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New Dwarf Planet Discovered Far Beyond Pluto's Orbit
space.com ^ | 07/11/2016

Posted on 07/12/2016 8:03:24 AM PDT by BenLurkin

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To: Monkey Face

Good for you! I was feeding the dragons.


1,301 posted on 08/02/2016 4:57:01 AM PDT by Tax-chick (The coming of a Cthulhu presidency will be heralded by a worldwide wave of madness.)
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To: Monkey Face

Inarguable, when you put it that way.


1,302 posted on 08/02/2016 4:58:19 AM PDT by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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To: NicknamedBob

There is no “inarguable”: there is only a failure of the desire to argue. I wish that would happen in my house more often.


1,303 posted on 08/02/2016 5:06:33 AM PDT by Tax-chick (The coming of a Cthulhu presidency will be heralded by a worldwide wave of madness.)
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To: Tax-chick; Monkey Face

Okay, go ahead and argue with her about taking the 1300 post.

Much good may it do you. (That’s a line I read in a version of “Pinocchio”. Gepetto came across his neighbor lying on the floor. “What are you doing?” — “I’m teaching the alphabet to the ants.” — “Much good may it do you.”)


1,304 posted on 08/02/2016 5:35:51 AM PDT by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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To: NicknamedBob

Nah, if I felt like arguing, I could needle Bill the Son some more.


1,305 posted on 08/02/2016 5:38:17 AM PDT by Tax-chick (The coming of a Cthulhu presidency will be heralded by a worldwide wave of madness.)
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To: Tax-chick; NicknamedBob; moose07; All

Welp. My trip to Wally’s was — umm — interesting. At the hour I go through the checkouts, there is usually only one person doing it. Today, I got a gal who was “surly” to be kind, and “snarly” to be accurate.

She didn’t know how to use the SNAP card app so I couldn’t use my $16, then didn’t know how to put $15 on a gift card, and then told me I couldn’t get postage stamps until 0700 when Customer Service opened.

I was in luck...there was another register open, and the manager was behind the clerk. They couldn’t do anything about my SNAP balance, but money was put on the gift card (now my grandson can eat a little more) and the postage stamps were found in another register.

The second clerk said, “We’ve been having trouble with her all night!”

As long as I stood around waiting for the first clerk to fumble her way through not doing anything, the cheesecake began to thaw. So I just stuck it in the fridge.

I got two book boxes and a tub, and will get two more boxes and another tub the next time I go.

(Is this the Second Monday of this week?)

[I suspect said clerk will have to be “re-trained, which could include firing, if this is a chronic behavior.]


1,306 posted on 08/02/2016 6:28:26 AM PDT by Monkey Face ( Carry a knife with you in case there is cheesecake or you meet someone who needs to be stabbed.)
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To: Monkey Face; Darksheare; null and void; Tax-chick; moose07; NoCmpromiz; NicknamedBob; ArGee
Trip?

Dammit!....Don't trip this breaker!

1,307 posted on 08/02/2016 7:32:22 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

LOL! The one that runs my stove and microwave could use that.


1,308 posted on 08/02/2016 7:34:01 AM PDT by Tax-chick (The coming of a Cthulhu presidency will be heralded by a worldwide wave of madness.)
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To: Monkey Face

I lost 2.4 lbs. this week, leaving me only .8 to goal, but 5.8 until I’m officially Thin.


1,309 posted on 08/02/2016 7:48:37 AM PDT by Tax-chick (The coming of a Cthulhu presidency will be heralded by a worldwide wave of madness.)
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To: Tax-chick

I’m afraid to get Officially Thin. My skin would sag and bag and the wrinkles would rule. I can lose another 20, but the goal is 15 more. Then I will be happy.

Although, I suspect, once I’m out from under this strain, I will lose more weight and my BP will drop another 20 points...

I just hooked up both TVs to the little Box That Does Nothing, just because I don’t subscribe to more than the “Lower Tier” of programming. GAH! It’s “free” for two years, and then I will have to pay $2.99 each, per month, after that. AND (thankyouverymuch) I now have to use TWO remotes for each TV.

Get me OUTTA here!


1,310 posted on 08/02/2016 8:38:42 AM PDT by Monkey Face ( Carry a knife with you in case there is cheesecake or you meet someone who needs to be stabbed.)
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To: Monkey Face; Tax-chick

Good morning - er - afternoon.

Did I miss anything?


1,311 posted on 08/02/2016 10:18:59 AM PDT by ArGee (This I know will always be true. Men. Don't. Have. Babies.)
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To: ArGee; Monkey Face

After lunch, I took the Offspring to Hobby Lobby, Ollie’s Clearance Barn, Stein Mart, and Walmart. We bought several useful things, including a car emergency kit for Bill the Son. Tom the Other Son isn’t back from his campout yet, so I guess they’re having fun.


1,312 posted on 08/02/2016 11:10:08 AM PDT by Tax-chick (The coming of a Cthulhu presidency will be heralded by a worldwide wave of madness.)
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To: Tax-chick

I keep wanting to get a car emergency kit, but there is always something I seem to need more.

And a “bug-out bucket” just-in-case. But they are both on the bottom of the list...

Charlie was the only one out today, so we sat and talked. I gave him a copy of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, since I always keep an extra copy for just that reason. He was happy with it! Now I will have to order more. I don’t like to be without extra copies.


1,313 posted on 08/02/2016 11:33:07 AM PDT by Monkey Face ( Carry a knife with you in case there is cheesecake or you meet someone who needs to be stabbed.)
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To: Monkey Face

You got the Munster post!

Weather thingie says it’s 75 out today and there’s like 0% humidity.

I feel like I’ve fallen into an alternate universe. This is not NYC August weather.

Yes, that 75 is in Fs, not Cs.


1,314 posted on 08/02/2016 11:51:10 AM PDT by ArGee (This I know will always be true. Men. Don't. Have. Babies.)
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To: Covenantor

Self propelled Kittie Carrier. (!)


1,315 posted on 08/02/2016 12:22:16 PM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) The only thing you should do on the Left is Drive.)
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To: Covenantor

If that is required to keep a C rated breaker in the energised position.....take the appropriate steps....Large ones ! :)


1,316 posted on 08/02/2016 12:26:22 PM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) The only thing you should do on the Left is Drive.)
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To: Covenantor

A 3/8 bolt is a perfectly sized replacement for an FRN fuse...

And it’s time lag as well. ;-)


1,317 posted on 08/02/2016 12:41:32 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: ArGee; Tax-chick; moose07

And my day just got much better: I went to heat a small deep dish pizza in my toaster oven according to directions, and burned the doggone thing to a crispy critter.

And then, while I was eating a piece of the cheesecake that tasted so good (with a teaspoon of chocolate sauce on top) my fork slipped and the bite ended in my lap, chocolate side down. But it had to bounce several times before it stopped.

Do I dare do anything else today?


1,318 posted on 08/02/2016 12:42:12 PM PDT by Monkey Face ( Carry a knife with you in case there is cheesecake or you meet someone who needs to be stabbed.)
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To: Monkey Face

I think I’m going to wear welders gloves and face mask when I next put the kettle on to boil....


1,319 posted on 08/02/2016 12:45:01 PM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) The only thing you should do on the Left is Drive.)
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To: moose07
It's probably not contagious, Moosie, but my day started at Walmart. And I will probably have to go back to Wally's to get the mojo off...
1,320 posted on 08/02/2016 12:50:54 PM PDT by Monkey Face ( Carry a knife with you in case there is cheesecake or you meet someone who needs to be stabbed.)
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