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Are you this crabby all the time or only during the day?

-T(take a vacation day, already)L

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You must not walk much in a town inhabited substantially by overweight gov't secretaries who walk two or three abreast down the middle of the sidewalk, and who refuse to move aside, or, for that matter, walk in a straight line. I was stuck behind two such taxpayer-remoras this morning. I tried to go around them (well, circumnavigate might more aptly describe the detour I had to take), yet, as I was doing so, they drifted to the left, leaving me the choice of being absorbed into their blubber or stepping into the muddy tree box on the other side.

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OR have some beer at the office :beer:

As for the baby-bringers, do they actually get paid for that day of work? Is it possible to accomplish anything while toting the baby around? I suppose if it's a question of billables, then it doesn't matter (although why they're in the office at all is a question), but for a wage?

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I guess you are trying to say that I am a meanie because I don't want to share in the happiness and enjoyment thing. I dunno, I had a child and didn't do this sort of thing. I guess I just don't understand why people cannot keep their personal and business lives separate. I work a lot and I have a family -- the two things are very different and I like to keep them apart.

You know, if they really cared that much about their newborn children people would probably think twice about dragging them into office buildings (where we all know that germ-laden air is constantly circulated) to be handled by numerous people who likely do not wash their hands before picking up the child.

Serenaty Now
 

Gloating doesn't suit you, you know. And aren't Canadians supposed to be self-effacing?

Husbands, Rejoice!
 

Housework Can Help Prevent Cancer, Say Scientists

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Housework is good for you.

According to a new Australian-Chinese study, dusting and vacuuming could help prevent ovarian cancer.

The study, published in the International Journal of Cancer this week, found moderate exercise such as housework decreased the risk of ovarian cancer with the benefits increasing the harder the work.

Head researcher Colin Binns from Perth's Curtin University on Australia's west coast said the two-year study of 900 Chinese women found the risk of ovarian cancer declined with increasing physical activity. Housework was on the list.

"If you are only doing the housework 20 minutes a week ... it does not really count, but if you are doing three to four hours a day, this is fairly vigorous exercise and increases protection from ovarian cancer," Binns told Reuters.

Full text: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...work_cancer_dc

3 or 4 hours of housework!

Serenaty Now
 

Was God on holiday the previous 50 years?

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I know the type, these are the same people who sit in little clusters on the train and cackle at the top of their lungs about the most banal BS gossip and about how bad their lives are (like they're some prize to come home to).

Since they move in groups, I'm considering advocating letting packs of hyenas loose at the train stations on the decrepit wildebeests to pick off the stragglers. I'm not bitter, though.

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I also have a child who has not shown her face at my work. But I certainly understand why others bring in their kids. Some people don't like to mix work and personal life, others do.

Regarding your second paragraph, I agree completely. If you're bringing the kid in, wait until they're at least two months old.

21 Questions
 

So I heard "21 Questions" by 50 Cent today, for maybe the 100th time. I think it's interesting. Here's why.

At first blush, it seems as though 50 is singing the song to ask his beloved if she loves him for his true self, or merely because of his fame ("Girl/It's easy to love me now/Would you love me if I was down and out/would you still have love for me," and "If I went back to a hoopty from a Benz/Would you poof and disappear like
some of my friends?"). So we think that 50 is in the position of power in this relationship. And there's no reason to think otherwise for the first 3/4 of the song.

But towards the end, the song takes a sharp turn:

"If I was with some other chick and someone happened to see?
And when you asked me about it I said it wasn't me
Would you believe me? Or up and leave me?
How deep is our bond if that's all it takes for you to be gone?
We only humans girl we make mistakes,
To make it up I do whatever it take."

These questions are remarkably different, and seem not-so hypothetical. What's really going on is that 50's been caught by his girl banging some other skeeze.

So it turns out, his girlfriend has "hand"; 50 is the supplicant trying to convince her to remain in the relationship. How he does so is a blueprint to Players everywhere. Be cool. Act like you never lost "hand" in the first place. Question HER motives, and let her know that you're questioning her motives. The best defense is a good offense. Do you love me for me, or for my Benz? I'm not so sure I want to keep you around anyhow. Ok, I guess that I do. I'll put my doubts behind me, you do the same. We'll move on. A true Player plays thusly. And IT WORKS! The song ends with the lyric of the year: "I love you like a fat kid love cake." Make her laugh, and you've won. Everything's fine. 50 convinces his girl to put her doubts aside and move on. What a Mack.

At least, that's how it looks from here.

Coming up later, an analysis of Some Kind of Wonderful.

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No no no. You are not a meanie. Do not give up on this. I wasted almost an entire day when someone else's secretary brought an infant (yes an infant) to the office and all I could hear over the crying was the fucking BABY TALK. BABY TALK makes me crazy! Why do people do the itty bitty boopy doopy shit? Talk English! Stop talking - I'm trying to work forchristssakes.

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Why would you label me crabby? I am not crabby. In fact, I am quite a nice person. I just don't think that an office is a place to parade your new baby once a week. Maybe bring the kid in once for everyone to see and then be done with it. I realize that new parents are all happy and excited (I was once a new parent) but I find it hard to believe that they have all suddenly lost the sense to know that their joy and excitement is generally not something that people not blood-related to the newborn share. Is this show and tell. Should we all feel free to parade around the office with whatever brings us joy and waste other's time? That is not to say that I don't know a bunch of people who would find this perfectly acceptable if the "whatever" of the receptionist turned out to be three-way sex with her boyfriend and best girl friend.

You know, it seems to me that we all have this mental list of what everyone is supposed to think is precious, sweet or cute and then want put the label "beast" on those who disagree. It is not like I said that the baby should be killed or anything, just that babies shouldn't be paraded around the office all the time.

21 Questions
 

Next time, can you please add a spoiler space?

Some of us haven't heard it yet.

not7yS

21 Questions
 

Agreed.

(Or, to translate into bev/aaev: true dat.)

I am not crazy about the song, but I love the line.

Even(my favorite song is currently David Banner "Like a Pimp")Odds

edited b/c not everyone has a sense of humor today. e/o

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Your objection is that they are so unclassy as to suck at the government teat directly, whereas everyone else in the whole D.C. metropolitan area does it indirectly?