gis for "mothrafucker" was clean! also:
A real S.O.B., a step up from motherfucker (but perhaps less offensive when heard in public). Evolved from motherfucker and inspired by the monstrocity Mothra, a foe of the famous Godzilla.
"That mothrafucker just stepped on my sac!" "Mothrafucking Godzilla is always going around stepping on people's sacs." "Only a real mothrafucking mothrafucker would commit such an inconsiderate act."
― Jordan, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:29 (sixteen years ago) link
WTF. Who doesn't accept cash as a legitimate form of payment? I just wasted 40 minutes sitting at the DMV to renew my registration only to find out they don't accept cash. No credit card, no debit card, no cash. Checks or money orders only. What a fucking joke. Now I have to waste another lunch hour there tomorrow too.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link
I bet the person who told you that was really fucking smug and aloof about it, too.
― dan m, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes. As if they were taking tremendous pleasure in knowing I'd wasted all that time for nothing.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Isn't it ILLEGAL not to accept cash?? It's legal tender, for fuck's sake!
― Laurel, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:40 (sixteen years ago) link
wow, i had no idea how much it costs to fly business class from LA to hong kong. i'm shocked. anyone want to take a guess (without cheating)?
― colette, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:41 (sixteen years ago) link
$2500?
― Laurel, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I would imagine it depends on the lead time for buying the ticket. Given a couple of months notice, I'd say $1200.
― dan m, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, from LA. That changes things. Business class is still retarded money, though.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:45 (sixteen years ago) link
$2501?
― Jordan, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:45 (sixteen years ago) link
$1?
TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS. and i just bought it (for my boss). that's f-ing crazy.
(i'm sure you can do it cheaper, but this is refundable and the client is paying anyway.)
― colette, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:51 (sixteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/shakespeares_sister/eurythmics.png
― Jenny, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:51 (sixteen years ago) link
oh, and it's not like they're leaving tomorrow-- this is for mid january...
Wow, United economy class for about that time is only 1400.
― dan m, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:52 (sixteen years ago) link
"only" about half my monthly salary
― dan m, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:53 (sixteen years ago) link
don't you just love it when you can't concentrate on reading the newspaper at lunch because the restaurant you're in is playing aerosmith's amazing?
― stingy, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link
I like that song, too.
― dan m, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link
that's never happened to me because i would not remain in a restaurant playing post '78 aerosmith.
unrelated: i remembered to bring my carmex with me for the first time in a week and boy are my lips happy.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:58 (sixteen years ago) link
the songs kept skipping too, so i assume it was a mix cd that one of the workers brought in. other songs were aerosmith's cryin', ben folds' rockin' the suburbs, hey jude, and some recent green day song that i can't remember the words to now.
― stingy, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 21:04 (sixteen years ago) link
die die die die
― Laurel, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 21:05 (sixteen years ago) link
That playlist would make me psychotic.
wuzzup dudes tomorrow is PENULTIMATE CLASS OF 2007!
then exams then a bunch of other stuff
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 21:25 (sixteen years ago) link
xmas break?
― dan m, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes! I have to stick around after the semester's done for some administrative stuff, but nothing that will require teaching/grading/dealing with slimy cheaters who must think I'm an enormous moron if they think I don't know how to use google as well as they do.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link
why is it so warm outside today?
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 21:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I want your job.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I told you guys we were hiring! Kevin got it. :D
― dan m, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I just read a good portion of "Nighttim3 0ptical Turbulenc3 Vertic@l Structur3 ab0ve D0me C in Ant@rctica" and it was damn interesting.
― dan m, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 21:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Apparently not...
http://www.treas.gov/education/faq/currency/legal-tender.shtml
"QUESTION: I thought that United States currency was legal tender for all debts. Some businesses or governmental agencies say that they will only accept checks, money orders or credit cards as payment, and others will only accept currency notes in denominations of $20 or smaller. Isn't this illegal?
ANSWER: The pertinent portion of law that applies to your question is the Coinage Act of 1965, specifically Section 31 U.S.C. 5103, entitled "Legal tender," which states: "United States coins and currency (including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks) are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues."
This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in pennies or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency (usually notes above $20) as a matter of policy."
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 22:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually, no I don't want your job. I'm editing an article on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, which is more interesting, even at the expense of $800 a month.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 22:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Or however much more you make, I'm not counting.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 22:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm editing an article on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, which is more interesting
yes, the cosmos pale in comparison to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 22:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I'M EXCITED FOR THIS PAY CHECK SO I FINALLY SEE HOW MUCH I MAKE!!!
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 22:26 (sixteen years ago) link
AND HOW MUCH YOU GET TAXED!!!!
― dan m, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 22:26 (sixteen years ago) link
i mean, like after taxes and shit so i can try to make a budget. i know what my salary is, natch.
exactamundo mr. c!
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Agreed.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 22:45 (sixteen years ago) link
wow
― dan m, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 22:49 (sixteen years ago) link
"Science? Who needs it?! Give me data mining and targeted marketing under the false pretext of social interaction!"
― dan m, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 22:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Jeez, all I'm saying is that I'd much rather read about an interesting tech entrepreneur like Zuckerberg than about "Nighttim3 0ptical Turbulenc3 Vertic@l Structur3 ab0ve D0me C in Ant@rctica." I'm not making some grand statement about their relative worth in the world. I spent a summer in college editing accounting textbooks; that wasn't much fun, either.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 22:57 (sixteen years ago) link
People like what they like.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 22:58 (sixteen years ago) link
exactly amanda.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 22:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Exactly Amanda, the new fragrance from Coty, is a fresh breeze on a winter's day
it's a handful of peanuts when you're hungry for salt and protein
it's a good hearted mud wrestle with a couple of steamy co-eds
it's Exactly Amanda!
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
In the end, you should like what you do. As a man of many interests, I especially like that I get to edit articles on a variety of subjects -- the next one on my pile is about the new president of Argentina -- so that works out for me much better than if I were only reading articles on a single discipline, like astronomy. But YMMV.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
-- La Lechera, Wednesday, November 28, 2007 10:58 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
i disagree
― n/a, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 23:02 (sixteen years ago) link
no you don't
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 23:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I misunderstood
yes, the cosmos pale in comparison to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.Agreed.
as being a grand statement of relative worth.
― dan m, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 23:02 (sixteen years ago) link
you'll like what i tell you to like and you will like what you like
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 23:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Diverse subject material would be a perk, for sure.
― dan m, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 23:03 (sixteen years ago) link