The same reason people engineer videotapes of some toddler whacking Daddy in the manly bits so they can send it to AFHV, maybe? $$$$$ Although I hasta say the cynic in me says Tom and Ed sound eerily like a rip-off of the Odd Couple. Can you say SCRIPTED!!!
dogmom, have you tried a shedding rake on Kai? Without one, my daughter’s Aussie/Chow hair factory would leave Godzilla-sized hair bunies around my house.
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“Hair factory”. Thanks for the laugh, I’ve GOT to use that one sometime soon.
But no, I’ve not used a shedding rake. Hm, thanks for the tip. I may have to try that. We use a slicker brush most of the time. We just got him used to that - I believe his previous owners probably beat him with something brush-ish, since it used to be at even the sight of a brush (hair brush, pin brush, even MY hairbrush!) he’d cower and, in extreme cases, submissively pee. (GR. BAD former owners! BAD!)
We gradually got him to the point where we could brush him with a slicker brush and ooooohhhhh does he love it.
(And it’s a bonus for the local fauna, too - the birds LOVE “brushing season”. Always the big CLOUDS of fur we left on the lawn would be gone by morning - sometimes by as little as an hour later, as the little featherbags would take the fur for nest-lining.)
I will have to look into getting a shedding rake. Thank you!
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“Hair factory…”
Ex, my darlin’, you’ve returned from your secret mission safely! Hurrah!
You know, you’ve always been my favorite poster. Your wit, your eloquence, your ability to get to the heart of the matter and add not only to our collective knowledge, but to our very souls–your mere presence in these threads makes us all better people. I wish I could collect all of your posts and publish them, at my own expense, so that even more people could be enlightened, and entertained, by your thought-provoking and edifying words of wisdom. And when I think how young you are, and handsome–and yet you still give gracisously of your time to post on these threads, knowing that we wait anxiously for every comment, hoping against hope that you will find something in one of our posts to remark upon, to turn our poor thoughts into golden threads of sublime prose-poetry. To be mentioned by name in an Exgineer thread is an honor only surpassed by being directly contacted by the Master, Cecil himself. I can’t say enough about how happy I am to see your name, how I hasten to read, and re-read each word you post. Oh, Ex, what more could one ask then to be in a thread with one such as you?
Dark Chocolate Caramels (lots and lots)
Dark Chocolate Butter Crunch (lots)
Dark Chocolate Non-Pariels
Milk Chocolate Butter Cremes
Milk Chocolate Chocolate Cremes
Milk Chocolate Chocolate Truffles
Chocolate Hazelnut Truffles (yes, yes, yes)
My e-mail is in my profile. You can have my address anytime!
Here’s some toilet paper for your nose, Kallessa… 
Not to denigrate Ex’s choice of chocolatiers in any way, Kallessa, but these guys are a lot closer.
And then there are these guys down in Eugene. 
hmm… I think it may be time for a break…
;Cept I’m still on Atkins! :eek: 
Yeah, there seems to be some chocolate smeared on there.
[sub]eew[/sub]
:smack: I forgot to mention my facilitator’s fee.
You had me right up until you got to the “wit and eloquence” part. That’s where I figured that you were shining me on. For the record, the following people are allowed to e-mail me their physical addresses, so that I may purchase some chocolates and have them shipped:
swampbear
FairyChatMom
RueDe Day if Mrs. DeDay is having some cravings.
Wintermute, Salem and another poster whose name I can’t remember (sorry) for responding to me.
Lynn Bodoni if not for the whole blood sugar thing.
misstee for the hot wedding dress picture (and I want to beat the crap out of her husband for getting to her first).
DogMom for being the only woman in history to be happy that I talked to her.
Lissla Lissar for being wiggly.
Kallessa just because. You’ll like the truffles.
Aw, hell. There’s no way I can make a list without leaving out people I like. E-mail me a shipping address and I send you some chocolate. How does that sound?
Ex - (sucker)
That wasn’t a good idea, was it?
If you’re referring to leavin’ me off the list, then, no, that wasn’t a good idea.
Oh wait, them’s all wimmens (and Swampy). My razor-sharp brain is beginning to detect a pattern.
They’re all brunettes.
Oh well, never mind.
-bumbasilverback
Hey, Bumba, I’m not so sure about that pattern. I’m a brunette girl and I’m not on the list.
I can pretend I’m mad, but really, if’n I wanted chocolate, I’m an independent gal who can go buy it for herself (and I’m certainly not shy about buying myself food!). Plus, I need to preserve my girlish figure.
Send me chocolates? Harrumph, who needs it?
[sub]Are you buying this, folks?[/sub]
Darlin’, I do believe you just volunteered to supply chocolate to the world.
Bumba, those were wonderful suggestions and I’m going to buy some organic chocolate on my way home tonight, but Ex is offering genuine hand-dipped chocolates. By having him get some chocolate for me, I would be supporting an American business and keeping American money in America and not sending it off to those countries where people talk funny.
Plus I’d be getting a package from a cute boy (albeit a taken cute boy–but for chocolate, I’m not picky).
I just mentioned in the other thread that if there is a hurricane here we’ll probably go up I-4 towards you, either to stay with friends in Celebration or relations in Lake Wales. If you think you’re low in Orlando you should see how low we are here. The whole county will mostly be underwater with a good storm surge. It’d be good for business, though. 
Scout, I’m a brunette too and a woman and was left of the “chocolate” list. That’s okay…I guess. It’s probably better for my girlish figure too. I’ve somehow managed to drop 15 pounds without even trying. It probably all melted off in the heat we’ve been enduring.
It’s still hot here…I want some rain. I’m tired of going out to water my tired looking plants and flowers. I can tell I’m ready for fall/winter (equals rain) when I get sick and tired of having to deal with my plants and flowers. My whole attitude has become, “Eh, I’ll water them tomorrow”, then, I repeat the whole thing the next day.
For whatever it’s worth Ex, I’m always happy when you respond to me, hell I’m happy when ANYONE here responds to me. I like DARK chocolate and dark chocoloate covered truffles. I’m not much a nut fan though, I prefer my chocolate unadulterated. Although, I like caramel and espresso type fillings.
I need to practice some spreadsheet stuff…I have to figure out to put in Vlook and Hlook references and somehow make things auto-populate. I have about 100 to 150 clinics/services that I need to put into about 10 to 15 depts so my worksheets will autopopulate themselves based on the data I pull down from the main or “all” worksheet. What fun… :rolleyes:
I guess I better figure out what we’re gonna eat first. You know, I say that or something like it in almost every post. Maybe it should becpme my signature.
Me, too. Left off the female-brunette hand-dipped-chocolate-receiving list, that is.
But that’s okay - I’m back on Atkins and I’m down another 2 pounds as of this morning. I even had a bite of my daughter’s chocolate-stuffed and chocolate-drizzled croissant from Starbuck’s yesterday. Too rich for me. I can resist!
I’m the only guy on the list. 
And I got listed first too! Though when I mention to Ex that I get to meet the lovely misstee this weekend, he’ll probably take me off the list cause he’s gonna be all jealous. That’s ok cause I gets to meet me another MMP doper this weekend.
We’re waitin’ around for Bonnie to show up. She could dump up to 8 inches of rain this afternoon and tonight. All the Flahrdee MMPers are gettin’ much worse prolly cause Charley’s gonna slam there tomorrow. Charley should miss my part of Jawja cause it’s supposed to go way east of here. Weather Control Services says Bonnie’s gonna move through quick like and be gone by tomorrow. We shall see. Last time they said this about a tropical storm it stalled over north Jawja and caused major flooding around here a few days later cause all that rain fell into creeks and rivers that flow south and we gots a major river with lots of creeks that feed into it round here. Heck, we sit on top of several aquifers here. One does not have to dig down real far to find water here. Did I ever tell y’all I live 10 miles from the second largest swamp in Jawja? That’s the Chickasawatchee Swamp in case anyone was wonderin’. The largest is the Okeefenokee which borders Jawja and Flahrdee.
-swampbear (I got my mowin’ done btw)
Now wait a minnit, let me check something here… yeah, I’m on The List. Wait another minnit whilst I check something else… yeah, I’m a boy. So Swampy you’re not the only boy on the list. Ha! Although my pal Ex did switch the emphasis straight to the Little Woman.
You really need an undercoat rake Doggy. Or a shedding blade. They do about the same thing, only they are different. (I prefer the undercoat rake (and a mat rake) myself, but that’s just what I’m used to.) I think there are a couple of other rakes, brushes and red rubber implements you could also use, but something to get rid of all that extra undercoat would be helpfull. For the Malamute (or Siberian Husky) in Kai. (All the hair-care implements are for Kai, not so much for you. Since people are pretty much “single coated” you have to worry about your undercoat all that much.) With the probable German Shepherd and Lab in there it would be a “cure all” by any stretch. They both continuously blow their outter coat. There’s no stopping it. But you’ll have less wooley undercoat tumbleweeds. So there’s that.
And don’t keep brushing a cat until it stops losing hair in your brush. You’ll wind up with a bald cat. Don’t ask me how I know. It’s a secret.
Hmmmph! I’m not on the list either. Must be that brunette thing. It’s okay though cause this has been a bad week for me as far as sweets are concerned. Too many birfdays an today my office is having a weinie roast lunch thing. I’m gonna pass on the dogs though. Not worth the extra fat and calories, plus I’m wore out doin’ extra time on the treadmill. 
Bout the only thing Mr. Anachi and I are worried at cause of Charlie is a big ol oak tree in our back yard that’s a hair tippy…right over our roof. Case ya didn’t know, tippy ol oak trees has a tendency to crash over onta houses and cars and such when there’s lotsa rain and wind.
Mr. Anachi says he’s gonna go buy a battr’y telebision tonight on his way home. He’s tried to do that before and keeps coming home with little color telebisons cause they was on sale. We now has five o them suckers. Anybody else got a little color telebison in their garage? I’m worried this time it’ll be a plasma little color telebision… <sigh>
Tupug
(bombarded by TV radiation)
Ok, so Rue’s on the chocolate list, but I’m the only guy Ex is willing to send chocolate directly too. He’ll only send em to Rue if The Little Woman is craving em. So There!
Puggy I suggest that if hubby comes home with yet another little color television set instead of a battr’y powered one, you make him wear that little color tv on a rope around his next while he goes back to the store to get a battr’y powered one. That way he’ll remember he already bought a little color one already. Always ready with the helpful hint I am.
Several of my staff have actually taken my advice today. I have advised everyone that today would not be a good day to do much traveling around south Jawja cause of the flood watch that will be a flood warning by noon. They have happily taken my advice and postponed all travel today and tomorrow. I believe this is an actual first.
We have our old stereo (dual tape decks and a <gasp!> record player) in the garage. Mr. Biblio uses it when he’s outside working. If he had a telebision he’d never get any work done.
We don’t have a battr’y telebision, though. Several battr’y radios. And a battr’y back-up on the sump pump in the basement, in case the power goes out and it’s raining real hard. Don’t want the basement to flood. We got it just before Isabel slammed us last year.