Actually, Hold the Fries. No. I want them with Mayo.

Some People take "Living Large" a Little Too Seriously

I know this sounds bad, but I hope I never need one of these.

Okay, This is dude is my indie rock boyfriend? He PUSHED me out of his way at the Johnsons' once!!!

Geez, talk about an abusive relationship!!


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crazy. you are boy crazy. beware of chicks with
better shoes than you.


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To his credit, it was a crowded bar. But I almost got burned by a flailing cigarette as a result of his block!!!

I Had No Idea

meg white (white stripes)


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My Dad's A Cop, He Should Be Eating Donuts!

My dad contributed to this!!! (please see aug. 27th post from my dad)

Red Lobster Endless Crab Offer Gobbled Up Chain's Profits

By RICHARD GIBSON

DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Be careful when offering an all-you-can-eat promotion. The consequences can be costly.

Darden Restaurants Inc. (DRI) admitted as much late Wednesday as it lowered current-quarter earnings guidance and announced it had replaced the president of its Red Lobster chain after an endless crab promo went awry.

The entree wasn't cheap: Prices ran more than $20. So customers kept refilling their plates, and Red Lobster's operating profits went into the tank.

"It was kind of the worst of all worlds," one senior Darden executive remarked as the casual-dining giant said Red Lobster management had badly miscalculated how many times customers would take the chain at its word and eat all they wanted - at a time when crab costs were going up.

"It wasn't the second helping on all-you-can-eat but the third," said company chairman Joe R. Lee. "And maybe the fourth," added Dick Rivera, company president and chief operating officer, on a conference call after the market Wednesday.

Some Red Lobster units had to raise the price of the deal as much as $5 to protect their profit margin.

One upshot: Red Lobster's president, Edna Morris, lost her job; Rivera, who formerly ran the seafood chain, will temporarily replace her while a permanent successor is sought.

Rivera said the chain's problems went beyond a bollixed promotion, though.

Customer satisfaction scores are "at levels we're not happy with," he said. The veteran restaurant executive vowed to focus on improving the guest experience. "That's where we live and die every day," Rivera said.

"The key is improving the value perception, and working on menu development" so that items other than promoted ones do well, he added.

Rivera said the company believed it has some strategies to smooth out traffic patterns and increase consumer predictability, with the intent of returning Red Lobster's profitability to historic levels.

Red Lobster's new "Share the love" advertising campaign wasn't to blame for the chain's recent travail, Rivera said, although he admitted that "the executions were not as they could have been."

-By Richard Gibson; Dow Jones Newswires; 515-282-6830; dick.gibson@dowjones.com

Updated September 24, 2003 7:27 p.m.
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When LiveSavers Go Bad!

my exchange with kraft re: lifesavers gone bad.
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It's possible that changes in our products can take place during distribution. Once the products leave our plants we unfortunately have little control over how they'rehandled. If they get too hot, too cold, are exposed to high humidity or other adverse conditions, the product won't be as good. Exposing our products to these same conditions at home can also causechanges in the product.

I'm glad you took a minute to get in touch with us. I've shared your experience with the folks that make this product. They'll review things on their end to try and prevent this from happening again. We'll be sending you reimbursement, via regular mail, which you'll receive in 7-10 business days. I'm sure the next time you buy LIFESAVERS Wint-o-Green Mints
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Recently, I bought a pack of Wint-o-Green Lifesavers to satisfy my breath needs. Unfortunately, the pack that I purchased lacked the freshness and the taste that I yearned at the time. Hoping that the end of the pack would offer more enjoyment, I found myself with a watered-down mint experience, and wholly unsatisfied.

I am not sure that the quality of Lifesavers has maintained itself over theyears. With the on-set of other competitors vying for "control" of my mouth, I would think that Lifesavers would be doing anything and everything in its power to produce a quality mint.

As a lifelong "sucker" of Lifesavers Candies, I feel extremely disappointed.

Poor = Medical Treatment for Gifts!

I know it -- my dad is going to make me exchange my birthday present for a teeth cleaning. I think my life can not go lower than this.

OMG, the Horse Saga Continues - The POET RESPONDS TO CRITICISM - using VERSE

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Re:Re: Rockstars don't mean to break hearts like M broke mine - w4m-9
Reply to: anon-16498820@craigslist.org
Date: 2003-09-19, 3:49PM


I know we open ourselves up for ridicule when we post here. It's a chance we take when seeking an MC or even when we're simply venting.
Some replies to our posts do not warrant a response but this person obviously felt the need to make fun and I'm responding and cheering him or her on.

I don't know who you are.
Of course you know I'm not 9. You must be on the floor rolling. Good for you.
Please make sure you don't hurt yourself. I hope you save my post so you can refer to it and laugh whenever the need strikes you.

I hope you enjoyed your jab at me.
Never said I was a preteen. I wasn't trying for a pathetic metaphor.
Nothing about me is pathetic. I'm just a human being like you.
Obviously you missed my point. It came from deep in a wounded heart.
It was meant with the nicest intentions.
If you have no compassion why add salt to an existing wound?
Would you like someone to kick you when you are down? OK so you kicked me.
Are you done? I hope so. Did it feel really good? I'm glad for you.
I hope you got a good hearty laugh out of it.
Some of us need to laugh. I guess you thought it was your turn. So be it.
Laugh all you want. Come on, let me hear a loud cackle.
We all need laughs whenever we can get them.
They are most therapeutic and help to release the good chemicals in our brain which we all so badly need.
Many are the times we all cry bitter tears so grasp a laugh whenever you can. Even if it's at my expense.
Wishing you well.

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Re: Rockstars don't mean to break hearts like M broke mine - w4m - 9

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Reply to: anon-16497175@craigslist.org
Date: 2003-09-19, 3:21PM



Rockstars have no business sleeping with pre-teenage girls.
Honey, stay out of the clubs and put down the X!
Hey, I know your trying to go for a metaphor, but that was pathetic! Put down the "My Little Pony" and pick up a book! May I suggest something at your reading level like "Little House on the Prairie".

You wrote:
Rockstars don't mean to break hearts like M broke mine - w4m

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CyberCones.com sounds like a porn site

but really, it's a way to make delicious, calorie-free, virtual sundaes!

I made a vanilla sundae topped with caramel and m&m's. with the requesite cherry on top.

my feet are STILL disgusting part 2.

i have 3 open wounds on my feet!!! one from the new john fluevogs and two twinned and skinned sections of my feet--in between the big toe and the next-to-the-big-toe section. it's like looking at exposed muscle.

ew!

THE BEST MISSED CONNECTION EVER: a poem.

Rockstars don't mean to break hearts like M broke mine - w4m
Reply to: anon-16476337@craigslist.org
Date: 2003-09-19, 9:13AM


There are times people break hearts and haven't got the foggiest notion that they've done so.
Other times they know but can't help if they don't like you as much as you like them.
Sometimes they like you a lot but keep searching for that mythical being and they suffer as well.
No one intentionally means to hurt anyone.

Not happy admitting this but I think he was the all time love of my life.
This was my soulmate who was too wild and wooly to stay put.
The one that got away.
The one no one can ever keep.
Like a wild horse on the beach.
The most handsome horse you ever saw.
Know the one?
He rides up to you, showing off his beautiful mane and sniffs at your hair. You reach up to touch his handsome head and when he realizes he has your attention he playfully gallops away leaving your heart in pieces.
You watch the waves take the pieces away.
And all you can do is cry and say.
"Horsey, horsey please come back, I'll give you carrots and apples, please come back."
"M please come back"
But he doesn't hear because he gallops faster than any other horse and you can't see him even in the distance.
You go to that beach everyday wishing and hoping but he's not there.


it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
this is in or around Brooklyn NY everywhere

another email from dad -- 3 kids, 3 fish, coincidence??

Grandma cooked the crabs [ed note: they went fishing and crabbing the day before, my Grandpa is a sport fisherman]. Yesterday and today the weather has been so good. I wish it was like this all year round. I went fishing and caught three fish ( I threw them back). Come and see me sometime

Dad

do not contact database, part 2

this morning my mother told me that if she ever won the lottery, i am not to contact her.