The Funny Pages - Tickle Me Elbow - The Original

[nikki-uk]

So, what were we all doing when we heard?

Nearly 2pm...a news flash on the tv....''a terrible plane crash'' we thought at first - we soon realised it was something much more sinister.

We had builders in doing some work.....they downed tools and we all sat round the tv.

I had to leave to pick kids up - the tv was even on in school.......Terry phoned me on my mobile.....''It's come down!!!! - the whole flippin' tower''

What I couldn't register in my brain was that this had happened in the US....the UK??...we're always getting bombed and attacked (Germans, The Ira etc).....but America???

Mygawd, I still cannot think about it without crying........

[Jestgar]

I was home, inbetween jobs. Woke up, and for no particular reason decided to turn on the radio. It took probably 10 minute before I fully comprehended what I was listening too. I went to my brother's house to watch the news coverage. It was very surreal.

[Green12]

I pheel like I was eaten by a werewolf and s*!t off a cliff!

This killed me! Patti, so sassy

It's frustrating that something so harmless can make us pheel so sh!teous

But on a lighter note, you should see how happy and energetic The Weasel is today.

The Weasel is crisp and clean, no caffeine, feelin 7-UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, what were we all doing when we heard?

I'll never forget, I had just woken up (it was around 7 am my time, so 9 NY time) and for some reason I turned on the Today show, which I don't usually do in the am and right at that moment they were showing the plane go right in to the first tower....the image that is forever in my brain. It was all just happening right then so Matt and Katie didn't even have word what was going on, didn't have any details yet to report.

I had to get to an early appointment so on the way I called my brother who was on a family vacation in California (an hour even earlier) and I woke him up in his hotel room to tell him planes were being flown into the World trade Center towers. He thought is this a joke? It alll sounded so unbelievable. He happened to be on vacation with a government agent, so this guy had a little inside info and he was like we need to get home now, so they rented a car and drove all the way home. At this point they had grounded all the planes and closed all the airports down so nobody could fly anyway.

I remember being in such a panic to have everyone home and everyone accounted for because nobody really knew what was going on, if there would be more attacks all over or what.

Then I was glued to the tv the rest of the day and the next several days, just praying they were going to find survivors.

[Lisa]

I was also watching the Today Show. I was worried about so many people, including which airlines hit the towers, Pentagon and Pennsylvania.

It was very surreal looking up in the skies and seeing NO planes, when they have been so much a part of our lives.

We had a Polish exchange student at the time and her panicked father called.

[blueeyedmanda]

I was in college and just getting up, since our campus had either apartments or townhouses you could live in, I shared an apartment with 2 other girls. We had a living room with a Tv. My roomate came in and told me a plane crashed into the towers....it took me awhile to understand. So I got out of bed and didnt even put my contacts in. I was watching the Tv and it was showing the towerss smoking...both were still standing....As I watched the show the one collapsed. Even with out my contacts in you could tell something was happening that was bad.....

It was a very scary day.

The strangest part was that evening and the next few days when you looked into the skies and didnt see any planes since all flights were grounded.....so odd!

[jerseyangel]

I was getting ready for work and had the bedroom TV on to Good Morning America. I happened to see the first plane hit and even the newscasters at that point were confused as to what had happened. I watched a few minutes longer, and then had to leave.

When I got to the school, not 10 minutes later, the place was in a lock-down and only staff was allowed to enter. We had a meeting with the Vice Principal about what we knew so far, and what and what not to say to the kids once they were allowed out of the classrooms.

I walked down to the cafeteria and stood in the kitchen watching the tower fall into itself on a little TV they had on in there. It was surreal--I couldn't quite wrap my mind around what I was seeing.

[blueeyedmanda]

Sillies

I must post this good news....

We are ordering out from a new restaurant across the street from the Med Center. It is an italian pizza type place. A coworker printed off a menu from their website and brought it over to me practically running. At the bottom of the page it said, gluten free menu available upon request. So I called. They make gluten free pizzas as well they also have gluten free pasta on hand, so I can get any pasta dish as well. They are going to fax me a copy of their gluten free dessert menu.....Exciting!!!!!!

[Mtndog]

Patti........!!

Pheel better soon.......

Yess Paddeigh- I hope you feel better soon- no more eating wolves, flowers or anything else scary. Jess- You ARE commendable commitable a NUT BAG!!!!!!

Lisa, Susie, Bev . . . nice poochatars

Bev . . . waaaaaay behind on the PICCRAP . . . Poopy Cow . . . hope it's getting better

Janet said POOCHATARS :lol:

Yes- right arm rash (which looked and felt like poison ivy) is slowly getting less itchy and left arm (newly PICC'd) seems to be doing OK. Thank you. I only have 10 weeks left (out of 12 but total of 32 weeks). 10 out of 32!!!!!!!!! Yahoo!!!!! 2/3rds of the way there!!!!!!!!!! Ain't no bacteria gonna hold me down. "F$*&k Lyme, I'll punch Lyme in the Face!" :lol:

....I just joined the group "Make Friends with the Yeti". No idea what the group is together for, what their cause is, what they do together

But that's what it's all about, I'm thinkin'.........

Sounds like you're eating werewolf extract

Jess=CWAZEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

I know it's a flower ...........you ding bat..............

what the hell is it doing in a cracker...........they say it's a legume.........well is it the seed of the flower or the flour from the dang bean............

oye

Judy called Spruzee a ding bat :lol:

[JNBunnie1]

Sillies

I must post this good news....

We are ordering out from a new restaurant across the street from the Med Center. It is an italian pizza type place. A coworker printed off a menu from their website and brought it over to me practically running. At the bottom of the page it said, gluten free menu available upon request. So I called. They make gluten free pizzas as well they also have gluten free pasta on hand, so I can get any pasta dish as well. They are going to fax me a copy of their gluten free dessert menu.....Exciting!!!!!!

OOOOOOO You lucky!

[JNBunnie1]

So, what were we all doing when we heard?

I was at home on the computer and my friend called me to tell me what happened. I didn't understand at first, I thought someone had made some mistake and reported something wrong on Tv. My best friend had flown to Germany the day before and I hadn't heard from him yet, I was terrified he was hurt.

A friend of mine has special chips in her ears (she's deaf, well, not anymore) that enable her to hear a far wider range of sound than we can, and they called on her to help the fire department listen for tapping under the rubble. She came back days before she thought she would (I was animal-sitting). It was just hopeless, they sent her home. She told me how the restaurants in the area were making lobster and filet mignon and whatever one of the workers asked for, just huge trays of gourmet food for people covered in muck.

[nikki-uk]

Nickerler . . . have you seen any improvement in Alan yet?

Why, I think I have

He's got his appetite back BIG time!......he's away for a few nights though - gaawd it's such a gamble letting other people feed yer li'l coeliacs

I sometimes have to force myself to let him do things - can't let celiac disease rule his life

[curlyfries]

So, what were we all doing when we heard?

I was working at an elementary school. Teachers were in there classrooms with their kids, and they were discreetly looking at the news reports on their computers, when one of them told me about it. At first we all thought it was just a horrible accident. Once the second plane hit, we went to a lockdown. We never let the kids see what was going on.

My deaf student that I have now has a learning disability. Her class started discussing 9/11 yesterday and her understanding was that if we don't fly our flags at half-staff, we will get hit by terrorists. Mom called today because she couldn't convince her otherwise. The teacher for the hearing impaired travels to several schools every day and spends 1/2 hour with this girl each day. I spend that 1/2 hour in another class. That is the time that they discussed 9/11. The teacher talked to her today, so hopefully she understands.

[DingoGirl]

I was sleeping........the tasting room was closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays. got an uncharacteristically early (esp. from Lauren, a college student at the time) phone call and turned on the TV. I watched it for pretty much 48 hours straight, then went to work at the TR on Thursday. We were grief-stricken adn miserable at work, trying to promote fun and tourism and wine-tasting during a terrible time.

Well, drunken revelers kept coming in, acting as if nothing had happened, and it sickened us.....I remember saying to someone, don't you know what happened in New York? His thoughtless reply: yeah, well, did you know anyone there? We closed the tasting room two hours early that Thursday and Friday.

And then, Saturday, I drove down to see Old Man Johnny Rivers (the very last time, it turns out)......I had not really cracked a smile in five days, thought a drive to Big Sur would do me good........drank $15 Patron margaritas at Ventana.....it helped a little. [being with that a$$cracker did not ]

I went to a prayer session at church for the first time in three years on the Wed. night following the attack. Went to a black church, in Seaside......it was wonderful. I was crying at one point......and a huge, grandmotherly-type woman grabbed me in her ample bosom and hugged me, which resulted in a gentle sobbing.......

what a time.

[elye]

....and a huge, grandmotherly-type woman grabbed me in her ample bosom and hugged me, which resulted in a gentle sobbing.......

Where, O where, is that huge, grandmotherly-type woman right now... . .. for Sarah, and for Tom... . .. . .....

Okay, a bit of levity: Jess, this pondering is fer you.........In The Ottawa Citizen this morning there was a small blurb on the front page about the Great Proton Project of yesterday entitled "Big Bang Experiment a Smashing Success". The first sentence:

There was screaming and whistling in physics labs and auditoriums outside Geneva yesterday - - sober scientists whooping it up out of sheer joy.

What??? Scientists acting this way?? Is it possible??

[Mtndog]

Oh sad....I had just gone over the Golden gate Bridge when I heard "Another plane has crashed, this one into the Pentagon". I thought "WHAT? That means a plane crashed before this one?" As I drove to school, I heard the whole story. Arrived at school to a class about half full (some of the aprents hadn't heard before they dropped their kids off) of terrified 7th graders. We spent the day watching the news, talking and trying to calm down.

I called Kurt and told him to turn on the TV. Then I heard they were going to close all the bridges in the Bay Area and I was terrified that I wouldn't be able to get home to be with Kurt. I was in a daze, exhausted and sad, for weeks. My poor 7th graders were terrified.

Will never forget hearing it all.

[blueeyedmanda]

Sillies--

How are all you tonight?

[curlyfries]

We've been having quiet time lately, every evening at this time. Is everyone on Facebook?

Forgot to mention........on 9-11-01 my dad was having open heart surgery

[dollamasgetceliac?]

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[dollamasgetceliac?]

this is my campaign manageer.

[curlyfries]

I need votes ! Gow many ov ye would vote 4 Llama Llady o8!

Leave it to Llama lady to bring the silly back to Sillyville!

[Jestgar]

Where, O where, is that huge, grandmotherly-type woman right now... . .. for Sarah, and for Tom... . .. . .....

Okay, a bit of levity: Jess, this pondering is fer you.........In The Ottawa Citizen this morning there was a small blurb on the front page about the Great Proton Project of yesterday entitled "Big Bang Experiment a Smashing Success". The first sentence:

There was screaming and whistling in physics labs and auditoriums outside Geneva yesterday - - sober scientists whooping it up out of sheer joy.

What??? Scientists acting this way?? Is it possible??

Scientists are quite capable of "whooping" and engaging in other expressions of merriment.

[elye]

Good morning, Sillies!

Well, we are all watching Texas with trepidation. . . . . . .Ike makes landfall this evening. I feel for all of those people who are suddenly forced to evacuate, not knowing to what they will return....... . ..

Must go and pick up the big breaker switch that we need to be installed for the hot tub today. Exciting! Big things are happening in our backyard as a result of this big new toy - - we're tearing down our old deck and putting in a new one, incorporating the tub and the huge maple beside it (it will be coming out of a hole in the decking........spectacular! ....And weird, maybe? )..... ...... . .and it will canopy over the whole thing.

So..... . . busy grunt-work weekend coming. No Press-on Nails fer me. .. . .... . .

Jess! When you come up for our big Sillytubbie Party, you can show us some of this rumoured penchant that scientists have for bawdy, loud caterwauling. Everyone, we just may hear Jess whoop!

[blueeyedmanda]

Morning Sillies

There was a house I looked at yesterday that had a hottub and it came with. We both hated the house on the outside. The other houses were on top of you, hardly a back yard and no driveway and the on street parking was hideious! I was like VETO!

So we have a few more on hand to look at.....

It is a rather gloomy day out today.....one of those stay in bed days.

[nikki-uk]

Psillies!!

Anyone got that Friday pheeling???

Must go and pick up the big breaker switch that we need to be installed for the hot tub today. Exciting! Big things are happening in our backyard as a result of this big new toy - - we're tearing down our old deck and putting in a new one, incorporating the tub and the huge maple beside it (it will be coming out of a hole in the decking........spectacular! ....And weird, maybe? )..... ...... . .and it will canopy over the whole thing.

OH!! ...It sounds FABULUSH!!!!

Jess! When you come up for our big Sillytubbie Party, you can show us some of this rumoured penchant that scientists have for bawdy, loud caterwauling. Everyone, we just may hear Jess whoop!

Love to see that!!

It is a rather gloomy day out today.....one of those stay in bed days.

They all are now it is getting cold (and usually grEy)

<Note to self: must win lottery or find a rich relative to buy a 'winter home' somewhere hot >

[jerseyangel]

Sounds exciting, Em!! Any men wif ballcocks comin' to help?

Love that you're incorporating the tree!!! We will require a picture (or two) when it's all phinished.