* Do they still need to call the bank to verify funds on a check because they are too cheap to get TeleCheck?

--No. Because nobody writes checks anymore. They were smart. They knew if they waited ten years, they wouldn't have to invest in equipment thar would someday be obsolete.

* Do the cashiers still need supervisor approval to process check and credit cards?

--the cashiers apparently need approval to govto the restroom.

* Do they still not know what they have in inventory, as they keep all the inventory on 132 column printouts because they are too cheap to have terminals on the floor?

--they now have computers at Fry's! A few anyway.

* Do they still hire cashiers that can hardly speak English?

--what?

* Do they still reshrink and reshelf products with missing parts?

--yes. But there has been an improvement! The infamous "blue stickers of death" have now been replaced by harder to spot "white stickers of death"

* Do they still sell generic memory that does not work?

It worked when they sold it to you. You must have broken it on the way home.

* Do they still sell returned hardware that does not work?

--see above. ...and be more careful with stuff on the way home.

* Do they still give you the runaround on exchanges and replacements?

--I'm not sure. Does being accused of stealing the missing part from the repackaged hardware you bought and are trying to return, count as a run-around?

* Do they still run bait and switch adervtisements?

--only none available at that price.

* Do they still accost you on the way out?

--they try, but if you use the magic incantation: "Flee thee to the depths of Hell, Door Nazi!", you can just walk out and they are powerless to stop you.

...is Godwin's Law

The original formulation of the "law" was:

"As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."

The law itself does not place any judgment on the validity of the Nazi/Hitler comparison.

However, a canonical corollary to Godwin's law is that once Nazis and/or Hitler are invoked, the discussion is over and the person who made the Nazi/Hitler reference is considered to have 'lost' the argument.

Godwin's law is, of course, now applied more widely than Usenet discussions.

'Brave New World' was written by Aldous Huxley, not George Orwell.

I don't really need or want your verbal support - I went back and scanned two pages of your letters. I should be flattered I suppose, your response to me was the first one I saw that contained a complete sentence, let alone a complete thought.

Carrie,

I think you have let your San Francisco-ness get the better of you this time (speaking as a fellow Bay Area resident).

The proper response here is tell the posturing creature that there are no assigned spaces and that you will park in any open space that pleases you. Under the circumstances one might add, for effect, that this creature might consider inserting his reproductive organ into his own waste removal orifice. The only way to effectively deal with a bully to to stand up to him/her.

You were not wrong. It is not that those who oppose reform don't deserve health care, but they should receive that care via the "only if you can afford it, no pre-existing condition, subject to the decisions of insurance company death panels, free market system that they advocate. It's like animal rights activists that oppose research using animals, and want to deprive everyone of the benefits of that research, yet still accept for themselves care gained through this research. Such people should be denied the coverage they oppose, or at very least be required to wear a sign stating: I am a hypocrite!

Would those be the one carrying "Obama is Hitler" signs?

I'd prefer to just make fun of them.

A woman walks by a let store. There is a parrot outside in a cage with a sign marked "sale".

As the woman walks by, the parrot whistles and says: "hey lady! You're ugly!"

the next day, she walks by the pet store, the parrot says the same thing.

The third day, the parrot whistles and says " hey lady, you're ugly!" again.

Incensed, the lady gies into the store and complains. That's why he's on sale, explains the shopkeeper.

The third day, the parrot says the same thing to the woman. This time the woman addresses the parrot directly.

"if you say I'm ugly ONE MORE TIME, I'll buy you, take you home, pull out all of your feathers one by one, then wring your neck, and stuff your carcass down the garbage disposal!"

The next day, the woman walks by the pet store.

The parrot whistles and says: " hey lady!".

"WHAT?" says the woman.

The parrot says " you know!"

...Rush, Hannity, Beck, et al. should acknowledge that they are anti- American for their views on Obama's prize. Coulter should acknowledge that she is a traitor if she doesn't like it.

But how awesome would it have been if Obama had turned it down?

It's not Norway, it's Sweden ...

Why do I think that it doesn't matter how much evidence of torture is revealed? It will change nothing. But Hey! Paris Hilton may be geting a new puppy!!!!!

Let's all agree not to kill any of the talking embryos.

I have not seen it yet, but I already don't like it.

....if slicing the scrotum of an innocent man distubs the moral compass any....