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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Anyone can buy just about any car he wants nowadays. A car might be the very worst guage of a person's wallet.

A boat, on the other hand...

Sebby, you're starting to sound like one of the WASPs circa 1950 talking bitterly about your Mick grandfather being able to afford a Plymouth.

Or one of the people grumbling here: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/29/na...f7139b&ei=5070

Hank Chinaski

06-23-2005 11:29 AM

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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
You read McSweeney's? This fits in sooooo perfectly with your esoteric and erudite sense of humor, your mildly absurdist bent, and your baseless attitude of superiority.

If you like McSweeney's, I have another reading recommendation for you: The Bible.

I hate to say that I agree 100% with anything Flower says, and certainly something as damning as this about a poster I would like to like- but I have to agree 100% with the above.

I know loberry will award Ironweed most unwittingly banal someday soon, and I don't look forward to having to pick up the pieces of weed's ego once that crown sits.

futbol fan

06-23-2005 11:30 AM

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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
If you like McSweeney's, I have another reading recommendation for you: The Bible.

Do you remember a time when you used this board for things other than soliciting gay sex? I do. It was a time before you internalized all of the easy jokes we've made about your supposed feyness and occasionally said something unpredictible and groundbreaking. I suppose nostalgia inevitably tinges our memories, but I think that was a happier time. For everyone.

robustpuppy

06-23-2005 11:31 AM

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Originally posted by ABBAKiss
Just to clarify, I didn't mean to say that RR looked BAD in that photo or that people who look like her body in that photo are unattractive. I was simply sincerely surprised that with makeup effects like that the body would be anything less than TOTALLY slammin'. I don't know that character but I find the head part really UNattractive and was just surprised to see tummy bloat I guess.

You're sweet, but I wasn't really feeling insecure about my tummy, because right now I'm more beautiful than I have ever been my life. It's so miraculous! Rapturous!! The most fulfililng experience ever!!! And I am doing kegels right now, and they feel great!!!!

It was more about that A Few Good Men whiff from a few days ago. Still can't let that one go.

robustpuppy

06-23-2005 11:33 AM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
If I could have afforded a Porsche at 22 (or even now), I would have bought a boat. Just a nice little 24' cruiser. The Porsche does the exact same thing as my current average car: gets me from here to there.

Also, I would have docked it at the Gross Pointe Yacht Club and mocked Hank.

I am realizing far too late that you and I are soul mates. For the record, I never correct a friend's grammar in person. It's just part of my internet persona.

futbol fan

06-23-2005 11:34 AM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I hate to say that I agree 100% with anything Flower says, and certainly something as damning as this about a poster I would like to like- but I have to agree 100% with the above.

I know loberry will award Ironweed most unwittingly banal someday soon, and I don't look forward to having to pick up the pieces of weed's ego once that crown sits.

While you're down there, can you check something for me -- is it "He makes me lie down in green pastures" or "He makes me to lie down in green pastures"?

robustpuppy

06-23-2005 11:39 AM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Buying a new boat is 50X dumber than buying a new car. Boat technology hasn't changed in 20 years.

Yeah. New or used, one way or another, you're going to find yourself out on the bay/lake/sound on a windless late Sunday afternoon, watching the sun drop ever lower in the sky, fiddling with the engine to no avail, and debating whether to continue fiddling in the hope it will work this time like it did last time, or give in and call for help and suffer the tacit mockery of the coast guard/power squadron/marina lackey boys.

ABBAKiss

06-23-2005 11:39 AM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Sure it does.

And I was thinking about getting a divorce tattoo as well. But I'm having second thoughts. What is a good tattoo/piercing-like way to celebrate your divorce? I don't mean getting drunk or going on vacation or giving a blowjob etc - I mean something kind of permanent. But I am basically tattooed and pierced out, and am looking for something new.

Note: I am not looking to split my tongue or hang from meat hooks or anything.

I am also tattooed and pierced so I got a spendy shiny baby grand and an excellent new boyfriend.

sebastian_dangerfield

06-23-2005 11:39 AM

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Originally posted by Not Bob
Sebby, you're starting to sound like one of the WASPs circa 1950 talking bitterly about your Mick grandfather being able to afford a Plymouth.

Or one of the people grumbling here: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/29/na...f7139b&ei=5070

I'm qualified; I'm a Catholic hick. Is that a link to that silly article about Nantucket?

pony_trekker

06-23-2005 11:41 AM

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Originally posted by sunnybunny
No, he drove a saab. I had a long string of saab fucks back in law school. It was a bad period for me.

And the Saabs have fucked you back since.

Did you just call me Coltrane?

06-23-2005 11:45 AM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
I am realizing far too late that you and I are soul mates. For the record, I never correct a friend's grammar in person. It's just part of my internet persona.

And here you are, having someone else's baby.

robustpuppy

06-23-2005 11:46 AM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
And here you are, having someone else's baby.

Isn't it funny when an old subject line becomes germane again?

ABBAKiss

06-23-2005 11:47 AM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
You're sweet, but I wasn't really feeling insecure about my tummy, because right now I'm more beautiful than I have ever been my life. It's so miraculous! Rapturous!! The most fulfililng experience ever!!! And I am doing kegels right now, and they feel great!!!!

It was more about that A Few Good Men whiff from a few days ago. Still can't let that one go.

Okay. I think I will go get myself a glass of W-A-T-E-R.

Shape Shifter

06-23-2005 11:47 AM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Yeah. New or used, one way or another, you're going to find yourself out on the bay/lake/sound on a windless late Sunday afternoon, watching the sun drop ever lower in the sky, fiddling with the engine to no avail, and debating whether to continue fiddling in the hope it will work this time like it did last time, or give in and call for help and suffer the tacit mockery of the coast guard/power squadron/marina lackey boys.

100. "I'm king of the world!", "Titanic," 1997.*

*Yeah, I know this got old yesterday, but I'm still playing with the new toy. I'll stop soon.

Shape Shifter

06-23-2005 11:48 AM

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Originally posted by Mister_Ruysbroeck
Autoist Fuck.

Let me ask the people who are bashing Porsche one question: have you ever driven one?

I had a buddy who let me drive his Turbo and it was fucking amazing. Probably not as nice as the M5 I test drove (just for fun), but that's only b/c the M5 seats 4 comfortably.

Rather than generalizing and saying everyone who drives a Porche is overcompensating, perhaps you can give them the benefit of the doubt and think "there's a person who likes to drive fast cars"? Nothing wrong with liking fast cars. Sounds like sour grapes to me the other way.

Would I buy a Porsche? No way. But not b/c of the stigma. It's because I can't afford one. Though, even if I could afford it, I guess I'd go for something more practical. But I will never begrudge someone for their choice of auto. Different strokes and all that.

94. "I feel the need -- the need for speed!", "Top Gun," 1986.

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