Fashion Board--Penske . . . forever!

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Are you really this stupid or is it an act?

It was a joke wonk. even if it wasn't funny...

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Me too, considering Illinois just started requiring it.

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Uh oh, what?!?!!? Cite please?

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
It was a joke wonk. even if it wasn't funny...

Thank God. There may be hope for you yet.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by taxwonk
If you have to ask how to tell if someone's wealthy, you aren't.

Usually, the truly wealthy people do not dress like they are wealthy. At least the ones that I know. New money shows it off. Old money has nothing to prove.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Maternity is a section she wouldn't know. Did you really need to remind her that she's childless as she heads into another barren weekend?

I think this is the funniest thing you have ever posted, Hankie. There really is a brain in there!!

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Thank God. There may be hope for you yet.

I just like to be obnoxious on friday but obviously it isn't funny

[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Actually, Precious, she is wealthy. And if you're making what some associates are, that makes you wealthy too. Her income puts her in the top 3 or 4 percent of American households. That's right, Princess. Households.

Yeah, you try to send your kid to Hackley while paying 17k a year in village taxes and a 4k mortgage (for a 1200 square feet fixer-upper) on lawyer money.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Uh oh, what?!?!!? Cite please?

Ask, and ye shall receive.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
Yeah, you try to send your kid to Hackley while paying 17k a year in village taxes and a 4k mortgage (for a 1200 square feet fixer-upper) on lawyer money.

I wouldn't know. For the last two years, I've been in the zero bracket. Lucky fucking me.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Were any of them investment bankers? Did they pull down serious bank? Because if not, then they're just proles like you and who cares what they think?

Hmmm. One was a mortgage guy whose house the party was in. The other was the general manager of Niemans. Another was the most beautiful human being who has ever grabbed my ass.

Needless to say, they were all gay.

You know, one of the byproducts of having my entire social life centered around the arts is that the people I hang out with pretty much run the gamut income wise. I'll spend hours at a bar with an oil equipment company owner who could blow ppnyc's investment bankers out of the water in terms of his wealth, an artist who works the counter at Einstien bagles every morning who is over the moon excited about the fact he can afford $200 a month for studio space, a woman who is Beyonce's manager, and a woman who runs a PR company for restuarants out of her home who makes about the same as I do. Ultimately, our relative incomes don't really matter. Artists need patrons and patrons need artists. We all share a passion for art and for having fun, and we're all interesting people. That's all that really matters in a group of people with such disparate incomes.

I went to Hawaii with the mortgage guy above a few years ago on one of his company's annual reward trips for the top mortgage brokers in the country. One night, we went to a dinner with all of the other winners from our region, and the only thing that the bankers could talk about was the stuff they've bought since the last time they got together. Cars, watches, clothes, the additions on the house. It was one of the most tedious discussions I've ever sat in on. And it's not because I'm not materialistic. I'm a fan of beautiful things. I love great design, and I generally can't afford my tastes. But it was clear that these guys were buying things because they were expensive, not because they were beautiful or interesting. It was a competition for who could spend the most money, who could drop the most brand names. I was so relieved when my friend and I went back to the hotel and he told me how bored he was with the discussion too.

Originally posted by pony_trekker
Yeah, you try to send your kid to Hackley while paying 17k a year in village taxes and a 4k mortgage (for a 1200 square feet fixer-upper) on lawyer money.

You should move to Jersey and send the kids to public school. Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Ask, and ye shall receive.

Fuck. Another administrative headache.

[dtb]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Fuck. Another administrative headache.

Do you really need the first period?

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Um, thank you. That's very nice. I thought I was being sort of tongue-in-cheek about being hot lo these many years, but I guess I was not doing a very good job. So, here is a secret that I may delete later:

I really don't that I am hot because I was in a Snap on Tools Calendar. I just think it is funny. Don't tell patentpara. Many thanks

But, see, the thing is you are hot. You can lord it over the rest of us...

BTW, we've doing bag rotations for about half an hour a workout at our boot camp for the last two weeks, and there were hints yesterday that we might be moving to real sparring soon, quite possibly tomorrow.

The other members of the bootcamp are my brother and my sister. I'm getting really excited that the first person I'll get to legitimately punch is a sibling.

This could go really, really well or really, really terribly. But I am excited about actually boxing with someone other than a bag.

[dtb]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I am excited about actually boxing with someone other than a bag.

I thought you said she was hot.