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Comment on Unblogged Bits for Fri, 12 Mar 2010, 7:00PM by ***Dave

***Dave — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:42:08 +0000

True enough, and the way we bought the van. I don’t recall Subarus being offered thru fleet discounts, which is why we did things a bit more conventionally with that car.

Comment on Unblogged Bits for Fri, 12 Mar 2010, 7:00PM by BD

BD — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:18:29 +0000

Or, you know, just go through th Costco and not even deal with regualr dealer crap….the fleet guys are way cooler.

Comment on Oh, boy! I hope I get what’s coming to me! by David Newman

David Newman — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:57:46 +0000

My latest email wonder was an offer from Prestige Educational Service offering Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral degrees in just 4-6 weeks. Wow. Why am I spending 2 years to get a Master’s degree?

Comment on Oh, boy! I hope I get what’s coming to me! by ***Dave

***Dave — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:24:24 +0000

Yeah, but, see, that’s actually believable …

Comment on Support Your Local Girl Scout Cookie Dad by ***Dave

***Dave — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:23:46 +0000

Luck of the draw. Cases of 12 boxes could go back to the Cookie Cupboard, and so they did.

There’s always next year!

Comment on Oh, boy! I hope I get what’s coming to me! by Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:23:12 +0000

I liked the Dick Cheney one – “My name is Dick Cheney. I have embezzled vast sums of money, which I cannot access because I am currently vice-president of The United States…”

Comment on Support Your Local Girl Scout Cookie Dad by DKSampson

DKSampson — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:54:54 +0000

Pity, I just discovered I love the Thank You Berry Much cookies. Probably a good thing you don’t have any of those!

Comment on Oh, boy! I hope I get what’s coming to me! by george.w

george.w — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:11:30 +0000

I got a message today with an attachment called; “Message.doc”. Opened it up in Notepad++ and found that someone in Malaysia with the same last name as me died in the tsunami leaving $millions. (Yeah, George Wiman is a common name in Malaysia; I’ve heard that.)

Comment on Support Your Local Girl Scout Cookie Dad by Mad Bassoonist

Mad Bassoonist — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:17:20 +0000

Love the poster!

Comment on Why U.S. Bank sucks, and Margie is marvelous by brian

brian — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:01:35 +0000

this bank is the most money grubbing peices of shit i have ever come i ncontact with I hope they go bankrupt and the hole system and all its employees find a nice spot in the unemployment line.

Comment on Support Your Local Girl Scout Cookie Dad by ***Dave

***Dave — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:40:51 +0000

They are not. Your three boxes of Trefoils are sitting neatly on the front table. (Similarly, boxes of cookies purchased by the ‘rents are in boxes in the guest room.)

Comment on Support Your Local Girl Scout Cookie Dad by BD

BD — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:16:00 +0000

Those aren’t my Trefoils, are they?

Comment on “I’m going to have to put you on the game grid …” by BD

BD — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:41:48 +0000

Yeah, it looks like the story will work as a continuation of the original.

Comment on Beep-beep? by ***Dave

***Dave — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:08:28 +0000

We XYs stand ready to assist …

Comment on Tweets from 2010-03-08 by David Newman

David Newman — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:40:52 +0000

I had a similar “I am a dolt” moment today. I forgot to attend a class I’m scheduled to teach due to getting too caught up in thinking about other things. At least in your case it’s a volunteer thing. In mine, I’m theoretically being paid to teach that class. Doh!

Comment on Beep-beep? by Mary

Mary — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:05:17 +0000

that’s ‘is’ not ‘in.’

Comment on Beep-beep? by Mary

Mary — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:04:28 +0000

Very cute. But please all you Y chromosomes out there, this in not a training video. ‘Nuff said.

Comment on Amazon, states, sales tax, and playing hardball by ***Dave

***Dave — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:01:55 +0000

Supermarkets do the same here — and, really, we have (because the supers have been around longer) many fewer Main Street grocers. The irony being that the big discounters — WalMart, Target, Sam’s, Costco, etc. — are themselves now out-supermarketing the supermarkets in prices.

Comment on Amazon, states, sales tax, and playing hardball by Last Hussar

Last Hussar — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:23:14 +0000

Damn- meant to add three years ago or so a consumer programme did a survey on buying Christmas dinner, as the Supermarkets all offered cheap deals on Turkeys etc. Great, until you compared the cost of all the other bits- veg etc.

Comment on Amazon, states, sales tax, and playing hardball by Last Hussar

Last Hussar — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:21:05 +0000

The secret here is ‘KVI’ – Known Value Items. The shopper (let’s face it, Wife), knows the cost of the staples- bread, milk etc. The big boxes make a loss on these, or if the law is strict, virtually no profit. These pull the customers. The profit is on everything else, because ‘while you’re there…’. Likewise special offers. Sure, you’ll go in to look at the cheap TV, but while you’re there, you need some milk, and better get some bread, save going out later.

This is why the supermarkets in the UK fought so hard to get the book price agreement abolished. They use cheap Harry Potter’s as the lure, knowing once the mother is there, she isn’t going to go else where. Little bookshops needed the blockbusters to support them for selling the other stuff, that isn’t going to shift by the shelf load. I wouldn’t be surprised if in a few years it is virtually impossible to find anything not by Rowling, Dan Brown etc. People say ‘you can order anything on Amazon’- true, but you have to know it exists- you can’t browse Amazon, you rely on them presenting things to you.