John T Posted December 23, 2011 Report Share Posted December 23, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings Corporate paranoia about drugs has gotten too far. This week at the office, there was random drug testing and apparently one of the guys told us that they don't even let you take your own cup to piss in anymore. Rather than trust that you'll wash your hands first to ensure a clean sample, they expect a nurse to BE IN THE ROOM with you when you urinate and collect the sample directly. We were talking about how this would work if they made us come in. "Wow, I didn't know this was a full-service operation now." "I'm sorry but I'm getting old and my grip isn't steady anymore. Nurse, could you hold this for me?" " If I piss up the boss' nose, am I the one that gets fired for testing positive for cocaine?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 23, 2011 Report Share Posted December 23, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings I have a gift for turning up the oddest trivia. My parents blame an "Obssessive-Compulsive Curiosity Disorder". Example: Happy belated 70th birthday (Dec 14, 1941) to Bruce Hyde, aka Ensign Kevin Riley of ST:TOS - http://imdb.to/tU4cTI That must be psych lim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 23, 2011 Report Share Posted December 23, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings No. I don't know why it had a 2 in the name' date=' but it wasn't a sequel to anything.[/quote'] you sure? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 23, 2011 Report Share Posted December 23, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings I wonder how popular the expression would be if instead of backs it was "You scratch my ass. I'll scratch yours." We talking donkeys? ( ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John T Posted December 23, 2011 Report Share Posted December 23, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings I wonder how popular the expression would be if instead of backs it was "You scratch my ass. I'll scratch yours." Given that the saying probably started out as "You pick my lice, I'll pick yours"?.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John T Posted December 23, 2011 Report Share Posted December 23, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings I bought a used vhs copy of the Director's Cut of "Highlander 2" for $3. I recorded a silent, blank screen over the entire thing. NOW it's correctly labeled... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 23, 2011 Report Share Posted December 23, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings *chuckle* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted December 24, 2011 Report Share Posted December 24, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings "Rock and Roll does not sound like KISS." -Lemmy It sounds like Hawkwind? I find this quote amusing from the guy who performed "Shout it Out Loud" on a KISS tribute album. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John T Posted December 28, 2011 Report Share Posted December 28, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings Maybe it was "haha, that's not helping", Lucius. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 28, 2011 Report Share Posted December 28, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings I wonder if the Dual-Slit Experiment has been done with other kinds of particles in place of Electrons' date=' like Protons or Neutrons?[/quote'] I know neutron diffraction is a pretty standard tool now. That's not the two-slit experiment, but it relies on the same physical effect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" makes a lot more sense when you know it comes from a man who had migraines. And tertiary syphilis. JG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 13, 2012 Report Share Posted January 13, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings I said good-bye to a friend of mine today--my good friend's brother' date=' actually, but a friend in his own right. Nicest guy you could ever meet. Played airsoft and warhammer. We talked about modding our cars a lot--he was always willing to do more radical things to his vehicles than I was to mine, but I really liked his Accord. You hear about guys who are quiet and dependable, but that cliché fit this guy perfectly. If you ever needed a hand, with [i']anything,[/i] you could call him. There are a lot of ways I wish I could be more like him. Christmas Eve he was walking back to the house with some of his family and he just instantly died for no apparent reason. Dead before he hit the ground. He must have set some kind of record for abrupt, unexpected, poorly timed deaths. Kid was 37. I thought I would be all right at the funeral, but I was totally wrong. His family, my friends, weren't over it at all. There was just no time to prepare and no hint that it might be coming. I wept for an hour. Hell, I'm still not over it. All I can think about is that Christmas morning there were a lot of presents waiting for him under the tree. My prayers and sympathies, Old Man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted January 13, 2012 Report Share Posted January 13, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings My prayers and sympathies' date=' Old Man! [/quote'] Indeed. The best I can say is that he didn't suffer. JG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted January 13, 2012 Report Share Posted January 13, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings My prayers and sympathies' date=' Old Man! [/quote'] My sympathy, Old Man. IMO it's always the best ones that cause the most pain when they go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 13, 2012 Report Share Posted January 13, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank and he can rob everybody. I remembered this, got curious, and went after numbers. From the FBI's crime stats page: from here, the total amount of money stolen in bank robberies in 2010 was $28.8 million. That's taking the number of bank robberies and multiplying by the average value. Here there are not so definite and crunchy a table, but looking at the figure, it looks like there was in 2010 about $11 billion in mortgage fraud. So the banks in 2010 stole more than the robbers by about a factor of 400, and that's in mortgage fraud only by the FBI's own numbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted January 13, 2012 Report Share Posted January 13, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings "Must spread rep before giving it to Cancer again blah blah" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatinKitty Posted January 13, 2012 Report Share Posted January 13, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings Deepest Condolences, Old Man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted January 13, 2012 Report Share Posted January 13, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings Sympathies and condolences to you and his loved ones/family Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted January 13, 2012 Report Share Posted January 13, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings I said good-bye to a friend of mine today--my good friend's brother' date=' actually, but a friend in his own right. Nicest guy you could ever meet. Played airsoft and warhammer. We talked about modding our cars a lot--he was always willing to do more radical things to his vehicles than I was to mine, but I really liked his Accord. You hear about guys who are quiet and dependable, but that cliché fit this guy perfectly. If you ever needed a hand, with [i']anything,[/i] you could call him. There are a lot of ways I wish I could be more like him. Christmas Eve he was walking back to the house with some of his family and he just instantly died for no apparent reason. Dead before he hit the ground. He must have set some kind of record for abrupt, unexpected, poorly timed deaths. Kid was 37. I thought I would be all right at the funeral, but I was totally wrong. His family, my friends, weren't over it at all. There was just no time to prepare and no hint that it might be coming. I wept for an hour. Hell, I'm still not over it. All I can think about is that Christmas morning there were a lot of presents waiting for him under the tree. My condolences Old Man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings What can run but never walks' date=' has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?[/quote'] That's easy. What has banks but never earns, has schools and yet never learns, lazily seeks the easiest way, yet never stops by night or day? Lucius Alexander The palindromedary is sure Lucius has a character sheet for it actually Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings "Must spread rep before giving it to Cancer again blah blah" Got 'im. jg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings What can run but never walks' date=' has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?[/quote'] A river. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings The same for the Palindromedary-owner's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted January 18, 2012 Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings Drakine combine mammal traits and reptile traits. What's a "Drakine"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 18, 2012 Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings It's a Danish breed of livestock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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