December 19, 2008
Four For Friday
Q1 - Names: Here in the U.S., the parents of a three-year-old boy have branded a supermarket "intolerant" after it refused to decorate their son's birthday cake with his name: Adolf Hitler Campbell. The couple, from New Jersey, asked ShopRite staff to decorate little Adolf's cake with his name, which he shares with the deceased Nazi dictator, and were outraged after staff refused to on the grounds that it was inappropriate. Do you think the supermarket's bakery staff made the right decision or does every little boy deserve to have his name on their birthday cake regardless of what their name is?
Q2 - Grumble: What are your top five beefs?
Q3 - Layaway: As everyone knows, it's shopping season once again, but we all know times are a little tough this year. A new ABC News poll this week found that many Americans are feeling the financial strain, resulting in a lot of us spending a lot less on holiday gifts. So perhaps it's not a big surprise that we would see the resurgence of a more conservative way to shop... the layaway. If you could put one item on layaway for up to five years that you absolutely intended to incrementally pay for in full, what would you choose to put on layaway?
Q4 - Memories: How will you remember 2008?
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Q1 - Names: Absolutely intolerant! Now, if the kid's name was "Englebert Humperdink," I could understand. Now THAT is offensive!
Q2 - Grumble: My beefs are typically short lived and constantly changing. So I guess my top beef right now would be work related. But let me see if I can think of one that has been eating me for a few decades... ummmmmmm... hmmmmm... let's see heeeere... well, not decades old, but last summer some punk kid on a scooter flipped the bird at me. I thought for a moment that I would just run him over and kill him. Sometimes I think I should have. So that beef is with myself I suppose.
Q3 - Layaway: My childrens' success in life.
Q4 - Memories: Probably like any other year... only the major points, like the year that Obama became the first black person to be elected President, the first year that I ran for President, the year that Keanu Reeves tried but failed to ruin a sci-fi classic, and the year that I decided to stop messing around and finally put my plan to take over the world into effect.
1. Yet another reason to never shop at Wal mart. The store did the right thing. The parents are idiots and I feel nothing but pity for the eighteen years of hell their children will go through I have no problem with the store refusing "happy birthday Adolph Hitler Campbell." My bet is that the[parents are looking for media coverage and last year's "Happy B-day Adolph" cake didn't do the trick.
2. Tenderloin, Ribeye, Chuck and brisket.
Oh... not actual beef, right?
1. substituting the word 'home' for 'house;'
2. people who honestly believe that purebred
dogs are inherently better than mixed
breeds.
3. The word 'luxury.'
4. 'Good taste.' Trying to be bland and
inoffensive is horrible in my book
5. Entitlement. You aren't owed a job, a
trophy wife, a cushy retirement or an
obscene bonus.
3. The down payment on a smallish house I'd dearly love to to buy
4. Financial distress and job-related anxiety
1- Couldn't they have just put 'Adolf Campbell' and called it good? I mean, there's plenty of nice people named Adolf, aren't there? Of course, based on the question wording, I assume the parents requested the Hitler be included, which makes them the intolerant bastards now doesn't it?
2-
a. People who speed up to pass you, get in your lane, and promptly slow down below the speed limit.
b. People who say, "whole nother"
c. The marketing ploy 'Organic'
d. The government bailouts
e. College football not having a playoff
3- I'm not really a huge consumer, but perhaps the Green Bay Packers?
4- Holy mother of a clusterf***
1. I have no idea what those parents were thinking naming their child after evil. But, this being a free country, they can name their kid what they want to. I understand why the workers at ShopRite didn't want to put that moniker on a cake - I mean those two names stand for so much horror - but in the end, just write the name and let it go. The parents are the ones who have to answer for the name. Hopefully, when their child grows up, he'll have enough sense to change it.
2. Well, I'm a vegetarian so...oh you meant, top 5 "beefs"/complaints (heh, heh). 1. Slow drivers; 2. Gossip; 3. Negative gloom & doom media coverage; 4. People who don't follow through with what they say they will do; 5. Unfocused, nonpresent attitudes.
3. I noticed this had come back into "vogue" at a store I was in recently. Makes sense these days, but if I can't afford it, I don't usually buy it. If I was going to put something on layaway for 5 years, does a Porche count? :o)
4. 2008 was a year of personal growth that will continue into 2009, and beyond. I also had some business success that I am proud of.
1) Lets forgive the supermarket when the real offense here lies with the parents. I mean, are they Nazis? Was there a swastika on the cake?
2)
a. Government in general
b) Incompetence
c) Arrogance
d) A lack of gratitude
e) BCS
3) Can I put my social security benefit on layaway?
4) The year of the Mo
1: If ShopRite wanted to refuse it, why shouldn't they? I'm sure there are other places that would have taken the parents' monies. I haven't confirmed, but I heard their other son has "Arayan Supremacist" or somesuch in his name, which leads me to believe this family is a bit, uh, biased.
2: People who overly baby their dogs and talk to them only in baby voices and treat them better than they treat people; People who refuse to own their own emotions; traffic jams make me crazy; and when the use of "till" to mean an abbreviation of "until." In fact, I'd expand that last pet peeve to mean any time we change grammar rules b/c people are doing it incorrectly so much of the time, it turns into 'common law' grammar. ARGH! [word nerd alert end]
3: I have no idea. Maybe a really nice original painting for the house. Ooooh! I know: a really nice vacation to somewhere exotic, like Fiji or something like that.
4: Getting really involved politically for the first time -- watching Obama's acceptance speech, my son's last year of being my "baby," and the year we got the most awesome dog.
Q1. The parents are obviously of low intellect.
Q2. Top beefs: 1.) Obama's administration of 'change' - NOT, 2.) People who signed up for mortgages they could not pay for, did not understand and are subsequently driving our economy into the shitter, 3.) People who have over-leveraged in their personal lives with credit cards, no interest loans that also play a big part in driving our economy down the shitter, 4.) People who don't have a job or a mortgage who are proclaiming Obama as the 'Messiah', 5.) the greed that has driven wall street and personal spending out of control.
Let me ponder these for a minute - yep, those are my beefs.
Q3.) I love it when you use the word conservative!
Q4.) 2008 - well, OK for my immediate family but my extended family has seen some personal pain/terminal illness. One cluster-f*&@ of an election and closing out the year with a core motivation to make a difference in my life because government and the PC voting majority sure as hell isn't going to do it! It's back to American individual hopes, dreams and fundamentals because our current climate breeds and cultivates mediocrity.
Hey, sidebar... Why no posts about the governor of Illinois??? What about this racket of Kennedy being selected to replace Senator Clinton in NY? What about your big posting session about Prop 8 in Cali, with no follow up on Obama's selection of Rick Warren for the inauguration?? What happened to Biden - has he fallen off the face of the earth?? What about the thoughts on the millions of jobs Obama is going to create in '09??
Hmmm...
1. NAMES: If that's his given, legal name, then there should be no reasonable or legal grounds for refusal. People shouldn't change their names or abandon certain names due to a bad seed. If so, eventually the world will run out of names...
2. GRUMBLES: I'm usually very understanding, but I can be an uptight, ruthless bastard, so I will forgo such a list. Suffice it to say that I am disturbed and agitated at willful ignorance.
3. LAYAWAY: I like that notion of pay-as-you go. Layaway is such an approach, I guess. It's better than incurring debt. I don't think I would ever put something on layaway for 5 years. My student loans have sort of been layaway items for me.
4. 2008 MEMORIES: I will remember this year as the bottom of the real estate bust. That means 2009 will be better for me and the entire industry.
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