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Replaced_Texan · 05-12-2003, 05:39 PM

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Originally posted by NotFromHere
Wow, the dress code sure has changed since I was in high school.
pajamas

Damn. I used to roll out of bed and go straight to class without bothering to change when I was in college, but I wouldn't have dared try to pull that off in highschool. Of course, the fact that I was required to wear a uniform probably had something to do with that....

str8outavannuys · 05-12-2003, 05:40 PM

Comedian: Judy Tennuta, aka the Comedian's comedian. I also heard Sarah Silverman on Howard Stern this morning, and thought she was quite funny.

That said, there are no funny female comedians.

Underrated beer: Anderson's Poleeko Gold (or something) from northern California. Discovered it at Cafe Adulis, and ever since then I always get it when I see it, which is about once a year.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 05-12-2003, 05:40 PM

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Originally posted by bilmore
There is no such thing as "excessive wine".

and there is no such thing as a wine charge that is not excessive.

I tend to lower my tip as a percent of the total bill if the wine component is particularly large. It's not like there's a sommelier to tip anywhere any more, and 50% of the time the waiter bungles the wine service in some respect or another (doesn't have a clue about the wine list; ham-handedly opens the bottle; insists on putting a white in a chilled bucket; fails to refill my glass when it approaches empty; fills the glass too full; etc.).

The restaurant should take some of its margin out of the wine and give it to the waiter. Kind of like extended warranty sales at best buy et al. Since the wine is so damn profitable, give the waiter a cut of the massive profits for each bottle sold.

Mmmm(don't get me started on rEdiculous wine prices in restaurants)Burger

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 05-12-2003, 05:41 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Damn. I used to roll out of bed and go straight to class without bothering to change when I was in college, but I wouldn't have dared try to pull that off in highschool. Of course, the fact that I was required to wear a uniform probably had something to do with that....

Training to be the future legal secretaries of America, apparently.

[Edited to note I was referring to the pajama wearers, not R_T]

purse junkie · 05-12-2003, 05:46 PM

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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
That said, there are no funny female comedians.

Tina Fey, who writes/hosts "Update", just signed a $4 or $5 mil contract with SNL--a show that has for its entire existence treated women like crap. So even if she's not funny, *she's* laughing all the way to the bank.

Oliver_Wendell_Ramone · 05-12-2003, 05:46 PM

License plate frame seen on the way to work this morning: "Nobody Likes a Dry Snatch."

I can only hope that somebody put this on a friend's car as a joke. Or maybe somebody lost a bet. Would anyone choose to drive around with something like that on their car?

Ollie (I'm not arguing with the substance or anything, but some things are just best left unstated) Ramone

p.s. summer associates have begun rolling in, and I already feel fatter for it.

Replaced_Texan · 05-12-2003, 05:47 PM

Variety is reporting that Angel has been renewed and that James Marsters will be joining the show. Tim Minear and Jeffery Bell are the Executive Producers. Charisma Carpenter is not expected to return.

ER has also been renewed until 2006. Dear god, how long can that show last??

bilmore · 05-12-2003, 05:48 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
. . . don't get me started on rEdiculous wine prices in restaurants . . .

Started?

(But, I agree - wine is such a deviant factor in an otherwise percentage-ruled world that it cannot be handled in a tip without some thought. If the Somali-guy does his little theatrics and entertains, as well as brings a good wine and/or makes good counter-suggestions to our choices ("seriously! You want a red with THIS meal? Are you Stoopid?" doesn't count), he gets paid for it. Otherwise, when we name a wine ("number 42, please"), and our server brings it, he's NOT getting 20% of the price of that wine. )

05-12-2003, 05:50 PM

I am trying to remember which sexist comic is notorious for this statement, Adam Dice Clay? Dangerfield? Cant remember.

But I do recall you saying you saw Kathy Griffin at the Laugh Factory and that you thought she was hilarious.

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Originally posted by purse junkie
Tina Fey, who writes/hosts "Update", just signed a $4 or $5 mil contract with SNL--a show that has for its entire existence treated women like crap. So even if she's not funny, *she's* laughing all the way to the bank.

ThurgreedMarshall · 05-12-2003, 05:50 PM

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Originally posted by NotFromHere
Wow, the dress code sure has changed since I was in high school.
pajamas

Damn. That takes me back.

I was in junior high. This was before every girl in the world wore the tightest jeans or had spandex or lots of other form fitting clothes that have since become so popular.

Anyway, this girl in my junior high was the most popular girl in the whole school. She had developed before most of the other girls, was beautiful and had a fantastic body (with a killer ratio). One day, she wore (what I think were) just her little brother's long johns to school, with a little t-shirt. They were the textured ones -- cream colored. I mean, you could see the outline of EVERYTHING. It was the sexiest thing I have ever seen. To this day.

Of course, a friend of mine ran into her the other day and said she's the same height and looks like she's been worn ragged by cigarettes, coke and alcohol (and no I didn't grow up in Connecticut), but that memory is burned in my mind.

That wasn't the first time I had ever noticed girls in that way (I had played spin the bottle and done some rookie kissing at that point), but gotdangit, if that wasn't the day when "The Ratio" (among other things) clicked in my little pea brain.

So, describe your first memory of when boys or girls (as applicable) and their respective sexual attractiveness finally made sense to you. [edited to include: Since I have been told that not everyone has such an experience, you can write about your first experience with the opposite sex (or same sex, depending).]

TM

Atticus Grinch · 05-12-2003, 05:51 PM

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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Comedian: Judy Tennuta, aka the Comedian's comedian. I also heard Sarah Silverman on Howard Stern this morning, and thought she was quite funny.

While anyone who appears on Stern immediately drops ten percentage points in the cool category, I'm willing to make an exception for Sarah Silverman. Consistently funny on "Larry Sanders" and the late lamented "Greg the Bunny."

She got in a whole lot of hot water doing a bit on Conan about jury duty. "My friend told me I could get out of jury duty by telling the judge something prejudiced, like 'I hate chinks,' but I totally refuse to do that, because I love chinks." I think Conan had to promise he wouldn't invite her back to placate the Asian-American activists, but I thought it was hilarious.

If you want to know what to get me for Christmas, it's a three-way with Silverman, Tina Fey and me.

Did you just call me Coltrane? · 05-12-2003, 05:51 PM

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Originally posted by purse junkie
Tina Fey, who writes/hosts "Update", just signed a $4 or $5 mil contract with SNL--a show that has for its entire existence treated women like crap. So even if she's not funny, *she's* laughing all the way to the bank.

I'm pretty sure she's the head writer of SNL (first female). Just like she was the head writer at Second City. I think improv is much different than stand-up however...

ALL female comedians are better than that Jeff Foxworthy guy...

ThurgreedMarshall · 05-12-2003, 05:53 PM

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Originally posted by bilmore
Mostly because I love to quibble, I will say that the expensed meal is certainly treated differently than the out-of-my-pocket meal - but generally, my tips at Mortons for bad service are very close to my tips at Perkins for bad service, and likewise for the good-service times.

Which means that everyone I know says that I undertip at Mortons, and overtip at Perkins. But no one has ever given me any defense of that position that doesn't include me paying more for some entitlement that is valueless to me.

Can you give us a comparison in price of both meals and what you would tip for shitty and good service at either restaurant? I'm curious.

Thurgreed(and don't fight the hypo with your expense excuse -- it should still be the same principle, right?)Marshall

bilmore · 05-12-2003, 05:53 PM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
ALL female comedians are better than that Jeff Foxworthy guy...

I'm betting you don't like NASCAR either.

ThurgreedMarshall · 05-12-2003, 05:57 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
50% of the time the waiter bungles the wine service in some respect or another ... fails to refill my glass when it approaches empty; fills the glass too full.

I hate this. It always makes me feel like they're rushing me to finish so they can ask me if I want another bottle. I always tell them that we'll pour.

Thurgreed(probably some huge faux paus, but fuck it)Marshall