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Re: That's Not Faire

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 19:15:15 -0000

> 2024-09-28 13:49 from IGnatius T Foobar >Subject: That's Not Faire > > So apparently my son and his girlfriend are at a renaissance faire in >Pennsylvania right now and they are eating "smoking ice cream" from one >of the food vendors there. I told him to ask how they make it since >liquid nitrogen will not be invented for another 300 years. > > The photo of the styrofoam container seemed a bit sus too. > > I guess as a former scadian I'm a bit too big on authenticity. > > Hilarious. As I seem to recall, last time I saw you, you told us they were driving down there, or something like that.

Re: That's Not Faire

Sat, 28 Sep 2024 18:09:37 -0000

shhhhhh quit using logic. its a party!

Sat Sep 28 2024 13:49:05 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: That's Not Faire

I told him to ask how they make it since liquid nitrogen will not be invented for another 300 years.

That's Not Faire

Sat, 28 Sep 2024 17:49:05 -0000

So apparently my son and his girlfriend are at a renaissance faire in Pennsylvania right now and they are eating "smoking ice cream" from one of the food vendors there. I told him to ask how they make it since liquid nitrogen will not be invented for another 300 years. The photo of the styrofoam container seemed a bit sus too. I guess as a former scadian I'm a bit too big on authenticity.

Message #2099464480

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 17:44:38 -0000

A bit on the younger side, no history of heart disease, died suddenly with myocarditis. You can figure out the rest.

Message #2099379313

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 22:27:45 -0000

So, who did he offend to have brought that on?

Message #2099379304

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 21:50:45 -0000

Our town is between mayors right now (the one we had, who was decent, "died suddenly" and now we have to have a special election). I happen to be spending the day in Town Hall so I am consuming his share of the coffee and sitting on his toilet. Someone needs to.

Message #2099368071

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 03:28:17 -0000

I've got a great idea for a YouTube video. Traveling through some hellscape of a run down city in the middle of the night, the Holderness Family gets carjacked and brutally murdered by Real People. I'd pay good money to see that (as long as it isn't faked).

Re: Extreme customer satisfaction!

Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:25:04 -0000

Well done sir. If she was indeed wearing a blue shirt in her Chinese home working for the commies I would be very impressed. It's just the thought that counts here. Nice work.

Tue Jun 07 2022 19:36:24 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Extreme customer satisfaction!

I need some cheap-and-deep disks to store backups, so I looked on Best Buy for NAS drives. And while shopping I got a pop-up in the corner saying:

"Need help? Chat with a Blue Shirt!"

Obviously I clicked it. The conversation went as follows:

Laura S (17:28:55 GMT) : Thank you for choosing Best Buy, my name is Laura S. How may I assist you today?
Laura S (17:29:00 GMT) : Good afternoon! Who do I have the pleasure to be chatting with today?
Visitor (17:29:05 GMT) : Are you really wearing a blue shirt?
Laura S (17:29:28 GMT) : How may I assist you today?
Visitor (17:29:53 GMT) : The button said "chat with a blue shirt". Before I can trust you with my business I need to make sure that you are actually wearing a blue shirt.
Laura S (17:30:33 GMT) : Yes, we are able to help you in all of you need
Visitor (17:30:49 GMT) : Please answer the question.
Laura S (17:31:07 GMT) : Yes, we wear blue shirt
Visitor (17:31:20 GMT) : That is all I needed to know today. Thank you!
Laura S (17:31:30 GMT) : Is there something else we can help you with today?
Visitor (17:31:44 GMT) : Nothing else, I am completely satisfied.
Laura S (17:32:05 GMT) : Thanks for contacting BestBuy! If anything else come up rememb
When asked to provide a customer satisfaction rating, I gave "Laura" (clearly not her real name given the obvious Chinese-inspired grammatical errors) 5 out of 5 rating because she was wearing a blue shirt.

Re: Extreme customer satisfaction!

Sun, 12 Jun 2022 16:05:53 -0000

I gave "Laura" full marks for indulging my ridiculous conversation and bringing it to completion. Someone in corporate is going to read the transcript and say "uuuhhhhhh... wtf?" I have no reason to believe that "Laura" was actually wearing a blue shirt.

Re: Extreme customer satisfaction!

Wed, 08 Jun 2022 19:59:17 -0000

He hacked her webcam?

Tue Jun 07 2022 10:25:16 PM EDT from zelgomer Subject: Re: Extreme customer satisfaction!

But how do you know she was wearing a blue shirt? If she lied about her name then why wouldn't she also lie about the pigments in her shirt?

Re: Extreme customer satisfaction!

Wed, 08 Jun 2022 02:25:16 -0000

But how do you know she was wearing a blue shirt? If she lied about her name then why wouldn't she also lie about the pigments in her shirt?

Extreme customer satisfaction!

Tue, 07 Jun 2022 23:36:24 -0000

I need some cheap-and-deep disks to store backups, so I looked on Best Buy for NAS drives. And while shopping I got a pop-up in the corner saying:

"Need help? Chat with a Blue Shirt!"

Obviously I clicked it. The conversation went as follows:

Laura S (17:28:55 GMT) : Thank you for choosing Best Buy, my name is Laura S. How may I assist you today?
Laura S (17:29:00 GMT) : Good afternoon! Who do I have the pleasure to be chatting with today?
Visitor (17:29:05 GMT) : Are you really wearing a blue shirt?
Laura S (17:29:28 GMT) : How may I assist you today?
Visitor (17:29:53 GMT) : The button said "chat with a blue shirt". Before I can trust you with my business I need to make sure that you are actually wearing a blue shirt.
Laura S (17:30:33 GMT) : Yes, we are able to help you in all of you need
Visitor (17:30:49 GMT) : Please answer the question.
Laura S (17:31:07 GMT) : Yes, we wear blue shirt
Visitor (17:31:20 GMT) : That is all I needed to know today. Thank you!
Laura S (17:31:30 GMT) : Is there something else we can help you with today?
Visitor (17:31:44 GMT) : Nothing else, I am completely satisfied.
Laura S (17:32:05 GMT) : Thanks for contacting BestBuy! If anything else come up rememb

When asked to provide a customer satisfaction rating, I gave "Laura" (clearly not her real name given the obvious Chinese-inspired grammatical errors) 5 out of 5 rating because she was wearing a blue shirt.

Message #4585209

Fri, 18 Sep 2020 13:15:19 -0000

Well sure, but didn't that already happen?

Message #4585089

Thu, 17 Sep 2020 23:47:16 -0000

Perhaps CNN?

Message #4585088

Thu, 17 Sep 2020 23:26:51 -0000

Ohhhh nooooo!!! We will have to find something else to light on fire this year.

Message #4584244

Sun, 13 Sep 2020 22:23:28 -0000

IG, don't panic: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/13/business/no-peeps-this-year-production-pause-trnd/index.html

Message #4549264

Wed, 06 May 2020 13:27:33 -0000

Yesterday was Cinco de Mayo, *and* it was Taco Tuesday. Such a serendipitous coincidence ... but no one went out to party because of a virus ironically called Corona.

Message #4546672

Wed, 29 Apr 2020 02:11:22 -0000

My daughter and I are cleaning up gangsta rap. We came to the realization that "Easter Bunny" has the same cadence, and the same number of syllables, as "motherfucker". This led to us bringing up a karaoke version of "Still" and singing/shouting "DIE EASTER BUNNY DIE EASTER BUNNY DIE"

Message #4469894

Thu, 25 Jul 2019 13:59:33 -0000

Sure, I guess not everyone needs an auto-ranging digital multimeter. Mine has batteries in it, and when I need to check the batteries in the multimeter I need another multimeter. Yo dawg, I heard you like multimeters...

Message #4469666

Wed, 24 Jul 2019 17:23:58 -0000

I might do this. I don't often need such a test, but I might waste fewer good batteries if I can test them first before chucking them at the neighbor.

Message #4469625

Wed, 24 Jul 2019 14:01:50 -0000

Wed Jul 24 2019 09:35:27 AM EDT from fleeb @ Uncensored

I don't have a voltmeter. Maybe I should get one.

Fleeb, Harbor Freight has some very inexpensive voltmeters. They are not high quality, probably shouldn't be trusted for important or accurate information but to get s simple reading off them they are fine.
Harbor Freight has coupons in each Sunday paper, occasionally they have a coupon for a free voltmeters with any purchase. H.F.'s usual price is usually under $6, I picked up one for two or three dollars with a coupon.

Here are some video reviews.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=harbor+freight+voltage+meter

If you are going to use a meter every once and a while these are fine. If you are using it everyday invest in a better quality brand.

Message #4469624

Wed, 24 Jul 2019 13:35:27 -0000

I don't have a voltmeter. Maybe I should get one. Then I wouldn't have to swap out the battery with a new one to see if it works, chucking the verified-dead battery into the face of my obnoxious neighbor upstairs.

Message #4467662

Wed, 17 Jul 2019 23:17:51 -0000

Although I like option 4, the problem is that Big Clive would "take it to bits". Not really what I wanted. I used the voltmeter and found one dead battery and one non-dead battery. The device is a remote temperature probe. I got it working again and it told me something I already know: it's hot outside.

Message #4467107

Tue, 16 Jul 2019 01:04:41 -0000

4) Send it to BigClive so he can give an in dept analysis.

Message #4467102

Tue, 16 Jul 2019 00:39:16 -0000

Lick the terminals while holding another wire cable?

Message #4467067

Mon, 15 Jul 2019 22:00:21 -0000

Hey people! When you think the batteries might be dead in some device you have, do you ... (1) try new batteries to see if it works, or (2) put a voltmeter across the terminals?

Message #4427763

Sun, 03 Mar 2019 16:12:33 -0000

Wed Oct 03 2018 11:46:57 AM EDT from fleeb @ Uncensored

That sounds like it would be hilarious, knowing the technical details behind the effect.

In spite of my lack of knowledge of "how" I do understand the effects of Latency, and got a refreshing chuckle from imagineering the scene.

Message #4425154

Fri, 22 Feb 2019 00:54:22 -0000

Two spaces after a period. Always. Anyone who says otherwise is a moron.

Message #4382793

Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:46:57 -0000

That sounds like it would be hilarious, knowing the technical details behind the effect.

Message #4380527

Wed, 26 Sep 2018 23:35:10 -0000

I just listened to a bunch of nontechnical people trying to sing "Happy Birthday To You" on a conference call. They were all trying to sing together but none of them understood anything about latency, so the song just kept getting slower and slower. It was ... interesting.

Message #4334897

Tue, 13 Feb 2018 19:58:14 -0000

And so it ends.

Message #4334699

Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:20:00 -0000

Yes. It was delicious.

Message #4332771

Thu, 01 Feb 2018 15:13:15 -0000

Have you seen the marvelous breadfish?

Message #4331658

Sun, 28 Jan 2018 05:10:08 -0000

Message #4331292

Thu, 25 Jan 2018 19:34:17 -0000

If I learned anything from television, I learned that you can solve programming problems with adverbs. Trying to work out how to pull that file from a remote location using https when you have a bad certificate, and you have to code it in pure C/C++? Simply apply an adverb, perhaps using the handy 'ly' ending, like 'embarrassingly', and the problem is solved. Thanks, Lolly!

Message #4263992

Sun, 23 Apr 2017 19:43:08 -0000

Blablanet.org

Message #4208378

Wed, 08 Mar 2017 18:03:00 -0000

Not really ... actually it's an entire site full of the kind of clickbait *other* sites embed. I wonder if I can use it as a corpus of clickbait to train a filter. (THE ELECTRIC COMPANY DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW HOW TO DO THAT!)

Message #4204177

Thu, 02 Mar 2017 22:51:09 -0000

Stupidly addictive, isn't it?

Message #4203033

Tue, 28 Feb 2017 03:29:51 -0000

FIND OUT THE IQ'S OF THESE CHILD ACTORS AND WHERE THEY ARE NOW (#8 WILL SHOCK YOU!) USING THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK

Message #4179000

Mon, 23 Jan 2017 18:21:52 -0000

Ha, exactly!

Message #4178969

Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:37:39 -0000

I was just going with something I saw way too much of on YouTube, but this bottom line site is an entire encyclopedia of this type of crap!

Message #4152801

Fri, 23 Dec 2016 16:29:45 -0000

http://bottomlineinc.com/

Enjoy! :-)

Message #4152792

Fri, 23 Dec 2016 16:05:44 -0000

What is a Bottom Line and where can I find too much of it to read?

Message #4142651

Thu, 01 Dec 2016 18:12:34 -0000

You have been reading too much Bottom Line. :-)

Message #4141955

Thu, 01 Dec 2016 02:01:58 -0000

The generator blog, and the important for-the-record blog entries I had there, got deleted by THE DREADED AUTO-PURGER because I forgot to make the room permanent and I hadn't posted in it for a year. And yes, a generator should be powered by an electric motor, which can then power itself. POWER COMPANIES DON'T WANT YOU TO TRY THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK.

Message #4140145

Mon, 28 Nov 2016 22:05:26 -0000

I don't know where the generator room went! I think, in order to save the environment from the gas and diesel generators, someone should invent a all electric generator to generate electricity. Think how this will save on carbon emissions.

Message #4056815

Wed, 27 Apr 2016 08:40:42 -0000

For the record: They did put up a curtain at the caesarean of my gf, but I could still see the pump that takes in the surplus blood and other fluids. Also the floor got rather messy. So while the curtain partly helps, your imagination still gets lot of input. I didn't faint, but there still is lots of potential for those that can't see blood.

Message #4047873

Tue, 05 Apr 2016 21:41:39 -0000

Yes, it's an integrated feature in some new beds now. Very innovative.

Message #3996536

Thu, 07 Jan 2016 12:01:38 -0000

Hmm... 'bed full of bondage'... filing that one away for later.

Message #3995292

Mon, 04 Jan 2016 22:21:57 -0000

I should be so lucky.

Message #3995254

Mon, 04 Jan 2016 18:05:31 -0000

"Bed full of bondage" would have made that story so much better, but it is your story.

Message #3995242

Mon, 04 Jan 2016 16:48:39 -0000

She was the Goldilocks who was, at the time, sleeping in my bed. I woke her up and gave her a bowl of porridge.

Message #3993946

Thu, 31 Dec 2015 19:44:08 -0000

I thought Mrs. Foobar was the little blond girl? You fed her to the bears?

Message #3993506

Tue, 29 Dec 2015 19:06:49 -0000

Message #3993459

Tue, 29 Dec 2015 16:05:23 -0000

I made a lovely pot of oatmeal this morning. This is the day I'm working from home this week, so I put a pot on the stove and let it simmer. The can says "steel-cut oats" but I prefer the colloquial name for the product: "pinhead oats." Who wouldn't prefer that name? As soon as the porridge was finished cooking, this little blond girl showed up in my house trying to steal it. I fed her to the bears.

Message #3978359

Thu, 12 Nov 2015 17:07:46 -0000

> Metrosexual = heterogay? No, it just refers to people who have sex on the train. Or maybe with the train.

Message #3965965

Fri, 02 Oct 2015 16:31:55 -0000

Hm... this is true, if not entirely universal.

Message #3965155

Mon, 28 Sep 2015 13:22:12 -0000

Sorry fleeb, but if you're going to open the category to include "software that blows up" you're never going to out-explode Exchange.

Message #3963735

Mon, 21 Sep 2015 15:22:11 -0000

The closest thing to a universal detonator that I have managed to acquire is a C++ compiler.

Message #3963616

Sun, 20 Sep 2015 20:37:00 -0000

What it really all comes down to is that I just want two things: 1. A tree that grows marshmallows instead of leaves. True, I'm not much of a sweet tooth, but think about it ... you get the campfire going and pull a few branches down, and the marshmallows are already on the sticks. This would be awesome. 2. A "universal detonator." When I push the button, whatever I'm looking at explodes. I'm pretty sure Michael Bay has one of these, and I want one too. There's nothing that couldn't be made more awesome by the addition of explosions (and I think Mr. Bay agrees).

Message #3958074

Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:04:33 -0000

Metrosexual = heterogay?

Poop

Tue, 25 Aug 2015 13:29:08 -0000

Yesterday my poop did really hurt :(

Message #3958065

Tue, 25 Aug 2015 13:28:28 -0000

The problem is, I guess, that being gay is not hetero... Am I right?

Message #3952228

Tue, 28 Jul 2015 20:54:38 -0000

Message #3952177

Tue, 28 Jul 2015 16:04:53 -0000

Of course! Hot Pink Amoebas are best kept in their natural environment, immersed in copious amounts of alcohol.

Message #3952014

Tue, 28 Jul 2015 00:35:16 -0000

Message #3951878

Mon, 27 Jul 2015 19:11:02 -0000

Perhaps I haven't consumed enough vodka...is there a chance that hot pink amoebas might reside in beer?

Message #3951816

Mon, 27 Jul 2015 15:52:08 -0000

>Did this room go away? Yes. It is a figment of your imagination. Perhaps you have consumed too much vodka (complete with hot pink amoebas floating in it).

Message #3951773

Mon, 27 Jul 2015 12:23:16 -0000

Sorry...couldn't find it on Uncensored...just realized that I had it zapped, there, since I had it networked here.

Message #3951718

Mon, 27 Jul 2015 01:22:30 -0000

Message #3951715

Mon, 27 Jul 2015 01:19:54 -0000

Nope

Message #3951707

Mon, 27 Jul 2015 00:57:18 -0000

Did this room go away?

Message #3943680

Thu, 25 Jun 2015 00:44:01 -0000

>Calling people gay is so gay. No it is "ghey"

Message #3940868

Tue, 16 Jun 2015 21:04:29 -0000

seems more like a Lulzblog.

Message #3940845

Tue, 16 Jun 2015 19:34:11 -0000

Message #3940828

Tue, 16 Jun 2015 18:38:57 -0000

Do you mean that in a positive or negative manner?

Message #3940784

Tue, 16 Jun 2015 18:38:08 -0000

Gay colors?

Message #3940721

Tue, 16 Jun 2015 16:25:53 -0000

homosecks

Tue, 16 Jun 2015 08:51:39 -0000

....is gay

Message #3912910

Wed, 22 Apr 2015 04:49:32 -0000

My babel fish is failing (must get another implant)... Can you say it "differently"?

Message #3912678

Mon, 20 Apr 2015 20:46:27 -0000

Well yes, there's that whole "born again" thing, and I get it, but even as someone of the Crispy persuasion I'm still a bit turned off by people who hyperfocus on that phrase.

Message #3912675

Mon, 20 Apr 2015 20:25:29 -0000

Bhrama Llama Ding Dong?

Message #3912552

Mon, 20 Apr 2015 16:24:55 -0000

> 2015-04-20 11:02 from IGnatius T Foobar @uncnsrd > >Truth is that I'm kind of sad that I didn't get to watch any of my > >births. > > How many times were you born? > > ...unless you are born again of water and the.... hmmmmmmmmmmm............

Message #3912513

Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:02:15 -0000

>Truth is that I'm kind of sad that I didn't get to watch any of my >births. How many times were you born?

Message #3911905

Fri, 17 Apr 2015 23:40:38 -0000

Message #3898320

Wed, 25 Mar 2015 23:35:30 -0000

Truth is that I'm kind of sad that I didn't get to watch any of my births. Especially #2 - he was born in the sac. It would've been cool to see.

Can't believe I'm really not going to do that ever again...

But I've got two with serious birth defects... too scared to see what happens next time.

(one blind in one eye and one with a serious malformation of the kidney)

plus I'm sick, had crappy pregnancies, and I have trouble taking care of the three I have.
It's hard to make peace with it, but I do know (logically) that it's the right decision.

Message #3896679

Mon, 23 Mar 2015 14:13:24 -0000

And I've also heard that during a caesarian they put up a curtain and Dad isn't allowed to peek through. "We've had too many guys pass out" they say. Whatevs ... I don't follow other people's rules, you know that :)

Message #3896370

Sat, 21 Mar 2015 19:20:56 -0000

IG - You're supposed to stand next to your wife's HEAD, not watch the birth.
(That's what they tell religious Jewish men - they're not supposed to look at the "works" during the birth process)

Message #3893181

Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:33:08 -0000

Sun Mar 15 2015 08:38:14 PM EDT from fleeb @ Uncensored

I suppose sex is occasionally rather disgusting as well.

Only if done right. ;-)

Message #3893074

Mon, 16 Mar 2015 00:38:14 -0000

I suppose sex is occasionally rather disgusting as well.

Message #3893021

Sun, 15 Mar 2015 19:52:55 -0000

It's pretty much like that. Babies are beautiful. Pregnancy is beautiful. Childbirth is pretty damn disgusting.

Message #3892401

Fri, 13 Mar 2015 10:25:00 -0000

Heh... "ew."

Message #3891892

Thu, 12 Mar 2015 02:32:55 -0000

Let me clue you in, then. Here's how women appear when you are a straight male. 1. When you are a little boy, girls are just kind of there. There isn't much difference; you're just happy to have other kids around. 2. Then you get a little older and you get to the age where you say, "eeew, girls are gross!" 3. And eventually you become a teenager, and girls aren't gross anymore ... they're pretty darn awesome. 4. At some point you may even marry one, and when you witness childbirth for the first time, you realize ... yes, girls really are gross.

Message #3872936

Sun, 01 Feb 2015 00:01:00 -0000

Heh, it's a thing. The human mind is odd. Gads, though... the thought of me being straight is perhaps entirely too odd to ponder too deeply.

Message #3872451

Fri, 30 Jan 2015 19:56:42 -0000

You may need more than bifocals. (Repressed heterosexuality? Is that a thing?)

Message #3871666

Thu, 29 Jan 2015 13:56:45 -0000

So, I went to the breakroom at work, looking for something to drink, and I saw a can of V8. There are different kinds of V8 drinks, of course, and this one appeared to be labelled 'Vaginal'. Until I got a closer look at the can, and it actually reads 'Original'. Methinks I need bifocals.

Message #3869972

Sun, 25 Jan 2015 10:38:21 -0000

Great patience.

Message #3869557

Sat, 24 Jan 2015 14:19:06 -0000

"Gravity Glue"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vswc7xB0V6c&x-yt-cl=84503534&x-yt-ts=1421914688

Stacking stones. beautify pictures fascinating music.

Message #3790697

Thu, 09 Oct 2014 17:54:12 -0000

Tue Oct 07 2014 20:39:13 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored

By age 20 the genie is already out of the bottle, especially if some time has already been spent living away from home.

Yeah. My dad really didn't quite get that memo.

Message #3788937

Wed, 08 Oct 2014 00:39:13 -0000

By age 20 the genie is already out of the bottle, especially if some time has already been spent living away from home.

Message #3787127

Mon, 06 Oct 2014 07:10:34 -0000

oh. and then the fun started. The first three years of college, I was in dorms, so I did whatever.
Then I moved back "home" (my parents bought an apartment in Israel, and I moved in.) My dad was still in the US the first year, so I had some freedom, but then my dad finished up stuff in the US and came to Israel and he insisted that I had to be home on the last bus (i.e. 12:30am) every night - no sleeping anywhere but home.
You can imagine that at 20, this did not go over well...

Now I have to worry about the baby-sitter's curfew...
Fortunately, we have a 17-year-old baby-sitter in our building, so her parents are pretty calm about her being "out" late

(how out-of-the-house are you when you're in the same building?)

Message #3787125

Mon, 06 Oct 2014 07:05:14 -0000

Up until my dad got out of the army, it was home by bedtime (9 at the latest point - when I was 12). I had to be home for dinner, though, because I couldn't eat anywhere else - we were the only family that kept kosher within quite a large radius. I was allowed out after dinner, though, in junior high, as long as I claimed my homework was done.

I lived in a place where I couldn't get anywhere on my own in high school, so for high school, it was home whenever my parents or friend's parents brought me home. (unless I was sleeping over, and my parents had to approve that, too - I only remember sleeping over once on a school night, and it was to save my parents from having to pick me up from an afterschool activity.)

Message #3787094

Mon, 06 Oct 2014 05:11:24 -0000

For my upbringing (5 kids), it was more like Calvin and Hobbes (be back when the street lights come on), when I was younger. When I was a teenager, it was more or less be home when you think you should be, and they would tell you if you were not (middle of the pack).

Message #3786306

Fri, 03 Oct 2014 17:23:44 -0000

Heh. I was raised in an Italian household. Home by dinner and STAY home unless a school event dictates otherwise, or unless the family was "going somewhere" in which case "home" became the car for the travel part and the relative's home for the visit part, and then the car again for the trip back to "real home." Out after dinner without proper Adult Supervision? That's called Going To College when/where/how I was raised!

Message #3786274

Fri, 03 Oct 2014 14:01:26 -0000

That was lenient by my parent's standards. I was never permitted to be out at midnight. I always had to be home by 10pm at least until I left home (18 years).

curfew

Fri, 03 Oct 2014 04:33:57 -0000

Her is how it stands where my kids grow up:

Age	Sunday-Thursday	Friday and Saturday
Under 12	Home by 9 p.m.	Home by 10 p.m.
12 to 14	Home by 10 p.m.	Home by 11 p.m.
15 to 17	Home by 11 p.m.	Home by midnight

Message #3785888

Thu, 02 Oct 2014 19:33:13 -0000

10:30 - Thank G-d, they're in their beds!

Message #3785544

Wed, 01 Oct 2014 15:06:30 -0000

It's 11 O'clock. Do you know where your children are? Because WE do.

Message #3770763

Wed, 10 Sep 2014 21:16:26 -0000

>England, I was born in the USA. However, unlike Bruce Springsteen, I >have never performed "Born in the USA," and of course I have to make I remember going to see Live Aid in Montreal. Bruce opened with Born in the USA. I just shook my head.

Message #3759855

Wed, 27 Aug 2014 05:39:20 -0000

Heh. In 1982 I was buying a house in NJ that had been vacant for about 8 months. The mortgage company wanted a well test, and the county said that they would not test the well/septic until the house had been lived-in for 90 days - so I did a 3 month lease/purchase and moved in. As soon as I moved in I got permission from the seller/landlord to put up my ham tower (110') so I went ahead and 'just did it.' So 90 days later they inspect, the house passed, and we went to closing. The house closed. About 2 months later there's a knock on the door. I answer - it's this "suit" who tells me he's the code enforcement officer. So I go outside to talk to him. He says "do you have a permit for that tower?" I said to him "that thing? That was here when I bought the house!" End of story.

Message #3759833

Wed, 27 Aug 2014 02:16:56 -0000

Oh that's all right, I'm just going to burn down Town Hall where they keep all the records. That way they'll have no way of knowing that the gas stove hadn't been there since the beginning. After what I had to go through to legalize the old house, I'm a little turned off to permits right now.

Message #3759618

Mon, 25 Aug 2014 23:00:07 -0000

Make sure you have a building permit and have it inspected after it is installed (by a licensed contractor). Otherwise you run a good chance of voiding your fire insurance.

Message #3759594

Mon, 25 Aug 2014 18:55:25 -0000

Whatevs. As soon as I can manage it, I'm deploying a propane tank behind my house and installing a gas cooktop.

Message #3758439

Sat, 23 Aug 2014 04:47:12 -0000

Glass cooktops are good if you don't boil over. Old style if you want to pretend you did not boil over until much later.

Message #3757610

Thu, 21 Aug 2014 17:05:49 -0000

> 2014-08-21 08:44 from Freakdog @dogpound2 (Dog Pound BBS II) >Glass cooktop stoves are the absolute best. > I absolutely cannot imagine how that would work out with my extremely inquisitive cat!

Message #3757175

Thu, 21 Aug 2014 13:52:46 -0000

Better than gas?

Message #3757156

Thu, 21 Aug 2014 12:44:42 -0000

Glass cooktop stoves are the absolute best.

Message #3756865

Thu, 21 Aug 2014 02:33:36 -0000

I'll remember that the next time I burn the sunday gravy on this @#$#%^&^(*#$ electric stove. :( Speaking of which, we're still unpacking boxes from the recent move into our new house. Inside one of the boxes I found Malaysia Air flight 370. So that's where it was ... I packed it away by accident. Sorry about that.

Message #3756846

Thu, 21 Aug 2014 00:50:00 -0000

Not to worry, IG. My grandmother ('Bruzese) used to say that "A Napolitan is a Calabrese that knows good food!"

Message #3756831

Wed, 20 Aug 2014 23:12:02 -0000

Hmm.... So depending on how mad at you someone was, they could drop you on the hard half of your head or the soft half

Message #3755381

Sat, 16 Aug 2014 02:41:04 -0000

umm ... actually, that *is* the other half.

Message #3755238

Fri, 15 Aug 2014 14:41:17 -0000

Frightening. But not as much as if you were Napolitan' !!

Message #3754946

Fri, 15 Aug 2014 04:03:06 -0000

Yeah. I happen to be 50% Calabrese, so I'm very thickheaded ... half of the time.

Message #3754381

Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:56:02 -0000

Heh... imagining IG pronouncing his words such that the nouns always end with 'o'.

Message #3754352

Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:02:21 -0000

I was born in the United States; therefore I am a native American. The only exception is when I need to endear myself to someone who has a soft spot for Italian-Americans; in those cases I will invoke my heritage.

Message #3754343

Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:25:40 -0000

Tue Aug 12 2014 07:45:55 AM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored

... otherwise you end up with a Bozo the Clown wig and red star-shaped glasses.

Now THAT would'a been a picture I'd pay to see!

Message #3754292

Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:36:35 -0000

always hated that song. I was born in Germany :(

Message #3753965

Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:45:55 -0000

Murray dresses in red. Slash has a wig and a hat. I have a red wig and a red hat. Murray was born in Australia, Slash was born in England, I was born in the USA. However, unlike Bruce Springsteen, I have never performed "Born in the USA," and of course I have to make the obligatory point that Obama was NOT born in the USA. Clear as mud, right? By the way, you've gotta get the right wig the first time. At most costume shops they are typically not returnable. If you get a really good shop they will sometimes do you a favor and "damage it out" but they can't sell it again. So when a family member offers to get your costume parts for you and you say "You know what Slash looks like, right?" make sure they actually do, otherwise you end up with a Bozo the Clown wig and red star-shaped glasses.

Message #3753389

Mon, 11 Aug 2014 17:24:42 -0000

Ouch....

Message #3753384

Mon, 11 Aug 2014 16:35:35 -0000

We are all going to dye.

Message #3753299

Mon, 11 Aug 2014 12:07:33 -0000

Message #3753196

Mon, 11 Aug 2014 02:46:44 -0000

All of this coming week ... I will be playing guitar while dressed as a cross between Murray Cook (from The Wiggles) and Slash (from Guns & Roses). No, you can't see a photo.

Message #3751227

Thu, 07 Aug 2014 14:55:48 -0000

IT IS ALIVE! ALIVE! ... (kill it) ...

Message #3750537

Mon, 04 Aug 2014 14:32:31 -0000

ProTip: when a spammer asks for your phone number, give it "911-911-9111" so they get in trouble for abusing E911 service when they try to call you.

Message #3733365

Thu, 03 Jul 2014 18:25:46 -0000

You got your gestalt in my peanut butter!

Message #3729705

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 22:27:29 -0000

KEEP CALM and KILL EVERYONE who GETS IN YOUR WAY

Re: lknkl

Mon, 16 Jun 2014 04:22:32 -0000

lolz

lknkl

Sun, 15 Jun 2014 15:31:24 -0000

lmöl,˝,˝,ölmkl

Message #3674770

Tue, 11 Mar 2014 19:58:45 -0000

Cute, IG. Shared this with my brother, the Hotel Manager. Add another laugh to your list. :-)

Message #3669324

Sun, 09 Mar 2014 00:13:55 -0000

Evidently there is an entire hotel staff passing around a copy of our reservation and having a laugh. I'd forgotten that when we made the reservation I saw a box labeled "special requests" -- and typed in it "Please ensure that the pool is filled with jello instead of water." Guests like us are what make the job fun, they told us. I'm glad we were able to generate a few smiles.

Message #3634858

Sun, 05 Jan 2014 22:45:02 -0000

The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that Scrappy Doo and George Clooney are twins separated at birth.

Message #3608988

Thu, 05 Dec 2013 20:52:10 -0000

OUCH!

Message #3608749

Wed, 04 Dec 2013 12:15:55 -0000

I used to know this guy named Miles, he moved to another country and changed his name to Kilometers

Message #3575504

Sat, 26 Oct 2013 23:11:05 -0000

SMAUG FLASH!