azraelle

Isn't that a kind of smoked cheese?

My word:

Caster

See the [partially autobiographical] Prince movie Purple Rainfor identification of Apolonia (I probably misspelled her name--she is[was] one hot ChickeeBabe (my word contribution today!)

GAWD! Monty Python sucks raw thousand day old eggs. It's right up there on my list of the very worst flicks of all time along with Buckaroo Banzai... PLEEZE, LET THIS THREAD DIE THE QUIET DEATH IT SO RICHLY DESERVES! :x (you need one of the little yellow face being gagged with a spoon)

I liked The Sweetest Thing. Lots of heels, hip hugger pants, great acting, one of the funniest plots I've ever come across...

If not pauper, then how about Apolonia?

PT Cruiser is the "cat's meow" for me, though it'll be a cold day in Hell when the devil comes skating in on the ice (in heels) B4 I'll be able to afford one, as also my other favorite "car" the Hummer. The new VW Bug isn't too bad though, especially in bright yellow!! A Hearse would be OK if it was painted in some lovely colour like candy apple burgundy, purple, red, or royal blue, or perhaps some combination of these!!

Because I wear PH under pants 100% of the time, runs don't destroy their usefulness, esp. if "repaired" quickly with nail polish. That said, I have several pairs of light support, reinforced toe Just My Size by Hanes that I have worn countless times for upwards of 3 years. From a woman's point of view (at least a woman fond of dresses) they are too "ragged" to be useful. But for me....And since I like the feel of the nylon/lycra on my legs, when the toes are too uselless to wear anymore, I cut them off, and wear them under my "toe socks", of which I have quite a bunch, Walmart having had a winter clearance sale on very thick well-made glitter toe socks (for women, naturally) at $2 per pair.

I have discovered quite recently that hosiery holds up much better if the toe seam is put on "vertically" from under the big toe overit and along the top of it, instead of laying it "horizontally" over the tips of all the toes together. This is NOT intuitive!

...but those Bronx "Banshee" pointy high heel ankle boots are absolutely gorgeous to wear...

A shoe named BANSHEE?

I'M SAVED!!!! azraelle (actually "azrael")="angel of death" in Hebrew & Arabic, or so I was told. "angel of death"~="banshee"!

IF I were to ever wear RED spikes in public, these would be the ones (over tight breeches of course!)

The chance of that happening is about the same as the proverbial snowball surviving in Hell, though!

So what are you saying Jim? Are you saying that we should go out tooled up just because the other guy is?

DUH!

OK law enforcement isn't quite what it should be, particularly here in the UK at the moment...

The understatement of the year from what I've been hearing--violent crime is now the highest in the civilized world in GB, coincidentally having shot through the roof after GB confiscated most of the meager guns then remaining in private hands. I wonder if the two could be related somehow??

(Like, does the would-be robber/rapist/? say to himself "Gee, what are the chances now of the citizen I'm about to mug of defending him/herself with a loaded gun?"). But I'm sure that such logic never enters the heads of the criminally derranged. Yeah Right!

Ahhhh :drinking: its not the SHOE that turneth thee on, its the SKIN, aka the BARE HEEL!!! :rofl:

the cracking sound you hear is me walking on eggs here, when i make this suggestion to Chris Hip-Hugger -> HipHugHer

EH?!

???

Are you, as a ficticious example, suggesting that somewhere out on the ethernet, that your favorite pump or boot model is titled 'Laurie' or 'Lara' or some such by it's manufacturer in their on-line catalog? Or that FireFox's favorite is either one named 'fire' or 'foxy'? Or that mine might be 'banshee' or 'grim reaper' or???

HMMMMM

A bizarre thought.

In my particular case, though, thanks to my parents being from Utah (the KIng of places with people with wierd names), you might, JUST, find one or more of my rather androgynous given names applied to one or more women's shoe models--'Alma' or 'Jo(e)'!

Last night I was interviewed on-camera by a roving TV news patrol about Iraq. The subject came up as to whether Saddam should remain, and if not, whose responsibility it should be to take him out. I said it should be done by the Iraqis themselves--with our support. I then added that if we had supported the Kurds back in 1991, we wouldn't be worrying about Saddam now. That really set them back on their pins--one of the newscasters said "He has a point!" Could it be that George Jr. is taking care of something that he has been ashamed that his dad didn't do when he had the chance? George Sr., and later Bill Clinton, knew what kind of a shellacking the Kurds were getting by Saddam's forces, essentially as payback for their covert support for our intelligence-gathering during the Gulf War, yet they steadfastly refused to do anything about it other than occasionally supporting the "no fly zone" in the northern part of Iraq, where the majority of Kurds lived. Yet another case of the stupidity of allying yourself with the USA, whose policies are likely to change in 4, or if you're very lucky, 8 years.

I realize that you are out to please YOU (and maybe the "main squeeze" as well) so I'm way off base here, but I was hoping you'd consider buying more JEANS as well as boots. If you buy cotton/lycra denim, they're not only comfortable, even when they are "skin tight", but they look (the English language doesn't posess a profound enough word for this) as well!

The worst surface I've had to deal with as far as danger of slipping is concerned is at the local WalMart late at night right after they have waxed and buffed the floor! :x

someone has to come up with a fairly good sum to work out just what that angle is or even have it regarded as a severity level. Anyone got a formula worked out?

As I said B4 elsewhere, it depends on whether a "heel shelf" of a somewhat shallower angle is present or not.

...and of course, the boots were the only thing to wear. They do go quite well with jeans. Maybe one day I'll have to get a picture taken.

And it took you how long to figure this out???

When they started putting lycra in denim, it changed everything. And boots...ahh boots. Well, what can I say that you haven't?

Why not use the Chinese characters for left and right, respectively? Or if you're really stuck on Runes, use their wicca divination meanings.

Quinoa. I just gotta get outta these "hideous kinky" slingbacks--they are so "B-Ugly"!

Has anyone (M or F) had the "pleasure" of a full-body wax, regular or "Brazillian" style? Or for that matter, a salon-administered leg waxing? What was your experience(s) like? Would (did) you do it again? Was it embarrasing (males at least)? Was it worth the pain? Been thinking of getting one for a while now...

An update (from pg4, 5/27/02)

Complete this short quiz...

Name: Alma (twas my great uncle's name!)

Age: 50

Gender: M

Location: extreme SW Utah, USA

Occupation: p/t computer tech, f/t 2nd-time college student (network administration); former long-haul truck driver (2yrs), former radiation control technician at the US' underground nuclear weapons testing facility in Nevada (12+yrs), former army captain in Nuclear/Biological/Chemical warfare defense (7yrs).

Height: 75 inches/190.5 cm

Weight: 235 lbs/107 kg (I've lost 15 lbs over last 6 months!)

Shoe size: ~12D/13B US (women's)/45-46 EUR, but can wear some size 11's comfortably if the heel is ~4" or so

What's your favourite heel style: narrow block, with about 1"/6-7 sq cm heel tip

What's your favourite shoe style: suede knee or ankle boots, preferably some other color than black!

Do you wear your heels outside: YES--under extra long inseam girl's hip-hugger jeans or dress pants, which are thankfully back in style.

What is:

(a) Your favourite heel height: 4"/~10 cm

( Your highest heel height: the same (4-3/4" heeled boots on order)

How often do you wear:

(a) Your favourite heel height: nearly every day for the past 3 months, 12-14 hrs/day

( Your highest heel height: ditto

Do you wear socks, hose, stockings or bare feet with your shoes: pantihose or thi-tops, often with a cotton anklet for extra padding. "Toe socks" ocasionally instead, to keep my toes from getting too pointed and deformed.

Anything else you wish to add: Moderate (less than 1") platforms are best for us heavyweights--extra shock absorption. I took up heel wearing (in public at least) because a bad knee forced me to wear a hi-heel (or block of wood under the heel) on my accelerator pedal foot, when I drove long distances, and I got tired of changing out every time I got out of the vehicle! Will buy/wear any style pants or shirts/blouses (M or F) that has stylistic or fabric appeal, and that I think I can get away with (peasant blouses, halter tops, etc. are obviously out); I prefer to be perceived as a guy with an strange taste in fashion, not as a guy in women's clothes. I also have been known to sew my own clothes, and some for my daughters, as well, although my ex-wife was much better at it (when I was a rad-tech, I lived weekdays in a dorm ~175 miles from home, and had to have something to pass away my off-duty hours).

Opinions are like ass-holes--everybody has one!

Dr.Shoe wrote:

...the Bush family are oil men.

This is illustrative of the attitude of Dr. Shoe that incenses me more than anything else he says. Everybody has to make a living by one means or another (even the Queen of England!). Just because George Bush Sr.'s father made a good portion of the family's wealth from oil speculation doesn't mean that the entire Bush clan are driven politically by OIL!! And even if it were true, Big Oil is no worse a villain than several others I could name, and less than still others (fundamentalist Muslim attitudes towards women and the atrocities that have been and still are being perpetrated by Muslim males in the name of "religion" comes to mind).

You seem to have the opinion that everyone from Texas (the second-largest state in the US) has nothing on their political minds but oil. Let's see now, the DeBeers family has a Great Britain-sanctioned monopoly on 99+% of the world's gem-quality diamonds, and ~70% of the industrial-grade diamonds. The government of Great Britain has stood by this monopoly for at least 130 years. It could well be argued that the government of Great Britain is therefore driven politically by protecting the monopoly-cooperating sources of diamonds, and their governments at all costs. Is this why South Africa was tacitly allowed to get away with Apartheid for so long? Or why Russia still qualifies for World Bank loans, tit for tat, for their cooperation in not dumping Russian diamonds on the open market for an economic "quick fix"?

Equally possible scenarios to your allegations that George Bush Jr. is only after Saddam Hussein to gain control of Iraq's oil. While I believe that J-Turbo is WAYYY OUT IN LEFT FIELD with his castigation of your opinions, Dr.Shoe, I also feel that you are also full of B.S. (and perhaps a bit of envy as well) when it comes to your opinions of what the real motivation is behind the US coalition wanting to topple the Saddam regime. Get over it!! Both of you.

Well, I don't think Curves for men are going to hit the mainstream for me. Kinda odd, one day will men be comparing breast size?

It could happen! It is already very common for male wannabe body builders who have used steroids or steroid-like substances to talk about each other's "side effects" including, among other things, "'roid rages" (steroid-induced PMS?), and enlarged mammary glands (I forget what the corny slang term is for them).

I have to admit that the look of the male model IS rather "fetching", but it won't catch on if combined with other feminine attire, including hi-heels, at least in the short run, in my opinion--that would be "over the top" as you Brits would say. Also, it would look terrible on a fat man (like me ) but probably no worse than on a fat woman! Progress in men's fashion will continue to be, as my dad used to say, "steady by jerks" (a little at a time).

Worn eye makeup (in public), particularly eye liner and/or mascara, perhaps with a bit of beige or light brown shadow? The idea being to subtly enhance the eyes if, for example you have a narrow nose or deep set eyes (or in my case both ), not the gaudy/garish way that many TV's seem to favor. I have been experimenting along those lines (e.g. subtle enhancement). Would you (or have you) ever done the same thing with your face (the non-shaving part of it, particularly)--for example to enhance otherwise non-existent cheekbones, or to reduce prominent eye ridges? All of this with the idea being (as with most women) to produce the effect without it being obvious that you are wearing makeup--my daughter has perfected this to an art form--she says she learned it all from magazines such as "17" and thru experimentation. Just curious.

Sabine... What an interesting name!