The Good, the Bad - And the Ugly

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The Good: UPS just delivered your shiny new printer!

The Bad: The instructions and installation software are both in Chinese.
 

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The Good: UPS just delivered your shiny new printer!

The Bad: The instructions and installation software are both in Chinese.

The Ugly: You're from Mars

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The Good: You just paid all your bills for the month and still have money in the bank.
 

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The Good: You just paid all your bills for the month and still have money in the bank.

The Bad: Or you did, until a data entry error makes you seem to be overdrawn.

The Ugly: The data error is a decimal place, moved two points too far to the right. You now owe the bank several thousand dollars.
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The Good: It's finally Friday!
 

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The Good: It's finally Friday!

The Bad: Your judgemental in-laws are spending the weekend.
 

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The Good: It's finally Friday!

The Bad: Your judgemental in-laws are spending the weekend.
The Ugly: To them "the weekend" means six months

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The Good: You finally get over your writers' block​


 

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The Good: You finally get over your writer's block.

The Bad: When you try to open the file for your WIP, you get the Blue Screen of Death.

The Ugly: You unplug the device, count to ten, and plug it back in. When to press the on-button, the lithium-ion battery explodes.

The Good: You bought a really comfortable pair of hiking boots today.
 

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The Good: You bought a really comfortable pair of hiking boots today.

The Bad: The police show up at your door and take them back. Apparently, the person you bought the boots from stole them and then ratted you out.
 

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The Good: You bought a really comfortable pair of hiking boots today.

The Bad: The police show up at your door and take them back. Apparently, the person you bought the boots from stole them and then ratted you out.

The Ugly: You're charged as an accomplice and sent to the klink!

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The Good: It's almost Friday!
 

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The Good: It's almost Friday!

The Bad: You have a huge presentation on Monday, so you'll have to work all weekend.
 

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The Good: It's almost Friday!

The Bad: You have a huge presentation on Monday, so you'll have to work all weekend.

The Ugly: And it's a presentation to POTUS to justify keeping your agency around. (Man that escalated, didn't it?)

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The Good: The blood test came back negative.
 

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The Good: The blood test came back negative.
The Bad: The results mean you have no blood.
 

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The Good: The blood test came back negative.
The Bad: The results mean you have no blood.
The Ugly: It turns out that your spouse is a vampire.

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The Good: You get on the scale, and it says you've lost 3 pounds since the holidays.
 

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The Good: You get on the scale, and it says you've lost 3 pounds since the holidays.

The Bad: You got food poisoning, and amoebic dysentery at your in-laws', and haven't eaten anything except soup and crackers since then.
 

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The Good: You get on the scale, and it says you've lost 3 pounds since the holidays.

The Bad:
You got food poisoning, and amoebic dysentery at your in-laws', and haven't eaten anything except soup and crackers since then.

The Ugly:
Your in-laws hear of your condition, accuse you of bringing the bugs into their house because of your filthy habits, have the house fumigated and send you the bill.


The Good: While digging in your yard to plant an herb garden, you find a diamond bracelet!
 

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The Good: While digging in your yard to plant an herb garden, you find a diamond bracelet!

The Bad: The diamonds are in a pre-polished state (aka just chunks of carbon)
 

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The Good: While digging in your yard to plant an herb garden, you find a diamond bracelet!

The Bad: The diamonds are in a pre-polished state (aka just chunks of carbon)

The Ugly: When you bought the property, the seller retained the mineral-rights, and upon hearing of your good fortune, sues you for everything you own.

The Good: This thread is back on page one.
 

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The Good: This thread is back on page one.

The Bad: Everyone seeing on the front page now has to go back and read all 4,168 posts.

The Ugly: Is they can't read letters.....they can read pictures though

The Uglier: You didn't post a new "Good:" to start the next round.
 

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What? The Good, the Bad, the Ugly....dammit! And you didn't post one either.....throwing you under the bus.

The Good: Older cars are easier to work on, less complicated.
 

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The Good: Older cars are easier to work on, less complicated.

The Bad: They also need more work due to age-related wear and tear.
 

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The Good: Older cars are easier to work on, less complicated.

The Bad: They also need more work due to age-related wear and tear.

The Ugly: You have a yard full of parts cars to cannibalize to keep your project car going.

The Good: Your neighbor's sister's cousin's best-friend gave him a "sure-thing" tip for today's Kentucky Derby.
 
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The Good: Your neighbor's sister's cousin's best-friend gave him a "sure-thing" tip for today's Kentucky Derby.

The Bad: Your neighbor's sister's cousin's best-friend is Bernie Madoff