Your Pop-Ups Are Ready
Now this one is a hoot! I am downloading some stuff, and it recommends that I drop my pop up blocker in order to complete the process. Seems reasonable to me, so I drop it. Then it says I need to reboot after loading this stuff.
Again, seems reasonable. I re-boot, the pop off blocker is off, yup, you guessed it. Here they came like a pack of rabid dogs! Before it was over, I had “forty-six” ##!##!@!**!! pop-ups on my screen. “Life is getting up one more time than you’ve been knocked down.” John Wayne the duke, said that.
And I thought it was going to be a slow week?
Officials in Lo Prado, Chile, a working-class suburb of Santiago, have begun handing out free Viagra to senior residents. About 1,500 men are eligible for the program, which will cost about $20,000 per year and will run thru the end of the year. The mayor said, “An active sexuality improves the overall quality of life.” Which makes sense to me, and means nothing to Cup Cake (my beloved), I showed her the article and she just growled.
Participants are required to provide a doctor’s certification that states that they are healthy and are able to take the drug. Other mayors in the Santiago area are planning similar programs. I called our mayor’s office and inquired about it, they said that they were aware of the problem and already had a new Viagra for women, it was called “Money.”
More South American news. Lo-Jac for the departed. A cementary in Santiago, Chile, is offering its clients coffins with a sensor that detect any movement insde after they have been buried. “We want to be pioneers and avoid catalepsy cases, in which a person gets completely paralyzed for a few hours and ends up buried as if they were dead. We want families to rest assured that if a case this this every happens, their loved ones will be immediately rescued.”
I am not making this up
Isnt’ technology wonderful boys & girls … For a few bucks more, you can insure no one is trying to phone home from six feet down. This is one reason I requested that my family bury me at least 8 to 10 ft. So in the end, they can say “Old Don, deep down, was a pretty nice guy.”
No good huh? Well whadya expect for free. Chile and South America in general, seem to have a problem with this kind of thing happening. You can find other related at:
Tom Cruise has sent his wife, Katie, for a much higher level of Scientology training. She recently expressed a desire to go to New York without Tom and apparently he wasn’t too happy about it. So now Katie will be subjected to intensive auditing sessions that sometimes last for as long as 36 hours or more.”
Maybe he came home and found her jumping on the couch or something?
AT&T …. “Thank you for your business. We have received your equipment rebate form. Attached is your rebate in the form of an ATT &T promotion Visa card. Your card is preloaded with funds ….. Blah, blah, yadda-yadda.”
I asked for a “rebate” I didn’t ask for no ___ card.
Now here is MY reply in the form of a terse message …… “Kiss the Part of me that goes over the fence last.” I didn’t ask for a Visa card, I asked for a rebate. Here is a novel idea. How about just charging a lower price for the phones, or cutting the consumer a check on the rebate?
Last I heard, this site was reaching about 100,000 people per day, and now all of them know what lousy business you do, and of course, “I am going to tell everyone I meet, not to do business with you.” What a bunch of jerks.
Busted some folks in San Diego, 75 of them went to the slammer who were students at San Diego State University (Higher Learning?) and 21 others who happened to be just dropping by I suppose. Get this. One of them was working toward a master’s degree in Home-Land Security … A smoker and a toker, he ought to just about fit in.
American Idol is down to just two contestants, which is a break for all us guy’s out there who are required to “give up our remote controls for a period of an hour or more.” According to some magazines, Ryan Seacrest is said to be unhappy because of the declining ratings of American Idol. He was seen smiling again though, when he heard of the Subway offer of $5 for a foot long. Randy is dogged about it, Paula and Simon just cannot seem to make up their mind. Oh well, Boston Legal was good lastnight, but they are taking the character parts and plots too far.
(Please insert favorite Lawyer joke here … Hi Jack!)
Fox is premiering a new TV show in which wealthy people go undercover in impoverished neighborhoods. Apparently, the show is based on the recent elections. Reflecting hard economic times, fewer of the 18.9 million Latino’s in the U.S. are sending money home to their families. There goes your $36 billion dollar second-economy boys, tell me, “How’s that working for ya?” Only half send any kind of stipend home now compared to 73 percent just two years ago.
If we want to stop them at the border, perhaps we just post our recent “economic statistic’s on a sign written in Spanish at popular entry points that would discourage illegal colonization for sure.” American employers seem to have finally figured it out. Investing a couple of bucks to keep our workers healthy and happy beats paying for them when they are out and sick. That is option #1, unfortunately they went for the other … Option #2 …
They discovered that outsourcing their jobs to other countries, works even better.
The corn required to make the 7.6 billion gallons of ethanol that are projected to be produced this year would cover an area the size of Maryland, Connecticut, New Jersey and Washington D.C.. I don’t know why, but the vision of Washington D.C. covered with rotting corn, in the hot sun, flies, well, that just kind of appeals to me.
In other related political news.
In a recent survey, thirty-nine percent of Americans say they’d be uncomfortable with a president first taking office at age 72; sixteen percent, uncomfortable with a woman taking office; and twelve percent, with an African American taking office.
Good luck if you are an old, African American woman.
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In a lower tech era, some coffins were fitted with stovepipes with small umbrellas inside. If a person was mistakenly buried alive, he/she could trigger a mechanism that would cause the umbrella to open at the top of the stovepipe, thus alerting people to their plight. Don’t know that anyone ever used it.
Thanks for the extensive, yet informative news cast.
I too have a beef with AT&T. I sent in all my documents for my rebate and they sent back a letter asking for the bar code off the side of the box. I sent in the bar code and they told me that they no longer had the intitial items in their records. I sent them copies (Because I make copies of EVERYTHING pertaining to potential money). They sent back a response that the rebate period had lapsed.
(It is people such as this that cause me to use potty mouth words)
Now I am off to find some Lady Viagra (In the form of money) ;)
I get so upset with them, I just want to rush out to Ace Hardware and buy me a rope!
Incredible!
Now some people are really stupid!!!! Be sure and cancel your credit cards before you die. This is so priceless, and so, so easy to see happening, customer service being what it is today.
A lady died this past January,and Citibank billed her for February and March for their annual service charges on her credit card, and added late fees and interest on the monthly charge. The balance had been $0.00 when she died, but now somewhere around $60.00. A family member placed a call to Citibank.
Here is the exchange:
Family Member: ‘I am calling to tell you she died back in January.’
Citiban: ‘The account was never closed and the late fees and charges still apply.’
Family Member: ‘Maybe, you should turn it over to collections.’
Citibank: ‘Since it is two months past due, it already has been.’
Family Member: So, what will they do when they find out she is dead?’
Citibank: ‘Either report her account to frauds division or report her to the credit bureau, maybe both!’
Family Member: ‘Do you think God will be mad at her?’
Citibank: ‘Excuse me?’
Family Member: ‘Did you just get what I was telling you - the part about her being dead?’
Citibank:: ‘Sir, you’ll have to speak to my supervisor.’
Supervisor gets on the phone:
Family Member: ‘I’m calling to tell you, she died back in January with a $0 balance.’
Citibank: ‘The account was never closed and late fees and charges still apply.’
Family Member: ‘You mean you want to collect from her estate?’
Citibank: (Stammer) ‘Are you her lawyer?’
Family Member: ‘No, I’m her great nephew.’ (Lawyer info was given)
Citibank: ‘Could you fax us a certificate of death?’
Family Member: ‘Sure.’ (Fax number was given)
After they get the fax:
Citibank: ‘Our system just isn’t setup for death. I don’t know what more I can do to help.’
Family Member: ‘Well, if you figure it out, great! If not, you could just keep billing her. She won’t care.’
Citibank: ‘Well, the late fees and charges do still apply.’ (What is wrong with these people?!?)
Family Member: ‘Would you like her new billing address?’
Citibank: ‘That might help.’
Family Member: ‘ Odessa Memorial Cemetery Highway 129, Plot Number 69.’
Citibank: ‘Sir, that’s a cemetery!’
Family Member: ‘And what do you do with dead people on your planet?
AT&T can kiss ……. Well, you know how I get, we best leave this alone for now anyway.
Good to hear from you.
Hey welcome James at Yahoooooie. I didn’t know that, pretty interesting stuff. It is a good day to be above ground, whadya think? Unless of course, “you are thinking about changing your long distance provider or maybe picking up a new picutre phone from AT&T” Then I suppose it is going to start sucking real fast.
DS
Don, you made me laugh out loud (several times!)
I’m going to be cremated (when I’m dead of course!) Do they do heat sensors? ;-)
Great, that it was it is designed to do, bring some sunshine in thru the open window.
There was something I was going to tell you, but I forgot.
Oh well, Ceste Le Vive (such is life).
DS
Don,
This is the only way I can contact you for the moment. Yahoo implemented a new method for stopping spammers and asked for feedback. I screwed up and actually told them what I thought. Now, I can’t access my email! I’m jumping through all their hoops, but don’t know how long it will be before I have email again.
James
Not wanting to sound unsympathetic, when I read this comment, I fell out of my chair and laughed for at least six to eight minutes. I literally had tears in my eyes!
When the elephants are angry only the grass suffers. Tilting at windmills in your old age James? hahahahahaha. Lastnight I did notice your stuff was coming back to me. I had the same thing happen to me at MyFamily.Whatever. Made causual mention of what I considered not in my best interests, and the next thing I know, my free time is over, and my site is FULL. Uh huh sure.
Thirty years ago last week the first spam, an invitation to a computer demonstration, was sent to users of Arpanet, the Internet’s predecessor. Now it is an every day thing. In the last sixty days I have had over 265 hits on this site alone, and that doesn’t count all the other crap they bombard us with when we are on line doing other stuff.
Hobbs has my telephone, he will give it to you.
DS