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so, to protest how crappily I am treated at work, I hereby resolve to no longer answer anyone else's phone until after the second ring.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

way to fight the machine

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

also, since everybody uses the stapler on my desk, I have removed all the staples and am hiding them

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

have you read Mad Drew:Beyond Coffeedome ?

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

no, perhaps I should. And perhaps I should read it when I'm supposed to be reading the manual for the new phone which I will be receiving on Monday.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah fight the power. Fight the power. Fight the powers that be (in a manner which goes completely undetected).

― nick c (nickalicious), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

my buttocks are protesting the color of this office chair, since it clashes so with my purple.

however, my buttocks are hidden, so no one pays attention to them(*sob*).

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I do not wish to play hide and seek with your buttocks.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I often refuse to answer the phone without telling anyone that I'm doing so. I just let it ring until someone else picks it up. Or sometimes I'll indignantly fool around on the internet.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned might be lying!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

get a room you two

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

dammit, why all these folk wanna play games with my buttocks?

my buttocks are SERIOUS MATTERS, ladeez & gentlemints! the fate of the world sits upon them daily!

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't wait until we have enough of these threads to start a whole "Horace Quits Smoking And Takes It Out On His Phone" category.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

also, since everybody uses the stapler on my desk, I have removed all the staples and am hiding them
thith ith becauth the bosth sthole my sthwingline sthtapler. ith was my sthwingline sthtapler. i boughth ith with my own money. so iths mine. and i sthaid to him, 'you sthill have my sthwingline sthapler, and need my sthtapler back', and he didn't listhen to me.

I could justh burn thisth place to the ground. i should.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

ONE WEEK TODAY!!!
http://www.visionsignited.com/smiles_butterflies.jpg

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Is that your unsmoked cigar laying on the ashtray?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm suddenly remembering Bill Clinton jokes! OH NOES!

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

(i did a google img search for smiles and butterflies to ironically illustrate how wonderful a tobacco free Horace feels) (though I'm rarely even tempted, I think I like this license to burn with hatred more than I liked smoking--and I liked smoking A LOT)

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Horace, pretty self portrait...though I'd no idea you played w/ butterflies.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Good work, Horace.

(Where are the staples? You can tell us, we're your friends.)

Mwah ha ha!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

(i have a box of staples taped to the underside of my desk)

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

A-HA! Also I came in to work today and noticed my stapler was missing. Whatever, I have droit du seigneur over all the staplers in this office. Droit du stapleur.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't know they followed the Napoleonic Code in Oregon.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

In my office, everyone uses me for the yellow pages. How come noone else has a phonebook in an office of 50+ people?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG Sarah do you "let their fingers do the walking"????

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I should mark through all the numbers with a permanent marker. That would show them! Humph!

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~andrew/gifs/staple.gif

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, so who here has callouses from guitar playing that are so thick and sturdy you can run a staple through them? Just me?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Me! I always poke sharp things into my fingertips to impress myself.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

My callouses are getting so think now from playing bass that I don't have fingerprints on the index & middle fingertips on my right hand! I plucked a chunk of callous off my finger last night with a paperclip!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread is making me hungry.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

(NOTE: I might be lying.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Callouses or pork scratchings with nipples, Dan. Your choice.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

hold the salad.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

How many of you have stuck needles in your callouses as a party trick/way to woo people?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Chris, only one word for that: ew. That, in particular, doesn't turn me on.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 00:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Luna to thread.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 01:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Anything Chris does is a turn on... Especially the 'etc'

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

You have to leave things to the imagination. "Et cetera" is the sexiest latin I know.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 01:49 (twenty-two years ago)

*swoon*

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 01:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Easy conquest again, Chris? Typical;> (Nowt against Luna, o'course)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 01:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck invisible protests. Stage a real protest. Force them to hold a meeting about you. Force them to tell you you have to meet with them tomorrow about your attitude. FUCK THEM. For serious. Invisiblity ain't worth shit, that is what I decided today.

I think I might've also decided to lose my job today but that is A-OK.

― allyzay, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 01:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey me too!
I decided last night (while watching Spongebob Squarepants) that I'm going to stand up today. I'm going to say that I'm scaling back the extra things I do for the paper (namely my entertainment freelancing--I'm not going to stop, but I'm not going to provide them almost-full-time entertainment coverage for freelance money) because there doesn't seem to be any future in it other than the status quo. It's time to look for greener pastures, and I'm not just bluffing.
I'm not going to say "and I'm not just bluffing" though, because that will make them think I am.
But I frankly deserve better than they're offering. Adam Smith, baby.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

It's time to look for greener pastures

But Canadian money isn't green.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

don't worry, I'm still going to do the Minor Thirds piece.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

That's good. But I'm still concerned about your misused metaphors.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

well, who says I'm after Cdn money?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Your mom.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

that figures...the loudmouth

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Perhaps Spongebob has subliminal messages.
REVOLT! REVOLT! F THE SYSTEM!

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Skipping 44 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

"Step by Step" is actually, um, a song that if you were a 27 yr-old woman, you would surprise yourself by still knowing all the lyrics to.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I was about to say "I want to live in a world where NKOTB were singing union songs" but then realized, no, no I probably don't.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Also: This is the thread where Horace reveals himself to be a 27yo woman.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

ahem, you discover a lot of things about yourself when you quit smoking

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Like we didn't know that already, Chris.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

A 27yo woman who looks like this:

http://www.ctv.ca/generic/WebSpecials/Shows/CanadianIdol/PhotoFlipBook/Top30/RyanGallery/RyanMalcolm/images/RyanGallery2.jpg

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

don't judge me

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow, Horace. You sure are handsomish.

― Sarah mcLusky (coco), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

That pic just beckons we women in.....slowly,slowly.....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

that's why they had to have Ben Mulroney to balance things out.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't decide if this thread went on a bunch of different tangents or if it has doggedly stayed on-topic.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

well, considering that everytime I post here, I am actively not doing work, but conspicuously appearing to do work, I would say it's impossible for this thread to be anything BUT on-topic.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

ha-HA

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 30 October 2003 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I am invisibly protesting by playing on ILX all the live long day. Screw the system!

Damnit, I guess I should FAX something and make a call. BLah.

― Sarah MCLusky (coco), Thursday, 30 October 2003 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I could fax you something!

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 30 October 2003 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

O...k... Would it get me fired?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 30 October 2003 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Fax me something, Sarak! Fax me kitty pix!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 30 October 2003 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Can you imagine me in the work room FAXing huge kitty pix with a serious look on my face as everyone stands in line waiting to use the machine?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 30 October 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

"Yeah, the person who's trying to buy the house on Alberta is a little weird, but anything for a sale, right?"

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 30 October 2003 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't have anything terribly interesting to fax, but I do have dominion over the fax machine (it's ON my desk).

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 30 October 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

email me and I'll fax something tedious

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 30 October 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Tedious? What's the joy in that then?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 30 October 2003 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

it's the art of the invisible protest

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 30 October 2003 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I found a funny memo, it should be arriving NOW!

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 30 October 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

fax report says it was sent

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Me and all my timezone are missing out on all the fun today.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

what's wrong with your timezone?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

We're still in bed! Or at least, I am.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

And thus are not near a fax machine, you see.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Since my bed is not quite that well equipped. Although I guess I have an eFax thingy...

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

isn't it like 9 a.m. though? no! it's 8 a.m.
you are posting from bed?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Mr. Mann,

Thank you for FAXing the memo so promptly. I will now bring it home to put in my creepy Horace Mann scrapbook.

Sincerely,
Sarah McLusky, Partner in Crime

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes. I woke up around 7:30, and I'm doing my morning Internet fun while my cat tries to get my attention and I slowly wake up. I'll shower in a bit and leave around 8:50 to be in the office by 9 (assuming I intent to get to work ontime, which admittedly is a bit unlikely).

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

it's funnier if you know the editor that sent that.
he was once Saskatchewan's FLYING reporter (he flew a plane and covered agriculture and rural things) back when newspapers believed in BUDGETS for anyone other than the Sports Dept. Now he's like perpetually a week away from retirement and wears suspenders (inch and a half wide rainbows) AND a belt (not so colourful) and he always says weird things like "As the bishop said to the actress..."

So the fact that he refered to the Grey Cup (Cdn Superbowl) as a National Pukefest is so awesome.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

and wears suspenders (inch and a half wide rainbows) AND a belt

Well, it sounds like he's got a good support system. He sounds totally awesome.

The Sports section is the least read section of a newspaper!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

and he smokes.
when I told him that I had been off the tabacco for a week, he was like "why would you do that?"
and I told him it was largely economic and he told me where I could get smokes for cheap.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I have another good faxer if anybody wants it!

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread is the This is the thread where I say pt 5 :)

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Horace, I want you to fax me in the ass.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

done and done

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark, are you on drugs? Have you been using drugs? I want you to tell me where you learned about this stuff.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

PS If you get the chance, go see Loretta Lynn.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Is she waiting to be "rediscovered" by the world at large, the way that Johnny Cash was, Dolly Parton kinda was, and Emmylou Harris wasn't so much?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

And by that what I'm really asking is, "Did she cover 'Enter Sandman'?"

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

You can enter my sandman any time.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

well, apparantly Jack White has taken to showing up at her shows. So she's got indie cred from that.
She hasn't made any concessions to the last 15 years though. She was wearing this awesome ballgown and had hair up to there.
But her voice is strong and her spirit and sense of humour is even stronger and she has TWIN DAUGHTERS who sing a song called "Woman to Woman" which could be reconstrued as being hawt.

the only cover she did was "Walking After Midnight"
oh, and "Nookie"

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

What, Jack White was there?

"Walking After Midnight" is a great song.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Jack White wasn't there, but he's producing her new album and has shown up to sing duets with her in "hip" towns like NYC.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 30 October 2003 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

She's so gonna do "Enter Sandman". And when she does, remember that I called it here first.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 30 October 2003 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

woo-hoo, just turned down ANOTHER assignment!
kiss it g'bye!

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 30 October 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

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