BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?

Subject: Did you REALLY mena to say that?
From: Bert
Date: 12 Oct 01 - 11:13 PM

We were looking at some pecans in the store today and I said that $5 a pound was too expensive. Tree said that you could get them on the web for $1. So I thought I'd take a look. The first site I came to advertized...

"Whole Halves"!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mena to say that?
From: CarolC
Date: 12 Oct 01 - 11:17 PM

I always wonder what "no artificial preservatives" means. Seems to me, they're either preservatives or they're not.

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mena to say that?
From: GUEST,Celtic Soul
Date: 12 Oct 01 - 11:26 PM

:::Pedant warning:::

Salt is a natural preservative. Not that that is what they mean when they say what you have quoted above, CarolC. However, it makes the point that, to be a preservative, all a thing has to do is preserve perishables. Not that I would want my fruits dried with salt rubbed into them. :D

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mena to say that?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 12 Oct 01 - 11:26 PM

Of course, Bert, one would wonder if you REALLY meant to title this thread "Did you REALLY mena to say that?"
I wondered, so I changed it. Hope you don't mind.
-Joe offer-

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Bert
Date: 12 Oct 01 - 11:29 PM

Thanks Joe, yer right that was a typo.

A sign on a Pensylvania Turnpike Toll booth

"Violations strictly enforced"!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Oct 01 - 11:36 PM

sodium benzoate is considered natural since it is found in cranberries. ( then again arsenic compounds can be found in peach pits)

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Oct 01 - 11:42 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 12 Oct 01 - 11:43 PM

Mena's the small town in the Arkansas Ozarks where my father was raised, Joe. Emma Dusenberry also came from there, a great traditional singer discovered by the folks at the Commonwealth Labor School, folks like Lee Hayes, who very likely taught at least one of her songs to the other Weavers - namely "The Dodger Song."

Oh the candidate's a dodger, a well-known dodger,
The candidate's a dodger, and I'm a dodger, too.
He'll meet you and greet you, ask you for your vote,
But, look out, boys, he's a-dodgin' for your note!
We're all dodgin', dodgin', dodgin' dodgin',
Yes, we're all dodgin' out a way through the world.

And other similar verses. Neat song!

See you next week!

Sandy

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: rangeroger
Date: 13 Oct 01 - 01:21 AM

This probably isn't funny to some right now, but I've always wanted to stop and draw a bomb dropping from the wing of the airplane pictured on California highway signs that state " Speed laws enforced by aircraft".

rr

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Mudlark
Date: 13 Oct 01 - 02:23 AM

"Soft Shoulder" is the road sign that makes me wonder....

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: GUEST,Boab
Date: 13 Oct 01 - 02:41 AM

Savage sheep warning in the Scottish Highlands [honest!] "BEWARE OF THE SHEEP"

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: CarolC
Date: 13 Oct 01 - 02:43 AM

*grin*

Even bigger pedant warning...

If a chemical has preservative properties, even if it's man made and manufactured (hence, not natural), it's still not an artificial preservative if it preserves stuff. It's a real preservative that is not natural.

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Oct 01 - 06:50 AM

Following up on Donuel's comment on arsenic, it hasn't been all that long ago when arsenic was commonly used in citrus tree fertilizers because it was thought to give the fruit a slightly sweeter taste.

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Banjer
Date: 13 Oct 01 - 07:10 AM

To view my meager collection of wacky signs click here.

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Banjer
Date: 13 Oct 01 - 07:13 AM

That is just the last two of the collection! Either click on 'previous 24' in the upper right corner of that page or click here for the first page.

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: jaze
Date: 13 Oct 01 - 09:10 AM

Two that always confused me: "Holy war" and "Army Intelligence"

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: catspaw49
Date: 13 Oct 01 - 09:24 AM

Always liked your signs Banj.

I have a problem with the word 'natural.' It's used to imply something is wonderfully pure and cannot harm you. What a crock!

My other favorite and equally misleading is the use of the Amish to sell stuff. Amish butter, pies, jams, and all that is bad enough, but good lord, they apply it to anything to boost sales even though an Amish person hasn't been within a hundred miles of the crap!

Sorry....not exactly the topic, but those two are really nuts.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Hillheader
Date: 13 Oct 01 - 09:27 AM

There is a notice board on the cemetery near me which says "Visitors are requested not to handle any on the monumental erections". The only recently repainted it!!!

Davebhoy

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: GUEST,john c
Date: 13 Oct 01 - 11:12 AM

Loved your signs, Banjer. First time I´ve laughed today - thanks!!

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 13 Oct 01 - 11:27 AM

There used to be a sign in Portsmouth, NH posted by a local bank. The sign had NO punctuation and read, "No parking violators will be towed." I thought it was rather nice of them not to tow parking violators . . .

And in Seabrook, NH the sign for Brown's Lobster Pound read "Lobsters Live Or Boiled Cigarettes." Uh huh.

Bat Goddess

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Rory B
Date: 13 Oct 01 - 11:27 AM

The sign on the church down the street says: You cannot redirect the winds.....but you can adjust the sails. Loved that!

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Ebbie
Date: 13 Oct 01 - 12:06 PM

My other favorite and equally misleading is the use of the Amish to sell stuff. Amish butter, pies, jams, and all that is bad enough, but good lord, they apply it to anything to boost sales even though an Amish person hasn't been within a hundred miles of the crap! Along that same line, Spaw, an Amish family put some kittens in a box alongside the road with a sign saying Free Kittens. No one stopped. Then they took a neighbor's suggestion: Amish Kittens, Free! They were 'sold out' within hours.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Oct 01 - 12:12 PM

in the spirit of Bert's post....a hardware store near me was selling old wine barrels to use as planters...etc..either cut in half, or not.

The sign said: "Half barrel, $8.95..Full barrel $15.00"

they just stared at me when I asked for a "full barrel" and if I could taste it first.

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Burke
Date: 13 Oct 01 - 12:15 PM

Great signs!

Bert if you find pecans whole, half or in pieces for $1 lb. I want to know where it is.

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Bert
Date: 13 Oct 01 - 02:42 PM

Loved your signs Banjer, - Secret Nuclear Bunker!!!
I never seem to have a camera with me when I need it.
Burke, I'm still looking, when I find it, I'll let you know.

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Banjer
Date: 13 Oct 01 - 03:20 PM

One advertisement that always gives me a chuckle is the one you see in strawberry season. For those not familiar with them, strawberries are packed in pint containers. There are usually eight pints per 'flat'. Most folk have no use for that many berries at one time so stores will sell lesser quantities. The ads will read, 'Half Flat Strawberries' followed by the price. Seems to me if the damn things are half flat they must be well on their way to becoming jam and I'll not pay any price for them.

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: DancingMom
Date: 13 Oct 01 - 07:02 PM

I always wonder about the "hidden hitch" labeled in big white letters under the bumper of some vehicles. Sharon

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Banjer
Date: 13 Oct 01 - 09:44 PM

Does anybody besides me ever wonder what the opposite of common terms are?

For instance, 'TOP SECRET'...does that mean there is also a BOTTOM SECRET?

If one Whitewashes a fence can someone else come along and blackwash it?

Private collection....why would anyone want to collect privates?

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Troll
Date: 13 Oct 01 - 10:32 PM

My favorite was spotted by my daughter in the local mall some years ago: " Ears Pierced While You Wait"

troll

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Oct 01 - 10:39 PM

No! Absolutely not. What I really meant to say was this...

I realize that everyone is entitled to his opinion, and I respect this. I also hope that you will all respect mine as you read this letter. To get immediately to the point, if Spaw wants to be taken seriously, he should counter the arguments in this letter with facts, not illogical panaceas, personal anecdotes, or insults. Common-sense understanding of human nature tells us that he spouts the same bile in everything he writes, making only slight modifications to suit the issue at hand. The issue he's excited about this week is McCarthyism, which says to me that it is easy to see faults in others. But it takes perseverance to establish democracy and equality. Spaw has -- not once, but several times -- been able to incite an atmosphere of violence and endangerment toward the good men, women, and children of this state without anyone stopping him. How long can that go on? As long as his cocky slogans are kept on life support. That's why we have to pull the plug on them and go placidly amid the noise and haste.

We must expose his jeremiads for what they really are. Only then can a society free of his sententious ultimata blossom forth from the roots of the past. And only then will people come to understand that if one believes statements like, "Revanchism is the key to world peace," one is, in effect, supporting subversive brazen-types. Spaw's sycophants accept his brown-nosing outbursts without question. To be more pedantic about it, I welcome Spaw's comments. However, Spaw needs to realize that if we don't soon tell him to stop what he's doing, he will proceed with his unstable, hypocritical dissertations, considerably emboldened by our lack of resistance. We will have tacitly given him our permission to do so.

The hate just keeps on coming. Of course, it's not that simple. It has been said that Spaw's habitués believe that those rights and protections which give us voice in a democratic society are the cause of feudalism and social chaos and must be thwarted or dismantled. That makes sense to me. I believe it's true. But it unmistakably implies that we must give Spaw condign punishment. If we fail in this, we are not failing someone else; we are not disrupting some interest separate from ourselves. Rather, it is we who suffer when we neglect to observe that Spaw's stories about Marxism are particularly ridden with errors and distortions, even leaving aside the concept's initial implausibility. After having read this, you may think that we must, in one voice, cry out that we will not tolerate Spaw's slatternly disquisitions. Nevertheless, you should always remember that I'm not going to respond to his ethics beyond saying that I have avoided engaging in open debate with cruel, loud yokels -- or even acknowledging their existence -- for fear of lending them any form of legitimacy.

- LH (got a lot of time on my hands tonight... *G*)

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Rory B
Date: 13 Oct 01 - 10:44 PM

Holy Smokes I want what he's having! (hehehe)

Subject: Say what?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 13 Oct 01 - 11:16 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: CarolC
Date: 13 Oct 01 - 11:53 PM

LH, you been dipping into the complaint generator again?

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: CarolC
Date: 14 Oct 01 - 12:02 AM

I am writing to express my dismay and concern over Little Hawk's pathological, narrow-minded reinterpretations of historic events. One of the first facts we should face is that I definitely think that it would be grossly premature for Hawk to claim final victory. My views, of course, are not the issue here. The issue is that he has nothing but contempt for you, and you don't even know it. That's why I feel obligated to inform you that if the past is any indication of the future, he will once again attempt to panic irrationally and overreact completely. Warped, wayward disquisitions have sappy consequences. That proves that if Hawk thinks I'm too obscene to make technical preparations for the achievement of freedom and human independence, he's sadly mistaken. I close this letter along the same lines it opened on: One of these days, Little Hawk will order his lapdogs to rob from the rich but -- unlike Robin Hood -- give to sophomoric beatniks.

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: CarolC
Date: 14 Oct 01 - 12:09 AM

In Spanish and back to English...

Estoy escribiendo para expresar mi consternación y preocupación por el pequeño halcón patológico, reinterpretaciones estrecho-importadas de acontecimientos históricos. Uno de los primeros hechos que debemos hacer frente es que pienso definitivamente que sería grueso prematuro que el halcón demande la victoria final. Mis opiniones, por supuesto, no son la edición aquí. La edición es que él no tiene nada sino desprecio para usted, y usted incluso no lo sabe. Ése es porqué me siento obligado para informarle que si el pasado es cualquier indicación del futuro, él procurará de nuevo aterrarse irrationally y overreact totalmente. Combado, los disquisitions del wayward tienen consecuencias sappy. Eso prueba que si el halcón me piensa están también el obscene para hacer las preparaciones técnicas para el logro de la libertad y la independencia humana, él se confunde tristemente. Cierro esta carta a lo largo de las mismas líneas que se abrió encendido: Uno de actualmente, pequeño halcón ordenará sus lapdogs robar de los ricos pero -- desemejante de Robin Hood -- dé a los beatniks sophomoric

I am writing to express my consternation and preoccupation by the small pathological hawk, narrow-concerned reinterpretaciones of historical events. One of the first facts that we must do in front is that I think definitively that he would be heavy premature that the hawk demands the final victory. My opinions, of course, are not the editing here. The editing is that it does not have anything but scorn for you, and you does not even know it. That one is porqué I feel forced to inform to him that if the past is any indication of the future, it will again try to terrify irrationally and overreact totally. Bent, disquisitions of wayward sappy has consequences. That test that if the hawk thinks to me is also obscene to make the technical preparations for the profit of the freedom and human independence, he is confused sadly. I close this letter throughout the same lines that opened ignition: One of at the moment, small hawk will order his lapdogs to rob of the rich ones but -- desemejante of Robin Hood -- sophomoric gives beatniks.

(slow night here, too)

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 14 Oct 01 - 03:37 AM

Nobody expects the slatternly disquisition! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Banjer
Date: 14 Oct 01 - 04:34 AM

Tell us, is it something in the air or has someone tainted the water in Orillia? ROTFLMAO!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Ned Ludd
Date: 14 Oct 01 - 05:24 AM

Hey Banjer, concerning your earlier comment about privates.. There is a Penis Museum in Rekyavik!

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Banjer
Date: 14 Oct 01 - 10:04 AM

Somehow I'm not surprised! I guess if one was to look hard enough one find a collection of anything somewhere in the world. If ever I get to that part of the globe I will make a point to go there if for no other reason than to say I have been there!

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Oct 01 - 01:34 PM

The water in Orillia is always tainted. This is probably due to the fact that my good friend, Johhny Death insists on pissing in the Lake on a regular basis. DON'T drink tap water in Orillia!

As for you, Carol...

I want to share with you a very deep concern I have about CarolC. But first, let me pose you a question: Is CarolC actually concerned about any of us, or does she just want to feed us a diet of robbery, murder, violence, and all other manner of trials and tribulations? After reading this letter, you'll indisputably find it's the latter. I cannot compromise with her; she is without principles. I cannot reason with her; she is without reason. But I can warn her, and with a warning she must undoubtedly take to heart: I am intellectually honest enough to admit my own previous ignorance in that matter. I only wish that she had the same intellectual honesty. Look at what's happened since CarolC first ordered her shock troops to view countries and the people that live in them either as economic targets to be exploited or as military targets to be defeated: Views once considered resentful are now considered ordinary. Views once considered wrongheaded are now considered perfectly normal. And the most shameless of CarolC's views are now seen as gospel by legions of the worst sorts of yellow-bellied superstitious-types there are.

This raises the question: What meaningless self-inflicted psychological trauma is she going through now? Well, I asked the question, so I should answer it. Let me start by saying that she reports the news selectively in order to advance her agenda. Now, I could go off on that point alone, but she has certainly never given evidence of thinking extensively. Or at all, for that matter. Insipid protestors who inspire a recrudescence of surly fatuity might not recognize the incongruities in CarolC's reinterpretations of historic events, but if the human race is to survive on this planet, we will have to take action. Be forewarned: If CarolC thinks her refrains represent progress, she should rethink her definition of progress. As a matter of fact, the space remaining in this letter will not suffice even to enumerate the ways in which she has tried to agitate for indoctrination programs in local schools.

CarolC can't see the forest for the trees. But even if we disregard all that and examine only CarolC's slatternly, obstinate claims, this seems to me to be enough to show that if CarolC is going to caricature and stereotype people from other cultures, then she should at least have the self-respect to remind herself of a few things: First, I, hardheaded cynic that I am, maintain that she is completely full of it. And second, we must shake off our torpor, ignore the siren songs of ethnocentrism, and give peace a chance. Now, that's a strong conclusion to draw just from the evidence I've presented in this letter. So let me corroborate it by saying that those of us who are too lazy or disinterested to present a clear picture of what is happening, what has happened, and what is likely to happen in the future have no right to complain when she and her stooges distract people from serious analysis of the situation. CarolC may have the right to glorify the things that everyone else execrates. She may have the right to break up society's solidarity and cohesiveness. But CarolC crosses the line when she uses her bully pulpit to increase people's stress and aggression. One final point: This is a very real and serious concern.

Beauty, eh? :-) I wonder what it would look like translated into Italian, then into Russian, and then back into English?

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Amos
Date: 14 Oct 01 - 01:42 PM

Jeeze you guys, give me abreak -- my ribs are breaking!!!

Who writes your stuff?

A.

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Don Firth
Date: 14 Oct 01 - 01:48 PM

Uhh . . . What?

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Oct 01 - 01:52 PM

Well, Amos, it's really very simple...go to this URL:

http://www-csag.ucsd.edu/individual/pakin/complaint

And follow the instructions. It's great fun. I'm surprised Spaw has not shown up here to inflict more "slatternly disquisitions" on all of us...man, I love that phrase!

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Don Firth
Date: 14 Oct 01 - 02:15 PM

Oh! Hmm. Thanks, Little Hawk. That could come in right handy. . . .

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Oct 01 - 02:37 PM

Look Hawk, you snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a real hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid, set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs. You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane.

You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep or chickens won't have sex with you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot.

And what meaning do you expect your delusional self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake?

You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile one-handed slack-jawed drooling meatslapper. On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool.

You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go.

You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you. I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid, so stupid that it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. Your writing is completely fucked. Nothing in our universe can really be that stupid. Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of Gloria Lipschitz.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Oct 01 - 03:03 PM

LOL!!! Fantastic. Mind-boggling. Did you compose all that, Spaw? What did you do, consult a thesaurus?

I am more than impressed, I am stupefied. This is better than Scott Pakin's complaint generator.

There has got to be a use out there for a man with your talents. I mean, what the hell is Joan Rivers famous for when you're around to insult people?

There are so many great phrases in there..."tiny-fisted tantrums", "one-handed, slack-jawed drooling meatslapper", "the personality of wallpaper".

Gad.

You are the Bob Dylan of character assassination. Can I get your autograph?

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Oct 01 - 03:13 PM

Nah Hawk, I cannot tell a lie......I stole it from pieces found HERE.

Another 'Catter sent it to me because as they said, I have a taste for "well crafted maledicta."

Luvya Hawk.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 Oct 01 - 03:43 PM

... even in the 1930's, women's trousers were not widepread.

That's not what I heard!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: CarolC
Date: 14 Oct 01 - 05:26 PM

Here you go, LH. I couldn't do Italian into Russian into English, so I did Italian to English to French to German to English. (Vibration troops... heh heh heh. Watch out!)

I require to divide with you a concern that much deeply one has I approximately CarolC. But primarily asciarloproporlo a question: Is CarolC really interest approximately it from us or alimentarci just from desires the regime of the flight, the murder of the force and of the whole other way of attempts and the Widerwaertigkeiten? After the reading this letter you will find it undisputed that you are the later. I cannot expose with it; it is without principii. I cannot consider with it; it is without reason. But I Kannenavvertirlo and with a warning, which it must surely take at the heart: They are rather intellectually honest, in order to assume my own preceding ignorance in this material. I require only that she had the same intellectual honesty. To observe to pull in order that, what is produced like, since CarolC instructed its vibration troops primarily to observe the countries and the people that in the voltage inside it from the economic objectives use or, from the military objectives which can be detached: The view is kept usually once that they considered irritateed the hour. In the past the view wrongheaded in the hour considered considered perfectly normal. And more without scruples of the view of CarolC ' s the hour, where they are seen, how gospel the putting ions of the incorrect orderings jaune gonflés the superstitieux type is here.

To increase it the problem: Psychologically of not substantial hour caused trauma of Che intervenes itself? I made it from the property the question, I have risponderle. Lasciarlo to say in order to begin that it selettivamente from messages indicates, in order to advance its jobs of the daily. I could go to hour outside to this point alone, but he never gave the attempt surely to think intensively. Or of the whole one for this material. Protestors that they lead a urlyansteigen fatuity, could not the discrepancies in the new interpretations of CarolC not identify to ' s of the historical events, but, if the human race on this planet must survive, of us ventilated that they must concern. Forewarned: If CarolC thinks that the abstentions at him represent the progress, he would have to again consider its definition of the progress. In the effects the space, which remains in this letter, will not be, in order not to enumerate enough the ways, from which it tried to strike for the programs of indoctrination in the local schools.

CarolC cannot see the forest for the trees. But, even if we everything ignore what one seems and us examined only CarolC ' s slatternly, the persistent complaints to be this asse ' at me in order to emphasize that from, if CarolC goes to the people the stereotyped and it must have from other cultures then it karikiert at least amour propre for ricordarsi some things: Primarily, which i, which executes zynische realistically, which is them, that he is completely full from him. And in the second place we must except at us torpor to ignore the songs sirena ethnocentrism and the peace strike a probability to give. Hour is hardly this a strong of conclusion absorbing of the attempt, to which me in this letter one introduces. Therefore lasciarlo those of us acknowledge a saying of this that they too putrid or disinterested are, in order a free picture to present of that, what produces itself that, which is produced, and that he is to be produced possible, which, by not producing itself right has to protest, if they and his utilization persons of the serious analysis of the position divert. CarolC can have the glorificare right to things this all EXEC advice of others. It can have the right to interrupt inside on the solidarity and the co-operation of the society. But CarolC crosses the line up to the point in time, where he itself its bully picture of comman

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Willie-O
Date: 14 Oct 01 - 05:57 PM

A script was circulated for us at the ISP help desk where I work to explain to certain customers that they had accidentally been given access to a feature (multiple e-mail accounts) which their particular service package was not suposed to provide, and that the error had been corrected. Never found out if it was proofread or not, but we were told to tell them "We apologize for any convenience this may have inadvertently caused you."

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Oct 01 - 07:04 PM

CarolC - It's a pity we couldn't get that put in George W. Bush's hands just before his next press conference...as he's walking out to the microphone.

Just preface it with "My fellow Americans..."

And let him take it from there.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 08:37 AM

A sign in the state park where I work, without punctuation: SLOW CHILDREN PLAYING

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 08:52 AM

Local college prospectus had at the end ' We Care Abot Accuracy' and a local newspaper had an advert for someone to work in a clothing factory with the bold type saying 'Experienced Shit Passer'

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Micca
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 11:23 AM

In Hyde Park here in London, England is a statue of Achillies, crouching under his shield, on the plinth is inscribed " This Statue is dedicated to the women of Britain who contributed to its erection".. what can I usefully add?

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 11:32 AM

Reminds me of a Roadhouse outside of Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee, just north of Chattanooga on 27. Someone new came along in the early eighties and reopened this dive with a fresh coat of paint and a huge new professional looking sign out front. They called the place "Celebrate".......Sadly, the sign painter must have been paid ahead in trade, because one side was missing the "R".......still spelled wrong (Celebate)....... but somehow you just KNEW you weren't going to get any action in that dive!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 11:38 AM

When I first went to Dublin 20 odd years ago I noticed that cafes (or diners) seemed to be called Snackeries however if you turned round a corner and only saw part of the sign it looked as if it said 'Nackery' which conjures up a different idea all together

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 11:43 AM

'Spaw, the Pope was mad as hell as well when he discovered that same misprint in the "Pope's Handbook".He gave the printer a hard time for not having enough "R"s.
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: VoxFox
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 08:02 PM

My sister and I were driving past our local Royal Canadian Legion building when we spied one of those yellow flashing signs that read " COME ON IN FOR A OLD ONE." Obviously someone had whipped off with the "C" and cleverly left us that little gem. We laughed so hard we were crying and damn near drove off the road. still laughing - VF

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: CarolC
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 11:40 PM

That reminds me of something I witnessed many years ago. I was traveling with some friends. We were in a restaurant, standing by a sign instructing us wait to be seated by the waitress. One of my party made a slight modification to the sign. After the modification, the sign said, "Please wait to be eated by waitress".

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: musicmick
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 01:21 AM

I was driving west on I-40 when I saw a sign advertising a Stuckey's restaurant (that's a chain, popular in the South and the Midwest). The billboard stated, with unfortunate accuracy, "Stuckey's Lunch and Gas". I stopped the car and reached for the camera.

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 01:20 PM

I drove by a local seafood restaurant early one morning, and the sign outside said "ALL THE SHIT YOU CAN EAT". Some local joker had changed the letters around during the night, borrowing some from the opposite side of the sign and discarding some...it normally says "ALL THE SHRIMP YOU CAN EAT". Signs with removable letters are indeed a great boon to practival jokers.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 03:42 PM

The Schmidt brewery used to be a prominent St. Paul landmark, topped a huge neon sign that spelled out SCHMIDT.

(Alas, the brewery was bought out by another company, and the sign is no longer used, if it even still exists.)

Anyway, someone once climbed up on the roof and disconnected the wires to the C, the M, and the D, leaving it to spell out S_H_I_T.

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 05:26 PM

Yesterday at our compulsory anthrax briefing, we learned that one does not have to be articulate to be a spokesperson for small-town government. Best sample: "I don't want to paranoid anybody but you have to be observant of Middle Easterns." Reminds me of a buddy in another department whose boss, a wanna-be stickler for detail, was always advocating doing things with "more finite exaction." I'm sure he makes three times as much money as I do.

Then there's the old standby, "This page intentionally left blank."

CC

Subject: RE: BS: Did you REALLY mean to say that?
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Oct 01 - 12:58 AM

In going through a stack of resumes, I found: "Exellent speller". True.

Ebbie

Subject: BS: Things you say without thinking
From: GUEST,happylassie
Date: 13 Aug 10 - 11:29 AM

A comment the day about how one says things which you realise are silly after you have said them, had me remember when at a festival several years ago an artist had asked my husband to sit in the front & record on video the set for him. We arrived in plenty of time & walked to the front to find seats. Old Rope String Band were on first & the front row was full except for two seats near the end in front of the speakers. My husband turned to me & said "we will not get a very good sound quality if we sit here, what do you think we should do?" To which I replied "Record it with out the sound! Well as it happened when Old Rope finished a number of people left so we moved up & got a good recording of the concert, sound as well. He still teases me when we use the video that without sound the artist might have sounded better.