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RTDNTOTO 🐻 Random Thoughts Deserving No Thread Of Their Own 19 (2024)

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estromberg said:
You can control it from the Roku app on your phone, too.
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Yes, which was the cause of a rather funny prank I played on my wife from the other room. She'd turn the TV on, and I'd switch it to golf. Then she'd switch it back, and I'd put it back to golf. After the third time, she yelled at me that something is wrong with the TV.

I fessed up and admitted that it was only funny once and I won't do it again. And I haven't.

Jim
 
dandy_warhol said:
I recently learned about public graffiti walls. Such a cool concept.
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There is a graffiti park in a town northeast of Charlotte. I am not sure of the "rules" but it's neat.



We have "spirit" rocks in front of most schools around here and they work well. You'll see them painted for school events and birthdays. There are people that pay professionals to paint them on their behalf. Inappropriate messages are nearly none existent as most are in very visible spots.
 
Big Owl said:
We have "spirit" rocks in front of most schools around here and they work well. You'll see them painted for school events and birthdays. There are people that pay professionals to paint them on their behalf. Inappropriate messages are nearly none existent as most are in very visible spots.
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Occasionally I'll see a "spirit rock" in front of a school up here but they are nowhere near as common as they were back in the '80s and '90s. My high school was on a small bay of water on the Great Lakes and named for that bay and the city had a history in shipping and logging so instead of a rock to paint, we had a giant ship's anchor. Shortly after I graduated the district opened a shiny new high school outside of downtown and a bit further off of the lake but they made sure the keep the anchor and move it to and I'm happy to see that it still gets painted pretty frequently. It's been going on since well before my oldest siblings were students there in the early '80s. I have to imagine the anchor is now 2 tons of iron and another ton of Dutch Boy.
 
I'd never seen a 'spirit rock' until I moved up here. We had a little (4' tall-ish) statue of our mascot - The Spartans - in the center courtyard. It had paint colors from our rivals poured over it, was stolen once & found in a ditch a few miles away.

Of course WE never did anything like that :cool:. I do remember one incident where one of the horns on another school's viking statue's helmet went missing & our school got blamed.
 
I had a doctor's appointment at 2:30. I knew it was going to be an in-and-out, nice quick follow-up for another shot of cortisone and I wasn't planning to be gone long. I Left my house at 2:02 p.m., arrived at the doctor's office at 2:11, was on the table by 2:15, and out the door and in my Jeep headed home at 2:32 and made it back to my desk by 2:42 p.m.

I wasn't even gone long enough for my screensaver to pop-up!
 
jumbach said:
Yes, which was the cause of a rather funny prank I played on my wife from the other room. She'd turn the TV on, and I'd switch it to golf. Then she'd switch it back, and I'd put it back to golf. After the third time, she yelled at me that something is wrong with the TV.

I fessed up and admitted that it was only funny once and I won't do it again. And I haven't.

Jim
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My husband listens to the tv on volume 900 which is super annoying. I have been know to turn the tv off using the phone app. I don’t watch much tv. He mentioned that the backlight was starting to go and I was like cool 😆
 
I said "you're so next!" to a 30 something co-worker and he didn't get the bugs bunny reference to the barber of Seville and I had to send it to him and now I'm a little depressed lol but he liked it and wished his kids were watching that instead so I guess that's something

 
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I said "you're so next!" to a 30 something co-worker and he didn't get the bugs bunny reference to the barber of Seville and I had to send it to him and now I'm a little depressed lol but he liked it and wished his kids were watching that instead so I guess that's something

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It's an encouraging sign when one needs to send Looney Tune clips to help convey understanding of what one is talking about. :epic:
 
A group of us talking about a new place & a younger employee asked "Where's it at?" I answered "2 turntables & a microphone" - he just stared at me. The other couple people just started snickering.




I know that wasn't the exact phrase from the song that he used but it was so close, I had to do it.
 
Hold on a minute, are we talking about reapportionment or reallocation here?
 
Yeah, but are we really talking about redirecting as opposed to revectoring?
 
Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. Unfortunately, those who DO study history are forced to stand by as the idiots who didn't study history ignore them and end up repeating it anyways.
 
For a while I've referred to anywhere I can drive within about 14 minutes as being "One Frampton" away - named for the length of Peter Frampton's Do You Feel Like We Do from Frampton Comes Alive. Last night my daughter needed to go to the library for something after dinner so we got in the Jeep and Do You Feel Like We Do happened to be playing. We had already missed the first few minutes but it's not a long drive to the library and I knew we'd get there well before it ended, but she asked to turn on her Broadway Musicals channel. I told her we could listen to her stuff when my song ended. :rofl:

As we pulled into the parking lot and she could tell the song was nowhere near ending, I explained to her the concept of "A Frampton" and she was intrigued.

This morning we were getting into the Jeep at 7:27 a.m. to take her to jazz band before school and she said, "Dad, we're gonna be late. Jazz starts at 7:30 but we're at least half a Frampton away!" Yes, I was the one who was making us late this time, but I'll count her un-prompted use of "A Frampton" as a definite win!
 
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Vocabulary for the day -
Catadromous Fish - live in fresh water rivers & estuaries but spawn in the ocean.
Anadromous Fish - live in the ocean but spawn in rivers
 
JNA said:
Vocabulary for the day -
Catadromous Fish - live in fresh water rivers & estuaries but spawn in the ocean.
Anadromous Fish - live in the ocean but spawn in rivers
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I am against BOTH kinds. River fish should stay river fish, and ocean fish stay ocean fish - you know, the way God made them. I don't accept trans-fishy-ism! Are we just going to let a river fish SAY it's an ocean fish one day, and then use ocean-fish restrooms? Think about the....the...the baby fish, whatever they're called!!!!
 
ursus said:
I am against BOTH kinds. River fish should stay river fish, and ocean fish stay ocean fish - you know, the way God made them. I don't accept trans-fishy-ism! Are we just going to let a river fish SAY it's an ocean fish one day, and then use ocean-fish restrooms? Think about the....the...the baby fish, whatever they're called!!!!
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Fry, the word you're looking for is fry.
 
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