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I bought my first flip phone when working out of town in Los Alamos
I did not realize you get the Area Code for the State you buy the phone in
So back in Ohio a friend gave me a Galaxy S5 used for development at American Express
kept the flip phone number. Moved to Arizona opened a Bank Account being naive gave
them my email & phone number I quickly discovered my Credit Card had my phone number
attached And then the spam phone calls started got a new Credit Card with no email or
phone number attached it took Chase 2 days to figure out how to do that ha ha
Spam calls decreased to a trickle NOW when I am asked for my phone number or email
I proudly reply NO COMPUTER and NO PHONE and if pushed I use the White House
Phone number and my first ISP email address Don@ezo.net they went out of
business years ago. The most fun ever was at Home Depot I had purchased $500.00 of
Milwaukee Woodworking tools and they offed me $100.00 discount if I opened a Home Depot
credit card SURE it took them 90 min to figure out how to give me the credit card
with NO Phone Number or email address What amazed me the most was by accident I gave
them the wrong SS number GOT the card and the discount
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Choroid wrote: when I am asked for my phone number or email
I proudly reply NO COMPUTER and NO PHONE and if pushed I use the White House
Phone number
That's brilliant. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: I'm not arguing with you.
Look, this isn't an argument; it's just contradiction. 
Did you pay for the five minute argument, or the full half-hour?
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- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: Did you pay for the five minute argument, or the full half-hour?
Just the 5 minute... inflation.
Jeremy Falcon
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As you may have guessed from the subject, today is International Cat Day.
So if you know any international cats, buy them a mouse! 
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Having just typed that, in comes the soggiest cat I've seen in a long time, and sits on my keyboard ... how the heck do they manage to retain so much water in tiny paws and leak it out on demand?
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OriginalGriff wrote: international cats
Does the Burmese across the street that comes to play with our DSH (and eat his food) count? 
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Only if there is a date line down the center of the road.
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OriginalGriff wrote: today is International Cat Day.
Is it?
They missed an opportunity to make it August 15th.
The French would point out, that's "mi-Aout" ("miaou", which is the French way of writing/pronouncing "meow").
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Dij doesn't spell it like that anyway ... 
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I wouldn't have expected him to! He's Welsh.
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OriginalGriff wrote: if you know any international cats
My cat Aimee qualifies, even though we live in Ohio U.S.
She's so fat ("how fat is she?!?") her belly crosses the International Date Line.
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On a serious note, you might want to consider doing something about that - obesity in cats can dramatically shorten lifespan!
Obesity in Cats | VCA Animal Hospitals[^]
As with humans, eating less and exercising is the best solution!
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We're trying but circumstances make it difficult right now. My wife and I are divorcing so our two cats are staying with my sister-in-law who has a cat of her own. Aimee believes that her food is hers, her sister's food is hers, and her cousin's food is hers, as well as any human food laying about  . If her stomach isn't full to bursting, she's dying of malnutrition.
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I'm sorry to hear that - hope it goes as well as these things ever can.
Are you expecting a catstody battle?
Sorry ... I'll get my coat.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Are you expecting a catstody battle?
, no. The cats are ostensibly 'hers', but if she can't keep them in her new place they'll end up with me. I like them so that's not a concern.
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I am not a cat fan....especially when they do not clean (the poop ) . People in Texas fancy wooden fences so their backyard garbage is "private" , but their cats roam free the entire hood...
I am going to raise coyotes ,,,,plenty of grub for them - including rats with big , fluffy tails...
In my opinionated view - if it is a domestic pet it should stay "in dome ".
PS
which reminds me - "honeydo... buy antifreeze..."
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I don't know where to start.
Some opinions are best left unsaid.
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jana_hus wrote: I am not a cat fan
Somehow that doesn't surprise me. 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I deduct that you are OK with cat poop in YOUR garden. So why is it necessary for me to spell it out and then being flamed for "being rude" ? Some folks just cannot take a hint and then it is the same old - - ...it is YOUR fault....same old one sided "discussion " , how creative boooring...
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First, I see a coyote roaming nearby I get a new carpet.
Second, I see someone poisoning pets roaming around I get a lawyer.
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This is not a strong need, just a result of curiosity.
Another recent discussion subject was 'What a disaster'. That made me stop and think: 'Dis-' is usually a prefix denoting either a negation or a negative element. A 'disaster' is usually considered negative.
But what is an aster - the non-negative thing? My English dictionary is not willing to help me (except for a flower reference, which isn't the right thing).
In Norwegian, we have a dozen of words, maybe two, that from a formal point of view are negations, but the non-negated form hasn't been used for the last hundred years. Most people give you a quizzical look if you describe a nice girl as 'fyselig' or 'humsk'. They know 'ufyselig' (gross, horrible) and 'uhumsk' (nasty, unsympathetic), but never think of it as negated words. Maybe 'aster' is similar - an old word that is no longer in use. Do you English native speakers know of any old, almost forgotten, meaning of 'aster'?
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according to the etymology of the word it comes from the mid 16th century - from Italian disastro or an "ill-starred event", from dis- (expressing negation) + astro "star" (from Latin astrum ).
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aster from latin, refers to star. Hence asterisk, astronomy, astrology etc
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Absolut non native spekaer guess 
Maybe because the flowers of the Aster flower are arranged so regularly. And if something is not arranged, it is a Dis-Aster 
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