Wake Up!

White smoke

Alexander Pope

I've just learned that the Catholics have chosen a new pope. I am so happy. Now I can eat again. For the past few days I have been afraid to go to the grocers to buy food, for fear of missing the announcement.

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Blonde ambition

A blonde needs extra income, so she's out looking for part-time work. She knocks on the door and a man answers. She asks if he has anything she can do to earn some extra money. He tells her she can paint his porch and he will give her $35. She agrees and he gives her the paint and a big brush. Two hours later, she knocks on the door and tells the man she is finished paining his porch. He pays her $35. She leaves.

She pauses and turns back to face the man and says

"By the way, mister, that's a Jaguar, not a Porsche."

Dating game

Sometimes I sits and thinks and sometimes I just sits

There is probably no lasting cure for the truly dedicated lazy among us.

And on a sad note, Adullamite's long-time lady friend slipped on the ice today and was run over by a truck...

Odd news story.

18 police officers worked for an hour in Shangdong, China to rescue a woman from a river while 1000 spectators gathered to rubberneck. Because of the large crowd, it became impossible for fire trucks to pass through. Police finally fished the woman out, only to discover the body was really just a blow up sex toy doll. (As it happens, most of these objects are manufactured in Shangdong for export. For the Southeast England market, I believe the article said.) Children's eyes were covered and the crowd dispersed. My theory is she was abducted from the place of manufacture in the lunch bucket of an amorous factory worker and was blown almost completely up on the river bank trysting place when a slip of the lips released her to fly off like a big balloon and land in the river.

I also have a theory on why she floated and how she bobbed up and down to elude police rescuers for so long.

A poem in the style of Bobby Burns

Sing out, bild wells, to the sild why,
Th clying floud, the losty fright:
The dear is nying in the dight;
Sing out, bild wells, and det'm lie.
Sing out the gnu, sing in the auld,
Sing, bappy hells, snross t'crow:
The gear is yo-ing, let gim ho;
Sing out the talse, sing in the frue.
Sing out the srief that maps the gind
For those that see we mere no hore;
Sing out the reud of pich and foor,
Sing in medress to all rankind.

It has lots more lines, but I'm getting bored. I am glad I am proficient in the gaelic but sometimes it just grates.

[Apologies to Alfred, lord byron... son.]

Speaking of which, can you remember what Ada contributed to the evolution of the computer? (This is a test.) Besides lending her name to a programming language?

Hint: I got rhythm, you got rhythm, we ALLgo'rithm.

Hard to discern if this is spam or not

This particular spam was probably from one of Adullamite's resident spammers. You can tell by the exquisite command of the English language. I wonder how many people who get this actually click on the (assumed) porn link provided?
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              "The Better Business Bureau has been booked the above mentioned appeal from one of your customers in respect of their business relations with you. The detailed description of the consumer's disturbance are available visiting a link below. Please give attention to this question and notify us about your sight as soon as possible.
We politely ask you to click and review the APPEAL REPORT to meet on this claim.
We awaits to your prompt response."            

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There is another link at the bottom to "unsubsribe" but it probably takes the clicker to the same porn site.

Out of curiosity, I wonder why "the" BBB would allow you to unsubscribe from their complaint emails? And since there are at least a million BBBs, is this one really the Ultimate BBB for the world? I wonder. At any rate, it was really hard for me not to believe this was the real thing and not just some regular SPAM. It looks so realistic.

P.S. My sight is weak (and probably jaundiced) towards this appeal/disturbance.

Electoral map

AusZealand Forever

 USPS sent my parcel to the wrong country.. !!

i was expecting a EMS parcel and it tracked it last night. it arrived in Australia instead of New Zealand.

My god... does that ever happen to anyone here?

and how long did that take you to resolve it?

i called USPS this morning, they told me to get sender to give them a call.

oh I understand your frustration. Hopefully it's just in transit. Maybe try to call NZ post and ask what's going on... they might be able to tell you if it's just a transit or not...Are you quite sure it is not just in Australia en route to New Zealand?

Right. I'm gonna call New Zealand.

i called USPS.. now i need to get the sender to call in order to re-direct... that is crazy.. how can they send to the wrong country.

I once sent something from US to South Korea and it was routed to South AFRICA. I called USPS and they put a trace and found the package then rerouted it to south korea

Who cares?

i googled the same issue last night. apparently it happens to a lot of ppl.

omg a nightmare! Especially when it's out of your control... Hopefully everything will be OK and you don't have to wait too long for your parcel to arrive at your place... sometimes it's the chasing around that's really annoying...

Wait, did the postal service mess up or did the seller misaddress the package?

Seller?

Just leave it up to0 the post office

I sell internationally on occasion and the post office needs to type in the address info for priority and express mail. Australia and NZ are close together, so it's possible the representative typed it in wrong? Or through they were the same... As a second grade teacher for years, trust me lots of people don't know better. It also could have been sent to the wrong place altogether. USPS will probably only deal with the seller on claims so as long as he\she puts a tracer and the package is insured & tracked, it will end up where it's supposed to. What a headache!

A and N are close together? And you are a teacher?

Seller?

I hope it gets dorted out asap..

I have a similar, well, worse experience with EMS. I sent wedding invitations in bulk to my parents in South Korea. Supposed to arrive in three business days. The package was sent to somewhere in Southern Asia (I never even found out where) and finally arrived at my parents' WEEKS later it was supposed to arrive, covered with MOLD and STUNK to high heaven. Apparently the package got wet at some point during the trip. Absolutely GARBAGE, and it was no use at that point anyway since it was a time-sensitive material. It was HELL trying to get a refund from USPS. I had to fill out many documents, make tons of phone calls, and wasted hours and hours at the post office dealing with exceptionally rude and/or lazy workers (there were a few exceptions.) It took me a solid YEAR to get a refund of paltry $75, barely what the invitations were worth.

Sorry about so many all-capital words, but it was such a nightmare that every time I think about it I get pissed off. Personally I would NEVER send anything valuable via EMS, not from the U.S. anyway. I trust DHL and have never had a bad experience with them, but I understand DHL isn't everywhere in the U.S.

OP, I'm really sorry about it and I do hope they straighten this out ASAP. Just my two cents, bug them like crazy until the problem gets solved. You really have to be pro-active in dealing with them. Document EVERYTHING. Was it time-sensitive?

Jesus

No, it's ok if they take 5 years.

one of my parcel is now in Canada.... It should be sent to China....

You should tell the post office instead of this forum. Just saying.

The only way they can send it to the wrong country is if you didn't put in the right information. Are you certain you put the correct information?

Do you really believe that, Polly?

sent my package (the same package) twice to Australia instead of Austria, and I put the correct information and address. That is so annoying.

My uncle ordered something online one time and instead of it being sent to Virgina, it got sent to Venezuela. I can't remember what ended up happening with that package, but they sent him a new one once they realized what the problem was. Good luck OP, stuff like this really sucks :(

When you remember, be sure and let us know.

recently i had shipped an item to carambatta, australia. i wrote australia in all caps below the address and it was still shipped to canada. usps can be hopeless sometimes. another package is currently taking a century to be shipped to australia via priority mail after being sent on november 14.

Why don't you use some caps here too? Don't cost nothin'.

Well, I'm wrong then. I can admit it. :)

That's a load off.

Oh no, thats absolutely awful!! Who are you buying from?

Buying?

Flick and Flack

Venus Rising

Adullamite Descending

Pact with the Devil?

Who is the skinniest president you can remember in your lifetime? Every time you see him, he is visiting a restaurant and mingling. So why doesn't he get fat? Unfair, to say the least. I am not one to ever admit that exercise does any good, because I know it just doesn't. My theory is he's sold his soul. 

Hiaku Serendipity. Microwave.

Hiakus are easy
But sometimes they don't make sense
Refrigerator

Must find out for yourself, right?

DEAR WALMART

DEAR WALMART
I BUY HP PRINTER FROM YOU FEW DAY. IT ARRIVE TODAY. FEDEX GUY THROW ON PORCH AND I FIND. I AM SO HAPPY WITH 97 CENTS SHIPPING CHARGE THAT I AM GOING TO NOW ORDER A (LARGE) BAG OF LAY'S FIERY HOT POTATO CHIPS THAT YOUR AD SHOWS FOR 3.99. I ASSUME THE SAME 97 CENT SHIPPING APPLIES AND IT IS WORTH IT NOT TO DRIVE TO STORE AND WAIT IN LINE.
I GIVE YOU 6 STARS ON THE  PRINTER EVEN THOUGH I JUST BARELY GOT IT OUT OF BOX. I COULDN'T WAIT. I WAS GOING TO SAY SOMETHING "ELSE" IN THIS REVIEW COMMENT, BUT THEN I SEE YOU MAKE ME SIGN IN. HA HA.

LOVE, MAX.

PS - WHY YOU HP INK PRICES SO HIGH?

& that why walmart love u 2

HP ink be cheap at walmart.



Do you also enjoy waiting in line for a half hour to pay for it?

This brute went to all stores first, too.


Wonder if still on sale 2 years later?

I wasn't going to say this, but I gotta say this: who the heck goes to the Walmart website to tell them how much you love shopping with them and how amazed you are at the printer ink prices? Some 35-44 year old male in NewYorkNewYork, that's who. Hope they sent him a gift card for some baby food or mayonaise. Or something. Secretly hope he puts the mayo in his printer after dropping a glob on his keyboard.

Why am I in such a sarcastic mood today? I think I will go to the Walmart site and write them a love letter. Unless it is moderated.