The Unofficial Badmovies.org Random Thought Thread!

[lester1/2jr]

in a ride the other day this guy was talking about his dashiki (sp?).
His friend goes "why would you have a dashiki?" 

he (the first guy) goes "why would I wouldn't?"

[ER]

in a ride the other day this guy was talking about his dashiki (sp?).
His friend goes "why would you have a dashiki?" 

he (the first guy) goes "why would I wouldn't?"

They're kind of pretty.

[lester1/2jr]

ER- I don't even know what one is

[ER]

ER- I don't even know what one is

I think they're a type of west African garment. Usually colorful.

[ER]

I rarely drink soft drinks but this Diet Cherry 7-Up isn't bad.

[ER]

Buddy of mine asked me what I thought about the new Star Wars trailer, and he was pumped about that but started sounding down and turns out he's been pre-diabetic for a while and is going to have testing soon to find out if he's actually diabetic now.

(You can't eat like you're a teenager at forty, and weigh forty pounds too much and think you're going to dodge the lightning forever.)

He said he knows the right things to eat, but he doesn't eat them, and to cheer him up I said, "Well, like GI Joe used to tell us in the '80s, knowing is half the battle."

He laughed.

(Aren't I a great friend?  )

[ER]

Today is our unofficial eighteenth anniversary, eighteen years ago we met, and how are we celebrating it? Um, cutting his mom's grass for her. 

[ER]

Intern to me: Do we get vape-breaks?"

Me: No.

Intern: What if you really need one?

Me: No.

Intern: Fine, I'm going to the restroom.

Me: There's no smoking or vaping in the restroom.

Intern: OK.

Me: There's a detector in there that goes off if anyone's smoking or vaping.

Intern: This place sucks.

[RCMerchant]

I don't know what is happening here.



And this makes it stranger-

[Svengoolie 3]

People aren't supposed to wear white shoes after labor day, so why are Trump supporters able to wear white hoods after it?

[ER]

You know how sometimes you can read something and it strikes a powerful chord in you? Well this man I was hanging out with today at work had the coolest personal motto tattooed on his upper arm:

"If I cannot move Heaven, I will raise Hell."

He meant it too, and had an impressive job to tie into that philosophy.

[ER]

Three summer interns have sent me nice thank you cards this week following last Friday's departure. All the jokes I've ever made in here aside (and I thought it was clear they were jokes), working with the interns we employ is a great part of my job and I try to make their time with us something they enjoy as they get experiences and useful references out of it.

I've bought interns more lunches than I could count, thrown parties, try never to forget a birthday, we've gone on field trips, including by plane, I've driven interns to hospitals more than once, paid one's rent, put in good words to HR departments about them years after they left us, and I've given every single one ever references so sparkling I wonder if they might somehow hurt them in reverse for sounding to good. I've never yelled at any, never sworn at any, never raised my voice in anger.

I let a group take me out for drinks a few years ago....and amused them with my inebriated antics. (Glad that story died a natural death back at the office.)

So, really, if ever my jokes about being mean to interns sounded real, let me say they weren't, I was kidding, I guess too well, and sometimes blowing off steam when once in a while some of them did make my job hard, as does happen.

Our interns are truly a pleasure to be associated with, and rarely has there been a rotten apple in the bunch.

(And one of them this year was born male and now lives life as female. Never know what a new bunch of interns brings!)

Thanks for letting me get this off my chest.

[indianasmith]

Can I be an intern for one semester?

[ER]

Indeed, Indy, I believe we could find something for you to do in our second-floor Office of Circumlocution, yes.

[claws]

ER- I don't even know what one is