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ThurgreedMarshall · 05-07-2003, 04:07 PM

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Originally posted by bilmore
out to dinner with two eldest kids a few weeks ago, at the Kirby Puckett Memorial Eatery.

I hope your wife didn't have to use the bathroom.

Thurgreed(oh wait, he was acquitted, right?)Marshall

evenodds · 05-07-2003, 04:09 PM

Now this is a way to prepare for oral argument, though I suspect it's not uncommon . . .

Dude, Is This the High Court?
By Randall Palmer

OTTAWA (Reuters) - There is now another reason to call it Canada's high court.

An activist seeking the overturn of Canada's marijuana law smoked hashish and cannabis on Tuesday before arguing his own case in the Supreme Court, dressed completely in hemp products.

"I took a couple hits off some bubble hash and a little bit of cannabis," David Malmo-Levine told reporters after delivering a 40-minute monologue to the nine justices.

"I was happy, hungry and relaxed, but I was not impaired."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...m/marijuana_dc

05-07-2003, 04:15 PM

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan

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"Some of us keep toys in our offices..."

That used to happen in our office until a higher-up brought in a child who was supposed to have been sent home from daycare with pink-eye (brought to work instead). Child went around the office and gave pink-eye to a large number of the support stuff - it was the really invasive kind that causes permanent eye damage in some people. Support staff successfully got damages, worker's comp., etc. Now we have a brand new policy about kids in the office.

P.S. Hello to my co-worker who is also on here. Yes, I know who you are because when I noticed that you were in the process of posting - I ran back to my office and logged on to figure out who you were - you would have done the same thing. You might want to rearrange your furniture so that your computer doesn't broadcast into the hallway and/or post with your door closed.

spookyfish · 05-07-2003, 04:15 PM

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Originally posted by bilmore
I find that, if you keep your kids in big zip-lock bags, they stay much cleaner.

Quieter, too.

Going back to the original point of the posts that if you don't "like kids", don't have them. It's no sin. It's worse to have them just because that's the thing to do.

The people I hate are the ones who treat kids almost like they are "accessories". I'm thoroughly convinced my SIL is one of these people. She wanted two. A boy and a girl. Had the girl first. Fortunately (or not so) had the boy second. Now that the boy is in the picture, the girl is ignored and is shipped off to the grandparents every chance the parents get.

The SIL is not one to have the kids put a dent in her "active lifestyle", so she continually tries to get my wife (who stays at home) to watch the kid for "an hour" while she runs off to some dumb fucking basket weaving class or some such thing. Usually when my wife consents, these "hours" tend to grow into two (or three, or four). The one advantage in her mind to having kids is that she can meet new friends while dropping the kids off for ballet lessons or sitting them all in a corner at the "mom and me" class so she can bullshit with the other moms.

Meanwhile, when the kids are at home, she expects them to sit around with their hands folded on their laps in her presence, while she don't really concern herself with the fact that the kids are playing with matches when they are out of her field of vision.

If you aren't ready to deal with the good, the bad (or the ugly) don't breed.

05-07-2003, 04:17 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
I'm thinking you should shoot back "just wait until he's had a couple of beers.":cheers:

That was funny

purse junkie · 05-07-2003, 04:17 PM

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Originally posted by evenodds
"I took a couple hits off some bubble hash and a little bit of cannabis," David Malmo-Levine told reporters after delivering a 40-minute monologue to the nine justices.

"I was happy, hungry and relaxed, but I was not impaired."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...m/marijuana_dc

The insensitive justices should've known to provide counsel with appropriate snacks. Of course he should be expected to argue well when high, but when battling the munchies?

spookyfish · 05-07-2003, 04:18 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
The use of "nay" must be stopped!

I mean, it's one thing in Parliament or on NPR, but twice on the Fashion Board in one day is on a whole different plane.

I vote nay.

bilmore · 05-07-2003, 04:18 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Thurgreed(oh wait, he was acquitted, right?)Marshall

Yeah, but his admitted conduct sort of put the nail in his proverbial coffin around here. He's been in the news for similar things too many times, even for a Kirby Puckett. (I mean, he was like god around here.)

robustpuppy · 05-07-2003, 04:21 PM

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Originally posted by bilmore
A coworker used to make fun of me for carrying several little action figures in my briefcase at all times.

I read this post really quickly and at first I thought you said your coworker made fun of you for carrying action figures in your briefs.:what?:

Bad_Rich_Chic · 05-07-2003, 04:21 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
This is mostly just false. I'm hoping it's sarcasm. No one who's ever spent time around children has any illusions that they are not born with their own distinct personalities (which includes generous qualities and a concern for others or the lack thereof).

I think you're misunderstanding what I mean by "concern for others." Not believing anyone can see into the soul of another, I don't give a crap about whether it actually cares about how you feel or not, I care only about behavior. I never said they don't have their own distinct personalities. However, whatever its innate personality, when it screams at 3 am, you just tell me how much concern it is showing for you, other than its concern for making you do what it wants. However it is born, it has to LEARN that its desires are not reason to wake somebody else up in the middle of the night. Or, at least, eventually it learns that it isn't effective, and you get "concern for others" in behavior if not in sentiment.

However, your sibling tale is (somewhat) well taken. From day one I was always the quiet, well behaved one, while my sister was a hellion. I was born premature, quiet and not crying, she came out late, fat, and screaming. We both pretty much stayed that way - she's screaming still. However, one thing most people have noted who know us both well is that, despite being raised together by the same parents, we did NOT have the same parenting, at all. We don't to this day. Which is cause and which is effect, I don't know.

bilmore · 05-07-2003, 04:26 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
I read this post really quickly and at first I thought you said your coworker made fun of you for carrying action figures in your briefs.:what?:

No, he was okay with that part. He just thought that having more in the briefcase was overkill.

spookyfish · 05-07-2003, 04:28 PM

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Originally posted by bilmore
No, he was okay with that part. He just thought that having more in the briefcase was overkill.

Just as long as he never asked you if you had an "action figure" in your briefs or were just glad to see him. (Wait, that could be construed as redundant).

ThrashersFan · 05-07-2003, 04:28 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
The use of "nay" must be stopped!

I mean, it's one thing in Parliament or on NPR, but twice on the Fashion Board in one day is on a whole different plane.

Settle down, bucky. It just sorta fell out onto the page -- maybe because I read it on the other post earlier. Who the hell knows. It is not like I would use it in a conversation or anything. Let's just chalk it up to something like lighting a smoke and then realizing you already had one blazing in the ashtray -- it was a slip that I really didn't even notice until you pointed it out. Thanks a fucking lot. I didn't mean to and now I have become your personal kicking dog and everyone knows it. I bet you laugh at people who accidentally light the filter end so that they suffer publicly rather than in their own private pit of stupid shame.

Thrashers(neigh)Fan

ABBAKiss · 05-07-2003, 04:31 PM

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Originally posted by ThrashersFan
Thrashers(neigh)Fan

Wait--are you neighsayer? Or just a nay sayer?

05-07-2003, 04:31 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Gum cracking must be stopped!!!!

r(I mean, it's one thing at the movies/gym/sidewalk/metro, but outside my fucking office door is on a whole different plane)p

Whoa! This is the thing I hate as much if not more than umbrellas! I was just thinking about this friend I used to have. She was a heavy user of the word quote classy unquote. One time I was riding into NYC with her on metro north (she for a job interview, me for some other reason) and she just sat on the train cracking her fucking gum. I couldnt take it anymoe and passive aggresively asked her if she planned to chew gum during her interview (bc people who say "classy" don't know better) and she WAS. She just sat there, cracking away for 45 minutes driving the quote classy unquote people heading to the city nuts.

addendum- last time I spoke to her was after I moved to California. SHe had just gotten engaged to some limo driver and got fake tits. I asked her if he made her do that to herself. Never really spoke to her again after that. Oh well. I am sure she lived classily ever after. CRACK.