Author Topic: What could suck worse... (Read 3222 times)

K Frame · « **on:** May 21, 2006, 08:41:18 AM »

that being stuck in the office on a beautiful Sunday afternoon when I could be doing so many things at the house, including playing with my dogs?

Nothing is what.

Fly320s · « **Reply #1 on:** May 21, 2006, 08:46:17 AM »

Sure there is... you could be in France.

Guest · « **Reply #2 on:** May 21, 2006, 09:00:07 AM »

With a head cold. Waiting for a colonoscopy.

K Frame · « **Reply #3 on:** May 21, 2006, 09:01:06 AM »

As much as I bitch about France, the wine is good, the cheese exceptional, the cathedrals magnificient, and the Loire River Valley indescribable.

Guest · « **Reply #4 on:** May 21, 2006, 09:12:00 AM »

Oh, yeah? Let's see you find some sunshine in the colonoscopy.

Guest · « **Reply #5 on:** May 21, 2006, 09:24:34 AM »

A large chest wound letting light in?

The Rabbi · « **Reply #6 on:** May 21, 2006, 09:35:08 AM »

Whenever people gripe like that I always remember my older brother, the hospice doctor. His days regularly include 35-45 year old men with small children dying of rare painful cancers. Somehow compared to that being stuck in an office doesn't seem so bad.

K Frame · « **Reply #7 on:** May 21, 2006, 09:51:02 AM »

"Whenever people gripe like that I always remember my older brother, the hospice doctor. His days regularly include 35-45 year old men with small children dying of rare painful cancers. Somehow compared to that being stuck in an office doesn't seem so bad."

OK, we have a perspective winner.

The Rabbi · « **Reply #8 on:** May 21, 2006, 09:58:37 AM »

But I would agree that there are not enough beautiful sunny Sundays to make being stuck in an office a worthwhile use of them.

Bemidjiblade · « **Reply #9 on:** May 21, 2006, 11:09:20 AM »

Mike, 100% agreement about the Loire Valley.

For my shot, you could be behind bars with a 450# man named Tinkerbell who considers himself your "special" friend, serving a life sentence.

Guest · « **Reply #10 on:** May 21, 2006, 12:05:07 PM »

Lets see..... sitting in front of a video camera waiting to have your head sawed off? Holding your dying baby daughter in your arms on Christmas day? Having your best friend killed by a psycho? Watching your wife puke from pain? And then there are the everyday events like compound fractures , chainsaw cuts and gruesome car accidents.
If you have your health and your family is OK you are blessed indeed my friend.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #11 on:** May 21, 2006, 12:37:41 PM »

Quote from: Mike Irwin

OK, we have a perspective winner.

Rabbi does a good job of putting it in perspective, but he's also a prospective winner.

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What could suck worse...

Not having APS to whine to us about it?

grampster · « **Reply #12 on:** May 21, 2006, 12:47:59 PM »

On the other hand, looking out my window right now at the sun dappled waters of my lake. A cool breeze wafting throught the imature oak leaves, the flag fluttering at half mast. The smell of newly minted flowers adding a perfume to the air like nothing else.
The dark, lush green of a Michigan spring lawn. The knowledge that a young, healthy mole is doing his magic to my neighbors lawn....ahhhhh.

Antibubba · « **Reply #13 on:** May 21, 2006, 12:59:43 PM »

Mike, just console yourself by thinking about all the carcinogens and sinus-antagonizing pollens in the air, through which flies hungry, West Nile-bearing mosquitoes. Wink

w turner · « **Reply #14 on:** May 21, 2006, 08:49:46 PM »

Grampster- You are truly a vile foe if you wish the visiting of moles upon your neighbor. I have been battling those little blind, furry bastards for over two years and they still delight in tearing my yard up. About ready to give up and let them have the front yard if I can just salvage the back.

W

280plus · « **Reply #15 on:** May 22, 2006, 12:52:05 AM »

Turner musta missed Grampster's other thread? Tongue

BTW Gramps... +1 on the mole relocation efforts. I forgot to mention what a snappy idea that was. Cheesy

Leatherneck · « **Reply #16 on:** May 22, 2006, 03:02:51 AM »

"but he's also a prospective winner" OOHhhh, Fistful. Take on the wordmeister on usage at your own risk...

TC

edited to add: What's Mike doing posting in traffic?

TarpleyG · « **Reply #17 on:** May 22, 2006, 03:08:35 AM »

Well, you could be stuck in Florida, sleeping on an air mattress in your buddy's spare bedroom (who is cheap and hates to turn on the AC BTW), knowing full well that you would be WAY more comfortable in your own bed in your own, newly-purchased, house in NC with your wife and dogs...all while trying to find a job, ANY job, 800 miles away.

So put THAT in your pipe and smoke it. Tell me again why it is so hard for a hard-working, relatively bright, 30-something guy to find a damn job...I must be missing something here.

Greg

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #18 on:** May 22, 2006, 03:22:46 AM »

Quote from: Leatherneck

"but he's also a prospective winner" OOHhhh, Fistful. Take on the wordmeister on usage at your own risk...

HA! The meister's right here, baby!

K Frame · « **Reply #19 on:** May 22, 2006, 05:48:15 AM »

"Rabbi does a good job of putting it in perspective, but he's also a prospective winner."

"HA! The meister's right here, baby!"

Oh really? Wanna trot your dikshunarie out again and look up perspective and prospective?

Nah, I'll do it for you, and I don't even have to crack a dictionary...

No, the Rabbi's not a prospective winner. Prospective refers to an event or action that may happen in the future.

I already declared him a winner --

He provided the best view into why my situation yesterday didn't suck nearly as much as other possibilities.

Perspective is a noun, prospective is an ajective.

In my sentence, perspective stands alone in the same manner that race stands alone in "He's the race winner."

Ergo, he's the PERSPECTIVE winner.

K Frame · « **Reply #20 on:** May 22, 2006, 05:49:26 AM »

I wish I knew, Tarpley, I wish I knew, and I wish I could be of more assistance to you.

If you had an active security clearance you could write your own ticket.

Stickjockey · « **Reply #21 on:** May 22, 2006, 06:09:56 AM »

Maybe we need an APS resume/lookin' fer work thread...

El Tejon · « **Reply #22 on:** May 22, 2006, 06:13:51 AM »

You could be El Tejon. Now THAT would be far worse. Cheesy

TarpleyG · « **Reply #23 on:** May 22, 2006, 06:30:33 AM »

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If you had an active security clearance you could write your own ticket.

I remember you saying that before but exactly how does one go about getting security clearance unless employed by someone that can get the clearance for you? Is this a process I can go ahead and start working on on my own?

Greg

K Frame · « **Reply #24 on:** May 22, 2006, 06:32:30 AM »

"I remember you saying that before but exactly how does one go about getting security clearance unless employed by someone that can get the clearance for you? Is this a process I can go ahead and start working on on my own?"

In the post-9-11 world, probably not, unfortunately. At one time you could get a secret clearance done fairly quickly and inexpensively.

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