francie_
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« Reply #60 on: November 14, 2006, 09:00:47 AM » |
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Yes, my beanie propeller won't spin properly either! The only way I could make mine "spin" is to rotate my head 360 degrees. We need to issue a recall. Not everyone can do the Linda Blair thing.
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Oh realfrancie, so clever!
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grasshopper
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« Reply #61 on: November 14, 2006, 09:08:32 AM » |
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I DO get a Special Someone to buy my perfume... ME!!! I'm special and I'm someone.
It's also my birthday on Friday. So just to let all of y'all know. I like Chanel No. 5.
Ohmygod, it's like we're one soul in two bodies. That's what I bought. No no no... if women are to post bra size... we demand that men post shoe size. After all, we ALL know what that means!!!!
Well, you know what they say: Big Feet... Big Boots. |
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« Reply #62 on: November 14, 2006, 10:27:20 AM » |
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John Proctor, you've given me another idea in addition to another chance to make a SGPTRT. Thanks!
We should all post our clothing, shoe, ring sizes, and scent preferences to make it easier for our forum colleagues to buy each other that perfect gift this holiday season.
Shoes: 10 1/2 (but wide. Esp. for boots). Go figure, huh. Pants: 33 34's. (usually. Dress pants always need some tailoring). Hat: 7 1/2 (at least for New Era baseball caps. I don't have any other fitted hats. I'm more likely to be wearing knit caps). Ring size: somewhere around a ten (I don't wear any rings and frankly can't remember) Scent preferences: None. I don't really like perfume or cologne (makes me sneeze). I do, however, deeply love the pears that come in a Harry & David gift box. I'm also easily buttered up with a good 12 year old single malt scotch (though I shouldn't really have it in the house. Alas). If anyone is looking for that truly thoughtful gift: I discovered today that my only watch (a pocket watch I take with me when I travel) has stopped working. Returning to the thread: I liked expat's tag line (though I have often insisted that, to me, "expatinuk" reminds me more of the name of a world chess champion - "Ivanchuk" - than "Sputnik"). |
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"Look upon me! I'll show you the 'life of the mind.'"
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« Reply #63 on: November 14, 2006, 11:50:12 AM » |
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Shoes: 9D or 8 1/2EE
Pants: 36
Shirt: 16 1/2 x 33
Hat: 7 1/8
Ring: No idea.
Scents: I wear Old Spice, and I prefer Shalimar on my SO. However, any scent that smells nice on the SO is acceptable.
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Alas, greatness and meaning are rarely coterminous with popular familiarity.
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anthroid
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No happy socks because nobody gets Manitoba.
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« Reply #64 on: November 14, 2006, 10:08:48 PM » |
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Shoes: 9D or 8 1/2EE
Pants: 36
Shirt: 16 1/2 x 33
Hat: 7 1/8
Ring: No idea.
Scents: I wear Old Spice, and I prefer Shalimar on my SO. However, any scent that smells nice on the SO is acceptable.
So, mathguy is either long and wide or wide and long, footwise. Interesting.... No Shalimar here, mg. Anais Anais or Promesse. |
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Do you hail from Planet Hello Kitty? It's like an action movie, but boring.
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bibliothecula
Academic ronin
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like Bunnicula, only with books
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« Reply #65 on: November 15, 2006, 02:58:11 PM » |
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You all are too funny. I am searching for a new perfume, one that shrieks neither "Co-Ed!" nor "Granny." I am so out of perfume fashion that I am still wearing Givenchy III, although it is hard to find. Suggestions, anyone? What is an appropriately scholarly scent (besides dust, must, aged leather and pipe smoke)?
Oh, and my tag line is from the video game. If you don't remember it, you're too young to comment on the perfume issue. ;)
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I came. I saw. I cited.
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expatinuk
Has spent over 1000 pounds but now holds a Brit passport!
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« Reply #66 on: November 15, 2006, 03:10:19 PM » |
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The best way to find the perfume that's right for you is to get a lot of samples (this time of year it's easy to find samples) and to take turns wearing them. Wear one for a couple of days... switch to another ... etc. Scent is different on different people. And if YOU smell it you're wearing too much (unless you've put your wrist to your nose to sniff!)
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Expatinuk seems to be a Soviet Satellite in stationary orbit over the UK
It is what it is.
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francie_
The Really Cheerful
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« Reply #67 on: November 15, 2006, 03:59:40 PM » |
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L'Air du Temps.
I'd add this suggestion about finding the right perfume. If you like one, but find that it's too strong, see if it's available in a less concentrated strength, such as an eau de toilette, or even a powder. Also, don't apply it to the wrists and neck, but to areas that will be covered by clothing.
This advice applies equally to men's cologne.
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Oh realfrancie, so clever!
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grasshopper
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« Reply #68 on: November 15, 2006, 04:18:14 PM » |
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And sometimes the eau de toilette is dramatically different from the parfum. Chanel #5, for instance - the perfume uses Sandalwood as one of its base notes, but the eau de toilette uses Patchouli instead. I can't wear the perfume. But the eau de toilette smells divine.
You really have to test different scents over the course of a day to find out how the base and middle notes will respond with your skin throughout the day. The top notes will cover your scent up to a certain point; but the base and middle notes have to work well with your scent.
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voxprincipalis
Foxaliciously Cinnamon-Scented (and Most Poetic)
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« Reply #69 on: November 15, 2006, 05:52:31 PM » |
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I'm not telling what mine is. I love being the person who gets, "oh my goodness, that's the best perfume I've ever smelled, what IS that divine scent?"
However, I will share that I used to custom-blend my own perfume at Garden Botanika. That worked really well for a few years, and then Garden Botanika got rid of most of its stores. I could still order online, but I found something else in the meanwhile. My blend was Amber, Kahlua, and Vanilla. Mmmm....
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« Reply #70 on: November 15, 2006, 07:11:49 PM » |
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VP, that sounds like a girly martini. Call it the Voxy.
For me, I was stopped in my tracks by a wonderful scent in a department store in my travels this summer. I bought the stuff, all excited to have purchased a perfume souvenier, and then discovered it's a San Francisco brand. Ah well, it's still beautiful.
What were we talking about?
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Hey look! I have a tag line too!
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born2late
I often times wish I had bought Grandpa's farm and stayed on the land. Instead I'm an underemployed
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« Reply #71 on: May 14, 2008, 10:51:08 AM » |
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If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.
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"nothing says headed towards the margins of society like learning the banjo"
Quando omni flunkus moritati
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« Reply #72 on: May 14, 2008, 02:37:36 PM » |
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If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.
If one is to resurrect old threads, be sure to say something truly profound. <What the heck is this weirdness, anyway?> |
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Drinking a lot always helps.
Wheeeeee! You go, oh evilicious one.
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claragold
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« Reply #73 on: May 14, 2008, 02:52:55 PM » |
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In German the verb would be both "strebt" and "hat". So the phrase is "Whoever strives (has striven, tried), they can be saved."
I'm saved |
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Yes, indeed!
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