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By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 5/30/98 11:44:22 PM
# Replies: 57
All right, all right, all right,...I'm sorry folks but could someone please tell me when and where I missed the memo on when kaki's became a fucking fashion statement? You know, I can remember when mt dad took his kaki's to Airline cleaners in Houston with the sign outside that said, "Kaki's beautifully laundered". Kaki's were a bundle of crappie fabric that people wore to work because they couldn't afford to buy anything else, or they were doing jobs that they didn't want to ruin good clothes on. Now, some 20 years later in my life, and 40 years later in my dad's, all of a sudden these single colored, itchy fabric pants have become a fucking fashion statement!!! What the hell is going on here?!!! How the hell can something that has been delegated to the most honorable of working class professions, all of a sudden become something that incredibly STUPID, fucking trendiods are willing to pay high dollar for? How the hell did kaki's become a fashion statement? Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against fashion. Looking good & cool is important. Is it necessary to look like a stupid SLAVE to fashion in the process?
Response #1
By: Shadow Sprite
Date: 5/31/98 11:27:04 AM
Ah, but according to recent T.V. not only do khakis swing, but they rock, and groove too! Personally, I think anything in any shade of brown is rediculous. I like to confuse store clerks by asking if they have khaki in any other colors.
Response #2
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 5/31/98 3:03:18 PM
I'm beginning to wonder if khakis are the biggest of your worries, Spaz.
Deep, soothing breaths.
DEEP...
SOOTHING...
BREATHS...
Response #3
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 5/31/98 5:23:42 PM
Love it Shadow!
Gowan, you're just NOW beginning to wonder?
Response #4
By: Mycroft
Date: 6/1/98 2:27:52 PM
What about Wide-Leg Jeans, the Bell-Bottoms of the 90's? I really like my idea of photographing anyone running around in these alternative safe-ejection outfits and showing the picture to all of their friends in a decade so they'll be laughed at.
Response #5
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 6/4/98 9:32:45 PM
Yeah, at ealst theya re jeans, and subsequently, at leasta a little cool. But kaki's? Anyone that buys these things now should put in the same pit with the people that saw the Spice Girls movie, and then start cleaning the gene pool!
Response #6
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 6/5/98 5:07:02 AM
I like khakis. I get them at Goodwill.
In fact, I get everything at Goodwill. Or Value Village, or the Chicken Soup Brigade thrift store...
Homer's one step plan for not being a fashion slave: 1) BUY ALL YOUR CLOTHES AT GOODWILL.
I think I'll make a new bumper sticker: SLAVERY HAPPENS
Response #7
By: sooz
Date: 6/5/98 10:24:29 AM
I've been horrified at recent fashion trends. As I said earlier, I took all dem Boy Scouts to the water park the other day, and the girl's bathing suits were, well, interesting.
They all looked like they just stepped out of one of those Elvis Beach movies. Or maybe a Frankie Avalon thing.
Response #8
By: Crush the State
Date: 6/5/98 10:29:29 AM
>Homer's one step plan for not being a fashion slave: 1) BUY ALL YOUR CLOTHES AT GOODWILL.
Uh, that's the trendiest of what the current kids think will save reality. But they're still caring what they do - so it is not only unimportant, but entirely undistinguished from mall shopping...
As long as the changes are only aesthetic, Baby, it's just the looks.
And then there's L.A. - the only city to admit and openly _flaunt_ its bankruptcy via a postmodern recyclic of such things... wonderful...
Homer, you might like the electric company for that reason - "A Pert Cyclic Omen" just rox. And read _Mein Kampf_ while you're at it... could save you a few more years of angst.
Response #9
By: Zipperhead
Date: 6/5/98 12:21:34 PM
You aint right.
Response #10
By: Da Sissop
Date: 6/5/98 9:14:09 PM
Angst.. nihilism... anarchy... whatever pays the bills....
Response #11
By: Loki
Date: 6/6/98 3:43:22 AM
>Uh, that's the trendiest of what the current kids think will save >reality. But they're still caring what they do - so it is not only >unimportant, but entirely undistinguished from mall shopping...
Um.. Crush? Are you missing any punctuation? No offense, but I'm having quite a bit of trouble parsing what you're saying into normal sentence structures. Is it some problem with your browser? I mean, you sound like you have quite a few things to say, but it's just that the signal to noise ratio is really low.
Response #12
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 6/6/98 4:32:54 AM
Allow me to translate:
>Uh, that's the trendiest of what the current kids think will save
>reality. But they're still caring what they do - so it is not only
>unimportant, but entirely undistinguished from mall shopping...
"I believe that it has become fashionable to [shop at Goodwill]. This will not 'save the planet' (a dubious goal to begin with). Those shopping at Goodwill are being consciensous, and that is unwise."
Whatever. I thift cuz it's cheap, and more fun that going to a mall.
I've read Mein Kampf. WHAT A WHINEY LOSER! Geez! If Hitler'd been born in the 50s in San Fransisco, then our national anthem would be a bootleg recording of the Dead playing 'Space' at the Filmore in '68. And a better world it would be, too! If Hitler'd been hugged more then things might have gone quite differently. Maybe one hug per 2300 dead Jews... Life hands us these weird equations.
Response #13
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 6/6/98 12:51:50 PM
OK hate to have to do this, but on this one, I agree with Crush. Shopping at Goodwill has become QUITE the trendy thing to do. Esp among rebellious college students that desire to state their indivdiality by shopping where their friends shop. I know for a fact, that Goodwill here has very much increased their prices on things in teh past few years, due in fact to demand for their goods. Yeah I know, capitialism, profit yada, yada, yada. Honestly folks, I can't see paying the SAME price, and I have really seen in some cases MORE, for an item that you can get in a regular store, simple becasue someone else has already worn it, broke it in, washed it for you, and eases your conscience just becasue you bought it at Goodwill.
They're expecting a shipment of Kaki's in next week I hear.
Response #14
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 6/6/98 6:51:07 PM
Hmm. The last clothing I bought at a thrift store was at Value Village (which is the most expensive of the thrifts). It was a Gap flannel shirt. $2.99.
Do Gap flannel shirts really retail for $2.99?
Last night I got a phone for $1.99. I also contemplated buying a VGA monitor for $15.
And to bring all this back to being a 'slave to fashion,' it's a non-issue. If you resist doing the 'fashionable' thing, then you're being another kind of fashionable. It just makes no sense to me to buy retail, and that's all there is to it.
Response #15
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 6/7/98 12:42:30 AM
I'd expect there to be a severe surplus of flannel in the seattle area thus driving the price down.
Response #16
By: Zane T. Dark
Date: 6/7/98 6:38:23 AM
Kaki Kondoms---the next wave.
Response #17
By: Ralf
Date: 6/7/98 9:53:43 AM
They swing!
Response #18
By: Mycroft
Date: 6/7/98 11:19:47 AM
eh, that's why all houston-binders should come bask in the warm, sweet air of pasadena! (the air has been recently shown block out 75% of harmful UV rays AND displace almost 4% of oxygen, a known corrosive!) Value Villiage at Southmore and burke is one of the best/cheapest thift stores in a good 70-100 mile radius, and it's one of several within a couple miles of each other.
I take goths out there when I feel the need for public worship or gratuitous sexual perversity. You'ld be downright disturbed if you say how the average gothette acts when she finds out she can buy a wedding dress for under $15 dollars...
Response #19
By: rorschach
Date: 6/7/98 8:15:09 PM
mycroft... beware those $15 wedding dresses... they are mucho defective...
Response #20
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 6/8/98 12:16:15 AM
Don't believe the packaging that says 'virginity included.'
Response #21
By: sooz
Date: 6/8/98 1:30:20 AM
Jimmy was conceived when I lived at Burke and Southmore in pasadena, and I'm sure this fits into this thread somehow.
Response #22
By: Zane T. Dark
Date: 6/8/98 5:37:41 AM
Homer: They make those?
Zane The Zinc-Oxide..and You
Response #23
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 6/8/98 1:03:17 PM
Wait, you never told me you lived in Pasadena!
Ohmyghod! Our whole lives together have been a sham!
Response #24
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 6/8/98 10:27:12 PM
Sooz, you know exactly where?
How do chicks do that?
Response #25
By: sooz
Date: 6/9/98 2:02:19 PM
See, wimmin generally ovulate (produce an egg) halfway through their menstrual cycle, about the 14th day, if they're a regular-type person. Also, all the ssex I had that month was at home in my bed, so it was pretty easy to narrow down the "where."
Sure, GowPaul, I lived in Pasadena for the most horrible 8 months of my life, I believe. That town reeked. I worked as a waitress at the Kip's Big Boy down the street from Gilley's. Yes, I'm that old. Jimmy's that old. We're all damned old.
Response #26
By: Da Sissop
Date: 6/9/98 8:08:14 PM
Hey, does anyone here like rock and roll?
Response #27
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 6/10/98 12:47:45 AM
"that month"?
ahem.
Response #28
By: sooz
Date: 6/10/98 8:56:27 PM
Yes, dear, "that month." Sometimes we'd get really exciting and have sex other places. People DO that, you know.
Hey GowPaul... remember "Little John", Jimmy's 1/2 brother? He's 19, married to his dad's ex-wife's sister, has 2 kids, and is a high-school drop-out and a Burger King manager. It either makes you wanna laugh or cry.
Response #29
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 6/11/98 1:24:55 AM
It was the microwave food.
It fried his brain.
(I'm assuming that's the ex-wife you're talking about)
Response #30
By: rorschach
Date: 6/11/98 8:50:14 PM
married his dad's ex-wife's sister.....I ASSUME (always a scary thing to do...) that his dad's ex-wife was not HIS MOM.....(course in pasadena one never raelly knows for sure.....)
man, you wanna talk about a wierd family reunion.....
Response #31
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 6/13/98 10:10:40 PM
Hey Sooz, sounds like you have some Springer guests there.
Response #32
By: Ralf
Date: 6/14/98 4:57:43 PM
Uhhh... "Burke and Southmore"... "Pasedena"... sure sounds familiar.
Good GOD. Jimmy might be my son.
Response #33
By: sooz
Date: 6/16/98 12:48:01 PM
No, no, Ralf. We weren't sleeping together. Not then, anyway. I got pregnant before I owned a modem.
GowPaul, that's the ex-wife, the microwaved one, Lisa. Her sister Doris, the truck driver, died in a car wreck, so Lisa left John and married Doris' widower. Lisa's institutionalized now (big sur-prise).
No, to whoever asked, the 19 year old's (John Jr.) is a different, uninvolved woman. Imagine trying to make a family tree for these people. It gives me the willies.
John visited Austin this last January, and said "I think Jimmy's the only one out of this bunch that will turn out worth a shit. Probably because he grew up away from us." Brightest thing he ever said.
(Sooz shakes head in disgust)
Response #34
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 6/17/98 12:01:00 PM
Technically, he's still married to his step-aunt, though.
Beware family trees that move horizontally.
Response #35
By: sooz
Date: 6/17/98 4:58:37 PM
Nope. She ceased to be his step-aunt when Lisa and John got divorced. Likewise, I ceased to be John Jr.'s stepmother when John and I got divorced. Alas, the weirdos we get involved with when we're young and clueless.
The whole thing really gives me the creeps. Thus, I'm hiding out in Austin. Jimmy's adoption by Richie should be final soon, and then we won't be related to any of the whole lot of 'em.
Response #36
By: Ralf
Date: 6/17/98 9:27:27 PM
So I suppose this is a bad time to mention my relationship with Richie...?
Response #37
By: sooz
Date: 6/18/98 10:27:32 PM
No wonder he was suspiciously absent while we were in Atlanta.
Response #38
By: Mycroft
Date: 6/19/98 9:10:22 PM
Justasec. WHy was Lisa referred to as "the microwaved one"?
Response #39
By: sooz
Date: 6/20/98 9:26:01 PM
Hee hee, giggle snort. She's the one that told me we shouldn't feed our children microwaved food, because it fries their brains. Lisa's now in the goofy house.She's probably been hanging out in someone's kitchen too much.
Response #40
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 6/21/98 11:02:48 PM
She microwaved her children's brain?
Response #41
By: Ralf
Date: 6/22/98 6:33:16 PM
MmmmMMmmm. Branes.
Response #42
By: Zane T. Dark
Date: 6/24/98 7:13:31 AM
Announcer voice on...
"How a magician eats microwaved branes..."
Response #43
By: Da Sissop
Date: 7/18/98 10:16:20 AM
First it was Khakis, now it's "Hard Jeans".
Who requested *those* things be brought back?
Response #44
By: Ralf
Date: 7/18/98 10:24:21 AM
What's old is new again.
I *do* remember them lasting forever, however. So in addition to being uncomfortable, you have to put up with them longer.
In the 70's a pair of jeans was your personal project, taking months of careful abuse to break them in.
Response #45
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 7/19/98 12:37:17 AM
How far back will we go?
Response #46
By: Ralf
Date: 7/19/98 6:48:46 AM
Pantslessness.
Response #47
By: sooz
Date: 7/19/98 11:43:39 AM
I'll loan ya a fig leaf.
Response #48
By: Shadow Sprite
Date: 7/19/98 3:38:52 PM
It's times like this when I wish I had a wav file of the MST3K boys singing the "Pants" song from... well, one of those darn Hercules movies!
Response #49
By: Ralf
Date: 7/20/98 12:25:04 PM
Fig leaf? Ha. Palm leaf.
Response #50
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 7/20/98 9:10:52 PM
Elephant ear.
Response #51
By: Da Sissop
Date: 7/20/98 9:56:49 PM
Poison Sumac SWINGS!
Response #52
By: Jay
Date: 7/25/98 1:48:55 PM
"Honey, did you mulch my pants yet?"
Response #53
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 7/26/98 3:01:47 AM
Honey, I blew up the pants!
Response #54
By: Ralf
Date: 7/26/98 1:52:51 PM
"Pants, pants! What are pants?!"
--Paraphrased from Spock's Brain
Response #55
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 7/30/98 10:23:55 PM
Ralf, just so you can feel all warm and fuzzy, I watched Kentucky Fried Movie again the other day. "I'm not wearing any pants. Film at eleven"
Response #56
By: Ralf
Date: 8/1/98 12:53:49 PM
Today, I'm really not wearing pants.
(Shorts. It's the weekend.)
Response #57
By: Zane T. Dark
Date: 8/1/98 11:18:41 PM
I'm wearing pants, they just aren't mine...