Whiners Anonymous Part 15
HOT! Ha Ha your summer has begun that is right! 
everything is already ok
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Melbourne Victoria Australia
Posts: 19,789
Ah - I found this:
Blue-plate special or blue plate special is a term used in the United States by restaurants, particularly (but not only) diners and cafes. It refers to a specially-low-priced meal, usually changing daily. It typically consists of a "meat and three" (three vegetables), presented on a single plate, often a divided plate (rather than more elegantly on separate dishes). The term was very common from the 1920s through the 1950s. As of 2007 there are still a few restaurants and diners that offer blue-plate specials under that name, sometimes on blue plates, but it is a vanishing tradition. The phrase itself, however, is still a common American colloquial expression.
A web collection of 1930s prose gives this definition: "A Blue Plate Special is a low-priced daily diner special: a main course with all the fixins, a daily combo, a square for two bits."
Blue-plate special or blue plate special is a term used in the United States by restaurants, particularly (but not only) diners and cafes. It refers to a specially-low-priced meal, usually changing daily. It typically consists of a "meat and three" (three vegetables), presented on a single plate, often a divided plate (rather than more elegantly on separate dishes). The term was very common from the 1920s through the 1950s. As of 2007 there are still a few restaurants and diners that offer blue-plate specials under that name, sometimes on blue plates, but it is a vanishing tradition. The phrase itself, however, is still a common American colloquial expression.
A web collection of 1930s prose gives this definition: "A Blue Plate Special is a low-priced daily diner special: a main course with all the fixins, a daily combo, a square for two bits."
Nature Girl
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: By The Lake
Posts: 60,328
Oh I have a whale of a whine today, it's about people, people named Mr. Queeny, who think they have the inside scoop on what bank we should be dealing with, what utility companies, what phone companies, what cable companies *gasp*. We bought a condo on the water and are moving a couple of towns over in January, and Mr. Queeny is right on top of things, yessirreebob.
Now just because I have been doing all the financial stuff and assessing services like phone and cable for 40 years...and just because I have moved us at least 8 times over our lifetime together, the last move being when he was working out west and I did it all ALONE and did just fine thank you very much....just because I have a phone that always works and not some cheap piece of junk that you cannot hear or speak on, cable that always receives clearly more shows that I could ever watch in a lifetime....that doesn't stop Mr. Queeny from telling me how things oughta be done.
Now he's a good man, Mr. Queeny, a man who treats me like the Queen I am most days...but it's like this...there comes a time when I just gotta say "BACK OFF, BUBBA, YOU'RE GETTING ON MY LAST NERVE!
Thanks, I needed that
Now just because I have been doing all the financial stuff and assessing services like phone and cable for 40 years...and just because I have moved us at least 8 times over our lifetime together, the last move being when he was working out west and I did it all ALONE and did just fine thank you very much....just because I have a phone that always works and not some cheap piece of junk that you cannot hear or speak on, cable that always receives clearly more shows that I could ever watch in a lifetime....that doesn't stop Mr. Queeny from telling me how things oughta be done.
Now he's a good man, Mr. Queeny, a man who treats me like the Queen I am most days...but it's like this...there comes a time when I just gotta say "BACK OFF, BUBBA, YOU'RE GETTING ON MY LAST NERVE!
Thanks, I needed that
Nature Girl
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: By The Lake
Posts: 60,328
cmc, most definitely an intervention. Advertisers love Mr. Queeny because he doesn't read the fine print. So he believes to be true, that which is not true, leaving me to be the bad guy when I tell him there is no such thing as a free lunch.
The steel toed bunny slippers just might do the job, or at least catch his attention.
Next time we move, remind me to send Mr. Queeny out of town.
That was a Two Post whine...the Queen of Whines has still got it!!!!
The steel toed bunny slippers just might do the job, or at least catch his attention.
Next time we move, remind me to send Mr. Queeny out of town.
That was a Two Post whine...the Queen of Whines has still got it!!!!
bona fido dog-lover
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: SF Bay area, CA
Posts: 99,759
I"m depressed as hell and want to drink. I won't, but I want to, even knowing how awful it would be, now and later. It's been raining all day and the ceiling is about to leak, it always does cause my cheapskate slumlords won't replace the old old slate roof with shingles, but hire cheap labor to "patch" the roof with tar!!!
So am depressed, broke, got a HUGE cell phone bill cause my ck's portion of the bill was a bit bigger than it should be, and her friend, who lives here and is the third person on our family share plan (me and ck and friend), and used up 51% of our anytime minutes!!! And, racked up a huge excess charge for text messages - to the tune of $150 for the last two months!!!!! Does she have any fingers left??? She hasn't been here for a month but is moving back in tonight (which I don't mind cause I like her) but will somehow have to come up with nearly $300 soon to pay her portion of the cell bill for the last three months.
I got the bill and nearly sh!t when I saw the total. She's not working right now and no longer has a working car, but will have to find a job somewhere, somehow, and pronto, cause I can't carry her on my small disability check.
So I have to be kind but firm and get the money from her so I can pay the rest of my bills, which I now have no money left to pay them cause of the cell bill.
I WON'T drink tho, even tho I'm sick of feeling the pinch so acutely, cause I don't want to "go there".
ok, I'm done - next!
So am depressed, broke, got a HUGE cell phone bill cause my ck's portion of the bill was a bit bigger than it should be, and her friend, who lives here and is the third person on our family share plan (me and ck and friend), and used up 51% of our anytime minutes!!! And, racked up a huge excess charge for text messages - to the tune of $150 for the last two months!!!!!
Does she have any fingers left??? She hasn't been here for a month but is moving back in tonight (which I don't mind cause I like her) but will somehow have to come up with nearly $300 soon to pay her portion of the cell bill for the last three months.I got the bill and nearly sh!t when I saw the total. She's not working right now and no longer has a working car, but will have to find a job somewhere, somehow, and pronto, cause I can't carry her on my small disability check.
So I have to be kind but firm and get the money from her so I can pay the rest of my bills, which I now have no money left to pay them cause of the cell bill.
I WON'T drink tho, even tho I'm sick of feeling the pinch so acutely, cause I don't want to "go there".
ok, I'm done - next!
Community Greeter
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Upstate New York
Posts: 51,526
This is a lame whine compared to the last few, but maybe you could use a smile. What's up with all the new, short, easy-care hairstyles? I just got back fromt he mall & couldn't help noticing the new trend around here. Why back in the day we WORKED for our styles - I spent all of high school sleeping on soup cans to achieve my 'do. Doesn't seem fair somehow.
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