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Archive through December 23, 2007

The TVClubHouse: General Discussions ARCHIVES: Oct. 2007 ~ Dec. 2007: The only Dumb question is the one not asked (Q&A): Archive through December 23, 2007 users admin

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Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Friday, December 21, 2007 - 12:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
That's it!!! Thank you both so much!!!

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Friday, December 21, 2007 - 12:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
Ooo, snap!

You're welcome, Twinkie.

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Friday, December 21, 2007 - 3:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunshyne4u a private message Print Post    
I beat ya I beat ya (by two mins!)

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Friday, December 21, 2007 - 8:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
NEW ?

Can anyone help me with wording for a home-made gift certificate?

My mom gets her hair cut from a lady at this lady's house. For a Christmas gift, I arranged that I will pay the lady ahead of time for a cut and color.

I will give my mom this certificate for part of her Christmas present. I'd like to make it look "official" if I can. Any ideas of wording? TIA!!!


Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Friday, December 21, 2007 - 10:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
I'll let somebody else help with the wording, but you can probably go to microsoft.com and download a gift certificate or award template that you can use in Word to make it look "Official." Or Microsoft's template might even have wording on it that you like.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Friday, December 21, 2007 - 10:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Cool idea Juju! ALso thanks for directing me to Whole Foods, cuz you were so right. I could not find that chipolte rasp. sauce anywhere!

Serate
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08-21-2001

Friday, December 21, 2007 - 2:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Sunshyne what is "Hydro"?

Dad went by the cop shop but they had already given the police report to Barney Fife and he's supposed to deliver it to them. So they STILL don't know names or numbers or anything. It was listed in the paper as John Smith and a 15 year old were charged with wreckless driving and operating a vehicle w/o owner's permission. John Smith's name doesn't match the phone number on the car [the car had a For Sale sign in it] so we are assuming the minor was the child of the car owner. So the car was "operated w/o owners permission" not stolen. So if the perps aren't related or living with the car owner we might have a fight on our hands to get their insurance to pay.

And even tho I had told them NOT to use their home owner's insurance from the minute he called me, they finally decided NOT to use it when a friend of my brother's told them not to. Of course I don't know anything. [I told them even if the car insurance didn't pay not to use the homeowners. They have a $1000.00 deductable, and their home should be declared inhabitable and if the insurance comes out and sees that they will drop them immediately and there is no way any other insurance will cover them for any amount of fee.]

Chiliwilli
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09-04-2006

Friday, December 21, 2007 - 2:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chiliwilli a private message Print Post    
Isn't "operated without owner's permission" the same thing as stealing? IMO the perps are not Dad's concern right now. The car owner is liable, even if his car was stolen or "borrowed," and his insurance should pay damages.

Do you mean uninhabitable?

If I were him I would pay damages and then take the car owner and the perpetrators to small claims if the insurance won't pay. Tell him to keep good notes; i.e., date/time of calls, who talked to, what was discussed, etc. and copies of any paperwork no matter how trivial.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Friday, December 21, 2007 - 3:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Serate, because it was a vehicle accident, the owner of the car (who should have insurance) is liable for the property damage. I would, however, contact the agency for the homeowner's insurance just to let them know, not that you want to file a claim yet. Do so only if the vehicle's insurance company gets cranky.

Jedisan
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01-11-2002

Friday, December 21, 2007 - 6:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jedisan a private message Print Post    

ITA w/ Costa. Dad should alert his own homeowners insurance about this - just as a precaution.
They will actually go to bat for him in this matter if it gets ugly. However, if they are NOT notified, some of the insured's rights are forfeited. The rates will not go up on the homeowner if they are not negligent (that is unethical in insurance), but as Sunshyne points out - they may freeze the deductible if it is on the higher end. However, they can also offer to pay the damages for Dad immediately (making him 'whole' again), and then subrogate against the perp's auto carrier. If it were me, I would notify my carrier immediately, again, as a precaution for a future mess.
Good luck.

Serate
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08-21-2001

Friday, December 21, 2007 - 7:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Yes Chili UNinhabitable. According to insurance standards. That's why I feel they should in no way contact their homeowners insurance. The only thing Dad will repair if insurance doesn't cover is re attaching the electric meter. Maybe buy a grill next spring but we might just give them ours.

Costa if the car had been reported stolen before the accident then the car owners and their insurance would not be responsible for any damages. [Been there done that at a place I rented one time. Luckily for me the only damage was to the house I was renting, nothing of mine.] It just gets tricky now if the car owners have no connections to the perps.

Jedi in my dad's case the rates would go up - or they would drop him - because of the condition of his house. Sucks cuz he's had the same house insurance for 40+ years and no claims.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Friday, December 21, 2007 - 8:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Sorry, Serate, I missed the part about the car being stolen (or possibility thereof). At any rate, I think you answered your own question. If your dad isn't gonna bother to repair anything, if you can't get anything from the vehicle's insurer, then don't your dad's insurer. I dunno where you live but I don't think his insurance can be cancelled over something that he didn't do. It'd be akin to people here getting insurance cancelled because their house burned down in October. There ARE certain legalities that the insurance companies have to abide by. (I'm also not so sure they can raise his rates, it depends on the risk if this could occur again. Rates tend to go up when insurers pay due to the insured's fault, not due to no fault of the insured. Of course, California may be different.)

Serate
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08-21-2001

Friday, December 21, 2007 - 8:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
With input from in here, and a few friends, we talked him out of calling his home owners insurance. But when I posted the original question they were going to call the HO insurance due to the fact the Deputy Sheriff told them that's how it should be handled.

I really do appreciate all the input! Thanks so much!

Y2krazy
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09-17-2002

Friday, December 21, 2007 - 9:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Y2krazy a private message Print Post    
Serate, hydro is electricity, in Canada.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Friday, December 21, 2007 - 10:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Serate, if you saw the huge hydro plant in Niagara Falls you'd get it right away. I didn't know until I moved up here so don't feel like the Lone Ranger. LOL

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Saturday, December 22, 2007 - 10:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Doesn't hydro GENERATE electricity? Electricity being the output.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Saturday, December 22, 2007 - 11:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Costa, makes sense to me.

I learned from watching a lot of British tv sitcoms that electric power/equipment/wiring is called 'the electrics'. I guess it doesn't matter what it is called as long as we keep our finger out of the sockets.

Y2krazy
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09-17-2002

Saturday, December 22, 2007 - 11:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Y2krazy a private message Print Post    
I don't know the answer to that Costacat, you're very likely correct. I just know that people come into my bank wanting to pay their "hydro bill" and it is their electric and water bill that is presented.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Saturday, December 22, 2007 - 12:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
The electric produced is called "hydroelectric power", so I'm guessing people who have it a lot just shorten it to "hydro".

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Saturday, December 22, 2007 - 1:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Hydro = water. So hydroelectricity is electricity produced via water movement / power.

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Saturday, December 22, 2007 - 2:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunshyne4u a private message Print Post    
You guys are cracking me up. Sorry for the confusion. My province is BC. The name of the power company BC -HYDRO. Most of the power is from Dams and generators.

Water bill isnt part of the power bill. We get taxed on that Twice, once part of Property tax and then another couple of hundred due to Municipality Tax.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Saturday, December 22, 2007 - 3:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
That's why Niagara Falls is a huge source of electricity through it's power plant near the falls.

Serate
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08-21-2001

Saturday, December 22, 2007 - 4:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Thanks. I figured Hydro was to do with water, but didn't connect it to any of the damage. We get our electricity from coal. There are also some places here in Iowa that get their power from wind, then coal as needed. Not sure if anywhere here gets power from water.

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Sunday, December 23, 2007 - 2:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunshyne4u a private message Print Post    
thats okay, I was getting the feeling that no one knew what I meant.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Sunday, December 23, 2007 - 9:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
What do the lyrics mean in the song "Walk the Dinosaur" by Was not was?

(My 8 yr old bugs me all the time about it!! I have a CD of 80s songs that we listen to)


Was Not Was Lyrics
Walk The Dinosaur Lyrics

Boom boom acka-lacka-lacka boom

boom boom acka-lacko boom boom

Boom boom acka-lacka-lacka boom

boom boom acka-lacka boom boom


It was a night like this
fourty million years ago

I lit a cigarette
picked up a monkey
start to go.
The sun was spitting fire
the sky was blue as ice

I felt a little tired so I watched "Miami Vice".

I walked a dinosaur
I walked a dinosaur!
Open the door
get on the floor
everybody walk the dinosaur.
Open the door
get on the floor
everybody walk the dinosaur.
Open the door
get on the floor
everybody walk the dinosaur.
Open the door
get on the floor
everybody walk the dinosaur.

Boom boom acka-lacka-lacka boom

boom boom acka-lacka boom boom
. . .

I met you in a cave
you were painting Buffalo

I said I'd be your slave
follow wherever you go.
That night we split a rattlesnake and danced beneath the stars

You fell asleep
I stayed awake and watched the passing cars.

I walked a dinosaur
I walked a dinosaur! . . .

A shadow from the sky
much too big to be a bird

A screaming
crashing noise
louder than I've ever heard.
It looked like two big silver trees
that somehow learned to soar

Suddenly a summer breeze and a mighty lion's roar.

I killed a dinosaur
I killed a dinosaur!
Open the door
get on the floor
everybody kill the dinosaur.
Open the door
get on the floor
everybody kill the dinosaur.
Open the door
get on the floor
everybody kill the dinosaur.
Open the door
get on the floor
everybody kill the dinosaur.
Open the door
get on the floor
everybody kill the dinosaur.

Boom boom acka-lacka-lacka boom

boom boom acka-lacka boom boom
. . .
Boom boom acko-locka-lacka boom

boom boom acka-lacko boom boom
. . .


The main thing he wants to know is why are they saying "everybody kill the dinosaur"??