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Post by Brian on Apr 26, 2010 23:00:07 GMT -8
I was half-watching a report on the Channel 5 news about some city up north that might ban toys in fast food meals packaged for children, like McDonald's Happy Meals, that are high in fat, salt and sugar. But why punish the rugrats? An enlightened corporation would offer the toys only in boxes containing healthy meals with vegetables, fruits and grains. Make it a reward and help your customers live longer.
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Post by anni on Apr 27, 2010 16:57:47 GMT -8
Make it a reward and help your customers live longer. And spend more money at your "restaurant". I kid the mc daddies...this is a Great idea, Brian.
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Post by Lindypoo on Apr 28, 2010 19:46:46 GMT -8
What the Hell !!!!!!!!! I want my Happy meal unhealthy and I want my damn Toy..... Can we not just be able to make our owe choose good or bad
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Post by Roberta on Apr 30, 2010 9:27:23 GMT -8
The Queen/Medfords eat mostly at home and then very healthy food. My hobby is sneaking vegetables into my unsuspecting family.
Not that we haven't had plenty of happy meals and whatever is the BK equivalent, not to mention IN N OUT, which I seriously doubt is much healthier than Ronald-fare, just not regularly. Grease and salt make a great occasional treat, so I say enjoy!
But I confess I was happy to see someone question the necessity of more plastic gee-gaws made for slave-wages if not by actual slaves, in China or lately in even less-developed countries. They are played with for a few minutes til the novelty wears off, or it gets broken or lost.
Plastic is made from petroleum, right, with other who-knows-what chemicals?
So whether as toys, bags, purses, household gadgets or whatever, plastic makes me remember that someone's loved one may have died to get us those few drops of oil from under someone else's sand, and makes me wonder, did we really need it?
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Post by Lindypoo on May 10, 2010 7:18:25 GMT -8
I have recovered from my illness Now I am waiting to go on vacation See I got my Hawaiian Shirt this weekend I am such a DUDE Attachments:
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Post by Brian on Jun 2, 2010 23:40:31 GMT -8
Most folks reading this know my last name. No need to print it here with so much information and misinformation linked to it already on the Internets -- and I don't even belong to Facebook.
When I was young, I wrote two feature articles for Swank Magazine, whose principal centerfold photographer had a name spelled exactly like mine. That year, I got a 1099 with my Social Security number and his income. But since then, Brian has become a very popular baby name. And my surname was probably in the top ten in the U.S. at one point. So I share my moniker with a major league pitcher, an outfielder, a play-by-play announcer, a crew member of "Real Time with Bill Maher," a professor in Australia and a skateboarder. Those are just some of the famous guys.
Lesser known like me is a dude born only four years later and living in an adjacent ZIP Code. I spent a few weeks washing him out of my credit reports in the late 1990's via 800 numbers and the Postal Service. Lately, I'm at it again, this time on the Web with TransUnion. Ironically, the fusion of names and hometowns in the past decade requires me to phone Experian to straighten us out and mail all kinds of documents to Equifax just to get my free credit report and begin the process.
I know way too much about this other Brian: his address, employers and wife's name. Their many refinanced mortgages and home appliance financing arrangements. Something happened this year and they went overlimit and paid late on a couple of their credit cards. Hence my sudden interest.
Yeah, I really should use my middle initial. But our previous President ruined it for me.
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Post by Brian on Jun 13, 2010 23:13:00 GMT -8
What a privilege to sing along to "Laugh at Me" while driving on the Sonny Bono Memorial Freeway near Palm Springs. I wasn't listening to Sonny's version, his only solo hit before Sonny and Cher struck platinum with "I Got You Babe" and "The Beat Goes On" -- it was one of Ian Hunter's exquisite live recordings from 1979 made immortal by Mick Ronson's guitar. But that's yet another story that ends in death. Even compared to his most distinguished contemporaries of the Los Angeles electric folk scene in 1965 -- you know, the Byrds, the Turtles and the Mamas and the Papas -- Sonny demonstrated a rare ambition and vision throughout his 62 years, always reaching and growing. He went from Phil Spector's gofer to serving with Gopher in the United States House of Representatives, after both appeared on "The Love Boat." Inbetween, Sonny remade himself as a restaurateur in Palm Springs, then its mayor, establishing the city as a friend of culture and gay folks in the 1980's. I was disappointed that he became a Republican, but the party was different then. He died two weeks before the Lewinsky scandal broke, so we'll never know how he would have voted on Clinton's impeachment. This is how I choose to remember Sonny Bono in the windmills of my mind: It's gotta start some place It's gotta start some how I'll make that other cheek mine And maybe the next guy That don't wear a silk tie And he can walk by and say hi Say hi, instead of why Instead of why Instead of why, baby Instead of why What did I do to you
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Post by Lindypoo on Jun 17, 2010 10:32:47 GMT -8
Last Night Brian and I lost our Beloved Father. With much LOVE and Heartach Your Loving Daughter Linda Attachments:
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Post by Roberta on Jun 17, 2010 20:53:15 GMT -8
I am so glad you posted this to let us know. I know I speak for everyone at the corner in expressing sympathies and best wishes to Brian, Lindypoo and Anni. Take care, you will all be in our thoughts and prayers.
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Post by Jeanne on Jun 17, 2010 21:35:14 GMT -8
Yes, Brian and anni and Linda, my condolences to you all and to your mother. It is very sad, but you gave him lots of care and love. We will be thinking of you tomorrow night.
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