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Re: Return of the Mighty Observations Thread

Posted: 14 Jan 2018, 4:46am
by BostonBeaneater
revbob wrote:
13 Jan 2018, 10:34pm
Posting in the neighborhood forum:
Lost and found
Our chicken Jane appears to have left our yard, and we’re very worried. If you see or think you hear a chicken, please call!
802- xxx-xxxx
Its 7 degrees out and falling well below 0 tonight and there's about a foot of snow out there.
How was supper?

Re: Return of the Mighty Observations Thread

Posted: 14 Jan 2018, 11:50am
by revbob
BostonBeaneater wrote:
14 Jan 2018, 4:46am
revbob wrote:
13 Jan 2018, 10:34pm
Posting in the neighborhood forum:
Lost and found
Our chicken Jane appears to have left our yard, and we’re very worried. If you see or think you hear a chicken, please call!
802- xxx-xxxx
Its 7 degrees out and falling well below 0 tonight and there's about a foot of snow out there.
How was supper?
That actually happened to my wife when she was a kid. A neighbor nabbed her pet chicken and cooked it. Even shared it with her without her knowledge.

Re: Return of the Mighty Observations Thread

Posted: 14 Jan 2018, 12:58pm
by JennyB
revbob wrote:
14 Jan 2018, 11:50am
BostonBeaneater wrote:
14 Jan 2018, 4:46am
revbob wrote:
13 Jan 2018, 10:34pm
Posting in the neighborhood forum:
Lost and found
Our chicken Jane appears to have left our yard, and we’re very worried. If you see or think you hear a chicken, please call!
802- xxx-xxxx
Its 7 degrees out and falling well below 0 tonight and there's about a foot of snow out there.
How was supper?
That actually happened to my wife when she was a kid. A neighbor nabbed her pet chicken and cooked it. Even shared it with her without her knowledge.
Jesus Christ that's horrifying. Was her next door neighbor Ed Gein?

Re: Return of the Mighty Observations Thread

Posted: 14 Jan 2018, 6:31pm
by Silent Majority
revbob wrote:
14 Jan 2018, 11:50am
BostonBeaneater wrote:
14 Jan 2018, 4:46am
revbob wrote:
13 Jan 2018, 10:34pm
Posting in the neighborhood forum:
Lost and found
Our chicken Jane appears to have left our yard, and we’re very worried. If you see or think you hear a chicken, please call!
802- xxx-xxxx
Its 7 degrees out and falling well below 0 tonight and there's about a foot of snow out there.
How was supper?
That actually happened to my wife when she was a kid. A neighbor nabbed her pet chicken and cooked it. Even shared it with her without her knowledge.
That is some Hannibal Lecter shit.

Re: Return of the Mighty Observations Thread

Posted: 14 Jan 2018, 7:54pm
by revbob
Undoubtedly a little twisted. But we're talking 3rd world so circumstances were a little different.

Re: Return of the Mighty Observations Thread

Posted: 14 Jan 2018, 8:15pm
by Dr. Medulla
Farm people have very different attitudes towards animals (understandable, mostly, given their way of life). When the boss and I were preparing to move to North Carolina, we were at a family reunion (my family), and various uncles, all of them retired farmers, assumed we'd be getting rid of our cats and did not understand whatsoever our attachment to them.

Re: Return of the Mighty Observations Thread

Posted: 16 Jan 2018, 11:28am
by JennyB
revbob wrote:
14 Jan 2018, 7:54pm
Undoubtedly a little twisted. But we're talking 3rd world so circumstances were a little different.
Ahhh...you kind of buried the lede there. :mrgreen:

Re: Return of the Mighty Observations Thread

Posted: 18 Jan 2018, 3:12pm
by JennyB
There was a guy in my office earlier for our monthly Lunch and Learn, and he was talking to me like we knew each other (he knew my name, etc.). I have no idea who he was. Is anyone else as bad as I am with names and faces?

Re: Return of the Mighty Observations Thread

Posted: 18 Jan 2018, 3:17pm
by Dr. Medulla
JennyB wrote:
18 Jan 2018, 3:12pm
There was a guy in my office earlier for our monthly Lunch and Learn, and he was talking to me like we knew each other (he knew my name, etc.). I have no idea who he was. Is anyone else as bad as I am with names and faces?
I have met many of my wife's friends and colleagues for the first time on multiple occasions. I'm decentish with faces, inasmuch as my brain tells me, "That person is not a complete stranger." But names? Fuhgedaboutit.

Re: Return of the Mighty Observations Thread

Posted: 18 Jan 2018, 3:29pm
by 101Walterton
I never forget a face but names is another matter.
I have a phobia about calling someone by their name in case I get it wrong. It is worse the better I know them even though I KNOW their name.

Re: Return of the Mighty Observations Thread

Posted: 18 Jan 2018, 3:34pm
by Dr. Medulla
101Walterton wrote:
18 Jan 2018, 3:29pm
I never forget a face but names is another matter.
I have a phobia about calling someone by their name in case I get it wrong. It is worse the better I know them even though I KNOW their name.
Ha! I'm the same way, but not because I fear getting their name wrong. It's probably a weird emotional disfunction with me about not getting too close to people. When I'm leading a seminar discussion, I have to force myself to use students' names. More often than not, I just gesture to them and say, "Go ahead."

Re: Return of the Mighty Observations Thread

Posted: 18 Jan 2018, 3:38pm
by JennyB
I just realized who this guy was. I worked extensively with him on a grant proposal last year. I didn't recognize him at all. I tell VH all the time that he's lucky I recognize him.

Re: Return of the Mighty Observations Thread

Posted: 18 Jan 2018, 4:09pm
by 101Walterton
JennyB wrote:
18 Jan 2018, 3:38pm
I just realized who this guy was. I worked extensively with him on a grant proposal last year. I didn't recognize him at all. I tell VH all the time that he's lucky I recognize him.
Last year!! I thought you were going to say in 2003 or something 😆

Re: Return of the Mighty Observations Thread

Posted: 18 Jan 2018, 5:43pm
by Marky Dread
101Walterton wrote:
18 Jan 2018, 3:29pm
I never forget a face but names is another matter.
I have a phobia about calling someone by their name in case I get it wrong. It is worse the better I know them even though I KNOW their name.
I know exactly what you mean, George.

Re: Return of the Mighty Observations Thread

Posted: 18 Jan 2018, 7:05pm
by Mimi
JennyB wrote:
18 Jan 2018, 3:12pm
There was a guy in my office earlier for our monthly Lunch and Learn, and he was talking to me like we knew each other (he knew my name, etc.). I have no idea who he was. Is anyone else as bad as I am with names and faces?
Horrible with names, great with faces. Horrible with names...except for the dogs in the neighborhood. :lol: Don't remember the owner's names, tho.