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mr. furley said:
anyone have tips for circumventing newspaper paywalls?

i've tried incognito mode.. doesn't usually work.

i've tried google searching article links and opening the story cache.. works 25% of the time or less.

i'd like to read a couple stories in the local paper on a daily basis but not willing to spend the $13 a month for online access/home delivery. the sports section is typically about 6 pages and that's 50% of the total volume that isn't advertising. hard pass at that cost.
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Just pay and support local news.  Before you know it they’ll all be bought out and we’ll be getting our news from one source.  We’re already well on our way. 

 
mr. furley said:
anyone have tips for circumventing newspaper paywalls?

i've tried incognito mode.. doesn't usually work.

i've tried google searching article links and opening the story cache.. works 25% of the time or less.

i'd like to read a couple stories in the local paper on a daily basis but not willing to spend the $13 a month for online access/home delivery. the sports section is typically about 6 pages and that's 50% of the total volume that isn't advertising. hard pass at that cost.
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In some cases, the paywall goes away if you whitelist the site on your adblocker.   Washington Post is like that.   It gives you a choice of disabling your adblocker or buying a subscription.    

 
I am in continuing education hell. I have to swallow about 10 hours of webinars this week, so that my employer and my professional organization will be satiated by the end of the month. Of course, I'm still doing two jobs through the end of the month too. Not enough cabbage in the world....

 
kevzilla said:
I am in continuing education hell. I have to swallow about 10 hours of webinars this week, so that my employer and my professional organization will be satiated by the end of the month. Of course, I'm still doing two jobs through the end of the month too. Not enough cabbage in the world....
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Why two jobs?  Just a usual work "promotion" where you get more responsibility but not much more money?

 
krista4 said:
Why two jobs?  Just a usual work "promotion" where you get more responsibility but not much more money?
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Our main surgical coder took the second half of November off to take his family to South Africa, where his parents still live. I have to complete his job functions as well as my own. So far, I have not been offered overtime. I also 'volunteered' to work a full day on Sat 11/30, as long as I could keep Black Friday.

 
I graduated from high school a little over 25 years ago. 

A couple years later, something happened which has haunted me - not much, but a little - ever since. 

One of my college roommates and I had been arguing about something.  I have no idea what, and it wasn't anything serious, but we were kind of on the outs. 

Then he came home one day and was absolutely ecstatic.  A girl he knew was in playboy. Not the centerfold, but not a special edition either.  The actual playboy magazine. Girls of the ACC or SEC or Big Ten or something like that.  

He proudly showed us all and said I know her. And it was clearly a huge moment to him.  

And there, in the same photoshoot, of the same magazine, was a name and a face that I recognized.  I wasn't 100 percent sure how i knew her, but i definitely knew her. Maybe from high school. 

So here's my roommate, already upset with me, showing off one of the most exciting things that had happened to him in his young life, and I'm like hey I know a girl in there too i think.  I couldn't just let him have his moment.  But it really was my moment too. I was pretty sure anyways.  

Tonight i happened to remember who it was. Just a random word association. But i looked her up IRL, and it was definitely her. And i looked up that issue, and it was just as certainly her.  FWIW, searching her name alone didn't find it - so I doubt it's come back to haunt her. And i found her name, not her picture.  I probably could find her picture but I wasn't really creeping on her, I'd thought of it before and I was pretty sure but I'm unexpectedly happy to close the loop.  

 
I'm sure I told my Playboy centerfold story before...older sister of HS classmate. He had the big blowout graduation party with everclear punch and a swimming pool...music blasting, everybody hammered, getting pushed into the pool, etc...like a cheesey 80s movie. Then...and I could be misremembering...but the needle scratched to a halt music stopped and everything got quiet while the older sister wordlessly walked out of the house in a too small bikini straight to the diving board- perfect splashless dive in, and then out of the pool (tossing wet hair back in slowmotion) and wordlessly back into the house. Every guy there was staring slackjawed...like a cheesey 80s movie...and then...the record skidded back on and it was back to the drunken mayhem.

A few months later, my idiot college roommate from Wisconsin who never left the dorm room to even dip his toes in NYC and who only had one friend...back in WI who would sign each other up for idiotic magazines as a joke for one issue before cancelling. One of them was Playboy...and it just so happened to be that girl's issue...and Vanna White. I read the articles.

 
-fish- said:
I impregnated a penthouse pet of the year.  

Actually actually true.   

Suck it, Fred.
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:hifive:   

in the late 80's, early 90's, i was involved in a thursday night, "legs contest".  it was initially held in a club, under the beverly center.  eventually, the beverly center, asked us, to not do that promotion anymore.  it was too profitable to quit, so we moved it to a ridiculous theater, on wilshire.  the "talent" was straight out of the various magazines of ill repute.  i have some pics buried somewhere.  one of which, is me. hammered, on stage, with the penthouse, pet of the year. @shuke   i'll try and find them.  @-fish-  i wasn't dumb enough, to impregnate any of them. ;)   maybe we're eskimo brothers!! 

 
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What struck me most was how all sound and motion froze in those moments she went to the pool and back...and then instantly clicked back on. 

And as far as I know, nobody got impregnated...other than the watermelon with everclear.

 
Gaskets tight & farkles shiny by the time she left. I hated when she moved north to be close to her sons in stir, my muy bonita Latina chubby mature

 
DA RAIDERS said:
I impregnated a penthouse pet of the year.  

Actually actually true.   

Suck it, Fred.
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DA RAIDERS said:
:hifive:   

in the late 80's, early 90's, i was involved in a thursday night, "legs contest".  it was initially held in a club, under the beverly center.  eventually, the beverly center, asked us, to not do that promotion anymore.  it was too profitable to quit, so we moved it to a ridiculous theater, on wilshire.  the "talent" was straight out of the various magazines of ill repute.  i have some pics buried somewhere.  one of which, is me. hammered, on stage, with the penthouse, pet of the year. @shuke   i'll try and find them.  @-fish-  i wasn't dumb enough, to impregnate any of them. ;)   maybe we're eskimo brothers!! 
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Lemme know if you guys need any tips on how NOT to impregnate a female.  

 
El Floppo said:
I'm sure I told my Playboy centerfold story before...older sister of HS classmate. He had the big blowout graduation party with everclear punch and a swimming pool...music blasting, everybody hammered, getting pushed into the pool, etc...like a cheesey 80s movie. Then...and I could be misremembering...but the needle scratched to a halt music stopped and everything got quiet while the older sister wordlessly walked out of the house in a too small bikini straight to the diving board- perfect splashless dive in, and then out of the pool (tossing wet hair back in slowmotion) and wordlessly back into the house. Every guy there was staring slackjawed...like a cheesey 80s movie...and then...the record skidded back on and it was back to the drunken mayhem.

A few months later, my idiot college roommate from Wisconsin who never left the dorm room to even dip his toes in NYC and who only had one friend...back in WI who would sign each other up for idiotic magazines as a joke for one issue before cancelling. One of them was Playboy...and it just so happened to be that girl's issue...and Vanna White. I read the articles.
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Kym Paige?

 
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