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08-14-2003, 08:08 PM
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#18631
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Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: All American Burger
Posts: 1,446
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The FB: All Texas, All the Time
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Originally posted by ltl/fb
It's part of a welcome package that also includes the hat, the boots and the spurs.
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I've been to Texas quite a bit on business in the past few years (mostly Austin and vicinity), and some of the more unusual images I've come away with are:
1. Tons of pickup trucks, often driven by people who don't look like they need them;
2. Nasty T-storms and heat in summer;
3. "Check your gun at the reception desk" signs on the front doors of businesses;
4. Industrial parks along the interstate with, for some reason, Longhorn steers in a fenced-off field out front;
5. Having to buy a license to buy a beer at a restaurant;
6. Strip clubs galore... NTTAWWT
and 7. being told "Ya'll come back now" by the hostess at an Italian restaurant (what an ambiance killer)...
I love Texas, but it's truly a whole different world down there.
Last edited by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand; 08-14-2003 at 08:12 PM..
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08-14-2003, 08:15 PM
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#18632
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Wearing the cranky pants
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Pulling your finger
Posts: 7,120
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Because Enquiring Minds Want To Know
Current odds on California’s governor:
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER 2/3
GRAY DAVIS (NO RECALL) 4/1
CRUZ BUSTAMANTE 6/1
TOM MCCLINTOCK 40/1
BILL SIMON 40/1
PETER UEBERROTH 40/1
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON 50/1
LORETTA SANCHEZ 50/1
LARRY FLYNT 50/1
PETER CAMEJO 50/1
GALLAGHER 100/1
GARY COLEMAN 100/1
MICHAEL JACKSON 100/1
I may take some of that Gray Davis action.
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08-14-2003, 08:27 PM
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#18633
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no rank for you
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: nowhere
Posts: 123
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Craigslist poll
Originally posted by RT
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3 things all men desire
#1- A jet pack.
#2- A 1970s undercover cop persona.
#3- A monkey.
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Originally posted by ltl/fb
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As long as I could skip the car coat and keep a normal hairstyle, I want those things. Maybe I'm a man trapped in a woman's body.
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If you want 1, doubtful. The only way a jetpack could stay on you is if you were suspended, in part, by a crotchstrap.
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08-14-2003, 08:42 PM
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#18634
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prodigal poster
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: gate 27
Posts: 2,710
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The FB: All Texas, All the Time
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Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
I've been to Texas quite a bit on business in the past few years (mostly Austin and vicinity), and some of the more unusual images I've come away with are:
5. Having to buy a license to buy a beer at a restaurant;
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Austin is in a very wet county. I think you're either visiting the country, or my friends in South Oklahoma.
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08-14-2003, 08:45 PM
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#18635
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Moderasaurus Rex
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 33,080
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The FB: All Texas, All the Time
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Originally posted by evenodds
Austin is in a very wet county. I think you're either visiting the country, or my friends in South Oklahoma.
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Which reminds of a joke: You know why Texas doesn't fall off into the Gulf of Mexico? Because Oklahoma sucks.
T. (oww -- not sure I want a jet pack now) S.
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08-14-2003, 08:51 PM
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#18636
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no rank for you
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: nowhere
Posts: 123
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Totally Unfashionable
Originally posted by ltl/fb
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Do you really have clients who would pay for 19 straight hours of reviewing files (at any time, but particularly when they know you were travelling internationally that day)? If so, can I come work where you work?
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It's not the firm, it's the benefits work. Course, I'm sure benefits has its upside. I doubt you'd like being, say, a litigator that gets a hotel room by the office for a month and bills 300 or 350 hours. Unless you're paigow, she might actually bill her minimum if she did that for six months.
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08-14-2003, 09:03 PM
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#18637
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 543
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Craigslist poll
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Originally posted by taxwonk
Just as long as it's one with the little flag that pops up and reads "The Judge" when the Ram Air kicks in.
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Ahh, muscle cars. I love muscle cars. I live not too far away from a dealership that only sells car guy cars -- muscle cars, Porsches, Ferraris, Cobra replicas, etc. It's like car guy heaven there. The other day, they had a Boss Mustang from the 1970s (not the modern knock-off). Man, that thing was sweet. The only thing that would have been better is if it were in some swinging '70s color, like Grabber Orange. (It was dark blue, with the black stripes.)
One day, some how, some way, I will own a 427 Cobra replica, dark blue, with white stripes, and a 427.
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08-14-2003, 09:08 PM
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#18638
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 543
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Power outage
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Originally posted by robustpuppy
You're in DC and you don't PM? Sniff.
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Right back at ya. :waggle:
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08-14-2003, 09:44 PM
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#18639
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WacKtose Intolerant
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: PenskeWorld
Posts: 11,627
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Because Enquiring Minds Want To Know
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Originally posted by LessinSF
Current odds on California’s governor:
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER 2/3
GRAY DAVIS (NO RECALL) 4/1
CRUZ BUSTAMANTE 6/1
TOM MCCLINTOCK 40/1
BILL SIMON 40/1
PETER UEBERROTH 40/1
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON 50/1
LORETTA SANCHEZ 50/1
LARRY FLYNT 50/1
PETER CAMEJO 50/1
GALLAGHER 100/1
GARY COLEMAN 100/1
MICHAEL JACKSON 100/1
I may take some of that Gray Davis action.
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How about Mary Cary, the only candidate that really matters?
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Since I'm a righteous man, I don't eat ham;
I wish more people was alive like me
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08-14-2003, 10:06 PM
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#18640
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Think Outside the Jar
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Marinating
Posts: 268
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Power outage
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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Hey, you missed some of my socks.
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Not Exactly. He said Bilmore. I am his sock, and you are mine. He makes your strawman arguments look silly on the politics board and I come in for comic relief. Sort of like the three stooges, or Abbot, Costello and Costello's brother from Denver who is trying to make sense of the conversation.
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Laughter is the best medicine, except for vicodin.
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08-14-2003, 10:09 PM
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#18641
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Think Outside the Jar
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Marinating
Posts: 268
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Power outage
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Originally posted by evenodds
I just saw a chart of the powergrids, and Texas has its own power grid. We're not part of the Western Interconnect or the Eastern Interconnect.
So, basically, Texas rules.
Even(channeling my inner Robust Puppy)Odds
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They did this, originally, to get out of federal (FERC etc.) jurisdiction since almost all their grid is intrastate. But I agree that Texas rules. Not as much as Oklahoma rules, but texas rules. Especially the hot chicks there with the tight low-rise jeans and really big hair---and TITS!
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Laughter is the best medicine, except for vicodin.
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08-14-2003, 10:30 PM
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#18642
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Think Outside the Jar
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Marinating
Posts: 268
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Diamonds (big ones)
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Originally posted by AngryMulletMan
I was recently the recipient of a rather huge diamond engagement ring. I had mixed feelings (about the diamond, not the man).
At about the same time, he also gave me an executive Costco membership card (you get a rebate at the end of the year) and, putting the two facts together I realized that my (now) husband had bought the ring at Costco, yes COSTCO, and he got the card so he could get the rebate.
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So what? That is probably the only place that won't totally rape you when you buy a ring b/c the salespeople don't work on commission and their merchandise is not marked up so much.
Do you think that Hasidic guy in the diamond district is going to give you a better deal? Unless it's your brother in law, think again.
Besides, I wouldn't want to buy my future fiance a diamond b/c they are conflict diamonds from Sierra Leone. My brothers' college roommates' sister's boyfriend's mom got proposed to with a diamond ring that still had an african finger attached to it. I mean he got a great price on the thing, but it was so obvious that it came from the civil war zone. Make sure they give you a certificate to make sure it's not a conflict diamond. And make sure there are no fingers or toes in the box--that is a dead giveaway.
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Laughter is the best medicine, except for vicodin.
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08-14-2003, 10:34 PM
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#18643
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WacKtose Intolerant
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: PenskeWorld
Posts: 11,627
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Power outage
Quote:
Originally posted by Connect_the_Dots
Not Exactly. He said Bilmore. I am his sock, and you are mine. He makes your strawman arguments look silly on the politics board and I come in for comic relief. Sort of like the three stooges, or Abbot, Costello and Costello's brother from Denver who is trying to make sense of the conversation.
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And the three of you are my socks, because, as everyone knows, all of the socks on the politics board are mine. Or Thottam's.
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Since I'm a righteous man, I don't eat ham;
I wish more people was alive like me
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08-14-2003, 10:40 PM
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#18644
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Think Outside the Jar
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Marinating
Posts: 268
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Totally Unfashionable
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Originally posted by MisterEbola
OK, just got back from a 10-day business trip to Osaka. Great food, huge client, lotsa work.
Unfortunately, I've now been told by the partner in charge that the client has been recently moaning and groaning about billing (despite the fact that the company exec VP took five of us out to dinner in the Namba ward of Osaka to the tune of a mere $1100). As such, I've been instructed for my return flight to simply bill the standard 8-hour work day to the client and the remaining 11 hours to the "office".
Does this make sense? Any thoughts? Nice way to kill a lot of easy hours for me.
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My old firm had a similar rule that you couldn't bill for travel time, unless you were actually working on the plane. Number of times I have followed that rule---ZERO. If the reason I am on that plane is b/c of you, then YOU are paying for it.
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Laughter is the best medicine, except for vicodin.
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08-14-2003, 10:44 PM
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#18645
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Think Outside the Jar
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Marinating
Posts: 268
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Book rec?
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Originally posted by robustpuppy
I just read a review in the WSJ of The Literary Book of Economics by Michael Watts, and I'm wondering if anybody on this board has read it. The review left me intrigued, but I'm still on the fence and think I'd rather spend the $ on more David Sedaris.
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Never heard of it. Try "the Armchair Economist". It is informative and sometimes even very funny--although a book on econ can only be so funny.
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