Subj : Re: The 9 Parts Of Speech To : Daryl Stout From : George Pope Date : Fri Aug 06 2021 10:41:53 > First, my apologies for the delay in replying. I had to be ambulatory > to an area hospital on Thursday. It turns out that I have atrial flutter, > a form of atrial fibrillation...which can lead to a fatal stroke or heart > attack, if not caught in time. They have me on a blood thinner, and a > medication to stabilize the heart rate and blood pressure. No worries; happy you go through it okay & they seem to have fixed you up okay. . . Take your meds regularly, as indicated, on time, exact dose. > GP> My formula for business success is: > GP> 1. customer first (cuz you want/need their money) > GP> 2. then employees (cuz thety help #1 leave cash behind) > GP> 3. bottom line will take care of itself when you have 1 & 2. > When I was working in silkscreen printing, one customer said "The > Customer Is Always Right"...and I replied "The Jury is still out on > that". There have been some "strange ones" that come in. Even though > there is a menu or display board, showing what the business offers, > and the prices, people still ask for something we obviously don't do > or have. I learned in my current job to never say no -- they are paying for anythinbg they askl for & their request is enough for us to bill them. If they just say "Move patient X safely & as quickly as possible from Brazil to Canada," we do it & then just give them the bill for $4M & change (itemized, of course -- we're not monsters!) Maybe 10-20% of that finds it way to supporting our company, most of it is just cashflow right to the providers we used. > GP> $77.77 might get you ONE used textbook today! > And soon, that'll be for one tank of gasoline for your vehicle. :P A guy I did moving jobs with had a Ford pickup that might cost that much (it was an F-350, with dual gas tanks;. he co9uld pop another 100gal tank into the bed to load yp when he finds cheap gas (there's one sytastion in bwetween a couploe munbicipalities that is the cheapest gas in 1,000 miles all around!); he'd fill up all 3 tanks on the January trip down to see his dad, & the difference in price paid for 3 20-hour roundtrips o9f driving, including paying ferry 8 times! > I wish more parents would take heed to the song that country-western > star Rodney Atkins did, "Watching You". > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uzK3VwzraM Very nice! I've saved that one into my favorites! Google up: Dorothy Law Nolte Poem "Children Learn What They Live" For the one I picture when considering the concept. > Folks like George Burns, Bob Hope, Red Skelton, Groucho Marx, and many > more, proved you don't have to be dirty to be funny. For a more modern one, just as funny & clean, but now, sadly, RIP, look up John Pinette on YouTube -- he's a great story teller who takes you with him on his hilarious adventures > You have to. I have an online digital subscription to The Miami Herald > (Florida), as I follow their sports coverage with my late father's alma > mater, the University Of Miami. If you have to get it yourself on their page, it's your own fault if it's late, eh? :D > ... Newspaper Headline: "Local Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide." I've actually seen some just as dumb. I'm still trying to figure out how they ruled a death as homicide when cause of death wAs "Unknown" If killing a man is homicide, is killing a friend homiecide? The police department made all homicide detectives stay under quarantine for two weeks. >!They had coroner-virus. Ive never understood school shooting jokes Guess they are aimed at a younger audience My Roomba accidentally went out the front door, and the neighborhood animals immediately started attacking it. Nature abhors a vacuum. So if a group of crows killed another group of crows... Would that be double homicide? At a soccer match with Julius Caesar, Brutus asked, "What's the score, O Caesar?" Caesar replied... "8-2, Brutus." Apparently, a man recently destroyed his own house. He was convicted of homicide. Your friend, <+]:{)} Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM --- SBBSecho 3.14-Linux * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757.2) .