<p>In keeping with our disco theme (I know we had a disco theme going somewhere up there), here's a video you might enjoy just in time for Thanksgiving.
<a href="http://www.msn.americangreetings.com/view.pd?i=382219626&m=1652&rr=y&sou%5B/url%5D">http://www.msn.americangreetings.com/view.pd?i=382219626&m=1652&rr=y&sou</a></p>
<p>Doodsmom - Love, Love, LOVE the Commodores (shows how slummy I can get...) and Bee Gees. Abba never did it for me though until I took the kids to see Mama Mia and I got turned completely around....and for good dance music, early 80's Michael Jacson and David Bowie were great!</p>
<p>But you, I believe (like far too many others these days) are a bit younger than I - my hot college gropups were Moody Blues, led Zepplin, The Band, CSN, the Kinks, Joni Mitchell, Traffic, Marvin Gay's "What's Goin' on" and Buffalo Springfield.</p>
<p>I am getting Verclomped. Sybbie -a beer please!</p>
<p>Over30 I loved the link :)</p>
<p>Guys, my friend sent me a link to a hilarious ebay ad for "Black Leather Pants That I Unfortunately Own." I have a feeling this guy should be on CC and should be here in Sinners Alley. Maybe he already is!! Enjoy!</p>
<p>Here is the text of the ad:</p>
<p>"You are bidding on a mistake.</p>
<p>We all make mistakes. We date the wrong people for too long. We chew gum with our mouths open. We say inappropriate things in front of grandma.</p>
<p>And we buy leather pants.</p>
<p>I can explain these pants and why they are in my possession. I bought them many, many years ago under the spell of a woman whom I believed to have taste. She suggested I try them on. I did. She said they looked good. I wanted to have a relationship of sorts with her. Im stupid and prone to impulsive decisions. I bought the pants.</p>
<p>The relationship, probably for better, never materialized. The girl, whose name I cant even recall, is a distant memory. I think she was short.</p>
<p>Ultimately the pants were placed in the closet where they have remained, unworn, for nearly a decade. I would like to emphasize that: Aside from trying these pants on, they have never, ever been worn. In public or private. </p>
<p>I have not worn these leather pants for the following reasons:</p>
<p>I am not a member of Queen.
I do not like motorcycles.
I am not Rod Stewart.
I am not French.
I do not cruise for transvestites in an expensive sports car.</p>
<p>These were not cheap leather pants. They are Donna Karan leather pants. Theyre for men. Brave men, I would think. Perhaps tattooed, pierced men. In fact, Ill go so far as to say you either have to be very tough, very gay, or very famous to wear these pants and get away with it.</p>
<p>Again, theyre mens pants, but theyd probably look great on the right lady. Ladies can get away with leather pants much more often than men can. Its a sad fact that men who own leather pants will have to come to terms with.</p>
<p>They are size 34x34. I am no longer size 34x34, so even were I to suddenly decide I was a famous gay biker I would not be able to wear these pants. These pants are destined for someone else. For reasons unknown - perhaps to keep my options open, in case I wanted to become a pirate - I have shuffled these unworn pants from house to house, closet to closet. Alas, it is now time to part ways so that I may use the extra room for any rhinestone-studded jeans I may purchase in the future.</p>
<p>These pants are in excellent condition. They were never taken on pirate expeditions. They werent worn onstage. They didnt straddle a Harley, or a guy named Harley. They just hung there, sad and ignored, for a few presidencies.</p>
<p>Someone, somewhere, will look great in these pants. Im hoping that someone is you, or that you can be suckered into buying them by a girl youre trying to bed.</p>
<p>Please buy these leather pants."</p>
<p>Wonderful pants ad, SB....so, did you buy them?!</p>
<p>Nope... got there too late. $5 opening-- over $100 was winning bid.</p>
<p>Love the leather pants ad. I've never owned leather pants or a skirt. I have some leather shoes though :) I never wanted leather pants, I always wanted to wear a size 6 red sequinned gown (like you see in the beauty pagents). Alas, a size 6 anything is a thing of the past and a red sequinned gown in my current size and at my age....well....let's just go with scary. So far I've resisted "selling out" my red sequinned dress dream to a sequinned or beaded jacket. Some dreams we just shouldn't compromise :)</p>
<p>Over30, I love that turkey disco gal! The disco backup singer with the quill stubble on his chest is a nice touch. :D Oh man, speaking of things in my closet that never got worn...I finally got rid of the copper-colored, satin and taffeta, size 5, ball gown I bought during the after-Christmas sale at Talbot's Petites. Yeah, I don't know WHAT I was thinking, but it probably made some 16-year old shopping at the local thrift store very happy. :) </p>
<p>Here's a scary thought for Halloween...when your real dress size matches your age. So many Mars bars and so little time... :p</p>
<p>Hey Slugg--</p>
<p>Oops-- I accidentally hit the "send" key.
Sorry.
Anyway, I was going to ask you to hang onto that copper dress. I've been on a serious diet, and am 8 lbs from my goal. If/when I hit it (which will require me to be at a weight I haven't seen in <em>quite</em> some time), I'll buy it offa you. I'm so short, 5 lbs is a dress size. I'm gettin' there...</p>
<p>So, don't yet equate your dress size with your age (unless you are doing it in spirit.. I feel 5 quite often). There's hope..... well, after Halloween... and after thanksgiving...xmas... new year.. Uh oh.... Maybe you should donate that size 5 after all. :(</p>
<p>I think my leg is a size 5.</p>
<p>The last time I wore size 5 was third grade - it was a pea green colored dress with a yellow sash and lace collar.</p>
<p>Jym, congrats!! Keep going, and don't give up. Those last 10 lbs. are truly the hardest. Sorry, but the copper dress went to thrift store heaven a few years ago. I still have a tangerine jacket with shoulder pads the size of bowling balls that I wore to my D's friend's Bat mitzvah...I was styling in that jacket! It can only be worn with hair as big as the shoulder pads. :) </p>
<p>Crash, vintage 1968, or so? Mine was a robin's egg blue, puffy long-sleeved, tent dress sort of thing, with a pilgrim-style, white, lace collar, and a humongous chiffon, blue bow that tied right under my chin. It went nicely with my white, plastic hair clips pulled back tight enough to expose my scalp, and my mom's special, patented, crooked-bangs haircut. That year, I believe my front teeth were two different sizes and growing at the same slant as my bangs. What's worse than one poor kid walking out of the house looking like that? A matching pair of sisters, in the same outfits. :D</p>
<p>never had leather pants
I had a friend who the first time I met her she had leather pants on.
Cream colored leather pants at an( camping) overnight for our childrens school.
We didn't stay overnight ( just there for the campfire sing along)
They actually looked good on her- just too high fashion for Seattle
( the other moms and I admittedly snickered- we had on birkenstocks & levis )</p>
<p>Ive never had leather pants- several leather jackets- boots- etc
I did have a adorable mini skirt and vest outfit that I wore when I was 11 which probably could be described as pleather ;)
I was pretty hot stuff-
never did get that fringed suede jacket I lusted after though.....
( god I used to be a 3- but it was so long ago my favorite suit that I have hung on to reads by linda allard for Ellen tracy)
It was beautiful though</p>
<p>Thanks Slugg!!
However, I drank a glass of water and my weight ballooned by a pound and a half. I don't think tonight's neighborhood progressive dinner is going to help much. Not to mention half of the appetizers I was supposed to make ended up in my stomach (well.. that's an exaggeration, but you get my drift).</p>
<p>Slugg, crash, EK--
Your outfits sound <em>lovely</em>. Reminds me of a crocheted (sp???) vest I wore throughout HS that I think came back as a macrame plant-holder in another life.</p>
<p>I have leather pants. Two pair to be exact. ;) I'd like to get another pair that fit but those cows from the chik-fil-a ads have encircled the ranch.</p>
<p>OMG. Give me those leather pants and I will put them on my head. And wear them as the ceremonial badge indicating I have committed the terrible sin of too much worry and too much focus on achievement in my child. For those of you who are wondering what I am talking about, just trust me. And don't read any threads I might have started...</p>
<p>Seriously, SBMom, Marite, if you are here (I can't see, there's too much smoke, and the Kamikaze shot I downed immediately upon arrival is blurring my vision...) thanks for giving me the benefit of the doubt out there in the real cyber world. I will be here for a while, licking my wounds and reflecting on my sins....</p>
<p>Okay..is everyone in agreement? If a penance is owed in Sinner's Alley, we forget about the traditional sackcloth and ashes, and we have to wear leather pants on some part of our body? </p>
<p>Remember though, by passing through the doors, you have already received absolution. We had the portal blessed by a guy with credentials from all the religions of The Book, as well as Buddhist monks, Druid priestesses, Heathen Idolaters, Klingon Warrior chaplains, and several lesser-known, but highly colorful seekers-of-enlightenment. </p>
<p>C-mudge,
Do you think those Chick-fi-la cows might be PETA Ninjas? :eek:</p>
<p>(dodds, they look pretty radical to me.)</p>
<p>Alu, I tried to lay down in front of the train . I now have an imprint of the cowcatcher prominently displayed on my denim covered :eek: .</p>
<p>Don't worry about too much, alu. I've been there and done that publicly painful , and unfortunately for all of us .......I'll probably do it again.</p>
<p>In honor of alu this one night, and me most nights, and most of you on at least one night, I have created a new drink for the alley . The "virtual hairshirt". It's a shot of tequila with a tequila chaser. It's like Febreze for the CC soul. You come in feeling that your soul smells like burning cat fur and you leave...uhh... O.K.. Maybe you don't leave. At least you don't have to. ;)</p>
<p>I don't hang out here much (1/2 cocktail and you need to scrape me off the floor), but I'm buying the next round in honor of my D getting out 3 apps (ED reach, potential match & safety). Alumother, you're welcome to order a double ;)</p>
<p>Guys, I had my double waiting for me at the door. Cur, thanks for the laydown. I owe you one. </p>
<p>And I agree, those of us who offend the gods shall from now on don the ceremonial pair of leather pants in whatever way we can get them to stick as we down the tequila shot with tequila chaser and then do a brief repentent dance on the tables. Sybbie, get out those plastic baskets.</p>
<p>I figured out what happened in that other thread. There's an unspoken Commandment here on cc: thou shalt not raise thy voice too high in distress or in joy when thy child grabs the brass ring. Which I actually think is a great value, and one that allows cc to support us all in the sometimes painful and always painstaking task of selective college admissions. If this were a site full of people, as cheers said in the British vernacular, whinging about Bs at Princeton, it would not have the wonderful and addictive character that it does.</p>
<p>So I get it. I get why I got slapped, and I also got some good info from parents who have gone this route already about the data questions I had. </p>
<p>But I will reiterate here, before I plunge my face into my next tequila double (and yes it is 7:30am but have to take S to soccer), I really am a believer in all the Commandments of CC. There are many great places to go to college, it's all about fit, and don't use the cattle prod of shame to urge yet higher performance from your kids. The same tenets hold once they are actually IN college too.</p>
<p>Sayonara.</p>
<p>First of all I loved the leather pants ad. It has been a while since I have laughed so hard and so loud (Slugg, sounds like someone in you left in your trail of broken hearts before you settled down).</p>
<p>Hey alu,</p>
<p>I'll dance a jig with you any time (we'll just slip a set of baskets off of one of the other tables). The great thing about the alley is that it is always open and it is never too early to grap a drink.</p>
<p>Audiophile, come back, come back, not only because you don't hang with us oftern enough but because if things get really out of hands you and jym626 can perscribe the heavy duty drugs. </p>
<p>Thankfully things haven't gotten so bad that a good stiff drink can't take care of things.</p>