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LessinSF · 06-06-2003, 06:45 PM

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Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
There is a long and proud history on the fashion board of female posters simply closing the office door and (cue BTO) taking care of business. And then, of course, describing it in lurid detail.

I miss Pepper, if only for that.

Edited to note that I will not be posting for awhile because I like the number of posts I have right now.

ltl/fb · 06-06-2003, 06:46 PM

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Originally posted by Penske_Account
fellacious

Was this misspelling a freudian slip connected with your lack of underwear?

ltl/fb · 06-06-2003, 06:47 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
It's not just the poor social skills. It's having picked the law out of fear of the real world and an ubercaution about foreclosing options. Everyone says, go to law school and you can do all sorts of things -- you keep your options open. These people keep keeping their options open until they find themselves at a big firm in a big city, chained to the desk with the golden cuffs and bitter and resentful at a cold and uncaring world. Naturally, after that they're no fun.

Even the ones who post incessantly about their bitterness and resentment on internet chat boards? Surely those people are fun.

Penske_Account · 06-06-2003, 06:52 PM

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Originally posted by LessinSF
I miss Pepper, if only for that.

Edited to note that I will not be posting for awhile because I like the number of posts I have right now.

I can lend you one of my socks to use in the meantime, no?

[edited to add ] If I had socks, which I don't. Obviously.

Tyrone Slothrop · 06-06-2003, 06:53 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Even the ones who post incessantly about their bitterness and resentment on internet chat boards? Surely those people are fun.

Sorry, meant to say again, present company excluded.

I had friends in law school from the ranks of such people, but they step into the batter's box with a strike or two against them, in my book.

Penske_Account · 06-06-2003, 06:56 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Was this misspelling a freudian slip connected with your lack of underwear?

I prefer to think of it as a fraudian slip connected with my generally duplicitous nature. NTTAWWT.

NotFromHere · 06-06-2003, 07:16 PM

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Posted by Tyrone
It's not just the poor social skills. It's having picked the law out of fear of the real world and an ubercaution about foreclosing options. Everyone says, go to law school and you can do all sorts of things -- you keep your options open. These people keep keeping their options open until they find themselves at a big firm in a big city, chained to the desk with the golden cuffs and bitter and resentful at a cold and uncaring world. Naturally, after that they're no fun.

Exactly. I interned with a guy who shared office space with the person of whom you speak. Bitter, angry - hated the world and everyone in it. A man who went through secretaries like kleenex. Was a constant screamer. The one golden moment he shared with me was this..."If I had known 12 years ago when I took a job in personal injury, that I would be pidgeon-holed in personal injury for the rest of my life...I never would have done it." Needless to say, I almost took a job in PI just because I needed work, but held off because I didn't want to be "that guy."

ltl/fb · 06-06-2003, 07:21 PM

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Originally posted by Penske_Account
I prefer to think of it as a fraudian slip connected with my generally duplicitous nature. NTTAWWT.

Well, you are a Republican.

NotFromHere · 06-06-2003, 07:28 PM

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Posted with a smack down by ltl/fb
Well, you are a Republican.

OH. MAN. I wish you were close enough to high five! That just made my weekend!!!

:bounce: :bounce:

...with a smackdown!

ltl/fb · 06-06-2003, 07:42 PM

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Originally posted by NotFromHere
OH. MAN. I wish you were close enough to high five! That just made my weekend!!!

:bounce: :bounce:

...with a smackdown!

If you are amused by partisan mudslinging, you really should hang out at the politics board, where anyone left of Ashcroft is a member of the Ba'ath party and anyone right of Carter is a heartless greedy warmonger.

evenodds · 06-06-2003, 07:44 PM

No, really.

Gatti-Ward III Saturday night on HBO.

The first two fights were among the best I have ever seen.

Two incredibly tough guys will stand toe-to-toe and box . . . it is a thing of beauty.

If you have a chance, check it out.

greatwhitenorthchick · 06-06-2003, 07:48 PM

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Originally posted by evenodds
No, really.

Gatti-Ward III Saturday night on HBO.

The first two fights were among the best I have ever seen.

Two incredibly tough guys will stand toe-to-toe and box . . . it is a thing of beauty.

If you have a chance, check it out.

Was II the fight that people were saying was the best fight of 2002? Where the two of them just pretty much whaled on each other for 12 rounds? I don't know much about boxing, but I saw that fight and I liked it. Way better than any recent heavyweight match I've seen.

Bad_Rich_Chic · 06-06-2003, 07:55 PM

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Originally posted by Not Bob
I'm guessing that the hiring partner and or the recruiting person "suggested" that our poor friend send the second email.

Damn. The more I think about this, the worse I feel for the poor dude. It's not like he took a leak on Joe Flom's desk, fer cryin out loud.

I'm with you 100% on this one, NB. While (a) the worst thing the e-mail revealed was (i) he spent a day screwing off and (ii) the presence of a sr. partner on the deal might make him pay more attention than he would on another matter and (b) the follow up e-mail served to highlight the fuck up by grovelling perhaps a bit more than the screw-up warranted, (x) I am quite sure the follow up e-mail was part of "working with" the powers that be to "rectify" the situation and (y) the follow up e-mail was a really good example of grovelling and exactly what a partner likely to be highly cheesed off at (a)(i) and (ii) above would want to hear.

And, I sympathize because I have e-mail-fuck-up nightmares all the time: the ones where you wake up in a cold sweat at 3 am and have to convince yourself that you didn't cc: opposing counsel or forward the something with the comment "the client says the other side is mentally retarded so they won't realize this screws them" still in it, when you know perfectly well that you didn't and you're just freaking.

evenodds · 06-06-2003, 07:59 PM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Was II the fight that people were saying was the best fight of 2002? Where the two of them just pretty much whaled on each other for 12 rounds? I don't know much about boxing, but I saw that fight and I liked it. Way better than any recent heavyweight match I've seen.

Yes! That was II!

It was incredible.

Tyrone Slothrop · 06-06-2003, 08:02 PM

Federal court rules that cell-phone users should be able to keep their numbers when they change providers. Seems like a good idea to me.