There are no absolutes. No right and wrong. Haven't you learned anything working for the Powers? There are only choices.

Jasmine ,'Power Play'


The Crying of Natter 49  

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.


Sophia Brooks - Jan 09, 2007 8:32:03 am PST #1397 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Congrats, amych!

Speaking of laundrey, I once had people dumping my non-dry clothes out of the dryer while I was at the laundromat, and standing right there! People are craxy about dryers.

And I have some sort of bug in my stomach. I keep thinking I am better, but alas, I am not. And I want to go help my friend's sister-in-law do some work for her business (custom invitations), because she has a bog client and she is behind, but I am not sure if I am up for it after work, after eating almost nothing except saltines for 3 days.


shrift - Jan 09, 2007 8:34:14 am PST #1398 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Oh, how brilliant it would have been!

I have no doubt that it would have been both brilliant and flammable!


Vortex - Jan 09, 2007 8:40:06 am PST #1399 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Speaking of laundrey, I once had people dumping my non-dry clothes out of the dryer while I was at the laundromat, and standing right there! People are craxy about dryers.

When I was in college, there was this woman that we called Laundry Bitch. I swear that she would haunt the dryer. The second it clicked off, she was taking your stuff out. I remember sitting there once, the dryer stopped, I stood up, and there she was. I said, very loudly, "EXCUSE me, do you think that you could at least wait until the dryer stopped spinning before you yank my clothes out" She was embarrassed, and apologetic. Not that I think that stopped her in the future, of course.


Narrator - Jan 09, 2007 8:46:16 am PST #1400 of 10001
The evil is this way?

I'm a secretary (specifics redacted). I handle a considerable number of purchase orders for optical instruments in support of my group. This morning I was sorting through some catalogues that just arrived, and found one with a photo of a barefoot woman, in a short skirt and plunging neckline, trying to sell optical equipment to me. The catalogue bears your company’s name.

I am not distributing this catalogue. I am assuming that this cover was placed on your catalogue through some oversight or as the result of a prank that was perpetrated on your company by the printer. Please forward to me a catalogue with a cover which is appropriate for this and your other clients’ workplaces – one which would not cause the recipients to be embarrassed to have such catalogues seen on their desks.


Topic!Cindy - Jan 09, 2007 8:47:39 am PST #1401 of 10001
What is even happening?

Oh, I vote for Narrator's version (depending on her fee; there's always a fee).


beekaytee - Jan 09, 2007 8:50:09 am PST #1402 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant

Good one Narrator. I like all the responses but hers is spot on with the not!overt snark and simplicity. I love the 'you obviously didn't mean to do/say that' rejoinder.


Connie Neil - Jan 09, 2007 8:50:14 am PST #1403 of 10001
brillig

The state of Utah has recently revamped the sales tax on food rules. If it's prepared food, it gets the full sales tax, but if it's not considered prepared, it gets a lower rate. How do you khow it's "prepared"? It has a utensil with it. Therefore, if you buy a salad and you pick up a fork, then you get a higher tax. If you have your own fork in your pocket, then you get the lower tax.

Why didn't they just repeal the sales tax on food? Because how else would Utah maintain its Billion (with a B) budget surplus?


Ginger - Jan 09, 2007 8:54:51 am PST #1404 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Please forward to me a catalogue with a cover which is appropriate for this and your other clients’ workplaces – one which would not cause the recipients to be embarrassed to have such catalogues seen on their desks.

Please forward to me a catalogue with a cover which is appropriate for this and your other clients’ workplaces – one which would not cause your representatives to have lethal accidents involving paper clips and Post-it notes.


Sophia Brooks - Jan 09, 2007 8:55:40 am PST #1405 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Therefore, if you buy a salad and you pick up a fork, then you get a higher tax. If you have your own fork in your pocket, then you get the lower tax.

When I was a cashier, NYS had the same rule, however, it didn't have to do with forks, it had to do with whether the food was made in the deli or not. Are you sure the fork thing isn't some crazed cashier. We also had tax on the "Pop and Candy" department, but not on the Grocery department. Large Marshmallows were considered baking items and not taxed, and mini-marshmallows were considered candy and were taxed. Also, there was some difference in tax between periodicals and books that caught the Harlequin Romances, because at the time there was a date on them, but I can't remember which way it went. I thought all those problems would go away once there were scanners, though.


Allyson - Jan 09, 2007 8:59:44 am PST #1406 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

Sent a conglommeration of suggestions. Thanks!

Seriously, it's totally weird. And also weird that I was worried about sounding prudish. Seriously, I need to scan this thing. It's so wrong.