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Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon January 06, 2025 3:40 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
Chris_H_2 wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:i'm bored.
Let's drive to Michigan and kick Tommy's butt.
have you ever been north of the Mason Dixon line?
Hell yeah like 10 times at least idiot
without your mom?
Every dang one of them.

Actually I think it's only been 7 times, and 4 were to the same place :oops:

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon January 06, 2025 3:42 am
by spike
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:i'm bored.
Let's drive to Michigan and kick Tommy's butt.
have you ever been north of the Mason Dixon line?
Hell yeah like 10 times at least idiot
without your mom?
Every dang one of them.

Actually I think it's only been 7 times, and 4 were to the same place :oops:
Hamburger University?

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon January 06, 2025 3:43 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
spike wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:i'm bored.
Let's drive to Michigan and kick Tommy's butt.
have you ever been north of the Mason Dixon line?
Hell yeah like 10 times at least idiot
without your mom?
Every dang one of them.

Actually I think it's only been 7 times, and 4 were to the same place :oops:
Hamburger University?
Yeah that was it

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon January 06, 2025 4:00 am
by contamination
Rangi Guy wrote:
daft twat wrote:
Rangi Guy wrote:Got two kittens today. Had told our girls that we could start looking when we got back from holiday, then my wife ambushed me this morning
Will they die by snakes or bring you dead snake gifts?
No snakes here, not sure what gifts we'll get
Isn't it so that New Zealand basically has no snakes, or at least no venomous snakes?

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon January 06, 2025 4:06 am
by Rangi Guy
contamination wrote:
Rangi Guy wrote:
daft twat wrote:
Rangi Guy wrote:Got two kittens today. Had told our girls that we could start looking when we got back from holiday, then my wife ambushed me this morning
Will they die by snakes or bring you dead snake gifts?
No snakes here, not sure what gifts we'll get
Isn't it so that New Zealand basically has no snakes, or at least no venomous snakes?
No snakes

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon January 06, 2025 4:07 am
by contamination
Rangi Guy wrote:
contamination wrote:
Rangi Guy wrote:
daft twat wrote:
Rangi Guy wrote:Got two kittens today. Had told our girls that we could start looking when we got back from holiday, then my wife ambushed me this morning
Will they die by snakes or bring you dead snake gifts?
No snakes here, not sure what gifts we'll get
Isn't it so that New Zealand basically has no snakes, or at least no venomous snakes?
No snakes
Yet another reason I wanna visit there one day

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon January 06, 2025 4:24 am
by Jorge
I too have made it a mission to visit all the snakeless countries

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon January 06, 2025 11:36 am
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon January 06, 2025 11:46 am
by spike
what'd she do?

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon January 06, 2025 12:23 pm
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon January 06, 2025 12:58 pm
by spike
You and Sam Darnold both had Sundays.

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon January 06, 2025 1:19 pm
by 96583UP
light snow flurries this morning

thinking about Jamyhr Gibbs

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon January 06, 2025 9:42 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Sometimes, like today, I'll be having what I think is a "bad day" or "bad week", then I read a headline like this that makes me appreciate my life:

7-year-old found alive in ‘lion-infested’ Zimbabwe national park survived on wild fruit and ground water

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon January 06, 2025 9:45 pm
by doug rr
in Vancouver and all of our furnishings from California just got put into the in-laws storage today..now we just need to find a forever home...thats months away

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon January 06, 2025 9:46 pm
by Ello Sailor
tragabigzanda wrote:She was rushing me
Were you rushing, or were you Tragging?

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon January 06, 2025 9:50 pm
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon January 06, 2025 10:01 pm
by doug rr
he's fine

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon January 06, 2025 10:22 pm
by bart
Poor kid was probably so jealous of his buddies in the lithium pit

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Mon January 06, 2025 10:29 pm
by dad
bart has been on an absolute tear lately, and i love it.

Re: Talk about your day thread

Posted: Tue January 07, 2025 12:49 am
by spike
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Sometimes, like today, I'll be having what I think is a "bad day" or "bad week", then I read a headline like this that makes me appreciate my life:

7-year-old found alive in ‘lion-infested’ Zimbabwe national park survived on wild fruit and ground water
Yeah but that’s really livin’