"So the guys spent a lot of time together, playing cards, talking, hanging around in the same places, traveling together on the bus or whatever it might be.
And during the dot-com heyday, many people traded stock option information like baseball cards; talking about money was part of the culture.
Farther inside, past endless trays of hors d'oeuvres, attendees lingered under a mirrored disco ball, swapping business cards, talking shop and hunting for untapped e-commerce fortunes.
We played some cards, talked some business and had a really good time.
Days on end, stuffed into ancient, sooty Pullman cars, we rolled and clacked westward, while we dozed, played cards, talked, laughed, got depressed, wrote letters, and read endlessly.
"They will be livid that they weren't told straight away, so they could cancel those cards". Talk Talk used to be owned by Carphone Warehouse but is a separate company - Carphone Warehouse now has contractual ties to it.
They also described, with excruciating accuracy, certain behaviors and idiosyncrasies of a type of young women and how they live, like going to the bathroom in groups; buying expensive workout clothes (charged to Daddy's credit card); talking about celebrities; thinking Diet Coke, iced coffee, and fro yo are food groups, and speaking solely in abbreviations.
As you flip through the cards searching for the one card, talk a lot, so that the audience is distracted, and will not be watching your hands too carefully.
Where else can you be on top of the world at twenty-five — have 'producer' on your business cards, talk to the head honchos at record companies, talk to talent, and do whatever you want?" Demme left MTV at age twenty-eight to make movies, and his credits include "The Ref," starring Denis Leary, and "Who's the Man," with Dr. Dre and Ed Lover.
It was at another business lunch last year that the two hit upon the idea of a multicultural club in midtown Manhattan where members could drop in for lunch or a drink after work, trade business cards, talk shop and entertain clients.
A bit like giving someone index cards with talking points and asking them to do a presentation.
