A Black Hole of Happiness

[pony_trekker]

Elvis: Working a summer job for the NYC Housing authority painting fences.

Reagan: College Radio station.

Challenger: watching TV in a hotel room in Travers City Michigan after my roomate kept me up all night fucking some skank.

Berlin Wall: Working at a stock quote systems manufacturer which is in the same building I work in now.

Princess Di: DNR

OJ Arrest: DNR.

OJ Decision: Watched at a bar around the corner from Smith Barney (where I worked)

9/11: Got out of the City Hall train station after the second plane had hit. Walked over the bridge toward Brooklyn. I was near the EDNY court house when all of a sudden people started screaming. I asked what happened and some one said "The building fell." Then 30 seconds later that awful crackling sound hit.

[dtb]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Hummer.

I would love to have a Porsche, but not for showing off. I've always loved those cars. (But maybe I've just always been insecure.)

Popped collar.

TM

WTF is a popped collar? (I'm certain it's an incontrovertible sign of douchebaggery, as both TM and bnb have selected it as the height of douchebaggery, but I'd like to know exactly how to spot it -- it saves me a step.)

And in unrelated piling on: I was in a taxi cab at a red light when I heard about the planes flying into the WTC. The Dialcar driver in the car next to mine told us (my cab driver and me), and it struck me as strange when my cabdriver kind of shrugged and said, "Huh."

[Sparklehorse]

Originally posted by dtb
WTF is a popped collar? (I'm certain it's an incontrovertible sign of douchebaggery, as both TM and bnb have selected it as the height of douchebaggery, but I'd like to know exactly how to spot it -- it saves me a step.)

And in unrelated piling on: I was in a taxi cab at a red light when I heard about the planes flying into the WTC. The Dialcar driver in the car next to mine told us (my cab driver and me), and it struck me as strange when my cabdriver kind of shrugged and said, "Huh."

Popped collar douchery

ETA this link to Poppedcollarsarelame.com

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by dtb
WTF is a popped collar? (I'm certain it's an incontrovertible sign of douchebaggery, as both TM and bnb have selected it as the height of douchebaggery, but I'd like to know exactly how to spot it -- it saves me a step.)

And in unrelated piling on: I was in a taxi cab at a red light when I heard about the planes flying into the WTC. The Dialcar driver in the car next to mine told us (my cab driver and me), and it struck me as strange when my cabdriver kind of shrugged and said, "Huh."

I also did not know what a crotch rocket or popped collar were, nor did I get that Morgan Fairchild is not Morgan Freeman until ncs confessed it took her 30 seconds or so. It had been at least several minutes. I am feeling stupid. Someone is honking incessantly outside my window and I really wish I had a shotgun. And it definitely is not a stuck horn.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop

• There is generally no business-related reason to touch those we interact with at work, except for a handshake greeting when appropriate.

Who knew?

Tell that to one of the women I work with. She is so clueless and 'motherly', that she is always putting her arm around people.

Next time she does it, should I turn around and smack her, or complain to HR?

[tmdiva]

It is definitely thanks to you lot that every time I tell my almost-two-year-old son to "get the poopoos out" as he's sitting on the toilet, I think of Kevin Federline.

"Poo, poo, poo, poo, poopoos out, poopoos out."

Help me.

tm

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by Sparklehorse
Popped collar douchery

ETA this link to Poppedcollarsarelame.com

Oh. God. Make. It. Stop.

(Bad flashbacks from HS in the 80's.)

[tmdiva]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
Oh. God. Make. It. Stop.

(Bad flashbacks from HS in the 80's.)

You and me both.

Which reminds me, I found out about Reagan getting shot in 8th-grade Social Studies from Mr. Atchley. Challenger was college freshman religion class. OJ verdict I was at work, and realized the depth of the racial divide in this country when a black senior associate said (not quite in so many words, but close) that the fact that some cops are racist justified the acquittal.

tm

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
Tell that to one of the women I work with. She is so clueless and 'motherly', that she is always putting her arm around people.

Next time she does it, should I turn around and smack her, or complain to HR?

both

ETA unless putting her arm around people is in the script. In which case, it's not going to work to complain to HR, and smacking will probably backfire. Unless it too is in the script.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
Tell that to one of the women I work with. She is so clueless and 'motherly', that she is always putting her arm around people.

Next time she does it, should I turn around and smack her, or complain to HR?

Is this not what anonymous e-mail accounts were invented for?

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Which item shows the most insecurity in a male?

(a) Hummer;
(b) Cigarette boat;
(c) Really fucking loud motorcycle;
(d) Porsche;
(e) other (insert choice).

Or are these things more for people who REALLY need attention?

Which item demonstrates the highest level of douchebaggery?

(a) Crotch rocket;
(b) Barbed wire tat;
(c) Popped collar.

(e) overuse of the word "fag"

(b) barbed wire (or any visible) tat

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Me too. I was in Germany when the whole mad-cow story broke. Weirdly, Kreutzfeld-Jakob sounds the same in German as it does in English.

I was in Florence when the tsunami happened. All we ever saw on TV (not that we watched much) were West Wing reruns dubbed in Italian, and Tsunami coverage. I remember that there was a tsunami expert named Waverly Person, and I thought that was a strange example of a person's name reflecting their profession.

And I was in London when the European heatwave started in 2003.

I was in Maine with my parents when I heard that Elvis died. We had just finished breakfast at a diner. That same summer, they caught Son of Sam and Star Wars came out and I got braces, much too early.

Closer to home, I heard about both Reagan's shooting and John Lennon's murder in the same place -- on the school bus, from Bunky Easterson, who also dubbed me the chairperson of the IBTC, also on the bus. Oh, that Bunky.

I was in my office reading Lawtalkers when I heard that Britney had delivered her first son.

I heard Lennon was shot from Howard Cosell, during a Monday Night Football game, shortly after it happened.

I never forgave Howard.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
Elvis: Working a summer job for the NYC Housing authority painting fences.

Reagan: College Radio station.

Challenger: watching TV in a hotel room in Travers City Michigan after my roomate kept me up all night fucking some skank.

Berlin Wall: Working at a stock quote systems manufacturer which is in the same building I work in now.

Princess Di: DNR

OJ Arrest: DNR.

OJ Decision: Watched at a bar around the corner from Smith Barney (where I worked)

9/11: Got out of the City Hall train station after the second plane had hit. Walked over the bridge toward Brooklyn. I was near the EDNY court house when all of a sudden people started screaming. I asked what happened and some one said "The building fell." Then 30 seconds later that awful crackling sound hit.

Working when Elvis died? Day-yum. You people are old.

Elvis: At the time that the King was found dead in his bathroom in Graceland, I was a mere molecule of water in a cloud, waiting to form a rain drop, after which I fell onto a wheatfield in Nebraska, after which I was processed into cattle feed, after which I was eaten by a steer in Iowa, after which I was turned into a porterhouse in Chicago, after which I was shipped to Natchez, after which I was consumed by my father a week before the annual anniversary riverboat cruise, after which none of your goddamned business, after which nine months later I was born.

I keed, I keed. I was actually on the monorail at Disney World.

I have a much stronger memory of Lennon's murder, probably because he was actually musically relevant at the time of his death. He had just released a new album, the first in a long time (as I recall, his retirement from music during the late 1970s was some sort of penance for leaving Yoko -- he stepped out for a pack of cigarettes, and was gone for 3 years, or something like that), and it was pretty good.

Uh, gym class. Coach Gallagher was upset.

[ltl/fb]

http://nytimes.com/2007/07/18/arts/d...pilo.html?8dpc

Love them. And generally don't like artsy-fartsy stuff.

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
http://nytimes.com/2007/07/18/arts/d...pilo.html?8dpc

Love them. And generally don't like artsy-fartsy stuff.

Fag.