The Random Thoughts Thread

[Bowler1]

Overload - my smiley happy head explodes.

[Ursa major]

To avoid a repeat of that, don't read the thread full on, but just take an occasional gander.

[Bowler1]

The first time I read that line I was sure the Bear had lost it, then I got it. It's not all cute cuddly fur with you.

[Ursa major]

* Looks innocent. *

[Warren_Paul]

You know you're starting to get old when you have to stop and think about it, when somebody asks how old you are.

I think you get to a point where you stop keeping track, maybe don't even want to?

[Alex, The G and T]

As the old timers say, "I'm Plenny-Nine."

I thought I was 53 years old for the whole year I was 52. Imagine my delight when I was informed, on what I thought was my 54th birthday, that I was still only 53.

My Dad gets insulted when I remember his birthday. He has banished his sense of age from consideration for decades.

[Alex, The G and T]

Ocean Sport Salmon fishing season opened today. The Ocean conditions are not looking friendly. Fair weather sailors, like me, are staying home this week.

Chatter on the "Humboldt Area Saltwater Angler's" club board say one guy went out for an hour, got scairt and ran home. Others turned back before the bar crossing and caught crabs inside the bay.

One guy took his wife to the Hospital expecting a birth.

Responses to that news were:

"That gives a whole new meaning to 'Opening Day.'"
And..

"Get the net! Get the net!"

[Alex, The G and T]

Instant Message Department:
So... I got into a facebook IM chat with my daughter. After a few twitters we realized that there was a lot more to talk about.

What if there were an amazing technology where we could actually talk to each other, with our voices, in real time?

867-5309

Wow! The Telephone is like... Science Fiction come true!

[hopewrites]

phone is charged. back to bed. see you all in my dreams

[hopewrites]

you know how I know chickens are the decedents of vicious killer dinosaurs?

have you ever seen what they do to tomatoes? or anything red for that matter!
they remember when red blood and raw meat were the menu of choice, not bitty bugs and scrawny weeds.


they are going to kill us all.



everyone knows you cant hide from a chicken.

[hopewrites]

"I'm no prognosticator, I just read"

"oh good, it was weirding me out that you knew what was going to come out of the box next"


~Conversation with my sister as we blew up pool toys for her kids.

[Anathem]

Ballad by the Fire
by Edwin Arlington Robinson

Slowly I smoke and hug my knee,
The while a witless masquerade
Of things that only children see
Floats in a mist of light and shade:
They pass, a flimsy cavalcade,
And with a weak, remindful glow,
The falling embers break and fade,
As one by one the phantoms go.

Then, with a melancholy glee
To think where once my fancy strayed,
I muse on what the years may be
Whose coming tales are all unsaid,
Till tongs and shovel, snugly laid
Within their shadowed niches, grow

By grim degrees to pick and spade,
As one by one the phantoms go.

But then, what though the mystic Three
Around me ply their merry trade? --
And Charon soon may carry me
Across the gloomy Stygian glade? --

Be up, my soul! nor be afraid
Of what some unborn year may show;
But mind your human debts are paid,
As one by one the phantoms go.

ENVOY

Life is the game that must be played:
This truth at least, good friend, we know;
So live and laugh, nor be dismayed
As one by one the phantoms go.

[Ursa major]

If you want to watch BSkyB in your car, do you have to have it fitted with a satellitic converter?

[Ursa major]

Are lowcostholidays.com sponsored by The Mentalist's Red John?

[Asmiley]

Men In Black 3 was actually pretty good.