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You know how, when you get out of the shower and it's cold on your bare everything? You shiver and shake while trying to get yourself dry cause you're still slightly wet. Serious BRRRR moments pass.

You are freezing while trying to get yourself dry and sort of gripe to yourself cause all the joints and appendages work together about as well anymore as the two political parties.

Damn. Drives you crazy. But finally it is time to get some fabric back on your bare self. Pulling on underwear should really be easy and help warm you up but why, when you are cold AND NEED A DAMN BREAK! does your underwear slide past a big and three minor toes in supporting roles...but today, right the eff NOW, your u-trou decides to get to know your little toe intimately. Gets all wrapped around that tiny digit.

You can dance, pull and prance but trou and toe are bonding and those shorts aren't going any further until you stop, regain your cool and slowly reach down and release the grip those shorts have on that toe.

Doesn't that bug the hell out of you? Asking for a friend.

04/27/21 09:51 PM

#9336

Julie, thanks for your input on Trigger Finger. My Doctor informed me that there were THREE actions/plans for dealing with my left hand "problem". Take cortisone shots, have surgery, or learn to live with it. Guess which one I chose for now - It only bothers me once in awhile. He also informed me that the majority of patients he has seen with the symptoms were truck drivers. But he hinted at other professional occupations; by the way Julie are you a professional weaver or knitter. Just kidding.

On another subject. I just read in one of my publications an article by a friend Gerald Tebben; I believe he was with the Columbus Dispatch. He wrote about an individual I knew very well in Columbus Numismatic circles, Douglas (Doug) Ritchey who died in February at age 75. Some of you who were "over there" might have met him In Country. Doug was involved with "C-Day (Conversion Day for those not in the Military). He was flown to approximately 15 sites by helicopter where he jumped out at 5 - 6 feet and watched the helicopter climb to about 6,000 feet. He then would collect MPC's (Military Payment Certificates) from the forces, wrote out a receipt for the amount each gave him. Then contacted the helicopter to return to pick him up and fly him to the next site. Then he echanged the old MPC for the New MPC. The next day it was back in the helicopter to retrace where he obtained the receipts he had previously given and paid out the New MPC.

Doug was a great Coin dealer and operated a monthly coin show in Columbus.

Oh, the total amount of MPC he handled on those flights was around $750,000.00. In 1970 a $10 bill had the spending power of $67.50 today.

04/27/21 11:27 PM

#9337

David Mitchell

Tim,

Hopping around while attempting to pull those things up your leg can be hazardous to your health. Like losing your balance and crashing into bedroom door. But not nearly as frustrating as getting your Haines boxer shorts on backwards and discovering it while in a hurry in the men's room at the airport.

Just sharing an experience from a friend.

Joe,

I recall very well using MPC but I seem to remember it was not used for all things. On monthly pay days "over there" days we got paid in cash, a logistical feat that I imagine was incredibly complicated.

04/28/21 06:01 AM

#9338

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7GSIhmfxR4

Tim, I have only this to offer...

04/28/21 09:14 AM

#9339

Michael McLeod

ok this a catholic website and I do not want it to become an occasion of sin so I'd appreciate it if you guys who want to talk about undergarments and other pornographic matters would take your smutty little conversations about "bare skin" elsewhere or I will be forced to report you to the legion of decency.

04/28/21 09:20 AM

#9340

Julie Carpenter

No knitting or weaving, Joe--I'm a truck driver! Just kidding! The options your doctor gave you were the same I got from my doctor. But she said that the benefit decreases with each shot, so eventually I opted for the surgery. Can't think of any particular reason why I got trigger finger. Mine was constant--never went away except for a couple months each time I got a shot. Am glad I got the surgery.

04/28/21 12:00 PM

#9341

Julie, I apologize if my earlier post seemed "snarky", or flippant. I only meant to ask if your doctor gave any indication as to what happened to cause you to incur "trigger fiinger". My doctor gave me the same initial response, that he uses for most questions, that it wasbrought on, or a result of, my stroke. When I reminded him that the stroke was a left lobe stroke, effected my right side, he mentioned that he usually saw it with his truck driver patients. So I appreciated your response.

On the other hand, pun intended, I do use my left hand a lot whenever I drive for a long distance,

04/28/21 12:13 PM

#9342

David Mitchell

Donna,

Thank you so much for that edifying video. I am deeply in your debt. However, I saw no indication that it helps one distinguish the front from the back. I am therefore still required to read the label on my boxer shorts.

Life's a bitch.

Mike,

Thanks you for the reminder that this is indeed a Catholic Forum. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

Does that mean there will be more alcohol in the future? Or am I to understand that we will simply see less underwear and more on-line Bingo?

04/28/21 12:43 PM

#9343

Anyone have an update on our classmate in Lewis Cener?

04/28/21 01:03 PM

#9344

Mark Schweickart

Tim – Very funny post my friend! However, it did raise one question for me, and that was: is "u-trou" a regional expression? I haven't heard that term used since I left Ohio 55 years ago. Then again, it is not as if underwear is often a topic of conversation, if ever, so that might contribute to my having not heard anyone use this more imaginative description of one's underwear.

04/28/21 02:14 PM

#9345

John Maxwell

Tim,
Why shower, a bath is far more civilized. You don't freeze, as the upper half of you dries before emerging. Your body temp is up so no shivers and cringing shakes. Man, you got to learn the art of luxuriating. As to dressing, go cowboy or employ a stool or a seat or bench or a ledge to steady your frame as you don your undrgarment. You in a hurry? Got somewhere to be? What's the rush? Like Frankie says RELAX!
Save water. It's becoming more valuable than time. Just a tip.

Joe,
I still have some of that mpc. I recall some of the dudes used to have greenbacks sent to them from home and would sell them twenty for forty to who I assumed were VC. Later on I had heard that money ended up in Chinese hands. While there they changed the designs of the MPC to discourage these transactions. Plus I also heard from a secret service agent I met, that the mpc was easier to counterfeit. Because of the paper they used to print it on. In art school I learned a little about paper making. It's surprisingly quite simple. U.S. money has dyed cotton embedded in the substrate. If you've accidently laundered your cash you'll have noticed that it doesn't dissolve like normal cellulose.

04/28/21 02:24 PM

#9346

Mark,

Can't talk now...too busy over on Donna's website buying "Spray On Underwear" or seperately viewing her ad for another product...

"Tired of your Fruit of the Looms turning into the Grapes of Wrath?"

"Then try Donna's best Super-Underwear-Glue with the added benefit of never having to see yourself naked again!" Now available at Barcelona Best Buys in tiny tube(waist size 28" or less), bigger bottle (waist size to 36") or the one gallon economy size (waist size "all the rest of us").

Mark, I think Mark Buttress invented the term u-trou. It was only 50 or so years ago...

Alright...enough LaVelle crap for awhile but someone please answer Joe cause I'm anxious to know who lives in Lewis Center.

04/28/21 02:50 PM

#9347

James Hamilton, M. D.

Tim,

Before you go you must 'fess up as to how you really broke your leg a few years ago. Was it truly from rolling your riding mower (a manly type of injury) or did you just fall trying to put on your "u-trou"? 🤔

Jim

04/28/21 03:20 PM

#9348

Dave, I am really sorry. I tried hard to find a tutorial for your boxer problem but no luck.

Tim, I really appreciate all the publicity. Now that I have retired from interior design I needed something constructive to fill my free hours. Plus you wouldn't believe how well the sales for the Super-Underwear-Glue are going! Btw payment can be made in Euros or Dollars, but not Pesetas, Sorry, Joe. :-) Your commission check is now in the mail, Tim.

Jack, your tip on money laundering has been duly noted.

I can't even imagine what new directions this conversation will now take!

04/28/21 04:37 PM

#9349

Doc, I just came in from mowing that same section. You would want your slow-mo photography set up if you were filming me mow it now. I always recite "One small mow for old farts, one giant mow for old-fart-kind" as I begin down that hill.

The three stooges type bathroom dance I described came about as a result of that damned hill. And to think I won a Twist contest once...

....i coulda been a contendah doc...

Donna, I'd like to congratulate you on a lifetime of teaching Spaniards how to use cement blocks and used aple crates and old boards to make bookcases and room dividers. Didn't I see you on the cover of the Spanish design magazine "Who Lives Like This"?

What I don't understand is why, with tapas readily available, you and Julio don't weigh in at 300 plus lbs? Cold beer and free bar food...we should all move there.

04/29/21 01:11 PM

#9350

David Barbour

Dear friends,

Toni Cardi is in Lewis Center in a nursing facility. I don't think we are allowed to visit at this moment.

Mrs. Hog is the best source of info.

04/30/21 03:43 AM

#9351

Wrong show, Tim. Mine was called "Property Hermanas" and we specialized in designs of the finest grade cardboard and plastic.

Re. the effects of the Pandemic Stress Tapas Eating don't look so bad when your bathroom scales are in kilos, not pounds.

04/30/21 08:32 PM

#9352

M'donna,

Maybe you forgot that you sent me that unabridged cooy of your autobiography where, on page 53 you relate that you were turned down by the Dominican sisters for being...how did you put it....let me get to that page again.....yeah, yeah, found it..."I was turned down for being too statuesque".

Then you studied Spanish until, again, in your own words, "I forgot how tp speak English" requiring you to move to a country where statuesque and Spanish are both fluent.

Alright....alright...that's all the idiocy I can come up with at this moment. Donna is a favorite friend and if anyone ever thought otherwise they would have to be....you know....McLeod-ish or something as pathetic as that.

A favor. Please look up tonight and on nights to come and point a positive thought out into the universe for a very young someone who needs a universal hug from all of us now and in the near future. It's a real tough time for someone we all love.

05/01/21 06:46 AM

#9353

Your imagination knows no limits, amigo Tim.

Re. the favor--Absolutely.

05/02/21 11:20 AM

#9354

Michael McLeod

Dude belongs on a funny pharm.

"When a pharmacist discovered that 57 vials of the Moderna vaccine were left to spoil outside a Wisconsin clinic’s refrigerator in December, the worker immediately suspected a colleague who had spread false and outlandish claims, according to court records.

For months, Steven Brandenburg, the overnight pharmacist at Aurora Medical Center in Grafton, Wis., had said he thought the vaccine would harm people, make them infertile and implant them with microchips.

Now, federal authorities say his belief in debunked claims went beyond the vaccine. The pharmacist, who has agreed to plead guilty to charges of attempting to spoil the vaccine, also believes the Earth is flat and that the sky is not real, according to court documents."

05/03/21 02:43 PM

#9355

James Hamilton, M. D.

To all of our classmates who chose teaching as a career:

HAPPY TEACHER'S APPRECIATION WEEK!

You accepted a huge responsibility to teach the children well and right!

Jim

05/04/21 01:48 PM

#9356

David Mitchell

Right on Jim,

I have two daughters and a daughter in law who taught. All in unique circumstances. My youngest taught handicapped children in a Montessory inside the Univesity of Cincinnati medical school. It was both a real Montesorri and a research project for the medical shcool and the school of education. She lovedd it but wages were poor and she got out.

My oldest daughter taught in an inner-city Los Aangles school in a pretty rough neigbornodd - mostly low incone Hispanic - flanked on two sides by opposing gangs. She swore she would never want to teach. But she took a part time job where she fell in love with the kids and went into it full time for four years. Her kids grades climbed steadily, while her parrallel class grades (taught by a 27 year veteran teacher who hated her job - and resented Sara) grades stayed flat the entire four years as they progressed with their same group of kids. The L.A. School system politics drove her nuts and she quit. Parents cried at the last day oif school - begging her to stay. One mother parked her car behind Sara's car so she couldn't get out of the parking lot.

And my daughter-in-law teaches "special reading" (for deficient and problem readers) in Portland Oregon. She gets some wonderful testimonials from her former studetns. But this year she has had to teach remotely and it has stressed her out. In addition to having an 11 year-old son doing remote school at home, she teaches remotely. And she had to contact each set of parents once a week. She has 7 non-english speaking parents in the class - Russian, Ukranian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Urdu. Swahili, and something I think is called May May (never heard of it). I think she has to use the student to help translate for their parents.

AND I beleive Portland just cut their school budget this spast year.

WHY DO WE VALUE (and pay) THE EARLY YEAR TEACHERS SO LITTLE?

05/04/21 10:46 PM

#9357

John Jackson

I haven’t posted in a while but a recent post on the vaccine survey (post #27 out of 29) attempting to justify vaccine skepticism drove me up the wall. This post lamented, among other things, that “the mRNA therapies were rushed to the public, skipping the stringent clinical trials and animal studies that have historically been demanded of pharmaceutical companies as a safeguard against adverse reactions”… The post also referenced an article https://www.distributednews.com/427233.html.

First of all, both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines were each blind-tested initially on more than 40,000 people and judged to be 95% effective (that means they reduce the likelihood of contracting the virus by a factor of 20). They also virtually eliminated the likelihood of getting seriously ill. Since the initial trials, more than 240 million doses have been administered in the U.S. without significant side effects.

I also take issue with the article cited as backup, given the fact that another headline on the wacko website hosting the article was “Beware the financial FALLOUT from the vaccine bioweapons death wave... collapse of tax revenues, pensions, real estate values and the dollar all inevitable”. In addition, the article cited no author so we have no way to judge his/her qualifications to render judgment on such a complex and technical issue relative, say, to the CDC and university vaccinologists and epidemiologists who have devoted their working lives to studying these issues and have overwhelmingly endorsed the safety and efficacy of the vaccines.

Jim, as I recall, you’ve gotten both your shots – would you care to give us your informed medical evaluation of this post?

05/04/21 11:48 PM

#9358