7800Knight

Ya gotta fart right after yelling it.

And after the fade to black, the Roadrunner falls over dead.

https://kylonpowell.com/feed-a-bird/

Oh wow, I remember that.

Thanks everyone. For most of the time I keep my birthday a low profile thing, here being one of few forums and social media where it is public. I just was out on "After Work" with some of my friends and not until I drove home I told them about it.

Happy Birthday ^_^

Hope you had a happy birthday carlsson.  Sorry I missed it.

That’s awesome, congrats! 

@Wilco Thank you!

Doctor: congratulations you have a lovely baby girl.

Mother: OMG she has a penis!

Doctor: April fools.

Subscribed.

@doctorclu Thanks!

Boron?     Ah, ok.

I was told my long hair don't cover up my red neck..

Depends...in my house or elsewhere?

Still better than green beer.

@SlidellMan I actually had a glass of green beer one year while waiting for my local St. Pat's parade to start.  I think it was Budweiser.  It was better than I expected.

I like to walk. Before I got a step tracker watch I figure I would walk maybe 12,000 steps a day on my days off, but only about 4000 on a work day.  Too much sitting at a computer.  I picked up the step tracker, and set it for a modest 8000 steps a day.  I find now I still walk 12000-14000 steps on my off days, but at least my work days are up to 8000-9000 steps a day.

Walking makes my feet hurt. Standing makes my feet hurt. Having feet makes my feet hurt.

Yeah, gotta stand and walk everyday. It'll hurt slightly less.  

...it's mawwiage with cwildren...

Actually officiated a wedding, and I started it quoting that.   Everyone cracked up. 

@7800Knight LOL...yeah. The little clunky A/B botton box on top.  A was your regular channels and B was cable.  And you are right about being no packages.  We were lucky enough to get cable/HBO in the late 70's. I guess my parents figured with 5 kids it was an economical way to entertain the family :).  I remember one of the first big "gets" as far as movies that HBO had was Halloween.  I remember the A/B box had an actual physical key lock that my parents would keep locked when they weren't around so we couldn't see R rated stuff. I remember Halloween well because I was in like 2nd grade in 78 and had a friend sleeping over and we begged and begged my parents to give us the key on a late Friday night so we could watch Halloween and they finally relented.    The movie poster of whatever their big feature was that month was on the cover of the old monthly HBO guide that you would get in the mail ever month.  Remember these? LOL.

Basically everyone who had cable had HBO that I knew....HBO was almost indistinguishable from cable in those early days. I think there were only 9 or 10 cable channels besides HBO when we first got it.

I loved me some Fraggle Rock when it came out! To this day when we go for dessert I always ask if we can get Peach and Garlic pie and my kids/wife have no idea what I'm talking about.

@Max_Chatsworth I totally remember those HBO guides!  They featured animated movie, animated specials and articles on Fraggle Rock!

Are they still restocking the stores, or just clearing unsold merchandise?

Back in the late-1990s, Woolworth's closed here in Canada. As each store in the chain closed, unsold merchandise would be redistributed to the remaining stores. The store in my neighbourhood was one of the last to close, and so it kept receiving "new" stock from other locations as they shut-down. 

The same thing happened with Target Canada. They stopped ordering new merchandise and just sold what was in the store. So, things like food and household goods were long gone before they ever clearance priced the DVDs and clothing. I assume that some stock was shifted as the various locations closed over time. 

Maybe that is it, but I guess that means they are selling last years design or model on products or whatever, you can't get something made this year at those stores. So it's definitely not business as usual just lingering on and dying a slow death if that's the case. They're just taking on the role themselves of liquidation instead of selling leftover stock to a liquidation company that is in business for that reason.

Liquidation companies will pay only a very small fraction of the retail price; K-Mart can still get, say, 50% or, at worst, 25% of the original MSRP. Self-liquidating maximizes the amount of revenue that they will receive. It also allows the remaining staff more time to find other employment.  

Eventually there will not be enough stock remaining on the shelves to justify opening the doors. Whatever is left would presumably then go to a liquidator (or landfill or a local charity, depending).   

I do agree that customers are going to be seeing lots of out-of-date and shopworn merchandise in those remaining stores.