If being a fourth or fifth generation multi-millionaire couldn't hurt that image nothing could.
I'm sure there are things that would hurt it.
Speaking Latin.
Having lived overseas.
Being articulate.
Attending DragonCon.
This girl at school? She told me that gelatin is made from ground-up cow's feet and that every time you eat Jell-O there's some cow out there limping around without any feet. But I told her that I'm sure the cow is dead before they cut its feet off, right?
Dawn ,'Never Leave Me'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
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.
billytea - Jun 05, 2009 6:51:30 pm PDT #23031 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Hil R. - Jun 05, 2009 6:56:15 pm PDT #23032 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
When I was in college, some of my friends considered me rich because my parents were paying my tuition. I thought that the rich kids were the ones whose parents were paying full tuition (I had a partial scholarship) and also paying for their fraternity or sorority dues and spring break trips to Cancun.
javachik - Jun 05, 2009 7:12:22 pm PDT #23033 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
We really should have moved in together.
BWAH! I know, right? It's so sad that we're not gay. Or I'd ask you to U-Haul right in!
ETA: Also, it's totally Megan's fault that I am ill-prepared to host Suzi tonight. 'cause Megan got me hooked on gin & tonics (tonight's is with Dogfish gin!) and I am too tipsy to clean up the office for her airbed.
megan walker - Jun 05, 2009 7:14:49 pm PDT #23034 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
What's sad is you are not downstairs with a cocktail in your hand, 'cause I'm finally leaving work.
I swear if I ever have to take over one of my lazy-ass colleague's projects again, I will cut someone.
ETA: So funny I wrote this before the above ETA!
javachik - Jun 05, 2009 7:19:56 pm PDT #23035 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Dude. I miss you.
Kristen - Jun 05, 2009 7:21:39 pm PDT #23036 of 30000
I'm sure that my summers spent in Kennebunkport definitely kill my chances at "woman of the people." Though that actually didn't seem to hurt GWB's "man of the people" image.
Get outside, find some brush to clear and you'll be a-okay!
Jesse - Jun 05, 2009 7:31:30 pm PDT #23037 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I thought that the rich kids were the ones whose parents were paying full tuition (I had a partial scholarship) and also paying for their fraternity or sorority dues and spring break trips to Cancun.
What's funny to me is that my freshman year in college I joined a sorority and went to Cancun, but I paid for all of that. Makes me wonder what other people were thinking about me.
Burrell - Jun 05, 2009 7:38:00 pm PDT #23038 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I'm sure that my summers spent in Kennebunkport definitely kill my chances at "woman of the people." Though that actually didn't seem to hurt GWB's "man of the people" image.
It's only a problem if you run as a Democrat.
Trudy Booth - Jun 05, 2009 7:41:00 pm PDT #23039 of 30000
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
Makes me wonder what other people were thinking about me.
All depends on their perspective I think.
When I was in Virginia for my first two years of college there was another kid from New Jersey I'd ride home with sometimes. He once asked me why I didn't have a car, "you have a job". Um, yeah, I use that to pay tuition.
This surprised him a lot. And he wasn't a kid I considered particularly rich.
Typo Boy - Jun 05, 2009 8:19:13 pm PDT #23040 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
We can argue about whether she is upper middle class or rich. But I'm pretty sure what she is not is in "average" financial circumstances. I just thought it was funny that anyone would describe her has "average". If 150,000 a year is average, then is someone making 60K a year poor? How about someone making 35K a year? I mean I don't think her income says anything about her at all. She is a judge. She makes what judges make (including having a judges pension which is defined benefit and absolutely secure except in circumstances where her pension will be the least of her worries). The writer is being pretty unaware in describing her financial status as "average". I mean 90% of people her age have net worths ranging from negative to a few thousand dollars. Nobody with a million dollar net worth is "average". And it may just be an accident of property values rising, but it doesn't matter whether she was a genius an bought shrewdly, or bought a house she liked and it escalated. She owns a million buck house free and clear. That is not average, not even with 30,000 in debt, which in her case is a debt of less than three months pre-tax salary.