Today's Headlines

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 10:20 am

Soup4Rush wrote:I always called the East Coast Blackshoes the spit and shine Navy. We West Coast Airdales were a bunch of slobs..

I was a EM (Electricians' Mate) engine room steam-turbine-
generator-electricity-harnessing "snipe".

Last ones on liberty, first ones back....but we ALWAYS had water....

...even during water restriction. (Hey, we [snipes] MADE IT - so
we USED it.)

We took care of our own, whether the Cap'n liked it or not.

But hey, that was the "shakedown" Navy.

Sailors now live in luxury compared to what we had.

We liked it when the Marines showed up. We gave 'em a ride.

The cooks would fix the greasiest, nastiest chow you could
imagine underway in bad seas, so we got entertained by the
ground-pounders hurling over the side.

(when the galley folks put non-skid placemats on the tables before chow,
you knew it was gonna be a rough ride.)

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 3:37 pm

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articl ... lbs_break/

Compact fluorescent blubs contain mercury. So if you break one, clear the room of kids and pets, call a haz-mat team, and "consider cutting out the piece of carpet" where it smashed. All this for the global warming hoax.

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:18 am

ElfDude wrote:http://www.boston.com/news/local/articl ... lbs_break/

Compact fluorescent blubs contain mercury. So if you break one, clear the room of kids and pets, call a haz-mat team, and "consider cutting out the piece of carpet" where it smashed. All this for the global warming hoax.

Gimme a break...

you have more mercury in your amalgam tooth fillings.

awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:43 am

We still have two mercury thermometers.

Am I a bad mom?

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:46 am

Only if they are rectal thermometers

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:51 am

awip2062 wrote:We still have two mercury thermometers.

Am I a bad mom?

Nope. As long as they're not thrown or broken in anger or jest -

you're still a fine mom.

Owlie's just not right.

awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:55 am

Well, these were made to be used either way.

heh heh

And why would I throw them? I can't replace the durned things if I break them and they work really well!

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:59 am

Well, these were made to be used either way.

Oh, sick! Gross, man! I might.....hurl.

Did anyone see Clerks 2? If so there is a joke in there that fits right here!

awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:02 am

They DO get cleaned with alcohol after every use, and, besides, the kids are too big to get in the end now.

Walkinghairball · Post by **Walkinghairball** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:54 pm

awip2062 wrote:They DO get cleaned with alcohol after every use, and, besides, the kids are too big to get in the end now.

Thank GED!!!!

Besides, the Government don't like peeps doing their dirty work.

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:08 pm

William F. Buckley dies at his desk today at age 82.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23370714/

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:11 pm

That was one smart man. Polite too.

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:01 am

Right on, Elf. He was a bit of a music enthusiast as well.

Buckley played the harpsichord very well and did so once on Late Night With Conan O'Brien. He was an accomplished pianist, appearing once on Marian McPartland's NPR show "Piano Jazz". A great fan of Johann Sebastian Bach, he has said that he would want Bach's music played at his funeral.

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:45 am

But apparently he wasn't good a getting drink orders right.

An excerpt from Rush's tribute to him yesterday:

So when we were last discussing this, I was just about to enter the door of Mr. Buckley's maisonette at 73rd and Park. I entered what I thought was a shrine. To my left was a harpsichord. He played the harpsichord. He wasn't playing it at this point of time, but he played it. He was playing it when I walked in some time later as his guest on Firing Line, taped in his living room, which is where I was escorted when I arrived. Folks, I can't describe how nervous I was while at the same time trying not to be and just relax and be myself. I was escorted in. The room was full. I was one of the last to arrive because I'd driven around the block four times, trying to get the courage up to go in. He was the first to stand up and greet me, that charismatic, just love-of-life smile, welcomed me into that room as though I belonged there as much as any other guest did. He asked me what I wanted to drink. I said, "I'd like a Diet Coke," and sat down. I remember Linda Bridges, who announced his death today, was seated to my left.

Look, folks, these people are all the smartest people in the world to me. These are the people that put out National Review! These are the people that helped Bill Buckley in his quest, which was memorable. We owe Bill Buckley every bit the debt. We conservatives owe Bill Buckley every bit the debt that we owe Ronald Reagan. The two occurred simultaneously. And Reagan was also inspired and educated quite a bit by Buckley. They were very, very close friends. We owe Buckley the same kind of gratitude. I was a little mad when I looked at the wire stories today describing Bill Buckley, and when I saw some of the people that AP had gone to talk to. We're dealing here with the death of one of the greatest Americans in our lifetimes, in three or four generations. In my mind, I rank Bill Buckley as a Founding Father. His passing, I hope, in the coming days will be given the attention and respect that it is due. He was much more than a conservative author and TV host, as has been reported earlier today.

Anyway, Mr. Buckley prepared my Diet Coke, and I sat down, and the conversation at the time I entered they were talking about whether or not James Joyce could publish Ulysses if he tried to at that point today, meaning it was so risqu?, could anybody publish it; and they were having a discussion about that and literature in general. You know, I'm sitting there swimming. And this Diet Coke doesn't taste like Diet Coke. What is this? It tasted like mineral oil that had cola coloring in it. It wasn't long before Mrs. Buckley -- Pat -- made her grand entrance into the room after everybody else had arrived, coming down the sweeping staircase into that room. Everybody in that room shot up like jacks-in-the-box. She came over to me first off, welcomed me to their home, thanked me so much for what I had been saying about her husband and her son and the magazine and so forth. My "Diet Coke" was about half empty. She said, "Would you like a refill? What's that?" I said, "It's Diet Coke." So she took it, took it over to Bill, and said, "Fix Mr. Limbaugh another one."

She watched him fix it, I guess, because I'm in the middle of talking to somebody, and I hear her shout, "Bill, what are you doing! I said Diet Coke." So I was right. It wasn't Diet Coke. I don't know what it was that he served me. Don't read anything into this. It's just one of these things that I remember.

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:52 am

Crap! At first I thought I was reading what the band Rush had to say about him. When I realized I was reading the words of Rush Limbaugh (who knew he could write) my shoulders drooped and everything went all blurry