The Little Woman and I were playing the What’s For dinner game:
“What do you want for dinner?”
“I dunno. What do you want?”
“I dunno. What do you want?”
We were only on the 47th round and we narrowed it down to:
A) Roasted honeybees in a nice wine sauce.
2. Gopher soup flambé
or
III- Something else.
When Soupo decided he “doesn’t like that!” I wasn’t sure just what he didn’t like, it could have been anything. But I thought I’d use some Parenting on him and Teach Him a Lesson. “Well then, Young Man, if you don’t like what we’re having for dinner you can just buy use something you do want.” As it happens he had some cash socked away in an old sherbet tub and thought he’d buy us all some Taco Bell. Well, that got me out of having to fix dinner for the night, so that was that. We were having Taco Bell and it was on Soupo.
Well, some of it was on Soupo. It turned out that he didn’t have the scratch to cover the whole feed, so I snuck a little in on the top. I mean, Teaching Him a Lesson is all good, but I wanted my own Chalupa. And nachos. How could you go to Taco Bell without getting some nachos? It would be like going to White Castle and not getting the onion chips. Unthinkable.
There was another lesson for the little guy. Always check your bag in the drive-thru. They gave us the cheese for our nachos, but they shorted us on the actual chips. It wasn’t the “A Team” working the window that night. Although that would have been so cool! B.A. Baracus taking the order. “Watchoo want, fool?” And look! It’s Templeton “Faceman” Peck steaming up the Meximelts. John “Hannibal” Smith runs the register (of course) and “Howlin’ Mad” Murdock hands us our food. Tell me that wouldn’t be a dream come true.
The only way it could be better is if you were driving the Knight Industries Two Thousand and a monkey named “Bear” was next to you. No, no! Bear is in the back seat and Daisy Duke has shotgun. I don’t think it could get much better than that.
-Rue.
Isn’t there some sort of prize for getting first reply in a Rue thread?
Ah, sweet, sweet Taco Bell. Finally a thread I can fully participate in.
If it were the A Team at the window, they would’ve figured out some way to make your chalupas out of barbed wire, tractor parts and a jackhammer. Each chalupa would have a machine gun mounted on the top.
You got Soupo to pick up the tab?? I am in awe, good sir!! We hounded our kid for 18 years before she finally treated us to dinner - for our 20th anniversary. Oh, and she took me out for ice cream last week because she wanted ice cream and she didn’t want to go alone.
A monkey named “Bear”? :eek: So if you had a pet bear you’d name him “Simian”? Talk about animal confusion!
And Taco Bell… YUCK I had good Mexican this weekend. I went to San Jose Mexican Restaurant (it’s in Lee County, GA not in CA) and I even knew the way there! HAH! I crack me up!
Oh! We got us a brand spankin’ new road here too. Well, they’ve been workin’ on it for three years but it’s finally opened. I rode on it over the weekend. Now that’s some excitin’ fun!
Next time Soupo wants to take everybody out to dinner and he doesn’t have enough money to pay, I think you should leave him in the restaurant to wash dishes to make up the difference. That’ll teach him a lesson.
Man, I’m in awe of both RueandFCM. I can’t even get my kids to heat up the leftovers so the wife or I don’t have to do it, much less pay for, well, ANYTHING.
I am a SuperParent. I have the cape and everything. I used to have the tights, but I had to stop wearing them. Chafing. 'Nuff said.
Swampy, the monkey (ape really, no tail)(Ok, he’s a chimpanzee) is named after Bear Bryant, the Greatest Football Coach Ever. And he saved my life in 'Nam. Dug me out of a prison cell with only a spoon! Now we drive around the country in my big rig having adventures. Except when that pesky Sheriff Lobo shows up. Man I hate that guy. Luckily he’s stupid and I can outsmart him in under an hour. (Where were you in 1979?)
Did I need a coupon for that offer Scumpup? They didn’t have it on the big board so I didn’t know. Maybe I should go back and complain.
And did you see? The default is now “No Signature”. Now I won’t forget to uncheck the box and you won’t have to see my sig every post.
Also, tomorrow is Fat Tuesday. Anyone want some beads? (Not you Swampy. I mean it.)
I’d consider asking for beads, but I’ve heard that at Mardi Gras, female personages are required to, um, display their assets in order to get them. And I’m not that kind of girl, so I guess I’m outta luck. Except that since I’m Rue’s Special Friend[sup]TM[/sup], I might get a pass, ya think? (she said, angelically)
“BJ and the Bear” - now there was some high-class entertainment. Especially after BJ started the trucking company with all those women drivers. The guy who played BJ was Greg Evigan and he did a couple of other TV series. If they had a chimp named “Bear” and a human named “Lobo”, they should have had some large carnivore named “Primate” to balance it out. One of the Landers sisters played the driver “Jugs”. I think Greg Evigan did the TV version of Logan’s Run with Heather Menzies. My college roommate’s brother thought that Bear had actually been trained to drive a truck. I once saw a porno movie called “BJ and the Bare”. I always thought Audrey Landers was more attractive than her sister Judy, but I could never remember which was which. Sheriff Lobo’s daughter was one of BJ’s drivers which gave the series a nice Shakespearean tone. Judy Landers starred with the late Dan Urich in Vegas. I’m pretty sure a chimp couldn’t get a license even if he could drive because he’d never pass the written test. It’s funny how Claude Atkins played a truck driver in his first television series and a truck driver hating sheriff in his second. Audrey and Judy Landers did a pictorial together for Playboy but they didn’t do any actual nudity. Heather Menzies was married to Dan Urich. Sheriff Lobo’s daughter was named Sam, in keeping with the pattern of strangely named characters. Greg Evigan did a series with Paul Reisner, who went on to do a series with Helen Hunt, who went on to win an Academy Award, which is the closest this crowd is getting to an Oscar. Okay, I’ll stop now.
Taco Bell makes me think of Mexican food which makes me think of my dinner this weekend - I went to a Mexican place with a guy Saturday night. Now, this may not seem like a big deal, but I’ll confess a little secret to y’all - it was my second date ever. Ever. And I’m 30. And my first date was this past Wednesday. But hey - I’m dating now! And I’m a slut because I am seeing 2 guys at once. But I really don’t think it counts as dating, because I didn’t get a kiss from either one - but both want to see me again. It’s meeting new people is all. But…with a dating undertinge.
Personally, I find Clint Eastwood’s work with the orangutan much more compelling that Evigan’s work with the chimp. I belive the orangutan played an organgutan named Clyde, (I could be mistaken, but I’m calling him Clyde in this post nonetheless).
Bear was a one-sided character, Clyde had a depth to his part that was enhanced by the orangutan’s natural appeal. Clyde’s interaction with both Clint Eastwood and Ruth Gordon revealed a multi-faceted personality and took much more acting skill than Bear’s, albeit cute, but one-note performance. Just as important, aspects of the Eastwood character were only shown by his relationship with Clyde (forget the girl, if a man loves his ape, he’s a keeper). Had Clyde not been in Any Which Way But Loose and Any Which Way You Can the movies would have suffered. In contrast, Bear was a gimmick, and the show could have worked with out him.
I’m 43, and to this day, if (and that’s a big if) I can convince my mother to let me take her out to lunch or dinner, she slips money into my purse before I leave (she’s been known to send me money after I’ve sent her flowers, meaning that she actually pays for her own birthday present). On the other hand, my neice did treat me to ice cream when I took her to the mall. Of course, she was trying to talk me into letting her get her ears pierced even though her Mom had said “NO”, but I prefer to think she was feeling generous.
Scumpup, that cracked me up, because I thought of that line as well. I pity the foo who doesn’t get his chips with his nachos!!
And I respectfully rescind my resemblance with susan_foster. I haven’t been on a date any time in the recent past, so it’s painfully clear she and I are NOT one and the same person. :rolleyes:
I don’t mean to sound like a braggart, but…Hah! My kids always want to pay (ages 11 and 14) for our dinner. 'Course, this offer to pay is always contingent upon my picking up Quiznos or Arbys or Taco Time. :rolleyes:
We have very occassionally taken them up on this offer, but most of the time we wave their offer of payment for a meal aside. So, we’re not totally cheap or horrible parents.
I like Taco Time better than Taco Bell. Taco Bell has gone way, way downhill. They used to be good, but somehow they just started slipping.
I already have beads, AND I didn’t have to um, “flash”. I’m not that kind of girl either! :o
I always thought Clyde was better than Bear. 'Course, I always liked Eastwood more than Reynolds or Evigan.
Oh, I don’t eat Taco Bell regularly because I like it. It’s because those bastages put something in it that makes me crave it fortnightly.whiskers bristle, shakes fist angrily
Dammit, the one day I forgot to bring beads to this thread and it’s boobies galore. sigh Oh, wait, here’s some:
o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o
Sadly, you’ll have to pretend your own funky colors 'cause I’m too darn lazy to code.
slortar, I love that line. I find there are not nearly enough opportunities to use it, and if I do, generally no one gets it. They just wonder why I’m trying to sound Scottish.
Looka the size of that heed! It’s like an orange onna toothpick!
