In random news, possibly my favorite part of our Christmas family gathering was when my one cousin and I started singing "Dick in a Box," (the "one, cut a hole in the box" part) with hand/arm movements, and my other cousin's husband joined in from across the room. Hilarious!
Ah, yes, of course. The gypsies, they gave you your soul. The gypsies are filthy people. Ptui! We shall speak of them no more.
Ilona Costa Bianchi ,'The Girl in Question'
Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Dec 27, 2006 7:50:40 am PST #8222 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
shrift - Dec 27, 2006 8:04:09 am PST #8223 of 10007
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
So what do you do with a guy who keeps calling your extension looking for a department to which you don't know the extension, and probably couldn't figure out how to transfer him even if you did?
Trudy Booth - Dec 27, 2006 8:29:13 am PST #8224 of 10007
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
So what do you do with a guy who keeps calling your extension looking for a department to which you don't know the extension, and probably couldn't figure out how to transfer him even if you did?
Bounce him back to reception.
Jesse - Dec 27, 2006 8:37:16 am PST #8225 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OMG I still haven't really done any work. I've had work-related conversations and sent a couple of emails, but I have yet to open a single document.
I don't see this week getting any better, productivity-wise. Maybe I should take Friday off.
DavidS - Dec 27, 2006 8:52:15 am PST #8226 of 10007
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So I'm reading the NYTimes piece on Putin and realizing: (a) Russia is pretty much a super power again, and (b) I really have no idea which countries were carved out of the USSR. This latter epiphany actually came up when I read about the King of the Turkmen dying.
Anyway, test your contemporary geography skills!
Countries of the former Soviet Union include: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Tajikstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan
Can you name all 15?
shrift - Dec 27, 2006 8:55:15 am PST #8227 of 10007
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Bounce him back to reception.
Yes, but which reception? t g
If he tries again, I'm just sending him to the national number and having done with it. I don't even know if the department he wants is in this state.
Jesse - Dec 27, 2006 8:55:41 am PST #8228 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ridiculously, I don't think I realized that Armenia is a country.
Allyson - Dec 27, 2006 9:03:52 am PST #8229 of 10007
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
It's also a neighborhood in Hollywood.
Scrappy - Dec 27, 2006 9:13:44 am PST #8230 of 10007
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
And all of Glendale.
DavidS - Dec 27, 2006 9:13:44 am PST #8231 of 10007
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Ridiculously, I don't think I realized that Armenia is a country.
That's what I'm saying. Who knows anything about Kyrgyzstan?