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« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2009, 05:25:02 PM » |
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Those kids get waaay too much allowance?
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If a pouting pluot ploughman planted pluots in a plot, and the plot were ploughed on Pluto, would his pluot ploy play out?
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« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2009, 05:34:25 PM » |
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I dunno...1400.00 seems like an odd figure. I'd round up to 1500.00 myself. But, hey, that's just how the logic of my interior criminal life runs: in multiples of 500.00.
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« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2009, 05:37:42 PM » |
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The really funny thing is that someone who can manage the search function might be able to tell us just how many threads for this same purpose we already have.
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I like money. I like to buy stuff and experiences with money.
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« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2009, 09:15:29 AM » |
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Well, I tried to find a thread for news stories that were interesting, and went through two or three pages and found threads back to 2005 but couldn't find one that Galactic Hedgehog started on the subject. The reason I went to find such a thread is that I didn't want to start a new one. The search did not find this thread, at least on the first two or three pages. I looked through Meet and Greet and lo and behold, here was this. So, the first interesting story: A woman was fired for using all caps in e-mails (also red and bold text). http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/148175This was in New Zealand, and the firing was found to constitute wrongful dismissal. It's not really a dumb news story, just a news story about a dumb situation. The second story deals with a situation that a forumite wrote about (and I hope it isn't a story about that forumite, but I don't think it is). It's about a microwave oven that spontaneously turns itself on when a cell phone goes off in the vicinity. It is It ain't poltergeists: Cell phone activates ovenA third story, from the same blogger, deals with a school that tried to jam cell phones. Now, this is illegal in the USA; cell phones are protected for a number of reasons including (I think) Interstate Commerce laws and the need for emergency services to communicate via cell phone signal. But this point was lost on an Iowa school. http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/146847 |
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Unfortunately, I think conjugate gives good advice.
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« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2009, 09:21:15 AM » |
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The second story deals with a situation that a forumite wrote about (and I hope it isn't a story about that forumite, but I don't think it is). It's about a microwave oven that spontaneously turns itself on when a cell phone goes off in the vicinity. It is It ain't poltergeists: Cell phone activates ovenI'm that forumite, and we think it's the cell phone tower up the street that did it to our microwave. New control panel arrives today. We'll see. |
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inthelab, I love you for that.
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« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2009, 09:22:56 AM » |
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CHE's server isn't big enough to hold a week's dumb news stories. Although it's too bad the newspapers are squeezing out all the real reporters, it's hard to feel sympathy for any particular one of them. Reporting has gotten sloppy and clueless over the last 40 years.
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« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2009, 09:25:14 AM » |
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There are no dumb stories, just dumb protagonists (and narrators).
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« Reply #9 on: September 03, 2009, 07:27:13 AM » |
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I'm flabbergasted. And left wondering how smacking the kid got her to shut up. You'd think she'd be screaming all the harder. |
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inthelab, I love you for that.
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« Reply #10 on: September 03, 2009, 08:38:47 AM » |
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That guy should get the bad person of the year award. What a tool. |
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« Reply #11 on: September 03, 2009, 08:44:47 AM » |
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I'm very impressed. Both that he had the guts to slap someone else's kid, and that the mom forgave him for it. He's lucky that this woman wasn't any of the women I can think of who'd have crippled him for that.
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« Reply #12 on: September 03, 2009, 08:51:34 AM » |
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He's lucky that this woman wasn't any of the women I can think of who'd have crippled him for that.
If it had been just about any of my close female friends, there would have been a full-scale brawl in the middle of Wal Mart. |
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« Reply #13 on: September 03, 2009, 09:53:15 AM » |
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I'm very impressed. Both that he had the guts to slap someone else's kid, and that the mom forgave him for it.
The guy's my hero. I wish I had the guts to slap other people's screaming kids. The mother forgave him because she's grateful someone showed her how to shut the kid up. http://www.theonion.com/content/node/49603 |
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mystictechgal
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« Reply #14 on: September 03, 2009, 10:23:07 AM » |
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I'm flabbergasted. And left wondering how smacking the kid got her to shut up. You'd think she'd be screaming all the harder. I guess you never got the "If you don't stop crying I'm going to give you something to cry about!" routine. Lucky you. I wouldn't do it today, but I can say with assurance that it was quite effective when my mother did. I'd never touch someone else's child, but I will admit to interceding verbally on at least one occasion when my husband and I were attempting to enjoy a nice dinner in a restaurant. In spite of all attempts on the parents' part to get their child (about 4 or 5) to quietly sit at their table, he preferred yelling and running in circles around, between, and under their, and adjoining tables. Personally, I would have removed him from the restaurant, but that wasn't happening--they preferred pleading. I finally waited until he made one more circle around our table and stepped in front of him. I got down to his level and, pointing at his chair, firmly said, "You will stop, now! Go! Sit!" He stared at me for a couple of seconds and his eyes got big. Then he went and he sat. His parents looked at me like I'd performed a miracle. The father came over before they left and thanked me. It was all I could do not to roll my eyes at him. |
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