# Mini-tnars (the reverse of rants) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 20, 2012, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-tnars-the-reverse-of-rants/632053 "2012-08-20T14:15:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-tnars-the-reverse-of-rants/632053/21 "2012-08-21T01:22:22Z")
Time Warner Cable finally got ‘Enhanced Viewing’ in my area. Pretty cool. (They so rarely get things right.) ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-tnars-the-reverse-of-rants/632053/22 "2012-08-21T01:38:01Z")
My coworker’s PET scan came back showing his tumor is almost completely dead…just a touch of cancer around the edges. He has two more chemo sessions scheduled, so we’re really optimistic. Yay! -D/a ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-tnars-the-reverse-of-rants/632053/23 "2012-08-21T06:24:14Z")
One of my sons is starting college this week, at near middle age. I’m so thrilled for him I don’t know what to do. ---
**Author:** ![Rollo\_Tomasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/58956e/32.png) [@Rollo\_Tomasi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rollo_Tomasi)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-tnars-the-reverse-of-rants/632053/24 "2012-08-21T13:02:10Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > Time Warner Cable finally got ‘Enhanced Viewing’ in my area. Pretty cool. (They so rarely get things right.) DirecTV finally added the HD version of BBC America. Yay for Doctor Who in HD! ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-tnars-the-reverse-of-rants/632053/25 "2012-08-22T10:52:43Z")
I’ve been teaching a job/computer skills class at a women’s shelter since the beginning of the year. We take people from SAHM-who’s-never-worked to Office-Suite-PC-etc skilled and job-ready, if they can finish the entire course. After 8 months of effort, my class just finished and \*over half of them have full time employment \*and have moved from the shelter to their own apartments. 😃 In January they started as scared, unemployed moms, often running with their kids. Today they’re going to work in new clothes and buying stuff for their kids and apartments. I’m so proud of them I could bust. I may have to violate smiley etiquette here (so sue me). :D:D:D ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-tnars-the-reverse-of-rants/632053/26 "2012-08-22T23:13:16Z")
I sold a poem that I’ve been trying to sell for years, to a market I’ve never sold anything to before. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-tnars-the-reverse-of-rants/632053/27 "2012-08-22T23:20:41Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > Got pictures? 😉 > > I used to have a probably part-Maine Coon myself, and he loved belly rubs. My digital camera seems to be broken alas. Miss Lucy Cat looks very much like the kitty pictured [here.](http://www.fogcitycat.com/breed.html) She’s a brown tabby and white with a black and brown back, white paws and a white belly. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-tnars-the-reverse-of-rants/632053/28 "2012-08-23T00:11:16Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > My digital camera seems to be broken alas. Miss Lucy Cat looks very much like the kitty pictured [here.](http://www.fogcitycat.com/breed.html) She’s a brown tabby and white with a black and brown back, white paws and a white belly. Pretty. Please give her an extra snuggle from me. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-tnars-the-reverse-of-rants/632053/29 "2012-08-23T01:26:42Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > Pretty. Please give her an extra snuggle from me. I give her the hugs. My husband gives her the baths. This way I get the extra snuggles and he gets the dirty looks. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-tnars-the-reverse-of-rants/632053/30 "2012-08-23T01:27:53Z")
Well played. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-tnars-the-reverse-of-rants/632053/31 "2012-08-23T20:28:57Z")
I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance! Woo! Since it’s been 3 years and 1 day since my at-fault accident, I called my insurance co. and asked them to lower my premiums. They did- by half! ::happy dance:: ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-tnars-the-reverse-of-rants/632053/32 "2012-08-23T22:35:59Z")
Do mini-tnars hide in labyr-ninths? ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-tnars-the-reverse-of-rants/632053/33 "2012-08-23T23:12:48Z")
While going through a pile of papers today, I found a check from the state tax department for $112.00. Yay! ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-tnars-the-reverse-of-rants/632053/34 "2012-08-24T01:22:36Z")
My wife and I have been getting my son ready to move into the dorms tomorrow for his freshman year of college, and it’s been going pretty smoothly so far. Oh,and slightly less mini: we had some hail damage on the car, got the insurance guy to look at it, got a check. Planned to get just part of it repaired. got a cracked windshield and took it in to get that and the hail damage fixed, and the new insurance adjuster decided we’d been lowballed on the original hail damage estimate. He got us nearly two grand more! ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-tnars-the-reverse-of-rants/632053/35 "2012-08-24T02:12:20Z")
So that’s two good things that car insurance has done in one day? That might be the seventh sign. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-tnars-the-reverse-of-rants/632053/36 "2012-08-24T14:53:20Z")
The mole on my leg that has been worrying me turned out to be nothing worrisome at all. ---
**Author:** ![perfectparanoia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@perfectparanoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perfectparanoia)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-tnars-the-reverse-of-rants/632053/37 "2012-08-24T15:53:22Z")
The money that I am getting from the fact that our company was just sold is 7 times what I thought it would be. Back in the black! ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-tnars-the-reverse-of-rants/632053/38 "2012-08-24T16:10:37Z")
I found the perfect lamp for above my desk. I had to struggle with Paypal to pay for it (I need to update my name on there, and I hadn’t realized I hadn’t updated my address with the bank) but it’s on the way! Now I just need to find one more lamp so my place will stop being such a dark cave. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2012, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-tnars-the-reverse-of-rants/632053/39 "2012-08-25T18:26:42Z")
A lot of these items do not sound mini at all. > [@pullin](#): > > . . . \*over half of them have full time employment \*and have moved from the shelter to their own apartments. 😃 . . . :D:D This one especially. Not mini at all. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-tnars-the-reverse-of-rants/632053/40 "2012-08-25T18:29:30Z")
The local librarian said to me, “I know you! You’re the author!” 😃 They have my book on order right now. They will call me and ask me to give a presentation on the book when it comes in. YEAH! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-tnars-the-reverse-of-rants/632053.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mini-tnars-the-reverse-of-rants/632053.md?page=3)