Subj : Re: Various Things To : Barry Martin From : Daryl Stout Date : Thu Jan 12 2023 10:17:00 Barry, BM> Thank you for keeping my dirt clean. :) Somebody had to do it. BM> Yes: the surprise of the slap, the sting, the humiliation. As I BM> implied in an earlier message, there's a very fine line between BM> disciplining and excessive punishment. Then you have the other extreme of those who have a fetish for it. DS> Or the one where these church missionaries are at the door, and DS> ask "Have You Found Jesus??"...and The Lord is "hiding behind the DS> drapes". BM> Love that one! God has a sense of humor...He created us. :P BM> Yup. ...Things wil be interesting! Of course, with Republicans in the House, and Democrats in the Senate and the White House, nothing will get done...gridlock is the norm. BM> In that case how about a Thesaurus? ...Maybe revise that to BM> case/instance/example.... Well, the creatures back then didn't look to it for coffee...as it's necessary for survival...and look what happened to them!! DS> That's like the potential football team quarterback who was asked DS> if he could pass a football...and he said "only if I can swallow DS> it". :P BM> (Why am I thinking a urologist should be involved?!) He must have one heck of a catheter or a....never mind. :P BM> We gradually decreased our eating-out in the years pre-pandemic: BM> combination of time it took, sometimes the food wasn't as good as it BM> should have been/was the previous time, etc. Back then the cost wasn't BM> as great a factor as it is now. When I worked for Burger King over 40 years ago, a Whopper was just over $1. Now, it's over 5 times that amount. BM> employees to be scheduled. Oops! (The real-life manangers had to BM> edit the automated scheduler; they'd get nastygrams for overriding BM> until it was figured out why the bad automated scheduling, which of BM> course the corporate big-wigs claimed to be perfect.) The hardest thing was to make sure you had enough staff on hand, and if business was slow, they weren't standing around goofing off. "If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean". BM> Ha: what about those pennies??!!!! You actually have snakes and automobiles, but not sex with pennies. This is because you have one penny face up (copperhead), and one face down (Lincoln (memorial)). But, you won't see any sex...after all, what did you expect for 2 cents, you cheapskate??!! BM> OK, didn't know if there was a policy it it wasn't picked up within a BM> certain period of time and/or the box overflowed..... If the box gets to overflowing, they just put it all in a crate, and put a note in the box, saying I have to go up to the counter. I'm going to wait until next Tuesday, 2 weeks since I last checked it, and because next Monday is a holiday, so the post offices, government offices, schools, etc. will be closed. BM> I wouldn't want to have been held that way! And of course, dachshunds are always innocent as a newborn baby...baby rat, that is. BM> That and not thinking to change to meet current conditions. The speed BM> sign is for common and proper driving conditions. Speed Limit is NOT a challenge...just like the instructions DO NOT BEND written on an envelope with photos. BM> Blame that on the Autonomic Nervous System! I'm trying to stay on this side of the grass. Daryl .... Zmodem - A modem that has been given a tranquilizer. === MultiMail/Win v0.52 --- SBBSecho 3.15-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (454:1/33) .