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#1
07-12-2003, 06:50 AM
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I'm posting from my boat :)
Forgive my jubilance but my wife and I are on our way to the Cape from Connecticut. We're almost ready to give way and I thought I'd post from her new ipad. This thing rocks. It's got wireless internet through the airport card this marks the first time I've ever posted from A) a wireless lap-top and B) from my boat. I'm psyched. I probably won't post back until a little later because there is a fair bit of fog this morning and mrs.phlosphr doesn't really like to navigate in the fog.
If any dopers are going to be in the Hiannis area this afternoon, there will be Margarita's a plenty aboard The Loaded Pickle today. (long story on why we named her after a condiment) 
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#2
07-12-2003, 10:10 AM
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Wow.
I'm sitting in my loft, in my house, in Colorado at 11,200 feet. About to send a 'letter' to a person in a boat thousands of miles away that I have never met. And it will happen in an instant. Have great fun Phlosphr, I can picture the boat and the fog. It's going to be a bright sunny day up here. I live about 1/2 mile from the continental divide, my neighbors are two 14,000 foot peaks. We will be going to an art festival today, instead of gifts for our anniversary, Mrs. enipla and I buy a piece of art for both of us.
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I don't live in the middle of nowhere, but I can see it from here.
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#4
07-12-2003, 11:00 AM
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And I'm down here below sea level. When you float over the top of my house, Phlosphr, don't forget to wave!
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#6
07-12-2003, 11:18 AM
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*Sigh*
Posting from the textbook counter of a college bookstore at one the the Big Ten's best school's...if you aren't counting football. Here until 6pm EST, and this is my only form of entertainment. This and making odd annoucements over the store intercom.
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#8
07-12-2003, 11:41 AM
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Me? I'm posting from the reference desk of a university. It's a slow day today.
But I use the wireless connection all the time when I bring my laptop to campus. It's very nice to have. And very cool.
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#12
07-12-2003, 02:13 PM
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Phlosphr, you have the coolest stuff, hands down.
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#13
07-12-2003, 03:15 PM
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The bad news is you just inadvertantly invited CHocolate Cake to your boat.
The good news is he just wants to come to check his email. 
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#14
07-13-2003, 06:47 AM
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GOOOOOOD MORNING!!! Here I be again, but now I'm about 130 nautical miles north of where I posted from yesterday. I'm docked off Mashpee, Massachusetts. Sorry I didn't post back to this thread yesterday. I got caught up in a lot of other stuffs as I'm sure you can imagine. I did some fish'in yesterday (came up nil) but the margarit'as were fun, and watching the F-16's fly up and down the coast protecting our great land we have here were fun to watch. Thanks sockmunkey the wife and I are damn hard workers for the stuff we have. This is the first summer I've had off in almost a decade, but non-the-less we try not to skimp on the good things life has to offer. Hard work does pay off and plus we don;t have any kids ... yet.
 Once the little mini-phlosphr's start running around who knows what'll happen. I'm gonna need a child-gate on the tree house for a good many years....
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#15
07-13-2003, 07:40 AM
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Serious Jealous Cape Cod Moment........... Whew. That was rough. Sure do miss that place, for a few years there we vacationed each summer in Mid-Cape. Since you're headed there anyway, would you be a dear and stop by the Fairway Restaurant in Eastham and pick us all up some sour cream donuts? Thanks !!
I too love my Airport, but find it maddening to go through life finding Airports everywhere, only to realize I have no Network ID Name, and no Password to make use of it. Very frustrating. But yes, the idea of using a wireless link is SO cool. I haven't been able to get together the toys for the cel phone/modem link for my TiBook, but that'd be the bees knees. Being on the Web from anywhere in the country. Travel safely, mind the humpbacks and enjoy. It sounds like you have earned it ! Cartooniverse
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#16
07-13-2003, 08:44 PM
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<sigh>
Posting from home...and the boat (16 ft Whitehall sailing/rowing boat) is finished getting the varnish re-done (a "winter" project...ha!) and will be going in this week. What kind of boat? Where do you sail out of? also a Nutmegger, Bill
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#17
07-13-2003, 09:02 PM
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Oh, sure.
First you get a little pussy. Now you are playing with your dinghy.
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#19
07-13-2003, 09:16 PM
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Alright, enough with the idle chit chat. We demand to know the story behiond the name The Loaded Pickle. You can't just drop a name like that on us and expect us not to ask, Mister! So, make with the story.
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SnUgGLypuPpY -- TakE BaCk tHe PiT!
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#20
07-14-2003, 06:56 AM
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The Loaded Pickle: When I was three I ate an entire gallon jar of pickles, it made me so sick I threw up on the Thanksgiving day table right after everyone sat down. I was at the kiddy table so it worked out. But this was 1971 and I had an affinity for pickles. I couldn't get enough of them. But I also could not control my urges. So I'd usually eat the whole jar...
By ten, my brother would say..."Uh Oh....Here comes The Loaded Pickle...." I guess the name stuck. so all of you who had your mind in the gutter can resurface on that one.
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#21
07-14-2003, 07:09 AM
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Signed, kambuckta..........who is cold and miserable in her dining room in wintery Melbourne.
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#23
07-14-2003, 07:40 AM
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Just remember that if you decide to have a few little ones every last one of their friends will always be begging to come over to play in the tree fort.
(Yes, you called it an office but we all know better don't we? I can just see you know with your little superman flashlight skulking behind piles of couch cusions.)
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#24
07-14-2003, 07:47 AM
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 It's a cold drink! Haven't you got a hot toddie or summat?
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#25
07-14-2003, 07:57 AM
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I am posting from my secret underground lair, which is on the second floor of my home, in the room at the end of the hall, last door on the left.
Phlosphr - You have entirely too much money and too much free time. Can I be you when I grow up? First a tree fort, now a pirate ship! Geez......How do you dig for worms to fish with when you are at sea?
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#26
07-14-2003, 08:13 AM
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kambuckta - Ok here try this... It's a hot cup of the finest Cider with a generous dash of Captain Morgan's Spiced rum in it
Lyllyan - this is my first summer that I don't have to teach or do anything. The tree house is my gift to me. The boat is my wife and my gift to ourselves... And we use Lures to catch the fish - occasionally we'll use squid or shad. no worms in the ocean dear. Sock - actually the bridge to the house idea got formally nixed as it will be too much of a temptation for the littl'ins to climb out on... I actually may doa staircase instead but that takes some of the fun out of it. My neighbor's were over last night and we went up there and had looked at the interior work that needs to be done. I was thinking about a dopefest at my place or the beach this summer but I'd have to pass it by the boss.
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#27
07-14-2003, 08:20 AM
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Oh, dammit, orright....you're forgiven for your maritime mischiefs. Just remember NEXT time to not talk about them while your brethren in the SOUTHERN hemisphere are freezing their titties off. OK?
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#28
07-14-2003, 08:27 AM
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Re: I'm posting from my boat :)
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#29
07-14-2003, 08:35 AM
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If your boat's rocking, it might be due to more than Margaritas. Watch out for thunderstorms. http://weather.noaa.gov/radar/latest.../si.kbox.shtml
Be safe and have a good time.
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#30
07-14-2003, 08:45 AM
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I'm posting you while looking at boats. Granted, they're all water taxis, trying cut each other off like checkered cabs as they try to go from one side of the Hudson to the other. God Help the poor souls in sail boats or cabin cruisers who get in their way....
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#34
07-14-2003, 09:01 AM
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 Oh, but thanks for the cider and the rum. Much appreciated!!
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#36
07-14-2003, 09:31 AM
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(Bailey's AND Jamieson WITH hot-chocolate will be just fine thanks) Mmmmmmm.
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#37
07-14-2003, 11:29 AM
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Arrr! Avast ye mateys!
I be postin' from nowhere near the seven seas! I be postin' from a library with computers on the 'Net! Tis' all I got since I don't have a port or a home to call my own yet. . . I'm ashamed to say it, but I'm just a public LANdlubber now. Arrr.  Tripler I'll take me wooden leg somewhere else now. Arr.
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#38
07-14-2003, 11:52 AM
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I'm posting from work, cool eh?
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#39
07-14-2003, 12:12 PM
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Quote:
///Foghorn Leghorn/// "It was a joke, son, a funny!" ///Foghorn Leghorn///
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#40
07-14-2003, 05:44 PM
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Oh I have an idea!
You should put one of those fireman poles in the treehouse! That would totally rule!
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#42
07-14-2003, 09:25 PM
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So, Philo, are you running around yer boat chasing any wench in the area shouting, " Arrrr Matey! Tis I, the Captian of the Loaded Pickle. And I gots one here in me pocket too. It ain't kosher, but it's a dilly!"
Avast!
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#43
07-19-2003, 11:34 PM
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA
God, you slay me Shirl. Makes me wish I was a seafarin' fellah.  Cartooniverse
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#45
07-19-2003, 11:52 PM
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Hello, the boat!
If you were three in 1971, doesn't that make you older than thirty-three? Better cut back on those margaritas -- at least while you are boating. I know that you must be enjoying your summer break. Do you usually teach year-round?
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#46
07-20-2003, 07:44 AM
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Zoe - October 2003 I'll be 34... My forward math is much better. I was 2 in 1971 cuz I was born in 1969.
I am thoroughly enjoying my summer break. This is the first summer I don't have to teach. So yes, I usually do teach year round. Last summer I taught both summer sessions and winter sprint. Mrs.P wasn't happy. And usually we don't drink whilst underway, but when moored or at dock, we start. If you've been following my latest endeavours...a certain tree house/office has been taking my time this summer.
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#47
07-20-2003, 02:37 PM
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That is so cool! I've always wanted to have a tea house/office in a small wooded area behind the house. Instead we have something even better. Our house is on a hillside. When we added a screened front porch, it put us in the tree tops. I hope that you and Mrs. P enjoy your treehouse as much as we do ours.
You ate a gallon of pickles when you were two years old? It's a wonder you are alive! I'm off to the kitchen to get a dish of olives and pickles. I can't get them off of my mind!
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