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Ginding away- stop putting sand in my oil... Part 4

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RaceBoarder said:
I think it's funny that they think the construction of the rink is what's keeping the ducks and geese away :eek: :mad:
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reminds me of a situation between my sister and my brother-in-law....my sister had planted a tree, and one autumn day she found that her husband had pulled it up. When she asked him why, he said: "all the leaves fell off, I thought it had died." Apparently he had forgotten what happens to trees in the autumn....
 
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FreshFish said:
reminds me of a situation between my sister and my brother-in-law....my sister had planted a tree, and one autumn day she found that her husband had pulled it up. When she asked him why, he said: "all the leaves fell off, I thought it had died." Apparently he had forgotten what happens to trees in the autumn....
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Did your brother-in-law graduate from SCSU?
 
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FreshFish said:
reminds me of a situation between my sister and my brother-in-law....my sister had planted a tree, and one autumn day she found that her husband had pulled it up. When she asked him why, he said: "all the leaves fell off, I thought it had died." Apparently he had forgotten what happens to trees in the autumn....
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When we were first married I left to go shopping. Before I left I told him do not mess with these- pointed out a big bunch of hybrid lilies. I came home to stubs. :rolleyes: Lesson learned. Make him repeat back everything I say if it is important.
 
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leswp1 said:
When we were first married I left to go shopping. Before I left I told him do not mess with these- pointed out a big bunch of hybrid lilies. I came home to stubs. :rolleyes: Lesson learned. Make him repeat back everything I say if it is important.
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I never knew you married an SCSU grad. :eek:


;)
 
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goldy_331 said:
Did your brother-in-law graduate from SCSU?
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From MIT, actually. :rolleyes:


As they said in Cambridge, when the college student went into the "10 items or less" line at the grocery store with a full shopping cart:

"Either you are from Harvard and can't count, or you are from MIT and can't read."
 
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Grr... :mad:

Dealing with the bank about the home equity line of credit: in '09 they restricted the line to $0.00 because of the decline in housing values, but left a lien on the house in the full amount of the line anyway. About two weeks ago, I went into the bank to ask them to restore part of the line since housing values have since rebounded. I was told then that it would be easier to apply for a new line. But today I get a call because I can't apply for a new line because they still have the lien on the old line. Walter Thomas Ford??

Anyway, now I'm told that we need to ask them to restore part of the old line...which is what I originally asked for two weeks ago!

naturally I had given all the documentation to the loan officer in the branch bank, and today I'm told I need to fax that same documentation to a different office as they have no record of receiving it. Oh well, so it goes...
 
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FreshFish said:
From MIT, actually. :rolleyes:


As they said in Cambridge, when the college student went into the "10 items or less" line at the grocery store with a full shopping cart:

"Either you are from Harvard and can't count, or you are from MIT and can't read."
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I do understand that. I have a frat brother who graduated from UMN and went to MIT for a masters. The stereotypical "book smart, no common sense" guy. He was from Mankato (90 minutes south of the UMN campus). He got stopped for speeding at the same radar trap between Mankato and Minneapolis three times in the same semester, every time on a Sunday evening as he was headed back to school. Never heard if it was the same cop.
 
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goldy_331 said:
I do understand that. I have a frat brother who graduated from UMN and went to MIT for a masters. The stereotypical "book smart, no common sense" guy. He was from Mankato (90 minutes south of the UMN campus). He got stopped for speeding at the same radar trap between Mankato and Minneapolis three times in the same semester, every time on a Sunday evening as he was headed back to school. Never heard if it was the same cop.
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Funny.

There is a speed trap on I90 in New York outside a town called Shodack. I'd seen a car on the median there several times. One time as we neared the spot, I said to the passenger, "we better be careful, there's a speed trap around here." A few moments later, a local patrol car drives onto the road ahead of us, goes a few hundred feet, then pulls over on the median just past a bridge where he would be hidden from view of approaching motorists.

You'd think "the burned hand teaches best' but not always, eh?




PS. A good friend of mine was in a fraternity. He despised the term "frat." Whenever he heard it, he'd say, "you don't call your country a c^nt, you don't call your fraternity a frat."
 
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RaceBoarder said:
I think it's funny that they think the construction of the rink is what's keeping the ducks and geese away :eek: :mad:
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Agreed, but the key to this whole story is that they've been putting the rink up on city/public property. If it was within their own yard, I'd be 100% on their side. However, I can see the other side of things since it's not on their property. It's sad that the neighbors appear to be completely clueless as to the winter migration of waterfowl, but if any Tom Dick & Harry could just throw structures up on city land wherever they felt like...I'm not sure that's a can of worms I want to open.
 
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johnnypohlfan said:
Agreed, but the key to this whole story is that they've been putting the rink up on city/public property. If it was within their own yard, I'd be 100% on their side. However, I can see the other side of things since it's not on their property. It's sad that the neighbors appear to be completely clueless as to the winter migration of waterfowl, but if any Tom Dick & Harry could just throw structures up on city land wherever they felt like...I'm not sure that's a can of worms I want to open.
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especially after the first negligence lawsuit hits the town when someone gets injured on the rink....If the people who put up the rink could purchase liability insurance that would indemnify the town against legal action, the issue would be much easier to resolve, methinks.


Of course, then they'd have to collect money somehow to pay for the insurance, and we'd have another brouhaha.
 
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The follow up is that apparently the city has backed off and will let the rink remain.
 
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People who send emails that do not include questions, and then ask why no one replied with an answer. Um, because you didn't ask anything? If you give information, but don't ask any questions... what exactly are we "answering"?
 
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jen said:
People who send emails that do not include questions, and then ask why no one replied with an answer. Um, because you didn't ask anything? If you give information, but don't ask any questions... what exactly are we "answering"?
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I received a formal Request For Information (RFI) today which had two statements of fact in it and no question. I can infer what the question might be since the two statements conflicted, but it would be nice if they would ask the question so I don't need to guess.
 
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