GO ABBA GO!!!

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I cannot link to this at work (sheesh). Does it connect at all with Philly being the least attractive people place?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071022/...attractive1_dc

If only my investments bore out like that prediction... Still, any vinidication feels amazing when you're me.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I love pumpkin pie.

I baked/roasted a butternut squash and an onion last night to make butternut squash soup. I look forward to roasting the butternut squash seeds tonight or tomorrow night. They're nice to sprinkle on the soup.

I am sad I never met Pepper.

Somebody gave me a piece of pumpkin cheesecake on Monday night. I don't like cheesecake very much. In fact, it kind of upsets me (the concept disturbs me). But this shit was pretty good.

If you like pumpkin pie and you like squash you'll be happy to learn most pumpkin used in those pies is actually squash. If I read that here and am regurgitating board wisdom, forgive me. It's late and I can't sleep.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch

Reporting this news made me extremely unpopular on another board. I expect it will do the same for me here.

1) Do you self-report use tax?

2) Do you work for the D.C. Department of Revenue?

[Jack Manfred]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Will I like [Friday Night Lights] even if I am completely uninterested in football?

Probably. There's not a lot of actual football in the show (because those scenes are expensive/difficult to shoot). A lot of people really like the interplay between Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton as husband and wife. On a different message board, there were quite a few women who liked watching the coach barking orders to kids while wearing shorts, so there's that. Apparently, there were other women who were happy to know that the actor who plays troubled, motherless fullback Tim Riggins was over 21 because it helped them rationalize the inappropriate thoughts they had about him. [Gwinky bonus: the actor is Canadian!]

There's also some stuff about how small-town life is stifling and how dead-end it can seem that might make your own job seem not so bad.

I say all of this knowing that I haven't seen any of the new season as my Tivo isn't currently hooked up and I'm not usually in front of the TV on Friday night.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
實際上, 您不被挑選。加利福尼亞實際上充電稅在您的購買從所有網站。公司與磚和灰漿在加利福尼亞必須收集銷售稅作為購買一部分。當公司沒有磚和灰漿在加利福尼亞, 您被預計報告購買在您540 和支付"使用稅" 在數額相等與銷售稅。並且對此, 加利福尼亞是像其他狀態在充電它的居民銷售稅的聯合。如此穿過邊界對銷售稅自由狀態不保存您任何; 它強加報告的負擔給您而不是給販賣者。並且大家買事"免稅" 從亞馬孫? 他們是正義稅欺詐, 因為他們的狀態盼望他們支付使用稅在所有他們的購買在interwebs 。唯一的例外是沒有銷售稅根本聲明的居民, 在, 眾所周知, 他們有某種補償的收支的形式情況下, 像更高的收入稅率。如此是肯定檢查您的信用卡收據亞馬孫購買等在簽署那540 之前! 感覺慰問? 報告這新聞使我極端不得人心在其它委員會。我期望它將做同樣為我這裡。

Can anyone else tell what Atticus is talking about? I'm stumped.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Actually, you're not being singled out. California actually charges tax on your purchases from all websites. Companies with bricks-and-mortar in California have to collect the sales tax as part of the purchase. When the company doesn't have bricks-and-mortar in California, you're expected to report the purchase on your 540 and pay "use tax" in an amount equal to the sales tax. And in this respect, California is like every other state in the union that charges its residents sales tax.

So crossing the border to a sales-tax free state doesn't save you anything; it just imposes a reporting burden on you rather than on the vendor. And everyone who's buying things "tax-free" from Amazon? They're just tax cheats, because their state expects them to pay use tax on all their purchases on the interwebs. The only exceptions are residents of states that don't have a sales tax at all, in which case, as we all know, they have some form of compensating revenue, like higher income tax rates.

So be sure to check your credit card receipts for Amazon purchases etc. before signing that 540! Feel consoled yet?

Reporting this news made me extremely unpopular on another board. I expect it will do the same for me here.

I predict your popularity will not be materially affected.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
1) Do you self-report use tax?

2) Do you work for the D.C. Department of Revenue?

1) In fact, I do. Mostly. I sort a Quicken report for credit card expenditures in the prior calendar year and report every transaction over a certain amount (I think I've used $250 as a benchmark). It's not fully compliant, but it's enough to make me feel morally superior to other people, so it's good enough for me. In general I've changed my buying behavior so that I don't make major purchases on the Internet on the false basis that there is "no tax" for buying online, as I used to do. I'd rather my sales tax support my local government and infrastructure than go into general state revenues.

2) In fact, I don't. But they are my brothers by another mother.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Here is what the New York Times says:

"Some relief is expected later today in the gale force winds propelling the wildfires across Southern California, destroying almost 1,300 homes."

Here is what the Star Tribune says:

"After three days of a vicious firestorm, exhausted firefighters and weary residents looked forward today to an expected slackening of the gale force winds that have ignited the state's largest blazes."

Is it too much for me to expect that the people who write the sentences that are in my local newspaper will not use incorrect words, or is that something that is only expected in big city papers?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I predict your popularity will not be materially affected.

I predict he'll be better liked. when was the last time he typed more than 10 words where there wasn't a religious or scat reference? i found the "bad tax news" refreshing compared with his usual. He's now my 28th favorite poster, with a bullet!

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Here is what the New York Times says:

"Some relief is expected later today in the gale force winds propelling the wildfires across Southern California, destroying almost 1,300 homes."

Here is what the Star Tribune says:

"After three days of a vicious firestorm, exhausted firefighters and weary residents looked forward today to an expected slackening of the gale force winds that have ignited the state's largest blazes."

Is it too much for me to expect that the people who write the sentences that are in my local newspaper will not use incorrect words, or is that something that is only expected in big city papers?

isn't your reading NYT instead of the Star tribune equivalent to eating at McCormick's?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
It's not fully compliant, but it's enough to make me feel morally superior to other people, so it's good enough for me.

Isn't that winning the battle, but losing the war?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Isn't that winning the battle, but losing the war?

Purgatory isn't so bad if you use the time thinking about what the folks in Hell are doing.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

I'm just not even sure what to say about this:

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
isn't your reading NYT instead of the Star tribune equivalent to eating at McCormick's?

No.

[patentparanyc]

I love Todd English. I love Olive's in Charlestown, I love Fig's in Beacon Hill. I even like the Olive's in Union Square in the city.

[Besides the fact that he's smokin' hot and I've seen him in the Olive's in Union Square]

Well, apparantly he's partnering with Delta to create some type of midtown lounge-y thing and they are offering free Todd English Food. yummy!

http://midtownlunch.com/blog/2007/10...ay-in-midtown/