Poll: walking out
 

I know I know, and I apologize. It's just one of my favorites of all time. Does this mean I'm the resident expert on "The Royal Tennenbaums"? B/c I haven't watched it since Friday.

(And I haven't even had a glimpse of Walter Sobchak in about two weeks! Shame on me.)

We're all next on Paigow's ignore list
 

How so?

We're all next on Paigow's ignore list
 

Wrong: She's as (un)attractive as she was 10 years ago.

Strange Poll
 

Translation: I'm channeling Paigow and for some reason it hasn't caused me to cut off my hands to prevent me from doing so publicly.

We're all next on Paigow's ignore list
 

There is a documentary Rosanna Arquette made, playing on Showtime. She interviews actresses in there mid-30's to 40's about their careers. It called "Searching for Debra winger."
The ones who were really hot, are still beautiful, but they complain about losing roles to 25 year old women. I felt sorry for them, until I remeber that most got famous as really hot 20 year old's, and took their early roles away from other actresses who were then in their 30's ( Rosanna, D. Hannah, etc.). There were some who were/are better actresses (Winger, Hunter) who were in the film, and do deserve better. Winger basically has quit trying. Hunter takes roles in smaller films.

We're all next on Paigow's ignore list
 

It's weird. I turn 35 in a few months and it sort of hit me a few months ago that I still think 35 is really old and I automatically still think of myself as in my twenties. When people ask me my age sometimes I honestly can't remember. Often I say 33 because I guess that must have been a good year and it is stuck in my head. And then I have to think about it. I also think I must be 100% vain and therefore subconsciously in denial about the whole thing.

We're all next on Paigow's ignore list
 

I think that what most people don't get until they're in their thirties is that you are still exactly the same person at 30+ as you were at 17.

You just have more bills, and it hurts more to run.

We're all next on Paigow's ignore list
 

I just saw a couple of first season episodes and she looke hella better now than she did then. you probably never thought she was attractive in the first place (I do)

We're all next on Paigow's ignore list
 

Well, maybe if she hadn't evolved into a man she'd get more roles.

Strange Poll
 

Its like when the New York Times wrotea about metrosexuals. Once "translations" make it to the rocking chair on porch in flyover land country crowd, you know they are over.

women's hockey jerseys
 

And confidential to Thrashers Fan and anyone else who might care:

The NHL has finally recognized that it has female fans who are too small for mens' jerseys and look silly in a boys large (arms too short). So they've had the brilliant idea of coming out with jerseys in womens sizes. I was so excited last night when I found out I did a little hop.

(sorry, just when you are a rapidly aging lawyer practicing in one of the nerdiest fields, you have to make the most of truly exciting moments)

We're all next on Paigow's ignore list
 

I thought she was hot in Striking Distance, L.A. Story and Honeymoon in Vegas*.


*With Pat Morita as Mahi Mahi

Strange Poll
 

I woke up to ESPN Radio's Mike and Mike discussing/overanalyzing metrosexuality and threw up in the bed.

Strange Poll
 

Hopefully you were thoughtful enough to wipe any residual vomit off your gf

Triumph in the War of Words - gay spouses
 

Advocates of gay marriage rejoyce! Judith Martin has joined our cause!

"Dear Miss Manners:

When referring to the relationship between two men who have undergone a marriage or commitment ceremony, is it most proper to call them "husbands," "spouses" or "partners"?

It seems as if the word "partner" is popular in referring to people who have a relationship, but have not necessarily formalized it with a ceremony. The greater level of commitment signified by the service seems to necessitate the use of a different term, much as after a traditional marriage ceremony those who were formerly "boyfriend/girlfriend" or "fiances" become "husband/wife."

Gentle Reader:

Oh, no, here we go again. Even aside from the fact that everybody keeps referring to the affianced as "fiances," the terminology of couplehood has been driving Miss Manners crazy for years.

It is true that we seem finally to have settled on "partner" to describe the parties to an unmarried living arrangement, but not without years and years of trying out icky alternatives such as "significant other" and POSSLQ (the government's idea of a catchy way of saying People of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters). "Partner" is not a great choice, as one might have law partners, business partners and dance partners with whom one wouldn't dream of going home, but at least it is pronounceable.

So use "spouse," "husband" or "wife" for both -- but no new words, please.""

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2003Sep23.html

I note that, some years ago when this matter of what to call unmarried "couples" of whatever nature was less settled (late '70s early '80s), she held to the view that married was married and nothing else was, that marriage was a legal status, and everything else was "just good friends," with which I generally agree with the sole exception that there are people who are legally barred from getting married (as far as I am concerned everyone else can either get married or shut up about their relationship not being given the same respect). From this change in view, I take it that this was a lurking issue for her as well.

The social revolution in marriage is progressing rather better than I had hoped. I am even more confident than before that we will have gay marriage in the US within my lifetime.

women's hockey jerseys
 

I don't understand -- doesn't Darcy Tucker's actual sweater fit you?

Seriously, I am surprised that it took them marketing geniuses at the NHL this long to figure that out. There always seem to be lots of chick's at hockey games.

(And, apropos of nothing, the percentage of women attending hockey games who are attractive seems to be much higher than in other sports.)

Perfect Crime Foiled
 

Ahh, but what was the street value of the guacamole?

women's hockey jerseys
 

Maybe the NFL will bandwagon on this one. The gear for women is pitiful. 1 page in a 30 page catalog. Freaking babies get more options than we do.

And I look quite cute in NFL gear, thank you very much.

We're all next on Paigow's ignore list
 

On the other hand, by the time you hit your 40's, you either learn to live inside your own skin, or, if you're like Sebby, you kill yourself, or if you're like Paigs, you just drink more. Which, now that I think of it, is really the same thing on a slower pace.

Strange Poll
 

Exactly. Thanks for being the only one to "get" the hidden message of my post.

We're all next on Paigow's ignore list
 

Kathleen Turner.

from:
http://www.ecrannoir.fr/films/84/images/romancing.jpg

to:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/760000..._turner150.jpg

Kirstie Alley.

from:
http://cache.eonline.com/On/Holly/Sh.../03.cheers.jpg

to:
http://members.cox.net/batchild1/kirstie.jpg

TM

Triumph in the War of Words - gay spouses
 

I have always used the classic, tried and true, "um-friends."

We're all next on Paigow's ignore list
 

Maybe you're not really talking about emotional development here, but either you were a much better person than I was at 17 or you and the people you know are depressingly stagnant.

women's hockey jerseys
 

Perfectly, but they tend to get annoyed when all you do is rummage through their closet. Selfish, I say.

We're all next on Paigow's ignore list
 

True, but I don't think people do those things because anything has changed about them. They're still having the same internal conversations at 45 that they were having at 16. They've just had longer to brood about their unhappiness.

We're all next on Paigow's ignore list
 

We know this is true. Now shut the f--k up about it and distract me with silly posts!

This was just emailed to me...
 

...regarding the rumor that Brian Urlacher a/k/a GOD is hooking up with Paris Hilton:

"Paris Hilton would be the greatest hate-fuck of all time."

No one else even comes close.

We're all next on Paigow's ignore list
 

Well arent you Mister Healthy Living? John Blysow or whatever the name of the manorexic withthe bad dye job and the shaved bod is who hocks those fitness videos, better watch his toned ass.

women's hockey jerseys
 

NotBob,

Next time the Piggly Wiggly case settles, and you find yourself at loose ends, I invite you to come down South. I'll be happy to take you to several of the college football cathedrals around here and show you the sights. During the fall, they are glorious places to be.

(Though I rarely attend hockey games, I *still* remember the posts here and on the Stalin board with Ashley Judd in a hockey jersey, and will happily take your word for it.)

Gattigap

women's hockey jerseys
 

And I'll take you to a Notre Dame game, where you can count the number of hot girls on your thumb.

The Whiff
 

Even you're not stupid enough to believe that that was a serious post.

Here's something I never understand and it happens frequently enough for it to be named: Why do people point out the joke in someone else's joke? Is it because they think not everyone caught it? If that's the case, so what? If others didn't get it and aren't asking, joke's on them. (Especially if they thought this was a legitimate post by me.) Or could it be because you didn't fully understand the joke the first time, so when you make the same joke using different words you think you've discovered something? That's even worse.

Hell, my post wasn't even subtle, which (and watch carefully) WAS the joke. You fucked it up by missing it completely or pretending it was subtle.

So, what should we name this phenomenon? In honor of my favorite Sportscenter anchorman, I vote for "The Whiff."

TM

Triumph in the War of Words - gay spouses
 

Until the early '90s Miss Manners, too, advocated the term "Ummer," since that is in fact the term people most often actually used ("this is my daughter's ... umm... err"). It is (i) pronounceable and an organic growth of the language, (ii) not unnecessarily descriptive and (iii) not confusingly used to describe other relationships (which "partner" is).

We're all next on Paigow's ignore list
 

That guy (Bladesdow?) is creepy. I've got some skin tone made simple advice for him: drink some water! I hate that bony-faced look that bodybuilders have. Blech.

We're all next on Paigow's ignore list
 

No, that's not really what I mean. You do get much more sophisticated in your interactions with the world, and you do, of course, develop emotionally, but, whatever fears, joys, and insecurities you had at 17, you likely still have later, and you still always feel like that same kid, peering out and wondering where time went.

The Whiff
 

I call it the "No, I got the joke, I was just taking it a step further " post hoc rationalization for being a fucking moron phenomenon. RP was the queen of this for awhile, but hsa since "gotten it". I think of it as the "post hoc" for short.

We're all next on Paigow's ignore list
 

Okay. It was starting to sound like a eulogy anyway.

We're all next on Paigow's ignore list
 

Chief Waka Waka veddy important man on this island. You make him angry and no one gonna wanna help you, brudda.

Oh, really? If he's so important, why does he live in a FREAKIN' SHACK?!

Thurgreed(I love that movie)Marshall

women's hockey jerseys
 

Which provides me with an excuse to post this link, which gives you all the UK Cool Cats posters, including the Ashley one. The hockey jersey seems to fit her just fine.

Perfect Crime Foiled
 

Penske's already saving up for the police auction.

TM

We're all next on Paigow's ignore list
 

every time he comes on I have to run to the clicker and get him out of my room bc he gives me nightmares. he is like a male calista flockheart with the head too big. i would wager he has had ribs removed a la tori spelling. its like, dude, you are fifty, you are not supposed to have every muscle showing, but if you do, please get buff so its not all skeletal looking. there is aging gracefully and there is manorexia. he has got to be the biggest creep around.

is there someone creepier on tv?