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the only reason i would ever don the color peach is by sheer force. check this out: http://www.hawaiianmoon.com/viewproducts.cfm?productid=38&swatchid=298&qty=1&size=0000 can you say Wedding Hell? my friend Matt is getting married and i'm his Best Gal. his fiancee, when i met her, she seemed real cool, real good taste. but my god! MY GOD! how could she have chosen this? and why do i have to match her bridesmaides? i'm not a bridesmaid, i'm the Best Gal. shit. i might as well just wear Satan's Severed Head. |
i think the cut, rather than the color is the biggest problem. maybe alterations are in order do away with the short sleeves (i would go sleeveless or halter) hem it to tea length. then it might pass for kitschy instead of vomitous. |
Every single colour available is better than the peach. The wine is very nice. Even the beige is better, which you'll never hear me say otherwise. You're in his party, you're right that you shouldn't match the bridesmaids, wtf :( At least it's cheap-ish. |
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good point, yes, cheap-ish, at least there's that. at least i'm not paying a lot for a bad dress. and alterations, yes, also good idea. would it be rude to ask or ruder to just do it and show up? i love my man's sense of humor - he made me feel better about it. he said, "at least it's relatively cheap compared to most wedding party dresses. i'll wear my miami vice outfit complete with no socks and penny loafers and we'll make a smashing couple..." |
I don't understand why anyone would intentionally choose to make anything in the peach-beige-taupe spectrum. |
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peaches are the only thing that should be peach-colored. and some flowers. but that's it. |
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here's a frightening thought: peach shorts thank you and goodnight. |
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indeed. also, how about reasoning with her? |
sarah's personality will outshine it with ease and no one will notice or remember the dress |
but she's right about one thing:pink shorts = evil |
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nobody's feelings will get hurt. and you're right, it's not the end of the world. it's just that... i mean... COME ON! hasn't everyone been grossed out by bridesmaids dresses at least once in their life? |
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not to mention i'm just too old to be wearing a bridesmaids dress. did anyone watch figure skating last night? the Russian woman looked funny to me. she looked like an adult woman dressed up in a little girl's costume. same idea. there's just me and one groomsman. it's okay, i'll just deal. it's easier though when you have someone to comisserate with. |
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actually, all the figure skaters last night didn't seem to be as talented or animated as figure skaters of olympics past. ya know? just something intangible lacking... |
They seemed to be lacking grace this year. They were technically quite skilled, and they were mostly very athletic, but they seemed less graceful. |
as are weddings the whole thing is a splendid avenue to showcase lack of taste that's why you have to drink and dance and then go do something outrageous in the dress |
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i'm sure you did Dougie. i'm getting hot just thinking about it. |
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A wedding of dear friends I attended this summer had a neat variation on the bridesmaid dress theme--all of the bride's women were directed to wear some sort of creamy yellow, and the groomsmen were in maroon. But they could pick out the garments they wanted to wear. (One of the groomsmen, for example, wore a gorgeous maroon silk strappy dress.) Everyone looked lovely, but still created a homogenous image which didn't take away from the couple of the day. There was a funny article in the Chronicle today bitching about the figure skaters. Not having television, I never watch the Olympics unless I sneak over to someone else's house to catch a bit. And usually it's not worth it to me unless the event is equestrian of fencing, neither of which are winter events. To be fair, however, I should disclose that I am wearing maroon pants and a peach strappy top right now. |
HUGE leaf! Also re: figure skaters - new scoring system is done by basically rolling some dice and picking the the number of teh judges that come up - doesn't seem that fair to me. I don't think anyone who falls at all should be getting any medals much less a silver. weddings are getting increasingly scary, but that could just be because there's one in my future. |
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be getting any medals much less a silver" what if everyone falls? then you have the ski-launch hurricane man who fell toward the end and fell to seventh despite that amazing twisty thing he did. |
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oh no, shoes. i'm historically bad with shoes. what would these knockout shoes look like, do you think? the wedding is about 1.5 hours north of philly. anyone here live near philly? i have friends in philly, senor has family in pittsburgh, i have family between the two cities, in the area swine used to refer to as "kentucky". |
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That's right, I just admitted to watching American Idol. Commence with the dissing. |
Sem and I watch the first couple episodes of the season, when everyone is hilariously terrible and Simon is mean. |
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It's a beautiful piece, but would probably be a buzzkill for the wedding. Is the requisite Pachelbel Canon also listed? |
at my sister's first wedding, a catholic ceremony, they wouldn't let her play the wedding march from "lohengrin" because they said it was pagan. is that on the list? |
if i don't play the *imperial march* for my wedding march, i will play the last song from A New Hope where they go get their medals. that would also include my cousin barking like chewbacca. |
So we watched Walk The Line instead, which i thought included some equally painful singing. I know some will disagree with me on this, but i don't understand why you would have someone else singing in a biopic about a goddamn singer who was known for his unique voice. The recordings exist! Hundreds of hours! Why do i have to listen to Joaquin Phoenix's sub-par impression for 2 hours? I can't comprehend this decision. I think it's a little insulting too. And the guy playing Elvis did the single worst Elvis i have ever seen :( Everyone and their mom can do a better Elvis than him. Good movie though. |
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i like to watch the kids sing, but they should really cut all of the boring blonde karaoke singers at the beginning |
and anyway, how do you find this stuff? you always know the cool web sites for clothes. i'm still stuck at ross dress for less. if i get married, it's P-Funk down the aisle. |
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hmmm. now i'm thinking the dkny's. those are really something. |
when brides select horrific dresses for their wedding party, it reaks of insecurity. you have no chance to look pretty than she. also, why is figuring skating an olympic sport? |
Did anyone watch American Idol this week? I need your help making fun of the contestants. |
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well, it's actually called the Olympic Games, not Olympic Sports. this is why the olympics also includes curling, for example. it's obviously not a sport, it's a game, requiring skill and strategy, if not athletic ability (besides being able to kneel and glide on ice at the same time). if there's olympic curling, i'm not sure why there's not olympic bridge, or olympic billiards, but i guess that's where the historical reference comes in. |
lots of badness why do they let the person who lost sing again? more torture for both the singer and the audience? hurray for tivo and not having to watch what you don't want to. i felt sorry for that kid after they talked him up and then compared him to chicken little. |
Curling's fun to watch -- what are those brooms made of on the business end? Are they chammies or bristles or what? I gather they can actually move the stone's trajectory by how much they sweep in front of it. And where does one learn to curl? Are there such things as curling rinks? "Why do i have to listen to Joaquin Phoenix's sub-par impression for 2 hours?" I haven't seen it yet, but maybe they tried and the lip-synching didn't work out? I've also heard from friends that they thought he did a good job, so I'll have to check it out. |
elliot is pretty great, but for me he's really hard to look at and i feel bad about that. is it his teeth? i dunno, but i'm sure that if he wins he will look more and more cleaned up as time passes and that sucks too. |
Bucky Covington is my cousin. my great grandmother's maiden name is Covington and they're all from the southeast. this is kind of sick, but when Bucky got voted off, one of my cousins sent an email out to everyone that read: ********** I can't bear to be the one to inform you of this despite the fact that this may have been anticipated. It appears as though your cousin Bucky (The Buckster, Buckmaster, HeavyB, Thebuckinator, IceB... etc.) has been eliminated from American Idol. Life is about choices. And Bucky apparently may have made a poor one when he opted to sing a rendition or Queens "Fat Bottom Girls". He should take comfort in knowing that he did his best, and we can only wonder if things would have been different had George Strait sang "I've Got Big Balls"... ********** such talent in my bloodline! i can see from here how green you all are from envy! |
(i mean, i get it, but my point being, does anyone watch that show?) |
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His profile states that he sang "Fat Bottomed Girls" on Queen night (had i known they were doing a Queen night i would have watched the shit out of it!) and that's always the song i would sing if i had to sing a Queen song to a mass tv audience. Of course it's much cuter when a girl is singing it ;) Get on your bikes and ride. |
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That little black chick is the worst they've ever had as far as black chicks go. Standards are made for black chicks to sing. Trying to out sing a black chick on standard songs is like trying to out sing a white guy on country songs- it just can't be done. But this chick fucked it up and i can't imagine how. Disgraceful. Imagine Fantasia singing a Billie Holiday song? The auditorium would set on fire! When a black chick is singing an old standard you should be weeping and clawing yourself over the perfection. Who is that troll? Elliot? He disgusts me. Sweet merciful crap he sang my favorite Queen song on Queen night. Maybe it's good that i missed it. He is a nasty mess. I can't even look at him. Oh, Kellie, you generic blonde. You southern clone. Those bright empty eyes and yellow locks are the reason my sister has been dying her hair brown since she was 13. OMG but my shoes are sooo cute! Shut up. Taylor Hicks....just no. I look at Katharine and i see a commercial for Crest White Strips. I expect her to be playing Belle in some stage version of Beauty and the Beast. Nothing special. Nothing new. Very marketable. She might be 2nd. Hi I'm Chris check out my band Disturbed- Lite! Yeah it's Ace all the way. |
maybe that's what distracted me last night while i was trying to get from my wheelchair onto the couch. my chair, which an unsafe piece of shit, toppled forward. i landed on the side of the couch and then to the floor, onto my non-weight bearing legs. i swear i heard a crack. i pulled myself onto the couch and watched "house". my leg hurt a little, but it always does. i woke up this morning and my whole left leg was swollen. you can even tell when i'm wearing pants - it's weird, one like a twig and one like a log. people at worked freaked out. my boss even had me put an ice pack on it. it's still swollen, though. if it's still like this tomorrow, i'll go to the emergency room or something. i had to do a search for who bucky covington is. i can kind of see the family resemblance, sarah. |
why are you going to wait!? you should just have someone take you today. there's no sense in taking any chances. just because you can't really feel it doesn't mean it can't be dangerous to just let it go. you worry me. (and ouch. but actually, now that i really look at him, i guess i could see it...) |
droop wants gangrene. |
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yeah. percoset is the only real pain killer. vicodin just makes you a little high and nauseated. i love japanese take out. |
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oh uh, got distracted by talk of drugs and food. sorry about your knee, droopy. but i'm glad you got it checked out. let us know how you're doing. |
i guess i had such romantic notions about vicodin because of: (a) the legendary vicodin hounds, and (b) that's what house (the hugh laurie character) is supposed to be addicted to. will see milne on tuesday morning. i have no idea what he's going to tell me. i never did find out exactly which part of the knee was broken, except that the radiologist told me that my patella was fine and that she'd never seen a knee broken like this before. |
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yikes. that what they said about my shoulder. i'm glad you're not in any pain at least. do you think they'll do surgery or give you a cast or what? let us know what milne says. also, seriously dear, why don't you a call a friend to come stay at your place for a night or two to help you out? |
it didn't do anything for pain, however, 4 to 6 advil do the trick. |
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i'm hoping that - at the very worst - i'll get outpatient surgery and a cast or something. but i don't know. i don't like people hanging around my apartment for too long. it cramps my style. |
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I hope you get hot nursing. People will probably presume your cast is the reason for the wheelchair and you'll be offered condolences by perfect strangers. |
Dr oop, you need to stop being so fucking stoic. Let somebody take care of you while you're laid out, for crimony's sake. On a TOTALLY unrelated note, does anyone recall the avatar making website thingy that we were all playing around with several years ago? They looked like this... http://www.sizemore.co.uk/av_atar.gif ? HOW CAN I MAKE ONE AGAIN? It's for my final capstone portfolio website, wherein I somehow prove that I am worthy of a Master's in Library Science degree because of all the hard work I have done in the past three years. That was sarcasm, in case it wasn't obvious. I have this deluded fantasy that putting a small whimsical likeness of me on the website will cause the heavens to look upon me kindly and give me my frickin diploma, already. Alternately, wisper could make a cartoon likeness of me, and I could pay her back in a way that was somehow agreeable to her. Whut? |
here's a website with 4 little icon makers http://abi-station.com/ this one is cuter, but limited http://www.dookyweb.com/avatars.swf you in LEGO? http://www.baseplate.com/toys/minifig/ as a cartoon skank? http://elouai.com/doll-makers/candybar-doll-maker.php as a Picasso drawing? (classy!) http://www.mrpicassohead.com/index.html south park character? http://images.southparkstudios.com/games/create/ I'll do whatever i can for you if none of these are to your liking. |
I think the site is gone. http://www.stor.co.uk/troopers2.php |
http://www.stortroopers.com/ |
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i think i still have my stortrooper around somewhere. she'd look different if i built her today. which i won't. and yeah droopy. what agatha said, sucka. |
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GIRLY CONVERSATIONS MAKE YOU ILL I just wanted to say that I am letting my attendants choose their own dresses. And my *dress code* is going to prohibit jeans and shorts for anyone over the age of 7 (in honor of heather). Also, we're getting married in a barn. I'm not going to do stuff like this on a regular basis. Although I may occasionally ask for advice or opinions. |
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What is with forcing bridesmaids to wear ugly dresses, anyway? I tend to think worse of a bride for humiliating her friends and forcing them to wear silly overpriced dresses in order to make her look better. What kind of barn, kazu? An emu barn? |
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Click on Smith Barn. What else? I'm thinking of a pale, butter-like yellow for the bridesmaid dresses. I want to carry yellow and purple flowers. I have more than a year to plan this so I'll probably change my mind a million times. Food: New England Clambake/BBQ. I don't think we'll be able to get away with not posting pictures. I went to a wedding once where the bride said that if anyone dressed up she was going to be pissed. I don't know if that was because she really wanted it to be laid back or because she didn't want any attention deflected from herself. In this particular case, I'm leaning toward the former. Personally, I would prefer not to be the center of attention. I think I'm going to wear a burka. I really don't understand that kind of insecurity. I've never been to a wedding where the bride wasn't the center of attention at least most of the time. |
bold combination. |
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i wish the new stortroopers had more choices. if you're a girl, the hats are really lame - no baseball hats or cowboy hats. and there's only one dog. |
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my cat, my feline, has been trippin' all night. earlier in the evening she was at her bowl (which i put on a chair because of ants) eating, and she suddenly jumped and ran off as though she'd been squirted with water or something. then she came back and started nervously to look and sniff around. apparently, some critter scared her. finally she wandered off. later i found her in my bedroom sitting in the corner looking nervous and pathetic. every little shadow or noise spooked her. i'm hoping that it's just geckos. every year, when it starts getting hotter, i start finding baby geckos in the apartment; staying out of the heat, i guess. you'll find them on the walls or who knows where. my knee had a distal fracture, by the way. i don't quite know what that means, but the doctor showed me an x-ray of my knee, pointed to some part of it, and said "this should be there." i'm wearing a big knee brace that keeps my leg locked in a 90º angle. |
I have a thought. Why not get a clapper? You know, those annoying "seen-on-tv" things? You said you had to get up to turn on your ceiling fan, and this way you could save all the hassle of getting up, and just "clap-clap" and a lovely tropical breeze would be coming your way! All right, its true, I've always secretly wanted one. I can't help myself, I love that cheesy as-seen-on-tv crap.I know most of it doesn't work, but that doesn't stop me from coveting it. |
Try not to stress, but thats easier said than done. I was amazed, a girl I work with is planning her wedding, and was furious that a friend of hers [who was also planning her own wedding],was "stealing" all of her ideas. Colors, themes, even having her wedding a couple of weeks before my co-worker. My co-worker is livid with anger.I now see this co-worker in another light. As she was bright red in the face and sputtering and stuttering with her anger at her friend, she tells me she's going to *confront* her about this unthinkable mis-deed. As I sat there appalled at her behavior, she finally asks me what I think of the situation. I responded with, "Well when I go to a wedding, I'm there to celebrate my friends day of joy, not to critique their decorations." Not the answer she wanted to hear. But now I don't have to hear anymore of her wedding woes. Sometimes, honesty is the best policy. |
