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August 16, 2005

The Travesty in This Picture?


On the right's an appealing 16 year old.

With 4 ~ count 'em! ~ FOUR pairs of $500 (yes, fivehunnertdollah) jeans in her arms.
Even if she buys a pair, there is something just so wrong with that.
Or am I jealous? Is it just me?

Posted by tree hugging sister at August 16, 2005 10:11 AM

Comments

It's not just you. I find it hard to understand how a pair of denim pants costs so much. Heck, I squawk when they cost more than $30! Unless the buttons and rivets are made of gold.

Sheesh. She's carrying the price of a semester of college books there. Talk about throwing Susan B. Anthonys' down the drain by the handful.

Posted by: The Real JeffS at August 16, 2005 10:31 AM

If any kid of mine asks for something like this, I will consider myself a failure.

Posted by: John at August 16, 2005 10:53 AM

Wow. Two jeans would pay my rent... well, almost. Even if I had the money, I would just go buy guy Levis. And then a better house. I don't care if my butt is as flat as a highway in Kansas.

Posted by: Cindermutha at August 16, 2005 11:02 AM

Bill Cosby rocks. His line on The Cosby Show when Theo wanted to buy a $95 shirt: "I don't have a $95 shirt, and I have a job!"

Posted by: Ken Summers at August 16, 2005 11:29 AM

And I've never paid $500 for a freakin' suit!

Posted by: Ken Summers at August 16, 2005 11:30 AM

Gave you guys a shout-out at the Hive on this. Turns out my reply just got too long for the comments. (Sorry for the thread-jack.)

Posted by: Nightfly at August 16, 2005 12:24 PM

Hell, Nightfly, mine was even longer than that.

Posted by: Ken Summers at August 16, 2005 01:34 PM

You're proud yours is longer than a fly's Ken?

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at August 16, 2005 01:43 PM

Sounds like he needs a pair of $500 'mine's-bigger-than-yours' jeans to me!

Posted by: tree hugging sister at August 16, 2005 02:07 PM

Looks like I should be making jeans.

Seriously I worked for Levis, I would take standard jeans, put a different pattern on the back pocket and come up with a clever name and mark them up 1000%.

A fool and his money are soon parted. For sure.

Posted by: nobrainer at August 16, 2005 02:32 PM

and a link from Sis who has a problem with capitalization

You are PRETTY FRICKIN' NERVY, for a THIEF.

(and you too, he who has been quietly renamed furtum ex tenebris...)

Posted by: tree hugging sister at August 16, 2005 02:41 PM

As I said elsewhere, for $500 they not only better get the butt right but attract some righteous tail.

Posted by: Ken Summers at August 16, 2005 02:42 PM

"NoBrainer Jeans" for $350.00

Dude, you'd sell millions.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at August 16, 2005 02:44 PM

get the butt right but attract some righteous tail

Sniff. Um ehrlich zu sein, ich hatte von dir auch gar nichts anderes erwartet.
Sniff.

Posted by: tree hugging sister at August 16, 2005 03:13 PM

Du auch bist ein berliner?

Ken mochtet die frauen mit die kleine sitzen und die grossen titzen.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at August 16, 2005 03:29 PM

German humor is so . . . .

Well, "funny" isn't quite the right word. :)

I think it's awesome that someone has found a way to make that much money off of some denim. I wish you told me the brand name. I might want to copy their business model!

Posted by: Mike Rentner at August 16, 2005 04:10 PM

Doensnt wie allen.

Posted by: Ken Summers at August 16, 2005 04:14 PM

Mike, fur brande nammes, getten zie hier. Ich bin linkenwhoren.

Posted by: Ken Summers at August 16, 2005 04:16 PM

Geeks!

Posted by: WunderKraut at August 16, 2005 04:17 PM

Ich ähnele dieser Anmerkung, danke.

(Guten Tag, Mike! Wie geht's?)

Herr Summers ist der Klugscheißer von den Verbindungen, nicht wahr?

Posted by: tree hugging sister at August 16, 2005 04:46 PM

Ich ähnele dieser Anmerkung, danke.

"I'll anal these americans, thanks!"

Ah, german humor at its finest...

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at August 16, 2005 05:51 PM

Fahrfergnugen, baby, fahrfergnugen.

Posted by: Ken Summers at August 16, 2005 06:03 PM

Which reminds me, my kids rather like the German word for the exit to a parking garage. But they were young.

Posted by: Ken Summers at August 16, 2005 06:04 PM

A big hit in 8th grade german class was conjugating the verb "fahren" (to drive)

ich fahre
du fahrst
er fahrt...

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at August 16, 2005 06:29 PM

'Now shay doesn't!'
Eliza Dolittle

Posted by: tree hugging sister at August 16, 2005 10:40 PM