Topic: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread (Read 933220 times)

Min · « **Reply #2925 on:** March 07, 2008, 04:52:56 PM »

I bought some socks on sale at Sears today. I was so happy to get such a good deal, they were on clearance!

When I got home and looked at the receipt to, again, marvel in my bargain shopping abilities...I noticed that there was something on the receipt that I didn't buy! It was $1.99. It's not enough to go back to the store for, but enough to annoy the shit out of me. I can't marvel anymore. They've taken that away from me.

ydnamtnediserp · « **Reply #2926 on:** March 07, 2008, 05:09:51 PM »

did you charge it to your credit card? if so, call your credit card issuer and dispute the $1.99. it's such a small amount that most companies won't even waste their time processing the dispute - they'll likely write it off.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #2927 on:** March 07, 2008, 06:28:27 PM »

Oooh, I could wax poetic about all the evils of Sears. Needless (not Needles nor Needleses) to say I'm boycotting that evil entity and urge all of the rest of you to do so.

ivan · « **Reply #2928 on:** March 07, 2008, 07:05:47 PM »

Was it for a poncho?

pbsaurus · « **Reply #2929 on:** March 07, 2008, 07:10:41 PM »

Oh, that was bad.

Tprime · « **Reply #2930 on:** March 07, 2008, 11:38:56 PM »

I hate Sears. It's so bright...and nice.
I prefer Wal-mart. It's a pretty dirty place once you look at it, and it's got bargains. My kind of place.

Agent_Tachyon · « **Reply #2931 on:** March 08, 2008, 01:29:52 AM »

Bloated and sprawling over half the town?

Dark Shade · « **Reply #2932 on:** March 08, 2008, 02:20:16 AM »

What, him or Wal-Mart?

12AX7 · « **Reply #2933 on:** March 08, 2008, 06:43:54 AM »

Mmm... bloating. Now the feast can begin.

12AX7 · « **Reply #2934 on:** March 08, 2008, 06:47:09 AM »

Crazy.

At the 1994 annual awards dinner given by the American Association for Forensic Science, AAFS President Don Harper Mills astounded his audience in San Diego with the legal complications of a bizarre death. Here is the story.

On 23 March 1994, the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound of the head. The decedent had jumped from the top of a ten-story building intending to commit suicide (he left a note indicating his despondency). As he fell past the ninth floor, his life was interrupted by a shotgun blast through a window, which killed him instantly. Neither the shooter nor the decedent was aware that a safety net had been erected at the eighth floor level to protect some window washers and that Opus would not have been able to complete his suicide anyway because of this.

Ordinarily, a person who sets out to commit suicide ultimately succeeds, even though the mechanism might not be what he intended.

That Opus was shot on the way to certain death nine stories below probably would not have changed his mode of death from suicide to homicide. But the fact that his suicidal intent would not have been successful caused the medical examiner to feel that he had homicide on his hands.

The room on the ninth floor whence the shotgun blast emanated was occupied by an elderly man and his wife. They were arguing and he was threatening her with the shotgun. He was so upset that, when he pulled the trigger, he completely missed his wife and the pellets went through the window striking Opus.

When one intends to kill subject A but kills subject B in the attempt, one is guilty of the murder of subject B. When confronted with this charge, the old man and his wife were both adamant that neither knew that the shotgun was loaded. The old man said it was his long-standing habit to threaten his wife with the unloaded shotgun. He had no intention to murder her; therefore, the killing of Opus appeared to be an accident. That is, the gun had been accidentally loaded.

The continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw the old couple's son loading the shotgun approximately six weeks prior to the fatal incident. It transpired that the old lady had cut off her son's financial support and the son, knowing the propensity of his father to use the shotgun threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectation that his father would shoot his mother.

The case now becomes one of murder on the part of the son for the death of Ronald Opus.

There was an exquisite twist.

Further investigation revealed that the son [Ronald Opus] had become increasingly despondent over the failure of his attempt to engineer his mother's murder. This led him to jump off the ten-story building on March 23, only to be killed by a shotgun blast through a ninth story window.

The medical examiner closed the case as a suicide.

BizB · « **Reply #2935 on:** March 08, 2008, 08:05:18 AM »

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/opus.asp

12AX7 · « **Reply #2936 on:** March 08, 2008, 08:56:26 AM »

Party pooper.

BizB · « **Reply #2937 on:** March 08, 2008, 12:59:06 PM »

Every party needs one.

ydnamtnediserp · « **Reply #2938 on:** March 08, 2008, 06:05:42 PM »

don't you even think you're going to be mine. and that goes for the both of you.

ydnamtnediserp · « **Reply #2939 on:** March 09, 2008, 01:59:57 PM »

Demosthenes · « **Reply #2940 on:** March 11, 2008, 03:36:23 PM »

I'm going to request these for all of my subordinates.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9_amg-Aos4

EDIT:

Part two of the informercial is here, in case anyone wants to watch more of this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad3BR-G7aFw&NR=1

Tprime · « **Reply #2941 on:** March 11, 2008, 04:59:52 PM »

I remember watching that thing on G4.
And....here it is!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnPgHsVJ5rw&feature=related

Vespertine · « **Reply #2942 on:** March 12, 2008, 03:30:54 PM »

As I sit here watching Top Gun (not on purpose, it's just on TV), I feel the need to state the following for the record. As much as I am mindlessly entertained by this movie, the only reason it's tolerable is Goose.

Also, Rick Rossovich (Slider) is way hotter than any of the other meat in that movie.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #2943 on:** March 12, 2008, 04:03:09 PM »

Hot Gun, the porn parody of that movie was one of the first that I ever rented from a video store. It may have been the first, but it could also have been Debbie Does Dishes. Even then I really enjoyed parodies...

Agent_Tachyon · « **Reply #2944 on:** March 12, 2008, 11:40:23 PM »

As if Top Gun needed a porn parody.

Wunderkind · « **Reply #2945 on:** March 13, 2008, 07:21:40 AM »

Wait.
You mean Top Gun isn't a porn parody?

LuciferSam · « **Reply #2946 on:** March 13, 2008, 07:23:23 AM »

Takes my breath away.

xolik · « **Reply #2947 on:** March 13, 2008, 11:22:38 AM »

It's been a pain in the ass, but I've paid off all but one of my credit cards.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #2948 on:** March 13, 2008, 01:41:50 PM »

Quote from: xolik on March 13, 2008, 11:22:38 AM

It's been a pain in the ass, but I've paid off all but one of my credit cards.

Did you pay the other ones off with the one credit card?

xolik · « **Reply #2949 on:** March 13, 2008, 02:49:19 PM »

Quote from: Demosthenes on March 13, 2008, 01:41:50 PM

Did you pay the other ones off with the one credit card?

Oh no. I took the card with the highest interest amount and payed it down, while just doing the minimums on the other ones until it had a zero balance. Then did the same thing with the next highest rated card, etc, until it's just this one left with a small balance and a rate that doesn't make my eyes bleed.

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