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[dday9]

I looked up Moxie and I visited the Wiki page.

[dday9]

It looks... like maybe something I'd pass on :P

[szlamany]

Odd that Polar in Worchester still bottles it - and I've never seen it locally here (an hour or so away from Worchester). Seems they have lots of flavors - were they all tough to swallow?

[Shaggy Hiker]

It looks... like maybe something I'd pass on :P

Of course, it's liquid....oh wait, you said pass ON. Nevermind, then.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Odd that Polar in Worchester still bottles it - and I've never seen it locally here (an hour or so away from Worchester). Seems they have lots of flavors - were they all tough to swallow?

I thought there was only one. I've only seen one.

[szlamany]

I'm going to look at the Polar selection next time I'm at the store - local grocery and chain grocery stores sell Polar here. My wife needs a can of Polar Orange Dry (diet) every night on her nightstand. If I'm the one that suggests we don't need another case when we shop - and then we run out - I really hear about it!

[Shaggy Hiker]

If nightstand is of polar bare,
Then wrath of wife does SZ bear.
So daily polling polar bare,
Or like a polar bear you bear.

[Witis]

Ok, so you don't understand sarcasm, either.

Sure, you have to add a not at the end:

At this point, I have concluded that you are either a fraud (as Niya believes), or 'not all there' in some way.

Don't believe everything Niya writes. As far as me not being here all the time it is because I am working on a number of simultaneous projects so I am a very busy man at the moment.

I've had enough of it, though. So, unless Bambi wants to talk about who they are, I will henceforth simply ignore everything he/she says.

Good luck with that approach but I very much doubt that it will work. =)

[Witis]

Personally, I catch some post but for the most part it goes in one eye and out the other.

At least your eyeballs are getting a work out. =)

[szlamany]

If nightstand is of polar bare,
Then wrath of wife does SZ bear.
So daily polling polar bare,
Or like a polar bear you bear.

Great stuff - you missed your true calling!

[Witis]

I was thinking it could be a "rogue" member - some kind of alias. But I cannot see a pattern with these posts that would allow me to connect it to someone already on the forum.

Lots and lots of time and googling for links - more words then I would ever consider writing in a post!

Are you referring to me szlamany? I am the authentic and original Witis not anyone else and I am certainly not into any sort of intentional roguish behaviour - you must have me confused with somebody on the dark side. :L

[szlamany]

Yes I was - I've not seen much of you posting in other sections of the forum. You are rather verbose here - that's for sure...

[Witis]

Had an interesting meal with an evocative (and rather gross) name: Pakistani old clothes.

It was basically a beef roast slow cooked in a variety of spices for nine hours, then served over rice. Everyone felt that the recipe could have been better, but we didn't all agree on how. My sister felt it was bitter, which wasn't my view on it. My view was a bit hard to put into words, so I didn't, at the time. It was roughly that the flavor didn't last. Within seconds of taking a bite, I could barely remember what it had tasted like. Some of the spice tastes lingered, but most of the flavor just ended abruptly. It was pretty odd, so I wasn't sure what to add that would make it last.

What about artificial lab meat would you eat that instead of murdering the cows?

[Shaggy Hiker]

I couldn't think of a pun about polar bears, so I had to come up with a little rhyme.

[Gruff]

Me neither.

If not nightly polarized
Peaceful slumber be vaporized
Like polar nodes opposed
polar bound I am disposed

[szlamany]

My wife was impressed - up to now I was to only one writing her poems.

[Witis]

Yes I was - I've not seen much of you posting in other sections of the forum. You are rather verbose here - that's for sure...

That is true at the moment I like the hit cat.

[Witis]

Presenting, the Queen of the Bears:

[Shaggy Hiker]

Good thing I didn't say anything naughty. Seems like there ought to be some punctuation in there to make it grammatical, but I think that would actually be wrong.

[Witis]

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[Niya]

Ok, so you don't understand sarcasm, either.

At this point, I have concluded that you are either a fraud (as Niya believes), or 'not all there' in some way. I've had enough of it, though. So, unless Bambi wants to talk about who they are, I will henceforth simply ignore everything he/she says.

Not so much a fraud as a troll. Frauds are usually looking for some kind of tangible advantage but trolls are just looking for entertainment.

[Witis]

Not so much a fraud as a troll. Frauds are usually looking for some kind of tangible advantage but trolls are just looking for entertainment.

I actually prefer to shoot fish rather than troll for them.
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[Shaggy Hiker]

Not so much a fraud as a troll. Frauds are usually looking for some kind of tangible advantage but trolls are just looking for entertainment.

Well, I wasn't thinking of a con. When it comes to frauds, they are seeking some kind of tangible advantage, but the average observer may never understand what advantage the fraud is seeking. We generally think of monetary advantage, but there are lots of frauds where it just isn't clear what the point is.

I had a con artist working for me one summer. She was a great worker when she was around, but she kept ducking out mid-week because of a son who had been hit by a drunk driver and was in critical condition. Eventually, she got word that he wasn't going to live through the day, by which time everybody else on the crew (mostly older women with kids of their own) were quite upset for her. They gave her a couple hundred bucks, which she tried very very hard to refuse, and she left. Later on, we found out that all her kids were fine and pretty nearly everything she had told us was a lie. She also had a couple arrest warrants out for other scams. The thing is: She tried as hard as she plausibly could to refuse any money, and only took it when the other crew members really gave her no choice. She clearly wasn't after money (and why would she be, considering how dry that well was?), so what was the whole fraud about? We speculated that we were actually being set up as an alibi for some kind of insurance scam that she was running, or something like that, but she vanished and nobody ever found out what the plan was. It may have been as simple as that she didn't want to work more than three days a week and just wanted an excuse for a series of four day weekends. Who knows.

[dday9]

Here's a video of my son listening to his great-grandfather play J'ai Passe Devant Ta Porte:

[Shaggy Hiker]

And thinking...."d'accordian"

[Witis]

Well, I wasn't thinking of a con. When it comes to frauds, they are seeking some kind of tangible advantage, but the average observer may never understand what advantage the fraud is seeking. We generally think of monetary advantage, but there are lots of frauds where it just isn't clear what the point is.

I had a con artist working for me one summer. She was a great worker when she was around, but she kept ducking out mid-week because of a son who had been hit by a drunk driver and was in critical condition. Eventually, she got word that he wasn't going to live through the day, by which time everybody else on the crew (mostly older women with kids of their own) were quite upset for her. They gave her a couple hundred bucks, which she tried very very hard to refuse, and she left. Later on, we found out that all her kids were fine and pretty nearly everything she had told us was a lie. She also had a couple arrest warrants out for other scams. The thing is: She tried as hard as she plausibly could to refuse any money, and only took it when the other crew members really gave her no choice. She clearly wasn't after money (and why would she be, considering how dry that well was?), so what was the whole fraud about? We speculated that we were actually being set up as an alibi for some kind of insurance scam that she was running, or something like that, but she vanished and nobody ever found out what the plan was. It may have been as simple as that she didn't want to work more than three days a week and just wanted an excuse for a series of four day weekends. Who knows.

Huh? Niya said he thought I was trolling not conning you Sharky. I maintain that I prefer to shoot fish rather than use lures including flies or baits as there is something really icky about using them.

[FunkyDexter]

I prefer to shoot fish

in a barrel, presumably.

[homer13j]

Here's a video of my son listening to his great-grandfather play J'ai Passe Devant Ta Porte:

What's the difference between an accordion and an onion?

Nobody cries when you cut up an accordion.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I was going to make some derogatory comment about the accordian, since making fun of them is something of a sport, but I work with a guy who plays accordian and is pretty good. So, I passed on the obvious response.

[Witis]

in a barrel, presumably.

In the ocean, in a river or stream, in a barrel, and sometimes even in swimming pools. In the case of big fish that don't surface very often I have to get in the water and hunt them using a speargun with the fishing line tied to a float on the surface which can be quite a rush and very entertaining. =)

[Witis]

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Nuke the beast =)

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