The Funny Pages - Tickle Me Elbow - The Original

[elye]

Well .. . ... but also ..... . . ......

Sophie and her Nepean Wildcats have made it into the gold medal game........incredible. They are starting their game as I speak.

I am not there. Incredible, also... .I am heartsick. Two fairly good reasons - - Jack had a sudden opportunity to have his best buddy over this afternoon, a boy he rarely gets to see.....I didn't have the heart to make his friend go home at three so that we could race out for the 90 minute drive to Cornwall. My car is also acting up somewhat, and a long highway drive just didn't feel prudent.. . . . ....sigh .. . ..... . ...

I should be there.

Oh, well. The decision was made. On we go .. . ....... . .

POeter! I did feel comfortable enough to take the car to Chapters just now, as I could no longer stand Jack's pestering me to buy the first in Robert Sawyer's Neandrethal Parallax, Homonid. He was reading it in the car on the way home, completely enthralled, and wanted me to let you know this.. . .. . .. !!

[elye]

THAT, my friends, is the NUMBER ONE THING they do in hell. Read patterns, pin fabric, cut fabric, sew it together, measure, see that it is wrong, rip out seams, re-pin, re-sew, measure again......adjust......and finally realized that it is skewed beyond humanity.........throw it out............

Agree with you there, Sooozie.... . . . . . .the thought of following someone else's patterns for items of clothing has always been beyond me, as is the thought of following someone else's recipes for a meal. This is why I've always created my own clothing outta me head, and most of my meals are using ingredeints that I think should go together.

The results? Sometimes spectacular . .. . a few unforgettable, unique dresses and pasta dishes...... .....

.. . And sometimes dishrags and meals for the dog. . . . ....

[curlyfries]

Read patterns, pin fabric, cut fabric, sew it together, measure, see that it is wrong, rip out seems, re-pin, re-sew, measure again......adjust......and finally realized that it is skewed beyond humanity.........throw it out............

.......and start over.

Yep...........that sounds about right! ...........but you forgot.......pin to the wrong side, cut it out backwards .........attach pieces and find they don't line up .........and when and if you DO get to the sewing, you jam the machine because the needle stopped advancing and the thread congregates in one massive bunch and has multiplied inside the machine ......daring you to unravel this inpenetrable mess .......so now you get out the scissors........cut your fabric in the process.....jab your finger INTO the needle .............

sorry.........got a little carried away....

[curlyfries]

This is why I've always created my own clothing outta me head

This would be a disaster waiting to happen.........step away from the sewing machine.....

[Green12]

Hi Sillies!

Bulky tubes?

Patti said she can dig it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And Jess is a wild ute?!?!?!?

HEE HEE!

Amanda, thanks for checking in and giving an update on your dad. I am SO relieved he came through the surgery ok!! This has been so stressful on you, with all the other stuff you have going on, it's no wonder you have been sick. Please take good care fo you!!!

spent the day moving furniture around. (tired). Got some stuff from a friend who is downsizing and have been trying to figure out where to put it. When my sunroom gets done it'll be a temporary workout room (until the roommate leaves and I can re-arrange) but for now I have 2 exercise bikes, one treadmill and a stair stepper thing (not mine) in my tv room. I have a coffee table under my dining room table (his is in the tv room) and a carousel horse by the window

Ooh fun!! New stuff and a decorating/room rearranging project, my favorite!! When your sun room gets done Jess you'll get everything in its place and it will just be fab!

I would offer a Susie-style *snort* at this point, but with the current context it would be badly misconstrued.

HA HA HA!!!! Peter

SO! Sophie's team won BOTH games yesterday - - 3 - 1 and 2 - 0. Soph got the MVP award for the second game. The tourney is in Cornwall, about 80 minutes west of here, so she and her dad stayed overnight there last night and I got the reports. They have a buy into the semi-final at 1:00 today, and then possibly the gold medal game at 5:00.

YAY Sophie and her team!! How exciting

Yum!!!. . . . banana bread is me absolute FAVE...... .. I have to limit my banana intake, as they're really sweet, but I do love them.

AND - - I buy them like crazy. . . .ergo, we often have blackish bananas, as my family cannot keep up. I dislike baking, so rather than always making banana bread, I take the extra bananas, smash them up and stir it into plain yogurt, which I always seem to have. I stir some stevia in as well, and I've got delicious, home-made fruit yogurt that tastes so much better than the crap-filled "fruit" stuff you buy. It lasts forever, too. . . . ..

I suddenly have a Gwen Stefani song stuck in my head!

It's Bananas! B - A- N - A -N - A - S !!!!!!

You have to try my fruit and cream concoction with just bananas....there's just something so fantastically dreamy and creamy about the specific combo :droolyface:

Now, YOU may find this hard to believe BUT I LOVE the overly chatty types, am ALWAYS drawn to 'em (come to think of it, most me friends could talk for England!).....I am a born listener

Anyhoo - what I'm trying to say is DON'T assume they (new peeps) were repelled by your exhuberant chattiness - they may have been positively charmed by your banter (as I'm sure *I* will be one day when I get the $'s to meet yer )

I am going to have to do a Judy and say ditto to this, so very well put Nikki and my thoughts exactly!!!!

Susie, you are so CHARMING!!! Sorry about your kindney pain, how is it today any better?

And how is the Bevel PHEELING!?!?!?!?!

Ok, NOT touching the Banana bread (cake/sponge?) recipe wiv a BARGE pole as it looks delisciously moist and yummy and CALORIFIC!!!!!!

I'm trying to be really good 'til xmas so I can have a total calorific blow out then

Calorific blowout!!!!!!

Good plan Nik, and best of luck to ya!!! Unfortunately wouldn't work here as we have Thanksgiving right in the middle of now and Christmas. Tis very challenging to be good from Halloween to New Years, much weight is usually gained over this never ending holiday celebration time of year!! As Smack would say, GOOD GRIEF!!

Well........I guess it doesn't look too promising for me, then. I am definitely not a chatty person. But I must say that those kind of people really take the pressure off those of us who have naught to say around new people.

Lisa, so true

1st thought is ... .. ... have seen other pix now so not just looking for big blue sweater

But damn . ..that game's not on here.

Jealous of the attendance to big-time college football!! (Yeah yeah it ain't USC or Texas or Bama/LSU etc. ..don't argue w/ me here)

:gladferj

[DingoGirl]

Yep...........that sounds about right! ...........but you forgot.......pin to the wrong side, cut it out backwards .........attach pieces and find they don't line up .........and when and if you DO get to the sewing, you jam the machine because the needle stopped advancing and the thread congregates in one massive bunch and has multiplied inside the machine ......daring you to unravel this inpenetrable mess .......so now you get out the scissors........cut your fabric in the process.....jab your finger INTO the needle .............

sorry.........got a little carried away....

SNOOOOOOOOORT

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

<used my 10 on this>

Lisa, my bad, I left out these CRUCIAL details......................you have captured it perfectly

gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[DingoGirl]

Julie's in loose clothing just like Soozle, no buttons, zippers, tight waistbands - just as it should be. Football game sounds fun, wOOt! (but cold, eh?)

notice phriends.......that I am AVOIDING the banana bread and recipe-following..................

[elye]

GAHHHH.......

The game is going into sudden-death overtime.....Wildcats were leading 1 - 0, and the other team scored on Sophie with a minute remaining .. . . .

If it is still tied after these five minutes, they go to a SHOOTOUT. . . . ........

OMG....one cannot imagine, being the mother of the goalie when the game is tied and it is a final shootout. . . . . the agony . . . .. . . . ...

THANK GAWD I'M NOT THERE!!!!!

You have to try my fruit and cream concoction with just bananas....there's just something so fantastically dreamy and creamy about the specific combo :droolyface:

Jooolie! Share, pleeeeeze!!!

Sounds like you had a terrific time at the game. Ain't football grand??

[elye]

GOLD MEDAL WINNERS!!!!!!

Gahhhhh .. . . double overtime, still tied....then, a shootout...........best of three shots. . . .

Other goalie lets in the first shot on her.....

Sophie saves the first on her.

Other goalie lets the second in. .. . . .

Sophie saves the second shot on her. . . . . .!!!!!

I WANTED TO BE THERE!!!!!!!!

[jerseyangel]

I know you wanted to be there, Em Sometimes we moms just need to be in two places at the same time

But.....

CONGRATULATIONS SOPHIE!!!!!

Well done!!!!

[curlyfries]

YAY, WILDCATS!!!!!!!!........YAY, SOPHIE!!!!!!!!

[elye]

I've emailed Sophie a message to come onto the Psilly thread and read the last half of page 1508 when she gets home....... . .

Gad. .... .don't want her reading any more than that.....imagine what she'd be thinkin' about me??

[elye]

....Lord.......Being a goalie's mom is MUCH tougher than sitting in front of a sewing machine. . ....

Really!!!

[WardGirl]

Congrats Sophie on a job well done and Emily congrats on being the mom of a gold medal goalie.

now back to a confab on Yahoo

[psawyer]

POeter! I did feel comfortable enough to take the car to Chapters just now, as I could no longer stand Jack's pestering me to buy the first in Robert Sawyer's Neanderthal Parallax, Hominids. He was reading it in the car on the way home, completely enthralled, and wanted me to let you know this.. . .. . .. !!

Tis a marvelous tale, and all of the places in it are real. The property that our parents used to own near Canandaigua, NY, is the setting from some scenes in this story, but I think that is in the second volume of the trilogy. Rob blends mystery into the science fiction genre, and there are a couple of mystery subplots. For more about his life and writings,

GOLD MEDAL WINNERS!!!!!!

Hooray for the Wildcats!

Gad. .... .don't want her reading any more than that.....imagine what she'd be thinkin' about me??

Hmm, perhaps there is an opportunity for her to really get to know who her mother is. Of course, she would be familiar with nuttiness in the family from your father, wouldn't she? Perhaps it is hereditary. :lol:

[Green12]

GOLD MEDAL WINNERS!!!!!!

Gahhhhh .. . . double overtime, still tied....then, a shootout...........best of three shots. . . .

Other goalie lets in the first shot on her.....

Sophie saves the first on her.

Other goalie lets the second in. .. . . .

Sophie saves the second shot on her. . . . . .!!!!!

I WANTED TO BE THERE!!!!!!!!

Holy Moly!!!!!! What a nail biter!!!!!!!

Way to go Sophie!!!!

Congrats Wildcats!!!!!!

Emily, that must have been torture not being there!

[DingoGirl]

GOLD MEDAL WINNERS!!!!!!

Gahhhhh .. . . double overtime, still tied....then, a shootout...........best of three shots. . . .

GO SOPHIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hooray WILDCATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is just fantastic news....so, was Will giving you the complete play-by-play via cell? didja just stay on the phone the whole time?

Tis a marvelous tale, and all of the places in it are real. The property that our parents used to own near Canandaigua, NY, is the setting from some scenes in this story, but I think that is in the second volume of the trilogy. Rob blends mystery into the science fiction genre, and there are a couple of mystery subplots. For more about his life and writings, Open Original Shared Link

this is just so cool, brother of a silly is a famous author, and, son of a silly is reading his works!!!!!!!!! :glee:

Poeter - your av is beautiful, but I don't know what it is.......very moving, looks like something Canadienne. Everything makes me cry lately.

Emily, that must have been torture not being there!

yes, but, she might have gone MAD if she were there, and done some scary zulu dance on the ice

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sillies - - baking story to tell you - notice how long I've been gone?

had no rice flour here.............had to go to many stores, mid-recipe

more to the story, don't want to take away from Sophie's victory, will tell you all of it tomorrow.

[because blah blah blah PRATTLE blah blah, that's what I do. ]

Main point being, I'm no longer allowed to talk to humans except Inner Circle.....I don't know what is wrong with me lately........ Is it just adult-onset Social Tourette's? I have turned off my phones, this will remain so for days, I think.............

[Green12]

I will have you know I put a size 4 on my "way to go" and "congrats", but look at how pathetically small it came out.....WTH happened?!?!?!

Main point being, I'm no longer allowed to talk to humans except Inner Circle.....I don't know what is wrong with me lately........ Is it just adult-onset Social Tourette's? I have turned off my phones, this will remain so for days, I think.............

Now wait a minute, this might not be ok wif us...are WE a part of yer Inner Circle

[psawyer]

Poeter - your av is beautiful, but I don't know what it is.......very moving, looks like something Canadienne. Everything makes me cry lately.

Canadian indeed. November 11 is the anniversary of the armistice that ended hostilities in World War I. The truce took effect at 11:00 am.

We remember this every year on November 11. This date is Remembrance Day, and we wear poppies on our lapels (or wherever) as a symbol of the sacrifices made in that war, and every war since, for the freedom we enjoy today. At 11:00 we observe a minute of silence in tribute to the fallen.

The poppy as a symbol is taken from the poem Open Original Shared Link by Canadian soldier and physician LtCol John McRae, who was himself killed in action in WWI.

My current avatar is a tribute to those who died so that I could be free.

[elye]

this is just so cool, brother of a silly is a famous author, and, son of a silly is reading his works!!!!!!!!! :glee:

I know....it is splendid. Jack has already read about a quarter of it. He is fascinated, scared and thrilled all at once. Neandrethal man in modern-day North America........

...Sounds like my Uncle Art . ........

Poeter - your av is beautiful, but I don't know what it is.......very moving, looks like something Canadienne. Everything makes me cry lately.

Sooozie! Do you not wear poppies down there before your Remembrance Day? Such a huge tradition up here. . . . ...I'll let POeter elaborate........

sillies - - baking story to tell you - notice how long I've been gone?

had no rice flour here.............had to go to many stores, mid-recipe

more to the story, don't want to take away from Sophie's victory, will tell you all of it tomorrow.

[because blah blah blah PRATTLE blah blah, that's what I do. ]

Enough of Sophie's story! What baking tale have you to impart to us all, Soooozie?

[Green12]

Tis a marvelous tale, and all of the places in it are real. The property that our parents used to own near Canandaigua, NY, is the setting from some scenes in this story, but I think that is in the second volume of the trilogy. Rob blends mystery into the science fiction genre, and there are a couple of mystery subplots. For more about his life and writings, Open Original Shared Link

This is brother of our Oracle? How exciting, and fascinating link you sent us to!!

Hmm, perhaps there is an opportunity for her to really get to know who her mother is. Of course, she would be familiar with nuttiness in the family from your father, wouldn't she? Perhaps it is hereditary. :lol:

Very good points!

Peter, this may make me sound like an idiot, but what is your avatar about?

[DingoGirl]

Now wait a minute, this might not be ok wif us...are WE a part of yer Inner Circle

not to worry, how could I live wifout me sillies?

I do prattle on here but.........there is a backspace and edit button........as I was leaving the parking lot, I actually did LONG FOR a backspace/edit/delete/SHUT the F UP button in real life.......

and guess what, it was only about a 60-second encounter.........so much stupidity, so little time......

PETER! I didn't know what the poppy was...........we also have what we call Veteran's Day here, also Nov. 11, a holiday for all, I think. Truly moving.......what made it so much more meaningful for me was the movie Saving Private Ryan....... *sniff*

Um, soon I'm not going to be allowed to have any contact at all with outside world........must throw computer onto highway again, methinks.........

[psawyer]

Peter, this may make me sound like an idiot, but what is your avatar about?

I posted an explanation about my avatar; it is on the previous page (1508). It is a poppy. It is something we Canadians have deep feelings about, but it is little known elsewhere.

And yes, my brother is famous.

[elye]

Canadian indeed. November 11 is the anniversary of the armistice that ended hostilities in World War I. The truce took effect at 11:00 am.

We remember this every year on November 11. This date is Remembrance Day, and we wear poppies on our lapels (or wherever) as a symbol of the sacrifices made in that war, and every war since, for the freedom we enjoy today. At 11:00 we observe a minute of silence in tribute to the fallen.

The poppy as a symbol is taken from the poem Open Original Shared Link by Canadian soldier and physician LtCol John McRae, who was himself killed in action in WWI.

My current avatar is a tribute to those who died so that I could be free.

Oh, boy. . . . . . ..I can only imagine what Soooozie's like after reading this....... It's got ME close to tears. .. . ...... ...

[elye]

And yes, my brother is famous.

I'll say!!! He won a Hugo Award!!!*

*Literary excellence in the science fiction genre