Anne Elk, your turn to rant
 

Why bother with the soccer? Why not just have 20 naked chicks running around on a field (the goalies wouldn't need to be naked)?

Slippery Slope
 

For that matter, why have them run?

And further, why have a field, when you can have a baby oil drizzled tarp?

Anne Elk, your turn to rant
 

Uhh, she seemed to get it off her chest a few hours back.

Anne Elk, your turn to rant
 

I had a mild rant here in response to Burger's original post. I'm in a better mood to rant since I had a fucking temp attorney give me a hard time. Hey bitch- be happy you're here making money. If you don't like the workroom you're in, I can arrange for you to be back out on the street with your tin cup. Kinda tough to pay down the loans that way ain't it? Now back to Seth....

Pig. In addition to his objectification of women, he is clearly out of touch with what is going on in the women's game. It is far too established to be sucked in by his gimick (didn't work in women's basketball).

Women are already wearing uniforms that are appropriately sized. We stopped wearing the over-sized men's uniforms back in the late '80's. The uniform is appropriate to the sport. Skirts, shorter shorts, skimpier tops are not appropriate. In soccer you use your entire body (with the exception of arms/hands unless you are the goalie). Blocking/trapping a ball kicked at up to 60 miles per hour hurts. Believe it or not, the bit of cloth is some protection. I'm not playing with any additional parts of my body exposed.

Why do they keep bringing up Brandi Chastain and the fact that she took off her shirt in the World Cup? Doesn't anybody watch the men's game? They are always taking off their shirts. No one says anything about that.

SS - there are 11 women per team, so it would be 22 women running around naked. Not.

Slave - we play in rain and mud, that's not good enough for you?

Personally, I think those NBA boys should stop wearing pajamas on the court. Let them go back to the shorty shorts, and tight fitting tops.

Anne Elk, your turn to rant
 

Or they could borrow unis from the Australian womens team.

Anne Elk, your turn to rant
 

You're talking about fierce althletic competition in the elements - I'm talking about my vision for "Sorority Sex Kittens 5."

Besides, as I've already had my hat handed to me in a drunken argument with C2ed and Catrin_Darcy over Title IX, I'll refrain from any further comment on women's Soccer.:flag:

Anne Elk, your turn to rant
 

You'd best be careful with those two when they've been drinking. I just ended up agreeing with everything they were saying about field hockey.

Anne Elk, your turn to rant
 

A happy medium - http://www.lingeriebowl.com/lb2004.htm (no nudity, just lingerie)

men who wax
 

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch

You should cut back on the drugs. At this stage, you're probably eating the crack.

Movie Recs
 

Originally posted by notcasesensitive

Read Dostoevsky's story "The Gambler"

Lord of the Strings
 

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore

As I expected. When I saw a DVD in the drama section titled "Lord of the Strings", which is a parody of Lord of the Rings starring g-string bimbos, I figured that was right up your alley.

men who wax
 

I'm amazed this is controversial. Do they not have Details where you and Pony live? I suspect Joseph Bank's couture* is designed by heterosexuals, and apparently Ralph Lauren's wife squeezed out another generation of Lipshitzes, but when we speak of a trend toward hairlessness, we're talking solely about the cultural and evolutionary vanguard, i.e., homosexuals.

*My spell check suggested both "cooter" and "goiter" as suggested alternatives for my first misspelling of this. Weird that.

Anne Elk, your turn to rant
 

You got me all excited about seeing Anne's chest for a two news cycle-old story about FIFA being an old boys' club? Next thing I know my TiVo will be showing Fox Sports World's choice of the EPL matches to air this week, sure to be Wolverhampton v. Leeds or something else worthless.

New avatar
 

All this soccer talk has gotten me all worked up.

Since poor Rio Ferdinand is getting railroaded, and is a pretty stand-up guy (see, for example, http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...td/3404655.stm), he gets the honor of being my avatar for a while.

ETA the first line and fix some spelling errors.

Anne Elk, your turn to rant
 

Soccer balls and shin guards wouldn't be appropriate props for such a film. You better find another sport to fantasize about.

Anne Elk, your turn to rant
 

Nah, those were hideous. I do like the tighter fitting Kappas that the Italian mens' team wore during the World Cup. The Tottenham Hotspurs wear them too. Something like that would be fine*. You don't want to show it all, just a int of what's underneath.

*For basketball or soccer, boys or girls.

Ladies version
http://ssl.spurs.co.uk/thfcstore/ass...ladieshome.jpg

Boys version
http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com.../791381904.jpg

Anne Elk, your turn to rant
 

Green and yellow? Say no more. What self-respecting 'roo would wear those colors? I've been trying to find linkable photographic evidence, but it apparently has all been destroyed.

Anne Elk, your turn to rant
 

Math is hard.

Just a Wie bit better
 

First thing we've agreed on in two weeks!

P.S. If Thurgreed can be 6'11" on the FB, then I'm a Heidi Klum clone.

Zeke
 

Ever seen a finishing hammer?

Who's got game?
 

Heh, good one.

I did finally realize why you two go at it the way you do. It goes waaaay back, doesn't it?

Hank:

http://sportsmed.starwave.com/media/.../shadow6_i.jpg


Thurgreed (pictured at left with Coolidge):

http://sportsmed.starwave.com/media/.../shadow8_i.jpg

Anne Elk, your turn to rant
 

Here's the best I could find. I haven't seen them since Sydney.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/oly...iams_ap-01.jpg

Hugh Jackman is Van Helsing
 

Barely's boy is back in May as Van Helsing, fighting vampires, werewolfs, and frankenstein. Link to trailer

Anne Elk, your turn to rant
 

I can't remember. Do the subs keep their warmups on on during the game?

Anne Elk, your turn to rant
 

Why don't you watch a game and find out?

I assume the NYC FBers are the exception to the rule
 

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic

That happens. A lot of clients like that. But there's plenty of NY lawyers that who act that way naturally or who only have practice negotiating that way. This does them and their clients little good on a deal when their clients lack leverage. And the client is forced to cave every time the lawyer starts acting like a prick about getting something or giving something they don't really need.

Some of these attorneys also go overboard, get careless, and say things based on inaccurate or insufficient legal analysis, and get called on the carpet for it.

Even if you're working on deals that are custom made for a financial, regulatory and/or tax play, some aspects of these deals are customary. People also make analogies to other types of deals where something is or isn't customary.

Attention Texans
 

I was sent this link about people in your state. I know this because of the lone star flag at the top. Kinda clever, not bad - it's a joke site with bizarre links to porn and a place called Microsuck if you click on certain pictures.

eh, check it out.

http://www.mytrailerpark.com/

Anne Elk, your turn to rant
 

Okay, so I was up late tonight defreggin my computer (for lack of a better euphemism), and, because I am a multitasker who leads an active lifestyle, decided to channel surf while doing so. In my exercise, I ran across a program called "Shock Video" on HBO. Shock Video is apparently HBO's new name for its Real Sex series, the program designed by the porn industry to convince everyone that sex on film is better left to the professionals.

Anyway, I had almost had my fill of hairy-pitted Swiss fraus lifting books with their boobs and was about to catch another wave for a GGW infomercial when, lo and behold, they showed a piece (tee hee) on a naked soccer match between the women of Italy and Brazil.

It was, shall we say, anticlimactic. Though played indoors with what looked to be a tarp for turf, Slave's excellent suggestion of baby oil was ignored. The Italian atheletes looked as if they had never heard of Dr. Atkins, while the Brazilians were not sufficiently Brazilianed. Nevertheless, it was a victory for the bush leagues, and Brazil won, 7-1. Must have been the quick pitch.

Having viewed this, I must cast my lot with Anne. Come for the Brandi, but stay for the Hamm.

um...
 

quote:
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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I'll tell my boyfriend you said so. Expect a basketball game challenge soon.

Ps. He is 6"11"
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Confidential to ncs:

Oh, ncs, think carefully.....
You'd have to be crazy to pick him over me. Just look at the stats. Sure he's a solid Fashion Board poster, but I'm coming on. I think i match up pretty well here, and this isn't even my sock's main home. you know I'm a Politics board sock, and everyone there loves, respects or fears me, depending.
I'm the more well-rounded, complete sock. If you look for someone who works both boards, I'm probably one of the top 5.
so don't make a dumb mistake....

Plus, how many poems has he written you?

I assume the NYC FBers are the exception to the rule
 

Of course (or I'd waste even more time than I do reinventing the wheel). But analogies do not constitute binding precedent, so some guy bellowing "never in my years of practice have I seen something like this suggested much less conceded it" just comes off as unimaginative (and probably out of date). You just want to ask "so, do you have any issues with the substance of the provision, or do you just not understand it because it isn't in your form book?"

Biggest asshole lawyers I've dealt with so far were in Dublin (multiple firms, multiple practice areas). Go figure. Charlotte NC is up there in the asshole quotient, in my experience, as is LA - but I've only dealt with the big LA firms, really, and big firms just breed & protect assholes more than midsize or smaller firms.

Surprisingly (to me), the most incompetent lawyers I've dealt with have been in London - but it has just been one (big) firm repeatedly demonstrating incompetence. I've dealt with a bunch of night-school Staten Island solo-prac ESL lawyers who do better than those guys.

I assume all FBers are the exception to the rule
 

Dublin, Ireland? I've never met anyone from Ireland who's that much of an asshole, certainly not compared to the NYC average. Lawyer or not. Especially the women in Ireland. If it weren't for their teeth, hell, the whole country might be hot.

I don't deal much with LA lawyers, but all the Charlotee people seem quite nice to me.

My list of biggest asshole lawyer locations, in decreasing assholeness:

1. NYC, although maybe it's just by sheer number, not rate
2. [random medium size markets where they have a big chip on their shoulder about not being a bigger market; think St. Louis, Portland, Minneapolis]
3. D.C.
4. [random foreign cities where U.S. lawyers practice; think London, Paris, Frankfurt, etc.; what, did you assholes all leave the U.S. because everyone hated you here?]
5. Boston

Generally, I find smaller markets to be kinder and easier to work with, as long as you don't treat them like bumpkins and explain the stuff that needs to be explained. In my case, it needs to be explained not because these guys are dumb or anything, but because they don't do the volume of these kinds of transactions that I do. But, except for a few medium markets, I've been pretty happy with my dealings with markets smaller than mine.

L Word report
 

Ok, so I saw the L Word in a room full of about 20 lesbians, and the overall response was it was pretty good.

It wasn't as cheesy as I thought it would be, it moved along pretty well, and there were some pretty funny moments.

The sex wasn't particularly explicit (thank God for small favors) nor was it done in such a way as to make us go, "oh come on we never do that," as frequently happens when watching porn's idea of lesbian sex.

So, all in all, a promising start.

Showtime has a free preview in my neck of the woods starting tomorrow, so if you want to see it before you decide to subscribe, check and see if you have the free preview. They will be rerunning it at least once or twice during the week.

L Word report
 

Sounds like a good party. How was the series?

L Word report
 

Aren't you funny.

L Word report
 

Tee hee.

L Word report
 

Alright, Shifty. Leave the nice lesbians alone...

What's the matter? LizardSkinemax not "doing it for you"?

Not to Interrupt
 

the Lesbian discussion, but I must quickly submit this gem:

http://www.poizenideas.com/cheesus/cheesus200.jpg

Behold the power of Cheesus!

http://www.poizenideas.com/cheesus/

Coming soon -> the Gouda Buddha.

aV

I assume all FBers are the exception to the rule
 

Since we're taking a poll, my list:

1. NYC
2. Akron
3. Buffalo
4. Indiana
5. Omaha

L Word report
 

Thanks. Now I know not to bother watching. ;)

Not to Interrupt
 

Mmmmm Sacrilege.