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#4251 mongo_jones

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Posted 16 December 2005 - 06:22 PM

somehow i haven't caught a cold in more than 7 years now. don't know what that's about, but i like it.

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#4252 Orik

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Posted 16 December 2005 - 06:23 PM

mongo_jones, on Dec 16 2005, 02:22 PM, said:

somehow i haven't caught a cold in more than 7 years now. don't know what that's about, but i like it.

so that's why you're coming to nyc, viral infection center of the universe.

I think that is the danger of keeping a blog: you exaggerate everything

#4253 mongo_jones

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Posted 16 December 2005 - 06:28 PM

Orik, on Dec 16 2005, 11:23 AM, said:

mongo_jones, on Dec 16 2005, 02:22 PM, said:

somehow i haven't caught a cold in more than 7 years now. don't know what that's about, but i like it.

so that's why you're coming to nyc, viral infection center of the universe.

this 7 year period includes 2 winter trips to nyc and dc. not to mention india.

edit: famous last words syndrome aside, this streak will likely come to an end on this trip, since i will spend a week in a house with two small children.

This post has been edited by mongo_jones: 16 December 2005 - 06:30 PM

#4254 Stone

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Posted 16 December 2005 - 06:38 PM

I'm not sure which is worse, the hangover, or the fact that I don't quite remember everything that happened at the holiday party.

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Posted 16 December 2005 - 06:55 PM

I have had absolutely nothing to do at work today. Of course, some would consider that a Reason to Be Cheerful.

It's always something.

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#4256 NeroW

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Posted 16 December 2005 - 07:02 PM

Stone, on Dec 16 2005, 06:38 PM, said:

I'm not sure which is worse, the hangover, or the fact that I don't quite remember everything that happened at the holiday party.

You should have been in the restaurant where I work yesterday, the morning after our holiday party. I, of course, being a trained professional, was fine. But the servers . . .

We eat so many shrimp, we got iodine poisonin

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Posted 16 December 2005 - 07:07 PM

Stone, on Dec 16 2005, 01:38 PM, said:

I'm not sure which is worse, the hangover, or the fact that I don't quite remember everything that happened at the holiday party.

Perhaps you should have stuck to sherry.

A friend who is in advertising called me yesterday, hung over and hysterical. She got a little tipsy at her firm's party and told her boss their newest high profile campaign sucks and that he's wasting his life and talents and should sell the agency and write novels.

Repeat after me: Do not get drunk at the office party.

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#4258 g.johnson

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Posted 16 December 2005 - 07:14 PM

Stone, on Dec 16 2005, 02:38 PM, said:

I'm not sure which is worse, the hangover, or the fact that I don't quite remember everything that happened at the holiday party.

What Kingsley Amis calls the 'metaphysical hangover'. Far worse than the merely physical.

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Posted 16 December 2005 - 07:18 PM

g.johnson, on Dec 16 2005, 02:14 PM, said:

Stone, on Dec 16 2005, 02:38 PM, said:

I'm not sure which is worse, the hangover, or the fact that I don't quite remember everything that happened at the holiday party.

What Kingsley Amis calls the 'metaphysical hangover'. Far worse than the merely physical.

Life is just one big metaphysical hangover.

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Posted 16 December 2005 - 07:18 PM

Drinking at office parties (to excess, anyway) is for da boids. I used to do it. There was a time when open bars and I were very fond of each other. Fortunately, I never had an embarrassing incident, but there was one holiday season I remember being very tempted to plant a big wet kiss on a very stuffy, laced-up senior member of staff - male. And it was the same year I couldn't quite remember how I got home (but I did).

That was the end for me.

Since then, in various "senior" positions myself, I have had the pleasure of being endlessly harangued by resentful subordinates who need Dutch courage to express their grievances, having normally polite colleagues lean drunkenly towards me and talk damply into my face, and held the inevitable disciplinary hearings for those who fell over, danced on tables or - memorably - pinched bottoms.

One time of the year I am glad to be on the sober side. In fact holiday drinking is for amateurs.

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#4261 Wilfrid1

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Posted 16 December 2005 - 07:19 PM

Just tried low fat Pringles. They are shit. Back to the regular ones and guilt.

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#4262 Ron Johnson

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Posted 16 December 2005 - 07:20 PM

Couldn't agree more.

I recall the year one of our secretaries puked next to my car.

#4263 Wilfrid1

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Posted 16 December 2005 - 07:21 PM

I recall the year one of our secretaries took her top off, and I missed it.

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#4264 mongo_jones

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Posted 16 December 2005 - 07:21 PM

Ron Johnson, on Dec 16 2005, 12:20 PM, said:

Couldn't agree more.

I recall the year one of our secretaries puked next to my car.

pringles or office party drinking?

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Posted 16 December 2005 - 07:40 PM

People got so wasted at ours (open bar) that yesterday, when the Psychadelic Furs came into the restaurant for lunch, I was the only person who recognized them.

Or maybe that's not because they were hungover

Pringles suck period.

We eat so many shrimp, we got iodine poisonin