Mexstan

Reading some of these posts makes me wonder if some of you guys ever grew up. Yeah, yeah, I know, boyz will be boyz and all that happens is that your toyz just get more expensive. Unless you still resort to shopping cart tricks?
Not 20 minutes ago my wife was growling at me because I was teaching my 2 year old grand son "bad" things. How come wives do not understand that the purpose of uncles and grandfathers are to teach the grandkids the fun things in life?

chaikwa

I can't ever see myself playing golf. Really, can you see me in those knee socks and the poofy little half short/half long plaid pant things? Oh, and the flat little hat with the pom pom on top too. Nope, neither can I.

I've had a few exploits in K-Mart when I was younger. Set all the alarm clocks to go off in 5 minute intervals once. That was fun to watch! Shot an arrow into a ceiling tile in the sporting goods department. They didn't like that at ALL!

I got the old fire chief at my department to retire early by sending various literature and free samples to his house; assisted living offers, adult diaper offers, mental health facilities, hair implant services, etc. After a few years of this he finally cracked!

EXCELLENT! The prayers will continue!

Evening all.

sherod

All the ways to play golf mentioned and no one brings up Red Neck Skeet? There is a good video of a guy jumping out with a shotgun on the driving range. Wish i knew how to post it. Give it a search.

FiverBob

HOT DOGGIES!!!!

Just got another quick note from Seattle. I posted the results in the prayer section. My kids are going home. I can hardly see my computer screen - - just a big baby, I know. This has been a long ordeal and I can see some daylight at the end of the tunnel. Still 1-1/2 year schedule to keep, but the worst part is over. Wow, am I relieved.

Thank you again for all your concern, prayers and support. It is not completely over, but the I think the worst is behind us. God is good.

Bob

Lary Ellis (Top)

Would you feel better if we let you wear the Hall Monitor vest again so you can write us up for running in the halls?


I know what you mean I got in trouble for teaching a 2 yr old how to spit and throw rocks....what she didn't understand is this is important stuff a boy needs to know

Lary Ellis (Top)

You wouldn't want to do that around here because 75% of the guys on the course would start shooting back

Mexstan

Nope. Never wore a Hall Monitor vest. Where I grew up we had prefects and I was more likely to be one of the guys that was written up.

I will go and tell my wife that Lary said that it was important for me to teach the younger generation things like spitting and throwing rocks. I know that this will make things better and that now she will understand.

Lary Ellis (Top)

I don't care if you are in the habit of lying to your wife but don't include me in it because I didn't say it was important for you to teach anything to anyone.

Red3quarter

I'm just helping everyone else enjoy the cold like I am here.


Evening DTR, not a bad day at work. Dragon is still peeing ice cubes.

Bad accident here today on I-94 in Michigan City IN, news was reporting 15 semis and 15 car/trucks in the pile up with 3 fatalities. From the pictures it looks very bad and rescue crews are going to be working into the night to clear the accident. Keep those involved and the rescue crews in your prayers tonight.

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local...241709461.html

Lary Ellis (Top)

Wow that's a bad one Matt.....this global warming stuff is getting old.

Red3quarter

On my local radio, they said it was a white out due to lake effect snow that was major factor in the accident happening. My aunt lives no far from that accident and she said they had over 12 inches of snow fall today.

Lary Ellis (Top)

One of the guys that works at the Hospital where my wife works said he was on the way home and he got into a whiteout that was suddenly so heavy it was black, he couldn't see anything.

He was on the interstate and slowed down and tried to get off the side of the road not knowing for sure where he was but he managed to find the gravel shoulder.

He said he sat there for about a 20 seconds when a semi blew past him sideways, jack knifed and luckily no one was hurt.

These are some bad storms and I fear this is only the beginning of what we will see in the future.

Bark

Was watching that on the news. Easy for me to say "why doesn't everybody stop when entering a white out" but I wasn't there.

Funny you should mention it. My parents were constantly pointing at each other and saying "He's not my kid!".
Ohh, just remembered the Smothers Brothers "Mom Always Liked You Best" routine.

Bob, that is great.

Not just fun. As Lary was saying a few weeks ago and again today, we are teaching them the important things in life.
Teaching them to properly fire a rubber band may save his family's life some day.

Its only because you don't have the LEGGS for it.

Wow, there are a lot of videos of people shooting golf ***** out there.

Made it to town and back.
Took an hour more than normal but found some 25-31 shrimp for $5 bucks a pound (very good price for here).
Guess what's for dinner!?. Sigh,,, No Scott, not hot dogs, try again.
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chaikwa

Not a baby at all Bob. The effect is the same here for me. Okay, maybe we're BOTH big babies, but I don't think so. I'd bet there will be more than just you and me having trouble seeing the screen when they read the news! I can't tell you how this whole ordeal has affected me. Maybe I'm just too emotional, (Scott the Emo?) I don't know why this has had the effect that it has on me; it's not MY family, heck, I've never even met these people and I've only met you and Mrs 5ver once, but it has made me stop in the middle of the day and wonder how she was doing, or how mom and dad were doing, or how YOU were doing. I'm not an overly religious person, but I've found myself talking to God more than I ever have. And I'll continue that, but more in the form of thanks instead of a request. What great news!

I agree! My cousin wasn't impressed when I taught his 8 year old the finer points of chewin' tobacco tho. Don't understand it.

That would only work for the people IN the whiteout. Eventually, there would be traffic back in the clear who'd be truckin' along at 70mph and all of a sudden there would be stopped traffic in front of them for no obvious reason. The result would be the same pile up, just a few miles sooner. Now if people actually paid attention, that might be a different story.

What makes you think I'd say 'hot dogs'? You just told us you bought shrimp. 'Hot dogs' doesn't even make sense! Jeez, gimme a little credit! I think I can figure out what you were having for supper, it ain't that complicated. You had peanut butter and jelly, didn'tya?




Another cold morning at 7 below and a steady 15mph wind. Gonna get a blizzard here later this morning lasting into tomorrow. Yay. I've altered the toilet seat to make it a bit more comfortable for you less-than-hardy people whose tushi's get cold easily. (You're welcome Lary!)





It is Friday, January 24th.

1848 - James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill in northern California. The discovery led to the gold rush of '49.

1908 - In England, the first Boy Scout troop was organized by Robert Baden-Powell.

1922 - Christian K. Nelson patented the Eskimo Pie.

1935 - Krueger Brewing Company placed the first canned beer on sale in Richmond, VA.

1943 - U.S. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill concluded a wartime conference in Casablanca, Morocco.

1965 - Winston Churchill died at the age of 90.

1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws that denied welfare benefits to people who had resided in a state for less than a year.

1978 - A nuclear-powered Soviet satellite plunged through Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated. The radioactive debris was scattered over parts of Canada's Northwest Territory.

1985 - Penny Harrington became the first woman police chief of a major city. She assumed the duties as head of the Portland, Oregon, force of 940 officers and staff.

1986 - The Voyager 2 space probe flew past Uranus. The probe came within 50,679 miles of the seventh planet of the solar system.

1989 - Ted Bundy, the confessed serial killer, was put to death in Florida's electric chair for the 1978 kidnap-murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach.

1995 - The prosecution gave its opening statement at the O.J. Simpson murder trial.

2001 - In Colorado Springs, CO, Patrick Murphy Jr. and Donald Newbury were taken into custody after a 5-minute phone interview was granted with a TV station. They were the remaining fugitives of the "Texas 7."

2002 - The U.S. Congress began a hearing on the collapse of Enron Corp.

2002 - John Walker Lindh appeared in court for the first time concerning the charges that he conspired to kill Americans abroad and aided terrorist groups. Lindh had been taken into custody by U.S. Marines in Afghanistan.

2003 - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security began operations under Tom Ridge.


Today's thought:
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

C0ffee & ph00 are ready. Yesterday's donuts are still here... you don't get new ones until you finish what's already here! (there are kids in China that would love to have those donuts!)

TOB&F today. Positive thought and prayer have paid off BIG TIME! Keep it up!

Mexstan

No, do not lie to my wife. OK, will keep you out of this. Happy now?

Had a great day yesterday. One of the things that made it so great was the news from Bob about Ianna and family. As Scott said, I have not met any any of them, but to have prayed for that situation and now hearing that our prayers are being answered makes for a great day and just affirms once again that prayer DOES work, particularly intercessionary prayer. Again and again in my life I have seen this work and every time it works, just makes me pray harder in the next situation.

Another thing that made for a great day was the weather. It was fantastic. My stepson and his fiancee left to go to Houston yesterday and they will be in for a shock once they hit the lousy weather there. I see that many of you are still being clobbered by old man winter. Will he ever quit? Was just reading about that pileup on the I-94. That is a bad one.

Y'all have a good one. Off to find a hot drink. Will pass on the breakroom offerings this morning.