Got a Turkey Yet? Sunday
Kim
NASA has posted a notice on their website saying that the world will NOT end
in 2012. Do you believe them? Oh - and have you lost just a *little* respect
for NASA because they felt the need to post the notice?
Regular Sunday Madness.
1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year? Are you
looking for anything in particular?
2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
5. What makes you unique?
6. What is the most you have ever gambled and won? What is the most you have
ever gambled and lost?
7. Have you ever cheated in a relationship? What's your definition of
cheating?
8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your house?
10. What was the last gift card you bought? Who was it for and where was it
from?
--
Kim
www.thedarwinexception.wordpress.com
* I stand against stuff. I am also unhappy with things..*
art...@yahoo.com
wrote:
> Regular Sunday Madness.
>
> 3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
I am the Walrus
> 4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
Aristotle
> 5. What makes you unique?
>
> 6. What is the most you have ever gambled and won? What is the most you have
> ever gambled and lost?
I won 16 bucks at a dog race in South Dakota. I lost my mind once, but
I don't recall exactly what the gamble was
> 10. What was the last gift card you bought? Who was it for and where was it
> from?
I bought several gift cards for a Benefit for Volunteers of America.
One was from a Book store, one from a coffee shop and one from a yarn
store.
Peter Ward
>
> NASA has posted a notice on their website saying that the world will NOT end
> in 2012. Do you believe them? Oh - and have you lost just a *little* respect
> for NASA because they felt the need to post the notice?
>
> Regular Sunday Madness.
>
> 1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year? Are you
> looking for anything in particular?
When's Black Friday? Whenever it is, we surely don't have a Black
Friday sale, because we don't have a Black Friday.
> 2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
My ex lived next door when I met her.
> 3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
I really couldn't say, this sort of thing depends on the mood I'm in.
Contenders include A Hard Day's Night, Only a Northern Song, Hey
Bulldog, and the medley (from Mean Mr. Mustard onwards) on Abbey Road.
> 4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
Where shall I start? Life.
> 5. What makes you unique?
My genes.
> 6. What is the most you have ever gambled and won?
For a single bet, $2 on a roulette table in Vegas, on a single number.
A return of about $50 on the whole weekend, with roulette (around $75)
and blackjack ($10) winnings, and slot machine losses.
> What is the most you have ever gambled and lost?
Losing at Newbury, on horse-racing, £10 or so over a handful of races.
> 8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
I couldn't say.
> 9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your house?
Is this your way of casing the joint?
> 10. What was the last gift card you bought? Who was it for and where
was it
> from?
I can't recall, too long ago. It would have been a gift of last resort,
anyway.
--
Peter, from outside the asylum
I'm an alien
email: usenet at peterward dot adsl24 dot co dot uk
http://blowinsmoke.wordpress.com/
What can you expect from mere humans?
- QueBarbara
Mary
> NASA has posted a notice on their website saying that the world will NOT end
> in 2012. Do you believe them? Oh - and have you lost just a *little* respect
> for NASA because they felt the need to post the notice?
Well, half the country IS below average in intelligence.
> Regular Sunday Madness.
>
> 1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year? Are you
> looking for anything in particular?
No, no, no. I don't do Black Friday.
> 2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
On the phone, actually. We worked for the same company and had to talk
frequently.
> 3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
Hm. I'm not sure. Maybe "Yesterday"?
> 4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
The Super Bowl.
> 5. What makes you unique?
Everyone's unique!
> 6. What is the most you have ever gambled and won? What is the most you have
> ever gambled and lost?
I don't gamble. It's not a moral stance, it's that gambling is entirely
uninteresting to me.
> 7. Have you ever cheated in a relationship? What's your definition of
> cheating?
No. Cheating is cheating. If you're in a committed relationship
(acknowledged by both parties, and not existing solely in the
imagination of one person) then I think either physical cheating OR
emotional cheating is wrong.
> 8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
Goodness me, who knows? I've had lots of good meals.
> 9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your house?
The most expensive is probably stuff like the furniture. The most
valuable is some things that were Mom's. She gave me her string of
pearls, and some silver jewelry in the shape of dolphins. I don't wear
any of it often, but it's very valuable to me.
> 10. What was the last gift card you bought? Who was it for and where was it
> from?
Well, let's see. Probably a birthday card for Dad. From the
birthday-card rack at Target.
Mary
art...@yahoo.com
> Kim wrote:
> > 5. What makes you unique?
>
> Everyone's unique!
Except me.
Mary
> Kim wrote:
>> 10. What was the last gift card you bought? Who was it for and where
>> was it from?
>
> Well, let's see. Probably a birthday card for Dad. From the
> birthday-card rack at Target.
Oh, I just realized that you mean those store cards. I can't remember
when I've bought one of those.
Mary
Wally Sevits
<darwinexcepti...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
Eleanor Rigby
>
>4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
The Beatles
>
>10. What was the last gift card you bought? Who was it for and where was it
>from?
Famous Dave's, for a woman I know, as a Christmas gift.
(in the drawing room, with the wrench)
Les Albert
>Kim says...
>> 1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year? Are you
>> looking for anything in particular?
>When's Black Friday? Whenever it is, we surely don't have a Black
>Friday sale, because we don't have a Black Friday.
Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving, which is the beginning
of the traditional Christmas shopping season. It's a retailing term,
and it's called Black Friday because that is when the stores go into
the black from all the sales volume (during normal economic times.).
Les
Lars Eighner
and talented Kim broadcast on alt.fan.cecil-adams:
> NASA has posted a notice on their website saying that the world will NOT end
> in 2012. Do you believe them? Oh - and have you lost just a *little* respect
> for NASA because they felt the need to post the notice?
I think they should just show trailers for the movie. So far on USENET I
have read that the movie is anti-American because the White House gets an
aircraft carrier dropped on it and anti-Catholic be the the Vatican goes
Kblewy. That Bill Whathisname. He's such a card. Used the whole of one of
his outraged Catholic newsletters to rail about orthodox Jew child-sex
stuff. Uh ... Bill ... the beam-mote thing.
> Regular Sunday Madness.
> 1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year? Are you
> looking for anything in particular?
No.
> 2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
Shack I was living in at the time. He was brought over by a mutual
acquaintance. Big mistake for said mutual acquaintance.
> 3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
Imagine --- oh, wait, that was post-Beatles. Then "Give Peace a Chance"
--- oh wait, that was Plastic Ono Band on the cusp of post-Beatles. Come to
think of it, I guess I don't have a favorite Beatles song.
> 4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
Obama
> 5. What makes you unique?
DNA
> 6. What is the most you have ever gambled and won? What is the most you
> have ever gambled and lost?
The most I ever won was $200 on a scratch off. Very welcome because the
late Lizbeth needed some medical treatment at the time. In the aggregate I
certainly have lost way more on the lottery, but only $1 at a time.
> 7. Have you ever cheated in a relationship? What's your definition of
> cheating?
No. Throwing the chessboard across the room when you are losing.
> 8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
All of them.
> 9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your house?
The Rhine-castle beagle, currently situated at the entrance to the kitchen,
extracting tolls.
> 10. What was the last gift card you bought? Who was it for and where was it
> from?
Never did.
--
Lars Eighner <http://larseighner.com/> September 5920, 1993
298 days since Rick Warren prayed over Bush's third term.
Obama: No hope, no change, more of the same. Yes, he can, but no, he won't.
huey.c...@gmail.com
> NASA has posted a notice on their website saying that the world will
> NOT end in 2012. Do you believe them?
It seems like a safe bet, yeah.
> Oh - and have you lost just a *little* respect for NASA because they
> felt the need to post the notice?
No. That notice isn't there for you and I, it's there for people who buy
$10 worth of lottery tickets every day but never wear their seatbelt,
because they don't understand the laws of probability.
> 1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year?
Are you mad?
> 2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
After a lifetime of doubting the merits of attempting to meet a
prospective mate in a bar, I met the girl in a bar.
...course, she's one of the restaurant managers, and perhaps the only
attractive dating option that's ever walked into this place, but I still
met her in a bar, so I guess that counts.
> 3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
That's a pretty hard question. The first thing that leaps to mind is
'Blackbird', but upon reflection, I think maybe 'A Day In The Life'.
> 4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
Many things. Reality television, tabloids, "pop music", cable 'news',
sound bites, talking points, party lines, 'free credit report' websites
and TV commercials that are not the one run by the Federal Trade
Commission (and are not actually free, but scams), advertising in
general, a political system that places more value on campaigning
and fundraising than it does on governing, erectile dysfunction drugs...
...I could go on for days.
> 5. What makes you unique?
Nobody else is quite like me.
> 6. What is the most you have ever gambled and won?
I won $90 on a $1 Lotto ticket once.
> What is the most you have ever gambled and lost?
$10 on a football pool.
> 7. Have you ever cheated in a relationship?
No, although I have experienced Polyamory Failure.
> What's your definition of cheating?
While in what is mutually understood to be a monogamous relationship,
having sex with somebody else without agreeing on the rules change first.
> 8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
When I was in Venice, I found this little cafe a couple blocks off of
the piazza with a guy standing in front of it wearing a tuxedo. Place
was mostly empty, and kind of a dump. I sat there and mostly failed to
eavesdrop on a cute french girl arguing with her cute french mother, had
a salad with some squid in it, and some pasta, and a piece of veal that
was the consistency of pastry, and a couple gin & tonics. The bill came
to something like 120,000 lire, which was like $100 at the time. That
was about the perfect meal.
> 9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your house?
If you're talking value in terms of money: the kitchen cabinets I'm about
halfway through installing. If you're looking for value to me: my dog.
> 10. What was the last gift card you bought? Who was it for and where
> was it from?
A Home Depot card. I get 'em about every two or three months with reward
points on the credit card. The last two went to buy paint for the girl
to repaint the living room. The next one is going to sanding belts for
the floor sander I'm going to need in the kitchen.
--
Huey
Lisa Ann
<darwinexcepti...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>NASA has posted a notice on their website saying that the world will NOT end
>in 2012. Do you believe them? Oh - and have you lost just a *little* respect
>for NASA because they felt the need to post the notice?
>
>Regular Sunday Madness.
>
>1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year? Are you
>looking for anything in particular?
No way. At least here in Spartanburg, there's always several stories
about people who get the crap knocked out of them because they're
fighting over the "hot toy" of the year.
>
>2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
Through match.com - although we would have met eventually anyway,
since Scott was friends with some family friends, and had already been
over at least once to fix Daddy's 4 wheeler.
>
>3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
Hmm...Let it Be, I think.
>
>4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
Lots of things. Starbucks coffee, for one. Walmart. The new Camaro.
>
>5. What makes you unique?
My DNA.
>
>6. What is the most you have ever gambled and won? What is the most you have
>ever gambled and lost?
The same answer for both - $20. It's all I'm willing to lose in any
one shot.
>
>7. Have you ever cheated in a relationship? What's your definition of
>cheating?
Yes, when I was married to my first husband. My definition of
cheating is being intimate - not necessarily physically - with someone
outside my marriage.
>
>8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
Nothing comes to mind at the moment. I've had a lot of great meals,
but nothing really stands out as "the best".
>
>9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your house?
Well, I don't own it, Scott does. His giant tool box and all his
tools. He owns about $20K in tools.
>
>10. What was the last gift card you bought? Who was it for and where was it
>from?
I got my nephew Andrew a $50 Visa gift card for his graduation.
--
Lisa Ann
Bill Turlock
>
> NASA has posted a notice on their website saying that the world will NOT end
> in 2012. Do you believe them? Oh - and have you lost just a *little* respect
> for NASA because they felt the need to post the notice?
>
> Regular Sunday Madness.
>
> 1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year? Are you
> looking for anything in particular?
>
> 2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
(ex) H.S.
> 3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
Norwegian wood
> 4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
>
> 5. What makes you unique?
Whoa! Synchronicity!! Just now:
http://www.smh.com.au/world/sabi-come-home-dog-of-wars-year-in-the-desert-20091112-ib6z.html
"Sabi come home: dog of war's year in the desert"
"Join the conversation
You're the only person reading this now. Tell your friends"
Jon M
<darwinexcepti...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>NASA has posted a notice on their website saying that the world will NOT end
>in 2012. Do you believe them? Oh - and have you lost just a *little* respect
>for NASA because they felt the need to post the notice?
I believe the world won't end in 2012 because of some Mayan calendar
nonsense. But we all die sooner or later.
>
>Regular Sunday Madness.
>
>1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year? Are you
>looking for anything in particular?
Probably not. All material things are transitory.
>
>2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
A friend of mine thought I needed a girlfriend so she kept bringing
her coworkers to meet me. The third one stayed.
>
>3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
Probably that medley on the second side of Abbey Road.
>
>4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
>
>5. What makes you unique?
We are all snowflakes.
>
>6. What is the most you have ever gambled and won? What is the most you have
>ever gambled and lost?
In a casino? I won $20.00 at the slots; another time I lost $30.00 at
blackjack. On the outside, I gambled last November by buying 70
shares of Ford at $1.45 and didn't work fast enough to move money out
of the stock fund of my TSP in 2000.
>
>7. Have you ever cheated in a relationship? What's your definition of
>cheating?
I have never cheated in a relationship. My definition is the same as
Bill Clinton's.
>
>8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
All material things are transitory and meals are more transitory than
most.
>
>9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your house?
I have Jesus' ossuary. It's even more valuable because it's still new
and unused.
>
>10. What was the last gift card you bought? Who was it for and where was it
>from?
Probably Barnes and Noble, for my ex-wife.
mike muth
wrote:
> 1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year? Are you
> looking for anything in particular?
No.
> 2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
On a street corner in Tauberbischofsheim. I was hitchhiking to
Kuhlsheim and she picked me up.
> 3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
Fool on the Hill
> 4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
People's opinions.
> 5. What makes you unique?
My fingerprints?
> 6. What is the most you have ever gambled and won? What is the most you have
> ever gambled and lost?
I kept myself in spending money while I was in Vietnam by playing
poker. I think the biggest pot I won was around $250 and the biggest
loss was $25. It worked out to around $5,000 over seven months.
> 7. Have you ever cheated in a relationship? What's your definition of
> cheating?
No. Cheating is secretly doing anything you've promised or implied
that you will not do.
> 8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
Sauerbraten and Semmelknoedel.
> 9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your house?
Soon, it will be our bedroom set. About $4,000 - not counting
mattresses and springs.
> 10. What was the last gift card you bought? Who was it for and where was it
> from?
Anniverary card for my wife. Got it in the Schweinfurt PX.
John Hatpin
> NASA has posted a notice on their website saying that the world will NOT end
> in 2012. Do you believe them? Oh - and have you lost just a *little* respect
> for NASA because they felt the need to post the notice?
I've lost a little respect for humanity because NASA felt the need to
post the notice.
> 1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year? Are you
> looking for anything in particular?
N/A here. We have sales in January, but nothing at this time of year.
> 2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
My RL ex? For the first time, at a gig, but nothing serious happened.
We met up again at a party a couple of months later, and serious
things happened.
My internet SO? Same pattern, but six months elapsed; the venue was a
kind of club in Second Life.
> 3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
I'm not a big fan, but Strawberry Fields is nice enough.
> 4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
Umbrellas.
> 5. What makes you unique?
My National Insurance Number.
> 6. What is the most you have ever gambled and won? What is the most you have
> ever gambled and lost?
The only gambling I've ever done was on fruit machines in pubs, so
you'd be talking ten quid or so at a time, maximum. This actually
developed into a bit of a problem for me - once I realised that, I
became a non-gambler again.
> 7. Have you ever cheated in a relationship?
No, never.
>What's your definition of cheating?
The usual.
> 8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
Possibly an Indonesian meal I had in a restaurant in Amsterdam, but
it's hard to distinguish between so many good ones.
> 9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your house?
This computer, probably.
> 10. What was the last gift card you bought? Who was it for and where was it
> from?
Not sure - probably a book token from a nearby bookshop (small,
independent, since gone out of business, damn you Waterstone's) for my
father about ten years ago.
--
John Hatpin
http://uninformedcomment.wordpress.com/
Nick Spalding
on Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:09:54 -0500:
>
> NASA has posted a notice on their website saying that the world will NOT end
> in 2012. Do you believe them? Oh - and have you lost just a *little* respect
> for NASA because they felt the need to post the notice?
>
> Regular Sunday Madness.
>
> 1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year? Are you
> looking for anything in particular?
No. I don't even know when it is.
> 2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
A girl who used to use the same pub as me but didn't know at all well
was complaining one evening that her radiogram, as we called sound
systems in those far off days, had stopped working and she had a party
organised for Saturday. I offered to go round and try and fix it; I
succeeded so she asked me to the party and that's where I met my future
wife. November 8th 1958.
> 3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
Eleanor Rigby.
> 4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
> 5. What makes you unique?
My DNA, or so I am told.
> 6. What is the most you have ever gambled and won?
�2 on a lottery ticked that paid out about �750.
> What is the most you have ever gambled and lost?
Not more than �5.
> 7. Have you ever cheated in a relationship? What's your definition of
> cheating?
No.
> 8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
I don't remember.
> 9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your house?
A 7ft Bechstein grand piano.
> 10. What was the last gift card you bought? Who was it for and where was it
> from?
I don't buy them, I either give a proper present or cash.
--
Nick Spalding
huey.c...@gmail.com
> "Kim" <darwinexceptiontakethis...@verizon.net> wrote:
> > 2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
> On a street corner in Tauberbischofsheim.
I hear they have a cream now that can clear that right up.
> > 8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
> Sauerbraten and Semmelknoedel.
That too. (Man, you've got some bad diseases!)
--
Huey
Hactar
Kim <darwinexcepti...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> NASA has posted a notice on their website saying that the world will NOT end
> in 2012. Do you believe them?
That it won't end? Sure. Every few years a whackjob comes up with a
reason the world will end -- "this time for sure!" -- and yet it
doesn't. People haul out Nostradamus' poetry, bend the translation and
interpretation to their whim, and use that as "evidence" that (a) he was
prescient, and (b) the world will end, or this war is Our Destiny, or
some such foolishness.
> Oh - and have you lost just a *little* respect
> for NASA because they felt the need to post the notice?
I think it's pretty sad, and more evidence that the lunatics are taking
over the asylum.
> Regular Sunday Madness.
>
> 1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year? Are you
> looking for anything in particular?
I'll make it a point _not_ to leave the house that day or any days soon
following it. I've done pretty much all of my Christmas shopping online
already. If I think of someone else I may have to resume.
> 2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
Not married. No grapefruit. Last few have been school, school, school,
and school. Hmm, I see a pattern here.
> 3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
>
> 4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
Swine Flu. The chances of ANYTHING (good or bad) happening.
> 5. What makes you unique?
"Unique" is so hard to verify. "Rare" I can do (and not just because
I'm raw).
> 6. What is the most you have ever gambled and won?
Don't usually gamble.
> What is the most you have ever gambled and lost?
I was in Vegas for a wedding and the rest of the party felt the need to
visit every casino on the strip, so I dropped a couple-dozen USD, a
nickel at a time. Don't think I ever went positive. Even the gumball I
bought for fifty cents in one of those fancy machines didn't come out. I
mean, it did the loop-de-loops and ramps or whatever, but got stuck
somewhere near the end.
> 7. Have you ever cheated in a relationship?
Well, for a time I was involved with GF #1 while GF #2 tried to win me
over (though both parties knew what was going on I think) so that probably
counts, and I switched from GF #3 to GF #4 rather abruptly, so that
probably doesn't.
> What's your definition of cheating?
Probably "significant emotional involvement with someone besides the GF".
> 8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
>
> 9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your house?
Either the piano or this computer. Wait, do you mean "what thing would
I pay the most NOT to lose" or "what thing is most valuable to a third
party" or what?
> 10. What was the last gift card you bought? Who was it for and where was it
> from?
Last Christmas I bought my friend R one for Worst^WBest Buy.
--
-eben QebWe...@vTerYizUonI.nOetP royalty.mine.nu:81
Q: What kind of modem did Jimi Hendrix use?
A: A purple Hayes.
huey.c...@gmail.com
> Kim wrote:
> > 2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
> A girl who used to use the same pub as me but didn't know at all well
> was complaining one evening that her radiogram, as we called sound
> systems in those far off days, had stopped working and she had a party
> organised for Saturday. I offered to go round and try and fix it; I
> succeeded so she asked me to the party and that's where I met my
> future wife. November 8th 1958.
That's a wonderful story, but it really needs some digressions and stuff
that doesn't make any sense. Here, let me take a shot at it.
A girl from Shelbyville, who used to use the same pub as me but didn't
know at all well, was complaining one evening that her radiogram, as we
called sound systems in those far off days, had stopped working, and she
had a party organised for Saturday. I offered to go round and try and
fix it, so I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville, because I needed to
go there anyway. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so I decided to go to
Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I
tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take
the ferry costs a nickel, and in those days nickels had pictures of
bumblebees on them. "Give me five bees for a quarter", you'd say. Now,
where were we? Oh, yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on
my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions
because of the war. The only thing you could get were those big, yellow
ones. But I went to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville
in those days, and I fixed her radiogram, so she asked me to the party,
and these guys at the party, they smoked. They sure smoked a lot. They
even taught their dog to smoke. And then they taught him to go
door-to-door and beg for cigarettes. So I was at this party in
Morganville, what you'd call Shelbyville, with these guys that smoke,
and we all had onions on our belt, and that's where I met my future
wife. November 8th 1958.
There, see? Much better.
--
Huey
Les Albert
No, it's not. It's too long, and has too many bad jokes in it, but
jumping on his story does allow you to showcase yourself again.
Les
jeffinputnam
> NASA has posted a notice on their website saying that the world will NOT end
> in 2012. Do you believe them? Oh - and have you lost just a *little* respect
> for NASA because they felt the need to post the notice?
>
> Regular Sunday Madness.
>
> 1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year? Are you
> looking for anything in particular?
Peace and quiet. I probably won't even leave the house other than to
hike with the dog out to the wetland in back here.
> 2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
Sheesh. Which one?
> 3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
> 4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
Reality TV shows.
> 5. What makes you unique?
I have certain skills, ya see...
> 6. What is the most you have ever gambled and won? What is the most you have
> ever gambled and lost?
I won ~$40 in dimes at South Lake Tahoe on a dime slot machine.
> 7. Have you ever cheated in a relationship? What's your definition of
> cheating?
Yes and no. Yes, in that I engaged in extra-marital activity on a
business trip. No, in the sense that we had our clothes on and, well, it
sucked.
> 8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
A Thanksgiving pot luck at a hippie commune in Sandstone, WV back in the
80's.
> 9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your house?
My computer.
> 10. What was the last gift card you bought? Who was it for and where was it
> from?
I've never bought one.
J
huey.c...@gmail.com
It only has two bad jokes in it, unless you're also counting the larger
meta-joke, and then it only has three.
> but jumping on his story does allow you to showcase yourself again.
If, by 'yourself', you mean 'Grandpa Simpson' and 'the annoying kid'
from _Kids In The Hall_, then yeah, sure. I don't think either one gets
enough airplay.
Are there any other posts in the spool that I should avoid 'jumping on'?
Should I just go back to reading the sunday paper? Or am I allowed to
continue to post to usenet as I choose, my leige Usenet King?
--
Huey
Veronique
wrote:
> NASA has posted a notice on their website saying that the world will NOT end
> in 2012. Do you believe them? Oh - and have you lost just a *little* respect
> for NASA because they felt the need to post the notice?
Yeah, and what if the world DOES end? Nobody'll ever trust NASA again.
>
> Regular Sunday Madness.
>
> 1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year? Are you
> looking for anything in particular?
I try very hard not to think about a National Shopping Day, when
inevitably there is a riot and stabbing/death somewhere in the
country. I'll almost certainly walk down Pacific Avenue, which is
kinda like a party, but not with the intent to shop. The end-of-year
giving list has only gotten started.
>
> 2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
San Jose Airport.
>
> 3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
Pretty much alla them, or most of them, or so many I can't comfortably
come up with a "favorite". Yesterday I found myself singing, "Master
The Tempest Is Raging" as I biked along West Cliff overlooking the
completely flat and waveless Monterey Bay. I realize this anecdote
contains no reference to favorite Beatles' songs.
>
> 4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
Hmm. Wow, I have no idea. I'm sure I'll come up with an idea after
reading someone else's idea.
>
> 5. What makes you unique?
I'd phrase it as "peculiar" rather than "unique", myself.
>
> 6. What is the most you have ever gambled and won? What is the most you have
> ever gambled and lost?
Prolly lost $20, and certainly won $200 at different poker machines in
Las Vegas on different occasions.
>
> 7. Have you ever cheated in a relationship? What's your definition of
> cheating?
"Here's to you and here's to me
And here's to love and laughter
I'll be true as long as you
And not a moment after."
~Dorothy Parker
>
> 8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
I've had some really wonderful holiday meals put together by friends/
potluck. Also, reconstituted food after a long day's hike when I was
backpacking. Nothing particularly memorable as far as Fancy Pants
Restaurants, though.
My mom made me Con Queso Rice for my birthday once, and it was great.
>
> 9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your house?
Cello.
>
> 10. What was the last gift card you bought? Who was it for and where was it
> from?
Maybe a Starbuck's card for an employee? I don't really like giving
gift cards.
V.
--
Veronique Chez Sheep
Les Albert
Don't misunderstand. I like your war stories, both military and
civilian. Keep 'em flying!
Les
Mary
>> 8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
>
> I've had some really wonderful holiday meals put together by friends/
> potluck. Also, reconstituted food after a long day's hike when I was
> backpacking. Nothing particularly memorable as far as Fancy Pants
> Restaurants, though.
OK, now I want to change my answer. In 1981 or thereabouts I went on a
canoe trip in the Boundary Waters with three friends. At the very
beginning of the trip, we paddled some really long days - multiple
portages, lots of miles - and then for five or six days, didn't see
another human being. On one of those days, we paddled a fairly long
distance, then stopped to fish. For dinner that night we had grilled
lake trout, spaghetti with sauce that I'd made and then dried, and
reconstituted on the trip. And that instant cheesecake that doesn't
need baking, and that fits perfectly inside a competition-sized Frisbee.
That and a fire, and loons hooting out over the lake, and later on when
the fire died down, the stars and the cold night and toasty sleeping
bags on the shore of the lake.
Mary
Opus the Penguin
Incorrect. That is an attempt by merchants to sanitize the term and
make it a good thing. "Black Friday," referring to the day after
Thanksgiving was originally used to describe the hellish crowded
chaos of the day. I think most people still understand the term that
way. I sure do.
--
Opus the Penguin
The best darn penguin in all of Usenet
Slow Motion Apocalypse
> in 2012. Do you believe them? Oh - and have you lost just a *little* respect
> for NASA because they felt the need to post the notice?
>
>
> 1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year? Are you
> looking for anything in particular?
>
No
> 2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
>
No
> 3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
>
Run For Your Life
> 4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
>
Obama
> 5. What makes you unique?
>
This is a tough one to answer as I know a few people who are sorta
like me.
> 6. What is the most you have ever gambled and won? What is the most you have
> ever gambled and lost?
>
Not counting buying concert tickets to resell at a profit... Won $1 on
the bus, I was the first one hit up and I knew I would win. Then I
declined any additional wagers and watched some dude lose about $160.
> 7. Have you ever cheated in a relationship? What's your definition of
> cheating?
>
I was 17 and sorta had a girlfriend by where my dad lived. At about
the same time one of my sister's friends blew me. I guess that
qualifies as cheating though I think we broke it off by mutual
agreement not very long after that.
> 8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
>
Breakfast earlier today - fried potatoes, yellow/green/red/jalapeno
peppers, mushrooms, eggs, cheese.
> 9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your house?
>
Perhaps one of my Tascam DAT or CD recorders.
> 10. What was the last gift card you bought? Who was it for and where was it
> from?
>
Never buy them
> --
> Kimwww.thedarwinexception.wordpress.com
> * I stand against stuff. I am also unhappy with things..*
Charlie Pearce
<darwinexcepti...@verizon.net> wrote:
>1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year? Are you
>looking for anything in particular?
What's Black Friday?
>2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
No such person.
>3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
Off the top of my head, Hey Jude.
>4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
I don't really pay attention to hype, so I don't even know what is
highly rated.
>5. What makes you unique?
My DNA.
>6. What is the most you have ever gambled and won? What is the most you have
>ever gambled and lost?
Not much either way. I did once go to an Officers' Mess Summer Ball
where the ticket included �500 pretend money for the mini casino in
one of the bars - I had over �40,000 at one point but ended up with
�27,000. Won a silver hipflask.
>7. Have you ever cheated in a relationship? What's your definition of
>cheating?
I haven't ever been in a relationship long enough to cheat.
>8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
Probably the curry I had in Nottingham in August for my friend's
birthday. Wonderful restaurant, with not a chicken tikka masala in
sight.
http://www.kayalrestaurant.com/
>9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your house?
Probably my new PC if I ever put all the components together.
>10. What was the last gift card you bought? Who was it for and where was it
>from?
B&Q (a UK DIY shop[1]), for my sister for Christmas, as that's what
she wanted.
Charlie
--
Email killed by spammers - please ask for the real one.
Veronique
+use...@gmail.com> wrote:
Heh. I'm with you, Penguin-boy.
Mary
I'll be subscribing to your newsletter too. No way would I even
consider shopping on the Friday after Thanksgiving.
Mary
landotter
wrote:
> NASA has posted a notice on their website saying that the world will NOT end
> in 2012. Do you believe them? Oh - and have you lost just a *little* respect
> for NASA because they felt the need to post the notice?
I'll check the notice out. Surely the insiders at NASA got a kick out
of doing it, no matter how "dry" it comes across.
>
> Regular Sunday Madness.
>
> 1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year? Are you
> looking for anything in particular?
Nope. But if you need a big ticket item--it's worth fighting the good
fight.
>
> 3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
Anything early that's a hard rocking screamer. "I Saw Her Standing
There" is kickass. Later stuff was technically smarter, but not
better.
Wooooooo!
>
> 4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
Priuses, vacuum pac polenta, and bubble tea.
>
> 5. What makes you unique?
I'm special just like everybody else!
Hmmm, I'm probably the only guy in the neighborhood who can make great
mackerel and a decent gourd of yerba mate.
>
> 6. What is the most you have ever gambled and won? What is the most you have
> ever gambled and lost?
Fifty bucks plus or minus years ago. I don't gamble as a rule.
>
> 7. Have you ever cheated in a relationship? What's your definition of
> cheating?
Never got around to cheating.
>
> 8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
Hmmmm, there was this wild morel and smoked salmon soup I had ages ago
in Stockholm...but it's usually about what fits the moment. Tonight
I'm gonna have Cincinatti style chili made with anchos and pintos--and
it's smelling really spectacular!
>
> 9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your house?
My Petunia. The rest is just stuff. Even the family heirlooms aren't
worth one percent of a good dog.
>
> 10. What was the last gift card you bought? Who was it for and where was it
> from?
>
I made a get well card for Gonzo the dog. He had a bladder stone
surgery. Can't remember last time I bought one.
Tim Wright
> NASA has posted a notice on their website saying that the world will NOT end
> in 2012. Do you believe them? Oh - and have you lost just a *little* respect
> for NASA because they felt the need to post the notice?
>
>
> 1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year? Are you
> looking for anything in particular?
Already am, and so can you. http://www.blackfriday.info/sales/
Nothing in particular, never know what I might discover that I just
can't live without.
>
> 2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
Blind date.
>
> 3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
When I'm 64
>
> 4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
>
> 5. What makes you unique?
I am the only person on this planet that has fathered my two children.
>
> 6. What is the most you have ever gambled and won? What is the most you have
> ever gambled and lost?
Pretty much a wash either way.
>
> 7. Have you ever cheated in a relationship? What's your definition of
> cheating?
No. I may not be the best husband in the world, but I am faithful.
>
> 8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
Hard to define the absolute best, but the Japanese restaurant at The
Crane in Barbados was pretty damn good.
>
> 9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your house?
Probably the motorcycles, as long as you count the garage as "inside the
house".
>
> 10. What was the last gift card you bought? Who was it for and where was it
> from?
>
Anniversary card for my wife for our 32nd anniversary. Bought it at
Target, IIRC.
--
Tim W
Onomatopoeia
A word that sounds like the sound it sounds like.
Greg Johnson
<veroniq...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Nov 15, 8:09?am, "Kim" <darwinexceptiontakethis...@verizon.net>
>wrote:
>> 1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year? Are you
>> looking for anything in particular?
>
>I try very hard not to think about a National Shopping Day, when
>inevitably there is a riot and stabbing/death somewhere in the
>country. I'll almost certainly walk down Pacific Avenue, which is
>kinda like a party, but not with the intent to shop. The end-of-year
>giving list has only gotten started.
>>
>> 4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
>
>Hmm. Wow, I have no idea. I'm sure I'll come up with an idea after
>reading someone else's idea.
I suspect you think that massive shopping days are overrated.
Veronique
> On Nov 15, 10:09 am, "Kim" <darwinexceptiontakethis...@verizon.net>
> wrote:
> > 4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
>
> Priuses, vacuum pac polenta, and bubble tea.
Oh, you HEATHEN.
Veronique
> On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:39:32 -0800 (PST), Veronique wrote:
> >On Nov 15, 8:09?am, "Kim" <darwinexceptiontakethis...@verizon.net>
> >wrote:
> >> 4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
>
> >Hmm. Wow, I have no idea. I'm sure I'll come up with an idea after
> >reading someone else's idea.
>
> I suspect you think that massive shopping days are overrated.
I don't know about overrated so much as the "time spent:dollars saved"
equation doesn't pan out for me. Add in the "dealing with people"
factor and the "hate shopping in general" factor, and the savings
would have to be fairly significant (and non-duplicatible). Most sales
pitches seem to be "Last Day For Savings" meaning, last day before
tomorrow's sale.
Robert Crowe
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:09:54 -0500, the alleged Kim, may have posted the
following, to alt.fan.cecil-adams:
>NASA has posted a notice on their website saying that the world will NOT
>end in 2012. Do you believe them?
No, they are a governmental agency, right?
>Oh - and have you lost just a *little* respect for NASA because they felt
>the need to post the notice?
What respect? NASA is a wholly owned branch of the Federal Government!
>Regular Sunday Madness.
>1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year?
Possibly at "Home Depot".
>Are you looking for anything in particular?
Ryobi [Li-Ion] 18+1 tools.
>2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
In a (Pseudo) Irish Pub, set-up by mutual acquaintances.
>3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
_Yesterday_
>4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
Reality TV.
>5. What makes you unique?
My DNA.
>6. What is the most you have ever gambled and won?
$20 - $4400
>What is the most you have ever gambled and lost?
$10 - $10
>7. Have you ever cheated in a relationship?
No.
>What's your definition of cheating?
Physical gratifatition of lust.
>8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
Probably the double-cheeze-burger and fries at the Dixie Freeze II after
being snowed-in in the Red River Gorge National Park for three days.
>9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your house?
Buddy V2.0, AKA "Two" (he's cost me ~$5,500 in the last two years).
>10. What was the last gift card you bought?
N/A.
Regards,
Rob "Stupid FSCKing cat" Crowe
--
�you're reminded to enjoy every sandwich.
-- Warren Zevon
Ted The Cat
> for NASA because they felt the need to post the notice?
Whatever the government say is wrong. It is a tautology.
> Regular Sunday Madness.
>
> 1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year? Are you
> looking for anything in particular?
No.
> 2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
The home of a mutual friend.
> 3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
Here, There and Everywhere
> 4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
The danger of putting Guantanamo prisoners in a prison in the States.
> 5. What makes you unique?
Nothing.
> 6. What is the most you have ever gambled and won? What is the most you have
> ever gambled and lost?
Maybe $10.
> 7. Have you ever cheated in a relationship? What's your definition of
> cheating?
No. The usual.
> 8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
Steak, mashed potatoes and gravy, green onions, and salad.
> 9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your house?
In college a friend told me that he did not lock the door to his dorm
room because everything he owned could be replaced with one pay
check.
> 10. What was the last gift card you bought? Who was it for and where was it
> from?
Borders Book Store for my son.
landotter
rroger
> On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:09:54 -0500, "Kim"
>
> <darwinexceptiontakethis...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> >NASA has posted a notice on their website saying that the world will NOT end
> >in 2012. Do you believe them? Oh - and have you lost just a *little* respect
> >for NASA because they felt the need to post the notice?
>
>
> >Regular Sunday Madness.
>
> >1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year? Are you
> >looking for anything in particular?
>
> No.
>
> >2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
>
>
> >3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
>
>
> >4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
>
>
> >5. What makes you unique?
>
>
> >6. What is the most you have ever gambled and won? What is the most you have
> >ever gambled and lost?
>
> No big wins.
> I've lost $100 a couple of times.
> >7. Have you ever cheated in a relationship? What's your definition of
> >cheating?
>
> No.
> Making someone else the
Making someone else the "what"?
Patrick M Geahan
> 1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year? Are you
> looking for anything in particular?
Dear god, no. I try to take the day off just to avoid even
being in public that day.
> 2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
I used to date her boss.
> 3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
Either "Day Tripper" or "Lady Madonna".
> 4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
The Beatles, actually.
> 5. What makes you unique?
Many things, like most people.
> 6. What is the most you have ever gambled and won? What is the most you have
> ever gambled and lost?
I usually only play slots and blackjack. LIfetime, I'm up; I think
the most I've lost in one sitting is 80 bucks.
> 7. Have you ever cheated in a relationship? What's your definition of
> cheating?
I have not. Cheating's hard to define...I think, as Justice Potter
Stewart said, "I know it whn I see it". Although, really, if there's
a question, it should be discussed.
> 8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
Hard to say. I can say that I've had some meals that have run me
60 or 70 dollars a person and have been incredibly well
put-together.
Then again, I can remember a time after a day of helping someone move
that we kicked back with grilled hot dogs and cold beers; and that was
one of the best meals ever.
> 9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your house?
Monetarily? My television. Personally? My book collection.
--
-------Patrick M Geahan---...@thepatcave.org---ICQ:3784715------
"You know, this is how the sum total of human knowledge is increased.
Not with idle speculation and meaningless chatter, but with a
medium-sized hammer and some free time." - spa...@pffcu.com, a.f.c-a
Tim Wright
Dover Beach
news:2_adnXgv1_BEM53W...@supernews.com:
> landotter wrote:
>> Tapioca apologist.
>>
> Personally, I've never apologized for tapioca, it's yummy.
>
Say, have you seen a Tapioca?
It's not a foxtrot or a polka
It has a little bit of new rhythm, a blue rhythm that sighs
It has a meter that is tricky
A bit of wicked wacky-wicky
But when you dance it with a new love, there's a true love in her eye
--
Dover
Veronique
wrote:
> NASA has posted a notice on their website saying that the world will NOT end
> in 2012. Do you believe them? Oh - and have you lost just a *little* respect
> for NASA because they felt the need to post the notice?
Wow. I just listened to an NPR segment with an astrobiologist at NASA,
who has been tasked with answering the fearful loons asking about
2012. Three different teenagers, contemplating suicide, a woman asking
about euthanizing her dog so it won't suffer in the end times. And
more along those lines, not just ignorant, but potentially fearfully
lethal.
Wow.
Mary
Jeez. That's scary.
Mary
Rick B.
As one who escaped the retail trade, I agree with these psots. Although
mileage can vary as to what the busiest day is. At the department store
where I worked the biggest day was the Saturday of their traditional sale
weekend a week or two before Thanksgiving. We had million-dollar-plus days
in a store that might gross $70,000 on an ordinary nothin'-goin'-on
weekday. On one of those sale days around 4 PM I was working a register
that issued a notice that it would not ring another sale until somebody
authorized came by and did something about the excessive amount of cash in
the drawer--which never happened under ordinary conditions.
It was utter madness, and it didn't pay squat, but I miss it.
huey.c...@gmail.com
> "Kim" <darwinexceptiontakethis...@verizon.net> wrote:
> > NASA has posted a notice on their website saying that the world will
> > NOT end in 2012. Do you believe them? Oh - and have you lost just a
> > *little* respect for NASA because they felt the need to post the
> > notice?
> Wow. I just listened to an NPR segment with an astrobiologist at NASA,
> who has been tasked with answering the fearful loons asking about
> 2012. Three different teenagers, contemplating suicide, a woman asking
> about euthanizing her dog so it won't suffer in the end times.
Now that's just crazy talk.
When the apocalypse comes, I can think of few creatures I'd want with me
more than my dog.
Story I'm pretty sure I've told before. When 9/11 happened, I was
working nights, and I'd been up early and worked long hours, so I went
to sleep right before it happened, and I was out. My roommate comes in
and wakes me up, and all I can remember was him saying was "The world is
on fire", and pointing to the TV, which did indeed show buildings on
fire.
I said "You got it under control?" He laughed and said "Yeah". I says
"Okay. Wake me up if you need me", and went back to sleep.
Telling me this later, when I was awake, this really cracked him up.
--
Huey
Veronique
The questions aren't as funny as you might think. "I've had three from
young people saying they were contemplating committing suicide," says
Morrison. "I've had two from women contemplating killing their
children and themselves. I had one last week from a person who said,
'I'm so scared, my only friend is my little dog. When should I put it
to sleep so it won't suffer?' And I don't know how to answer those
questions."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120436493
Rick B.
news:hdp94k$572$1...@news.eternal-september.org:
> 3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
I can't pare the list down any farther than:
Ticket To Ride
Nowhere Man
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
You Won't See Me
Julia
Two Of Us
Across The Universe
Nothing to do with the Beatles, but if your CD collection includes Dusty In
Memphis and I Am Shelby Lynne, look into Bible Belt by Diane Birch. Yeah,
well, she's never heard of you, either.
> 8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
A slice of turkey on Thanksgiving 1986 in the hospital after several days
on a bland, mostly liquid diet.
> 10. What was the last gift card you bought? Who was it for and where was
> it from?
From Home Depot, for someone who celebrates Christmas in New Jersey but
needed a ladder in Florida.
John Hatpin
> >3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
>
> Off the top of my head, Hey Jude.
ObFlowchart:
http://www.spreeblick.com/2009/10/29/flowchart-hey-jude/
--
John Hatpin
http://uninformedcomment.wordpress.com/
landotter
<RemoveThisjfhop...@gmailAndThisToo.com> wrote:
> Charlie Pearce wrote:
> > >3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
>
> > Off the top of my head, Hey Jude.
>
> ObFlowchart
Tampax Venn diagram?
Opus the Penguin
> On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:08:32 -0600, huey.c...@gmail.com wrote:
>>Nick Spalding <spal...@iol.ie> wrote:
>>> Kim wrote:
>
>>> > 2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
>
>>> A girl who used to use the same pub as me but didn't know at all
>>> well was complaining one evening that her radiogram, as we
>>> called sound systems in those far off days, had stopped working
>>> and she had a party organised for Saturday. I offered to go
>>> round and try and fix it; I succeeded so she asked me to the
>>> party and that's where I met my future wife. November 8th 1958.
>
>>That's a wonderful story, but it really needs some digressions and
>>stuff that doesn't make any sense. Here, let me take a shot at it.
>
>>A girl from Shelbyville, who used to use the same pub as me but
>>didn't know at all well, was complaining one evening that her
>>radiogram, as we called sound systems in those far off days, had
>>stopped working, and she had a party organised for Saturday. I
>>offered to go round and try and fix it, so I caught the ferry over
>>to Shelbyville, because I needed to go there anyway. I needed a
>>new heel for my shoe, so I decided to go to Morganville, which is
>>what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to
>>my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry
>>costs a nickel, and in those days nickels had pictures of
>>bumblebees on them. "Give me five bees for a quarter", you'd say.
>>Now, where were we? Oh, yeah. The important thing was that I had
>>an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't
>>have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get
>>were those big, yellow ones. But I went to Morganville, which is
>>what they called Shelbyville in those days, and I fixed her
>>radiogram, so she asked me to the party, and these guys at the
>>party, they smoked. They sure smoked a lot. They even taught their
>>dog to smoke. And then they taught him to go door-to-door and beg
>>for cigarettes. So I was at this party in Morganville, what you'd
>>call Shelbyville, with these guys that smoke, and we all had
>>onions on our belt, and that's where I met my future wife.
>>November 8th 1958. There, see? Much better.
>
>
> No, it's not. It's too long, and has too many bad jokes in it,
> but jumping on his story does allow you to showcase yourself
> again.
>
You're such a buzzkill, Grampa.
--
Opus the Penguin
The best darn penguin in all of Usenet
Opus the Penguin
>
> Regular Sunday Madness.
>
> 1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year?
> Are you looking for anything in particular?
>
I shop online. Stores are a hassle.
> 2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
>
At Winchell's Donuts on Marguerite Parkway. I was working behind the
counter.
> 3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
>
Um ... Paperback Writer. Wait. No. While My Guitar Gently Weeps. No,
that's more of a George Harrison song that happens to be on a Beatles
album. And Your Bird Can Sing, maybe? Too many choices.
> 4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
>
Facebook.
> 5. What makes you unique?
>
Everything or nothing.
> 6. What is the most you have ever gambled and won? What is the
> most you have ever gambled and lost?
>
I came out 79 cents ahead in a poker game on the last day of school
once. I'm not sure how much I had in the pool. I bought Cheetos.
I've lost money to the boy on various bets. For a while, Mrs. Penguin
had a rule that I couldn't bet him more than a dollar without her
permission. There was a run of $5 or $10 losses prior to that rule.
So probably $10 is the most.
> 7. Have you ever cheated in a relationship? What's your definition
> of cheating?
>
There are various levels, I guess. Jesus said that if a man looks at
a woman to lust for her, he's committed adultery in his heart. On
that level I've cheated lots of times.
> 8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
>
I think it would be the one at Aurora--a Northern Italian cuisine
restaurant in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. I don't even remember what
I had--except some kind of soup involving mussels and maybe pine
nuts. I just remember everything being absolutely delicious.
> 9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your
> house?
>
Are you casing the joint? I'm not sure. Possibly the couch or the
fridge.
> 10. What was the last gift card you bought? Who was it for and
> where was it from?
>
No recollection.
Charles Wm. Dimmick
> 2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
Episcopal Student Center, University of Florida. I was Methodist at the
time, but I was looking for a good bridge game, and there was this
female there who had questions about how they constructed the Aswan Dam,
and I happened to know the answers.
> 8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
Gosh, that's a difficult question. But the one that stands out after all
these years is the one at Mack and Nell's Fish Camp, Cross Creek,
Florida. Served family style, and you had to order a day ahead, and have
at least three people in your party: started with Gopher soup [the
Florida gopher has a shell, by the way], then main course of catfish,
alligator tail, frog's legs, venison, butter beans, cole slaw, and hush
puppies, with lots of sweet tea to wash it all down.
>
> 9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your house?
No way I'm going to release that information on the internet.
Charles
Charles Wm. Dimmick
> After a lifetime of doubting the merits of attempting to meet a
> prospective mate in a bar, I met the girl in a bar.
�Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into
mine.�
David Skinner
darwinexcepti...@verizon.net says...
> 1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year? Are you
> looking for anything in particular?
No such thing over here. I generally treat myself to a few new clothes
and a gadget or two when the big January sales come around.
>
> 3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
Haven't got one. I think they're overrated.
>
> 4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
The Beatles. And interactive whiteboards.
>
> 6. What is the most you have ever gambled and won? What is the most you have
> ever gambled and lost?
I have a bunch of premium bonds (.uk government backed savings scheme,
which pays-out monthly prizes instead of interest) but that's not really
gambling as I can have my money back any time I like. The biggest prize
I've won on Premium Bonds was, I think, UKP100
I played the National Lottery maybe three times when it was first
introduced. It was interesting to note that, even though I was well
aware of the tremendously poor odds, I was almost /expecting/ to win on
that first week, such was the hype that surrounded it. The fact that
they held the first draw in my home town seemed like a good omen too.
>
> 8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
I lost my senses of smell and taste for many months a while ago,
following a bad cold. They suddenly came back. The first eggs benedict I
ate once they came back was like heaven.
Other than that, a haddock and chip dinner at Trenchers restaurant in
Whitby was pretty damn good.
>
> 9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your house?
Initial purchase price valuable? Probably the old Silicon Graphics
computer propping-up my computer table. That was about UKP70,000 when
new. It's probably worth around UKP5,000 in legacy parts by now.
Current value valuable? Don't know. I'm not aware of owning any
fantastic antiques or anything, and I don't feel like listing expensive
stuff that I've got in case it sounds like bragging. Not that I've got
too much to brag about.
>
> 10. What was the last gift card you bought? Who was it for and where was it
> from?
I don't think I ever have. If I can't think what to get someone, I'd
rather just admit it and give cash. A gift card is like a crap version
of cash that only works in one shop.
Lee Ayrton
>
> NASA has posted a notice on their website saying that the world will NOT end
> in 2012. Do you believe them? Oh - and have you lost just a *little* respect
> for NASA because they felt the need to post the notice?
I'm disappointed that NASA is pandering to idiots. And Bruckheimer.
> Regular Sunday Madness.
>
> 1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year? Are you
> looking for anything in particular?
My shopping is done on my terms, not the terms of the Front Office. I'm
not going to shop on Black Friday simply because the rest of the heard is
there -- indeed, probably not because the rest of the herd is there.
> 2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
Under the arch in the Center For The Arts courtyard, Wesleyan University,
Middletown CT. We were introduced by mutual friends. One is now dead,
the other is a loonie.
> 3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
At the moment, "A Day In The Life".
> 4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
Pretty much everything that has a pop culture rating.
Oh. And celibacy.
> 5. What makes you unique?
See the back of this page for details and examples.
> 6. What is the most you have ever gambled and won? What is the most you
> have ever gambled and lost?
My future. My future.
> 7. Have you ever cheated in a relationship? What's your definition of
> cheating?
5 times, total, three different people. Actual sexual contact. Although
I recently entertained the theoretical possibility of a reverse
chronological exclusion.
> 8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
Cannot be enumerated. I can easily say that a bacon pizza in Maine was my
most recent favorite, but it wasn't the food -- which was good enough. It
was the company, All 4 of them. Best meal I've had in years.
> 9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your house?
Ohhh. Tough one. There's nothing inside the house worth more than 3
figures, even in pawn. Non-monetary value, boy. That's a hard one. My
grandparents' banquet table.
> 10. What was the last gift card you bought? Who was it for and where was
> it from?
Don't do gift cards. Hates them, precious, hates them we do.
Lee Ayrton
> Kim wrote:
>> 7. Have you ever cheated in a relationship? What's your definition of
>> cheating?
>
> No. Cheating is cheating. If you're in a committed relationship
> (acknowledged by both parties, and not existing solely in the
> imagination of one person) then I think either physical cheating OR
> emotional cheating is wrong.
Jimmy Carter? Izzat you?
Mary
Good Lord, I hope not.
Mary
I have not cheated in my heart.
John Hatpin
> Kim <darwinexcepti...@verizon.net> wrote:
> > 4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
>
> Many things. Reality television, tabloids, "pop music", cable 'news',
> sound bites, talking points, party lines, 'free credit report' websites
> and TV commercials that are not the one run by the Federal Trade
> Commission (and are not actually free, but scams), advertising in
> general, a political system that places more value on campaigning
> and fundraising than it does on governing, erectile dysfunction drugs...
>
> ...I could go on for days.
Yet the drugs are overrated?
huey.c...@gmail.com
> huey.c...@gmail.com wrote:
> > After a lifetime of doubting the merits of attempting to meet a
> > prospective mate in a bar, I met the girl in a bar.
> into mine.?
I walked into hers. She's the manager. And instead of a swing band,
there's an internet jukebox, Claude Rains is played by an Indian
man named Prakar that everybody calls 'Bobby', and Sidney Greenstreet is
played by a foul-mouthed uneducated-sounding probably drunk southerner
with hair and bad knees named Alex. And instead of being in Morocco, far
enough from the war but still close enough to be touched by it, it's in
northern Virginia, far enough from the war but still close enough to be
touched by it.
But other than that, it's exactly the same.
--
Huey
Les Albert
<opusthepen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Are you looking for anything in particular?
>>>When's Black Friday? Whenever it is, we surely don't have a Black
>>>Friday sale, because we don't have a Black Friday.
>> Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving, which is the
>> beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping season. It's a
>> retailing term, and it's called Black Friday because that is when
>> the stores go into the black from all the sales volume (during
>> normal economic times.).
>Incorrect. That is an attempt by merchants to sanitize the term and
>make it a good thing. "Black Friday," referring to the day after
>Thanksgiving was originally used to describe the hellish crowded
>chaos of the day. I think most people still understand the term that
>way. I sure do.
So is it incorrect because it's meaning has been changed, or is it
incorrect because you don't believe in the change that has been made
to sanitize it?
And I think most retailers understand the term the way I posted. I
sure used to when we owned retail establishments.
Les
Les Albert
He ain't half as funny as he thinks he is, Sleepy.
Les
QueBarbara
<opusthepen...@gmail.com> wrote:
No, Les is right in this case. Nick's version was short and sweet,
Huey's was a tl;dr.
--
QueBarbara
David Friedman
Les Albert <lalb...@aol.com> wrote:
> >Incorrect. That is an attempt by merchants to sanitize the term and
> >make it a good thing. "Black Friday," referring to the day after
> >Thanksgiving was originally used to describe the hellish crowded
> >chaos of the day. I think most people still understand the term that
> >way. I sure do.
>
>
> So is it incorrect because it's meaning has been changed, or is it
> incorrect because you don't believe in the change that has been made
> to sanitize it?
What is the correct meaning of "nark" (or "narc")?
--
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/ http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/
Author of
_Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World_,
Cambridge University Press.
Les Albert
<dd...@daviddfriedman.nopsam.com> wrote:
>In article <km13g5lqcs43pvsb0...@4ax.com>,
> Les Albert <lalb...@aol.com> wrote:
>
>> >Incorrect. That is an attempt by merchants to sanitize the term and
>> >make it a good thing. "Black Friday," referring to the day after
>> >Thanksgiving was originally used to describe the hellish crowded
>> >chaos of the day. I think most people still understand the term that
>> >way. I sure do.
>>
>>
>> So is it incorrect because it's meaning has been changed, or is it
>> incorrect because you don't believe in the change that has been made
>> to sanitize it?
>
>What is the correct meaning of "nark" (or "narc")?
The square root of 144.
Les
Mac
wrote:
> In article <km13g5lqcs43pvsb0hgovin5v8jt90t...@4ax.com>,
> Les Albert <lalbe...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > >Incorrect. That is an attempt by merchants to sanitize the term and
> > >make it a good thing. "Black Friday," referring to the day after
> > >Thanksgiving was originally used to describe the hellish crowded
> > >chaos of the day. I think most people still understand the term that
> > >way. I sure do.
>
> > So is it incorrect because it's meaning has been changed, or is it
> > incorrect because you don't believe in the change that has been made
> > to sanitize it?
>
> What is the correct meaning of "nark" (or "narc")?
Got two of them, last I checked, from two separate roots that happen
to overlap, no?
David Friedman
"Kim" <darwinexcepti...@verizon.net> wrote:
> NASA has posted a notice on their website saying that the world will NOT end
> in 2012. Do you believe them?
I think it unlikely that the world will end in 2012.
> Oh - and have you lost just a *little* respect
> for NASA because they felt the need to post the notice?
No. I lost my respect for NASA a while back over their willingness to
lie about the facts on arctic sea ice. For details see my blog (search
for "Arctic sea ice").
> Regular Sunday Madness.
>
> 1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year? Are you
> looking for anything in particular?
No and no, by current plans.
> 2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
I was teaching at VPI, and divorced. The wife of one of my colleagues
suggested going to folk dancing to meet girls. I did. After the dancing
people were sitting around eating ice cream (student center sort of
place) and she was explaining calculus to one of the other students; I
fell in love on the spot.
She denies the final bit of the story.
We also met, at about the same time--I think after the folk dancing but
before we had really gotten to know each other--at fencing. I was trying
it out, she had done it in college (was a graduate student at this
point) and was helping teach beginners. There is a story that goes with
that, about what happens when a sword and shield fighter encounters
lunge/attempted parry/disengage, but I will spare you.
I am not a folk dancer, am not a fencer. One of the many ways in which
my second wife is better suited to me than my first is that she figured
out early on that I can't dance and makes no attempt to get me to. This
may have been based on her observation that, when they did a complicated
dance, I followed the steps--off the beat. When they did a simple dance,
I followed the steps--off the beat.
> 3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
I don't have one.
> 4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
The conventional approach to K-12 schooling (see my blog--search for
unschooling). The virtues of government. John Rawls.
> 5. What makes you unique?
Various things make me unusual, but I can't think of any interesting
answers to the question as you put it. (And if I'm the only one who
can't, then ... .)
> 6. What is the most you have ever gambled and won? What is the most you have
> ever gambled and lost?
In terms of ordinary gambling, zero for both--so far as I can remember,
I've never either made a bet for money or played a game for money.
If you count investments in the stock market, a lot. I bought stock in
both Microsoft and Apple pretty early. I also bought stock in Be.
> 7. Have you ever cheated in a relationship? What's your definition of
> cheating?
Not in my view of the matter. The ambiguity comes from one situation in
the distant past where I and my girlfriend turned out, after the fact,
to have different views of the terms of our agreement in situations
where we were apart for long periods of time.
Cheating, in this context, means having a wife or lover with whom you
have agreed to a sexually exclusive arrangement and violating that
agreement. I don't think I would limit it to intercourse--that depends
on the terms of your mutual understanding.
> 8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
No single meal stands out.
> 9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your house?
I don't know. I have some first editions inherited from my uncle, and no
idea how valuable they are.
> 10. What was the last gift card you bought? Who was it for and where was it
> from?
I don't believe I have ever bought a gift card.
David Friedman
Lee Ayrton <lay...@panix.com> wrote:
I'm not sure what counts as emotional cheating. I can choose not to have
sex with someone. I don't think I can choose not to be attracted to
someone.
Also, I'm not sure what "committed relationship" covers. An open
marriage is a committed relationship, but one in which sex with someone
else isn't, in my view, cheating. On the other hand, a relationship with
no commitment to being long term but with a mutual understanding that it
is sexually exclusive is sufficient to make sex with someone else
cheating, again in my view.
Nick Spalding
on Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:37:24 -0600:
I thought it was funny.
--
Nick Spalding
Les Albert
Les Albert
wrote:
>QueBarbara wrote, in <7c33g5tqds47k9eav...@4ax.com>
You think funny funny.
Les
John Hatpin
> On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:09:54 -0500, "Kim"
> <darwinexcepti...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> >9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your house?
>
> Well, I don't own it, Scott does. His giant tool box and all his
> tools. He owns about $20K in tools.
OK, I'm changing my answer to:
The Hubble Space Telescope. Well, I don't own it, NASA/ESA does, but
it cost about $1.175 billion.
--
John "smiley here" Hatpin
http://uninformedcomment.wordpress.com/
QueBarbara
wrote:
>"Kim" <darwinexcepti...@verizon.net> wrote in
>news:hdp94k$572$1...@news.eternal-september.org:
>
>> 3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
>
>I can't pare the list down any farther than:
>
>Ticket To Ride
>Nowhere Man
>You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
>You Won't See Me
>Julia
>Two Of Us
>Across The Universe
>
Knock the first two off the top and we've got a deal.
>Nothing to do with the Beatles, but if your CD collection includes Dusty In
>Memphis and I Am Shelby Lynne, look into Bible Belt by Diane Birch. Yeah,
>well, she's never heard of you, either.
>
I've been checking her out on YouTube for the last half hour or so.
Very nice.
--
QueBarbara
QueBarbara
>
>2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
>
At a New Year's Eve party - at a bar - 1995. I had just left my first
husband and moved in with a new roommate, and she was kind enough to
take me along with her to meet her group of friends. We didn't start
"dating" right away, but were friends for awhile first. At the time,
he had a crush on my roommate.
>3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
>
That's unpossible. They have too many good ones to narrow it down to
just one. They have a lot of bad ones, too, so it would be just as
hard too name their "worst" song.
>4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
>
American football.
>7. Have you ever cheated in a relationship? What's your definition of
>cheating?
>
Technically, see #2 above. It took my divorce a long time to be
finalized, but the marriage was long over.
>8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
>
Too many to name, really. Although there is one restaurant here in
town that was so unbelievably good that we haven't gone back, just
because we're afraid it might ruin the memory. Does that sound
strange?
>9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your house?
>
I don't know, honestly.
>10. What was the last gift card you bought? Who was it for and where was it
>from?
I sent my college-age nephew a Chili's Restaurant gift card along with
cash for his birthday, with instructions to use the card to take his
darling girlfriend out to eat.
--
QueBarbara
Mary
wrote:
> In article <pan.2009.11.16.02.01.44.967...@panix.com>,
> Lee Ayrton <layr...@panix.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:55:40 +0000, Mary wrote:
>
> > > Kim wrote:
>
> > >> 7. Have you ever cheated in a relationship? What's your definition of
> > >> cheating?
>
> > > No. Cheating is cheating. If you're in a committed relationship
> > > (acknowledged by both parties, and not existing solely in the
> > > imagination of one person) then I think either physical cheating OR
> > > emotional cheating is wrong.
>
> > Jimmy Carter? Izzat you?
>
> I'm not sure what counts as emotional cheating. I can choose not to have
> sex with someone. I don't think I can choose not to be attracted to
> someone.
>
> Also, I'm not sure what "committed relationship" covers. An open
> marriage is a committed relationship, but one in which sex with someone
> else isn't, in my view, cheating. On the other hand, a relationship with
> no commitment to being long term but with a mutual understanding that it
> is sexually exclusive is sufficient to make sex with someone else
> cheating, again in my view.
A committed relationship is defined by the participants.
For the purposes of cheating, anyway.
Mary
Mary
<RemoveThisjfhop...@gmailAndThisToo.com> wrote:
> Lisa Ann wrote:
> > On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:09:54 -0500, "Kim"
> > <darwinexceptiontakethis...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > >9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your house?
>
> > Well, I don't own it, Scott does. His giant tool box and all his
> > tools. He owns about $20K in tools.
>
> OK, I'm changing my answer to:
>
> The Hubble Space Telescope. Well, I don't own it, NASA/ESA does, but
> it cost about $1.175 billion.
What's in doing in your house?
Mary
Veronique
Absolutely. The same actions can be construed in many different ways,
depending on the ground rules that have been agreed upon. I would say
it doesn't have to involve body parts touching, either. There's a
gamut from lust in the heart all the way to polygamous marriage.
V.
--
Veronique Chez Sheep
John Hatpin
Ah, we have to follow the question literally, do we?
(Seriously, though, tools grant an exemption - when I was married, it
was no longer "my hammer" or "your screwdriver", it was all "ours".
This was reversed 20 years later, of course.)
David J. Martin
>> 8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
>>
> Too many to name, really. Although there is one restaurant here in
> town that was so unbelievably good that we haven't gone back, just
> because we're afraid it might ruin the memory. Does that sound
> strange?
I ate at the Rondezvous in Memphis this summer and wish I hadn't. It
completely ruined a memory of wonderful ribs that I'd had there a few
year ago. Not that it was my favorite meal of all time, just that I had
fond memories for those ribs. Now I just remember the crappy ones I had
this summer.
That does remind me of another rib meal that might rank up as the best
meal I've ever eaten. My family climbed a mountain in Yellowstone park
about 10 years ago. The boys were around 10 or 12. It wasn't so much a
"climb" as a hike, but we got to the top, so sue me. Anyway, after that
we went to eat at the Teddy Roosevelt Lodge. It was busy and we had to
wait, but all of us think fondly of those ribs. Little pieces of heaven
on a bone. Every time we have ribs (I really like ribs) we compare them
to the Yellowstone ribs.
I suspect they were actually pretty ordinary ribs and I don't really
want to go back to find out if that's true. I've experienced heightened
enjoyment of foods several times when I've done some extreme physical
exertion. On RAGBRAI I've said they could serve shit on a stick and it
would taste great. My sister disagrees, but apparently she has no taste
for hyperbole, either.
David
rroger
wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:09:54 -0500, "Kim"<darwinexceptiontakethis...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> >1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year?
>
> Double hell no.
>
> >2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
>
> At a New Year's Eve party - at a bar - 1995. I had just left my first
> husband and moved in with a new roommate, and she was kind enough to
> take me along with her to meet her group of friends. We didn't start
> "dating" right away, but were friends for awhile first. At the time,
> he had a crush on my roommate.
> >3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
>
> That's unpossible.
"UN"possible???
Mary
<RemoveThisjfhop...@gmailAndThisToo.com> wrote:
> Mary wrote:
> > On Nov 16, 12:58 pm, John Hatpin
> > <RemoveThisjfhop...@gmailAndThisToo.com> wrote:
> > > Lisa Ann wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:09:54 -0500, "Kim"
> > > > <darwinexceptiontakethis...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > > > >9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your house?
>
> > > > Well, I don't own it, Scott does. His giant tool box and all his
> > > > tools. He owns about $20K in tools.
>
> > > OK, I'm changing my answer to:
>
> > > The Hubble Space Telescope. Well, I don't own it, NASA/ESA does, but
> > > it cost about $1.175 billion.
>
> > What's in doing in your house?
>
> Ah, we have to follow the question literally, do we?
>
> (Seriously, though, tools grant an exemption - when I was married, it
> was no longer "my hammer" or "your screwdriver", it was all "ours".
That doesn't seem to apply at our house. The tools that I owned
before our marriage became "our tools" and the ones that he had
remained his.
Of course, he's the one using them 95% of the time anyway. The only
ones I use even semi-regularly are the specialized bicycle tools.
Mary
Veronique
In idle curiosity, how many (here in AFCA) have combined pretty much
all stuff in marriage, v. those who still keep track of "mine and
yours"? I do know some married couples who draw a pretty firm line
(although I'm not sure about the furniture, I'll have to ask about
that), not just tools (or maybe hobby accouterments?) but down to
which portion of the mortgage and telephone bill is to be paid by
whom.
Opus the Penguin
> In idle curiosity, how many (here in AFCA) have combined pretty
> much all stuff in marriage, v. those who still keep track of "mine
> and yours"?
For the most part, the stuff is "ours". House, cars, bank accounts.
(Actually, the cars are in my name only because I'm the one who
registered them when we got here and they couldn't add her name to
the title in her absence. Or something. It was all very stupid and
irritating and it's one of those things I ought to fix some day so
Mrs. P owns the cars in case I die in this non-community-property
state.)
But smaller things may belong to one or the other of us, especially
things received as gifts. So, you know, that's her pen, it's my
See's Candy, her book, my CD. Consumables matter the most,
obviously.
The books and CDs all get mixed together, but we still know whose
is whose. At least until we forget or get confused and argue about
it. The arguments aren't fights in these cases, just puzzles. "I
thought I got that for Christmas a few years back." "No, Dear, you
bought it and you gave it to ME." "Are you sure? Huh." That kind of
thing.
It doesn't really matter. But with the books, ownership confers
the right to read the book first. It's no fun taking a book that's
your personal own and finding out someone else has opened it and
turned all the pages and pillaged its newness. Neither of us would
do that to the other.
Oh, and it also matters in terms of lending things. Like when the
kid at church asked to borrow our Buffy DVDs and I said "Yeah, sure"
and Mrs. P. said "aHEM!" I'd already lent him Firefly, which was
cool, since that had been bought with my Best Buy gift card. And I'm
sure I could have lent him any of our communally owned DVDs that
were bought with our joint money. But the Buffy DVDs were hers. She
was happy to lend them out, but she wanted it clear that this was
her decision.
And rightly so, according to the dynamics of our marriage. Even as I
was saying "Yeah, sure," another part of my brain was galloping
after those words and trying to corral them. I knew I shouldn't have
done that even before I got the hairy eyeball.
--
Opus the Penguin
The best darn penguin in all of Usenet
huey.c...@gmail.com
> In idle curiosity, how many (here in AFCA) have combined pretty much
> all stuff in marriage, v. those who still keep track of "mine and
> yours"? I do know some married couples who draw a pretty firm line
> (although I'm not sure about the furniture, I'll have to ask about
> that), not just tools (or maybe hobby accouterments?) but down to
> which portion of the mortgage and telephone bill is to be paid by
> whom.
My brother and his wife still have separate bank accounts, which works
for them, but is something that I'd find strange. Me, I don't really
give a shit. The new girl moved in, and her CDs went into the CD rack
and her tools went into the toolbox, and I figure there's two possible
outcomes: either she'll stick around, and it's a moot point, or she'll
leave, and I'll say "take what you want. It's just stuff. I'll get more."
--
Huey
huey.c...@gmail.com
> Opus the Penguin <opusthepen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Les Albert (lalb...@aol.com) wrote:
> >>> There, see? Much better.
> >> No, it's not. It's too long, and has too many bad jokes in it, but
> >> jumping on his story does allow you to showcase yourself again.
> > You're such a buzzkill, Grampa.
> He ain't half as funny as he thinks he is, Sleepy.
How funny do YOU think I think I am?
--
Huey
huey.c...@gmail.com
> My family climbed a mountain in Yellowstone park about 10 years ago.
> The boys were around 10 or 12. It wasn't so much a "climb" as a hike,
> but we got to the top, so sue me. Anyway, after that we went to eat
> at the Teddy Roosevelt Lodge. It was busy and we had to wait, but all
> of us think fondly of those ribs. Little pieces of heaven on a bone.
> Every time we have ribs (I really like ribs) we compare them to the
> Yellowstone ribs.
When I first moved here to the current house in northern Virginia, the
pizza place around the corner used to sell these enormous beef ribs that
were about a half-pound each, for $2 apiece. Back when Jake the Malamute
with the cast-iron stomach was still alive (he used to chew on tin cans)
it was our favorite meal. I'd usually order two, or three if I was
really hungry, and I'd have to eat the first one quickly, or suffer
pantlegs covered in dog drool, but once I gave him the rib bone, he'd
make his way off into the far reaches of the backyard and then you'd
have about five minutes of crunching noise before he'd be back for the
next one. And then he'd eat the cardboard box they came in.
Unbeknownst to me, he wasn't eating all of them, and when I was cleaning
up his stuff after he died, I found seventeen rib bones hidden around
the backyard. They were given out as party favors during the Dog
Funeral, which was attended by twelve people and four dogs.
Moose, the new and improved snow dog, lacks the cast-iron stomach. First
rib bone I gave him, he gleefully crunched up into atoms and ate, just
like Jake had. And then about three hours later, he threw it up again.
Sorry dog, no rib bones for you.
Then, the takeout place fell on hard times, and as a cost-cutting
measure they trimmed their menu, and gone were the big beef ribs. That
sucked. A couple years later, I discovered another local rib place that
had the same enormous beef ribs, and that rapidly became my favorite
local hangout. It was a tragic dive of a bar, the sort of dank, dingy,
smoke-stained hardwood place full of sullen construction workers that I
came to love growing up in Chicago, and the beer was reasonable and the
big rib dinner was about twelve bucks.
...then, after twenty-nine years in business, they sold out to Koreans.
The new owners have gotten 3 stars from the Washington Post restaurant
guide, but I still haven't been back there yet. FUCKERS TOOK MY RIBS.
...anybody know where you can get good beef ribs near George Mason U?
--
Huey
QueBarbara
That's pretty much how it works here. The furniture, house and
furnishings are "ours," but smaller items such as books and CD's
belong to one or the other. The dog is his and one cat is mine,
although that is fluid and can depend on which human is dispensing
food and which animal has vomited on the floor. We do have separate
checking accounts along with a house account. The separate checking
accounts are a holdover from him being a bachelor until 38, and me
being in a previous marriage with a penny-pinching miser. Most of our
earnings go into the joint account, but this way we each have a little
bit of mad money.
There's no one way that will work for everyone. I think part of us
getting along so well is that we were lucky enough to hit on a system
that worked for us right from the beginning. That, and understanding
that now and then we both need a little bit of "me" time.
--
QueBarbara
Mac
wrote:
> That's pretty much how it works here. The furniture, house and
> furnishings are "ours," but smaller items such as books and CD's
> belong to one or the other. The dog is his and one cat is mine,
> although that is fluid and can depend on which human is dispensing
> food and which animal has vomited on the floor.
Sounds like fluid all around.
QueBarbara
<djmarti...@tamu.edu> wrote:
>QueBarbara wrote:
>
>>> 8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
>>>
>> Too many to name, really. Although there is one restaurant here in
>> town that was so unbelievably good that we haven't gone back, just
>> because we're afraid it might ruin the memory. Does that sound
>> strange?
>
>I ate at the Rondezvous in Memphis this summer and wish I hadn't. It
>completely ruined a memory of wonderful ribs that I'd had there a few
>year ago. Not that it was my favorite meal of all time, just that I had
>fond memories for those ribs. Now I just remember the crappy ones I had
>this summer.
>
>That does remind me of another rib meal that might rank up as the best
>meal I've ever eaten. My family climbed a mountain in Yellowstone park
>about 10 years ago. The boys were around 10 or 12. It wasn't so much a
>"climb" as a hike, but we got to the top, so sue me. Anyway, after that
>we went to eat at the Teddy Roosevelt Lodge. It was busy and we had to
>wait, but all of us think fondly of those ribs. Little pieces of heaven
>on a bone. Every time we have ribs (I really like ribs) we compare them
>to the Yellowstone ribs.
>
One of these days you'll have to come down and try the ribs here at
Chez Lancaster. I'm telling ya, The Dude can smoke some killer ribs.
--
QueBarbara
Dover Beach
news:5ff714a8-0c8e-4134...@x5g2000prf.googlegroups.com:
> In idle curiosity, how many (here in AFCA) have combined pretty much
> all stuff in marriage, v. those who still keep track of "mine and
> yours"? I do know some married couples who draw a pretty firm line
> (although I'm not sure about the furniture, I'll have to ask about
> that), not just tools (or maybe hobby accouterments?) but down to
> which portion of the mortgage and telephone bill is to be paid by
> whom.
>
Here's what I think.
You gotta go with the flow. You have to recognize that your
relationship will develop, evolve, shift, change. You have to recognize
that the IRS will view your income as a shared revenue stream, and
willy-nilly, that will influence how *you* see your shared income.
You'll make sacrifices, your spouse will make sacrifices; after 20 years
or so, you'll either be broken up or you'll be a team.
When we started out, we kept things more separate-ish. But I paid his
child support for four years; now he's paying my bills while I do Good
Works. You have to listen to how you feel. Listen to whether you are
feeling exploited; listen to whether you feel happier when all the money
is pooled. You can't let ideology dictate everything. You'll find
feminist ideologues who think you must NEVER be dependent on a man.
You'll find other ideologues who think that "marriage" always means
community property. Listen to them, but don't let them decide your life
for you.
And always have $500 - $1000 stashed somewhere so you can run like hell
if everything goes south and you find yourself petitioning the court for
a TRO.
--
Dover
Greg Goss
>
>NASA has posted a notice on their website saying that the world will NOT end
>in 2012. Do you believe them? Oh - and have you lost just a *little* respect
>for NASA because they felt the need to post the notice?
It's harmless. I have no objection when NASA chooses to comment on
pop culture items.
>Regular Sunday Madness.
>
>1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year? Are you
>looking for anything in particular?
Black Friday isn't relevant in my country.
>2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
In chat on Mindlink, a huge multi-line BBS in Vancouver and a number
of other BC cities that ran from 1985 to 2005.
That's where I met my previous wife, too. If something happens to
this one, I'm out of luck.
>3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
Depends on my mood.
>4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
>
>5. What makes you unique?
SIN. Alberta, BC or Ontario driver's licenses.
>6. What is the most you have ever gambled and won? What is the most you have
>ever gambled and lost?
I have large holdings in fairly high-risk investments in the stock
market and real estates. One of my real estate investments is out
$50K (my share of $21 Million dollars in one branch of a 70 million
dollar fraud). Not counting my two real estate limited partnership
problems, I was down $180K as of early November last year. Most, but
not all, of that has come back this year.
My first big win gave me a MASSIVE drug-style rush that had me
drifting for three days after selling my "triple". You've gotta be
careful not to get addicted to that.
My first big loss was enough to buy weekly lottery tickets for 22
years.
My biggest individual loss would be the Bearspaw development property
within Shire International. http://shireinvestor.blogspot.com/
My biggest win would be either Seabridge
http://www.globeinvestor.com/servlet/Page/document/v5/data/stock?id=sea-t
which I'm still holding after selling a few pieces. My net cost so
far is about $30K negative, though I use a different methodology for
my capital gains cost base.
or Foremost (FMO.UN-T) that I sold out of in several pieces over the
last couple of years at $35K or so gain.
>7. Have you ever cheated in a relationship? What's your definition of
>cheating?
Nope.
I had permission for some things that might be considered cheating,
but didn't exercise them. I had opportunities that I turned down.
>8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
I don't really perceive much from quality meals. I don't know if I'll
offend some of the gourmands here if I express a retroactive
admiration for the Wendy's "Superbar" that they ran for a decade or
two in a test run in Vancouver. I don't know where else they tried
it.
>9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your house?
Moria?
Two vehicles are in an attached garage. Is that inside? The furnace
is probably unthinkably expensive compared to any of my furniture.
Does something that's attached to the house count as "inside" the
house? Probably the king mattress is the most expensive thing inside
the house, no matter how much I hate it. I'd rather have the queen
back that I started with. I hate deep pocket mattresses.
>10. What was the last gift card you bought? Who was it for and where was it
>from?
Hate gift cards. If you're thinking cash, give cash. If you're
thinking a particular gift, give the gift. Cards are merely a
crippled form of cash.
--
Tomorrow is today already.
Greg Goss, 1989-01-27
Opus the Penguin
> QueBarbara <que.barbara.l...@go-awaygmail.com> wrote:
>> "Kim"<darwinexceptiontakethis...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> >3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
>>
>> That's unpossible.
>
> "UN"possible???
>
Her fail English.
rroger
>
> My biggest win would be either Seabridgehttp://www.globeinvestor.com/servlet/Page/document/v5/data/stock?id=s...
What if you're thinking gift card?
rroger
BTW, I LIKE gift cards. The person getting one can get what they want
instead of the giver guessing at what the receiver wants. Plus, they
fit nicely in a greeting card.
QueBarbara
<opusthepen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>rroger (raus...@aol.com) wrote:
>> QueBarbara <que.barbara.l...@go-awaygmail.com> wrote:
>>> "Kim"<darwinexceptiontakethis...@verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>>> >3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
>>>
>>> That's unpossible.
>>
>> "UN"possible???
>>
>
>Her fail English.
Offended is I that you would even unply that.
--
QueBarbara
Veronique
Cash fits in an envelope too (as does a check or savings bond.) I got
a lovely gift card from my sister a few years ago from a catalog that
was like the sheep shop in Through the Looking Glass. Everything
looked great until I actually went to buy something, and there wasn't
really anything there I actually wanted to take home with me.
I suppose if you know someone's shopping habits, they can be useful,
but if you know someone's shopping habits that well, why not just buy
the gift? Or cash, to give them more choices?
V.
--
Veronique chez Sheep
Hieronymus Agricola
(in article <hdp94k$572$1...@news.eternal-september.org>):
>
> NASA has posted a notice on their website saying that the world will NOT end
> in 2012. Do you believe them? Oh - and have you lost just a *little* respect
> for NASA because they felt the need to post the notice?
... ice is also great and would suffice.
(But it would take a lot of Frost.)
>
> Regular Sunday Madness.
>
> 1. Will you be shopping any of the Black Friday sales this year? Are you
> looking for anything in particular?
I've been shopping on-line for the past month or so. I'm almost done.
>
> 2. Where did you and your Spouse/SO meet?
At a Christian singles retreat in Northern California.
>
> 3. What is your favorite Beatles song?
There are so many dimensions to music; I cannot choose.
>
> 4. What is overrated, in your opinion?
Reason. I mean, sure, it's good and all, but the heart has reasons that
reason knows not.
Raisins are overrated, too.
>
> 5. What makes you unique?
It is the combination. No single thing about me is unique, but the whole
"me" is unlike anyone else.
>
> 6. What is the most you have ever gambled and won? What is the most you have
> ever gambled and lost?
I don't lose.
>
> 7. Have you ever cheated in a relationship? What's your definition of
> cheating?
I don't cheat. Cheating is the intentional violation of another's trust.
>
> 8. What is the best meal you've ever eaten?
I don't know. Probably sandwiches, with mi esposa.
>
> 9. What's the most valuable thing you own that's inside your house?
Pecuniarily, everything from the paint in.
>
> 10. What was the last gift card you bought? Who was it for and where was it
> from?
>
>
I have yet to buy the last gift card.
Actually, I have yet to buy the first.
I don't see the advantage over giving cash.
--
Jerry Randal Bauer