>   First, my apologies for the delay in replying. I had to be ambulatory
 > to an area hospital on Thursday. It turns out that I have atrial flutter,
 > a form of atrial fibrillation...which can lead to a fatal stroke or heart
 > attack, if not caught in time. They have me on a blood thinner, and a
 > medication to stabilize the heart rate and blood pressure.

No worries; happy you go through it okay & they seem to have fixed you up
okay. . .

Take your meds regularly, as indicated, on time, exact dose.

 >  GP> My formula for business success is:
 >  GP> 1. customer first (cuz you want/need their money)
 >  GP> 2. then employees (cuz thety help #1 leave cash behind)
 >  GP> 3. bottom line will take care of itself when you have 1 & 2.

 >   When I was working in silkscreen printing, one customer said "The
 > Customer Is Always Right"...and I replied "The Jury is still out on
 > that". There have been some "strange ones" that come in. Even though
 > there is a menu or display board, showing what the business offers,
 > and the prices, people still ask for something we obviously don't do
 > or have.

I learned in my current job to never say no -- they are paying for anythinbg
they askl for & their request is enough for us to bill them.

If they just say "Move patient X safely & as quickly as possible from Brazil
to Canada," we do it & then just give them the bill for $4M & change
(itemized, of course -- we're not monsters!)

Maybe 10-20% of that finds it way to supporting our company, most of it is
just cashflow right to the providers we used.

 >  GP> $77.77 might get you ONE used textbook today!

 >   And soon, that'll be for one tank of gasoline for your vehicle. :P

A guy I did moving jobs with had a Ford pickup that might cost that much (it
was an F-350, with dual gas tanks;. he co9uld pop another 100gal tank into 
the bed to load yp when he finds cheap gas (there's one sytastion in bwetween
a couploe munbicipalities that is the cheapest gas in 1,000 miles all
around!); he'd fill up all 3 tanks on the January trip down to see his dad, &
the difference in price paid for 3 20-hour roundtrips o9f driving, including
paying ferry 8 times!

 >   I wish more parents would take heed to the song that country-western
 > star Rodney Atkins did, "Watching You".

 > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uzK3VwzraM

Very nice! I've saved that one into my favorites!

Google up:
Dorothy Law Nolte Poem "Children Learn What They Live"

For the one I picture when considering the concept.

 >   Folks like George Burns, Bob Hope, Red Skelton, Groucho Marx, and many
 > more, proved you don't have to be dirty to be funny.

For a more modern one, just as funny & clean, but now, sadly, RIP, look up
John Pinette on YouTube -- he's a great story teller who takes you with him 
on his hilarious adventures

 >   You have to. I have an online digital subscription to The Miami Herald
 > (Florida), as I follow their sports coverage with my late father's alma
 > mater, the University Of Miami.

If you have to get it yourself on their page, it's your own fault if it's
late, eh? :D 

 > ... Newspaper Headline: "Local Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide."

I've actually seen some just as dumb.

I'm still trying to figure out how they ruled a death as homicide when cause
of death wAs "Unknown"

If killing a man is homicide, is killing a friend homiecide?

The police department made all homicide detectives stay under quarantine for
two weeks.
>!They had coroner-virus.

Ive never understood school shooting jokes
Guess they are aimed at a younger audience

My Roomba accidentally went out the front door, and the neighborhood animals
immediately started attacking it.
Nature abhors a vacuum.

So if a group of crows killed another group of crows...
Would that be double homicide?

At a soccer match with Julius Caesar, Brutus asked, "What's the score, O
Caesar?" Caesar replied...
"8-2, Brutus."

Apparently, a man recently destroyed his own house.
He was convicted of homicide.

Your friend,

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Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM
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