LawTalkers - Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03

I keep waiting for the revisionists to swing back and defend the last season of Buffy, the way they tried to restore credibility to the Initiative season (with some success). I just don't see it happening.

Shape Shifter

09-23-2003 06:08 PM

Poll: walking out

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
And I thought my story about triumphantly quitting the fast food joint before Barry the Assistant Manager could write me up for giving another employee a soda when she was off duty (nb: sodas were free for on duty employees) was dramatic. That's my only triumphant quitting story.

Edited to query whether the phrase "I think you have an attitude problem" was coined by a fast food assistant manager.

And further to remove a hyphen (hi, Atticus!).

I had a similar experience. No wonder my career is in the toilet. Fuck those assistant managers and their Permanent Records.

I am pleased to read that you got your hyphen removed.

Replaced_Texan

09-23-2003 06:08 PM

Random non-reality TV (Angel)

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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
I am hopeful that a Spike detached from Buffy won't suck. He was a pretty entertaining character once, before he got a soooouuuull and his scripts were reduced to an angstey "good God, gull" every third line. James Marsters is excellent at snark, and hopefully will simultaneously mock angel's hair and Boranaz's acting. But I would be way pissed if I was Denisof. And Harmony just pisses me off, she never had enough snap to do that princess-bitch schtick as well as Cordelia.

The greatest moment ever in either series was the opening monologue that Spike did on his only appearance on Angel. I am hopeful that is what we will get with Spike on the show.

Fugee

09-23-2003 06:08 PM

Strange sights & Sebby Advice

The strangest thing I've seen is only strange in the context that I was at the time still pretty sheltered. I was out and about during the Gay Pride parade the first year I was in NYC I stopped to watch for a bit and saw this guy wearing platform silver boots, a long silver lame cape and a hot pink cock sock (I'm sure there is a technical name) and not another stitch of clothing. If I hadn't realized before, I figured out I wasn't in Kansas anymore.

A very strange thing I *didn't* see happened in my family. My grandma died in Montana and wanted to be buried in Minnesota. The family had the $$ to ship her body the normal way but one uncle decided he really wanted to be the one to bring grandma home (I never claimed the Fugee family wasn't a tad odd but this is a non-wingnut uncle so you can't blame it on that). So he loaded the coffin in the back of his pickup and tied it down with a tarp (the coffin was a little too long for the truck bed so it was propped up over the tailgate). It was hunting season in Montana and hunters were required to stop certain places so the game warden could check their licences. My uncle saw the signs but he hadn't been hunting so he sped on past. The sheriff was the truck go by with a large tarp covered object and gave pursuit. I like to think of the sheriff's face when my uncle pulled back the tarp to show him the coffin.

Sebby, I sure hope you are working on your exit plan because you are beyond burned out on law. You need to find something that will make you excited to go to work in the morning -- or at the very least something you don't hate as much as you seem to hate being a lawyer. Life is too short to be so miserable.

Atticus Grinch

09-23-2003 06:09 PM

Poll: walking out

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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
That is extremely fucked up.

Communist.

WRT "Angel," I'm just glad they're bringing back the lab dude who was the smartass psych major from the "Conversations with Dead People" episode of Buffy. "I'm here to kill you, not judge you." That dude rox.

Penske_Account

09-23-2003 06:09 PM

Strange Poll

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Straight Google. I saw the web address, but got there through google, so it's not like I was surfing gay sites. Either way, I don't really give a shit.

TM

Translation: My mamma got me a subscription to that site for my birthday and I didn't have the heart to tell her that I like my men clean shaven (read: like Slave), nttawwt.

notcasesensitive

09-23-2003 06:10 PM

Poll: walking out

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You still beat me. My only quitting story is that I quit selling some product (don't remember what now) door-to-door after a day and a half because I couldn't stand intruding on people in their homes and I hated selling. It was for some charity too, but it did not mean enough for me to stick around. And fuck if no one warned me that lawyers are expected to be salespeople too. Crap.

Theres and Thats

09-23-2003 06:10 PM

Poll: walking out

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I now feel like you are stalking yourself. More like a kitty than a puppy. Is my work done here?

robustpuppy

09-23-2003 06:12 PM

Strange sights & Sebby Advice

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Originally posted by Fugee
hot pink cock sock

I just liked this phrase and thought it bore repeating.

Now, if this sock were not hot pink in color but rather were limited in purpose to covering hot pink c--ks, how would you hyphenate it?

Hot pink-cock sock? What if it were not covering c--ks that were hot pink, but c--ks that were hot and pink (this is of course, more likely)? Hot-pink-c--k sock?

Hi, IT!!

Bad_Rich_Chic

09-23-2003 06:13 PM

Poll: walking out

Quote:

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
WRT "Angel," I'm just glad they're bringing back the lab dude who was the smartass psych major from the "Conversations with Dead People" episode of Buffy. "I'm here to kill you, not judge you." That dude rox.

Oh, that guy is coming back? Cool, he rocked.

Jack Manfred

09-23-2003 06:18 PM

Strange Poll

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I saw 200 cowboys line dancing to Don't Cry For Me Argentina, the Madonna version, at a gay rodeo in a Maryland fairground in 1999.

Did they eat pudding before or after the song and dance routine?

Atticus Grinch

09-23-2003 06:23 PM

Poll: walking out

Quote:

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Oh, that guy is coming back? Cool, he rocked.

Just to be clear, he's not coming back as the psych major character --- he's just on the Joss Whedon Permanent Employment Plan (i.e., if you're killed or your series gets cancelled, there's always a place for you here at Mutant Enemy).

His character is named Knox. I call bullshit. There is no one in L.A. named Knox. Irregardless, he'll be doing the buttlove with Fred soon enough.

A quick point about L.A.'s unique status as the armpit of America: The name of every major American city can be used to add cache to a cheap-ass chain restaurant.

Column A:
San Francisco
Boston
New York
Miami
Chicago
Tulsa

Column B:
Bagel
Soup
Cookie
Pretzel
Hot Dog
Churro

Take any city from column A and add it to any food item in column B, add "Company" to the end --- bingo! You have a brand. It works no matter which cities are in Column A, except "Los Angeles." Try it. Adding "Los Angeles" to any cheap-ass chain restaurant name actually manages to cheapen it.

I came up with this myself.

Aloha Mr. Learned Hand

09-23-2003 06:26 PM

Poll: walking out

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It is indeed triumphant, but not quite this triumphant...

From 'Fast Times', the scene at All-American Burger where a customer confronts Brad Hamilton (Judge Reinhold) about getting his money back for his breakfast:

Customer: It says one hundred percent guaranteed, you moron!

Brad Hamilton: Mister, if you don't shut up I'm gonna kick one hundred percent of your ass!

Bonus 'Fast Times' trivia: This young 'Fast Times' star won a Tony Award in 1981, but was not one of the many young actors to go on to megastardom after the movie...

ANSWER: Brian Backer, who played Mark "Rat" Ratner, the movie usher, won the Best Featured Actor Tony Award in 1981...

Flinty_McFlint

09-23-2003 06:27 PM

We're all next on Paigow's ignore list

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Exactly, you fucking moron. Tenancy by entireties is STATE LAW. Some states have it, some states don't. Some states allow for partition, some don't.

And we were never limited to merely discussing Federal law here. You were forced to argue in that context becuase the cite you provided was irrelevant to my point.

My point, in case you haven't forgot, is that no ordinary (not fed tax lien holding) judgment creditor is going to punch through a tenancy by entireties. You've cited nothing to the contrary expect a wholly inapplicable case involving exclusively tax liens. To suggest that you reasonably assumed that in my initial statement where I said I was judgment proof, I was referring to Federal tax liens would strain credulity. You brought a tax lien argument to a standard judgment creditor v. tenancy by entireties argument. That sort of argument, my dear, is alawys politely dimissed as "misplaced."

Oh, and by the way, honey, I've used t by e with success against fed forfeiture claims, so I'm not even certain your original hypothesis holds any fucking water. Stay in the library and leave the arguments to those who've actually made them before.

Whosawhatits? Huh?

Just when I thought I was starting to catch the hang of the FB (paigow not classy, TF no anal, TM not the Man, Penske no sock NTTAWWT, etc.) you all start talking in different languages again.

Shit.

Did you just call me Coltrane?

09-23-2003 06:27 PM

Poll: walking out

Quote:

Originally posted by robustpuppy

Edited to query whether the phrase "I think you have an attitude problem" was coined by a fast food assistant manager.

It reminds me of "Fast Times", which reminds me that "Fast Times" was on Encore last night, which reminded me that Phoebe Cates' TITS are phenomenal. Like the description in "Weird Science" phenomenal.

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