UConn James

I got the Helter Shelter today, finally. A couple of snow sculptures as well. I don't care about the ClausCo building, but I'd better not get shafted on the Barney Plow King.

It's Nutmegger, NG. How do you not know *that* by now? ;P Pricey doesn't begin to describe it, BB.... I'm in the NE and it's terrible here.

BBF is a gentleman and a scholar. And I'm not saying that in the usual way that means someone's a drunk.

Well, since no one has anything nice to say about me, I'll offer my own self-compliment. Now, nothing is official yet, but my dog has been contacted by Lank Thompson to be one of the stars of his latest video, to be titled, "I'm a Handsome Black and White Man." Ruff

No one on TBD has more admirers than CGF. (Well... maybe Lana.) Which is surprising when you think about it. Or creepy, once you think about it a little more. Nevertheless, admirers are admirers!

They're looking to offset a $109M loss by a mix of cutting service/personnel and increasing prices to save $900M? Filthy stinking capitalists!!! Eh, comrades? Eh? [eyeroll] (It may have to do with making up for multi-year losses.) Not that drastic changes aren't on the horizon for the USPS. The trial balloon of ending Saturday delivery was just a start. As my father said, they should end Wednesday delivery. Mondays are ALWAYS the heaviest flow, as it backlogs from the Saturday mail . Actually ADDING a day for weekend accumulation for even heavier Mondays is beyond stupid. Add in that cutting Saturdays would be getting rid of the time when most people are free and finally have a day to run to the PO and send that package, buy stamps, sign for certifieds, etc. Again, BEYOND stupid to cut Saturdays. Cut Wednesdays! At least there's delivery both days around that so there isn't as much backlog. Because... well... they have to do something. Carrier salaries, gasoline use and vehicle fleet to maintain, reduction in use of standard first-class mail. An uneven flow (they get absolutely hammered this time of year, and it starts in October). It's a crazy system of how your mail gets delivered --- it's like a daily miracle. Despite it all, as much as people might pooh-pooh a stamp raise, we have the best post and, IIRC, the lowest cost post in the world. On edit: Oops, I meant to qualify that my father is a rural carrier substitute for ~15 years, most of that falling under post-retirement. He did industrial warehouse shipping for 30 years before this. He does all routes in multiple towns (try learning and sorting ONE case, people!), and often does them in less time than the full-time carrier. It's good for him. Keeps him engaged. It's a good supplement income. And it's good for the PO. He does the unofficial training for new people. He knows every road. Literally. We have always called him "Rand McNally" and so the PO was a good fit, I guess.

Mrags put the bop in the bop-shoo-bop-shoo-bop, and the ram in the ram-a-lam-a-ding-dong. (But he didn't put the dip in the dip-de-dip-de-dip. That was Henry Kissinger, of all people!) So, let's all shake his hand!

When Jboyst says "grass-fed beef" that leaves botanical wiggle room for his helping out those of his gals with... ahem... severe glaucoma. Yeah, that's it. Glaucoma!

The Bandit set up a nice retirement account for Smokey.

Jboyst visits my Simpsons Tapped Out town regularly and usually graffities my police station, library and elementary school. What a guy!

DC Tom truly IS a pedantic supercilious anal orifice. Sorry. That WAS me writing something nice. Consider the subject, people. ;P

No one but no one connects over-the-air antenna cables with as much grace as Jack.

You know, for as much guff as crayonz/whatever-his-name-is-now writes, Canadians aren't all THAT bad...!

I forget if it was college or NFL, but awhile back, there was a ref who called a personal foul for similar. In the announcement over the PA, the ref said, "Personal Foul. Number __. Giving him the business. 15 yards, first down." Found it on YouTube:

DC Tom pissed in DC Tom's cornflakes. He likes 'em that way!!

A few years ago, a string on ours went out and I filled it in with a small string of the same style bulb. Two years ago, three strings were out, so I filled them in again, but when it came time to take it apart, I decided to cut off all the lights and wiring so I could just independently string light cords around it... and not have to throw away a $250 tree. It took ~ 3-4 hours as I recall. Those suckers really put that together so it wouldn't fall apart. The lights were looped, woven and clipped every which way. But it's done and now I can change the light color if I want, too. (I don't. This house is a warm-white-light/traditional bulb place!)

Going through some cancer stuff of our own with my mum. I'll light a candle for your family too, Fergy!

Root beer barrels. M&Ms Premiums in the mint flavor.

Should be good. A lot of people are crazy for Tennant's 10th Doctor.... I dunno; there are episodes with him that were perfect ("Don't Blink") but many that were meh.... The writing upgrade with Moffat and longer arcs has been a big upgrade over the episodic stuff. I'm really sorry to see Matt Smith leaving the series in/after(?) the Christmas special. I think his time and his iteration has been really great with the boyish zeal he put into it.

As long as we can rename the Islanders to the Whalers, I'm in.

How would the IOC determine amateur status? Or would they just do a wink and nudge and let paid professionals compete like they do for hockey? :eyeroll:

I watch a LOT of British stuff, and I've heard it on multiple occasions. Again the other night in "The Paradise" was an "sh" in place of a usual "s." Is it also a deal of the Brits saying "shed-ule" instead of the American "schedule" with a hard "c." I heard people say "shhweet!" during college, so it's not like it's a VERY recent thing.

I know I've heard that pronunciation used in some British movies I've seen, where the S becomes an Sh. i.e. Shh-tupid in one of a remake of "A Room With A View" several years ago on PBS Masterpiece. So, is it a British import?

Shrader, I bit for that special offer from Gil last time. I had gotten some iTunes cards as gifts and I don't use it for much anything else (well, besides this REALLY cool app called Sky Guide I got the other day), so what the heck. I did get Arnie Pye. I just have a soft spot for the media people, I guess.... The helicopter stuff had been kind of cool, until this update when it just gets in the way when trying to tap things. They're also doing the aliens Konos and ___ in this event, probably as a donut item? I haven't gone overboard on using donuts, just getting things/characters I want. And I don't think there's any real need to use donuts for goo.