<p>jmmom, Thank you...but "I am not worthy" :o , (Wayne's World) . I cede to Slugg's far greater abilities, she can make eating or drinking near the computer a hazard to the nasal passages and anything within range (double bore shooter there!).</p>
<p>Bad horsey, bad, BAD horsey! :D </p>
<p>I don't think we're the same person, are we, BHappy? Were you ever told by an <em>uncle</em> of questionable family lineage (i.e. some dude who wandered into your gramma's trailer) that holding a rock between your knees was a cheap and effective form of birth control? I am sorry to say...I was! :eek: </p>
<p>And, I was raised by a pack of retarded, cigarette-smoking jackalopes. :)</p>
<p>Slugg, TG for a moment I thought I'd wandered into "The Three Faces of Eve"...multiple personality disorder is just not my style :cool:. Eve White, Eve Black, I tell ya if Eve Ecru shows up we'll have a lot of explaining to do...</p>
<p>To answer your question: Naw, never held a rock between my knees :D,(that is what prayer is for!). What about you did you ever get taken to a drunken party by your parents when you were 4 because they couldn't get a baby sitter...and have the man with pointed shoes (winkle pickers) and Elvis hair show you a REAL shrunken head...("don't you'll scare the little girl...") "Don worry little gerrrl ish jush a little dolly"...couldn't fool me, dolls didn't have their lips sewn shut...have you ever been the one a convent school who accepted the dare to touch the dead nun laid out in the coffin in the chapel...(for the record I touched her nose, it was hard, cold and waxy)...? I was raised by an dastardly Englishman who put me up on the fridge when I was 3 and insisted I fall off backwards...he said it was to learn 'trust'...I don't know what a jackalope is but I think he may qualify...and therein perhaps lies our link? ...a harsh ;), colourful past and unusual upbringing....</p>
<p>OMG. I do not know if I can survive stereo LOLUIS. In other words, two denizens making me laugh until I snort.</p>
<p>If you two ever have a party can I come. BHappyMom, where do you live?</p>
<p><em>retreats, bowing as she goes</em></p>
<p>Alumother, my first snort, (and so much cheaper without the white powder!), I am honored!</p>
<p>I too live on the wild west side of the continent, though further north, far far away up in the land of igloos, where women chew their husbands muckluks to break them in...yes it's true I am a Tundra Tart!</p>
<p>Am I the only one who hears Pink singing....?</p>
<p>Just had a big fat cognac, so maybe I'll chill for now.</p>
<p>Hmmm.... Raised by wolves? (non smoking wolves-- however I believe they once ate hash brownies)... check
Drunken parties/too cheap for baby sitters?.... check
Odd parents? Well YES! Example: My Dad was the lone Democrat in his politically-connected Republican family. When we went to visit the cousins he delicately covered the photos of my uncle the Judge with Richard Nixon with his handkerchief, so as not to allow "bad influences on his children"....</p>
<p>However nobody would confuse me with slugg. </p>
<p>BHappy: after only a few posts, you have the emoticons WIRED. If you are not slugg, did you perhpas invent emoticons or something? Or are you a 13 year old boy?</p>
<p>PS Alu I would have PM'd you if you had PM... I was right in your hood last week and thinking how fun it would be to have a mai tai!</p>
<p>Speaking of PMing Alumother, Alu - would you PM me? I would like to ask for a bit of your help in the DS Transfer Wars.</p>
<p><em>we now return to our regularly scheduled debauchery and attempts to uncover the "real" BHappy and slugg</em></p>
<p>SBMom, partly I am sorry I missed you and partly I think it's unecessary that we meet in IRL as we truly seem to be separated at birth:). My Dad too was the lone democract in his deeply Republican family. The only thing I seem to differ with you on is book faves. I tend more towards the bitter, biting, and elegiac....Disgrace, Remains of the Day, The White Hotel....or the large and romantic, Beet Queen, Moby Dick, Little Dorritt. </p>
<p>But some day, IRL.</p>
<p>Jmmom, I would be honored. </p>
<p>And yes, now that we hear BHappy is in Alaska, I think she may really be slugg who ran away from the evil neighbor....</p>
<p>SBmom, I AM NOT a 13 year old boy! I'd puff up my chest in protest (think Foghorn Leghorn) but I'm tired of sewing my buttons back on ;)</p>
<p>Woke to a power outage from giant wind storm last night. DD scheduled for SatII this am. ...So you can picture the mayhem, both of us with dripping candles bumping into each other, tripping over the cat, looking for car keys...ended up at the local Starbucks, me with a caffeine Drip, and toothpicks holding up my droopy eyelids while I tried to read the paper, & DD at another table looking at her notes...refusing all nourishment (muffins anyone?), and drinking about 25 cents worth of Mocha Frappacino..."I don't want any more" DD growled "it makes me pee"....</p>
<p>Alumother, sorry to disappoint, not Alaska, (cough, cough, over to the right just a bit...and then south a smidge "Land of the Silver Birch, Home of the Beaver"....:) ) from the land of Steve Nash, Nelly Furtado, & David Foster...oh alright Pamela Lee too...</p>
<p>Pamela Lee. That explains it. No disappointment, just a spreading feeling of the rightness of the universe:).</p>
<p>Breaking News:</p>
<p>andison has been admitted to Worcester Polytechnic Institute</p>
<p>we know that many more good things are coming.</p>
<p>Curmie, Dodds lets break out the good stuff as we toast Andi and son</p>
<p> * Congratulations !!!*</p>
<p>Cheers to all of you for joining in the wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The champagne is on me!!! :D</p>
<p>Thanks for the good news about andison. :)</p>
<p>Congrats to andi and andison! A parade of penguins riding on Segways (built at WPI) shall be rolling in your direction!! :)</p>
<p>Okay, we'll need a committee.</p>
<p>andi, by rights, should be celebrating here non-stop for - what - a weekend, a week, a month? </p>
<p>We need volunteers to keep her glass full, volunteers to prop her up if she gets just a <em>little</em> out of control, volunteers to lead the cheers, volunteers to lead the sing-alongs. Volunteers to roll out the red carpet for andison, who should make a brief cameo appearance imo.</p>
<p>We don't need volunteers for snack; sluggbugg has the snackmom thing covered.</p>
<p>Sybbie is toastmistress. jym has the entertainment covered. Who'll take the official photographs?</p>
<p>** Laissez les bontemps rouler!** </p>
<p>Gawd, I wish, Alu! ((((momentarily lost in the thought of Evilneighbors being eaten by polar bears)))) :) Anybody watch LOST? At the moment, I'm listening to that metallic, clanking monster noise coming from the other side of the fence (25 feet from my front door). I could use a technomystic smoke monster right about now... </p>
<p>EvilNeighbor is up on an aluminum ladder trying to change a basketball backboard while balancing with one leg on the ladder and one leg on his roof. Gee, why lay the thing on the ground when you can accomplish this task while doing the splits in mid-air? ;) Because manly men who travel all the time and have wives who nag them to do more stuff around the house on the weekends don't really care about replacing a perfectly good basketball backboard. When your kid looks like ET's little brother, what's the point? The goal is to stay outside for as long as possible. If it includes a trip to the emergency room, even better! :D</p>
<p>Elvis hair, Brylcreem, and substitute "nose pickers" for "winkle pickers," and you've got a picture of every family funeral I have ever attended. No shrunken heads, but I was once introduced to noted drunken comedian, Foster Brooks, at a Dem fundraiser in Las Vegas. Close enough. :cool:</p>
<p>Sluggy congrats to Andi & Andison! :p</p>
<p>slugg, however did you resist the temptation to jiggle the ladder?</p>
<p>alu, did you boycott grapes, too? Lots of fun at the cousins!</p>
<p>Hey Slugg,</p>
<p>Where is your mom's horror of a dog now that you need him?
He could run around the ladder, get his lease caught and would have to pull the ladder down trying to escape :D</p>