I second DrPres!
The perfect complement to a Dogfish Head Raison d'Etre (or 2... or 3, not sure... I started a couple hours ago and stumbled upon this post, while taking a break from housecleaning. The house can wait.). Great link, Mr. G.!
Thread was started by "His Grace": doesn't that mean he's impersonating the Pope or something? Nice icons, though: sort of like a geek code for fundy End Timers.
and Wow, again.
Thanks, homunculus, for posting this here as well as "the other -Filter." While I am an ACLU member, I do think this scenario is over the top. However, I found that paying cash as a walk-in was no escape from the "feed our database" drill at a Papa John's near my house. The last time I went in there ("last" as in "final" not "most recent"), the counter guy asked for my phone number. Thinking he doesn't need that for a walk-in order, I give him the 555-1212 time/weather number. He punches a few keys, and then smirks and says, "Welcome back, Mr. Pizza Lover" The entry had an address and everything. I was laughing so hard trying to figure out whether it was test data put there by the programmers, or if someone had beat me to using that phone number, I almost forgot being annoyed at the question in the first place. But I've never been back. It's a pizza, for God's sake! What do they need to keep track of?
Gyan, thanks, point taken. All I was saying is, Where's the "Ur-Link" back to the source? Of course, about 5 seconds after posting, I got the bright idea to google "Convar+Reuters" and found a link to Convar's News/Press Release archive with the same article in your link, and a big official Reuters logo right on it.
Not to further muddy the waters but can anyone find corroboration this was a Reuters story? The FPP goes to unknownnews, and the "Reuters" link there goes to indymedia. Anyone find the original story?
I second DrPres! The perfect complement to a Dogfish Head Raison d'Etre (or 2... or 3, not sure... I started a couple hours ago and stumbled upon this post, while taking a break from housecleaning. The house can wait.). Great link, Mr. G.!
posted by tmike 20 years ago
In "PSSSSSST! That superstar of the Democratic convention? We think he might be the Anti-Christ."
Thread was started by "His Grace": doesn't that mean he's impersonating the Pope or something? Nice icons, though: sort of like a geek code for fundy End Timers. and Wow, again.
posted by tmike 20 years ago
In "Ordering pizza in a surveillance society."
Thanks, homunculus, for posting this here as well as "the other -Filter." While I am an ACLU member, I do think this scenario is over the top. However, I found that paying cash as a walk-in was no escape from the "feed our database" drill at a Papa John's near my house. The last time I went in there ("last" as in "final" not "most recent"), the counter guy asked for my phone number. Thinking he doesn't need that for a walk-in order, I give him the 555-1212 time/weather number. He punches a few keys, and then smirks and says, "Welcome back, Mr. Pizza Lover" The entry had an address and everything. I was laughing so hard trying to figure out whether it was test data put there by the programmers, or if someone had beat me to using that phone number, I almost forgot being annoyed at the question in the first place. But I've never been back. It's a pizza, for God's sake! What do they need to keep track of?
posted by tmike 20 years ago
In "WTC "Attacks""
Gyan, thanks, point taken. All I was saying is, Where's the "Ur-Link" back to the source? Of course, about 5 seconds after posting, I got the bright idea to google "Convar+Reuters" and found a link to Convar's News/Press Release archive with the same article in your link, and a big official Reuters logo right on it.
posted by tmike 20 years ago
Not to further muddy the waters but can anyone find corroboration this was a Reuters story? The FPP goes to unknownnews, and the "Reuters" link there goes to indymedia. Anyone find the original story?
posted by tmike 20 years ago
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