Cancer Posted April 10, 2016 Report Share Posted April 10, 2016 Well, another possibility is you're with me on an adjacent hook in a smokehouse being turned into tribble bacon while he cures cancer. Lucius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 10, 2016 Report Share Posted April 10, 2016 I thought the tribble was already on fire. His eyes at least. Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 11, 2016 Report Share Posted April 11, 2016 Forgot about that. OK, he's smokin' that way. Carry on then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 12, 2016 Report Share Posted April 12, 2016 My email account will turn 20 this July. Wow. Hey, so will mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 12, 2016 Report Share Posted April 12, 2016 I think my oldest existing account won't do that for 2 or 3 more years. Though I can find an old archive post to a Usenet group that I posted more than 30 years back from an email address that is now defunct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 25, 2016 Report Share Posted April 25, 2016 The refreshing thing about monarchy as a government system is that you never see a monarch getting elected to a second term.*ahem*To wit, Karl Knutsson Bonde, three-term king of Sweden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 25, 2016 Report Share Posted April 25, 2016 That was a non sequitur! Factual accuracy is not required!! L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 25, 2016 Report Share Posted April 25, 2016 It may not be required, but it is mandatory. L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 25, 2016 Report Share Posted April 25, 2016 I made a conscious decision to stop reading newspaper funnies a couple of years ago. I don't miss them. I do miss not missing them. There are still a handful of decent strips out there, but not enough to justify having garbage delivered to my house every day. Don't get me started on the "news" in the newspaper. What's with the news? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 25, 2016 Report Share Posted April 25, 2016 I got tired of opening the newspaper to read all the stories I'd read on the internet the day before. And local coverage is awful. I don't blame the journalists--I get that there's no money in news anymore, especially local news. But I have to contribute to the death spiral by not having garbage delivered to my house any more. I've tried to come up with a solution to the journalism death spiral, but so far I've failed, and I get the sense that I'm not the only one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 25, 2016 Report Share Posted April 25, 2016 I gave up on the local paper when the Post-Intelligencer closed shop, leaving us with only one newspaper. The Seattle Times had been wannabee hereditary monopolists for so long that's all they could think of. Here, in one of the most liberal cities in on the Left Coast, they endorsed Dubya back in 2000 because he was the choice of hereditary monopolists. And they've complained that the population still holds that against them. Gosh! Your potential readership has a brain, and doesn't like it when you advocate things that are counter to their interests! If they had real local news, and business stories about businesses that open (and close) locally, or anything that isn't a scandal, I would reconsider my blowing them off. But, it's what Old Man said.... Vondy and bigbywolfe 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 I stopped reading out local paper years ago, because in large part it is part of Murdoch's News Corp. And like Old Man the funnies just wasn't worth getting it to read. I also only was interested in the weekly tv guide, but now I can get that with an app on my phone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 You can read the funnies online anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 I gave up on the local paper when the Post-Intelligencer closed shop, leaving us with only one newspaper. The Seattle Times had been wannabee hereditary monopolists for so long that's all they could think of. Here, in one of the most liberal cities in on the Left Coast, they endorsed Dubya back in 2000 because he was the choice of hereditary monopolists. And they've complained that the population still holds that against them. Gosh! Your potential readership has a brain, and doesn't like it when you advocate things that are counter to their interests! If they had real local news, and business stories about businesses that open (and close) locally, or anything that isn't a scandal, I would reconsider my blowing them off. But, it's what Old Man said.... The Seattle Times has always been a rag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 Well, I liked it back in the mid-1970s when I was in town as an undergrad, but that was two generations of Blethen's (the publishers) ... and forty years ... back. Of course, at that time I was in my late teens, and I had moved in from the Spokane area, and Spokane at the time had two papers, but of them barking mad right-fringe nut farms, and just about anything would have looked good by comparison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 You survived Spokane? Respect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 I thought Spokane was just a myth! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 You survived Spokane? Respect. I lived in the West Bank for eight years. I don't go to Spokane. Those people are crazy. Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 The 1974 World's Fair was there. That was the summer I graduated from high school. And, to be accurate, I was living on Fairchild AFB (a SAC base at the time), not in the city itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 ((Waiting for gewing to chime in here)) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 I thought Spokane was just a myth! No. Boise, Idaho is a myth. Sheboygan on the other hand is too real for words. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 I thought Spokane was just a myth! Indeed. One told to frighten children on cold, black winter nights. But the myth is only a pale shadow of the true elemental horror that is Spokane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted April 27, 2016 Report Share Posted April 27, 2016 There are no bookstores any more. And it's all my fault. You're a monster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 27, 2016 Report Share Posted April 27, 2016 I went to a bookstore last night. Bought a book, even. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 27, 2016 Report Share Posted April 27, 2016 You're a monster. I am. But I didn't realize at the time that scanning barcodes in Borders and then buying the books for way cheaper off Amazon would really put an end to Borders. Of course, we're talking about a store that devoted 30% of its floor space to compact discs. But I digress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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