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Weekend Mobster Open Comments

The FBI conducted a major operation against Northeastern organized crime this week. Over 150 mobsters were arrested. Of course, many of them had those cool nicknames they always have in the movies. Here’s a sampling (and where I think they got the names):

  • Andrew “Mush” Russo (had bad dental hygiene and can now only eat strained food)
  • Benjamin “The Claw” Castellazzo (lost arm in a beef in prison – now has a fake one)
  • Jack “Jack the Whack” Rizzocas (caught one too many times in the bathroom “reading the articles” in Playboy)
  • Joseph “Junior Lollipops” Carna (was the mob’s answer to Kojak – who loves ya, baby?)
  • Ilario “Fat Larry” Sessa (is “big boned”)
  • Vito “Vito Love” Cortesiano (gay prostitute)
  • John “Johnny Pizza” Porecello (ran the money-laundering pizzeria)
  • Michael “Jello” Kuhltenia (kept getting into the weed, turning his mind into…)
  • Frank “Meatball” Bellatoni (mama’s boy – loved her spaghetti)
  • Vincenzo “Vinny Carwash” Frogiero (the guy who cleaned up the cars used to haul the bodies down to the tidelands)
  • Anthony “Nighthawk” Licata (fancied himself as a real ladies man)
  • Vincent “Jimmy Gooch” Febbraro (couldn’t stop scratching his perineum)
  • Anthony “Baby Fat” Durso (the young, exuberant goomba)
  • Dennis “The Beard” Delucia (the guy the lesbians would use as a wedding date so they wouldn’t have to tell mama)
  • John “Johnny Cash” Azzarelli (dressed in black)
  • Luigi “Baby Shacks” Manocchio (you don’t wanna know)
  • Anthony “Tony Bagels” Cavezza (the rookie who had to bring the donuts to the meetups)
  • Giovani “Mousey” Vella (always watches the Disney Channel)
  • Bartolomeo “Bobby Glasses” Vernace (see “Jack the Whack” above)

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  1. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Mornin’ Gang!!
    My, we’re early.

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Mornin’ Gang!!
    My, we’re early.

  3. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    G’Morning all

    Is MSNBC waking up and smelling the daisy’s? (I doubt it, but it made a catchy lead-in)

    Keith Olbermann gives abrupt goodbye to MSNBC show
    AP

    By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer David Bauder, Ap Television Writer – Sat Jan 22, 3:49 am ET

    NEW YORK – Keith Olbermann was MSNBC’s most popular personality and single-handedly led its transformation to an outspoken, left-leaning cable news network in prime time. Despite that, he often seemed to be walking on a tightrope with his job. Friday night, it snapped.

    Olbermann returned from one last commercial break on “Countdown” to tell viewers it was his last broadcast, and read a James Thurber short story in a three-minute exit statement. Simultaneously, MSNBC e-mailed a statement that “MSNBC and Keith Olbermann have ended their contract.” The network thanked him and said, “we wish him well in his future endeavors.”

    Neither MSNBC President Phil Griffin, Olbermann nor his manager responded to requests to explain an exit so abrupt that Olbermann’s face was still being featured on an MSNBC promotional ad 30 minutes after he had said goodbye

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110122/ap_on_en_tv/us_tv_olbermann

  4. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    G’Morning all
    Is MSNBC waking up and smelling the daisy’s? (I doubt it, but it made a catchy lead-in)
    Keith Olbermann gives abrupt goodbye to MSNBC show
    AP

    By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer David Bauder, Ap Television Writer – Sat Jan 22, 3:49 am ET
    NEW YORK – Keith Olbermann was MSNBC’s most popular personality and single-handedly led its transformation to an outspoken, left-leaning cable news network in prime time. Despite that, he often seemed to be walking on a tightrope with his job. Friday night, it snapped.
    Olbermann returned from one last commercial break on “Countdown” to tell viewers it was his last broadcast, and read a James Thurber short story in a three-minute exit statement. Simultaneously, MSNBC e-mailed a statement that “MSNBC and Keith Olbermann have ended their contract.” The network thanked him and said, “we wish him well in his future endeavors.”
    Neither MSNBC President Phil Griffin, Olbermann nor his manager responded to requests to explain an exit so abrupt that Olbermann’s face was still being featured on an MSNBC promotional ad 30 minutes after he had said goodbye

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110122/ap_on_en_tv/us_tv_olbermann

  5. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Speaking of liberals:

    Liberals have all or most of these qualities:
    Disclaimer: These are my observations and opinions. They may or may not express the views of this Blog. Any lurking liberals may now take potshots at me and thus prove my observations.

    -prefer to insult others rather than use logic and reasoning
    -have an arrogant behavior
    -many use anti-depressants or illegal drugs
    -favor Marxists, Socialists or Communists
    -against all or part of the 10 Commandments
    -favor killing babies (abortion)
    -dislike Christians
    -liars
    -hate obedience or responsibility

  6. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    Speaking of liberals:
    Liberals have all or most of these qualities:
    Disclaimer: These are my observations and opinions. They may or may not express the views of this Blog. Any lurking liberals may now take potshots at me and thus prove my observations.
    -prefer to insult others rather than use logic and reasoning
    -have an arrogant behavior
    -many use anti-depressants or illegal drugs
    -favor Marxists, Socialists or Communists
    -against all or part of the 10 Commandments
    -favor killing babies (abortion)
    -dislike Christians
    -liars
    -hate obedience or responsibility

  7. Southern Tragedy Avatar
    Southern Tragedy

    Mornin’ OTL. From Tedtam’s link last night:

    MSNBC announced that O’Donnell, who had frequently filled in for Olbermann before starting his own 10 p.m. show, will take over Olbermann’s time slot starting Monday. “The Ed Show,” with Ed Schultz, will move to 10 p.m

    Unless future changes are comig, doesn’t appear there was any Come to Jesus moments.

  8. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Mornin’ OTL. From Tedtam’s link last night:

    MSNBC announced that O’Donnell, who had frequently filled in for Olbermann before starting his own 10 p.m. show, will take over Olbermann’s time slot starting Monday. “The Ed Show,” with Ed Schultz, will move to 10 p.m

    Unless future changes are comig, doesn’t appear there was any Come to Jesus moments.

  9. Southern Tragedy Avatar
    Southern Tragedy

    The Claw, Jack the Whack, Vito Love, Jimmy Gooch and Bobby Glasses all walked into a bathroom ……

  10. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    The Claw, Jack the Whack, Vito Love, Jimmy Gooch and Bobby Glasses all walked into a bathroom ……

  11. Southern Tragedy Avatar
    Southern Tragedy

    Re: Mobster bust

    Kids these days, no honor of tradition.

    “Omerta” — the classic Mafia code that prohibits those associated with the crime families from testifying against their own — means nothing to La Cosa Nostra (which means “our thing” in Italian) these days, reports the New York Daily News. “Turncoat mobsters” helped the FBI with their investigation by wearing wires and revealing the whereabouts of wanted suspects. The crackdown was only possible because these “rats” were “more interested in cutting deals,” says the News, “than honoring the mob code.”

  12. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Re: Mobster bust
    Kids these days, no honor of tradition.

    “Omerta” — the classic Mafia code that prohibits those associated with the crime families from testifying against their own — means nothing to La Cosa Nostra (which means “our thing” in Italian) these days, reports the New York Daily News. “Turncoat mobsters” helped the FBI with their investigation by wearing wires and revealing the whereabouts of wanted suspects. The crackdown was only possible because these “rats” were “more interested in cutting deals,” says the News, “than honoring the mob code.”

  13. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    NEWS RACE
    THURS. JAN. 20, 2011

    FOXNEWS O’REILLY 2,918,000
    FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,079,000
    FOXNEWS BAIER 1,940,000
    FOXNEWS SHEP 1,786,000
    FOXNEWS BECK 1,780,000
    FOXNEWS GRETA 1,460,000
    MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,106,000
    CNN PIERS 1,025,000
    MSNBC MADDOW 976,000
    MSNBC O’DONNELL 855,000
    MSNBC SCHULTZ 760,000
    CNN COOPER 740,000
    MSNBC HARDBALL 700,000

    Do I notice a trend?

  14. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    NEWS RACE
    THURS. JAN. 20, 2011
    FOXNEWS O’REILLY 2,918,000
    FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,079,000
    FOXNEWS BAIER 1,940,000
    FOXNEWS SHEP 1,786,000
    FOXNEWS BECK 1,780,000
    FOXNEWS GRETA 1,460,000
    MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,106,000
    CNN PIERS 1,025,000
    MSNBC MADDOW 976,000
    MSNBC O’DONNELL 855,000
    MSNBC SCHULTZ 760,000
    CNN COOPER 740,000
    MSNBC HARDBALL 700,000

    Do I notice a trend?

  15. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    I think what happened with the whole Mafia raid this was this:

    Back last year, the Tea Party started having rallies and such. Granny Rictus McBotox called them a mob. Attorney General Steadman orders the FBI got go arrest the mob. They went after the one they always do instead of the one Steadman wanted them to.

    I think that one is more kind to the FBI, and the Obama Administration in general If they used all of the assets, time, and money they did to chase down a bunch of guys named Jimmy Gooch and Vinny Carwash while a bunch of baby killing bastidges are training people to build underware and car bombs to send over here to kill Americans most folks would think thier priorities out of order.

  16. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    I think what happened with the whole Mafia raid this was this:
    Back last year, the Tea Party started having rallies and such. Granny Rictus McBotox called them a mob. Attorney General Steadman orders the FBI got go arrest the mob. They went after the one they always do instead of the one Steadman wanted them to.
    I think that one is more kind to the FBI, and the Obama Administration in general If they used all of the assets, time, and money they did to chase down a bunch of guys named Jimmy Gooch and Vinny Carwash while a bunch of baby killing bastidges are training people to build underware and car bombs to send over here to kill Americans most folks would think thier priorities out of order.

  17. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #73 Al Friday night

    “Big Bang Faith” and the “Faith of Evolution”. Neither can be either tested or proven.

    Sorry, but you are wrong on both points. The basic process of evolution is well tested and proven. There are many particular cases where the details are not yet worked out. Science is a work in progress.

    The Big Bang theory is more difficult for us since we are tiny beings in the midst of the vast universe. But there are in fact demonstrable physical signs that the big bang event did occur. The one that comes immediately to mind was the discovery by Bell Labs scientists 50 years ago that their radio telescope was picking up signals that had the predicted characteristics of radiation generated during that event. (Their first hypothesis: the signals might be caused by bird crap on the antenna.) These guys went on to win the Nobel prize in physics.

    http://www.corp.att.com/attlabs/reputation/timeline/65bang.html

  18. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #73 Al Friday night

    “Big Bang Faith” and the “Faith of Evolution”. Neither can be either tested or proven.

    Sorry, but you are wrong on both points. The basic process of evolution is well tested and proven. There are many particular cases where the details are not yet worked out. Science is a work in progress.
    The Big Bang theory is more difficult for us since we are tiny beings in the midst of the vast universe. But there are in fact demonstrable physical signs that the big bang event did occur. The one that comes immediately to mind was the discovery by Bell Labs scientists 50 years ago that their radio telescope was picking up signals that had the predicted characteristics of radiation generated during that event. (Their first hypothesis: the signals might be caused by bird crap on the antenna.) These guys went on to win the Nobel prize in physics.
    http://www.corp.att.com/attlabs/reputation/timeline/65bang.html

  19. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #8 Sarge

    A+ ! I like your colorful monikers:

    Granny Rictus McBotox

    Makes Pelozzi sound like a Dick Tracy or Batman character…

    Attorney General Steadman

    😀

  20. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #8 Sarge
    A+ ! I like your colorful monikers:

    Granny Rictus McBotox

    Makes Pelozzi sound like a Dick Tracy or Batman character…

    Attorney General Steadman

    😀

  21. Southern Tragedy Avatar
    Southern Tragedy

    Surfing the comments from the Olbermann articles, looks like MSNBC is loosing both it’s viewers and they’re leaving Comcast to boot.

  22. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Surfing the comments from the Olbermann articles, looks like MSNBC is loosing both it’s viewers and they’re leaving Comcast to boot.

  23. Southern Tragedy Avatar
    Southern Tragedy

    #11

    losing heh

  24. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #11
    losing heh

  25. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    The basic process of evolution is well tested and proven. There are many particular cases where the details are not yet worked out.

    I believe you’re making a statement and in the next sentence proving it wrong. Evolution, which I accept as unproven fact, cannot be absolutely proven because we cannot observe it happening. The process moves too slow for humans to observe first hand. We can gather enough information from the historical record to make intelligent hypotheses to bolster the theory. On a micro scale we can watch many generations of bacteria mutate, which can demonstrate how we think it works. But we can’t speak in absolutes. The best we can say is, based upon overwhelming scientific evidence, the theory of evolution is correct.

    As to the Big Bang theory, we’re nowhere even close to being able to make such a statement.

  26. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    The basic process of evolution is well tested and proven. There are many particular cases where the details are not yet worked out.

    I believe you’re making a statement and in the next sentence proving it wrong. Evolution, which I accept as unproven fact, cannot be absolutely proven because we cannot observe it happening. The process moves too slow for humans to observe first hand. We can gather enough information from the historical record to make intelligent hypotheses to bolster the theory. On a micro scale we can watch many generations of bacteria mutate, which can demonstrate how we think it works. But we can’t speak in absolutes. The best we can say is, based upon overwhelming scientific evidence, the theory of evolution is correct.
    As to the Big Bang theory, we’re nowhere even close to being able to make such a statement.

  27. fat albert Avatar
    fat albert

    #9 MHarper:

    But there are in fact demonstrable physical signs that the big bang event did occur. The one that comes immediately to mind was the discovery by Bell Labs scientists 50 years ago that their radio telescope was picking up signals that had the predicted characteristics of radiation generated during that event.

    So, what you’re saying is that the Big Bang Theory seems to adequately describe/explain recently observed data. Dude, that’s NOT proof. Until you can reliably reproduce a Big Bang in your lab you’re just putting out SWAG’s.

    Same thing for evolution – you can’t reliably recreate macro evolution (i.e. interspecies transitions). Until you can it’s a theory.

  28. fat albert Avatar
    fat albert

    #9 MHarper:

    But there are in fact demonstrable physical signs that the big bang event did occur. The one that comes immediately to mind was the discovery by Bell Labs scientists 50 years ago that their radio telescope was picking up signals that had the predicted characteristics of radiation generated during that event.

    So, what you’re saying is that the Big Bang Theory seems to adequately describe/explain recently observed data. Dude, that’s NOT proof. Until you can reliably reproduce a Big Bang in your lab you’re just putting out SWAG’s.
    Same thing for evolution – you can’t reliably recreate macro evolution (i.e. interspecies transitions). Until you can it’s a theory.

  29. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good morning all. Crunchy, frosty 25 at 6:30, clear and still overnight, waning Moon bright on her way to bed, and another Winter’s day begins. The Sun’s golden fingers quickly coax the frost away today and boost the thermometer to 36 at 9, such a welcome change from yesterday’s prolonged morning freeze. Pansy faces bowed down, petals and leaves sprinkled with sugary frost, begin revival. Soon their cheery colors will show to full advantage, upright faces smiling, comforting beauty in their simplicity.

    The breeze picks up, the north wind gives way to his sister the south wind, and she will rule for a day or two until he takes command again. Yesterday’s cold reported -34 somewhere in Minnesota, guessing International Falls or Duluth as likely candidates. LaCrosse, WI tv station had a demonstration of how fast things freeze at -15 by throwing cups of boiling water into the air. The droplets froze before they hit the ground as snow; this all happening in bright morning sun. We can’t complain having to put sheets over plants or turning off outside water.

    In winter, my cousin who lives in a Duluth suburb visits her sons and their wives in the Houston area. She stays several months. Her drive down here this year started out as an adventure she hopes is never repeated. The plan was to start south between snowstorms when the roads were cleared from the previous one and the next on was far to the west. Weather report indicated December 23 would be ok going south through Minnesota and into Iowa, only light intermittent snow likely/possible. Unfortunately the monster blizzard to the far west didn’t read the weather report and roared east much faster than expected. Weather reports had not caught up with it soon enough, for when she left it was supposed to be ok.

    North of Minneapolis occasional flurries became light snowfall, became moderate snowfall,
    and south of the city became heavy snowfall, then blizzard. You can’t just stop on the Interstate, you have to seek shelter in a town. Hers ended up being the first car in a small caravan going 15 mph with flashers on through whiteout conditions. She just followed the tire tracks of previous cars and hoped they were still on the road, cause nothing was visible very far ahead. She was praying to see an exit sign that had gas and lodging signs with it, and eventually she did. No idea how many miles she went in those conditions, but it seemed like forever. The exit road was hard to see since fewer vehicles had gone that way recently, and the tracks were filling in. Fortunately the town was close to the Interstate and well marked. She found a motel and checked in, very relieved. Stayed until the storm had passed and the plows had cleared the roads south the next day. This was the monster storm that buried the East Coast December 26, having picked up feet of lake-effect snow from the Great Lakes on its way. She arrived safely in Houston two days later.

    Friends who live in St. Paul were in Iowa before the storm roared in and wisely decided to head for home a day early despite the weather forecast. It was a smart move.

  30. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good morning all. Crunchy, frosty 25 at 6:30, clear and still overnight, waning Moon bright on her way to bed, and another Winter’s day begins. The Sun’s golden fingers quickly coax the frost away today and boost the thermometer to 36 at 9, such a welcome change from yesterday’s prolonged morning freeze. Pansy faces bowed down, petals and leaves sprinkled with sugary frost, begin revival. Soon their cheery colors will show to full advantage, upright faces smiling, comforting beauty in their simplicity.
    The breeze picks up, the north wind gives way to his sister the south wind, and she will rule for a day or two until he takes command again. Yesterday’s cold reported -34 somewhere in Minnesota, guessing International Falls or Duluth as likely candidates. LaCrosse, WI tv station had a demonstration of how fast things freeze at -15 by throwing cups of boiling water into the air. The droplets froze before they hit the ground as snow; this all happening in bright morning sun. We can’t complain having to put sheets over plants or turning off outside water.
    In winter, my cousin who lives in a Duluth suburb visits her sons and their wives in the Houston area. She stays several months. Her drive down here this year started out as an adventure she hopes is never repeated. The plan was to start south between snowstorms when the roads were cleared from the previous one and the next on was far to the west. Weather report indicated December 23 would be ok going south through Minnesota and into Iowa, only light intermittent snow likely/possible. Unfortunately the monster blizzard to the far west didn’t read the weather report and roared east much faster than expected. Weather reports had not caught up with it soon enough, for when she left it was supposed to be ok.
    North of Minneapolis occasional flurries became light snowfall, became moderate snowfall,
    and south of the city became heavy snowfall, then blizzard. You can’t just stop on the Interstate, you have to seek shelter in a town. Hers ended up being the first car in a small caravan going 15 mph with flashers on through whiteout conditions. She just followed the tire tracks of previous cars and hoped they were still on the road, cause nothing was visible very far ahead. She was praying to see an exit sign that had gas and lodging signs with it, and eventually she did. No idea how many miles she went in those conditions, but it seemed like forever. The exit road was hard to see since fewer vehicles had gone that way recently, and the tracks were filling in. Fortunately the town was close to the Interstate and well marked. She found a motel and checked in, very relieved. Stayed until the storm had passed and the plows had cleared the roads south the next day. This was the monster storm that buried the East Coast December 26, having picked up feet of lake-effect snow from the Great Lakes on its way. She arrived safely in Houston two days later.
    Friends who live in St. Paul were in Iowa before the storm roared in and wisely decided to head for home a day early despite the weather forecast. It was a smart move.

  31. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    SHABBAT SHALOM Y’ALL
    So the uberdork Olberman has left pmsnbc, eh? Why that is as significant as one member of a pack of hyenas dying – it really doesn’t change the dynamic of the pack now does it?
    IN all honesty, I pray that he has had a conversion and is “seeing things more clearly” now.

  32. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    SHABBAT SHALOM Y’ALL
    So the uberdork Olberman has left pmsnbc, eh? Why that is as significant as one member of a pack of hyenas dying – it really doesn’t change the dynamic of the pack now does it?
    IN all honesty, I pray that he has had a conversion and is “seeing things more clearly” now.

  33. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    #9 Mharper: That some species change their form is a demonstrable fact; however birds will stay birds and fish will stay fish. In order for the evolutionist theory (origin of life) to hold any water at all, they must demonstrate how inanimate random chemicals can randomly associate into highly complex self replicating life forms. There has not ever been any credible demonstration that this is even remotely possible.

  34. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #9 Mharper: That some species change their form is a demonstrable fact; however birds will stay birds and fish will stay fish. In order for the evolutionist theory (origin of life) to hold any water at all, they must demonstrate how inanimate random chemicals can randomly associate into highly complex self replicating life forms. There has not ever been any credible demonstration that this is even remotely possible.

  35. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #14 Fat Albert, Umm hypothesis rather than theory?

  36. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #14 Fat Albert, Umm hypothesis rather than theory?

  37. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #9 mh42
    As I’ve said many times before – What caused the Big Bang? All the theories physics has come up with thus far have simply offered explanations for what has happened since a particular point in time. What happened before then? What was there to cause this events to happen?

  38. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #9 mh42
    As I’ve said many times before – What caused the Big Bang? All the theories physics has come up with thus far have simply offered explanations for what has happened since a particular point in time. What happened before then? What was there to cause this events to happen?

  39. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    further to my #17 by highly complex, I am speaking of the simplest one celled plankton or amoeba of which we are currently aware. IF there was anyway to replicate, FROM SCRATCH, even one of these in our modern laboratories then, perhaps the evolutionists should have a seat at the table but until then it requires far more faith than Creationist theory.

  40. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    further to my #17 by highly complex, I am speaking of the simplest one celled plankton or amoeba of which we are currently aware. IF there was anyway to replicate, FROM SCRATCH, even one of these in our modern laboratories then, perhaps the evolutionists should have a seat at the table but until then it requires far more faith than Creationist theory.

  41. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #13 Hammy

    As to the Big Bang theory, we’re nowhere even close to being able to make such a statement.

    My only statements about it were:
    1) BB _is_ a theory, not a belief, as I think Albert claimed,
    and
    2) there is some evidence to support the theory; one example cited.

    I have not stated, nor do I think, that BB is proven scientific fact, in the same category with the theory of evolution.

  42. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #13 Hammy

    As to the Big Bang theory, we’re nowhere even close to being able to make such a statement.

    My only statements about it were:
    1) BB _is_ a theory, not a belief, as I think Albert claimed,
    and
    2) there is some evidence to support the theory; one example cited.
    I have not stated, nor do I think, that BB is proven scientific fact, in the same category with the theory of evolution.

  43. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #15 Adee
    Those first-hand accounts of surviving bitter cold winters make me so glad to be a native Texan. In an earlier phase of my life, I travelled across Texas for the US Geological Survey collecting surface water samples. I usually got sent to Amarillo in the dead of winter — that area gets as cold as I ever want to experience.

  44. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #15 Adee
    Those first-hand accounts of surviving bitter cold winters make me so glad to be a native Texan. In an earlier phase of my life, I travelled across Texas for the US Geological Survey collecting surface water samples. I usually got sent to Amarillo in the dead of winter — that area gets as cold as I ever want to experience.

  45. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #19 Pyro

    What happened before then?

    All I can say is it probably is not possible to know. Meaning no evidence would survive the BB for us to discover and analyze.

    The scenario I personally find to be most psychologically satisfying is the oscillating universe: an unending sequence of Big Bangs with expansion that eventually slows, reverses, contracts again into the next BB. There is no current evidence to support this and in fact some evidence that the currently expanding universe will NOT slow and reverse. I’m just saying that this appeals to me, not that I “believe” it works that way.

  46. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #19 Pyro

    What happened before then?

    All I can say is it probably is not possible to know. Meaning no evidence would survive the BB for us to discover and analyze.
    The scenario I personally find to be most psychologically satisfying is the oscillating universe: an unending sequence of Big Bangs with expansion that eventually slows, reverses, contracts again into the next BB. There is no current evidence to support this and in fact some evidence that the currently expanding universe will NOT slow and reverse. I’m just saying that this appeals to me, not that I “believe” it works that way.

  47. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #23 mh42
    What then, is the Prime Cause, i.e. that which existed before this sequence of big bangs?

  48. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #23 mh42
    What then, is the Prime Cause, i.e. that which existed before this sequence of big bangs?

  49. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    #8 Sarge

    A+ ! I like your colorful monikers:

    Can’t take credit for either. Granny Botox comes from Ace of Spades HQ. Sreadsman comes from Dennis Miller.

  50. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    #8 Sarge
    A+ ! I like your colorful monikers:

    Can’t take credit for either. Granny Botox comes from Ace of Spades HQ. Sreadsman comes from Dennis Miller.

  51. fat albert Avatar
    fat albert

    #21 MHarper:

    1) BB _is_ a theory, not a belief, as I think Albert claimed,
    and
    2) there is some evidence to support the theory; one example cited.

    You mischaracterize me, sir. What I said was that if you were going to characterize Intelligent Design as a “Faith” then you had to call the Big Bang and Macro Evolution faith’s also.

    I believe all three to be theories. they all attempt to explain observable data, and they are all three ultimately un-proveable. Trying to claim that ID is somehow not a valid theory simply because it posits a “Prime Mover” is intellectually dishonest.

    If you (and Bob) would rather believe in macro-evolution than in ID, that’s fine by me, but don’t look down your nose at me because I don’t share your particular faith.

  52. fat albert Avatar
    fat albert

    #21 MHarper:

    1) BB _is_ a theory, not a belief, as I think Albert claimed,
    and
    2) there is some evidence to support the theory; one example cited.

    You mischaracterize me, sir. What I said was that if you were going to characterize Intelligent Design as a “Faith” then you had to call the Big Bang and Macro Evolution faith’s also.
    I believe all three to be theories. they all attempt to explain observable data, and they are all three ultimately un-proveable. Trying to claim that ID is somehow not a valid theory simply because it posits a “Prime Mover” is intellectually dishonest.
    If you (and Bob) would rather believe in macro-evolution than in ID, that’s fine by me, but don’t look down your nose at me because I don’t share your particular faith.

  53. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    How cold is it in Minnesota?

    This cold.

  54. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    How cold is it in Minnesota?
    This cold.

  55. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Modern-day Peter Pan crocodile.

  56. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Modern-day Peter Pan crocodile.

  57. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Olbermans new position at MSNBC

  58. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Olbermans new position at MSNBC

  59. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    How much snow fell in Portsmouth, New Hampshire last night?

    This much.

  60. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    How much snow fell in Portsmouth, New Hampshire last night?
    This much.

  61. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    re: Prime Mover arguments

    There is compound trouble with postulating the existence of an intelligent, self-aware prime mover. In the first place, you’re still left with the question, “if an intelligent self-aware entity, with intent, got the ball rolling, then who or what created that intelligent self-aware entity?” In essence, the answers offered inevitably lead back to the original question.

    More importantly, theism of any flavor doesn’t stop at merely suggesting the the existence of a prime mover, it goes on to assign very specific attributes to that entity that are more often than not, quite terrestrial in origin, and clearly based on ancient misunderstandings of physics and the cosmos. Such “theories” can not be tested with current scientific capabilities. Deism shares the same troubles, but to a lesser degree.

    The study of evolution, the origin(s) of life, and how the cosmos functions are valid fields of scientific study that are constantly changing. Some theories are dismissed, others are supported or modified, and new ones pop up frequently as a result. Faith is absolutely not required in any field of science.

    Saying that a particular person’s or group’s concept of very specifically defined “god” is responsible for the existence life, the universe, and everything is about as far from science as one could run. It is pure faith, and requires faith to believe. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)

  62. bob42 Avatar
    bob42

    re: Prime Mover arguments
    There is compound trouble with postulating the existence of an intelligent, self-aware prime mover. In the first place, you’re still left with the question, “if an intelligent self-aware entity, with intent, got the ball rolling, then who or what created that intelligent self-aware entity?” In essence, the answers offered inevitably lead back to the original question.
    More importantly, theism of any flavor doesn’t stop at merely suggesting the the existence of a prime mover, it goes on to assign very specific attributes to that entity that are more often than not, quite terrestrial in origin, and clearly based on ancient misunderstandings of physics and the cosmos. Such “theories” can not be tested with current scientific capabilities. Deism shares the same troubles, but to a lesser degree.
    The study of evolution, the origin(s) of life, and how the cosmos functions are valid fields of scientific study that are constantly changing. Some theories are dismissed, others are supported or modified, and new ones pop up frequently as a result. Faith is absolutely not required in any field of science.
    Saying that a particular person’s or group’s concept of very specifically defined “god” is responsible for the existence life, the universe, and everything is about as far from science as one could run. It is pure faith, and requires faith to believe. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)

  63. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    There is compound trouble with postulating the existence of an intelligent, self-aware prime mover. In the first place, you’re still left with the question, “if an intelligent self-aware entity, with intent, got the ball rolling, then who or what created that intelligent self-aware entity?” In essence, the answers offered inevitably lead back to the original question.

    Which is EXACTLY the same problem with the Big Bang.

    And THAT is what makes both of them equally valid THEORIES.

  64. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    There is compound trouble with postulating the existence of an intelligent, self-aware prime mover. In the first place, you’re still left with the question, “if an intelligent self-aware entity, with intent, got the ball rolling, then who or what created that intelligent self-aware entity?” In essence, the answers offered inevitably lead back to the original question.

    Which is EXACTLY the same problem with the Big Bang.
    And THAT is what makes both of them equally valid THEORIES.

  65. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    There is compound trouble with postulating the existence of an intelligent, self-aware prime mover. In the first place, you’re still left with the question, “if an intelligent self-aware entity, with intent, got the ball rolling, then who or what created that intelligent self-aware entity?” In essence, the answers offered inevitably lead back to the original question.

    That’s one of the mysteries of faith. God exists outside of time. In short he has always been and will always be.

    Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say to you, before Abraham was made, I am.
    — John 8:58

  66. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    There is compound trouble with postulating the existence of an intelligent, self-aware prime mover. In the first place, you’re still left with the question, “if an intelligent self-aware entity, with intent, got the ball rolling, then who or what created that intelligent self-aware entity?” In essence, the answers offered inevitably lead back to the original question.

    That’s one of the mysteries of faith. God exists outside of time. In short he has always been and will always be.

    Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say to you, before Abraham was made, I am.
    — John 8:58

  67. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #24 Pyro

    What then, is the Prime Cause

    Well, according to The Hitchhiker’s Guide, the answer to that question is “42”.

  68. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #24 Pyro

    What then, is the Prime Cause

    Well, according to The Hitchhiker’s Guide, the answer to that question is “42”.

  69. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Saying that a particular person’s or group’s concept of very specifically defined “god” is responsible for the existence life, the universe, and everything is about as far from science as one could run. It is pure faith, and requires faith to believe. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)

    And exactly what “scientific” evidence do you have for the cause of the Big Bang?

  70. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Saying that a particular person’s or group’s concept of very specifically defined “god” is responsible for the existence life, the universe, and everything is about as far from science as one could run. It is pure faith, and requires faith to believe. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)

    And exactly what “scientific” evidence do you have for the cause of the Big Bang?

  71. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #25 Sarge

    Can’t take credit for either

    OK, A+ for your honesty, as well — thanks for sharing. It made me hunt up some pix of Steadman and Holder for side by side comparison. Spot on, I’d say.

  72. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #25 Sarge

    Can’t take credit for either

    OK, A+ for your honesty, as well — thanks for sharing. It made me hunt up some pix of Steadman and Holder for side by side comparison. Spot on, I’d say.

  73. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #42 mh42
    No, That is the answer to the question of life, the universe, and everything.

  74. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #42 mh42
    No, That is the answer to the question of life, the universe, and everything.

  75. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #26 Albert

    don’t look down your nose at me

    Madam, I don’t look down my nose at anyone on Hammy’s Couch. Like you, I stated my perspective. Take it or leave it.

  76. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #26 Albert

    don’t look down your nose at me

    Madam, I don’t look down my nose at anyone on Hammy’s Couch. Like you, I stated my perspective. Take it or leave it.

  77. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Which is which???

  78. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Which is which???

  79. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    I wonder if there’s a mobster named “el gordo”. 😉

  80. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    I wonder if there’s a mobster named “el gordo”. 😉

  81. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #39 wagonburner, Holder is on the left–naturally.

  82. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #39 wagonburner, Holder is on the left–naturally.

  83. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    “42” is the answer to any unanswerable question.

  84. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    “42” is the answer to any unanswerable question.

  85. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Hamous;

    As to the Big Bang theory, we’re nowhere even close to being able to make such a statement.

    Um, we recreated it just last November.
    ______________________________________________________________________
    mharper;

    The Big Bang Theory is no less of abelief than claimimng that somewthing intelligent designed the universe and all things in them.

  86. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Hamous;

    As to the Big Bang theory, we’re nowhere even close to being able to make such a statement.

    Um, we recreated it just last November.
    ______________________________________________________________________
    mharper;
    The Big Bang Theory is no less of abelief than claimimng that somewthing intelligent designed the universe and all things in them.

  87. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    GJT;

    The Claw, Jack the Whack, Vito Love, Jimmy Gooch and Bobby Glasses all walked into a bathroom ……

    In real life if I were one of those characters I’d ask Vito Love to leave the premises. 😯

  88. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    GJT;

    The Claw, Jack the Whack, Vito Love, Jimmy Gooch and Bobby Glasses all walked into a bathroom ……

    In real life if I were one of those characters I’d ask Vito Love to leave the premises. 😯

  89. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    23 mharper,

    I remember reading the first books about Black Holes by Asimov and Hawkings in the late seventies and early eighties. Asimov presented the option of the expanding-slowing-contracting-reforming cosmic egg process in his book. He also postualated that the Universe’s expansion would slow, come to a stop, everything would get cold, and the lights would go out for good.

    Since then it as been discovered by observations that the galaxies are not only “not slowing” but are in fact accelerating away from the projected center of the Big Bang, which indicates that the known and observed Universe is being acted upon by an exterior force. (F=MA) or we do not understand completely how space is distributed.

    Sometimes the Universe is like a box of chocolates.

    Simple

  90. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    23 mharper,
    I remember reading the first books about Black Holes by Asimov and Hawkings in the late seventies and early eighties. Asimov presented the option of the expanding-slowing-contracting-reforming cosmic egg process in his book. He also postualated that the Universe’s expansion would slow, come to a stop, everything would get cold, and the lights would go out for good.
    Since then it as been discovered by observations that the galaxies are not only “not slowing” but are in fact accelerating away from the projected center of the Big Bang, which indicates that the known and observed Universe is being acted upon by an exterior force. (F=MA) or we do not understand completely how space is distributed.
    Sometimes the Universe is like a box of chocolates.
    Simple

  91. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    mharper;

    I have not stated, nor do I think, that BB is proven scientific fact

    Reread the second sentence in your #9 post, por favor.

    And your third sentence reads:

    There are many particular cases where the details are not yet worked out.

    Which is exactly where Intelligent Design kicks in. I scratch my head all the time when those who accpet the Big Bang theory and explicitly denounce Intelligent Design as non-scientific.

  92. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    mharper;

    I have not stated, nor do I think, that BB is proven scientific fact

    Reread the second sentence in your #9 post, por favor.
    And your third sentence reads:

    There are many particular cases where the details are not yet worked out.

    Which is exactly where Intelligent Design kicks in. I scratch my head all the time when those who accpet the Big Bang theory and explicitly denounce Intelligent Design as non-scientific.

  93. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Um, we recreated it just last November.

    Actually, the people at the LHC at CERN only created an infinitesimally tiny bit of the conditions (e.g., energy density) present a few microseconds after the BB (which is a near eternity physics-wise).

  94. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Um, we recreated it just last November.

    Actually, the people at the LHC at CERN only created an infinitesimally tiny bit of the conditions (e.g., energy density) present a few microseconds after the BB (which is a near eternity physics-wise).

  95. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Sometimes the Universe is like a box of chocolates.

    Must be why I like living in it so much.

  96. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Sometimes the Universe is like a box of chocolates.

    Must be why I like living in it so much.

  97. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    wagon #47;

    Geek. 🙂

  98. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    wagon #47;
    Geek. 🙂

  99. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    bob #31;

    You just made a solid argument to not allow the Theory of Evolution into science academia. I think you’re a kook.

  100. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    bob #31;
    You just made a solid argument to not allow the Theory of Evolution into science academia. I think you’re a kook.

  101. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    Scientific theories regarding origins come and go, and do so with increasingly frequency as technology improves. Infinite universe theory is old news, curved universe is challenged, big bang is challenged by quantum physics and multiverse. I find them all interesting, but “believe” none. Naturally, I do have a fave; the big bong theory.

  102. bob42 Avatar
    bob42

    Scientific theories regarding origins come and go, and do so with increasingly frequency as technology improves. Infinite universe theory is old news, curved universe is challenged, big bang is challenged by quantum physics and multiverse. I find them all interesting, but “believe” none. Naturally, I do have a fave; the big bong theory.

  103. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    My personal favorite is one postulated by the late Douglas Adams wherein the universe was created whe it was sneezed from the nose of a Great Being and everybody lives in fear of the Day Of The Great White Handkerchief.

  104. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    My personal favorite is one postulated by the late Douglas Adams wherein the universe was created whe it was sneezed from the nose of a Great Being and everybody lives in fear of the Day Of The Great White Handkerchief.

  105. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #46 Darren

    “Some evidence to support” is what keeps a scientist forging ahead in the same direction with his research. “Evidence to negate” would suggest he needs to refine or maybe even abandon the hypothesis. BB is not nailed down yet in my books.

  106. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #46 Darren
    “Some evidence to support” is what keeps a scientist forging ahead in the same direction with his research. “Evidence to negate” would suggest he needs to refine or maybe even abandon the hypothesis. BB is not nailed down yet in my books.

  107. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    mharper;

    I hope you’re not nailing down your books you nazi. 😉

  108. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    mharper;
    I hope you’re not nailing down your books you nazi. 😉

  109. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #39 Pyro

    Which is which???

    Now that I think about it, I’d rather we had Attorney General Steadman.

  110. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #39 Pyro

    Which is which???

    Now that I think about it, I’d rather we had Attorney General Steadman.

  111. phil Avatar
    phil

    So the Redumblicans (some/all?) are trying to suck up to the Demo-crooks again and are planning on sitting next to them during the SOTU address?

    For what purpose? Do they think the Demo-crooks and their media brethren will love them after this?

    Lord have mercy!

    A short video that explores the never ending Redumblican syndrome.

  112. phil Avatar
    phil

    So the Redumblicans (some/all?) are trying to suck up to the Demo-crooks again and are planning on sitting next to them during the SOTU address?
    For what purpose? Do they think the Demo-crooks and their media brethren will love them after this?
    Lord have mercy!
    A short video that explores the never ending Redumblican syndrome.

  113. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    OK, This is not the best news; Romney Wins New Hampshire Republican Party Committee Straw Poll
    Oh Well it could be worse, it could be Gomer. Sigh,….. 😕

  114. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    OK, This is not the best news; Romney Wins New Hampshire Republican Party Committee Straw Poll
    Oh Well it could be worse, it could be Gomer. Sigh,….. 😕

  115. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Maybe intermingling State of the Union Show seating with the Dems is so conservatives can slip them a mickey and change their minds.

  116. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Maybe intermingling State of the Union Show seating with the Dems is so conservatives can slip them a mickey and change their minds.

  117. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Dang, this is weird; Mystery Goo bird poop Turns Icicles Green and Yellow in Snyder, N.Y.

    Initial suspicions focused on “blue ice,” the frozen human excrement known to fall from passing jetliners, but the FAA investigated and quickly dismissed that possibility.
    Snip~
    “She said it’s actually because the seagulls eat fast food at McDonald’s, which upsets their digestive tract. They were eating French fries out of paper bags… As soon as she got the fast food restaurants to make sure all of their trash was cleaned up in their parking lots, she no longer had that problem,” Kistner said. “She suggested that someone check the fast food parking lots because that is probably the root cause of this issue.”

    OH,…It’s all Mc Donalds fault!! Shoulda’ know it! 😀

  118. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Dang, this is weird; Mystery Goo bird poop Turns Icicles Green and Yellow in Snyder, N.Y.

    Initial suspicions focused on “blue ice,” the frozen human excrement known to fall from passing jetliners, but the FAA investigated and quickly dismissed that possibility.
    Snip~
    “She said it’s actually because the seagulls eat fast food at McDonald’s, which upsets their digestive tract. They were eating French fries out of paper bags… As soon as she got the fast food restaurants to make sure all of their trash was cleaned up in their parking lots, she no longer had that problem,” Kistner said. “She suggested that someone check the fast food parking lots because that is probably the root cause of this issue.”

    OH,…It’s all Mc Donalds fault!! Shoulda’ know it! 😀

  119. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Shoulda’ know known it!
    Where’s my edit button??

  120. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Shoulda’ know known it!
    Where’s my edit button??

  121. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Vincent “Jimmy Gooch” Febbraro (couldn’t stop scratching his perineum)

    perineum??? Down here in the South we call that the taint
    it is defined (sanitized for hambone’s granny) as: taint rectum and taint the other neither.

  122. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Vincent “Jimmy Gooch” Febbraro (couldn’t stop scratching his perineum)

    perineum??? Down here in the South we call that the taint
    it is defined (sanitized for hambone’s granny) as: taint rectum and taint the other neither.

  123. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #61 bone
    That’s why I gave you people a link to the word perineum, so as not to offend dear sweet granny hamous,

  124. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #61 bone
    That’s why I gave you people a link to the word perineum, so as not to offend dear sweet granny hamous,

  125. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    #61 Bonecrusher, as southerner thorugh and through, you are right, but some of the yankees call it the “Bridge of Sighs”

  126. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #61 Bonecrusher, as southerner thorugh and through, you are right, but some of the yankees call it the “Bridge of Sighs”

  127. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I was just on my way home and got a phone call from Lovely Daughter.

    /interrupting my happy dance

    SHE’S ENGAGED!

    I’ll let her fill you in on the details, but Aggie Beau is much more romantic than my hubby. /sigh

    /happy dance continues

  128. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I was just on my way home and got a phone call from Lovely Daughter.
    /interrupting my happy dance
    SHE’S ENGAGED!
    I’ll let her fill you in on the details, but Aggie Beau is much more romantic than my hubby. /sigh
    /happy dance continues

  129. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And what’s so funny….just a few minutes before I had been chuckling at a bumper sticker that said “It’s better to have loved and lost than be stuck with a psycho the rest of your life!”

  130. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And what’s so funny….just a few minutes before I had been chuckling at a bumper sticker that said “It’s better to have loved and lost than be stuck with a psycho the rest of your life!”

  131. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    #64 Tedtam

    SHE’S ENGAGED!

    YES!! I of course, knew this was coming. That said; You did too! 😀
    God Bless you and your family!

  132. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #64 Tedtam

    SHE’S ENGAGED!

    YES!! I of course, knew this was coming. That said; You did too! 😀
    God Bless you and your family!

  133. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Well, that’s certainly something to be happy about.

    Congrats all around…

  134. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Well, that’s certainly something to be happy about.
    Congrats all around…

  135. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Oh, btw – He isn’t Aggie Beau any more.

    How about S(f)SiL? Suave (future) Son-in-Law?

  136. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Oh, btw – He isn’t Aggie Beau any more.
    How about S(f)SiL? Suave (future) Son-in-Law?

  137. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Tedtam

    Aggie Beau is much more romantic than my hubby. /sigh

    Wait until he, (hubby) finds out how much the wedding will co$t!….Be sure to have $melling $alts ready, it could co$st a$s much a$ y’all$ first house. Daughter’s wedding was about $10K less than our first house. 😉

  138. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Tedtam

    Aggie Beau is much more romantic than my hubby. /sigh

    Wait until he, (hubby) finds out how much the wedding will co$t!….Be sure to have $melling $alts ready, it could co$st a$s much a$ y’all$ first house. Daughter’s wedding was about $10K less than our first house. 😉

  139. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And he’s still an Aggie. He’s still her beau.

    And according to the Aggie creed, “once an Aggie, always an Aggie”.
    And I hope that he will also always be her beau.

  140. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And he’s still an Aggie. He’s still her beau.
    And according to the Aggie creed, “once an Aggie, always an Aggie”.
    And I hope that he will also always be her beau.

  141. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    And I hope that he will also always be her beau.

    I have no doubt!

  142. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    And I hope that he will also always be her beau.

    I have no doubt!

  143. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    SHE’S ENGAGED!

    What a wonderful piece of news. Congratulations to you and yours!

  144. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    SHE’S ENGAGED!

    What a wonderful piece of news. Congratulations to you and yours!

  145. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Oh and Tedtam, since you are on the south side, I’d highly recomend “The Butler’s Courtyard” in League City, if you watch the video it starts out with Nancy Richards, one of the owners, and she is a “Marine Drill Sargent”, she made sure that everything went as planned. The best part was that you can get there real early and they have a little cottage for the Bride and her entourage to get ready, the Gals at Daughter’s wedding got their hair/nails done there. The Guys have the “Club House” next door. It was a great day for us. The boy got married at “The White House Ranch” in Friendswood” it was great, (fancier) but we liked the “Butler’s Courtyard” better.
    P.S. If you need any info shoot me an E-Mail. 😉

  146. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Oh and Tedtam, since you are on the south side, I’d highly recomend “The Butler’s Courtyard” in League City, if you watch the video it starts out with Nancy Richards, one of the owners, and she is a “Marine Drill Sargent”, she made sure that everything went as planned. The best part was that you can get there real early and they have a little cottage for the Bride and her entourage to get ready, the Gals at Daughter’s wedding got their hair/nails done there. The Guys have the “Club House” next door. It was a great day for us. The boy got married at “The White House Ranch” in Friendswood” it was great, (fancier) but we liked the “Butler’s Courtyard” better.
    P.S. If you need any info shoot me an E-Mail. 😉

  147. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    btw – is AB Catholic?

  148. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    btw – is AB Catholic?

  149. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    WB – very.

    I believe he was in seminary for a while.

    There will be no arguing over how to raise the kids.

  150. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    WB – very.
    I believe he was in seminary for a while.
    There will be no arguing over how to raise the kids.

  151. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #45 Simon

    we do not understand completely

    I think that sums up the current state of cosmology, and maybe we never will. I sure don’t expect the universe to be understood in my lifetime. I wish I could be here when Betelgeuse goes supernova, but it’s unlikely that I will.

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090610-betelgeuse-star-shrinking.html

  152. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #45 Simon

    we do not understand completely

    I think that sums up the current state of cosmology, and maybe we never will. I sure don’t expect the universe to be understood in my lifetime. I wish I could be here when Betelgeuse goes supernova, but it’s unlikely that I will.
    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090610-betelgeuse-star-shrinking.html

  153. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Tedtam #64;

    CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP… 🙂

  154. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Tedtam #64;
    CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP… 🙂

  155. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Pics, pics, pics. Does Aggie Beau loo like this?

  156. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Pics, pics, pics. Does Aggie Beau loo like this?

  157. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #64 TT
    Wonderful news. Very happy for all of you.

  158. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #64 TT
    Wonderful news. Very happy for all of you.

  159. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #77,78 Darren

    CLSLAP, CLSLAP, CLSLAP, CLSLAP, CLSLAP, CLSLAP, CLSLAP… 😀

  160. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #77,78 Darren

    CLSLAP, CLSLAP, CLSLAP, CLSLAP, CLSLAP, CLSLAP, CLSLAP… 😀

  161. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #80
    Explain, please — why are you SLAPping Darren when he was just applauding your good news?

  162. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #80
    Explain, please — why are you SLAPping Darren when he was just applauding your good news?

  163. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Oh, wait — I get it now — it was that gruesome pic he suggested for AB. I am SO slow.

  164. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Oh, wait — I get it now — it was that gruesome pic he suggested for AB. I am SO slow.

  165. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Mharper, it’s okay. /pats on head

    We still lub you!

  166. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Mharper, it’s okay. /pats on head
    We still lub you!

  167. phil Avatar
    phil

    Not your typical Bonanza episode.

  168. phil Avatar
    phil

    Not your typical Bonanza episode.

  169. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    I arrived on the outskirts of NYC exactly 8 years and 7 days ago.

    Tonight the low will be 2 degrees.

    I’ve seen it hit 9 degrees here, but never this close to 0.

    Oh and congratulations, Tedtam.

  170. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I arrived on the outskirts of NYC exactly 8 years and 7 days ago.
    Tonight the low will be 2 degrees.
    I’ve seen it hit 9 degrees here, but never this close to 0.
    Oh and congratulations, Tedtam.

  171. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    G’day everyone. I overslept and it looks like the rest of you Hamsters did too. Except for Texpat who is probably out buying firewood to survive the night way up north.

    My excuse for sleeping in is I am working with a trainee from China for 2 weeks, so I had to be at the office every day last week. I normally go to the office only on Wednesdays. Tthe rest of the week I do an arduous commute outa bed to the breakfast room and my laptop on wireless. I’ve been mostly telecommuting for the past 3 years so it’s hard to get dressed and do drivetime traffic again.

  172. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    G’day everyone. I overslept and it looks like the rest of you Hamsters did too. Except for Texpat who is probably out buying firewood to survive the night way up north.
    My excuse for sleeping in is I am working with a trainee from China for 2 weeks, so I had to be at the office every day last week. I normally go to the office only on Wednesdays. Tthe rest of the week I do an arduous commute outa bed to the breakfast room and my laptop on wireless. I’ve been mostly telecommuting for the past 3 years so it’s hard to get dressed and do drivetime traffic again.

  173. meglettx Avatar
    meglettx

    T-P, on my mule deer hunt last year in Colorado the second week of December it was -20. This year’s hunt I was camping for 11 days near Gunnison and it was 3 one morning inside my tent.

  174. Lawrence Avatar
    Lawrence

    T-P, on my mule deer hunt last year in Colorado the second week of December it was -20. This year’s hunt I was camping for 11 days near Gunnison and it was 3 one morning inside my tent.

  175. meglettx Avatar
    meglettx

    Teddie, I remember meeting your daughter at an event, maybe an LST brouhaha. She’s a real cutie. Congratulations to her and her fiance!

  176. Lawrence Avatar
    Lawrence

    Teddie, I remember meeting your daughter at an event, maybe an LST brouhaha. She’s a real cutie. Congratulations to her and her fiance!

  177. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    46,

    FWIW, I personally see no contradiction between the Big Bang and Intelligent Design, but there are some caveats.

    1. The Big Bang is a lot more than theory as there is too much physical and observable evidence. No other model is credible or fits the observed evidence.

    2. No one today can explain what the Universe was like in the time before the bang. I am not sure we ever will, but that is a task for smarter folks than I.

    3. No one can prove or disprove the existance of a higher power thru logic. (Not exactly a new concept since Friar William of Occam said this nearly six hundred years ago)

    4. I am perfectly comfortable that the same power, that created the Cosmic Egg and the following Big Bang that led to our Universe, also created a system where life could spring forth under the right circumstances.

    5. I am equally comfortable with folks that wish to believe otherwise.

    Simple

  178. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    46,
    FWIW, I personally see no contradiction between the Big Bang and Intelligent Design, but there are some caveats.
    1. The Big Bang is a lot more than theory as there is too much physical and observable evidence. No other model is credible or fits the observed evidence.
    2. No one today can explain what the Universe was like in the time before the bang. I am not sure we ever will, but that is a task for smarter folks than I.
    3. No one can prove or disprove the existance of a higher power thru logic. (Not exactly a new concept since Friar William of Occam said this nearly six hundred years ago)
    4. I am perfectly comfortable that the same power, that created the Cosmic Egg and the following Big Bang that led to our Universe, also created a system where life could spring forth under the right circumstances.
    5. I am equally comfortable with folks that wish to believe otherwise.
    Simple

  179. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    85, Tex

    I used to work in our New York Office (actually Ramsey NJ) and I do not miss the cold at all.

    I do miss the following:

    1. Not having to explain what a “Coffee Regular” is to a server.

    2. Real Jewish Delicatessens. Bagel with Lox and Cream Cheeze is the breakfast of
    Champions.

    3. The Country Boy Breakfast at this little hole in the wall diner next to the Newark University Hospital. (3 eggs, bacon, beef-bacon, 2 pancakes, toast, grits or hashbrowns) The place was in a combat zone, but the breakfast could keep you going all day long.

    4. The Spanish Kitchen. Best Spanish and Portuguese cooking on the east coast.

    5. Mild Summers

    Simple

  180. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    85, Tex
    I used to work in our New York Office (actually Ramsey NJ) and I do not miss the cold at all.
    I do miss the following:
    1. Not having to explain what a “Coffee Regular” is to a server.
    2. Real Jewish Delicatessens. Bagel with Lox and Cream Cheeze is the breakfast of
    Champions.
    3. The Country Boy Breakfast at this little hole in the wall diner next to the Newark University Hospital. (3 eggs, bacon, beef-bacon, 2 pancakes, toast, grits or hashbrowns) The place was in a combat zone, but the breakfast could keep you going all day long.
    4. The Spanish Kitchen. Best Spanish and Portuguese cooking on the east coast.
    5. Mild Summers
    Simple

  181. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    85 Texpat says:
    January 23, 2011 at 7:05 am
    I arrived on the outskirts of NYC exactly 8 years and 7 days ago.

    Tonight the low will be 2 degrees.

    I’ve seen it hit 9 degrees here, but never this close to 0.

    Oh and congratulations, Tedtam.

    It gets worse.

    About 35 years ago, I spent a winter in NH.

    It did not get above 0 for the entire month of January.

  182. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    85 Texpat says:
    January 23, 2011 at 7:05 am
    I arrived on the outskirts of NYC exactly 8 years and 7 days ago.
    Tonight the low will be 2 degrees.
    I’ve seen it hit 9 degrees here, but never this close to 0.
    Oh and congratulations, Tedtam.

    It gets worse.
    About 35 years ago, I spent a winter in NH.
    It did not get above 0 for the entire month of January.

  183. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #97 Lawrence

    it was 3 one morning inside my tent.

    As long as it’s not 3 degrees inside your sleeping bag…

  184. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #97 Lawrence

    it was 3 one morning inside my tent.

    As long as it’s not 3 degrees inside your sleeping bag…

  185. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    I’ve become accustomed to waking up in the morning to find various and sundry people crashed out on my living room floor. It’s no biggie with me. I’d much rather they be here than drive somewhere.

    But this morning, I awoke to find myself on the living room floor, crashed between the pianos and the pool table and remember absolutely nothing about how I ended up spending the night down there. Damn my brother and his $60 dollar bottles of scotch, of which only a couple of fingers remain.

    While waiting for the morning coffee to finish brewing, I noticed the BAC tester on the table. I blew .14. Hopefully it will decrease soon. I need me some Waffle House, and I’m guessing my bro does too. I’m glad he’s here.

    I’m getting too old for this kind of crap.

  186. bob42 Avatar
    bob42

    I’ve become accustomed to waking up in the morning to find various and sundry people crashed out on my living room floor. It’s no biggie with me. I’d much rather they be here than drive somewhere.
    But this morning, I awoke to find myself on the living room floor, crashed between the pianos and the pool table and remember absolutely nothing about how I ended up spending the night down there. Damn my brother and his $60 dollar bottles of scotch, of which only a couple of fingers remain.
    While waiting for the morning coffee to finish brewing, I noticed the BAC tester on the table. I blew .14. Hopefully it will decrease soon. I need me some Waffle House, and I’m guessing my bro does too. I’m glad he’s here.
    I’m getting too old for this kind of crap.

  187. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #89 Simon

    Clearly stated and hard for me to see how anyone could disagree with — or try to disprove 🙂 — any of your points.

  188. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #89 Simon
    Clearly stated and hard for me to see how anyone could disagree with — or try to disprove 🙂 — any of your points.

  189. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #90 Simon

    Bagel with Lox and Cream Cheeze is the breakfast of
    Champions.

    Doesn’t that mean eating fish for breakfast?

  190. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #90 Simon

    Bagel with Lox and Cream Cheeze is the breakfast of
    Champions.

    Doesn’t that mean eating fish for breakfast?

  191. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #91 Sarge

    About 35 years ago, I spent a winter in NH.

    Did they have personal electric generators for the home back then? For when the power lines broke under the ice weight. I have a friend living in NH now, and he says they would have frozen to death several times but for their own generator.

  192. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #91 Sarge

    About 35 years ago, I spent a winter in NH.

    Did they have personal electric generators for the home back then? For when the power lines broke under the ice weight. I have a friend living in NH now, and he says they would have frozen to death several times but for their own generator.

  193. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #95 mh42
    You ought to eat a Korean breakfast. It’s not much different from Korean lunch. Which is not much different from Korean dinner.

    Pickled veggies (kimchi, et al.), fish (often pickled), chicken (if you’re lucky), soup, rice.

    yum.

  194. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #95 mh42
    You ought to eat a Korean breakfast. It’s not much different from Korean lunch. Which is not much different from Korean dinner.
    Pickled veggies (kimchi, et al.), fish (often pickled), chicken (if you’re lucky), soup, rice.
    yum.

  195. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Bob42 is not welcome in Malaysia.

  196. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Bob42 is not welcome in Malaysia.

  197. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    Mega congrats to Lovely Daughter and Aggie Beau Betrothed (and Tedtam of course) on their engagement.

    Young love is cuter than a basket full of puppies. Best wishes to the couple, and to their parents.

  198. bob42 Avatar
    bob42

    Mega congrats to Lovely Daughter and Aggie Beau Betrothed (and Tedtam of course) on their engagement.
    Young love is cuter than a basket full of puppies. Best wishes to the couple, and to their parents.

  199. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Keith Olberman for Congress, 2012. 🙂

  200. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Keith Olberman for Congress, 2012. 🙂

  201. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    #95 Mharper: Eating fish for breakfast is representative of the highest form of life and living. When I made a trip to Israel a couple of years ago I was blessed to be able to eat fish for breakfast EVERY DAY. Fish for breakfast is what make the world go round:>)

  202. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #95 Mharper: Eating fish for breakfast is representative of the highest form of life and living. When I made a trip to Israel a couple of years ago I was blessed to be able to eat fish for breakfast EVERY DAY. Fish for breakfast is what make the world go round:>)

  203. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    Boney,

    Kippers and scrambled eggs were standard fare in our home for breakfast. Ms Simple thinks herring stinks and lox is not far behind.

    I lived on a Norwegian Tanker for several months in Africa during the eighties. We were using it as a floating tank farm and dormitory. I never knew there were so many ways to prepare and serve herring. There would be at least 6-10 different variations of herring laid out smorgasbord style.

    Simple

  204. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    Boney,
    Kippers and scrambled eggs were standard fare in our home for breakfast. Ms Simple thinks herring stinks and lox is not far behind.
    I lived on a Norwegian Tanker for several months in Africa during the eighties. We were using it as a floating tank farm and dormitory. I never knew there were so many ways to prepare and serve herring. There would be at least 6-10 different variations of herring laid out smorgasbord style.
    Simple

  205. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I like all kinds of fish but the jellied slimy stuff Norwegians (and their descendants in and around Minnesota) eat called Lutefisk is naaaas-teeee.

  206. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I like all kinds of fish but the jellied slimy stuff Norwegians (and their descendants in and around Minnesota) eat called Lutefisk is naaaas-teeee.

  207. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    97 Wagenbrenner,
    We made our own “kraut” and I have to tell you when you first lift that stone off of the crock….the smell that comes out is not unlike Kimchi. Luckily, the kraut’s odor improves as it breaths a bit. Kimchi doesn’t.
    My wife’s family did not eat a traditional diet and the only time she saw kraut is with Hot Dogs at a Church Picnic. Regrettably, kraut is one of the banned foods in out house along with kippered herring, sardines, smoked salmon (lox), and corned beef.
    Simple

  208. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I love pickled herring and smoked mackerel and smoked salmon, especially for breakfast with a couple of fried eggs and a cold beer, in this case Heineken. . . .it just doesn’t get much better than that. Sauteed speckled trout roe is really great as well, but that is better for lunch.

  209. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I love pickled herring and smoked mackerel and smoked salmon, especially for breakfast with a couple of fried eggs and a cold beer, in this case Heineken. . . .it just doesn’t get much better than that. Sauteed speckled trout roe is really great as well, but that is better for lunch.

  210. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Congrats to LD! Happy for her and the whole tam family. Or the whole fam damily. Or something like that. Anyway, congrats.

  211. Dude42 Avatar
    Dude42

    Congrats to LD! Happy for her and the whole tam family. Or the whole fam damily. Or something like that. Anyway, congrats.

  212. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    Simple

    I eat lox and bagels for breakfast about 3 times a week.

    Unfortunately, the real Jewish deli is becoming an endangered species even in New York. Carnegie Deli will always survive because it draws so many tourists near the theatre district. However, the Jewish deli on the Lower East Side, 2nd Avenue Delicatessen, closed in 2006 leaving Katz’s as the only survivor. 2nd Ave Deli did end up reopening but up on 33rd street.

    The blue collar Lower East Side Jews have all left and it takes a certain ethnic concentration in order for the delis to stay open.

    David Sax wrote a book, titled Save the Deli, and has a blog by the same name.

  213. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Simple
    I eat lox and bagels for breakfast about 3 times a week.
    Unfortunately, the real Jewish deli is becoming an endangered species even in New York. Carnegie Deli will always survive because it draws so many tourists near the theatre district. However, the Jewish deli on the Lower East Side, 2nd Avenue Delicatessen, closed in 2006 leaving Katz’s as the only survivor. 2nd Ave Deli did end up reopening but up on 33rd street.
    The blue collar Lower East Side Jews have all left and it takes a certain ethnic concentration in order for the delis to stay open.
    David Sax wrote a book, titled Save the Deli, and has a blog by the same name.

  214. Southern Tragedy Avatar
    Southern Tragedy

    The blue collar Lower East Side Jews have all left and it takes a certain ethnic concentration in order for the delis to stay open.

    Replaced by Taco Trailers?

    —————————————————————————————————————–
    Congrats Ms TT and LD. Remember AB, no shopping for deer hunting shotguns! 😛

  215. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    The blue collar Lower East Side Jews have all left and it takes a certain ethnic concentration in order for the delis to stay open.

    Replaced by Taco Trailers?
    —————————————————————————————————————–
    Congrats Ms TT and LD. Remember AB, no shopping for deer hunting shotguns! 😛

  216. Southern Tragedy Avatar
    Southern Tragedy

    Soldier Field right now brrrr

    Partly CloudyTemperature: 20°F
    Feels like: 6°F
    Wind Impact: MEDIUM
    SE at 14.0 mph

  217. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Soldier Field right now brrrr

    Partly CloudyTemperature: 20°F
    Feels like: 6°F
    Wind Impact: MEDIUM
    SE at 14.0 mph

  218. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Hambone; Make Love, Not Lutefisk.

    Hear that gagging sound? It’s Norwegian-Americans attempting to connect with their heritage.
    It happens every year at this time; thousands of people choke down an infamous concoction called lutefisk. What people in America don’t know is that most Norwegians came to their senses decades ago and quit eating the stuff.
    To make lutefisk, catch yourself a cod. Take out the bones, skin it, salt it, and hang it out to dry for several weeks until it hardens and smells like a dumpster. Then, bring it inside and soak it in lye for several days.
    Yes, lye — a substance defined by dictionary.com as “a strong caustic alkaline solution of potassium salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes. It is much used in making soap, etc.”
    Norwegians didn’t invent lutefisk because they thought it was tasty. A long time ago, in the pre-refrigeration epoch, salting and drying fish was an efficient way to preserve it. They soaked it in lye afterward to pull the salt out and — believe it or not — make it more palatable. A century ago, lutefisk really was a staple in the Norwegian diet. Also a century ago, a lot of Norwegians fled the country.

  219. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Hambone; Make Love, Not Lutefisk.

    Hear that gagging sound? It’s Norwegian-Americans attempting to connect with their heritage.
    It happens every year at this time; thousands of people choke down an infamous concoction called lutefisk. What people in America don’t know is that most Norwegians came to their senses decades ago and quit eating the stuff.
    To make lutefisk, catch yourself a cod. Take out the bones, skin it, salt it, and hang it out to dry for several weeks until it hardens and smells like a dumpster. Then, bring it inside and soak it in lye for several days.
    Yes, lye — a substance defined by dictionary.com as “a strong caustic alkaline solution of potassium salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes. It is much used in making soap, etc.”
    Norwegians didn’t invent lutefisk because they thought it was tasty. A long time ago, in the pre-refrigeration epoch, salting and drying fish was an efficient way to preserve it. They soaked it in lye afterward to pull the salt out and — believe it or not — make it more palatable. A century ago, lutefisk really was a staple in the Norwegian diet. Also a century ago, a lot of Norwegians fled the country.

  220. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    My cats eat fish for breakfast. I have cereal, yogurt and fruit. A pox on your lox!

  221. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    My cats eat fish for breakfast. I have cereal, yogurt and fruit. A pox on your lox!

  222. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Dave

    It wrapped itself around my tongue like a lye-flavored python, attacking every taste bud.

    That’s a pretty accurate description.

  223. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Dave

    It wrapped itself around my tongue like a lye-flavored python, attacking every taste bud.

    That’s a pretty accurate description.

  224. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Hey Green Bay 14, Bears 0, 2 nd quarter.

  225. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Hey Green Bay 14, Bears 0, 2 nd quarter.

  226. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    #108 GJT
    Congrats Ms TT and LD. Remember AB, no shopping for deer hunting shotguns rifles! FIFY, this is NOT Ohio, in Texas we use rifles. 😉

  227. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #108 GJT
    Congrats Ms TT and LD. Remember AB, no shopping for deer hunting shotguns rifles! FIFY, this is NOT Ohio, in Texas we use rifles. 😉

  228. gtotracker42 Avatar
    gtotracker42

    Green Bay’s #90, don’t think I’ve ever seen someone that big intercept and return for a score before.

  229. gtotracker42 Avatar
    gtotracker42

    Green Bay’s #90, don’t think I’ve ever seen someone that big intercept and return for a score before.

  230. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Yee-Haa, Packers go to the Super Bowl. Packers 21, Bears 14.

  231. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Yee-Haa, Packers go to the Super Bowl. Packers 21, Bears 14.

  232. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    I’ll never drink that much scotch again. After blowing a .14 BAC this morning I had breakfast at Waffle House, came back home and went back to bed. I’m still blowing a .02 now.

    If you ever go to Waffle House, notice that the cooks never see a written copy of your order. It’s all orally communicated. For example, the server takes my order and then says, “Pull one bacon well. Drop one hashbrown. Mark, order scramble plate dry wheat.” This reliably results in three strips of crispy bacon, two scrambled eggs, hashbrowns, and unbuttered wheat toast.

    “Mark” signals one of the cooks to get a plate, and place various things in specific places on it to indicate what the order should look like when finished. For example, a package of jelly placed upside down indicates the toast should be dry.

    It’s a unique and very reliable system. I suspect they use it so that the cooks need not be literate.

  233. bob42 Avatar
    bob42

    I’ll never drink that much scotch again. After blowing a .14 BAC this morning I had breakfast at Waffle House, came back home and went back to bed. I’m still blowing a .02 now.
    If you ever go to Waffle House, notice that the cooks never see a written copy of your order. It’s all orally communicated. For example, the server takes my order and then says, “Pull one bacon well. Drop one hashbrown. Mark, order scramble plate dry wheat.” This reliably results in three strips of crispy bacon, two scrambled eggs, hashbrowns, and unbuttered wheat toast.
    “Mark” signals one of the cooks to get a plate, and place various things in specific places on it to indicate what the order should look like when finished. For example, a package of jelly placed upside down indicates the toast should be dry.
    It’s a unique and very reliable system. I suspect they use it so that the cooks need not be literate.

  234. gtotracker42 Avatar
    gtotracker42

    They need a system like that at IHOP. For those who recall, and a warning to others, beware of joining Headshaker for breakfast at one. If the waitress brings pancakes with butter, just run. You will not be able to save her and have to stay around to give the police a witness report. His Dad has connections and the duo will skate anyway.

  235. gtotracker42 Avatar
    gtotracker42

    They need a system like that at IHOP. For those who recall, and a warning to others, beware of joining Headshaker for breakfast at one. If the waitress brings pancakes with butter, just run. You will not be able to save her and have to stay around to give the police a witness report. His Dad has connections and the duo will skate anyway.

  236. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    The family and I have eaten at Waffle House twice and both times we left thinking the food was terrible. We couldn’t stand the smoking neither.

    Bob, I sure do hope you didn’t drive there.

    After blowing a .14 BAC this morning I had breakfast at Waffle House

  237. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    The family and I have eaten at Waffle House twice and both times we left thinking the food was terrible. We couldn’t stand the smoking neither.
    Bob, I sure do hope you didn’t drive there.

    After blowing a .14 BAC this morning I had breakfast at Waffle House

  238. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    For years there was a po-boy place on Main Street south of downtown that hubby and his boss often frequented for breakfast. Hubby took me there one morning, and I was amazed. There’s this long line of people down an aisle between the cashier and the end of the assembly line. As you entered, you gave your order to the cashier (a woman with a set of lungs that would let her be heard over the noise), who then called our your order. She didn’t turn around, nor did she write a ticket. The cooks moved furiously, in order to keep up with the plates moving in front of them. None of them looked up from their work. At the end of the line, your plate was handed to you.

    The order was perfect.

    Every time.

    I still don’t know how they did it.

  239. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    For years there was a po-boy place on Main Street south of downtown that hubby and his boss often frequented for breakfast. Hubby took me there one morning, and I was amazed. There’s this long line of people down an aisle between the cashier and the end of the assembly line. As you entered, you gave your order to the cashier (a woman with a set of lungs that would let her be heard over the noise), who then called our your order. She didn’t turn around, nor did she write a ticket. The cooks moved furiously, in order to keep up with the plates moving in front of them. None of them looked up from their work. At the end of the line, your plate was handed to you.
    The order was perfect.
    Every time.
    I still don’t know how they did it.

  240. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Oh, and Hubby thinks the place is closed now. The Brown Streak probably killed it.

  241. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Oh, and Hubby thinks the place is closed now. The Brown Streak probably killed it.

  242. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    First, we kill all they lawyers.

    Let’s see, who do we think will get sued first? And often?

  243. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    First, we kill all they lawyers.
    Let’s see, who do we think will get sued first? And often?

  244. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    mharper #81;

    why are you SLAPping Darren

    Darren likes it that way. He feels loved.

    I still want pics. After all he could be one of THESE.

  245. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    mharper #81;

    why are you SLAPping Darren

    Darren likes it that way. He feels loved.
    I still want pics. After all he could be one of THESE.

  246. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    I like Waffle House, its good food, cheap. IHOP has the same thing but it costs more. Living in Houston for 28 years and having folks in Alabama plus vacationing on the Florida Gulf coast all my life, there is not a single exit on I 10 from Baytown to Defuniak Springs Florida that I’ve not stopped at. Along the way I’ve been to a lot of Waffle Houses, mostly in Louisiana and Mississippi because I usually wait until about 9 AM to eat, that way I don’t have to stop to eat but one time. When the boy was young, he and made a few solo trips and he loved to get the tall stack of flap-jacks and since he weighed all of 45 Lbs the waitress always asked “do you think that you can eat a whole stack?” I assured her that he could and when he did they would just shake their heads.

  247. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I like Waffle House, its good food, cheap. IHOP has the same thing but it costs more. Living in Houston for 28 years and having folks in Alabama plus vacationing on the Florida Gulf coast all my life, there is not a single exit on I 10 from Baytown to Defuniak Springs Florida that I’ve not stopped at. Along the way I’ve been to a lot of Waffle Houses, mostly in Louisiana and Mississippi because I usually wait until about 9 AM to eat, that way I don’t have to stop to eat but one time. When the boy was young, he and made a few solo trips and he loved to get the tall stack of flap-jacks and since he weighed all of 45 Lbs the waitress always asked “do you think that you can eat a whole stack?” I assured her that he could and when he did they would just shake their heads.

  248. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    Darren, of course I didn’t drive. Interestingly, I didn’t feel as impaired as I usually do at .14 when I measure the BAC 30 minutes after having a drink. My brother drove. He was only blowing a .10 (he’s about 80 lbs heavier than I am.)

    We both had the same amount of single malt scotch, Alberlour’s A’bundadh straight, room temperature. With only a drop or two of water. He says the tiny amount of water actually creates a chemical reaction that unlocks the aroma and improves the flavor. Being a scientific kind of guy, I was compelled to evaluate the theory.

    Repeatedly.

  249. bob42 Avatar
    bob42

    Darren, of course I didn’t drive. Interestingly, I didn’t feel as impaired as I usually do at .14 when I measure the BAC 30 minutes after having a drink. My brother drove. He was only blowing a .10 (he’s about 80 lbs heavier than I am.)
    We both had the same amount of single malt scotch, Alberlour’s A’bundadh straight, room temperature. With only a drop or two of water. He says the tiny amount of water actually creates a chemical reaction that unlocks the aroma and improves the flavor. Being a scientific kind of guy, I was compelled to evaluate the theory.
    Repeatedly.

  250. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Bob;

    Glad you both made it safely. Isn’t .10 still above the limit?

  251. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Bob;
    Glad you both made it safely. Isn’t .10 still above the limit?

  252. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Arctic air blast prompts warnings

    FORT KENT, Maine — An arctic blast from Canada is bringing brutally frigid air and wind chills expected to dip to 50 below zero to northern New England, prompting officials to warn residents to take precautions against the cold.

    Brrrrrrrrrr!

  253. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Arctic air blast prompts warnings

    FORT KENT, Maine — An arctic blast from Canada is bringing brutally frigid air and wind chills expected to dip to 50 below zero to northern New England, prompting officials to warn residents to take precautions against the cold.

    Brrrrrrrrrr!

  254. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Lovely Daughter has changed her Facebook status to “engaged” and is showing off her new bling.
    Aggie Beau has good taste. In rings, too.

  255. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    #127 Darren, at .08 people are considered to be “legally” impaired. However (and this varies by person) at .14 I’m less impaired than a person using a cell phone, or eating.

    My neighbor, an HPD officer, thinks the .08 legal limit is stupid. She tells me that if someone blows under .10 and doesn’t appear impaired during sobriety testing she consistently cuts them a break and tells them to go straight home, so that she can spend her time looking for dangerously drunk people. She wisely advises her friends to decline breath testing, as do I.

    I think I’ll invite her over for a scotch sometime. But definitely not tonight.

  256. bob42 Avatar
    bob42

    #127 Darren, at .08 people are considered to be “legally” impaired. However (and this varies by person) at .14 I’m less impaired than a person using a cell phone, or eating.
    My neighbor, an HPD officer, thinks the .08 legal limit is stupid. She tells me that if someone blows under .10 and doesn’t appear impaired during sobriety testing she consistently cuts them a break and tells them to go straight home, so that she can spend her time looking for dangerously drunk people. She wisely advises her friends to decline breath testing, as do I.
    I think I’ll invite her over for a scotch sometime. But definitely not tonight.

  257. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    #124 SuperD, lets do Waffle House for breakfast sometime. I like to sit at the bar so I can continue to study their plate marking system. I’ve got the vocal “call” for hasbrowns pretty much down since it’s on the menu, but I want to discover how the various combinations look on a marked plate.

    #119 Darren, try a different location. I’ve found they vary greatly in quality. When my friend from Philly and I meet in ATL for a project, we stay at the same hotel and share a car to save the company bucks. He insists on Waffle House every morning because there are none in Philly, and it’s very hard to find grits there. I send him a box for his birthday every year.

    In the 4 mile trip to the ed center there’s a Waffle House on the right, and 1/4 mile later, another on the left. Even though it’s harder to get to, we always go to the one on the left because the quality is better.

    Oh, and stay away from the biscuits and gravy. The biscuits are dry and bland, and are shipped frozen. The gravy tastes like it comes from a can, and does.

  258. bob42 Avatar
    bob42

    #124 SuperD, lets do Waffle House for breakfast sometime. I like to sit at the bar so I can continue to study their plate marking system. I’ve got the vocal “call” for hasbrowns pretty much down since it’s on the menu, but I want to discover how the various combinations look on a marked plate.
    #119 Darren, try a different location. I’ve found they vary greatly in quality. When my friend from Philly and I meet in ATL for a project, we stay at the same hotel and share a car to save the company bucks. He insists on Waffle House every morning because there are none in Philly, and it’s very hard to find grits there. I send him a box for his birthday every year.
    In the 4 mile trip to the ed center there’s a Waffle House on the right, and 1/4 mile later, another on the left. Even though it’s harder to get to, we always go to the one on the left because the quality is better.
    Oh, and stay away from the biscuits and gravy. The biscuits are dry and bland, and are shipped frozen. The gravy tastes like it comes from a can, and does.

  259. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    It’s gonna be a Steeler’s/Packers Super Bowl in Dallas. It should be worth watching.

  260. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It’s gonna be a Steeler’s/Packers Super Bowl in Dallas. It should be worth watching.

  261. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Alberlour’s A’bundadh straight, room temperature. With only a drop or two of water. He says the tiny amount of water actually creates a chemical reaction that unlocks the aroma and improves the flavor.

    I like either Lagavulin or Laphroaig (La-froyg). The tasting notes always call them “medicinal, with pronounced smoke and salt” (they taste like iodine mixed with a bit of burnt kerosene).

    Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm……

    Don’t know if it’s a chemical reaction (tend to think not) or just some sort of dilution of the vapor, but I like about a 2:1 scotch:water ratio. In Scotland, if you order whisky, they give you a glass with the scotch in it and a small cruet of spring water on the side.

  262. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Alberlour’s A’bundadh straight, room temperature. With only a drop or two of water. He says the tiny amount of water actually creates a chemical reaction that unlocks the aroma and improves the flavor.

    I like either Lagavulin or Laphroaig (La-froyg). The tasting notes always call them “medicinal, with pronounced smoke and salt” (they taste like iodine mixed with a bit of burnt kerosene).
    Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm……
    Don’t know if it’s a chemical reaction (tend to think not) or just some sort of dilution of the vapor, but I like about a 2:1 scotch:water ratio. In Scotland, if you order whisky, they give you a glass with the scotch in it and a small cruet of spring water on the side.

  263. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    It’s gonna be a Steeler’s/Packers Super Bowl in Dallas. It should will be worth watching.

    FIFY I’m NOT a big fan but I like a year like this and the winner will be the team that most wants to win. I’ll pull for the Packers but dang, the Steelers look good. What happened to the Jets, the rabid fans at work said that the Jets were going to the Super Bowl.

  264. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    It’s gonna be a Steeler’s/Packers Super Bowl in Dallas. It should will be worth watching.

    FIFY I’m NOT a big fan but I like a year like this and the winner will be the team that most wants to win. I’ll pull for the Packers but dang, the Steelers look good. What happened to the Jets, the rabid fans at work said that the Jets were going to the Super Bowl.

  265. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    #132 wagonburner “The tasting notes always call them “medicinal, with pronounced smoke and salt” (they taste like iodine mixed with a bit of burnt kerosene).” Dang Dammit, I didn’t know that, maybe that’s way I don’t like Scotch.
    FWIW I dropped the “Fire Water” after the last time I got drunk, on my 30 th birthday, I still drink beer and I do like “Jack Black” but I’ll stick with beer.

  266. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #132 wagonburner “The tasting notes always call them “medicinal, with pronounced smoke and salt” (they taste like iodine mixed with a bit of burnt kerosene).” Dang Dammit, I didn’t know that, maybe that’s way I don’t like Scotch.
    FWIW I dropped the “Fire Water” after the last time I got drunk, on my 30 th birthday, I still drink beer and I do like “Jack Black” but I’ll stick with beer.

  267. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    #132 WB, I’m skeptical about the chemical reaction part too, but so far my testing indicates that just two drops of water in a two finger on-the-rocks glass changes and improves both the aroma and flavor.

    I generally stay away from hard liquors, but I think I’ll grab the various ingredients for a Long Island Iced T. I like them, but at a restaurant or bar, they’re pricey and sweeter than I like.

  268. bob42 Avatar
    bob42

    #132 WB, I’m skeptical about the chemical reaction part too, but so far my testing indicates that just two drops of water in a two finger on-the-rocks glass changes and improves both the aroma and flavor.
    I generally stay away from hard liquors, but I think I’ll grab the various ingredients for a Long Island Iced T. I like them, but at a restaurant or bar, they’re pricey and sweeter than I like.

  269. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Some of the moments I’m least proud of is wahooing steak and egg breakfasts at the Waffle House at I-75 and University Avenue in Gainesville at 3:00am. We did it too many times to count between the ages of 17 and 21. I still don’t understand how we never got busted.

  270. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Some of the moments I’m least proud of is wahooing steak and egg breakfasts at the Waffle House at I-75 and University Avenue in Gainesville at 3:00am. We did it too many times to count between the ages of 17 and 21. I still don’t understand how we never got busted.

  271. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #136 Hams

    wahooing steak and egg breakfasts

    Does this mean you ate, then ran out w/o paying? I found this in the Urban dictionary:
    “To approach the alcohol isle calmly, grab a case of beer and run the hell out like there’s no tomorrow.”

    If that’s what you mean, how could they not recognize the same group of scoundrels when you came back?

  272. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #136 Hams

    wahooing steak and egg breakfasts

    Does this mean you ate, then ran out w/o paying? I found this in the Urban dictionary:
    “To approach the alcohol isle calmly, grab a case of beer and run the hell out like there’s no tomorrow.”
    If that’s what you mean, how could they not recognize the same group of scoundrels when you came back?

  273. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #137 Mharper

    If that’s what you mean, how could they not recognize the same group of scoundrels when you came back?

    They employed a variety of disguises. One time, they might shave. Another time, shower. You get the picture.

  274. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #137 Mharper

    If that’s what you mean, how could they not recognize the same group of scoundrels when you came back?

    They employed a variety of disguises. One time, they might shave. Another time, shower. You get the picture.

  275. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Don’t forget when they dressed as cheerleaders or prom queens…

  276. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Don’t forget when they dressed as cheerleaders or prom queens…

  277. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Or gay bears wearing clown suits.

  278. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Or gay bears wearing clown suits.

  279. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I just did a google search. This blog is now what appears when searching for “gay bears wearing clown suits”.

    My work here is done.

  280. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I just did a google search. This blog is now what appears when searching for “gay bears wearing clown suits”.
    My work here is done.

  281. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    If that’s what you mean, how could they not recognize the same group of scoundrels when you came back?

    That’s what I meant and that’s why I’m baffled. There is no “back kitchen” in a Waffle House. Everyone is right there in the same room.

  282. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    If that’s what you mean, how could they not recognize the same group of scoundrels when you came back?

    That’s what I meant and that’s why I’m baffled. There is no “back kitchen” in a Waffle House. Everyone is right there in the same room.

  283. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    I just did a google search. This blog is now what appears when searching for “gay bears wearing clown suits”.

    Ya fragot “singing show tunes in bed”.

  284. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I just did a google search. This blog is now what appears when searching for “gay bears wearing clown suits”.

    Ya fragot “singing show tunes in bed”.

  285. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #141 TT

    Tedtam, did you originate the gay bears thing on LST? Google shows Pyro as the first use on Hammy’s Couch.

    9 wagonburner says:
    November 26, 2010 at 10:08 am
    It’s a couple of gay bears wearing clown suits in bed singing show tunes.

  286. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #141 TT
    Tedtam, did you originate the gay bears thing on LST? Google shows Pyro as the first use on Hammy’s Couch.

    9 wagonburner says:
    November 26, 2010 at 10:08 am
    It’s a couple of gay bears wearing clown suits in bed singing show tunes.

  287. Darren Avatar
    Darren

  288. Darren Avatar
    Darren

  289. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    #145;

    😕

  290. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    #145;
    😕

  291. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    bob #129;

    Self justification could be dangerous. Again, I’m glad you/your borther traqvelled safely and I’m also glad that everyone else was safe.

    #130;

    We tried two laocations, one was somewhere around San Antonio and the other was, well, I don’t remember where. They were both while traveling to/from the in-law’s.

  292. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    bob #129;
    Self justification could be dangerous. Again, I’m glad you/your borther traqvelled safely and I’m also glad that everyone else was safe.
    #130;
    We tried two laocations, one was somewhere around San Antonio and the other was, well, I don’t remember where. They were both while traveling to/from the in-law’s.

  293. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Hamous #136;

    Some of the moments I’m least proud of is wahooing steak and egg breakfasts at the Waffle House at I-75 and University Avenue in Gainesville at 3:00am.

    A friend of mine in high school once told me while we were getting our stuff from our lockers that a friend of his while super drunk drove from downtown Chicago to our town of Des Plaines (about 40 miles) at 9 m.p.h. and didn’t get pulled over. He tried it again but got busted and lost his car , liscense and had to get bailed from jail. sopmetimes luck is with you and other times, well, not so much.

  294. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Hamous #136;

    Some of the moments I’m least proud of is wahooing steak and egg breakfasts at the Waffle House at I-75 and University Avenue in Gainesville at 3:00am.

    A friend of mine in high school once told me while we were getting our stuff from our lockers that a friend of his while super drunk drove from downtown Chicago to our town of Des Plaines (about 40 miles) at 9 m.p.h. and didn’t get pulled over. He tried it again but got busted and lost his car , liscense and had to get bailed from jail. sopmetimes luck is with you and other times, well, not so much.

  295. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    If that’s what you mean, how could they not recognize the same group of scoundrels when you came back?

    Must have been on a mission from God.

  296. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    If that’s what you mean, how could they not recognize the same group of scoundrels when you came back?

    Must have been on a mission from God.

  297. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    “Two gay bears in bed wearing clown suits singing show tunes” originated on LST a year or more ago, during a conversation on homeowners associations authoritah. There were multiple contributers to the phrase, which continued to grow throughout the evening.

    One of the funnier aspects is that at the time, no one knew the urban definition of “gay bear.”

  298. bob42 Avatar
    bob42

    “Two gay bears in bed wearing clown suits singing show tunes” originated on LST a year or more ago, during a conversation on homeowners associations authoritah. There were multiple contributers to the phrase, which continued to grow throughout the evening.
    One of the funnier aspects is that at the time, no one knew the urban definition of “gay bear.”

  299. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    mharper #144;

    Tedtam, did you originate the gay bears thing on LST?

    I believe it was Matt Bramati who’s become an exotic species spotted on hamous.org sparingly. He was the head of the tech stuiff, I think, for LST. He originated that sentence in a debaste with none other than bob42 about gay rights. I think ti was Wagonburner that perpetuated that phrase and it’s lived on ever since.

  300. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    mharper #144;

    Tedtam, did you originate the gay bears thing on LST?

    I believe it was Matt Bramati who’s become an exotic species spotted on hamous.org sparingly. He was the head of the tech stuiff, I think, for LST. He originated that sentence in a debaste with none other than bob42 about gay rights. I think ti was Wagonburner that perpetuated that phrase and it’s lived on ever since.

  301. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #143 WB

    Ya fragot “singing show tunes in bed”.

    I didn’t fraget. The first search with “show tunes” yielded the same search without. We don’t need show tunes to be first with the gay bears.

    #144 Mharper

    I don’t know who started the gay bears thing. I’m just glad that we could keep a piece of LST history alive here on Hammy’s Comfy Couch.

  302. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #143 WB

    Ya fragot “singing show tunes in bed”.

    I didn’t fraget. The first search with “show tunes” yielded the same search without. We don’t need show tunes to be first with the gay bears.
    #144 Mharper
    I don’t know who started the gay bears thing. I’m just glad that we could keep a piece of LST history alive here on Hammy’s Comfy Couch.

  303. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    It sorta started with the Chinese fortune cookie joke where you add “in bed” to the end of a fortune to make it more interesting. I told the story where the family & I were eating at a Chinese place with a bunch of friends with young children.

    I asked one of the kids if they knew the trick to make the fortunes funnier. Their parents had this look of abject horror on their faces until I told the kids that you add “wearing a clown suit” to the fortune. This got merged with the discussion of Cindie and Tracy ( the lesbian couple in bob’s HOA story), which at some point involved bears.

    The show tunes came along a couple of weeks later.

  304. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    It sorta started with the Chinese fortune cookie joke where you add “in bed” to the end of a fortune to make it more interesting. I told the story where the family & I were eating at a Chinese place with a bunch of friends with young children.
    I asked one of the kids if they knew the trick to make the fortunes funnier. Their parents had this look of abject horror on their faces until I told the kids that you add “wearing a clown suit” to the fortune. This got merged with the discussion of Cindie and Tracy ( the lesbian couple in bob’s HOA story), which at some point involved bears.
    The show tunes came along a couple of weeks later.

  305. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    no one knew the urban definition of “gay bear.”

    I did not know that.

    It’s kinda funny now… 😆

  306. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    no one knew the urban definition of “gay bear.”

    I did not know that.
    It’s kinda funny now… 😆

  307. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I’ve heard Bob mention Cindy & Tracy as his exemplar lesbian couple, but never heard the HOA part of the story. So, Bob, was there a real C & T that you knew, or knew of, and the HOA was on their case?

    While I have been on my own HOA board the last 5+ years, I have redone the pool membership application form so that it does not ask for Husband and Wife names… We just want a list of “All household members who will be using the pool”.

    We have quite a few gay male couples in my subdivision. This will sound trite, but some of them always win Hall of Fame signs in that Christmas decoration contest I mentioned judging in December.

  308. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I’ve heard Bob mention Cindy & Tracy as his exemplar lesbian couple, but never heard the HOA part of the story. So, Bob, was there a real C & T that you knew, or knew of, and the HOA was on their case?
    While I have been on my own HOA board the last 5+ years, I have redone the pool membership application form so that it does not ask for Husband and Wife names… We just want a list of “All household members who will be using the pool”.
    We have quite a few gay male couples in my subdivision. This will sound trite, but some of them always win Hall of Fame signs in that Christmas decoration contest I mentioned judging in December.

  309. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    While I have been on my own HOA board the last 5+ years

    I never had you pegged as a Nazi 😉

    We have quite a few gay male couples in my subdivision. This will sound trite, but some of them always win Hall of Fame signs in that Christmas decoration contest I mentioned judging in December.

    What about their curtains? 😆

  310. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    While I have been on my own HOA board the last 5+ years

    I never had you pegged as a Nazi 😉

    We have quite a few gay male couples in my subdivision. This will sound trite, but some of them always win Hall of Fame signs in that Christmas decoration contest I mentioned judging in December.

    What about their curtains? 😆

  311. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    As I recall, AmericanWoman came up with the “singing show tunes” addition to the two gay bears wearing clown suits phrase.

    Mharper42, “Cindy and Tracie” are a fictional lesbian couple, and are a composite example of the many lesbian couples I’ve known over the years. They are good parents and good citizens.

  312. bob42 Avatar
    bob42

    As I recall, AmericanWoman came up with the “singing show tunes” addition to the two gay bears wearing clown suits phrase.
    Mharper42, “Cindy and Tracie” are a fictional lesbian couple, and are a composite example of the many lesbian couples I’ve known over the years. They are good parents and good citizens.

  313. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    This is one reason I rarely skip choir practice. Members of the Island Jazz Project teamed up with 2 of 3 members of the jazz/folk trio, Just Us for a concert at my church last fall.

    IJP includes an awesome piano player, a tall string bass, and a laid back percussionist. In this piece they were joined by our choir director on vocals and her husband (a tenor in the choir) on guitar.

    h/t to David Jennings for recording the tune on a cigarette lighter sized MP3 device. If you ever have an opportunity to see either group live, I recommend that you don’t pass it up.

  314. bob42 Avatar
    bob42

    This is one reason I rarely skip choir practice. Members of the Island Jazz Project teamed up with 2 of 3 members of the jazz/folk trio, Just Us for a concert at my church last fall.
    IJP includes an awesome piano player, a tall string bass, and a laid back percussionist. In this piece they were joined by our choir director on vocals and her husband (a tenor in the choir) on guitar.
    h/t to David Jennings for recording the tune on a cigarette lighter sized MP3 device. If you ever have an opportunity to see either group live, I recommend that you don’t pass it up.

  315. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    Dang it. I forgot the linkie to the actual tune.

    I blame the Scotch.

  316. bob42 Avatar
    bob42

    Dang it. I forgot the linkie to the actual tune.
    I blame the Scotch.

  317. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Doing some follow-up noodling around in Urban Dictionary and came across section 3 for “gay bob”. I don’t understand a lot of this, but note example 5…

    3. gay bob

    1) one who acts EXTREMELY homosexual
    2) gay bob=1, shane=0
    3) to master the art of peeling out in the ford tempo (red)(’93 style)
    4) to live with your parents after the age of 40
    5) to stalk ramdom waitresses at Waffle House
    6) bitch of the world
    7) loves the gerber

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gay%20bob

  318. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Doing some follow-up noodling around in Urban Dictionary and came across section 3 for “gay bob”. I don’t understand a lot of this, but note example 5…

    3. gay bob
    1) one who acts EXTREMELY homosexual
    2) gay bob=1, shane=0
    3) to master the art of peeling out in the ford tempo (red)(’93 style)
    4) to live with your parents after the age of 40
    5) to stalk ramdom waitresses at Waffle House
    6) bitch of the world
    7) loves the gerber

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gay%20bob

  319. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #156 Pyro

    What about their curtains?

    Their drapes are in impeccable taste, of course.

    We HOA nazis are so misunderstood…

  320. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #156 Pyro

    What about their curtains?

    Their drapes are in impeccable taste, of course.
    We HOA nazis are so misunderstood…

  321. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #158 Bob

    h/t to David Jennings

    Are you saying DJ attends your UU church?

  322. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #158 Bob

    h/t to David Jennings

    Are you saying DJ attends your UU church?

  323. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #157 B42

    a fictional lesbian couple

    How does an HOA fit in this story?

  324. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #157 B42

    a fictional lesbian couple

    How does an HOA fit in this story?

  325. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    How does an HOA fit in this story?

    Don’t get him started.

  326. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    How does an HOA fit in this story?

    Don’t get him started.

  327. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    #162 No, David is not a UU. I invited him to join me at the concert because I know he likes good live music. IJP & Co. put on an excellent concert.

    Our choir’s piano accompanist plays jazz clarinet with IJP on tunes that need one. “Just Us” has been together for over twenty years and consists of our choir director, her husband, and an electric bass player. Steve is a rocket scientist. Beth and Cheryl are both choir directors at area schools. Several other members of the choir have degrees in music, including my adopted ‘lil sister Sarah.

  328. bob42 Avatar
    bob42

    #162 No, David is not a UU. I invited him to join me at the concert because I know he likes good live music. IJP & Co. put on an excellent concert.
    Our choir’s piano accompanist plays jazz clarinet with IJP on tunes that need one. “Just Us” has been together for over twenty years and consists of our choir director, her husband, and an electric bass player. Steve is a rocket scientist. Beth and Cheryl are both choir directors at area schools. Several other members of the choir have degrees in music, including my adopted ‘lil sister Sarah.

  329. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Don’t get him started.

    Sorry, I guess I got him started & now I’m going to bail. I’ll be adding to the traffic overload on the West Loop in morning drivetime again this week.

    Night all — it was an interesting weekend on the Couch.

  330. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Don’t get him started.

    Sorry, I guess I got him started & now I’m going to bail. I’ll be adding to the traffic overload on the West Loop in morning drivetime again this week.
    Night all — it was an interesting weekend on the Couch.

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