Big Top by Rob Harrell for July 19, 2011

Good evening, Tribe………..

Just popping in to say Hi to all of you………….our last night here in San Diego after a very neat wedding week end! I can’t even begin to tell you how great everything was………………and……………………how EXHAUSTED I am after 5 days of parties and events!!!!!! Woo Hoo…….

We won’t get home until Friday afternoon, and then It will probably be another few days before I unwind and get back to normal!

And, you look down on everybody else…so you must be a Parisian French poodle. Or a cat in disguise.BREAKFAST IS SERVED, TRIBELINGS! :)BIG TOP ALTERNATE BREAKFAST LISTCourtesy of Hilo & Audrey’s Restaurant, Earthlight Gardens, SeleneYour chef: Alain HarperA LA CARTEHilo’s You-Build-‘Em OmeletsHilo’s You-Build-‘Em Grilled SandwichesHilo’s Huevos RancherosChicken – any styleEggs – any styleBreakfast steakAll-beef breakfast linksTurkey just about anythingA wide list of organic cerealsHash browns (with sea salt and Tabasco sauce on request)Bagels (every kind Einstein Bros. offers)Kraft Philadelphia Cream CheeseEinsten Bros. Schmears (all varieties)Nova Scotia lox (with or without bagels, no limit)BREAKFAST BEVERAGESMilk (whole, lowfat, nonfat, cow, goat, coconut, almond, rice, soy)Lifeway Kefir (all varieties)V-8 (because you could’ve had one)Orange Juice (fresh-squeezed just like Mishkenot Sha’ananim in Jerusalem makes it)A wide variety of Ocean Spray and Langers fruit juices (see list)Odwalla Superfood and other beveragesCOFFEE, COCOA AND TEAWe use only Godiva Belgian Chocolate in our cocoa-based productsWe use only Mount Hagen Organic Coffee (leaving aside Doctor Toon’s secret recipe)We proudly serve Celestial Seasonings herbal teas and the best caffeinated green and black teas availableTea (see list)Hot chocolate (any style)Coffee (any style)Alain Harper’s Divine CocoMocha (made fresh with either So Delicious Coconut Milk or Blue Diamond Almond Breeze – as a float with Godiva Belgian Chocolate ice cream, $1.50 extra)Hilo Whitemoon’s Radically Best Coffee (you won’t believe such a thing could ever grow on a plant)Doctor Toon’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee (unobtanium collector’s mug, $2.50 extra)Alain Harper’s China Syndrome Special (DTWFNC and AHDCM half-and-half in a mandatory unobtanium collector’s mug – whipped cream and cherry topping optional)Bmonk’s Heavenly Mint Mocha (as a float with Hilo’s Mint Chocolate Chip Gelato, $1.50 extra)

DTWFNC IS NOW AVAILABLE IN SIX FLAVORS: UP, DOWN, CHARM, STRANGE, TOP, AND BOTTOM (thanks to COYOTY, a regular customer)ICE CREAMYou name it, we probably got it (including Godiva, Häagen-Dazs, and especially a wide variety of gelato flavors made fresh and in-house)AUDREY SWIFTER’S PI PIESWe have an enormous selection (see menu); the house specialty is pumpkin pie

Raga Fraga Rica Raca! Stupid computer has been down a week (not my fault of course). I slaved over 40 hours pretending to be a geek, then finally called someone. After about 3 calls and three hours of relearning my high school Punjab,Finally got a real person with the most beautiful Indian accent who understood my problem. Now I only have to crawl with a flashlight to rewire the rooter between the modem and computer.I have 3 fire extinguishers around the desk.Did you know the bank is not forgiving of making a $500 payment on A $15 bill when it is one day late? They speak of credit record notification, increased interest, and a hefty fine. I joined this bank because “they understand”Maybe they’ll understand when I take a kitchen knife to my mattress and make a deposit.Sorry TRIBE. I’m just ranting because I haven’t had my DTWFNC yet. ALAIN Could you rectify this problem before I do something really stupid, like tell HER what SHR really looks like at 6 AM?At least the Sox won. Damned Bums from Bronx did too.Raga Fraga Rica Raca!

Good Morning, Montana Lady, Alain & Lewreader.

Well that does explain it doesn’t it?

Sojo, from last night some of my favorite movies from my year of birth are: The Alamo, Inherrit the Wind, Let’s Make Love, The Magnificent 7, Psycho, Sink The Bismark & The Time Machine.

With dogs, it’s called rutting, not loving, even if they are French.

Good morning, runar & Doctor Toon

Good Morning, Tribe

Good Morning, Montana Lady, Alain, Lew, Grog, Doc & Runar

Morning All

G’Morning, DFrog

Good morning, Lonewolf & Digital Frog

It’s miserable out there, but I need to get a car repaired. Better get to it while it’s early. Catch y’all a tad bit later.P&L

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡♪ Good Morning TRIBE! ♪

Hello to all those here!

I’ll have BBQ chicken and DWFNC, thanks Alain.

Good late morning all.

For Ladyhawk –

I don’t know how the airline policies are now but this happened at one airline years ago. A flight attendent could fly for free by helping out on a flight for free if they could use it. A man had a uniform and name bage, would show up at a plane ready to take off and ask if they could use his help. He got free flights all over the world that way for three years. He had gotten the uniform and name badge when he was in traing to be a flight attendent but only made it half way through school. How did he get caught? By being too good at his job. He was so helpful and courtious that the head office keep getting letters from passengers complimenting him. Checking their records they couldn’t find that he was one of their employees. After alerting everyone to be one the lookout for him he was caught. I don’t remember all that happened to him but one thing was an end to his free flights.

Good Morning ♥Kab♥!

Good morning Kab & Sojo

We’re finally getting an area-wide soak here. It’s about time.

Good Morning Grog!

Good morning, Grog and Sojo!.A fog when it’s 75°+ out is a very disconcerting thing!We only have a slight chance of thunderstorms, but it should cool off sometime tonight. We all desperately hope the gov forecasters know what they are doing.

Good Morning bmonk!

Good morning, bmonk.

You know cloudy, with sprinkles and 57° with an expected high of 73° would seem like lousy summer weather except…..

Na Na Naaa Naa Na!!!

My grass is greener. Good Morning Peoples!

Good Morning LuvH8!

Things to do – BBLPoof!

Good Morning, LuvH8, Bmonk & ♥Kab♥!

….Morning Tribe!

Still gotta finish the toon tour, so I’ll be back a bit later.

Only 11;30 CST and I got one car finished. The other is awaiting the approval of the customer. I think my day is done, work wise! WooHoo!!!

Good Morning, Ladyhawk!

Seems we always miss each other here at the BT!

Hey there, Night-Gaunt49

Hi, LuvH8 and Ladyhawk!I think 73 could have been our low last night.

Hi, ♠Lonewolf♠ and Night-Gaunt49!

A very fitting avatar, Bmonk!

Hello, LuvH8 & Ladyhawk*

Hi Grog

Hi Sojo, Lonewolf, Ladyhawk, Night-Gaunt49, Bmonk, Grog & Kab Sister I have to be careful though, not everyone is happy that the temperatures haven’t been getting up to 80°. If they find out I like it……..

We’ll keep your secret LuvH8. I would like it too, it just isn’t happening here.

I never mind that the temps don’t get into (or especially above) 80°.When it does, I offer it up, and get ready for corn-on-the-cob season.

I wish the temps here weren’t getting up to 80! Hrmph!

What happened to your avatar, Bmonk?

It seems to take a few hours to get to all the servers these days. By this afternoon, maybe, it’ll be the heat exhaustion one.

Once when I loaded a comment, and could still see a prior comment, the page ended up with one of each visible. . . .

I’ve seen it go to the heat exhaustion one and bag to the pig and now it’s the heat exhaustion one! I’m exhausted!!!

Me too! It’s hard switching back and forth like that!

I sill say it’s just bmonk having an identity crisis. LOL

P O P !

Okay! I am both yellow and purple on this page…. But Bmonk is only exhausted.

Luv – I would imagne it’s easier for the Grim Reaper to present herself in any manner she chooses, and to switch between them at will. Is that not accurate?

Hey there, Sojo.

Sojo – - How is your day going?

Well…… I am *special*_. Now, he’s a pig again (_giggles). Does anyone know if you can mail squished birthday cake in the regular mail?

Depends on how you box it and ship it. I would recommend a cooler or some such in a box with overnight shipping. You will need to declare that it is food I believe, but I’m not positive on that part.

Hi ♠Lonewolf♠ and Ladyhawk!

My day is going fine. Just got back from a couple of errands and lunch.

Dearest Ladyhawk and ♠Lonewolf♠,my identity is just fine, thank you. All my inner voices agree on that! And even the fellows watching me (you know, who drive those black Suburbans) don’t think I’m psycho.

Just keep telling yourself that bmonk. LOL

We do tell ourselves that.

You’d be surprised what you can mail. My wife is a postie and they get boxes of live bees and baby chicks coming through, all legitimately mailed.

Bmonk, what do the two people in the white flower delivery van that follows you say? Well…. I was thinking, stick the birthday cake in a sandwich bag, squish it flat. Stick it in a card and envelope, slap a stamp on it and drop it in the mail. I wasn’t really concerned about what it looked like when it arrived, I’m just not sure you are allowed to do that.

Hi DFrog!

I haven’t noticed the white delivery van. Not recently anyway. Maybe they painted it yellow last week? LOL!

I can’t see why you couldn’t send the cake that way.

Hmmm……. well, they have the people dress to blend in now days, instead of those clean white coats. Ha Ha!

I was thinking of getting it there edible. I don’t see why you couldn’t send it your way.

Ladyhawk,Are you saying the cake might not be edible after that

Be very very quiet.

Yes it is.

Hi, LuvH8 & Sojo

Hi Doctor Toon. Are you sure you’re ready?

Hi Grog!Have a good night Doc.

Well, time to call it a night.

Gunite, Tribeandall

Good Night Grog.