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Subject: BS: What happens to.......
From: Morticia
Date: 05 May 03 - 12:22 PM

plectrums? I know I bought five just a couple of weeks ago.Now I can't find any.......anywhere, although a bright green one that says it comes from a music shop in Toronto turned up in the front of my car......I've never even been to Toronto.

Come to that, what happens to the other sock......the one that never comes out of the washing machine? I believe in the existance of sock dragons but in this house, the little scamp takes no prisoners.

Or how about pens? What's that about? Urgent phone message.....need to take down a number.......not a pen in sight.End up taking it down on a piece of wallpaper in blood. When you are off the phone and idly sitting down having a scratch and a smoke......what can't you move for? Bloody pens.

Signed

Perplexed in Droitwich

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From: CarolC
Date: 05 May 03 - 12:25 PM

I don't know about the plectrums, but I think all of your pens are probably over here at our place, Morticia. Either that, or our pens are breeding ;-)

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From: Don Firth
Date: 05 May 03 - 12:34 PM

I have all you pens here in a desk drawer. Well, actually three desk drawers, a box, and scattered all over the apartment. Some of them actually work. Socks I don't know about. There are those who claim that every washer and/or dryer has a quantum black hole in its center that sucks odd socks into a parallel universe.

Plectrums (pletra?) are stolen by pick-pockets.

Don Firth

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From: Ebbie
Date: 05 May 03 - 12:37 PM

My house keys. It's an ongoing conspiracy. They bide their time for a few weeks, then POOF!!!, they're gone. (I have a second set but they do the same thing.) I live in a house museum with three floors so there are many places they can hide.

The last couple of days I've looked for them sporadically. I know they're in the house because after all, I got in, and I haven't gone anywhere since- but WHERE?

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From: Big Mick
Date: 05 May 03 - 12:46 PM

My youth. It was just here.............and now?????

Mick

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From: Morticia
Date: 05 May 03 - 12:53 PM

You will always be young,Mick... *G*.

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From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 May 03 - 12:56 PM

Car keys, too. One at a time. I'm down to my last extra hidden one...

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From: DMcG
Date: 05 May 03 - 01:16 PM

Safe places disappear around here, I reckon. The number of times things are deliberately put in a safe place, then are never seen again ...

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From: pixieofdoom
Date: 05 May 03 - 01:19 PM

The disappearance of socks I reckon can be attributed to portal type things in the washing machine and in the back of your sock drawer. Have you ever been driving along and noticed stray socks by the side of the road and other such unlikely places? That's where the portals go. I reckon is a government conspiracy to help the economy by forcing people to buy more socks.

Subject: RE: BS: What happens to.......
From: Mark Clark
Date: 05 May 03 - 02:18 PM

Actually I found the definitive answer to PixieOfDoom's question. You know how wire coat hangers seem to mysteriously multiply in the closet? Well it turns out that socks are the larval form of coat hangars.

      - Mark

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From: MMario
Date: 05 May 03 - 02:28 PM

one of the larval stages. but actually of bicycles. Paper clips are the eggs.

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From: catspaw49
Date: 05 May 03 - 02:33 PM

Wherever y'all's socks go, ours are there too.

My mind seems to be missing as well.............

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: What happens to.......
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 May 03 - 02:39 PM

What happens to.... AGREEMENTS? You know-- that little check-in on expectations, when you get smart enough to actually lay out who's going to do (and not do) what, and confirm that this is understood/agreed/fine/a great idea.....

Then, it's not. Like it always wasn't. Like the agreement never occurred.

Oh, I get it-- agreements are a larval form of little red wagons (not bicycles), to which they transform when you've put enough energy into them, and then..... they roll away downhill when you are not looking, taking all your energy away in them?

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: What happens to.......
From: Allan C.
Date: 05 May 03 - 02:59 PM

Allan Clark
FINDER of the matching sock, lost plectrums, missing shopping lists, other earrings, missing car keys, vital kitchen implements, the missing plate and fork for the other place setting, all manner of tools needed but seemingly vanished, friends gone missing at largegatherings... LOCATOR of long-sought-after items such as the very few songs that MMario or Sorcha can't locate before Masato submits not only verses but eight sources of historical documentation, or a listing of folk venues for a city I've never seen for Fortunato, etc.... PURVEYOR of new or used pens, coathangers, odd bits of paper with undecipherable-but-important-looking-scribblings-on-them; trousers that are three sized too small (kept in case of famine) shirts that no reasonable human would ever wear; all manner of electrical and electronic cords and cables and much, much more...GIVER of free advice and useless, impractical information...AT YOUR SERVICE!

Subject: RE: BS: What happens to.......
From: Dead Horse
Date: 05 May 03 - 04:55 PM

I've got a green sock, only the one.
I did have two, but the other ones gone.
    From Mr Les Barker (who else?)

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From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 May 03 - 06:22 PM

Allan, can we make an agreement about that? :~)

~S~

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From: Noreen
Date: 05 May 03 - 06:45 PM

Now Allan, I have a small job for you when you're over here....

:0)

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From: Allan C.
Date: 05 May 03 - 06:59 PM

WYSIWYG, I forgot to add: KEEPER, ratifier, signifier, imdemnifier of; or (as needed) set the fire to any and all agreements.

Subject: RE: BS: What happens to.......
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 May 03 - 07:13 PM

Morticia,

The trick to keeping anything is to never buy stuff that you really like. Always settle for second or third best. The little game that the Universe plays with us is called "I will remove the things that you really like from your life. I will leave the ho-hum stuff alone." If you really like that pair of green Argyle socks and buy them, one will be gone in two weeks. If you just look longingly at the green Argyles and buy ugly brown things instead, they will be with you until the toes are worn through. Plectrums? Can't keep a Clayton Gold to save my life. But the 12 for a buck promo things from the local music store? I think I've still got every one I've ever bought. PM me your postal address and I'll send ya some. That way you can have some from Pensacola, Florida to go along with the one from Toronto.

Bruce

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From: Burke
Date: 05 May 03 - 07:22 PM

Bruce,
You are so right! I got a really nice pair of gloves for Christmas that were lost by the end of Feb. The old ones that are falling apart are still here.

Ditto on the socks. I keep finding the complete pairs with holes & loose one of the brand new ones.

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From: Allan C.
Date: 05 May 03 - 07:24 PM

I think you're onto something, Bruce. I still have every one of those cheap glasses they used to give away at the gas stations.

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From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 May 03 - 07:48 PM

OK, Allan, then come to our Gathering May 16. We have red wagons here too but let's not burn them.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: What happens to.......
From: Charley Noble
Date: 05 May 03 - 07:55 PM

Morticia-

With regard to your initial posting:

The next to come in was a sock troll
Whose dress was exceedingly droll,
Whose dress was exceedingly droll,
When he joined in the jovial crew;
For he was attired in socks he'd snatched,
Argyle, stripped, and some was patched,
And not a single one did match,
When Jones's Ale was new, me boys,
When Jones's Ale was new!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

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From: khandu
Date: 05 May 03 - 09:48 PM

My money? I work all week to make money, but I never see it.

Dang it, Allan C.! Have you got it?

k

Subject: RE: BS: What happens to.......
From: RangerSteve
Date: 05 May 03 - 11:09 PM

There seems to be a portal from my washing machine to someone elses. That explains why I end up with an even number of black socks, but they differ in material or pattern. Some are the same material or pattern, but a slightly different shade of black. others are identical in every way except for a different color of thread at the toes. A pair of Levi's (size 32 - I haven't been a 32 since high school back in 1968) came through the portal and landed in my washer. Since I lived alone at the time, they remain a complete mystery.

Subject: RE: BS: What happens to.......
From: Allan C.
Date: 06 May 03 - 02:40 AM

Ranger Steve! I just can't believe it! I lost a pair of size 32 Levis in a washing machine in Montana in 1967. Now, at last, I know what happened to them!

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From: fat B****rd
Date: 06 May 03 - 05:38 AM

.........any important documents that my wife handles, as opposed to
antique magazines, flyers and junk mail that always seem to be around in heaps.

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From: GUEST,mink
Date: 06 May 03 - 05:50 AM

In a bizarre washing-maching/plectrum linkage... I keep my pleccies in one of those net bags that you get for putting in the soap tablet things. Keeps them safe - but smells a bit funny.

Subject: RE: BS: What happens to.......
From: Gurney
Date: 06 May 03 - 07:04 AM

"When I was single I wore a plaid shawl..." no I didn't, but I only had two pairs of socks, originally represented by 24 black ones and sixteen brown ones, all the same brand. That meant it didn't matter if one went missing. I never even noticed.
This is bachelor logic. I gave away as presents all socks that didn't fit my system. Thats where I got them from, anyway, and I did have the courtesy not to wear them.
I daren't give them away now, because of who bought them for me.

The space-warp in a top-loader washing machine is between the tubs. If you habitually put a pile of washing on top and push it down into the tub, you will presently receive a visit from the repairman, who will give you a knowing smile, a mangled sock, and a bill. You will not enjoy any of them.
Don't leave the connecter taps turned on either, the hoses sometimes blow. At night, when the pressure is highest.

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From: A Wandering Minstrel
Date: 06 May 03 - 08:03 AM

It seems that sharing a house with another guitarist somehow short-circuits the plectrum black-hole. No matter if one of you loses one it will invariably turn up on the shelf under the hi-fi. ;)

socks now are a completely different matter....

Subject: RE: BS: What happens to.......
From: Morticia
Date: 06 May 03 - 08:18 AM

just been to look at the shelf under the hi-fi and you are right, there was a plectrum......it wasn't mine though.

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From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 06 May 03 - 09:48 AM

Ranger Steve!! you have my black socks. I always sew different colored threads at the toes to keep the pairs together (cos naturally they all fade at a different rate even tho they are the same brand & purchased at the same time).

Funny, all my pairs of socks are complete - so how come you have some of them?

Charley - To see the original Sock Bandit check out Charleen Kinser Designs - she has been creating magical soft toys for about 30 years. I'd love to add the Sock Bandit, The Dream Stalker & Buddy bear to my collection.   

http://www.charleenkinserdesigns.com/old_fav/index.html

sandra

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From: mooman
Date: 06 May 03 - 09:49 AM

Dear Morty,

I don't actually know but suspect that plectrums are made from some secret quantum supermaterial that has the ability to exploit very narrow wormholes in the fabric of space-time and disappear and reappear at random (i.e. Schrodinger's Plectrum Theory).

Regarding socks...these people appear to have the knowledge to help:

The bureau of missing socks

Best regards,

moo

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From: GUEST,pdc
Date: 06 May 03 - 11:36 AM

EARRINGS!! Always expensive earrings, never cheap ones. I believe that the multi-holes in ears trend came about because people had a ton of single earrings in their jewellery boxes.

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From: Cluin
Date: 06 May 03 - 08:54 PM

Teaspoons! Never any in the drawer, but the table spoons are spilling over. I think the teaspoons are the immature form of the tablespoon and all mine have grown up.

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From: Ebbie
Date: 06 May 03 - 09:12 PM

OK. Which one of you was enjoying my house keys the last few days? They have returned.

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From: Tinker
Date: 06 May 03 - 09:47 PM

In an attempt to foil the sock-warp syndrome I actually bought one of those tag guns that they use in stores to put on tags... It stops about half the mis-matches, but I've yet to solve to black holes under children's beds....

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From: artbrooks
Date: 06 May 03 - 11:02 PM

I have found the solution to the lost sock problem. It was never mine that was missing, but the laundry would always come up with 2 or 3 of herself's lost somewhere in the Twilight Zone. However, now the girls (who have the same size feet) have grown up and gone away...funny thing, they now all come up even.

Now, what I'd like to know is...what about screws (Spaw! Behave!) Why can't you ever find two screws the same length, thread and head? Every time I have to fix something, I end up with one 1 1/2 inch flat head Phillips and one 2 inch dome head slot. It just ain't fair!

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From: wysiwyg
Date: 06 May 03 - 11:05 PM

Well, Tink, it's obivious-- you'll have to tag the kids to the beds. Must be very worrisome having them come and go so mysteriously!

~S~

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From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 May 03 - 04:49 AM

Post-it notes. Those sticky yellow (with variants) note paper pads.

I have hundreds of the buggers in my drawer at work. Can I find any at home? I did a post-it hunt the other day (anything to avoid housework) and came up with no less than 8 different post-it pads, mostly in shades ranging from pastel strawberry to PIIIINK and acid green. Can I find any now?

One thing I am glad to have lost and not found again is the 14lbs in weight I've lost since the end of March! Mrs Duck says she knows where it's gone.

What happens to screwdrivers? We have so many in this house but I can never find the right one. As someone said above about screws, whenever I have a flat slot head screw I can only ever find the Philips screwdriver. When I do find the right one, it's in the most unlikely place (I found one once in my knitting box) and it's mysteriously shed its handle somewhere.

LTS

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From: Schantieman
Date: 07 May 03 - 07:21 AM

When I was a bachelor I lived all alone and my socks all stayed in pairs
While I was married my wife did the washing, my life was full of cares
The socks all went their own sweet way and walked around alone
-and they've all carried on in their own sweet way now that I am on my own.

To be sung to the tune of The Foggy Dew, with feeling.

Steve

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From: Schantieman
Date: 07 May 03 - 07:27 AM

...and another thing. I used to be able to do things properly.   You know, think clearly, organise myself, other people and events.   When I was 18 I organised a ten-day Scout Camp from my dining table in an afternoon.   In my twenties I ran the technical side of all the school plays, including all the lighting cues, props etc etc.

Now I'm in my forties my head feels like porridge and I can't concentrate on any task for very long. Is it just anno domini or is there something wrong with me??!!

S

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From: A Wandering Minstrel
Date: 07 May 03 - 08:08 AM

Morticia

the one you found wasn't a blue one with a picture of an alien on one side by any chance?

I have two black Gibson #1 plecs that I can't account for

Subject: RE: BS: What happens to.......
From: Morticia
Date: 07 May 03 - 08:42 AM

Nope, WM, no aliens.....lemme see...okay..lets set up an exchange shop:

I have in my possession, one emerald green pick claiming to be from Toronto, one heavy duty tortoiseshell,claiming to come from a tortoise I suppose, and one bright red one, that's more coy about it's origins.

I have lost five light,grey picks and one white one....

This is a bit like schoolfriends reunited, don't you think?

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From: Trevor
Date: 07 May 03 - 11:31 AM

Morty - it's simple....

METAMORPHOSIS!

The kitchen scissors vanish, and there's an extra spoon in the washing up bowl when you finish - metamorphosis.

Last night the pencil had disappeared from my music bag at choir practice, but lo and behold, there was a golf tee - metamorphosis.

And I've got a rare example of socks multiplying. The other day I spotted that Helen was wearing one, just one, of my green socks. She said she couldn't be bothered to look for the other one. Rather than cause a scene I thought I would wait until it was heading for the washing machine, spring it and return it to my own heap. I was too late, but when I went to the CLEAN washing pile to rescue it, there it was with it's brother. I just don't understand.

I wonder if Hans Blix would be any good at finding lost bits at Squilver.

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From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 May 03 - 12:44 PM

We set up a basket above the washing machine specifically for odd socks. The theory is that when you find an odd sock it goes in there and when we have another odd sock, we try to match it up. We call it the Sock Exchange or Soxfam (Thanks again Les Barker). In 4 years have we ever found the other sock in there?

What do you think?!

LTS

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From: the lemonade lady
Date: 07 May 03 - 01:11 PM

Schantieman: I think we fill our brains up with loads of toot as the years progress until we reach saturation point. We can't remember the words to a song we sang only half an hour ago, yet ask us what we did on the day Kennedy was shot and we have the have the vision and even the smell of what we were doing at that time.

We are like pc's, if we ask our brains to open yet another programme when we have loads of windows open already, we crash. Tell you what, I'll defragment yours if you defragment mine.

#8-)

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From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 May 03 - 01:34 PM

Yes, and where is that tiny little plastic part that was supposed to go on the bottom of the fuselage of the Japanese Aichi Type 99 Val dive bomber I built several years ago? It fell (naturally) while I was trying to install it. A desperate search of the entire work area floor, the worbench, and my clothing failed to produce it. I moved furniture, and emptied out every conceivable shelf and box it might have bounced into within a radius of 15 feet. I could not find it. I crawled around on the floor for days staring owlishly at the patterns in the rug and the concrete, and finding tiny things like mouse droppings. Still couldn't find it.

I finally fabricated a replacement for it that looks pretty good, and finished the model, which looks so real I expect it to take off any minute and drop a bomb on the 1/400 Arizona.

I know that stupid part is gonna turn up someday, though. Now that I don't actually need it any longer...

Hobby kit modelling should only be done naked, in a room with a completely bare and smooth floor and no clutter whatsoever. And no friggin' HOLES in the floor either! (sigh)

- LH

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From: Kim C
Date: 07 May 03 - 01:59 PM

Sunglasses. Mine don't usually disappear, but I've heard that other people's do. Maybe it's because I never spend more than $15 on mine.

This morning I couldn't find any trousers.

Subject: RE: BS: What happens to.......
From: JennyO
Date: 07 May 03 - 02:05 PM

Handy hints!

To stop losing single socks, just sew the suckers together.

If you are always losing your remote control, just tape it to the top of the TV.

Well it works ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: What happens to.......
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 May 03 - 05:55 PM

We have no fewer than 6 remote controls for various things .... and that's just one room! Keep the buggers in a basket but they always end up spread across the house! Found the DVD remote in the fridge a while back.......

LTS

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From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 May 03 - 06:11 PM

You can increase your dependence on remotes greatly by destroying the TV(s) in your place with a gun, ax or crowbar. I recommend this technique highly. And think of all the great books you'll read instead! :-) The $ySStem has not yet figured out how to put interactive audiovisual advertising inside books...

- LH

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From: Doug_Remley
Date: 07 May 03 - 09:47 PM

JennyO, isn't it a tad difficalt to walk with socks sewed together? Socks are proof of sentient aliens. They escape from the washer or dryer and flee like large inchworms. Absolute proof is in the parking area near a laundromat in the village where the poor tykes have been run-over.

Subject: RE: BS: What happens to.......
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 May 03 - 10:37 PM

The solution is simple. All pairs of socks must henceforth be joined together by a thin metal chain attached to a reinforced rim around the top of each sock. No more socks would be lost!

I have patented this idea, and expect to retire shortly, as the royalties pour in from a grateful World.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: What happens to.......
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 May 03 - 04:20 AM

Firstly LH - I resent the suggestion that people who watch TV, Video and DVDs don't listen to music or read books. I read books for at least 2 hours a day, probably more. The radio is nearly always on when I'm at home and we have a huge collection of CDs, cassettes and vinyl we listen to (mostly whilst posting here)! The intrusion of remote controls is minimal - it's the decrease in braincells, particularly those that control memory that is the problem. I find I'm watching more TV simply because I can't find the remote to turn it off (am presently unable to use the old fashioned method because I've injured my foot and the crutch doesn't reach that far) - I have to wait until the child comes home so I can get her to change the channels.

Similarly, I find I'm reading more in the mornings because I can't find the remote to turn the TV/DVD/Video on, so sit down with a book instead.

As a result of this, I sat in the garden yesterday with a book (one of the classics - Canterbury Tales) which was so interesting and engaging that I immediately fell asleep for several hours, thus waking to find my chest has gone an interesting shade of radiation red, with an interesting white cat paw shape on my upper thigh.

Secondly - I gave up wearing socks several years ago. Socks and sandals DO NOT GO TOGETHER!!! This way, whenever I do wear them, with trainers, boots that sort of thing, it won't matter if they don't match!

LTS

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From: sian, west wales
Date: 08 May 03 - 04:44 AM

A Grook by Piet Hien:

Losing one glove is certainly painful
But nothing compared to the pain
Of losing one, throwing away the other
And finding the first one again.

I've been suffering a recent spate of (temporary) remote control disappearance. I blame wormholes.

sian

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From: Micca
Date: 08 May 03 - 04:53 AM

ah, the great remote control problem, the remote for my VCR vanished without a trace, we searched EVERYWHERE!! went on eBay, got replacemnt 1, didnt work the programming to record part of VCR, got remote 2 (so called Universal remote) that wouldnt either, finally got remote 3 that will get to the start of the programming sequence but no further, but does have Videpoplus capability so works (after a fashion), THEN Real remote turns up IN THE FRUIT BOWL!!!!!, so now I have 9 Remotes, 4 of which are for the SAME single piece of equipment!!!

Subject: RE: BS: What happens to.......
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 May 03 - 08:05 AM

To whit the joke that ends: "if you and she were just 'friends' you would have found the remote control weeks ago".

Is this for the video that was broken for 3 years?

We did invest in one remote that works all TV related equipment, but have since acquired a DVD and new VCR, hence it won't work. As the >> and play buttons are knackered, it doesn't really matter, we just can't bear to throw it away.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What happens to.......
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 May 03 - 09:31 AM

WalMart carries generic remotes that can be programmed to run all or most of whatever you have, provided it's of current manufacture. You just look up the model you have and program the code number for it into the remote. Whenever I lose mine (I mislay keys and remotes, Hardi leaves hats wherever he goes), Hardi just gets me a new one. That way I don't sneak over and steal his and.... lost that one. Oh yeah, with these generics, you can EACH have one! :~) (Buy two-- you never know....)

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From: UB Ed
Date: 08 May 03 - 12:20 PM

Sandra, how do you walk around with your sock toes sewn together?

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From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 May 03 - 02:57 PM

That's where my green plectrum went!!
Giok

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From: GUEST,booger
Date: 09 May 03 - 08:30 AM

My mind...now where did I put it???

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From: JennyO
Date: 09 May 03 - 12:33 PM

Actually, Doug_Remley and UB Ed, Sandra and I are from the Ministry of Silly Walks. We are perfecting this new way of walking which involves keeping all the toes together at the same time. In this way, no socks will be lost, and it also minimises the serious problem, heretofore seldom discussed, of interbreeding of mixed socks. We have applied for a grant to allow us to continue with this very important research.

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: What happens to.......
From: Doug_Remley
Date: 10 May 03 - 12:36 AM

Grant money is, of course, expected soonest.

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From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 10 May 03 - 10:55 AM

the little elastic hooks that I bought in bulk to use on the bandage (supposedly) keeping my left wrist (relatively) straight while I sleep. If I sleep with it bent, it hurts like hell when I wake up.

I am now down to 2 hooks, & keep losing them each night & morning. Sometimes I find them in the bed, or on the floor using my bare feet (ouch!) Recently I heard one fall to the bathroom floor & only found it later that week later when I pulled the toilet brush out of it's holder behind the toilet.

sandra

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From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 10 May 03 - 01:19 PM

Hey Sandra - Manitas discovered this brilliant new bandage - it comes in a roll, is quite sturdy and thick so can be used as a support bandage, but it's sort of sticky so it STICKS TO ITSELF!! Apparently it will last a couple of washes and you need never use safety pins or bandage hooks! Try sports shops - or big chemists - they sell it in large branches of Boots the Chemist here, although you being in Syndey that isn't much help.....

I can vouch for its efficiency personally!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What happens to.......
From: Cluin
Date: 10 May 03 - 06:48 PM

What ever happened to my virginity?
Must've went the same way as my idealism, although less dramatically and certainly with less pleasure.

(not that the two were related in any way)

Subject: RE: BS: What happens to.......
From: Micca
Date: 10 May 03 - 07:52 PM

As a female friend once said " I've lost my virginity.....But I've got the box it came in!!!"

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From: GUEST,booger
Date: 10 May 03 - 08:23 PM

Did you lose your virginity to your right or left hand?

Subject: RE: BS: What happens to.......
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 11 May 03 - 09:01 AM

Thanks Liz, I'll have a look in local chemists.

By-the-by, when I woke this morning one hook was missing & not visible in the bed, however it did turn up several hours later when I went to make my bed, I found it near the pillow.

Maybe I was too tired when I woke up, but it wasn't till I put on my glasses I noticed one was missing ...

Perhaps it crawled out from under the pillow???

bloody inanimate objects! I hope I can find the sticky bandage, that'll learn it

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: What happens to.......
From: JennyO
Date: 12 May 03 - 08:45 AM

Refresh while I think of something.

Subject: RE: BS: What happens to.......
From: nutty
Date: 12 May 03 - 05:49 PM

I've lost my WAIST ........ I did have one (never very small but adequate) but one day it just disappeared completely.

I didn't see it go or intentionally did anything to upset it but I suspect it had been preparing to disappear for a long time.

Now no matter what I do I can't get it to come back.

Anyone out there with any ideas ????

Subject: RE: BS: What happens to.......
From: Amos
Date: 12 May 03 - 08:25 PM

Well, you have to overcome desire, frst, as is taught by the Buddha, translated from the very earliest Thai texts available:

Verily, in seeking Right Eating, shun desire above all things. Remember the ancients who spake, saying, "Waist not, want not."

'Course that's from the King James version. Your mileage may vary!!

I have a theory that much like coat hangars, odd socks, the tops to pens and other objects of our object-ridden existence, there is a metaphysical exchange that happens to lost virtues, compromised principles and abandoned points of view. My theory is that they come back to haunt you as interesting experiences.

Has anyone else noticed this??

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Subject: RE: BS: What happens to.......
From: GUEST,Anahootz, naked and cookieless
Date: 13 May 03 - 12:00 AM

Easy solution for the lost Picks...

Use Tortoiseshell.

At $45 a throw, you lose mebbe one before you get broken of the silly habit of EVER putting a pick anywhere but in your hand to play, or on the fretboard to store.

Subject: RE: BS: What happens to.......
From: Doug_Remley
Date: 13 May 03 - 02:44 AM

Buddha should talk! The reason he's in the Lotus position is because he can't get up.

Subject: RE: BS: What happens to.......
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 May 03 - 07:38 AM

Frankly I'd rather have a room full of yoghurt carton plecs than a tortoise with no shell.

What happens to people's ethics when something they desire is at stake?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What happens to.......
From: Mr Happy
Date: 13 May 03 - 07:30 PM

i keep all mine secured with neutral tac- never lost one for years!

Subject: RE: BS: What happens to.......
From: Doug_Remley
Date: 13 May 03 - 11:06 PM

I've often wondered where the money went by week's end. Those coupons must be larval forms of bills that propogatein the mailbox.

Subject: RE: BS: What happens to.......
From: Amos
Date: 14 May 03 - 01:00 PM

LOL, Doug!! That would explain a lot!! And flyers, too -- somehow they metastasize into credit card slips with my signature on them. How do they DO that??? :>)


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