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Interesting...

― KitCat, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

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― KitCat, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse took a picture of my crotch.

n/a on Monday, 5 March 2007 15:29 (1 hour ago)

I was taking a picture of the lights in the floor and Nick walked his crotch into it. I said, "Hey Nick, your crotch is in my picture." He did not move, so I took the picture, which he deemed "pretty nice."

― Jesse, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Jordan-- what you are saying about TJs is how I feel about the Argo Tea people. Probably a lot of their excessive enthusiasm can be accounted for by their age, but still, they love tea a little too much, and when there is a trainee they introduce that person to their regulars, including stats and interesting factoids about the regular. Also, one guy was describing their walnut cookie-candy things as, "A surprise wrapped in a surpise, covered in chocolate, wrapped in a pretty package!" in a Pollyanna-ish voice that made me want to do something mean and petty to him.

― Jesse, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

in a Pollyanna-ish voice that made me want to do something mean and petty to him

haha Like steal his Strawberry Shortcake doll?

― kenan, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I guess the part that bothers me the most about the chattiness is that it seems like it must be institutionally mandated. It's Chotchkee's-esque.

― Jordan, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Saturday started out scary because I got to the hall first and they said they had no idea what i was talking about w/r/t to the conference with an expected attendance of 120 people. I started to FLIP THE FUCK OUT but then one of our main organizers showed up and sweet talked the guy that I had pretty much managed to alienate and we got the room that we always get. Then none of our morning speakers showed because it was snowy and blowy and social progressives be FLAKY. But it was okay because three of us conference organizers were scheduled to speak so I went a little longer on my opener, and then another organizer spoke about women and the war, and we had a woman from a feminist disability action group who had a lot to say and she was really engaging and she took up a lot of time. And then because the speaker from Apn@ Gh@r didn't show, my friend (who also works for AG) spoke in her place.

Basically, it was one big exercise in rolling with it and not looking panicked in front of a room full of people just because you have no idea which speaker to introduce next.

By the afternoon everything had sorted itself out and we had lots of interesting and engaging speakers and some women from the PRCC almost got into a battle with an old white lady from the League of Women Voters which I, as MC, found hilarious but managed to diffuse with the help of the aforementioned main organizer who is obviously highly skilled it diffusing situations created by her hothead companeras.

Then I drank some TERRIBLE wine that we bought from a convenience store somewhere on Ashland. The wine was displayed on a shelf in between, and I am not kidding here, dusty bottles of hard liquor and cleaning products. I think its placement was editorial.

― Jenny, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

haha Like steal his Strawberry Shortcake doll?

No shit. Or ask take a piss in a cup of hot water and tell him it's a lovely Cambodian hand-rolled Citrine with extra anti-oxidants. And to grow a pair and drink some coffee.

― Jesse, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

SARAH: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Ripper

My Girl Talk samples. Let me show you them.

― Jenny, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Awesome. Now I want to listen to the whole album at home with the sheet in hand.

― KitCat, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Huh. Crunch has a special offer--you give them a pack of cigarettes and you can join for only $20. I have a pack of cigarettes and I would like to join a gym. Wouldn't this encourage people to buy cigarettes in order to get a rate cut?

― Jesse, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

If the rate cut is worth more than about $6.50? Hell yeah.

― Laurel, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I shouldn't have eaten that donut, now I'm not hungry for lunch. By the time I'm hungry I'll have afternoon meetings and won't be able to go.

This can only be solved by more donuts.

― Jordan, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

The best part of Sister Ray is about 5 minutes in, when John does something weird to his organ, like maybe shares some of his speed with it, and it just goes into NOIZE OVERDRIVE and it's like, wow, you're loud, dude.

― kenan, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

speaking of cigarettes, i ran across the street to buy a pack of smokes for me and a fudge round for my friend lisa and the total, TOTAL was four dollars twenty five cents. then the dude told me about the buy two get one free deal so i bought 3 packs of smokes for $8.69. THEN the free cigarette guy was at subt on saturday so i wound up with 5 packs of cigarettes in my coat.

― chicago kevin, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

er, all that happened in milwaukee. cheap smokes, plenitful beer, cheese everything. had fun.

― chicago kevin, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

milwaukee rulez

― Jordan, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I guess the part that bothers me the most about the chattiness is that it seems like it must be institutionally mandated. It's Chotchkee's-esque.

I think the degree to which it's "institutionally mandated" is partially that they literally tell employees to converse with the customers, but partially that they only hire people who are naturally friendly and social. All of my interactions with TJ's employees have felt very natural, not forced, not like they're reading from a script, and only a couple of times have I felt like the person was too chatty in an annoying way (it's mostly from slightly older dudes who look like they live alone with their Star Wars figurines). Most of the time, it's just a pleasant interaction.

― jaymc, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, what is Chotchkee's?

― jaymc, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't think the Argo folks' chattiness is institutionally mandated for 2 reasons: first, they sound completely sincere, and genuinely eager, and second, when I worked at Starbucks for 2 weeks, a lot of the staff there was like this, and it was annoying!

― Jesse, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/twentieth_century_fox/office_space/_group_photos/jennifer_aniston2.jpg

― Jordan, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

John, have you seen Office Space? If not, we'll defer this conversation until you have.

― Jesse, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Such a good movie.

― dan m, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I have seen the movie, yes, but I don't tend to watch movies multiple times, so I apologize that the name of the TGIF knockoff restaurant that Aniston works at slipped my mind seven years later.

― jaymc, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link

TGI Friday's, I meant. You knew that.

― jaymc, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't think that apology sounded very sincere, John.

― Jenny, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I just didn't want to get into one of those, "Why would I ever have seen Office Space?" conversations.

― Jesse, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

John, you don't have enough pieces of flair.

― kenan, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

A girl I dated once emailed me for the first time with a subject line of "PC load letter? What the fuck does that mean?" and I nearly fell in love right then and there.

― dan m, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I still want a Jump to Conclusions mat.

― kenan, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey hotbeatz! About your photos...

You've run into one of the limits of a free account. Your free account will only display the most recent 200 photos you've uploaded. All of your photos beyond 200 will remain hidden from view until you either delete newer photos, or upgrade to a Pro account.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/137/410940369_d6c727692b.jpg?v=0

:(

― Jordan, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link

At my work this summer we had an actual TPS report, though I never did figure out what it was. I thought it was a joke at first, but no, it's real.

― Jesse, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link

There is a conference room here called "Office Space" with a framed (joke) TPS report.

― Jordan, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Jordan, a Pro account is only $25 a year.

― Jesse, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't think that apology sounded very sincere, John.

Jenny on Monday, March 5, 2007 12:22 PM (2 minutes ago)

----

I just didn't want to get into one of those, "Why would I ever have seen Office Space?" conversations.

Jesse on Monday, March 5, 2007 12:22 PM (2 minutes ago)

That's why the apology didn't sound sincere.

― jaymc, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

somebody needs to dust.

― kenan, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i am going to tell a porn store story because where do you tell such things if not ilx.

a sort-of-friend in rather desperate financial straits is working at a porn store for a while. it sounds draining and creepy, but she ends up with stories (which i can't tell nearly as well). anyway.

this big burly guy came in the other day and was looking for a suction-cupped dildo. they found a big one for him and he needed to show id to buy it, so he unzipped his hoodie to get his id. underneath, he was wearing nothing but a very lacy bra with silicone inserts to fill it out, with plentiful and dark chest hair all around. hey, another day at the porn store. he then proceeded to ask about how effective the suction cup base was, so they affixed it to the counter and he proceeded to nudge it and move it around until it was clear that it was very firmly anchored. and so he bent over and deepthroated it.

he explained after that he wanted to make sure that he could, since the other time he'd been able to deepthroat, the penis in question had cum (cummed?) before he could really get into it, and so he was unsure of his abilities.

― JuliaA, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I guess I'll do it, although I haven't been taking many pictures since the screen on my digital camera broke.

― Jordan, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link

also, in my experience, office space is best seen more than once.

― JuliaA, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link

to cum
he came
she came
we came
he had come

― kenan, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link

hahahaha i was just going to say something about how it would be bugging me for a while now, the varieties of congugation of the verb "to come" in that particular context.

― JuliaA, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I love that episode of Chappelle's Show, Jordan. Erykah Badu's performance of "I Want You" is the greatest thing.

― horseshoe, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Totally. Is it included in any of the box sets?

― Jordan, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

the penis in question had cum (cummed?) before he could really get into it, and so he was unsure of his abilities

I dunno... I'd call that positive feedback.

― kenan, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I think it's part of the season 2 DVD set. which I have at home, so I should really know for sure.

― horseshoe, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

The episode "Music Jump-Off" which featured Chappelle visiting his old high school, The Duke Ellington School of the Arts, intercut with previously unaired skits and musical performances did not make either DVD set.

:( ?

― Jordan, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I got a job at a porn store once, but since I hadn't really looked for a job and didn't really need money, I decided to just look for another job. But a 50% discount on porn would have been nice. And all the interesting people!

― Jesse, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Who pays for porn anymore?

― kenan, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

why wouldn't they include that on the DVD set? bastards!

― horseshoe, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, so igo cars are $6/hour + .50/mile + one-time fee of $75 and $25 annual renewal. There are 3 locations within as many blocks of my house.

Zipcar is $9/hour, includes 125 miles per day, $50 per year. Cheaper in the long run, but their cars are considerably farther away.

I think igo wins.

― Jesse, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link

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