A customer asked me tonight for "strawberries in a bottle." After some extensive questioning, I eventually discovered that what the guy really wanted was a can of whipped cream.

I now have one more question to ask: Where's my gun?

I was sitting here reading various things when I noticed the rather large collection of loose change on my desk. I decided to go on a housewide scrounge for any and all loose change and came out $12 richer for it. It's almost like free money, so guess what that means? Yeah, I'm going to blow it on comic books.

Tonight my manager told me I was starting to develop an attitude problem ( Read more... )

I just woke up from the strangest dream...

Let's say it involved waltzing, singing, music from Phantom of the Opera, Christina Ricci, 8dragontears and mixedupchick03.

Weird...that's all I can really say...weird.

So the radio version of Blacy Eyed Peas "Don't Phunk With My Heart" is " Don't Mess With My Heart"? What's going on here? You can't say "funk" in a public medium anymore? Well, then George Clinton's career is over.

The censors will be the first ones with their backs up against the wall when the revolution comes.

I found this icon while browsing through a few random communities...


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I was out near the Great Escape and since I don't have any new comics coming out this week, I decided I'd stop in today to see if they had "Welcome Back, Frank", the trade of the first twelve issues of the Marvel Knights Punisher relaunch by Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon. I'd recently rented the new Punisher game for PS2 and the storyline of the game ( Read more... )

After playing a demo of Mario Kart Double Dash (yeah, we got old GC demos at my store), I now want to go back in time and team up with myself as a toddler to race go-karts.

That is all.

Work is getting frustrating. Basically we don't have enough people working third to cover the workload, but the store managers still come down on the third shift supervisors when there's work that doesn't get done. It's funny to hear a first or second shift manager complain about having to do work, because they basically don't have to do any. Our ( Read more... )

At Wal-Mart, we're selling these stuffed toy penguins which, when squeezed, say "I don't want excuses, I want results!" and "I proclaim this...New Antarctica!" among other things.

If that's not the greatest thing ever, it's certainly in top contention.

Somebody buy me one.