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[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Careful. When TM suggested that, she went all stalker-psycho.

How did I go all stalker psycho? I know you like to make me the butt of jokes, Sidd but I have not barraged him with emails or even PMs. I've been discreet and kept it to the board. If anything he's on a campaign to paint me as ugly. what stalker psycho??? I take issue with that statement.

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
you started off this chain of sanscrit talking about a game with odds of 33-1. sounds to me like putting Celtic on the TV isn't going to help soccer on its skyrocket climb. no offense.

None taken. And thanks for a typically clear and trenchant observation. The point is that there are games that are worth seeing -- ManU v. Celtic being one of them for a whole host of reasons aside from the odds -- but they generally do not appear on FSW.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Not Bob
I think that the hypothetical had her resigning her job and staying at home after marrying said successful person.

Kind of like her husband did after he met her?

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Kind of like her husband did after he met her?

Wow, I'm touched Sidd, you called me *successful* sigh.

[SEC_Chick]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I agree. I don't hate what I do. I don't love it and get out of bed excited every day for it, but I don't hate it. I manged to find a job that keeps me relatively interested, and there's enough variety that I don't get that bored. I also don't make as much as a lot of other lawyers because I got out of the billable hours gig a long time ago. But I generally can stroll in here at 9:30 or so and leave by 6ish. I haven't had to work a weekend in three years. And I have a geeky little area of law that also gets me excited. I'm one of the few people around here that understands it, which gives me a lot of job security.

I think about getting out. I think about writing something that gets published or made into a movie. I think about my empire of sex toy shops. I think about a wine bar/bookstore. I think about running away to New Mexico and doing god knows what. But right now, this works for me.

Ditto for me. Well, except the part about getting out. I daydream about it sometimes, but only because I would rather be home with the Chicklet, which unfortunately is not a six figure gig. I have a pretty sweet in-house position and despite the fact that I make what first years are making these crazy days, I genuinely like the people that I work with now and I don't have to dread Friday afternoon phone calls from Asshole Partner. Can't remember the last time I worked on a weekend, have flex time which gets me more time with the baby, and I no longer get sick to my stomach on Sunday nights or wish to get in a car wreck on the way to work so that I don't have to go.

[nononono]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
How did I go all stalker psycho? I know you like to make me the butt of jokes, Sidd but I have not barraged him with emails or even PMs. I've been discreet and kept it to the board. If anything he's on a campaign to paint me as ugly. what stalker psycho??? I take issue with that statement.

"Discreet" = "kept it to the board"?

Are we in Bizarro World?

andViolins, 2.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
The long-term NFL contracts are a joke. You know that, Ty knows that, TO knows that. The only person who doesn't know it is your mama, who Hank convinced has to keep blowing him for a dollar a year for seven years. Players are getting signed to short-term contracts that are called long term so that they can spread out the signing bonus over 6 years (or whatever the max is) under the salary cap.

What you're saying is that the team should honor the long-term contract that it knows and the player knows are bogus. They all know that when they sign it. They wouldn't get signed at all if they were ever going to be enforced. So how does your system make anythign better? Bledsoe signs a two-year contract that's guaranteed for $3m, instead of a 6 year contract for $15m, with $3m over the first two years, and then he gets cut. What's the difference?

Most players aren't paid huge signing bonuses. The difference is the guy who has been playing behind someone else and signs a contract worth $1.5 million a year for 5 years because he hasn't proven himself, but can't find a better offer, and goes out and has a pro-bowl season or two is getting fucked for the remainder of that contract. He has to live with it.

If another guy has a few great years as an offensive lineman in a scheme that fully takes advantages of his talents, negotiates a decent guaranteed bonus and a better contract because the future is bright and the team hires Mike Tice, who proceeds to use him as a punt returner (and he injures himself or loses any semblance of market value), the team does not have to live with the contract.

I really don't understand why you have an issue with guaranteed cotnracts. And neither one of you has answered my questions about why players in other leagues want it so bad. Or why NFL owners don't voluntarily give it up if it doesn't benefit them.

TM

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
"hooking" is illegal. Paralegaling while it can be annoying is not a bad job. and is legal. and hooking is gross. just gross.

you know some feminists say that houswivery is a form of hooking so you go figure, boys.

Some feminists also say that heterosexual sex is rape with the addition of meaningful looks.

In academia, one needs to find outrageous and shocking things to say to attract attention. Grounding them in truth, reason, or even honest opinion is of distantly secondary importance.

(One could equate the latter to the internet, where certain people talk on and on about how hot they are without apparent connection to reality. But doing that would be beating a dead horse, so I'll refrain.)

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Is there anything he has written that he hasn't written lots on? One thing's for sure--he probably never had to shrink the margins or increase the line spacing to make the page length assignments in high school.

He probably got in trouble for including pictures of cheerleaders, though.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Paisley
Yes, I know. But, to me, Frank epitomizes the film. It was my first midnight movie - I remember it fondly.

A TOAST!

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Uh, ok. But why does that mean I can't hate him for it?


TM

It doesn't. I wasn't contesting that or at least wasn't meaning to. I don't love Lance, I don't hate him, but I do think he doped and he's full of shit when he says he didn't. Also, from what I know, that predates cancer and Tour victouries et al, he is not the Mr. Congeniality his marketing effourts portray.

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall


I know you don't have a huge issue with it. It just makes me not care about the sport at all (much like track the past however many years -- and the Steroid Era's home run hitters).

TM

It's a fringe sport, no offence fringey. Otoh, no matter how many drugs these guys use, the Tour is fucking hard. Probably the hardest endurance event out there.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by andViolins
I've read the above quoted paragraph several times now. I have no idea what you're saying. Granted, its late in the day and I am tired, but I'm totally clueless. I did, however, google gavone. Found something in an urban dictionary. As best as I can decipher, you didn't want to give up the control of working a crappy job paying you lots of money to instead marry a fake Italian man (or, instead, an Italian man who eats too much) who made lots of money on Wall St.? Is that what the above means?

Why is either a phony Italian who talks like and quotes from the Sopranos or a fat Italian man who eats too much the definition of a successful man? Why are those your only options? Why couldn't you marry the fat fake Italian man and then just bust his balls to continue to assert control?

Why not put some lotion on to stop the chafing?

What "ain't no thing?" What is the thing? Do you really talk like that? Perhaps that is why you are drawn to the fake Italians? Because you talk (or at least type) in some strange convoluted language that only you and Hank (Hi Hank!) seem to understand?

Like I said, I just don't know what you're saying.

aV

Don't be such a mook.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
His earnings over the next five years are going to be less than the $75M he theoretically will make under that contract.

If you agree that Bledsoe would make less if he were signing a guaranteed contract, than I'm not sure where you disagree with Burger or me.

The question is, why would Bledsoe rather sign an unguaranteed contract with a high face value than a guaranteed contract for less money? One possible answer is that agents fool their clients, and tell them they've got them a massive contract, pointing to the back end.

Could be that the big number contracts mean automatic hype in the newspapers, which translates into bigger endorsement money. The publicity of the unguaranteed seven year $100 million contract is probably worth a good ten million or so in endorsements.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
How did I go all stalker psycho? I know you like to make me the butt of jokes, Sidd but I have not barraged him with emails or even PMs. I've been discreet and kept it to the board. If anything he's on a campaign to paint me as ugly. what stalker psycho??? I take issue with that statement.

Apologies. I was thinking of someone pretty.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by ironweed
Non-law job, insane micro-managing boss, working nights and weekends for the kind of money Hank uses to pre-wipe his ass with, a "fluid" job description that took her further and further from the job she wanted to do when she went there, etc.

If she ditches me and takes the kids that means I can finally realize my dream of living in a van down by the river. Wanna come over?

I have a guest room.