Red-Handed Jill Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Today must be "Drive Like a Moron Day". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Cat Jenny Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 Hmm that's usually weekends... I hope to see ice boats this year on the lake Then a Drambuie and cider with a cinnamon stick :) Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.... Her reputation was her livelihood. I'm a pirate, love. By nature and by choice! My inner voice sometimes has an accent! My wont? A delicious rip in time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silkie McDonough Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 Today must be "Drive Like a Moron Day". "The Anti-destination League" they come out in force when you are in a hurry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Handed Jill Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 (edited) Yes, that does seem to happen. But yesterday was very unusual for the amount of people disregarding traffic signs, signals and right-of-ways, who just darted out into oncoming traffic or crossed into it, causing people to have to slam on their brakes to avoid broadsiding them. There was a noticeable increase in that behavior yesterday - it was unreal and very unnerving. Edited October 29, 2008 by Red-Handed Jill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silkie McDonough Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Hmmmmm... full moon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Cat Jenny Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 so many tings to do.......where DOES the time go? Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.... Her reputation was her livelihood. I'm a pirate, love. By nature and by choice! My inner voice sometimes has an accent! My wont? A delicious rip in time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matusalem Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 (edited) I'm saddend by the fact that there are people out there that have no respect for the past. These relics, such as this tombstone below are the only bridge between now and the past, was one of may that were desecrated in the common burial ground, in Newport, R.I. about a few yards from the grave of Governor Samuel Cranston, one of the infamous GAOP pirate sponsors himself. How infrequent do you find gems like this in modern America, and people treat them like empty beer cans. In this case, 64 year old Elisabeth Remmend who died in 1718: Edited November 3, 2008 by Matusalem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ransom Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Wow, Mission, you have a velociraptor in your back yard! That is just SO kewl!.................I want one. LOLDo you have pictures of it? Yeah, she's not exactly movie quality, but not bad for a home effort: http://www.markck.com/images/props/PROPS_raptor.htm She's in the back yard because...what the hell do you do with a 12' long fiberglassed velociraptor after the haunted house closes? Sorry it took me so long to get back to this thread, but that Velociraptor is just VERY kewl! I'm surprised you haven't had requests to make others. Oh, and Matusalem, your town is not the only place were idiots live. Our local paper did an article about an old, little-known cemetery, and the quarry where a lot of the tomestones were cut and carved, and where there were still some unfinished ones. Unfortunately, they also told where this little-known cemetery was. Within days, several of the tomestones had been broken up, tipped over, or smashed. Even the unfinished ones in the quarry. Bastards! ...schooners, islands, and maroons and buccaneers and buried gold... You can do everything right, strictly according to procedure, on the ocean, and it'll still kill you. But if you're a good navigator, a least you'll know where you were when you died.......From The Ship Killer by Justin Scott. "Well, that's just maddeningly unhelpful."....Captain Jack Sparrow Found in the Ruins — Unique Jewelry Found in the Ruins — Personal Blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mission Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Sorry it took me so long to get back to this thread, but that Velociraptor is just VERY kewl! I'm surprised you haven't had requests to make others. Thank you! Based on what I would have to charge just to break even, no one would buy one. (Seriously.) Mycroft: "My brother has the brain of a scientist or a philosopher, yet he elects to be a detective. What might we deduce about his heart?" John: "I don't know." Mycroft: "Neither do I. But initially he wanted to be a pirate." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 The majority of people are stupid! One can only hope that the ghosts of so many years ago will come back to haunt these idiots who have no respect for the dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackjohn Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 I'm saddend by the fact that there are people out there that have no respect for the past. These relics, such as this tombstone below are the only bridge between now and the past, was one of may that were desecrated in the common burial ground, in Newport, R.I. about a few yards from the grave of Governor Samuel Cranston, one of the infamous GAOP pirate sponsors himself. How infrequent do you find gems like this in modern America, and people treat them like empty beer cans. In this case, 64 year old Elisabeth Remmend who died in 1718: How very sad... I just don't get people who would do such a thing... I guess they don't have the same sense of awe that some of us get when setting foot in a graveyard... My Home on the Web The Pirate Brethren Gallery Dreams are the glue that holds reality together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackjohn Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 And just what will happen when Christine hits 10000 posts? Can the system handle it? (you go girl!) My Home on the Web The Pirate Brethren Gallery Dreams are the glue that holds reality together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Bottles Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 (edited) I'm saddend by the fact that there are people out there that have no respect for the past. These relics, such as this tombstone below are the only bridge between now and the past, was one of may that were desecrated in the common burial ground, in Newport, R.I. about a few yards from the grave of Governor Samuel Cranston, one of the infamous GAOP pirate sponsors himself. How infrequent do you find gems like this in modern America, and people treat them like empty beer cans. In this case, 64 year old Elisabeth Remmend who died in 1718: My first job with the Sturgeon Bay Department of Public Works was 'restoring' an abandoned city cemetary that housed many local Civil War veterans. According to the older guys on the work crew, the owner of the adjacent gravel pit pulled up all the tombstones except for two and used them to pave his patio in the late 70's. I guess he thought it was cool. He also used to drive his front loader through there as a shortcut to the road, and wound up crushing/collapsing most of the graves. We could see the low spots where the earth had settled into the depression left by the collapsed casket. Edited November 4, 2008 by Bloody Jack Madd "The time was when ships passing one another at sea backed their topsails and had a 'gam,' and on parting fired guns; but those good old days have gone. People have hardly time nowadays to speak even on the broad ocean, where news is news, and as for a salute of guns, they cannot afford the powder. There are no poetry-enshrined freighters on the sea now; it is a prosy life when we have no time to bid one another good morning." - Capt. Joshua Slocum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silkie McDonough Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 GAH! New company new health insurance ...I hate reading this junk. Oh well ...it's suppose to be better than our old plan so I shouldn't complain ...I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Cat Jenny Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 I need an airplane, a boat and an endless supply of funds..oh and a really cool hat and some chocolate Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.... Her reputation was her livelihood. I'm a pirate, love. By nature and by choice! My inner voice sometimes has an accent! My wont? A delicious rip in time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumba Rue Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 f***ing fustrated! Escrow still hasn't closed because paperwork is late....... Things packed ............ can't move.............. I think I'm gonna scream................ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ransom Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Why is it that the power always goes out right when you've just finished writing a post for a story thread, but haven't hit Post yet? Suddenly the computer screen goes black, the lights go out, and you have that sinking feeling, because you know the three paragraphs you just wrote are goners! Grrr..... ...schooners, islands, and maroons and buccaneers and buried gold... You can do everything right, strictly according to procedure, on the ocean, and it'll still kill you. But if you're a good navigator, a least you'll know where you were when you died.......From The Ship Killer by Justin Scott. "Well, that's just maddeningly unhelpful."....Captain Jack Sparrow Found in the Ruins — Unique Jewelry Found in the Ruins — Personal Blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hester Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 Ransom: Hit your computer over the head with an empty Pimm's bottle until it coughs up those paragraphs that it ate! Rumba: Same with your recalcitrant Escrow -- hit someone over the head with a Pimm's bottle until they close the deal! I used this tactic on the pseudo-suicidal nerd-boy, and it worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ransom Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 Pimm's, the beverage and weapon of choice... and it tastes so dang good! ...schooners, islands, and maroons and buccaneers and buried gold... You can do everything right, strictly according to procedure, on the ocean, and it'll still kill you. But if you're a good navigator, a least you'll know where you were when you died.......From The Ship Killer by Justin Scott. "Well, that's just maddeningly unhelpful."....Captain Jack Sparrow Found in the Ruins — Unique Jewelry Found in the Ruins — Personal Blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hester Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 Pimm's, the beverage and weapon of choice...and it tastes so dang good! Mr. H tells me we have quite a collection of empty Pimm's bottles in the cellar. I guess I should rename our cellar "the armoury" now. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Cat Jenny Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Make sure you open a bottle to christen it Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.... Her reputation was her livelihood. I'm a pirate, love. By nature and by choice! My inner voice sometimes has an accent! My wont? A delicious rip in time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hester Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Make sure you open a bottle to christen it Good thought, Jenny! It'll have to wait until next week, though. I've sworn off the sauce entirely this week, while I recuperate from some nasty stomach 'flu. I have a family obligation that I'm determined to keep this Saturday (since I had to postpone it from last weekend), and I don't wan't to have a relapse before then. So, it's just soup, juice, and peppermint tea for me for the next few days. After Saturday, however, it's 'bring on the booze' again! LOL [Hope that half-blenderful of margeritas in the freezer doesn't go stale before then!] In the meantime, I really need to find a way to improve my physical stamina and resistance to illness. Still fatigued all the time despite light therapy for self-diagnosed SAD and iron supplements for clinically diagnosed anaemia. Oh, sigh! I think I'll eventually have to give in and visit the doctor again, even though my symptoms are so vague as to be ludicrous. [Crap, with my luck, she'll tell me that it's just middle age!] But I'm getting bloody tired of always having to cancel out on social events due to a string of minor ailments this fall -- post-viral bronchitis, rebounding migraines, head cold, stomach 'flu... And I'm especially tired of having to explain why all the time -- I sound like a raging hypochondriac! On the up side: looks like we're gonna get a more progressive 'coalition' government up here in Canada! Bye-bye bully-boy Harper! Huzzah! And my copy of The Pretenders' Pirate Radio box set arrived in the mail yesterday. Early Xmas present to myself, and very 'energizing'. Might even inspire me to change out of my pyjamas into real clothes! Okay, well, time to go do something approximating 'useful'... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ransom Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 This just struck me as really funny. Considering the time of year it is, I'll probably get struck by lightning...but, heck, it's still funny. In His own image. ...schooners, islands, and maroons and buccaneers and buried gold... You can do everything right, strictly according to procedure, on the ocean, and it'll still kill you. But if you're a good navigator, a least you'll know where you were when you died.......From The Ship Killer by Justin Scott. "Well, that's just maddeningly unhelpful."....Captain Jack Sparrow Found in the Ruins — Unique Jewelry Found in the Ruins — Personal Blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hester Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 This should really be in the "I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night" thread, but I couldn't locate it. [Note to Stynky: the "Search" function on this new forum kinda stynks! LOL] Anyhow, the other night, I dreamt that I was a music journalist and I travelled to Sweden to interview this really cool reclusive married couple (who I guess were musicians). I arrived with an entourage, and we had to take our snowboots off in the hallway before we went inside their house. It turned into a great party. The male reclusive musician was tall & thin and wearing a lime-green sweater and he kept flirting (very subtly) with me. For some reason, I awoke from this dream feeling quite relaxed & happy. Sweden seems like a nice place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Hand Posted December 23, 2008 Author Share Posted December 23, 2008 Check this guys ..... eergh... projects out.... He's having way too much fun...... the alternate history theme park where dinosaurs fought in the civil war... http://io9.com/5084491/the-alternate-histo...n-the-civil-war or Foamhenge http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/9209 Professor Cline's Haunted Monster Museum & Dark Maze http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/9210 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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