I made a Best Show reference in work-related email

[dave from knoxville]

I almost forgot. It went like this.

*********************************

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

******************************

Ralph even responded: He suggested anchor chains at midnight.

[erika]

Next thing you know you'll be brandishing a razor cane in the classroom.

[dave from knoxville]

What do you mean NEXT thing?

[boil]

The faculty who care too little need to go through the stomp machine.

[lemke]

HAHA

This needs to happen more often.

[Fido]

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)

[Sarah]

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!

[iAmBaronVonTito]

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.

[samir]

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.

[Spoony]

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.

[John Junk 2.0]

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.

[Susannah]

This week I told one of my classes that "Clowntime is over.  Get to work."

[Fido]

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.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

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.

[kimota]

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.