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A Call For Humor!

I am starting to feel confident that I will never ever understand what this hat guy is on about.

They're titles or first-line lyrics of popular rock songs.
The first one is "Smoke on the Water ... A Fire in the Sky" by Deep Purple.
The second one is "I Am the god of Hellfire ... and I Bring You Fire" from "Fire" by Arthur Brown.
 
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They're titles or first-line lyrics of popular rock songs.
The first one is "Smoke on the Water ... A Fire in the Sky" by Deep Purple.
The second one is "I Am the god of Hellfire ... and I Bring You Fire" from "Fire" by Arthur Brown.
The first I could catch, the second is unknown by me.
The attribution to humour of 'this guy' remains unreachable to me.
 
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The first I could catch, the second is unknown by me.
The attribution to humour of 'this guy' remains unreachable to me.
We have spoken of this before: :cool:
Best part, though, was learning that this guy was Joseph [edit]Ducreux, and it's a self portrait. :)

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Oh! AND I learned that Peg and Peggy are both forms of the name Margaret as a direct result of the above-mentioned exchanges! :eek:
How did I live on this earth for six-plus decades and not know that?!?


I do love this place! :)
 
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So... I am really not sure what this sidebar ad which popped up today on a rather banal (ironically banal, as it happens) website on which I was reading something says about my browsing habits. I found it... rather odd. :rolleyes: :oops::eek::facepalm:

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Kind of an odd looking Crystal Tray for Stones, isn't it? Or... just what do they mean by stones??
 

That's common That was common in Japan.

Usually, there would be no reciept when eating or drinking.

But many customers would be on company time "entertaining" their own customers, and handwritten receipts were the norm for expense accounts.

While working there, we'd get receipts for dinners, which was an "approved" expense.

The server would invariably ask "For how much?" regardless of what the actual bill was and we'd pad the amount so we'd have money to go drinking (which, oddly, for those trips was not an "approved" expense).

Usually from a generic receipt book from some office supply store, rubber stamped with the business and server names, and just an amount.

Can't find any images of one. Looks like they've gone all modern on me.

No extra charge for that service, though, just as there was "no tipping". Early on I left a "tip" on the table and left the restaurant, and a block or so down the street somebody from the restaurant caught me and returned the money I'd "forgotten" on the table).

Another instance, I bought a bicycle there and left it at the hotel. Six years later, on the next trip, the Hotel Staff was all ashamed that they had lost my bicycle (expected) but the clerk rummaged around in the back room for a few minutes and came up with the paperwork and key for it, which I kept on my keychain for a long time as a memento of a different kind of country.
 
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That's common That was common in Japan.

Usually, there would be no reciept when eating or drinking.

But many customers would be on company time "entertaining" their own customers, and handwritten receipts were the norm for expense accounts.

While working there, we'd get receipts for dinners, which was an "approved" expense.

The server would invariably ask "For how much?" regardless of what the actual bill was and we'd pad the amount so we'd have money to go drinking (which, oddly, for those trips was not an "approved" expense.

Usually from a generic receipt book from some office supply store, rubber stamped with the business and server names, and just an amount.

Can't find any images of one. Looks like they've gone all modern on me.
Ditto in my experience there and those guys drank like fish. Luckily I was bigger than most of them and could hold my own. I wondered what was going on at the time but whole process was explained later, just as Ray describes.
 
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seen at the Polk forums.

I am far too circumspect to post the above in the UFO thread -- but, unfortunately, I am also far too snarky to resist the temptation to tell y'all as much.
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That thread has gotten plenty snarky on its own. Too many wanting to be the smartest in the room.
 
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