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Re: Making An Aft Of Oneself

Ed Greenberg — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:37:53 -0000

Given the length of some of these ships, a turbo lift wouldn't be inappropriate :)

Re: Laptop Stop

Ed Greenberg — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:29:11 -0000

Interesting. I have a magnetic catch on my watch band as well and among other things, it picks up silverware from the table.

Re: Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Ed Greenberg — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:56:41 -0000

When you have a name change, part of the process is to post a legal notice in the newspaper.

Re: Someone Needs To Be Held Accountable, Part 2

Ed Greenberg — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:11:21 -0000

My wife had paratransit in Los Angeles, and we were abandoned several times. They do their best, but it ain't very good.

Re: Looking For Breakfast In All The Wrong Places

Ed Greenberg — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 13:29:12 -0000

I once poured a slug of orange juice into my coffee. Take my word for it, that's gross.

Re: Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Ed Greenberg — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:09:08 -0000

What if the snake had a badge?

Re: Experiments Most Fowl

Ed Greenberg — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:36:12 -0000

I actually ran into this at a butcher shop in Oakland CA. They had cut up chickens with an extra leg, labelled as three legged chickens. They were basically selling a leg for whole chicken prices.

I asked if they could provide chickens without the extra leg. They said no.

I said, fine, I'll take three, but don't cut them up.

Re: One Rabbit Hole You Do Not Want To Go Down

Ed Greenberg — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:16:06 -0000

When we took a trip to New Mexico, I had my sister all wound up looking for Jackalopes. (She was 38 at the time :))

Re: Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Ed Greenberg — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:42:31 -0000

This is chilling, referring to TNG as an "old" TV show. It's like to reference to 1999 as the last 1900s.

I should mention that we just made the "four lights" reference on the appropriate day of Chanukah.

Re: Game Over, Dad

Ed Greenberg — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:27:16 -0000

At least he didn't teach them the tail end of "yippie-kay-yea"

Re: Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Ed Greenberg — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:23:03 -0000

Story from here in the US: My two blind friends, a married couple, and I, go out on Sunday morning to a local bagel shop for breakfast.

The counter person is freaked out a bit and tries to ask me what "they" want. I told the counter person, "I have no idea... why don't you ask them?"

Later, I asked Bill if he wanted to destabilize the counter person more and, being who he is, asked, "heck yes, How?" I said, "go get me [order of food]." He went up, ordered the food, paid, picked it up and delivered it to my place.

Re: At Least They Told The Tooth

Ed Greenberg — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:06:31 -0000

Good customer, pat on head, for owning up.

Re: Welcome To Retail, Part 14

Ed Greenberg — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:52:50 -0000

I once walked up to a casino employee in Reno and asked, "I'm looking for a little old lady, black hair, white blouse, black pants. She would be playing quarter video poker." He asked me, "how many would you like?"

Re: Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Ed Greenberg — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:25:48 -0000

Most men don't pay as much attention to the details of pregancy and birth. (Sad to say)

I can't tell you how many times I've informed a female of a birth and have been asked for name, gender, length, weight, etc. I always have to say that I have no idea.

Re: Short Change Teaches You The Long Game

Ed Greenberg — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:17:59 -0000

Traditional cash registers have a non-skid pad on top of the drawer. Cashiers were taught to put the tender (amount given) on that pad until the customer took his change and had an opportunity to try and lie about it.

Re: Don’t Judge A Book By Its Buyer

Ed Greenberg — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:55:45 -0000

There are actually two Ton Swift series. The first, in 1910, and the "inventions" are really dated. Then they brought out a new collection related to his son, Tom Jr.

Re: A War To Claim The Land Of ‘The’

Ed Greenberg — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:29:33 -0000

There was a time when WW1 was referred to as "the great war." It only became WW1 when WW2 was fought.

Re: In A Remote (Dis)Location

Ed Greenberg — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:40:27 -0000

I had a dislocation when I was 24 or so, many years ago, and, of course, it dislocated again a year later. So off to the orthopedist I go, and the opened it up, sewed the internals up, and it hasn't dislocated since.

Re: Put That In The Operational… Uh… Log

Ed Greenberg — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:34:02 -0000

In truth, there are some medications that will create poop that needs, shall we say, special handling. I remember one.... Well, maybe I shouldn't. Suffice it to say that I had to find a suitable tool to break it up. Many of these problem children were being emptied into the toilet from a commode bowl, or is that bowel, and I would break these up in the bowl (since it had already left the bowel) before dumping it into the toilet.

I will say that these incidents came from my 95 year old father, and I would gladly continue to break up his poo, just to have him back.

Re: Do Other Languages Have This Many Poo-phemisms?, Part 2

Ed Greenberg — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:28:30 -0000

I have to go download some data.

Re: Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Ed Greenberg — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 08:08:23 -0000

I've done things like this. Tossed the 'keeper' in the trash and kept the trash, or tossed the recycle bag in the trash and vice versa. Seems kinda normal to me. I also once poured a dollop of OJ into my coffee, instead of filling my glass.

Re: Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Ed Greenberg — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:23:09 -0000

Mr Takei is known to be quite the gentleman.

Re: Every Data Migration Ever

Ed Greenberg — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 07:42:57 -0000

It sounds like the OP got the scope before promising anything, so good for them.

Re: That’s A Grande Load Of Nonsense, Part 2

Ed Greenberg — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:13:59 -0000

I have a friend who is an accomplished Bridge player, teacher and game official.

Bridge is a game that has many oddities, known as conventions (as everybody knows them) that have individual names, sometimes named after the person who invented them, sometimes by their nature. Some are pretty complex.

I used to tease my friend that the names of the conventions sound like some of the complex drinks ordered at an espresso shop.

Re: Came For The Fry But Got A Roast

Ed Greenberg — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:03:32 -0000

An illegal is a sick bird.