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Speaking of, Knowing was downright awful. -- nm - Max Jul 17, 08:55 6
- It was totally not what I expected. I'll give it this though (spoils) - Jim Jul 17, 09:01 1
  - I agree with that. -- nm - Max Jul 17, 09:02
- very good idea, horrible presentation and follow through -- nm - Epiphany Jul 17, 09:00
- Had some good special effects but the story was lame (spoilers) - amoxy Jul 17, 08:57
- It was almost, but not quite, funny awful. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jul 17, 08:56
- heck yes it was! but it was classic Nick Cage... -- nm - colinski Jul 17, 08:56
ST inspired poll - on a scale 1 to 10, where you rank in your office in the " smartest" category -? - Epiphany Jul 17, 08:55 19
- In terms of academics I'm probably an 8, but I don't work in an academic field - Guigue Jul 17, 09:01
- 7 - there are some really smart people here - they just normally keep their head down - Epiphany Jul 17, 09:01
- It's so hard to tell. My coworkers could all be brilliant renaissance people, but they have been so beat down by our management and inertia over the y - con_carne Jul 17, 09:00
- 7.5 -- nm - Beaker Jul 17, 09:00
- 8-9. my partners are as smart as I am - and may very well be smarter -- nm - decline Jul 17, 09:00
- 10, but the baseline is "Max, what's 13% of 437?" "Why is my [powered off] computer not responding?" and "Why didn't I get paid?" - Max Jul 17, 08:59 4
  - (note: I didn't get paid today.) -- nm - safari for windows *loves* mandy lane Jul 17, 09:01 1
    - just ask your husband for some spending money. -- nm - Max Jul 17, 09:01
  - That's cuz the hotties you got working there sap all the brain power from everyone else.... - Will Hunting Jul 17, 09:00 1
    - sigh. -- nm - Max Jul 17, 09:00
- I'll go 9. -- nm - TFox Jul 17, 08:58 2
  - yikes, I'd hate to see what the rest of the office is like! ; -- nm - Don Homer Jul 17, 08:59 1
    - I bet he works alone. -- nm - Spawn Jul 17, 08:59
- 7 -- nm - amoxy Jul 17, 08:58
- probably a 6 overall.. at what i do, a 9. -- nm - colinski Jul 17, 08:57
- I'm smart enough to streamline things and be varied...but not smart enough to play the corporate game.....so 5. - Will Hunting Jul 17, 08:57
- 5 - znufrii Jul 17, 08:56 2
  - so in a normal workplace you'd be a 3? -- nm - Roger More Jul 17, 08:57 1
    - no, these are the smart kind. -- nm - znufrii Jul 17, 09:02
The ax is coming, and everyone's worried for their jobs! Yay! - Mop (still 235lbs... on a good day) Jul 17, 08:54
T-shirt dispatched, it might need some explaination when it arrives. -- nm - LMS Jul 17, 08:54 1
- Mine is packaged, and should go out tomorrow morning. I *so* feel like it lacks imagination... :( -- nm - MojaveMeg Jul 17, 08:58
"More harm has been done by people panicking over societal decline than societal decline ever did." -- (link) - znufrii Jul 17, 08:54 1
- I'm happy with my current level of ham. -- nm - Max Jul 17, 08:55
I made you a cookie ... -- (link) - zork Jul 17, 08:50 [Image] 1
- Choke yourself while jerking off -- nm - lileve Jul 17, 08:58
Sign up to play in Football Forever 2009 fantasy league! - Don Homer Jul 17, 08:49
Should I be worried that I don't feel like I work with stupid people? -- nm - Guigue Jul 17, 08:48 13
- It is like sitting down at the poker table. -- nm - Spawn Jul 17, 08:54
- I've had to deal with stupid people in the past, I guess ... but to me, it all goes in the same bucket as "annoying", so I don't single people out as - Beryllium Jul 17, 08:54
- In my workplace, there is just such a *rut*. Smart people become complacent and don't get rewarded. - con_carne Jul 17, 08:51
- I feel like one of the stupid ones. -- nm - ty97 Jul 17, 08:49 8
  - you know that I think that I might be one of those really stupid people who just *thinks* that they're as smart as everyone else, right? - safari for windows *loves* mandy lane Jul 17, 08:50 7
    - Speaking of your intelligence, what did you get on the wonderlic test? -- nm - Inigo Jul 17, 08:57 3
      - I haven't taken it yet. maybe this afternoon. speaking of, we all have lollipops in our desks in admissions because (how weird is this?) - safari for windows *loves* mandy lane Jul 17, 09:00 2
        
        I find this intriguing -- nm - Epiphany Jul 17, 09:02 1
        
        lollipops, pippy, *lollipops* -- nm - Max Jul 17, 09:03
    - in that case, you've managed to hoodwink a hell of a lot of people. - zork Jul 17, 08:54 2
      - stupid people can be cunning. are you even sure I *got* an MBA? (I'm not, I blocked it all out.) -- nm - safari for windows *loves* mandy lane Jul 17, 08:58 1
        
        i know that you at least got in to the program (which requires smarts) or are smart enough to hack a personalised psu email account -- nm - zork Jul 17, 09:00
- I'm the stupidest one in my office, easy. -- nm - loosilu Jul 17, 08:48
Yeah, 'cause ST needs sad stuff. Woman arrested for DUII after driving kids to the pool and being falling-down drunk. -- (link) - Mop (still 235lbs... on a good day) Jul 17, 08:44 1
- Note, article includes the phrase "naked from the waist down", but also the phrase "throwing up". -- nm - Mop (still 235lbs... on a good day) Jul 17, 08:48
If Alannis Morriset were here her head would explode. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jul 17, 08:43 9
- nothing pisses me off like (spoiler) - Jim Jul 17, 08:45 8
  - you're really funny lately. I can't read ST during Mgt meetings anymore. -- nm - safari for windows *loves* mandy lane Jul 17, 08:49 1
    - how YOU doin? -- nm - Jim Jul 17, 08:53
  - for me it's (spoilers) - ty97 Jul 17, 08:46 5
    - If I had a nickel for everytime someone told me that. nm - Jim Jul 17, 08:46 4
      - Uh, two. -- nm - Spawn Jul 17, 08:48 3
        
        That's right...Amy did mention that to me a while back. :) -- nm - Jim Jul 17, 08:49 2
        
        Make that three -- nm - amoxy Jul 17, 08:57 1
        
        Poor Jim. - Spawn Jul 17, 08:59
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- *violently humps a box turtle in celebration* -- nm - Don Homer Jul 17, 08:47
- Is this grand standing? Are pie-in-the-sky concepts often attached to bills that are surely going to be vetoed? -- nm - Mop (still 235lbs... on a good day) Jul 17, 08:45 1
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I didn't like Seinfeld or watch it often. But I've been informed by my brother that George's parents = our parents. -- nm - ty97 Jul 17, 08:41 6
- I can actually see you as George. -- nm - Spawn Jul 17, 08:55
- you celebrate Festivus? -- nm - Beaker Jul 17, 08:44
- TY97, WHAT ARE YOU DOING USING YOUR BODY LIKE A PLAYGROUND???? -- nm - ty97's mom Jul 17, 08:44 1
  - GQ?!?! -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jul 17, 08:45
- "Where's my TV Guide?!?!?" -- nm - Don Homer Jul 17, 08:43
- yikes. -- nm - loosilu Jul 17, 08:42
"Only a few dozen Congressional districts have an auto plant. Almost all of them have a dealership." -- nm - con_carne Jul 17, 08:39 5
- I'm glad we're letting the auto companies try to fix things in their own manners. - Will Hunting Jul 17, 08:41
- It's one of the worst ideas to come out of Congress. -- nm - ty97 Jul 17, 08:40 2
  - and remember this is Congress we're talking about, so the bar is already set pretty high there... -- nm - znufrii Jul 17, 08:41 1
    - absolutely. This one is up there with the stupidity. -- nm - ty97 Jul 17, 08:42
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Dawson: yes you saw me, took my fan, started karoke-ing to Moulin Rouge, then left :) -- nm - Hotkiss Jul 17, 08:39 2
- There's enough material here to make for a smash hit sitcom. You need to be taking notes. -- nm - Mop (still 235lbs... on a good day) Jul 17, 08:47
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Are you saying the entire world is stupid? -- nm - Hotkiss Jul 17, 08:38 52
- I must have missed something...(nm) - amoxy Jul 17, 08:50 1
  - probably this thread -- (link) - ty97 Jul 17, 08:51 [Backboard]
- Pretty much. You're a summer hire. Your basic job/duties/expectations many places is to make sure the copier doesn't jam on you. - Will Hunting Jul 17, 08:44 3
  - Hotkiss' job is jamming the copy machine? -- nm - (500) Days of Dano Jul 17, 08:45 2
    - "Xerox...Xeroxironi...makin babies with the intern..." -- nm - Max Jul 17, 08:46
    - Of course. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 17, 08:46
- No, just most of it. -- nm - lileve Jul 17, 08:43 1
  - scratch that after reading colinski's response. -- nm - lileve Jul 17, 08:44
- in one way or another, yes. - colinski Jul 17, 08:41 32
  - I'm going to add a couple of specifics, with no offense meant to any STers: Salespeople and managers. - con_carne Jul 17, 08:46 10
    - understandable.. but you can be good at something without being conventionally smart.. - colinski Jul 17, 08:49 1
      - I totally agree. Not trying to put ddown these people. I'm just saying their skills are different than mine. -- nm - con_carne Jul 17, 08:52
    - (I'm able to say this because I worked for years in the recruitment field. I'm not just talking out of my ass.) -- nm - con_carne Jul 17, 08:47 7
      - That's what bothered me most about the conference I went to. Basically, they told us "if you follow the rules and listen to corporate, you'll go far." - Hotkiss Jul 17, 08:48 6
        
        This right here is extremely common -- nm - con_carne Jul 17, 08:53 3
        
        I don't understand why anyone would want to be boxed into a job with unchangable rules and regulations. -- nm - Hotkiss Jul 17, 08:55 2
        
        It's one of the things people learn to accept over time, I guess. This is a great country, however, and people do stuff like start their own business - con_carne Jul 17, 08:56
        
        Becuase they get a paycheck. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 17, 08:55
        
        then work hard to get in the position to change things. someone is making the rules.. -- nm - colinski Jul 17, 08:50
        
        Hiring people will say whatever it takes to get you in the fold. - Will Hunting Jul 17, 08:49
  - well, not *everybody* has value. most people. -- nm - TFox Jul 17, 08:43 13
    - who doesn't have value? - colinski Jul 17, 08:44 10
      - Carrot Top and Gallagher - Cuzzin Todd Jul 17, 08:45 9
        
        Paris Hilton - zork Jul 17, 08:46 6
        
        The clubowners with lines around the block, just because Paris Hilton is there might disagree with you on that. -- nm - Jim Jul 17, 08:49 5
        
        personally, I don't place much value on the people who would go there because she is -- nm - zork Jul 17, 08:51 4
        
        Again...the guys making the cash because of those people that you don't put much value on might disagree with you. nm - Jim Jul 17, 08:55 1
        
        sure, value is always relative. I can't speak for anyone else. Half a sandwich in a gabage dump is priceless to some people. -- nm - zork Jul 17, 08:58
        
        it's her personality isn't it? - nm - 'lia Jul 17, 08:54 1
        
        i can't stand her ego - zork Jul 17, 08:56
        
        Paris Hilton. -- nm - loosilu Jul 17, 08:46 1
        
        high five! -- nm - zork Jul 17, 08:47
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      - I have nothing to add. -- nm - znufrii Jul 17, 08:45
  - fair enough, it's just so *frustrating* and annoying -- nm - Hotkiss Jul 17, 08:43 4
    - just stay professional and you'll be fine. - colinski Jul 17, 08:46
    - It's one of the facts of life, you have to learn to deal with all kinds of people in the workplace. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jul 17, 08:44 2
      - Agree. Oftentimes doing your actual job isn't even that hard. It's learning to work with various people that eventually becomes the main challenge. -- nm - Diva Jul 17, 08:47
      - agreed. another fact of life: The people you look down on might be really interesting and worth knowing in ways you can't see. -- nm - loosilu Jul 17, 08:45
  - agreed. -- nm - lileve Jul 17, 08:43
  - well said. -- nm - loosilu Jul 17, 08:42
- Much of the corporate world discourages creative thinking, criticism, skepticism, thinking out of the box, & many skills you learned in school -- nm - con_carne Jul 17, 08:41 2
  - (which is one of the reasons why the dot com days were awesome. Sigh.) -- nm - con_carne Jul 17, 08:43 1
    - it was fun while it lasted. -- nm - loosilu Jul 17, 08:44
- ~everybody knows that the world is full of stupid people~ -- nm - (500) Days of Dano Jul 17, 08:40
- you might want to get over yourself if you want to get through life. -- nm - loosilu Jul 17, 08:39 5 1
  - L5! -- nm - Spawn Jul 17, 08:46 2
    - you are watering down the L5 laugh system - Epiphany Jul 17, 08:48 1
      - Oh, I wiped them away. - Spawn Jul 17, 08:49
  - by the way (boring password stuff - too lazy to backboard) - Roger More Jul 17, 08:45 1
    - i like patterned passwords.. - colinski Jul 17, 08:54
- A good percentage of it, yes. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jul 17, 08:39
from B2...of the 5 videos or so that Mister Kennedy Kennedy has posted so far... - i'm not dead yet ! (dead yet !....) Jul 17, 08:38 1
- ok, so i think it's B3 now -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Jul 17, 08:39
LYC: I no longer find Seinfeld reruns funny. I don't think it aged well. -- nm - loosilu Jul 17, 08:38 13
- Never liked it -- nm - amoxy Jul 17, 08:46
- Its comedy depended heavily on surprise and originality, IMHO. Once you know the gag, it's less funny the 2nd time around. - Mop (still 235lbs... on a good day) Jul 17, 08:40 11
  - I'm just now getting into Friends reruns. I like it, after wishing death on each one of their characters repeatedly when the show was out. -- nm - con_carne Jul 17, 08:54 1
    - JANIS in plaid skirt and that life guard sweater. How could you possibly wish death on that? -- nm - Spawn Jul 17, 08:57
  - yes. -- nm - loosilu Jul 17, 08:42
  - ditto on Monica/Rachel trading places and trying to impress the ER guys. -- nm - Max Jul 17, 08:42
  - The delivery still makes me laugh sometimes -- nm - mara Jul 17, 08:41 3
    - And Kramer in the dreamcoat with the hat and the cane ... -- nm - Beryllium Jul 17, 08:49
    - "I'm OUT!" -- nm - Mop (still 235lbs... on a good day) Jul 17, 08:43
    - *nods* -- nm - zork Jul 17, 08:43
  - Miss Chanandler Bong! -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 17, 08:41 2
    - there are a lot of Friends eps that still make me laugh. -- nm - loosilu Jul 17, 08:43 1
      - Oh yeah. Best for me is how they all took turns carrying the show for certain times. - Will Hunting Jul 17, 08:45
tfox, all types of crazy -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 17, 08:37 5
- LIR: this bill is guaranteed to not fully fix the cost problem, but people spending more on individual services... - TFox Jul 17, 08:40 3
  - and no, truman, i do not think billing/insurance is the biggest cost driver. i can nearly guarantee that is wrong. -- nm - TFox Jul 17, 08:41 2
    - true, there is no one such thing. - tRuMaN Jul 17, 08:48 1
      - i think that list is very one-sided, and ignores any positive benefit of insurance companies. - TFox Jul 17, 09:02
- look, if your boat is off course, you have to hit it more than once with a baseball bat to correct it... -- nm - tfox si Jul 17, 08:38

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