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MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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ajrwdwgirl said:
I heard about this too. It is nice, but I can entertain myself with a book or something, I would rather have a free checked bag.
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I'm half with you on this. Luckily, where I fly, Jet Blue flies. I can't tell you how these flights are so much better having those tv's on the back of seats. It's like sitting in your livingroom, watching a few shows on tv, and then before you know it, you're landing at your destination airport! :)
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

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ajrwdwgirl said:
I heard about this too. It is nice, but I can entertain myself with a book or something, I would rather have a free checked bag.
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I like checking a bag too. For the most part though upgrading the aircrafts with wifi/entertainment and their service fee is a fixed expense.
A checked bag requires handling. One to check it, security to screen it, route it to proper plane, load/unload it and baggage service employees. With so many passengers not checking anything these days the amount of staff needed has been cut. Flip side it has certainly added to the TSA being overwhelmed. If they start checking more bags the behind the scene TSA checked bag area will likely become more overwhelmed making me wonder initially if the check luggage might miss their flight instead of the passengers.
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
figmentfan423 said:
Mine is quite reasonable for most things. Eggs $4 a dozen for organic, green or yellow squash .79 a pound, tomatoes were 1.79 or so last summer, berries give me sticker shock and they're just ok at best, bok choi 1.29, organic greens(kale spinach chard and such) 2 a bag and they weigh about a pound and a half to 2 pounds
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Your prices are better than ours! I still go though when the more local stuff arrives because generally the quality is better. Over the years I also learned which vendors are better. Fresh local corn though when available is wonderful and so fresh and fairly priced.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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donaldtoo said:
The only 2 other venomous common snake names I can think of off the top of my head, that start with the letter "c", are the cottonmouth (aka, water moccasin), and the coral snake, and neither have a rattle. Also, it doesn't look like the territory of either of them extends up into the part of the country you were raised in, but the territory of the rattlesnake does.
But yes, a rattlesnake is a rattlesnake.
No joke, I remember my grandfather on my pops side actually having an old shoe box filled with the rattles of all of them he'd "terminated" over the years... :oops:
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It's also possibly we just incorrectly called them copperheads or cottonmouths. It wouldn't be the first time. The Pronghorn is not technically an antelope, though that's what we call them. And Bison are not buffalo, but that's what we call them. Wyomingites are good at just adopting the name for something similar if they don't know the proper term for it.
 
MOXOMUMD

MOXOMUMD

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ajrwdwgirl said:
I forgot to post this earlier....at the school I teach at the 7th graders have a probability unit in their math class and they have to develop games of chance for a carnival. One team developed a ball toss game and the balls had to be tossed through Mike Wasowzski's mouth. They did a good job with it and I was proud they picked a Disney character. If I was their math teacher it would have been an easy A. The Mike figure is below.
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That's really cool!
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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donaldtoo said:
Other than in your own home, vehicle, or outside in non-public places, there is no smoking in Austin anymore, per city ordinance.
No skin off my behind' 'cause I don't smoke, but, I remember back in the day when everyone smoked everywhere.
When I was 13 and broke my calcaneous bone, the ER orthopedist smoked the whole time he was setting and putting a cast on my leg, and at every checkup I had with him after that. I can't even remember anyplace that didn't have some sort of ashtray back then.
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My mom was a smoker and she refused to visit friends who wouldn't let her smoke in their homes. In her view, she was a smoker and if they were her friends, they should accept her as she is. I told her, you should accept them as they are....and that means accepting that they DON'T smoke. She got angry once when we went out to dinner with my then-boyfriend's parents and they requested a non-smoking table. Mom was the only one in our group who smoked, my boyfriend had asthma and couldn't handle the smoke, but she didn't understand why she had to go outside to have a cigarette! Drove me nuts.It was beyond rude and inconsiderate. In my lease, it stated that if anyone was caught smoking in the apartment, we were subject to a $75 fine for a first offence, eviction afterwards. I told her she couldn't smoke in the apartment and why...she didn't care. SHE was my mother and therefore SHE got to set the rules...in MY home. I told her if she got caught, she got to pay the fine and I'd better not get evicted. I am so glad that smoking is against the law in public places here! My mom's long gone, but there are a LOT of smokers here and it's much easier to avoid breathing it in if it's not allowed!
 
Figgy1

Figgy1

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Songbird76 said:
My mom was a smoker and she refused to visit friends who wouldn't let her smoke in their homes. In her view, she was a smoker and if they were her friends, they should accept her as she is. I told her, you should accept them as they are....and that means accepting that they DON'T smoke. She got angry once when we went out to dinner with my then-boyfriend's parents and they requested a non-smoking table. Mom was the only one in our group who smoked, my boyfriend had asthma and couldn't handle the smoke, but she didn't understand why she had to go outside to have a cigarette! Drove me nuts.It was beyond rude and inconsiderate. In my lease, it stated that if anyone was caught smoking in the apartment, we were subject to a $75 fine for a first offence, eviction afterwards. I told her she couldn't smoke in the apartment and why...she didn't care. SHE was my mother and therefore SHE got to set the rules...in MY home. I told her if she got caught, she got to pay the fine and I'd better not get evicted. I am so glad that smoking is against the law in public places here! My mom's long gone, but there are a LOT of smokers here and it's much easier to avoid breathing it in if it's not allowed!
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I've found most of the smoking places at Disney are out of the way enough not to bother me but the one near Fantasyland is hard to avoid:hungover::hungover::hungover::hungover::hungover::hungover:
 
MOXOMUMD

MOXOMUMD

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figmentfan423 said:
^^^^This My ds just brings in his own food when the class has a party. So do most of the other kids with allergies. Our school nurse just calls when something is scheduled so the parent can decide what to do. :) I guess we've learned from the districts that have cut things out not to raise a fuss about silly things.
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That's our schools too. There was one girl in my daughter's class that couldn't have gluten so when I would send in baked treats through the year I would send her own fruit.
 

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