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might-be-don
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| Posted 9/6/2001 6:38 AM (GMT -6) |   | Nothing to do with Theology...
How do I get those Kid Finder decals off my bedroom doors?
don
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GregBoyd
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| Posted 9/6/2001 3:52 PM (GMT -6) | | EASY: BURN DOWN YOUR HOUSE]
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GregBoyd
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| Posted 9/6/2001 8:51 PM (GMT -6) | | Okay, for the 28 other people who have read this thread and have NO idea what is going on (typical of might-be-Don's postings, don't you think?) here's the poop.
While starving in grad school, supporting a wife and two kids, working three jobs and going to school full time (who could afford a psychiatrist?), I got an ingenius idea. Well, sort of ingenius. I started a company selling halon fire extinguishers and other fire safety equipment. I was hungry, okay? I even developed a Halon dispensing light fixture and tried to get it patented. I would go into homes and put on this really quite impressive demonstration showing how Halon can put out a fire at a distance. (It involved lighting a fire in peoples' homes, but I always put them out. But some people are so ana... up tight about things like fires).
Well, my good friend Don and a number of other people in the church where I was working were among the first to purchase my goods. Okay, they were expensive. But heh, Don, have you died in fire ever since?
Well, I made a good bit of money real fast and had plans for global expansion -- just when they outlawed Halon for residential use!! (It's still used on all airlines and many companies, but no homes). Like cow gas, the environmentalist said it was damaging the OZONE. Oh the unjust cruelties of life! No wonder I obsess on the problem of evil!!!
Among the free stuff we gave away to get people to like us and buy our stuff were little reflective stickers (aparently very durable and tenacious) you could stick to the bottom of doors so when you were crawling out of a home filled with smoke (NEVER stand up! you'll choke) you could see where you were -- and hence rescue your sleeping children!
Now, Mr. Might-Be who likes 70's songs a lot apparently is once again using humor at MY expense to remind me -- and all of you -- of my failed grandious plan to have an international fire-safety company.
Hence the utterly tasteless jab-in-the-side comment about the now-20-yr-old sticker on his kids door.
ohhhhh, that hurts.  I'd like all readers to take a moment of silence and pray for my recovery. (Pentecostals, you can go ahead and shout).
Okay, I'm recovered. Thanks.
And Don, you old burned out stuck-in-the-mud-obstinate-predestined-to-remain-a-Calvinist- hold -over-from -the-early-70's... someday, my friend, you just might thank me for that little sticker. (But I'd bet a thousand bucks [if I wasn't baptist of course] that you haven't ONCE checked the meter on your halon extinguisher -- so I'm sure its utterly useless now.)
And remember, C.S.Peirce, arguably the greatest mind America has ever known, invented TONS of stuff and have TONS of granduous plans -- and NOT ONE OF THEM succeeded. He nearly starved to death. (He's my role model).
And now you've heard the rest of the story.
Paul Harvey
Greg
ps. Let it be an everlasting testimony to my utterly goddly patient redeemed nature that, after all this abuse, I STILL LOVE THAT Ol FART.
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trosie
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| Posted 9/6/2001 11:12 PM (GMT -6) | | I realize that this thread is labeled "For the Doc only" so I hope (?) you won't mind my posting something here. I guess this is my turn for a sleepless night like others have expressed experiencing in the past.
I was just thinking about the Doc's creative invention. I personally LOVE to think and brainstorm up ideas and products that are not yet available! I remember, when my oldest was a baby, I would pump gas and have to take him out of his carseat and bring him into the gas station to pay (even in the COLD, winter days) I thought of this idea of having a way of paying for the gas at the pump for people in my type of situation with small children. Then what do you know but a few years after my thinking about this gas stations started having credit card pay at the pumps and now most gas stations have this service. I would love to someday actually go with an idea I get and then perhaps I could become filthy rich!!! Then I could use my blessing to bless others by... letting them ride in MY boat, letting them stay at MY resort, letting them visit MY condo in the Bahamas, letting them swim in MY pool 
Anyway, it sounds like that must have been a fun venture for you guys!
trosie
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might-be-don
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| Posted 9/7/2001 2:04 AM (GMT -6) | | quote:
Well, my good friend Don and a number of other people in the church where I was working were among the first to purchase my goods. Okay, they were expensive. But heh, Don, have you died in fire ever since?
Greg,I thought I was alot older than you. I was wrong. Being the cheapo guy I am, I took the free stickers you were giving away and didn't buy the fire gizmo. It was an impressive demo though.
You tell the story much better than I could have done. By the way... the stickers really are still on the doors.
don
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GregBoyd
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| Posted 9/7/2001 3:57 AM (GMT -6) | | Trosie: You gotta ACT on some of those ideas. Think how "filthy rich" you would be now if only...
Don: YOU TOTAL CHEAP WAD! And you ARE a lot older than me. Just not as far gone mentally. (Then again, when a person falls from a Mount Everest, its more noticable than when they step down from an ant him !!!!)
Peace be to you, firetrap.
Doc
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