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PDI · Post by **PDI** » Sat Apr 28, 2001 11:19 am

This story arc contains a lot that strikes close to home with the creators. *sigh*------------------
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ThePooka · Post by **ThePooka** » Sun Apr 29, 2001 1:41 am

I know that feeling well, just from working in the industry I remember two things. If the service is good and the food sucks still tip the server 90% it's not their fault. Unless they treated back of the house like crap. If the food is good, let the cooks know, they like getting compliments and dont get em very much.Of course in this comic one of the great mysteries of the world is answered. When animal/humans sit...where the hell do they put that fluffy tail? Now we know.The Pooka (Squirrel if you must know)
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Sandra Delete · Post by **Sandra Delete** » Sun Apr 29, 2001 5:35 am

Hey, Tony!
I love love LOVE Tracker's expression in the last panel. He is so kawaii!
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PDI · Post by **PDI** » Sun Apr 29, 2001 7:37 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Sandra Delete:
Hey, Tony!
I love love LOVE Tracker's expression in the last panel. He is so kawaii!
::grins::--Sandra<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Thought you would!Tony and I and some friends were at a restaurant called the Elephant and Catle (a hotel restourant/pub) -- the waiter was VERY cute and there were eight of us -- he got a good tip.------------------
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Acheron · Post by **Acheron** » Sun Apr 29, 2001 7:52 am

Otters get shorted, though. Unless the chairs are the sort where the back doesn't meet the seat, we're screwed.Figuratively speaking.So I guess we'd sit on the arm of the sofa.------------------
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Raikou · Post by **Raikou** » Sun Apr 29, 2001 8:21 am

Heh! We Genets have curlable tails, so seats with full backs pose no significant problems. Lift doors, on the other hand... *shudders*

Talbon · Post by **Talbon** » Sun Apr 29, 2001 8:33 am

Thanks Sandra, wait till you see what I've done to poor Cassie...'*evil grin*I would say Scott made me do it, but I would prefer to praise.------------------
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PDI · Post by **PDI** » Sun Apr 29, 2001 8:42 am

Hey, gang!If you look closely at some of the comics where the cast have been sitting in chairs, you'll notice that the PDI universe (and its chair manufacturers) has it taken care of. Tony's foresight, not mine.------------------
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Rin_desu · Post by **Rin_desu** » Sun Apr 29, 2001 9:59 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by omniweapon:
Aw, poor Tracker. No tips.

Reminds me of my job at Ruby Tuesday's. I didn't get too many tips either. Lousy cheap bastards!
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>i *always* tip if the waiter is cute. tracker'd get a minimum fin slid right in the apron...and as for ruby tuesday's, the last thing this country needed is another kitchy junkyard themed restaurant... maybe if they served food that was actually anywhere on the scale of "palatable", it wouldn't have been so bad.
the waitress was okay. our tip was "get a different job".. those places are about half a step above mcdonalds, but only because greasy boys are kinda cute... but yeah... stiffing the waiter because of a shitty meal does suck... i figure the waiter is there for entertainment purposes only.... as long as s/he's entertaining, it's all good... and therefore a tip... i once tipped a waiter more than the cost of the meal... but he also called the number i wrote on the back of the $20, and appreciated the praise of his kind service & shapely bum... that was the only $20 i spent on that trip to florida.. well worth the price... and i'm a bunny...i don't need a tail cut-out... <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/tongue.gif">------------------
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Illian · Post by **Illian** » Sun Apr 29, 2001 11:05 am

There is a resturaunt/bar down here called Maggie's that serves decent food at prices college students can actually afford . . . My friends and I (who were known as "The Horde" by various people/groups on campus) would regularly descend upon the place.Due to the crap we pulled (lemon "shots", fork branding and rewiring a horrible band's equipment so they couldn't get over a whisper among other things) only certain waitresses would put up with us. Those learned to play with us and it was not all unusual for them to earn a 75 to 150% tip.The highlight was when we came in and asked for Sandy's area, table for 20 (or so) and the manager/welcomer looked at us in dawning horror and said "Oh God! You're, you're . . . THEM!" <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/biggrin.gif">Its the little things that make me happy.------------------
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ThePooka · Post by **ThePooka** » Sun Apr 29, 2001 11:54 am

*grin*
Oh God was that fun. Me and the back of the house got to decide who stayed and who went. We had this agreement with the Bartenders. They got free snacks and we got little extras in our sodas.Strangely enough the management never found out about it. Work was a blast most of the time. Even when slammed.The Pooka
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Serpens · Post by **Serpens** » Mon Apr 30, 2001 3:42 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Acheron:
Otters get shorted, though. Unless the chairs are the sort where the back doesn't meet the seat, we're screwed.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Um, hello? Pretty much *ALL* tail here... ;DAlthough I can do the cool "just coil into a pile on the seat" thing...------------------
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Sandra Delete · Post by **Sandra Delete** » Mon Apr 30, 2001 5:02 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Talbon:
Thanks Sandra, wait till you see what I've done to poor Cassie...'<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>VERY shibby, boys! I love it. ::grins::---Sandra------------------
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Acheron · Post by **Acheron** » Mon Apr 30, 2001 7:44 am

That, and people with thinner, more flexible tails(ie pretty much any land-dweller) can curl them around and still sit comfortably, though I imagine it would help to have a little "notch" running the length of the chair, where the back meets the seat. (I actually saw chairs like this, in the lounge of McMaster's Life Sciences Building, presumably so things that fall down between the cushions, like pens and such, are accessible.) Otters, beavers, and cetaceans just can't put their tails through that kind of bend. Nor, I'd imagine, could fish(but the whole "gills" thing becomes a problem with them way before they need to worry about chairs).------------------
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Ghastly · Post by **Ghastly** » Tue May 01, 2001 3:50 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by omniweapon:
Aw, poor Tracker. No tips.Reminds me of my job at Ruby Tuesday's. I didn't get too many tips either. Lousy cheap bastards!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>I've never worked in the food service industry but I used to work as a piano-bar player when I was 16 in a crappy little motel lounge in Simcoe where I grew up. I had the cliche oversized brandy snifter for tips on the piano and used to only get tips from alcoholic, chain-smoking divorcees in their mid 40's who used to look at me like a dog looks at a steak in the butcher's window.I can still see their craggy, desperate eyes undressing me as they clutched a whiskey sour in one shaking hand and the burning stub of a cigarette in the nicotine stained fingers of their other hand."Hey there, piano-man. How would you like to come back to my room afterwards for a cocktail." they'd croak in their phlegmy voices."Gosh I'd love to ma'am," I'd answer in my squeaky-voiced teenager alto. "But I have a math test tomorrow I need to study for and if I'm not home soon after work my mom gets worried."Then they'd stuff a few dollars in the tip glass (Canada used to use paper dollars back then) and they'd say "Well here's a few dollars from your auntie to buy yourself something nice."*shudder*....
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Ghastly · Post by **Ghastly** » Tue May 01, 2001 3:53 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by ThePooka:
The Pooka (Squirrel if you must know)
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>And here I thought you'd be a 6 foot tall rabbit.Harvey? Harvey is that you?------------------
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Ghastly · Post by **Ghastly** » Tue May 01, 2001 3:58 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Acheron:
(I actually saw chairs like this, in the lounge of McMaster's Life Sciences Building, <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Fellow Hamiltonian!??!?!?OSAMU member too?!?!?------------------
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Ghastly · Post by **Ghastly** » Tue May 01, 2001 4:01 am

OMG!!! You are a fellow Hamiltonian!Hamilton: The City That Smells Like Everyone Ate Bad Egg-Salad.Another person has discovered my secret ecchi-identity.Hey, that means you can come see me play at the "Winking Judge" on Augusta Street (right across from "The Pheasent Plucker" on May 11th with my good friend Steve Didemus.What a small ecchi world.------------------
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Acheron · Post by **Acheron** » Tue May 01, 2001 5:51 am

Well, I wasn't a member, but I was there for the first half of their last showing...Too much silliness for my taste tho, given that I had an exam to study for. Ah well.------------------
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Ghastly · Post by **Ghastly** » Tue May 01, 2001 5:58 am

I was only there until the dinner break at the last OSAMU show myself because I had a show that night.Did they show the Gatchaman 2000 clip?Damn... I missed the end of Cowboy BeBop too. Now I'll have to go rent it from Bayshore and I think they only have the dubbed version, which actually isn't all that bad except for Jet's voice.I almost cried when Ed left. I got such a kick out of her.------------------
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