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[Borg]

Funny you should mention a cell phone company. I've been having fun with Verizon this week.

 

[jim hardy]

Funny you should mention a cell phone company. I've been having fun with Verizon this week.

http://www.verizon.com/about/investors/corporate-governance

 

[Borg]

http://www.verizon.com/about/investors/corporate-governance

LOL, Jim. I'll keep that handy in case I need it.

 

[dkotschessaa]

We might be signing with T-mobile, since At&T didn't forgive us for being broke and not paying the bill.

I sometimes feel like I'm the only person who finds this hilarious:

 

[Borg]

That really should be a commercial!

 

[WWGD]

I somehow noticed the similarity between "Can of Peas" and " Canopies".

 

[fresh_42]

I somehow noticed the similarity between "Can of Peas" and " Canopies".

I find the obvious similarity far more disturbing!

 

[WWGD]

I find the obvious similarity far more disturbing!

I head heard the word canopy but never looked it up. #$% Internet, I have no excuse any more.

 

[WWGD]

I wonder how many times in a row a dog would chase a boomerang. Would s/he figure it out and stop fetching (Offset a few rows)?

 

[WWGD]

Powerball jackpot at $435 million tonight. There is a sweet spot to buy before too many tickets are sold, so more than one winner is very likely and jackpot, expected payout shrinks very fast.

 

[fresh_42]

Just heard on a documentary about Learjets. "Birds are the worst enemies of airplanes." Huh? Didn't they confuse something here?

 

[Matilda Salazar]

Wrong topic ;-)

Copy and paste?LOL

 

[WWGD]

Strange Day/Night:
First, at night, a bunch of pre-teens walking the streets alone ( different incidents of it; not as one group.) Then I get a phone call early today I did not catch, only see it (and the number) later. when i call back, it is a radio station many states away, robo-advertising a contest which I was automatically entered into.No scam, I don't think, I was not asked to enter any personal info. First question was on which artist had a birthday on June 7., giving 3 choices. I knew answer was Prince, but my phone pad did not work well, and I was automatically disqualified.

 

[Evo]

Maybe this is normal. When you go out, like to the grocery store, do you constantly have people come up to you and ask you for nutritional advice, like which is healthier, olive oil or coconut oil, OLIVE OIL! Coconut oil is the unhealthiest vegetable oil there is, it is the highest in saturated fats, even my health insurance included a warning about it in their monthly newsletter, well maybe palm oil is worse.

But I digress, I don't know why I look like a health expert, but I am constantly approached by people in the store asking for advice. Or they just want to tell me about something they saw that I might be interested in. Today I was looking at some echevaria they had on sale and some nice lady came over to me to let me know that she bought a boston fern there a couple of days ago for $5 and there were 2 left if I would like one. And she just kept talking and talking and finally I said "thank you" and she said "oh, goodbye".

Every time I go out people keep coming up to me wanting to talk. I just find this weird. Is this normal? Do you constantly have complete strangers come up to you in public places and strike up a conversation?

Maybe I am being stalked by the government?

 

[jim hardy]

Well, push it a little. Ask the next one about your "Aura" .

 

[fresh_42]

Every time I go out people keep coming up to me wanting to talk. I just find this weird. Is this normal?

You should really stop to wear this t-shirt saying "Info Service".

 

[Evo]

You should really stop to wear this t-shirt saying "Info Service".

I really do feel like I am wearing a sign "I'm a loser, please talk to me".

 

[fresh_42]

Is this normal? Do you constantly have complete strangers come up to you in public places and strike up a conversation?

To me those occasions, at least those I remember, occurred when I have been a stranger to the place myself. I remember a visit to MI when I took a break somewhere in nowhere to have a snack and a not so healthy thing on the longer way back to the airport. As I stood there on a parking lot, a van with four or five young ladies stopped and they asked me about the way to a party. Oh how I hated this flight ticket in this moment ...

But this hasn't been the only time something like this happened to me. My guess is this happens, because as a stranger you normally are far more open to impressions of all kind and looking around anyway, which makes it easier for others to start a conversation. However, I do not assume that you behave like a tourist in the grocery store which makes it a bit strange.

 

[Evo]

To me those occasions, at least those I remember, occurred when I have been a stranger to the place myself. I remember a visit to MI when I took a break somewhere in nowhere to have a snack and a not so healthy thing on the longer way back to the airport. As I stood there on a parking lot, a van with four or five young ladies stopped and they asked me about the way to a party. Oh how I hated this flight ticket in this moment ...

These were girls flirting with you the "HOT" guy! This was no accident, they spotted you and made a decision to talk to you. Not that my girlfriends and I have ever <cough> done anything like this when we were young.

I've just noticed that over the past year that I seem to have an abnormal number of complete strangers come up to me and ask my opinion or just start chatting. These are obviously wealthy, educated people, dressed much nicer than me, hmmmm, maybe I do look like a store clerk. The sad thing is, I really liked some of these people and they seemed to be people I would like as friends, having similar interests. Like the fern lady today. She looked like she just walked off of the cover of Vogue. I was wearing capri pants and a tank top.

 

[dlgoff]

I get so impatient during vacuum pump-downs.

 

[WWGD]

Well, push it a little. Ask the next one about your "Aura" .

Good one, but a bit tricky. Worse case, you may get a lecture on your aura. Make sure the first name of the person talking to you is not something like "Zelda", or at least does not have the prefix " Madame", or not wearing a handkerchief wrapped around their head. I don't remember hearing about "Zelda the engineer/economist, etc. " It is always Zelda's readings, etc.

 

[WWGD]

And now that I mentioned "prefix" in above post, I am remembering all these restaurants advertising a "prefix" lunch, instead of a prix fixe lunch . What is a "prefix" lunch: " lunchanarium"? And don't get me going about potato's.

 

[fresh_42]

... or not wearing a handkerchief wrapped around their head..

But you do know, that you shall never leave the house without one?

 

[WWGD]

But you do know, that you shall never leave the house without one?

Together with aura-cleaning liquid and equipment?

 

[fresh_42]

Together with aura-cleaning liquid and equipment?

Sort of. One corner should be carrying liquid proteins, if I remember correctly. But towel day is over this year.

 

[dkotschessaa]

Maybe this is normal. When you go out, like to the grocery store, do you constantly have people come up to you and ask you for nutritional advice, like which is healthier, olive oil or coconut oil, OLIVE OIL! Coconut oil is the unhealthiest vegetable oil there is, it is the highest in saturated fats, even my health insurance included a warning about it in their monthly newsletter, well maybe palm oil is worse.

But I digress, I don't know why I look like a health expert, but I am constantly approached by people in the store asking for advice. Or they just want to tell me about something they saw that I might be interested in. Today I was looking at some echevaria they had on sale and some nice lady came over to me to let me know that she bought a boston fern there a couple of days ago for $5 and there were 2 left if I would like one. And she just kept talking and talking and finally I said "thank you" and she said "oh, goodbye".

Every time I go out people keep coming up to me wanting to talk. I just find this weird. Is this normal? Do you constantly have complete strangers come up to you in public places and strike up a conversation?

Maybe I am being stalked by the government?

Possibly you have an "open" disposition, i.e. you look easy to talk to. It doesn't not happen to me that much, though I imagine people more frequently approach females than males.

We have coconut oil in the kitchen but it is not used very often. I think a jar lasts us a year or two. The one in the bathroom however, is used daily by me as a hair product. It is the secret to my beauteous locks. (Well, not anymore I guess)

-Dave K

 

[jim hardy]

Make sure the first name of the person talking to you is not something like "Zelda", or at least does not have the prefix " Madame", or not wearing a handkerchief wrapped around their head. I don't remember hearing about "Zelda the engineer/economist, etc. " It is always Zelda's readings, etc.

Hmmm..
A 'Psychic' once said to me: " December 23rd is a significant date for you" ,
and told me i'd be in court twice in the next year but not as a defendant.

Dec 23 was the date of my divorce a few years earlier
and i was indeed called to court twice in the next year as a witness ..
When i got the second summons i thought back to that psychic and said "Sometimes I just have to wonder..."

No basis for it in Physics though, beyond coincidence.

old jim

 

[WWGD]

Hmmm..
A 'Psychic' once said to me: " December 23rd is a significant date for you" ,
and told me i'd be in court twice in the next year but not as a defendant.

Dec 23 was the date of my divorce a few years earlier
and i was indeed called to court twice in the next year as a witness ..
When i got the second summons i thought back to that psychic and said "Sometimes I just have to wonder..."

No basis for it in Physics though, beyond coincidence.

old jim

Give me 10+ consecutive correct guesses like that, and I may start believing.

 

[WWGD]

BTW, I used to be able to guess small things about people correctly. Thinks like " This guy will ask me what the time is" , or, " This person likes the rock group Beastie Boys", minor things of this sort, but never the important things, like winning lottery numbers. What a waste.

 

[jim hardy]

Give me 10+ consecutive correct guesses like that, and I may start believing.

That's pretty much how i felt. Were that psychic somebody i knew i'd have tried to gather some more data points.

BTW, I used to be able to guess small things about people correctly. Thinks like " This guy will ask me what the time is" , or, " This person likes the rock group Beastie Boys", minor things of this sort, but never the important things, like winning lottery numbers. What a waste.

You might enjoy Carl Jung's book "Synchronicity". Be aware though it's anathema to established science.

Music of the Spheres?
I once wrote a Basic computer program that took Florida's wining lottery numbers (Before Powerball, when they were only 49 to pick from)
made them into a list of 49 bit binary numbers
printed out their values as binary, octal, hexadecimal and decimal looking for a pattern in non-decimal number base (radix?).

Was trying to figure out how to convert them to base(radix?) e and base pi , even bought a math textbook on 'Irrational Numbers"
but found that math over my head.
If i ever do learn it i'll try base Planck's Constant, too.

 

[WWGD]

That's pretty much how i felt. Were that psychic somebody i knew i'd have tried to gather some more data points.
You might enjoy Carl Jung's book "Synchronicity". Be aware though it's anathema to established science.

Music of the Spheres?
I once wrote a Basic computer program that took Florida's wining lottery numbers (Before Powerball, when they were only 49 to pick from)
made them into a list of 49 bit binary numbers
printed out their values as binary, octal, hexadecimal and decimal looking for a pattern in non-decimal number base (radix?).

Was trying to figure out how to convert them to base(radix?) e and base pi , even bought a math textbook on 'Irrational Numbers"
but found that math over my head.
If i ever do learn it i'll try base Planck's Constant, too.

Yes, I try to keep a distinction between that which has not been tested and what has been debunked.

 

[WWGD]

My OCD keeps bothering me, and I want to give a like to anyone who has none yet: I cannot stand the division by 0 next to their avatar: Total Posts/Likes=a/0 .

 

[dkotschessaa]

My wife, who I've known since I was 10, although we lost touch for 15 years in between, was told by a psychic (before we re-met) that she would marry somebody "from her past."

Sounds pretty amazing, but she met the psychic when she was a journalist and doing a news story on psychics in some town in Florida . She visited at least a dozen psychics while doing the story. Surely one of them was bound to tell her something that would come true!

 

[WWGD]

My wife, who I've known since I was 10, although we lost touch for 15 years in between, was told by a psychic (before we re-met) that she would marry somebody "from her past."

Sounds pretty amazing, but she met the psychic when she was a journalist and doing a news story on psychics in some town in Florida . She visited at least a dozen psychics while doing the story. Surely one of them was bound to tell her something that would come true!

And often confirmation bias comes into play when you want to believe: you only remember the things you were told that became true.

 

[Borg]

And often confirmation bias comes into play when you want to believe: you only remember the things you were told that became true.

I know what you mean. Someone told me something that was completely wrong but I forget what it was.