Random observations

Colleagues for a few more hours? Go for it.

It's all in the tone but I think you could pull it off. (The tone, not the VPL, though if handled right one could maybe lead to the other, dunno...)

If you hit the wrong tone though it'd be bad. It's basically one of those "does this make me look fat?"/ "yes" situations. (Not that VPL and fatness have anything to do with one another, but in terms of how it'd be taken.)

I understand what you're saying, and i agree. However, it's all very weird to me. It hasn't been that long ago that the concept of visilbe panty line just did not exist. In my youngest adult days, women still wore industrial strenghth brassieres and girdles. A woman walking around, accounted to be well dressed, looked as though she had steel structural members under her clothing. It's a different world all the time.

OK actually I'm completely reversing myself. No. I think you just have to let it go.

I can imagine it working in some sort of extremely flirty situation but pretty much nothing else.

I admire setanta's reluctance to adjust to the societal changes over the past half a century. Though I'm not sure I see Beth as a warhead-bra kind of girl.

Of course, in real life, even I had the sense to refrain from any sort of remark, though it amused my wee reptilian mind at the time.

You might hurt her feelings.

Do you want to take the risk?

I kind of liked the conical ones....I was JUST old enough to wear bras at the end of that era, and I felt kind of dangerous with those things on.

Consider this, also:
A 1950's personality,Dagmar, had
an automotive feature named for her. The term "dagmars" lives on
in the memories of vintage car buffs.

So? Mae West had a life jacket named after her.

doesn't register as vividly.

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Ya forgot to inflate it.

Wonder how Miss West would respond to that one, roger.
Over.

Coughing every two minutes for over a week does wonders for your abs.

A few weeks ago I was at the Pan Am games, at a basketball game, and I noticed that most of the fans were taller than average.
I gathered many of them must practice or have practiced basketball.

Are (the few remaining) NBA fans taller than average, I wonder?
Are NFL fans bigger than average?

According to my post count and days as a member, I have posted roughly 0.6 times a day here.

Now Fomoco was a bit more blatant in its incorporating
sex appeal into its Edsel.

The great marketing coup of the (often externally applied) unofficial trademark "Folk Music (TM)" is that its target demographic is not generally regular folk.

The future of the brand would appear to be uncertain. There is a level of aversion to the brand among potential consumers that may outweigh predeterminative convenience of a recognizeable marketing cue. Moreover, because the descriptive content of the label is practically meaningless, the consumer may have little idea as to the nature of the product.

A rebranding may be in order...








(I like that "unofiicial" and ""(TM)"" are mutually contradictory. I'm keeping it. If I was a mid-interview volkzinger, I might mutter something about "cognitive dissonance," but I'm not. You see what I mean about the label being meaningless, though?)

I sure as hell see SOMETHING.

Sozlet's good friend C's mom is a pastor. C is currently fairly religious.

C is also very smart and very into physics + science in general. I was thinking today, rather randomly, that I have a gut feeling that she won't stay religious through adulthood. I was wondering when she'd make the transition and if we'd be blamed if so (as major atheist/agnostic influences).

Then I got karmically nervous and thought well heck, could go the other way too I guess, C could convert (currently agnostic) Sozlet to Christianity. How would I feel about that?

Not 30 seconds later, sozlet texted me to ask if she could go with C to a church thing. Hmmmmmmmmmmm....

(I said yes. My policy throughout has been to let her follow her interests and whatever she decides, she decides.)

Good policy. I was encouraged to go to Sunday school and vacation bible school. I don't feel it did lasting damage.