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  1. Viola

    Scouting anyone?

    I was a Girl Scout from ages five to fourteen. I went from Brownie to Cadette. I loved many aspects of Girl Scouts but my troop (knew the same girls the whole way through and had pretty much the same leaders the whole time) were too "girly" for me. Girl Scouting seems less structured than Boy...
  2. Viola

    Do you Cthulhu much!?

    Well MAYBE if it wasn't in the MOVIES subsection... :mad: ;) Is it far too late to join? Especially if you are the sort of person who shows up but doesn't know how to play?
  3. Viola

    Vapididity defined: Sorority dress code

    At one point my sister and I made up a wishlist of Jewelry Grown Women Have, I should see if I can find the list, it's probably pretty funny. But we were talking about understatement and quality vs. huge hoop earrings that turn your ears green and so on.
  4. Viola

    Vapididity defined: Sorority dress code

    Now I'm entertaining myself by making up my own dress-code. Don't worry, its entirely hypothetical. I could swear I've seen the same "such-and-such should NEVER be allowed" on FL any number of times, anyway. More vapidity, I guess. ;) Hats Yes: Flat caps, eight panel caps, regular or stingy...
  5. Viola

    Vapididity defined: Sorority dress code

    Stretch denim is still just tight jeans.... denim leggings are leggings (aka mostly lycra) that looks like jeans in a trompe l'oeil way. I was concerned about the prohibition on cork soled shoes but it looks like that's just about it being winter and thus no summer shoes, which I can live...
  7. Viola

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    And not all fast slurred dialects are interchangeable - going from my native Philly style to my fiance's Australian accent (his I'm fine with but a lot of his friends I can't always track) has been both challenging and hilarious. I just don't understand how they can slur so much AND talk so...
  8. Viola

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    Fast, run-together talking can be quite vintage. I could source you some classic speakers of several under-enunciated regional/cultural English speaking dialects. :) Vintage =/= '50s white-collar Midwestern with all other styles as shambling modern monstrosities blighting the landscape.
  9. Viola

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    Are you serious, grundie?
  10. Viola

    Prince Charles' Style: Like or Dis-Like?

    I talk about characters I dislike on FL all the time. Scarlett O'Hara for one. ;) Anyway, gray. Some say boring but I love a good gray. Don't love navy blazers though and I have TRIED.
  11. Viola

    Valentines Day?

    Spending Valentines nine thousand miles from my honey. :( Sending him a card and looking forward to 2011.
  13. Viola

    Was there a gangster story in your family???

    Some cousin of my dad's were what you call "honest crooks" - they were running a crooked ticket agency for boxing and so on, pretty shady - but were let off at one point because they were the biggest sellers of war bonds in the city. Decades later one of them, over sixty and retired, stopped...
  14. Viola

    Which decade is the worst in terms of style?

    All black has a real appeal for me. It might be that East Coast urban thing but let me see if I can break this one down for L.L. Bean Ayuh Country. (just playin', Liz) It's not a hipster thing for me. It's not about black jeans, either, let me get that out of the way. I love classic pieces...
  15. Viola

    Which decade is the worst in terms of style?

    I don't get what's supposed to be appealing about James Bond's fashion sense. :o Prefer the hippies. Don't want to be one, but they're probably more fun to hang out with for a weekend. Remind me of my folks. There's nothing cool about them to me, but I don't hate my parents. lol
  16. Viola

    The "Pleasing Phrase" Thread

    Describing a dire (likely or otherwise) possibility, "...it shouldn't happen to a dog!" Describing a pleasant possibility, "...I should be so lucky!"
  17. Viola

    Polish police recover stolen Auschwitz gate sign

    How well would that go over and why should they have to?
  19. Viola

    Which decade is the worst in terms of style?

    Going to be contrary and nominate the '20s - long single strand necklaces down to your navel? Dresses like bags so you have to be tall to not look like you're lost in a pillowcase? Totally unforgiving to a woman who's figure isn't thin and straight up and down. And, super-short ladies'...
  20. Viola

    Vintage inspired new years resolution

    1. As much as I use it, as much as its reflexive, as much as its historic and well predates my vintage style - the f-word does not need to be in my vocabulary, certainly not as f-in' often as it seems to be. So bye bye to it and its good friends the s-word and d-word as well. Dang and sugar and...
  21. Viola

    Show us what you have Crafted!

    I am going to shop the post-season sales but any ideas for Christmas decorations would be appreciated. My first Christmas is next year and my guy doesn't have any decorations of his own so I am looking for cute, not-too-expensive ideas of what you ladies have done or would suggest.
  22. Viola

    Joan Collins says British women have given up trying to look good.

    Lime green I will concede has nothing to do with age and something to do with coloring and a lot more to do with personality. The actual cut of the top, though - I think some styles look good on some young women and not others and generally not good on more mature women at all. Its not...
  23. Viola

    I'm stuck in the 80s...automotively

    I was born in '84 and the '80s Corvettes, Camaros, and t-top Trans Ams were the epitome of cool in my neighborhood growing up, and in the TV shows I watched when I was five (reruns of the A-Team, MacGuyver, and Knight Rider!). If it had the screaming chicken on the hood and the louvered back...

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