GO ABBA GO!!!

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by taxwonk
They don't ask you to pay for your listing, but you will be bothered inperpetuity with offers to get special wodden plaques with an ingraved reproduction of your entry, an opportunity to be one of the select few that get the quarterly updates to the directory, and maybe, just maybe, an offer to buy a video demonstrating the secret handshake.

This is why I change jobs and move residences a lot.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by barely_legal
Does anybody here live near Laguna Beach, or have any of you vacationed there? What are some can't-miss activities and places?

I was in huntington beach for a week this summer. it was nice in a surfer kind of way.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by taxwonk
They don't ask you to pay for your listing, but you will be bothered inperpetuity with offers to get special wodden plaques with an ingraved reproduction of your entry, an opportunity to be one of the select few that get the quarterly updates to the directory, and maybe, just maybe, an offer to buy a video demonstrating the secret handshake.

Martindale now asks you to be paid for a listing, correct? and this was not always the case back in the day? does that not create a conflict of interest with their rating system, i.e. av etc.?

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by barely_legal
Does anybody here live near Laguna Beach, or have any of you vacationed there? What are some can't-miss activities and places?

I second the laid-back beachy thing. There used to be a bunch of really nice restaurants in Laguna back when I lived in LA. Don't know if that's the case anymore, but it was always a good place to go for a celebration.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Mr Man and I are flying to Indianapolis on Saturday so that we can see The Big Game on Sunday. We've had it planned for months, and it seems like we picked a good one, it turns out. I was just reading Peter King's column and he mentioned that the only other AFC game scheduled in that time slot is Oakland-Houston, so the only market that could miss the Colts-Patriots matchup is Houston if they don't sell out their home game. RT, what is the likelihood of that happening? He also mentioned that the Houston long-snapper snapped the ball over the punter's head and into the end zone for a SD touchdown on Sunday. Yikes.

I recommend St. Elmos for dinner.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
This is why I change jobs and move residences a lot.

Really? I thought it was the outstanding warrant in British Columbia.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by taxwonk
They don't ask you to pay for your listing, but you will be bothered inperpetuity with offers to get special wodden plaques with an ingraved reproduction of your entry, an opportunity to be one of the select few that get the quarterly updates to the directory, and maybe, just maybe, an offer to buy a video demonstrating the secret handshake.

Remember, years back, when we were young and innocent and actually took a cold call from a life insurance salesman or stockbroker?

And remember when that same salesman called again? And again? And Again? It seems like just yesterday.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Remember, years back, when we were young and innocent and actually took a cold call from a life insurance salesman or stockbroker?

And remember when that same salesman called again? And again? And Again? It seems like just yesterday.

are you sure you aren't talking about headhunters? you could insert that and say the same thing.

[J. Fred Muggs]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
One of the waitressy friends I lost contact graduated from BU and now works as a barber in Maine.

so basically, J Fred is calling me pathetic for being over qualified for my job? So the girl here from Columbia is uber pathetic or the dude from brown? I'm not super duper proud of my job but I don't think I'm pathetic.

No, I'm calling you pathetic for being so proud of your degree and your husband's inability to finish law school. I'm guessing that your degree-granting institution didn't have a reading comprehension or logic exam as an exit requirement, did they?

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I recommend St. Elmos for dinner.

Sadly it is booked solid for the entire weekend (Mr Man checked this morning). We should have planned our meals sooner. We're stuck with Shula's, I guess.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by J. Fred Muggs
No, I'm calling you pathetic for being so proud of your degree and your husband's inability to finish law school. I'm guessing that your degree-granting institution didn't have a reading comprehension or logic exam as an exit requirement, did they?

I am proud of my degree, but not for the reasons you'd think.

I put myself through school so yes, I am proud of overcoming socio-economic adversity and graduating. I come from a very blue collar family and am the first to go to college.

I am proud of my husband because he's super smart and realized he hated the law and walked away to raise his kids. I don't think he can be faulted for following his heart.

If you think that's pathetic, then fine.

[sunnybunny]

I don't check in here very often anymore, but every time I do, you're one of the last few posters.

I would really like to get a better cross-sample of posters on my random visits, and at the rate you're posting, the entire U.S. lawyer billable hours would be in the tanker if they tried to catch up to you...so could you please stop posting so much so I can actually see some posts by the original GA's without having to look back ten pages?

TIA

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by ironweed
Such fun! What a charming collection of large, brightly-colored objects. I do find it so very refreshing to be reminded from time to time of what passes for "art" in the provinces.

Oh, was that supposed to be an art thing? I was pretty far out of my head that evening. But how about my fabulous shirt!

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by J. Fred Muggs
Just a note on pathetic:


1. Not Pathetic--Guy with no post-high school education who works at a gas station.

2. More pathetic--Guy with doctorate who holds same gas station job.

3. Even more pathetic--Guy with doctorate who holds same job, but is proud that his wife couldn't finish law school.

4. Most pathetic--Listing "Order of the Coif" on your resume or bio when you're over 40.

5. Most mostest pathetic--Thinking she's going to fuck your bald, 5'4 self if you get a 911.

I tell you this. In ten years of practice and having worked in 5 different areas of law and with lawyers from huge firms down to the lowest PI bottom feeders, on the balance, with the exception of the people here, who are the exception to the rule in the industry, generally I'd talk to a gas station attendant over a lawyer every day of the week.

[J. Fred Muggs]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
4. Most pathetic--Listing "Order of the Coif" on your resume or bio when you're over 40.

5. Most mostest pathetic--Thinking she's going to fuck your bald, 5'4 ass if you get a 911.

6. Patheticist--Fucking some short bald dude because he drives a 911.