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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: dave from knoxville on February 07, 2008, 12:39:33 PM
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I almost forgot. It went like this.
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From Ralph's email
>>I am an admitted apathetic faculty member (currently enrolled in 12
Step >>Apathetic Faculty Anonymous).
Dear Ralph,
I am a member of the Faculty Who Care Too Much. My group's facing off with yours this weekend in a chainfight.
Dear everyone else,
I made a joke. I AM SO SORRY.
Joylessly,
dave
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Ralph even responded: He suggested anchor chains at midnight.
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Next thing you know you'll be brandishing a razor cane in the classroom.
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What do you mean NEXT thing?
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The faculty who care too little need to go through the stomp machine.
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HAHA
This needs to happen more often.
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I made a similar joke among co-workers about putting someone on a barge, when it would have been appropriate to joke about cement slippers. It didn't translate as well as I hoped. (I was just kidding around, NO, I am not in the Mob)
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I like the idea of a quixotic mobster injecting Best Show references into conversations about leaning on, protecting, whacking, etc., folks. Which of the Sopranos crew would have been the most likely to do this, do you suppose? I'd say Bobby. I can just see him huddled in the cellar on Tuesday evenings, Janice yapping away upstairs. He could play with his trains at the same time!
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i shared tom's story of the girl at starbucks who says, "really??" and now most of my co-workers reference this story FREQUENTLY, walking around saying, "really??" in high-pitched voices. best part, none of these people are younger than 44 years old.
my boss is very confused.
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I just finished work on a legal note, which I hope to have published, about Ticketmaster and Clear Channel, and their monopolies on the ticketing and promotion industries, and how they get away with charging inflated service charges.
It's called
Define "Convenience".
If it does get published, I'll thank S&W in my little biog.
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If Ralph is able to boast anchor chains, than his group probably has Chain-fighting Synergy. Don't start chain fights with people who have have forearms like Popeye.
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This is in an e-mail I sent to the grad students at school.
"7. IN SUMMARY
I think this meeting was a good thing, although I’m not gonna pretend I didn’t feel like a used dish rag when it was over. I would like to have a meeting similar to this, once a month, with the urgency and contentiousness dialed down several notches. These could be non-mandatory meetings that would give people an opportunity to speak openly with me about issues specific to their studio area... I am making a conscious effort to reduce my passive-aggressive memo production and increase my “face time” with the student body. But I’m not gonna keep buying bagels."
Note how that last sentence is completely passive-aggressive.
Also note sarcastic use of quotes around "face time". Oops! Just did it again.
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This week I told one of my classes that "Clowntime is over. Get to work."
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I remember that I also said "how dare you" jokingly to one of my consulting clients when he was teasing me. I don't know if he understood, but I liked it.
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I'm on the benefit committee for New Dramatists, a playwrights' org to which I belong, and I ended an email for our big benefit party with the words, "COME ON PEOPLE!!! CLOWNTIME IS OVER!!! LET'S DO THIS THING!!!" Then, when we had to postpone, I sent out a correction email that said, "CLOWNTIME IS NOT OVER!!!"
I tipped my hat to the Best Show to anyone who laff'ed. I'm assuming that everyone else either did not read the email, or thinks I'm a lunatic, or both.
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I say "wait, whaaaaaat" quite a bit without even realizing it. I heard my boss say 'How dare you" to a co-worker yesterday in jest and smiled knowing exactly where he picked it up from.
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Recently, I was participated in a conference call at work. We dialed in and the 'host' of the call had not yet dialed in. With this company, however, the 'host' was called the 'leader' of the call. So the automated voice said,
"The Leader has not yet arrived." and then later,
"The Leader has joined the call."
I thought of the BestShow and smiled to myself...
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This is a 7SD reference rather than a Best Show reference, but I realized today when I finally finished 7 and a half hours of even more painful than usual test papers, it was not the first time that I had thrown down my red pen and loudly pronounced "DONE AND DONE".
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I just finished work on a legal note, which I hope to have published, about Ticketmaster and Clear Channel, and their monopolies on the ticketing and promotion industries, and how they get away with charging inflated service charges.
It's called Define "Convenience".
If it does get published, I'll thank S&W in my little biog.
Follow up:
I just found out that my article will indeed get published, which is very exciting.
The many of you that subscribe to the Florida Entertainment Law Review can look forward to it in August.
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I've been telling people they should go shopping for a coffin for about a week now. Yeah, I've lost some friends.
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Congrats, Samir! This will make my monthly Florida Entertainment Law Review new issue party that much sweeter.
I just did one of those 24-Hour Plays. They're usually charity affairs to benefit something educational. It's stunt-art, generally unwatchable, but people come out for it because there are usually celebrities involved. Anyway, I wrote a dumb 10-minute play based on Tom's Staten Island character (Hylan Boulevard guy) and I'm thinking of posting it in the art contest thread. Except I probably won't, because I'm vain and I don't want the only example you all know of my work to be something dumb I wrote between midnight and 3 AM.
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I just finished work on a legal note, which I hope to have published, about Ticketmaster and Clear Channel, and their monopolies on the ticketing and promotion industries, and how they get away with charging inflated service charges.
It's called Define "Convenience".
If it does get published, I'll thank S&W in my little biog.
Follow up:
I just found out that my article will indeed get published, which is very exciting.
The many of you that subscribe to the Florida Entertainment Law Review can look forward to it in August.
I hope we get some scans. hint
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I've been using an indignant "Good day sir" every now and then. 7sd wise I helped popularize "For the love of crack" in my workplace. Odd to hear a bunch of social workers using that one.
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My boss went into labor today and I'll be filling in for her the next few weeks. I just relocated a meeting and wrote "New regime" in the email.
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we still use the starbucks, high-pitched "really?"...but lately have started answering our internal extensions with robotic voices.
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we still use the starbucks, high-pitched "really?"...but lately have started answering our internal extensions with robotic voices.
Your workplace sounds like a lot more fun than mine.
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we still use the starbucks, high-pitched "really?"...but lately have started answering our internal extensions with robotic voices.
Your workplace sounds like a lot more fun than mine.
now that you mention it jed, we/they are surprisingly mellow for an office space (in the medical field!).
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I've also used "New Regime" in response to a co-worker assuming a new job in my department. She seemed to appreciate the respect this suggested.