Dave
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I get 10+ spam messages a day from Halforums. Spammers love the “Contact Us” button and guess who gets those?
The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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GasBandit
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It's pretty uncommon, for me. After all my email address is the same as my handle.
I get dozens of emails/day at work from people who apparently can’t be bothered to check their addressees. Paul, Peter, PJ, Pam, and some of these people are pretty high up in the company, so I’m talking, “It’s time to renew your slip and boating insurance for your sailboat in Cape Cod” or “Here is the receipt for that new Dodge Ram you just purchased” kinds of emails.
—Patrick
—Patrick
I have another story of the clueless dad.
So recently the mom in this story brought their 4 year old daughter on a trip abroad. They were going to visit a family friend in Australia. The dad didn't go along because he had to work. He did, however, drive his wife and daughter to the airport. When they were waiting to check in, the daughter said she wanted a stuffed toy that happened to be in their luggage (ie, not their carry-on bags) so mom opened up their suitcase to find the toy. At this point the dad noticed that mom had packed a bunch of the daughter's favorite snacks and cereals, presumably to ensure that their 4 year old would be able to have her preferred breakfast and snacks in Australia. He apparently took issue with this, and insisted that mom remove all the cereals and snacks, and that he would take them home. The idea was that surely there would be no shortage of breakfast foods and snack foods in Australia, so there was no need to weigh down their suitcase with such trivialities. Or maybe he was afraid of appearing rude to their friend in Australia, as if they didn't trust the friend to feed them properly or something.
Apparently the discussion got a bit heated there in the airport terminal, but dad got his way in the end, and mom gave him the cereals and snacks to take home, and then she e-mailed the friend in Australia to ask if they had that brand of cereal down under.
When the mom was relaying this story to me, she portrayed it as dad having legitimate concerns and that he just had his family's best interests in mind. But even then he still sounded like a massive dickhead to me.
Use a dickie instead of a scarf.
I think giraffes would use wider scarves, or they could knot the scarf every other turn; like trussing a loin roast.
You can't wear a dickie without a shirt though.
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What if the elasticity strangles the giraffe?
GasBandit
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Succulent Giraffe-neck steak for everyone!
You will find what you want in Zamora.
That's too far. I asked my son what is best in life, and I got my answer right here: "To crush your enemies, see them driving before you, and hear the... lemons? of their women".
Close enough.
GasBandit
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There's a movie review podcast I listen to, and one time they did Conan the Barbarian. They remarked on the oddity of Conan's answer, since up to that point he's only experienced it from the other side.
So my wife is an English teacher at an elementary school here in Taiwan. She got in touch with a teacher in Minnesota who teaches Chinese to elementary school students, and arranged a Christmas card exchange activity. My wife's students would each write a Christmas card in English, and my wife would send them to the school in the US, while the students in Minnesota would write Christmas cards in Chinese and their teacher would send them to Taiwan. Each student would get a card from a student in the other class.
There were just two minor hitches. One, both teachers sent the cards too late so the cards are only now arriving at their respective schools. Two, there was one more student in the class in Taiwan than there was in the class in the US. This meant that one of the students in my wife's class wouldn't get a card. So my wife decided to make up a fake American student, make a card herself, and give that card to her student here in Taiwan.
Thus, last night my wife came to me with a handmade card and asked me to write a message inside in Chinese.
"Why do I need to write it?" I asked.
She replied, "Because your handwriting looks like an elementary school student's."
"Fair enough," I said, "hand me a crayon."
There were just two minor hitches. One, both teachers sent the cards too late so the cards are only now arriving at their respective schools. Two, there was one more student in the class in Taiwan than there was in the class in the US. This meant that one of the students in my wife's class wouldn't get a card. So my wife decided to make up a fake American student, make a card herself, and give that card to her student here in Taiwan.
Thus, last night my wife came to me with a handmade card and asked me to write a message inside in Chinese.
"Why do I need to write it?" I asked.
She replied, "Because your handwriting looks like an elementary school student's."
"Fair enough," I said, "hand me a crayon."
A lot of people are saying @GasBandit thinks Cerberus was a three headed pug. Many fine people are saying this.
"These cost" would also need to be changed either to "These costs" or "This cost."
In my mind, the distinction between "required" and "necessary" depends on the context of the remainder of the sentence preceding that portion. Also curious about the use of "it's" since it should probably be "its" (no apostrophe).
--Patrick
In my mind, the distinction between "required" and "necessary" depends on the context of the remainder of the sentence preceding that portion. Also curious about the use of "it's" since it should probably be "its" (no apostrophe).
--Patrick
You can always elope to New Zeeland:
The thing is that this is something very important for a devout catholic as Vero. But it's also something that needs a lot of preparation. Ironically, I'm technicaly more catholic than her because I had my confirmation and she hasn't.
In my opinion:
"Required" implies that there is a rule or regulation (government law or nature/physical law) and so someone was compelled to pay.
"Necessary" implies that the payment was somehow unavoidable/unpredictable/unexpected and so someone ended up needing to pay.
--Patrick