Originally Posted by ClutchCargo (Post 576034)

Pardon a Purple Pilot jumping in here, but did no one get this?

Originally Posted by ClutchCargo (Post 576034)

Pardon a Purple Pilot jumping in here, but did no one get this?

BTW-

Illinois is now issuing BHO license plates.

Originally Posted by Luckydawg (Post 575619)

I found a few definitions of depression and actually a few fit. The 25% unemployment is the peak of unemployment for the "Great Depression" but I don't think anyone has a number associated with a general depression. One indicator is said to be a GDP of greater than a 10% decline. One factoid that I recently discovered was that all periods of economic declines prior to the 1930's were referred to as depressions.

• a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity
• a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
• natural depression: a sunken or depressed geological formation
• sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
• a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment
• low: an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation; "a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow"
• depressive disorder: a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
• a concavity in a surface produced by pressing; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud"
• angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
• pushing down; "depression of the space bar on the typewriter"

We may not be in a depression but for some of the 300 UPS pilots (as well as others furloughed right now) it might feel like one.

Cheers!:)

Originally Posted by jungle (Post 576092)

There seems to be a humor shortage right now, but it was no hill for a stepper. I think everyone got it, good and hard-they just don't know it yet.:D As is always the case.

So... an under-educated, over-priviliged rootin' tootin' cowboy gets invited to your house (for eight years) and manages to light it on fire for you before going home... you call the fire department to put it out and then blame the fire department for the water damage to your house. Makes sense.

Originally Posted by jungle (Post 574897)

Don't despair guys. I know of a man who immigrated to the US from Kenya as a child and despite having a zero balance in his debit account just seven short years ago and never in his life holding a nine to five job, he has managed to gain employment in a very high executive position. He is many times a millionaire now and even has several private jets.
Hard work and honesty can get us where we want to go!:)

Originally Posted by Winged Wheeler (Post 576441)

There was something in this post--some word or turn of phrase--that reminded me of one of those Nigerian check cashing email scams.

Sorry for the extreme thread drift.

WW

Originally Posted by jonnyjetprop (Post 576457)

It would be "a tale of an American sucess story" if he belonged to a different party.

Back to your regularally scheduled Fox News program:)

Originally Posted by jungle (Post 576092)

There seems to be a humor shortage right now, but it was no hill for a stepper. I think everyone got it, good and hard-they just don't know it yet.:D As is always the case.


Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken