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Sep. 20th, 2004 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiper... Finish This Phrase Theater, by Anna!
For 200 points and the chance to have your words immortalized in a piece of one of my paragraphs, contestants, finish this phrase: "Jake's yuppie uniform of pressed khakis and..." Hint: think "shirts worn by yuppies in Seattle".
For 200 points and the chance to have your words immortalized in a piece of one of my paragraphs, contestants, finish this phrase: "Jake's yuppie uniform of pressed khakis and..." Hint: think "shirts worn by yuppies in Seattle".
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Date: 2004-09-20 09:02 pm (UTC)Oh fine, "Tommy Hilfiger sweater".
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Date: 2004-09-20 10:06 pm (UTC)Then I would kill off Jake in the next chapter and spend an entire two pages talking about how that sexy outfit was drenched in blood that squelched right into the carpet, and describe the creative ways his innards had been ripped out and strewn all over my heroine's living room.
And then my heroine would have sex. With every other male member of the cast.
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Date: 2004-09-20 10:08 pm (UTC)That said, I just got the new Tanya Huff out of the library.
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Date: 2004-09-21 07:11 pm (UTC)Ah, the Tanya Huff that came out in hardback about the young fellow who was a side character in the Vicky Nelson novels? (That's the last thing that came out that I knew about by her.)
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Date: 2004-09-27 06:31 pm (UTC)The thing that got me was the overleaf, where they say Tanya lives up in the wilds of Canada with her partner, Fiona Patton, and their (cats? dogs? can't remember).
FIONA PATTON?
I thought she wrote ROMANCE NOVELS. *shudder*
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Date: 2004-09-27 06:40 pm (UTC)And nah, I think the Fiona Patton in question is this chick.
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Date: 2004-09-27 06:50 pm (UTC)I remember seeing one of her books when I was preggo, and thinking "Fiona would be a good name" but I ended up with Conor of the Pink Underpants instead. OH WELL ;)
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Date: 2004-09-27 08:05 pm (UTC)I've seen her books on the shelves and thought about checking them out, but I haven't been moved enough to really give 'em a go. I've got too many other things to read as it is. (Like freebie crap romance novels won in raffles! *LOL* Though I'm going to make up for it now by reading The Three Musketeers next.)
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Date: 2004-09-20 10:01 pm (UTC)I'd never seen a more welcome sight than the two of them hastening into my living room. Physically they were as different as night and day; Jake, of Asian-American extraction, was slim, dark, and youthful, while hulking, broad-shouldered Carson looked like he ought to be wearing a checkered shirt and a baseball cap and gulping down coffee in a highway truck stop. They dressed in sharp contrast to each other, too, with Carson's neon pink tank top and tight-fitting black jeans set off by Jake's yuppie uniform of pressed khakis and a navy Izod shirt so well-starched that even its alligator logo looked uncomfortable. But their expressions of shocked concern at finding me holding up a dazed and bleeding total stranger were identical.
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Date: 2004-09-20 10:47 pm (UTC)Their expressions of shocked concern when they found me holding up (supporting? propping up?) a bleeding, total stranger were amazingly identical.
Almost comically identical. Identical despite their otherwise unidentical selves. Were as similar as their appearances were dissimilar. Something!
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Date: 2004-09-20 10:54 pm (UTC)I'll tag this as something to look at once I finish this chapter--once I finish this up I'm going to want to regroup and put out a final call for readers before I send the revised chapters back to Tor. Thanks for pointing that out!
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Date: 2004-09-21 09:26 am (UTC)Anyone not from Seattle won't know, though.
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Date: 2004-09-21 10:36 am (UTC)However, you have not finished the phrase! ;) I'm open to suggestions, but I've got the rest of the chapter to rewrite, so I'm not going to tweak this until I come back around to do the final tweaks before firing it back to Tor.
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Date: 2004-09-21 10:43 am (UTC)Though
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Date: 2004-09-21 04:55 am (UTC)...a fair-trade-cotton polo shirt."
Damn, I give up. I don't know *what* they wear in Seattle.
Cathy
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Date: 2004-09-22 09:53 am (UTC)Oh and Anna, you have a reply on that book related thread too. Sorry, I am rarely in LJ; that's why I was so late to answer you.
See you around!
Love & hugs, R.
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Date: 2004-09-22 10:26 am (UTC)Sleepless in Seattle is the first movie that pops to most anyone's mind when thinking about Seattle--but it's been a while since I've seen it and so I can't really properly address whatever Mr. Hanks' character was wearing. However, I have this vague idea that it's probably not quite what I had in mind. :)
When I talk about Seattle yuppies, mostly that's going to mean 'people who work in the software industry'. And, further, that will frequently mean 'people who work at Microsoft', though not always. There are plenty of other smaller software companies in the region; I've worked for a couple of them.
Folks who work for the local software companies are often going to be the T-shirts and shorts type; work environments locally tend to be very casual. :) There are people who will dress more stylishly, but they are people who tend to be in the upper echelons of the companies, and/or who interact with customers on a daily basis.
My character Jake is sort of in between those two examples. He tends to dress deliberately so as to not call attention to himself, and around here, that tends to mean what gets called 'business casual'.
Saw your other reply, indeed. Thanks for checking in! :)
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Date: 2004-09-22 11:19 am (UTC)Thanks for the explanations on the software industry yuppies and on your character Jake. That's what I would call 'business casual' too. I was actually thinking yuppies but more close to the 'business executive' style when I asked. People in the software business over here do dress in sorts of the way Jake does so if we would compare we might have found even more similarities. :)
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