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How many Christmas cards did you get?
Topic Started: Dec 24 2006, 11:36 AM (722 Views)
Mikhailoh
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kenny
Dec 24 2006, 06:49 PM
Mik there are a range of people.
That's why I love to speak up and watch your reaction to many of my thoughts.
You seem to have no experience with people who think like me.

People vary.

It is likely the ones who are offended by your use of Christmas as an opportunity to get in some advertising, "hand-written and personal"  or not, are, like me, too gracious to tell you.
I don't tell my insurance agent, it's not that big of a deal really.
I just think less of her for it.
Next year I give my business to her or not regardless of the card thing.

Advertising is advertising, people aren't stupid.

Aw, Kenny.. that's not true. I work in hospitals. I've met plenty of bitter old queens.

Some of them are even my friends, like our designer, but I've never had one personally attack me on Christmas Eve. Just you. Classy.

In my line of business I work side by side with people in the trenches for months or years at a time. It is as much like a co-worker as anything else. I know their kids' and their spouses' names and they mine. We share successes and failures, drinks and dinners and lunches that have not a thing to do with more business or even the current engagement. I should hope you share cards with your co-workers. It would be incredibly sad if you did not.

So you see, in your desire to lash out, for which I have tried to avoid irritating you lately, you have stuck your foot in your mouth over things you know less than nothing about. I hope the leather is not too chewy there.

Have a Merry Christmas. :rolleyes2:
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kenny
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Mikhailoh
Dec 24 2006, 03:05 PM
kenny
Dec 24 2006, 06:49 PM
Mik there are a range of people.
That's why I love to speak up and watch your reaction to many of my thoughts.
You seem to have no experience with people who think like me.

People vary.

It is likely the ones who are offended by your use of Christmas as an opportunity to get in some advertising, "hand-written and personal"  or not, are, like me, too gracious to tell you.
I don't tell my insurance agent, it's not that big of a deal really.
I just think less of her for it.
Next year I give my business to her or not regardless of the card thing.

Advertising is advertising, people aren't stupid.

Aw, Kenny.. that's not true. I work in hospitals. I've met plenty of bitter old queens.

Some of them are even my friends, like our designer, but I've never had one personally attack me on Christmas Eve. Just you. Classy.

In my line of business I work side by side with people in the trenches for months or years at a time. It is as much like a co-worker as anything else. I know their kids' and their spouses' names and they mine. We share successes and failures, drinks and dinners and lunches that have not a thing to do with more business or even the current engagement. I should hope you share cards with your co-workers. It would be incredibly sad if you did not.

So you see, in your desire to lash out, for which I have tried to avoid irritating you lately, you have stuck your foot in your mouth over things you know less than nothing about. I hope the leather is not too chewy there.

Have a Merry Christmas. :rolleyes2:

Bitter old queens?
No need to read past these words.


Good bye.
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um,

:yelling: MERRY CHRISTMAS DOODS!
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Mikhailoh
Dec 24 2006, 05:05 PM
kenny
Dec 24 2006, 06:49 PM
Mik there are a range of people.
That's why I love to speak up and watch your reaction to many of my thoughts.
You seem to have no experience with people who think like me.

People vary.

It is likely the ones who are offended by your use of Christmas as an opportunity to get in some advertising, "hand-written and personal"  or not, are, like me, too gracious to tell you.
I don't tell my insurance agent, it's not that big of a deal really.
I just think less of her for it.
Next year I give my business to her or not regardless of the card thing.

Advertising is advertising, people aren't stupid.

Aw, Kenny.. that's not true. I work in hospitals. I've met plenty of bitter old queens.

Some of them are even my friends, like our designer, but I've never had one personally attack me on Christmas Eve. Just you. Classy.

In my line of business I work side by side with people in the trenches for months or years at a time. It is as much like a co-worker as anything else. I know their kids' and their spouses' names and they mine. We share successes and failures, drinks and dinners and lunches that have not a thing to do with more business or even the current engagement. I should hope you share cards with your co-workers. It would be incredibly sad if you did not.

So you see, in your desire to lash out, for which I have tried to avoid irritating you lately, you have stuck your foot in your mouth over things you know less than nothing about. I hope the leather is not too chewy there.

Have a Merry Christmas. :rolleyes2:

It's a hospital thing, fer shure.

The bean counters, the PC banshees and the tiger shark lawyers can muster their best efforts, but at the end of the day, it's still a hands on business by people who actually give a damn.
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Mikhailoh
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I tried, CT.. I tried.
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Klaus
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Got none, send none.

I guess this makes me a lonely fart :juggle:

Sometimes I get a few cards, but since I am too lazy to reply, the senders give up on me after a year or two :lol:
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Klaus
Dec 24 2006, 11:34 PM
I guess this makes me a lonely fart :juggle:

We can be lonely farts, together. :P

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Mikhailoh
Dec 24 2006, 05:31 PM
I tried, CT.. I tried.

by referring to people as "bitter old queens"???

Merry Christmas!
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Mikhailoh
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I did not start it Mark. But you have a Merry Christmas too.
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Come on boys, play nice... now is not the time...

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"MERRY CHRISTMAS, GODDAMMIT!"
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It's fine Riley.. :lol:
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Hi Artoo! How's the neck?


Much better. I still have my eye on surviving 2007. :wink:

Thanks for asking.

Artoo



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Mikhailoh
Dec 24 2006, 04:14 PM
Hi Artoo!

That's absolutely an absolutely perfect sobriquet! I love it!
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I think it's an elegant custom. May it live forever.


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Mikhailoh
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You do mean Christmas cards, right?
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Of course.

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That's absolutely an absolutely perfect sobriquet! I love it!


I do feel legitimate. Thanks. A sobriquet for Chrismas is most wonderful.

Cheers,

Artoo

P.S. I'll look up sobriquet later. :biggrin:



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Dec 25 2006, 11:34 AM

P.S. I'll look up sobriquet later. :biggrin:

Me too. I get the gist and recognize the word, but don't know the definition.
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From the New Oxford American English Dictionary (never too far away from anyone who wants to consider herself a writer):

Sobriquet -- a person's nickname. French, originally in the sense "tap under the chin," of unknown origin.

"Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua
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