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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 07:07 PM
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Control freak much?
Apparently, I 'have' to stop crossing my 7's because my boss doesn't 'like' the way it looks.
I should, apparently, just stop crossing them ALL THE TIME because he doesn't like it, so he wont have to see it on the day sheet.

Can you say, fuck that? I can.
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 07:08 PM
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1. What the fuck?
That's just stupid.
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 07:11 PM
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2. It's ridiculous.
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 07:13 PM
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3. I used to write them that way
Living overseas as a kid, that was the way it's done in Europe (or where I lived anyway). Kept the habit going for years even after returning to the U.S., but then fell back into the non-crossed way for whatever reason. I never knew it could annoy anyone. :shrug:
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 07:19 PM
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4. Not only does it annoy someone
but it apparently annoys them enough to give me a lecture about it, and they expect that I will change my writing style which has been the same since childhood to accommodate their quirk.

I wouldn't really care as much as I do if they weren't already such crazy control freaks about EVERYTHING. Frankly, they don't pay me enough to not only put up with this shit but also change things like my handwriting.

I think you gotta be pretty anal and nuts to care so much you expect others to rid themselves of lifelong habits to mollify you. Unless that habit was like, pissing your pants. Then I'd get it. :D
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mzteris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 01:50 AM
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43. I do it, my ex hubby does it....
our daughter "got in trouble" in elementary school with one of her teachers - who kept marking her answers WRONG...... we had a nice little chat and then everything was ok after that.

Idiot woman didn't know that a crossed 7 was a SEVEN!
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Darth_Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 07:22 PM
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5. They HAVE to be crossed.....
to distinguish them from ones. :)

They MUST be crossed. :evilgrin:
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 07:24 PM
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6. My fingers agree with you!
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 07:25 PM
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7. I had a boss that kept trying to throw out my stuffed sheep.
Apparently, it wasn't appropriate for an office. My coworkers used to have to rescue it when I wasn't around. Then again, this guy was a sick fucking bastard.
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Darth_Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 07:44 PM
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11. evil BASTARD!!!
I love sheep. I have a stuffed one here. ;)
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 07:48 PM
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12. Amazingly enough, that was one of the least evil things he did.
And that is why the whole management team save one left within six months of this guy taking over the buisiness. Oh yeah, and I was the "new" one there with 3.5 years. One woman had 12. And he gave us all nice raises when he bought the place...and we still basically all told him to shove it eventurally.
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 08:28 PM
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19. Stuffed sheep lovers unite!
I also have a stuffed sheep - his name is Bogart and he's my traveling buddy. For some reason, he goes with me on every trip I take.

I was with you on the 7's anyway, but the fact that you have a stuffed sheep clinches it. You're right, your boss is wrong.
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 08:02 PM
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17. If it was a stuffed *real* sheep, I agree with the boss.
I mean, there's a limit.
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 08:06 PM
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18. Nope, this was a stuffed toy sheep. About the size of a beanie baby.
It lived between my printer and my distributor catalogs.
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Darth_Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 08:46 PM
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22. is his name "Bam"?
I have a beanie sheep, his name is Bam. He's so frickin' cute.
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 08:47 PM
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23. Nah, his name was Goat.
A coworker named it. I have no explanation other than that.
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Darth_Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 09:05 PM
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24. I've got a little beanie sheep named Bam.....
he's kinda fat, and cute. :) He's got horns, too. :)

he's looking at me now, and it's kind of creepy. hmmmm. :scared:
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 09:57 PM
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33. After I split up with my fiance
My friend Steph and I went out to this all night restaurant and got crazy desserts and drank way too much caffeine and acted like total imbeciles all night. They had one of those toy vending machine games. I won a stuffed sheep from it after we'd been screwing with it for like an hour.
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joneschick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 07:31 PM
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8. I had never seen the crossed seven
'til my kinder went to a German Immersion School (in the States). Now, I rather like the crossed seven, it's so clear. I never adopted it, but I just checked 2 out of my 3 girls and they cling to it. Fuck the control freak. jeez.......
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 01:18 AM
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40. The crossed 7 is to clarify that it's not a 1. The one in europe has a
much longer top that is almost an inverted V. The left hand wing being only slightly shorter and slight extended, while the right hand stem 'makes land" vertically.
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Canadian Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 07:40 PM
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9. I'm very surprised...
considering you are in the 'peg... lots of Europeans there. Me? I've been crossing my 7s since I WAS 7... learned how to print in a DND school in Germany. :::shrug::: habit now. Also, always use the military clock to write time. BTW, it is now 18:40 hours... heee.
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Darth_Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 07:43 PM
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10. oh, I didn't know it was a european thing......
I don't know when I started crossing them........

I'm in the peg, too.
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wickerwoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 01:13 AM
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38. Yeah, I learned it when I learned German
because German ones have long noses and can look like sevens if the angle isn't just right.

I cross every other seven but nobody has ever commented on it.

Your boss is an ass.
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 10:29 AM
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47. I learned the hard way
to make sure EVERY SEVEN is crossed after a bank error. The angle was quite clear but the machine reading my Überweisung decided it was a 1.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 07:48 PM
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13. oh yes, but hubby still says i make a lousy Lady MacBeth anyway...
:shrug: :rofl:
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Sugar Smack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 07:51 PM
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14. I got myself eyerolled for doing it once.
Sometimes, people have the weirdest buttons! :D
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 09:36 PM
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26. Eyerolled?
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SoyCat Donating Member (660 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 07:56 PM
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15. Ah, the poor dear mustn't have ever taken higher math! He's just jealous
you're smarter than him.
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crim son Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 07:56 PM
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16. I hate that kind of crap too.
When I moved down to the States I used to be graded down for spelling color "colour" etc. It pissed me off but I made the changes. They stuck, too. :(
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 09:37 PM
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27. I refuse to change the way I write sevens
just to appease some crotchety old control freak. Nuh uh no way.
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crim son Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 09:49 PM
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32. I don't blame you.
But you might have to. Grrr.
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 09:57 PM
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34. For what they pay me, and all the other shit I go through
I won't have to. I *will* have to tell them where to shove it, however. While I move on to a new job.
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wickerwoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 01:16 AM
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39. My tenth grade teached did that.
She gave me a "C" on an "A" paper because I used British spellings. And when I tried to appeal it she said, "This is America. You have to use American English." And she was about eight-five at the time. I think back on all the generations of students who had her and I'm no longer surprised at the state this nation is in.
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crim son Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 09:00 AM
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45. Don't get me started on the American educational system.
The Pretzel was an inevitability.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-28-06 12:31 PM
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58. What a xenophobic bitch of a teacher.
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 08:30 PM
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20. Use Emacs! Not vi!
Not even vile (Vi-Like Emacs!)

AND I had to use the boss' custom key mappings too.
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 08:44 PM
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21. Maybe try not crossing your t's either for a while.
See how your boss likes that. If said boss says one word about it, mention that you 'had' to quit crossing things because they didn't like it. :evilgrin:

And yes, that sounds pretty controlling to me. I say cross your sevens EVERY time you are not at work. That is just the craziest rule I have ever heard a boss make up for the hell of it.
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 12:41 AM
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37. ha ha ha
Edited on Sun Aug-27-06 12:50 AM by GirlinContempt
:)
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Omphaloskepsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 09:26 PM
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25. hmmmm..
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the crossers of 7's
and I did not speak out
because I was not a crosser of 7's.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.



Pastor Martin Niemöller
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 09:37 PM
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28. I would fire your ass for crossing sevens.
That just ain't right, I tell ya whut.
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 09:38 PM
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29. I'd take you to the labour board so fast your eyes crossed
:P
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 09:45 PM
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30. Where I work, we are SUPPOSED to cross our "7's" and "Z's"
We get reprimanded if we don't.

Seriously.

And, I've been doing both since I was a kid -- and I grew up in NJ.
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 09:47 PM
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31. Quit!
We've discussed this...she/he sucks! x(

If you wanna rant, i'm in a shitty mood, so call me :D
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 09:58 PM
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35. I might be chewing though
You don't wanna hear me chew. It ain't pretty.
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 09:59 PM
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36. seriously, i don't care...
i'm so fed up! i won't put it on you though, i'll spare you, promise :)

:loveya:
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Robeson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 01:21 AM
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41. He's jealous of your superior intellect....
...and everytime he sees that, it intimidates him. So if you want to keep your job, you'll need to dumb it down for him.
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 01:25 AM
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42. You've gotta be kidding.
I guess I'd be hard-core unemployable in North America, then. :grr:
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 08:54 AM
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44. I only wish I was.
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 10:25 AM
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46. Start using Roman Numerals.
And STILL cross your sevens: VII

That should drive him quite nuts. :hi:
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mad-mommy Donating Member (884 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 10:49 AM
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48. you can take that as a compliment...
most of the time employer's nitpick is because they can't find a thing wrong with your work.
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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 10:56 AM
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49. I still cross my "z"s
Got into that habit when I took Algebra in high school. One supervisor I had made a note of it & said "You're not in the military anymore." Me: "I never was in the military. I was taught to write 'z's that way." ::crickets::

dg
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 11:26 AM
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50. I still slash my zeroes
Old IT Habit...

RL
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 11:36 AM
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52. I do that if I'm writing something alphanumeric
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 11:42 AM
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53. I used to cross my 7's and my Z's
6 years of French classes will do that...

RL
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Kickoutthejams23 Donating Member (354 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 11:36 AM
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51. I always cross my sevens it is a sign of class and intelligence.
Or so I tell others.

Anyway your boss sounds like a real idiot.
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 03:43 PM
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54. Its more like a European thing
Why do you hate America?
:)
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-28-06 03:13 AM
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55. I had one of those
She wanted me to do my Overnight Status Logs exactly like her pet from the other program did them. I had to put the last initial of each client because her pet did so, and I had to write out "sleeping" or "awake" instead of just S or A because her pet did so. I felt like asking if I should sell bootleg CDs to the clients like her pet did (which was common knowledge among the direct care staff) but I didn't since I had no proof of it.
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-28-06 10:02 AM
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56. So, cross your Zs instead
throw him for a loop
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-28-06 10:04 AM
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57. I've been crossing mine since junior high
haven't heard anything as yet.

It does confuse some folks.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-28-06 12:39 PM
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59. Stop crossing the 7s... and the lowercase Ts too. -nt
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warrens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-28-06 01:09 PM
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60. It's so old Europe
And you know them Yurpeens are jus' commies who shouldn't be stealing our foreign aid and then calling our beloved preznit a grade-A moron warmonger.
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