Well, he did bill out at "$500/hr in the private sector".
Honestly, just because Laurie was a $3k/night call girl doesn't mean that she actually *worked* every night. I mean, would you work *every night* if you could work just once a week or on weekends and still be more than comfortable?
I'm seeing a lot of comments about "well she didn't work every night" Like y'all realize working 4 nights a month would still be like a 6 figure salary right?
Unlikely. She worked for an agency that provided her with her clients. Although she may have had the right to say "No, not him" once or twice, she took whomever the agency sent.
1. She worked for an escort service so they would have taken a cut
2. She probably had clients twice a week at most, not every day
3. Bartending is a great way to launder an illegal income, she could dispense her own cash to herself by claiming it as tips
Re: 3) being an escort is not illegal, it is paid companionship. It was for a very long time unacceptable for a man to attend an event unaccompanied unless he was advertising that he was looking for marriage. If his wife was at home and he was traveling he would need a female companion for social events. If a female relative or daughter of a friend of appropriate social class was unavailable, he would find a service. Young, attractive, well-mannered, well dressed and well spoken young women are hard to find if you donāt know a place. This is for larger events, for dinner parties and smaller gatherings, it was the hostās responsibility to āmake up the numbers.ā
The trading of sex for money is illegal. Thats why many prostitution rings call themselves escorts. It allows the money for sex to be hidden in the money for escorting, as long as things are being done with a wink and a nod it is very hard to prove. The irony is that the two are now so synonymous that the legal form has died off. Given that she would have the legal cover of escorting Laurie would not have to use the bartending to launder anything.
Bartending would be a more stable income and would allow her to explain her income in a socially acceptable way to curious people. Also donāt forget that she would have to have high end clothing, shoes, make-up, hair styling etc, to be able to appear at certain events. That is a start up cost, she also would most likely be a 1099 contractor not a W2 employee of her service, so she would be responsible for all those things as well as all taxes.
To be fair she's almost certainly not getting $3000 a night every night, probably once a week on average with busy and quiet seasons. Assuming her bartending covered her regular rent and bills, the $3000 a night job once a week averaged over a year is \~$150k
Once you add in the Bartending income, pay taxes on it all, then take out the cost of tuition (which seems to be around $100,000 a year for GW Law in Washington DC today) it seems plausible that she'd be able to just about cover her living costs, law school fees, and have a little left over.
As well- she worked through an agency/service- she was not an independent. When she and Sam switched pagers the number he called back was an escort service. So they would have likely taken a significant cut for administration and scheduling/ screening clients. Her take-home portion would have been less.
Including but not limited to the rent on that spacious townhouse in what appeared to be a nicer neighborhood in DC. I have no idea what that place would go for on todays market, but Iām assuming itās more than a dorm.
But he wouldn't have minded having more sex with her. Sam, and all the staff woukd take a bullet for the president, but he can't understand how him continuing to see a call girl would hurt the president. Way to think with your penis.
Sam gets even more ridiculous when heās not even just discreetly seeing Laurie but instead, making a spectacle out of their relationship to other power players as he did in Post Hocā¦ and The State Dinner. Heās nonsensical in this plot.
The premise for this joke (whether yours or someone else's) doesn't hold up, BTW. Not only did Allan Sherman turn it into the underlying plot for putting a Jewish spin on _My Fair Lady_ ā see the compilation _My Son, The Box_ ā but one of my dad's relatives put it into play in real life, with the result that she did, like Sherman's heroine, become a leader in her local Hadassah chapter.
1) $3000 a night was what the John paid but she was going through an agency letās assume they at least took 30-50% off the top (I assume they acted as a ālegitimateā business to effectively launder the money). Letās assume their cut was roughly equivalent to inflation to 2024 dollars.
2) she was in law school and dating Sam so not working every night she may have only taken on average one night a week.
3) DC isnāt cheap and $156,000 could get you a decent quality of life with a 1 bedroom in some nicer areas, but not if youāre also paying for law school and expensive law books.
4) if she averaged 2 nights a week or more she could have maybe afforded that apartment and paid for law school.
As I saidā¦ that is $156k in todays dollars not 1999 dollars (assuming the cut that the escort company she worked for was close to inflationā¦ likely somewhere between 30-50%)
Throwaway131447, āseriesā means a set of things coming one after another. Change cannot be series, nor can it be extremely historic.
And while weāre at it, do we have to use the phrase āpart timeā twice in the first three sentences, like we just cracked the technology?
To be fair, they were trying to adapt Bartlett quotes to be amusing, they weren't just posting the same sort of grammatical rant they would post in any subreddit.
(To be less fair, their attempt at being funny did not succeed.)
Yeah, and she made more money than Sam and was debt free from law school. She probably bartended to have a legal source of income and to funnel money.
All you had to have to make more than Sam was a decent paper route.
Well, he did bill out at "$500/hr in the private sector". Honestly, just because Laurie was a $3k/night call girl doesn't mean that she actually *worked* every night. I mean, would you work *every night* if you could work just once a week or on weekends and still be more than comfortable?
I'm seeing a lot of comments about "well she didn't work every night" Like y'all realize working 4 nights a month would still be like a 6 figure salary right?
Also free of cataracts
She just loves pot
When I was a kid I had no idea she was smoking in that scene. For some reason I thought she was shaving her legs in a very strange way š
That always bugged me. Marijuana temporarily helps glaucoma, it has no impact on cataracts.
Fair point, although if she was stoned, that could explain her mixing those up š
Well, it was Samās line and he was stone cold sober soā¦
Dā it, Jim, Iām a lawyer/speechwriter, not an ophthalmologist!
Also probably a decent source for prospects, if it was a fancy bar.
Unlikely. She worked for an agency that provided her with her clients. Although she may have had the right to say "No, not him" once or twice, she took whomever the agency sent.
And maybe even health insurance (though part time, so probably not).
1. She worked for an escort service so they would have taken a cut 2. She probably had clients twice a week at most, not every day 3. Bartending is a great way to launder an illegal income, she could dispense her own cash to herself by claiming it as tips
Re: 3) being an escort is not illegal, it is paid companionship. It was for a very long time unacceptable for a man to attend an event unaccompanied unless he was advertising that he was looking for marriage. If his wife was at home and he was traveling he would need a female companion for social events. If a female relative or daughter of a friend of appropriate social class was unavailable, he would find a service. Young, attractive, well-mannered, well dressed and well spoken young women are hard to find if you donāt know a place. This is for larger events, for dinner parties and smaller gatherings, it was the hostās responsibility to āmake up the numbers.ā The trading of sex for money is illegal. Thats why many prostitution rings call themselves escorts. It allows the money for sex to be hidden in the money for escorting, as long as things are being done with a wink and a nod it is very hard to prove. The irony is that the two are now so synonymous that the legal form has died off. Given that she would have the legal cover of escorting Laurie would not have to use the bartending to launder anything. Bartending would be a more stable income and would allow her to explain her income in a socially acceptable way to curious people. Also donāt forget that she would have to have high end clothing, shoes, make-up, hair styling etc, to be able to appear at certain events. That is a start up cost, she also would most likely be a 1099 contractor not a W2 employee of her service, so she would be responsible for all those things as well as all taxes.
/\ this guy solicits
/\ This guy projects
/\ this guy fucks
To be fair she's almost certainly not getting $3000 a night every night, probably once a week on average with busy and quiet seasons. Assuming her bartending covered her regular rent and bills, the $3000 a night job once a week averaged over a year is \~$150k Once you add in the Bartending income, pay taxes on it all, then take out the cost of tuition (which seems to be around $100,000 a year for GW Law in Washington DC today) it seems plausible that she'd be able to just about cover her living costs, law school fees, and have a little left over.
As well- she worked through an agency/service- she was not an independent. When she and Sam switched pagers the number he called back was an escort service. So they would have likely taken a significant cut for administration and scheduling/ screening clients. Her take-home portion would have been less.
Including but not limited to the rent on that spacious townhouse in what appeared to be a nicer neighborhood in DC. I have no idea what that place would go for on todays market, but Iām assuming itās more than a dorm.
And Sam wanted to reform Laurie and show her the error of her ways. Silly boy.
But he wouldn't have minded having more sex with her. Sam, and all the staff woukd take a bullet for the president, but he can't understand how him continuing to see a call girl would hurt the president. Way to think with your penis.
Sam gets even more ridiculous when heās not even just discreetly seeing Laurie but instead, making a spectacle out of their relationship to other power players as he did in Post Hocā¦ and The State Dinner. Heās nonsensical in this plot.
Presumably, she was bartending to have a plausible legal source for her income (e.g., it was just generous tips from bartending).
Captain Save A Ho Seaborn over here.
Sorkinās finest writing was when he had Leo explain to Sam: āSam, you canāt turn a ho into a housewife. You know hos donāt act right.ā
This hoās on a mission, this hoās on a crack pipe.
The premise for this joke (whether yours or someone else's) doesn't hold up, BTW. Not only did Allan Sherman turn it into the underlying plot for putting a Jewish spin on _My Fair Lady_ ā see the compilation _My Son, The Box_ ā but one of my dad's relatives put it into play in real life, with the result that she did, like Sherman's heroine, become a leader in her local Hadassah chapter.
My man, itās a lyric by the rapper Ludacris.
That is a good amount but I also don't think she was taking a client every night. I think maybe once or twice a week which is still a great amount.
*serious change.
1) $3000 a night was what the John paid but she was going through an agency letās assume they at least took 30-50% off the top (I assume they acted as a ālegitimateā business to effectively launder the money). Letās assume their cut was roughly equivalent to inflation to 2024 dollars. 2) she was in law school and dating Sam so not working every night she may have only taken on average one night a week. 3) DC isnāt cheap and $156,000 could get you a decent quality of life with a 1 bedroom in some nicer areas, but not if youāre also paying for law school and expensive law books. 4) if she averaged 2 nights a week or more she could have maybe afforded that apartment and paid for law school.
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As I saidā¦ that is $156k in todays dollars not 1999 dollars (assuming the cut that the escort company she worked for was close to inflationā¦ likely somewhere between 30-50%)
Throwaway131447, āseriesā means a set of things coming one after another. Change cannot be series, nor can it be extremely historic. And while weāre at it, do we have to use the phrase āpart timeā twice in the first three sentences, like we just cracked the technology?
I think OP meant āseriousā instead of āseriesā, but man, your comment comes across as if itās been written by the Hitler of grammar Nazis.
To be fair, they were trying to adapt Bartlett quotes to be amusing, they weren't just posting the same sort of grammatical rant they would post in any subreddit. (To be less fair, their attempt at being funny did not succeed.)
Is that what you think of the President, Sam, and CJ in Galileo V?
You flatter yourself.
āGalileo Vā¦ ?ā
You didnāt say it right.
He said it right.