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Grex > Agora35 > #17: The "A Good Swift Kick in the Butt" Item | |
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xcalibur
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The "A Good Swift Kick in the Butt" Item
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Sep 23 19:08 UTC 2000 |
I've been forgetting to enter this item for quite a few agoras now.
This is where you enter in people or groups of people in your daily life that
could use one of these. Whether it be people you work with, live with, bump
into in your daily meanderings, let us know. You name it, we kick it.
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xcalibur
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response 1 of 29:
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Sep 23 19:10 UTC 2000 |
My kick for the day goes to whoever it is that hasn't been putting the Layaway
refunds in the booklet.
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gelinas
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response 2 of 29:
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Sep 23 19:42 UTC 2000 |
Butt-kicking is not enough for the people I deal with. I keep a targetting
list for tactical nuclear devices.
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jerryr
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response 3 of 29:
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Sep 23 21:19 UTC 2000 |
the owners of chesey's restaurant who continue to run that gawdawful
commercial.
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danr
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response 4 of 29:
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Sep 24 13:10 UTC 2000 |
I'd like to give Ameritech a swift kick in the *ss for the truly awful tech
support they provide DSL customers.
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mary
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response 5 of 29:
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Sep 24 13:57 UTC 2000 |
Hey, Jerry, that's my nephew in the Chesey's commercial. So
cheese off already. ;-)
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aruba
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response 6 of 29:
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Sep 24 16:51 UTC 2000 |
I'll have to watch it again now - I can't remember if there is more than one
man in the commercial. If so, which one is your nephew, Mary?
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remmers
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response 7 of 29:
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Sep 24 17:03 UTC 2000 |
The nephew is the one who pronounces it "cheesy's".
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jerryr
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response 8 of 29:
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Sep 24 17:13 UTC 2000 |
at least i can understand him. that other moron slurs and swallows his words.
it still sucks. ask your nephew if he likes ice-ah-landic fish.
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jor
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response 9 of 29:
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Sep 24 17:17 UTC 2000 |
oh, *that* Chesey's comercial.
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remmers
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response 10 of 29:
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Sep 24 17:25 UTC 2000 |
I don't see the nephew much these days; he's off in San Francisco
making big bucks doing Unix system administration (big bucks by
midwestern standards anyway; they don't stretch so far in San Fran).
He made the commercial before he graduated from college and left
Michigan (which was like a year ago, so I'm a bit surprised myself
that the commercial is still being shown).
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albaugh
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response 11 of 29:
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Sep 24 21:53 UTC 2000 |
Data center "support".
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orinoco
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response 12 of 29:
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Sep 28 21:32 UTC 2000 |
The Music Department administration, the previous tenants who left our
apartment with holes in the walls, and the deity in charge of scheduling folk
dance events.
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birdy
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response 13 of 29:
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Sep 29 01:07 UTC 2000 |
Lately, it's been any driver near me lately... I've seen a lot of people
swerving, cutting people off, and just being stupid.
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snowth
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response 14 of 29:
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Sep 29 22:21 UTC 2000 |
My doctors who don't let me ice skate. <pout>
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russ
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response 15 of 29:
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Sep 30 15:49 UTC 2000 |
Re #14: Tricia, would you rather sit out the skating season until
your spleen goes back to normal, or would you prefer having an
otherwise minor accident result in surgery to remove a ruptured
spleen and all the lifestyle limitations you'd have afterwards?
I know it chafes to be limited, but you should be careful. It's temporary.
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beeswing
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response 16 of 29:
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Sep 30 22:55 UTC 2000 |
what russ said.
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russ
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response 17 of 29:
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Oct 1 23:08 UTC 2000 |
And while I'm on my rant from item 15, a good swift kick in the butt
should go to...
THE PHONE COMPANIES and OUR LEGISLATORS.
The phone companies, for allowing nuisances to connect to the phone
network; specifically, advertisers whose auto-dialers call you, let
you answer AND THEN HANG UP. These nuisances are allowed to not send
caller-ID information on their calls, so you can't tell them to stop
calling by getting on their do-not-call list. You can't use call-trace
to report them as harassers either (I've tried).
The US Congress, for not making the above behavior a criminal offense.
Our state legislature, for not forcing the phone company to use ANI
information for CLID and call-trace when CLID is absent. (I expect
that people wanting to shoot Mat "The Rat" Dunaskis for selling his
soul and the Public Service Commission to Ameritech have to stand in
line, and the only targets that aren't spoken for are along the lines
of hangnails and leg hairs.)
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lelande
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response 18 of 29:
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Oct 2 02:31 UTC 2000 |
germans who ask me "where can we find a few moist clits?"
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beeswing
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response 19 of 29:
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Oct 2 21:35 UTC 2000 |
A swift butt kick and bitch slap to the idiot who, when the green turn
arrow light comes on, SITS THERE, ignores the people honking at him and
decides he wants to go straight instead. When the straight traffic
light turns green, THEN he decides to go. But by then the left turn
lane light has turned red. Hence, I miss the light when I am in a
hurry. A long light. Would it have killed you to go on and turn left,
then cut through the gas station on the corner and gotten on the road
you wanted to go? Plus was is worth almost causing about four rear-
ending wrecks because you did not go when the light was green? Silly
us, we thought you'd actually go!
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tod
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response 20 of 29:
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Oct 3 00:10 UTC 2000 |
That was me. I don't like being honked at.
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birdy
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response 21 of 29:
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Oct 3 00:41 UTC 2000 |
Then learn how to go on green, even if you're too much of an idiot to use the
correct lane. ;-) Don't make people suffer for your mistake.
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beeswing
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response 22 of 29:
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Oct 3 03:41 UTC 2000 |
Sigh. Birdy understands.
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sno
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response 23 of 29:
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Oct 3 13:02 UTC 2000 |
I attempt to leave room between me and the car ahead for just such
an occurance. I have been known to drive around such people by swerving
into the oncoming lane. This is not as risky as you might assume, since
most overly controlled intersections do not allow right turn on red.
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jazz
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response 24 of 29:
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Oct 3 14:18 UTC 2000 |
Sorry, Todd. You know I couldn't resist your manliness. I honked
first. But it was just a compliment!
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