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By Lost In A Dream (Tue Mar 23, 2004 at 01:40:35 AM EST) (all tags)

POLL: What does the term "Cash In Advance" mean to you?

Nothing witty today, so fuck you. Be gone with ya. I feel ill, my throat's scratchy and dry, and I don't want to be here. TEH SWIRLY PLATES R UNPLEASED. Die. Die. DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!

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dude by MillMan

(3.00 / 0) #1 Tue Mar 23, 2004 at 01:44:42 AM EST

it's time to get away from the country life and move to Minneapolis.

"Just as there are no atheists in foxholes, there are no libertarians in financial crises." -Krugman

Been there, done that... by ENOENT (3.00 / 0) #3 Tue Mar 23, 2004 at 02:39:35 AM EST

Got a hot dish recipe to prove it.

Life is just one damned thing after another.
Love is just two damned things after each other.

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rockin. by MillMan

(3.00 / 0) #5 Tue Mar 23, 2004 at 02:58:54 AM EST

My favorite is tuna hot dish. Tuna, peas, and pasta shells. With some sort of cream based sauce. After growing up in a stereotypical MN household, it's a shock that I can eat and enjoy spicy food.

"Just as there are no atheists in foxholes, there are no libertarians in financial crises." -Krugman
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Be gone evil doer. by Lost In A Dream (3.00 / 0) #6 Tue Mar 23, 2004 at 03:03:45 AM EST

I grew up in Minnesota too. Yet I never had tuna hot dish until my wife made it for me. (Strangely, another Minnesota person, and we met in South Dakota.) I consider tuna hot dish to be one of the most vile things ever concocted by (wo)man. And I like tuna. *SHUDDERS*

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. . .What you want in a marriage is, something like that town in Pennsylvania that's built over a burning seam of coal.". -- ti dave
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Then she don't make it right by notafurry (3.00 / 0) #10 Tue Mar 23, 2004 at 03:24:58 AM EST

Granted, having eaten it all through childhood exactly as described above, even down to the Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup, I can understand your distaste.

Proper tuna hotdish, though, is slightly different. First, cans are TEH EVIL. (Except the tuna. If you're lazy.) Start the sauce with mushrooms - fresh, if possible - garlic, milk, cheese, a little ranch or blue cheese dressing, and enough water to make it a thick sauce. Add salt and a little pepper after it's started simmering. Add cut chunks of tuna - fresh, if possible, but not everyone lives in a port city.

About the time you add the tuna, start boiling the water for noodles. Cover the sauce and just let it simmer, stirring from time to time. Keep tasting and adding seasoning as needed; if you like spice, add more pepper, but too much will ruin the sauce.

By the time the noodles are done, the sauce should be ready. If you're into the peas thing, add them either fresh and washed, but uncooked, or frozen. Stir them in and let them sit a minute - the sauce will cook them sufficiently without making them squishy. Heathens can feel free to mix the sauce and noodles before serving.

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Mushrooms. EEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWW! by Lost In A Dream (3.00 / 0) #12 Tue Mar 23, 2004 at 03:38:15 AM EST

That may be why I think it sucks right there. Mushrooms are just wrong, in any capacity. YUUUUUUCK!

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. . .What you want in a marriage is, something like that town in Pennsylvania that's built over a burning seam of coal.". -- ti dave
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How can you not enjoy a tasty fungus? by notafurry (3.00 / 0) #13 Tue Mar 23, 2004 at 03:40:10 AM EST

Though, yes, if you don't like 'shrooms then it's understandable that you wouldn't like tuna hotdish... even the bland Minnesota Staple version has more mushroom in it than tuna. (Two cans Cream of Mushroom vs. one can tuna.)

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And I think that's how wifey made it too. by Lost In A Dream (3.00 / 0) #14 Tue Mar 23, 2004 at 03:43:05 AM EST

Yuck. Mushrooms.

My relatives don't understand why I can't stomach mushrooms. I can't understand why people want to eat something that tastes like nothing, yet is slimy and oozy. *SHUDDERS*

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. . .What you want in a marriage is, something like that town in Pennsylvania that's built over a burning seam of coal.". -- ti dave
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Ah. The plot thickens. by notafurry (3.00 / 0) #15 Tue Mar 23, 2004 at 03:51:28 AM EST

First, if the Minnesota Staple version is the only kind you've had, then, well, I refer to my earlier comment. Nummy.

Second, canned mushrooms are gooey and slimy. I hated mushrooms for that precise reason, until I learned to cook - and then I started having to use mushrooms in recipes, and used fresh, and learned better. Fresh mushrooms are crisp and have a light flavor that mixes well with other flavors; it's great for adding flavors to foods because it'll take almost anything onto itself. (Mushrooms sauteed in garlic and butter tastes like garlic and butter. Add that to a steak... OK, now I'm hungry, and it's not even 9 am.) I wouldn't eat a mushroom as a snack, or prepare "plain mushrooms" in any form. The closest I'd come to that would be grilled on a skewer with meat and vegetables - so they get the meat flavor - and brushed with Jack Daniels.

OK, hungry again. Damnit.

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Ack. by Lost In A Dream (3.00 / 0) #16 Tue Mar 23, 2004 at 03:55:31 AM EST

A likely story. And one I've heard before.

Notwithstanding, my introduction to mushrooms was on the farm. Fresh mushrooms, pulled by hand, fried in grandma's kitchen. Gramps would eat them fresh. They tasted, dispicable. And this from a kid that worshipped grandpa and would do anything the same way he did just 'cause. And fried they were only marginally better, in that they had breading on them that I could peel off and eat, leaving the nasty slimy mushrooms behind. On pizza, slimy. On steak, slimy. In sandwiches, slimy. Etc. Etc. Etc.

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. . .What you want in a marriage is, something like that town in Pennsylvania that's built over a burning seam of coal.". -- ti dave
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I'd forgotten fried mushrooms. by notafurry (3.00 / 0) #17 Tue Mar 23, 2004 at 03:57:34 AM EST

Nummy.

OK, then we've eliminated all the other possibilities and there's only one answer.

You're weird.

But that's OK. This is a caring, inclusive community of friends, who will accept your oddities and appreciate you exactly as you are.

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As an old friend used to say. . . by Lost In A Dream (3.00 / 0) #18 Tue Mar 23, 2004 at 04:14:59 AM EST

No I'm not. I'm perfectly normal. It's everybody else that's wierd.

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. . .What you want in a marriage is, something like that town in Pennsylvania that's built over a burning seam of coal.". -- ti dave
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: It's OK. by ambrosen (3.00 / 0) #20 Tue Mar 23, 2004 at 05:10:06 AM EST

I don't like mushrooms either.

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"Some sort of cream based sauce"??? by greyrat (3.00 / 0) #8 Tue Mar 23, 2004 at 03:12:16 AM EST

You fucking commie! It's called Campbell's Mushroom Soup

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holy crap. by MillMan

(3.00 / 0) #9 Tue Mar 23, 2004 at 03:14:27 AM EST

Yeah I should have known that. But mommy always cooks it, not me. I cook different food, none of which can be called "hot dish."

"Just as there are no atheists in foxholes, there are no libertarians in financial crises." -Krugman
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thats because by LilFlightTest (3.00 / 0) #28 Tue Mar 23, 2004 at 09:22:41 AM EST

ITS A FUCKING CASSEROLE
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uh huh. by MillMan

(3.00 / 0) #29 Tue Mar 23, 2004 at 01:50:38 PM EST

Like I'm going to believe anyone who lives in a state where the most popular pastime is drinking beer.

"Just as there are no atheists in foxholes, there are no libertarians in financial crises." -Krugman
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: london? by LilFlightTest (3.00 / 0) #30 Wed Mar 24, 2004 at 09:03:25 AM EST

hey, though...whats wrong with beer?
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That's "Cream of Mushroom" by ENOENT (5.00 / 1) #11 Tue Mar 23, 2004 at 03:26:41 AM EST

Campell's now has a "mushroom soup" made of strange mushrooms with names like "shiitake" for fancy-pants lawyers in New York City.

Life is just one damned thing after another.
Love is just two damned things after each other.

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Once upon a time by joh3n (3.00 / 0) #2 Tue Mar 23, 2004 at 02:02:23 AM EST

there was a PLATE.

It SWIRLED.

The end.

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Salmon Ice Cream. by evilpenguin (6.00 / 1) #4 Tue Mar 23, 2004 at 02:57:41 AM EST

You ever see a fish play a Moog?

Yeah, he thought the LFO was a Low Fish Oscillator!

So I heard the fish just changed the heads on his drum kit.

Yeah, he used Aquarians!
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: To give you an idea of how I feel right now. by Lost In A Dream (5.50 / 2) #7 Tue Mar 23, 2004 at 03:04:33 AM EST

That comment made perfect sense to me, and was hilarious.
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. . .What you want in a marriage is, something like that town in Pennsylvania that's built over a burning seam of coal.". -- ti dave
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Poll: More information needed by FlightTest (3.00 / 0) #19 Tue Mar 23, 2004 at 05:05:11 AM EST

Is this a special-order item that will likely sit on a shelf for years (or forever) if original purchaser never pays up? For instance, on a catalog bookcase, "cash in advance" is before shipping. On a custom desk, "cash in advance" is before you cut any wood.

Not really. by Lost In A Dream (3.00 / 0) #21 Tue Mar 23, 2004 at 05:38:42 AM EST

We have a policy where if it doesn't get paid for, or the customer doesn't accept it, or whatever, it goes into our "factory outlet" which is really just a corner of the wharehouse we let people look through. There stuff usually gets bought within a month because we just throw a price slightly over what it cost to produce on it to get it out the door. So, the chances are it would go fairly quick, but we'd lose out on a lot of the profit margin in the case where the customer doesn't pay.

However, our current policy is to just build and ship without any sort of check in place, so a lot of times we get cash in advance customers recieving orders without ever paying for them. Which is only mildly frustrating to me until they tell me to work up a report to track something that we don't, and never have, tracked in the system in any capacity.

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. . .What you want in a marriage is, something like that town in Pennsylvania that's built over a burning seam of coal.". -- ti dave
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Ahh. by FlightTest (3.00 / 0) #22 Tue Mar 23, 2004 at 06:32:37 AM EST

Well in that case, I have to vote "order should be paid in full before shipping" since you have a system to sell "orphaned" items.

But yes, under no circumstances should you ever ship to a "cash in advance" customer before you actually have the cash.

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Exactly. by Lost In A Dream (3.00 / 0) #23 Tue Mar 23, 2004 at 06:43:17 AM EST

I'd prefer if we didn't even build before getting paid, but I'm not sure how that'd fly with our spoiled brat customers.

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. . .What you want in a marriage is, something like that town in Pennsylvania that's built over a burning seam of coal.". -- ti dave
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"Factory Outlet" by FlightTest (3.00 / 0) #24 Tue Mar 23, 2004 at 07:44:47 AM EST

I'm no business expert or anything, but if the stuff in your "factory outlet" is going fast, maybe y'all should consider raising the prices in the outlet a bit, to recover some of that lost profit.

Not, I'm sure, that you personally have any control over that whatsoever.

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None whatsoever. by Lost In A Dream (3.00 / 0) #25 Tue Mar 23, 2004 at 07:55:21 AM EST

And the prices are low in the factory outlet because they don't want it sticking around. It's a wierd management style that thinks it's OK to ship product that hasn't been paid for to customers that have such shitty credit that they need to be a cash in advance account, yet still only want to charge bottom dollar for things that end up coming back to us because somebody didn't pay the proper bills.

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. . .What you want in a marriage is, something like that town in Pennsylvania that's built over a burning seam of coal.". -- ti dave
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That explains it by FlightTest (3.00 / 0) #26 Tue Mar 23, 2004 at 08:42:07 AM EST

I always wondered why ANYONE would sell stuff to the last place I worked for anything other than cash up front. And yet parts & stuff would occasionally appear. As I understand it, we had quite the rep in the industry for not paying. To the point that I put the name of the company we bought (and changed our company name to just before I was laid off) on my resume rather than the original name of the company.

So your company isn't the only one. We found plenty of them. Some that never even bothered to threaten us to send their stuff back.

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: What a way to run a business. by Lost In A Dream (3.00 / 0) #27 Tue Mar 23, 2004 at 08:50:04 AM EST

It's amazing we aren't bleeding more money than we make.
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. . .What you want in a marriage is, something like that town in Pennsylvania that's built over a burning seam of coal.". -- ti dave
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GOOD MORNING, I HATE YOU ALL! | 30 comments (30 topical, 0 hidden) | Trackback

-	Order should be paid in full before being released for production.	42%
-	Order should be paid in full before being wharehoused for shipping.	5%
-	Order should be paid in full before shipping.	26%
-	Order should be paid in full before reaching customer through shipping.	5%
-	Order should be released as normal production, wharehoused as normal production, and shipped as normal production.	0%
-	Cash In Advance is a euphamism.	0%
-	Fuck you. You think I'm gonna pay in advance for this shit?	21%


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