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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/19/2013 12:08:51 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/19/2013 12:09:06 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/19/2013 12:10:00 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/19/2013 12:26:02 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/19/2013 12:31:40 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/19/2013 1:28:36 PM   
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Kids. Who'd have them?


No kiddin' mate. Just wait until you see their college tuition bills.

USDA figures that it costs about $400,000 to raise a kid (for a middle class family) to age 18. Figure about $200,000 in today's money for a 4-year state school. Have two? Set you back $1.2 Mill. Why are we so daft?

Hmmm...millionaires or parents?...millionaires or parents?....which choice do I make?

Typical parents or ruthless dictators? Future historians will decide.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/19/2013 1:46:56 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/19/2013 2:59:21 PM   
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Sorry to hear that, Dixie. When is she due?


2nd of January is the due date.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/19/2013 3:03:47 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/20/2013 6:50:33 AM   
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Meh tithe. Another week and another reason for Mrs Dixie to be stressed about Baby MkII.

A month ago her bump was too small and the baby could have stopped growing. An 'emergency' trip to the (Not so) local hospital the next day showed that the baby was fine but was sat breach. So two weeks later Mrs D had to go back for another scan to see if Baby MkII had turned, which it hadn't. So they managed to turn the baby around, which gave Mrs D a sore belly for several days. Then she had to go back yesterday to check the baby hadn't turned around again. It's sitting properly still, but they're back to telling us it's stopped growing again, or they buggered up the measurement but they aren't sure which. So now we get to travel back to the hospital on Christmas Eve for yet another scan. If Baby MkII has stopped growing then Mrs D gets cut open for a C-section the day before Christmas Kids. Who'd have them?
warspite1

Sorry to hear about that Dixie Fingers crossed for you mate.


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/20/2013 8:10:51 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/20/2013 11:56:41 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/20/2013 12:33:45 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/20/2013 1:07:21 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/20/2013 1:23:36 PM   
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TGIF



Amen, bro. Amen.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/20/2013 1:29:06 PM   
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Pre-Christmas tithe.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/20/2013 1:29:43 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/20/2013 1:33:59 PM   
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Chuck Norris Christmas Greeting.

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Saw that too. An excellent choice!



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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/20/2013 1:36:52 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/20/2013 1:49:07 PM   
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Chuck Norris Christmas Greeting.

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Excellent!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/20/2013 1:49:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		So, I'm working with a customer with a voice ds1 down. It took an act of God, but we got a telco tech to go out this morning. He calls me up, and in a smarny voice tells me it's up, the problem is on my side, and he's going to charge the customer for me wasting his time. Client can be heard in the back ground getting ready to tear me a new one because he has been down since Tuesday. I dive into the equipment in a panic wondering just what I missed. While waiting for a connection to be established, I ask him how he knows it's up. He tells me he is talking to me on it. "Crap' I think, wondering how or what I missed. So I ask him, what is he using to talk to me, a phoenix or a t-byrd. He tells me he is on his butt set*..............


I asked him to put me on speaker. And I stand up, so everyone in my office is looking at me as well. And I say in a loud, clear voice "You mean to tell me you called me, using your butt set, on a T1 circuit, and you do not think there is a problem?" The office erupts in laughter around me. Client can be heard in the back ground asking the telco guy what is so funny. Line disconnects.


This is what we have come to. I can't make this up.



*for those that don't know, a butt set is what telco guys use to test a regular, analog, telephone line

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/20/2013 2:03:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		Eye is much better thanks for all the well wishes and poll to see if they want to get better or not...

I really hate my bi-focals. They work, but not well at computer range. Hopefully I will be able to put the contacts back in tomorrow morning if I don't have any irritation in that eye for a day. That will be such a relief. My vision is so bad without correction and, as such, my glasses don't have very good side vision and my peripheral vision is terrible. I rely on it so much that I have almost pulled out in front of two cars in the last two days. So used to just looking slightly left to check for oncoming traffic instead of all the way left...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/20/2013 2:04:37 PM   
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So, I'm working with a customer with a voice ds1 down. It took an act of God, but we got a telco tech to go out this morning. He calls me up, and in a smarny voice tells me it's up, the problem is on my side, and he's going to charge the customer for me wasting his time. Client can be heard in the back ground getting ready to tear me a new one because he has been down since Tuesday. I dive into the equipment in a panic wondering just what I missed. While waiting for a connection to be established, I ask him how he knows it's up. He tells me he is talking to me on it. "Crap' I think, wondering how or what I missed. So I ask him, what is he using to talk to me, a phoenix or a t-byrd. He tells me he is on his butt set*..............


I asked him to put me on speaker. And I stand up, so everyone in my office is looking at me as well. And I say in a loud, clear voice "You mean to tell me you called me, using your butt set, on a T1 circuit, and you do not think there is a problem?" The office erupts in laughter around me. Client can be heard in the back ground asking the telco guy what is so funny. Line disconnects.


This is what we have come to. I can't make this up.



*for those that don't know, a butt set is what telco guys use to test a regular, analog, telephone line


<puts L sign on forhead> and looks in the direction of the telco guy...


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/20/2013 5:50:05 PM   
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So, I'm working with a customer with a voice ds1 down. It took an act of God, but we got a telco tech to go out this morning. He calls me up, and in a smarny voice tells me it's up, the problem is on my side, and he's going to charge the customer for me wasting his time. Client can be heard in the back ground getting ready to tear me a new one because he has been down since Tuesday. I dive into the equipment in a panic wondering just what I missed. While waiting for a connection to be established, I ask him how he knows it's up. He tells me he is talking to me on it. "Crap' I think, wondering how or what I missed. So I ask him, what is he using to talk to me, a phoenix or a t-byrd. He tells me he is on his butt set*..............


I asked him to put me on speaker. And I stand up, so everyone in my office is looking at me as well. And I say in a loud, clear voice "You mean to tell me you called me, using your butt set, on a T1 circuit, and you do not think there is a problem?" The office erupts in laughter around me. Client can be heard in the back ground asking the telco guy what is so funny. Line disconnects.


This is what we have come to. I can't make this up.



*for those that don't know, a butt set is what telco guys use to test a regular, analog, telephone line

In the late 80's the local phone company took down the T-1 between two of our data centers because they were doing some maintenance or other. The excuse? "Well we waited until after 5:00 PM"!

BTW, the same "maintenance" cross-connected our dial-up backup lines with the gas station on the corner. The backup lines stayed up just fine, until the gas station would get get a phone call...

No, you can't make up this stuff.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/21/2013 1:08:03 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/21/2013 7:28:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		Good morning, yourself, THREAD dude...Good luck on the pro league finals! I'll be rootin' for the fodder tyranny!



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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2013 2:58:13 AM   
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Only in the pro-league, here, he is still a tyrant.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2013 2:10:32 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2013 2:11:15 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 12/22/2013 2:11:54 PM   
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