Waldenbooks had the same policy when I worked there.
Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!
Xander ,'Chosen'
What Happens in Natter 35 Stays in Natter 35
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - May 04, 2005 9:43:47 am PDT #1280 of 10001
EpicTangent - May 04, 2005 9:44:42 am PDT #1281 of 10001
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
At least we got the district manager to agree to them being sent to a recycling plant instead of directly to the dumpster.
Jeez, I've been reading these all the book-stripping posts and thinking, "Well at least they're recycled." Man, am I naive.
shrift - May 04, 2005 9:48:19 am PDT #1282 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I am heading out for the post office now, and no doubt I shall be mumbling to myself about watery tarts and newts and banana-shaped Earths on the way there and back, which means even the bums will be giving me plenty of sidewalk space.
Connie Neil - May 04, 2005 9:49:54 am PDT #1283 of 10001
brillig
Hubby and I have held entire conversations about mundane matters entirely in Python quotes. Freaks out the people trying to figure out what we're saying.
Plus there's our personal code built from the fact that we're both punsters and familiar with words in lots of languages. ie: Burros=Thanks, because Danke Scheon (sp?) becomes Donkey Shins becomes Burro Knees becomes Burros.
(a friend of ours a few years ago started a dictionary, but then he moved away)
Calli - May 04, 2005 9:51:39 am PDT #1284 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
The phrase "watery tart" makes me think of an unfortunate baking incident.
I still love that scene. "Now you see the violence inherent in the system."
Theodosia - May 04, 2005 9:53:34 am PDT #1285 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Jeez, I've been reading these all the book-stripping posts and thinking, "Well at least they're recycled." Man, am I naive.
"People say they're recycling. t pause But they're not."
Allyson - May 04, 2005 9:53:54 am PDT #1286 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
My loveseat is here!!!!
I should go back to work, now. I should. But I want to clean my whole place from top to bottom and invite friends over to sit. I will make yummy snacks and say, "why don't you have a seat?"
Ruby is sleeping on it right now. We had a small argument about claws, and reached a consensus when I put her favorite blanket on a cushion.
This sort of arrangement has worked out well with the bed. She has her own pillow to shed all over.
Aims - May 04, 2005 9:58:27 am PDT #1287 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Allyson, to kind of condition her to NOT scratch it, try putting double sided tape on it. Also, friends of ours have put cat scratchers on the fronts and sides of the arms and then just take them down whenever people come over and the cat hides anyway.
sarameg - May 04, 2005 10:05:18 am PDT #1288 of 10001
Also? Extremely tacky, but aluminum foil over appealing scratch spots until they get the point works. Unless you have a cat who likes to eat foil....
Fred Pete - May 04, 2005 10:05:29 am PDT #1289 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Hubby and I have held entire conversations about mundane matters entirely in Python quotes. Freaks out the people trying to figure out what we're saying.
Plus there's our personal code built from the fact that we're both punsters and familiar with words in lots of languages. ie: Burros=Thanks, because Danke Scheon (sp?) becomes Donkey Shins becomes Burro Knees becomes Burros.
I have long called this sort of thing the Unconversation. Where the people talking understand each other perfectly, but nobody listening in will have a clue because of all the unspoken assumptions, inside references, etc.