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Spike's Bitches 43: Who am I kidding? I love to brag.  

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NoiseDesign - Jan 23, 2009 10:13:06 am PST #8771 of 10000
Our wings are not tired

An a-hole ex roommate got his W2 last week. Unfortunately for him it came to our house and I have no idea how to get it to him. Oh well.

I have a shredder.


meara - Jan 23, 2009 10:25:59 am PST #8772 of 10000

I have everything EXCEPT the W2 from my current job.

And the thing the unemployment people sent me is completely USELESS and annoying--it says how much they gave me, but doesn't take into account the fact that they then decided to take 95% of that BACK, and notes in fine print that if there was a judgement like that, they dont' PUT that on the form, so I should just look in my records and figure it out from there. WTF, unemployment people!?!?!?


Laga - Jan 23, 2009 10:36:55 am PST #8773 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I have a shredder.

I told D about it, thinking he might know where the ass is. The next day the W2 was gone. I imagine it ended up in the recycling.


Fred Pete - Jan 23, 2009 10:44:31 am PST #8774 of 10000
Ann, that's a ferret.

At the risk of another earworm, "return to sender, address unknown."

No such number, no such zone.

(That song has been a favorite since I discovered Elvis's music, around age 10.)

I have my W2. But wouldn't bother anyone about not having it until at least the beginning of February.


Steph L. - Jan 23, 2009 10:55:11 am PST #8775 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

It bugs the hell out of me that some jackass in a power suit who cannot even pronounce 'nuclear'

Ugg. Because of him, I now have troubles remembering which is the proper way of saying that word.

Just say it the way that he didn't.

When Obama (PRESIDENT Obama) said "nuclear" in his inauguration speech, I didn't even notice it, because HE SAID IT CORRECTLY.


Glamcookie - Jan 23, 2009 11:25:57 am PST #8776 of 10000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

Another pet peeve: "real-a-tor." Um, no. REALTOR!


Steph L. - Jan 23, 2009 11:45:39 am PST #8777 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

At least half of my co-workers can't pronounce chipotle. Sure, it's a weird word, but now that it's a chain restaurant, with a location 2 minutes from our office from which we order at least twice a month, wouldn't you think that sooner or later, people would notice the goddamn "T" comes before the "L"? (It's NOT "chi-pol-tee.")

I have this theory that people's brains get hardwired to recognize letter combinations, and when they read a word similar to one they already know, they bastardize the new word to sound like the old word.

Exhibit A: my father, who refers to Ambien as "ambience," and had a longer-than-necessary hospital stay when he told a doctor he was allergic to "Bextrim." There is a drug named "bactrim," which is an antibiotic. There is a drug called "bextra," which is, IIRC a COX-2 inhibitor (although it may have been pulled by the FDA).

Dad is allergic to bactrim. The doctor thought Dad meant bextra. So Dad was prescribed bactrim and the resulting abdominal bleeding almost killed him.

Not the doctor's fault, when your patient mangles the drug name and you double-check, "You're allergic to bextra?" "Yes, bextrim."

It annoys me when people get words wrong (young girls, they do get wooly), but Jesus, it can fucking KILL you.

(Although pharmaceutical companies should not be allowed to register a drug name that's too similar -- spelling-wise and phonetically -- to an already-registered drug. There are WAY too many horror stories of patients who literally did die because a pharmacist confused 2 drugs.)


Tom Scola - Jan 23, 2009 11:47:42 am PST #8778 of 10000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

I always get Zyrtec and Zantac confused. One's an antihistamine, the other an antacid. I don't know which is which.


Steph L. - Jan 23, 2009 11:49:46 am PST #8779 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I don't know which is which.

I know you know how to text me. (Zyrtec -- which I just misspelled twice -- is the antihistamine.)

Lipitor sounds like a cartoon villain, like Skeletor. Only with really huge lips.


Sean K - Jan 23, 2009 11:49:47 am PST #8780 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Zantac is the antacid.

Along the same lines as "chipoltee" is "foilage".