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I found out yesterday that one of my co-workers uses our company's tax exempt status for pretty much every personal purchase he makes. He bought a new ipod and made the comment that "it was sweet to be able to get it tax exempt." Aside from the fact that it is flat out tax fraud, I told him I would be really worried about it biting him in the ass and getting him in some trouble. He was completely dismissive about it. Does anyone know how exempt purchases are tracked (if they are at all)? I would like to give him some more info about how he could be getting both him and our company in some trouble, but I really don't have it and haven't been able to find it online. Killing threads since 2004.

Just go to the user directory and click on the "Posts" heading. It will sort the list by number of posts. Killing threads since 2004.

[replyHoly Sh*t Batman!! From birds to burritos in 8 posts...my threads have no staying power! Uh...damn, you should have seen the birds that flew in front of my car when I left my breakfast burrito place yesterday! Killing threads since 2004.

Mmmm...breakfast burritos. I'm always excited when my day's work takes me past a local store that has some crazy good breakfast burritos. Killing threads since 2004.

Damn, I don't remember Taco Bell serving breakfast. I can't believe I missed it! Killing threads since 2004.

So does this mean there won't be any pics? Killing threads since 2004.

Don't waste your money. Sounds like you really don't care one way or the other, and by the time it gets to a point where HD is a must have there will have been so many changes that one you buy today will be completely outdated anyway. Killing threads since 2004.

Used to have a lot of fun with that. I worked at the beach for a while and whenever I had to take the ATV down there the Sanderlings (small beach bird that hangs out in the surf) would run up from the surf in front of me and run as fast as they could and eventually take off and fly in front of me right up until I was about to hit them and then they would peel off. They would come running over from as far as 20 feet away or so to get in front of the ATV while I was driving. I always thought it was so cool that it really must have been a game to them, or maybe the ones that did it were the thrill seakers of the bunch! Killing threads since 2004.

A few months after my former roommate and I moved to Queens, NY he called me at work one morning to tell me that he couldn't find his car. He ended stopping a cop on the street. He told them he didn't remember where he parked the car (we often found a great place and left cars parks for weeks at a time, so it was hardly rare to forget where you parked). The cops were pissed, but still drove him around for 30 minutes up and down every street 5 blocks in every direction to no avail. They finally let him fill out a report and about 3 months later it was found completely stripped in the South Bronx. Killing threads since 2004.

Oh shit. That just made my night. I haven't laughed that hard at something that stupid in a long time. Killing threads since 2004.

Mmmm...not so sure. When I was in college at the University of Cincinnati there was a place that did a Monday night "Bearcat special" where a huge pizza (16"x36" or so) delivered to any dorm on campus was only $10. The thing had 4" wide pepperonis and was just a hell of a lot of pizza, but the sauce was so acidic you knew long before your first bite that you were in for a hellish night of indigestion and usually more. I'll be damned though if I didn't eat one just about every Monday night of my one year in the dorm. That pizza was ass, really no redeeming factor about it other than you could split it with a few people and get a buttload of nasty pizza for cheaper than you could go to Taco Bell. Killing threads since 2004.

mmmm....now we're talkin'! Killing threads since 2004.

That does sound good, only I'd have to find something to replace the cauliflower with. Hmmm.... Killing threads since 2004.

Small world. You picked a great place to start jumping. Have fun! Killing threads since 2004.

No shit...did you work at Pope in Marietta for a little while back in the early to mid 90s? My younger siblings were all on the drumline at varying times and your name seems pretty familiar. Killing threads since 2004.

Do they even have restaining orders in Texas?? Nope, just shotguns. Killing threads since 2004.

From the same site as the 10 biggest conspiracy theroies thread: The World's Craziest Body Paintings http://www.2spare.com/item_80061.aspx NSFW Killing threads since 2004.

That's the great thing about doing a prescribed fire. If all is going well, you get to light it and sit back and watch. Only instead of a few feet or yards across, it's probably a thousand acres or so! Now the downfall - you can't be throwing back a few beers while watching it. That we have to make up for after hours. Killing threads since 2004.

It never gets old, does it. Working in wildland fire, pretty much every piece of my work related clothing/gear has the smell thoroughly soaked in. I get accustomed to it quickly, but when we haven't been on a fire in a while and I catch a wiff it's just great!

For anyone whose taxes aren't too terribly jumbled with piles of odd things to consider, check out www.taxactonline.com. I've been doing my taxes on there for the last 6 years or so. Very easy and straightforward. If you are debating whether or not to itemize it will allow you to enter info and compare it against the standard deduction to see which is better for you. It will run through questions about other deductions you might be able to take and tell you whether or not you qualify. It also keeps everything on record (which some people may not like) from year to year, but I like it as each year I can compare my return to that of the previous year. It's as quick and straightforward as the info you have to enter on the site. Might not do you much good if you are planning on just dropping a shoe box full of paperwork off to a CPA, but if you do it on your own it could well be worth it. I'm sure it's pretty much the same as turbo tax, etc., but this came out about the same time as turbo tax did online and I've been happy with this ever since. Killing threads since 2004.

Nothing quite so exciting a couple more hours south. Just rain, and rain and more rain down here in Victoria. We were still flooded out from the last batch of rain. Up come the rivers again! Killing threads since 2004.

Just watched it. I totally forgot about this scene in the movie between Chris Knight (Val Kilmer) and the hot daughter of some govt. dude. I can't believe nobody else brought it up: Chris: So, if there's anything I can do for you, or, more to the point, to you, you just let me know. Girl: Can you hammer a six-inch spike through a board with your penis? Chris: Not right now. Girl: A girl's gotta have her standards. Killing threads since 2004.

Ya' know, I think I might copy a link to this thread and put it on my calendar for oh, say August 15th. I think I'd be quite happy to see a couple days in the 40's swing through about then. Killing threads since 2004.

While I hate that the vendors are there, I didn't really intend to put them blame/disgust on them. Honestly, I understand why they are there. They have something that people will buy. What really got me is that people would buy it. When I brought friends the one time, one of them pulled out a flip book of photos that they had purchased and it was filled with photos of planes hitting the buildings, people in midair after jumping out of the building, etc. It was awful. I understand that different people remember things in different ways. To some, that might be an appropriate way to remember the events. I didn't get on her case about it, just simply asked her to put it away and save it for when she was no longer staying in my apartment. Killing threads since 2004.

Me too. If I see a car pulling out up close I might wait and take the spot, but in general I don't even drive up the aisle to look, I just pull in somewhere at the end of the line, especially in grocery stores where I don't want a bunch of random carts rolling around and knocking into my car! Killing threads since 2004.