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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 20, 2015 18:34:39 GMT -5
The summer I was a waiter at a country club near Princeton, NJ, we had a couple of members whose usual drink order was "Beefeater and tonic". Then one day they were reading liquor bottle labels and discovered that Beefeater was 86 proof and Tanqueray was 86.8 proof. From that day forward, their order was "Tanqueray and tonic", which they soon abbreviated to "Tanq & ton". They didn't want to miss out on .8 proof's worth of alcohol.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2015 18:42:45 GMT -5
Trying to fight a craving for Kemps Chocolate Marshmallow ice-cream.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 20, 2015 19:41:21 GMT -5
Drinking a Shandy. Had to break out my Dad's drill to help the younger son finish up some 4-H stuff before fair.
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Post by Gene on Jul 20, 2015 20:48:06 GMT -5
Watching the Pittsburgh-KC game and hoping the Pirates don't fart all over this series like they did in Milwaukee.
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Post by dupersuper on Jul 21, 2015 0:30:11 GMT -5
watching Jeopardy
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2015 0:46:39 GMT -5
Watching an old JAG rerun that I've never seen before. Pretty cool.
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Post by The Captain on Jul 26, 2015 7:58:33 GMT -5
Drinking a cup of coffee at the kitchen table and checking in with you folks before heading out to worship service.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 26, 2015 8:25:02 GMT -5
Grocery shopping. There is one advantage to living in the Bible Belt... No ones at the store now, they're all at church.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2015 15:29:00 GMT -5
I bought a pink dress shirt because it was on clearance and I needed a dress shirt. Never thought I'd be that guy though. Oh well, it was $13  |
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Post by Gene on Jul 26, 2015 15:53:03 GMT -5
Plopped down on the couch in my boxers and updating grades for the online class I'm teaching.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 26, 2015 18:08:58 GMT -5
I'm trying to watch Yojimbo, which I kept on my decoder's hard drive a few months ago. Since then we switched from satellite to fiber optics, which means none of our old stuff can be watched unless we unwire everything and rewire it again the way it used to be, which also means we have to wait thirty minutes for the god damn machine to try and find a satellite signal it can no longer understand.
I swear, all these technological wonders were meant to make life easier, not make it a constant upgrading nightmare. For twenty years it was dead easy to tape a film on VHS and keep it forever, watching it whenever you wanted to. Why in tarnation isn't such a simple thing possible anymore? From VHS to DVD to blue-ray to pay-per-view to Streaming to god knows what they'll invent next week, we seem to be stuck in a never-ending chase for the next technology that still does nothing more than show us pixels on a screen and ask for ever more money.
Oh, I did check if it was available on Youtube... but all you'll find there is the same scam where a "movie" with exactly 301 views is just trying to get some info out of you. I'm not made for this modern world!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2015 18:49:53 GMT -5
I'm trying to watch Yojimbo, which I kept on my decoder's hard drive a few months ago. Since then we switched from satellite to fiber optics, which means none of our old stuff can be watched unless we unwire everything and rewire it again the way it used to be, which also means we have to wait thirty minutes for the god damn machine to try and find a satellite signal it can no longer understand. I swear, all these technological wonders were meant to make life easier, not make it a constant upgrading nightmare. For twenty years it was dead easy to tape a film on VHS and keep it forever, watching it whenever you wanted to. Why in tarnation isn't such a simple thing possible anymore? From VHS to DVD to blue-ray to pay-per-view to Streaming to god knows what they'll invent next week, we seem to be stuck in a never-ending chase for the next technology that still does nothing more than show us pixels on a screen and ask for ever more money. Oh, I did check if it was available on Youtube... but all you'll find there is the same scam where a "movie" with exactly 301 views is just trying to get some info out of you. I'm not made for this modern world!!! It's ok, take a deep breath and yell at someone to get off of your lawn, you'll feel better afterwards!  -M |
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Post by batlaw on Jul 26, 2015 20:10:33 GMT -5
Picking up Chilis to go... Taking forever!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 27, 2015 4:47:35 GMT -5
I'm trying to watch Yojimbo, which I kept on my decoder's hard drive a few months ago. Since then we switched from satellite to fiber optics, which means none of our old stuff can be watched unless we unwire everything and rewire it again the way it used to be, which also means we have to wait thirty minutes for the god damn machine to try and find a satellite signal it can no longer understand. I swear, all these technological wonders were meant to make life easier, not make it a constant upgrading nightmare. For twenty years it was dead easy to tape a film on VHS and keep it forever, watching it whenever you wanted to. Why in tarnation isn't such a simple thing possible anymore? From VHS to DVD to blue-ray to pay-per-view to Streaming to god knows what they'll invent next week, we seem to be stuck in a never-ending chase for the next technology that still does nothing more than show us pixels on a screen and ask for ever more money. Oh, I did check if it was available on Youtube... but all you'll find there is the same scam where a "movie" with exactly 301 views is just trying to get some info out of you. I'm not made for this modern world!!! It's ok, take a deep breath and yell at someone to get off of your lawn, you'll feel better afterwards! I'll go recover my old Viewmaster from storage! |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 28, 2015 18:27:19 GMT -5
I just put the groceries in the truck and noticed the car next to me has a sticker on it that says .... I :heart: my rotten ungrateful children ... What a country. Not only was that sticker made it was apparently bought by at least one person. Ugh.
Edit: And while typing that the owners put their stuff in the car and pulled away leaving their shopping cart and the motorized cart for the handicapped there in the parking lot. Imagine rotten ungrateful people raising rotten ungrateful children!
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