Fashion Board 5-7-04 to 6-9-04 - Page 211

Hank Chinaski · 05-25-2004, 05:01 PM

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Originally posted by dtb
Asking for grades isn't so ridiculous when you're really junior, but after a few years, who the hell cares? When someone kindly posted listings for copy editors a while back, I took a look, and there was one company DE Shaw (wtf?) who asked for SAT SCORES! If that's not the stupidest thing ever, I don't know what is. How does one go about getting one's SAT scores, anyway? That was umm... well, a lot of years ago!

If you are not anal enough to have your SAT scores, STILL, you are not anal enough to be a copy editor. Sorry.

Shape Shifter · 05-25-2004, 05:03 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
If you are not anal enough to have your SAT scores, STILL, you are not anal enough to be a copy editor. Sorry.

How is it possible to be photogenic AND still have one's SAT scores after [number deleted] years?

sebastian_dangerfield · 05-25-2004, 05:08 PM

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Originally posted by paigowprincess
Clearly you got that gig at Dangerfield, Baggins & Coltrane bc you are rewritinhg what I said, or distorting it from "two years is too soon" to "you must stay at same gig for eight to twelve years to make partner to be sufficeintly satisfied to stay and not look like a jobhopper". Good work man. A real tour de force, as Ty would say. Does it work with the judge?

Paigs,

When I want to, I'll debate with you. But right now, I'm just jumping in occasionally and hanging some footnote type observations on the conversation.

Yes, it does work with the judge. Because in that scenario we at DB&C give a shit, and actually prepare. Here, I couldn't give a rat's ass whether you think me brilliant or a mongoloid. Performing well in debate or maintaining consistency in discussion so as to impress others with the organizational capacities of your mind in this forum is like trying to hit the longest drive on the range.*

I attempt to direct the thread from time to time because I want to discuss something else.

What can I say, I'm selfish,
SD

*In fact, that analogy is generous.

ABBAKiss · 05-25-2004, 05:13 PM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
mongoloid

This word has confused me for a long time. Just when I think it has something to do with mental retardation or Down's syndrome or some other "defect" I see it used to describe someone from Mongolia. Am I confusing two separate words and just don't realize it?

Tyrone Slothrop · 05-25-2004, 05:14 PM

So if you have good references, do you include them on the cover letter, or do you just hope they'll ask?

ltl/fb · 05-25-2004, 05:14 PM

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Originally posted by ABBAKiss
This word has confused me for a long time. Just when I think it has something to do with mental retardation or Down's syndrome or some other "defect" I see it used to describe someone from Mongolia. Am I confusing two separate words and just don't realize it?

I believe people from Mongolia are referred to as Mongolians.

And that SD is a racist fuck. And hates people who happen to have more chromosomes than he does.

ABBAKiss · 05-25-2004, 05:15 PM

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Originally posted by ABBAKiss
This word has confused me for a long time. Just when I think it has something to do with mental retardation or Down's syndrome or some other "defect" I see it used to describe someone from Mongolia. Am I confusing two separate words and just don't realize it?

I looked this up and it is both. http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/mongoloid

That seems strange to me. And rude and racist.

SlaveNoMore · 05-25-2004, 05:16 PM

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ABBAKiss
This word has confused me for a long time. Just when I think it has something to do with mental retardation or Down's syndrome or some other "defect" I see it used to describe someone from Mongolia. Am I confusing two separate words and just don't realize it?

Please be kidding.

dtb · 05-25-2004, 05:17 PM

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
How is it possible to be photogenic AND still have one's SAT scores after [number deleted] years?

Happily, the photogenic requirement was not for the same employer as the one requiring SAT scores. I mean, I can remember the ballpark figure, but wtf? How is that relevant after you've been through college, law school and a [number deleted]-year career?

Pikers.

Gattigap · 05-25-2004, 05:17 PM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Performing well in debate or maintaining consistency in discussion so as to impress others with the organizational capacities of your mind in this forum is like trying to hit the longest drive on the range.*

OK, but you understand that by this standard, Paigow rarely holds a driver, preferring instead to spend her mulligans around the green, right?

Replaced_Texan · 05-25-2004, 05:24 PM

Twenty one years produces life in being. (spree: sperm, news)

How many opportunities do you get to make a RAP joke?

Sidd Finch · 05-25-2004, 05:26 PM

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Originally posted by dtb
Happily, the photogenic requirement was not for the same employer as the one requiring SAT scores. I mean, I can remember the ballpark figure, but wtf? How is that relevant after you've been through college, law school and a [number deleted]-year career?

Pikers.

Are you kidding? You work in a field where people remember their Little League batting averages. It's relevant because theirs might be bigger than someone else's.

Alex_de_Large · 05-25-2004, 05:27 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Well, there was Gibson too.

http://www.nylawyer.com/news/03/02/020403f.html

That is a completely fucking reCOCKulous position.

And no, I obviously don't have a 4.0 from HLS.

Not Bob · 05-25-2004, 05:29 PM

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Originally posted by dtb
Happily, the photogenic requirement was not for the same employer as the one requiring SAT scores. I mean, I can remember the ballpark figure, but wtf? How is that relevant after you've been through college, law school and a [number deleted]-year career?

Pikers.

Plus, what if you took the ACT instead? What then?

In other news, I am somewhat disappointed that Not Bob & Associates LLP was not one of the firms looking for associates that was mentioned by paigow in her slam of coltrane.

For the record, NB&A (an equal opportunity employer) welcomes inquiries from all potential lateral associates. We won't bother reading your writing sample because we know that you will pay atticus to write it and dtb to edit it, but will check to make sure that you are actually admitted to practice law in the state of Podunk (Fenwick came up with this idea after seeing that Tom Hanks/Leonardo Dicaprio movie a couple of years ago).

Pay and benefits are competitive, and you only have to split your tips with the copy chick and the donut delivery guy. (The weird old guy who updates the loose-leaf reporters in the library will tell you otherwise, but don't listen to him.)

sebastian_dangerfield · 05-25-2004, 05:30 PM

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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Are you kidding? You work in a field where people remember their Little League batting averages. It's relevant because theirs might be bigger than someone else's.

I see a bunch of bench warmers if you ask me. Just my opinion, but the kids who put up serious numbers appear to have stayed the fuck away from this disfunctional ship of defective twists.