When the moon hits your eye
Like a big pizza pie
That’sa messy.
And my puns
When you need travertine
You must go to the scene
That’s a quarry
If you mess with my mind
You will ultimately find
You’ll be sorry
Back in Colonial seventy six
You could be in a fix
If you’re a Tory
That’s all I got for now. I may thunk up some more, eh?
Wet and rainy weekend at the Anachi Ranch. WTF?? This is supposed to be beautiful dry Fall. And Mr. Anachi just HAD to put in a little paver patio for the barbee next to the porch. It is very hard to place pavers on a bed of sand when the rain keeps washin it away. Nonetheless, the patio is finished and just needs some fine tuning. I christened it with some barbacued chicky. It was nummers.
When the man takes the ham,
and he seasons with BAM!
that’s Emeril…
Ok, that sucked.
Welcome newbies! All it takes are puns to draw in the new kids.
My weekend was very uneventful. Laundry, groceries - the usual. I made a wonderful roast beast last night, with scalloped NOT, and speargrass. Yum!
Do y’all remember my used to live here but is now out of state friend who stood me up a couple of months ago? No? Well, anyway, she e-mailed me this morning, asking if I want to get together this Thursday.
I e-mailed her back, and said she hurt my feelings last time, as I had reserved Saturday night with her, and then I was really worried when she didn’t call or even e-mail me on Monday (when she was supposed to be back home.) I said she had cancelled on me too many times, and I didn’t want to get hurt again. So that we should just stay e-mail buddies.
I’ve just been disappointed too many times. I still feel guilty for saying all that to her. I’m so silly. I have every right to say that to her, but it makes me feel bad to say it.
Here it is Monday again. What happened to my weekend? I’ll have some of that chocolate pie, if there’s any left… <sigh>
Puttin’ clothes together for laundry. There will also be grocery shopping. And the haircut later in the day. And for extra excitement, maybe some paper shredding. Woo hoo.
Ye gods, puns! Something I have little inclination towards, unfortunately, although I do enjoy reading them. Good OP, Swampy and I have to add that I like the posting at just after midnight–sometimes I don’t get to see them until after 5 PM, and often there are quite a few posts by then!
I’m picturing Dotty chasing around after HRH, crawling all over the house - what a picture! Hope you get those child-proof things in place soon enough, Dotty.
Welcome Kid!
Okay, here’s my attempt:
When you marry for life
then you take another wife,
thats-a bigamy!
I haven’t posted to the MMP in a while. Quick recap: still a receptionist at the car dealership, had a bunch of crazy hours for the past month because one of the other receptionists quit, grad school’s going okay, Acid Lamp got a new job in his field [sub]yay![/sub], and I’m finally starting to do preliminary searching for sites and ideas for our wedding in October 2009.
This weekend was a bit boring, but JoAnn Fabrics had a sale. Bought myself 25 skeins of DMC embroidery floss and am thinking about doing a wildflower motif with them (blues, oranges, pinks, yellows, but not super bright stuff). I also got two skeins of really neat looking 100% wool yarn; after I teach myself to knit well with the regular yarn that I’ve got, I think I’ll probably make myself a really pretty scarf or something equally cool with it. (Here’s a photo of what someone else did with the yarn-- “Jo-Ann Sensations Marvel”-- I got it in various shades of white and gray. Should make an interesting project material.)
(I’m not sure I get the MMP yet, but here goes…) This weekend, I finally put a new storm door on our house. I also went to see a mediocre play at a community theatre. And, uh, I learned that my brother’s father-in-law died and that I will need to hie myself back home for the funeral. Actually, I’m not that sorry to see the weekend pass.
Anyway, here’s my pun:
When the dots don’t align,
and your litho’s not fine,
that’s a moiré
Love puns, but can’t come up with them myself. Oh well.
Good weekend here. We tried a Tibetan-Nepali restaurant on Saturday. YUM! And went to a different zoo than we usually do. Fun but really hot/humid/sticky. Not October weather in Minnesota! Fortunately, the cold front moved through last night and it now feels like October. And we were finally able to turn off the AC!
Sunday I went to my church’s new jazz service. We have a traditional service at 9:30, and for the last month, they’ve been doing a smaller, less formal jazz service at 11:15. I hadn’t been to it so I tried it out. Very different but a lot of fun.
Since I got out so late, **KeithT **and I met up for lunch at a Greek place that I hadn’t been to before. The spanakopita was really good.
In the afternoon, we walked around our neighborhood and checked out a few open houses and picked up other for-sale flyers. We’re not ready to buy yet, but it’s fun to poke around other people’s houses, and it doesn’t hurt to get a sense of the market. It’s still expensive, but the prices are falling, and with the number of townhouses for sale in just one neighborhood, I think the prices are going to have to fall further over the next 6 months or so. So we’re hitting this just right as first-time homebuyers. I just want to wait a little while to find out where my company is moving before we decide for sure where we’re going to move. It’ll be roughly in the same area, but could be 10 miles one way or another and if we are going to relocate anyway, it might as well be close to work. So we’ll see what happens. But in any case, I do love looking at houses.
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! And happy Columbus day to those of you lucky enough to have it off!
Happy Columbus Day/Canadian Thanksgiving! One of the radio stations did a Columbus Day history lesson this morning - set to The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald! :eek: It was fairly amusing, but I was still half asleep, so I don’t remember any of it well enough to post.
Purple, hang in there. Discontinuation really sucks, but it does pass evenutally. I hope this new med works out for you.
I had a very weird dream last night. I dreamed my mom’s old boyfriend (the one she had when I was in junior high, yes she was still married to and living with my dad, my mom’s a one woman Springer episode) threw a party for me, and got really pissed off at how my mom was treating me, so he threw me another one later and didn’t invite her, only she showed up anyway, with her girlfriend. (What did she do with her live-in boyfriend, I wonder?) There were all these people I knew in junior high, only all grown up now, including his, the boyfriend’s, step kids. It was very, very weird, and I was actually grateful that the Garbage Trucks of Doom woke me up this morning.
Great OP Swampy. I’m not awake enough nor creative enough to come up with a pun.
Welcome Purplkid, mamboman, and Bayard. We’re a nice bunch of folks here, just a little wacky, sometimes.
Rebo, don’t feel bad about that e-mail. If someone consistently stood me up, I’d certainly make it a point to end the friendship or at least distance myself considerably. That’s just me, though.
Well, I’m off today, and there’s no freakin’ coffee in the house. Hubby used the last of it yesterday. We should have picked some up while we were errand running. By the time I would get myself cleaned up to go to the grocery store, well, I just wouldn’t want any. Dammit, I was looking forward to a nice cup of joe. I am making-do with a diet coke.
It’s a cool, foggy, damp morning here. Perfect for a nice cup of coffee, my newspaper, and doing the paper crosswords.
Christ on a cracker you guys, it’s 11 AM, and you’re on page two?
Day off!! Slept in a little, cruised to see the loony doc, then stopped to get groceries for dinner. Tonight’s feast will be ahi tuna steaks and tortellini.
Off now to cut the grass (and pretend not to ogle the neighbor’s babysitter), then to the gym to sweat profusely.
Well, I swear that’s the last time I make an effort to make nice food for hubby’s family. I spent most of the morning and some of the afternoon cooking today - mushroom and green pea risotto and sticky date pudding with caramel sauce. One SIL said the risotto had no taste while the other one (who I suspect has only ever seen risotto on the cooking channel) told me that risotto is made with lots of cheese, so I must have made it wrong. :dubious: It was perfect risotto - creamy, slightly cheesy (about 1/4 cup of parmesan mixed in at the end) and the rice was beautifully al dente, but unless it tastes like chilis or a mix of cumin and coriander, it’s not their cup of tea. At least hubby liked it. I swear, it was just appalling how bad-mannered they were. There have been plenty of times when I have had to force myself to eat Og-knows-what and smile politely, because that is what my mother taught me to do, but today I had to really restrain myself from walking out.
As for the sticky date pudding, MIL declared it to be “nice”, but too rich. :mad:
Well, they can rest assured that tomorrow I won’t be breaking a sweat to make anything for them to eat! Lili, where are those ninjas???
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!! Save me a slice of pumpkin pie, please!!!
Will you all please stop talking about your lovely fall/autumn weather! It’s 7:20pm here and it’s 90°F / 32°C outside!!! Plus, we have a few more weeks of daytime highs around 96°F / 36°C, with humidity driving the apparent temperatures well past 110°F / 43°C. Gahhhh!
Okay, time to cruise the Dope then go irritate hubby on the sofa!
Great OP, Swampy! I may have to share it with Mr. SCL; he loves puns.
I’m waiting on a friend to come by and look at jewelry; then I get to start stripping the paint off of the louvered doors I’m turning into a jewelry display for the show next month. I also need to find some sheets of cork for my easel display. This evening is the Executive Board meeting for the B.C. - hockey season it almost here! Training camp starts a week from today!
Achoo! My allergies are going nuts! Achoo! Achoo! I think I’ve sneezed at least a dozen times this morning. And my Kleenex box is almost empty. Achoo! I guess I’m going to have to walk to Walgreen’s at lunch. Achoo! I think it’s from all the dust stirred up by the office move this weekend. Achoo! And now I have a sinus headache and and Achoo! Grumble, grumble. Achoo!
Afternoon, all. I’ve been caffeinating, puttering, and reading after staying up waaay too late and, as a consequence, sleeping waaay too late. But hey, so did Papa Tigs – he has the Columbus Day holiday, so he’s home to play with the Idiots.
Great OP, and painful puns! I shall try to think of some additions. You’ve got most of the obvious ones covered already, so clearly this shall require some effort. My first shot isn’t up to standard, but here it is:
When the Canadian
Tells that story again,
That’s a bore, eh?
Anyway, I shall try harder. Because bad puns are always worth the effort.
Welcome, Purpl! Chocolate love offerings go to FCM, and since I don’t live that far from her, I’ll take the leftovers. Especially the dark or white chocolate ones. Just watch out for the squid; he stops in here every once in a while.
HRH is crawling all of a sudden, Dotty? Oh, my, your life is about to change in a huge way! Don’t forget, though, we want pictures.
Man, chatty today, aren’t we? Second page and it’s barely past noon. Perhaps the Canadian thanksgiving has something to do with it. (And Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to my fellow Canucks enjoying the holiday.)
Great OP, Swampy. Those puns weren’t too shabby. I’m too lazy to come up with my own, though I thought about something involving an orrery, or possibly someone named Jorje.
There’s a pigeon on my balcony. He’s been there for the last half an hour, just looking placidly out through the glass of the balustrade, occasionally wandering back and forth. He doesn’t look hurt or anything, he just doesn’t seem to be in a hurry to go anywhere. He pooped on the cement. His name is Jorje. I gave him some bread. He doesn’t seem to be interested in it right now. He is presently sitting down. This may not seem like an event of any significance, but it’s actually the first time a bird of any sort has visited our balcony in the 8 years we’ve been here, so it’s unusual for me.
Good OP, Swampy and I have to add that I like the posting at just after midnight–sometimes I don’t get to see them until after 5 PM, and often there are quite a few posts by then!
