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Larry 
"Larry's time / sat merrily"
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 Posted - 10/15/2009 : 03:19:48
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Thanks for the win. It's been a long time. I was beginning to think I'm Out Of Style. |
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Sean 
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 10/15/2009 : 03:38:35
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Hippies are rather out of style these days. Penguins, on the other hand, are never out of style. How could something so cool go out of style?
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Edited by - Sean on 10/15/2009 04:00:28 |
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Cheese_Ed 
"The Provolone Ranger"
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Larry
"Larry's time / sat merrily"
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Posted - 10/15/2009 : 03:49:15
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Was this ever stylish? |
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w22dheartlivie 
"Kitty Lover"
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Posted - 10/15/2009 : 06:36:48
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| Someone should really tell her... |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 10/15/2009 : 07:50:05
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| I was almost not going to enter this round, since nothing about chocolate ever goes out of style. This is because the thing that makes chocolate so timelessly aluring is the decadance of it all - and that's always stylish. However, if you take that away, then you haven't a chance of staying in style. Here's an example of one "healthy" bar that just couldn't make it - thank goodness! |
Edited by - ChocolateLady on 10/15/2009 07:52:42 |
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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 10/15/2009 : 12:59:08
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1950s style was scary enough without this undergarment holding it up.
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MguyXXV
"X marks the spot"
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Posted - 10/15/2009 : 19:16:34
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| This news rack was all out of Style Magazine. How ironic. |
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duh 
"catpurrs"
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Posted - 10/15/2009 : 20:33:42
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This is inspired by an element of my horsey life, of course. Until about 2003, there was a fad in the event called "western pleasure," where horses are shown on the rail at walk, jog and lope, on a draped rein, that was derogatorily (msp?) referred to as "peanut rolling."
Judges had formed the habit of giving the placements to horses that carried their heads so low that they may as well have been rolling peanuts over the ground with their noses.
It was bad horsemanship and it was ugly. It also led to some very abusive "horse training" techniques. For example some "trainers" would leave horses tied for hours with their heads stretched up to the rafters, to get them too tired to hold their heads up. Some trainers were known to beat horses on the neck with ball bats to get the effect.
Nasty business, along with other "techniques" such as draining the blood from horses so they were too tired to move any faster than a snail's pace.
Thank goodness the western pleasure horse industry has moved along since then and discarded "peanut rolling" in favor of much more natural horses.
There is still abuse, but rewarding more natural carriage and movement has helped to stop some of it.
However, some critics of western pleasure haven't gotten the memo that peanut rolling is out of style. |
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Cheese_Ed
"The Provolone Ranger"
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Posted - 10/17/2009 : 05:06:31
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Normally the cheese hat would never be considered out of style, but I'm not a fan of how this stack was sullied.
He's certainly wearing them like they are going out of style. |
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Koli
"Striving lackadaisically for perfection."
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Posted - 10/17/2009 : 12:42:28
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| There was a time when young men dressed smartly when they fancied leaning against a wall and looking vaguely menacing. Teddy Boys are now a rare sight and mostly are wrinkly, haven't changed their hair style in 50 years, and personify anachronism. |
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duh
"catpurrs"
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Posted - 10/19/2009 : 04:53:44
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Originally posted by Koli
There was a time when young men dressed smartly when they fancied leaning against a wall and looking vaguely menacing. Teddy Boys are now a rare sight and mostly are wrinkly, haven't changed their hair style in 50 years, and personify anachronism.
Why were they called Teddy Boys? And did they dress smartly only while fancying leaning against walls or did they dress smartly while actually leaning against walls, and what did they do after dressed? Who determined whether they were dressed smartly enough to be worthy of leaning against said wall? (Yeah, I'm in a mood.) |
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duh
"catpurrs"
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Posted - 10/19/2009 : 04:54:59
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Originally posted by Cheese_Ed
I'm not a fan of how this stack was sullied.
Cheese would not be appetizing with someone's bush in it. Unless you're a freak who likes that kind of thing. |
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MguyXXV
"X marks the spot"
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Posted - 10/19/2009 : 08:53:47
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Voted like it was going out of style!
(Cheese in someone's bush? Ewww ....) |
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 10/19/2009 : 08:54:38
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Originally posted by duh Improper Username
Why were they called Teddy Boys? And did they dress smartly only while fancying leaning against walls or did they dress smartly while actually leaning against walls, and what did they do after dressed? Who determined whether they were dressed smartly enough to be worthy of leaning against said wall? (Yeah, I'm in a mood.)
I didn't live over here back then, but my late husband explained the phenomenon. Teddy was a diminutive of Edward because the general look of the clothes was Edwardian. Key components were the "drape jacket," drainpipe trousers, and pointy-toed winkle-picker shoes. Look left to confirm my feelings about 50s fashion.
Hair was influenced by Brando, Elvis, and the whole ducks-ass thing. Shades optional apparently. There also seems to have been a fashion split into Mods and Rockers, who "rumbled on the beach" - in Brighton and made news headlines. "Against the wall" apparently, was also a popular sexual position for teens who mostly still lived at home and had no privacy. Imagine that in the harsh British winter, never mind what great balance they must have had!
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 10/19/2009 : 09:06:23
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| My votes were timeless! |
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Avatar Contest #284 - Out of Style
