# I am off to the beach to build sandcastles.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 27, 1999, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-off-to-the-beach-to-build-sandcastles/12318 "1999-12-27T23:23:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PurpleCrackwhore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc348/32.png) [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 1999, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-off-to-the-beach-to-build-sandcastles/12318/1 "1999-12-27T23:23:00Z")
and I invite you all to come along and join me. Bring you favorite tools and some great ideas on what kind of sand sculpture we should make. * * * I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature! ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 1999, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-off-to-the-beach-to-build-sandcastles/12318/2 "1999-12-27T23:27:00Z")
A hairless wombat sporting a severed moose schlong? * * * Easy one-step assembly instructions. Pour **Beer A** in **Uncle B**. ---
**Author:** ![PurpleCrackwhore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc348/32.png) [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 1999, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-off-to-the-beach-to-build-sandcastles/12318/3 "1999-12-27T23:32:00Z")
Could you get me a photo of that Uncle so I have a point of reference? * * * I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature! ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 1999, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-off-to-the-beach-to-build-sandcastles/12318/4 "1999-12-27T23:36:00Z")
Last I knew Melin had it. > [@](#): > > …the sacred moose schlong is MINE? ::wondering how it would look stuffed and mounted in my office… * * * Easy one-step assembly instructions. Pour **Beer A** in **Uncle B**. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 1999, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-off-to-the-beach-to-build-sandcastles/12318/5 "1999-12-27T23:57:00Z")
Where on earth would a beach be warm enough at this time of the year? Why in California, of course, in Monterey, a nice warm 70+. But then its the driest december of record. ---
**Author:** ![Shadowfox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Shadowfox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfox)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 1999, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-off-to-the-beach-to-build-sandcastles/12318/6 "1999-12-27T23:58:00Z")
She could always use it to put a scare in any potential clients…“You see that sacred moose schlong on my wall? That is what happened the last time somebody tried to stiff me out of my retainer…” * * * Shadowfox “We are what we pretend to be.” - Kurt Vonnegut ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 1999, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-off-to-the-beach-to-build-sandcastles/12318/7 "1999-12-28T00:43:00Z")
## UncleBeer, I love your new sig. I’ve got a similar T-shirt that I wear when I go out to be obnoxious in the local bars 😉 Coldfire * * * “You know how complex women are” - Neil Peart, Rush (1993) ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 1999, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-off-to-the-beach-to-build-sandcastles/12318/8 "1999-12-28T21:49:00Z")
_gets out shovel and starts to bury PCW’s legs in the sand_ Ooops, sorry, didn’t see ya! 😉 * * * “Teaching without words and work without doing are understood by very few.” -Tao Te Ching