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Did you just call me Coltrane? · 03-17-2004, 07:26 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
You may be reading their reaction (jaw dropping, hand over mouth, pointing and running while laughing (not screaming) hysterically) the wrong way around too.

If I just let the softballs whoosh on past, I'd be letting the team down for my own ego, and that's not right.

Fair enough, and for the record, it took me five minutes to figure out if you were saying that things appear bigger to you than they really are or vice versa. And I still got it wrong.

Insert "it took me five minutes to find the hole and still got it wrong" softball here.

Did you just call me Coltrane? · 03-17-2004, 07:29 PM

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Originally posted by Not Bob
should have picketed because it's a stupid show.

That's what Chicago's Bucktown did. They protested b/c they didn't want the yuppie gentrifiers invading their neighborhood. I don't know which group is more elitist, yuppies or bohemians.

notcasesensitive · 03-17-2004, 07:30 PM

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Originally posted by Not Bob
As to the original post (about MTV pulling out of Philly because the Real World house got picketed for using non-union labor), the AFL-CIO should have picketed because it's a stupid show. Why don't you people read a fricken book or something.

Uh-oh. You're about to lose me here. I know you've been counting on my support lo these many years. There is time for you to turn back. I do love the Rockford.

Hank Chinaski · 03-17-2004, 07:31 PM

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Originally posted by spookyfish
I thought it was a baggins family reunion. Except for the pretty woman thing, I mean.

even spooky won't touch me today, shit.

ltl/fb · 03-17-2004, 07:35 PM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Fair enough, and for the record, it took me five minutes to figure out if you were saying that things appear bigger to you than they really are or vice versa. And I still got it wrong.

Insert "it took me five minutes to find the hole and still got it wrong" softball here.

Yes. If what I was thinking was 2 feet was really one foot, that's how it might have been more shelf space (rather than less) than I was guesstimating.

the space between your thumb and your pointer finger isn't really a hole, it's just pretending to be one.

sebastian_dangerfield · 03-17-2004, 07:38 PM

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Originally posted by Gattigap
It's all part of the drunken debauchery brought to you by Corporate America, where commerce completely separates the event from the celebration. See also Cinco de Mayo, etc.

I'm not Catholic, but have had recommended to me that the place to go on St. Patrick's Day evening is a Chinese restaurant. It's one of the few places that the teeming hordes out to drink, piss, and eventually swim in green beer won't think to come to (and bother you).

Like New Year's, 'tis an amateur's night out.

Pretty Little Flower · 03-17-2004, 07:38 PM

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Originally posted by Not Bob
As to the original post (about MTV pulling out of Philly because the Real World house got picketed for using non-union labor), the AFL-CIO should have picketed because it's a stupid show. Why don't you people read a fricken book or something.

Oh shit, Mr. Kayaker, you've done it now.

Did you just call me Coltrane? · 03-17-2004, 07:42 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb

the space between your thumb and your pointer finger isn't really a hole, it's just pretending to be one.

That's still not a reason for me to miss it.

ltl/fb · 03-17-2004, 07:43 PM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
That's still not a reason for me to miss it.

Hank accused me of being "meaner than I have been in months" -- so I was trying to be nice.

Plus the stupidity inherent in missing your own hand is pretty evident.

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sebastian_dangerfield · 03-17-2004, 07:48 PM

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Originally posted by Not Bob
That is such bullshit. Organized labor has been on life support since Ronald Reagan. Blaming the AFL-CIO for the decline of Philly is about 30 years out of date. (It was wrong then, too, but whatever.)

Podunkville is a non-union town, and people and business have been fleeing to the suburbs for, oh, the last 50 years or so. Personally, I think that it has something to do with yards and grass. But I could be wrong.

As to the original post (about MTV pulling out of Philly because the Real World house got picketed for using non-union labor), the AFL-CIO should have picketed because it's a stupid show. Why don't you people read a fricken book or something.

So the fact that using non-union labor in the burbs is cheaper has no impact on business decsions to relocate outside the city? Hmmm.

I agree the Real World Blows. I'd never watch it, but maybe the exposure would help the city's efforts to get some press and attract more movie productions.

The unions aren't the entire problem, but they're a big 800 lb gorilla in town that business would rather not deal with. The corp parks out in the burbs are ugly shit and most people would rather work in town. We also have a great train system. But nobody wants to deal with labor costs and the high city taxes, many of which, you guessed it - help to fund the local transportation and city workers' outrageous contract demands. This has been correct - entirely - since Reagan.

Did you just call me Coltrane? · 03-17-2004, 07:50 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Hank accused me of being "meaner than I have been in months" -- so I was trying to be nice.

Plus the stupidity inherent in missing your own hand is pretty evident.

Well then I must thank you for being so sweet.

Not Bob · 03-17-2004, 07:50 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Uh-oh. You're about to lose me here. I know you've been counting on my support lo these many years. There is time for you to turn back. I do love the Rockford.

Who doesn't love the Rockford?

And I tell you to read a book out of love and concern. I love all of you, dammit. Well, most of you, anyway.

ltl/fb · 03-17-2004, 07:54 PM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Well then I must thank you for being so sweet.

You are so welcome. And I hope your weather improves soon and doesn't get too hot too early so that you can enjoy a nice long spring.

Did you just call me Coltrane? · 03-17-2004, 07:56 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
You are so welcome. And I hope your weather improves soon and doesn't get too hot too early so that you can enjoy a nice long spring.

This is the meanest thing you've ever written.