# this is now **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 23, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-now/150325 "2003-01-23T00:48:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@Ana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ana)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-now/150325/21 "2003-01-23T03:00:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Peyote Coyote \* > \*\*Welcome to The Straight Dope, Ana. You appear to have a sense of humor at leat. \*\* // Thanks! It’s the same with the rest in my workplace, where I swear they recruit from prisons or insane asylums! ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-now/150325/22 "2003-01-23T03:05:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ana \* > \*\*// > Thanks! It’s the same with the rest in my workplace, where I swear they recruit from prisons or insane asylums! \*\* Tell your boss to stop stealing my best employees! ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-now/150325/23 "2003-01-23T11:13:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ana \* > \*\*// > Yes, you are correct! Except I couldn’t be a whore - I’d get treated far to well and get spoiled. \*\* You sure a funny kid, Ana… but I like you. Welcome. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-now/150325/24 "2003-01-23T11:36:16Z")
What is “//”? ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-now/150325/25 "2003-01-23T13:54:26Z")
// = quote break? The bit I don’t get is this: > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Ana_ > Me So Horney… It kind of popped up there, right in the middle. The “…” seemed to indicate that the following paragraph would explain why **Ana** felt that way. Somehow it was never mentioned again though. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-now/150325/26 "2003-01-23T18:08:37Z")
Well, I think she was just harkening back to the days of the free-associating beat poets of yore. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-now/150325/27 "2003-01-23T18:27:39Z")
That was like a carnival ride without the height requirement. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-now/150325/28 "2003-01-23T18:35:22Z")
I think I talk to her every time I call Ameritech. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-now/150325/29 "2003-01-23T18:49:01Z")
Me, I just read it in Grandpa Simpson’s voice… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-now/150325/30 "2003-01-23T19:58:25Z")
“Maybe if you pulled your ass out of her '‘sexy’ ass, you might notice the shit in your Austin Powers hairpiece, you stingy Cock!” He wears a hairpiece on his ass? And he sticks his ass in some chicks ass? Pictures Now!!! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-now/150325/31 "2003-01-23T22:02:37Z")
Heh heh… there’s a _butt_ inside that chick’s _butt_. With a _butt_ on it. That’s a squirrel, you dildo. No, Beavis, that’s a hairpiece. Yeah. Right. That guy’s got a hairpiece on his butt. I’m in heaven. ---
**Author:** ![Ana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@Ana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ana)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-now/150325/32 "2003-01-26T00:39:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Libertarian \* > \*\*What is “//”? \*\* Sorry, it’s a bad habit. The // is my way of separating what I type after a person’s quote, to seperate it from my response. I’ve just been on too many email groups where I can’t figure who said what in reply to whom, so I made the // to indicate where the last person’s quote ends and my response begins. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-now/150325/33 "2003-01-26T01:29:03Z")
Big deal. The problem is easily solved by having your husband sleep with your boss. No need to thank me, that’s why we moderators get the _big_ bucks. ---
**Author:** ![RexDart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-now/150325/34 "2003-01-26T01:34:30Z")
At this level of quality and subject matter, I’d like to recommend the OP consider using livejournal 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@Ana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ana)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-now/150325/35 "2003-01-26T01:38:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RexDart \* > \*\*At this level of quality and subject matter, I’d like to recommend the OP consider using livejournal 😉 \*\* I’ve considered it! But would all Doper’s come visit? Doubt it!😉 ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-now/150325/36 "2003-01-26T01:50:03Z")
Yet another piece of evidence proving that booty is more powerful than any qualifications one can list on a CV. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@Ana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ana)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-now/150325/37 "2003-01-26T02:02:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by danceswithcats \* > \*\*Yet another piece of evidence proving that booty is more powerful than any qualifications one can list on a CV. 😛 \*\* Exactly! My thing was this: my boss could’ve just said that we weren’t hiring, that the ecomony was slow, ect. But to tell me my husband couldn’t be considered for emploment because _he_ _was_ _my_ _husband_, pissed me off to the highest.(hey, you think you’re confused, how do ya’ think I felt?!) And my bosses’ comment about “…the husband and wife thing doesn’t work out” at the workplace is total vomit-mixed-with-bile. His paid-for-bitch is in the next room, three feet away, but I can’t have an application ~looked~ at. Besides, we have many “couples” working there. He was being a rude that’s all. ---
**Author:** ![Ana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@Ana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ana)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-now/150325/38 "2003-01-26T02:02:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by danceswithcats \* > \*\*Yet another piece of evidence proving that booty is more powerful than any qualifications one can list on a CV. 😛 \*\* Exactly! My thing was this: my boss could’ve just said that we weren’t hiring, that the ecomony was slow, ect. But to tell me my husband couldn’t be considered for emploment because _he_ _was_ _my_ _husband_, pissed me off to the highest.(hey, you think you’re confused, how do ya’ think I felt?!) And my bosses’ comment about “…the husband and wife thing doesn’t work out” at the workplace is total vomit-mixed-with-bile. His paid-for-bitch is in the next room, three feet away, but I can’t have an application ~looked~ at. Besides, we have many “couples” working there. He was being a rude that’s all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-now/150325.md?page=1)