Hey GWNC: Toronto's nice in the summer. You should come back more.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by ias_39
"<Mexicans're> here. <Mexicans've> been here for 11 generations. Doesn't mean <Mexicans're> likely to end up on a Republican Senator's staff. "

Your edit of RT's post underscores a misconception of Texas ethnicity. Though I cannot speak for RT, many in Texas, especially those like her family who have lived here for 11 generations consider themselves "Texicans" or "Texans," not Mexican or Mexican-Americans.

Today's paper has an interesting article entitled "War of Words Divides Residents of Texas Town."

Here's an excerpt:

GOLIAD, Tex., July 16 — In history books, the killing of more than 300 Texan rebels by Mexican troops here has long been known as the Goliad Massacre. But to many residents of Goliad, with its 18th-century Spanish fort and towering monument to the dead, that brutal episode in its history is still open to interpretation.

At the heart of the dispute, largely between Anglos and Mexican-Americans, is the porous definition of who is a Texan and what is Texas history at a time when Hispanics are growing in number and influence.

Some of Goliad's Mexican-American residents prefer "execution" to "massacre" in describing what happened here in 1836 because of Mexican law at the time, which was explicit in meting out de facto death sentences for foreigners taking up arms against the government.

"For so long in Texas history classes it's been drilled into us that Mexicans were the demons and Anglos the enlightened heroes," said Emilio Vargas III, an assistant principal at the Goliad elementary school and a descendant of Canary Islanders who settled here in the 18th century. "On this point we're no longer going to accept it without a fight."

Such talk has shaken Goliad, where the population of 2,000 is almost equally divided between Hispanics and Anglos, with a small black minority. The dispute has included the Roman Catholic Church, which owns the Presidio de la Bahía, the site of the killings 167 years ago, when American and European settlers were engaged in a war to pry Texas from Mexico.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/19/na...EBA.html?8hpib

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by ias_39
Originally posted by Replaced_Texan



Given that the Governor of Florida has one on his staff, regularly, don't be so sure. Unless you've got it on the QT that the good Senator doesn't have a detachable staff.

Are you sure they're Mexicans? Perhaps they're Cubans. Or perhaps even Cuban-Americans.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by ias_39
Mestizos work as day laborers in your suburb; criollos do not.

It’s always heartwarming to see a prejudice defeated by a deeper prejudice.

[str8outavannuys]

I think it should be noted (what with the plagarism witch hunts and all) that the phrase "Don't Whiz on the Electric Fence" was popularized (if not coined) by John Krickfalusi in his groundbreaking cartoon Ren & Stimpy in 1991/92. Ren & Stimpy played a board game titled "Don't Whiz on the Electric Fence," which always seemed to me like a brilliant idea for a board game.

str8.