Horses Are Prejudiced (And Other Interesting Things) - MMP

Well of course you’re not “flamboyant” flamboyant–the bronze beer belly testifies to that, but in your interior decorator avatar, you are flamboyant. Not like Richard Simmons flamboyant, or Sigfreid and Roy flamboyant–more like Christopher Lloyd flamboyant. But only when you’re wearing you’re fabulous interior decorator hat.

Ever since I read the comic book version of John Carter, Warlord of Mars, I’ve wanted a Southern Gentlemen, a Captain from Virginia. I found one once, but alas, we were young and the fates did not favor us. He’s the only man in my life that could return, say “I want to be with you” and I’d say “Yes” to hom with no reservations. <heavy sigh> And no, my John Carter fixation and my long lost love do not interfere with my ability to fall in love with another. So, send them along folks–blind dates accepted, brothers, fathers, ex-husbands/boyfriends, co-workers welcome, if you know them and you’re willing to fix us up, I’ll date him.

No, I’m not desperate, I’m just eager, that’s all. Open to a new relationship. Ready for love. Emotional prepared for a mature, healthy partnership.
Really, really lonely at night. But hopeful!

Well, the renovation guys b]dropped our kitchen counters**, so the replacement ones won’t be available until Saturday or Sunday. I’m told the pizza place across the street is wonderful.

We were able to drop some boxes off today. I feel fulfilled.

Unfortunately, my Dad drove us. I love my Dad, but he’s the worst, most timid, slowest, jerkiest driver I’ve ever met. Mr. Lissar didn’t kill my Dad for trying to drive away while he (Mr. Lissar) was unloading boxes, or for driving at 20 in a 40 zone, or for almost stopping in front of speed bumps.

On the plus side, our apartment looks wonderful. I have a real stove instead of a little apartment one, lots of cupboards, and everything is freshly painted and beautiful.

Sigh.

I have games? Lemme go check.

Huh. I’ll be a sonofabitch, I guess I do. The bowling one is really, really boring though.

Don’t get me started on the ring tones. They’re all supremely annoying. I went through the whole list, and I didn’t find one that didn’t set my teeth on edge. You’d think that one of the options would be a normal ringing sound. You would think that, but you would be wrong. Ring tones are just a big scam, because you have to log on to their “network” (which costs money) and download the less annoying ones (which costs more money). Bastards.

I avoided the entire ring tone issue by setting the phone on “vibrate.” At least that’s what they called it. If they were being honest, they’d have called it “slap a defibullator paddle on your kidney.” I just can’t win with this thing.

See? You got more funny than me without trying.

Bumba, if you’re up to it, I’d love to meet you for lunch or a beer after work while you’re in town (my treat). In what part of Atlanta will you be? You gonna be here on business or pleasure?

Bumba I was gonna be all upset that you couldn’t manage a piddly three hour drive to meet me but I see earthpuppy telling ya she’d be more than happy to entertain, so I’m not all that upset now. Specially seein’ as how next time I happen to be in Etlanner I plan on earthpuppy entertaining me and all. So, enjoy Etlanner and you better do yer darndest to meet our darlin’ earthpuppy

Kalley Christopher Lowell? As F-aaaaaaaaa-buuuu-lous as he acts, I’m still not quite like even him. Dang! I can’t remember the name of the show, but there’s this show on HGTV (maybe it’s Design On A Dime) that has this burly bearish man (pant! pant!) on it. I’m more like him in appearance 'cept older and probably a less tasteful. (Dang! He’s Woofy!) BTW… Woofy is a gay bear term for a particularly hot speciman, just so ya know.

Ex I know what you mean about the ring tones. Nothing normal on mine either. That’s why the obnoxious ring tone game is fun. On the occasions I actually strap my phone on my hip, I use the vibrator. For me it’s well…errr… kind of like getting rubbed up against on my leg. Do I get this week’s most TMI post award for saying that?

-swampbear (bzzzzzzzzz… Is that a marriage proposal?)

awwwwwww, that’s so sweet! I can hardly wait till you come up this way swampy. I’m countin’ on ya bein here for DopeStock. Don’t let me down!

Hey Ex, what about you set it on vibrate and have a little bell attached to it? Then it would ring and you wouldn’t have to pay extra. What? I don’t know from cell phones and it seems like a good idea. Sheesh

And don’t worry about Bumba being so funny, so easily. Bumba is funny just reading his name, so he has an edge. Bumba Bumba Bumba Bumba-cabana, Bumba pie, Bumba roo. See? Chose wisely, did Bumba.

I went shopping today. I had to buy a dress and went to three places before I found one that didn’t make me want to gouge out my eyeballs. Then I went grocery shopping and, among other things, bought some wasabi flavored potato chips. They’re pretty good, but I thought I heard Pringles is coming out with ketchup flavored chips and those I’m really interested in.

Then I went to the gym. What I want to know, is how does a person get make up smeared all over that one squat machine thingy, way down in the v part? Your face isn’t supposed to go anywhere near that part and I’ll bet that if you slipped and smacked your face into it, you’d also notice you smeared five pounds of foundation all over it and would then have the common decency to clean it off. Savages.

That’s very nice of you earthpuppy, I hope we can get together for a visit.

it’s a family thing. My Mother and Brother and countless nieces, nephews, and cousins live in and around Georgia, ('cept for the ones in Michigan.) I will actually be in Woodstock, I think, at my Mom and cousin’s house. (they live together.)

Here’s the deal; I’m flying in to Atlanta on the evening of the 25th, and will be met by somebody, who will take me somewhere to sleep. That weekend will be taken up with visiting relatives and admiring babies, (also relatives of course), that sort of thing. Then, sometime that week, probably the 30th, my Mom and I, and possible a cousin or two, are driving to Michigan to visit one of my few remaining aunts, who has terminal cancer, plus a large part of the Michigan branch of the family. We have to be there by the 3rd of July, I think, to make whatever family reunion thing they can throw together, or whatever. All I know is we plan to stay in Michigan until the 12th of July, travelling around to various relatives’ houses, and then drive back to Atlanta so that I can fly out on the 14th.
Nothing in my life can ever be simple. :rolleyes:

Anyway, I think I will be able to wander about on my own on the 28th and 29th, if I can borrow a car. Unless one of my nieces, or some other family member, has some other plans I don’t know about yet.

If that turns out to be the case, I would be delighted to lunch, or whatever, with you. If it looks like it might be do-able, e-mail me.

I like to set my cell phone on vibrate and put it in my front pants pocket.
Now *that’s * funny. :wink:

Man, is it a small world or what? I live less than 5 miles from Woodstock. I’ll be tied up Saturday, it’s hubby’s birthday and his band is playing (get this) the Dukes of Hazard 25th reunion in Covington. He’s currently playing in a sorta country band (more country rock/newgrass)–not my favorite genre, I liked it better when he was playing rock n roll and blues–but it’s his birthday, and I’ll tough it out like a good wifey. But Sun, Mon or Tues would be fine. I work in Buckhead (close to town), so it might be difficult for you to get down there during the day…but since you’re staying so close to home, we could meet for a beer Mon or Tues evening. You like Mexican food?

p.s. I set my cell phone to vibrate and sit it in my lap when I’m driving!

(with an earpiece for “hands-free” safe driving ) :wink:

Ah yes, you Merkin savages don’t have ketchup-flavoured chips. I forgot. Heathens.

No, I’m afraid you don’t. Why? I’ll tell you why.

The first day I had mine, I set it to “defibulator paddle” and shoved it down my pants.

Then I called myself from my desk phone six or seven times.

This is why Canada will always be nothing more than an appendage to The Republic.

If you people need to have your chips pre-flavored with ketchup, because you are unable to excercise your individual liberty and squirt that red crap out of the bottle for yourselves, you will never be truly free.

Tuppy, THERE IS NO MEAT!!! That’s the beauty of the Jam… Jiah… Jyoto… THAT burger. It’s all burdock and seaweed and stuff and it’s delicioso!

and thanks kindly Swampy, with six of the MOS burgers in you, that bronze-belly will be all the more um… -bronzed! (y’know, reading Swampy describe himself makes me wish I was gay in some way. Can I fantasize about these burly poolboys by proxy? Like, I’ll pretend they’re Burly pool GIRLS and yeah… um… that’s it!).

and I fully concur Ashes2 (how do I code the superscript ‘2’?). T-shirt prints of the various burger diagrams would be very cool! MOS actually do sell a series of high-end merchandise. I have a lovely chunky soup mug with the MOS logo and a small soup bowl (it’s probably a nut bowl, but I don’t do nuts, so it’s for a small amount of soup).

The yella eyes (how was that Swampy? ‘Southern’ enough?) don’t seem to be available for us folks who don’t wear glasses. The contact lense are all with degree, which pisses me off, cos I want red eyes. Are you a glasses person Ashes(2)? Or must you suffer the ignominy of perfect vision? sigh. So many nice glasses out there and I’m denied.

DENIED I tell ya!!!

POTUS sounds like something a toddler uses to learn toilet training.

Do ya think the CIA has a dossier on me now? <snerk!>

My mobile phone is on vibrate AND noise! I use the only sound (what do we call it, a ‘ring tone’? But it doesn’t ring! It makes a sound! although I have heard one that sounds like a good old RINGING phone. bring bring) that doesn’t make me want to through my nice red phone across the room (last time I did that the phone exploded into a million tiny pieces and it took me ten minutes to put it all back together! Mental notes were made that day). The only ring tone that I find acceptable is… a cricket!

No, not the boring guys in the white pants standing around playing with their bats and red balls, the li’l insect that goes >chirp chirp< >chirp chirp<. so when my phone rings no one realises it’s my phone. More often than not they say, ‘what’s that? A cricket?’ and someone else says ‘over the fence is six and out’ and ‘HOWZAT?!?’ and then someone else says, ‘not that kind of cricket’ and so on. By the time all this is done I usually don’t get to answer the call, so it’s also on vibrate, cos that’s just funny.

I did buy a ‘ring-tone’ once, I bought Kraftwerks’ POPCORN, cos I thought that would be cool and ironic and all Gen-Xy and stuff (we Gene-Xers are obliged to be ironic and cynical, it’s in the contract), and take me back to grade school days when we would all play along to POPCORN. But the version that arrived on my phone sucked big nasty chunky things! The song was not just abbridged, but CUT and off key and all sorts of BAD!!!

So no more buying dumb ‘ring-tones’ for me. Nosireebob!

on the domestic front, The Young Master woke up at 3am this morning and needed hugs (nightmares or something) so came into bed with Mrs Dangergene, et moi. all was fine until he decided to roll over, but instead of rolling span 180 degrees so his head was on my chest and his kicking legs were on Mrs Dangergene’s head. Needless to say we didn’t get much sleep. Again…

It’s almost payday! And the censorship relaxation should be in effect, so I should be able to go and buy all sortsa of previously banned but now available DVDs soon! Maybe… I hope… I wanna buy movies with boobies and swear words and fun stuff, like burly pool boys. -oops! um… ignore that last one. Really!

dangergene, no more caffeine for you today, okay?

As for Ashes x 2,(I can’t do the little 2 either) and Lissla and their ketchup flavored chips–ketchup is an abomination unto the Gods! It may be used (sparingly) in a meatloaf, but other than that, it should stay hidden. If you find the need to have ketchup, first, invest in a good cookbook, and second, do it in the privacy of your own home where the Gods are tolerant of such abnormalities (I believe in Gods that don’t care about anything you do in the privacy of your own house that is consentual and doesn’t hurt anyone. Doesn’t everyone?)

And while you are at it, take the mustard with you. I am a fugitive from condiments. No, I don’t know exactly what that means either, but at one point of my life, not only did it make sense, it was funny.

Not funny like this funny:

The maharajah of an Indian Province issued a royal decree. He ordered that no one was to kill any wild animals while he was the country’s leader. The decree was honored until there were so many Bengal Tigers running loose that the people revolted and threw the maharajah from power. This is the first known instance of the reign being called on account of the game.

But still funny.

jeepers Ms Kallessa, you think I need stimulants to be this chirpy? Nay I say, I’m just a morning person! :smiley:

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bedtime now.

-Bumbasmartass

Well, I’m no psychiatrist, but maybe some people use fancy coding and colors and stuff to hide an inadequacy in another area. I’m jus’ saying, ya know.

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So now waitaminute, are you saying I can’t get yellow eyes unless there’s sumpin’ wrong with 'em, Dangergene? This is unfair, this is wrong, this is-- oooh they come in red? How about lavendar? Oh heck, it doesn’t matter because I can’t have any of them. Stupid good eyes.

I have no idea how to do the little letters. I’m pretty sure I couldn’t make colors. I have no idea how to link things. Smilies make me nervous. I breathe a sigh of relief whenever I manage to bold things properly. Today, I was fiddling around my computer and noticed that I hadn’t cleaned up disk space. Ever. I’ve had this computer for six years. So yeah, dunno about little letters, but my computer runs faster now.

Ketchup is good Kallessa! Specially on rice, and when you cook scrambled eggs with strips of corn tortillas mixed in, you have to put ketchup on that too. Never on hot dogs, though. Do you hear me? For the love of all that is good and holy, never on hotdogs! But with chicken fried steak? Yum! Plus, I just want to try the ketchup chips. I’ve tried roast chicken flavored and those were fairly decent and if the good folks over in England came up with those, mayhap ketchup is a taste treat.

Mustard has it’s place, if it’s good mustard. Or the yellow junk for potato salad. Y’know, if all my posts on food are indicative of how much I’ll be eating, this is going to be a long fat summer.

Exgineer’s Culinary Tip Of The Day:

The next time you think you may have to put ketchup on something, consider substituting Frank’s Hot Sauce instead. Especially good on omlettes (with jalapenos) and scrambled eggs (with cheese and onions).