I was thinking recently, what was that mall store 15-20 years ago? 3-5-7?
5-7-9 Shop. I remember their jingle.
Don't belong. Dangerous, like you. Can't be controlled. Can't be trusted. Everyone could just go on without me and not have to worry. People could be what they wanted to be. Could be with the people they wanted. Live simple. No secrets.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Jan 08, 2007 7:14:26 am PST #973 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Jessica - Jan 08, 2007 7:15:37 am PST #974 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
And, above all else, I get that it's a *commercial* -- their goal is to make $$$$, and if they can make women think that they, too, can be a size 2, then that's what they're going to trumpet in their commercial, even if it isn't a realistic or achievable or sustainable OR healthy goal for the majority of women.
Also, the size mentioned in the commercial needs to be smaller than the vast majority of viewers in order to get people thinking "Wow, I'd better lose weight!" instead of "Yay, the teevee thinks I'm thin!"
§ ita § - Jan 08, 2007 7:16:19 am PST #975 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have the wee bones, which is why I think my sister looks so damned skinny at something just shy of my pre-kettlebell weight. She's got the big bones.
Okay, so damned skinny is an exaggeration--it's lean, and it's quite an athletic looking lean, but it's weird to think that at about that height and weight I merely looked slim.
Now, as far as I can tell, I look...okay, I have no idea.
bon bon - Jan 08, 2007 7:16:54 am PST #976 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Oooh, 5-7-9. Mall stores are ridic. Every time I pass American Apparel stores I think of the store "Units"-- does anyone else remember this? It was all knit coordinates, like knit jumpsuits with knit belts.
Kathy A - Jan 08, 2007 7:17:19 am PST #977 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
What I want to know is why the Jenny Craig/LA Weight Loss Center/Weight Watchers in strip malls are always located next to the Cold Stone Creamery/Ben & Jerry's?
sarameg - Jan 08, 2007 7:18:34 am PST #978 of 10001
Every time I pass American Apparel stores I think of the store "Units"-- does anyone else remember this? It was all knit coordinates, like knit jumpsuits with knit belts.
I remember them!
Aims - Jan 08, 2007 7:18:35 am PST #979 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
"Units"-- does anyone else remember this? It was all knit coordinates, like knit jumpsuits with knit belts.
My junior and senior year in marching band, this is where our flag corps uniforms came from.
tommyrot - Jan 08, 2007 7:19:02 am PST #980 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
What I want to know is why the Jenny Craig/LA Weight Loss Center/Weight Watchers in strip malls are always located next to the Cold Stone Creamery/Ben & Jerry's?
So their employees can get together behind the stores and laugh?
bon bon - Jan 08, 2007 7:19:55 am PST #981 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
My junior high all-girls chorus got their uniforms from Units. I'm so glad I'm not the only one that remembers this store!
amych - Jan 08, 2007 7:20:14 am PST #982 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
What I want to know is why the Jenny Craig/LA Weight Loss Center/Weight Watchers in strip malls are always located next to the Cold Stone Creamery/Ben & Jerry's?
To enable the vicious cycle that keeps you coming back to both of them forever.
Who, me, paranoid?