What'd you have for lunch today?

With regard to "the customer is always right," I do have to agree that this mantra gets taken too far sometimes. I mean, I saw so much of it in radio sales. You get these small-business asshats who insist upon their own terribly written copy and woefully inefficient schedules -- remotes, for instance. And so when I would suggest what their spots should say, or the rep would suggest where their spots should run, it was almost always the same thing, or a variation thereof: "In business, the customer is always right, and I'm the customer." No. When you choose to do business with a marketing operation such as a radio station, it is implicit--or should be--that you are deferring to specialists. It's like going to the doctor and demanding that they give you antibiotics for your sprained ankle because you have it in your mind that when you go to the doctor, you get antibiotics, and that makes everything okay. It's probably the same idiots, too.

Tossed salad.

Hello, friends...

There have been a few occasions where I've pulled this one out on a frustrating customer:

"You're absolutely right. But only because you're the customer. If you weren't my customer, you'd be 100% wrong because what you're saying is idiotic."

I agree with everything they've said so far.

Discuss.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Is that what the bank teller told you?

rpb is wrong. Phil McCracken is useful.

RPB is right. You suck.

Yeah, yeah, I know, board members not eligible, so go ahead and prune it, I don't give a shit, but I'm not not going to get it on the record.

I'm so fed up with this guy's cocksure horseshit act. What does this guy add, other than race-baiting and trolling? He lends no insights, says nothing funny, just keeps on truckin' with how awful hockey is and how dare people discuss a sports talk show on a sports talk message board. I know that once I'm at the point of breaking like the only non-CP rule the board has, I've already lost the battle, but man, just fucking get lost already and quit being an unfunny oblivious shithead.

For posterity...

rpb is wrong. Phil McCracken is useful.

RPB is right. You suck.

If you hate Laurence, then don't listen - don't comment. When he co-hosts the B&B show, take that day off ... listen to an old podcast of a Bernstein solo show and jerk off all day.

Oh God. Here they go again. Won't these guys ever shut up? I wish I could listen to dead air on the Score at this time, but noooooo. These fuckers just have to say things. Well.....ya know what? I'm going to listen. Intently. Take that, assholes!

Is that what the bank teller told you?

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

No, because I was right with the bank teller. I'm getting mellow in my old age though. Just last week I walked into the bank and the teller greeted me with, "Hi, Robert!" and when I went to make a transaction for a couple hundred bucks she asked for my ID. I just smiled and handed it to her. She then asked for the last four of my social and I gave her that. Finally, she asked for my "secret code". I just smiled and gave it to her and asked if she was sure it was me yet. She giggled.

The victims are the American People and the Republic itself.

No, because I was right with the bank teller. I'm getting mellow in my old age though. Just last week I walked into the bank and the teller greeted me with, "Hi, Robert!" and when I went to make a transaction for a couple hundred bucks she asked for my ID. I just smiled and handed it to her. She then asked for the last four of my social and I gave her that. Finally, she asked for my "secret code". I just smiled and gave it to her and asked if she was sure it was me yet. She giggled.

rpb is wrong. Phil McCracken is useful.

RPB is right. You suck.

No, because I was right with the bank teller. I'm getting mellow in my old age though. Just last week I walked into the bank and the teller greeted me with, "Hi, Robert!" and when I went to make a transaction for a couple hundred bucks she asked for my ID. I just smiled and handed it to her. She then asked for the last four of my social and I gave her that. Finally, she asked for my "secret code". I just smiled and gave it to her and asked if she was sure it was me yet. She giggled.

If you hate Laurence, then don't listen - don't comment. When he co-hosts the B&B show, take that day off ... listen to an old podcast of a Bernstein solo show and jerk off all day.

Yeah, I've never understood the autograph-collecting thing, and actively bothering the signers themselves is just weird. I like the stars of local teams. Their hastily scrawled names on paper would mean nothing to me. I'd rather just say hello and thank them for playing well here.

I'm a big dumb shitlib baby

I can't even imagine what the 'secret code' of a JORR is...

[There have been a few occasions where I've pulled this one out on a frustrating customer:

"You're absolutely right. But only because you're the customer. If you weren't my customer, you'd be 100% wrong because what you're saying is idiotic."

I haven't done it often but it's worked each time, either getting a laugh and/or making the guy stop and reevaluate his foolishness.

Just last week I walked into the bank and the teller greeted me with, "Hi, Robert!" and when I went to make a transaction for a couple hundred bucks she asked for my ID. I just smiled and handed it to her. She then asked for the last four of my social and I gave her that. Finally, she asked for my "secret code". I just smiled and gave it to her and asked if she was sure it was me yet. She giggled.

See? Wasn't that more pleasant than being a straight up dick?

Where are these mythical enjoyable other shows that are on now?

What are non-CP rules?

Day 3 of "Boo talk" is 2 days too many

I assume he means rules against posting child-porn.