Official BBO Hijacked Thread Thread No, it's not about that
#2221
Posted 2011-October-21, 13:59
Curling season requires this thread to get back on top.
What is baby oil made of?
#2222
Posted 2011-October-21, 17:57
#2223
Posted 2011-October-22, 01:06
Aberlour10, on 2011-September-11, 03:45, said:
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!
#2224
Posted 2011-October-26, 13:29
#2225
Posted 2011-October-26, 14:57
Aberlour10, on 2011-October-26, 13:29, said:
Thanks for this, I am watching it. I started life with Hank Williams and Frank Sinatra, I managed the transition (with help from the kids) to Janis Joplin and the Dead but I am definitely falling behind. Way behind.
The wheels just keep on turning, so he says.
#2226
Posted 2011-November-06, 18:45
#2227
Posted 2011-November-06, 19:11
Aberlour10, on 2011-September-11, 03:45, said:
Reminds me of being the most nervous I've ever been at the bridge table.
I was 16, playing the final of the under 19 schools event which used to coincide with an adult congress at that time played at a very plush London hotel. I was also a very keen cricketer. An older gentleman of Caribbean extraction sat down to watch, and it became apparent that this was the legend of West Indies cricket Everton Weekes who I knew at the time was a serious bridge player.
He was charming, but it didn't stop me feeling nervous.
#2228
Posted 2011-November-12, 06:35
Mind wanders.
Question:
Is there any place in the U.S., or elsewhere, that still has an afternoon paper delivered?
Reminiscing:
I delivered the St. Paul Pioneer Press in the morning and the St. Paul Dispatch in the afternoon. Lucrative enough to allow me to buy a car a little after my fifteenth birthday. Now there is one paper, adults deliver it, and they do a crappy job of it. It's almost 7:30 with no paper, I was finished by 5:30 or so.
#2229
Posted 2011-November-12, 06:51
kenberg, on 2011-November-12, 06:35, said:
Is there still a place in the US where a fifteen year old can drive a car by themselves?
Never tell the same lie twice. - Elim Garek on the real moral of "The boy who cried wolf"
#2230
Posted 2011-November-12, 07:01
BunnyGo, on 2011-November-12, 06:51, said:
Probably not. Adolescence is now thought to extend to age 30 or so.
But the paper has just arrived so my mood will now improve.
I have to read the op-ed page, else how can I know what I think?
#2231
Posted 2011-November-12, 07:42
Newspaper delivery is pretty good here in Arlington Virginia. The paper is usually on the doorstep by 5:30 AM.
#2232
Posted 2011-November-12, 08:24
y66, on 2011-November-12, 07:42, said:
You triggered a bunch of memories with that one!
The paper I delivered had a receipt book with little dated pre-printed tear-out receipts, one page of receipts per year per customer. We collected every week, and the carrier (me) couldn't go wrong using it. Nevertheless, one customer would often be away on collection day, and then insist the next that I had been paid the week before. I would have to wait while she rummaged around looking for the receipt that I could see was still in my book (and that I had shown her). After a while she'd be back grumbling that she'd misplaced it and would grudgingly pay for the missing week.
Another memory: This same customer had a covered, but unscreened front porch. She wanted the paper inserted inside the screen door for easy access and to make sure it did not blow away. I did that routinely. One stormy day her screen door was locked and no one answered the bell. So I lifted the mat and put the paper under it, sticking out part way.
Later that evening we were at dinner when the phone rang. My dad came back to the table and said, "Mrs. Gustafson says she didn't get her paper."
"Tell her to look under the mat."
"She says she looked there and there was no paper."
So my dad and I hop in the car (it was still very stormy) and he takes me to her place so I can replace the paper. When we get there, we can both see the paper still sticking out from the mat. My dad says, "Stay in the car, son, I'll take it from here."
On the other hand, I met some wonderful folks that I'd never have known otherwise. And I had some other adventures that will never, ever, see print...
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists — that is why they invented hell. — Bertrand Russell
#2233
Posted 2011-November-12, 12:19
PassedOut, on 2011-November-12, 08:24, said:
Heh. What was her name?
As for tv, screw it. You aren't missing anything. -- Ken Berg
I have come to realise it is futile to expect or hope a regular club game will be run in accordance with the laws. -- Jillybean
#2234
Posted 2011-November-12, 16:49
PassedOut, on 2011-November-12, 08:24, said:
If you ever change your mind, I have a good title for it >>>"When the Paperman Rings Twice" ;-)
#2235
Posted 2011-November-14, 16:30
I remember there was a 1 000 000 € question in the german tv edition of Who Wants to Be A Millionare. >>>> Which book does begin with sentence "Call me Ishmael"?
In the USA this would be surely a $ 3,00 question which knows every high school boy, but not in Europe hehehe... Anywy, the german dude in the show knew it and cashed the big bag.
#2236
Posted 2011-November-14, 16:45
As for tv, screw it. You aren't missing anything. -- Ken Berg
I have come to realise it is futile to expect or hope a regular club game will be run in accordance with the laws. -- Jillybean
#2237
Posted 2011-November-14, 19:12
#2238
Posted 2011-November-14, 19:57
As for tv, screw it. You aren't missing anything. -- Ken Berg
I have come to realise it is futile to expect or hope a regular club game will be run in accordance with the laws. -- Jillybean
#2239
Posted 2011-November-17, 12:31
George Carlin
#2240
Posted 2011-November-17, 20:58