Ditto to six. Don't you people understand that sometimes a thread should just end? Is SB, along with SB's joke-explaining blog, going to have to create a thread-ending blog?
I'm sad too, for complex reasons, but one obvious one is that you've made your life there so vivid. Have you described your itinerary somewhere I haven't seen?
We could have that thread someone talked about a while ago where we all pose as each other--allowed, for one time, in one place, to break the cardinal rule. That would either liven things up or hasten the end.
I feel like the character in the horror film suggesting we just take a peek. But had the thought, and in time-honored tradition, had to say it.
Does drinking yourself to death a la Nicholas Cage's character in Leaving Las Vegas count as one long act of suicide? If so, does it do so only because his intention was to die? Because otherwise it seems like you have to count anyone who drinks regularly to excess as a slow suicide. Anyone read the newish Nick Hornby suicide-related book?
14: Now I'm sad about my total lack of empathy to B's sadness.
Sometimes, reading the comments at this blog is like listening to two-thirds of a conversation between a group of people who are smarter than I am. I actually kind of enjoy the challenge.
I count six (I think) places I've moved away from since finishing college. Every time I was eager to leave, and almost immediately afterward sentimental about it. It's annoying, being a cliché.
52: I have a bit of the same problem, but unfortunately guilt doesn't work as well as it might either. Every now and then there's a genuinely interesting project, and deadlines that really are deadlines work, but I'm not nearly as good as I should be at convincing myself that various sorts of ass-covering (mine and others') are as important as the Received Professional Wisdom declares them to be.
I'm not nearly as good as I should be at convincing myself that various sorts of ass-covering (mine and others') are as important as the Received Professional Wisdom declares them to be.
I know it's a hard thing for you to accept, Dave, but management feels pants - especially when worn on a regular basis - are pretty central to a healthy work environment and we'd all feel a lot better if you could be more of a team player in that regard.
60: Between the actual content of the post, and drinking beer as I sit grading papers on Friday night, I saw the "R" and "W" in "Received Public Wisdom" right beneath "ass covering", and for half a second thought you'd said "Rachel Wacholder".
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Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 11:43 PM
Best. Wallpaper. Ever.
Posted by gswift | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 1:22 AM
why closed?
Posted by mark | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 1:58 AM
re: 3
eb is joking ...
Posted by nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 2:02 AM
1 was pretty hilarious.
Posted by mrh | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 6:29 AM
Now that the thread's been RUINED, I can write in agreeing with 5.
Posted by standpipe b | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 6:32 AM
What a pity she ain't a lesbian. Anyone think they can change her?
Posted by Anderson | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 7:31 AM
Perhaps Steve Martin could terrify her into lesbianism.
Posted by Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 7:35 AM
Ditto to six. Don't you people understand that sometimes a thread should just end? Is SB, along with SB's joke-explaining blog, going to have to create a thread-ending blog?
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 8:37 AM
The latter blog, reproduced here in its entirety:
Posted by standpipe b | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 9:05 AM
Do you wanna know what's stupid? I actually feel kind of sad about leaving today.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 9:08 AM
11: Nah, not stupid, just sentimental.
And calling sentimentality stupid is clearly misogyny at work. You're so colonized.
All lame kidding aside, best of luck with the move, B.
Posted by M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 9:27 AM
You had a lot of firsts in this house, B. That's hard to walk away from.
However, think of this: no more slush. No more February gray streaks that last for weeks. No more landscape that you hate.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 9:41 AM
I'm sad too, for complex reasons, but one obvious one is that you've made your life there so vivid. Have you described your itinerary somewhere I haven't seen?
Posted by I don't pay | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 9:43 AM
The slow suicide of Unfogged continues....
Posted by Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 10:19 AM
There's a Jason Fortuny-esque quality to these posts of Ogged's.
Posted by dagger aleph | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 10:21 AM
We could have that thread someone talked about a while ago where we all pose as each other--allowed, for one time, in one place, to break the cardinal rule. That would either liven things up or hasten the end.
I feel like the character in the horror film suggesting we just take a peek. But had the thought, and in time-honored tradition, had to say it.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 10:34 AM
had the thought,... had to say it
You're one to talk...
Posted by Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 10:36 AM
Well, within certain limits.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 10:38 AM
Shazam limits, maybe?
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 10:40 AM
Does drinking yourself to death a la Nicholas Cage's character in Leaving Las Vegas count as one long act of suicide? If so, does it do so only because his intention was to die? Because otherwise it seems like you have to count anyone who drinks regularly to excess as a slow suicide. Anyone read the newish Nick Hornby suicide-related book?
14: Now I'm sad about my total lack of empathy to B's sadness.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 10:42 AM
Because otherwise it seems like you have to count anyone who drinks regularly to excess as a slow suicide.
A slow overdose would be a better term. Not all overdoses are intentional.
17: Posting as nobody is even more deconstructionist.
Posted by Anonymous | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 10:44 AM
Shazam limits
's a deal.
Posted by Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 10:48 AM
11: Will the sadness turn to excitement once you arrive at the new place, d'you think?
Posted by mrh | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 10:51 AM
You know, we'll be able to figure out who's who by looking at just one jellybean.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 11:08 AM
Huh?
Posted by Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 11:16 AM
26: If he can have a look at your jelly bean, he'll know it's you.
Posted by sam k | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 11:17 AM
Sometimes, reading the comments at this blog is like listening to two-thirds of a conversation between a group of people who are smarter than I am. I actually kind of enjoy the challenge.
Posted by NCProsecutor | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 11:25 AM
24:Not completely. Never completely.
Posted by bob mcmanus | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 11:27 AM
25: wrongly labelled.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 11:38 AM
28: Aww. NCProsecutor gets the welcome wagon fruit basket.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 11:54 AM
I count six (I think) places I've moved away from since finishing college. Every time I was eager to leave, and almost immediately afterward sentimental about it. It's annoying, being a cliché.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 12:01 PM
I try to be sentimental about places I live while I am living there more than in retrospect. Though I am the latter a bit too I guess.
Posted by Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 12:04 PM
(and "try" doesn't really belong in that sentence.)
Posted by Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 12:05 PM
I try to be sentimental about places I live while I am living there
Clownæ is the White Queen!
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 12:08 PM
You're closer to the mark there than you might suspect.
Posted by Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 12:09 PM
Dude?
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 12:10 PM
Shhh, I'm reading.
Posted by Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 12:11 PM
I tend to dislike the places I live, and to get sentimental about leaving the places I've gone to get away.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 12:16 PM
7: here
Posted by Anonymous | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 1:40 PM
As some of you may know, there's an Unfogged-style comment thread going at The Weblog right now.
Posted by Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 3:57 PM
So that's where everyone is.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 4:18 PM
Last!
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 4:26 PM
Now that I've read that thread, I'd say it's actually about a tenth of an Unfogged-style comment thread.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 4:35 PM
An Unfogged-style comment thread on a similar topic, that is, rather than, say, this one, which, ironically enough, is the same length as that one.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 4:41 PM
Of course, now the Unfogged regulars have starting weighing in. Perhaps I spoke too soon.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 4:43 PM
Or perhaps not.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 4:56 PM
We're waiting until you go away.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 5:08 PM
Tough luck, then.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 5:08 PM
I swear I'll post something entertaining once I get dug out from underneath here.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 5:09 PM
Don't worry about it.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 5:12 PM
Dude, if it weren't for guilt I wouldn't ever get anything done.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 5:22 PM
52: I prefer fear, but tastes differ.
Posted by DaveL | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 5:24 PM
I'm actually more efficient when afraid, but unfortunately not enough things frighten me. I need to work for people I fear, rather than loathe.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 5:31 PM
You could try the Justice Department.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 5:32 PM
I've thought about it.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 5:39 PM
I prefer fear, but tastes differ.
Fear tastes like asparagus.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 5:43 PM
How does loathing taste?
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 5:46 PM
I'm actually more efficient when afraid, but unfortunately not enough things frighten me. I need to work for people I fear, rather than loathe.
Ha! I knew you missed us here at your old firm.
Posted by Idealist | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 5:55 PM
52: I have a bit of the same problem, but unfortunately guilt doesn't work as well as it might either. Every now and then there's a genuinely interesting project, and deadlines that really are deadlines work, but I'm not nearly as good as I should be at convincing myself that various sorts of ass-covering (mine and others') are as important as the Received Professional Wisdom declares them to be.
Posted by DaveL | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 6:26 PM
Hmmm...
Posted by Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 7:04 PM
Yes?
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 7:09 PM
I'm not nearly as good as I should be at convincing myself that various sorts of ass-covering (mine and others') are as important as the Received Professional Wisdom declares them to be.
I know it's a hard thing for you to accept, Dave, but management feels pants - especially when worn on a regular basis - are pretty central to a healthy work environment and we'd all feel a lot better if you could be more of a team player in that regard.
Posted by Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 7:10 PM
Yeah, of course you'd say that...
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 7:14 PM
What can I say? I took Our Statement of Values very seriously during orientation.
Also, skirts, kilts and other varieties of ass-cover are included and intended when I say "pants." Just to clarify.
Posted by Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 7:20 PM
I think you're just in the pocket of Big Pants.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 7:28 PM
60: Between the actual content of the post, and drinking beer as I sit grading papers on Friday night, I saw the "R" and "W" in "Received Public Wisdom" right beneath "ass covering", and for half a second thought you'd said "Rachel Wacholder".
Posted by oztk | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 8:09 PM
63, 64: Here we are talking about how to get our oh-so-necessary work done and RMP is flashing on images of our bare asses. Figures.
Posted by DaveL | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 8:51 PM
Speaking of oh-so-neccessary: where are the goddamn cock pictures already?
max
['Postus interruptus.']
Posted by max | Link to this comment | 09-15-06 9:04 PM
I think you're just in the pocket of Big Pants.
Days later, but still I feel compelled to express my admiration.
Posted by mcmc | Link to this comment | 09-16-06 11:43 PM
69 (heh): In accordance with m. leblanc's suggestion, they won't be posted until 8 participants have participated.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 09-17-06 12:30 AM
58: With Jessica Biel's tongue.
Posted by Dr Paisley | Link to this comment | 09-17-06 1:50 AM
70: Thanks.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 09-17-06 2:36 PM