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ChoChiyo
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by ChoChiyo » Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:02 pm
Isn't Voralfred buying? I think I heard him say something about having the munchies. LOL.
I'll share that veggie pizza with you. Can we have artichoke hearts on it, please? And black olives? And tomatoes?
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voralfred
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by voralfred » Wed Sep 17, 2008 2:36 am
Do you really think that after paying for all that (gloop, gloop) I am munching away (yummy, yummy) I have enough left to pay for someone else's food?
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by the grim squeaker » Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:24 am
Shall we ring up and say they brought the wrong ones? (The good 'ol pizza for free trick.)
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Carcer's men looked at one another, puzzled by what sounded like most badly thought-out war cry in the history of the universe.
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by sweetharleygirl » Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:31 am
Does that really work anymore?
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by moonwolf021 » Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:09 pm
Why does that work for other people and not me?
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the grim squeaker
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by the grim squeaker » Thu Sep 18, 2008 4:24 am
Have you never pulled it off?
(You can only do it once in a while from a shop you havent tricked before .)
'You can take our lives but you'll never take our freedom!' he screamed.
Carcer's men looked at one another, puzzled by what sounded like most badly thought-out war cry in the history of the universe.
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by sweetharleygirl » Thu Sep 18, 2008 10:56 am
I use to do it at McDonalds, does that count?
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by SPetty » Fri Sep 19, 2008 10:51 am
Does McDonald's let you keep the wrong food (had trouble with them from time to time when I was a kid, but we always did an even exchange of the food, though it now occurs to me to wonder what they did with it)?
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by sweetharleygirl » Fri Sep 19, 2008 11:52 am
SPetty wrote:
Does McDonald's let you keep the wrong food (had trouble with them from time to time when I was a kid, but we always did an even exchange of the food, though it now occurs to me to wonder what they did with it)?
LOL, one of the guys I ran around with had a girlfriend that worked at McDonalds. One of the guys (close to closing) would drive thru, order a bunch of food, then drive off not to return. At closing time we'd all go in there to get her, they'd have all this "left over food" and just give it to us, presto, free food.
Wouldn't it be great if you could still get away with this?
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by SPetty » Tue Sep 23, 2008 5:39 am
Wouldn't it be bad for the economic viability of that particular store?
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umsolopagas
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by umsolopagas » Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:18 am
Doesn't the economic viability of McDonald's and its ilk depend on them overcharging people for cooked products that were actually bought really cheap?
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by SPetty » Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:38 am
Do the costs of hiring people to cook and serve the food, and maintaining the building offset the profit gained by overcharging the public?
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by umsolopagas » Wed Sep 24, 2008 11:41 am
Can we also factor in the cost the marking up of prices because of the brand, as one of the things the overcharged public pay for, unsuspecting or not?
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SPetty
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by SPetty » Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:15 pm
Would actual numbers help this calculation, or are we better off not knowing how much we're overcharged for prepared food?
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mccormack44
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by mccormack44 » Wed Sep 24, 2008 1:39 pm
Couldn't we just say "lots" and go on to something else?
SPetty
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by SPetty » Wed Sep 24, 2008 7:49 pm
What would you like to go on to?
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by ChoChiyo » Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:40 pm
I would like to go onto a 'tall ship" and sail out onto the great blue ocean, wouldn't you like to join me?
I am a poor, wayfaring stranger
Wandering through this world of woe
But there's no sickness, no fear or danger
In that bright land
To which I go
mccormack44
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by mccormack44 » Thu Sep 25, 2008 7:39 am
Would I get seasick if I do?
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by the grim squeaker » Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:15 am
Do you not have a sick bag?
'You can take our lives but you'll never take our freedom!' he screamed.
Carcer's men looked at one another, puzzled by what sounded like most badly thought-out war cry in the history of the universe.
umsolopagas
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by umsolopagas » Thu Sep 25, 2008 1:02 pm
Why use a sick bag when there is a whole ocean to be sick in?
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sweetharleygirl
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by sweetharleygirl » Thu Sep 25, 2008 2:05 pm
Wouldn't it be better to be sick in private?
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by voralfred » Thu Sep 25, 2008 5:00 pm
Wouldn't it be even better to take pills against seasickness and not be sick at all?
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by clong » Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:16 pm
If you were never sick, would you really appreciate being well?
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by mccormack44 » Fri Sep 26, 2008 8:21 pm
How can a person with either strong allergies or a multitude of sensitivities EVER experience a long period of not being sick?
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by SPetty » Sat Sep 27, 2008 5:01 pm
By living in a bubble or drastically controlling the environment so that allergen producing organisms no longer exist?
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