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Sparklehorse 09-08-2006 02:51 PM
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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Sometimes I think so, sometimes I'm not sure. I know enough lawyers who could easily retire, and maintain their current lifestyles right through the day they die -- yet they keep on working. I have a few colleagues in this boat, and I've dealt with some other lawyers on cases I've had (espeically plaintiff-side class action guys who hit it big, repeatedly), and they keep on working and very happy about it.

Maybe they're senior enough to make everyone else deal with the bullshit, maybe they just like the sense of what they've accomplished and built and want to further that.

I hope that when I'm their age, I have that same sense (and the accomplishments to back it up). Or, I have enough cash to make the choice that they are not making. Either/or, I'm flexible.
A member of my extended family has Parkinson's and is in a nursing home. He "practiced" the way semi-retired lawyers do until he entered the nursing home. I hadn't seen him in a while and saw him last weekend. When he had the chance, his eyes lit up and he asked me how my practice is going. It was clear he would be back in his office in a minute if he could.

bold_n_brazen 09-08-2006 02:52 PM
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The presence of the Brazenette (or the Fringette analog) kills my interest in bnb's lifestyle. I think I would eventually get very depressed with that lifestyle.
I think what dtb is talking about when she talks about my "lifestyle" is not so much the whole stay-at-home-mom thing as the fact that I get to do exactly, precisely what I want to.

Tyrone Slothrop 09-08-2006 02:52 PM
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FWIW right away I started PMing my friends to see who it was. RP, already all of my friends have confirmed it wasn't them. That narrows it down to Taxwonk or Ty- Sidd can you PM them?
I thought I was your friend on this board. Damn.

Tyrone Slothrop 09-08-2006 02:53 PM
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Believe me. I may have lied about TM but this one was not a lie. And it will make her twist. not since she is so into being rated as pretty but for the betrayal it implies.
Compared to having to euthanize a pet, I'd say you really ruined her day.

robustpuppy 09-08-2006 02:53 PM
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Believe me. I may have lied about TM but this one was not a lie. And it will make her twist. not since she is so into being rated as pretty but for the betrayal it implies.
You are even more stupid and clueless than I previously thought if you think that I would consider this a betrayal, or be surprised by it if I did.

Penske_Account 09-08-2006 02:54 PM
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Originally posted by Sparklehorse
A member of my extended family has Parkinson's and is in a nursing home. He "practiced" the way semi-retired lawyers do until he entered the nursing home. I hadn't seen him in a while and saw him last weekend. When he had the chance, his eyes lit up and he asked me how my practice is going. It was clear he would be back in his office in a minute if he could.

Given the choice of nursing home or law firm I would choose law firm too.

Tyrone Slothrop 09-08-2006 02:55 PM
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I think what dtb is talking about when she talks about my "lifestyle" is not so much the whole stay-at-home-mom thing as the fact that I get to do exactly, precisely what I want to.
Kind of like the gay "lifestyle," come to think of it. Huh.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) 09-08-2006 02:55 PM
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I think what dtb is talking about when she talks about my "lifestyle" is not so much the whole stay-at-home-mom thing as the fact that I get to do exactly, precisely what I want to.
Since the brazenette presumably gets to do exactly, precisely what she wants to, how do you work things out when those differ?

Penske_Account 09-08-2006 02:56 PM
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I think what dtb is talking about when she talks about my "lifestyle" is not so much the whole stay-at-home-mom thing as the fact that I get to do exactly, precisely what I want to.
Plus the wilde and crazy sex life.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) 09-08-2006 02:56 PM
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the use of Burger's button. .
I like this term. Spend seven minutes in heaven with me?

bold_n_brazen 09-08-2006 02:56 PM
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He never said you weren't pretty. But a third party did. I never apologized to him for that one, I felt it was fair game since he lied about being attractive. That third party got it on reference from someone else. so you take that for w it is worth babe.
Wait. I need to think about this for a minute.

TM never said RP was not pretty.
Some third party did. And the third party got the information from someone else.
Plus, TM lied about himself being attractive?

Is that what you are saying?

J. Fred Muggs 09-08-2006 02:57 PM
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Given the choice of nursing home or law firm I would choose law firm too.
Or the best of all combinations, I have a friend who is a nursing home lawyer. He is most proud that he never set foot in one of his clients' facilities ever.

Tyrone Slothrop 09-08-2006 02:57 PM
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Plus the wilde and crazy sex life.
Jinx (assuming the "e" was intentional).

andViolins 09-08-2006 02:57 PM
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I think what dtb is talking about when she talks about my "lifestyle" is not so much the whole stay-at-home-mom thing as the fact that I get to do exactly, precisely what I want to.
You can put on the brave face all you want bn'b., but WE all know that you sit at home, weeping softly to yourself. Alone in that huge fucking mansion. Probably swimming around in the money pool.

Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

aV

Jack Manfred 09-08-2006 02:57 PM
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Someone wanted something funny. How about Gnarls Barkley as Wayne and Garth??

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Pedro and Napoleon?

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This post isn't into the whole brevity thing...

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bold_n_brazen 09-08-2006 02:57 PM
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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Since the brazenette presumably gets to do exactly, precisely what she wants to, how do you work things out when those differ?
You're going to make me pull one out of the mom phrasebook, aren't you?

It's my house, and in my house we.....

Penske_Account 09-08-2006 02:58 PM
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I thought I was your friend on this board. Damn.
Hank, I think the fact that he has taken you off ignore speaks volumes of his good intentions here.

Apparently our two tined fork of intervention last night worked. Or he's hitting the box early today.

Sparklehorse 09-08-2006 02:58 PM
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Wait. I need to think about this for a minute.

TM never said RP was not pretty.
Some third party did. And the third party got the information from someone else.
Plus, TM lied about himself being attractive?

Is that what you are saying?
No, no, no. Thurgreed lied about HER being unattractive. In his heart of hearts, at the end of the day, when it all comes down to brass tacks and gets baked in, he KNOWS she's attractive.

patentparanyc 09-08-2006 02:59 PM
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You can put on the brave face all you want bn'b., but WE all know that you sit at home, weeping softly to yourself. Alone in that huge fucking mansion. Probably swimming around in the money pool.

Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

aV
You know, everyone says I am so vapid and stupid for talking endlessly about Thomas PInk this, Burberry that how is this different? I don't care if she rolls naked in money ain't impacting ain't making or breaking my day.

greatwhitenorthchick 09-08-2006 02:59 PM
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Wait. I need to think about this for a minute.

TM never said RP was not pretty.
Some third party did. And the third party got the information from someone else.
Plus, TM lied about himself being attractive?

Is that what you are saying?
this is a fun fun game.

patentparanyc 09-08-2006 02:59 PM
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No, no, no. Thurgreed lied about HER being unattractive. In his heart of hearts, at the end of the day, when it all comes down to brass tacks and gets baked in, he KNOWS she's attractive.
Thank you.

Indeed. And all his strange wack assed half flirtatious comments attest to that.

patentparanyc 09-08-2006 03:00 PM
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this is a fun fun game.

oooh and I'm such a nasty little wormie that is holding her own against like 20 people. bring it.

bold_n_brazen 09-08-2006 03:00 PM
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You know, everyone says I am so vapid and stupid for talking endlessly about Thomas PInk this, Burberry that how is this different? I don't care if she rolls naked in money ain't impacting ain't making or breaking my day.
Honey, you're the one who keeps calling me a bored housewife.

notcasesensitive 09-08-2006 03:02 PM
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Thank you.

Indeed. And all his strange wack assed half flirtatious comments attest to that.
Which of his comments are flirtatious, exactly? Did he <gasp> offer you a straw or something?

notcasesensitive 09-08-2006 03:02 PM
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oooh and I'm such a nasty little wormie that is holding her own against like 20 people. bring it.
In your own mind you are, I'm sure.

Penske_Account 09-08-2006 03:02 PM
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Jinx (assuming the "e" was intentional).
W P, p.

patentparanyc 09-08-2006 03:02 PM
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Which of his comments are flirtatious, exactly? Did he <gasp> offer you a straw or something?
Forget it, way too high octane for you to grasp.

notcasesensitive 09-08-2006 03:04 PM
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Honey, you're the one who keeps calling me a bored housewife.
Where are you from, anyway? Housewife is at least as big of an insult as Single or Divorced or Childless. You just don't get it, eh?

Shape Shifter 09-08-2006 03:05 PM
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this is a fun fun game.
Where is that mac-and-cheese place again?

Pretty Little Flower 09-08-2006 03:05 PM
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Why is everyone always complaining about how someone else wants their cake and wants to eat it too? Of course I want to have my cake and eat it too. I like cake. I like eating it, and I want to have it also, in case I want to eat it in the future. Not only do I want to have my cake and eat it too. I want to simultaneously have my cake, eat my cake, shove my cake up the ass of my second worst enemy, and force feed the cake that was shoved up the ass of Flower Enemy #2 to Flower Enemy #1. And I also want that same cake to be floating in the air behind the next person who compains to me about my wanting to have my cake and eat it to so I can see the cake and have pleasant cake-related thoughts as I repeatedly stab that person in the eyes.

I'm not being greedy. I just like cake.

patentparanyc 09-08-2006 03:06 PM
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Where is that mac-and-cheese place again?
She said the eatery

I said Vynl.

mac and cheese: you make the choice.

Sparklehorse 09-08-2006 03:08 PM
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Where is that mac-and-cheese place again?
I just saw an ad for TGIFridays that they now have some deep-fried mac'n'cheese bites appetizer. Anyone tried this yet? If so, how does it compared to a deep-fried candy bar on a stick?

pony_trekker 09-08-2006 03:09 PM
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I'm listening to music I haven't listened to in years, Mott the Hoople- ?
David Essex "Rock On"

Itunes has really hit a niche: satisfy people who want instant music gratification. Think of song, search for song, buy song and listen to song, all in 1 minute. I haven't bought a bit of music any other way in 18 months. CD stores are going to go the way of the record stores, the way of the TV repair shop.

One question: why are cars so far behind in audio technology? Does anyone even use the regular cd player any more? All I have is an ipod shuffle specifically for the car that plugs right in.

I would love something with a USB port that allows me to scroll through the songs on an ipod.

Sidd Finch 09-08-2006 03:11 PM
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I think what dtb is talking about when she talks about my "lifestyle" is not so much the whole stay-at-home-mom thing as the fact that I get to do exactly, precisely what I want to.
Me too, except for the part about sex with Jennifer Connelly before she went all Skeletor.

pony_trekker 09-08-2006 03:12 PM
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the guys I know fit this bill. They go fuck off all day, while drawing pay, and let the little guys work the cases up. if they get bored they show up for a dep or argument or whatever.

one ot the guys who have rang the register plenty on contingency cases ruined my best recent day:

I had tried and won my first contigency case and settled it. the settlement was low 7 figures (not the firm's take the whole thing) but we stepped in late and it was a great feeling- and was really a very nice payday- as I say my first contingency.

The day the money got wired, I read this knucklehead had gotten a $165 MILLION verdict against Microsoft.

He'll still go to work, because "going to work" includes going to London next week if he wants.
The key is business development. If you have that gene, you too can work 4 days a month, take summers off, send the kids to Choate and have someone else drive you around while the worker bees check your shit for typos.

pony_trekker 09-08-2006 03:13 PM
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Given the choice of nursing home or law firm I would choose law firm too.
Depends. Does your law firm let you shit your pants and eat green jello for dinner?

Sidd Finch 09-08-2006 03:14 PM
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In your own mind you are, I'm sure.

She defines "holding your own" a wee bit differently than sane people do.

bold_n_brazen 09-08-2006 03:15 PM
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Me too, except for the part about sex with Jennifer Connelly before she went all Skeletor.
You know that movie where she gets trapped in the Target overnight? The one where the male lead says something to her like "I would want to touch you even if you were covered in spiders"?

I love that movie.

Sidd Finch 09-08-2006 03:16 PM
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The key is business development. If you have that gene, you too can work 4 days a month, take summers off, send the kids to Choate and have someone else drive you around while the worker bees check your shit for typos.
Thing is, none of the people I'm talking about work four days a month. They are all full time lawyers, and happy as pigs in shit.

Though the biz dev is a key ingredient to this, absolutely.

Penske_Account 09-08-2006 03:17 PM
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Depends. Does your law firm let you shit your pants and eat green jello for dinner?
As long as I bill for it, yes.


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