Nobody's Talkin' At Me...

Look. I'm sick of all the lurking--contribute or else!

On another tract--what products/services do you endorse?

I like Clinique makeup (after years of using the higher-priced stuff) and expensive pedicures--the cheap ones are really a rip off and could lead to VD. Vous?

:lobstah: (I like the lobstah smilie and feel it's underused)

I'm not a big makeup fan. It really bugs me when girls, usually teens/early twenties, wear too much make-up. I don't care how pretty a girl is excess or obvious makeup is nausea inducing.

I endorse:

Diet Mtn. Dew
Cheeseburgers with broiled bleu cheese on top
Checks
Google
Google Mail : http://mail.google.com/
Bloglines : http://www.bloglines.com/
Slackware : http://www.slackware.com/
SugarCRM : http://www.sugarcrm.com/
New Egg : http://www.newegg.com/
Chocolate of all forms

:lobstah: 4life

grant wrote:

I'm not a big makeup fan. It really bugs me when girls, usually teens/early twenties, wear too much make-up.

*mmm. wishing I was a girl in her teens/twenties...*

I'm not a make-up fan either, although when I used to wear it, it was clinique. Actually, I wanted to wear make-up to Jim's work x-mas party last year, so I bought some Mary Kate and Ashley brand on my way down to the hotel. It was very sparkly.
I've never had a pedicure, but I did have my eyelashes dyed once. I would do that again.

Endorsements:
Keen shoes
Abercrombie jeans
Jeeps (I covet the new Commander)
Stumble!

Brianna wrote:

*mmm. wishing I was a girl in her teens/twenties...*

me too.

[138]Big Brother is watching (actually, text filtering to be precise). Google is Evil.

For Internet Search I endorse:

Rock Steady wrote:

me too.

for the love of god-WHY???

I've never worn makeup outside of theatrical events or or Halloween, but when I did, I always preferred water-based pancake makeup to greasepaint. Greasepaint melts in the heat and runs into your eyes.

I endorse:

Moog Synthesizers
Martin Guitars
DVD43
Hollywood Video's MVP Program
Diet Coke (Vanilla, Lime and Regular - no Cherry)
Flexoril

Trader Joe's frozen lunch items (burritos, rice bowls, etc.)
www.newegg.com
Buffet clarinets
the Nikon D70 digital SLR camera :drool:
www.abebooks.com

April uses MAC cosmetics...and she wears just enough, IMO. Of course, she looks good with or without it, so...

I heartily endorse:

--Dr Pepper
--Diet Coke with Splenda
--Starbucks
--Jack in the Box
--Guinness

The real question is, have you ever ordered Guinness and Diet Coke with Splenda from the same bartender?

Not yet. Besides, I've only seen Diet Coke with Splenda in grocery stores.

I forgot Diet Dr. Pepper. Diet Coke w/Splenda tastes kind of grainy to me.

I also endorse Diet Dr Pepper...I'm drinking one as I sit here at the computer. I wish they'd start sweetening it with Splenda...that would totally kick ass!

Wow, specifically endorse, not just use. That's a pretty heavy responsibility there ... Gotta think it over some more.

A few that I'm sure about:

J.R. Liggett's Old Fashioned Bar Shampoo
High Winds Flutes by Odell Borg
Glock Pistols
Slurpees
amazon.com

Now, how do we hook up on the endorsement contract money?

Rock Steady wrote:

me too.

creepy much? ick

I'm not a make-up fan either, although when I used to wear it. But stopped when the rednecks at coffee shop thought I was gay. Ok cheap shot.

wolf wrote:

Now, how do we hook up on the endorsement contract money?

I've been trying to get money out of Adidas (I forgot about them) for years to no avail.

:spam1:

Brianna wrote:

for the love of god-WHY???

That's a complicated question, naturally. I'll try to give you the Cliff Notes version.

One factor is my Avoidance Syndrome. Instead of fixing something, I'd start over (eg, instead of fixing my job, go out and get a new job). Life is screwed up, become a different person, or fantasize about it.

Another is that I am a pleaser. I identify with women who talk about how that has kept them from taking care of their own needs, and how hard it was to please a controlling dominant father. A lot of guys talk about how when they were younger felt they could do anything and had lots of confidence. I always felt inadequate and don't identify with that.

I don't like the posturing of career-oriented men. I do it real well, but it is a strain to put up the facade. After talking with some women about this, it is a case of the grass being greener on the other side. Women can be tough on each other too.

Finally, men are plain. Women have a lot of freedom of expression with makeup and the variety of clothing they can wear. It seems like it's more fun to be female. :ivy:

lumberjim wrote:

creepy much? ick

If I were on a date with a woman that said she wasn't female at birth that would creep me out even though I might understand it. I know, it doesn't make any sense to me either.

I wore makeup once, but I was young and needed the money.

I heartily endorse -

SnagIt - www.techsmith.com
XMPlay
USMC - Semper Fi
Stihl Chainsaws
Hefty Heavy-Duty Garbage Bags
Redline Containers - Best 55-gallon drums money can buy

I endorse DR strings and Avatar speakers. But they won't send me any for free.

I endorse Cherry Hill Nissan as a place to buy or lease a vehicle.

My endorsements of the moment are:

The F-35

The Cellar

Orbitz "discount" airfares and hotel accomodations

Cincinnati, Ohio

Dragon City Chinese food

Regular physical exercise ( to offset the Chinese food )

Eek. Earlier I realized I never logged off from the last time I visited. I wadn't lurkin', I swar!!

I use and endorse:

GothamCityOnline.com
DiningIn.com
SmartWater and VitaminWater
Pop Tarts
Davies Gate skin care products
Revlon makeup
Sugarmom's bar

I endorse:

Nicotrol patches
Carlton cigarettes -lowest nicotine, great for cutting down
Nike- the only shoes that didn't hurt my feet waitressing
Bravo! Raw food for pets
Neutrogena anti-wrinkle, anti-blemish- this stuff works!!
Aveda hair and skin products
clairol hair dyes- WAY better than Loreal's
Poland Spring and aquafina
Fanciful hair toners
Golda jewelry NYC
Folgers decaf
Maxwell house regular
Gibsons and strats
Roxy watches
The Limited Express
Sony
Odor eaters
Lamisil foot cream
OPI nail polish
.....I guess I should stop at some point.

bluecuracao wrote:

I use and endorse:

That's all nice, but how do you feel about blue curacao?

I unreservedly endorse:

Ginger by Lush
John Frieda Volumising Hairspray
Bacon & egg baguettes with HP Sauce
Rita Queen of Speed (ride) at Alton Towers (theme park)

btw is Clinique considered a less expensive brand or have I read that wrong? Clarins & Clinique are considered quite posh among us admin staff. We get trial sizes of the skincare & eke them out so that we smell expensive. Slumming it would be buying Superdrug's own label brand.... (which is on my bathroom shelf at the moment!)

I hereby endorse Achewood. It takes about three months of reading it to even comprehend it at all. But having put in that time, I cannot look away.

Girls who don't wear much makeup are hawt.

I endorse:

Porcupine Tree
Strawberry yogurt pop tarts
Springfield Armory pistols
Dunlop guitar picks (1.0 mm)
Larrivee acoustic guitars -- if I can ever afford a good one
O'Dell's Vanilla Porter -- only available on brewery tours, and I've never had it. But it sounds good, no?

mrnoodle wrote:

Girls who don't wear much makeup are hawt.

Thank you mrnoodle, I think so too :) (natural smilie color) I endorse Kohl's, the only place where new name brand jeans can be bought for less than $20. And Goodwill, where you never know what you will find (I usually shop for books there). As for clothing brands, I never quite understood the idea that you pay much to wear Mudd across your tits, shouldn't they be paying you??? :eyebrow:

It is quite the Politically Correct thing to say "I like no makeup". In fact, done right, a girl with makeup will turn heads.

It is well known in marketing that people will say things in answering survey questions, yet they will act differently. Two years ago, a company found that people said they would be more likely to click on unobtrusive text ads than more prominant attention-grabbing text ads. The same people clicked on ads at over twice the rate at Ask Jeeves (prominant) than at Google (unobtrusive).

People lie.

Rock Steady wrote:

People lie.

Or perhaps like to present an idealised version of themselves?

staceyv wrote:

Neutrogena anti-wrinkle, anti-blemish- this stuff works!!

Stacey...sweetie...you're in your 20's. Check back in when you're in your 40's and let us know if this stuff works. :lol:

I usually wear make-up when I go out and I prefer cream blush to the dry powder kind (goes on more smoothly for a natural look).

I endorse:

American Spirit cigarettes

The Colorado Plateau

Toyota 4-wd trucks

Shalimar perfume

RockSteady wrote:

In fact, done right, a girl with makeup will turn heads.

In fact, done wrong, a girl with makeup will turn stomachs. It's not the makeup, it's the girl.

I'll go one step further. It's not the girl as much as it is the perception of the girl that matters more, at the ranges at which makeup has an influence, but before other forces come into play (social interaction, physical interaction)

Makeup is important, like a good cover letter. But it's limited.

RockSteady wrote:

People lie

Well, duh.

But wrt your point about makeup, it's a lot easier to do poorly than it is to do well, and perhaps for those "liars" that said they like no makeup, it's certainly possible that the "no makeup look" they say they like may well be makeup applied so skillfully that it is invisible. At least they can't see the makeup they're looking at, imagining (perceiving) the beauty to be all girl and no makeup.


edit: I can't type for sh*t today.

Based on this past weekend's experience, I must add:

Smoking Loon Merlot

Yes, it's a real wine. Cool label too.

http://www.smokingloon.com

I have to see if I can find some of their screwcap wines as well.

wolf wrote:

I have to see if I can find some of their screwcap wines as well.

What do they call their screwcap line of wines? "Dead, Emphysematic Loon Merlot"?

One of my favorite parts in "Top Secret" was the waiter bringing the wine: "Your Thunderbird '69, sir..." - waiter unscrews the top, hands it to Val Kilmer to sniff the cap. The wine is poured, Val and chick get up to dance, and wine eats its way through the glass.

Actually, it's "3 Loose Screws." And they have a very reasonable justification for screwcap instead of cork.

Go look. It's fun.

wolf wrote:

Actually, it's "3 Loose Screws." And they have a very reasonable justification for screwcap instead of cork.

Go look. It's fun.

Also Bonny Doon Vineyards is eschewing the cork

Umm...

Diet Pepsi
FUZE in Straberry Melon (Slenderize!)
Day-Timer's monthly planner
Kroger Mac & Cheese (is it weird that I like the cheap stuff best?)
(?L'Oreal?) Hydriance hair color in tropic burgundy
Revlon Foundation

I will let you know more later if I can think of any...

I endorse:
[SIZE=1]not necessarily in any given order [/SIZE]
Heineken
Jägermeister
chevron 100LL
Piper Aircraft

USDA T-Bone steaks
oh, and Ribeyes too!

The Firefox browser
Logitech
Peets coffee
Unreal Tournament 2004
Yankee Candles but only certain scents

Oooohhh!!

Smirnoff Ice
Barcardi O[SIZE=1]3[/SIZE]

I like me some malt beverages. :yum:

I endorse:

Thos. Moser furniture
Funny Frisch Jumpys
Lie Neilsen bench planes
Rockport dress shoes
Safeguard bar soap

Black Cherry Wishniak (did I spell that right?)
OPI nail polish (I second Staceyv's endorsement)
Skyline chili with beans
Dove chocolate
Alice Hoffman books

Martin Guitars

Kelly's Canoe & Kayak shop in Gilbertsville, Pa

Catalyst Internet for all of your networking needs

Joe's Abortions: "No fetus can beat us. You make 'em, we scrape 'em!"

Cat's Pride cat litter

Today's post was brought to you by the word, "cock"

Partylights Candles (the Yankees burn too sooty, even if I do like Midsummer Night and Storm Watch)

Iggy wrote:

Oooohhh!!

Smirnoff Ice
Barcardi O[size=1]3[/size]

I like me some malt beverages. :yum:

:beer:
Bacardi Low Carb Black Cherry. And the 98 year old beer distributer man told me it looked like it was working. Woohoo! :lol:

jinx wrote:

:beer:
snip... And the 98 year old beer distributer man told me it looked like it was working. Woohoo! :lol:

I hope I'm that smooth when I'm 98.

Rock Steady wrote:

me too.

lumberjim wrote:

creepy much? ick

This is how rumors start. I thought he meant he, too, wished Brianna was 20 again. Is there a cliff notes version of the cellar for people like me?

And for my final post to this thread tonight I'll endorse:
Lenswork magazine
New York Review of Books
Bombay safire gin
Ommegang and Hennepin beer
Chicken Vindaloo
Oven roasted potatoes
Ecco shoes
hummers (not the vehicles)
a warm place to take a dump

(the last three require a faint recollection of earl butz)

No, no cliffnotes.

I read RS's comment the way the thread played out. It's "in character".

Oooh. You want cellar Cliffnotes? Get broadband access and kiss that dialup modem goodbye. You can cover some serious ground with even a modest 768/256 ADSL setup. Oh, get a comfortable chair too. You'll catch up, you're a quick study.

BigV wrote:

No, no cliffnotes.

I read RS's comment the way the thread played out. It's "in character".

Oooh. You want cellar Cliffnotes? Get broadband access and kiss that dialup modem goodbye. You can cover some serious ground with even a modest 768/256 ADSL setup. Oh, get a comfortable chair too. You'll catch up, you're a quick study.

Yeah, the whole gwennie thing, but I don't know, I figured maybe he was just jumping on the flirting with Bri bandwagon. (no offense plt and xob)

Broadband? You mean give up my neo–luddite computer with the sizzling 350Mhz processor?

OK, I'll put in a few more hours this week in the salt mines. :)

footfootfoot wrote:

Yeah, the whole gwennie thing, but I don't know, I figured maybe he was just jumping on the flirting with Bri bandwagon. (no offense plt and xob)

Broadband? You mean give up my neo–luddite computer with the sizzling 350Mhz processor?

OK, I'll put in a few more hours this week in the salt mines. :)

Don't knock people for being nice to Brianna, she's been going thru some tough shit and part of the flirting is just to support her. Besides, you don't tell a girl "I wish you were 20 again." That's not going to win you a lot of points.

Actually, I was friends with Brianna before I changed genders here, when Gwennie! was her supportive big sister that had been to jail already. We are tied for first place as The Cellar's "Most Criminal" (see other thread).

Trivia Question: Can you name two millionaires that were jailed in 2004?

ok!!! but isnt lurking a lot safer? Makeup, like a lot of things, can be wonderful, when used in moderation.
Intel Pentium processors, Seagate harddrives, Kingston RAM, GEForce video and ID games.
Hitachi and Dewalt compressors and powertools, Craftsman wrenches and Werner ladders.
CCM/Koho hockey jerseys and equipment, Levis jeans, Asics and Adidas shoes(the soles last longer and they rarely rip out or come apart).
ultimatebet.com, 7sultanspoker.com and Las Vegas,NV.
ebay.com and auctionwatch.com, Comcast internet and DirectTV
Breyers ice cream and yogurt, Kelloggs and Post cereal, mid-western beef, cheese, whole milk
Applebees, Outback and Krispy Kreme
Lionel, Kato and Atlas model railroading products
Mossburg, Remington and S+W
National Geographic, Scientific American and Nature
pbs.org
hottubs
Indiana limestone and brick, Certainteed roofing products and Velux skylites
Checy trucks(because they last for ever, like a rock)

Rock Steady wrote:

Don't knock people for being nice to Brianna,

You mean leading her on, you taunting vixen you!

Rock Steady wrote:

she's been going thru some tough shit and part of the flirting is just to support her.

I know, I follow the tabloids, but you are still a shamless hussy in my book. :blush:

Rock Steady wrote:

Besides, you don't tell a girl "I wish you were 20 again." That's not going to win you a lot of points.

Yeah, I was confused by that, but then some girls go for that. :rar:

Rock Steady wrote:

Actually, I was friends with Brianna before I changed genders here, when Gwennie! was her supportive big sister that had been to jail already. We are tied for first place as The Cellar's "Most Criminal" (see other thread).

Ahh those were the days!

Trivia Question: Can you name two millionaires that were jailed in 2004?[/QUOTE]

Not without looking :)

BTW, I don't remember ever not being nice to Bri, who I believe always laughs at my jokes, so I wouldn't knock anyone else for being nice to her.

kelliekd wrote:

I never quite understood the idea that you pay much to wear Mudd across your tits, shouldn't they be paying you??? :eyebrow:

Absolutely! The shirts I have with ads on them were all given to me for free except the Cellar and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame shirts. :thumb:

footfootfoot wrote:

Ahh those were the days!

Many folks chalk up their brief legal problems to being young, poor, and reckless. Unfortunately, I have to chalk it up to being old, rich, and reckless. I did 20 days in county jail at 49 years old and 7 figure assets because I did a DUI accident. As I explained elsewhere at this forum, now I always take public transit to games or whatever and never drink and drive at all. If I hurt anyone that would be with me forever, but the jail time is over. An $80 cab ride no longer seems expensive to me. I tell people this so that they will consider separating driving from drinking too.

I think footfootfoot is mad at me because I like dogs better than sharks. And, I like to flirt. It's one of the good, sober things about being alive, right? Is that so wrong? :)

Brianna wrote:

I think footfootfoot is mad at me because I like dogs better than sharks. And, I like to flirt. It's one of the good, sober things about being alive, right? Is that so wrong? :)

The only thing wrong is that you think I am mad at you. Never. I am a big fan. I just gave up flirting a while back. ;)

rocksteady wrote:

Many folks chalk up their brief legal problems to being young, poor, and reckless. Unfortunately, I have to chalk it up to being old, rich, and reckless. I did 20 days in county jail at 49 years old and 7 figure assets because I did a DUI accident. As I explained elsewhere at this forum, now I always take public transit to games or whatever and never drink and drive at all. If I hurt anyone that would be with me forever, but the jail time is over. An $80 cab ride no longer seems expensive to me. I tell people this so that they will consider separating driving from drinking too.

Oh yeah. I don't go anywhere near the vehicle if I have touched a drop. I'd pay more than $80 to stay out of jail.

So then the other millionaire in jail in 2004 would be gwennie!?

If I'm right, do I win a prize?

footfootfoot wrote:

So then the other millionaire in jail in 2004 would be gwennie!?

Clever! Sounds like you win.

Gwennie and who? Martha? :neutral:

xoxoxoBruce wrote:

Gwennie and who? Martha? :neutral:

Yes, RockSteady/Gwennie! and Martha Stewart.

xoxoxoxoxox to you

The guys in jail told me I needed a street name, and they liked Rock Steady. I didn't tell them anything about Gwennie!

SteveDallas wrote:

That's all nice, but how do you feel about blue curacao?

Consume at your own risk. :sick:

I recall blue curacao as being an ingredient in Jimmy Buffets Best Margarita. :drunk:

And, RS, I have always appreciated your sage advice about jail AND sobriety!

Nope, wrong again. It's Orange curacao that's in the Margarita...dang.

blue curacao pineapple juice rum coconut milk = blue hawaiian (from foggy memory)

Also makes fine blue margas.

On my first date with my fiance, we had margarita shooters made with blue curacao (George the bartender's idea). After we did the shots, we took turns licking the salt off of each other's noses. Yeah, we had a lot of them!

Noses?

Brianna wrote:

Nope, wrong again. It's Orange curacao that's in the Margarita...dang.

Blue Curacao is orange flavored.

And it looks way more cool than the other kinds.

I'm so happy to be driving right now that I'm finding it extremely easy to stay away from adult beverages when I am going to be behind the wheel. Not sure why it was so hard before.

I went to a friend's house (our drummer, actually) last weekend and decided to tie one on. We had fun playing Trivial Pursuit for shots -- their 3-year old was utterly disgusted with us, though. I ended up being worried at the end of it, though. A full bottle of Jose Cuervo and a bunch of microbrews split among the 3 of us, they were both sick as dogs. I didn't even get (much of) a hangover. And I drank more.

If I had been drinking alot lately, I could see why my resistance was so high...but I've had maybe 6 beers since July. Alcohol is a strange thing, perhaps best left alone...

...cunning, powerful, baffling,...

Train, Taxi, Subway, Light Rail, Bus, Gondola, Ricksaw, Ferry, Hot Air Balloon, whatever it takes.

I endorse

Romolo's Chocolate
Staying away from this guy
Staying sober behind the wheel

wolf wrote:

Actually, it's "3 Loose Screws."

I had no idea that Paris Hilton, Nicole Ritchie, and Tara Reid had a vineyard...

Learn something new every day....

Griff wrote:

Noses?

We were lucky to find each other. :alien: :gray: