Do you mean Schweatty like Howie Kleinberg? Alec has gotten fat like so many older actors - like the detective on Law and Order - Vincent D'Onofrio or even a certain Top Chef winner.

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Agreed about Boston but then New Jersey drivers are worse than New Yorkers.

John
KK is talking about this Schweddy balls--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ABGCMJPKwo

Which Top Chef winner are you talking about?

Peg

Peg,

Since KK spelled Schweddy as Schweatty as in perspiration I should be forgiven if I was unaware that KK was comparing Alec Baldwin's sweaty balls to Mr Schweddy's "oily, misshapened, delicate" balls. This was the first time I ever heard of Mr Schweddy and his balls.

Which Top Chef winner? I assume that you watched the Bravo A-List Award show. I couldn't believe that Harold had put on so much weight over the past year. It's got to be those duck meatballs.

Get yourself a Mazda MX-5 Miata. You won't be disappointed. How does $27,000 sound?

KK...Won't you consider buying an American made car?

I'm looking at the April 2008 Consumer Reports Annual Automobile issue. There is an article on how Automobile manufacturers rate in relation to each other. Here are the Overall test scores based on reliability and how the car tested in driving tests(100 pt scale):

Honda 78; Toyota 75; Subaru 72; BMW 71; Nissan 71: Volkswagen 71; Mazda 71; Mercedes-Benz 67; Hyundai 66; Volvo 64; Mitsubishi 63; Ford 61; General Motors 54; Suzuki 49; Chrysler 49

I thought that I mentioned in a previous post on how the VW Beetle is a high maintenance vehicle - $75 to change a $5 light bulb/$225 to install a new battery/ no longer able to change oil myself. Also the current Beetles no longer offer the 1.8 liter Turbo engine - no more fun beating out pickup trucks at the traffic light.
(There's a story here)

Make Richard Blais an offer.

Mini-Cooper for sure - most fun to drive.

I have ridden in a few exotic cars but have never driven one. I got to ride in a Mercedes Gull Wing back in the early 60's. The owner had sunk every penny he had into that car. When we got to his apartment in Detroit all we had to eat was Lipton noodle soup and a fruit cake that he had gotten as a Christmas gift. Then there was a ride I got into Oxnard from the Port Hueneme Naval Base in a Lotus (owned by one of the guys in my company) - it was like riding on a skate board we were so low to the road. Then there was the scary ride I took in the car of one of my wife's friends. I can't remember the name or model of the car except it had an engine in the middle of the car. This friend of the wife was slightly nuts. He took me out on this road at night that had signs all over warning of hairpin turns. We'd go 60 mph into one of those turns going sideways. All the time he had this crazy grin on his face. The scariest ride I ever took was when one of the big bosses offered to drive me back to the office after a dept luncheon. He asked me to drive since he had too much to drink. His car was a Toranado(sp). We are headed south on the freeway and traffic is fairly heavy. Then he says "go faster". I was already doing 70mph. The next thing I know he puts his foot on top of my foot and we are doing over 90 mph. All I could do at this point was steer around cars in front of us and hope that we didn't rearend anyone. I can't remember what made him lift his foot off of mine. When we got back to the office I reported him but since no damage was done(we didn't get killed or kill anybody) my complaint was ignored.

Hello all. Just got back from my annual NWWE. I am sooooo sunburned. Good thing I'm not endowed because a camisole is all I can stand today. Yowza. I am bitten from toe to torso. Damned spiders and skeeters. Everyone survived. Even the noobs. Although one of the noobs has sleep apnea and is not aware of it. I was this close to putting a pillow over her head. Cabins are all open kind of thing so no matter where you slept there was no escape. Everyone else popped a tylenol pm but no one offered me one.
PS. KK, I loved Jonathan Richmond in high school. Is AI singing it to you too?

Good to hear! And I want you to know, the new JazzieAvatar is in honor of the Arfitty Council and its new Prez!!!!
*smile*

Oh Lordie, KK! *checking kitchen cupboard for soda bread pans*
Got it.
*checking w/hubby on chisels and files*
Okie dokie.

Will it help if I send chanting along with the soda bread???????

Kristl,
Haven't waded through all the stuff on the board as as usual lacking in time, but wanted to know how duke is. He come out of his surgery O.K.

Thanks for the pics, very nice looking family especially greek brother, whoohoo! Glad Duke's good, my heart goes out to animals in pain. I'm going to bed now, nite!

Now wait a dag-blamed minute! It's 9:00, and you two are signing off? Lightweights.

Well, all right, then. Sleep well.

Here is one more story concerning cars involving one of your favorites - a Beetle. I had already told this story on another forum so if anyone has already heard it, please bear with me.

I had just purchased a 1999 turbo beetle in October of 1998. It was the demo and the only turbo beetle in the area and would remain unique until late 1999. My son had just graduated from college and was working in his first real job - several steps up from his old job at McDonalds.

Anyways, one night I am stopped at this four-way intersection waiting for the light to turn green. Next to me is this big black pickup truck. Now on the other side of the intersection our two lanes merge into one lane so it is sometimes a race to see who gets to the one lane first. The light turns green, I don't spin my wheels so as not to alert the pickup truck and second gear gets me to the one lane first.
What's the terminology for this situation? Something about blowing the doors off the other guys vehicle.

The next day my son comes home and tells me about how his boss was talking about this wise ass in the black Beetle who raced him at the intersection. I guess my son was cracking up so hard in front of his boss that his boss wanted to know why and my son let the cat out of the bag.

I loved that car. It was a wolf in sheeps clothing - kind of like Paul Newman who used to drive a Beetle (1960's vintage) with a Porsche engine in the rear.

kk,
This was my NWWE not my family vaca. I'm not going with my family until this Saturday. The boys as so looking forward to it and have already decided to stand on their tipytoes to get on the bigger rides at Six Flags.

Yes, two sisters, one s-i-l (she came all the way from New York) and 3 friends. Girls weekend only. (NWWE-No Weenie Weekend). I know, I know.
I lost my engagement ring (sob)(that really sucked) on the river too so hub needs to get me a bigger one.

I don't like roller coasters anymore. They give me whiplash. This old broad's neck can't take it anymore. However, I love the ones that go so fast the centrifical force keeps you pinned to the seat. Yeehaw.

NOT HOLDING MY BREATH FOR LIZ. Have fun in the sun baby.

LOL....thanks for the NWWE explanation, I've been meaning to ask, but keep getting side-tracked.

On the ring, oh geez. I relate (and to KK also!) My sister saved my Mom's emerald ring for me, and it disappeared in my house. I was going to take it in and get it resized, so had it sitting on a table. I think the cat knocked it (and a silver bracelet that had the claddagh charm from my son on it) into a box of stuff we took to the goodwill. I didn't know the jewelry was missing until a few days after we dumped off the box. I keep hoping that it will somehow turn up in the house, not because of value, but because it was Mom's.

Ah well.....ComicCon starts tomorrow!!! And we go down and get our passes this afternoon!!!!!!!!

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOO

I saw a headline this a.m. about ComicCon and thought of you Jazzie. Hope you have a really great time. Send pix.

I'm trying not to think about how much mullah we're going to go thru next week.

We're using our stimulus check. I know. The gas thing just bites. Spent $140 over w/e just on gas.

All I can say is....

[quote name='Kristlkrost' date='July 23, 2008 - 02:35 PM' post='284170']
This is my other best friend Sandy's
brother and wife's web site.They are fascinating peeps..They built a house in the woods in Ark. once and only bartered for years..No money.
No electricity..No running water.At least for the first few years.
Mt View Ark and we went there once to visit and whoa it was so beautiful...The whole community of peeps sharing and caring.
They are both teachers..she a Prof. in Jonesboro TN..and they have spent the last few years in Nicaragua teaching kids for no pay and are now going to retire to Panama and they are selling the contents of their house.My commie friend wants me to go live with her there next year as they will rent it very cheap to us.. and I was thinking of it 'cause why not...but as much as I type she tawks.lol
I mean she can't stop..FOR REAL I love her but whoa.She changed my life in Key West and I love her for it forever though.
I was very very insecure and she made me see
I was beautiful the way I was ..How can you not love her???
So you can buy stuff from the house which is gawjus. Right near Asheville NC actually and also read their life story...I told her I'd advertise sooooooTHEY have lived a life..They have been together since junior high and still very much
in love.They are who I want to be when I grow up. Debbie is one of THOSE peeps..I hate her
No...she has done and does it all.



http://mygypsytoes.com/

My next door neighbor (who is now in a nursing home) has no plumbing and only one electric outlet in her entire house. She is 94 and had lived there since she was 6.

I know most of the posters here are avid readers... and we also have quite a few writers in our midst...

So I thought the following article would be of interest...
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6575036.html

Indiana Judge Dismisses Store Registration Law
By Rachel Deahl -- Publishers Weekly, 7/2/2008 7:53:00 AM

The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression took a victory yesterday when a federal judge dismissed an Indiana law requiring retailers to register "sexually explicit" material with the state. The law, H.B. 1042, was put on the books in March and, shortly thereafter, ABFFE joined the Media Coalition's legal fight to remove the law from the books.

Judge Sarah Evans Baker (who also struck down, in 1984, an anti-pornography law) said in her ruling that the law has too vast a reach "as written."
She elaborated: A romance novel sold at a drugstore, a magazine offering sex advice in a grocery store checkout line, an R-rated DVD sold by a video rental shop, a collection of old Playboy magazines sold by a widow at a garage sale--all incidents of unquestionably lawful, non-obscene, non-pornographic material being sold to adults--would appear to necessitate registration under the statute. Ultimately, Judge Baker said that "such a vague mandate will be unduly burdensome" and "will have a chilling effect on expression."

This decision, which ABFFE president Chris Finan called "a resounding victory for the First Amendment rights of booksellers and their customers," comes just days after a judge in Oregon denied ABFFE's request for a preliminary injunction to block a less stringent law there, dubbed a "harmful to minors" law.

The state of Indiana now has 30 days to appeal Judge Baker's decision.

Yes, it was her choice. Only time she'd let me send a plate over to her was on the holidays. Until last winter she was completely independent.

Yowza! Don't spend it all in one place.

Never read the book but the movie was good. Had to watch it for a film class I took once. Prof was a die hard oldie black & white guy. The young kids hated it. I loved it. I think we watched every Frank Capra movie made. I was in hog heaven.

One of my very favorite rides at Geauga Lake back in Ohio was the Round Up. It was just a huge tube set atop a treaded platform. They lined people up inside the tube shoulder to shoulder, then started it spinning. Once the centrifugal force was great enough to pin people against the inside of the tube, the bottom would drop out and everyone would just be clinging to the tube in mid-air. I loved that stomach-bottoming-out feeling when the floor suddenly went away!

I adore coasters, and always have, but I can't stand the metal ones--too smoothe a ride for me. They have to be the rickety-seeming, clackety wooden ones that throw you around in the seat and make you sore for days ones for me to enjoy 'em!

Now that I am 5 years into retirement I don't feel the need to get someplace fast. I've got all the time in the world.

Lia,

I grew up on the wooden coasters. There was Coney Island when I lived in Babylon LI and Savin Rock when I lived in New Haven Connecticut.

I almost forgot that there was/is a similar ride at the Great Escape located on Lake George NY. We went up there with another couple when our kids were very young. My daughter rode something similar to what you describe where centrifugal force pins you to the wall. She rode that contraption until she got sick literally and threw up when she got off.

That's a beautiful song done by many artists.
I'm retiring too...The hell with working.
We are in the middle of a Yankee hating fest on widows.lol Why do they hate us so?????
I mean why????

Owww we get into big faux fights when they aren't praying and telling me I'm gonna' burn in hell 'cause gays can marry
No some very cool peeps and some NOT!!!

Also we are in a groove fest and some of them actually went to Woodstock..I found this beautiful rendetion of this song...I was way too young but I do remember it well later on.
I wish I was there for the summer of love.
THAT woulda' been sumpthin'.


Awwwwwww

I wish I could have experienced the legendary Coney Island! I spent practically every pre and post adolescent Ohio summer between the rides (God, how I loved Geauga Lake's Texas Twister, Big Dipper and Raging Wolf Bobs, and Cedar Point's Gemini and Blue Streak) and coasters at Geauga Lake and Cedar Point back in the 80s and 90s, with an occasional trip to Cincinnati's Kings Island--their coaster, The Beast, is still one of my favorite coasters of all time.

Sadly, they closed Geauga Lake in 2007--thank goodness I have pix of all those fun times. Those were the days, indeed ...

LOL!!! I never threw up on the Round Up, but I can remember several times when someone did! I think they had a version of it at Cedar Point too, that was called The Rotor.

Holy cow, I really want a funnel cake or an elephant ear right now!

LOL! Yeah...that would sure be nice!

:::hands TaterTot a funnel cake loaded with hot fudge, fresh strawberries and powdered sugar:::

Yeah ... Nice!

Savin Rock is closed too. I passed through there a week ago when I attended my mother's aunt's 86th birthday in North Haven - she's the same age as my mother and was my mother's uncle's second wife. I was very young when all these rides happened. I guess there wasn't a height requirement back then as I used to go on these rides with my uncle who probably enjoyed the rides more than I did.

The most recent roller coaster ride was Superman at Six Flags in Massachusetts - this was a group trip sponsored by my wife's place of work. Prior to that was the coaster ride up at the Great Escape. Not as high as Superman but probably more exciting as much of the time you are upside down.

Yes, the old wooden coasters were the best and offered the best view out over the ocean.

Rotor sounds familiar. My daughter was on that ride at least a dozen times. I remember her assuming positions other than vertical.

Funnel cake - a little over a month to labor day and the county fair. Blooming onion too.

Tomorrow if I have time I will tell you about living in a house with no plumbing.

Do I really want to know?????

The sand hill cranes are mating or something and they are LOUD..They are gigantic and prehistoric looking but not rare I was wrong..endangered and this old lady across the way keeps feeding them and we keep turning her in.
This lizard is in love with me ..Just now outside another fool for love..AND they get in the house too.They want me that badly.

Here's my lizard lament.
Inspired by the Geico commercials
and YES I am a narricist who has to go the courthouse...again..uggggghhhh
Have a great day blokes and bellas.
Hmm..Blokes and bellas..I like the ring of it.



little lizard you stare at me
you are small and green and oh so lean
popping your head above the chair
basking in the golden sun.. skin of velvet
wrinkles.. i think you are gentleman.
i know you are quite dashing

if i was a little girl lizard i would think
you so very handsome
i would want to kiss your little lizard lips and let you father my little lizard babies 'cause you
seem on top of your game ...you caught that
gnat with expert precision and i need
someone on top of our food chain

i see your little lizard heart beating through
your little lizard skin
i'm sure it beats for me 'cause you just stay fixed and gazing...so i will kiss a frog today
in hopes it will turn into a lizard
(does it work that way?)
and if not at least i'll get a prince and i will hunt you down a lovely little lizard girl 'cause the way things stand now i fear this relationship will
not work out

i don't want to break your little lizard spirit
(i whisper so as not to break your little lizard heart)

i don't think you can reach the gas pedal

There are pros and cons to both kinds...the #1 difference is that the steel "tube" coasters are the ones that have the ability to do loops. Here inCalif at 6 Flags they have both kinds...and now that I have lost a bunch of weight I intend to make a trip down and try them out. One I will NOT go on has a LONG verticle drop for the first drop ....no thanks.

Love the fair....where you can get just about anything dipped in batter and deep fried. Here at the Fresno Fair each year it seems they try something new.... Twinkies, candy bars, Oreos and of course most any vegetable. Also out here they sell the best cinnamon rolls I have ever had.

Ford my son's car need a timing chain maybe???
and a sensor of some sort he thinks.
Fuel I think.....How much we tawking??
Before I call and have a heart
attack ...you would know ....Toyota btw.
Thank GAWD for the credit they gave me.
Now I godda' try and wake that kid up to bring it...lol ...It ain't easy.

OK... you gone I wait till 9 and hold
my breath.

Never mind.lol They were open and he said
it doesn't even sound like those things from what
I told him..I forgot all about it till just now.We were supposed to bring it yesterday but he is sick with a cold and it was pouring raining.lol
I give up!!
BUT we godda' go today and get this done
IF I can get him up he does stay up all night for school so I can't be too mad. I'm praying it ain't real bad YES I will pray if need be.I'm a sacrilegious hypocrite too.

Thanks anyway.lol