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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/13/2017 9:04:57 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/13/2017 11:10:18 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/22/2017 8:32:20 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/22/2017 9:17:04 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/23/2017 1:56:42 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/23/2017 2:35:36 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/25/2017 2:46:05 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/25/2017 2:48:25 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/25/2017 3:15:02 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/25/2017 3:38:07 PM   
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I had a pretty good scare this a.m.. Woke up and checked my email and there was a note from American Express saying I hadn't paid my bill. I pulled out my current statements, which aren't due yet. I have a green card which is non-revolving and a blue card which is. Doesn't matter, I pay both of them off in full each month regardless. I mail a check for each account in separate envelopes with the bill stub included. Checking the statements I see they applied both checks to the blue card account, leaving me a credit, and nothing to the green card account. I called them up and got that straightened out. I asked "Does this sort of thing happen often?" Reply - "Oh, yes. Some of our customers have up to five cards and things get mixed up sometimes". ! My question is this: If they can misapply a check to the wrong account, what's to keep them from applying it to the account of a different customer?


It happens. Me and my bank (rather EX bank - US Bank) went round and round. They werent going to give me my money back until the person that owns the account they applied it to paid it. Yeah, that sat well with me. Went to the bank and had a little "chat" with their person in the lobby (was saturday). They called the cops. I told them when I got out I would have signs and the media in place with the story. They gave me my money, but wouldnt allow me to close the account, so I went straight to another branch and closed it anyway.

Thieves. NEVER do business with US Bank

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/25/2017 11:41:25 PM   
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I just read in Wiki-P that George H. W. Bush enlisted(?) in the Navy after graduating from a prep school.


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I'd heard of enlisted men becoming officers based on merit but a high school graduate going directly to officer school I had not.


I can't say as to the second part, but I'll add something to the first. His father had asked him what he intended on doing when he graduated, and his response was he would enlist. This his father opposed, he wanted his son to take a deferment and go straight to college. George insisted he would enlist. Dad then went out and hired a commencement speaker who echoed his views. After graduation dad asked him what he thought now. George went right to the recruiter and enlisted.

Reason I have a lot of respect for the man.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/27/2017 4:17:53 PM   
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*There was a young man*
*From Cork, who got limericks*
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/27/2017 4:29:31 PM   
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*There was a young man*
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/27/2017 5:07:31 PM   
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Status: offline 		World war two did NOT require a college degree for a commission. Hap Arnold of the USAAF wanted everyone to have a degree, till he was told that if every single college graduate went into the Air Force , there still would not be enough. The legal requirement was a high school degree. Now the USN tried to get fancy. They desired two years of college (not necessarily an associate degree) or Prep school. They wanted their officers to be a little more "finished" than their enlisted men. 2 years of college might do. Going to a prep school like Phillips Exeter Academy definitely would. That was always the prep school of choice for the rich (like the Kennedys, or the Bushes.) And yes , G H W Bush is an alumni of that school. Besides, Naval aviators at that time were not considered quite as gentlemanly as their "black shoes" cousins.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/28/2017 7:56:45 AM   
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I had a pretty good scare this a.m.. Woke up and checked my email and there was a note from American Express saying I hadn't paid my bill. I pulled out my current statements, which aren't due yet. I have a green card which is non-revolving and a blue card which is. Doesn't matter, I pay both of them off in full each month regardless. I mail a check for each account in separate envelopes with the bill stub included. Checking the statements I see they applied both checks to the blue card account, leaving me a credit, and nothing to the green card account. I called them up and got that straightened out. I asked "Does this sort of thing happen often?" Reply - "Oh, yes. Some of our customers have up to five cards and things get mixed up sometimes". ! My question is this: If they can misapply a check to the wrong account, what's to keep them from applying it to the account of a different customer?


I pay off the balance every month and I've had the wrong card paid twice. I ended up with two credit cards through Chase due to bank consolidation. I've had both since the 90s. They have screwed up things several times. If the handwritten line and the box with numbers doesn't match (because I miswrote something), they take whatever the smallest of the two is. They have applied my check to the wrong account too, though I started writing on the note line three dashes and the last 4 digits of the card and they haven't done that screwup in a few years.

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It happens. Me and my bank (rather EX bank - US Bank) went round and round. They werent going to give me my money back until the person that owns the account they applied it to paid it. Yeah, that sat well with me. Went to the bank and had a little "chat" with their person in the lobby (was saturday). They called the cops. I told them when I got out I would have signs and the media in place with the story. They gave me my money, but wouldnt allow me to close the account, so I went straight to another branch and closed it anyway.

Thieves. NEVER do business with US Bank


We do all our banking with a local bank. All the big banks are horrible IMO.

The nearest branch for the bank we use is also in the shopping center we have to drive past coming and going to our house, so it is very convenient to bank there too.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/30/2017 5:41:12 PM   
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From page 424 of "The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors".

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/30/2017 6:13:44 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/30/2017 6:49:14 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/30/2017 7:08:47 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/30/2017 7:10:02 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/30/2017 7:22:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		OK, someone ate one of my squirrels in my back yard. I did not authorize this feast, but as long as the guilty party comes forth and admits to their skullduggery I feel I can forgive it. I would highly recommend that you come forward now as things could go quite harshly for you later.






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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/30/2017 7:36:13 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/30/2017 7:58:13 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/30/2017 8:12:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		I once saw one of these up close. I was a boy scout and I was camping on a scout ranch when a couple of tornadoes came through. Our tents were swamped so we all got into an old VW van to sleep for the night. I awoke sometime that night and wanted a cigarette, so I rolled down the window next to me and lit up. I had a flashlight readily at hand and heard something outside. It was a bobcat and it seemed to me to be as big as a German Shephard. I could have reached out and touched it. I had the flashlight on it so there was no doubt. It was spotted, kind of like a leopard. It just glanced at me and kept moving like I didn't matter at all.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/30/2017 8:16:16 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/30/2017 8:22:11 PM   
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Status: offline 		My brother, who is significantly older than me, claimed, and I have no reason to doubt it, when he was a boy scout in Pennsylvania, he was on a ledge on a cliff face when he encountered one. He says it leapt at him and he pushed it away with one arm, it falling down to the base of the cliff, apparently dying from the impact. He said he thought it must have been sick, first to attack him and second to so utterly fail.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/30/2017 8:26:40 PM   
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I have no pics. It was the S - F (that was pronounced S bar F) Scout Ranch and it was 1974, I think. S bar F stood for Styx Baer and Fuller, a department store chain that donated the land and etc.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/31/2017 9:57:59 AM   
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OK, someone ate one of my squirrels in my back yard. I did not authorize this feast, but as long as the guilty party comes forth and admits to their skullduggery I feel I can forgive it. I would highly recommend that you come forward now as things could go quite harshly for you later.



Maybe a Gorn did it? Are you sure you do not sleepwalk, or rather sleepeat?

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/31/2017 8:10:49 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/31/2017 9:46:01 PM   
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And here I thought I was having a bad day...






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