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Old 05-21-2010, 10:39 AM   #274
JonInMiddleGA
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Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
Some UIC with my wife this morning, this seems like a great discreet place to share it (although I admit in advance that you might have to know more about the discussion than I can share for it to be as funny to you as it was to me).

Long story as short as I can tell it, we're discussing a moderate screw-up on a commercial video shoot by a nationally known on-camera talent. In spite of several opportunities to mention this previously, he calls this morning & says "the copy is too long, I can't get this into 30 seconds".

My wife is telling me about it & I went on a mini-rant about how "that's why you always do a timing read in advance, even my Sounds-like-Foxworthy-doing-Larry-the-Cable-Guy-HS-educated-self-knows-that-much".

My closing line was "that's a problem created by absolute hubris".
Her response? "I don't think he's smoking as much as he used to so that probably wasn't the problem"

Brief discussion about the difference in "hubris" and "cannabis" follows
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