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  1. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Red/Blue politics now reaches the bathroom.

  2. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Hey, you can splash dyed water from one tublet to the other. A chilly good morning to Hamsterville.

  3. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    It’s coloredy lights, you philistine.

  4. Tedtam Avatar

    We had a saying in youth ministry: “Reds and blues – but NO PURPLES!”
    The meaning was that we had to keep the adolescent mens and wimminzes separate from each other, especially at sleeping time.

  5. Tedtam Avatar

    Well, regarding the “Where in the heck will we have Christmas this year?” saga, my sister has pointed out that she has a pool in her back yard, without a separate safety fence or barricade. (You mean that swimming pool might be an attractive and dangerous nuisance – maybe more so than a pile of weed-covered dirt?) Good on her for that disclaimer.
    She also admitted that our beloved Aunt C., whom we love dearly but has serious mobility issues, will have trouble entering her home as well as entering mine. Granted, sister’s house isn’t quite the barricade that my porch steps are, but accommodations will still have to be made.
    And Lovely has jumped in and pointed out that (1) care of the chirrenz is the responsibility of the adults, especially the parents of said chirrenz, and (2) that we had gathering at my father’s house which had all sorts of crap and issues in the yard, but we all survived over the years.
    Thanks, Lovely. I appreciate it.
    Sincerely,
    Owner of the Death Trap

  6. Katfish Avatar

    And we wonder why folks “love to despise” Thanksgiving?
    If ‘things’ cannot (or folks refuse to) be kept simple……….IMHO why bother?

  7. Tedtam Avatar

    When you’re dealing with a dozen siblings or so, their grown children and their (some of them grown) children, and all the families are involved, it can’t help but get complicated. Christmas is the one time each year that we all make an effort to get together.

  8. Tedtam Avatar

    Oh, and we’re in transition. We all used to go to Dad’s for Christmas, but not this year. The one sister who started this whole thing has stirred up hornet nests before. I still haven’t heard from my bro&sis-in-law who originally offered to host Christmas – they’re not good at checking emails, especially with everything going on. For all I know, they don’t even know this is happening. I’ve been thinking about giving them a phone call to see if they know and/or agree with this process.

  9. Katfish Avatar

    The awesome Turkey Day buffet at Landry’s is 100% planning & issue free!

  10. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good morning Hamsters. Another beautiful day beckons before the latest cold front whooshes in dripping all over us, then chilling us. Slowly warming from a starry and clear 54 at 6 to a breezy 62 and clouds gathering at 9:30.
    Those bathtubs above look to be much more comfortable than the Cialis old-fashioned tubs on feet, which certainly are weird parts of the Cialis commercial. The yin/yangs seem weird as well. And likely very pricey. They must take up quite a bit of space.
    Even if we had room in our master bath and could afford them, I wouldn’t.

  11. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Is that the Lucy O’Ball jacuzzi?

  12. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Jews and Whites have been / are being targeted for a “knock out” by black thugs.

    Many aspects of these crimes are extremely painful to think about, including the fact that responsible authorities in New York seem to have been caught by surprise, even though this “knockout game” has been played for years by young black gangs in other cities and other states, against people besides Jews — the victims being either whites in general or people of Asian ancestry.
    Attacks of this sort have been rampant in St. Louis. But they have also occurred in Massachusetts, Wisconsin and elsewhere. In Illinois the game has often been called “Polar Bear Hunting” by the young thugs, presumably because the targets are white.
    The main reason for many people’s surprise is that the mainstream media have usually suppressed news about the “knockout game” or about other and larger forms of similar orchestrated racial violence in dozens of cities in every region of the country. Sometimes the attacks are reported, but only as isolated attacks by unspecified “teens” or “young people” against unspecified victims, without any reference to the racial makeup of the attackers or the victims — and with no mention of racial epithets by the young hoodlums exulting in their own “achievement.”

  13. Tedtam Avatar

    #11 Katfish

    The awesome Turkey Day buffet at Landry’s is 100% planning & issue free!

    And for Turkey Day, that might be an option. Kelley’s Country Cookin’ will probably have a good spread as well, at a price we’re more likely able to handle. This is Christmas that the family is haggling over, so we have the added “do we give gifts, and to to whom?” question. They’re all leaning towards no gifts, but I’ve already purchased some (I buy throughout the year). And I know I’m not the only one.
    I see a “black market” of gift exchanges going on out in the parking area this year. It’s happened before.

  14. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Get a bucket of KFT, book a pavilion at the park, and chow down.

  15. squawkbox Avatar

    Mr Katfish is right, keep it simple for Thanksgiving.
    Best Thanksgiving we ever had here was one year weather kept my brothers from coming down. This and a couple other disasters caused all our plans to go out the window.
    Rather than go through all the gyrations for 4 people making the turkey and all that stuff, I built a pretty good sized bonfire got a couple cases of beer and hotdogs for for our meal. It was cold enough to bring the brass monkey in, but we sure had a good time sitting around the fire cooking hotdogs and drinking beer. Missed all the football games but yanno, we got our “thanks” on that day just sitting around telling stories and remembering the good things.

  16. Katfish Avatar

    #15 – aha Christmas (blew right over my head as I annually REFUSE to even THINK about Christmas until Thanksgiving is over)
    carry on

  17. Sarge Avatar

    11 Katfish says:
    November 20, 2013 at 9:30 am
    The awesome Turkey Day buffet at Landry’s is 100% planning & issue free!

    What?
    Leave the house on Thanksgiving?
    Communist.

  18. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    We debated various easy ways to have T&D next Thursday, not involving me standing for any length of time. Decided on Luby’s. We can get piled-high plates of food for $11, and bring home doggy bags to simulate the usual leftovers. I’m also planning to get deli-sliced ham and turkey from Randall’s to make “leftover” sammiches. And of course a pecan pie.

  19. Katfish Avatar

    #20 – Sarge – consider the ‘single’ bachelor motorcyclist for a moment
    1. a leisurely cruise to whet the palate on a rare day of little or no traffic
    2. always available seating at the BAR with multiple TVs for pigskin viewing (well away from any large groups in the dining area)
    3. no dishes or clean up
    4. no tupperware anywhere in sight
    5. INCREDIBLE and extensive selection of entrees’, sides, and desserts
    6. the only ‘slight’ downside might be a lack of a turkey sammitch a couple of days later…………..

  20. squawkbox Avatar

    the two tubs are demonstration of a new preggo test
    That color in the tubs is a new chemical to be put in swimming pools as an aid to identify if wimminz is preggo or not. Rather than pee on a “wand” and wait for the color to change they can enjoy a brisk swim, do what we all do in the pool and get their results. Since the results are immediate she does not have to spend a lot of time telling friends and family cause……. well heck it is right there for everyone to see.
    For guys the color should always be blue. If not we know something really strange is going on and hilarity will surely ensue.

  21. squawkbox Avatar

    4. no tupperware anywhere in sight

    That alone is worth going out to eat on Thanksgiving Day

  22. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    For guys the color should always be blue. If not we know something really strange is going on and hilarity will surely ensue.

    You swim in blue water often?

  23. Sarge Avatar

    22 Katfish says:
    November 20, 2013 at 10:48 am
    #20 – Sarge – consider the ‘single’ bachelor motorcyclist for a moment

    I have. For most of my life.
    I think all the hoo haw about not shopping or going out on T’giving is just that. Open the frikkin stores and if you don’t want to work that day, don’t, and if you don’t want to shop that day, don’t.
    It ain’t like restaurants and stores have never been open on T’giving and this comes a a shock to the system or something. I’ve had a decades long tradition of going to the movies on T’giving. Right after going to Luby’s.
    I thought it was just my granola munching Yankee relatives caterwauling about it, until yesterday.

  24. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #3 Texanadian, she makes perfect sense because AHYTHING that they say is ALWAYS 180 degrees from the truth. 🙁

  25. Katfish Avatar

    Oh you can BET I aint going to be doing ANY shopping!!!!

  26. Katfish Avatar

    #27 –

    400 Bad Request

  27. Tedtam Avatar

    #25

    You swim in blue water often?

    I don’t worry so much about blue water as I do the yellow stuff.

  28. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    squack paddles around in the porcelain pool

  29. squawkbox Avatar

    You swim in blue water often?

    Uhhhh NO!

  30. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    How does one make a wrong turn…
    with a freaking train?

  31. Katfish Avatar

    A little palate cleanser as they say – I didn’t agree with Dubbya as much as a lot of folks seem to think I (we) did…………..but he was, IS, and always WILL BE a class act (and Laura too!)
    Video: Bush does “The Tonight Show”

  32. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Now we’re making people work on Thanksgiving at Landry’s, KFC’s, Kelley’s and Luby’s.

  33. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Just seen in Bryan on Baptist Church sign…
    “Party in Hell cancelled due to fire.”

  34. Dooood Avatar

    I thought it was just my granola munching Yankee relatives caterwauling about it, until yesterday.

    I think you’re confused about the nature of the complaint. Can’t speak for your caterwauling relatives, but for me…
    In the retail sense, Black Friday “sales” being started on Thanksgiving Day didn’t start until just a few years ago. That’s the part that smacks of crass consumerism and blatant greed. It’s a very different thing than a restaurant or movie theater being open on Thanksgiving Day, which I really have no issue with whatsoever.

  35. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Let’s all go over to the Death Dome and build a ramp. I’ll supervise.

  36. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    With a little bit of ingenuity we could build the ramp so you could ride a dirt bike up to and across the inside of the dome, back down and out the back door.

  37. Sarge Avatar

    37 GJT says:
    November 20, 2013 at 12:43 pm
    Now we’re making people work on Thanksgiving at Landry’s, KFC’s, Kelley’s and Luby’s.

    And all them thee-aters, too.

    I think you’re confused about the nature of the complaint. Can’t speak for your caterwauling relatives, but for me…
    In the retail sense, Black Friday “sales” being started on Thanksgiving Day didn’t start until just a few years ago. That’s the part that smacks of crass consumerism and blatant greed. It’s a very different thing than a restaurant or movie theater being open on Thanksgiving Day, which I really have no issue with whatsoever.

    And the stores that started it made more money than the ones that didn’t, and the ones that didn’t noticed that.
    If it wasn’t popular, they wouldn’t be doing it.
    Y’all stay home.
    Most of my Christmas shopping is was started a few weeks ago, and I’ll finish it tonite with the thread injector.
    Quilts for everybody! (in the fambly).

  38. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Quilts for everybody!

    I need one about seven feet long. I’m really tired of these short ones that leave your feet sticking out if you cover up to your shoulders.

  39. Hamous Avatar

    I asked my mother and her sister “Aren’t you old ladies old enough to start making quilts?” I wan’t to have 40 years of concert tee shirts turned into something useful. They never answered me.

  40. Hamous Avatar

    I remember my great grandmother and all her sisters had a big frame suspended from the ceiling in the “Florida Room” (now there’s a term I’ve never heard in Texas) where they all sat around and made quilts.

  41. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My great grandmother on daddy’s side had the quilt frame resting on the backs of straight back chairs. Most of the furniture had been removed since it pretty much filled up the parlor. The aunts would sit on chairs or stools to do the quilting.

  42. Sarge Avatar

    I need one about seven feet long. I’m really tired of these short ones that leave your feet sticking out if you cover up to your shoulders.

    Ah.
    The adult size. Seven by five feet, 5 oz/yd Climashield APEX, coyote brown inner and MarPat outer layer.
    The young’uns get six footers

  43. squawkbox Avatar

    Shannon

    I need one about seven feet long. I’m really tired of these short ones that leave your feet sticking out if you cover up to your shoulders.

    In my effort to be a kinder, gentler more helpful person i think I have found YOUR solution till Sarge gets your quilt made. Appropriate for political blogging btw.

  44. Dooood Avatar

    And the stores that started it made more money than the ones that didn’t, and the ones that didn’t noticed that.

    Okay, I retract my earlier statement. You’re not confused, just incredibly obtuse.

  45. Katfish Avatar

    #44 – Yes Ma’am (as per my #36)………………….is Darren doing your reading now?
    *duckin* 🙂

  46. Katfish Avatar

    #51 – …………. oh
    HELL
    NO!!

  47. Sarge Avatar

    Okay, I retract my earlier statement. You’re not confused, just incredibly obtuse.

    Yah, but I’ve been working out and trying to eat better.

  48. Dooood Avatar

    Yah, but I’ve been working out and trying to eat better.

    Sorry, but those double cheeseburgers from Wendy’s are getting you nowhere.
    🙂

  49. Sarge Avatar

    Sorry, but those double cheeseburgers from Wendy’s are getting you nowhere.

    Switched to Luanne Platters from Luby’s when i got my first solicitation from AARP.

  50. Dooood Avatar

    Switched to Luanne Platters

    Can’t fault you there. She was pretty hot back in the day…

  51. squawkbox Avatar

    Brother Phil
    You lurkin out there? This oughta twist yer knickers bro. Neil Young and Devo?
    Buhwahahahahahahahahahahaha. If we can survive this rift in the music universe we can survive anything.

  52. CFree2013 Avatar
    CFree2013

    # 40 – why not just put a little choochoo train tracks in?
    I know where you can pick one up cheap!
    (have to go undo it and work very quietly at night
    when you do as there is lot’s of animals nearby)

  53. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    That color in the tubs is a new chemical to be put in swimming pools as an aid to identify if wimminz is preggo or not. Rather than pee on a “wand” and wait for the color to change they can enjoy a brisk swim, do what we all do in the pool and get their results.

    I do both as well. I enjoy a swim and pee in the pool and I’ve yet to be tested preggo.

  54. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Blue water:

    For reasons unknown even to the best physicians in the king’s service, His Majesty’s personal plumbing is malfunctioning. In fact, his water seems to have turned an alarming shade of blue.

    ‘The Madness of King George’ (NR)
    Niki and I watched that movie some years ago and found it enjoyable and quite interesting.

  55. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Katfish;

    is Darren doing your reading now?

    Scary if answered in the affirmative.

  56. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    bTW, George W. had an interview with Jay Len. Anyone seen the video? 😉

  57. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Sorry, but those double cheeseburgers from Wendy’s are getting you nowhere

    You watch your tongue!!! 😉

  58. CFree2013 Avatar
    CFree2013

    from an email.
    OLD TRUTHS – STILL TRUE
    We hang petty thieves and appoint the great thieves to public office.
    ~Aesop, Greek slave & fable author
    Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
    ~Plato, ancient Greek Philosopher
    Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
    ~Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Soviet politician
    When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it.
    ~Quoted in ‘Clarence Darrow for the Defense’ by Irving Stone.
    Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
    ~John Quinton, American actor/writer
    Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
    ~Oscar Ameringer, “the Mark Twain of American Socialism.”
    I offered my opponents a deal: “If they stop telling lies about me, I will stop telling the truth about them”.
    ~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952..
    A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
    ~Texas Guinan. 19th century American businessman
    I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
    ~Charles de Gaulle, French general & politician
    Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
    ~Doug Larson (English middle-distance runner who won gold medals at the 1924
    Olympic Games in Paris, 1902-1981)
    I am reminded of a joke: What happens if a politician drowns in a river? That is pollution.
    What happens if all of them drown? That is solution!!!

  59. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Interlude for a grey sunset.
    …you’re the broken part of a living fairy tale.– B.W. Stevenson

  60. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    So Mr. Senile lost his iPhone yesterday. Thankfully he had a 99 cent upgrade due, so I guess the boss man won’t be too twisted off about it.
    After playing with it for a day, I believe my YouTube loading problems are over.
    So get it on Phil. And SQK. And others.

  61. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    70 CFREE
    Texas Guinan was a woman. She operated a Prohibition era Speakeasy in NYC and was famous for the opening line “Hello Suckers”.
    She was from Texas; therefore it was slightly accurate.
    Simple

  62. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    So you can accidentally delete stuff faster?

  63. Katfish Avatar

    I reckon I’ll be an “other”……………*snikker*
    Sing it Timothy!

  64. Katfish Avatar

    ShaNaNa I betcha dig thissun
    Brick Wall

  65. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #50 Squawkie
    Made me laugh out loud. I am going to get those PJs for Shannon for Christmas.
    🙂

  66. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Those footie PJ’s would be too hot for me.

  67. Sarge Avatar

    Oh.
    So its the Blues you want is it?
    Derek Trucks, Doyle Bramhall II & Eric Clapton
    Note that Derek is playing Duane’s guitar, and what he’s using on the neck.

  68. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #80 Shannon
    The footsies zip off, so you have no excuses.

  69. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    78, 81
    /coyote howl

  70. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Checking in for the first time today:
    My Bro in Law has made remarkable improvement, the stroke was on the right side of his brain which causes left side impairment.
    1) he can raise the left arm over the head and wiggle fingers
    2) he can raise his left leg off the bed and bend the knee and wiggle the toes all with the leg off the bed.
    3) Swallowing was a problem, and that is reducing in severity.
    4) Speech is not as slurred
    5) the muscle tone on the left side of the face is improving
    6) The left eye is able to track a finger, even when the right eye is covered. I held up the bad finger and asked him to tell me how many fingers he saw, he saw one and could identify which one it was.
    I got there about 9am and left about 5pm and could see a pretty could improvement just today. I am optimistic that he will make a wonderful recovery. Many thanks for all of your prayers and warm wishes, please do not stop.
    May HIS BLESSINGS be upon each and every one of you.

  71. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Good news about your BIL’s rapid recovery; hope it is complete as it continues.

  72. Katfish Avatar

    #81 – Awesome Sarge!
    …….that was either a shot glass – or one of Duane’s original Coricidin bottles…….
    OH!™…………didja know yet another disciple of Duane’s slide-a-bilities?
    Joe Walsh!

  73. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    After meeting with several Obamacare Navigators who openly encouraged our undercover reporters to lie about income status, health history and more, it became clear that personal data was also being “cross-pollinated.”
    Enter Enroll America, a Sebelius-linked group dedicated to signing people up for Obamacare and Chris Tarango, Texas Enroll America Communications Director who Project Veritas caught on tape agreeing to help obtain a private list of potential Obamacare enrollee data for election/political purposes. Tarango goes so far to say he’ll “Do whatever it f****** takes.”
    Watch the video below!

    Enroll America Director Conspires to Release Private Data

  74. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Bonecrusher;

    My Bro in Law has made remarkable improvement, the stroke was on the right side of his brain which causes left side impairment.

    Wonderful!!!
    And may God bless you and yours as well.

  75. Katfish Avatar

    #85 – BC that is wonnnnnnnnderful news!

  76. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Liberals poised to bailout big businesses. Republicans poised to prevent that from happening.
    http://hotair.com/archives/2013/11/20/rubio-on-his-anti-bailout-bill-the-insurance-industry-under-obamacare-is-headed-for-a-death-spiral/
    Let that ring during the next campaign when Republicans are accused of protecting rich fat cats.

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