Big Top by Rob Harrell for June 18, 2010

Good Morning Tribeandall!

Breakfast Menu Special!

You ask and I will deliver. Ask and ye shall receive!

Good Morning Lonewolf!

It’s okay now. Turns out it was just a clown’s rubber mask. Those things can be really freaking scary, you know?

Wolfangil says she will help me with this special!

Good Morning, Marg!

Just coffee Lonewolf

I already ate too much today.

Good Morning, Woodeye! One Lg coffee coming up!

I want…………. hmmm…………. ummm, I want…. uh……… let’s see………. I want…. no, not that…….

They say botox will do that to you!

Lonewolf May I have an apple with real peanut butter and a glass of water? Please?

LuvH8, you can have whatever you want! :^)

Your order is up. Enjoy!

Thank you Lonewolf!

I miss Little Sister, I hope she is doing well on her finals.

Morning Dry, Luv, Lonewolf, Woodeye and anyone else who is here.

LuvH8 would I sneak out just at cleanup time? [peeks around carefully to see if it is all done[

LuvH8 - There was a reference to her thru an email over at Pibgorn.

Good Morning, Serena. I’ve been missing you lately. Good to be here at the same time for a change!

Lonewolf May I have some waffles with cinnamon, some fruit slices and a extra large,super huge chocolate milk please? I would ask for some Nuc. coffee, but I’ve seen some of the messes it can make.

Ummm, yes Serenasakitty, you would. But it was my mess, so you could have stayed.

Excellent choices Serena. Your order is up. I hope you enjoy the meal!

Thanks Lonewolf. It looks great.

LuvH8 But at least I can see that you did a good job of cleaning.

I think I’l take a nap. I’ll try to get back on later.

CU in the toons.

I think I am also over tired.

Good Night, Serena & LuvH8

P&L

Good Morning, Joahanan, Lewreader and Rac!

I just got here, Lonewolf. Good morning to you and to all!

I just got up from an unsuccessful attempt to go to sleep at the normal hour (it’s 1:55 AM here…mark). I just had a jar of Bulgarian yogurt as a midnight snack. I’m tempted to make some CocoMocha and put this insomnia to good use.

But I won’t. How about some chamomile tea?

Good Night Serena & Lonewolf

LONEWOLF Not only did you and other BIRDBRAINS attack me at 2AM in 2C &aC, but now you didn’t even post one of your wonderful menus. Without NUC COFFEE I am nothing.

Morning TRIBE How would you like it if you got out of bed,rebooted, and were attacked by tales of faces before the percolator burped once?

@Lewreader: I wouldn’t either. But then again, I don’t see faces… sometimes even when they exist.

Good Morning, ♠Lonewolf♠, LuvH8, WoodEye, Fellow Baby, Lewreader & Johannan!

I did sleep well early, but am now having trouble getting back to sleep. I may have an early start to my work day.

Good Morning Grog

Good Morning, LuvH8!

What are you doing up so late?

Wow! I thought you were up early yesterday.

It’s only a little after 2am.

Still. Shound’t you be in bed?

What time do you go to work?

I usually head out around 6:10.

Technically, I am in bed. Or at least on the bed.

And it is 4:30 now? You could sleep another hour.

It’s 4:30 now. It’s almost time to get up, yet I’m finally feeling like I want to go back to bed. Go figure. It may be a long shower this morning.

If you start work early, do you get to go home early?

I knew it! I bored you tired!

I always hope to get home early on Fridays. But I may be in bed early tonight, too.

You could take a nap? Oh, wait that messes up your sleep schedule more, doesn’t it?

Do you often have sleeping problems?

I don’t think it was you, LuvH8. A couple of the strips I was looking at gave me the yawns.

Uh-Oh! Here I was trying not to be too entertaining. I didn’t want to wake you up if you could go back to bed.

Mostly on week-days. I have the luxury of being able to nap on week-ends - but not week-days.

Well, start drinking your Pepsi now! I’ll have a Nuclear Coffee Float with chocolate syrup. You want one?

No, I’m going for my shower now. See you when I get into the office (if you’re not sleeping yet.)

Okay, drive safely this morning.

Coffeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

ZZzz Wha? GM (((Tribe)))

So as not to offend anyone bossyh, I thought botox swelled the treated areas.

Good Morning Rac

What’s up with the ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZs?

Aren’t you ALIVE, AWAKE, ALERT, ENTHUSIASTIC?

(Yaaaaaaawwwwwwn)

Are you still there, LuvH8…or snoozing?

You just wanted me to go back to bed so you could have unrestricted access to the nuclear coffee.

What? Me, want you out of the way? (best innocent voice)

Grog, how could you think such a thing? (hides coffee cup behind the couch)

Hey, what’s that?

(tries to look over LuvH8’s shoulder)

(yawn & finger thing, yawn, yawn, yawn & finger thing)

What’s what?

I think I will have one of Johanan’s CocoMochas with vanilla & cinnamon. Ooooh! With a donut!

Would you like a donut Grog?

I thougt I saw something in your hand behind your back.

(tries to get around LuvH8.)

No I’m having scrambled eggs (with green tabasco) sausage & hash brown.

Nope! See my hands are empty.

(holds out empty hands and tries to direct Grog away from couch and cup)

I know you’re hiding something!

Scrambled eggs(with green tobasco) and bagel & cream cheese sounds good.

Grog, have you been hanging out with Lewreader? You are starting to imagine things.

Unlike the rest of you Birdbrains, mine is probably the only imagination that doesn’t run away. I don’t see faces where they ain’t.

(penguin strolls out from behind couch)  

I DO NOT HALLUCINATE!!! That would require more drugs.

I can’t see your pengiun. (darn)

Good Morning Everyone!

Lewreader, you misread my comments at 2C&C. I didn’t see any faces there. I called it a mirage and Lewellenbruce seemed to see the same thing I did. We’re good over there.

Now BB is another matter altogether.

Good Morning Lonewolf!

Ummm……… what penguin Grog?

I can see it too!

Double Darn 

Or was that just darn 

Wolfie!! my friend. How are you? they gave me a helper for my inventory…Yay! Now a couple of quarts more coffee and I’ll be good to go.

Good morning Luv and Grog

Gocomics moderator is slipping.

I got all the way around and the spammers still there. Think its a Chi town politician? It is Jordaner

Penguin? You mean like a cute fluffy dancing bird?

(casually picks up now empty cup from behind couch)

Hey! Do either of you know who was using my cup?

Good morning, rac & ♠Lonewolf♠

Can or can’t, ♠Lonewolf♠. I can’t see what ever image LuvH8 posted.

Good Morning Rac! Glad you got a helper.

Good Morning, LuvH8.

Grog, left you a message at 2C&C. :^)

Good Morning Rac!

Did you see who was using my cup?

I can see the picture she posted, Grog.

I won’t tell LuvH8…snerk

Good Morning, Grog.

I need to start getting ready. Got a lot to do today.

In case I miss him…………………..

Good Morning, Doc!

Oh fine! Someone left my cup behind the couch. I think the penguin drank it and now it keeps dancing.

Penguin???

I responded to your comment @ 2C & C, ♠Lonewolf♠. Have a good day.

It is light out! I forgot to sleep! Mendasock!

You forgot? You can’t just forget!

Umm, can someone explain why the couch is changing?

It’s growing bigger and I’m sure I see a face on the end.

According to LuvH8 there’s a penguin in it, serena

Yes I can!

Good Morning Serenasakitty I know nothing about the couch. (off key whistling)

There is not a penguin in the couch! The penguin was behind the couch drinking my Nuclear Coffee!

I have, Grog…. at least I think I remember forgetting

Uh-Oh! Did I just say that out loud?

What couch?

Good Morning, Serena. The couch is getting bigger now a days here. And there are always new faces here, too! I see them too, Serena. Ain’t it grand. More friends, more fun!!

Have a great day, everyone!

P&L

Now that I’ve thoroughly stirred the pot, I gotta go before Somebody gets upset that we’re havin fun. BTW somebody, I commented on the toon.

Have a great day

Tribe

Hello Doc Have you been reading the couch the Birdbrains comic while drinking coffee on the couch?

Morning Doc You’ll have to keep this couch thing going, tho I have no idea about the penguin. And the faces…. But I did comment on the toon before I started having fun and gabbing and I gotta go now ‘cause MY meds are calling to me and they’re using someone elses name and my coffee pot’s growing a face on thepot and on the lid and and and Bye

(((TRIBE))) POOF!

Okay, I is confoozled!

Rac!!!

You couldn’t have reminded me to take my meds yesterday?

Good Morning, Doctor Toon. You’re later this AM. Is this to be the new norm with your new hours.

So you aren’t the one who has been showing the couch faces for days on end until it finally decided it wanted one of it’s own? I thought I saw you doing just that last week, Doc

Luv you don’t have to yell so loud… I had to come back…is it today already?? Sorry :-((((((( I really gotta go Poof

Okay, I took yesterday’s meds (blows raspberry)

Doc if it is just Rac hallucinating it is probably a combination of the Nuclear Coffee and the 60’s.

Cute, Doc. They’re a little leaner looking than the ones LuvH8 posts.

Good Night Everyone

Good morning Doc and TRIBE.

You have to really watch around here these days. Not only food fights, water fights, snowball fights and other fun stuff. Now the fish and even the furniture is getting into the act.

Good Morning, Serena Good Night, LuvH8 I hope you sleep well

Doc, there were penguins here in the late afternoon yesterday too.

fish??

I went fishing once with my son and he caught a big one and it scared him and he dropped the pole into the lake and i had to go after it but it was a REALLY big one and when he held it up it was longer than he was so we took a picture and then ate it…

Why am i back here? Sorry

poof

Good Morning All. Finally we have a sunny morning.

Good Morning, cleo. Good to see you.

Thank you Grog. I am doing much better today.

Good morning Cleo. It’s great to see you.

Doc & serena, good to see you both.

Yes, glad you’re feeling better for sure.

Cleo good to see you up and about!

Morning Cleo…. nice to “see” you. Don’t overdo or you may get meds like mine….

Hi Doc, and Grog and Serena

Good morning Doc, serena, rac and Fellow Baby!

Good Morning, Fellow Baby. I replied to your comment @ 2C &C.

(Here we go again!)

Edit: I noticed you haven’t been to BB yet.

Well it’s that time again so I have to go. I’ll try to be back again later if I wake up in time. Work is a four letter word.

Good Morning Dry & Rac. It is good to be back. I missed the action.

cleo, see the action over at yesterday’s BB.

Returning (briefly) from the archives: Hi everybody!

Hi johnny!

Hi Doc and Dry Special guest appearance is over, back to work I go.

Good Morning johnnyd.

Is anybody else finding that gocomics is really slow to get to show the comments? For me, each day seems a little slower than the last. Today, especially in the last half hour it seems to be about a minute wait for the comments to appear below the strip.

Hi johnny

I thought I posted this earlier, but I think it timed out.

Well I see Opus pops up every once in awhile today still.

I think we all got the bird, Doc.

Fellow Baby, I replied to your comment @ 2C&C, of course. (Heheh. Ah haha haaaaa)

OR your computer hates you….

Happy Dance for the Old Faht!! Inventory’s done!

Good for you, rac. Can you call it a day now?

Congrats rac, I always hated doing inventory.

Well, I keep getting Opus as well and have not made comments on some sites because I didn’t want to wait.

I miss you already Doc.

11:31 CDT Grog -

So I think I may BBL from home!

If I don’t get back on til tomorrow, LuvH8

Take your meds!

The rest of the TRIBE **((((Stay Safe))))

I am OUTTA here!

P O O F !

Good Night, Doc Have a good one.

Have fun rac!

Hi, tribe! (Being careful where I walk, just in case there is penguin poop on the floor…Anyone know what penguin poop looks like?)

Fellow Baby answered you @ 2C!

I am having a difficult time posting and can’t post at certain comics.

Cleo - You might want to run a system scan. Normally, mine only picks up 2 or 3 cookies, but I ran one last night that picked up over 70!

≡ POP! ≡ HelloTRIBE!

At least GoComics lets you opt out of receiving many ad cookies. I have put many types into my anti-virus software to be not accepted. Have stopped having any put onto my computers.

Good afternoon, Tribeandall!

Grog, you had me cracking up at 2C&C!!!!

Awesome, my friend!

Hello, Fellow Baby, Rmom, Sojourner, & ♠Lonewolf♠!

Just got back from lunch. With any luck, I’ll only have 2 more hours before I can call it a day. Got to get busy, busy busy.

Sojourner - How do you opt out of the gocomics cookies? It has been so long since I signed up, I don’t remember if that question was asked. Hi, Grog & Terry!

Cleo, good to see you back at it buddy! Hope you’re coming along well.

♠Lonewolf♠ - hope the weather is fine where you are and are having a good day at work!

Grog - TGIF!

Hello, Rmom. I don’t have much time right now, but thought I’d drop in and say “Hi” to all you wonderful people!

Same here, Terry! I should be working on cleaning out the “junky room”, but I need to sit down & rest every so often, so I’m here. :>)

You got that right, Sojourner.

OK, back to business.

Hello, Sojourner!

Whew! 90° and schticky for sure. I am having a great day, though.

I hope you are too!

And yes……………………TGIF!!!

Alright, you all have a fine afternoon and don’t do anything I wouldn’t do! :^)

P&L

Rmom - As I remember when I joined I read all of their polices. I think in their privicy police they listed two web sights you could go to and opt out of receiving any cookies from their customers. The opt out is only good for the computer you do it on as it puts a cookie on it to block receiving any cookies from their customers. It’s good for 10 years so if you still have the same computer you have to redo it then.

TGIF here too! (No school today!!!!)

Sojourner - So you’re saying they put a cookie on that blocks other cookies? Hum, I wonder how that works with my Norton removing cookies?

I use PC Tools - mainly just because I’m used to it. The cookie for blocking other ad cookies should not be recongnised as something bad so it should be alright (many kinds of cookies are used and are on your computer that anti-viris software does or can allow). I’m not sure of Norton as it’s been a long time since I have used it and don’t know how it works be it should be fine.

If you have problems e-mail Norton and they should be able to tell you how to set it’s control for them.

If you do business on the net, including your bank, they need to use cookies. The trouble with the ad cookies is that they collect info about you and sell or use it for compaines to target you for things. Anti-vires software reconizes this type to remove it from your computer.

Thanks for the explanation, Sojourner.

That’s why finding a few cookies isn’t any big deal to me - but when I have a large number, I always wonder where they are coming from. I’ve been in computers since punchcards, and my hubby & one of our sons are computer geeks, so I’m pretty well covered on general computer knowledge. It is just specific to gocomics that I wondered about.

Happy Friday Dance!!!

 

Hi, Luv!

Hi Rmom

Sorry I disappeared, I got booted. Then I called Monkey 2, her dad is a putz again today (edited to be nice).

Hello LuvH8 - About the movie I mentioned, it does have some bad language in the beging part. That usualy prevents me from recomending something. Too often today things like that are used to help sell the show, but in this case it helps show the reality of what the girl had to put with. (if you want turning off the audio at those parts won’t effect the show much) IMy brain doesn’t work too good when it gets late. The young girl having a hard life and being put on her own (with her life at risk) and being teemed up with a hit man that’s a loner and doesn’t want to be bothered by anyone is a good show of how their relationship is developed.

Rmom - that brings back memories as I also used punch cards when learning the Cobal language. Most of my experience is on DOS and propriatory systems. After Windows 3 I stoped keeping up on tech things so I really don”t know much today.

Good Afternoon Sojourner

Some profanity is okay, I am trying to cut back on the amount I use though. (Sometimes I wonder if I am the only one on this strip who has this problem.)

WARNING ~ Father Joke Ahead

A couple with three children waited in line at San Francisco’s Pier 41 to purchase tickets for a boat trip to Alcatraz. Others watched with varying degrees of sympathy and irritation as the young children fidgeted, whined, and punched one another. The frazzled parents reprimanded them to no avail.

Finally they reached the ticket window. “Five tickets, please,” the father said. “Two round trip, three one way.”

Thats one thing I remember dad. He served on an aircraft carrier in WWII. He figured his language needed cleaning up at the end of the war and mad an pact with two other men to punch out each other if they heard bad words from each other. One of them quit because he could not take it - but my dad and the other man arrived at dock with their language really cleaned up!

LuvH8 I’ll have to remember that! (as a kid I took that boat ride)

No problem, Luv! I keep going back & forth - trying to clean out the junky room. At least I can see some of the floor now. Good joke, BTW! Sojourner - I’m merely a user, not a geek. To me, if it ain’t broke, why fix it? My two geeks on the other hand think that if there’s anyway it can go faster, etc. want to change things. I learn what I need to do on a repetitive basis, but if I’m not going to have to do it again, I’d rather let a geek do it, than learn how myself. There is just too much to learn to stay on top of everything, so I don’t try. I do like to use the computer to do things which make life easier for me, so I wow a lot of people by the things I do on the computer.

I don’t think I would like it if someone punched me everytime is said a not nice word. As it is I now feel guilty, and am much more aware when I do it.

Ummm……. how’s this for computer illiterate? If it is not something you eat, I do not know what a cookie is.

Rmon - That’s the feeling I came to, it seemed that I spent as much time keeping up on things as actually using a computer. That’s why I stoped trying to know all the tech stuff and just have time to do what I needed to. Unfortunatly my main job was in Graphic Arts (pre-press) and as it became computerized learning never stoped. It was estimated that you had to re-learn half of your job skills every year just to do your job!

Oh, that reminds me:

Please remember to place a warning before jokes so that those who do not wish to read them may easily skip over them. (In other words I know I have more dad jokes around here and I intend to periodically post them.)

Hi Cleo,

I am glad you are feeling better. It’s nice to see you again.

LuvH8 - I would just as soon only know about eating them also!

Good Afternoon, Tribe!

I see the penguins are still dancing.

Wild weather yesterday. Over in East Dakota and Minnesota, they had some 30+ tornadoes reach the ground. I was listening to the Public Radio news–but every five-ten minutes they broke in to tell about new tornado watches or warnings or even threats.

Today, we out in (safe) West Dakota just have high wind. Well, with a slight chance of thunderstorms through the next several days. But the winds are so high that the storms and clouds won’t stay long…

Good Afternoon Bmonk

I want a thunderstorm with lightening of course!! You all are always bragging about your thunderstorms. ) :

Sojourner, in December, I wish I didn’t know how to make cookies.

Hey! Has anyone seen Grog recently?

(Grabs cup and strolls over to the coffee pots.)

Good Afternoon bmonk - glad your out of the rain for now - just don’t get blown awaaaayyyyyy

LuvH8

Just don’t give any to the penquins!

‘round here, it’s not the thunder and lightning–that’s pretty much fun, unless the prairie is really dry–it’s the tornadoes and the hail and even the wind that they bring.

Now, when I see emoticons, I’ll be thinking about today’s Off the Mark

Opps, too late on the Nuclear Coffee. It already drank two penguins…

Cool! No Grog!

(runs over and fills cup and starts drinking)

Daaaaaaaaaa STRIP: botox will do that to you. I hear that several Hollywood celebs will never be able to smile or frown again…

If I got one of those rocket things, filled it with Nuclear Coffee and shot it into the clouds. Do you think I would get a thunderstorm with lightening?

@Sojourner, can you really take a morning shower at night? Isn’t it an evening shower then? Or do you have to stay in the spray for 6+ hours? ;-)

By the way, did the fish ever get fed–and not to the penguins?

You’d get something but wouldn’t want to be around to find out what.

bmonk Yes the fish got fed but LuvH8 got some of the food on me so I had to clean up that night instead of waiting until morning as I had planned!

We fed the fish some of Lonewolf’s Nuclear Chocolate Pie last night. Today it is someone else’s job to feed the fish.

So, you are saying I should aim the rocket at Kansas? Then I can wait and see what happens before I do it here?

LUVH8 If you fed the fish LONE-WOLF’S nuc chocolate pie last night, did they look like BLINKY (Simpson’s fish near the nuc power plant) this morning?. I want a 3 eyed stuffed animal to scare my cats.

NO!

Weve had enough rain here for now, my sump pump is still going off!!!

I need to take care of some business on my other computer.

≡ POOF! ≡ ☺P&L☺

Just glancing out the window: this morning was overcast and threatening rain, then about noon it cleared up, and since it’s gone back and forth. Currently overcast, with not a spot of blue visible, at least out my north-facing window.

Lewreader, Serenasakitty noticed that a couple of them were growing a second head from their stay in the Nuclear Coffee pot before we put them up there.

You live in New England, right? Do you currently have any clouds?

Bmonk, you have clouds!!!!

Okay, where do I find a rocket?

I second that NO!

We finally are looking at a few days of hot, sunny weather. Not that I need it hot, but I’d like it to stay dry for a while, so my son won’t have an excuse to not do outside work. Hopefully, we can get enough siding up before the next monsoon hits. I’m hoping re-siding will keep the water out of the basement. I put up one strip of siding by myself this morning, and with my son, we put up another strip of tar paper. I’m hoping my hubby & son get a lot accomplished tomorrow on the project. Our son works better with his dad, than with me.

Oh, well……… If it means that your son wouldn’t be able to work Rmom, of course I won’t aim it at Kansas. I would hate to disappoint him. I am sure he is looking forward to working outside with his dad.

Oh My Gosh!! Lewreader!!!

That was hilarious on FHS.

Luv - I wish he would be looking forward to it, but I’m not that delusional. LOL!

Rmom

Monkey 2 asked me if she got her sarcasm from me. I simply answered “No.” She seemed to think that meant ‘yes’.

If anyone has trouble feeling alive, getting the blood pumping again, try a Mach 6 barrel roll–although they must have slowed substantially already.

Let’s see: on Earth, orbital speed is 5 miles/second, or 300 miles/minute. Mach varies, but let’s say 600-720 mph, or 10-12 miles/minute. So orbital speed is roughly Mach 25 to 30. Mach 6 is already slowed to 1/4 or 1/5 orbital speed. Assuming the planet is close to Earth…

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡ HelloTRIBE!

I’m Baccckkkk!!!!!

Luv - LOL! I guess it would depend on the voice inflection. I think most sarcastic people have to be fairly witty, as it takes a certain timing and turn of phrase to make sarcasm “work”. I have to admit, I enjoy listening to our new pastor because he has a natural tendency to be sarcastic. He tells us that his wife has informed him that it isn’t a gift from God. But his sermons are much more enjoyable to listen to, than to someone without a lively sense of humor. I think sarcasm is okay, as long as it isn’t used in a way to hurt people. (Although those people with overinflated egos might be exceptions.)

bmonk - Too bad those aren’t readily available for free. My hubby claims my blood doesn’t circulate.

@LuvH8 & Rmom, that reminds me of the story of the math Prof who is teaching the class that two negatives make a positive, both in multiplication and in logic, but that there is no known case in which two positives make a negative.

To which one student remarked sarcastically, “Yeah, right!”

Sojo - Is that nickname okay with you? I’m glad you’re back. I need to get a little more work done before I stop for the day. Maybe you can keep Luv from aiming that rocket our way.

Almost any nickame is fine with me as long as I can reconize it refers to me.

Bmonk ~ I am afraid that would do more than get my blood pumping. I get motion sick in slow elevators. I don’t even want to imagine it!

I said I wouldn’t aim it at you! (I’m considering North Dakota)

Since it involves Doc’s Nuclear Coffee we could probably get the gov. to supply Kansa with an anti-missle device - of course the way the gov. is doing things that might take a few years.

Bmonk ~ Yeah, sure.

I have noticed Luv saying a lot of things that … maybe enough said :-)

Hello Sojourner!

(walks over and refills cup of Nuclear Coffee and adds a scoop of ice cream) (Loud Shrieks from Ice Cream)

Oh, that is good. Okay! Okay! I don’t have a rocket anyway.

(grumble, grumble) No one ever wants me to have any fun!

i’m making some JAMAICAN ME CRAZY coffee now, if that was mixed with some of Doc’s that might be really good! (it’s a local blend - I forgot all the flavors in it but it includes coconut)

Wait!!!!!

WE DO NOT MIX OTHER COFFEE WITH NUCLEAR COFFEE!!!!

It goes

Kaboooom!!! Fooosh!!! Crackle!Crackle!

Good afternoon/evening everyone!!

NOW I am done for the day!

Nasty, nasty lightening storms right now!

Severe thunderstorm warning is in effect until 7:30. Trees down everywhere!

Hello, LuvH8!

Hi, Wolfie!

Luv - Maybe you need to go visit ♠Lonewolf♠ & wolfangil?

LuvH8 and you say nobody want’s to have fun …

Hello ♠Lonewolf♠ - Must be good to be done for the day, does that go being done for the weekend also?

Hi, RMOM!!!

Ooooh! Do you think the storm will last that long?

Hey, I just got Penguined! :-(

I was gonna say:

@LuvH8, remember that Nekoma, E Dakota, was the only site in America that was protected, for at least a few months, by an active Anti-ballistic Missile Base–see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeguard_Program

@LuvH8, LOL! Here I thought that adding coffee to Nuclear Coffee just diluted it…

Hello, Sojourner! I have a car that MAY be dropped of for me to diagnose, but yes I am pretty much done for this weekend(Father’s Day Weekend).

Hello Mr Bmonk!

Where is Grog at? I haven’t checked the previous posts yet. I was thinking of you, Grog. I’m eating Pepper Jack Cheez-its and sipping on a Pepsi!

Fine! Bmonk do you have any suggestions where to send the rocket?

Terry - Sounds like the weather is more exciting in your area than mine right now. That’s fine with me! I don’t know how long I’ll be able to hang around. My hubby is supposed to come home sometime this evening, and we’ll go out to eat. However, he’s got to go to Wichita on his way home - he estimated ETA at 7-7:30, but based on past history, I’m not going to hold my breath. At least he’s pretty good about calling me.

I’ve got lawn furniture all over my yard and some of it is not mine! I hope the big tree holds up as I don’t want the branch over the roof to break. It’s right above my skylights.

Rmom, I don’t really mind the bad rainy weather at all. I actually marvel at Mother Nature when she’s so furious.

What type food are you looking to go for this evening?

bmonk - There are several silo sites around here, because with Boeing & McConnell AFB, Wichita was considered a prime target.

I need to check out the toon strips and see what fun the stuffy shirt posters are having. BRB

♠Lonewolf♠ - Sounds like your house may become like the BT is now!

Heheh! Maybe Sojourner.

And I can’t blame LuvH8 either!

Ummmm………..

Sojourner, now that I think about it that was Johanan’s CocoMocha and ice cream that I mixed with the Nuclear Coffee.

It would possibly be okay to mix Jamacian Me Crazy coffee with Nuclear Coffee. Right?

Hi, ♠Lonewolf♠! How’s the weekend treating you?

Terry - We go to the same Mexican restaurant every Friday & Saturday evening, unless we’ve got to be some place else. Family owned, and they know us there…

Hmmm–where to send that rocket? Why not Florida? They don’t need any more grief, and they get lots of Thunderstorms every year…

Must go…

And get crazy Nuclear Coffee?

Bamf!

Thats right Rmom when I was with Civil Defense/Civil Preparedness I knew that Russia had at least 3 nucks aimed here.

Maybe Grog is taking a nap. He did wake up before 4am this morning, and he stayed up late (I saw him at BB, the sneak).

Sojo - My parents met at Boeing during WW2 (Dad retired from there in the 70’s), and my hubby worked there for almost 20 years, so it was pretty common knowledge in our family.

LuvH8 Of course it’s possible! There’s only one way to find out what would happen. I’ll give some of my coffee if you want to try it - my place is already to messed up and I doubt that anything else would be noticeble at the BT.

Bye Bmonk

Did he mean: Yes send the rocket to Florida or No, don’t send the rocket to Florida?

The weekend will be fine I’m sure. I take most things with a grain of salt anyhow. :^)

I have pool league and of course Sunday is Father’s Day, so it’ll be great!

Florida is fine with me as long as it isn’t Kansas!

Gee Sojourner,

I thought you would mix them and I would ….. watch from over there behind the couch.

♠Lonewolf♠ - Sounds like you’r set to l have a great weekend then.

When is your pool league Lonewolf?

The couch and rug is already ruined! Mixing it there only seems like the thing to do.

My in-laws are near Orlando, I’m sure they could use more excitement in that retirement community - as long as it can’t be pinned on me!

But Sojourner! Where will I take cover then?? …….. ooops! I mean, are you sure you want to do it there?

Saturday afternoons, LuvH8.

Here LuvH8 is some my coffee - what you do with it is up to you. (I guess today Kansas is not up to being a guine pig for anyhing)

WARNING ~ Mother-In-Law Joke Ahead!

relocated

EMET - If you haven’t learned to put address on the ball how will they know where to mail it?

Goooooooooood Evening, EMET.

Postage paid? Then it would be par for the course!

A

But! but……. but! Ummm…….. hmmm.

Lonewolf, do you remember where we put the safety goggles?

Sojourner, I am not doing this all alone. You get to help.

Anybody else want to help? Oh, and does anyone have a spare rocket hanging around?

Luv - LOL! I’ve posted a picture of our late dog on my PB, so you can put it up here. He wasn’t a St. Bernard, but as big as one.

LuvH8 I saw my cousins fire some rockets once, it didn’t look too hard. Let me get one from them.

Luv - I’ve been wondering what shooting a bottle rocket through the 4” PVC pipe where I think that copperhead is hiding would do. Might be kinda fun, but I wouldn’t want to be too close to the other end of the pipe.

What safety goggles??? We have safety goggles??? Have we ever used them???

Come to think of it, I once watched a guy shooting a potato gun when I was at a gun show. The potatoes went several hundred yards. With Doc’s Coffee it could probable shoot something to Florida.

I’ve got some safety goggles - hope you don’t mind if they have some scratches. Here - wear my earmuffs I use when target shooting. Wouldn’t want you to lose your hearing!

I just got a call from the pool league operator. We have a “bye” tomorrow because one team can’t make it. They don’t have enough players. I’ve got all day tomorrow to laze around if I want. Too bad I am always go go go! I’ll find several things to do, I’m sure! LOL

What, Rmom? :^)

Okay Rmom what kind of dog is that?

Terry - LOL! My hubby has been hard-of-hearing since before I met him. I tell my kids that at least one of their parents needs to be able to hear.

Luv - Great Pyranees, Chow & Shepherd.

Lonewolf ~ we have safety goggles, I used them when………… Oh! …………. ummm….. never mind we don’t have safety goggles.

Rmom thank you very much! Do you have a pair for Sojo?

Here, Sojo - We’ve got several pairs laying around here. Anyone else?

Potato gun? Huh! would we fill a potato with Nuclear Coffee? Or an unobtamium (is that right?) water balloon?

What?

Can you all speak up a tad bit?

Can you hear me, now?

Can you hear me now?

Can you hear you hear me now?

How about now?!?!?!

WARNING ~ Mother-In-Law Joke Ahead!

Rmom took her Great Pyranees, Chow & Shepherd mix to the vet. “Doctor,” she said sadly, “I’m afraid I’m going to have to ask you to cut off my dog’s tail.”

The vet stepped back, “Rmom, why should I do such a terrible thing?”

“Because my mother-in-law’s arriving tomorrow, and I don’t want anything to make her think she’s welcome.”      

No wonder my hubby thinks I’m mad at him much of the time - yelling at someone gives that impression. What I want to know is how can I yell loud enough for him to hear me, without sounding mad?

Ah, much better, LuvH8.

Cute, cute picture!!!

It’s saved!! Cool.

Good job, Luv!

Boy, I miss that dog…

Dinner time!! BBL

Okay where is Sojo? Should we pour the Jamacian Me Crazy Coffee in first or the Nuclear Coffee in first? Do we still have whipped cream? That would be good on top.

Warning: Deaf jokes ahead

An old man was wondering if his wife had a hearing problem. So one night, he stood behind her while she was sitting in her lounge chair. He spoke softly to her, “Honey, can you hear me?” There was no response.

He moved a little closer and said again, “Honey, can you hear me?” Still, there was no response.

Finally he moved right behind her and said, “Honey, can you hear me?” She replied, “For the third time, Yes!”

And two bonus:

Two deaf men are signing to each other. The first man asks, “What did your wife say when you got home late last night? The second man replies, “She swore a blue streak” And the first man asks, “What did you do then?” And the second man replies, “I turned out the light.”

A Mafia gang takes on a deaf man to run their deliveries, feeling it would be safer having someone unable to overhear conversations. However, one day when he is to deliver a large sum of money, he never shows up with it. The mobsters track him down, but don’t find the money on him. As none of them are able to use sign language, they bring in an interpreter.

Mobster: “Where’d you hide the money?” (Interpreter signs the question.)

The bag man signs his reply. The interpreter says, “He says he had to ditch it in the river because the cops were onto him.”

Mobster: “I’m not fooling around! You better tell me where that money is!” (Interpreter again signs.)

The bag man signs his reply, and the interpreter relays, “He swears he is telling the truth. He had to get rid of it.”

The mobster pulls out a revolver and points it between the deaf man’s eyes. “Tell me where that money is, or I’ll kill you right now!” (Interpreter signs his statement.)

The bag man, sweating profusely, signs, “It’s inside a shoebox under a loose floorboard in my bedroom closet.”

The interpreter says, “He says he doesn’t know where it is and he doesn’t think you have the guts to pull the trigger.”

Q: How do you sell a deaf guy a duck?

Hi Bmonk!

He’s

BA-ACK!

Hi, LuvH8

I’m at a loss, how do you sell a deaf guy a duck?

I spent all day arranging to pick up the metal sculpture I bought a few weeks ago and preparing a spot for it in our yard. Tomorrow morning I meet the fellows that are going to help me move it. So I have to be in town at 8:30AM. It has been a beautiful day and hopefully tomorrow will be the same.

A:

WANNA BUY A DUCK?

Hubby’s here - BBL

TheSojourner!!!

Well, I am not making this until he gets back to do the dangerous stuff………. um help.

Hello Cleo! Glad you are doing better, but be careful with that statue.

Bye Rmom

Bmonk ~ groans

I know, they are bad…

LuvH8, I know, that is why I have enlisted two young guys to do most of the heavy lifting.

I’M BACK!!! My power flickered off less than a second but long enough to shut off my laptop. I’ts so old it’s taken me 25 mim. to get going again. Now to catch up… I was making a comment on putting coffee into a water balloon, I’ll get back to that in a moment.

Cleo ~ don’t forget we want pictures of the statue and maybe the young guys?

Well, I’ll get the mugs while Sojo catches up. Cleo & Bmonk do you want a cup of Nuclear Jamacian Me Crazy Coffee?

LuvH8 All you have to do is dump both coffees into a cup at the same time, whatever happens will happen!

Well………. what do you mean me? I’ll pour in the Nuclear Coffee then you can add the Jamacian Me Crazy Coffee.

(Sets out cups and fills each halfway with Nuclear Coffee)

Okay, your turn Sojo

(backs off to a hopefully safe distance)

As far as shooting Doc’s Coffee to Florida the potato gun is almost finished. I’ll need a LARGE balloon to put a SMALL amount of coffee in, otherwise the sudden aceleration will break the balloon. (I learned that shooting water balloons out of a dorm window at KU, but that’s another story)

In Chemistry class, we learned that you always pour the acid into the water, never water into the acid. Maybe you have to pour Nuclear Coffee into whatever other solids or liquids you want to add to it…

Bamf!

Bmonk you couldn’t have said that before I put in the Nuclear Coffee?

If I add the rest of the coffee I’ll need better protective equipment, close my eyes while doing it, and you can tell me what happens. Once at work a fellow worker had to replace a laser inside of a scanner. He wore a special helment and arm length special gloves as the laser could explode. Just as he reached in to get it I poped a paper bag. I didn’t know a person standing straight up could jump that high! LOL

Oh, sure disappear!!!!!

okay, I have the protective gear on. LuvH8 if your done with your part my ready, but you’ll have to tell me what happens as Ill have my eyes closed.

Well do you have a helmut and unobtanium suit?

Of course!

Have you done your half LuvH8?

Yeah! The Nuclear Coffee is already in the cups.

Okay, here goes! ( pours other coffee into cups with eyes closed messing half on them spilling some on table but hitting 3 of the cups - turns and runs - after bumping into several things opens eyes to see the escape route. Waiting to hear what happened )

Wow! Pretty!!!

 

Okay, I’ll look. It is pretty!

Ummmm……… do you want to try it first?

Why not offer it to someone that comes to the BT and doesn’t know about it? It would be like a science experiment in school, we could both get to watch what happens.

Too bad we can’t make hdsgj aka the spammer try it.

If you guys weren’t so yappy, I would have shown up sooner.

♠Lonewolf♠ I like the Vermont Cheddar Cheez-its. Have not seen the pepper Jack Cheez-its.

I’m now sucking on a Killer Fosters.

Sounds good to me. I like doing that.

Hello Grog, would you also like to have some coffee with that? LuvH8 was some I think.

Mendasock! Mendasock!

Hello Grog! How are you this evening?

Sorry

Tired, but still here.

No coffee for me Sojourner. I only have coffee the week of St. Patrick’s day - and it’s Irish.

Hi, LuvH8, ♠Lonewolf♠, Sojourner, Rmom, bmonk and anyone else who may be “lurching” about!

I miss Ladywolf.

The spammers are back.

Grog - What kind of music do you prefer?

. I miss her too.

(picks up cup off of the table and starts drinking)

Mmmm……. pretty good. Cinnamon! It would be perfect with cinnamon!

Sojourner, I like rock….anything from the 50’s to the 90’s mostly…from AC/DC to ZZ Top. But I like R&B, Blues, & even The Big Band era, but no acid rock, punk rock, rap or any other such crap.

Here - I have some you can use. I have plenty as I use it every day.

Are there any holes in the table?

Thank you Sojo!

(adds cinnamon, and tries again)

Yup! Perfect!

Nah! The table is fine. Doc had it covered in unobtanium (or whatever that stuf is) a year ago.

That sounds like what I like and dislike. I also like jazz, including some wierd jazz, I also like some New Age ( I call it that because some is hard to define ), music from other countries but mostly classical ( mostly piano ).

(walks over to the couch, sits down and casually covers the new hole)

Sojourner, I forgot jazz.

Also forgot other dislikes, such as grunge and disco.

Now I feel like I’m talking to my imaginary dog. “What did you do? What did you do, LuvH8?”

Grog ~ “Tired. But still here.” You aren’t still at work?!?

No, I’m at home. But I didn’t leave as early as I had hoped I would, LuvH8

You didn’t visit B.C. today!

I did visit B.C. today!!!!

What do you mean? What did I do?  

Oh, I was hoping you got home early and decided to take a nap.

Grog, do you want to help us launch our balloon?

You just posted there you little Devil!

Balloon? I’m not sure I can stay awake long enough for the launch.

I have the potato gun finished - ready to use the coffee fillied balloon instead of the potato.

Okay then, we just need someone to know which direction Florida is in. Anybody?

Did you have a good sleep when you finally signed off, LuvH8

I slept for about 4 1/2 hours. I am pretty sure I only woke up about 5 times? I usually only wake up for a minute or 3. (just long enough to screw up my deep sleep)

Ummm…east-south east, *LuvH8. From where you are that is.

You got to stay away from the nuclear coffee.

Maybe you should have a Brandy before you go to bed.

Because of the sleep? or the ‘incidents’?

Cool who wants to shoot the launcher?

We can set it up so one end is on top of the BT and the other end on the ground. for the combustion chamber I put two 8 foot sections of 8 inch PVC together for a 16 foot length. The firing end necks down to 2 inch PVC. Once the balloon is put into the 2 inch top I’ll fill the container with about 3 cans of hair spray. When LuvH8 has it aimed towared Florida I’ll ignight it!