Wifey and I have been doing this with store names for decades.
Ancient Armada
Grab 'Er Booty 'n Pinch
Dangerous Way
Big Exclamation Point Lots
Ten Bit Tree
Slackson's
Sneer's
Bed Bath and Be Odd
Albarfson's
Home Repo
etc.
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RTDNTOTO 🐻 Random Thoughts Deserving No Thread Of Their Own 19 (2024)
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Ancient Armada
Grab 'Er Booty 'n Pinch
Dangerous Way
Big Exclamation Point Lots
Ten Bit Tree
Slackson's
Sneer's
Bed Bath and Be Odd
Albarfson's
Home Repo
etc.
My father was an atheist, and did not believe in the "afterlife" per se, but he did say that his belief was that when you die, you get to go through your life and change ONE decision, any decision, at any time in your life, big or small. Anything from what shirt you wear in a given day to who you marry to what job you take, or even walking down this block vs that block on a random day. Then, you get to relive your life from that spot, in an alternate universe, and see how it plays out. This continues for all eternity.
Jim
Restaurant eavesdropping. I think the people at the table beside me are on a date. The conversation is superficial. Plus the woman mentioned her first marriage, the way she said it, I think there are more!
I wanted to refer to them as old people, but I have to be careful with that now.
I wanted to refer to them as old people, but I have to be careful with that now.
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I consider myself an Agnostic and who knows whats out there, but that would be great. I would go back to 2014 and not leave Montreal after finishing my Bacc.
Unrelated, here is my Volvo 240 year tier list:
1. 1993 - squirter block, r134 later style Delco derived AC, LH3.1 (most fuel efficient engine management system Volvo offered on the 200 series) across the board for manuals, upgraded main harness that's not biodegradable, AW71s (beefier automatic, better for tuning) in some models that were auto like the SE spec and some of the limitit edition /1600 in North American market "240 classics". Also the upgraded 13mm connecting rods.
2. 1990 - 92. Same reasons minus squirter block and r134a.
3. 1989. My personal favorite year and what I hope my next wagon is. First year of LH2.4 and diagnostic readout but last year of full chrome and roll down windows on DL spec. If I found one with a dead B230f, I'd probably rebuild to have the squirter and fatter rods for eventual turbo addition.
4. 1985 - last year of "phase II" style extérieur with quad sealed-beam headlamps and last year for B21FT turbo setup. Naturally aspirated Manual models got the first year for Bosch LH 2.2 with Chrysler ignition box. Second to last year of the M46 (4 speed plus overdrive, Volvo's best gearbox) as standard on naturally aspirated models
5. 1981-84: 242 (coupe) Turbos were offered these years. 1988 shares billing for #5 because it was first year for full body panel galvanization and first for non-heatsoak prone upgraded main engine wiring harness.
6. 1986-87. LH2.2 with the heatsoak harness issues and pre galvanized. I used to be OBSESSED with finding an 87 because year of the X edition Swatch and the first one I ever drove was an 87, now I prefer 89.
7. 1975-80: finnicky K-Jetronic engine management across the board on US models, tend to be more rust prone, harder to find, rarer interior bits, M45 non overdrive 4 speed on naturally aspirated manuals, better off getting one from Europe that's carbed in those years, although aesthetically they are gorgeous Rod Stuart/Paul McCartney & Wingswagons
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This sounds terrifying.
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Manufacturing.
ursus
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Scene: @mendelman's office, late in the day. We see our main character hands on hips, facing away from his desk looking out at the office....
Action: he begins to trash his notes as they lie on his desk, unable or unwilling to defend themselves. He is merciless. He is the relentless arrival of their obsolescence...
Mend - (with disgust barely disguised): "You...you lie there. No, no - don't get up" (he turns toward the desk slowly) "It's not like you're needed around here..." (Looking past the desk, two steps left - mark - turn to camera, back right to desk) "Sure the admin had an emergency at home and has been gone since three. Ha! And the junior planners turned in slop this morning that I still haven't corrected...but you." (Shakes head in disbelief) "You ripened and fell from the tree and were already a road apple when - you- fell." (hisses) "I can't even look at you. You're nothing to me now. You're garbage - no - you're less than that. You're FAKE RECYCLING!" (shaking his head, back to the front of the desk - mark - "I don't want to watch you beg, so just know that I'll be gone before the cleaning staff takes you. I wash my hands of you. And this has nothing to do with my high school girlfriend. You should take that back, pig!" Two steps toward the glass door, turns head back over shoulder toward desk - mark - "No. You don't get a goodbye. Not from me."
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I had one of those Columbia jackets in 1994 or so. Bright 90s colors. Criterion I believe was mine; name on the outside of the back collar and similar to below. Never wore it together. Was just too damn hot. MIne did not have the fleece liner but a down substitute fill that made it very puffy - think George Costanza if you recall Seinfeld.
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Going to the bathroom in this building is impossible. 2nd floor is very public so no one uses that one they all go the 3rd floor where I'm at. Full house, 4th floor, cleaning, 5th floor, cleaning. I'm just going to start taking the elevator to random floors above the 6th.
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While driving home from the gym early this morning I got passed on my residential street by some idiot kid on his way to school. I followed at a safe distance and watched him quickly roll through two stop signs AND pass two other cars WHILE TURNING in an intersection and then he turned into the parking lot of one of the private high schools next to my neighborhood. This was around 7:40 AM when my daughter was walking down our street to her high school and a neighbor girl was walking the other way to her high school and there are a bunch of other kids out walking or riding their bikes to school or waiting for the bus to the public middle school.
I was livid.
I wanted to follow the kid into the parking lot but might have tried to pull him out of his car and beat his a55 so I went home and had my coffee and did a little work and then walked over to the school, talked to one of the Deans who was also in charge of safety and who happened to be outside, got pictures of the car in question, and went full Karen-mode and sent a more calm email to the administration of the high school school, the principal of the elementary they share a parking lot with, the head of the associated church diocese, the township PD and the PD for the neighboring city (a block away) and the police officer from another neighboring city who is a school resource officer at that campus, and to the head of our HOA (because why not?).
Within about 15 minutes I had a phone call from the school resource officer and an email from one of the deans at the high school and the student had had his driving privileges revoked for the rest of the calendar year.
He ruined my morning and put me in a bad mood so it felt good to ruin his day, week, month...
I was livid.
I wanted to follow the kid into the parking lot but might have tried to pull him out of his car and beat his a55 so I went home and had my coffee and did a little work and then walked over to the school, talked to one of the Deans who was also in charge of safety and who happened to be outside, got pictures of the car in question, and went full Karen-mode and sent a more calm email to the administration of the high school school, the principal of the elementary they share a parking lot with, the head of the associated church diocese, the township PD and the PD for the neighboring city (a block away) and the police officer from another neighboring city who is a school resource officer at that campus, and to the head of our HOA (because why not?).
Within about 15 minutes I had a phone call from the school resource officer and an email from one of the deans at the high school and the student had had his driving privileges revoked for the rest of the calendar year.
He ruined my morning and put me in a bad mood so it felt good to ruin his day, week, month...
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Of course they do. Part of the struggle is that the cleaning crew is constantly cleaning them. It's either that or they just go in there and take a nap for an hour or two.
Heh. I am in the same boat. I work on 2, which has the only public bathroom in the building so it gets gross. Sometimes I go to the basement to whiz, but it's dark and scary down there. Usually I go to 6 for pees.
I prefer 7, where the break room is, for the, uh, longer visits, since it is a one-seater and has a nice view of the plaza and skyline.
12, for some odd reason, has a shower stall, but I've never seen an evidence of it being used.
4--where I don't ever really need to go--has the mens' and womens' rooms reversed, for some unknown reason. (On all other floors, men on the left, women on the right.)
Can't wait for them to finish remodeling 14 and 16 so I can see what those will look like. They've been off-limits since I started 2 1/2 years ago.
Jim
"We aim to please, so please aim too!"
Jim
That's alarming behavior, but I am surprised the school would have any authority over what he does when not on campus.
I hope he enjoys his walk to school.
Jim
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I don't have the nerve to do this, but I've heard of guys introducing their spouse as, "This is my first wife,..."
No, you should really try good looking, at least once.
I smell an odor from my neighbor's house every time I walk by. I wonder if he's breeding skunks or something....
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We have a plant near our house that has a distinctive odor: the odor of death. It's Big Cheese Rodent Factory, a provider of feed mice for people with snakes and such.
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In my first planning job the (recently) former mayor was named Frush. City Hall is an old building with large tiles on the wall, those giant urinals and the whole bit. In script on the tile above the urinals was written "FLUSH". But someone had managed to changed the "L" to an "R". I always thought that was funny. Another example of my childishness.
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I read an article that one of the top 3 reasons people prefer working at home is the whole bathroom thing - shared bathroom, people knowing how often you use the bathroom, people knowing how long you are in the bathroom - the whole number 2 stench - all of it - and now having a shared bathroom for a lot of people with our temporary city hall thing we have going, I get it - you have to walk by HR, no $hit, when you go to the bathroom and the kitchen
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It's a private school and part of their code of conduct requires good behavior in the community in general but also specifically calls out safe driving and good behavior in the neighborhood next to the school (I specifically pulled the passage from the code of conduct and student handbook, which is available online, when I contacted them).
FWIW, about 20 minutes ago I actually had a knock on the door from the school resource officer who works there and at the girl's high school. He came by to tell me that they get these complaints from the neighborhood on occasion and they take them seriously (the schools tie up traffic at a particular intersection every morning and afternoon and I think they try to mitigate that by at least being good neighbors). The police couldn't issue the kid a ticket but the school can definitely revoke on campus driving privileges. The kid got called out of class and had to hand over his parking pass and had to call his parents to come and take his car home for the day. Hopefully they had to come from 40 miles away. I also got a short emailed apology from the kid (CCing the group I had sent it to)
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in a previous town I worked in, there was a company that produced mice for sale to research labs and once a week, they had to kill the ones that couldn't be sold and burned them and yeah, those stacks were not high enough
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The one that I use has about 8-10 stalls and more importantly, privacy doors (no cracks to peer through), so I poop away while I'm at work.
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Well actually, I think that's why you're walking to the bathroom. Just an observation.
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Big Cheese has some kind of scrubber I think. You can't smell it unless you're within less than 100 feet from the building.
It's in a pocket of heavy industry just north of my neighborhood that I cut through on my bicycle since those streets are not heavily traveled. It always smelled like there as a dead animal in the dumpster or something, so I looked on google maps and found this.
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It was always "Little Skeezers" to us.
Also FWIW, back in the early '90s Little Caesar's piloted a sit-down version of their restaurants to compete with places like Pizza Hut. IIRC, there were exactly two that they built out: one in Westland or Garden City, MI (near the site of the first Little Caesar's) and another in Chesterfield, MI. One of my sisters, who worked at seemingly every fast food place in Chesterfield, got a job at the Little Caesar's when it opened and I remember going there a couple of times and the pizza was about 1,000x better than what you got at the carry out places - very similar to what you might get at a traditional Detroit-style pizza place like Buddy's or Louie's or Green Lantern or Cloverleaf. Unfortunately, the place closed town in pretty short order and Little Caesar's never expanded the concept. I think people were probably so accustomed to being able to get two crappy pizzas for cheap and didn't want to spend a few extra bucks for pizza from a place known for the cheap stuff.
Also, I was trying to explain "Pizza! Pizza!" to my kids a couple weeks ago and how Little Caesar's would give you your pizza in a giant paper bag with a cardboard bottom but they just couldn't comprehend that. Anybody else remember these?
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City Hall is being renovated. At the present time there are two 1-person single sex restrooms and the Mayor's restroom plus a porta-john outside. There are about 30 people who work in the building and I've heard its becoming an issue for people. I don't think anyone from the building has used the porta john, but it apparently gets some usage on the weekends and by delivery people.
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Of course. It was one of the ways they kept costs down.
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I made a really good tofu stir fry for dinner tonight. The sauce came out really well. Unfortunately I never follow a recipe for the sauce so I can never duplicate it. Womp womp.
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I kid you not, I was just telling my 21-year old about the cardboard/bag over the weekend.
I remember! I also remember the white chocolate ravioli.
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These things don't bother me that much. It's my old nemesis, the stairs.
You would think I work for the fire department with all the fire's I'm putting out today. Gonna start a DVD calendar with me in all kinds of poses either putting out or ignoring fires.
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When we lived in Detroit, Little Caesars was one of our go-to pizza places. I though the quality of their takeout was pretty good, especially at the price point.
About 10 years ? ago, they moved into Texas. They are really, really bad here. It's like school cafeteria pizza.
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Once a Marine, always a Marine!
It should be noted that [stock non turbo] Volvo 240s cant go fast enough to pass anybody. Volvo: Drive Safely!
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