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My salad! Let me tell you about it! I just put a bunch of crap from the salad bar in a tub, and it's great: romain, tomatoes, jicama, spiced pumpkin seeds, blue cheese, grilled fennel, and chick peas with Italian dressing. Yum.

Except for completeness' sake they really should have made the "e" a "3".

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is that a men's nudity stool?

3. Jordan, you seem disappointed that he's not gay.

Only in my failed gaydar.

My new place is on Wolcott/Montrose, right around the corner from Glenn's Diner.

Oh. You live really really close to my friends Sheila and Eddie. They live on Wolcott on the first block north of Montrose. Their porch faces the train tracks too.

Ah, we're on the first block south of Montrose.

Bath and Body Werks is having their 5 for $15 sale on hand soaps--I have like 48 ounces of hand soap now. WARNING: avoid the Midnight Walk scent. I got some on me and now no matter how much I wash I smell like old lady perfume. It cut into my salad enjoyment.

Ooh, Office season 3 and 30 Rock dvds come out in a month.

Hey, when you guys were all up on Hurdy Gurdy Man last week, you neglected to tell me that John Bonham plays drums on that shit. I'm kind of pissed at myself for not making the connection.

I didn't know that!

I just looked up my credit report online and I was freaking out because it was completely blank, like nothing except past addresses. Then I figured out there were multiple pages and I was just looking at the first page. Ha ha.
Anyways, my credit is good, though I don't have much of a history. I've never had a real credit card either, I need to get me one of those. The report does have the wrong birthday for me though - not just the wrong day, but 1973 instead of 1979.

<Snausages> So, an E-flat, a G-flat, and a B-flat walk into a bar.
<Snausages> And the bartender says,
<Snausages> "I'm sorry, we don't serve minors."
<Myke> That struck a chord.
<Snausages> Careful with those puns, you'll get in treble.
<Myke> But they're key to my humour.
<Myke> And very noteworthy.

Hmm, well maybe not:

Contradicting an assertion in Donovan's 2005 autobiography that three of the four future Zeppelin members (Page, Jones and Bonham) played on the track "Hurdy Gurdy Man" -- John Paul Jones has stated that neither Page nor Bonham played on that track. In 2005, Jones (who arranged the track and was Musical Director for the session) identified the full line-up on that session as: Donovan - Acoustic Guitar. Alan Parker- Lead (electric) Guitar. John Paul Jones - Bass Guitar. Clem Cattini - Drums. (Cattini has concurred with Jones' recollection.)

But now it sure sounds like JB on drums to me.

lol Nick is old

I was watching Jesus Lizard clips on YouTube the other day and David Yow told a funny joke:

There are two ovaries. One ovary says to the other, "Hey, did you order any furniture?" The other ovary says, "No, I didn't order any furniture, why do you ask?" And the first ovary says, "Because two nuts are pushing an organ up the stairs."

is it funnier when he tells it?

;)

Nick, where did you access your credit report? I tried Annualcreditreport.com but their identity verification questions were hard. They were along the lines of "In 2001 you borrowed money from the College Foundation. What was the amount of this loan" or "What was the name of the lender you borrowed from to purchase a car in 1999." While it's true that if any individual were to know these facts it would most likely be me, I have no fucking clue how to answer any of them.

Apparently you can write them a letter to request info, but I have yet to get around to doing that.

I have no factual basis for my suspicions (only paranoia), but I wonder if the 3 credit reporting agencies didn't influence how difficult it would be to answer these questions so that the consumer would be forced to pay them to see their reports.

I don't know, sarah sent me some link. I had questions too, but they were weird trick questions, asking about some mortage I supposedly took out. But I just put "none of the above" and that worked. THey probably jsut did that because I don't have much of a credit history.

That's the one I gave him, Jesse.

I had the exact same fake mortgage questions, but it still didn't work.

That's funny. Trick questions!

We're sorry, for your protection we are unable to deliver your FACT Act Equifax Free Annual Credit Report on the internet. There are a number of reasons that we may be unable to fulfill your request online. You may have a Security Freeze on your credit file, an Active Duty Military or Fraud Alert, or the identification information submitted online may not match the information on file.

try one of the other non-Equifax companies to get your score. there are three different comapnies i think

(oops. not score: report)

Can you download Flight of the conchords episodes on i-tunes?

TransUnion:

The Identity Security System confirms your identity through a series of questions based on accounts and personal information contained in your Personal Credit Report. The system was unable to get enough information from the Personal Credit Report to complete this process.

Experian:

We're sorry, we are unable to process your request.

I'm having a bit of trouble with Equifax too. Experian seems to be working. But last time I checked, all 3 had different info, so I definitely want all 3.

(yes you wanna get all three.)

the last time i pulled mine, i ran into the same kind of crap. maybe if you call them, i'm sure they have 1-800 numbers.

These are questions I can handle

According to your credit profile, you may have opened an auto loan in or around June 1999. Please select the lender for this account. If you do not have such an auto loan, select 'NONE OF THE ABOVE/DOES NOT APPLY'.

TOYOTA MOTOR CRED
VOLKSWAGEN CREDIT
BANK OF AMERICA
NISSAN MOTOR ACCEPTANCE
NONE OF THE ABOVE/DOES NOT APPLY

Please select the county for the address you provided.

GALLATIN
MONROE
COOK
EDWARDS
NONE OF THE ABOVE

According to our records, you may have resided or currently reside on one of the following streets. Please select your street name from the choices listed below.

MELROSE
MAYFLOWER
CORDOBA
PEACH
NONE OF THE ABOVE


According to our records, you currently own, or have owned within the past year, one of the following vehicles. Please select the vehicle that you purchased or leased prior to July 2007 from the following choices:

GMC PARISIENNE
BMW 3 SERIES
RENAULT R15
HONDA ACCORD
NONE OF THE ABOVE

Wow. My credit report is a nest of inaccuracies!! This is not going to be fun.

I closed a credit card because I got one with a way better rate and they marked it "Closed--60 days past due" even though they currently owe me a check for an overpayment. There are a few others that concern me.

Also there was a really old account that I know for sure charged off, but they marked it "Never late"--we'll just let that one ride! :)

I tried the first two companies on annualcreditreport. The verification on the first was tough because one question was the account # of my auto loan, but it was a longer # than actually shows up on my statement, and the other was "who was your employer for the time range shown", but the time range was "not listed"!

The second one was easier and funnier, with such questions like "YOU MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE LIVED ON ONE OF THESE STREETS AT ONE TIME, AMIRITE?"

Haha, YOU OWN BMW, YES?

Were they questions like I just posted, or were they really in Engrish?

They were the ones you posted, but that's how they sounded in my head.

I'll be damned if Bally's didn't run a credit report on me! That's weird, since I pay them monthly through my debit card. Well, at least my gym membership is building my credit while it builds my physique.

I hate that word, physique.

...building my credit as it builds my smooth, young, taut musculature.

physiquist

Yes, I'd like to apply for a loan?

How's your credit?

Smooth and taut.

You could always get your credit report the way I got mine, try to buy a house! Just kidding. I was always really nervous about seeing mine, but it turned out to be much better than I feared.

Yay! Equifax loves me at least. Straight "PAYS AS AGREED" for me there! Fuck you, Experian! Go see how much Equifax loves me!

It's TransUnion that's being a bitch.

a mentor doesn't have a "mentee", a mentor has a "protege".

Results 1 - 10 of about 847,000 for mentee
Main Entry: men·tee
Pronunciation: men-'tE
Function: noun
Etymology: mentor + -ee
: one who is being mentored : PROTEGE

also, an asshole doesn't have a job, he has a "very annoying habit of pointing out mistakes of others while totally glossing over his own mountain of failures".

xpost.

Ha. Well regardless, that's the term they use at my job.

Mentorship refers to a developmental relationship between a more experienced mentor and a less experienced partner referred to as a mentee or protégé -- a person guided and protected by a more prominent person.

See, I'm fucking prominent.

Ha. Well regardless, that's the term they use at my job.

it was the word i used when i wrote an article about a mentoring program one of the guys i worked with was involved with and everytime the article got passed around someone would say "protege, not mentee".