The Argue Thread

[Gene]

Originally Posted by Protagonist

Cats are weird. They are really cold-blooded reptilian demons in disguise.

Agreed. My wife (suspected of demon-robot roots) and the cat bonded long ago. I am always careful around them. Barb has treated me wonderfully for 30 years, but who knows what will happen later today?

If you have a cat and it is perched above you, watch out when you walk by. He is thinking about jumping onto your neck, dispatching you and eating a big meal.

One of the cruel realities of life is that cats live much longer than dogs. Dogs are our friends, cats are waiting for a chance to eat you.

Gene

[Ag&Au]

Certain members of the human population of planet Earth fear cats, because cats are smarter than they are.

You must respect cats as superior beings, or they will get you.

They will not eat humans however, because the human diet is lousy. Mice, birds, snakes, and even rats taste better.


Ken

[Protagonist]

Originally Posted by Gene

Dogs are our friends, cats are waiting for a chance to eat you.

That is why every cat who has ever owned me has been named for a type of food. Lunchmeat. Pumpernickel. Succotash. Just my way of getting a little bit back.

[markdoane]

I don't much like cats. But I fear cucumbers.

[ROBERT CROSS]

Cats are GREAT.....it's the owners that worry me.

Bob

[Ag&Au]

Originally Posted by markdoane

I don't much like cats. But I fear cucumbers.

Perhaps, that fear is justified. You never know where they've been.

Ken

[Gene]

I wouldn't want to eat either of them. Cucumbers taste bad to me and I don't even want to speculate what cat tastes like. They do make nice slippers though.

Barb's cat slipped on the tile today and never even acted like he didn't do it. He's gotten arrogant in his old age (16), just like me. It is not genetic.

But cats and flu and demons are old stuff. How about millionaires from Queens, NY? I knew one down the block named Donald back around 1950 and he was a jerk then at 4 or 5 years old. Same bad personality then and none of the neighborhood kids wanted to have anything to do with him. Maturity escaped him.

Gene

[Lumatic]

Originally Posted by markdoane

I don't much like cats. But I fear cucumbers.

Sigmund would have a lot to say about that. BTW what are your feelings about cigars?

[Protagonist]

Originally Posted by markdoane

I won't say any more.

Your posts are the soul of brevity already, so you can't really say much less.

[OTRA15]

Brevity stuns.

[Protagonist]

Originally Posted by OTRA15

Brevity stuns.

True!

[Protagonist]

Originally Posted by OTRA15

Brevity stuns.

Originally Posted by Protagonist

True!

But unfortunately it's completely alien to my nature. I'm ¼ Irish, a traditional character trait of which is that I love the sound of my own voice; Ireland is home of the Blarney Stone. I'm also ¼ Welsh, a traditional character trait of which means I love to complain. At least I'm not ¼ Scottish, or I'd be a miser to boot, so I wouldn't own an Airstream Interstate!

[Ag&Au]

Brevity may be efficient, but seldom is it entertaining. I would much prefer to be entertained for a longer time, than briefed for a shorter time.

The origin of "Brevity Stuns" was unknown to me until I searched and found it in this work.

"Tradition and the Poetics of Self in Nineteenth-century Women's Poetry"

I seriously doubt that I would find it brief or entertaining.

Ken

[rmkrum]

Just the title made my eyes glaze over. I prefer brevity.

My occasional status meetings were all held standing up, and if someone talked too long they got escorted out the door. Didn't need the drivel and BS for making an already pointless meeting run longer.


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[markdoane]

Originally Posted by rmkrum

My occasional status meetings were all held standing up, and if someone talked too long they got escorted out the door. Didn't need the drivel and BS for making an already pointless meeting run longer.

If it's a pointless meeting why did you have them? Whose status was the meeting for?
I'm confused again.

[Protagonist]

Originally Posted by markdoane

If it's a pointless meeting why did you have them? Whose status was the meeting for?

All meetings are pointless. Otherwise they'd be called something else: an introduction, a date, a wedding, a wake, a party, whatever. But if it's JUST a meeting, it's a get-together to talk about what you're supposed to be doing instead of actually going off and doing it.

As the saying goes, "A meeting is teamwork, without the work."

[rmkrum]

Certain 'managers' insist on regular status meetings so their troops can tell them what is going on.

My personal technique is to get off my butt, get out of the office, and go talk to the troops one on one. It gets better results and does not tie up a bunch of people while they wait for their turn to speak whatever politically correct BS they think others want to hear. I'm neither aerodynamically or politically correct, and that's why if I am forced to hold a marginally useful status meeting, its over real fast.

The last time I had a meeting to deal with a crisis, we planned the solution, and my comment was "I'll email you all when its solved." One hammerhead had the temerity to ask me when I planned to hold a daily status meeting on the problem, and was dumbfounded to hear that I did not plan to waste any more time doing so. The expression of total gob-smacked confusion on that persons face,and the sighs of relief from the folks working to implement the agreed fast fix made it worth it.

The fix took a whole two days without meetings. I be it would have delayed a week if I held the stupid status BS sessions.

Some managers just did not know how to deal with me....which kept them at a safe distance in my opinion.

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[Gene]

I like meetings. So much better than working.

There are actually meetings that do get things done if the chair knows how to do it.

Gene

[Noggin]

Originally Posted by Gene

I like meetings. So much better than working.

There are actually meetings that do get things done if the chair knows how to do it.

Gene

Gene if you like meetings your are just a weird old fart. Maybe you need counseling.....but I guess that too is a meeting of sorts.

The demons have returned to my garage door opener so I have been preoccupied with that. I have been looking for the gallon of urea to pour on the seats but not having much luck. People look at me real weird when I ask for that stuff. They want to know why I want it and I tell them Gene told me it would work to get rid of demons. Next question is who the hell is Gene. I say formerly Crawford Gene and they say oh that figures.
Anyway, neighbor is having demons in his truck also so I thought I would be a good neighbor and fix his truck first. Waiting till he goes to bed.

I have been reading the 150, 250, 350 Truck thread and I think there is a whole lot of BS going on. If I posted comments about the DK's there the mod's would surely send me a PM with the rules about the being nice stuff. I do try so hard to be nice!

I have a theory about the demons in my garage door opener. Just like the rest of the country, there have been massive layoffs in the demon union and there is just not enough demons to go around. Why sometimes the garage door opener works and why sometimes it doesn't.
All I have for now.

[Protagonist]

Originally Posted by Noggin

The demons have returned to my garage door opener so I have been preoccupied with that. I have been looking for the gallon of urea to pour on the seats but not having much luck. People look at me real weird when I ask for that stuff.

That's because they're too polite to say to look no farther than your own bladder. Urine contains urea, and all it costs is the price of a six-pack of your favorite suds.