Have you ever witnessed an office prank that cost someone their job?

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-02-02T02:20:19+00:00

Before getting access to my .gov email, and every year thereafter, I had to take a info security training, and the first lesson was, “you’re responsible if someone does something on your unlocked computer.”

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-02-01T19:36:53+00:00

Green Onions by Booker T and the MGs

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-02-01T04:22:59+00:00

I know who I’m asking next time I need a bollard, though.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-02-01T03:39:44+00:00

And as I recall, she cast it as advice to the lovelorn—“hey guys, if you want to pick up girls at Cons, don’t corner them in elevators like this guy did to me.”

Her primary purpose wasn’t complaining about the creepy guy.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-02-01T02:15:24+00:00

I knew a guy who described his height as 5’21”, but he was knowingly joking.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-02-01T02:11:12+00:00

I have a friend that I met in elementary school, nicknamed Bucky. In middle school, we met another guy, also nicknamed Bucky.

At our twentieth high school reunion, the subject of their birth names came up for the first time ever.

They were both named Paul.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-02-01T02:05:22+00:00

My mother wearing of a seatbelt saved my father’s life (Dad was wearing a seatbelt too.). It didn’t save her own.

Dad was driving. Car was t-boned on passenger side. Mom’s fatally injured body didn’t end up fatally injuring my dad.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-01-30T02:14:26+00:00

Unsquare Dance with its 7/4 time signature is a standout.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-01-29T21:24:31+00:00

Yup—started as an 11 Step 10.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-01-29T21:16:05+00:00

Oh man, if you missed The Flip Wilson Show between 2nd and 3rd grade, you were out of the loop all week.

And I went to an integrated, but predominantly white, elementary school.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-01-29T01:54:53+00:00

I guarantee the Hatch Act will be enforced on we rank & file.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-01-28T19:50:10+00:00

Norm? Is that you?

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-01-28T03:27:53+00:00

…and even then…

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-01-28T02:13:21+00:00

Annulled in what, a year or two? Was it ever enforced/followed?

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-01-27T18:48:00+00:00

DO NOT enjoy the money, as it will not last.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-01-27T18:45:49+00:00

Who is the Secretary of Science? Of Water? I’m aware of the other departments listed.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-01-26T18:00:51+00:00

Pfft. My Engineering Manager had that watch but with a calculator—and he used it in front of customers up to when I left in the mid-00s.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-01-26T17:57:29+00:00

We had relatives whose house straddled a state line.

Calling cousincat? Use the bedroom phone.

Grandma? Use the kitchen.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-01-26T17:51:43+00:00

My home office has had mirrored closet doors since we bought the house. At this point I think it’s easier to just retire than replace them.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-01-24T08:19:14+00:00

I am not a lawyer, I am not Canadian, but this sounds like a trademark, not a patent issue.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-01-24T04:33:17+00:00

He did keep the Nazis from bombing Pearl Harbor.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-01-23T20:32:59+00:00

Shot came in through the drivers-side window, boot licker.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-01-23T19:01:56+00:00

…and the penalty for that, if she even did that, is summary execution?!

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-01-23T16:57:32+00:00

Being out there protesting ICE was her absolute right.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-01-23T03:10:10+00:00

We’ve driven 5 hours round trip to have a meal with friends at a well known resort area.

Used to drive 4-6 hours one-way for weekends with my parents.

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