Need an “All of the Above” button.

People usually drink too much, then bad mouth co-workers, tell secrets and once really plastered they start singing karaoke! Shiver me timbers……

Good Morning Ms. Alisyn,

Though I do “Happy Hour”, it is not with co-workers. I stop at my local Pub, drink 2 slow beers and play a couple of games of Keno.

Then I go home, relaxed to my wonderful wife. Where we will talk of our day for a few minutes and then watch, as she said yesterday, you on the TIVO, recorded from 6 to 7.

But any time I am in NYC I’d be more than willing to do Happy Hour with you and the rest of the crew.

Have a wonderful day. Hi Ms. Audra.

chas

Morning Marshall.

Good morning and may countless happy birthdays be in your future. As a business owner I attend numerous after hour functions with members of my staff. I do agree these “happy hours ” are great for business, but they can be risky. If you overindulge you risk doing great harm to your career with a drunken public display. The ride home can be risky as a DWI article in the local paper can do wonders for your career also. So enjoy happy hour but don’t get too happy.

Be Well

Anytime you mix coworkers and Alcohol you have the potential to do damage to your career as well as your personal and professional reputation. Unfortunately for many of us it is necessary part of networking in many business or corporations. As long as a person understands that every word you utter or action you take can come back to haunt you later you are usually fine. Just remember when you are in room full of intoxicated people no one…can be trusted. No matter how well you think you know them. A lesson I had to learn the hard way myself.

You look delicious this morning Alisyn…but then you always were yummy!

In my twenties and early thirties Happy Hour was a way of life for me. Many of us would meet after work, drink, talk and graze at the free buffet. When I got married for the first time, I told the new wife that there would come a day that I would want to visit with my friends and co-works at my favorite little bar. She said of course you will and I understand that completely.

A few months go by and I decide I will join the gang after work and I let her know I would be a couple of hours late. She called that bar five times before I could finish the first beer! It got so ridiculous I finally just left and went home. I should have recognized the foreshadowing of this event and immediately run for my life!

Morning Chas! Time for another day in the salt mines……

Good Morning Alisyn,
Last time I was in a bar for Happy Hour, I didnt get home till 2 am, with a new friend, I know her for more then 10 years now, and we are good friends.
Sal

happy hour is wonderful for an hour,after that, the longer you stay the greater your
chances of fouling up your personal and professional life-

it would be a very a happy hour if Alisyn would do the news in a Hooters uniform

good morning Alisyn, Audra, Chas, and Marshall

I never talk business at Happy Hours. I just have a few drinks, laugh and have a good time. We do talk about this status of the company at times, but that’s about it. What does Alisyn do?????

Pat

Good Morning Ms Alisyn. Yep, been there, done that, got the tee-shirt. Guess what, also got some battle scars to go with it. You may have an understanding with the wife, but, bottom line is even though there is an understanding……she doesn’t understand. Lick your wounds and go straight home from work. We tried the bar thing after work and then later decided to get toghether once a quarter at a local lake, have a cookout, play cards, drink beer, and then go home. Even that proved to be damaging as anytime there is alcohol involved with co-workers, the good, the bad, and the ugly comes out…..and some people are going to get hurt. Better off sticking to the Christmas parties where you can take the wife with you and other wives are there. As long as other wives are there it seems to cut cut on some of the overbearing statemenst that may be made that can cause everlasting damages. Again, take the wife, get drunk, and take your little hinnie home; that way no-one gets hurt.

Have a good day.

I wonder how many people are really happy at Happy Hour??? Probably glad to be out of work.

I don’t stop for it because I work just half a day and would hit the lunch crowd. Also, as we age…..of course Alysin has no idea of this yet and I surely would not be the one to tell her………we have to consume less calories and I prefer to eat mine rather then drink them. Gotta keep the girlish figure ya know so the Happy Hour guys was happy to come home.

BUT…I cannot hold my liquor very well….and would probably open my mouth with the wrong words coming out.

In honor of the twentieth anniversary I think there should be a Hooters Friday on F&Fs! Alisyn, GC, Ainsley, Courtney, Jena Lee, Anna Gilligan and others could all dress in the traditional garb and give us good news for 3 hours Friday morning!!!!!!!!

I don’t as a rule go to any happy hour, but occassion I have gone. I normally have responsibilities to take care of after work. I do believe that it can be cause for co-workers to become offended real easy when under the influence or create a situation between men and women co-workers, if you know what I mean. How could you face these people the next day? I know I couldn’t. This why it is only a once in awhile thing to do.

Hmmmmm…… first I couldn’t get anyone behind my Thong Friday idea and now it looks like my celebration of Hooters is going to be put in file 13. Argh!

That’s quite an assemblage. 20th Anniversary of what?

Golf outings have ben most successful for me.

Happy hours have been career limiting for a lot of people I have known. Alcohol and business should not mix

Hooters! Because many of us love Hooters! The chicken wings ain’t bad either….

Marshall that would be a HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HOURS

Maybe the moral of the story is to keep alcohol out of it. I had my share when younger, like the old saying goes, “Once I was young, foolish, and innocent. Now I’m old, smart and guilty!”

When you get older it seems its time for the blood pressure medicine, the cholestrol medicine, maybe even diabetes creeps in on you if you haven’t been watching you’re weight. No need to mix alcohol with that concotion!

Gave it up years ago and it didn’t take a wife to bring me to that resolution. Never cared what the wife had to say about it in the first place, probably because I never had a wife.

If you have to center your life around a beer can or a shot of booze then you must be a a pretty shallow person. People should grow up and get over it.

But something I will not get over now is the idea suggested by one blogger, Alisyn doing the news in a Hooters outfit! That I could vote for! But I bet she’d have to have a shot or two to do it!

GaryT

I just don’t get this whole mindset the Democrats have about drilling! They love to say it would take 10 years before we saw any oil out of the new areas, but give no other solutions. How does doing nothing improve the situation 10 years from now? In 10 years will we be paying 20 bucks a gallon and saying well if we drill now it will be another 10 years……

Crazy! Crazy! Crazy!

Before I got married and started a family, I happy houred all the time. I did everything on the list except the last one. No matter how much I had to drink, I could not make myself sing karaoke. Probably saved the world and myself much embarassment.

Hey, that police sketch with the hat blocking the perp’s face looks like Michael Jackson!

Alisyn,

Did Rebecca Gomez tell you about this survey? I hear she talks about “Happy Hour” all the time and at 5pm sharp she can be found sitting on a stool at a bar talking “business”. LOL

Good morning alisyn, audra, marshall, jimmy and chas

Jacklyn Smith is on and is still looking as beautiful as she ever did. WOW!

Where ever Jacklyn goes she must be used to being the most beautiful woman in the room. Must have been awkward this morning when she showed up and saw Alisyn. Jacklyn was suddenly the 2nd most beautiful woman.

I hate I missed Jaclyn Smith! I have always thought she was one of the most beautiful bow legged women I have ever seen! Hmmmmmmm….. hmmmmmm……. hmmmmmmmm…………..

Morning Pat!

“These steps (a middle-class tax cut, national health care plan, foreclosure prevention fund, Social Security fix and more) are all paid for.”
Barack Obama on Monday, June 16th, 2008 in Flint, Mich.

‘Paid for’ without real money

Lately economists have been fretting about how the candidates’ economic plans would affect the budget deficit, which has soared to $357-billion following several years of surpluses through 2001. So Sen. Barack Obama caught our attention when he laid out a laundry list of economic proposals in a speech on June 16, 2008, and said they were all “paid for.”

Speaking at Kettering University in the faded manufacturing city of Flint, Mich., Obama ticked off several proposals he said would help working Americans:

“It starts with a broad-based, middle-class tax cut — $1,000 per family — to help offset the rising cost of gas and food,” Obama said. “A foreclosure prevention fund, to help stabilize the housing market and keep people in their homes. A health care plan that lowers costs and gives those without health insurance the same kind of coverage that members of Congress have. A commitment to retirement security that stabilizes Social Security, and provides workers a means to increase savings. And a plan to crack down on unfair and sometimes deceptive lending in the credit card and housing markets, to help families climb out of crippling debt, and stay out of debt in the first place.”

“Now these steps that I’ve proposed are all paid for,” Obama said.

It’s that last phrase we’re interested in. We interpret it to mean Obama would do all that spending without increasing the budget deficit, and has detailed how he would do so.

Advisers and surrogates for Obama have said that more explicitly.

“He (Obama) has proposed an entire domestic program that would not increase the deficit at all over the course of his first term in office,” his economic adviser Austan Goolsbee said in a conference call on June 9.

Obama “pays and proposes ways to pay for all of his tax cuts and all of his spending,” his ally John Edwards said on the June 16 broadcast of ABC’s This Week.

Let’s start by looking at the specific programs Obama referred to. The “broad-based, middle-class tax cut” he spoke about referred to his “Making Work Pay” tax credit, plus a new income-tax exemption for seniors making under $50,000, his campaign said. Those together would cost about $80-billion a year, according to both the Obama campaign and the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.

The “foreclosure prevention fund” would be a one-time cost of $10-billion, the campaign said. The health care plan, under which all Americans would be able to buy coverage similar to what members of Congress get, will cost some $50-billion to $65-billion per year, the campaign said. His aides said it’s not clear how much stabilizing Social Security would cost, because both parties would have to hash out a plan to do so. His plan to help workers save is about a $20-billion-a-year program of employer mandates and tax credits.

Finally, there’s his plan to crack down on unfair lending and to help families out of debt. That referred to regulatory changes, like a proposed rating system for credit cards and home loans, which the campaign said would not cost anything.

Now — does he have a plan to pay for all that spending?

Here’s where it gets tricky. Some of the foreclosure-prevention fund would come from penalties on irresponsible lenders, the campaign’s Web site says. The Social Security fix might be funded by more payroll taxes on high-earners, Obama has said.

But most of the money would come from what the campaign calls “baskets” of savings and new revenues. They include savings from a broad range of policy changes, such as ending the Iraq war, letting tax cuts expire for people who earn more than $250,000, closing corporate tax loopholes and discouraging offshore tax havens.

The campaign says all those changes would yield several hundred billion dollars a year. For example, ending the Iraq war — the first five years of which cost $600-billion, according to the Pentagon — would save between $90-billion and $100-billion a year, the Obama campaign asserts. All the savings together would be easily enough to pay for all the programs Obama mentioned, along with all the other new spending and tax cuts he plans, the campaign says.

But are Obama’s savings estimates realistic? We don’t know. The campaign has not provided enough detail to validate them, said Greg Leiserson of the nonpartisan Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.

“They (the policy changes) could raise a lot of money, they could raise a little money, we just don’t know,” said Leiserson, who co-wrote an analysis of both candidates’ tax plans.

That undercuts Obama’s claim that he has “paid for” his programs.

There’s another problem. Current tax law calls for President Bush’s tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 to expire at the end of 2010, and for the alternative minimum tax to be imposed on far more taxpayers than it is now. If that happened, the budget deficit would shrink and reach a surplus again by 2012, the Congressional Budget Office projects. (That projection assumes spending on existing programs, including the war in Iraq, continues, growing at the rate of inflation.)

But Obama’s plan calls for the tax cuts to be extended for everyone who makes less than $250,000. Overall, his tax plan would decrease revenue by $2.7-trillion over the next 10 years, according to the Tax Policy Center analysis. That seems likely to yield a large deficit rather than a surplus. Obama could always close the deficit by cutting spending, but he has not spelled out how he would do so.

In fact, Obama’s does not promise he won’t leave a deficit. In interviews, his economic aides merely said he would leave less of a deficit than the $357-billion gap expected this year. They say that’s the best measure of whether Obama’s plan is “paid for.” However, that the 2008 deficit is temporarily high because of a one-time economic stimulus.

It’s true that Obama has outlined in very general terms where he would get the money to pay for his proposals. And it may be true that those proposals will leave the deficit smaller than it is now, though we can’t say for sure.

More to the point, Obama can’t say for sure. Until he fleshes out his economic plan considerably more, it’s disingenuous to go around claiming his proposals are “paid for.” And that claim is even more suspect considering that his proposals would leave a larger deficit than would the tax laws currently on the books. We find his claim to be Barely True.

Probably plans to print new money with his face on the new bills to go along with his new presidential seal……

Tricia,

Are you a paid opperative for one of the 527’s or just a volunteer?

Nice job of copy and paste. Do you come up with any original thoughts or are those as sppon feed to you as that diatribe is supposed to be to us?

touche mike and marshall

Marshall,

Jacklyn left right at the top of the ASS. Guess she didn’t want to sit on the sofa with Alisyn and Gretchen. But what woman would want to sit there with a living Goddess and a Miss America. Even a Charlie’s Angel can’t compete with that.
(Seriously, she probably had some other place to rush off to plug her show.)

Was that Andy (nickname for Richard. I think I tripped a filter the first time I said this) in the black wig and white suit wisking Jacklyn away? I guess not, this guy looked sober and not passed out.

What was on the AtSS today and why does it take so long to get the video online?

Good morning everyone!

What is everyones favorite Happy Hour drink?

I enjoy a Black and Velvet. Guinness poured on top of hard cider.

DELISH!

marshall,

Jacklyn was on at the begining but left almost immediately. Guess she knew even a Charlie’s Angel can’t compete with sitting on a sofa with a living Goddess and a Miss America.
(Seriously I think she had some other place to go right away to promote her show.)

Most of it was Alisyn and Gretchen talking about weddings and babies. The crew was falling asleep but I was enjoying it. Can it be those guys are jaded and don’t appreciate getting paid to watch those two babes?

Too bad Jacklyn had to rush off so fast. It would have been fun if she, Gretchen and Alisyn could have recreated the famous Charlie’s Angels pose.
Gretchen could have been Sabrina and Alisyn could have been Jill/Kris.

Favorite drink? Are we talking the morning Happy Hour or the afternoon Happy Hour? lol

These days a nice cold glass of milk and a Pepcid AC look pretty good at the end of a long day…..

What is the beautiful Ms Smith promoting?

I have to agree with Marshall - Where’s the all above button? About the time frame for oil drilling benefits - I don’t give a rats ass how long it takes, get the oil out of the ground - Remember the man on the Moon race? President Kennedy set a time table to be on the Moon in years, well we went to the Moon and back beating his time table, now if Nancy P. and the other Dems will get off of their butts we can do it again and break this ridiculous dependency with OPEC!

amen sonner

Hey Johnny A-

That what i was thinking also. The crime sketch pic kind of looks like a combination between Michael Jackson and Johnny Depp.

Marshall-

Isnt Jaclyn Smith still promoting her clothing line in Kmart?

Anything can happen during Happy Hour. Coworkers can share long lost secrets, the skies the limit. A lot of ppl can get into big trouble for spilling the beans about a rival or a boss. Most of the time its because that person isnt thinking straight after they have had several glasses beer.

For me, i would rather avoid it. I am not one to drink alcohol, i would much rather have a glass of ginger ale or one of those sparkling water beverages and just relax after a long day at work.

Marshall-

I think Alisyn is much too busy to tape a AtSS. But i hope we see a new one very soon.

As for BHO offering to pay off Hillary Clinton’s campaign debt, i see a ulterior motive behind this,
maybe a VP slot in return?

I highly doubt that would work, because most of Hillarys supporters will be defecting to John McCain.

John Sidney McCain will be our next president, i can just hear the annoucement right now.

I wonder what the original cast members of Charlie’s Angels thought about the remakes? The one with Cameron Diaz and that other actress, Drew Barrymore.

Three reasons not to join in with the co-workers for happy hour:

1. Got grocery shopping to do.

2. Got a family to attend to.

3. Spent enough time with the co-workers on the clock. (That’s
what the water cooler is for.)
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Lots of that happy hour stuff is for folks who have nothing else to do-
When and after the work day is through.
.
Mary Elizabeth Rumsey
Three by M.E./Rhymes of the Times

Anyone here remember that hilarious variety show Happy Hour? It was on the USA Network in early 2000. The hosts were none other than the legendary Frank Zappa’s two sons.

Alisyn, On this mornings show they showed a gift Package to send to our troops If you have the web site or a number I can call to do this I would be very thankful.
Always enjoy the morning show and all on it.
Best Regards and keep up the good fight.
Ricxhard Hayes
Former Cpl.USMC

Your show is great!!

What happened to Page Hopkins on the weekend show??

Frank. Check this link out for the full details:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080303194832AArBOOF