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Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that was wondering about all that cheering we heard emanating from the Walmart in Frisco recently. Yes, it was rejoicing that the McDonald's was being torn out!
Nothing against McDonald's (well, actually we can think of plenty), but we know the folks in the pharmacy right next door were practically wearing gas masks to do their work as the oily goodness wafted out of the Mickey D's area and assailed their nostrils.
Can Frisco survive without a McDonald's? We're not sure, but we know Ronald doesn't like a vacuum, so maybe he'll fire up a new one somewhere before long. For our part, we'd prefer something a little healthier — like maybe Trader Joe's, which we hear is finally coming to Colorado. TJ's has these little raspberry jelly chocolate thingies that we really dig. Plus all kinds of other good stuff.
Just a thought.
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It's time for weird critter haiku from Heather Johnston, who is nearing the end of her the week-long assignment we gave her. Today is the frill-neck lizard, which is sorta like the critter that takes out the villainous IT guy played by Wayne Knight (of Seinfeld “Newman” fame). Anyway, here goes:
A frill-neck lizard
Looks quite like a dinner plate
With a small body.
Sometimes, when people get in our grill about something, we wish we could puff up some kinda scary thing like a frill-neck has. If you think about it, it'd be pretty cool if people could do this, since it might keep them from thinking they need to own guns or pepper spray or whatever. Like say you're at some fast-food joint and they won't serve you breakfast because it's 11:01. Instead of deploying heavy artillery like Michael Douglas did in that one film, you can just frill out your neck thingy to show your displeasure.
We were thinking we needed something like this the other day when we were arguing with some Verizon customer service tool over some slimy $10 “premium text message” charge we got nailed with. Guess we would have needed Skype to show her our lizard neck thingy, but dang that would have been satisfying! But yes, beware any kind of website your teens are going on that asks them to put in their phone number. Soon you'll see mysterious charges, and the phone company will just laugh in your face no matter how much frilling you do.
Sheesh. We out.
Nothing against McDonald's (well, actually we can think of plenty), but we know the folks in the pharmacy right next door were practically wearing gas masks to do their work as the oily goodness wafted out of the Mickey D's area and assailed their nostrils.
Can Frisco survive without a McDonald's? We're not sure, but we know Ronald doesn't like a vacuum, so maybe he'll fire up a new one somewhere before long. For our part, we'd prefer something a little healthier — like maybe Trader Joe's, which we hear is finally coming to Colorado. TJ's has these little raspberry jelly chocolate thingies that we really dig. Plus all kinds of other good stuff.
Just a thought.
***
It's time for weird critter haiku from Heather Johnston, who is nearing the end of her the week-long assignment we gave her. Today is the frill-neck lizard, which is sorta like the critter that takes out the villainous IT guy played by Wayne Knight (of Seinfeld “Newman” fame). Anyway, here goes:
A frill-neck lizard
Looks quite like a dinner plate
With a small body.
Sometimes, when people get in our grill about something, we wish we could puff up some kinda scary thing like a frill-neck has. If you think about it, it'd be pretty cool if people could do this, since it might keep them from thinking they need to own guns or pepper spray or whatever. Like say you're at some fast-food joint and they won't serve you breakfast because it's 11:01. Instead of deploying heavy artillery like Michael Douglas did in that one film, you can just frill out your neck thingy to show your displeasure.
We were thinking we needed something like this the other day when we were arguing with some Verizon customer service tool over some slimy $10 “premium text message” charge we got nailed with. Guess we would have needed Skype to show her our lizard neck thingy, but dang that would have been satisfying! But yes, beware any kind of website your teens are going on that asks them to put in their phone number. Soon you'll see mysterious charges, and the phone company will just laugh in your face no matter how much frilling you do.
Sheesh. We out.
