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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
  • Responding to email notices you receive.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

How to get out of a speeding ticket!

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A Mr. Smith was speeding down the highway when an officer got behind him and flashed his lights to pull over. Mr. Smith knowing this ticket would suspend his license anxiously thought of a plan to get out of the ticket. When the officer came to his window and asked what the hurry was Mr. Smith blurted out, I have a dead hooker in the trunk, Drugs in the glove box, and a highly destructive bomb under the seat! The officer ran back to his squad car to radio for back up, the bomb squad, the swat team, and his superior officier. Only 15 minutes passed until the car was completely surrounded by police. The commanding officer yelled over the loud speaker for the suspect Mr. Smith to exit the vehicle with hands up and lay on the ground. The superior officer started to go though the car and found no dead hooker, no drugs, and no bomb. The superior went to Mr. Smith and said, "My officer says you had a dead hooker in the trunk, a glove box full of drugs, and a bomb under the seat, what the hell is going on!" Mr. Smith replied, "I bet that lying son of a bitch told you I was speeding too!"

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A man driving too fast with his wife is pulled over for speeding and not wearing his seatbelt. He knows that if he has a ticket for each of these, it will put him over the limit and he will loose his license, so he tries to slip his seatbelt on while the officer is getting his clipboard together.

Once the patrolman comes up to the window, he says, "Sir, you were speeding a little and not wearing your seatbelt. I'll have to ticket you for each of these offences."

The man replies, "I was too wearing my seatbelt! You can't give me a ticket for something I wasn't in the wrong for!"

The cop says, "I saw you without your seatbelt, sir, but I'll tell you what. Your wife there looks like an honest person, I'll let her be the judge. How 'bout it ma'am? Was he wearing his seatbelt or not?"

The woman thought about it for a moment and then said, "Officer, I've been married to ol' Leroy here for thirty-five years, and in all that time, if there's one thing I've learned, it's this:








NEVER ARGUE WITH HIM WHEN HE'S DRUNK!!!"

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