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raincoaster
12/03/09

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I'm going to use this as an excuse for all career fallow periods from now on. "I was too important for Google to hire."
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Pope John Peeps II
12/02/09

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Wandering the halls of Google one day, I came across a load of bullshit.

"Hey, I said. I know a whole lot of other loads of bullshit that I'd like to bring on board and present at the next conference."

The load of bullshit stopped me

"No," said the load of bullshit, "it's important to save some loads of bullshit for later conferences. It's important to the ecosystem. After all, if we concentrate our loads of bullshit in one conference, we won't have any other loads of bullshit to spread around later."

That's great, I said. Then I killed myself.
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Botswana Meat Commission FC
12/02/09

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In the new economy we're all superstars.
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HenryLovesFonzie
12/02/09

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"It's not that I don't love you, it's just that you're such a good guy you need to get out there and share yourself with other women. It'll be better for us both in the long run."
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BadUncle
12/02/09

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This just makes me want to snuggle up to my Google pillow and dream Googley dreams of Googleness.
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MiracleDrug
12/02/09

@BadUncle: Just makes me wanna take Google into my arms and lay it down and Google it.
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NYM
12/02/09

@BadUncle: This just makes me want to Google into the toilet.
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Seeräuber Jenny
12/02/09

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We'd love to hire you, but you're just too damned ... GOOD.

(Although it's easy to propound in a total buyer's market, the theory does make some sense.)
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Thatcornellguy
12/02/09

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So...according to Google, you can sustain yourself and pay for things with your awesomeness alone? You don't need a job or a paycheck for that?
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AzureTexan
12/02/09

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That's the logic God will use when he rejects my entry to Heaven. Right?
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Lysergic Asset
12/02/09

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I heard they stole that tactic from Gawker Media.
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Claire Buoyant
12/02/09

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I'll be sure to put "I'm too good for Google" on my resume right away.
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rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny
12/02/09

@Claire Buoyant: Don't forget to add that you're also too cool for school.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
12/02/09

@Claire Buoyant: Let's not forget Bing. One can also be too beautiful for Steve Bing.
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Helio
12/01/09

In reply to I Have a Dream That One Day Blacks And Whites Will Die Together in Poverty
first: I'm very good friends with one of the guys quoted in the Black Dudes Still Can't Get A Job No Matter What They Do story. Hopefully, if someone googles him before an interview (do people do this?) it will guilt someone into hiring him! I am googleable by a quote I gave to the Times, but it's a really stupid one about Barack Obama.

Second: every time I glance in the direction of my diploma, then glance at the stack of loan bills which just replaced the "$0.00 due," with real numbers I get angry at myself for having a really foreign name/not becoming an engineer. Curse you, prestigious university for not living up to your end of the deal!
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ParahSalin
12/01/09

@Helio: You think you've got it tough. I found out this weekend that someone I went out on a date with in my youth, and blew off because I didn't think she was good enough for me, is a celebrity journalist with her own TV show making mad money. I could have been part of a celebrity power gay couple, without having to bring any celebrity or power of my own to the table. Christ, why didn't I recognize my own inadequacies and just marry well? She's in People magazine, and I'm buying a helper to stretch my hamburger budget. Now, if you'll all excuse me, I think I need to go and weep.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
12/01/09

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This is true. My husband is a white white white man who looks like Senior Middle Management from Central Casting, Circa 1963, and the way he is treated just walking into a room, the respect he is accorded just for looking like that, bugs the living crap out of me. He is smart and worked hard and has lots of degrees, but he is granted authority based on appearance that people who don't look like that won't have for at least another 50 years -- just for showing up.
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Dirty_Terry
12/01/09

@If_I_Had_a_Poodle: This reminds me of the Jon Hamm episode of 30 Rock.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
12/01/09

@Dirty_Terry: Yes
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AzureTexan
12/01/09

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"Experts say your best strategy is not 'going to college.' Instead, it is 'Being white.'

The experts did caution, however, that this is poor advice for those wishing to become NBA power forwards and/or gangsta rappers.
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ambitious
12/01/09

@AzureTexan: Nothings says fresh and topical like "gangsta rappers."

Very Mad TV.
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pollyannacowgirl
12/01/09

@AzureTexan: Honestly, this is what happened to me (it wasn't a strategy). I don't have a degree, but people assume I do, since I look and speak a certain way. I've certainly gone a lot farther than I should have.
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AzureTexan
12/01/09

@pollyannacowgirl: Conversely, I have a college degree but still can't figure out the "setup" function of my remote control. Go figure.
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Mrs. Beeton
12/01/09

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But what if Black people go to a college that teaches them how to be White? BYU or some such thing.
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howYOUdoin
12/01/09

@Mrs. Beeton: I think they have to go to the college where whites are taught to see black people as if they were white.

Or some such thing.
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The Real JR
12/01/09

In reply to I Have a Dream That One Day Blacks And Whites Will Die Together in Poverty
I, too, look forward to when food stamps will be issued with the face of Mr. Drummond because he also had a crackhead daughter who lost her baby to the state, did some porn and held up a dry cleaners cause of course that's where the big money is (ask Mr. Jefferson) and he would have probably been in foreclosure and on gubment Medicare after Maddoff took his money if NBC shows were real-life... just to remind both Blacks & Whites how everything just evens out while you're waiting for your styrofoam plate of steamed crablegs with broccoli bought with a book of WhatchooTalkinBouts. (Food stamps still come in books of bills, right? Man I'm old school.)
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
12/01/09

@The Real JR:
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BookishLookish
12/01/09

@The Real JR: But Real, what of Florence!!? And what does Dana Plato have to do with this, she was on another show, right?
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