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[Félix]

There are liars, and then there are stinking liars.

[Michele]

right now showers and drizzles so pollen count is down.

[Jim]

And the beat goes on.

[Janice]

... and on and on.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I wonder why no one names girls Polly anymore.

[Michele]

another reason to buy less food: 1)lose weight by eating less ..2)more money to buy books instead. hmmm.

[Phil]

Lobstergirl wrote: "I wonder why no one names girls Polly anymore."

Because they got tired of people asking them if their daughter wanted a cracker.

[ms.petra]

^^^^ :)

[Michele]

giggle.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Does anyone know what bird makes that call that sounds like the sound a dog makes when it's sad? It's kind of a high pitched whine, but very short.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

That hardly sounds reasonable. F**ing scam if you ask me.

But clever of you to block out your license plate so we can't stalk you. Very googlish!

[Félix]

I can see it's a KIA. What model is it? Optima? That badge on there is not legible.

[Janice]

That's a ridiculous price! It costs less to replace the motor. Glad that you didn't get hurt.

[Jonathan]

Sorry to hear about the accident, Barb. The repair bill really sucks. But as Janice said, it's good that nobody got hurt.

[Michele]

sounds a little too high to me, Barb. Are you OK?

[Phil]

The 8K is to make it "like new," right?

They'll have to replace the entire rear quarter panel and the trunk (boot) lid. There may be unseen damage underneath as well.

It would probably only be $1,500 to bang it out with a sledge & make it serviceable, but who wants that?

What happened is that the car did exactly what it is designed to do. It crumpled itself to absorb the impact, rather than passing that force on to your bones and flesh. A fair trade, I'd say.

[Sally, la reina]

Yay, Philerino brought in the logic. I always wonder about all this stuff and here he's illuminated it for me. I love Phil! And Clark!

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Sally wrote: "Yay, Philerino brought in the logic. I always wonder about all this stuff and here he's illuminated it for me. I love Phil! And Clark!"

Right back at ya, Dollface.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Did we just travel back to the 40s?

[Phil]

Clark wishes he could go back to his 40s.

And now he's going to tell me to "gedoff-a-mylawn!"

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Phil wrote: "Clark wishes he could go back to his 40s.

And how, Phil, and how.

And now he's going to tell me to "gedoff-a-mylawn!""

Watch it, you're stepping all over my lawn patch, Einstein!

[Michele]

I don't want to go back to my 40's: bulging discs, sciatica, migraines. spent my days in pain and spare hours in doctors offices. no thanks. the closer I come to death the happier I am: no more pain at last! The sciatica is mostly gone but now the bursitis takes it's place, along with pain in the left knee, fingers and of course the ever present migraines. sigh. I avoid pain killers because they destroy either the liver or the kidneys and I have enough problems without those being added to the list. It's why I spend so much time reading fiction so I can become absorbed in someone else's active, healthy ,fun filled, adventurous, active lives.

[ms.petra]

I love getting a surprise email from a friend... made my day :)

[Kevin]

Really? Isn't that nice

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

The marriage prohibition between U.S. soldiers and German women was in force longer than the general order against fraternization – until December 1946. A survey conducted in 1955 in West Germany counted 66,730 children born out of wedlock during the occupation, 37,000 of whom had American fathers. Over 10% of them were the children of African-American soldiers. This photo shows German foster parents with children from a German-American relationship in Munich (1949). Photo by Hanns Hubmann.

[Cynthia]

Awwwww.

[Mark]

Lobstergirl wrote: ""

Looks like the genetically engineered love-child of Daffy Duck, The Grinch and Jay Leno.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Sometimes I notice the most odd, random, serendipitous connections between books. The last four books I've read have nothing to do with each other. Strong Motion by Jonathan Franzen takes place mostly in Somerville, Mass. The next book I read, Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick, the narrator lives for a time in Somerville, Mass. Then I read The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie. Then yesterday I started reading The Great Hill Stations of Asia and I came across a passage describing how The Mysterious Affair at Styles was based on Lady Ormsby-Gore, who died of strychnine poisoning at the Savoy Hotel in Mussoorie, one of the Himalayan hill stations.

[Sally, la reina]

I didn't follow your chain of reasoning after the first two books. How are the last two connected to the first two?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

They're not. It's more a pair of pairs.

[Sally, la reina]

Ah, what the man said to his blind wife in that case.

[Phil]

"I see, I see," said the blind man to his deaf wife as he picked up his hammer and saw.

[ms.petra]

wasn't sure where to post this but wanted to share. from a FB friend in college...
Special request to all you kids returning to school in the next few days: If you see someone who is struggling to make friends or being bullied because he/she doesn't have many friends or because they are shy or not as pretty or not dressed in the nicest clothes -- PLEASE step up. Say hi or at least smile at them in the hallway. You never know what that person might be facing outside of school. Your kindness might just make a BIG difference in someone's life. Re-post please :)

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Great advice. I wish more people would do that.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Did you want to swaddle your iPad in Bernie Madoff's pants? Now you can...

http://news.yahoo.com/swaddle-ipad-be...

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Every time I go to England on googlemaps, I see palm trees. It's like it's in the tropics or something!

[Phil]

Anne Hathaway has disturbingly large eyes.

[Félix]

Eyes. Yup.

[Phil]

Ha. Did you ever notice she has eyes? :)

[Félix]

Oh my yes.

[Jammies]

Phil wrote: "Anne Hathaway has disturbingly large eyes."

She also has a HUGE mouth. Scary!

[Félix]

She can get a whole doorknob in there.

[Ema]

And she'd still have room left.

[~Geektastic~]

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[Jonathan]

You can't fool me, Amber. That's not Anne Hathaway.

[Jim]

Had me fooled until I saw the mustache.

[~Geektastic~]

You got me. It's Julia Roberts Albert Dershman.

[Phil]

Did we ever hear what happened at the boys vs. girls reunion football game?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

RA is now taking profile photos of himself in bathrooms.

[Félix]

As in more than one bathroom?