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Edgydrifter
Posted on Monday, February 09, 2009 - 05:02 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I just advanced Court's proposal over lunch to a few folks from the office here. Every single one of them was horrified that a person could even think of such a thing. It made me laugh, especially when in the next breath they were complaining about the number of pointless calls and text messages they receive during lunch each day.

I even gave them a choice--$0.50 in tax on the calls and smokes are a nickel a pack, or no tax on the cell calls and smokes are $15 per pack. They had to think a loooong time about it, but ultimately they all decided they'd rather have cheap calls than cheap cigs.
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Slaughter
Posted on Monday, February 09, 2009 - 05:12 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Taxation will be a BOON to bootleggers... always has been.
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Edgydrifter
Posted on Monday, February 09, 2009 - 05:17 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

And VOIP makes bootleggers of us all!
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Froggy
Posted on Monday, February 09, 2009 - 05:50 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Watch land lines make a comeback, and people will be texting even more while driving
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Jerry_haughton
Posted on Monday, February 09, 2009 - 06:58 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

question: if no one was watching all the 24-hour "news" programs, would there be any 24-hour "news" programs?

no TV for me, not in many years. it's amazing how much stuff you can get done when you're not flat on your back on the sofa with a remote in your hand (belly full of pizza and beer, natch), lamenting the fact that you've got 104 channels at your disposal and there's nothing "on."

put another way: i'd rather DO something than watch someone ELSE do something.

back to the thread title: perhaps all the 24-hour "news" programs aren't the program.

perhaps the fact that so many of us are addicted to 24-hour "news" programs is the problem.

hey Slaughter, you'll at least have a flat screen in the moto-barn to watch racing videos on, right??? : D

Ferris
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Slaughter
Posted on Monday, February 09, 2009 - 07:44 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Problem with flat screen is that I don't even know WHO to call for cable or satellite or digital/UHF ("Free Digital")

Funny - my ex-brother-in-law used to try to convince me that I NEEDED an entertainment center when most of our TV consisted of LISTENING to the Weather Channel or the news on a 19-inch TV with the red "gun" non-functional... (all blue/green people).

I keep thinking I probably ought to get Cable or Satellite but there's just too much to do and when I "need" news, I can log on and get it - or toss a couple quarters in the slot and actually read.

Newspapers are good - padding for wrapping dishes when you're moving.

(Message edited by slaughter on February 09, 2009)
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Danger_dave
Posted on Monday, February 09, 2009 - 07:50 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

What about when you are having a conversation with someone and they stop it to take a mobile phone call.

Business I can live with - social and you'll need to find another dave to talk to when you finish the call.
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Slaughter
Posted on Monday, February 09, 2009 - 07:58 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

24 hour news channels and argyle socks. Yep. Argyle socks are overlooked all too often in assigning causes for our troubles.
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Slaughter
Posted on Monday, February 09, 2009 - 07:59 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

One thing I love is restaurants now advertising as "Cell Phone Free" If you answer a call IN the restaurant, they will ask you to leave.

My kinda place.
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Jerry_haughton
Posted on Monday, February 09, 2009 - 08:40 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Slaughter, i didn't mean a flat screen for TV, but rather to watch videos (DVDs) on. there's such a plethora of great moto-related stuff on disc these days.

every time i go to the doc's office for a checkup on my shoulder, they've got the boob-tube going out in the waiting room, cranked uncomfortably loud so the hearing-impaired have a fighting chance, and it's always tuned to a 24-hour "news" station.

the crap i hear (i can't stand to watch) is mind-numbingly banal and tripe-infested, and i always feel like taking a scalding-hot shower afterward.

and yet...

...this shite wouldn't continue to make the airwaves if there weren't a gazillion brain-dead 'Muricans across the land soaking it up like a stinky old sponge.

which is truly, truly sad.
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Cudajohn
Posted on Monday, February 09, 2009 - 09:22 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

For the record, that Don Henley cover of Dirty Laundry really sucked balls.

Now back to your regularly scheduled program.
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Diablobrian
Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 02:24 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Don Henley cover of Dirty Laundry? According to the album liner notes and Wiki he
co-wrote the song with his long time writing partner Danny Kortchmar:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Laundry_(Don_Henley_song)

who did you think originally recorded the song? Or were you thinking of a different
song all together?
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Court
Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 07:25 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

>>>What about when you are having a conversation with someone and they stop it to take a mobile phone call.

I know I've told it before . . . but at the Indian Point Nuclear Plant there was a meeting of all the Project Managers.

The Plant Manager told everyone to shut off phones and pagers.

During his talk a phone rang.

He asked who's it was.

Without hesitation he told the fellow to "head to Human Resources, they'll have your paperwork and final paycheck waiting by the time you arrive"

The guy ended at 20 year career at 10:30 AM that morning.

Logic: If you can't follow such a simple instruction why would I put in in control of a nuclear power plant.

Harley-Davidson follows a similar course for confidentiality violations.

Some of you may have been around me when someone does the call waiting "hold on just a second, I have another call". I simply hang up. When they call back I explain that when anyone who can dial a couple digits is automatically more important than our call . . . . I haven't the time to waste. And I always explain . . . I knew you'd call back when I became important again.

Common courtesies most of us learned from our parents around the family dinner table. (I also always piss off my wife's relatives by shutting off their television when we sit down to dinner . . . man am I getting old)
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Court
Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 07:26 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

>>>>You constantly re-enforce something, the mind starts to believe it.

The psychological principle is known as "modeling".
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Danger_dave
Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 07:49 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

What about hanging up on yourself?

If you want to exit a time wasting phone call - just hang up while YOU are in mid sentence.

'Oh yeah Court, that triplicate form for th.....

You're out of there and it was obviously 'a technical fault' if it's important enough for them to call back.

8 out of 10 won't.
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Danger_dave
Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 07:50 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

87.3% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Court
Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 09:47 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Easy to see why I love you. . . .

: )
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Oldog
Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 10:09 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

87.3% of statistics are made up on the spot.

"Figures never lie, But Liars Figure"
Mark Twain
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Road_thing
Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 10:12 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

DD: I learned a variation of that ploy from a boss years ago--he called it the "Oklahoma Cutoff" and it works like this:

When somebody you don't want to talk to gets you on the phone, ask him if he's heard the joke about the (you pick the subject) then halfway into your first sentence, just hang up. The logic is that no-one will believe you'd hang up in the middle of your own story...

..it's always worked for me!

rt
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Court
Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 10:25 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

>>>>The logic is that no-one will believe you'd hang up in the middle of your own story...

And all this time I've been wondering what the punchline to all your jokes were . . . . damn!
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Diablobrian
Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 12:07 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

remind us to tell you....
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Cityxslicker
Posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 04:33 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

yes the Don Henley cover sucked, but he has copywrite on the Youtube vid. Him and Seager are impossible to get. they keep getting dropped.
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Spacemonkey
Posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 05:49 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

watch this when you have time...we're all screwed

http://www.iousathemovie.com/
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