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Not Bob 12-27-2005 06:13 PM

Oh, Bambi. When will you learn?
 
She had the nerve to say "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" to Bill O'Reilly:

http://www.consumerist.com/consumer/...mart_bambi.jpg

(Actually, it's one of the Smoking Gun's favorite mugshots, via the consumerist)

spookyfish 12-27-2005 06:17 PM

Holiday Gift Exchanging
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Not Bob
Based on my experience, the best you can do in such a situation is to be a graceful recipient. Absolutely do not tell your mom that you don't like the shirts, and really really really don't tell her that you don't want her wasting her limited funds on crappy clothes that you wouldn't be seen wearing on Halloween.

The nice thing about gifts of clothing from people who you don't live with is they need never know that you don't wear the item in question. If you think that she will ever look in your closet, take the tags off and hang them up, and then donate them to the charity of your choice (or give them to a friend with different taste) after next Christmas. If she would never look, do the donation sooner.

And I have found in the same situation (recipient having plenty of dough, relatively, while the giver does not) that restaurant and bookstore gift certificates are perfect for giving in return, and that large amounts on them help me deal with the guilt that comes from receiving a $50 tie that will hang in the closet until St. Vincent de Paul picks it up in March 2007.
St. Vincent de Paul is coming back from the dead in 15 months!

I'd better get my shit together.

Pretty Little Flower 12-27-2005 06:18 PM

Christmas Day Night
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
What do we do now?

http://www.trendychic.com/_images/products/310-503L.jpg
Sorry, dude. Regular stripes are totally Mojito. If you want some play, you gotta go diagonal.

Did you just call me Coltrane? 12-27-2005 06:20 PM

Hope she has a one-handed backhand...
 
http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg....84KEJIWqDtqA--

India's top tennis player Sania Mirza

ThurgreedMarshall 12-27-2005 06:21 PM

Holiday Gift Exchanging
 
Quote:

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
After years of thinking that I had my mom trained to just buy me gift certificates, I must have done something wrong, as this year she inexplicably bought me velvet tops (multiple! in different colors!)
Has this become socially acceptable?

TM

notcasesensitive 12-27-2005 06:27 PM

Holiday Gift Exchanging
 
Quote:

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Has this become socially acceptable?

TM
Gift certificates or velvet shirts?

Pretty Little Flower 12-27-2005 08:07 PM

Holiday Gift Exchanging
 
Quote:

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Gift certificates or velvet shirts?
Velvet shirts? In, baby, in! I'm not disagreeing with your assessment that the particular velvet shirts selected by the maternal parental unit may not be all you, you, you. But you need to get out, work the plastic, and get yourself decked head-to-toe in velvet. It will be sssssssmokin'! You'll thank me.

Again.

Hank Chinaski 12-27-2005 08:22 PM

Holiday Gift Exchanging
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Velvet shirts? In, baby, in! I'm not disagreeing with your assessment that the particular velvet shirts selected by the maternal parental unit may not be all you, you, you. But you need to get out, work the plastic, and get yourself decked head-to-toe in velvet. It will be sssssssmokin'! You'll thank me.

Again.
ncs' mom- xmas gifts- too much bother. I finally told Ironweed's mom to just give me oral sex and that way I stopped getting things I couldn't use. maybe ncs' mom isn't okay with the incest aspects, but ncs could maybe get a "voucher" for Mr. Man from mom?

taxwonk 12-27-2005 08:56 PM

Christmas Day Night
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
One real weakness in the Harvard legal education flows from the uniformally top notch abilities of one's peers. At school we never learned to argue against those unable to construct or analyze logical arguments. I am emailing Dean Kagan to suggest a seminar class where they bus in the top 1 or 2 % of the students from your school so that future classes have that practice.

Hank Chinaski
'89 Law '92
That's right, Hank. You're real smart. Such a smart boy.

Hank Chinaski 12-27-2005 09:05 PM

Christmas Day Night
 
Quote:

Originally posted by taxwonk
That's right, Hank. You're real smart. Such a smart boy.
your "creative" way to fuck with me is to copy a GGG sock?

pony_trekker 12-27-2005 09:52 PM

Holiday Gift Exchanging
 
Quote:

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
After years of thinking that I had my mom trained to just buy me gift certificates, I must have done something wrong, as this year she inexplicably bought me velvet tops (multiple! in different colors!) from a store I would never shop at. So I think I'm going to have some sort of store credit at this place when I exchange them. My questions:

1. Should I tell mom that I am exchanging them or let her think that I wanted these things? I've already done my best to leave her with the impression that gift certificates are a good idea if she isn't sure what I might want in the future.

2. What can I buy with this store credit to a place I don't want anything from? Or should I see if they'll just send my mom a refund? I guess that would necessarily entail telling her that I don't want the things.

I hate being scrooge, but I also hate the idea of her wasting money on things that I really don't want. I wish she would just stop buying me stuff altogether, as I pretty much can cover all my own wants and she scrapes by for every penny.

Crap.
Perfect for the recycled gift routine.

str8outavannuys 12-27-2005 10:41 PM

Observations from this past weekend
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
-A six hour car trip, not necessarily pleasant under the best of circumstances, is not at all fun when one's wife is in an advanced state of pregnancy;

-"The Island" was a surprisingly entertaining movie, far less sucky than I expected. Scarlet Johansen is way hot;

-"Cinderella Man" also sucked less than I expected, but I still can't stand Renee Zelweger;

-Watching your father-in-law whip out a bottle Jagermeister and try to pass it off (out of ignorance) as a classy after-dinner-drink to one's parents of Germanic extraction can be highly amusing;

-3 days is both too long and too brief of a time with family.
Jagermeister may or may not be classy, but it is ALWAYS delicious. And gives a great buzz.

Oh, and it took you this long to realize that SJ is hotter than hot? The panty shot in Lost In Translation didn't do it?

str8outavannuys 12-27-2005 10:43 PM

Leave of Absence
 
Quote:

Originally posted by LessinSF
You can join me. I'm giving notice, selling my place, and going to Europe for four months starting April 27. The theme is the Biggest Parties of Europe tour. Queen's Day in Amsterdam. Running of the Bulls in Spain. World Cup in Germany. Tomatina festival in Spain. Ibiza. Dalmatian Coast in Croatia. Maybe the Cheese Rolling Festival in England or the Wife Carrying Festival in Finland. I'm still playing with the itinerary.

Come home August 31, go to Burning Man, throw myself a big turning 40 party, work a couple months, and then go to Chile and Argentina next winter (their summer) for a few months.
This sounds so awesome that I think I'll kill myself.

Fugee 12-27-2005 11:36 PM

Holiday Gift Exchanging
 
Quote:

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
1. Should I tell mom that I am exchanging them or let her think that I wanted these things? I've already done my best to leave her with the impression that gift certificates are a good idea if she isn't sure what I might want in the future.
BRC's idea of exchanging the tops for a gift card you can give to your Mom on her birthday is pretty good.

The Fugee Mom gave me a hideous blazer one Christmas (she persists in thinking I am an Autumn and should wear rusts despite my telling her that I am a Winter and look dead in rust). I told her I was returning it but fudged a little by saying it was because the corporate parent of the store she bought it from had bought then liquidated one of my biggest clients so I wouldn't wear anything from their in protest. Although this was true, I think she knew deep down that I hated the blazer and I felt bad.

So I think you should not tell your Mom that you hate the velvet tops or that you returned them.

Fugee 12-27-2005 11:38 PM

Christmas Day Night
 
Quote:

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I don't get it. Why would you think that?
Many of your stories about the GF involve people hitting on her when you two are out (e.g., the recent Cabo story).

Diane_Keaton 12-27-2005 11:53 PM

Holiday Gift Exchanging
 
Quote:

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
After years of thinking that I had my mom trained to just buy me gift certificates, I must have done something wrong, as this year she inexplicably bought me velvet tops (multiple! in different colors!) from a store I would never shop at. So I think I'm going to have some sort of store credit at this place when I exchange them. My questions:

1. Should I tell mom that I am exchanging them or let her think that I wanted these things? I've already done my best to leave her with the impression that gift certificates are a good idea if she isn't sure what I might want in the future.

2. What can I buy with this store credit to a place I don't want anything from? Or should I see if they'll just send my mom a refund? I guess that would necessarily entail telling her that I don't want the things.

I hate being scrooge, but I also hate the idea of her wasting money on things that I really don't want. I wish she would just stop buying me stuff altogether, as I pretty much can cover all my own wants and she scrapes by for every penny.

Crap.
Keep just one of the multiple velvet shirts and next time you see her, wear it and when she notices, say "Mom, thanks for this but really, I don't want you to spend a lot of money on me; why don't we do X instead" and then for "X", mention something less costly, like her getting you a cookbook she thinks is good, or baking you something yummy you can enjoy during the holidays (or soup in your case) and insist you'd really prefer that and be more comfortable with that. Return the rest of the stuff for store credit and then, for her b'day or Christmas buy her something from there - she probably likes the place herself.

ThurgreedMarshall 12-28-2005 09:52 AM

Holiday Gift Exchanging
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
ncs' mom- xmas gifts- too much bother. I finally told Ironweed's mom to just give me oral sex and that way I stopped getting things I couldn't use. maybe ncs' mom isn't okay with the incest aspects, but ncs could maybe get a "voucher" for Mr. Man from mom?
I killed the ya momma thing like 5 years ago. Why won't you let it die?

TM

sebastian_dangerfield 12-28-2005 09:54 AM

Christmas Day Suckertrain
 
Quote:

Originally posted by pony_trekker
I pity the foo unable to argue with retards.
Literally, 80% of my day is spent arguing with retards. The other 20% of my day is spent here.

I had one genius, no doubt middle third Seton Hall, tell me that I couldn't trigger an insurance policy for a latent disease because the policy had "expired."

But as any street smart cop will tell you, it is really hard to fight a retard.
I think my retard tolerance meter finally maxed out last nite... I shouted and growled myself hoarse. I won’t be talking to any family anymore for a while.

I have now fallen into a crevace somewhere below the attitudinal basement I thought I’d reached in 2000. I feel like Spacey in American Beauty.

The question, again, is “now?”

I feel like King Midas in reverse.

ThurgreedMarshall 12-28-2005 10:03 AM

Christmas Day Night
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Fugee
Many of your stories about the GF involve people hitting on her when you two are out (e.g., the recent Cabo story).
Ah. I knew, in your little passive-aggressive way, that it was a dig. "Many." Ha. Nice work! I think the total is now 2? One about the soap opera guy who, it would seem from the story hits on everyone and one about Cabo Wabo. At least you're paying attention, though.

What you don't seem to understand is that there is a big difference between some fat, balding, ugly loser from the midwest who is in Cabo and has the courage only tequila and the anonymity of another country can provide and good looking guys or millionaires who drop $1,000 for an introduction. Explaining how the first group tries to hit on my gf in a cheesy bar in Mexico is illustrative of how pathetic they are and not how desirable I think she is. Therefore, look to the context of the story to determine why I am giving you the information. If you think it's because I'm bragging about my gf, you're wrong in this case. I do that with photos and descriptions of the ratio.

Hey! Maybe you can share a story about your boyfriend with us?

TM

Hank Chinaski 12-28-2005 10:22 AM

Christmas Day Night
 
Quote:

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall

............a big difference between some fat, balding, ugly loser from the midwest........

TM
Are these traits listed in a hierarchy of undesirability? Two apply to me and I would really like to know which I should work on first.

Not Bob 12-28-2005 11:06 AM

Gratuitous Bruce reference included.
 
Quote:

Originally posted by spookyfish
St. Vincent de Paul is coming back from the dead in 15 months!

I'd better get my shit together.
A Catholic timmy? Is that you, Atticus, or just a brilliant disguise?

greatwhitenorthchick 12-28-2005 11:10 AM

Actual Fashion Question
 
So I'm going to a NYE party and the dress is "festive attire." What the hell is festive attire? I don't think it means black tie, because then it would say "black tie." So I guess it's a notch below black tie, but still sparkly or something. fuck. Any thoughts?

p.s. I don't wear pants, unless they are jeans, so that's out.

barely_legal 12-28-2005 11:23 AM

Actual Fashion Question
 
Quote:

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
So I'm going to a NYE party and the dress is "festive attire." What the hell is festive attire? I don't think it means black tie, because then it would say "black tie." So I guess it's a notch below black tie, but still sparkly or something. fuck. Any thoughts?

p.s. I don't wear pants, unless they are jeans, so that's out.
That means it's time for you to put on that fat suit again! I think the blonde wig is optional.

greatwhitenorthchick 12-28-2005 11:27 AM

Actual Fashion Question
 
Quote:

Originally posted by barely_legal
That means it's time for you to put on that fat suit again! I think the blonde wig is optional.
I am just going to dress up as a french maid. That ought to cause some festivity.

Did you just call me Coltrane? 12-28-2005 11:29 AM

Actual Fashion Question
 
Quote:

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I am just going to dress up as a french maid. That ought to cause some festivity.
Boobie tassels are festive.

barely_legal 12-28-2005 11:30 AM

Actual Fashion Question
 
Quote:

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I am just going to dress up as a french maid. That ought to cause some festivity.
But a fat french maid, right?

Pretty Little Flower 12-28-2005 11:41 AM

Actual Fashion Question
 
Quote:

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
So I'm going to a NYE party and the dress is "festive attire." What the hell is festive attire? I don't think it means black tie, because then it would say "black tie." So I guess it's a notch below black tie, but still sparkly or something. fuck. Any thoughts?

p.s. I don't wear pants, unless they are jeans, so that's out.
Festive means sparkly. You need to wear sparkly clothing. A gold sequined top and a short skirt with sparkly fabric woven into it. And a shiny, sparkly headband with rhinestones. And black shoes with shinly gold tinsel taped to them.

Not Bob 12-28-2005 11:44 AM

Actual Fashion Question
 
Quote:

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
So I'm going to a NYE party and the dress is "festive attire." What the hell is festive attire? I don't think it means black tie, because then it would say "black tie." So I guess it's a notch below black tie, but still sparkly or something. fuck. Any thoughts?

p.s. I don't wear pants, unless they are jeans, so that's out.
Out here in the sticks, "festive attire" means sparkles and/or bright colors.

ABBAKiss 12-28-2005 11:48 AM

Actual Fashion Question
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Festive means sparkly. You need to wear sparkly clothing. A gold sequined top and a short skirt with sparkly fabric woven into it. And a shiny, sparkly headband with rhinestones. And black shoes with shinly gold tinsel taped to them.
It is economical to visit a dollar store and purchase some goldesque and silveresque accordianesque bells to hang from your armpits. You can also get lots and lots (I am thinking 30+ screams "FESTIVE!!!") of goldesque and silveresque plated plastic bracelets from places like Claire's. Another good idea is to drape yourself in velvet - I hear ncs has some shirts. You could wear one on top and one with the arms as legs for a pair of make-shift pants.

Pretty Little Flower 12-28-2005 11:54 AM

Actual Fashion Question
 
Quote:

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
It is economical to visit a dollar store and purchase some goldesque and silveresque accordianesque bells to hang from your armpits. You can also get lots and lots (I am thinking 30+ screams "FESTIVE!!!") of goldesque and silveresque plated plastic bracelets from places like Claire's. Another good idea is to drape yourself in velvet - I hear ncs has some shirts. You could wear one on top and one with the arms as legs for a pair of make-shift pants.
I forgot to mention make up with sparkles in it. That is super festive. Make up with sparkles in it says: "Kiss me at midnight because I am festive and will likely reward your kiss with no-strings-attached fellatio shortly after midnight!" At least that's the case in my experience. YMMV.*

*This is an automobile-related metaphor acronym.

Pretty Little Flower 12-28-2005 11:57 AM

Actual Fashion Question
 
Quote:

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I am just going to dress up as a french maid. That ought to cause some festivity.
French maid is festive too. It says, "Kiss me at midnight and I will reward you kiss with no-stings-attached anal sex shortly after midnight!" At least that's the case in my experience. It is possible that your experiences may differ much the same way that automobiles of the same make and year may nonetheless have differing miles driven per gallon of gasoline consumed depending on driving conditions and other variables.

pony_trekker 12-28-2005 12:09 PM

Actual Fashion Question
 
Quote:

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
So I'm going to a NYE party and the dress is "festive attire." What the hell is festive attire? I don't think it means black tie, because then it would say "black tie." So I guess it's a notch below black tie, but still sparkly or something. fuck. Any thoughts?

p.s. I don't wear pants, unless they are jeans, so that's out.
I think the outfit in the avatar will work just fine.

Oliver_Wendell_Ramone 12-28-2005 12:11 PM

Actual Fashion Question
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
French maid is festive too. It says, "Kiss me at midnight and I will reward you kiss with no-stings-attached anal sex shortly after midnight!" At least that's the case in my experience.
So Gwink needs to bring a strap-on, as well? And to keep with the theme, it should be sparkly, right?

Pretty Little Flower 12-28-2005 12:16 PM

Actual Fashion Question
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
So Gwink needs to bring a strap-on, as well? And to keep with the theme, it should be sparkly, right?
Either covered with sparkles or, like the shoes, with shiny tinsel taped to it. I have always found that the tinsel tickles my nether regions, which is a bit distracting, but I have always tried to be accommodating about these sorts of things. sts, iykwimaittyd.

ThurgreedMarshall 12-28-2005 12:18 PM

Actual Fashion Question
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
French maid is festive too. It says, "Kiss me at midnight and I will reward you kiss with no-stings-attached anal sex shortly after midnight!" At least that's the case in my experience.
Are you going to post a photo of you in the French maid outfit or what?

TM

Shape Shifter 12-28-2005 12:56 PM

Game Warden Blotter
 
Quote:

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Are you going to post a photo of you in the French maid outfit or what?

TM
He Thought He Heard A Rustler

A complaint of an individual shooting deer and not retrieving them led Goliad County Game Wardens Jesse Garcia and Kevin Fagg to check the brush on a landowner's property. The brush was thick and hard to see through. Garcia and Fagg found a deer's carcass and were about to examine it when a shot rang out from behind them. A man about 50 yards outside the brush had fired a shot in their direction from a 30.06 rifle. The bullet fragmented. A small portion struck Garcia in the knee and unknown debris struck Fagg in the side of the face. The shooter said he didn't see anything, but he had heard a "rustling noise." The man was charged with deadly conduct and taken to the Goliad County Jail. The game wardens were shaken up but otherwise OK.

As reported in the Lone Star Outdoor News

Oliver_Wendell_Ramone 12-28-2005 01:23 PM

Actual Fashion Question
 
Quote:

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Are you going to post a photo of you in the French maid outfit or what?

TM
You didn't get his Christmas card?

Hank Chinaski 12-28-2005 01:27 PM

Game Warden Blotter
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
He Thought He Heard A Rustler

A complaint of an individual shooting deer and not retrieving them led Goliad County Game Wardens Jesse Garcia and Kevin Fagg to check the brush on a landowner's property. The brush was thick and hard to see through. Garcia and Fagg found a deer's carcass and were about to examine it when a shot rang out from behind them. A man about 50 yards outside the brush had fired a shot in their direction from a 30.06 rifle. The bullet fragmented. A small portion struck Garcia in the knee and unknown debris struck Fagg in the side of the face. The shooter said he didn't see anything, but he had heard a "rustling noise." The man was charged with deadly conduct and taken to the Goliad County Jail. The game wardens were shaken up but otherwise OK.

As reported in the Lone Star Outdoor News
I hope spanky doesn't see this and get ideas.

Hank Chinaski 12-28-2005 01:28 PM

Actual Fashion Question
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
You didn't get his Christmas card?
2. Did you notice you can see a nipple in the shot?

taxwonk 12-28-2005 01:33 PM

Christmas Day Night
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Are these traits listed in a hierarchy of undesirability? Two apply to me and I would really like to know which I should work on first.
It doesn't matter Hank. In the morning, I shall be sober...


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