Has anyone ever had any dealings with Keane, the lost property recovery company?
Yeah, they keep sending me letters about how I have unclaimed assets and I need to call them. Sounds like a scam to me.
Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.
'Underneath'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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Jessica - Oct 07, 2009 6:19:22 am PDT #12600 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
billytea - Oct 07, 2009 6:28:52 am PDT #12601 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
That is very cool to know.
It is rather. I will note, however, that Wallybee hadn't noticed it before, which makes me think the 'kill' radical is contributing phonetics rather than semantics. (It's pronounced 'máng', and a number of other characters with the same or similar pronunciation have that radical too.
Incidentally, the 'heart' and 'kill' radicals are also combined (differently) to form the character for "to forget".
Theodosia - Oct 07, 2009 6:36:04 am PDT #12602 of 30001
'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"
Incidentally, the 'heart' and 'kill' radicals are also combined (differently) to form the character for "to forget".
Chinese is poetic in ways that are totally unWestern -- that you can make what amounts to visual (nonfunny) puns with characters is so very cool.
Jesse, the digital camera is the renters' friend.
Lee - Oct 07, 2009 6:38:38 am PDT #12603 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Yeah, they keep sending me letters about how I have unclaimed assets and I need to call them. Sounds like a scam to me.
Yeah,it did to me too. They sent a letter to my parents, who asked me to look into it.
lisah - Oct 07, 2009 6:50:31 am PDT #12604 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
You can get Utz in the paper bags at the city markets here! (um...evidently you could also get a gun until recently at the utz stand in Lexington Market.)
Zenkitty - Oct 07, 2009 6:53:05 am PDT #12605 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
If Keane says so-and-so owes you money, contact so-and-so directly. You can probably get it back yourself. It can be a bit of a hassle, but you don't have to pay anyone a fee, either. I found out from one of those companies that HUD owed me almost $2000 from a house I sold in 1997. I contacted HUD, and once I proved I was me and it had been mine, they sent me the money. No middleman needed.
Zenkitty - Oct 07, 2009 6:53:51 am PDT #12606 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
What day is National Writing Day?
billytea - Oct 07, 2009 6:55:07 am PDT #12607 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Chinese is poetic in ways that are totally unWestern -- that you can make what amounts to visual (nonfunny) puns with characters is so very cool.
I love the way Chinese writing works. (I still struggle with listening comprehension, though I think it's improved a little with Wallybee's parents here, and I'm setting aside time to practise again; but the writing is all kinds of cool.) Incidentally, the Chinese for America means "Beautiful country"; for England, "Brave Country". France gets "Counry of law".
Meanwhile, the Yangtze river translates literally as "long river" (in Mandarin it's actually Chángjiāng). Beijing means "northern capital". Chinese makes utterly prosaic terms sound good too.
Lee - Oct 07, 2009 6:55:23 am PDT #12608 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Problem is Keane didn't say who owed them money, and we know it doesn't involve the California state lost property people, because I checked there.
Like I said, seems like a scam, but Keane also seems like a legit company.
Jessica - Oct 07, 2009 6:59:39 am PDT #12609 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I think they're legit, but sleazy. The letters I (and all of my siblings) got were about unclaimed inheritance $$. Which may exist, but not in NEARLY the amounts they were claiming, and the reason I haven't gotten it is because that money is putting my cousins through college, which is what my dad and aunt (the executors) agreed it would be used for.