What other hairstyle has inspired comedy, imitation, and haiku?
Ponytails are for wimps.
But if you let that hair loose,
you are my brother.Short like your schooling.
Long like your prison sentence.
The penal haircut.
National Coiffure Of Florida
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TGIF!
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mharper says:
Did we not hear anything from Shannon about his wife’s surgery today?Patient is back home and doing pretty well. Thanks.
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#2 Shannon, glad to hear that. It’s good to get home as soon as you can.
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Man it’s nice outside, 70 and very dry, we had quite a light show early this morning and a pretty good rain, supposed to be in the 50’s tonight?!
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For those of you old enough to remember live TV and to have been fans of Lucy and Desi, the guys over at Babalu have posted an aerial shot of the old Desilu Studios from the 1950s.
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Morning all, Glad Mrs. Shannon is doing well. It was 23 degrees this morning when I left the house. High of 45 today.
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Any news on the second person they were watching in Dallas?
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SD, my husband just commented on a big light show he noticed in the middle of the night, but heard no thunder, suggesting it was a long way off. That window does face south. Did you have thunder with your storm? Wherever it was, I slept through it.
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Glad the Shannon family is doing well. Keep it that way!
I was dead to the world last night, but I did wake up to one huge thunderclap somewhere 3-ish in the morning. As excited as I was about the cool front, I went dead to the world again until this morning. I love a good thunderstorm, but I just couldn’t stay awake for that one.
My left eye socket is still a tad bit sore from last night. Hubby had his car club meeting, so I was free to stay at the gym and work out for the first time in days. Since I forgot my shoes, I opted for the pool, and was there when the water aerobics class started, so I stayed. (My arms are feeling it, too, but for all the right reasons.) I have a problem with buoyancy, which surprises me, so I have to double up on the pool noodles that we use for certain exercises, or I have to get one of the bigger ones. One of the exercises required that we stand on the noodle, which gives the sensation of “surfing” but has the purpose of forcing us to work harder to balance. I couldn’t get off the bottom of the pool, so I went to a larger one and was told to sit on it instead of standing on it so I could do some of the arm movements. As I was shifting to another exercise, I leaned back and the noodle shot up out of the water.
I had been sitting in the middle of it, which meant it was in a curved shape.
The curved shape meant it didn’t shoot straight up out of the water. It curved around.
Straight for my eye.
And it was a bigger noodle, which meant it had more buoyancy force pushing it out of the water. It was big, and it was fast, and I got hit by the very end of it.
It hurt. It took me at least a full minute before I could take my hand off my eye. I’ve never been hurt by a pool noodle before, but if anyone can do it, I’d be the one!
There’s no visible bruising, but I think I must have some under the skin, ‘cuz I’m still feeling it.
I have more respect for pool noodles now.
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Praying for the lovely Ms. Shannon.
Not so much that she will recoverer. She will. But that Shannon don’t drive her nutso while she is
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Hey Sarge
Sometimes they eat their own. I just wish they would get a bigger craving.
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Tedtam
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You weren’t fighting over a watermelon were you?That is the problem with undomesticated pool noodles in their natural habitat, they can get unruly.
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Heck i am aware all year long. Sharpie Sharpton you sly dog. I expect that from Queen Sheila but not you.
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#11 Squawks
But that Shannon don’t drive her nutso while she is interred.
Hate to say this, Bro Squawk, what I don’t think that word means what you think it means. Maybe you meant interned?
🙁Otherwise your morning posts are all triples.
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Interred?
Lordy mercy.
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Can’t do that. We still need to buy our headstone.
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Much need correction:
COOPED UP WITH SHANNON 🙂
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What is a really terrifying scenario is a suicidal Ebola Mary intentionally getting infected and spreading the disease as much as possible. It really is not out of the question there are happy people doing it with aids right now
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The Texas Revolution began at Gonzalez 179 years ago this week.
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We still need to buy our headstone.
Go Viking.
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#19 bone
At least they can’t do it for very long.This was actually the theme of one of the Tom Clancy books, except the villains were the Iranians (IIRC). Just think if some nefarious organization were to infect a few people, who would then be set loose on the streets of some major city somewhere. Think “suicide infectors”.
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I’m heading out to see Ortho Doc early this afternoon, for results of MRI and what comes next. Having an early lunch comprised of french toast and a breakfast burrito. Flour tortilla wrapped outside of scrambled eggs and bacon. So good it’s helping me calm down from all the ebola news coming out of Dallas. Om mani padme hum.
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to briefly continue last nights comments on GJT/SD, etc.
I just ordered this http://www.remoraholsterstore.com/Default.aspholster
for the XDS. Not sure how it’ll be, but the price was right and the guy at Top Gun range had one.
My two cents on ccw; practice, practice, practice. I’m of the opinion that
if you carry, you should go to the range frequently and also take advanced
courses. Typically, they should teach you how to engage the brain first to be aware of surroundings, etc. As squawkbox said – the range itself only helps you shoot things at 7 yards or so in a controlled setting. My recent experience showed the adrenaline and what happens to your brain (and those around you). -
#20 – COME and TAKE IT!
BTW – one of these is flying proudly from Gracie’s trunk
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#24 – Wish I could afford to practice!
Someone somewheres said: “It aint who can draw their weapon first – it’s who can KEEP a cool head and aim well in the heat of battle – even after being wounded”
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#26:
“It aint who can draw their weapon first – it’s who can KEEP a cool head and aim well in the heat of battle – even after being wounded”
John Bernard Brooks in The Shootist
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#9 Yup lots of thunder pretty close by.
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#22
This was actually the theme of one of the Tom Clancy books, except the villains were the Iranians (IIRC). Just think if some nefarious organization were to infect a few people, who would then be set loose on the streets of some major city somewhere. Think “suicide infectors”.
I’m re-reading the Clancy Ryanverse series right now, into “Debt of Honor”. The next one, “Executive Orders” has the Iranian link. The one I remember most with the viral connection is “Rainbow Six,” where it’s a bunch of enviro-wackos that try to wipe out the human race. I love how that one ends – they all get sent into the Amazonian jungle, naked, to become one with the ecology that they valued so much.
Poetic justice.
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#24 Yes I agree, if you’re going to carry you should take a defensive course at Thunder Ranch, Gunsite or similar place. They teach practical pistol in actual settings using blue guns with fake bad guys, it’s not the same as the real thing but it will give you an idea of what to expect.They have courses as short as 3 days up to several weeks.
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24 CFree
It cannot be said enough.
When we got inside the apartment, we found the suspect wide awake, flailing around on the floor. Fortunately a family member had disarmed him. He could still have shot us. The officer had hit him under the left arm. The round went all the way through his upper body and stopped just under the skin below his right arm. Last I heard, years after the shooting, the drunk was still alive.
But nobody needs more than seven rounds. When someone is trying to kill you, all you have to do is fire slowly and carefully to make sure you don’t run out. You can even count your rounds as you shoot. It’s easy.
When investigators asked the officer who saved my life how many rounds he fired, he said, “Two or three, I think.” But when they counted rounds in his magazine, it turned out he had fired eight. He had been a cop for over twenty years, and was a survivor of several shootings. Under stress, he lost count of his rounds. Because that’s what happens when you’re shooting to save your life, or to save someone else’s life.
and read this one – absolutely crazy – episode.
The gunman sank four rounds into the Crown Vic’s hood while Gramins was drawing his .45-cal. Glock 21.
“I didn’t have time to think of backing up or even ramming him,” Gramins said. “I see the gun and I engage.”
Gramins fired back through his windshield, sending a total of 13 rounds tearing through just three holes.
A master firearms instructor and a sniper on his department’s Tactical Intervention Unit, “I was confident at least some of them were hitting him, but he wasn’t even close to slowing down,” Gramins said.
The gunman shot his pistol dry trying to hit Gramins with rounds through his driver-side window, but except for spraying the officer’s face with glass, he narrowly missed and headed back to his car.
Gramins, also empty, escaped his squad — “a coffin,” he calls it — and reloaded on his run to cover behind the passenger-side rear of the Bonneville.
Now the robber, a lanky six-footer, was back in the fight with a .380 Bersa pistol he’d grabbed off his front seat. Rounds flew between the two as the gunman dashed toward the squad car.
Again, Gamins shot dry and reloaded.
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#22, 29: The movie has been made: Outbreak, done in 1995. Rene Rousseau, Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman, Jack Bauer’s Dad (Donald Sutherland), Cuba Gooding Jr, and several other real good actors in the movie. A pretty good flick, if you can get past the evil germ warfare military schtick.
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And speaking of Flarada, Another couple from the nation’s largest retirement community has been arrested for having sex in public.
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So ya think you are good shootin your bang bang. Top this.
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A pretty good way to live.
In the modern form: ‘Don’t start no $#!t and there won’t be no $#!t’ -
‘Don’t start no $#!t and there won’t be no $#!t’
True that, but wouldn’t we all starve to death.
Get it? Ya gotta eat to start ****. And for there to be no **** we don’t eat.
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The Mohammedans are running gang rape and prostitution ops around the country. The rugby and soccer fans are dying off from cirrhosis faster than Russian truck drivers. It’s against the law to protect your own life, your family’s or your property.
But.
Now the UK is going to pay for drugs for millions of people who go home and drink 2 glasses of wine or 3 beers each night. They’re low intensity alcoholics, don’t you know.
If Great Britain is no longer great or even good, what should it be called ?
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If Great Britain is no longer great or even good, what should it be called ?
The land of bad teeth, warm beer and queens.
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Okay guys and gals no selfies when you be hajjin
The Arab News site has reported some of the concerns raised by Muslim scholars about the selfie craze. Sheikh Assim al-Hakeem, based in Jeddah, argued that the photos go against the spirit of Hajj, he said: “Photography without a legitimate reason is an issue of dispute among scholars. However, despite this difference of opinion, there shouldn’t be any dispute when it comes to the real meaning of Hajj and the essence behind it. It is based on sincerity and following the sunnah. The Prophet (peace be upon him) when he went for Hajj, he said: “O, Allah, I ask of you a pilgrimage that contains no boasting or showing off.”
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I’m very excited. I’ve been trying to download a Linux distro onto a thumb drive, but every time I tried, it failed. I bought a Lexar drive to replace the ScanDisk I’d been using. Like magic, Office Help was able to download it without a problem and it’s booting up just fine from the thumb drive.
Now I can play on it, see if I like OpenSuse without committing it to the hard drive.
I’m like a kid at Christmas!
I’m a cheap date. Give me a free OS, and I’m golden!
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TEXPAT:
Hag Sameach Yom Kippur
Shabbat Shalom -
Ham sammich with yummy kippers to you too.
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I don’t care about Ebola.
I want to Dance In The Moonlight.
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Texpat, couldn’t agree more on the 7 rnds. – I’ve seen similar
stories/scenarios’. It is amazing what the body can withstand when
one is on drugs/booze (off their med’s). Per your linked story, “…learn the reality of a gunfight.” IF you have to get in one (and your brain didn’t get you out of it first); go all out until the danger is over. On my story, the arresting officer simply stated ‘if this would have happened at my house, they would have been carrying him off’ I was polite and said I understood. Reality is – you couldn’t be sure that would be the case and I darn sure wouldn’t want to go outside and find he was still standing and ready to keep going. -
LIttle Liza Jane.
I dare you to listen and still keep still, I double dog dare ya. -
Back from the doc with the news that no abnormality showed up on the MRI. The doc’s theory that a tendon that has to be cut during knee replacement could have come loose or been damaged was not upheld. With nothing found that requires a fix, there is nothing in particular to be done next. I continue with low impact home exercising and see him again in a month.
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Mleggy42
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Good news on the gams, My BSue is dreading the day when she has to get her knees done. A few years back she had arthritis scraped from beneath her knee cap. She lives on two series of shots a year of rooster comb puree. So I read with deep interest your ongoing narration. -
Snood shots.
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By the time BSue has it done, they’ll be printed out that morning and installed while she stands in a transporter.
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This just popped in my inbox and is appropriate for the season:
Gmar Chatimah Tova
Literally: A good final sealing
Idiomatically: May you be inscribed (in the Book of Life) for Good“Gmar” comes from the root word that means to finish. Although it’s not biblical, it appears quite a bit in the Talmud (Avot 2:16 Yevamot 12:6). Chatimah is also talmudic and can mean a signature or a sealing (Pessachim 104). The word “chotemet” or stamp (the ink kind, not the postal kind) is a derivative of “chatimah.” Of course “tova” means good. The days of repentance are divided into two parts: The first the inscribing begins on Rosh Hashana and finishes Yom Kippur when the final “sealing” (chatima) of our fate takes place. Many sages give us a second chance – an extra 12 days until a really final sealing on Hoshana Rabba (the 7th day of Sukkot).
That is why many people finish their correspondence during this time of year by writing or saying Ktivah V’chatima Tova – “may you be inscribed and sealed for a good year.” On or right before Yom Kippur, people modify that and wish “Gmar Chatima Tova.” Technically you can say it means ‘may your finished sealing be good’ – which would be fine if you are redoing your apartment, but for the rest of us may you all have a healthy peaceful and fulfilling year.
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#50 Squawks
My advice to BSue or anyone else is be more assertive than I was during my rehab. Had I simply got up off the table after the PT gal, pressing above and below my knee, was really hurting me but ignoring my request to STOP, I might be in better shape today. Instead I am left with a vague MRI diagnosis of “postsurgical scarring with tendinosis”, and less mobility in that leg than I had before the incident. -
Squawkie, is BSue getting Synvisc? The rooster seems a little familiar, but the Synvisc shots I got 3 times, 6 months apart, were a manufactured product. Might have started from rooster comb jelly, though. I had to give it up after the 3rd treatment due to getting a bad reaction on the 2nd shots and devastating on the 3rd ones.
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Mchicken42 🙂
Yup she gets the rooster comb stuff. The other stuff gave her fits. She gets 4 shots every 6 months. Geez when it hits the 5 month she is ready but waits. I usually hide in my barn during that last month.
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………………………….wait jus one minizzle here………..Squawkster has a
BARNman cave?PARRRRRRRRRRRRRTY in Cut n Shoot! 🙂
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49;55 – Sounds like you are in pretty good shape having no internal damages requiring surgical repair. I always said those PT women couldn’t feel a bit of that pain they were inflicting. My knee if virtually pain free but lacks the range of motion that it had before and is still a little swollen (it’s been about a year now), but the doc said that he could just put me up on the table and bend it to tear all that scar tissue loose if it ever got too bad. Overall, I’m a heck of a lot better off than I was before – just remember, getting old is not for sissies. Watch out for infections and keep your chin up.
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EG, that “bend it” you mention was something I thought might be done to me, but the doc said I would be “out”, whatever that means exactly.
4 weeks after the surgery, I could bend the right knee to 115 degrees. A week later, the PT injury, after which I lost flexibility to where I can barely bend to 90 degrees now. It is very difficult for me to get my right foot out of my truck if I’m parked such that I can’t open the driver side door all the way. I’ve started backing out, the reverse of getting in.
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It means they give you a little of that happy juice, work you over while you are out, and tell you to have a nice day as they help you out the door when you wake up.
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I dunno, do you mean anesthesia? Seems drastic for something that he said would only take 1 minute. i.e. bending my knee, possibly all the way back.
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Some big hair music to go with the big hair pics.
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#62 – They’ve got some stuff that they inject that is very short term – you are only out for a few minutes and there is no recovery room time or anything like that. I’ve had it with gastro work and also for some minor surgical procedures -doesn’t even leave a hangover. I think it’s the same stuff Michael Jackson liked to use.
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