It's a quote from "WKRP". In this episode, Arthur Carlson, an avowed outdoorsman, drops domesticated turkeys from a helicopter in the mistaken belief that the can fly like their wild counterparts. They proceeded to "hit the ground like bags of wet cement".
And now can I respond to your sig? How about option #4 - a sign that maybe you are just an ass?
I used that line in a meeting once, when we asked the land developer what the combination was on his tool trailer.
He said "12345" One of our guys repeated "12345" Pavlov's movie fan (that's me) blurted out "That's what an idiot puts on his luggage" in his best dark Helmet voice.
The crickets combined with the angry stares told me that I was not in a room with Mel Brooks fans.
So you'r the person in front of me that, although they look like a frequent flyer, cant seem to get their act together. I always thought it was just inexperience or a bad day. Thanks for confirming it's just obstinacy and ego - after all, you are soooo much smarter than those TSA idiots, why don't they simply trust you when you appear to have more bags than allowed, or that you have scripts for those random meds?
Maybe you ought to face the situation as it is, instead of insisting that the world should revolve around you?
Fact: TSA personnel are low wage and poorly trained. Fact: A lot of the rules are of marginal usefulness and are intrusive. Fact: There are about 200 people in line behind you know these facts, and who are wondering what the hell is taking you so long.
Since we're in anecdote land, I don't fly once a month - I fly once a week. In and out of Atlanta - busiest in the world. I only need to use 1 bin (for the laptop and liquids bag), and all the rest of my crap stays in the carry-on or laptop case. If it's winter, I use another bin for my coat, but shoes and bags go on the conveyor. It goes like clockwork, except when I do something stupid (forget the phone on my hip or reach into the machine to get my shoes). The TSA personnel are invariably businesslike - not fawning, but certainly not the Secret Police. And I don't travel first class to get special treatment - I just adapted my travel so I could get through a trying process with the least amount of inconvenience.
Oh, and just carry a friggin empty bottle through Security and fill it up at a water fountain on the other side - God knows we don't want you to get sick on the plane after your torturous experience.
Have you seen the Volvo "Your Concept Car (YCC)". Designed by women, for women.
"The car includes features not typically found in man-made cars. Among the dozens of unique items: no hood; no gas cap; easy-clean paint; numerous exchangeable seat covers of various colors and materials (linen, leather, felt, etc.); compartments for handbags; gull-wing doors that make it easier to load and unload larger items and children; computerized assistance for parallel parking; and improved sight lines. Owners carrying large items can set the doors to open automatically when they reach the doors."
So apparently, even women designers think other women are incompetent at caring for their cars (no hood), and care more for color coordination.
I don't need to be sexist - "professional" women do it for me.
Question: Is it possible that, instead of sharks having an extremely low cancer rate, shark cancers are extremely virulent, and kill them very quickly? This would sink the sharks to the bottom whereupon the evidence would be disposed of quickly. This would skew the sample toward sharks that don't have cancer.
Also "Alph", by Poul Anderson (I think). Full length book. In it, women simply take over and eliminate men. A few hundred years pass of rewriting history so that men never existed, and then they discover a frozen dead guy and recover his wigglies and produce a boy. The boy is a scientific curiousity, etc, etc.
All I remember after that is the moral: it would be bad to get rid of men because women still want the high hard one.
The quality argument has less to do with unions per se, and more with the state of competition. North of the Mason Dixon, and in some other locations, the unions have a lock on construction work. In some trades, there ARE no non-union shops. If a GC tries to contract with a non-union shop for part of the work, the other union trades (remember, they are guaranteed to be on site, do to teh aforementioned lock on some trades) will ensure that "bad things" happen on the project, ranging from slow work, sabotage, to violence and intimidation.
South of the Mason Dixon, there are no trades where the unions have a lock. Since the unions can't compete on labor cost, they compete on quality. And they are reasonably successful - if there is a tight schedule, a GC can't afford NOT to take the subcontractor that will do it right the first time.
In other areas, were there is little union presence at all (say, landscaping and drywall)there is only competition on cost, and quality is abyssmal.
I remember reading about the history of plate tectonics in a Philosophy of Science class. Over in the Smithsonian thread, someone opined that "politics has no place in science". He obviously didn't read the same history we did.
"This is what happened at FEMA with Heckuvajob Brownie."
"This is what happened in Iraq, when the White House sent over people who had the proper Republican Party credentials, but not the credentials to do the job; it's one of the major reasons the occupation there has been such a disaster."
"the infamous case of General Shinseki getting sacked by Rumsfeld after he said we would need several hundred thousand troops to effectively occupy Iraq."
That's most of his last paragraph, with examples all from this administration. He also throws in comments about abstinence only education and controversy over climate change, which are widely viewed as Republican positions. Not a single mention of anything having to do with Clinton or the Democrats. In adition, the whole "wonks are better that hacks" thing I believe is a reference to the Clinton Administration, which was viewed in Washington as "the invasion of the policy wonks".
Did he specifically exclude Clinton? No. But if I go to the doctor and say "My toe, ankle, calf, knee, thigh, and hip hurt, but my elbow feels fine", he'd be an idiot to start with checking my arms.
You aren't paying attention - there ARE no "coffers". There is no "investment". The money goes from point A to point B. There is an accounting trick involved whereby the federal government "borrows" from the SS "trust fund". But that isn't voluntary borrowing, like treasury bonds - it is mandatory. So the effect is that excess SS receipts go straight to the general fund - they always have. And when it turns upside down, general funds will be used to "pay back" the "trust fund" to make up for shortfalls in receipts.
So from a macro level, money goes out of my paycheck, to the government, and then to SS recipients. Whether it is taken out as FICA or income tax is irrelevant. There are no "excess" funds to raid or invest. And "invest" in what? Government bonds? That's like saying that I invested the money in my right pocket by putting it to work in my left. If you want to talk about investing in something of economic value, like infrastructure or *gasp* equities, then it's a diferent story, but that's not what you are talking about, is it.
I already know that - read the second paragraph of my post. I was making fun of the folks that can't believe a perfectly simple explanation when there is something paranormal to explain it (I met a woman once who swore she could psychically make the lettuce in her refrigerator freeze if she got mad. Couldn't possibly be a low thermostat setting)
It still drives me batshit, but only because I need to tell my wife EVERY SINGLE NIGHT to turn off the TV, not just the Replay unit.
Wow - that explains so much. I have been plagued for years with an eerie knowledge of when my TV is on, even with no signal. It manifests itself as a high pitched noise that only I can hear, and I can tell with 100% accuracy when the TV is on or off.
I never thought of it as a disability, though - I just thought it was an older model and the electronics were giving off a hum, and I just haven't lost my high frequency hearing yet. But now that I know there are others like me, we can form a support group and get recognition for our disability - maybe even get Medicaid compensation.
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Fut the Whuck?
Cause "For the Win" makes zero sense.
"surrounded by an amount of water compressed into a solid form at high pressures and low temperatures."
You mean, "ice"?
It's a quote from "WKRP". In this episode, Arthur Carlson, an avowed outdoorsman, drops domesticated turkeys from a helicopter in the mistaken belief that the can fly like their wild counterparts. They proceeded to "hit the ground like bags of wet cement".
And now can I respond to your sig? How about option #4 - a sign that maybe you are just an ass?
"Send Celine Dion there as a good-will ambassador (ok, that's really an act of war ...)"
Accompanied by Brian Adams and Alanis Morissette, it could be the crushing first strike on the way to Canadian global domination.
Why is this a bogus patent?
It's for a physical substance, that was developed by someone, which performs better/differently than anotehr compound used for the same purpose.
Isn't this what patent protection should be for?
I used that line in a meeting once, when we asked the land developer what the combination was on his tool trailer.
He said "12345"
One of our guys repeated "12345"
Pavlov's movie fan (that's me) blurted out "That's what an idiot puts on his luggage" in his best dark Helmet voice.
The crickets combined with the angry stares told me that I was not in a room with Mel Brooks fans.
So you'r the person in front of me that, although they look like a frequent flyer, cant seem to get their act together. I always thought it was just inexperience or a bad day. Thanks for confirming it's just obstinacy and ego - after all, you are soooo much smarter than those TSA idiots, why don't they simply trust you when you appear to have more bags than allowed, or that you have scripts for those random meds?
Maybe you ought to face the situation as it is, instead of insisting that the world should revolve around you?
Fact: TSA personnel are low wage and poorly trained.
Fact: A lot of the rules are of marginal usefulness and are intrusive.
Fact: There are about 200 people in line behind you know these facts, and who are wondering what the hell is taking you so long.
Since we're in anecdote land, I don't fly once a month - I fly once a week. In and out of Atlanta - busiest in the world. I only need to use 1 bin (for the laptop and liquids bag), and all the rest of my crap stays in the carry-on or laptop case. If it's winter, I use another bin for my coat, but shoes and bags go on the conveyor. It goes like clockwork, except when I do something stupid (forget the phone on my hip or reach into the machine to get my shoes). The TSA personnel are invariably businesslike - not fawning, but certainly not the Secret Police. And I don't travel first class to get special treatment - I just adapted my travel so I could get through a trying process with the least amount of inconvenience.
Oh, and just carry a friggin empty bottle through Security and fill it up at a water fountain on the other side - God knows we don't want you to get sick on the plane after your torturous experience.
Have you seen the Volvo "Your Concept Car (YCC)". Designed by women, for women.
"The car includes features not typically found in man-made cars. Among the dozens of unique items: no hood; no gas cap; easy-clean paint; numerous exchangeable seat covers of various colors and materials (linen, leather, felt, etc.); compartments for handbags; gull-wing doors that make it easier to load and unload larger items and children; computerized assistance for parallel parking; and improved sight lines. Owners carrying large items can set the doors to open automatically when they reach the doors."
So apparently, even women designers think other women are incompetent at caring for their cars (no hood), and care more for color coordination.
I don't need to be sexist - "professional" women do it for me.
"Good thing they mentioned this. I had already put a bowl on my head and was about to test it out."
Mothersbaugh, is that you?
Loved your work on "Rugrats", btw.
Question: Is it possible that, instead of sharks having an extremely low cancer rate, shark cancers are extremely virulent, and kill them very quickly? This would sink the sharks to the bottom whereupon the evidence would be disposed of quickly. This would skew the sample toward sharks that don't have cancer.
Also "Alph", by Poul Anderson (I think). Full length book. In it, women simply take over and eliminate men. A few hundred years pass of rewriting history so that men never existed, and then they discover a frozen dead guy and recover his wigglies and produce a boy. The boy is a scientific curiousity, etc, etc.
All I remember after that is the moral: it would be bad to get rid of men because women still want the high hard one.
Finally, proof that Mother Nature never intended males to exist at all.
" tobacco, drugs, weapons, and prostitution"
Sounds like the perfect convenience store.
The quality argument has less to do with unions per se, and more with the state of competition. North of the Mason Dixon, and in some other locations, the unions have a lock on construction work. In some trades, there ARE no non-union shops. If a GC tries to contract with a non-union shop for part of the work, the other union trades (remember, they are guaranteed to be on site, do to teh aforementioned lock on some trades) will ensure that "bad things" happen on the project, ranging from slow work, sabotage, to violence and intimidation.
South of the Mason Dixon, there are no trades where the unions have a lock. Since the unions can't compete on labor cost, they compete on quality. And they are reasonably successful - if there is a tight schedule, a GC can't afford NOT to take the subcontractor that will do it right the first time.
In other areas, were there is little union presence at all (say, landscaping and drywall)there is only competition on cost, and quality is abyssmal.
For 1 generation. Then the total lack of women basement dwellers will doom the race.
I remember reading about the history of plate tectonics in a Philosophy of Science class. Over in the Smithsonian thread, someone opined that "politics has no place in science". He obviously didn't read the same history we did.
Lets see...
"This is what happened at FEMA with Heckuvajob Brownie."
"This is what happened in Iraq, when the White House sent over people who had the proper Republican Party credentials, but not the credentials to do the job; it's one of the major reasons the occupation there has been such a disaster."
"the infamous case of General Shinseki getting sacked by Rumsfeld after he said we would need several hundred thousand troops to effectively occupy Iraq."
That's most of his last paragraph, with examples all from this administration. He also throws in comments about abstinence only education and controversy over climate change, which are widely viewed as Republican positions. Not a single mention of anything having to do with Clinton or the Democrats. In adition, the whole "wonks are better that hacks" thing I believe is a reference to the Clinton Administration, which was viewed in Washington as "the invasion of the policy wonks".
Did he specifically exclude Clinton? No. But if I go to the doctor and say "My toe, ankle, calf, knee, thigh, and hip hurt, but my elbow feels fine", he'd be an idiot to start with checking my arms.
But it wasn't the museum's job to speculate - they could have reported the historical facts.
How about "Wartime estimates of an invasion of Japan put the number of casualties at X. More recent analysis indicates the number would probably be Y"
Small took over in January 2000, over a year before Bush took ofice.
Nice try, though.
Sorry, but another whiney musician blathering about "disrespect for the art" isn't going to help her case.
You quit one job and took up another - why does that make your work product special? Because you are an "artist"? So what?
Really, I want to know - why are you special?
You aren't paying attention - there ARE no "coffers". There is no "investment". The money goes from point A to point B. There is an accounting trick involved whereby the federal government "borrows" from the SS "trust fund". But that isn't voluntary borrowing, like treasury bonds - it is mandatory. So the effect is that excess SS receipts go straight to the general fund - they always have. And when it turns upside down, general funds will be used to "pay back" the "trust fund" to make up for shortfalls in receipts.
So from a macro level, money goes out of my paycheck, to the government, and then to SS recipients. Whether it is taken out as FICA or income tax is irrelevant. There are no "excess" funds to raid or invest. And "invest" in what? Government bonds? That's like saying that I invested the money in my right pocket by putting it to work in my left. If you want to talk about investing in something of economic value, like infrastructure or *gasp* equities, then it's a diferent story, but that's not what you are talking about, is it.
I already know that - read the second paragraph of my post. I was making fun of the folks that can't believe a perfectly simple explanation when there is something paranormal to explain it (I met a woman once who swore she could psychically make the lettuce in her refrigerator freeze if she got mad. Couldn't possibly be a low thermostat setting)
It still drives me batshit, but only because I need to tell my wife EVERY SINGLE NIGHT to turn off the TV, not just the Replay unit.
Wow - that explains so much. I have been plagued for years with an eerie knowledge of when my TV is on, even with no signal. It manifests itself as a high pitched noise that only I can hear, and I can tell with 100% accuracy when the TV is on or off.
I never thought of it as a disability, though - I just thought it was an older model and the electronics were giving off a hum, and I just haven't lost my high frequency hearing yet. But now that I know there are others like me, we can form a support group and get recognition for our disability - maybe even get Medicaid compensation.
I'm so happy now that I know I am not alone.
But was the tinfoil properly grounded?
Aarrrrgh...flashback...AP English...spent a week on that damned piece of doggerel...must..not..strangle..nuns.......