Jazzmoose

Well...you know those "old fashioned" things that everyone hates? Those are the ones I like. With no glaze or sugar, please. What I want to know is this: is there anyone out there that goes gaga over the doughnuts with the sprinkles, or are they the last thing in the box everywhere?

Doesn't this belong on the political thread? Sorry; couldn't resist... Anyway congrats to Charlie! And to the parental units!!

If I ever make it to Canada again, I've got to check out this "Tim Hortons"...I've heard some of our northern neighbors speak of it like it's a holy shrine or something! But someone needs to straighten them out on this bacon thing....

Help! My account's been hacked!! I couldn't have posted that!

Hey, he's an engineering student. If it gets him laid, I doubt he cares about the sales...

Why am I picturing Jazzshrink's avatar everywhere I look???

Ahhhh....

Shouldn't you change that signature to "jazz quote of the year"?

Put down that sax, my man! You've found a job that pays even less than "jazz musician"; go for it!

Screw the carbs, there's enough sugar and fat in those things to ruin my week! I'll never understand this obsession with carbs, though. Someday, psuedoscience will discover the "calorie" and the fact that there is no magic way to eat an entire grocery store in one sitting and lose weight...

Well, bless him for that one anyway! I cannot STAND that. After all, other than the easily amused that listening to "morning zoo" shows, we are there for the music, after all.

I'm just glad I gave up on baseball before the players started looking like NASCAR drivers. I'll always have my memories.

Well, I didn't know that for a long time, but thanks to careful reading here at this very forum, I already knew that. (Just don't ask me for a link; I don't remember which thread...) What I want to know is, what is this clown doing with his vinyl that it less permanent than CDs? Teaching his dog to catch them?

Let me guess, then he finished them with a little light sanding...

I must admit, I'm looking forward to hearing some of these "older" newer sets (if that makes any sense) that Mosaic has been releasing. Maybe enough to actually pick up a few before they hit "running low" even. Heck, it happened with the Teagarden set, maybe it'll happen again!

I agree; to get that close to Puget Sound without taking a ferry just wouldn't seem right!

Of course, my wife assures me that if they are ever on the stereo when she walks through the door again, I'll be standing in another county... I think...

Exactly. Er....Kenny has a very small "magic wand", you see...

Sorry to hear it, Randy; my sympathies are with you and your family. Sounds like your mother was someone I would have loved to have met!

Withdrawal symptoms...

Jim, that's the way Streetlight in San Jose is set up, and it's perfect. No stress for the customers, no false positives...it's perfect. Of course, it works better for a place that has two registers than one that has thirty like our store. And, Chris...you are correct. I guess that's what gets my goat with these things is that they work so poorly. That and knowing how easy they are for a determined shoplifter to defeat. I could go into any store and walk out with any number of CDs without setting off those stupid things. It's a joke. I applaud those of you who can shrug your shoulders and just chalk it up as another inconvenience of modern life, but I really think something should be done about it. There's got to be a better way...

That was my parents favorite LP by him! No wait; it was called Taproot Manuscript I think. Same one under a different name?

Boy, Dan; it was one thing to admit to the David Essex LP, but now I've got to really embarrass myself! I offer no explanation other than that offered by Nat King Cole..."blame it on my youth"; I was only ten. I actually bought a copy of the Archies' Bangshangalang. I'll be leaving now to live in exile on the Norah Jones board...

One more point, about the security devices themselves. It really has little to do with the skill, or lack thereof, of the employee. This crap simply doesn't work the way it was designed. The damned things are supposed to be deactivated if you get it within three to four inches of the deactivation pad, and sometimes you could beat the goddamned thing to death on the pad, and it still beeps. This is like most drug testing done by employees. Plenty of false positives to catch the innocent, and most who they're trying to catch know how to beat the system...

Well, I'm working in retail now, and at one time worked as security for retail. (As you might guess, nothing irritated me at the time like the term "rent-a-cop". We ain't cops, we have no interest in being cops...but that's another story.) Do you have to stop? No. I usually do, but no, you don't have to. Sometimes I don't, and if I had gone through this as you did, the only thing I would have done differently, knowing what I know, is this: the minute that son of a bitch yelled out "Did you purchase that stuff?" like that, accusing me of theft in public, I would have spun around on my heels and demanded to see his boss. Not the store manager, the head of security, or if he was not on the premises, the store manager. Unless Borders is a lot different than Target, that was a no-no, and in any case was totally uncalled for.