Fashion Board 5-7-04 to 6-9-04

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by bill killer
OK, since it's slow, here's a poll: What's the suckiest (stupidest, most embarrassing, whatever) actual name that you have encountered?

Richard Handler. Went by "Dick." No lie.

So Dave Foley's now hosting Celebrity Poker. I posted this because (1) str8 needs to tell him to get a fucking shave cuz he looks like a fucking bum; and (2) "Celebrity Poker" makes me giggle.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Richard Handler. Went by "Dick." No lie.

So Dave Foley's now hosting Celebrity Poker. I posted this because (1) str8 needs to tell him to get a fucking shave cuz he looks like a fucking bum; and (2) "Celebrity Poker" makes me giggle.

I still get a chuckle out of NASCAR driver Dick Trickle, but I've only encountered his name watching SportCenter.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Scholarly conference on religious themes in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

Here are the papers to be presented.

Fuck b-school. I should have stayed in liberal arts.

Very subtle way of saying, "Look, guys! I got my picture in the paper for writing about Buffy!"

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by bill killer
OK, since it's slow, here's a poll: What's the suckiest (stupidest, most embarrassing, whatever) actual name that you have encountered? Combinations are also ok, such as law firm names - example: there used to be a law firm in Rhode Island known as Licht & Semonoff (they have since changed their name)).

I met a guy named Dixon Hand. I swear I am not making this up. I am not watching Celebrity Poker, either.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I met a guy named Dixon Hand. I swear I am not making this up. I am not watching Celebrity Poker, either.

I know someone named Candance Hart. She goes by Candy. I swear.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Fugee
Idol review

I know that Diana, if she loses, when she loses will blame her loss on the fact that she got lost on that last song and was so far off pitch that she couldn't cover. But I think she was already losing. And Simon needs to know when to shut up. Whenever he gushes, that spurs that pity vote for the other person. That said, I've been calling for Fantasia and only got through 4 times on any of the 3 numbers. I hope that's a good sign because if Diana wins, I'm going to start believing the conspiracy theories.

Go Fantasia!

eta I knew a Richard Clark and a Richard Hertz, both went by Dick. Swear. No joke. And a doctor who worked in the office with my dermatologist went by Rocky Beach. Dr. Rocky Beach.

[NotFromHere]

In the spirit of Shifty's haunted jar, I bring you the haunted grilled cheese sandwich....haunted grilled cheese sandwich - ooooh spooooooky

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I met a guy named Dixon Hand. I swear I am not making this up. I am not watching Celebrity Poker, either.

"dick" names should be a separate catagory.

There is a car dealership here founded by Mr. Stark Hickey.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I guess you've never jerked off in a room with a mirror, then.

TM

You can jerk off without a mirror?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Thank you for picking up the stupid argument slack since I cant do it right now. What troubles me is that Coltrane's 2 friends from the UC (I assume Chicago and not Colo or CAlif) have no work experience yet a full one hundred percent of the UC class has the work expereience. Who is lyinghere? Coltrane or UC?

ETA- whoops, that was the 03 entering class. presumably coltranes friends are not 03 since I think they graduated. May be it was only ninety eight percent when they were there and they got around the "tradition" by doing good deeds for Lamba Lamda

Please tell me you did not just look up stats on '03 classes at schools to rebut Coltrane. Say it ain't so. I thought you were one of the good ones.

You're becoming a lawyer, you know that?

Just keeping you honest.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
You can jerk off without a mirror?

I can, if i have a photo of you that is.

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by kafka_esquire
Not bad, Not Bob. The biggest news is that Kafka-ette and I just finished all the paperwork formalizing the adoption of a sibling for kafka-tot (who now is loving being the big sister, even with the concomitant reqirement that she now learn to share . . .)

How goes it with all y'all?

Congratulations, Kafka!

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by bill killer
OK, since it's slow, here's a poll: What's the suckiest (stupidest, most embarrassing, whatever) actual name that you have encountered? Combinations are also ok, such as law firm names - example: there used to be a law firm in Rhode Island known as Licht & Semonoff (they have since changed their name)).

In the town where I went to college there is (was?) a doctor whose name is Harold Beaver. His specialty? You guessed it, gynecology.

I have independently verified that this is not bullshit (i.e. I looked him up).


ETA: I enjoyed the new post-posting messages this morning. "Thanks" to the responsible party.

[Alex_de_Large]

Jon Stewart recently gave the commencement address at William and Mary. Definitely worth a read.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Top business schools generally prefer that candidates have at least two years of experience. However, while this is an important issue, not all schools consider it a hard and fast rule.

Of top b-schools, Chicago seems like one that would give work experience less weight because of the quantitative focus of its program. However, if they are trying to change their image, they may be giving it greater weight.

I've heard the debate between quant and qaulitative programs bandied about quite a bit by b school friends over the years (one friend who just finished Yale was really perturbed about the quant stuff and wishes she hadn't gone).

A family member has a business acting as middlemen distributing a sometimes-complex product which for years quant-minded folks have opined could much more easily be distributed directly to consumers. For years, people, including me, said the wise thing to do was sell the business, as it would soon be blown out by direct sales. However, contrary to these assertions, the business has in fact done better over the past seven years, as more and more people seem eager to buy the product from people, and expect greater customer service. What I see is that people in that particular market are becoming more and more dependent on others' doing their thinking for them and "servicing" them. Makes me wonder how a quant person would explain this uptick in full-service dependence. Technically, from the projections I read, the business should be sagging. My layman's theory has been that whoever wrote the projections did not take goodwill into account and did not consider that many people who buy direct are dissatisfied with corporate service, and that this creates a whiplash effect whereby people return to the old purchasing methods of buying from the guy who sells them the product directly, face to face.

I experienced it just last week when I chose to pay for a doctor's visit out of pocket. My health plan was (a) too complicated, and (b) simply too annoying. I did the math and decided "Fuck it, my time is more valuable" and paid the doc in cash.