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    Image of DaveCrabtree DaveCrabtree
    08/20/09

    In reply to The WSJ's Threadbare Fashion Advice for the Unemployed
    Good news, Brian. I think Don Draper sticks with white pocket squares, so no need for you to buy a new one with the rest of the new outfit. I'm sure you've got sitting in your top dresser drawer a dozen recently laundered and ironed linen handkerchiefs that would be suitable. No?
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    Image of Queen of the Passive Aggressives Queen of the Passive Aggressives
    08/20/09

    In reply to The WSJ's Threadbare Fashion Advice for the Unemployed
    Clean, dirty, new or old a low cut blouse works at any interview.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    08/20/09

    @Queen of the Passive Aggressives: Not if your tits are better than your potential boss's, doll!
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    Image of Queen of the Passive Aggressives Queen of the Passive Aggressives
    08/20/09

    @BookishLookish: It would be hard to find a female C level so I should be all set!
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    Image of sparky sparky
    08/20/09

    In reply to The WSJ's Threadbare Fashion Advice for the Unemployed
    "Dress for the job they want, not the job they don't have." I'm now imagining the city filled with people dressed like firemen and ballerinas.
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    if_i_only_had_a_heart promoted this comment Edited by sparky at 08/20/09 1:29 PM sparky was starred sparky was unstarred
    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    08/20/09

    @sparky: and astronauts, cowboys, super heros ... every time i see a kid at the supermarket wearing dressup stuff i admire the parents who let them be who they are
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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    08/20/09

    @sparky: Sexist!
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    Image of shostakobitch shostakobitch
    08/20/09

    In reply to The WSJ's Threadbare Fashion Advice for the Unemployed
    the real key here, and this is often overlooked, is don't wash your clothes unless they smell completely revolting. washing clothes is like wearing them while you lean on things and eat hot dogs or carl's jr.

    ladies - if you are experiencing a particularly heavy estrus just spritz some febreze in the crotch of your favorite pair of ben davis slacks. that'll keep you from smelling like the autoclave room down at the local blood bank.

    men - try to limit the amount of farts you push through your pants. maybe find a stairwell, pull them down and purge that gas. or put activated charcoal packets in your underwear.

    normally these tips 'n tricks might sound a little "european" but we're living in recessiaggedon now and this is only going to get worse before it gets better. start thinking about dropping the local cooper a line to ask about the off-season clearance sales of barrels with suspenders attached. it's never to early!
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    Image of bens bens
    08/20/09

    @shostakobitch: Is turning your pants inside-out and wearing them again acceptable? What's the 'proper' way to wear a cumberbund?
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    Image of shostakobitch shostakobitch
    08/20/09

    @bens: pants inside out is ok but how are you going to access the skoal long-cut in the back pocket?

    a cumberbund is to be worn just under the breasts of the bridesmaid you're copulating with in a rented buick lucerne outside the wedding reception. she caught the bouquet!
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    Image of dog door dog door
    12/12/08

    In reply to Now You're Just Trying to Piss Us Off
    i think i speak for everyone when I say HAHAHAHAHHA

    BWWWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAH
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    12/12/08

    @dog door: Word up.


    oh wait...do the cool kids still say that?

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    Image of scarletmenace scarletmenace
    12/12/08

    In reply to Now You're Just Trying to Piss Us Off
    Did you not see the article in Styles this week about how the riches are -- gasp -- having to let their help go? God I love the Times.
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    Image of arguablythemostfamous arguablythemostfamous
    12/12/08

    In reply to Now You're Just Trying to Piss Us Off
    oh my god, and I heard kimberly's mom is making her do CHORES because that lazy whore only wants to pay for the maid to come every OTHER week instead of every week, and madison's mom cut her allowance so much that she can only afford ONE eight ball a week, and even then they make her share with her DUMB SISTER, who needs it to stay skinny now that she can't have her personal trainer anymore and, please, she's not going to a PUBLIC spinning class.
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    Image of Voyou_Charmant Voyou_Charmant
    12/12/08

    In reply to Acting Poor Is the Newest Obnoxious Trend for the Rich
    Yeah, you damn kids, save the economy by not going out and spending any money at all. Stay home and keep your money under your mattress.
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    Image of Bitter Poor Bitter Poor
    12/12/08

    In reply to Now You're Just Trying to Piss Us Off
    You know how in some countries they make you do mandatory military service? Here, they should make people do mandatory food service...service.


    The point is the same, it's just that in the military you try to avoid dying, and in food service, you just wish you COULD die.

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    Image of Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
    12/12/08

    In reply to Now You're Just Trying to Piss Us Off
    I got a job when I was under 16 at a daycare, that said my being under that age was cool. 3/4 of the way through my second day, they said actually it's not cool, we can't pay you for the time you've already spent here but we'd be happy to take you as a volunteer.
    Not poop in the urinal, but I remember this as a bitter pill.
    Of course if I'd thought of pooping somewhere creative, I might have done it.
    Not that daycare workers have much of a problem with poop.
    20 years later and I still can't win.
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    Image of sakade sakade
    12/12/08

    In reply to Now You're Just Trying to Piss Us Off
    I worked in a box office and an angry customer once bled all over the counter. Thank god there was a little window separating us. I've never used so much bleach cleaner in my entire life.


    And I still clean the toilets today, at my current job. Yay arts administration!

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    Image of Colonel Mustard Colonel Mustard
    12/12/08

    In reply to Now You're Just Trying to Piss Us Off
    What I want to know is why her selfish-ass mother isn't doing the babysitting so she can give her daughter a real allowance. Kimber Davenport doesn't have to fucking babysit to pay for her take-out sushi, and her parents both got second jobs to make sure she wouldn't have to tutor some snot-nosed townie, either.


    Jodi's parents would probably love her more if she lost those five pounds though, you know it. That's what's sad.

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    Image of Seeräuber Jenny Seeräuber Jenny
    12/12/08

    In reply to Now You're Just Trying to Piss Us Off
    BTW, did I miss a post on the NYT article, "Great Meals for Two, Under $100 (It's Possible)."


    Or would that have been too much like shooting saumon fumé in a barrel? The conspiratorial wink of the parenthetical in the headline really makes it. And the comments were great.


    [www.nytimes.com]


    My feeling is that the people who can afford to spend $100 for two on a meal (not including wine) can damn well find restos on their own. For the rest of the readership, servicey it's not. Insulting it is.

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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    12/12/08

    @Seeräuber Jenny: Please tell me you're kidding. I must've missed that one while as at that work boondoggle place. Not that you'd know from the comment-whore i've become.
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    Image of EleanorRigby EleanorRigby
    12/12/08

    In reply to Now You're Just Trying to Piss Us Off
    I'm from Woodcliff Lake. Spot on.*


    *Note: I did not have the same upbringing.

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    Image of bringmemyTofu bringmemyTofu
    12/12/08

    @EleanorRigby: I always loved playing at your little league field. You guys had a nice fence, lights, the works. So, uh, nice work.
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    Image of EleanorRigby EleanorRigby
    12/12/08

    @bringmemyTofurkey: Sounds like our tax dollars. Have you seen the new multi-million dollar town pool that no one uses? Good thing they got that instead of a town library.
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    EleanorRigby was starred EleanorRigby was unstarred
    Image of bringmemyTofu bringmemyTofu
    12/12/08

    @EleanorRigby: No. I have only been to the baseball field and the movie theater (if we were desperate and a particular film wasn't playing in Emerson).
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    Image of blix blix
    12/12/08

    In reply to Now You're Just Trying to Piss Us Off
    The sink I can understand but in the urinal is just tacky! I guess it's just the way I was raised.
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    Image of mfnher mfnher
    12/12/08

    @blix: I knew a girl who was a manager at Kohl's. She said that people used to do in the dressing rooms. She made $60,000/year, though.
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    Image of blix blix
    12/12/08

    @mfnher: Somehow the fact that it wasn't even in a bathroom makes it even more revolting. It's like you open the door and it takes a second for it to sink in. Hmmm...something is a bit amiss here. OMFG!!
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    Image of mfnher mfnher
    12/12/08

    @blix: Yeah, and not putting the clothes back on the hangers was just an extra slap in the face.
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