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Went grocery shopping, put the cat in the room so he wouldn't run out while totting in the stuff, and the doorknob broke! We took it apart, and still couldn't open the door. Of course, now the cat is stuck in there and crying up a storm. I had to go up and down the street looking for a guy to help me fix it. Finally got my neighbor down the street to open it up.

chonsigirl;507199 wrote: Went grocery shopping, put the cat in the room so he wouldn't run out while totting in the stuff, and the doorknob broke! We took it apart, and still couldn't open the door. Of course, now the cat is stuck in there and crying up a storm. I had to go up and down the street looking for a guy to help me fix it. Finally got my neighbor down the street to open it up.


Good old neighbour !! Bet the cat was real pleased to see you......eventually

Yes, what a nice man to help us out. We are clueless about these things, and kitty was happy as can be to see us.

If IF's and BUT's were candy and nuts then we'd all have a Merry

Christmas.









I'm late again aren't I?

chonsigirl;507199 wrote: Went grocery shopping, put the cat in the room so he wouldn't run out while totting in the stuff, and the doorknob broke! We took it apart, and still couldn't open the door. Of course, now the cat is stuck in there and crying up a storm. I had to go up and down the street looking for a guy to help me fix it. Finally got my neighbor down the street to open it up.


See there. Us guys are good for a few things.

Conversation earlier in my house.

my daughter: mumble mumble mumble (nobody could understand what she said)

my son: what did you say Ayden, I can't speak girl.

my hubby: it's ok son, I don't understand women either.



:wah:

My husband insisted as soon as I got home from church to take down the tree, and made a horrible mess all over the place. I just finished cleaning it up.:-1

Got the key to my car today! Wednesday we're taking it to my grandmas house so we can leave it there till we get a battery for it. I'm excited. It has a lovely CD player in it that looks brand new. hopefully it works.

MoreThanALover;508780 wrote: Got the key to my car today! Wednesday we're taking it to my grandmas house so we can leave it there till we get a battery for it. I'm excited. It has a lovely CD player in it that looks brand new. hopefully it works.


Congrats....what did you get ?

Nomad;508783 wrote: Congrats....what did you get ?


A two door 1991 Cheverolet.

I'm scared!!:yh_nailbi

I like it here . The people are friendly and seem really nice . I think i might stick around .

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

AngelEyes82;510115 wrote: Damm*t I have the hiccups.. :-5


I know everyone has a cure but this one reallyworks. Take a swallow of cool water,

then take another but do not completely swallow. Hold it in your throat as long as you can then swallow. I dont know why but it does work.

Okie;510368 wrote: I know everyone has a cure but this one reallyworks. Take a swallow of cool water,

then take another but do not completely swallow. Hold it in your throat as long as you can then swallow. I dont know why but it does work.


wait.... this is a PG thread, right??

The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese

Wolverine;510371 wrote: wait.... this is a PG thread, right??


This is a chitchat thread. anything random. She mentioned having hiccups. That is a random thought. No?

Pinky;510484 wrote: Just spent about an hour yakking to Hammy on the phone!

For someone I met from here, she's turned out to be one of my best mates!:-4

I wish we weren't so far away.


Well that's the great thing about here, that you can meet new people, and before long you are great friends, and the day you meet seemed so long ago!!

Diuretic;510838 wrote: Far?



FAR?



You wanna know what "far" is - come to Oz :wah:
But Far lives in California. :-2

Hey, its sunny in Ireland today! Whoppeeee! I must go out and run around a bit before it stops! :wah:

A guy walked into a little corner store with a shotgun and demanded all

of the cash from the cash drawer.



After the cashier put the cash in a bag, the robber saw a bottle of

Scotch that he wanted behind the counter on the shelf.



He told the cashier to put it in the bag as well, but the cashier

refused and said, "Because I don't believe you are over 21."



The robber said he was, but the clerk still refused to give it to him

because she didn't believe him.



At this point, the robber took his driver's license out of his wallet

and gave it to the clerk.



The clerk looked it over and agreed that the man was in fact over 21 and she put the Scotch in the bag.



The robber then ran from the store with his loot.



The cashier promptly called the police and gave the name and address of

the robber that he got off the license.



They arrested the robber two hours later.

:wah:

MoreThanALover;511248 wrote: A guy walked into a little corner store with a shotgun and demanded all

of the cash from the cash drawer.



After the cashier put the cash in a bag, the robber saw a bottle of

Scotch that he wanted behind the counter on the shelf.



He told the cashier to put it in the bag as well, but the cashier

refused and said, "Because I don't believe you are over 21."



The robber said he was, but the clerk still refused to give it to him

because she didn't believe him.



At this point, the robber took his driver's license out of his wallet

and gave it to the clerk.



The clerk looked it over and agreed that the man was in fact over 21 and she put the Scotch in the bag.



The robber then ran from the store with his loot.



The cashier promptly called the police and gave the name and address of

the robber that he got off the license.



They arrested the robber two hours later.

:wah:


I have been on jury duty a few times and yes, there are many dumb dumb crooks.

If only all criminals were so thoughtful! :wah:

Well, I went for a walk in the sun, but I tell ya, its pretty nippy in Ireland today, whoa boy, feciking artic so it is. Brrrrrrrrrrrr. I love cold weather. Brrrrrrrrrr.

Accountable;511164 wrote: But Far lives in California. :-2


hardly Far at all :wah:

Pinky;511453 wrote: I just got stuck behind my old car from about ten years ago!

It was a little blue Fiesta, which still doesn't go very fast!:wah:
That happened to me once. Weird isn't it. I sold the car to someone who lived a long way away and the car ended up being owned by someone who lived less than a mile away so I saw it quite often

Pinky;511460 wrote: That's really strange! Seeing it sent me down this whole memory lane thing, I used to go everywhere in that little car. London, Essex, we even gatecrashed some poor bugger's wedding and pretended that we knew the bride so my mate could see her fella who was playing for the reception in that car!:D


Thats weird pinks, we were just talking about our old cars last night, funny how that happens init?

Pinky;511469 wrote: I know, that's what I thought! Spooky!


I do wonder what happened to me old ford, well I sold it in Dublin so it was probably used in a bank robbery or something, well, as long as there are no comeuppins, I don't mind. I am with homer on that one, "no comeuppins". :wah:

It is kinda strange though, synchronicty is an interesting thing.

Pinky;511473 wrote: Isn't it just? It really intrigues me in fact. 'Comeuppins':wah:

BTW, nearly at the end of chapter four in the book, I cracked up when Dame Maugelin says to Suldrun 'There's nothing more conspicuous than a farting princess' I laughed my head off!


Aha, so you are getting into it then. I hope you enjoy them actually, though of course personal opinion on books can be different. But I think you will enjoy them, they kinda have a bit of everything, and I love the way he mixes that kinda pre-medival European idea with the more traditional fantasy elements.

Pinky;511486 wrote: Me too! It's really descriptive, some of the devices he uses really makes the imagery amazing! Plus I loved the bits of the index, about the Ska and the Fey.

I love anything to do with legend, mythology, history and good old fantasy!


Yes he crosses a lot of real life mythology, paganism, and even the rise of Christianity into it, also the Irish come into it as well, and there is an Irish princess "Isolde" I think, though its kinda peripheral, it gets really interesting, he has a great prose style and very good ideas.

Pinky;511493 wrote: One of my fave tales is Tristan and Isolde, though I'm not sure that he meant it to be the same Isolde, as that's a Cornish myth I think


That is interesting actually, I think Isolde might be a generic Celtic character that turns up in Cornish, Irish, Welsh, Breton, and other literatures, and then was passed into medival English and French literature. There is certainly a Famous princess Isolde in Irish folklore, though I think she was passed down from other older stories. I think she was reputed to be the Daughter of a great Viking cheiftan who ruled dublin for a time, there is a pub callde "Isolde's Tower" in Temple Bar in dublin (as well as "The Norseman"). I actually lived on a street where the Vikings were settled 1,000 years ago, after Brian Boru beat the Vikings in the Battle of Clontarf in 1014, it was called "Oxmanstown Road", as Oxman was the Viking for "East Man" which is how they were seen by the natives at that time, its cool that its still there 1,000 years later.

There is a very famous Irish myth about Diarmud and Grainne, which is qiute tristan and isolde like, and the cycles about Fionn and the Fianna have many parrallels with the M'ort D-Arthur legengs of English folklore, it makes sense that these things would be shared anyway as all of these people lived in proxminity to each other, and shared more or less the same ancestors. Interesting though.