LawTalkers - Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!

Ummm, you have this extreme attitude because he wasn't honest about himself, right?

But weren't you the one who claimed to be an Itamae? Do you have some unique set of moral rules?

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

01-15-2013 08:52 AM

Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!

Hmmm. Waxing: Public health virtue or environmental nightmare?

ThurgreedMarshall

01-15-2013 10:00 AM

Re: Outback

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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch (Post 476359)

I saw that video, didn't really like it. Some unusual names are cool. Plaxico Burress? Excellent name. Way more interesting than, say, "JJ Watt."

Plus, it was the same mediocre joke told over and over again until you wanted to tear out your eyes. I call that Hanking.

I'd call it that too, if Hank's jokes rose to the level of mediocre.

TM

Hank Chinaski

01-15-2013 10:07 AM

Re: Outback

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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 476368)

I'd call it that too, if Hank's jokes rose to the level of mediocre.

TM

Pay an award to POTD and see who starts ringing the cash register.

ThurgreedMarshall

01-15-2013 01:48 PM

Re: Outback

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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 476369)

Pay an award to POTD and see who starts ringing the cash register.

You're only funny for money? How would you even know that?

TM

sebastian_dangerfield

01-15-2013 02:00 PM

Re: Outback

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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch (Post 476341)

Sigh. I drive a beemer. I had my mid-life crisis early and wanted a convertible and if you want a convertible with a real back seat (for kids) you have limited options, and that one was the best.

When buying it, I was and still am haunted by the memory of the Car Talk line: Everyone thinks the car he drives says something about his personality. The BMW driver is the only one who is right. But he's wrong about what it says.

1: I thought it was a 3 Series, but now that I think about it, it does seem a little small.

3: What else do you want me to buy? There's no better convertible in its class.

6: I get my jeans dry cleaned. And I wear them with a white shirt and blue blazer on casual Fridays at the club. If you insist on asking, well... I'm more a Cialis man.

sebastian_dangerfield

01-15-2013 02:10 PM

Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!

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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 476367)

Hmmm. Waxing: Public health virtue or environmental nightmare?

I am certainly not adverse to manscaping. As a two decade practitioner of the Commando lifestyle, it is a necessity to keep things in order (zippers can be a mortal enemy of the negligent).

Walking through the gym locker room the other day and observing a nude 6'5 completely shaven, porcine middle aged man walking toward me, and being compelled to nod hello, confronting not only his disturbingly infant-like genitals, but also a set of large hoops through the knobs on the ends of his ample man boobs, I kind of think the metrosexual male grooming thing may be going a bit far.

Hank Chinaski

01-15-2013 02:13 PM

Re: Outback

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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 476383)

You're only funny for money? How would you even know that?

TM

what i thought you were going to do is copy the last thing i wrote Flower, then simply post "No Sale."

sebastian_dangerfield

01-15-2013 02:16 PM

Re: Outback

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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 476346)

Click and Clack used to service my car - they had a garage (the Good News Garage) in Cambridge, but you needed to have an "interesting" care for them to take you. Mine was an old barely working Oldsmobile hand-me-down bucket of bolts. I learned then, it didn't matter what kind of car you had, you get abuse.

They're almost as good as You Bet Your Garden, and Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. That Mo Rocca gets me in stitches.

ThurgreedMarshall

01-15-2013 02:27 PM

Re: Outback

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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 476386)

what i thought you were going to do is copy the last thing i wrote Flower, then simply post "No Sale."

Clearly you didn't get paid for this last post.

TM

Hank Chinaski

01-15-2013 02:40 PM

Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!

I'm leaving for the Day. RT; cash me out!

taxwonk

01-15-2013 03:21 PM

Re: Outback

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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 476323)

? I feel like you suggested Johnny Rockets. But I have a horrible memory, so maybe I did.

That said, I think I had 30-40 minutes to meet with you, I didn't know anything about the neighborhood other than the restaurant directly downstairs from where I was staying and that they have pretty good burgers. We didn't have Johnny Rockets in NYC at that point, so it was a novelty to me. And you never mentioned anything about the best Italian beef in the city or any other restaurant for that matter.

If I had more time, we surely would have gone somewhere else (I would definitely have rather had some Chicago Pizza, which I love). So, I'm not sure you're making the point you think you're making.

TM

Actually, you just made my point perfectly. You were in an unfamiliar town. You had limited time. You went for the place with the familiar name.

Add to that an annoyed wife, two hungry and fighting kids (the source of esposa's annoyance) and that vague fear that if you step out of the big bright lights, you will be killed, your wife will be raped, and you kids will be sold into sexual slavery. Now you understand perfectly why people go to the Outback or the Red Lobster in Times Square.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

01-15-2013 03:34 PM

Re: Outback

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Originally Posted by taxwonk (Post 476392)

But to be clear, this was Chicago, not New York. Thurgreed's fear of being killed was perfectly reasonable.

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