Fashion Board - Muse to the Fucktards

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
We have a pain-in-the-ass client (institutional pain, not individual pain, although sometimes it's both*) who simply will not budge from its form, especially for stuff like indemnity. When people give me this line, I refer them about 18 steps up the ladder of our client and tell them to have their business person give that person a call since he's the one who okays changes to that provision.

When it's a conference call with the business people, the lawyer bringing it up gets told to move on. When it's not, they call back after speaking to their client (sometimes it's 15 minutes) and bitch and moan right before they give on the point.

TM

*There's a lot there to work with. Have at it.

A client standing by its form is a ot different from a junior associate thinking he has a dick. If it's a business issue for the client, then our business people have been known to roll.

Of course, I've also had to go to the business people and tell them that GC says to find another lender.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by taxwonk
A client standing by its form is a ot different from a junior associate thinking he has a dick. If it's a business issue for the client, then our business people have been known to roll.

Of course, I've also had to go to the business people and tell them that GC says to find another lender.

2. A while back i had a CEO of client tell me, "there's plenty of money out there, fuck em if they don't want to be reasonable"

Word!

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
I had some Ethos Syrah, 2003, last night. Dark purple, chewy, blueberries, chocolate.........mmmmmmmmmmmm.

I'm not a big Syrah fan. Don't know why. I guess I just don't like the earthiness or something.
We did have a really nice 2000 Northstar Merlot the other night, and a Washington Cabernet that was really tasty and I can't seem to remember what it was.

[Shape Shifter]

CNN sure has it's (non-pointy) ear to the ground.

Tonguesplitting.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
So, Lindsay wants to go to Iraq. Should we take up a collection and send her?

"I've been trying to go to Iraq with Hillary Clinton for so long," Lohan, 20, tells Elle magazine in its September issue, after she was asked if she had any big plans for next year. "Hillary was trying to work it out, but it seemed too dangerous."
Even without Sen. Clinton, Lohan is confident she can handle an Iraq trip on her own. "I'm not afraid of going," she says. "My security guard is going to take me to a gun range when I get back to L.A., and I'm going to start taking shooting lessons."

On her desire to handle a gun, she says, "Yeah, I have a dark side. I watched all those videos on Charles Manson for a while."

"I wanted to do what Marilyn Monroe did (during the Korean War), when she went and just set up a stage and did a concert for the troops all by herself. It's so amazing seeing that one woman just going somewhere, this beautiful sex kitten, who's basically a pinup, which is what I've always aspired to be."

Elsewhere in the Elle interview Lohan says she's never had plastic surgery ("I've never done anything") and isn't using cocaine ("I'm not. There you have it. It's not true").

Wow, such high aspirations. She wants to be a sex kitten and shoot guns - as if she could actually protect herself and her coke stash in Iraq.

The combination of guns and sex somehow makes her more appealing than nightclubs, teenage drinking and disney. Is that healthy or no?

[tmdiva]

Originally posted by Gattigap

Just be sure not to leave a clean car parked in the driveway during mating season. There is a neighborhood in SE Portland with a similar problem, and a couple of years ago a big peacock mistook his reflection in the side of a shiny new black truck for a rival. Hello, new paint job.

I think I'd trade you, though--we live near Forest Park and have had problems with everything from voles to deer, including rabbits, skunks, raccoons, moles, rats and something that dug a six-inch diameter burrow entrance in my side yard. Coyotes we've only seen in the street, not the back yard, but for all I know they've been there, too.

tm

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Gattigap
Parrots and Pea-cocks

Gattigap

Our neighborhood has foxes - they'd take care of those pea-cocks for you.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by taxwonk
A client standing by its form is a ot different from a junior associate thinking he has a dick. If it's a business issue for the client, then our business people have been known to roll.

Of course, I've also had to go to the business people and tell them that GC says to find another lender.

I've heard this bluff on conference calls many times. Not once has a deal cratered because of some shit like this. And if the indemnity issue was ever big enough for a borrower to crater a deal, we would be fairly certain the right decision was made.

TM

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I've heard this bluff on conference calls many times. Not once has a deal cratered because of some shit like this. And if the indemnity issue was ever big enough for a borrower to crater a deal, we would be fairly certain the right decision was made.

TM

We cratered a deal over an indmnity provision just once. It was a REIT acquisition and the seller wanted an indemnity for the period when they were responsible for meeting the statutory requirements. We figured that if they were that worried about it, there had to be a fuck-up hiding somewhere in the woodpile.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
I'm not a big Syrah fan. Don't know why. I guess I just don't like the earthiness or something.
We did have a really nice 2000 Northstar Merlot the other night, and a Washington Cabernet that was really tasty and I can't seem to remember what it was.

Did it come in a box? Washington State is getting a reputation for boxed wines lately.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by taxwonk
We cratered a deal over an indmnity provision just once. It was a REIT acquisition and the seller wanted an indemnity for the period when they were responsible for meeting the statutory requirements. We figured that if they were that worried about it, there had to be a fuck-up hiding somewhere in the woodpile.

Exactly.

TM

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Did it come in a box? Washington State is getting a reputation for boxed wines lately.

I have never seen a Washington box wine. The last box wine I saw was at a wine "tasting" at BevMo where Delicato was trying to pawn itself off as a premium wine in an alternative container.
No this one was in a bottle and when I went to their webpage it was sold out. And the likelihood of getting a Washington wine in California (outside of Columbia Crest and Ste. Michelle) is low.
Although I did see and purchase a Canoe Ridge Merlot at BevMo, but I have not tried it since they were sold to some conglomerate.
They were pretty good back in the day.

[NotFromHere]

I hope they get a better group than last time.

PASADENA, Calif. — Thousands of "American Idol" hopefuls descended on the Rose Bowl before dawn Tuesday with wide-eyed dreams of becoming the next Taylor Hicks or Carrie Underwood.

Upcoming auditions for singers: Alamodome, San Antonio, Friday; Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, N.J., Aug. 14; Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex, Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 21; FedExForum, Memphis, Tenn., Sep. 3; Target Center, Minneapolis, Sep. 8; Key Arena, Seattle, Sept. 19.

On the new season that begins airing in January, "American Idol" will up the ante with a songwriting contest in which professionals and amateurs will have the chance to compose tunes for the finalists.

According to the Web site, hopefuls can be accompanied to the audition by a friend or relative and can tote in items such as blankets and water. On the banned list: alcoholic beverages, illegal drugs, animals and hair dryers.

I wonder why the ban on hair dryers?

[patentparanyc]

My boss just walked by and said "'sup, killer?" and my other boss when I called him to ask a question said "hey captain" do I inspire nicknames? is this a commonplace occurence?

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
My boss just walked by and said "'sup, killer?" and my other boss when I called him to ask a question said "hey captain" do I inspire nicknames? is this a commonplace occurence?

I find it's a commonplace occurrence among people sufficently unmemorable that noone bothers to learn their name.