Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for June 14, 2014

And spuriously meticulous!

And exceedingly exasperating….

And frustratingly fastidious…..

His suit looks odd.

Say it. Don’t spray it.

And petulantly perfectionistic.

I doubt it. He can’t even dress properly.

I don’t see that as an insult!

The world could use some more people like Arthur.

What an incredible story, ANNETTE.

Why doesn’t the reply button work here? Not even on my laptop.

‘You are also unfathomably unfashionable’, she spat

And that’s only his Saturday suit.

@ANNETTEI have read the story of the Stanford’s before, but was pleased to be reminded of it again. I wonder if they were testing Harvard? No matter. Harvard lost the most basic test of human decency and compassion through the haughty pride of it’s President.

@HAPPYWhen was that machine invented?

Hi all…just checking in…

I’ll be back in a while for the night shift….

Meanwhile…. if you happen to check in so late….they can be cute tales but please remember…. most stories you get in your e-mail are just that!

Sorry, but Alexander Fleming never rescued Winston Churchill, nor was he sent to school by his father, Randolph.Churchill WAS cured of pneumonia…. by a German drug.

England was at war with Germany…. so someone invented an inspiring but fake substitute tale.

The one about the Stanfords is even more glaring: Leland Stanford was a HUGE figure in California history…

a railroad tycoon variously known as a “robber baron” or a “captain of industry”, quite well dressed, as he’d already been governor of California and a senator long before endowing Stanford University…which WAS a memorial to his son, but the boy had died in his teens.

Sites like Snopes.com and urbanlegends.about.com have researched almost all of the ones that show up repeatedly…and believe me, they DO come back around!It seems OK if they’re just cute or inspiring little tales …but vicious rumors, attacks and lies sometimes also show up in the same type of e-mails…caution and research never hurt.

And thank YOU 2Old…. cos sometimes after I post or e-mail something like that (which I do) I worry that I’ve hurt someone’s feelings…I’ve been made to feel like a real party-pooper…

But as you know…it’s NOTHING personal…we’ve all believed something untrue because a friend sent something, in good faith, that seemed real….

The heartstrings manipulation is bad enough….Then you find out that Craig Shergold (I think) went on TV as an adult to BEG people to stop sending him post cards … they thought he was a 10-year-old dying of cancer… the e-mail wouldn’t stop…20 years, huge bags and bags of mail every day…

A story about Afghan women with a post office box at a university ground that college e-mail system to a halt …

And Tommy Hilfiger’s business was badly hurt by fake stories about his supposed racism…. just as Proctor and Gamble was hurt years earlier by accusations of satanism… just because their logo contained a moon and stars.

Mass e-mail can be a dangerous weapon!

Annette… I sure hope that was meant to be a friendly frog….cos he doesn’t look like one you wanna cross in a dark alley!

LOL…

If you’re coming in to the Tiki, would you like a banana daiquiri?I’m buying!

You too, 2Old…. if you’re still up.

Exactly!

Oh, no… Soda contains quinine sulphate, and having had to take quinine tablets for three years when I lived in Malaya, I will never ingest that chemical again.

Water (tap) will do nicely.

A brandy Alexadner would go down really nicelyabout now.

There is a nasty rumor/lie that makes the circuit of Facebook saying that Starbucks reuses to send coffee to our troops in the Middle East because they don’t believe in the war there.It comes around every six months to a year.Totally false.Starbucks supports American Servicemen everywhere.http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/starbucks.asp

How about if I go over to the Tiki (it’s not time for my shift, but what the neck) and make a big batch of Mudslides?

Kahlua, Bailey’s, vodka, and cream, blended with ice….or I can invent a version with brandy instead of vodka …sounds better, actually, so somebody probably already did it.

Will that do?

I’ll do a non alcoholic one too, with coffee syrup instead of the liquor.

@beviekI never met a cookie I didn’t like…

Mudslide cookies and coffee.

Mudslide pie.

One of Spielberg’s less known works:

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Good morning Balladeers and Tigressy!