Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Did Summer School. Didn't have to. Just felt like partying through the summer with the same idiot friends. Agreed - its the shit. Less crowds (not that my @3000 person school had any crowds anyway).

And the challenge was to not get a job over that summer.

Egg (or cheese, but never both) sandwiches and lifting up the couch cushions for change so you could go to quarter beer night...

[Atticus Grinch]

• Barbara Bogaev sucks. She makes Terry Gross sound like Mike Wallace. Ask a fucking question; do not suggest possible alternative answers.
• The Jack Black phenomenon is a continuing source of puzzlement. Does anyone think this man is funny? I didn't really think Meat Loaf needed to be parodied. Black comes off as the class clown whom you found kind of embarrassing to watch.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
"Raider Nation is family," said Wayne Mabry, who goes by the name Violator in Oakland's Black Hole. "It's a lifestyle, a religion. When you get in, you're in for life."

Security guards being tossed down steps, drunken brawls and the enemy being feasted on like a piece of raw meat are all things that Raider Nation have come to be known for. There also other methods of intimidation that are a dark secret.

"What goes on, you would have to come in the park with us to get a visual," Mabry said. "I could tell you for 10 years and you wouldn't have a clue until you come drink with us."

From ESPN's Page 2. This article makes it sound sooooo mild.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
This is why I dont like posting in front of the partners (the squares who went straight to law school. Leagl, shouldnt the squares be required to have a password since they rarely have anything to contrib, but like to live vicariously through those of us who have lived? Stop eavesdropping, and add something to the dialogue.

Oh, I don't think Gattigap is indicting our way of life here... He's just having a laugh at our expense. However, explaining what goes on at some eastern just-below-Ivy schools among slackers like myself to people who spent college directed and studying and spending endless hours getting ready for their careers is like teaching the Torah in Afghanistan. There's a fundamental personality difference between the two groups of people which is nearly insurmountable.

I went to law school right out of college. I witnessed the horror of people who never let their freak flag fly. If you met me, you'd swear I was wound tighter than the stitching in a baseball. I learned to adopt the badges of straight-lacedness around the office, but its all a screaming lie to anyone who knows anything about me. In fact, my wife's even commented that I have dual personalities. That, however, is incorrect. I'm really more of just a manipulative liar and a great actor. So be careful not to judge those who might appear stiffs in the silly nonsense world we occupy from 8 am-8 pm every day. That cat who looks like George Will might be a closet acid fiend... don't sell him short.

S(You never really know a man until you get him in his cups)D

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by NotFromHere

Wow, the number of women who have never been married over age 40 seems a bit high?!?

Is that the percent of women between 40 and 69 who are now single? In other words, of single women in that age group, 24% (or whatever) were never married. I think that's what the poor writing means.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Is that the percent of women between 40 and 69 who are now single? In other words, of single women in that age group, 24% (or whatever) were never married. I think that's what the poor writing means.

I think that's right. But still, 24% of 60% of all women is still high, no?
That's like 14% of all women between 40 and 69 have never been married. Ever. I would have thought it was in the single digits.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
From ESPN's Page 2. This article makes it sound sooooo mild.

Seriously. This guy gets in, and they make us all leave our umbrellas outside. WTF?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
I think that's right. But still, 24% of 60% of all women is still high, no?
That's like 14% of all women between 40 and 69 have never been married. Ever. I would have thought it was in the single digits.

Maybe cougars have more time to reply to the survey than divorced women dealing with kids?

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
This is why I dont like posting in front of the partners (the squares who went straight to law school. Leagl, shouldnt the squares be required to have a password since they rarely have anything to contrib, but like to live vicariously through those of us who have lived? Stop eavesdropping, and add something to the dialogue.

No, because then I would need a password.

Of course I didn't go straight to law school. I had a whole year off in between - after my small, private, just below ivy league college, at which I did nothing fun.

[Replaced_Texan]

Man, Woman, Snake Die in Fiery Crash has been replaced with Satan Back in Fold.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
I think that's right. But still, 24% of 60% of all women is still high, no?
That's like 14% of all women between 40 and 69 have never been married. Ever. I would have thought it was in the single digits.

I don't think the article said anywhere that 60% of women aged 40-69 are single. It said that 60% of the singles are women. I agree with Burger that another limiting factor of the survey is determining whether it is truly a representative sampling of all single women in that age group or if the likelihood of responding varied across groups of singles.

All it really says is that 1/4 of single survey respondents who were women aged 40-69 had never married.

And now I am boring myself.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Man, Woman, Snake Die in Fiery Crash has been replaced with Satan Back in Fold.

Better than "Texas Court Upholds Butt Search for Crack"?

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Oh, I don't think Gattigap is indicting our way of life here... He's just having a laugh at our expense. However, explaining what goes on at some eastern just-below-Ivy schools among slackers like myself to people who spent college directed and studying and spending endless hours getting ready for their careers is like teaching the Torah in Afghanistan. There's a fundamental personality difference between the two groups of people which is nearly insurmountable.

I went to law school right out of college. I witnessed the horror of people who never let their freak flag fly. If you met me, you'd swear I was wound tighter than the stitching in a baseball. I learned to adopt the badges of straight-lacedness around the office, but its all a screaming lie to anyone who knows anything about me. In fact, my wife's even commented that I have dual personalities. That, however, is incorrect. I'm really more of just a manipulative liar and a great actor. So be careful not to judge those who might appear stiffs in the silly nonsense world we occupy from 8 am-8 pm every day. That cat who looks like George Will might be a closet acid fiend... don't sell him short.

S(You never really know a man until you get him in his cups)D

I suspect that GA2GP was that nice but ultimately unattractive fellow who lived in the quiet dorm and probalby never got laid til he went to the local town bar, got liquored up in an attempt to keep up with whomever he was with, and then went home with the fat, townie woman who looks like the gal from Drew Carey. After this setback, complete with the strange creepy crawlers in the pubes (oh, how embarrassing!), and the ensuing AIDs scare (no wait, that aws after his time), he enrolled in that Kaplan and prepped for those LSATs. Then he became the hypster who started outlining before law school even started and put the fear in the people with other interests who merely sought a means to an end. Then he became the associate who billed the most hours, making the others with something better to do at night and on weekends worry they wouldnt make partner (and most didnt). Now he is partner, probably has an average looking wife with a slight weight problem and a coulple of kids he has to feed. Oh, and he socializes with JRUSS bc he thought that was how to be FBcool.

Talking about working so hard just to get to the middle. Soemone should have dosed this guy when he was eighteen. *

But maybe he is hip to the core deep down inside. No judgment.

*no more drug references, just reality tv and petty little stabs at others, just for fun!

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
explaining what goes on at some eastern just-below-Ivy schools among slackers like myself to people who spent college directed and studying and spending endless hours getting ready for their careers is like teaching the Torah in Afghanistan. There's a fundamental personality difference between the two groups of people which is nearly insurmountable.

By my senior year, in my major, there was clear differentiation between the two groups. One easy way to tell us screw ups was that we weren't in class much, so we couldn't hide- THEY knew who we were. The last year there's a group project class. The first day all the groups are set. All that would be in my group were two other useless screw ups, so we're one short.

The next day, Ms. Golden shows up, having missed the first day for an interview. Beautiful, tall, all A's student; she's on the short list for some competitive scholarship that only 2 kids in the whole US get. Her poor ass gets stuck in my group.

Near the end of term, I see this sheet where she's predicting her grades and ultimate GPA. She's predicting all A's and a C- from our group- or that's what she was hoping for. You can't imagine how guilty I felt knowing I was going to ruin her ambitions. I really needed a drink that night.

What she hadn't thought of was that as F'd up as we were, we were all graduating. We had the chops to fake it, and got her the B she needed to keep her GPA national comp level.

I sort of think the ability to walk into a test cold/hungover-drunk still, and hit class average was good experience for thinking on your feet when a judge or witness hits you with something unexpected. I mean every test in my last 31/2 years of college was pretty much being hit by the unexpected.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I mean every test in my last 31/2 years of college was pretty much being hit by the unexpected.

You're not that slobbering beer-stinking drunk guy who stumbled out of my bar exam weeping 'my dad is gonna kick my ass...my dad is gonna kick my ass...", are you?

Glad to hear you turned out okay!