Saturday, December 29, 2012

Day 217 - A Bun In The Oven & A Cannoli In Your Trousers, Second Only To The Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, "The More You Tighten Your Grip Tarkin", Failing The Unintelligence Test, The Plot Hole In Star Wars Is Only 20 Minutes Wide & Logic Shielded, The Taco Monster, and Spare The Tax & Spoil The Spoiled

Mr. Brown
1:47 PM Mr. Silver
"There's this one...the Pansybake Oven.  I think these are all boys on the box...I think..."
1:47 PM Mr. Brown
LOL
It is true though
1:48 PM Mr. Silver
I used my sisters' one for years.
1:48 PM Mr. Brown
Guys need a Easy Bake to learn how to be a baker later in life.
All we got was the bug makers.
LOL
Maybe they should have been edible bugs.
1:49 PM Mr. Silver
I just liked cooking stuff. I still do.
1:49 PM Mr. Brown
Yeah, it is kind of one-sided. They could be making a lot more money if they made a boy one too, so they don't feel stupid using a pink one.
I remember the smelting one. You could make skull rings and pendants and such.
1:54 PM Mr. Silver
The ancient one I played with was green.
Uuuugly green.
2:00 PM Mr. Silver
"Just like Mom's!"
Lord I'm glad it wasn't...ick.
"Deluxe model $19.95, in lose-your-appetite-probably-toxic-plastic green with faux-wood details!"



Mr. Brown
alshhiemers
3:01 PM Mr. Silver
That's "Alshhiemersh" Mr. Brown.  Alzheimer’s + vodka 
3:01 PM Mr. Brown
LOL
I should should market a drink named that.
3:04 PM Mr. Silver
Yes.
3:05 PM Mr. Brown
When you can say the name right, you're just right!”
3:05 PM Mr. Silver
"After 1, you won't remember anyone at the party.  After 2, you won't remember where you are.  After 3, you won't remember who you are.  Don't have 4."
Too bad I don't go to Pennsic anymore. That sounds like a drink title to make a very successful swamp party out of.
3:07 PM Mr. Brown
Alcohol filtered with more alcohol.
3:07 PM Mr. Silver
Hehe
"Triple filtered through more alcohol for a clean fresh drunk"
3:09 PM Mr. Brown
Screw diamond filtering, and triple distilling; here at Alshhiemersh, we like to take the time to filter our stuff thoroughly through more alcohol.”
3:10 PM Mr. Silver
We'll spell it differently all over the bottle.
3:10 PM Mr. Brown
LOL



Mr. Yellow
You can argue with Thome for eternity.
Thom
10:01 AM Mr. Gray
Tom, even.
10:02 AM Mr. Yellow
Yes, that is what I tried to type.
10:02 AM Mr. Yellow
But my fingers are rebels.
They like to go their own way.
10:02 AM Mr. Gray
We've long ago mastered your mysterious cryptography.
10:03 AM Mr. Yellow
I love when I confuse Spellcheck.
10:04 AM Mr. Silver
"You rebel scum fingers"
10:04 AM Mr. Yellow
Hehe
10:05 AM Mr. Silver
"Soon we'll find the location of your hidden palm."



Mr. Yellow
So I asked about that test I took, and I was in the red.
So I would not make a good fit for the position, but I have no idea if I missed any questions.
The only data we got back from the test is a graph on how good a fit you would be for it.
2:09 PM Mr. Yellow
Could it judge you not a good fit because you could be too smart ? I don’t know, but now I am pissed. I am not mad I was in the red; I just I want to know my score and there is no way to know.
I have an IQ over 130 but lower than Mr. Silver.
I consider myself pretty smart and I really feel I did not miss any of the questions I answered.
2:10 PM Mr. Silver
Heh
2:10 PM Mr. Silver
I reminds me of my test for funding.
I missed a point on something and wondered what it was.
I kept asking about it and was sent to different people.
I finally found out I'd scored so high the tester was too intimidated to talk to me and was hiding. I felt bad when she finally came out...almost hugged her.
2:12 PM Mr. Gray
LMAO
2:14 PM Mr. Silver
I know what my IQ supposedly is. Depending on the day, I feel like I've about lost half.
But yes, you could have done too well to pass. It happened to my dad.
The military had him in for recruitment and they sent him home.
2:16 PM Mr. Gray
LOL
2:17 PM Mr. Silver
They said something like "We need people like you at home, figuring stuff out."
2:18 PM Mr. Gray
"Sorry, you are too smart for the military. You'll realize everything we're sending you to do is stupid and pointless and it will cause morale issues when you point it out to the sergeant and other soldiers."
2:19 PM Mr. Silver
Probably. :-)



Mr. Gray
See....that’s what I like about a well-crafted game plot. It fills in the gaps and makes back-story better.
Like, what if it ends up being Mr. Yellow's character, later on, who was working with Bothans to smuggle the plans to the Corellian ship Vader captures Leia on? Things like that where the player gets to say "Yeah...I made that happen *giggle*"
11:53 AM Mr. Silver
My Jedi is going to survive Order 66 and be the guy that told Red Leader to let that bumpkin cropduster, Luke Skywalker, have an X-Wing and take the last run at the Death Star.
"That untrained kid who just showed up? Are you insane?"
11:53 AM Mr. Gray
LOL
I could see that!
11:53 AM Mr. Silver
"Fortunately not.  (waves hand) You will let him have a fighter and take a run if you fail."
"I will."
11:53 AM Mr. Gray
LMAO
11:54 AM Mr. Silver
Later "Are you sure you can handle this thing kid?  Wellll...Ok...I have a feeling about you..."
11:54 AM Mr. Gray
LOL Exactly!
11:58 AM Mr. Silver
Giving him an X-Wing was utter madness...someone there looked at him and knew.
11:58 AM Mr. Gray
Someone had too.
"Have any starfighter experience, kid?”
Well, I drove a land speeder on Tattooine...and flew T-16s in Beggar's Canyon there."
"Yeah....well, how about you just drive that speeder loaded with ordinance to each of the teams in the hanger bay and let the fighter pilots do the easy stuff this time, okay?"
12:01 PM Mr. Silver
"We call this the Mx35-T 'broom'. See you after the battle, farm boy."
12:01 PM Mr. Gray
LMAO



12:02 PM Mr. Blue
12:05 PM Mr. Silver
Those are quite fantastic names!
I initially thought they were supposed to be net handles.
Taco Bell's "B.M. Monster" burrito not a new invention, unfortunately...I've eaten a few of them over the years.
Had to make the ol' “run for the border” not long after dinner.
12:07 PM Mr. Blue
"Paging Doctor Monster.. Doctor Taco B.M. Monster to surgery."
12:13 PM Mr. Silver
(Peeking head in door, receptionist looks up) "Uh...I was given this suite number for the specialist?  Is this?"
(Receptionist) "This is right...come on in."
"It's just...the name..."
"Oh I know! It happens all the time.  Have a seat.  You have your insurance card and the forms we sent?  Good."
"Heh...Taco Monster."
"Hehe...yeah...anyway.  Chips and salsa while you wait?"
"Huh?"
"Today's margarita special is mango." 
12:50 PM Mr. Blue
Heheh



Mr. Silver
I think run-of-the-mill anti-tax anti-government dorks are rather clueless about how small they are compared to these barons they are protecting from “evil un-American taxes”.
2:57 PM Mr. Silver
A rough example:
Suppose I have, oh, $10 million in the bank.
2:57 PM Mr. Silver
And I make a modest $300000 a year, just from my job salary...we'll ignore the investments, and benefits and freebies and bonuses and such. Raw salary.
2:57 PM Mr. Silver
And then, in claiming the need to save the country from disaster, the evil government sets my tax bracket at a flat 75%!
Horrors!!!
I'd have a mere $75,000 left over from my salary after taxes!!! That's only $25000 dollars more than the median household income of the USA...before taxes of course...
That would give me only $10,075,000 to live on! (Not counting the investments, and benefits and freebies and bonuses and such.)
2:58 PM Mr. Brown
Yeah. People are acting like taxing the rich will make things worse.
2:58 PM Mr. Silver
Yyyyyeeeaaaahhhhhhh...
2:58 PM Mr. Blue
Because the rich are threatening to take it out on employees.
Well, trickle down obviously didn't work, so I don't see the difference in either excuse they give for screwing people.
2:59 PM Mr. Silver
That's the other fraud. Here's some more oversimplified math to show the lie:
Say my business I'm an executive for (or even own) posted a profit of $150 million this year.
And I personally take a salary of $300000 as stated...and that's a business expense just like all the other employee pay is.
Make no mistake - even with me getting paid the posted salary, plus all the extras and expense accounts and perks and such, the business is $150 million in the black.
And then my taxes go up!
Guess what?
The business still made $150 million.
So an executive/owner threatening to take it out on employees over personal income taxes is just that person being a callous bastard in order to extort compliance from politicians to keep more money he doesn't need, now, instead of contributing to the survival of the USA.  
Which, incidentally, would lift the USA out of the crapper and make him more money in the long run. 
3:01 PM Mr. Brown
Yes, exactly.

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