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Not Bob 10-25-2013 11:23 AM
Re: Cried all night til there was nothing more.
 
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Originally Posted by dtb (Post 483616)
Thanks, NotBob, that's it exactly. The reverse poser. [Eyeroll.] What a joke. You do this much better than I do.
FWIW, I was mocking Sebby, not you.

And, not that you care, but the first FB-er I met in real life went to a boarding school and so based on that, I don't think that boarding schools are filled with kids whose parents are pretentious twits and who themselves are future pretentious twits. (This person is the only one I know semi well who went to a boarding school; I have acquaintances and former co-workers who went, but can't really say I know them enough to opine on whether their issues - we all have some - are related to their education.)

Hank Chinaski 10-25-2013 11:30 AM
Re: Can't unsee
 
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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 483610)
Possibly. I did get on the podium this Sunday in a local (suburban) 5k. Shameful shameful bronze though. Overall, not age group (suck it, dtb's husband!).

The guy who won it beat me by over three minutes.
The only time I was close to the podium was a race on Hain's Point, it was an out and back. There was a Clydesdale division with prizes for 1-3. Everyone ahead of me had to pass me on the way back and I counted everyone who was possibly near the weight limit. I was at least in third. But then I finished fourth; someone Rosie Ruiezed me. Of course that's how Clydesdale people get to be?

Hank Chinaski 10-25-2013 11:34 AM
Re: school tours
 
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Originally Posted by Icky Thump (Post 483619)
Actually, my experience has been the people who I have met who send their kids to Exeter and Choate NEVER say so unless you ask.
Is it like a "I go to school in BOSTON" thing?

Not Bob 10-25-2013 11:37 AM
Re: Cried all night til there was nothing more.
 
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Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower (Post 483617)
Oh, Not Bob. The best thing I can say in your defense is that I would have unhesitatingly accepted no-strings-attached unsolicited fellatio from Weeds-era Deschanel. As for Tegan and Sara, I don't know them, but I did find this snappy Tiesto number featuring them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0LO6v43YCo

When I hear it, I see in my mind a shirtless Thurgreed wearing painted-on silver lame pants and a rainbow feathered headdress, brandishing a rhinestome-encrusted bull-whip and lyp-syncing the tune while standing on the roof of a turquoise Toyota Prius that is slowly being pulled down the middle of Fifth Avenue by a team of unicorns. Is it just me?
I would have substituted "around the inside of an abandoned warehouse in Bushwick" for "down the middle of Fifth Avenue" but to-may-toe.

Did you just call me Coltrane? 10-25-2013 11:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 483621)
The only time I was close to the podium was a race on Hain's Point, it was an out and back. There was a Clydesdale division with prizes for 1-3. Everyone ahead of me had to pass me on the way back and I counted everyone who was possibly near the weight limit. I was at least in third. But then I finished fourth; someone Rosie Ruiezed me. Of course that's how Clydesdale people get to be?
The response I got at home was "that's okay Daddy - next time you'll run faster and win".

The guy who came in second is 55...although he's also done several IMs and half IMs (one at 4:17, which is near-pro level).

Icky Thump 10-25-2013 11:54 AM
Re: school tours
 
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 483622)
Is it like a "I go to school in BOSTON" thing?
Exactly. And obviously, this comes up in circles ancilarily related to school choice.

Pretty Little Flower 10-25-2013 12:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 483621)
The only time I was close to the podium was a race on Hain's Point, it was an out and back. There was a Clydesdale division with prizes for 1-3. Everyone ahead of me had to pass me on the way back and I counted everyone who was possibly near the weight limit. I was at least in third. But then I finished fourth; someone Rosie Ruiezed me. Of course that's how Clydesdale people get to be?
I was top step of the podium in last year's Halloween cyclocross race. For the costume contest. Sexy Pumpkin.

http://tmbimages.smugmug.com/2012Cyc...SPmMT&lb=1&s=A

Sparklehorse 10-25-2013 12:19 PM
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Originally Posted by dtb (Post 483614)
Seriously? You can't think of any reason other than "parental bragging" and "networking" that you'd send a child to a boarding school? That's rather sad. I would have loved going to boarding school, and not for either of the above reasons. Yes, I'm a nerd, but the world needs nerds, too.

The world's quota of posers who look down their noses at others, however, seems to be full.
I grew up in a small CT town and am grateful that my parents were willing and able to send me to boarding school for the last 2 years of high school. So I get what you're saying.

sebastian_dangerfield 10-25-2013 12:25 PM
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Originally Posted by dtb (Post 483614)
Seriously? You can't think of any reason other than "parental bragging" and "networking" that you'd send a child to a boarding school? That's rather sad. I would have loved going to boarding school, and not for either of the above reasons. Yes, I'm a nerd, but the world needs nerds, too.

The world's quota of posers who look down their noses at others, however, seems to be full.
Inartful on my part. I agreed with his to reasons, but there are others. One of which I'd earlier noted: Boarding schools are feeders for excellent universities.

Regarding the reverse snobbery charge, I went to the best private school in my area (very much flyover territory), and half my fraternity in college was boarding school people. Hell, a substantial portion of my closest friends today went to those schools. And I too would have loved to have gone to boarding school. Who wouldn't want to be out of their parents' house that early?*


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* Considering I left a private university about 20 IQ points lower than I was going in, whether boarding school would have fed me into anything but lousy college and a career working in some middling job for a family friend is another matter. ...Then again, that would have beat becoming a fucking lawyer.

sebastian_dangerfield 10-25-2013 12:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 483597)
Loafers?
They go with my slacks.

sebastian_dangerfield 10-25-2013 12:31 PM
Re: Cried all night til there was nothing more.
 
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Originally Posted by Not Bob (Post 483601)
Sebby is a Gucci horse-bit kind of guy. We're not talking Weejuns and chinos, man. (Or, Krishna help us, Nantucket reds.) That's for those strivers and wannabes, sending their kids to St. Pauls or wherever.

(AoN, it will surprise no one -- but not Know Won -- that I like She & Him. Mock away.)
Horsebit? Are you accusing me of frequenting the Catholic part of town?

sebastian_dangerfield 10-25-2013 01:05 PM
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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 483606)
As for my kid, I don't really talk about her because it's none of anyone's business and people generally don't find the topic of other people's children appealing (unless they specifically ask). I suppose you don't really realize this either. Suffice it to say that she will be well educated and her mother and I will supplement her education as we see fit to make up for any shortfall in her formal education.

TM
You're home schooling?

"...And that's how Noah towed the Mayflower to Washington. Thomas Jefferson, the Angel Moroni, and Moses all met the ark, and the Pilgrims, on the bank of the Chesapeake, and there they drafted the Letters of Confederacy, later known as the Constitution."

Hank Chinaski 10-25-2013 01:14 PM
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 483636)
You're home schooling?

"...And that's how Noah towed the Mayflower to Washington. Thomas Jefferson, the Angel Moroni, and Moses all met the ark, and the Pilgrims, on the bank of the Chesapeake, and there they drafted the Letters of Confederacy, later known as the Constitution."
Now that there's spell check I could home school mine.

ThurgreedMarshall 10-25-2013 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by dtb (Post 483615)
Congratulations. I didn't ask, but thanks for sharing. We're all so interested in your judgmental screeds -- please continue! Funny that you use the word "douchebag", as that's how I've described you to others many, many times. Guess it takes one to know one. Well done!
Thanks! I've described you to people, roughly, never. But if I did...enh, who am I kidding? There's no need.

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Originally Posted by dtb (Post 483615)
PS -- Generalizing an entire group of people based upon "almost everyone you know" is not considered, uh.. let's just say "logically sound".
Maybe. But it sure seems to hold true for you. Tell us about how dreamy your husband is again!

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Originally Posted by dtb (Post 483615)
I guess you're more of a Judgmental Douchebag, not just your ordinary, run-of-the-mill douchebag.
All true.

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Originally Posted by dtb (Post 483615)
Keep it comin' Grandma!
This one doesn't make sense to me, but if it makes you feel like you're scoring, I don't want to take that away from you.

TM

ThurgreedMarshall 10-25-2013 01:26 PM
Re: Cried all night til there was nothing more.
 
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Originally Posted by Not Bob (Post 483623)
When I hear it, I see in my mind a shirtless Thurgreed wearing painted-on silver lame pants and a rainbow feathered headdress, brandishing a rhinestome-encrusted bull-whip and lyp-syncing the tune while standing on the roof of a turquoise Toyota Prius that is slowly being pulled down the middle of Fifth Avenue by a team of unicorns. Is it just me?
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Originally Posted by Not Bob (Post 483623)
I would have substituted "around the inside of an abandoned warehouse in Bushwick" for "down the middle of Fifth Avenue" but to-may-toe.
Whoa. That's a step too far. I ain't goin' to Bushwick.

TM


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