Comments on: Great Advances of Mankind Since 1970 (the lesser list) http://travellinbaen.com/2008/07/23/great-advances-of-mankind-since-1970-the-lesser-list/ "I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move." --Robert Louis Stevenson Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:10:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jessie Lou http://travellinbaen.com/2008/07/23/great-advances-of-mankind-since-1970-the-lesser-list/#comment-154 Jessie Lou Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:06:47 +0000 http://travellinbaen.wordpress.com/?p=131#comment-154 Just when you think you know someone ..... I never notice how impatient you are! By the time you are 117 you will be using your check card backwards and continually swiping it wondering why it doesn't work until the clerk takes it from you and does it for you. That maybe your underlying reason for doing so in the first place giving you the opportunity to flirt with the cute checkout girl and graze her fingertips. This will be your cheap thrill of the day at age 117. After all that excitement you will then forget your pin number! Now to gross you out. The automatic flush maybe really wonderful; however, it spews forth an ungodly amount of germs into the atmosphere so make sure you don't catch yourself in your zipper as you hurry away from it. On a totally separate note. Thanks to you and my son for getting me over my reading hump. I am now back to being able to read books - hadn't had the capacity postK. Now have a few books going at once which was also unheard of before. See Coach Croom made it through media days. Anxious to see how Houston does it in Oxford where the debates are the real ticket this September. I am excited about football season! I am hoping G is still in Oxford to experience the debates - I've raised a democrat who can debate me incessantly about anything. Got to love it! Just when you think you know someone ….. I never notice how impatient you are! By the time you are 117 you will be using your check card backwards and continually swiping it wondering why it doesn’t work until the clerk takes it from you and does it for you. That maybe your underlying reason for doing so in the first place giving you the opportunity to flirt with the cute checkout girl and graze her fingertips. This will be your cheap thrill of the day at age 117. After all that excitement you will then forget your pin number!

Now to gross you out. The automatic flush maybe really wonderful; however, it spews forth an ungodly amount of germs into the atmosphere so make sure you don’t catch yourself in your zipper as you hurry away from it.

On a totally separate note. Thanks to you and my son for getting me over my reading hump. I am now back to being able to read books – hadn’t had the capacity postK. Now have a few books going at once which was also unheard of before.

See Coach Croom made it through media days. Anxious to see how Houston does it in Oxford where the debates are the real ticket this September. I am excited about football season! I am hoping G is still in Oxford to experience the debates – I’ve raised a democrat who can debate me incessantly about anything. Got to love it!

]]> By: supercynic http://travellinbaen.com/2008/07/23/great-advances-of-mankind-since-1970-the-lesser-list/#comment-149 supercynic Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:36:07 +0000 http://travellinbaen.wordpress.com/?p=131#comment-149 One advance that I think is a curse is the cordless telephone. At first, I thought this was neat. However, I now find that I hate them. All the telephones end up scattered around the house or end up in one bathroom at the farthest end of the house. Based on my constant complaining, my wife found and bought a rotary dial black telephone with a cord. That hunk of nostalgia works and ain't going anywhere. I love it. The auto flush is great, but I just use Sen. Craig to flush for me. I can't believe you didn't put the clapper in there -- not because it's useful, but those commercials are the funniest thing to come along in a while. One advance that I think is a curse is the cordless telephone. At first, I thought this was neat. However, I now find that I hate them. All the telephones end up scattered around the house or end up in one bathroom at the farthest end of the house. Based on my constant complaining, my wife found and bought a rotary dial black telephone with a cord. That hunk of nostalgia works and ain’t going anywhere. I love it.

The auto flush is great, but I just use Sen. Craig to flush for me.

I can’t believe you didn’t put the clapper in there — not because it’s useful, but those commercials are the funniest thing to come along in a while.

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