It's my estimation that... every man ever got a statue made of him, was one kind of sumbitch or another.

Mal ,'Jaynestown'


Natter 34: Freak With No Name  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


msbelle - Mar 25, 2005 7:19:35 am PST #365 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

well poop. I would give you all off if I were in charge.

sara, not the same people, but I appreciate the outrage.


Tom Scola - Mar 25, 2005 7:20:37 am PST #366 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

I'm at work for a few hours today, too.

Article in today's NYT about the housing bubble: [link]


Nutty - Mar 25, 2005 7:26:12 am PST #367 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

I saw that article, Tom. I am hoping the bubble pops soon enough for me to actually buy something someday, but not at the same time as the currency crashes, because you still have to have money to buy a house.

Yep, I am waiting on one disaster or another. That is how I plan my life.


tommyrot - Mar 25, 2005 7:30:19 am PST #368 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Is it wrong that I want the housing bubble to burst, just so this woman will suffer?

"It just seems like everyone is doing it," Laurie Romano, a 26-year-old self-described real estate investor, said with a giggle as she explained why she was attending an open house this month for the Nexus, a 56-unit building going up in Brooklyn's chic Dumbo neighborhood. She and her fiancé, a dentist, had already put down a deposit on a Manhattan condo earlier in the week and had come to look at another at the Nexus.

I think it's the giggle....


shrift - Mar 25, 2005 7:32:07 am PST #369 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I cruised into work late this morning. Because it's a paid holiday, and I started earning overtime yesterday.

BigBoss is buying us lunch, which is nice, since I discovered yesterday that half of my coworkers weren't asked to come in today. Now lunch just needs to arrive before I decide that my desk looks like good eatin'.


Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 25, 2005 7:32:30 am PST #370 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

On the bright side, at least her fiance will have steady work repairing all the broken teeth for people who get roughed up by loan sharks over bad real estate investments.


Fred Pete - Mar 25, 2005 7:32:39 am PST #371 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

This quote

"South Florida," he said, "is working off of a totally new economic model than any of us have ever experienced in the past."

convinces me that the bubble is about to pop. I remember too many "this time it's different" arguments during the late '90s.


juliana - Mar 25, 2005 7:32:51 am PST #372 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

Most people are out today, right?

Sadly, greviously, tragically, no.

What Calli Said. I even doubt the possibility of an early release. I may be able to finagle ice cream.


Kathy A - Mar 25, 2005 7:33:04 am PST #373 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Huh. On top of finding out yesterday that a co-worker is a playwright, I found out today that another co-worker's recently deceased brother was Tyrone Davis, R&B singer with quite a few gold records (Jesse Jackson spoke at his funeral).


Tom Scola - Mar 25, 2005 7:34:44 am PST #374 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

"South Florida," he said, "is working off of a totally new economic model than any of us have ever experienced in the past."

They've never seen the Marx Brothers movie The Cocoanuts then?