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

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Thank you for the voice mail you left this morning.
Thank you for the follow up email you sent this morning.
Thank you for the follow up voice mail to confirm I received your email & first voicemail.
TAKE THE HINT I wasn't at my desk this morning!!!
 
The Terminator said:
Have not had a Cig since February. I have gotten to the point where it feels more abnormal and gross than it used to be. When the thought crossed my mind last week during finals to buy a pack, my body told me "nah F that" and I stayed true.

When I hand in my second to last final ever tomorrow, I will go and get myself a nice Cigar. Maybe a La Flor Dominicana Ligero (the double ligero is too much for me) or a Perdomo champaigne. @DVD got any recommendations? Ive been out of the game for a minute and like medium bodied, earthy tasting sticks from Nicaragua/Honduras.
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Go with a Pardon Anniversario. I like the 1964. If someone has it the Guy Fieri Knuckle Sandwich is a great cigar. I also like anything from My Father.
 
Caller: Hey, I left your staff a voicemail about maybe trees to be planted on my street?
Me: He's out of the office today, but I can answer some general questions.
Caller: Great! So it appears they plan to plant some trees in front of my house, but not my neighbors' houses. There's these little flags everywhere. And there's already a big tree. And a sewer line. And nobody ever told me about this - I didn't get any notice. We already have sewer problems, don't need tree roots messing it up more.
Me: I do know we received a generous grant from the state to enhance our urban forest, but I'm not deeply involved in the details. My staff will be back in tomorrow and will call you with more information than I can give you.
Caller: I don't want no stinkin' tree in front of my house.
Me: I'll be sure to share that with my staff.

Hoo boy.
 
Planit said:
Thank you for the voice mail you left this morning.
Thank you for the follow up email you sent this morning.
Thank you for the follow up voice mail to confirm I received your email & first voicemail.
TAKE THE HINT I wasn't at my desk this morning!!!
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Grr, that annoys me. One message is sufficient.
 
Planit said:
Thank you for the voice mail you left this morning.
Thank you for the follow up email you sent this morning.
Thank you for the follow up voice mail to confirm I received your email & first voicemail.
TAKE THE HINT I wasn't at my desk this morning!!!
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I know who that is. 😉
 

Girl I want you here with me
But I'm really not as cool as I'd like to be
Cause there's a man under my bed
And a little yellow man in my head
 
Maister said:

Girl I want you here with me
But I'm really not as cool as I'd like to be
Cause there's a man under my bed
And a little yellow man in my head
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In college I saw Ray Davies at a storytellers music event and it was really interesting to hear about his musical journey and his songs.
 
I was at this carnival, just a few years ago
No big deal, Ferris wheel, the same ol' stuff you know
And I wandered around the grounds until I found this little tent
Man outside made a speech and this is how it went
"She walks, she talks, she crawls just like a reptile"
It was the same ol' line, except for one part
He said "It don't cost no money, you gotta pay with your heart"
 
dandy_warhol said:
A long, long, time ago, in a galaxy far far away, I went on a road trip with my then boyfriend and his brother and we saw Ray Davies in concert. It was interesting.

The end.
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I was hoping that 'tell' might fall more along the lines of recounting an anecdote about perhaps writing one of his better known songs. :r:
 
I may be instigating a fight here but I don't get crunchy peanut butter - the whole point of peanut butter is the word butter - just eat some peanuts if you want something crunchy - stoppit

aaaaaahhhhh
 
dandy_warhol said:
He told us about the songs he wrote.
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stop it big brother GIF by Bellator
 
luckless pedestrian said:
I may be instigating a fight here but I don't get crunchy peanut butter - the whole point of peanut butter is the word butter - just eat some peanuts if you want something crunchy - stoppit

aaaaaahhhhh
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No, the point is peanut!

network av avsg GIF by Crestron
 
Maister said:
Sometimes full moons are like the eye of a hurricane and the days preceding them or following are the crazy ones.
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luckless pedestrian said:
I may be instigating a fight here but I don't get crunchy peanut butter - the whole point of peanut butter is the word butter - just eat some peanuts if you want something crunchy - stoppit

aaaaaahhhhh
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I don't...I mean I can't...It's just...OK lookit: it's good. It just is. You don't have to buy it. You don't have to eat it. You don't even have to respect it. It's like so, so many inappropriate and unnecessary things in the world that way. Just know that there are people out there, buying peanut butter in both creamy and crunchy varieties, putting it on their waffles, and digging it.

Now lip balm AND lip gloss? Not necessary. But I like em both to be on my Coke straw when I'm drinking bc it means my fine, fine companion is still cool with my germs.

I have ADD. And probably other things.
 
Sounds like someone is angling for a Ray Davies appreciation thread split.
 
dandy_warhol said:
Jack Palance once ran from me at an airport in Albuquerque.
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Are you asking AI to say random shiz for you now, just to help @Maister get this to 3000 before afternoon break? Don't tease me with Albuquerque and I don't think Jack Palance could run when you were old enough to be in an Airport in New Mexico!!
 
ursus said:
Are you asking AI to say random shiz for you now, just to help @Maister get this to 3000 before afternoon break? Don't tease me with Albuquerque and I don't think Jack Palance could run when you were old enough to be in an Airport in New Mexico!!
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Unfortunately, I gotta meeting in 10 seconds. Bye
 
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ursus said:
Are you asking AI to say random shiz for you now, just to help @Maister get this to 3000 before afternoon break? Don't tease me with Albuquerque and I don't think Jack Palance could run when you were old enough to be in an Airport in New Mexico!!
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AI ain't got nothin on my randomness. Ok, Jack Palance threw a shoe at me at an airport in Albuquerque.
 
dandy_warhol said:
AI ain't got nothin on my randomness. Ok, Jack Palance threw a shoe at me at an airport in Albuquerque.
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What kind of shoes does Jack Palance throw? His shoes, or did he push down a rando, take their shoe and throw it at you? Is this some sort of meta "believe it....or not?" thing you're doing to me now?!
 
We were in a work group meeting yesterday and a woman in our group mentioned she was going to a concert that evening. SOmebody asked who she was going to see and she said, The Decemberists and most of the folks in our group just smiled and nodded because at 45, I'm one of the youngest, besides the woman going to the concert and another woman in the group. Somebody else piped up with, "Yeah, none of us know who that is" and I replied that I had seemed them just a few years earlier at the same theatre.

I got back to my desk where I've got a stack of old ticket stubs and actually found the one from that concert but I was off in my estimate by about a doze years. I took a photo and sent it to the work group to prove that I used to be cool. And then she replied by simply saying, "I was in the 4th grade."

Ouch!

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ursus said:
Are you asking AI to say random shiz for you now, just to help @Maister get this to 3000 before afternoon break? Don't tease me with Albuquerque and I don't think Jack Palance could run when you were old enough to be in an Airport in New Mexico!!
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He did one armed push-ups at the Oscars in 1992. If she says he ran, he ran.
 
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