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Another reason the internet has saved many a butt.

January 29th, 2009 Jessica Hagy Posted in Uncategorized |


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21 Responses to “Another reason the internet has saved many a butt.”

  1. Fuiru Says:
    January 29th, 2009 at 1:58 pm

    Speaking of which, I’d like a book deal. Jessica, could you talk to somebody for me? (tee hee)

  2. Drugserbad Says:
    January 29th, 2009 at 2:22 pm

    I don’t know… I think I’m no more connected now than I was in the 80s. Maybe I just don’t exploit my acquaintances as readily as some people do.

  3. Mike Says:
    January 29th, 2009 at 2:22 pm

    Just the facts.

  4. doublebanker Says:
    January 29th, 2009 at 2:57 pm

    Got any extra connections?? Love the site!

    Check out this double flip on a motorcycle

  5. Anders Nils Says:
    January 29th, 2009 at 5:28 pm

    True. Story.

  6. Skye Says:
    January 29th, 2009 at 6:09 pm

    Haha… there needs to be a “C” labeled “college degree.” It would be smaller than both A and B. (Just my personal experience.)

  7. Ed Says:
    January 29th, 2009 at 11:22 pm

    A) (short) What you know.
    B) (medium) Who you know.
    C) (tall) Who knows you.

    I first heard this many years ago as “It’s not what you know, but who you know.” “No, it’s not who you know; it’s who knows *you*”.

  8. Gia Says:
    January 30th, 2009 at 12:06 am

    My favourite quote is always:

    It’s not who you know that counts.
    It’s WHOM you know that counts.

  9. Alex Says:
    January 30th, 2009 at 9:10 am

    @Gia: What’s funny is that “whom” isn’t grammatically correct in that position.

    @Ed/Skye: Thanks for the encouragement, I’m visiting my first-choice college this weekend. >.>

  10. Cornelius Says:
    January 30th, 2009 at 10:35 am

    People with talent aren’t distracted and obsessed with making connections and tend to have bigger and better things happen to them without wasting time on politics and nepotism.Alex needs to start stop breaking the Prozacs in half I think.

  11. Kloche Says:
    January 30th, 2009 at 12:36 pm

    My graph is definitely inverse

  12. Alex Says:
    January 30th, 2009 at 7:04 pm

    @Cornelius: Did you mean to say “start” or “stop” halving Prozacs? Because you used both words. Can’t quite tell what you’re getting at either way, since I don’t think I showed signs of either excessive depression or giddiness.

  13. Simone Says:
    January 30th, 2009 at 10:36 pm

    Who you know might get your foot in the door. But its WHAT you know that will determine whether you stay or not.

  14. Jamie Says:
    January 30th, 2009 at 11:40 pm

    So true, it hurts. Right here in the pit of my lonely, talented heart.

  15. Stephen Maxwell Says:
    January 31st, 2009 at 4:23 am

    @Gia and especially Alex:
    Actually, whom is correct, there, I think.

    “who/whom you know” = “you know ___” = “you know him, them, her” not “you know he, they, she”

  16. Robert Says:
    January 31st, 2009 at 6:00 am

    I would suggest a third bar: A+B, which, I believe, would reach the maximum of the Usefulness axis.

  17. Crimson Says:
    February 1st, 2009 at 3:52 pm

    @Robert:
    Do you know people who have both?
    If you do, ask them to know me, please… I really need some damn-good connections…

  18. Alex Says:
    February 2nd, 2009 at 6:24 pm

    @Stephen: Not to try and just prove myself right (on the internet, god forbid), but I had to check for myself out of curiosity.
    Dictionary.com says that “whom” is the object form of “who” which, if I remember correctly, means in prepositional phrases (after the words to, for, by, etc.). I know for sure that it’s often misused by very proud and “dignified” people who, when they want to sound smart, will just replace any “who” with “whom.”
    Feel free to correct me on that, though. I’m no English teacher, so it’s not as if my usefulness depends on knowing this sort of thing; I just work at Pizza Hut. (Wow, an allusion to the actual post. I’m good.)

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    February 10th, 2009 at 4:11 pm

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