BS: What get's you torqued???

Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued???
From: Slag
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 02:57 AM

l'ol'ing in the "fo'c'sle"!

Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued???
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 05:13 AM

Sticking all the money saving bargains out of my reach in stores or supermarkets, that's size discrimination that is, is there such a thing as sizism? Even more embarrassing asking an assistant to help reach for items, makes me feel about 10.

Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued???
From: Slag
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 08:34 AM

Well, Patsy, I'm just about tempted to ask you the question. But i DO know how you feel from the other direction. I get asked a lot to reach that item on the top shelf.

Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued???
From: olddude
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 09:04 AM

Here is an idea, pretend ya gotta an inner ear problem and just knock the shelf down ... oops .. sorry .. hey there is the soup I needed !

Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued???
From: olddude
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 09:16 AM

And did I mention Kenny G,   Why????? Why????   from elevators to hospitals ... Why ?????

shoot me now Lord

Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued???
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 01:01 PM

Speaking of names with an apostrophe in them—

I have a similar problem. My father was also named Jim Dixon. (Well, James, to be exact.) That makes me "James Dixon, Jr." The trouble is, computers and the people who program them and enter data into them don't know what to do with "Jr."

Sometimes they add it onto my last name. This makes it appear to the computer that "Dixon, Jr." is a different last name than "Dixon." Or they might add it onto my first name. Some more sophisticated databases actually have a separate field called a "suffix," for holding things like "Jr." or "III" or "M.D."—but that doesn't mean that the people who use those databases know how to use them in any uniform or predictable way.

Also, they might or might not know how to use punctuation with "Jr", and the computer might use or ignore punctuation.

There's no telling where my name might appear in an alphabetized list:

 Disney, Walt
  Dixon Jr., James
  Dixon, Jacob
  Dixon, James
  Dixon, James Arthur
  Dixon, James Jr.
  Dixon, James Robert
  Dixon, James, Jr.
  Dixon, Jason
  Dixon, Jr., James
  Dixon, Julius

Any of those names in boldface might be me.

Many's the time I've been told, "Sorry, we don't have that name in our files," when actually they did have it; they just weren't looking in the right place.

After I realized how much confusion the "Jr." was causing, I tried to drop it from all my official records. But that was difficult, too. Some bureaucrats have refused to change my name in their records; some have promised me they would change it, and then failed to do so; some have apparently deleted the "Jr." and then had it mysteriously reappear at a later date; some tried to delete the "Jr." and ended up deleting my whole file.

I get duplicate copies of some junk mail, one with, and one without, the "Jr."

My advice to parents is: Don't name your kid after his father. If you insist on giving a kid the same first name as his father, at least give him a different middle name. If you insist on giving him the same first and middle names, at least don't put the word "Jr." on his birth certificate. It isn't needed. The government will use your social security numbers to tell you apart. Banks will use account numbers, etc.

If you have the misfortune to already be named after your father, don't tell anyone. When you open a bank account, when you register to vote, when you apply for a driver's license, etc., never write the word "Jr." on your application. It isn't needed. The fact that you have the same name as your father is of no more importance than if you happen to have the same name as some stranger in another part of town.

I wish someone had told me this earlier.

Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued???
From: kendall
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 07:45 PM

I was named 36 years after my Father.

Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued???
From: olddude
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 08:29 PM

LOL and what did he call ya Captain

Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued???
From: Bobert
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 08:52 PM

Well, I just watched LH's video and it ain't fair... He's got all that dark hair... I mean, we're both the same age but mine went gray in my early 30's and been thinnin' out the last 10 years... Even my gray pony tail looks like a dime store clip-on...

Grrrrrrrr... Frosts my willie burger, fir sure!!!

B~

Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued???
From: olddude
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 11:42 AM

Hell I turned at 18, I was one of the white hairs by my late 20's ... Now I will take any hair ... sheetfir as you say ... gimme purple I will take it ... gimme orange or green ... now I gots shiney ... that is what I gots ... two ways to wear my hair (hats on or hats off)

Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued???
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 11:57 AM

Some have dark hair, some light, and some white. Alas, there are many no hair at all.

Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued???
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 01:45 AM

What gets me torqued? Why, the incorrect & otiose use of the apostrophe before the final `s` of plurals or 3rd-person-singulars, that's what [used here correctly to indicate missing letter!]

Want an example? Just look above at the thread title!

Luvyaz·all justa·same!

~MthePEDANT~