Joseph, I'm glad your wife hasn't recommended you eating light, high energy snacks.

I would expect the glass shards to be VERY hard on the gums.

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Saturday, February 11, 2023 - 09:54 pm: Edit

Explain this to me:

Milk is $1.49 for a half-gallon, but $1.99 for a whole gallon.

Pepsi is $13.98 for a 24-can cube, but if you buy 12-can cases, it's only $14.00 for three.


Garth L. Getgen

By Douglas Lampert (Dlampert) on Saturday, February 11, 2023 - 11:44 pm: Edit

Some of it is just differencial pricing on the basis that people who care enough to figure out what the best deal is will still buy, but that people who don't check will overpay.

Not that checking is too hard when the unit price is often right there on the label, but lots of people don't check.

Many stores also regularly vary the prices on some sodas and more or less non-perishable products every two or three weeks; on the basis that people who keep track will wait a couple of weeks for a decent price, while others will pay full price.

By Mike Erickson (Mike_Erickson) on Sunday, February 12, 2023 - 12:36 am: Edit

Caveat emptor

By MarkSHoyle (Bolo) on Sunday, February 12, 2023 - 08:07 am: Edit

What most people don't understand,
the largest part of pricing is the "Container"..
For milk/sodas etc, a larger container is cheaper to make....
For some items, cutting/slicing, making meat for an example into smaller cuts is more expensive....

By Kevin Howard (Jarawara) on Sunday, February 12, 2023 - 11:19 am: Edit

What always gets me is how often people take no notice of the price details, much to their detriment.

Sale on soda pop, 4 12-packs for $15.00, if you buy in quantities of 4. Regular price $8.99 per 12 pack. Person comes in and buys 3 of them, paying $26.97 when they could have gotten a 4th one and reduced their price to $15.

But again, they are counting on those who either don't read the sales labels, or can't read them, or just don't care.

By Mike Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Sunday, February 12, 2023 - 11:59 am: Edit

I worked at Pizza "Shack" years ago and I was told that the paper cup cost more than the soda...

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Sunday, February 12, 2023 - 04:19 pm: Edit

Mike that is absolutely true. I worked as management for several restaurants (fast food and sit down). The cost of the syrup bought in a box that is then combined with local water and carbonated into what the customers drink is incredibly cheap. The cost of the cups at the last Fast food place I worked at were about $0.09 for a medium cup. The soda syrup (mixed with the above ingredients) to fill it was calibrated to have proper dilution with about 3/4 of the cup filled with ice and cost about $0.03)

They charged $1.00 for a medium at that time with free refills until you left the store most people (75%) refill it once which is why the are profitable and can still hold the price down.

By Nick Blank (Nickgb) on Tuesday, February 14, 2023 - 02:36 pm: Edit

Whoa... New Booth settings incoming...

What Fresh Horror Is This?

By Jeff Anderson (Jga) on Wednesday, February 15, 2023 - 12:18 am: Edit

Does make me wonder...

By any chance, could the Paravians have been exposed to Barney?

If so, could THAT be why they regard the Gorn as such demonic beings?

By Terry O'Carroll (Terryoc) on Wednesday, February 15, 2023 - 05:38 am: Edit

The new Barney resembles the turtle characters from the Nintendo Mario franchise, at least facially.

By Jeff Anderson (Jga) on Friday, February 17, 2023 - 09:16 pm: Edit

The talk of lasers and balloons in "Real World Military" went very bad in my alleged mind earlier.

"AIR FLEET BATTLES"

Take command of the spying eyes in the sky and shoot down your nations enemies!

Energy allocation. Fuel cells can generate a certain amount of electricity each turn; electricity that's useful for charging lasers, ESM equipment, cameras, drive fan motors, and data download radios...

By Mike Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Saturday, February 18, 2023 - 12:36 pm: Edit

Again, I can't imagine that there is not a military laser testbed aircraft. Even if it is just a gulfstream or Dash 8, etc.

By Ryan Opel (Ryan) on Saturday, February 18, 2023 - 02:50 pm: Edit

They had a military laser testbed aircraft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YAL-1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Tactical_Laser

By Joseph Jackson (Bonneville) on Sunday, March 26, 2023 - 09:24 pm: Edit

So, at about 2 PM local time (yesterday) my phone lit up with calls and texts about a jeep I had for sale.
In the end, I received 58 phone calls and 138 text messages in less than 24 hours.
The only trouble was, I dont own a Jeep and wasnt trying to sell one.
The local online classifieds had listed the sellers number as my number.
Made for an interesting day.

By Mike Curtis (Nashvillen) on Monday, March 27, 2023 - 09:12 am: Edit

Those Jeeples are ravenous.

By Joseph Jackson (Bonneville) on Saturday, April 08, 2023 - 07:07 am: Edit

I was a the range the other day with a co-worker. He's about half my age but we're both gun nuts. He had all the slick new stuff. In fact, his coolness factor was drawing a crowd. I showed up with lever action and a six shooter.
Later, he asked me why I was into the 'old' stuff.
Irritated, I responded that it made me feel like John Wayne.
Quite confused, in a low voice, he asked: "You mean John Wick, don't you?

By Mike Erickson (Mike_Erickson) on Saturday, April 08, 2023 - 08:24 am: Edit

At least he didn't say John Legend?

--Mike

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, April 08, 2023 - 03:24 pm: Edit

One year when I was at the wolf sanctuary (where I always had a prominent role as "Chef Steve" who fed the wolves) there were two charming young ladies. At the nearest place to eat, there were not enough tables so I offered them the empty seats at my table. We chatted amiably and I mentioned that I was from Texas and published games.

One of them, in surprise and awe, said "Oh my God, you're Steve Jackson!" then she offered to sleep with me. (Sigh.) "Lets continue this conversation privately in our hotel room."

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Monday, April 10, 2023 - 09:35 am: Edit

Bonneville: a few years back, I took part in a "combat rifle course" -- targets of various sorts at various ranges that you shot at as you ran through the course from various positions (standing, prone, etc) -- for charity (raising money for my American Legion post). It was full of 20-somethings with their fancy new poly-stock AR-builds with fancy new scopes; I meanwhile was dragging my 50-year old carcass through it with an SKS built in 1953 at Tula Arsenal sporting the original iron sights.

The young'uns were a bit miffed that I out-scored the lot of them. They were particularly perplexed that I was pinging the 200-yard metal bullseye without a sight adjustment. It was kind of hilarious, and I got a lot of questions about my "superior" SKS from them afterward.

By MarkSHoyle (Bolo) on Monday, April 10, 2023 - 11:17 am: Edit

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By Mike Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Tuesday, April 11, 2023 - 08:15 am: Edit

Small handguns can be a problem for big hands.

But you are right, it's mostly technique.

I was going through the Mobilization process at Bliss years ago and as part of it we had a range thing with laser scoring. Basically simulated rifles. Guy next to me says "I'm a former marine, so I'm gonna murder this." I out shot him by 12 points...

By Jeff Anderson (Jga) on Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 07:17 pm: Edit

This may end up backfiring (and leaving me with quite the moniker), but I'd like to share the story of a funny incident from a couple decades ago...

Once upon a time, I worked for my Aunt as the stockboy at a clothing store she managed. Normally, it was just meeting the delivery truck, counting everything that came in, and taking it to the right departments, but sometimes I was asked to help customers with this/that/the other thing.

One day, a young mother customer had let her toddler (okay, maybe pre-schooler) wander a bit. Well, when he saw my ugly mug, he called me something (with a rather impish grin on his face) that I'll just leave to your imagination...

Anyhow, the thing he called me had his mother blanche whiter than a sheet of paper, her mouth flopping open and closed like a fish out of water, until I, with a grin of my own (that didn't quite match the youngsters) told him, "Oh, you little silly! I'm not a dump truck!"

By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 04:21 pm: Edit

All posts prior to 2023 will be deleted June 27, 2023.

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Thursday, June 29, 2023 - 06:43 pm: Edit

For Jean: I just saw this on a meme:


I asked the librarian if she had the book about Pavlov's Dog and Schrodinger's Cat. She said it rang a bell, but she wasn't sure if it was there or not.


Garth L. Getgen