Shoot, I have scars to show you don’t die form childhood stunts. At least I wasn’t a fatality. Of course I never tried to do what the kid in the movie, “The Boy Who Could Fly”, did. I was 44 when I did my last skateboard ride, but we won’t talk about that one…………………..
Hi Jason, Dry, JFri, Barb, Ottod, Bjorn and all Meggsie’s dinkum mates.
Looks like Ginger is about to meet his doom. But maybe not; like you Yukoneric, I have scars to prove I’m still alive. A diagonal line across my right thumb is one from where the steel wheel of my billycart ran over it while I was sitting in it and pushing on the footpath to get motion underway.
Taught me one thing: when writing things with my left hand in my exercise book at school for the next few weeks I found I was ambidextrous . Believe it or not, I could read my writing without any problem but the teacher had to hold it up to a mirror.
From that time forward it has been my private joke that if I disapproved of any waffle-on at a formal dinner, such as (blush) Rotary, I would swap my knife and fork. Nobody ever noticed but at least I could chuckle to myself through otherwise dreary functions.
Oh yes, forgot to mention. Where I was an apprentice it was the custom to play a joke on workmates by drilling a miniscule hole through the lip of a workmate’s enamel tea mug. At morning tea the unsuspecting victim would dribble tea all over himself but could not work out why.
I never got caught and none of my workmates ever noticed I held the mug in my left hand.
COWBOY7 about 14 years ago
You’ll get it one of these days, Ginger!!
Good Morning and G’Day to Joe & ALL the Meggsie fans!
Dry and Dusty Premium Member about 14 years ago
Ginger had it a long time ago! G’day Jason, JFri, usfellers, ottod, and Joe! And all Meggsie fans far and wide!
And NO, I wouldn’t WANT to pick my friends nose!! LOL!! Thank you very much!
ladywolf17 about 14 years ago
That’s real encouraging.
I miss you Joe.
The Duke 1 about 14 years ago
Morning, Dry, usfellers & Joe! “Time of death” sounds soooo ominous!
ottod Premium Member about 14 years ago
If I could pick my nose, I’d get one that worked better and was far more distinguished looking.
Fingers crossed, Joe.
Nighthawks Premium Member about 14 years ago
you can pick your nose and you can pick your friends but you can’t eat your friends
Yukoneric about 14 years ago
Shoot, I have scars to show you don’t die form childhood stunts. At least I wasn’t a fatality. Of course I never tried to do what the kid in the movie, “The Boy Who Could Fly”, did. I was 44 when I did my last skateboard ride, but we won’t talk about that one…………………..
usfellers about 14 years ago
Hi Jason, Dry, JFri, Barb, Ottod, Bjorn and all Meggsie’s dinkum mates.
Looks like Ginger is about to meet his doom. But maybe not; like you Yukoneric, I have scars to prove I’m still alive. A diagonal line across my right thumb is one from where the steel wheel of my billycart ran over it while I was sitting in it and pushing on the footpath to get motion underway.
Taught me one thing: when writing things with my left hand in my exercise book at school for the next few weeks I found I was ambidextrous . Believe it or not, I could read my writing without any problem but the teacher had to hold it up to a mirror.
From that time forward it has been my private joke that if I disapproved of any waffle-on at a formal dinner, such as (blush) Rotary, I would swap my knife and fork. Nobody ever noticed but at least I could chuckle to myself through otherwise dreary functions.
usfellers about 14 years ago
Oh yes, forgot to mention. Where I was an apprentice it was the custom to play a joke on workmates by drilling a miniscule hole through the lip of a workmate’s enamel tea mug. At morning tea the unsuspecting victim would dribble tea all over himself but could not work out why.
I never got caught and none of my workmates ever noticed I held the mug in my left hand.
CRL29P about 14 years ago
Re side-note; Carlin lives. The type of afterlife he could believe in.