Random Thoughts

[BriarRose Kildare]

Today I felt like a pyrate. I found several treasure troves in my cleaning today....wow, wonderful memories I did remember. What wonderful treasure I saw.

[Red Cat Jenny]

I'm thinking about Winter ..which is well spent in an Inn by the fire with fine company and a libation or two.

[Matusalem]

Sigh......all this talk on this board about about weapons that fire, and I have my sights on a good pistol kit. However....in NJ, the law requires a $100 fee for a handgun license, and a permit to buy a firearm, plus a training course. ....for a one-shot blackpowder pistol!!!....and a letter from president Bush saying I've been a good boy.

To make matters worse, I live behind the police station. ....and even my bb guns require firearms licenses....which I don't have. BB gun? Firearm? What??!!

GAOP was a way better era....there were no laws.

[Red Cat Jenny]

Ah the things we must endure..

I had to undergo a 10 year background check including FBI to get my job.

I was like "Hey! check my stamp ! (drops drawers in arrogance) I was born here..sheesh! "

The fingerprint lady was nice...she apologised sort of for the whole process. Hmph!

[Patrick Hand]

.in NJ, the law requires a $100 fee for a handgun license, and a permit to buy a firearm, plus a training course. ....for a one-shot blackpowder pistol!!!

So much for the Constitution.......

<my "Soapbox" monitor won't let me type anything else......... >

[Capt. Bo of the WTF co.]

Matusalem, I read in the paper today that New Hampshire is looking to get more Libertarian thinking people to move there...

I cannot believe how some states get away with that crap, but then again, with the appathy and ignorance of the "silent majority" any thing is possible.

Bo

[Matusalem]

Matusalem, I read in the paper today that New Hampshire is looking to get more Libertarian thinking people to move there... 

Yeah, well.....New Hampshire is aout 8 years too late. I was living in northern Massachusetts (Haverhill actually) for a couple of years, which is right on the state line with NH. Then I moved to Chicago, then New Jersey. It was very convenient to shop in NH on account that there is no sales tax. You drive down a country road and you see people firing firearms of all types, and nobody makes a gripe. You re-enter Massachusetts and the cops act like Nazis and gun owners are treated like criminals. I can only say two good things aout Massachusetts: the clam chowder, and the Red Sox. I am from the Ocean State of Rhode Island where the people are nothing like those from Massachusetts. Well, almost. Patrick Kennedy represents the district I'm from.

New Jersey is like Massachusetts....same corrupt socialist government, but with fewer asshole motorists.

[Capt. Bo of the WTF co.]

Well, if ya get tired of the coast, Missouri ain't too bad overall. Not everyone here is as bad as me!

Bo

[Lily Alexander]

It amazes me sometimes how much making other people happy brightens my own outlook.

The most recent example for me is my silly Halloween haunted yard display.  By the end of the evening, I, with my goofy ghosts and gravestones and schtick about being Victor Frankenstein in his laboratory, had made several hundred people laugh and scream and come away with a smile and a wow on their face, in addition to the obligatory candy.

It feels really...really...good. 

All the "thank-you's" and the "wow, this is the coolest house ever" are nice too, but just watching them have a good time was the best.  It's like the proverbial contact high.

Aye, you are so right Tom. I couldn't agree more. All the smiles, laughter, screams and wonderful memories being made, make it so worth while.

[Patrick Hand]

Ain't it so much fun when you do a web search... and find wot ye wanted.....

I wanted the music fer "Bound for South Australia".... three pages later I found it.... hadda send a thank you to the person wot wrote the page....

Now lets see if I can larn ter play it on me concertina.........

[BriarRose Kildare]

Why is it when you start a project that seems simple that it turns in to being a "BIG" project??

[Perkeo]

my follow-up question to yours...LOL

Why is it when you need to start a big project you never have the time?

[BriarRose Kildare]

Hmm, Murphy's Law??

At least at the moment I do have the time which is a very good thing.

[Red Cat Jenny]

Blue.....

(the color)

[BriarRose Kildare]

Thyme, as in Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.

[Matusalem]

Thyme, as in Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.

Hmm...where have I heard that before?

Oh, btw, Briar....very cute halloween picture of your son on the random photos thread.

[Salty]

PEACE to you and peace to me..................

[Perkeo]

“I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.”-Marcus Tullius Cicero -

[BriarRose Kildare]

Oh, btw, Briar....very cute halloween picture of your son on the random photos thread.

Thanks a bunch. He really enjoyed the costume. He decided on it. He had a choice of being a Scarecrow or SpongeBob. He said Scarecrow so I made him the costume. I think he's cute too but then again it could be that I am just prejudice....

“I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.”-Marcus Tullius Cicero -

Very interesting Perkeo. I would say because to be a soothsayer can usually bring great sorrow and sadness. And it is an understanding between two that recognize each other the heaviness of their gifts.

[Perkeo]

40 Rock Solid Reasons To Get Drunk Tonight

From The Modern Drunkard Magazine

1. If you don’t drink that booze, by God, someone else will.

2. The brewing industry alone employs 1.7 million people and that’s a lot of mouths to feed.

3. Bad ass nicknames like “Chuggybear,” “The Alabama Hamma,” “Pukey McPukerson”

are not awarded to people who stay home to do laundry.

4. Your favorite bar stool needs just one more sitting to break it in.

5. This is the one and only night your soul mate will wander into the bar. Seriously.

6. Word on the street is the booze has been trash talking you all day.

7. Without your brilliant wit and charm all those poor bartenders will be so dreadfully bored.

8. Dude, after what you did last time, you gotta go back out there and explain yourself.

9. It’s far better to have a good time you won’t remember than a dull one you will.

10. Remember that English high school teacher you and your pals used to call “Mr. McTightass?” You are so starting to remind me of him.

11. You can bet something really important and worthy of celebration happened on this day at sometime or another.

12. How the hell can you walk around sober when you’re an insignificant speck in an infinite and uncaring universe?

13. Churchill and FDR got drunk, Hitler didn’t. So what are you, some kind of Nazi?

14. If you don’t you’ll wake up in the morning all bright eyed and bushy tailed, and who the hell wants to go through life acting like a goddamn squirrel?

15. Your friends can’t have a good time without you.

16. Your friends might have a good time without you.

17. The Man says you shouldn’t and you don’t want to upset the Man, eh slavebot?

18. There is a 1000 percent better chance you will land a starring role in the upcoming Paris Hilton video Vegas Orgy.

19. Your lawn is so much more comfortable when you’re loaded.

20. You’re much less likely to remember doing all that embarrassing stuff.

21. That feisty barmaid might finally, you know, pick up on what you’re laying down.

22. Listen, are we down on this goddamn rock to have a good time or watch other people have a good time on TV?

23. Your girlfriend has rented a bunch of chick flicks you can snuggle to.

24. You’re under a lot of stress and if you don’t get crazy drunk you might do something crazy sober.

25. You gotta figure the odds of getting thrown in the drunk tank twice in one month are practically negligible.

26. If you don’t hunt the booze, the booze will surely hunt you.

27. When you write your memoirs you won’t have to go through the hassle of making up a bunch of decadent adventures.

28. Al-Qaeda forbids drinking and since when did you start taking orders from Al-Qaeda?

29. Let’s face it: modern life is a shit storm and booze is the only umbrella without any holes in it.

30. 7-11 nachos with extra cheese substitute and chili only taste good when you can’t remember eating them.

31. You did your goddamn monkey dance for the Man and now you get your monkey treat.

32. God hates the sight of you.

33. God won’t stop staring at you.

34. Your boss gets all weirded out when you get drunk during the day.

35. Three Stooges episodes you’ve watched a hundred times are suddenly hilarious again.

36. The day will come when you will have to single-handedly face death, and there isn’t a person alive who can tell you what will happen next.

37. Hemingway shot himself after being sober for two months.

38. When your coworkers ask “What did you get up to last night?” you can smile all cool like and say “Maaaaaan, you don’t wanna know,” instead of chirping “I alphabetized my DVD collection and found out I have two copies of The Truth About Cats and Dogs! Two!”

39. Remember your childhood dream of meeting a brewery heiress and jet-setting around the world on her dime? You think that’s going to happen while sitting in your goddamn apartment watching Captain Picard surrender the Enterprise for the tenth straight episode?

40. It’s so much easier to ring up those old flames and explain exactly where they went wrong. —Frank Kelly Rich

[BriarRose Kildare]

Mmmm, today was a beautiful Autumn day. The sky was a warm blue gray with floating heavy clouds. The trees were brilliant in golds, oranges and reds next to the warm blue gray of the sky. The air was aromatic with the smell of leaves, rain and earth. Absolutely Glorious.

[Cheeky Actress]

Today, I have learned that in the attempt to create a 1940s hair style, in which I failed at horribly, I successfully created late 17th Century hair-do instead (hurly-burly)! Who was it that said that out of every failure comes success?!

[Matusalem]

Today, I have learned that in the attempt to create a 1940s hair style, in which I failed at horribly, I successfully created late 17th Century hair-do instead (hurly-burly)! Who was it that said that out of every failure comes success?!

Mmm...reminds me of Lily Tomlin as the telephone operator. I sent you a couple of links via personal message...it's mosty from the swing dance crowd, hope it helps!

[Red Cat Jenny]

..I just might...

[The Time Keeper]

After two Thanksgiving Dinners yesterday, I have to change my signature on my emails............

When I was young I used to go "skinny dipping," now I

just "chunky dunk." Anon.