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- GlytchMeister
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I've never done drugs, smoked tobacco, or drank alcohol (outside accidentally swallowing mouthwash when startled, but that doesn't count), so I didn't know what to do with it. I ended up asking the manager if the company had a protocol for when somebody finds pot, he just told me to throw it away.
*shrug*
*shrug*
He's mister GlytchMeister, he's mister code
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
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I imagine there's a story, lurking behind every odd "discard". A good author could probably scribe up a whole book's worth of short stories, just using these discards as departure points.Alkarii wrote:Working in the parking lot at a well-known home improvement store (hint: orange), I tend to find the weirdest things that people leave. I don't mean just forgotten in a cart, either, though that happens a lot. Weird things, like, oh, say, a wedding dress.
Mnd you, the stories might not be correct about what had actually happened, but they could be interesting nevertheless if the author is a good one.
(vis the "Five Fates" anthology, with five SF stories by Laumer, Dickson, Anderson, Ellison, and Herbert. They share the same two-page prologue, and then veer off into five completely different directions and styles. Quite a good and fascinating read.)
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So far, I've found:
A lawn equipment battery
several tires
a shelf display full of packages of burger buns
a box of canned food
old speakers
a leaf blower
An air compressor
A length of cable in new condition
A bag of weed
A mirror
A complete wedding dress, in its original box
Several phones and tablets
Random cardboard boxes (for everything from lawn mowers to baby furniture to flat screen tvs)
Bags of garbage (sometimes with rotting meat in them)
A basketball, and a kickball
One guy found a dead alligator snapping turtle someone ran over and then brought here. That might be the closest thing to being as crazy as the wedding dress.
A lawn equipment battery
several tires
a shelf display full of packages of burger buns
a box of canned food
old speakers
a leaf blower
An air compressor
A length of cable in new condition
A bag of weed
A mirror
A complete wedding dress, in its original box
Several phones and tablets
Random cardboard boxes (for everything from lawn mowers to baby furniture to flat screen tvs)
Bags of garbage (sometimes with rotting meat in them)
A basketball, and a kickball
One guy found a dead alligator snapping turtle someone ran over and then brought here. That might be the closest thing to being as crazy as the wedding dress.
There is no such thing as a science experiment gone wrong.
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See if you can find a copy of 'Tales of Manhattan'...Dave wrote:I imagine there's a story, lurking behind every odd "discard". A good author could probably scribe up a whole book's worth of short stories, just using these discards as departure points.Alkarii wrote:Working in the parking lot at a well-known home improvement store (hint: orange), I tend to find the weirdest things that people leave. I don't mean just forgotten in a cart, either, though that happens a lot. Weird things, like, oh, say, a wedding dress.
Mind you, the stories might not be correct about what had actually happened, but they could be interesting nevertheless if the author is a good one.
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Dave wrote:I imagine there's a story, lurking behind every odd "discard". A good author could probably scribe up a whole book's worth of short stories, just using these discards as departure points.Alkarii wrote:Working in the parking lot at a well-known home improvement store (hint: orange), I tend to find the weirdest things that people leave. I don't mean just forgotten in a cart, either, though that happens a lot. Weird things, like, oh, say, a wedding dress.
Mnd you, the stories might not be correct about what had actually happened, but they could be interesting nevertheless if the author is a good one.
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- shadowinthelight
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At least the alligator wasn't in the wedding dress.Alkarii wrote:So far, I've found:
Julie, about Wapsi Square wrote:Oh goodness yes. So much paranormal!
My deviantART and YouTube.
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- Jabberwonky
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Found an Alligator Snapping Turtle ON the site Wedding Dress....shadowinthelight wrote:At least the alligator wasn't in the wedding dress.Alkarii wrote:So far, I've found:
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Good policy.Alkarii wrote:That's why I leave mine at home.
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I've thought of writing a short story to be titled "Metadata" and consisting of solely the sort of stuff that it is now admitted that the US's National Security Agency collects on cell-phone calls...
- Catawampus
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An acquaintance of mine is an elderly (approximately 280 years old, by my estimation) man who works doing odd jobs at one of the local grocery stores. The store has a couple of special shopping carts for parents with children: they're shaped like little enclosed racing cars, and have the shopping basket attached to the back. The kids can sit in the front in the "car" part honking the horn and spinning the little nonfunctional steering wheels, while the parents push them through the store and do the shopping.Alkarii wrote:Working in the parking lot at a well-known home improvement store (hint: orange), I tend to find the weirdest things that people leave. I don't mean just forgotten in a cart, either, though that happens a lot. Weird things, like, oh, say, a wedding dress.
Yesterday, I found a little bag of weed. I didn't keep it, though. I disposed of it, because it could have been laced with PCP or whatever.
Someone is probably pissed, though.
He found a gallon zip-close bag of weed under the seat in one of them.
Sort of like that short story Ernest Hemingway is supposed to have written:Dave wrote:I imagine there's a story, lurking behind every odd "discard". A good author could probably scribe up a whole book's worth of short stories, just using these discards as departure points.
"For sale: baby shoes, never worn".
- DinkyInky
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...and people wondeted why I used to act OCD and wipe down the entire surface of one of those before letting him drive...Catawampus wrote:An acquaintance of mine is an elderly (approximately 280 years old, by my estimation) man who works doing odd jobs at one of the local grocery stores. The store has a couple of special shopping carts for parents with children: they're shaped like little enclosed racing cars, and have the shopping basket attached to the back. The kids can sit in the front in the "car" part honking the horn and spinning the little nonfunctional steering wheels, while the parents push them through the store and do the shopping.Alkarii wrote:Working in the parking lot at a well-known home improvement store (hint: orange), I tend to find the weirdest things that people leave. I don't mean just forgotten in a cart, either, though that happens a lot. Weird things, like, oh, say, a wedding dress.
Yesterday, I found a little bag of weed. I didn't keep it, though. I disposed of it, because it could have been laced with PCP or whatever.
Someone is probably pissed, though.
He found a gallon zip-close bag of weed under the seat in one of them.
Sort of like that short story Ernest Hemingway is supposed to have written:Dave wrote:I imagine there's a story, lurking behind every odd "discard". A good author could probably scribe up a whole book's worth of short stories, just using these discards as departure points.
"For sale: baby shoes, never worn".
I'm kinda allergic to that crap(more than a tiny reason I never tried it, and other type bad things), and after a decade working in the grocery industry, trust people to be nice and normal in the store even less.
Yanno how some people have Angels/Devils for a conscience? I have a Dark Elf ShadowKnight and a Half Elf Ranger for mine. The really bad part is when they agree on something.
Aphyon chu kissa whol l'jaed.
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Aphyon chu kissa whol l'jaed.
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"♫ No thank you, please,DinkyInky wrote:I'm kinda allergic to that crap(more than a tiny reason I never tried it,
it only makes me sneeze,
then it makes it hard to find the door. ♪"
- Jabberwonky
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A new coffee to try at Mucho Mocha...
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- AnotherFairportfan
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Commander Cody says Hoyt Axton (who wrote it) offered him the "No No Song", but his wife persuaded him that (with things like "Seeds and Stems (Again)", it would make him look too much like he specialised in drug songs, so he didn't record it.Dave wrote:"♫ No thank you, please,DinkyInky wrote:I'm kinda allergic to that crap(more than a tiny reason I never tried it,
it only makes me sneeze,
then it makes it hard to find the door. ♪"
Hoyt took it to Ringo, and it made three million dollars.
There nay have been a divorce...
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- DinkyInky
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Yeah, just like that Ringo, only add the part where the emergency techs are sticking adrenaline in my veins...Dave wrote:"♫ No thank you, please,DinkyInky wrote:I'm kinda allergic to that crap(more than a tiny reason I never tried it,
it only makes me sneeze,
then it makes it hard to find the door. ♪"
Yanno how some people have Angels/Devils for a conscience? I have a Dark Elf ShadowKnight and a Half Elf Ranger for mine. The really bad part is when they agree on something.
Aphyon chu kissa whol l'jaed.
--Safyr Drathmir
Aphyon chu kissa whol l'jaed.
--Safyr Drathmir
- DinkyInky
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It's very nice if you fancy a super-duper strong brew.Jabberwonky wrote:A new coffee to try at Mucho Mocha...
Yanno how some people have Angels/Devils for a conscience? I have a Dark Elf ShadowKnight and a Half Elf Ranger for mine. The really bad part is when they agree on something.
Aphyon chu kissa whol l'jaed.
--Safyr Drathmir
Aphyon chu kissa whol l'jaed.
--Safyr Drathmir
- GlytchMeister
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O.oDinkyInky wrote:It's very nice if you fancy a super-duper strong brew.Jabberwonky wrote:A new coffee to try at Mucho Mocha...
How does that even work? What? is the bottom of the cup a filter? but wouldn't the coffee just pour back out through the filter? My brain, it hurts...
EDIT:
Found out how it works. It's not sorcery. it just looks a lot like it.
EDITEDIT:
Gawd, the finished product looked like mud.
He's mister GlytchMeister, he's mister code
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
- MerchManDan
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So this is what Tina served to Stheno? I guess I shouldn't be surprised.Jabberwonky wrote:A new coffee to try at Mucho Mocha...
Which I do, but...well actually, I'll happily try it before drawing a line anywhere. Hopefully it's not too big a faux pas to add some sugar.DinkyInky wrote: It's very nice if you fancy a super-duper strong brew.
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- lake_wrangler
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Unrelated, from a link on the side of that page: What you get when you pour molten aluminum into a watermelonJabberwonky wrote:A new coffee to try at Mucho Mocha...
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That... is really beautiful metal-casting! Makes me want to go have a cup of that super-sand-powered foamy coffee!