Favorite Jessica Simpson moment
 

Hey! That's not fair! The same could honestly be said about the profound music of N*SYNC or 98 Degrees.

Really. It takes a lot of listening to truly discern all the meanings.

I signed up for the TX list yesterday after the first bonehead ruling on the federal list. Turns out you have to pay to be put on the state list here. So I shelled out the $4.80.

Truth is I just don't answer my home phone unless (1) I'm home and (2) the caller ID shows me that name and/or number of someone I know. Those two things happen together very infrequently. I only care at all about fucking telemarketer calls because they clog up my home voicemail and they sometimes call before noon on weekend mornings, which is simply not acceptable with my busy party like a rockstar lifestyle.

Yeah, when do you have to stop sleeping in til noon on the weekends? Are kids the only reason people stop doing this?

Sleep is just wonderful.

Fucking telemarketers and Fucking Judges
 

While I agree with you on some of this, I have a hard time believing that you are posting a judge's numbers out of concern for the Constitution. It sounds too much like pushing for capital punishment in order to alleviate prison crowding.

Fucking telemarketers and Fucking Judges
 

Well, the issue for the court was that the gov't is giving you the opportunity to tell one kind of telemarketer to screw off, but not others, based on the content of their message. (Since the trigger is the consumer's election, I frankly don't see a legitimate 1st A problem with that, either, but whatever.) The decision sort of came down to "charitable speech is more protected than commercial speech, but because consumers can't also opt out of being harassed by charities, the gov't can't show that the restriction serves the purpose of protecting consumers."

You can see why both Bilmore and I read the case and said "Whaaaa???" though he's clearly not the rabid, psycho telemarketer hater that I am.

Edited to add: http://www.antitelemarketer.com/nuke...ad/madmike.gif

Queer Eye / George Plimpton RIP
 

Negotiations are underway between NBC, Bravo and the producers and stars of Queer Eye for an additional 40 episodes, with substantial raises for the cast. Upcoming shows will see the Fab 5 venture into the Midwest and Texas. Also, the Fab 5 have apparently reached a $1.2 million book deal...

http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/0...eut/index.html


In other celebrity death news, writer, critic and 80's video game pitchman George Plimpton dead at age 76...

Queer Eye
 

Watch for Mr. Man appearing soon... I need to practice my white-background, putupon girlfriend lines.

Fucking telemarketers and Fucking Judges
 

Well, I admit, not entirely. Still, public servants must learn to answer to and embrace their public.
That would a more appropriate analogy for the legislative overkill a backlash might generate. Phone calls are more like trying to solve the overcrowing problem by demanding ... super-calorie restricted diets?

BR(no, this is not intended to open the floor to more anti-fat jokes)C

Queer Eye / George Plimpton RIP
 

George Plimpton is dead? My friend just started working for him liek less than two months ago and said he was totally spry amd healthy and went out every night.

THis is all very kinda puzzling and fucked up

Fucking telemarketers and Fucking Judges
 

Which is why charities were left out in the first place, because of fears that any similar restriction on their calls would be knocked down.

Once interrupted a caller to say "is this a sales call?" and he actually said back, "weeel, if you want to call it that, I suppose you could, but I know I wouldn't," as if I were interested into getting into a lengthy argument with some schmuck stranger over dictionary definitions of "intrusive asshole from any organization asking me for money for any purpose".

Queer Eye / George Plimpton RIP
 

Ahhh. That brings back memories. He lived in my neighborhood and was (illegally) riding his bicycle on the sidewalk. I politely screamed at him to get off the sidewalk and in my own inimitable and ladylike way, called him an asshole, in a tone and at a decible level that could be described as the opposite of sotto voce.


Good times, good times....



(He got off the sidewalk.)

Phone stuff salsa
 

Wasn't there some Supreme Court case that did allow restrictions on commercial speech (solicitation? no not that kind get your mind out of the gutter) but allowed (or required) charities to be exempted from the restrictions? Did that get overruled?

Do the state do-not-call lists have a carveout for charities/political stuff? If so, are they presumably now invalid under the Denver courts ruling (yes I understand there are jurisdictional issues but I could see this going all the way up to Supremes)?

I do not recall paying to be on the TX list. Maybe I never signed up for it. I don't answer my phone much.

I think I once called someone who had that service MR mentioned and holy shit was that annoying. I think it was someone who I'd interviewed -- I got connected to some recording and had to give my name and then had to wait to see if the people would answer the phone. FUCKING ANNOYING. I can see how it would dissuade telemarketers, but it dissuades people who you might actually want to talk to as well.

Queer Eye / George Plimpton RIP
 

I'm sure this experience took years off his life. Way to go, killer. His best work was far behind him anyway.

Fucking telemarketers and Fucking Judges
 

You are my new hero on the board. Can I come by sometime for coffee and a chat? Do you believe in Jehovah?

Fucking telemarketers and Fucking Judges
 

This is good; charities include the religious. So I can still come over and offer to fold your laundry?