Pish! I play Sexy M.F. all the time while I'm driving!

yes, it is good, but IMNSHO Pussy Control is even better.

DAMMIT! left my iPod in the charger, or I would be listening to it right now.

The Imperial, Er...Bridal March

Pictures of a flower girl at a wedding. She's wearing a pretty white dress and a Vader helmet.

By waist size, do you mean your natural waist, or where your navel is, or where the waistband of the jeans hit? Inseam also works best if you have a standard style of jeans.

By waist size, I mean the number of inches around of fabric the garment has at its waist. (Which may or may not be where my own waist is.) Inseam is pretty straightforward as well: the measure from the garment's crotch to the garment's hem. How those fit on me is another matter; but if I at least knew that the "size 25" meant "inseam is 25 inches", I would be able to determine that my legs are a lot longer than that, so unless the crotch is somewhere halfway down my thighs, that won't fit me.

I don't think it's possible to do measurements on the body and make that a sizing system. People measure in different places, or the garment isn't designed for what the person is measuring for, etc. etc. But describing the garment by its own measurements, that seems like a feasible thing to do.

October Surprise

The real problem with with October surprises is that they aren't, and people still fall for them anyway.

so, was it a Star Wars themed wedding, or did the girl just want to wear the helmet? Cause weddings happen!

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Yeouch. My boss is stuck at home today because now her building is doing extermination. Only in her case - rats. And the reason for the rats - a guy in her building chose to deal with a backed-up toilet not by calling a plumber, but by going in plastic bags and dropping it down the trash chute.

Technology saves the day! An answer to the dress size dilemma.

Move over diamonds, body scanners are soon to be a girl's new best friend.

A crop of the 3-D, body-measuring devices are replacing outdated sizing paradigms, and they're making shopping for clothes that are inconsistently sized and unrealistically fitted a little less painful.

"These scanners are taking body measurements that are converted into patterns from which garments are cut," said apparel product development specialist Lenda Jo Connell from Auburn University.

"This saves a lot of time because, otherwise, it's a one-on-one, hands-on process," said Connell. "It lines up with mass customization and is one of the islands of technology … that are beginning to link together so that you can get scanned, and that information is used to produce a garment for one."

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a guy in her building chose to deal with a backed-up toilet not by calling a plumber, but by going in plastic bags and dropping it down the trash chute.

Um.... huh.

But, Nutty, then you get a closet full of pieces of xlothing of different "sizes" if the garment's waist hits me in different places.

Eh. I'm a 6+. I vary starting from there. Knowing my natural waist is 28 and my hips are whatever gives me another starting point. But it's nothing hugely different, in my estimation. Women's clothes have such varied styling. Men's less so.

Five Tips to Increase Your Likeability

In summary,

• Be positive.
• Control you insecurities.
• Provide value.
• Eliminate all judgements.
• Become a person of conviction.

Ah, fuck it. That's too much work. Plus they left out my favorite: "Reject others before they reject you."

For aviation geeks:

"Though it's not being widely reported, this week marks the end of the line for the F-14 Tomcat in US Navy service. First flown in 1970, the Grumman F-14 Tomcat was easily one of the world's most powerful, advanced, and deadly aircraft for many years, capable of flying at Mach 2.3 and firing its half-dozen Mach 5 AIM-54 Phoenix air-to-air missiles at targets as much as 100 miles away. Having been gradually replaced during the last several years by the newer F/A-18E/F, the last of the aircraft in US service will be officially retired on Friday, September 22nd in a ceremony at Virginia's Oceana Naval Air Station. However, at least a few F-14s will continue to fly for a few more years: Iran — which took delivery of 79 aircraft before the overthrow of the Shah — still flies the plane, though only a small number (perhaps ten or twenty) are believed to still be in service due to a lack of spare parts and attrition."

So if we attack Iran, we may have to fight Tomcats....

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