"Blinky the Shark" > wrote
>
> To my ears, "ever so often" sounds Dixie.
>

Not even.



Have you lived in the south?

"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
...
> On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:02:24 -0700, wrote:
>
>> I used to work as a grocery checker at Kroger back when I was in
>> college and it was up to the checker to make sure everything was out
>> of the cart. In fact, the first thing we were told we had to ring up
>> was the stuff on the bottom of the bascart.
>
> When I was a 17-year old cart boy ('Courtesy Clerk') at Pak 'n
> Save grocery in Sunnyvale, a customer was returning his cart to
> the cart return stall. I intercepted him and said, "Oh, I'll
> take that for you sir".
>
> I neglected to tell him that he forgot to take his case of beer
> off the bottom of the cart. And wheeled it around the side of
> the store and stashed it in the bushes until after work.
>
> Still not as bad as a grown man squeezing the like out of loaves
> of bread just out of spite.
>

Maybe not, but damned close.

Dee Dee > wrote:

>"Andy" <q> wrote in message ...

>> An attendant gathers them up and walks them to the
>> storefront every so often.

>Andy, is this word, as you used it, "every" a colloquism (sp?) in your
>region?

>I've heard so many say "every," in this context, as well as "ever," so I
>don't know which is a colloquism and which is not, at this point.

To me they are different phrases and neither is colloquial. I would
say "every so often" means occasionally, while "ever so often" means
frequently. "He comes to London ever so often" would mean the person
visits London more than most people do, or more often than one
might expect.

It's possible though that in the American south people might
say "ever' so often" to mean "every so often"; if so, then that
is colloquial.

Steve

cybercat wrote:
>
> "Blinky the Shark" > wrote
>>
>> To my ears, "ever so often" sounds Dixie.
>>
>
> Not even.
>
>
>
> Have you lived in the south?

No, but I've sure never heard that from mainstream US English speakers
where I *have* lived. But that probably just means that it's country,
even though not necessarily southern.


--
Blinky RLU 297263
Killing all posts from Google Groups
The Usenet Improvement Project - http://improve-usenet.org

"Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
>
>
> Dee Dee,
>
> Sorry, but I've beem in the middle of fighting off a "from every
> direction" anti-Andy assault all day long and now you ask about
> phraseology
> at a time like this?
>
> <VBG>
>
> Andy


Ahhh, poor Andy ......

Andy, your life sounds too soft for me to commiserate ;-)
Dee Dee

Dee Dee wrote:
> "Andy" <q> wrote in message
> ...
>> Steve Pope said...
>>
>>> In article >, Andy <q> wrote:
>>>
>>>> So somewhere in the parking lot at TJs there's a shopping cart
>>>> with two pork tenderloins in it.
>>>
>>> What do you mean by "somewhere in the parking lot"? Did you not
>>> return the cart to the cart area in front of the store?
>>>
>>> Steve
>>
>>
>> They have little shopping cart stalls in the parking lot as a
>> convenience to
>> the customers. An attendant gathers them up and walks them to the
>> storefront
>> every so often.
>>
>> Andy
>
> Andy, is this word, as you used it, "every" a colloquism (sp?) in your
> region?
>
> I've heard so many say "every," in this context, as well as "ever,"
> so I don't know which is a colloquism and which is not, at this point.
>
> It's almost like the word, "nevertheless."

'Every so often' is commonly used in UK, as is, 'nevertheless'

"Blinky the Shark" > wrote in message
...
> cybercat wrote:
>>
>> "Blinky the Shark" > wrote
>>>
>>> To my ears, "ever so often" sounds Dixie.
>>>
>>
>> Not even.
>>
>>
>>
>> Have you lived in the south?
>
> No, but I've sure never heard that from mainstream US English speakers
> where I *have* lived. But that probably just means that it's country,
> even though not necessarily southern.

"Ever so often" might be "missing front teeth living in the mountains of
Arkansas," but it's surely not "southern."

You sharks just lovvvvve to stereotype, don't you?

>: \

cybercat wrote:
>
> "Blinky the Shark" > wrote in message
> ...
>> cybercat wrote:
>>>
>>> "Blinky the Shark" > wrote
>>>>
>>>> To my ears, "ever so often" sounds Dixie.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Not even.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Have you lived in the south?
>>
>> No, but I've sure never heard that from mainstream US English speakers
>> where I *have* lived. But that probably just means that it's country,
>> even though not necessarily southern.
>
> "Ever so often" might be "missing front teeth living in the mountains of
> Arkansas," but it's surely not "southern."

You just stereotyped Arkansans.

> You sharks just lovvvvve to stereotype, don't you?

You just stereotyped sharks.


--
Blinky RLU 297263
Killing all posts from Google Groups
The Usenet Improvement Project - http://improve-usenet.org

Sqwertz wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:02:24 -0700, wrote:
>
>> I used to work as a grocery checker at Kroger back when I was in
>> college and it was up to the checker to make sure everything was out
>> of the cart. In fact, the first thing we were told we had to ring up
>> was the stuff on the bottom of the bascart.
>
> When I was a 17-year old cart boy ('Courtesy Clerk') at Pak 'n
> Save grocery in Sunnyvale, a customer was returning his cart to
> the cart return stall. I intercepted him and said, "Oh, I'll
> take that for you sir".
>
> I neglected to tell him that he forgot to take his case of beer
> off the bottom of the cart. And wheeled it around the side of
> the store and stashed it in the bushes until after work.
>
> Still not as bad as a grown man squeezing the like out of loaves
> of bread just out of spite.

Why not? That was spite and theft!

Sqwertz wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 23:54:18 -0400, cybercat wrote:
>
>> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>
>>> Still not as bad as a grown man squeezing the like out of loaves
>>> of bread just out of spite.
>>
>> Maybe not, but damned close.
>
> I suspect you went right from Kindergarten to adult without any
> stops in between.

What has that to do with being a thief?

"Blinky the Shark" > wrote in message
...
> cybercat wrote:
>>
>> "Blinky the Shark" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> cybercat wrote:
>>>>
>>>> "Blinky the Shark" > wrote
>>>>>
>>>>> To my ears, "ever so often" sounds Dixie.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Not even.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Have you lived in the south?
>>>
>>> No, but I've sure never heard that from mainstream US English speakers
>>> where I *have* lived. But that probably just means that it's country,
>>> even though not necessarily southern.
>>
>> "Ever so often" might be "missing front teeth living in the mountains of
>> Arkansas," but it's surely not "southern."
>
> You just stereotyped Arkansans.
>
>> You sharks just lovvvvve to stereotype, don't you?
>
> You just stereotyped sharks.
>

Yes, I did.

Steve Pope wrote:
>>
> To me they are different phrases and neither is colloquial. I would
> say "every so often" means occasionally, while "ever so often" means
> frequently. "He comes to London ever so often" would mean the person
> visits London more than most people do, or more often than one
> might expect.

Yes, that is how we used them!

"Ophelia" > wrote in message
...
> Sqwertz wrote:
>> On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 23:54:18 -0400, cybercat wrote:
>>
>>> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>
>>>> Still not as bad as a grown man squeezing the like out of loaves
>>>> of bread just out of spite.
>>>
>>> Maybe not, but damned close.
>>
>> I suspect you went right from Kindergarten to adult without any
>> stops in between.
>
> What has that to do with being a thief?

Steve has made it to a rather advanced age without realizing that what goes
around, comes around.

cybercat wrote:
> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Sqwertz wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 23:54:18 -0400, cybercat wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>> Still not as bad as a grown man squeezing the like out of loaves
>>>>> of bread just out of spite.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe not, but damned close.
>>>
>>> I suspect you went right from Kindergarten to adult without any
>>> stops in between.
>>
>> What has that to do with being a thief?
>
> Steve has made it to a rather advanced age without realizing that
> what goes around, comes around.

Ah!

cybercat said...

>
> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:02:24 -0700, wrote:
>> Still not as bad as a grown man squeezing the like out of loaves
>> of bread just out of spite.
>>
>
> Maybe not, but damned close.


Squeezing the "life" out of...

Ya BUM!!!

I fear I shall have to turn myself in to authorities. I'm so tired of
running! These days five blocks and I'm finished. I'm the "Go To Guy" not
the "Get Away Guy."

If nothing else, remember me for the chuckles!

Your Honor, I cannot tell a lie, JILL DID IT!!! ...ok, I'll go quietly...

Do r.f.c members get reduced sentences? ("I can COOK! I can COOK!")

"Good evening cons. Welcome to the kitchens. It's cheese/noodle casserole
day!" Uh oh...

Andy

"Dee Dee" wrote:
> "Andy" <q> wrote
>
> DOES NOT impress the ladies!!!
>
> Andy, are you a ladies' man?

Andy is either mama's *boy* or daddy's *girl*. You choose. hehe

http://peerfear.typepad.com/blog/200..._lapdance.html

Sheldon said...

> "Dee Dee" wrote:
>> "Andy" <q> wrote
>>
>> DOES NOT impress the ladies!!!
>>
>> Andy, are you a ladies' man?
>
> Andy is either mama's *boy* or daddy's *girl*. You choose. hehe
>
> http://peerfear.typepad.com/blog/200..._lapdance.html


Heh heh heh heh heh!!!

When I start a fan club, you'll be #1 Fan!

Andy

The Ranger wrote:

>
> I leave my carts "somewhere in the parking lot," too. The two TJ's
> I current patronize have cart corrals throughout their respective
> lots so I don't ever walk mine back to the front of the store...

Heh. Around here (RSA) there is a "Clever Plan". Lots of would-be
homeless people and/or so-called "under qualified" people work as "car
guards" in the various shopping mall parking lots... They are either
"self employed" or work for a "car guard" company. These people wear a
sort of "apron/uniform" that identifies them and they keep an eye on
your car while you are shopping (car theft is rife here). They survive
on "donations" doled out by grateful people like me - and it seems to
earn them a living, because they are all over the place. I know some of
them "personally" - as they have been working at the same shopping malls
for years!

However, the big bonus is this: they always rush over to help shoppers
who are pushing their carts back to their cars to off-load them and then
they return the carts to the respective stores...

It works well. Gives some people a (sort of) job - who would otherwise
be jobless - cuts down on the car theft AND the shopping carts get
returned to their rightful place back at the store (without one having
to return the cart oneself). Think they might also earn a "finders fee"
for returning the carts to the stores too. Those carts are expensive, so
if they "go missing"... - probably saves the stores a fortune.
--
Cheers
Chatty Cathy

Garlic: the element without which life as we know it would be impossible

"Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
> At TJs, yesterday I had put a package of pork tenderloins in my cart, in
> the
> kid seat section and Iris, my checkout girl must've missed it and I didn't
> notice either. Then, today I thought, hmmm... I thought I bought some pork
> tenderloins but I don't remember unbagging them.
>
> So, I checked the fridge and it wasn't there. Maybe it slipped out of the
> bag
> and is in the trunk of my car. Nope. I wondered was I charged? So, I dug
> out
> the receipt from the trash and no pork tenderloins!
>
> So somewhere in the parking lot at TJs there's a shopping cart with two
> pork
> tenderloins in it. So sad. More likely that a lucky shopper found it in
> the
> cart before entering the store and tossed it in their car? How unknowingly
> Robin Hood of me.
>
> Who goofed?
>
> Andy


Whether you put them on the conveyor or not, the fault should lie with the
checker, as having trained cashiers in more than one position/company, I
know they are taught the sage 'BOB and LISA' routine or a variation of
it......Each cashier is told to look on the Bottom of the Buggy(Basket) -
BOB, and to Look In Side Always - LISA, which means they are to visually
give the cart a good going over before the transaction is finished. It also
means to look inside plastic containers to see if anything has been secreted
there for theft purposes. Most of the time when something is caught, it is
because the customer overlooked it when putting it on the belt. Other times,
you can see the customer visibly squirm when you ask 'if you don't want
that, can I put it away for you' regarding an item still in the buggy.
Usually they will either put the item up on the belt or sheepishly hand it
over. You never accused them of anything, but they know you know what was
going on. If the checker is oblivious, and another member of the staff
suspects they are, the can approach the checker and ask 'how Bob and Lisa'
are doing and the customer is none the wiser, but the checker knows to step
up their performance.
-ginny

ps: Andy - email me separately. tx.

On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 14:43:32 -0700, "The Ranger"
> wrote:

>Steve Pope > wrote in message
...
>> In article >, Andy <q>
>> wrote:
>>> So somewhere in the parking lot at TJs there's a
>>> shopping cart with two pork tenderloins in it.
>>>
>> What do you mean by "somewhere in the parking lot"?
>> Did you not return the cart to the cart area in front of
>> the store?
>
>I leave my carts "somewhere in the parking lot," too. The two TJ's
>I current patronize have cart corrals throughout their respective
>lots so I don't ever walk mine back to the front of the store...
>
When I was a kid working in a grocery store, we hated the people who
returned the carts. For kids like me it was heaven to get outside for
a few minutes and pick up the carts, even in the rain. It was a few
minutes of peace and quiet and a chance to get away from the old
purple-haired women who bitched and whined and people who dropped
produce and left it in the floor to be stepped on and people who
dropped bottles of stuff we had to mop up, and people who couldn't
find the Wheaties they were standing next to, and people who walked
out of the store and left carts full of stuff we had to put back into
stock. And stocking is the most boring job in the world, and cleaning
the restrooms after some slob trashes it out is the nastiest. We used
to fight each other for the right to go out and pick up carts, and
once we got outside we took our sweet time getting back in. I bet that
hasn't changed one bit. In fact, at Wal-Mart, where they use the
electric cart pushers, I see them making a game of it, to see how long
a line of carts they can string together. They'll go all the way
across the parking lot to fetch a single cart and roll it all the way
back to add it to the cart string. Good for them. I can relate.

raymond said...

> and cleaning
> the restrooms after some slob trashes it out is the nastiest.


I once used the ACME men's room but some fidiot pee'd on the roll of toilet
paper!!! Grossest thing I ever saw. I used the women's room! Sorry.

Andy

"Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
> raymond said...
>
>> and cleaning
>> the restrooms after some slob trashes it out is the nastiest.
>
>
> I once used the ACME men's room but some fidiot pee'd on the roll of
> toilet
> paper!!! Grossest thing I ever saw. I used the women's room! Sorry.
>
> Andy

Some poster said they used to clean women's restrooms and they were more
gross than men's. So far, I have not seen peed-on toilet paper, just plenty
of it on the floors.

Must've been a pervert!
Dee Dee

Andy wrote:

>
>
> I once used the ACME men's room but some fidiot pee'd on the roll of toilet
> paper!!! Grossest thing I ever saw.
>


Do you think he might have been righteously paying back the store for
discontinuing his favorite brand of toilet paper?

gloria p

On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:56:50 -0500, Andy <q> wrote:

>At TJs, yesterday I had put a package of pork tenderloins in my cart, in the
>kid seat section and Iris, my checkout girl must've missed it and I didn't
>notice either. Then, today I thought, hmmm... I thought I bought some pork
>tenderloins but I don't remember unbagging them.
>
>So, I checked the fridge and it wasn't there. Maybe it slipped out of the bag
>and is in the trunk of my car. Nope. I wondered was I charged? So, I dug out
>the receipt from the trash and no pork tenderloins!
>
>So somewhere in the parking lot at TJs there's a shopping cart with two pork
>tenderloins in it. So sad. More likely that a lucky shopper found it in the
>cart before entering the store and tossed it in their car? How unknowingly
>Robin Hood of me.
>
>Who goofed?
>
>Andy

maybe some dickhead like you takes items out of carts instead of
putting them in.

your pal,
blake

On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 23:17:29 -0400, "Dee Dee" >
wrote:

>
>"Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
>DOES NOT impress the ladies!!!
>>
>> Andy
>
>Andy, are you a ladies' man?

i think the term is 'girly-man.'

your pal,
blake

On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:25:09 GMT, Sqwertz >
wrote:

>On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:02:24 -0700, wrote:
>
>> I used to work as a grocery checker at Kroger back when I was in
>> college and it was up to the checker to make sure everything was out
>> of the cart. In fact, the first thing we were told we had to ring up
>> was the stuff on the bottom of the bascart.
>
>When I was a 17-year old cart boy ('Courtesy Clerk') at Pak 'n
>Save grocery in Sunnyvale, a customer was returning his cart to
>the cart return stall. I intercepted him and said, "Oh, I'll
>take that for you sir".
>
>I neglected to tell him that he forgot to take his case of beer
>off the bottom of the cart. And wheeled it around the side of
>the store and stashed it in the bushes until after work.
>
>Still not as bad as a grown man squeezing the like out of loaves
>of bread just out of spite.
>
>-sw

at least there's a point to it.

your pal,
blake

Dee Dee wrote:

> "Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
> > raymond said...
> >
> >> and cleaning
> >> the restrooms after some slob trashes it out is the nastiest.
> >
> >
> > I once used the ACME men's room but some fidiot pee'd on the roll of
> > toilet
> > paper!!! Grossest thing I ever saw. I used the women's room! Sorry.
> >
> > Andy
>
> Some poster said they used to clean women's restrooms and they were more
> gross than men's. So far, I have not seen peed-on toilet paper, just
plenty
> of it on the floors.


I know a few bartenders, they all say that at the end of a busy night, the
gals' restrooms are the worst by *far*...

--
Best
Greg

"Gregory Morrow" > wrote in message
...
> I know a few bartenders, they all say that at the end of a busy night, the
> gals' restrooms are the worst by *far*...
>
> --
> Best
> Greg

That may be so, IMO you can smell the men's room's Pee Pee out in the
hallway of a bar, but you can't the women's. I think it must be because they
drink a larger quantity of beer.
Dee Dee

On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:41:19 +0200, ChattyCathy
> wrote:

>The Ranger wrote:
>
>>
>> I leave my carts "somewhere in the parking lot," too. The two TJ's
>> I current patronize have cart corrals throughout their respective
>> lots so I don't ever walk mine back to the front of the store...
>
>Heh. Around here (RSA) there is a "Clever Plan". Lots of would-be
>homeless people and/or so-called "under qualified" people work as "car
>guards" in the various shopping mall parking lots... They are either
>"self employed" or work for a "car guard" company. These people wear a
>sort of "apron/uniform" that identifies them and they keep an eye on
>your car while you are shopping (car theft is rife here). They survive
>on "donations" doled out by grateful people like me - and it seems to
>earn them a living, because they are all over the place. I know some of
>them "personally" - as they have been working at the same shopping malls
>for years!
>
>However, the big bonus is this: they always rush over to help shoppers
>who are pushing their carts back to their cars to off-load them and then
>they return the carts to the respective stores...
>
>It works well. Gives some people a (sort of) job - who would otherwise
>be jobless - cuts down on the car theft AND the shopping carts get
>returned to their rightful place back at the store (without one having
>to return the cart oneself). Think they might also earn a "finders fee"
>for returning the carts to the stores too. Those carts are expensive, so
>if they "go missing"... - probably saves the stores a fortune.


Sounds like "old" New York City when a window washer pounced on your
car at every stop light.
--

History is a vast early warning system
Norman Cousins

Sqwertz wrote:
>
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 22:20:15 -0400, Dee Dee wrote:
>
> > That may be so, IMO you can smell the men's room's Pee Pee out in the
> > hallway of a bar, but you can't the women's. I think it must be because they
> > drink a larger quantity of beer.
>
> There's also a lot of dribbling and splashing going on. It's
> amazing how much pee splashes out of the toilet during a good
> whiz, no matter how good your aim is. And then there's the final
> dribble which can only be prevented by standing directly on top
> of the toilet - which most men don't do in public toilets because
> then we'd have to stand in the dribbles from the previous person.

Women have no idea how difficult it is to be a man. :-)

One time on Usenet, Mark Thorson > said:
> Sqwertz wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 22:20:15 -0400, Dee Dee wrote:
> >
> > > That may be so, IMO you can smell the men's room's Pee Pee out in the
> > > hallway of a bar, but you can't the women's. I think it must be because
> they
> > > drink a larger quantity of beer.
> >
> > There's also a lot of dribbling and splashing going on. It's
> > amazing how much pee splashes out of the toilet during a good
> > whiz, no matter how good your aim is. And then there's the final
> > dribble which can only be prevented by standing directly on top
> > of the toilet - which most men don't do in public toilets because
> > then we'd have to stand in the dribbles from the previous person.
>
> Women have no idea how difficult it is to be a man. :-)

Bull! Try needing to pee while in the woods. Men have it easy... :-)

--
Jani in WA

Gregory Morrow wrote:
> Dee Dee wrote:
>
>> "Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
>>> raymond said...
>>>
>>>> and cleaning
>>>> the restrooms after some slob trashes it out is the nastiest.
>>>
>>> I once used the ACME men's room but some fidiot pee'd on the roll of
>>> toilet
>>> paper!!! Grossest thing I ever saw. I used the women's room! Sorry.
>>>
>>> Andy
>> Some poster said they used to clean women's restrooms and they were more
>> gross than men's. So far, I have not seen peed-on toilet paper, just
> plenty
>> of it on the floors.
>
>
> I know a few bartenders, they all say that at the end of a busy night, the
> gals' restrooms are the worst by *far*...
>


Now that's some interesting conversation! They have those at the bars
you visit?

Little Malice > wrote in message
...
[snip]
> Bull! Try needing to pee while in the woods. Men
> have it easy... :-)

You don't get out much, do you?

It's not an issue (in the woods or elsewhere).

The Ranger