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Thanks, Mike
I think I screw up just fine on my own. I don't even go looking for this stuff.
posted by
terpgirl30
on May 20, 2005 at 11:26 AM
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List
The funny part is I have a list of 100 things for you to do so I don't have to.
posted by
mikea18
on May 20, 2005 at 10:23 AM
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Smart
For as weird and funny as some of my stuff is...I LOVE your King Kong story. Who knows, I may have to find a way to work it into my life's history. You'll be watching TV one day, and you'll hear a story that sounds vaguely familiar...
"Honey, didn't you once work as King Kong..."
"Hey!!!!"
posted by
terpgirl30
on May 20, 2005 at 12:02 AM
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Okay, I'll come clean
Mike knows this...but you know how you make that list of 100 things to do before you die. One of mine is Stand Up. Mike and I have agreed that because I'm sort of shy, the audience will have to wear those fake groucho glasses. I don't think it's too much to ask for this kind of entertainment.
By the way...I didn't have to tell any of these stories...and I got the job. I start Monday.
MayB...I have several copies of that cover. For sane places, it's toned down, but even in business places you can work an edge in. Within a month of working for a university, I realized that they'd been shorted $50k on a grant due to a bureaucratic oversight. The director promptly went down and recovered. That same month I uncovered a university-wide boiler room operation. I paid for my salary for two years by the end. My line in my cover on that one is: I don't know how to snowboard, so wading through bureaucracy is my version of extreme sports. But you're right, you have to gear it to the place.
posted by
terpgirl30
on May 20, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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Terpgirl30, you are so funny. That's going to work in s some places and not in others.
posted by
Azur
on May 19, 2005 at 6:59 PM
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I've seen and heard enough on this post to laugh the rest of the night now.
I think I'll return home where it's safe. LOL.
posted by
I-R-William
on May 19, 2005 at 6:52 PM
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With blogs & comments like this, how can sitcoms survive ?!
posted by
reasons
on May 19, 2005 at 10:25 AM
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Wait! I've got another one!
Maybe even better than King Kong
I worked as a intern at the Public Defenders office in Tucson AZ afte I had graduated. First thing the guy I worked with told me was "All the guys are guilty... of something."
On one case we were defending a guy charged with sexual assualt. The lawyer decided it we would try to poke holes through her story by making it soud like she made it up. So my assignment was... Drumroll... to watch the movie Caligula and see if any of her testimony mirrored events in the movie. Ahhh the good old days. Appearently that was a movie the defendent and the alleged victim had watched together the same night.
posted by
smartdog_670
on May 18, 2005 at 6:50 PM
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King Kong - Emprie State Building
Yep That was me. If you had visited the Empire State Building in Manhattan during the summer of '88 and had your picture taken with the guy in the King Kong outfit - that was me! (BTW can you send me a copy of that picture to add to my scrap book - I lost my other ones)
Hows that for a resume builder. Actually, I used it for a long time. It was the perfect ice-breaker for an interview, and usually got the conversation flowing.
Best parts of the job: It paid $12/hr which for me back then was mucho bucks
I had my own room on the 83rd floor with a couch to lounge on
Worst parts of the job: Getting stuck in the elevator with 20 tourists cracking jokes about why I didn't just
climb down the outside of the building instead of using the elevator.
posted by
smartdog_670
on May 18, 2005 at 6:42 PM
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Makes my worst blooper boringly tame (taking off a job I had been with for three years in favor of one I was at for two weeks, and another I was at for two months, and two I had worked pretty much side by side for four)
posted by
tigerprincess
on May 18, 2005 at 3:28 PM
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WOw terp
Talk about your nutty professor. I don't think I can come up with anything even close to that. I was a sex worker for a brief time and none of my clients even came close to those nut jobs you described.
posted by
mandinka
on May 18, 2005 at 1:51 PM
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Terp - I can't top any of those. Funny post girl.
posted by
Hollee
on May 18, 2005 at 6:47 AM
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I think you have me beat, there, Terp.
I, too, am a journalist -- chitlin circuit, of course -- and in the course of a day in a small town in a rural county rapidly becoming urban, we deal with strange things sometimes. I guess this one would go under people skills. A guy calls me and asks if a movie studio is shooting up on the lake, and if so, how would he go about working for them. Then he tells me the reason he is calling is because the night before, he was sitting on his dock minding his own business when he saw a fifty foot woman dressed like a Christmas tree walking across the lake. Then he followed faces through the woods all night long. He swore he wasn't on drugs, hadn't been in a long time, and he didn't think he was crazy.
So I looked up Dreamworks website and told him to check it out. Then I called the Sheriff's department.
What else can you do?
posted by
strat
on May 18, 2005 at 5:47 AM
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