Subj : Re: Various Things (2) To : Barry Martin From : Daryl Stout Date : Mon Feb 06 2023 10:54:00 Barry, BM> Hope they brought along the air pump for it! One heck of a blow job. DS> Earth were to fart simultaneously, the entire planet would be DS> engulfed in a ball of fire. BM> Two Guinness world records at once! Or like the theme song of David Koresh..."I'm going to Heaven in a flash of fire...with or without you". BM> Yea! ...The co-pay on my plan went up a dollar this year but the BM> overall cost of the plan went down IIRC ~$3.50 per month so I'm ahead, The stuff I ordered from Wal-Mart is coming in 3 separate shipments from FedEx. Why they can't do it in one trip, is beyond me. But, I had the HMO allowance, where I wasn't charged for the items (nearly $120). BM> That's good on you not losing power. With the stength and severity of BM> the storms up here I'm surprised I haven't lost power more often. I BM> think only two, maybe three times this winter and was restored quickly BM> -- usually less than an hour. We have a potential of severe weather here Tuesday night through Wednesday, so I'll be offline for a bit. BM> I think it's kind of 'funny' in how people don't prepare for a power BM> outage: "oh, I can find my flashlight" type of response. I have it, and the cellphone handy. BM> And hopefully they come to a consensus! Only when it comes to going to the bathroom. :P BM> Not really, though I do remember being annoyed when the commercials BM> went from alluding to their competitor to outright naming them. Using BM> "Brand X" was sort of a cop-out, but something like using a misbehaving BM> colt to represent the Budwesier Clydsdales was more mind-fun. I was watching TV getting ready to eat lunch, and here came the commerical for Pepto-Bismol, asking "Do you mind if I talk to you about...diarrhea??". There went the appetite. :P BM> No charge is even better, of course. I was thinking of the non- BM> medically-related trips such as to the grocery store (I know: they BM> deliver) and the Post Office (hmm: they deliver too! So does Union Pacific Railroad. BM> Remember when you had amnesia? When was that?? BM> We can do that without lightening much less 'bad weather'. Several BM> years ago a squirrel or some smaller animal got into the distribution BM> station serving most of Bettendorf, IA: pretty much the entire city BM> went dark (and yes, did happen at early in the evening so no sunlight). Yeah, there have been many reports of fried squirrel here. Daryl .... Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. === MultiMail/Win v0.52 --- SBBSecho 3.15-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (454:1/33) .