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27 Apr 2008, 4:36 pm
SleepyDragon wrote:
Heinlein fans may find this amusing.
I've just finished reading Time Enough for Love in a UK-published paperback edition. When I first read the book years ago, it was a much earlier edition released for the North American market, and it contained only two typographical errors that I can recall: bull!" where it should have been bull! and Irish where it should have been Ishtar. Not bad for a 600-plus-page book.
The one I've got now, on the other hand, is chockablock — absolutely riddled — with typos. This one I thought was too funny not to share. The year is 1917, and Lazarus is soon to leave for the battlefields of Europe, and Maureen gives him a token of her affection:
Small things, et cetera.
I've just finished reading Time Enough for Love in a UK-published paperback edition. When I first read the book years ago, it was a much earlier edition released for the North American market, and it contained only two typographical errors that I can recall: bull!" where it should have been bull! and Irish where it should have been Ishtar. Not bad for a 600-plus-page book.
The one I've got now, on the other hand, is chockablock — absolutely riddled — with typos. This one I thought was too funny not to share. The year is 1917, and Lazarus is soon to leave for the battlefields of Europe, and Maureen gives him a token of her affection:
Quote:
Ah, the garter! Faded, as she had said, and clearly not new... and — Yes! — redolent with her own evocative fragrance. Would it last long enough for him to get it home, have the lovely, delicate aroma analyzed, amplified and fixed? Probably — and with computer help a skilled scientologist could separate out the odours of satin and rubber, and amplify hers selectively.
Small things, et cetera.
Nice to know some scientologists can get their theology out of their butt crack
27 Apr 2008, 4:49 pm
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27 Apr 2008, 4:56 pm
Chuck wrote:
Hey, where's his hamburger (j/k)?
27 Apr 2008, 5:37 pm
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27 Apr 2008, 7:34 pm
If a US citizen made enough last year to pay taxes (taxable income greater than zero after deductions), it's 600 BushBucks for an individual, $1200 for married filing jointly. If taxable income was zero or less, it's 300 individual, 600 married filing jointly. I'm not sure how that works for cases where the wage-earner was in the military and stationed in Iraq, in which case all income is non-taxable.
If you made over $75,000, there's no rebate at all. Then again, you probably don't need one, do you? 
Ours will help defray the cost of moving the frak out of this place, into an apartment with at least three bedrooms. We'll still probably be cramped here - H is having her best friend, K, move in with us to provide her with more support. (She needs a friend that she knows isn't only hanging out with her to get stuff, and K knew us when we were even broker than we are now.)
27 Apr 2008, 9:17 pm
SleepyDragon
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27 Apr 2008, 11:12 pm
Chuck wrote:
PS: Great Whites escaping the heat have been known (as with alligators and crocodiles) to travel the sewers and attack people sitting on their toilets. So look before you, ...erm, seat yourself. 
Gvprtskvni!! ! I'm just sayin'.
Gvprtskvni!! ! I'm just sayin'.I had a two-minute perseveration on the subject of latrinalia (graffiti on toilet walls) a month or two ago. It's true, just ask Robyn! She was disappointed that I was not concentrating on worthier literary projects. 'Twould be a tremendous pity for the composer of a magnum opus of the genre to be interrupted, mid-stanza, by some creature of the deep attacking his nether regions.
Are you becoming an honorary Georgian, Chuck? Hmm, "Chuck Ash-Villy", that has a nice ring to it.
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27 Apr 2008, 11:40 pm
DeaconBlues wrote:
If a US citizen made enough last year to pay taxes (taxable income greater than zero after deductions), it's 600 BushBucks for an individual, $1200 for married filing jointly. If taxable income was zero or less, it's 300 individual, 600 married filing jointly. I'm not sure how that works for cases where the wage-earner was in the military and stationed in Iraq, in which case all income is non-taxable.
If you made over $75,000, there's no rebate at all. Then again, you probably don't need one, do you?
Ours will help defray the cost of moving the frak out of this place, into an apartment with at least three bedrooms. We'll still probably be cramped here - H is having her best friend, K, move in with us to provide her with more support. (She needs a friend that she knows isn't only hanging out with her to get stuff, and K knew us when we were even broker than we are now.)
If you made over $75,000, there's no rebate at all. Then again, you probably don't need one, do you?
Ours will help defray the cost of moving the frak out of this place, into an apartment with at least three bedrooms. We'll still probably be cramped here - H is having her best friend, K, move in with us to provide her with more support. (She needs a friend that she knows isn't only hanging out with her to get stuff, and K knew us when we were even broker than we are now.)
Stimulus Payment Schedule for Tax Returns
Received and Processed by April 15
Direct Deposit Payments
If the last two digits of your Social Security number are:
Your economic stimulus payment deposit should be sent to your bank account by:
00 – 20 -May 2
21 – 75 -May 9
76 – 99 -May 16
Paper Check
If the last two digits of your Social Security number are:
Your check should be in the mail by:
00 – 09 -May 16
10 – 18 -May 23
19 – 25 -May 30
26 – 38 -June 6
39 – 51 -June 13
52 – 63 -June 20
64 – 75 -June 27
76 – 87 -July 4
88 – 99 -July 11
28 Apr 2008, 1:25 am
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28 Apr 2008, 5:05 am
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28 Apr 2008, 2:12 pm
DeaconBlues wrote:
If a US citizen made enough last year to pay taxes (taxable income greater than zero after deductions), it's 600 BushBucks for an individual, $1200 for married filing jointly. If taxable income was zero or less, it's 300 individual, 600 married filing jointly. I'm not sure how that works for cases where the wage-earner was in the military and stationed in Iraq, in which case all income is non-taxable.
If you made over $75,000, there's no rebate at all. Then again, you probably don't need one, do you?
Ours will help defray the cost of moving the frak out of this place, into an apartment with at least three bedrooms. We'll still probably be cramped here - H is having her best friend, K, move in with us to provide her with more support. (She needs a friend that she knows isn't only hanging out with her to get stuff, and K knew us when we were even broker than we are now.)
If you made over $75,000, there's no rebate at all. Then again, you probably don't need one, do you?
Ours will help defray the cost of moving the frak out of this place, into an apartment with at least three bedrooms. We'll still probably be cramped here - H is having her best friend, K, move in with us to provide her with more support. (She needs a friend that she knows isn't only hanging out with her to get stuff, and K knew us when we were even broker than we are now.)
Umm, actually, it's ~UP TO~ $600 bucks... I wouldn't count on getting that full $600 until it's in your pocket. And if you didn't make more than $3,000 last year, you're out of luck. (The kid only made $1800 and will not get a check.) My ssn ends in "00" so I should be in the first round to get the freebie, will let you know what it do be. (If you have children under the age of 17, it's another $300 for each one of those.)
Hell yeah, you can take a vacation for $400. There was a special on the Amtrak to northern California and the Redwoods, a while back. And one to Vancouver that was $99 each way (but it's not offered now, so I don't know if it'll be around....). Stay in a youth hostel for a few nights, bicycle around, eat light. Yeah, you can have a lot of fun for $400. If I'd gotten the $600 I could have eaten, too!
My A/C quotes so far, installed, are running about $800. We have an obsolete, obscure sized "through the wall" unit and can't use window units, or I'd just go down to Home Depot and get a few to put one in each room. Of course, the wiring would have a fit if I did that, not counting the howl from the the Home Owners' Association, so I have to go with a professional installation of another "through the wall" unit. Hopefully whatever we get will be way more energy efficient than this 35 year old thing. And, hopefully, quieter, too. It sounded like a turboprop when it ran.
It'll be nice, when it's in. It's so hard to sleep when it's hot out.
28 Apr 2008, 2:16 pm
DeaconBlues wrote:
sinsboldly wrote:
Direct Deposit Payments
If the last two digits of your Social Security number are:
Your economic stimulus payment deposit should be sent to your bank account by:
00 – 20 -May 2
21 – 75 -May 9
76 – 99 -May 16
Paper Check
If the last two digits of your Social Security number are:
Your check should be in the mail by:
00 – 09 -May 16
10 – 18 -May 23
19 – 25 -May 30
26 – 38 -June 6
39 – 51 -June 13
52 – 63 -June 20
64 – 75 -June 27
76 – 87 -July 4
88 – 99 -July 11
If the last two digits of your Social Security number are:
Your economic stimulus payment deposit should be sent to your bank account by:
00 – 20 -May 2
21 – 75 -May 9
76 – 99 -May 16
Paper Check
If the last two digits of your Social Security number are:
Your check should be in the mail by:
00 – 09 -May 16
10 – 18 -May 23
19 – 25 -May 30
26 – 38 -June 6
39 – 51 -June 13
52 – 63 -June 20
64 – 75 -June 27
76 – 87 -July 4
88 – 99 -July 11
Okay, I'm not sure if I'm Direct Deposit or check, because I used a tax service and took an immediate refund. J and H used the same service, but had theirs direct-deposited, so they should see theirs this week; mine may take until July. This becomes important because we really, really need to move now. Our house was shot tonight.
I'd just finished reading this thread, and was checking into another thread, when I heard sounds outside that I had not yet recognized as gunfire. About the moment I was making the connection, one round came through the wall, fortunately far away from where any of us were (I was on the floor with the laptop, H was upstairs, 'Gana was on the couch watching Oobi on Noggin, and J, of course, is in Iraq; the hole is in the corner of the room). Witnesses outside report two vehicles, that fired a total of about five to eight rounds, with no apparent target, then drove away.
So I don't know how easily we will be able to rest tonight - I've got a cup of coffee with a very large slug of irish cream right now, and I think H is getting a beer or something from the neighbors - and given H's other problems, I don't think she'll ever feel truly at ease here again. So like I said, we're going to need to move soonest, and that happens as soon as we all get our BushBucks in (or sooner, if one of the temp positions I called about comes through - I should know more tomorrow).
Now, if you'll pardon me, I need to go shudder for a while....
Been there, done that.
Put the kid to bed in the bathtub in the evenings, and sleep in the back of the house. Not much else you can do but get into prayer, if that's your bent.
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