I'm trying to figure out the logic by which some of the power companies are charging everyone a new (small) fee so as to reimburse retailers for selling "discounted" CFL bulbs, but only at a very few locations. [link]
My head doesn't wrap.
What is your childhood trauma?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
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 - Jan 11, 2008 7:35:07 am PST #2520 of 10001
lisah - Jan 11, 2008 7:36:53 am PST #2521 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
I'm trying to figure out the logic by which some of the power companies are charging everyone a new (small) fee so as to reimburse retailers for selling "discounted" CFL bulbs, but only at a very few locations
Yeah, I didn't get that at all either.
sarameg - Jan 11, 2008 7:38:09 am PST #2522 of 10001
It's a stupidass racket.
brenda m - Jan 11, 2008 7:42:38 am PST #2523 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
"Aimee's face would make a freight train take a dirt road."
I can't even figure out what that means and I still want to stab him.
Liese S. - Jan 11, 2008 7:47:38 am PST #2524 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Huh. And I was just lauding the local power company for subsidizing cfl bulbs. We paid about half for ours. Yet to see how they hold up, because the power isn't on to the house yet.
tommyrot - Jan 11, 2008 7:54:00 am PST #2525 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Umm....
Dog retrieves his best friend - a cat buried in the garden
A pet dog missed the family’s dead cat so much that he dug up his grave and brought the body back into the house.
When Oscar’s owners woke up the next morning they discovered the dog curled up beside Arthur, the late cat, in his basket.
...
“Then he pulled him into the basket and went to sleep next to him. Arthur’s coat was gleaming white. Oscar had obviously licked him clean. It must have taken him nearly all night.”
Arthur is now reburied in a secure grave. And Oscar has a new playmate, a kitten called Limpet.
sarameg - Jan 11, 2008 7:57:04 am PST #2526 of 10001
Liese, the problem is here in Baltimore, you can get them at THREE locations. Only three. Not three retailers. Three actual stores. For savings equivalent to the fare it costs to take the damned bus out to one of those locations.
It isn't a discount, and I resent BGE for calling it that. It's a subsidy. They can charge me forty cents a month for breathing if they want. But they need to be prepared to take shit for it and not act like they are doing me some damned favor.
Tom Scola - Jan 11, 2008 7:58:53 am PST #2527 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Why are there stupid people? And how do they get hired into technical positions about which they have absolutely. no. fucking. clue?
Trudy Booth - Jan 11, 2008 8:04:45 am PST #2528 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
“Then he pulled him into the basket and went to sleep next to him. Arthur’s coat was gleaming white. Oscar had obviously licked him clean. It must have taken him nearly all night.”
That is just too sweet, really.
§ ita § - Jan 11, 2008 8:06:41 am PST #2529 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's kinda Pet Sematary.