The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[MOXOMUMD]

You watch the Food Channel to see him admit it!

Don't they look like brothers? Maybe long lost brothers but nonetheless.

Guy Fieri has a burger restaurant on our cruise ship. I know we'll be eating there a few times.

 

[donaldtoo]

Awwwww....talk about cute puppies!
Spoiler if you don't like puppies.

Spoiler: Cute Puppies

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Yep, Hulk.
Although "Bulk" would probably be a more appropriate name.

 

[donaldtoo]

I work with a gal who grew up there and she echos your sentiments. The place where she used to live and would take the cable car with her mom is now in a war zone. Her words. She introduced me to the King cake and I believe one of the best cake shops there delivers worldwide. The was a cake that comes in chocolate or lemon she wanted us to try.

DWifey and I visited NOLA on our 2nd wedding anni. back in Dec. of '90. Even back then we were told parts of it were like a third world country, and they were. We stayed in a hotel on Bourbon Street and actually had a pretty good time. we just really have no desire to go back. Sooo many other places to visit, and things just seem to have gotten worse, over the years.

 

[donaldtoo]

Probably. Battery was 6 years old. The rough winter probably did it in.

I've had this car a week FYI...

Yep, 6 years is outstanding. I've had only a few that lasted 5.
There's gonna' be no reviving that b****r.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Yep, 6 years is outstanding. I've had only a few that lasted 5.
There's gonna' be no reviving that ******.

Keep reading the saga...

 

[donaldtoo]

Keep reading the saga...

Will do...

 

[JenniferS]

I blame this on my mother.

Apparently when she was pregnant with me, all she could stomach was pizza. She said if she had to cook it, she didn't want to eat it, and basically all she could look at was pizza.

Hence, she created a monster.

The three things guaranteed to set me a-dry heaving and retching while pregnant:
Pizza
Popcorn
KFC

 

[TomP]

GRRRRRRRRR. Here's another chapter from the book of "It's Always Something". Was leaving to run some errands and the garage door busted. Can't get it open and the car is in. Now, I'm sitting here waiting for a call back from the repair shop to see if they can get here to fix it. The door is all -eyed in the opening and won't budge...about 1/4 open. I could spit.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

The three things guaranteed to set me a-dry heaving and retching while pregnant:
Pizza
Popcorn
KFC

My mom says she was fine with everything as long as she didn't have to cook it. Pizza was the exception. But if she didn't have to cook it, she was fine.

FYI, I had pizza again for lunch. I told her this was all her fault. She said yup.

 

[donaldtoo]

Ready for the rant? Because here it comes...

AAA finally came. 2 hours after I called. Guy comes out. He gets the engine to turn over. And then...he takes the key out of the ignition! And guess what? Now for some reason the key won't turn in the ignition. My parents told me to leave the car at school and we would take care of it on Friday. When I hung up with them, after the guy left, I noticed that he left my driver's side window down. In the rain. Before a snowstorm. And the window is electric, so it won't roll up now.

So now I am back on the phone with AAA trying to get the problem fixed. Someone is going to face a very p!ssed version of me...

Woof.
OK, key not turning in ignition. I've got two guesses, other than broken ignition, that I'm gonna' guess have probably already been thrown out there, but, I'll give it a shot anyway.
Steering wheel position might be binding ignition. Move it back and forth while turning key in ignition. Or, tranny is not in park...?
I now continue my reading to see how this played out...

 

[FutureCEO]

hang on. why not?

the company is a military contractor so they don't have the money to afford normal benefits so it's two weeks total time off after one year

 

[Gabe1]

Car purchased! Woot! Manchild is glad it is over too!

127 alerts and 12 pages behind. Hopefully tonight I'll put a dent in that. Ha! I've had that goal for 2 weeks.

 

[donaldtoo]

Well, it's about time! There's been quite a lull lately, in your um, "complimentary" office food that magically ends up on your desk?! (I was beginning to think that the management there was cutting back on the budget.) You know how much I love seeing your free food pictures, so I can live vicariously through your experiences. It's all for one and one for all here!

Oh my. Please forgive me, I've been remiss. But, there have been, at least, three others that I haven't posted about 'cause I just figured not everyone would want to know about each and every one. Not to mention the, almost weekly, Papa John's site visit pizza lunches...

 

[MOXOMUMD]

folding money doesn't fall out of my g-string.

 

[donaldtoo]

First, try wiggling the steering wheel while turning the key...might need some "alignment" for the ignition to turn.
Go all ballistic with the guy...he deserves it. Good Luck!
ETA: also make sure transmission is in park.

Hahaaa...!!!!!
I KNEW it!!!!!!!

 

[Cesar R M]

The Hub thread got cleaned up last night - another Newbie with two whole posts, thinking he runs the site.
Anyway, I lost a whole whack of likes when they deleted:

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When does "Lighten up, Francis" not work? Especially with trolls.

I dont think some of them are really trolls.
just blatantly stupid people.

when they display these silly "I AM THE LAW HERE" behaviour, I just post something like this:

 

[Cesar R M]

You take that back.
It's purty. It's polymer. And it's currently worth 80% of what it was a few years ago!

(Lost 10 cents alone since oil prices tanked early this year. Just made our Florida condo purchase a whole lot more expensive. )

well, in the good thing is.. lots of people are buying canadian stuff..
at least photography stuff thanks to the price drops only in canada.
I bought a new lens in a canadian store.
the USD is still way too high for me

 

[Cesar R M]

I'm almost always still up at 3:00.
Then again at 6:00 for a couple of hours.
Then again at noon!

how do you survive? tons of NAPS?

 

[donaldtoo]

Ha! You said sack. We call them bags up here. (Oh, I had lots of tuna and cheese sammies, too. In grade school, we didn't have a cafeteria, so we had to bring lunch in a BAG every day. We didn't have a cafeteria until jr. high school.

Sack, sack, sack, sack, sack...!
Never went to a school that DIDN'T have a cafeteria.

 

[Cesar R M]

I hear ya, those darn nesting quotes!!!!!

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... nesting....