I know the question of the new century has been who the hell cares is Floyd R. Turbo? Here I am shaming my little ones who were too scared for the 60′ plunge into the tank of reef sharks. Little wussies darlings.
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Good Lord, please tell me the slide didn’t steal your top…
Gives a whole new meaning to that Mayan calendar business.
I was gonna say, “Isn’t that the Dec. 21st, 2012, Memorial Mayan slide?”
Are you wearing a life jacket?
the camera adds 20 pounds as does a steady diet of long island teas
and if I didn’t have a shirt on the camera would have been blown by the reflection and I would’ve died from melanoma 30 years ago.
Boehner doesn’t have that problem. (I think you look cute, BTW)
from 80′ away I’m the cutest… and I think being a 44 year old white guy on a slide doesn’t blow my cover much.
Did you see Mark Cuban,Floyd?
Across the cyber space, you’re fr!kin’ James Bond, IMO. And you’re such a good sport to take the ribbing from the guys up there. I can’t stop laughing. (I hope I didn’t hurt your feelings by referring to “ribs.”)
Only if you were using microfiber towels to dry off, Floyd.
air dry all the way baby
Intelligent kids!
Speaking of air dry, when friends of mine were little kids, their grandmother used to “blow” them dry with a towel when they got out of the bathtub. They would get out of the tub and say, “Grandma … blow me!”
Darling innocents.
Around here, it’s drip dry.
Dang it, the lenses have fogged up again…
Use your microfiber cloth …
I was serious about the life jacket. But I’m no judge, since I’ve gained recently.
I thought you were busting my chops… Mmmmmmm chops!
Thanks all for the feedback on my open question in Friday’s open thread (about future education/professional pursuits). A couple of things I learned since then: 1) my M.A. credits won’t transfer since it was obtained more than 6 years ago and I haven’t been working in the field (though I have known to be out standing in a field … nyuck, nyuck … see what I did … oh, never mind…
). So that means pursuing an M.S. in Clinical Psych, with possibility of Psy.D. after 2 years (which would add a year to my studies). 2) I would have to take the GRE … again … uhg…
Still pondering the matter of cost & paying for it. I’ll be chatting with an the Director of Admissions Monday. If I can complete my application by 20 Dec., than the application fee is waived.
Groan. I feel your pain now that you mention “application.” *uch*. GRE, application … those things are the first filters for success. I really wish you the best.
When my dad would sing, he told me that his mother used to say, “Can you sing ‘High on a Windy Hill’”?
He would reply, “I don’t know that one.” She would say, “No. I mean can you please go sing high on a windy hill so we can’t hear you.” Granny was from Oklahoma.
Just make sure that you don’t spend a lot of time and money on studies that will yield no fruit for your bank account. That is unless you are simply in it for the mental enrichment. If that’s the reason, then, have at!
Dan’l gets all of his mental impoverishment…er,improvement!… here for free!
No, this isn’t about “mental enrichment”. If that’s all I wanted, I’d be comfortable staying at my job, taking a class now and again at UVa and irritate the hell out of the knee-jerk lefty professors. This is a career move – not just an educational pursuit for sake of education. I can’t ensure a job at the end of things, but I will go in, presuming I’m accepted, with very specific career goals in mind.
I watched Scream last evening, parts of it in between flipping to Texas/OSU, QVC, and more. I saw Zackmed again – so fun! – ate Popsicles, and listened to the rain.
This morning, I cruised back over to Saturday’s OT and found great eggnog info: recipes and another reason to drink booze, thank you Tink, Helm, & Mrs.Make.Do. I like store bought eggnog with Myers’s Rum ‘cuz it rhymes with “yum”! I would make Tink’s recipe but I never have a crowd at my house during the holidays anymore. Maybe I’ll mix a batch in SoCal sometime.
When I became paleo, I could not eat commercial mayonnaise because it uses soy oil (Bad!!). So, I decided to make my own but was concerned about raw eggs. A little research and I found that we can pasteurize eggs our eggs at home. Easy peasy: homemade mayo & eggnog for everyone!
Funny…I would have taken you for a Miracle Whip girl instead of Mayo! Oh well…it’s all just white creamy stuff anyway!
Nope. No Miracle Whip. No Cool Whip. No Bull Whip. No Bull Sh!t. (And I ain’t goin’ there, White Stuff).
I, myself, stay away from all soy based foods, as they contain craploads of natural estrogen, which tends to give men a manbooage problem. We men all like a great rack, but on the girls, not ourselves!
Absolutely! Soy is especially berry, berry bad for men. U R smart guy. Check your labels, fellers. Soy protein is in every processed food. And check out that nice bottle of prepared horseradish you put on your prime rib (prime rib good. Argh!!) … soy oil bad.
A lot of restaurants around here fry with soy oil and it tastes nasty. I make them fry my stuff in olive oil which pisses them off since it’s way more expensive.
U R smart guy, too.
O/T: What do you think of Michael Bublé? I think he’s dreamy.
Michael Bublé is great. He has a new Christmas special on Dec. 10 … not sure which channel. Maybe NBC. His special last year wasn’t so good. They forgot how to make good variety shows.
Exactly!! I love him but was sorely disappointed with his Christmas special. Hope this year’s is beddah!
And now for something really special.
An annual tradition of mine is to watch my Christmas Bing shows on DVD.
So edamame is really edamammaries?
Lawl.
Well, yes, aren’t they?
I sent your comment to my paleo Sun, the 6′, 225, 10% BMI guy (disgusting). He loved it.
P.S. My younger Sun is 6’2′, 250, chubby BMI. He’s got a wife & kid + one in the oven.
Choices. Love.
Thanks for the link! That’s awesome.
I buy mayo made w/ olive oil. It still has some soy in it, but mostly olive and canola.
I’ve looked for non-soy commercial without success. I’m sure you have the recipes for jar blender or hand blender mayonnaise? It’s easy to make but has a short shelf life. But so good in tuna salad!!
Happy birthday to my mom,Faye M.She was born in Meridian,Mississippi in 1930,so she remembers a few things.
Happy birthday, Miz Faye.
Said when she was a kid the family would sit in the living room and watch the radio.
Happy Birthday Miss Faye!
Happy Birthday, Scott’s Mum!
Happy 82 to her!
Said I, “Momma,you’ve never been on an airplane”…Says she,”Suits me”.
Fought on this day in 1805,the Battle of Austerlitz,wherein Napoleon defeated the armies of Tsar Alexander the 1st and the Holy Roman Emperor Franz the 2nd(of Austria,the last to hold that title).
http://www.myparisnet.com/wp-content/images/Place-Vendome_Paris-000.fullsize.jpg
That’s the Place Vendome in Paris,an incredibly beautiful part of a beautiful city(the Hotel Ritz sits there,although I didn’t stay there!).That column,which resembles the Column of Trajan in Rome,is made in part of the allied cannon captured at the battle by the French.
Dino!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYFMVfAbbgU
I highly recommend you folks buy The Dean Martin Christmas Show that recently came out on DVD. Use the Amazon link to the right if you do.
Oh. After listening to Scott’s link, I went to Amazonia and put My Kind of Christmas in my cargo container. I’ll switch it to The Dean Martin Christmas Show (or just add it & keep both *o*)
More Dino! And a great slideshow, too. That’s my Christmas tree in the second slide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaGkQCEmaAg
Delightful (unlike the frightful weather outside today).
Thought y’all chopped them down in Massachusetts,Matt.
Aluminum forests?
Not us hipsters. I even have the color wheel that changes the tree (and the room) different colors as it rotates. Got ‘em on ebay ten years ago. They’re either from the 50s or 60s.
When liberals say that they want to go back to the ’60s, I’m not sure this is what they had in mind: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/01/Middle-Class-Net-Worth-Collapses-to-1969-Levels
Yeah, the 60′s: tune in, turn on, drop out; now the choom gang’s flashback is my bad trip. What a drag it is comin’ down.
Yep, no terrorist threat here. Just a big neocon oil conspiracy. Move along, nothing to see here.
Naw,that’s those bad old Crusaders,dey mean to dose poor wittle Muslims!
Good stuff, JC. BG’s comments are spot on there, too. It is a war of attrition, abetted by useful Democrat and media idiots, and we are losing. All I want for Christmas are bullets.
I recently received this email from a friend & hope the numbers are accurate:
Reminds me of a comedian I saw (I think it was Bill Burr) who said that no nation will ever dare invade us as long as we’ve got rednecks. If someone tried to invade the south, they’d disappear and the only trace left would be a few shotgun shells and some empty beer bottles.
And it says something that the only people who could pull it off were fellow Americans. And it took them four years and by the end they were going with the “Beat ‘em to the Ground” and “Raze ‘em to the Ground” strategies.
A Pyrrhic victory that is repeating itself today, at the cliff.
And some fat wild boars …
Floyd, your pic reminds me of Another True Story from Yers Trooley™:
X1 and I made the annual trek to (then) Wet-N-Wild one fine summer day some decades ago…
Damn, I’m old.
Anyhoo, we made our way to the giant water slides. These weren’t the tall, ‘free fall’ ones like in Floyd’s pic, but the long, straight tubes that allowed you to really build up speed until you hit the safety pool at the bottom. Now, X1 was, shall we say, a rather zaftig woman. So even with the rising scream as a warning that she was coming, the lifeguards (and we spectators) were not really prepared as she shot out of the end of the tube like a satellite on reentry. The wave she made as she flew to the very end of the pool soaked us all, and I think the lead lifeguard peed a little. We were all laughing and cheering, but X1 was mortified and never went on the slides again.
When I hit the pool… Israelites are free to move across it.
Holy.Moses.
That was her result, too.
Pics or it didn’t happen, goozer.
Sadly, this happened in the Jurassic Era before iPhones and YouTube. Of course, there still wouldn’t be any pics or vids, since water and consumer electronics don’t mix well. But trust me — it happened!
The newer pools are safer… I played defensive tackle in football so you can do the math size wise… these landing pools were both about 4′ deep and were padded on the bottom… so while I made way for the chosen people to the Promised Land — I was not in danger of breaking my back.
Why is it when I search the web for a nice, Christmasy cowgirl avatar for the season, I get pron? Can I filter my search? Anyone?
Well for starters, you need to use Google, not Booble.
Lawl!! But if it was just boobs, I wouldn’t mind so much. It’s the poor ranch animals …
What do you think of this one?
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZgtAuULcmcQ/SwbJP6ylntI/AAAAAAAAAoo/6Y009CGYY-g/s1600/cowgirl+christmas+card+holding+guns.jpg
I like it.
So, I changed it in Disqus … now what? Do I have to do something else to get it to change here? I’m.a.dork.
Well, I use Gravitar — which lists Disqus as one of the sites that use it. Try changing it there.
I just changed it in google. Thx. I’ll try Gravitar.
Well …
Maybe I have to log off and back on …
Yay! There you are! Now you won’t have to pistol whip me!
See my comment at 0900 hours above re: whips. ;0
Yep. I had to sign out to change. Thanks for your help, patience, restraint. Now I’m all Christmasy!!
Oh, I saw your list — and noticed that pistols weren’t on it… :-O
And you’re welcome!
I’d better start checking my list twice.
Anytime you want cowgirl pin-up action google “Elvgren”
Thanks. She’s adorable, & I love the boots!
Great new ammo for states telling the feds to go stick Obamacare where the sun don’t shine: http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/sebelius-coverup_664285.html
Maybe Sebelius was just writing his biography.
(Good eye on this, Kenn. I hope John Roberts rues that day).
That’s the only good thing about Obama, he got Sebelius out of Kansas.
The 49ers suck (today).
So did the Nittany Lions women’s soccer team. That and the Tar Heels have an amazing bunch of players. Just wow … and always nice to see Mia Hamm in the stands [swoon].
I love Mia Hamm. Classy woman. Classy winner.
Brandi Chastain & her strip tease, not so much.
Beg to differ.