Removing the feeding tube from our aging hipster plaid pants

[bilmore]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Her birthday falls on Mothers' Day this year. She'll be almost 7 months pregnant with our first baby on Mothers' Day. Therefore I need to get her two kick-ass presents.

Any ideas?

Forget the present now. You're going to pay for this for the rest of your life anyway. Finding that oh-so-perfect gift now is simply a present expenditure, not an investment. Tell her you forgot, and then, in ten years, when she lets you back into bed, you can look for jewelry.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
ps Paigow you should clean out your pm box

There is a professional warning to you implicit in your message.

[bilmore]

Shit. Wrong board.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I don't always get PETA's thinking on domesticated animals. Like cattle. Cattle exist because we are going to eat them. They have been domesticated to that end. If we stop eating meat, people will stop raising cattle, and then they won't exist any more. It's not like they're going to go back to the wild to exist in their earlier condition.

Au contraire, mon ami. Vous êtes plein de la merde de taureau.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Au contraire, mon ami. Vous êtes plein de la merde de taureau.

Did you have lunch with Sidd or something?

[NotFromHere]

Wendys fingers chili woman.

Anna Ayala arrested by San Jose police. No word on the charges. Probably lots. What made her think she would get away with it? She should have just put a rat in her Coke.

[mmm3587]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Maybe if you go again it'll be better for you?

Admittedly, I don't have the kind of career I would if I went to Harvard on the internet like you.

P.S. Please remember that all my posts should be marked up as soon as you read them, secretary of the week. Also, that color does NOT flatter you. And stop fucking that guy. When he said he's a partner, you should have asked to see a bank receipt from his draw. He's actually a temp.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
An iPod with the music she likes already loaded on it for her? (and upgraded earphones)

I don't mind the iPod earphones. Am I really missing out?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

From a flounder:

"the more I realize what a desperate dweeb this person and em's socks must be."

Perhaps. And then again, perhaps not. I have observed the comings and goings of the Penske sock phenomenon since the days before NWN was rejected admission to Pace UniversityÂ’s Law Review. The myth of Penske, his or her socks and the socks that support it is interesting because of course it is either promulgated by a real life Penske self-referentially socking him or herself, or a bitter anti-Penske poster like Slave, PrettyLittleFlower or poltergeist attempting to make Penske look a desperate dweeb. On the third hand perhaps they truly are a tribute to this mythical Penske.

Pondering the foregoing I am reminded of a line from Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If" to wit: "If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken/Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools."

Either way, the on-going mythology of Penske and the socks positing it certainly serve the purpose of creating an environment where Penske is discussed a lot, but not in recognition of any actual postings or for the particularly meritorious content of his or her alleged but un-citable posts, but more because the whole cause celebe of Penske has become a self-perpetuating meta-topic.

It was actually most definitely difficult and painful for me to even ponder the psychosexuallysociological issues here, given my prominent place in the GA community as a flounder of one or more of these chatting boards, as I am as much involved with many of these characters off the board as on and that's at times a dark place to be and deserving of some reflection.

So my conclusion, assuming these so-called "Penske" socks are not Penske him or herself, I proffer that what we have at work here is the GA equivalent of the Stockholm Syndrome, which, of course is the name given to the phenomena of kidnap victims adopting the point of view of their kidnappers. This board and the rivalries herein, after all, much like a kidnapper and his victim, control many facets of our lives and much like the kidnap victim, perhaps Penske's rivals have fallen prey to the primal survival mechanisms and responses to basic board environmental reality and have begun to believe Penkse's presence is real, and if so, just and honourable.

If true, its probably too late to save these poor naive souls, god have mercy, but to the rest of you out there, please remember the internet is very addicting for some people and can become a crutch, so if you're spending too much time on the net, perhaps you're using it to fill a void in your life. Sure, you can do that with just about everything, but the Internet is particularly seductive in the fact that you can tell yourself that you're socializing with a bunch of successful top-tier peers, when you're really just typing on a screen all by yourself in a cubicle of a third tier firm in a fourth tier city where most of your actual audience is non-accredited law school students. Even more dangerous, is the chance, however remote, that the results of your errant cyber missives will end in sex with Penske in a back alley or through a glory hole, assuming he or she even exists.

Be careful out there.

Of course, IF I am a PenskeSock, then disregard all of this as the last desperate bleatings of a dweeb.

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I don't mind the iPod earphones. Am I really missing out?

The pack-ins are by far the weakest link in the chain. They really blow.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Not labs or goldens. Actually a breed on your other list.

ETA - My experience with dog show people was similar to my experiences with other similar groups of people in whatever specialty interest group you want to name. Most of them are whackjobs. Now, they might be kind-hearted, well-meaning whackjobs, but that doesn't take away their whackjobbedness. Odd that the Bravo people went from following around pageant moms and dads and shifted over to dogshow people? I don't think so.

Have you ever seen a children's beauty pageant? Lord, if you want to see fucking Class A, Card Carrying, Dues Paying Hardcore Motherfucking Wahckjobs, that. is. the. place.

I stumbled into one in a rural mall in PA with a couple of friends. We were looking for coffee and a cash machine, when one of my buddies just stopped walking. It was as though he'd seen a Rhinocerous stomping through the mall. I looked at whatever it was that had so engrossed him and - I shit you not - there, on a stage in the mall, were dozens of little Jon Benet Ramseys and their creepy fucking parents. The kids were doing runways walks to some cheesy shit music.

I hope this does not necessitate PLF cleaning his Dockers, which I hope aren't pleated.

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
From a flounder:

Of course, IF I am a PenskeSock, then disregard all of this as the last desperate bleatings of a dweeb.

My reaction:

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by mmm3587
Admittedly, I don't have the kind of career I would if I went to Harvard on the internet like you.

How tall are you on the internet?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
How tall are you on the internet?

the bunks at Pennypacker are made for guys 6' and under. I'd get planter's fasciaitis all the time.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
From a flounder:

"the more I realize what a desperate dweeb this person and em's socks must be."

Perhaps. And then again, perhaps not. I have observed the comings and goings of the Penske sock phenomenon since the days before NWN was rejected admission to Pace UniversityÂ’s Law Review. The myth of Penske, his or her socks and the socks that support it is interesting because of course it is either promulgated by a real life Penske self-referentially socking him or herself, or a bitter anti-Penske poster like Slave, PrettyLittleFlower or poltergeist attempting to make Penske look a desperate dweeb. On the third hand perhaps they truly are a tribute to this mythical Penske.

Pondering the foregoing I am reminded of a line from Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If" to wit: "If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken/Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools."

Either way, the on-going mythology of Penske and the socks positing it certainly serve the purpose of creating an environment where Penske is discussed a lot, but not in recognition of any actual postings or for the particularly meritorious content of his or her alleged but un-citable posts, but more because the whole cause celebe of Penske has become a self-perpetuating meta-topic.

It was actually most definitely difficult and painful for me to even ponder the psychosexuallysociological issues here, given my prominent place in the GA community as a flounder of one or more of these chatting boards, as I am as much involved with many of these characters off the board as on and that's at times a dark place to be and deserving of some reflection.

So my conclusion, assuming these so-called "Penske" socks are not Penske him or herself, I proffer that what we have at work here is the GA equivalent of the Stockholm Syndrome, which, of course is the name given to the phenomena of kidnap victims adopting the point of view of their kidnappers. This board and the rivalries herein, after all, much like a kidnapper and his victim, control many facets of our lives and much like the kidnap victim, perhaps Penske's rivals have fallen prey to the primal survival mechanisms and responses to basic board environmental reality and have begun to believe Penkse's presence is real, and if so, just and honourable.

If true, its probably too late to save these poor naive souls, god have mercy, but to the rest of you out there, please remember the internet is very addicting for some people and can become a crutch, so if you're spending too much time on the net, perhaps you're using it to fill a void in your life. Sure, you can do that with just about everything, but the Internet is particularly seductive in the fact that you can tell yourself that you're socializing with a bunch of successful top-tier peers, when you're really just typing on a screen all by yourself in a cubicle of a third tier firm in a fourth tier city where most of your actual audience is non-accredited law school students. Even more dangerous, is the chance, however remote, that the results of your errant cyber missives will end in sex with Penske in a back alley or through a glory hole, assuming he or she even exists.

Be careful out there.

Of course, IF I am a PenskeSock, then disregard all of this as the last desperate bleatings of a dweeb.

Who is penske?