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Achewood => Achewood => Topic started by: fnord on January 20, 2009, 03:05:39 pm
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http://chrisonstad.blogspot.com/2009/01/good-employee-is-available-in-this-land.html
I wonder, if -- hypothetically -- I would hire Onstad's former warehouse guy (who, doing this job for a while certainly must have spent some time physically near Onstad), then lock him up in my basement and never allow him to wash or shower, how long do you think I could preserve the oh so sweet aroma of Onstad in his clothes and hair?
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Well, after he signed my arm, I thought about never washing it, but I shortly had to admit it just wasn't practical. So I can't help you.
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All I know is that if I was the dude's parents and had paid for him to go to fuck*ng Stanford, I would be pissed if he didn't aspire to anything more than "Shipping Clerk."
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Does he smell nice? I didn't realise he smelt nice.
Have you considered just asking what aftershave he uses or something?
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All I know is that if I was the dude's parents and had paid for him to go to fuck*ng Stanford, I would be pissed if he didn't aspire to anything more than "Shipping Clerk."
Oh, you know, he's probably writing the great American novel in his spare time. Or the great American screenplay, or whatever these kids do nowadays.
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Shipping Clerk my ass, he was Warehouse Manager.
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I studied philosophy and religious studies at a pretty decent university and I am a milkman. Prior to that, I worked in factories, cafeterias and as a postman. And I never stayed at most of those jobs for very long. But it's my life, right? That's just the nature of the beast. I hope my parents love me nonetheless.
Maybe a person who was inclined to study philosophy and religious studies isn't much inclined to place the same high value on the conventional status of their job.
What was it my man said earlier today? Something about 'the makers of things'.
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Where do you live that you can still be a milkman? I believed they are extinct in the US.
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I studied philosophy and religious studies at a pretty decent university and I am a milkman. Prior to that, I worked in factories, cafeterias and as a postman. And I never stayed at most of those jobs for very long. But it's my life, right? That's just the nature of the beast. I hope my parents love me nonetheless.
Maybe a person who was inclined to study philosophy and religious studies isn't much inclined to place the same high value on the conventional status of their job.
What was it my man said earlier today? Something about 'the makers of things'.
I didn't suggest that they no longer loved him. Just that they'd be pissed.
I was a philosophy major too. I understand that you are not your job.
I have also had (many) nothing jobs and (a few) jobs that related to my education and interests. The second kind are much more fulfilling.
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Philosophy here too! How many of us are there? Far too many.
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He says he is the milkman because he is modest. He really means that he nonstop sexes up the place.
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Great American iPhone Application is what the kids are into these days.
Christ, I'm twenty-nine and I only just figured out how to properly draw a cartoon caricature of myself.
I feel like a Brian Wilson song, sometimes.
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AW - Bully for you, pal. I truthfully aspire to sit behind a desk and write ponderous philosophical musings for a living. The aspiration don't make it so.
I suppose I'll concede that common filth like me don't need to actually pay university tuition in Scotland, so my parents wouldn't have to decide whether they liked me having their unconditional goodwill or their money more.
Which answers Wombat's question. I'd be interested to know if there were any milkmen still operating in the U.S. Maybe rurally? The supermarkets naturally have ripped the arse out of the milkman gig in the towns, but the countryside is still keeping it going (for now). I grew up in San Diego and I certainly never saw a milkman there. It's a fine life, and there is plenty of time for philosophising.
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Just to double-post, since I'm a) making friends as usual, and b) making this thread all about me...
you can still get your milk delivered by a milkman in the Boston area: http://www.crescentridge.com/
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you can still get your milk delivered by a milkman in the Boston area: http://www.crescentridge.com/
That is nice to know.
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I'd be interested to know if there were any milkmen still operating in the U.S. Maybe rurally? \
Oberweis offers this in the midwest: http://www.oberweis.com/web/homedelivery.asp
However, their owner appears to fancy hunting illegal immigrants from helicopters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nst-aXvdrR4&feature=PlayList&p=BC1C244BF3D01AF7&playnext=1&index=7
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There is a place in denver that does it.
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All I know is that if I was the dude's parents and had paid for him to go to fuck*ng Stanford, I would be pissed if he didn't aspire to anything more than "Shipping Clerk."
BIG assumption that his parents paid for it. BIG one.
I went to a private college, and some of the girls were there because Daddy had money (there was a Mustang in the parking lot every day with the license tag "DADS$$$," it made me want to spit), but a lot of us were there because we and/or our parents took out enormous loans, worked our way through, or some combination therof.
I studied philosophy and religious studies at a pretty decent university and I am a milkman. Prior to that, I worked in factories, cafeterias and as a postman. And I never stayed at most of those jobs for very long. But it's my life, right? That's just the nature of the beast. I hope my parents love me nonetheless.
After attending the aforementioned private college, I went 60 grand into debt to get an MA in History so that I could stay home with my 2 kids and occasionally review video games for no pay. I think I win the "underemployment" competition.
(Before you ask, it was 2 grand a year for six years for tuition, and the rest for "living expenses" when we were stuck trying to sell a home we could no longer afford. And yes, paying it back over the next ten years is going to be EXTREMELY painful.)
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Philosophy here too! How many of us are there? Far too many.
Philosophy minor here.
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If I didn't have to work, I'd definitely go back to school. The path is an end in itself, IMO. I came this close to dropping back in last year, but then knocked my wife up and so deferred those dreams for a while.
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Children do have a way of destroying one's dreams.
...says guy who has no kids.
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Children do have a way of destroying changing one's dreams.
FTFY
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I just dropped my kind-of-philosophy major because... I realized that I absolutely hate philosophy.
My parents told me at some point, I forget when, that they have always assumed I would find some job that was entirely worthless to society but which I enjoyed. Now I am wondering if I will even find that.
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but dan you found that: anthropology.
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I thought I would like philosophy but I hated it too, besides like basic logic and ethics, which I don't know if they are really philosophy, but they were phil11-- classes, so.
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I've found that I enjoy political philosophy and ethics to a certain degree, but I could never see myself as a philosophy major.
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Oh, you know, he's probably writing the great American novel in his spare time. Or the great American screenplay, or whatever these kids do nowadays.
He should get Onstad to create a graphic resumefor him in the form of one of those Rube Golbergian flowcharts he draws.
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Ooo, I want my resume done that way. Onstad should offer it as a service. I don't need any more tshirts but I'd definitely pay for that.
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Here's a thought -- how about a strip? Wouldn't that be a nice change?
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invented the Zippo
Holy Fuck! Thank you.
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Zippos are pretty cool and I want one but I would have no use for it since I don't smoke (anymore).
Would I smoke just to have a Zippo? No. (maybe)
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See I do smoke, but a regular throw away Bic is more reliable and can be used to smoke other things, so I don't use a Zippo. Freshman year of college the place where you could buy snacks with the money they made your parents put on a card sold Zippos and I had about twenty, but now I just have one that I saved from that at random and one that I got when my grandfather died.
However, the expression it's not like he invented the zippo is as cool as a zippo should be.
Seriously, those bitches are always out of fuel and if you just make a circle around your smoke with your hand your bic is as good as a Zippo is supposed to be in the wind
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I think the Zippo adds a little something to every situation. It is like smoking a pipe, picking up a branch for a walking stick, or (hand)writing a letter.
...and you can engrave them with reasons why Vietnam is fucked up.
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2270/2293876547_04d0e0d5a8.jpg?v=0)
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I think it's because they make a cool clicking sound as you open them. Ain't nothing that isn't improved by a sharp 'snikt'.
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Man posting in this thread has really made me want to break out the old zippos.
Those things are cool, just not very practical.
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'snikt'
That's some nice onomatopoeia there, Doc.
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mad wolverine stylezz
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That's some nice onomatopoeia there, Doc.
Thankyou, though it's not mine. It is a nice one.
mad wolverine stylezz
Nice catch bub.
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A very bad boyfriend bought me a very nice zippo when I was in high school. I learned to do a few tricks with it, which I used in lame attempts to pick up other guys after I broke up with the first one.
Nothing like the scent of lighter fluid on a fresh smoke first thing in the A.M.
Except, you know, not dying of cancer.
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I have a Zippo because and only because it has my (deceased) grandfather's signature engraved into it. I have no idea where it came from (he was not a smoker, nor a vain man who would want to see his name written on various pocket-sized smoking accessories) but it's a handsome little keepsake. I plan to get it into working condition so I can use it on the very few special occasions that I smoke a cigar.