I assume the NYC FBers are the exception to the rule
 

Thanks for the warning. I'll keep my eye on him.

general accent rule (college)
 

Part of the point of an out-of-state college experience is to make you really self-conscious about your own accent, whatever it may be. Of course if you, like me, have no accent, then there is no problem. But if, for example, you are a person from Rhode Island, Texas or the deep south going to school in upstate NY, or a person from Wisconsin/Minnesota going to school in Boston, or a person from Boston going to school in southern California (etc.), people will mock you. Fact of life. Even if their own accents totally suck wind (how can Boston people mock anyone?). It is through these trials and tribulations that everyone ends up sounding generically the same (like me) by the time they hit the professional world.

You're welcome for this lesson of life.

Zeke
 

Nope. That was one post. Can't you count?


So now time for some deep thoughts.

01. What is your favorite word?

Sleep

02. What is your least favorite word?

Moist, of course ( I don't have one.)

03. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?

Being introduced to new concepts

04. What turns you off?

Stupid quizzes

05. What is your favorite curse word?

Fuck

06. What sound or noise do you love?

The train

07. What sound or noise do you hate?

Screaming

08. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?

Artist

09. What profession would you not like to do?

Factory worker

10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

See Leagl, you were wrong, it does exist. But welcome anyway.

Blech
 

Someone please give me a good reason not to do any of the following:

1. insert this emoticon - :fuckyou: - into an email to a colleague who is currently "supervising" me
2. sarcastically reply to a micromanaging email with "no, I did not do that, because I am, in fact, a retard, :rolleyes: or
3. quit

edited to add: "I wasn't even supposed to be here today," and insert expressive emoticons.

Blech
 

Because all of these options are less effective than a flippant "Bitch please."

Bitch
 

Especially if the offender is PJ, who hates the word bitch.

If you have pets, I can give you a good reason not to quit -- you don't want them to starve. Though, I bet homeless people with pets do better than homeless people without pets. HUH, that just reminded me, I had a dream last night that included a homeless person with an orange tabby cat that he carried around in a backpack with the head sticking out. IRL, I don't think that would happen unless the cat were crippled and/or brain damaged.

Blech
 

ABBA love, thank you. I just pictured myself saying that in the conversation that preceded my post and cracked up. I feel so, so, so much better.

Blech
 

Quit and go over to play with Paigow. She should be happy today.

Blech
 

Can't help you.

TM

Bitch
 

This was out of no where. But I agree -- I don't think a homeless person would carry around an orange tabby cat in a backpack unless there were something truly bizarro going on.

Blech
 

I am happy every day. :wtf??:

Blech
 

Though, she's down and in bed eating chocolate, so I'm a little confused.

God help me, I'm tracking her moods.

Bitch
 

There was a fixture in DC who rode around on his motorcycle with a cat riding on the front. The cat wore a helmet. I never actually saw them, but friends had. I think the guy died recently. I have no idea whether the cat was dain bramaged.

Blech
 

I said I am down as in I am *down, man*. Like the guy from MTV Sports who played the himbo on seinfeld. dan something (cortese?). the week in bed with chocolate is a vacation I am planning. :stupid:

I assume the NYC FBers are the exception to the rule
 

No, but Northeasterners* assume that anyone with a southern accent is a racist dummy. So, her story fits (at least for those of us who live in the Podunkvilles and red states of the country).

That being said, I haven't noticed NYC lawyers being any more tool-like than non-NYC lawyers. Granted, I do slip and fall cases, so I haven't had to negotiate a leveraged buy-out hostile takeover corporate raid poison pill rezoning thing, or whatever it is that you transactional lawyers do, but I've dealt with lawyers from places like Rogers & Wells. They didn't seem a whole lot different from the guys and gals in the Podunkville Bar Association.

Well, maybe they were better-dressed (some of them) and had degrees from places like Smith for undergrad and Columbia for LS, instead of Podunk State. And they kayaked less. But they were no more or less tool-like.

*Sweeping generalization, but unfortunately true of many in the NE.