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Mark Schweickart

Joe -- what the Sam Hill, as my dear old Pa used to say. You mean to tell me that Dave Mitchelll somehow did not know the answer to something, taking 4 or 5 wild guesses to your query about what the longest running TV show is, and I say "is" not "was" because it is still going strong. THE SIMPSONS. Anyway, that's my guess.

Frank Ganley

bonnie, you are in our prayers for your upcoming proceedure .  I will now tell you why to get a tattoo. The majority of mine cover ugly scars from operation. Trust me it does not hurt. Feels like a buzz on your skin. Pick a lovely osu design

Bonnie Jonas (Jonas-Boggioni)

Dave, I think Janie posted the link in here when it first happened...but: here are 2!

https://jonathanturley.org/2013/02/18/tennessee-police-stop-elderly-couple-for-having-ohio-state-decal-on-car-because-it-looked-like-a-marijuana-leaf/

https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/elderly-couple-pulled-over-buckeye-car-decal-mistaken-191317336--ncaaf.html

David Mitchell

Thanks Bonnie,

I remember reading it for the first time and especially loved at the tag "elderly couple". 

Joseph D. McCarthy

Although I was waiting for Fred to provide the CORRECT answer, here goes.

Dave - Nyeh, Nyeh, Nyeh, Nyeh, and NYET.  Mark, I am ashamed, you never learned from fifteen years in Catholic Schools, READ the Question.  What is the longest running TV series   And, Think outside the box (U.S.A.).

The show which will soon start it's Fifty-Fifth (55th) season with the fifth or sixth leading actor, in this case it's first leading ACTRESS, on BBC is "DR WHO".  

It's as funny as the series "Lovejoy" ( based on the books by "Jonathan Gash") that use to run on BBC.

David Mitchell

No Fair Joe!  

I thought you meant only  "Murican" Television shows.

Has Fred gone out for coffee?

Joseph D. McCarthy

Sorry Dave, Nyet.

Our local newspapers, The Press Democrat and The San Francisco Chronicle, have been running stories for the last week concerning LAST years fires in Sonoma County, California.  Both have included articles on the number of permits requested to rebuild, the number of permits granted, the small number of homes constructed to date, AND the reason for the numbers being low - Insurance settlements.  The insurance companies have said that many of the burnt out homeowners were not adequately insured and are offering less than the cost to rebuild.  Are people in the East Coast having similar problems with their insuance companies as a result of the Hurricanes.

Timothy Lavelle

...and now, an attempt at levity...

Most old sayings make pretty good sense to me.

They seem to get "old" because they actually help explain a foggy point that benefits from down home logic.

Like, "You can lead a horse to water but..." etc. means "You can introduce Mary Margaret and Frank personally to Obama, but they will not vote further to the left than Attila the Trump".  Yeah, that definistion probably sucks. Let's try a different one.

What exactly do we mean when we say "You can't have your cake and eat it too". Of course I can. I love cake. I've eaten it, and it is still mine....only in my belly! So is this old saying a type of physics statement, like off of Big Bang, saying that a thing either exists or doesn't? Can you give me a simple example involving Mary Margaret and Frank? Like, "You can't believe in  freedom for all but still believe that you have the right to tell the rest of us non-conservative types how to live our lives". Or use me, like "LaVelle, you can't expect to get a laugh while poking fun at people we love".

Remember, I am the guy who has a mental blind spot for "affect versus effect". I only use Frank and Maggie in order to fire up your attn level while still enjoying poking a stick in the spokes of their conservative bicycles. I really would like to hear what you think this old saying means. Wonder if I should have used the strike-through like Frank did...a real attn getter.

Or how about "Once you get to where you're going, there you are". What the hell is that supposed to mean?

James Hamilton, M. D.

David Mitchell

Dammit Tim!

My mind is already made up, please stop trying to confuse me with the facts. 

That may be a corollary to the general instructions booklet for all males -          "If all else fails, please read the instructions". I think that was Rule #47 in the booklet, although it was supposed to be Rule #1. But the guy who wrote the book didn't see that one until he had already worked his way down the list without reading the instructions first. 

His exscuse: "I thought those were just guidelines."

I do hope I've made myself pefectly clear.

Michael McLeod

I keep waiting to hear the announcement over the PA. The one about Tim needing to report to the office. In the meantime I'm saying ten hail marys and a couple of our fathers on his behalf.

Mark Schweickart

Tim -- Surely the cake-eating maxim is not all that mysterious. It's not unlike Mick Jaggers refrain that "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you get what you need." Or Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton saying, "Ive never been satisfied." Things just out of reach is what keeps most people going, don't you think? And regarding your maxim about leading a horse to water but you can't make it drink, when one relates it to one's  political concerns, I think the maxim becomes:  "You can lead a (insert your political opponent here) to water but you can't make them think."

Frank Ganley

I will say since the emenent professor Lavelle brought up being introduced to oblabla makes me think of the carpet bagger being tarred and feather and rolled out of town on a rail”if it weren’t for the honor if it, i think i’ll pass. We on the conservative side just like to point out  the facts regarding the president that will be hailed as the greatest president of all time and how ridiculous the dems and their disrupter partner appeared at the hearings. They are paid by companies funded by geo soros. Lets point out a few common characteristics of the protestors. 1) not one of them had and sense of style when they dressed in the morning. Please when you are going to act like a total moron yelling and screaming dress in clothes that match, 2) please have a semi normal hair cut and leave the vivid colors home that day, 3) some people like piercings, i don’t, but if you insist on wearing the to the senate hearing at least take the one out of your nose. 4) women when marching around a vagina on your head is not attractive, its weird 5)if you are man at a woman’s march please for the love of God look like a man and act like one. Tears and catterwalling do not become you. 6) clawing at the doors of the Supreme Court looks a bit over the top and can get you a nasty splinter under your nails. Now a serious point. This is America. We belueve in innocent till proven guilty not the other way around. I ask you all if i accuse you of something as aggregioys as gabg rapt and it was false would you be a little heated. If Fr steve hodges were accused of gang rape who would support my claim? No one. Especially when all his high school friends, college and seminary friends said he never acted in such a way. Why would the accuser who can fund no one to corroborate such a rediculous claim. Please let us bring common sense back to our nation. Nothing sounded worse than “i believe the accuser”. Lets return to civality and reason. I get it some din’t like trump, i don’t understand it but thats your choice. You don’t see me screaming in your face as we did last week as protestors got in the face of senators in the halls outside. Or in portland ore where they stopped traffic and accosted drivers. This is not anerica. Say anything you want in protest but this treatment of a trump supporter is not right. We should be able to express our ideas and support our candidate with out being called names and suffer abuse at the hands of paid protestors. Now as far as Mr Lavelle is concerned, hit you pipe a little harder or go from sweet cush to magic train wreck, sweeter and with more lasting effects. Stay off of the brown acid it makes you grumpy and too wild of dreams. Please excuse all mispelling i only have one hand

James Hamilton, M. D.

Michael McLeod

There was a "good old days" thread on line - quaint things people remember from their childhood that are, alas, no more - and this is what I posted:

We had a coal furnace. It was cozy. My sisters would wake up and come downstairs in their jammies and stand over the floor vents - the registers, we called them - in the mornings of cold weather days to warm up. Another thing: There was a small metal door on the exterior wall beneath the kitchen sink so the milkman could just walk up the driveway and put the bottles in when he delivered them. And of course there were built-in clothes chutes - you'd toss dirty laundry down them, to the basement, where the washer and dryer were. 

James Hamilton, M. D.

David Mitchell

In other news,,,,,,,,,

The Good - "Michael" did a brief "drive-by" during the night and left us nothing but a little rain and some power outages for a few hours. He is moving fast.

The Bad - The Florida coast got wrecked (as you saw) and he's heading for North Carolina with more rain. Friends of mine in that area are a total mess, with much water still there from Florence. Really sad situation. 

I feel lucky.

(I meant the Florida "Panhandle" coast)

Mark Schweickart

Dave -- Glad to hear you're okay. Thanks for letting us know.

Frank -- Since we have sworn off airing our political views, I won't comment on your latest rant... but damn, man, you've got us all wondering--what happened to your hand?

Michael McLeod

Yep Jim I knew it was commonplace, all those things, in homes of a certain era -- and i would assume not just clintonville.

I used to work at the Pensacola newspaper, by the way, up on the Florida panhandle. Sounds like Pensacola dodged the bullet from what I am hearing from friends. 

John Maxwell

Frank Ganley

To jack, thanks, to others this was not a political posting . It was an opinion in what one faction is resorting to in an attempt to intimidate the other side at the request of their governmental reps. If you find this behavior acceptable please explain how this can bring our country together. Dr jim, this was a surgrry to temove the four bones accross my wrist including my scafoid bone with my two screws that were installed less than a year ago. The arthritis had become an unending source of extreme pain, so out they came. The second incission at my thumb i had torn the tendons in my thumb . My thumb could almost bend back to my wrist. I’ll be in a cast for 4 -6 weeks. Followed by therepy. I can start to putt late november with the final goal of playing by march. I am not able to play regular guitar so i am practicing on my lapsteel and my auto harps. 

Frank Ganley

Jack how idiotic can you get? Whose regime is corrupt? Republicans, i don’t see them rioting and screaming in the face of senators. These demonstrators are being paid! Trump is succeeding inspite of all the opposition and obstruction the you snowflake libtards think up. Lying under oath about something that never happened. It matters not what a republican says the dummycraps are against it. As far as a spelling contest it would be better judged by you as you are so perfect and know all. And i am so glad to provide you laughs about the lying, yelling, and politically motivated unrest you so dearly love. It was hitler and his band of monsters who resorted to the same tactics of screaming and fear to those who objected to the teachings of hitler who tried to take over the world. Jack you need to look at your soul and what you preach and advocate. 

David Mitchell

Frank,

Is this surgery new since you and I and Tom visited a couple weeks ago?

I'm having trouble keeping up with your medical history!

Frank Ganley

..Dave, yes this is same wrist but new surgery. All the bones at the bottom of my hand (4) are hone and a reconstruction of my thumb. I hope i’m done with the knife for a while

Timothy Lavelle

Jocko,

"Welly, welly, welly, my little droog". Your post to Kanye Ganley.

A Clockwork Orange...what a true freak show of a movie!

My, my, mate, what have you been getting into recently? You and the sweat lodge guys out taking scalps or is this a peyote betton, peyote button, who's got the peyote button type activity?

Yo, Kanye...lighten up. You and I write political trash so don't be upset. 

Maggie, if I have insulted you...again...I apologize. 

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