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U meen i can has insewerants agent lisense?

Lou.

Posted to Diary on Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 12:33:35 PM EST. RSS.

I am licensed.

Just got back from my test to become an insurance agent and I passed with colors that were flying enough.

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Re: U meen i can has insewerants agent lisense?

thefadd.

Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 12:42:39 PM EST

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Congrats, Lou! I took a financial adviser interest test after graduating college and they told me I wasn't interested enough...

It is easy to buy small plaster models of what you think life is like.

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gerrymander.

Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 01:53:31 PM EST

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Congratulations, Lou!

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ms sue.

Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 06:43:37 PM EST

5.00

Way to go, Lou.

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Congratulations.

MayorBob.

Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 02:47:23 PM EST

5.00 (funny)

Does this mean you're only licensed to sell insurance in Maine or can you sell it anywhere?  Will you be as honest as those guys from Progressive who will refer you to cheaper companies if Progressive is too high?  Are we in good hands?  Do we have a good neighbor?  Or, do you favor fowl or lizards?

Illegitimi non carborundum.

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Re: Congratulations.

thefadd.

Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 07:21:27 PM EST

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Speaking of which, I was just reading how Geico donated tons of laser speed guns to police departments all over the country in order to increase speeding tickets (and thus insurance rates!). Way to go geico!

It is easy to buy small plaster models of what you think life is like.

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What?!?

uncarved block.

Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 09:06:09 PM EST

5.00

    But . . but . . that little lizard looked so trustworthy and honest.

   Maybe he was just kept out of the loop on this. Yeah, that's got to be it.

Ex ignorantia ad sapientiam; e luce ad tenebras

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Re: What?!?

delete me.

Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 11:43:14 PM EST

4.50 (funny, funny)

You have to keep in mind that GEICO keeps killing off and replacing their geckos.

Think about it. Silent gecko. English accent gecko. Australian accent gecko.

Clearly they have to get rid of their spokeslizard when it rebels against their nefarious insurance tactics.

- derumi (del-me)
"Bobby Fischer? Man, that guy is crazy!" - Mike Tyson

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Re: What?!?

tomc.

Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 12:17:37 PM EST

none

Wow.  I'll bet most people never noticed.

Funny thing, though, is that when they replaced Dick York with Dick Sargent on Bewitched, that didn't fool anyone.

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Re: You mean I can have insurance agent's license?

delete me.

Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 11:44:23 PM EST

none

Congrats, Lou!

- derumi (del-me)
"Bobby Fischer? Man, that guy is crazy!" - Mike Tyson

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Re: U meen i can has insewerants agent lisense?

Steve Urkel.

Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 01:53:09 PM EST

none

Congratulations. By the way, have you ever watched the movie Double Indemnity?

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Re: U meen i can has insewerants agent lisense?

Lou.

Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 06:27:30 PM EST

none

Thanks for the tip.  I'll put it on my netflicks list.  I've never seen this, but it sounds pretty good.

It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine

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Re: U meen i can has insewerants agent lisense?

Steve Urkel.

Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 06:43:20 PM EST

none

There has to be some other movies about insurance agents, unfortunately I can't think of them right now...

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Other Insurance Movies.

MayorBob.

Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 09:17:06 PM EST

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All of the following feature insurance in the plot or insurance industry people as characters in the cast:

The Thomas Crowne Affair

To Catch A Thief

Memento

Entrapment

The Adjuster

Fight Club

Groundhog Day

The Postman Always Rings Twice

About Schwartz

All excellent movies, in my opinion.  As a bonus for Lou, some of them feature insurance agents and adjusters sleeping with the customers -- for vicarious pleasure, of course.

Illegitimi non carborundum.

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Re: Other Insurance Movies.

Steve Urkel.

Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 09:56:37 PM EST

none

I just saw the original Thomas Crowne affair last month, I should've remembered the incongrous insurance fraud investigator from that one.

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Re: Other Insurance Movies.

keta.

Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 11:32:56 AM EST

none

I only remember that movie for the outrageously cloying chess scene as a metaphor for humping.  It made one wish for thundering waves on a beach or something.  

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Re: Other Insurance Movies.

Steve Urkel.

Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 12:49:04 PM EST

none

That was bizarre, but then really the whole movie was, starting with the premise.  

Did you know McQueen did his own dune buggy driving in the movie? You don't see that anymore.

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Re: Other Insurance Movies.

Steve Urkel.

Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 09:59:15 PM EST

none

On the subject of movies for people with new jobs, anyone interested in becoming a garbageman should definitely watch Men at Work, starring Emelio Estevez and Charlie Sheen.

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Re: U meen i can has insewerants agent lisense?

Lou.

Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 06:46:02 PM EST

none

Well...as a group of people,we're pretty boring.  Unless we're killing someone of course.  But that hardly ever happens.

It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine

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Grab A Book, Maybe?

uncarved block.

Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 09:40:17 AM EST

none

    One of America's better poets of the 20th century worked for an insurance firm-- Wallace Stevens. He gets bonus points for turning down an academic position at Harvard because he would have had to give up a vice-presidency at The Hartford.

Ex ignorantia ad sapientiam; e luce ad tenebras

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Re: Grab A Book, Maybe?

Lou.

Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 09:54:04 AM EST

none

Hey...he was born in Reading, Pennsylvania.  How cool is that?

It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine

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Re: Grab A Book, Maybe?

port1080.

Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 03:24:30 PM EST

none

It's spelled Reading (so you would pronounce it like reading a book, you would think) but it's pronounced "Redding" (like the color red, with "ing" on the end), so it's somewhat less cool, unfortunately.

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O noes!

JimmyHavok.

Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 02:57:20 PM EST

none

Can yous inshur ma buckit?

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Re: U meen i can has insewerants agent lisense?

pO157.

Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 08:41:06 AM EST

none

Does that mean you can now be the master of the appeal to fear on TnT? As in, sure, gorillas may attack your home and eat all of your prized possessions. Those types of things are 319% on the rise this quarter. But, for only $17 a month you can have that piece of mind you always dream about.

Failing that, can I have some Robot Attack insurance? Does it come bundled with an autographed Sam Waterston product?

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Re: U meen i can has insewerants agent lisense?

Lou.

Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 09:49:11 AM EST

5.00 (funny, funny)

Ugh...I see the fear ads all the time and believe it or not, they just make my job harder.  I spend a significant amount of time explaining to people that insurance really doesn't "protect" you from anything.  At the center of it all, insurance is designed to restore the insured to as close as possible to the status they had before the event.

Say you were a customer of mine and you came to me and asked, "Lou, how can I protect myself from Robot Attack".  I would begin by explaining that there really isn't any way that insurance can stop a robot from rampaging through your home.  However, I would  refer you to my close friend Skeeter1 to get advice on the type of firearm (one that preferably fires amour piercing bullets) you should get.  Once that task is completed, we can talk about the best level of fire coverage you should buy since I can only imagine a bullet riddled robot would throw off tons of sparks.  Further, I would strongly recommend you avoid buying the anti-robot land mines that are so much in vogue right now.  While they can be effective against older robots, the newer ones have ground penetrating radar...and to make matters worse, neighborhood children do not have such a radar.  All it takes is one careless child chasing his errant Frisbee and now your looking at sky-high premiums for liability coverage...not to mention hostility from your neighbors...and of course, a dead kid.

Finally, I will work with one of the many many insurance lobbyists to see what could be done to reign in those scientists who so negligently produce robots.

It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine

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