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Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 03-31-2004, 12:24 AM:

What would you want to do at a Walmart?

I know that you all can come of with some crazy ideas. [Big Grin]

I was just there today... Wasn't there for very long so I couldn't come up with anything really creative. [Confused]

Are YOU "CHECKING" me out?

CareBears are so cute!! [Big Grin]

NO... I'm NOT HUGE... The chair is just really small.. Its SO CUTE!!

OMG!! Detective CareBear...

Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 03-31-2004, 12:36 AM:

How about Hide and Go seek...wait...I actually HAVE done that! Gee, I wonder what Phil is gonna come up with here? [Eek!]

AJG

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 03-31-2004, 12:38 AM:

Holy Smokes, Jen! YOU are one HOT chick/lady! Whew!

You NEED to replace your ID pic with the one of you on the "conveyor belt!" Hubba Hubba!

BTW: What sorta *examination* is that "doctor" offering? Just curious... [beer]

Edit: OK Aaron you prevert! I posted! (GOD! I hate it when anyone thinks/knows that I WILL post something!) [beer]

>>> Phil

Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 03-31-2004, 12:41 AM:

Did someone open a daycare while I was eating dinner?

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 03-31-2004, 01:17 AM:

Well I'll tell (and show) ya what I'd do at Wal*Mart, if for some reason I needed to be there (of all places).
[av=p]

First I'd play my geetar. I mean heck... it's WAL*MART! It's synonomous with low quality entertainment like myself.

And obviously I'd spend a great deal of time harrassing the customers and other low-lifes who hang at Da 'Mart.

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 03-31-2004, 04:02 AM:

Ya know Joe, I can't help but think the song you're singing in that 1st pic is "Sugar Daddy" from the film "Hedwig and the Angry Inch"...

Cool! God! You are sooo HOT! YUM! Hubba Hubba! I'm rich and looking... [Wink]

>>> Phil

Posted by Peter Kerchinsky (Member # 1098) on 03-31-2004, 04:47 AM:

Wal-Mart?
Never, never go there!
In other words [sex]

them!
Or in other words, Wal=Mart [puke]

Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 03-31-2004, 06:08 AM:

I would probably knock all the stuff off the shelves and then tell a manager that two guys are knocking all the crap off the shelves. One is wearing a cowboy hat, and the other a pirate hat, and that they told some girl to sit on the checkout counter in order to distract them. Thats what I would do. Jen, you have some of the best topics on FT, keep em coming!!

[ 03-31-2004, 10:26 AM: Message edited by: Jeremy Fuentes ]

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 03-31-2004, 07:49 AM:

Is 'independent doctor of optometry' what they call a projectionist in Texas?

Posted by Bruce McGee (Member # 131) on 03-31-2004, 08:22 AM:

I hate the place.

When in there, it seems like I am being herded around like cattle.

There's a new one being built... a SUPER Wal*Mart... Oooh.

Then, the old one will just sit there empty. Just like the old ones in Knoxville, TN, and Charlotte, NC do.

What do I do? Follow Joe Redifer around setting up his sound systems, of course! [sleep]

Posted by Floyd Justin Newton (Member # 1316) on 03-31-2004, 09:29 AM:

Hey Bruce--

I'll help you!

fjn [Big Grin]

Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 03-31-2004, 09:40 AM:

There's a (fictional) book called Where the Heart Is about a girl living in Walmart and having her baby there.

Nice shoes, Jen.

Posted by Darryl Spicer (Member # 711) on 03-31-2004, 10:07 AM:

That was turned into a (fictional) movie. [Smile]

Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 03-31-2004, 10:55 AM:

I agree with Phil, Joe is SOOO HOT [Big Grin]

. I loved the geetar picture. You can play a song for me [Wink]

Steve: I have the shoes in black too [Smile]

They're so comfortable!!

Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 03-31-2004, 10:55 AM:

It's ok Phil...we just look forward to your righteous humor! [beer]

AJG

Posted by Ken Layton (Member # 133) on 03-31-2004, 11:48 AM:

I would knock down the Wal-Mart and build a drive-in theater!

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 03-31-2004, 12:34 PM:

Yes, even a closed drive-in would be a better use of space than a Wal Mart.

Posted by Jack Ondracek (Member # 1466) on 03-31-2004, 02:06 PM:

Where did you guys find empty Wal-Marts to pose in? You can't find that much vacant floor space (or unused checkout conveyors) at the ones around here... too many roaming cattle...ummm people!!

Posted by Richard Greco (Member # 2032) on 03-31-2004, 02:36 PM:

15 Things to do at Wal-Mart while your spouse is taking his/her sweet time:
> >
> >1. Get 24 boxes of condoms & randomly put them in peoples carts when they
> >aren't looking.
> >
> >2. Set all the alarm clocks in Housewares to go off at 5 minute
> >intervals.
> >
> >3. Make a trail of tomato juice on the floor leading to the rest rooms.
> >
> >4. Walk up to an employee and tell him/her in an official tone, 'Code 3'
> >in housewares,...and see what happens.
> >
> >5. Go to the Service Desk and ask to put a bag of M&M's on lay away.
> >
> >6. Move a 'CAUTION - WET FLOOR' sign to a carpeted area.
> >
> >7. Set up a tent in the camping department and tell other shoppers you'll
> >invite them in if they bring pillows from the bedding department.
> >
> >8. When a clerk asks if they can help you, begin to cry and ask 'Why
> >can't you people just leave me alone?
> >
> >9. Look right into the security camera, use it as a mirror and pick your
> >nose.
> >10. While handling guns in the hunting department, ask the clerk if he
> >knows where the anti-depressants are.
> >
> >11. Dart around the store suspiciously while loudly humming the theme
> >from 'Mission Impossible'.
> >
> >12. In the auto department, practice your "Madonna look" using different
> >size funnels.
> >
> >13. Hide in a clothing rack and when people browse through, say "PICK ME!
> >PICK ME!"
> >
> >14. When an announcement comes over the loud speaker, assume the fetal
> >position and scream "NO! NO! It's those voices again!!!"
> >
> >And last but not least:
> >
> >15. Go into a fitting room, shut the door and wait a while and then yell
> >loudly "There's no toilet paper in here".

Posted by Chris Hipp (Member # 1788) on 03-31-2004, 05:11 PM:

I would like to own wal mart. Other than that I jsut buy what I need. I would like to ask that one girl that works at the service desk out, but I shouldn't date colored girls.

Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 03-31-2004, 10:16 PM:

Chris, please tell me you are trying to be funny.

Posted by Chris Hipp (Member # 1788) on 03-31-2004, 10:19 PM:

nope, no joking.

Posted by Emma Tomiak (Member # 1862) on 03-31-2004, 10:29 PM:

Chris, since you're not joking, would you care to explain your reasoning?

Posted by Chris Hipp (Member # 1788) on 03-31-2004, 10:44 PM:

4 of the 5 people on the forbes 400 list have the last name Walton. I think that is good enought reason for wanting to own the company.

Posted by Emma Tomiak (Member # 1862) on 03-31-2004, 11:07 PM:

Let me clarify. I would like to know why you said that you shouldn't date "colored" girls.

Posted by Chris Hipp (Member # 1788) on 03-31-2004, 11:17 PM:

Because my grandparents would not approve of that. They would be disappointed in me and would disinherit me, sorry but it's not worth it.

Posted by Emma Tomiak (Member # 1862) on 03-31-2004, 11:21 PM:

Just curious. Thanks for explaining.

Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 04-01-2004, 02:22 AM:

I say date or love whomever you want and not who others tell you. Try to honor your family, but don't let them get in the way of how you feel. Personally, I don't see "in color". To me, everyone is the same. Follow your heart, not what others tell you.

AJG

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 04-01-2004, 05:28 AM:

quote:
You NEED to replace your ID pic with the one of you on the "conveyor belt!"

Naw, she's hotter in the b/w.

Incidentally, Jennifer has the coolest name to become a cinematographer or fry cook.
[Razz]

Posted by Carl Martin (Member # 1146) on 04-01-2004, 06:37 AM:

or film critic.

Posted by Will Morrow (Member # 792) on 04-01-2004, 12:13 PM:

I have been trying really hard in the last year to avoid shopping at WalMart. I really feel they are Satan Spawn. However I like to go there and look for babes. LOL Kidding.

I'm really upset about not being able to veiw Jen's photos. Say's something about an Illegal picture. OMG!

Posted by Chris Hipp (Member # 1788) on 04-01-2004, 12:49 PM:

Read he FAQ and it will tell you how to get rid of the illegal pictures.

I like walmart because you can be in one aisle buying peanut butter then you can go to the next aisle over and buy your whitey tighties. They have everything there.

Posted by Richard Fowler (Member # 893) on 04-01-2004, 01:17 PM:

peanut butter = whitey tighty...umm sound like an issue that Phil would like to comment on [Cool]

. I avoid Walwart like the plague, rather give my money to poor old K Marta. I have been in Walmart in and out of the USA and it is scary how the store layout is identical....you walk inside and you forget what city you are in [Confused]

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 04-01-2004, 04:13 PM:

<facetious humor>

I was going to give Chris's phone number to some friends of mine but I guess I won't, now. It's too bad he doesn't date colored girls. They'll be so disappointed!

</facetious humor>

Posted by Ian Price (Member # 14) on 04-01-2004, 05:42 PM:

I'm a racist, I'll go out with the red or blue girl, but I'm not going out with the green girl. [Razz]

I don't like green people!

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-01-2004, 07:36 PM:

Randy, that's a great example of stereotyping. For example I can tell "JUST" by looking:

The green lady is ONLY after money and will take you to the cleaners without a ticket.

The blue lady is very depressed and will drag you down into a life of negatives, feelings of self-worthlessness, drug and alcohol abuse, and you’ll become unemployed and a street-person begging for money on Sunset Blvd.

Now, that HOT red lady: She will give HOT, sweaty sex and be true to you for life! Ummmm... well at least for 20 minutes.

And that’s where it all comes back to the “green” lady and eventually the “blue” lady.

(Sorry, just couldn’t resist!) [Razz]

>>> Phil

Posted by Richard Fowler (Member # 893) on 04-01-2004, 07:51 PM:

Benny Phil and his rainbow girls [Cool]

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 04-02-2004, 01:38 AM:

Phil, you're losin' it, bro. Anyone can tell the blue one is the cutest!

Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 04-02-2004, 01:40 AM:

Agreed!

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-02-2004, 01:54 AM:

Jen! Help me! They're picking on me! I'm going to turn into a "blue" girl.... and beg for money on the Sunset!

>>> Phil

Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 04-02-2004, 02:25 AM:

Not that I have any authority on this part but... Guys back off Phil... Or is that what Phil really wants? I don't really know.

As for colored girls... I'm "yellow"... Would you guys ask for my digits? [evil]

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 04-02-2004, 02:41 AM:

Oh, to be in my twenties again... where the hell did it all go?

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-02-2004, 02:44 AM:

Tim, it all went to the same place it went for me 2 years ago...GOD! I HATE being 23....

So, Jen....

>>> Phil

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 04-02-2004, 04:43 AM:

Wish I could find the pic, but I can't. One did the rounds a couple of years ago, depicting an episode of 'Taliban Blind Date'. It showed three identical women, but wearing different coloured burkas.

Posted by Dick Vaughan (Member # 540) on 04-02-2004, 04:51 AM:

Jen said

quote:
... Guys back off Phil... Or is that what Phil really wants? I don't really know.

From what I've heard Phil prefers to back on [uhoh]

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-02-2004, 04:55 AM:

Mr. Vaughan: Oh my... [Roll Eyes]

>>> Phil

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 04-02-2004, 10:32 AM:

I usually shop at Walmart, but that's just me.

Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 04-02-2004, 10:45 AM:

I buy all my WD-40 and duct tape for the booth at Wal-Mart. [thumbsup]

Posted by Gracia L. Babbidge (Member # 582) on 04-02-2004, 10:57 AM:

I've been known to go to Wal-Mart to buy batteries for my ...!... oh yeah, I haven't had to get batteries for that in a while. [evil]

I've been too [sex]

-ing busy, or vice versa! [Wink]

Posted by Chris Hipp (Member # 1788) on 04-02-2004, 11:02 AM:

Hey look, the snow must be melting, Gracia's back.

Posted by Gracia L. Babbidge (Member # 582) on 04-02-2004, 11:16 AM:

[Razz]

Yes yes, snow is all but totally melted away, and now for the next month and a half or so, when I go outside, I'll be in mud up over my ankles! [Roll Eyes]

Like I said, I've been a busy girl. [Big Grin]

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 04-02-2004, 12:06 PM:

I bought the copy of Photoshop Elements that I used to make the picture of the "colored" girls at Wal-Mart. [Big Grin]

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 04-02-2004, 12:26 PM:

I figured you just used Levels...

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 04-02-2004, 12:36 PM:

Yep!

Magic lasso to copy one chick out of her background.
Copy/Paste to duplicate the image.
Levels to colorize.
Render Clouds to make a new background layer.
Colorize the background layer.
Resize, flatten & export to JPEG.

I wanted to use texture mapping & color palatte shifting to make one more girl that looked like a Technicolor zebra. (GIMP has excellent mapping & color shifting tools!) I decided to do it quick and dirty with Photoshop because I figured it was too much work for such a silly joke. It was just as funny...at least I HOPE y'all thought it was funny!

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-03-2004, 06:08 AM:

Randy & Tim = Geeks!

Gracia! Glad to see you're back! I missed you!

Yeah, I know what you mean.... I had to buy some new batteries for "my friend" too...

>>> Phil

Posted by Richard Fowler (Member # 893) on 04-03-2004, 06:31 AM:

Phil, so do you use a Sears Diehard 100 amp battery in your device [evil]

Posted by Bruce McGee (Member # 131) on 04-03-2004, 06:36 AM:

Phil's 'friend' doesent run on batteries. His uses a 40 amp electric range plug. 4-prong, of course. Maximum shock safety.

Posted by Richard Fowler (Member # 893) on 04-03-2004, 07:10 AM:

That extension cord must be a pain to drag from room to room...he could also use a lawnmower gas engine model [Big Grin]

Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 04-03-2004, 09:08 AM:

Interesting thing about Ms. Blue is that she seems to have more of the other colors than do the other two.

Sure Jen, I'd ask for your digits. OR your number. [Wink]

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 04-03-2004, 09:35 AM:

From darwinawards.com:

quote:
(March 1998, Tennessee) A teenage Knoxville boy read in an adult magazine that you could hook a cow heart up to a battery and create an organic sex toy. Thinking to improve on the original model, he hooked it up to the household current, electrocuting himself and setting fire to his house.

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 04-03-2004, 12:16 PM:

What would I like to do at a Wal-Mart?

Start a demolition derby in the parking lot. It would be fun to plow through some vehicles and smash through a big train of shopping carts!

On this whole interracial dating thing, even though my luck has not been the greatest lately I can say with some pride I have been more open minded than most on that subject. The last lady I dated was Korean. Two of my previous girlfriends were of the African American persuation. Well, actually they were both mixed-race (white and black parents) so does that count? More often than not, I usually date White women only because there's just more of them around here than anyone else. Haven't dated any Latina ladies (yet). Oh well, the fellows just need to remember something I heard on South Park: "they're all pink inside!"

Posted by Pravin Ratnam (Member # 1417) on 04-03-2004, 03:12 PM:

"Because my grandparents would not approve of that. They would be disappointed in me and would disinherit me, sorry but it's not worth it."

Hmm, too bad Chris, I guess that rules out an invitation from me to you for a game of checkers on one of Jennifer's feet with her shoes on. Winner takes all. [evil]

My goal is to date the rainbow coalition before I die. Interracial dating is a necessity for people like me anyway.

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 04-03-2004, 03:16 PM:

Rainbow People? Like this?

She's a second cousin to the other girls.
I think she works at Wal-Mart. Which one, I don't know.

[Big Grin]

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-03-2004, 03:30 PM:

Normally I hate tattoos, but someone really needs to get a full-body tattoo like that in real life.[av=v]

Or maybe a white guy who thinks he is black (a "wigger") can tattoo himself black.

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 04-03-2004, 03:45 PM:

And for anyone wondering what they can get up to in the electrical department at Wal Mart, here's another suggestion:

quote:
When I was a student at the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) in 1983, I faithfully attended the weekly lecture on Gerichtsmedizin (forensic medicine) that was based on the grim harvest of the West Berlin police department. Apart from the gruesome, the horrifying (child abuse!) and the plain morbid, there were a few candidates who'd undoubtedly qualify for a Darwin Award.

One that sticks out in my mind was the lamentable case of a middle-aged West Berliner whose autoerotic proclivities and aspirations as an amateur electrician provided a spark of levity for the permanently nauseous audience.

This gentleman had -- presumably by a process of trial and error that I leave others to speculate about -- arrived at the conclusion that ramming a "candle"-shaped lightbulb up his rectum was a pretty darn pleasant experience, especially when practised in combination with a small leather harness attached to his procreative equipment.

Unfortunately, he must have felt uncomfortable by the initial chill emanating from the cold glass of the lightbulb. But necessity is the mother of invention: He detached socket, switch, and power cord from an ordinary table lamp and adapted them to his specific purpose, put the harness on his little friend, and proceded to amuse himself with the now instantly heatable lightbulb in his rear end.

Tragically, his skills as an electrician were vastly inferior to his inventiveness. While happily playing with his new toy, his shoddy workmanship sent 240V through his body, electrocuting him in flagranti.

A slide of his contraption... pluss harness... and his inspirational story were part of the standard lecture on Gerichtsmedizin (forensic medicine) at the Freie Universität Berlin back in the summer semester of 1983... and presumably longer.

Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 04-03-2004, 05:06 PM:

The red, green and blue girls are ok, so is the rainbow one, but I think I prefer the "yellow" one. [Wink]

Posted by Pravin Ratnam (Member # 1417) on 04-03-2004, 07:32 PM:

Well, Randy, I always wanted to go out with one of those bikini chicks from Laugh In. The rainbow lady will do.

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-03-2004, 07:52 PM:

Oh PULEEZE, Randy! That's sooooo 70's.

Where's the funkadelic, psychedelic color-wheel projectors and the cage for the go-go dancer?

Hmmmm... Since she seems to be in a "rainbow", perhaps she's a member of the "L" club?

>>> Phil

Posted by Floyd Justin Newton (Member # 1316) on 04-03-2004, 08:57 PM:

Off on another "toot", eh?

fjn [Razz]

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 04-04-2004, 12:51 AM:

Just for you, Phil! ===> CLICK

Oh! I think I bought the CD with that music on it from Wal-Mart.

And, a chick like that? A carpet licker? It'd break my heart!

Posted by Jack Ondracek (Member # 1466) on 04-04-2004, 12:55 AM:

I checked both local Wal-Marts today.

She doesn't work at either of 'em [Frown]

Posted by Chris Hipp (Member # 1788) on 04-04-2004, 01:49 AM:

Well, please keep in mind that I am not concerned with what anyone thinks or has to say about my racial tendencies so if you have a problem with anything that I say then you are of course free to say it but it won't do any good to try to change my mind and I won't try to argue with anyone.

The truth is that I have never been out with a white girl, I made out with one once but never spoke to her again. Other than that they have been mostly black. I do have a weakness, maybe even a fetish for dark skin. However, it isnt about skin, it is about culture, I cant stand being anywhere near the "hip hop", "gangsta", or whatever you want to call it pop culture. If you remember my rant in the Politcal forum then you will know why.

As far as my family, nothing is more important to me than my family's acceptance, they are the only ones that have always been there and always will be there. I am not going to throw that away over some poon-tang.

As far as JP's shoes, I am not going to go anywhere near anything of JP's and JP is not coming near anything of mine.

Posted by Carl Martin (Member # 1146) on 04-04-2004, 04:05 AM:

why are we talking about john pytlak's shoes? did he buy them at walmart?

tough bind you're in, chris. maybe you could try telling your family you are gay, and then non-white women won't seem so bad? maybe that's not a good idea. but at some point you have to do what makes you happy. and at some point those who love you probably have to realize your happiness is worth it.

carl

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-04-2004, 04:38 AM:

So Chris, Ummmm... based on what you say and what Carl (Mr. NO caps) Martin has to say... I'm rich and available... Hubba Hubba! [Wink]

Call me and let's get together again... [beer]

>>> Phil

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 04-04-2004, 07:38 AM:

Jennifer Pan and I share initials, but don't share our shoes (her feet are too big). [Wink]

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 04-04-2004, 08:41 AM:

Oh dear Jennifer, I guess you'd better click here!

The song itself is still in copyright (1939=<70 years), so I can't post an MP3, sorry...

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 04-04-2004, 12:00 PM:

Sorry, Chris. I was making a silly play on words... "Colored Girl". Thus, the <humor> tags.

Or... are we talking about a horse of a different color?

Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 04-04-2004, 12:43 PM:

You could always move to Canada Leo. Music 'sharing' has been ruled legal here.

Posted by Thomas Procyk (Member # 1170) on 04-04-2004, 12:51 PM:

My attorney has kindly asked that I not describe what I would really like to do to a Wal*Mart on a public forum which lists my name and picture. [Smile]

He did say I could say "I'd like to walk around Wal*Mart with my UFCW Local 711 shirt that says Workers Deserve Free and Fair Elections at Wal Mart and Sams Club" [Big Grin]

=TMP=

Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 04-04-2004, 04:25 PM:

Here is another great idea to help Chris out of his colored girl dilemma: you could lead your new girlfriend into the house on a chain and tell your family you bought her at Walmart. I am sure they will like that and allow you to keep her.

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 04-04-2004, 07:04 PM:

Let's see, today I went to Walmart and purchased two storage containers to go under the bed with my winter clothes in it. Yes, pretty boring.

Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 04-04-2004, 08:48 PM:

You didn't take pictures? [Confused]

Geez, Rachel.

Posted by Jesse Skeen (Member # 586) on 04-05-2004, 02:49 PM:

I like to go to Walmart and ask where the porn DVDs are [Wink]

Posted by Ron Lacheur (Member # 1126) on 04-05-2004, 02:52 PM:

Daryl said:

quote:
You could always move to Canada Leo. Music 'sharing' has been ruled legal here.

How long do you think that's going to last for??? My guess is not very long.

Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 04-06-2004, 11:11 PM:

I'm riding and killing this giraffe [Smile]

Edit: Sorry guys... scroll down...

Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 04-06-2004, 11:12 PM:

I'm riding and killing this giraffe [Smile]

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-06-2004, 11:53 PM:

So Jen, Ummmmm... are you like choking the giraffe or didja just miss me?

>>> Phil

Posted by Thomas Procyk (Member # 1170) on 04-07-2004, 12:53 AM:

Whoa! Jennifer!! Seeing you ride that giraffe like that fills my head with thoughts that would make baby Jesus cry! [uhoh]

So... you wanna go catch a movie sometime? [Wink]

=TMP=

Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 04-07-2004, 07:00 AM:

quote:
I like to go to Walmart and ask where the porn DVDs are

I bet Jennifer knows, she spends enough time there. [Big Grin]

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 04-08-2004, 05:30 AM:

What would you want to do at a Walmart? Stop it from ever being built, if you live in Inglewood, CA...

quote:
LA voters send Wal-Mart packing

Voters in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood have delivered a decisive snub to supermarket giant Wal-Mart. By a two-to-one majority, they vetoed a proposal to build a 60-acre megastore, the size of 17 football fields.

Wal-Mart won the right to a public vote after Inglewood authorities denied it permission to build. "This was a major victory," said state assemblyman Jerome Horton, who together with officials, religious leaders and unions has bitterly opposed Wal-Mart.

This is not the first time that Wal-Mart has turned to a ballot on its "big-box" stores, which require exceptional planning permission in most areas. But Inglewood was to spearhead a wave of 40 proposed Supercenter stores across California.

The plan was supported by Inglewood's mayor, Roosevelt Dorn. Mr Dorn argued that the Supercenter would create 1,000 new jobs in the low-income suburb, as well as adding up to $5m to his administration's annual tax revenues.

"We're talking about a new police station, a new community and cultural centre... upgrades for every park and recreation area in Inglewood," Mr Dorn said before the vote. "As far as I'm concerned, it's a no-brainer."

Wal-Mart launched an aggressive campaign in favour of its proposal, including broadcast advertising, flyers and telephone marketing.

Mr Dorn was the only local official on Wal-Mart's side, however. Part of the opposition to the plan stemmed from the threat to smaller retailers; unions, meanwhile, were concerned that Wal-Mart would drive down wages and discourage organised labour.

But most opponents were swayed by the draconian terms of the proposed development, which would effectively have exempted Wal-Mart from all local planning, zoning and environmental regulations. In effect, they argued, the retail complex would become an autonomous city-within-a-city.

"This would have set a national precedent and developers all over the nation were watching to see whether or not a developer could exempt themselves from complying with local laws," Mr Horton argued. "This was a much bigger issue than just jobs."

The vote is the biggest defeat so far for Wal-Mart's Californian campaign. Last year, voters in Oakland turned down a proposed Supercenter. But since then, it has scored victories in Contra Costa and Calexico, where voters have overturned restrictions on planning.

Since the Inglewood proposal contained such liberal terms for the retailer, it was seen as the most important case so far. Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, is not currently popular in California.

Its relatively low wages and employee benefits have forced local retailers to follow suit, something which sparked a bitter strike by Californian supermarket workers earlier this year.

Link to story.

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 04-08-2004, 09:59 AM:

quote:
I'm riding and killing this giraffe

I think I had that dream.

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 04-10-2004, 12:36 PM:

Just as long as Jen's not choking a chicken... [Embarrassed]

And speaking of Colored Chicks

Multi-coloured chicks for Easter

The dye comes off as the chicks grow new feathers

A farm in the northern US state of Alaska has given Easter egg decoration a whole new meaning.

Triple D Farm and Hatchery, in Palmer, injects the eggs with dye to produce multi-coloured baby chicks.

Children visiting the farm in the run-up to Easter were met with more than 400 orange, red, green, purple, pink and blue chickens and ducks.

Farm owners insist the non-toxic dye is harmless and temporary, disappearing as the animals grow their new feathers.

"It's something we've done at Easter time for the last few years," Phyllis Burney, fiancee of owner Anthony Schmidt, told BBC News Online.

"It's mainly for the children. They are quite in awe when they come to the farm and see the multi-coloured chicks.

'Blue mother'

"One little boy came with his kindergarten last week and when he was asked how the chick became blue, said it was because it had a blue mother," said Ms Burney.

The dye, which the farm insists does not contain chemicals, is injected into ordinary chicken eggs a few weeks before Easter.

The baby chicks are not hurt, but provide a psychedelic spectacle when they hatch.

"The dye doesn't last much more than a couple of weeks, once the chicks' new feathers come through," said Ms Burney.

The farm, near the capital, Anchorage, annually colours around 200 baby chickens and 200 baby ducks.

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Me? I never go to Wal-Mart. Never, never, never. Bad juju.

Posted by Peter Kerchinsky (Member # 1098) on 04-10-2004, 08:44 PM:

Leo
Thanks for that article. I lost track of the goings on there in Inglewood and wondered what did happen with Wal-Mart. Sort of hits the nail on the head with why alot of us don't like Wal-Mart or Sam's Club. I was surprised as to how many Seattlites really dislike those stores.
Have never shopped in either of them and don't plan to in my lifetime.

Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 04-11-2004, 12:22 AM:

The dye, which the farm insists does not contain chemicals

Um...

Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 01-20-2005, 08:16 PM:

Yay! I brought this back up...

For the fact that there just so happens to be a McDonald's in this Walmart that came with a really HOT Ronald! The initial plan for taking this picture was to have it look like I was making out with Ronald but that lady that sat next to him would be completely jealous if I did. [Frown]

(So imagine me sitting on Ronald's lap [Wink]

)

Posted by James R. Hammonds, Jr (Member # 673) on 01-20-2005, 10:17 PM:

Talk about the first thing that pops up!

Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 01-20-2005, 10:45 PM:

Did Ronald say anything about that Panda Express cup you're holding?

Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 01-20-2005, 10:53 PM:

He wanted a sip. [Wink]

Posted by Christian Volpi (Member # 2370) on 01-20-2005, 11:40 PM:

Where the hell do these old broads go to get red pants like that? Oh, wait, WAL-MART!

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 01-21-2005, 01:30 AM:

Why is it that every person in Wal*Mart commercials talks like a hick with an IQ of 4? I assume they use real Wal*Mart customers and employees. Perhaps I've answered my own question.

Posted by James R. Hammonds, Jr (Member # 673) on 01-21-2005, 06:51 AM:

Christian, haven't you been told?
Never call chicks broads. (guess the movie that's from)

Posted by Chris Medley (Member # 2145) on 01-21-2005, 07:39 AM:

Little late, but did anyone go to the Day after thanksgiving sale at walmart...yeah this was my first time and all I can say is NEVER EVER AGAIN!! Yeah we got a nice TV and I got my XBOX, but I thought those people were going to murder me when I took the last Yi-Gi-Oh monopoly and leap frog learning center that were on my nephews christmas list.

Posted by Christian Volpi (Member # 2370) on 01-21-2005, 11:58 AM:

quote: James R. Hammonds, Jr
Never call chicks broads.

UHF

Posted by James R. Hammonds, Jr (Member # 673) on 01-21-2005, 02:26 PM:

good job

Posted by Jason Black (Member # 684) on 01-23-2005, 08:33 PM:

Taken on the cruiseship 'Navigator if the Seas' just prior to disembarking yesterday....

The cruise was a blast... luckily, the casino was closed so no-one really had much to say about the picture... [Smile]

Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 01-23-2005, 10:18 PM:

Is that what you would do to a Wal*mart mannequin Jason?

Posted by Adam Wilbert (Member # 1184) on 01-23-2005, 11:06 PM:

My girlfriend wanted a pair of pants off of a manequin at JC Penny the other day, and the girl working in the area told me to go ahead and take them off. I still feel really wierd about undressing a manequin and leaving her there with only a t-shirt on and her barbie-like nudeness from the waist down exposed for the world to see. [Eek!]

Posted by Stephen Frazza (Member # 2320) on 01-23-2005, 11:27 PM:

I'm not sure anyone could top this.

This guy gets fired from Walmart for doing something he didn't do so he gets back at them.

The Wal-Mart Prank

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 01-24-2005, 12:44 PM:

Funny story, though it reads like it's been embellished--the revenge is a little too good. Still, it's immensely satisfying to read about fucking with the single-helix types, especially when they're your former bosses. [Big Grin]

Posted by Floyd Justin Newton (Member # 1316) on 01-24-2005, 02:52 PM:

I'd just burn the damned place down!

Posted by Jason Black (Member # 684) on 01-24-2005, 06:39 PM:

Nope.. not to just a plain old WM mannequin anyway.. has to be a special mannequin, as evidenced by the photo.. LOL..

Posted by Mark Hajducki (Member # 1732) on 03-08-2005, 05:35 PM:

One of the ASDA (Walmart) stores up north has switched to using a local dialect rather than English. (Although since many of their customers find it difficult to construct a coherent sentence it may be a waste of time)

From http://news.scotsman.com/aberdeen.cfm?id=251092005

quote:
SUPERMARKET giant Asda has ditched English and introduced signs in a local dialect in a new Scottish store, it emerged today.

Bosses at the Asda superstore in Peterhead decided to put up all of its signs in Doric - the traditional language of Scotland’s north-east.

All directional signs in the store, and some of the Asda promotional sayings, have been translated into the local tongue.

"Welcome to Asda" has been changed to "Come Awa In", while "Always Happy to Help" and "Always Low Prices" have been translated into "Wid Aye Gie Ye a Han" and "Easy on the Pooch".

Even the toilets in the store have been given a regional twist, with the ladies labelled as "Quines".

On leaving the store a sign also reads "Hist ye Back" - meaning "Come Again Soon".

The Doric signs were translated by the Buchan Heritage Society.

Store manager Craig Patterson said: "We hope our decision to introduce the Doric signs will give the dialect a real boost."

More information on Doric