Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I know that all rich people with graduate degrees know how long a marathon is (and indeed some 80-85% have an obnoxious 26.2 sticker on their Land Rover to make sure everyone at soccer practice knows that when they are not being Quality Parents, they are engaging in Serious Physical Challenges). But I imagine there may be a socioeconomic class of people who do not have the time or energy to have regular 3.5 hour runs on Saturday mornings, and that some of those people therefore may not even know exactly how many miles are in a marathon. Therefore, I am less disheartened by this news than you are, even if it turns out in this case (as I'm sure is the case), that the FOAF is a rich person with a graduate degree who just lacked the common sense to figure out that a half marathon is actually half of a full marathon.

Thanks for playing, but I was actually more horrified to learn that people claiming high school diplomas had somehow missed that the approximate distance from Marathon to Athens is 26 miles. You're telling me there's a foot race of that distance? Do those who complete it die, like brave Pheidippides?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Dude, you're marathon OG. You should have a tattoo.

I'm Jewish

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

But I imagine there may be a socioeconomic class of people who do not have the time or energy to have regular 3.5 hour runs on Saturday mornings

Lawyers, for one.

[taxwonk]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I know that all rich people with graduate degrees know how long a marathon is (and indeed some 80-85% have an obnoxious 26.2 sticker on their Land Rover to make sure everyone at soccer practice knows that when they are not being Quality Parents, they are engaging in Serious Physical Challenges). But I imagine there may be a socioeconomic class of people who do not have the time or energy to have regular 3.5 hour runs on Saturday mornings, and that some of those people therefore may not even know exactly how many miles are in a marathon. Therefore, I am less disheartened by this news than you are, even if it turns out in this case (as I'm sure is the case), that the FOAF is a rich person with a graduate degree who just lacked the common sense to figure out that a half marathon is actually half of a full marathon.

However long those are.

[ltl/fb]

I always thought the phrase agree "possibly maybe" in the bjork song was "probably not" but now some lyric site is saying it's "probably love." Opinions?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I know that all rich people with graduate degrees know how long a marathon is (and indeed some 80-85% have an obnoxious 26.2 sticker on their Land Rover to make sure everyone at soccer practice knows that when they are not being Quality Parents, they are engaging in Serious Physical Challenges). But I imagine there may be a socioeconomic class of people who do not have the time or energy to have regular 3.5 hour runs on Saturday mornings, and that some of those people therefore may not even know exactly how many miles are in a marathon. Therefore, I am less disheartened by this news than you are, even if it turns out in this case (as I'm sure is the case), that the FOAF is a rich person with a graduate degree who just lacked the common sense to figure out that a half marathon is actually half of a full marathon.

I've seen 13.1 stickers. Seriously?

I'm think about getting a 5k sticker. Or a 3k Walk sticker.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

I've seen 13.1 stickers. Seriously?

I'm think about getting a 5k sticker. Or a 3k Walk sticker.

they are each impressive in their own right depending upon where em is starting from, like a big fat person doing a 5K is something. Do you think adder should take down his florida coastal diploma, like only people from the U should display diplomas?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

they are each impressive in their own right depending upon where em is starting from, like a big fat person doing a 5K is something. Do you think adder should take down his florida coastal diploma, like only people from the U should display diplomas?

Is there a Brooklyn moth? If so you could double dip and try to win that and this:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3293878.html

(Spree: first-ever "Smallest Penis Contest" at King's County Bar in Brooklyn, New York, on July 20)

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Do you think adder should take down his florida coastal diploma, like only people from the U should display diplomas?

Speaking of which, my brother recently found my diploma from the U (different U than you mean, but that's your problem) in my parent's storage space. Didn't know they had it.

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

they are each impressive in their own right depending upon where em is starting from, like a big fat person doing a 5K is something. Do you think adder should take down his florida coastal diploma, like only people from the U should display diplomas?

The latter. I tell people here who proudly display their Pacific Coast School of Law sheepskin next to the LLM in Food Law from University of Arkansas and the Undergrad Degree from Devry that I wouldn't put up my top 30 degree unless it was from Harvard.

Like Ricky Bobby said, "If you're not first, you're last."

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

Is there a Brooklyn moth? If so you could double dip and try to win that and this:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3293878.html

(Spree: first-ever "Smallest Penis Contest" at King's County Bar in Brooklyn, New York, on July 20)

sometimes you cross a line and are just plain hurtful.

[taxwonk]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

I've seen 13.1 stickers. Seriously?

I'm think about getting a 5k sticker. Or a 3k Walk sticker.

I'm wondering if I can sport my End of the Block sticker now? Too soon?

[taxwonk]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

Is there a Brooklyn moth? If so you could double dip and try to win that and this:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3293878.html

(Spree: first-ever "Smallest Penis Contest" at King's County Bar in Brooklyn, New York, on July 20)

I this like in the 50s when Jewish lawyers and doctors drove Buicks because Cadillacs were too showy?

[taxwonk]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

they are each impressive in their own right depending upon where em is starting from, like a big fat person doing a 5K is something. Do you think adder should take down his florida coastal diploma, like only people from the U should display diplomas?

Quite frankly, if at this stage of your career if you still believe where you went to school makes a difference, I can't help you.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by taxwonk

Quite frankly, if at this stage of your career if you still believe where you went to school makes a difference, I can't help you.

Of course it makes a difference. Each year, my school expects a five figure annual contribution, and every couple of years I have to have lunch with some muckity-mucks there who are trying to figure out what they have to do to get the big money someday. Hank, on the other hand, went to a one of those state schools that are just glad he buys a few football tickets and otherwise don't really bother him.

It matters where you go to school.