So that's my dream. That and some stuff about cigars and a tunnel.

Faith ,'Get It Done'


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.


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

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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.


Allyson - Dec 27, 2006 9:03:52 am PST #8229 of 10007
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

It's also a neighborhood in Hollywood.