Set yourself apart
 

If you don't find the show funny, then why do you continue to watch it? I believe this might be bilmore's point.

and tying threads together, The Office was HIGHlarious last night. I need Tivo for BBC.

And I would put selfwaxing as a hobby, or is it an interest?

Set yourself apart
 

No need for the last item. I had my own installed. Kind of like a bespoke suit, only the suit seldom leaves a scar.

Tax(ok, I've made my monthly fashion reference)wonk

Fashion, politics, and Texas converge in Oklahoma
 

I love that the story talks of "G-O-P-dominated districts."

C(hope the delegates are having fun at the Y-M-C-A)deuced

Resumes
 

No, I don't think it matters if interests are on a resume or not. But the whole "the only thing I care about is how many consecutive hours the person can stay awake and still research and write coherently" schtick is unconvincing to me.

Hey, I have a healthy respect for your misanthropy, and I don't have a problem with people who have no interest in socializing with co-workers. I have a problem with people who have no interest. As your co-worker, I have to sometimes work late with you, have meals with you, travel with you, work weekends with you. If you are a mind-numbing personality vacuum who can speak of nothing other than how many hours you billed and the fascinating bit of dicta you recently came across, you are going to make an already-painful job infinitely more painful. As it turns out, I do actually socialize (to some extent) with my co-workers (some of them). I went on a multi-day, out-of-state bike trip with one of my co-workers last summer. Being friends with this co-worker makes it not only easier to work with her - I also trust her and know that she has my back around here. The same can be said to varying degrees of others around here. Some of my co-workers have seriously helped me out in tough situations and have gone above and beyond the call of duty doing so, and they have done so because I am friends with them. So even from a purely Machiavellian standpoint, it does not hurt to have some people you like and trust in the office.

Set yourself apart
 

I don't keep watching it. Sometimes it's on the TV and I don't leave the room. Beer makes many things tolerable. Ask Less.

Brazilian Poll
 

Pretty easy - take a look at your arm hair, take a look at her arm hair (forearm) - it's a pretty good indicator. Not a guarantee - just an indicator. Plus - you never been in a locker room?
:seenno:

Brazillian Poll
 

Yup. Are you on that mailing list, Buster? Or is this 8track hisself? Now you know she has gigantic bazombos and is waxed. Fucking hot man. And she is a banana.

Brazillian Poll
 

Pardon my ignorance. What, pray tell, is a banana?

Brazilian Poll
 

Originally posted by Paigow I think hair removal to a large degree is a compulsion. Some of us suffer from it more than others. However - there are some people who do not suffer from the compulsion - but should. I'm not pointing fingers, but that lady on the train last night....shudder.

:shock:

Brazillian Poll
 

Yes.

Set yourself apart
 

a) your post said you watched it without beer.
b) if you have the energy to reach for the beer stein, why not the clicker? How lazy are you?
c) why are you staying in and drinking beer by yourself on a Thursday night and watching Will and Grace? That makes me sad for you. (I assume you are by yourself bc otherwise somebody else would take the responsibiltiy of reaching for the clicker for you)

Set yourself apart
 

Unfortunately, I don't have any with me now.

Brazilian Poll
 

Perhaps she is a gay?

L(oneliner just for my secret admirer)FM

Brazilian Poll
 

Being the classy and tactful lady I am, I make a point of avoiding looking at the bush of the other locker room ladies. ANd I ensure mine is covered at every opportunity.

But good call on the arm thing. She has hairless arms.

Brazillian Poll
 

I assume a banana is an asian oreo, but that is just based on logic which may be entirely inappropriate given who used the phrase.

Brazillian Poll
 

I thought an oreo (and I got this from George Jefferson) was a "zebra" or someon who was half black half white? A banana, as an asian gal told me is someone who is white on the inside and yellow onthe outside. Or prefers to date white people over asians.

Brazillian Poll
 

Thanks. Apparently, she has placed me on her ignore list. I guess it's my inability to do the one-liners.

Brazillian Poll
 

Um, Paigow, have you never seen an Oreo cookie? Hint: it does not look like a black and white cookie, which is half black and half white. An Oreo is more 2/3 black, 1/3 white, if you want to get technical.

Brazillian Poll
 

Such a torrid circle, She ignores you, I ignore her, and yet we all communicate. I'm apparently the middle of some kind of sick 3some.

Brazillian Poll
 

Quit whining. You've been in sicker threesomes before. I know where you work.

Brazilian Poll
 

Actually the Oreo and the banana are the same concept - that being "white on the inside." A zebra is just a comment on someone's heritage. Oreo and banana relate to a person's beliefs and behavior.

Brazilian Poll
 

Did George Jefferson not refer to Jenny as an "oreo" bc her father Tom was white, or as George would say, a honky. and mother Helen was black?

I bet nobody would ever put on a tv show these days that uses such terms.

Brazilian Poll
 

So, this reminds me of the catalog I got in the mail last night:

A Touch of Class.

I checked if they have a website because the shit in the catalog was HILARIOUS. Unfortunately, a search for the exact phrase "a touch of class" yeilded over 70,000 results, none of them apparently related to this catalog.

Brazilian Poll
 

I can' t imagine that Nabisco would have permitted that. I think he said Zebra.

Brazilian Poll
 

Ah, yes, home of the clock:

http://www.touchofclasscatalog.com/i.../DD808-001.jpg

(We got one too.)

Brazilian Poll
 

I got that catalog for years. I have no idea why they kept sending it to me because I never once ordered anything from it. I know they need to show all the merchandise in the picture, but they do make a good example of How Not to Decorate a Bedroom.

Brazilian Poll
 

Here's an example:

http://www.touchofclasscatalog.com/i.../DC031-001.jpg

Touch of Class
 

OMG, that place is full of crap.

www.touchofclasscatalog.com

Touch of Class
 

My wife refers to it as A Touch Of Crass.

Touch of Class
 

From my brief perusal, it seem slikely that those who do order from it, have plastic slipcovers on their furniture and plastic runners on their carpets.

Ewwwww

Touch of Class
 

I know. You keep thinking it can't get any worse:
http://www.touchofclasscatalog.com/i.../TV060-001.jpg
and then it does:
http://www.touchofclasscatalog.com/i.../TS057-002.jpg
and worse:
http://www.touchofclasscatalog.com/i.../TH039-001.jpg
Looking at it gives you a headache, but you just ... can't ... stop.

Touch of Class
 

CRAP????? C'mon now, who doesn't like the idea of Feng Shui in a clock????

http://www.touchofclasscatalog.com/i.../DW476-001.jpg

a CLOCK!!!

aV

Brazilian Poll
 

I think they must be culling their mailing list from anyone who registered at bbboy.

Setting Yourself Apart
 

Sometimes I call to make the interview arrangements myself to kind of determine how the person acts over the phone. I once spent close to 15 minutes providing an interview candidate with directions - our office is in the tallest most prominent building in our city, next to a well-known landmark - she was coming from about five miles away. In the middle, I almost said, "forget it, don't bother," - picturing myself trying to give directions for a research project. She arrived at the interview close to twenty minutes late and yelled at me for giving her bad directions. I said, "Sorry you missed your time slot - I'm going to interview the next candidate now."

Touch of Class
 

For the mantel:

http://www.touchofclasscatalog.com/i.../TS461-001.jpg

Bringing yet more meaning to the term "class"

Touch of Class
 

Hey! This catalog clearly brings the glory of Louis XIV (or the tropics, or an English country house, or the tundra in the case of the Africanish giraffe-sh stuff) to one's beer-nacho-and-crappy-chain-pizza-holding big-TV-in-a-fake-wood-case media room nesting tables. Who are you to begrudge the glories of polyester imitation imperialist castle design to some nice lady whose useless huge-gutted too-small-team-jersey-wearing husband sits in front of football all day like Jabba the Hut? ;)

God, it's keep yourself busy decorating or freak out and flee the country in the middle of the night to get away from your current life...

Bloomberg, are you listening?
 

and 4000 calories and, hopefully soon, banned from the supermarket.

Personally, I don't often go to supermarkets because I cannot stand all the fatty foods people buy around me.

Once they start banning the trans-fats, perhaps I'll go to supermarkets more often.

not7yS

Requium
 

Actually, I would prefer if you weren't nice. That's not my point. I just think it should be pointed out to you when you act like your shit don't stink. I've noticed it more and more lately.

TM

Resumes
 

Good thing I don't work weekends and my contract states that I cannot be asked to travel.

Don't get me wrong, I am not a meanie -- in fact, I am a damn fun person in the office. I am the joke cracker who hates overly serious moments or people. I just don't consider my co-workers to be my friends in the "who would you call from jail at 2am" sense. I am also in a position where socializing would be somewhat weird because I am one step below the "big fish" in the food chain so social moments with "everyone else" can be awkward sometimes (not from my perspective by any means but I do have to be sure to uphold a certain "dignity" if I were to go out for a couple beers with "the girls"). I dunno, it is hard to 'splain.

I married and gave birth to the only two "friends" I really need -- we go everywhere and do everything (okay, not everything ewwww) together. These are just my feelings and priorities and if that makes me a bad person or anti-social I guess I just don't know that there is anything I can do about it.

Touch of Class
 

I love it when you talk like that. I almost feel like Gomez Addams, kissing up your arm.