Ask dumb questions here!

[Eagaholic]

You can also put angel wings on a J, which is considered a mark of professional acumen when sending emails, memos etc. to clients or your boss, or at the end of formal business proposals. Try it!

^j^

[Diomedes]

Sometimes small stores accept gift cards from their national chain competitors. 

Anyone know how they do this?

[PhillyPhreak54]

Probably just eat the cost of whatever is bought with the gift card with hopes that you'll come back another time and then they'll have a long term customer.

[Diomedes]

I'm looking for answers here, not probablies from your ass.

[PhillyPhreak54]

It's a logical guess, Sir Saltyass

[Tomahawk]

Probably exchange the cards with other stores

[Diomedes]

My guess is that the proprietor takes the card into his/her personal books and puts the value in cash into the business books, then when he or she needs something at the chain, the card is used.  But how do they verify the card value at the point of transaction?  And how do they do this in volume.  Even a small shop might get a couple dozen of these transactions after the holidays, when lazy fargers give everyone gift cards.

And my ass, it is sweet.  It's my balls that are salty.  Your mom would know.

[PhillyPhreak54]

That is a decent guess too...I guess they'd call the number on the back to verify an active balance on the card and then accept it from the customer.

Since small businesses are dying they have to do anything to reel in customers.

lol

[ice grillin you]

theres a thing called barter where local businesses do this kind of thing...im guessing national biz do it too or another version of it

a friend of mines pop owns a local picture framing store and he gets me these 50 dollar gift certificates for a bagel place near me for free

[Diomedes]

how do computers understand different languages?  that is, I think it's possible to program a computer to do a certain task in many different languages.  is there some kind of base language that all these different protocols are translating to?

[Susquehanna Birder]

Two questions, both chicken-and-the-egg things:

1. Why does bodybuilding attract such plug-ugly women? Or is it the bodybuilding itself that tends to uglify them?

2. Whenever I see a morbidly obese person on one of those little electric chair scooter things, I wonder if the chair is a help for - or the cause of - their obesity.

[Dillen]

Easy answer for ugly ass women bodybuilders is self-esteem/vanity issues. It's not true in all cases, but pretty common.