Meh.

[Mr. Man]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
36 years later, Jimbo is food for worms and the whole shithouse still ain't burning.

To quote another film musical film: "you may want to rethink those last words"

I prefer "Hello Cleveland"

I noticed that with my frequent posts today that I am up to 6.76% of your number of posts.

[Captain]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Fine.

Alito Confirmation: Over/Under at 64 Senators.

You have set your over/under too high. There are a number of Republicans who will want to distance themselves from Alito, and once it becomes clear that Alito will win confirmation, they will arrange with Democrats who need to run in conservative states to trade votes. So, I would guess the Republicans will split 45-10 with the Democrats then providing 8-10 votes for.

This is why you can never trust a politician's (or justice's) record to reveal what they really think.

[SlaveNoMore]

Mr. Man
I prefer "Hello Cleveland"

I noticed that with my frequent posts today that I am up to 6.76% of your number of posts.

And I'm not even in the top 15.

[Captain]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
With Alan Greenspan down to his final three months as chairman, Fed policy-makers pushed up the overnight bank lending rate for the 12th time in 16 months to 4 percent, its highest level since June 2001.

I think we should retire the whole Fed and let the market free.

I would be willing to buy the Board of Governors all the Singha they could drink to celebrate.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Mr. Man
I noticed that with my frequent posts today that I am up to 6.76% of your number of posts.

but do they go to 11?

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Cretin. Singha or nothing with the red curry chicken and phad thai.

Uh-uh. Guwurtz. Thai food is all about the guwurtz. Or, for beer, Bridgeport IPA.

[Replaced_Texan]

The "bring the Halloween candy to the office so everyone else will eat it" gambit doesn't work if everyone brings in their Halloween candy. It just turns into a big candy exchange.

I can't believe I traded Reese's Peanut Butter Cups for Butterfingers.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
The "bring the Halloween candy to the office so everyone else will eat it" gambit doesn't work if everyone brings in their Halloween candy. It just turns into a big candy exchange.

1) That's not a bad thing.
2) Put it all in the freezer or a cool, dry place, and bring it in in February. You'll be the star of the office. Right now, you're like the person handing out awards to the winner of the pie-eating contest.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
2.

you just need to tip better.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
I don't disagree. If you and your friend are going out and you know about his allergy it is asshole-ish of you to drag him out for oysters, particularly if you do it all the time. (Though so many people have shellfish allergies that most oyster bars have a token chicken thing, too.) If you and he and 8 other buddies are all going and everyone else wants oysters, then he should just suffer. If the people he is eating with don't know him well enough to know his allergies already, he could suggest another restaurant if his opinion is solicited, but no special pleading.

I've got an anaphalactic allergy that has had me eating the breadsticks more than once, and I used to be a vegetarian. It's more of a pain in the ass to argue about restaurant choices than to just order the one lousy thing you can eat or grab something at home later. And muy unsociable, too.

BR(that said, I've had people get really pissed at me when we end up someplace where I can't eat, or worse when I can't eat something they've cooked, claiming I should have submitted a detailed list of all my food needs in advance. The explaination "it never occurred to me, I'm hanging with you so I don't care what the food is" seems to shock them. Baffling.)C

didja ever go over a friend's house to eat and the food just ain't no good?
i mean the macaroni's soggy, the peas are mushed and the chicken taste like wood,
so you try to play it off like you think you can by saying that you're full.
And your friend says no way mama he's just being polite he ain't eaten unh-unh, that's bull.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
didja ever go over a friend's house to eat and the food just ain't no good?
i mean the macaroni's soggy, the peas are mushed and the chicken taste like wood,
so you try to play it off like you think you can by saying that you're full.
And your friend says no way mama he's just being polite he ain't eaten unh-unh, that's bull.

I take it alcohol was served, and lots of it.

[Replaced_Texan]

William Shatner reenacts the final scene from Se7en. (spree: movie)

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
didja ever go over a friend's house to eat and the food just ain't no good?
i mean the macaroni's soggy, the peas are mushed and the chicken taste like wood,
so you try to play it off like you think you can by saying that you're full.
And your friend says no way mama he's just being polite he ain't eaten unh-unh, that's bull.

I am imagining that dining fare chez Hank's friend looks something like this:



From the Gallery of Regrettable Food at http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/ which is truly hilarious.

[notcasesensitive]

So if I'm writing my nanowrimo novel at work and it involves a main character who is a lawyer, what client should I be billing?

1500 words today. I think I'm spent.

[dtb]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
1) That's not a bad thing.
2) Put it all in the freezer or a cool, dry place, and bring it in in February. You'll be the star of the office. Right now, you're like the person handing out awards to the winner of the pie-eating contest.

Pie-eaters are a lucky bunch, it seems.