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dtb 12-14-2005 10:06 AM

Uh-oh. I'm in Trouble.
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
No worries. Just ask Christ for his forgiveness, and say like 10 Hail Marys.

Well, isn't that conVEEEEEENient?

Sparklehorse 12-14-2005 10:11 AM

Uh-oh. I'm in Trouble.
 
Quote:

Originally posted by dtb
(not that kind of trouble)

Anyway, this morning when I was getting out of my taxi, as I opened the door, an old(ish) lady was riding by on a bicycle (in the 10-degree weather, wearing a fur coat!?!) and crashed into my open door. She took a slow-motion spill and landed flat on her back on the sidewalk. Now, I realize this could have resulted in some serious bodily injury to the poor woman, but I couldn't stop laughing (on the inside). I did get out and ask if she was OK (she was having none of my concern, by the way), but I was giggling uncontrollably on the inside. The whole incident looked like a clip from America's Funniest Home Videos.

So, I'm thinking I'm going to be toast in the afterlife.
The woman on the bike sounds like someone worth knowing.

spookyfish 12-14-2005 10:19 AM

Uh-oh. I'm in Trouble.
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Sparklehorse
The woman on the bike sounds like someone worth knowing.
Are you saying before or after she wins the lawsuit?

Not Bob 12-14-2005 10:52 AM

Uh-oh. I'm in Trouble.
 
Quote:

Originally posted by dtb
Anyway, this morning when I was getting out of my taxi, as I opened the door, an old(ish) lady was riding by on a bicycle (in the 10-degree weather, wearing a fur coat!?!) and crashed into my open door.
I have a friend who visited TCOTU not too long ago, and rented a car. (Yeah, I know. An idiot.)

Anyway, as he pulled his rental car up to a restaurant valet, a pedestrian started screaming at him, yelling "you hit me!" He and the valet exchanged looks of "what a nut," and he went into the restaurant without a second thought.

Until he was served here in Podunkville with the lawsuit a few months later ("hey, Not Bob -- it says I'm being sued in the Supreme Court on these papers. Do I need to respond? I've never been in Washington."), that is. He's just been deposed.

andViolins 12-14-2005 11:11 AM

Uh-oh. I'm in Trouble.
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Not Bob
I have a friend who visited TCOTU not too long ago, and rented a car. (Yeah, I know. An idiot.)

Anyway, as he pulled his rental car up to a restaurant valet, a pedestrian started screaming at him, yelling "you hit me!" He and the valet exchanged looks of "what a nut," and he went into the restaurant without a second thought.

Until he was served here in Podunkville with the lawsuit a few months later ("hey, Not Bob -- it says I'm being sued in the Supreme Court on these papers. Do I need to respond? I've never been in Washington."), that is. He's just been deposed.
How did the plaintiff describe it in the complaint - a hit and eat? A Knock and Nosh?

aV

Pretty Little Flower 12-14-2005 11:51 AM

Uh-oh. I'm in Trouble.
 
Quote:

Originally posted by dtb
(not that kind of trouble)

Anyway, this morning when I was getting out of my taxi, as I opened the door, an old(ish) lady was riding by on a bicycle (in the 10-degree weather, wearing a fur coat!?!) and crashed into my open door. She took a slow-motion spill and landed flat on her back on the sidewalk. Now, I realize this could have resulted in some serious bodily injury to the poor woman, but I couldn't stop laughing (on the inside). I did get out and ask if she was OK (she was having none of my concern, by the way), but I was giggling uncontrollably on the inside. The whole incident looked like a clip from America's Funniest Home Videos.

So, I'm thinking I'm going to be toast in the afterlife.
Translation:

This morning, I saw some loopy old peasant woman with a raggedy coat come spinning by on her bicycle. While a tiny part of me was taken by the quaintness of the situation, I could not resist swinging my door open into her for kicks. She crashed to the frozen asphalt in the most comical manner and I immediately burst into uncontrollable hysterical laughter, but my driver was good enough to roll down his window and briefly feign concern.

I'd be concerned about the spiritual ramifications of my actions, but hell is for the little people.

pony_trekker 12-14-2005 11:52 AM

Uh-oh. I'm in Trouble.
 
Quote:

Originally posted by dtb
(not that kind of trouble)

Anyway, this morning when I was getting out of my taxi, as I opened the door, an old(ish) lady was riding by on a bicycle (in the 10-degree weather, wearing a fur coat!?!) and crashed into my open door. She took a slow-motion spill and landed flat on her back on the sidewalk. Now, I realize this could have resulted in some serious bodily injury to the poor woman, but I couldn't stop laughing (on the inside). I did get out and ask if she was OK (she was having none of my concern, by the way), but I was giggling uncontrollably on the inside. The whole incident looked like a clip from America's Funniest Home Videos.

So, I'm thinking I'm going to be toast in the afterlife.
Maybe you should open your fucking eyes when you get out of a cab?

Last person who opened a cab door in my face like that got a roundhouse kick to the face. But typically I just mule-kick the door and (hopefully) catch a couple of fingers.

And by the way, I am handling her case. Since the cab only has 25 g in insurance we are suing you.

dtb 12-14-2005 12:12 PM

Uh-oh. I'm in Trouble.
 
Quote:

Originally posted by pony_trekker
Maybe you should open your fucking eyes when you get out of a cab?

Last person who opened a cab door in my face like that got a roundhouse kick to the face. But typically I just mule-kick the door and (hopefully) catch a couple of fingers.

And by the way, I am handling her case. Since the cab only has 25 g in insurance we are suing you.
Still sore about the last time I opened the door in your face and laughed and laughed? (Oh, how I laughed...)

Whew! Good thing I gave her my real name!

Sparklehorse 12-14-2005 12:26 PM

Slate Competes with Lawtalkers Contest
 
Slate is having a contest for lawyers:

So, not only does Slate want to hear the meanest thing you've ever done to an opponent on the holidays, but we want to reward the most contemptuously awful stunt we unearth with lovely swag. Let us know whether we can print your name. (As if.) Please send your most evil pre-holiday shenanigans to grinchesq@hotmail.com. The best stories will be reprinted here shortly, and the Most Evil Attorney in the World will be showered with Slate paraphernalia. This contest is also open to anyone, anywhere with stories of hideous pre-holiday lawyer shenanigans, whether they were perpetrated upon you by counsel on the other side, by bosses in your law firm, or you merely heard about them from some sad-sack lawyer in a bar on Christmas morning. Still, Slate reserves the right to limit showers of swag to those brave enough to turn themselves in for being the worst holiday cretins of all time.

Will the winner also receive a fist dildo?

Link

Replaced_Texan 12-14-2005 12:32 PM

A reason to rethink my premium cable choices
 
Showtime may rescue Arrested Development

Goodbye Cinemax!

Did you just call me Coltrane? 12-14-2005 12:51 PM

A reason to rethink my premium cable choices
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Showtime may rescue Arrested Development

Goodbye Cinemax!
Sweet.

Although I think I prefer it when they bleep out the swear words -hopefully they'll continue doing that.

Also, Monday night's episode wasn't their best (but, like always, it had its GREAT moments).

taxwonk 12-14-2005 12:56 PM

Prezzies!
 
Quote:

Originally posted by pony_trekker
I don't think your deal is any good any more. I think puttin the hammer on Ole JC was an anticipatory breach of that deal.
Not according to the Pope. Well, the last one, at least. You know, the one who wasn't a Nazi sympathizer?

Captain 12-14-2005 01:51 PM

Prezzies!
 
Quote:

Originally posted by taxwonk
Not according to the Pope. Well, the last one, at least. You know, the one who wasn't a Nazi sympathizer?
I thought that was two ago.

taxwonk 12-14-2005 02:34 PM

No Fun
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
a dickhead is not a vegetable.
Sometimes he is after the beat-down.

taxwonk 12-14-2005 02:42 PM

RFP
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Fisting! hahahaha

Fisting! hahahahahahaha!!!

Anal fisting!!! OOOOOHHHH hahahahahaha!!!!!

What the fuck is wrong with you people? I cannot believe that, even for those previously unfamiliar with the concept (if not the practice), the word fisting had not lost any titillation or humor value by the eighteen thousandth time it was mentioned over the course of two weeks. Things may have been raunchy and occasionally juvenile back in 2001, but these days I feel like I am watching a cross between a bad SNL skit and Beavis and Butthead. You know the way SNL these days every once in a while stumbles across a concept with some mild humor value? And then it proceeds to use that schtick in every single skit for about a year? And then it makes a full length motion picture premised on the once-mildly-humorous concept, so flooding the popular culture with this once-mildly-humorous concept that it ensures that the lowest common denominator conversation you will be stuck having with every jackass on the elevator or with every drunk ass stranger in a bar while you are waiting for someone will be the repeated invocation of whatever inane catch phrase has become the representation of that once-mildy-humorous concept?

Well, let's just stop it. Enough with the fisting. IT. IS. NOT. FUNNY.

We have alread lost one paigow. We can scarcely afford to lose any more.
Still bitter about Str8 killing the spinning movie, eh?

taxwonk 12-14-2005 02:43 PM

RFP
 
Quote:

Originally posted by bilmore
You might have covered this while I was gone, and, if so, sorry, but, what is an "ass stranger"?
Someone you haven't fisted.

Replaced_Texan 12-14-2005 04:10 PM

Poll
 
Who is scarier:

http://pics.livejournal.com/themusesbitch/pic/0003pr2y

or

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._bg_112303.jpg

or

[propose scarier product mascot, noting, of course, that the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man has already been proposed by Dr. Raymond Stantz]

Alex_de_Large 12-14-2005 04:32 PM

Poll
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Who is scarier:
http://www.roadsidepeek.com/coffeeea...bobsburb2i.jpg

Alex_de_Large 12-14-2005 04:34 PM

Poll
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
http://www.roadsidepeek.com/coffeeea...bobsburb2i.jpg
Then there's this:

http://213.131.178.163/library/image...er%20front.jpg

Did you just call me Coltrane? 12-14-2005 04:40 PM

Poll
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Who is scarier:

http://pics.livejournal.com/themusesbitch/pic/0003pr2y

or

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._bg_112303.jpg

or

[propose scarier product mascot, noting, of course, that the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man has already been proposed by Dr. Raymond Stantz]
How about that freaky talking Quizno's baby?

notcasesensitive 12-14-2005 04:43 PM

Poll
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._bg_112303.jpg
I can't believe that people are still eating at McDonalds after seeing what that food has done to the hips and butt on that guy. And don't even get me started on Grimace.

Pretty Little Flower 12-14-2005 05:02 PM

Poll
 
Quote:

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I can't believe that people are still eating at McDonalds after seeing what that food has done to the hips and butt on that guy. And don't even get me started on Grimace.
Can you believe that McDonalds uses this huge, obese blob of a character to promote its fattening food?

notcasesensitive 12-14-2005 05:35 PM

Poll
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Can you believe that McDonalds uses this huge, obese blob of a character to promote its fattening food?
Uh. In fact I can't believe that they do so successfully. But I think that was the thrust (hahahahaha! I said thrust! reminds me of fisting!! oh, good times!) of my prior post.

I take it you think that their marketing stategy is clever?

Replaced_Texan 12-14-2005 05:45 PM

Poll
 
Quote:

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Uh. In fact I can't believe that they do so successfully. But I think that was the thrust (hahahahaha! I said thrust! reminds me of fisting!! oh, good times!) of my prior post.

I take it you think that their marketing stategy is clever?
To be fair, the fat ass is aimed at the kids. Adults are differently targeted.

Did you just call me Coltrane? 12-14-2005 05:46 PM

Poll
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Can you believe that McDonalds uses this huge, obese blob of a character to promote its fattening food?
You can't just come back here and act like everything is normal. Your fisting lashing penetrated all of us deeply and painfully, and has forever left us agape.

Pretty Little Flower 12-14-2005 05:48 PM

Poll
 
Quote:

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Uh. In fact I can't believe that they do so successfully. But I think that was the thrust (hahahahaha! I said thrust! reminds me of fisting!! oh, good times!) of my prior post.

I take it you think that their marketing stategy is clever?
I was just trying to get you started on Grimace.

Pretty Little Flower 12-14-2005 05:49 PM

Poll
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
You can't just come back here and act like everything is normal. Your fisting lashing penetrated all of us deeply and painfully, and has forever left us agape.
I have never come here and acted like everything in normal.

ltl/fb 12-14-2005 05:49 PM

Poll
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
To be fair, the fat ass is aimed at the kids. Adults are differently targeted.
That woman is emaciated!!!

Hank Chinaski 12-14-2005 05:52 PM

Poll
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Can you believe that McDonalds uses this huge, obese blob of a character to promote its fattening food?
If you were going out to eat, and Fringey recommended a restaurant, wouldn't you listen to her advice?

Hank Chinaski 12-14-2005 05:54 PM

Poll
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
You can't just come back here and act like everything is normal. Your fisting lashing penetrated all of us deeply and painfully, and has forever left us agape.
I thought Flower's post was timely, and well-thought out. At it's heart, tough love is still love.

Pretty Little Flower 12-14-2005 05:59 PM

Poll
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
If you were going out to eat, and Fringey recommended a restaurant, wouldn't you listen to her advice?
Perhaps. If my primary criterion for fine dining were portion size.

Hank Chinaski 12-14-2005 06:02 PM

Poll
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Perhaps. If my primary criterion for fine dining were portion size.
Oh. the day after criticizing fisting posts, you fall back to "fringey is overweight?"

I solely meant that both Ronald McDonald and Fringey seem to always be in a good mood, and thus one could extrapolate they were exposed to positive food experiences.

Did you just call me Coltrane? 12-14-2005 06:05 PM

Poll
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I thought Flower's post was timely, and well-thought out. At it's heart, tough love is still love.
I'm sure Flower is thrilled to have your endorsement.

Pretty Little Flower 12-14-2005 06:11 PM

Poll
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Oh. the day after criticizing fisting posts, you fall back to "fringey is overweight?"

I solely meant that both Ronald McDonald and Fringey seem to always be in a good mood, and thus one could extrapolate they were exposed to positive food experiences.
I completely misread your post. And to think that my original thought was not to mock what I mistakenly believed to be your premise (that fat people have better food appreciation), but to savagely attack you for, a day after my anti-fisting-cliche rant, making the same incredibly tired fingey-is-fat joke that you make in at least three of every ten posts on the FB. Such an attack would have been horribly misplaced given your sensible explanation of the fringey comment. That would have been a humbling moment for me. For the cyber-record, I tend to agree with your point. I would rather take restaurant advice from someone like fringey, who appears to have the upbeat joie-de-vivre that would lend itself to a greater appreciation of fine dining.

Pretty Little Flower 12-14-2005 06:13 PM

Poll
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I'm sure Flower is thrilled to have your endorsement.
I have read this post what must be a thousand times, but still the fisting reference eludes me. Kudos to your masterful subtlety.

taxwonk 12-14-2005 06:16 PM

Poll
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I thought Flower's post was timely, and well-thought out. At it's heart, tough love is still love.
That's what I'd expect you to say, you sadistic fuck.

Hank Chinaski 12-14-2005 06:30 PM

Poll
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I completely misread your post. And to think that my original thought was not to mock what I mistakenly believed to be your premise (that fat people have better food appreciation), but to savagely attack you for, a day after my anti-fisting-cliche rant, making the same incredibly tired fingey-is-fat joke that you make in at least three of every ten posts on the FB. Such an attack would have been horribly misplaced given your sensible explanation of the fringey comment. That would have been a humbling moment for me. For the cyber-record, I tend to agree with your point. I would rather take restaurant advice from someone like fringey, who appears to have the upbeat joie-de-vivre that would lend itself to a greater appreciation of fine dining.
Just as an academic aside, I also don't think you can assume an obese diner is attracted to any one restaurant by portion size. In many case the overweight break society's taboo against ordering multiple entrees, and thus can still overindulge in a restaurant that does not provide unduly large portions.

Oliver_Wendell_Ramone 12-14-2005 06:37 PM

Poll
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I have read this post what must be a thousand times, but still the fisting reference eludes me. Kudos to your masterful subtlety.

I know it can be difficult to concentrate while enjoying unsolicited blowjob after unsolicited blow job. Especially when you're high. We've all been there. But this is hardly subtle. A fisting reference tied to the oh-so-tired spin class gag. You know Coltrane is capable of better.

robustpuppy 12-14-2005 07:10 PM

Poll
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Just as an academic aside, I also don't think you can assume an obese diner is attractive to any one restaurant by portion size. In many case the overweight break society's taboo against ordering multiple entrees, and thus can still overindulge in a restaurant that does not provide unduly large portions.
You whiffed. He said fat people are jolly. Personally I am shocked, appalled, and saddened by this egregious stereotyping.

Diane_Keaton 12-14-2005 07:42 PM

Poll
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Who is scarier:

or

http://www.ericneely.com/images/photos/20021227-3.jpg
http://www.ericneely.com/images/photos/20021227-4.jpg http://www.ericneely.com/images/photos/20021227-5.jpg
http://www.ericneely.com/images/photos/20021227-6.jpg


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