infopri
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« Reply #3000 on: February 13, 2012, 06:47:26 PM » |
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Over the past week, I've learned a whole lot more about termites than I ever wanted to know. And one of the things I learned is just how fast a particular variety can eat up a kitchen/living room common wall. (Answer: Very major damage in less than a week.)
I also learned that the termite-control company I paid a lot of money to last year doesn't know squat about termites--but also that, thank goodness, there is another company that does.
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Your experience is not universal. Words to live by.
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« Reply #3001 on: February 14, 2012, 10:15:00 AM » |
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I learned that gmail reads my messages. Because I used words in the body indicating that I would be attaching a document to my email and then did not attach anything, gmail noted this and questioned me about whether I had intended to attach a document. Who knows what other virtual thoughts it has and what other observations it has been making about my correspondence.
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llanfair
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Whither Canada?
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« Reply #3002 on: February 14, 2012, 03:41:18 PM » |
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Over the past week, I've learned a whole lot more about termites than I ever wanted to know. And one of the things I learned is just how fast a particular variety can eat up a kitchen/living room common wall. (Answer: Very major damage in less than a week.)
I also learned that the termite-control company I paid a lot of money to last year doesn't know squat about termites--but also that, thank goodness, there is another company that does.
Oh, no, Infopri. So sorry to hear about the major damage - but pleased that you have an alternative company that actually understands about the creature they're supposed to be outwitting. |
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This place stinks like a pair of armoured trousers after the Hundred Years' War.
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mystictechgal
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One step at a time
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« Reply #3003 on: February 14, 2012, 04:46:39 PM » |
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I learned that our President has tendered his resignation, effective at the end of this academic year, in order to accept a position as President for another institution. I also learned that a search for a replacement is expected to take at least a year. This should be interesting.
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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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infopri
I guess I'm now a VERY
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« Reply #3004 on: February 14, 2012, 06:42:03 PM » |
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Over the past week, I've learned a whole lot more about termites than I ever wanted to know. And one of the things I learned is just how fast a particular variety can eat up a kitchen/living room common wall. (Answer: Very major damage in less than a week.)
I also learned that the termite-control company I paid a lot of money to last year doesn't know squat about termites--but also that, thank goodness, there is another company that does.
Oh, no, Infopri. So sorry to hear about the major damage - but pleased that you have an alternative company that actually understands about the creature they're supposed to be outwitting. Thanks, llanfair. I'm happy to report that the colony is dying as I type (and, in fact, most of its residents are probably dead by now). I almost feel sorry for the little buggers, as they fall to the fall and twitch in their death throes--and then I remember that they were eating my house!We don't have this problem in MyCity, where it's so cold in the winter that termites have the good sense to stay away even in the summer. |
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Your experience is not universal. Words to live by.
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southerntransplant
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« Reply #3005 on: February 14, 2012, 08:39:25 PM » |
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I learned that it really doesn't take much to piss me off nowadays.
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"I tried to walk into a Target, but I missed. I think the entrance to Target should have people splattered all around" - Mitch Hedberg
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« Reply #3006 on: February 14, 2012, 09:00:51 PM » |
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I learned that it really doesn't take much to piss me off nowadays.
Are you me? |
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This semester's going to call for an increase in my liquor budget.
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« Reply #3007 on: February 14, 2012, 09:24:51 PM » |
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Well, I already knew this, but had it reinforced. Ice is slippery, gravity always wins, and I am clumsy and bruise too easily.
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chaosbydesign
"I like to lyse bacteria. Did you know I'm utterly insane?"
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I'm doing Science and I'm still alive.
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« Reply #3008 on: February 14, 2012, 10:58:11 PM » |
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I learned that certain items in labs which are designed to keep a person safe occasionally do not perform quite as well as you might expect.
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Seriously, I tried to lick my own face. Ah. Typical ivory tower pedanticalness.
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« Reply #3009 on: February 17, 2012, 07:54:29 PM » |
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I learned that my mother kept a charcoal drawing of a plant on the wall for years. At some point, the sister who had drawn the picture in a college art class says, "You know that's a marijuana plant, right?"
The picture is now proudly displayed in my mother's bathroom.
Maybe I need to visit more often.
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What about all them other professors – ain’t they your kin? Good God, no. I loathe them and they loathe me. – Sunset Limited
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« Reply #3010 on: February 17, 2012, 08:47:05 PM » |
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I learned that my mother kept a charcoal drawing of a plant on the wall for years. At some point, the sister who had drawn the picture in a college art class says, "You know that's a marijuana plant, right?"
The picture is now proudly displayed in my mother's bathroom.
Maybe I need to visit more often.
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tinyzombie
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« Reply #3011 on: February 17, 2012, 09:03:20 PM » |
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I learned that it really doesn't take much to piss me off nowadays.
Are you me? This was how I felt this week. |
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Correct, as usual, TZ. That's because you are not Dude. TZ, however, is Dude. TZ is my favorite. I wish YOU began with A. |
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gauche
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« Reply #3012 on: February 17, 2012, 09:10:32 PM » |
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I learned the beauty of Google Scholar.
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“On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.”
—Virginia Woolf
"What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before."
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llanfair
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Whither Canada?
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« Reply #3013 on: February 18, 2012, 04:00:12 PM » |
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I learned that my new snowshoes don't like heavy, wet snow.
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This place stinks like a pair of armoured trousers after the Hundred Years' War.
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chaosbydesign
"I like to lyse bacteria. Did you know I'm utterly insane?"
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« Reply #3014 on: February 18, 2012, 04:01:20 PM » |
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I learned that I can actually get a lot of work done in a couple of hours if I just, you know, do it. I should consider wasting time less frequently.
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Seriously, I tried to lick my own face. Ah. Typical ivory tower pedanticalness.
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