I am much more used to posting this on alt.music.kenickie, but where has everyone gone?!? Sorry to ask stupid questions, but this newsgroup needs filling up. And I'm very bored, as usual. :) When the new series arrives, there'll probably be lots of posts, but there's, like, none today. When is the new series starting anyway? Does anyone know? Is there anyone here to answer anyway???
Alli
Not only have we exhausted all Daria content until the new season starts next month, we have apparently exhausted all non-Daria topics too. All that's left is to make fun of your sig file.
BTW, my birthday's coming up in precisely 20 days!
On Wed, 06 Jan 1999 15:51:28 +0000, "endless, nameless" wrote:
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Kyle wrote:
Which disappeared weeks ago!
Happy birthday for uh......the 26th?
Uh, Kyle? Didn't you forget something? :)
Alli
On Wed, 06 Jan 1999 23:32:41 +0000, "endless, nameless" wrote:
I've seen it pop up everywhere, don't try to deny it.
Yes! I felt really stupid when I realized I'd forgot it.
So, have a REALLY nice day, since I forgot to tell you that the first time.
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Kyle wrote:
OK, I admit it! It was me all along! Or something......
That has got to be the most irritating thing about Americans. "Have a nice day." My dad used to go over to the USA occasionally when I was little, and every time he'd come back and he'd say that to everyone. I think he still does it sometimes.
I saw a Radiohead t-shirt once that said "don't tell me what kind of day to have" across the front. I wanted to buy it, but noone says "have a nice day" over here. Plus, band logo t-shirts seem to only be made in sizes large, extra large, and extra extra large.
Alli
I went into this shop in Sacramento once, and this sales assistant came up to me and said "Hi, how are you today?", and I was, like, "Do I know you or something?", I mean, as if she would know how I'd been yesterday for comparison! I found it very confusing. Shop assistants don't speak to customers in the UK, they hide in the back room somewhere until you go away (especially the ones in Dixons - I mean if you want the staff at the till to ring up a sale it's like you've invented invisibility or something, you can jump up and down and wave at them and they go right on talking, or look straight through you). But that's how we like it here, we get frightened if people start trying to sell us things, and run out of the shop.
Yeah but it would work almost as well for "Have a really rotten day" too.
All this reminds me of an old Derek & Clive sketch where they beat someone to a pulp for having the audacity to say "Hello" to them, like it was some enormous insult. I wonder now if maybe that sketch was a comment on America? I didn't know about "have a nice day" back then.
-Shez.
Shez wrote:
When you're a teenager, "can I help you?" generally means "I know you're trying to shoplift." If a sales assistant speaks to me I'm usually rather offended because of this. I do not shoplift, have never shoplifted, and will never shoplift. This isn't because I'm particularly against theft from shops or because I'm scared of getting caught, but because it's one of those things that teenagers are supposed to do, and that most if not all do for the sole purpose of looking cool. I will not do things just because other people do.
Alli
Also, if they really *are* trying to help you, it means they're on commission, so their advice is useless anyhow as they'll happily sell you anything whether it fits or not, just so they can get their cut.
I also went into this record shop in America and this assistant came up to me asking if she could help me. In theory this could be of use as I always get disoriented in record shops and can't find where the "A's" start or whatever, but in the event my mind had gone blank as usual when I entered the shop and I couldn't remember what albums I was looking for anyway. I finally remembered one album I wanted, but instead of saying something like "well the D's are over there", she decided to look it up in a huge stock listing she had under her arm, and by the time she'd found the entry for it I'd already located the shelf where it was and was on my way to the checkout.
-Shez.
Shez wrote:
LOL. I wanted to buy this skirt in Topshop a while ago, but they didn't have it in my size, so I went and asked if they had it in a 6. The guy at the checkout said if it wasn't out there they didn't, and that it might not come in a 6. He said he'd check to see if it did or not, and I was expecting him to have a stock listing or something, but no, he picks up the phone and dials a number. "Hello? Is this the Slough branch? This is Maidenhead....." He phoned 5 local-ish branches of Topshop, gave a rough description of the item and asked them if they could find it in the required size! Half an hour later, he concluded that "it probably doesn't come in a size 6." I was like, OK, thanks......
Alli
EXTRA! EXTRA! Alli buys a skirt!
Just when I've put a picture of you in trousers on my website too! I hate it when that happens... Ooh, deja vu!
-Shez.
Shez wrote:
I didn't buy it, they didn't have it! I do actually own a skirt, though, but I don't wear it much because I don't *like* skirts. Not on me, anyway.
Alli
"endless, nameless" wrote:
Either I've got to put a muzzle on my imagination, or you have to stop posting stuff like this! ;)
Hmmm... Alli skirtless...
[email] wrote:
I'm skirtless most of the time. I wear jeans instead. :)
Alli
On Fri, 08 Jan 1999 16:03:27 +0000, "endless, nameless" wrote:
*what little body hair Kyle had acquired in his 16 years falls off at that the thought of Allie skirtless*
I *saw* the pick on Shez's page
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Kyle wrote:
Well, would you rather see me in a skirt, or in jeans??
Alli
On Fri, 08 Jan 1999 20:11:08 +0000, "endless, nameless" wrote:
Skirt, Jeans, shorts, skort (disturbingly close to being on-topic with that one), dress, toga, it doesn't really matter to me.
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Kyle wrote:
Have you *seen* the new skorts? Is it a skirt, or is it shorts? I *love* that! I wonder if they make skorts for sports!
How about a kilt? I'm from the San Francisco area, where guys put on a plaid skirt and call it a kilt. I'm sorry, but you can call it what you want, it's still a skirt. A kilt is yards and yards of heavy, itchy wool, not a plaid element to an overgrown schoolgirl's uniform.
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I thought they were called culottes? Or is that something else?
-Shez.
Progbear wrote:
What the fuck is a "skort" anyway?
I couldn't wear a kilt. I'm allergic to wool, sorry. :)
Alli
Kilts are for men anyway. I'm not sure what Scottish women are supposed to wear. Jeans probably.
-Shez.
Shez wrote:
Makes sense. How could anyone wear a kilt in Scotland? It's bloody freezing there most of the time, isn't it?
Alli
Progbear wrote in message ...
*love*
<g>
If someone took legal action here in Grimsby (or another port) against someone who silenced them by force, and obstructed them from any further comment, when they snorted in ridicule at a shorter than usual pair of skorts intended for wearing while playing those sports traditionally enjoyed in a fort, would the town come to be known as the short fort sport skort snort tort port?
I assume "skorts" is just a newly minted word for culottes; correct me if I'm wrong!
Martin.
Martin Sylvester wrote:
Huh????
What are cullottes? Please nobody say skorts, because I don't know what they are either!
Alli
Ha, so speaks the girl who disdains people who own dictionaries! You're laughing on the other side of your face now, or whatever the saying is. According to my spellchecker, culottes only have one "l", if that's any use to you as you desperately rush to the all-night library to look it up.
-Shez.
Shez wrote:
Oh yes. But I didn't know what culottes were anyway, so I was just stupid for copying it wrong off the previous message, or something. :)
Alli
endless, nameless wrote in message ...
In this case, "something." <g>
endless, nameless wrote in message ...
I think you were probably still stunned by the short fort sport skort snort tort port.
Martin.
endless, nameless wrote in message ...
This is getting *so* Fashion Club. <bg>
Knee-length trousers, cut with voluminous legs to resemble a skirt. When worn, they look like a skirt at first glance, but closer inspection <ahem> reveals that they're not.
Martin.
Martin Sylvester wrote:
Oh, are those like the horrible dirt-colour things that Brownies have to wear?
Alli
"endless, nameless" asks: <very large snip>
Hey Shez, maybe sometime in the future you could put an Alli sidebar on your Daria page and we could dress her up ala the closing sidebar on Daria.
Hmmm... Punk rocker or Joan of Arc?...
Jon Armstrong The Space Ranger Graveyard shift gives one a unique outlook on life. A dark one.
"endless, nameless" wrote:
Aww... Now you've ruined it! :)
Jon Armstrong The Space Ranger Graveyard shift gives one a unique outlook on life. A dark one.
Whenever i walk into a Best Buy, someone will come up behind me and be like "can I help you?".. and they'll follow me around. Once i turned around and said "excuse me, sir, but it's kind of hard for me to shoplift with you standing there." not that i was actually doing anything, but i got thrown out anyway.
Those people are on commission, I know a guy who works there, that may be why. I know when I was at the mall with Connie we went into this store she was looking for shoes and this salesguy insisted on showing and explaining all of them and have her feel them and crap. Like he could sense his mother's credit card. They always either do that or ignore you.
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endless, nameless wrote in message ...
So what you're saying is that you don't shoplift because everyone else does so you're being honest just to be different from everyone else?
What a rebel!
Bob
"R. K. Henry" wrote:
Hey, it works. People leave me alone. I don't smoke either, have never tried, and don't intend to. That's even more pathetic than shoplifting because at least shoplifters get free stuff. Smokers just smell and die of cancer.
Alli
In article , "R. K. Henry" wrote:
Not "Rebel", "Post-Conformist".
There's Conformity, Rebellion (which reacts against Conformity), then Post-Conformity (choosing to Conform as a reaction against Rebellion).
... Does this make sense? I think it does...
On Thu, 07 Jan 1999 00:03:01 +0000, "endless, nameless" wrote:
The only decent reply, in my eyes, to the phrase "have a nice day" is "thanks but I have other plans."
I think it has something to do with the Pioneer Attitude of our Forefathers (and Fivemothers), who all said that they had terrible lives, and that it always seemed like someone was dying of something gruesome. So, I guess if you were wandering in the wilds of Wyoming, and you made it through a 24-hour period without becoming a Grisly Grizzly Snack, losing a limb, finding out that you're a tastier part of the Donner Party, being shot by irritated people who owned the land for millenia before you, or acquiring a loathsome disease, you'd probably had a "nice" day.
Naturally, people back then were bored, and funerals were almost as entertaining as weddings, so they'd wish people they didn't like the opposite of what they really wanted-- just like when actors always say, "Break a leg!" See, these Pioneers wanted something to do on the weekends, and what could be more fun than to go to a funeral and speculate on just how much of Earl did the bear get? Or was it those darn Donners again?
So, as time went on, the sons and daughters of the Pioneers adopted the sayings of their parents, and, well, it just kinda got stuck in the vernacular.
Either that, or some guy in a Marketing Department thought the whole thing up in the 1950's, when a nice day meant that you weren't being sterilized by radioactive fallout from above-ground nuclear testing.
having had a Nice Day, rich.
Jake: I love camping! I love it! ... Has anybody seen my pants?
endless, nameless wrote in message ...
You mean people still ACTUALLY say that? "That's sooo two years ago." Well, probably closer to 20. I remember some years ago when the silly smile buttons came out with "Have a nice day!" that some brainless people would say it. Now I've only heard it said by people who are satirizing the kinds of insincere things that people say to each other. Lots of usage on TV comedy shows where they're satirizing the large organizations that don't really care about the people they deal with but use the phrase, pretending that they actually do care.
Nowadays I NEVER hear anyone say "Have a nice day" unless they're just trying to be funny. It's pretty much universally acknowledged as one of the most annoying things anyone can say.
Bob
"R. K. Henry" wrote:
Kyle just did. And so did just about everyone my dad met on his numerous visits to America, apparently. :)
Alli
Well I posted three messages at 1pm today and yet when I collected my news at 8pm none of them had showed up on the newsgroup yet! I don't know why but the news seems to have gone all sluggish, usually stuff I post shows up on the demon newsfeed within 5 minutes or so.
UK readers might like to know I've updated my website TV guide. The Daria entry is unchanged and remains top of the pile, but most of the rest has been revamped. (URL in sig).
-Shez.
Shez wrote:
I didn't get your messages until about 8pm either. Strange.....
Alli
Does anyone have any ideas for the plots this season?
You totally stole that post from alt.comics.dilbert!
On 6 Jan 1999 19:41:49 GMT, [email] (Laniakea) wrote:
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Acctually, I went to alt.tv.daria FIRST. Imagine my surprise when I went to alt.comics.dilbert and saw the same post made by someone else.
On 6 Jan 1999 22:28:46 GMT, [email] (Laniakea) wrote:
Yeah, I guess you can be forgiven.
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A thousand thank yous, O Great One.
Hehehehehe
On 7 Jan 1999 01:22:28 GMT, [email] (Laniakea) wrote:
I am the All Powerful, Avengeful Being Of Omnipotence and Black Holes Of Death And Destruction. Kiss my class ring, and I shall spare you!
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On 7 Jan 1999 01:53:49 GMT, [email] (Kyle) wrote:
You got lucky. I'm stuck with being the Avengeful Being Of I'm Impotent. Woe is me.
Happydude wrote in message ...
Oh yes, damn. Percy, the devil farts in my face once more. -Blackadder
Cya, Alan
A fate *worse* than a fate worse than death? That's pretty bad. -Blackadder
Today while watching "Pinch Sitter" this thought flashed through my head: Mr. DiMartino wins the lottery and quits his job. Think of his celebration...no more Kevin, no more Brittany...of course, the writes would have to come up with a unique way to have him lose his money and return to Lawndale High.
On Wed, 06 Jan 1999 21:06:41 -0500, Jeg7777 wrote:
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Who is this "DiMartino" person? There *is* someone on the show with the name "DeMartino", but no "DiMartino" that I'm aware of. Maybe he's related to "Sandy" and "Stacey" and "Jody", or perhaps those "Morgandorfers"...
<smartass mode off>
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