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Saw him at halftime today while waiting in line to get a coffee. He crashed right through every line as if he owned the joint and ignored anyone and everyone who tried to talk to him. Also has a hearing aid. None of this was surprising.
The pile of beer cans on the table next to me would do a better job than Rick perry. I wouldn't vote for him as dog catcher.
I'm sure. Apparently he went on some kind of business recruiting trip to California and ended up getting into a pissing match with Jerry Brown.
You know what? I know it's suicidal but I'm really tempted to mess with Texas.
I imagine he also got in to an argument with a paper bag and a fist fight with the in flight movie. The humorist in me sees it as a tragedy that he wasn't elected president.
For all the money in the world I would have guessed quid ditch was popular at Cornell and Tufts. Hm.
I actually gambled on Quidditch last year. I think I took the Field vs 8 of the top teams or something.
x 1000.
This seems like the gambling equivalent of scouring the house for mouthwash with some alcohol content Betty Ford style
Kitty Dukakis tried isopropyl with poor results.
Frustrating as an IU fan, but good game by Minny. I know they're a good rebounding team, but +19? 22 offensive boards? Horrible job by IU on the boards tonight.Nice win for your Gophers, Frosty and Tre
Guess who the bridesmaids were?http://forums.footballguys.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=516869&view=findpost&p=13797190
1) 2.5/10. One of my favorite things to do in an iFight is to throw a punch, and then just bail. Throw the smoke grenade down and ninja outa there. Barely annoying. Let's see what else we've got.2) 4/10. Lunatics are no fun, but I'd consider adding some shtick to the letter. Are there any form letters you can use? If there's a form letter, I'm knocking it down to a 3/10.3) 2/10. Ehh. My annual FBB draft is usually around 9 AM on a Saturday. I love it, honestly. 4) 7/10. Legitimately annoying, esp. if you're losing dough.5) 5/10. Pretty ####ty. This seems like one of those rules that's begging to be broken. 6) 3/10. I literally have to reset my password for my student loans every time I pay. I can never remember, and as I keep using different iterations of passwords, there's less chance I'll remember it.Thanks, krista.So which of the following is the most annoying thing, if they were all to happen to you at the same time? (1) While working on a (now) 51-page copyright litigation brief, for which a client is amazingly paying you due to your status as an IP litigator, you decide to unwind in the FFA, and coincidentally find yourself embroiled in a lively discussion revolving around new rules concerning copyright enforcement. During the course of that discussion, two people get in your face and start arguing basic concepts such as "intellectual property isn't really property" and "copyright infringement isn't theft," while quoting inapplicable law, and just generally being dooshes about it. (2) Some guy who was referred to you by a colleague and has a case that has zero merit whatsoever (in which he has been representing himself) calls three times during the course of the day, following up on written materials he sent you. You finally take the third call, tell him nicely that you can't help him, and he begins yelling at you that he doesn't understand why you don't "get" his case. He also demands to know whether you have been in contact with the opposing party. You eventually get him off the phone. Now you must write him a very strongly worded letter declining the representation. (3) You get invited to a fantasy baseball league run by a guy you can't stand and featuring another guy with likely mental disorders, but you win it all about once every three years on average, so you click "accept." You then note that the draft is at 10:30 A.M. Eastern time on a Saturday, which is 7:30 A.M. on a Saturday where you are, which is an hour that you don't see unless it's from the back side. So you inquire on the league message board if this was an error or a deliberate choice, at which point the "commissioner" accuses you of wondering if he's taking things out on you (?) by setting the draft so early. The other (nutjob) guy jumps in and accuses you of paranoia. Eventually you explain that, no, you were just wondering if the draft was intentionally set for that time, or that was just a placeholder and the real time will be, as usual, in the evening. After 5 more messages the commissioner reveals that . . . that time was an error and a placeholder and the real time will be, as usual, in the evening. (4) You get a lot of referrals through several listservs run by your county bar association. Every February, when you renew your association membership, you get booted off all of the listservs for days, and every year, they tell you that "your IT department's firewall" is blocking their messages. They transmit this information through e-mails that come through perfectly, a point that cuts no ice when pointed out. So here it is a week later and still no listservs, which could mean lost business. By the way, you are a one-man shop with legal support staff. You have no "IT department" and the last firewall you saw had Harrison Ford in it. (5) Your building announces, via memo, that it will no longer allow anyone to park in its spacious rear courtyard area for any amount of time, even if the parkers are simply visiting for a short interval, e.g., a messenger dropping off a package, or a client delivering an original signature. This is transparently so that the building can charge the preposterous $6.00 per 20 minutes for people to park in its garage, i.e., $6.00 even if they're there for five minutes. The building justifies this by stating that "management can no longer deal with the oil stains from parked cars." Oil stains? I must have missed the 1975 Pinto that has been continuously parked out there since September 11 (the original). How does the City of Los Angeles deal with these nefarious "oil stains" from cars that park on its public streets for 5-10 minutes at a time? Anyway, you call the head attorney of the practice group with whom you share space to complain mildly about this and she shrieks at you over the phone from about 30 yards away, tops. "THIS IS NOT MY PROBLEM, AERIAL ASSAULT." Mmmkay. (6) Your SO, who is responsible for the home finances, calls. She wants to know if you took care of the new Verizon bill that was generated when you set up phones as gifts for your (on her side) nephew and niece (unbelievably cool and sweet kids, who needed phones because they're at that age, but their mom can't afford it). No, you didn't take care of this, which is why she's holding a paper statement, because when you went to the Verizon store with her, you opted for paper statements so that she could pay them timely. She is now asking this question with the bill due tomorrow. So you have to log on and pay the bill electronically, lost your password, reset, name your favorite teacher, etc. Actually I feel bad even mentioning this one because she had a great workday and is generally an all-star, but it was just sort of cumulative. So . . . 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 most annnoying? Or am I just a d**k? Probably the latter.
Sorry for length.
#4 ftw.
Good Posting, Judge - I mean Truck.
This is good advice that I may just follow from now on.
Nah, no form letter for this one (although a standard "hey, you called me, but I don't represent you" letter is definitely a form. In fact the guy was . . . intriguing enough that I feel I have to tailor the letter to our conversation. Urf. And I can't really incorporate shtick into something required by legal ethics, sadly.
It wasn't really the draft time; it was the total weirdness that these two psychos reacted with when I asked an innocent question. And then, an hour later, it turns out I was right and the commissionoid just forgot to enter the real time because stupid.
I'll never find out. Grr. THe sooner they restore me the better. I can always create another address at my domain if needed, if that solves their problem.
As I was pulling out tonight, they had roped off the parking area (large enough to fit 15-20 cars easily), but one guy just got out, moved the ropes, and parked.
I guess that's what I could suggest to short-term visitors.
6) 3/10. I literally have to reset my password for my student loans every time I pay. I can never remember, and as I keep using different iterations of passwords, there's less chance I'll remember it.
It was more that she fell down and I had to clean up with one day to spare when I had a brief due, but since I spent half my day in the FFA I can't really complain, and she hardly ever does stuff like this, so.
Thanks!
This is one of few things I miss about Hollywood. I'd run into weirdness like this on a weekly basis. There's too many to recall, but there was the old Chinese lady with a wooden perch strapped to her back for a gigantic parrot, homeless bearded men in dresses (yes, more than one sighting), and the standard people talking to god on street corners. Sprinkle these in with the obscene amount of beautiful wannabe actors/actresses everywhere, and Hollywood is one of the most surreal places to live.
You know, I'm currently (perennially) underemployed. Your group could hire me to make all your problems go away. I excel at adolescent counterprankism. It's on my C.V.
Ugh on guided meditation, but there's no arguing it's better than pointless meetings.This was a guided meditation - no clue on the type, but it was awesomeA hell of a lot better than being stuck in some pointless, ####ty meetingOh, and for those that are curious, we took our shoes off for the meditationVery cool, GB.What kind of meditation did they do?Heeeellllll yes!!!My interview went awesomeMeditation was fantasticStaff meeting was greatThe hiring manager just has to talk to my boss and negotiate a start time/logistics. As long as all that goes well, I should have the formal job offer by the end of the week
I was hoping they'd run you through Mindfulness Stress Therapy. From what I heard, it's like if a self-help book half-###edly read Thich Nhat Hahn.
Ditto.
Was she the one in Steel MAgnolias?
'General Malaise said:
Starting to think sci-fi nerds have a fear of [female body part that sounds like Virginia]
Strong
Couple this with the way almost all comic book and sci-fi women have enormous breasts and Freud is tap dancing in delight.
I think someone here might have some good insight on this topic:
Hey GB, How did the stakeout go? Did you catch the perp?
It's not their fault that all sci-fi chicks are sexy. I'm sure if Lara Croft looked like Rosie O'Donnell then she'd be depicted that way.
Yeah, I'm guessing those herbs of his were ####### strong, while the record keeping in that backwater Chinese village he's from was pretty ####### weak.
Well...{quote] However, in a 1930 New York Times article, Professor Wu Chung-chieh of the Chengdu University discovered Imperial Chinese government records from 1827, congratulating one Li Ching-Yuen on his 150th birthday,[1] and further documents later congratulating him on his 200th birthday in 1877.{/quote]Seems valid to me since I can't imagine anyone else of that name existing in a country of 1 billion people.
He didn't show. But I got to sit quietly and read for an hour-plus while drinking two beers as my wife dealt with bedtime for the kids. I might have to pay some other kid to take the original perp's place, if we do catch this one...As it turns out, it appears the same kid drove onto the recently repaired baseball diamond at the local elementary school and shredded it on the same night he tore up our neighborhood green. And he's hit two other neighborhoods repeatedly in the last few weeks. He's pretty much stepped over the line from youthful hijinks to significant property damage -- it will be interesting to see if the police take the info my neighbor gave them and actually do anything, or if I have to call in Flysack for some vigilante justice.
I just want to say that I love the whole concept of expressly staking out a location to both be a witness to a crime and to (hopefully) engage in a car chase until the police can take over and get your statement, and all the while to be drinking beer.
oh, and the part about not knowing where it came from is bull####. I pass that dude's place everyday. He has emus, goat and those mini-horses all living together in a field like that part in the bible.
Agreed. He's doing it right, unlike Johnnycakes staked out his neighborhood with a radar gun and notebook to catch people going 10mph over the speed limit.I just want to say that I love the whole concept of expressly staking out a location to both be a witness to a crime and to (hopefully) engage in a car chase until the police can take over and get your statement, and all the while to be drinking beer.
Their brooms are broken.
That's why I was drinking Dale's Pale Ale - I thought if/when I had to engage pursuit, my first move would be to toss the empties out of the car. And that it would be better to toss cans instead of bottles.It's that kind of attention to detail that will help bring this criminal to justice.I just want to say that I love the whole concept of expressly staking out a location to both be a witness to a crime and to (hopefully) engage in a car chase until the police can take over and get your statement, and all the while to be drinking beer.
Better than possum?This story is supposedly being seen around the country (not sure why). This is the town I live in
oh, and the part about not knowing where it came from is bull####. I pass that dude's place everyday. He has emus, goat and those mini-horses all living together in a field like that part in the bible.
I need one of these, ASAP. Where'd you get it?
That's why I was drinking Dale's Pale Ale - I thought if/when I had to engage pursuit, my first move would be to toss the empties out of the car. And that it would be better to toss cans instead of bottles.It's that kind of attention to detail that will help bring this criminal to justice.I just want to say that I love the whole concept of expressly staking out a location to both be a witness to a crime and to (hopefully) engage in a car chase until the police can take over and get your statement, and all the while to be drinking beer.
You start the Saunders book yet?
Better than possum?This story is supposedly being seen around the country (not sure why). This is the town I live in
oh, and the part about not knowing where it came from is bull####. I pass that dude's place everyday. He has emus, goat and those mini-horses all living together in a field like that part in the bible.
never had possum. I did try coon once, but it was too greasy 
Christo "owns" people nowadays? What is happening to the ffa?
Again, you're not thinking like a counterprankster. You toss the empties at the offending car.That's why I was drinking Dale's Pale Ale - I thought if/when I had to engage pursuit, my first move would be to toss the empties out of the car. And that it would be better to toss cans instead of bottles.It's that kind of attention to detail that will help bring this criminal to justice.I just want to say that I love the whole concept of expressly staking out a location to both be a witness to a crime and to (hopefully) engage in a car chase until the police can take over and get your statement, and all the while to be drinking beer.
I have heard of it, but never seen it until now. I had wondered, how will they handle the golden snitch.I tried to think of several scenarios- like a souped up remote controlled car or some belt driven sphere. , I must confess, it never occurred to me that the golden snitch would be an effeminate skinny white guy in yellow T-shirt and shorts, running around like a streaker on the field dodging the cops. I guess I have just done too much damage to my mind to come up with the straightforward, logical solution.
Better than possum?This story is supposedly being seen around the country (not sure why). This is the town I live in
oh, and the part about not knowing where it came from is bull####. I pass that dude's place everyday. He has emus, goat and those mini-horses all living together in a field like that part in the bible.
:doubledouble:
My wife's reading it until I'm finished with my current book: "The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend" by Glenn Frankel. It tells the real-life story of the 1830s pioneer woman who was abducted by Comanches and then "rescued" 24 years later, and then tells how that story became a novel, and then goes into John Ford making the movie with John Wayne. It's a really ambitious attempt to weigh in on the interplay of historical fact, the fictionalization of facts, and the making of myths and legends. The history stuff doesn't quite work, but the stuff about the making of the movie is great.
I have 2, one in black, and one in "battle red'.I got them during some 2 for 1 salezazzle t-shirts I think
