# I've Traded Pwincess Pwecious for The Shrieking Fashion Harpy **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 11, 2004, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-traded-pwincess-pwecious-for-the-shrieking-fashion-harpy/244656 "2004-05-11T17:58:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-traded-pwincess-pwecious-for-the-shrieking-fashion-harpy/244656/21 "2004-05-12T01:44:16Z")
Jonathan Chance: Maybe you should bug management for a seperate fridge. Label one “Food only” and the other “Dead Birds (that you do not intend to eat) Only”. HTH. HAND. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-traded-pwincess-pwecious-for-the-shrieking-fashion-harpy/244656/22 "2004-05-12T02:16:39Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > I SAID I WANTED CHA-CHA HEELS, DAMMIT! THESE AREN’T CHA-CHA HEELS!! I HATE YOU PEOPLE!!!" Hey, I saw that movie! Did she then attack her parents with a Christmas tree? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Nvme77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Nvme77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nvme77)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-traded-pwincess-pwecious-for-the-shrieking-fashion-harpy/244656/23 "2004-05-12T04:40:13Z")
Yeah and then she ran away. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-traded-pwincess-pwecious-for-the-shrieking-fashion-harpy/244656/24 "2004-05-12T06:24:03Z")
So cha-cha heels are just high spike heels? That needs a special name? Huh. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-traded-pwincess-pwecious-for-the-shrieking-fashion-harpy/244656/25 "2004-05-12T06:32:35Z")
> [@CrazyCatLady](#): > > So cha-cha heels are just high spike heels? That needs a special name? Huh. It’s fashion, dahling. You just reach back 20 years, grab some godawful piece of clothing, file the serial numbers off, call it “vintage” or “retro” and give it a kicky new name. Works every time. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-traded-pwincess-pwecious-for-the-shrieking-fashion-harpy/244656/26 "2004-05-12T07:05:00Z")
**Eve** , I haven’t read every single Pwincess thwead, but I saw enough to get an idea of the sitwuwation. (Okay, that one didn’t work.) I get the impression that you’re the long-suffering type. I say it’s time to let out your inner Wile E. Coyote and let the subtle revenge begin. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-traded-pwincess-pwecious-for-the-shrieking-fashion-harpy/244656/27 "2004-05-12T10:17:57Z")
> [@Jonathan Chance](#): > > …Every time you get irritate just think of me with sympathy. I’m currently working for a bird watching magazine and our artists keep leaving dead birds in the refrigerators (not always in baggies! :eek: ) for later study… I had a dead pelican under my desk once. The box made a nice foot prop while I was typing (we were shipping it out for a necropsy). And I know what you mean: I opened the freezer to find 30 black-and-white warblers (overnight cell phone tower strike during migration - the boss took only 30 of the 450 total dead ones) on top of my frozen garlic bread. At least they had the nicety to wrap them, and they were still fresh enough that the smell hadn’t permeated anything. Which magazine? Contact me! ---
**Author:** ![sperfur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@sperfur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sperfur)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-traded-pwincess-pwecious-for-the-shrieking-fashion-harpy/244656/28 "2004-05-12T12:04:09Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > Whoa! > > Scrolling past sequential thread titles, I misread and thought it said “Shrieking Fashion Harpy is on fire!!!” > > For a minute there, I thought, “Cool.” This gave my fevered little self a chuckle this morning. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-traded-pwincess-pwecious-for-the-shrieking-fashion-harpy/244656/29 "2004-05-12T12:37:01Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I say it’s time to let out your inner Wile E. Coyote and let the subtle revenge begin. Because when one thinks of subtlety, one thinks of Wile E. Coyote. Maybe **Eve** could feed her iron pellets and trap her with a giant electro-magnet! ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-traded-pwincess-pwecious-for-the-shrieking-fashion-harpy/244656/30 "2004-05-12T12:45:22Z")
Eve Golden Super Genius Time to buy more Acme stock. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-traded-pwincess-pwecious-for-the-shrieking-fashion-harpy/244656/31 "2004-05-12T12:59:49Z")
> [@plnnr](#): > > Eve Golden > Super Genius > > Time to buy more Acme stock. I’ll one-up that: I work for Acme! (We don’t sell rocket-powered shoes.) ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-traded-pwincess-pwecious-for-the-shrieking-fashion-harpy/244656/32 "2004-05-12T13:27:55Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Well, as you recall from our last installment, I have moved to another rat-hole across the office, far, far, fwom the babbling, baby-talking Pwincess Precious. It’s a smaller rat-hole, but it has a _window_, and I can do “minimalist.” > > Now I am coming to realize that this side of the office has its own brand of vermin: The Shrieking Fashion Harpy, apparently the unnatural daughter of Ethel Merman and a fingernail on a blackboard. She’s our Very Important Stylist, who makes sure all the clothes for the fashion shoots come in, lines them up on clothing racks (completely blocking the hallway) and coordinates them, so the hideous plaid capris are next to the bilious green tankinis. > > She strides up and down the hall, screaming, “Is this Jimmy Choo? I SAID I WANTED CHA-CHA HEELS, DAMMIT! THESE AREN’T CHA-CHA HEELS!! I HATE YOU PEOPLE!!!” > > I am beginning to miss the Kingdom of the Pwecious . . . I dunno about anyone else, but feel the Fashion Harpy will provide us with an endless source of entertainment. For starters, we get to hate _her_, whereas we mostly just felt _sorry_ for _you_ in your previous rat hole. If you _really_ cared about us, you would mosey over to the Pwecious Pwace pewiodicawwy and give us a little taste. But the new dame sounds like she’s always got both barrels a-blazin’. Maybe when she’s not looking, you can move the clothes around on the racks and really curl her hair! ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-traded-pwincess-pwecious-for-the-shrieking-fashion-harpy/244656/33 "2004-05-12T13:39:26Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Now I am coming to realize that this side of the office has its own brand of vermin: The Shrieking Fashion Harpy, apparently the unnatural daughter of Ethel Merman and a fingernail on a blackboard. She’s our Very Important Stylist . . . **Eve** , I don’t know where you work, but some years back I had the misfortune to work at Fairchild Publications, the publisher of, among other things, Women’s Wear Daily and Daily News Record and W. Seems like there were entire _floors_ of Shrieking Fashion Harpies. Can’t say I miss the place much. ---
**Author:** ![Mooney252](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7c8e57/32.png) [@Mooney252](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooney252)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-traded-pwincess-pwecious-for-the-shrieking-fashion-harpy/244656/34 "2004-05-12T15:33:45Z")
LMM wrote: [/quote] Eve, I don’t know where you work, but some years back I had the misfortune to work at Fairchild Publications, the publisher of, among other things, Women’s Wear Daily and Daily News Record and W. Seems like there were entire floors of Shrieking Fashion Harpies. Can’t say I miss the place much. [/quote] The first time that I visited the Fairchild building on West 34th Street, I thought, “This pit is the home of three fashion publications? What part of this business don’t I understand?” The building was (is?) dirty, run-down and the most-advanced technology was a fax machine. Eve – it sounds to me as if you need to chill a little. People are people and they’re as weird in accounting or sales as in editorial. Best regards, Mooney252 ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-traded-pwincess-pwecious-for-the-shrieking-fashion-harpy/244656/35 "2004-05-12T15:38:17Z")
> [@Mooney252](#): > > The first time that I visited the Fairchild building on West 34th Street, I thought, “This pit is the home of three fashion publications? What part of this business don’t I understand?” The building was (is?) dirty, run-down and the most-advanced technology was a fax machine. I never worked at 34th Street. When I was with Fairchild, they had a building on 12th Street between Fifth and University. But the situation was the same. I remember that the phones on our desks actually had dials, not buttons. This was in the mid-80s. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-traded-pwincess-pwecious-for-the-shrieking-fashion-harpy/244656/36 "2004-05-12T17:57:14Z")
I vote for the occasional clothing swap. Like putting all the green items on the same rack. Of course, you’ll have to ensure no body rats you out… ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-traded-pwincess-pwecious-for-the-shrieking-fashion-harpy/244656/37 "2004-05-12T20:56:04Z")
> [@](#): > > Now my only blood enemy will be the Fashion Harpy, who strides up and down the hallways shrieking into her cellphone. Which I am going to shove so far down her pie-hole she’ll be farting busy signals. The Page O Flames doesn’t give credit to these quotes. **Eve** , was this you? ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-traded-pwincess-pwecious-for-the-shrieking-fashion-harpy/244656/38 "2004-05-12T20:57:59Z")
N’mind! Found it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-traded-pwincess-pwecious-for-the-shrieking-fashion-harpy/244656/39 "2004-06-23T21:26:51Z")
So, **Eve** , how’s the job going? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-traded-pwincess-pwecious-for-the-shrieking-fashion-harpy/244656/40 "2004-06-23T22:08:02Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > The Shrieking Fashion Harpy, apparently the unnatural daughter of Ethel Merman and a fingernail on a blackboard. Oh, now I wonder if she’s an only child. If she has a sister that worked for a company that manufactured chillers for NASA, she just might be the sister of one of my mom’s ex-coworkers: Janet the Print Witch. People who tried to get blueprints by going around her were beset by flying monkeys. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-traded-pwincess-pwecious-for-the-shrieking-fashion-harpy/244656.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-traded-pwincess-pwecious-for-the-shrieking-fashion-harpy/244656.md?page=3)