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response 25 of 64:
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Jun 10 22:48 UTC 2002 |
what the hell are celtic feet? i ask this to find out if i have them or not.
i love my docs. but they are laced tight.
i wear an 8 and *i* hate looking at those cute little size 5 things on
display.
i have skinny wrists. very skinny. i found a watch today that actually fits,
and that's probably b/c i got it in chinatown. i can;t wear bracelets .. i
like those leather band things but they don';t make them with a small enough
circumference.
i have an outie-innie naval. i think this is weird. it's like an outie that's
innie.
i have a birthmark on the side of my fourth toe. it weird.
my thumbs are double-jointed. this was painful when playing sax, but only on
my right hand where you hold the fucker up.
i still have 2 or 3 baby teeth. there is no adult underneath. i also have no
wisdom teeth. i am okay with this.
i have loads of freckles. if anyone wants any, i'll offer grexers a discount.
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jazz
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response 26 of 64:
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Jun 10 23:19 UTC 2002 |
Celtic feet are shaped like this:
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(kinda hard to do that in ASCII art)
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response 27 of 64:
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Jun 10 23:31 UTC 2002 |
that cleared up absolutely nothing.
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jazz
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response 28 of 64:
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Jun 10 23:38 UTC 2002 |
Poop.
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keesan
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response 29 of 64:
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Jun 10 23:48 UTC 2002 |
Shoes always seem to end with the toes in a point, not a rectangle as in both
drawings above. I thought the pattern on the left was more common. Jim says
he has duck feet, sort of round. He has to buy a few sizes too long. He can
wiggle his ears.
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jmsaul
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response 30 of 64:
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Jun 11 01:24 UTC 2002 |
Re #25: I'm having trouble with the navel thing. I'm tempted to ask for
ASCII art, but I bet it wouldn't help...
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dbunker
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response 31 of 64:
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Jun 11 02:07 UTC 2002 |
Re #26 and #27: It was clear to me. Celts have four toes!
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keesan
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response 32 of 64:
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Jun 11 02:38 UTC 2002 |
Considering how cramping shoes are, they would probably fit better over fewer
toes. Fashionable women used to sometimes have one toe removed so as to fit
pointy shoes better. It was considered refined to have tiny pointed feet.
I have a lot of trouble getting gloves that fit. They are all either too
short or too wide or both, and the thumbs are too long.
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gelinas
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response 33 of 64:
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Jun 11 04:23 UTC 2002 |
Where is Nordstroms?
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response 34 of 64:
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Jun 11 06:05 UTC 2002 |
need some new pumps joe? ;)
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jaklumen
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response 35 of 64:
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Jun 11 10:54 UTC 2002 |
resp:25 Well, there is skinny wrists, and then there is thick wrists,
and I hadn't thought of mine until you mentioned your skinny ones.
It's really tough for me to find wrist watches that fit. Only Timex
makes bands that I don't have trouble wearing; all the others are too
tight. For that matter, all of them are digital with plastic or web
bands. I find this maddening because I would love a nice dress watch,
but it's hard to find.
If I can find it again, I thought about buying a Harley-Davidson
pocketwatch from the Franklin Mint. Classy enough with dress, not too
pretensious for most casual.
Nordstrom's.. based out of Seattle, interestingly.. just a side
comment. We lost our Yakima store about a year ago.
Speaking of feet, also, I have terrible foot problems. I wear shoe
soles out in the middle of the metatarsal (bottom of forefoot) area
because I have tendons out of alignment. Instead of wearing out just
below the big toe, it is just below the middle ones. I saw a
podiatrist about it, have worn orthotics for a long time now, but
can't seem to fix the problem.
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twinkie
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response 36 of 64:
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Jun 11 12:47 UTC 2002 |
re: 35
Check out Skagen watches. Most of them look nice enough to pass for dress
watches, but aren't flashy enough to look bad with jeans and a t-shirt.
Swatch is another company that is nice enough to accomodate those of us with
large wrists. I've never had a difficult time wearing anything in their Irony
series, and you could get by with one of the more subdued Irony watches with
a suit. The regular Swatches are apparently made for people who have no bone
in their wrist, so you'd be out of luck there...but they do make "Large" bands
for the regular watches they sell.
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edina
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response 37 of 64:
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Jun 11 14:04 UTC 2002 |
I think there is a NOrdstrom at Somerset - but if all else fails -
Nordstrom.com.
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polygon
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response 38 of 64:
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Jun 11 14:52 UTC 2002 |
Isn't Nordstrom the company that did those awful ads? For example, the
woman who gleefully takes her husband's classic 1950s Cadillac and crushes
it to "make room for shoes"?
My shoe size measures at something like 13AA, but those are not available,
so I have had to settle for 13C. Indeed, for a time anything in size 13 was
hard to find, and the selection was limited: big retail chains like Sears
even dropped the size entirely for a while to "concentrate on the faster
selling sizes." The "specialty" shops in Lansing MI in the 1970s seemed to
specialize in high prices and low quality.
I have also had a lot of problems with my feet, which are extremely "flat".
When I was a child, something my parents said led me to conclude that having
flat feet was my fault, so I grew up feeling guilty about them. In recent
years, I have had a lot of foot pain, and now wear "orthotics" (specially
molded hard plastic insoles, prescribed by a podiatrist) in my shoes.
My hands are unusual because they each have a straight line across the palm
instead of the two separate lines most people have. These are called
"Simian lines" and are indicative of Down's syndrome and severe mental
retardation.
Shortly after his granddaughter was born, Hubert Humphrey was informed that
she was mentally retarded. "How do you know? She's just a newborn!" raged
Hubert. The doctors said: "We looked at her hands." I have hands like
that.
I used to go out with a woman whose mother was an obstetrics nurse. When
the mother saw my hands for the first time, she screamed.
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polygon
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response 39 of 64:
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Jun 11 14:54 UTC 2002 |
Er, I meant to add, that since about 1990, size 13 shoes have become widely
available. Retailing has changed again, fortunately for me.
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twinkie
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response 40 of 64:
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Jun 11 14:58 UTC 2002 |
I don't know that I'd say they're "widely available", but people don't say
"Does this look like a shipyard? We don't stock gunboats here!" when you ask
for size 13 shoes. ;-)
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rcurl
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response 41 of 64:
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Jun 11 16:10 UTC 2002 |
I can wiggle my nose.
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response 42 of 64:
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Jun 11 16:14 UTC 2002 |
i can club dance to mozart.
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jaklumen
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response 43 of 64:
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Jun 11 16:17 UTC 2002 |
resp:36 Price? Where to find them?
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twinkie
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response 44 of 64:
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Jun 11 16:28 UTC 2002 |
re: 43
Skagen watches are available direct from http://www.skagen.com, Sunglass
Hut stores (not kiosks), Watch Station stores, and I think Marshall Field's.
I'm not sure where to get new Swatch watches in Michigan. I know there's a
Swatch store in Chicago, though ;)
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slynne
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response 45 of 64:
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Jun 11 16:30 UTC 2002 |
I have a friend who can clear the dance floor at the Nectarine with one
of her farts ;)
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response 46 of 64:
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Jun 11 16:34 UTC 2002 |
oh ya i forgot .. sorry to scare you with the bellybutton. it's really not
horrifying i swear.
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flem
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response 47 of 64:
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Jun 11 16:35 UTC 2002 |
A useful skill. :)
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jmsaul
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response 48 of 64:
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Jun 11 16:38 UTC 2002 |
Re #46: I'm not horrified, just baffled. I can't picture it.
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response 49 of 64:
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Jun 11 18:15 UTC 2002 |
i can't picture jazz's celtic feet.
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