Guess I have to stop talking about unwinding with a martini on the forum

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Guess I gotta quit talking about nightcaps in the evening. I got spammed by a detox center saying that they serviced many people from my geographic area and could offer "effective and dignified treatment of all my substance problems, Visa, MasterCard and many other credit cards accepted". Don't you just love this kinder and gentler society we live in ,where a daily shot and beer can be identified as a problem because technically it is two drinks not one (thats what the spam said). Think I'll push myself further down the road to ruination with an apertif glass of my homemade red wine before retiring tonite. Since I made five references to alcoholic beverages I'll probably be spammed to the max. Why don't I just get porned like "normal" surfers :>)

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2002

Answers

Keep mentioning p*rn and maybe you'll get some?

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2002

Touche'. The internet.....insanity and stupidity at the speed of a gigahertz.

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2002

Huh - I get discount airline ticket spam; guess it's from buying plane tickets for the kids. I also get consolidate your bills spam; gee, I guess if Wal-Mart bought the mortgage company and they bought out the phone co and the electric coop (who already bought the propane co); maybe I could consolidate 'em. Maybe they've been reading me crying about overtime?

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2002

Oh crap. No mention of martinis eh? How politically correct we have become. (shhhh about those olives, then, too....)

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2002

I think I know the problem, Jay: nobody drinks martinis anymore......they're like so 50's.......maybe if you pretend you're doing taste testing on some frou-frou wines or butterscotch schnapps they'll leave you alone......

-- Anonymous, January 23, 2002


Ya, I just got my first solicitation to come to a porn site a couple days ago. Took them a long time to find me, but they did. I just put it on 'block sender'. I'm wondering why I got so lucky as to receive their attention....probably has more to do with eBay.

You've got to wonder how many porn site garner their cliente from among those putting bids on Salad Shooters.

-- Anonymous, January 23, 2002


julie,

I'm trying to get the picture of them using a salad shooter at one of those sites out of my mind :>)

-- Anonymous, January 23, 2002


Jay, I don't think it was you mention of martini on the forum that got you invited to the detox center. I got it to. I thought it was because I subscribed to an AA daily thought (I think I might have mentioned I have been in recovery for 19 years) and I was pretty pissed cause I thought they were giving out our addies. Now I don't feel so angry.....glad you shared. As to the porn sites, I can not help wondering how that happens. I go months and never get a one and then all of a sudden I get bombarded again. I have never done anything on e-bay or any of those sites.

-- Anonymous, January 23, 2002

Why do I keep getting spam for herbal viagra and guaranteed ways to increase the size of my penis? I think that if I had a penis my gynecologist would have mentioned it before now..... :)

-- Anonymous, January 23, 2002

Oohh... kay. RONTLMAO.

-- Anonymous, January 23, 2002


Sherri, we've been getting those, too! You can just imagine the conversation that has taken place between me and Mr. S.! I accused him of visiting some strange places on the 'net! He was dumbfounded...!

Earthmama, out here martinis are de rigeur...there must be 30 different kinds (flavors) and there are martini bars where all the 20- somethings hang out. Also cigar bars...(sheesh.. didn't they learn anything from their elders???) Some are really clubby...play Martin Denny music and stuff like that, too! I think it must be a coastal thing....probably stuff like that on the right coast, too? I dunno. Outta my price range!

-- Anonymous, January 23, 2002


Wow, Sheepish, guess the ol Midwest is once again living up to its reputation of being behind the coasts by 5 to 10 years, which I've kinda always liked actutally. We can see what's comin!

Eww......martini bars!? Course that's just me; gin is about the only booze I cannot endure.

Course I hang around in Blues Bars for the most part, chaperoning and supporting my future Star daughter, and I'm purty sure I'll never find a martini bar in a Blues joint!

Um.......Julie.........salad shooter??

-- Anonymous, January 23, 2002


Salad shooters are the GREATEST thing for slicing up lots of carrots - - which Julie feeds to the horses -- makes it easier to dole them out evenly and there's less danger of them choking.

What didja do, Julie, burn yours out? Are they still making them new?

-- Anonymous, January 23, 2002


Did ya ever see that Bloom County cartoon of Opus buying stuff off the TV. He buys a salad shooter and is shooting things like mad but says Velveeta sticks to the ceiling. So now in my mine salad shooter= Opus the penguin. I like gin..gin and tonic with lemon in it is my latest fave drink. I was a hard core rum and coke girl years back but have mellowed with the kids. RIGHT! as for spams...I can only imagine why I have been getting "Mothers and Sons Incest" porn (I have 2 sons) and Barnyard Furry Friends porn spams...BARF!!

-- Anonymous, January 23, 2002

I have a stuffed Opus complete with shower cap and towel. I can relate to mellowingBefore "climbing on the beer wagon" about 5 years ago I was boiler makers or triples ( a shot of bourbon,a shot of scotch followed by a beer flush).

-- Anonymous, January 23, 2002


My Opus the Penguin sports a jaunty cap with antlers on it. Friends also made one out of Sculpy and plunked it on my birthday cake one year with his butt in the icing, looking ever sooooo pleased!

Yep, I kind of killed the Shooter I had by accidentally dropping a metal and wood knife handle into it (bad idea). So I thought I'd go looking for one on eBay for less than they cost in the stores -- and help someone clean out their kitchen cupboards at the same time. Recycle, recycle. I'm trying to figure out how to recycle or fix the old one too.

-- Anonymous, January 24, 2002


Ok, thanks for clearing up the salad shooter thing; since we were talkin about porn sites, I thought maybe it was some kind of sex toy I hadnt heard about. ;)

Who is Opus the Penguin anyway?

-- Anonymous, January 24, 2002


I was wondering about the penguin too. It's also good to know that we aren't the only ones getting that sort of spam for no particular reason.

-- Anonymous, January 24, 2002

Opus is Bill the Cats buddy; from the cartoon Bllom County - way too short lived. Kind of a combination Doonsbury/Far Side/???

Myself, I prefer my Pinky and The Brain statuettes that my daughter got Hubs and I for our Anniversary. You know, the tall skinny dorky one and the short chubby brilliant one.....heeheehee....

-- Anonymous, January 24, 2002


Actually, Bill the Cat came along in Bloom County after Opus. The first that I saw of Opus, he couldn't talk, he was just an odd pet. He later learned to talk by watching Tv -- Mr. Roger's Neighborhood specifically.

The two strips in which he learned to talk by answering Mr. Rogers was a favourite of mine -- Mr. Rogers had a Senator on as his guest day, and said "Senator ??(forgot the name) is going to talk to us today about Inflation. Can YOU say 'Inflation'?"

Opus responds: "Inflabbybabby!" Mr. Rogers: "Good! Now, can you say "Mr. Rogers deserves a raise?" Opus: "Mr. Rogers--" Mr. Rogers: "Can you write it on a postcard?"

And later on;

Mr. Rogers: "This is Senator Whatever. He works for us in the government every day. Can you say 'public servant'?" Opus: "Bozo!!"

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002


The "good congressman" of whom you speak was none other than the Honorable Senator Bedfellow. I especially liked his fact finding tour of his districts agricultural base and asked the farmer how things were going and the farmer responds "o.k. since we changed to the new cash crop" and the senator inquires "soybeans?", "nope." , "wheat ?", "nope.", "corn?", "nope", well than what is it man !!!", "cannabis." . I agree , Bloom County was a "Doones" with major attitude. :>)

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

I have a stuffed Opus doll too. I miss Bloom County, and I really miss Calvin and Hobbes!

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

Gee, I still miss Pogo!!

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

...That is, speaking of one of the earliest political satire and social commentary cartoons...since we're drifffffftttttinnnnnnnnnngg..

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

Me too, sheepish -- miss Pogo that is! And L'il Abner -- that strip got in some snarky comments too! And wouldn't you love to have a herd of schmoos?

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002

Geez, I am so out of it........I never really read comics much my whole life......with the exceptions of Peanuts and Far Side......oh and for a while I wuz into Doonesbury.......gosh I wish I could read those ol Bloom County ones; they sound wonderful........

My soon-to-be 15 year old Ali is a comic book nut....she has Calvin and Hobbs books all over the house, so I'm familiar with that one (find them in the bathroom all the time!); and she likes Dilbert, etc, but is now all excited on a daily basis by a strip called The Boondocks. Its really great.....I'm very proud that she loves it so much. Anybody familiar with it? Check it out......

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2002


Only the British could have invented gin! Ugh, nasty stuff.

Now a good mellow ten year old bourbon is more my style. Evan Williams in particular.

I surely do miss Opus. Bloom County or Outlands I liked them both.

Couldn't always agree with his political opinions but he was always funny. Too bad Trudeau can't do that any more. Ever since he took his "sabattical" he just hasn't been worth a damn.

..........Alan.

-- Anonymous, January 31, 2002


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