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that and woman are against the bondage history that goes with it. oh, what I am thinking...some women like that ;)
i said i was gonna be over in 20 minutes didn't i? and that was like an hour ago, wasn't it?
So anyway I went to see "Tony and Tina's Wedding" on Saturday night. Someone in my singles club had bought a ticket and then got sick and decided to just give it away and somehow I ended up with it. Well in the play there is a guy who plays the guy that is doing the video of the wedding. I swore that this guy was either THX or his twin brother. At one point he even turned around, saw me, pointed at me, and gave me a look like he recognized me and so I thought maybe it was. But if THX doesn't know what I'm talking about, then I guess it wasn't him after all.
That's wild but it wasn't me. I was at home all night on Saturday.
me2 once said she saw a guy on TV that looked just like me too.
Must be the spiked hair?
:-)
i saw the same guy, thx. it was on dog eat dog this spring/summer. we swore it was you. in fact, we were actually talking about that just yesterday.
Was the guy on "Dog eat dog" from Minnesota?
Strange to think I've got two doppelgangers out there.
i dunno where he was from. maybe me2 remembers.
you're an only child, right?
swooooops in...
Big 5k Joe!
swoooops away
wow. 8 months. 5000 posts. who'da thunk it?
you're an only child, right?
Five sisters but no brothers....... that I'm aware of anyway.
It's annoying too because I never saw the list of cast members anywhere to find out who the guy was. There was another woman in the show too who I thought looked familiar but I couldn't think from where.
You may recall that we had an oven coil burn out awhile back. Inks replaced that.
The Suburban got stolen with his tools inside - and the tools haven't been recovered.
Last Friday he was looking for a pliers to help connect the cable thingy back to where it belonged. He couldn't find any.
Tonight Brenda decided to bake a pizza. I was in the kitchen reading the mail. There got to be a stink and I thought oh yeah. That's the new coil heating up. Then it got worse. There was black smoke pouring out of the vent and as I hollered for Brenda and went towards the stove, there were flames!!!!
The smoke was overwhelming. We hit the cancel button on the stove, opened a few windows on our way outside and called 911. Not necessarily in that order.
Three big rigs come rumbling down the street here with all the sirens going. All the neighbors were out.
The firemen found the pliers.
The plastic rubbery things on the pliers is what had caught fire.
The firemen told us we had done the right thing....like we had a choice. The smoke in here was incredible. They used their big fans to help clear the house out...but the smell is still hanging here. YUCK!!
I much prefer the aroma of a nice wood campfire.
What I wouldn't give for a dull, boring and uninteresting day.
i prefer the aroma of a nice garbage fire to burning vinyl, terry. lets go back to what i said about murphy's law. that really sucks.
It's rather funny actually. The firemen put the bare boned pliers into a coffee cup filled with water in the sink. Amazing how skinny those handles are without all that cushioning around them.
isn't it though? tell ya what. i'll go buy a volleyball net and we can put it up at your place on saturday. maybe keep it uneventful too :)
That would be fine. We also have horseshoes.
I gotta decide what to make for the potluck.
Charbroiled plier handles anyone?!?!
Geez! Just thinking about the weekend...
Bring lawn chairs! We don't have enough for everyone.
We have grills, charcoal and all that.
We have firewood.
We also have quite a bit of pop - though not diet Coke. We have Pepsi, root beer, canned lemonade, Mountain Dew,
how many people are we up to for then? too few, and v-ball would just be no fun. unless you've got a nice sand pile to play it on.
I haven't heard. There's Allison, you, me2 and her hubby, us, maybe some of Allison's single group, maybe Ian...who am I missing?
Marley and Artemis!
yeah thats kinda tight for v-ball then.
I suppose it depends on how many of Allison's single group show up.
yeah that's true. and even moreso how many people will play to hurt.
Play to hurt?!?
myself. hurt myself. if i'm not hurting by the time i'm done playing something i wasn't playing hard enough :)
Tough break TV. At least all of your future pizza's will have that great subtle taste of vinyl in them. If it still stinks you might need to rent an o-zone machine to completely remove all of the smell. Smoke smell is one of the hardest to completely remove since it gets into everything and stays. The o-zone (ionizer) will neutralize the smell where ever it is. You just need to give the machine a few hours on full blast and it'll smell just like new. You might not want to stay in the area where it's being used too long since it will probably dry out your skin after awhile. Good luck and have fun this weekend.
ozone works to remove a smoky aroma from furniture? cooler.
Right now it looks like only 2 or 3 from my group are going, though I'm going to try and talk it up some more this week. I think it will be a great event and definitely worth going to.
And I can sympathize Terry. When I was in college our dorm lobby caught on fire my senior year and that was a mess. And then I caught my kitchen on fire when I first moved into my last apartment.
Let it run long enough and it'll clean out all the tar from your lungs. :-)
To get an idea of what ionized air smells like just smell a copier, printer or fax machine that's been working hard. That's all neutralized air that you smell. Similar to the air outside after a large lightning storm.
Thanks for all the ideas.
The firemen had opened all our doors - and the screen doors. I thought I had all the screen doors closed but mosquitos kept finding me. Finally thought to check the back porch screen door. That was the culprit.
I suppose next I'll have mosquito welts all over when I wake up in the morning.
I think the odor is getting better. I had to shut the house down now for the night. I think I'll keep my bedroom door shut and the windows open there. My eyes feel burny when I spend any time in the kitchen.
Goodnight! Only 5 more wakeups till Saturday!!!
I really wanted to make it on Saturday, but it looks like I'll have to pass. Too many 'prior commitments'.
Charbroiled plier handles anyone?!?!
Wow, that's crazy Ter! I'm glad it wasn't more serious! Try to have a more uneventful rest of the week!
We're kinda waffeling about Saturday, hopefully we'll make it in the afternoon or evening, for atleast a few hours . With the weather turning so cold we needto get a few things done up north (the water primarily), before the ground freezes and then its "wait til next summer" again. Marley generally works Saturdays(but he's going to get out of it this week), plus, I started 3 weeks of training tonight on 2nd shift, so we've only got the next couple Sundays to get everything done. But we're gonna try and make it, gotta balance the work and the fun don't ya know :)
ozone rids the smoky smell from stuff, cm? i did not know that.
I believe the most of the smell is out of here. Left a kitchen window open and the fan running all night. I have an ionizer somewhere. If it's stinky at all later when I get home again, I'll find that and plug it in.
Artemis - I do understand about needing to get things done...but I really hope we see youz for awhile anyways.
Ian - It won't be the same without ya.
Have a way cooler day everyone!
Must be the spiked hair? :-)
THX-Actually it's your eyes ;)
Ter- Do you live in Como Pk? near Pascal & Simpson? I was listening to my scanner the other day and heard about a fire over their - they thought it was the washer but could have been the stove.
Ian-darn, I have a 3 inch tall 'golden mermaid' for you to add to your cache :) was gonna give it to you this weekend.
Aaaahhhhhhhh-come on Artemis! you gotta come up to Terry * Inks! Bonfire! Food! -and most important-you can't miss out on our good company! come on! come on! ::whines and begs::
what are you doing gazing into thx's eyes, dear?
:: jealous ::
OK-I was just watching an episode of M*A*S*H. A Sears catalog arrives but gets sent to another unit before some people get a chance to look at it (around News Years Day year-1951) and Klinger says "There will be another catalog coming near Valentines Day"--I actually felt the frustration that Major Hulahan felt to have to WAIT --It's not like she could just get online and look up what she wanted to order!!!!
you mean there was a time when you had to actually wait before you could order stuff??? man am i glad i didn't live in those times.
Ok, hitting the news today...Mother Teresa is being considered for sainthood...what first caught my attention was the word 'saint-hood department'-I thought that was a strange committee to be on so I read about her...
'cardinals, bishops and priests who are members of the saint-making department known as the Congregation for the Causes of Saints'.
ok, that was interesting but the reason for WHY she was being considered for this position was even more interesting to me... it was because...
'The miracle involved a 30-year-old Indian woman,Monica Besra, who was suffering from a stomach tumor and was healed inexplicably after praying to the nun'.
So me with 'all the time in the world' dinged around with her name and came up with the following...
Monica Besra
BE A RAMS ICON
a 'RAM ICON'......Abraham was a walking example of faith he trusted God. So to trust this miracle would be the thing to do I think.
A MANS RIB CEO
The CEO of A MAN'S RIB (Adam) would be God? so believe in the message?
I'M A BEN OSCAR - just thought that was funny, anyone know Ben Oscar?
A BACI SERMON (Baci is some technical computer term so there must be something secretive in this)
A SCAB IN ROME - hmmmmmmm Rome is apart of the 'end times' isn't it?
A SCRIBE OMAN - first I liked that Scribes name popped out of that and also looks to be a 'sign' with the word omanbut than again it could mean 'beware of Scribe-she may find the next medallion?'
A OCEANS BRIM - found this phrase online which is interesting..."...could have enough fusion energy to last for millions of years because the oceans brim with a key nuclear fuel, deuterium.
A RACISM BONE - hmmmmm again - does something like miracleraise issues between religions?
A SOMBER CAIN - didn't Cain kill Abel?
IE: BORN A SCAM - is this a scam?
ROBS A CINEMA - I have been watching a lot of movies lately so just like this one.
my favorite... Is it one of those subliminal messages to get us to buy a MASONIC BEAR? "The Real Secret of Freemasonry, Making Good Men Better". only $12.50 :)
so are those just coinkidinks, j, or are they signs? cuz if they're signs, some of them are kinda freaky.
hahahahahaha I just got Clue Masters tagline hahahahahahahahhaa talk about subliminal ;)
huh? i don't get it. ;)
You should! It's what a typical man would say!
yes dear. i get it. hence the ;) at the end of my post.
I thought those were just scratches at the end of the post -oh yeah you guys wanted notches?
yes, notches. scratches belong someplace else ;)
Let me apologize in advance for the long post but I just had the funkiest experience.
I was out getting one of our cats, as I'm walking toward the back door (The door I had gone out) this guy comes up in our neighbors driveway on the other side of our picket fence.
He says nervously, "I need help, there's some guys after me".
I said "What's the problem"? because I didn't understand at first.
He says "There's some guys after me, they've been following me".
I said "What do you want me to do"?
He says, "Can I come in and call a cab or call the police"?
I said, "No, but I can call you a cab or call the police".
He continues rambling and I get this "Something's wrong here" feeling and I say I have to put the cat in the house because he's going to get loose.
He's on the other side of the fence which is good so I quickly go to the back door, get inside and lock it and turn the alarm on.
I grab the phone and start going to the front door, I'm almost there and I hear a knock at the back door. I got back there and the guy wants me to let him in to use the phone.
I say "I won't let you in but I'll call a cab or the police for you".
He then says "Yeah, call me a cab", and he's acting all weird like someone is back there.
I say to myself that this just isn't right, so I call 911 and get that squared away... the police are on their way.
Right after I hang up, he trys opening the door and acting like he's in danger or something... Like they're about to attack him.
Well, that was enough. When he trys to open the door I run upstairs and grab the Glock. I come back down, go to the back door and make sure he sees the gun. He says something like "OH, Ok, that's cool".
He starts saying "Stay here and talk to me", I say "Ok, what do you want to talk about"? He says he doesn't care and keeps looking in the distance like someone is there. So I ask him, "Where are they, I don't see anybody". Then when he's talking I can't hear him. Like he's faking talking. I swear he was faking it.
So then I ask him where he lives and he says down the block, which for all I know means Chicago. I ask him his name and he says "John". I think to myself, "Yeah right, John, sure it is".
Well, all the while he's turning the knob on the door, trying to get in but not really trying. It's like he's doing it out of nervousness.
I see him reaching into his pocket of his jacket and I think "Shit, I'm gonna have to shoot this guy" and I back off from the door quickly so I'm out of his line of fire if you know what I mean. I got my Glock up, pointing right at him and I see him flashing a drivers license.
So I cautiously go back to the door and have a quick look at it and sure as shit, his name is John Edward Peters.
Well, after that stunt I'm a bit nervous and stay back a bit. He keeps wanting me to come closer and talk to him but no way, I don't trust the guy.
I just keep telling him that I called 911 and the police are on their way. About a minute goes by and I hear "FREEZE! PUT YOUR HANDS ON YOUR HEAD!".
The guy starts saying "I'm the one who had him call you". The cop of course don't care and keeps telling him, "PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR".
I see the guy with his hand in the air and see him walk down the steps by the back door. The cop has him back up to him and he cuffs him, brings him to the squad and puts him in.
I go talk to one of the cops, tell him what happened, he says "This just doesn't sound right". We go in the back yard and he's looking for any dropped weapons or drugs or anything.
The cop asks to see my ID, which I go get, he takes my info down and says "I'll be back after I figure out what's going on".
Well, two more squads come up and they talk for about 15 minutes, then they leave.
The cop never came back. They just left!
What do you all think of that?
Sounds like dude was straight trippin on acid.
When you were looking at his license, I don't suppose you noticed if he really did live on your block? I did a quick search and there is a John Edward Peters in St. Paul, though I can't quite recall where you live and it doesn't give his address either.
Otherwise, you're right, it is strange. If he was on drugs or a criminal, it seems odd that he would show you his license and not run at the prospect of the cops approaching. But if he was really being chased, it seems odd he would stay in one place for so long, though you do say he kept wanting to come inside. As for the cops, sometimes they get busy and don't have time to go back and inform people about what was going on. Maybe there are some police records publicly available you can check into.
Put Me2 on the case. She loves to solve a mystery.
And speaking of Me2, I hope that's not the sort of theology you were hoping to discuss up north.
Very unusual, THX.