Friday Monkey Occupy Open Comments

Reaading the comments, some people don’t get the humor. Watch all the way to the end for a great punch line:

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  1. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I don’t see anything.

  2. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I saw it and thought it was very clever. Maybe even staged with trained monkeys. Although the lesson is sound. 🙂

  3. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I don’t see anything either, but I can’t fix it here since youtube.com is blocked.

  4. Katfish Avatar

    I doubt there was any “pre-training” involved IMHO…………..perfect display of “human nature”

  5. Katfish Avatar

    Sha-Na-Na you got mail

  6. Hamous Avatar

    I can see it so I’m not sure what I would need to fix. Here’s a link:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCg

  7. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I just heard that Paul Walker, the guy from Fast & Furious 1 thru 14359, died in a car crash on the radio.
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    … and the dash, the seat, the windshield, the hood, the engine, the tree…

  8. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    unequal pay for equal work, when known, is almost guaranteed to create dissent. Where the lefty moonbats run off the rails is that they consider the secretary to the sales manager to be equal to the sales staff; the individuals who actually get out there and make the deals. The secretary performs an important function but it is not equal to that of the sales staff. Notice the intentional lack of value judgement between the two.
    I am reminded of the parable that Messiah spoke regarding this subject, see Matt 20:1-16.

  9. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #7 Pyro: That reminds me of this one:
    Q: What’s the last thing to go through a bug’s mind when it hits the windshield?
    A: His bung.

  10. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    What did he and Nelson Mandela have in common?
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    They both died at 95.

  11. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    What was the last thing to go through Paul Walker’s mind?
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    The tree.

  12. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Meanwhile as the “Lamestream Media” is busy rewriting history this morning, we have this; Three Things You Didn’t (Want To) Know About Nelson Mandela.

  13. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Big props for Southwest Airlines.
    Monday at midday, Southwest Airlines called me at home to ask if I was trying to purchase airfare with my Visa card. When I said no, they declined the ticket purchase and refunded my money immediately.
    I’ve had card numbers stolen before, but I never had a merchant suspect fraud and then go to the trouble to call me at home and verify.
    The last time a card number was stolen from me was 3 years ago and Visa called to ask if I had been in Oakland, California buying $1,400 worth of sporting goods.

  14. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #12 SD from your linkie:

    Error establishing a database connection

    Have you kilt a deer yet this year?

  15. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    A concert in Chicago intended “to send a message to the people of Sandy Hook that this city has not forgotten, and still grieve the tragedy of that day” has been canceled due to lack of audience.

  16. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good chilly morning Hamsters. North wind has picked up, 37 and holding so far, misty off and on dropping out of a snow sky, overnight light rain left a few shallow puddles on the driveway where no trees give shelter. Not fit for man nor beast outside.
    A few hardy squirrels are out hunting breakfast, grabbing a nut or two, and hurrying away to their tree homes. Other than those, nobody is out.

  17. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #15 WB
    It’s hard to get excited about Newtown, Connecticut when the equivalent death toll occurs in and around your own neighborhood in Chicago every couple of weeks.
    Or maybe Chicagoans are just broke after making funeral arrangements for their next of kin.

  18. Tedtam Avatar

    We did not get any pecans from our trees this year. I still have a large laundry basket from last year. I keep hoping I’ll get some help cracking them. Silly, silly, silly me.
    I’ll probably throw them out in the yard, eventually. It’s fun watching the bluejays and the squirrels go for them. If the cat ever comes out of her hot water cat cave on the couch, it’s like a feline movie theater for her.

  19. Hamous Avatar

    Latest poster child for teh ghey turns out to be a real peach. In addition to lying about being stiffed on a tip:

    The lesbian waitress who claimed she received an anti-gay note in lieu of a tip promised to donate the subsequent gratuities that poured in to the Wounded Warrior Project — but the veterans organization reportedly can’t verify it had received any donations from Dayna Morales.
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    Several of Morales’ acquaintances also since questioned her credibility. Kristina Calamusa, who described herself as a former friend of Morales, told The Daily Caller late last month that the waitress claimed to her that she was “blown up by a land mine overseas.”
    But, according to Calamusa, that story was false; Morales was never on active duty. The Journal News of White Plains, N.Y., has also quoted acquaintances of Morales who say she lied about her military service.

    Julie Howat and Karolee Larkin, both 23, related to the newspaper a story Morales supposedly told them about her serving in Afghanistan and surviving an explosion that killed everyone in her platoon, leaving her as the unit’s sole survivor. But Maj. Shawn Haney, a spokesman for the Marines, said in an email to The Journal News that while Morales did serve in the Marines Corps reserve from July 2009 to May 2013, there’s no indication in her record of combat service in Afghanistan or Iraq.

    That’s not all Morales has allegedly concocted about her past, acquaintances said.
    “She said that her dad raped her and got her pregnant,” Kiersten Bremer told The Daily Caller News Foundation. When Morales failed to produce a child, she told Bremer and other friends that she had cervical cancer which spread to the baby, killing it, Bremer claims.
    Bremer says Morales later admitted she fabricated the entire story.
    Another story comes from a day care center where she once worked, when she told co-workers that Superstorm Sandy so badly damaged her former home in Stony Point, N.Y., that a boat tore through the living room, The Journal News reported. Concerned friends who stopped by the house found only minor damage to the carpet by the front door and no indications of the catastrophic damage Morales described.
    “Every story she comes up with has a lie,” Howat said.

  20. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    In addition to lying about being stiffed on a tip:

    I KNOW there is a crude joke in there somewhere. . . . .
    /just sayin

  21. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #14 Bonecrusher, the link works for me.
    Have you kilt a deer yet this year?

    Nope, we’ve been three times and since the rut didn’t start until the second/third week of November, I’ve not bagged anything. The last 11 out of 13 years, I’ve got one on opening day or the day after. I did have a real nice young 6 pointer in my scope last weekend but when I grunted to get him to look at me, I saw that his antlers were about 1/2″ shy of 12 inches, (just inside his ears) so I had to let him go. A few years ago, before they changed the law he’d have been in the cooler by dark. Since I can’t eat the horns I wish that they had not changed the law. If a guy has a lease and wants his deer to get real big then he should have the option of passing on the younger ones but since I PAY for my lease I should be able to take any buck that is grown.

  22. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #21 Just outside the main,………. 😀

  23. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Adee
    1,800 miles northeast of Houston, it is 48 degrees and drizzling. It feels more like 60 degrees outside.

  24. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    The other thing about the lease is that a couple of years ago they cut it real bad and left a lot of limbs and tree tops everywhere so It’s impossible to stalk hunt and I kill most of my deer stalk hunting. Sitting in a stand and hoping one will show up is not as good as moving about. Putting up doe P and using the horns to rattle one up, along with a grunt call and a doe bleat call helps the odds a lot. I rattled up the nice 8 pointer that I got last year.

  25. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    42 and dreary here in Clear Lake.

  26. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #15 Wagonburner
    The kind hearted Chicago folks who wanted to give support to the Sandy Hook family at large might want to look to their home town victims of the rampant culture of violence therein. It would be extra frightening if that has become a mere background noise so customary that it ceased to shock or disturb. Chicago’s mayor appears to be helpless in this matter.

  27. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #25 SD:

    couple of years ago the cut it real bad and left a lot of limbs and tree tops everywhere so It’s impossible to stalk hunt

    You have been handed a pile of lemons, yet you musta forgot how to make lemonade. Pile the brush to make a series of ground stands strategically located so that you can easily move from one to the other, that way you can stalk and hide at the same time.

  28. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #24 Texpat
    Heatwave in Jersey. Enjoy it while it lasts. 🙂

  29. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I’m about to be a squirrel that stirs outside: driving myself to my PT session again. It’s all old hat now that I have been driving again for a while. Later, Hamsterville.

  30. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Oh, this will go over great in Texas.
    From Jim Geraghty’s newsletter this morning:

    The International Association of Fire Chiefs has asked the Internal Revenue Service, which has partial oversight of the law, to clarify if current IRS treatment of volunteer firefighters as employees means their hose companies or towns must offer health insurance coverage or pay a penalty if they don’t.
    The organization representing the fire chiefs has been working on the issue with the IRS and White House for months.
    “It could be a huge deal,” said U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, R-11, Hazleton, who is seeking clarification from the IRS. “In Pennsylvania, 97 percent of fire departments are fully or mostly volunteer firefighters. It’s the fourth highest amount in the country.”
    So far, the IRS hasn’t decided what to do.
    Efforts to reach spokesmen for the IRS were unsuccessful.
    Under the fire chiefs’ organization’s interpretation, the concern goes like this:
    The health care reform law, known officially as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and derisively by Republicans as Obamacare, requires employers with 50 or more full-time employees to offer health insurance. Companies with fewer than 50 employees do not have to offer insurance. Full-time employees are defined as an employee who works 30 or more hours a week.
    Such employers who don’t offer health insurance must pay fines.
    The requirement is complicated by differing interpretations about the status of volunteer firefighters within the federal government. The Department of Labor, according to the fire chiefs group, classifies most volunteers as non-employees, but the IRS considers all volunteer firefighters and emergency medical personnel to be employees of their departments.
    “If the IRS classifies volunteer firefighters and emergency medical personnel as employees in their final rule, fire departments may be unintentionally forced to comply with requirements that could force them to curtail their emergency response activities or close entirely,” the chiefs’ group says on its website.

  31. Hamous Avatar

    Blues Brothers chase scene Lego-ized:

  32. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Visa called to ask if I had been in Oakland, California buying $1,400 worth of sporting goods.

    Texpat, you traveling sportster you.

  33. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    As organized fast food workers take part in protests across the country to demand a $15-per-hour minimum wage, one Wendy’s employee in Lovejoy, Ga., is really not helping the cause.
    The fast food worker, identified as Amy Sieber, accidentally dropped her used marijuana cigarette in a customer’s cheeseburger in November. The customer reportedly returned to the store and called police after finding the pot in her food.
    Police responded and arrested the 32-year-old employee after she allegedly confessed to the illegal mishap.
    Lt. Michael Gaddis told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Sieber admitted she was smoking while she worked and accidentally dropped part of her marijuana into the burger as she prepared it.
    In addition to being arrested, Sieber was also reportedly fired by Wendy’s for failing to “follow proper food handling steps.”

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/12/05/this-wendys-employee-is-really-not-helping-protesting-fast-food-workers-case-for-15-per-hour-minimum-wage/

  34. Katfish Avatar

    #32 – possible “work around”?
    subdivide the vol groups into smaller “under 50 worker” companies

  35. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #36 KF
    Cypress VFD is the largest volunteer fire department in Texas, maybe in the USA. The nightmare imposed by this ruling would make operations unworkable in my opinion. The long-serving fire chief there is a friend of mine and Shannon’s and I bet he is pulling his hair out over this.

  36. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Re volunteer fire dept. Are the volunteers paid or are they truly volunteers? If they do not collect wages how can they be considered employees? That may be a better way to approach the issue.

  37. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Just the other day a guy at work said that Pasadena Texas had an all volunteer Fire department! I didn’t know that. So is Cypress bigger than Pasadena?

  38. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Pasadena Texas, the 2nd largest city in the nation that does not have zoning.

  39. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #33 😀

  40. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    it’s sort of touching the way he believes in the power of rhetoric, his rhetoric, in denying and trumping reality

  41. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well Cyfair VFD covers a LOT of area.

  42. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #38 BC
    Read #32.

    The requirement is complicated by differing interpretations about the status of volunteer firefighters within the federal government. The Department of Labor, according to the fire chiefs group, classifies most volunteers as non-employees, but the IRS considers all volunteer firefighters and emergency medical personnel to be employees of their departments.

  43. Hamous Avatar

    I used to know a bunch of fat HFD guys. They referred to volunteer firefighters as “Canigoes”.

  44. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    A fun little historical tidbit I read:
    Sir. Isaiah Berlin was a great political thinker and did much behind the scenes during WWII to learn about America’s will to help England in the war cause. Isaiah Berlin’s intellect made him great friends in america and he was able to get in the scoop of “behind the scene” war efforts of America. Isaiah Berlin would report back to his superiors in England including Winston Churchill. Churchill was all to delighted with Isaiah Berlin and his efforts to “recruit” American support and wanted to meet Isaiah Berlin.
    Enter Irving Berlin, a Jewish man who composted the famous song White Christmas.

    During roughly the same period, it happens that the prominent American songwriter Irving Berlin (who died in 1989 at an even more advanced age) was also devoting a substantial portion of his talents to the support of the war effort—though, of course, in a very different way. (George Gershwin considered Irving Berlin the greatest songwriter who had ever lived.)
    In early February 1944, Clementine Churchill told her husband that Irving Berlin was in London. She thought it might be appropriate, in view of the composer’s generous patriotic efforts, for her husband to greet Mr. Berlin, to shake his hand and thank him, and perhaps to pose for a quick photograph with him. To her surprise and puzzlement, however, her husband insisted that Mr. Berlin come to the prime minister’s official residence for a formal meal.
    And so it happened.
    At the end of lunch, Churchill turned and said, “Now, Mr. Berlin, tell us what in your opinion is the likelihood of my dear friend, the President, being reelected for a fourth term.” Berlin, who spoke in a heavy Brooklyn accent, said he felt sure that Roosevelt’s great name would ensure him victory. And then, for good measure, he added, “But if he won’t stand for reelection again, I don’t think I’ll vote at all.”
    “You mean,” Churchill asked him, “that you think you’ll have a vote?”
    “I sincerely hope so.”
    Surprised and puzzled, Churchill muttered that it was surely a good sign of Anglo-American cooperation if Professor Berlin had a vote in America. And the prime minister’s subsequent questions about industrial war production in the United States elicited only vague and noncommittal replies. Growing exasperated, Churchill asked Berlin when he thought the war would end. ”Mr. Prime Minister,” Berlin replied, “I shall tell my children and grandchildren that Winston Churchill asked me that question.” By now thoroughly confused, Churchill asked what Mr. Berlin considered to be the most important thing that he had written. ”White Christmas,” he replied.
    Sensing social disaster, Clementine Churchill said gently that they should all be grateful to Mr. Berlin because he had been so generous. ”Generous?” her husband responded in disbelief, looking about him in consternation. By this time, hoping to stop the damage, Churchill’s secretary, Jock Colville, was gently kicking the prime minister under the table. “What are you kicking me for?” Churchill growled, and then turned his back on Berlin. Shortly thereafter the lunch broke up. Berlin returned to the hotel where he was staying with the famous movie producer Alexander Korda. He reported that it had been a puzzling lunch. He hadn’t exactly seemed to hit it off with the prime minister.
    Within a short while, when Churchill learned what had really happened, he roared with laughter at the misunderstanding and all was well. In fact, as the story circulated, it cemented Isaiah Berlin’s reputation as a man who should be taken seriously far beyond the exalted academic enclave of All Souls College, Oxford.

    😆
    http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/2013/12/a-fun-story-about-the-composer-of-white-christmas-who-by-the-way-was-jewish.html

  45. Katfish Avatar

    #37 – Yep well aware of the incredible SIZE of the CF Vols (some of their equipment is IMHO wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy “over the top fancy” – i.e. some of the GMC/Chevy Suburbans I’ve seen on the road)
    I’d bet my BACA chptr Prez (who is a Cy-Fair truancy officer) may well know the chief or at least many of the crew)

  46. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    These photos leave me speechless.
    Really and truly astounding talent. She is in her 30s and lives in Seoul, South Korea.
    http://www.businessinsider.com/jeeyoung-lee-photos-2013-12#

  47. Hamous Avatar

    #46 Prolly good to do it now and get a jump on a new coach before the carousel begins.

  48. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    squack & sarge are ahead of their time.

  49. Sarge Avatar

    Enter Irving Berlin, a Jewish man who composted the famous song White Christmas.

    He did it by mixing it with 1/3 brown leaves and 2/3 grass clippings with a dusting of bagel chips and turning at least once a day.

  50. Robert M Avatar
    Robert M

    Well, at least Bob McNair didn’t give Kubiak that “vote of confidence” which we all know is the “kiss of death”. McNair just put Kubiak and the fans out of their misery. I think the team read too much of the early press saying they were a Super Bowl contender and thought that was enough. You knew they were in trouble when they couldn’t win one for their coach when he was down. What makes it really bad is they lost most of those games by a score or less. And they should definitely give Case a chance with the remaining games to prove himself before the draft. I guess we will go back to our standard answer “well, there’s next year” again.

  51. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Hi Robert long time no see.

  52. Sarge Avatar

    51 wagonburner says:
    December 6, 2013 at 12:01 pm
    squack & sarge are ahead of their time.

    After that, I debate the wisdom of the next post. Which, as it happens, never stopped me before.
    Remember that cable knit sweater I was looking for?
    I think I found it.

  53. squawkbox Avatar

    Robert M
    They definitely believed their own hype. However having said that, the Texans have some great talent. That team looked like one undisciplined bunch of Pop Warner rookies. Kubiak is a great person but his love affair with Schaub bled over to the team and their attitude.

  54. squawkbox Avatar

    Holy Crap Sarge that looks something one would wear in a war vidiot game.

  55. Sarge Avatar

    58 squawkbox says:
    December 6, 2013 at 12:10 pm
    Holy Crap Sarge that looks something one would wear in a war vidiot game.

    Yes, but imagine the veritas it will give me while I’m telling people what everybody should watch.

  56. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #56
    No, Sarge, don’t do it! People will be fleeing from the auditorium if you enter wearing cable knit hoody-footy pajamas designed for Sasquatch.

  57. Tedtam Avatar

    I think I see a fly on that thing – – but is there a trapdoor?

  58. Sarge Avatar

    60 mharper42 says:
    December 6, 2013 at 12:33 pm
    #56
    No, Sarge, don’t do it! People will be fleeing from the auditorium if you enter wearing cable knit hoody-footy pajamas designed for Sasquatch.

    Evidence shows that by that time I will have an army of sycophantic minions who will defend my every action and utterance and breathlessly run to all their friends to report the importance of everything I say.
    I might even start wearing bow ties.

  59. squawkbox Avatar

    No, Sarge, don’t do it! People will be fleeing from the auditorium if you enter wearing cable knit hoody-footy pajamas designed for Sasquatch.

    Don’t listen to that ol curmudgeon Sarge. 🙂
    She has been hanging around me too long and just wants to kill yer joy. LIVE LARGE GO FOR IT.

  60. Sarge Avatar

    61 Tedtam says:
    December 6, 2013 at 12:43 pm
    I think I see a fly on that thing – – but is there a trapdoor?

    Unfortunately, no. But the broadcasts are only a couple of hours long, and I will have sidekicks to cover for me should I need to be out of the studio.
    Ironically, it requires the wearing of long johns to prevent itching in the more “sensitive” areas.

  61. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Ironically, it requires the wearing of long johns to prevent itching in the more “sensitive” areas.

    Man up, you big pansy.

  62. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Wear that thing in indoor heat for hours and it’ll have lots of flies on it.

  63. Tedtam Avatar

    #66 Shannon
    Great article. The closest I’ll get to a “celebration of life” is that I want a closed casket ceremony. Perhaps there will be pictures of me in my life (there aren’t many of those, as I was usually the one behind the camera). I want people to remember me for how and why I lived, and not as that corpse in the box.
    I have never gotten over the funeral I attended, where three blue-hairs were gathered around the head of the coffin, talking about “how good she looks”. She’s dead, for cripe’s sake! How “good” can she look?! I grew a real distaste for the idea of having my corpse reviewed for looks. Closed casket for me, please. Perhaps close family members can gaze upon me in a private viewing, if they need closure.
    When my Aunt Ruby died, that was the first funeral where I refused to go to the coffin to “pay my last respects”. For some reason, I had a real settled feeling in my heart about where my Aunt Ruby was, and she wasn’t in the viewing room waiting to be stared at. I didn’t want to go in there, not because I had an aversion to seeing a dead body, but because she wasn’t in there. I spent my time sitting next to my father on a couch at the funeral home, talking to him. Ever since then, I’ve felt the same way.
    Our bodies are only the tents in which our souls live. When I die, remember my spirit. Don’t worship my corpse. That said, I want a Catholic mass and rosary, and a cheap casket (don’t go burying my money, precious little as there is, with me – it can be put to better use!). I’d appreciate more memorial masses to help me get through Purgatory. I’ve left Lovely Daughter with instructions, but give me a good old-fashioned Christian burial.

  64. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    68 TT
    I just think there is a line between a tasteful, loving tribute during a liturgical funeral service and a celebratory, rock-and-roll-hoochie-coo party production that has no place in a Sanctuary. You wouldn’t believe some of the funerals I have attended.
    If you want to party, that’s what a wake is for.
    But then, I’m a stodgy old traditionalist.

  65. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Open caskets are a tradition around here. I don’t have a problem with it.

  66. Hamous Avatar

    I’m a traditionalist. Rosary the night before (and I don’t look at dead people), funeral Mass, short graveside service, and end with a wake where the ladies are inside boo-hooing and the men are outside getting drunk, and at least two cousins or uncles get in a fist fight before the night is over.

  67. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I followed a link to National Review last night.
    When the NRO page opened, this huge flashing red screen began flashing SHELL GAS! and some screaming autoplay video was screeching out of my speakers advertising some other product.
    I was pi$$ed beyond belief.
    I wrote a very snarky note to the executive editor and copied the advertising director at NRO expressing my utter disgust with their gutter-crawling, scum-sucking advertising tactics. This morning my inbox had an equally snarky, albeit less eloquent, response from National Review’s Executive Editor.
    There was a gentlemanly exchange of profanity and articulate insults.
    I ended by generously wishing them good luck. They will need it.

  68. CFree2013 Avatar
    CFree2013

    I like Hamous’ idea of having at least one brawl! You choose your friends, but not your family. At mine – somebody that I know has got to stand up and say something – it’s a tough funeral and sobering to go to when the minister doesn’t know who you are/were and everybody else is aware of that as well.

  69. Hamous Avatar

    Instant Karma’s gonna get you
    Gonna knock you right in the head
    You better get yourself together
    Pretty soon your gonna be dead

  70. Tedtam Avatar

    Just finished watching “Cinderella” with Lesley Ann Warren, from back in the 60’s. I knew I’d heard those songs somewhere before. I must have watched it when I was young; and I’ve heard some of ’em occasionally over the years. Rodgers and Hammerstein knew how to write ’em.
    Of course, menfolk won’t appreciate them as much as wimmins do.
    The only way I could find to see it was to get to a website that had it archived. Touchy, touchy, touchy it was. It restarted itself four or five times when I tried to adjust the volume or pause/restart it.
    “Ten Minutes Ago”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIe2Y5lgahQ
    “In My Own Little Chair” (I think this is my favorite song in the whole show)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27K6nlVEdSc
    “Do I Love You Because You’re Beautiful?”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVx9ENFFoas

  71. Hamous Avatar

    Why am I already seeing Dewhurst commercials?

  72. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    To me, attending a funeral is all about supporting the family, not the deceased. I am especially sympathetic to widows and mothers of the deceased. Although the last 2 funerals I have attended were held by adult children for their mothers.

  73. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    and a cheap casket (don’t go burying my money, precious little as there is, with me – it can be put to better use!).

    I have already made it clear to Mrs. Bonecrusher and my family that I will shortly build my own coffin (a coffin has 6 sides – Dracula style- while a casket has only 4) and use it as a storage unit in the garage until it is actually needed for the intended purpose.

  74. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #75 TT
    I remember a movie from a long time ago in which Leslie Ann Warren played a high class call girl…oh, wait !….I guess that wasn’t Cinderella. Ooops.
    Les was a great hooker though. Just like they say – a heart of gold. (>;

  75. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    C free

    At mine – somebody that I know has got to stand up and say something – it’s a tough funeral…

    I must say you had me a little confused there, for a minute. 🙂

  76. squawkbox Avatar

    I told my lovely to donate my corpse to the med students. They cremate the left overs and dump the ashes into the Gulf. If they won’t take me then BSue will have me cremated. Funerals are to expensive, If she wants services I told her to take the cheap way out. No need wasting money on me.

  77. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    That’s one cadaver they won’t be fighting over.
    LOL

  78. Hamous Avatar

    Without googling, who is Roger Rodas?

  79. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #81 Shannon
    Ah, yes, it was 1977 and I was a young buck of 25 and Leslie was a beautiful lass of, oh, maybe 31.
    Damn the ravages of time. Although, the last glimpse I had revealed Warren to be looking pretty good in her 60s.

  80. Hamous Avatar

    Damn, I thought you were like 10 or 15 years older than me.

  81. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I am buying small items of PT equipment to continue my exercises after the program ends in 2 weeks. I just ordered a “stretch assist strap” that fits over the foot and has 2 long strappy handles that are pulled to flex the knee. I’ve been doing this one with a rope at home, but am realizing how much more effective it is using the canvas strap at The Gulag.
    Wonder how EG is coming with his PT program. It would be so annoying to find out he is training for the half marathon already.

  82. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #83 Shannon
    Until the last few years, I would have thought old cadavers would be especially valuable to medical schools since the superannuated population is getting so large. But then came ObamaCare and who cares about treating old people now?

  83. Katfish Avatar

    #87 – I highly recommend the ‘therapy pad’ (made by the same folks that produce those elastic bands aka ‘Theraband’) – it’s a pad about 2 inches thick and shaped a bit like a football – you stand on it with the healing leg and lift the other healthy leg with arms outstretched for balance – work your way up to standing one legged on that pad for a 30 count and do several reps – feel the burn!

  84. squawkbox Avatar

    That’s one cadaver they won’t be fighting over.

    Thbbbpppptttttttt 🙂

  85. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    I’ve told spouse I want to be buried in in my wedding dress. Which of course right now doesn’t fit, but funeral folks can manage to correct small problems like that.

  86. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Katfishy, I can’t stand on one leg for 10 seconds even on solid ground! I know, because that is one of the exercises they have me “do”. Do as in attempt. 🙂

  87. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The Happy People insist on broadcasting gay porn on big screen TVs visible from the street where chirrenzes walk.
    This is definitely a cultural indicator and it ain’t good.
    /spits

  88. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #94 Goat Racer: Nice, solid, music :>)
    The musical magic of that era, 1960-1980 MOTOWN was just that, magic. Now the modern crapola that passes for music creates violent tendencies instead of joy.

  89. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #86 Hamous
    I think I’m about 5 years older than you. I’ve forgotten now.
    So when we met in Houston, you thought I looked that much older ?!

  90. Katfish Avatar

    #92 – nor could I after breaking my left leg in 10 places (stand on the healing leg for 10 seconds on solid ground)…………that’s why they call it “work UP to it”………………it’ll take time but well worth it – the ‘micro adjustments’ between hip/knee/ankle to keep one upright are what needs to be mastered – takes lots of practice but well worth it – and good exercise far beyond the rehab process

  91. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Well, the Gulag does have what I call a mush mat, a large square vinyl-covered pillow, that they have me march in place while standing on it. Along with other queasy-making rocker boards and other balance devices. When I finish up with them in 2 weeks, I hope they will give me a list of exercises and equipment that they think would help me improve on my own. Any equipment I acquire will be a good investment, since I plan to do the right knee early in the coming year. Maybe February.

  92. phil Avatar
    phil

    Does anyone know if the MSNBC Spitter was able to avoid a titanic orgasmic explosion after interviewing his lard and savior?
    Politix, the Spitter and OLiarama suck but the following doesn’t.
    I may get banned but I’m posting this again cause I like the video and really like the solo.
    Stay warm folks.–Silverado Cab time.

  93. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good freezing morning Hamsters. The thermometer on the pole in the back yard says 33.1, and the one at St. Francis between the house and barn says 32.9. The wind is just as blustery as yesterday, so the chill must be somewhere in the 20s. Not nice. No rain though–yet.

  94. CFree2013 Avatar
    CFree2013

    80 Shannon – yeah, shoulda been ‘when of if’ – not really looking forward to
    that event occurring anytime soon 🙂

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