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Originally Posted by Steph3n (Post 12220270)

twit link in mail from Mark...

I noticed that. But, wait...I'm not one of the most profitable customers.

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Originally Posted by xyzzy (Post 12220178)

Where do I sign up? Our landline service price was increased recently and it now tips the scales at $35/line. The only extra we have is CallerID, which now costs over $10/month per line.

When we moved to TX, we got a flyer in the mail about it... some promo thing. I've priced it out now & it's MUCh more expensive for the plan we have, if we were to start over. Granted, we don't have caller ID, call waiting, etc. But the only thing I use it for is outgoing calls during the day when I know it might take a while (800 #'s to conpanies, etc) and people/companies that don't need my cell phone.

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Originally Posted by icurhere2 (Post 12219557)

I'm accustomed to Avis giving somewhere between 4,000 and 10,049 miles per rental, so I've been frequenting them much more often.

Wow, how? I've been using the DL 5k promo for 5+ day rentals, which has been quite nice! However, I have an few 3-4 day rentals coming up and can't get more than the 500 or 1000 from the CO promo.

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Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12219878)

Aha! I have solved a major planetary issue. Put that idiot from The View in charge of all lost luggage. She thinks the Earth is flat, ergo bags will be easier to find.

What happens when they fall off?:D

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Originally Posted by Steph3n (Post 12219807)

Lake Travis is now closed to public access, water levels too low!

Wow. I hadn't heard that yet.

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Originally Posted by uncertaintraveler (Post 12219477)

And, in the event that the traffic lights are, in fact, out, the traffic police really should do a bit more to help move traffic along than just sit in their cars with their lights flashing. :rolleyes::rolleyes:

You mean these guys? :rolleyes: Great use of tax payer $$. I've seen them in (no)action.

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Originally Posted by cheepneezy (Post 12220331)

What happens when they fall off?:D

The hit the turtle that the earth rests on.

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Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12219799)

The hookahs were something like $20 each, and very nice...

Oh, hookahs not hookers :p

Any IAH 'Boxers want to hit a restaurant during Houston Restaurant Week (which runs almost 2 weeks)? Perhaps a Mini-meet?

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Originally Posted by sbm12 (Post 12219085)

A couple weeks ago I was looking for something on co.com and noticed that they had a similar waiver for EWR that night. Even though they aren't advertising it, CO does seem to be getting flexible on that. They are still charging fare difference in most cases though, so not particularly great.

Yeah, the fare difference can be a pain, but it's still an improvement over the old system of a change fee plus fare difference. That alone is often a $150 savings, and, depending on the fare class and availability, there may be no charge involved at all.

Looks like it's up for EWR again today too.

My apologies in advance for the multi-quote.

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Originally Posted by Steph3n (Post 12219450)

CNN spends a lot more time reading twitter than actual news coverage.

One wonders who they think their audience is. They are obnoxious from either a left-wing or a right-wing point of view, and people who want good reporting are turned off by this Twitter nonsense. I get CNN International on Fi:rolleyes:S as well as the BBC World Service and thus have no reason to watch domestic CNN anymore.

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Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12219683)

Plus, I have a real pet peeve for adverbs in general. I have found that almost without exception, tacking that -ly onto almost any word that can accept it ends up weakening the writer's message.

Clearly, you have rigorously adopted a strongly anti-adverb position while communicating with us boxishly.

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Originally Posted by Steph3n (Post 12219724)

not a correction or even anything of much substance, but I love the word wh:rolleyes:m, a rarely used word that is in many cases used incorrectly; when used.

"A woman with whom I was working at a magazine..."

8+ years of Latin does wonders for your understanding of the structure of language, even the English language in which cases have largely disappeared.

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Originally Posted by CO 1E (Post 12219812)

. . . a magazine for which I was doing some writing . . .

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Originally Posted by CO 1E (Post 12220066)

It has been nearly five years since I have had a landline and I never have had any problems. The only annoying instances were when I either lost or broke my cellphone, in which case I usually just went to the Verizon store the same day to replace it.

Some of us live in areas with poor cell reception.

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Originally Posted by colpuck (Post 12220368)

The hit the turtle that the earth rests on.

I thought the earth was held up by a really strong guy.

In other news: need to go to LAX next month, want to avoid US (since I can't work on US and oppose giving them my money for transcons on principle), UA cancelled the morning PHL-LAX as of 1 September, so options are CO via CLE, train/Q200 to EWR and then to LAX, or UA via ORD. All get in roughly the same time, CLE leaves 30-45 minutes later than the other options. Flight home would be CO via CLE or EWR or non-stop on UA. WWBD?

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Originally Posted by CO 1E (Post 12219406)

That sounds outstanding.

Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. Tonight I have to finish planning things. My partner still seems clueless about where we're going. I don't think he's looked at his FL account yet to see where the free ticket we had was booked to.

Even their hometown paper is saying that WN screwed the pooch on F9 with that labor clause thing.

Go via CLE since at least you only have one RJ in there. PHL-CLE is all RJ, but there's 737's that run on CLE-PHL.

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Originally Posted by sbm12 (Post 12219507)

Crazy good rental car deal from Alamo. Cars are $10-20 on weekends.

http://www.alamo.com/index.do?action...y10andUpV2_A_I

They beat even my incredibly cheap Avis rate in Florida for my trip in September.

Holy crap, thanks for the link.

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Originally Posted by gbryan84 (Post 12219695)

Thanks, you just saved me $55 for my SAN trip over Labor Day :D. This does mean that I will probably lose my National Exec status though. :rolleyes:

Aye, I just saved $65 over Avis for the weekend before Labor Day.

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Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12220510)

Even their hometown paper is saying that WN screwed the pooch on F9 with that labor clause thing.

I figured it wasn't going to be that easy.

Back to manual labor. :p:rolleyes: