No that was just married guy common sense on my part-- that’s question with no upside.
Dumb Answer: Not anymore then the jeans you wore yesterday tubby!
Ack my blinky didn’t make it. Of course you look stunning Jodi- the phone jockey is just jealous.
As far was our “friend” he is making lots of new pals already:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=142131
I would have shot back with an “Uk-fay oo-yay, itch-bay! Onna-way ight-fay?”
Jody,
I could see that happening around here, we have a group of records girls who are always talking about someone. That’s why I walk really fast when I pass them in the hall. 'Course this could mean I’m just making things worse for myself, as if you’re out of the gossip it tends to be about you. (and, hey, maybe walking fast makes a persons butt look big, you never know).
Oh, and my boyfriend has a standard response to the ‘do I look fat?’ question. At the first question, he tends to pat me on the head and ask “Are you insane?”, if I ask again “Yes, and soon you’ll need your own zip code.” You’d think this would cause a person to stop asking. 
Ya know, although 99.99% of we civilized beasts know what Pig Latin is, if you’re not expecting it to be spoken, or if it’s spoken pretty fast, it all kind of comes out as sounding like jibberish.
Still! Takes some mighty brass balls to talk in a language everyone else on the planet has down pat, when you’re insulting the one person walking by.
PS: No, Jodi.
Can I just second that recommendation? Oh, that would be priceless! Do it!
And you look fabulous, as always.
“Potsy”? Who refers to anyone else as Potsy? What is this, 1978? Next time you want to be derisive, try using a term that doesn’t make it sound as if you’re old enough to put your teeth on the dresser at bedtime, okay?
And while you’re trying to think of one-off phrases that are a little more au courant, you might also work on your reading skills. If they were a little better, maybe you’d have grasped the first time around that I never contended she said it to me – she didn’t. I’m not all that, or a bag of chips, and I don’t think I’m intrinsically better than anyone, but as a matter of professional hierachy, I’m one of the lawyers and she’s the receptionist, so she wouldn’t say anything pissy *to[/]i me. About me, to someone else, she’d do in a heartbeat. And did. Try to keep up, dear.
And I did wish her “ood-gay orning-may!” this morning. I don’t think she got it – I don’t even know that she knows that I overheard her yesterday and, let’s face it, she’s not very bright anyway. But it sure amused me.
I wasn’t trying to be derisive - I wasn’t aware that you weren’t allowed to call bullshit when you read things you don’t believe. I guess it’s against the rules to be skeptical? And now that I know this was a LAW office, I REALLY don’t believe it. But, whatever. Carry on. I won’t be reading these “dear diary” forums anymore.
My disappointment over this is an arrow in my heart.
Believe me, King Nifty, the posters at this board are very good at sniffing out bull-shitters. Do a search for bungee jumping and you’ll see what I mean.
Oh, and skeptical is allowed. Calling someone a liar is just rude, especially if you don’t have proof they’re lying.
‘Jodi’ (I apologize.)
As IVYLASS said, to to imply or out-right state that a person is a liar, when you have no proof that they are lying and indeed no firm indication that they are lying except your spidey-sense, is surpassingly rude. Rudeness is not necessarily out of line here in the Pit, but gratuitious rudeness is an expedient way to develop a reputation as a clueless asshole.
Now, as it happens, I REALLY don’t care if you believe me or not, since you don’t know me, our receptionist, or our office. But since you know nothing about the situtation, why would you just drop by to call me a liar? The only reason I can think of is that you’re assiduously working on building your board reputation (see “clueless asshole,” above).
So your list of assignments for today:
- Work on reading skills
- Stop being rude when don’t have to be
- Get better insults when decide have to be rude
I suggest you get to work on those as soon as Happy Days is over.
And as I posted in your own personal Pit thread, it’s not too late for you to back out of this mess and quietly start again. We’re not bad folk, actually, to those who don’t start off on quite as wrong a foot as you seem to have.
Go post like a civil human being in your beloved “fact-based” forums, and you might find a little warmer welcome.
I don’t see why this story is so hard to believe.
It ain’t cheatin’ if your thinkin’ bout her!
Well, c’mon, gatopescado, look at the so-called “facts” in the OP. I’ll reproduce the relevant passage here:
Now, Jodi is asking us to believe that:
- She “walks” during the day.
- “They” have a “lunchroom”.
- The “lunchroom” coincidentally happens to be “small”.
- “Jodi” can “hear” something.
- “They” have a “receptionist”.
- “They” also have more than one “secretary”.
- The “receptionist” and “secretaries” talk to one another.
- Moreover, the “receptionist” emits slanderous gossip!
- Furthermore, the gossip was about “Jodi”.
- Specifically, the gossip was about her “skirt”.
- The “receptionist” uses Pig Latin.
- And, finally, the Pig Latin the “receptionist” uses is not competely translated from the original English!
Now think about this: what are the chances that all these things are actually true? Sure, maybe one or two, but when you stack up all twelve, the chances of this being a true anecdote are staggeringly small.
[sub]Note I used the word “slanderous”[/sub]
IMHO, the receptionist was trying to be particularly nasty by faux-pretending to conceal her comment from you.
I gather you’re not a partner yet? ('cuz if you’re a partner, that receptionist has gotta know that she ain’t getting a bonus this year)
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IMHO it’s really hot when a girl with some meat on her bones wears a little skirt. Was it a mini? Wanna post some pics and I’ll give you an honest appraisal?
Jodi, you’re a lawyer? I don’t believe you! You’re a liar!
I don’t believe that you don’t believe Jodi. You’re such a liar, Guin.
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I can’t believe you took the time to type all that out, astro.