Where the Kids Come to Mouth Off

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
But waitressing nightmares? Every night for about the first month of work. Always every single table in the place would sit down at the same time and I couldn't get out of the waitress station to get to any of them. Horrible.

Never had many work realted nightmares, except the repeating occurence of Table 47 not getting their Fried Cheese. I'd wake up with my heart racing, sweat pouring off me, and hyper ventilating. None of it related to sex.

Anne
Yes, I worked at a restaurant that required Flair.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
If Shaq, Kobe, and others go we probably do win.

You have no idea how much people saying things like this frustrates me.

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Magic now or Magic circa 1985?

Since we're comparing 1980's to the present, what do you think?

BTW, if you haven't read it yer, the SportsGuy has a great column about an all-weekend NBA TV binge. Good stuff.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
I frequently have the dream where I am looking for the exam room to an undergrad class I thought I dropped but I am naked when looking for the exam room.

Isn't that symbolic of the classic fear of being exposed for the fraud you know you are but others have not yet accused you of being?

It's funny, I haven't had a naked-in-public (where I am embarrassed to be naked in public) dream since I was in high school, but during adolescence I had it a lot. I had dreams of going to school in my pj's, of taking a shower in the middle of the hallway outside homeroom, etc.

Now that we've talked about it, tonight I will probably dream of gwinky's avatar planting trees outside the hallway where I am taking an exam for a higher math class I didn't know I was in with a draft of a client newsletter that I haven't started due to my partner the next morning.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
I frequently have the dream where I am looking for the exam room to an undergrad class I thought I dropped but I am naked when looking for the exam room.

I'm always driving in my naked dreams.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
You have no idea how much people saying things like this frustrates me.

What do you want, a Piston named? We sent your coach . . . who now is in the same bucket as John Thompson and Henry Iba

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I'm always driving in my naked dreams.

Hot. Have you ever had a dream where you are in a moving car where nobody is driving and you're struggling to get access to the controls? Usually in that dream I am in the back seat. Sometimes I'm in pajamas or a robe. Often the car is a white 1970s Mercury Marquis.

Do with it what you will.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
As for hoops, we could have won either of two ways: 1: Get a better set of NBA style players to go. If Shaq, Kobe, and others go we probably do win. This was mostly second string. 2: Take NBA players who would fit the international mold, even if they're not the top NBA players, and send them. THat's what every other country does. We could win that way too.

Sure, send a different team and you get a different outcome. Maybe.

I think this is what it must be like living in Brazil, Italy, or Germany when your team goes to the World Cup and sucks it big time.

When was the last time Brazil sucked at a World Cup? Last time around they beat Germany in the final. Replacing them with England and Argentina makes your point.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by robustpuppy

It's funny, I haven't had a naked-in-public (where I am embarrassed to be naked in public) dream since I was in high school, but during adolescence I had it a lot.

I am often walking around non-challantly in my underwear in the office, on the street, etc. In my dreams.

Then I notice. A sort of emperor with almost no clothes thing.

Sometimes other people in underwear are just walking around here, too.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
I am often walking around non-challantly in my underwear in the office, on the street, etc. In my dreams.

That is the difference between you and me. In my underwear, I always walk around challantly.

[Anne Elk]

Apprentice announces candidates:

The men are: Kevin, 29, a law student from Chicago; Raj, 28, a real estate developer in the tony ski resort of Vail; Bradford, 33, a lawyer and real estate investor from Florida; Rob, 32, a corporate products salesman from Texas; Andy, 23, a new Harvard graduate from Florida; Wes, 28, a financial planner for the wealthy from Atlanta; Chris, 30, a stockbroker from Long Island with only a high school degree; and John, 24, a marketer from San Francisco.

The women are: Maria, 31, a Virginia marketer; Jennifer C., 31, a real estate agent from New York; Pamela, 32, an investment firm partner from San Francisco; Sandy, 28, a Maryland bridal shop owner; Elizabeth, 31, a consultant from southern California; Stacie J., 35, a Subway franchisee in Harlem; Ivana, 28, an investor from Boston; Jennifer M., 30, a San Francisco attorney; Kelly, 37, a Los Angeles software executive; and Stacy R., 26, a New York attorney.

boston.com article here

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
Yes, I worked at a restaurant that required Flair.

how many pieces did you typically wear? were you an overachiever?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
Since we're comparing 1980's to the present, what do you think?

BTW, if you haven't read it yer, the SportsGuy has a great column about an all-weekend NBA TV binge. Good stuff.

It was a rhetorical question based on the fact that both Kwame and 2004 Magic are excruciating to watch.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Hot. Have you ever had a dream where you are in a moving car where nobody is driving and you're struggling to get access to the controls? Usually in that dream I am in the back seat.

I think that's the only prototypically weird dream I've ever repeatedly had. I'd guess at something like "my life careening down the road totally out of my control", but that's way too simple. It probably really means I want to learn Armenian dance.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Also I had tree-planting dreams

When I was about 8, I had a series of vivid and bone-chilling nightmares involving an Evil Plant. Many plants are Bad or Wrong (hi, PLF!), but this plant was Evil. It could kill people who had touched it long after they had gotten home and gone to sleep, etc. And no one knew about its villainy but me. I bore the sad and lonely duty of guarding the Evil Plant to keep away the endless parade of clueless gawkers, many of whom died despite my precautions. They called me mad!

What was weird about this dream was that it wasn't recurring --- it was serial. It was cinematic. Nay, it had a grandeur that was lacking in 1970s cinema. It was operatic.

It culminated after several months in me convincing the President (who may or may not have been Carter, but was definitely a kindly old gentleman who took some pursuading of the danger --- FWIW) to let me take the redwood slat half-barrel in which Evil Plant made its home out on a battleship to drop it into some trench in the Pacific. Still it lurks there.

What was also weird is that my 8-year-old brain came up with this story before ever having seen "Little Shop of Horrors" or having read "Rappaccini's Daughter." I mean, at the end of the day it was just a fucking plant and could be dropped off a battleship without putting up much of a fight. Fuckin' punk-ass pussy plant. Boo-yah!