<p>And here is one to ten more years! Of the Hubble Telescope.</p>
<p>Astrogirl reports that they watched the launch on TV in her astro class. Cheers!</p>
<p>My FIL actually worked on the “fix” for the Hubble 10 years ago when they gave it corrective lenses, so to speak. We are fond of the Hubble at our house.</p>
<p>I’m too tired for a drink now, but come the weekend I will celebrate our new kitchen! A few bumps along the way, but well worth it. (Bumps still there–some countertops not exactly made to spec, but they’ll be fixed eventually.) </p>
<p>And it’s Bee-you-tiful! 
Now we have to move everything back in to it…</p>
<p>Okay, maybe just one… a quick toast to all the grads, <em>especially</em> a friend about my age who FINALLY got her PhD! woo-hoo!</p>
<p>Champagne’s on me–</p>
<p>I’m going to be a grandmother! My daughter (and my firstborn) & her H are expecting in November. Thrilling! :)</p>
<p>While we’re on page 1–welcome newbies! Here in the Alley there’s no talk of college admissions/rejections/essays/tests.</p>
<p>Only free flowing libations of all kinds, naugahyde booths, popcorn & peanuts, massage chairs, hot tubs, and humorous anecdotes. (Sluggy, where are you???)</p>
<p>Or people to commiserate with you if they’re not so humorous. :(</p>
<p>Oh, and marmots. Marmots, you ask? Yep, busy little critters who do all sorts of clever errands. They can arrange good weather, provide protective services, make sure certain things happen that need to happen…</p>
<p>So belly up to the bar with me! It’s always open!</p>
<p>Congrats, mommusic. What exciting news.</p>
<p>And cheers to your friend, Bullet - how cool that he’s able to live out his dream.</p>
<p>saw the title of this thread and made me laugh… and relay a true story</p>
<p>last week i went to get new tires for my car, sitting waiting for them to finish and an elderly lady came in for her tires. she sat down beside me and chatted for a bit, saying she had to get the tires and then head back to her church for a function. that inevitably led to “do you go to church” (a southern small town thing ie normal topic of discussion here). I replied no… and as she started with the next step of you would be welcome at my church, i said well, I’m episcopalian and the closest episcopal church is about 50 miles away. (I really dont think she knew what episcopalian was) but she got up when i said that and wandered back to her car…having to pass behind mine…the look on her face was priceless as she saw my license plate which just coincidently includes 666!
can i qualify for admission to the sinners alley? LOL</p>
<p>mommusic-
Congrats on many fronts!!! All great news!!
I am jealous of your finished kitchen, as our house is still totally torn up and terribly behind schedule. We are living in the money pit. My kitchen counters are in, but the cabinets arent done correctly an are in need of a fix, the backsplash will be installed when the upstairs and downstairs floor tile are finished. Lighting isnt done either and the ceiling is full if holes. Master closet is also also currently nonexistent, as is the guestroom closet. We picked paint colors and I just ordered cabinet/drawer pulls but I want my house back!!! Everything is everywhere! AAGGHHH! And, the construction guys accidentally let in a chipmunk (not a marmot) who lived with us for a while. Destructive little buggers…</p>
<p>**** welcome parent56!! Grab a seat on the naugehyde and belly up to the bar. Peanut shells go on the floor. Where in the south are you from??</p>
<p>thanks for the welcome jym626… a mimosa with a splash of grand marnier please!!</p>
<p>^^^ Ooh, you have taste, parent56.You gotta check that at the door!! 'round here we wear beer bong hats.</p>
<p>lol! get past 5pm and i’ll be right there with you, mimosa seemed better for 7am.</p>
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<p>Jeez Jym626, why did you have to say that? I had a mental picture of what I thought you loooked like IRL, and now you’ve ruined it! (You WERE a nice proper lady in my mind!)</p>
<p>We gotta get you up to speed, GA2012MOM-- The beer bong hat award for posting on a big post # was started in 2006, when we hit post # 2000. Here, we’ll anoint you with this one [Mohawk</a> Drinking Hats](<a href=“http://www.drinkingstuff.com/tshirts_headwear_DS21911.htm]Mohawk”>http://www.drinkingstuff.com/tshirts_headwear_DS21911.htm)</p>
<p>jym - I wonder if the hat thing can keep the beer cold. It might need to be combined with a couple of these:</p>
<p>[Beerbrella</a> - Patent 6637447](<a href=“http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6637447.html]Beerbrella”>Beerbrella - MCMULLIN MASON SCHOTT)</p>
<p>Good find, BB!! Add 2 of these <a href=“http://www.drinkingstuff.com/images/DrinkingStuff/CanCoolers/Originals/DS13900.jpg[/url]”>http://www.drinkingstuff.com/images/DrinkingStuff/CanCoolers/Originals/DS13900.jpg</a>
and carry spares in these [Six</a> Pack Cooler](<a href=“http://www.drinkingstuff.com/drinkingstuff_gadgets_ov16013.htm]Six”>http://www.drinkingstuff.com/drinkingstuff_gadgets_ov16013.htm)
and we’re all set!</p>
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<p>We will definitely need one of those coolers and a couple of beerbrellas here in Seattle today - it is so nice today! Not a cloud in the sky. My backyard deck feels almost like a Hawaiian lanai. I just need to get a couple of hibiscus bushes from Molbaks that I saw there yesterday :)</p>
<p>A tall cold one, please – as I stumble in wearily. I spent the day doing gardening/landscaping stuff. Honestly, I’m way to old for this! We’re talking monumental trimming, weed pulling, mulching, raking, etc. Perhaps the marmots would like a trip to CT to help out?</p>
<p>how have I lived this long without a Mohawk drinking hat??</p>
<p>A toast to my friend Col Mike “Bueno” Good. A hearty “Way to go!” to him and his fellow astronauts for their successful mission to repair the Hubble. Awesome job guys!</p>
<p>On a side note; Uh, about landing on the other coast of this country. How you gonna explain THAT one to the family members waiting in Florida? Talk about lost luggage! I keed, I keed!</p>
<p>Seriously, this round is on me…</p>
<p>. . . “Mind your manners when meeting new people. Let them get to <em>know</em> you before you dash all their hopes.”</p>
<p>So this is the first posting for me on this forum – well, actually, on College Confidential – OK, well, if you’re going to get TECHNICAL about it – it’s my first posting to any forum anywhere! It’s not that I don’t know how; it’s just that when I search for topics in which I am interested in communing with like-minded folks, the threads inevitably degenerate into rabid, opinionated, personal, religious, political, sexual, or weather-related tirades that offered opinion as fact – unsubstantiated and unsustainable, of course. Boring.</p>
<p>I came to College Confidential helping a friend research a school to which her son has been accepted. I came to this thread because somewhere the website said to “check in at the Cafe, just to say hello.” I’m POSTING to this because I liked the “rules of engagement” on the originating entry - 4 years and 4 months ago. 1. Make it funny. 2. Jokes must be good. Limited puns. (We will have to discuss that later: See Momma’s advice.) 3. Personal stories are best, if funny. 4. No news/inspirationals without a twist. and 5. “embellishment and exaggeration is supported if it makes a better story.”</p>
<p>So I read a few pages, and by golly, that’s exactly what everyone did! So I read the last few pages, and folks are still doing all the above! I like this. A lot. Thanks for being my kind of peeps!</p>
<p>After all that prelim, I have four things to share:</p>
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<li><p>Single malt held HIGH to Col Mike “Bueno” Good and his cohorts. Such a happy thing in difficult times.</p></li>
<li><p>mommusic: Hang tight on the kitchen; it DOES end!</p></li>
<li><p>Contrats to Shelley on her daughters’ time in England; I think the English Speaking Union is one of the best things going for education in the US.</p></li>
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<p>and - </p>
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<li><p>MY JOKE!<br>
How to tell the sex of a fly </p>
<p>A woman walked into the kitchen to find her husband stalking around with a fly swatter in his hand.</p>
<p>‘What are you doing?’ She asked. </p>
<p>‘Hunting Flies’ He responded… </p>
<p>‘Oh… ! Killing any?’ She asked, bemused. </p>
<p>‘Yep, three males, two females,’ He replied. </p>
<p>Intrigued, she asked, ‘How can you tell them apart?’ </p>
<p>He responded, ''Three were on a beer can and two were on the phone."</p>
<pre><code> (Sorry, sorry! Can I stay on the forum, anyway, please? (pathetic whimper))
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