You Learn Something New Everyday

[SicEmBaylor]

So, I was on the phone earlier complaining that I had to drive over to the post office to drop my Netflix in the mail. The person with whom I was conversing said something like, "Don't you have a mailbox?" I replied that I did, and she asked why I didn't just put them in my mailbox.

Well, to make a long story short, I had no idea you could simply put outgoing letters in your OWN mailbox and that the mailman would then pick them up. Evidently, she said you raise the little flag on the side. I always thought the flag meant that you had RECEIVED mail.

Now, before I get called an idiot, this is the first place I've ever lived at that had a mailbox.

[Rogue]

Sicem, you're too naive to be real most of the time.

Didn't ya even have little mailboxes at school in like 1st grade for your Valentines?
Or play "post office" with the little red haired girl down the street?

[Frozen Sooner]

You're really not that dumb, are you?

Have you ever noticed your mail box having the flag up when you had mail? Remember putting it down? Anything that would indicate that this is the purpose of the flag?

[M]

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE ****ING KIDDING ME.

[sooner_born_1960]

Someone post that picture of the fat kid, pointing and laughing.

[SicEmBaylor]

You're really not that dumb, are you?

Have you ever noticed your mail box having the flag up when you had mail? Remember putting it down? Anything that would indicate that this is the purpose of the flag?

I thought our mailman was just too lazy to raise the flag.

Yes, I am DEAD serious about this. I'll point out once again though that I have NEVER had a mailbox before. Back in Oklahoma we have a PO box, and then all of my apartments had a PO Box style set up.

This is the first time I've had a home mailbox.

[KC//CRIMSON]

SicEm, where do babies come from?

[SoonerGirl06]

I'm at a loss for words.

[Frozen Sooner]

So I hesitate to ask, but...

Are you making sure that your flag is illuminated?

[silverwheels]

Jesus.

[Soonerus]

Sicem, did you know trash collecters used to pick up your trash containers in your backyard ???

[sooner_born_1960]

http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/images/2007/04/23/nelson_haha.jpg

Dammit. I'll do it myself.

[Whet]

SicEm, where do babies come from?

cabbage patch- but, only when the flag is up!

[proud gonzo]

holy ****.

[SicEmBaylor]

So I hesitate to ask, but...

Are you making sure that your flag is illuminated?

What? There's not a light on the mailbox.

[Frozen Sooner]

What? There's not a light on the mailbox.

Postal regulation. Your mailbox flag needs to be illuminated so they can tell if you have outgoing mail or not.

It's not a big fine or anything, but you notice how most people's mailboxes have a light near them? That's why.

[OUbones]

This might be the funniest thing I've read in like 2 weeks, thanks!

[SicEmBaylor]

Postal regulation. Your mailbox flag needs to be illuminated so they can tell if you have outgoing mail or not.

It's not a big fine or anything, but you notice how most people's mailboxes have a light near them? That's why.

I've never seen anyone with a light on their mailbox, BUT you should see the neighborhood I live in...

[olevetonahill]

Hey Sicem Duck !
http://www.filmreference.com/images/sjff_01_img0060.jpg

[Frozen Sooner]

It doesn't have to be ON the mailbox, but your mailbox should have a light near it so that the flag is visible at all times.

[olevetonahill]

I've never seen anyone with a light on their mailbox, BUT you should see the neighborhood I live in...

Dean Is so gonna rip you a new one !

[Mixer!]

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/1730/lolsicev4.jpg

[tbl]

I'm at a loss for words.
Ditto... Wow...

[OKC-SLC]

Now, before I get called an idiot...
Cat's already out of the bag, sicem.

[Blue]

I call BS.

[Rhino]

If some people on this board hadn't met you, I'd swear you were a peabeeone clone.

[yermom]

his attention to detal is pretty good

[BigRedJed]

If some people on this board hadn't met someone who claimed to be you, I'd swear you were a peabeeone clone.
Fixed.

[olevetonahill]

Hey Mike , I think Sicem got skeered and Is O/S tryin to lite his flag .

[SicEmBaylor]

Postal regulation. Your mailbox flag needs to be illuminated so they can tell if you have outgoing mail or not.

It's not a big fine or anything, but you notice how most people's mailboxes have a light near them? That's why.

I went down the street, and not one single person has their mailbox illuminated. I think this may be an issue with Alaska since you have screwed up daylight hours at various times throughout the year.

It's never dark when the mailman comes just around 5:00.

[Shneeg11]

I went down the street, and not one single person has their mailbox illuminated. I think this may be an issue with Alaska since you have screwed up daylight hours at various times throughout the year.

It's never dark when the mailman comes just around 5:00.

In N.W. OKC, we have to have ours illuminated, and it's pretty bright at around 2 o'clock in the afternoon when the mailman comes.

[Ike]

SicEm,

I know I've said it a thousand times, and I'll say it again.

The fact that out of all the people on the board, you are the one guy that wants to be in politics...the one guy that wants to try to solve some of the worlds great problems, well, it gives solid reason to my suspicions that:
We.
Are.
Doomed.


How in the hell are you going to fix tax codes (arguably one of man kinds most complicated inventions) when you don't even understand The Mailbox (The simplest man-made device since the invention of The Hammer and The Nail)?

[SicEmBaylor]

SicEm,

I know I've said it a thousand times, and I'll say it again.

The fact that out of all the people on the board, you are the one guy that wants to be in politics...the one guy that wants to try to solve some of the worlds great problems, well, it gives solid reason to my suspicions that:
We.
Are.
Doomed.


How in the hell are you going to fix tax codes (arguably one of man kinds most complicated inventions) when you don't even understand The Mailbox (The simplest man-made device since the invention of The Hammer and The Nail)?

Fair question. The answer is, I'm not.
Though I keep up with it more than most, I'm not a policy wonk.
I'll leave that up to the good folks at Heritage, AEI, Cato, etc.

I like the electoral rather than policy side of politics. My only concern with policy is the effect it has on the electoral success of a given candidate or party.

Simply put, I don't want to make the policy; I want to sell the policy.

[soonerbrat]

ok, what did he say? i'm too lazy to take him off ignore so I can read it, but this looks really funny

[1stTimeCaller]

he basically said that he likes the popularity and power of being an elected official but doesn' want to mess with the silly parts like legislation and policy.

[Hot Rod]

BTW, the light goes off in the refrigerator when you close the door. YWIA

[BudSooner]

Best thread EVAR!

[Sooner_Bob]

This has got to be the craziest thing I've read in a while. Right up there with Sic'Em claiming to have never used a public restroom to drop the kids off at the pool.

http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj281/sooner_bob/person_ashamed.jpg

[SoonerBorn68]

Hey sic'em, how much is a gallon of milk? (if he doesn't know he'll be a good politician :D)

And, for the record, our mailbox is on our porch so it doesn't have a flag. We use a clothes pin.

[Sooner_Bob]

Just don't forget to put all the change for the stamps in a ziplock baggie or something. The carriers hate it when you just throw it in the mailbox.

[12]

Hey sic'em, how much is a gallon of milk? (if he doesn't know he'll be a good politician :D)

And, for the record, our mailbox is on our porch so it doesn't have a flag. We use a clothes pin.

OK, I'll admit I have seen many clothes pins on those porch mail boxes. And not once did I question their purpose. That said, I never KNEW there purpose.

This thread has value to me after all.

[sooner_born_1960]

Our mail box is bricked in, so no flag. We use a clothes pin also. And, of course, illuminate it.

[yermom]

never heard the illumination thing

is this a rural thing where you don't have street lights?

i don't remember the clothes pin thing either, but i've never had a mailbox like that

[crawfish]

I'm not buying it. Uh uh.

[mdklatt]

This has got to be the craziest thing I've read in a while. Right up there with Sic'Em claiming to have never used a public restroom to drop the kids off at the pool.


What's so crazy about that?

[BlondeSoonerGirl]

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg136/istatica/ohdearlord128429509990359037.jpg

[12]

Yeah, some people prefer diapers.

[Sooner_Bob]

What's so crazy about that?

Not you too??

If you gotta go you gotta go . . . it's not healthy to keep that crap in. :P

[mdklatt]

Not you too??

If you gotta go you gotta go . . . it's not healthy to keep that crap in. :P

How many times a day do you people have to take a crap? :confused:

[Hot Rod]

How many times a day do you people have to take a crap? :confused:

It "depends". :)

[sooner_born_1960]

Two. I'll be right back. (AFK)

[BigRedJed]

I'm kinda not kidding when I say that I wish I could crap all day. There is precious little that is better than a good doodoo session.

[C&CDean]

I'm kinda not kidding when I say that I wish I could crap all day. There is precious little that is better than a good doodoo session.

Then you must really be enjoying this thread.

[RFH Shakes]

Did you eat alot of paint chips when you were a kid?:D

[BillyBall]

I call BS.

Agreed, this is just too stupid to believe.

[olevetonahill]

I went down the street, and not one single person has their mailbox illuminated. I think this may be an issue with Alaska since you have screwed up daylight hours at various times throughout the year.

It's never dark when the mailman comes just around 5:00.
No It really Is a USPS reg, Dean can get you the Numbers .
Prolly the reason No one their Mail box iluminated is that the Flag was Properly stored .

[Sooner_Bob]

How many times a day do you people have to take a crap? :confused:


I try not to keep track but like I said if you gotta go you gotta go . . . :D

[Frozen Sooner]

I don't know what to tell you about your neighbors not having their mailboxes illuminated. I know that every mailbox I've ever owned-here, Norman, Des Moines, Greenville-they've all been illuminated. It's not an Alaska thing.

[colleyvillesooner]

Mods, allow me to end this thread with:

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/9997/800pxnotagainpicardgp8.jpg

[Frozen Sooner]

Listen, I'm just trying to help SicEm out.

Last thing he needs is some idiot ten years from now saying he's unpatriotic because he didn't illuminate his mailbox flag.

[King Crimson]

Listen, I'm just trying to help SicEm out.

Last thing he needs is some idiot ten years from now saying he's unpatriotic because he didn't illuminate his mailbox flag.

isn't that what lapel pins are for?

[Frozen Sooner]

Who knows what people will think is important in a decade?

[BigRedJed]

Froze, don't talk about Dean that way. The Postal Service has rules, yo.

[SicEmBaylor]

Listen, I'm just trying to help SicEm out.

Last thing he needs is some idiot ten years from now saying he's unpatriotic because he didn't illuminate his mailbox flag.

It's not my mailbox though. My roommate's aunt owns the house, so it's her problem not mine.

I'll keep the regulation in mind though if I do have my own mailbox in the future. :D

[Frozen Sooner]

Nobody's going to care that you don't own the place, man. You have physical possession of the property.

[SicEmBaylor]

Nobody's going to care that you don't own the place, man. You have physical possession of the property.

But, I also have 2 other roommates. With house related issues the law school roommate and I defer to the roommate whose aunt owns the house. I will, however, suggest that he get that flag illuminated.

I know what he'll say though, "that'll just let the neighbors know we have mail!"

We live in a sketchy neighborhood. :)

What sort of light do you use, a flood light?

[Sooner_Bob]

http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj281/sooner_bob/mailplz.jpg

[Frozen Sooner]

But, I also have 2 other roommates. With house related issues the law school roommate and I defer to the roommate whose aunt owns the house. I will, however, suggest that he get that flag illuminated.

I know what he'll say though, "that'll just let the neighbors know we have mail!"

We live in a sketchy neighborhood. :)

What sort of light do you use, a flood light?

I live in a condo and our mailboxes are in a central location that is well-lit.

[NormanPride]

9/10

This troll is almost perfect. Would read again.

[mdklatt]

What sort of light do you use, a flood light?

They make specialty mailbox lights that meet all the legal requirements. Just go to Home Depot or Lowes or any place that sells mailboxes and ask for them. You're going to have to aim the light correctly when you install it, but it comes with instructions...maybe you should get your roommates to help.

[C&CDean]

Just because of Sicem I done gone and raised the stamps again. Keep ****ing around and not lighting up that mailbox and I'll do it again next May.

[NormanPride]

:mad:

[olevetonahill]

damn you sicem :mad:

[BigRedJed]

SicEm, if I didn't know people who claimed that they had met someone who claimed to be you, I would be CERTAIN that you're a troll.

[1stTimeCaller]

golly gee whitakers

[NormanPride]

SicEm, if I didn't know people who claimed that they had met someone who claimed to be you, I would be CERTAIN that you're a troll.

This is why I gave him 9/10. He's still a troll, he just really exists. his existence does not make him any less of a troll. Where is the law that states real person != troll?

[Hamhock]

golly gee whitakers


willakers you moran.

golly gee willakers.

[Frozen Sooner]

whillikers.

[1stTimeCaller]

nuh uh

[Hamhock]

nuh uh


start a pole. i double dog dare ya.

[Hamhock]

whillikers.


possibly. i know for certain there's no "t".

[1stTimeCaller]

is so

[Sooner Born Sooner Bred]

My grandma actually got fined $50 for not having a flag or a light on her mailbox. She ended up having to get one of those flags with the reflectors on it.

[stoopified]

I have noe OFFICIALLY heard everything.