Max wrote:

APRTW wrote:

Max wrote:

when speaking off of a more or less public forum, yes.  but even so, involved with academia and biology, broadly speaking.

So you are scared to give a job title on a public forum that is limited to about a dozen guys.  does your shadow scared you to?

Job title:  let's see, uh . . . unemployed.  "self-employed" (nudge, nudge, wink, wink).

Maybe it's not so much that I am scared as it is that you people who are fully employed with your job titles think of yourself as Mr. Fancy Pants, and don't realize that people scrounging out a living from one contract to the next don't have things like job titles, except as they appear in the current contract, and those change from contract to contract.

I sure you are employed in a general field.  It isnt that big of deal.. I was just wondering.

"I wouldn't be surprised if TK can still pull this out if Kansas wins it,"

Correct. I had about five minutes before my fantasy draft and rushed through the update.

artie_fufkin wrote:

"you people who are fully employed with your job titles think of yourself as Mr. Fancy Pants"

I'm a reporter for the worst daily newspaper in the history of ink. Not exactly something that makes me feel entitled.

Actually, I was just having fun playing the role of "chagrined have-not".  I recall once on a different forum how I made an intellectual argument to rebut some ideological nonsense and another poster commented about my post, writing something like, "your fancy, teeth-in-your mouth ways".  I'm sure the post was intentional parody, but I have always gotten a kick out being considered fancy because I happen to have (or am assumed to have) all of my teeth!  Now, maybe AP can get a kick out of being considered "Mr. Fancy Pants" because he happens to have a job title.

Max wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

"you people who are fully employed with your job titles think of yourself as Mr. Fancy Pants"

I'm a reporter for the worst daily newspaper in the history of ink. Not exactly something that makes me feel entitled.

Actually, I was just having fun playing the role of "chagrined have-not".  I recall once on a different forum how I made an intellectual argument to rebut some ideological nonsense and another poster commented about my post, writing something like, "your fancy, teeth-in-your mouth ways".  I'm sure the post was intentional parody, but I have always gotten a kick out being considered fancy because I happen to have (or am assumed to have) all of my teeth!  Now, maybe AP can get a kick out of being considered "Mr. Fancy Pants" because he happens to have a job title.

I do get called alot of things.  As far as what you do I was just looking for a field of work.  I think you are a scientist type person or something.  And dont get to bent out of shape about having to "scroung" around.  We eat deer meat, drink cheap beer, burnt wood to save of heating cost, I have wondered were my next check was coming from a couple times in my life and my salary is less then impressive.  Sometimes just getting by make you understand how little you really need.

Last edited by APRTW (3/27/2011 5:38 pm)

It's official. None of us had any of the Final Four correct.  The brackets are done and over:

Rank
Bracket
Correct Picks
Points
Possible Pts
1    wild guess #113  Max    36 of 60    60    60
2    TK's Terrible Picks  Tito Tito    36 of 60    56    56
2    The Basketball Inquisition *  Mr. Wensleydale    36 of 60    56    56
4    AP's incorrect bracket  klong62448    35 of 60    53    53
5    Is this Hockey?  forsberg_us    33 of 60    50    50

We could always wager on how long it will take before Kentucky's appearance in this year's Final Four is vacated.

artie_fufkin wrote:

We could always wager on how long it will take before Kentucky's appearance in this year's Final Four is vacated.

Kentucky made it???  Although I'm not sure of the context, Bobby made a comment the other day that he had picked Kentucky to win the tournament.  It's a good thing I didn't let him make a bracket of his own.  I'm not sure how we could have lived down the shame of losing to a 10 year old.

artie_fufkin wrote:

The way the Final Four shakes out, either VCU or Butler will be in the championship game. So you'll be able to root for one of the underdogs against semi-evil UConn or really, really evil Vacated.

One way or the other it makes for a great story.  If Butler gets there, they make it back to the title game after losing their best player to the NBA.  Pretty impressive stuff.  If VCU makes it, I assume they become the first team to come from a play-in game to make it to the Finals.

Also, I would have to give a lot of credit to UConn if they can run the Big East tourney and then the NCAA tourney.  That's a pretty improbable 11 game run.

And this image will make me laugh for a long time

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/deadspin/2011/03/jayhawk.jpg

forsberg_us wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

The way the Final Four shakes out, either VCU or Butler will be in the championship game. So you'll be able to root for one of the underdogs against semi-evil UConn or really, really evil Vacated.

One way or the other it makes for a great story.  If Butler gets there, they make it back to the title game after losing their best player to the NBA.  Pretty impressive stuff.  If VCU makes it, I assume they become the first team to come from a play-in game to make it to the Finals.

Also, I would have to give a lot of credit to UConn if they can run the Big East tourney and then the NCAA tourney.  That's a pretty improbable 11 game run.

And this image will make me laugh for a long time

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/deadspin/2011/03/jayhawk.jpg

You'd cry too if you had a Final Four trip booked and instead have to spend next weekend in Kansas.

Last edited by artie_fufkin (3/28/2011 10:28 pm)

Interesting. How did Vacated convince Camby to come to UMass instead of UConn anyway?

artie_fufkin wrote:

forsberg_us wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

The way the Final Four shakes out, either VCU or Butler will be in the championship game. So you'll be able to root for one of the underdogs against semi-evil UConn or really, really evil Vacated.

One way or the other it makes for a great story.  If Butler gets there, they make it back to the title game after losing their best player to the NBA.  Pretty impressive stuff.  If VCU makes it, I assume they become the first team to come from a play-in game to make it to the Finals.

Also, I would have to give a lot of credit to UConn if they can run the Big East tourney and then the NCAA tourney.  That's a pretty improbable 11 game run.

And this image will make me laugh for a long time

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/deadspin/2011/03/jayhawk.jpg

You'd cry too if you had a Final Four trip booked and instead have to spend next weekend in Kansas.

You could take out the words "a Final Four trip booked and instead have" and that statement would still be accurate.

"You could take out the words "a Final Four trip booked and instead have" and that statement would still be accurate."

Not having ever been ...
Have I ever told you about my wife's sojourn into Kansas a few years ago? She was attending a conference in Kansas City with an equally geographically-challenged colleague from another museum in Boston.
They rent a car and follow signs out of the airport for "Kansas City" and end up on I-70, heading west. They're probably about 30 miles outside of Topeka when my wife calls me on her cell phone. I tell her to turn around and head back onto the highway and go to Missouri.
"But we're going to Kansas City!"
"Yes, dear. There are two of them. One is in Kansas and the other is in Missouri. The one you want is the one in Missouri."
"There are TWO Kansas Cities? Who knew THAT?"
"Pretty much everyone, dear."
I think if she hadn't called me, the two of them would have ended up in Utah.