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Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) 11-17-2008 04:04 PM
Re: Quantum of Solace - Spoiler Alert
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick (Post 371379)
Yes.
Did bond love vesper as much in the novel as in the movie?

ThurgreedMarshall 11-17-2008 04:04 PM
Re: Quantum of Solace - Spoiler Alert
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gattigap (Post 371383)
I have this one:

http://www.swissarmy.com/images/Prod...44_sol_a02.jpg

... and like it just fine. It keeps time, also, which is nice. I have not subjected it to the Coltrane Manliness Test, though, in significant part because it never occurred to me to do so.
I am happy to say that (i) those stupid SPAM notification emails one gets only had 3 items on it today and AoN, (ii) sticking things up one's ass will hereafter forever be known as the Coltrane Manliness Test.

TM

greatwhitenorthchick 11-17-2008 04:14 PM
Re: Quantum of Solace - Spoiler Alert
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) (Post 371387)
Did bond love vesper as much in the novel as in the movie?
You kids should really read your Ian Fleming. They are good books.

I read them about 25-30 years ago, hence my early-onset Alzheimers thinking that OHMSS was the first one and Casino Royale came later, but to make a long story short, the answer is yes. He was mesmerized by Vesper and fell hard. His relationship with her forms the basis for his relationship with women going forward. He didn't love again until Tracy and then after that, did not love again.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy 11-17-2008 04:35 PM
Re: Layoff Lunch
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick (Post 371354)
My firm did layoffs last week. It sucks long and hard. One associate I am extremely fond of was affected. I have never been at a firm that did layoffs before but it strikes me that a goodbye lunch (with partners in attendance) for a laid-off associate would be not only awkward, but kind of weird. Amirite? I just got an invite (from the partner in charge of the group) for a goodbye lunch for an associate I like a lot. I imagine the lunch is just going to be a big downer. I kind of feel obliged to go, but also very weird about it.
Is it better that partners just pretend the laid-off associate doesn't exist?

There are two kinds of goodbyes for folks laid-off: the one that happens out of earshort of (most of) the partners where the cursing and swearing goes on and the one the partners participate in, where they promise to do everything they can for the associate and remind the poor bloke that it's partly/entirely the partners'/economy's fault for the layoff and they feel bad (during which said bloke tries to read which of them mean a word they say so he can figure out where to get his reference). You can't have a layoff without both types of goodbyes.

I was livid at my old firm when they did layoffs and the associates laid off were made to feel wholly unwanted the minute they walked out of the room. No one in management offered to make a few calls or do what they could for them. The partners just stuck their head in a hole.

robustpuppy 11-17-2008 04:44 PM
Re: Quantum of Solace - Spoiler Alert
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gattigap (Post 371383)
I have this one:

http://www.swissarmy.com/images/Prod...44_sol_a02.jpg

... and like it just fine. It keeps time, also, which is nice. I have not subjected it to the Coltrane Manliness Test, though, in significant part because it never occurred to me to do so.
I have one, my husband has one, and my brother has one, and they have stood up to baby drool, spit up, and regular old water, but nothing more manly than that. They've been knocked around (but not up) quite a bit and still look really good.

P.S. Coltrane, is your wife expecting a boy?

LessinSF 11-17-2008 04:45 PM
Re: Layoff Lunch
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 371359)
I would imagine some way for the departing guy to say goodbye would be nice for him. Everywhere else you see a guy get shown the door with fifteen minutes to clear out his desk.

I'm sure those people would like the opportunity to have a bit more dignified farewell. Although having the partners that made the decision there would be weird.
In a non-economic firing here last week, three partners took the attorney to get "coffee" so that he would be out of the office when they told him he could never step foot in the building again, and they would have his personal stuff sent to him. One too many disassociative moments that scared not only our staff, but staff in other offices in the building.

dtb 11-17-2008 04:50 PM
Re: Quantum of Solace
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 371328)
I guess you haven't seen both.

TM
I have, which is why I was so nonplussed. Neither one made much of a favorable impression.

The whole plot seemed sort of absurd -- needing to play a card game to save the world? Uh... ok.

But the scene with him in his car was awesome. I heart Daniel Craig.

ThurgreedMarshall 11-17-2008 05:01 PM
Re: Quantum of Solace
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by dtb (Post 371400)
The whole plot seemed sort of absurd -- needing to play a card game to save the world? Uh... ok.
Really? This is your criticism? Out of all the things in Bond movies to care about, how could something like this bother you? His cars have missiles, oil, smoke, machine guns, hub cap slicing machines, defibrillators and ejector seats, as well as every other contraption that may be handy in any given instance, but you're stuck on the part about the bad guy who has to make a bunch of money playing a high-stakes poker game because Bond fucked up his last money-making scheme, which involved infiltrating airport security to blow up the newest, biggest plane in the world? It's Bond, baby.

TM

dtb 11-17-2008 05:02 PM
Re: madagascar 2
 
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Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick (Post 371342)
Seconded.
I think I prefer the original song from that SpongeBob animated sequence.

Penske_Account 11-17-2008 05:03 PM
Re: Quantum of Solace - Spoiler Alert
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 371388)
I (ii) sticking things up one's ass will hereafter forever be known as the Coltrane Manliness Test.

TM

Does this include sex toys and other person's body parts? Also, is there a scale for this test or is it pass/fail (npi)?

Penske_Account 11-17-2008 05:04 PM
Re: Layoff Lunch
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 371394)
Is it better that partners just pretend the laid-off associate doesn't exist?

There are two kinds of goodbyes for folks laid-off: the one that happens out of earshort of (most of) the partners where the cursing and swearing goes on and the one the partners participate in, where they promise to do everything they can for the associate and remind the poor bloke that it's partly/entirely the partners'/economy's fault for the layoff and they feel bad (during which said bloke tries to read which of them mean a word they say so he can figure out where to get his reference). You can't have a layoff without both types of goodbyes.

I was livid at my old firm when they did layoffs and the associates laid off were made to feel wholly unwanted the minute they walked out of the room. No one in management offered to make a few calls or do what they could for them. The partners just stuck their head in a hole.

Laywers suck, no offence, what do you expect?

Penske_Account 11-17-2008 05:05 PM
Re: madagascar 2
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by dtb (Post 371402)
I think I prefer the original song from that SpongeBob animated sequence.
Why?

greatwhitenorthchick 11-17-2008 05:09 PM
Re: madagascar 2
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Penske_Account (Post 371405)
Why?
It's 100 kinds of awesome.

AoSpongebob, one of my favorites is Spongebob dancing with the jellyfish when they come to his house to party. God, that's good stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky5BlF0p_qU

I ripped my pants the other day and thought of Spongebob ripping his pants, and it made it all better.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) 11-17-2008 05:09 PM
Re: Quantum of Solace
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 371401)
Really? This is your criticism? Out of all the things in Bond movies to care about, how could something like this bother you? His cars have missiles, oil, smoke, machine guns, hub cap slicing machines, defibrillators and ejector seats, as well as every other contraption that may be handy in any given instance, but you're stuck on the part about the bad guy who has to make a bunch of money playing a high-stakes poker game because Bond fucked up his last money-making scheme, which involved infiltrating airport security to blow up the newest, biggest plane in the world? It's Bond, baby.

TM
2.

was a plot to cleave off silicon valley into the pacific while taking a long position on silicon wafers more realistic than a card game?

Penske_Account 11-17-2008 05:10 PM
Re: madagascar 2
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick (Post 371407)
It's 100 kinds of awesome.

AoSpongebob, one of my favorites is Spongebob dancing with the jellyfish when they come to his house to party. God, that's good stuff.

I ripped my pants the other day and thought of Spongebob ripping his pants, and it made it all better.

Second. Which is why I questioned dtb's philistinistical comment. Maybe she drank at lunch.....

greatwhitenorthchick 11-17-2008 05:12 PM
Re: madagascar 2
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Penske_Account (Post 371409)
Second. Which is why I questioned dtb's philistinistical comment. Maybe she drank at lunch.....
Well, actually I was saying that I saw dtb's point. The original one is very good.

Hank Chinaski 11-17-2008 05:12 PM
Re: Layoff Lunch
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 371394)
Is it better that partners just pretend the laid-off associate doesn't exist?

There are two kinds of goodbyes for folks laid-off: the one that happens out of earshort of (most of) the partners where the cursing and swearing goes on and the one the partners participate in, where they promise to do everything they can for the associate and remind the poor bloke that it's partly/entirely the partners'/economy's fault for the layoff and they feel bad (during which said bloke tries to read which of them mean a word they say so he can figure out where to get his reference). You can't have a layoff without both types of goodbyes.

I was livid at my old firm when they did layoffs and the associates laid off were made to feel wholly unwanted the minute they walked out of the room. No one in management offered to make a few calls or do what they could for them. The partners just stuck their head in a hole.
the last firm where i was an associate, the IP Group representative partner to the associate review committee (just typing that caused a shudder) would come back from meetings and say "I fought for you but the guys from Corporate and lit on the committee, they knocked you down, etc."

That is, smart partners know to blame anon members of a "committee."

ThurgreedMarshall 11-17-2008 05:12 PM
North Carolina-Duke
 
Okay, I'm trying to buy my better half surprise tickets to the North Carolina/Duke Game at the Dean Center in March for Christmas, but I'm finding wide ranges in the cost of tickets online. Anyone have any experience with something like this?

TM

Penske_Account 11-17-2008 05:16 PM
Re: madagascar 2
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick (Post 371411)
Well, actually I was saying that I saw dtb's point. The original one is very good.
Oh, its all good?

dtb 11-17-2008 05:18 PM
Re: Quantum of Solace
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 371401)
Really? This is your criticism? Out of all the things in Bond movies to care about, how could something like this bother you? His cars have missiles, oil, smoke, machine guns, hub cap slicing machines, defibrillators and ejector seats, as well as every other contraption that may be handy in any given instance, but you're stuck on the part about the bad guy who has to make a bunch of money playing a high-stakes poker game because Bond fucked up his last money-making scheme, which involved infiltrating airport security to blow up the newest, biggest plane in the world? It's Bond, baby.

TM
I suppose that's a fair point. The explosions and gadgets are sort of the whole point of the movie, and the plots are always of the "please suspend your disbelief" variety, but this one just seemed almost insultingly ridiculous.

Daniel Craig was an effective palliative, however.

dtb 11-17-2008 05:20 PM
Re: madagascar 2
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Penske_Account (Post 371409)
Second. Which is why I questioned dtb's philistinistical comment. Maybe she drank at lunch.....
Philistine? Moi?!?

Hank Chinaski 11-17-2008 05:20 PM
Re: North Carolina-Duke
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 371413)
Okay, I'm trying to buy my better half surprise tickets to the North Carolina/Duke Game at the Dean Center in February for Christmas, but I'm finding wide ranges in the cost of tickets online. Anyone have any experience with something like this?

TM
I've bought lots from StubHub. I always figured the price differences are because some offers are from scalper cos. and some are just from some guy trying to get his money back for a ticket he can't use. Of course, the guy trying to get rid of a ticket would likely not be doing so this early.

There are assigned seats, not GA?

Hank Chinaski 11-17-2008 05:22 PM
Re: Quantum of Solace
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by dtb (Post 371415)
I suppose that's a fair point. The explosions and gadgets are sort of the whole point of the movie, and the plots are always of the "please suspend your disbelief" variety, but this one just seemed almost insultingly ridiculous.

Daniel Craig was an effective palliative, however.
one thing about being my age, I saw the Roger Moore movies as they came out. There is no way anything can be as ridiculous as some of those things. they ruined the whole genre for me.

Penske_Account 11-17-2008 05:24 PM
Re: madagascar 2
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by dtb (Post 371416)
Philistine? Moi?!?
In a good way.

ThurgreedMarshall 11-17-2008 05:30 PM
Re: North Carolina-Duke
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 371417)
I've bought lots from StubHub. I always figured the price differences are because some offers are from scalper cos. and some are just from some guy trying to get his money back for a ticket he can't use. Of course, the guy trying to get rid of a ticket would likely not be doing so this early.

There are assigned seats, not GA?
Yeah. Assigned seats. And they're fucking expensive. Jesus.

TM

Replaced_Texan 11-17-2008 05:32 PM
Re: North Carolina-Duke
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 371413)
Okay, I'm trying to buy my better half surprise tickets to the North Carolina/Duke Game at the Dean Center in March for Christmas, but I'm finding wide ranges in the cost of tickets online. Anyone have any experience with something like this?

TM
Ever since StubHub emerged, I've tended to stick with them for sports tickets. The Texans encourage ticket owners to use StubHub to get rid of tickets, so I assume that the prices there aren't outrageously over the top. I think the quoted prices vary based on the seller's motives: make money or recoup costs.

J. Fred Muggs 11-17-2008 05:36 PM
Re: Quantum of Solace - Spoiler Alert
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 371374)
and/or potentially stick it up my ass to save for my son if I'm ever imprisoned in a POW camp.
Translated:

"And stick it up my ass at night while playing POW camp"

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) 11-17-2008 05:38 PM
Re: Quantum of Solace - Spoiler Alert
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by J. Fred Muggs (Post 371422)
Translated:

"And stick it up my ass at night while playing POW camp"
Coltrane's the head of Formula 1?

Hank Chinaski 11-17-2008 05:50 PM
Re: North Carolina-Duke
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 371420)
Yeah. Assigned seats. And they're fucking expensive. Jesus.

TM
the prices may drop a little bit before the game, unless they're 1/2. of course, that doesn't help for Xmas.

LessinSF 11-17-2008 05:50 PM
Re: North Carolina-Duke
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 371420)
Yeah. Assigned seats. And they're fucking expensive. Jesus.

TM
Craig's List and Ebay will be cheaper, but often less choice.

Hank Chinaski 11-17-2008 06:08 PM
Re: North Carolina-Duke
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by LessinSF (Post 371427)
Craig's List and Ebay will be cheaper, but often less choice.
the first time in years thurgreed will get to paint a big blue D on his bare chest and cheer the Devils on live? he wants seats up close.

Gattigap 11-17-2008 06:15 PM
Re: North Carolina-Duke
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 371420)
Yeah. Assigned seats. And they're fucking expensive. Jesus.

TM
It is the Dean Dome, though. Both wine and cheese come included in the price.

Atticus Grinch 11-17-2008 08:48 PM
Re: Quantum of Solace - Spoiler Alert
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) (Post 371387)
Did bond love vesper as much in the novel as in the movie?
It's been a while, but as I recall, yes. However, the betrayal was less ambiguous than in the movie, and when she dies he is, ah, entirely unsentimental about it. Suffice it to say the movie tried to rehabilitate her, but the book did not.

I don't think the books intended a master narrative where it was all about Vesper Lynd. They even stopped calling the cocktail by that name after CR.

Hank Chinaski 11-17-2008 08:51 PM
Re: Quantum of Solace - Spoiler Alert
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch (Post 371455)
It's been a while, but as I recall, yes. However, the betrayal was less ambiguous than in the movie, and when she dies he is, ah, entirely unsentimental about it. Suffice it to say the movie tried to rehabilitate her, but the book did not.

I don't think the books intended a master narrative where it was all about Vesper Lynd. They even stopped calling the cocktail by that name after CR.
in the book, did this vesper have big tits?

Atticus Grinch 11-17-2008 08:52 PM
Re: Layoff Lunch
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by LessinSF (Post 371398)
In a non-economic firing here last week, three partners took the attorney to get "coffee" so that he would be out of the office when they told him he could never step foot in the building again, and they would have his personal stuff sent to him. One too many disassociative moments that scared not only our staff, but staff in other offices in the building.
Wow. What did they wind up making him drink so as to make the scare quotes necessary in the retelling?

Atticus Grinch 11-17-2008 09:00 PM
Re: Quantum of Solace - Spoiler Alert
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 371456)
in the book, did this vesper have big tits?
The names are always a clue, but the code is frequently subtle. Katie Knobtickle was a d-cup. Surprisingly, Erica Funbags was not.

ETA speaking of Bond implausibilities, what are the chances that one guy would meet, put aside bang, two women with "pussy" in their names? I for my part have only found one, and I'm inclined to suspect it was a psuedonym.

Hank Chinaski 11-17-2008 09:16 PM
Re: Quantum of Solace - Spoiler Alert
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch (Post 371458)
The names are always a clue, but the code is frequently subtle. Katie Knobtickle was a d-cup. Surprisingly, Erica Funbags was not.

ETA speaking of Bond implausibilities, what are the chances that one guy would meet, put aside bang, two women with "pussy" in their names? I for my part have only found one, and I'm inclined to suspect it was a psuedonym.
it was you physics prof, right? confession. i put her up to it:mad::confused:

taxwonk 11-17-2008 10:27 PM
Re: Quantum of Solace - Spoiler Alert
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) (Post 371387)
Did bond love vesper as much in the novel as in the movie?
Yes.

taxwonk 11-17-2008 10:37 PM
Re: Layoff Lunch
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by LessinSF (Post 371398)
In a non-economic firing here last week, three partners took the attorney to get "coffee" so that he would be out of the office when they told him he could never step foot in the building again, and they would have his personal stuff sent to him. One too many disassociative moments that scared not only our staff, but staff in other offices in the building.
They should not have done you like that. Un.Cool.

Hank Chinaski 11-17-2008 10:40 PM
Re: Layoff Lunch
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by taxwonk (Post 371472)
They should not have done you like that. Un.Cool.
uhh, is your long term memory fading. less would love a lay off and four months severance.


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