Fashion Board 2-3-04 to 3-5-04

[dtb]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
What's the deal with the $300. Lots of people I know got a check in 2003, but my wife and I were left out. I don't really think public money should go to lawyers earning 6 figures, but if everyone else got one, where's mine? Anyone know if I got hosed?

Is this the big tax rebate check thingy? We got a $600 check, like, a year ago? (I can't really remember when, but we definitely got the dough -- and used it too!)

Oh, and my guess for AL RBI leader? Belnie (that's the Puerto Rican pronunciation) Williams.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
What's the deal with the $300. Lots of people I know got a check in 2003, but my wife and I were left out. I don't really think public money should go to lawyers earning 6 figures, but if everyone else got one, where's mine? Anyone know if I got hosed?

Did you have kids? And if you didn't get the check, you get the credit later on your taxes.

ETA: Which is different from the $300 rebate/early refund DTB is referring to that came out the year before that, which, if you didn't get, you could also claim on your tax return.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
And now I guess we will be subjected to that stupid avatar again, won't we?

TM

No need

spoiler

Bret Boone. 141. (googled, cuz, shit, that's trivia)

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Himeland

Do you have really large or fat fingers or something - so that making weird typos like this are just inevitable? I don't spend that much time thinking about it, but I can't come up with any other explanation.

(and we Canadians got a big fat check for $600. Because I am such a principled person, I donated my share to charity. Please pat me on the back.)

[ltl/fb]

To order ginger altoids:

http://www.clorders.com/altoids/shoppe.html

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by sunnybunny
I was thinking this morning as I was on hold with the Social Security Administration about many useless things, among them that I'd wager my purity score has dramatically changed since the last time I took the quiz. When will it be time to take the purity test quiz thingy again?

Wait until after taxapalooza. I promise if you work wit me, I can drop your score a minumum of 20 points in a single evening.

[SlaveNoMore]

I wanted to say Manny or A-Rod, but I knew that wasn't right. And now I guess we will be subjected to that stupid avatar again, won't we?

TM

I was going to guess Edgar. Which - although wrong by one year - still fits your response to a T.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Do you have really large or fat fingers or something - so that making weird typos like this are just inevitable?

You mean like typing in "spooky" instead of "mom, before the operation"? Yeah, I'm beginning to think he does shit like that all the time.

[sunnybunny]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Wait until after taxapalooza. I promise if you work wit me, I can drop your score a minumum of 20 points in a single evening.

That's right...I owe you somthing for saying "the girls" were "just fine"

SunnyBunny

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
How much of that is due to SJP's recent affectations, such as walking so that one foot crosses in front of the other, or looking down, and then looking up with pursed lips and squinty eyes, or looking up wistfully at the sky as if she would take off her beret and toss it, if only she weren't so melancholy, yet still somehow hopeful?

Some of it. Some of it is that, the way the character has been written for the last couple of seasons, she always seems put upon by others and never seems to do anything wrong. First few seasons she was sort of an amusing fuckup. Recently she's been sailing through life being put upon and dealing with adversity, etc, and it all seems sort of ... self-righteous or self-justifying, somehow.

For example, the fact that they did a whole show about how justified Carrie was to be pissed off that a friend didn't understand spending $350 on shoes, and then make the friend replace said shoes when they were lost, and the show was written in such a way so that CARRIE WAS IN THE RIGHT ABOUT THIS WHILE THE OTHER WOMAN WAS THE ONE WHO WAS A SELF ABSORBED PRIG is just, somehow, not OK. Real loss of perspective. The best aspect of Carrie's character was that she was an amusing fuckup, and its nice to relate to someone who is amusing while they fuck up. One is not able to relate to someone who may be amusing but is never actually wrong.

edited to add: but, yes, the marked increase in facial tics and body language that scream "I've been clinically diagonsed as a narcisistic personality" are annoying, too.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
You are a rule of civil procedure! Take this quiz to find out which one.

I am RULE 8(a)! You are Rule 8, the most laid back of all the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. While your forefather in the Federal Rules may have been a stickler for details and particularity, you have clearly rebelled by being pleasant and easy-going. Rule 8 only requires that a plaintiff provide a short and plain statement of a claim on which a court can grant relief. While there is much to be lauded in your approach, your good nature sometimes gets you in trouble, and you often have to rely on your good friend, Rule 56, to bail you out.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
No need

spoiler

Bret Boone. 141. (googled, cuz, shit, that's trivia)

Yeah, those final round questions are tough. We guessed Manny. Another good one (and this is if people really want to procrastinate) was as follows:

A farmer wants to plant 10 trees. He wants them to be planted in five rows, with each row containing four trees. Draw the arrangement of trees that he plants.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Do you have really large or fat fingers or something - so that making weird typos like this are just inevitable? I don't spend that much time thinking about it, but I can't come up with any other explanation.

(and we Canadians got a big fat check for $600. Because I am such a principled person, I donated my share to charity. Please pat me on the back.)

I'm extremely busy so I often post using VRS, which has its limitations.

I received a check from Canadian gov't a few years back (Via Rail is gov't isn't it?) because a train I was on crashed. Via refunded our fare. Me, my wife and kids (at the time 3 and 6) also all received a 20 page multiple choice survey about the train crash (Were facing rearwardly or forwardly at impact? Did your head strike anything at impact?)

I was surprised there would be a preprinted form for train crash survivors- I would have expected a phone call at the least. Plus the question for the 3 year old should have included color pictures.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
No need

spoiler

Bret Boone. 141. (googled, cuz, shit, that's trivia)

So Jose Canseco was on the sports report after the news last night. He was hesitant to give out much information on his steroid arrest other than "read my book, which is coming out soon." And "my urine sample was switched at the police station" and "it was a conspiracy to have me arrested." And "I'm not saying that Barry Bonds is juiced, but I'm suspicious."

"Oh and hey by the way, I've been invited to the Dodger Spring Training for tryouts next week."

Question, can a guy who looked obviously juiced last night and bigger than he's ever been, and arrested for steroid use/sales come back to baseball?

[bilmore]

Originally posted by taxwonk
I am RULE 8(a)! You are Rule 8, the most laid back of all the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. . . .

Congratulations! You are Rule 703, Rules of Evidence, Bases of Opinion Testimony By Experts! You are distinctly qualified to criticize profferred "experts" based on bias, or perceptions of bias. Your favorite color is blue, your favorite fruitcake is Josh.