George,
How many international dial-up callers have you HAD?!
Do you mean from dial-up or telnet?? I've had some from outside
the US, but they've been from Canada or the UK. However, I've got
the Peerblock utility in place to block hacking attempts from
certain areas. I also have a CAPTCHA sequence that changes around
the clock...if folks don't enter the right code (they're told what
to enter), they're stuck there until they disconnect.
I was dial-up only, not telnet. . .
We have the same issue -- porch pirates. My wife watches her
statuses
like a hawk & is ware before delivery t hat it's due & the second
they
claim delivery complete, & we grab it off the ramp.
That's the only way to do it.
We are in Nextdoor (local chat groups, everywhere) & they often put out
photos of porch pirates.
My pharemacy gives delivery no charge, but asks if I could pick up
when
possible, as he pays the $10 delivery fee himself.
That's awfully nice of them.
Very, well, I'm in my 50ss & have many prescriptions, so I guess he comes out ahead, overall.
They used to give out 7X Airmiles(7 per $20), but a law got made stopping
that. :( (government figured part of the fees they paid were being used to
pay for loyalty perks, I guess)
They're nearly next door, so I usually can & do grab it when out for something else. Groceries are a $4 fee from the delivery provider.
I was told to order 24 hours before pickup. To give it a break in the weather (it won't be warm by any means), I'll order stuff Friday, and
have it delivered Saturday afternoon.
I get mine usually in 2 hourts if I say "right away" but usually schedule it around my wife's schedule(kids,. dog, beetles), so she's not interrupting to bring the groceries in (& put them away)
It looks like a pebble I've seen on the ground.
More like a rotary saw blade, but smaller, with bigger teeth.
And one heck of a bite!!
rrrripppping & tearing its way through soft flesh. . .
When we were leaving the maternity ward the baby pooped himself and
the
wife said to go in and change him.
So I went inside, put him down, took one of the clean babies, and
left.
ROFLMBO!! That's good!! That's along the line of the "Baby Changing
Table"
you see in the bathrooms. I guess that's where you change the baby for something else. <G>
I swa a pic of as grafitti'ed chaging table that had a pentagram in the
centre & "place baby here"; wonder how many babies had to wait until they got home for a change!
For sure. I saw a news story today that "vaccinations should be
available
to much of the population by April. Like the weather forecast, I'll
believe
it when I see it.
Yup. Good way to look at it. Hope for best, expect worst - saves the inevitable disappointment of doing it backwards. . .
As the late Paul Lynde noted, the only time the unborn baby can see outside of the womb before birth is during ballet practice. <G>
& in certain amateur & professional internet videos
At the maternity hospital, a doctor handed the husband the baby and said "I'm sorry, but your wife didn't make it."
The husband handed the baby back and said "well then, give me the one my wife did make!"
He's not the brightest light in the socket.
Fulldeckisms; Today's date for you is 2/12, so here'dsd 212:
And Abraham did look at her as though she were several saddle bags short of a camel load."
"Duh!" on parade.
$HOME = /dev/null.
3K RAM free, no EMS.
A .22 caliber intellect in a .357 Magnum world.
A 1.0 in a 4.5 installation.
A 10K brain attached to a 9600 baud mouth.
A 20th century man... The guy has no future.
A 3.5-inch drive, but data on punch cards.
A bad case of colon nose.
A barnacle on the ship of progress.
A black-and-white mind working on a color-coded problem.
A brain like a BB in a boxcar / box of Corn Flakes.
A butter knife in a steak / prime rib world.
A candidate for optorectomy. (Disconnection of optic nerve from rectum, to repair a crappy outlook on life.)
A couple of blocks behind the parade.
A day late and a dollar short.
A deadbolt with a broken cylinder.
A dim bulb in the marquee of life.
A face designed for radio.
A face designed in a wind tunnel.
A few dice short of a full bag / role-player.
A few photons short of a hologram / holodeck.
A flash of light, a cloud of dust, and... What was the question?
A great deal of pride, but very little to be proud of.
A gross ignoramus -- 144 times worse than an ordinary ignoramus.
A hemorrhoid on the face of the world.
A hop, skip, and jump from success, but to get there he'd have to give up chewing gum.
A kangaroo loose in her top paddock.
A lap behind the field.
A legend in his own mind.
A logically defunct twit.
A looney tune.
A lot of feathers but not much chicken. -- Kim Mitchell
A medical mystery.
A mental midget with the IQ of a fencepost. -- Tom Waits
A mind as empty as the sleeping pill concession at a honeymoon hotel.
A mind like wet tennis shoes... Makes squishy noises when running.
A minefield of information.
A modest little person, with much to be modest about. -- Churchill
A natural talent for finding subliminal messages in ice cubes.
A Neanderthal brain in a Cro-Magnon body.
A notch off the timing mark.
A one-bit brain with a parity error.
A pacifist out of necessity / always loses in a battle of wits.
A PBS mind in an MTV world.
A penalty kick over the bar. (In soccer.)
A peripheral visionary.
A person of rare intelligence... It's rare when he shows any.
A photographic memory, but no film / never developed / the lens cover is
glued on.
A poor excuse for protoplasm.
A prime candidate for natural deselection.
A quart low.
A real rocket scientologist.
A real space cadet.
A return with no gosub.
A room temperature IQ -- centigrade.
A semitone flat on the high notes.
A single-cylinder brain in a V8 world.
A socketless drone in a plug-and-play world.
A square with only three sides.
A standard deviant.
A statue in a world of pigeons.
A T1 line of pure stupid.
A teapot with a cracked lid.
A titanic intellect... In a world full of icebergs.
A vacuum-tube brain in a microchip world.
A VGA card and a Herc monitor.
A victim of retroactive birth control.
A violin minus the bow.
A walking argument for birth control / post-natal abortion.
A waste of skin.
A wind-up clock without a key.
About half smart.
Adult child of alien invaders.
Afraid she'll void her warranty if she thinks too much.
Ain't no psionicist. (role-playing games)
Airhead / bubble-brain.
Aliens zapped him with a stupidity ray -- twice.
Alive today only because it's illegal to kill him.
All belt, no trousers.
All booster, no payload.
All cassette, no tape.
All crown, no filling.
All fetch and no execute.
All foam, no beer.
All foliage, no fruit.
All hammer, no nail.
All hat and no cattle.
All hawk and no spit. -- Molly Ivins talking about Ross Perot
All he remembers about his middle name is the first letter.
All his eggs in the same basket.
All his learning curves look like Mount Everest.
All icing, no cake.
All lace curtains, no knickers.
All lime and salt, no tequila.
All missile, no warhead.
All of his bytes are odd.
All Preparation, no H.
All shot, no powder.
All show, no go.
All signs and no scenery. -- John Taylor
All the lights don't shine in her marquee.
All the notes, none of the music.
All the personality of linoleum flooring / plasticene / putty / caulking / saran wrap / a bowl of oatmeal / a plastic spoon.
All the sex appeal of a wet paper bag.
All thrust/mach, no vector.
All wax and no wick.
Alphabetizes junk mail / T-shirts / canonical lists.
Already visualizing the duct tape over his mouth.
Always in the right place, but at the wrong time.
Always late... Her ancestors arrived on the June Flower.
Always needs to have jokes explained.
Always responds to "Make Money Fast" postings on the Net.
Always sharpening his sleeping skills.
Always speaks her mind, so usually she's speechless.
Amplifier turned all the way up but no one's playing / all I hear is white noise.
An 8080 in a 68000 environment.
An AA battery in a D-cell world.
An alligator. (All mouth, no ears.)
An Apple //e on UUCP.
An early example of the Peter Principle.
An ego like a black hole.
An example of how the dinosaurs survived for millions of years with walnut- sized brains.
An experiment in Artificial Stupidity.
An expert on padded cells.
An expert on the historical significance of cottage cheese.
An inch short and a stroke early.
An innundated receptacle of primordial ooze.
An intellect rivaled only by garden tools.
An XT clone in a Pentium zone.
Ano-fossal ambiguity. (Can't tell his ass from a hole in the ground.)
Another engineering prototype that should not have been shipped.
Answers the door when the phone rings.
Any connection between his reality and ours is purely coincidental.
Any similarity between him and a human being is purely coincidental.
Any slower and he'd be in reverse. -- Gignac
Any smarter and he'd be retarded.
Argues with herself -- and loses!
As a baby his parents stood him on his soft spot.
As bent as a corkscrew.
As bright as a nightlight / small appliance bulb / tulip bulb.
As dumb as an ox.
As focused as a fart.
As funny as a fire in a children's home.
As handy as a whiskbroom and twice as intelligent. -- Peter DeVries
As happy as if he had brains / was in his right mind.
As happy as the village idiot.
As popular as a French kiss at a family reunion.
As popular as a pork pie at a Jewish wedding / synagogue.
As queer/rare as a nine bob note. (Very English.)
As quick as a corpse.
As sensible as entering an ass-kicking contest with a porcupine.
As sharp as a bag of wet mice. -- Foghorn Leghorn
As sharp as a donut / marble / bowling ball / beachball / pin head / wet
sponge / bowl of Jello / mashed potato sandwich / boiled weiner / pound of
wet leather, and twice as smart.
As smart as a politician/lawyer is honest.
As smart as an automatic email responder script.
As smart as bait.
As smart as Christie Brinkley is ugly.
As strong as an ox and as dumb as two.
As thick as champ. (Irish; champ is mostly mashed spuds and cabbage.)
As thick as two short planks / two half bricks.
As useful as a back pocket in a vest. (Very English, vest = undershirt.)
As useful as a brick lifevest.
As useful as a carpet fitter's ladder.
As useful as a cheese sandwich to a drowning ferret.
As useful as a chocolate teapot / fireguard.
As useful as a condom vending machine in the Vatican. -- Rimmer, Red Dwarf
As useful as a football bat.
As useful as a fur-lined walking stick.
As useful as a glass hammer.
As useful as a hip pocket on a T-shirt.
As useful as a kickstand on a horse.
As useful as a lead parachute.
As useful as a mint-flavored suppository.
As useful as a spit valve on a guitar.
As useful as a top hat with pockets.
As useful as an ashtray on a motorcycle.
As useful as an inflatable cheeseknife.
As useful as bolognese sauce on shoe laces.
As useful as bookends down a well.
As useful as dinosaur repellent.
As useful as green stop lights.
As useful as passing gas in a spacesuit / boiler suit.
As useful as piss on a forest fire.
As useful as reverse gear on a lawn mower.
As useful as tits on a bullfrog / bull / boar-hog / turtle.
As welcome as a priest at a cub scout jamboree.
As welcome as John Ashcroft at a NAMBLA convention.
As welcome as Michael Jordan at a Hair Club for Men convention.
As welcome as Saddam Hussein at a Dick Cheney roast.
As welcome as Sara Brady at an NRA convention.
As worn out as a cucumber in a convent.
At least he has a positive attitude about his destructive habits.
Attic's a little dusty.
Back burners not fully operating.
Backstreet Boy in a Talking Heads world.
Bad spot on the disk.
Baler done run out of twine.
Bandwidth limited.
Barney's his hero.
Bats have flown the belfry, and now he's all alone.
Bats in the belfry.
Batteries not included.
Beamed down and back up one too many times.
Beating his head around the bush.
Been napping in front of the ion shield again.
Been one too many times through the wormhole.
Been playing with his wand too much.
Been playing with the pharmacy section again.
Been short on oxygen one time too many.
Been using her head as a mass driver.
Your friend,
<+]:{)}
Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM
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