It's her "casting couch" ;)
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Have we reached the "Longest Thread Ever" yet??!!
Just wanted to add this to the thread.
I've been lurking here, but haven't posted anything in a while.
ArkieDukie, awesome poem.
Sue71 and DukePA, I have Jan 17 open, can I join ya'll?
DevilAlumna, a couch in your office? Jealous! And, you got to take a nap? Really jealous! Also, I had the first day back blues. Though that was tempered by the ickly blues losing Sunday while we walked all over the Hoakies.
Speaking of the icky blues loss. I was in the heart of icky blue country teaching high school kids at church, who happen to be icky blue fans, bless their hearts. While I was reveling in the loss, ironically to a Catholic school and I'm teaching Catholic high school students, I had to work on consoling a couple of the boys as they were devastated (I'm not exaggerating) that their team will not be undefeated this year. They just didn't get it that a loss can be a good thing or that it's best for their team to lose now than in March (even though I will love it when they lose in March, twice). Oh, my ride home was sweet despite being caught up in traffic from the game, especially with all the Duke basketball paraphernalia on my car. :D:D:D
Tilly - have you had your home inspection yet on the new house?
Had the home inspection last Wednesday, and a structural engineer looked at the house yesterday. I'm told that overall everything looks good for a house nearly 50 y/o, though a few things do need to be done. Will be turning in the repair request by the end of the week.
Sometimes I have to go back a page or two on the LTE to see where I left off. If I keep DBR up on the computer I can use the "new" button to read what has been posted since the last time I read a thread. If I close DBR, then I do have to go back and find where I left off.
Oh, and if I don't read or post after a period of time, I'm kicked off DBR. It only happens on my home computer, doesn't happen at work and doesn't happen on my dad's computer when I'm visiting my parents. -jk has tried to help me figure out the problem, but we never did figure it out, so I live with it. My home computer is the only computer in which I am not the only DBR member to log in, thus wonder if that could be the problem. Sometimes Moneypenny logs on. I'm kidding! My boyfriend is a DBR member and sometimes logs on when he's visiting.
Okay, by 'couch,' I mean 'futon that I've had since college.' It's actually really comfortable, and I get bored sitting at my computer desk all day. And at 7PM, most normal people are home. :rolleyes:
In my building at work, most employees have single offices, and a good half of those are decked out nearly like dorm rooms - decorations, personal carpets & furnitures, occasionally even a mini-fridge or other appliances. I think I need to invest in a space heater, as my office was so cold last night, I got a runny nose!
Good to see you back, Tilly! Way to 'help' those Tar Heel boys through their grief! :D :D
I'm at my work office now, on a call with a gang of lawyers discussing contracts for a transaction. Is gang the appropriate term, or should I say a gaggle of lawyers? :D
I hate the contract calls. I'm not a lawyer, I'm a numbers guy, and I have a hard time focusing on these calls. These guys must get some pleasure out of talking out loud. :eek:
Anybody have some focus factor?
This morning I saw the ShamWow guy hocking some more goods. It's a chopping thing to chop vegetables, nuts (he even said something like "you'll like my nuts". Thank God I wasn't drinking or eating anything as I would have snarfed it.). I was hoping I'd only have to see him in shamwow commercials. Sadly, I think he'll be around for a while, like Billy "I can only scream" Mays. :(
You must have money to burn. Please, Fish80, read these reviews before you buy it: http://www.infomercialratings.com/pr...hamwow_reviews. I am intrigued. But, after reading these reviews, decided not to throw my $20 away.
This guy's commercials are on espn2 every morning, thus he voice is ingrained in my head. AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The new button was missing for me. Then I discovered that I was logged out. Now I'm logged in and the new button reappeared.
I think my system did some kind of clean up that wiped out cookies or internet files and DBR didn't remember me any more. :mad:
BTW, where is everyone this afternoon?
I hope everyone had a great day. Mine was much better. I received an apology from certain head honchos. Don't mess with a woman about to have her first hot flash!! Especially if she's a Blue Devil Brunchgater :D
Thanks for the kind words of support. You guys are the best. I love my DBR family :)
This day just got really great for me. The Hogs beat Texas!!! :D :D :D
Booked a flight! :D:D:D
I'll be there 1/15 - 1/18. Party on! Game on!
Now just need a hotel... and car... back shortly!
Hmmm...everyone is going to see Heartbreak Hill, nice!
Another slow day here. Over 4 hours between posts. I'm heading out soon - this is my last post until after tonight's game.
I've started keeping a boring blog but I'm finding that I post inane thoughts there instead of here sometimes. Hmmm. Maybe I can do both.
Almost an hour and a half since the last post. Hmmm.
This is why the knitters will continue to kick our collective arse.
I tried posting it to my profile page but I can't seem to add it. I did blog right after Ronnie was diagnosed but I kind of want to leave that blog behind. That's the one listed on my profile page.
Very well, I'll post the link here but I'm warning you, it's boring!
http://dec21cafe.blogspot.com/
Figures a college professor would post that. Love you anyway Lavabe. :D:D:D
Ooo, that give me a topic idea. Who out there recycled a paper written in high school and turned it in in college. I did!!! I did add to the paper to make it longer and stronger. Got an A on it in college, whereas received a B in high school.
Where is everyone?
In snrub chat or at the game.
At this point, the game is over...
Continuing with our obsession of shamwow and the seller of shamwows, Vince, here is a tidbit I found about this out spoken fella, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Offer.
I saw this shamwow parody and had to share it with ya'll, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A9fmnAsgdg.
NSFW.
I'm back from the game. Devildeac and I enjoyed it immensely, preceded by dinner at Tyler's Tap Room. DD will post about the beers enjoyed in the Ymm Beer thread tomorrow or Friday.
3 hours between posts? And both were mine? Unacceptable. Step it up, insomniacs!
Well, my insomnia partner, Miles, hasn't been posting lately. Is all okay?
What's the deal with the frequent use of "snarf" in recent posts?
Please see the previous post (DA) for an example of its use.
My iTouch Scrabble game will not accept "snarf.":mad:
First pastrami, then snarf. What's the next OTB/LTE buzzword of the week?
Cheers,
Lavabe
Off-track betting...at least that is my submission.
My wife bought the shamwow and mailed it to her father. Too funny.
I love my yaktrax! We've had a bit of ice in CT the last 48 hours. This morning I took my puppy for a run on the ice. She has APD (all paw drive) and I have the yaktrax.
Run for fun on the cold cold ice! :D
I always thought "snarf" meant inhaling food, not exhaling it.
tr.v. snarfed, snarf·ing, snarfs Slang
To eat or drink rapidly or eagerly; devour: snarfed down some cookies.
[Probably sn(ort) + (sc)arf3.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
And "spew" is the reverse, e.g. "I spewed Dogfish 90-Minute IPA through my nose when I read Earljam's latest poll on nose hair."
Now I will go snarf some pastrami for lunch and clean up afterwards with a ShamWow...
You may be right. Right now I'm snarfing my can of Slim-Fast for lunch. I'd much rather be snarfing the pastrami, but having already done that the past couple of weeks, I'm now having the Slim-Fast.
Last night at Tyler's Pub (dinner with DD) they had the Dogfish 60-Minute IPA, 90-Minute IPA, and some brown ale "raisin" on special. I sampled each one and chose the brown ale. DD had a 1/2 pint of the 60-Minute and then a 1/2 pint of the brown ale. He'll review in more detail in the Ymm Beer thread. We got to keep the glasses the brews were served in.
Man does not live by Slim-Fast alone. :D
The judges will accept that definition.
However, I believe popular usage of Snarf is now equivalent to the top-rated definition on urbandictionary.com:
Quote:
snarf -
when one is eating and is provoked by something funny which causes them to laugh and expel said food out of nasal passages; may also come out of mouth. also applies to liquids.
dood i was eating my lunch at school and this chick said somethign hilarious and i totally snarfed sandwich all over the place
DA - are you safe from the flooding in the northwest?
LOVE Pastrami!! (especially at the Carnegie Deli in NYC).
But I ask (again, I think) what IS the longest thread ever? Have we reached it, surpassed it? Just curious.
I'm not sure it can be reached. Even if your post had put the thread over whatever mythological count there is for the longest thread ever, this post has now surpassed that. Therein lies the fun of the thread. :D
I'm Joe Belmont - time for research.
1953 - 1956, from Philadelphia, PA, Career points - 1,338.
We're good, thanks for your concern - both home and work are on relatively high ground. :)
I went into Trader Joe's last night, and its bread and produce sections were completely barren - apparently, it hasn't been getting delivery trucks since the passes and now I-5 from Portland are closed. Good thing we have a seaport! :rolleyes:
Glad to know that you are on high and relatively dry land. If you need a care package - let us all know.
There is just lots of weird weather things going on. A friend's daughter was evacuated from her house in CO due to fire, my brother's place in NC is just a mile or so from the house that slid down the hill (with people in it), so I wasn't sure who else was experiencing weather hassles.
I hope all on the board are safe.
True that, but Oz, I don't think "snarfing" and "Slim-Fast" belong in the same sentence...
On the other hand, an event featuring all-you-can-eat-and-drink can be referred to a "snarf-n-barf".
Thanks for the tip re Ymm Beer - sounds like a good time. Perchance you were sampling Dogfish "Raison D'Etre"? It's one of my favorites; maybe I'll hunt down some of my own this weekend...
Pssst...don't tell that to any knitters.
Why?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVRfVEONxJQ
Don't ask me, I can't explain it.
Yes, that's it! It wasn't bad, but truth be known, I'd rather have had a Bud Light. Better drinkability, you understand :rolleyes:
Snarf-n-barf. Hmmm. Reminds me of the chow train we had in 1975, when we went to the Zoom Zoom Room in chapel hill (owned by the same guy that owned the Rat. The Zoom closed years ago, the Rat last year for failure to pay taxes - it was auctioned off, right down to the tables. We had a thread on it at the time.) We knew it was an "all you can eat" spaghetti night, that's why we went to begin with, but we didn't know it was also all the beer you could drink night too (an A-B rep was there promoting it). After eating three skillets of spag (no balls ;)) and drinking a couple of pitchers of beer, I felt like I was being rolled down the street to my car, much like the pep band members under the surf board surfing the Devil during Wipe Out on the Cameron floor. Didn't barf though; I'm not sure why. I didn't feel that stuffed again until the first time I went to the Carnegie Deli and finished a pastrami sandwich in one sitting (December 1999). Both of these events really happened. I have witnesses.
I didn't last much past a minute. They look like they could post 'til the cows came home.
Ah, one of the joys of living here... game on at 5pm. Can still watch my shows tonight. :)
Edit: I'm Jack Marin. First team, All-ACC 1965, 1966. Second team, AP All-American, 1966.
And here's one of the downsides... 5.0 earthquake just now.
Ok recently downgraded to a 4.5
Here's an interesting perspective on the flyover.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/allt..._pennstate.jpg
Ahh, its been awhile since I've felt an earthquake...
DA, Sue71, glad all a ya'll are okay considering everything going on out west (floods and earthquakes). Ready to move back east? :D
One of my co-workers had a party at her home last weekend in which my boss attended. My co-worker got a little drunk and started talking about "relations" in high school. The conversation turned to me and I was asked if I had "relations" in high school. I opted not to answer the question as that it was rather personal and nobody's business. My boss decided to ask my boyfriend and then tricked me into answering the question. My boss was not under the influence as she was the designated driver.
This has left me feeling a bit betrayed. As I have a tendency to overreact to things, I thought I'd throw this out to my "virtual" friends whom I know will call it like it is.
Nope, you didn't overreact. This time you should go with your gut. In fact, any time you have a "funny tummy feeling" about something, you should heed that internal warning.
Your boss had no business asking that question of you or anyone else, at a party, at work, drunk or sober.
I'm bored.
I'm going to the WBB game tonight. Ozzie, any chance I'll see you there?
Does anybody really know where they are at the current point in time? You generally know where you most recently have been. And you usually can make a pretty good guess at where you will be in the next nanosecond.
But at the precise current moment in time, who knows where they are?
Can SOMEONE PLEASE tell me if we've reached the "Longest Thread Ever?"
And yeah, I'm bored, procrastinating, etc. also.
But then again, there's always DBR. :)
Thanks Tilly. (duh... with love) just wanted to know. So...I'll keep posting inane comments until we reach Everest. XXOOOX
pastrami
shamwow
I never realized 30 seconds was so long.
I could state that the younger members of the board are faster posters, thus only need 30 secs between posts. But, then you'd throw pastrami at me. :D
Or, you could contact one of the lawyers on the board and see if you can get something out of DBR for said discrimination. :eek:
The DBR guy told me 30 seconds.
It's probably not an age thing. I'm one of the oldest posters. :D
Wasting time and procrastinating I can understand. How can anyone be bored when there is the wonder of the LTE to brighten a day?
If the LTE doesn't brighten your day, just hop on over to the PPB and watch people unsuccessfully try to change each other's minds.
I wonder how long I have to wait between posts?
I try to stay away from the P P Board. I get myself in trouble over there. :)
I just noticed that the moon is up and it's almost full. Does it appear bigger than usual this month? Last month it appeared the biggest it's been in about 14 years.
I think Ozzie has to wait 60 seconds because the board software knows that he always has profound and thought provoking things to write that takes more than 30 seconds to type. Thus, he really only has to wait 30 seconds if you take into consideration how long it takes to type deep thoughts.
Thank you!
Click the icon next to the quote button that is a quote and a plus sign. Once you've clicked that icon for all the quotes you want in a post, scroll down and click the "post reply" button. You'll be led to this screen (the one I'm writing in/on) and all the quotes will be there.
OOOOO - thank you for the lesson. I'm one step further from being a techno-idiot.
I'm going to assume you meant thick, not think. And yes, I have an ulterior motive - Ozzie is going to try to help me get Duke tickets for the Duke-KU game next fall. Ozzie is wonderful!
You asked for it.
Moon Song (I know, it's been a while)