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The Wire - Welcome to the New Day Co-Op

The Wire - Welcome to the New Day Co-Op

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A short clip from The Wire, season 3, in which Stringer Bell chairs a meeting of the New Day Co-Op with Prop Joe and Fat-Face Rick. The scene shows the drug crews running their cooperative like a formal business meeting.

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HN uses it as a joke reference, posting it in threads about meetings, procedure and corporate behavior.

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spindritf · 2013-01 · joke

> "Schmidt responded that he preferred it be shared 'verbally, since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later?'" he said, according to the court filing. The HR director agreed. [VIDEO]

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SahAssar · 2021-12 · joke

Every time emails leak from facebook/google/amazon showing unflattering things I think of the end of this scene: "Is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy? What the fuck is you thinking!?" [VIDEO]

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gorgoiler · 2022-08 · joke

STRINGER: Yo, what is that? SHAMROCK: [scribbling on a legal pad] The Roberts Rules say we gotta have minutes for the meeting right? These the minutes. STRINGER: Is you takin’ notes on a criminal f*** conspiracy?! What the ** is you thinking man?! [VIDEO]

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anigbrowl · 2025-02 · joke

Very much so. Sassoon's resignation letter describes the Acting Attorney General (prior to Pam Bondi's recent confirmation) as objecting to a DoJ lawyer taking notes in the meeting with Adams' lawyers, and demanding those notes be handed over when exiting the meeting. [VIDEO] for those who don't get the reference

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