Shoot the Breeze With the Cooler Crew - Peoplesforum Edition

Halloween was the night we bought our Saturn and All Saints Day was the first day we moved into our house :)

makes sense. the same year?

I'm in, ninja.

Are costumes optional?

Dunno... I suppose thats up to whoever wants to come... seeing as how its Halloween and all... I know I'll be there in costume fer sure though!

No not the same year. 94 for the car - 97 for the house.

shoulda known that. duh.

me2 - Unless you think that trick-or-treating is over at age 4, I don't see how you could have a kid who's at the age of hanging it up looking the way you do. Nice job! Who's he going as? I remember going as Gene Simmons for the last few years where I was 'allowed' to get candy, then go to a party afterwards and still look cool. Nobody never knew I was out gettin' sweets before the beer.

You can still go out and get candy no matter what your age is.... if people wont give it to you, just take it from them when their not looking HAHAHAHA!!

Or you could always just go bag snatching too. :)

Morning! Hope everyone had a nice weekend. We took the kids to the fair on Saturday. They loved the rides. E even put her hands in the air while riding the kiddie roller coaster. M didn't care for the roller coaster that much. However, M went on the Raiders ride (kind of an obstacle course with a big slide at the end) and when she came out of the slide she ran right back to the beginning and pushed her way past the other kids in line to go again. All we could do was laugh, apologize, and give the lady more ride tickets.

Unless you think that trick-or-treating is over at age 4, I don't see how you could have a kid who's at the age of hanging it up looking the way you do

lol, cm, are you starting a me2 fan club now, á la scribe's? i'm sure that's not the first time she's heard that either. actually, i know its not. (and the correct question is who's shegoing as?). glad to see the girls had fun at the fair frosti. vj, what kind of example are you setting for the kiddies going bag snatching? :)

mornin' sam. sore body here. but, there are now 4 walls of a garage standing in my brother's back yard.

joe.

You're welcome.

thank you :)

you could have taken it you know, i don't care too much for those particular joes.

:: wonders what's gonna happen 2500 posts from now, cuz there's a whole blockof them to get ::

I remember going as Gene Simmons for the last few years

WoW-my husband did that too-

and you guys really put a smile on my face thismorning :) Thanks

you're welcome. you know that's what we're here for. ;)

:: trying to picture mark as gene simmons ::

vj, what kind of example are you setting for the kiddies going bag snatching?

I'm not out trying to set an example on Halloween.... thats just wrong. Im out to scare people, and have fun.

ok. i'll believe ya :) my costumeonce i order it. now if only i could bring myself to actually put in yellow tinted contacts right up against the surface of my eye to go with it i'd be set. i'm actually thinking about wearing the prosthetic to work on halloween if i don't have a meeting that day.

damn... hell yeah.
that costume is pretty cool, ninja.

Im waiting for some contacts to come in the mail too... I got some wicked ass cool ones from ebay...

see, i am one of those people who you could not pay to put stuff like contacts directly on my eyes. i've worn my glasses (several different pairs though) for some 18 years. i just don't look right without them and so cosmetically for me, i could wear the things, but i'd have a pair of glasses with dummy lenses to wear just because. same thing after i get lasik done. first thing i'm gonna do is get a pair of glasses.

Hmmmm, I think I have to say Ares after reading that, that you may just be the strangest person I've met since, well, me. hehe

Although Me2 out hunting in February in slippers is a close second :-P

seriously. next time you see me, remind me to take off the glasses, though that's kinda unfair since you didn't know me before i started wearing them. i truly despise the fact that i have to wear glasses. but, after getting the laser, wearing them would be a choice, not a mandate.

I've always had perfect vision, so I never had to deal with that. But from experience with other people, the change from no glasses to glasses or vice versa is generally accompanied by an initial shock, followed by a period of adjustment until you feel almost as if the new way is how it's always been. You'd certainly look different without them, but as I try to imagine it, with some confidence that that's how you're supposed to look on your part, I don't think you'd look bad.

must just be the convoluted vision looking at myself in the mirror with 20/400 or worse vision. corrected of course to something better than 20/20. :)

damn... I dun need glasses or anything.. I can see just fine without.. thats weird as hell, considering everyone in my immediate family has been wearing glasses or contacts since a long ass time ago...

I only ordered the cool ones I saw on Ebay, cause they kick ass... they look somewhat similar to the ones that Rey Mysterio JR. in the WWE wears..

well, vj, be thankful you don't need 'em :)

mornin' sam.

smiling another morning :)

I just love you guys!

Ares, I think you look good and possibly better without the glasses :)

For the record...Me2 thought about it but didn't do it- then I laughed when I saw the 'almost everyone who reads this...':)

awwww. thanks dear.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

that's probably the single most interesting fact in that list.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

that's because they spend so much time batting their innocent eyes at us ;)

It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

i bet if i dislocate my shoulder i could do it. but i'm not a masochist enough to try it.

"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. (Ares and I use this sentence a lot :))

oh, you know it, baby.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

here's what i wanna know about them. do they have ul listing labels on them?

You tried to lick your elbow, didn't you?

no, because i don't wish to dislocate my shoulder. but the thought did cross my mind.

From snopes.com

Claim: A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
Status: False.

Origins: Any of us who has been on the Internet more than a week has probably received at least one of those annoying lists of "facts" -- dozens and dozens of items of no real significance that somebody thought would be cool for you to know. It is indeed fortunate that the lists are usually composed of items of no real significance, because many of the entries are of dubious veracity. The purpose of these lists apparently is not to educate the masses (however trivially), but to induce readers into the information age equivalent of a scavenger hunt, sending them scurrying all over the Internet in an attempt to verify the truthfulness of the entries. Ours is one of the virtual doors that gets knocked on quite frequently by these scavengers, and while we're glad to help, our job is never done because anyone can make up lists like these -- just invent four or five of the most far-fetched statements you can imagine, and follow them with the phrase "and no one knows why." To wit:

Ostrich eggs have no yolks, and no one knows why.

Julius Caesar was left-handed, and no one knows why.

Banging your head against a solid wall really hurts, and no one knows why.
The winner (so far) of the Most Ludicrous Entry contest is the claim that a duck's quack doesn't echo. Unfortunately, it's also the item we're most frequently asked about. The premise is just silly: a duck's quack (and presumably, of all the sounds known to man, only a duck's quack) has some special sonic property that causes it not to echo. We're not talking about a situation where a landform creates an acoustic shadow (a phenomenon under which even loud sounds can be inaudible to nearby listeners), but the claim that a duck's quack doesn't echo under any conditions.
First of all, how are we to define "a duck's quack"? Different breeds of duck make different sounds, and there are a lot of breeds of duck in the world. And anyone who has spent time around ducks knows that even within the same breed of duck, a male's quack can sound nothing like a female's. (Female mallards, for example, make loud honking sounds, but male mallards produce a much softer, rasping sound.) Do all these varied sounds, without exception, fail to produce an echo?

I'm simply going to dismiss this one from personal experience. Although I grew up in suburbia, much of my youth was spent raising various kinds of domesticated animals, particularly ducks and geese. When those ducks got to quacking, I could most assuredly hear the cacophony of sound as it echoed off the stone walls that surrounded our yard and entered my bedroom window. So could the neighbors a few hundred feet down the street, who frequently called us to complain about the noise. The surprise was not that our ducks' quacks didn't echo, but that they echoed so remarkably well.

Last updated: 19 July 1999

you're no fun, aw. :)

You quack.

quack quack quack quack quack.

You all quack me up! You're all quackers!!

Hello!

Haven't had much time to find my way here lately.

VJ - A Halloween get together sounds nice - but what time? I would hate to miss the little kids coming round to collect their candy.

sam couldn't make it in this morning, i'm the understudy, bugs.

aaahhh, :: munches carrot ::what's up, ralph?

Shhh, I'm hunting fo' wabbit.

Hehehehehe....

um, thats not vewwy nice.

me2, thank you for all the ponderables. AW, you have such a gift for locating theories for ponderables. Ares, the ragweed season is upon us- is your benadryl at hand? I've been such a slave to my new job, I find myself without time to slog, ponder, or hunt. Does anyone know when the PP hunt will start? I miss you, Artemis, I may have a job for Marley when I get my new truck, I want a wolf pic air brushed onto it. Hope all of you are well, and cooler. Art- how is Tonya? and thanx for the "granny" cartoon.... Ares, please do not take my jiving you about benadryl seriously....

Good to see you KT! Glad you're liking the new job : )

Tonyas the same, up and down, I'll tell her you asked it will make her : )

We're doing good, went up north last weekend and it was beautiful! Perfect weather- sunny and warm in the day and cool and clear at night, and (almost)no bugs! Garden isn't looking so great, we've sadly neglected it this year : ( too much hunting ; ) In general life is good.

Ares, the ragweed season is upon us- is your benadryl at hand?

oh you know it.

Does anyone know when the PP hunt will start?

first clue's at midnite on the 19th of january.

Ares, please do not take my jiving you about benadryl seriously....

oh allright. i won't :)

i suppose i should probably haul myself out of bed so i can get to valleyfair by the time they open today.

and in other news my brother drove a nail into the bottom of his foot last nite while we were setting all the roof trusses in place for his garage. he'll be ok, but out of commission for a few days. puncture wounds are so not good for healing. coulda been worse i suppose. he coulda nailed his hand to the wall or something.

drove a nail into the bottom of his foot last nite

Owwwweeeeee........

OK, I confess.............I tried to lick my elbow! Thanx for the laugh me2, I needed that!:)

I know a girl that just might be able to do it though, I'm gonna ask her next time I see her. she has a tounge like gene simmons!

she has a tounge like gene simmons!

Color me intrigued.

I'll let ya know if she can do it frosti!

I'm not really interested in the elbow. ;)

Owwwweeeeee........

yeah that's what i said too. not even like he shot the nail through his foot. no. he was stepping on them on a 2x4 trying to fold them over. he managed to go to work for a while this morning, but since the doctor told him yesterday evening that if it hurt don't do it, he came home after about an hour.

valleyfair was fun. actually managed about a 10 minute turnaround from the start of one ride on wild thing to the next. which from what i hear is pretty impressive (keep in mind that the last time i was there they didn't even have wild thing. i could almost hear me2's jaw hit the floor last nite when i told her that). and power tower very much kicks a$$. my advice for first time riders: ride the blue one first to get the hang of what will happen when you ride the red one later. :)

and i'm with frosti about not being interested in the elbow.

TY fer the reply, Ares. I am so keyed 'bout the pp hunt, as I will be laid off WITH PAY!!! during that time. Hmmm...to be paid to noodle, and be able to hunt in the wee hours... using my shovel with teeth...(or a pop-top, in my bathrobe during a 3.5 minute potty break, having never read any clues, but "thought I'd give it a shot" to see if I got lucky...)As the case seems to be with the last kid... Harumph. I hope you all are with me with hopes that this next hunt actually gives clues one can play with rather than last year's compilation of words written by a graduate of "Bob's School of Clue Writing" (sorry to any of you named Bob) I like to PLAY the game! *sigh*