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.. (I asked you not to tell me that!) Sometimes I used to wake the Mrs. up with a gentle Mr. Rogers imitation... "It's time to get up! Sure! Can you say, 'coffee'?" (Which usually earns me something like "I'll kick your a$$ all the way to the land of make believe if you touch that blanket!") Anyway, Mr. Rogers has passed away, along with the actors who played many of the great TV characters... Archie Bunker, Maxwell Smart, Mr & Mrs Roper, also Jack Tripper!! So young... Apparently the entire cast and crew of Bewitched... (Were there a lot of PCB's on Morningglory Circle?) The only ones theoretically left on Gilligans Isle would be the Professor, Ginger and MaryAnne... But he's probably too busy making laxatives out of coconut milk to pay them any mind... It's all way too depressing... After Judge Judy is over, I'm going back to bed.

Click for a zip code picture : "A USPS zip code is not a geographical area but a route which may not be definable as a polygon." I did not know that.

We thought that with Christmas fast approaching and the slow Summer season over, it would be a good time to restart the ebay thing... Oh how wrong we were.... The fees are even more ridiculous. Plus traffic is almost non-existant. Once eBaY was fun, but as usual the corporate types killed the goose by trying to make it lay platinum eggs as well as golden... Where will the greedfest stop?

I was almost tempted to click on the link in this bit o' spam that came in this morning. It's sort of like one of them haikus. Our physician's consultation is for zero pennies. Hey, hey all. Specials to all capsule. Effortless to trails your packet with our system. Set a convenient e zone setting. Best to you! Absolutely suggest to folks. Dorris H --NJ. As one we get rid of bad symptom on nervousness. I would really like to get rid of that nervous symptom.

I just got this email from Mr. Larry - better hustle down to the depot to pick up my crate of dinero... From HON Ben Larry, Head, Banking Operations, Pacific Int'l Bank Limited. Plot 84/88, Ajose Adeogun Street, Victoria Island, Lagos Nigeria. Date:27-9-2005. Dear Friend, Sequel to the secretive arrangement in regards of the shipment of your contract sum, I wish to inform you that all necessary modalities have been automatically concluded and have left Nigeria to London via your Country today by Express Cargo Flight. Note carefully the content of the crate is "MONEY" but I did not discloseit to the Courier Services as Money, rather I informed them that the cratecontain Vital "DIPLOMATIC DOCUMENTS" belonging to my client (that?syou).Furthermore, the weight of the consignment is 220kg but I manageto pay120kg,which cost US$75,500.00. On no account should you disclose thecontentof the crate with the Diplomatic Courier Services for fear...

Circus Folks. Worse yet, State Fair Folks (circus folk wunnabees) -from an old fair program I found. Notice the kid in the bottom left seems to be saying, "Hey! That old guy stole my wallet!" - You have to admit, the old fellow does look sort of guilty.  

******************* Customer Delight Moment ******************* Lisa G ordered 31 Snot Nose keychains, we threw in a "Poopy Pig" too! Won't she be delighted?

Boeing strikers told it's a national battle "They won't just settle when Boeing sweetens the offer with extended nap times and cookie breaks." What kind of cookies?

This is kind of a cool idea... A USB powered smoke eating ashtray.

When people do bad things to good money - (I'm not even sure this is legal)   UglyMoney.com

... As if this isn't pathetic enough, I heard Julie from "Love Boat" works at a QFC Deli in Seattle. Then again, I'm peddling fake dog poop on the Internet.

I don't understand how the Bonobo, a pygmy chimpanzee, became an endangered species. After all, according to the newspaper column "Earthweek", the Bonobo is known as "The hippie of the forest", due to it's preference for "resolving conflict through sex rather than violence"... (Do they smoke a bowl afterwards?)

Dogs in bee costumes. Disturbing. BeeDogs.com

I PREDICT that there will be productive talks soon in our strike- The company is getting the word out that the union's proposal would be the beginning of the end for the company, taking the pension issue alone- Ignoring the fact that they have language in there that would allow any Tom, Dick or Harry vendor march right into the factory and fill our parts bins, or even install components. Many of us would be out on the street (third time for me!) so what good would the pension be with only 13 years of not being laid off under my belt? Not to mention they want to take away my medical plan and replace it With "Big LeRoy's Medical Plan and Mesquite BBQ to go." (or something along those lines). The Union of course is insisting that the company has a big cash vault ala Scrooge McDuck, and we only want to be paid what the CEO makes, that only makes sense... I view all of this posturing as a very good sign; Our fair governer will get them together with a federal media...

I get a kick out of these dressed-up dogs at HandsNPaws.com Unfortunately, they have the same store provider we do, and item page pictures are just not showing up today (9/8/05) I am sure they are feverishly working on it, meanwhile the little icon pictures will have to do.

From the article: WorkZ : Helpful Tips To Increase Customer Satisfaction Call some of your customers and ask them for a few moments of their time. This exercise can be done in a survey, but you'll gain far more value if you talk with them personally. Ask them how they would rate your products or services on a scale of one to ten. If they say "ten," ask them why. The reason THEY rank you as a ten may be totally different than you suspect. If the answer is anything LESS than a ten, ask what it would take to MAKE it a ten. This is a great starting point to find out what they really want. Don't defend anything you do or don't do. Keep asking what they want and how they want to be served. In doing so, you'll gain priceless information and endear yourself to your customer. I don't know about you all, but I get ANNOYED AS HELL when businesses call me to mine my mind for customer data. Customers just want to buy thier crapola and be left the ...

"Writer-creator Sherwood Schwartz insisted that the show had social meaning along with the laughs: "I knew that by assembling seven different people and forcing them to live together, the show would have great philosophical implications." I am trying to wrap my mind around this. What did we learn from watching Gilligan's Island? One thing I noticed, the Howells were treated like royalty, although money has no value on an uncharted desert isle. What's up with that? Did the Howells posess some sort of charismatic quality, which caused money to flow to them, instead of the other way round? Why, I remember Mr. Howell when he only had one wheel on his wagon.

... Pretty boring picketing the Company Health Club last night... It's down in some woods on a dead-end road. Mostly we just saw the union hall coffee van, and Company Security was racing around out of boredom I guess... We did see a deer, came out of the woods and grazed right across the road from us. I guess everyone else is going "Big deal, another damn deer" because you all see them all the time, up close, like on the hood of your car... but I never see them in my nieghborhood, if there were any I'm sure Mike next door has already had it stuffed and mounted. I had to get up and print some orders, check my email, I'm working a deal with a guy in the Congo to help him get the deposed king's millions into a US bank, it should be very profitable. No word from him yet, guess I will go back to bed, I was up until 5:15 am

In The immortal words of Kevin McCallister, "This is it... Don't get scared now"... I have a day job, but just went on strike, because the company is tossing in even more job-offloading language, plus they eliminated my preferred medical plan, and want us to allow new hires fewer benefits. Sadly, many people who don't work at this company, and make lower wages than I do, are accusing us of being greedy, but it's not even about money. They just don't get it. I call it the "crabs in a barrel" syndrome... I know, many people in the world, in this very country, are suffering... I can't give cash at this juncture, all I have is a website full of oddball stuff, maybe it will make a few people smile for a bit. It's not much, but I'm not smart enough to be a doctor, strong enough to be a fireman, or sneaky enough to be a lawyer.

From our "They just don't get it" files