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The Funny Pages - Tickle Me Elbow - The Original


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mushroom Proficient

Nah, this old duck's a bit tough for eating :lol:

A bit wild and gamey to boot!

But why is my butt getting warm? :unsure:


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Lisa Mentor

Be safe everyone with this "wild and crazy" weather! All required to check in in the am.

Jestgar Rising Star

Be safe everyone with this "wild and crazy" weather! All required to check in in the am.

Most definitely.

No wind for us, it's cold (not east coast cold, but Seattle cold) and sunny (ok, well, it's dark now, but 'twas sunny a few hours ago).

Jestgar Rising Star

So I accidentally bought some chocolate, and I've discovered that after eating the 70% kind, the 'normal' dark chocolate (45%) tastes like milk chocolate.

kareng Grand Master

So I accidentally bought some chocolate, and I've discovered that after eating the 70% kind, the 'normal' dark chocolate (45%) tastes like milk chocolate.

Accidentally bought chocolate? You were reaching for the brocolii and grabbed the wrong thing?

mushroom Proficient

Accidentally bought chocolate? You were reaching for the brocolii and grabbed the wrong thing?

Happens to me all the time B)

elye Community Regular

Man, I HATE when that happens. . . .. ... . ..Who hasn't, in their stressed, rushed, lives, confused that big head o' broccoli in the grocery bin for that box of chocolate right beside it? They need to separate these items within the store -- too easily confused, and then BAM! I've got a big container o' chocolate in my house.. .. . . ....

<_<

:rolleyes:

Be safe everyone with this "wild and crazy" weather! All required to check in in the am.

All present and accounted for. . .. . . ...we're only expecting 6-7 inches of psnaough. But it's begun, and it's really blowing. Very high winds coming.. .. ..dangerous driving, and of course I have to get my mom to TWO doc appointments today.. . . . .... ..

Hunker down, everybody!


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curlyfries Contributor

School is out again today. Everything is covered in a thick layer of ice.

DD, in an attempt to de-ice her car, has broken her back windshield (she was using a hammer :o ). Many tears followed :( .

jerseyangel Proficient

DD, in an attempt to de-ice her car, has broken her back windshield (she was using a hammer :o ). Many tears followed :( .

Oh no! The poor thing :(

jerseyangel Proficient

Happy Groundhog Day!! He saw his shadow, lets hope it holds true :rolleyes:

kareng Grand Master

School is out again today. Everything is covered in a thick layer of ice.

DD, in an attempt to de-ice her car, has broken her back windshield (she was using a hammer :o ). Many tears followed :( .

:huh:

Tis 2F (-16C) here. Down to -12 tonite ( not including wind chill). What is the point of the psnaugh if it's too cold to play in it?

celiac-mommy Collaborator

she was using a hammer :o

What?! :huh:

Hope everyone stays safe!!! And warm!!!!!

curlyfries Contributor

Happy Groundhog Day!! He saw his shadow, lets hope it holds true :rolleyes:

I think you mean he did NOT see his shadow. And yes, I am sooo ready for an early spring.

25 degrees here....not too terrible, but I will be driving my daughters newly air-conditioned car to the repair shop....brrrrr :ph34r:

curlyfries Contributor

What?! :huh:

She had already broken her ice scraper yesterday, trying to chip away the ice from her car. She saw a neighbor doing it (although I think his was a mallet), so......

Good news

The windshield will cost $400 to replace, BUT........the company she works for will reimburse her.

Darn210 Enthusiast

Hubby just tried to do some shoveling . . . he DID get a layer off so that we can get the back door open to let JoDog out to take cake of bidness. I asked if he was going to try the driveway next <snort>. . . it ain't happenin'.

I don't think we got as much as they predicted, but what we got is bad enough . . . sleet fused together with ice . . . very slick and concretish at our house. Have absolutely no idea what the roads are doing. Nobody's moving thru the neighborhood at all. Neighbor kids were ice skating in the cul-de-sac yesterday. We've got some tree limbs down but they're not too big. Of course the tree I would most like to lose (and replace with something much better) is standing strong.

jerseyangel Proficient

I think you mean he did NOT see his shadow.

Oops--yep!

curlyfries Contributor

Hubby just tried to do some shoveling . . . he DID get a layer off so that we can get the back door open to let JoDog out to take cake of bidness. I asked if he was going to try the driveway next <snort>. . . it ain't happenin'.

Tell him to try a hammer :P

Jestgar Rising Star

Lounged about at home today. Got in to work late, and I'm still the first one here. Think I'll make some coffee.

elye Community Regular

Of course the tree I would most like to lose (and replace with something much better) is standing strong.

Tell him to try a hammer :P

Yeah, and on dat tree, too. .. .... . . . ..<_<

It is rather sublime, here, outside. Blowing psnaough... . . .like a wee blizzard. Ice is forming, but haven't seen any tree limbs down as yet. Spotty power outages. We are so accustomed to this, it is a regular day. Kids at school, buses moving, all kinds of cars on the roads, pedestrains plowing through the sidewalks and streets. . . . . ...... .

We's a crazy lot... . . .. ... :rolleyes:

celiac-mommy Collaborator

Yeah, and on dat tree, too. .. .... . . . ..<_<

It is rather sublime, here, outside. Blowing psnaough... . . .like a wee blizzard. Ice is forming, but haven't seen any tree limbs down as yet. Spotty power outages. We are so accustomed to this, it is a regular day. Kids at school, buses moving, all kinds of cars on the roads, pedestrains plowing through the sidewalks and streets. . . . . ...... .

We's a crazy lot... . . .. ... :rolleyes:

Yeah, we would have had school cancelled, grocery stores out of food cuz peep's are freaking out and buying everything on the shelves, regular TV programs interrupted bu "Special Breaking News" reporting each new cm of psnoh and every accident on the road :rolleyes:

I just want a psnoh day-WITH power outage- to have an excuse to stay in bed and read all day! :)

Loey Rising Star

Things are going a wee bit haywire for Clark and me. Saw FP on Wednesday and now I have to see five specialists and have 5 tests done. Then yesterday my DH called at 7:30 AM to let me know his department is being transferred to Cambridge Mass. WTF? we just got here 6 months ago. Spent the day wondering all the 3 W's . Had to wait until 5:30 PM to find out any info. We talked it over last night and I think it's going to take 18 to 24 months before the actual move. We're going to stay in RI and he'll probably take an apartment with some of the other displaced men and come home Friday through Sunday. We lived like that for 3 months last year but it was at the height of my illness. It still sucked. This would be for about 5 years and then he could retire at 55. I'm glad that we won't be selling the house (as if we could in this market) and we're pretty sure he won't be one of the people laid off. But I see now why he has said the Pfizer has a horrible reputation.

Thanks for letting me vent!

Loey sad.gifsad.gifsad.gif

kareng Grand Master

The boys are out shoveling the 3 foot tall 5 foot wide wall of snow the plow made at the end of our driveway. :(

Jestgar Rising Star

The boys are out shoveling the 3 foot tall 5 foot wide wall of snow the plow made at the end of our driveway. :(

We used to make forts and tunnels out of these.

celiac-mommy Collaborator

We used to make forts and tunnels out of these.

Fun!

Darn210 Enthusiast

We used to make forts and tunnels out of these.

Cool tunnel!!! . . . Karen, is it big enough to make a tunnel for the car to get out of the drive thru?

Hubby keeps going out and hacking at the drive and them coming back in to say he can't make a dent then going back out to hack at the drive . . . etc . . . he's talking about using the ax . . . hope I can get him to the ER when he has a heart attack or accidently chops his foot off.

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