Principled Man

Facebook is down today!  Millions of lives have been disrupted!!      

I made a whopping seven figures last year!

I was also fired from the toy factory for being too slow.

Just found out that some dear friends of mine had a "Man with a gun!" encounter at the Hollywood Casino in Lawrenceburg, Indiana this weekend. 

People were running out of the casino, while others hit the floor.  My friend said that her legs felt like JELL-O as she and her husband were running out of the building. 

It turned out to be an armed robbery attempt.  Some idiot tried to rob the place, briefly took a hostage, then ran out of the building....and was caught.

"You think you know how you would react to that kind of situation until it happens," she said.             

Assuming that I drive through the nightmare called Chicago, it is 577 miles from St. Elizabeth Hospital in Ft. Thomas, KY to my current home in Onalaska, WI.  

(I always go around Chicago.....  )

4 hours ago, Rhyta said:

Can relate, my niece and her boyfriend showed us their new tattoos and I couldn't think of anything to say.  I remember when it was only sailors and other sub groups that had tattoos. It wasn't viewed as a positive thing at that time to have them so I guess I am just an old fuddy duddy.

I've come a long way in how I see tattoos.  I used to think they were really dumb and even low-class, but I've mellowed quite a bit.  Some of the artwork that I've seen is really good.  I don't give anyone any grief about tattoos.

Face piercings, on the other hand.....  

When I was at the hospital visiting my mother, I stood near my 58-year old sister and the 20-something nurse, who were showing each other and our mother their arm and leg tattoos.

The moment they stopped, I looked at the nurse and said, "I got nuthin'.  I'm way too much of a dork to have tattoos."  Hilarity ensued....  

Yoda:  Padawan, inside the taun-taun, how warm was it?

Luke:  I do not know, Master.

Yoda:  LUKEWARM, it was.   

Ma chews a lot of Doublemint gum.  We can't find the larger packs in stores anymore, so went online.

We sure struck the mother lode, didn't we?   

3 hours ago, chemistry1973 said:

Or perhaps “Insurrection.”

Let That Be Your Last Battlefield

1 hour ago, blackhawkrush said:

"If it wasn't for the mustache, you'd look like my wife". "I don't have a mustache". "No, but my wife does". 

Your wife is Italian, too?   

My wife asked me what day it is.

I told her, "March 1st."

She stomped back and forth in a line and then asked me again.  

"You are a slow learner, Winston," said Wendy O'Brien gently.

"How can I help it?" he blubbered. "How can I help seeing what is in front of my eyes? The Baconator is seven dollars!"

"Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes it is nine dollars. Sometimes it is six dollars. Sometimes it is all prices at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane."  

31 minutes ago, blackhawkrush said:

Well done, Principled Man!   

And here I thought doing the Wendy's drive-thru and loudly quoting Scripture to the menu board speaker was a waste of time.....

Superstition - Stevie Wonder

1999:  Wild Wild West

Winner of FIVE Golden Raspberry Awards!!   

1 hour ago, BastillePark said:

Wendy's now says they won't be doing the surge pricing. Whew, what a relief. 

Back in the day, it took weeks of boycotts and thousands of strongly-worded paper letters mailed to the Company to get them to change their minds.... 

1 hour ago, pjbear05 said:

Regional or a local yokel for me, for the same reasons.

Best example is subs (or hoagies, grinders, heroes, insert regional name here).   I bypass franchisees of two major sub chains and two major thoroughfares to go to a local.  Only thing covid has changed is they recommend phone or fax in your order beforehand as opposed to a still huge walk in business.  Owner has been in biz well over 35 years, and also owns the frozen custard shop next door.  Has to be doing something right.

Sorry, Subway, but Lindy's Subs is within walking distance, and it's great.  $14 for a HUGE sub sandwich, and the girls working there are so pretty!    

Geddy should be grateful that Stern is praising his book now. 

If Stern had started praising it earlier, sales may have plummeted!  

Now the CEO of Kellogg's is under fire for suggesting that low-income people eat cereal for dinner to save money.    

1 hour ago, Nova Carmina said:

I'm not an economist, but doesn't dynamic pricing work because of supply and demand forces? If Uber drivers are busier because the game just let out, and thus there are fewer Uber drivers available, charging more is a response to market forces.*

 

How does that work for a Frosty? Are they going to charge more if the Frosty sludge is getting low in order to prolong the supply? Why not just add more mix? That's what we did whenever the school bus pulled into the parking lot, when I worked at Wendy's ('87-'88). The only "shortages" here would be artificially created by Wendy's, yes? I call horseshit.

Yes, supply & demand is the foundation of this strategy. 

Imagine if all retail places did this.  A gallon of milk and a package of toilet paper at Krogers, a bag of ice-melter at Home Depot, a Butter Burger at Culver's ....everything would vary in price during the day.  I see nothing but trouble coming from this.    

53 minutes ago, 1-0-0-1-0-0-1 said:

Maybe McD's should try it.

 

 

Typical hyperbolic clickbait headline, but their prices have gone up a lot in the past few years.

1980: My coworkers and I once marveled at our coworker, "Bill", who went next door to McDonalds and ate $8.00 worth of food.    

The price of a Wendy’s Frosty could soon fluctuate throughout the day as the chain looks to introduce Uber-like surge pricing on its menu. 

The practice, known as “dynamic pricing,” will begin testing in 2025, Wendy’s recently revealed in an earnings call. It’s part of a $20 million investment in new digital menu boards at its US restaurants that enable them to change prices depending on demand.

Few details were released about the change, but Wendy’s CEO Kirk Tanner said the new menus will let the fast food chain test “more enhanced features like dynamic pricing and day-part offerings along with AI-enabled menu changes and suggestive selling.”

“We expect our digital menu boards will drive immediate benefits to order accuracy, improve crew experience and sales growth from upselling and consistent merchandising execution,” Tanner said on the call.

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Wendy, I've just dumped you.  Of course, I hardly ever stop by to see you, so you won't miss me.   

While he and his wife worked in close quarters at their Houston home, Tyler Loudon often overheard her conversations — even the confidential ones, according to court filings. In some of those discussions, it was mentioned that BP, the multinational oil company Loudon’s wife worked for, planned to acquire a large truck-stop operator, authorities said.

 
Knowing this information, Loudon bought tens of thousands of shares in stock in TravelCenters of America, officials alleged. When the deal was announced in February 2023, Loudon liquidated his shares to make $1.76 million, authorities said.

Throughout that year, Loudon and his wife often worked in home offices within 20 feet of each other and could hear each other’s discussions, according to the complaint. In December 2022, the couple traveled to Rome, where Loudon’s wife regularly worked on the acquisition and discussed the deal while Loudon was seated nearby — a habit that continued after they returned to the United States and through the acquisition announcement, the complaint said.

On Thursday, federal prosecutors announced that Loudon, 41, had pleaded guilty to securities fraud. Loudon, who faces up to five years in prison, will forfeit the $1.76 million he made from the confidential information, authorities said.

Peter Zeidenberg, Loudon’s attorney, told The Washington Post that his client “made a terrible mistake in judgment, regrets it greatly, and he’s taken responsibility for it.”

Loudon’s wife, who was a mergers and acquisitions manager for BP, was unaware that Loudon had relied on her work information to buy shares of stock, according to a complaint the Securities and Exchange Commission filed against Loudon..... 

Members of the NFL competition committee and league leaders met here Sunday and discussed potential major modifications to the kickoff. Participants emerged from the approximately four-hour meeting with growing conviction that the committee might propose significant changes by which the NFL could implement a version of the XFL kickoff model as soon as next season.

The NFL’s consideration of the XFL kickoff alignment, or something resembling it, means the kicker would line up in roughly the traditional spot on the field to kick the ball.  The other members of the kicking team would begin the play lined up far down the field, perhaps only five yards from the blockers for the receiving team. That would attempt to reduce the space and speed elements of the kickoff that result in such violent collisions and frequent injuries.

One Mirror Too Many - The Black Crowes