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AuntieAnt said:
I've gotten a call several times from a company with a San Antonio, Texas area code. It's a different caller each time, but they always ask the same thing. "Is Edith there?" I keep telling them she is not. When I ask who is calling, they hang up. I tried calling the number back to see what company it is, but all I get is an erratic sounding busy signal. So I've decided that next time I'm going to respond, "Yes, this is Edith. What company is this?" :rolleyes: Then whatever last name they have for Edith, I will say, "Oh, you've got the wrong person. I'm Edith Bunker." ;)

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Try googling the number. There are sites that keep track of flagged numbers and sometimes give information on the company associated and what kind of behavior is typical.
 
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AuntieAnt said:
I've gotten a call several times from a company with a San Antonio, Texas area code. It's a different caller each time, but they always ask the same thing. "Is Edith there?" I keep telling them she is not. When I ask who is calling, they hang up. I tried calling the number back to see what company it is, but all I get is an erratic sounding busy signal. So I've decided that next time I'm going to respond, "Yes, this is Edith. What company is this?" :rolleyes: Then whatever last name they have for Edith, I will say, "Oh, you've got the wrong person. I'm Edith Bunker." ;)

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Do youir best edith impersonation and say, "Archie? Is that you?" :rolleyes:
 
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Just as long as you take two little kittens home with you.
CatHerder said:
I had a dream last night that I was taking a road trip in the southern states - pretty much from East Texas to the Florida panhandle.

Maybe I need to spend some vacation time there.
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Ugly said:
Try googling the number. There are sites that keep track of flagged numbers and sometimes give information on the company associated and what kind of behavior is typical.
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Ooooh, I did as you advised and found it is a scam company, trying to pass itself off as a "charity". :p

Thanks for your suggestion! Now I'm going to report them.

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Do youir best edith impersonation and say, "Archie? Is that you?" :rolleyes:
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ROFL!!!! I just might! :rolleyes:
 
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Ultimatum77 said:
Speaking of the moon anyone else think that the saying "shoot for the moon even if you miss you land among the stars" is scientifically false? Stars are further away from Earth than the moon.....including our own star the sun.....so the correct way would be to shoot for the stars even if you miss you can still land on the moon lol.....
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Well, I hate to get all scientific on you, but technically, if you missed the moon, you'd still keep floating, without any gravity to stop you. So, you would fly until some kind of magnetic field pulled you in. You remain in motion until acted upon by an opposing force.
The closest star to you then, would be the sun, and it does have the magnetic force to keep you in it's orbit until it pulls you in completely. Then yes, you'll be part of that star... But you'll also be dead, whether you died before or after your greeting with said star, is a different topic altogether.

I lied... I didn't hate that. I actually enjoyed that.
 
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Additional comment to the one before... If you remained unacted upon, by even the sun's magnetic field, you would indeed, end up among the other stars... However, that would take so long, you would still be dead.
 
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The moral of this story is, if you don't know where you're shooting, and you can't shoot straight, someone will die.

Get the training you need, before you shoot.
 
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CatHerder said:
I had a dream last night that I was taking a road trip in the southern states - pretty much from East Texas to the Florida panhandle.

Maybe I need to spend some vacation time there.
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Or maybe it means they are about to secede from the Union. :eek:
 
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This is my first week with my new schedule. I'm dropping a day at my "real" job because I have accepted a position as Music Director at my church. The dropped day will be spent on my new office duties at the church.

I have this spicy mango salad dressing from Trader Joes. I don't like it much on salads. Today, I mixed it with some shredded cabbage and put it in a fish taco with some leftover halibut. It tasted great. I'll remember to use it as a meat or veggie marinade if I buy it in the future.

Marty, my cat investigated what was going on in the kitchen while I was working on some music arrangements. I lied to him and told him it was shrimp instead of fish. Since he is Jewish and doesn't eat shellfish, he lost interest in stealing my food and rejoined me in the living room.

Been working on some music arrangements the last couple of hours. I'll normally be doing this sort of things on my day off from work. We are hiring outside musicians for this Sunday, and I just made some trumpet parts to go with our hymns - Lift High the Cross, and Crown Him with Many Crowns. I feel doubly blessed to be doing these music projects - both for the glory of Christ, and for the $$.
 
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If there lurks in most modern minds the notion that to desire our own good and earnestly to hope for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing, I submit that this notion has crept in from Kant and the Stoics and is not part of the Christian faith.

Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak.

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”

– C. S. Lewis in “The Weight of Glory”
 
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Immawildthing said:
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Additional comment to the one before... If you remained unacted upon, by even the sun's magnetic field, you would indeed, end up among the other stars... However, that would take so long, you would still be dead.
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Isn't it the gravitational fields you need to worry about? That is unless you're tooling around out space in plate steel armor or some other ferrous metal.

But I do love it when people get all scientific on inspirational sayings.
 
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Yeah, Tony Stark has to be REALLY careful when he goes suborbital. Unless his destination is almost halfway around the globe he just deals with the atmosphere for the journey. ;)
 
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