The Receptionist Where I Work...

[Gothampc]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 1:06pm

...looks like Elaine Stritch. Would it be rude if I asked her to sing 16 bars of "Ladies Who Lunch"?

[Calvin]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 1:07pm

As a kid, I once got in trouble for asking a lady if she was the woman in the where's the beef commercials.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 1:08pm

Bea is so sensitive, isn't she?

[tazber]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 1:09pm

Gotham, I would try a subtler approach. Ask her if she wears a hat.
Then, if she says yes, ask for the whole damn song!!!

[cheezedoodle]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 1:10pm

Ask her to tell you the Caca story! It's a scream!

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 1:12pm

Ask her out to the bar. Or AA.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 1:12pm

"Ask her if she wears a hat."

That's an idea. I could sidle up to her desk and ask in a snarky voice: "Does anyone...still wear...a hat?" If she says "I'll drink to that", then I'm asking for the entire song.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 1:12pm

If she hasn't mentioned her diabetes by now, she's definitely not Stritch.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 1:13pm

"I want a RISE...RISE...RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIZZZZZZE!!!

[Gothampc]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 1:18pm

Here's the thing: I know she's not Stritch in the flesh because I've worked with Stritch, but I bet anything this is Stritch's stand-in during the Blackout Years.

[AudreyTwoTwo]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 1:24pm

I like the hat idea. :)

[Gothampc]

Posted: 6/12/07 at 10:47am

Today our receptionist is out and they have a temp sitting in and he looks just like Billy Crudup!!!! This is getting creepy.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 6/12/07 at 10:48am

Getting a Tony doesnt mean what it used to...sad.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 6/12/07 at 10:59am

I'm a bit peeved that our company is using Central Casting to find receptionists (or in the case of our regular receptionist that looks like Stritch, The Equity Home for the Aged).

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 6/12/07 at 11:01am

The Actors' Fund works in mysterious ways.

[D2]

Posted: 6/12/07 at 11:06am

Her name isn't Carol, by any chance, is it?

[Gothampc]

Posted: 6/12/07 at 11:07am

"The Actors' Fund works in mysterious ways."

I'm beginning to see the way they work!

"Her name isn't Carol, by any chance, is it?"

No, it's Agnes.

Updated On: 6/12/07 at 11:07 AM

[CosmopolitanBoy]

Posted: 6/12/07 at 11:08am

a man named "carol" that looks like billy crudup? hardly.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 6/12/07 at 11:10am

The only receptionist I know named Carol looks just like Mrs. Krabappel.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 6/12/07 at 11:10am

*grumble*

Updated On: 6/12/07 at 11:10 AM

[D2]

Posted: 6/12/07 at 11:10am

At one of the ad agencies I worked at we had a receptionist named Carol who looked just like Stritch, and she knew it. Every Christmas she would get on one of the conference room tables and sing THE LADIES WHO LUNCH. She was a scream.

[best12bars]

Posted: 6/12/07 at 11:10am

There were two receptionists at the temp agency I worked through in L.A. who actually went on to successful acting careers. One was CCH Pounder... the other was a guy who played Beau for a few years on Days Of Our Lives.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 6/12/07 at 11:10am

You make these stories up.

[CosmopolitanBoy]

Posted: 6/12/07 at 11:14am

there's a real person named "cch pounder" ?

[best12bars]

Posted: 6/12/07 at 11:27am

CCH Pounder...





Bo on "Days" for a while (Robert Kelker-Kelly)...



He was a very nice guy. We went to lunch a few times while he worked at the agency. It was about a year before he got the soap gig.