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BillyPilgrimisnotmylover
05/20/09

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I don't know. A push for plus-sized mannequins when there's much progress in the real-life puls-sized cover models seems a plastic victory.
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thesciencegirl
05/20/09

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This was my favorite movie as a child. I even wrote a song about it for the girl band my sisters and I formed.
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Santos L Halper
05/20/09

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Decapitation is soooo 1997. Heads and ambiguous genitalia are the new black, people.
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hortense
05/20/09

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Well hocus pocus alamagocus!
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BAngieB
05/20/09

@hortense: You know I would never interrupt you when you're getting a piece of wood...
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dreamweave
05/20/09

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This is great news. I can cancel the headen-dectomy I had scheduled for this afternoon.
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HuckleberryFriend
05/20/09

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All I can think of is "I call her...Elaine"

Yes, I need to watch more TV from this decade.
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stealthird
05/20/09

@HuckleberryFriend: No you don't. Seinfeld reruns are far better than just about anything else on TV. Besides The Tudors, that is.
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Mafalda para Presidente
05/20/09

@HuckleberryFriend: I was about to say something about that episode but you beat me to it! I still watch Seinfeld reruns, yes. Better than most current sitcoms on TV.
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Annabellie
05/20/09

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Plus-sized mannequins with heads! It's revolutionary! But will it sell clothing?
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pax
05/20/09

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It's a hellhole. Three motels and a mannequin factory.

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VioletBeauregarde: Party Pooper Extraordinaire
05/20/09

@pax: Only the greatest Micheal Douglas movie EVER. Wonder Boys.
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pax
05/20/09

@VioletBeauregarde: Party Pooper Extraordinaire: You get a shiny red heart. It's my favorite movie. Robert Downey Jr. is such a total heartbreaking babe in it, too, as is Tobey Maguire.
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suck_it_monkeys
05/20/09

@pax:That movie KILLS me. Love it so much.
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birminghamdrunk
05/20/09

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i vote that we stop using the phrase "plus size" and replace it just "normal size."

that is what the mean, isn't it? /rhetorical
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birminghamdrunk
05/20/09

@birminghamdrunk: what THEY mean.

comment FAIL.
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Aesop's Foibles. YES.
05/20/09

@birminghamdrunk: You've got my vote on that one. Plus what? Plus....a few numbers? I don't get it.

Normal Sized FTW.
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thePrototype
05/20/09

@birminghamdrunk: but wouldn't calling something 'normal' then mean that those that are not that size are 'abnormal'?
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birminghamdrunk
05/20/09

@thePrototype: if you want to look at it that way. but in my opinion there's a huge scape of what could be deemed normal sized.

as it is, i think that being called plus sized is the equivalent of being called abnormal, and that's solely because of the negative connotations that go along with this whole "not thin" definition.

so, in that light, it seems to be that one type of body will inevitably be deemed abnormal, whilst simultaneously deeming another type normal.

and in all reality, i just think normalcy has more to with majority. i don't know this for sure, but i'd be willing to bet that the numbers are in the "plus-sized" folks favor. when you take that into context, other body sizes would be abnormal, and not in a negative connotation, as i've indicated above, in reference to "not-thin" defined.

perhaps, it is just an eye of the beholder issue.
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merv
05/20/09

@birminghamdrunk: stop promoting an unhealthy obese lifestyle. stop it.

(turns back to looking for cocaine in preparation for swimsuit season)
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Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.
05/20/09

@birminghamdrunk: Except calling it normal implies that anything that is not that size is abnormal. Also, calling it average implies that anything not that size is above or below average. Let's just call them SIZES. That would be revolutionary.
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slowpoke.r
05/20/09

@Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.: OMG, what are you saying??? That people come in many different sizes and that we don't need questionable terms with which to label them?!? That we can just use the already existing numerical system??? But, but, but, then won't everyone have to shop all together in the same stores and departments?!?!?

Madness, I say! Cats and dogs, living together! Are you trying to end life as we know it???

Yes, you are, right? I'm with you.
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PhillyLass
05/20/09

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So, how does someone end up in the mannequin business anyway?
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BillyPilgrimisnotmylover
05/20/09

@PhillyLass: They found mounting animals too taxing?
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TheGuvnah
05/20/09

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that's right, Kim. YOU CAN'T HIDE WHERE YOU CAME FROM.
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
05/20/09

@TheGuvnah: See also:

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BAngieB
05/20/09

@TheGuvnah: HollyWOOOOOOOD.
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andBegorrah
05/20/09

@TheGuvnah: Yep, a FACTORY IN BROOKLYN. Own it, Kim.
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sympathyforthebasementcat
05/20/09

@TheGuvnah: Why would she want to hide it? If I were her, I'd go around pretending that I didn't know what Sex and the City is. I'd just say, actually I was in Mannequin. And Ice Princess.
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LoveNoelG
05/20/09

@sympathyforthedevil: Honestly, Mannequin is nothing to be ashamed of. It's flipping awesome in fact.

The fact she was in the Britney movie, now that's not a source of resume pride.
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TheGuvnah
05/20/09

@LoveNoelG: haha I forgot she was in the Brit movie.

And SHE was the holdout for the original SATC movie? Cause the other work she was doing was so prominent and successful? Strange.
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lilbobbytables
05/20/09

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I am sure it is interesting, but I cannot watch the video, as I would only be disappointed when it turns out to not be a clip from Mannequin, the greatest movie ever created, and the only comfort to fifth grade lil(er)bobbytables when she was home sick.
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save jinger
05/20/09

@lilbobbytables: LOVED that movie as a kid. I thought Andrew McCarthy was dreamy, and I always looked at mannequins differently afterward. I thought they might really come to life!
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DoubleExpresso doesn't know what to think....
05/21/09

@save jinger: thank buddha i wasn't the only one to be totally in little girl lust with andrew mccarthy - even his voice squeaking was so endearing to me.

kim cattrall was and is divine. that is all.
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