hoooooooooooly crap. i had no idea. that's terrible.

Two things:
1) where was the (NSFW) near those links? Now the IT guys are going to think I am some racist ass!

2) he isn't wearing boots, so maybe he is more like a doubled signified Blood?

Boots and braces don't make racist, oi,oi,oi!

Obv he doesn't think Joel is a racist, just that he hasn't been wikipedia-ing his fashion statements. But I mean doesn't he pay someone to do that for him?

And let's face it, your IT guys are just glad they know a lady.

I have never heard about that either. I am way out of the loop. He may be as stupid as I am and not know about that crap.

Or maybe he's just a fashion victim and trying to match his baby carrier. His shirt matches Nicoles dress as well. I hate when couples match. Badness.

LOL Sar, my husband is a network manager or something like that. It's all blah, blah, gibabytes, blah, blah, whatev.

They are kept in the basement were everyone refers to them as the dungeon masters.

Close, juju - He is as stupid as rachel thinks Cord is.

Sar: ha ha ha, true, my IT dudes love me. I just wanted to clarify that I don't think dear Bunnyballs thinks Joes is racist. The "boots and braces" comment is a just saying (you'll hear it at ska or punk shows) to remind ppl not all skinheads are white supremacists. Some of the first skinheads were actually Jamaicans living in England. The neo-Nazi groups have just co-opted it.

There's a fascinating article in this month's Rolling Stone about the anti-skinhead movement, FSU, and how they subsequently became violent.

And by FSU, I am NOT referring to my alma mater. ;)

Hey! Look how much I'm learning today! Didn't know that either…and didn't know that was a phrase.

And to be clear, I will not hear that phrase at ska or punk shows… if it doesn't happen at a Carole King concert, I don't know about it! :)

Cait, guess where I went to U? ::Chomping arms:: I may actually have to read RS this month. Usually I only pick it up to throw it at the boyfriend for leaving magazines all over the house. Stupid free subscriptions!

Wow, that's pretty stupid. I hope Joes is at least smart enough to close his mouth when it's raining to avoid drowning.

Speaking of RS, there was an anniversary article on GNR. 20 years since Appetite was released, siiigggh. How can it be?

I don't think that just because some deranged fringe group decides randomly to make this red laces symbolic to their group that everyone else should be forced to steer clear from wearing it. I mean they think that white laces also means white supremacy, and how many people in the world go around wearing white laces in their shoes? Let's not be ridiculous enough to acknowledge their claim over these things.

I know, the cover looks awesome. Oh, Axl, you break my heart!

b515…The voice of reason interjects.

That was a little too sensible of a comment for my taste.

I need a Xenu sized Tom-ba Juice.

I agree b515, I'll wear what I want. Except white laces in my boots. Well, any other color 'cept black. But for my kicks, I'll wear whatever color I want!

Is there a Super Xenu sized TJ?

Duh, of course there is. It comes in a can shaped like L Ron Hubbard.

Axl really needs to let those cornrows go and hit the treadmill. Last time I saw him sing it looked lke he needed to sit down and take a cat nap. Don't strain yourself grandpa.

Yeah, I was glad he was in baggy clothes. No more leather for him. Duff, on the other hand, and surprisingly, can wear them all day, every day.

I think his skin is allergic to anything but leather. I don't think Axl will be rocking the bike shorts anymore. That gawd.

Ha! I teared up when the statue of Bobby Bowden was unveiled at FSU. ;)

I was always a fan of Slash…god he was the coolest. And still is.
Appetite was the first tape I owned :-)

Gah, cassette tapes. The worse was when you saved up all your babysitting money to buy that new cassette. You'd play it and your frigging tape player would eat it.

Some a hole would always say, maybe tape deck needs to be cleaned? Bite me! That never worked and your tape was gone. Sorry, old lady flashback. And now I can say to my kids. Back in my day we didn't have any of these fancy ipods

BeA: he def had the cool smoking effect down. How he didn't send his hair up in flames I will never know. I would steal my brother's Appetite tape. That and his Bobby Brown (though not as often, it was too dirty for mom to catch me with!)

WOO HOOO! The word Bowden gets me pumped!!!!

(singing) Waaaaaar EA GLE fly down the field! SOMETHING TO SOMETHING, NEVER TO YIELD! WAR EAGLE SOMETHING AND TRUE! Fight on you orange and blue GO GO GO oooonnnn to vic'try strike up the band, GIVE EM HECK GIVE EM HECK stand up AND YECK, HEY!!!! Warrrrr eagle win for auburn SOMETHING of Dix ie laaaaand!

Yes, you're welcome. I'd sing the Samford song if I knew it, but since I was an actual student there, I never learned it.

I wonder what ever happened to Tape World?

::chomp, chomp::

I still have all my old cassette tapes. Well, the one's that didn't get eaten. I used to make fun of my dad for saving his 8 tracks.

Maybe one day they'll come back. And when it does, I'll be ready with my original Great White cassettes.

SHUT UP. You knew Great White was a band before the big incident?

I was not allowed to have George Michael's Faith tape…I threw a fit in Musicland about that one…parents did let me get Janet Jackson 1814, (which was just as scandalous…)

I am just old enough to have all their tapes. And I'm not ashamed people, NOT ASHAMED. I have all the whites.

White Zombie
White Lion
White Snake
Great White, the white is second but it still counts.

Hooray! Time For Another Shameful Revelation!

My first CD was New Kids on the Block. My dad heard it and came in my room… after about 10 seconds of straining his ear, he said "IS THAT THE NEW BOYS ON THE STREET." …uh… yes dad. "TAKE THAT CD BACK TO THE STORE."

I exchanged it for an oldies compilation, and while my friends were frenching their posters of Jordan, I learned all the words to Little GTO.

Sar, I prolly shouldn't mention that I'm going up to Auburn over Labor Day weekend to see K-State play the War Eagles. ;)

I'll be lovin Joey-Joe McIntyre 4-eva :-)

You got the right stuff. Would it be embarrasing to admit you watched their videos with your friends and memorized the dances?

OHHH! SO JEALOUS Cait!!! Gov. Riley should have had us pray for me some gas money while he was at it with the rain.

BeA, a girl in my class swore she and joey mcintyre were cousins and that they were dating. I don't know why we thought that was cool, but she was the elementary school hero for a while.

My Girl Scout troop totally stalked NKOTB in 1989 when they came to Pensacola. The jhorts-wearer does a mean "Hangin' Tough" at karaoke.

It's not embarassing if you were good at them!! Oh-Oh O O O, Oh-Oh O O!

Ewwww! I met Donnie Wahl briefly, he was the only one nice enough to sign autographs (yeah yeah I was THAT obsessed)… Oh juju Great White kicked some too :-)

I have to say, I loathed NKOTB. I had more sense as a child than I do now. I did, however, buy the Weird Al tape that had "the White Stuff" on it. I still know the words.

Remember those HUGE buttons? Like frisbee sized if I remember right.

My brother used to wake me up to Autograph and Twisted Sister. This is why I eventually bucked the trend and got into the Pixies and R.E.M. whilst everyone else signed their names as Missy McIntire in their Lisa Frank Trapper Keepers.

I had the best Roger Rabbit of the bunch. My Cabbage Patch needed some work.

LOL, dating your cousin is always a good way to get into the cool group.

OMG I forgot about those…consider yourself lucky to avoid the shame LisaNo1 (umm glad you kept that name by the way! :-)

Maybe in Arkansas it is, Juju…

I had the cool, Choose Life, t shirts. It was my way of showing George Michael how much I loved him. Such is the story of my life

Oh I liked cool groups too…LOVED the Cure and REM…I still had a penchant for shit music too though (Cait your jhorts friend and I should have a karaoke-off, I do a mean NKOTB as well)

I had the huge buttons!!! The biggest one had joey-joe on it, which was disappointing for me because i was into Jon. I always root for the underdog.

I have sincere respect for juju's collection of "white" bands and lisa's lucky childhood musical tastes. Lisa, the first Weird Al song I ever heard was about Patterns, and they showed it on that PBS show Square One… which I loved more than life itself.

AAA HA HA HA juju!! I Roger Rabbited right off a stage once, leading to ummm some minor injuries.

BeA: I am totally going to see the Cure in Sept. I heart Robert Smith. Whenever he wants to be cute the boyf says "thank you" like RS. gets me every time.

I am confused by the whole name keeping thing, but hey! Anything for approval!

Question to Sar: did you wear buttons on your pant legs?

gahahahahaah. That dance is dangerous for school shows. Some dude fell off stage doing that for our school talent show.

They were a breakdancing troupe. OMG, that was an awesome flashback. AWESOME, I TELL YOU.

My favorite Al song is Eat it. Get yourself and egg and beat it.

I used to work at JC Penny's and we had this NKOTB section. T shirts, buttons, hats, the works. Part of my job was cleaning that section. At first I loved it.

But all those dumb hussy's would come by and mess it all up. That's when my love turned to hate. When you have to hear 100 arguments over which Knight was hotter, you start to hate.

Then y'all must clearly come to New Orleans, so that we can test your karaoke mettle at The Cat's Meow.

Poor juju! For reals, there's no argument there anyway. Jordan sings like a girl! Oh… except not now. Now it's more of a crackhead baby daddy vibe.

Lisa, what pant legs?? You couldn't possibly expect me to wear buttons on the turquoise biker shorts I wore under my 3-tiered "ultra colors" esprit skirt??

Is that a fun karaoke place? I LOVE those….Lisa wasn't there another Lisa on here @ one point too? Anyways, whatever :-)

Oh you were one of THOSE! So when you wore your two pairs of slouchy socks, did you alternate colors (pink, yellow on the right, yellow pink on the left) or did you keep it even (yellow-pink, yellow-pink)?

Remember the tight ass-Guess jeans that zipped at the ankles that were like $100 back THEN??? I coveted.

BeA: yeah there was! I forgot about her! I am just sad I had to lose the "#"

My brother and I used to have #1 wars. We would sign our name-#1 on eachothers notebooks and stuff. The key was to do it so the other person would find it way after the fact. To this day we still hide one in cards we send to eachother.

I did both, Lisa, and when I pulled the switch up it made me feel like I was Punky Brewster, and I loved it. :) I can't believe you knew about the pink and yellow. I also had two sets of the purple and teal combo.

Be Adequite, I got those jeans as handmedowns from this wicked awesome girl with giant bangs. She also gave me all 3 of my prized Hypercolor shirts. NOTE: I would DEFINITELY STILL WEAR THOSE.

Lisa that's precious!

Sar, those are the classic color combos. So I just remembered this girl, she would wear a white Body Glove shirt (huge black logo on the back) with a cow print skirt that was chiffon-ish (sort of see through) and black biker shorts with keds. Even then, I knew that sucked. Hyper color was where it was at. Except I was poor and had a broke-ass hypercolor that didn't work right anymore.

Reeboks of La Gear? I had to do the ankle roll. I wore the La Gears. I also wore them with my leg warmers when I would do the 20 minute workout. Anybody remember that show? It was borderline soft porn.

OMG Lisa, this guy I had a huuuuuuge crush on left his at my house. I would walk around with it on becuase it smelled like him.

I finally washed it becuase I felt like a stalker. But the more you washed it the less it worked.

Is the 20 minute workout the one where the girls had crimped hair? I seem to remember a lot of leg lifts.

I took my sister to an NKOTB concert and had to buy a Danny t-shirt for my other sister. People laughed at me. I was so ashamed.

The Cat's Meow is just there on Bourbon Street. It's fabulous.

That's the show. And they had a lot of crotch shots. Not to mention leotards and leg warmers, good times.

I would be too, DANNY!!!! He was like the Tori Spelling of NKOTB.

I KNOW. It was mortifying. I had NKOTB sheets, even though I was waaay too old to be playing that game. But the dudes were cute! My friend and I used to watch the cartoon. Jesus, I was a late bloomer.

Haha do you remember the SNL Tori Spelling impression from way back? That girl with the big chin did it….

I so remember that!

My favorite SNL sketches from that period were the Farley/Spade Gap Girl sketches.

"If you like them so much, why don't you MARRY them?"

Cinch it, just cinch it.

Now is the part of the show where I call Denise and hang up.

I decided years ago that you can relate every situation to an episode from Seinfeld or a skit on SNL.

Didn't Denise show up - wasn't it like Shannon Doherety or soemthing?

How is Tom-ba Juice like one of those?

Oh! I know! "You like-a de juice?"

Submitted for company slogan!!

Ha ha ha ha. Seconded!

I third, it's unanimous. If you disagree take it up with the chairman. You know what happens when you go against the chairman.

Marketing will take it under advisement.

You guys have a great weekend! I am Audie 5K, G!

Me too - I used today like a Saturday, so tomorrow I am doing Friday's work!

crap, i used to have red shoelaces because i thought they looked cool…….. at least i know better now. haha

I just had to comment…I don't think red laces have any hateful significance unless they are in DOCS. Chuck Taylors (what that guy up there is wearing on his feet) are soft, peaceable shoes unsuitable for kicking anyone.
Please don't assume that the kid you see with red laces is a skinhead. They probably just like red, and red/white/black is a classic punk and wannabepunk combo.