I'm not going to be able to stop giggling at that.
Minearverse 5: Stop, collaborate and listen.
You walk in worlds the others can't begin to imagine.
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
The Minearverse 4: Support Group for Clumsy People
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Kristen - May 04, 2006 7:41:30 pm PDT #9808 of 10001
aurelia - May 04, 2006 7:43:11 pm PDT #9809 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
John doesn't have to pick up Tim's dry cleaning?
§ ita § - May 04, 2006 7:50:08 pm PDT #9810 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
This is because the guys you're familiar with have necks like oxen and pectorals to match.
Colin and my father and, well, most of the guys whose closets I've been in are looking at you real funny. I'm not sure why they don't shop like the average guy, but it's not because they're shaped like that.
P.M. Marc - May 04, 2006 8:10:08 pm PDT #9811 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Any of Paul's button-downs have at least a neck measurement. I don't know if they get more specific than that, and have like, 16 Gorilla Arms Pot Belly or 16 Stumpy Limb Thin Guy or something. But they are slightly more specific than S/M/L.
Casual wear, OTOH, is all about the letters, in shirts at least.
Allyson - May 04, 2006 8:30:33 pm PDT #9812 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
We really should get John a login here so we can ask him those important questions.
Barry Woodward - May 04, 2006 9:24:27 pm PDT #9813 of 10001
I fought the law and I won!
The Minearverse 5: Requiem For An Inseam
Topic!Cindy - May 05, 2006 12:56:53 am PDT #9814 of 10001
What is even happening?
Any of Paul's button-downs have at least a neck measurement. I don't know if they get more specific than that, and have like, 16 Gorilla Arms Pot Belly or 16 Stumpy Limb Thin Guy or something. But they are slightly more specific than S/M/L.
What Plei said. Usually those shirts have both neck and sleeve measurements, which when taken together are going to account for how much fabric is needed to go around his middle (e.g. shortish arms and a big neck = chubby; longish arms and big neck = not chubby, just big; long arms, small neck = tall and skinny; shorter arms, small neck, not skinny, just small). This isn't just a fancy Brooks Brothers thing. Even Van Heusen measures neck and sleeve.
Also? Although men's clothing is less confusing in some ways, it's more confusing when all the articles men wear over their upper bodies are referred to simply as 'shirts'.
I refuse to play. If the shirt buttons all the way from collar to bottom, and has sleeves that button at the cuff, it's a blouse, darn it, and I'm calling it a blouse.
I also call men's non-jeans, non-casual pants trousers, or slacks, if I'm in a mood.
Frankenbuddha - May 05, 2006 3:36:57 am PDT #9815 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I have nothing to say about men's fashion, despite wearing them myself. However, since we're down to less than 200 posts, I thought I'd contribute to the thread's demise.
msbelle - May 05, 2006 3:41:32 am PDT #9816 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Minearverse 5: Stop, collaborate and listen.
a million times yes. although I know people hate an earworm. in my head, that will be the thread title.
Tim, tell your lawyer HI! he should stop by and chat.
Topic!Cindy - May 05, 2006 3:49:55 am PDT #9817 of 10001
What is even happening?
It doesn't earworm me, because I don't know the song (if it even is a song that is supposed to be the point of reference, which has now whizzed over my head twice). I'm tossing up:
Minearverse 5: We Let Tim Drive (not as fun-to-me as the first rhymey one, but... Anyhow, I'd love to plug the new show title)
Or, completed unrelatedly:
Minearverse 5: I've contacted my lawyer