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RTDNTOTO 🐻 Random Thoughts Deserving No Thread Of Their Own 20 (2025)

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Speaking of Raptures, my MIL used to work with a guy that sold furniture with her that belonged to one of those fringe Christian....cults? sects? groups, maybe? that believed in revealed prophecy, and their leader predicted that on such and such a day (I think this was in the early 90s), the Rapture would occur. I understand this guy used to act pretty smug on occasion about it too. Say things like "come October 12th (or whatever the Chosen Day was) I won't have to bother following that corporate policy anymore." In the days leading up to the Rapture he gave away a bunch of stuff he owned to fellow employees. He didn't show up for work on October 12th....or the next day....or the next...eventually, he did return hat in hand like a week later to ask if he still had a job. Mangement mercifully took pity on him and let him keep his job, but some of the employees were merciless afterwards. I recall going into the store and hearing one of the security people saying to the guy something like, "Okay, Bob, we gotta close an hour later tonight because of holiday hours.....that is unless maybe the world ends before 10:30 pm." :ha:
 
Maister said:
The other day I was going to send a telegram to Uncle Charlie, but on the way to the Western Union office I drove past a television repair shop and realized I forget to get the tv fixed this week like I intended. Hopefully, the repair man can do a house call instead.
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I bet uncle charlie follows multiple pro-trump/anti-vax channels on the Telegram app, yes.
 
One of my favorite things to do is meet with students asking questions about city, development & environmental functions.
 
I would prefer the world to end in the morning so I don't have to deal with a day of work.
 
bureaucrat#3 said:
Did you ascend? Hello? Hello? Am I the only one left?
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The day is still early.

Unrelated, the "Well, this is the way we have always done it!" culture in some of the other departments is mind boggling. I was copied on something yesterday that was a standardized catch all form that just didn't make sense. They amended it and sent a minor revision, but still...
 
DVD said:
I would prefer the world to end in the morning so I don't have to deal with a day of work.
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The earlier in the week the better. If I had to specify my ideal day and time of the end of the world, it would be 7:45 am on a non-holiday Monday. Early enough that I hadn't started work and late enough that I am awake, ate breakfast, showered, and dressed.
 
Big Owl said:
The earlier in the week the better. If I had to specify my ideal day and time of the end of the world, it would be 7:45 am on a non-holiday Monday. Early enough that I hadn't started work and late enough that I am awake, ate breakfast, showered, and dressed.
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Yes, 7:45 is a good time, but that would have to be Arizona time, not eastern to make sure I'm up. So unless god deals in time zones you're going to have to work a little to allow for all the west coast people.
 
There's a guy that works at the county library next door that comes into city hall every day to poop.

Not that I care, since we are a public building and I don't use the facilities out front anyway (we have our own bathroom in the back for employees), but I wonder why he doesn't just use the one at the library. They have a restroom in there. It's as nice as ours.

Oh well.

Jim
 
arcplans said:
Naw.. Didn't get to this time, so I am stuck here.
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You know, I would just wait until the next Rapture. They're not exactly scheduled regularly, but usually it takes humanity a good several millennia afterwards to become sufficiently wicked enough to warrant another flood, or Rapture or whatever.
 
DVD said:
Yes, 7:45 is a good time, but that would have to be Arizona time, not eastern to make sure I'm up. So unless god deals in time zones you're going to have to work a little to allow for all the west coast people.
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What's the earliest that would be good for you? While it would not be ideal, I'd be okay up until 10 am est.
 
Big Owl said:
What's the earliest that would be good for you? While it would not be ideal, I'd be okay up until 10 am est.
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Can we schedule the rapture for 10 am est? That works great for me and I think god would appreciate the sacrifice all the east coast people are making by going a little later.
 
DVD said:
Can we schedule the rapture for 10 am est? That works great for me and I think god would appreciate the sacrifice all the east coast people are making by going a little later.
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I'm not sure about this. I mean why EST? what about places that observe daylight time. Most states do you know. It just seems the Almighty would extend the common courtesy of observing daylight saving time if the Rapture is going to occur during the summer months. I mean standard time is fine for an Apocalypse any time between 'fall back and spring forward' but otherwise I'd expect daylight savings hours for this sorta thing. I mean imagine you're sitting on the front porch one morning in August and news says the Rapture is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. and then 9:01 rolls around and everyone is like WTF?! Oh yeah, we gotta wait around in dread for a whole extra hour for this to go down. Poor planning if you ask me.
 
No guys - there’s a phased rapture implementation strategy. It’s sequenced with the times zones so there won’t be a single mad rush at the Pearly Gates.

At least that’s what the homeless guy on the corner told me.
 
Planit said:
No guys - there’s a phased rapture implementation strategy. It’s sequenced with the times zones so there won’t be a single mad rush at the Pearly Gates.

At least that’s what the homeless guy on the corner told me.
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Maybe because it's a scheduled Event, they'll have additional gates set up temporarily and maybe some temp angels assigned to help St. Peter to process the large influx of souls scheduled that day. I'm sure they've already got warehouses chock full of standard issue wings, harps, and white robes.
 
That’s possible & will need the additional stock in the warehouse.

It’s His plan. Public meetings are mostly on Sundays with additional informational events during the week.
 
What I'm hearing is that we need to do this on Arizona time because we don't do daylight savings. Then everyone can adjust to that.

The only thing the homeless guy said to me was @%$ing Bic! as he smashed his lighter on a lamp post. I had to agree. Bic has let me down several times.
 
Maister said:
Maybe because it's a scheduled Event, they'll have additional gates set up temporarily and maybe some temp angels assigned to help St. Peter to process the large influx of souls scheduled that day. I'm sure they've already got warehouses chock full of standard issue wings, harps, and white robes.
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Too many people using the network, so their internet went down when they were trying to scan people in. Shoulda put a requisition in for FirstNetTM
 
Deleted the offending posting & reported those that copied/quoted it. Good enough act of contrition ?
 
JNA said:
Deleted the offending posting & reported those that copied/quoted it. Good enough act of contrition ?
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I can post in between your posts to assure you don't get yelled at. As a professional post padder, who likes to skirt the rules, I will help outlaws where ever possible! ;)
 
The new city for whom I am working puts on a rock festival every year. This year's event starts tomorrow. All hands and all staff work this event and it is pretty big. What is Z doing? Well, I parked my travel trailer on the fairway of the golf course yesterday and I will be on transport, driving bands to and from the airport and hotel.

My son is working too, his first job.

Definitely the most interesting "other duties as assigned" job
 
Planit said:
No guys - there’s a phased rapture implementation strategy. It’s sequenced with the times zones so there won’t be a single mad rush at the Pearly Gates.

At least that’s what the homeless guy on the corner told me.
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There would likely need to be a quota by time zone as the eastern time zone is the most populated in the US and the mountain time zone is the least populated in the continental us. Of course China has 1 time zone so that's 1.7 billion people there.

Maybe the Chick-fil-A drive through gurus will be assisting with the processing so it moves as quick as possible.
 
jumbach said:
There's a guy that works at the county library next door that comes into city hall every day to poop.

Not that I care, since we are a public building and I don't use the facilities out front anyway (we have our own bathroom in the back for employees), but I wonder why he doesn't just use the one at the library. They have a restroom in there. It's as nice as ours.

Oh well.

Jim
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Our old office was very close to a UPS hub and the post office distribution center. Their drivers and the transit drivers would all come to our building to conduct their business while out on routes. When we changed buildings we put the public bathrooms behind the first set of access controlled doors and this seems to have freed up the bathroom quite a bit.

You don't poop where you work.
 
Maister said:
You know, I would just wait until the next Rapture. They're not exactly scheduled regularly, but usually it takes humanity a good several millennia afterwards to become sufficiently wicked enough to warrant another flood, or Rapture or whatever.
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I don't know why you're so interested in the Rapture. Don't you know they're going to put you on duty? We all know that if you :music: ever look on Heaven's scenes, (you) will find the streets are guarded by United States Marines! :music:
 
And when he gets to heaven, to Saint Peter he will tell; One more Marine reporting, sir. I've served my time in Hell.
 
bureaucrat#3 said:
Our old office was very close to a UPS hub and the post office distribution center. Their drivers and the transit drivers would all come to our building to conduct their business while out on routes. When we changed buildings we put the public bathrooms behind the first set of access controlled doors and this seems to have freed up the bathroom quite a bit.

You don't poop where you work.
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I’ve never thought about it. If I have to poop, I poop.
 
DVD said:
So what you're telling me is that the Marine Corp is a work around to being Christian.
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If the Marines Hymn is to be believed, then yes. What WSU so adroitly omitted (no doubt for fear of offending you) were the hymn's preceding words, "If the Army and the Navy ever look on Heaven's scenes, they will find the streets are guarded by United States Marines..." So I guess you squids don't get a free pass, huh?
 
This week is the 40th anniversary of the Lyonesse Philospher's Guild's recordbreaking sellout concert in the old Wembley Stadium, where a group of over 50,000 progressive rock fans gathered to hear the band perform hits from their second album (which actually comprised five LP discs), Beyond Bishop Rock.

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Their hairstyles were ahead of their time.

Opening for The Guild was Philharmonia Londinium, with a performance of their UK top ten hit Hammersmith (24:21).

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Maister said:
If the Marines Hymn is to be believed, then yes. What WSU so adroitly omitted (no doubt for fear of offending you) were the hymn's preceding words, "If the Army and the Navy ever look on Heaven's scenes, they will find the streets are guarded by United States Marines..." So I guess you squids don't get a free pass, huh?
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No free pass, but we also don't have to stand watch when we get there. Have fun with that.
 
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