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   -=> Quoting Daryl Stout to NANCY BACKUS on 14-Apr-2020 12:18 <=-   
      
    DS>> I think the commercials for Allstate (with Mayhem) are a scream.   
    NB>>Another company... I've seen a few of those.... the Geico ones sometimes   
    NB>>are cute, too.... But they don't encourage me to switch to them... ;)   
      
    DS> The ones I like with Geico are the "answering machine recordings"   
    DS> with "a problem roommate"...such as:   
      
   I don't think I saw any of those...   
      
    DS> 1) The male who left all the doors unlocked and wide open...and he   
    DS> left all the burners on the stove on...and wonders why his Mom kept him   
    DS> out of the kitchen.    
    DS> 2) The female who was saying that someone broke into their apartment,   
    DS> and stole all the electronic stuff...but is about to cry hysterically,   
    DS> thinking they stole her $2 water bottle...then finds it.   
    DS> 3) The male who calls Animal Control for their delay in coming over to   
    DS> help him get rid of an angry possum...who he tried to settle down by   
    DS> feeding him, but the critter is now tearing holes in the drywall, and   
    DS> building a nest.   
      
   Dunno... those all sound more foolish than funny.....    
      
    NB>>... I didn't know it was impossible when I did it.   
    DS> That's what I thought when the BBS crashed in late February...but it   
    DS> was the BinkP daemon mode in Windows 10, with memory errors. Then,   
    DS> with thunderstorms practically every day, it made no sense to attempt   
    DS> any work with the BBS. We've had some damage from high winds, large   
    DS> hail, tornadoes, and flash flooding...but compared to portions of   
    DS> Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, among other areas, we've gotten   
    DS> off lucky.    
    DS> With a few days of a weather lull, I got with my FIDONet hub, Marc   
    DS> Lewis, to tweak things, and I think everything is working again. The   
    DS> messages won't start flowing again until Friday morning, when the new   
    DS> nodelists come out, as I told my hubs to remove the CM (Continuous   
    DS> Mail) flag from my entry.   
      
   And then we've only had a belated, and truncated, return.... nothing   
   since this spate of April messages that arrived in early May...   
      
   Hope things are starting to come back together for you again... and that   
   the weather settles down finally....!!   
      
   ttyl        neb   
      
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