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Post by Pixie on Apr 5, 2017 23:12:23 GMT -5
I believe it is absolutely proper to edit these posts as was done in this case. It is not a matter of "protecting anyone"; rather, this forum is not the place to air information that could form the basis for a challenge of any particular decision. This forum should be, for the most part, about how to apply for an ALJ position and, if selected, how to comport oneself as an ALJ. Of course, the occasional swipe at trade schools in New Haven, CT, and Chapel Hill, NC, are is welcome. The music thread (and note to Pixie and others: I actually saw Duane Allman in concert at the Arena in Richmond, Virginia, shortly before the motorcycle accident) is also good for general knowledge. But I return: Let us try to keep this focused on becoming a judge and, once there, the business of judging. Respectfully, Tom B Thank you Tom B. I never got to see him in a public concert, but saw him a bunch of times in private when he was practicing. He practiced constantly. And this is previously unreleased information. Those of you keeping count need to make note of it. He, Greg and their Mother, Geraldine lived at 100 Van Avenue, in Daytona, if I remember correctly. I was friends with Duane and always thought I would see him one more time again. It didn't happen. It broke my heart when he was killed. And no, we had no romantic relationship, but just a relationship between two kindred spirits. My spouse was friends with him as well. In the past I have said it was my spouse who had the relationship with him, but actually it was the both of us, probably more me than him. Using my spouse was a good cover but now is a good time to be more in the open. Pixie
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Post by christina on Apr 5, 2017 23:24:05 GMT -5
Wow, this thread got fun!!! pretty sure Pixie is a gal so that rules out Judge A. and if Pix is in fact Judge A, dang. Good job covering your tracks. Not to mention i agree with other posters Pixie is not from Ohio. and hmm... if you are Judge A and not covering your tracks! that puts some interesting twists into prior posts....
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Post by Pixie on Apr 6, 2017 0:10:41 GMT -5
Wow, this thread got fun!!! pretty sure Pixie is a gal so that rules out Judge A. and if Pix is in fact Judge A, dang. Good job covering your tracks. Not to mention i agree with other posters Pixie is not from Ohio. and hmm... if you are Judge A and not covering your tracks! that puts some interesting twists into prior posts.... Yes, it all gets interesting in a hurry. Pixie
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Post by aljwishhope on Apr 6, 2017 4:46:33 GMT -5
Glad this was deleted and I appreciate the original authors mea culpa. From an outsider perspective it feels uncomfortable and inappropriate to read such internal information. Like the old adage not to trash your former boss at an interview. However I always enjoy the specific details on hiring numbers and projected dates of hire or start especially from a reliable source(although wags are fun)
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Post by auroraborealis on Apr 6, 2017 7:40:41 GMT -5
I hate when I miss the good stuff. This post today was pretty humorous. I hope to see a post about how the pranked coworker responds.
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Post by Ready-Now! on Apr 6, 2017 8:07:49 GMT -5
bayou may need a dose or two of adderall and the proper cry is War Eagle!
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Post by Mjǿlner on Apr 6, 2017 9:25:29 GMT -5
Wow, I knew I recognized Pixie from someplace, I think that we were both in the class that the Defense Intelligence College taught at Patrick Air Force base on "Plausible Denyability and the Release of Information to the Public"
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Post by Gaidin on Apr 6, 2017 10:01:44 GMT -5
More broadly, what's your interest? Who are you protecting? the corps? That type of comment makes it seem like you are a management judge with an agenda. I'm not a management judge but some things aren't for public consumption. If you ever get the job I suspect you will appreciate that a bit more.
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Post by gary on Apr 6, 2017 10:02:32 GMT -5
Wow, I knew I recognized Pixie from someplace, I think that we were both in the class that the Defense Intelligence College taught at Patrick Air Force base on "Plausible Denyability and the Release of Information to the Public" In light of the current C in C, are they going to add a class in Implausible Deniability?
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Post by Gaidin on Apr 6, 2017 10:05:58 GMT -5
I thought about chiming in but I know Pixie is clearly capable of defending herself. She sure has put me in my place. However, the conspiracy theory made me laugh out loud. I have often wondered if we ever get to meet Pixie. I swear I read her and Gaiden had a celebratory dinner... We did and I can promise you this it isn't Judge Allen or Judge Bice (Ret.). In fact when I met them at training they asked me who she is. I will never tell but she isn't a RCALJ and she isn't inside the beltway.
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Post by Gaidin on Apr 6, 2017 10:12:38 GMT -5
The appropriate cry is "Go Vols!"
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Post by Pixie on Apr 6, 2017 10:29:13 GMT -5
I thought about chiming in but I know Pixie is clearly capable of defending herself. She sure has put me in my place. However, the conspiracy theory made me laugh out loud. I have often wondered if we ever get to meet Pixie. I swear I read her and Gaiden had a celebratory dinner... We did and I can promise you this it isn't Judge Allen or Judge Bice (Ret.). In fact when I met them at training they asked me who she is. I will never tell but she isn't a RCALJ and she isn't inside the beltway. Rats, I was having fun with the J. Bice thing and the J. Allen impersonation was beginning to gain traction! I guess the next time I see him, I should apologize for having fun at his expense. And, yes, he is a good guy as someone earlier said. We are fortunate to have him. If I remember correctly, he was in that huge 2000 class. Or was it in 2001? They tend to run together after awhile. Thanks for setting the doubters straight, Gaidin. Pixie
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Post by msp on Apr 6, 2017 10:41:42 GMT -5
So, I'll end my rant by saying that I insist on being in a good mood because I'm looking forward to work tomorrow more than I have in a long time. By telling this story, not only will I be telling on myself to my office mates if they happen to be on here but will make it easy for them to identify me. Anyway, I'm located in the deep south and the temps are already bumping up to 80 or so. The AC in our office has been out for about 2 weeks. Not intolerable for a southern boy but we have a guy from up north that is already suffering from the heat. So one day last week, I arrived at work an hour before everybody else. I took 2 space heaters and put them in his office, turned them wide open and closed the door. It was sweltering by the time he came in. He promptly blamed everybody in the office and eventually settled on two other guys that he has pranked in the past. After a few hours of me gently egging him on, he decided he needed to retaliate and took a bag of shredded paper and threw it all over their offices. Of course, they were totally innocent. The guy in whose office I put the heaters then went on leave for a week. He had a prize bulldog statute on his desk . The two guys he retaliated against have kidnapped his dog, left him a ransom note, posted "missing posters of the bulldog statute" on the bulletin board and placed on his desk pictures of the statute taken in various places around the office. Now, this guy is sorta loud, expressive, very funny and generally has an big bold personality. He returns from leave tomorrow. Tomorrow may be the greatest work day of my life. I fully expect this to get out of hand to the point that the boss has to send everybody to their rooms without supper. Oh my word - now THAT is fantastic! Please update the day's events!!
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Post by tom b on Apr 6, 2017 12:44:50 GMT -5
Of all the unbelievably cool things that come out in this forum, Pixie's post about Duane Allman's practicing has to be one of the absolute coolest.
The only thing that could possibly be cooler is if the "prize bulldog statue" on the desk of Bayou's colleague was none other than Handsome Dan.
Respectfully, LTB
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Post by Pixie on Apr 6, 2017 14:32:22 GMT -5
Of all the unbelievably cool things that come out in this forum, Pixie's post about Duane Allman's practicing has to be one of the absolute coolest. Respectfully, LTB Glad you enjoyed it. Duane would always sit on the left hand side of the sofa in the living room with an unplugged electric guitar strapped around his neck. Can't remember if it was a Fender or a Gibson. He would carry on a conversation without missing a note. Seems as though there was a record player to his left on a table next to the sofa. Or maybe it was on the floor? Been too long ago for me to remember. Wherever he went in the house, the guitar would go with him, even to the bathroom. In later years I often wondered if he slept with it strapped on. Probably so. I have heard others comment on the ever present guitar, as well. While Duane would always be in the house working with the guitar, Greg was never there. According to Duane, Greg was always "surfing" when we would ask where he was. I think there was more to it than that, and Duane was covering for his little brother. Pixie
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Post by pumpkin on Apr 6, 2017 16:54:41 GMT -5
Tomorrow may be the greatest work day of my life. I fully expect this to get out of hand to the point that the boss has to send everybody to their rooms without supper. I am putting my name on the transfer list to Bayou's bayou...son of a gun, we'll have big fun, on the bayou.
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Post by bayou on Apr 6, 2017 18:24:34 GMT -5
So, the prankee walks into his office this morning, pauses at this door as he takes in the pictures strewn throughout his office and reads the ransom note. Then loudly enough for the entire section of the office to hear, he quotes the movie Wyatt Earp, "Tell them I'm coming and hell is coming with me." Then he proceeds to mutter under his breath for about 15 minutes. As office mates "randomly" wander by, he threatens revenge against each one.
Of course, they protest their innocence and he says that he is "ISIS and everybody is a target now". The culprits, whom he really suspects for both the dog and the heaters, are located in a section of the office across the hallway. They are of course buttoned down, with all of their offices locked when they leave the office. So at random times throughout the morning, he walks into their section and they all scramble back to their office to lock the door. If they are in their office, he walks up to the door, leans against the jamb and looks around their office while making notes on a legal pad, without uttering a word. Needless to say, that makes them nervous as hell.
Just before lunch, I stuck my head in his office to tell him I was going to the gym for lunch if anybody was looking for me and I found him standing on his desk. He tells me that since they are all locked up across the hall, he is seeing if he can crawl through the ceiling to get in their office.
By late afternoon, he tells me that he is pretty sure which office has his dog statute. This thing is apparently a collectible and he has made it clear to them that the statute is valuable. So, he is going to steal it back and make them think they lost a $500 collectible. He plans to come in over the weekend with a ladder, crawl through the ceiling tile into that office and steal his dog back without them knowing it. Nothing will go wrong with that.
Oh, I forgot to mention. They printed out pictures of his dog statute and put the paper back into his printer so that every time he prints something, there is a picture of it on the back of the page.
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Post by msp on Apr 6, 2017 19:07:00 GMT -5
bayou...this is so much better than when my law partner put "exotic dancer" cards all thru my office after we'd all gone to Vegas for a co-worker's wedding. Keep us all posted, please!
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Post by bayou on Apr 6, 2017 19:31:40 GMT -5
As somebody pointed out by PM, statue not statute. I need to de-lawyer my autocorrect word suggestion thingamuhbob. Lord knows I can't spell on my own.
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Post by gern on Apr 6, 2017 19:48:51 GMT -5
Surely the finest in hijacked threads. Nice job, Bayou.
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