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[Ksyrup]

RIP Bob Welch

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[MacroGuru]

Originally Posted by CU Tiger

Ill take a swing at ___head prospect?

Correct.. DHP = Dick Head Prospect..

I find it funny that some of them can be dicks because we are calling to sell them something and they are insulted that we would call, but right next to their office is their sales team doing the same thing for their customer base.

[MacroGuru]

Originally Posted by Rizon

Speaking of, how do you like it? We're moving to a MS CRM platform in a month or two.

I like it a lot. It's easy to manage, easy to use and breaks everything down for us.

I don't use the reporting features as much as others, but that is because I manage my accounts better than most.

If you integrate the marketing feature with it, it can be powerful.

[JediKooter]

Originally Posted by MacroGuru

I like it a lot. It's easy to manage, easy to use and breaks everything down for us.

I don't use the reporting features as much as others, but that is because I manage my accounts better than most.

If you integrate the marketing feature with it, it can be powerful.

But will it get rid of that smell in Rizon's office?

[NorvTurnerOverdrive]

dear yankees,
you can't sell tickets because you turned a cathedral into a shopping mall. congratulations. your billion dollar baseball castle is the sports equivalent of the m&m store.

things to do in new york:
*empire state building
*times square
*the house that ruth built YES built

i'm no fan of fsg but at least they get it. nostalgia is far more important to fan experience than in-house art galleries and hd scoreboards.

[spleen1015]

NBA Draft Combine on tv? ROFL.

I am watching the UEFA Euro game! WTF?!

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by NorvTurnerOverdrive

dear yankees,
you can't sell tickets because you turned a cathedral into a shopping mall. congratulations. your billion dollar baseball castle is the sports equivalent of the m&m store.

things to do in new york:
*empire state building
*times square
*the house that ruth built YES built

i'm no fan of fsg but at least they get it. nostalgia is far more important to fan experience than in-house art galleries and hd scoreboards.

fsg?

[NorvTurnerOverdrive]

fenway sports group. they're masters at commodifying nostalgia

own original paint chips from jim rice's locker! just 24.99!

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by spleen1015

NBA Draft Combine on tv? ROFL.

I am watching the UEFA Euro game! WTF?!

NBA Draft Combine is on one of the channels too

[stevew]

Really good podcast interview of Joe Walsh by Chuck Klosterman up on Grantland. He's certainly a character.

[NorvTurnerOverdrive]

Originally Posted by stevew

Really good podcast interview of Joe Walsh by Chuck Klosterman up on Grantland. He's certainly a character.

the zach baron prometheus article is really good too.

[stevew]

I was trying to see if one can be afan of Walsh, but still hate the Eagles.

[Grover]

Originally Posted by stevew

I was trying to see if one can be afan of Walsh, but still hate the Eagles.

"... but I hate the fuckin' Eagles, man!"

[JonInMiddleGA]

About to go to a party for the first time in ... I have no clue how long since I've said that.

Kicker is that it's a retirement party for someone I've never met (her husband is my son's scout troop leader) ... but it's a retirement party that apparently has booked three bands to play at their house.

Honestly have no idea what to expect, but since it's only about five minutes from my house somebody might bump the "Drunk" thread just in case.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Drunk thread not required.
One "band" (actually duo) not three.

Absolutely fascinating conversation with a Cuban expat that pretty much consumed most of my night.

[Passacaglia]

So apparently lurker has never heard the song Margaritaville, and I was trying to describe it. There has to be a name to describe the genre that and other songs like it are in, right? Best I could come up with was "music you would listen to on a cruise" and she was thinking reggae. There has to be a word that I just can't come up with for this kind of music, right?

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Passacaglia

There has to be a word that I just can't come up with for this kind of music, right?

I've seen Tropical Rock, I've seen Calypso Country (or folk), but honestly the most common description seems to be "Jimmy Buffett Music"

[thesloppy]

Jimmy Buffet has always mystified me as well. I think he makes music for people who aren't interested in music. He's like the Thomas Kinkade of rock.

[Suicane75]

Dude. Have you ever been chilling in the backyard on a cool summer evening with your friends? That's what JB's music is for.

[Suicane75]

I'm seriously not trying to be vulgar, but have you ever had an itchy butthole and let a fart rip that........scratched your itch? For lack of a better term. Oddly soothing.

[Radii]

Originally Posted by Passacaglia

has never heard the song Margaritaville

how is this possible

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by Suicane75

I'm seriously not trying to be vulgar, but have you ever had an itchy butthole and let a fart rip that........scratched your itch? For lack of a better term. Oddly soothing.

indeed

[Grover]

At least the Malkovich-Siri ads are amusing, unlike all the others.

[spleen1015]

Google has been slow loading lately. WTF is up with that?

[molson]

I was randomly watching a the 1982ish movie Mr. Mom this weekend (exciting weekend I know), and there's this scene in a board room that's just filled with smoke, and pizza, and dumpy looking middle aged guys. It seems like it was pretty much everyone back then used to live in rooms filed with smoke at home, at the office, ate terribly, were probably drunk half the time. I feel like I don't do enough for my health but I'd be an absolute weirdo health nut if transported back to 1982. It's weird because even though so many more people are seemingly at least somewhat concerned about health now, we're also way more obese as a country than we were then. I remember 1982 a little bit - and I don't think we had nearly as many runners, general fitness gyms (as opposed to "weight room" gyms), yoga, vegetarians, etc, than we do now. Now, normal average people are involved in that kind of stuff, where in 1982 is was more fringe. So what the hell's going on? Why so many fatties?

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by molson

Now, normal average people are involved in that kind of stuff, where in 1982 is was more fringe.

I'm not entirely sure what word "normal" applies to folks involved with "that kind of stuff"

[spleen1015]

molson,

I think it might have to do with the fact that there are a lot more women in the workforce today than there was in 1982. So, I think families eat a lot more fast food now than they did in 1982 since women would have been at home cooking dinner then. Just my opinion, no scientific evidence.

I think there are a lot more working out types because we've learned a lot in the last 30 years, but at the same time, we've gotten a lot lazier.

[Ksyrup]

Like a lot of other things, more people are gravitating to the extremes. And when it comes to health, far more people will gravitate toward what's easiest.

[JediKooter]

The Grateful Dead...wow. How do people like them? It's like they are a super popular, one step above the Wyld Stallyns, garage band.

[rowech]

Originally Posted by JediKooter

The Grateful Dead...wow. How do people like them? It's like they are a super popular, one step above the Wyld Stallyns, garage band.

Do you know what happens when the drugs run out a Grateful Dead Concert?

Everybody says, "Wow! This music really sucks!"

[JediKooter]

Originally Posted by rowech

Do you know what happens when the drugs run out a Grateful Dead Concert?

Everybody says, "Wow! This music really sucks!"

Haha! I had my suspicions that this was the case.

[molson]

Drugs make everything that sucks seem awesome. We just have to figure out a way, as a society, for everyone to have enough drugs all the time.

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by Grover

At least the Malkovich-Siri ads are amusing, unlike all the others.

I saw those a bunch during the Kings game on Saturday. I was with my bro and sister in law. My sister in law was saying how stupid the ads were, oh, wow, the phone can have a conversation, that's totally fake.

I mean, on the face of it, I agree with her. But what I thought was funny there, and totally got it as a movie fan, is that Malkovich is always such a sardonic character in movies (and probably in real life as well). I don't think my sister in law got that. That when Malkovich was taking life advice from the phone and responding graciously, you could just read in his natural sarcasm (yeah, Siri, thanks for the life advice ), even though he was speaking normally. I thought it was pretty brilliant.

[Chief Rum]

You know, when you think about it, this sports weekend went from potentially awesome to pretty shitty. No Stanley Cup raised, the Game 7 of the ECF did not come down to a last second or even last minute shot, Pacquiao lost in a controversial decision and possibly putting even further away a fight with Mayweather, the Triple Crown thing didn't happen, even a no hitter was thrown and it was the most nondescript, unpublicised no hitter of all time. The two best Euro matchups were ties. The French Open men's final was nearly rained out.

Sheesh.

[Ksyrup]

I am so totally consumed with my girls' softball schedules that I literally go into a news cocoon from Friday afternoon until Monday morning. I didn't even know Pacquiao had a fight until this morning, let alone all the controversy. I did happen to see the Mariners no-hitter just because I fell asleep Friday night and woke up with 1 out in the 9th. It's like time traveling back to when the internet didn't exist.

[Honolulu_Blue]

Originally Posted by Chief Rum

You know, when you think about it, this sports weekend went from potentially awesome to pretty shitty. No Stanley Cup raised, the Game 7 of the ECF did not come down to a last second or even last minute shot, Pacquiao lost in a controversial decision and possibly putting even further away a fight with Mayweather, the Triple Crown thing didn't happen, even a no hitter was thrown and it was the most nondescript, unpublicised no hitter of all time. The two best Euro matchups were ties. The French Open men's final was nearly rained out.

Sheesh.

At least the Tigers won back-to-back games for the first time in like 40+ games.

There's your silver lining.

[Logan]

Michael Katz ‏@KatzM

*Dead* at this Anthony Davis Evil Twin photoshop on @reddit with his eyebrows and 'stache reversed

[Grover]

I bet he's related to Jose Bosingwa.

[cartman]

Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

[Ksyrup]

That thought may deserve its own thread. Even though I'm not sure I want to read about it.

[thesloppy]

We already have a manwich thread.

[JediKooter]

So Tommy Chong has prostate cancer and he's treating it with marijuana. Sigh...I expect to see a "Tommy Chong, we hardly knew ye" thread started not too far in the future.

[stevew]

I hate the majority of the RIP threads. I have no clue who at least half of the people are.

[Ksyrup]

Anonymous people still deserve to rest in peace.

[Grover]

Stopped getting HBO free trial in May. Had Game of Thrones set to record every week. Forgot about this when HBO went away. Looked at my list of recorded shows, there are all ten eps of Game of Thrones.

[Scoobz0202]

Verizon's new data plans can suck my wang. Fuck you Verizon.

Verizon 'Share Everything' plans announced: share voice, text, and data across devices | The Verge

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by Grover

Stopped getting HBO free trial in May. Had Game of Thrones set to record every week. Forgot about this when HBO went away. Looked at my list of recorded shows, there are all ten eps of Game of Thrones.

Interesting loophole. Cool!

[stevew]

Make sure it didn't record 60 minutes of nothing

[stevew]

Originally Posted by Scoobz0202

Verizon's new data plans can suck my wang. Fuck you Verizon.

Verizon 'Share Everything' plans announced: share voice, text, and data across devices | The Verge

Yeah, a few of us were talking about this on FaceBook. I'm gone when my ETF gets cheaper. They can fuck off. I don't give a fuck about unlimited voice minutes.

[Grover]

Originally Posted by stevew

Make sure it didn't record 60 minutes of nothing

It didn't. Just re-watched the finale.