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Title: Tom Scharpling (Purple Shirt)
Post by: bookem_dan-o on August 03, 2007, 04:11:39 AM: One of the most unintentionally funny photo captions ever:

http://www.njmonthly.com/issues/2007/08-Aug/funnybusiness_people.htm

(scroll down to the bottom)
Title: Re: Tom Scharpling (Purple Shirt)
Post by: Martin on August 03, 2007, 04:24:58 AM: Haha, awesome!
Title: Re: Tom Scharpling (Purple Shirt)
Post by: Sarah on August 03, 2007, 06:20:41 AM: I almost posted about this yesterday afternoon. It was so perfect I wondered if it were a little joke intended just for us.
Title: Re: Tom Scharpling (Purple Shirt)
Post by: Richard_From_CHI on August 03, 2007, 02:08:42 PM: I always assumed Purple Shirt was a bit.
Title: Re: Tom Scharpling (Purple Shirt)
Post by: LostInReno on August 03, 2007, 04:12:04 PM: I see we all listen to 7 Second Delay or avid readers of New Jersey Monthly.
Title: Re: Tom Scharpling (Purple Shirt)
Post by: Richard_From_CHI on August 04, 2007, 10:19:15 AM: Despite living many miles away, I watch my mailbox for the new New Jersey Monthly. It is the sunshine of my life, yeah, and I always want it around.
Title: Re: Tom Scharpling (Purple Shirt)
Post by: LostInReno on August 04, 2007, 06:41:56 PM: Quote from: Richard_From_CHI on August 04, 2007, 10:19:15 AM
Despite living many miles away, I watch my mailbox for the new New Jersey Monthly. It is the sunshine of my life, yeah, and I always want it around.

I dig it I wish there was something in Reno that was free that I could read. All we have is Reno News and Review it blows.
Title: Re: Tom Scharpling (Purple Shirt)
Post by: Richard_From_CHI on August 05, 2007, 08:39:37 AM: I've been to Reno and I am sorry. If it makes you feel better you can drown your pain in the slot machine that is ubiquitously placed every 10 feet throughout the state. Also isn't prostitution legal. Who needs a free paper when you have all that!
Title: Re: Tom Scharpling (Purple Shirt)
Post by: LostInReno on August 05, 2007, 04:55:49 PM: Quote from: Richard_From_CHI on August 05, 2007, 08:39:37 AM
I've been to Reno and I am sorry. If it makes you feel better you can drown your pain in the slot machine that is ubiquitously placed every 10 feet throughout the state. Also isn't prostitution legal. Who needs a free paper when you have all that!

ha,ha,ha, That is a good point but I'm not 21 yet and gambling is so boring.
Title: Re: Tom Scharpling (Purple Shirt)
Post by: Richard_From_CHI on August 05, 2007, 06:35:39 PM: Gambling is a tax on people who are bad at math.
Title: Re: Tom Scharpling (Purple Shirt)
Post by: Susannah on August 05, 2007, 06:56:13 PM: Richard, *just today* my friend said, "Playing the lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math." Which, of course, is a form of gambling! Coincidence? Or was that just in a recent Economist article or something?
Title: Re: Tom Scharpling (Purple Shirt)
Post by: Andy on August 05, 2007, 07:06:32 PM: I had a professor who used to say "I'm all for the lottery. It's a tax on stupid, therefore it's a tax that I don't have to pay"

So myopic.
Title: Re: Tom Scharpling (Purple Shirt)
Post by: Fido on August 05, 2007, 07:54:14 PM: Quote from: Susannah on August 05, 2007, 06:56:13 PM
Richard, *just today* my friend said, "Playing the lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math." Which, of course, is a form of gambling! Coincidence? Or was that just in a recent Economist article or something?

I've always thought of it as a massively regressive tax. Which I guess is true, but I'd learn more if I read the Economist or this site more often.
Title: Re: Tom Scharpling (Purple Shirt)
Post by: Richard_From_CHI on August 06, 2007, 01:30:43 AM: Not the economist, sadly I have worked with many many low income people who spend a large portion of their wages on the lottery. High income people do it too, but they don't suffer as much.
Title: Re: Tom Scharpling (Purple Shirt)
Post by: Sarah on August 06, 2007, 06:25:35 AM: The lottery and those scratch card things. I remember sitting in awe at the American Legion once--mind you, I was already a bit shaken by the venue alone--watching a fairly poverty-stricken person buy handful after handful of those things. The intensity with which he scraped his quarter across that silver stuff was scary to behold.
Title: Re: Tom Scharpling (Purple Shirt)
Post by: Richard_From_CHI on August 06, 2007, 08:43:22 AM: Selling hope to those who can't afford to buy. It depresses me.