Tuesday, November 27, 2007

POPULATION FACT

Something to think about!!

If the world were 100 people

There would be:

57 Asians

21 Europeans

14 from North and South America

8 Africans

52 would be female

48 would be male

70 would be nonwhite, 30 white

59% of the entire world's wealth would belong to only 6 people

and all 6 would be citizens of the United States

80 would live in substandard housing

70 would be unable to read

50 would suffer from malnutrition

1 would be near death

1 would be near birth

Only 1 would have a college education

99 of them will not see this message,

because only 1 would have a computer.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

The Writers’ Guild of America on Strike

O que se segue é um excerto da página do The Writers’ Guild of America.
Acho brilhante estes tipos terem na página com a localização dos locais onde devem apresentar-se para fazerem a greve, terem também sugestões de onde devem estacionar.
Isto é que é uma greve a sério..

Strike Information

WGAW members: if you have NOT been contacted before Monday morning by your Strike Captain with your shift and location, report to a either a morning shift or afternoon shift at a picket line location below. Please be sure to sign in.

Picketing Locations and Schedule - Week 2

Picketing Shifts, unless stated otherwise:
6 – 10am
10am – 2pm

CBS RADFORD STUDIOS
*Picketing Shifts: 6am-3pm ONLY AT CBS RADFORD
4024 Radford Avenue
Studio City, CA 91604 (MAP)
Meeting Point: In front of Main Gate on Radford Ave.
Parking Option: Street parking around site.

CBS TELEVISION CITY
7800 Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90036 (MAP)
Meeting Point: Genesee Ave Gate
Parking Option: Streets North of Beverly Blvd or Grove Parking Structure

DISNEY STUDIOS
500 S Buena Vista Street
Burbank, California 91521 (MAP)
Meeting Point: Meet west of the main gate on Alameda
Parking Option: Neighbourhood streets east of Disney (Parkside Dr.)

FOX STUDIOS
10201 W Pico Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90064 (MAP)
Meeting Point: Main Gate on Motor Ave. & Pico Blvd.
Parking Option: On Motor Ave near Cheviot Recreation Center or Century City Mall. Cheviot Hills Recreational Center Parking Lot, off Motor Ave (LA Parks and Rec) Walkable to Fox Lot.

NBC BURBANK
*Picketing Shifts: 9am-1pm & 1pm-5pm ONLY AT NBC BURBANK
3000 W Alameda Ave
Burbank, CA (MAP)
Meeting Point: Under the Johnny Carson sign - in the park
Parking Option: Street parking on California

PROSPECT STUDIOS
4151 Prospect Ave
Los Angeles, CA (MAP)
Meeting Point: Main Gate on Prospect Ave
Parking Option: Street parking on Prospect Ave.

PARAMOUNT STUDIOS / RALEIGH STUDIOS HOLLYWOOD
5555 Melrose Avenue (MAP) & 5300 Melrose Ave (MAP)
Los Angeles, CA 90038 Meeting Point: Windsor Gate
Parking Option: Streets south of Melrose

SONY PICTURES STUDIOS
10202 W. Washington Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232 (MAP)
Meeting Point: Gate 5--Main Gate
Parking Option: Streets SW Corner of Studio (Culver & Overland). Culver City veterans park (across the Street From Sony Studios (Walking Distance) over 200 Parking spaces in Public Park Lot)

UNIVERSAL STUDIOS
100 Universal City Plaza
Universal City, CA 91608 (MAP)
Meeting Point: Meet at the Metro stop on Lankershim & Campo de Cahuenga (NW corner)

WARNER BROS. STUDIOS
4000 Warner Boulevard
Burbank, CA 91522 (MAP)
Meeting Place: Gate 2-3 on Olive
Parking Option: Street parking around studio

Signatory Companies

The WGA is on strike as of 12:01 a.m. Monday November 5, 2007 against the following companies.


in http://www.wga.org/subpage_member.aspx?id=2536

Saturday, November 10, 2007

40 GREATEST INTERNET SUPERSTARS

40 GREATEST INTERNET SUPERSTARS #1 - #40
1. Gary Brolsma - Numa Numa kid
Gary Brolsma rose to fame in 2002 when the then 18 year old posted a video of himself lip-synching to a Romanian song "Numa Numa". In September 2006, he released a new version. Has been viewed over 13 million times (according to Wikipedia) and has spawned many parodies.

2. Ghyslain Raza - Star Wars Kid
The 2003 clip shows Quebec teen Ghyslain Raza performing Jedi light saber moves with a golf ball retriever. Shot in his high school, when his classmates found the tape they posted it on the internet. Raza sued the kids who swiped his tape, asking for 350-thousand dollars. The case was recently settled for an undisclosed amount.

3. Denny Blaze - The Average Homeboy
90's rap audition tapes from "average homeboy" Blazin Hazen. He returns presently teaming up with internet star Leslie "Gem Star" Hall in the video Cadillac Beats.

4. Jessica Rose - Lonelygirl15
An elaborate internet faux masterminded by three San Francisco friends. Lonelygirl15 posted video blogs from her bedroom of her strictly religious parents. Searching for love lonleygirl aka Bree, was portrayed by actress Jessica Rose.

5. Tila Tequila
A breakout my space unsigned music star Tila's page has netted 31.5 million hits, has her own clothing line, a cell phone endorsement, and she has appeared on the April cover of Stuff Magazine as well as Maxim.

6. Perez Hilton - Gossip blogger
Working as writer for gay magazines Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr. quit his job and since September 2005 has been working under the surname Perez Hilton. Sued twice, his blog site tripled hits when he was the first to post pictures of Angelina, Brad and Maddox in Kenya, and also the first to post Collin Farrell's sex tape. Hits jumped in one month from 70,000 hits per day to 700,000 making Perez a celebrity in his own right.

7. Chinese Backstreet Boys
Huang Yixen and Wei Wei's are two of China's biggest internet exports. Donning NBA jerseys, head gear and sitting in a dorm room they lip synch to the Backstreet Boy jam "I want it that way". The Back Dorm Boys maintain a Chinese-language blog through Sina.com. There is also an English-language "Dormitory Boys" blog on Blogger.com, but some readers suspect this is a hoax written by someone other than Wei Wei and Huang Yi Xin.

8. OK Go
The video features boy band dance choreography on treadmills. Choreographed by front man Damian Kulash's sister Trish the band practiced 16-20 times before they landed the single take that became one of the most watched clips in you tube history. The video made for only $4.99 (the cost of the videotape), the video became one of the most downloaded videos in you tube history.

9. Tom Anderson - Myspace Tom
Though Myspace Tom is the "face" of Myspace, he is very elusive. We never see interviews with him, though we have seen interviews with his colleagues. There have been parodies made of him by Myspace members, pretending to be him -- holding interviews, making comments, etc.

10. Ask a Ninja
Video blogs of two comedians dressed as Ninja's answering questions about Ninja's. Recent blogs are about how to get a hit done, and does the globalization of the world help or hurt the Ninja's. Big hit on you tube and they launched their own site askaninja.com

11. Mike Caracciolo - Kid from Brooklyn
Michael Caracciolo likes to express his views in a big way. Posting video blogs on his site thekidfrombrooklyn.com. Mike vents his views on a variety of subjects from gas prices, the war in Iraq and even Starbucks. Coincidentally, Mike lives in New Jersey not Brooklyn.

12. Fritz Globe & Stephen Voltz - Diet Coke and Mentos guys
Two scientist type characters see what happens when you combine mentos (the "Fresh Maker") with Diet Coke. They keep upping the anty and adding more 2 liters of Diet Coke and more mentos as the experiment goes on.

13. Kyle MacDonald - One Red Paperclip
The website one red paperclip was created by Kyle MacDonald, a Canadian blogger who bartered his way from a single paperclip to a house in a series of trades spanning almost exactly one year.

14. Noah Kalina
Noah took a picture of himself everyday for 6 years. The film 'everyday' will be shown on IFC (Independent Film Channel) during the month of November.

15. Jay Maynard - Tron Guy
Jay Maynard a single computer consultant from Minnesota started dressing up as the lead character from his favorite movie a few years ago before going to a science fiction convention. Since then he has gained a ton of popularity and even appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live several times.

16. Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell - Lazy Sunday
The film was viewed more than five million times at YouTube before NBC Universal asked the site to remove it, along with several other copyrighted NBC video clips in February 2006.

17. Lee Paige - Cop shoots self
DEA Agent Lee Page is lecturing to students in Florida on gun safety when he accidentally shoots himself in the foot with a handgun. Agent is attempting to sue US Government for releasing video.

18. Gino the Ginny
Started as a stunt to get then 10 year old Bronx native Gino famous. He had his cousin and NYU student videotape him during the blizzard of 2005. Mimicking the Italian American Guido's and Ginny's of the NY/NJ club scene the video clip which hit the internet a day after it was filmed was an instant hit. With 850,000 + hits on you tube so far Gino has become a celebrity in his own right with a record deal, speaking engagements an planned DVD of his stick, and 30,000+ my space friends

19. Tyson the Skateboarding Bulldog
Skateboarding bulldog Tyson zips around on his custom made skateboard. 4 year old Tyson started skating at 1 after his owner put him on and he took to it. Now he's a canine celebrity with film and TV credits, and even his own Myspace page.

20. Leslie Hall - Gem Sweater
Art school graduate and internet celebrity Leslie Hall loves Gem Sweaters and has a collection to boot, over 400! In the first of her and her bands "Leslie and the Les" videos she sings about her love for them. She's also done promos for MTV U, and launched her own website. Gem Sweaters.com

21. Little Superstar
Excerpt from the 1990 film Adhisaya Piravi starring Rajnikanth known as superstar. The clip which has found fame via the internet and was re-dubbed "little superstar"

22. Alabama Leprechaun
In 2006, a news station in Mobile Alabama did a story about people seeing a leprechaun in a tree (he only comes out at night). After the story ran, it was posted on youtube and received 2,497,000 hits and then a rap video/song was made from the footage ("Where Da Gold At") as well as a website where you can buy t-shirts and learn more.....

23. Matt Harding - Where The Hell is Matt?
Videogame writer/designer Matt quit his job in 2003 to travel the world with his savings. He kept a website to keep his family and friends up to date on where he was. Along the journey his friend suggested he dance at each location he went to. After the trip he decided to make the video.

24. Jack Rebney - RV Man
Jack Rebney, a.k.a Winnebago Man, has numerous outtakes and tirades pieced together by the video crew Mr. Rebney hired to assist in making a promotional video for marketing RVs. There are several versions of this file on YouTube featuring Winnebago Man's hatred for flies and several long swearing and cursing montages.

25. Mister Pregnant
Madman from New York City whose videos are offensive yet somehow hilarious.

26. geriactric1927
WWII vet with hugely popular YouTube videos -- 2nd most subscribed uploader.

27. Brian Atene - Stanley Kubrick audition
In 1984 wannabe thespian Brian Atene took bizarre accents and even stranger behavior to new levels in his video audition for Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket.

28. Stevie Ryan - Little Loca
Stevie Ryan is an out-of-work actress living in Los Angeles whose videos are consistently among the most viewed and discussed on YouTube (over a million viewers). She appears as different characters, such as the thickly accented Latina from East Los Angeles known as "Lil' Loca."

29. Chuck Norris
One of the most emailed lists ever, the "Chuck Norris Fact List" was original posted on website IRC. Partially inspired by Walker Texas Ranger jokes on Late Night with Conan O'Brien the the "facts" tend to involve absurdly exaggerated claims of Norris' toughness, attitude, virility, and masculinity. Chuck appeared on the best damn sports show period on Fox Sports and read the list.

30. Karyn Bosnak - Internet Beggar
The website that put internet begging on the map is savekaryn.com, a website started by a young tv producer who had gotten herself into 20,000 of credit card debt. Her website asked for donations to help her get out of debt and she eventually reached that goal. Her website attracted a lot of media attention in 2002; it was profiled on CNN and The Today Show. It also spawned the parody website dontsavekaryn.com.

31. Spongemonkeys
Joel Veitch MA is an animator, commercials director and singer / songwriter. He is the creator of the cult website rathergood.com which he began in 2000. Since then its unique menagerie of animals and songs - particularly his singing kittens and moon-obsessed Spongmonkeys - have developed a worldwide cult following. Joel is a co-founder of Tomboy Virals. He is also lead singer of the band 7 Seconds Of Love.

32. Ryan Holt - Balloon prank victim
USC Vice President gets pranked when guys from the student senate fill Ryan's room full of balloons and he starts yelling about the cost of the balloons and air. Look at him being serious!

33. Mahir Cagri
Turkish Mahir is looking for an American Woman, and what better place to look than the internet. Since starting his website where he looks for love he has landed on the Forbes 100 top celebrity list, been spoofed on SNL and put out a music video. Still single and trying to cash in on his popularity Mahir has been filming commercials in Europe and has several other projects in the works including a documentary on his life.

34. Chad Vader
Star Wars spoof featuring food co-op day shift manager "Chad Vader" Chad deals with his co-workers, does battle with his nemesis the night shift manager and tries to find love in this four part internet series.

35. Jenni Ringley - JenniCAM
From 1996 to 2003 viewers around the world could tune in 24/7 to see updated pictures of Jenni Ringley cleaning the kitchen, to taking a nap for 15.99 a year. Jenni closed down the site in 2003 due to pay pal's pornography rules.

36. Andy Milonakis
Fame began as on-line phenomenon. Web clips like "The Superbowl is Gay" led to appearances on Jimmy Kimmel show.

37. Rags the boxing kangaroo
Kangaroo attacks Marty the Monster, mascot from Australian TV show.

38. Cindy Margolis - World's Most Downloaded Woman
A pioneer in internet searches Cindy Margolis is by far and away the most searched person in the history of the internet. At her peak at age 34 in 1999 it was estimated persons were searching her name on average at a rate of 70,000 times per 24 hours. In 2000 the 2000 Guinness Book of World Records acknowledged her as the "most downloaded" person in 1999.

39. Ethan Chandler - Bank of America singer
Bank of America execs sing hilarious version of "One" with new lyrics about recent merger. Parodied by David Cross. U2's publisher threatened to sue.

40. Joanna Repsold - Ate a praying mantis
On a dare to get two guys to go to church Joanna eats a live praying mantis.

in http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/the_greatest/115766/episode_featured_copy.jhtml

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

orçamento de estado

socrátes: blá, blá, blá
santana flopes: sr primeiro ministro... blá? blá?blá? blá?
socrátes: blá, blá, (aplausos) blá, mas não reponde ao blá?blá?blá? blá?
comuna mor e unico ex-trabalhador/ex-operário:sr primeiro ministro... blá? blá?
socrátes: blá, blá, (aplausos) blá, mas não reponde ao blá?blá?
paulo portas: sr primeiro ministro... blá? blá?blá? blá?
socrátes: blá, blá, (aplausos) blá, mas não reponde ao blá?blá?
louçã: sr primeiro ministro... blá? blá?blá? blá?
socrátes: blá, blá, (aplausos) blá, mas não reponde ao blá?blá?
gajo dos verdes: sr primeiro ministro... blá? blá?blá? blá?
socrátes: blá, blá, (aplausos) blá, mas não reponde ao blá?blá?

conclusões; blá blá e muitos aplausos. também tenho a apontar que é de muito mau tom abandonar a sala quando os outros partidos fazem as suas questões. Não sei quem teve a brilhante ideia de começar esta história mas é lamentável. Mas vindo de quem vêm (entenda-se: deputados) não é nada de admirar..

Monday, November 05, 2007

lobby gay

Muitas vezes fala-se de lobbys disto lobbys daquilo, há quem fale do lobby da opus dei ou da maçonaria. São os loggys mais falados e também os mais poderosos porque envolvem, normalmente pessoas com muito dinheiro.

Infelizmente ninguém fala do lobby gay e é meu dever chamar a atenção a para este lobby. Este lobby é poderoso, e tem grande influência na tv. De tal maneira que há certos canais em que podemos estar várias horas sem ver um único heterossexual. Estou neste momento a ver um dos vários paneleiros que todos os dias entram em nossas casas. Acho que vou mudar de canal.

Estou melhor agora. Mas é curioso como é possível estarmos o dia todo a ver paneleiros. Será que já não apresentadores/jornalistas que não sejam gays? Estou a falar de homens e de mulheres, é que elas também lá estão e são mais do que imaginamos.

Até a sony music fez uma nova editora de música só para músicos gays..

so true....

nem eles imaginavam o futuro....

Sunday, November 04, 2007

Ever been mistaken in something you said?

Please note that none of these quotes have been authenticated. In fact I've removed some of them that I knew was false including the 680k statement from Bill Gates which he never said and the quote from the patent department which is also incorrect.

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
--Ken Olson, president, chairman, and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you. ' And they said, 'No. ' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet."'
--Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and HP interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible."
--A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
"A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make."
--Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.
"But what ... is it good for?"
--Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year."
--The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper."
--Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone With The Wind."
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
H. M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"
--David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
--Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this."
--Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3M Post-It Notepads.
"You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles? It can't be done. It's just a fact of life. You just have to accept inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable condition of weight training."
--Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the "unsolvable" problem by inventing Nautilus.
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
--Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. '
--Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."
--Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.
"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."
-- 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
--Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
--Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."
--Western Union internal memo, 1876.
"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon."
--Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.
"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction."
--Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy."
--Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.
in http://256.com/gray/quotes/mistaken.html

6meses

por favor não façam um especial 7 meses...

já chega...

I wish it was me up there....

tempo

Dizem que todos os dias temos que comer uma maçã para o ferro e uma banana para o potássio.
Também uma laranja, para a vitamina C, meio melão para melhorar a digestão e umachávena de chá verde sem açúcar para prevenir a diabetes.Todos os dias temos que beber dois litros de água sim, e logo a seguir fazer xi-xi, que leva quase o dobro do tempo que os levei a beber).
Todos os dias temos que tomar um Activia ou um iogurte para ter 'L. Cassei Defensis', que ninguém sabe exactamente que merda é que é mas parece que se não ingeres um milhão e meio todos os dias começas a ver toda a gente com uma grande diarreia ou presos dos intestinos. Cada dia uma aspirina, para prevenir os enfartes mais um copo de vinho tinto, para a mesma coisa.
E outro de vinho branco, para o sistema nervoso. E um de cerveja, que já não me lembro para que era. Se os tomares todos juntos mesmo que te dê um derrame cerebral ali mesmo não te preocupes pois o mais certo é que nem te dês conta disso. Todos os dias tens que comer fibras. Muita, muitíssima fibra até que sejas capaz de defecar uma camisolona bem grossa. Tens que fazer quatro a seis refeições diárias leves sem te esqueceres de mastigar cem vezes cada garfada.

Ora, fazendo um pequeno cálculo apenas a comer vão-se assim de repente umas cinco horitas. Ah, depois de cada refeição deves escovar bem os dentes, ou seja: depois do Activia e da fibra os dentes depois da maçã os dentes depois da banana os dentes e assim, enquanto tiveres dentes sem te esqueceres nunca de passar o fio dental massajador das gengivas e bochechar com PLAX...
Melhor, amplifica a casa de banho e põe a aparelhagem de música lá porque entre a água, a fibra e os dentes vais passar horas quase metade do dia ali dentro. Equipa-o também de jornais e revistas para te pores a par do que se passa enquanto sentado na sanita. Temos que dormir oito horas e trabalhar outras oito mais as cinco que usamos a comer, faz vinte e uma.
Restam três horas sempre que não surja algum imprevisto.
Segundo as estatísticas, vemos três horas de televisão diárias. Bem, já não podes porque todos os dias devemos caminhar pelo menos uma meia hora (dado por experiência: ao fim de 15 minutos regressa senão andas mas é uma hora!) E há que cuidar das amizades porque são como uma planta: temos que as regar diariamente. E quando vais de férias, também suponho senão as plantas morrem nas férias. Para além disso há que estar bem informado e ler pelo menos um dos jornais diários e outro de uma revista séria para comparar a informação.

Ah! E temos que ter sexo todos os dias mas sem caír na rotina: temos que ser inovadores, criativos, renovar a sedução. Isso leva o seu tempo. E já nem estamos a falar do sexo tântrico!! ( A respeito disso, relembro: depois de cada refeição temos que escovar os dentes!) Também temos que arranjar tempo para a maquilhagem, a depilação/fazer a barba, varrer a casa, lavar a roupa, lavar os pratos e já nem digo, os que têm gatos, cães pássaros e uma catrefada de filhos...

No total, a mim dá-me umas 29 horas diárias se nunca parares. A única possibilidade que me ocorre é fazer várias destas coisas ao mesmo tempo: por exemplo, tomas duche com água fria e com a boca aberta, e assim bebes logo os dois litros de água de uma vez.
Enquanto sais do banho com a escova de dentes na boca, vais fazendo o amor, o sexo tântrico, parado, junto ao teu mais que tudo, que de passagem vê TV e te vai contando o que se passa,
enquanto varres a casa. Sobrou-te uma mão livre?
Telefona aos teus amigos e aos teus pais! Bebe o vinho (depois de telefonares aos teus pais vai fazer-te falta!). O iogurte com a maçã pode dar-te o teu par enquanto ele come a banana com a Activia.
No dia seguinte troquem. E menos mal que já crescemos, porque senão tínhamos que engolir mais umas cerelacs e um Danoninho Extra Cálcio todos os santos dias. Úuuuf!
Mas se te restam 2 minutos, reenvia isto aos teus amigos (que temos que regar como as plantas) enquanto comes uma colherzinha de Muesli ou Al-Bran, que faz muito bem...
E agora vou deixar-te porque entre o iogurte, o meio melão o primeiro litro de água e a terceira refeição do dia já não faço a mínima ideia o que é que estou a fazer porque preciso urgentemente de uma casa de banho.

Ah, vou aproveitar e levo comigo a escova de dentes...

Craigslist Meets WallStreet… Classic!

FOUND ON CRAIG'S LIST - what an awesome answer...


What am I doing wrong?

Okay, I'm tired of beating around the bush. I'm a beautiful (spectacularly beautiful) 25 year old girl. I'm articulate and classy.
I'm not from New York . I'm looking to get married to a guy who makes at least half a million a year. I know how that sounds, but keep in mind that a million a year is middle class in New York City, so I don't think I'm overreaching at all.

Are there any guys who make 500K or more on this board? Any wives? Could you send me some tips? I dated a business man who makes average around 200 - 250. But that's where I seem to hit a roadblock. 250,000 won't get me to central park west. I know a woman in my yoga class who was married to an investment banker and lives in Tribeca, and she's not as pretty as I am, nor is she a great genius. So what is she doing right? How do I get to her level?

Here are my questions specifically:

- Where do you single rich men hang out? Give me specifics- bars, restaurants, gyms

-What are you looking for in a mate? Be honest guys, you won't hurt my feelings

-Is there an age range I should be targeting (I'm 25)?

- Why are some of the women living lavish lifestyles on the upper east side so plain? I've seen really 'plain jane' boring types who have nothing to offer married to incredibly wealthy guys. I've seen drop dead gorgeous girls in singles bars in the east village. What's the story there?

- Jobs I should look out for? Everyone knows - lawyer, investment banker, doctor. How much do those guys really make? And where do they hang out? Where do the hedge fund guys hang out?

- How you decide marriage vs. just a girlfriend? I am looking for MARRIAGE ONLY

Please hold your insults - I'm putting myself out there in an honest way. Most beautiful women are superficial; at least I'm being up front about it. I wouldn't be searching for these kind of guys if I wasn't able to match them - in looks, culture, sophistication, and keeping a nice home and hearth.

it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
PostingID: 432279810


THE ANSWER
Dear Pers-431649184:

I read your posting with great interest and have thought meaningfully about your dilemma. I offer the following analysis of your predicament.
Firstly, I'm not wasting your time, I qualify as a guy who fits your bill; that is I make more than $500K per year. That said here's how I see it.

Your offer, from the prospective of a guy like me, is plain and simple a crappy business deal. Here's why. Cutting through all the B.S., what you suggest is a simple trade: you bring your looks to the party and I bring my money. Fine, simple. But here's the rub, your looks will fade and my money will likely continue into perpetuity…in fact, it is very likely that my income increases but it is an absolute certainty that you won't be getting any more beautiful!

So, in economic terms you are a depreciating asset and I am an earning asset. Not only are you a depreciating asset, your depreciation accelerates! Let me explain, you're 25 now and will likely stay pretty hot for the next 5 years, but less so each year. Then the fade begins in earnest. By 35 stick a fork in you!

So in Wall Street terms, we would call you a trading position, not a buy and hold…hence the rub…marriage. It doesn't make good business sense to "buy you" (which is what you're asking) so I'd rather lease. In case you think I'm being cruel, I would say the following. If my money were to go away, so would you, so when your beauty fades I need an out. It's as simple as that. So a deal that makes sense is dating, not marriage.

Separately, I was taught early in my career about efficient markets. So, I wonder why a girl as "articulate, classy and spectacularly beautiful"
as you has been unable to find your sugar daddy. I find it hard to believe that if you are as gorgeous as you say you are that the $500K hasn't found you, if not only for a tryout.

By the way, you could always find a way to make your own money and then we wouldn't need to have this difficult conversation.

With all that said, I must say you're going about it the right way.
Classic "pump and dump."
I hope this is helpful, and if you want to enter into some sort of lease, let me know.

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Friday, November 02, 2007

Next time you have a bad day at work, think of this guy: Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana. He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an email he sent to his sister. She then sent it to Laughline, who was sponsoring a "worst job experience" contest. Needless to say, she won.

Hi Sue,

Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother. Last week I had bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's not so bad after all.

Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job. As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wetsuit. This time of year the water is quite cool. So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature. It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose. Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times with no complaints. What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wetsuit. This floods my whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a Jacuzzi.

Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse. Within a few seconds my butt started to burn. I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was done. In agony I realized what had happened. The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. Now since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't stick to it. However, the crack of my butt was not as fortunate. When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into my butt. I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with 5 other divers, were all laughing hysterically.Needless to say I aborted the dive. I was instructed to make 3 agonizing in-water decompression stops totaling 35 minutes before I could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression. When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet. As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber. The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't poop for 2 days because my butthole was swollen shut.

So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your butt.



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