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Subject: Re: This is a NEW thread

Author:
carolyn

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Date Posted: 07:07:20 04/24/03 Thu
In reply to: Sam 's message, "Re: This is a NEW thread" on 12:38:48 04/23/03 Wed

>Anything that lets us talk about carolyn's pants is a
>good thing, I'm thinking.

I'm not wearing any pants right now. And, Chia, I'm sorry to report that today I have the opposite of swell dress sense. I'm wearing a skirt that could be kinda decent if I didn't have my work shirt tucked into it, creating the ever attractive skirt wad. Certainly I know better than to wear this in public, but it was clean, less wrinkled than some of my other options, and doesn't require a belt, like all of my pants options (dress code requires a belt with all looped pants--i'm fixin' to hack the loops off some pants pretty soon because i really don't like belts).

And speaking of dress sense (were we?) my other new cable tve show (HA!) is What Not To Wear, on TLC. It's fucking great. People nominate their friends/family to be ambushed by New York fashion people and made over. But it's not just any makeover, like on A Makeover Story, it's hard core. They secretly tape you for, like, weeks, then ambush you in public, tell you you're dressed dreadfully, then offer you 5 grand to go with them. You must bring all of your clothes to them in New York, they dress you in them, tell you how and why they look horrible on you or anyone who would wear them, systematically throw them away, then *take you shopping*. You spend the $5000 on snazzy new duds, get a haircut and makeup by celebrity stylists, and are then turned loose.
It shouldn't be entertainment, but it is. I fucking love this show. I want to be on this show. I tried to convince Melissa to nominate me for it. She was worried that they would throw away my shoes.

>Oh, and I'm not a math geek. Lawrence Waterhouse is a
>math geek. I'm a computer geek. :)

A geek's a geek, darlin'. I'm turning into a science geek. Not a hard core science geek like some, lord no!, but a geek none the less. Only a geek would have bugs on her desk voluntarily.

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sarahchia
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Date Posted: 10:25:56 04/24/03 Thu

>And speaking of dress sense (were we?) my other new
>cable tve show (HA!) is What Not To Wear, on TLC.
>It's fucking great. People nominate their
>friends/family to be ambushed by New York fashion
>people and made over. But it's not just any makeover,
>like on A Makeover Story, it's hard core. They
>secretly tape you for, like, weeks, then ambush you in
>public, tell you you're dressed dreadfully, then offer
>you 5 grand to go with them. You must bring all of
>your clothes to them in New York, they dress you in
>them, tell you how and why they look horrible on you
>or anyone who would wear them, systematically throw
>them away, then *take you shopping*. You spend the
>$5000 on snazzy new duds, get a haircut and makeup by
>celebrity stylists, and are then turned loose.
>It shouldn't be entertainment, but it is. I fucking
>love this show. I want to be on this show. I tried
>to convince Melissa to nominate me for it. She was
>worried that they would throw away my shoes.

Okay. I Have A Plan. You nominate me, and I'll nominate you, and we can HIDE all our good clothes/shoes somewhere for awhile. Because while I am COMPLETELY down with getting five grand to go shopping with fashion mavens in NYC, I am also unwilling to part with my Rocket Dog maryjane mules, and I am not getting rid of my cool black gauze shirt, nor the cheongsam dress that I wore for graduation. I have several friends whom I bet would do this. Hell, I bet I could hide my good shit in Greg's room. (He'll just have to pretend to be a raging transvestite for a few days. I bet he would--that's within the bounds of reasonable roommate favors, right? Pretending to be a transvestite? Sure it is. Why not?)

So how does one go about nominating a friend for this sort of humiliation?

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