What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[MrPopo]

You've got like, the traces of the accent they have in your voice. It's really distracting; it's not full on like theirs and it probably doesn't help that I'm expecting you to sound like the people I grew up with.

I actually play up the accent a bit.

...It helps sell raffle tickets if I don't "sound like some Yankee".

That must be what it is. I can tell it's not something natural to you.

[REPO Man]

Posted a video from Youtube of The Dresden Dolls' performance at a one-night engagement and mentioned "Coin-Operated Boy" was about a dildo, and who else but The Dresden Dolls' drummer Brian Viglione commented about how the song is about "[a woman's] fear of intimacy and making herself vulnerable. She's describing her wishes to have a lover without the emotional complexities that invariably leave her feeling alone and screwed up in real life." I apologized and explained my blunder. And as a mea culpa, posted the video for the song with a (somewhat) detailed explanation behind my comments, apologized for offending Viglione and/or Amanda Palmer (the vocalist/pianist of the group, who's also the wife of author Neil Gaiman, whose child is expected to be born in the foreseeable future).

[TSTR]

Sounds like your explanation and that dude's explanation aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.

[fastbilly1]

Ticked: pipe burst at home between me leaving for work and my wife leaving for work. And since my wife is in the middle of a big project, I just drove an hour to the office, only to turn around and drive an hour back to meet the plumber, after two hours at the office...

Smiled: boss said to not drive in tomorrow and to just add an extra hour or two today and tomorrow to make up for the time off. Since we are dead this week, that means playing Mario while on the clock.

[Luke]

Sounds like your explanation and that dude's explanation aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.

Well said TSTR.

Whoa: I spent a lot of time in this house when I was a kid.

It's a gorgeous 5 bedroom house that over looks the blue ridge mountains. Last time I checked it was valued at well over a quarter million, and is now selling for $50k.

Five bedrooms, incredibly high ceilings, a spa, a basement and work room, treehouse, and a view from the great room that is hard to beat. It's a dream mountain house.

All for $50k.

Why?

Mold. Apparently the house is "eating itself away" and no one wants to touch it.

[fastbilly1]

Well that and it is an auction starting at 50k. If it was a 250k house, it will probably go for 140ish for the land alone.

[Czernobog]

I have internet at the apartment.

No other person in this apartment building knows how to close a door without shaking the foundation.

[TSTR]

No other person in this apartment building knows how to close a door without shaking the foundation.

[Czernobog]

No other person in this apartment building knows how to close a door without shaking the foundation.

[Luke]

Well that and it is an auction starting at 50k. If it was a 250k house, it will probably go for 140ish for the land alone.

Nope. Won't even go for $20k for the land.

I have a friend who is a "professional house flipper" and said the house is worthless. Anything metal that was in the house has been stripped. The walls have all been torn down and what's left is moldy wood. No one is interested.

Plus the retail market in Caldwell County is at a major low point right now. Houses on a golf course that went for $600,000 a few years ago aren't selling for $120,000.

Whoever does buy the house will likely bulldoze it and build a new one.