What I liked best was being taken out to lunch or dinner at fancy restaurants where I wouldn't normally eat. Part of it was the food, part of it was being able to take a long lunch on the company clock.
Ooh, that would be way better.
The money was too good. I got stupid.
Jayne ,'Ariel'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
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.
Jesse - Mar 15, 2006 9:43:34 am PST #4050 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
tommyrot - Mar 15, 2006 9:45:18 am PST #4051 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.
At a Goodwill I snagged a swag coffee cup. It had the name of some drug on it and a picture of a diseased lung. Just what you wanna look at first thing in the morning.
I gave it to a friend.
§ ita § - Mar 15, 2006 9:45:50 am PST #4052 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
they had a little girl on the playground doing Krav.
Ooh! Was she doing it in self-defence, or just practicing? Was she relevant to the plot?
Why is Blue Mountain coffee so damn good?
Because of the Island Magic™.
I have gotten little good swag--but my krav bag is from Compaq and gets used all the time. Most of the rest is T-shirts in XL. Whoohoo, guys. And pens. I don't mind pens, especially if they do cool things like light up.
erikaj - Mar 15, 2006 9:45:54 am PST #4053 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Oh, I saw that one... Reese got kravved on Malcolm once too.
Scrappy - Mar 15, 2006 9:46:01 am PST #4054 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Usually car swag is mugs, keychains, tire gauges, or hideously ugly t-shirts, so the iPod is extra exciting and cool.
Aims - Mar 15, 2006 9:47:19 am PST #4055 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Ooh! Was she doing it in self-defence, or just practicing? Was she relevant to the plot?
Practicing. And she was in that she was on the playground when it got shot up, but betond that, I don't know. I changed the channel.
sarameg - Mar 15, 2006 9:48:14 am PST #4056 of 10001
When my dad was in town, he gave me some swag from his department (he was here for a major conference.) He was goofy about it. So I now have an NMSU astro dept magnet and pen. He's trying to find (and convince purchasing) something more interesting, like squishy aliens or something.
Gudanov - Mar 15, 2006 9:49:06 am PST #4057 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
I work for a software company and haven't gotten a T-shirt for a couple of years. That's just not right.
tommyrot - Mar 15, 2006 9:52:13 am PST #4058 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.
Our biggest client builds offshore oil rigs. I've gotten a lot of swag from them, including a clear acrylic paperweight with about an ounce of crude oil in the middle. It was celebrating the millionth barrel of oil from some oil field or something.
It's cool. I'd never realized how "dirty" crude oil looked.
Kathy A - Mar 15, 2006 9:53:38 am PST #4059 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Since I quit the bookstore, I haven't gone to BookExpo America. Now, there was some great swag! I usually averaged 150-200 books over three days (many of which were crap, but I did get Cold Mountain before anyone had heard of it), plus lots of quirky doo-hickeys, including the rubber chicken that's hanging on my cubicle wall here at work.