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my FIRST reaction to this was: c'mon, Gary, haven't you worked in retail before?!? don't you know the customer is always right!! when i worked at Round Table Pizza many years ago, we had to follow that credo, and follow it we DID.... however, that didn't prevent us from allowing a little bias in the quality (ahem) we used in preparing the pizza of a rude asshole. (tangent: look people, DONT EVER, EVER be a shithead to someone who's preparing your food.... it's just not a wise idea) my SECOND and final reaction to this was: "NAME_DELETED" and you both sound like total fucking whiners. the only difference is that NAME_DELETED's entire email sounds whiny; yours doesn't till the last paragraph.

My peeves for January: 1) people who dont look where they're going and almost bump into you. .....one of the worst places for this is the outdoor stairs at the Seattle REI.... peeps who are goin down or up the staircase and are too busy talking about the fancy toys they just bought or are about to buy .... to see they're about to crash into you. 2) stores where you buy like just a few items, and they give you this receipt that's like 18 inches long, with ads about what's on sale or some sweepstakes bullshit. WTF?!?! save your paper, ya morons. I'm not interested in the shit you have to sell. ONLY the stuff i just bought. REI, despite being big and corporate, doesn't do this which is cool, but like... QFC, Safeway, and all the other big supermarkets do, plus Men's Wearhouse, Home Depot, etc. Blockbuster does too.. but at least they split up the 18" into like three pieces.. hah. 3) the beer commercials this year with the football refs. the Miller ones are sort of allright, but the Bud ones with the refs stealing the beer are just stoopid. ..... how dare they suggest a ref would steal beer. .... whatever happened to those Coors Light commercials with their twiiins???

sounds like it might be time to get a new car, TLG. (um, that is.. IF you want to go skiing, climbing, etc.)

funny video.... crazy fukkin Hungarians. i tried to open that link yesterday at work, and i got, for the first time, my company's automated you-cant-view-this-website message. classified it as "GPORN" ... which probably means "general" porn, as opposed to porn of a more specific variety. about two monts ago, our network security dept. said they were adding a whole bunch of new websites to their list of banned ones. (was kinda worried that CC.com would be, but nope... can still go there). but i always will (always have) checked the URL on a CC.com link before opening them at work... this one sounded innocent enough though, "funpic.hu" and so i opened it. I've learned my lesson tho. No longer will I open anything at work unless it's a website i know to be completely worksafe. (cuz the more links like that i open, the more the chance of them one day banning CC.com ) LINK-POSTERS, TAKE HEED... EVEN IF THE PIC/VIDEO YOU LINK TO WONT GET YOUR FELLOW CC.COM-ERS IN TROUBLE, THE WEBSITE IT'S ON COULD... PLEASE WARN ACCORDINGLY. THANKS. this picture is probably one of the things they deem "GPORN".... (would be acceptable for prime-time teevee, but could get you in trouble if viewed at work) MANN i wish i'd had that picture when i was 15 and fascinated with Pink Floyd... woulda taken it to Kinkos and gotten it printed to poster-size for my bedroom.

happy birthday, mr.E!

elementary, my dear mollusk. didn't you know that most mammals engage in one type or another of snout-crotch contact??

i remember a few months ago, Tom Leykis talking about how he'd gotten the Nigerian email thing... if i recall he had some choice words to say about it all.

i got this recently in my Yahoo Bulk-Mail folder ... some kinda stream-o-consicousness-ness... parts of it funny as shit, parts enlightening, and parts of it just plain bizarre ... i think the first part that made me crack up was the thing about the blonde and the bishop. From: "Enrollments D. Unpack" <belt@net-alert.com> Add to Address Book To: "Bikr" <bikr273 @ yahoo.com> Subject: I'm so sorry! : ) Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 19:16:57 -0600 I think you're meant to sprinkle salt on it... : ) [red X in white box] [red X in white box] [red X in white box] E noho ra Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity. A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men? Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives. Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name. Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change. No one ever became great by imitation. Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God. All things grow with time -- except grief. A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth. Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't [red X in white box]

right on, Mike. you go girl!! (er, i mean, you go boy!!)

i'm trying to think... any good smoke-free places downtown?

weak. seems like it gets harder and harder for kids to have fun these days, in these United States of Jesusland.

well considering some of the posts of yours I've seen, Nolse, that Shania Twain song called "Man, I feel like a woman" should be right on point.

sweet. went up to Paradise yesterday with this guy i work with... climbed up to 7500, about half way to Camp Manure. 'bout 12 inches of fairly dry freshiez!! much niceness. mostly cloudy, fairly poor visibility ... but at one point it freakishly cleared up -- like completely -- for 30 minutes, and we saw the entire mountain, and the valleys below too.

sure is, knotter!

sweeet. i love it when Comcast recycles their IP addresses and i get to vote on a CC.com poll twice (last time i voted, it had sorta been a close call between the Book of Mormon and the young virgins).

Dave, you're being a paranoid liberal again. ALL this means is that, if between midnite and noon that day, you unplug/restart your modem, you could experience a service interruption until noon. big wup. wouldn't be the first time Comcast service went kaput for a bit. i've sometimes had it go down for a whole day or even two (all told, in the 4.5 years i've had @Home/AT&T/Comcast it's gone down about 1 out of 100 days). sometimes i've hassled them to get the 1- or 2-day credit towards my bill (which they will do), but sometimes i just say fukkit. waiting on the phone forever and punching the keypad again and again to navigate all their punkass automated menus just ain't worth it.

as far as i recall, i didn't vote either way in the Sec. of State election last fall ... but Reed's predecessor, Ralph Munro, is one of the few Republicans I've ever voted for... he supposedly had/has good enviro. policies. And also, he gave me a job, one summer while i was in college! (not in state gov't tho... he hired me for landscaping work on his sweet waterfront property on Eld Inlet, near Olympia)

Saying Rossi's a crybaby because the hand recount changed the result, and he didn't have a single objection until the result was no longer going his way is legit, but saying nyah nyah nyah you got beat by a girl is about as lame as Donald Trump telling Andy he got outdebated by TWO WOMEN when he fired him on "The Apprentice." Put your misogyny in your pants next to the tube sock, it will look better there than on your sleeve, ya doof. people who have a jerky knee when it comes to misogyny (or their perceptions thereof) probably shouldn't be watching reality-TV shows. ....or TV in general, for that matter.

you're just jealous cuz you don't share a birthday with The Boss.

whose celebrities' birthdays do you share? for me a lot of them are musicians... Bruce Springsteen John Coltrane Ray Charles Ani DiFranco Julio Iglesias http://birthdays.celebhoo.com/ http://www.famousbirthdays.com/

improve what? ..... your schedule? your New Year? your asshole?

yeah going to the gym more is one of my resolutions, for sure... which hopefully wont be challenged/affected by another resolution of mine... to start coming to more pub clubs!! haha. actually i've been going to the gym a few times a month for about 12 years now... just coming out of a lull i've been in for the last two months, from having moved and all. i hate the way moving fucks with yer schedule. i know, i know... "excuses are like assholes.. everyone's got one, they all stink, and nobody wants to hear about yours." (read in CC.com "famous sayings" thread a few months back) Happy New Year, all ya'll beeyotchez!!!

changed planes there once; was probably THE most clean, modern, orderly airport i've ever been in. place definitely has some bizzare laws tho. spitting your gum out gets you a caning.... possessing illicit substances gets you life in prison.... selling illicits gets you the death penalty. (i think-- that last one might be Malaysia)

oh... ahem.. right. now, the question becomes tho, did Pax schedule the whole thing last winter/spring so that his 1000th post would be on 4/20?

what do you mean klenke? AF said he's at 1000 posts, but his counter says 2000. and what the heck is a "mome"? someone whose HTML skills aren't advanced enough to write a script to put a browser into a continuous-refresh-loop?