Letters to the Editor
Allie_
Published Letters: 1252 Editor's Choice: 109
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re: JennyCox
[Read the article: Wedding trashers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're sweet.
I'm not. Most of the time at weddings, I'm laughing inside at the four bridesmaids in slinky black cocktail dresses doing a pavane down the aisle like backup dancers for a Motown revival, shaking my head in wonder that anyone thought we really needed to hear 45 minutes of the bride and groom explaining exactly how they love each other and how they intend to love each other in the future, thanking God that Episcopalians have a short service, and praying God doesn't strike me dead for thinking these thoughts.
The principals are almost certainly people I would never socialize with except at a wedding, for the simple reason that very few people have 200 intimate friends, so the chances of me being one of the 10 intimate friends as opposed to the fill the church with warm bodies and complete our dinner service friends is very slim.
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BMI and body fat
[Read the article: Big momma's house]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Okay, here are the numbers.
6'5" and 215 gives you a BMI of 25.5, aka overweight. However, you say you have a body fat percentage of 8.5. That is possible, but only if you're a full-time bodybuilder.
Since I happen to know your hobby is trolling Salon, not bodybuilding, I respectfully decline to believe you.
Didn't you say somewhere else that you are 61 years old? Or was that someone else?
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re: AKA Smith
[Read the article: Big momma's house]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm not sure I agree. Ben defends all males against all females at all times, not sex offenders in particular. He'd be just as happy defending men who murder women.
I thought I might have been onto something with the anorexia - it's typical of anorexics to make weight into an issue of virtue, so that they can feel more virtuous than others. But given the unlikelihood of Ben's self-reported stats, I suspect he's not anorexic, just lying.
What I wonder is what he gets out of coming here. I find productive dialogue stimulating; I find being mean to people boring. If I were forced at gunpoint to spend several hours a day thinking up insults and posting them on the internet, I would find it pretty dull.
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are you a pathological liar, or merely someone who suffers from an attention disorder?
[Read the article: Tucker, Jonah, Elizabeth and Jillian]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am glad to see you Allie, and Karen M are admiting that supporting Israel is the reason "people" are attacking us. What people, do you think? I'll give you a hint, its the same as the Asian men seen running out of the burning car in front of Scotland Airport.
I would just like to point out that I STILL haven't commented on Israel in any of my posts, except to say that I haven't commented on Israel and you have confused me with someone else.
Yes, I am arrogant and elitist. I think I'm better than people who don't bother to read.
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re: flyover
[Read the article: Wedding trashers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's not that hard to lengthen a dress. Most wedding dresses are hemmed with extra fabric in the hem for just this reason. Failing that, it's possible to add a hem treatment. I've been a seamstress off and on over the years, and I've altered many wedding dresses to bring them up to date - remove the sleeves, fill in with lace, add gores, remove bustles and boning, etc. One dress went from 1895 to 1935 (remove bustle, add shoulder pads) then from 1935 to 1995 (remove shoulder pads, remove sleeves, completely rework the line of the torso.) The bride was pleased to wear her grandmother and great-grandmother's dress, and it made her mom say she regretted her decision to forgo a formal wedding.
The classic school play which requires a wedding dress is Sound of Music. Of course, today's sleeveless dresses don't look like any other wedding dresses in the history of costume, so the typical modern wedding dress won't work.
I know of one dedicated wedding dress reseller and two high-end resellers which handle wedding dresses in my small suburb of Memphis. These are not "thrift shops," the dresses are in bags where shoppers don't "paw" them, and the women who run the store assist people in trying on garments even if they don't happen to be wedding dresses. If you don't have such a store in your town, it's easy as pie to sell your dress on ebay.
What I find offensive isn't so much the trashing of the dress as the thought behind it - the title of the article refers to "Bride rage." There's an easy way to avoid bride rage - if marriage inspires rage in you, don't get married. I have zero sympathy for people who chose to make themselves miserable.
The brides who have informal photos taken in their wedding dresses without damaging them aren't really participating in "trash your dress" sessions, are they? Nevertheless, "I want to be a fashion model for a day" isn't a sentiment which has anything whatsoever to do with getting married.
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I second the comment on the tushies
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Geez. It was fascinating for about ten seconds. Now I feel like I'm being mooned by an entire college campus.
At least these ads don't make loud noises every time I accidentally brush my cursor over them. (Although it's amusing to speculate about what sound effect would be appropriate.)