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I don't get it
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 4:19 pm
by ToLiveIsToFly
I've never spent a winter or spring living anywhere except New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York City, or Chicago (well, except for one winter in Oregon, but I was one and I don't remember it). All of these are places where it's pretty normal for there to be absolutely awful weather after the first day of spring.
Hell, I remember getting enough snow that the T didn't run one April in Boston.
So why, when I look out the window today in Chicago and see snow coming down to beat the band, am I totally stunned?
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 4:28 pm
by silvercamaro
Because you now know so many more people who live where the temperature is above 80 today?
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 4:39 pm
by kayrharris
silvercamaro wrote:Because you now know so many more people who live where the temperature is above 80 today?
Not above 80 here today, but 78 is pretty darn close. High of 80 tomorrow, though.
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 4:42 pm
by peacock2121
Your weather can bite me.
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 5:02 pm
by MarleysGh0st
That snow is heading our way tonight and that doesn't surprise me, at all.
What I don't understand is, why did L.L. Bean's
Summer catalog arrive today?
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:09 pm
by Bob Juch
I once got three feet of snow over Memorial Day weekend in Colorado Springs!
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:13 pm
by ulysses5019
What I don't understand is, why did L.L. Bean's Summer catalog arrive today?
But when do the new phone books arrive?
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:53 pm
by VAdame
ulysses5019 wrote:What I don't understand is, why did L.L. Bean's Summer catalog arrive today?
But when do the new phone books arrive?
Our new phone books arrived yesterday.
No snow here but it's raining like crazy.
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:07 pm
by PlacentiaSoccerMom
VAdame wrote:ulysses5019 wrote:What I don't understand is, why did L.L. Bean's Summer catalog arrive today?
But when do the new phone books arrive?
Our new phone books arrived yesterday.
No snow here but it's raining like crazy.
My kids love it when we receive new phone books.
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:41 pm
by ontellen
Snowing here tonight. No one is even shovelling the shit anymore. We just plow through it. Next week it's supposed to actually get above 0C every day!!! Whoopie!
This is the worst winter I can remember since the year I got married - 1971.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 5:18 am
by peacock2121
ulysses5019 wrote:What I don't understand is, why did L.L. Bean's Summer catalog arrive today?
But when do the new phone books arrive?
We got ours 2 weeks ago.
There was one placed in a plastic bag on the ground at the foot of each of our driveway entrances. Funny thing is, one of the entrances is closed now and they still left the phone book. I didn't find that one until it had rained.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:54 am
by earendel
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:VAdame wrote:ulysses5019 wrote:
But when do the new phone books arrive?
Our new phone books arrived yesterday.
No snow here but it's raining like crazy.
My kids love it when we receive new phone books.
"The new phone books are here! The new phone books are here! (Steve Martin in
The Jerk)
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:57 am
by mrkelley23
earendel wrote:PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:VAdame wrote:
Our new phone books arrived yesterday.
No snow here but it's raining like crazy.
My kids love it when we receive new phone books.
"The new phone books are here! The new phone books are here! (Steve Martin in
The Jerk)
"KT's Sig Line! KT"s Sig line!"
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:38 am
by Jeemie
I don't know why they keep printing phone books.
Waste of time, energy, and materials.
Phone books should be kept online.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:50 am
by MarleysGh0st
Jeemie wrote:I don't know why they keep printing phone books.
Waste of time, energy, and materials.
Phone books should be kept online.
Not only does the local phone company print phonebooks, now we get extra copies from companies we've never heard of before!
I noticed a letter to the editor in the Ithaca Journal complaining about all those phonebooks in plastic bags that can be seen tossed around town. Letter writer was asking how that was different than littering. A good question!
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:03 am
by fantine33
Jeemie wrote:I don't know why they keep printing phone books.
Waste of time, energy, and materials.
Phone books should be kept online.
Not everybody has a computer (my grandma doesn't, she just got a cell phone in the past year because my mom and uncle insisted and bought her one).
The back seat of my car doesn't have a computer, but it does have a phone book.
If you need a phone number or address real quick, it's easier to grab the phone book than boot up the computer, perhaps have dial up and connect to get online, then figure out what site you can get it from the fastest with the least amount of ads and links telling you that the information certainly is available (if you sign up and pay a fee).
Some people's internet can be very spotty, mine was out for weeks at a time a couple years ago and, when they're doing construction and stuff out here a while back, it would go off for several hours in the late afternoon probably 2-3 times a week.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:12 am
by littlebeast13
Jeemie wrote:I don't know why they keep printing phone books.
Waste of time, energy, and materials.
Phone books should be kept online.
If they eliminate the phone book, what will be next? The pay phone!?!?!? The rotary dial!?!?!? Jane, the Time/Life operator!?!?!?!!?!?
You speak of blasphemy!!!!
lb13
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:04 pm
by takinover
It was snowing here today. But it had no chance of sticking to the ground.