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Quote from: IrishYeti on November 07, 2008, 04:59:49 PM

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Quote from: RV on November 07, 2008, 04:24:12 PM
I've got no beef with the Clusterfuck. I could do without the partisan hackery that seems to invade from time to time, but I'll accept it in exchange for all the new crap I've learned and the legitimate debates I've been able to read/participate in.

This.

The good stuff from Desipiots on both sides makes putting up with the arguing worth it. And the arguing is kind of entertaining in a car accident kind of way.

Believe it or not, I'm way more educated on our nation than I was before these threads started. I've also met some insane people people like Irish Yeti. Which is awesome.

Correct'd?

You flatter yourself, Yeti.  Mike C. was around here long before you were, my friend.

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Quote from: Thrillho on November 07, 2008, 02:27:59 PM
Having just watched Obama's press conference, with the gargantuan Paul Volcker in the background much of the time and the Oleg-esque Robert Reich waddling off the stage at the end, I can't help but thinking this pair has all the makings of a buddy comedy in the Schwarzenegger–DeVito vein.

PASS.

What?  "Taxi" was good.

http://www.desipio.com/messageboard/index.php?topic=6406.msg156227#msg156227

How can the HUEBITER, of all people, not be aware of all internet traditions?

What are you?  Chuck?

I don't watch "Always Sunny" either.  Holy crap, I'm missing out on all of these Danny Devito references.

Quote from: Kerm on November 07, 2008, 02:35:16 PM

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Quote from: Thrillho on November 07, 2008, 02:27:59 PM
Having just watched Obama's press conference, with the gargantuan Paul Volcker in the background much of the time and the Oleg-esque Robert Reich waddling off the stage at the end, I can't help but thinking this pair has all the makings of a buddy comedy in the Schwarzenegger–DeVito vein.

PASS.

What?  "Taxi" was good.

http://www.desipio.com/messageboard/index.php?topic=6406.msg156227#msg156227

How can the HUEBITER, of all people, not be aware of all internet traditions?

I'm fallible.

I didn't know what The Good Night was or whatever, so I never bothered to link to it.

Quote from: Kerm on November 07, 2008, 02:28:33 PM

Quote from: Thrillho on November 07, 2008, 02:27:59 PM
Having just watched Obama's press conference, with the gargantuan Paul Volcker in the background much of the time and the Oleg-esque Robert Reich waddling off the stage at the end, I can't help but thinking this pair has all the makings of a buddy comedy in the Schwarzenegger–DeVito vein.

PASS.

What?  "Taxi" was good.

You know who prohibits political talk?

Al Yellon.

I think we can handle ourselves.  After all, for the most part, it was confined to one thread anyway.  I've long had a mancrush on JD but I find his annoyance at the political talk very annoying.  I've said a lot of stupid, regrettable things in the Clustrerfuck thread, but I'm glad to be part of a messageboard that still grants me the freedom to make an ass out of myself.

Quote from: Chuck to Chuck on November 07, 2008, 10:33:12 AM

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Quote from: *In a Nutsack on November 07, 2008, 09:06:57 AM
Call it what you will, but I am not in favor of the Gubment taking more of my money.

No one in their right mind is.  But some of us would rather pay more now than pay more later with interest added on.

When the government is running a deficit, you are not over taxed.  You are either undertaxed or over serviced.  I tend to believe we are over serviced.  That said, 52% of the country voted for a guy that says we are still under serviced.  OK.  I gotta live with that now.  My request would be for him to find a way to pay for those services and not defer that expense to when I'm on a fixed income or on my kids.

And, if you can't pay for it, don't do it.

Not all JObama supporters believe we're underserviced. My brother, a lifelong right supporter, voted JObama this year and he voted for JObama, not for his economic and fiscal policies, but his prospective global and diplomatic skills and policies. I would tend to believe there are quite a few like him out there...

I didn't say that the voters all think we're underserviced, just that they voted for a guy who thinks that.  I think we're over serviced and I voted for Barry, mostly because McCain also ran on an "under serviced defer the payment" platform.

And because he is a 72 cancer survivor who designated an unqualified, stupid, naif (but with great tits) to be his backstop.

Does she have a great rack?  I couldn't tell for sure.

IAN is not aware of all Desipio traditions.

Quote from: Weebs on November 07, 2008, 09:27:43 AM

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Quote from: Eli on November 07, 2008, 09:14:33 AM
It's been a great season, but holy crap, enough with the Jim and Pam drama.  Marry them and go back to showing funny things in the office.

I could care less about Jim and Pam.  It's like...the C story behind Jim and Dwight's shennanigans and the Andy/Angela/Dwight trifecta.

I'm about as tired of the Andy/Angela/Dwight stuff as I am Jim and Pam.  That story's been going on since last season, but unlike the original Jim/Pam story, I don't think anybody really cares what happens with those three.  

You couldn't be more wrong if you invested all of your life savings in pay phones.

I just want to know what the fuck is up with Angela and Andy dressing Jan's kid up in produce.

Oh and the conversation between Michael and Darrel about "baby daddy"?  Darrel could read the tax code and I'd be entertained.  That guy's awesome.

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Quote from: smg on October 04, 2008, 07:40:45 PM
Why the hell do they play Hava Nagila at Miller Park? 

Desipio researchers espouse two different, yet compatible, theories:

1) What Slaky said

Perhaps a coincidence.  Perhaps a sign.

"DID YOU KNOW:  When Lowenstein came up with the Indians, the organist at Muncipal Stadium used to play 'Hava Nagila' when he came to bat, assuming that he was Jewish.  Informed that he wasn't, the organist began playing 'Jesus Christ Superstar' before Lowenstein's at bats instead."

[Further edit.--"[June 4] 1968 -- Just recalled from Triple-A Buffalo, Mike Epstein hits a two-run homer in the sixth inning to give the Washington Senators a 4-2 victory over the Oakland A's.  The D.C. Stadium organist plays 'Hava Nagila' as Epstein rounds the bases." (Day by Day in Jewish Sports History by Bob Wechsler, p. 156.)  This is seeming a touch more like a "locus classicus," as it were.]

How the hell is a guy names Lowenstein not Jewish?

His old man probably married a goyim.

I used to play pee-wee football with a kid who's last name was "Ottenstein".  On Sundays, I would see him at mass.  Traditonally, people follow the mother's religion, no?

Quote from: Jon on October 04, 2008, 12:07:59 PM
Probably been asked before, but I'm no Thrillho as far as searching the archives:

I have some friends coming in to town sometime next month, and they're asking about good places to stay. They're looking for the best combo of affordability and location (probably near some form of public transportation, and close to the actual city). I've never booked a hotel in or near the city, so I'm kinda at a loss here.

Any suggestions?

(Re)Introducing Tonker's legendary American trip from 2005.

It may be updated, so feel free to note any corrections.

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Quote from: Eli on October 01, 2008, 10:53:20 AM

Honestly, how many times can they have Jim leave Scranton and come back?  I mean, have you ever been to Scranton?  It's not exactly a great place to live.  I don't think that it would be all that realistic to have him leave for a second time and then come back again.  He already doesn't seem like he wants to be there, and that office is pretty crazy anyway, so I don't think he'd come back.  There's just too much awkwardness.  I definitely think we might see him and Pam leave and settle down in New York.  But would they be happy there?  I don't know.  But it probably seems like the best option at this point in the show.  I could even see Jim leaving Dunder-Mifflin entirely.  He did want to be a sportswriter, and he's getting to the age where he probably should make that career jump.  It's possible that he could get a job in Philadelphia, too.  Pam could find a graphic design job there.  I'd imagine that could work out, since Jim might want to follow his dreams after Pam chased hers.

He could stay in NY as a sports writer. Have him break up with Pam and then to make ends meet have roommate. They could make Jim be really messy and his roommate really neat and fussy.

I liked that one better when it was called Growing Pains.  Try again, Kowalski.

How about, Jim doesn't get a sports writing gig (because he lacks experience) and goes to work in a sporting goods store instead.  And then his foreign cousin with a bad understanding of English and his wacky homeland customs comes to live with him?

How about Jim and some other dude that looks like George Michael adopt a blond. They aren't gay though. They live together and they're both her dad.

They could call it - Jim and Some Guy With Some Kid And Stuff.

How about Jenna Fischer goes topless for an episode or two?

You gotta save that stuff for sweeps.

Maybe she could play the nosy neighbor while Jim builds a small robitic child?

How about Jim moves to Florida and becomes and astronaut he finds out that Pam is really a genie and she gets him into all sorts of wacky situations?

The show comes to Chicago, where Jim becomes a psychotherapist and takes the El the wrong way to work.

With either of the last two, we could resurrect Bill Daily in a supporting role.

Quote from: JD on September 30, 2008, 11:28:26 PM

Quote from: Weebs on September 27, 2008, 08:44:30 AM

Quote from: Eli on September 26, 2008, 07:09:55 PM
The Office apparently makes Weebs turn into BC.

Dear god...what have I become???

That's what she said.

Aaaaand we're back.

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Quote from: flannj on September 30, 2008, 12:24:28 PM
...I grew up in the era of Ron Santo and Billy Williams and Ernie Banks and all those great players, and we all kind of got hooked thinking they were gonna win, and they didn't and then it was too late. We were all hooked. I was anyway at least....

This is the worst sentence I've read in ages, and I work with retards.*

*(I do not, in fact, work with retards. But I know a few from the internet.)

...and?

And I don't know what's wrong with the sentence because it has a capital letter at the beginning and there are sentence-joiners like and, then, they, and and, and then he has quite a few commas that let you know when to pause while reading.  Which leads to finally a period in the back. 

But, yeah, as an editor-in-chief or a website in which he apparently is the only writer, he's no match for the Assumptive Reader editor, and much better, too, than Al.

When I was in college, one of my friends joked with me that I would never be anything in the journalism world until I could become a Senior Executive Managing Editor-In-Chief. This was before I switched my focus to radio, but I guess it would be a good goal. Or something, yada, yada, yada...

WHAT?

Seriously, you just killed my JD buzz.

I just caught the episode and thought it was outstanding.  Maybe because it had been gone for the summer and I don't watch much sitcom tv anymore.  Maybe I need to watch it again, I dunno.

I thought Michael's goatee was a tribute to David Brent at first, until I saw that it was actually a tribute to his throbbing man-love for Ryan, whose return to the show was great, if truly unrealistic.  His "list" was a good gag, particularly after the setup and subsequent encounter with Jim, after which you see Ryan scribbling into the list like the psycho he is.

I noticed the cinematagrophy and, in some cases, actual choreaography (although JOn woud just simply refer to it as blocking).  Like when Angela first splits from Doofus Brains and the camera pans back and follows Dwight's "pager" (who has a pager still?  Hilarious) and the scene continues with Dwight getting up to meet her for a hot lunch.  It's not quite Henry Hill impressing Karen on their first date when Scorcese had them wind through through the restaurant and kitchen, ending up in front of Henny Youngman at a personaized table, but it was still pretty well-crafted.

Quote from: Weebs on September 25, 2008, 10:53:41 PM
I'm kind of confused with what they're doing with the season though.  I think this episode was supposed to just be during the summer, which they normally have a little recap of.  But if Ryan is the receptionist (which was awesome), 8 weeks went by in the episode, and Pam only has one month left, where does that put him when she gets back?

I don't understand this question by Weebs at all and we must not let him murder this glorious, 3+ year old thread.  That said, the last part--why do you expect Pam to come back to Dunder Mufflin?  Her program in NYC is only 3 months, sure, but she quit her job, no?