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[abfirefighterchi...]

My poor sister-in-law's job allowed her to be a work-at-home mom through both kids. She can sing every Dora the Explorer song, knows all the kiddie programming by sound and theme song and has two very well behaved, well adjusted kids. And she can count to 20 in Spanish, French and every other conceivable language with the kids. She cannot concentrate on anything for longer than the two minutes because that's how long each of these wonderful, educationally stimulating shows runs any one topic for. She's regressed to that point.

She's starving for adult contact. Won't you please help her?!

A dear friend I have known most of my life has three boys, all under 12. Her husband is a under contract with the military dealing with computers so he is gone for weeks at a time sometimes. She told me once that sometimes she feels like she spends all her time in Romper Room!!! She longs for "adult" playdates!! LOL!!

[stefanl]

A dear friend I have known most of my life has three boys, all under 12. Her husband is a under contract with the military dealing with computers so he is gone for weeks at a time sometimes. She told me once that sometimes she feels like she spends all her time in Romper Room!!! She longs for "adult" playdates!! LOL!!

The scene in "Cherry Red" with Bobby and Carver looking at the model cars and marveling at the craftsmanship and detail, and Eames pokes her head in the door and asks if they're having a playdate, always cracks me up seriously. We're talking bust a gut giggling.

That's exactly what my sister-in-law needs. Playtime with adults.

[Not_saying]

The scene in "Cherry Red" with Bobby and Carver looking at the model cars and marveling at the craftsmanship and detail, and Eames pokes her head in the door and asks if they're having a playdate, always cracks me up seriously. We're talking bust a gut giggling.

That's exactly what my sister-in-law needs. Playtime with adults.

Lmao That was the exact one I was thinkin too.



Yah after a while you start talking like them I still say some of my oldest nieces phrases which I unfortunatley still do.. lol

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busterd <mustard>
sheshup <Ketchup>

Tray High <highchair>


Fork <I'll leave this one up to your imagination > Thank god she grew outta that one .lol

[abfirefighterchi...]

Lmao That was the exact one I was thinkin too.



Yah after a while you start talking like them I still say some of my oldest nieces phrases which I unfortunatley still do.. lol

Like

busterd <mustard>
sheshup <Ketchup>

Tray High <highchair>


Fork <I'll leave this one up to your imagination > Thank god she grew outta that one .lol

Yeah, I love Cherry Red and that Playdate thing makes me laugh till it hurts!! I also love where he is reving up the car looking like a kid in the candy store and Eames turns back and does a "Goren Lean" into the car and says "you have to come out now". The look on Bobby's face is priceless like no I don't wanna!!!

Maybe sad and a little disturbing but my mom and I (jokingly, no really) talk kinda of baby talk to each other sometimes as a running joke. Gives people in the store something to stare at.

[krodgers]

Has anyone heard Fred Thompson told Dick Wolf on Wed. he wanted to resign from LOCI, due to his possible Presidential compaign! I thought I would mention this if noone has heard.

[abfirefighterchi...]

Peachy, where did you get that Snoopy Dog? I love to see that thing dancing all around!! Is it hard to do something animated like that?

[gorenpal88]

Has anyone heard Fred Thompson told Dick Wolf on Wed. he wanted to resign from LOCI, due to his possible Presidential compaign! I thought I would mention this if noone has heard.

No, I hadn't heard that. Has he already said he wanted to resign from the original Law & Order too?? He seems to be on that show more than the other two. He's an okay actor but since he's not a major character, my meter is on zero about it....lol

[krodgers]

No, I hadn't heard that. Has he already said he wanted to resign from the original Law & Order too?? He seems to be on that show more than the other two. He's an okay actor but since he's not a major character, my meter is on zero about it....lol

Hey gorenpal! I thought Fred was a good DA on the show, but I really want to see him clean house at the White House!!! IMO!

[Not_saying]

Yeah, I love Cherry Red and that Playdate thing makes me laugh till it hurts!! I also love where he is reving up the car looking like a kid in the candy store and Eames turns back and does a "Goren Lean" into the car and says "you have to come out now". The look on Bobby's face is priceless like no I don't wanna!!!

I know I love that scene.



Or this look Awwww do I have hafta .


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Maybe sad and a little disturbing but my mom and I (jokingly, no really) talk kinda of baby talk to each other sometimes as a running joke. Gives people in the store something to stare at.
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LOL Honey you're not the only one .

Mom and me do that all the time .


and I don't go out enough so I'm safe .lol
that and I have to work really hard when I write on here or a letter so i don't talk to any of my friends or stars like that .lol

Can you imagine.

[stefanl]

I read a review for a book (The Book of Bunny Suicides) the other day that had me nodding my head vigorously in agreement. That reviewer had said that she hated it when she visited book stores and someone glancing through a book would laugh out loud at something they had just read. As if daring her to take a look at the book and not feel exactly the same way. She picked up a copy of Bunny Suicides at a store and didn't just laugh out loud, but honked while doing so and made her husband read parts of it as well. She wound up buying the book and its sequel, More Bunny Suicides.

I hate that too.

That's why I appalled myself when I couldn't stop crying while laughing (actual tears) through the first two essays in Sarah Vowell's "The Partly Cloudy Patriot" while waiting for a hair appointment this morning. The woman is just drop dead witty, dry, just a bit off-center and so totally in geek love with American history that she makes you want to lay out driving vacations to all the great historical sites and monuments within 24 hours of your current location. Which, since I live in NJ, would encompass some seriously dense Trip-Tiks from Triple A. I finished most of the rest of the book in the afternoon.

If you're still able to breathe after reading "Patriot" you'll also want to pick up "Assassination Vacation" and "Take the Cannoli". Read them in any order, but be forewarned. If you've recently had abdominal surgery, you may want to wait a bit before opening any of these books because you may injure yourself and pull some stiches laughing.

[stefanl]

Useless dinner table trivia - Raindrops

The National Weather Service has declared a flood watch for my part of the state because they're predicting anywhere from one to four inches of rain within the next 12 hours.

One to FOUR?! What kind of range is that?!!!!!!!

Fully expecting to have to bail out the swimming pool that is the floor of my basement AGAIN, I thought I would pass along some useless trivia while I watch the rain begin to fall.

The upper limit for the diameter of a raindrop is about 8 mm, 1/3 of an inch. Most drops are much smaller than that upper limit. If you've been hit by anything bigger than that it may have been something dripping off of an overhanging telephone/electrical line, tree branch or from the back end of a passing bird. Check the color.

Drops can't get any larger because of friction with the air as they fall through the atmosphere. That friction would tear the drop apart into smaller pieces until that optimum size is reached.

Raindrops aren't teardrop shapes. They're round, wee orbs. Perfect, tiny spheres and that's why they can produce rainbows if lit from the right angle and refract the light just so. If you can see a rainbow, look closer. You may be able to see the secondary rainbow that runs over the top of the first and in reverse color. Roy G. Biv is Vib Gyor. Not nearly as poetic but no less cool to see.



Lastly, all rain starts as frozen precip in the clouds. It'll melt on its way to the ground as it passes through warmer air. Rain in the summer will still feel cool to the skin because it was only just recently a pellet of ice or a flake of snow. If it bounces around enough times in the clouds before it makes its way to the ground it can actually build into a mighty impressively sized hailstone. Right now, the largest recorded hailstone on record with NOAA is a seven inch monster with a circumference of 18.75 inches. Hope that puppy didn't hit a car cause "Act of God" isn't covered in most insurance policies.

[bwalter]

What a fascinating chunk of information, Linda! I've saved this one to HD.

Rainbows - very beautiful. Hail - my kind of off-the-wall weather phenomenom. In Sydney, we frequently get summer hail. Big, heavy, car-pocking and human knock-out stuff. Here's the freaky fun bit: you can be standing outside in broad sunlight, and suddenly the balls of ice begin to hurl themselves from the sky. Like being in the crossfire of tennis ball machines, except that the balls are rock ice. Huge things, too. Can't outclass that 7-inch monster, maybe, but these are indeed tennis balls, not ping pong balls. I did claim insurance for the car one year, so in Oz this (quite regular) occurence is classed as an accident, not an act of God.

[Not_saying]

What a fascinating chunk of information, Linda! I've saved this one to HD.

Rainbows - very beautiful. Hail - my kind of off-the-wall weather phenomenom. In Sydney, we frequently get summer hail. Big, heavy, car-pocking and human knock-out stuff. Here's the freaky fun bit: you can be standing outside in broad sunlight, and suddenly the balls of ice begin to hurl themselves from the sky. Like being in the crossfire of tennis ball machines, except that the balls are rock ice. Huge things, too. Can't outclass that 7-inch monster, maybe, but these are indeed tennis balls, not ping pong balls. I did claim insurance for the car one year, so in Oz this (quite regular) occurence is classed as an accident, not an act of God.

Ouch We've seen accidents like that here In indiana .

Not a pretty sight seeing a car look like swiss cheese after a hail storm .



I love rainbows especially when they double up .

[stefanl]

What a fascinating chunk of information, Linda! I've saved this one to HD.

Rainbows - very beautiful. Hail - my kind of off-the-wall weather phenomenom. In Sydney, we frequently get summer hail. Big, heavy, car-pocking and human knock-out stuff. Here's the freaky fun bit: you can be standing outside in broad sunlight, and suddenly the balls of ice begin to hurl themselves from the sky. Like being in the crossfire of tennis ball machines, except that the balls are rock ice. Huge things, too. Can't outclass that 7-inch monster, maybe, but these are indeed tennis balls, not ping pong balls. I did claim insurance for the car one year, so in Oz this (quite regular) occurence is classed as an accident, not an act of God.

Glad to be of service, B. Hail fascinates me too.

I had a basset hound who was the couch potato's potato and showed little interest in playing, unless there was a hail storm. Then that dog came alive like no other time! He would race around the yard collecting the hail stones in his mouth and dropping them in a pile where he would play with them endlessly. Until, of course, they melted.

I tried to interest him in ice cubes thinking I could cheat him into exercise. He was no one's fool. Wise beyond his forelorn appearance and his years, the harrumph was plain and the look he would give me spoke volumes.

[musicwench]

Has anyone heard Fred Thompson told Dick Wolf on Wed. he wanted to resign from LOCI, due to his possible Presidential compaign! I thought I would mention this if noone has heard.

On several Sunday morning talk shows it seems the topic of the day was Fred Thompson running for president. Looks like Fred is definitely gonna make a run for it. Probably takes some of the headache of who to cut from the fast off of Wolf's shoulders but then there is that odd problem of potentially having all the episodes of L&O, SVU and CI with his character Arthur Branch get pulled from rerun rotation cause of the old "equal time" problem for all the rest of the presidential candidates who aren't actors.

I think it's silly but it has caused problems for other candidates who used to be actors during campaign seasons in the past. I'm just thankful he was only on 2 episodes of LOCI.

[krodgers]

On several Sunday morning talk shows it seems the topic of the day was Fred Thompson running for president. Looks like Fred is definitely gonna make a run for it. Probably takes some of the headache of who to cut from the fast off of Wolf's shoulders but then there is that odd problem of potentially having all the episodes of L&O, SVU and CI with his character Arthur Branch get pulled from rerun rotation cause of the old "equal time" problem for all the rest of the presidential candidates who aren't actors.

I think it's silly but it has caused problems for other candidates who used to be actors during campaign seasons in the past. I'm just thankful he was only on 2 episodes of LOCI.

Yeah, I already told NS that I joined his headquarters here in K-Town, and Fred's gonna try to get me an auto from Bobby!!! I told her when i do get it, I;ll be sure she's the first to see!!!

[Not_saying]

Yeah, I already told NS that I joined his headquarters here in K-Town, and Fred's gonna try to get me an auto from Bobby!!! I told her when i do get it, I;ll be sure she's the first to see!!!

I'll tell ya what kath after I send my letter and get reply and you get yours how about we swap stories .

[krodgers]

I'll tell ya what kath after I send my letter and get reply and you get yours how about we swap stories .

Absolutely NS!! Boy, that will make a good topic!!!

[abfirefighterchi...]

Glad to be of service, B. Hail fascinates me too.

I had a basset hound who was the couch potato's potato and showed little interest in playing, unless there was a hail storm. Then that dog came alive like no other time! He would race around the yard collecting the hail stones in his mouth and dropping them in a pile where he would play with them endlessly. Until, of course, they melted.

I tried to interest him in ice cubes thinking I could cheat him into exercise. He was no one's fool. Wise beyond his forelorn appearance and his years, the harrumph was plain and the look he would give me spoke volumes.

We have several small streams, and creeks so whenever we get a dourpour or just a continious steady rain there is plenty of flooding involved. At the station we had to build a concrete (very high) wall along the creek next to the building, because the parking lot was frequently flooding. In some cases endangering the vehicles parked there.

We get tons of calls for water related rescue because some people are beyond dense. They drive around barriers, or even get out of their car and move the barriers so they could keep driving. Then when the cars are sweep into the swollen creek they looked surpised, like what happened!!

[krodgers]

I'll tell ya what kath after I send my letter and get reply and you get yours how about we swap stories .

Hey NS, recieved an e-mail from Fred's campaign today, getting a news letter soon!!! Whooo!!