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An Inspiring Story Of Selflessness In The Hamptons

buggeroff — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:00:47 EDT

I had an ex who did staging. God, she was so incredible at it. It was one thing that I really enjoyed about living with her. Everything was perfect and pretty and sexy and I wasn't allowed to touch anything, but that was great because she did all the work. She cooked a lot, too. The lighting everywhere had to be just so.

buggeroff

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Koreanish — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:36:42 EDT

@NefariousNewt: Let's get Pete Tong on Radio One to announce a party in one of them.

Koreanish

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SarahMC — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:13:14 EDT

@westvillagegirl: Turning the tables on you. For shame. She used "hear" instead of "here," too. Haha!

SarahMC

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braak — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:11:23 EDT

@westvillagegirl: I am being one hundred percent serious.

Here's a serious face I can make: :-|

It indicates that there is no humor involved in this situation, from my perspective, at all.

braak

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westvillagegirl (exhiled in chicago) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:00:31 EDT

@gabelle: Well, why would you even say this: [jezebel.com]

I was actually trying to be helpful, because you seemed to be missing the point. Don't try and act all uppity now.

westvillagegirl (exhiled in chicago)

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westvillagegirl (exhiled in chicago) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:57:40 EDT

@braak: Are you getting sassy with me? I was just pointing out the obvious to someone who didn't seem to "get it."

(insert snap in a z-formation)

westvillagegirl (exhiled in chicago)

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jenalicious — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:53:26 EDT

@jenalicious: ha and by karama i mean karma.

thats all.

jenalicious

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jenalicious — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:52:39 EDT

OMG they have to sell their weekend homes??? THE HUMANITY!!!!

they worked for a company making rich people richer. and as an assistant to someone similar, i say: karamas a bitch!

ugh between spitzer and this nonsense its enough to make me want to leave NY for good.

jenalicious

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Xavoc — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:42:15 EDT

@gabelle: Gotta admire a woman who loves her work.

Xavoc

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gabelle — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:37:56 EDT

@Xavoc: I don't know if it's any good, but Kristin is smiling!

gabelle

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Xavoc — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:35:08 EDT

@gabelle: I guess that would fit. The real question to be asked, is the tape any good?

Xavoc

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gabelle — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:29:18 EDT

@Xavoc: What about the Kristin Davis sex tape?

gabelle

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DoNotStalk — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:28:25 EDT

@gabelle: Boy, those Germans have a word for everything.

DoNotStalk

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Kaehoku — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:26:17 EDT

And to reward all employees for their philanthropic deeds, the employee who is able to "help" the most clients in their time of need will win an antique chaise from our warehouse...

Kaehoku

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Xavoc — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:22:05 EDT

@gabelle: Why do I feel like today's threads are a parody of Avenue Q.

This thread would be Schadenfreude. The thread about Stephen Colbert would fall under "Everyone's a little bit racsist"

Now we just need "The Internet is for Porn" to reach the trifecta.

Xavoc

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braak — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:20:30 EDT

@gabelle: Good, because I am only yanking your chain. If I had a dollar for every time I took something seriously that I realized a second after I post is actually a joke, I'd have about three hundred and sixteen dollars (I keep a list).

@NefariousNewt: Well, not the SEC, apparently.

braak

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Xavoc — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:15:30 EDT

@bigleggedwoman: The problem isn't a lack of fish sticks. I just really liked occasionally indulging in their chicken strips.

Xavoc

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gabelle — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:12:28 EDT

@braak: ;) You're funny! I guessed you and your pal also missed that "schaden" is a word unto itself. I'm not mad at you.

gabelle

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bigleggedwoman — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:09:47 EDT

@Xavoc: You're in WA? And no fish sticks? Ain't that a bitch.

bigleggedwoman

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Nesbiteme — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:07:23 EDT

Laugh all you want at the "staging" industry, but just think, if Bear Sterns had used BF Designs to stage Bear in the first place. Instead of receiving a paltry $2.00 per share from JP Morgan, Bear's share holders (many who are employees) might have received much more. So freshly baked bread, candles, warm colors and throw pillows at 383 Madison Ave. would, probably, have made a big enough difference to allow many of these folks to keep their summer homes.

Nesbiteme

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Xavoc — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:05:10 EDT

@krismry: Imagine, Flava Flave and Jerry Springer will be our new rulers after the bourgeois are decimated and no longer able to act as a buffer for the poor to aspire towards.

@bigleggedwoman: Life is good. Other than the country appears to be teetering on the brink of economic collapse and there are NO Long John Silvers restaurant in the state of Washington.

Xavoc

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gabelle — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:03:42 EDT

@westvillagegirl: Whew! Thanks for clearing that up... Glad you're hear to set it straight!

gabelle

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NefariousNewt — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:03:08 EDT

@braak: Or the lairs of criminal masterminds... who would look for a criminal genius in the Hamptons?

NefariousNewt

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bigleggedwoman — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:57:58 EDT

@Xavoc: I was just kiddin' around. How've you been, anyway?

bigleggedwoman

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braak — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:56:45 EDT

@westvillagegirl: ...

Wh-?

"Frau" means "woman?" So it's...you're saying it's some kind of pun? But--

Oh! Ohhhhhhhhhh!

Because it's like a woman who experiences Schadenfreude!

I get it!

braak

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krismry — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:56:00 EDT

@Xavoc: you mean peasant revolts and climate change? uh oh!

krismry

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Xavoc — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:51:50 EDT

@bigleggedwoman: I no longer own any pictures relating to her. Sorry.

Xavoc

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bigleggedwoman — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:49:53 EDT

@westvillagegirl: Right, Frau=woman. It's actually rather clever, I think.

bigleggedwoman

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westvillagegirl (exhiled in chicago) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:48:45 EDT

@gabelle: "Also, instead of'Schadenfrau', I believe the word we're looking here is 'Schadenfreude'. Taking pleasure in other's misfortunes."

Uhh... I think it was supposed to be a pun. "Frau" means woman, fyi.

westvillagegirl (exhiled in chicago)

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bigleggedwoman — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:48:14 EDT

@braak: Biker gangs! Where do I sign up? Let's rumble!

bigleggedwoman

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MadameOvary — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:46:44 EDT

And of course they are trying to save their own asses - who the hell will use their services if all the execs go belly up? Plunging house prices effect the riches, too, as then they might not be quite as rich. THIS is when we see the real trickle down.

MadameOvary

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tscheese — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:46:38 EDT

OOH OOH OOH! I have an idea. How about...these poor fucking multimillionaires can maybe just...give ME their weekend homes, in a tax-free charitable transaction, aaaaand in exchange I tell them that they need to start pricing their securities right? Also I want a cabana boy.

tscheese

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BlondeGrlz — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:45:23 EDT

My dream is to own a staging business. Hey rich folks! Hire me for super cheap, PLUS I volunteer to stay in your summer home from now until Memorial Day, so it doesn't get that musty, unlived in feeling. God, just nominate me for sainthood right now.

@JessicaLovejoy: Backstairsly: I just blue myself.
There HAS to be a better way to say that.

BlondeGrlz

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westvillagegirl (exhiled in chicago) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:45:10 EDT

@dummyfakeroller: Oh, where is Gob when you need him. He'd figure out what to do with Bear Stearns, I know it. Maybe he'd just make it disappear?

westvillagegirl (exhiled in chicago)

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Xavoc — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:44:26 EDT

@krismry: Isn't this how the Mayans began to devolve?

Xavoc

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westvillagegirl (exhiled in chicago) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:44:02 EDT

@Xavoc: Taste, schmaste. I just want to my dog to lay on their their finest watered silk chaise. And shit all over it.

FIRE, eheheh, FIRE.... We don't want no water, let the MFs BURN!!!

westvillagegirl (exhiled in chicago)

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bigleggedwoman — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:44:00 EDT

@Xavoc: Do you want to send pictures of her diamond engagement ring with that?

bigleggedwoman

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katekate is squared — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:43:25 EDT

I mean, in context, I guess these people with a kind of pointless job (the "stagers") are doing something good to help out somebody in a pinch, for which we can't really criticize them. But come on, there must be a more cockle-warming event going on today.

katekate is squared

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krismry — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:42:33 EDT

the climate of frustration, desperation, rage against the rich, and more than enough blame to go around is just getting warmed up. we haven't seen anything yet.

krismry

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braak — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:42:16 EDT

@NefariousNewt: I prefer to think of them claimed by the hobos and biker gangs that will take over Long Island after the breakdown of civil authority.

braak

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gabelle — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:42:06 EDT

@NefariousNewt: Ha! That's awesome.

Better a fire sale than arson for insurance.

Also, instead of'Schadenfrau', I believe the word we're looking here is 'Schadenfreude'. Taking pleasure in other's misfortunes.

gabelle

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toothsome — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:41:10 EDT

big fucking deal designs

toothsome

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City_Dater — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:40:47 EDT

Barbara Feldman, Red Cross Relief Worker to the overclass.

City_Dater

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toothsome — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:40:45 EDT

i hate my hometown.

toothsome

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JSouth — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:40:09 EDT

@Legalese: The wrong parties always get the help. I guess one exec went from receiving $1.5 billion to $15 million. Let me shed a couple tears for that guy right now.

JSouth

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ndngrl — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:38:55 EDT

@JessicaLovejoy: Backstairsly: "Amaaaaaaziiiiiing Graaaaaaace..."

ndngrl

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jezebellian is feeling cranky — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:38:07 EDT

@JessicaLovejoy: Backstairsly: yay Tobias!

jezebellian is feeling cranky

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dummyfakeroller — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:35:50 EDT

@westvillagegirl: That reminds me of Arrested Development.

dummyfakeroller

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nodoubt9203 [אִיזָבֶל] — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:33:11 EDT

how about getting my parents out of credit card debt and getting us a proper home not built during the 50's sprawl?

nodoubt9203 [אִיזָבֶל]

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frecklefacefreak — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:32:17 EDT

@howdybeep: hahaha nice! he totally would have.

frecklefacefreak

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JessicaLovejoy: Heart of Dykeness — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:32:01 EDT

@westvillagegirl: WE'RE HAVING A FIRE

- sale.

JessicaLovejoy: Heart of Dykeness

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Xavoc — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:31:47 EDT

@westvillagegirl: It's not as if them having money means they have good taste in furniture.

Xavoc

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myrtlebeachbum — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:31:32 EDT

Maybe Blair and Walter can open up the family farm for those who have lost their vacation homes.

Summer love in the hayloft, y'all.

myrtlebeachbum

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noloversaurus — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:30:44 EDT

ButtFuchs Designs? BigFlutes? BooyahFuckyeah? BoobsFor Design? BoredFarts? BrokenFallacy?

noloversaurus

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westvillagegirl (exhiled in chicago) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:29:38 EDT

Nothing I love better than a rich folks' fire sale. I am so pleased to see the vultures circling already.

westvillagegirl (exhiled in chicago)

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howdybeep (runs with monkey wrenches) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:28:57 EDT

Man, you know Gatsby would have totally had a stager.

howdybeep (runs with monkey wrenches)

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NotAPrettyGirl — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:27:47 EDT

How about we put more effort into helping the less fortunate as opposed to the millionaire bankers? Such as the ones who can't afford to put gas in their cars?

NotAPrettyGirl

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CreoleSugar — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:27:13 EDT

Ok, it just looks like to me this company is trying to get work - which isn't a bad thing.

But, the people they're offering to help are the very people that don't need it.

Who the F*CK has a "weekend house"? And if you can afford to furnish a weekend house you can afford to suck it up like all those unfortunately people who lost their "weekday" homes.

CreoleSugar

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Xavoc — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:27:11 EDT

Dammit! It only took me 2 years to sell my house (for what I bought it for 2 years earlier than when it went on the market.

Why couldn't these people offer me a discount rate to cover up for the ex's lack of decorating taste (it looked like Hallmark and Disney had vomited on my fireplace mantle... My 11' wide fireplace mantle...

Xavoc

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BrutallyHonestBabes — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:26:03 EDT

This is so sad. I bet some of those executives will have to let one of their assistants go too. After they make the arrangements with BF Designs, of course. Overlords don't do that shit themselves.

BrutallyHonestBabes

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LBB — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:24:45 EDT

I'm playing the world's saddest song on my tiny violin right now.

LBB

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virginiawoolf — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:24:34 EDT

I have a renewed faith in humanity after reading this...

virginiawoolf

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Lymed — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:23:21 EDT

Can we all call Barbara and say thank you?

Lymed

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JessicaLovejoy: Heart of Dykeness — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:22:40 EDT

Can we get Countness Luanne (or Empress Starla) to comment on this?

JessicaLovejoy: Heart of Dykeness

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socasweet — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:22:23 EDT

So nice of them. Helping the needy sell their weekend homes. They should geta prize for that. Is there any sort of prize to covers such acts of kindness.

socasweet

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SarahMC — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:21:13 EDT

Boo fucking hoo.

SarahMC

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NefariousNewt — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:20:48 EDT

Yes, because it would be a shame if all those houses in the Hamptons went unsold... luxury home, left to rot, to be claimed by the inexorable forces of the sea.

NefariousNewt

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Legalese — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:20:12 EDT

How about discounted staging services for everyone ELSE who lost money in the market due to Bear & others' shady mortgage deals?

Legalese