<p>Oh, Gees, Yemaya13 - I will do my best but I wager these young'ns are far more savvy than you give them credit for... can't there be one thread here where there is no admonishment?!</p>
<p>cangel, yup. I'll PM you.</p>
<p>LOL, crash, I'm just a cute little kid <em>bats eyes innocently</em>. I have no idea what all of you have been talking about!:) Keep going though- this thread has become one of my favorites, especially after I got through the first 14 pages. I'm just glad my parents do not post on CC! :eek:</p>
<p>Yemaya, you and AriesAthena <em>really</em> need to get together. You have <em>so</em> much in common. I don't have any bifocals but if I had some at hand I'd rap your knuckles with 'em. </p>
<p>Come to think of it, you post like my D as if she would post were she on CC.</p>
<p>Its legal again in Oregon, says our AG, for pain. I should really ask my old man if he could write me a presciption. The threads are getting to be more and more polarized, political, and just mean and painful. My url was just a play on the monetary cost of schooling and the emotional effort the kids now go thru to get into college of their choice; however what was once casual observations on politics of all sorts, is getting to be "too much."</p>
<p>Yemaya - you punked me! I didn't even realize that your were not fifty until I looked over some of your other posts. What are you doing on this thread? Did the they card you? or do you have a fake ID....?</p>
<p>"In Himmel es Gibts Kein Bier" is one of my favorite polkas, but not number 1. That space is reserved for the polka about the horrendous crime that split the community until it was resolved, namely</p>
<p>"Who Stole the Kishka?"</p>
<p>Another favorite is a very old-time polka (it was already old when I was just a tot) but which has been a top polka in this country, probably for about a century, namely the BoomTarara Polka. Please put both in the jukebox.</p>
<p>TheDad: since few of us here really know whom is whom, how can you be sure that Yemaya is not TheD? For that matter, how can you be sure that I am not your uncle?</p>
<p>30 Golden Book Titles That Have Never Been Published</p>
<p>You Are Different ... and That's Bad
The Boy Who Died From Eating Vegetables
Dad's New Wife, Robert
Fun Four-Letter Words to Know and Share
Hammers, Screwdrivers and Scissors: An I-Can-Do-It Book
The Kids' Guide to Hitchhiking
Kathy Was So Bad Her Mom Stopped Loving Her
Curious George and the High-Voltage Fence
All Pets Go to Hell
The Little Sissy Who Snitched
Some Pets Can Fly
That's It! I'm Putting You Up for Adoption
Grandpa Gets a Casket
The Magic World Inside Abandoned Refrigerators
Garfield Gets Feline Leukemia
The Pop-Up Book of Human Anatomy
Strangers Have the Best Candy
Whining, Kicking and Crying to Get Your Way
You Were an Accident
Things Rich Kids Have, But You Never Will
Pop! Goes The Hamster...And Other Great Microwave Games
The Man in the Moon Is Actually Satan
Your Nightmares Are Real
Goodbye, Moon
Where Would You Like to Be Buried?
Eggs, Toilet Paper, and Your School
Why Can't Mr. Fork and Ms. Electrical Outlet Be Friends?
Places Where Mommy and Daddy Hide Neat Things
Daddy Drinks Because You Cry
Ugly Kids Grow Up Friendless</p>
<p>I tell you, to sleep off one night after hanging out at sinner's alley and you find...</p>
<p>My feet are really sore and all scratched up form dancing with those baskets on. Barkeep, can you order the baskets that have the nice napkin liners so that my feet can have some cushion next time.</p>
<p>I'm sorry about Yemaya sneaking out of the house and coming down to the bar (don't tell her mother as I was suppose to be keeping an eye on her).</p>
<p>I find that the alley is consdered a dive and bordering on seedy (thankfully you haven't said that about me unless we are taking the what happens in vegas stays in vegas approach and I'll just never hear it). </p>
<p>I aways thought that it was a bit of a speak easy maybe even a jook joint. I'm tired of singing if I were a rich girl every morning to the dog. Is there a card game going on in the back room? How about a friendly craps game? I feel that my luck is about to change.</p>
<p>Crash, I let you hang out by your self and look what happens? Now I have to give a word to the wise.</p>
<p>Ya gotta watch out for crash. Fellas, she is one of those women that ya mama told ya about. A real W-O-M-A-N. Yep, she's that wicked city woman that Cousin Ernie told Lucy his mother warned him about. She'll definitely vamp ya if you're not careful. She's a brick house from back in the day and has taken lessons from the baddest of the bad girls. Don't let her sitting there with her hair covering her face like Veronica Lake fool ya. Once she swings that hair back, she's got the spirit of Scarlet O'Hara and the heart of Maggie looking for her next big daddy.
She can be a worrisome thing that makes you sing the blues in the night. But whadda ya think, her favorite drinks are stingers. Just don't let her sting you. Plus, I don't want her ratting out me and Slugg so we gotta keep her in check.</p>
<p>Hey, right about now I need a BC powder. Or maybe a hair from the dog that bit me will better do the trick. Another Harvey Wallbanger over here.</p>
<p>sluggbugg, Lolarotfawmp^^^^^ !!!!!!</p>
<p>ROFLMAO!!!</p>
<p>TheDad- Are you waiting for the bifocals for when you give up on being a Depp look-alike and transition into Tevye?</p>
<p>crash- You must have missed some of my posts earlier in the thread. I'm going to get a fake ID and get busted, and then sneak in. I thought that I would be needed to add to the seediness, but it seems that you've got that one covered. I'll be content to just point out all of the wrinkles and sagginess of the old folks!</p>
<p>dadofsam- I can't be TheD because TheDad only made me fall in love with Smith after the TheD had been there for two months or so. But it is possible that Crash was involved with TheDad after one of her (are you a woman?) famous threesomes that came about because of similar taste in music. I could actually be TheD's half sister!</p>
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But is she a blonde who could make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window....?</p>
<p>Oh, and I would like to sit at a booth in a dark corner with TheDad, jmmom, crash, curmudgeon, mootmom, sybbie, and all of the other old folks whom I love to tease. And AriesAthena!</p>
<p>I've got to leave this place and start packing my bags. I've been to Jerusalem and back two times in a week and everytime I return to my old stool in the corner, the yacking gets louder and well I have had some fun. I don't know what I will do when I leave. Got two old folks that need tlc for awhile and a younger guy who is getting ready to go off to France to play the oboe for awhile and then maybe have an operation..in the holy city....nothing too bad...and then he needs to get ready for school on his own, fly to the states and well where has this year gone?</p>
<p>I am going to sing..."show me the way to go home...I'm tired and I want to take a rest...had a little drink about an hour ago and it went straight to my head...whereever we may room, on sea or air or foam..you can always hear me singing this song, show me the way to go home........bye.</p>
<p>To me from The Dad : "...since few of us here really know whom is whom, how can you be sure that Yemaya is not TheD? For that matter, how can you be sure that I am not your uncle?"</p>
<p>....And how can you be sure I'm not your mistress?! </p>
<p>WHoa...She's back....and here we go again!</p>
<p>Tara,</p>
<p>sssshhhhhh. I think that blond was you. We're still keeping your antics on the down low because your memory is probably a little blurry to. Was that you who Greybeard was singing Jackie Wilson's You'd Better Stop Dogging me Around to? </p>
<p>Nothing like seeing a man reach for one of those torch songs.</p>
<p>I'm still trying to figure out who Curm was singing "Since I Fell For You" to.</p>
<p>Oh, man. I went to a seminar last night on the college admissions process, and by the end, I felt like punching somebody out, mainly the guy who gave the talk. And, even moreso, his thirty-something college counselor sidekick (parent of preschoolers), who told an audience full of frazzled-looking high school parents to visit nine or ten college campuses, even the ones we couldn't afford, because, y'know, there's always the chance that financial aid will come through. </p>
<p>Heads nodded as they counseled parents to have their teenagers take the SAT three times (twice during Fall of Junior year, and again, Fall of Senior year). Three or more drafts of the college essay ought to do it (make sure it's in the kid's "voice"), and students should take as many AP courses as "they will enjoy!" Don't forget to attend college information nights (inconveniently located at the nearest airport Hilton), and be sure, students, to introduce yourselves to your local college reps. The response from the sixteen and seventeen y/o's in the audience consisted of glacial stares and four-letter uttterances. </p>
<p>I saw a handful of parents who have probably never been through it writing everything down furiously, while the rest of us sat in the back stuffing brownies into our mouths. I asked a question about figuring out the UC eligibility index if UC takes Dec SAT scores, and the deadline for UC apps is Nov 30th...after that, they did not call on me. </p>
<p>Well, the brownies were good, anyway. ;)</p>
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<p>Were they selling something or just hired by the school?</p>
<p>Slugg,</p>
<p>That reminds me of the financial aid seminar I attended a year or so ago. While projecting the aconym FAFSA in 24" tall letters, the presenter repeatedly pronounced it FASFA, went on to read verbatim selections from the FAFSA website and got stumped by simple questions that proved he had no understanding of what he just read. Even us newbies stopped writing down what he said.</p>
<p>Selling college counseling services and SAT prep, audio. The high school talks have been better. </p>
<p>Starting tomorrow, I'm switching to tropical drinks with little umbrellas. We're off to The Big Island for our 25th anniversary. The last time Dh and I went on vacation for just the two of us...1983. I'll bring back a dashboard hula dancer for the shelf behind the bar. It can go right under the dogs-playing-Poker print. Anybody got a Lava lamp? :)</p>