And I’m sure Mrs. VunderBob would welcome the switches for when you act up. 
in a small voice Would a kind and benevolent soul please explain the Donner Party reference to a very easily whooshed Doper?
Rue, from the bottom of my heart, I tip my tinfoil pirate’s hat to you. Monday just isn’t Monday without a MMP from you.
There is a place in California, up in the Sierra Nevada mountains, called Donner Pass. This is named for the Donner Party (Table of 6?) that was heading for California (I forget the year, but during the days of covered wagons). Anyway, they didn’t make it all of the way through the mountains before the snow came. And came. And came. So they tried to make it through until spring. They got hungry. And in the end they had to cannibalize their dead to make it through. At least some of them made it through alive. Others were a nice entree.
Santa Claus, Santa Claus, where on Earth did you go?
:eek:
Just…
:eek:
Kythereia, just in case your inquiring mind wants to know more.
Hey, the human survival instinct is quite strong. It’s just sad that they didn’t make it across the mountains before they had to resort to cannibalism.*
*Because everyone knows that human flesh is best consumed with a California Syrah, or perhaps a Zinfandel.
MENTAL NOTE:
Politely decline all invitations for a home cooked meal offered by Shibb.
That is all.
I just wanted to add that Tupug and I were talking about toy antlers, not real antlers, oh no, not us, uh uh!
No, that isn’t snow we are brushing from our knees. It’s, uh, knee dandruff, and we’d rather not talk about it.
And on a completely different note, and since we always talk about food, any good recipes for venison?
Maybe we can persuade Donner to share a few with us. :eek:
I always wondered how Rudolph got that red nose. :dubious:
The problem with that is, I never throw anything away.
Isn’t human liver best served with fava beans and a nice Chianti?
Bottlebrush trees, dyed sawdust groundcover, and terrain the looked like it came from Wackyland; I bet you would. It looked like something I did when I was 13 years old.
I’ve learned how to do better scenery than that in the last 30 years.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!! :eek: :eek:
I made venison speidies once that came out really yum. Marinating the meat and then throwing it on the barbacue was easy and delicious.
I don’t recommend the same recipe for the Donner party. 
Soylent Green (or should that be Red?) is made from Santa Claus! :eek:
Maybe that’s why he ‘donated’ it.
I had a fun weekend. Saturday I got to replace the muffler on the pickup. The good thing about replacing the muffler on a 16 year old pickup is that there’s some room under there to work. The bad thing is that there ain’t enough room. Three hours of lying on an old shower curtain on a cold, wet concrete driveway banging, hammering, sawing, chiseling and cursing and I got the frellin muffler out of there, in pieces. I also broke my last metal-cutting reciprocating saw blade. Then I discovered that the muffler they’d sold me at Auto Zone was 3 inches longer than the old muffler. I though about it for a few minutes, then I spent another happy 45 minutes sawing another 3 inches off of the tailpipe with a hacksaw. Oh joy.
While all that was going on the Missus went to the store and to the video store and came back with: Elf :eek: Actually it wasn’t half bad. More like three quarters.
Homebrew, just for that you’ll have to go sit on the group W bench. :dubious:
BTW, has anybody noticed that Rue has changed location? Ohio isn’t the land of happy fun anymore?
-Bumbadubious
Rue, just *what * did you eat for dinner?! :eek:
I had a busy weekend, although the hubby was quite ill with the flu and has now managed to pass it on to me. I’ve been trying to fight it off, but I think the flu/cold is winning this battle. I’m here at work, wishing I wasn’t, and still have to get through the rest of this week. I’m drinking lots of fluids (water and orange juice), and took several doses of Airborne. Hopefully this will at least lessen the severity of the symptoms.
Hubby was going to put the lights on our house this weekend, but was too ill to even want to mess with it. Who can blame him?
I went out and looked at end, coffee, and console tables, but still haven’t found anything.
I did not do any Christmas shopping. That would have been pure madness! Apparently there was yet another scuffle at the local Wally World on Friday morning. Some last minute arrival tried to take “cuts” at the front of the line which had started forming at 10:30 the previous night. This is exactly why I avoid Wal-Mart.
That’s all I’ve got; I’m just too much between the fog and the grog to come up with a decent and coherent post.
Elf was kinda funny I thought, Bumba. Of course I was watching with my family and everything is much better with those guys around.
Which reminds me, I will pay a whole dollar to the person who can connect my dvd player. My tv has a special flippity switchy thing to connect to the cable box doohicker and there just aren’t enough connecty cable wire doo bops.
Taters, get you some echinacea. I dunno if that stuff works, but the kind from Trader Joe’s comes in raspberry flavor, so, yum.
Bumba wrote:
I didn’t notice until you pointed it out, but really, with the OP, it was the tasteful thing to do.
Swampy, if you and a certain burly gentleman get switches for Christmas, would that make you switch hitters?
oh, dear, I’m sure it is the naughly list for me, now
Umm, Rue? Remind me again why you don’t have an agent and are not a published author? All right, maybe I’m being a little fan-girly, but this is easily as good as some of the stuff I read and better than most. Just MHO, but you should seriously consider writing a novel. I know I’d read it.
I am sad.
I am sad because soon I will not be able to read MMPs every Monday. Due to the whole new-flat new-job scenario, I will not have regular net access any more. And being part of the original MMP gang (Can I say that? I have genie pants! I remember Piotr!) I will miss it very much.
Love you Rue. Love your writings. I’ll pop in as often as I can. Big toast kisses.