Fashion Board--Penske . . . forever! - Page 54

Tyrone Slothrop · 08-17-2006, 04:44 PM

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NOW that was funny. heh. truly

Mazeltov, RP. Did you just sell the cats?

robustpuppy · 08-17-2006, 04:45 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Did you just sell the cats?

Is this a double entendre?

Pretty Little Flower · 08-17-2006, 04:46 PM

I go to a meeting, then a spin class, and when I come back, the board has become some sort of psychotic bra-burning feminazi pep rally. Even I feel like a neanderthal, and the last article of clothing I bought was a pair of pink Michael Kors pants.

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Speaking of Kors, do you think Alison's greater sin was that she could not make the fat model look thin, or that she is cuter than the judges?

spookyfish · 08-17-2006, 04:47 PM

In a futile attempt to try to get some work done today, I've been doing Lexis searches, and trying to figure out why I didn't get any hits on one search combination.

As it turns out, I spelled one of my search terms "offence."

Please stop that shit. You're destroying what little productivity I've been able to muster lately.

ThurgreedMarshall · 08-17-2006, 04:48 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Becoming a BIGLAW partner requires you to spend your time doing things that do not set yourself up for a career in politics. I agree that there are more senior types with political potential, but didn't they get there on the strength of accomplishments elsewhere (e.g., Giuliani)?

Yep. He was a prosecutor.

TM

ETA: Whiff, because you obviously knew that.

ltl/fb · 08-17-2006, 04:49 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I think he is risk-averse and trying to have his cake and eat it too. I think he's thinking (a) and (d), or if he runs and loses. I told him in pretty strong terms that the options are inconsistent, but now I'm wondering if I steered him wrong.

I would think he would need to work for at least a year or so before going into office.

I think Wanker referenced a former governor of VA who went to a BIGVA firm after he was governor, and ncs has discussed Ron Kirk, and I think Kay Bailey Hutchison's husband was a politician for a long time (how they met) and then went to BIGTEX, but I don't know whether he was at a firm before he went into politics or was at one at all while in politics.

ETA I think you steered him right, but wtf do I know? Unless he is part of a famous political family, it's kind of a stretch to assume that he will be successful and influential enough in politics to get a job at a prominent firm.

greatwhitenorthchick · 08-17-2006, 04:51 PM

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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I go to a meeting, then a spin class, and when I come back, the board has become some sort of psychotic bra-burning feminazi pep rally. Even I feel like a neanderthal, and the last article of clothing I bought was a pair of pink Michael Kors pants.

Speaking of Kors, do you think Alison's greater sin was that she could not make the fat model look thin, or that she is cuter than the judges?

Spoiler space would be nice, bitch. I was busy having sex at 10pm last night and had to tivo my new favorite show. And now you're telling me that my favorite girl got voted off? Damn.you.Flower.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 08-17-2006, 04:51 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I think he is risk-averse and trying to have his cake and eat it too. I think he's thinking (a) and (d), or if he runs and loses. I told him in pretty strong terms that the options are inconsistent, but now I'm wondering if I steered him wrong.

Well, he's not going to run for office in the last three years before partnership, right?

But you know as well as anyone that associates can slack off and do anything for a couple of years at a law firm if they don't really care about partnership. That seems like a feasible approach. Work hard for two years, coast for three years while hobnobing with the relevant party.

(I'm told on good information that Alex Kozinski got his judgeship pretty much that way; Covington and Burling wasn't particularly impressed with his billables his last couple of years, but they knew better than to bitch to the Reagan white house.)

Tyrone Slothrop · 08-17-2006, 04:52 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
I would think he would need to work for at least a year or so before going into office.

I think Wanker referenced a former governor of VA who went to a BIGVA firm after he was governor, and ncs has discussed Ron Kirk, and I think Kay Bailey Hutchison's husband was a politician for a long time (how they met) and then went to BIGTEX, but I don't know whether he was at a firm before he went into politics or was at one at all while in politics.

ETA I think you steered him right, but wtf do I know? Unless he is part of a famous political family, it's kind of a stretch to assume that he will be successful and influential enough in politics to get a job at a prominent firm.

Maybe the better answer is that it's not common, and em should think hard about how the BIGLAW career is supposed to set up the political career.

Tyrone Slothrop · 08-17-2006, 04:53 PM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Spoiler space would be nice, bitch. I was busy having sex at 10pm last night and had to tivo my new favorite show. And now you're telling me that my favorite girl got voted off? Damn.you.Flower.

Not to be a pedant or anything, but I recently read somewhere that this business of emphasizing words with additional periods is all. played. out.

N.B. -- Even more played out is stringing a bunch of the periods together, I hear.

robustpuppy · 08-17-2006, 04:54 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Maybe the better answer is that it's not common, and em should think hard about how the BIGLAW career is supposed to set up the political career.

You can do anything with a law degree!