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    Incident at WalMart

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    2 hours ago, Dantankerous said:

    .If keeping costs down translates to better prices...

    Hmm...if the store saved 10% from the use of self-checkouts, who is more likely to benefit....the customer or the store?  I think I know, but then I have a cynical view of life in general.

     

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    Pineapple and ice cream

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    2 hours ago, Alpo said:

    That reminds me. Late 70s? A dry cereal - Kellogg's corn flakes? - came with freeze dried strawberries mixed with it. You pour on the milk, which reconstituted the strawberries, and you had fresh strawberries with your corn flakes.

     

    Theoretically.

    Hmmm...

     

    I thought that was Special K with the freeze dried berries...

     

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    restaurants with a liquor license

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    1 hour ago, Alpo said:

    Boca Chica? The little girl's mouth?

     

    Yeah that sounds like a nice place to go get a friendly drink.

     

    Note quite.

     

    Boca Chica means "small mouth" in a literal translation.  It is a common place name, with use in FL, TX, CA and the Dominican Republic.  In this usage, "chica" means small, not girl.

     

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    Nonalcoholic drink(s)

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    After years of guzzling Diet Cokes to the tune of 6-8 per day, I gave it up cold turkey.  I don't drink coffee or tea.  Water became my prime beverage, but got boring fast.  I use Sunkist drink powders (yes, they contain aspartame, but you've got to die from something eventually).  The flavor is great, and they are very convenient.  

     

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    It's Almost Friday Humor Thread

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    6 hours ago, Alpo said:

    The stolen suitcase story reminded me.

     

    Woman said that during one of the frequent New York garbage strikes, she would take her trash and put it in shopping bags and leave it on the seat of her unlocked car. It was always gone by the next day.

     

    In Mad Magazine one time there was a strip about a woman taking the garbage out. She dumped the trash can into a Bloomberg's shopping bag, and was taking it out to the can at the street. And some kid came running by and snatched the bag out of her hand and kept going. She automatically was yelling STOP THIEF, when someone asked what he got, and she realized. "My garbage."

     

    Bloomberg was the mayor; the store with the shopping bags was Bloomingdale's.

     

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    Rumored Exit for Trudeau

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    If there's even a chance that he'll leave......:D

     

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    Canada's Justin Trudeau says he thinks daily about leaving 'crazy job'

    16 hours ago
    By Jessica Murphy,BBC News
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    Reuters Justin TrudeauReuters

    Canada's prime minister says he frequently thinks about leaving his "crazy job" but plans to stay on through another election.

    Justin Trudeau has faced growing questions about his political future, with polls suggesting he is increasingly unpopular among Canadians.

    In an interview with broadcaster Radio-Canada, Mr Trudeau also spoke about personal sacrifices of his job.

    Canada's next general election must be held by October 2025.

    Opinion polling in recent months indicates that Canadians are feeling a growing dissatisfaction with his government, spurred by frustration with issues like housing affordability and the cost of living. The governing Liberals have been trailing behind the Conservatives, the main opposition, often by double digits.

    Concerns that the "Trudeau brand" might be a drag on the Liberal party's fortunes has led to speculation in political circles that Mr Trudeau may be eyeing the exit, and even some allies have suggested it's time for him to leave.

    But in a 24-minute interview released on Friday with the French-language broadcaster, Mr Trudeau said: "I could not be the man I am and abandon the fight at this point."

     

    "I think about quitting every day. It's a crazy job I'm doing, making the personal sacrifices," said the leader, who has been in office since 2015. "Of course, it's super tough. It's super boring at times."

    Last year, he and his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, announced they were separating. They have three children together.

    Mr Trudeau came to power with an impressive majority election victory that ended nearly a decade of Conservative party rule in Canada. But support for the Liberals has eroded over two subsequent elections.

    His minority government is currently in a so-called "supply and confidence" agreement with the New Democrats, where the left-leaning party supports the Liberals in key votes in parliament.

    Mr Trudeau, 52, said on Friday that he entered politics "not to be popular, not for personal reasons - because I want to serve and I know I have something to offer".

    "The choice that Canadians will make, in a year in the elections, will be so fundamental."

    In one high-stakes fight, some provincial premiers and the federal Conservatives are pushing to cancel a planned increase to the federal carbon tax - one of his government's key climate initiatives - that is coming into force next month.

     

    Mr Trudeau told Radio-Canada that he planned to stay the course, arguing that increases are offset for most Canadians through a rebate.

    "It is very easy in politics these days to attack a tax, to attack concrete measures," he said.

    The state of manners today. Lack of etiquette.

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    Pat:

     

    You are too patient and polite.

    I've been getting cell calls for over a year that are obviously wrong numbers.  Political fund raising requests, realtors, property flippers, car dealers - mostly out of Texas.  At first, I politely informed the callers of their error; never once did the caller apologize; most of the time, they simply hung up without comment.  After I noticed the Texas pattern, I decided that I would ty to determine if my number was improperly listed in a phone directory or on a web site.  No one would tell me where they got my number; most became hostile or profane.  So now I simply report them as junk and delete.  Not worth the nonsense.

     

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    Your Extra 24 Hours

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    20 hours ago, PowderRiverCowboy said:

     

    You are in blue state Mass you cant even take over your own state less alone the world you already lost :) 

     

    I prefer to think of us as outnumbered resistance fighters; the odds are tough, but we aren't giving up.

     

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    Eric Estrada

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    10 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

    I’ll bet he was like a public liaison officer or something.

     

    From Wiki:

    Estrada became a reserve police officer for the Muncie (Indiana) Police Department. From there, Estrada moved to Virginia, where he was an I.C.A.C. (Internet Crimes Against Children) investigator for eight years in Bedford County, Virginia.[14][15] As of July 1, 2016, he was a reserve police officer in St. Anthony, Idaho. In the course of his duties, Estrada has been filmed patrolling on a police motorcycle.[16]

     

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    Call it as you see it or read it and weep.

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    4 hours ago, Alpo said:

    But if that first 13 words were gone, the Second amendment would simply say, "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed". No confusion there. No argument possible. No supreme Court saying that it has to be interpreted.

    You have too much faith in "plain language".  I'm certain that some politician, progressive or gun hater could find an issue with the definition of "arms", or with what constitutes an 'infringement".  I'm a big fan of Mr. Justice Jackson, quoted above.

     

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    S&W Lever rifle?

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    47 minutes ago, bgavin said:

    What a joke.

     

    S&W is a Johnny Come Lately to the lever game, yet they think they can command a custom firearm price for an unproven action?
    Really.

    I'm sure there are S&W fanboys (and dentists) willing to pay for this, same as they pay $15,000 for a Hasselblad or Nikon.
    The rest of us will just sit back and laugh.  Hard.

    I'll sit back  and watch for a bit...but I'm not laughing.  S&W has too much solid history and capability to dismiss them as late to the game...and I'm sure someone said something similar about Tyler Henry and Oliver Winchester.

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    Old School Copiers

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    5 hours ago, watab kid said:

    "....Xerox owned all of the patents for their process..

     

    thats why we call it a zerox copy and why we buy Kleenex and so many others , but everyone knows there are a lot of other big names that were in the industry ...i think there was a time when the recording industry had a name thing like that but i cant recall what it was at this ["biden"] moment in time 

    "Victrola"?  RCA Victor's tradename for a phonograph, which became so commonly used that it became "generic"?  The curse of a successful product, whose name becomes an equivalent in the market for the product, regardless of who made it.

     

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