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THE GREETINGS AND IDLE CHAT THREAD 2018
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Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all)
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Oct 01, 2018 11:54PM
Yo didn't come to Spain till the 90s.
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Actually, I'm not younger. Come to think of it, I maybe getting that mixed up with "Hey, man." Yo came out in the 80's over here, right? I'm a 70's teenager. And I apologize for the mix-up:) And as Ori would add--Tee-Hee:)
Wow a 70's teenager. ok technically I am a 70's teenager, but you could also say I turned 20 in the 70's as well. Groovy my lovely friend you have no need to apologies was it tee hee or tee pee? ;)
Looks like we all aged at the same time:)I recently came across this on the internet. It was meant to explain how sassy is used in a sentence:
"Why you little sawed-off, sassy son of a sea cook!"
And here's another weird thing I found:
If you look at Cinderella backwards it's about a woman who has learned her place.
Where do they come up with this?
Backwards meaning, from the end to the beginning? I suppose they mean she starts as the princess (the bride) and her marriage ends in her being "in her place"--the kitchen.someone has issues.
That's exactly what it means. I bet a man wrote that:)
Duh! LOLI also bet the man who came up with it wouldn't say boo to a goose.
Noooo. I am the one in the Kitchen LOL, but not barefoot and pregnant. No I would never label women that way, I treat all women like princesses, but the boss is the queen and all is deferred to her.No he wouldn't say boo, more like if you pressed him he would say boo hoo.
See you all in a couple of weeks.
Of course, you wouldn't label women that way, mrbooks. We know you better than that. Aww, we won't hear from you for two weeks? Anyway, wherever you're going, have a good time, and be safe:)Have a safe weekend, too, Ori.
Oh I'll be here, Groovy. Same time, same place, same books.
I came across recipes for 20 of the best pound cakes. Mmmm, I can feel those 20 extra pounds coming. Here's the link. Even if you are on a diet, just reading them is delicious:) https://www.tasteofhome.com/collectio...
Hello my friends I am back and ready to get stuck in LOL. 20 pound cake recipes wow they cost that much I will have to go on a diet just to be able to afford to make one.
Oh I see! Pound cake is what they called Bundt cake when I was growing up. That round pan.
LOL same here ori, I just like having fun and if you it is 20 pounds then it is expensive in more then one way LOL. money or weight.
Welcome back, mrbooks. Has it been two weeks already? Did you bring us anything besides your wit:)I always have flour and butter around, so with me it's weight. When I was young, those old women made THE best pound cakes at the socials.
In the old days a pound cake was just that. A pound of flour, a pound of butter, a pound of eggs...imagine measuring out a pound of eggs!
Yup been two weeks, alas you are stuck with my slow wit yes I am slow wit it.
I don't know if y'all have to suffer with telemarketers where you live, but over here they are a plague. Calling you constantly day and night offering you scam services just to get their hands on your information. We have a "Do Not Call" registry just for that, but it doesn't work AT ALL!! And you would think that if you ignore and don't pick up the phone they would get the message--THEY DON'T!! The phones just keep ringing. They're doing their best to pass laws to stop them, that's how bad it is.But I think I found a cheap way to stop them for a while. Last week, I was so fed up with the phone ringing, I finally picked it up and yelled at the top of my voice--"STOP CALLING HERE"--haven't heard from them since. The house is so quiet now. The phone doesn't wake me up, anymore. It's probably only temporary, but it feels so good not to have them bothering me:) LOL!!!!
I used to work with a Christian magazine here, and part of my duties was taking phone orders. So people would know they had the right place, when I picked up I'd say, "Jesus is Lord, how can I help you?" I got a lot of clicks, but no telemarketing calls in those days.Now I just let my husband answer. He has finally learned that it's completely OK to hang up on them without saying a word. Or if we happen to be watching a Korean soap, we just set the phone near the TV speaker and let them listen to Korean for awhile. That seems to have helped.
LOL! Good one! I can't believe you have them there, too. It's the plague, I tell you! They have apps that you can use to deal with them, I'll eventually get one for my phone service.My daughter loves those Korean Dramas; anything Korean, really. You guys could sit and talk for hours, I'm sure:)
If she hasn't seen Sunny Again Tomorrow I recommend it. It's funny as well as dramatic. They're in the home stretch on KBS, but it's on Youtube. Even hubby got hooked!
You get those kind of calls everywhere. It was getting so bad here I got my number unlisted and I paid a lump sum to get my number screened and the got an additional service to block international cold callers. It doesn't block them all but 99 percent of the calls I got have been blocked. The last one I called I explained to him that if he calls again I will blow a whistle down the phone so loud it will rupture his ear drums. He told me He will call the cops and report me for threatening him. I told him not to worry I will call for you and let the cops know as you are a cold caller it is against the law who will get into trouble? he has never called back since. 2 years and counting. Yes threats work...
Kills me when they call pretending to be from my phone provider, and then want to ask me for all my data, including my phone number! The last time that happened I laughed my head off down the phone and said, "Listen, darling, I don't know who you are, but I know for sure you aren't Orange, because they already have all that stuff on file!" and hung up forthwith.
I remember the whistle blowing move. I don't know if it's the same telemarketer because I don't even pick up the phone, except to yell into it. (It works, BTW) What was weird to me once, was my phone ringing and I look at the ID number, and it's from me!!How do they manage to make money, is my question. Everyone knows it's nothing but a scam, so how do they stay in business for so long?
And what is the one rule everyone knows by now? That you will not be asked for your personal information over the phone--period!
On a good note...Have a good weekend!
About ten or fifteen years back, at least in parts of the US, if a spammer phoned your mobile and you picked up, you got charged.
That's outrageous, egregious, and just plain preposterous!!
I quite agree! I already have six phone numbers on my mobile's blacklist.
Groovy wrote: "I remember the whistle blowing move. I don't know if it's the same telemarketer because I don't even pick up the phone, except to yell into it. (It works, BTW) What was weird to me once, was my pho..."Unfortunately they target the elderly and those that are vulnerable. My mother was targeted because she is in early stages of dementia. They conned her out of 1100 dollars. That is one of the reasons my sister has power of attorney for her. The bank knows not to let any money out of the account without first getting authorization from my sister. That and she had the account changed and my mother can't remember the new information so there is no way she can give it out. That and my sister pays all her bills for her and get her money out when she needs or wants something. Yes she got stung but b comparison she got off lightly.
I understand the elderly having to deal with dementia. I've already loss two friends to alzheimers. I'm sorry about your mother. It's good that she has her children looking out for her.My biggest question is those who should know better. We're supposed to get smarter as we get older. This has been going on for years now, and yet they still eagerly give away their information and money to anyone who tells a convincing tale.
I don't even want to spend money on myself. And I'm going to fork over thousands to you?
As Hawkeye Pierce said in the first season of MASH, "The three primary motivations of human beings are greed, sex and greed." People just can't resist the idea of some golden good deal. My husband's best pal was a banker's son, and even he got sucked into a pyramid scheme--along with several hundred others. Lost his own savings and some of his wife's family's. We're talking to the tune of probably a hundred grand.
Yes the fabled free meal syndrome. You tell someone there is a free meal going at such and such place tomorrow and they will show up as soon as the restaurant opens to get there free meal and you can literally keep it going for weeks to months depending on the gullibility or greed of our fellow man. You go to the restaurant and say you want your free meal they sat that's tomorrow but if you go to such and such you might get one today before noon. Nice little gag you can keep going. It is a play on new Aircraft maintenance people in the air force. You send them out for a yard of flight line, and they end up traveling half the base looking for something You can do the same thing with the Brass magnet and the left handed screw driver and a gallon of prop wash.
Today, I said good-bye to a another dear friend who died from alzheimers . I'm losing friends to either alzheimers or cancer. I have two more funerals to attend...
I hear you, Groovy. I'm still processing Sylvia's death...of course I couldn't go to NJ to the funeral.
One of my students "organised a field trip" and took me to Costco yesterday. I bought new pillows and bath towels and a 10-pack of seaweed snacks! I sent him my shopping list and jokingly said, "Translate this into English for your homework." He texted back: "I want everything! That is the translation."And that's no lie.
Alas we are not getting younger and those we know are in the same boat, we can expect these things to happen we have problems accepting the loss, but it is a fact of life, I don't want to be mourned I want people to remember me and say he is was a fool always joking about never taking anything serious. I have had my share of pain and don't want to be thought of as that miserable bitter old man.
Hear, hear, mrbooks. I've been through a lot of pain in my life, also. And I've always tried to not wear it around. I don't know what they'll say once I'm gone, but bitter won't be one of them. Or old:)
Well as the call me old already I can't avoid that one but bitter that belongs to some other old fool, lol.
Today is our 36th Wedding Anniversary. Still crazy after all these years. We couldn't do our luxury lunch this year so we settled for the Korean place. Good food, and full of Korean people, which means it's pretty authentic...but I prefer my ossam bulgogi to theirs!
Awwwww!!!!! Congratulations, Ori:) Good for you and the Mr. for making it work all these years. I hope you got a lot of nice gifts from friends and family. Sorry I don't know where you live (privacy and all) or I would send you one.So, I'll just send the both of you a big hug, and "Way to go!"
Oh, and tell your husband he must be doing something right to be able to hold on to your fieryness--LOL!
I could always email you my postal address, *tee hee*!We went to the Korean place for lunch today, and had a nice walk too. It didn't rain which was good because the skies were dark and we had no umbrella.
Email away! But, you'll have to tell me what you would like, because I don't know what to send someone who lives in Europe:)
LOL, we'll think of something.
Two nights running I have remembered my dreams. This hasn't happened since I had two TIAs a few years back. Before that, for me going to sleep was like going to the movies: I had these detailed, interesting dreams and I could remember them (and still remember some dreams from 20+ years ago). Curiously, I almost never dreamed about people and places I know. Then came the dream drought. No one around me understands that I would give major body parts to get the capability of remembering my dreams back. Two nights in a row, but this time I have dreamed of people and situations that have to do with my waking life.
it's a start.
I have dreams that come in three phases: no dreams at all, dreams that I don't remember, and those that are memorably vivid about life and people, they stay with you all day. Right now, I'm in the don't remember phase.
Groovy Girl, you are freakin' incredible. You know why. I mean--you're incredible in all ways, of course, particularly personal cool. But you know what I mean.I feel like Blanche Dubois from A Streetcar Named Desire; "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." (Without the crazy alcoholic lady part, of course. ;)
Ori, you're pretty incredible yourself:)
Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) wrote: "Today is our 36th Wedding Anniversary. Still crazy after all these years. We couldn't do our luxury lunch this year so we settled for the Korean place. Good food, and full of Korean people, which m..."Well congrats 36 is nothing to sneeze at had my 36th this year as well.
Groovy wrote: "Email away! But, you'll have to tell me what you would like, because I don't know what to send someone who lives in Europe:)"Hey Groovy send her something Spanish LOL. Sorry I have ben away, mail problems and still have them and really busy at work. It must be a common theme remembering dreams. I don't remember to many of them the ones that stick are the ones that terrify me. I don't remember good or happy feel good dreams or fantasy ones just the ones that give's me nightmares for weeks to come, so to speak.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, MRBOOKS:)And don't get too busy that you forget about us
No can never forget about my friends, you lovely ladies keep me on the straight and narrow, or at least in line kind of :D
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