KittyWampus
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Thu Jun-03-04 07:09 PM
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Poll question: Alternatives To "I Want To Spend More Time With My Family" |
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Edited on Thu Jun-03-04 07:09 PM by cryingshame
Hearing "I want to spend more time with my family" as an excuse for leaving office is getting REALLY old?
What's your suggestion for something new? (Some are from another blog)
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Thu Jun-03-04 07:19 PM
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Hey, it should cover you for at least a couple years until you can find a job flipping burgers!
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agingdem
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Thu Jun-03-04 07:59 PM
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I know a whole lot more than I admitted to at the 9/11 hearing, and, I might be the one who gave up Valerie Plame to the Rovian Rats...
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Thu Jun-03-04 07:21 PM
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2. I want to spend less time with the BFEE. (nt) |
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Thu Jun-03-04 08:00 PM
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4. "I am going to explore macrame in all its incarnations." |
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nothingshocksmeanymore
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Thu Jun-03-04 08:03 PM
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5. I want to work for the defense industry and make millions off of a puffed |
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up war that's turned into FUBAR with no end in sight that sucks money out of the US treasury at the speed of lightning.
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David Zephyr
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Thu Jun-03-04 09:01 PM
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DemoTex
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Thu Jun-03-04 08:04 PM
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6. "I am going to make a real mark on the world" |
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"I am going to expose the BFEE for what it really is."
Dream on, DemoTex!
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Thu Jun-03-04 08:26 PM
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It might be intersting to say someone has a burning desire for a sex change operation
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Thu Jun-03-04 08:53 PM
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8. Looking forward to getting out of the public eye.. |
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...so I can resume my consumption of illegal drugs and pornography.
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Thu Jun-03-04 08:57 PM
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9. I have always wanted to winter one year in Antartica. |
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Thu Jun-03-04 09:00 PM
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(Setting up a deal as an independendent producer; this is the cliche career move of a studio head who's being cashiered.)
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PurityOfEssence
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Thu Jun-03-04 09:04 PM
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12. Reading the writing on the wall, up close, held by the back of the neck |
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with his face smushed against the carved message...
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Sparkly
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Thu Jun-03-04 09:07 PM
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13. Told my wife I could quit anytime I wanted to -- thought she meant my job |
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Thu Jun-03-04 09:15 PM
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14. I've been gauranteed a pardon if I fall on my sword for the head cheese. |
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And you don't want to know what they'll do to me if I don't.
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Thu Jun-03-04 09:38 PM
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15. The doctors tell me I have a cold. |
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The classic, from the late Soviet era. (Chernenko, Andropov, etc., in rapid succession.)
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Thu Jun-03-04 09:47 PM
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16. Need time to save my soul |
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Beginning to worry that there might be a hell and I might be on a road to burn for all eternity.
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Thu Jun-03-04 10:02 PM
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17. Well, if we take him at his word, |
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besides "I want to spend more time with my family," he said he was leaving because he was concerned about the welfare of his family. And he focused on his son especially.
Am I the only one who wondered if he had been threatened in any way? Oh, I know it's tinfoil-ly of me. But I couldn't help wondering....
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