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04-05-2008, 06:42 PM
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Confused about dryer sheets
Join Date: Apr 2008
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I am the FNG
Hey all,
Wanted to say hi, and thanks for the awesome forums.
I am glad i found them early, rather than later. Got a while until I retire, decades actually.
So I will continue to read what others are doing and learn from their experiences, on what works, mostly what doesn't.
Thanks again.
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04-05-2008, 07:15 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 372
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Welcome GWS - just in case there are some that don't know - do you care to clarify the meaning of FNG - and be careful!
You've come to the right place if you want to learn - good luck!
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04-05-2008, 08:21 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2004
Location: SW Ohio
Posts: 14,404
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GWS,
Welcome. Getting an early start is one of the keys to hopping off the rat race before you're used up. Read up and bring your questions just as the rest of us have.
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04-06-2008, 03:50 AM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 10,125
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Hi and welcome
Hope that you are able to find something to get you out of the rat race.
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Angels danced on the day that you were born.
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04-06-2008, 04:50 AM
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Dryer sheet wannabe
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 23
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In Vietnam FNG meant F***ng New Guy. Can I say that on this forum?
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04-06-2008, 05:32 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 987
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 Quote:
Originally Posted by twincity
In Vietnam FNG meant F***ng New Guy. Can I say that on this forum?
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As long as you do it, with a smile  ...
- Ron
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04-06-2008, 11:02 AM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Oahu
Posts: 26,860
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Quote:
Originally Posted by twincity
In Vietnam FNG meant F***ng New Guy. Can I say that on this forum?
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What's with all the asterisks & extra letters in "fresh new guy"? Or has that become "fumbling new guy"?
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04-06-2008, 11:08 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: mpls, mn
Posts: 769
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I was hoping it was the funny new guy. The lack of humor on this forum is depressing.
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04-06-2008, 02:25 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Thousand Oaks
Posts: 1,111
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mn54
I was hoping it was the funny new guy. The lack of humor on this forum is depressing.
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i dunno,
nords' anecdote about the lion king t-shirt was one of the funniest
things i've read in quite a while!
(yow, i almost typed 'loin king' there..)
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04-08-2008, 12:30 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: near Canadian border and near Mexican border
Posts: 1,142
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mn54
I was hoping it was the funny new guy. The lack of humor on this forum is depressing.
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And I thought we were in a recession, not a depression.
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Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. That's my story and I am sticking to it.
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04-08-2008, 08:17 AM
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Administrator
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Pacific NW
Posts: 6,178
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mn54
I was hoping it was the funny new guy. The lack of humor on this forum is depressing.
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OK,
Knock knock...
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04-08-2008, 09:54 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Texas: No Country for Old Men
Posts: 50,021
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Who's there? Looks to me like a poster who shows up, posts once, and disappears for days at a time...or longer.
Was that the punch line you were looking for Janet?
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Numbers is hard
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04-08-2008, 10:10 AM
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Administrator
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Pacific NW
Posts: 6,178
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Quote:
Originally Posted by REWahoo
Who's there? Looks to me like a poster who shows up, posts once, and disappears for days at a time...or longer.
Was that the punch line you were looking for Janet?
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That'll do
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04-10-2008, 03:21 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: mpls, mn
Posts: 769
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This is a tough crowd. Some of us still have a job to go to. I'm just waiting for the day I can do whatever I want including talking on the internet.
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04-10-2008, 04:41 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 987
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mn54
Some of us still have a job to go to.
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My sympathies (of course I'm retired )...
- Ron
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04-14-2008, 01:06 AM
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Confused about dryer sheets
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 2
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Hey all, thanks for the replies. Yes that meant effin new guy. I am told that i am funny, but i know when i should be serious. Early retirement is a topic that i am serious about.
I dont think most of my friends are even thinking about retirement now in our 20's.
I am going to start an IRA soon and start contributing to my 401k.
That and on top of all of that I am really looking for some property that I can build on.
I would rather spend some time saving some money for a couple years, after i find some property and spend a few more years saving so I can build a house on.
A few years saving and building, blood and tears and blisters with a large dose of sweat equity and a sore back sound a whole lot better than a 30 year fixed rate ball and chain of a mortgage.
I often think of this when I am having a bad day at work. No such thing I tell myself. It is just my reaction to the situation.
Calm down, deal with whatever it is that is stress full and move on. Simple, not always easy.
Almost forgot, the comment about the rat race reminded me of one of my most favorite books i read as a kid, and still bring it out from time to time...How to get out of the rat race and live of $10 a month" by George Leonard and Berthe E. Herter (Hardcover - 1965)
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