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zoom Junior Member
Joined: 12 Aug 2003 Posts: 188 Location: des moines, iowa
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Posted: Nov 07, 2003 4:56 am Post subject: Re: you can tell your poor when? |
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Cth wrote: | UniversalMorpheus wrote: | Cth wrote: | Are you kidding? That was the last thing I had left to eat. I put it off for so long (it was a family sized box).. let me just say I ate half of it and went from liking Stove Top to barely liking it
Ever had that happen to a favorite food of yours? |
Sure, I once made the mistake of watching Behind the Green Door whilst eating Kentucky Fried Chicken. Specifically, the Colonel's original receipe.
The combination of semen-spraying imagery and chicken grease did not coagulate well in my psyche.
Couldn't eat chicken again for about two years...  |
Well.. there goes yet ANOTHER quote for the inevitable Bendis Board the Movie Novelization.. |
still thats alot of protein. _________________ no seriously satan did make me do it |
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Kirbys corpse Junior Member

Joined: 12 Aug 2003 Posts: 208 Location: Grand Rapids, MI
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Posted: Nov 07, 2003 5:34 am Post subject: Re: you can tell your poor when? |
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You're pissed because you can only sell your plasma TWICE a week. |
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firstgeer Junior Member

Joined: 13 Aug 2003 Posts: 368 Location: The Iowa Twin Cities
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Posted: Nov 07, 2003 10:50 pm Post subject: Re: you can tell your poor when? |
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Kirbys corpse wrote: | You're pissed because you can only sell your plasma TWICE a week. |
Where's that at? When I was in college you could go 3 times a week.
You know you're poor when you have to borrow $1 to buy bread and peanut butter (and not the good stuff either...the super generic) so you can eat for the next week. (Happened to me while I was student teaching). _________________ From infinite diversity comes infinite combinations.
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Dayv Enthusiast

Joined: 11 Aug 2003 Posts: 880 Location: DCMDVAUSA
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Posted: Nov 08, 2003 11:26 am Post subject: Re: you can tell your poor when? |
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Kirbys corpse wrote: | You're pissed because you can only sell your plasma TWICE a week. |
... when you're pissed because the sperm bank only pays for sperm from college graduates. _________________ - Dayv!
MARS NEEDS NINJAS.
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Dayv Enthusiast

Joined: 11 Aug 2003 Posts: 880 Location: DCMDVAUSA
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Posted: Nov 08, 2003 11:28 am Post subject: Re: you can tell your poor when? |
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UniversalMorpheus wrote: | Cth wrote: | Or eating a whole serving of Stove Top Stuffing (sans anything else) cause you're low on groceries.. |
This doesn't mean you're poor. This just shows you have class.
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Mmm Mmm Good![/i] |
My stoner brother was the person who discovered (to my knowledge) that Stove Top makes a tasty snack straight out of the box - no cooking or added ingredients (i.e., water) needed! I've also seen him eat frozen french fries without cooking them. _________________ - Dayv!
MARS NEEDS NINJAS.
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Dayv Enthusiast

Joined: 11 Aug 2003 Posts: 880 Location: DCMDVAUSA
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Posted: Nov 08, 2003 11:30 am Post subject: Re: you can tell your poor when? |
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BRTick wrote: | there was a period of nearly a year where I ate nothing but ramen noodles. breakfast, lunch, and dinner. :D |
When I was growing up, I had no idea that it wasn't normal for a family of three to eat Ramen three to six times a week.
When we had a little extra money lying around, we could afford to add eggs or sliced up hot dogs to the ramen as a special treat. _________________ - Dayv!
MARS NEEDS NINJAS.
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Dayv Enthusiast

Joined: 11 Aug 2003 Posts: 880 Location: DCMDVAUSA
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Posted: Nov 08, 2003 11:42 am Post subject: Re: you can tell your poor when? |
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... when the kids at school sing the "bobos" song in honor of your shoes and you pretend you think it's funny until you can be alone to cry and cut yourself.
... when your clothes from the thrift store are oversized so you can "grow into them."
... when you live in the ass end of PG County, MD.
Find a happy place. Find a happy place. Must kill. Find a happy place. _________________ - Dayv!
MARS NEEDS NINJAS.
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MACK! New Kid on the Block
Joined: 27 Sep 2003 Posts: 51
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Posted: Nov 08, 2003 12:06 pm Post subject: Re: you can tell your poor when? |
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Consider this a helpful tip:
Thru college, my brother and I shared a house together. And later Andy Lee moved in. I totally lived on the fringe of society. It was very much like the house and life style in Fight Club. I was very focused on my work and did not spend money on anything I considered unnecesary. I learned to live off the land. I never bought toilet paper. I couldn't rationalize buying something that was just going to be flushed down the toilet. Especially when all the resturaunts give out NAPKINS for FREE.
So we'd always have a pile of napkins. Sometines the brown color from Taco Bell. Sometimes they'd say Subway. You get the idea.
The first time I ever bought TP was when a girl I met, was going to be hanging out at my house for a while that I realized it may be a good idea to buy some real TP so as to not let her know what a wierdo I am.
Also, the pipes for the hot water broke and we just went with out hot water for a couple years. In the winter, this means your shower/baths are very quick.
And the toilet was broke and would not flush. So for years, we just had a bucket next to the bathtub,that we filled with water and then dumped in the toilet to cause it to flush.
And I never bought new clothes. I just wore clothes from the second hand store or that people gave me. Sometimes my brother and I would add up the prices of everything we had on at the time and proudly state that "Everything that I am wearing at this moment was bought for less thatn $2.50!"
My brother worked at the University cafeteria and ate there for free and brought home the left over food for us to eat the rest of the week.
I had no pillows or sheets or bed in my house. I slept on a bare mattress with one blanket. In the winter I just slept fully dressed with boots on.
The rest of the room was empty except for the comics I was making.
Everytime we watch Fight Club it takes us back to those days. Instead of soap we made art and comics. And we fought each other for fun.
My brother and I had a game called "stick". It is where you each get sticks and hit each other. We also had a game called "Box". It is where you get a cardboard box and hit it at each other. Alsoa game called "milk jug".
Those were the days.
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Cth Senior Member

Joined: 11 Aug 2003 Posts: 1494 Location: Concord, NC, USA
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Posted: Nov 08, 2003 12:09 pm Post subject: Re: you can tell your poor when? |
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RE: Thinking it was normal for a family to eat ramen most of the week..
I was the same way.. then we progressed into eating Pot Pies every day of the week.. _________________
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Cth Senior Member

Joined: 11 Aug 2003 Posts: 1494 Location: Concord, NC, USA
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Posted: Nov 08, 2003 12:14 pm Post subject: Re: you can tell your poor when? |
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Oh geez.. Mack's story reminded me of something else..
I would regularly grab extra toilet paper rolls from restaurants, the hospital where I worked at, etc.. I once hit the jackpot when the janitor left his key in the toilet paper dispenser. It has a nice place on my keychain and is regularly referred to as the "key to the executive washroom"..
Speaking of jackpots.. one night I had stopped at McDonalds and noticed they hadn't locked their roll up. Now, these are the 1 foot thick rolls, and I just KNEW I had to get one.. I believe it lasted about 2 months or so.
And finally, has anyone ever gone to a restaurant solely for the purpose of getting silverware (plastic forks, spoons, etc)? Or worse, grabbed handfuls of salt and pepper packets only to try emptying them into shakers?
Believe me, it's not worth the effort.. and you can get the dispensers at the local dollar store.. _________________
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Action Abe Stranger

Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 11 Location: Indianapolis, IN
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Posted: Nov 08, 2003 5:11 pm Post subject: Re: you can tell your poor when? |
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Quote: | you can tell your poor when? |
When you can't afford an apostrophe and an "e"?
Seriously though:
Ketchup Sandwiches
Hey, ketchup is a vegetable, right?
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Ziolko Junior Member
Joined: 23 Oct 2003 Posts: 159 Location: Anywhere you're not.
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Posted: Nov 08, 2003 5:22 pm Post subject: Re: you can tell your poor when? |
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...when you actually pick through your ashtray looking for old cigarettes with enough tobacco to get a couple of puffs on...
...UGH!!! I am so glad I quit smoking... _________________ "And now for something completely different..." |
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justJeffery Junior Member

Joined: 11 Aug 2003 Posts: 222
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Posted: Nov 08, 2003 5:39 pm Post subject: Re: you can tell your poor when? |
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"cashing" a check at work (and by "cashing" I mean writing a check, opening the till, taking the cash out and putting the check in) to deposit to cover the check that I wrote at the same store for groceries a day earlier... That was what became known as a Super Store Loan... until they beat me to the bank one day...
Jeffery _________________ Visit Pre Jinx World!
http://bellsouthpwp.net/j/t/jtbw/prejinx/ |
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Denny_Haynes Veteran

Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 2869 Location: Lexington, KY
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Posted: Nov 08, 2003 6:18 pm Post subject: Re: you can tell your poor when? |
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MACK! wrote: | Consider this a helpful tip:
Thru college, my brother and I shared a house together. And later Andy Lee moved in. I totally lived on the fringe of society. It was very much like the house and life style in Fight Club. I was very focused on my work and did not spend money on anything I considered unnecesary. I learned to live off the land. I never bought toilet paper. I couldn't rationalize buying something that was just going to be flushed down the toilet. Especially when all the resturaunts give out NAPKINS for FREE.
So we'd always have a pile of napkins. Sometines the brown color from Taco Bell. Sometimes they'd say Subway. You get the idea.
The first time I ever bought TP was when a girl I met, was going to be hanging out at my house for a while that I realized it may be a good idea to buy some real TP so as to not let her know what a wierdo I am.
Also, the pipes for the hot water broke and we just went with out hot water for a couple years. In the winter, this means your shower/baths are very quick.
And the toilet was broke and would not flush. So for years, we just had a bucket next to the bathtub,that we filled with water and then dumped in the toilet to cause it to flush.
And I never bought new clothes. I just wore clothes from the second hand store or that people gave me. Sometimes my brother and I would add up the prices of everything we had on at the time and proudly state that "Everything that I am wearing at this moment was bought for less thatn $2.50!"
My brother worked at the University cafeteria and ate there for free and brought home the left over food for us to eat the rest of the week.
I had no pillows or sheets or bed in my house. I slept on a bare mattress with one blanket. In the winter I just slept fully dressed with boots on.
The rest of the room was empty except for the comics I was making.
Everytime we watch Fight Club it takes us back to those days. Instead of soap we made art and comics. And we fought each other for fun.
My brother and I had a game called "stick". It is where you each get sticks and hit each other. We also had a game called "Box". It is where you get a cardboard box and hit it at each other. Alsoa game called "milk jug".
Those were the days.
I am Jack's aching groin. |
Have I told you lately, that you scare me...
I'm SOOOO glad you found Anh to put you on the straight and narrow. She buys your clothes doesnt' she?
I never understood the "nut" game.
My family wasn't poor, but my mom stretched our dollar. I'm pretty cheap, unless it comes to something I'm interested in (in this case comics), but I am the coupon king. Mybuddies and I go out to lunch and either have a buy one get one free deal, or free chicken sandwich w/ the purchase of a fry and coke....we never really spend more than $3 on a meal unless we splurge and eat Korean.
My mom NEVER bought Oreos...it was hydrox for us.
My mom would take the sweet n' low or equal from restaurants we would go to, or pretty much any condiment. she pinched her pennies, but spoiled her children. _________________ dEnny
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