Clay, Ah, but I have the advantage of having a hip and trendy DJ only feet from me whilst on night shift who is up on all these words.
I only recognised it as there has been an awful lot on tv over here in the UK about bling bling and how there are two main types who do it. Those who have more money than breeding and those who have breeding but no money. The former are, as our Joe put it, those who go to show money can't buy taste - they become famous and have lots of money and spend it on rolls royces and big houses with too many greek statues in them. The later are those who live off their family name schmoozing freebies out of major designers and will wear everything that they have been offered rather than what looks good. I'm not sure if you get AbFab where you are but in an episode of the lastest series Eddie wears every designer name outfit at once and all her designer name jewllery. She very proudly says that she is 'bling bling' and her daughter just snorts. Eddie thinks that bling bling is something to be aimed for, Saffie thinks its something that should be locked away for safety. Joe, our DJ also said that there are post ironic bling bling people like Justin Timberlake who has got both ears pierced and wears small $70,000 diamon earrings in each ear. He is saying that he is emulating bling bling but doing it with taste. OK - so doing it with taste is sort of about face on it as the whole thing about bling bling is that it is without taste - but that is why it is post ironic. So, you can use the phrase bling bling about lace but you would use it about a lace piece of gawdy lace that someone had bought and used wrong - for example, if a wedding vale looked like a piece of net curtain then you could say, when asked if you liked it 'that's very bling bling' and be both ironic and hip. Personally, I'd just for normal lace use words like 'wow', 'corr' and 'what an unusually choice of colours and motif - I never would have thought of that (whilst thinking 'I never would have done that')'. So, any more hip phrases you want translated then get them in this week as I'm changing jobs and will not have daily access to our Joe. Regards Liz Beecher -----Original Message----- From: Clay Blackwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 August 2003 00:22 To: Liz Beecher; Arachne chat Subject: Re: [lace-chat] lace funny... Hi Liz ! Thank you SO much for straightening me out before I made a complete idiot of myself in public (like Arachne isn't "public"...) But I only heard a tiny bit of what he was saying, and that's what I got out of it... Goes to show! I'm awfully glad I haven't used that expression out loud anywhere (raging blush!) Clay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Liz Beecher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Clay Blackwell'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Arachne chat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 5:17 PM Subject: RE: [lace-chat] lace funny... > Clay, > > sorry to upset you on this but bling bling means expensive and over the top. > If you wear all your expsenive jewllery at once and then some you are bling > bling. > > Of if you put on all your designer labels at once and your jewllery then you > are bling bling. > > Of course - this would require you to have more than one deigner label or > piece of jewllery to wear. > > It started off as meaning expensive and good taste now it is tacky in such > as Oh, you've got a diamond the size of a small african state which would > feed a major 3rd world country - that's so bling bling. > > Jennifer Lopez is often refered to as bling bling and here in the UK Posh > and Becks are bling bling - I've just had a word with Joe, who I work with > and who knows (he's a DJ and very hip) and he said it's just simply that > bling bling proves that money can't buy taste. > > However, there is always an exception to the rule in that in some people > they are post ironic bling bling - in that they dress bling bling but that > they are actually taking the mickey out of it. > > Ok, so you are all now confused. > > Regards > > Liz Beecher > > -----Original Message----- > From: Clay Blackwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 01 August 2003 15:27 > To: Arachne chat > Subject: [lace-chat] lace funny... > > > The other evening as I passed through the family room, I > caught a tidbit from the late-night show my DH was watching. > A very successful entertainer was explaining the expression, > "Bling Bling", which is apparently something he say a lot or > which appears in his music. I've heard young people say > "bling bling", and think it's a catchy phrase! According to > the entertainer, it means expensive, beautiful, highly > desirable... > > I just read something on the lace list from Sulochona about > what she is BLing now... and thought of the slang > expression!! How absolutely appropriate!! Yes, our lace is > bling bling! > > Clay > > Clay Blackwell > Lynchburg, VA To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
