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AHHHH! Another thing that pisses me off. When I worked for National Amusement (Think Showcase Cinemas) we had to ask people if they wanted to donate money (buy a hippie golden heart pin) to some goofy charity. Funny thing is we were REQUIRED to sell out of all our pins that we had to pimp on customers that just bought a movie ticket and was about to mortgage their house for a tub of popcorn. To make matters worse, before every movie they played a PSA with Mel Gibson pimping the patron to put out even more money, and ushers had to walk with a money bucket to try and squeeze every last dime out of these poor people. Of course, NOWHERE during this fleecing did National Amusements even mention how much money THEY were donating. Oh, did I hate those times. (Although whenever I was an usher I taped over the bucket and wrote "Super Savers Usher Tip Jar" or something equally dumb when I had to play collection plate waiter. Might as well make the best of a bad situation I say -- my one manager thought it was funny as hell. The other one didn't think so.) And the other week some 90-year old hag cashier at Wal-Mart asked my better half and I if we wanted to donate $1 to some goofy fund. I then replied. “No. Would Wal-Mart like to donate $5 to the Frank Winters pay-the-rent fund?” Cashier said no – heartless b*tch...

My 10 off-the-top-of-my-head picks: Andre Dawson Dennis Eckersley Dennis Martinez Don Mattingly Paul Molitor Ryne Sandberg Fernando Valenzuela Jim Rice Lee Smith Don Mattingly Jack Morris...

Funny how that works -- managment wants you to pimp their "in-house" wares and promotions, but yet they also want you to make the lines move fast. Sounds like there weren't high expectations for your store (Oh, and the Old Navy I walked by while I was in the nearby mall was PACKED! Ironically, the one store I thought I was going to have the most trouble with, Toys R Us, was the easiest to deal with -- I think I came after their initial wave of idiot customers.) Christ, while I was in line I had FOUR SEPARATE CSRs try to pimp some extended warranty on the DVD player I bought. There was also this chick with a reindeer antler "hat" pimping gift cards and two guys pimping that "rewards" card. When they came to my neck of the woods I flashed mine out and they kept walking -- I was the hero for the group around me because they were tired of getting hassled by these floating CSRs...

You would think Wal-Mart could bite the financial bullet on a $29 DVD player after making $1.52 billion, although I agree with El S’s “don’t show up if you’re not prepared” statement...

Oh man, for the first time in my life I went to one of these Black Friday sales. Never again. Waiting in line that wrapped around the store for more than TWO HOURS? I can't begin to describe the chaos that took place. And regarding the notebook Waldo's talking about, Apparently each store didn't have many of these in stock. I heard one person talking about this guy that arrived at the Best Buy I was in at 2:30 a.m. Sad thing was he wasn't the first one in the lot -- and when the store opened he was SIXTH in line. He also got one of the last notebooks. Oh, and Pee Wee your response was gold...

Here’s another Wal-Mart story. My better half knows this woman in her 50s that went to a Mega-Wal-Mart for some hamburger buns. She was at a party and they ran out and they needed a BUNCH of them. Anyway, before meeting with someone about the buns (it was busy) she went over to the jewelry section for a minute of so looking at stuff. When she left the display a security guard came over and said he saw her steal a toe ring that cost less than one dollar. He took her to the back room, brought several other guards with him and kept saying he saw her stole the ring. She said she didn’t, and the guards said he wanted to strip-search her. (Please note the jewelry display had a security camera running that didn’t show ANYTHING of the sort regarding the theft.) The lady refused to let some middle-aged rent-a-cop see her in bra and panties, so the local police came by and a female officer did the deed. Of course they found nothing. Now this lady has hired a lawyer and is in the process of suing everything and everyone involved. Wal-Mart offered her a $10 gift certificate. Needless to say she didn’t accept it. Can’t wait to see what happens next...

Holy crap. The Magic are 1-15, but only SIX games back from the 76ers...

To the Far-Left's credit, there were a good number of them that blasted Clinton for this...

And what, pray tell, was this tax for?...

Wow, shooting a kid in the foot -- that's some marksmanship. Wonder how Al Jazeera would have covered the story if the soldiers smoked the little bastard, which is what they should have done...

It'd make for an interesting locker-room...

And I'm sure you defend the "Size/length doesn't matter" argument in other aspects of your life, too...

Fine, YOU try and take away LT's drugs. Yet another reason why Bill is a genius...

With as much as Hill has been injured since coming to Orlando, I really don't consider him a reason as to what's wrong with this team...

My prediction is that Kim (if he's still with the Sox) will give up a 12th-inning home run to the Yankees in the seventh game of the '04 ALCS after Schilling pitched 11 hitless innings...

Who's Choko -- or am I better off not asking?...

Figures this crap would win an award...

Yeah, way to show up an organization that's trying to do something new in regards to the way we purchase music. You rock shithead. (I'm talking about this hacker, not Naitch...)

Good. Damn old people control the freaking world with that organization...

I sent Fascist John some posts DrTom made here saying some not-so-nice things about the Attorney General. Hopefully the snipers will be stationed outside Tom's house by morning. Clinch the AFC North will ya?...

I remember the LSD thread that did him in -- was surprised by his banning (not that I'm saddened any). I also remember him harping on her in other threads regarding her looks, etc...

Choken One...

That's it? Sting looks more like Manson than Hart. Not only that, I think the Bret doll looks like Joey Ramone...

Sure. And when Philly and the Giants win on Sunday I'll have a good laugh. Not sure how braves will like what I'm about to say, but if you want to change any of your pics, please do it after this post because I have everyone's selections penciled in already. Just remember, the team you switch your pick to will be the team that loses...

Well, in order to send the rest of us on some sort of guilt trip, she decided not to show up after all. And good times were had by all. Of course she called right when everybody started eating just to let us know how guilty we were supposed to be feeling without her gracing us with her toothless presence. Damnit, can't that Hepatitis work any faster?...