now ain't that just the cutest thing?.
that's chewbacca.
"chewie" for short.
Fun aren't they Tink? I kept two temporarily for some friends a few years ago. I had a lot of fun with "Matt" and "Ty". They took to me immediately. I sure missed them once they were gone!
I love animals but don't have too many options as far as pets. My landlord won't allow dogs. And since I have a cockatiel who can come and go from her cage as she pleases, I can't have a cat. Too bad because I love cats. So I settled on a rat.
Mike.
now ain't that just the cutest thing?.
that's chewbacca.
"chewie" for short.
Now ain't that just the cutest thing?
That's Chewbacca. "Chewie" for short. Just got him today. Right now he's chillin' out in my lap and watching me type.
Anybody else got pet rats?
Mike.
i'll start it off........ ralph and his wife are going through a divorce.
she is going to take all his money.
so rather than pay, he asks his best friend since birth to kill her for him.
Czar, that was just nasty (but funny in a Steven King sort of way).
Ok.
Last year my brother was racing in the National 100 dirt track races in Alabama and I drove over to watch. That trip reminded me of how rich Alabama can be in humor.
At its own expense of course.
One of the guys at the racetrack, formerly a native of Alabama, had moved to Georgia. Seems he'd read somewhere that most accidents occur within 5 miles of home.
I noticed that all of the later model vehicles in the parking lot there had the headlight dimmer switches installed on the floorboards like old cars used to have. Later I found out that was because the Alabama Dept. of Public Safety had made manufacturers do that because too many Alabama residents were getting their feet caught in their steering wheels.
One of the billboards I saw once I crossed the state line said "Can't read? Want to learn?"
On the way home, I stopped at a little bar for a couple of beers. After a few drinks, I let an Alabama joke slip. This big old redneck came up behind me in a pretty foul mood and challenged me on my views of Alabama. I was cornered for real. I was at the end of the bar, with a literal wall on my right and a wall of a man on my left. So I put my right hand against the wall, palm up, and told "Bubba" to hit it as hard as he could. Bubba, ever the quick thinker, took his shot. I pulled my hand out of the way at the last millisecond and his fist went right through the wall. I patted him on the back, said "that's why", and then out of my love for my fellow 'necks bought a round for him and his buddies. I finished off my beer and watched as he sat back down, hand bloodied and broken, with his 'neck buddies. "Bubba, what happened?" they said. Bubba, ever the quick thinker, stood back up and announced "this is why he tells them there jokes y'all". He then held his good hand in front of his face and said "now one of y'all hit my hand as hard as you can"......
Don't get me wrong here folks. I certainly don't mean to denigrate folks from Alabama (for those of you from Alabama, denigrate means to put down.)
Mike, ducking and running for cover as the board's Alabama residents come a-looking for him. (now hit my hand as hard as you can...)
ok, i'm know 'm going to take a beating here ( at least i hope so ).
i am interested in knowing what other guy's "skills" are.
can you be in a room of women only and get them to talk to you?
Who here has a way with women? Not I, says I.
I'm the original maximum-strength "Girl-B-Gone".
Mike.
englishman and her ladyship will be visiting the usa and we are happy to announce a bbq for them at our place.
so mark your calanders!!.
saturday, november 1, 2003 2 pm = ?
bttt
I may end up driving instead of taking the bus if I do attend. So just look out for a loud old Camaro and it's probably me.
I just thought of something. Since the subject of beer has been brought up, I've got an idea. I'll start a batch of my homebrew next month and it will be ready in time for the fest and I'll bring it.
Y'all help me talk Bridget (stinkypantz) into coming. I talked to her earlier and she's trying to think of every conceivable reason not to go. I've got her bus ticket covered and can help out with the hotel room. So come on folks, let's get my sweetie there too!
Let me know about the hotel options. I'll probably drive down that Friday and leave the following Monday.
Mike.
englishman and her ladyship will be visiting the usa and we are happy to announce a bbq for them at our place.
so mark your calanders!!.
saturday, november 1, 2003 2 pm = ?
Simon's gonna be there too?! How cool!
Ok, I just checked out the rates for Greyhound, so far so good.
What about hotel rates?
Mike.
p.s. I could drive down, but I HATE driving! Plus I cringe at the thought of driving that old Camaro on such a long trip.
or is it robbed?
i'm confused after wasa's post.
credit card fraud.
Princess, I hope you get everything worked out. From everything I've read, Bank of America sucks. I'd suggest changing banks.
Mike.
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i recently watched bowling for columbine and came away with the impression that michael moore is saying that americans are always shooting themselves because they are paranoid to the hilt.. i cant figure it out!
why are americans always going postal on themselves?
Plus, most Americans can't stand each other. We were founded as a group of people who didn't get along with whoever it was back in wherever it was and we came here, and it's not like we changed at all. We are oversexed Puritan, slave-owning abolitionist, Bible-thumping atheists and we don't like each other very much. I mean, any nation dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal is going to have a problem with authority and have tendencies to pop each other in the face when we get cut off on the highway.
Czar, when I first opened this thread I rolled my eyes and thought "aw hell not another damn anti-american-gun-owners thread!" and then I read that gem you just posted. Regardless of your stand on gun rights, that was pretty cool!
As far as the rest of y'all.....Aw hell! Not another damn anti-American-gun-owners thread! Please! For cryin out loud would you please just damn drop it already?! If you aren't an American citizen, and I'm sorry to have to be rude here, but really it's none of your damn business. If you are an American citizen then provide me with an ironclad garantee that I will be safer if I give up my guns, then go out and disarm all the criminals, and then - and only then - will I disarm myself.
Mike.
this morning yet another bird got into our shop and couldn't get out!.
for those who don't know, i work in an auto repair shop.
it's a big 10-bay building with roll-up doors and a high ceiling.
This morning yet another bird got into our shop and couldn't get out!
For those who don't know, I work in an auto repair shop. It's a big 10-bay building with roll-up doors and a high ceiling. We've got lots of semi-clear plastic panels in the roof to let in light so when birds fly in they naturally try to stay as high as they can and the light from the panels in the roof attracts them up too.
Well this morning I spotted a little hummingbird hovering around the rafters. It kept flying towards the skylights, hoping to get out, but it wouldn't fly low enough to go back out one of the bay doors. We've had a few hummingbirds come in before and have always managed to get them out. We'd wait until the afternoon, when the bird had been flying around and had gotten tired and hungry. Then I'd hook up a nozzle to one of the compressed air lines in the shop and start blowing compressed air at the bird, keeping it from landing to rest. After maybe 15-20 minutes the bird would come down and would be too exhausted to fly so I'd climb up on a ladder and pick it up. Then I'd bring it home and put it in a cage with a hummingbird feeder until it was fed and rested and well enough. Then I'd let it go.
So I told the guys this morning to just let it be and come this afternoon once it was already tired and hungry I'd get it out easily. Can't have it in there all night. But come this afternoon I'd gotten busy with a nightmare brake repair and forgot all about it.
I hope the little critter either figured out how to get out or else manages to stay alive overnight so I can get it out tomorrow. Y'all wish that cute little hummingbird luck!
Mike.
victorian sky has a great thread on music.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/57646/1.ashx.
it got me thinking, about tv shows, anything in particular you were told not to watch, being a little kid in the 70's i do remember hearing shows from the platform that we should not watch.
For some reason my hardliner folks didn't base their restrictions on what the Empire said. If I was restricted from watching some program it was usually just for the reason that I enjoyed it and my stepdad was in a bad mood at the time and decided to take it away.
They didn't let me watch "Dukes of Hazzard" for a long time because (a) it came on at 9 which was my bedtime and (b) our JW neighbor's kid ran from the cops one night, and of course they blamed that on the Dukes. Ban later ended thanks to James Best. My stepdad thought Roscoe P. Coltrane was hilarious. Yep, while my brother and I couldn't watch it we'd still hear the Dukes on the TV in our folks' bedroom and my stepdad laughing his ass off. He finally gave in and let us stay up to watch it. He acted like it was killing him to let us stay up till 10.
They jacked "The A-Team" because it was too violent, never mind the fact that they'd show 40-60 rounds being fired from a Mini-14's 30-round magazine and no one ever got hit.
"Knight Rider" was verbotten because they didn't like the line in the intro "...a man who does not exist." Stepdad was in a bad mood that night so end of discussion. Later we ended up being able to watch it.
"Greatest American Hero" was banned in our house for a while because one episode had to do with "hit men". Ban later ended because my stepdad thought Robert Culp was so funny in that show.
For a while any sci-fi show was off-limits to me, but not to my little brother, for no other reason than the fact that I "enjoyed them too much".
Saturday morning cartoons of course, because we had to go out selling magazines.
"Married with Children"...banned in our house BIG TIME! My folks hated that show!
Then of course came the regular "blackouts". That would be right after an assembly when my stepdad would get all spiritual on us and put blanket restrictions on the TV period. My brother and I would get one hour per day to watch it, 2 hours a day on the weekends, and a "floating" hour per week. Of course that really only applied to me since when [step]dad got home he'd turn on the TV in their bedroom and my little brother would hang out in there watching it with him and then mom and [step]dad would stay up till 11 watching TV after we'd gone to bed. Fortunately the "blackouts" would only last a couple of weeks.
When you're a JW teen who has no friends whatsoever to hang out with, the only thing you've got is TV. Damn I hated living with them!
Mike.
