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[WWGD]

I want to open a perfume store called " 50 scents".

 

[DrGreg]

I want to open a perfume store called " 50 scents".

Well, I suppose that's better than "50 shades of spray".

 

[fresh_42]

I want to open a perfume store called " 50 scents".

Well, I suppose that's better than "50 shades of spray".

As long as you do not make the same stupid mistake a German franchise made. Their advertisement was by the slogan:

"Come in and find out!" I wonder whether they sold anything at all.

 

[WWGD]

As long as you do not make the same stupid mistake a German franchise made. Their advertisement was by the slogan:

"Come in and find out!" I wonder whether they sold anything at all.

Those were not perfumes, they were just non-scents.

 

[Ibix]

As long as you do not make the same stupid mistake a German franchise made. Their advertisement was by the slogan:

"Come in and find out!" I wonder whether they sold anything at all.

There used to be a UK chain of budget jewellery stores called Ratner's. The owner, Gerald Ratner, said publically that what they sold was "absolute crap" but people bought it anyway. I don't recall how long it took for them to file for bankruptcy after that - a week or two I think.

 

[DrGreg]

There used to be a UK chain of budget jewellery stores called Ratner's. The owner, Gerald Ratner, said publically that what they sold was "absolute crap" but people bought it anyway. I don't recall how long it took for them to file for bankruptcy after that - a week or two I think.

I remember that. You can read the details in the Wikipedia article: Gerald Ratner

 

[Ibix]

I remember that. You can read the details in the Wikipedia article: Gerald Ratner

Thanks - I see I had a few details wrong.

 

[WWGD]

Ibix just beat me to post #7,777. I challenge you for #77,777, which I estimate to be at around the year 2035. You in? Edit: Or let's see about #8,888

 

[Ibix]

Ibix just beat me to post #7,777. I challenge you for 77,777, which I estimate to be at around the year 2035. You in?

I make it more like 2066 given it's taken about five years to get to 7,777, but yeah, I'm in.

 

[ergospherical]

Are you supposed to suck on tic tacs or crunch them?

 

[BillTre]

Are you supposed to suck on tic tacs or crunch them?

Yes.

 

[DrGreg]

Are you supposed to suck on tic tacs or crunch them?

Did you know that labelling rules in the US allow a single 0.49g Tic Tac's 90% sugar content to be declared as 0g, since it is below the threshold of 0.5g? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic_Tac#Ingredients

 

[BillTre]

Did you know that labelling rules in the US allow a single 0.49g Tic Tac's 90% sugar content to be declared as 0g, since it is below the threshold of 0.5g? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic_Tac#Ingredients

I did not that know that, but I am so not surprised.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I understand her hotel was close to the school. She came straight out of Compton.;).

What? Do you know who she is?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Ibix just beat me to post #7,777. I challenge you for #77,777, which I estimate to be at around the year 2035. You in? Edit: Or let's see about #8,888

Or you could get a job. ;)

 

[WWGD]

What ca

What? Do you know who she is?

What can I say? Math/IT people tell me to stick to comedy. Comedy people tell me to stick to IT/Math.

 

[Keith_McClary]

Oh yes, oddly enough, I learned a key concept from the show, The West Wing. A woman is explaining how guys who are not proverbial hunks or knockouts get beautiful women: Smart and funny. Many women are attracted to men who are smart and funny.

I remember thinking, "I can do smart and funny!" This just helped to reinforce what I had already been learning. It's true! Unflinching confidence, smart, and funny. That was the ticket along with losing 60 pounds and adding a bunch of muscle. Gotta take great care of yourself too!

Truth Facts by Wulff & Morgenthaler for July 16, 2021

 

[Tom.G]

What ca
What can I say? Math/IT people tell me to stick to comedy. Comedy people tell me to stick to IT/Math.

I suppose you could try Grave Digger, no customer complaints that way.

 

[Ibix]

I suppose you could try Grave Digger, no customer complaints that way.

But any you do get are serious - there are no minor errors, only grave errors.

 

[Bystander]

I suppose you could try Grave Digger, no customer complaints that way.

Festus to Marshall Dillon: "Matthew you look like you was buried a week, and dug up clumsy," or words to that effect.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

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Truth Facts by Wulff & Morgenthaler for July 16, 2021

LOL! I raised my standards to dream girl. And it worked. If I posted photos of the women I've dated you wouldn't believe it.

But I'm not looking for a wife or life partner. No plans to do that again. So it's a very different game. I have also talked online with something around 6000 women over the last 6 years. I work very hard to find someone when I'm looking. It's a full-time job after my full-time job.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I call it Excel Dating because I have to use Excel to keep track all of my conversations. It isn't easy trying to carry on conversations with ten different women at once. Name, age, education, looks, job, passions, other interests, location, looking for?, wants to do?, names of children if any, names of pets, etc, etc, etc,

Oh yes, the most amazing relationship that I've had was with a women with which I seemingly had nothing in common. It never made sense. I never could have guessed that we could have three amazing years together. There was no basis for it. But we had magic. Since then I mainly look for that inexplicable personal chemistry. There is nothing logical about passion.

 

[fresh_42]

I suppose you could try Grave Digger, no customer complaints that way.

But they are also known for notoriously not paying the bill.

 

[WWGD]

I've run recently, in other sites, into some strange/unusual cases of people who's writing was excellent but their content was at best mediocre.

 

[hmmm27]

I've run recently, in other sites, into some strange/unusual cases of people who's writing was excellent but their content was at best mediocre.

How's there spelling ?

 

[WWGD]

How's there spelling ?

My bad, auto (in)correct. Whose . Maybe is to help Canadians avoid confusion with a house.

 

[hmmm27]

 

[WWGD]

They're giving away free groups!

 

[WWGD]

Guy wants to keep his business secret. Including from me. So I have to setup a database for a phantom business I know nothing about. I suspect even he barely knows. Should go well. I believe @fresh_42 was a pm? Any ideas, fresh?

 

[fresh_42]

Guy wants to keep his business secret. Including from me. So I have to setup a database for a phantom business I know nothing about. I suspect even he barely knows. Should go well. I believe @fresh_42 was a pm? Any ideas, fresh?

That's how Oracle, SAP, and all the others came into our world. There is a huge gap between 'from scratch' and e.g. SAP. You could start with the usual suspects (depending on how OO you want to be): clients, deliverers, credits and debits, bills, addresses, and so on. Those databases get bigger automatically, and painful if import and export are involved.

 

[dlgoff]

Dang. When it rains, it pours. Earlier I received a phone call from the American Embassy in the Philippines where my brother was living, telling me that he was found dead on July 6th in his apartment. Don't know how it happened. I've been spending most of the evening making contact with his children; one son and two daughters. The embassy officer said he would be sending me some forms that I need to forward to the kids about funeral arraignments.

edit: spelling

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Dang. When it rains, it pours. Earlier I received a phone call from the American Embassy in the Philippines where my brother was living, telling me that he was found dead on July 6th in his apartment. Don't know how it happened. I've been spending most of the evening making contact with his children; one son and two daughters. The embassy officer said he would be sending me some forums that I need to forward to the kids about funeral arraignments.

I'm very sorry to hear that Don. I just lost my brother as well.

 

[dlgoff]

I'm very sorry to hear that Don. I just lost my brother as well.

I'm sorry for your loss as well Ivan.

 

[WWGD]

That's how Oracle, SAP, and all the others came into our world. There is a huge gap between 'from scratch' and e.g. SAP. You could start with the usual suspects (depending on how OO you want to be): clients, deliverers, credits and debits, bills, addresses, and so on. Those databases get bigger automatically, and painful if import and export are involved.

Are changes like adding a table too painful for small databases? Problem is the business has not started yet. I asked client for a "projected invoice" ; one the business will likely issue, but I get the likes of " Just set it up!". He is an acquaintance, so I stick around. I doubt anyone else would go along unless seriously desperate. Very desperate. Guy has found the Stalin within.

 

[fresh_42]

Adding tables isn't a big thing. The difficulties come with constraints, foreign keys, or an OO architecture. OO is basically excluded in your case, and as you do not know anything, all you can do is set up naked tables with a bunch of just-in-case fields without any references to related tables. Good thing is, you can later program and hopefully charge hundreds of plausibility checks because you couldn't insert them from scratch into the database.