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NEW VIRUS - SYMPTOMS

1. Sending the same email twice.
2. Sending a blank email.
3. Sending a message to the wrong person.
4. Sending it back to the person who sent it to you.
5. Forgetting to attach the attachment.
6. Hitting SEND before you've finished.
7. Hitting DELETE instead of SEND.
8. Hitting SEND when you should hit DELETE.

That is why it is called the C-NILE virus.

If you cannot admit to doing the above, then you have obviously caught the mutated C-NILE strain — the D-NILE virus.

03/09/22 01:01 PM

#23942

Wayne Gary

David,

I resemble the comments on the new virus.

On a differnt note.

Yesterday I went to my follow-up visit for the Maderna covid trial.

Maderna has 30,000 participants.

Trial sites

9 countries, 41 US States

37% are people of color

Jan 31, 2021 Maderna recieved full FDA approval for the Covid-19 vaccine Spikevax

Over 30 yearsI have been in 5 clinical trials for either kidney stone prevention or Maderna. I have noticed the brown and white guinea pig fuz on my forehead is slowly going away.

03/09/22 01:56 PM

#23943

Kurt Fischer

Steve:

I continue to be amazed at the things you've done in your working life. Heck, starting out in high school through the path you just documented, it is so different than the life I've lived. After college, I've never worked at a company for fewer than two years (American Airlines) and I only moved to Mobil Oil from American because of a substantial salary increase. While I've worked hard, you've scrambled in so many different ways to earn a living and maintain a family. I'm honestly in awe.

03/09/22 02:15 PM

#23944

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Steve,

I agree with Kurt. You're amazingly creative with your employment endeavours, not throwing in the towel and whimpering to the governmental teat, although I know you'd rather die than do that. Kudos!

I'll bet the Grandfather you spent many hours with while growing up would be proud of knowing what you have accomplished!

03/09/22 05:40 PM

#23945

Steve,

How 'bout if I buy when oil is below $50 and you buy if it is over $80?

03/09/22 05:50 PM

#23946

NEW YORK, NY—The College Board is announcing significant changes to its SAT in an effort to remain a relevant measure of college readiness. Starting next year, all test questions related to math, science, and reading comprehension will be replaced by a single coloring page depicting a likeness of Donald Trump and a space to draw devil horns on his head.

"We wanted to boil everything down to the basic essentials of what today's students need to be successful at today's progressive state colleges," said College Board spokeswoman Cynthia Borshvittle. "For most publically-educated students today, literacy and math skills are a useless remnant of a bygone era. Today, we must train our students in one thing, and one thing only: progressive politics. It's all about ideology. Nothing else matters now."

Sources confirmed that the SAT will still require a #2 pencil for completion, and will be graded on a sliding scale based on how disadvantaged or oppressed the student is.

"This is just a first step for us," said Borshvittle. The College Board has plans to further improve its testing in the future by grading students on their ability to pull down statues and throw Molotov cocktails.

03/09/22 09:25 PM

#23947

Steve,

I can add to your admissions of resourcefulness in addition to your truck tire salvaging and

"recapping" program. The first I knew of you endeavoring in this career, was when we both exited

the theater after seeing "The Passion" you showed me your 3/4 or one ton full of used truck tires.

Obviously I was amazed with your ability to find a market of need then!

But one endeavor you took on to subsidize your income......you perhaps forgot about! We ran into one

another again. Among other things you were selling, you had pens which looked exactly like the Montblanc

I had in my pocket! I said, "That's cool but what about the guts?" You said "Well, that's the best part, besides

being less." You then proceeded to show me the Montblanc screwed together....metal-on plastic! Your pen was

metal screwed on metal!! I said " Hell, I'll buy TWO!"

Do you remember?

03/09/22 10:03 PM

#23948

While Steve goes to buy his new size TEN hat (just teasing bro') I wanted to say

billionaire or not, I was impressed Elon Musk (Tesla CEO) suggested not once, but a

couple of times, "We need to open up the oil here....again." Besides EV's across the board won't happen

overnight. It will be a long co-existence, but at least we'll be energy independent again!
Doing business with enemies leaves a bad taste in my mouth, and frankly makes me wonder where our

allegiances lie. I don't know what "We've just got to work together" means anymore! Except for us

quite literally being "left in the cold"

03/09/22 10:16 PM

#23949

A song to finish that off.....

03/10/22 06:36 AM

#23950

The Call Is Coming from Inside the House: How Grades Can Undermine Learning and Jeopardize Our Students' Well-Being

Here is another sign that the educational system is in decline. I received this notice of a seminar sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning at UT Dallas. Apparently, it is bad for a teacher to assign grades because it might hurt the students' feelings.

Note the term "systemic inequities". I infer from that phrase that there will be a discussion of the (supposed) inherent unfairness of assigning grades since minorities perform worse than average. Of course, that concept doesn't apply to Chinese-Americans and Indian-Americans, who are always at the top of the class.

The Center for Teaching and Learning presents

Guest speaker: Dr. Joshua Eyler, University of Mississippi

Tuesday, March 29, noon-1 p.m
McDermott Auditorium (MC 2.410)

RSVP by March 22

Getting a good grade is supposed to be a marker of excellence, but research shows that grades diminish our intrinsic motivation and emphasize the outcome rather than the process that leads to what researchers refer to as deep learning. Grades also mirror and magnify many of the systemic inequities that are a part of higher education.

Dr. Joshua Eyler will offer a range of strategies we can try, both in our classrooms and at the institutional level, in order to be more equitable in our classrooms by mitigating the damaging effects of grades.

Please understand that selecting a lunch indicates your commitment to attend this event in person to receive a box lunch. For more information or special accommodations, please contact CTL@utdallas.edu.

03/10/22 08:32 AM

#23951

Wayne Gary

David,

I guess this is a renaming of an old failed experiment. I remember over 30 yrs ago UT and other schools tried a Pass/Fail program. It did not work. As well as the affirmative action in admissions. When Robert Gates was president of A&M the Hopwood v UT was settled to increase minority enrollment. A&M determined the reason more minorities were not coming to A&M was not because they could not meet the same standards as whites , they could not afford to come to A&M and a major reson was their parents did not go to college. A&M started their "1st Generation scholarships" . The scholarships were not race based, just income based. After 13 years of "1st Gen" vs Hopwood, A&M doubled the percentage of minorities while UT had no change. Four years ago A&M elimated tution for all 1st Gen and only last year UT followed.

03/10/22 09:06 AM

#23952

Jerry,

That must have happened the year before I got in the pallet business. I have to give my ex credit for getting me in the business. I lost an oil executive job when the company I was working for sold all their properties and no longer needed a VP Operations. My wife who was my fiancee at the time used to go to Sam Moon and buy earrings and necklaces by the dozen and repackage them and put them in nice boxess to sell individually. She woulld buy stuff for $10 a dozen and turn around and sell each piece for $19.99. While she shopped there I used to wander up and down Harry Hines and talk to all the other vendors. They had Chinese toys, Dooney Burke knockoffs, cartoon ties and other ties for $2 each, Montblanc knockoff pens for $2, and fake Rolex's, Tag Huers, Breitlings, Cartiers and other high end knockoffs. They also had wooden pens in various woods. Knockoff perfumes and toys were also available.

My wife sold her stuff at Bishop Lynch, Office buildings on Fridays and to the girls at Million Dollar Saloon because her cousin was the house mother. Her name was Jenny Bear. She rented a room in her house to a bartender from Million Dollar. He quit the bartender game and called me one day and said he was working at Friendly Chevrolet making $8000 a week selling trucks and cars. I decided to try that while I was looking for an oil job.

I went down there and never made more than $400 per week for about a month, but my problem was I could not lie and that is a real drawback selling cars. While I am sitting there one day this drug addled dirty kid comes in with a box of ties and some pens to sell to the salesman. He was selling the pens for $10 each. His problem was he only sold until he had enough to go get his next fix and then he took off until he needed drug money again. I did a calculation or two of what this kid made at our dealership alone and I knew I had found a new business. I took it serious. I ran a route selling the stuff from San Antonio and Austin to the Metroplex. I had a couple of Metroplex days and I ran a route to Ardmore, Norman, Okc, Yukon and Enid. I also ran a route from Abilene to Monroe including Shreveport and Bossier City. Louisiana. When i got it fine tuned I was making over a thousand a day.

I have a sixth sense after the SEC got after me one time and I noticed I was being followed when I went to stock up on Harry Hines or Royal. I started restocking at odd hours by mutual agreeement. One day I went to get some stuff and noticed a couple of guys on the roof acting like HVAC repairmen, but they did not have the right tools. I went home and attempted to call one of my main suppliers, but he would not pick up. I turned on the 5:30 news and there was Phil Jordan anouncing that they had just arrested the Knockoff King of the United States and were parading my guy in handcuffs. That was the end of my knockoff sales business. They kept calling my house and saying that they had a friend that knew me from such and such dealership and did I have some knockoffs for sale. I told them that all I had was stuff that was clearly labeled fake. They quit trying to meet me then.

03/10/22 10:06 AM

#23953

Sandra Spieker (Ringo)

Steve,

My father in law bought my husband a fake Rolex for Christmas one year. We called it a Bolex. It lasted a week then quit working. We kept it in a drawer for a few years out of respect then threw the thing away. He and his wife also had the fake Dooney and Burke handbags and gave me one. Same thing happened, the strap broke after a couple of weeks. What a waste.

David,

I agree that education has eroded. I also agree that grades are grades. It is an injustice to tell a kid they passed when they didn't. That being said, teachers should have more latitude on curriculum, and testing. Parents are too consumed with trivial issues that, more than likely never come up in the classroom.

I am also glad I don't have any kids or grandkids in the public school system. What a political mess it has become. Was our experience at RHS political? I guess the integration issue was paramount at the time. I do remember that several teachers taught they way they wanted. They let us view controversy and discuss it. In health, Mrs. Tunnel discussed sex ed, on the sly. In English we read books that are now frowned upon and even banned from public schools. If you wanted you could take courses that really challenged you and prepared you for college.

The other day at the grocery store, I had to tell the kid checking us out that the mysterious vegetable he was holding was a turnip. Then came the parsnip, he'd never seen one, much less eat one. Perhaps our youth is brain addled because of their diet.

03/10/22 11:20 AM

#23954

Please forgive the stereotypes and non P C issues in the following joke that I just don't know how to quantify. It is just a joke.

A very old New York Jewish guy wins the Megabucks lottery for millions and is being interviewed by the press. "What are you going to do first with all that money?" a reporter for The New York Times asks.

"The first thing I am going to do is go to the foundry and have them cast the largest statue ever commissioned of Adolph Hitler." he declared.

"You're Jewish, why in the world would you do that?" the reporter asked incredulously.

"It's the least I can do," he said as he held up his arm. "After all, he gave me the numbers."

03/10/22 12:26 PM

#23955

Sandra,

I remember buying one of those fake Rolexes also! Within days it would stop, and would only

start..... if I shook it, and then tapped it! lt also turned my arm green after just a week! I called

it a "Molex" I then sold it to a friend who tapped on it, and the second hand fell to the bottom!
(not to worry Steve, didn't buy from you!)

Actually Steve's "Mockblancs" lasted a long time!

Steve,

I Do see the humor in the joke!

03/10/22 12:29 PM

#23956

David and Hull.

i told Tommy that I was going to sell my land at Carl's Corner and move to New Mexico in the canyon and juniper country close to the mountains. I have identified a cheap 1000 acre tract with elk, mule deer, varmints, bear and mountain lion plus good fishing near the upper Canadian. Tommy suggested we go in together to buy the tract and put two cabins on it. I had to decline due to health reasons. I've got a case of anal glaucoma.

In other words, I can't see my ass buying a piece of land with Tommy.

03/10/22 12:37 PM

#23957

I thought of an old Beach Boys song as I passed the Walmart gas station yesterday and saw the sign: 409.

03/10/22 12:50 PM

#23958

Wayne Gary

David,

Is this the song?

03/10/22 04:28 PM

#23959

Jim Bedwell

03/10/22 08:13 PM

#23960

Steve,

Building on Lance's excellent advice, why not just build a cabin that you and Tommy can live in together? In fact, you could save money by sharing a bedroom. You could talk politics and religion 24-7! What fun! I saw an inexpensive set of bunkbeds at Ikea. You could push even push them together if you want to. Golly-gee, what a good time you'll have!

03/11/22 07:56 AM

#23961

This is a portion of an article in Golf Magazine online about Tiger Woods's speech at his induction to the World Golf Hall of Fame. I especially like the highlighted part at the end.

The suggestion here is to watch it if you can. Woods speaks as he never has before and spends about 18 minutes doing it. He talked about playing golf at night, hunting for balata golf balls, putting for quarters. Public golf. His mom, driving. His dad, lecturing. When he talked about his childhood putting, Crenshaw leaned in.

Woods talked about being denied access to country-club locker-rooms as a kid golfer at junior tournaments, because “the color of my skin dictated that.” This was on an evening when Jay Monahan, the PGA Tour commissioner, talked about how golf needed to do more to make the game more inclusive, and when Renee Powell, 75, the second Black golfer on the LPGA and the daughter of a legendary Ohio golf-course owner, Bill Powell, received an award for Charlie Sifford, the pioneering Black PGA Tour player. Sam’s kid brother is named for Charlie Sifford.

Barred from the clubhouse, Woods said he would put his golf shoes on in the parking lot and pose two questions:

“Where was the first tee and what was the course record?”

Bubba Watson, watching from the second-floor balcony and wearing a white T-shirt, listened intently, two fingers over his lips.

“It was not complicated,” Woods said of his questions. He paused. The applause was polite.

He spoke of the modest circumstances in which he grew up, how his parents took out a second mortgage on their home, to finance their only child’s golfing ambitions.

This was spectacular:

“So without the sacrifices of mom, who took me to all those junior golf tournaments, and dad, who’s not here but who instilled in me this work ethic, to fight for what I believe in, to chase after my dreams, and that nothing’s ever going to be given to you, everything’s going to be earned.

“If you don’t go out there and put in the work, if you don’t go out and put in the effort — one, you’re not going to get the results. And two, and more importantly, you don’t deserve it. You need to earn it.”

You might consider writing that out by hand and taping it on the fridge.

03/11/22 04:42 PM

#23962

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Lance,

David's "bent" is a common belief of Christian conservatives who have read 2 Thessaloninans 3:10, so to say that David is expressing something that is uncommon among Americans, is not true.

Also, your belief that this forum is just to be 'uplifting good tidings' is also untrue, in that this forum is furnished by David to promote friendship ties and have discussions of all types, and to allow for remembrances of the good ol' days of Richardson and Dallas County.

You seem to have a "bent" for preparing all for the return of Christ, which is admirable, but not necessarily the utmost concern of this forum, the way I see it.

03/11/22 05:58 PM

#23963

Lance,

I will offer my comments intersperse in red within your post, reproduced below.

After dozens of similar posts, we ALL understand your bent toward "earning a living".

I don't know what you are talking about. What does this refer to? The Tiger Woods quotation? I thought it was great. Still do. None of us should feel entitled.Everyone should strive to do their best. I have often said that I have no right to complain about hitting a bad shot on the golf course -- I don't practice enough. It is an insult to someone who works hard to suggest that I should have the same outcome without the same effort.

Nonetheless with 50M + Americans on the dole, there are just as many legitimate NEEDS for hand-outs as hand-ups.

Yes, there are many people who are in need through no fault of their own. However, Woods's comment wasn't directed to or intended to reflect on people on the dole. He was talking about what it takes to excel. I think his comment can be extrapolated to any endeavor.

Also after years of enduring your arrogant inflexibility, including your refusal to appreciate that I (or others here) can teach you anything...it would be refreshing to read your posts of those who get undeserved hand-outs...but subsequently pay-it-forward.

Arrogant inflexibility?? Hmm. I'll have to think about that. At the very least, I can add it to the lists of insults you've hurled my way. You may not even have recognized the insult folded into a complement in your post #25446: "Firstly while 'between homes' in moving from the Dallas suburban life to the City life, it was a sobering experience to enjoy the warmth of the Cordell's hospitality vs. his colder persona here often portrayed on the Forum!" I actually received three emails objecting to your specifying that I have cold persona. It was rather gratifying to receive those emails.

Regarding your allegation that I don't think anyone can teach me anything, I think you are badly mistaken. I spent a whole career that as a scholar, which requires constant learning. However, after Martha read your post, and knowing that we had invited you into our home for five nights, she said to me, "Will you never learn?"

Also, your snarky comment to me regarding Steve and Tommy is unproductive, and needs to be deleted.

You mean you were serious?? I thought you were joking since Steve made it abundantly clear that he had no interest in teaming up with Tommy. Do you really feel that you have all the answers for others' relationships? Are you successful in your relationships?

In my view and from their many posts over the years, both of these friends "appear to do very well" when they actually invest in a breakfast together to refresh their fellowship...political differences aside.

So, you really think you know what is best for Steve?

Obviously this is none of my damn business.

At the very least, I don't think it is appropriate for you to provide this type of counseling in a public forum, putting pressure on one of the principals to respond to your suggestion.

And yet at this time in their friendship, there is a mutual necessity and excellent opportunity to leverage their re$ources toward a new shared adventure in life at age 70!

I took the risk to move to a Midrise apartment...and am happy for it.

I'm not sure that leasing an apartment makes you qualified to give good advice to others about whom they should live with.

Lastly as a cautious reminder, this Forum (like most online communities) has become the dumping ground for human emotional joyless expression.

Once again, you insult the Forum, which is an insult to those who post and those who read, although I strongly suspect that it was intended as an insult to me. I can't emphasize enough that there is at least one other site that would welcome your commentary and especially your insults of me. To be perfectly candid, though, this business of lashing out when you are angry at me reflects much more on you than on me.I thnk you should have figured that out by now.

Let's feed ourselves a healthy Daily Bread, before drifting back to our complacent addiction of mindless posting here on the RHS Forum.

Combining an insult with a religious reference?? Again, it is an insult to me, but also to everyone else, except maybe to you. Do you really feel that your posts are somehow above the typical "mindless posting"?

Really, Lance, you should find another social media outlet that meets your standards and provides you with greater opportunities for self-actualization.

03/11/22 11:07 PM

#23964

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Lance,

Your opinions and relgious teachings are fine. They do not bother me at all.

But I believe your idea of what David's forum is about....is not in sync with his idea of what he wants it to be. I could be wrong. What I'm writing is only what I feel is true. I think YOU feel the forum should be what YOU wish it to be.

Does that make any sense to you?

You say that I have spent years "sparring" with Tommy. I think I've spent time mostly kidding with Tommy, with a few times of seriousness. I think you have spent even more time than me, "sparring" with Tommy, with some seriousness thrown in, and I can ask you the same question of..."To what end?"

Tommy, it seems to me, is a 'kidder' and a keen fellow of honed humor, not wanting to be 'too serious' at many times to the public. Maybe he keeps his serious moments for intimate periods of his life, and it is not for us to interfere with how he conducts his life. To each his own, I say.

03/12/22 10:46 AM

#23965