What’s likely to happen when a bunch of guys get together and start talking about lawn care? What about if those same guys happen to have lawn mowers? Riding lawn mowers?
I would bet it would be a fairly short time before words were exchanged and then something like this would happen:
If there are some serious rednecks and some beer involved, you’ll get this:
It is to our unending shame that this was started by English rednecks. Oh well… Better late than never.
Thursday High-Speed Lawn Mowing Open Comments
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Don’t fall for any April Foolery today. Via Kim Komando, here are a few of the more successful hoaxes:
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/P0/
Texpat and Bonecrusher, I likewise got 18/19 and missed Qatar. Was squinting at the map to see if it looked like an island or not. I’m in good company. 🙂
RE: The Rug
I’m with you mharper, guess we’d have had to been there.
Obumma wins and accepts transparency award and then the band played this tune.
mh42 the rug: Woo, Treehorn Thug: Ever thus to deadbeats, Lebowski. [urinates on The Dude’s rug] The Dude: Oh, man, don’t do that. Woo, Treehorn Thug: You see what happens? You see what happens, Lebowski? Walter Sobchak: That rug really tied the room together, did it not? The Dude: ***in’ A. Donny: And this guy peed on it. Walter Sobchak:… Read more »
#59 Pyro
Looks like a frame from an “Alien” movie on the display. Ripley is one of my favorite movie characters…
#42 Dude
Right, I am not a golfer but how is it obvious? I haven’t had a chance to figure out what “Look in the quotes on imdb” means, either — will that help me? Never mind, I’m too tired tonight to care.
Well I see that we got involved in this military adventure in Libya at the direction of the United Nations. Apparently when the UN said “jump,” Big O said “how high.” Now that we are engaged, someone thought to ask “BTW, just who are these rebels we are backing?” After determining that no one seems to know who they are,… Read more »
Correct! (19 of 19 correct) I took the quiz earlier day but had to go deal with some HOA crisis stuff, didn’t get a chance to post my amazing score. A few were guesses, but that was hours ago and I don’t even remember what they were. I would NOT have gotten the Djibouti Q had we not been joking… Read more »
#38 ST
Wow, you’ll be driving all over South Texas that day! Have fun at the movie with Adee. Give her our love.
LOL.
I’ll have a beer (or two) with you Simple. I say the same thing for months, and actually contact the people that can make that happen, today they are making it happen, and you want to toss back a few. I’m there, bubba.
I forget who said it, and where I heard it but this is appropos:
“You can tell a lot about somebody by looking at how they treat the help.”
We’ve learned a bit about how the Republican Establishment treats the help.
Its a shame, because a lot of us pitched in hard for the first time last year.
Okay, same song, second verse,
A little bit louder and a little bit worse…
I can see the blood on the hands now.
But still, I wonder – where are those governments while these children are dying? Is anyone else helping out? And who thinks that we can help others if our economy is dead?
Seriously Sarge. You seem to forget that many of us have been conversating around here for a long time. There was a time, and it wasn’t that long ago, when you were the king of the “Establishment apologists”. Nothing wrong with having a change of heart, and I mean no offense, but lecturing us like some fundamentalist preacher from the… Read more »
#60 Hamoose
And it has been used to cover shortfalls any number of times since it was created nearly 20 years ago. The fund has grown from about 1 billion in 2007 to around 5 billion when Straus took office in 2009 to over 8 billion today, projected to be over 9 billion by the end of this year.
Seriously guys; Some of y’all are acting as if we just discovered we’re spending too much money. Seriously Sarge. You seem to forget that many of us have been conversating around here for a long time. There was a time, and it wasn’t that long ago, when you were the king of the “Establishment apologists”. Nothing wrong with having a… Read more »
I know what we’d like the rainy day fund to be for. I was asking what it can be used for legally. k) Amounts from the economic stabilization fund may be appropriated during a regular legislative session only for a purpose for which an appropriation from general revenue was made by the preceding legislature and may be appropriated in a… Read more »
The Air Force built an image-processing supercomputer out of 1,700 Sony PS 3’s.
Here’s a picture. They are still in their original shells.
#40:
18/19: I made the same mistake that Texpat did.
ON a far more positive note, I played golf today at Memorial Park, I shot a 94 which is not bad for me:>)
Obama has graduated from voting “present” to saying “not it”. …when 64 senators signed a letter recently that urged President Obama to get involved on developing a “comprehensive” deficit reduction package, it appeared to be a big deal. But even though Obama has expressed grave concern about the country’s ocean of red ink, he has refused to endorse the Senators’… Read more »
O ‘Bout that “Hopey Changy Stuff” Gasoline up 100% under Obama. Feeling pain at the pump? Gas prices have doubled since Mr. Obama took office. According to the GasBuddy gasoline price tracking web site, the price of a gallon of regular gas was around $1.79 when Mr. Obama took office. Today the national average is $3.58. The lowest average price… Read more »
Seriously guys; Some of y’all are acting as if we just discovered we’re spending too much money. Its an attitude that will result in the spending and growth of government going right back up as soon as we recover even a little bit. I’m tired of theses guys being given excuses. I’m tired of being asked to be a freakin… Read more »
By this definition, I would support the rainy day fund being used to shore up the current budget (nobody thought the economy would tank this badly while having a Federal government that only makes it worse), but not the next biennium’s budget (it hasn’t happened yet and can be planned – by definition). We were spending too dam much money… Read more »
#49 hamous One would think that a “rainy day fund” would be for those times when something big, unforeseen, and unforeseeable happens e.g., a big hurricane, an outbreak of tornadoes, an outbreak of a disease that significantly disrupts the economy. By this definition, I would support the rainy day fund being used to shore up the current budget (nobody thought… Read more »
50 Simple Simon says: March 31, 2011 at 3:21 pm 46 Sarge, Amazing how that happens. You need to see DJ’s posting on the issue! Simple I did. Now, all of a sudden, we need support from the despicable uninformed nutcases. 49 Hamous says: March 31, 2011 at 3:20 pm What’s the rainy day fund for? When its only $9.4… Read more »
46 Sarge,
It kinda ties it altogether. Well, it looks like time for a Miller and a good belly laugh.
Simple
46 Sarge,
Amazing how that happens. You need to see DJ’s posting on the issue!
Simple
What’s the rainy day fund for?
#44 addendum The figures in #44 are strictly income. Nothing is said there about bonded indebtedness or states like New Jersey and Illinois who may have had soaring revenues over 2 decades, but chose not to fund their pension funds and are now broke despite all that money. They simply blew it on other pet projects, ballooning payrolls and outright… Read more »
19/19
Establishment apologists told us just a couple weeks ago that we had to send the Rainy Day fund because we had a Revenue Problem and guys like me who didn’t want them to spend it were uninformed.
#40:
18/19. I always get Oman and Yemen confused.
If you hear any politician, commentator, economist, pundit or local official making the claim that local and state governments have been suffering from a lack of tax revenue and are already operating on austere budgets, know they are either lying or have no idea what they talking about. Total Quarterly Tax Revenues for All U.S. State, County and Local Entities… Read more »
#40 WB
I got 18 of 19 right. I knew when I clicked on Bahrain it was wrong; it was too big. It should have been Qatar.
mharper42 is obviously not a golfer.
🙂
15/19
Think you know the Middle East? Take our geography quiz.
19/19
#34 mh42 Big Lebowski In the movie, a couple of bad guys looking to collect on a loan break into The Dude’s (Jeff Bridges) apartment in a case of mistaken identity. Among other things, they relieve themselves on his rug. When he tells his friends about it, they commiserate and one comments how it tied the room together. It becomes… Read more »
O.K. As soon as boss-lady gets here, I’m going to ask her for Saturday, April 16 off. I (hopefully) will be attending Atlas Shrugged in Sugarland at 1:35pm with Adee and then I’m off to The Woodlands Tea Party at 6. Who’s in? I live in Splendora, taking off work and docking my pay. Eh, eh, eh……no excuses!!!
Ever hear the expression lie like a rug. Just a thought.
#7 Texanadian
How does this guy still have fans/sycophants in the media?
#2 Bones Shortly after the 2nd sail boat was launched. There was a story in Big Spring, small West Texas town where my husband’s family lived, that in the early 1900’s, the richest man in town brought in the first Model-T ever seen there. For a year it attracted lots of attention whenever he drove his car downtown. Then someone… Read more »
#111 Last night — Pyro
How?? I still don’t get it. Is there some hidden image or symbolism in the pattern on the rug? Or is Hammy redecorating/sprucing up The Couch…
Add me to the list please.
Here we go again. Trick Perry up to his old tricks. Texas lawmakers are working on a series of bills that could bring more toll roads to the state. Critics say lawmakers are finding a quiet way to revive the Trans-Texas Corridor and subvert the public’s will. “They have decided the way to get this thing built is to break… Read more »
Good morning Hamsters. Great start at 46 this morning around 6:30, gorgeous Sunrise, light breeze, blue sky, warming to 60 at 10:30. Thank you, Lord. What a skewed but positive impression of Houston weather the visitors for the Final Four will have, but it is all good. Hope it holds through Monday. The Texas exhibit at the Houston Museum of… Read more »
I didn’t have to fight for Texpat to have the opportunity to mow. He would just disappear.
Well after all, it is NORTH Texas.
The huge dude that had to get a chairectomy died.
I just read where the chairman has died. You know, the one fused to his chair?
So sad. I can only imagine the condition his mind must have been in, to live in those conditions. His friends and roomies couldn’t have been much better.