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should i send her a mbl?
hey (((((amy))))) been missin’ you, hon!
hi (((rose)))
it was a beautiful balmy day, glo… that i spend inside hunched over a computer for 6 hours cranking out paperwork
Oct 22, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Comment #137500
*pulls Glos and Rose in for a group hug. Cups their buttocks*
I’m sorry, sis. I have been de-tmhqanized what with the work filter and all.
I’m gonna go read my mbls now. Ya’ll are so sweet to send them
Oct 22, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Comment #137499
I just sent amy a MBL, rose. Copycat!
Oct 22, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Comment #137498
Hi rose! What will you have for dinner?
Oct 22, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Comment #137497
((((amy))))!!!
I retract all I said. I just left you a message, mbl.
Oct 22, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Comment #137496
*runs to amy and tackles her*
Miss you? Only constantly.
How could you abandon me like this?
Oct 22, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Comment #137495
Hi ty, glo, wade…I see that flower, too, but you know, it sometimes appears and she doesn’t come in, same a certain someone who posts and doesn’t say ‘hi’ *coff*
At work. We, or I, am prepping for the school festival. Our room looks good, but needs a few more touches. 4 students helped us out yesterday (there was a ‘we’ yesterday), but I have the most number of classes represented in there, so I need to do a bit more explanation, display work than the others.
Having friends over for dinner tonight, too. One is my colleague’s wife who has a baby of about ten months now. And my boss. Colleague’s wife needs a bit of support, so hopefully it will be a nice night.
Oct 22, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Comment #137494
Bonjour, mes amis.
Anybody miss me?
Oh, I see my sister has already outted me. Hey Glo!!!!!!!!!!!
Oct 22, 2009 at 7:12 pm
Comment #137493
Sometimes you need professional help, ty. How frustrating it would be to try to take them on on your own.
((((((Wade))))))) How was your day? I had another cold (42°F/6°C currently) and rainy day. It’s getting downright depressing. And during my favorite month.
On the bright side, I see a certain flower that’s bound to cheer me up
Oct 22, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Comment #137492
sounds like the best way to get at it, ty.
75% is better than the 0% you’re getting now
are you looking for a lump sum to get you up to date, then scheduled pay out forward? will your lawyer collect from the back pay only, or take a slice from what you are given from now on, assuming you win?
hey (((glo)))
Oct 22, 2009 at 6:59 pm
Comment #137491
‘glo…
Thanks for the good luck wishes…
I know I’ll need some o’that…I connected with an attorney before we came down in March…it’ll probably take another 5-10 months before the 2nd stage hearing, which hopefully will allow my 65.8 pounds of medical records to outweigh (so to speak) the evaluation of the SSA hack medico that took about 5 minutes to examine me back about a year ago.
But, I don’t have to do anything on a day to day basis…and the lawyer is a no-up-front-charges deal and I don’t owe him anything unless we win, in which case he gets 25% of what SSA should have been paying me…
cumulative since the filing date…which might seem like a lot, but there’s no way I’d get it w/o him + it’s no money out of pocket if we lose (there’s apparently another 2 levels of simple hearings and then he can take SSA to District Court…which he says he’s done on a case up Mark’s way that took 9 years to finally win), so overall I’m patiently frustrated…but optimistic.
Oct 22, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Comment #137490
No, there’s just some things I talk to rose about that I don’t want to talk about on a public space, that’s all, ty. Was just carrying on our conversation.
Good luck navigating the shoals of the SSA.
Oct 22, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Comment #137489
Beans…
You should only go as *that* guy if Halloween night is cold and Rene.
Wearing that get-up in nicer weather would take True Gritte.
I’ve got nothing for the missing syllable except that if you went solo, folks might as “Where’s yo Ma?”
Was not celebrating Halloween some religious thing? or candy phobia from the ‘rents?
Oct 22, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Comment #137488
oi…
If you’re still there (or when you read this) one article-free post awaits you at #11.8.
Just back-edited it to remove troublesome things.
Thanks for identifying who you were referring to (re drama-queen).
We’re leaving on Tuesday and will be in Vegas for Halloween visiting some friends, so I’mma hafta miss that party, but I’ll imagine you as some Unholy Trinity of Joker + Nurse + Nun. *cautiously feels leg… coughs*…y’know I may be coming down (or up) with something. Gotham Sisters of Charity Clinic is right down there….Well…hello, Nurse…!!
Last ??: Does “that” count as an article for you?
Oct 22, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Comment #137487
‘glo….
As long as that hiccup wasn’t *about* me, ok…
GAM/ty
Oct 22, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Comment #137486
Beans…
Best of luck in your chosen profession. Really.
Haven’t taught for a little over a year. Moved from California to Costa Rica in March. My medical condition (and my stubbornness) persuaded the California Teachers Retirement System to give me a disability retirement deal that gives me a set amount every month. The amount, when coupled with my wife’s Social Security income, wasn’t enough for us to stay where we were, but is enough for us to live reasonably comfortably down here. It’s not as cheap as it must have been when Wade was here briefly in the mid-90’s or so, but we get by without suffering. I have a pending claim with U.S. Soc. Sec. that, if it is approved, should get me an extra $300-500/month…*crosses fingers*.
I had another life entirely until about 1998, when I started classes for my credential. I thought I wanted to teach at around 3rd grade, but after doing student teaching I realized that my back wasn’t going to allow that. Someone told me about working with sick/recovering/psych students while I was in the last month or so of getting a credential. I called up the local high school district when thay had a job posting for that exact thing…and I was off to the races. It was hourly work, but if I had about 3 students at a time, they paid for health coverage, so it was a deal I couldn’t pass up. Soon after that I started with middle-school kids too. For years I patched together a full time income between the two part-time districts. I did have exposure to a wide range of kids and had more fun than most classroom teachers probably get. I probably taught almost every subject at least once (other than foreign languages) and it kept me from getting bored, which i seem to be able to get too easily.
So, other than maybe doing some after-school tutoring (I can never pass up the chance to make money by teaching math) for an English-language school here in San Jose, I’m on the bench, if not out of the game.
Got more if ya wan’it
GDM/ty
Oct 22, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Comment #137485
OMG, Timo ♥ you are sooo funny! I didn’t know it was you at first. I like your new gravatar, you look like you could reach out and grab me. Yikes, I think you have been dropping your letters, maybe you should go back home and see if you can find your T and i.
No, I have not bottled the wine yet. I am thinking of how much work it is.
Old house is getting staightened out. After much $$$ and a trip to the courthouse I have jumped that hurdle for now. All that needs to be done is one hurricane strap and a few bolts going into the foundation and it will be up to code. I feel so bad, the old place looks so dark and cold, I think she thinks that we have rejected her for something with a little more shine. That of course is not the case, we love that place. It is just going to be a little longer than we thought to finish. I am so homesick, new houses do not have such fine personalities as old ones do.
I know I have probably missed you ♥
Oct 22, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Comment #137484
Awwww (((Beans))) my post saying hello to you was eaten by Heisa!
It is my lunch hour so I am doing a drive by.
I missed ((Fan♥)) who is probably jugging her wine. I wonder how the old house is doing?
Hi (((oi!)))hope your having a good meeting. I am sending you funny thoughts to pop in your head and make you giggle when you shouldn’t.
Oct 22, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Comment #137483
you could combine and do a female joker as nurse… cover all your bases.
i was going to go as a toulouse lutrec poster this year, but i don’t think anyone will get it. maybe i will be this guy
but im off to learn about early nethrlandish painting. or eat a sandwich. tough choices.
Oct 22, 2009 at 11:50 am
Comment #137482
ooh fake spider webs! that sounds lovely. yay! (Your excitement is contagious ((beans))) I am doing alright.
I want one too.off to a meeting
Costumes ! I love’dressing up. what should we wear?
slutty nurse , french maid, uhh too cliche.
I know! how about female joker?
P.S I corrected my “halowin” spelling and put three “e” to make up.
That looks interesting.tough choice indeed beans, my bet is on sandwich
Oct 22, 2009 at 11:45 am
Comment #137481
HI OI!!
(i capitalized, but only because of my excitement-induced caps-lock)
i was never allowed to celebrate halloween as a kid so i’m a little shaky too, but i love throwing parties so any excuse!!
i’m done with the streamers, why don’t we start hanging fake spiders? or we can work on our costumes.
(((how are you??)))
Oct 22, 2009 at 11:40 am
Comment #137480
Morning/Afternoon/night (each to their own) Trouble makers!
I would like to help w/ Halloweeen decoration but I need somebody to tell me what to do. Hi beans! I can help in whatever you want.
Ty, I was talking about woman in glo’s link in comment # 137436
Oct 22, 2009 at 11:31 am
Comment #137479
*has once again shooed everyone off*
*cuts paper-ghost streamers*
Oct 22, 2009 at 11:25 am
Comment #137478
Beans…
I wrote something to you about school biz a day or two ago.
I’m late for gym + Pilates.
If I forget to answer more later plz remind me.
zoooom
Oct 22, 2009 at 11:07 am
Comment #137477
hi ty.
haven’t met, but i’ve read about you.
i’m beans, female, canadian, student teacher (secondary art *crosses fingers*). what do you teach/do you still teach?
Oct 22, 2009 at 10:44 am
Comment #137476
‘glo…
Well, if you survive the next close encounter and the deer doesn’t (here’s hoping you don’t have a next one), then consider the Buford’s scenario.
Yes, it was scary watching the cow roll up over the Reatta…I was right behind her at the time.
It’s one reason to have a car with at least a slightly canted(?) front end…so you don’t have as much impact area and the animal can start to roll up the hood. If you live in a large-wildlife area.
Of course, avoidance is the optimal tactic if time allows.
Back in the days when we lived in a 1,000,000+ metro area and when supermarkets competed more vigorously for market share, a freezer was something that allowed us to eat much better and more cheaply than we otherwise would have done. Stores in our area almost gave away Turkeys at T’giving and Xmas, hams at Xmas and slabs of corned beef on St. Patrick’s Day…all just to get people in the doors.
So, the freezer we bought on Craigslist was where we stored stuff like that (plus stuff we made from the fruit trees in the back yard…yummm).
I suppose we weren’t quite poor then or now…maybe lower-middle…we probably didn’t ever make it to middle-income…which isn’t nearly as high as it used to be back when there were unions + such…but you’re liberal so I don’t have to do an economics/history lesson.
Oh…the “was it long enough?” was rhetorical and a jab at myself for being long-winded even when I’m not setting up a shaggy dog sort of riff.
I admire witty brevity. In face to face real life situations I tend to be less gabby and can pull off a bon mot or a mot juste from time to time…but it’s harder here for some reason.
GDM/ty
Oct 22, 2009 at 10:34 am
Comment #137475
that’s a little thin, don’t you think?
oh well, i’m sure ‘rilla is bringing some sort of liquid fun to make up the difference.
*returns hug with giant bear squeeze*
Oct 22, 2009 at 10:15 am
Comment #137474
I am just passing through on my way to work. * gives Beans a hug* thanks for the coffee. The wine for the party should be arriving today. only four cases. I hope that is enough.
Oct 22, 2009 at 10:08 am
Comment #137473
*stumbles into room breathlessly*
i’m here! it was hard work. i had to run the gauntlet of “aproach from the side” but i made it in to this (remarkably tidy!) HQ.
*begins decorating for a halloween bash*
Oct 22, 2009 at 9:57 am
Comment #137472
Wanders in and takes notes of CB’s marvelous cleaning job. Pours a cup of coffee. Does a quick scrub of the jacuzzi and wanders back out. Thanks for the coffee, CB!
Oct 22, 2009 at 9:02 am
Comment #137471
*crickets momentarily silenced. restocks condom tree, starts the coffee urn (with coffee!), runs the vacuum on a quick pass through the room, sprays copious amounts of fabreeze.*
Quiet morning, eh?
Well, at least it’s Friday, at least for me it is since I have tomorrow off.
One more day of tedium to pull off with a helping hand and a false smile.Very doable.
Oct 22, 2009 at 8:47 am
Comment #137470
Hi, there. Safe commute, ♥ wade ♥
Was at work late tonight. I’ve got to get some dinner. Feeling tired out.
(((glo))) *damn, discarded for a muffin*
Oct 22, 2009 at 6:21 am
Comment #137469
Have a good day, (((Wade)))
The muffins, they call me.
Oct 22, 2009 at 6:20 am
Comment #137468
no.
but i have to anyway.
in fact, i need to get going. have fun baking, (((glo)))
Oct 22, 2009 at 6:17 am
Comment #137467
Are you ready to go back to work after your big vacation?
Oct 22, 2009 at 6:06 am
Comment #137466
i think the protests were underwritten by ups and dhl
Oct 22, 2009 at 6:03 am
Comment #137465
Good morning, Wade. Thanks for the dll. ♥
Question about the Word! of the Day: is FedEx really the kind of corporation we need to be protesting? I mean, the local Mom and Pop world-wide delivery company doesn’t seem to me to be a sound business model.
Oct 22, 2009 at 6:00 am
Comment #137464
hmmm. so true, glo.
morning!
Oct 22, 2009 at 5:34 am
Comment #137463
I didn’t kill the deer; it made it off the road and disappeared. Subsequent searches failed to find it.
I don’t know if you’ve ever hit a big buck; you say your wife hit a cow. It’s not an experience I’d like to repeat. Kind of scary and actually life-threatening, for both me and the deer.
Also, I don’t have a freezer in the garage. I have never been able to understand why people need extra freezers and fridges. But, I grew up poor and you didn’t always have a chance to buy more than that week’s groceries, and feel lucky you had enough to buy that.
You ask if your comment is long enough; there is no lower limit to what one can write.
Oct 22, 2009 at 5:14 am
Comment #137462
zB loves and kisses missed you during the z-wars …gotta go now.
Oct 21, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Comment #137461
dear fajitas! dear tacos! nom nom nom nom nom
I lub deer!
*misspellings unintentional, but somehow work*
Oct 21, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Comment #137460
Heavens no. Batman would never do anything so off center….Just one of my random movie quotes to see who is still alive…You see it is very nearly pumpkin time for me for another day…I detest split days off but…I out of here at midnight central….Besides I really didn’t feel the song lyrics today, at least not yet.
Oct 21, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Comment #137459
rilla…
Wha?
We goin on a Batmobile run for road-kill venison ??
Oct 21, 2009 at 10:23 pm
Comment #137458
To the Batmobile! This could be the break we’ve been looking for!
Oct 21, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Comment #137457
‘glo,
You hit a deer and it messed up your car. Was there some legal hassle with taking, um, *stewardship* of the decedent carcass?
If not, ya might want to be on the lookout for someone with butchering skills in case you get lucky with deer the same way Mrs. T. hit the exacta on a coupla cows. (We’d'a ate’em but they ran off.)
Even if you only get 30% of the meat, hey, ask rilla…it’s a deer, it’s hefty, it’s free….
I’d check into very small, local cold storages, the kind of places where hunters and fisherfolk can store their catches of a few hundred pounds or so. They’re often set up as “buy it wholesale” butchers, where you get .25 of a cow for $xxx or a while half a cow for way less than double the quarter-cow price. Part of their income is from charging you to a monthly amount to store whatever you can’t squeeze into the freezer in your garage (assuming…).
If they’ll sell you half a cow, trustme, they have someone who can butcher a deer legally (as long as you killed it legally, natch) for “a piece of the action”.
And then you can drive down those outlying 2-lane blacktop roads, keeping your eyes open for anything on 2 or 4 *wheels* that might kill you (cause that would hurt, probably, and mess up your family for sure), but being almost oblivious to the chances of an extra-dynamic encounter with Bambi…cause all along those lonely miles you are singing (with a mind to attracting playahs with “game”):
‘glo a deer, and oh! my dear !
way, what *Baba’d call “extreme” (*Wawa)
me, the one who’s gonna eat
fa-jitas per rillas recipe,
so, I’m goin down this road,
la bamba on the radio,
ti-mo says xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Well, you get the picture…sorry for punking out and not finishing, but I painted myself into something of a verbal corner. I could try to re-do it tonight or wait for inspiration to knock down my door tomorrow, but I’d like you to have pleasant dreams *tonight* about getting some free protein, even if you have to share 50% of it or more at Buford’s for butchering and freezer space.
B.E. I’m never sure…was this long enough? Too long ?? Just goes to show that although I wouldn’t type a chapter just to ask about your politics, that doesn’t mean I’m above typing half a chapter just to hypnotize you so’s I can hit you on the head with something on the order of a shaggy-dog story, which I love somewhere along the lines of how much you love knitting.
Oct 21, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Comment #137456
i lurve me some back strap
and the other stuff sounds great too!
*pounce*
Oct 21, 2009 at 9:19 pm
Comment #137455
I am already planning menus with what I have…Venison Spagettii, Venison Tacos, Venison Stoganoff. …. My offset protien is ground Turkey so…
Wade, comin round for dinner? and after pouncy.
Glo, I am lazy to the max but for free meat…I butcher…
Oct 21, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Comment #137454
I have never eaten deer. I wouldn’t like the job of butchering it. I’m not very squeemish, but that sounds like a lot of work and I am quite lazy.
Oct 21, 2009 at 8:43 pm
Comment #137453
mmmm, deer.
nom nom nom
Oct 21, 2009 at 8:25 pm
Comment #137452
Cor! Loitering teens back for round ? Yeah, Glo, I end up with the Call around and get a price. aaarrrghhh…
ET caught up almost – got the Oberon….But I forgot where I left it…I do not feel like a Midsummernight’s Dream…
Pouncy…more pouncy…also….
Spent a goodly portion of last night, trying to finish the butcher job on a deer brought to us by a good friend. Nice fat free red meat…And me without funds..perfect timing..My payment for the feasts to follow…My Venison Fajitas, with fresh tortillas and all day cooked beans and rice. If I had the funding I would also treat them to some nice chianti or sangria, and maybe a Modelo Negro or two…Thank god they understand my poorness.
Oct 21, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Comment #137451
Out for a while, but anybody ? especiall oi if you’re still here….
Who’s the drama queen ?
I must have missed something or maybe oi is referring to a text or voice conversation on some other channel.
Good Evening All, ty
GEA, ty
Oct 21, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Comment #137450
rilla…
Sorry to hear about the funding problem.
I’d offer to kick in but I’m saving up my pennies to buy a scrolling mouse for GK so his head won’t go all Scanners and get weird goop on us.
Hope you had time to back read and see the explanation (not saying you didn’t get it, but apparently I can be a shade more cryptic than I think I’m being) of the Puck = coyote = shrewd/knavish bit. I don’t know anyone here well enough yet to say anything personally about them in a post, but I’m concerned that someone might have a bad IRL day and think that one of my untethered riffs was pointed at them…
Oct 21, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Comment #137449
hi rilla. pouncy pouncy for yo. sorry for brangles.
Oct 21, 2009 at 7:36 pm
Comment #137448
Oh yeah, minor irritations only today. Had the plumber in for the one thing that’s been not fixed for 2 weeks; gave me a whole long list of things to have him look at. I knew he’d tell me he didn’t have time. She thinks that just because he’s here for one thing, he has all day to spend. I hate looking like an idiot.
Oct 21, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Comment #137447
*pouncey pounce*
hey (((rilla))) sorry about teh monies
lol oi. i’ve excursioned myself out for the evening
Oct 21, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Comment #137446
How is teh Glo today…The BL still a piece of carp?
Oct 21, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Comment #137445
Aw, I’m sorry, Rilla.
We’ve been a little, um, chatty here today.
Oct 21, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Comment #137444
oi,
I just had him for one class in Mod. Brit. Lit., so I’m not any help in telling anyone much about his political or “cultural criticism” aspects.
When he lectured, you could feel mental energy he was putting out and feel your own being generated by thinking about what he was thinking and talking about.
I have read of a couple of controversies: one regarding statements he makes with regard to Western hegemony in Eastern areas over 2000 years, another regarding biographical statements of his which are called into question by historians who claim to have evidence that contradicts Mr. Said’s claims.
Whether you wind up strongly on his side, against him, or some mixture…I feel certain that he would have enjoyed meeting you and conversing with you.
There are six pages of video clips on Google videos. Probably more videos of him on pages 7-xxx, but mixed in with other videos. It’s worth spending time on some clips before reading, because it will be easier to find out if you are in general agreement.
GEM, ty
Oct 21, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Comment #137443
Well I am still free to pouncy pounce on my ((((CIFs)))))…but I have beyond brokes ville…It took allmy pay. Thank god for grown children with fair incomes…
Wow…I still have some of the back 40 to plow but I think I would like to puruse the MT and see what other kind of trouble I can get into…I enjoy seeing if my older posts have picked up any color ..Not that thumbs are important to me…(if I get anything over 2, I’m happy as a puppy) I thought I saw Saysh wander through, for real?
Oct 21, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Comment #137442
She is stupid dramaqueen. I think glo’s got most appropriate title for her AW. I have not even see the second link of what happened but i am totally against her. Her drama filled writing is the biggest proof ever for she is lying her a** off/exaggerating.
p.s Wade aren’t you enjoying your day off outing?
Oct 21, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Comment #137441
slack, ITty? whatever are you talking about?
it’s all good.
but really. don’t feel like you have to explain every reference in your comments. that’s why we have wikipedia
*often posts obscure references for his own amusement*
Oct 21, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Comment #137440
rose, I kinda scanned wiki page on Mr. said. I do not agree with him 100 % but he sounds right in essence. I will read it in free time for sure. It’s very interesting because while I know India/orient from Indian’s point of view, I really can’t say that the history I studied is not infiltrated with western/writer’s influence. but we will see that after I read it.
Oct 21, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Comment #137439
Oh, knitting takes a good while. I would assume they are knitted before and affixed to the poles, etc. after.
So, I present to you my nomination for attention whore of the week. I believe she outstrips the flying balloon boy’s father.
And here’s what really happened.
Oct 21, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Comment #137438
‘glo…
Thanks for the guerilla info.
Is some of it knitted in place and others just tied together on site ? Some of those poles look awfully tall…
GEM
Oct 21, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Comment #137437
Hi Rilla! How’d it go? ♥
Oct 21, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Comment #137436
This might give you a feel for it, ty.
Oct 21, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Comment #137435
Mark + whoever cares…
The gods part of it came out of Timo’s saying Saraswati on MT and oi complimenting him here on using it in proper context.
I already had the monkey brains bit plotted, but when I saw the goddess was connected to education and a river by the same name (I used the spelling from Wiki and Timo’s post, if oi sez only two “a”s then she should know, as it’s an article in disguise), well, David was Byrne-ing a hole in my pocket and had to go with Talking Heads reference.
I think I covered ’bout ever’thing in my note to Timo, but if any more ??s lemme know
GEA
Oct 21, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Comment #137434
Hullo…looks as though the back 40 needs tending, brb.
Oct 21, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Comment #137433
‘glo…
Forgot to add that I certainly don’t blame you for the school controversy. I didn’t see your comment until way far down. And I didn’t *read* every comment, but in scrolling down with my “scrolling capable mouse” I was able to get a sense of where some folks were coming from and what issues were addressed. I was in the biz for a while and for me it wasn’t like reading about a completely new subject.
GEM
Oct 21, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Comment #137432
‘glo
Thanks for the info on knitting and on online knitting…that all makes sense.
I remember that on one of the sites I go to, they had a big project to knit red scarves for foster kids and they wound up having a bit more than they needed for the year…always a good thing in a charity biz (non-perishable).
Goth and punk knitters I understand fine, but clue me up on guerilla, ok?
A Who Knits group based on wild and crazy designs to honor Pete Moon sounds like…well, one of my ideas..hope you get a chuckle…
I wasn’t trying to suss out where you stand in any political matrix (or rubric as the educators looove to say), but always nice to meet another more-or-less-leftie. I wouldn’t type that much just to inquire about something easily asked.
Well, since ET creeps you out, and in the same sort of cultural lacuna that let me grow up w/o reading Winnie the Pooh, I never got around to seeing the movie…let’s change it…I don’t think rose will mind…let’s see…
Lets just do “ty” (lower case, cuz I don’t type well and it’ll save time quickly enough).
Ty Hardin (believe it or not born Orison Whipple Hungerford, Jr.) starred in an old TV Western series called Bronco. Since my Dad + two brothers live in Austin, Bronco’s got a Texas sort of ring to it…
So, I think we ’bout done on the name + knitting fronts. Good evening, now…
(Oh, I’m ty/Bronco now…Evenin’ Ma’am…)
Oct 21, 2009 at 5:55 pm
Comment #137431
oi, mark nearly always writes an essay
you, wrote an essay!
I like the Talking Heads version, ‘glo. Not keen on the Commitments. Though I like most of the songs.
Oct 21, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Comment #137430
ET, Mark’s summing up is spot on.
When reading through a scanner quickly, no, I can’t get the nuances. Later, I might get some. I only pretend to be well read.
A test on possessives?
Edward Said was an academic, oi, who wrote on colonialism and the western view of the ‘orient’ in a pretty famous book called ‘Orientalism’. He was particularly focused on your part of the ‘orient’.
He did far more, too. He was born in Palestine, but lived in Egypt with his family before coming to the U.S. His family were Protestants. Quite unusual, I think – that brand of Christianity at that time in that region.
Happy birthday, Troy (pine as well. I think I’ll send an email). ‘Glo, it wasn’t that early. Maybe 6.30.
Oct 21, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Comment #137429
I guess I would take Mark’s word on beer. I am not big beer fan so I can’t give my opinion on it.
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lol rose. and ET, I tend fall on a Narcissistic side anyway. (if your idiomatic, ripostes para in comment # 137415 is on me if not I am gonna assume it is.
happy birthday Troy!!
oh gosh! Everybody’s writing essay comment including Mark!!!
I got nothing on knitting/liberal post
Oct 21, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Comment #137428
oh I did get it. Pat on my back, which I already got from ET.
Thank you!
(yeah I know not all the references though, cut me some slack being foreigner and all)
one tinny winny correction, Sarswati is name of the goddess as well as river. I think Timo was referencing goddess specifically as Sarswati is the goddess of learning, knowledge. And She is virgin goddess(being goddess of knowledge, yeah I don’t see explicit connection either but Hindu philosophy divides the whole life in four stages 0-25: student, 25-50 earthly life, married life, 50-75 spiritual part-1 or transition from married to spiritual and 75-100 spiritual part -2 ultimate spiritual life in Himalaya without any kind of links to previous life. so I think if you are a student you focus on learning and no distractions hence Sarswati is virgin) and as Sarswati river does not reach to ocean she is virgin too. So the same name.
Now one question, who is Mr. Said? and what he would think of me?
Oct 21, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Comment #137427
I prefer The Commitments version. I bet CB prefers the original.
Oct 21, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Comment #137426
Well, that and work, rose. What the hell are you doing up already?
oh, and:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TROY!!!
Let the pining now commence.
Oct 21, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Comment #137425
ET, I also mostly did not get the comment. Though I did get the monkey brain eating thing from IJ:TOD. I remember being grossed out by that scene as a kid.
I know Talking Heads did “Take Me to the River” but I didn’t catch the reference to gods.
Kingfisher is an Indian beer. Calling it “very good” is a stretch though.
*is a big beer snob*
In any case, I stand by my previous observation that you generally shouldn’t care if everyone “gets” your comment, you should rest assured that the right people WILL “get” your comment. But, you should also know that sometimes “the right people” may consist only of you. Happens to the best of us.
MSBE: *pines for Troy*
Oct 21, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Comment #137424
Ah… that explains the 40 minute to three hours breaks inbetween posts, huh, glo?
oi, you are the axis of the earth.
ET thanks for the explanation. Along with timo, I didn’t get the comment.
Heading out for work, so sorry if no quick reply to anything.
Oct 21, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Comment #137423
Geez, Wade, cut a noob geezer some slack, huh?
I’m sure after the novelty wears off I’ll be more laconic ‘n’ all.
Maybe if I wore lingerie it’d be easier for me to be brief…
B.E. Google *is* speed…even @ 54K. Ethernet cable is on order.
Oct 21, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Comment #137422
As for your other questions, feel free to liken me to a nun any time. I am pure as the driven snow (ask anyone!), and I guess it shows.
Also, don’t go blaming me for that home-school vs. public school mess. I had nothing to do with it. Others here *coughcbcough* don’t have quite such clean hands.
In general, I try to keep my comments on the main short and to the point, and I try to limit the number of times I comment on a thread. In here, I tend to blather on a bit.
Oct 21, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Comment #137421
Ah, Wade! How ya doing? Lucky you with the mechanic. I went in for maintenance and ended up spending $500. Ugh.
Oct 21, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Comment #137420
Well, ty (ET keeps making me think of the brown wrinkly extraterrestrial and that is kinda creeping me out), you have gone and done it. You shouldn’t have brought up knitting. I probably should have warned you.
Here is some anecdotal evidence: the vast majority of knitters (almost all of whom I met online) I know personally are of a liberal bent. The vast majority of knitters I know via the internet are of liberal bent. I am a member of a social-networking knitting site with over 500,000 registered members which allows any member to form a group, and as a member, you may join any group you wish. The largest political group is Knitters for Obama, at 4120 members. The largest conservative group is Conservative Knitters at 707 members. For purposes of scale, the largest group (about lace knitting) is 9413 members, and Who Knits, a group for fans of Dr. Who has 2763 members.
Now, can we say that knitters tend to be liberal? I think not. I think it is safe to say that online knitters tend to be more liberal, and I can point to the fact that knitting has recently gone through a fad stage which encouraged a large number of under-30-ish people to take it up. Those younger knitters are disproportionally represented online, and, as younger people tend to be, disproportionally liberal. Also, if you were going from blog link to blog link, you have to take in account that like tends to read–and link to–like. However, taking into account the aforementioned 500,000 members of my knitting site (maybe 20,000-30,000 of whom are active members), 5 to 6 liberal blogs aren’t enough of a sample size to really draw any conclusions.
Knitters, especially online knitters, are constantly fighting the stereotype that only little old blue-haired ladies knit. College-age knitters in particular appear to be targets of the “you’re too young to knit” type comments. There are whole subsets of goth knitters, punk knitters, guerilla knitters, and on and on and on. Not that there aren’t any little old lady knitters. My friend Joan is a great-grandmother to 10, nearly 80-year-old English lady. Her husband, Ted, knows how to knit, too. They learned it in school in WWII, where they had to knit socks for soldiers. There are several organizations (with prominent online presences) that knit socks for soldiers today.
And to answer your unspoken, possibly implied, possibly not, question: Yep. I’m as liberal as they come.
Oct 21, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Comment #137419
i always wondered what it would look like if google took speed.
i only spent two hours at the mechanic today, Charlie.
ok, i’m out again.
Oct 21, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Comment #137418
Submitted for your consideration…
One young woman who faceplants makers of simple, rude comments with idiomatic 2nd (I suppose) language ripostes that are vicious in their efficiency while being un-*forgetting*-forgettable.
Tonight, on The Twilight Zone…
oi,
If you’re going to feel weird, I can’t stop you, but you got most of my post’s important features. I did have to research Saraswati though.
ET wondering what his old, late teacher Mr. Said would think of oi.
Oct 21, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Comment #137417
Mo…
Haven’t been able to get away from the Mrs. and our cat named Casper the Gray Ghost…yet…might take the day off + so some pilates stuff @ home.
1st riff re movie refers to a scene where they literally eat monkey brains for lunch.
Oi @ #4.3, IMHO, ate “cheesyMonkey”’s brains for lunch.
See “cleaned his clock”, “ripped him a new one” “pwned his ass” etc.
Here a commenter might say ” ‘In your dreams’ FTW”.
In the film Willie/Kate can’t eat for the rest of the day (also ate bugs).
But by comparison…oi should still be hungry, since “cheesyMonkey”s brains aren’t very filling…there being a lack of them.
Talking Heads covered Al Green’s song “Take Me to the River”…if referencing that to Saraswati being a river goddess (per Wiki).
“articles” is public comment to me by oi some days ago here in HQ. Refers to “the” being used 2 times in the song title.
Kingfisher is a very good Indian beer (as I recall)…and if you really don’t know who Dr. Lecter is and then it’s not surprising you wouldn’t see how his beverage question ties into the 1st riff…check out author Thomas Harris or Google “Dr. Lecter” or just go here…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Lecter
If we need to do this annotation thing very often, send me your phone # and I’ll use MagicJack to call you for free from down here, it’ll be a faster answer for you and less typing for me.
Oct 21, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Comment #137416
Mark
I’m sorry to hear about the divorce and the dead kitties. I’m sure things will get better, though. I know that you were having a lot of problems with the marriage so I think it’s for the best.
Oct 21, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Comment #137415
Oh my god I just spent almost 5 hours at a mechanic.Holy crap. Man. I need a sandwich now.
Oct 21, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Comment #137414
I think he is saying that I ate monkey’s brain cuz I kinda turned around his comment. And then he goes even though I ate monkey’s brain, I am still starving cuz he does not have whole lot of brain and then extends in that line that monkey’s comment is not funny cuz again no brains. is it right, ET?
and thanks for article free sweets.
I am gonna feel weird if I actually understood it correctly.
Oct 21, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Comment #137413
Uh infant I just don’t get what that riff was about at 4.6. Really was there something funny there? Sorry I missed it.
Did you skip your trip to the gym and pool?
Oct 21, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Comment #137412
Charlie…
Nice to meet you…if everyone here talks nice to you, then I have to believe you’re OK or better, so I’ll talk nice to you, too.
(Too bad you didn’t come with a partner [as it were] and then I could promise to talk nice to you two, too, but I’m too easily saddened and I won’t let it get to me. Toodle-oo!)
ET off to gym + pool…
Oct 21, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Comment #137411
Fan…
Mongolian “hats jeesh”…remind me to invite myself to your parties next time I’m in the Pacific NW.
ET out
Oct 21, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Comment #137410
Howdy, alla y’all…here for a few minutes and then the gym for therapy.
oi…
I left you some article-free sweets yesterday.
Oh, and oi…if you ever start feeling out of sorts, toss down two shots of Everclear…it’ll put you a-right back on your axis.
‘glo…
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Hey, rose got me started last night on a trip back to a Catholic childhood and then I woke up and saw this perfect softball pitch custom-built for a Triple play. At least I didn’t (there) try to work in a connection to that A-bomb documentary “The Day After Trinity”. We’re still good, right?
bb
I checked out your link to “No Sarcasm Left Behind” last night.
Sheesh, y’all were occasionally a tad verbose back then, no?
Haven’t had to read that much about education since I was in courses for my Sp. Ed. credential !
I booked that page in case anybody gets on me about being “wordy”.
cc
Sorry to hear about your re-work on the knitting.
I’ve never dabbled, but I have a question.
I came across a knitting blog maybe 4 months ago surfing the web like a golf ball in a tile shower one day…and I linked to maybe 5 or 6 of the blogger’s friends and such, and doggone it if all but one of them didn’t have a, for lack of a more robustly connotative modifier, easily detectable *liberal* take on things.
Which I think is fine, but it made me wonder if knitting is something that really attracts a more liberal crowd (as in “are my data representative”?) and, if so, then is there something about the knitting process that makes people more liberal (like could it take someone who was mid-road and steer them significantly leftward) or is there something about the knitting that attracts more liberals to it from the outset and the physical process isn’t involved with any sort of political evolution.
Of course, I recognize that, if, for whatever reason, the knitting population started being more liberal at some point, then that fact alone would tend to reinforce the leftward trend through social dynamics…
I guess I’m just wondering, among other things that might give me an answer or at least a clue, if you’ve ever heard of (or noticed) someone who started knitting on one general political level of bias and got “radicalized” to any degree…
Oct 21, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Comment #137409
Okay oi i forgot about the work filter.
Bye Wade have a good fun moment.
Hello Glo.
Well I have got to get back to work myself.
*MUAH*
Oct 21, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Comment #137408
I can’t access flickr at work so will see them after work Timo
bye WAde. Have fun. enjoy your day.
and to answer, my third speech is coming close, but I have not found the topic yet. I am in search of interesting topic right now.
Oct 21, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Comment #137407
ok, i’m gonna try to find something fun to do… if i must
bye (((glo[mo]oi)))
Oct 21, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Comment #137406
I’m sure it does, oi, I’m sure it does.
Hi there, Timo.
Oct 21, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Comment #137405
got any new topics for your next speech, oi?
lol, T/i/mo® ain’t that the truth
Oct 21, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Comment #137404
Aw oi! ♥
shucks oi come see my new pictures. 
Glo I know what kind of nurse I want.
Awwwwyeaeaaaaahhhh!
Wade enjoy your time off and Taking care of (personal) business don’t get along. The tasks I have seem to fill the amount of time I have available for my enjoyment.
Oct 21, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Comment #137403
sorry glo. I can’t believe I am not the axis of the
earth’suniverse’s rotation.yes Wade darling we can. only if you promise that you won’t go in hiding like eclipse.
Oct 21, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Comment #137402
for real, glo
we can has guftagu too, oi?
Oct 21, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Comment #137401
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