Yes. Men like sports. Men watch the action movie, they eat of the beef, and enjoy to look at the bosoms. A thousand years of avenging our wrongs and that's all you've learned?

Xander ,'End of Days'


Spike's Bitches 36: Did I Sully Our Good Name?  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Daisy Jane - Jun 27, 2007 1:48:15 pm PDT #4618 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

You have to leave teh monies in teh account until teh check is cashed! No worries.

This happens to us all the time after Mr. Jane got a bank card. "But it says we have $1,600!" That was before rent, the cable bill, our cell phone bill, insurance, electricity, and gas bills went through. Nice food dehydrator though.


libkitty - Jun 27, 2007 2:18:29 pm PDT #4619 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs

If it makes you feel any better: Not only is my account overdrawn, but just last week I was explaining to someone else how EASY it is to manage a B of A account with on line bill pay.

Not overdrawn, but just had to pay an extra $39 to BofA because I completely forgot to pay my credit card bill last month. I had the money, and just forgot to go click a couple of buttons. And, um, just recently told a friend how I hadn't had any troubles getting my BofA credit card paid on time since I gave in to the dark side and started using their online bill pay. Oops.


Laga - Jun 27, 2007 2:19:47 pm PDT #4620 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Note to Buffistas: if you don't want the BofA curse: don't go telling anyone else how easy it is to use on-line bill pay!


Gris - Jun 27, 2007 2:19:54 pm PDT #4621 of 10001
Hey. New board.

Is anybody else reading Neil Gaiman's blog this week? It's Maddie Guest Week, and it's killing me ded.


Atropa - Jun 27, 2007 2:37:28 pm PDT #4622 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Shit I Didn't Say:

Yes, all of your suggestions are fantastic! And I bet most of them are things I would have done if there had ever been any TIME for a proper developmental editing pass! But there never is, is there?

Why yes, I'm out of my check-in meeting. It went better than others I've had, mostly because I'm practicing my not caring.


Ginger - Jun 27, 2007 2:46:24 pm PDT #4623 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

THEN having to explain to her (AGAIN!!!) that the page count has to be divisible by four and WHY

You could have handed her the odd pages and some tape. (I've had the same discussion many times. You can multiply the fun by 16 or 32 if you're on a web press. Then you get to explain over and over why going down four pages will cost money, not save money.)


Cass - Jun 27, 2007 2:51:25 pm PDT #4624 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

It went better than others I've had, mostly because I'm practicing my not caring.
Your not caring looks particularly fetching today. Has it gained ennui?

(I've had the same discussion many times. You can multiply the fun by 16 or 32 if you're on a web press. Then you get to explain over and over why going down four pages will cost money, not save money.)
*headdesk*

Ah, good times, good times.


Steph L. - Jun 27, 2007 3:08:26 pm PDT #4625 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

(I've had the same discussion many times. You can multiply the fun by 16 or 32 if you're on a web press. Then you get to explain over and over why going down four pages will cost money, not save money.)

*headdesk*

Ah, good times, good times.

I'll go you one better: incompetent!boss makes up a report every month with a tally of our year-to-date cumulative page count. So (for instance), if the January issue was pages 1-200, just guess what he puts on his report?

....wait for it....

That's right, 199! No matter how many times we've told him that it is literally impossible to have an odd number of pages, he still calculates the total page count by subtracting the starting page number from the final page number.

There's a reason I've dubbed him "incompetent!boss."


Cass - Jun 27, 2007 3:26:18 pm PDT #4626 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Oooh, give him a one-page report! Pages 1-1...


tommyrot - Jun 27, 2007 3:30:26 pm PDT #4627 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.

That's right, 199!

Ask him how many days there are in the date range of July 1 to July 10. Then if he says 9, ask him how many days in the range from July 1 to July 2.