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Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 3:44:22 am PDT

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

John Steinbeck

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1 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 3:46:51am

Smell that?

2 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 3:47:04am

Good Morning Lizards!

3 Student of Objectivism  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 3:47:18am

smell like no lizards

4 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 3:47:27am

re: #1 Fat Bastard Vegetarian


Smell what FBV?

5 Student of Objectivism  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 3:47:29am

*smells

6 Student of Objectivism  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 3:47:38am

I should go to bed

7 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 3:48:48am

The smell of three lizards pondering.

8 Student of Objectivism  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 3:49:30am

what is the sound of three lizards clapping?

9 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 3:49:43am

re: #7 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

FBV, you account for at least 3 Lizards on your own....but in a good way.

10 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 3:49:59am

re: #7 Fat Bastard Vegetarian


C'mon FBV you have to entertain me this morning, you are a funny FBV.

I like your avatar BTW.

11 Student of Objectivism  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 3:50:17am

Charles,

Did you notice the out of place "?" ?

"Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

—%uFFFDJohn Steinbeck"

12 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 3:50:46am

re: #9 BulgarWheat
Bulgar tried your burgers, very delicious! Thanks for the recipe.

13 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 3:51:22am

re: #12 conservgirl

hey, that's great to hear! Glad you like them. I'll have to tell the wife

14 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 3:51:36am

54 logged in

With
3 posting
36 who never log off or turn their computers off
12 Lurking
2 asleep at the monitor
1 undetermined.

15 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 3:52:04am

re: #13 BulgarWheat
Actually hubby made them and they were divine.

16 laZardo  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 3:52:25am

re: #8 Student of Objectivism

I'm not sure, but I do know it sounds like...when doves cry.

17 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 3:52:36am

re: #14 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

So.....what am I this morning? Chopped liver?

18 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 3:52:43am

re: #14 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
FBV, did you get your window fixed? Did they steal anything else?

19 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 3:52:55am

re: #14 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

1 undetermined

Now known as Bulgar....WHADDUP?

Obama on Fox New Sunday at 2pm eastern

20 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 3:54:09am

re: #19 Fat Bastard Vegetarian


It should be good, I think CW does a good interview. One would think Obama would be prepared for this one.

21 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 3:55:51am

re: #19 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

FBV, my painters are almost done replacing our siding with Hardiplank (the entire home) trim (replaced with all composite) and painting.

A "coffee with cream" color, and cranberry for the doors, and shutters. Lots of white trim as well. It's almost over, and I'm very happy with the results.

Been a long 5 or so weeks but it's almost over now.

22 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 3:57:11am

re: #21 BulgarWheat
What is hardiplank? Husband sells wood...

23 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 3:57:19am

re: #18 conservgirl

FBV, did you get your window fixed? Did they steal anything else?

Window got fixed Friday morning. The idiot was in a hurry. Didn't have time to find the DIGITAL CAMERA, CASH IN THE CONSOLE AND THE LAPTOP!

But the thief wasn't the only idiot in this picture. Some idiot parked his car in a hotel parking lot and left a GPS unit (stolen) DIGITAL CAMERA, CASH IN THE CONSOLE AND THE LAPTOP!

24 Student of Objectivism  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 3:58:00am

re: #16 laZardo

Sounds like an annoying song from early childhood ;)

25 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 3:58:40am

re: #22 conservgirl

The Hardiplank is a replacement for the former masonite siding. It's cement based and holds up really well.

26 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 3:58:46am

re: #21 BulgarWheat

Sounds idyllic.

27 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 3:59:33am

re: #23 Fat Bastard Vegetarian


Sounds like you travel all the time like me. I get complacent too, I have needles and syringes in the car for goodness sake, plus usually a purse and a laptop. I just travel MS so no GPS for me.

Glad you got it fixed.

28 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 3:59:48am

re: #16 laZardo

Oh! Hey! Didn't see you come in. Dig if you will a picture.

29 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:00:59am

re: #25 BulgarWheat
So do you live in an area were you have harsh weather conditions? How long does the Hardiplank last? Sounds interesting..

30 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:02:10am

re: #26 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

any major home repair/remodel projects are stressful. It's nice to almost be done. I very happy with the results. Investing in the home is money well spent.

31 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:02:18am

re: #28 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Purple rain aficionado?

32 freetoken  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:02:34am

re: #14 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

54 logged in

With
[...]
1 undetermined.

I was blowing my nose...

33 Bubblehead II  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:02:57am

Morning Lizards. What's the good news this morning?

34 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:03:01am

re: #27 conservgirl

Sounds like you travel all the time like me. I get complacent too, I have needles and syringes in the car for goodness sake, plus usually a purse and a laptop. I just travel MS so no GPS for me.

Glad you got it fixed.

I can't imagine why anyone would need a GPS system. I would rip a talking GPS out of the dash and run it over with the car in under 20 minutes.

35 AndyMacOP  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:03:03am

Ohhhh, I need coffee! And not to hear a Prince song so early in the morning.

36 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:03:26am

re: #29 conservgirl

North Carolina. Yeah, the conditions can be pretty brutal on the house. Very hot and humid summers down here.

37 laZardo  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:04:41am

re: #31 conservgirl

I prefer chocolate to purple.

/**i move away from the lgf to get link

38 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:04:48am

re: #34 galloping granny
Well I don't need one in MS but I enjoy looking for places and I like maps and have gotten pretty good at it in 10 years of outside sales. How is the planting going?

39 BlueCanuck  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:05:49am

re: #14 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

ZZZZZZZZZ, huh what? People walked in?

/damn I am going to get fired over this one. ;)

//if only.

40 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:06:05am

re: #36 BulgarWheat
Oh, that's right. You don't live on the coast do you? We are going to the Wake Forrest/Ole Miss game in September. WF will kill us, we are never any good.

41 JamesTKirk  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:06:57am

re: #7 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

The smell of three lizards pondering.

Is it the same thing they ponder every night -- how to take over the world?

42 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:07:05am

re: #39 BlueCanuck
Hey Blue, how are you?

43 JamesTKirk  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:07:45am

re: #34 galloping granny

I can't imagine why anyone would need a GPS system. I would rip a talking GPS out of the dash and run it over with the car in under 20 minutes.

I've got a really cheap GPS. All it does is say "Getting warming! Getting colder!" as I drive around...

44 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:08:22am

re: #43 JamesTKirk
LOL! That would be a fun game..

45 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:08:37am

re: #21 BulgarWheat

FBV, my painters are almost done replacing our siding with Hardiplank (the entire home) trim (replaced with all composite) and painting.

A "coffee with cream" color, and cranberry for the doors, and shutters. Lots of white trim as well. It's almost over, and I'm very happy with the results.

Been a long 5 or so weeks but it's almost over now.

Sounds pretty. Having the house painted is rapidly approaching the top of the list here too. We are not replacing siding this year though, so it should be much less stressful.

I did get a big chunk off the list over the last few days. The bushes that had overgrown half the patio are no more, the front steps have been replaced with a deck, a clothesline is up, the woods that run up the hill have been thinned by more than half so we'll actually get a little light in the backyard, plowing has been done to make room for the currants and gooseberries. And I bought a little red garden wagon (actually it is pretty big) and the kiddo and I assembled that yesterday.

I figure we will be "done" sometime next year.

46 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:09:32am

re: #45 galloping granny
What's going on with the garden? All your tomatoes?

47 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:10:54am

re: #40 conservgirl

we're outside of Raleigh, in Wake County. Wake Forest is a nice school, I was happy to see them win the ACC in football year before last. Not bad for a school w/ 5,000 students.

I've got cousins who went to Ole' Miss, and I"ve played golf on Ole' Miss' course. The family lived in Oxford.

48 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:11:30am

re: #31 conservgirl

Purple rain aficionado?

Animals strike curious poses.

49 JamesTKirk  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:12:15am

re: #48 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Animals strike curious poses.

They feel the heat... the heat between me and you...

50 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:13:01am

re: #45 galloping granny

It's nice once it all starts coming together. The wife did a real nice job picking out the colors. The oldest mini-wheat will be in college in 4 years, so the timing was also good. Do it while I can still afford it.

51 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:14:09am

re: #34 galloping granny

I can't imagine why anyone would need a GPS system. I would rip a talking GPS out of the dash and run it over with the car in under 20 minutes.

Without my GPS I would rip myself out of the seat and run over myself for 20 minutes!

I have to find three new addresses every day, in different cities, in three states. Some are very rural. No maps just me and the voice of Jezebel.

52 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:14:10am

re: #38 conservgirl

Well I don't need one in MS but I enjoy looking for places and I like maps and have gotten pretty good at it in 10 years of outside sales. How is the planting going?

I love maps - the kind you can spread out and fold up. Those talking things would drive me mad in a heart beat.

Spring planting is finally done - at least the veggies part of it for this week. In another week or 10 days I'll put in another batch of Swiss chard, some more mesclun, baby pak choi and a couple other things. And I have to run get sponges so I can innoculate the mushroom spore. My nephew put a fence up across the top of the garden while he was here. The stuff we ended up using is cheap enough that I can fence the whole thing if I must.

Now I have to start on the lower gardens - dig holes for 6 red currant bushes and 10 gooseberries, plant some bulbs a wonderful lizard sent me, dig up the iris and thin them out (probably hasn't been done in 20+ years). And cover the pool area with black plastic to kill all the weeds. We're having our April showers this morning though, so it will wait a little bit.

53 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:14:53am

re: #43 JamesTKirk

heh

54 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:15:54am

re: #47 BulgarWheat
Oxford is quite lovely, I am sure you enjoyed your round of golf. I trained for Needles and Syringes in your area, went to about 7 hospitals when I first started my job. I think I stayed in Cary but traveled the area.

We are looking forward to seeing the campus but not getting beat. I know it will happen, husband will get mad and we will leave and go find a bar after traveling all that way. That's okay with me though.

55 BlueCanuck  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:16:07am

re: #42 conservgirl

So very tired.

56 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:17:00am

re: #46 conservgirl

What's going on with the garden? All your tomatoes?

Tomatoes are fine. They are still living in their pots. Some will be moving to bigger pots in the next couple of days. Here in northern New England you don't put tomatoes out before Memorial Day (the real one, not the new and improved 3 day weekend one) though I did push the envelope by a week last year and might do so again this if the weather stays warm. Might even go for May 15 if I have some ready by then

57 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:18:27am

re: #52 galloping granny
Can you adopt me? I bet there will be lots of jam in your future from the bushes you are about to plant. I would love to see your creations back there. Did widowsmite send you the cannas? Mushrooms, how interesting.

58 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:18:37am

re: #54 conservgirl

If you trained in Cary, you probably work for the same multi-national that my brother in law does. Our town is on the other side of Cary.

Sprechen sie Deutch?

heh!

Cary is actually an acronym for (Containment Area for Relocated Yankees)

59 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:19:06am

re: #55 BlueCanuck
Bored at work?

60 Confuzed  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:19:15am
Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

It's a good thing he didn't capitalize SEALs.
Me thinks many SEALs are clowns (i.e., sense of humor and enjoyment of practical jokes). Probably goes for other special forces groups from many countries as well.

61 BlueCanuck  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:21:14am

re: #59 conservgirl

That too, didn't get much sleep yesterday. Also had to be up early and into work early.

/i hate unions.

62 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:21:46am

Well kiddies time to get ready for Church. But, I do not cling to my guns at Church. But I do cling on the way there and on the way home.

63 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:22:04am

re: #50 BulgarWheat

It's nice once it all starts coming together. The wife did a real nice job picking out the colors. The oldest mini-wheat will be in college in 4 years, so the timing was also good. Do it while I can still afford it.

The colors sound pretty BulgarWheat. So pretty we just might borrow them from you.

As far as the college thing goes, I don't believe in parents signing away the family farm to pay for college. Help yes. Pay for it all - not on your life. But then I had four and the last one is still in college - part time while she works.

Kids who are footing much of the bill themselves and know they are going to walk out of college with debt to pay are overwhelmingly far more dedicated to learning something than those who are getting a free ride from Mom and Dad.

64 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:22:06am

re: #58 BulgarWheat
No, it's a New England outfit. We make hospital supplies, think bandages. Oh and very corrupt CEO with a penchant for wild toga parties. Prison time too.

I trained there because the Needle and Syringe trainer lived there in Cary. I have heard the acronym many times. It's the research triangle, right?

So is Siemens there? Brother worked for them.

65 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:22:26am

re: #61 BlueCanuck

At first I thought you said, "I hate onions". I was sad for you for a second.

66 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:22:33am

I saw a few threads up where Hillary's campaign is referring to LGF in regards to Obama's "bitter" wife being removed from El Hady's web site as a friend.

Heh!

They're still ripping the flesh off of one another's backs. This is good.

67 BlueCanuck  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:23:41am

re: #65 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I love onions.:) Raw, sauteed, in soups, salads . . . . .

/unions jus plain stink though.

68 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:23:43am

re: #66 BulgarWheat

They're still ripping the flesh off of one another's backs. This is good.

Been a bunch of that lately.

69 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:23:57am

re: #61 BlueCanuck
I am sorry Blue. I live in a right to work state, so not a lot of unions here.

70 JamesTKirk  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:23:59am

Need a GPS? Use the Shatner Navigation System!

71 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:24:18am

re: #51 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Without my GPS I would rip myself out of the seat and run over myself for 20 minutes!

I have to find three new addresses every day, in different cities, in three states. Some are very rural. No maps just me and the voice of Jezebel.

I guess I can see that. Used to work a rural area for the Census. The voice would still drive me mad though. A friend of mine some years back had a talking car that would tell you when to shift. I wanted to blow that car to Kingdom Come.

72 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:24:23am

re: #64 conservgirl

Yep, Siemens medical. Nice organization. Based on your description, I think I know the 4 letter company that you refer to.

73 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:24:57am

re: #65 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
You perked up with the onion thing huh?

74 JamesTKirk  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:25:19am

re: #61 BlueCanuck

That too, didn't get much sleep yesterday. Also had to be up early and into work early.

/i hate unions.

Generally, when I hear people raving about unions, they
(1) have never actually been in one, and
(2) can't name anything positive unions have actually done in our lifetime.

75 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:25:35am

re: #60 Confuzed

It's a good thing he didn't capitalize SEALs.
Me thinks many SEALs are clowns (i.e., sense of humor and enjoyment of practical jokes). Probably goes for other special forces groups from many countries as well.

Comes from brilliance and living life on the edge.

76 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:26:15am

re: #63 galloping granny

Yeah, college is supposed to be when kids become adults and learn adult lessons.

I do want the option/ability to cover the costs. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it. She may be eligible for some scholarships, who knows?

77 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:26:44am

re: #72 BulgarWheat

Yep. We have spun off though, so our money is not going to the other divisions thankfully, more money for new technology and new products to sell.

I went to Erlangen to visit my step-brother a couple of years ago. We had a wonderful time in Germany. Did your brother go over there too?

78 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:27:02am

re: #70 JamesTKirk

Need a GPS? Use the Shatner Navigation System!

Oh Jim, that's funny! I wish my GPS had a sarcasm setting. Instead of "Re-calculating" it would say something like, "OK, don't listen to me then....."

79 JamesTKirk  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:28:03am

re: #78 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Oh Jim, that's funny! I wish my GPS had a sarcasm setting. Instead of "Re-calculating" it would say something like, "OK, don't listen to me then....."

Ah, you need the Jewish mother GPS.

80 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:28:17am

re: #67 BlueCanuck

I love onions.:) Raw, sauteed, in soups, salads . . . . .

/unions jus plain stink though.

I put in 100 or so red onion sets. If I had more room I would have planted more, but there's all those tomatoes. . . . . . . though that might be less of a problem than I thought. We have a nice, flat, sunny yard on the far side of the house that you have to walk around the front to get to, so nobody ever uses it. Daughter hates to mow it, so we're going to plow thatsucker up and put in a cornfield. And whatever else I can squish in there.

81 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:29:02am

re: #77 conservgirl

my wife's family came over from Germany in the mid-60's. He's here on a visa, while my wife became a citizen in 1986.

He's got a thick Tennesee drawl, but a German passport. He's also a great B-I-L and wonderful husband and father.

82 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:29:19am

re: #71 galloping granny
Now, that would drive me crazy. Did it bother her too?

83 BlueCanuck  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:29:59am

re: #74 JamesTKirk

I belong to one, and currently being screwed by one. Our local transit union walked off the job on strike Friday at midnight, with one hour warning.

84 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:31:06am

re: #81 BulgarWheat

Interesting, what part of Germany are they from? Brother was in training with Siemens for five months at their headquarters in Erlangen and we stayed with him for about two weeks and traveled the central part and Southern part of Germany.

85 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:31:34am

re: #83 BlueCanuck
Oh that is horrible. Sorry about that.

86 JamesTKirk  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:32:12am

You have to be careful which union you join.

87 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:32:32am

re: #76 BulgarWheat

Yeah, college is supposed to be when kids become adults and learn adult lessons.

I do want the option/ability to cover the costs. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it. She may be eligible for some scholarships, who knows?

Oh don't wait till then BulgarWheat. If she'll be ready for college in four years, then you need to start pushing the summer job scenario and the money in the savings account to pay for college line, looking at schools, considering careers. (Do NOT let her major in psychology - McDonald's pays more with only a Bachelors!) This is not one day too early to start. And just the right time for a summer job too. Also make sure that you investigate potential scholarships NOW so that she knows what the various criteria are and can plan.

Look at it like planning for war -

88 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:32:37am

re: #84 conservgirl

Bremerhaven. Way up north. He's also in NC now, though. In fact, he lives outside of Greensboro, not far from Wake Forest.

89 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:33:30am

re: #82 conservgirl

Now, that would drive me crazy. Did it bother her too?

Nope. She loved that car. I avoided it as much as I humanly could.

90 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:33:39am

re: #87 galloping granny

"Look at it like planning for war -"

I like that. I'll share that with the wife today.

91 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:34:47am

re: #88 BulgarWheat
I went to the hospital in Greensboro, also went shopping there too. I did not learn a lot actually, we went shopping half the time. I was too green to realize that this was not good. Went to Duke MC, the VA, the children's hospital next to Duke.

92 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:36:45am

re: #89 galloping granny
Yeah, that would drive me insane. I think I would not be able to concentrate on my driving. Well this is coming from somebody who left the gas hose in her tank while boss was in the car and drove off. So I am easily distracted.

93 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:38:38am

Now here is a young American Hero we should all truly be proud of -

[Link: www.foxnews.com...]

94 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:39:04am

re: #92 conservgirl

Yeah, that would drive me insane. I think I would not be able to concentrate on my driving. Well this is coming from somebody who left the gas hose in her tank while boss was in the car and drove off. So I am easily distracted.

ROFLMAO! I can see it now.

95 buster bunny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:40:39am

re: #14 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

54 logged in

With
3 posting
36 who never log off or turn their computers off
12 Lurking
2 asleep at the monitor
1 undetermined.

I must be the 2 asleep at the monitor .. its so nice having two machines on the go at the same time .. BOTH running LGF :)

96 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:41:14am

re: #93 galloping granny
Great story Granny, so glad you shared.

98 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:43:05am
99 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:44:05am

re: #97 BabbaZee

Babba! Mornin' once realwest shows up with the royal bong and scepter we'll get this party started.

/gack! pelosi and gingrich on an ad! I think I just threw up in my throat a little.

Heil!

100 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:45:25am

re: #94 galloping granny
Yep, but now they make them so they don't seperate from the pump(not my first rodeo unfortunately) so I backed over the handle and gas was spewing everywhere. All I could do was laugh, could not believe the scene, boss was freaking out trying to find the emergency pump shut off, the fat african-american lady who was the attendant came out just shaking her head saying MMMM MMM MMM, hands on her hips. She was pissed. I was rendered useless from laughter, I was just freaked out.

101 buster bunny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:45:33am

re: #99 BulgarWheat


/gack! pelosi and gingrich on an ad! I think I just threw up in my throat a little.

Heil!

its called REFLUX

102 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:46:17am

re: #97 BabbaZee
Hey Babba! You well this morning?

103 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:46:26am

re: #101 buster bunny

well, I'll refluxed like and son of a gun then

104 JamesTKirk  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:46:38am

re: #97 BabbaZee

So .... was I burned in effigy anywhere while I was gone?

LOL

It's too early in the morning for you to be burned out, Bubba

105 JamesTKirk  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:47:34am

re: #101 buster bunny

/gack! pelosi and gingrich on an ad! I think I just threw up in my throat a little.

Heil!

its called REFLUX

106 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:47:40am

re: #99 BulgarWheat
Gingrich likes to flirt with the left. Not too long ago he and Hillary turned out for the healthcare press conference. I hate when he does that.

107 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:48:14am

re: #99 BulgarWheat

Heil Five!

108 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:49:02am

re: #106 conservgirl

Ronald Reagan must be spinning like a centrifuge.

What a huge disappointment.

109 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:49:31am

re: #104 JamesTKirk

No matter what I do I don't seem burn out, it's actually a bit of a problem.

LOL

110 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:49:47am

re: #108 BulgarWheat
I know I have enjoyed Newt's books too in the past.

111 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:50:09am
112 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:50:51am

re: #102 conservgirl

Hi sweetie.
In the words of my Italian Grandma,
Menza-menz

113 JamesTKirk  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:51:15am

re: #109 BabbaZee

No matter what I do I don't seem burn out, it's actually a bit of a problem.

LOL

Keep trying! It's better to burn out than to fade away.

114 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:51:31am

re: #111 BabbaZee

as they say, it is written.

lace up the boots and buckle the seat belts! it's going to get bumpy.

115 JamesTKirk  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:51:54am

re: #111 BabbaZee

This one is just as sickening

Nah, I've never respected either of them, but Newt used to be Da Man.

116 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:52:15am

re: #112 BabbaZee
I hope that means "can't complain" or "doing well".

117 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:52:25am

re: #113 JamesTKirk

Keep trying!

118 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:53:06am

re: #115 JamesTKirk

Nah, I've never respected either of them, but Newt used to be Da Man.

I hate them both frankly but it makes me ill to look at them together all the same

I am not as suprised by Newt as most

119 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:53:47am

re: #116 conservgirl

It means ... very loosely

Not so good
but it could be worse

120 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:55:03am

re: #119 BabbaZee
I am sorry Babba. Anything you can share? I will pray for you.

121 macbrooks  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:55:42am
Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

— John Steinbeck

You can't say Mr. Steinbeck didn't have a sense of humor.

Morning, Lizards!

mac :]

122 JamesTKirk  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:55:55am

re: #117 BabbaZee

[Link: img182.imageshack.us...]

123 JamesTKirk  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:56:13am

re: #118 BabbaZee

I hate them both frankly but it makes me ill to look at them together all the same

I am not as suprised by Newt as most

Not surprised. Disappointed.

124 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:56:13am

re: #114 BulgarWheat

as they say, it is written.

lace up the boots and buckle the seat belts! it's going to get bumpy.

{Bulgarity}

[deep sigh]

No one knows it better than I

;~}

125 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:56:30am

re: #122 JamesTKirk

ahahhaaa

126 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:57:02am

re: #121 macbrooks
Good morning Mac.

127 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:57:31am

Ever since he treated his sick wife the way he did, I've had little but contempt for Gingrich.

128 JamesTKirk  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:57:36am

re: #125 BabbaZee

ahahhaaa

Check out comment #70 above.

129 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:57:47am

re: #123 JamesTKirk

Not surprised. Disappointed.

I do not think there is a man alive that has the power to disappoint me anymore, especially in politics.

/I know it was you, GWB, you broke my heart.

130 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:58:15am

James T, rotf

131 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:58:40am

re: #127 MandyManners
Oh the one he cheated on with his assistant?

132 JamesTKirk  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 4:58:59am
133 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:00:01am

re: #120 conservgirl

I am sorry Babba. Anything you can share? I will pray for you.

Thanks.

It is no secret around here, I am missing a few innards and I simply don't run right anymore because of it.

Some periods are harder than others for me,
Spring is always a bitch.

If you do pray for me
pray for my endurance

134 Carridine  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:00:24am

Steinbeck thinks writers are ABOVE trained seals...

Well, THAT's some comfort!

135 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:01:22am

re: #131 conservgirl

Oh the one he cheated on with his assistant?

Didn't he tell his wife while she was in the hospital for cancer treatment?

136 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:01:38am

re: #133 BabbaZee
I knew about your medical issues did not know if this was an extension or something new. I will definitely pray for your endurance. Just did.

137 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:02:52am

re: #115 JamesTKirk

Nah, I've never respected either of them, but Newt used to be Da Man.

Newt knows history
and he knows what's right and wrong

but apparently he does not know how to walk in the truth

This is common

MANY people KNOW what is right
it is the WALKING OUT of it

that is so rare

138 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:02:53am

Looks like Reverend Al is going to shut down the Big Apple...who gave him the freakin' key?

[Link: www.wral.com...]

139 committed  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:03:22am

I just posted this on an older thread and realized all you guys would probably be here. So I am reposting it here.

This is the first year I remember the primaries being so heated. So, I've been a little clueless about the identity of super delegates from each state. Now that I have learned that current Democrat members of Congress representing their states are super delegates, it sheds new light on this subject.

Here in NC, the Democrats candidates running in the primary to represent the party for governor have both endorsed Obama. Why? It's simple. They want the black vote. Could the super delegates also be voting for Obama for the same reason in states with a large black population?

140 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:03:30am

re: #136 conservgirl

I knew about your medical issues did not know if this was an extension or something new. I will definitely pray for your endurance. Just did.

{conservgirl}

nah
same old war horse

141 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:03:34am

re: #135 MandyManners
You know I can't remember the details, I actually had forgotten about her being sick. I just remember that he had cheated with his assistant. Just awful. He is a bright man, that was very disappointing though.

142 Carridine  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:04:29am

re: #133 BabbaZee

Hmmm... maybe I'll pray that you win the Florida lotto, become a multi-millionairess, and have enough money to get a Darth Vader makeover... exoskeleton, artificial innards, 24-hour tow and repair service... you know...

143 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:04:42am

re: #140 BabbaZee

You are a gem, don't want you to suffer or anything more to happen to you Babba.

144 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:05:18am

Also a common mistake we make is thinking that "smart" equals trustworthy or good

Smart, in many MANY cases, is actually an IMPEDIMENT to righteousness.

145 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:05:59am

re: #144 BabbaZee
Yep, I am guilty of that all the time.

147 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:06:31am

re: #143 conservgirl

{Mwah}

148 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:06:40am

re: #145 conservgirl

Yep, I am guilty of that all the time.

We all are.

149 JamesTKirk  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:06:46am

re: #144 BabbaZee

Smart, in many MANY cases, is actually an IMPEDIMENT to righteousness.

Yep; certainly has been in my case from time to time.

150 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:06:56am

re: #139 committed

I just posted this on an older thread and realized all you guys would probably be here. So I am reposting it here.

This is the first year I remember the primaries being so heated. So, I've been a little clueless about the identity of super delegates from each state. Now that I have learned that current Democrat members of Congress representing their states are super delegates, it sheds new light on this subject.

Here in NC, the Democrats candidates running in the primary to represent the party for governor have both endorsed Obama. Why? It's simple. They want the black vote. Could the super delegates also be voting for Obama for the same reason in states with a large black population?

Yup. I really don't like this "superdelegate" crap the Dems have put in place. It really stinks of the old cigar-filled back room political deals rather than an honest electoral process.

151 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:07:05am

re: #142 Carridine

Hmmm... maybe I'll pray that you win the Florida lotto, become a multi-millionairess, and have enough money to get a Darth Vader makeover... exoskeleton, artificial innards, 24-hour tow and repair service... you know...

LOLOLOL

NOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOO!

152 Carridine  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:07:24am

re: #139 committed

That's strange... is Obama pretending to be 'black'?

He looks like an olive-skinned Arab-American to me, barely a shade darker than that white lunatic, 'Reverend' Wright...

153 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:07:34am

re: #141 conservgirl

You know I can't remember the details, I actually had forgotten about her being sick. I just remember that he had cheated with his assistant. Just awful. He is a bright man, that was very disappointing though.

Intelligence has little to do with sexual infidelity. Bill Clinton's smart.

154 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:07:46am

re: #150 galloping granny

they deserve the "super delegate" thing. they out thought themselves

155 JamesTKirk  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:07:50am

re: #150 galloping granny

Yup. I really don't like this "superdelegate" crap the Dems have put in place. It really stinks of the old cigar-filled back room political deals rather than an honest electoral process.

The elites don't trust the masses. That's true of all facets of Democrat politics.

156 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:07:58am

re: #149 JamesTKirk

Yep; certainly has been in my case from time to time.

And you know I know this precisely because once,
I was the Head Case.

lol

157 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:08:21am

HRC wants to go one-on-one with BHO?

158 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:08:25am

re: #151 BabbaZee
Where would they tow Babba back to?

159 JamesTKirk  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:08:35am

re: #152 Carridine

That's strange... is Obama pretending to be 'black'?

He looks like an olive-skinned Arab-American to me, barely a shade darker than that white lunatic, 'Reverend' Wright...

If "you are what you eat", my ex-girlfriend has made me more black than Obama is...

160 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:08:47am

re: #158 conservgirl

The Denver Airport of course

161 Carridine  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:09:00am

re: #151 BabbaZee

Uhm, okay then...

Just praying love and gratitude over the ether, Babba!

/thought you'd enjoy a good laugh, Kiddo!

162 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:09:13am

re: #152 Carridine

That's strange... is Obama pretending to be 'black'?

He looks like an olive-skinned Arab-American to me, barely a shade darker than that white lunatic, 'Reverend' Wright...

Yes, as much as the two of them scream about racism and prejudice against the black community and Jim Crow, just exactly who is it who applies that old Jim Crow "one drop" rule to either Obama or Wright? Seems to me that those are chains they very willingly picked up and put on of their own volition.

163 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:09:38am

re: #159 JamesTKirk

Now that Marilyn Monroe is Kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.
~ The Startling Oscar LeVant

164 JamesTKirk  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:09:46am

re: #157 MandyManners

HRC wants to go one-on-one with BHO?

I'd watch that debate. Be interesting to see BHO get hardball questions from someone who doesn't want to fellate him once the cameras are off.

OK, not all of them want to wait for the cameras.

165 committed  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:10:13am

re: #152 Carridine

That's strange... is Obama pretending to be 'black'?

He looks like an olive-skinned Arab-American to me, barely a shade darker than that white lunatic, 'Reverend' Wright...

The blacks are claiming him as one of their own. But you are right. He does have that look.

166 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:10:14am

re: #161 Carridine

Uhm, okay then...

Just praying love and gratitude over the ether, Babba!

/thought you'd enjoy a good laugh, Kiddo!

{Your Bahainess}

167 Carridine  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:10:20am

re: #158 conservgirl

Where would they tow Babba back to?

A body shop, of course!

168 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:10:42am

re: #154 BulgarWheat

they deserve the "super delegate" thing. they out thought themselves

Oh sure - but WE don't deserve the superdelegate thing. And I think their refusal to seat the delegates from Florida and Michigan should be taken to court. The democrats do not rule the scheduling of primary day in the states - individual states do.

169 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:10:57am
170 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:11:09am

re: #153 MandyManners

I meant I respected him for his mental prowess and I enjoyed his books in the past not to equate cheating and being smart as the same. I know Bill is smart the MSM tells me this all of the time.

171 laZardo  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:11:40am

re: #97 BabbaZee

Uh...no?

/hides the lighter

172 JamesTKirk  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:11:52am

re: #168 galloping granny

And I think their refusal to seat the delegates from Florida and Michigan should be taken to court.

Not to mention that Howard Dean and others have been trying to disenfranchise additional states by calling for a decision before all of the primaries are even over.

/YEEEAAAAAAAAARRRGGGHH!

173 opnion  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:11:57am

Good Morning Lizards & all of you bitter Bible thumpin, gun toten PA Lizards.
I hope that no one slipped and let Bill White , the Nazi know that Charles lives on the Island of Guam.

174 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:12:02am

re: #160 BulgarWheat Oh, of course that's where the Queen of the Lizards resides. How could I forget?

175 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:12:19am

re: #160 BulgarWheat

The Denver Airport of course

Never set one foot near the Denver airport. You will be exceedingly sorry if you do. Do not fly United from October through April either - you will end up stuck in Denver for days on end.

176 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:12:51am

re: #167 Carridine
cute.

177 JamesTKirk  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:13:03am

re: #175 galloping granny

Never set one foot near the Denver airport. You will be exceedingly sorry if you do. Do not fly United from October through April either - you will end up stuck in Denver for days on end.

Last time I was in the Denver airport was in the late 90s.

178 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:13:05am

re: #168 galloping granny

the Dems have only one goal in mind and it doesn't have anything to do with what's right for America. It's the never ending lust for power that drives them. Nothing more, nothing less. The arrogance and hubris they display is going to haunt them and hopefully wake a lot of people up.

now if we only had a conservative movement........

179 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:13:32am

re: #167 Carridine

A body shop, of course!

LOL

MONDO BONDO !


If He needed me to be healed 100%
I am certain my organs would either miraculously grow back, or what's left in there would suddenly inexplicably start functioning like nothing is missing.
If and when that day comes, I'll let ya know.

;~}

180 JamesTKirk  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:13:47am

re: #178 BulgarWheat

now if we only had a conservative movement........

Grumble grumble grumble

181 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:14:02am

re: #172 JamesTKirk

Not to mention that Howard Dean and others have been trying to disenfranchise additional states by calling for a decision before all of the primaries are even over.

/YEEEAAAAAAAAARRRGGGHH!

That too. Dean was extremely hot to get the supers to decide on the day before the PA primary LOL. Jeez, I wonder why?

182 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:14:12am

re: #171 laZardo

Uh...no?

/hides the lighter

LOL
{LaZee}

183 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:14:15am

re: #175 galloping granny

I got stuck 3 days in Chicago by United. That was over a year ago. Haven't flown with them since.

bastages!

184 Crepuscular Prick  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:14:28am

re: #50 BulgarWheat

It's nice once it all starts coming together. The wife did a real nice job picking out the colors. The oldest mini-wheat will be in college in 4 years, so the timing was also good. Do it while I can still afford it.

My youngestis getting ready to head off to grad school so I plan on doing the Hardi-plank routine to my house in the next few months.

Did your homeowners insurance give you a cut in rates since the HP is fire resistant?

185 Carridine  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:14:44am

"Million-Dollar Woman Body Shop and Boutique!"

Ladies, you can get your nails painted while getting your hydraulic fluid flushed and your exoskeleton oiled and aligned, all for less than a paint job at Juicy Lucy's!

We can drain your percolater, flood your dialysis filters and check your oil all while giving you a full-body (or what's left of it) massage, with aroma-therapeutic essences that will DRIVE YOU CRAZY!

Which may not be a long trip, depending on your mileage. Some restrictions may apply. Close cover before striking.

186 committed  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:15:13am

There is a very strong voter registration campaign being led by the Dems in NC. I can tell you this - the blacks will be out in force because a man of color is on the ticket. I just hope conservatives don't sit back on their laurels thinking none of this matters because it is a primary.

187 gettinby  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:15:35am

re: #178 BulgarWheat

now if we only had a conservative movement........

Maybe a good laxative might help?

Good morning all.

188 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:15:39am

re: #184 Crepuscular Prick

I had not thought of that! Thanks for the tip, that's certainly worth looking into!

Appreciate it!

189 laZardo  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:15:46am

re: #179 BabbaZee

That day would probably be when you receive your next Zionist check in the mail. LOL.

190 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:15:58am

re: #187 gettinby

heh! I knew that was coming sooner or later

191 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:16:02am

re: #178 BulgarWheat
Where is the next WFB when you need him?

192 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:16:08am
193 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:16:39am

gotta go grab a shower. the wife has many plans, too many IMHO for me today.

argh!

194 opnion  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:16:42am

re: #34 galloping granny

I can't imagine why anyone would need a GPS system. I would rip a talking GPS out of the dash and run it over with the car in under 20 minutes.

I hear that. The thing gives you reprimands.
I had it chastising me for not making a "Legal U turn" on a road with solid white lines.
I had to get to a frontage road clearly to get back on to the expressway.
I had to turn it off.

195 Q-Burn  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:16:50am

re: #150 galloping granny

Yup. I really don't like this "superdelegate" crap the Dems have put in place. It really stinks of the old cigar-filled back room political deals rather than an honest electoral process.

Possibly the worst electoral system ever devised. Vote, vote, caucus, apportion, vote some more and in the end it doesn't matter... some are more equal than others.

If the Republicans used this system, McCain and Huck (at least) would still be battling. If the Dems used the Republican system, Hillary would be the nominee right now.

196 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:17:18am

re: #185 Carridine
Juicy Lucy's, shudder.

197 laZardo  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:17:30am

re: #182 BabbaZee

THE LIGHT! IT BURNS!

{Babba}

/not the sleaze-tastic 50 Cent version, mind you

198 JamesTKirk  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:17:46am

re: #195 Q-Burn

Possibly the worst electoral system ever devised. Vote, vote, caucus, apportion, vote some more and in the end it doesn't matter... some are more equal than others.

If the Republicans used this system, McCain and Huck (at least) would still be battling. If the Dems used the Republican system, Hillary would be the nominee right now.

And that's a bad thing?

199 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:18:01am

re: #193 BulgarWheat


Bye Bulgar have a great day.

200 gettinby  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:18:23am

re: #190 BulgarWheat

One of the funniest Halloween costumes I've seen is my brother's idea to pin plastic/styrofoam bowls all over his clothes so they would wiggle/move when he walked....

=bowl movement

201 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:18:38am

re: #183 BulgarWheat

I got stuck 3 days in Chicago by United. That was over a year ago. Haven't flown with them since.

bastages!

I got stuck in Denver for nearly a week coming back from my daughters wedding - 5 years or so ago. Haven't flown since and next time I'll take the train. I've noticed since though that every time there is a storm, United flies all of their planes into Denver and just abandons everyone there.

There are no hotels near the airport (it is 30 miles out of town), by the time we landed the snow emergency had been going on for nearly 24 hours so all of the rental cars were gone. The hotels wanted $50 each for a pick up in the courtesy van. And they had almost no cots. The only person they did anything at all about was an elderly gentleman who was returning home from open heart surgery - and that only after a bunch of us pitched a bloody fit about that sick old man sleeping on the airport floor.

202 laZardo  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:18:41am

re: #150 galloping granny

If they're the party of the people, why is it that they need an extra layer of delegates to help the people decide unlike those elitists in the GOP?

//////

203 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:19:00am

re: #197 laZardo

I didn't even know he did one.

I did like this crap though, (even though it ain't fitty cent).

204 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:20:05am

re: #195 Q-Burn

Mornin' Q

205 m  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:20:07am

re: #169 BabbaZee

Preach it Pastor Manning! WoW.

G'morning Babba! E'rybody!

206 Carridine  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:20:36am

re: #192 BabbaZee

Alice! My FAVE!

/almost

// well, uh, in the interests of truthful forthrightness, hardly is more like it.

207 committed  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:20:40am

Bye, Wheat! Have a nice day.

208 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:20:55am

re: #194 opnion

I hear that. The thing gives you reprimands.
I had it chastising me for not making a "Legal U turn" on a road with solid white lines.
I had to get to a frontage road clearly to get back on to the expressway.
I had to turn it off.

It does what? Talk about Big Brother watching your driving! I would bet you dollars to donuts that thing has a chip in it that can be scanned for just such "illegalities" too.

209 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:21:08am

re: #205 m

Preach it Pastor Manning! WoW.

G'morning Babba! E'rybody!

Amen Sistah Woman!

210 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:21:20am

re: #205 m
Morning M! How are you?

211 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:21:34am

re: #206 Carridine

LOL

If the song fits, spin it

212 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:22:00am

re: #205 m

Preach it Pastor Manning! WoW.

I GOT A WORD! IN MAH MOUTH!

213 laZardo  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:22:39am

re: #203 BabbaZee

Describes the weather over herre, at least. Specially since I'm cutting down on AC use to save on the electric bill. =_=

I do get used to the extra sunlight, eventually.

/typo half-intended

214 Carridine  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:22:59am

re: #211 BabbaZee

Roger THAT, B the Z!

BBIAW...

215 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:23:00am

IDF Guards replaced by private firms

The IDF is transferring the responsibility for protecting 40 Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria (Yesha) to private firms, and withdrawing protection altogether from ten others. The Yesha Council's Security Officer, Shlomo Vaknin, says, "The government is privatizing our security."

216 opnion  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:23:11am

re: #183 BulgarWheat

I got stuck 3 days in Chicago by United. That was over a year ago. Haven't flown with them since.

bastages!

That airline is a mess & they don't care

217 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:23:37am

re: #201 galloping granny
I like taking the train places. We take it to NO all the time. It's only about 2 hours on the train from where I live. I want to take the train to NYC or Washington, friends went with grandparents over the holidays and had so much fun, they played cards the whole time and had drinks.

218 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:23:53am

re: #215 BabbaZee

IDF Guards replaced by private firms

The IDF is transferring the responsibility for protecting 40 Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria (Yesha) to private firms, and withdrawing protection altogether from ten others. The Yesha Council's Security Officer, Shlomo Vaknin, says, "The government is privatizing our security."

Are the citizens privatizing their taxes?

219 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:23:56am

re: #213 laZardo

Well at least your globes are warm

220 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:24:08am

re: #218 galloping granny

Are the citizens privatizing their taxes?

Amen granny

221 Bobblehead  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:25:04am

re: #179 BabbaZee

LOL

MONDO BONDO !


If He needed me to be healed 100%
I am certain my organs would either miraculously grow back, or what's left in there would suddenly inexplicably start functioning like nothing is missing.
If and when that day comes, I'll let ya know.

;~}

This should cover all of your organ needs. :)

222 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:26:13am
223 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:26:39am

re: #217 conservgirl

I like taking the train places. We take it to NO all the time. It's only about 2 hours on the train from where I live. I want to take the train to NYC or Washington, friends went with grandparents over the holidays and had so much fun, they played cards the whole time and had drinks.

It is not quite as inexpensive as it used to be but still lots of fun. And most of the longer trains have special cars set up for kids. We use it now and then to run down to NYC from here. The train from DC to Florida has really good food - called the Orange Bowl Express I think. The Southwest Chief that runs from LA across TX and then up to Chicago has super food too. Here in New England we get crappy box lunches :(

224 Q-Burn  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:27:11am

re: #204 BabbaZee

Mornin' Q

Mornin' Babba!

Sunday morning reggae: Church Heathen

225 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:27:47am

What recession? Two of the registers in my department raked in over $10,000.00 yesterday in under 10 hours.

226 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:28:08am

re: #223 galloping granny
I have been on the train from Jacksonville, FL to Washington for a field trip one time. As I kid I remember it being fun.

227 laZardo  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:28:23am

re: #169 BabbaZee

That explains a lot.

228 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:28:40am

re: #224 Q-Burn

Mornin' Babba!

Sunday morning reggae: Church Heathen

Me like.

229 m  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:28:57am

re: #186 committed

There is a very strong voter registration campaign being led by the Dems in NC. I can tell you this - the blacks will be out in force because a man of color is on the ticket. I just hope conservatives don't sit back on their laurels thinking none of this matters because it is a primary.

Every other commercial on tv or radio is Obama drama. I'm going to end up with carpal tunnel from having to flip it.

230 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:29:03am

re: #227 laZardo

That explains a lot.

AHAHHAHHAAAA

231 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:29:33am

re: #229 m

Do what I do.
Leave it off.
And when you watch any channel with commercials, mute them and scream Bible at them.

232 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:30:07am

re: #225 MandyManners
When I lived in your state the unemployment number was always low and the economy was booming. You have lots of manufacturing in your state, I did very well in sales there.

233 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:30:59am

re: #225 MandyManners

What recession? Two of the registers in my department raked in over $10,000.00 yesterday in under 10 hours.

I don't think there IS a recession, I think the MSM wants to create one.

234 Sunlight  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:31:18am

Does anyone have Obama's book? Is this an accurate pull quote? What page? Someone sent it to me in an e-mail. I guess I'll go to the library or borders to look it up if no one here has it - ?

From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'

235 m  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:32:24am

re: #187 gettinby

G. By!

re: #210 conservgirl

Hiya! I'm great :) How about yourself?

236 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:32:32am

re: #223 galloping granny
You know it's 32 dollars for a one way trip to new orleans from where I live, you can't beat that. It leaves our town at 5pm on Friday and comes back 7am on Sunday. It's perfect, no driving in the big easy. It's called the Crescent City line.

237 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:32:32am

re: #229 m

Every other commercial on tv or radio is Obama drama. I'm going to end up with carpal tunnel from having to flip it.

Haven't had the TV on in days. Even the kiddo has decided that she does not like TV and hasn't turned the thing on in two weeks or so. (She also decided that she wants to be a vegetarian, though not for the usual PC reasons.) Will have it on later to watch Iron Chef America, but that is it.

238 committed  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:33:04am

I don't watch much television, m. But this whole "movement" for someone as inexperienced and liberal as Obama is enough to send me to the toliet with my own movement. And I am truly getting tired of any opposition to Obama being tagged as racist.

239 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:33:25am

re: #235 m
Well, thank you M. I have heard nice things about you from Real, he's a big fan of yours. Savage is too.

240 m  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:33:51am

re: #231 BabbaZee

It's pretty funny because the morning radio show I listen to crashes on Obama every chance they get... then it'll cut to commercial telling how this man will save the world!

241 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:34:39am

re: #234 Sunlight

Does anyone have Obama's book? Is this an accurate pull quote? What page? Someone sent it to me in an e-mail. I guess I'll go to the library or borders to look it up if no one here has it - ?

From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'

here are some awful quotes read by He Himself

/that's just how white folks'll do ya

242 Sunlight  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:34:42am

re: #233 galloping granny

I don't think there IS a recession, I think the MSM wants to create one.

The MSM has been beating this drum for years. I'd bet that every time the economy has faltered since 9/11 has been because of the MSM's stories of doom. People start hoarding because of the alarm sounded in their morning papers. Then, surprise!, more good number come out, just shocking! shocking! the MSM. So unexpected. Just a fluke, really. Then back to the stories of doom. I think the MSM has done more damage to this country than any other "institution".

243 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:35:09am

re: #240 m

It's pretty funny because the morning radio show I listen to crashes on Obama every chance they get... then it'll cut to commercial telling how this man will save the world!

Staggering Hypocrisy! It's a way of life!

245 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:35:45am

re: #236 conservgirl

You know it's 32 dollars for a one way trip to new orleans from where I live, you can't beat that. It leaves our town at 5pm on Friday and comes back 7am on Sunday. It's perfect, no driving in the big easy. It's called the Crescent City line.

I've heard of that one. We pay about the same to get to NYC I think. And it isn't even a matter of the driving in the city. Have you seen the price of a parking space?

At least several times a year we go down to Boston for something or other. Use mass transit there too, though we ride the bus rather than the train - we would have to go to NYC to get a train to Boston, hahaha. Costs just under $50 per adult round trip (go and come as you please) with movie & snacks, kids ride free until they are 13.

246 Ojoe  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:36:49am

re: #234 Sunlight

Does it really say that?

247 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:37:21am
248 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:37:23am

re: #232 conservgirl

Ummm...no one knows where I live.

249 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:37:32am

re: #242 Sunlight

The MSM has been beating this drum for years. I'd bet that every time the economy has faltered since 9/11 has been because of the MSM's stories of doom. People start hoarding because of the alarm sounded in their morning papers. Then, surprise!, more good number come out, just shocking! shocking! the MSM. So unexpected. Just a fluke, really. Then back to the stories of doom. I think the MSM has done more damage to this country than any other "institution".

Exactly! You hit the nail squarely on the head!

250 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:38:18am

Never mind Sunlight I got it

The actual quote from the book is from page 261 and is as follows: "Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."



Source

251 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:38:31am

re: #233 galloping granny

I don't think there IS a recession, I think the MSM wants to create one.

Tell me about it! They want to create a self-fufilling prophecy.

252 laZardo  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:38:42am

re: #242 Sunlight

Best to do what the good folks at the Hang Seng (HK Stock Exchange) and "invest when there is blood on the streets."

253 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:39:37am

re: #234 Sunlight

Does anyone have Obama's book? Is this an accurate pull quote? What page? Someone sent it to me in an e-mail. I guess I'll go to the library or borders to look it up if no one here has it - ?

From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'

I would write to the person who sent it to me and ask for the citation for it. People who send crap like that without a correct citation set things up perfectly so that once it can be proved something isn't in the book, then many people will simply discard anything that is in the book as just more of the same.

254 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:39:58am

re: #251 MandyManners

Tell me about it! They want to create a self-fufilling prophecy.

All spoken word (and even thought) will create a self fulfilling prophecy
if you speak it enough


Words
Make
Worlds

255 m  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:39:58am

re: #239 conservgirl

They'll put that on my tab :)

{Realwest} {Savage} :)

256 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:40:02am

re: #248 MandyManners

Oh, I may be wrong, just assumed from your YouTube video of your college favorite that you posted for me. That's were I used to live at least.

257 laZardo  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:40:19am

re: #250 BabbaZee

Islam would consider people like that guy who got baptized by the Pope to be Muslim if the principles of taqiyya can be applied, right?

/checking...

258 committed  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:40:30am

Most people around my parts are upset about the price of gas. They think the "Messiah" will "change" everything. Ha!

I read a bit about Clinton's and Obama's plan to bring down prices. And where will Obama's global warming tax be added? You know he is going to be pushing for that.

259 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:40:42am

re: #257 laZardo

Islam would consider people like that guy who got baptized by the Pope to be Muslim if the principles of taqiyya can be applied, right?

/checking...

Yes

260 Q-Burn  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:41:14am

re: #243 BabbaZee

#240 m

It's pretty funny because the morning radio show I listen to crashes on Obama every chance they get... then it'll cut to commercial telling how this man will save the world!

Staggering Hypocrisy! It's a way of life!

It would be illegal for the station to turn the ad down even if they wanted to. And they have to give politicians their lowest rate by law.

261 Ojoe  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:41:40am

re: #250 BabbaZee

WE need assurances from THEM that their citizenship means something.

Obama is a nightmare

The lesson we learned from the Japanese internment is that there was no big Japanese sabotage

Prove otherwise

I will stop now or I'll get deleted

262 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:42:30am

re: #258 committed

"The Messiah" will change everything

but we will go through some serious serious shit before that ever happens

/he is NOT going to voodoo airlift them out of the middle of the holy war to go wear jeweled crowns and eat ice cream in the heavens with the angels

263 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:43:32am

re: #254 BabbaZee

All spoken word (and even thought) will create a self fulfilling prophecy
if you speak it enough


Words
Make
Worlds

I do wonder about the long-term affects of sky-high fuel costs, though.

264 gettinby  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:43:39am

re: #235 m

---m---!

{for you}

265 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:43:51am

re: #257 laZardo

Islam would consider people like that guy who got baptized by the Pope to be Muslim if the principles of taqiyya can be applied, right?

/checking...

Islam considers the person baptized by the Pope to be muslim - period. According to the principles of islam, if you are born to a muslim you ARE a muslim until the day you die. There is no choice in religion. The guy may be an apostate muslim with a fatwah hanging over his head, but he is a muslim according to them.

266 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:44:09am

re: #261 Ojoe

WE need assurances from THEM that their citizenship means something.

Obama is a nightmare

The lesson we learned from the Japanese internment is that there was no big Japanese sabotage

Prove otherwise

I will stop now or I'll get deleted

{Ojoe}

[REDACTED]

Obama is a cartoon before the main reel
Gird yer loins

267 Ojoe  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:44:27am

re: #263 MandyManners

Seems to be less traffic on the roads here in No. Calif. anyway.

268 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:44:31am

re: #263 MandyManners

as it is written we will see it being done

269 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:44:33am

re: #245 galloping granny
I am jealous, it is 900 dollars to take the crescent line north to NYC from my town. I want to do it some time in the near future though.

270 infidelia  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:45:12am

re: #231 BabbaZee

Do what I do.
Leave it off.
And when you watch any channel with commercials, mute them and scream Bible at them.

Better yet, unplug the thing and go all web. But it still won't save you from Sharpton threatening NYC being the first thing you see in the morning. Wonder what cabinet post Obamasama has lined up for him.

Mornin'. I'm still crabby over the freak in a tie-dye shirt and Mardi Gras beads who bought a 9/11 "Controlled Demolition" DVD last night. The managers won't let me whack them over the head when they do that. I don't think it's fair, I mostly behave myself the rest of the time...

Coffeeeeeee...

271 Bobblehead  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:45:24am

re: #222 BabbaZee

Can John Lord come out to play?

lol

That was good. I'm upping the ante, though. I'll bid one Virgil Fox playing my favorite hymn.

272 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:45:33am

re: #256 conservgirl

Oh, I may be wrong, just assumed from your YouTube video of your college favorite that you posted for me. That's were I used to live at least.

I was born and raised there, and my mother's family has been here for more than two centruies. And, my sister attended/partied at UTK. I'll always be a Tennesseean no matter where I roam.

273 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:45:46am

re: #265 galloping granny

Islam considers the person baptized by the Pope to be muslim - period. According to the principles of islam, if you are born to a muslim you ARE a muslim until the day you die. There is no choice in religion. The guy may be an apostate muslim with a fatwah hanging over his head, but he is a muslim according to them.

Also there are cases where they won't let converted people even change their Identity Cards, in Muslim countries they have ID that says they are MUSLIM when they are born

274 Ojoe  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:46:01am

re: #266 BabbaZee

You can see it coming through the haze of craziness, yes.

275 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:46:04am

re: #258 committed

Most people around my parts are upset about the price of gas. They think the "Messiah" will "change" everything. Ha!

I read a bit about Clinton's and Obama's plan to bring down prices. And where will Obama's global warming tax be added? You know he is going to be pushing for that.

Oh they might bring down prices, but by the time you add on the global warming tax and taxes for the UN and the extra taxes for the cost of universal health care and so on and so forth, you won't have anything left to pay for food with if they don't bring prices down.

276 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:46:27am

re: #270 infidelia

If I lived alone I would never have it on

277 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:46:49am

re: #255 m
Well very high compiments indeed. I am sure your tab is high, Real really said very nice things about you, so you owe him big time!:)

278 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:47:06am

re: #269 conservgirl

I am jealous, it is 900 dollars to take the crescent line north to NYC from my town. I want to do it some time in the near future though.

Watch the specials. Amtrak runs specials where you can travel at certain times or to certain places for less than the normal ticket price - sometimes lots less.

279 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:47:33am

re: #271 Bobblehead

Very holy!

LOL


Not so Holy

280 The Albatross  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:47:39am

re: #276 BabbaZee

I did live alone and didn't have cable or a tv for 5 years... it was bliss.

281 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:47:57am

re: #267 Ojoe

Seems to be less traffic on the roads here in No. Calif. anyway.

I paid about $60.00 for a fill-up the other day, around $3.50 or so for a gallon. Traffic is the same as it ever was.

282 Sunlight  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:48:26am

re: #246 Ojoe

Does it really say that?

I don't know. I'll have to look through a copy of the book. BabbaZee gave a video link above that has a bunch of the other quotes in the e-mail I got, but not this one. So I'm putting the skeptic rule on until I can find the actual page. Seems like someone would have pounced on this before now if it were there.

283 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:48:29am

re: #272 MandyManners
Gotcha! I enjoyed living in Nashville for my first part of my sales career, I lived right next to Vanderbilt and met my husband there.

284 The Albatross  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:48:38am

Good morning lizards...70 degrees already at almost 8 am here in NW Florida. We need rain.

285 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:49:09am

re: #260 Q-Burn

It would be illegal for the station to turn the ad down even if they wanted to. And they have to give politicians their lowest rate by law.

True.

/What is legal is not always what is righteous.

286 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:49:25am

re: #282 Sunlight

I posted it above page 216

287 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:49:33am

re: #278 galloping granny
I will, I used to get emails from them but have not noticed them here lately. I need to go and check again.

288 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:49:42am

re: #280 The Albatross

I did live alone and didn't have cable or a tv for 5 years... it was bliss.

AMEN

289 Ojoe  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:50:18am

re: #282 Sunlight

Looks like BabbaZee found it see 250 above.

290 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:50:19am

re: #281 MandyManners

I paid about $60.00 for a fill-up the other day, around $3.50 or so for a gallon. Traffic is the same as it ever was.

The one thing I have noticed - and did last year too - is that the number of RVs cruising the highways and byways of Vermont and New Hampshire is seriously lower than it was even just 3 or 4 years ago.

291 infidelia  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:50:49am

re: #250 BabbaZee

Never mind Sunlight I got it

The actual quote from the book is from page 261 and is as follows: "Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."



Source

Uh huh. Well, I'll stand with them too. Lock them up and I'll volunteer as a guard.

292 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:50:50am

re: #280 The Albatross
I did not grow up with TV. I had to go next door and watch it at the neighbor's house. I did read a lot growing up, I am sure that was my mother's intended purpose.

293 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:50:55am

261

sorry

294 laZardo  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:50:56am

re: #273 BabbaZee

Maybe it'd be possible to play double taqiyya where possible so they can avoid the dhimmi tax. >_>

295 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:51:07am

re: #282 Sunlight

I don't know. I'll have to look through a copy of the book. BabbaZee gave a video link above that has a bunch of the other quotes in the e-mail I got, but not this one. So I'm putting the skeptic rule on until I can find the actual page. Seems like someone would have pounced on this before now if it were there.

Babba found the quote for you above

296 Ojoe  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:51:16am

re: #288 BabbaZee

I've never owned a TV & I'm 58

297 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:52:07am

re: #290 galloping granny
I wonder if that will affect the leaves tourist this fall? I would love to go and stay in some bed and breakfests up there. We did that in Mass and loved it.

298 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:52:37am

re: #294 laZardo

Maybe it'd be possible to play double taqiyya where possible so they can avoid the dhimmi tax. >_>

By the Prophet's pubes! We in the Ummah have Triplespoking and Quadrobabbling, not only Doublespeaking, kuffar!

299 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:52:48am

re: #296 Ojoe

I've never owned a TV & I'm 58

You da man

300 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:53:11am

re: #280 The Albatross

I did live alone and didn't have cable or a tv for 5 years... it was bliss.

I threw mine out the door when the kids were little. Literally. Ever after one of them would start pushing just a hair too far and one sister or the other would turn to her and whisper "Remember the TV!"

301 The Albatross  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:53:37am

re: #292 conservgirl

Didn't have to go next door, but it was seldom on... my mother was an avid reader, I burned my way through 3 librarys nearby and my mother would take me to the library downtown in San Diego... for a treat! I loved that.

302 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:54:05am

I lived for many long periods in my life without a TV

it is probably what saved me from total brainwashing

lol

303 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:54:22am

re: #300 galloping granny

I love you Granny

LOL

304 Ojoe  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:54:35am

re: #299 BabbaZee

I find TV mostly to be fabulously boring

305 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:54:40am

re: #297 conservgirl

I wonder if that will affect the leaves tourist this fall? I would love to go and stay in some bed and breakfests up there. We did that in Mass and loved it.

It didn't seem to reduce tourism a lot, just not so many RVs camping out in WalMart's parking lot and the like. If you want a bed during leaf-peeper season you either need to book now (if there are reservations left to be had) or know somebody in Vermont who might let you camp on the couch.

306 laZardo  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:54:41am

re: #298 BabbaZee

It's how Christians can sneak into Mecca for photo tours. XD

307 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:55:05am

re: #292 conservgirl

I always read.

I watched very little TV my whole life.

308 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:55:46am

re: #283 conservgirl

Gotcha! I enjoyed living in Nashville for my first part of my sales career, I lived right next to Vanderbilt and met my husband there.

Nashville's a beautfiul town but, it's getting over-run by Muslims.

309 infidelia  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:55:47am

re: #276 BabbaZee

If I lived alone I would never have it on

Haven't had one in the house for going on 5 years. Probably the only thing that's saved what's left of my sanity. Plus I used to buy a newspaper every day and now it's once a week if I need to read the auction listings.

310 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:55:52am

re: #304 Ojoe

I find TV mostly to be fabulously boring

Yup
However today
It vacillates between fabulously boring and staggeringly offensive

311 The Albatross  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:56:02am

I also am an avid train traveler.... mom did that as well. We would take the train to LA buy almond cookies in China town and take the train back with an aunt and some cousins. They got girl time, we had great adventures.

312 Sunlight  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:56:28am

re: #293 BabbaZee

So he said he would stand with "them", not "the Muslims". After a long paragraph mentioning the Pakistanis et al at the top and talking about internment in the U.S. in between. I would call it misleading, as he wasn't talking about suicide bombers... he was talking about internment.

313 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:56:33am

re: #302 BabbaZee

I lived for many long periods in my life without a TV

it is probably what saved me from total brainwashing

lol


That...... and never having gone to "university"

314 committed  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:56:52am

re: #296 Ojoe

I've never owned a TV & I'm 58

Wow! Impressive!

I find that the older I get the less I am interested in what is on television. I like a good college basketball game or movie. And I did get hooked on "24". But I certainly can live without it.

However I believe they will have to pry the remote from my husband's cold dead hand when he passes. He sits in front of it like its a shrine.

315 Ojoe  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:56:56am

re: #310 BabbaZee

I guess you've checked recently.

316 Geepers  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:57:03am

MandyManners (#201),

I paid about $60.00 for a fill-up the other day

My truck has a 35 gallon tank. You do the math.

317 Sunlight  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:57:17am

re: #293 BabbaZee

PS thank you for looking.

318 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:57:17am

Good Morning y'all - from a warm (63 degrees, going up to 70 degrees) but overcast and slightly drizzily Charlotte!

How is everyone this fine morning?

319 goddessoftheclassroom[deleted]  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:57:40am
320 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:57:52am

YO BABBA!

321 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:58:01am

re: #309 infidelia

Haven't had one in the house for going on 5 years. Probably the only thing that's saved what's left of my sanity. Plus I used to buy a newspaper every day and now it's once a week if I need to read the auction listings.

I haven't even seen a hard-copy newspaper in nearly a year. Sent the kiddo to the store to buy one last September for a paper mache project for school.

322 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:58:17am

re: #312 Sunlight

So he said he would stand with "them", not "the Muslims". After a long paragraph mentioning the Pakistanis et al at the top and talking about internment in the U.S. in between. I would call it misleading, as he wasn't talking about suicide bombers... he was talking about internment.

There is a reason Gramsci was practically a linguist.
Same reason why Uncle Chom enjoys such prominence on the left.

/Beware the common cunning linguists

323 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:58:25am

re: #317 Sunlight

PS thank you for looking.

Anytime

324 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:58:25am

re: #302 BabbaZee

I lived for many long periods in my life without a TV

it is probably what saved me from total brainwashing

lol

ROTFLMAO............Not having a brain saved me from being brainwashed........

325 The Albatross  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:58:26am

Good morning back at you Realwest, brewing the coffee and enjoying the Sunday am chatter.

326 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:58:40am

re: #314 committed

I found myself addicted to 24 two years ago, though last season helped me break this addiction. Not as good.

327 Ojoe  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:58:46am

re: #319 goddessoftheclassroom

Thanks

328 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:58:54am

re: #318 realwest

Howdy, Real! How's tricks?

Things are well here at the Wheat household. Thought the wife was going to crack the whip on housework, but she snuck back up to bed after I got my shower. Heh!

That'll give me a little extended time to lurk around these dark and shadowy halls this morning!

329 GoJeepGo  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:59:13am

re: #318 realwest

G'morning... its a beautiful sunny morning in central Florida. Birds singing, squirrels chattering, and the lizards (the small porch variety) are scampering.

330 The Albatross  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:59:23am

Goddess, how was the gala?

331 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:59:28am

re: #290 galloping granny

The one thing I have noticed - and did last year too - is that the number of RVs cruising the highways and byways of Vermont and New Hampshire is seriously lower than it was even just 3 or 4 years ago.

Not around here. Pick-ups are like guns to many Bubbas and Earlenes" cold, dead hands and all that.

I saw a woman putting something in the back of her Esclade yesterday. That automatic door opener seemed like a waste of time. I reckon Earlene didn't wanna' chip her nail polish.

332 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:59:35am

re: #320 realwest
Hey Real. M and I were just talking about you. Hope you are well my friend.

333 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 5:59:43am

re: #312 Sunlight

So he said he would stand with "them", not "the Muslims". After a long paragraph mentioning the Pakistanis et al at the top and talking about internment in the U.S. in between. I would call it misleading, as he wasn't talking about suicide bombers... he was talking about internment.

Yes. And he has said plenty of off the wall, anti-American crap without misinterpreting things.

334 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:00:06am

re: #320 realwest

YO REAL !

I kid you not, I dreamed of the Obamanable Snowjobman this morning

He is as snotty as you would expect

335 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:00:17am

re: #324 doriangrey

ROTFLMAO............Not having a brain saved me from being brainwashed........

AHA

336 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:00:25am

re: #324 doriangrey
Morning Dorian.

337 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:00:52am

re: #305 galloping granny

It didn't seem to reduce tourism a lot, just not so many RVs camping out in WalMart's parking lot and the like. If you want a bed during leaf-peeper season you either need to book now (if there are reservations left to be had) or know somebody in Vermont who might let you camp on the couch.

What's leaf-peeping?

338 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:01:12am

re: #319 goddessoftheclassroom
How did the pretty shoes work out?

339 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:01:12am

re: #315 Ojoe

I guess you've checked recently.

Yes. My Husband likes to watch TV

340 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:01:23am

re: #336 conservgirl

Morning Dorian.

Good morning to you, hope you are feeling well....

341 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:01:25am

re: #319 goddessoftheclassroom Good morning {goddess} - thank you kindly for keeping that list alive!
Killian Bundy seems to think that we ought to not publish it out here on LGF because a) LGF Stalkers can use that information against us b) it may violate HIPPA and c) it's unseemly.

I respect Killian a great deal but I reckon since we're using folks nic names we're safe on all counts and I think everyone on that list has consented or asked to be put on it. I want to thank you, again, for keeping that list going.
How are you doing today?

342 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:01:51am

re: #331 MandyManners

Not around here. Pick-ups are like guns to many Bubbas and Earlenes" cold, dead hands and all that.

I saw a woman putting something in the back of her Esclade yesterday. That automatic door opener seemed like a waste of time. I reckon Earlene didn't wanna' chip her nail polish.

Oh we have plenty of pickups and SUVs here. My little compact sticks out every bit as much as my Pinto did (one of the first 150 sold in the US, had to pay sports car insurance rates on it!). But the rolling motels on wheels that get 3 miles to the gallon on the highway, there are many fewer of those.

343 Sunlight  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:02:04am

re: #322 BabbaZee

I can't tell from Gramsci and Chomsky - do you agree that the e-mail with that quote is a mis-quote and counterproductively inflammatory (there's plenty of accurate stuff to go with without creating out of holey cloth)?

344 infidelia  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:02:39am

Strategic tips on NE leaf-peeping. It rains in the fall. Colors are still nice in the rain but nice isn't absolutely glorious like they are in the sun, especially early morning and late afternoon. Instead of booking in "leaf country" try checking when the color will be best in the greater Boston area and take day trips. The American Revolution historic site out in Lincoln/Concord is worth a visit and the color there at peak is as good as anything you'll see in Vermont.

345 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:02:51am

re: #341 realwest

Good morning {goddess} - thank you kindly for keeping that list alive!
Killian Bundy seems to think that we ought to not publish it out here on LGF because a) LGF Stalkers can use that information against us b) it may violate HIPPA and c) it's unseemly.

I respect Killian a great deal but I reckon since we're using folks nic names we're safe on all counts and I think everyone on that list has consented or asked to be put on it. I want to thank you, again, for keeping that list going.
How are you doing today?

Good morning realwest... top of the morning to ya sir.....

346 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:02:53am

re: #316 Geepers

MandyManners (#201),


My truck has a 35 gallon tank. You do the math.

If I did it correctly, that's $122.50. I reckon I'll quit my bitchin'.

347 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:02:59am

re: #337 MandyManners

What's leaf-peeping?

Leaf- peeping season is when all the tourons arrive from NYC and environs to clog up the roads, hog all the parking, overwhelm the restaurants and look at the locals as if we all had 3 heads while commenting on the beautiful colors our leaves turn in the fall. :)

348 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:03:24am

re: #343 Sunlight

I can't tell from Gramsci and Chomsky - do you agree that the e-mail with that quote is a mis-quote and counterproductively inflammatory (there's plenty of accurate stuff to go with without creating out of holey cloth)?

Yes I totally agree

But I also caution the scrollers to understand the why of the vaugeness in the language he used

349 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:03:39am

re: #308 MandyManners
Yeah, I knew it was the second largest home to certain muslim populaitons outside Detroit. All the cab drivers were from either Somalia, Eithopia even some from Iraq.

350 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:03:50am

re: #344 infidelia

Strategic tips on NE leaf-peeping. It rains in the fall. Colors are still nice in the rain but nice isn't absolutely glorious like they are in the sun, especially early morning and late afternoon. Instead of booking in "leaf country" try checking when the color will be best in the greater Boston area and take day trips. The American Revolution historic site out in Lincoln/Concord is worth a visit and the color there at peak is as good as anything you'll see in Vermont.

Not exactly - but I won't tell you where the best views are in Vermont and you couldn't get there in an RV anyway :)

351 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:04:10am

Didja' dance the night away, gotc?

352 ec marm  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:04:40am

Interesting statistic I just came across. While China is almost the exact same area in miles as the United States, only one tenth of china is cultivable for food.
Sorry I interrupted.

353 Lucius Septimius  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:04:44am

Good morning all. Rainy in Chambodia today -- looks like it rained on and off all night and will do more today. So I guess the lawn won't get mowed. That's a bummer because I just got a new lawn mower and was really looking forward to firing it up and imagining myself driving a gigantic harvesting machine, reaping untold acres of barley to produce oceans of beer.

Two more days of classes; lame excuses starting to file in as I contemplate what sort of exams to write.

As for TV, we have one, but we don't have cable. I watch movies now and then and football when it's football season. I find that if you don't watch the "popular" shows, and then turn them on, they're just not very entertaining. And I can't watch 24 -- with a house full of yahoos, I need something to make me calm, not more tense.

354 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:04:45am

re: #346 MandyManners

If I did it correctly, that's $122.50. I reckon I'll quit my bitchin'.

Yikes... I guess I dont feel to bad about spending $55.00 to fill up my Corvette now either.........

355 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:04:56am

re: #347 galloping granny
I have heard it's the time to go or not depending on your point of view. It's on my to do list, I would love to go sometime.

356 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:05:00am

re: #316 Geepers

MandyManners (#201),


My truck has a 35 gallon tank. You do the math.

Hey good morning Mandy and Geepers! I put an article in the spinoff links on the prior thread about how we're all getting screwed by the "safety" caps on gasoline hoses - one guy wound up paying for two gallons of gas more than his car's tank will hold - you might want to check that article out.
Otherwise, I hope you're each doing well today!

357 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:05:22am

re: #342 galloping granny

Oh we have plenty of pickups and SUVs here. My little compact sticks out every bit as much as my Pinto did (one of the first 150 sold in the US, had to pay sports car insurance rates on it!). But the rolling motels on wheels that get 3 miles to the gallon on the highway, there are many fewer of those.

I've wanted one of those ever since I got Barbie's camper when I was a kid. Maybe if a real one ran on Barbie's gas, I'd get one.

358 committed  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:05:25am

re: #319 goddessoftheclassroom

Thanks, goddess for remembering everyone who is suffering. I've had a pretty lousy week, but it pales in comparison to most of these. My brother lost his mobile home to fire this past week. The adjusters come tomorrow and he will learn if insurance will cover the mortgage he owed on it. He has nothing to start over again. It's sad but he didn't have any other insurance on it because he basically has little to get by on from week to week. He has always worked hard and never accepted the any help from the government. He is proud that way.

359 goddessoftheclassroom  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:05:37am

re: #330 The Albatross

Goddess, how was the gala?

Well, the locale and the meal were great. I looked "amazing" (with all due modesty), but although there was a jazz quintet, NO ONE DANCED! Getting there was frustrating because of closed roads, but we were in time for dinner. Had I known there wasn't going to be dancing (the program said there was), I wouldn't have bothered. Oh, well.

360 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:05:38am

re: #352 ec marm

Interesting statistic I just came across. While China is almost the exact same area in miles as the United States, only one tenth of china is cultivable for food.
Sorry I interrupted.

You did not interupt, LOL

361 laZardo  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:05:47am

re: #302 BabbaZee

And I grew up as the Typical 90's Kid. Mostly typical, anyway.

/still checks the news, it's the only thing of interest outside of the video game arena... =_=

362 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:06:12am

re: #353 Lucius Septimius
Well that's great you have rain in Chambodia. I know Sonny will be glad his prayers are finally answered.

363 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:06:26am

re: #347 galloping granny

Leaf- peeping season is when all the tourons arrive from NYC and environs to clog up the roads, hog all the parking, overwhelm the restaurants and look at the locals as if we all had 3 heads while commenting on the beautiful colors our leaves turn in the fall. :)

Ah.

Do you ever get the urge to give them the wrong directions when they ask you how to get somewhere?

364 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:06:27am
365 goddessoftheclassroom  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:06:40am

re: #358 committed

May I add him to the list?

366 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:06:51am

re: #353 Lucius Septimius

Good morning all. Rainy in Chambodia today -- looks like it rained on and off all night and will do more today. So I guess the lawn won't get mowed. That's a bummer because I just got a new lawn mower and was really looking forward to firing it up and imagining myself driving a gigantic harvesting machine, reaping untold acres of barley to produce oceans of beer.

Two more days of classes; lame excuses starting to file in as I contemplate what sort of exams to write.

As for TV, we have one, but we don't have cable. I watch movies now and then and football when it's football season. I find that if you don't watch the "popular" shows, and then turn them on, they're just not very entertaining. And I can't watch 24 -- with a house full of yahoos, I need something to make me calm, not more tense.

Good morning Lucius, what kind of mower did you get?

367 Lucius Septimius  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:06:55am

re: #341 realwest

Hey Real. How's it going?

b) it may violate HIPPA

?

I can see the others perhaps, but I'm not sure where precisely the legal violation is.

368 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:07:02am

re: #352 ec marm

Interesting statistic I just came across. While China is almost the exact same area in miles as the United States, only one tenth of china is cultivable for food.
Sorry I interrupted.

China has historically had huge famines that have led to the death of millions every few years or so because of that tiny amount of arable land.

369 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:07:08am

re: #328 BulgarWheat
Hey my friend, tricks is just fine these days! Glad you're able to come out and play this morning! LOL!

370 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:07:20am

re: #354 doriangrey

Yikes... I guess I dont feel to bad about spending $55.00 to fill up my Corvette now either.........

Corvette? What color?

371 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:07:52am

re: #361 laZardo

And I grew up as the Typical 90's Kid. Mostly typical, anyway.

/still checks the news, it's the only thing of interest outside of the video game arena... =_=

What is a typical 90's kid anyway? How would you describe it?

Give me some insight. I'm old.

LOL

372 The Albatross  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:07:56am

re: #359 goddessoftheclassroom

Why would a gal ever miss a chance to look AMAZING?

Sounds like you need to go out again then.

373 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:08:09am

re: #340 doriangrey
I am thank you Dorian.

374 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:08:12am

re: #329 GoJeepGo Wow, sounds like a really pretty spring morning by you! Enjoy it all!

375 Bobblehead  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:08:17am

re: #279 BabbaZee

Very holy!

LOL


Not so Holy

Ah..Bach. That was the first piece of music played in my college History of Music course. Picture this..A very enthusiastic assistant professor surveying an auditorium full of bored students who thought they could sleep their way through the course playing that piece at full blast. I've never seen so many kids sit up straight at one time. I still laugh when i think about it.

376 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:08:52am

re: #363 MandyManners

Ah.

Do you ever get the urge to give them the wrong directions when they ask you how to get somewhere?

ROTFLMAO...........I dont think people in Vermont get the urge, I think it's probably a state law.......

377 goddessoftheclassroom  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:08:54am

re: #372 The Albatross

Why would a gal ever miss a chance to look AMAZING?

Sounds like you need to go out again then.

You just made me smile.

378 GoJeepGo  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:09:10am

re: #374 realwest

I'm savoring it until my neighbor fires up his leaf blower. He saves his yardwork for Sundays, and he likes to start early.

379 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:09:10am

re: #358 committed

Thanks, goddess for remembering everyone who is suffering. I've had a pretty lousy week, but it pales in comparison to most of these. My brother lost his mobile home to fire this past week. The adjusters come tomorrow and he will learn if insurance will cover the mortgage he owed on it. He has nothing to start over again. It's sad but he didn't have any other insurance on it because he basically has little to get by on from week to week. He has always worked hard and never accepted the any help from the government. He is proud that way.

I'm sorry to hear that!

As for assistance from the government, HE IS THE GOVERNMENT. He's paid his taxes in all kinds of forms so, maybe he could look at it as paying himself back.

380 committed  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:09:41am

re: #365 goddessoftheclassroom

Sure! That is kind of you.

381 laZardo  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:09:50am

re: #371 BabbaZee

Generation MTV, I think it was called. Also included a deep immersion into Gorian environmental principles and a "tolerant" worldview.

382 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:10:03am

re: #370 MandyManners

Corvette? What color?

Heh heh heh click my Icon........Red of course......

383 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:10:15am

re: #359 goddessoftheclassroom

Well, the locale and the meal were great. I looked "amazing" (with all due modesty), but although there was a jazz quintet, NO ONE DANCED! Getting there was frustrating because of closed roads, but we were in time for dinner. Had I known there wasn't going to be dancing (the program said there was), I wouldn't have bothered. Oh, well.

Oh, nutz.

384 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:10:30am

re: #367 Lucius Septimius
How could it violate Hippa if people consent to it being published? You actually may have a point about the relatives not consenting, but again their last names are not published as well as the requestee's name. I get to deal with Hippa everyday. It's rarely followed like it should be in hospitals, nurses and doctors tell everything when on elevators all the time.

385 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:10:32am

re: #332 conservgirlHi {conservgirl} yep, I'm feeling ok today, thank you kindly! I sure hope you are too - and wheres {m}?

Uh, didja ever get a chance to check on Pass Christian? I read where, out of 6,000 homes, Katrina left only about 500 standing!

386 Lucius Septimius  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:10:45am

re: #366 doriangrey

Fairly cheap push mower -- my yard's not all that big.

Best mower I ever had was an ancient Lawn-Boy two cycle. I think my brother in law has it now. Always started, had points and condensers so you could tune it up yourself, a real carburetor that you could clean and adjust and torque out the wazzoo. And a cast aluminum deck and engine so it light as a feather.

387 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:11:17am

re: #376 doriangrey

ROTFLMAO...........I dont think people in Vermont get the urge, I think it's probably a state law.......

A law to misdirect or, a law against it?

388 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:11:17am

re: #375 Bobblehead

LOL
When I was a kid they took us to a few Leonard Bernstein's ( the Rat Bastid Communie fucko) "concerts for young people"

Everyone fell asleep except me.
I was RIVETED, ecstatic almost.

389 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:11:38am

re: #381 laZardo

Generation MTV, I think it was called. Also included a deep immersion into Gorian environmental principles and a "tolerant" worldview.

IOW
yez are fucked

390 goddessoftheclassroom  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:11:39am

re: #380 committed

Done. You'll see it on the next posted update--probably this evening, but definitely next Sunday.

391 Geepers  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:12:02am

Morning realwest.

I'll check it out.

392 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:12:21am

re: #334 BabbaZee
Well, at least in your dreams he is! Make that nightmares!

BTW - MOM says Chris Wallace is interviewing Obama right now on Fox TV.

393 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:12:26am

re: #382 doriangrey

Heh heh heh click my Icon........Red of course......

How's about a photograph of it while zooming?

394 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:12:32am

re: #387 MandyManners

A law to misdirect or, a law against it?

To misdirect........

395 laZardo  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:12:55am

re: #388 BabbaZee

LE-NARD-BERN-STEIN!

396 goddessoftheclassroom  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:13:08am

re: #383 MandyManners

{MandyManners}

While I felt disappointed, the anticipation for the evening was wonderful! And I did manage to fit into that dress and look (and feel) great.

397 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:13:20am

re: #363 MandyManners

Ah.

Do you ever get the urge to give them the wrong directions when they ask you how to get somewhere?

No, I'm much too nice to deliberately send someone the wrong way. Though I have run into a few.

Some years back I was up in Maine at Acadia, then followed the coast home stopping here and there at lighthouses and such. I was just getting out of the car when this huge RV - big as a Greyhound bus - pulls in. A middle aged couple and a boy & girl of college age all get out, the woman slings a big camera around her neck, throws a huge video camera on her shoulder and literally pushes me and everyone else off the path down to the lighthouse. Two passes with the video cam, 4 clicks of the shutter and she is racing back up the path, pushing people off again. I got back to the top just in time to see them driving away. Florida plates. Ran into them a couple more times before I got home - always the same. I've always wondered about the things they said about their wonderful vacation while showing off those pictures.

398 FishFearMe  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:13:25am

re: #272 MandyManners

I was born and raised there, and my mother's family has been here for more than two centruies. And, my sister attended/partied at UTK. I'll always be a Tennesseean no matter where I roam.

Mandy...I understand. I love Tennessee. Without the Volunteers, there would be no Texas as we know it. I am a Texan relocated to a foreign country...Maine. I shall ALWAYS be a Texan. I bless Tennesseeans every day for what they did for Texas. God bless Texas and God bless Tennessee.

399 infidelia  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:13:37am

re: #350 galloping granny

Not exactly - but I won't tell you where the best views are in Vermont and you couldn't get there in an RV anyway :)

First rule of leaf-peeping (after not trying to do it in the rain) is never try to "view the foliage" from a highway. You have to get into the back roads where the sun comes through some huge maple and turns the air gold. Vermont is gorgeous. I'm just thinking in terms of trip-planning strategy.

400 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:13:39am

re: #394 doriangrey

To misdirect........

And, to do it with a straight face.

401 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:14:02am

re: #396 goddessoftheclassroom

{MandyManners}

While I felt disappointed, the anticipation for the evening was wonderful! And I did manage to fit into that dress and look (and feel) great.

I'm glad to hear that!

402 Geepers  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:14:03am

BabbaZee (#364),

Yo, Geeps!

Thanks BabbaZee.

What a great way to start a quite Sunday morning.

403 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:14:03am

re: #395 laZardo

Maybe they took him to them too LOL

404 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:14:48am

re: #345 doriangrey
Good morning back atcha dorian - what's with this top of the morning "sir" jazz, hmmmm?!
How are you doing today?

405 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:15:01am

re: #397 galloping granny

No, I'm much too nice to deliberately send someone the wrong way. Though I have run into a few.

Some years back I was up in Maine at Acadia, then followed the coast home stopping here and there at lighthouses and such. I was just getting out of the car when this huge RV - big as a Greyhound bus - pulls in. A middle aged couple and a boy & girl of college age all get out, the woman slings a big camera around her neck, throws a huge video camera on her shoulder and literally pushes me and everyone else off the path down to the lighthouse. Two passes with the video cam, 4 clicks of the shutter and she is racing back up the path, pushing people off again. I got back to the top just in time to see them driving away. Florida plates. Ran into them a couple more times before I got home - always the same. I've always wondered about the things they said about their wonderful vacation while showing off those pictures.

I hope some snowbirds give her hell.

406 committed  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:15:02am

re: #379 MandyManners


You have a point there, Mandy. I'll share it with him. It would certainly make his life a little easier. Red Cross came out and gave he and his wife $139 each to buy food and clothes. Hopefully, we can get a local fundraiser set up to help him.

407 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:15:05am
408 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:15:25am

re: #393 MandyManners

How's about a photograph of it while zooming?

It's a little difficult to drive while taking pictures of smoke coming away from the tires........Without help that is......And I sure as hell aint letting anyone I know smoke my tires......

409 laZardo  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:15:30am

re: #389 BabbaZee

Especially when it sets in that we can't "all just get along."

410 hayseed  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:16:09am

Good Morning All.....did not go through the thread so is Desertsage OK?

411 Bobblehead  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:16:15am

re: #388 BabbaZee

LOL
When I was a kid they took us to a few Leonard Bernstein's ( the Rat Bastid Communie fucko) "concerts for young people"

Everyone fell asleep except me.
I was RIVETED, ecstatic almost.

I'm jealous.

412 FishFearMe  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:16:55am

re: #365 goddessoftheclassroom

May I add him to the list?


GOTC.. please take me off the list as I found out that the "lesion" on my back was benign. Thank you for adding me to the list and thanks to all Lizards for their prayers. Life is great.

413 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:17:01am

re: #410 hayseed

What's wrong with DesertSage?

414 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:17:23am

re: #353 Lucius Septimius Hey, good morning my friend! What's this "house full of yahoos" you're talking about? Or are ya just gearing up for the Microsoft buy-out package to be sweetened a little bit more?!

415 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:17:55am

re: #404 realwest

Good morning back atcha dorian - what's with this top of the morning "sir" jazz, hmmmm?!
How are you doing today?

It's a lovely day out here on the left coast, as for the "sir" jazz.... Well respect where respect is due sir....

416 committed  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:17:55am

I'm out here now. I have to get ready to teach a class at church....about prayer. Thanks guys!

417 hayseed  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:18:18am

re: #413 BulgarWheat

IIRC he is out in california by the fire that's going on

418 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:18:27am

re: #399 infidelia

First rule of leaf-peeping (after not trying to do it in the rain) is never try to "view the foliage" from a highway. You have to get into the back roads where the sun comes through some huge maple and turns the air gold. Vermont is gorgeous. I'm just thinking in terms of trip-planning strategy.

One of the prettiest things I have ever seen is an easy hour out several dirt roads (over half our roads here are not paved) up to the top of a mountain. If you're there at the right time looking north, everything you can see is scarlet for miles and miles.

419 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:18:31am

re: #385 realwest
Yeah I think I responded to you on that one. Trent Lott's home was destroyed. I have not found any info on Stills though, still researching that one.

M was just here a little while ago.

420 Lucius Septimius  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:19:00am

re: #388 BabbaZee

Hey Babba!


Leonard Bernstein's ( the Rat Bastid Communie fucko)

Official title? LOL!

421 goddessoftheclassroom  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:19:14am

re: #412 FishFearMe

I am SO HAPPY to hear this! May I move you to Thanksgivings?

422 Geepers  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:19:19am

BabbaZee (#407),

wish you were here more often.

Me too.

423 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:19:20am

re: #417 hayseed

damn, seems like we had a lot of Lizards go through the last batch of CA fires last fall.

424 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:19:32am

re: #411 Bobblehead

I'm jealous.

Growing up in NY had it's perks, lol

425 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:20:02am

re: #417 hayseed

IIRC he is out in california by the fire that's going on

We have another fire burning out here? Hmmm, I hadn't heard........

426 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:20:05am

re: #418 galloping granny
I will have to let you know if I travel your way. I would want the scoop on unknown places like that.

427 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:20:48am

re: #420 Lucius Septimius

Hey Babba!


Official title? LOL!

Yes I think so!

LOL

How's the Luscious Lucius?

428 FishFearMe  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:20:54am

re: #421 goddessoftheclassroom
GOTC...Please do. And , again, thank you.

429 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:21:13am

Don't know whats gotten into me, but I may need to make a run for some biscuits this morning. I got me some serious biscuit lust today.

430 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:21:19am

re: #424 BabbaZee

Growing up in NY had it's perks, lol

Well I suppose there has to be something perky about NY just to keep people living there......

431 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:21:26am

re: #422 Geepers

Well
I'll keep yer throne clean for ya in the meantime ~

432 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:21:35am

re: #412 FishFearMe
PTL. Awesome news.

433 Ojoe  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:21:41am
434 Sunlight  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:21:42am

re: #348 BabbaZee

I'll send a note back to the e-mail sender with the info you posted here.

GTG going on a beautiful mountain hike, as I do every week! BBL

435 Lucius Septimius  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:22:05am

re: #362 conservgirl

Well that's great you have rain in Chambodia. I know Sonny will be glad his prayers are finally answered.

What he doesn't realize is that the drought is divine punishment for not letting us buy beer on Sunday.

436 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:22:13am

re: #398 FishFearMe

Mandy...I understand. I love Tennessee. Without the Volunteers, there would be no Texas as we know it. I am a Texan relocated to a foreign country...Maine. I shall ALWAYS be a Texan. I bless Tennesseeans every day for what they did for Texas. God bless Texas and God bless Tennessee.

Gimme' a T!

437 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:22:18am

re: #429 BulgarWheat

Don't know whats gotten into me, but I may need to make a run for some biscuits this morning. I got me some serious biscuit lust today.

Whadddaya want for nuthin?

438 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:22:29am

re: #434 Sunlight

Have a great one!

439 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:22:33am

re: #429 BulgarWheat

Don't know whats gotten into me, but I may need to make a run for some biscuits this morning. I got me some serious biscuit lust today.

And gravy? Oh that does sound good, biscuit and gravy for breakfast...Yum yum...

440 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:22:37am

re: #437 BabbaZee

bowbowbow!

441 Geepers  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:22:40am

BabbaZee (#431),

LOL.

442 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:23:03am

re: #406 committed

You have a point there, Mandy. I'll share it with him. It would certainly make his life a little easier. Red Cross came out and gave he and his wife $139 each to buy food and clothes. Hopefully, we can get a local fundraiser set up to help him.

Might wanna' mention that thing about pride.

443 goddessoftheclassroom  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:23:21am

re: #428 FishFearMe

GOTC...Please do. And , again, thank you.

It is a privilege and one that give me great joy.

In many ways I can be more "open" about my feelings with the Lizards community than I can in my "real" one, and their good wishes and prayers have truly sustained me.

444 infidelia  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:23:22am

re: #408 doriangrey

It's a little difficult to drive while taking pictures of smoke coming away from the tires........Without help that is......And I sure as hell aint letting anyone I know smoke my tires......

Dorian, what kind of paper you smoke those tires in?

445 WriterMom  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:23:27am

Hi lizards.

446 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:23:35am

re: #430 doriangrey
I love NY. Maybe I could make some money on a slogan like that?LOL

The museums are wonderful and the restaurants are to die for in my humble opinion, at least in NYC.

447 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:23:54am

bbiab Gotta' get The Kid ready for church.

448 FrogMarch  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:24:41am

Good morning everyone!

The New York Times: Hard to understand why a prissy overtly left-wing biased newspaper is going down the crapper?

449 Lucius Septimius  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:24:59am

re: #427 BabbaZee

I'm digging the rain, though I had planned on taking a walk today -- if it's light rain it's not a big deal, but they're talking serious thunder boomers.

450 infidelia  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:25:09am

re: #418 galloping granny

One of the prettiest things I have ever seen is an easy hour out several dirt roads (over half our roads here are not paved) up to the top of a mountain. If you're there at the right time looking north, everything you can see is scarlet for miles and miles.

I love the fall foliage but have to admit I love spring around here even more. Mainly because it's not followed by winter. But it's lovely right now with all the forsythia and magnolias out and the trees starting to leaf.

451 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:25:14am

re: #429 BulgarWheat

Don't know whats gotten into me, but I may need to make a run for some biscuits this morning. I got me some serious biscuit lust today.

Why don't you make them? Piece of cake, takes less than 5 minutes. You could be eating biscuits before you can get back from the store.

452 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:25:24am

re: #409 laZardo

Especially when it sets in that we can't "all just get along."

Which is why I keep telling you that the Bible is a vital manual
It understands that clearly and describes how to navigate it

You don't have to "go to Moses or Jesus"
just read it....
and you will be far better armed against all the various tribes of the Zombies of the Know Nothing

453 ec marm  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:25:32am

re: #360 BabbaZee

You did not interupt, LOL


I just find that fascinating. They (China) have three times (at least) the number of people as the U.S. Yet they export food to the U.S. Tainted, polluted, lead & antibiotic filled, maybe, but its food.

454 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:25:36am

re: #378 GoJeepGo Huh, if my neighbor did that on a Sunday morning - early - I might have to start some "target practice" with my Mossberg in my backyard contemporaneously, ya unnerstand?! LOL! Y'all ought to have a serious chat with that neighbor about how unneighborly it is to do that so early on the Sabbath (and use that word, make 'em feel guilty as sin!)!

455 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:25:59am

re: #444 infidelia

Dorian, what kind of paper you smoke those tires in?

Big Bamboo's........

456 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:26:17am

re: #398 FishFearMe
Those TN volunteers did a lot for a lot of people back in the day. Old Hickory was a pretty good soldier, Sam Houston hailed from there too. Crockett tried to do something at the Alamo, I guess he got sick though.

457 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:26:30am

re: #449 Lucius Septimius

I'm digging the rain, though I had planned on taking a walk today -- if it's light rain it's not a big deal, but they're talking serious thunder boomers.

I LOVE the Tstorms

/Big Heyoka

458 laZardo  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:26:31am

re: #437 BabbaZee

What everyone wants "for nuthin."

459 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:26:41am

WRITERMAMELLAH!

460 FishFearMe  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:27:12am

re: #418 galloping granny

I think we are neighbors, as I live in Maine. And I must say that I am jealous (in a good way) of your horticultural expertise. I am growing as many tomatoes as I can ( We are apartment swellers), too many peppers too mention, broccoli(sp?), corn, squash, and zuchinni all within 144 square feet of dirt and in 5 gallon buckets. LOL. BTW , the Next to the Youngest of the Spawn(tm) is 5 years old and is the best gardening buddy I have ever had.

461 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:27:12am

re: #455 doriangrey

Big Bamboo's........

HAHA I knew what that was gonna be

462 goddessoftheclassroom  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:27:14am

I've got to get ready for church, too. Take care, Lizards!

463 Lucius Septimius  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:27:19am

re: #414 realwest

Yahoos = a tribe of obsessive compulsive insane maniacs all under four feet who make frequent raids of the pantry.

464 WriterMom  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:27:19am

re: #452 BabbaZee

Babboosh

465 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:27:36am

re: #450 infidelia

I love the fall foliage but have to admit I love spring around here even more. Mainly because it's not followed by winter. But it's lovely right now with all the forsythia and magnolias out and the trees starting to leaf.

Me too - for all of the same reasons, though we have no magnolias. The forsythia that borders my garden is in not-quite-full bloom though and the snow is gone. The early stuff is in and I'm counting the hours till the first little sprouts appear. Birds are back and this year some pilliated woodpeckers are nesting in the big tree we were going to cut down. (Guess that will have to wait.)

You wouldn't guess I loved spring, would you?

466 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:27:42am

re: #453 ec marm

I just find that fascinating. They (China) have three times (at least) the number of people as the U.S. Yet they export food to the U.S. Tainted, polluted, lead & antibiotic filled, maybe, but its food.

It is interesting

467 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:27:46am

re: #446 conservgirl

I love NY. Maybe I could make some money on a slogan like that?LOL

The museums are wonderful and the restaurants are to die for in my humble opinion, at least in NYC.

I visited NYC once, I saw a trucker get his throat slit when he pulled over to check one of his tires. Didnt stick around long enough to find any of NYC's fine culture...

468 hayseed  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:27:47am
469 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:27:50am

re: #464 WriterMom

Babboosh

Are you back?

470 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:28:09am

re: #443 goddessoftheclassroom

I appreciate you for keeping the list. It brings great comfort to me knowing it's out there.

471 WriterMom  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:28:15am

re: #459 BabbaZee

SHALOM metukah. I have limited internut access here in Jerusalem. But I'm back at home next week.

472 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:28:17am

re: #396 {goddessoftheclassroom} Well I gotta say I'm sure glad to hear that, but how come no one was dancing?!

473 GoJeepGo  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:29:16am

re: #454 realwest

Well, in all other ways he's a good neighbor and I try to look on the bright side (at least he keeps his yard looking nice). I may go the diplomatic route and introduce him to the friendly and affordable lawn service that I use.

474 hayseed  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:29:22am

time to get coffee

BBL

475 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:29:23am

re: #463 Lucius Septimius

Yahoos = a tribe of obsessive compulsive insane maniacs all under four feet who make frequent raids of the pantry.

Also of referred to as children or grandchildren.......lol...lol...lol...

476 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:29:37am

re: #467 doriangrey
Holy Cow. Don't think I would return either. I went post-Guilani so that might account for something.

477 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:29:42am

re: #471 WriterMom

SHALOM metukah. I have limited internut access here in Jerusalem. But I'm back at home next week.

What's the voodoo in the wind there?

478 WriterMom  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:29:46am

We have been pigging out through the country...lots of fun. Many stories to tell. Did I mention how annoying the Arabs are here? LOL. I got LOTSA stories. But my BELOVED daughter wants the computer.

479 ploome hineni[deleted]  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:30:06am
480 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:30:31am

re: #405 MandyManners
Hi Mandy! When I lived in NYC we'd always give folks directions to wherever they wanted to go, even if we weren't sure of the directions! Didn't want to appear unfriendly, ya know?!

481 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:30:58am

re: #465 galloping granny
Did not know they had magnolias so far north? I live in the Magnolia state so I see plenty of them.

482 Lucius Septimius  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:31:00am

re: #457 BabbaZee

I love thunderstorms; I just don't want to be caught halfway between home and the office by one.

On music, when I was in high school and college we'd go down to the Ravinia festival, the summer home of the Chicago Symphony. That's when James Levine was running the show, and he put on some incredible concerts. It was 5 bucks for lawns seats, and you could buy tickets ahead of time so that it would be more like four. Bring food and drink and lay under the stars.

483 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:31:20am

re: #479 ploome hineni

how do you recognize a Jewish biker?

The Kosher Nostra!

484 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:31:34am

re: #479 ploome hineni

Love it Ploome!

485 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:31:46am

re: #482 Lucius Septimius

I love thunderstorms; I just don't want to be caught halfway between home and the office by one.

On music, when I was in high school and college we'd go down to the Ravinia festival, the summer home of the Chicago Symphony. That's when James Levine was running the show, and he put on some incredible concerts. It was 5 bucks for lawns seats, and you could buy tickets ahead of time so that it would be more like four. Bring food and drink and lay under the stars.

That's wonderful, I love that.

486 WriterMom  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:31:52am

re: #477 BabbaZee

Golan Heights heating up, people getting organized...lots of political debate about Israel's successes and failures at 60 years young...Some wicked pictures of the Syrian nuclear facility..did you guys get those? Quite amazing. Talk of the American spy..etc..

487 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:31:55am

re: #460 FishFearMe

I think we are neighbors, as I live in Maine. And I must say that I am jealous (in a good way) of your horticultural expertise. I am growing as many tomatoes as I can ( We are apartment swellers), too many peppers too mention, broccoli(sp?), corn, squash, and zuchinni all within 144 square feet of dirt and in 5 gallon buckets. LOL. BTW , the Next to the Youngest of the Spawn(tm) is 5 years old and is the best gardening buddy I have ever had.

The little ones make the best gardening buddies. Mine is 11 and I could not garden without her these days. Granddaughter though. You would be surprised what you can grow in that space. Don't forget hanging baskets too. Are you starting from seed or buying your plants?

488 opnion  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:32:04am

re: #241 BabbaZee

here are some awful quotes read by He Himself

/that's just how white folks'll do ya

Wow! people like Barry who are so racial centric, who are so obsessed with race & feelings of their own victim hood make a crucial error.
He seems to believe that the "oppressive" White people go through our day ., plotting how to screw minorities.
He stereotype's in ways that he would consider racist from a White person.
He is so racially bigoted & psychologically fouled up that he is profoundly unfit to be President

489 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:32:14am

re: #410 hayseed Morning hayseed! I don't know - I e-mailed him this morning, forgetting about the time difference but I sure hope he's ok!
How are you doing today?

490 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:32:23am

re: #478 WriterMom

Speak to ya next week then
you can tell me all about the [REDACTED]

491 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:32:30am

re: #478 WriterMom
Ooh, I hope you have a wonderful trip, I want to hear all about it.

492 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:32:40am

re: #488 opnion

Wow! people like Barry who are so racial centric, who are so obsessed with race & feelings of their own victim hood make a crucial error.
He seems to believe that the "oppressive" White people go through our day ., plotting how to screw minorities.
He stereotype's in ways that he would consider racist from a White person.
He is so racially bigoted & psychologically fouled up that he is profoundly unfit to be President

amen

493 yma o hyd  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:32:53am

Good morning, Lizards!
Midafternoon here, grey, damp, but mild ...

How're you all doing?

494 Lucius Septimius  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:32:54am

re: #481 conservgirl

We have a huge magnolia tree in our yard. It's great for shade year round, and the flowers are wonderful. Still, the leaves are a mess, and every time we get an ice storm I'm paranoid it'll fall on the house.

495 WriterMom  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:32:55am

OK lizards. Gotta go. Shalom and "peace out" from Jerusalem. Hahahhahaha.

496 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:33:05am

re: #476 conservgirl

Holy Cow. Don't think I would return either. I went post-Guilani so that might account for something.

Yea, that was back in 1988.......Everything I saw in my short visit looked like it was straight out of the movie "The Warriors"

497 infidelia  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:33:09am

re: #467 doriangrey

I visited NYC once, I saw a trucker get his throat slit when he pulled over to check one of his tires. Didnt stick around long enough to find any of NYC's fine culture...

OMG, where did you see that?

Last couple times I've been down there the place has looked great. I lived there all through the late 60s and the 70s and it was just a mess. Giuliani or somebody has done some great work with that city. (Last time I gave wrong directions to tourists all morning because I was downtown and didn't realize the West Side Highway had moved inland two blocks.)

498 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:34:52am

re: #481 conservgirl

Did not know they had magnolias so far north? I live in the Magnolia state so I see plenty of them.

Magnolias don't grow quite this far north. I think the hardiest I've seen is a zone 6. I live on the northern edge of zone 5. Might can grow holly though. I could do with holly.

499 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:35:05am

re: #486 WriterMom

Golan Heights heating up, people getting organized...lots of political debate about Israel's successes and failures at 60 years young...Some wicked pictures of the Syrian nuclear facility..did you guys get those? Quite amazing. Talk of the American spy..etc..

yes I saw those pics

As for the Golan, we knew last year this would happen when they started going full fledged Bakerfied - we even spoke about it, and I posted a lot on it at the blog last May or so

500 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:35:46am

re: #497 infidelia

OMG, where did you see that?

Last couple times I've been down there the place has looked great. I lived there all through the late 60s and the 70s and it was just a mess. Giuliani or somebody has done some great work with that city. (Last time I gave wrong directions to tourists all morning because I was downtown and didn't realize the West Side Highway had moved inland two blocks.)

About a mile off the NY side of the George Washington Bridge.

501 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:35:52am

re: #467 doriangrey

I visited NYC once, I saw a trucker get his throat slit when he pulled over to check one of his tires. Didnt stick around long enough to find any of NYC's fine culture...

Oh GTFOH

502 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:36:02am

re: #419 conservgirl Yes you did about Trent's place, I was just thinking of Stephen Still's place - especially since I read where he had "early stage" prostate cancer and I was concerned that he mighta lost the second best collection of guitars in the world during Katrina.

503 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:36:02am

re: #435 Lucius Septimius
I think you are on to something! I saw Sonny at the Constition Ball at the 2005 Inauguration, he was on stage dancing with the Governor of Somoa, well they were each dancing with their respective wives. I had forgotten how short Sonny is.

504 Lucius Septimius  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:36:16am

re: #488 opnion

Wow! people like Barry who are so racial centric, who are so obsessed with race & feelings of their own victim hood make a crucial error.
He seems to believe that the "oppressive" White people go through our day ., plotting how to screw minorities.
He stereotype's in ways that he would consider racist from a White person.
He is so racially bigoted & psychologically fouled up that he is profoundly unfit to be President

And for the rich liberal white people who support him, they can share in the victimhood by saying "yes, I carry the horrible burden of my awful race around with me all the time, but I have transcended that, unlike the troglodytes with their god and guns and bowling. They need to pay taxes, and I'm happy to vote for punishing my inferiors for not being as enlightened (and having as good a staff of accountants) as I."

Elitism is the appeal, plain and simple, just as it was for Marx.

505 laZardo  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:36:38am

re: #446 conservgirl

Last time I visited was in '05. Ground Zero was my first stop (got some lovely pics from a childhood vacation there in '98) and got my first glimpse of Twoofers there.

506 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:37:06am

I lived in NY my whole life without ever seeing a throat slit

If indeed you saw what you think you saw
it was a rare thing

507 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:37:36am

re: #502 realwest Okay I will get serious about the Steven S. search. I can search through the papers for articles online. I will do this today.

508 Lucius Septimius  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:37:44am

re: #503 conservgirl

I think you are on to something! I saw Sonny at the Constition Ball at the 2005 Inauguration, he was on stage dancing with the Governor of Somoa, well they were each dancing with their respective wives. I had forgotten how short Sonny is.

Workers of the World, It's Miller time!

509 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:38:37am

re: #505 laZardo
That is truly sad about the twoofers. I would be so angry if I saw them. I went last year and had a lovely time as always.

510 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:39:43am

re: #504 Lucius Septimius

And for the rich liberal white people who support him, they can share in the victimhood by saying "yes, I carry the horrible burden of my awful race around with me all the time, but I have transcended that, unlike the troglodytes with their god and guns and bowling. They need to pay taxes, and I'm happy to vote for punishing my inferiors for not being as enlightened (and having as good a staff of accountants) as I."

Elitism is the appeal, plain and simple, just as it was for Marx.

It is necessary to maintain an underclass as they are they elitists CONVEYANCE

Obammunism in all it's forms is designed to keep 'em down there in the galley.

WE KEEP YOU ALIVE TO SERVE THIS SHIP

511 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:39:51am

re: #504 Lucius Septimius
That is exactly how my liberal professor aunt thinks, verbatim.

512 The Albatross  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:40:51am

re: #508 Lucius Septimius

The Worker, Charlie Drake

513 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:40:53am

It is far easier to FEEL like you are GOOD then to actually BE GOOD

thus the pamphlet takers eager appetite for lies

514 laZardo  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:41:19am

re: #504 Lucius Septimius

Of course, it's not elitism if it's not the GOP saying it.

//////

515 GoJeepGo  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:41:41am

OK Lizards, I must go shower and make myself presentable. I hope everyone enjoys the rest of the weekend!

516 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:41:50am

re: #501 BabbaZee

Oh GTFOH

Sorry but its true, I was hitchhiking, the trucker pulled over got out and was thumping his tires with a metal bar, he got to the end of his truck and a car pulled up two guys got out and walked up to him. He was bending over his last set of tires thumping the inside tire and they just walked up and slit his throat, popped open the trailer and started unloading it right in broad daylight. They left the poor trucker laying under the trailer.

517 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:42:15am

Jihadwatch has an interesting post this morning about the resurgence of jihadist pirates -

[Link: www.jihadwatch.org...]

518 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:42:38am

re: #516 doriangrey

Sorry but its true, I was hitchhiking, the trucker pulled over got out and was thumping his tires with a metal bar, he got to the end of his truck and a car pulled up two guys got out and walked up to him. He was bending over his last set of tires thumping the inside tire and they just walked up and slit his throat, popped open the trailer and started unloading it right in broad daylight. They left the poor trucker laying under the trailer.

You saw a very rare thing then

NY is not full of throat slitters just waiting to assault your bare neck

519 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:42:42am

re: #498 galloping granny
Interesting to know. We have a holly bush too. We can't grow tulips worth a flip, which makes me so angry. I have a source that works at the largest bulb distribution center in the US and I have planted them and planted the free bulbs. The squirrels get them or the lack of cold. I know I could put them in the refrigerator, but I do not get them until late in the season.

520 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:42:49am

re: #455 doriangrey I always preferred EZ Widers myself! LOL!

521 FishFearMe  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:42:49am

re: #456 conservgirl

I dig that. I wish we had Sam Houston, Davy, and all the Alamo guys today. WAIT! I think we do! Sam and Davy etal, would be proud to be Lizards.

P.S. See Lizard Roll Call

522 infidelia  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:43:17am

re: #505 laZardo

Last time I visited was in '05. Ground Zero was my first stop (got some lovely pics from a childhood vacation there in '98) and got my first glimpse of Twoofers there.

Good thing I didn't see any there. Outside the restraints of the workplace I fear I would go all medieval on dey ass.

I'm calling for suggestions for things to say to moonbats and troofers when ringing up their troofer vids and moonbat books. Ways to tell them to go to hell but making them feel happy to be on their way, you might say.

523 laZardo  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:43:21am

re: #509 conservgirl

When I first saw them I thought they were just the typical ne'er-do-well punks and just shrugged them off. Didn't think their movement would become THAT big until some [expletive deleted] on a gaming site suddenly put up a bunch of Youtube videos and n00b-speak about how ITS DA TWOOF.

524 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:43:21am

re: #518 BabbaZee
Sounds like the Sopranos.

525 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:44:05am

re: #524 conservgirl

Sounds like the Sopranos.

Never saw it
but I heard on the show they live in NJ anyway....

lol

526 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:44:28am

BTW - Y'ALL - Obama's doing really well with Chris Wallace - not sure why, but Mom (who's still watching) says she's completely changed her opinion about Obama - and since she thought he was lower that the proverbial Whale Ca-Ca on the bottom of the ocean, he must be putting on some kinda show!

527 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:44:52am

re: #521 FishFearMe
I think Sam got a bad rap over the Alamo debacle. I like William Barrett Travis from Alabama, he did lots of things for Texas too.

528 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:44:57am

re: #519 conservgirl

Interesting to know. We have a holly bush too. We can't grow tulips worth a flip, which makes me so angry. I have a source that works at the largest bulb distribution center in the US and I have planted them and planted the free bulbs. The squirrels get them or the lack of cold. I know I could put them in the refrigerator, but I do not get them until late in the season.

Lucky you with those tulip bulbs. I could wish! If you look around you can get a special cage for them that squirrel proofs your bulbs. You put the bulbs in the cage and plant the whole thing. If you're in Mississippi, though, the problem really is your very short, not really cold enough winter.

529 infidelia  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:45:04am

re: #506 BabbaZee

I lived in NY my whole life without ever seeing a throat slit

If indeed you saw what you think you saw
it was a rare thing

If it was west of the GWB that's New Jersey. Jersey doesn't count.

530 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:45:29am

re: #526 realwest

BTW - Y'ALL - Obama's doing really well with Chris Wallace - not sure why, but Mom (who's still watching) says she's completely changed her opinion about Obama - and since she thought he was lower that the proverbial Whale Ca-Ca on the bottom of the ocean, he must be putting on some kinda show!

EMERGENCY ACTION MESSAGE

Leave the computer immediately and go deprogram your Ma

531 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:45:43am

re: #529 infidelia

If it was west of the GWB that's New Jersey. Jersey doesn't count.

lol

532 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:46:08am

re: #445 WriterMom
Hi ya WriterMom - how are you today?

533 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:46:20am

re: #520 realwest

I always preferred EZ Widers myself! LOL!

Yea, but ya cant get a ZR 255 50 in a EZ-Wider........lol...lol...lol...

534 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:46:42am

re: #528 galloping granny
When I get my free stuff this year, it would be an honor to share with you. I will let you know by email.

You are right about the short winters or lack of them in MS.

535 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:46:49am
Obama's doing really well with Chris Wallace

You're a HOOKER? And here I thought I was doing so good with you!
~ Arthur Bach

536 laZardo  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:47:05am

re: #522 infidelia

You could bring up Richard Falk being part of the Great Conspiracy. >_>

537 infidelia  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:47:13am

re: #526 realwest

BTW - Y'ALL - Obama's doing really well with Chris Wallace - not sure why, but Mom (who's still watching) says she's completely changed her opinion about Obama - and since she thought he was lower that the proverbial Whale Ca-Ca on the bottom of the ocean, he must be putting on some kinda show!

Morning Real. Sounds like your mom needs a reality check.

538 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:48:04am

re: #529 infidelia

If it was west of the GWB that's New Jersey. Jersey doesn't count.

It was on the NY side, I hitched a ride across the GWB. The bridge I might add impressed the hell out of me.

539 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:48:07am

re: #525 BabbaZee
They do, but the slitting of the throat and stealing the stuff out of the trailer is very Sopranoesque. I love James Gandolfino for some reason.

540 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:48:36am

re: #463 Lucius Septimius Ah little bit taller than rug rats, then?! LOL! Good luck to you my friend!

541 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:48:53am

re: #537 infidelia
The panel are saying he did well if you like Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes, which I do.

542 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:49:02am

re: #539 conservgirl

They do, but the slitting of the throat and stealing the stuff out of the trailer is very Sopranoesque. I love James Gandolfino for some reason.

He's got sex appeal.

543 laZardo  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:49:17am

re: #525 BabbaZee

re: #524 conservgirl

Sopranos, you say?

/video editing class final project

544 infidelia  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:49:21am

re: #536 laZardo

You could bring up Richard Falk being part of the Great Conspiracy. >_>

Hmmm... good but too subtle. What I need is a zinger as they are about to head for the door.

545 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:49:24am

re: #541 conservgirl
Make that Brit and Bill and the panel is....

546 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:49:56am

re: #538 doriangrey

It was on the NY side, I hitched a ride across the GWB. The bridge I might add impressed the hell out of me.

I am still impressed by the Bridge.
But I LOVE the Brooklyn Bridge

547 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:50:32am

re: #542 BabbaZee
I think I butchered his last name. I think he is sexy and masculine. Not really my type but for some reason I really dig him.

548 opnion  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:50:51am

re: #504 Lucius Septimius

And for the rich liberal white people who support him, they can share in the victimhood by saying "yes, I carry the horrible burden of my awful race around with me all the time, but I have transcended that, unlike the troglodytes with their god and guns and bowling. They need to pay taxes, and I'm happy to vote for punishing my inferiors for not being as enlightened (and having as good a staff of accountants) as I."

Elitism is the appeal, plain and simple, just as it was for Marx.

Man, is that well said.I am actually related to some of those people that you describe.
They see the rest of us as unenlightened rabble, while they see themselves as almost New Age Prophets.
When you challenge them , you get them angry & befuddled.
You discover a real lack of knowledge & "I feel "statements.
Of course, they always default to the liberal, mocking, smirk.
When you point out that the smirk masks a lack of knowledge, then you get the scowl.

549 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:51:00am

re: #534 conservgirl

When I get my free stuff this year, it would be an honor to share with you. I will let you know by email.

You are right about the short winters or lack of them in MS.

That would be very sweet of you and I appreciate the thought. I suspect that by the time you get your tulips, though, (you said you're getting them late) I'm probably buried in snow and they would go to waste. I did manage to get some in last year shortly before Thanksgiving but that was pushing things.

You should try forcing them. It is very easy to do and provides several weeks of interest and beauty for not much money or effort. And you can put them on the dining room table without having to pick them :)

550 infidelia  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:51:00am

re: #538 doriangrey

It was on the NY side, I hitched a ride across the GWB. The bridge I might add impressed the hell out of me.

You do know that the upper span is "George" and the span underneath is "Martha", right?

551 laZardo  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:51:29am

re: #544 infidelia

I'm not sure on the cui bono of it all but I know the twoofers aren't exactly tight-knit when it comes to the little details. You could try surprising them with these differences.

Or use the Ron Paul card.

552 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:51:51am

re: #467 doriangrey Huh, what was ya doing down by where the truckers and TV's hang out, anyway?!
I lived in NYC for over 35 years and loved every minute of it - never got ripped or had anyone shoot in my general direction or nothing (though one poor misguided junkie did try to "mug me" by saying give me all you're money afore' he nodded off).
There is NO PLACE in the US where the energy level is higher - just a fabulous place (politics to one side) - y'all can meet, greet and eat folks literally from all over the world!

553 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:51:53am

re: #547 conservgirl

I think I butchered his last name. I think he is sexy and masculine. Not really my type but for some reason I really dig him.

I see it.

554 friarstale  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:52:08am

Candide read aloud
Chapter 1
[Link: cruxy.com...]
Chapter 2
[Link: cruxy.com...]
Chapter 3
[Link: cruxy.com...]
more to come
dedicated to The Canuck 6
[Link: girlontheright.com...]

555 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:53:08am

re: #468 hayseed SHIT!

556 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:53:38am

re: #549 galloping granny
Oh, I get other things too, elephant ears, fruit trees, fruit vines, peonies, caladiums. I literally get cases and cases. I will let you know what I get, if you want some I would be happy to share.

557 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:53:48am

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle"
~ Edmund Burke

558 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:54:11am

re: #518 BabbaZee

You saw a very rare thing then

NY is not full of throat slitters just waiting to assault your bare neck

Funny Axel Rose hitched through NYC round about the same time as me, he recorded his impression of the city here...

559 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:55:10am

re: #558 doriangrey

Funny Axel Rose hitched through NYC round about the same time as me, he recorded his impression of the city here...

I could kick Axel's ass on my worst day.

Of course he hated NY

560 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:55:24am

re: #552 realwest
We need to get on Dorian for hitchhiking too. Dangerous, we don't want to lose you Dorian.

My mother's aide was kidnapped and murdered from hitching in the early eighties in FWB, FL. She tried to warn her and she would never listen.

561 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:55:34am

re: #550 infidelia

You do know that the upper span is "George" and the span underneath is "Martha", right?

ROTFLMAO..............No I did not know that..........

562 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:56:17am

re: #501 BabbaZee Amen Sister - Preach it!

563 Lucius Septimius  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:56:35am

re: #548 opnion

"Feelings .... nothing more than feelings ..."

Take that way of thinking, apply it to politics, and you get fascism.

564 Lucius Septimius  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:57:15am

re: #559 BabbaZee


I could kick Axel's ass on my worst day.

I'd pay money to see that.

565 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:57:22am

Dorian

Believe me

I lived in the WORST neighborhoods in NY

and I never got "mugged"
or had a single problem

Till I went to LA.

/I chased that MFer with a bat for 6 blocks too.

/it is the Law of "These Ain't Your Roads" in action

566 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:57:53am

re: #565 BabbaZee
I would like to see that too.

567 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:57:59am

re: #516 doriangrey And what did you do when you saw this sorta third world banditry and murder going on?

568 Lucius Septimius  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:58:03am

re: #550 infidelia

You do know that the upper span is "George" and the span underneath is "Martha", right?

When George delved and Martha span, who was then the Gentleman?

569 hayseed  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:58:17am

re: #555 realwest

that's why i was asking

570 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:58:26am

re: #564 Lucius Septimius

I'd pay money to see that.

LOL
It's be like one of those 18 second Tyson fights

Not worth the price

571 Lucius Septimius  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:59:09am

Heard this odd noise, then came to realize it was a cat snoring under the desk.

572 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:59:15am

third world banditry and murder

AH
I love that

573 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:59:27am

re: #571 Lucius Septimius

LOL mine snores too

574 akak  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 6:59:48am

speaking of tv stars,

Harrison Ford waxed his chest to save the enviroment? is that correct?

575 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:00:01am

re: #556 conservgirl

Oh, I get other things too, elephant ears, fruit trees, fruit vines, peonies, caladiums. I literally get cases and cases. I will let you know what I get, if you want some I would be happy to share.

Wow! It sounds like you have quite a friend :) I always have room for more plants. I don't mow. Growing up my dad was adamant about just three things: women do not mow, women do not clean the oven - ever - and nobody drives a car until they know how to take care of one. So, I can change a tire or an engine but I have never mowed a lawn in my life and the only oven I have ever cleaned was the self cleaning kind. (Dad made the ex swear he would do all the mowing & oven cleaning.) The daughter mows, but she does not like to mow, so we are in the process of getting rid of almost all of the grass.

The side yard is going to be a corn field before the month is out, a big chunk of the front yard just had a deck built over it and more of that yet is going to go to a big raised bed bordering the deck for blueberry bushes and a fence along the drive for grape vines. I want a peach tree or a pie cherry tree for the little bit that is left but can't make up my mind which.

576 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:00:11am

re: #574 akak

speaking of tv stars,

Harrison Ford waxed his chest to save the enviroment? is that correct?

[peeing in my pants now]

:LOLOLOLOLOOLOLOL!

577 infidelia  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:00:17am

re: #552 realwest

Huh, what was ya doing down by where the truckers and TV's hang out, anyway?!
I lived in NYC for over 35 years and loved every minute of it - never got ripped or had anyone shoot in my general direction or nothing (though one poor misguided junkie did try to "mug me" by saying give me all you're money afore' he nodded off).
There is NO PLACE in the US where the energy level is higher - just a fabulous place (politics to one side) - y'all can meet, greet and eat folks literally from all over the world!

If you go down to Ground Zero try to be there at about quarter to 9 in the morning (the time the planes hit) and watch this incredible river of humanity pouring out of the subways and busses. I was a GV and Midtown New Yorker and seldom downtown and I just sat there (drinking my coffee and giving tourists wrong directions) with my jaw hanging open. Grand Central Station is pretty impressive at that hour too. So is Penn Station but it's so damn ugly why waste time there when you could be at GCS.

578 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:00:22am

re: #571 Lucius Septimius I guess with you it could be a lotta choices, with all those rugrats!:)

579 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:00:32am

re: #530 BabbaZee Huh?
Nope, that's gonna come later so I can destroy Barry's points one by one - don't want to interrupt her right now.
Neither would you, ya know?! lol!

580 Lucius Septimius  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:01:26am

re: #575 galloping granny

Peach trees are really dirty -- go for the cherry.

581 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:01:32am

re: #565 BabbaZee

Dorian

Believe me

I lived in the WORST neighborhoods in NY

and I never got "mugged"
or had a single problem

Till I went to LA.

/I chased that MFer with a bat for 6 blocks too.

/it is the Law of "These Ain't Your Roads" in action


Actually there was one attempted mugging on the Jay St Subway platform in Brooklyn but that did not work out for them too tuff

582 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:01:47am

re: #574 akak

speaking of tv stars,

Harrison Ford waxed his chest to save the enviroment? is that correct?

WTF? Was it so thick that it took forever to rinse?

583 infidelia  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:01:49am

re: #558 doriangrey

Funny Axel Rose hitched through NYC round about the same time as me, he recorded his impression of the city here...

Although if it was that road headed east off the GW bridge I could believe it. Just driving around the junked cars on the side was a challenge.

584 right wing zephyr  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:01:49am

Yo! Blessed morning to you all!

585 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:02:03am

re: #579 realwest

Huh?
Nope, that's gonna come later so I can destroy Barry's points one by one - don't want to interrupt her right now.
Neither would you, ya know?! lol!

ME?
The fucking TV would be out the window

586 Lucius Septimius  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:02:05am

re: #578 conservgirl

No unexplained noise in my house goes uninvestigated, trust me.

587 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:02:16am

That's why I keep it OFF lol

588 infidelia  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:02:35am

re: #567 realwest

And what did you do when you saw this sorta third world banditry and murder going on?

Ran like hell, if he had any sense.

589 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:02:43am

re: #560 conservgirl

We need to get on Dorian for hitchhiking too. Dangerous, we don't want to lose you Dorian.

My mother's aide was kidnapped and murdered from hitching in the early eighties in FWB, FL. She tried to warn her and she would never listen.

Let not your heart be troubled, I havent hitched since the late 80's. However back in the late 80's I did hitch hike from San Diego to Seattle, from Seattle to Miami, from Miami to Boston, and from Boston back to San Diego. It took me six months.

590 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:03:11am

third world banditry and murder!

591 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:03:16am

re: #564 Lucius Septimius

I'd pay money to see that.

Me too.........

592 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:03:21am

re: #546 BabbaZee Yeah, the Brooklyn Bridge is always gonna have a claim on my heart - we marched over it early in the morning of May 7, 1985 when NYC had it's Welcome Home Parade for Vietnam Vets. A memory I'll always treasure.

593 yma o hyd  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:03:24am

re: #575 galloping granny

Go for the pie cherry - they are really nice eaten raw, too, if you're into non-sweet fruit.
But dont forget to get netting to cover it once it starts to bear fruit: birds, especially blackbirds, absolutely love eating them off the tree!

594 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:03:29am

re: #580 Lucius Septimius

Peach trees are really dirty -- go for the cherry.

What I really, really want is a butternut tree. But they grow big and to get nuts you need two. All of which means I would have to give up the garden. :(

595 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:03:59am

re: #575 galloping granny

She has worked at Van Zyverdan(spell?) for 25 years. They literally go in the trash if no one buys them so she loads up my mini van to the ceiling with free stuff. I buy her all kinds of things, so they really aren't free, but I come out ahead. I would give her free medical supplies if I could.

596 akak  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:04:04am

re: #576 BabbaZee

[peeing in my pants now]

:LOLOLOLOLOOLOLOL!

lol

Do you think the man who gave us Han Solo would spend his Earth Day sitting around on his lazy ass, just waiting for some punk with a lightsaber to show up and save the environment? Hell no! Harrison got out there and did his part by making a metaphorical point about the dangers of deforestation while getting a nice, classy-looking chest wax in the process

597 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:04:20am
598 right wing zephyr  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:04:34am

re: #590 BabbaZee

third world banditry and murder!

It's a crazy third world!

599 Lucius Septimius  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:04:39am

re: #596 akak

So I guess he's a metrosexual now.

600 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:04:52am

re: #592 realwest

It's really quite beautiful, like a cathedral.

601 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:04:59am

re: #552 realwest PIMF eat WITH folks.
Sigh.

602 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:05:19am

re: #592 realwest
What a neat memory, thank you for sharing with us.

603 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:05:33am

re: #598 right wing zephyr

It's a crazy third world!



{RWZ!}

604 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:05:43am

re: #593 yma o hyd

Go for the pie cherry - they are really nice eaten raw, too, if you're into non-sweet fruit.
But dont forget to get netting to cover it once it starts to bear fruit: birds, especially blackbirds, absolutely love eating them off the tree!

Yeah, I'm going to own stock in the netting company this year as it is, since I finally live in a state where I can have currants and gooseberries. Six red currant bushes and 10 gooseberry plants should arrive this week.

605 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:06:10am

re: #596 akak

hysterical

606 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:06:27am

re: #597 BabbaZee
Was this after he was poisoned, stabbed, beaten and drowned? LOL.

607 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:07:09am
608 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:07:26am

re: #606 conservgirl

Was this after he was poisoned, stabbed, beaten and drowned? LOL.

Before, LOLOLOLOLOLOOLLLL!

609 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:07:32am

re: #569 hayseed Oh yeah, I understand that, but still no reply to my e-mail and don't want to call him (or try to) this early his time - he was up LATE last night with his Son and a buncha hoses protecting his place.

610 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:07:35am

re: #589 doriangrey
Well that does sound like a heck of a trip.

611 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:07:52am

re: #595 conservgirl

She has worked at Van Zyverdan(spell?) for 25 years. They literally go in the trash if no one buys them so she loads up my mini van to the ceiling with free stuff. I buy her all kinds of things, so they really aren't free, but I come out ahead. I would give her free medical supplies if I could.

Wow! You must have a gorgeous yard!

612 right wing zephyr  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:08:57am

re: #603 BabbaZee

Awesome! Those there snares have been busted!

613 yma o hyd  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:09:30am

re: #604 galloping granny

How old are those bushes?
It takes a few years to get a proper amount of berries off them, in the first season I had twelve gooseberries - yep, I counted them all, teeheehee!
Now, after ten years or so, I get about six, seven pounds of fruit off one bush.
Birsd neer seem to attack the gooseberries, nor do the squirrels, but they do have a go at my cherished apples, which i resent hugely, as they are all special varieties, early eating apples.

(I loathe squirrels!)

614 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:09:39am

re: #586 Lucius Septimius
Yes, I bet! I have told the goat and the kudzu story and the green meat a couple of times this week.

615 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:11:10am

re: #613 yma o hyd

(I loathe squirrels!)

Strange. They speak very highly of you
lol

616 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:11:11am

re: #611 galloping granny
Well some seasons I do. I give a lot away, depending how industrious I feel. It drives me crazy to let the bulbs go to waste so I ship a lot to friends all over.

617 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:11:23am

re: #577 infidelia Yeah, I lived mid-town east side and worked mid-town West side - now former wife worked in World Financial Center and her normal subway stop was the WTC! Stopped subways after first plane hit, and as folks were making their way upstairs a stupid cop was saying "don't anybody look up" - thereby ensuring that everyone did look up, and she saw the second plane hit.
Smelled that damn fire for weeks afterwards.

618 yma o hyd  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:12:15am

re: #607 BabbaZee

How do I say Good Morning in Welsh?

Its 'Bore da, pawb!'
(Good morning, all!)

That Tom Jones ... woweeee!

619 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:12:40am

re: #567 realwest

And what did you do when you saw this sorta third world banditry and murder going on?

I very bravely hid my skinny little white ass behind the rusting hulk of someones abandoned and stripped car which fortunately happened to be on my side of the road....And when the murderers finished packing their car with shit out of the truck I very courageously ran my ass off down the road, across a vacant lot through a industrial park and got lost for several hours.....

620 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:12:58am

re: #613 yma o hyd

(I loathe squirrels!)

But, Skippy loves you!

621 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:13:05am

re: #585 BabbaZee Uh, no disrespect intended Babba but you vs. Mom - at 83 years of age and I gotta go with Mom!

622 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:13:05am

re: #613 yma o hyd

How old are those bushes?
It takes a few years to get a proper amount of berries off them, in the first season I had twelve gooseberries - yep, I counted them all, teeheehee!
Now, after ten years or so, I get about six, seven pounds of fruit off one bush.
Birsd neer seem to attack the gooseberries, nor do the squirrels, but they do have a go at my cherished apples, which i resent hugely, as they are all special varieties, early eating apples.

(I loathe squirrels!)

A couple of years I think, supposed to bear next year. The nursery I'm getting them from has a good reputation, specializes in fruit/nuts. Luckily we do not have squirrels. Chipmunks, but not squirrels.

We have just one very old apple tree - so tall you couldn't pick the apples if you wanted to. And in bad shape. My nephew cut quite some bit of it down while he was here. I've been considering sending a cutting off to Raintree and having them graft it for me.

623 hayseed  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:13:57am

re: #613 yma o hyd

a lady behind me feeds them tree rats.lol

624 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:14:53am

re: #620 MandyManners

(I loathe squirrels!)

But, Skippy loves you!

Put your cursor on Skippy!

625 yma o hyd  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:15:18am

re: #615 BabbaZee

Strange. They speak very highly of you
lol

Teeheehee - looks like my back 'lawn'!

We've now got real killer squirrels:
[Link: www.timesonline.co.uk...]

626 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:15:36am
Don't like the look of this old town

What goes up must come down

Character is lost and found

On unfamiliar playing ground

Get out of my world

What in the world

Shoeboxed around the rifle range

Have all your functions rearranged

Your mind and body gagged and bound

On a new familiar playing ground

The ordinary will ignore

Whatever they cannot explain

As if--nothing ever happened

And everything remained the same again

What in the world

Get out of my world

Get up, get out, get out of my world

Open your mouth now

Secret signs and knowing looks

These sunny days will cook the books

Happy to take the misery

This mortal life can bring to me

Don't like the look of this old town

What goes up must come down

Character is lost and found

On unfamiliar playing ground

What in the world

What in, get out, get out, get out of my world

What in the world

Palaces,
barricades,
threats
meet promises

627 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:16:07am

re: #618 yma o hyd

Its 'Bore da, pawb!'
(Good morning, all!)

That Tom Jones ... woweeee!

Thanks!
yes ZOWEEE
I have seen him live
He does not need a microphone

628 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:16:26am

re: #602 conservgirl Ah that's just the truly condensed version, but I don't really think everyone out here want's the whole story - though I will say seeing the NYC Fire boats in the East River shooting plumes of Red, White and Blue Water really sent a chill through me.

IT WAS FUCKING GREAT!

LOL!

629 irongrampa  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:16:33am

Good morning, good people, from New York state--an unbroken string of gorgeous days this week, and this morning is no exception. A little morning fishing with the flyrod was productive, and made us breakfast. There's just something so very special about the first few weeks of spring, watching the earth come alive again.

630 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:16:35am

re: #619 doriangrey
Gulp, what an experience.

631 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:17:13am

re: #625 yma o hyd

BEHOLD! Even the squirrel "races" rise up against each other, thus sayeth the MSM

LOL!

632 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:17:16am

re: #628 realwest Well I would if you want to email it to me some time.

633 infidelia  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:17:46am

re: #617 realwest

Yeah, I lived mid-town east side and worked mid-town West side - now former wife worked in World Financial Center and her normal subway stop was the WTC! Stopped subways after first plane hit, and as folks were making their way upstairs a stupid cop was saying "don't anybody look up" - thereby ensuring that everyone did look up, and she saw the second plane hit.
Smelled that damn fire for weeks afterwards.

At least they stopped her line. Apparently people were still getting off the trains at City Hall after the second plane hit. The cop probably was trying to keep people from seeing the jumpers.

I still kick myself for not just getting in the car and driving down there. I needed to see what they'd done. Now it just looks like another big construction project.

634 yma o hyd  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:18:15am

re: #620 MandyManners

Aww - he's neer been to Oz, this is the real Skippy:
[Link: i32.photobucket.com...]

635 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:18:28am

re: #629 irongrampa

Good morning, good people, from New York state--an unbroken string of gorgeous days this week, and this morning is no exception. A little morning fishing with the flyrod was productive, and made us breakfast. There's just something so very special about the first few weeks of spring, watching the earth come alive again.

Amen!

636 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:18:29am

re: #627 BabbaZee
You know he was recently here in my neck of the woods well near me, in S. Louisiana. I was surprised came to a small town.

637 infidelia  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:18:32am

re: #619 doriangrey

I very bravely hid my skinny little white ass behind the rusting hulk of someones abandoned and stripped car which fortunately happened to be on my side of the road....And when the murderers finished packing their car with shit out of the truck I very courageously ran my ass off down the road, across a vacant lot through a industrial park and got lost for several hours.....

That's about what I figured. Sometimes those stripped cars did come in handy.

638 Geepers  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:19:11am

galloping granny (#594),

What I really, really want is a butternut tree.

I have three pretty big one ones good trees generally. My neighbor has a gadget that shells them. I just get stuck picking up mountains of 'em so they don't get smashed in the lawn.

639 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:19:30am

re: #634 yma o hyd

Aww - he's neer been to Oz, this is the real Skippy:
[Link: i32.photobucket.com...]

That mouse looks kinda' suggestive.

640 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:19:30am

re: #619 doriangrey
"I very courageously ran my ass off down the road, across a vacant lot through a industrial park and got lost for several hours....." You were probably more at risk then, then you were when the throat slitters were around.

641 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:19:40am

re: #621 realwest

Uh, no disrespect intended Babba but you vs. Mom - at 83 years of age and I gotta go with Mom!



I didn't tell you to do anything except leave the computer and deprogram her

I would throw the TV out the window.
Has nothing to do with what you would do
lol

642 Pro-Bush Canuck  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:19:42am

Speaking of trained seals, the cadre of professional atheists (Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris, et al) is absolutely eviscerated by Jewish mathematician David Berlinski in the book I just finished this morning: The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions.

The deep poverty of imagination and intellect shown by these frustrated and resentful men is revealed clearly by Berlinski, who although he calls himself a "secular Jew" nonetheless understands just how shallow and absurd atheism truly is. Most importantly he explains in careful detail why science has NOTHING to say about God since it is a lower form of knowledge. Materialism and "naturalism" are wholly absurd since pace Godel they cannot support themselves via their own intellectual scaffolding. These beliefs -- widely held by middlebrows like Hitchens -- are logically self-refuting the the most basic level. The book is highly recommended to those who have had enough of these atheist blowhards, and who would like to understand exactly why they are "not even wrong".

"I Am That I Am"
(Exodus 3:13-15)

643 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:21:16am

re: #638 Geepers

galloping granny (#594),

I have three pretty big one ones good trees generally. My neighbor has a gadget that shells them. I just get stuck picking up mountains of 'em so they don't get smashed in the lawn.

How much you want for some come fall?

644 Geepers  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:22:06am

irongrampa (#629),

There's just something so very special about the first few weeks of spring, watching the earth come alive again.

Yes, unless of course you have seven (overgrown) acres to tend.

645 yma o hyd  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:22:09am

re: #622 galloping granny

Thats definitely worth a try!

There's an island off the North coast of Wales, called Bardsey island - monks used to live tehre, its very difficult to get to.
In the ruins of tehir Abbey, an incredibly ancient apple tree survives, and one nursery owner in North Wales is allowed on the island to take a few cuttings every year. some take, some don't - so he's got a long waiting list ...
I managed to get one, on dwarfing stock, two years ago. Its flowering now, still very small, so no apples as yet ..

So - go for it, they could graft it on a dwarfing rootstock, then you can grow in in a biggish planter!

646 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:22:25am

re: #642 Pro-Bush Canuck

Have you read Antony Flew's book?

He's like an incantation now.
Say Antony Flew to an atheist and they disappear.

647 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:22:37am

re: #639 MandyManners


Looks like a kangaroo to me, especially in Oz.

648 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:22:48am

re: #644 Geepers

irongrampa (#629),

Yes, unless of course you have seven (overgrown) acres to tend.

Overgrown Acres is the place to be!

649 infidelia  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:23:03am

Ah, I see it's atheist-bashing time. I did promise myself I'd do the ironing this morning to I think I'll wander out of the line of fire. Good day to y'all!

650 DesertSage  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:23:53am

re: #621 realwest

Hey RW. It's been a long night, I only got a couple hours sleep. They started evacuating some homes a few blocks away from me, but so far my block is safe.
They started the air assault again as soon as the sun came up. I don't think I'm in the danger zone. I'm pretty sure the fire will pass by me.

651 Geepers  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:23:57am

galloping granny (#643),

I'd be glad to get rid of them. I can probably get you 10-20 gallons no problem.

652 Pro-Bush Canuck  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:24:07am

re: #646 BabbaZee

No, but going to Amazon right after I post this to get it.

Thanks for the tip, my dear.

653 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:24:08am

re: #638 Geepers
What is a butternut? I have never heard of one.

654 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:24:47am

re: #636 conservgirl

You know he was recently here in my neck of the woods well near me, in S. Louisiana. I was surprised came to a small town.

He's from a small town too so maybe thats why

655 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:25:12am

re: #652 Pro-Bush Canuck

No, but going to Amazon right after I post this to get it.

Thanks for the tip, my dear.

Antony FLEEEEWWWWWWWWWW

Antony FLLLLLEWWWWWWWWW

[POOF]

gone

656 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:25:19am

re: #650 DesertSage
Glad you are okay Desert. Can we do anything for your neighbors that are not as fortunate?

657 yma o hyd  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:25:28am

re: #639 MandyManners

Don't let an Aussie hear you say that!

(They're very proud of their wildlife - which is indeed fascinating ... well, as long as I don't have to live next to it!)

658 irongrampa  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:25:34am

re: #644 Geepers

You just harshed my mellow.

659 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:25:57am

re: #654 BabbaZee
Maybe so, it was sold out so he still has the pull.

660 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:26:04am

re: #649 infidelia

Ah, I see it's atheist-bashing time. I did promise myself I'd do the ironing this morning to I think I'll wander out of the line of fire. Good day to y'all!

See?

LOL

{Infidelia}

No bash intended on my part, ask any of the heathens here

:~}

661 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:26:08am

re: #633 infidelia Well the next day I headed by foot (no cars, no busses, no subways) down there to donate blood (this was before the cancer when I coulda donated blood) and it was.................I just can't describe it or even want to think about it anymore.
But they were turning blood donars away - they knew that there weren't gonna be needing it, cuase there wasn't going to be any survivors.
Haven't felt such RAGE at such a high level for such a long period of time in my life.
Still gets me too worked up to discuss it anymore.
Sorry.

662 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:26:10am

ah, I had my biscuits, the mini-wheats had their various treats, and the wife is not finishing off the last biscuit. I haven't done that in ages, it was sinfully good.

663 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:26:39am

re: #659 conservgirl

Maybe so, it was sold out so he still has the pull.



He will ALWAYS have the pull, lol

664 Geepers  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:27:18am

BabbaZee (#648),

Overgrown Acres is the place to be!

Yeah I like it (despite all the back breaking labor.)

Lots of wildlife too, I kind of cater to them.

665 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:27:19am

re: #645 yma o hyd

Thats definitely worth a try!

There's an island off the North coast of Wales, called Bardsey island - monks used to live tehre, its very difficult to get to.
In the ruins of tehir Abbey, an incredibly ancient apple tree survives, and one nursery owner in North Wales is allowed on the island to take a few cuttings every year. some take, some don't - so he's got a long waiting list ...
I managed to get one, on dwarfing stock, two years ago. Its flowering now, still very small, so no apples as yet ..

So - go for it, they could graft it on a dwarfing rootstock, then you can grow in in a biggish planter!

That would be neat! I wonder if I would have to do anything to the planter here with all the snow and ice we get. I don't know the history of this tree, but the people I'm thinking of sending it to offer grafts from an authentic, documented Johnny Appleseed tree. Last one known. The apples aren't all that apparently, but the history is cool.

666 godfrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:27:31am

Cocodrie!

667 Pro-Bush Canuck  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:28:42am

Got it with the Amazon "one-click" ordering system. Feels like pulling a rigger :)

There Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind

Here is the Wikipedia link on him, however I put almost no faith in Wikipedia any more after Canadian journalist Lawrence Solomon caught them employing leftist "police squads" consisting of hundreds of people who do nothing all day except enforce leftist views and reverse any classical liberal or conservative views.

Anthony Flew

668 yma o hyd  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:28:46am

re: #646 BabbaZee

That is a brilliant, brilliant book!

At the back, he printed questions and answers he exchanged with one of the outstanding NT theologians, Tom Wright, Bishop of Durham, here in England. He's often in the USA, and his books about NT theology are without compare.

669 BulgarWheat  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:28:48am

I'll be back in a little while. I think I'm going to go take a biscuit induced nap.

670 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:28:49am

re: #663 BabbaZee
LOL!

671 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:28:59am

re: #664 Geepers

BabbaZee (#648),

Yeah I like it (despite all the back breaking labor.)

Lots of wildlife too, I kind of cater to them.

we do too

672 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:29:24am

re: #669 BulgarWheat
Bye Bulgar, sounds good.

673 yma o hyd  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:30:05am

re: #650 DesertSage

Excellent news!

674 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:30:13am

re: #650 DesertSage Oh man, that's SO GOOD TO HEAR! I was worried for you all night!
I'm truly glad that you're ok - they figure on getting it under control or at least away from you today?!

675 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:30:36am

re: #668 yma o hyd

That is a brilliant, brilliant book!

At the back, he printed questions and answers he exchanged with one of the outstanding NT theologians, Tom Wright, Bishop of Durham, here in England. He's often in the USA, and his books about NT theology are without compare.

I will check his work out thanks.

Yes

One day Hitchens will come into the wisdom of the way too. I know. I am praying him into it, LOL.

Imagine the monster man of GOD he would be.

Talk about a modern Saul/Paul!

676 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:30:40am

re: #651 Geepers

galloping granny (#643),

I'd be glad to get rid of them. I can probably get you 10-20 gallons no problem.

My grandpa went every year to gather butternuts. No matter where we were, a big box showed up every year about Thanksgiving full of New England apples and butternuts. They always spell "home" to me. Nothing like my Grandma's butternut cake.re: #653 conservgirl

What is a butternut? I have never heard of one.

Oh yes you have heard of butternuts. Butternut husks were used to dye the fabric for the "uniforms" that were worn by American soldiers during the Revolution and Confederate soldiers during the War Between the States. You can also make a black dye of it with the addition of a couple of things - women in the south used it to dye widow's weeds.

It is a kind of walnut native to North America. Sometimes called "white walnut."

677 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:31:46am

re: #651 Geepers

galloping granny (#643),

I'd be glad to get rid of them. I can probably get you 10-20 gallons no problem.

Anytime. I'll email you.

678 Geepers  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:31:49am

conservgirl (#653)

Butternut Tree.

Kin to the walnut.

They used the husks to die Confederate uniforms that yellow-gray.

679 irongrampa  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:31:56am

We have a back deck that's ideal for watching the various forms of wildlife, but the Committee won't permit harvesting some of it for food, unfortunately.

680 godfrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:32:04am

Lawrence Simon on Wikipedia. First of a series. Should be innertestining.

681 godfrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:32:25am

re: #675 BabbaZee

I'm glad to hear that makes two of us praying for him.

682 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:33:18am
683 Lucius Septimius  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:33:20am

re: #676 galloping granny


It is a kind of walnut native to North America. Sometimes called "white walnut."

A typical white walnut?

684 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:33:44am

re: #681 godfrey

{godfrey}

He was informed I am doing this praying for him BTW.

Bwaha

685 godfrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:34:04am

"Notorious atheist." lol - the two words often go together. Seems like a title they like to court.

Babba, do you qualify as a "notorious theist"?

Maybe we all do, rive gauche. Not bad, not bad at all.

686 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:34:05am

re: #678 Geepers Kin to?
Looks just like a Walnut to me! But those trees are just magnificent!

687 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:34:05am

re: #683 Lucius Septimius

A typical white walnut?

That's just how white walnuts'll do ya

688 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:34:17am

re: #676 galloping granny
Oh, I will look for it now. I don't think we have a lot of butternut trees here in the South? Maybe they call them something else.

689 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:34:42am

re: #685 godfrey

"Notorious atheist." lol - the two words often go together. Seems like a title they like to court.

Babba, do you qualify as a "notorious theist"?

Maybe we all do, rive gauche. Not bad, not bad at all.

LOLOLOLOL

A notorious theist.

I love it

690 DesertSage  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:34:48am

re: #674 realwest

Thanks. It's moving west along the foothills and the worst has already past my house. They said they'll have it contained by tonight.

691 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:35:09am

re: #630 conservgirl

Gulp, what an experience.

20,000 or so miles of hitchhiking and surprising that was the only bad experience. I visited every state in the continental United States and with the sole exception of NYC everywhere I went I was met with generosity and kindness by wonderful people who were eager to listen to my tales of what I had seen and delighted to show me their communities as if to add their own chapter to my stories. I played guitar and drank beer with Texans in private clubs in Dallas/Fort Worth, smoked home grown skunk buds in Arkansas, drank white lightning in Virgina, went hunting for deer in Pennsylvania, camped by the Plate river in Nebraska with two German girls on vacation here. Hung out with a bunch of bikers in Georgia (Sons of Silence MC), hiked up the Appalachian trail, drank moonshine with hillbillies in Tennessee, got hit on by girls at Harvard, went to a wild bon fire/orgie/party in Upstate New York. Man it was a glorious trip. People here in the US really are good people...

692 ethanxxx  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:35:37am

Good Morning Oh Wise Lizards.!

693 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:35:50am

re: #688 conservgirl

Oh, I will look for it now. I don't think we have a lot of butternut trees here in the South? Maybe they call them something else.

You probably do not have a lot of them in Mississippi. Virginia, West Virginia and the mountains of Carolina and TN you'll find them now and then. Hickory nuts too.

694 yma o hyd  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:36:00am

re: #665 galloping granny

They may be able to identify the apple species for you as well, if you have photos of its flowers, and apples, you never know.

I've got a thing for old, acnietn varieties of apples, too.
I got one which is called 'Court Pendu Plat', its still only a few years old, and not doing too well, pretty flowers, but no apples as yet.
If you got the space, its worth preserving the old varieties.
As for Winter - a planter is quite easily wrapped in agricultural fleece, its certainly easier than wrapping a whole big, huge, rampant tree!

695 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:36:35am

re: #658 irongrampa

You just harshed my mellow.

lol

696 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:36:44am

re: #678 Geepers
Looks like a walnut, the meat does. We must have some then if the Rebels used it to die the uniforms. Thanks for posting this for me.

697 Geepers  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:36:51am

galloping granny (#677),

My grandpa went every year to gather butternuts. No matter where we were, a big box showed up every year about Thanksgiving full of New England apples and butternuts. They always spell "home" to me.

Nice.

698 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:37:13am

re: #690 DesertSage
Whew! I'm really glad to hear that!
Uh, y'all don't have to answer my e-mail now! LOL!

699 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:37:16am

re: #692 ethanxxx

Good Morning Oh Wise Lizards.!

Good Morning!

700 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:37:37am

re: #692 ethanxxx
morning ethanxxxx.

701 godfrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:37:53am

Dorian, outstanding. You sound a bit like Eustace Conway, at least as far as some things go. His biographer, Elizabeth Gilbert, is a gal to make the heart sing.

702 yma o hyd  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:38:18am

re: #675 BabbaZee

There is a websitre where his most recent papers, interviews and sermons are put up:
[Link: www.ntwrightpage.com...]

You can check him out there without having to shell out first, as it were ...

703 Pro-Bush Canuck  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:38:20am

re: #689 BabbaZee

Yes Hitchens is bursting at the seams to acknowledge his Creator. Almost everything he writes is keenly observed and carefully argued. His writings on religion sound -- with no exaggeration -- like the product of a somewhat anti-social 12 year old.

It's like he's trying to prove the point via making himself look absurd...

704 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:38:44am

re: #693 galloping granny

I knew we had the hickory nuts. I will have to ask about M-I-L about the butternut tree.

705 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:38:49am

re: #692 ethanxxx

Good morning neighbor (sorta! LOL!) How are you doing this fine morning?

706 Geepers  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:39:19am

Speaking of which it's too nice a day not to be toiling in the yard.

Later Lizards.

707 ethanxxx  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:39:20am

Walnut Trivia.

A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds are on the nut just like the neo-cortex. We now know that walnuts help develop over 3 dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.

708 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:39:28am

re: #702 yma o hyd

That is fabulous, thank you!

709 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:39:45am

re: #647 conservgirl

Looks like a kangaroo to me, especially in Oz.

Look at the 'roo's mouse.

710 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:40:10am

re: #691 doriangrey I knew you were an interesting sort. I wish I could buy you a beer and ask you ton of questions. That is great.

711 nyc redneck  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:40:33am

re: #575 galloping granny

Wow! It sounds like you have quite a friend :) I always have room for more plants. I don't mow. Growing up my dad was adamant about just three things: women do not mow, women do not clean the oven - ever - and nobody drives a car until they know how to take care of one. So, I can change a tire or an engine but I have never mowed a lawn in my life and the only oven I have ever cleaned was the self cleaning kind. (Dad made the ex swear he would do all the mowing & oven cleaning.) The daughter mows, but she does not like to mow, so we are in the process of getting rid of almost all of the grass.

The side yard is going to be a corn field before the month is out, a big chunk of the front yard just had a deck built over it and more of that yet is going to go to a big raised bed bordering the deck for blueberry bushes and a fence along the drive for grape vines. I want a peach tree or a pie cherry tree for the little bit that is left but can't make up my mind which.

get a dwarf cherry and a dwarf peach. then you can have both. i have 2 dwarf cherry trees and get quite a bit if fruit.

712 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:41:07am

re: #709 MandyManners
Oh, didn't expand it. LOL. You are right!

713 ethanxxx  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:41:34am

re: #705 realwest

Good morning neighbor (sorta! LOL!) How are you doing this fine morning?

I was actually in your beautiful city yesterday. I took my daughter to Carowinds... I should have taken some Sun Screen too. I look like I spent the weekend at the beach.

714 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:41:39am

re: #706 Geepers

Bye Geeps.

BTW I suppressed twelve urges to hug you today.
Next time I may loose it.

LOL

have a good one

715 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:41:44am

re: #657 yma o hyd

Don't let an Aussie hear you say that!

(They're very proud of their wildlife - which is indeed fascinating ... well, as long as I don't have to live next to it!)

I've always wanted koala bear but, I've heard they're mean.

716 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:41:57am

re: #707 ethanxxx
You are just full of knowledge Ethan. Did you have some Johnny Walker this weekend?

717 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:42:30am

re: #703 Pro-Bush Canuck

It's coming.
If his liver does not flee his body in terror first.

lol

718 hayseed  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:42:35am

re: #650 DesertSage

that's great news

719 sattv4u2  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:43:12am

re: #716 conservgirl

You are just full of knowledge Ethan. Did you have some Johnny Walker this weekend?

no ,,, but he DID stay at a Holiday Inn Express ,,,, later today, i'm going to have him dp brain surgery on me !

720 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:43:36am

re: #713 ethanxxx Huh. Well you musta left Carowinds pretty early, cause around 4:00PM we had rain, thunder and lightning like crazy around here!
Glad y'all had a good time though!

721 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:43:44am

re: #694 yma o hyd

They may be able to identify the apple species for you as well, if you have photos of its flowers, and apples, you never know.

I've got a thing for old, acnietn varieties of apples, too.
I got one which is called 'Court Pendu Plat', its still only a few years old, and not doing too well, pretty flowers, but no apples as yet.
If you got the space, its worth preserving the old varieties.
As for Winter - a planter is quite easily wrapped in agricultural fleece, its certainly easier than wrapping a whole big, huge, rampant tree!


Unfortunately we don't have pics of any of that. Just bought the property a couple of years back and the apple tree was already long since a mess when we bought it. Might be able to have the photog daughter use her telephoto to capture a decent picture or two this year. When I tell you this tree is tall, I mean it. The bottom of the trunk is about 2 feet in diameter.

If you ever get over this way holler. There is an orchard not far from here that specializes in old varieties - has close to a hundred of them.

722 yma o hyd  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:44:31am

re: #715 MandyManners

Dunno about them being mean - but bears they're not - they're the same family like kangaroos, i.e. marsupials.

(Aww, I loves it when I can wisecrack now and then, teeheehee!)


Link:[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

723 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:44:49am

re: #717 BabbaZee
Is he a drinker? I am reading Souza's book, What's So Great About Christianity? He debated Hitchens a while back.

724 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:44:52am

re: #683 Lucius Septimius

A typical white walnut?

HA!

725 winston06  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:45:37am

good morning every one

726 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:45:55am

re: #723 conservgirl

Is he a drinker? I am reading Souza's book, What's So Great About Christianity? He debated Hitchens a while back.


Is the Pope Catholic?

Does a bear shit in the woods?

or as we used to say in the BX

Does the pope shit in the woods?

he puts the Al in Alchie

727 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:46:00am

re: #687 BabbaZee

That's just how white walnuts'll do ya

Especially the bitter ones.

728 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:46:21am

re: #704 conservgirl

I knew we had the hickory nuts. I will have to ask about M-I-L about the butternut tree.

Well if you know you have 'em, for heaven's sake don't leave them all for the squirrels. Hickory nuts are some fine eating!

729 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:46:37am

re: #719 sattv4u2
LOL. I thought that was Ethan's drink of choice, could not remember.

730 yma o hyd  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:46:54am

re: #721 galloping granny

Aww, thanks! Sure will do - I'm a total apple addict, pity is all the nice old varieties have been grubbed up and in the shops you can only get stuff which is so tasteles, one might as well bite into a raw potato!

Thus I'm growing things in pure self-defense!

731 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:47:15am

re: #727 MandyManners

Especially the bitter ones.

Gawd Dayum Merrruca

732 nyc redneck  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:47:24am

re: #715 MandyManners

I've always wanted koala bear but, I've heard they're mean.

i think all they eat is eucalyptus leaves. you're going to need to plant a tree.

733 godfrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:47:32am

Does Hitchens drink? lol

There's some good video around.

He's haunted.

734 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:47:35am

re: #715 MandyManners
I think it sorta depends on their age - gotta photo of my Grandfather holding one (with it's arms around his neck, nuzzling cheek to cheek sorta) when he was in Oz during WWII - then have seen the cute little things go clawing and biting at kids on TV shows. I mean, they ARE BEARS! LOL!

735 sattv4u2  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:47:38am

re: #729 conservgirl

LOL. I thought that was Ethan's drink of choice, could not remember.

well ,,, seeing you're the keeper of drinking records ,,,, put me down for Vodka Martinis ,,, stright up with olives ,,,,

736 Pro-Bush Canuck  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:47:43am

re: #723 conservgirl

De Souza's book isn't bad, and he's a good man for sure. However IMHO he doesn't quite have the intellectual horsepower to simply crush people like Hitchens. A Gagdad Bob (fellow Lizard) or a David Berlinski has that sort of high-wattage mind that makes short work of the atheist crowd and their incoherent (to them, "common sense") mutterings.

737 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:48:02am

re: #728 galloping granny
I meant in the South, don't think I have ever eaten a Hickory nut. This is very informative for me. What do they taste like? A walnut?

738 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:48:42am

re: #733 godfrey

Does Hitchens drink? lol

There's some good video around.

He's haunted.

Most indubitably.

I cast thee out, Al K. Hallic!

739 nyc redneck  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:49:14am

re: #725 winston06

good morning every one

good morning, winston06. how is your day unfolding?

740 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:49:20am

re: #736 Pro-Bush Canuck
I thought Souza did pretty well, I saw a recap on National Review. Will have to check the other ones out though.

741 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:49:44am

re: #640 realwest

"I very courageously ran my ass off down the road, across a vacant lot through a industrial park and got lost for several hours....." You were probably more at risk then, then you were when the throat slitters were around.

Yup, but at that point I was scared beyond the point of rational thought... 4000 miles from home and nobody knew where I was (or so I thought at the time). When I got to Connecticut a retired UN Navy submarine Captain was waiting for me. Turned out he was a boyhood friend of my grandfather. Through his military Intelligence contacts he had been following my every move from the day I left San Diego. Apparently he was keeping some promise he had made my grandfather. He drove me to the family home on Nantucket Island and showed me the bronze plaque in front of the Nantucket City hall building with my grandfathers name on it.

Let me tell you it freaked me out when I walked up to his car and he addressed me by name. He got out of the car said hello Mr Walker, looked at his watch, shook his head and said, hmm, you're about an hour late... What kept you? I nearly shit my pants on the spot....

742 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:49:45am

re: #735 sattv4u2
Me too, dirty though.

743 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:50:22am

re: #730 yma o hyd

Aww, thanks! Sure will do - I'm a total apple addict, pity is all the nice old varieties have been grubbed up and in the shops you can only get stuff which is so tasteles, one might as well bite into a raw potato!

Thus I'm growing things in pure self-defense!

Me too! Almost everything I grow is an older variety that has long since disappeared from the commercial world. The produce our supermarkets carry is often pretty nasty. Tomatoes at $4 the pound and the only thing you can say for them is that they are wet. Completely tasteless. I threw a party last year during tomato harvest and over half of my guests sat around the big platter of tomatoes I put out eating them straight from the platter. Might as well not have bothered to serve anything else.

744 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:50:42am

re: #731 BabbaZee
You sound like you are from Mississip!

745 jaunte  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:51:04am

re: #667 Pro-Bush Canuck

... however I put almost no faith in Wikipedia any more after Canadian journalist Lawrence Solomon caught them employing leftist "police squads" consisting of hundreds of people who do nothing all day except enforce leftist views and reverse any classical liberal or conservative views.

Thanks for the reference; I was curious and found this Lawrence Solomon story about his experience with a wikipedia editor patrolling the climate change subject:
[Link: www.urban-renaissance.org...]

746 ethanxxx  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:51:28am

re: #729 conservgirl

You're right. Johnny Walker Black Label. Good memory. I knew I was hanging out with you people for a reason.
No... I didn't drink any this weekend... yet. My other drink of choice is Milk. Drank plenty of that this weekend.

747 yma o hyd  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:51:32am

re: #741 doriangrey

Yup, but at that point I was scared beyond the point of rational thought... 4000 miles from home and nobody knew where I was (or so I thought at the time). When I got to Connecticut a retired UN Navy submarine Captain was waiting for me. Turned out he was a boyhood friend of my grandfather. Through his military Intelligence contacts he had been following my every move from the day I left San Diego. Apparently he was keeping some promise he had made my grandfather. He drove me to the family home on Nantucket Island and showed me the bronze plaque in front of the Nantucket City hall building with my grandfathers name on it.

Let me tell you it freaked me out when I walked up to his car and he addressed me by name. He got out of the car said hello Mr Walker, looked at his watch, shook his head and said, hmm, you're about an hour late... What kept you? I nearly shit my pants on the spot....


Blimey!
Thats simply awesome!

748 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:51:32am

re: #726 BabbaZee
Never knew that about Hitch.

749 Attaboid  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:51:47am

A young woman in a hijab smiled back at me this morning. What's up with that?

750 godfrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:52:00am

yma

Good for you. My pap grew apples, grapes, and everything else. I can still almost smell and taste them. The explosively sour apples with their crisp skins. The grapes that had silky sweet interiors and skins you slipped off to chew in a bunch. The green peppers that turned almost black, they were so green, and had that faint smell of crude oil. The onions you pulled up by the hair, that when you cut them, the juice was milky...

751 McJenny50  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:52:03am

Where's the thread about the Obama interview on Fox?

752 Pro-Bush Canuck  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:52:36am

re: #740 conservgirl

The sort of thing I'm talking about is of limited interest, but critical in an "academic" sense. De Souza is 100% correct and like I said an excellent advocate. There are highly technical metaphysical and philosophical reasons why atheism is completely untenable. The more advanced (complex) thinkers are able to show with almost mathematical precision why atheism is technically impossible to sustain if one wishes to be rational.

753 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:52:36am

re: #746 ethanxxx
With chocolate?

754 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:52:40am

re: #722 yma o hyd

Dunno about them being mean - but bears they're not - they're the same family like kangaroos, i.e. marsupials.

(Aww, I loves it when I can wisecrack now and then, teeheehee!)


Link:[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]


Well I reckon I was wrong about the bear part of my #734, but I do note that the entry says: "Koalas that are disturbed are known to be violent, their teeth and claws capable of causing considerable injury to humans;" so I'd still be real careful around 'em!

755 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:52:52am

re: #736 Pro-Bush Canuck

I don't do the so smart argument thing anymore.

Which really pisses people off, I find.

LOL!
Futile IMO
No one is ever transformed that way.

IMO it is an extension of our carnal urge to glorify self and relates to intellectual I Me Minery and therefore violates #1 directly.

Which is why Jesus never did it.

I approach the whole thing from another angle now

756 godfrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:52:58am

re: #741 doriangrey

Write the book, Dorian.

757 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:53:00am

re: #737 conservgirl

I meant in the South, don't think I have ever eaten a Hickory nut. This is very informative for me. What do they taste like? A walnut?

They taste like hickory nuts. I don't remember whether hickories are ones which shed their husks as they drop. If they do you just pick them up and use them. If not, spread them out somewhere that is dry and rodent proof for a few weeks until the husks dry. Better pick up a lot of them :)

758 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:53:39am

re: #751 McJenny50

Where's the thread about the Obama interview on Fox?

Poor man needs to sleep too, LOL.

Give him some Sunday Morning loll-time.

759 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:53:40am

re: #752 Pro-Bush Canuck
I know you are right and you are above my head.

760 akak  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:54:01am

D'Souza vs Spencer
was better

761 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:54:03am

re: #756 godfrey

Write the book, Dorian.

seconded

762 ethanxxx  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:54:09am

re: #753 conservgirl

With chocolate?

Nope... Straight Up! I'm a Rebel.

763 irongrampa  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:54:34am

re: #757 galloping granny

Ever have beechnuts?

764 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:54:40am

re: #757 galloping granny
Well never had one.

765 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:55:18am

re: #749 Attaboid

A young woman in a hijab smiled back at me this morning. What's up with that?

I hope her father and brothers did not see her do it

766 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:55:24am

re: #764 conservgirl
Husband just said he had though, I guess I have lived a sheltered life!

767 hayseed  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:55:49am

re: #749 Attaboid

not all Muslims are nuts.......

768 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:56:11am

re: #763 irongrampa

Ever have beechnuts?

If I have it was so very long ago that I don't remember the taste of them.

769 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:56:11am

re: #762 ethanxxx
You are a wild one Ethanxxx. Have not seen you in a while, sounds like you had a good weekend with your daughter.

770 Lucius Septimius  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:56:28am

re: #765 BabbaZee

I hope her father and brothers did not see her do it

I knew of two students -- Turkish -- one of whom wore the hijab, the other does not. The one who does not is actually much more polite. She also thinks her sister is a nut-job.

771 godfrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:56:40am

re: #749 Attaboid

It means the girl was kufred.

772 nyc redneck  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:56:42am

re: #757 galloping granny

They taste like hickory nuts. I don't remember whether hickories are ones which shed their husks as they drop. If they do you just pick them up and use them. If not, spread them out somewhere that is dry and rodent proof for a few weeks until the husks dry. Better pick up a lot of them :)

hickory nuts have hulls that come off in sections. this is one of the hardest nuts to crack. the shell is basically wood. we used to gather them out in the forest and bring them home, sit on the floor and crack them on bricks w/ a hammer. they are so delicious and worth the effort.

773 McJenny50  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:56:43am

re: #757 galloping granny

They taste like hickory nuts. I don't remember whether hickories are ones which shed their husks as they drop. If they do you just pick them up and use them. If not, spread them out somewhere that is dry and rodent proof for a few weeks until the husks dry. Better pick up a lot of them :)

I have a hickory nut tree in my front yard. Seems that every other year is a good one for producing. My mom would use the nuts to make a hickory nut cake and that involved a lot of cracking and picking out the actual nut.

774 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:56:55am

re: #741 doriangrey Yeah, me too, especially as how I thought your name was Grey!
Might (or might not) want that post deleted my friend.

775 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:56:58am

re: #764 conservgirl

Well never had one.

Try them. You'll like them. MUCH better than the commercial stuff you buy at the store.

776 mjazzguitar  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:57:00am

re: #704 conservgirl

I knew we had the hickory nuts. I will have to ask about M-I-L about the butternut tree.

How the heck do you eat butternuts? I had two in my backyard I cut down. It was like kicking the squirrels out of paradise. But the fruits were these big green things.

777 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:57:29am

re: #744 conservgirl

;~}

One time I sat in a bar all night doing a southern drawl
at the end of the night I went back to the ole' Bronx sneer.

Freaked people who did not know me out

lol

/good at mimicking sounds

778 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:57:49am

re: #772 nyc redneck

hickory nuts have hulls that come off in sections. this is one of the hardest nuts to crack. the shell is basically wood. we used to gather them out in the forest and bring them home, sit on the floor and crack them on bricks w/ a hammer. they are so delicious and worth the effort.

That's about the same way you do butternuts. Worth every second of effort to get at them.

779 Pro-Bush Canuck  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:57:55am

re: #755 BabbaZee

I don't do the so smart argument thing anymore.

Which really pisses people off, I find.

LOL!
Futile IMO
No one is ever transformed that way.

IMO it is an extension of our carnal urge to glorify self and relates to intellectual I Me Minery and therefore violates #1 directly.

Which is why Jesus never did it.

I approach the whole thing from another angle now

I know exactly what you're talking about. For 99% of cases I agree. Personally I have some people in my life -- people who pride themselves on being rigorously rational -- who ARE suspectible to this sort of technical debate. As Berlinski says about one syllogism: "many men have been brought to devotion on far less".

Anyhow, I agree but reserve the right to use this tool where warranted :-)

780 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:57:58am

re: #741 doriangrey
You definitely should write a book. This is an amazing story.

781 nyc redneck  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:58:22am

we always called them" hickor' nuts.

782 yma o hyd  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:58:45am

re: #743 galloping granny

When we still had our allotment, I got lots of Heritage seeds from an organisation which is attached to the Organic Gardening Foundation.
You only get a few seeds, and are supposed to save some for next year.
Some really brilliant gardeners are sort of custodians for a specific species, and send all the seeds to that Heritage seed organisation, to distribute.
I got some fabulous climbing French beans from them, broccoli, carrots, some fantastic varieties of lettuce, parsnips - unfortunately there were lots of field mice in the allotments, so the beetroot was a bit hit-and-miss, but still sufficient for pickling, and actually eating warm!

Best, of course, is to have a nice big garden at the back of the house and just nip out to harvest what is ripe, for immediate cooking ...

783 godfrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:59:20am

I remember black walnuts in the bottomland pasture. They were fifty feet high. There were so many fruits, we never got more than twenty feet into the pasture from the road. When we hit them with hammers on the concrete, the pulp would spatter as juicy as any orange.

784 hayseed  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:59:37am

does anyone have Pawpaw trees? when I was kid we had some growing by the creek behind the house.

785 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:59:40am

re: #779 Pro-Bush Canuck

THEY subscribe to it.

Exactly.

So, you are playing an "away" game when you step on their field.

Their terms, their definitions.

Never let the opposition set the terms and the language of the "debate"

786 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 7:59:46am

re: #776 mjazzguitar

How the heck do you eat butternuts? I had two in my backyard I cut down. It was like kicking the squirrels out of paradise. But the fruits were these big green things.

You CUT THEM DOWN? Oh. . . . . you take those green things and pile them up in a basket. Haul the basket somewhere warm, dry and rodent proof (Gramps used to dry them in the eaves in the attic.) Let them dry till the green husks shrivel up - they'll turn almost black. When you want some get a hammer and start in. Boy oh boy are they good!

787 haakondahl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:00:15am

re: #738 BabbaZee

Most indubitably.

I cast thee out, Al K. Hallic!

But Hitchens can whip the crap out of any leftist, even with one liver tied behind his back.

788 Attaboid  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:00:34am

re: #767 hayseed

Amen.

789 godfrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:00:40am

re: #782 yma o hyd

The good life, yma! Thanks for the Heritage tip. I buy from Seeds of Change, but I could do without their sanctimony.

790 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:00:53am

re: #777 BabbaZee
You would have fun imitating my husband, he has a very Southern Drawl. Not a country one but a Southern one.

Me Midwestern/Southern going on. Not interesting at all.

791 mjazzguitar  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:00:55am

Why is it when replying sometimes after re the number is blue and you can click it to see the comment & at other times it's black?

792 McJenny50  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:01:01am

re: #773 McJenny50

I have a hickory nut tree in my front yard. Seems that every other year is a good one for producing. My mom would use the nuts to make a hickory nut cake and that involved a lot of cracking and picking out the actual nut.

Come to think of it, there is one in my backyard,too. If this is a good year for them, I'd be more than happy to send a few to anyone that would like try them.

793 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:01:02am

re: #784 hayseed

does anyone have Pawpaw trees? when I was kid we had some growing by the creek behind the house.



No but I feel a song coming on

lol

794 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:01:14am

re: #787 haakondahl

But Hitchens can whip the crap out of any leftist, even with one liver tied behind his back.

AMEN!

795 irongrampa  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:01:21am

re: #778 galloping granny

Lotsa fun getting the stains off your fingers, too.

796 nyc redneck  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:01:21am

re: #783 godfrey

I remember black walnuts in the bottomland pasture. They were fifty feet high. There were so many fruits, we never got more than twenty feet into the pasture from the road. When we hit them with hammers on the concrete, the pulp would spatter as juicy as any orange.

the astringent green hull on an unripe black walnut is very good for treating skin disorders.

797 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:01:45am

We don't need no stinkin' organs!

~ Babba & Hitch

798 Attaboid  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:01:58am

re: #771 godfrey

I wasn't wearing my kafir t-shirt at the time.
/use it sparingly

799 Lucius Septimius  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:02:13am

re: #777 BabbaZee

/good at mimicking sounds

Me too. It's almost a reflex.

800 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:02:23am

re: #784 hayseed Um, what's a "Pawpaw" ?!

801 godfrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:02:24am

re: #796 nyc redneck

Hm. Well, we wore rubber dish gloves.

802 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:02:26am
the astringent green hull on an unripe black walnut

kinda rolllls right off the tongue, dunnit

803 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:02:43am

re: #799 Lucius Septimius

Me too. It's almost a reflex.

Why am I not suprised?
lol

804 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:02:59am

re: #784 hayseed

does anyone have Pawpaw trees? when I was kid we had some growing by the creek behind the house.

Nope. We have tons of wild grapes growing nearby. One of the biggest harvests I've seen in years last fall. I put up several dozen jars of wild grape jelly. We also have a hawthorn tree down the road. Those look like crab apples, except they are only about 1/2-3/4 inch across.

805 mjazzguitar  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:03:13am

re: #783 godfrey

I remember black walnuts in the bottomland pasture. They were fifty feet high. There were so many fruits, we never got more than twenty feet into the pasture from the road. When we hit them with hammers on the concrete, the pulp would spatter as juicy as any orange.

I think with black walnut you can get a lot of money for the wood. I heard they even x-ray it first, I don't know how true that is.

806 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:03:42am

re: #775 galloping granny
Seriously, I have never seen them in the stores. Where have I been? I do not think they are as prevalent in the areas where I have lived. This has to be the case. I will search them out now.

807 yma o hyd  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:03:45am

re: #750 godfrey

Gardening is one of the best hobbies anybody can have.
Its not just the smell of the soil, and the chats with neighbours across the fence - above all it teaches one patience and vigilance.

Btw - if any of you have problems with slugs and snails (I must have the biggest colony in my back garden this side of the river Taff here in Cardiff!), forget about beer traps (waste of a good drink!), slug pellets and all that stuff:
drape a few limp lettuce or cabbage leaves around all the plants you want to protect: slugs will feed there and leave everything else alone; better than just chucking the leaves onto the compost.

808 nyc redneck  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:03:47am

re: #784 hayseed

does anyone have Pawpaw trees? when I was kid we had some growing by the creek behind the house.

i love pawpaws. what a delicious fruit. i have used them to make banana bread. well, pawpaw bread. we always joked abt the name. pawpaw.
also wild persimmons are wonderful. tho, please let them fully ripen. other wise you get the pucker syndrome.

809 irongrampa  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:04:05am

re: #795 irongrampa

Lotsa fun getting the stains off your fingers, too.

Think I confused that with a black walnut.

810 godfrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:04:21am

re: #805 mjazzguitar

Hey, mjazz. Yeah, I think that's right. And these guys had plenty of board feet in them. Straight as can be.

811 hayseed  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:04:28am

re: #793 BabbaZee


No but I feel a song coming on

lol

lol Babba....only you could come up with a diddy about Pawpaws

812 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:04:57am

re: #796 nyc redneck
Um, good morning to youse! How is it a nyc person knows so much about trees?!?!

813 ethanxxx  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:05:25am

Did anybody watch the Correspondence Dinner last night from the White House? I'm sure CSPAN or someone will be playing it again today. It's worth watching... Very Funny.

814 Lucius Septimius  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:05:39am
815 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:05:54am

re: #805 mjazzguitar
My husband sells it and confirms that is expensive, the lumber is going for $4.78 a board foot. He just told me that! LOL.

816 godfrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:06:00am

re: #807 yma o hyd

! I'll try that, thanks!

/I loved Wales, by the way -- spent a few days around Wrexham, Llangollen

817 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:06:21am

re: #779 Pro-Bush Canuck

Anyhow, I agree but reserve the right to use this tool where warranted :-)

You do it becasue you enjoy it...

Anyway
Remember my friend Most Excellent Festus?

Anyway, Paul convinces him, right?
So what does he do?
He says - Yes, I do believe you, but I reserve the right to stay this way for a while becasue it is convenient for me to do so right now, and I will get to all this crossing into an alternate universe and walking the truth like an earthly god shit later.

/I am not insane, Most Excellent Festus!

818 mjazzguitar  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:06:25am

re: #786 galloping granny

You CUT THEM DOWN? Oh. . . . . you take those green things and pile them up in a basket. Haul the basket somewhere warm, dry and rodent proof (Gramps used to dry them in the eaves in the attic.) Let them dry till the green husks shrivel up - they'll turn almost black. When you want some get a hammer and start in. Boy oh boy are they good!

Shoots still sprout out of them and cover the stumps, I think i actually got one butternut one year. Wow, I wish i knew.. it was real shady.

819 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:06:39am

re: #813 ethanxxx
It was hilarious, I liked GWB as the conductor.

820 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:06:41am

re: #811 hayseed

{hayseed!}

821 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:06:48am

re: #701 godfrey

Dorian, outstanding. You sound a bit like Eustace Conway, at least as far as some things go. His biographer, Elizabeth Gilbert, is a gal to make the heart sing.

Good lord no, not even close. I was just too stupid to realize that what I was doing might have been dangerous. Plus the good lord himself was obviously looking out for me since the only even remotely dangerous thing to happen on the entire trip was the incident in NYC.

Yes the trip did leave me unable to comprehend the liberal blame America first crowds twisted view of America. My personal first hand experience with my fellow Americans is that the vast majority of them are genuinely caring and generous people. I very seriously doubt that America has changed all that much in the last 20 years.

Perhaps the thing that struck me the most was just how much pride most Americans take in their hospitality and the communities that they live in. They seem to take the attitude that the next state over is nice, but not as nice as their own, nor are the people in the next state over quite as friendly. So much so that the people in some states (Texas and Virgina especially) seem to feel its a competition to prove that they live in god's little piece of heaven right here on earth.

822 yma o hyd  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:06:48am

re: #754 realwest

Definitely!
And those cute kangaroos - well, the males can knock a grown man down with their hind legs, no problem!
And thats just the nice, furry critters in Australia - the vermin are something else entirely: snakes, poison spiders, killer ants, toads, crocodiles - totally scary!

823 McJenny50  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:07:30am

re: #805 mjazzguitar

I think with black walnut you can get a lot of money for the wood. I heard they even x-ray it first, I don't know how true that is.

If black walnuts get x-rayed, it's probably looking for any nails that may have ever been pounded in for some reason. Saves the big saws from damage by the metal. I was told that a lot of single trees in a yard will get passed up for wood just because of the possibility of nails. Trees from a forest area are much preferable since the chance of metal is slim.

824 godfrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:07:35am

re: #821 doriangrey

Some people travel and come back jaded. Sounds like you did it right.

825 irongrampa  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:07:36am

The committee has indicated for the second time that domestic policy must be implemented (never had the nerve to wait for the 3rd indication) so I will say have a great day, lizards, and take care.

826 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:07:38am

re: #789 godfrey

The good life, yma! Thanks for the Heritage tip. I buy from Seeds of Change, but I could do without their sanctimony.

I did not buy anything from them this year. My favs are -

GrowItalian - Bill sells seeds from Italy in huge packages for very little. Also mushroom spore. Great seeds, great customer service.

Victory Seeds - I know some of the folks who provide seeds for these folks.

JL Hudson, Seedsman - seed bank, carries some pretty hard to find stuff. Inexpensive.

High Mowing - here in Vermont, I've had superb luck with everything.

No sanctimony from any of these.

827 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:07:39am

re: #811 hayseed
My husband calls his peepaw Diddy. Well his father is Diddy.

828 Macker  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:07:48am

Apologies to Stephen Sondheim, Judy Collins, and all amorous couples:

Not from a bitch,
More than a pair.
Superior drug-sniffing dogs
They do declare.
But where are the clones?
Quick, send in the clones.
Don’t bother...they’re here.

GOOD MORNING LIZARDS!

829 Pro-Bush Canuck  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:07:59am

re: #794 BabbaZee

AMEN!

Except that he is a life-long leftist.

Hitch has not fully abandoned Marxism. He deeply believes Ronald Reagan was one of the worst leaders in American history.

Don't count me in the Hug-a-Hitchens camp.

830 MandyManners  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:08:03am

Oops. Look at the clock. Gotta' go.

Later, loverly Lizards.

831 hayseed  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:08:35am

re: #800 realwest

Um, what's a "Pawpaw" ?!

pawpaw

832 nyc redneck  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:08:44am

re: #812 realwest

Um, good morning to youse! How is it a nyc person knows so much about trees?!?!

hey {real}, i have a good memory,
(also, i am blessed to be able to get out of town sometimes.)

833 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:08:59am

re: #821 doriangrey Yep, and they never seem to realize that North Carolina is "god's little piece of heaven right here on earth."!

834 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:09:07am

re: #782 yma o hyd

When we still had our allotment, I got lots of Heritage seeds from an organisation which is attached to the Organic Gardening Foundation.
You only get a few seeds, and are supposed to save some for next year.
Some really brilliant gardeners are sort of custodians for a specific species, and send all the seeds to that Heritage seed organisation, to distribute.
I got some fabulous climbing French beans from them, broccoli, carrots, some fantastic varieties of lettuce, parsnips - unfortunately there were lots of field mice in the allotments, so the beetroot was a bit hit-and-miss, but still sufficient for pickling, and actually eating warm!

Best, of course, is to have a nice big garden at the back of the house and just nip out to harvest what is ripe, for immediate cooking ...

I've heard of that group. Here in the US most of the seed preservation groups sell seeds rather than give them away.

835 godfrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:09:38am

re: #826 galloping granny

(falls out of chair) Yyyyyess! Thank you!

836 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:09:47am

re: #829 Pro-Bush Canuck

Except that he is a life-long leftist.

Hitch has not fully abandoned Marxism. He deeply believes Ronald Reagan was one of the worst leaders in American history.

Don't count me in the Hug-a-Hitchens camp.

I don't.

I love him despite all that he is wrong about.
I love lots of people that are wrong.

837 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:10:05am

re: #799 Lucius Septimius
I bet you have good material with some of your students in GA.

838 yma o hyd  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:10:31am

re: #816 godfrey

Yeah - its hugely impressive landscape up North.
Were you at that Music Festival they run in Llangollen every year?

839 pingjockey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:10:50am

re: #821 doriangrey

Ya ready to go to the beach yet?

840 Pro-Bush Canuck  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:10:54am

re: #836 BabbaZee

Amen to that.

Even Muslims in my case. I am working with an Egyptian and an Iranian right now -- both men could hardly be sweeter or less conforming to the Islamist stereotype.

841 alegrias  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:11:02am

re: #794 BabbaZee

AMEN!


* * *
Christopher Hitchens and his wife supposedly gave a party last night in DC for attendees of the White House Correspondents Dinner.

Did anyone see C-SPAN coverage of that last night? It was a hoot, President Bush was on about 9:15pm EST, then Craig Ferguson the Scottish newly minted citizen bashed the whiny New York Times and had several good lizardy jokes.

Maybe you all have already discussed this.

I am troubled meanwhile in Afghanistan the Taliban tried to decapitate Karzai & our US ambassador, after promising Pakistan they'd be nice & easy. Maybe Obama was right, Pakistan's Northwest Frontier area harboring Taliban should be surgically struck.

842 Render  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:11:30am

huh?

I've got like 20 something black walnut trees in my yard. They drop green softball size meteors at terminal velocity (hard enough to dent car roofs and punch holes in plastic lawn furniture). They're freaking ankle breakers and apparently taste really nasty to young Dobermans that mistake them for tennis balls.

WE
HATES
EM,
R

843 jaydee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:11:42am

Breaking

Assassination attempt in Afghanistan on Karzai and US Embassador, 2 killed and some wounded.

844 godfrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:11:51am

re: #836 BabbaZee

And when Hitchens savaged Mother Theresa, it was as if all he did was moon her. Wow. I'm impress.

I'm sure that ingratiated him with the shrivelled lefty crowd.

845 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:11:53am

re: #831 hayseed Well shoot, when the heck am I gonna remember to try Wiki instead of asking!
Thank you kindly!

846 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:12:15am

re: #831 hayseed
I think we bought these trees for the condo because they are quick growing trees. They died immediately though.

847 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:12:31am

PBC

Same reason I did not hate AI like everyone else around here did too -

If I see the "SPARK"
I don't care who thinks I am an ass
I don't care how many "bad" things the spark-ee is doing or has done
I will not put that individual on my pay no mind list till I see the spark bloom or I see that it has fled

848 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:12:44am

re: #807 yma o hyd

Gardening is one of the best hobbies anybody can have.
Its not just the smell of the soil, and the chats with neighbours across the fence - above all it teaches one patience and vigilance.

Btw - if any of you have problems with slugs and snails (I must have the biggest colony in my back garden this side of the river Taff here in Cardiff!), forget about beer traps (waste of a good drink!), slug pellets and all that stuff:
drape a few limp lettuce or cabbage leaves around all the plants you want to protect: slugs will feed there and leave everything else alone; better than just chucking the leaves onto the compost.

Now that is a tip that I will try! I tried beer last year in the lower gardens (luckily there are no slugs up on the hill amongst the veggies) and it did not work well. Course that might have been because the only beer handy was some nasty Magic Hat pumpkin stuff :)

849 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:13:19am

re: #780 conservgirl

You definitely should write a book. This is an amazing story.

ROTFLMAO.............Please.... nobody wants to read a book detailing just how generous caring and hospitable Americans are. It would end up being labeled as science fiction of the worst and most unbelievable kind...

850 Natasha  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:13:24am

gallopin' granny:

But the rolling motels on wheels that get 3 miles to the gallon on the highway, there are many fewer of those.

Good news for me. Because people driving those big-@$$ RVs tend to never notice motorcycles. It seems almost deliberate on their part.

851 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:13:28am

re: #828 Macker

Morning Macker

852 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:14:11am

re: #849 doriangrey
Silly it would sell in the South. We love books like that.

853 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:14:29am

re: #806 conservgirl

Seriously, I have never seen them in the stores. Where have I been? I do not think they are as prevalent in the areas where I have lived. This has to be the case. I will search them out now.

No, no, you misunderstand me. You cannot buy butternuts in stores - or hickories or beech for that matter. Nor black walnut, though I think I saw that once at a farm stand. I mean that these wild nuts are so much better than the all the same nuts that you get in a package from the store.

854 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:14:31am

re: #844 godfrey

And when Hitchens savaged Mother Theresa, it was as if all he did was moon her. Wow. I'm impress.

I'm sure that ingratiated him with the shrivelled lefty crowd.

His tongue will dig his grave in this respect
and then he will see

but he has to live long enough for that to happen
LOL

OR

it could happen instamatically, like lightning

855 opnion  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:14:33am

Anybody catch the Obama Fox interview?
He did not do badly, but I thought that he got away with a lot.
William Ayres?"I know him tangentially". Actually he launched his political carrer at the guys house
He believes that White , blue collar Democrats that did not vote for him, will in the Fall. Yo
He was never asked about Barry, they are known as 'Regan" Democrats for reason.
He was never asked about Raila Odingo or Tony Rezko.

856 hayseed  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:14:37am

re: #814 Lucius Septimius

only here at LGF can you get the important stuff.lol

857 alegrias  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:14:42am

re: #842 Render

huh?

I've got like 20 something black walnut trees in my yard. They drop green softball size meteors at terminal velocity (hard enough to dent car roofs and punch holes in plastic lawn furniture). They're freaking ankle breakers and apparently taste really nasty to young Dobermans that mistake them for tennis balls.

WE
HATES
EM,
R

* * *
You got a gold mine there--furniture makers love black walnut!

858 pingjockey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:14:46am

re: #850 Natasha
I don't know where you all are, but those damn bus RVs' are thick as bugs on a bumper here in the Northwest.

859 realwest  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:14:47am

re: #836 BabbaZee And we all thank you for that!

860 nyc redneck  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:15:02am

re: #842 Render

huh?

I've got like 20 something black walnut trees in my yard. They drop green softball size meteors at terminal velocity (hard enough to dent car roofs and punch holes in plastic lawn furniture). They're freaking ankle breakers and apparently taste really nasty to young Dobermans that mistake them for tennis balls.

WE
HATES
EM,
R

LOL,
wow 20 trees, amazing. have you ever tried a black walnut. they are so unique and delightful, especially for baking. cookies, brownies,cakes. i bet you would like them.

861 Lucius Septimius  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:15:07am

re: #837 conservgirl

I do -- daddy was from Tennessee and mom was from the Illinois-Wisconsin borderlands, so my own accent is sort of nondescript -- I sort of fall into whatever I'm around.

I once did a lecture on ancient Rome in the Oxford lisp, which the kids found most amusing.

862 yma o hyd  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:15:46am

re: #834 galloping granny

well - one's got to become a member, with a yearly subscription - but as this contributes to all the voluntary and educational work they do, and the testing of any odd variety send to them, its money well spent.
And best is that one can swop surplus seed as well - like Mrs a has lettuce X - wants Beans Y, so forth ...

Well - us Brits do love proper amateurism!

863 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:16:03am

re: #841 alegrias
Yes it was very funny.

The attack is near where one lizard is working over there right now. Big Mac daddy. He is serving and helping the Afghans get their police up and running.

864 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:16:17am

Black Walnut Power!

865 opnion  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:16:20am

re: #855 opnion

Anybody catch the Obama Fox interview?
He did not do badly, but I thought that he got away with a lot.
William Ayres?"I know him tangentially". Actually he launched his political carrer at the guys house
He believes that White , blue collar Democrats that did not vote for him, will in the Fall. Yo Barry, they are known as 'Regan" Democrats for reason.
He was never asked about Raila Odingo or Tony Rezko.

866 Lucius Septimius  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:16:27am

re: #856 hayseed

only here at LGF can you get the important stuff.lol

First movie I ever took a girl to, many moons ago.

867 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:16:31am

re: #842 Render

huh?

I've got like 20 something black walnut trees in my yard. They drop green softball size meteors at terminal velocity (hard enough to dent car roofs and punch holes in plastic lawn furniture). They're freaking ankle breakers and apparently taste really nasty to young Dobermans that mistake them for tennis balls.

WE
HATES
EM,
R

You hates em? I will take them. If you live close enough I'll even come and get 'em.

868 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:16:48am

re: #839 pingjockey

Ya ready to go to the beach yet?

Sigh................Must wait until June 4th.... The restrictions on my license are lifted then. But after June 4th, the top comes off the Vette and a beach crusen I am a goin....

869 hayseed  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:17:16am

re: #842 Render

black walnuts are a dirty tree

870 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:17:21am

Behead those who oppress Black Walnuts!

For you PK

871 opnion  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:17:34am

re: #855 opnion

Obviously,I did not proof it the 1st time.

872 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:17:56am

re: #859 realwest

lolololololol

873 Lucius Septimius  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:17:57am

re: #869 hayseed

black walnuts are a dirty tree

You only say that because you like typical white walnuts.

874 pbird  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:17:58am

re: #34 galloping granny

I can't imagine why anyone would need a GPS system. I would rip a talking GPS out of the dash and run it over with the car in under 20 minutes.

Amen! Damn right.

If I get lost I'm doing it on purpose for entertainment.

875 Natasha  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:18:12am

#853 galloping granny:

all the same nuts that you get in a package

sounds like the democrats/ communists/ socialists...
Sorry, I just had to make that joke.

876 nyc redneck  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:18:13am

re: #870 BabbaZee

Behead those who oppress Black Walnuts!

For you PK

they're a PERFECT NUT.

877 coquimbojoe  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:18:17am

re: #836 BabbaZee

I don't.

I love him despite all that he is wrong about.
I love lots of people that are wrong.

I like him because I think he is honest about what he believes. I disagree with him often, but I don't think he sugar coats things.

878 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:18:45am

re: #861 Lucius Septimius
I would have loved that too in college. Let me know when you move to Southern Miss, I am signing up for your class! I know it's never going to happen but they need professor like you.

My accent is nondescript too. Product of growing up next to the air force base.

879 3 wood  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:19:00am

re: #845 realwest

Good Morning real.

I see where the Giant have drafted a good corner and a safety.

My Bears just drafted a slow receiver. Typical.

Got to run to church.
later

880 doriangrey  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:19:10am

re: #861 Lucius Septimius

I do -- daddy was from Tennessee and mom was from the Illinois-Wisconsin borderlands, so my own accent is sort of nondescript -- I sort of fall into whatever I'm around.

I once did a lecture on ancient Rome in the Oxford lisp, which the kids found most amusing.

Heh heh heh I'm from SoCal, we dont gots no accent, the rest of y'all sure do talks funny though....

881 haakondahl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:19:14am

re: #868 doriangrey

Sigh................Must wait until June 4th.... The restrictions on my license are lifted then. But after June 4th, the top comes off the Vette and a beach crusen I am a goin....

Where did you get a convertible Chevette?

Ver-r-ry rare!

882 yma o hyd  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:19:30am

re: #876 nyc redneck

But nor for feeding to Dobermans :-)))

883 alegrias  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:19:30am

Looks like we've got us some Victory Gardeners here! Check out what that means if you don't know already.

And what could be more fun than gardening with those you love & feeding them fresh things from your own garden!

Reader's Digest put out a book about Traditional American Skills years back that included everything from building & powering your own home, growing your own foods, making your own brews, that was just amazing in its scope. We WERE pioneers that needed this knowledge base not that long ago, with nothing but ingenuity & willingness to work in order to prosper.

884 conservgirl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:19:43am

re: #875 Natasha
Hey Natasha, how was your ribs the other night?

885 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:19:52am

re: #841 alegrias

No I didn't see that, lol

886 Pro-Bush Canuck  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:19:59am

re: #847 BabbaZee

I hear you. It's the "dead-eyed" bland leftists -- like the Canadian "Human Rights" Marxist drones persecuting Mark Steyn -- who are the true lost causes. Them and bone fide Islamists.

887 haakondahl  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:20:18am

Karzai Thread is Up

888 BabbaZee  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:20:29am

re: #877 coquimbojoe

I like him because I think he is honest about what he believes. I disagree with him often, but I don't think he sugar coats things.

He is brilliant

889 Lucius Septimius  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:20:32am
890 galloping granny  Sun, Apr 27, 2008 8:20:48am

re: #835 godfrey

(falls out of chair) Yyyyyess! Thank you!

Any time. Oh, one other to add to the list if you like Asian vegetables is Kitazawa Seed Co. out of California. High Mowing does have some Asian stuff but Kitazawa has much more.