I tried having my mother’s phone disconnected, but customer service told me that since the account was in my dad’s name, he’d have to be the one to put in the request.
The fact that he’d been dead for 40 years didn’t sway the rep. Then a solution hit me: “If I stop paying the bill, you can turn off the service, right?”
“Well, yes,” she said reluctantly. “But that would ruin his credit.”
A 1993 shipping accident dropped almost 30k bath toys into the Pacific Ocean, which actually became very useful for tracking ocean currents for the next decade.
1. “One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”
2. “The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”
3. “I’m not funny. What I am is brave.”
4. “I’d rather regret the things I have done than the things that I haven’t.”
5. “Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.”
6. “Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.”
7. “A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright.”
8. “In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.”
9. “I don’t know how to tell a joke. I never tell jokes. I can tell stories that happened to me… anecdotes. But never a joke.”
10. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
11. “Ability is of little account without opportunity.”
12. “Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don’t rush; otherwise you’ll look like a patchwork quilt.”
13. “I’m happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.”
14. “Remember to recognize the small successes that you will have.”
15. “Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work — and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.”
A big shot business man had to spend a couple of days in the hospital. He was a royal pain to the nurses because he bossed them around just like he did his employees. None of the hospital staff wanted to have anything to do with him.
The head nurse was the only one who could stand up to him. She walked into his room and announced, “I have to take your temperature.”
After complaining for several minutes, he finally settled down, crossed his arms and opened his mouth.
“No, I’m sorry, the nurse stated, “but for this reading, I can’t use an oral thermometer.”
This started another round of complaining, but eventually he rolled over and bared his behind.
After feeling the nurse insert the thermometer, he heard her announce, “I have to get something. Now you stay JUST LIKE THAT until I get back!”
She leaves the door to his room open on her way out. He curses under his breath as he hears people walking past his door, laughing. After almost an hour, the man’s doctor comes into the room.
“What’s going on here?” asked the doctor.
Angrily, the man answers, “What’s the matter, Doc? Haven’t you ever seen someone having their temperature taken before?”
After a pause, the doctor replies, “Yes, but never with a daffodil!”
“Walked out this morning. I don’t believe what I saw. A hundred billion Legos washed up on the shore. Seems I’m not alone at being alone. A hundred billion Lego blocks looking for a home.”
I think pretty much every plant “blooms” when put in hot water along with quotation marks.
Take care, may gazed upon Manchurian apple polisher Hmuong “Give Teacher Morning Present Like In Old-Time America And She Let Me Live Another Day” Phrumbleemfrappord be with you, and gesundheit.
Desilu Productions was formed in 1950 using the combined names of “Desi Arnaz” and “Lucille Ball”. It was created to produce Lucy and Desi’s vaudeville act as a television series and sell it to Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) executives. Arnaz and Ball wanted to adapt Ball’s CBS radio series My Favorite Husband to television. The television project eventually became I Love Lucy. During the show’s first few years, Desilu rented space at General Service Studios (now the Sunset Las Palmas Studios) at Santa Monica Boulevard and North Las Palmas Avenue. They used Stage Two, which was named Desilu Playhouse. Ball’s contribution was more on the artistic side. She was skilled at proposing new programs that were popular to broad audiences and successful in both their original broadcasts and syndication reruns. Before starring in I Love Lucy, she starred in many B movies, and had a good idea of what television audiences wanted.She approved original production concepts (such as The Untouchables and Star Trek) for development into broadcast series,[ assessing how the public would enjoy them and their potential for long-term success. This led to continued profits from the programs through reruns, which would recover their high development and production costs. Even decades after the absorption of Desilu Productions and the production end of all original series Desilu approved for development, some series have achieved enduring success and, in some cases, redevelopment into feature-length movie franchises in their own right. Examples are The Untouchables, Star Trek and Mission Impossible.
In an episode of I Love Lucy, Lucy promises to go 24 hours without telling a lie. Ethyl asks Lucy what her natural hair color is. “Mousy Brown” was Lucy’s reply.
Having read the above, I have to say I’ve been there and done all of that. When I tried to change my cell service, the phone company said they needed my mother’s approval since she originally signed for it. I told them she had died, and then they wanted a death certificate.
I got disgusted and just quit paying them. That was ATT.
I had an alarm service. The machine died from a lightning strike. They never bothered to check the system like the previous company I had that got to be too expensive. So, when I told them, 6 months later, that I was discontinuing the service, they said I owed them a lot of money. I told the guy that his machine had failed six months earlier, so his response was why didn’t I call them? My answer was, I guess you guys don’t monitor the system like you claim to. Another outfit I quite paying. I got lots of threats from half a dozen different debt collectors, all with the exact same boiler plate form, just different names. Nothing ever happened and the statute of limitation eventually passed by. No service, no pay.
Moral of this extended story: Before signing up with any of these outfits, check their termination policy, and if it isn’t simple and straightforward, don’t sign up with them.
eromlig almost 3 years ago
I tried having my mother’s phone disconnected, but customer service told me that since the account was in my dad’s name, he’d have to be the one to put in the request.
The fact that he’d been dead for 40 years didn’t sway the rep. Then a solution hit me: “If I stop paying the bill, you can turn off the service, right?”
“Well, yes,” she said reluctantly. “But that would ruin his credit.”
monkeysky almost 3 years ago
A 1993 shipping accident dropped almost 30k bath toys into the Pacific Ocean, which actually became very useful for tracking ocean currents for the next decade.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Floatees
JDP_Huntington Beach almost 3 years ago
Top 15 quotes from Lucille Ball
1. “One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”
2. “The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”
3. “I’m not funny. What I am is brave.”
4. “I’d rather regret the things I have done than the things that I haven’t.”
5. “Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.”
6. “Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.”
7. “A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright.”
8. “In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.”
9. “I don’t know how to tell a joke. I never tell jokes. I can tell stories that happened to me… anecdotes. But never a joke.”
10. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
11. “Ability is of little account without opportunity.”
12. “Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don’t rush; otherwise you’ll look like a patchwork quilt.”
13. “I’m happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.”
14. “Remember to recognize the small successes that you will have.”
15. “Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work — and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.”
Templo S.U.D. almost 3 years ago
that kind of tea: yum
Charlie Fogwhistle almost 3 years ago
A big shot business man had to spend a couple of days in the hospital. He was a royal pain to the nurses because he bossed them around just like he did his employees. None of the hospital staff wanted to have anything to do with him.
The head nurse was the only one who could stand up to him. She walked into his room and announced, “I have to take your temperature.”
After complaining for several minutes, he finally settled down, crossed his arms and opened his mouth.
“No, I’m sorry, the nurse stated, “but for this reading, I can’t use an oral thermometer.”
This started another round of complaining, but eventually he rolled over and bared his behind.
After feeling the nurse insert the thermometer, he heard her announce, “I have to get something. Now you stay JUST LIKE THAT until I get back!”
She leaves the door to his room open on her way out. He curses under his breath as he hears people walking past his door, laughing. After almost an hour, the man’s doctor comes into the room.
“What’s going on here?” asked the doctor.
Angrily, the man answers, “What’s the matter, Doc? Haven’t you ever seen someone having their temperature taken before?”
After a pause, the doctor replies, “Yes, but never with a daffodil!”
Until next time.
therese_callahan2002 almost 3 years ago
“Walked out this morning. I don’t believe what I saw. A hundred billion Legos washed up on the shore. Seems I’m not alone at being alone. A hundred billion Lego blocks looking for a home.”
James Wolfenstein almost 3 years ago
Lucille used to be a blonde before that. Like in Three Stooges’ Three little pigskins.
Huckleberry Hiroshima almost 3 years ago
I think pretty much every plant “blooms” when put in hot water along with quotation marks.
Take care, may gazed upon Manchurian apple polisher Hmuong “Give Teacher Morning Present Like In Old-Time America And She Let Me Live Another Day” Phrumbleemfrappord be with you, and gesundheit.
Teto85 Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Desilu Productions was formed in 1950 using the combined names of “Desi Arnaz” and “Lucille Ball”. It was created to produce Lucy and Desi’s vaudeville act as a television series and sell it to Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) executives. Arnaz and Ball wanted to adapt Ball’s CBS radio series My Favorite Husband to television. The television project eventually became I Love Lucy. During the show’s first few years, Desilu rented space at General Service Studios (now the Sunset Las Palmas Studios) at Santa Monica Boulevard and North Las Palmas Avenue. They used Stage Two, which was named Desilu Playhouse. Ball’s contribution was more on the artistic side. She was skilled at proposing new programs that were popular to broad audiences and successful in both their original broadcasts and syndication reruns. Before starring in I Love Lucy, she starred in many B movies, and had a good idea of what television audiences wanted.She approved original production concepts (such as The Untouchables and Star Trek) for development into broadcast series,[ assessing how the public would enjoy them and their potential for long-term success. This led to continued profits from the programs through reruns, which would recover their high development and production costs. Even decades after the absorption of Desilu Productions and the production end of all original series Desilu approved for development, some series have achieved enduring success and, in some cases, redevelopment into feature-length movie franchises in their own right. Examples are The Untouchables, Star Trek and Mission Impossible.
This Trekkie loves Lucy.
Nala the Great almost 3 years ago
I did L. Ball’s number 5. Best ten years of my life!
198.23.5.11 almost 3 years ago
EVERYBODY knew about the hair!!
Watch her in DANCE,GIRL,Dance(1940) IF YOU WANT TO SEE A COMPLETELY different Lucy.
“You’ve been married to her for 15 years?And they call MESuperman!”
mindjob almost 3 years ago
I’ve had that tea many times and recommend it
FassEddie almost 3 years ago
You didn’t know this, but I’m a LEGO genius.
The box said 6-12 years, but I finished it in less than a day.
That’s gotta be some sort of record.
Jogger2 almost 3 years ago
In an episode of I Love Lucy, Lucy promises to go 24 hours without telling a lie. Ethyl asks Lucy what her natural hair color is. “Mousy Brown” was Lucy’s reply.
dv1093 almost 3 years ago
5 million? I see one.
Carl Rennhack Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Leggo my LEGO!
JonSchuck almost 3 years ago
And those trees leaves are dried by communist workers driving over them repeated with trucks so the exhaust desiccates them
WCraft Premium Member almost 3 years ago
And several sea creatures are cursing under their breaths about stepping on those legos…
viperfuel60 almost 3 years ago
That picture doesn’t look anything like Lucy.
Charlie Fogwhistle almost 3 years ago
This is just a little joke, but funny nonetheless.
The British Royals are having tea, and Queen Elizabeth says “Philip, I think you should see a doctor. I fear you have a touch of dementia.”
“ME? he says. You’re the one who thinks she’s the bloody Queen of England!”
Until next time.
gldoutt Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Having read the above, I have to say I’ve been there and done all of that. When I tried to change my cell service, the phone company said they needed my mother’s approval since she originally signed for it. I told them she had died, and then they wanted a death certificate.
I got disgusted and just quit paying them. That was ATT.
I had an alarm service. The machine died from a lightning strike. They never bothered to check the system like the previous company I had that got to be too expensive. So, when I told them, 6 months later, that I was discontinuing the service, they said I owed them a lot of money. I told the guy that his machine had failed six months earlier, so his response was why didn’t I call them? My answer was, I guess you guys don’t monitor the system like you claim to. Another outfit I quite paying. I got lots of threats from half a dozen different debt collectors, all with the exact same boiler plate form, just different names. Nothing ever happened and the statute of limitation eventually passed by. No service, no pay.
Moral of this extended story: Before signing up with any of these outfits, check their termination policy, and if it isn’t simple and straightforward, don’t sign up with them.
catonmyshoulders almost 3 years ago
The red hair is because she use henna to color it.
pbr50138 almost 3 years ago
I thought everyone knew Lucy wasn’t a natural redhead.