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Weekend DPRK RFU Open Comments

Dang! And just when you thought you knew the truth about a subject, here comes the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to come up with a real, genuine archaeological find of epic proportions (warning, some four letter words):

Here’s the word straight from the paragon of journalism known as the “KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY of DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea)”:

Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) — Archaeologists of the History Institute of the DPRK Academy of Social Sciences have recently reconfirmed a lair of the unicorn rode by King Tongmyong, founder of the Koguryo Kingdom (B.C. 277-A.D. 668).
The lair is located 200 meters from the Yongmyong Temple in Moran Hill in Pyongyang City. A rectangular rock carved with words “Unicorn Lair” stands in front of the lair. The carved words are believed to date back to the period of Koryo Kingdom (918-1392).
Jo Hui Sung, director of the Institute, told KCNA:
“Korea’s history books deal with the unicorn, considered to be ridden by King Tongmyong, and its lair.
The Sogyong (Pyongyang) chapter of the old book ‘Koryo History’ (geographical book), said: Ulmil Pavilion is on the top of Mt. Kumsu, with Yongmyong Temple, one of Pyongyang’s eight scenic spots, beneath it. The temple served as a relief palace for King Tongmyong, in which there is the lair of his unicorn.
The old book ‘Sinjungdonggukyojisungnam’ (Revised Handbook of Korean Geography) complied in the 16th century wrote that there is a lair west of Pubyok Pavilion in Mt. Kumsu.
The discovery of the unicorn lair, associated with legend about King Tongmyong, proves that Pyongyang was a capital city of Ancient Korea as well as Koguryo Kingdom.”

Wow! Forget having a democracy or a well-educated or well-fed populace. They have a bona fide unicorn hole!

THERE’S A SIGN THAT READS “UNICORN LAIR” RIGHT IN FRONT OF IT, PEOPLE. WHAT ADDITIONAL PROOF COULD YOU POSSIBLY NEED?

Indeed!
I wonder if that is where our rainbows come from? Perhaps they are leftovers from when these creatures died out? Or, may I be too hopeful that they still live, somewhere in the remotest corners of the wondrous country of North Korea?

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  1. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    First!

  2. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Here’s what really happened to the unicorns.
    http://www.amazon.com/ThinkGeek-Canned-Unicorn-Meat/dp/B004CRYE2C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1354357842&sr=8-1&keywords=unicorn+meat
    As to the designation of the lair, it could just as easily have come from the White House.

  3. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    re: RFU
    Ultimately, it was all an elaborate plot by the Koreans leading up to this.

  4. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Coming soon to a healthcare facility near you…
    The head of England’s healthcare system:

    Patients experience “coldness, resentment, indifference” and “even contempt” in some hospitals, the Health Secretary has claimed in a hard-hitting speech about NHS care.
    In the worse cases staff have overseen “a kind of normalisation of cruelty”, Jeremy Hunt told an audience of health professionals at The King’s Fund, a London-based think-tank.
    Managers were so “buried in spreadsheets” that they had become “blind” to the fact that patients were not being treated with dignity or respect, he said.
    Poor care had become “perhaps the biggest problem of all facing the NHS”, Mr Hunt claimed in his strongest speech yet on the NHS, almost three months into his tenure as Health Secretary.

  5. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    G’Morning All
    Did you know the RR business in Texas was this tumultuous? It took 172 years to get it going. (The Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad was incorporated May 23, 1870. In its earliest days the MKT was commonly referred to as “the K-T”, which was its stock exchange symbol; this common designation soon evolved into “the Katy”)

    Missouri Pacific enters Texas
    December 01, 1880
    On this day in 1880, the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, owned by tycoon Jay Gould, entered the Lone Star State for the first time by leasing the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (the Katy) and its line from Kansas to Texas. Gould, who bought the Missouri Pacific in 1879, was determined to develop a southwestern rail network, and also gained control of various other railroads in the state. However, the first Missouri Pacific system in Texas did not last long, as several of its component lines entered receivership in the 1880s. The railroad reorganized as the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company in 1917. The Missouri Pacific acquired a number of Texas lines in the 1920s, but filed for bankruptcy in 1933 and remained in receivership until 1956. It was acquired by the Union Pacific Corporation in 1982, and the unified system operated as the Union Pacific.

  6. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    RIP Jeff
    Longtime Houston Chronicle film critic Jeff Millar, whose career in journalism overlapped for more than two decades with a second job as writer of the popular comic strip “Tank McNamara,” died Friday in Houston after a four-year battle with biliary cancer. He was 70.

  7. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    # 4 Shannon
    Coming soon to a healthcare facility near you…

    Let’s not forget this:

    Now sick babies go on death pathway: Doctor’s haunting testimony reveals how children are put on end-of-life plan
    By Sue Reid and Simon Caldwell
    18:03 EST, 28 November 2012
    Sick children are being discharged from NHS hospitals to die at home or in hospices on controversial ‘death pathways’.
    Until now, end of life regime the Liverpool Care Pathway was thought to have involved only elderly and terminally-ill adults.
    But the Mail can reveal the practice of withdrawing food and fluid by tube is being used on young patients as well as severely disabled newborn babies.
    Sick children and babies are being discharged from NHS hospitals to die at home or in hospices on controversial ‘death pathways’ (file photo)
    Sick children and babies are being discharged from NHS hospitals to die at home or in hospices on controversial ‘death pathways’ (file photo)
    One doctor has admitted starving and dehydrating ten babies to death in the neonatal unit of one hospital alone.
    Writing in a leading medical journal, the physician revealed the process can take an average of ten days during which a baby becomes ‘smaller and shrunken’.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2240075/Now-sick-babies-death-pathway-Doctors-haunting-testimony-reveals-children-end-life-plan.html

  8. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Well the U-verse is up and running and so far I’m liking it. As is most always the case in dealings with AT&T, the installation did not go hitch-free. The guy shows up yesterday morning acting more like he didn’t want to do it than not, didn’t. He said he had to access a box on the neighbors property, company rules would not allow him to go on property unauthorized, and they weren’t home, c’ya. In the meanwhile innernet has been promptly shut off. The wife, loving a challenge and a battle, not having the best day herself, goes into action.
    After discussing the situation and asking why we weren’t told we had to set this up according to not only their’s and our schedules, but our neighbor’s too with most every AT&T employee in India and a few shoe shufflers in the U.S., she finally gets someone to help. Another guy comes back out late yesterday afternoon and got done about 9:00 last night. Never had to go next door.

  9. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    #5 re: The Katy
    Taj Mahal wrote a song about it.

  10. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    64 GJT says:
    November 30, 2012 at 11:40 pm
    My dog moans every once and a while. Don’t know what it means.

    Question: How close is he to the Main Gate at Fort Sill when he does this?

  11. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    #8 GJT
    Surprised about the tech being crappy. Over the years, we have always had great techs and worse than crappy ATT office people. We have never had a tech say he can’t go in the neighbor’s yard. They have always knocked on their door and told them if they were there and went on in if they weren’t. We got Uverse internet last year but not TV or phone. Can’t see paying for the crap that’s on TV and we kept a straight phone ’cause you can plug a regular phone in during a power outage and the phone works.

  12. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    69 Shannon says:
    December 1, 2012 at 3:09 am
    This 3am audience is tough, man.

    If you cracking wise at 3am, you playing to crickets. Even if it’s Friday night.

  13. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    See your house in a snow globe.

  14. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    It ain’t the politicians, no not even the Democrat ones, what got us into this mess.

    So, given that the ruling party will not permit spending cuts, what should Republicans do? If I were John Boehner, I’d say: “Clearly there’s no mandate for small government in the election results. So, if you milquetoast pantywaist sad-sack excuses for the sorriest bunch of so-called Americans who ever lived want to vote for Swede-sized statism, it’s time to pony up.”
    OK, he might want to focus-group it first. But that fundamental dishonesty is the heart of the crisis. You cannot simultaneously enjoy American-sized taxes and European-sized government. One or the other has to go.

  15. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    For those of you not on Facebook, Southern Tragedy’s oldest son got shot in the leg in an attempted car-jacking. He’s ok. To quote ST:

    Gotta admit, it’s gonna leave a badazzed scar!

  16. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #15
    Wow. Yesterday morning Sweetie’s ex was getting in the shower and he heard a knock at the front door, then turning of the knob then a crashing at the door. He looked out and there were three of them outside, they saw him and ran. Both his cars were in the garage and he wouldn’t normally be home. He got plate numbers and found out the mailman had just reported them for other activities, as far as he knows they got away.

  17. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #14 Hammy
    Neat! Wish the snowstorm would last longer, but I guess that’s realistic for Houston.

  18. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    ST got lots of comments on her 28-year-old son shot in the leg during attempted car-jacking, but there are no details yet: where and exactly when this occurred.

  19. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    For the first time in months Mrs. Bonecrusher is practicing on her Suzuki Q-Chord, singing praise and worship songs. It sounds so good it almost brings tears to my eyes.
    I am truly a blessed man.

  20. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    My dog moans every once and a while. Don’t know what it means.

    Question: How close is he to the Main Gate at Fort Sill when he does this?

    I think he’s doing some serious leg-humping.

  21. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    62 mharper42 says:
    November 30, 2012 at 10:32 pm
    You have to love a Brack Attack because it is such good exercise for house puds.

    That’s so cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute.
    Simply precious.
    And adorable.
    {whisper}
    ca-razy
    {/whisper}

  22. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    house puds

    Are those the ones that never make it to outside the gate at Ft. Sill?
    /sorry… couldn’t hep mahseff

  23. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m sitting on my couch, and Barf Kitty is right next to me. It’s funny, when I refuse to pet her, she’ll sit or lay next to me. As long as she has a paw or two on me, she’s content. I have my legs pulled up under me, and she was sitting with her two front paws on the heel of my left foot. Now, she’s turned around, with her butt in the crook of my knee.
    Little does she know, I’m about to get up and go outside to pick up pecans.

  24. phil Avatar
    phil

    Just writing the articles the American Goebbels Media refuses to write.

  25. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #22 Dooooooood
    None of my puds have ever been to Oklahoma.
    🙂

  26. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #24 Phil: Ifn I were to tell you 30 years ago that wissin Pravda would be telling the truth and the DMC were nothing but liars you would have laughed in my face; I prolly couldn’t have told you with a straight face. Now, it is true, whoda thunk it?

  27. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I just had a glass of fresh squeezed, Houston grown lemonade. WOW! What an incredible flavor :>)

  28. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good afternoon Hamsters. Eeek, 78 already and breezy with less humidity floating through after the heavy ground fog this morning, only 63% now. Not truly mugly, just for sure not December 1st weather. Can’t wear Christmas and holiday duds since it is too hot. Ugh.
    Tried out the snowglobe site, and it showed the aerial view of our place with the new white barn roof standing out and the house and yards hidden in the trees along with most of the pastures. Regrettably it appears that will be the only snow we get this winter. 🙁

  29. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I think he’s doing some serious leg-humping.

    Some good advice

  30. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    No wonder my kids are heathens. We did not get to play this game as they were growing up.
    /someone puhhhhlease put me out of misery.

  31. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #30 Squawk: Great sound effects. What will they think of next?

  32. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Oh Hamous, Oh hammie………….
    Now top this.

  33. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I dunno bonez. Just when i think…. well you know the rest. Good grief.

  34. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Hope he’s not a Mississippi Leg Hound
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yEbUndTnUM

  35. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    They have a bona fide unicorn hole!

    They sure do. His name is Kim Jung Un.

  36. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    It’s December. There’s something celebratory that I like about December.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO4H7I55aQQ

  37. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    mharper #18;

    ST got lots of comments on her 28-year-old son shot in the leg during attempted car-jacking

    Say what????

  38. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Adrea Bocelli does a superb job sinning The Lord’s Prayer.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAFj2-u2cGQ

  39. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Darren
    See #15

  40. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Rather elaborate prank played on classmates.
    WARNING: There are some S- and F-bombs in the video.

  41. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Shannon;
    She bread tough kidz.
    Thanks for the heads up. I’m blogging in two different places right now. I just read ST’s posts last night. Must have happened since then.

  42. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Life imitating art?
    Drought-Parched Mississippi River Is Halting Barges
    The preacher man says it’s the end of time
    And the Mississippi River she’s a goin’ dry
    The interest is up and the Stock Markets down
    And you only get mugged
    If you go down town
    I live back in the woods ya see

  43. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I cleaned out our front ditch this afternoon. The last heavy trash pickup left a bunch of crap in the ditch, including some broken glass. I got most of that picked up, cleared the leaves out of the center front ditch, and moved the leaves to my compost pile.
    Lovely’s Girl Friend brought over some dinner for us, as a thank you for us helping her get her furniture and appliances away from controlling, manipulating POS Ex. She didn’t need to, but I’m glad she did. It looks like eggplant parmesan, and I’m putting together some side veggies and garlic bread.
    After dinner, I get to go upstairs and do some more bookkeeping.

  44. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I have done my Christmas decorating! Very minimalist this year. Just the fireplace wall. 2 large handmade wreaths. About 12 wooden (i.e. indestructible) collectibles, mostly sleds, sleighs and reindeer. Safely up on the mantle: a small red Radio Flyer wagon ornament, with a 1996 ribbon on it, the first year I decorated as an adult. Along the hearth, a dense 12-foot expanse of fake evergreen garland, wrapped with mini-lights. To be plugged in tonight at 7 pm, starting the season at Chez42, in a suitably cat-proof manner.
    Deck the halls, ye merry gentlemen!

  45. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I have done my Christmas decorating! Very minimalist this year. etc etc etc

    Well good for you. Good on ya. However, you ain’t near as minimalist as ‘ol Scrooge here. The only decoration here at casa del taco Squawko will be the wrapped gifts BSue and I exchange. We just don’t decorate around here, no other parsnickular reason than that.

  46. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’ve debated about the decorating this year. I do need to drag the Santa Claus collection out, but do I really want to put up a tree and stuff? When I know I’ll have to take it all down by myself? Will 20+ Santas be festive enough?
    /mulling it over

  47. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Do what makes ya happy. BSue and I decided a long time ago to forego decorating. Again not for any particular reason we just got used to not decorating.

  48. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I was happy for decades of my adult life not decorating, in fact I did not own any decorations. Then something changed when we bought this house in 1995. I think it is the white brick fireplace wall that DEMANDS decoration! Once I started doing that, the next thing I knew I was collecting tree ornaments.

  49. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    What kinda ormnanents do you collect.?

  50. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Fay has gone from “no decorating” to “decorating” in less than 24 hours.
    I guess I’ll be digging out that stuff after all.

  51. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I always ask BSue in a real sweet understanding manner if she wants to decorate. She says no and I quickly change the subject.

  52. phil Avatar
    phil

    A beach is a place
    where a man can feel
    he’s the only soul
    in the world that’s real

  53. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Watching the Big 10 (13.25) championship game in Indianapolis, which I assume is in the pro stadium as the weather page indicates rain there tonight. Wisconsin is ahead of Nebraska by 42-10 at the half. Amazing. We’ll see if fortunes reverse in the second half. Hope not. Meantime it is certainly enteraining. 🙂

  54. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    My opinion of holiday decorating ranks right up there with Hamous’ love for
    mayonnaise. I think he calls it the Devil’s Smegma.

  55. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #50
    Same here, I gotta learn to be more of a man like DH and not help. Bet it would change.
    But seriously, all we do is inside decorations anymore. Still gotta do the 8′, eighty buck live tree though, don’t see that going away.

  56. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Third quarter of the Wisconsin-Nebraska game just began with a Nebraska turnover and another score for the Badgers. Now 49-10. I am having a glass of wine. Nebraska is playing as if their shoelaces are tied together…

  57. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #49 Squawkster
    I have collected hundreds of musical instrument tree ornaments. Many are in sets of 4 with violin, french horn, trumpet, and another horn whose name I can’t recall at this moment. Also harps, pianos, drums, well you get the idea. Makes a very unusual tree.

  58. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #54 Texpat
    I am surprised to hear you are opposed. Does your wife decorate in spite of your scorn?

  59. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    mHarper
    57
    Kewl. Heh any more unusual than say a star trek tree? I saw one of those and just shook my head. Bet yours is pretty neat.

  60. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    My opinion of holiday decorating ranks right up there with Hamous’ love for
    mayonnaise. I think he calls it the Devil’s Smegma.

    Heh and everyone thinks I am a grouchy old curmudgeon. 🙂

  61. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #58 mh42
    When the young, clueless reporter for the local NYC Fox TV affiliate asked the Jewish anchor, Dave Price, the other day if he ever went out and cut down a tree for the Christmas holidays, Price looked at her with a very straight, stone face and said:
    No, the thought never occurred to us; we just go out and cut down a menorah.

  62. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I haven’t put the tree up for several years. I could do it with some old cats we used to have, they were calm and predictable. The 3 Kitty Bro’s are still too young and rambunctious to do the tree. I posted a couple of old pix on FB showing unlighted during the day and lighted at night.

  63. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Texpat, slap me till my ears ring!
    I’m not young, but dang sure clueless.

  64. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #63 mh42
    You just set me up for a good story. Don’t worry about it. I couldn’t resist.

  65. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Badgers won 70-31 and go to the Rose Bowl. Nebraska was ranked #12 before the game, and Wisconsin was not ranked. Presume some adjustments will be made tomorrow on that.
    Finished my glass of wine about halfway through the third quarter and did not see any need for a refill.
    G’night all.

  66. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    http://assets0.ordienetworks.com/images/user_photos/1250150/5acd2f6dcc26297b3e0714ba8f5c5165_width_640x.JPG

  67. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Heh.

    Ty loved to mess with Republicans. For some reason, he particularly loved screwing with Bush 41. George H.W. Bush was able to claim Texas residency in the 80′s only because he’d registered to vote using the address of a hotel room in Houston. So in 1988, in efforts to demonstrate to Ty’s fellow Texans the extent to which Bush wasn’t much of one, Ty and some friends rented that very hotel room in Houston, put out a bunch of bologna sandwiches, added a cardboard cut-out of Bush, invited the media, and had themselves a party. It got national news.

  68. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    G’Sunday Morning All
    Dang, Tomball’s got quite a history.

    From Peck to Tomball to “Oil Town U.S.A.”
    December 02, 1907
    On this day in 1907, citizens of Peck, located about thirty miles north of Houston, renamed their community Tomball in honor of Thomas Henry Ball, a well-known politician and prohibition advocate. Ball had been a United States congressman and strong supporter of the development of the Houston Ship Channel. The town of Tomball later rose to prominence in 1933 when drillers struck oil. The population of the new boomtown, nicknamed “Oil Town U.S.A.,” tripled as twenty-five to thirty oil and gas companies rushed in to set up camps, housing developments, and recreation facilities. In 1935 Humble Oil and Refining Company (which later became Exxon Company, U.S.A.) granted free water and natural gas to Tomball residents in exchange for drilling rights within the city limits. This arrangement gained the attention of Ripley’s Believe It or Not, which heralded Tomball as the only city with free gas and water and no cemetery.

  69. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    The great town of Tomball has lost it’s way and caught the world class city disease. I was down at my favorite barber shop on Main St. yesterday and it seems the little overcompensating power wielders are going to win the long battle to eliminate street parking on Main. Like his customers are going to fight to find parking and then walk blocks to get their hair did.

  70. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Tim, perhaps you will be expected to bike in for your downtown errands? Houston is still building bike trails all over town.

  71. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Here’s a comic strip especially for all ya men grumbling about having to bring the Christmas decorations down from the attic.

  72. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    #69 Sounds like y’all need some light rail.

  73. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Mooky Abbas-wad has declared Jerusalem the eternal capital of palestine. This is as blatant a finger in the Eye of The Creator as can be. It will not stand.

    Zech 12:1-5
    Jerusalem to Be Attacked
    12 The burden of the word of the Lord concerning Israel.
    Thus declares the Lord who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him, 2 “Behold, I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the peoples around; and when the siege is against Jerusalem, it will also be against Judah. 3 “It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who lift it will be severely injured. And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it. 4 “In that day,” declares the Lord, “I will strike every horse with bewilderment and his rider with madness. But I will watch over the house of Judah, while I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. 5 “Then the clans of Judah will say in their hearts, ‘A strong support for us are the inhabitants of Jerusalem through the Lord of hosts, their God.’
    NASU

    The final fulfillment of this prophecy could be just around the corner.

  74. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Home decor sign for all you cat lovers – you know who you are!

    “We had to get rid of the kids – the cat was allergic”

  75. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Getting my game face on, having my own little tailgate party prepping for the big game. Dragging Christmas boxes from the shed to the house sweating my butt off in 80 degree weather in freaking December.

  76. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I guess our pastor is reaching a limit. We entered church this morning to find laminated, full-size cards, in English and Spanish, specifying expected behaviors:
    1) Dress appropriately. No spaghetti straps, see-through blouses, shorts, etc.
    2) Arrive on time. If you’re going to be late, come to the doors in the back, not the side doors near the sanctuary. You know, up where everybody’s is looking, and might be distracted by a family arriving in the middle of the gospel reading. (I thought this would be obvious, but we’re obviously dealing with the unclear-on-the-concept crowd.)
    3) Turn off cell phones and other devices. Better yet, leave ’em in the car or at home.
    4) Parents – control your kids! They should not be allowed to run around during mass.
    5) Stay until mass is over. That means, after the recessional.
    I think it’s sad that this had to be put in writing, in a form that was meant to be available for weeks.

  77. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    The hogan gets decorated the weekend after Thanksgiving. It was much cooler; you slackers shoulda did it then.
    Growling Bear said it looks like Santa Claus threw up around here.

  78. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Actually, the Church has been emphasizing that Christmas doesn’t start until Christmas Vigil, December 24th. We Catholics are not supposed to put up Christmas stuff until then. Our pastor said in his homily this morning that we should at least wait until Gaudete Sunday (3rd Sunday of Advent, today was the 1st).
    But we usually cheat. It’s hard not to, when everyone else is singing Christmas carols. Even though one of my favorite “Christmas carols” is actually an Advent song, “O Come, O Come Emmanuel”. But they never sing it enough for me. Life could be rougher.
    But the sweet thing is, we can celebrate Christmas for twelve days, which means we can officially have Christmas parties and exchange gifts during the biggest sale period of the year.
    Sometimes it’s good to be Catholic. Well, actually, I think it’s always good, but sometimes it’s even better.

  79. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    GJT
    If my shed wasn’t full of you-know-who’s furniture, it would be a lot easier.

  80. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #79 Shannon
    Wuss.

  81. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    3rd quarter, and the Texans have opened hunting season on Tennessee quarterbacks.

  82. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #77 PyroMania

    The hogan gets decorated the weekend after Thanksgiving. It was much cooler; you slackers shoulda did it then.

    As you, and more particularly, Yellow Hair, get a bit older, you will find she may need some recovery time after Thanskgiving before starting on the decorations. Who is Growling Bear? Don’t think you have mentioned him before.

  83. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #79 Shannon
    You sure can be a whiny-butt.

  84. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    you will find she may need some recovery time after Thanskgiving before starting on the decorations

    Not likely. She lives for decorating for Christmas. I have to hold her back.

    Who is Growling Bear?

    Eldest brave. His name varies with his current mood.

  85. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    His name varies with his current mood.

    Or maybe with your current mood?
    🙂

  86. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Hey wb.
    Bite me.

  87. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I cheerfully do most anything she asks.
    If I can’t bitch about it here, sheesh….
    Especially about the 15-year-old 45-year-old squatter.

  88. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    The Houston Texans clinched their second straight playoff berth and set a franchise record for wins in a season as they beat the Tennessee Titans 24-10 on Sunday.
    Rookie linebacker Whitney Mercilus recovered a fumble and had two sacks, and the Texans (11-1) remain tied with Atlanta for the best record in the NFL with their sixth straight win. After needing overtime the past two games, the Texans forced six turnovers they turned into 10 points and had six sacks of Jake Locker when the Texans weren’t batting down a handful of other passes.

  89. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Good game. I watched it while I was working on bookkeeping.
    Now I’m outside on the back porch. Handsome is still watching football. Hubby had to go do some apartment stuff for his mother. I am preparing barbecue. So, while the weather is nice, I’ve taken some of my bookkeeping outside on my back porch so I can watch the pit heat up and get away from the TV for a while.
    I love my porches. I’m so glad I insisted on them.

  90. phil Avatar
    phil

    How bout them Cowboys!!!
    of 1992.

  91. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    We go eat at Kelley’s almost every Sunday after church, usually with MIL. Handsome used to work there, and so during football season we are subjected to football trash talk amongst Handsome Son and the employees of the establishment.
    It seems most of them are Cowboys fans, and having a hard time holding their own against Handsome’s Texans. But they try. Yessir, they try!

  92. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Rookie linebacker Whitney Mercilus recovered a fumble and had two sacks, and the Texans (11-1) remain tied with Atlanta for the best record in the NFL with their sixth straight win. After needing overtime the past two games, the Texans forced six turnovers they turned into 10 points and had six sacks of Jake Locker when the Texans weren’t batting down a handful of other passes.

    Six turnovers and six sacks and all they could get was 24 points?
    Put that together with two overtime wins against teams they were supposed to beat easily and there’s cause for concern in the post season.

  93. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Nah, once it was in hand Koob backed off. Playing lots of 2nd, 3rd stingers on defense too. Game was never in doubt.

  94. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good game day all around. Packers beat the Vikings; Seahawks beat Da Bears, thank you; Texans beat the Titans. Much celebration to be had with great hopes for the walking wounded to heal before next Sunday if possible.

  95. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Yep. Aren’t the Texans out a few of their first stringers?

  96. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Yes but fortunately all but Cushing (I think) will be back before the playoffs. At this point.

  97. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Cooking my trademark fried rice tonight, trying my hand at teriyaki steak and chicken for the first time. Out if nutmeg though.

  98. phil Avatar
    phil

    Save the Obumma/Goebbels media lackeys some time and repeat…
    we’re going over the fiscal cliffwe’re going over the fiscal cliffwe’re going over the fiscal cliffwe’re going over the fiscal cliffwe’re going over the fiscal cliffwe’re going over the fiscal cliffwe’re going over the fiscal cliffwe’re going over the fiscal cliffwe’re going over the fiscal cliffwe’re going over the fiscal cliffwe’re going over the fiscal cliffwe’re going over the fiscal cliffwe’re going over the fiscal cliffwe’re going over the fiscal cliffwe’re going over the fiscal cliffwe’re going over the fiscal cliff

  99. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I don’t know about you guys, but seeing stuff like this inspires me. It makes me think about things I can do to solve some of my project problems around here.

  100. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #83 WB

    #79 Shannon
    You sure can be a whiny-butt.

    You. have. no. idea….

  101. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I just discovered something very frightening! My Farmers Insurance calendar ends on December 31, 2012. What if the Farmers are right?

  102. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    100
    Quiet in the peanut gallery.

  103. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #101
    According to the urban liberals, Farmers are just dumb hicks. I suggest you not worry. The libs are taking us over the cliff after the Farmers’ calendar ends, so they must be assured we’ll still be here after.

  104. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #101 Hamous
    Oh I don’t know, maybe just a new calendar will begin signifying a new year has arrived. The panic about the Mayans predicting the world would end has nothing to do with reality, and the archaeologists say the hysteria is just hype by the uninformed/ignorant/stupid readers of the internet–who also happen to be voters for Obama. They didn’t say that about the Obama voters, I did 😉

  105. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    denier

  106. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Mayans were farmers when they weren’t sacrificing somebody.
    Farmers made a calendar.
    What’s the question here ?
    Obviously it’s the end of the world.

  107. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    In other DPRK news, apparently China did not get the joke.
    Oh and if someone else has already posted this story, congratulations you were FIRST.

  108. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    60 Minutes did a story tonight on an escapee from North Korea’s Camp 14. He was a prisoner under the Three Generations policy, where the whole family is rounded up and sent to a forced labor camp. Telling his story, he spoke of seeing his mother and brother executed at the camp. Toward the end of the 60 Mins piece, he finally mentioned that he was the one who had ratted out those family members. These are not very nice people.

  109. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #108 mh42
    When you hollow out the souls of all the people, there is really nothing left but transactional survival.
    See Lord of the Flies by William Golding.

  110. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Well, he did admit the reason he turned them in (as possible escape plotters) was the hope that he might get better food as a direct result. But he didn’t.

  111. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Izzit monday yet?

  112. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Yep, It’s Monday.

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