Comments | sleestak: It's been awhile, eh?

sleestak

It's been awhile, eh?

Jul 23, 2007 23:21

Oops, please ignore the first choice in the third question! I accidentally c&p'ed the original name from my vast excel poll question spreadsheet.

Long poll ( behind the cut... )

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parallel_botany July 24 2007, 04:43:27 UTC

Actually, I find all of those band names supremely annoying. If I could have I woulda written in "Godspeed you black emperor," of course!

Nick Nolte gets my vote in part because of that Hawaiian shirt. Harsh.

I totally would've gotten it on with Marlene back in the day. That is hot. And Paul Klee is one of my most fave painters.

Isn't it Mancusian?

parallel_botany July 24 2007, 04:45:03 UTC

P.S. I had to pick "porteño" for obvious reasons, although "Glaswegian" is by far a cooler sounding word.

sleestak July 24 2007, 04:49:15 UTC

GY!BE is an excellent write in. I've always loved that name.

Webster's and Wikipedia both say Mancunian, although I swear when I was doing research I originally thought it was Mancusian...

parallel_botany July 24 2007, 04:52:39 UTC

I prefer Manchesterites, anyway.

Or Manchesterians?

'Chesters? (Too pervy?)

Thread 5

edda July 24 2007, 05:44:22 UTC

Joel Schumacher, Brett Ratner, and Michael Bay are really tied for the lead, but I picked Bay since I saw the Transformers and I'm nursing a large robotic grudge.

Also I was torn between the Cotton Club and Paris, but I picked Paris because, you know, Paris. I think my addendum would be "and anything involving Dorothy Parker".

And "Mancunian" sounds like something from a James Bond movie: "Miss Moneypenny, bring Mr. Bond the Mancunian 5-0X. He's going on an underwater trip."

sleestak July 26 2007, 03:00:44 UTC

I agree totally regarding point the first. They represent an unholy triumvirate of suck, yet it's a suck that has made them all incredibly rich.

Dorothy and Papa and Josephine Baker *drool*. Still, I had to go with The Factory because of the music and I frickin' LOVE shooting speed.

All of the English adjectival sound like something from Gulliver's Travels. Lucky gits.

zooby July 24 2007, 05:48:15 UTC

I miss living in Medicine Hat, if only because I got to call people Hatters.

And you will pry my red Chucks from my cold, dead feet. Though I am currently thinking very hard about buying some Vans checkerboards. They seem a little easier for running out to get milk or cheese or ice cream or some other dairy product. And I throw in my pick for old-school, lace-up canvas Keds. Maybe this was more of a girl thing, but I've noticed a bit of a renaissance lately, which I'm going to ascribe to Pam Beesley's white kicks on The Office.

sleestak July 26 2007, 03:10:51 UTC

I can't believe no one, NO ONE voted for checkerboards. "Do you hear that, man? That's my SKULL!"

Vans are extremely convenient and attractive. Unfortunately, they only last like 6 months before falling apart completely.

la_sonnambula July 24 2007, 06:47:01 UTC

Tridentine makes me think of an underwater city of merpeople being presided over by a bearded Poseidon wielding a trident.

I used to own a pair of Reebok Pump. It took me a little while to realise that they look clownish on girls, well, this girl anyway.

sleestak July 26 2007, 03:13:59 UTC

That's exactly what I thought about Tridentine, too! Seriously, you'd think "Trentian" would be the obvious choice, but someone went the extra mile coming up with that one.

Luckily during the Pump era I was more interested in wearing black Bass Weejuns and dressing like Morrissey. Saved a lot of bucks that way.

danisse July 24 2007, 13:24:17 UTC

Oh man. Half of those people, I had forgotten that they killed someone or didn't know that they did!

sleestak July 26 2007, 03:17:22 UTC

Pretty weird, eh?? Most were auto related, but Burroughs famously played an unsuccessful game of William Tell with his female companion and Roc stabbed a dude to death before going to Yale. That's badass.