Why not go bra-less? It's even more festive.
I don't know what kind of idiot thought to schedule New Year's Eve so soon after UnfoggeDCon. Didn't they know we'd be tired?
I should wait until after the third comment to note that there's no more room on the site for a "Matt" handle. I should.
3 - Dude, last year UnfoggeDCon was on the 30th. I zombie-walked through NYE.
5: goddamn that Dick Clark. He should really plan better.
1 & 4 - Yeah, sorry Matt. You have to pick a new name.
Bra-less is always more fun in theory, in my experience.
New Year's shouldn't be this close to Christmas.
11: It depends to whom the fun is being ascribed.
No bra is fine; sports bra is deprecated.
Bra-less is fine when you've been in your pajamas all day, like I have. Can I wear my pajamas tonight?
Bras help some of us have a better silhouette under clothes. I'm with Cala.
I confirm that eekbeat and I have both showered since the UFDC party. Much else has not occurred.
I am, however, going to a local blogger party tonight. It will almost certainly be a disappointment, alack.
But pajamas are indeed bra-free zones.
I think we both forgot about New Year's until today when we each hoped the other didn't care if we had plans.
Just how much energy are we talking about here?
The mental energy required to decide to go out.
I meant for Becks to put on a bra.
There's no reason at all to go out on NYE.
I meant that, too. To decide to put on a bra is to decide that you're doing something besides sitting around the house.
21: pretty much the opposite for me.
So it's okay if I don't go to the traditional New Year's Eve party down by the water, at which Belgian beers will be sampled, shrimp will be eaten, other things will be partaken of, and eventually people will shiveringly clutch glasses of champagne while more-or-less successfully setting off fireworks over the Bay?
Because, you know, it doesn't mean I'm lame, it really doesn't.
We're having a dozen people over: it's more fun to do fireworks with more people. (Germans do fireworks on NYE. It's a much better idea to have your fireworks-holiday when it's dark, cold, and wet (or snowy) than in the summer.)
I don't understand the title of the post. A glass bra might well add to the silouette, but I can see a number of potential downsides . . . (A woman friend once told me that, in her view, the perfect breast would just fill a champagne glass.)
A woman friend once told me that, in her view, the perfect breast would just fill a champagne glass
This probably has its origins in the story that champagne glasses were modeled on the breasts of...was it Marie Antoinette?
One seriously hopes that she wasn't talking about flutes.
27: Marie Antoinette is certainly the story, but I'm sure it's a myth.
the title is in reference to the "200X" glasses people wear at new years, with the eye-holes at the zeros. Problem is, you can easily make glasses out of "2010", too.
And I hope your friend was referring to the champaign cocktail glasses, and not flutes.
29, 30: no, coupes.
The post title refers to those giant novelty glasses with a "2" on one side, a single digit (say "8") on the other, and in between two zeroes, through which one peeps.
I am profoundly not hungry at all today, though I must pad the old stomach against the gin I'm bringing.
Y'all have never seen a breast that looks (when the woman is bending over, of course) about the size and shape of a champagne flute? What kind of breastonormative screening goes on at these Russian baths, anyway?
36: The whole point of that comment was to demonstrate that you knew the correct word for flat champagne glasses, right?
Snopes says no. But it does bear on what my friend said (using a coupe, not a flute, as the proper glass): champagne coupes were used to measure prospective dancers for the Follies Bergere.
38: That long and narrow at the base? No.
38: I have not seen these breasts, no. This reminds me vaguely of that ogged comment that proved he'd never gotten a blowjob.
I understand that breasts of that shape feel oddly like bags of sand.
Personally, I like coupes more than flutes. I understand that they're deprecated these days, and why, and all, but still. Bah.
Maybe you are thinking of cow udders, ogged?
Perhaps it is the penis that should fit into the champagne flute?
If I'd known it was going to be that kind of New Year's party, etc, etc.
41: The story I heard in re coupes was they were modeled on the breasts of Marie Antoinette. I don't care if it is true or not.
Flutes are vastly superior. Heh. Flute.
I don't suppose anyone is going to speak up now to say that they have champagne flute breasts. But I have no doubt that soon the lurkers will support me in email.
I have some champagne flute breasts in the fridge, next to the yogurty penis.
Coupes are really shallow. That's not a lot of boob.
I think I have dessert-bowl boobs.
53: Yes, but was a time the small pert ones were associated with the aristos and the big ones with the peasants. Sort of like big dicks in ancient Roman and Greek statuary: strictly for slaves and comic figures.
56: ...which is why women are always looking for a man with "a good sense of humor."
Coupes are really shallow. That's not a lot of boob.
More than a mouthful is too much.
Or not.
56: You know, I had a comment about soup bowls, sizes and Sicilian peasantry, and how the French have little boobs written, and I deleted it. No more!
Good lord that verb ended up in a weird place.
Dude, I have relatives whose boobs are the size of toddlers.
There is no missing possessive there.
The mental energy required to decide to go out.
The sad thing is that I did leave the house on at least three occasions today. Yay for winter coats and baggy hoodies.
The French have little boobs written? I lust after the clothes I see in the window of teh Christian Dior store, because they are made for women with boobs without being too big elsewhere.
And the title of the post is about the 200X glasses. I meant two more years after this one, with 2009 and 2010.
Although I guess there are actually 11 more in this century, as they'll surely resurrect them for 2020, 2030, etc.
Don't be lame, parsimon; go out.
Back atcha. I have, however, nicely decorated a gift for the hosts, with my apologies, etc. etc. We have had the same gathering for years now, after all. And there are many definitions of lame.
But you're all talking about tits! You'll turn my head yet.
Cala had a post written claiming that the French have little boobs. What of it?
63: I salute you. I feel naked without a bra, even with a baggy sweatshirt & sweatpants & winter coats.
More laziness: guess what won in the contest of "My mouth tastes like onions. I could either go down the hall and brush my teeth or take a swig of this bourbon here."
Emerson is here at my apartment drinking beer. He says he likes our Queens neighbourhood.
Emerson is here at my apartment
Going public so soon? This is going to be wild year.
Emerson is here at my apartment drinking beer. He says he likes our Queens neighbourhood.
When's the baby due, anyway?
dew evaporates --
and all our life is dew:
so dear, so fresh, so fleeting
(Issa)
again not seasonal, but it's a good new year greeting, reflective
so after work i've been to Manhattan, walked around few blocks, couldn't get into the Times Square, streets were blocked and police was asking about some cards to get in, had no idea what cards, looked at the macy's window displays
could have stayed more if i had had companions
the next yr i won't be here
In the original story Cinderella had to fit into a champagne flute, which was changed into a glass slipper for the foot fetishist version.
All praise to a wild year, indeed. Emerson proves himself to be quietly wild -- it's all in the hair.
Mr Adjunct is shocked -- shocked!. Not that he has read any of these comments. But he just walked into the living room to find Emerson on one computer and me on another. "Whatever happened to conversation?" I think he wants one of us to get off so he can check his email.
But he just walked into the living room to find Emerson on one computer and me on another. "Whatever happened to conversation?" I think he wants one of us to get off so he can check his email.
The fruit is not so much low-hanging as actively tunneling toward the earth's core.
God, even the set up is making me blush.
Gonerill's just sulking because his spousal unit is hanging out in the Austin Powers room.
This is all perfectly normal, perfectly normal. Two people in a room, each on a computer. What's to note?
84: Nowadays, yeah, I think it is normal. Actually, I thought we could take turns on one machine, but Emerson strongly hinted I should get my own computer.
There is something to be said for conversation.
IA and I are both embarassed to be talking to Ogged and Gonerill on the internet on New Years Eve.
I think I'm going to watch Into Great Silence tonight.
88: Beautiful movie. I think Flippanter Pater, who saw it in the theater, has watched the DVD several times.
I looked it up after you mentioned it here a while back, Flip.
I wanted to watch that in the theater, but its run was delayed or cancelled or some such odd thing as that.
yesterday i tried to watch inland empire
a very strange film, all those mapped facial expressions were used i think
was not in a mood to read those and switched to the other movie, 3 movies in a row was like too much
but it was before flickr
Speaking of intense films, for a while I considered showing my Le Sang de Bêtes to one of my classes, but decided against it in the end.
69. Not giving up seclusion (and meditation), constantly [living in accordance with the doctrine in the world of phenomena], understanding the peril (which is) in existences, one should wander solitary as a rhinoceros horn.
...
71. Not trembling, as a lion (does not tremble) at sounds, not caught up (with others), as the wind (is not caught up) in a net, not defiled (by passion), as a lotus (is not defiled) by water, one should wander solitary as a rhinceros horn.
72. Wandering victorious, having overcome like a strong-toothed lion, the king of beasts, one should resort to secluded lodgings, one should wander solitary as a rhinoceros horn.
From The Rhinoceros Horn, obviously. And Other Early Buddhist Poems. (The Group of Discourses (Sutta-Nipa), Volume I)
Aren't rhinoceros horns not particularly solitary, being generally found accompanied by at least one rhinoceros?
88: I like movies about monks/priests/religious dudes. Andrei Rublyov might be my favorite. Winter Light is good, too, in an entirely different way.
Another amazing, intense short film available on YouTube: Farrokhzad's The House Is Black, about a leper colony.
96: I believe it is an extended koan. Should I backtrack through the book and see what it all means? I'll see.
It is in their proximity that we find their solitude, young Lizard. Ommm.
94: Yikes Gonerill. Are you a philosopher like mr. oudemia? He shows some heavy stuff in his animals and ethics class.
91: I thought I'd mentioned it here. It is astonishingly beautiful.
Flippanter Pater knows someone who toured the Carthusian charterhouse in Vermont, while "the boys" were out walking one day. The secondhand descriptions make it sound very much like the main house shown in the movie.
Rhino horns are prized in the Yemen for dagger handles and in China for aphrodisiacs. Not fun for the rhinos.
There is no explanatory text. Here:
42. One is a man of the four quarters and not hostile, being pleased with whatever comes one's way. A fearless bearer of dangers, one should wander solitary as a rhinoceros horn.
That's as explicatory as you're gonna get.
Westerner.
Are you a philosopher like mr. oudemia?
Sociology. The film is good for stuff on alienation & the division of labor, etc.
A fearless bearer of dangers, one should wander solitary as a rhinoceros horn.
i.e., backed up at all times by three tons of actual rhino. Sage advice.
Rhino horns are prized in the Yemen for dagger handles and in China for aphrodisiacs. Not fun for the rhinos.
Hooray for Viagra! Helping save endangered species the world over, or at least in China.
That said, I have pictures of the recently deceased tiger from the SF Zoo, taken two weeks ago, and in retrospect it is clearly thinking to itself "I can totally clear this stupid ditch." Wild animals are creatures to be reckoned with.
This reminds me that BR told me that there was a lively discussion at the party about the merits of viagra and the other ED drugs. I will not name names.
109: And? I want to know which one is most likely to kill me instantly at the climax.
Best/worst SF Zoo tiger story, from a keeper in the '50s:
We got a large piece of meat and tied it to a long bamboo pole and approached the tiger enclosure. We were at the other end of the bamboo pole - about 15 feet away from the meat. Baldwin held the pole at the edge of our side of the moat. Once the tiger saw it, he literally flew across the moat from his position on the other side, grabbed the meat, and sprung back to the grotto all in one graceful movement.
59: We should have a thread where everyone has to use German syntax.
We should have a thread everyone where use German syntax must.
20: I went out for the first time this New Year's, with interesting results.
This year was also the first time in my entire life that I managed to secure a midnight kiss.
[Alternate version: For the first time went I this New Year's out, with interesting results.
This year was also the first time in my entire life, that I to secure a midnight kiss managed.]
"This year was also the first time in my entire life, that I managed, a midnight kiss to secure".
i like the 1st version best
coz there are no commas
Should I have done something different with "with interesting results"?
i don't know
...some verb in its correct form....interesting results
or...and with interesting results
would not require a comma
but i'm not an expert
i just remember being told that too many commas are like bad in english sentence
You're right about commas in general, but I'm trying to convert an English sentence into German syntax. (I was mainly directing my last question at w-lfs-n.)
Read, it's not the quantity of the commas, but their quality that counts.
I once had a professor write on a paper, "You write well but use too many em-dashes. Use commas."
But yes, read, basically what Nápi says: commas should clarify not obfuscate.
I suppose the central issue is not really the commas as such, but the underlying syntax they reflect.
Em dashes, semicolons, commas &mdash they're all good; so rich in nuance.
"You write well but use too many em-dashes. Use commas."
"Fuck &mdash wait for it &mdash you."
Becks, I sympathize with your predicament. It's evening now, and I have made it through the entire day without changing out of my pajamas. I hasten to add that my day included (1) shoveling the snow off the sidewalk; and (2) walking across the street to take food to an elderly neighbor.
Fuck — wait for it — you.
It was a History of Sexuality class, so this indeed would've been an appropriate response. (Minus those extra spaces you've deployed on either side of the em-dashes </w-lfs-n>.)
Would that I had been more clever and less sheepish.
I have made it through the entire day without changing out of my pajamas
Me too. No snow here (though maybe flurries tomorrow morning!), but I did go over and help my elderly next door neighbor find her hidden key after she locked herself out.
Love for em dashes is something to be outgrown.
The nuance of a semicolon is unclear to me.
I think of punctuation as analogous to musical phrasing. Some people can carry off phrasing in prose with just commas and periods, but I prefer less discipline as far as that's concerned.
I will be watching closely for your future use of colons and semicolons, so that I can learn from you to be a more musical and less uptight prose stylist.
I prefer you more disciplined, Kotsko.
The nuance of a semicolon is unclear to me.
Semicolons are wonderful things. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., didn't use any in his entire career, but that was a personal choice which shouldn't influence you one way or the other.
Laurence Sterne should be everyone's guide to punctuation. Anything he does with punctuation is absolutely OK.
Subject ConjugatedVerb Time Manner Place Object ActualVerb(s).
Kick any of the TMPO up front if you want. Then the verb, then the subject, then the rest. Subject-and-verb-always-next-to-each-other!
I made Rah wait to finish cooking breakfast while I showered and dressed because I find it almost unbearable to go downstairs without showering and dressing. Then I promptly went back upstairs and have spent the rest of the day at the computer. I got dressed for you people; I don't see why you can't return the effort. Sheesh.
135: I got dressed! At about 4 I got out of my jammies, took a shower, and put on yoga pants and a sweatshirt. I'm classy, yo.
I got out of my jammies
heebie's gonna be so pissed.
137: You know, I thought that I had better emphasize MY jammies, not Heebie's. I have never been anywhere near Heebie's Jammies!
I got dressed for you people; I don't see why you can't return the effort. Sheesh.
The editor of Novy Mir began to read a prepublication copy of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch in bed.Says Markson.
And then found himself so impressed that he not only got up but put on a suit and a necktie to finish with what he felt to be the requisite respect.
That is so completely awesome.
I have never been anywhere near Heebie's Jammies!
Shoulda come to UnfoggeDCon, oudemia.
137: Possibly not half so much as if Jammies just got out of her, Stanley.
