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ChocolateLady 
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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 Posted - 08/13/2008 : 12:28:26
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Originally posted by CankleFetish
My position is... I hope to not get fired, which is what usually happens... 
Congratulations. But if you want to hold onto your job, just do your best, be a team player and never try to show your boss up.
(By the way, I'd be willing to help, if say, you need some coaching on how to properly say "do you want fries with that?" [insert appropriate 'I'm sure you have a better job than that' smilie here]) |
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MguyXXV
"X marks the spot"
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Posted - 08/13/2008 : 15:44:15
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C-Fet, you screwed up: you should have applied to become a MERP, which jobs apparently are available, since they are on holiday. If they can afford to be on holiday as often as PKMN has observed, they must be making some fabulous dough!   |
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demonic
"Cinemaniac"
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Posted - 08/13/2008 : 16:18:29
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| Do you think the MERPs are beach bums or culture vultures? Personally I have an image of them all lined up by the pool sipping cocktails while Benj tends the BBQ. |
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w22dheartlivie
"Kitty Lover"
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Posted - 08/13/2008 : 18:15:21
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| My guess is that they are beach volleyball bums and they're all hanging out at Chaoyang Park BV Ground hoping to be able to get in that pat-on-the-ass that Misty May-Treanor offered to George W. the other day, which he turned down. |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 08/13/2008 : 19:40:49
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Originally posted by wildheartlivie
Phelps is amazing, and he's only what? 23??
It's all very impressive, but he'll have fourteen golds for... swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming. I've got a lot more admiration for gold-medallist decathletes, heptathletes and modern pentathletes. |
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Canklefish 
"Let's Get OUTTA Here!"
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Posted - 08/15/2008 : 05:13:51
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
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Originally posted by CankleFetish
My position is... I hope to not get fired, which is what usually happens...
Congratulations. But if you want to hold onto your job, just do your best, be a team player and never try to show your boss up.
(By the way, I'd be willing to help, if say, you need some coaching on how to properly say "do you want fries with that?" [insert appropriate 'I'm sure you have a better job than that' smilie here])
I've been practicing since Mr. McDonald told me I landed the job. I've even stepped up my 'up-selling' repertoire to include sundaes and salads... We'll see what happens, but how did you know I lost my last job by upstaging the boss?! That's uncanny!
Here's what I've come up with on the selling front... Welcome to Mickey Dees, may I take your pulse? Oh, you'd like a Big Mac... Well, you'll be dead within the year. Would you like a tasty sundae or a crispy chicken salad with your order? No, well, enjoy the cankles your Big Mac will most assuredly deliver. Ronald says Hey! 
I doubt my future boss will dig the candid nature with which I peddle fast food, but the truth is a painful antidote... I will show up that bastard! |
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w22dheartlivie
"Kitty Lover"
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Posted - 08/15/2008 : 21:07:19
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Well, it's fortunate they've dialed back the requirements for nerdiness, acne, and vapidness. Maybe you, too, can go to Ronald MacDonald College!!!
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w22dheartlivie
"Kitty Lover"
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Posted - 08/15/2008 : 23:32:47
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by wildheartlivie
Phelps is amazing, and he's only what? 23??
It's all very impressive, but he'll have fourteen golds for... swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming. I've got a lot more admiration for gold-medallist decathletes, heptathletes and modern pentathletes.
But that's apples and oranges. If you look at the diversity of each type of swimming stroke, each takes a different skill set and level of accomplishment. A variety of distances - 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m - a variety of stroke - backstroke, butterfly, breaststroke and freestyle - each are different and not all swimmers are accomplished in each area. Phelps is essentially accomplishing the water equivalent of a heptathlon, and to date, all in world record time. If you put him on the dirt track, he wouldn't do well, but if you put track and field athletes in the water, neither would they. And if you put any of the *-athlon athletes in any one of those events, they may not excel. Each are accomplished, and on the Olympic/World level, all are amazing. |
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Catuli 
"Loves Film and Fun"
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Posted - 08/16/2008 : 01:38:06
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I still think Carl Lewis' accomplishment of winning the Gold Medal in the long jump for four consecutive Olympiads makes him the all time greatest Olympian. Of course if you go back in history, many would argue on behalf of Paavo Nurmi (SP?).
I have no way of knowing this personally, but from all I've read and heard, swimming doesn't take nearly as much of a toll on one's body as the track and field events.
Phelps is still great though, and he seems like a genuinely nice and well grounded young man.
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MguyXXV
"X marks the spot"
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Posted - 08/16/2008 : 01:47:09
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Hey, you guys! Stay on topic, Please! 
I think we were talking about McDonalds while on vacation, but I'm not sure, cuz' you guys keep talking about the Elephantics or something.
(For my part, I wouldn't dare to utter a word other than in praise in reference to Mr. Phelps's accomplishment, and not because he's from the U.S.: he has achieved a phenomenal accomplishment! Sal: do you actually mean to imply some sort of denegration because Phelps is not a competitor in one of the *alons????? Are you saying they're "better" athletes because they perform in several diverse athletic events, and that this fact somehow diminishes Phelps's unparalleled production? Do you realize what a "hater" that makes you sound like????) |
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w22dheartlivie
"Kitty Lover"
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Posted - 08/17/2008 : 08:08:10
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| I think he's mostly amazing because he doesn't have to hold his nose when he dives in the pool |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 08/17/2008 : 12:12:09
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Originally posted by wildheartlivie
I think he's mostly amazing because he doesn't have to hold his nose when he dives in the pool
Sure, that's all well and good but could he have pulled it off without that fancy swimsuit and bathing cap? Mark Spitz accomplished all his medals without covering up or removing even one hair on his body! |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 08/17/2008 : 13:44:25
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Originally posted by Catuli
I still think Carl Lewis' accomplishment of winning the Gold Medal in the long jump for four consecutive Olympiads makes him the all time greatest Olympian.
Yup, golds at several consecutive Olympics are a lot more impressive than golds in similar events at the same Games.
However, I think Sir Steve Redgrave's rowing golds at five consecutive Olympics are a lot more impressive than Lewis's wins, especially as he had diabetes for the last one.
Also glad to see that Ben Ainslie (whom I've met and is a really nice guy) got his third consecutive sailing gold today. |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 08/17/2008 : 13:46:15
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Amazingly, Great Britain is now third in the medals table.     Without all of Phelps's similar golds, we'd have the same number as the United States.  |
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Are MERPS on holiday or something?
