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Trashing my lunch?  Woo I would have a hard time with that one...

Well it's a great day.... for me to whoop somebody's ass....

I work in an office of around 20 folks.  Yes, someone has to be charged with cleaning out the fridge once or twice a month.
Some folks just don't pay attention.
Since whoopin someone's ass usually lends to more trouble in HR than the lunch is worth, there is a company policy that continues to change and updated via email.
I find humor and get much enjoyment from these emails and their cause.
I'm more on Charley's plain.  I keep it simple and if things get out of whack, I don't get my undies in a bind and cause another silly email.

I use a soft pack Yeti cooler which I use regularly (particularly useful for all day hikes/fishing trips), and have a travel mug (great products) but would never decide to display their stickers or other apparel.   It makes me think of 'that guy' who has a Nike swoosh tattoo.  I remember a pick up basketball game, and the guy came back to the court with his bag of lunch and my brother was talking smack, and asked him why he doesn't get a 'Burger King' tattoo.

Brands and branding are a funny thing.

You know, I never given this more than a passing thought before and I certainly never put it into words but I think the jarring, galling culture shock of northerners moving to Texas the first time they came in droves was the difference in humor.

Us Texans possibly much like Okies or Coonasses, believe in understatements, hyperboles and long drawn out tales that are maddening journeys with little anti-climitac groaners for the punch line.

Then these yahoos come down here and they don’t get any of that stuff.  They listen earnestly and say, “aw jeez.”  To them the height of humor was a snarky comment delivered like a straight face like a whiney bitch.  To which we’d think, “where’s my knife?  I’m sticking this bastard.”

It probably took 20 years for Texans and yankees to learn how to communicate.   Probably even longer if a marriage took place.

Yep
Hemingway came from Chicago and Faulkner came from a small town in Mississippi. 
Was there a conversation between them?  I know they were contemporaries.  Someone could have gotten shot, had an extended visit occurred, and I couldn't guess whether it would be a suicide or a homicide.
Anyway, those two guys are about as opposite as you can get on the spectrum of short declarative take it or leave it north type statements VS colorful rambling long way around the barn and would you ever get back to the point oh wait I got it that was kind of clever south type discursive descriptions.
I enjoy Faulkner talk more, as a rule, when I'm in a deadline free state, and feel like bathing richly in the mental meanderings of reflection, and in the uncertainties and double entendres of life's pathways, and in the mysterious meanings of actions of others we know and sometimes love ... BUT when I'm pressed and need answers and the frickin bus, train or plane is about to leave then just give me the facts jack and Hemingway wins.
Maybe that's why I'm enjoying Maryland, which is a tweener state, having been born and raised in Oklahoma, another tweener state.  Neither of those places can really make up their mind whether they're north or south.  So you get both.

I have a Yeti 20oz tumbler and a can koozie

gifts from vendors - trying to impress me

I use the tumbler occasionally when drinking gin or vodka on the golf course - mostly drink bud fat

never use the can koozie - can't imagine nursing a can of beer that long

There's doods on my dock that have Yeti coolers. They like to brag that they can hold ice all weekend.

For $400, you can buy a shit ton of ice. And even with a Yeti, you still gotta buy the f'ing ice. It's not like the thing makes its own.

WTF is wrong with your memory?

Cuz Fred,

How is your memory doing? Same question to the Hookster.

probably not too much wrong with my memory for my age and the alcohol abuse
besides, ladies of all those nationalities are sexy as heck
and I'm always caught up in the yarn of the story
do you recall?

Thai girls.  The inscrutably mysterious Thai daughters of the old dude who owned Wok n Roll.

I miss that place.  Health Department closed it down about the time they opened a branch in ABIA.

see, I listed the Thai girls first, just wasn't as confident as I'd like to be
if y'all would have held a cyber gun to my head and asked me to pick, I would have said Thai