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jjmoney62	Post subject: Metrosexual's tipping point Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 8:43 pm
Joined: Mon Apr 08, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 3135 Location: Albuquerque, N.M. USA	We were unable to stop the word and phenomenon. The morning duo on ESPN radio were going on last week about their "metrosexual" survey getting 400,000 Web hits; Maureen Dowd cemented her ownership of the word with a weekend column about Arnold Schwarzenegger that defies you to make it past the first 2 grafs; and today, alas, AlterNet succumbed.<p>It's over, folks.
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Rio	Post subject: Re: Metrosexual's tipping point Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 11:21 pm
Joined: Thu Apr 11, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 887 Location: U.S.A.	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by jjmoney62: It's over, folks.<hr></blockquote><p>I sure hope you're wrong! :p
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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Re: Metrosexual's tipping point Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2003 3:28 pm
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	OK. By and large, cartoons in the New York stopped being funny decades ago (if they ever were funny), but every once in a while there's an exception.<p>
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dmfugitive	Post subject: Re: Metrosexual's tipping point Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2003 4:27 pm
Joined: Sun Apr 14, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 257 Location: back in D.M., funny enough	If a New Yorker cartoon doesn't involve talking animals or a guy on a desert island, I don't get it.
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aforr71	Post subject: Re: Metrosexual's tipping point Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2003 11:19 pm
Joined: Thu Apr 03, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 2 Location: Kent, OH	Hey, can we kill the word and keep the phenomenon? A guy who dresses well and cooks for me doesn't sound bad. <p>Heck, I'd do all the cooking if he'd just do housework... a guy who does housework can get away with a lot.
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ADKbrown	Post subject: Re: Metrosexual's tipping point Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 2:01 pm
Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1286 Location: Saranac Lake, N.Y.	A good deal of the book is devoted to the rise and fall of the self-destructive proto-metrosexual Brian Jones, who died of mysterious causes in 1969. -- NYT<p>*Does this make him a retro metro?<p>p.s. What would make Brian Jones a metrosexual, anyway?*
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jjmoney62	Post subject: Re: Metrosexual's tipping point Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2003 8:13 am
Joined: Mon Apr 08, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 3135 Location: Albuquerque, N.M. USA	Richard Roeper has fun with the topic today.<p>[ October 22, 2003: Message edited by: jjmoney62 ]</p>
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Rio	Post subject: Re: Metrosexual's tipping point Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2003 8:54 am
Joined: Thu Apr 11, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 887 Location: U.S.A.	Even the first new episode of "South Park" in months is jumping on the bandwagon. It will air tonight (Wednesday), Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Re: Metrosexual's tipping point Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2003 8:54 am
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	Perish the thought that Roeper would fall in with a "trend."
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jjmoney62	Post subject: Re: Metrosexual's tipping point Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2003 10:40 am
Joined: Mon Apr 08, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 3135 Location: Albuquerque, N.M. USA	Actually, Roeper goes a little deeper and makes a mildly interesting point today.
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