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Old 02-16-2022, 07:28 PM   #271
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My wife lists me as her contact in case of emergency and the doctor's offices still call me instead of her.
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Old 02-16-2022, 09:28 PM   #272
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Nevermind. Misread the roles.
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Old 02-17-2022, 07:37 AM   #273
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send text messages from your home phone, you will need a text-enabled phone and an enabled telephone line. To view text messages on your text-enabled phone, you'll need Caller Display. If you don't have Caller Display you'll receive text messages as voice messages. If you haven't registered for the service, you will also receive text messages as voice messages.
Sadly not available at all in some countries and not even some exchanges in UK.
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Old 02-17-2022, 09:05 AM   #274
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Back on stuff that never happens in real life....

Meet cute(s).

What the holy hell does that even mean, anyway? People meet or they don't. The rest? Meh.

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Old 02-17-2022, 10:45 AM   #275
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Back on stuff that never happens in real life....

Meet cute(s).

What the holy hell does that even mean, anyway? People meet or they don't. The rest? Meh.

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You mean you didn't meet your significant other in some improbable silly situation?
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Old 02-17-2022, 01:36 PM   #276
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I met her at a kind of club dinner in a hotel. She'd come with someone else, but they'd not spoken for a week. She was keen to talk to me as I was the only alternative. I'm rubbish at small talk or casual dinner conversation. So I described something I knew.
"How come you know so much about this hotel?" she asked eventually.
Probably bored and wanted to stop me.
"My mum's the manager."
I realised by this time it wasn't the time to mention that I'd known the receptionist for about fifteen years, she having been the girl next door for nine of them from when I was about six.
Anyway turned out I wasn't as boring as her companion. It was the last time she saw him.
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Old 02-17-2022, 02:55 PM   #277
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I tell people that my wife picked me up at the Cincinnati Airport.
It is true. We both worked for the same company traveling all over the US. She picked me up there and we drove to Rhode Island. We have been together ever since.
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Old 04-19-2022, 11:29 PM   #278
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I remember the TV show Dexter, which I liked. Dexter used an injection of a veterinary drug to knock out his victims. Instant collapse and an hour or so later they woke up without any bad consequences, not even feeling sick. And that happened not once or twice, but basically in every episode. You'd think that one of them would have died at least, or not collapsed at all. Nope. Like a clockwork.
That's one of my pet peeves. I am a veterinarian and use injectable drugs daily to anesthetize patients. But injecting into a muscle, the drugs take 5-10 min to work. In most TV/movies/books, people stick a needle into someone's neck muscle and they are instantly collapsing. Nope, doesn't happen like that. intravenous will give you that quick knockdown but that requires restraint to find the vein.
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Old 04-19-2022, 11:31 PM   #279
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Reminds me of Lord of the Rings where they hardly ever ate. Stuff going in and stuff coming out seems to be overlooked in a lot of books.
But....but... what about second breakfast??

edited - oops, see that line's already been done. Shoulda read ahead
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Old 04-20-2022, 09:44 AM   #280
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Reminds me of Lord of the Rings where they hardly ever ate. Stuff going in and stuff coming out seems to be overlooked in a lot of books.
Ever read Watership Down? The rabbits often 'silflay' and then pass 'hraka'. Then, close to the end,
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one character tells another to 'silflay hraka.'
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Ever read Watership Down? The rabbits often 'silflay' and then pass 'hraka'. Then, close to the end,
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one character tells another to 'silflay hraka.'
It's been almost 40 years since I last read that book and I barely remember even broad plot points, but for some reason the word "hrududu" for a tractor has stuck with me.
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