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-=> Quoting Daryl Stout to NANCY BACKUS on 14-Apr-2020 12:18 <=-

 DS>> I think the commercials for Allstate (with Mayhem) are a scream.
 NB>>Another company... I've seen a few of those.... the Geico ones sometimes
 NB>>are cute, too.... But they don't encourage me to switch to them... ;)

 DS> The ones I like with Geico are the "answering machine recordings"
 DS> with "a problem roommate"...such as:

I don't think I saw any of those...

 DS> 1) The male who left all the doors unlocked and wide open...and he
 DS> left all the burners on the stove on...and wonders why his Mom kept him
 DS> out of the kitchen. 
 DS> 2) The female who was saying that someone broke into their apartment,
 DS> and stole all the electronic stuff...but is about to cry hysterically,
 DS> thinking they stole her $2 water bottle...then finds it.
 DS> 3) The male who calls Animal Control for their delay in coming over to
 DS> help him get rid of an angry possum...who he tried to settle down by
 DS> feeding him, but the critter is now tearing holes in the drywall, and
 DS> building a nest.

Dunno... those all sound more foolish than funny..... 

 NB>>... I didn't know it was impossible when I did it.
 DS> That's what I thought when the BBS crashed in late February...but it
 DS> was the BinkP daemon mode in Windows 10, with memory errors. Then,
 DS> with thunderstorms practically every day, it made no sense to attempt
 DS> any work with the BBS. We've had some damage from high winds, large
 DS> hail, tornadoes, and flash flooding...but compared to portions of
 DS> Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, among other areas, we've gotten
 DS> off lucky. 
 DS> With a few days of a weather lull, I got with my FIDONet hub, Marc
 DS> Lewis, to tweak things, and I think everything is working again. The
 DS> messages won't start flowing again until Friday morning, when the new
 DS> nodelists come out, as I told my hubs to remove the CM (Continuous
 DS> Mail) flag from my entry.

And then we've only had a belated, and truncated, return.... nothing
since this spate of April messages that arrived in early May...

Hope things are starting to come back together for you again... and that
the weather settles down finally....!!

ttyl        neb

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