Nickers Tucked: Plastic Surgeon's Dimished Cashflow

Posted Wed, 08/20/2008 - 06:23 by rba
Andrea Brambila/sacbee: Cosmetic surgeons blame hard times for slump in elective procedures:
Despite the economic downturn, the $12.4 billion plastic surgery industry is expected to grow, driven by the growing popularity of nonsurgical options. The ASPS predicts that by 2015, plastic surgeons will be performing more than 55 million procedures a year, up from almost 12 million in 2007.
Sonofabitch it's hard out there. Imagine the pain of walking around bald, getting wrinkles as you grow older, or (god forbid) realizing your couture-covered ass has grown by a staggering quarter-inch. Pauvre petit vache.

Comments

My french is bad...

by cho - 08/20/2008 - 06:35
did you say: Poor petite cow? Gotta love it. Yup... money does indeed protect one from reality, I guess. At least for a time.

French

by rba - 08/20/2008 - 17:26
Yeah, "cow". That phrase is one of about four or five I remember from high school forty five years ago. Since then I've expanded my linguistic abilities, and can now count to ten and swear in four languages. :-)

Which four?

by cho - 08/21/2008 - 06:19
:-)
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Gender Studies

by Chris White - 08/21/2008 - 15:09
The only real issue I can see is "vache" is feminine. Or at least it always used to be. But I'm real short-sighted. So it ought to read "pauvre petite vache", if it were vraiment Francais. A male vache is a non-existent, actually Un Taureau (which some use for keeping their yards trimmed.) So you could have, for example, "vachement chouette", not "chouet". Cho could probably tell you what that means. But what other people turn cows into adverbs? As they say in Spain at the Bull fight "Au Lait!" Isn't that just totally foutu and con and discriminatory? Merde alors. Cowily baby cabbages to you too. Why not keep sticking it to the knightly gnus instead, much easier to tell apart.

Cowily baby cabbages

by cho - 08/22/2008 - 09:09
er, vachement chouette to you too! I even think rba was the originator of the gnus poster idea.

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