I'm really tired of people who complain about the price of everything...
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$2 for a cup of coffee... $3 for coat check... $4 an hour for parking... If they don't change their attitude, I'll just stop inviting them to my house! :doh: Ba-Tish! Don't worry, getting my coat real soon!
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$2 for a cup of coffee... $3 for coat check... $4 an hour for parking... If they don't change their attitude, I'll just stop inviting them to my house! :doh: Ba-Tish! Don't worry, getting my coat real soon!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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$2 for a cup of coffee... $3 for coat check... $4 an hour for parking... If they don't change their attitude, I'll just stop inviting them to my house! :doh: Ba-Tish! Don't worry, getting my coat real soon!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark TwainThis reminds me: My folks have a towel rack in one of their washrooms, and my mom put some nice fancy towels on it, carefully selected to match the paint on the walls, and nobody's allowed to actually use those towels coming out of the shower - if you actually need a towel, those are stored in the laundry room (which is across the hall from the washroom). I used to ask my mom what the point was, as this is a functional washroom, not a museum where people come in and pay to look at some display. She never appreciated my "function over form" rationalization.
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$2 for a cup of coffee... $3 for coat check... $4 an hour for parking... If they don't change their attitude, I'll just stop inviting them to my house! :doh: Ba-Tish! Don't worry, getting my coat real soon!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark TwainBut if you invite people to a party, everyone asks if you want them to bring some alcohol regardless of prices for booze are continuously rising and the taxes on hem never (ever!) get lower. THAT is incongruence!
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$2 for a cup of coffee... $3 for coat check... $4 an hour for parking... If they don't change their attitude, I'll just stop inviting them to my house! :doh: Ba-Tish! Don't worry, getting my coat real soon!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark TwainA friend of mine once helped a friend with some odd jobs. My friend had a van, so he drove to the wood shop to pick up some wood, then brought it to his friend, spent the day doing chores (I think it was plinths). So anyway, after a day of hard work (may even have been a weekend) they ate pizza and his friend handed him an invoice for the coffee and pizza and even the electricity he used TO FIX HIS HOUSE :D You may think this is a lame joke, but this guy was dead serious. My friend gave him the finger instead and they're not friends anymore.
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$2 for a cup of coffee... $3 for coat check... $4 an hour for parking... If they don't change their attitude, I'll just stop inviting them to my house! :doh: Ba-Tish! Don't worry, getting my coat real soon!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark TwainThat joke doesn't sound tariff-ic and should cost reputation points - who's in-charge if I want to suggest this change?
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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But if you invite people to a party, everyone asks if you want them to bring some alcohol regardless of prices for booze are continuously rising and the taxes on hem never (ever!) get lower. THAT is incongruence!
Expectations change from one generation to the next. In my student days (so this is quite a while ago) my parents had a cousin of mine (also a student) living in our house. One Saturday, her boyfriend came to visit our house, and he brought a pack of beer to the barbecue party. My father got really crossed; he took it as an insult: As if we couldn't affort to buy the beer when we invite people to a party. It took me quite some effort to make him (reluctantly) accept that this was common practice among young people, more like a polite gesture saying 'Thank you for the invitation, and I would like to give my contribution to the common good'. I don't think my father accepted it in his heart; he was still insulted, but understood that he had to keep a straigth face in this situation. The funny thing is that in his generation, bringing a bunch of flowers or a box of chocolate to the party would be great, almost expected. Alchohol was quite different, almost like bringing a slab of meat when invited to a fine dinner. Today I am older than my father was at that time, and noone my age would have the reactions of my father. So expectation change. But when crossing generations, or crossing oceans/continents, one might run into similar cultural conflicts.
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$2 for a cup of coffee... $3 for coat check... $4 an hour for parking... If they don't change their attitude, I'll just stop inviting them to my house! :doh: Ba-Tish! Don't worry, getting my coat real soon!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain:laugh: /ravi
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Expectations change from one generation to the next. In my student days (so this is quite a while ago) my parents had a cousin of mine (also a student) living in our house. One Saturday, her boyfriend came to visit our house, and he brought a pack of beer to the barbecue party. My father got really crossed; he took it as an insult: As if we couldn't affort to buy the beer when we invite people to a party. It took me quite some effort to make him (reluctantly) accept that this was common practice among young people, more like a polite gesture saying 'Thank you for the invitation, and I would like to give my contribution to the common good'. I don't think my father accepted it in his heart; he was still insulted, but understood that he had to keep a straigth face in this situation. The funny thing is that in his generation, bringing a bunch of flowers or a box of chocolate to the party would be great, almost expected. Alchohol was quite different, almost like bringing a slab of meat when invited to a fine dinner. Today I am older than my father was at that time, and noone my age would have the reactions of my father. So expectation change. But when crossing generations, or crossing oceans/continents, one might run into similar cultural conflicts.
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boyfriend came to visit our house, and he brought a pack of beer to the barbecue party. My father got really crossed; he took it as an insult: As if we couldn't affort to buy the beer when we invite people to a party.
Maybe the BF's beer turned out to be better/more popular than your father's? :-)
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A friend of mine once helped a friend with some odd jobs. My friend had a van, so he drove to the wood shop to pick up some wood, then brought it to his friend, spent the day doing chores (I think it was plinths). So anyway, after a day of hard work (may even have been a weekend) they ate pizza and his friend handed him an invoice for the coffee and pizza and even the electricity he used TO FIX HIS HOUSE :D You may think this is a lame joke, but this guy was dead serious. My friend gave him the finger instead and they're not friends anymore.
Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly
True story. I have an uncle who used to sell used cars [I know, insert used car salesman joke here]. He had a number of cars on his lot that just didn't sell; after a while, keeping a car on a lot starts to actually cost you money, so he decided he needed to make room for other cars, so he gave a half-dozen or so of them to a guy who owned a wreck yard, who was more than happy to take them all. A few weeks later, my uncle needed a door handle for a car he had just purchased. The car was the same make/model as one of those he had given to the wreck yard owner, so he called him up and asked him if he could get a door handle, and the guy agreed. So he went to remove it from the car himself, and just as he was leaving, the owner stopped him dead in his tracks and asked, "Where are you going? That'll be 8$." And he wasn't joking.
