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Sayjal is cuet.

I would say "whose", yeah.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Whose certainly sounds better, but can an organization technically be a who?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

An organization can be a 'they', so why not?

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Where is this? I see Jeff eating in the background.

Robin's going away party, at that place where she stayed when she moved here.

That's a great picture of me. I look thin.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Technically doesn't always win! Jesse you need a tattoo on your forehead that says "Don't hate me because I'm a prescriptivist."

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I am most certainly NOT a prescriptivist.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

You're the one arguing about which pronunciation is "correct"!

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I asked for some help editing my coverletter and it came back with "that's" which I knew was technically correct, but my ear balked at. Then my ear puked. So I gave my ear some Emetrol and ginger beer, which helped a bit, but it was still feeling a little queasy.

xpost: But I was arguing against John's prescriptivist ways!

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Whatever prescriptivism I preach is for comic effect, or to make an argument more interesting.

Re the other night, I honestly thought that Jesse was telling me that "horrible" and "whore" had different vowel sounds IN THE MIDWEST. My mistake.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha, I was just thinking "that's a great picture of Jeff! He also looks thin."

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I am listening to Scott Walker. I had never heard of him before, save for seeing him listed on Jeff's myspace last.fm pages. Weird stuff.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

So I guess sayja1 wouldn't be freaked out at all that we've posted so many pix of her on a thread? But anyway, yes, she is cute. She is so cute that she can say the most disgusting things and it still makes you go awwwww...

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I think "whose" is probably best, but if you feel weird about it, would it be too clunky to say, "an organization with a mission and goals"? Or "an organization that has a mission and goals"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Daniel-san

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

When Sayjal, Jenny and I worked at the restaurant in NC she once said, "I need a 'poon for my 'poon."

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Meaning what?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

You mean: 'poon for my poon'

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Meaning "I need a tampon for my poontang."

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, that is what I meant.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Wouldn't that be a 'pon for my poon?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Another question: does anyone wear double-breasted jackets anymore? I had one years ago and I looked GREAT in it. I've been reading up on suits and from what I read, they complement body types such as mine, but aren't they pretty much out of style? Or at least temporal? Not an classic, enduring style? Help.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I do not want to think about sayjal's poon ok thanks.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost-- maybe, but calling it a tampoon is funnier.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I was just being picky.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh I thought you meant a harpoon -- because of that pesky cervix.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

When I say years ago, I mean yeeeears ago

http://static.flickr.com/52/136277970_1b35557155.jpg?v=0

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Double-breasted, with pinstripes! I looked 6'4" in that suit.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

And a goddamn pink carnation boutinierre with fucking baby's breath!

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse: Classic if you are European. Technically always allowable even for USians, but with certain overtones that are sort of out of vogue right now (partly because DBs were picked up in the late '80s-early '90s and came to signify erm established order/financial power and successful masculinity/smarminess). I equate them with older Italian-American men who also oil their hair back and wear pinkie rings. If you want to overturn the type, TOTALLY DO IT.

There's also the whole yachting/anchor-buttons part but that comes to my mind second...and I don't like that type, either.

Also, that suit in your photo isn't double-breasted! WTF?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Huh. I always remember that suit as being DB'ed.

I don't think I would feel good in a DB suit.

http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/opinions/mens_fashion_part_1_suits.php

I like this article a lot.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought double-breasted suits were cool when I was a kid and I had one. Now I think they are indeed way out of fashion.

Also, that suit in your photo isn't double-breasted! WTF?

Yeah, I'm glad it's not just me!

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Where should I buy a suit for $300 or less? I am wary of Men's Warehouse, but I can't afford Macy Field's. I found a jacket I liked at Filene's basement once. Also a well-dressed homo told me that H&M was a good place to buy a suit, but I'm very very wary of them.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Go to that place we went, Justin's uncle's roommate's store.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh wait I thought you said $3000 or less.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Why are you wary of Men's Warehouse? They did me right, although you all know that I know nothing about fashion and don't care enough to make distinctions. But I think the suit I bought there looks good on me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

What's wrong with Men's Warehouse? Or H&M?

xpost

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I like that article, too, Jesse. Their whole series is nice, I remember having read it before. Also, I would like to go out sometime with a well-dressed man -- I'm pretty sure I never have -- but the balance, finding the balance between making sure you look sharp most of the time and, like, spending more time with your tailor than with ME, is so hard to find.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I want a place that will offer alterations. And a place that will not stuff your suit into a bag like H&M does (or did when Jenny bought a suit there). I don't know what might be wrong with MW, but I have a feeling about them--like they will just show me a suit and send me out the door.

I don't own any suits right now, so I want my only one to be as good/great as possible.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I got alterations at MW.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse, H&M will have current styles and cuts, but quality is a serious issue with them. Tread carefully and check the linings and buttons and lapels to see that everything lies and hangs smoothly. And yeah, you need alterations! Pretty much no suit fits out of the box, as it were.

Men's Warehouse...worries me. I'm sure you can do okay there if you're really discerning...but I think they carry A LOT of schlock.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Difference: The staff at H&M are assholes. MW salesmen are classy and attentive.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Nick will be getting a suit at Christmas for DE VEDDING. His poppa will be helping him pick one out, so worst case scenario he'll look like Indiana Jones for the wedding.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm sure you can do okay there if you're really discerning

If I was discerning, I would not own a suit. My ignorance is precisely what allowed me to walk in and out of there in 15 minutes, and I felt amazing for having purchased a sharp-looking suit all by myself.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost Laurel:

I am kind of sad at how my last couple of dates went, sartorially speaking--both with regar to myself, and moreso my dates. Can anyone fucking try to dress up anymore?? (Granted the first guy was a loser, and the 2nd wore his working class status on his wrinkled threadbare sleeve and we went to a movie and coffee, respectively.)

I want to be a better-dressed person. But it's hard when you dress the same every day for work (as a waiter does) and when you don't really go anywhere that would require dressing up.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Laurel is OTM about MW. And H&M.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, how do suits look like schlock? They're suits, for chrissakes! The point is that they make everyone look great!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan got his wedding suit at MW and they spent a lot of time on alterations. They were really nice, actually. Not snobby and he got a nice, all-purpose black suit + tie that sort of matched my dress.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, how do suits look like schlock? They're suits, for chrissakes! The point is that they make everyone look great!

Oh dear, here we go again.

I have confidence in my ability to be discerning, but I don't want to have to wade through crap that that MW asshole "GAHrantees" (talk about awful pronunciation).

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

lol @ "all suits look good"

http://www.mayerco.com/images/men/haspel_02a.jpg

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

(xp to Amanda) Yup, they were very friendly to me, too. I went there because I thought that was where people went to buy suits. It never occurred to me to go anywhere else.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

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