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
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