Being in IT for 35 years in cubicles with the other IT mutants, we created a game called “Earworm Wars” where you try to get some catchy song stuck in somebody else’s head.
If you hear them whistling or humming it later, you won. And vice versa. Sometimes you have to counter punch with something else… until 5p.
Today, I got torpedoed by my 10 year old granddaughter who was singing Taylor Swift’s “Ophelia”.
Guys… I tried, I really did. I used every knockout earworm I knew to even the score.
“Rock the Casbah”, “Feel it Still”, Led Zepplin songs… I even tried the H.R. Pufnstuf theme song (which had been retired when some Millennial IT jocks informed me it picked up a 4.20 connotation).
None of those songs work against the 10 year old. Damnit.
I had a coworker who misused a word all the time in her documents, so I placed a more correct word in her auto replace. It took her a while to realize it.
Yep, we are going to shop for new home and auto insurance once we need to add our soon to be 16 year old. Just got our oldest off (got married) and have our 17 year old on. Been stupid and have had the same company for 10+ years and they keep jacking rates, but this year was especially bad. Dumb that you have to shop every 6 months now to keep it reasonable.
thank you for this note. A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (usually the same phonemes) in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more words. So, the two g’s shouldn’t have anything to do with it, just the 'er, but I didn’t think of the British word you put (nor knew the etymology/root meaning lost through centuries).
Good reminder that I should probably comparison shop at some point. I’ve actually had the same insurance carrier for nearly 30 years now. The very few times I have had to file a claim, it was nice being able to call them up and be on a first-name basis to navigate the process.
Not sure that’s worth the extra $$ I’m likely paying though.
Insurance companies now seem to punish customers for staying with them. They’re banking on you getting complacent and not noticing when they increase your rate.
My homeowners premium inexplicably almost doubled and they claimed it was due to market conditions blah blah. Checked a couple other companies and instantly found the same coverage for same/less than the rate I was previously paying. Something similar happened with my auto insurance a couple years ago.
We buy a lot of insurance, what with a home and two rental properties. Since so much of our wealth is tied up in real estate we have not just insurance in the building, but earthquake and umbrella policies as well. Two years ago, completely out of left field, major carrier with a red logo who likes to pay athletes to be in ads for them cancelled the umbrella policy. Our agent, who my wife had been with basically for decades (father, mother, and now son running the agency) did nothing to resolve it.
So we shopped. An independent agent figured out a bundle for the properties and our cars that was 40% less than red logo was charging. Red logo basically lost $16k worth of annual business by cancelling the cheapest, least likely to have a claim policy we had with them. Real smart move.
Vandals of any way shape or form, but how petty are the vandals that wreck the bike pumps placed along the JRT? I don’t think any of them work. I carry my own pump, but just can’t understand these miscreants.
I used to be insured with a red logo as well. Last year they wanted 5k for my house in lower middle class Ogden for the year. I shopped and am now paying 1k a year for a bundled car and home package. AAA rocks!
