Archive through July 04, 2001
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Archive through July 04, 2001
Gail | Monday, June 25, 2001 - 06:05 pm   Maybe the teacher should go up to the parent in both cases and say (tactfully) "Your child doesn't appear to be having fun. Would you like us to refund your money so she could attend at a later date when she is more ready?" |
Zeb | Monday, June 25, 2001 - 06:46 pm   My gripe for the week is the poor excuse for a human being and mother who drowned her kids in the bathtub in Houston. It redefines the word "crazy" as it would be used here. |
Misslibra | Tuesday, June 26, 2001 - 02:39 am   Zeb, she has a very serious depression problem. But I must admit after hearing she chased down her oldest son after he confronted her and drowned him as well, I can only imagine the terror in the poor child when your own mother has killed your siblings, and is now chasing you down like a animal to kill you. It piss me off as well. But the woman is seriously sick no doubt about that! It's a sad sad situation.  |
Grooch | Wednesday, June 27, 2001 - 01:41 pm   Grumble, Grumble, Grumble The tv store came and picked up the tv yesterday. I was watching it the other day and it turned itself to standby position and I couldn't turn it back on. We got the call from the estimate from the repairman. $350.00. He said a power surge must have come through (it is plugged into a surge protector) and it damaged 2 different components in it. Last year we had replaced the motherboard because it had rusted apart (a common thing in Fl w/ the humidity they say.) Grumble Grumble Grumble |
Rogue | Wednesday, June 27, 2001 - 01:55 pm   Grooch, I'm right there w/ya. My 31" went out 2 weeks ago and I just got a phone call today of what was wrong, both the diode and transister. I wasn't to angry about the $97, but was angry it took so long for them to figure it out. How about we go shake a stick at some screaming kids? LOL! |
Grooch | Wednesday, June 27, 2001 - 01:56 pm   I don't know any screaming kids, Rogue. All the kids I know are perfectly well behaved children with good manners. |
Rogue | Wednesday, June 27, 2001 - 02:00 pm   Want mine? hehehe JK |
Moondance | Wednesday, June 27, 2001 - 02:07 pm   Hey G... my 36" blew out last week ... the good news though, when the repair man came the other day he opened it up ... cleaned it, put it back together and told me to keep the kitties off of it then proceeded to charge me a can of diet coke ... nicest repair man ever! It wasn't under warranty but the he came from the store I bought it from... Best Buy |
Rogue | Wednesday, June 27, 2001 - 02:30 pm   That's cool, Moon! Wish I had bought mine at Best Buy, sigh... |
Wink | Wednesday, June 27, 2001 - 02:51 pm   Geez what some guys will do for a diet coke. |
Rogue | Wednesday, June 27, 2001 - 03:05 pm   LOL, Wink! |
Gail | Wednesday, June 27, 2001 - 05:37 pm   That's cool Moon! Glad it worked out so well for you. |
Merlin | Wednesday, June 27, 2001 - 05:38 pm   What was Moon wearing? |
Dilligaf | Wednesday, June 27, 2001 - 05:42 pm   Wandman, get your butt in chat! I want to chat with you!! |
Moondance | Wednesday, June 27, 2001 - 05:56 pm   I was wearing what I wear when I post on the board... |
Juju2bigdog | Wednesday, June 27, 2001 - 08:03 pm   Here's something to make y'all feel better. While we were in Australia, Cousin Chairfree's Danish vcr went out. He got a repair estimate of $800. (electronic stuff costs a lot in Oz, but we sure thought that was ridiculous) |
Tess | Wednesday, June 27, 2001 - 11:48 pm   Well, our tv went out last year after a thunderstorm. Lightning nearby burnt out part of the circuit board thingy in the back. I thought we would get a new tv... Did we??? NO--my husband took the dang thing apart and rerouted the circuits, put it back together and turned it back on. He's a handy guy, but I really wanted a new tv. |
Misslibra | Thursday, June 28, 2001 - 12:11 am   JuJu, $800.00 Wow ! How much are the VCR's over there?? Tess, LOL well why didn't you just say to him, honey, while giving him a nice back massage, and then work your way on down to his feet, we could really use a new TV, and I was thinking that we could go and pick out one of those very nice large screen TV's. (you know we can get real sweet when we want something) Tess do you think that would work? LOL I don't have anything to gripe about today, isn't that special!  |
Gail | Thursday, June 28, 2001 - 03:35 am   Tess, a handy hubby is worth his weight in gold!! I bet having him around makes you feel nice and secure? |
Juju2bigdog | Thursday, June 28, 2001 - 08:36 am   MissLibra, the cousins originally paid $10,000 for the television and vcr combo. Isn't that astonishing?
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Tess | Thursday, June 28, 2001 - 10:27 am   I guess I forgot to mention---we did actually get a new TV this year--completely unrelated to the lightning incident and not to replace the one he rewired. LOL--yes he is very handy and I could probably talk him into just about anything if I had a mind to. Fortunately, for him, I'm not usually in that mindset! $10,000 for a TV/VCR combo blows me away. Our's was less than 250.00 when we bought it last year for Sarah. Amazing! |
Bijoux | Thursday, June 28, 2001 - 12:04 pm   Was the $10,000 US or Australian dollars? |
Misslibra | Thursday, June 28, 2001 - 12:07 pm   JuJu, you have got to be kidding me! Tess, LOL  |
Zeb | Thursday, June 28, 2001 - 12:19 pm   For way less than $10,000, they could have flown to the US, bought a TV and VCR and shipped it back to OZ. Better yet, they could have mail ordered it or went to buy.com |
Max | Wednesday, July 04, 2001 - 02:51 pm   Okay, not really a grouch, more like a pet peeve, but here goes. There's a commercial running on local TV stations to encourage kids to read during the summer. Now, I'm all for that! Unfortunately, the commercial repeats over and over again "Get to the liBERRY," "I'm going to the liBERRY," and other similar phrases. I keep wanting to scream at the screen, "It's the liBRary, not the liBERRY!" Geez, if you're trying to get kids to be literate, you should also be teaching them pronunciation, don't ya think?
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