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11752. angel-five - 10/22/2004 6:04:46 PM Joe Torre continues, as he always has, to deeply impress me as a man of character and strength and penetrating intellect. Perhaps we can acquire him someday. 11753. PelleNilsson - 10/22/2004 9:00:12 PM How did the Cafe transmogrify into the Sports thread? 11754. Magoseph - 10/22/2004 9:08:47 PM The Cards won, that does make it a good morning. Despite Republicans running the U.S. to hell.
They just want to have a good day, Pelle. Wabbit didn't complain, so no harm is done. No one talks about politics any more in my local coffee shop either, they talk about sports too. Give us a break, we are all so stressed these days, you know. 11755. PsychProf - 10/22/2004 9:11:02 PM I'm gonna show Pelle first hand what a wedgie is. 11756. Jenerator - 10/22/2004 9:42:56 PM Judith,
Jen they'd have had no way of knowing something that wasn't even in the offing at the time.
Zoning is established years beforehand, often as much as 30 years. I guarantee you they could have found out that Walmart was coming ~ especially if it was freeway zoning.
Prospective home buyers should always, always, always check the zoning for any unused land around or near their potential property.
My guess is that the condo buyers you're speaking of would have found that Walmart had been in the works for five years, had they investigated.
Oh, and don't count on a real estate agent being truthful in this regard. Instead, check with the planning and zoning commission/board for the city that the property is located in. 11757. judithathome - 10/22/2004 10:01:37 PM Jen, no disrespect but you don't know what you are talking about in this instance. I can guarantee you they wouldn't have known WalMart was coming in the last six months. And I know this for a fact because I was on the zoning committee and we never even cleared the land for commercial use til ten months ago. In fact, five years ago, we didn't have title to the land.
WalMart has only become interested in this property in the last 2 months because they are closing a near-by store and want to find a larger parcel of land on which to re-open a megaWalMart. We may not even get the bid.
But your advice, while good, would have had no bearing on what the condo buyers could have discovered from the zoning board because we hadn't even decided what we were going to do with the land. Had they waited for our five year plan, which we now have, it would have been too late anyhow.
And let me tell you, anyone willing to shell out $350,000 on up for an apartment certainly wouldn't rely on an untruthful real estate agent. That's a rather large investment and I doubt they would do that lightly without some input they trust.
11758. PelleNilsson - 10/22/2004 10:02:16 PM Mago--- Have you ever considered the possibility that you take things too literally?
PP --- I'm glad you didn't mention butt waxing, nor the rack. 11759. judithathome - 10/22/2004 10:05:35 PM Zoning is established years beforehand, often as much as 30 years. I guarantee you they could have found out that Walmart was coming ~ especially if it was freeway zoning.
It isn't freeway zoning and once again, you are speaking in generalities. Thirty years ago, the property was a government military base and no one would have ever thought the base would be closing. And if you think you can guarantee that they could have found out, I'd advise you to be very careful at the racetrack.
11760. judithathome - 10/22/2004 10:23:23 PM Crossword SOS:
In what borough of London is Wimbledon Stadium? 11761. judithathome - 10/22/2004 10:33:38 PM Never mind...it's Merton. 11762. thoughtful - 10/22/2004 11:02:09 PM Hmmm. I've seen that one before, judithah...will shortz?
He's very good. Waits sufficient time for me to forget the answer before he reuses the clues so I get frustrated all over again. 11763. judithathome - 10/22/2004 11:05:30 PM Yes, it's a NY Times puzzle. We get them about two weeks late in our paper. 11764. Magoseph - 10/23/2004 12:16:50 AM Mago--- Have you ever considered the possibility that you take things too literally?
Are you kidding? I hear about that every other day, but I'm working on it. 11765. Magoseph - 10/23/2004 6:09:28 PM Where's our friend jay these days, traveling? 11766. PelleNilsson - 10/23/2004 6:44:23 PM Yes, in Provence presumably stuffing himself with all things Provencal. Coeur de Filet comes to mind. We used to do that for New Year's Eve but now we have switched to a variant of Sole Colbert. 11767. Magoseph - 10/23/2004 6:58:56 PM Thank you, Pelle, I missed his post.
11768. PelleNilsson - 10/23/2004 7:15:11 PM But on the same theme: where is Macnas? 11769. Ulgine Barrows - 10/24/2004 3:43:37 AM Macnas is enjoying autumn, no doubt.
11739. concerned, very interesting post on the ebay feedback stuff. We are thinking of buying a Pacific drum set with Zildjian cymbals, and it looks pretty confusing.
WalMart is of the devil. Everyone that works there seems to be afraid of punishment, so can't do the common-sense thing.
They 'accused' me of stealing some $3 item return without a receipt. Yah, I run all over town returning the $3 items I've stolen. There's big money in it.
Bunch of wallheads. 11770. wonkers2 - 10/24/2004 5:30:16 AM Costco has Jon Stewart's "America" (nude pics of the U.S. Supreme Court), but Wal-Mart banned it.
"After ordering thousands of copies Wal-Mart has decided not to put the top-selling book in the country on its shelves because of a picutre that it said its customers might deem offensive. "America," a parody of a high school civics textbook written by Jon Stewart and others from "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central, includes a picture of nine nude figures with the heads of the U.S. Supreme Court pasted onto them. A nearby caption asks the readers to "restore their dignity" by matching each justice with his or her robe. After being made aware of the picture by the book's distributor, Wal-Mart decided to sell the book only on its Web site (Wal-Mart.com), but not in stores. karen Burk, a Wal-Mart spokesman, said the company "felt a majority of our customers may not be comfortable with that image." "America" has been the No. 1 non-fiction title on the New York Times best-seller list since it made its debut there October 10."
NYT 10-22-07 11771. Magoseph - 10/24/2004 3:37:04 PM USAToday: Behind the robes, Stewart finds controversy
As for the photos themselves, Raab says, "I thought they were funny. ... One reviewer called it 'the most profound part of the book.' I don't know about that, but it makes some kind of comment: Who are these justices when they're stripped of their robes? They're just like all these other saggy people. ... A robe doesn't the man make — or the woman."
I guess guns displayed in Wall-Mart stores must make the man or the woman.
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