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The Funny Pages - Tickle Me Elbow - The Original


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mushroom Proficient

Damn... . . . . .the Funny Object thread is now locked. I was steering the debate toward the "thing' being perhaps an elephant's trunk... . ....I was ready to draw diagrams an' everything..... . . . ...

Never mind. The way the board's been going lately I'm sure you'll find another opportunity :rolleyes:

Dani sure did get the best of that whole exchange - showing some new talents.

Guys, I am living with a green-eyed monsta :unsure:

We are still feeding the neighbor's cat. They came back and are renting a few miles away, took her home with them, there was almost immediately another aftershock, and she ran, showed up back here 3-4 weeks later, all skin and bones and burrs, and spooky, but here. She is slowly regaining confidence and putting on condition. She used to show up for food once a day, now it is more like three times a day (winter's coming on). We have to move where we're feeidng her because I have a curved stairwell on the outside of the house with "wonky" glass in three long narrow windows in it but "she who kows she is the apple of our eye" can look out the lowest one and see the unfaithfulness to this other feline creature that is occurring, at the same time the green-eyed one has been put on a diet because our housesitter fattened her up last year and our cutting her back hasn't done a lot of good. So the green-eyed furry one I am sure figures that all the extra food that she should be getting is being transferred to this outdoor interloper :ph34r: She then goes over to the front door and wails, crying her heart out :lol: , until we come back in. And the neighbor's kitty can "feel" the evil eyeball on her.

It was all over my jeal-ous-y :D

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IrishHeart Veteran

Damn... . . . . .the Funny Object thread is now locked. I was steering the debate toward the "thing' being perhaps an elephant's trunk... . ....I was ready to draw diagrams an' everything..... . . . ...

:rolleyes:

well, I tried my best, hon! :lol: I loved your Seuss comparison..and I said "flogging the dead elephant"... :)

That coffee thread and the "weird object" thread had great promise--- until some folks went off base. :( Bummer dude.

ah well..loved, loved, loved it -- when you all came a 'callin' on those threads - and you PSILLIES are the real fun ones.

Did not mean to interrupt...carry on!

Cheers all, IH

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elye Community Regular

and you PSILLIES are the real fun ones.

Did not mean to interrupt...carry on!

Cheers all, IH

Hell, Irish, whaddya mean, interrupt? You was made to be here -- YOU is a Psilly if there ever was one! Please stay around here....it's quite fabulous -- we never seem to get locked; no one, remarkably, gets offended....

Astonishing, at times.. . .. .. . :rolleyes:

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JNBunnie1 Community Regular

Hell, Irish, whaddya mean, interrupt? You was made to be here -- YOU is a Psilly if there ever was one! Please stay around here....it's quite fabulous -- we never seem to get locked; no one, remarkably, gets offended....

Astonishing, at times.. . .. .. . :rolleyes:

I guarantee Scott watches this thread! Besides, he only shuts stuff down when people get mean.

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JNBunnie1 Community Regular

..........

48 hrs without a post!?!? Did I scare everyone away?

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elye Community Regular

Well, ya just reminded everybody that Skaought drops in here and checks things out from time to time. . .. .. ....:unsure:. . . ... . .. ..perhaps we suddenly ARE a little scared...

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IrishHeart Veteran

Well, ya just reminded everybody that Skaought drops in here and checks things out from time to time. . .. .. ....:unsure:. . . ... . .. ..perhaps we suddenly ARE a little scared...

...hmm....sounds like a mild case of threadus interruptus

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Oscar Apprentice

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48 hrs without a post!?!? Did I scare everyone away?

Not everyone. ;)

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IrishHeart Veteran

Oscar! My man!

The man who tells it like it.

Hand me a martini, dude.

I thought maybe my bursting in had disrupted things??

IH hates to think of herself as a giant buzz kill. :blink:

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elye Community Regular

...hmm....sounds like a mild case of threadus interruptus

:lol: Happens from time to time 'round here... . . ....incredibly, there are times when Psillies actually have lives to live, and things that need tending to outside of this thread. Like, family concerns, jobs.... . ....we don't like this kind of thing to carry on too long, however....our priorities all lie here, of course....

:rolleyes:

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Jestgar Rising Star

:lol: Happens from time to time 'round here... . . ....incredibly, there are times when Psillies actually have lives to live, and things that need tending to outside of this thread. Like, family concerns, jobs.... . ....we don't like this kind of thing to carry on too long, however....our priorities all lie here, of course....

:rolleyes:

Or in my case, sheer laziness. :rolleyes:

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nikki-uk Enthusiast

Morning all.....

PINCH, PUNCH, FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH!!!

AND NO RETURN tongue.gif

It's May!...it's been raining constantly in blighty and we have a hosepipe ban already blink.gif

How's your May shaping up?? smile.gif

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tom Contributor

Oh snap the Marathon Missus did it just 35 minutes into MY 1st of the month.

I feel like declaring second first punch a thing.

. . .

...

...flipflipphlip . ..can't find anything in the bylaws to support such a maneuOver . ..

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nikki-uk Enthusiast

Oh snap the Marathon Missus did it just 35 minutes into MY 1st of the month.

I feel like declaring second first punch a thing.

. . .

...

...flipflipphlip . ..can't find anything in the bylaws to support such a maneuOver . ..

Sorry Ptaumus!..NO RETURN, NO SECOND PUNCH.

I have the geographical advantage wink.gif

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Drat!

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elye Community Regular

Well, I'm five hours behind you, Gnick, and three ahead o' you, Ptaoughmmn... .. ..guess I'm right kinda in the middle. Strategically, I believe there is NO advantage to being where I am. :rolleyes:

Well.... . . ....we have maple syrup...and fantastic beer. However, I can have neither of them...

Gnick! You have a ban on hose pipe use over there?? What is a hose pipe? Like, a regular garden hose?. .. ...:huh:.. . ...and why can't you water things if there has been so much rain -- wouldn't there be a bloody surplus of the stuff?

Bet yer English country gardens look beautiful!

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Gnick! You have a ban on hose pipe use over there?? What is a hose pipe? Like, a regular garden hose?. .. ...:huh:.. . ...and why can't you water things if there has been so much rain -- wouldn't there be a bloody surplus of the stuff?

Bet yer English country gardens look beautiful!

T'is a paradox indeed Emmel!

It's been one of the driest winters on record, the reservoirs have run low and so a (garden) hosepipe ban was put in place.

As soon as this was in place it rained virtually EVERY day in April (it's still not enough though to top up the reservoirs for our water supply dry.gif)

SOoo, as the ground is so dry & unporous, the heavy rain has just run off of it causing flash floods.

Fascinating eh? blink.gif

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nikki-uk Enthusiast

ARGHHH!!!!!!

mad.gif

Note in Al's school diary.....

'Please can you send in

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tom Contributor

*repairs battle gear*

Go get 'em Gnikkoala!

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tom Contributor

Phew .. . .brain tired from too many serious posts.

All that thinkin all in a row! :wackl-o:

Still, kinda nice to (enjoy) form(ing) full sentences, even if it takes waiting til the middle of the night.

Hope I'm not way off on all my leaky gut talk.

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tom Contributor

Aw, damn no comments on the Omission gluten-free Beer thread. :(

I'm guessing it's more due to it being in the Publications section than anything else, right?

Beer threads usually get ppl talking.

Anyway . ....how can someone of sound mind name a gluten-free beer OMISSION and not actually omit the barley??????!

Usually Oregon plays to a higher standard in these matters.

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kareng Grand Master

These barley gluten-free beers are hard to explain to Hub. He happily goes off on his errand to the beer store. He, ever on the look out for a new, improved gluten-free beer, might bring one of these home. But They say " gluten-free"!

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Jestgar Rising Star

These barley gluten-free beers are hard to explain to Hub. He happily goes off on his errand to the beer store. He, ever on the look out for a new, improved gluten-free beer, might bring one of these home. But They say " gluten-free"!

Yes honey, and they achieved their goal - you bought it.

In my world, the babies, including Dufus Drumstick the turkey have all managed to get themselves up the ramp and into the coop. Yay!! I was tired of chasing peeping babies around trying to get them up to bed while their frantic mom ran up and down the ramp trying to get them up to follow her. Sadly, Brine, the other turkey, didn't make it. I think the feed store sold me a sick bird, as he went pretty quickly.

If'n yer bored, check out the pic of Seuss, soggy and filthy, on fb. I laugh at him every time I go out, and he's getting pretty miffed at me. :lol: :lol: :lol:

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elye Community Regular

If'n yer bored, check out the pic of Seuss, soggy and filthy, on fb.

OMG. .. . . these names.... .. ..:lol:.. . ...I'm expecting to see pics of a bluegrass jugband. . . ...

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psawyer Proficient

This is the end of an era here in Canada. Today the Royal Canadian Mint will strike the last one-cent coin (penny) ever.

Oh, and:

May the fourth be with you, Luke. ;)

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