Miscellaneous Discussion Thread

I don't partake, but wouldn't be able to resist some marijuana if in Colorado. The edibles sound interesting, and maybe a marijuana vape or some specialized strains.

Quote: DRich

If he wants to head a little west he might run into DRich on occasion in the Bitterroot Valley. DRich also drinks Black Velvet.

Girls Drink.

A winding two lane mountain road, with blind curves, no shoulder, carved into the sheer face of (occasionally tumbling) rock of the Continental Divide soaring far above on one side, a steep cliff to the bottom on the other, in November. Aha, I've definitely heard of this very same plan before. Lotsa fun & great adventure can be had that way. Occasionally add sudden random appearance of large wildlife, along with oncoming traffic swinging around sharp bends in steep narrow road. My mother did EXACTLY that very same thing once. Except she was born and raised in Montana, her November drive through the Rockies was in daytime, and with a driver who knew that specific road very well.

Done at night? By someone who isn't at all familiar with the road, and may not even know this kind of real serious mountain range from Shinola? (The other places mentioned as in the "west" do not have anything like what people in that part of the country would ever think of calling "mountains" without laughing). Wheeeee! I'd ask what Mom thought about her trip, but she hasn't had much to say about it, now that she resides in a little box on my bookshelf. They weren't able to scrape together very much of her charred remains, or to really say for sure what little cooked pieces of fleshy stuff that was left over was from exactly who or what.

Good luck. Check insurance, leave kids.

/End of downer nag. Back to fun & games.

Quote: GWAE

Flea, why did you say day time driving only?

Please see the response immediately above this one.

Why don't they just put in guard rails? Seems silly to have drop offs on a dangerous road. Come to think of it, I have heard of roads in the area where people drive off the mountain.

Tickets were bought last night. Good news just 2 purchased. Kids will be staying home. Two weeks later we are going to Chicago with them so we decided to leave them on this trip. We will have 2 full days so now I gotta decide what to do without spending tons of money.

Quote: GWAE

Does anyone have any cheapy must see things in that area. Hopefully it doesn't snow and we can't go.

Free tour at Coors brewery with samples.

If kids are under 12, this is a must. let them go in Black Bart's cave, take pix of them in jail, have artist draw a caricature.

http://www.casabonitadenver.com/

Quote: DRich

Free tour at Coors brewery with samples.

that is a great point. Our budweiser tour was one of the highlights of my life. We did the paid tour instead of the free tour. I did a "keg stand" on the finishing barrels right before bottling. I was completely blasted (she was pregnant so I had a DD). After that we went to the arch, parked near the MS river and almost fell in. I did my recreation of Rocky coming up the steps from the river and then waited in line for the Arch. I usually don't find other drunk people funny but the video of all this is pretty epic.

Quote: FDEAD3709

If kids are under 12, this is a must. let them go in Black Bart's cave, take pix of them in jail, have artist draw a caricature.

http://www.casabonitadenver.com/

this looks like a great time. We are actually planning another trip out there next summer so I will make sure this is added to the list.

"The only difference between men and boys is the cost of their toys."

Unless the men play with the boys' toys.


Violent Barbie Jeep Racing

Quote: MrV

"The only difference between men and boys is the cost of their toys."

Unless the men play with the boys' toys.


Violent Barbie Jeep Racing

I'll bet all of those people are related.

Quote: Ibeatyouraces

Quote: MrV

"The only difference between men and boys is the cost of their toys."

Unless the men play with the boys' toys.


Violent Barbie Jeep Racing

I'll bet all of those people are related.

Yeah. Lol. A la Foxworthy: that family tree don't branch.

Quote: beachbumbabs

Yeah. Lol. A la Foxworthy: that family tree don't branch.

Not sure what the reference of Foxworthy relates to, but there are advantages to that sort of thing: "Sam Gerard: Alright, which one of you is the ugliest, most inbred country son of a bitch out here?"

I don't socialize much with the neighbors here... they still remember the time I first bought gasoline for my Jay-pan car and tried to order a "Vanilla Almond Latte" at the coffee counter. Yet its a similar lifestyle around here: You drive an American made pickup truck or else you drive an ATV. There are two types of beer: Budweiser and Corona. There are three things to hunt in these here parts: Gators, Boars and New Yorkers. A young man and a young woman are considered destined for each other if they each use the same brand of chaw.

Quote: FleaStiff

Not sure what the reference of Foxworthy relates to, but there are advantages to that sort of thing: "Sam Gerard: Alright, which one of you is the ugliest, most inbred country son of a bitch out here?"

Jeff Foxworthy, Southern comedian, does a lot of one liners that finish with the redneck part. " If your family tree don't branch....you might be a redneck." "If you think loading the dishwasher means getting your wife drunk...." " If you have a house that is mobile and 5 cars that aren't. ..." etc. There must be thousands of them by now.

Quote: beachbumbabs

Jeff Foxworthy, Southern comedian, does a lot of one liners that finish with the redneck part. " If your family tree don't branch....you might be a redneck." "If you think loading the dishwasher means getting your wife drunk...." " If you have a house that is mobile and 5 cars that aren't. ..." etc. There must be thousands of them by now.

He started his redneck jokes not to far from me. He was doing a gig at a local comedy club which had a bowling alley attached to it. A limo pulled up and he thought it was going to the bowling alley. That's how he came up with the idea.

It would be great if the RWP folks that sponsor this zany event would relocate its venue from Texas to Nevada; find a suitable hill near Las Vegas, schedule the race for a time when it isn't too hot, and go for it.

Be even better to coordinate it with a WoVCon meet and greet; lots of betting opportunities, a way to settle long-standing grudges, and best of all, no fear of vomit (fractures/concussions though, but hey, it's all in the service of a worthy cause).

Who needs McNuggets, when Barbie Jeeps are available?

"Here we are now, entertain us!"

We are going to the greenfield village on Dec 4th. Do any of the detroit peeps on here know of any way to get discounted tickets?

Went to pumpkin patch yesterday. RS, you do know what that is, right? Anyways had kettle corn for the first time. I sure have been missing out for the last 30 years.

Quote: GWAE

Anyways had kettle corn for the first time. I sure have been missing out for the last 30 years.

W....T.....F? 30 years without kettle corn? Did you grow up in Zambia? That is child abuse on the part of your parents lol.

Quote: mcallister3200

W....T.....F? 30 years without kettle corn? Did you grow up in Zambia? That is child abuse on the part of your parents lol.

Haha, I have no idea why. I love popcorn but just never wanted kettle corn. Wife bought it while I was in a corn beach with son. Came out and tried. Promptly finished half the bag.

Quote: GWAE

Went to pumpkin patch yesterday. RS, you do know what that is, right? Anyways had kettle corn for the first time. I sure have been missing out for the last 30 years.

I love kettle corn and was at a Sangria Festival yesterday and I had to restrain myself from buying it.

Quote: GWAE

Went to pumpkin patch yesterday. RS, you do know what that is, right? Anyways had kettle corn for the first time. I sure have been missing out for the last 30 years.

Simmons Farm is also a great place to take the kids in the Fall.

Quote: Mission146

Simmons Farm is also a great place to take the kids in the Fall.

I will look that up. We used to go to rileys farm but they closed down last year. This year we went to irons mills farm. It was really nice and not horribly expensive. I hear they get crazy busy but yesterday was 40 degrees and raining. When we got there at 2, the rain had stopped but there were only about 60 people there. No lines for any activities at all. When we too the hayride to the pumpkin patch we only had 10 people on the ride.

The place we went also had a 10 acre corn maze so that was fun. Took nearly an hour to get through it.

Pumpkin patch, you say? Sounds like some third world country nonsense if you ask me.

Quote: RS

Pumpkin patch, you say? Sounds like some third world country nonsense if you ask me.

Awww where's your sense of adventure. Charlie Brown ring a bell?

I like how "haunted houses" seem to be getting better and better.

Quote: GWAE

Awww where's your sense of adventure. Charlie Brown ring a bell?

Charlie Brown always lost the election for class president when he revealed his believe in the Great Pumpkin.

Pumpkins are very similar to trees: They're bad.

Quote: FleaStiff

Charlie Brown always lost the election for class president when he revealed his believe in the Great Pumpkin.

It was Linus that believed in the great pumpkin.

Quote: RS

Pumpkins are very similar to trees: They're bad.

I may be going blind, but that dessert sun is making you delirious. :-)

Quote: RS

Pumpkins are very similar to trees: They're bad.

Speaking of wonderful trees. I just spent 2 hours leaf blowing leaves. My dad bought me a professional grade back pack leaf blower. It was an awesome gift. Although next time I think I am wearing head phones. Hopefully thins constant ringing goes away soon.

Quote: GWAE

Speaking of wonderful trees. I just spent 2 hours leaf blowing leaves. My dad bought me a professional grade back pack leaf blower. It was an awesome gift. Although next time I think I am wearing head phones. Hopefully this constant ringing goes away soon.

Sounds like some glorious karma to me.

Quote: Ibeatyouraces

I may be going blind, but that dessert sun is making you delirious. :-)

But seriously though, they always got that nasty tail thingie on top, and it seems like they're always moldy. Do you like mold, too? Their inards are even worse.

Grandma is suing KFC for 20 million because there wasn't enough chicken in her bucket. She's alleging fowl play. Good luck Granny.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/2016/10/24/a-grandmother-is-suing-kfc-for-20-million-because-she-didnt-get-enough-chicken/

Quote: lilredrooster

Grandma is suing KFC for 20 million because there wasn't enough chicken in her bucket. She's alleging fowl play. Good luck Granny.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/2016/10/24/a-grandmother-is-suing-kfc-for-20-million-because-she-didnt-get-enough-chicken/

She does have a point, though. Although I think $20M might be a tad on the high side (although, I think that may've been her lawyer's suggestion, not hers). KFC is expensive AF. Costs like $25 for an average one-person meal there, ridiculous!

Don't know how we got onto the topic of pumpkins but remember: pumpkin wine is one of the most healthful wines there is and can be made in a style of your own selection.

Marrow Ale is a pirates way of making beer without any glassware. Marrow being an old English term for any squash or pumpkin.

And Lindor takes 2nd... Tacos for America!

FREE TACO FOR BASE LARCENY PROMO

Screw pumpkins.

Quote: lilredrooster

Grandma is suing KFC for 20 million because there wasn't enough chicken in her bucket. She's alleging fowl play. Good luck Granny.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/2016/10/24/a-grandmother-is-suing-kfc-for-20-million-because-she-didnt-get-enough-chicken/

I ordered two buckets and only got one. Had to drive all the way back out and didn't get anything but a sorry. I should have checked, but they said it was all good and I threw it in the back of the car. I was so mad wasting 30 minutes and a gallon of gas on my mother's birthday. Paid full price too. Must have been the scheisty colonel running the store that day.

Quote: onenickelmiracle

I ordered two buckets and only got one. Had to drive all the way back out and didn't get anything but a sorry. I should have checked, but they said it was all good and I threw it in the back of the car. I was so mad wasting 30 minutes and a gallon of gas on my mother's birthday. Paid full price too. Must have been the scheisty colonel running the store that day.

I'm pretty sure it was in the movie "Fast Food" where 2 employees are talking and one says to the other, "If they come to the drive-in screw 'em. Don't give 'em any napkins, ketchup, forks or anything. Because they ain't comin' back." And then one reveals the ingredients of their "secret sauce." Mustard and mayonnaise mixed together.

Quote: RS

SKFC is expensive AF. Costs like $25 for an average one-person meal there, ridiculous!

Good Lord, what are you eating there? I am not a big fan of KFC, but I can eat a meal there for 7 bucks.

Quote: Ayecarumba

I understand from news reports that Fernandez was going fishing with some buddies. It makes sense to be out early. It doesn't make sense to be going so fast. Sad.

Fishing is boring. I guess when you add alcohol and coccaine it is no longer boring.

I'd like to thank one of the Detroit casinos for the suite tickets to tonight Boston/Detroit hockey game.

Quote: Doc

Just curious -- how many people here, when trying to remember a name or such, think through the alphabet one letter at a time, searching for the first letter of the forgotten name?

Isn't it amazing how often that will work?

Doc, I do this all the time. Andy, Al, Bob, Barry, Bill, Ben....

And you're right, it works a lot.

I also do that all the time. And it has never worked for me. Not once. And I keep doing it. I think I'll switch to something else that works for me. As soon as I hear of something else, and it works. One time baby, just one time!

In other news, I have a spare twennydollah for someone who sneaks into my neighbor's shed, officially unknown to me, and takes a sledgehammer to their leaf blower. We live in the desert. There are no leaves. A = desert soil, B = leaf blower, A + B = X. The result is not good. Even their cat does not approve.

Quote: DrawingDead

I also do that all the time. And it has never worked for me. Not once. And I keep doing it. I think I'll switch to something else that works for me. As soon as I hear of something else, and it works. One time baby, just one time!

In other news, I have a spare twennydollah for someone who sneaks into my neighbor's shed, officially unknown to me, and takes a sledgehammer to their leaf blower. We live in the desert. There are no leaves. A = desert soil, B = leaf blower, A + B = X. The result is not good. Even their cat does not approve.

When do you want the hit to go down? I can get my guy there within 48 hours. Once you give the go ahead, there is no backing out, by the way.

Quote: lilredrooster

I'm pretty sure it was in the movie "Fast Food" where 2 employees are talking and one says to the other, "If they come to the drive-in screw 'em. Don't give 'em any napkins, ketchup, forks or anything. Because they ain't comin' back." And then one reveals the ingredients of their "secret sauce." Mustard and mayonnaise mixed together.

So typical. They make a big fuss on how many sauces for nuggets, then if you spend $20 on burgers and fries, they don't even ask if you want anything. Or it's like 1 napkin and 2 ketchups. Then they give you four more and shut the windows. Terrible service. I've heard their managers say the most ridiculous things over $.10 like no cheeseburger meals w/o the cheese PEOPLE!

One of these days I'm going to refill my ketchup bottles there dangnabbit.

I was watching the golden girls and saw a commercial for a new groundbreaking useless product. A spray so nobody can smell that you went to the toilet when you leave, V.I.Poo. Not a joke, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L37-3v7DyYs

Guess there's a more successful product that preceded it, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fkJy0Z2P_1k

So stupid, just deal with it, or maybe these females don't have very good relationships if bathroom odor is going to ruin the deal.

Quote: onenickelmiracle

I was watching the golden girls and saw a commercial for a new groundbreaking useless product. A spray so nobody can smell that you went to the toilet when you leave, V.I.Poo. Not a joke, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L37-3v7DyYs

Guess there's a more successful product that preceded it, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fkJy0Z2P_1k

So stupid, just deal with it, or maybe these females don't have very good relationships if bathroom odor is going to ruin the deal.

It appears you've been brainwashed into thinking women actually poop.

Quote: RS

It appears you've been brainwashed into thinking women actually poop.

Don't remind me.

Quote: onenickelmiracle

Don't remind me.

But we will:

exhibit A, Jonathan Swift with his poem about a poor fellow sneaking about a dressing room in the days of chamber pots [in this case something with a lid]:

Resolv'd to go thro' thick and thin;
He lifts the Lid, there needs no more,
He smelt it all the Time before.
As from within Pandora's Box ...
A sudden universal Crew
Of humane Evils upwards flew...
Thus finishing his grand Survey,
Disgusted Strephon stole away
Repeating in his amorous Fits,
Oh! Celia, Celia, Celia shits!

>>>

English class could have been so much more fun than they made it!

The complete poem:


The Lady's Dressing Room
Jonathan Swift
1732
Edited by Jack Lynch

Five Hours, (and who can do it less in?)
By haughty Celia spent in Dressing;
The Goddess from her Chamber issues,
Array'd in Lace, Brocades and Tissues.

Strephon, who found the Room was void, [5]
And Betty otherwise employ'd;
Stole in, and took a strict Survey,
Of all the Litter as it lay;
Whereof, to make the Matter clear,
An Inventory follows here. [10]

And first a dirty Smock appear'd,
Beneath the Arm-pits well besmear'd.
Strephon, the Rogue, display'd it wide,
And turn'd it round on every Side.
On such a Point few Words are best, [15]
And Strephon bids us guess the rest;
But swears how damnably the Men lie,
In calling Celia sweet and cleanly.
Now listen while he next produces,
The various Combs for various Uses, [20]
Fill'd up with Dirt so closely fixt,
No Brush could force a way betwixt.
A Paste of Composition rare,
Sweat, Dandriff, Powder, Lead and Hair;
A Forehead Cloth with Oyl upon't [25]
To smooth the Wrinkles on her Front;
Here Allum Flower to stop the Steams,
Exhal'd from sour unsavoury Streams,
There Night-gloves made of Tripsy's Hide,
Bequeath'd by Tripsy when she dy'd, [30]
With Puppy Water, Beauty's Help
Distill'd from Tripsy's darling Whelp;
Here Gallypots and Vials plac'd,
Some fill'd with washes, some with Paste,
Some with Pomatum, Paints and Slops, [35]
And Ointments good for scabby Chops.
Hard by a filthy Bason stands,
Fowl'd with the Scouring of her Hands;
The Bason takes whatever comes
The Scrapings of her Teeth and Gums, [40]
A nasty Compound of all Hues,
For here she spits, and here she spues.
But oh! it turn'd poor Strephon's Bowels,
When he beheld and smelt the Towels,
Begumm'd, bematter'd, and beslim'd [45]
With Dirt, and Sweat, and Ear-Wax grim'd.
No Object Strephon's Eye escapes,
Here Pettycoats in frowzy Heaps;
Nor be the Handkerchiefs forgot
All varnish'd o'er with Snuff and Snot. [50]
The Stockings, why shou'd I expose,
Stain'd with the Marks of stinking Toes;
Or greasy Coifs and Pinners reeking,
Which Celia slept at least a Week in?
A Pair of Tweezers next he found [55]
To pluck her Brows in Arches round,
Or Hairs that sink the Forehead low,
Or on her Chin like Bristles grow.

The Virtues we must not let pass,
Of Celia's magnifying Glass. [60]
When frighted Strephon cast his Eye on't
It shew'd the Visage of a Gyant.
A Glass that can to Sight disclose,
The smallest Worm in Celia's Nose,
And faithfully direct her Nail [65]
To squeeze it out from Head to Tail;
For catch it nicely by the Head,
It must come out alive or dead.

Why Strephon will you tell the rest?
And must you needs describe the Chest? [70]
That careless Wench! no Creature warn her
To move it out from yonder Corner;
But leave it standing full in Sight
For you to exercise your Spight.
In vain, the Workman shew'd his Wit [75]
With Rings and Hinges counterfeit
To make it seem in this Disguise,
A Cabinet to vulgar Eyes;
For Strephon ventur'd to look in,
Resolv'd to go thro' thick and thin; [80]
He lifts the Lid, there needs no more,
He smelt it all the Time before.
As from within Pandora's Box,
When Epimetheus op'd the Locks,
A sudden universal Crew [85]
Of humane Evils upwards flew;
He still was comforted to find
That Hope at last remain'd behind;
So Strephon lifting up the Lid,
To view what in the Chest was hid. [90]
The Vapours flew from out the Vent,
But Strephon cautious never meant
The Bottom of the Pan to grope,
And fowl his Hands in Search of Hope.
O never may such vile Machine [95]
Be once in Celia's Chamber seen!
O may she better learn to keep
"Those Secrets of the hoary deep!"

As Mutton Cutlets, Prime of Meat,
Which tho' with Art you salt and beat, [100]
As Laws of Cookery require,
And toast them at the clearest Fire;
If from adown the hopful Chops
The Fat upon a Cinder drops,
To stinking Smoak it turns the Flame [105]
Pois'ning the Flesh from whence it came;
And up exhales a greasy Stench,
For which you curse the careless Wench;
So Things, which must not be exprest,
When plumpt into the reeking Chest; [110]
Send up an excremental Smell
To taint the Parts from whence they fell.
The Pettycoats and Gown perfume,
Which waft a Stink round every Room.

Thus finishing his grand Survey, [115]
Disgusted Strephon stole away
Repeating in his amorous Fits,
Oh! Celia, Celia, Celia shits!

But Vengeance, Goddess never sleeping
Soon punish'd Strephon for his Peeping; [120]
His foul Imagination links
Each Dame he sees with all her Stinks:
And, if unsav'ry Odours fly,
Conceives a Lady standing by:
All Women his Description fits, [125]
And both Idea's jump like Wits:
By vicious Fancy coupled fast,
And still appearing in Contrast.
I pity wretched Strephon blind
To all the Charms of Female Kind; [130]
Should I the Queen of Love refuse,
Because she rose from stinking Ooze?
To him that looks behind the Scene,
Satira's but some pocky Quean.
When Celia in her Glory shows, [135]
If Strephon would but stop his Nose;
(Who now so impiously blasphemes
Her Ointments, Daubs, and Paints and Creams,
Her Washes, Slops, and every Clout,
With which he makes so foul a Rout;) [140]
He soon would learn to think like me,
And bless his ravisht Sight to see
Such Order from Confusion sprung,
Such gaudy Tulips rais'd from Dung.
Notes

1. The names Strephon and Celia come from classical pastoral poetry or romance.

2. Betty is the generic name for a maidservant.

3. Lead was used as a cosmetic to whiten the face.

4. Front, "forehead."

5. Allum flower, or powded alum, is used as an antiperspirant.

6. Tripsy, a typical name of a lapdog.

7. Whelp, "puppy."

8. Gallypots, "jars."

9. Pomatum, "ointment for the hair."

10. Hard, "near."

11. Frowzy, "messy."

12. Coifs and Pinners, "night caps."

13. Glass, "mirror."

14. Machine, "Any complicated piece of workmanship" (Johnson).

15. "Those Secrets of the hoary deep": See Paradise Lost, 2.890-91: "Before their eyes in sudden view appear/The secrets of the hoary Deep."

16. Satira, the heroine of The Rival Queens by Nathaniel Lee; quean, "A worthless woman, generally a strumpet" (Johnson). Pocky suggests either smallpox or a venereal disease.


http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/dressing.html

Howard Hughes probably stumbled on that piece. Was never the same. Went into total isolation.

I don't know that I've ever heard the explanation why he became so germ phobic.