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Envision the boss begging you to stay when you leave for a new job... then reverse engineer the situation in your mind... then work the interview as Why You Need To Have Me Here. You should see the houses I own now, Katie.

I'll bet my new toupe that Katie is just being rhetorical as well as helpful and has no problem at all getting a job herself.

It's not fair - you are too beautiful to be such a good writer - kidding - love you writing.

" and make sure we are making these new technologies work for us-not letting a classified ad Web site run our reputations into the ground because we can't figure out how to send an e-mail to more than one person at a time.

And, folks, please: spell check. "

Sounds like Cape Cod Today to me.

shoving healthcare ( which is a government sponsored entity in the first place ) down the people's throat is only going to annoy people. And make them poorer. There are alternatives like MySimpleCard.com Oh well. See what MASS learns from all this.

Myers Chang sounds like someone who was accidentally circumcised at Benihana's.

you should get a tongue-lashing for that one, dear monpo...fun stuff, journo...

It would be stiffer, true....

Whatever it was that made that teacher not cranky at MCAS time should be bottled and sent to the big shots on the state board of education. They are always talking about stiffer standards and this should help.

The sex ed teacher at a school I was teaching at used the dil to show kids how to put a condom on. She said she used to use a banana, but kids were always asking her about getting it around the fatter part at the head....so she bought the most anatomically correct one she could find.

The sucker was like 14" long, too... obstensibly, so the kids in the back row could see it, too... but this teacher was never cranky, even during MCAS.

Favorite bumper sticker: "Lord, protect me from your followers."

One thing I remember from high school was that my sex-ed teacher was very expert in putting on condoms, to the point where she could do it in one fast motion. I wasn't the only person who deduced that she either sat in before class and condomed(?) a banana 4000 times, or she maybe mighta kinda been a Freak.

A great analogy, Katie, comparing the campaign to the last one in "The West Wing." My wife and I have been watching the series on DVD chronologically from the start and picking up on a lot of stuff we missed.

Obama gets my vote. I've seen first hand, how the 10% have now grown to 20%wealthier, more powerful, & ever so influential. Hillary is not Bill, McCain is still an old war horse we don't need. Some say Obama doesn't have enough experience in government. Well maybe that is so, but I say if he doesn't--it's a good thing. He is someone with fresh ideas & positive energy that can unite this nation. A renewed vision for this country is what we need. Not more of the same pandering to welfare tax of the rich elite. And good riddance to the man who sold us out for the riches of the oil wells. Instead of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, he has stolen from the poor and middle class to only make the rich, richer. What does Black Water Security really do in Iraq? And how much of a democracy are we bringing to a country that is irrecognizable to its people. One thing to bring freedom to a nation in ruins, something else to occupy it for self serving purpose, mainly oil to share w/Saudi's. If anyone can bridge the gap with the UN & strengthen our foreign policy-it's Obama.

Fact is Katie is pretty hot when you come right down to it. Hair is only "momentary". It can change in a second and grow out and change over time. I always try to figure if someone is good looking if they were bald. from what I see, Katie would be pretty smokin' even if she were bald. (and no, I'm not a relative .) ;)

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on." --- George W. Bush

The current evil!

"When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil."~~- Thomas Jefferson

Obama...restoring lost principles, or a new evil?

Poor Barack. This conversation has taken a leggy, spiky-haired turn...
for the better, probably.
:)

I could beat Katie if I got my legs on her...otherwise, the 5'8" vs 5'0" thing would come into play.... most likely not favorably for the Smurf.

'little person' is politically correct. the kung fu is only used when you call me a 'midget.'
and i have--it's rare, but i have--had to defend little people.
thus, the almost hernia.

Katie, the editors delete my comments sometimes, probably for good reason. i did try the kung fu thing, but my leg, hell, i didn't even know it go that high, and i almost got a hernia. ask monp.
no illusion. you're safe.

Katie, it's all in good fun. never had the need to even use pepperspray, or a taser in whitehall, on wall street, or financial square (working 24/7). i used my hair when i got mugged. i sort of used too much product, but it was very effective, at the time. and the tai'bo, kung fu, whatever, you're right, the hair worked better.

Well, I'm not a very little person, which I guess is why a) the hair (as Monpo says, it's all in the legs) and b) the illusion I am perfectly safe at all times in all places and have no need of the wisdom of Billy Blanks.
Although his litte aerobic outfits were rockin'.

:)

You can always grow out the hair... but, when it all breaks down... you pretty much only need the legs.

quotes by emerson, aristotle, et al. work at ropes & gray (see resume). that's tai'bo.

Katie, tell me where you wait. zagats are faves. i'm very outspoken, and a very little person. that's why the tai'bo. and my 'do was exactly like yours at LSE in the 80s. we rocked.

Our Katie attends B.U., not Brown, although we understand, "Brown is beautiful."

Jeff,

My thoughts exactly. As a friend of my put it--a friend who still maintains he'll write in Ron Paul, Ye Gods--Obama is a like an enthusiastic but secretive salesman at this point. "You'll love it!" He says. "It'll be great!"

"But what is it?" You ask.

"It's terrific!"

"Yes, but what is it?"

"Hope! Change! You're gonna love it!"

and so on. And so forth. :)

Gobama. And Katie. Love you, your hair and your thoughts, and agree with the basic point, that there is a little Being There/Chauncey Gardener to this campaign, and it might just be a good thing...but we should know more by now...is it enough that we hope he isn't one of them, or can we really tell one way or the other yet?

ifawsupporter,

Haircut notwithstanding, in a few hours I'll be leaving for my service job waiting tables so that I can pay for my tuition at Boston University. So that I can pay for my tuition. At Boston University. (cough) (cough)

I just don't get the dig about the Tai'Bo, though. I'm missing something.

And all of this begs the question I ask again and again: would you say this to my face? Absolutely not. And if you did, you'd feel very, very small, indeed. The people I wait on who assume my daddy pays for my school and my lifestyle are throwbacks to a distinctly old-fashioned and misogynist era where it was, apparently, okay to say that kind of thing to a woman.

May I humbly suggest, not anymore?

No,she's absolutely right. What did our generation leave? A bunch of greedy people with only the concern for me me me. The "war" in Iraq? Please...when did Saddam theaten our Nation? And we see who'se making out big-time, don't we? That's right, more of us greedy old-timers...and a whole lot of new ones too. We feel entitled to all we want when we want it with no regard for the rest of the world, or of our own future generations. 911? Think we got an honest look into that? Not even close. And recently Senator Kennedy said, "By his own words, Bush is willing to let more Americans die to protect the telecom companies." We see what matters to these leaders, and it aint us. If Obama says, "We are our brother's keeper". "The rest of the world matters". "We can come together as a Nation to work for our Nation". What's wrong with that? What is the alternative? More greedy geezers getting yet more of our National treasure and blood so their bank accounts and their power and their control can grow ever more.....
No thanks...had more than enough of that.

she's missing the regalia marshall and hendricks wear at the powwows. or while the sovereign are flippin the bird at their secret meetings.

You are exactly what we looked like in the 80s, in London. Then we grew up, at the London School of Economics. Katie, you need time, maybe. Those bucks your daddy pays for to attend brown, the east side of providence, should pay for a better 'do. And some tai'bo.

If the Demos decide to run a black, I just wish it were a more intimidating type. I don't know what sort of politics Deacon Jones lives by, but that's the name I want on MY black candidate.

Chelsea 2016! She just needs some time in the Senate, first. I wouldn't be the only one to get seriously into politics if it were Chelsea vs. Jeb for all the marbles.

I was totally surprised by how good Red Truck is. Granted, I expected it to taste like transmission fluid... but still. It's more than the miracle of low expectations.

I don't think you are a "wine snob" at all. Is someone a food snob if they only want to eat food they like? Why wouldn't you want to drink wine you like and can afford?

Six of us went to Biba years ago, drank $300 of wine off the menu, then brought out our own magnum of champagne, for which Lydia Shire wanted to charge us a $100 corkage fee. Dat bitch ruined our meal. We left and drank the champagne across the street in the public garden.

FYI, it is indeed illegal to bring your own alcohol into MOST restaurants -- any restaurant that has an "all alcohol" license. A restaurant CAN get a license that permits BYO (High Brewster was a favorite for that).

The corkage fee compensates the restaurant for the loss of revenue they'd get if you had to buy from them (the mark-up is about 300%); and depending on what it is, it could still work out to the customer's advantage, because even with the corkage fee, s/he could still be paying less for the privilege of drinking wine in the venue than s/he would. Your $12 bottle of KJ is going to cost $40 off the menu, so with a $25 corkage, you're okay.

Story after the break...

Katie would have loved growing up with Stacey's family....wine with each meal.

Stacey has a whole room full of wine in the cellar, and gets boxes of it in the mail from time to time.

I'd go into greater detail, but it's not my specialty. I'm impressed with your knowledge. You sound like you'd better marry someone wealthy.

If I stay the night when working here, I occasionally go down into the cellar and grab a bottle. They all look the same to me.

Every now and then, I polish off a really good one, by accident. You should have seen Stacey
try to not look mad when I drank her Montrachet.

She was saving it for a special occasion... I drank it by myself, under a blanket, while watching WWE Smackdown... just like the French don't.