YSaC Vol. 803: Fun with anagrams! Oh, wait.
Outdoor Neon Channel Letters – $10
These letters are 23″ high, 5″ wide and the aluminum housing is 5″ deep. The neon tubes and wiring are still in place. I don’t have a transformer to test the neon tubes but the ones I’ve looked at look in good condition. The letter fronts are red plastic and trimmed in red plastic/metal trim. All are in great shape, the top edge of the “T” trim is cracked but should be easy to fix. These would be great to use as indoor decoration.
I have the letters “T”, “C”, “N” and “U” available and numbers “1” and “2” (not shown).
Asking $10 per letter.
If you are reading this then the items listed above are still available. I delete my listings as soon as the item(s) have been picked up.
Dennis
xxx-xxx-xxxx
It’s nice that this guy is celebrating a nitrosourea that has been shown to provide antitumor properties in rats, but I don’t know if a 23″ neon sign is really all that necessary.
Thanks for the ad, Laurie!
[Edited by drmk to add: Previous “you can also spell” ads for display letters can be found here and here. I question my own sanity sometimes.]
T….C…N…U…? Oh, I could see the line being crossed right from the starting gate this morning.
Shades of Malvolio in Twelth Night ” Here are her Cs and Ns and Ts” Shakespeare and lady’s bits? surely not ??! mind you the old bard was a bit of a one for the ladies!
Sources tell me he was a bit of a one for the everyone, but that’s just hearsay.
Please tell me I’m not the only one who automatically lined those letters up to make a slang term for lady bits.
Also, who has 23″ tall bright red letters that spell out a slang term for lady bits just lying around their house?
I’m leaving this one for Hammy. My mind won’t deviate from this screaming thought process.
😉
Lets see, A women with a 23″ C*** would be about what, about 120 feet tall?
To quote Deuce Bigalow, “That’s one big B**CH”
[/candorman]
Good thing Taco wasn’t here to see all the ** editing. He’d be mainlining coffee by now and ‘sploding from inappropriate places.
So now we know why the are called MAXI pads…
I don’t even want to think about what she would use for a tampon :-/
Duh… MATTRESS…
Sheep?
Uhm, who has this?
Probably somebody not quite as good at “midnight salvage” on job sites as they think they are?
Having built a bank to 30, it’s amazing how often either letters go missing, or fail QC on the job site. Easy to have a pile of these things. (This is not helped if the bank changed hands during contstruction and BamCom Bank is now ComBam Trust.)
Neon tubing likely not worth the salvage. Most sign companies would just bend new after rigging a transformer–limits their call-backs for bad lamps.
Oops, forgot [signage corey][/corey] for the above.
My next band at the 40 Watt is going to be called “Midnight Salvage.”
sarajean80 – Oh no. You are not the only one! I feel much better knowing that it isn’t just me! Second thought… He’s selling those wonderful, possibly functional neon letters, but keeping those horrifying chairs???
SHUT UP! I LOVE THOSE CHAIRS! THEY ARE VERY RETRO/VINTAGE COOL! I HAVE VERY GOOD TASTE!
Why is everyone hating on those awesome chairs? I see no auntie stains on them.
The letters are covering up the auntie stains. 😉
*hands Meredith Lola’s flask*
It’s the fabric. Cover them in Italian leather and they’ll be FAB!!! (wish I had those red neon letters)
I would leave the grey one, if grey is it’s original color, and cover the brownish one with white leather, and polish the legs up really high. How awesome would that look? Answer: real awesome.
The women on my mom’s side are known for seeing the “potential” in homes and discarded things. In men, too, which explains a lot.
Neon is good lighting, it’s very, very easy to customize, especially in small applications.
What it is not, is cheap to run. That transformer needs a lot of juice to get the lamps lit. Which can mean some very large-gauge wire between the fixtures.
Should we all just go ahead and move into the gutters?
I think we’ve been there for a while.
I have a condo complex here. Also, a swimming pool filled with Jell-O.
I figured it would be a swimming pool filled with……. nevermind…..
Auntie juice?*
*Where’s that corner?
Depends on what kind of auntie juice you’re talking about 😉
But actually, no. Just, just, no.
Whatever was causing Meredith’s auntie stains… 😀
What’d you think I meant?
Depends on the auntie, doesn’t it? Great auntie probably drinks prune juice, and that would stain pretty bad wouldn’t it? Grape juice is hard to get out. Orange juice stains too…
Oh. Uh…carry on then.
The first time I looked at the pictures and saw the letters available, that slang term for lady bits jumped out at me like a… like a… hm, what’s the best example? Ooh, I know, it jumped out at me like a blinking neon sign!
I think you’d need a lot more letters for “golden lotus”. That is what you mean, right?
Wait, it’s supposed to be golden?
Dammit, what am I doing wrong??
La reina!!!!!
Welcome back! Your snark has been missed (but you’ve been communing with nature in a very cool way, so your reasons are understandable!).
Aww, thanks, Lola! Turtle nesting season is over, alas, which is the best time of my work year.
For those who are interested, pics of cuteness in a half shell from this years’ turtle season in the Arabian Gulf can be seen here.
Oh! Those are so adorable. May I share them on Facebook?
Have another “Welcome back!”
We’ve missed your pretty face! 🙂
Those little turtles are so CUUUUUUUUTE! How come my job doesn’t involve hanging out with cute little turtles at the beach? I am going to kill my high school guidance counselor.
La Reina, I didn’t recognize you without your SCUBA gear! 8) Good to have you here. We need reinforcements for the occasional troll infestation.
Well, Andie, there is the bit about how that involved being on the Arabian Gulf at the end of Summer, too.
Very nice to see you back, Lareina. Looks like you were having a wonderful time with some wonderful little creatures.
Reina, those pictures are amazing, and the turtles are adorable!
Hi Reina.. 🙂
Love the pics. Were there any mutant ninja turtles? I just have a thing for green/amphibian/reptile/etc.
Thanks, everyone! Wasn’t expecting such a lovely effusive welcome back 🙂
And yes, the turtle babies are the cutest. I LOVE nesting season!
LurkRealClose, feel free to share them wherever. Background info: I took them at work, on the coast of Ghantoot, which is between Abu Dhabi and Jebel Ali in the U.A.E. And the turtles are part of a conservation program run by the Emirates Marine Environmental Group.
You’re definately not the only one! I think Sparky was trying to avoid that connection by leaving the N all alone. But really, what else can you spell with those 4 letters?
Cnut. The name of an early 11th century king of England, which the prissy Victorians re-spelled as Canute because they saw the anagrammatic possibilities of the name Cnut.
I thought that was spelled “Knut”?
New College University Trust?
New Caanan Under Takers?
North Carolina University Trust?
For Andie:
eNUcleaion Treatment Center
Oh, Capn how thoughtful!
You can also spell part of my favorite latin legal phrase, “nunc pro tunc”. It means “now for then”. Although I’m pretty confident you would still get thrown out of the dorm for having a giant neon “TUNC” sign. Because no one would read it any other way than… golden lotus.
I want to know where the 1 and the 2 come into the picture…
Well, if you spell out the slang term for lady bits using the letters then number 1 should be in front of it and number 2 behind.
:puts self in corner:
Oh, tsk!
I must have had a much too logical day.
1TN 2 CU – Wanting to see you.
Dennis just wants a date. File this as the wrong section of Craigslist.
The circular fire/file.
Ooh, good LL! You actually made something that doesn’t get us all put in the corner out of those letters AND used all the numbers as well! Very nicely done.
I blame all the math and writing I had to do today.
A mental detector is needed to find the deeply buried snark in my brain.
Here’s another one: N1 2CUT (none to cut). Or 12 golden lotuses–probably the dream of someone who just happens to have the letters “C,N,T,U” available.
Oh, where is Taco when we need him?
He would probably comment on those
hideouslovely armchairs those CUT letters are hanging out on*.*this most likely is a total fabrication
Hey, I like those armchairs!!! I was just wondering if they were also for sale.
Yes, they are
hideouslovely, aren’t they?I’m sure Sparky would be willing to work out a trade.
Meredith – love the new look. You and Lola are making me think it’s time for a change!!
Compared to the mental picture provided by the letters, the chairs are beautiful!
And such a fabrication that hasn’t been seen since the late sixties at least!
And another cool upgraded avatar, too
Using the numbers “1” and “2” (not shown), you could spell, “To See One Nut” in text message shorthand. 2C 1 NUT….
If we had two “O”s and another “C” we could have COCONUT as well.
This wasn’t very evil, Spud Boy.
🙂
I guess the “Evil” is ironic, like calling a fat guy “Slim”.
Well, anyway, see you next Tuesday.
It is evil if you put it in the right conxtext:
2 C 1 NUT-Tacothong two sizes too small.
Just add limes to the coconut… it’s been a rough day.
*tosses limes in the snark lounge* Ya’ll start without me.. I’m in the bleach jacuzzi.
Or it could be more of a pervy request: “1 2 C NUT”
*hands pistachios*
Here y’are.
Have some nitroglycerin!
Hey, Bombdude! Can we make nitroglycerin from Lauren’s pistachios and then blow stuff up using the neon letters? Would that work? Can we blow up the hideous/lovely chairs?
Next time, on Mythbusters…
Our local state University is University of North Texas, better known as UNT. Here in Texas, radio station call signs begin with a K. The school wisely chose to call the campus radio station KNTT.
christina…hey, I’m local to UNT as well! Small world, eh?
Oh, and penis…you know, for equal time and all that.
I’m usually local to Penis, too. This IS a small world.
Isn’t Lola local to, like, 4 million of them?
** cue the song…
Bridgete is local to a Brazillion…
I thought you knew I was your neighbor?
You’re Mr. Rogers?
I do love me some zippered sweaters. Pity I haven’t seen any this year, nor the long cardigans.
Sorry, the temperature has dropped into reasonable 70s so fall fashion is on my mind.
Well, in some fairness, until middling recently, that campus was NTSU, when Texas still had a “State” university system.
Before that, wasn’t it called the Normal School or something equally odd?
Could be. Get hard to keep track up there, what with TWU and the like near by. hard enough to keep track as is, SWTSU is TSU; Texas A&I is A&M Kingsville, CTSU is A&M Commerce–at least Sam Houston and Stephen F Austin have kept their names.
I’ve always been a fan of the inappropriate acronym. The First Union Center (in Philadelphia) was a particular favorite.
How very Philadelphia it is to nickname your arena the FU Center.
At one point while living in Philadelphia, I worked in a Center City building that was called the First Union Building. As one might guess, bad days were characterized as “Just another day in the FU Building.”
Airport codes are fun. Fukuoka*,Japan’s is FUK, Sioux Falls is SUX. My favorite pair to place tickets for was Mexico City to Los Angeles: MEXLAX.
*Undoubtedly, I speeled that very wrong.
I thought MEXLAX was Montezuma’s Revenge?
MEXLAX causes a Tacosplode™.
MEXLAX is the new name for the area around Los Angeles internation airport.*
*Hi Al, nice of you to call…again.
If you want to go un-subtle, Sembach Germany is SEX :-p
Also, Westhampton, NY is FOK and Offut AFB is OFF :-p
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travelbuzz/892347-funny-airport-codes.html This thread is pretty funny :-p
Adding to the juvenile nature of today’s topic, Pensacola (PNS) and Charlotte(CLT).
That’s awesome! As always, I learned something new in the Snark Lounge today. Now, with whom to share this newfound knowledge…?
Less anatomic (but still possibly applicable) is the abbreviation for Newark: EWR. I’m pretty sure that’s what you say when you land there. And maybe when you read some of the aforementioned destination abbreviations.
Andie, are you on Facebook? Many of us snarkers are, and it’s so much fun to be checking each other’s status when we run out of things to say here, or the site is late in updating due to *coughdancough* unforseen circumstances. I left a clue in the forum on how to find me on FB. 8)
You may have to find a few others before you find me because I’m search-limited to “friends of friends”, but I’m there. I generally don’t send friend requests to internet pals, but I accept them as long as I can figure out who you are. A message with the friend request is best. 😉
I am on facebook but only so I can play games. I have almost nothing on my page. My fake FB name is JD Aeryth and you can check me out, but I have no desire to blast info about myself to the universe or be tracked down by old “friends” so I basically play Farmville and ZooWorld and lurk. Sorry to be such a boring web presence, although there are definitely enough web characters without me. I was thinking about dressing up my FB page with maybe some big red neon letters. What do you think?
^^ I know where you can get some!!!111!! ^^^
Of course, the vocabulary is somewhat limited.
Andie, a bunch of us play Farmville and various other things. We can be neighbors!
Cool! I’d love it!
There’s someone with the exact same real name (not Silva Noir, my actual name… though there might be another SN out there too) as me on FB. Clues that it’s not me: I don’t live in the Midwest, I don’t like football, and Lil Wayne is not my favorite “musical artist” (though that term is being generous). Oh, and I don’t have an FB page.
And some of us stick to resaturants and cities.
And to watching HHNF engage ing stream-of-commenting consciousness <g>
But, it would also be a good way to see EB’s green-iced cake, or the icing flower she piped the other day.
And, today, to learn that Taco was served mashed potatoes without gravy.
I’m becoming more and more tempted to break my own rule and friend a few of you…
no. I won’t.
I’d just end up forgetting who is who anyway.
Then again, TM is already in my favorite quotes box…
No. I won’t friend you people. I don’t know y’all in real life.
**repeats this to self over and over**
Well, I just organized everybody into a YSaC group among my f/b friends. But, I also have a “cheat sheet” so I can keep track of people by both real/facebook name and YSaC handle, too.
Astro, FWIW, YSACers are the only people I’ve friended who I don’t know in person, with a very few exceptions (those people are always good friends or spouses/partners of friends of mine – we may not have met in person but I definitely know who they are). Somehow, the people I get to know here I don’t mind “knowing” elsewhere, but this is the only example of that. I resisted rather a while before doing so, so I understand the disinclination.
You’re not the only one here who feels as you do – I requested someone on here who said (approximately), “No, I’ll keep my FB friends separate from YSAC” and that was all that needed to be said. It’s your prerogative. I’ll respect that more than someone who has elebenty kabillion “friends” but doesn’t actually know more than three of them in person. I don’t use my real name on here for a reason, so I understand privacy concerns, too.
Sorry to maunder on a bit there … I’m supposed to be doing time entry (hi, Andie!) and am procrastinating … displacement activity, ahoy!
I resisted for a while, too, but I’m glad for lots of reasons that I changed my mind, too many to list.
Astro, your rule is because you don’t want to be a hypocrite for bugging your sister about doing the same thing, right? And your sister is younger, right? Well, you could break your rule when you turn 16, and manipulate the fact that you’re now allowed to have a driver’s license into a reason why your judgment is better than hers, so therefore you’re better able to tell whether the people you’re talking to are really being themselves, or are just creepy weirdos.*
*Not that we aren’t weirdos on here, but…well, you know.
We might be weird, but we’re not creepy.*
*I hope.
My husband has come up with the best way to differentiate between weird and creepy. Weird is weird, but creepy is weird with it’s penis out. So that being said, most of us are just weird. 🙂
*I don’t do facebook. If it is important, I have email and a phone. If anyone here has a burning desire to tell me something, we have the forum.
I haven’t heard any creative acronyms with the W now that I’ve moved east of the Mississippi, but Oregon used the K to spell out things all the time. Never heard anything quite that inappropriate though.
There was (and probably still is) a radio station in San Francisco with the call letters KOIT, but that was a play on Coit Tower not … another word beginning with “coit”. Those are the only “suggestive” call letters I know of.
Sarajean, you look … different. New haircut?
You like it?
:preens:
It’s the “I can’t
speelspell my own email address.” special at EB’s CUT’N Curl.Awww…Random puppy cuteness!
For once, he’s speechless!
Hehe….
😉
I absolutely love that HamCan posted nothing but the picture of the itty bitty baby puppy, and got 6 adoors! Who would through doors at a puppy? We would!
Some radio call signs are classic. The “Zoo” the Dallas, KZEW.
KILT in Houston, though, never played a single Scot’s song, though.
But, they likely had call-sign envy of KIKR (even if the C&W was much, much better on KILT).
Always wondered what caused the call-sign KOTX to be approved. Probably better that they are but a 200W station.
In the early ’90’s, there was an FM station out of Glendale, CA that incorporated the letters L, I, and T into their call sign which started with the letter K.
I bet it was hard for some guys to find.
:returns to corner:
101.9 on the FM dial.
Nah, we just keep fiddlin’ the knobs till we get lots of static…
I think we have a KLTY, which is family programming, if I’m not mistaken.
He’s right, these would be great to use as indoor decoration!!! I’m thinking of putting them right over my bed.
What???
On second thought, I really don’t need a giant NUCT sign over my bed. And I mean, really, what else could you spell with it?
Oh, Meredith!! Joan Blondell. This is so good.
Is this a still from “My Forgotten Man”?
You know, I’m not sure. I grabbed the photo, but there weren’t any movie credits with it. It was that or Gloria Stuart (rip).
Yes, it IS from “My Forgotten Man”!! One of the greatest musical moments in film history: I couldn’t figure out a link, so here’s the URL —
http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/news/watch/v833469RtpFCT4R
Please, everybody, take a moment to enjoy this, for: 1) Joan Blondell’s wonderful face, 2) Etta Moten’s singing, 3) Busby Berkeley’s emotional choreography, 4) the social history
Meredith, I love you for your avatar choice.
Innana – what a great way to start the morning. Thanks.
Side Note Corey: One of the related posts is “Granny Panties”. Go on and look at how many comments are posted on that day. Go on, look, I’ll wait.
We’ve come a long way, baby.
None of these letters are any of my initials. I wouldn’t use them for a word, because they are all caps. But I am so curious as to where they originated. I can’t think of any business that would have those letters involved. Well, I can think of one, but managed girls don’t like to call that much attention to themselves all the time.
[business name Corey] I was able to think of words that would include these letters and would not necessarily be naughty, including Caution, Curtain, Education, Function, Junction, and Suction. Though some of them certainly COULD be naughty… [/corey]
Caution: Behind this curtain is the education junction for suction function.
Yeah, not dirty at all.
Teaching you how to use your vacuum cleaner?
I bet it’s The Truncate 21 Lounge.
Depends on what you’re using it for, EB. 😉
Thanks to this sub-thread, I’ve had “Conjunction Junction” in my head all day.
Camille, what’s your function?
Snark. Snark is my function.
F(x)=2x^2-9
People sure have had to get creative with how they advertise since Craigslist removed the Adult Services section.
Manda, I can’t help it, but every time you write something, I see your little chiclet there making a sideways “mmmmHMMMM” half smile. It adds an entirely new and delightful tone to your posts.
The ones with her sibling grinning gleefully added an interesting accent to her comments as well. Like she knew she was getting in trouble but it was so worth it.
😀
My evil little minions!
Does the littlest minion still insist that shorts go on the head?
MandaB:
They will always be your minions.
They will always be evil.
They will not, however, always be little.
My minions (all four of them) are in their twenties and still have the same evil glint in their eyes and hell-for-leather grins. The only thing that changes is their height. I have to look up now! Grrrrrr! What’s more…it has been passed on to the first Eyebrow granddaughter. It’s a conspiracy, I tell you.*
*I’m sure Grampdaddy can confirm.
LL – yes she does! We have to keep her away from her brother’s underwear. She thinks that goes on her head too. Ugh.
Archie, I’ve already witnessed confirmation of the conspiracy. However, I’m told the joy of being a grandparent is that when your grandchild exhibits the same behavior that your child once did you get to laugh hysterically and walk away.
It seems pretty clear to me that these are either leftovers, or the only remaining letters in salable shape, from a sign that once hung over an infamous and large family’s house known as “The Unctuous 12”
Either that or it was a freakshow strip joint and the only bit missing is a single set of quotation marks.
I’m thinking it was a country music place, 1 2 (one, two) Country (as in, counting off at the beginning of a song). The O, T, and Y have inexplicably* gone missing.
*Because what good is one TOY? Isn’t it always better if they are plural?
I believe you “dyslexified” the T and the R. The T is right there at the end of the slang word everyone is so studiously avoiding…
Now I cannot speak to the benefits of a single vs. multiple ROYs, so I will leave that to you ladies 😉
I did, Bd, thank you – yes, it is Roy.
Based on my friend’s son, one is more than enough so the singular is appropriate; that still doesn’t explain why those letters would be missing.
/crap theory
My kitten’s name is Roy, and I don’t know if I could handle BOTH of my feet getting being attacked at the same time…
OMG, EB – I had a cat named Roy, too! He is one of my favorite felines of all time, and that is saying something because I love me some kittehs. Alas, he has crossed the rainbow bridge, but I hope your Roy is as delightful as mine was.
My Roy is pretty fun–his best friends are the other cat and my one-year-old. He’s also one of those hear-the-purr-across-the-room cats. He’s also, however, a murderer of toes and yoga mats, and got VERY interested in the icing flowers I was making last night -_- We named him after the holographic spy-fly from Star Trek :-p
Way back in the days when I was a young pup in Northern Indiana, I worked at a diner that posted the day’s specials on one of those signs with the big magnetic letters. Mysteriously, the letter “R” would migrate to a different position on the days we served “Breaded Clams”.
Haha! Beaded clarms…
*blink* Apparently I don’t get it…
EB: *Ahem & whispering*::
Bearded Clams
Shhh!
*think think think*
*lightbulb*
OOOoooohhhh….
Thanks for spelling that out for me, Mudsy :-p
Oh, no problem. There are days when I consider it my job to point out all the pronesque references at YSaC.
I hope you noticed that Mindfield was NO help at all.
I really dig those…
And you have the boots and shovel to prove it Hammy!
Well, there are days when I consider it my job to deliberately obfuscate thinly veiled pronesque references for no better reason than that it pleases my inner nerd. Also, I like coining neologisms that nobody will ever use again, because then I can say that I’m the only one who ever said that to people who wouldn’t know or care what I’m talking about. It also helps distract from the disturbing mental imagery of my earlier obscure reference to a missing quotation mark.
But I LOVE beaded clarms!
I hear that’s all you can get down in the Gulf anymore. Unfortunately, they don’t do tartar sauce any justice but are to die for with pearl onions and a spritz of lemon.
According to the Urban Dictionary, “bearded clams” are also referred to as “bearded tacos”.
That’s no help – the bearded Taco is unavailable for two weeks – he said so just a couple days ago.
**blinks**
Well, Bacontini apparently is my spooning partner, and he may have taken my beard-growing tips home to Taco…
Harhar.
Also, those bearded clams are my pets, guys! Geeze! What did you think I was keeping in the beard of mystery?
He’s unbearded in his two f/b photos <G>
“The Unctuous 12” for J.K. Rowlings follow up to HP.
Why is the N shinnier than the rest of the letters?
T-shirt alone time.
That would be aloNe time.
There was a show on Adult Swim a few years ago that had the letter N getting into some seriously adult situations. Could be she’s been boozing it up and sleeping around with the letter S again.
“N” probably has had its face replaced. Or was from a different part of the building.
*OT Rant*
Explorer and Firefox keep giving me the 400 Bad Request notices every time I post. All’s fine as long as I’m just refreshing the site, but the minute I post, they both are giving me sass and won’t allow me to edit. I’ve cleared my cache and history a brazillion times but nothing is working–except switching back and forth until one or the other gets over its tantrum after enough time has passed. Anybody else having problems?
Hehe, you should just do what my mother believes is the answer to every internet problem: go through AOL to do anything and everything. Yes, I have reminded her it’s 2010. She still is convinced that anything wrong with the computer is because someone used “some other thing, because AOL makes it so you don’t have those issues”.
Awwww. They must have at least 25 users now. Can she access them on her Jitterbug phone? My mom and your mom are probably in an exclusive club.
Half chewed bagel chips aaaaallll over the keyboard. Thanks, Mudsy. The best part was that until last year, she was still paying for it. She got REALLY angry at me when I laughed at that the other day.
[aol ot because I have no snark today] I have a friend (yes, a real one that other people can see too!) who is only a few years older than I. He was still paying AOL until I found out about it a year ago. His reason for doing so? He didn’t want to lose his “impressive” AOL e-mail address [/ot]
I’m on aol dial up on my home computer. Yes, laugh, but it’s all I can get here in the woods. They literally stopped the high speed internet one street away from me and refuse to bring any wires down my street as the rest of the people on the street are either old, hermits, or both.
It’s why I also have a laptop with wi-fi for when I’m out of the house.
But I ditched the aol e-mail a LONG time ago. My gosh, the spam and viruses!
So your neighbor walks into Best Buy, wearing a pant suit and carrying an avocado colored PC with an 8-track tape drive under her arm. She walks up to the geek squad counter and says, “I need Windows 95! My AOL won’t run on anything but Windows 95.”
So the geek squad guy says, “Lady, did you just escape from Jurrasic Park or something?. No-one uses AOL or Windows 95 anymore, you should get a Mac like the rest of the folks at the nursing home.”
The lady turns red and storms off, saying, “I’ve never been treated so badly, I’m going to report you to your manager!”
The geek squad guy turns to his coworker and says, “What a c**t! We should have a neon sign that says c**t for people like that!”
His associate replies, “Yeah, I’d like to know where I could get one of those.”
By the way, I meant “mother” not “neighbor.”
No, Evil Spud Boy (awesome handle, BTW), you can’t call anyone’s mother a … what those letters spell.
In all fairness I have two platforms, a desktop and a laptop still running Win98, mostyl for legacy compliance.
One or the other is going to get bumped to Win2000, if only as a test (and te “get back” some AV protection).
Hey, if it were BB, the letters would have to have eithe yellow or blue faces.
CC might could use red, if they have any brick-n-mortar stores left.
no 400 errors today (touch wood).
Well, I have to admit to ail for email only. And for the same reasons as Scott Adams–ever try to get rid of it? <eyeroll>
Other dumb part is, for free email, if you dial the settings up, the aol POP3 mail client is actually pretty handy. It’s also enough different to stop some infiltrations.
But, you have to ride heard on it. But, you press that “this is spam” button, and unlike anything labeled “outlook” it actualy is filtered out.
I’ve been tempted of late to switch to gmail; already have an account with my alumni association for free anyway. If they’d stop allowing wholesale theft of IP addresses or brewing worms (or if they’d just use a better POP) I’d be over in a heartbeat.
Or, I would after I sorted out how to cope with 16 years of stored (culled for worthwhile) email correspndence.
But, that’s me; others differ. Vive la difference!
I use Lycos for my main e-mail (but don’t use lycos for anything else. ha!) Never any problem with spam, it filters it out right away.
I use Yahoo! for a backup… yahoo seems to be better at sending and receiving large files…but their page is cluttered with too many ads and celebrity news, etc.
*snerk*
But does the wood want to be touched?
It’s not rape if it’s
sexywelcomeinanimate.“It’s not rape if it’s inanimate.”
Ah, so that’s how those “date rape” drugs work.
Mudsy, I don’t know if it’ll help you, but I haven’t used anything other than Chrome since before I joined this site, and I have never had any issues with posting/replying or refreshing. Highly recommend it. I only go back to IE for work web sites that absolutely require it.
Thanks Bd! I think I’m going to try using that. Firefox has always been “berry-berry-gud-to-me” but lately I’ve been endowing it with a few expletives (aka terms of endearment).
FF was great and my fav for years, but then bloat started happening, and it became sssslllloooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwww. So when Chrome came out, I started using it, and am happy once again.
Indeedy – Chrome seems to work for me too, apart from odd random things that are unlikely to affect you folks (like when someone from work asked for volunteers to test the printoutability of the new interactive map, and in Chrome it just goes blank when you ask it to print).
“printoutability?” Is that a new Brit-ism?
Nah, just me. I make up words a lot. It was nearly ‘printableness’ but that would have been stupid.
Printability?
That sounds to me like something the map can do, rather than something it is.
Nothing is stupid when we Brits say it, Ratwoman.
Watch: “Penis!”
See? Sounds classy and highbrow.
I have to agree with Hugh*, everything sounds better in a British accent.
*IF that’s his real name õ.ô
I was having those problems the other day from my Mac FF, but it’s gone now. I swear it’s the hosting, no matter what they claim to the Llama-nun, bees be upon her (I can’t believe someone would lie to the Llama-nun!).
I suspect it’s actually the routing to and from the hosting.
Next suspicion being lazy server farm workers “hot” swapping things that do not actually support that activity.
Now it’s just happened at work, with our never-the-newest-version of IE. Well, whatever.
Dump Internet Exploder and Windoze! Get a Mac and browse the internets with Safari!
I’ll mention it to The Powers That Be. I’m sure it will go over like a lead balloon.
Don’t make me edit you, J-Dog. Oh, wait. You said Windoze. Never Mind.
My mobile issues seem to have worked themselves out, and now I can actually reply in thread, but I can’t see any side bar info. Unfortunately, since I switched to the mobile site, I’m unable to do a permanent switch back to desktop. I switch, write a comment it just reloads the mobile site.
I think the brown chair needs to drink some cranberry juice…
Awwwwww. Puppppppppyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
Ham, if I end up getting a puppy through CL, and my guy throws a fit when he comes home to it, I am holding you PERSONALLY responsible. Is that something you can live with? Well IS IT?
CL puppies are not allowed!
And I shall name him….SPARKY!!!
Just don’t name him George or Adam.
Or Hugh.
[puppy corey or matt, take your pick] Meredith, please don’t buy a puppy on CL! Go to your local shelter, where the rehoming fee includes vaccinations and having your puppy sprinkled. [/matt-corey]
We got our first cat from an adoption agency, and our kitten from CL. Noooot very happy with the adoption agency itself, mainly because they made us sign a contract with all kinds of stipulations as to what we can and can’t do with OUR cat. CL kitten came without any of those strings, and he’s so leeeeeeeeeettle!
Or [drumroll] SUE!
Name the puppy Hammy.
Ok, I shall name him Astro…Oh wait.
I have a friend who bought letter pillows for her bed. Guess which four she chose????? Imagine walking into her room and seeing four pastel pillows on her bed….
Was it F O U R?
haha, very funny.
LOLA?
DONT?
I give up…
Don’t drag me into this! Besides, Lola is short for something else.*
*And even that isn’t my real name.
Short for…Lolita?
Lallapalooza?
Lola, I was thinking about your name just yesterday, singing the Kinks’ old “L-O-L-A” to myself. It’s one of my favorite songs. Clothespin Jeebus, YSaC has invaded my reality.
Is it short for Dolores? That’s what my baby name book suggested, but you don’t really look like a Dolores…
Hmmmm… *pondering the act of dragging Lola into Meredith’s friend’s bed*
No, I was actually thinking of a different Lola.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRopmfinsWk
Um, you do realize that the Kink’s song “Lola” is about an encounter with a transvestite? I’d bet your next paycheck that our Ms. Lola is not a lady-boy.
Oh, I know. Although ladyboys rock my world. I love them. In fact, I was just home over my lunchtime finishing watching the latest episode of Drag U. (Love me some RuPaul.)
I just got the song in my head and of course it made me think of our Lola.
No. Not even a tomboy. And it’s not from the song (although that’s a favorite). It’s an abbreviation of a nom de guerre* chosen long ago and far away, and bears no resemblance to my government name. And it isn’t short for Lolita (though I may joke that it is).
I kind of love RuPaul, too. I heard an interview with him (out of drag) where he said “We’re born naked, and the rest is drag.” I like that.
*Not to be confused with noms de guerre, which are MREs. 8)
Uh, and just when did you take up les bras de la guerre?
Naturally, if meant as part of le guerre de coeur, then certainment! Bit, if concours des esprits is meant, then one would employ a nom de plume, would they not?
(Yes, I am babbling, trying to drive the rememory of both K-rats and MRE from my soul, ere supper being nigh and all. {Taquito Tuesday for LL}.)
Oooo, I know, I know! You could open a hair salon named “CUTN”… You would just need to buy an apostrophe :-p Is that like buying a vowel?
Does anyone still call, uh… passing flatus “cutting one” like we did when I was a kid (in the mid-cretaceous period)? If so, you could make CUT1 with these letters. Not sure why you would want to, but you could.
Guys’ dorm? Maybe as a warning sign of some sort… They would turn it on after the cafeteria serves pork and beans :-p
Would the salon name not be 2CUTN1
Mudsy I wD getting the bad 400 all the time. I switched tocthe 399 and voilà!
Apparently 399 doesn’t come with the handy red spell-checky lines 😉
But it *does* come with the handy “random capitalizer”!!
I noticed at least the French word was correct, even the accented “a”… 😉
woAh, yOU’rE RigHt! 399 muST be WHat sOME peoPlE On fACeBoOk uSE, TOo!
(Ow ow ow ow….)
And there’s a random “c” inserter, which seems oddly appropriate for today’s ad.
No, you’re all clearly wrongerer.
CJ’s channeling Taco.
ROFL!! Mother*()&)(& stupid iPhone….sigh…at least it was funny.
Oh. DUH! I just need to low-ball the 400! Thanks CJ!
*offering you some cheese and crackers from the back of Lionel’s head*
Is that appropriate talk in front of the jailbait Mudsy? Also, wow that would keep you quite busy.
Friend (not really): WOW this is a really big box!
Me: Well, you know I get the biggest gifts for my bestest friends.
Friend (not really): OMG – it’s a big letter!
Me: Yeah, I know. I got you four of them.
Friend (not really): What do they spell out?
*I quickly leave the room and never return*
::bows to the audience::
Thank you, thank you!
Quick, give me sparky’s number! My holiday shopping for my mother in law could be done this afternoon!
Your mother-in-law is a NUTCase too?
Testing Chrome.
Edit: NICE! Thanks Bd! No error notices.
Naval types are surrounded by CNT, but that is “Certified Navy Twill” a most excellent wash-n-wear fabric with much to laud it.
What to do with the 2U1 remains unanswered in our preent dicussion.
Name the YSaC band 2U1 and post them in the garage of the Snark Lounge (where the band practices)?
I think 2U1 is IF’s U2 Cover Band.
I think 1 2 CU*T is a Dixi Chicks cover band.
Busy day, and so fun! Can’t wait to see what goodies tomorrow brings. 8)
Camille and CJ, have a good time in the box today? Punchity punch punch!
G’Night, New Caanan University!
*don’t say what those wires all over the place remind you of* *DON’T say what those wires all over the place remind you of*
I think this is the aftermath of some guy getting dumped and putting a sign on her house for all the world to see what he thinks of her.
Why, yes, my divorce is going swimmingly. Why do you ask?
I don’t care what they say….I don’t think you’re bitter at all. 🙂