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A Modest Proposal: The Thread Hijack Drinking Game [vanity]
Still me. | Today | Me

Posted on 07/31/2015 11:49:41 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows

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To: ArGee

Nah...we have about 15 or 20 of them here, crossing the roads, trying to get people to stop before the turkeys get to the other side...Every year, this happens.


8,041 posted on 12/08/2015 12:32:44 PM PST by Monkey Face (The body is 90% water, so we're basically just cucumbers with anxiety.)
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To: Monkey Face

Well, there are over 500 turkeys in DC and they really gum up the works.


8,042 posted on 12/08/2015 1:02:09 PM PST by ArGee (War can be quick or (relatively) painless, but not both.)
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To: ArGee

But do they all try to cross the streets inside of a crosswalk? It’s the only way they can get to the other side, here.

;o]


8,043 posted on 12/08/2015 1:23:23 PM PST by Monkey Face (The body is 90% water, so we're basically just cucumbers with anxiety.)
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To: Tax-chick

Well, now I’m miffed. I was going to watch a movie and the batteries in the remote died. I was going to cannibalize another remote but they all take AA’s but this one, and it’s AAA’s. I just went to the drawer, and I’m out of BOTH types, as well as the C’s which I use in the portable radio.

I hope the smoke alarm battery doesn’t die, because I don’t have any 9-volts, either. *bah. humbug.* What a revoltin’ development this is.

(Thanks to Quest labs, I can’t get any one of the types.)


8,044 posted on 12/08/2015 1:28:37 PM PST by Monkey Face (The body is 90% water, so we're basically just cucumbers with anxiety.)
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To: Monkey Face

Some of ‘em claim they can cross the aisle but I don’t think they ever really do.


8,045 posted on 12/08/2015 1:38:14 PM PST by ArGee (War can be quick or (relatively) painless, but not both.)
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To: Monkey Face

Put your batteries in the fridge for a couple of hours. That will get a little more life out of ‘em.

Until then you’ll have to get out of your chair, I guess.


8,046 posted on 12/08/2015 1:39:34 PM PST by ArGee (War can be quick or (relatively) painless, but not both.)
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To: ArGee

I’ll get out of my chair long enough to shut the TV off, and go to bed, at which time, I will use the Nook to play Solitaire for 30 minutes or so, and then read a paperback until my eyelids are about ready to slam shut.

I don’t need batteries to watch the dreams! ;o]

A CSR from Copper Top, or Ray-O-Vac, or Fuji, when I was working in a camera shop, told me that putting batteries in the fridge did absolutely nothing for them. But I will try it and see...it certainly can’t hurt them.


8,047 posted on 12/08/2015 1:51:04 PM PST by Monkey Face (The body is 90% water, so we're basically just cucumbers with anxiety.)
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To: Monkey Face

Different kinds I suppose. I have seen the results first-hand. But the Web calls me a liar so ...

If they’re already dead you’re safe it’s worth a try.


8,048 posted on 12/08/2015 1:55:13 PM PST by ArGee (War can be quick or (relatively) painless, but not both.)
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To: ArGee

8,049 posted on 12/08/2015 1:57:22 PM PST by ArGee (War can be quick or (relatively) painless, but not both.)
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To: ArGee

Aha!


8,050 posted on 12/08/2015 1:57:46 PM PST by ArGee (War can be quick or (relatively) painless, but not both.)
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To: ArGee

I always kept my batteries in the fridge until the CSR told me that, and now, I’m questioning my own wisdom. I think they did last longer in the fridge.

And the Web can call me anything it wants to, because my mom always knew my name, and she never added “liar” to it!


8,051 posted on 12/08/2015 1:58:34 PM PST by Monkey Face (The body is 90% water, so we're basically just cucumbers with anxiety.)
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To: ArGee

Well...that’s what I always wanted: A tricorder. Actually, I want the Star Trek Technical Manual, but even on Amazon, I can’t afford it.


8,052 posted on 12/08/2015 1:59:42 PM PST by Monkey Face (The body is 90% water, so we're basically just cucumbers with anxiety.)
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To: Monkey Face

We’re always having battery crises. I hate the fact the nothing has controls on it anymore.


8,053 posted on 12/08/2015 2:06:10 PM PST by Tax-chick (Maximizing my cultural appropriation.)
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To: Tax-chick

That’s my problem. Actually, it’s worse, because I need reading glasses to see something on the set(s) and then I need a flood light to read which way to twist-turn-flip it. It’s extremely frustrating because I don’t have anyone with younger eyes who can read the things for me.

At least when there were knobs to turn, I could tell which way to go.


8,054 posted on 12/08/2015 2:22:10 PM PST by Monkey Face (The body is 90% water, so we're basically just cucumbers with anxiety.)
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To: Monkey Face

I can’t even turn things off. It drives me nuts!


8,055 posted on 12/08/2015 2:31:41 PM PST by Tax-chick (Maximizing my cultural appropriation.)
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To: Tax-chick

Same here.

And now, another gripe! I bought six frozen dinners in the last two paydays, and I’ve had to throw three of them out. One had freezer burn, one was so watery I couldn’t eat it without a spoon, and the last one was just plain nasty. The other ones are pot pies, and one of them is cooking now.

I hope it a) tastes good (relatively) and b) is of good consistency, and c) doesn’t fight me for control of the spoon.


8,056 posted on 12/08/2015 2:39:20 PM PST by Monkey Face (The body is 90% water, so we're basically just cucumbers with anxiety.)
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To: Covenantor
I eat grumpy pampered pussy cats for breakfast.

Send ravenous bigkitty to the White Hut. I note that there is a pampered pussy there... ;-)

Lt. Colonel Peters says so. And got canned for it.

8,057 posted on 12/08/2015 2:42:25 PM PST by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: moose07

Will Iceland tip over from the wind pressure?

You know, like Guam will from the weight of more troops...


8,058 posted on 12/08/2015 2:44:31 PM PST by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: ArGee

Will it be more stable than Windows 2.0?


8,059 posted on 12/08/2015 2:48:13 PM PST by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: Monkey Face

Good luck. Maybe you can get more of the same kind next time.

I exchanged phone messages three times today with the scheduler for the gastroenterology practice that was supposed to do my colonoscopy last month but has just gotten around to me. Not that I’m in a rush or anything, but I’d like to have it on the calendar.


8,060 posted on 12/08/2015 2:53:21 PM PST by Tax-chick (Maximizing my cultural appropriation.)
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