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Comment from: Lyndon W posted at November 18, 2005 7:49 PM

I prefer a nice light brown. Beige, if you will.

Comment from: John posted at November 18, 2005 9:27 PM

So she's being trained to be some kind of femme fatale thing? Like Sydney Bristow and Aeon Flux and Elektra and Bloodrayne and Trinity and Joanna Dark and just about every other heroine who's appeared since Samus Aran turned out not to be Justin Bailey but a woman with a bright green coiffure and a penchant for swimsuits?

Well count me the hell in.

Comment from: Eric Burns posted at November 18, 2005 9:33 PM

Not quite, no. But hey, if you're counted in? Cool!

Comment from: Prodigal posted at November 18, 2005 11:03 PM

You need to use "Bond Girls Are Chumps" as the chapter title.

Comment from: Alexis Christoforides posted at November 18, 2005 11:24 PM

I'd wear a swimsuit too if I was to be stuck in a tank suit for weeks.

Comment from: Dan Severn posted at November 18, 2005 11:26 PM

I have gorgeous feminine shoulders. It's a shame they're wasted on a male.

Comment from: lucastds posted at November 18, 2005 11:32 PM

"Bond Girls Are Chumps" as the chapter title would give the joke away. I'd leave that line out of a title. It's far too good.

Comment from: http://larksilver.blogspot.com posted at November 19, 2005 12:04 AM

Okay so it might give the joke away to use it as a title. But oooooh I sure would like that to be my own personal slogan. whee!

Comment from: gwalla posted at November 19, 2005 2:17 AM

I still need a link. :(

Comment from: oobie posted at November 19, 2005 3:12 AM

Dont bring my mother into this....

THAT should be the chapter title...

Comment from: Abby L. posted at November 19, 2005 3:31 AM

My shoulders and me, we're not speaking right now. Not since the acne epidemic of 02. It's all cleared up, but we both said some things...

It's best to leave it alone for a while, anyway.

Comment from: miyaa posted at November 19, 2005 3:20 PM

Speaking of fasion colors, what's the deal with guys wearing salmon or pink colored dress shirts? Is the old "Darn it, left my mom's lipstick with my white undies in the washer so now everything is now pink" lament is now fashionable?

Comment from: Eric Burns posted at November 19, 2005 3:27 PM

Certain skin tones work well with salmon, and less so with white. For a while guys had to look pretty crappy pretty much all the time.

Comment from: Dan Severn posted at November 19, 2005 3:34 PM

One of my neighbors works at some trendy clothing store such as Abercrombie and Fitch. I was shocked to learn that he couldn't wear anything black at work because the store "didn't sell black clothes."

I mean, it's their policy TO NOT SELL BLACK CLOTHES.

Am I the only one that finds that bizarre? I mean, I can understand not selling neon green or day-glo or hot pink, but black? I may not be the biggest fashion follower out there, but does black not go with EVERYTHING?

Then again, if it were up to me, everyone would be dressed like cultural revolutionaries.

Comment from: gwalla posted at November 19, 2005 4:41 PM

Abercrombie & Fitch is the anti-Hot Topic. If an A&F were to be placed next to an HT in a shopping mall, they would annihilate each other in a shower of gamma radiation.

Comment from: miyaa posted at November 19, 2005 7:29 PM

Huh. Does this makes Tommy Hilfilger the anti-A&F?

Comment from: quiller posted at November 19, 2005 9:04 PM

I personally like the way pastels look on me, though I don't think I have any pink dress shirts that fit me anymore (I last had one in high school). But polo shirts and T-shirts I've got in pinks and salmon.

Comment from: Eric Burns posted at November 19, 2005 9:46 PM

gwalla -- are you waiting on the keys to the website?

Resend me your e-mail address. You're the second one this week, actually.

Comment from: larksilver posted at November 20, 2005 4:43 AM

It worked the second time, Herr Burns! And.. now I fear to click the link, since I know I won't sleep til I've caught up completely...

does one, in cases such as this, go with sanity and sleep before the clicking, or with word-lust, and sleep be damned?

Comment from: Sean Duggan posted at November 20, 2005 1:45 PM

As regards the pink shirts, there's actually a growing trend in Ohio for high-school kids to wear pink shirts with "Real Mean Wear Pink" written across them. A statement of secureness in their male identity, I guess...

Comment from: larksilver posted at November 20, 2005 1:48 PM

My teenage nephew has a pink t-shirt that says "Go ahead. Laugh. This is your girlfriend's shirt."

Comment from: Dan Severn posted at November 20, 2005 3:54 PM

A&F is the anti-Hot Topic?

Then why is it I hate them both? Oh, yeah, they're both trendy clothing stores.

I swear, the day I stage a coup d'»tat is the day you all wear grey wool ponchos. And LIKE it.

Comment from: Lyndon W posted at November 20, 2005 4:32 PM

Not wool!

Comment from: larksilver posted at November 20, 2005 5:18 PM

Definitely not wool. See, here Texas, we just started our "Real Winter" this week, and it got down to 40. I'm not sure 40 F is cold enough for wool, and I'm cold-natured-girl.

So not wool. but jeans and solid-colored t-shirts would be a nice standard uniform. See, it's not unheard-of for us to wear shorts on Christmas Day. Or New Year's, even.

Comment from: Dan Severn posted at November 20, 2005 10:50 PM

I live in Texas, and I wear a wool shirt and slacks every weekday.

Comment from: larksilver posted at November 21, 2005 2:02 AM

Then you, sir, are far, far more heat-tolerant than me. I bought a wool poncho once; wore it about 3 times - all on trips somewhere north of Houston, and finally gave it to someone who was moving to Nebraska. I must admit, I did miss it when I moved to North Carolina and thus encountered ice storms and (gasp!) snow... but really. 100-degree weather doesn't really lend itself to wool.

I certainly see people who wear wool all the time down here, and was not trying to speak for everyone, of course. But I do tend to look at the wool-wearers, as they wilt in the wretched warmth, and think they're batshit insane. /shrug

Comment from: larksilver posted at November 21, 2005 2:04 AM

If I had grown up in one of those hot countries where the women must go around swaddled in burkhas or somesuch, I would not live to be stoned to death for my unseemly behavior; I would die of heat exhaustion. Of course, they want their women slow-moving and confined as much as possible to their homes, so I guess that's the point, isn't it?

Comment from: gwalla posted at November 21, 2005 2:40 AM

Dan: they are equivalent in substance but opposite in charge.

Comment from: Dan Severn posted at November 21, 2005 11:45 AM

Ach so, gwalla, Ach so.

I don't actually have a choice about wearing wool, by the way. But my complaint about wool is not so much that it's too hot, but that when it rains, I smell like a wet sheep.

And I hope nobody gets me wrong-- I don't have anything against stylish clothing-- that is to say, thinking about your clothes and coming up with ways to look good such as in the above passage. It's trendiness-- wearing expensive and ugly clothes to prove that you can-- that raises the hair on the back of my neck.

I figure if you want to be part of the crowd, you should wear something more utilitarian. Big Brother would approve.

Comment from: larksilver posted at November 21, 2005 1:06 PM

I have always wondered why people pay their hard-earned (or their parents') money for shirts which advertise a brand name. Surely, if we're talking about advertising a brand name, they should pay us, right?

It's not the same if it's a band, or a comic, or something like that. At least what you're proclaiming your allegiance to does something. Or proclaims that you were at that awesome concert (flick lighter here), or some such. But a shirt that says "hey! I'm cool, look, I bought this ugly t-shirt for ten times its worth, and it's going to fall apart in a month, just so I could announce to the world that I am part of the Hot Topic Club!"... yick.

Maybe Hot Topic and A%F should start selling wool... after all, their primary customer base consists of a bunch of sheep.

Comment from: Thomas Blight posted at November 22, 2005 5:38 PM

However, Larksilver, that joke only works in metaphor. They'd have to sell them clothes made out of human hair for the metaphor to apply properly.

Or possibly start a band of thieves that steal people's shirts and then sell them in stores. In fact, that sounds like fun.

I've been told that my entire wardrobe is a fashion faux pas. Considering all I wear are jeans and white t-shirts (I'm exaggerating a bit about the white t-shirts), they're probably right.

Comment from: larksilver posted at November 22, 2005 10:38 PM

How can jeans and a t-shirt be a bad move? I mean, it's a classic, right?

Now if your jeans are 6 inches too short, and do the Erkel-bum-riding thing... well, that's different.

Comment from: HydrogenGuy posted at November 25, 2005 2:21 PM

Abercrombie & Fitch is the anti-Hot Topic. If an A&F were to be placed next to an HT in a shopping mall, they would annihilate each other in a shower of gamma radiation.

Galactic gamma ray bursts explained! I would pay to see that, honestly. (From inside a well-shielded bunker, of course.)

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