{"id":190040,"date":"2010-01-13T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/13\/heard-on-the-innerwebs\/"},"modified":"2010-01-13T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T01:04:00","slug":"heard-on-the-innerwebs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/13\/heard-on-the-innerwebs\/","title":{"rendered":"Heard on the Innerwebs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>H\/t Jollyreaper at at the by-invitation-only <a href=\"http:\/\/stellarparthenon.org\/\">Stellar Parthenon BBS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The economy is so bad that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail.<\/li>\n<li>I ordered a burger at McDonald&#8217;s and the kid behind the counter asked, &#8220;Can you afford fries with that?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>CEO&#8217;s are now playing miniature golf.<\/li>\n<li>If the bank returns your check marked &#8220;Insufficient Funds,&#8221; you call them and ask if they meant you or them.<\/li>\n<li>Hot Wheels and Matchbox stocks are trading higher than GM.<\/li>\n<li>McDonald&#8217;s is selling the 1\/4 ouncer.<\/li>\n<li>Parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children&#8217;s names.<\/li>\n<li>A truckload of Americans was caught sneaking into Mexico .<\/li>\n<li>Dick Cheney took his stockbroker hunting.<\/li>\n<li>Motel Six won&#8217;t leave the light on anymore.<\/li>\n<li>The Mafia is laying off judges.<\/li>\n<li>Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 Congressmen..<\/li>\n<li>Congress says they are looking into this Bernard Madoff scandal. Oh Great!! The guy who made $50 Billion disappear is being investigated by the people who made $1.5 Trillion disappear!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, finally&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I was so depressed last night thinking about the economy, wars, jobs, my savings, Social Security, retirement funds, etc., I called the Suicide Lifeline. I got a call center in Pakistan, and when I told them I was suicidal, they got all excited, and asked if I could drive a truck.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H\/t Jollyreaper at at the by-invitation-only Stellar Parthenon BBS. The economy is so bad that: I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail. I ordered a burger at McDonald&#8217;s and the kid behind the counter asked, &#8220;Can you afford fries with that?&#8221; CEO&#8217;s are now playing miniature golf. If the bank returns your check &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1048],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}