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Phil
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Dec 27, 2010 12:18PM
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HOLY CRAP!!!! We're on the verge of 1,000 members. That's just weird... but not like psycho weird... more like interesting weird.
We perform an important service here at Terminal Coffee.
It's true! Your company keeps me sane some days, here in my little office. Okay, so the cheese obsession is a little weird, but it's endearing. :)
I think it's endearing, too. We're nothing if not consistently weird about cheese.
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Ssssssshhhhhhhhh!! LG we don't talk about the tax hikes until they're in effect.
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You'll notice how few social services/benefits come with our low tax rates, though. You didn't actually like your healthcare, did you?
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Lucky for me because my boots don't have any straps.
Gail deleted her post! That's a rule violation!
Lobstergirl wrote: "You'll notice how few social services/benefits come with our low tax rates, though. You didn't actually like your healthcare, did you? "
Free heathcare for everyone? Nah, we don't need that at all.
Free heathcare for everyone? Nah, we don't need that at all.
Larry wrote: "Gail deleted her post! That's a rule violation!"
What you gunna do about it?
What you gunna do about it?
I already did it. I called you on it. That's all the power of enforcement I have, not being a moderator.
I try and sensor the mind bogglingly boring ones before anyone can read them. I got caught out this time. :Þ
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I wouldn't do nothing. Never. LG captured it in her reply in 428.
Are you making smiling emoticons in Cyrillic, Gail?
Na, just poking my tongue at Larry because I like to be childish.
Larry wrote: Sally said bollocks.She did. I heard.
Are you back from Portland, Larry?
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With Sally's new picture it looks like there's a red apostrophe before the first word.
Barb wrote: "What you gunna do about it?"
Ouch
Ouch
Larry wrote: "I am."Reading over the old threads, I see that you had a wild, three-glass-of-wine night on the town.
Yeah, he really let his hair down.
Larry wrote: "With Sally's new picture it looks like there's a red apostrophe before the first word."Now it looks like that to me, too. I'm not grandfathered in, so I guess I'd better go sell a kidney...
Larry wrote: "I did. Wild. And solitary."Ah, well. Can't have everything.
No but at least I have all my friends at TC to razz me about having three glasses of wine. Can't beat that with a stick.
That's what we're here for.And you can put that stick away now.
Yeah, I've had enough spanking for one day.
what does it mean to be grandfathered in?
I am glad you asked that question. I had no idea what it meant either.
A grandfather clause is an exception that allows an old rule to continue to apply to some existing situations, when a new rule will apply to all future situations. It is often used as a verb: to grandfather means to grant such an exemption. Frequently, the exemption is limited; it may extend for a set period of time, or it may be lost once a change is made. For example, a "grandfathered power plant" might be exempt from new, more restrictive pollution laws, which would be applied if the plant were expanded. Often, such a provision is used as a compromise, to effect new rules without upsetting a well-established logistical or political situation. This extends the idea of a rule not being retroactively applied.The term originated in late-19th-century legislation and constitutional amendments passed by a number of U.S. Southern states which created new restrictions on voting, but exempted those whose ancestors (grandfathers) had the right to vote before the Civil War. The existence of slaves before the Civil War effectively excluded African Americans while allowing poor and illiterate whites to vote. Although the original grandfather clauses were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1915, the terms grandfather clause and grandfather remain in use.
Oh, we may have to get another free, money back guaranteed membership ready for the 1000 member.
Or we could send them some freshly ironed knickers from Britt's new questions for the guys thread.
Or we could send them a picture of a sticker of the knickers.
Jim & Larry remind me of those older Muppets who always comment from the balcony.
Cynthia wrote: "Jim & Larry remind me of those older Muppets who always comment from the balcony.":)
