HULK SMASHED
First 
Snake Goddess!!!!
ping
hey Echidne
Dammit, what are you guys doing here? It said zero!
[belches]
Sure.
Did I fucking call this, or what, Ech?
3 POINTER!!!
NTodd, you may have to give that up when you enter a room with E.
Tornado tears up homes, trees in Indianapolis
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Residents cleaned up Saturday after a tornado plowed a trail of destruction through the east side of Indianapolis, but they gave thanks that nobody was killed and that the only injuries were minor.
The storm blew through late Friday, ripping roofs off several apartment buildings, snapping trees and toppling power lines. Eighteen people were treated for "very minor" injuries, said John Ball, the area's emergency management director.
"It is a miracle that we didn't have serious injuries or death," he said. "A gentleman told me last night at the shelter that he was lying in bed and heard a rumble, and the roof was gone and he saw the sky."
Winds snapped trees, wrapped metal sheeting around a telephone pole and left a four-block-wide trail of debris about a mile long. Gas station pumps were knocked over, roof shingles shredded, and power lines and tree branches scattered.
Nice monotreme sheets
NTodd, you may have to give that up when you enter a room with E.
Nah, I've already tested her and she's passed the Belch Scenario.
Echidne, seeing as you put up the thread, it's only fitting that you be first.
(Offers dark chocolate at the altar)
These sheets are black silk with Venetian hand-made lace.
Damn. Worst year for tornadoes.
NTodd, what about the Farting in Bed scenario?
Tornado tears up homes, trees in Indianapolis
In other news, Danika Patrick continues to circle the brickyard in pursuit of her first Indy 500 victory.
Yeah, that too.
(I agree, btw, on the basketball officiating thing. I think the Celtics are a better team than either Cleveland or Detroit. Cleveland still needs some more parts to fit their main wheel and Detroit? I really dunno. When they play well they can beat anyone. But they don't always play well. So. . . .)
But Boston looks like an excellent team and I expect them to win the championship.
These sheets are black silk with Venetian hand-made lace.
Echidne
they make me feel dirty
Is NHL stil going on? It's like the NBA, Fall to Summer.
NTodd, what about the Farting in Bed scenario?
She's a very tolerant woman, and has made it through all of the NTodd Challenges.
These sheets are black silk with Venetian hand-made lace.
Echidne
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Hubba, freakin, hubba...
Just the thought...
NYT article on local Drinking Liberally chapter mentions DFH Atrios.
Matthew, Echidne would never use dirty linen.
Well, not in the sense that it hasn't been laundered, anyway
Penguins: 5 on 3 and Goose egg.
In other news, Danika Patrick continues to circle the brickyard in pursuit of her first Indy 500 victory.
My mom bought her first automatic yesterday. A Volkswagen.
NTodd, but, has she seen your house?
Fox News is reporting Barack Obama has severed his relationship with the Christian God and has embraced the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
In other news, Danika Patrick continues to circle the brickyard in pursuit of her first Indy 500 victory.
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And is still trying to get into the pit of that other driver who cut her off...
Is NHL stil going on?
One more game and the Red Wings will be swilling Labatts out of the Cup.
I bought my first automatic yesterday, it's a Ruger.
A 20 day old leopard cub has wandered into a house in India, after being abandoned by its mother.
oh yes, E is entirely capable of handling the "B. S."
Dammit, what are you guys doing here? It said zero!
ellroon bitterful
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s...h?
v=swzK7Q8teSM
But then the NFL starts taking the field in August, and then the real men take to the sports arena.
Oy...what a week it's been for dipshit trolls at my place. I'm not used to it, and it's kind of depressing.
Erin, I don't doubt it for a moment
Bout time those folks in tornado boulevard start building their houses underground.
Fox News is reporting Barack Obama has severed his relationship with the Christian God and has embraced the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Oy...what a week it's been for dipshit trolls at my place. I'm not used to it, and it's kind of depressing.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint
THAT much stoopid can be.
In other news, Danika Patrick continues to circle the brickyard in pursuit of her first Indy 500 victory.
She has at least won in the league...
Phila, we've certainly had a major infiltration of them this week here.
School must be out.
Oy...what a week it's been for dipshit trolls at my place. I'm not used to it, and it's kind of depressing.
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You've come to the right place then.
[rolls eyes]
A 20 day old leopard cub has wandered into a house in India, after being abandoned by its mother.
mrs. ibrahim al-jafaari
I can haz attack kitty?
Fox News is reporting Barack Obama has severed his relationship with the Christian God and has embraced the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
sdf |
fuck off, jack.
NTodd, but, has she seen your house?
No, but she's seen pics, and NTodd's Pa "outed" me wrt to housecleaning. I still have a couple weeks to run the flamethrower...
Matthew, I've got five of them...oh wait.
You said 'attack kitty.'
Ech, your mom drove stick all these years? That's pretty cool...
Only thing missing from HBO's "Recount" was a note at the end affirming the fact that the Media Consortium found Gore unequivocally had more votes than Bush..
NTodd, you may discover possessions you'd forgotten you own
Why does Jesus hate all those Bobo Red Tornado states?
I've got five of them...oh wait.
You said 'attack kitty.'
Sallyh
once that fedex box arrives, you'll have 9
One more game and the Red Wings will be swilling Labatts out of the Cup.
Perhaps they would let die-hard Wings fan Kristin Bell (Veronica Mars and Heroes, if you didn't already know) have it for a day. She says she would first eat a whole box of Fruity Pebbles out of it. Then use it to take a sponge bath...
"And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour."
---Revelation 8:1
Barack Obama has severed his relationship with the Christian God
So did I.
About 40 years ago.
NTodd, you may discover possessions you'd forgotten you own
I'm still trying to find my favorite dildo...
Damn, a comment that was a slap at every non-football sport, and no reponses?
OK, well, football is boring, too, a lot of the time.
NTodd, you may discover possessions you'd forgotten you own
Sallyh
he said flamethrower...
That leopard was purring.
Matthew, I love you dearly, and I love kitties.
I also like being married, and if any more cats show up at our house, Monsieur says the cats can stay but he's leaving.
My idea of housecleaning:
When the toilet bowl is darker than your doodoo, it's time to clean.
She has at least won in the league...
NTodd, Pink Poseur
Which only goes to prove that Hillary is unelectable.
Or something like that.
sdf
what's going on?
---Revelation 8:1
Speaking of bad fiction............
I'm still trying to find my favorite dildo...
NTodd, Pink Poseur
here, i found it stuck in a tight sase
Purge, NTodd. It's a great feeling. I threw tons of crap away starting in 2007. Still doing it, actually.
My apologies, sdf.
Ech, your mom drove stick all these years? That's pretty cool...
Automatic is very rare in Finland. It's seen as costing too much in gas.
Frank Rich kicks ass as only he can. This one hurts!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/0...&hp&
oref=slogin
School must be out.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | 06.01.08 - 12:10 am | # [kill]
Well, it stood to reason I was gonna attract a climate crank sooner or later. We'll see how persistent he is. Usually they go away when they realize that I'm arguing from a different perspective than they think. I think this one's main interest is in driving traffic to his own site. He definitely came to the wrong place, if so. lately
But I'm taking it more personally than usual, lately, 'cause my wife just found out how deeply her dad has descended into wingnuttery, and she's really distressed about it. (Not just 'cause of the politics, although she doesn't like that aspect, but because it's a really severe, sudden, frightening change in his personality).
the last few cars I've owned have been standard, but modern automatics are on par MPG-wise now
I'm not willing to pony up the extra grand or so to get em
I'm still trying to find my favorite dildo...
NTodd, Pink Poseur
Maybe you'll find that CD.
Why does Jesus hate all those Bobo Red Tornado states?
cosmosis
Why don't they ask Pat Robertson?
Echidne, same throughout Europe. I've rarely seen an automatic there.
In fact, I'm driving my first automatic since I began driving. I'm just old and lazy now and sitting in traffic riding the clutch makes my toes go numb.
Perhaps they would let die-hard Wings fan Kristin Bell
I loved her before but now...!
I didn't know that about Finland. Looks like we'll all be driving stick...
I played varsity football and baseball in high school, and I'm telling you, it was a schload easier as a linebacker hitting a running back, than it has hitting a double off a fastball pitcher.
A 20 day old leopard cub has wandered into a house in India, after being abandoned by its mother.
mrs. ibrahim al-jafaari
Best of luck little critter!
How fortunate he wandered into a house where they would look after him.
Frank Rich kicks ass as only he can. This one hurts!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/0...&hp& oref=slogin
Stew
OOOh, that IS a good one!
But Boston looks like an excellent team and I expect them to win the championship.
DWD - S☮S
From your lips...
But that Lakers offense comes at you in waves...
Celtics beat 'em twice, but that was before Pau Gasol..
OK, well, football is boring, too, a lot of the time.
Heretic
Purge, NTodd. It's a great feeling. I threw tons of crap away starting in 2007. Still doing it, actually.
I am. Part of the whole "stop the war and shit" thing is downsizing. I have simply accumulated crap over 15 years of home-ownership and need to shed the ballast. E's doing the same, though it's more imperative for our trip.
Echidne, same throughout Europe. I've rarely seen an automatic there.
In fact, I'm driving my first automatic since I began driving. I'm just old and lazy now and sitting in traffic riding the clutch makes my toes go numb.
The only reason my mom changed is that her left knee is bad. It's easier to drive without a clutch pedal.
Maybe you'll find that CD.
Prolly will, though the office is my last priority.
Maybe if those Bobo Red Tornado states abandon their wicked ways and vote blue, God will stop his plagues.
In other news, Danika Patrick continues to circle the brickyard in pursuit of her first Indy 500 victory.
Barry from AK in Wilmington ag
sure she's not looking for wayward pit crewmen?
I'm just old and lazy now and sitting in traffic riding the clutch makes my toes go numb.
That's hard on the carrier bearing. Shifting into neutral takes care of both problems.
Echidne, same throughout Europe. I've rarely seen an automatic there.
Just the opposite for me, all automatic in car sized vehicles, only have seen clutches and gears in the larger vans.
NYT story:
Consumers lean on rebate checks for bills and gas So far, the tax rebates handed out by the Treasury have not spurred a visible spree of new spending.
Nobody could have imagined ...
President Bush called Saturday for a new “culture of responsibility,”
And then he burst into flames.
I've been alternating between stick and automatic. What's interesting is that I seem to have no trouble remembering which is which, but it might be different if the cars had been exactly the same.
Let's see, I hate the Celtics but I hate Kobe more. Prediction: Lakers in 6
(Not just 'cause of the politics, although she doesn't like that aspect, but because it's a really severe, sudden, frightening change in his personality).
Phila, Pizen Sarpint
If you can, get him to the doctor's for a physical. Dramatic mental changes like that can mean a whole lot of things, a lot of them can be addressed with medication.
It can also mean unpleasant things like mini strokes, tumors, or severe depression...
Consumers lean on rebate checks for bills and gas So far, the tax rebates handed out by the Treasury have not spurred a visible spree of new spending.
Nobody could have imagined ...
res ipsa loquitur
People are afraid to spend em, hanging on to the cash instead.
Yea Stimulus!
Bush wouldn't know responsibility if it chewed his nuts off and leisurly ate them in front of him.
I heard Obama recently surried down to a Stoned Soul Picnic, and there was lots of time and wine.
This is unacceptable. Doesn't he know there's a war on.
And then he burst into flames.
*laughing*
NYT story:
Consumers lean on rebate checks for bills and gas
Crap, we're in trouble if that;s so.
I have no love for either the Celtics or the Lakers. No great hate either. So, I'm just hoping for a good Finals. It would be amusing, though, to see Bill Simmons cry like a baby if the Celtics lose...
Frank Rich: ouch.
Let's see, I hate the Celtics but I hate Kobe more. Prediction: Lakers in 6
I hope you're wrong. I hate Kobe, but I really like Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, and Ray Allen. I'd like to see them get a ring.
Yea Stimulus!
Mine will be going to fixing the roof.
Frank Rich in a fit of excellence.
As F. Scott Fitzgerald would have it, we will be borne back ceaselessly into the past. Or so we will be as long as Americans continue to die in Iraq and as long as politicians like Mr. Bush, Mr. McCain and Mrs. Clinton refuse to accept responsibility for their roles, major and minor, in abetting this national tragedy.
People are afraid to spend em, hanging on to the cash instead.
Yea Stimulus!
Fuck. Looks like I didn't get mine.
I guess I won't get that loan from chine, er, stimulus check until I file my taxes huh?
extensions are so much faster than actual returns
I just improvised a very credible chicken lo mein!
GO CELTS!
Crap, we're in trouble if that;s so.
MP
We're in trouble
It can also mean unpleasant things like mini strokes, tumors, or severe depression...
My dad had the mini strokes. He became insanely jealous of my mom. Convinced that she was having an affair with a twenty-year old guy. She wasn't.
I guess I won't get that loan from chine, er, stimulus check until I file my taxes huh?
I guess I'll never get mine, then...
I can't think of a person more deserving of having the fucking shit kicked out of him than Bush and Cheney except maybe Kyle Busch.
Mr. French, the Altima I'm driving now was for Mlle, but we all know what happened. It was newer than my Corolla and had fewer miles on it.
I sold the Corolla.
It can also mean unpleasant things like mini strokes, tumors, or severe depression...
ellroon bitterful | Homepage | 06.01.08 - 12:21 am | # [kill][hide comment]
This came on in the aftermath of stopping antidepressants (or something similar...can't recall.) But the thing is, the personality in question is one that's pretty much unwilling to consider the possibility of being wrong about anything, ever, so there's a limit to what we can do.
"So, you think I'm crazy or sick just 'cause I don't want to be beheaded by Islamofascists, huh? Typical liberals!"
My dad had the mini strokes. He became insanely jealous of my mom. Convinced that she was having an affair with a twenty-year old guy. She wasn't.
Echidne
How utterly frightening and devastating. Was your mom ok?
I guess I'll never get mine, then...
NTodd
did you file at all? did you go the sinfonian route?
extensions are so much faster than actual returns
we are gonna file ours after I get a SSN for my son.
I really like Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, and Ray Allen. I'd like to see them get a ring.
I'm a Piston fan and to tell you the truth, I'm glad Boston won as they might have a chance of beating smugass Kobe and Coach Goatee
GO CELTS!
NTodd, Pink Poseur
AMEN!!
Crap, we're in trouble if that;s so.
Oh, we certainly are.
re mini-strokes ...
One of my aunts had them. Her personality definitely changed. She was imagining all sorts of crazy stuff.
How utterly frightening and devastating. Was your mom ok?
It was very frightening. When he locked her in the bedroom we intervened, got her out of the house and went through the court proceedings to force him to have care. It was truly an awful time.
Understand there's womens that kind of likes the way that mens are put together.
Paranoid delusions are very common in the elderly as an early sign of dementia. There are treatable causes, so it's well worth working up. The important thing is not to rule out medical-type reasons prematurely for personality changes.
"So, you think I'm crazy or sick just 'cause I don't want to be beheaded by Islamofascists, huh? Typical liberals!"
Phila, Pizen Sarpint
Ack! My sympathies to your wife.
smugass Kobe and Coach Goatee
cosmosis
They're so easy to hate...
Yea Stimulus!
Mine will be going to fixing the roof.
Mine is going to my mom, because I don't like her to worry about money.
did you file at all? did you go the sinfonian route?
Haven't filed in 2 years.
Consumers lean on rebate checks for bills and gas So far, the tax rebates handed out by the Treasury have not spurred a visible spree of new spending.
I've only had a few customers specifically saying they were spending their stimulus money. I would have expected more but it's hard to tell because the paper checks appear to have not gotten out yet.
It was very frightening. When he locked her in the bedroom we intervened, got her out of the house and went through the court proceedings to force him to have care. It was truly an awful time.
Echidne
Did your dad ever return to himself?
Old folks hate it when their kids gang up on them.
Echidne, my mother suffered a major stroke at 29 after she had her fourth kid. Her personality drastically changed after that. I was 6 at the time; she'd had four kids really fast but before the stroke, she'd read with me and take me to the library and she was, well, just a busy mom, but not a calleaich, which she was for so many years.
She's had a number of TIAs since then. Now she's more mellow.
I guess I'll never get mine, then...
NTodd, Pink Poseur
Not to worry, Hugo still has free heating oil.
I'm a Piston fan and to tell you the truth, I'm glad Boston won as they might have a chance of beating smugass Kobe and Coach Goatee
cosmosis
Yeah, I think I said that. But it's all good. I think the Pistons need to make some changes. Maybe some pretty big changes. I dunno. I can talk about hockey and tell you what is wrong with a team with some experience. Basketball? NOpe. Not me. Don;t know much about it.
Haven't filed in 2 years.
NTodd
do you have regular w-2 wages or are you a contractor?
I've got homemade pizza with hot and sweet Italian sausage, pepperoni, bacon, ham a 'little' habanero and sweet pepper and garlic mixed with the sauce, and of course several cheeses.
With it you can have a smoothy, levitation ale, IPA ale or water.
Did your dad ever return to himself?
He had a few more strokes while being in the diagnostic phase. He was diagnosed as having vascular dementia, and for a while he was in a locked mental ward due to violence. But later he became very sweet and kind, though he never was the way he was before his illness.
Flying tackled my mother in law once as she scampered across the road, with my three year old following, in a game to get the mail as a semi came on at 50 mph. By then, she was seeing people making love in the trees.
Just awful. Stopped visiting her; she got scared when she saw me; didn't recognize me.
My dad had the mini strokes. He became insanely jealous of my mom. Convinced that she was having an affair with a twenty-year old guy. She wasn't.
Echidne | Homepage | 06.01.08 - 12:24 am | # [kill][hide comment]
This stuff is more terrifying to me than anything. Ever since I was a kid, it's really upset me when people suddenly decide something is absolutely true, and you can't say anything to shake them out of it. Which is probably one reason I've gotten so many more gray hairs in the last few years.
There's not much I can tell the wife, either. My mother died nuts, more or less, believing anything her tumor-riddled head told her. It's very sad, but what can you do?
ProfWombat
And now the Celtics?
Doug, sounds delicious.
I baked a carrot cake for Monsieur, and he's happy to share with everyone.
calleaich?
Once again I hate being at the end of the name alphabet. By the time my check shows up, they'll probably void them all
This is how long I've stayed away from watching the NBA. This big thug Bill Lambier was in the league the last time I followed the NBA.
do you have regular w-2 wages or are you a contractor?
Regular w-2 through the school, contractor otherwise, but my IRA distros (pay off debts, divorce, etc) fuck up my income yet again, so I have a lot of penalties and interest in the future...
Funny, our brains determine our personality, to some, our "soul," if you will, and yet, we just don't see simple organic problems as the root of personality changes. It's a question of time and experience. If we spend a long enough time with someone who's generally rational, even if a bit odd, we continue to think of them as rational. Even when they may no longer be--for organic reasons.
My sympathies and encouragement.
My mother's decline into dementia was awful. And in retrospect, her very altered interpretation of reality was, for the most part, fairly benign and easy to handle.
Nonetheless, it was a dark time.
You and yours, take care of yourself.
ProfWombat,
That is awful. One of the things I am really grateful for re daddy res was that he had all his marbles up until the end. It was bad enough to see his body completely broken down. It would have been horrible to see his mind go, too.
res: yeah, it's an embarrassment of sports riches up here. And they're apparently a pretty decent bunch, too. Don't follow 'em much, though.
NTodd, we file every year. But we shorted them by 30% this year, and enclosed an explanation.
Thus far, the IRS hasn't notified us, although I expect they will.
Carrot cake is my favorite, sallyh.
This stuff is more terrifying to me than anything. Ever since I was a kid, it's really upset me when people suddenly decide something is absolutely true, and you can't say anything to shake them out of it. Which is probably one reason I've gotten so many more gray hairs in the last few years.
It was terrifying for us, too. And the guilt of essentially forcing treatment on your father. But once he was diagnosed and so on it was better, because we knew what was wrong and what the prognosis was. And the care he got was wonderful.
My mom was with it until the very end. I found myself embarrassed for her, which was unfair. She wasn't there anymore.
My dad was suffering but alert to the end. My mom is mentally losing it but not suffering. Which is worse?
ellroon, an unpleasant, cruel woman in Gaelige.
Carrot cake is my favorite, sallyh.
res ipsa loquitur
with or without raisins and nuts?
I know enough people who are struggling with all the worries and problems associated with aging parents, that it's almost something of a relief that mine died too early for me to have to deal with all that.
My sympathies to everyone in such a situation.