Dead or Alive
 

I don't know if this is sadder because it was such a big effort or because it's your second effort. But at least you're making an effort.

Careful. Paigow is sure to show up any minute to stick her foot up your ass for taking credit for what she started.

TM

Don't Cry for Me, ThurgreedMarshall
 

Well, at least I'm not resorting to the tried and true "assjack", assjack. oops.


Which one. If it's one of the moody Paigows, I'll run for cover. If not, I'm willing to attempt a rational dialogue.

spookyfish

Dead or Alive
 

I think you mean wacking Frankie's brother, not Frankie.

I've posed the original question to my brother, and he gave the same answer as Spookyfish: The brother's presence is supposed to let Frankie know that if he blabs, the brother is history.

But I've always felt there was more to it than an overt threat to Frankie's family members. The way Michael and Tom treat the brother is not the way you treat someone you're thinking of wacking. The brother also does not strike me as someone who would carelessly allow his safety to be comprosmised. He is, as Frankie tells us, some who "could have been real big over here".

Also, there is the way the brother looks at Frankie as Frankie exits the hearing. To me, the brother's look says, "What the fuck are you doing? This is not the way we handle things. I'm very disappointed."

Unfucking believable
 

I'll stick to the slightly less obvious point:

If the Baseball Hall of Fame wanted to give less prominence to Robbins and Sarandon's political views, it chose a really effective way to do that.

not an italian
 

It's PENTANGELI

Hence why Tom Hagen calls him "Five Angels"

not7y(mook)S

Does anyone else have that friend (and good friend at that) who thinks he/she is the hippest person in the world, but all other friends think is a complete dork? You know the guy: big-time tool in college (but good guy) who never scored with the ladies, but now he gets an attractive (albeit annoying) girlfriend and he thinks he's the shit. Let me give an example: he's the type of person who goes to Widespread Panic/Phish/Stringe Cheese shows and spends more time thinking about what he's going to wear than how good the music will be. Moreover, he thinks he's "hip" b/c he's going to said show. It drives me nuts b/c I know most people are there for the music and not to look good/cool and now I sound like fucking Lester Bangs...am I a music snob?

Dead or Alive
 

Actually, we just got off a conference call. The guy we were talking to was unfunny. Were we talking to spookyfish?

Dead or Alive
 

Really? :what?: Is that why? I always figured they brought the brother in because Frankie would be too ashamed to rat out "the family" in front of family. I never understood the whacking angle.

Huh.:shrug:

Unfucking believable
 

How were they being ungrateful?

I will completely support you in your belief that no one, ever, going to a Phish concert has given more than two seconds worth of attention to their appearance.

Many of them should have, but . . .

Unfucking believable
 

Ungrateful? Ungrateful to whom? The Hall invited them because they were in Bull Durham. Their political views have nothing to do with their movie roles (or at the very least, the one they are being honored for). If I invited you to the Yankees game because I want to honor your ratty sweater and weeks before the game you speak out against juggling and I disinvite you, how does that make you an ungrateful guest, maroon?

"Clearly within its rights" -- So fucking what? I still think it's disgusting. I'd be within my rights to call you a brain-washed follower who is pissed off with anyone who exercises their right to speak their mind just like the President of the Hall of Fame, but my right to do so has nothing to do with what's going on here.

Sarandon and Robbins are against the war. What the hell does that have to do with baseball? They are for free speech and the many liberties we enjoy in this country. The President of the Hall said they were endangering the lives of the troops by voicing their opinion. What? He's more narrow minded than you: "Must agree with war. Support Bush no matter what. Punish all who disagree."

The whole thing is even dumber than the Clear Channel/Dixie Chicks incident.

TM

I think I love you. Although I am now too old to have such annoying friends. These people all get married the minute they meet someone half way decent who tolerates the bs. That said, I sense SD might be like that.

Dead or Alive
 

No dear, could have been one of the many other voices in your head. They're not funny, either.

spookyfish

Especially given how much time they must have left to think after they finish thinking about how "good" the music will be.

Can anyone spell yiddish?
 

I don't know. I'm still waiting for a nude pic of your avatars

Can anyone spell yiddish?
 

Ahhh, romance in the internet age.

r(quiver)p

Phishy Chicks
 

It is clear to me that you have never been to a Phish concert, for had you been to a Phish concert, you would know the indescribable excitement of being surrounded by hundreds of young, wide-eyed, long-haired, nubile, spinning hippy chicks, with their mischievous smiles and voracious hallucinogen appetites.

Dead or Alive
 

If Frankie testifies, his brother gets it. Sort of like the old machiavellian trick of leaving a child or sibling as a hostage at the court of a noble with whom you have entered into a truce.

:bang:

You're assuming that most people who go to Phish concerts can think. Having been to a Phish concert (very reluctantly) I saw very little evidence of 'thinking'.

A-hem, I have theory about Phish-heads and this is my theory, that they keep going back to Phish concerts because they can't remember the last one they went to.

Phishy Chicks
 

The whole hippie-freedom vibe is indeed appealing, but interest ends where the need for basic hygiene begins.

I have actually heard the reasoning, "but this is my odor. It's natural." Congratulations champ. So is any amount of filth, degredation and pestilence. Get the hell away from me, freak.

p(free-spirited and artistic, yet clean)j

Logo; Sorority Life
 

Doesn't really matter. We are creating a store, which means the item would be for sale publicly on a Web site.

Can anyone spell yiddish?
 

I have no time for romance. Haven't you heard? I'm old, fat, balding, and may die any day now. Especially if my wife finds me romancing someone else.

Elimination
 

I won't steal any more penii. I promise. Frankly though I am sure your penis is lovely, I don't really want it.

And thank you for not being part of that particular crowd ;)

Phishy Chicks
 

A Phish concert is merely this age's reincarnation of a 70's Dead concert. Nubility is a wonderful virtue, especially when rendered trusting and open through the use of our friends the chemicals. However, it should not be considered a mode of dress. A blessing, perhaps, . . .

Anne, I am glad you are here. Are you spookyfish, or are you Thurgreed? The reason I ask is that I am very observant (really) and I noticed that spooky's first response to TM's "you're not funny" snipe said "originally posted by Anne Elk" in the places where he was quoting Thurgreed. That's gone now because spooky deleted it.

Now I might be trying to bust a sock, or I might simply be wondering about weird code glitches. The other day I started up my home PC and when I went to the lawtalkers site (it was raining out, I swear it, and my SO was out of town, too) I found that I was logged in as somebody other than myself. Other than RobustOfficePuppy, I have no socks on this Board, so it was pretty weird. And I'm pretty sure my SO is not leading a secret life on Lawtalkers.

It seems like the equivalent of a crossed telephone wire -- something in the cookie recipe perhaps?

Anyway, be forewarned, even if you're not a sock, for technical weirdness is out there.

Phishy Chicks
 

I knew many, many so-called "hippie chicks". They were all that PLF describes, and, what's more, they were clean. I have no idea where this "hygiene" issue comes from.

Would you PM me and tell me more about this please.

Logo; Sorority Life
 

Yes, but I asked for my own personal one-of-a-kind Brad thong, not that it be the FB logo.

Anyway, are you guys really going to do the store? That would be cool.

Hell, I often find myself thinking that I'm Kafka Esq. or PensKe.

Logo; Sorority Life
 

Yes, which again misses the point. I can't make you a one of a kind thing without making it available on the store.

Though I suppose we could make it quickly available and then take it right down. Still, selling something with his face on it, would violate copyright, since we haven't either permission to use his face or the particular image. Even selling one item.

The store works by creating the items for us, we can sell the items they have available, i.e. we can't decide to sell some random other item through the store, only what they make available. And the only way we have to create it at present is through the store.

We just tell them what image to put on any given item.

And yes, we are.

Phishy Chicks
 

Ok Ok. No Phish. Just Panic. Less hippie. And the guy is 29 and has just discovered mushrooms for fuck's sake...

Phishy Chicks
 

We're lawyers. Ex-law students. Of course we're gonna fuck with the hypo.

I am neither spookyfish nor Thurgreed. I am Anne. Just simple little 'ole Anne who went to her fair share of Dead shows and manged to stay clean and keep the majority of my brain cells healthy.

Allow me to explain. That was my fault. I am no one's sock and Anne Elk is most assuredly not mine. People seem to like her and she doesn't get poor Thurgreed riled. ;)

That said, I was responding to Thurgreed and doing a fair amount of cutting and pasting in doing so. Apparently, Anne's name was on my clipboard from responding to a previous post of hers. When I initially responded to Thurgreed, the reply was submitted before I had intended, and the corrections to the aforementioned posting was not yet made. Anne is not me. I am not Anne. There is no reason to be alarmed. All is well. MR has nothing to worry about. The board is good.

spookyfish

Unfucking believable
 

You know, every time I see Tyrone's name, I think of the exchange between the 5-fingered man and the Prince in "The Princess Bride" when the 5-fingered man is about to enter the tree to torture Wesley, and asks if the Prince would like to come and watch.


"TyROOOAn... you know how I love watching you work, but I've got my wedding to plan, my wife to kill and Guilder to frame for it. Frankly, I'm swamped! (the word "swamped" said in a sort of high-pitched, questioning tone)"

"There, there, you get your rest... (says the 5-fingered man while patting the Prince's hand), if you haven't got your health, you haven't got anything!" (Then a loving look passes between the two of them.)

Christopher Guest and what-his-face Sarandon were hilarious in that scene (and the rest of the movie, natch.)

RP-- FWIW, maybe someone was trying to parse a quote and your name or sock was on their clipboard.

Dammit, see I didn't want to double-post, I wanted to edit. It's not you, it's me. Machines don't make mistakes, people do.

spookyfish

Unfucking believable
 

Chris Sarandon--former Mr. Susan (and I think you mean 6-fingered, right?).

tm

Logo; Sorority Life
 

Well, given that MR provided you with your avatar, and his general fondness for freehand art, I imagine you could convince him to create a one-off thong that meets your specifications.

Phishy Chicks
 

I am speaking more of the guys. Agreed, the hippy chicks I knew/was, were basically clean. If a little too patchouli-soaked.

Unfucking believable
 

I thought they were siblings?