The Never-Ending Always-Changing Off-Topic Thread

[Caajscot (John)]

Mar 5, 2022 9:53:19 GMT -8 @burkeknight said:

One of those days....

Wish they'd sticky this thread. I think it would get more action if they did.

I doubt it but you never know, it's not active much like it used to be, sad really.

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Mar 5, 2022 13:25:35 GMT -8 Caajscot (John) said:

I doubt it but you never know, it's not active much like it used to be, sad really.

That's why I'd like it stickied, so it may attract more replies.

[Former Member]

Cats are proof that the world is not flat. 

If the world was flat, cats would have knocked everything off of the edge by now.

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Bit of info for those fans of the old Road Runner cartoon:

In the cartoon, ACME is eventually revealed as being “A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Roadrunner Corporation”, which of course indicates that Road Runner was in control of the company’s products. His position would then allow him to pass on all the faulty or untested goods to Wile. E. Coyote, thereby sabotaging his plan before it even was put into action.

[Nscalerr]

Always wondered what ACME was in the Roadrunner cartoons. Thanks for that @burkeknight

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A friend and I had a funny moment in chat one day: (Names changed, for privacy.)

Me: hehehe... just busted a moron on a forum, for using Google as his username.... LOL
Me: Sometimes, it's really fun dealing with idiots.... LOL
Them: :-D
Me: I tell it how I see it... LOL
Me: if they don't like it, they can hit Alt+F4 LOL
Me: hmmm... does Ubuntu have something like Alt+F4 to close a window/program?
Them: yep just tested it and gone goes my browser!
Me: LOL
Them: :-D
Me: ROFL
Me: goes to show you.... always test on something like notepad...
Them: lol yes, thankfully no mission critical browser windows were open

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[:~:Sarapha:~:]

It's currently 5am and my newborn is just refusing to go back to sleep. Thankfully, he's quiet as he stares into the void 😂

[Caajscot (John)]

Mar 11, 2022 2:27:04 GMT -8 :~:Sarapha:~: said:

It's currently 5am and my newborn is just refusing to go back to sleep. Thankfully, he's quiet as he stares into the void 😂

Had to laugh at that, it was around 1976 that our first child was born (Darren) and that reminded me of the times me and the wife had that experience, now years later we have experienced that with our 3 grandsons when they were babies and we were babysitting, the grandsons are now 16,15 & 8, my, how times fly.

[:~:Sarapha:~:]

Mar 11, 2022 5:19:00 GMT -8 Caajscot (John) said:

Mar 11, 2022 2:27:04 GMT -8 :~:Sarapha:~: said:

It's currently 5am and my newborn is just refusing to go back to sleep. Thankfully, he's quiet as he stares into the void 😂

Had to laugh at that, it was around 1976 that our first child was born (Darren) and that reminded me of the times me and the wife had that experience, now years later we have experienced that with our 3 grandsons when they were babies and we were babysitting, the grandsons are now 16,15 & 8, my, how times fly.

that's so sweet 🥰🥰 I've got an 8 year old, a 6 year old, and a 3 week old, and boy does time fly. I didn't realize how much I missed these little moments with the first two until this one was born. The other two were so close in age, there wasn't really enough time to start really missing the newborn stage, just enough to have double exhaustion. But I'm really enjoying it now.

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This was emailed to me by a friend. I felt it was good to share this story.

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A 14 year old girl works in her parents candy store. One day a 12 year old boy and his father come in to buy a news paper. The 12 year old boy instantly falls in love. Everyday, for more than two years, without ever missing a day, the young boy came into the candy store and bought a Hershey bar. Each Hershey bar had a small, barely noticeable sticker with the name of the store on it. He was so shy that it was hard for him to even speak when he was near her.

After more than two years of buying Hershey bars everyday, the girl he was in love with was gone. He continued to go in for a few weeks but it became obvious to him that she was no longer working there. The young boy was devastated. He could think of nothing but this beautiful girl.

Many years later, the young boy, now a young man, goes to college out of state. One day, while walking on campus, he notices a student on a bench crying, he goes over to ask if she's okay. She told him that she is not okay. He put his books down on the bench, sat down next to her and tried to make her feel better, but she was very upset. She wouldn't tell him details but she made it very clear that she thought the guy she was dating loved her and today somehow she found that wasn't true.

As the young man left to go to class, he left his history notebook on the bench. The young woman, still crying, opened his history, loose leaf notebook so she can get his name and maybe a class schedule so she can return it to him. She found no name or class schedule, and there was not one note written from any school subject. What she did find was 763 Hershey wrappers, with love letters written on the back of each one. Each Hershey wrapper had the small sticker with the name and address of her parents candy store, the same store she worked in as a young girl. The love letters were all written to her!!! She continued to cry, even harder now, but they were clearly different tears.

This story was being told, by another 14 year old girl who worked in the same candy store. She was telling her customers the story of how her grandparents met about 60 years before.

[Caajscot (John)]

Mar 11, 2022 9:09:34 GMT -8 :~:Sarapha:~: said:

Mar 11, 2022 5:19:00 GMT -8 Caajscot (John) said:

Had to laugh at that, it was around 1976 that our first child was born (Darren) and that reminded me of the times me and the wife had that experience, now years later we have experienced that with our 3 grandsons when they were babies and we were babysitting, the grandsons are now 16,15 & 8, my, how times fly.

that's so sweet 🥰🥰 I've got an 8 year old, a 6 year old, and a 3 week old, and boy does time fly. I didn't realize how much I missed these little moments with the first two until this one was born. The other two were so close in age, there wasn't really enough time to start really missing the newborn stage, just enough to have double exhaustion. But I'm really enjoying it now.

We had a thing going with both newborn kiddies, if they woke up during the night I would do the change of the nappies bit and make the bottle and Liz would do the feeding bit (break winds etc) and then put them back in the cot when asleep, nothing worse, though, when changing nappies and look at something like stewed sausages with gravy. 

[Caajscot (John)]

Mar 6, 2022 12:01:55 GMT -8 @burkeknight said:

Cats are proof that the world is not flat. 

If the world was flat, cats would have knocked everything off of the edge by now.

I think this thread would be better in the General Forum as a topic as it is not really a game, I think you would get a lot of posts as a lot of regulars don't really come in here for games, just my thoughts though.

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Caajscot (John), I thought it was in general.

Someone must have moved it sometime.