Subj : Various Things To : Daryl Stout From : Barry Martin Date : Fri Jan 13 2023 07:42:00 Hi Daryl! 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. DS> Then you have the other extreme of those who have a fetish for DS> it. They probably are thinking "caress, tickles... That barely a start!". 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! DS> God has a sense of humor...He created us. :P Saw this the other night: Eve to Adam - "Have you been cheating on me? Let me check your ribs!". BM> Yup. ...Things will be interesting! DS> Of course, with Republicans in the House, and Democrats in the DS> Senate and the White House, nothing will get done...gridlock is DS> the norm. But it makes for good news copy when there is a stalement and the deadline is days, now hours away!! And so-and-so breaks the deadlock -- what a hero (and so gets re-elected so the same thing can happen). BM> In that case how about a Thesaurus? ...Maybe revise that to BM> case/instance/example.... DS> Well, the creatures back then didn't look to it for coffee...as DS> it's necessary for survival...and look what happened to them!! Should have had the coffee: boiling water takes contaminates out. (Not necessarily all, but to a survivable level.) 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?!) DS> He must have one heck of a catheter or a....never mind. :P Now we're back to that kink stuff at the top! 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. DS> When I worked for Burger King over 40 years ago, a Whopper was DS> just over $1. Now, it's over 5 times that amount. Initially "the horror!" but then one has to think of the changing value of the dollar: people are earningmore dollars per hour, so more dollars to spend ...on what used to be a dollar hamburger. 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.) DS> The hardest thing was to make sure you had enough staff on DS> hand, and if business was slow, they weren't standing around DS> goofing off. "If you've got time to lean, you've got time to DS> clean". Right. Theoretically want one extra person at all times so the customer who just came in doesn't have to wait for somebody. BM> Ha: what about those pennies??!!!! DS> You actually have snakes and automobiles, but not sex with DS> pennies. This is because you have one penny face up (copperhead), DS> and one face down (Lincoln (memorial)). But, you won't see any DS> sex...after all, what did you expect for 2 cents, you DS> cheapskate??!! Good grief: first it was footballs, now pennies...... BM> That and not thinking to change to meet current conditions. The speed BM> sign is for common and proper driving conditions. DS> Speed Limit is NOT a challenge...just like the instructions DO DS> NOT BEND written on an envelope with photos. If they really don't wantit to bend put a steel plate in the envelope!! BM> Blame that on the Autonomic Nervous System! DS> I'm trying to stay on this side of the grass. Theel that to someone living in the desert! ¯ BarryMartin3@ ® ¯ @MyMetronet.NET ® .... Hot Date! Is mixing up 'dessert' and 'desert' less and less every day. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .