OK, so my friend sends me this article about how emoticons are becoming de rigueur in some parts of the business world these days
Oh my Jesus. The end is extremely fucking nigh.
Hey! What do you two think you're doing? Fightin' at a time like this. You'll use up all the air!
Jayne ,'Out Of Gas'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
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 - Jul 30, 2007 6:22:45 am PDT #940 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Sue - Jul 30, 2007 6:22:57 am PDT #941 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Also... really? Emoticons in business correspondence? I'm taking a poll: Who here either uses or receives serious business e-mail that seriously uses emoticons? I'm fascinated by this.
I might use them in email with co-workers where we're semi-joking, but never ever in email with anyone outside my pod. Part of my job is to do with Freedom of Information requests and we're always trying to educate people to be mindful of what they write in official correspondence, because "embarrassment in not an exemption." That said, I did find a memo once, written to a nun, with the sign-off "May the Force be with you." !!!
tommyrot - Jul 30, 2007 6:25:58 am PDT #942 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 said, I did find a memo once, written to a nun, with the sign-off "May the Force be with you." !!!
Heh.
sumi - Jul 30, 2007 6:26:31 am PDT #943 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I'm listening to The Splendid Table and guess what?
They have truffles in Saudi Arabia!
shrift - Jul 30, 2007 6:29:05 am PDT #944 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I have this long, thin bruise on the back of my arm. I keep seeing it out of the corner of my eye in mirrors, and thinking, "What the schmutz?"
Getting the bruise involved leaning to counterbalance a giant bag of ice cream, and overcompensating myself into a doorway.
I am somewhat lacking in grace.
Dana - Jul 30, 2007 6:29:51 am PDT #945 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Ice cream comes in bags?
shrift - Jul 30, 2007 6:32:34 am PDT #946 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Ice cream comes in bags?
When you put the two half-gallons in a grocery bag to haul them from the chest freezer in the garage, it does.
§ ita § - Jul 30, 2007 6:33:51 am PDT #947 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Are there not supposed to be truffles in Saudi Arabia?
I'd like it to be known that I'm wearing the prettiest thing in my wardrobe right now--a pink 50s shirtdress with a wide panel of white lace running down the front (modesty is preserved with a pale cream vintage slip). I totally don't have the shoes to do this justice.
Just found out my sister is visiting me next (not this) weekend. With my mother. I'd known about the mother thing a little longer, but it's still a surprise. Which means I'll be shuttling them to tennis, and ditching them for previous social obligations.
Dana - Jul 30, 2007 6:35:23 am PDT #948 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
When you put the two half-gallons in a grocery bag to haul them from the chest freezer in the garage, it does.
Ah.
You have a garage?
It's possible that I have to write a business-related e-mail and am procrastinating.
Trudy Booth - Jul 30, 2007 6:35:46 am PDT #949 of 10001
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
They have truffles in Saudi Arabia!
And no pigs to hunt for them?