The Next Big Unimportant Thing

[dirtylover]

Hey man, we needed a bechmark.

I think you'll find that's benchmark.


Which I think I may have managed to set even lower.

re:Toothpaste -- - -actually, I have nothing to say on this matter.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Squeezes it right from the freakin middle of course! It finally dawned on me a couple of years ago to just get my own damned toothpaste. Now I don't care what he does to his, the damned heathen.

Wait a minute! I'm supposed to be hounding you, aren't I?

GET WRITING!!

- Mindy

ps to Liar http://www.emotipad.com/liteemoticons/ROTFLMAO.gif

Blasphemer

Thanks! I am writing, but was keeping one eye on this thread for your reply. Now that I've got two eyes to put to the writing, I'll probably find that not a damn word of it makes any sense. What took you so long?

Properly scolded and going back to writing.....

~lucky

 

[minsue]

Blasphemer

Thanks! I am writing, but was keeping one eye on this thread for your reply. Now that I've got two eyes to put to the writing, I'll probably find that not a damn word of it makes any sense. What took you so long?

Properly scolded and going back to writing.....

~lucky

What took me so long??? *disgruntled harrumph* I was playing with your AV, silly.

 

[shereads]

Re: Re: Re: Hmmmmm

Boredom, mostly...

Where I teach, we all share a closet in the stockroom.

Forget the jackets. Let's talk about how to use that closet in the stockroom to cure Professor Mabeuse's boredom.

BTW, you said you were mess-blind. Is that only at home?

 

[minsue]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Hmmmmm

BTW, you said you were mess-blind. Is that only at home?

Isn't it always?

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Hmmmmm

BTW, you said you were mess-blind. Is that only at home?

Hmm. You might be right. I might just have domestic mess-blindness.

Well, here's the thing. You have your coat a-hangered, all set to hang up, then you open the closet and see that everyone else in the department has hung their coats facing left, in perfect Prussian regularity. Your coat is all set to be hung facing right. You don't have tenure. Might not even have a job next semester. You're a trouble-maker, non-conformist, bad apple, non-team player; you do not work or play well with others. Does one compromise one's principles and go with the flow, another sheep in the flock, or does one stand up for the rights of the individual and step out to the sound of that distant drummer (with his coat on backwards)?

Besides, isn't there something subtly obscene or at least suggestive about the front of your coat pressing against the front of some woman's coat? Something rude about turning your back on the others?

Thank God I don't wear a hat.

---dr.M.

 

[gauchecritic]

I think you'll find Mab, that when those with tenure see that you hang your coat differently then they will believe you to be an original thinker, someone unafraid to try new things, to see the challenge and take it on.

Unfortunately this will almost guarantee you missed promotion and an untenable position.

Gauche

 

[dirtylover]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hmmmmm

You're a trouble-maker, non-conformist, bad apple, non-team player; you do not work or play well with others. ---dr.M. [/B]

don't think we need to see your coat to know that, dr Badapple

 

[shereads]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hmmmmm

Well, here's the thing. You have your coat a-hangered, all set to hang up, then you open the closet and see that everyone else in the department has hung their coats facing left, in perfect Prussian regularity.

If this isn't the mark of a conspiracy, Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't the illegitimate son of Lyndon Johnson. Dr. Mabeuse, you need to stop worrying about how to make your coat hang like the others, and concentrate on breaking their code. Lives may depend on it.

 

[A7inchPhildo]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hmmmmm

Hmm. You might be right. I might just have domestic mess-blindness.

Thank God I don't wear a hat.

---dr.M.

Holy Shit! This is right up there with do you wipe your feet.

 

[CharleyH]

Personally, I think it is an amazing character who hangs their coat backwards. Some of my best profs did exactly that!!!! After they were tenured

 

[SlickTony]

You can tell with patterned TP that the manufacturer means it to roll from the top. But anyone with toddlers and/or cats will hang it so it rolls from the bottom, or he'll have TP all over the damn place.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

You can tell with patterned TP that the manufacturer means it to roll from the top. But anyone with toddlers and/or cats will hang it so it rolls from the bottom, or he'll have TP all over the damn place.

I agree with all of this, have cats and a toddler in the house and still cannot stand to have the toilet paper roll from the bottom.

Losing it to the house pets (kid included) and cleaning it up later, are worth it to me.

~lucky

 

[SlickTony]

Losing it to the house pets (kid included) and cleaning it up later, are worth it to me.

Well, if it's worth it to you--but the TP never goes back on the roller right.

 

[CharleyH]

I don't know about kids and toilet paper, but I do know about clothes in a closet, and MAN am I having a freaked out clothing day . . . closet of clothes and no clothes to wear

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Well, if it's worth it to you--but the TP never goes back on the roller right.

Depends on what you mean....

Do I roll it back up? Not a chance, my husband's head would pop off and spin around. (Might come in handy sometime, on second thought.)

Do we put a new roll on the same way, even though it will most likely be played with and ruined? Absolutely. (Did I mention my husband's AR qualities and the fact that he's prone to flip out about such trivial things?)

I'm still trying to decide whether or not to ask his opinion on the coat in the closet question. Fairly certain it will bring on a bright red face and might even achieve the effect of getting that funny vein in his forehead to pop out.

~lucky

 

[lucky-E-leven]

I don't know about kids and toilet paper, but I do know about clothes in a closet, and MAN am I having a freaked out clothing day . . . closet of clothes and no clothes to wear

go nude!

~lucky

 

[SlickTony]

(Did I mention my husband's AR qualities and the fact that he's prone to flip out about such trivial things?)

Tell me, does he also insist that the stripes on the towels line up?

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Tell me, does he also insist that the stripes on the towels line up?

Not only that, but when we were first married he attempted to convince me that sheets and towels needed to be ironed.

I nipped that one in the bud immediately and purposely left a sink full of dishes for him on girl's nite out, to convey my deep displeasure at such a request. Funny, it never came up again.

Why? Are you married to his brother?

~lucky

 

[CharleyH]

go nude!

~lucky

Oh, my slow little lucky, that was my wink

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Oh, my slow little lucky, that was my wink

Superior-itis. Might wanna get that checked out. Along with that facial tick you call a wink.



~lucky

 

[Belegon]

I didn't care about how money was placed back in the wallet until I started working for a bank. Now I look at these people and the horrible way they treat their money and think, 'Heathens!'

I hate having to "detail-count" someone's drawer and all the $ is this way and that! I'm not too fussy usually but that one just fries me. No wonder they're always out-of-fucking-balance!

Sorry, calmer now, I'm OK, Sorry all...

Oh, don't care about jackets & all but must agree on the toliet paper bit. I won't change it in other peoples houses though, seems too invasive. Odd, considering what I must be doing at that moment, but there it is.

As for toothpaste, I'm thankful the tube is on the way to passe'. One less fight for me and the wife.

 

[gauchecritic]

closet of clothes and no clothes to wear

This man said "It's gruesome,
that someone so handsome
should care"

Gauche

 

[Somme]

I'm still trying to figure out if my 'air shirt 'as a front...

 

[dr_mabeuse]

After hours of experimentation, I can only conclude that when people talk about toilet paper coming off the roll "from the bottom", they really mean that it comes off from behind the roll.

I would also assume that the prejudice against the toilet paper coming off from behind the roll, is that there's no way to see what's going on back there, and what you're really worried about--now admit it people--is that there are germs back there who leap onto the paper as it comes off the roll. Or maybe bugs who spit on it under the cover of darkness.

That's it, isn't it?

This reminds me of the well known Dirt Theorem from childhood theology, which states that something that falls on the floor is still edible as long as it doesn't remain there for more than five seconds. Five seconds being the time it takes Satan to come up from the depths of hell and kiss the fallen article, thereby making it his own.

---dr.M.