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- c_valencia0
¡my job sucks! All the f-ing work servers are down and everything is due to press right now!
- grunttt0
i assume everyone knows the "light a match after your do your stinky business in the bathroom" trick...
I usually cut through a small alley as a short cut to my favorite coffee shop in the morning on my way in to work. Ever so often I notice that some homeless person has used the alley as their bathroom... and I'm not talking about urinating. Well unfortunately this morning was one of those occasions. But the thing that struck me as funny was this - on a little ledge, right beside the "offense" sat a book of matches.
- ********0
hehehe!
- ********0
DAVID OGILVY, who has just died, aged 88, was the supreme advertising man and publicist, no less than of himself.
When he was a young man he got a job in the United States with Dr George Gallup, of the poll fame, for a measly 40 dollars a week but Ogilvy reckoned what he lost in money he gained in experience, and the privilege of working with Gallup.
He said Gallup gave him three pearls of wisdom which he remembered all his life, and presumably put into effect:
When you find it impossible to refuse something, do it with good grace.
If you do not know the answer to a question, confuse the issue.
If you foul the air in someone else's bathroom, make sure you light a match before you leave.
- GreedoLives0
i got in an argument today on whether one could survive keelhauling.
- mr_snuggles0
From his room at the Edmont, Jim can see into the rooms of some of the guests in the opposite wing. He observes a man putting on silk stockings, high heels, a bra, a corset, and an evening gown. He also sees a man and a woman in another room taking turns spitting mouthfuls of their drinks into each other’s faces and laughing hysterically. He interprets the couple’s behavior as a form of sexual play and is both upset and aroused by it. After smoking a couple of cigarettes, he calls Faith Cavendish, a woman he has never met but whose number he got from an acquaintance at Princeton. Jim thinks he remembers hearing that she used to be a stripper, and he believes he can persuade her to have sex with him. He calls her, and though she is at first annoyed to be called at such a late hour by a complete stranger, she eventually suggests that they meet the next day. Jim doesn’t want to wait that long and winds up hanging up without arranging a meeting.
- grunttt0
i've escaped
- grayhood0
The oldest phrase that has been in everyday use in English from its coinage until the present day appears to be 'woe is me'. This occurs in the the Bible, Old Testament in Job 10:15 in the form 'woe unto me'.
Job is one of the oldest books in the Old Testament, which dates from about 1200BC, making the phrase 3,200 years old.
The first English occurrence of it in English would have been Wycliffe's Bible translation in 1382.
- GreedoLives0
I put the duster away folded with the dust in it, leaned back and just sat, not smoking, not even thinking. I was a blank man. I had no face, no meaning, no personality, hardly a name. I didn't want to eat. I didn't even want a drink. I was the page from yesterday's calendar crumpled at the bottom of the waste basket.
- ********0
was keelhauling done by British Navy? or only by scurvy dogs?
- ********0
not by Brits. They had rum sodomy and the lash
- GreedoLives0
turns out the dutch invented it, but the French and English also used it, but only for about 30 years.
The dutch didn't abolish it until 1853. Pirates apparently were really fond of it, too, but who knows what you can believe about them.
- ********0
wifi blue$
just found out my wifi provided by tmobile costs about 20 eurocents per 100k!
wtf?
that's like insanely expensive!
i cannot click any links here.
if someone sends me a 20mb file by email, i am 20 euros poorer.. :'(
*come to think of it, better turn off mail now..
Crouwel
(Apr 6 06, 12:48)opening this thread alone cost me like 2 bucks.. :(
more from same thread:
oh btw. just realized i may have brought some ideas to evil people!
oh garett, lebowski et al, don't do this, you know i don't really hate you!
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Crouwel
(Apr 6 06, 12:50)btw it's just freaking desillusional if you know you have just driven like 60 miles to go to an easy bar with the best view in the country to do some writing (yes i am, no details, sorry!) and the bar turns out to be like a fucking circus, unlike other times, with drunk yuppies and people slamming the door so hard my powerbook shakes like a friggin' vibrator on xtc.
grr..
Crouwel
(Apr 6 06, 12:58)i know noone feels sorry. i am merely talking to myself here.
Crouwel
(Apr 6 06, 12:59)this thread gets no loving.
i should have called it "teeny tits galore"..
*makes note
Crouwel
(Apr 6 06, 13:07)
- ********0
desillusional is not really a word.
i meant "disappointed"
- ********0
we all followed you anyway
- mr_snuggles0
I just got a very nice, yet completely random email from a very prestigious studio in the US. My life is now complete...
* hangs up oven mitts
- ********0
it's not for me, it's for me ma.
- mr_snuggles0
Dear gentlemen,
As a well trained ruminant, I keep on thinking about the brand name/logo proposals we've discussed last night.
Blinded by a strange mixture of ambition and solution I shouted out "white". Forget it. Stupid remark. What I meant was "silver".
Of course you do think of much better proposals than suggested by the client with his endless limitations. In that respect, this mail is superfluous in itself.
Sorry about that.
_ _Filed under:
Best client email ever..
- ********0
please explain this a little bit more, jim
- mr_snuggles0
oh, I was talking about 2 seperate mails, and the prior being more of a showboating type thing of which I do not wish to go into further detail about on here...
To the Batcave!