Old Man Posted December 31, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 Picked up the kadomatsu for this year. Went with the 8" version, not the 5' version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 6, 2015 Report Share Posted January 6, 2015 Surprisingly a couple of threads seemed to have tailed off. Curious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted January 7, 2015 Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 So the guy they hired to replace me at my second job quit after a) getting to cut in on the waiting list for a 2 bedroom apartment and 2) two weeks on the job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 10, 2015 Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 Two recent deaths. A British comedian called Lance Percival who played the chef in Carry on Cruising. He had a distinctive voice and face. and film star Rod Taylor, real name Robert Taylor, who came from Australia. Robert became Rod as there was already a Robert Taylor acting. Same way Stewart Granger had changed his name. His real name was James Stewart. Rod appeared in The Time Machine (1960) as the inventor of the machine; The Birds (as the hero); and with John Wayne in The Train Robbers Bazza 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted January 11, 2015 Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 So once upon a time, there was a dairy --somewhere-- that called itself "Parmalat." Imagine guys in handlebar moustaches riding big wheel bicycles to work while "Daisy" plays over the sepia footage, because it was a long time ago, before Beatrice bought Parmalat, and Dairyland bought Beatrice, and Saputo bought Dairyland. For Americans, it might be helpful to remember that the Canadian business landscape is a lot like the Empire in Star Wars. Or the One Ring. Whichever kind of predatory monopoly is more sinister. Anyway, point is that Saputo now owns Everything Dairy in Canada, not so that it can make more money by being a giant monopoly, but so that it can, uhm, something something it's all good. Speaking of monopolies, when we were taken over, we sold our stores on Vancouver Island to a rival chain, and there were some readjustments. Specifically, they dropped the Parmalat 1 Litre Chocolate Milk by Beatrice by Dairyland by Saputo in favour of a competing product. Last night, a customer pokes his head in the back room while I'm trying to clean up after a DM visit. (Handy store manager SOP sheet for DM visits: take everything that might upset the DM, shove in the back, go out, smile, grin and eat poo-poo for as long as it takes, go home early, kick the dog.) Said customer says, "I live in Victoria, and I buy all your Parmalat 1L Chocolate Milk, etc, etc, every time I come over to visit my GF, because I can't get i in Victoria any more. Do you know where I can get it in Victoria, because I've tried their website and their help lilne, and their CSRs can't tell me." Well, I can't tell him, either. But I do have a little happy feeling in my heart now, because it turns out that someone's customer service is worse than ours. A happy feeling mediated by the suspicion that it's all coming apart, but a happy feeling nonetheless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 Thoughts are refusing to line up and get written down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 Hello, I thought I'd give this place a visit again, and give a summary of my 2014 year:* Lost a 9-year coworker and friend in Feb. when he attempted to kill his ex-wife and then committed suicide. * Lost my last uncle (and my mother's last sibling) to natural causes in March. * Lost a friend (and good GM) to heart attack and resulting brain damage. Alive, but very little is left. * Lost my mother in May when my father had an episode of dementia and strangled her to death barehanded. * Lost my father (see above). Alive, but mentally fading, and incarcerated. * Found out my oldest sister has lymphoma in August * Found out my middle sister's husband has cancer in August. * Helped my sisters clean up/out our parent's home. I can safely say that 2014 is the worst year of my life. I have always been an advocate for "fighting the good fight", but I think I'm beginning to comprehend what can drive a person to do something... rash. On the upside, I've found that I have a fairly good ability to hold my liquor. I hope other's fared better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 Anita Ekberg has died. If you don't know why she was so special, just watch La Dolce Vita and the scene in The Trevi fountain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 I just attended a stage combat in the opera house tonight. Fun, although I was hoping to do some swordplay. First time I've dressed down at the opera. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 16, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2015 Ten years since Dimebag Darrell was gunned down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 17, 2015 Report Share Posted January 17, 2015 I hate the Intel jingle. I press the mute button during every commercial break just in case it plays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 17, 2015 Report Share Posted January 17, 2015 I just read the title of A Thread for Random Videos as a Thread for Random Vodka. tkdguy and Cancer 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted January 20, 2015 Report Share Posted January 20, 2015 So I once heard that (in that snarky internet way) that Billy Joel wrote "I love you just the way you are" for his first wife and then dumped her to marry Christy Brinkley. Does that mean he meant the lyrics sarcastically? The things I think before I sleep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 20, 2015 Report Share Posted January 20, 2015 The big news over here is the death of an actress in soap opera Coronation Street who had been a regular on the show for 40 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2015 And now we deliberate. Finally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 24, 2015 Report Share Posted January 24, 2015 A friend of mine ended up in Copenhagen and married a nice Danish girl. They became parents last year, and when the time came to name the boy J. tried to peruade his missus to go along with calling the child Dick Tage Tor. Pronounced in Danish, it sounds exactly like "dictator". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 Just sent a guy to jail for twenty years. HFS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 i) Call us to the office for a confidential talk, and then make me sit and watch while you tear a strip off my co-worker for his work ethic, with specific examples, and even demands for explanations while I squirm. ii) Get rid of a new cashier with bad attendance and a tendency to vanish from the checkstands by insulting her appearance until she "can't take it any more" and quits. And then boast about it. What the heck? You act like a nice guy, you seem like a nice guy. Are you just oblivious, or do I have to adjust my personal sociopath detection checklist? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 Does a really tough tennis match count as armed combat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 Had an odd idea for a character. Educated at Yale and a member of their victorious Boxing team, he was an All American and was on the collegiate Wrestling team, Anphoreh High Priest to the Pharoah is also an Egyptian Mummy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 29, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 I want to punch an anti-vaxxer in the face. With a baseball bat. BlueCloud2k2 and bigbywolfe 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 30, 2015 Report Share Posted January 30, 2015 Time Team -- genius programming. The British original, that is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 31, 2015 Report Share Posted January 31, 2015 Went and saw Temple Grandin speak this evening. After we got home, it was clear, so I tracked down Comet Lovejoy with my new (Christmas gift) 7 by 56's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 1, 2015 Report Share Posted February 1, 2015 Heard an interesting and cogent explanation of Transformers last night, related by a friend whose son formulated it: Transformers are were-cars. L. Marcus, bigbywolfe and BlueCloud2k2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted February 1, 2015 Report Share Posted February 1, 2015 I have been abusing the exclamation mark when posting. Perhaps I need to cut back on the caffeine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.