Fashion Board 1-08-04 through 02-03-04

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
[math and football]

Math is hard. But speaking of football, I watched Sealab for the first time last night on a portable tv while circling the block for a few hours waiting for a friend to get home, just to make sure she was okay. Anyway, it was the football coach episode. Very funny. Thanks for the rec.

[pony_trekker]

Why do paralegals get possessive about firm stuff like letterhead, envelopes, etc. It's not yours? It's the firm's. If my paralegal is out and I feel like taking one of your envelopes because I have to send a letter don't give me a dirty look.

[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Let me also add that I thought the bootleg (it wasn't a sneak or a draw) of Favre to lead to the 4th and 1 was a pretty silly call, though it came very very close to winning them the game.

Mike Sherman is D U M B dumb if he didn't know you can't call two timeouts in a row. My son is 8 and he knows that.

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Like all sequels of sequels, I pray that it doesn't involve Sophia Coppola. Or Talia Shire.

Better them than Steve Guttenberg, NTTAWWT.

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
Why do paralegals get possessive about firm stuff like letterhead, envelopes, etc. It's not yours? It's the firm's. If my paralegal is out and I feel like taking one of your envelopes because I have to send a letter don't give me a dirty look.

Did you have to enter the person's space to take it? That could have been more of the issue if you just sort of walked into the office or cubicle and just took something without saying, may I have an envelope or some such.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
Mike Sherman is D U M B dumb if he didn't know you can't call two timeouts in a row. My son is 8 and he knows that.

Maybe he's just O L D old and he forgot that they changed the rule (no idea when exactly it was changed, but used to be able to send kicker into deep freeze).

I've never been very impressed by Sherman. He is the worst ex-Holmgren assistant out there IMO. And I've watched a lot of Packer games...

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by NW Native
No PMs received.

There's no excuse for this, as the joke that you missed was entirely based on today's posts.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Math is hard. But speaking of football, I watched Sealab for the first time last night on a portable tv while circling the block for a few hours waiting for a friend to get home, just to make sure she was okay. Anyway, it was the football coach episode. Very funny. Thanks for the rec.

Somehow it is wrong that you're just getting to Sealab now. Continue to watch.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
So I guess most of your criticism is with the 70%-of-the-time-Ahman-Green-gets-the-first-down assumption? It's an unknown, but I'll tell you this: As someone who has a financial stake in the Eagles making it to the Super Bowl, I was very very very happy to see the punt team trot onto the field. I thought a first down was pretty much a foregone conclusion (remember that Cory Simon had been limping during the 2d half).

You're not saying much. In fact, you're repeating what I said in a different way. You were happy to see the punt team come out because you had so much to lose. If you get backed up to the 8 yard line, you have a shot. If they convert, game over.

The fact remains that they tried to convert a fourth down earlier in the game and failed. This was not 4th and inches. This was fourth and all of that one (yard). GB made the right decision. They just didn't execute thereafter.

Originally posted by str8outavannuys I've played on teams that play better with a chance to put the stake in the heart, and I've also played on teams that play worse in that situation. And I've played on teams that rally when they're faced with a do-or-die, and some that have folded up our tents. It depends on the mix of people.

Good point. But in this situation, I look at the Eagles as a cornered animal. They are going to come at you with all they've got. GB was doing the cornering and (unless you're Michael Jordan) I don't see anyone on that team with the required killer, boot-on-the-neck killer instinct to make that fourth down conversion a lock.

TM

[mmm3587]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
[reasons to have a roommate].

See, these all make sense to me, I guess. I'm in the same demographic. But I got all that out of my system in college and law school and the year between. Now that I am a hot-shot lawyer and work a lot, the last thing I want to deal with when I get home from work is some other dude in my place. And if I want to leave my shit lying around until the maid picks it up, I do. And if I fall asleep working on stuff and leave confidential shit all over the kitchen table, I don't have to worry about my roommates fucking it up or photocopying it and leaving copies at the local pizza place.

And I don't work with anyone who has a roommate, except for one woman who is really still living in her college situation, and several people who have "roommates." Chicago isn't New York, and most of the people I know who have roommates are (i) students, (ii) under 25 or (iii) can't afford not to. And I mean can't afford not to, like they make less than $40k a year, not
they're saving for a down payment.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by mmm3587
See, these all make sense to me, I guess. I'm in the same demographic. But I got all that out of my system in college and law school and the year between. Now that I am a hot-shot lawyer and work a lot, the last thing I want to deal with when I get home from work is some other dude in my place. And if I want to leave my shit lying around until the maid picks it up, I do. And if I fall asleep working on stuff and leave confidential shit all over the kitchen table, I don't have to worry about my roommates fucking it up or photocopying it and leaving copies at the local pizza place.

And you didn't need a mentor to help you make your decision? I'm shocked.

TM

[Atticus Grinch]

TM would be Boondocks
Bilmore would be Mark Trail
Wonk would be Andy Capp
Sebby would be Dagwood & Blondie
Ty would be Tom Tomorrow
RP would be Ernie Pook's Comeek
G3 would be Troubletown
NFH would be Ripley's Believe it or Not!
Chinaski would be Life in Hell
Gwinky would be Nancy
Gattigap would be Pogo
Shape Shifter would be The Far Side
PLF would be Zippy the Pinhead
Fringey would be Cathy
Sidd would be Drabble
Not Bob would be Kudzu
Slave and Less would be Frank & Ernest

and I would be Feiffer.



None of us is Doonesbury, Calvin & Hobbes, or Peanuts. But at least none of us is the Family Circus, either.

That is all.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by mmm3587
See, these all make sense to me, I guess. I'm in the same demographic. But I got all that out of my system in college and law school and the year between. Now that I am a hot-shot lawyer and work a lot, the last thing I want to deal with when I get home from work is some other dude in my place. And if I want to leave my shit lying around until the maid picks it up, I do. And if I fall asleep working on stuff and leave confidential shit all over the kitchen table, I don't have to worry about my roommates fucking it up or photocopying it and leaving copies at the local pizza place.

And I don't work with anyone who has a roommate, except for one woman who is really still living in her college situation, and several people who have "roommates." Chicago isn't New York, and most of the people I know who have roommates are (i) students, (ii) under 25 or (iii) can't afford not to. And I mean can't afford not to, like they make less than $40k a year, not
they're saving for a down payment.

You obviously run with a more successful crowd than I do. And I don't work at BIGLAW so I'm not raking it in. Then again, I don't hang out with lawyers. I can generally say (present company excluded) that I am mainly correct when I say that all they ever talk about is work. No thanks. I'd rather hang out with less successful but more interesting people. I graduated in 2001, apparently the worst law job market ever. Ever. Had I not gone to law school, I'd probably be making much more. Nevertheless, I'm not complaining about my situation. I'm having a blast.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Volkswagon Pheaton.
Do you know how much that car costs? It starts at $64,600.

That is not a typo.

Kind of goes against the whole concept of "people's car", doesn't it?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
at least none of us is the Family Circus, either.

Not Me.

TM