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I will support you in your quest for a prize for being at the top of page 20. However, someone can still edit a few of their posts and kick you off of that perch.
I lost 17 minutes of my life Tuesday calling on a customer service call. I gave up and called sales. The lady got me right in to a customer service person. Didn't know how that happened, but I'm am highly likely to use that device again.
Random: I miss my kids (who are all grown up) getting excited about the 4th of July so they can light fireworks. When I was little we got excited about cap pistols. The days of kids playing cowboy with guns and vests and cowboy hats... are they long gone?
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Actually, Unwritten, I believe you are secure in your perch - the pages are determined by the number of posts, not by their length.
No, Skadder, I wasn't there, but I did hear that the L.A. Police department was suspecting foul play. They have decided to devote extra man-hours into finding a key piece of evidence. Apparently, one of Michael's gloves was missing.
The F.B.I. has even dispatched a young top-notch female agent to the case. She intends to visit O.J. Simpson in prison and devolop a psychological profile of the possible killer.
If the glove doesn't fit...
Speaking of rumors - did anyone hear how Brittney Spears and George Clooney were falsely rumored to have died this week?
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In order to not disrupt the Non-Random thread, I will comment on the volcano - I failed to mention they went to New Zealand first.
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I spent part of yesterday trying to find Friday's issue of USA Today. I buy it over-the-counter, 'cause when you subscribe it comes by mail, and my mail comes too late in the day for me to get it and read it.
The first place, the supermarket I shopped at, didn't have it. The second place, a convenience store, didn't have it. The third place had the paper from the day before.
Between the second and third places, it dawned on me...maybe they're not publishing because the July Fourth holiday was the next day, that they're kicking it back a day and taking time off. Sure enough, the "day before" paper confirmed it on the front page. I hadn't noticed, and it hadn't occurred to me before that...I'm used to them doing that on Monday holidays but not this.
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The Phillipines got their independence on July Fourth, but later moved it to the declaration date of Aguinaldo's republic. You see, the overseas embassies held their Independence Day coctail parties on the same day, but everybody went to the one at the US embassy...
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Oh? Are they mad because they gave us a statue for our birthday? Geez, the brits are supposed to be our friends and we don't even get a phone call.
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It would have to be one of those star wars boxes that walk, then you just put out a little tripwire. I guess you could also have someone be on all fours behind one and push it. I don't know if that constitutes "tripping" though.
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Well, I got more than I bargained for while mowing. After weedwhacking, I was mowing the front lawn, made a left turn---these John Deere models spit grass to the left and you have to cut that way to get all the bits and pieces---anyway, when I made the left turn, the right back wheel came off.
Took me and my father (strictly speaking, mostly my father) about an hour and a half to get the wheel mechanism off, get one off an old lawnmower, and put that back on so I could carry on.
And it was thick. That's it for letting it go every two weeks---that's okay for weedwhacking but the grass is growing too much. Every week from now on, unless it's raining or the lawn is flooded...
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My parents-in-law bought me a lawn mower, and I was supposed to receive it a month ago, around my birthday. I'm still waiting. To add frustration to annoyance, Code Enforcement sent a letter saying they're coming through my neighborhood soon. Every day, I wonder whether to continue waiting or hire a neighborhood kid to cut the lawn. The only decision I've made is to not water the lawn until I own a mower. That way, the grass might not grow tall enough to break code.
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I'd hire somebody, but I'm not crazy about having some stranger hanging around my house. Also I'm cheap, and if I can't do it myself, or get somebody in my family to do it, I'll let it hang loose for awhile. I can do the lawn...provided the lawn mower holds out.
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I hope this thread grows so inevitably large it crashes the site or, if we're really ambitious, the whole internet.
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LA certainly isn't starved for attention now.
Seems nobody really considered how much the MJ memorial would cost the city ($4M). One city councilwoman says--I'm not making this up--the event should be considered a "city emergency" and thus qualifies for funding from the city's emergency budget.
There's never a drummer around when you need a rim shot.
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Of all the fish down in the sea, I'd rather be a bass, so I could climb up on a rock, and slide down on my... hands and knees. Posts: 212 | Registered: Aug 2005
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My Microsoft word programs spell check has quit working. It stopped at the word PITA. I pasted the script, saved it in a RTF file, sent it to myself, nothing works. Blasted PITA.
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I just got out of bed after spending 95% of the last 4 days in bed asleep and not giving a **** about work. I would go to formations then go right back home and climb back in bed. I actually answered the door when my Platoon Sergeant was knocking on it in my birthday suit today because I didn’t feel like getting dressed again. All he did was say…
“1300 Be at company, ACU’S, bring soft cap, close out formation 1600 motor pool. Don’t be late.”
Now I missed 3 hours of sleep. And cant get back asleep. Looks like I will be drinking all night to night.
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