‘’Ya just gotta luv those scruffians doin' their weekend duty at our HQ’’

That’s why they are here, A. Mariner! We’ll be converting them yet

‘’A clean house is a sign of no WRT’’ (thanks, pomom. Another excuse for my {cluttered} excuse box. My favorite saying is on a magnet a friend gave to me long before the availability of lucianne.com. It reads ‘Dull women have immaculate homes’)

Okay, I’ve never really done this kind of thing before, but here goes:

My teen son suggests

(A HREF=http-rest of link address)www.bored.com(/a)

If that doesn’t work, just go to www.bored.com

And since I have been reminded of Lucianne’s appearance on C-Span, I must insert a hearty ‘BRAVO!’ to our esteemed and benevolent provider of a good percentage of the worlds’ entertainment and information. Thank you, Miss Lucianne. Your appearance on C-Span was stunning and erudite! Your subjects adore you! We kiss your feet! Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera .... (lets not get slobber on the floor)

#1: I have the exact same magnet on my refrigerator. I stumbled on it by accident and have never been able to find another one for some friends who would like to have one.

FRENCH CORPORATION

You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows. You go to lunch. Life is good.


JAPANESE CORPORATION

You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. The cows learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains. Most are at the top of their class at Cow School.


GERMAN CORPORATION

You have two cows. You engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give excellent quality milk, and run a hundred mile an hour. Unfortunately, they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year.


ITALIAN CORPORATION

You have two cows but you don’t know where they are. While ambling around, looking for your cows, you see a beautiful woman. You break for lunch. Life is good.

Lone Star Daughter, I have heard variations on that cow joke that go through all the nations of the world--of course have lost it, but do you have more?

Bubble Wrap Fun

RUSSIAN CORPORATION

You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You have some more vodka. You count them again and learn you have forty two cows. You count them again and learn you have twelve cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka. You produce your tenth five-year plan in the last three months. The Russian Mafia shows up and takes over however many cows you really have.


FLORIDA CORPORATION

You have a black cow and a brown cow. Everyone votes for the best looking one. Some of the people who like the brown cow best, vote for the black cow. Some people vote for both. Some people vote for neither. Some people can’t figure out how to vote at all.

Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state tell you which is the best looking cow.


NEW YORK CORPORATION

You have fifteen million cows. You have to choose which one will be the leader of the herd, so you pick some fat cow from Arkansas.


That's all I have, GPots. I've been posting it in segments due to the limit. The first part is on Thread #1 in two or three segments. The last one (New York) is, of course, the best one.

The bubblewrap is too pop-py...it needs to be more snap-py.

That said, I'm over here playing with it like an idiot.

Condor: Thread #1, #92 is hilarious. It's hard to sustain an alibi when the entire world knows you are a liar, except for Clinton supporters who undoubtedly would have believed Clinton.

Oh gee, I was too late to find this subtle substitute site for the WRT. Leave it to l dotters to find a way! I am off to play cards for the afternoon, specifically gin. Some funny sites mentioned, bookmarked so I can find them again. Lets try this again next weekend. How about it Miz L. Just let us ramble with no direction--as long as everyone is nice. Or----the alternative is, we all get a life!

Queenie, the chances of some of us getting a life between now and next weekend is somewhere between no way, no how, and, you've got to be kidding.


Here's a magnet from my refrigerator:

Dust Is A Protective Covering For Furniture.

The Ultimate Shortcut

We can't forget a favorite!!

pinchem

#10, I have one saying:

You May Touch My Dust, But Please Don't Write In It.

THIS is bored... I'm baking hot dog buns because my son picked up a regular ol' brand instead of buying them from the deli.

Worst yet, I'm probably as close to a gourmet cook and baker as one can be, but when asked, my husband chose hot dogs for SUPPER! His idea of gourmet is more than ketchup to put on the bun.

Yes, and here's another one:

I don't mind you writing your name in my dust, just put the date....

The following list of rules apply to each person as they enter Texas: Know them and learn them.

1. Pull your droopy pants up. You look like an idiot.

2. Let's get this straight, it's called a "gravel road" and I drive a pickup truck because I need to. No matter how slow you drive, you're going to get dust on your Lexus. Drive it or get out of the way.

3. They are pigs, cattle, and oil wells. That's what they smell like to you. They smell like money to us. Get over it. Don't like it? I-20 and I-10 go east and west, I-35 goes north and south. Pick one.

4. So you have a sixty-thousand dollar car. We're real impressed. We have quarter-million dollar cotton strippers that we drive three weeks a year.

5. So every person in every pickup waves. It's called being friendly. Try to understand the concept.


(In segments)

''If you want breakfast in bed...go sleep in the kitchen.''

There's just a bit of history in my house ... stuff from the 1980's, 1970's, maybe some 1960's ...

I consider myself an archivist.

Ah-ha! Here's hoping this weekend bonus is a permanent fixture, and not something like Corzine's dumb idea of a payroll tax cut "holiday". Don't tease, please!
For one of my New Years resolutions I promised Himself that I will no longer portray him as a Bob Newhart clone. Too many people don't get the humor and it's sad to see them get so angry. No fair!

C'mon, c'mon, 'fess up! Any resolutions you're willing to share?

Write your name in MY dust--and I'll hand YOU a dust rag.

6. We all started hunting and fishing when we were four to nine years old. Yeah, we saw Bambi, too. We got over it.

7. If that cell phone rings while a bunch of doves are coming in, we will shoot it out of your hand. You better hope you don't have it up to your ear at the time.

8. Yeah, we eat catfish, carp, and crawdads. You really want sushi and caviar? It's available at the corner bait shop.

9. The "Opener" refers to the first day of deer season. It's a religious holiday held the closest Saturday to the first of November.

10. Any references to "corn fed" when talking about our women will get you jack-slapped by our women.

11. We open doors for women. That applies to everyone regardless of age.

12. No, there's no "Vegetarian Special" on the menu. Order steak. Order it rare. Or, you can order the Chef's Salad and pick off the two pounds of ham and turkey.

LSD, I love it, don't stop. You're on a roll, girl.

Corn fed! Bwahahahah

in these weird days of cloning, I'm so happy to see a WRT clone. And Miss Lucianne does NOT wear weird costumes and tie her hair into a topknot. As an aside, when I first saw the leader of the Raelians, I thought he dressed like Carol Burnett's Miss Starlett. Remember when she made the dress from the drapes and left the rod in?? Same shoulders as Rael.

New Year's resolutions?
Don't be so broke this year, pay off visa and bank OD. Stop buying unnecessary things.

At the Russian War College, a general is a guest lecturer.

One of the officers in the class begins by asking the first question,"Will we have to fight in a WWIII?"
"Yes, comrades, it looks like you will," answers the general.
"And who will be our enemy, Comrade General?" another officer asks.
"The likelihood is that it will be China."
The class is surprised, and finally one officer asks, "But Comrade General, we are 150 million people and they are about 1.5
billion. How can we possibly win?"
"Well," replies the general, "Think about it. In modern war, it is not the quantity, but the quality that is the key. For example, in the ME, 5 million Jews have been fighting against 100 million Arabs, and
the Jews have been the winners every time."
"But sir," asks the panicky officer, "Do we have enough Jews"?

Mstonto, the guy Rael and that thing disquised as a woman, I think Brigette's her name, are clones. Seems to me they could have found a better representative pair to clone, huh? Geez, those two are really fighting the uglies and losing.

13. When we fill out a table there are three main dishes: meats, vegetables and breads. We use three spices-salt, pepper and Tabasco sauce.

14. You bring "Coke" into my house it better be brown, wet, served over ice and plenty of it! You bring "Hooch" into my house it better have four legs, a tail, and have a nose for quail, dove, duck, teal, or pheasant. You bring "Mary Jane" to my house she better be cute, know how to shoot, drive a truck, and have long hair.

15. Yeah, we have sweet tea. It comes in a glass with two packets of sugar, some lemon, and a long spoon.

16. High School Football is as important here as the Lakers and the Knicks, and a dang site more fun to watch.


(One last edition comin' up)

THOMCAT That's too true!! If you're going to clone something to send to earth, why something that looks like those two!! It's like reincarnation -- did you ever hear of anyone who was a poor bum or ugly in a past life? nooo, always the King or Queen of something! ahaha!!

Havin' a slow day out there? Kinda gloomy and snowy here. This'll help:

http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/wilsdf/idiot.html

17. Yeah, we have golf courses. Don't hit in the water hazards, it spooks the fish.

18. Colleges? Try Texas A&M. They come out of there with an education and a love for God and country, and they still wave at passing pickups when they come home for the holidays.

19. We have more Navy, Army, Marines, and Air Force than any other state, so, Don't Mess With Texas. If you do it will get your butt kicked by the best!

20. Our military is only used as a back up. Per capita, each man, woman, and child owns at least two firearms and has taken a NRA Certified Shooter Education Course.

21. Also, remember what Governor Sam Houston once said, "Texas can make it without the United States, but the United States can't make it without Texas".

...you don't think we Texans might have an over-inflated sense of our importance, do you?

I'm so bored I'd get a tatoo if I had any skin tight enough to draw on.

28. That's simply not true. I began a past life as a poor dancing wench with flashing eyes, milk-like skin and ebony hair. (or was that ebony skin and milk-like hair???) Then I came to the attention of the king's favorite son. He swept me off my dancing feet and onto the broad back of his noble steed. We rode into the sunset and lived happily everafter. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

Pomom, what does #### censor? Something to do with adult beverages, I gather...but I can't figure what.

Okay here goes:
Chicken Cordon Bleu ala Allegra

Figure you get about 4 thin-sliced chicken per pound, okay? So this recipe is for four, but it's easy to expand.

1 lb thin-sliced chicken breasts
1/2 lb of good quality deli ham (like Boar's Head) or even some presuitto, if you are rich.
1/2 lb of Sweet Munchee cheese. NOT munster.
l lb white button mushrooms
2 jars Heinz chicken gravy or whatever you like.
2 c herb-seasoned breadcrumbs
3 eggs, whisked
1 c. flour
oil

Between sheets of plastic wrap, pound the chicken breasts down to about 1/4" thickness. Lay 1/2 slice of ham and 1/2 slice of cheese on the chicken and roll it up, using toothpicks to hold the ends together. Dredge the rolled chicken through the flour, then the egg, then the breadcrumbs. In a deep fryer or very deep frying pan fry the chicken breasts until golden brown all over - if using a frying pan, use at least 3" of oil.

Continued...

Mmmmm, LSD. That must be the first word of a tomatoie drink served with vodka, hot sauce, green beans and celery (if you like salad with your drink).

to continue, Ms Brigette may indeed be a cloning mix-up from my past life; she of the flashing hair, ebony teeth and milk-like eyes. A terrible experiment gone awry. My dancing wench past was much prettier and I got the prince. She got Rael....

Drain the chicken on absorbant paper towels.

While chicken is draining, slice up the onions and throw them into a large frying pan. Add the 2 jars of gravy, plus another 1/2 jar of either milk or water, used to clean out the jars. Allow the mushrooms to cook in the gravy, past the point where the mushrooms have released their fluid. Mushrooms will be brown and yummy. Add 1/2 c of white wine if you like and let it bubble for a minute or two (stirring) Throw a few slices of the sweet munchee cheese into the gravy and stir.

Lay chicken breasts in a small baking dish and heat in oven at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. Remove from oven, add 1 slice of the cheese on each breast, and a scant ladleful of grave on each breast, put back into oven until cheese melts.

Serve w/ the extra gravy on the side. This is really good when served on a bed of spinach. Glazed carrots, asparagus, stuffed artichokes also go well with this dish.

LSD Aaayup, Thomcat has it right. Over on P&F they won't let you use certain bad words, which I don't anyway. However, their word filter also is set up to replace certain regular words we use every day, such as Dick (Cheney) , and Bloody Mary.

That's my story and I'm stickin' with it.

Thank you, Allegra. This looks easiest enough for me to try it. But explain the cheese, please. Is this special to your region? I've never heard of the (brand? flavor?).

Thomcat - I'd never heard of Sweet Munchee cheese before I got to NY either, but I think you can get it at most delis. It has a very mild flavor like a milder Munster.

I make mine with a good swiss cheese, but I'll look for this kind.

Has anyone posted this yet for a diversion?
http://www.ccfa.org/cdindex.htm
About halfway down are the rules for ''How to Be a Good Liberal'' It's a stitch.

Seeing as I live smack dab in the middle of I-35 . . . . I love it LSD, just love it.

I have a plaque hanging in my kitchen that says. "Housework makes you ugly."

Its a white cheese, I presume. Is it a Blue cheese perhaps, (consequently the Bleu in the name?) Will Havardi substitute for it, I see Pomom uses Swiss. Does it rearry matter much?

Lone Star Daughter: Yesterday I had my car washed. Two of the men attendants' pants were down below their hips. One could see the entire backside of their briefs. They were walking on the bottom of the pants. Someone commented that was the style. They were not as embarrassed as the customers.

Whoops!! Sorry...I meant to say while chicken is draining slice up the MUSHROOMS...I have no idea where the onions came from...there are no onions in this dish.

My bad.

On another note: My friends and I make a bet every new years re which 5 'famous' figures will die in the coming year.

My picks (and they keep proving me wrong):
Bob Hope
Katharine Hepburn
Gregory Peck
Strom Thurmond
Robert Byrd

Y'all have other ideas???

Gregory Peck is still alive??

Thomcat Swiss is the most used cheese in the simple version of this recipe. Allegra's sounds so yummy I wish I hadn't eaten that dang popcorn for lunch.

Allegra That's quite a list! I'll add Osama, (maybe moot), Saddam, and that Korean dictator who's starving his people. If Hitlery and Bubba ain't feelin' too well, I wouldn't mind that either. lol

Thom, I think a bleu cheese would be way too sharp for this - the name Cordon Bleu comes from the fact that the whole idea of ham/cheese rolled up in chicken was made at the Cordon Bleu restaurant in Paris.

I guess Munster would work as well as Sweet Munchee (yes it is a white cheese)...swiss is a tangy cheese, I know it's the classic cheese for the recipe, but there is something really smooth and mmmmm about this other cheese...don't know if it the swiss would be good in the gravy, it might get all gooey...

Allegra - thats a target rich subject.

I guess mine is a good as others. So I'll consider whats coming up.

1.Barbara Striesand will have a coronary when we knock off Saddam.
2.Saddam will not make it to '04.
3.Martin Sheen will go to his mother's Ireland and get food poisoning. How did he get a son named Emilio if he's Irish???
4.Bill Clinton will develope full blown aides and will leave mother earth.
5.Maddy Notsobright will gain 200 more pounds. Unable to travel to TV studios, she'll keel over from plugged arteries.

Allegra, you might like this website. Click on The Entries to see everyone's lists. Bob Hope was on 77 lists.

Holly what a fun site! I didn't even THINK of JPII or RRR...or Jerry Lewis...these folks might ALL depart!!!

Heard about this on talk radio: Bob Hope Tribute.

Julianne, I hope you weren't getting your car washed in Texas...

"Bloody" is a bad word?

I'm missing something (you know me, I'm usually missing something), so if there is an explanation, somebody please explain it to me.

Green beans in your Bloody Mary?

Thomcat, you need an afternoon out in the country, perhaps taking a nice drive in a Pink Cadillac...

Allegra - Where in Nevada 22 yrs ago?

I was in Nevada 22 yrs ago.

Las Vegas. Graduated Clark High School, class of 76.

I'm the pretty one in the yearbook! :-)

LSD, I'm so far back in the woods, I have to pole my pirogue twelve miles to Girdy's Quick Stop to get my coal oil for the lamps, swap pelts for drygoods, and fill the 5 gallon can for the Caddy.

Oh yeah, "I'm the pretty one in the yearbook!" Reminds me of me. :-)

Yes...well...it was the seventies, you know...we all had long hair, parted in the middle, we all eschewed make-up, except for the Mormon girls, because they wanted to get married.

Happily, I was not yet wearing glasses...

:-)

(In Sean Connery's brogue) "But of course you were" -

(In Trencavel's basso profundo) "and undoubtedly still are."

Got ten yrs on ya' - my Dad's retired out there. Lives up at Decatur & Smoke Ranch.

I was building things.

Thomcat It's not nice to tell stories like 'dat yeah Cher'.

ROLLING, I say, ROTFLMAO!!!

Well, Thomcat, I guess a drive in the country is out of the question.....

Oh, I feel so much better - others did not know what Sweet Munchie Cheese was either! Love cheeses and would hate to miss out on something good. The recipe sounds wonderful, Allegra. I have one similar with a Mexican flavor I will have to post sometime.

I don't remember...did I post about my liking of deep voices and especially of Connery's voice...

I guess I musta!

Decatur? I GREW UP driving up and down Decatur Blvd...then I'd go up Alta to get to my house. I remember a Fletcher Jones Chevrolet, a Der Weinerschnitzel, a shopping center with a big slide, a pinball arcade (my first kiss!)

What sorts of things were you building? Not those wretched strip malls??

Dear miss LSD, country driving is the only kind I know. I avoid ALLLLLL city driving. I only know country miles now.

things further north - NW of Indian Springs.

I honestly didn't know about Connery or bass voices.

Fletcher Jones is everywhere now and the weenershnitzel used to be there up until the last few years.

I don't know how long it's been since you've been there but, if it's more than five yrs you wouldn't recognize it.

Were you born there?

Howzat, Pinchem?

I have two badges I wear now and then.

1. "Don't Yell At Me, I'm Just A Volunteer!"


2. In reply to those pesky signs that state "Thank You For Not Smoking" my badge reads:

"I Smoke! Thank You For Not B*tchin!"


Sorry I haven't updated Pinchem's Stuff this weekend. Without the WRT my mood is similar to a woman on PMS waving a machete!

LSD...I have the most protected of furniture. Nothing could get through my dust.
My refer is boring. A calendar, old magnets and doctor business cards. I now put them on the side of the refer so no one can see them.
Thanks for all the fun sites to visit. My family is getting a lot of emails from me today. Where else could one get so many cyber gifts but on this L.dot site

Sorry to break this off without seeing your reply but 'muh wee Scottie' is informing me he wants another shot at the fox he was pursuing earlier in the day, so it's off to the woods for awhile before it gets dark.

I'll pick it up later.

-:T

Things further north...NW of Indian Springs...were you building Military stuff? Isn't Nellis AFB out there? Was born in NY, moved to LV at ten, out at twenty, couldn't stand it no mo'. Hated living there, landlocked and trapped in the air conditioning. I must have my beach and my books.

Yer wee scottie is chasing the fox??? NOOO!
Foxes are such dear beasties...let the fox alone, sez I!!!

The Washington Post publishes a yearly contest in which readers are
asked to supply ALTERNATE meanings for various words.
The following were some of this year's winning entries:

1. Coffee (n.), a person who is coughed upon.
2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent
6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absent mindedly
answer the door in your nightie.
7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle (n.), an olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. Flatulence (n.) the emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are
run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question in an exam.
12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified demeanor assumed by a
proctologist immediately before he examines you.
13. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddish
expressions.
14. Circumvent (n.), the opening in the front of boxer shorts.
15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), The belief that, when you die, your soul goes up
on the roof and gets stuck there.

Redneck Neighbor (thread #1, post 24) is the funniest thing I've read on the web in I don't know how long. I laughed so hard I cried. Reminds me a bit - just a bit - of my DH. He didn't get around to finishing the storage shed in the back yard before the weather turned cold - just the floor. But that didn't stop him. Got stuff piled up on it and covered in plastic. My poor neighbors.

Pinchem how mant times do I have to tell you it is NOT a machete!

A pal sent this to me: thought it would be interesting to get y'all's responses. Mine are in Italics:

If you could build a house anywhere, where would you live? Chesapeake Bay

What is your favorite place to unwind? On my bed with a book.

What song do you find yourself singing at odd moments? I am the very model of a modern major general...

What drives you absolutely nuts? Doublestandards

What is the most frightening thing you've ever endured? Miscarriage

Who would play you in the movie of your life? I'd LIKE it to be Elizabeth Taylor at age 25, but I guess it would be...Jeanine Garofalo...which isn't awful; she has a great smile!

Women: Derek Jeter or George Clooney? Jeter, babay!

Men: Jennifer Lopez or Catherine Zeta Jones?

Aside from your family and Ldot, what can you not live without? I cannot live without books

Wine or Whiskey? Whiskey, but very rarely.

Besides the Holy Book of your religion, what book made the biggest impression on you? The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris. I coulda written it.

OK.. I've made hot dog buns, scones and cinnamon rolls. What now?

Hubby is sick with the flu that I had from Christmas until New Year's.

Son #1 is sleeping while watching some darn football game.

Son #2 is at his friend's house watching the same darn football game.

I'm going positively batty! Thank goodness for some of these terrific sites you have posted. I'm at least giggling while going nuts.

For Pinchem

Of course, I would change my answer on #1 to read: A WEE COTTAGE IN THE WEST OF IRELAND...what WAS I thinking???

Embee, I'm all alone too. My hubby is flying on business (to Vegas, in fact) my #1 son is asleep and #2 son is at a friends. Thus, I lurk and chat here. Take my questionairre, why doncha? :-)

Must go. I have all the morning news shows on tape. I better get caught up before tomorrow morning when all the papers and Rush begin their day.

I did manage to sit through Stephie's interview with John Edwards. I notice he never said the word ''champion'' But, he sure was trying to be a better leader than President Bush.
An absolute downer of an interview.

Will return later to play ''ketchup''

Allegra Mine are in Caps.

If you could build a house anywhere, where would you live? SMOKEY MOUNTAINS

What is your favorite place to unwind? IN THE BACKYARD, PLAYING WITH MY DOGS

What song do you find yourself singing at odd moments? HIP SHAKIN' MAMA

What drives you absolutely nuts? LAZY PEOPLE

What is the most frightening thing you've ever endured? FINDING SOMEONE DEAD

Who would play you in the movie of your life? SALLY FIELD

Women: Derek Jeter or George Clooney? CLOONEY (with a lobotomy)

Men: Jennifer Lopez or Catherine Zeta Jones?

Aside from your family and Ldot, what can you not live without? THE HUMAN TOUCH

Wine or Whiskey? WHISKEY

Besides the Holy Book of your religion, what book made the biggest impression on you? THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE, Steven Covey

Fun!

build_house: Colorado, probably Crested Butte

favorite_to_unwind: unwind?! Santa Barbara, CA on the beach...

song_singing_at_odd_moments: Church songs - it's how I know I'm in *a good place* - I'll get "Here in this place a new light is streaming, now is the darkness vanished away" - et al. even Godspell songs - Prepare Ye.. (and, true confession, here: i'm not even a regular churchgoer these days)

drives_nuts: people who know not of what they speak (and don't have the good sense or sense of humility to know that this is the case)

most_frightening_thing: picking up a weird hitchhiker once, it was in my CO salad days, too young to know better but inherently smart enough to know when to _force_ the guy *out* of the car (thanks God!)

would_play_you: no question, Ali McGraw - when she was young

DJ_or_GC: ?, maybe neither..

JL_or_CZJ: I would prefer my man to prefer CZJ

cannot_live_without: nothing, I'm pretty used to making do with not much and I like it that way, ya know, lean and mean and all a that

wine_or_whiskey: both! and Jack Daniels and . . [gin when feeling courageous]

book_biggest_impression: read Codependent No More at an important time in my life...

Allegra, I love these questionaires!!

If you could build a house anywhere, where would you live? Cornwall, England

What is your favorite place to unwind? In my bed with a book and Fox News on TV.

What song do you find yourself singing at odd moments? Too many to list.
What drives you absolutely nuts? bad drivers

What is the most frightening thing you've ever endured? Hurricane Opal in the middle of the night

Who would play you in the movie of your life? Renee Zellweger, we look a lot alike.
Women: Derek Jeter or George Clooney? Derek Jeter!!!

Men: Jennifer Lopez or Catherine Zeta Jones?

Aside from your family and Ldot, what can you not live without? I cannot live without books or my faith.

Wine or Whiskey? wine
Besides the Holy Book of your religion, what book made the biggest impression on you? Left Behind by Jenkins and LaHaye...
it was fictional but was the best and most clear explanation of Christianity and the Rapture I have ever had.

I thought Clooney already had a lobotomy (rim-shot).

Manyata, LOL! Now...what are your answers!!!

Manyata SHOOTS, SHE SCORRRRES! lol
Now, give girl.

Very funny and true Manyata . . . . how are your parents? Recovering I hope.

hahahaha
My lips hurt from smiling at all of these posts!!
Blanket applause for everyone!!

Allegra, Allegra, Allegra, ((((sigh)))).
Goat cheese, goat cheese, goat cheese!!!!!
Come summer, I'll set you up. And I'll be able to buy proscuitto wholesale, hehe.

Thomcat, do you have oil lamps on your poling rig so you can be on the look-out at nite for channel pirates? And inquiring minds want to know if you have a Tammy stashed back in your bayou?
Friday, the FedEx guy called me...from the bottom of the hill. Said he couldn't get his truck past the creek. So I filled the brandy keg, hung it 'round old Willie's neck and sent the buckaroo down to retrieve my package. Wow, it's great to have a goat run errands for me.

Mea culpa, Caprine, I hang my head in shame for not thinking of goat cheese, and I imagine I will have to do LOTS of research on goat cheese to find just the right one! :-).

Your goats are actually trained to do errands? How great is that.

Okay... (shame-faced)

If you could build a house anywhere, where would you live? Carmel, California

What is your favorite place to unwind? In my backyard at dawn with a cup of coffee in hand

What song do you find yourself singing at odd moments? Hannity's radio show theme song "Let freedom ring...."

What drives you absolutely nuts? People who interrupt constantly when you're trying to make a point (okay I'll occasionally do it too, but I'll stop and apologize.)

What is the most frightening thing you've ever endured? Spinning out of control in my car on black ice. I looked and the car was going to spin into a three hundred foot drop; Called on Jesus and the car stopped cold, six inches from the drop.

Who would play you in the movie of your life? Singer Lauren Hill

Women: Derek Jeter or George Clooney? Well, Duh!

Men: Jennifer Lopez or Catherine Zeta Jones?

Aside from your family and Ldot, what can you not live without? Mental/Intellectual stimulation

Wine or Whiskey? Wine definitely

Besides the Holy Book of your religion, what book made the biggest impression on you? "The Road Less Traveled" by M. Scott Peck

Netwit...ok then what is it? (smile)

SayHey2U...ooohhh thank you. I love chiplet chockeys.


With some of the talk on here I was reminded of something.

Doctors were worried about my indulging in Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild Wild Women. Told me I'd better give it up.

So I gave up Whiskey!

If you could build a house anywhere, where would you live?
Cody, Wyoming

What is your favorite place to unwind?
Lucianne.com

What song do you find yourself singing at odd moments?
Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys...

What drives you absolutely nuts?
Bossy Thread Nannies

What is the most frightening thing you've ever endured?
Waiting for the authorities to catch up with Timothy Spencer

Who would play you in the movie of your life?
Patty Duke

Aside from your family and Ldot, what can you not live without?
Books, music and my friends/family

Wine or Whiskey?
Beer

Besides the Holy Book of your religion, what book made the biggest impression on you?
To Kill A Mockingbird

If you could build a house anywhere, where would you live? 10 MILES FROM TOWN, IN A ‘CAVE’ HOME

What is your favorite place to unwind? AT THE L-DOT-COM WRT!!

What song do you find yourself singing at odd moments? UNCHAINED MELODY

What drives you absolutely nuts? THE IDIOTS WHO USE PC DOUBLESPEAK

What is the most frightening thing you've ever endured? CHEMO, MASTECTOMY AND RADIATION

Who would play you in the movie of your life? GEENA DAVIS

Women: Derek Jeter or George Clooney? CLOONY

Men: Jennifer Lopez or Catherine Zeta Jones?

Aside from your family and Ldot, what can you not live without? I NEED THE NOISE OF TV OR TALK RADIO IN THE BACKGROUND

Wine or Whiskey? NEITHER, THEY MAKE ME SICK, although sometimes I wish I could indulge

Besides the Holy Book of your religion, what book made the biggest impression on you? THE ART OF SELFISHNESS by Dr. David Seabury, c 1930

A cute story about Derek Jeter and Dubya, from Bob Woodward.

In his book Bush at War, Woodward writes of the game at Yankee Stadium, right after 9/11 wherein Bush was going to throw out the first pitch. Bush went to the bullpen to loosen up and figure out how to throw while wearing a bullet-proof vest. Jeter said, "Mr. President, are you going to throw from the rubber or from the bottom of the mound?" (Rubber to catcher is 66 feet).

Bush: 'I thought I'd throw from the bottom; I wouldn't want to throw a wild pitch.'

Jeter: 'If you don't throw from the rubber they're going to boo you.'

Bush: 'With all that's going on, do you really think they'll boo me?'

Jeter: 'Yeah. It's New York.'

Bush: 'Well, then I guess I'd better throw from the rubber.'

As Bush was ready to be introduced, Jeter decided he didn't have enough pressure on him. He said, 'Don't forget, Mr. President, if you throw from the rubber, and the ball bounces, they're gonna boo you!'

:-) What a cutie.

Allegra (76) Favourite things:

Build House: Deep in rural Waikato
Unwinding place: In front of computer at home
Drives nuts: Waiting in queues
Most frightening: Nearly drowning at beach
Play me in movie: Who cares? As long as he's good-looking - LOL
Pick woman: Catherine Zeta
Can't live without: Guitar or Stereo
Pick drink: Wine
Book: Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch. NO, I'm not a feminist! But as a 15 year old it was the first book that really made me 'think' about social issues. I struggled to understand all of the ideas that seemed so new at the time, plus I learned a lot of new words. Even though years later, I would reject most of it as mere ideological fantasy, I can't think of a book since that so challenged, fascinated, amused and perplexed me. From then on, I learnt the value and importance of 'questioning authority' and dissident thought insofar as they can help develop independent thought.

If you could build a house anywhere, where would you live?
Desert Southwest -- New Mexico or Arizona

What is your favorite place to unwind?
K.C.'s Rec Room for a few drinks and games of pool.

What song do you find yourself singing at odd moments?
King of Fools by Dwight Yoakam

What drives you absolutely nuts?
Loud, exaggerated crunching and gulping sounds on food and drink commercials.

What is the most frightening thing you've ever endured?
Being held at gunpoint by a drunk.

Who would play you in the movie of your life?
Nicholas Cage.

Men: Jennifer Lopez or Catherine Zeta Jones?
Jennifer Lopez, hands down.

Aside from your family and Ldot, what can you not live without?
Music, music, music.

Wine or Whiskey?
Whiskey.

Besides the Holy Book of your religion, what book made the biggest impression on you?
Parliament of Whores, by P.J. O'Rourke

I think the answers on the 'book' question are interesting and often surprising. This is fun. Some of you folks have lived through some SCARY stuff.

And the 'who would play you' question is interesting, too...I would have pictured Sally Field as PoMom, and Geena Davis as Saguni, but the Lauren Hill surprised me - I pictured Manyata taller! :-)

Am waiting for some gentlemen to share, here...how about it gents??? Piripi surprised me a lot since I thought he was a girl! :-)

And of course...if any of you say that Derek Jeter (or a YOUNG Gregory Peck) would play you in the movies...I'll plotz...

Just a quick "thank you" to whomever posted the putt-putt golf game on Thread 1. It's a keeper!! My 6-year-old son and I are having a blast with it.

Allegra: Did you think I was a 'pretty' girl, though? - LOL

Manyata: Lauren Hill - sighhh! What an amazing voice!

If you could build a house anywhere, where would you live?
White Mtns of Arizona or foothills of the Sierra, CA

What is your favorite place to unwind?
Camp Daisy, CA

What song do you find yourself singing at odd moments?
Born to be Wild

What drives you absolutely nuts?
uncaring people who make a living at ''customer service

What is the most frightening thing you've ever endured?
having a hospitalized infant - totally helpless feeling

Who would play you in the movie of your life?
Anette Funicello - dead ringer when we were both in our salad days

Men: Jennifer Lopez or Catherine Zeta Jones?
mrtonto likes CZJ

Aside from your family and Ldot, what can you not live without?
books, books, books

Wine or Whiskey?
wine - a sonoma county zinfandel - west dry creek road - yum yum

Besides the Holy Book of your religion, what book made the biggest impression on you?
Windswept House, Malachy Martin

Magnets on my refrig: This house is maintained for the sole comfort of THE CAT.
And
Picture of Tweety Bird saying: Once a bad ol' puddy tat, Always a bad ol' puddy tat.

(How come only Pinchem gets cookies??:-(

englishleigh could you repost the url for that puttputt golf game? I coudn't find it in the thread and I know my younger son would love it. Thanks.

Awwww Willow. There's a fresh batch in the oven just for you.

I decided Pinchem needed some CHOCOLATE after what I read what he wrote earlier...

Sorry I haven't updated Pinchem's Stuff this weekend. Without the WRT my mood is similar to a woman on PMS waving a machete!

Trying to post a link for the first time. Let's see if I can do it.

Putt-Putt Golf

got your back, 104

thanks, leigh and eliza...I don't know how to post links, either.

If you could build a house anywhere, where would you live?
Islamorada, Florida

What is your favorite place to unwind? Lucianne.com, of course

What song do you find yourself singing at odd moments? ''I Will Change Your Name''


What drives you absolutely nuts? When my kids try to lie to me.

What is the most frightening thing you've ever endured? Mom calling me at work crying, saying, ''Come home quickly! Something happened to Daddy!''

Who would play you in the movie of your life? Marisa Tomei

Women: Derek Jeter or George Clooney: Derek Jeter, after reading that funny story about him. George Clooney, only if *I* had a lobotomy!

Aside from your family and Ldot, what can you not live without? Art supplies.

Wine or Whiskey? Neither.

Besides the Holy Book of your religion, what book made the biggest impression on you? ''Little Women'' I was Jo and my sister was whiney Amy.

Cute questionnaire, Allegra!

Thank you, Eliza, I even had the instructions on how to post a link and couldn't do it. Duuuuuuuh!! Thanks also to whoever posted those instructions last night!!

Kewl! This game is alright! The tap and the ball going into the cup has a very realistic, satisfying sound.

Magnets seen on my fridge:

Don't Criticize The Coffee - You May Be Old And Weak Yourself Someday

Middle Age Is When You Choose Your Cereal For The Fiber, Not The Toy

I want it all and I want it delivered.

To A Friend's House, The Road Is Short
Happy Birthday tomorrow to Lawsy0

Here's the link for the Minature Golf: Alabama1 sent me the instructions, but I'm such a klutz trying to post links, I always think I'm gonna shut the site down or blow up the computer (well that's exaggeration) but I just know I'll mess something up, so I just post the url. Here it is:

How about some minature golf:

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~pyang/flash/miniputt.swf

CEP I am like you. What I need is for someone to actually lay it out, SHOW ME what one would write for an actual link, without extra parenthesis, etc...because then I never know what I should leave in or out. I am technologically challanged.

Allegra, all..

ya know what the easiest way to learn how to link is?

Go to this thread.

Click on your browser "View" - this will result in a pull-down menu, select "Source." [I directed you to another thread b/c to view source on this thread would be TOO big].

Then, a notepad file should pop up, look thru that until you find comment #5 (my comment, you'll see my name surrounded by some other stuff).

Then, you can see from that link where I linked to an outside web site and exactly what HTML stuff I used to do this (and compare it to what shows up on that thread to see how you name the link you created).

Please let me know if it's still not clear after this, but sometimes a real, live, working example is the best way to learn. GL

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LawsyO (tomorrow)
& Pinchem, too (for the 12th)

Ahmanatryit....let me think...what's a good thing to link to???

Try going Pax(where my pal is)

Good night everyone. This was a lot of fun, and I thank Amy et al for the respite from the BORING newsday, the flu, the kids, and the post Christmas hate shopping lethargy.

God bless you all!

Mary

Allegra, that's just about right, except that instead of the site being *.html, it should be *.com, right?

So, the only thing you need to change is what appears AFTER "http://www.abbeyofreginalaudis." FROM "html" TO "com" or "net" or whatever.

Happy Birthday lawsy and pinchem and where are your answers to the questions? :-)

let's try this again:
goodfudgehere

Since not many men have posted their answers to those questions, here's my DH's

If you could build a house anywhere, where would you live? ON A FARM

What is your favorite place to unwind? ON MY HARLEY

What song do you find yourself singing at odd moments? BODY AND SOUL

What drives you absolutely nuts? DUMBF**K DRIVERS IN OKLAHOMA

What is the most frightening thing you've ever endured? GETTING CAUGHT IN A CONVENIENCE STORE DURING THE RODNAY KING RIOTS, HIDING FROM LOOTERS

Who would play you in the movie of your life? TOM HANKS

Women: Derek Jeter or George Clooney?

Men: Jennifer Lopez or Catherine Zeta Jones? LOPEZ

Aside from your family and Ldot, what can you not live without? FOOD, WATER AND MUSIC

Wine or Whiskey? WINE

Besides the Holy Book of your religion, what book made the biggest impression on you? SAVED BY THE LIGHT by Danion Brinkley

eliza_d: Do you know how to make links that open up a completely new window, and still leave the original page you linked from, open?

The usual method, i.e.

(a href=blah blah)Text(/a)

creates links that 'close' the page you are currently reading, just like the 'must read' links on the Lcom homepage. But other links - such as the 'Original Article' type links - open an extra window. Do you know the HTML code for those other links?
Do you understand what I'm babbling about? Anyone....?

Hope My mom is fine. She did have cancer but the docs think they got it all and early. Thanks for remembering.

My stepdad shaved my mom's head when her hair started falling out after chemo. He then shaved his own head. They look so cute.

My father is coming to the states for treatment.

My favorite commercial site:

http://www.zapps.com


where they make one fine potato chip

How about some minature golf:

A HREF=http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~pyang/flash/miniputt.swf

Okay, I have a confession to make, I'm Polish and it takes me some time to understand. {:-)

If someone is offended because I'm not being PC, the heck with ya, I'm Polish and Proud!!!!!! (plus I also tell Polish Jokes) So There!!!!

KEWL!!!!!

Eliza, THANK YOU!!! I feel so...so...ABLED!!!

Of course, that 18th hold defeats me everytime, but after this I can do anything!! :-)

Manyata, that's so nice of your dad to shave his head in solidarity. What a lot they're going thru.

Maybe this will make you feel better.

Heavy Sigh

http://

Ah, well...I guess I'm not THAT able...

I was going to post a pic of Derek Jeter blowing a bubble while making a play. I DO like how the boy blows bubbles as he plays.

Okay, Allegra, here you are:

If you could build a house anywhere, where would you live? HAVEN'T DECIDED YET...

What is your favorite place to unwind? IN FRONT OF THE COMPUTER

What song do you find yourself singing at odd moments? "IT'S A WORLD OF LAUGHTER, A WORLD OF TEARS..."

What drives you absolutely nuts? WOMEN DRESSED IN FORM-FITTING VELLOUR DRESSES AND CALF-LENGTH BOOTS

What is the most frightening thing you've ever endured? BEING ASSAULTED BY A GANG OF REDNECKS

Who would play you in the movie of your life? NO LIVING ACTOR

Women: Derek Jeter or George Clooney?

Men: Jennifer Lopez or Catherine Zeta Jones? CATHERINE

Aside from your family and Ldot, what can you not live without? THE COMPUTER

Wine or Whiskey? NEITHER - I DRINK BEER

Besides the Holy Book of your religion, what book made the biggest impression on you? THE COLLECTED WORKS OF J.R.R. TOLKIEN

Here is another try: Thank you all for your patience:


MinatureGolf



 

If you could build a house anywhere, where would you live? Costa del Sol and a brown or gray stone in Manhattan

What is your favorite place to unwind? On my computer

What song do you find yourself singing at odd moments? I get a kick out of you

What drives you absolutely nuts? really stupid people

What is the most frightening thing you've ever endured? my husband's death

Who would play you in the movie of your life? Jacqueline Bisset (just a bit younger than she is now)

Women: Derek Jeter or George Clooney? Neither! Maybe a young Gregory Peck!

Men: Jennifer Lopez or Catherine Zeta Jones?

Aside from your family and Ldot, what can you not live without? books and my computer

Wine or Whiskey? wine!

Besides the Holy Book of your religion, what book made the biggest impression on you? far too many to name, maybe Sophie's Choice by William Styron

Only for the fair Lady Allegra woudl I subject myself to this and what the hell is this deal with a 200 word limit!? As if inteeligent and articulate LDotters can discuss complex and demanding issues in pre-packaged snippets! What the hells' the reason for this? What happened while I was gone?

No matter - I drop my cowl - a little.


If you could build a house anywhere, where would you live? Glen lyon, Scotland. (Between Loch Rannoch to the north, the Tay to the South, Rannoch Moor to the west and Pitlochry to the east – ancestral Robertson clan territory.)

What is your favorite place to unwind? Floating on the Flambeau River in my canoe, with the wee Scottie in the bow, listening to the loons. When it’s froze up – sippin’ Laphroaig in front of the fire.

What song do you find yourself singing at odd moments? Lately? Two – ‘Don’t Fence Me In & Jackie Wilson’s ‘Higher & Higher’.

What drives you absolutely nuts? What, today, passes for ‘civilization’.

What is the most frightening thing you've ever endured? Helicopter crash.

I did it, I really did it, THANK YOU Alabama and Eliza. You have been so helpful. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. Allegra isn't this wonderful, we may one day throw off the stigma of being "Technically Challenged"

OK, I cannot win.

(1) piripi: yes, this can be done, it's very simple. To learn how, go to THREAD 1 of this "Weekend bonus" deal and click on "view source" then LOOK for dot66's post #24 or another. She does it this way. You can see what she adds in order to make it happen; it's really quite simple. Also, you can see how to imbed your e-mail address via clicking on "view source" on the L.com homepage using Amy Sheehan's brilliant example. [I think the exact instructions I was posting caused me the posting probs].

(2) Allegra: you da man er even better!! I'd recommend saving an example of how you did this in some notepad or otherwise file that you access daily, i.e. I have one I call "Today" that I plan my day-to-day life on and keep track of random stuff like this til I don't need to keep track of it any longer.

(3) CEP!!! Way to go, girl. It's all a matter of determination and will, all.

Whoo-Hah! Thanks, Allegra. I'll email that to my mom. It'll cheer her up too (hey, she's married, not dead).

Suddenly it's a little warm in here....

CEP!: A Pole who makes Polish jokes? Does that make you a self-loathing Pole or a self-joking Pole or just a Polester? ;-)

I, too, proudly have some Polish blood, but I am not technologically challenged! ;-P

Parte Deux - Part Duh!

Who would play you in the movie of your life? If I absolutely must answer this – Tom Berenger.

Men: Jennifer Lopez or Catherine Zeta Jones? Certainly neither of those prima donnas – you KNOW the answer to that one.

Aside from your family and Ldot, what can you not live without? A quest.

Wine or Whiskey? Laphroaig

Besides the Holy Book of your religion, what book made the biggest impression on you? Le Conte de Graal by Chretien de Troyes & Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach.

hoowah. was anyone besides us watching the Niners/Giants game??? Now THAT was football. Oh mymy. The biggest ''come from behind'' in playoff history. wow.

Yes! Mrs. T.

Thank you for re-bringing my attention back to that game. .


I am a New Yorker but I've been a 9ers fan for much, much longer! Yes. . .

I think the point spread I saw on this game was 3 and had the Giants winning so yay,yay,yay!

Joan Toast: I'm just someone who has learned a long time ago, not to take things too seriously. Also, some of my relatives, really do some stupid things.

CEP:

by way of reassurance, I was the one who in college lost an 8-page paper (for "Ethics and Animals" - great course, eh?) after trying to paginate it. . .

I've gone on to become a network engineer with some degree of technical proficiency. . so I, for one, certainly understand that the path to technical competence can be winding.

Eliza, I appreciate your help. (Ethics and Animals) now that is a course my daughter would just love. Her college major was Pre-Veterinary for 2 years, but decided on Nursing, graduates in May with her BSN.

Joan, I'm only 1/2 Polish, the other half is Prussian. It's just trying to figure at any given time which half is in charge }:-)

Can anyone tell me how to - or where to - save this minerature golf game so that I can waste hours upon countless hours playing it, when I should be slaughtering dust bunnies?

I'll be back in a while to check and see if I have an answer. Right now I have to go play another eighteen holes - maybe thirty six....

Ha! I see no one is obsessed with New Years resolutions. L.com must be full of perfect people!
Allegra, I was joking about goats running errands. Figured as long as Thomcat was going to pull out a tall tale (hey, Thomcat, get a new one!), a yankee fib was in order.
If you could build a house anywhere, where would you live?
Anywhere there is no Democrat governor, congressmen and senators.
What is your favorite place to unwind?
In the barn, snuggling my goats.
What song do you find yourself singing at odd moments?
Amazing Grace
What drives you absolutely nuts?
Refuse to say. Then y'all will do it!
What is the most frightening thing you've ever endured?
My ex.
Favorite new saying - I'm so angry my hair hurts! (thanks LSD!)

pomom, I'm thirsty.

Thanks eliza_ (135)

I see the missing 'target=_blank' thingey you have to add. Please excuse me while I try it out:

Totally irrelevant softball story

Fingers crossed

Eliza Thanks for the instructions on how to post a link to open in a new page. I never knew that.

Caprine - I have eschewed all manner of alcohol on Sunday due to the early wakeup call for work tomorrow. I completed my first week on the new (old) job and had a great time getting reaquainted with the A-10 guys and gals. Just driving in on the back gate road past the F-15's, A-10's, looking ahead at the F-18's gave me goosebumps. It's like a free airshow every day.

Yeeha! It worked! Thank you so much again E_D ! You've really made my day, I've been wondering how to do that for ages and ages.

Heehee.... I'm chuffed! :-D

Goatessa - I made a NY's resolution many years ago and have stuck with it and tha was never to make NY's resolutions. Works perfectly.

How much snow ya' got and howscome ya' didn't send us none.

Hmmmm?

Aw, Tren...yer just too sweet, man, to subject yerself to my queries, even though they pain ye. And Tom Berenger is on my list of manly-men-I-don't-mind-lookin'-at. It's too bad I understood so little of what you said. I'm afraid yer brain's a tad heavier than mine, lad. Likely broader, too.

;-)

The 200 word limit came about because a number of ldotters began eating band-width worse than you or I ever thought of doing, I think.

I won't even get into why we're having WRT difficulties...but this thread is sufficing nicely! Thanks, Lucianne!

Manyata...I think this is it.

http://jeter02mvp.tripod.com/Style/derek3.jpg

Don't understand?

'Splain, please.

you guys did it all on your own and whatsmore, you now know how to figure out the answer to "how did that poster do that special trick" on *any* thread. . simply click on "view source" and study what's different about their post and you are entirely, 100% good to go.

CEP, that's neat about your daughter; nursing is a terrific profession.

Tren...what is your quest, lad???

Caprine: I've made two n/y resolutions: to pray more and to spend less time at ldot indulging my mania.

First one is going 'ok', second one...failure...oh yeah...BIGTIME.

It's SNOWING over here!!! We're expecting 2-4 inches. I can't believe it! They've been off school for 15 days and now they might get a SNOWDAY???

Between Loch Rannoch...the Tay...Rannoch Moor...Pitlochry – ancestral Robertson clan territory.

WHERE???? Is this like...in the Highlands? Do you have a kilt? If you have a kilt, I'm in BIG trouble. (blush)

Floating on the Flambeau River
Ummm...wheredat?

sippin’ Laphroaig
I regret to say...HUH? Is this one of those heavy wines with the tannins?

helicopter crash
Yeah, you never did answer my question about what you were building up there...

A quest.
A Celt Don Quixote? How does that work...'To drrrrrream the imposhible drrrrrrream...to be willin' tah marrrch inta HELL fer a heavn'ly cuz ye cheese eatin' surrrrendah monkeeys!!'

Le Conte de Graal by Chretien de Troyes & Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach.

Errr...ehhhmmmm....I guess a bit too sophisticated for my humble self. Last night I read to my 6 & 7 year old neices -my favorite book - Where the Wild Things Are. I'm very good at doing the monster voices. Um...I guess that's not QUITE in the same league as that stuff in other languages that's prolly about quests...and um...unpronouncable wines??? :-) I'm blushing. Like an Irish rose'

The same quest those that instituted the system you have been reading about launched upon. To transmute and transcend - to be a better man, a better hu-man.

To reunite.

To seek.

My turn!

If you could build a house anywhere, where would you live? *Some place with a water view

What is your favorite place to unwind? *In my bed with the TV clicker, a book and my laptop

What song do you find yourself singing at odd moments? *whatever I just heard on the radio driving to all my sales calls

What drives you absolutely nuts? telemarketers

What is the most frightening thing you've ever endured? *my family's current financial crises

Who would play you in the movie of your life? *Glenn Close when she was in Big Chill

Women: Derek Jeter or George Clooney? *George Clooney--have a soft spot for him because of Rosemary and because he is a local boy.

Men: Jennifer Lopez or Catherine Zeta Jones?

Aside from your family and Ldot, what can you not live without? *books and my needlepoint

Wine or Whiskey? *champagne

Besides the Holy Book of your religion, what book made the biggest impression on you? *Gone with the Wind--read the covers off of it as a girl.

Well, the joy is in the seeking, isn't it?

An honorable quest. For all of us.

I now see one big dif between this and the WRT. No one keeps this ''active''. I had it on a special screen, and somehow closed it. pooooor me. I had to scroll thru 4 complete pages of postings b4 I could get back. whew.

Damn this 200 word manacle!

You’d have to get a map of Scotland – Loch Rannoch is just south of Glen Coe & Ben Nevis, just north east of Stirling. The Tay is a river and Pitlochry a small, but very old and historical city.

I don’t have a kilt – I have two kilts, complete with tams, sporrins and dirks. Robertson Tartans, of course. Yes, the Highlands.

The Flambeau is a magical waterway that runs through the northwoods of north central Wisconsin. ‘Flambeau’ is French and would translate as ‘torch.’

Laphroaig – is the blood of life of the Scots – a single malt Scotch whiskey so ambrosiac as to be mystical. Distilled on the isle of Islay Wine!? Wine is for San Fransiscans.

helicopter crash – No that was in RVN, twice. And no, I didn’t answer the question.

A Celt Don Quixote? I’m flattered at the comparison. Cyrano de Brgerac or the Chevalier Mal Fit, maybe.

Le Conte de Graal by Chretien de Troyes & Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach. Grail Romances written in the 12 & 13nth centuries respectively. The first by a Gaul/Celt (de Troyes) the second by the German von Eschenbach.

Part DUH! Grrrrr!

Make that north west of Stirling.

I can think of no quality in a woman more appealing, more sweet or tender, than the tendency to blush.

Okey-dokey, lassie?

If you could build a house anywhere, where would you live?

IN THE KNOBS WITH LOTS OF TREES, HILLS, ROCKS, GARDEN SPACE, AND A CRICK (CREEK, FOR US DERNED YANKEES)

What is your favorite place to unwind?

ROT HEAH (RIGHT HERE)

What song do you find yourself singing at odd moments?

WHY THE LAST SONG I JUST HEARD, OF COURSE

What drives you absolutely nuts?

WAITING FOR INTERNET PAGES THAT ARE STUCK BECAUSE OF CHEAP TICKETS OR ORBITZ

OR

since I have to divide this in two

WORD LIMITS

(Next installment to come)

Mrs. T! - So nice to see you again. How're things out on Bablyon-by-the-Bay?

All well with you and yours I trust?

Aye, lad. I think I'd like Laphroaig too! :-)

MRS. TONTO: RE: trying to find the Roundtable..someone here once told me to create a shortcut for it and it would always be on your desktop, until you delete it of course. Just right click on the current roundtable and pick 'create shortcut'.

What is the most frightening thing you've ever endured?

A RELATIVE WHO WAS HIGH AND DRUNK WHOM WE TOOK IN FOR THE NIGHT. We didn’t know him very well and he was in our state for a visit, so we invited him for a home visit. BIG MISTAKE! Turns out he had a little, ahem, temper problem.

Who would play you in the movie of your life?

THE CHICK WHO PLAYED ‘ARWEN’ IN THE ‘LORD OF THE RINGS’ MOVIES

Aside from your family and Ldot, what can you not live without?

CHOCOLATE (My first theological crisis came about over this substance. I was in fifth grade and my very best friend asked me what I would do if God told me I had to stop eating chocolate in order to get into heaven.)

Wine or Whiskey?

WINE

Besides the Holy Book of your religion, what book made the biggest impression on you?

THE HOBBIT and LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY. CHRONICLES OF NARNIA COMES IN AT A CLOSE SECOND. RUNNERS UP: DANTE’S INFERNO, SCREWTAPES LETTERS. (Books are like Lay’s Potato Chips, you can’t devour just one)

Gpots and Pam...nice lists...I like the accents too..

but then...I'm a sucker for accents.

Kilts, too. One of the best afternoons of my life was spent at Jones Beach, during a Celtic festival, dancing myself silly with a bunch of lovely large firefighters in kilts...sigh.

Toooraa loooraa, loooora -

Night all & thanks for a pleasant evening.

That sound you hear is me dragging myself across the floor, hauling myself up to my keyboard .... and holding off tears. Messed up Netscape today, I know not how, and have had one bleep of a time getting back online. All bookmarks seem to be gone, but I backed up my addy book a while back so all is not lost. I am SO depressed....

But you have patched together a real Bonus of a thread... now if I can just get to the Jack Daniels and try to stay away from Codependent No More...

Refrigerator magnets: 'Please do NOT touch top of appliance. Important dust-settling measurement in progress' and 'I've always wanted to be NORMAL but lately I've had a strong suspicion that this is it...'

So nice to be here!

Aw, eb...sorry you had such a lousy day!

G'night all...that thread about Jesus being a pothead just took it all out of me.

Pitlochry a small, but very old and historical city.

Wonderful memories of happy times in Scotland, particularly at Ardsheal House, a wonderful inn owned by shirttail relatives, and in Pitlochry, where I bought the most wonderful sheepskin coat on sale on the hottest day imaginable...

eb...I've actually got my toes nestled deeply into a sheepskin rug I bought in Ireland this summer...I am so glad I have it, it's FREEZING!! :-)

Just had an email from my twice a day email pal, relieved that it was 'just my computer'...afraid I'd run off with a millionaire. Now THAT'S funny...

Thank you, Allegra, for kind thoughts. I hope Amy will archive this thread. I need the laughs...

Allegra, it was about 80-something the day I bought the full length coat, hence the amazing markdown. By the next day the cold had returned and I was sleeping under it... Central heating is rare in Scotland...

Quickly before this closes out.

I have updated Pinchem's Stuff as of 5 Jan.

New Pictures on the Pictures,General page.

Added a new file on How to Insert Pictures and Links. Step by Step How to. Go to Files, then Inserts.

No new pics on Politics.

Enjoy.

Pinchem's Stuff

Allegra, what a great set of questions. You do have to ask them on another potential WRT.

No time to do it now, but I want to answer.

Afraid the clock will run out soon.

Me, too...

Night, all... (gosh, I just got here!)

Enjoyed the civil discourse and intellectual stimulation. G'night.

Igor go back to work now.
Thanks for the fun stuff.
Goodnight!

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