pollinate
Can't manage the search function, yet still am a
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Is the semester over yet?
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« Reply #19050 on: October 08, 2009, 09:23:47 AM » |
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Ah, come on, Octo! I clicked on it! I laughed!
Me, too! And I needed a laugh this morning - Thank you! |
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While "against stupidity, even the gods themselves contend in vain" may be true, it is not reason for us to just give up and let the stupid run this world.
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jossi66
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« Reply #19051 on: October 08, 2009, 09:42:14 AM » |
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This morning I had to deal with taking a car to the body shop and getting a "free" rental. Took forever, and then the nickel and diming started. But--I will be glad to get the damages fixed.
Best wishes to ST and all other with more challenging problems than I can claim. But---nice to vent anyway.
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gennimom
Somewhat Southern (Have I really posted that much?)
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Let's get summer over with! Me want snow!
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« Reply #19052 on: October 08, 2009, 09:45:47 AM » |
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If they are nickel and diming you, you aren't dealing with Geico. And no, this isn't a commercial. Just a comment on the great service we got after our car was hit by a Geico-insured driver.
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...only after reading gm's post, my new mantra is "always listen to gennimom".
Monday reeks! - Garfield The outside of a horse is good for the inside of a person (or something like that). |
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jossi66
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« Reply #19053 on: October 08, 2009, 09:54:04 AM » |
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No indeed, not Geico. On top of everything else, they gave me a Kia. But---just for one day. And it's better than my beater.
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cc_alan
is a wossname
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Caution! Nekkid zamboni driver ahead.
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« Reply #19054 on: October 08, 2009, 10:05:25 AM » |
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If they are nickel and diming you, you aren't dealing with Geico. And no, this isn't a commercial. Just a comment on the great service we got after our car was hit by a Geico-insured driver.
Me too. We have Geico and my wife was slammed by another car last year (different insurance company). They were wonderful and took care of everything. And when I needed to use the towing service (which I had yet to use in the almost 20 years of having them), it was very simple and an almost pleasant call. The only thing keeping it from a pleasant call was that my car had suddenly stopped working (fixed, now). And after looking at the earwig pic only after reading gm's post, my new mantra is "always listen to gennimom". Alan Oops... upon reflection, I realize I didn't vent. Ok... frikkin' SD Chargers! |
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Excuse me... which aisle would I find the unicorns and rainbows? No, Alan is a man among men, striding the Earth like a Colossus with a really big bladder, wearing a tool belt.
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gennimom
Somewhat Southern (Have I really posted that much?)
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Let's get summer over with! Me want snow!
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« Reply #19055 on: October 08, 2009, 10:14:55 AM » |
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...after reading gm's post, my new mantra is "always listen to gennimom".
May I put this in my signature line? Please? |
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...only after reading gm's post, my new mantra is "always listen to gennimom".
Monday reeks! - Garfield The outside of a horse is good for the inside of a person (or something like that). |
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« Reply #19056 on: October 08, 2009, 10:47:12 AM » |
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I'm so not clicking that link. You really should click it. The scary thing in question begins with an E. (Hover your cursor over the link.) As the person who brought up the subject to begin with, Octoprof, click on the link. You won't be sorry, I promise! I'm going to have to remember that one (the image, that is)! Ah, see! There's Sister Mary Anthroid, Temptress of Doom! But did you click? You really should. It's quite hilarious. |
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« Reply #19057 on: October 08, 2009, 10:51:43 AM » |
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Dear useless moronic misguided socially inept Esteemed Adminctitter:
We're dealing with the fallout from one of the worst budget cuts in university history, and you think it's a good idea to send an e-mail to the entire department lecturing us about hallway manners? Can't you do something more important, like give us an update about, uhm, whether we'll have freakin' jobs this time next year? As for the issue you raise in your e-mail about people "over-using the hallway a common space," maybe people wouldn't do that if you would take action to deal with the 1-2 faculty members who use other common spaces like it's their personal office. To summarize, BITE ME.
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msparticularity
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« Reply #19058 on: October 08, 2009, 12:30:09 PM » |
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Dear useless moronic misguided socially inept Esteemed Adminctitter:
We're dealing with the fallout from one of the worst budget cuts in university history, and you think it's a good idea to send an e-mail to the entire department lecturing us about hallway manners? Can't you do something more important, like give us an update about, uhm, whether we'll have freakin' jobs this time next year? As for the issue you raise in your e-mail about people "over-using the hallway a common space," maybe people wouldn't do that if you would take action to deal with the 1-2 faculty members who use other common spaces like it's their personal office. To summarize, BITE ME.
Apparently, they've hired a middle school principal into the administration at your place! Did the email mention inappropriate PDAs? |
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"Once admit that the sole verifiable or fruitful object of knowledge is the particular set of changes that generate the object of study...and no intelligible question can be asked about what, by assumption, lies outside." John Dewey
"Be particular." Jill Conner Browne
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vardahilwen
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« Reply #19059 on: October 08, 2009, 12:33:17 PM » |
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Dear useless moronic misguided socially inept Esteemed Adminctitter:
We're dealing with the fallout from one of the worst budget cuts in university history, and you think it's a good idea to send an e-mail to the entire department lecturing us about hallway manners? Can't you do something more important, like give us an update about, uhm, whether we'll have freakin' jobs this time next year? As for the issue you raise in your e-mail about people "over-using the hallway a common space," maybe people wouldn't do that if you would take action to deal with the 1-2 faculty members who use other common spaces like it's their personal office. To summarize, BITE ME.
Apparently, they've hired a middle school principal into the administration at your place! Did the email mention inappropriate PDAs? Do you need a hall pass to be in the hallway? And if you don't have one, are you sent to (gulp) "the office?" |
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You can sit at my lunch table.
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bibliothecula
Academic ronin
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like Bunnicula, only with books
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« Reply #19060 on: October 08, 2009, 01:24:40 PM » |
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AARRRGGGGHHHH! Just AAARRRGGGGGGGHHHHHH! Get out of the way and leave me alone!!!
GRGGRGRGRGRRRRRRRRRRRR.
Thanks, I feel better now.
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I came. I saw. I cited.
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tinyzombie
She hides the stars under her hair, and is a
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elevate from this point on - chuck d
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« Reply #19061 on: October 08, 2009, 01:48:26 PM » |
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AARRRGGGGHHHH! Just AAARRRGGGGGGGHHHHHH! Get out of the way and leave me alone!!!
GRGGRGRGRGRRRRRRRRRRRR.
Thanks, I feel better now.
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*waving tiny zombie flags* Correct, as usual, TZ. That's because you are not Dude. TZ, however, is Dude. TZ is my favorite. |
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octoprof
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Life is short. Love your loved ones while you can.
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« Reply #19062 on: October 08, 2009, 02:06:22 PM » |
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I'm so not clicking that link. You really should click it. The scary thing in question begins with an E. (Hover your cursor over the link.) As the person who brought up the subject to begin with, Octoprof, click on the link. You won't be sorry, I promise! I'm going to have to remember that one (the image, that is)! Ah, see! There's Sister Mary Anthroid, Temptress of Doom! But did you click? You really should. It's quite hilarious. I know those ears. Those are the ears of my first dept head, many years ago. I am traumatized by the memories of those hairy ears. |
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It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. Professor Dumbledore
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mystictechgal
Happy in my "full, rich adulthood", and as a
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One step at a time
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« Reply #19063 on: October 08, 2009, 03:17:57 PM » |
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I'm so not clicking that link. You really should click it. The scary thing in question begins with an E. (Hover your cursor over the link.) As the person who brought up the subject to begin with, Octoprof, click on the link. You won't be sorry, I promise! I'm going to have to remember that one (the image, that is)! Ah, see! There's Sister Mary Anthroid, Temptress of Doom! But did you click? You really should. It's quite hilarious. I know those ears. Those are the ears of my first dept head, many years ago. I am traumatized by the memories of those hairy ears. The link was funny. Your comment was funnier, in an EWWWW sort of way. My vent(s): Please, when you are already apologizing about going overtime in what is already a 4 hr. rehearsal could you refrain from expounding on the wonders of each piece before we rehearse it again? Just pick up the baton and get on with it already. Oh, and if you plan on rehearsing us from our call time of 2 until we finally perform at 5? Then you're nuts and I won't do it; not if you actually want me to have a voice left for the actual hour plus concert. Oh, you! You are pompous. Your comments are uninformed and unhelpful (and besides, you're the biggest offender of what you're complaining about). And, when you blow off three weeks of rehearsal to go hang out in Germany with your lover and then complain that you'll need to be placed so the rest of your section is singing in your ear because you don't know your music? You prove to all of us, once again, just how big an idiot and jerk you are! |
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mountainguy
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« Reply #19064 on: October 08, 2009, 03:18:04 PM » |
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Do you need a hall pass to be in the hallway? And if you don't have one, are you sent to (gulp) "the office?"
Passes? We don't need no stinkin' passes! |
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