The Funny Pages - Tickle Me Elbow - The Original

[elye]

Well...

All right, I'm a wee bit...uh, tipsy? Drunk? No, not that, not quite...OMG, went to my good friend's for a late lunch, we four gals sat in her hot tub outside (it's -5C, here), surrounded by snow and ice, just our heads sticking up from the froth, drinking champagne. Heavennnnn...the jets were right on my feet and hamstrings.

Then we stumbled inside, had wine and GLUTEN-FREE quiche, with this incredible coconut pumpkin soup...exchanged gifts, and then I drove erratically home.

I had very little mojo this morning, but boy, did that do me good. But I need to give my head a good shake...I have things to mark, a big portrait job to do by Friday...gad...this reminds me of having to produce academically while I was in university, after an afternoon in the pub...

Maybe I should go make snow angels in my underwear. We talked about it in the hot tub, but alas, weren't tipsy enough.

[tom]

Ok . .. .. .here's me skipping all the back&forth pageloads for proper quoting.

Emily! "Indeed, my classiest of entrances..."

Amanda! "pulled an Amanda" !!

Hey!!! Patti? Boehv?? Wherefore art thou?!!

(Uh-oh & hmmmmm . . .. .can thou be plural? so confuuuuuuused .. . )

Janet!!! A dreaded Lost Post???!!

BUT .. . .I swear my method retrieves any and all 'lost' posts!!

1st time I went through it I even changed my av to show the browser's crucial little triangle/arrow sitting within the [bACK] button, on the right.

The alleged 'lost' post reappears if you click the triangle/arrow and select the SECOND page down.

(I NEVER EVER feel like I explain this well enough )

Of course just hitting the [bACK] button doesn't work. We've all tried that. Gotta SKIP a page.

And hitting the button twice quickly can't work either.

So USE The Force Luke. .. . ..errrr I mean the little triangle, Janet.

Christmas Letters!! I'm a fan and don't understand why anyone would jerk about 'em. (Edit: JERK about 'em??!! Sheesh good thing I didn't write "b!tch off on her" huh?)

I'm not sure your goal should be to be "wittier every year". Unless you'd planned ahead and begun w/ the dullest drivel possible, hence leaving significant room for improvement.

[start tangential anecdote]

(Heehee in a college Composition class the teacher said we'd be graded on Improvement, so I took a dive. Started w/ a C or D but got an easy A for the semester )

[/tangential anecdote]

I bet you blew it w/ the very first letter, saturated and dripping w/ wit, setting a standard reminiscent of Bob Beamon's 1968 Olympic Long Jump, unmatched for decades!

<too sporty?>

Susie!! How can a single sentence start w/ a claim of "lost my funny" yet end w/ the combo reference "million pieces of yeti confetti"!!! ??

A mere 11 words 'twixt hypothesis and disproving same!!!

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[Darn210]

You gotta get some new friends

And love the new Av, Jess. Really puts me in the Christmas spirit.

Hey!!! Patti? Boehv?? Wherefore art thou?!!

(Uh-oh & hmmmmm . . .. .can thou be plural? so confuuuuuuused .. . )

No, No, No. In order to pluralize thou, you must add an s. . . thus. . . thous.

Janet!!! A dreaded Lost Post???!!

BUT .. . .I swear my method retrieves any and all 'lost' posts!!

No, twas a wireless connection issue. Tweren't no back button nor triangle that was gonna save that post.

[Darn210]

BUT .. . .I swear my method retrieves any and all 'lost' posts!!

1st time I went through it I even changed my av to show the browser's crucial little triangle/arrow sitting within the [bACK] button, on the right.

The alleged 'lost' post reappears if you click the triangle/arrow and select the SECOND page down.

(I NEVER EVER feel like I explain this well enough )

Of course just hitting the [bACK] button doesn't work. We've all tried that. Gotta SKIP a page.

And hitting the button twice quickly can't work either.

So USE The Force Luke. .. . ..errrr I mean the little triangle, Janet.

What??!!? ?? On the right???

Perhaps Emily could do a flow chart . . . she's famous for them, you know.

[CarlaB]

That triangle thingy never saved a post for me. I think Tom's making it up.

[Darn210]

1st time I went through it I even changed my av to show the browser's crucial little triangle/arrow sitting within the [bACK] button, on the right.

AHAAAAA!!!!!! FOUND IT!!!!!! Of course, next time I need to use it, I won't remember what to do!!

[tom]

No, twas a wireless connection issue. Tweren't no back button nor triangle that was gonna save that post.

I'm TELLin' ya .. . ..the cause of the problem matters not.

The typed words don't evaporate. (Unless you reboot or manually clear the browser's cache)

My "skipping back" two pages would've saved yer butt.

[CarlaB]

I'm going to have to pull a Carla and quote myself (whilst eating three crumbs of a donut).

That happened the summer of '06 .... you joined summer of '07 ... how did you know about the donut?

Well...

All right, I'm a wee bit...uh, tipsy? Drunk? No, not that, not quite...OMG, went to my good friend's for a late lunch, we four gals sat in her hot tub outside (it's -5C, here), surrounded by snow and ice, just our heads sticking up from the froth, drinking champagne. Heavennnnn...the jets were right on my feet and hamstrings.

Then we stumbled inside, had wine and GLUTEN-FREE quiche, with this incredible coconut pumpkin soup...exchanged gifts, and then I drove erratically home.

I had very little mojo this morning, but boy, did that do me good. But I need to give my head a good shake...I have things to mark, a big portrait job to do by Friday...gad...this reminds me of having to produce academically while I was in university, after an afternoon in the pub...

Maybe I should go make snow angels in my underwear. We talked about it in the hot tub, but alas, weren't tipsy enough.

This sounds fun!!

[Darn210]

That happened the summer of '06 .... you joined summer of '07 ... how did you know about the donut?

Perhaps I'm psychic . . . perhaps I'm not a newbie at all . . . perhaps I'm pulling a Murph and have come back under a new name . . . perhaps I have no life and I read the archives. I can't even tell you where I read about your donut rations.

[tom]

Whoa you 'real PC' put up HOW many posts while I wrote one, now irrelevant, sentence???

[CarlaB]

Perhaps I'm psychic . . . perhaps I'm not a newbie at all . . . perhaps I'm pulling a Murph and have come back under a new name . . . perhaps I have no life and I read the archives. I can't even tell you where I read about your donut rations.

I'm a legend.

[DingoGirl]

My friend Ameliorate the whole batch of cookies.

*snort*

been doing a lot of snorting and chortling today.......and yet, mojo-less.

Well...

All right, I'm a wee bit...uh, tipsy? Drunk? No, not that, not quite...OMG, went to my good friend's for a late lunch, we four gals sat in her hot tub outside (it's -5C, here), surrounded by snow and ice, just our heads sticking up from the froth, drinking champagne. Heavennnnn...the jets were right on my feet and hamstrings.

Then we stumbled inside, had wine and GLUTEN-FREE quiche, with this incredible coconut pumpkin soup...exchanged gifts, and then I drove erratically home.

I had very little mojo this morning, but boy, did that do me good. But I need to give my head a good shake...I have things to mark, a big portrait job to do by Friday...gad...this reminds me of having to produce academically while I was in university, after an afternoon in the pub...

Maybe I should go make snow angels in my underwear. We talked about it in the hot tub, but alas, weren't tipsy enough.

EMILY!!!!!!!!!!! oh good Lord, SHE"S got all the mojo!!!!!!!! That's it.......it's placed in champagne bottles, and when combined with hot tubs......it's transmugated (made up word, Janet) into mojofication and fabulosity, all at once. Oh! I bet Jess can prove this!!!!!!!!!!

I was in a sauna in Montana, do y'all remember that week I spent with the wolf, and my nickname was Squats with Wolves when I got back? (we were only allowed to poop in the outhouse, not pee..........in minus 5 degree weather - gads) anywho......after the nekkid sauna - we dove into the snow............it was the bathing method.............OMG we stunk - - no shower for five entire days - - had to ski to this other cabin...........gigantic fight with my then-boyfriend one night.........not such a fun trip..........and BTW animal parts and entrails - and legs and stuff - in the kitchen when I got up every morning.....for the wolf......I have photos.......

ANYWHOOOOOOOOOOO............

what is this secret life of Emily? What did she say? making some marks and having a portrait done? what? WTH is she really doing up there?

Susie!! How can a single sentence start w/ a claim of "lost my funny" yet end w/ the combo reference "million pieces of yeti confetti"!!! ??

A mere 11 words 'twixt hypothesis and disproving same!!!

I'm telling you!!!!!!! It really is true! I am SO FREEZING COLD lately adn with such dry skin and SO FREAKING ANXIOUS that i"m starting to wonder if I have a........thyroid issue?

No, twas a wireless connection issue. Tweren't no back button nor triangle that was gonna save that post.

that phrasology right there (say it like this: that roht thar) really proves that she's been spying on us for a loooooooooooooong time

*snort*

That triangle thingy never saved a post for me. I think Tom's making it up.

triangle thing-ey......is it like the Bermuda Triangle? IS he really making it up?

Perhaps I'm psychic . . . perhaps I'm not a newbie at all . . . perhaps I'm pulling a Murph and have come back under a new name . . . perhaps I have no life and I read the archives. I can't even tell you where I read about your donut rations.

:lol:

[Jestgar]

EMILY!!!!!!!!!!! oh good Lord, SHE"S got all the mojo!!!!!!!! That's it.......it's placed in champagne bottles, and when combined with hot tubs......it's transmugated (made up word, Janet) into mojofication and fabulosity, all at once. Oh! I bet Jess can prove this!!!!!!!!!!

hmmmm, very ill-defined endpoint. I'll need a lot of data points to make this statistically significant.

volunteers??

[tom]

I KNOW!!!! I keep checking, but nobody is posting. I'm going to have to pull a Carla and quote myself (whilst eating three crumbs of a donut).

Nobody posting??!!!!! Why did I feel I had so much catching up to do!?

Ok, yeah, I got up awfully late and there were even posts from last night to catch up on.

Sillyville usually rolls up the sidewalks at night!

(note repeat usage of Word-A-Day type words to ensure proper integration into Janet's Christmas Epistle)

<she said Epistle !>

Which reminds me . .. . .was at Trivia Night at a bar last night. Buddy Tony's been doing it for years and it's more fun than you think. (Yeah, YOU!)

Tony's the one I once had a serious discussion with about whether shoelaces should be considered digital or analog. LOTTA weird convs w/ ole Tony!!

Anyway .. .. .one Q was what was the 2nd most popular event/activity in the Catholic Church, after Mass. I was amazed no one knew but me.

BINGO!!

JESS!! ROFL @ the av!!!

My friend Ameliorate the whole batch of cookies.

Well...

All right, I'm a wee bit...uh, tipsy? Drunk? No, not that, not quite...OMG, went to my good friend's for a late lunch, we four gals sat in her hot tub outside (it's -5C, here), surrounded by snow and ice, just our heads sticking up from the froth, drinking champagne. Heavennnnn...the jets were right on my feet and hamstrings.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

AHAAAAA!!!!!! FOUND IT!!!!!! Of course, next time I need to use it, I won't remember what to do!!

YES!!! Sweet vindication

That happened the summer of '06 .... you joined summer of '07 ... how did you know about the donut?

Whoa!! I did not recognize "crumbs of a donut" as the legendary tale of a 1/4 donut per week.

I'd swear 'twere but a Fable if I heard it second-hand.

[DingoGirl]

hmmmm, very ill-defined endpoint. I'll need a lot of data points to make this statistically significant.

volunteers??

GUFFAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why, I see our Peter is now reading along........and JUST at the right time for Jess's new experiment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(not sure if martinis will reveal same data as champagne/mojo connection)

Nobody posting??!!!!! Why did I feel I had so much catching up to do!?

Ok, yeah, I got up awfully late and there were even posts from last night to catch up on.

Sillyville usually rolls up the sidewalks at night!

<she said Epistle !>

Which reminds me . .. . .was at Trivia Night at a bar last night. Buddy Tony's been doing it for years and it's more fun than you think. (Yeah, YOU!)

Tony's the one I once had a serious discussion with about whether shoelaces should be considered digital or analog. LOTTA weird convs w/ ole Tony!!

Um, ahem, excuse me, played Trivia in Monterey at not one but TWO pubs, and sometimes even a third, occasionally. OMG we were the Trivia Moguls.......I was the only civilian amongst all these military officers from Naval Postgraduate School.......we did have quite a team, they of the sensible and science/math minds, and then I pulled up the rear in art and literature, and Knowledge of Utter Nonsense.......

Ah, I had my mojo back then......and a spanx-less mid-section.........

So waht is the second most favorite - what did it say? - that second activity - is it confession?

Carla will know.......let her finish the donut crumbs.......

[tom]

Perhaps I'm psychic . . . perhaps I'm not a newbie at all . . . perhaps I'm pulling a Murph and have come back under a new name

"pulling a Murph"!!

Gian-knit HAS read back more than I'da guessed!

Aw shucks, at first I thought the "pulling a Murph" part was related to when I was accused of actually BEING Richard, in disguise.

(The following was written before realizing it may not be relevant but screw it I'm leaving it!)

Thus began the slew/slough bit & the inevitable ik-wip-seh chapter formation!!

*sniff* one of my proudest sillyville moments *sniff*

Long Live the IQPSA!!

(FYI: pronounced ik-wip-seh, for anyone not around for p101-102)

[Just reread some of that and am still chuckling ]

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[tom]

So waht is the second most favorite - what did it say? - that second activity - is it confession?

Whhhhaaaaaaaaaa.....? Old-timer Susie doesn't know how to see beneath the blackout?

Just drag a clicked mouse over it, dah-link.

[tom]

Um, ahem, excuse me, played Trivia in Monterey at not one but TWO pubs, and sometimes even a third, occasionally. OMG we were the Trivia Moguls.......I was the only civilian amongst all these military officers from Naval Postgraduate School.......

Ah messin' w/ the NPG boys eh?

I took a sailing certification class there ~'89. Most of the class was on the water, but we started and ended at NPG.

!!Please tell me you remember which pubs!!

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OK y'all, here's Sillyville invading Reality.

I'm waching CNN's Headline News in the middle of the night and the bottom scrolling part has

<imagine scroll plz> . .. . ..HONORING NOBEL LAUREATE . .. . .

And for a second I think it looks wrong w/out the capital U!!!!!!!

Gah!! So much more I MUST comment on, but am in the rare hurry! (So so very very rare for me!)

Just made some Pesto (MMMMMM!!!) between posts and have to quickly shower etc before heading to Shelly's for dinner. Yay!

Her oldest, 8yrs, is learning guitar and we're looking for songs for her to sing that I can play on guit and also w/ a part I can teach the boy to play along in our little trio. Such FUN!!!

[blueeyedmanda]

I am so upset tonight. The weather has canceled all my plans for my big weekend with my mom. Due to an ice storm here and a huge snowfall where she is and then another incoming storm this weekend her birthday suprise isn't going to happen. I was looking forward to this for a few weeks now...

[CarlaB]

So waht is the second most favorite - what did it say? - that second activity - is it confession?

Carla will know.......let her finish the donut crumbs.......

Well, our parish doesn't have bingo, Tom, so the second activity must be music practice!

I am so upset tonight. The weather has canceled all my plans for my big weekend with my mom. Due to an ice storm here and a huge snowfall where she is and then another incoming storm this weekend her birthday suprise isn't going to happen. I was looking forward to this for a few weeks now...

I'm sorry.

[DingoGirl]

Whhhhaaaaaaaaaa.....? Old-timer Susie doesn't know how to see beneath the blackout?

Just drag a clicked mouse over it, dah-link.

*gasp*

I NEVER knew that!!!!!!!!!! and.......tell me how do do it, I MUST KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aw Amanda, so sorry about your plans with mom....

Um.......the trivia pubs in Monterey.......'tis a bygone era. The best one was Mucky Duck, on Alvarado - I don't think they do it any more. 'Twas FIERCE and serious trivia. Taht is a STINKY-ass pub - with too many youngsters....the back patio, with giant fire pits, is quite nice, though. The other trivia pub - just a complete GOOFball night - London Bridge Pub on the second wharf......loads of fun....don't know if they do it any more either. WAY more fun when you know people on the teams, and we knew the owners of the bar.......

the BEST pub in Monterey - good gawd, can't remember the name but will think of it - oh! Crown and Anchor - downstairs in a basement - - very British, very cozy, and the food used to be decent.

OMG I am soooooooooooooooo cold........

And there's Emily!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

how ya feeling?

[elye]

EMILY!!!!!!!!!!! oh good Lord, SHE"S got all the mojo!!!!!!!! That's it.......it's placed in champagne bottles, and when combined with hot tubs......it's transmugated (made up word, Janet) into mojofication and fabulosity, all at once. Oh! I bet Jess can prove this!!!!!!!!!!

Yep, I've been truly mojoed. Champagne, followed by a lovely Riesling, whilst wallowing in a steamy hot tub on a snowy, treed landscape... truly splendorifoUs.

what is this secret life of Emily? What did she say? making some marks and having a portrait done? what? WTH is she really doing up there?

Not making some marks, silly! Marking to do...ya know, heinous English papers. I'm also doing a HUGE portrait job for my daughter's hockey team...long, boring description needed, and I shall spare everyone. Along with blathering to dips about English, I am a (very) starving artist. Nuff said...I don't eat my lead paints, or anything else truly interesting.

triangle thing-ey......is it like the Bermuda Triangle? IS he really making it up?

Hey! Susie, didn't you have one of those on your head about 200 pages ago?

hmmmm, very ill-defined endpoint. I'll need a lot of data points to make this statistically significant.

volunteers??

Oh! Oh! (hands up, waving wildly in the air)...Pick me! Pick me! I've always proven to be a formidable data point!

I am so upset tonight. The weather has canceled all my plans for my big weekend with my mom. Due to an ice storm here and a huge snowfall where she is and then another incoming storm this weekend her birthday suprise isn't going to happen. I was looking forward to this for a few weeks now...

Ah, I'm sorry, Amanda...it sounds like a terrible ice storm you guys are huddling under...

[Darn210]

Anyway .. .. .one Q was what was the 2nd most popular event/activity in the Catholic Church, after Mass. I was amazed no one knew but me.

BINGO!!

See, and I thought the black box was being used to censor Tom which of course let me to think it was a bad word which then made me think . . . hmmmm, how do those Catholics get all those kids? Right after Mass, you say?

Susie, if you quote Tom, you can see the spoiler command . . . I've learned something today, too. Hmmm, old dog . . . new trick!

[CarlaB]

See, and I thought the black box was being used to censor Tom which of course let me to think it was a bad word which then made me think . . . hmmmm, how do those Catholics get all those kids? Right after Mass, you say?

Well, I was going to say that .... but it doesn't happen in the Church.

Then again, with us Catholics, it may happen more than Mass .... definitely more than Bingo.

[DingoGirl]

Anyway .. .. .one Q was what was the 2nd most popular event/activity in the Catholic Church, after Mass. I was amazed no one knew but me.

BINGO!!

SPOILER?????????????????? WTH is a spoiler???????????/

How do I do it??????????????????????????

Not making some marks, silly! Marking to do...ya know, heinous English papers. I'm also doing a HUGE portrait job for my daughter's hockey team...long, boring description needed, and I shall spare everyone. Along with blathering to dips about English, I am a (very) starving artist. Nuff said...I don't eat my lead paints, or anything else truly interesting.

You NEVER told us about this!!!!!!!!!!!! What, you don't eat your paints? Drink the absinthe? Cut off the vestigial body parts???????? (is the ear vestigial?)

A portrait of a hockey team????????? we HAVE to see it!!!! And you MUST tell us about your starving artist-ness!

Well, I was going to say that .... but it doesn't happen in the Church.

Then again, with us Catholics, it may happen more than Mass .... definitely more than Bingo.

Um.......I have a question I want to ask.........but I"m askeert to ask it...........

(good gawd, especially in THIS crowd)

has to do with how you maintain attraction for someone (like a husband) that you've lived with forever and ever.............Susie doesn't understand that........

PLEASE keep your answers clean, folks...................

:lol: :lol:

we don't wanna get shut down, here.