Duh!

NRO Online ^ | January 30, 2004 | Florence King

[AnAmericanMother]

LOL!

Similar item from my family -- many years ago (around 1870) one of my great uncles got thrown out of his Baptist church in SE Alabama - not just for dancing, but for holding a dancing party at his house! (oh, the horror! the horror!)

In the church minute book it said that he was not only disfellowshipped, but was "henceforth to be held as a heathen and a publican."

My dad commented, "Well, just so long as it wasn't a REpublican . . . "

[AnAmericanMother]

Somebody ought to scrawl on the bottom of the sign -

"If you're with somebody who can't read, let them know, O.K.?"

That's even stupider than the Braille push buttons on the drive-up ATMs (I know what's going on there - they make all of them at the same factory and it's easier to make them all the same . . . but it still looks funny.)

[Petronski]

Has anyone ever seen the stickers on McDonalds restaurant doors that boast "Braille Menus Available" on request?

I gotta ask myself, "Uh?....nevermind."

[beckett]

William F. Buckley and Florence King never met face to face, according to Buckley. When you think about how long she wrote a scintillating, widely read, widely acclaimed, end-of-book column for his magazine, that becomes one of the most astounding stories of the foibles of literary eccentrics I've ever heard.

A misanthrope indeed, but a brilliant one.

[Miss Marple]

OK...per cents and store story, Part Deux.

I was at my local drugstore where Christmas items were marked "75% off."

Now, although I can calculate the price of a marked down box of ornaments in my head, I don't get upset if someone wants to use a calculator.

HOWEVER, rather than simply multiplying each item by .25 to get the price, she multiplied each item by .75, got an answer, and then subtracted it from the original price.

I was in line a long time that day, because she did that with everyone who was buying sale items. LOL!

[RightWingMama]

Bump for later

[r9etb]

It's not really a slam. She's a lesbian, or at least she was last time I heard.

FWIW, here is a bio of Florence King.

I confess I always thought she was just a funny, cranky, and brilliant writer -- she never brought up her sexuality, and I never bothered to wonder about it.

[r9etb]

HOWEVER, rather than simply multiplying each item by .25 to get the price, she multiplied each item by .75, got an answer, and then subtracted it from the original price.

You should have completed the job, and asked her if that was "75% off the sale price."

[gcruse]

LOL  This isn't the NRO I was expecting
to surf to.   Your link on the main listing is bait and switch!!!

[gcruse]

But she's clever, and by and large conservative, and she doesn't as
 a general rule shout her preference from the rooftops . . . so I guess I'll give her a pass.

Never mind that fact that Florence is hilarious, and a great writer.  You'll give her a pass.
That's damned white of you.   LOL

[AnAmericanMother]

Who you callin' white?

(I always underestimate the ability of the average reader to discern sarcasm, I guess . . . sigh.)

[Inspectorette]

Oops - sorry about that. Phew - it coulda been a lot worse.

[RightWhale]

"Ten percent IS ten cents."

The Revolution is well underway.

[retrokitten]

My first name is Beth. You would be suprised at how many people ask me to spell it all the time or called all kinds of odd names.

[gcruse]

ASCII doesn't do sarcasm well. That's why God made ;)

[AnAmericanMother]

I'm emoticon-deprived.

Or lazy.

Sorry about that. ;-)

[antaresequity]

I think she finally gave me the price adjustment to get rid of me. I believe she thought I was making it up. LOL!

We can induce 'Duh' moments at will...

The next time you get run up for somthing, say its 14.43...hand over a 20 spot. The expected change is 5.57.

Do some quick math in your head...5.75 - 5.57 = .18 Before the clerk gives you the change, say somthing like "here is 18 cents"....while that flushed look comes over their face...say "thats 5 and 3 quarters back to me"...or somthing like that...

Witness the hopless cerebral melt down...

Now is the time to add a 79 cent candy bar if your really a sicko...

[ChefKeith]

I can't even remember the last time I went into a Mc GAAAAG-Me Donalds.

I don't use ATM's but that sounds about right, I'm sure that somewhere in the ADA there is wording to be sure that drive up ATM's have Braille markings or face the lawyers in a discrimination suit.

[AnAmericanMother]

These poor kids with these automated cash registers never learned how to make change by counting back.

Hand me a 20, I'll count "$14.43 plus 7 is 14.50 - fifty is fifteen, five is twenty. Here you are, sir."

We all learned to do it that way back when cash registers still had handles that you had to pull.

[ChefKeith]

Reminds Me of one time at WhataBurger at 2AM, I placed an order and the total was $11.12 and I handed the girl a $20 and said I have the $1.12 but she keyed in the 20 to get the change and then thought that I was tring to scam Her and called the manager to the front. The manager looked at the situation and said "Well just give Him a $10.00 bill back." The girl said "but thats not what the register says!"

And to think that I was the high school drop out.