LawTalkers - This sort of thing makes me want to shoot people!

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
It is still a trend since shorts lengths* have been dropping steadily all that time and are now just above the ankle. It started at knee length when you were 17 (which is the right length as far as I'm concerned).

The point is, you're too old. Stop fighting it. Or maybe go to an outdoor court and comment on the length of someone's shorts and then take notes to share with us later about how you felt about your age afterward, Mr. Today-is-Coltrane-day-I-love-thin-mints-your-shorts-are-too-long guy.

TM

*These two words do not belong together.

I agreed that I am old, now GET OFF MY LAWN!

This weekend I will take a field trip to a South Side court and make sarcastic comments about the players' shorts...while wearing my running shorts (over my long underwear). I'll show them who's cool!

futbol fan

03-08-2007 11:07 AM

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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
http://www.lawtalkers.com/forums/sho...438#post121438

So you don't feel bad, I want you to know that I believe you have a Lonely Woman inside of you, too.

Moreover, to show that I forgive you for your "mouth-breathing moron" comment, I offer you this bit of silver lining. As painful as yesterday may have been for you, consider that, had the draw come out a little differently, it is possible that the final nail in Celtic's Champions League coffin would have been driven in by Henrik Larsson. Can. You. Even. Imagine???

Thanks for the link, because I took a break from reading your posts between 2002 and 2005. I think we were all a little dazzled by Hank at the time and your work was more of a distraction than anything. But now my standards have slipped low enough that I can enjoy your contributions again and I have Hank on ignore. It is truly a funny old world.

And your barbed offer of consolation is uninformed. It would take more than the draw "coming out a little differently" to pair ManU and Celtic, who finished first and second in the same group, together in the first knockout round. DUH.

Replaced_Texan

03-08-2007 11:08 AM

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Originally posted by Gattigap
Gatti: Remember, son -- sincerity!

Ms. Gap: Dear.

[rings]

Jenna's Mom: Hello?

Gaplet: Hello this is [Gaplet.] Is Jenna home?

Jenna's Mom: Oh, hello, [Gaplet]. One second. I'll get her.

Jenna: Hello?

Gaplet: Hi, Jenna. It's [Gaplet.] How are you?

Jenna: Hi, [Gaplet.] Good.

Gaplet: I need two --

[In background: Gattigap:] Two??? Nononono. Three!!!

Gaplet: [Sigh.] Sorry. I need three boxes of Thin Mints.

Jenna: Three? I don't know if I have three boxes left. Let me check.

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[In background, Ms. Gap:] DEAR!

[Gattigap:] Sorry.

Jenna: I'm back. OK, I have three boxes. I'll bring them tomorrow. See you tomorrow?

Gaplet: OK. See you tomorrow.

[click]

If I'd known how hard they were to get in LA, I would have bought a case from Troop 2582 outside of the Kroger's last night for you. I'm sure the little green clad pixies will be back tomorrow. Do you need any more?

Pretty Little Flower

03-08-2007 11:12 AM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I agreed that I am old, now GET OFF MY LAWN!

This weekend I will take a field trip to a South Side court and make sarcastic comments about the players' shorts...while wearing my running shorts (over my long underwear). I'll show them who's cool!

You sure will. The day you do that will be know as this generation's Birth of The Cool (Hi Ironweed!). Which will make Sebastian mad, because you did not invent The Cool any more than Miles did. But those fucking jazzgeeks keep droning on and on about how Miles invented this and Miles invented that like he was the fucking Paigow of his day and maybe he even invented heroin addiction, and when you dare to even suggest that Miles was a great musician and all but that maybe he was not THE FUCKING BE ALL AND END ALL of modern music, the god damn jazzgeeks pee their fucking pants and start sputtering about what an asshole you are, and then they go home and masturbate in front of their framed poster of the cover of Kind of Blue.

bold_n_brazen

03-08-2007 11:13 AM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I hate jazz because this really horrible, terrible, Napoleonic complex-ridden little worm of a partner used to always, ALWAYS have fucking jazz playing in his office on very low volume, so when you were in there listening to his passive-aggressive bullshit, the soundtrack was jazz and more jazz. God, how I despise that man. You suck, asshole. This was many years ago just the thought of him makes me want to kick something.

I hate jazz because this pretentious artsy guy I used to sleep with in college thought it was the only music to have sex to, and that you shouldn't make any noise, but rather "feel the music".

Yes, I fucked him more than once. No, I have no idea why.

Actually, that's not true. I do know why. He had good hair, and an endless supply of coke.

God, life was so much simpler then.

Tyrone Slothrop

03-08-2007 11:15 AM

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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Henrik Larsson

Apropos of which, a nice goal here:

http://allintensivepurposes.blogspot.com

Pretty Little Flower

03-08-2007 11:20 AM

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Originally posted by ironweed
Thanks for the link, because I took a break from reading your posts between 2002 and 2005. I think we were all a little dazzled by Hank at the time and your work was more of a distraction than anything. But now my standards have slipped low enough that I can enjoy your contributions again and I have Hank on ignore. It is truly a funny old world.

And your barbed offer of consolation is uninformed. It would take more than the draw "coming out a little differently" to pair ManU and Celtic, who finished first and second in the same group, together in the first knockout round. DUH.

My God, you're right. There would have had to have been a completely different draw after the 3rd Qualifying Round, placing Celtic and ManU in different groups for the Group Stage. And then, only if ManU was a group winner and Celtic was a runner-up or vice versa would a draw allowing a match up in which Henrik Larsson drove in the final nail in Celtic's Champions League coffin be possible. I cannot believe I missed that. But still . . . Can. You. Even. Imagine???

robustpuppy

03-08-2007 11:22 AM

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Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I hate jazz because this pretentious artsy guy I used to sleep with in college thought it was the only music to have sex to, and that you shouldn't make any noise, but rather "feel the music".

Yes, I fucked him more than once. No, I have no idea why.

Actually, that's not true. I do know why. He had good hair, and an endless supply of coke.

God, life was so much simpler then.

Can it be that it was all so simple then? Or has time just rewritten every line?

bold_n_brazen

03-08-2007 11:24 AM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Can it be that it was all so simple then? Or has time just rewritten every line?

If we had a chance to do it all again, tell me would we? Could we?

(eta: Thanks for the insipid earworm. Bitch.)

Pretty Little Flower

03-08-2007 11:25 AM

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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Apropos of which, a nice goal here:

http://allintensivepurposes.blogspot.com

"Larsson scored a goal for Manchester United today in the Champions League against Lille, but the real credit for that one belongs to Cristiano Ronaldo, who made a dash down the left side to set him up."

That kind of loose talk could get you into some mighty hot water.

futbol fan

03-08-2007 11:25 AM

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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
My God, you're right. There would have had to have been a completely different draw after the 3rd Qualifying Round, placing Celtic and ManU in different groups for the Group Stage. And then, only if ManU was a group winner and Celtic was a runner-up or vice versa would a draw allowing a match up in which Henrik Larsson drove in the final nail in Celtic's Champions League coffin be possible. I cannot believe I missed that. But still . . . Can. You. Even. Imagine???

No. Bert Kassies tells me what I can and cannot imagine and he has not calculated the appropriate coefficient for this scenario.

Hank Chinaski

03-08-2007 11:27 AM

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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
You sure will. The day you do that will be know as this generation's Birth of The Cool (Hi Ironweed!). Which will make Sebastian mad, because you did not invent The Cool any more than Miles did. But those fucking jazzgeeks keep droning on and on about how Miles invented this and Miles invented that like he was the fucking Paigow of his day and maybe he even invented heroin addiction, and when you dare to even suggest that Miles was a great musician and all but that maybe he was not THE FUCKING BE ALL AND END ALL of modern music, the god damn jazzgeeks pee their fucking pants and start sputtering about what an asshole you are, and then they go home and masturbate in front of their framed poster of the cover of Kind of Blue.

Coltrane runs the streets
The streets don't run Coltrane.

LessinSF

03-08-2007 11:27 AM

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Um, the jazz noodlings wouldn't be there either but for the earlier improvisational noodling of hacks like Ludwig Van when playing the credenzas to earlier Mozart piano concertos.

Don't forget the bluegrass base. In the end, the Dead were playing variations on the song from Deliverance.

LessinValleFertil, Argentina

Replaced_Texan

03-08-2007 11:27 AM

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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I was just trying to play into Sebastian's idea of a rabid jazz-head, whatever that idea may be. One important thing to do is to disparage the non-jazzhead by saying his or her non-appreciation of the music is based on an inability to understand the music. The next important thing to do is to argue that, without jazz, the music that the non-jazz afficianado actually likes would be a pale shadow of what it is now. I don't think the improvisational noodlings of the Dead even have much to do with jazz, as they drew more from bluegrass and Americana as their roots. Also, I don't really like the Birth of Cool that much. I just thought the title of that album in particular seems to embody everything Sebastian hates about the Concept of Jazz. Although cool did not really mean then what it means now. But these nuances are lost shoot-from-the-hip anti-jazzbos like Sebastian, as they should be.

I'm sure I said this the last time the jazz discussion came up, but Sketches of Spain is one of my all time favorite albums of any genre of music.

futbol fan

03-08-2007 11:29 AM

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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
"Larsson scored a goal for Manchester United today in the Champions League against Lille, but the real credit for that one belongs to Cristiano Ronaldo, who made a dash down the left side to set him up."

That kind of loose talk could get you into some mighty hot water.

This is like saying the "real credit" for Nefertiti belongs to Herbie Hancock.

I despair sometimes. I really do.

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