As a bartender I am not allowed to wear any kind of brand logo for any type of alcohol while I’m working. So the hats/shirts/buttons etc. that I am given by liquor reps is slightly amusing, because I can’t wear any of it behind the bar. The reason it isn’t allowed? I’m “promoting the sale of alcohol.”
Yes, kids, that’s the actual reason given.
I am also not allowed to serve a bottle of wine or a pitcher of beer to one person. If you really want one anyway, I will give you two glasses. You’re “waiting for a friend.”
If you buy a bottle of wine–and this only applies to wine–you are allowed to leave with it. But only if it’s been uncorked. Everything else is licensed for “on premise only” consumption. So don’t leave with your beer, drunk dude. Yes, you, over there thinking you’re being all cool, sliding it in your coat pocket…
One cool bartender I knew made up his own way around a rule like that. The rule said ‘no full pitchers’ So For regulars he would serve double half pitchers. Basically for the price of a pitcher he served half the pitcher when you sat down then when you were done with that he filled it up for the other half. Kept it from getting to room temperature and flat as well, and if he liked you each half was pretty generous. Although I’m not sure if reloading something that the customer has is kosher with the health department, but nobody really cares about crap like that.
Well, this might be common knowledge for all I know, but the President of the New York Society for Prevention of the Cruelty to Animals was asked to intervene on behalf of a young victim of heinous child abuse and neglect during the late 1800s. The story of little Mary Ellen made the front page of the New York Times in 1874, thus spawning the country’s (and possibly, the world’s) first child protective agency.
Although the hands and the feet have fairly obvious differences, they also have a lot a structual similarities. Sooo, in pediatrics, primarily kids that aren’t walking yet, we often use the veins on the feet for IV’s and blood draws.
For God’s sake, I wish more people would understand this. It might vary from state to state, but where I’m at, any employee of a pharmacy who is not a pharmacist is restricted like this, and can’t talk about anything medical at all. Customers get incredibly angry, thinking I’m being coy or something by “refusing” to give product recommendations, etc. Frankly, I get disturbed at the number of customers who are willing to put themselves or others at risk by taking the advice of some guy stocking shelves at a big-box retailer.
It also doesn’t help that none of the non-pharmacy employees or managers in this store understand the concept, dragging customers to me to get advice on how much Tylenol someone’s feverish baby can take or to get a diagnosis on infected wounds. Getting into arguments with store management in front of customers when they demand that I illegally give medical advice is bad. “I know you can’t legally tell them what to take, but if you had an infected puncture wound on your foot, what would you take?”
…anyway, to contribute to the thread…
The record-keeping of, restricted access to, and seemingly draconian limits on ephedrine/pseudoephedrine purchases that annoy so many people aren’t simply annoying state laws or (as so many customers seem to think) unfriendly store policies. IIRC, I’ve seen complaints like these even here, as if pharmacies are restricting access to medicine for fun. It’s a federal law that’s part of the USA PATRIOT Act. Believe me, we understand how annoying it is that your purchase of Mucinex D means that you can’t get some decongestant later in the month for your sick kid, but our hands are tied.
There is a joke that is particular to the field of aerosol science (“aerosols” being particles or droplets suspended in air, and not propellant packaging, which stole the term from the aerosol scientists).
The governer of Kentucky decides he wants his state to produce better racehorces, so he calls together and consults his top three scientists. They are, of course, a geneticist, an aerodynamicist, and an aerosol scientist.
The geneticist speaks first: “Clearly, we need to breed stronger horses. I propose a program to measure strength and breed the strongest ones together.”
The aerodynamicist points out: “But strength isn’t the whole story. We also need to reduce the aerodynamic drag on the horses. We need to study the resistance horses feel as they move through the air.”
The aerosol scientist then chimes in: “Yes! This is the problem exactly! To begin, let’s assume the horse is a sphere…”
This is hilarious because in aerosol science most of the things that get modeled for particles begin with the assumption that they are spherical (as many actually are).
I’m surprised this is obscure, but people are amazed when they find it out.
Pretty much everything you see is designed by a graphic artist.* All packaging, even the really boring stuff. The shape of your speakers, car, camera, everything. Those flying logos you see during the game on tv? Some of my classmates may have designed those. The annoying animated flash ads? One of my teachers may have done them.
I’m not sure what people think graphic artists do. Print ads and logos, I suppose.
technically I’m using ‘graphic artist’ as a very broad term here. There’s specific terms, but all of them may are trained similarly.
Meals on Wheels originated in Great Britain during the Blitz and the first home-delivered meal program in the United States began in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in January 1954.
On the back of the law license of Texas lawyers (maybe elsewhere too) is a piece of paper with the oath of the officer of the court they took when they were sworn in, signed by the officer who swore them in. Mine is signed by the federal judge I used to clerk for who swore me in.
Not strictly lawyers, but law enforcement: the “wagon wheel” badge of the Texas Rangers is made from a silver five peso Mexican coin. If you turn it over and look at the back of the badge, you can still see the imprint of the struck coin.
Graphic designers will adjust the spacing between letters by hand for important bits of text. It’s called kerning. Don’t learn about it or you will notice all the poorly spaced letters out there for the rest of your life.
There was a mathematician named Paul Erdős who was influential, and had many collaborators. Some mathematicians noticed this, and so they began to wonder, in a six-degrees-of-separation kind of way, how “far” each published mathematician was from Paul Erdős. As a substitute for “knowing” someone, they used “published a paper with.” They called this “distance” a person’s “Erdős number.” So, for example, Erdős had an Erdős number of 0, his collaborators each have an Erdős number of 1, their collaborators each have an Erdős number of 2, etc.
I knew that about the VOs because I have friends who do them, but I don’t think even they knew that about the translation! Thanks, that explains a lot!
And I’ve heard it all. Using mute only works on the customer: but QA hears you loud and clear. I’ve heard mocking, flirting, cussing, telling off, everything. That’s why I love my job. So when you hear “this call may be monitored for Quality Assurance purposes,” believe it.
The Library of Congress system uses two letters (X and Y) for military books (one for naval, one for land-based), but only one § for all of literature, comics, plays, literary analysis, biographies of writers, etc. As such, the P section takes up 1 1/2 rooms in our library, while X & Y take up two shelves (not even a single bookcase!). Holy Books (it might just be Bibles, actually) are listed under BS.
Also: Almost every library has a strict rule that each person can have checked out no more than 3 movies/videos at a time. This shouldn’t be an obscure fact, but no-one seems to remember it when they come to check out…:sigh:
When I became a lawyer in Ohio, I was asked (rather apologetically) by the local bar admissions committee if I advocated the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. I assured them that I didn’t. Hah - suckers!
As a magistrate, I can do everything a judge of our court can do except marry people or conduct criminal jury trials.
My colleagues and I don’t wear robes, but under Ohio ethical rules I could wear one in campaign ads if I ever ran for judge.
I hardly ever use a gavel.
John Roberts’s title is “Chief Justice of the United States,” not “of the Supreme Court.”
