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[noahgibbs]

The Onion's little sidelights win. Usually it's just a single image and a tagline. Something like:

Crocodile Hunter Same Way In Bed

I went to the post office at lunch to get my mail forwarded. Didn't work. They were entirely out of change-of-address forms. I waited a half-hour in line to find out. Sigh.

Comments

[warsop.livejournal.com]

You can change your address online.

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Done. Thank you!

Mail forwarding

[bk2w.livejournal.com]

So it's not just the Mary Ave post office. They only had some because some ingenious employee there thought to photocopy the form and provide copies.

[griffjon.livejournal.com]

Besiiiiides -- you get a lot less junkmail by not filing those. They're available for the picking for 3 months after filed by anyone who asks for updated addresses. So, notify your creditors, debtors, and close friends, etc., and don't bother with a new .forward.

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

Actually, the junk mail had me figured out, by name, several days before I'd even moved in, much less filed a forwarding form. Damned if I know how.

[thwomp.livejournal.com]

I know that here your name, the property you bought, and how much you paid for it are public knowledge. I think it might even get in the paper.

... and another thing

[warsop.livejournal.com]

If I could get a lover as enthusiastic as Steve Irwin, I would be one extremely happy woman!

Re: ... and another thing

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

Crikey!

:-P

I've been reliably informed (several times :-P ) that enthusiasm in bed has its high points, but gets old fast.

Granted, if I had a lover as enthusiastic but of the opposite gender, I'd probably leave bed only to work or eat. But two of us like that would be scary, and that's even if reptiles weren't involved.

Re: ... and another thing

[warsop.livejournal.com]

Look at that beauty!

... Ahem. Excuse me, I'm off to a cold shower now.

Re: ... and another thing

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

Heh :-) That may cross my personal line between "amusing" and "perverse"... Then again, I hang out with very few people that aren't perverse, so there you go.

Junk Mail Stuff

[misternihil.livejournal.com]

I had ten new mortgage offers waiting for me in the box the first time I opened it.
Not to mention that somebody filed a change-of-address form at the same time to my new address. We still get their mail from time to time... (they never lived here. Maybe they made an offer and were told they got the house, changed their address in a fit of hope, and were shafted. That's the story I like)
I know lots of companies just comb the house purchases, as they are public record. What puzzles me is that the number one combers are Real Estate Agents, asking if you're interested in buying another house. Personally I only need one, but maybe if I start eating more...
Junk Mail Sux.
I disconnected my normal house phone and still give it out. It makes me smile every time I don't get another call offering me crap.
Although, on a similar note, we had a politician here in Texas with a bank of autodial phones, and the dedication (read:money and time) to get about 40% of the way to his threat of calling every number in Texas. I got about six calls from him on each of the two phone lines in the house.
sorry. Gushing about junk media.

Re: Junk Mail Stuff

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

> politician here in Texas with a bank of autodial phones

I take it you're committed to not voting for him?

("a vote for me is a vote for telemarketing!")