GM's Thread About Everything/GM's Thread About Nothing (14 Viewers)

[St. Louis Bob]

Gotta go. Baseball game AGAIN tonight. I feel like Tanner right now with my enthusiasm for this. Going to get a nice dinner first though.

After dinner the security guard for the building in which the restaurant was located gave me a pair of sweet $140 each field box tickets. What a nice guy, really made my day. The reason we were going at all is because it was Scout night. Scout tickets were the third to last row in the upper, upper, deck.

Box seats: Better to heckle players from.

Upper, upper Deck: Paper planes fly farther.

Upper, upper, deck is seriously kind of scary.

 

[Captain Quinoa]

Never much of a scrabble fan. More of a Trivial Pursuit guy.

Yeah, that's my favorite.

Speaking of, I showed up late to bar trivia last night at Coaches and helped Cougit bring home first place again. $30 in bar cash won. Man, I could do this for a living. I love bar trivia more than my 3 kids.

LOL

at "3"

 

[St. Louis Bob]

for anyone with direct tv. this is a must. it was impossibly easy. total time on the phone, less than 30 minutes. they called me back in less than 24 hours. the standard monthly discount is $43

Read the script below.

Call 1-800-531-5000

Get to retentions department

Confirm you are in retentions department

Don't bother with their offers and simply request a cancellation 2 weeks out

Confirm cancellation date

Wait to receive "We want you back", "Let us make it right", "blah blah" call or email with special 877-250-4624 number and NEWDEAL1 or NEWDEAL2 code

If you receive that email, great. Go ahead and call in as soon as you receive it.

If you DO NOT receive the email in a few days, call the 877-250-4624 number anyway and tell them you received the email

You may get turned down for "not being in their system" yet

If that is the case, ask if they can get you added to the system

No matter what they say, call back in 48 hours or so and try again

You may still have to haggle with them a bit to get everything listed in this thread ($200 GC, 12 month discounts on package, free 2015 Sunday Ticket Max, 3 months of premium movie channels, all requiring a 12 month commitment (24 months if you elect to receive new equipment)), but they also may just lay it all out there for you from the start

If all else fails, you can always call the 1-800-531-5000 number back before the date you set and have the cancellation removed and try the whole process again later

My contract is up in a couple of weeks. Can't wait to make this call.

Word in that thread is that the offers they are making ends today.

I canceled 2 hours ago, scheduled to have it shut off 6/10. Am on the phone with them right now and just waiting for a manager to OK what is effectively everything laid out above. Been on the phone 21.5 minutes.

Guess I'll try this now. Thanks for the heads up GBRaiders!

Word int he DTV thread is that possibly only the GC expired yesterday. Should still be good on the rest. And with your charms, they'll probably poop you a $500 GC just for being you.

 

[Captain Quinoa]

Hey, alright...guess who gets to start wearing compression stockings for his sweet sweet varicose veins?

The twins are already embarrassed to be seen with you

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Gotta go. Baseball game AGAIN tonight. I feel like Tanner right now with my enthusiasm for this. Going to get a nice dinner first though.

After dinner the security guard for the building in which the restaurant was located gave me a pair of sweet $140 each field box tickets. What a nice guy, really made my day. The reason we were going at all is because it was Scout night. Scout tickets were the third to last row in the upper, upper, deck.

Box seats: Better to heckle players from.

Upper, upper Deck: Paper planes fly farther.

Upper, upper, deck is seriously kind of scary.

Is that where they make the negroes sit?

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

Gotta go. Baseball game AGAIN tonight. I feel like Tanner right now with my enthusiasm for this. Going to get a nice dinner first though.

After dinner the security guard for the building in which the restaurant was located gave me a pair of sweet $140 each field box tickets. What a nice guy, really made my day. The reason we were going at all is because it was Scout night. Scout tickets were the third to last row in the upper, upper, deck.

Box seats: Better to heckle players from.

Upper, upper Deck: Paper planes fly farther.

Upper, upper, deck is seriously kind of scary.

Is that where they make the negroes sit?

Coincidentally, the upper, upper deck does not have a phone number.

 

[General Malaise]

Gotta go. Baseball game AGAIN tonight. I feel like Tanner right now with my enthusiasm for this. Going to get a nice dinner first though.

After dinner the security guard for the building in which the restaurant was located gave me a pair of sweet $140 each field box tickets. What a nice guy, really made my day. The reason we were going at all is because it was Scout night. Scout tickets were the third to last row in the upper, upper, deck.

Box seats: Better to heckle players from.

Upper, upper Deck: Paper planes fly farther.

Upper, upper, deck is seriously kind of scary.

Is that where they make the negroes sit?

*******n it....

 

[General Malaise]

Gotta tell you, if I had a bar, I wouldn't have a phone either. You ever seen a busy bartender's face when the phone rings? My god....and usually the person on the other line is calling for some stupid reason too "Hey, just calling to see if you're open" or "What beers do you have on tap?". Everybody has a cell phone. Landlines are gay.

 

[Frostillicus]

I don't have gout!

Jinxed myself. Got a call back from a different nurse. First nurse misread test results.

hoping to field that same call re: the twins.

ggllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Gotta tell you, if I had a bar, I wouldn't have a phone either. You ever seen a busy bartender's face when the phone rings? My god....and usually the person on the other line is calling for some stupid reason too "Hey, just calling to see if you're open" or "What beers do you have on tap?". Everybody has a cell phone. Landlines are gay.

Homer loves it when I call him at work

 

[St. Louis Bob]

Gotta go. Baseball game AGAIN tonight. I feel like Tanner right now with my enthusiasm for this. Going to get a nice dinner first though.

After dinner the security guard for the building in which the restaurant was located gave me a pair of sweet $140 each field box tickets. What a nice guy, really made my day. The reason we were going at all is because it was Scout night. Scout tickets were the third to last row in the upper, upper, deck.

Dude, when I grow up, I want to be you.

You are me. You just have a more fertile wife.

Nobody hands me field box tickets and I don't have hot women dangling all over me in every picture I post. No swinger invites, no hot employees giving me googoo eyes.

That's the cat shirt(s) really.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

Cal had his annual check up today. Doc told Mrs. SLB what I already knew, he has started puberty. He turned 11 two weeks ago. FML

 

[Captain Quinoa]

Cal had his annual check up today. Doc told Mrs. SLB what I already knew, he has started puberty. He turned 11 two weeks ago. FML

Speaking of which, i found a bunch of used tissues in my son's room. Pretty sure it's just his allergies acting up though.

 

[cosjobs]

Gotta go. Baseball game AGAIN tonight. I feel like Tanner right now with my enthusiasm for this. Going to get a nice dinner first though.

After dinner the security guard for the building in which the restaurant was located gave me a pair of sweet $140 each field box tickets. What a nice guy, really made my day. The reason we were going at all is because it was Scout night. Scout tickets were the third to last row in the upper, upper, deck.

Box seats: Better to heckle players from.

Upper, upper Deck: Paper planes fly farther.

Upper, upper, deck is seriously kind of scary.

Is that where they make the negroes sit?

*******n it....

Ferguson Heights

 

[General Malaise]

Cal had his annual check up today. Doc told Mrs. SLB what I already knew, he has started puberty. He turned 11 two weeks ago. FML

Well at least this will provide some source of amusement for us. Kellen is 12 and it's only a matter of time. Considering I didn't reach puberty until like 24, I think we might have more road to roll down.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

Cal had his annual check up today. Doc told Mrs. SLB what I already knew, he has started puberty. He turned 11 two weeks ago. FML

Well at least this will provide some source of amusement for us. Kellen is 12 and it's only a matter of time. Considering I didn't reach puberty until like 24, I think we might have more road to roll down.

Brother, I hear that. I really wish having shaved balls was en vogue when I was a teenager. Football locker room was hell.

 

[bostonfred]

My kid once started to crouch over like he was going to poop his pants, turned to me with a scared look, and just said "help". I felt so bad.

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

Officer Pete:

You mentioned the song "Welcome to the Boomtown" on the 80s music thread. It just came up on my playlist and I looked up the lyrics to one of the verses, because I have always been confused about something:

Handsome Kevin got a little off track
Took a year off from college and he never went back
Now he smokes much too much, got a permanent hack
Deals dope out of Denny's, keeps a table in the back
He always listens to the ground
Always listens to the ground

I was always fairly sure that it went "He always listens to Lou Gramm".

What do you think?

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Officer Pete:

You mentioned the song "Welcome to the Boomtown" on the 80s music thread. It just came up on my playlist and I looked up the lyrics to one of the verses, because I have always been confused about something:

Handsome Kevin got a little off trackTook a year off from college and he never went back

Now he smokes much too much, got a permanent hack

Deals dope out of Denny's, keeps a table in the back

He always listens to the ground

Always listens to the ground

I was always fairly sure that it went "He always listens to Lou Gramm".

What do you think?

Lovecraft?

 

[General Malaise]

Officer Pete:

You mentioned the song "Welcome to the Boomtown" on the 80s music thread. It just came up on my playlist and I looked up the lyrics to one of the verses, because I have always been confused about something:

Handsome Kevin got a little off trackTook a year off from college and he never went back

Now he smokes much too much, got a permanent hack

Deals dope out of Denny's, keeps a table in the back

He always listens to the ground

Always listens to the ground

I was always fairly sure that it went "He always listens to Lou Gramm".

What do you think?

David and David. Great song. Did they do anything else?

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

Officer Pete:

You mentioned the song "Welcome to the Boomtown" on the 80s music thread. It just came up on my playlist and I looked up the lyrics to one of the verses, because I have always been confused about something:

Handsome Kevin got a little off trackTook a year off from college and he never went back

Now he smokes much too much, got a permanent hack

Deals dope out of Denny's, keeps a table in the back

He always listens to the ground

Always listens to the ground

I was always fairly sure that it went "He always listens to Lou Gramm".

What do you think?

David and David. Great song. Did they do anything else?

Tanner bought the album some time in 1985. He pronounced it "unlistenable" but for that song.

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

Officer Pete:

You mentioned the song "Welcome to the Boomtown" on the 80s music thread. It just came up on my playlist and I looked up the lyrics to one of the verses, because I have always been confused about something:

Handsome Kevin got a little off trackTook a year off from college and he never went back

Now he smokes much too much, got a permanent hack

Deals dope out of Denny's, keeps a table in the back

He always listens to the ground

Always listens to the ground

I was always fairly sure that it went "He always listens to Lou Gramm".

What do you think?

Lovecraft?

That would be an odd reference.

 

[kevzilla]

I only occasionally listen to the ground, when lying in the gutter.

And 'handsome' is a bit of a stretch.

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

I only occasionally listen to the ground, when lying in the gutter.

That is an old Indian trick.

Feather, not dot.

 

[General Malaise]

I only occasionally listen to the ground, when lying in the gutter.

And 'handsome' is a bit of a stretch.

Dashing?

 

[UOFI_316]

I don't have gout!

Jinxed myself. Got a call back from a different nurse. First nurse misread test results.

hoping to field that same call re: the twins.

Triplets!!!!!!

 

[General Malaise]

I only occasionally listen to the ground, when lying in the gutter.

That is an old Indian trick.

Feather, not dot.

Then maybe he's listening for the fuyzz while he deals drugs in the back.

Denny's, Kevin? Really? Yuck.

I contend there's more drug deals going on in McDonalds than any other place on this country.

 

[General Malaise]

Funny cat is funny.

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

Funny cat is funny.

cat

 

[Thorn]

Officer Pete:

You mentioned the song "Welcome to the Boomtown" on the 80s music thread. It just came up on my playlist and I looked up the lyrics to one of the verses, because I have always been confused about something:

Handsome Kevin got a little off trackTook a year off from college and he never went back

Now he smokes much too much, got a permanent hack

Deals dope out of Denny's, keeps a table in the back

He always listens to the ground

Always listens to the ground

I was always fairly sure that it went "He always listens to Lou Gramm".

What do you think?

David and David. Great song. Did they do anything else?

Aside from sucking?

 

[General Malaise]

Officer Pete:

You mentioned the song "Welcome to the Boomtown" on the 80s music thread. It just came up on my playlist and I looked up the lyrics to one of the verses, because I have always been confused about something:

Handsome Kevin got a little off trackTook a year off from college and he never went back

Now he smokes much too much, got a permanent hack

Deals dope out of Denny's, keeps a table in the back

He always listens to the ground

Always listens to the ground

I was always fairly sure that it went "He always listens to Lou Gramm".

What do you think?

David and David. Great song. Did they do anything else?

Aside from sucking?

Seems mean.

 

[kevzilla]

I've lamented it plenty but the fact that I'm a ####ing Classics major and I have lost the last ~187 of 200 to the worst speller on the Internet has me feeling at my not-best.

Hey dingleberry, Scrabble won't LET me mispell words. Believe me, I try...

You're killing me now and overall, probably dominate the series.

This is why I hate scrabble on the smartphone. It's not scrabble if you can't play a phony.

I grew up playing with my parents. They are old school. Dictionary sits at the table unopened unless there is a challenge. No asking how to spell words, no looking things up, no help of any kind. You spell wrong or play something that doesn't exist (my mom is the queen of this), somebody (usually my dad) will challenge. Successful challenge, turn is lost. Unsuccessful challenge and the challenger loses his/her next turn.

Digital game is fun, but way too easy. I'm sure YRS would destroy me in person.

I'm talking about Scrabble here.

I would love the chance to destroy you in person.

And I'm not.

I hear TLC has a show available....

Working title: 19 Kids by Tuesday

 

[General Malaise]

I've lamented it plenty but the fact that I'm a ####ing Classics major and I have lost the last ~187 of 200 to the worst speller on the Internet has me feeling at my not-best.

Hey dingleberry, Scrabble won't LET me mispell words. Believe me, I try...

You're killing me now and overall, probably dominate the series.

This is why I hate scrabble on the smartphone. It's not scrabble if you can't play a phony.

I grew up playing with my parents. They are old school. Dictionary sits at the table unopened unless there is a challenge. No asking how to spell words, no looking things up, no help of any kind. You spell wrong or play something that doesn't exist (my mom is the queen of this), somebody (usually my dad) will challenge. Successful challenge, turn is lost. Unsuccessful challenge and the challenger loses his/her next turn.

Digital game is fun, but way too easy. I'm sure YRS would destroy me in person.

I'm talking about Scrabble here.

I would love the chance to destroy you in person.

And I'm not.

I hear TLC has a show available....

Working title: 19 Kids by Tuesday

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Officer Pete:

You mentioned the song "Welcome to the Boomtown" on the 80s music thread. It just came up on my playlist and I looked up the lyrics to one of the verses, because I have always been confused about something:

Handsome Kevin got a little off trackTook a year off from college and he never went back

Now he smokes much too much, got a permanent hack

Deals dope out of Denny's, keeps a table in the back

He always listens to the ground

Always listens to the ground

I was always fairly sure that it went "He always listens to Lou Gramm".

What do you think?

David and David. Great song. Did they do anything else?

Tanner bought the album some time in 1985. He pronounced it "unlistenable" but for that song.

True

 

[Captain Quinoa]

I only occasionally listen to the ground, when lying in the gutter.

That is an old Indian trick.

Buffalo come

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I only occasionally listen to the ground, when lying in the gutter.

That is an old Indian trick.

Buffalo come

 

[kentric]

Love might be priceless, but the dating industry is expected to earn $2.2 billion in revenue in 2014, according to IBISWorld. In addition to Match.com and eHarmony, the two most popular paid services, niche options abound: VeggieDate.com, FarmersOnly.com, GlutenFreeSingles.com, Meet-an-Inmate.com and even ClownDating.com.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Buffalo come

"You like this"

Wait. Dammit!

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

Still great

 

[sports_fan]

I bought moist flushable wipes. Looking forward to trying them out.

 

[kevzilla]

Nice cocktails and chat with Uncle Cos at Cover 3. Good times.

 

[bentley]

Nice cocktails and chat with Uncle Cos at Cover 3. Good times.

Did you have the fried pickles? I'm a big fan of their fried pickles.

 

[kevzilla]

Nice cocktails and chat with Uncle Cos at Cover 3. Good times.

Did you have the fried pickles? I'm a big fan of their fried pickles.

Just a shrimp or two.

 

[Frostillicus]

Nice cocktails and chat with Uncle Cos at Cover 3. Good times.

Did you have the fried pickles? I'm a big fan of their fried pickles.

Just a shrimp or two.

Thorn was there?

 

[kevzilla]

Nice cocktails and chat with Uncle Cos at Cover 3. Good times.

Did you have the fried pickles? I'm a big fan of their fried pickles.

Just a shrimp or two.

Thorn was there?

He said something about having a pot of gold to protect.

 

[Annyong]

Fried pickles are disgusting.

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

Fried pickles are disgusting.

I've read this several times and it still doesn't make any sense to me.

 

[Frostillicus]

Fried pickles are disgusting.

I've read this several times and it still doesn't make any sense to me.

Dude's the worst.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Fried pickles are disgusting.

Sorry your keyboard is broken

 

[mr roboto]

I've never had a fried pickle. How does one go about procuring such an item?