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Old 11-10-2016, 08:11 PM   #2236
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Re: In the deal room, Thurgreed's everybodies' darling...

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How sad is it that my first thought upon reading your response was wondering if you* ever got your bed**?

*I think it was you. Right?

**Or was their a choice of furniture? Am I just making shit up in my memory?
But he never lost his head, even when he won that iron bed... (originally written about Bumpkin-at-law, or whatever that handle was, but I think you're right, there were more than one winner)
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Sebby should like this.
Lot of ink to suggest the D party find a middle ground and not disavow Clintonism entirely for Warrenism.
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Old 11-10-2016, 08:23 PM   #2238
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Elections are big, complex affairs, and there is plenty of blame to go around. I blame, in no particular order

- Anyone who voted for Trump
- My cousins who call Obama "Kenya"
- Anyone who pretends to be a libertarian and who voted for Johnson instead of against Trump, especially in a state where it might have made a difference
- Anyone who voted for Jill Stein
- Anyone who didn't vote
- Anyone who wouldn't vote for Hillary because Bill cheated on her
- Republicans, for many things which paved the way for Trump
- Obama, for not finding a way to make Republicans pay for their obstruction, and for failing to build institutions around his desire for change
- the Democratic Party, for all sorts of failures
- Hillary, though I suspect she did her best
- the media, for its promotion and normalization of Trump, and for the many fake scandals that dominated its coverage of Hillary
- Justice Roberts and the other conservatives on the Supreme Court, for getting rid of key parts of the Voting Rights Act, paving the way for Republican legislatures to make it harder for people, especially Democrats, to vote
- James Comey, for selfishly injecting himself into the presidential race
- the Electoral College, for handing the Presidency to an incompetent Republican who did not win the popular vote the second time in sixteen years
- myself, for not having done more
Thanks for this list. While it is incomplete, I'm sure, it is a good start. (When you say in no particular order, I'd point out that the first group on the list have to be first in ranking too.) There is plenty of blame to go around and while I'm trying to move on with positivity for the future, it is important to reflect a bit on what got us here.

Can we go back to posting on the Fashion Board now? I think my brief stay on this board is coming to a close.
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Old 11-10-2016, 08:23 PM   #2239
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But he never lost his head, even when he won that iron bed... (originally written about Bumpkin-at-law, or whatever that handle was, but I think you're right, there were more than one winner)
Thanks! I was wondering about that. Monthly? And was there a student loan payoff thing, too?

(Uh, it may not seem it, but I do know the difference between there, their, and they're. Honest.)
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Old 11-10-2016, 11:29 PM   #2241
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Thanks! I was wondering about that. Monthly? And was there a student loan payoff thing, too?

(Uh, it may not seem it, but I do know the difference between there, their, and they're. Honest.)
Please explain? Who was the guy with dog?
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Old 11-11-2016, 12:01 AM   #2242
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Please explain? Who was the guy with dog?
A friend of Less and the old school posters (as paigow would put it, I'm merely a middle schooler). Apropos of that, I keep waiting for less or chef to decide to say "fuck it" about the NDA and tell the full story of the exodus from Yahoo to Infirmatiion, explain who screwed who, share about how much money did or did not change hands, and why West ultimately kicked us to the curb.

Anyway, my comment about the bed? Shortly after the board moved to Infirm, there were contests and one of the prizes was furniture - I forget the name of the company that was giving the loot away, but the contest ad showed a picture of an iron bed frame.

My memory tells me that TM won the contest but never got the prize. And seeing the post reminded me of that.

ETA: Tried to make it more cryptic in a probably silly attempt to prevent outting anyone.

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Old 11-11-2016, 12:29 AM   #2243
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A friend of Less and the old school posters (as paigow would put it, I'm merely a middle schooler). Apropos of that, I keep waiting for less or chef to decide to say "fuck it" about the NDA and tell the full story of the exodus from Yahoo to Infirmatiion, explain who screwed who, share about how much money did or did not change hands, and why West ultimately kicked us to the curb.

Anyway, my comment about the bed? Shortly after the board moved to Infirm, there were contests and one of the prizes was furniture - I forget the name of the company that was giving the loot away, but the contest ad showed a picture of an iron bed frame.

My memory tells me that TM won the contest but never got the prize. And seeing the post reminded me of that.

ETA: Tried to make it more cryptic in a probably silly attempt to prevent outting anyone.
There's no valid NDA. It has just been a courtesy. Fugee and I are the only original "flounders" still posting here. I have no problem telling the story, but I will leave it up to her.
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Old 11-11-2016, 12:31 AM   #2244
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A friend of Less and the old school posters (as paigow would put it, I'm merely a middle schooler). Apropos of that, I keep waiting for less or chef to decide to say "fuck it" about the NDA and tell the full story of the exodus from Yahoo to Infirmatiion, explain who screwed who, share about how much money did or did not change hands, and why West ultimately kicked us to the curb.

Anyway, my comment about the bed? Shortly after the board moved to Infirm, there were contests and one of the prizes was furniture - I forget the name of the company that was giving the loot away, but the contest ad showed a picture of an iron bed frame.

My memory tells me that TM won the contest but never got the prize. And seeing the post reminded me of that.

ETA: Tried to make it more cryptic in a probably silly attempt to prevent outting anyone.
His handle was....?

I think my old CEO got it kicked off Yahoo. Some numb nuts from the firm posted a memo with detailed financials. Then we were kicked off Yahoo. The CEO claimed she never threatened anybody, but when we set up our firm I did hire the CEO's secretary who told me that was a lie.
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His handle was....?

I think my old CEO got it kicked off Yahoo. Some numb nuts from the firm posted a memo with detailed financials. Then we were kicked off Yahoo. The CEO claimed she never threatened anybody, but when we set up our firm I did hire the CEO's secretary who told me that was a lie.
He was DebtSlave,
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Old 11-11-2016, 10:00 AM   #2248
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There's no valid NDA. It has just been a courtesy. Fugee and I are the only original "flounders" still posting here. I have no problem telling the story, but I will leave it up to her.
Well, shoot. If it's been out of courtesy, that takes all the fun out of it. I hereby withdraw my request.
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Lot of ink to suggest the D party find a middle ground and not disavow Clintonism entirely for Warrenism.
Clintonism is dead. And China is very pleased at the first casualty of the Trump election, TPP.

Schumer, Kaine and Gillibrand will be the leading candidates for something like Clintonism. But they'll do something between rebranding and reengineering.
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Thanks for this list. While it is incomplete, I'm sure, it is a good start. (When you say in no particular order, I'd point out that the first group on the list have to be first in ranking too.) There is plenty of blame to go around and while I'm trying to move on with positivity for the future, it is important to reflect a bit on what got us here.

Can we go back to posting on the Fashion Board now? I think my brief stay on this board is coming to a close.
Please don't go......
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