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[JT]

Hey Phil,

How's Tejas.  Your in the Houston area, correct? 

[Tags]

Gentlemen-

Tags has been keeping up with the conversation about X-mas gifts from employers on the LLPP, and Tags would like to share his year-end gift with everyone.

You all are well aware of the Goldman Sachs cash it has been showering it's people with due to a record year ... Well, Tags' company also had a record year.

Tags has received a $25 dollar gift card to Wegman's (Grocery Store).

If you are a Goldman Sachs employee, and you're reading this - The answer is no, we're not currently hiring.

[Dr. xGSC]

Tags,
+ K and very funny. I think the only corporation that may give bigger Holiday Bonus' this year than Goldman is Exxon.

[JT]

Gentlemen-

Tags has been keeping up with the conversation about X-mas gifts from employers on the LLPP, and Tags would like to share his year-end gift with everyone.

You all are well aware of the Goldman Sachs cash it has been showering it's people with due to a record year ... Well, Tags' company also had a record year.

Tags has received a $25 dollar gift card to Wegman's (Grocery Store).

If you are a Goldman Sachs employee, and you're reading this - The answer is no, we're not currently hiring.

Reminds JT of the 1.8% raise his boss tried to give him at UPS back in the day.  JT forced the company to recind the raise.  First, JT was doing it on principal, but then he also found out that it would cost JT money in higher taxes.  JT left two months later for a better job.

[Dr. xGSC]

X,
Hopefully you were coherent enough at the time to look her in the eyes while wiping your lower lip and say, "Now let that be a lesson for you!"

Those wings will do it every time.

Phil,
Unfortunately, no! The other "beautiful" thing is that I went to bed at 6:00 PM, woke up at 9:10 PM and realized I had a poker game to attend next door. I was the only winner and Mrs. Doc was not at home when all this hurling occured, nor when Doc was sleeping, but came during the poker game and said "be thankful your friends are with you." Not sure what she meant by that.....lol

[PBR...]

pbr is back among the living...pbr has crested the hill and is starting a comeback...problem is mpbr now is coming down with it so that means pbr will have to keep kids busy while mpbr recovers...(lots of cheerios for bfast,lunch,dinner will be served in pbr's house over the next several days...) ahhh yes xmas parties when pbr started here at bberg mayor mike rented out tavern on the green restaurant in nyc for the night and bused everyone there with open bars and carving stations (employees only you should of seen some of the hooking up between married people and the shame on their faces the next day...) company got so big so fast mike rented out museum of natural history and had raw bars, carving stations, live bands, frozen vodka shots etc...(spouses included), mike gets elected mayor and new ceo decides its too much money (in reality its still mikes company and money) cuts out all holiday parties and tells everyone to go volunteer somewhere....gee thx guy

[57Johnnie]

From today's Union Times

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=544914&category=ETTKIN&BCCode=&newsdate=12/15/2006

[phil]

JT
I'm just north of Houston in a town called The Woodlands. It's a nice area – about as much like Houston as Princeton is like Trenton. Plenty of golf ... 74° today and 80° over the weekend. I have my tix for the Texas Bowl already, which is funny because I never went to a Rutgers game in NJ. Three things I'm missing already – DIII athletics is non-existent in this neck of the woods ... the local wine shop is limited in their recommendations. Instead of pointing out wines which are given the thumbs up by the likes of Robert Parker or the Wine Spectator, you get "90 points, rated yummy by the Texas Rodeo". And most importantly ... good pizza  does not exist here. They consider the chain Bros. Pizza to be the best in Texas. I called for a delivery on Wed. and they told me it would take over 90 minutes. I finally tried some yesterday and it tasted like something they were serving in the cafeteria at Trenton State in 1979! A greasy, semi-congealed mess. They wait in line for this stuff down here!

['gro]

From today's Union Times

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=544914&category=ETTKIN&BCCode=&newsdate=12/15/2006

good article 57, +k

[JT]

JT
I'm just north of Houston in a town called The Woodlands. It's a nice area – about as much like Houston as Princeton is like Trenton. Plenty of golf ... 74° today and 80° over the weekend. I have my tix for the Texas Bowl already, which is funny because I never went to a Rutgers game in NJ. Three things I'm missing already – DIII athletics is non-existent in this neck of the woods ... the local wine shop is limited in their recommendations. Instead of pointing out wines which are given the thumbs up by the likes of Robert Parker or the Wine Spectator, you get "90 points, rated yummy by the Texas Rodeo". And most importantly ... good pizza  does not exist here. They consider the chain Bros. Pizza to be the best in Texas. I called for a delivery on Wed. and they told me it would take over 90 minutes. I finally tried some yesterday and it tasted like something they were serving in the cafeteria at Trenton State in 1979! A greasy, semi-congealed mess. They wait in line for this stuff down here!

RE: Pizza

Sounds like a business opportunity.


RE: Wine

That is funny.  Is the proprietor knowledgeable?  A good one has been to Napa and Sonoma at a minimum, and tries a wide variety of wine. 

[dewcrew88]

BC08 brings this to the powers that be at LLPP... Would there be a way to make a LLPP guide for people not used to the LLPP style of posting? Something that would have a notice about posting in the 3rd person, as PC have even done a couple times (have to follow the Guru!), and a list of different words from the LLPP world, like mancation and things like that (BC08 knows there are a lot more, but the mind is failing at the moment).

Of course, if it warrants, BC08 was bored as F at the time of this post, so it can be disregarded by the rest of LLPP if necessary.

[phil]

JT,
Phil might have contemplated speaking with the proprieter(s) if Phil didn't see said Texas Rodeo recommendation in two different stores (Lord knows what might happen should Phil ask for soemthing from the Cotes du Rhone region). Yeehaw and pass the Lone Star sez Phil now.

As for Pizza. Phil makes a pizza complete with homemade dough. Ingredients include a roasted and peeled red pepper, 4 cloves of garlic roasted and then mixed with olive oil to brush on the dough, fresh mozzarella, fresh oregano, sausage from the butcher minus the casing, corn on the cob roasted on the grill and then taken off the husks, and porchini mushrooms. Mix it all together and it would make the folks at Bros. Pizza weep for the old country.

Two areas where Phil could delve in the future – but Phil isn't ready to give up the advertising gig just yet.

[JT]

JT,
Phil might have contemplated speaking with the proprieter(s) if Phil didn't see said Texas Rodeo recommendation in two different stores (Lord knows what might happen should Phil ask for soemthing from the Cotes du Rhone region). Yeehaw and pass the Lone Star sez Phil now.

As for Pizza. Phil makes a pizza complete with homemade dough. Ingredients include a roasted and peeled red pepper, 4 cloves of garlic roasted and then mixed with olive oil to brush on the dough, fresh mozzarella, fresh oregano, sausage from the butcher minus the casing, corn on the cob roasted on the grill and then taken off the husks, and porchini mushrooms. Mix it all together and it would make the folks at Bros. Pizza weep for the old country.

Two areas where Phil could delve in the future – but Phil isn't ready to give up the advertising gig just yet.

JT has found that outside of "wine areas" the consumers prefer overly sweet wines.  Might as well suck down a wine cooler.

JT also makes a mean pizza of varying varieties.

Well crawfish season is only 6 months away in the Houston area. 

Have you given the Tai or Vietnamese food a shot.  Big asian population in Houston.  Not sure if it extends out to your area, but when JT was consulting he had awesome Tai food in Houston.

JT will be grabbing a couple of slices cause all this pizza talk is getting him hungry.

[Tags]

JT
I'm just north of Houston in a town called The Woodlands. It's a nice area – about as much like Houston as Princeton is like Trenton. Plenty of golf ... 74° today and 80° over the weekend. I have my tix for the Texas Bowl already, which is funny because I never went to a Rutgers game in NJ. Three things I'm missing already – DIII athletics is non-existent in this neck of the woods ... the local wine shop is limited in their recommendations. Instead of pointing out wines which are given the thumbs up by the likes of Robert Parker or the Wine Spectator, you get "90 points, rated yummy by the Texas Rodeo". And most importantly ... good pizza  does not exist here. They consider the chain Bros. Pizza to be the best in Texas. I called for a delivery on Wed. and they told me it would take over 90 minutes. I finally tried some yesterday and it tasted like something they were serving in the cafeteria at Trenton State in 1979! A greasy, semi-congealed mess. They wait in line for this stuff down here!

Tee it up at the TPC?

[labart96]

A few terms that could be added to the LLPP Guide for newbies that come to mind would include:

"Man-tastic" - A dig at men acting a bit too well, non-manly

For example, Gro would say, "this Hobart pic is man-tastic!":



"Friendasaurus" - The one less-attractive friend out of a group of friends.

I got stuck with the friendasaurus at that party



The "Ruck" - Fabled home of the best wings in the Albany/Capitol area.

"Pumpkinheads" - A term referring to the Hobart Statesmen (our helmets are orange - see above - get it?).

"The U" - A term meaning Union College.

"Bizarro-neers" - A term referring to the WPI Engineers, a LL conference opponent.

"The North Lot" - home to the RPI tailgating faithful

"Car Bombs" - Drink of choice of the North Lot faithful.  Consists of a pint of Guiness with a shot of Bailey's and/or Jamisons dropped into it.  Delicious!

"The Boz" - Hobart's home field (aka Boswell Field)



"The Frozen Cat Turd" - the "trophy" awarded to the winner of the annual Hobart-RPI game.

"The Shoes" - Refers to the "Dutchman's Shoes" awarded to the winner of the annual Union-RPI game (this is an actual trophy).

"Zing!" -

A term issued by one poster who has - with great skill and wit -just effectively insulted another poster.

"The Golden Age of LLPP" - A brief period during the 2006 season in which all posters reverted back to their Olde English heritage when Dukes, Kings, and Knights ruled the LLPP.

"Wine and Cheese" - Items preferred by the Union tailgating crowd.