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rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Jan 19, 2023 8:27 am

The Sybian wrote: ↑Thu Jan 19, 2023 7:24 am
rass wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 11:16 am That's sexual assault these days, yeah?
That was sexual assault back then.

I was trying to let you off easy for enabling it, but OK!

Pruitt IV · Post by **Pruitt IV** » Thu Jan 19, 2023 11:25 am

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 11:31 pm Imagine a universe where you can nail Focus’ “Hocus Pocus.” Like, you can yodel it even better than their lead singer.

You travel with you flute just in case you wind up at a karaoke bar, too.

Thijs Van Leer!!!

Post by **Shirley** » Thu Jan 19, 2023 11:53 am

A_B wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 4:09 pm
Shirley wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 4:00 pm
A_B wrote: ↑Fri Jan 13, 2023 8:23 am
Johnnie wrote: ↑Fri Jan 13, 2023 12:24 am My wife and I were watching some show on one of the streaming services and her Vuori ad came on multiple times. I had no idea who she was, but she thought their joggers were the GREATEST PIECE OF CLOTHING SHE'S EVER WORN.

After googling, she's a damn millionaire because social media.
No no no. Remember, NIL is going to make it impossible for the non revenue athletes to get in the game and make anything. Don't you read the NCAA talking points each morning upon rising? Next thing you know, the kid from the popeye's meme will be getting money at a D2 school. Can't have that.
Approximately 1% of her revenue is because she's an athlete at LSU.
To be fair I was making a throwaway joke. I certainly didn't audit the P&L! I don't care how she makes the money, good for her.

Oh, I spent a lot of time examining her 10-K if you know what I mean! wink, wink, nudge, nudge

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Thu Jan 19, 2023 12:10 pm

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 5:59 pm
A_B wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 12:06 pm
Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 11:59 am
Giff wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 11:36 am I've only been to one of those places a few times, but every time "Lucille" is played and that's what everyone yells after "You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille".
Yeah, but I feel like the swap You Slut and You Whore.

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I've never done karaoke, but one of my best buds was a fairly talented singer and he absolutely brought down the house at a bar in Key West. He did a killer Wanted, Dead or Alive in a very crowded joint (Rick's... I think?). He started the song seated on a bar stool (he brought it up to the stage--he knew what he was doing) and had the crowd right there with him...

And at the point where it rolls into "I walk these streets..." He gets up off the stool and donkey kicks the damn thing off the back of the stage. Crowd goes absolutely nuts. If you've been on Duvall Street, you know that it's a bit like Bourbon St, with big windows open to the masses. I turn around and it's not just the bar, but a crowd of people 10 deep at the windows and they're cheering.

One of the funniest/best things I've seen in person. He didn't buy another drink for the next hour or so.
Well what were people gonna do? Mans was packing a loaded six string for god's sake!
He's seen a million faces, and he's rocked 'em all...

Ok...I'm now mad that this song got mentioned yesterday, because its a total earworm for me now.

Curse you!

Post by **Shirley** » Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:43 pm

It's like the one Bon Jovi song I can tolerate. Maybe that and Runaway.

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Thu Jan 19, 2023 4:10 pm

Shirley wrote: ↑Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:43 pm It's like the one Bon Jovi song I can tolerate. Maybe that and Runaway.

Now as I walk along I wonder...

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Thu Jan 19, 2023 4:21 pm

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 19, 2023 4:10 pm
Shirley wrote: ↑Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:43 pm It's like the one Bon Jovi song I can tolerate. Maybe that and Runaway.
Now as I walk along I wonder...

I wah wah wah wah wonder...

Reaper · Post by **Reaper** » Thu Jan 19, 2023 9:34 pm

sancarlos wrote: ↑Thu Jan 19, 2023 4:21 pm
L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 19, 2023 4:10 pm
Shirley wrote: ↑Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:43 pm It's like the one Bon Jovi song I can tolerate. Maybe that and Runaway.
Now as I walk along I wonder...
I wah wah wah wah wonder...

Why?

Pruitt IV · Post by **Pruitt IV** » Thu Jan 19, 2023 9:49 pm

Reaper wrote: ↑Thu Jan 19, 2023 9:34 pm
sancarlos wrote: ↑Thu Jan 19, 2023 4:21 pm
L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 19, 2023 4:10 pm
Shirley wrote: ↑Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:43 pm It's like the one Bon Jovi song I can tolerate. Maybe that and Runaway.
Now as I walk along I wonder...
I wah wah wah wah wonder...
Why?

She went away.

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Tue Jan 24, 2023 3:13 am

Writing up my outline for an oral argument before the Trademark Board tomorrow ... I just noticed I've typed the words "Mark Prior" in three different places.

Now it's going to throw me off. (But in true Mark Prior fashion, it'll be throwing a towel. From flat ground.)

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Thu Jan 26, 2023 1:26 pm

Uncertainty is not optimal. A personal deep sigh.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/b ... story.html

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Thu Jan 26, 2023 1:32 pm

Shit man, sorry to hear that. What a cluster.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Thu Jan 26, 2023 1:47 pm

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Thu Jan 26, 2023 1:32 pm Shit man, sorry to hear that. What a cluster.

It’s cool. Just billionaires fighting and getting caught in the cross fire. Sucks so hard.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Thu Jan 26, 2023 1:59 pm

Sorry, TB. That really sucks.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Thu Jan 26, 2023 2:01 pm

Hope it works out for you, bud.

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Thu Jan 26, 2023 2:02 pm

Best wishes, Bengal.

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Thu Jan 26, 2023 3:18 pm

Good lord, TB. That sucks.

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Jan 26, 2023 3:56 pm

Sorry buddy

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Thu Jan 26, 2023 4:15 pm

Damn, TB. Sorry to hear that.

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Sat Jan 28, 2023 10:46 am

I've now received 4 payments totaling $75 from a random person on venmo over the past week. The etiquette in this situation is to just return it all, right? Is this some weird attempted scam?

rass · Post by **rass** » Sat Jan 28, 2023 11:13 am

Do those clear/post immediately? I guess it doesn’t matter as it must take less than a week. If there’s a gotcha here it’s beyond me to understand.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Sat Jan 28, 2023 11:19 am

Is it possible to send a message?

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Sat Jan 28, 2023 11:26 am

Send them $80.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Sat Jan 28, 2023 11:49 am

Brontoburglar wrote: ↑Sat Jan 28, 2023 10:46 am I've now received 4 payments totaling $75 from a random person on venmo over the past week. The etiquette in this situation is to just return it all, right? Is this some weird attempted scam?

No note included in their payment? Weird. I’d just send it back.

Pruitt IV · Post by **Pruitt IV** » Sat Jan 28, 2023 11:53 am

sancarlos wrote: ↑Sat Jan 28, 2023 11:49 am
Brontoburglar wrote: ↑Sat Jan 28, 2023 10:46 am I've now received 4 payments totaling $75 from a random person on venmo over the past week. The etiquette in this situation is to just return it all, right? Is this some weird attempted scam?
No note included in their payment? Weird. I’d just send it back.

It sounds like the start of a Hitchcock-type thriller. A case of mistaken identity that culminates with a narrow escape on Mount Rushmore...

Be careful.

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Sat Jan 28, 2023 1:19 pm

sancarlos wrote: ↑Sat Jan 28, 2023 11:49 am
Brontoburglar wrote: ↑Sat Jan 28, 2023 10:46 am I've now received 4 payments totaling $75 from a random person on venmo over the past week. The etiquette in this situation is to just return it all, right? Is this some weird attempted scam?
No note included in their payment? Weird. I’d just send it back.

three leg emojis, three pizza emojis, something aux and then "tjank you" today

you can't message without friending and I'm not gonna go that route. I think sending the $$ back and then blocking is the way to go

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Mon Jan 30, 2023 5:37 pm

TSLA stock is up more than 50% since the beginning of January. (Now at 166 after opening January at 108.)

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Mon Jan 30, 2023 5:48 pm

Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 5:37 pm TSLA stock is up more than 50% since the beginning of January. (Now at 166 after opening January at 108.)

But, for context, it was at 390 in November, 2021.

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Mon Jan 30, 2023 9:07 pm

sancarlos wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 5:48 pm
Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 5:37 pm TSLA stock is up more than 50% since the beginning of January. (Now at 166 after opening January at 108.)
But, for context, it was at 390 in November, 2021.

Well, yeah. It would’ve sucked to be a Tesla stockholder last year. But apparently the reports of the company’s death we were all reading a month ago were premature.

Post by **Shirley** » Tue Jan 31, 2023 3:29 pm

Elon's disphit behavior aside, Teslas are pretty sweet cars.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Mon Feb 06, 2023 1:04 pm

tennbengal wrote: ↑Wed Oct 12, 2022 12:16 pm Is this bad? Seems bad. To clarify - seems bad. For me. This is all about me.

(Getting through each day is SO hard nowadays)

https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/b ... story.html

The two sides already are due back in court Oct. 27 for a hearing before Circuit Judge Keith R. Truffer to address another matter involving Wells Fargo, which one of Georgia Angelos’ lawyers said could freeze the bank accounts of her husband’s law firm.

Georgia Angelos had asked the court appoint someone to run the firm, which Louis Angelos has managed since his father became incapacitated, because it was under threat of Wells Fargo freezing its accounts. Louis Angelos had transferred the law firm to his name, which Georgia Angelos’ attorneys characterized as selling it to himself.

“As the Court may recall, it encouraged the parties to reach an interim agreement regarding the continued operations of The Law Offices of Peter G. Angelos, P.C., that would ensure its continued operation,” Louis Angelos’ attorney, Jeffrey E. Nusinov, wrote to Truffer in a letter dated Tuesday.
...

“Unfortunately, the parties are at an impasse,” Nusinov said. “In the absence of an agreement, there is a risk that Wells Fargo will freeze the law firm’s accounts within the next few days forcing the law firm to cease all operations.

“The repercussions that would flow from this are very serious,” he continued.

Nusinov went on to request a mediator be appointed to work with the two sides.

Assuming the recent settlement is good for you?

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Mon Feb 06, 2023 1:23 pm

I think so?

Woke up to that headline this AM

https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/b ... story.html

- which was a far better headline than the last few.

The conservator had started his work a week ago, I assume that stops but until firm is officially sold to Lou, conservator remains around.

It is...weird here. Has been for some time. Someday I will be able to type more about it. Basically, I made a bet about 3 years ago that I could ride this out and it would come out ok on the other side. The dueling lawsuits last year harshed my mellow on that bet. Feeling a bit better today, but need to know more behind the scenes. When I was hired here in 2010 there were 80+ attorneys. We are down to 16. My department, Med Mal, is awash in work and there are just 2 of us attorneys and 1 paralegal so we have a fuckton to do and good money in the pipeline but not enough to support 14 others...I am assuming/hoping that the other remaining departments in the firm are solvent. I think they are, but...dunno. Will type more later when not at work...

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Sun Feb 19, 2023 11:58 am

Food poisoning is no joke. I can barely move.

Post by **Sabo** » Sun Feb 19, 2023 12:01 pm

A_B wrote: ↑Sun Feb 19, 2023 11:58 am Food poisoning is no joke. I can barely move.

Sorry, man. Been there, and it definitely sucks. Do you know what caused it?

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Sun Feb 19, 2023 12:05 pm

Sabo wrote: ↑Sun Feb 19, 2023 12:01 pm
A_B wrote: ↑Sun Feb 19, 2023 11:58 am Food poisoning is no joke. I can barely move.
Sorry, man. Been there, and it definitely sucks. Do you know what caused it?

Yeah but it’s embarrassing.

Shrimp burrito from Qdoba. Woman had same food all day except that so that’s my prime suspect.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Sun Feb 19, 2023 12:38 pm

Good luck with that!

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Feb 20, 2023 11:23 am

Didn't think there would be garbage pickup today because of the "holiday", but there was and I missed it.

BUT THEN ...

An hour or so later the truck stopped on my street for a missed(?) pickup, giving me the chance to dart from the house, bag of garbage in hand, and avoid some gross stuff sitting outside until Thursday. A #hugewin for Mister D.

Post by **brian** » Mon Feb 20, 2023 11:28 am

mister d wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 11:23 am Didn't think there would be garbage pickup today because of the "holiday", but there was and I missed it.

BUT THEN ...

An hour or so later the truck stopped on my street for a missed(?) pickup, giving me the chance to dart from the house, bag of garbage in hand, and avoid some gross stuff sitting outside until Thursday. A #hugewin for Mister D.

Here at least (and some places clearly might be different), the garbage dudes work EVERY day, even like Christmas and shit. I suspect they make some insane OT on those days, but we never have a situation where the pickup doesn't happen on that scheduled day.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Mon Feb 20, 2023 8:18 pm

Anybody else's wife just completely lack the self awareness to realize that drains don't drain when they're stopped up with clumps of hair?

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Mon Feb 20, 2023 9:22 pm

Johnnie wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 8:18 pm Anybody else's wife just completely lack the self awareness to realize that drains don't drain when they're stopped up with clumps of hair?

Yes!!! I pull rat sized ball out of the shower on the regular. She also claims the builder screwed up somehow because her her bathroom sink runs slow. I’ll take it apart at the trap and it’s filled with a minty smelling sticky black sludge. I need to see how much toothpaste she uses. I end up doing that twice a year. The weird one, my son’s bathroom sink was clogged. I pulled out a wad of my daughter’s hair that was bigger than my neighbor’s Yorkie.