{"id":573891662,"date":"2019-10-17T21:19:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T01:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573891662"},"modified":"2019-10-18T15:02:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T19:02:50","slug":"if-this-joke-werent-on-sail-youd-make-me-walk-the-plank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2019\/10\/17\/if-this-joke-werent-on-sail-youd-make-me-walk-the-plank\/","title":{"rendered":"If the joke weren’t on sail I’d be walking the plank"},"content":{"rendered":"

Question:<\/strong> How much did the pirate pay for his peg and hook?<\/p>\n

Think about it for a second. You’ll want to get this right.<\/p>\n

It’s OK, we’ve got time. I’ll be here when you’re done. I don’t mind. <\/p>\n

No, really. It’s Thursday evening and this is important. So make sure you get it right.<\/p>\n

Got it? Are you sure? <\/p>\n

Good! OK, give it a shot. How much did the pirate pay for his peg and hook?<\/p>\n

An arm and a leg.<\/p>\n

Sometime over the summer<\/strong> I found myself in one of those pernicious little traps of the online retail world. If I spent beyond a certain threshold I would get free shipping on my entire order of high end, but now clearance priced polos. I had already placed the items I wanted and needed in my cart. And I still had to pump something like 12 bucks or so into the thing to save the 15 dollars. Fifty bucks gets you there! You know the phenomenon. <\/p>\n

Problem was, there wasn’t much else I wanted or needed. And the retailer, while having decent clearance prices from time to time, skips over middle-of-the-road retail prices and heads directly to a you-better-have-a-lucrative-and-hopefully-legal-side-hustle price category.<\/p>\n

But! I found socks! Lots of nice socks. Finely darned things, too. And on clearance! So I picked up four pair, just enough to hit the free shipping threshold. ($51.96, thank you very much.)<\/p>\n

Good thing, too. This happened at TV tonight:<\/p>\n

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You’ll forgive the lines in the foreground. This is a picture of the monitor on the jib, which overlays the rule of thirds grid for composition purposes. The point is, look at those guys. I have to step up my sock game. Next week, it is on. <\/p>\n

So thank you, silly retail customer psychology trick. You’re going to put me back in the sock game. <\/p>\n

Someone remind me to follow up on this.<\/p>\n

And though it’ll be close to Halloween, I promise I won’t wear the pirate socks. <\/p>\n

You know …<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

… the Arrrrrgyle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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