This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick

I am old enough to remember "Battle of the Network Stars." Now that was solid non-gimmicky entertainment.

Another excellent show, especially the installment where the body-builder who played the Hulk (Lou Ferrigno?) got to compete and scare the crap out of everyone.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

Target has slim-fit or athletic-fit polo shirts that fit me much better than actual Polo shirts.

Wait. One. Minute. You shop at Target because you're NOT fat? This makes less sense than Cintra Wilson hating on the beautiful. Soon we'll all be engaging in canine necrophliac fellatio.

[dtb]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Soon we'll all be engaging in canine necrophliac fellatio.

You mean we're not already?

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by dtb

You mean we're not already?

Hank likes cats.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Of course not. And where would we find examples of athletes who weren't allowed to play sports in certain leagues and what it meant to their followers when they were? I guess the question will remain a mystery for all time.

If a male-only rule by the PGA would be analogous to the Negro Leagues, what is the female-only rule of the LPGA? There must be male golfers that would like the opportunity to win an LPGA purse; why are we allowed to tell them no without violating their human rights?

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

We'll have to let Ty wallow in his fattism as we ponder how this woman could have written something so arch, haughty, and snide:

She got her start writing a snotty column in the lesser of San Francisco's two papers. Her mistake was clearly in thinking that just because it was safe to mock the people who weren't reading the San Francisco Examiner and never would, that it was also safe to mock the people who don't read the New York Times and never would. Bill Keller threw her under a bus because you can't mock middle America and continue to call yourself America's newspaper of record. "Take that shit to the Observer" -- I can hear it now.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

If a male-only rule by the PGA would be analogous to the Negro Leagues, what is the female-only rule of the LPGA? There must be male golfers that would like the opportunity to win an LPGA purse; why are we allowed to tell them no without violating their human rights?

Atticus, you have completely missed the point. This is the kind of argument that the #1 gunner in my law school, Anthony Finkelstein, would make when he wasn't fighting hypotheticals and looking like Arnold Horshack. I have to say it's disappointing.

[cheval de frise]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Hank likes cats.

In a non-70's-timewarp kind of way.

AON, I recently went to a Wal-Mart in the south to purchase swim trunks (long story). The racks were dominated by XXXL, 4XL and 5XL sizes in day-glo orange.

In TCOTU we rarely see anything above an XL. But if "asshole" were a clothes size, we'd make Wal-Mart look like Baby Gap.

CDF

[evenodds]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

Bill Keller threw her under a bus because you can't mock middle America and continue to call yourself America's newspaper of record. "Take that shit to the Observer" -- I can hear it now.

Except her attitude is the sine qua non for a fashion writer, especially one from a big city paper.

Fashion -- as opposed to style -- is defined by the contrast with "middle America," not the embrace of it.

[cheval de frise]

Originally Posted by evenodds

Except her attitude is the sine qua non for a fashion writer, especially one from a big city paper.

Fashion -- as opposed to style -- is defined by the contrast with "middle America," not the embrace of it.

You can exalt rather than denigrate. Or you can cast stones while wearing twenty pounds of white Rocky Horror makeup. She chose option B.

Too bad, so sad. Flush.

CDF

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by cheval de frise

You can exalt rather than denigrate. Or you can cast stones while wearing twenty pounds of white Rocky Horror makeup. She chose option B.

Too bad, so sad. Flush.

CDF

Oh, come one. That was just a silly posed photo, in which she undoubtedly wished to simultaneously underscore and poke fun at her aloof image. When she's just hanging out with pals at book publishing parties, she seems a lot more laid back and fun:

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Hank likes cats.

I was raised Catholic. I have been able to see through the dogma to recognize gay sex is acceptable, but sex with domestic pets that is also single sex, and technically sodomy, is still something that gives me cold feet. i mean, i live in the mid-west.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

If a male-only rule by the PGA would be analogous to the Negro Leagues, what is the female-only rule of the LPGA? There must be male golfers that would like the opportunity to win an LPGA purse; why are we allowed to tell them no without violating their human rights?

Do they allow women to compete in dead horse-beating? Or is that a male-only event?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

She got her start writing a snotty column in the lesser of San Francisco's two papers. Her mistake was clearly in thinking that just because it was safe to mock the people who weren't reading the San Francisco Examiner and never would, that it was also safe to mock the people who don't read the New York Times and never would. Bill Keller threw her under a bus because you can't mock middle America and continue to call yourself America's newspaper of record. "Take that shit to the Observer" -- I can hear it now.

I thing she has an Audrey Hepburn inferiority complex.

[cheval de frise]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Oh, come one. That was just a silly posed photo, in which she undoubtedly wished to simultaneously underscore and poke fun at her aloof image. When she's just hanging out with pals at book publishing parties, she seems a lot more laid back and fun:

Train wreck, blonde division. Which is a crowded category.

CDF