OT Things to ponder

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Orm

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

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So that the fridge can be used in Sweden during the day. [;)]

Arctic humor! [:D] [:'(]

[MakeeLearn]

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

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Just grab the crackers on the counter...

[geofflambert]

I just read in Wiki-P that George H. W. Bush enlisted(?) in the Navy after graduating from a prep school. He was commissioned an ensign three days shy of 19 years old, being at that time the youngest Naval aviator ever. He did go to Yale after the war. I'd heard of enlisted men becoming officers based on merit but a high school graduate going directly to officer school I had not. Anybody know of other examples? Jimmy Carter was the same age but didn't graduate from Annapolis til '46. Canada had a nuclear reactor meltdown in '52 and Jimmy was sent up there to help shut it down.

[btd64]

Jimmy always did have a glow about him.[:D]....GP

[Lecivius]

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[MakeeLearn]

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

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Only during pterodactyl hunting season.

[Lecivius]

By request..

[Lecivius]

And just because I'm a smarta$$ ( no offense, Geoff [:D])

[geofflambert]

I'll distinguish myself thusly

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Cartesian metrical foot humor

[witpaemail]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

I had a pretty good scare this a.m.. Woke up and checked my email and there was a note from American Express saying I hadn't paid my bill. I pulled out my current statements, which aren't due yet. I have a green card which is non-revolving and a blue card which is. Doesn't matter, I pay both of them off in full each month regardless. I mail a check for each account in separate envelopes with the bill stub included. Checking the statements I see they applied both checks to the blue card account, leaving me a credit, and nothing to the green card account. I called them up and got that straightened out. I asked "Does this sort of thing happen often?" Reply - "Oh, yes. Some of our customers have up to five cards and things get mixed up sometimes". ! My question is this: If they can misapply a check to the wrong account, what's to keep them from applying it to the account of a different customer?

It happens. Me and my bank (rather EX bank - US Bank) went round and round. They werent going to give me my money back until the person that owns the account they applied it to paid it. Yeah, that sat well with me. Went to the bank and had a little "chat" with their person in the lobby (was saturday). They called the cops. I told them when I got out I would have signs and the media in place with the story. They gave me my money, but wouldnt allow me to close the account, so I went straight to another branch and closed it anyway.

Thieves. NEVER do business with US Bank

[rustysi]

I just read in Wiki-P that George H. W. Bush enlisted(?) in the Navy after graduating from a prep school.

I'd heard of enlisted men becoming officers based on merit but a high school graduate going directly to officer school I had not.

I can't say as to the second part, but I'll add something to the first. His father had asked him what he intended on doing when he graduated, and his response was he would enlist. This his father opposed, he wanted his son to take a deferment and go straight to college. George insisted he would enlist. Dad then went out and hired a commencement speaker who echoed his views. After graduation dad asked him what he thought now. George went right to the recruiter and enlisted.

Reason I have a lot of respect for the man.

[geofflambert]

*There was a young man*
*From Cork, who got limericks*
*And haikus confused.*

[MakeeLearn]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert


*There was a young man*
*From Cork, who got limericks*
*And haikus confused.*

[AW1Steve]

World war two did NOT require a college degree for a commission. Hap Arnold of the USAAF wanted everyone to have a degree, till he was told that if every single college graduate went into the Air Force , there still would not be enough. The legal requirement was a high school degree. Now the USN tried to get fancy. They desired two years of college (not necessarily an associate degree) or Prep school. They wanted their officers to be a little more "finished" than their enlisted men. 2 years of college might do. Going to a prep school like Phillips Exeter Academy definitely would. That was always the prep school of choice for the rich (like the Kennedys, or the Bushes.) And yes , G H W Bush is an alumni of that school. Besides, Naval aviators at that time were not considered quite as gentlemanly as their "black shoes" cousins.

[wdolson]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

I had a pretty good scare this a.m.. Woke up and checked my email and there was a note from American Express saying I hadn't paid my bill. I pulled out my current statements, which aren't due yet. I have a green card which is non-revolving and a blue card which is. Doesn't matter, I pay both of them off in full each month regardless. I mail a check for each account in separate envelopes with the bill stub included. Checking the statements I see they applied both checks to the blue card account, leaving me a credit, and nothing to the green card account. I called them up and got that straightened out. I asked "Does this sort of thing happen often?" Reply - "Oh, yes. Some of our customers have up to five cards and things get mixed up sometimes". ! My question is this: If they can misapply a check to the wrong account, what's to keep them from applying it to the account of a different customer?

I pay off the balance every month and I've had the wrong card paid twice. I ended up with two credit cards through Chase due to bank consolidation. I've had both since the 90s. They have screwed up things several times. If the handwritten line and the box with numbers doesn't match (because I miswrote something), they take whatever the smallest of the two is. They have applied my check to the wrong account too, though I started writing on the note line three dashes and the last 4 digits of the card and they haven't done that screwup in a few years.

ORIGINAL: witpaemail
It happens. Me and my bank (rather EX bank - US Bank) went round and round. They werent going to give me my money back until the person that owns the account they applied it to paid it. Yeah, that sat well with me. Went to the bank and had a little "chat" with their person in the lobby (was saturday). They called the cops. I told them when I got out I would have signs and the media in place with the story. They gave me my money, but wouldnt allow me to close the account, so I went straight to another branch and closed it anyway.

Thieves. NEVER do business with US Bank

We do all our banking with a local bank. All the big banks are horrible IMO.

The nearest branch for the bank we use is also in the shopping center we have to drive past coming and going to our house, so it is very convenient to bank there too.

Bill

[geofflambert]

I know that many of us can relate to the following quote from a survivor of the CVE St. Lo lost in the action off Samar. "At this time in my life, one of my greatest pleasures is finding my glasses before I forget why I'm looking for them."

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From page 424 of "The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors".

[Lecivius]

[:D][:D][:D]

[geofflambert]

Who is that? Captain Kadiddlewumple?

[Lecivius]

Notice the differences?

[Orm]

I thought that the local banks all were owned by the big banks.