Conference back40::soapbox

 Ditto

I haven't read my TV Guide yet this week. Of what do ye all yammer?

    Video swimsuit edition or the making of the swimsuit edition, son of
    swimsuit edition, return of the swimsuit edition?  

    
    I've seen far worse on TV. It is their biggest selling issue of the
    year, and their models are always top notch.
    
    IMO
    
    Mark

    
      You mean , "Baywatch, without the, um, acting ?"
    
      bb

    
    There is a time for everything.
    
    								-mr. bill

    Well, if this note is about tackiness, then I'd say there's a lot of
    candidates, but near the top of my list would be:
    
    - telemarketers and sales people who use the obituaries as a source of
      leads (hit up surviving relatives for "financial services", etc.)

    -b

    
    I didn't even watch the Sport's Illustrated show last night, though
    their were quite a few leadins from earlier programs. I wonder who
    made the cover this year??  My guess would be Judit Masco, or Stephanie
    Seymour.
    
    Mark

	I forget WHO made it, but I know she was on the Today show yesterday
morning.


Glen

    the si show was probably tacky, i don't know.  i have a life and so
    didn't watch it.
    
    even tackier, however, must be admitting that you watched it.

    
    The ones who watched it musta been those that struck out vis.
    Valentine's Day...
    
     At least they couldn't use the excuse...
    
    "I'm just watching it for the article, dear"
    

>    "I'm just watching it for the article, dear"
    
I'm sure they used "a", "an" and "the" more than once.

    
    
    I saw some of it while channel surfing.  It was definitely empty TV.
    
    

    
    
    	Daniela cantthinkofherlastname  is the cover model this
    	year....
    

 didn't watch it..wouldn't have watched it had I had the TV on then.





Jim

    
    Embroidered cushions from Niagara Falls.
    
    Upholstered furniture with metallic gold highlights.
    
    Imitation wood panelling.
    
    Wallpaper with an imitation wood panelling pattern.
    

    Elvis memorabilia
    
    Paintings on velvet
    
    Art works purchased from a movie theatre lobby
    
    Various lawn ornaments (jockeys, flamingos, etc.)
    
    Statues of Mary and Jesus that make them look like they're standing
    in an upright bathtub.
    
    There's a guy in my hometown (Millbury Mass) that has rocket shells
    atop cement columns, with chains between the columns with hand-
    grenades dangling from the chains, all painted red white and blue...
    now _that's_ tacky.
    
    -b

    cocking board loaded with tacks

    
    .19 
    
    er Glenn or Leslie or Diedre etc.. what pray tell is a cocking board??
    I don't believe I've ever heard of the term. I must live a sheltered
    life......
    
    Mark

	Nah.....Mark, you just missed the last bash, that's all.... :-)

    
    
    	The definition of tacky are those damned annoying talk shows! Ack!
    They court officer turned them on while we all waited in the jury pool
    yesterday. I've never seen a more idiotic display of childish crap in
    all my life. People who watch those stupid things need to get a life...
    
    
    IMHO,
    
    jim

    Anything by "the Franklin Mint"
    
    Richard Claderman and Zamfir
    
    The sets they use on TBN
    
    Home Shopping Club, etc.
    
    Over-use of costume jewelry (a particularly nauseating thing in my
    opinion)
    
    Going to Chinese restaurants and never eating anything more
    adventurous than a Poo Poo Platter (known by the derogitory
    phrase "Qui Lo" to the Chinese)
    
    -b

>					those damned annoying talk shows! Ack!
>    They court officer turned them on while we all waited in the jury pool
>    yesterday.

I wouldn't have thought they'd be allowed to do that to people in a civilized
society . . . 

    
    
    	You think we're civilized?
    
    

    
    
    YOU got tv while waiting in the jury pool???  i was stuck with just the
    book i brought along...
    
    (by the way, whoever mentioned it, i have wood(lookalike, i am sure)
    panelling in my apartment (not that i had any choice) and i also own
    (but do not display at this point in time) 2 velvet paintings...one has
    mickey mouse on it, and the other has minnie mouse on it...it was a
    gift i received from my daddy about 15 years ago when he had gone out
    to visit my cousin in california...and one day, when there are
    children running around my house (probably trying to avoid a light 
    spanking), they will be displayed...
    
    so there...i'm taqy...
    
    hope yer happy...
    
    

    One of the tackiest things I ever saw on TV was the New Jersey
    Housewives tag team on the "Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling" show.
    No doubt I rambled on at length about this in some past box or
    in the old TV conference, but in a nutshell:
    
    Two women dressed up in old bathrobes, curlers, kerchiefs, cold cream,
    slippers, etc., would come into the ring, dragging a cartfull of
    small housework equipment, soaps, etc., and proceed to attack their
    opponents with these housecleaning materials, all the while
    keeping up a steady stream of gossip and over-the-fence banter
    with each other.
    
    The "climax" of the bout would invariably come when one of the
    housewives started to pin the hapless opponent, and then pulled
    out a large plumber's helper, affixed it firmly to the face of
    the poor slob, and pumped for all she was worth, again whilst
    chatting to her teammate about the price of fish at Joe's Market.
    
    I'll admit to being "meta-entertained" by this bizarre spectacle,
    mainly because it so perfectly displayed how weird this society
    has gotten, which for some perverted reason makes me laugh.  I used
    to find the *old* Howard Stern TV show funny (and tacky) for the same
    reason; sort of a "look at what we've become" thing.  Now he's mostly
    boring, though.
    
    Chris

And, you know what, Chris? That was all real - not staged.

    
    Well Raq...y'know...there's `tacky' and then there's `taqy'.  ;^)
    
    jc
    

    
    
    {beam}
    
    
    thanqyou... 
    
    :>
    
    

I haven't seen any photos (thank you so much),
but I'd imagine that Roseanne No-Last-Name's 
wedding in Vegas on Valentine's Day probably
approached Ultimate Tacky.

	Joanne, her dress was DEFINITELY taqy.....

    
    I saw a brief clip on the news, and she was almost unrecognizable with
    the amount of makeup she was wearing.
    
    Didn't look too bad, really 8^).

    Jim Baker is now out of jail and preaching again (and has people
    glad that he is!).
    
    Oh, maybe this belongs in the whacky news briefs note...
    
    Chip

    Bakker.

    i see nothing tacky with SI swimsuit specials
    
    i'm just disgusted we don't get them over here
    
    ric

    .35 thanks...

He preached at the funeral of his former sidekick (?) "Uncle Henry."
He said he wasn't planning to resume his ministry.

    .33 ..she was almost unrecognizable with the makeup...
    
    THAT'S an improvement!  Poor guy she married, he's got to look at her
    early in the morning and be able to say (with a straight face), "You
    look lovely my dear". Think he will be able to pull it off?

| <<< Note 295.39 by GMASEC::CLARK >>>


| .33 ..she was almost unrecognizable with the makeup...

| THAT'S an improvement!  Poor guy she married, he's got to look at her
| early in the morning and be able to say (with a straight face), "You
| look lovely my dear". Think he will be able to pull it off?

	If she wears enough make-up he will be able to pull it off... :-0

    Bathroom clocks in the shape of a toilet seat cover.
    
                        DJ

    Tacky:  ads and/or intros for WRKO's Howie Carr Show's "coverage"
    of the Colin Ferguson trial.  They feature a pitchman excitedly
    imploring you along the lines of "Forget the Juice!  Who cares
    about Kato the Dog?  Get into this Colin Ferguson character!
    He's freakin' INSAAAYYYYNE!" and so on.  Makes even me uncomfortable.
    
    Chris

    Fuzzy toilet seat covers. The scourge of the baby boom bathroom and the
    cause of many accidents. Those things tip the balance of the seat cover
    and have caused me to do body contortions while relieving myself. You
    try propping up the seat cover with one knee and you'll understand what
    I'm on about!

    Glenn

    What's worse is when the toilet seat decides it doesn't want to
    stay up anymore and suddenly goes into guillotine mode... if
    ya' know what I mean...
    
    -b

    That's why I use my knee.

    
    to wee

    No, my knee.
    
    I prop up the tippy seat cover with my knee.

    
    gee...i'm taqy again...i have a toilet seat cover... :<
    
    it was sort of necessary to cover up the color of the color...didn't go
    with the scheme i had finally decided on, and i am NOT buying a new
    cover...
    
    

    Here's the thing, ladies put those things on the toilet seat cause they
    always have their lovely little bottoms to plant there in such a way
    as the cover never falls, oblivious to the near lethal consequences
    if the seat falls while some poor myns is doing his  #1 business.
    
    And then you'all get mad at our aim when we have to use all available
    limbs to keep the cover up...
    
    -b

    	Ever consider that women put on toilet cover seats so that, by 
    	virtue of the fact that the covers keep making the toilet seat 
    	shut when opened, they always find the seat down when they need 
    	to use the facilities?

    .51
    
    that never occurred to me - probably because i always put the cover
    down.  the sight of an open toilet is not aesthetically pleasing to me.

	.53 not your every-day, run-of-the-mill, garden-variety
	type man, our richard.  ;>

    Diane:
    
    Is it a velcro seat?!

	it's possible to get covers that don't make the seat cover fall.
	i have one, in fact.