In a few more minutes, I can eat lunch, and then maybe something will happen on the internets while I'm gone.
Can't drink, smoke, diddle my willy. Doesn't leave much to do other than watch you blokes stumble around playing Agatha Christie.
Spike ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial
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.
shrift - Dec 27, 2006 6:55:22 am PST #8219 of 10007
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Trudy Booth - Dec 27, 2006 7:06:13 am PST #8220 of 10007
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Old SNL sketch with "Tom Brokaw" announcing the death of Gerald Ford. In no way eerily prophetic, but funny as hell.
Laura - Dec 27, 2006 7:32:25 am PST #8221 of 10007
Our wings are not tired.
Chevy Chase did a brilliant Ford. The falling down the stairs and golf accidents. Too funny.
Jesse - Dec 27, 2006 7:50:40 am PST #8222 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
In random news, possibly my favorite part of our Christmas family gathering was when my one cousin and I started singing "Dick in a Box," (the "one, cut a hole in the box" part) with hand/arm movements, and my other cousin's husband joined in from across the room. Hilarious!
shrift - Dec 27, 2006 8:04:09 am PST #8223 of 10007
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
So what do you do with a guy who keeps calling your extension looking for a department to which you don't know the extension, and probably couldn't figure out how to transfer him even if you did?
Trudy Booth - Dec 27, 2006 8:29:13 am PST #8224 of 10007
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
So what do you do with a guy who keeps calling your extension looking for a department to which you don't know the extension, and probably couldn't figure out how to transfer him even if you did?
Bounce him back to reception.
Jesse - Dec 27, 2006 8:37:16 am PST #8225 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OMG I still haven't really done any work. I've had work-related conversations and sent a couple of emails, but I have yet to open a single document.
I don't see this week getting any better, productivity-wise. Maybe I should take Friday off.
DavidS - Dec 27, 2006 8:52:15 am PST #8226 of 10007
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So I'm reading the NYTimes piece on Putin and realizing: (a) Russia is pretty much a super power again, and (b) I really have no idea which countries were carved out of the USSR. This latter epiphany actually came up when I read about the King of the Turkmen dying.
Anyway, test your contemporary geography skills!
Countries of the former Soviet Union include: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Tajikstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan
Can you name all 15?
shrift - Dec 27, 2006 8:55:15 am PST #8227 of 10007
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Bounce him back to reception.
Yes, but which reception? t g
If he tries again, I'm just sending him to the national number and having done with it. I don't even know if the department he wants is in this state.
Jesse - Dec 27, 2006 8:55:41 am PST #8228 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ridiculously, I don't think I realized that Armenia is a country.