BS: Help Joe Offer

Subject: BS: Help Joe Offer
From: GUEST,Bruce Murdoch (brucie)
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 10:27 PM

Jaysus, Joe, I have doen something bad to my cookie. I can't get to a personal message no matter what I do. ADVICE? The log in page says it has my data, etc, but it will not let me do anything. Should I start all over? Let me know if you would be so kind. Thanks,

Computer Idiot

Subject: RE: BS: Help Joe Offer
From: Amos
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 10:30 PM

Brucie:

How does this help Joe Offer? Or did you mean to help Joe offer by giving him an opportunity to offer something?

A

Subject: RE: BS: Help Joe Offer
From: CarolC
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 10:40 PM

Oh, Amos. Are you enjoying brucie's suffering? (hands on hips, feet tapping on floor)

brucie, you need to reset your cookie. Look in the quick links menu (upper right hand corner of this page) for the "login" thingie, click on it, and follow the directions.

Subject: RE: BS: Help Joe Offer
From: CarolC
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 10:41 PM

Oops. My bad. You need to clear your cookie cache, brucie.

Subject: RE: BS: Help Joe Offer
From: Peace
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 11:03 PM

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Hi, honey, I'm home. Leave it to a woman to say, "Follow the directions." I have done so.

Amos, I had no sooner posted and the first thing I noticed was the phrasing of the title. I had a mental bet with myself that someone would do what you did. God, I LOVE this place.

Everything's OK. Joe, forget it. All is right in cookie land.

Bruce. Thanks all.

Subject: RE: BS: Help Joe Offer
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 11:05 PM

Good luck, brucie. I lost my cookie once, and found it easy to get another one. They're very generous in here. It's much less unpleasant than tossing your cookies.

Hurry back..

Bro Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Help Joe Offer
From: Sam L
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 11:16 PM

I had the same thing happen, coincidentally with my being embarrassed about some awkwardness, rudeness on my part, in a heated discussion. My computer has to be set too accept cookies.

Subject: RE: BS: Help Joe Offer
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 11:27 PM

Here I thought we were going to have some unique opportunity to offer some assistance to one of those behind-the-scenes folks who does far more than probably any of us knows.

I was ready to help, if he needed it!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Help Joe Offer
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 03:02 AM

I'm so relieved, Bruce! I wouldn't want you losing your cookies, after all.

By the way, this is Girl Scout cookie season. I used to hate those plain white ones - I think they call them Trefoils. Then I discovered they make the best peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

No extra charge for this interesting public service announcement...

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: Help Joe Offer
From: Hrothgar
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 05:24 AM

Thanks for the help, Joe Offer.

Subject: RE: BS: Help Joe Offer
From: Dead Horse
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 06:06 AM

And here I was, ready to send all the wife's money to a worthy cause!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Help Joe Offer
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 06:43 AM

wot a shame we don't get Girl Scout cookies here, we don't even have Girl Scouts, unless the Girl Guides have changed their name over the past few decades.

sandra (never a Girl Guide, but my brother was a Cub Scout for a few years)

Subject: RE: BS: Help Joe Offer
From: Janie
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 07:56 AM

I have a not-so-secret addiction to Thin Mints myself. Next time I reset my cookie, could you make it one of those? I'm not fond of the Scout organizations, but I am very fond of their cookies.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Help Joe Offer
From: Wolfgang
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 08:24 AM

Those who enjoy a verbatim reading of this thread title surely also have laughed a couple of weeks ago at

How are you feeling Liz the Sqeak.

Wolfgang (then tempted to post 'I did it myyyy way')

Subject: RE: BS: Help Joe Offer
From: Willie-O
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 12:20 PM

You think that subject line is bad? Ha.

a onetime teacher of mine sent me this...some of them are case studies of unclear antecedents, some are just plain dumb. All of them are proof that some editors need an editor.


THE YEAR'S BEST [ACTUAL] HEADLINES (2003)

Crack Found on Governor's Daughter

Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says

Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers

Iraqi Head Seeks Arm

Is There a Ring of Debris around Uranus

Prostitutes Appeal to Pope

Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over

Teacher Strikes Idle Kids

Miners Refuse to Work after Death

Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant

War Dims Hope for Peace

If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last Awhile

Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures

Enfield (London) Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide

Red Tape Holds Up New Bridges

Man Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge

New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group

Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft

Kids Make Nutritious Snack

Chef Throws His Heart into Helping Feed Needy

Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half

Hospitals are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors

And the winner is...

Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead

Subject: RE: BS: Help Joe Offer
From: Bob Hitchcock
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 09:00 PM

Great headlines Willie-O. An old friend of mine (now dead unfortunately) used to write Sports Headlines for the Washington Post, and years ago, the Redskins had a kicker named Steve Cox who suffered an injury. The headline next day read

"Skins face Dallas with Cox out"

I loved it.

Bob.

Subject: RE: BS: Help Joe Offer
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 09:33 PM

well, Bob, *I* had a friend who used to write headlines, also...for the Wichita Eagle, on the 'metro' pages, mostly. He would be handed a story , he'd compose a 'head', cut it out and paper clip it to the story and drop it on the editor's desk, who would glance at it and toss it on a moving belt that went thru a wall into the composing room to be turned into type....

My friend had been warned to keep his headlines "short, pithy and relevant", so when he was handed a story about a fellow who had just been convicted of indecent exposure for flashing girls at a school, he composed TWO headlines, and clipped #1 to the story and said to the editor, "here's your 'head', Sam"...Sam glanced at it, tossed it on the moving belt....then stopped, gasped, and made a wild dive for the paper before it disappeared,...as my friend Tony giggled. The paper said "Dangling Dong Dooms Defendant"......Tony then handed him the real headline and walked off, chuckling.