Topic: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread (Read 934564 times)

ydnamtnediserp · « **Reply #3725 on:** September 26, 2008, 04:44:58 PM »

excellent!

dcrog · « **Reply #3726 on:** September 26, 2008, 04:51:31 PM »

Wait. Where is the poor dog living now?

BizB · « **Reply #3727 on:** September 26, 2008, 08:10:41 PM »

There's no dog. The pet was a goldfish.

12AX7 · « **Reply #3728 on:** September 26, 2008, 10:33:56 PM »

Quote from: BizB on September 26, 2008, 02:28:00 PM

This morning, I explained the current crisis to my daughter in terms that a 10 year old could understand. This is how it went.

Let's pretend that you found a really cool dog house for your pet, but you didn't have any money to buy it and you didn't have a job to pay for it over time - like lay-away. So, you come to me, the bank, and you say, "Dad... errr... Mr. Banker, I want to buy this dog house, can you give me a loan?"

I ask, "Can you pay me back for it?"

You assure me that you can.

I never ask for proof that you're going to earn any money and I just take your word for it. I do this because I know that I'm going to spend $100 on this dog-house, but I owe your mom $100, so I'm just going to tell her, "Bubbles owes me $100 for this dog house that I bought her, but since I owe you $100, I'm just going to have Bubbles pay you back the money. Okay?"

Mom, agrees.

You never pay mom for the dog house and after 6 months, she takes it away from you and sells it to the neighbor for $30 (all she could get for it).

Now, you don't really care because you got to use the dog house for 6 months.

I don't care because I no longer owe mom $100.

Mom's pissed because she only got $30 for her $100 outlay and Mom's husband is pissed because he was going to use that $100 for tickets to a football game.

The football team owner is pissed because there's an empty seat, now. Not just one empty seat, but lots of them because lots of little kids made the same deals with their parents.

The concession stand guy is pissed because there are fewer people to buy hot dogs and the people that are there aren't buying as many hot dogs because they were hurt buy their kids' dog-house purchase, too.

The concession stand guy's wife is pissed because she can't buy more materials for her dog-house sales business because her husband only sold 1/2 of the hot dogs that he bought and the rest went bad.

Now, imagine that same thing happening with Billions of dollars on real houses.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,428641,00.html

"Even though he's only been on the job for less than three weeks, he's bailing out with parachute worth close to $20 million, according to an executive compensation analysis conducted for the New York Times by James F. Reda Associates.

That's right, $20 million for 17 days on the job ... and his company failed.

Fishman, who formerly was chairman of Meridian Capital Group, apparently was much coveted by WaMu, which was counting on him to lead the failing thrift out of mortgage troubles that pushed the bank to a $3.3 billion second-quarter loss.

According to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, WaMu threw a $7.5 million bonus at Fishman when it hired him on Sept. 8, and guaranteed him an immediate cash severence of $11.6 million — both of which he gets to keep.

He also was eligible for annual bonuses of up to 365 percent of his annual base pay — set at $1 million — to go with millions of shares of company stock."

12AX7 · « **Reply #3729 on:** September 26, 2008, 11:02:00 PM »

Quote from: Vespertine on September 25, 2008, 05:51:18 PM

Also, good op-ed type article on why we should be elitist when choosing our leader(s)...

http://www.newsweek.com/id/160080

Dudette, you really hate Sarah Palin.

RelandR · « **Reply #3730 on:** September 26, 2008, 11:44:05 PM »

I liked that piece and I don't hate Sarah Palin.

Actually, there is a n00gget o'love in there:

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"Palin may be a perfectly wonderful person, a loving mother and a great American success story—but she is a beauty queen/sports reporter who stumbled into small-town politics, and who is now on the verge of stumbling into, or upon, world history."

Okay ... tough love, but love nonetheless.

RelandR · « **Reply #3731 on:** September 26, 2008, 11:51:30 PM »

In other news: John McCain is not, I repeat IS NOT Miss congeniality,

... but admits that he is commonly known as the sharewiff.

At least those are two points about him of which I was totally unaware.

Vespertine · « **Reply #3732 on:** September 27, 2008, 12:16:00 AM »

Quote from: 12AX7 on September 26, 2008, 11:02:00 PM

Dudette, you really hate Sarah Palin.

Yes, I do. But that's not why I like the article. I like the article because someone is finally pointing out that our leaders should be smarter, better educated and more qualified than the rest of us, and that in that sense, elistism is not wrong. I wouldn't go to a doctor who knows less about the human body than I do. I wouldn't use a financial planner who knows less about retirement/finances/taxes than I do. So why would I want the leader of this country to be "just like me"?

12AX7 · « **Reply #3733 on:** September 27, 2008, 12:27:19 AM »

Makes perfect sense to me.
On the other hand, when considering a person who is a 'common' person yet has the passion, drive and determination to actually DO something (instead of just bitching about it like the rest of us) and go from a virtual nobody to local politics, then to state, then to national politics -presidential, even- one has to ask the question; is this person actually "just like us"? I would be hard-pressed to say yes.

12AX7 · « **Reply #3734 on:** September 27, 2008, 12:33:37 AM »

I should clarify that I meant to distinguish a route to national politics more like Palin's; its not as if she started out headed on the road to politics (law school, "community organizer", etc). If this was someone you DID like; I'm sure you would see that as a very UNcommon and impressive achievement.

dcrog · « **Reply #3735 on:** September 27, 2008, 07:13:43 AM »

Quote from: BizB on September 26, 2008, 08:10:41 PM

There's no dog. The pet was a goldfish.

I'm calling PETA.

Novice · « **Reply #3736 on:** October 01, 2008, 02:54:53 PM »

Woo hoo! Posting via my new iTouch. Now if I can just get a Cisco AnyConnect VPN app. . .

xolik · « **Reply #3737 on:** October 01, 2008, 05:39:37 PM »

*moved from the HECTAR HECTAR thread.

Quote from: Vespertine on October 01, 2008, 01:31:46 PM

A comment a read on a blog that made me LOL. I realize it's not entirely accurate, but it still made me laugh.

Bush has always claimed that God told him to go to Iraq. How come God didn't know there were no WMDs?

Oh, I'll field this one.

God has a history of giving people goofy orders and ideas to see if they actually follow through. It goes something like this:

God: "Hey, Gabe, come here, check this out. See those guys down there? They'll do ANYTHING I tell them to, no matter how silly. Turn off your cell and watch this." God then leans over and says "Don't mix fabrics!"

Gabe: "Oh my You, they're actually doing it!"

Flash forward to a just a few years ago.

Gabe: "Hey, God, the new guy here doesn't believe it when I tell him how you can get the folks down there do anything, no matter how ridiculous."

God: "Fine then. See that drunk down in the White House? Watch this! Hey, Georgie, there's WMDs in IRAQ. Hop to it!"

Gabe: "Oh ffs what have you done?"

God: "Hey, don't blame Me, blame the new guy. He's the one who had to test Me! Besides if anybody asks, we'll just say it was all Mohammed's idea!"

Mohammed: "HEY, you keep me out of this!"

And thus, that's how the whole thing went down and the moral of the story is...something, I'm sure, but damned if I know what it is.

xolik · « **Reply #3738 on:** October 02, 2008, 03:17:46 PM »

I'm really looking forward to the fair and impartial questions that will be asked during the VP debate.

:mod: - "So, Senator Biden, what's your favourite color?"
:mod: - "Mayor Palin, I call you mayor because I see no reason to actually somehow elevate you by calling you 'governor', when stifling freedom which method do you prefer more: book burning or merely book banning?"
:mod: - "Senator Biden, When Obama become president, could you ask him to sign the new book I'm writing about him? Pretty please?"
:mod: - " Mayor Palin, will you turn to drugs or alcohol as a coping mechanism when your crushing defeat in November arrives? Or both?"

ivan · « **Reply #3739 on:** October 02, 2008, 04:42:14 PM »

Well, we'll see. Her reputation as an objective journalist is solid. I think it's the Commission's mistake to not get up-to-date on what-all Ifill has been up to lately. Ifill herself is under no obligation to recuse herself.

Also, at this point, any favoritism towards Biden will probably backfire.

ydnamtnediserp · « **Reply #3740 on:** October 02, 2008, 04:49:23 PM »

on a lighter note, palin bingo!

xolik · « **Reply #3741 on:** October 03, 2008, 01:24:17 PM »

I'm pretty sure that I won't voting Republican again any time soon. Maybe when the party gets its shit back together, I'll consider doing it again, but for now...well, let's see:

Fucked up the war
Fucked up handling Katrina
Fucked up the economy
Took their majority for both houses and flushed it completely down the toliet

The list goes on but I'm kinda pissed off right now about the whole thing.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #3742 on:** October 03, 2008, 05:10:05 PM »

I'm voting for First Post.

12AX7 · « **Reply #3743 on:** October 04, 2008, 10:24:50 AM »

Daaaaaaayum. What a SHITty job.

(note: you must have GoogleEarth installed to view the attachment)

Demosthenes · « **Reply #3744 on:** October 08, 2008, 06:26:13 PM »

Quote from: pbsaurus on October 03, 2008, 05:10:05 PM

I'm voting for First Post.

Boobies?

Vespertine · « **Reply #3745 on:** October 08, 2008, 11:59:33 PM »

Quote from: Demosthenes on October 08, 2008, 06:26:13 PM

Boobies?

You rang?

dcrog · « **Reply #3746 on:** October 09, 2008, 04:29:35 AM »

Quote from: Vespertine on October 08, 2008, 11:59:33 PM

You rang?

Useless without pics.

xolik · « **Reply #3747 on:** October 09, 2008, 02:22:33 PM »

Quote from: 12AX7 on October 09, 2008, 08:01:43 AM

ugly-man-transvestite-fat-bitch-men-women.jpg

that file name alone...

12AX7 · « **Reply #3748 on:** October 09, 2008, 05:40:10 PM »

Quote from: xolik on October 09, 2008, 02:22:33 PM

that file name alone...

Looks like it's for a searchable database. How handy would that be, eh?

pbsaurus · « **Reply #3749 on:** October 10, 2008, 01:06:57 PM »

I just programmed a macro that prepares a manager's report for a rehire named Gary Coleman. Dude we rehired Arnold Drummand...

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