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« Reply #150 on: June 20, 2023, 04:48:33 PM »

Welcome home to John G.

Will you be wearing your colorful new shirts to work? Guess where I’ve been the last few weeks!


I don’t have to go into work for a while yet. I can continue to work from home for a while.
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« Reply #151 on: June 20, 2023, 04:48:41 PM »

Six!
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« Reply #152 on: June 20, 2023, 04:52:52 PM »

Mom fell for a scam call that was supposedly from one of her grandsons. She sent off $1,500.

Dad fell for a similar scam a few years later. He was already suffering from dementia. The CVS manager recognized something fishy when Dad was in such a hurry to get $3,000 in cash cards. So, no money was sent that time.
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« Reply #153 on: June 20, 2023, 04:53:52 PM »

In neither case could you tell either parent not to answer phone calls from unidentified numbers.
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« Reply #154 on: June 20, 2023, 05:38:37 PM »

Mom fell for a scam call that was supposedly from one of her grandsons. She sent off $1,500.

Dad fell for a similar scam a few years later. He was already suffering from dementia. The CVS manager recognized something fishy when Dad was in such a hurry to get $3,000 in cash cards. So, no money was sent that time.

My mom knows a woman who really got taken. 
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« Reply #155 on: June 20, 2023, 05:38:50 PM »

She was talked into believing that she won the Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes and needed to send money (which she did several times), to get the winnings...which, of course, does not require payment of any kind. 
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« Reply #156 on: June 20, 2023, 05:39:04 PM »

She sent more than $65,000! :(
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« Reply #157 on: June 20, 2023, 05:40:41 PM »

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« Reply #158 on: June 20, 2023, 05:40:47 PM »

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« Reply #159 on: June 20, 2023, 06:08:15 PM »

They went to work on my mother in law a couple weeks ago on Facebook. Fake profile of her nephew asks if she’s applied for the special grant the Canadian govt is giving to seniors. Tells her she needs to talk to this other guy who starts instant messaging her, pressuring her for information. She luckily doesn’t give them any info and tells them to contact her daughter (my wife). That was good except she gave them my wife’s email and phone number!
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« Reply #160 on: June 20, 2023, 06:46:50 PM »

Watching a few Buster Keaton shorts. In The Play House, he plays every character in a minstrel act, including all of the orchestra and the people in the audience.
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Re: THE SCUMMY SCAMMERS
« Reply #161 on: June 20, 2023, 06:48:38 PM »

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« Reply #162 on: June 20, 2023, 06:50:37 PM »

This is the fourth of five discs, so I have a handful more to go. It’s been interesting watching his humor develop.
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« Reply #163 on: June 20, 2023, 06:51:36 PM »

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« Reply #164 on: June 20, 2023, 06:53:19 PM »

Oh yes. I'm always eating.
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« Reply #165 on: June 20, 2023, 06:55:29 PM »

I’m with you, chum.

To quote Madeline Kahn in At Long Last Love
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« Reply #166 on: June 20, 2023, 06:57:01 PM »

Let’s murder him first and then kill him!

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« Reply #167 on: June 20, 2023, 07:01:09 PM »

I think if you patronize a Hawaiian restaurant wearing a Hawaiian shirt, you should get a discount.
Great idea ;D
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« Reply #168 on: June 20, 2023, 07:01:48 PM »

We ended up ordering it to go and ate at the little table in our room.
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« Reply #169 on: June 20, 2023, 07:02:18 PM »

I keep coughing since working out.
Fingers crossed I settle down at the theater.

~~~No-Coughing Vibes for Jane!!~~~

Thanks, they almost worked.
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« Reply #170 on: June 20, 2023, 07:02:52 PM »

I thought this guy was a shoo-in for the title role in Shostakovich's opera The Nose, until I realized that part of it is an elbow in the background.

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« Reply #171 on: June 20, 2023, 07:03:16 PM »

Right out of the oven



It looks good.
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« Reply #172 on: June 20, 2023, 07:04:06 PM »

I am now in episode two of Wives and Daughters. It’s quite close to the novel. At least so far.

Thanks for the report.
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« Reply #173 on: June 20, 2023, 07:05:02 PM »

Some of these scammers are just awful. There’s one who has called me several times, purporting to be from my doctor’s office. “How are your knees doing?” he asks. I’ve never had trouble with my knees so I knew he was a scammer.


 >:( >:(

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« Reply #174 on: June 20, 2023, 07:05:20 PM »

Got a nice surprise notice via email - just a little irritation involving CD Baby that has apparently been solved.

Great.
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« Reply #175 on: June 20, 2023, 07:06:03 PM »

Yesterday was Mammogram Day. Oh, joy. Never a pleasure. Not far into it I had to ask if I could sit down for a few minutes. The technician was very understanding and told me that some patients faint. (I didn’t faint.) After that I was OK. It was negative, as I expected.

I stopped at my favorite food store on the was home and they had several of my favorite treats. I bought the strawberry mousse (sooo good!) and one of their mini apple pies. Everyone deserves a treat after a mammogram.

Men don’t know what they’re missing!

I agree about all of it.
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« Reply #176 on: June 20, 2023, 07:06:13 PM »

Good night, friends.
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« Reply #177 on: June 20, 2023, 07:07:57 PM »

She sent more than $65,000! :(

OMG that is horrible.
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« Reply #178 on: June 20, 2023, 07:08:11 PM »

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« Reply #179 on: June 20, 2023, 07:09:32 PM »

They went to work on my mother in law a couple weeks ago on Facebook. Fake profile of her nephew asks if she’s applied for the special grant the Canadian govt is giving to seniors. Tells her she needs to talk to this other guy who starts instant messaging her, pressuring her for information. She luckily doesn’t give them any info and tells them to contact her daughter (my wife). That was good except she gave them my wife’s email and phone number!

Partially good.  Vibes there are any problems due to the scammers having that I fo.
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