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Controversy
   With more than one girl of otherwise credible intellegince and undeniable girlishness I have found I've had a disagreement over regarding what consitutes a "pigtail" and what constitutes a "ponytail." Now at the time though what the girl was telling me went against everything I've ever known about the subject, I didn't pursue the subject, because after all girls should know better. But this week I randomly thought to look it up at dictionary.com and found that indeed I am correct and the definitions logged there do not allow for the opposing argument.
   The girl's argument was thus: if there is one of it, it is a ponytail, and if there are two it is pigtails, regardless of braiding.
   My argument was thus: if it is braided it is a pigtail, if it resembles a pony's tail it is a ponytail.

Courtesy of dictionary.com:
   Pigtail: A plait of braided hair.
   Ponytail: A hairstyle in which the hair is held back so as to hang down like a pony's tail.
   I bring this up here because I know at least one of the girls reads this, and if these girls could get through life not knowing the difference, I'd imagine others are thus confused as well.
   Also pigtails are hawt and ponytails notsomuch. But nothing's hotter than kristy with her hair in two buns atop her head.


Saturday
   So a city council candidate, a chief justice, and a senator are walking down the street... no its not a joke. Today I went precinct walking for city council candidate Lamar Heystek with a certain ASUCD senator. In order not to cause anyone fear that the experience made me biased towards this individual, we'll call him Senator X.
   So in talking to one resident, Senator X was asked "hey you seem like a politician too, are you?" to which he responded "well yes, vote for Senator X for President in 2020" "well we won't be around in 2020" "if you vote for Heystek you will be!" "no, the Lord will take us all away by then."

   At the farmer's market this morning a group of several of the other city council candidates recognized me, but got my position wrong, joking "look out, its the internal affairs guy!"

   After precinct walking we ate at Hunan's, a local chinese restaurant. It was my first time there. My fortune cookie said "you can choose to forgive anything." what ev.


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Audi A6 - The Ride!
© Kris Fricke 1999


   After travelling 180-220 km/hr for about six hours through mountainious roads across Slovakia in an Audi A6 with a professional driver, we finally spun out of control and ended up sideways in a ditch only a half hour from our destination in Trebisov.
   If you look at a mirror image of the picture you can read the writing you can faintly see on the other side of the page... if you can read swedish.


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Pigtail Controversy

Date: 2004-02-29 10:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] basicallyasap.livejournal.com
Ok...just because the dictionary says that's what pigtails are doesn't mean that the word doesn't refer to two ponytails on either of side of the head also in American culture. Proof of this found here. Note that the first couple pictures are what you would call "two ponytails" and some of them are braided as well. All I know is ever since I was little, if a girl had two ponytails on the sides of her head, braided or not, everyone called them pigtails. If only you had been around to correct my little five-year-old self, maybe my concepts of hairstyles wouldn't be so horribly misconstrued! Damn society!

P.S. are you saying I don't look hot when my hair is in a ponytail? Such sauce! ;)

Date: 2004-02-29 11:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] obisan69.livejournal.com
Despite being aware of the definitions you presented, I am one of the girls who goes by the "If there's one, it's a ponytail, if there's 2 they're pigtails" in my standard conversation. While dictionary definitions are all well and good, there has to be some acceptance of the fact that those definitions may differ from how the words are ACTUALLY used in society =)

Date: 2004-03-01 08:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ex-china-dol411.livejournal.com


I hope you don't mind me contacting you via your livejournal, but some time ago, you posted in the model un comm. a post regarding crisis simulations.
Would it be all right with you if I shared it with the members of our senior management group, to give them some alternative ideas to the standard “earthquake in Guatemala! Millions die!” or “grr, those Samoan rats! They kidnapped the Slovakian ambassador!” simulation lines?
Additionally, how would I credit you?

Many thanks.

I am a fount of crises

Date: 2004-03-02 07:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emosnail.livejournal.com
I'd be greatly honoured if my suggestions were used to further the cause of non-lame crises world-wide. Credit the crises to Kris Fricke (at UC Davis, if you feel like attaching a location to my name), and tell me how it goes.

Re: I am a fount of crises

Date: 2004-03-02 08:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ex-china-dol411.livejournal.com


will do.
again, many thanks.
:)

Pigtails!!!

Date: 2004-03-01 09:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bobolly.livejournal.com
OK- now you have 3 people rooting for two ponytails classifying as pigtails. That's just the way it has been for hundreds and hundreds of years! Without having any sisters, you can't really understand, I know.
What if you have one braid? Is that one pigtail? Anyhow, why does a ponytail represent a pony's tail but a pigtail does not look like a pig's tail in the slightest?!?

Re: Pigtails!!!

Date: 2004-03-02 07:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emosnail.livejournal.com
Well not having seen many pigs tails, I could easily picture one to reseble a braided strand of hair.

I thought one braid was also a pigtail... doesn't Lara Croft: Tomb Raider have a pigtail?

Re: Pigtails!!!

Date: 2004-03-03 02:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ex-china-dol411.livejournal.com


its a braided pony tail.

and i just checked the crediting info and good grief, lj posted it like 4 x.
sorry.

Re: Pigtails!!!

Date: 2004-03-03 02:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emosnail.livejournal.com
its okay, it happens. time to write a "free market economics" synopsis. wee.

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