First day back in the office in a couple of weeks, and I already have maskne popping up. Grrr!!!!
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First day back in the office in a couple of weeks, and I already have maskne popping up. Grrr!!!!
I spent a summer there one week. I remember enjoying the results of the shrimping. Next family vacation was at Nags Head the following summer and then we moved to Arizona.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
Lol, probably recognized my shameless pandering for votes.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
The local grocery store chain has tied chocolate chips coupons to mixes for pancake and waffles. Their algorithm has figured me out.
Rainy day here. Kind of nice.
Can't spork or I would have.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
Muppet content always gets sporks from me.
I look remarkably like the Sam the Eagle according to at least one friend. He doesn't mean it as a compliment.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
I installed one. The second was installed by our builder when we added the second floor. I also have a few light switches and a couple other modules in the system (insteon based).Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
It's a bit more hands-on to set up, but once going it's easy to work with - and not connected to any big company!
-jk
You're Matt Doherty?!Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
-jk
Heh, I was gonna make this joke too.Quote:
Originally Posted by -jk
The anti-take-out-sushi crowd will be horrified to learn I’m having the last few rolls at lunch.
My favorite UNC coach!Quote:
Originally Posted by -jk
You monster.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Look who's talking:Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV4F46N21PA
Sushi, karaoke - I feel assimilated
Any home brewed sweet tea experts here? Otherwise, I'll revert to the scenario I saw play out a Bojangles one day when I lived in Charlotte. An employee of the store took the 5 lbs bag of sugar and dumped it into the silver bullet and began stirring.
Beat me to the punch.Quote:
Originally Posted by -jk
One of my favorite stories about D'oh: I was at Duke grad school when he was coach, and I was meeting a tar heel friend (yeah, yeah,I know) for dinner. I was making a left onto Franklin St. and had to do it slowly because of pedestrians. The pedestrian directly before me? That's right, Coach Doherty. I gladly protected him by stopping in the intersection. He was a national treasure.
I believe that was during the 8-20 season. When I told my tar heel friend, he said I should have run him over.
Luzianne tea bags. Only Luzianne. Exactly 9 bags in a clear one-gallon jar (I use an old pickle jar). Not 8 bags, not 10 bags. 9 bags. Stir in sugar to taste (I like it on the light end so like 1/2 cup for a gallon of water). Set it in the sun until it turns the right color.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
I swear this technique is just *different.*
Oh no, another boxer? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by grad_devil
Don Meredith would not be happy! No sun today. I'll need to find a container that large.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
How can you get enough sugar to dissolve without some boiling water in recipe somewhere?Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
-jk
Someone(me) bumped the test button on the GFCI that the small refrigerator in the garage was plugged into. 🔌 Much gnashing of teeth ensued a few days later when the issue was discovered.
Gets plenty warm in that jar on a spring or summer day. I've never had any problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by -jk
I mix up unsweetened Kool-Aid with cold water all the time too (I use Stevia for that, but same idea).
I just got the promotion I was angling for at work. Now my enemies will pay.
I am not patient enough for the sun. I take a 1 quart pyrex cup and fill with cold water. Add three family-sized tea bags, yes Luzianne is good. Tetley is tasty as well. I also add either one peppermint herbal tea bag or several sprigs of fresh peppermint in season. Microwave for 5 minutes. While this is nuking, put your sugar in your pitcher (I do a third cup at most, less is needed with the peppermint) and add 2 cups of cold water. The sugar WILL dissolve. When the nuking stops, let it sit for a few more minutes to brew. Pour into pitcher. Pout two more cups of cold water over the tea bags and let sit a couple of minutes. Pout remainder into pitcher and squeeze all you can get out of the bags. I love strong tea, especially when you're going to dilute it over ice. Wa-la!
The. Absolute. Best.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
I only do sun tea in the summer (because that's the proper time to drink sweet tea), and it's never taken more than an hour or two.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
This should be illegal.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
Apparently you have missed the Word pronunciations that irk or perturb you? thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
This is a callback to a callback. Brilliant stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
It does also mean that I had barbecue beef sandwiches for lunch and will have pulled pork for dinner. This wasn't necessarily a bad outcome.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
you guys are really on your game. I doff my chapeau as I head to cocktails.
Dorf on golf.
It has been a while since I've watched it.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Same. And I'm not appreciably taller and it hit too close to home.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
I loved to watch Ian Woosnam out at the National. 5’ 4.5” and could smack the ball a country mile.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Woosie!Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
It's a woosie, it's a wassie!Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I did not chortle at this one. I actually snorted.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Where's weezie?Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
I assume it's funnier if you are taller than that guy.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
Stepped out for a wissie?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
You know what's funny? She was the person on the basketball threads whose comments I liked the most. So I like when she posts over here because I have followed her post for a decade.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
Watching the admissions scandal documentary. I had a side gig for one of the “elite” prep companies for a bit doing GMAT, GRE, and SAT. We were just a cut below the main dude in the documentary in a lot of ways. The best of the best tutors used to fly all over the world to work with the scions of wealthy families for booku dollars.
I can't bring myself to watch that. The Drewsk got into Duke (and deserved his admission), but mostly, I refused to play the college admissions game (my kids refused too) and I feel like they suffered for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
My daughter got into UNC, Alabama, American and Auburn. She didn't get into Emory which was her numver 1 choice. She chose Alabama which is way less than in-state NC schools because she had a great ACT score.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
It's about what you'd expect. My parents really didn't have any clue how to play they game even if they'd wanted to on my behalf. You'll like this --- one of my Duke essays was about playing Tartuffe in high school and included the phrase, "...with hips thrust forward...".Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
As long as it didn't end with "...and you shake it all about." I assume you were good.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
What got me about the whole thing was the number of extremely wealthy lawyers involved that at one point said something like, "...now, I'm a lawyer, and this doesn't sound legit.." and then paid half a million to photoshop their kid's head on a water polo player's body anyway.
Nah, it ended with "...I approached the turkey."Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Ymo urged me to turn the other jowl.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Really? I thought he would have something like, "have you tried mowing it?"Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Reel or rotary?Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Roll Tide Roll. Love that campus, and very pleased that DaughterPK is very pleased.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Lastec WZ1000Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
I feel the same. My daughter loves it.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
Freshman, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Yep. Daughter PK?Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
Junior. Loves it. Lived in Riverside North (IIRC) Freshman year. Had a blast, thankfully did well. Joined a sorority, but inactive now because well they can’t do anything except pay dues.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
COVID is tough on all students, especially freshmen and seniors it seems to me. But we’re getting there. It all gets better.
Yes. This is hard on kids. My high school junior has not adjusted well. This has been so hard on him.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
SonPK is a HS junior too. Condolences. He would rather be dating and hanging out with friends than staying home. But he gets his first shot Saturday so better days are coming. Hope the same is true with your son.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I hope so. I'm not a worrier. I'm worried.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
That means you’re a good parent. But it’ll be fine. Growing is a process, and dealing with adversity is part of the process. Fits and starts, sometimes with setbacks. But everyone runs their own race.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Parenting, as best I can tell, is all about laying a good foundation then praying like hell that they come out the other side well. There is only so much you can control.
Have peace, have faith.
Thanks and yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
Spring is so great. I feel strongly that we should have one of these every year.
We are headed into early summer shortly, 85+ temps in the next couple of days. We’ve had heavy thunderstorms and hail the last couple of days.
Summer is my favoriteQuote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
I prefer the two weeks of spring we get sans hail storms.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
There’s something nice about all the seasons. Least favorite weather is cold rain. Ain’t nobody got time for that.
It's the worst. NW NC is the cold rain belt. We get a ton of 33-38 and rainy weather in the winter. Those are the worst.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Oh. I just left the dentist's office and the hygienist is a girl I had a May/December crush on in high school (she was a SMOKING HOT senior and I was a freshman). She was also my mom's favorite student...I was lucky enough to have both parents teach at my high school. So she came over to the house pretty frequently and was always around (which I fully supported). In front of the dentist today I came up with some brilliance: "So when you were 17 and I was 14 did you ever look at me and say 'I'm gonna stick my fingers in that boy's mouth someday.' "?
Man, I hope she laughed. I have a dental assistant story. Guy made a very inappropriate joke mid-cleaning. I did not appreciate it and I can’t share what was said here. Last time at that dentist.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Are you an anti-Dentite?Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
And you wonder why people want to punch you?Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
She laughed and called me crazy. I get that a lot. The dentist said: "You were 14. She had no idea who you were". Until we got to the end of your post I had assumed you were a dental assistant. I didn't see the end of your story coming. At all.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
I never wonder that. I'm always aware and think it's a reasonable response.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
Hah. No! My step brother is a dentist. Not so funny story there. The orthodontist that he recommended his patients to walked into one of the “to catch a predator “ houses. He found out while he was watching the show.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
Oh no!!!!!! If Chris Hanson is in the room when you walk in you have made a litany of poor choices culminating in that moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Yeesh!Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Yeah. The orthodontist actually owned the practice with his wife. It was a whole thing as you can imagine. Step brother felt sick to his stomach also as you can imagine.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I could see how that could impact a marriage.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
The layers, so many layers.
Cake? Biscuit? Not cold there so not talking about clothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Onions?Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
Of regulation I work with.
Thought maybe you had just come inside from cross country skiing in Lapland. That would have been a suitable exclamation for that, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
My job is weird. We have rules and regulations and I have to get people to ask me stuff in such a way that I can answer "off label". A fun little Pas de deux, if you will. A phrase I know the meaning of but stand no chance at pronouncing, by the way.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
I think it is pronounced “pass de duck” from the French children’s game of passing ducklings between children. But that may be a canard.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Luke canard?Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
Is that why they do it in Swan Lake?Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
(Math symbol lady meme)
Roast beef all gone, :(
Kenny Dennard?Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Marvin Benard?Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Tommy Tutone?Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
Close! We were looking for Marvin Bad News BarnesQuote:
Originally Posted by wilson
So, what did he win?Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
The jelly of the month club! The gift that keeps on giving!Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
And I almost added a peanut butter comment that would have drawn the ire of a large swath of this coterie. And I didn't. Look at me growing as a person.
Smooth is better than crunchy.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Fight me.
But don't tell my wife I said that. ;)
Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
I was wondering when someone was going to throw down the "Fight me" gauntlet again.
Two important things to note here though. Most of you disagree that smooth is better, but we've all seen that picture and I don't think anybody wants a piece of Wilson.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Adding fuel to the fire, I just smeared CRUNCHY pb on a Lindt 85% bar.
Irking and perturbing all kinds this afternoon!
Sausage biscuits for the fam. Omelet for me.
Beer for my horses, water for my men.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Cars go vroom. Especially F1. Gladiators, man. Those drivers are gladiators.
Makes me feel less manly watching this eating my pile of pasta. Really though, I’m glad I’m not that risk seeking.
Most prestigious brand in the world? Ferrari hands down for me.
I am completely unaware of this information.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Which bit?Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
All. Cars. Racing. F1.
I think they’re vroom vroom and I can change a tire.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Ha! Ok. Same.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Some of them are very pretty. Like ferraris. I’d be very nervous driving one and think that, like a horse sensing an unconfident rider, it would eject me.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Ferrari is doing a lot of brand extensions(clothing, etc.) that I think could dilute the brand.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
I guess I'm the only one watching Lax?
Yeah. They didn’t do that for a long time.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
When I lived in Atlanta, I knew the person who negotiated the UPS sponsorship of Ferrari. She said the Italians nearly lost the deal, which was worth tens of millions, because they kept sending everything FedEx.
We sang tonight! A portion of the choir recording music this evening for some upcoming worship services. It was wonderful to be singing as a group for the first time in over a year.
Awesomeness!Quote:
Originally Posted by DukieInKansas
They must have negotiated a good shipping rate with FedEx.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
The tines they are a-changin'?Quote:
Originally Posted by DukieInKansas
It was a good game.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
As you can imagine, part of the terms of the deal was that anything related to the sponsorship would be shipped UPS. The Italians took it as a loose suggestion.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Stick a fork in it...Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
-jk
And then nom nom nom.Quote:
Originally Posted by -jk
Quote:
Originally Posted by -jk
Some typos are better than others.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
I have been watching the World Figure Skating Championships. They are in Stockholm this year. A couple of years ago I made tentative plans with a friend to go to them this year. :(
Hopefully not through the Suez Canal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
I was at church so didn't get to see it. I read the score updates in the Lax thread - probably a lot easier on my heart than watching it would have been.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Yeah, though what I saw was reminiscent of years past, where they got out to a big lead only to go through a long scoring drought and then finally pull it out at the end.Quote:
Originally Posted by DukieInKansas
Anyone else kind of like thunderstorms?
Some crazy pictures of that.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Seems like a situation.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
How Yellow My Pollen
(A personal memoir in three stanzas)
How yellow my pollen
How yellow my sky
How yellow my Honda
It makes me ask, why?
Why send me this Hell-stuff
That stuffs up my nose?
That makes me feel ill
From my scalp to my toes?
But I hear no answer
Though listen I try;
So yellow my pollen
So yellow my sky
— OPK, 2019
I shamefully forgot all about it. When I was reminded, there were 4.4 seconds left, good guys up by one. I would have been stressed out watching that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Reminds me of some gastrointestinal issues I’ve had.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Well you know how much I love poetry so thanks for sharing this. I am assuming we will meet in the relatively near future, and when we do, you will see I have a big nose. Not Cyrano de Bergerac big, but big enough for that play to hit home (as I lost weight a friend of mine from college said it looked like the rest of me was backing away from my nose...that was a great cut down). So pollen causes real problems with me. But winter straight up sucks so much. So I welcome the runny nose, even if a runny nose for me could lead to real dehydration issues.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
I do.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Luckily one woke me up last night and I had missed a call about a sick kid like 3 minutes earlier. Thunderstorms...is there anything they can't do?Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Too many pines?Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
https://nsjonline.com/article/2021/0...tenure-at-unc/
This is a surprisingly good article about D'oh(!)erty. While I enjoyed the 8-20 season ever so much, I recognize the role failure has played in my career. I was the keynote speaker at a graduation about 10 years ago (SUUUUUUPER weird sentence to type) and my topic was failure. Basic premise: if you never fail in medicine you are never actually doing anything.
For me, it’s more like “loving” thunderstorms. It prompted my then future ex-wife to comment that she wished that when I died it would happen during a thunderstorm. Little did I know that she meant sooner rather than later.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Some of this makes me think she meant that in a good way. Some of this makes me think she did not.Quote:
Originally Posted by TruBlu
Until the tree falls on my house. But, yes, I like them. I really missed them when I lived in LA for a couple years.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
-jk
love 'em when I'm not in 'em.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Got catching up to do, could not eat yesterday, wife and I both sick from The Corvid shot 2, in pursuit of Big Meat today.
Assumed Louisiana had lots of thunderstorms.Quote:
Originally Posted by -jk
friend of mine grew up in Santa Barbara, didn't know what thunderstorms were until he went to school in ChicagoQuote:
Originally Posted by -jk
Best thunderstorms are out west where you can watch them coming from miles away. Out East, they sneak up on you and unless you’ve got a vista, don’t have much of a show.
We had a hefty thunderstorm pass through overnight, which I mercifully slept through.
Sleep has not been going well lately.
Hog Butcher for the World,Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders:
-Carl Sandburg
This is my favorite description of any city in the history of ever. Every time I hear the city all the Chicago I think this.
Growing up in the hills we would hear them before we would see them, especially if I was out fishing with my buddies in the creek nearby.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
See, that's an interesting choice. I would have gone Humpty Hump and that tells us a lot. Mainly, that you're much more sophisticated than I am.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Well. Except I did once get busy in a Burger King bathroom.Quote:
Originally Posted by grad_devil
Do you also like your oatmeal lumpy?Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
That's crazy.
Do you have your own dance?
I use a word that don't mean nothing. Like "lupid."Quote:
Originally Posted by grad_devil
I can never spork you, MD, no matter how hard I try.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
This line made me - dare I say it - chortle. Audibly.
Ditto. I heard it rain hard, b/c of the metal roof, but I apparently slept through some major thunder boomers last night.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
Can a chortle be inaudible?
Digital Underground had some of the most amazing lyrics.Quote:
Originally Posted by grad_devil
As far as sporks - it's the thought that counts. Forward my sporks along to Humpty Hump. Or, alternatively, to Sir Nose, Devoid of Funk.
I am beginning to think I could pick ClemmonsDevil out of a crowd.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
I especially liked thunderstorms when I was in the Navy and out at sea. One of my radar spaces (7 decks above the water line) had an overhang at the entrance hatch. It made for great viewing. If the storm got too severe, I could merely step inside and close the hatch. Fortunately, I never got seasick, as the waves tended to increase during storms. (My ship survived 1 hurricane and 2 tropical storms.)Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
And Tupac was a backup singer. Lots to love.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
Short, bald, stocky, big nose.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
Very cool and whoa on the hurricane. Heck of an experience I’m sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by TruBlu
Except for the nose and the fact that you are from NC, I would think you were a former co-worker. He kept trying to fix me up with his brother. And this was right after telling me a story about his brother that involved digging at his rear end in public and an underwear "issue". So I asked him, "your brother is shorter, fatter, balder, and less refined than you - and you want me to go out with him?" He enthusiastically nodded yes. Didn't happen. The underwear story was the clincher.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
So my brother is 6'3", skinny and no evidence of prior broken noses. Handsome too. I hate that guy.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
So, you've been punched in the nose before? Pink boxing gloves involved?Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I love storms. Probably because the family used to watch them together. The lightning would outline all the leaves in the trees and, when it was over, you could stand along the curb with the water rushing down the street.
I was always TERRIFIED of storms when I was little. As in screaming and crying and hiding until they were over. Now, I would say I respect their power. I still get a little unnerved sometimes.
I broke my nose 3 times playing basketball. 8th grade, JV, and varsity. I'm elbow height for post players.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
Same here. Tornadoes are utterly terrifying.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
Whoa! Ain't nobody say nothing supportive of tornadoes. This seems like a breach of weather discussion etiquette.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
The Drewsk loves storms.
Some of my very best celebrations of meat have been at Gibson's in Chicago...they actually have their own USDA Prime designation...Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Meanwhile, Fancy Weather Radio just went off, official NWS Thunderstorm Watch, woo hoo!
We REALLY need to hang out.Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
drop by when the glacier fully recedes in May, meat and alcohol on the deck!Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Is the invitation open to all? I've never been to Vermont.Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
we would welcome you with open arms and fired up grills! You could do a lot worse than a summer visit to Vermont...temperate, lots of marvelous scenery, and a dining scene that is poised to rebound...Quote:
Originally Posted by DukieInKansas
Yeah, I was talking plain old thunderstorms. Tornados are a whole different ballgame. Still terrified of them along with hurricanes that can bring down one of my giant trees. We dodged a bullet last weekend and I hope to dodge another this Sunday. We are in a #2 risk so far. I have very little faith in weather forecasting anymore. I stick with what the Dopplar is showing at the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
Well, I mentioned tornadoes because they so frequently grow out of the powerful thunderstorms people were discussing. I like thunderstorms too, but I always carry the back-of-mind fear that a twister is coming next.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
These things are all true! I can vouch.Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
Paddies will graduate from UVM in May. Not that I can't go visit Vermont even when my kid isn't in Burlington, but having that reason to make the trip multiple times a year has been one of the things I've liked best about UVM. Maybe Arrow will go to UVM.
So what should lupid mean?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
-jk
only bad news is that our Covid cases have shot WAY up...once we had among the fewest cases per capita, now we're shooting up the list, today 283 cases which I think is a clear record...not good at all (but at least people aren't being hospitalized and dying in big numbers)...only 26 people in the hospital, four in the ICU, but still...ski area towns (so much for self quarantining) and college towns seem to be leading the way...Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
About 7 years ago I spoke in Burlington Vermont for the Vermont/New Hampshire Society for Respiratory Care annual symposium. I have a 50 minute lecture and the Red Sox have the game 5 of the division series starting in 40 minutes. I explained to them that they will detect a Southern accent that will be magnified the faster I speak. Someone in the audience said we don't care if you sound like that dude on King of the Hill, just get us to the game. I did and received Stellar remarks because of it. Some things are just more important than others.Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
https://youtu.be/TCa0Did0wMM
Boomhauer talking is how I sound fast and Boomhauer singing is a how I sound that a conference. It's still there, but you can make it out.
^ that's funny but not surprising...at least you all had a common goal...p.s. you won't have to worry about the Red Sox in the playoffs any time soon...
BOOM, first thunderstorm of 2021 is in the back yard right now...
"The girl with colitis goes by."
Lucy and this guy with diamonds.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
"'scuse me while I kiss this guy"Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
I dated a girl who thought "I'm not big on social graces" was "I'm not big on sausage gravy". She also thought it was Napoleon ice cream. Man I had a ton of game in Surry County. Ton of game.
we may have touched upon this a thousand pages ago or so, but is there ANYTHING more pathetic than Napoleon ice cream? The memory of a sinking heart when you'd approach the dessert table to find only the pathetic puddle of (inedible) strawberry ice cream, the vanilla and choco having been ravaged? They'd have done better to only fill the container two thirds full, no?Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
It's the equivalent of buying Bud Light or going to Chili's for your only meal out in a month. Just drink water and stay home.Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
exactly. No wonder the Brits handed Napoleon his butt at Waterloo, if that's the best ice cream he could come up with...Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Ha! We would go to my Grandma's and she would offer us ice cream. She ALWAYS had Neapolitan (I refuse to call it Napoleon, even in jest) and ALWAYS only the strawberry was left in the carton. She would eat every tiny scrap of chocolate and vanilla and leave the crap for us. AND GET MAD WHEN I SAID I DID NOT WANT ANY!!! And it was cheap stuff, like that "ice milk". Do they even sell that stuff anymore?Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
they sure do, a friend brought some to our house pre pandemic, and i've never let him live it down...it may have been Breyers...the very worst I remember was Sealtest, they made it "creamy" with some kind of gummy substance that wouldn't really melt, that kind of gave it away...Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
Pizza pizza and long hots.
Breyer's Mint Chocolate Chip is my favorite.
My toddler goes to bed about 6:30, my wife about 9:15 and me about 10:30. I call that hour and fifteen minutes my executive time and it is glorious.
Today's haircut did not go well.
Did you mow your own head?Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Social distancing beer and cigar night with my buddies. Smoked prime rib and Brussel sprouts.