Big Top by Rob Harrell for May 19, 2009

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so he walks in there like he owns the place. funny. so i think i left the rest behind me some whears. who knows.

Morning all!!! Marg i will miss you this week/ few days.

First you are tabbylynn. I’ve been having a hankering for a smoked salmon frittata so I will make that for the group today. Maybe I’ll do some hashbrowns to go with it.

Good going, TabbyLynn. I see you’re first tonight.

He doesn’t need a booster seat because Paris will hold him in her lap like she does with all her other little dogs.

I have ham or sausage Kolaches with cheese. those with the green patch have a slice of jalapeno inserted.

Be vewy, vewy caywful. Hahahaha…

Goodnight.

Hey Rad sorry i had to beat you hear tonight. i was hitting current every min waiting for it to change. lol

Cleo so ture. she will hold him in her lap, but he is not like her other dogs he talks. lol

Oh ho! I see how it is Tabby, cheatin’ eh? LOL

Jdoc as a matter of fact i was. lol heck i have to go to work tomorrow and wont get to post at lot (make that today being it is 12:31 and i have to get up at 6:30) so the lest i could do was get here first. lol

ceral and pancakes and eggs and poptarts for alll!!!!

Not leaving yourself much time for sleep are you? Thanks for the cereal, but I am fresh out of milk. :(

No, no tabbylynn. It’s her tiny little lap dogs that spread all the rumors about Paris.

well here is the milk..

okay guys i must be going. im going to be dead tired at work tomorrow and my dad/boss will kill me if i am. so i must say fair well and goodnigh. peace and love

GOODNIGHT GRACIE!

Thanks Tabby, and good night to you and Rad. Well, it looks to be just you and me Cleo.

Hey commicaddict, I see you worked your way into todays The Other Coast.

AHEM!! Ecuuuuuuuuse me, jdoc?

JDoc, I will be around for a little longer. I am still working my way around toon land.

JFri, welcome to our little lonely group.

Ooops, my bad, how could I forget you JFri?

At any rate, now I must be off to bed too. Good night Cleo and JFri and anyone else who might still be up.

Nite, jdoc

cleo wow, you’re right….commic DID show up at The Other Coast!

Goodnight Jdoc. Yep JFri, our tribe is getting so famous, they’ve started incorporating us into the strips now.

Well JFri, it is time for me to toddle off to bed myself. Perhaps doctortoon will be by shortly to keep you company. Take care, I will see you in a few.

Sleep well, cleo!

Good morning and Happy Tuesday!!

The poor Maitre’D. I don’t think he wants to get on Dusty’s bad side.

I sense that the contest sponsor may be regretting their choice of winner soon.

Mornin’ all! Dry & RRAmom Sorry for the mix up on the creative accounting last nite. I really shouldn’t try to talk when I’m half asleep.

hey doc honestly you just get and you got to bed! LOL

dusty is a hoot, especially in the first panel!!

commic where’d you steal that chest from? The Barbary Coast?

No Tip? What was he going to tip him with? Dog bones? *Morning Big Toppers!” Cleo and JFri. I feel like I’m in the PNW. It’s rainy and windy here and it looks like it will be like that all week. I hope Joy borrows commic’s anchor to weigh her down when she goes on her morning walk!

Good Morning all. Well, it is official. I have been spending so much time here that you all are in my dreams and my dreams are very vivid. It all took on the form of a comic strip that was morphing into a soap opera like drama. I gradually started meeting you and and in true soap opera fashion, you were all good looking and there was much drama. And, like some of other epic dreams it went on all night. Oh by the way, doctortoon, you were living in a house that was an adobe structure with round earthtone walls. Must be the shaman influence.

There is a guy posting the same link on nearly every strip I read. I do believe the link may be referring to a certain tribe member. I do hate it when people try to use these comics to sell themselves or to advertise.

Good morning [afternoon, evening] everyone. Just thought I would drop in for a moment to see who is here. Thank you everyone for the warm welcome yesterday. Can someone tell me why this comic became the party strip?

I presume gocomics switch from one day to the next at midnight, but what time zone does it use? (I can’t seem to keep my eyes open until after midnight here.)

I have no idea how many strips I read each day [when I can stay awake long enough]. I just read my favorites and any others that strike my fancy at the time. In fact that was how I found this one.

I’m fairly new to the tribe, serenasakitty, but I’ve heard that BT got selected as the party location, because it wasn’t receiving very many comments. Also, Rob Harrell doesn’t mind if we party here.

I haven’t counted how many comic strips I read on a daily basis, either. I have my routine list that I try to get read everyday, and then if I have some extra time, check out others. I read most of mine here, but I there are four other sites where I read some strips that aren’t carried here.

Doctortoon, you said it was supposed to be warm where you are today. Please share some of that with me. It is nearing the end of May and it is chilly here [temp not too bad but with a strong cold wind]. It is snowing not too far from where I am, but fortunately not here. One day it is warm and the next day I have to turn up the heat.

dcguys the apology really needs to go to Dry because most people don’t like being mistaken for a “bean counter”. My husband & FIL complain about “bean counters” even though I’ve done accounting. But they’re engineers (and I know several other engineers) so I like this joke: What is the difference between engineers & accountants? Accountants realize they’re boring.

I live on the west coast and the new day’s strips begin at about 10:10PM.

I live in MI, and the new comics appear at… well, somewhere between 1:10 and 1:15AM. Not exactly sure when.

Thanks cleo - I live in the Central time zone, and from what I could tell by the posted times on messages, was guessing it might be in my time zone. Sounds like their clock runs a little slow. There is one poster is doesn’t come to BT that I’d like to ask a few questions of, but he usually posts in the wee hours of the morning, and very rarely later. Just wondered how late I’d have to stay up to leave a message for him that he’d see.

jdoc is MI in the eastern or central time zone?

Morning doctor! Did you have to work last night?

Morning all. Nice to see where everyone is from. I’m fom Vegas which is Pacific time. Wish we would get some rain. Haven’t had any since April 16th. Well off to the Dr. Take care all.

AAAARRRRRR, ye Tribe members! “tis a good likeness of meself on The Other Coast! Joy, me lassie! Looks like th’ weather ain’t gettin’ better soon where ye live. How ‘bout another swing through the Virgin Islands again tonight, me lovely?

RRAmom, it’s nice to see you. Doctortoon, I’ll gladly share. I thought I was going to have to scrape the frost off my windsheild this morning before I came home. I’m glad there is a place like this to meet and chat without all the depressing comments. This feels like a country wide [or world wide?] block party. I live in east central Alberta.

Morning Tribe! I’ll have some frittata and hash browns cleokaya, if you are still offering. I’ve brewed some fresh coffee if anyone is wanting some.

RRAmom: I’m in EasternStandard time Zone. So what time would I have to get up or stay awake to to be first, I mean, to join the party? It’s 11:15a.m. here. I’m off for the summer. I went back to school!

Our family traveled as far west as Vegas in May 2007 sugie63. The water level at Hoover Dam was way below the normal. Is west of the Continental Divide still in a drought? We’re actually getting a lot more rain than normal the last couple of years or so, in fact so much they are pumping water back into the aquafiers to save it for future years.

Morning, Tribe! Wow, so many happy-go-lucky party goers out there! Carmy I TOLD you I had NO CLUE where all that rain came from (innocent whistling, again)! Good thoughts to you today!

cleokaya–LOL about the dreams. I had some pretty strange dreams last night. I don’t remember the dreams, but I woke up singing the theme song to “The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show”. Anyone here remember this?:

{Ahem} Overture, dim the lights, This is it, Tonight’s the night! And oh what heights we’ll hit- On with the show, this is it!

sugie have you seen margueritem? She’s there in Las Vegas as we speak!

Shikamoo you would probably need to be up at 1:00am or a few minutes later. Edited: Oops! I just noticed you said “standard” not “daylight savings”. If I figure correctly (I’m being summoned right now by my son) Eastern standard is equivalent to Central daylight.

shika boy do I remember that song! That was when cartoons were really cartoons!

Well, I find I’m falling asleep at my computer so I’d better get some sleep. I don’t have to work tonight so I’ll try to make it back today. If not I’ll see everyone tomorrow. Or whenever.

It’s nice to see you, too, serenasakitty! I agree it is nice to have a place that everything said is all in fun.

RRAmom, MI is in the eastern time zone, well, most of it is, the part I am in is. So for you over in Kansas, the new comic strip I’d imagine would turn over at 12:10-12:15 area. Shikamoo I remember that. I used to watch that show all the time.

sugie I also have a high school buddy who lives in Las Vegas. I hadn’t seen or talked to him in 28 years when I came across his name & phone number in a very bizarre coincidence. I called him and before I could say 5 words he recognized me by my voice. We get together every time I go down there now. You don’t know anyone with the first name Marc (unusual spelling) do you?

JFri, Thanks for the good thoughts. I know you didn’t send the rain. I’m sending it over to Doc, he’s roasting in the 90”s over there. Our 10 day forecast shows rain everyday for the next 10 days.

Morning JFri–You’re right. Those were the days! I learned to love classical music Saturday mornings:

The Barber of Seville Wm Tell’s overture Beethoven’s fifth and opera on “Might Mouse”!(Although that was a little too much for me. Bugs is way more fun! The last time I tried to tune into Bugs Bunny, it was on a Buffallo station, and it was censored to take out the violence. Lasted about 2 seconds-LOL. What’s to watch when Elmer Fudd can’t use his gun? But today’s cartoons are full of violend, and much more realistic. what’s uup with that?, Or as Bugs would say, “Eh, What’s up Doc?”

johnnydoc since I didn’t know what part of MI you are in, I wasn’t sure which time zone. I know part of IN doesn’t do DST and all of AZ doesn’t. I’m pretty good with converting time zones (I’ve had to teach it in my math lessons) but I know that many states aren’t all in the same time zone. KS is mostly Central time, but a small section is in Mountain.

Someone bring Dusty a high-chair!

DoctorToon: No wonder you were tired and needed a nap!

RRAmom- You still up?

it’s easier for us on the west coast to be able to post when the next day’s strip first appears. I am always amazed when I see some of you east coast party animals making comments in your wee early hours.

Yeah Cleo, I am not sure that is going to happen too often in the future. I stayed up way too late last night. Shika, you forgot “What’s Opera Doc?” That one is a classic. RRAmom, yeah a lot of states apparently divide up which time zones they are in.

Goooood Carmy, you keep believing that I didn’t send you the rain…when I snap my fingers you will wake up feeling very refreshed! (guess the drought in FL is OVER????)

JFri, if you’re running low on your rain supply because of your generosity, I will be glad to send you some of ours to refill your barrels.

I’m still up. (I sleep at night, unlike some tribe members.) However, I’ll be off-line for a little while, because of some maintenance on our LAN. (The dangers of having both a husband and a son who are geeks.) Shikamoo I edited my previous post, because you said you were in Eastern standard (vs. daylight savings) zone. However, it appears that you’re also under daylight savings time, since you’re one hour ahead of me.

Good morning all!

Overcast and 41F here. At least it isn’t snowing like it was yesterday morning, but we may get a bit of rain.

NO THANKS, cleo! We’ve had a run of nice weather (Th-Mon) and then it rained last night like h-e-double hockey sticks but the roads were dry by this morning. Nice weather through Memorial Day predicted. Besides, I wouldn’t want to be responsible for your gills drying out!

JFri, sorry, what was I thinking? Thank you for the rain. I’m sure the drought is but a memory by now. I’ll BBL, heading to the evil place again, only 2 hours today. Hey, I suddenly feel very refreshed! ;)

Re: The Strip: A Tiny Tip?

carmy- Sending positive energy your way ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

RRAmom- I was never good at math! ;) I’m glad we’re in the same time zone. Looks like wwe have some others in the zone with us!

cleokaya- I likely won’t ever stay up that long. I need my beauty sleep!

“Don’t worry, be happy, now, don’t worry be happy, ooooh, ooooh, ooooh, don’t worry be happy, don’t bring everybody down, when you do you wear a frown” etc. etc. Hey that was just on the radio, and if it’s gonna stick in my head the rest of day, it may as well stick in yours too! LOL

Ooohhhhh, THANKS, Dry! You are EVIL! :-P

Drystyha: That’s not nice! Play nice! la-la-la-la can’t hear you (Don’t worry, be happy-darn!)

Risitas: A really teeny tip. Do you mind me asking what your avatar is? If it’s not too rude of me to ask, it’s just I can’t make it out.

JFri buddy, what are friends for? Isn’t part of friendship sharing each other’s misery?! LOL

Shikamoo I know our rules here are to play nice, and we do, but no one said anything about being evil - BWWWAAAA!

Evil is “Live” spelled backwards…

Ha, won’t get me, Dry! I am already listening to music!

Hey tabbylynn- I tried to post the duck story for you on yesterday’s comments, but it won’t let me. Can anyone here tell me what’s wrong with my cut and paste? I used microsoft word the second time, and it transported only the first and last lines- no fun!

cleokaya- do you mean the Agawa Canyon? We promoted that in Ontario Alive, but I’ve never been there. I was up in Tymmiskaming near Colbalt etc. last summer though.

dry: I have a cousin in Schwenksville and an uncle in Potts Vills PA. Never been there though. johnnyd- re: “What’s Opera Doc?”- Is that where maestro Bugs almost kills the tenor soloist with a looooooooooog note? BTW I’m jumpy too! EEK! What was that?

tabbylynn, just call me SHIKA or MB, my original moniker. What ever suits you. Just don’t call me late for dinner…(groaner.)

Joy I think we’ll need more than a gallon of chowder! You know how much pirate and I eat! (I’m assuming I’m invited??) Since it’s raining so hard i”ll bring along some ponchos in case we need them!

Why hello Joy. Shika, I used that line when Tabby was thinking up my nickname. No, that is a different one, don’t know what it is called, but it is good one too. What’s Opera Doc? is the one with just Elmer Fudd and Bugs and where Elmer sings “Kill the Wabbit!”

Dry Du weisst nicht, der Macht der duenkeler Seite!! (You don’t know the power of the dark side)! Then again, maybe you do! :-P

Just spent a half hour with 2 of my male friends/co-workers trying to replace a print cartridge head in our copy machine. I knew how to do it but couldn’t reach the lever to pull it out. Then they both come to help, and instead of reading the ILLISTRATED diagram, they are both trying to figure it out. no I say, “that’s not right, see here on the diagram”! It was hilarious! I just stepped back and chuckled to myself. FINALLY they looked at the diagram, had it done in 5 mniutes. Men!!!!!!

Hello Doc, whaddya mean by that Dry?! I can do it all without instructions… eventually, lol. Joy, Cartoon Network shows Tom and Jerry every afternoon, and sometimes have Scooby Doo. Don’t really see looney tunes though.

Ahoy thar, Joy! I be lovin’ yer avatar! Looks like where we were last night!!! Ye be makin’ th’ plans and ‘tis a’right with me! Did ye see me picture on The Other Coast? I be all stocked up on rum fer the whole blasted crew!

Shika the part of Ontario I’m talking about isn’t a valley. It’s flat with lots of small evergreens and wetland once you get north of Cochrane. Moosonee is right on James Bay south of Hudson’s Bay. On the train ride you seen moose, bear, lots of wetlands and creeks. Moosonee can only be reached by train or Plane. Most of the inhabitants are Cree. Beautiful, but cold.

shika (Too bad it wasn’t Shaka as in Shaka Khan, LOL) Don’t worry, at least I’m making sense to myself!

Schwenksville, that’s either in the Pocanos or the one near Berks county. There’s also a Schnecksville in tht area.

Where are you on the east coast?

Joy High and Dry! ROFLMAO!!

Well, if you saw my one post on page 2, what can I say, Men!!!!

Love that scene in your avatar!

BBL - kid duty!!

Here pookid, pookid, pookid!! I see you elsewhere…did we upset you? I ALWAYS enjoy your repartee!

AAAAARRRRRRR, Joy I been back ta th’ Other Coast ta catch yer comment! I be callin’ home, as ordered, me darlin’!

Over at SOTU, then Joy?

johnnydoc- Well you know they say great minds think alike! ;)

I remember the Elmer Fudd one too. Do you remember the name of the tune he sang?

Haven’t seen Tom and Jerry for years. Now that I can’t watch my TV, guess I’ll look it up on line.

dryshta: I don’t get Shacka, but as long as you do. Shikamoo is a Kiswahili word that means “Welcome” BTW. I was going to call my cat that, but settled on a shorter Kiswahili word “Mua”. He likes the short name too. (It means “to lift up”.)

I remember those ‘toons as well. Fun times! 114

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I think i twas just called “Kill the Wabbit,” but I don’t know. I actually went out and bought Tom and Jerry and others online.

dcguys- the last few comments say written 3 hours ago. I wrote mine ten minutes ago. We’re not in real time WOOoooWOOooo (Twilight Zone theme)

johnnydoc. No I mean, did you recognise the tune as a real tune from an opera? I’m pretty sure it was from somewhere- anyone have a good memory, (or do we all have AAADD (tee-hee!)

How does Dusty snap his paw? lol (second panel)

No, Shika, I don’t know my classical composers and pieces as well as I should. Joy, probably for the best. The mule, happy or otherwise, might pluck some strings. lol.

Shika To be honest, off the top of my head, I can’t even think of any of Shakak khans songs. Always thought the name sounded cool, though!

Joy gotta go again, but I must check out what you stirred up over there when I get back! :-D

AAAAAARRRRR, Joy, went ta SOTU….be they talkin’ about us? “Acts of depravity & wickedness”??? Aye, yer a$$ can be by me side anytime! ;-)

Joy- johnnydoc says you would be the best to remember the name of the tune for “Kill that wabbit” on What’s Opera Doc? You may want to hum it on line for me if you can.(That is, after you’ve had your party. Your avatar is a real cliff hanger!)

Shika are you talking about The Rabbit of Seville (based on The Barber of Seville) or the other episode (don’t remember the name) where he is dressed up in a viking outfit singing “Kill the Wabbit, kill the wabbit” to the music of Ride of the Valkeries from Wagner’s: Rings of the Niebelung?

Doing this from my cube and we’re only allowed IE6 so I can’t even tell when these were posted (or I’m just not smart enough to read the time indicators on here). I hadn’t noticed a time discrepancy.

I have a DVD set of the old Looney Tunes, and also a DVD of the original George of the Jungle, Super Chicken, and Tom Slick cartoons.

THAT’S it DigitalFrog! Thanks! I don’t know if I have any Wagner around, but I could look it up for fun.

DCguys what’s IE6? and this is still three hours out on my computer, although I think it may be just my computer. every few days I have to reset the clock by three hours. In fact, everytime HP has an update. I hate computers sometimes.

Thanks Joy- Now that you mention all those cartoons, I remember watching those too1 Tom and Jerry, Chilly Willy the penguin, Looney Toons and all the classic Disney films like Fantasia, Cinderella, Snow White etc. Sigh. Those were fun days. That’s why I love coming to the Big Top. Laughs all around!

AAAAAAARRRRRRR, Joy, I ALWAYS listen ta ye! It’s what makes me day a delight!

AAAAAAARRRRRR, I must git busy and polish me hook & glass eye and wax me wooden leg fer me big night! :-)

went to SOTU. Thought maybe our Joy had stirred somethin’ up, but its the same ole, same ole! I get weary reading the comments so I don’t much, except for a few names here & there!

Hey you people are forgetting Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Yogi Bear, Magilla Gorilla, Mr. Magoo, come on people!

joy, we be havin’ salmon, halibut (fer Carmy), Dungeness crab, lobster with a fresh vegetable mix! A fine Riesling ta wash it down with, too. O’ course, all the rum ye can swig!

My favorite cartoons were cecil the seasick sea serpent, rocky and bullwinkle, linus the lionhearted, hector heathcoate, top cat, etc, etc, etc…

commicaddict, with all that seafood, you must have plundered several fishing boats on both the west and east coast. Sure sounds tasty.

Have we all forgotten Daffy Duck? That’s despicable!!!

cleo OMG I forgot all about Hector Heathcoate! I loved that! And i was a big study of the Revolunary War then, and the Daniel Boone Show, and that “Wonderful World of Disney” movie “Johnny Tremaine”

Wow, Joy, that old pirate is getting all slicked up for his big date tonight! You’d better keep a close eye on his GOOD hand!

DigitalFrog: That’s not despicable, that’s de-ssschpickable! Lucky you to have the DVD’s. Drystha and Cleopaka- I watched almost all of those too! How about Pepi le Phew, Sylvester the cat and

Flintstones! it’s the Flintstones! For a Yabba dabba doo time, A dabba do time, We’ll have a gay old time!

Boy- is that line dated!

OK, Dry who played Daniel Boone and who was his side kick and who played THAT part?

Good, Joy! But you can’t remember his sidekick, eh?

OOOOOO, you edited your post! Yes Ed Ames played……?

Rhymes with Bingo!

And do you remember Yancy Derringer and Wanted: Dead Or Alive?

Hey where did your post go?

JFri Fess Parker was Daniel Boone, Ed Ames (one of the Ames Broters) played the Indain Mingo, Albert Salmi played Yadkin, and there was an old guy named Cincinnati, I can see the actors face but forget his name, Patricia Blair was his wife, Veronica Cartwright was the daughter, and the boy was a blond haired kid whose name escapes me! And again, I can see his face as plain as day, also!

Jfri are impressed yet?

WHOA, Dry!!! Yes, Joy, it was Mingo. Wanted: Dead Or Alive had Steve McQueen as Josh something and he had a sawed off Winchester! In Yancy Derringer, his sidekick was Pablo who carried a sawed off shotgun down his back behind his neck!

Dry….VERY!!!

Joy yeas Richard Boone.

JFri who was in Rawhide? Easy one!

Joy& who was the wagonmaster in Wagon Train? And then who replaced him?

Rowdy Yates played by Clint Eastwood!! Who was the wagonmaster on Wagon Train??

That’s Joys ? if she’s still on.

Dry That was TOO funny & a bit scary…you’re thinking like *ME*!!

Good one, Joy. But I don’t know who the replacement was? Cliff Robertson?

Correct JOY and now to the next level for $1000.00

Who was the cook on Wagon Train? actor or character name, either one/

How about High Chapparel and the Big Valley?

Did anyone mention Bonanza yet?

Big Valley, Barbara Stanwyck, Linda Evans, Richard Long, Lee Majors, Peter sombody

Hey, Carmy welcome back! Those were good, too! Dry his role was Whiskers but can’t quite place the actor.

JFri Cliff Robertson, pshh!

I loved High Chapparal. Had the BIGGEST crush on the blond son (can’t even think of his name now) and just as big a cruxh on Henry Darrow who played Leif Ericson’s brother in law, Manalito. Linda Crystal was the wife, and I forget the others. But I thought Henry Daroow was SOOOOOOOOO handsome, and now he looks awful, old wrinkled, LOL

Frank McGrath was the original cook on Wagon Train. I googled. Yes JFri, I am back, thankfully. Nasty driving conditions. Evil people with gray and silver vehicles driving around without their headlights on! I can’t wait for commic to pick us up and halibut, OH YUM!

Dry, Mark Slade was Blue, the blond dude on High Chaparral. (Google)

Joy, I did see your post about sailing. I is ready!!

Dry, I HATE it when the bozos drive on gray, rainy days without their lights on in gray or silver cars! MORONS!!! Glad you made it home safely! Looks like the pirate will be taking you off to somewhere nice & sunny for the evening cruise!

Thanks Carmy, I could see their faces plain as day. I suppose Mark Slade looks like a dried up old prune too lOL

Dry…answers???? What now? RL? Awwwwww, man?!

JFri dear, DID NOT understand your last post, answers, RL??

Just read the last couple posts, okay JFri you should be able to tell me and carmy apart by now! carmy he’s been in the rum again. You go in one direction and I’ll go the other and we’ll find his stash before he gets back to it! ROFLMAO

Dry, get out of the Rum? YOU asked about the Wagon Train cook & the wagonmaster’s replacement!!! RL=Real Life???? Hellooooooo? Anybody home????

Ya know, Dry the second thing to go is your mind….bet you can’t remember what was the first!!!

JFri :-P :-P :-P

JFRi you were mentioning driving to me, but carmy was talking about it. My MIND IS JUST FINE THANK YOU!! Now, who are you again? LOL

GOTCHA!!!!!!

Okay, you got me on THAT one…and I KNEW it was Carmy that was out driving in the rain, too! But I got YOU on the rest!

You will KNOW when I’m gone on the rum….I start singing German berr drinking songs! Now, tequila, THAT’S a DIFFERENT story! I’ve been involved in TWO bar brawls in my life and BOTH of them involved me and TOO MUCH tequila! I have 3 stages when drinking that junk….Invincible, bulletproof & immortal! Once I hit stage 3 it gets ugly!

JFri, I posted back a few boxes ago that the cook on Wagon Train was Frank McGrath. Dry, did you find his stash?

I hate to leave but alas, I must for a bit, dang it ! Cuz this is fun!

JFri, didn’t anyone ever tell you that Tequila is out Te kill ya!

Wow tribe! I was just gone for a few hours, and boom - 100 posts! It took the geeks a little longer than they expected, but thank God, we finally have our internet back up.

Holy Cow! I just remembered I almost bumped smack into Miss Kitty from Gunsmoke in Texas. She was coming out of the coffeehouse at the golf resort/country club place where I worked. She was very nice and just beautiful, she was glowing.

Carmy was that his real life name or his character’s name?

Frank McGrath as Charlie Wooster (the cook).

JFri, here’s a link about Wagon Train, it has the song lyrics too. http://crazyabouttv.com/wagontrain.htm

Wow, this is nostalgia at its finest. (Rather pleasant) No more SOTU for me today, its getting to nasty for me even.

Let’s see…..Miss Kitty was Amanda Blake, right? I would have gone ahead and bumped into her, but then I’m a perv!!! :-)

JFri, Amanda Blake that is correct. She was with 2 soap opera people from The Edge of Night. I don’t know their real names. Their characters were Raven and Skyler.

jdoc got all your fingers & toes? Arms, legs….?

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Wow a lot of nostalgia - sadly not much I know about. Thought I would pop in a say a quick hello (since marker 208 wouldn’t look too good now). I’ll pop in later to catch up and say good night.

Akenta what is your nostalgia?

My computer was attacked by a little girl named REBEKAH. She wrote on my screen with ink and she did who knows what else. The screen was white and I had to restart to get it back to normal. At least I got the ink off the screen.

jdoc, I go check SOTU to read the comments, but I rarely comment myself. That EAR is soooo irritating, he’s not even from the America and yet he KNOWS all. We should start commenting about the U.K.

just reading thru the new posts! Tahnks carmy now you’ve got him singing the Wagon Train theme I suppose! And no I never found the stash!

JFRI And I don’t know if this was mentioned yet, because I’m answering as I go along, but no it wasn’t Cliff Robertson who replaced Ward Bond, it was JOHN MCINTYRE! AND NO I DIDN’T GOOGLE! I REMEMBERED IT ALL BY MY LITTLE LONESOME!!

The only thing I know about Westerns is Bonanza, and even that I don’t remember much.

No One knows where my stash is except *me*! I would have NEVER gotten John McIntyre! So good one!

carmy we were checking into a hotel in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor a couple of summers ago. Our room was supposed to be ready, but of course it wasn’t. I was standing at the desk and this guy walks in and everybody says “Hello Mr. Petty, how are you? We have your room ready, etc.” The naMe didn’t mean anything at first, but I looked at him, cowboy hat, suit, sunglasses, mustache, then I relaized I was standing right beside Richard Petty the race car driver! No, didn’t get an autograph, didn’t speak to him, not a racing fan, but still it was pretty cool!

JFri GOTCHA!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, Dry, but whatcha gonna do with me now that you got me??? Now THERE’S a sticky wicket, huh? Hadn’t planned that far ahead, had you??

Dry, I’m not a racing fan either, but that is cool that you saw Richard Petty in Baltimore.

JFri I’m Italian, take a guess! LOL

carmy yea,there was like 5 foot of space between us! Apparently he was a regular there becasue they gushed all over him! It was a nice hotel right across the street from Inner Harbor, but not a fancy smancy place. I think it was called the Harbour Court. I won’t stay in dumps when we go on vacation and I’m the one who has to make all the plans! I’ve discovered though, that Hampton Inns, Courtyard by Marriot and the Hilton Garden Inns are clean, really really nice and not htat expensive. Haven’t been on a vacation as such since my mom got sick, and since I’m an only, I can’t leave my dad, for any length of time, so all trips now are related to college things where we have to stay overnight. I msut tell you sometime about our whirlwind trip to New Hampshire 2 years ago! And I do mean WHIRLWIND to take our oldest up for his summer intern job!

JFri, yeah all of my appendages are still here. Carmy, I know what you mean, but I like to debate, and though he is annoying, he is rather mild.

Dry, I was hoping to get over to Texas next month to visit my family. I know my doctor will let me take a chemo break. I’m still not sure if we will do that though. I did it before, just me and the girls. It took me 2 days to get there because I don’t drive at night, plus we ran into some really nasty weather. Once we get to Texas, it’s smooth sailing for me. I just take I-10 from FL to Miss and then shoot over to I-12 to bypass New Orleans. Then I get back on I-10 all the way to Houston. Just a couple of more changes and I’m home.

carmy You say your dr. will let you take a chemo break but not sure if he will? How long would you be gone? If it’s any length of time could he arrange something for you there to keep you up to date with your treatments? I know that would be a sucka^^ part of vacation for you though!

JFri says: sugie have you seen margueritem? She’s there in Las Vegas as we speak! Don’t think so. We go to local casinos when we go. I’m sure marg is living it up in the more popular ones. Wish her luck and hope she comes home a winner.

Dry, I already talked to my doctor. He will let me take a chemo break. I’m just not sure if we can take the trip or not. I would only miss one session as we would be gone for 2 weeks. The lesion on my liver is shrinking so I guess I can afford to miss a session.

Carmy I didn’t know you are having problems. If you don’t mind I will include you in my dailey prayers. God bless you.

carmy I don’t know what to say. I guess just whatever your doctor tells you. I’m glad the lesion is shrinking! When I say my prayers at night I say a little prayer for all my friends here, that God will keep you all safe, healthy and bring good things to all of you.

Now that I’ve “caught” JFri he ran off into the shadows! Coward!! LOL

sugie, thank you very much. I do not mind at all, the more prayers the better. May God bless you and yours too. :)

I made Marg a little Happy Birthday thing that I am going to post here in a minute to see how it looks and if I can paste it here. If it works, let me know what you all think. Her b-day is this Saturday.

hi sugie I don’t know why but I thought you lived in the midwest like Illinois or somewhere. I suppose when you live in Vegas, it’s just an ordinary everyday thing. Funny, I was in Arizona and loved the desert, but going to vegas just never appealed to me. Is there a more normal everyday aspect of the area other than the glitz and night life? I know there is Niagara Falls, Canada. I don’t mean to offend, I’m just curious!

If I disappear suddenly, it’s because my kid will want to play his video game, just so you know!

It’s not coming out right. I’ll try again later.

Dry, I pray for all my friends here too. :)

carmy I don’t know what you’re trying to post, but I sent tabby a graduation thing form Webshots. She got it! But if it’s from all of us, can’t help you out! I’m trying to learn more things but haven’t quite made it there yet, you know, RL gets in the way! And I thought I knew a lot, but I found out I didn’t, LOL!

JFri, I just saw your comment on Stone Soup, mea culpa. Dad’s can detect the lies too.

BB in a few, time to share here too. Dry, I want to ask you about Webshots. I don’t know what that is.

Drystyha it’s funny you should mention Niagara Falls. I was born and lived most of my life in Buffalo. We came to Vegas to retire and the cost of living at the time was much etter the NY state. Vegas is just a regular city with everything you find in other places. You should come and visit the real Vegas. We have parks,museums,a zoo etc. Everyone thinks it’s just the “strip”. Haven’t been there for years:)

doc seems it’s just you and me for the moment! AND I TOLD YOU NOT TO WASTE THE DAY AWAY! LOL

You work tonite?

You missed our little Trivia game! It was fun!

carmy left you an e!

wow 243 post. i dont think i will get to read them all. and look i am adding more post. i got 4 hours of sleep and worked for 12 hours today. i am wiped out. so i may not make it. i will try if so see you at the end. hi all who are on.

Akenta sorry i misse you today. :(

sugie what made you decide to retire there other than the cost of living? I know that’s a BIGGIE but what else made you choose there, what about other places? Do you like the desert? It seems like you moved a long way away from your roots! I’m merely curious because I will have to make decisions in the next so many years, and wonder what to look at, what to research etc., assuming of course, that my life stays status quo!

as per my earlier post if I disappear, its sharing time!

Gee guys- I go out when we’re talking cartoons, and come back to Westerns!I’m afraid the only thing I can contribute is this: Lorne Greene lived next door to my mom here before he was on Bonanza. He was in radio then I think, or it was before radio even.

Now my Brother-in-law, He’d know every character you’re talking about from the other shows! I loved Ponderosa/Bonanza though, even Hoss!

doc I hear ya. I only archive misc. that I like and Overboard anymore. But I read a lot of them and if I miss a day or two on the others, it takes forever to catch up. I’m glad I have some e-mailed because I can flag them and save them! Of course I spend so much time here, that makes it harder. But that’s okay, wouldn’t miss this trip for the world! :-D

I’m going to sneak in at the end of the page to say good night to everyone. Hope I’ll be able to join in the conversations tomorrow.

goodnight Akenta you missed a lot! Have a good sleep!

All Alone. All Alone. Here I am, but nobody’s home Hopethat you all have a good night Drinking rum- don’t get in a fight. Wagon Train’s here to take me away Had a Bonanza of a day!

GGGoood NNNight, FFFolks!

*shikamoo what do you mean, “even Hoss?” he was the best part of that show!!! Like John Candy, he died way too young! Although, I LOVED JOHN CANDY, liked Dan Blocker.

Drystyha, besides the cost of living wich is a biggie the weather helped. Living in the Buffalo area for over 50 years one tends to not like the cold,snow and rain. Now I can swim for at least 6 months of the year. No humidity and bugs. Can sit outside at night and not get bit up. It gets hot in the summer but as I say at least you can go swimming Can’t do that in the winter back east:(

Shika, thanks for the positive energy you sent me earlier. It was well received. :)

Dry just went to that eating thing. Now I’m watching TV & Blackberrying it!

Dry, I was in LOVE with Little Joe and Blue (from High Chaparral). Replied to your E.

sugie Yes I know about Buffalo winters, never lived thru them, but I watch the Weather Channel a lot!

And I love summer, heat, humidity doesn’t bother me, as Calvin says, “WHO CARES, ITS SUMMER!!!!! :-D But I do enjoy the rain, especially on the awnigs at bedtime!

carmy got it and replied!

JFri what eating thing? I must be behind here!

Watching tv and blackberying it? Gee, that screen is so small what is the attraction?

Dry, replied back. JFri, I thought I was a multi-tasker. You sir, take the cake!

May or may not be back. Gots to share and return my mother-in-law phone call. Goodnight All! (maybe)

Drystyha- glad I checked in before my real bed time. Don’t know why I said “evenN Hoss. I agree with you. I missed him when he died. Who was the fourth brother,Adam? Never knew what happened to him. Did he die too?

Shikamoo It was David Canary, he was adopted or else Lorne Greenes son he didn’t know about. As far as I know, he’s still around.

Carmy replied

JFri ditto

Carmy- Any time. I do my devotions every morning, and have a “prayer-file” Your name’s going in there. When my prayers are answered, I put the prayer in the answered file. You take care of your self, and let “Daddy” do the rest. (That’s God BTW).

Hoss died?! When did that happen?!? I only was able to watch Bonanza on reruns, and didn’t see the newest ones.

Nite Tribe. Catch ya on the flip.

johnny Hoss (Dan Blocker) died probably when you were a kid, I’m sure heart attack, and David Canary came in as the replacement, as a different character.

Sugie goodnight to you to!

doc have a good night!

carmy goodnight!

so i didnt read them i quit ill catch up tomorrow. or later my next off day. lol i went for a walk insted.

Oh and goodnight shikamoo

Well, I arrive and everyone disappears. It must be the smell of my sweaty body. Mowed, edged, weedeating, pruning and digging up two big juniper that could not survive the winter. That was my day, to bad. I love nostalgia from TV during my youth. Now, without TV period, that’s all I have, my memories.

so over here the “new commic” shows up about 12:10 or 12:15 lol it is diffrent some nights. i am not going to be first tonight to tired.

shika your out of school, so if you dont mind me asking… how old are you? i think i am the youngest. im 19. Jdoc is 20 (if i remember right) so we are the two youngest. do you fall in that cat?

Wow, Ravensinger zinged FarLeft on SOTU. So FLS called Ravensinger a follower. So does that mean that since FLS comments about State of the Union, he must be a Carl Moore follower?

so i am going to bed. goodnight. i will have a lot to read when i can get a day off. so keep me in mind as you post. miss you guys. have a great day tomorrow. all. night. peace and love.

Well, I have learned something today. Have fun at work Doc, and good night to all those who are going to bed.

The trivia was great today. Takes me back to the great shows of the 50’s, 60’s, & 70’s. I remember the shows, the character faces, most of the character names but forget the people who played them.

I hate having to cheat and look these things up on the Internet.

johnnyd, you are still around. it’s so strange, I come and read all the nostalgic comments today after a full day of activities and it’s odd to arrive as everyone fades away. That’s the thing about being on the west coast. You finish dinner and everybody else is winding down there day.

Rad, I am pretty fair at trivia that deals with entertainment, unless it is something from TV during the last 4 years. I went from having every channel to none.

I know what you mean, cleo, I have not been following TV, at all it seems, in the recent years. I think that is a good thing actually. About ten or twelve years ago when I was still living with my parents, they got digital cable for three months, then got rid of cable all together. Network television is not very good, so I stopped watching TV as much. I kinda faded out on the westerns trivia today until just about two hours ago, so I missed most of it. Never really watched them, Bonanza was the only one I saw, and that was briefly.

johnnyd, I watched all the westerns. I really liked Laramie, High Chaparral, The Virginian and Wanted: Dead or Alive. It was the time then. Things change. You’re right about the commercials. The last few years that I had TV I had all the channels because that was the only way you could get the movie channels. Network TV and commercials loses it’s appeal when you have the cable options that don’t have any. The only thing that I watched on the big 3, were sporting events.

I used to live on the TV. I quit watching TV about 7 or 6 years ago. Occasionally find a movie on the Internet. I have acquired a collection of DVDs that I watch sometimes. Oh Well…..

Yeah Rad, when I lived alone the TV was on all day. It was company. I wasn’t necessarily watching it but the sound was soothing. Now, I appreciate quiet. LOL, does that say anything about marriage?

I’m married … shhhhhhhh … you trying to jinx a good thing?

Marriage is a good thing. My only complaint about marriage is suddenly someone else is having an input on what I should be doing today. And she has authority. LOL

Thanks for the tip guys. I just like being outside, and TV hinders that.

My motorcycle has been feeling very neglected for the past few years.

I actually downloaded and watched Star Trek 2009 this afternoon. Great Show

I so want to see the new Star Trek movie. Rad, you found it online?

johnnyd what do you like to do outside, athletic pursuits or mechanics or beach activities. I live in a great spot for outdoor sports. I like to bicycle, kayak and hike. We have a huge race coming up here on Memorial Day weekend. Teams from all over North America show up for it. It is called “Ski to Sea”. You have a team that consists of a downhill skier who hands off a baton to a cross country skier, who hands off to a runner, than a road bicylcist, than a canoe leg, handing off to mountain bicylces, then ocean kayaks. Great event.

Yeah, Found it on mininova torrent. I downloaded two different files, one was a wmv file and the other was an avi. Neither worked but I changed the “.avi” to “.divx” and it worked fine so I deleted the other. About 700Mb. It was made on someones camcorder. Turned out OK, I’ll get the DVD when it comes out though.

So Rad, you liked it? I have been hearing very good things about the movie. It’s good to see new life kicked into the series.

Wow, that sounds really cool. No, we never lived really close to any bodies of water, being in Michigan oddly enough. So we did whatever we could, sports. Football, kickball, and soccer a lot. We did a little basketball. We did a ton of tag, and variations of the sort. Sometimes we’d just take our legos and cars outside and play with them outside. There was also the running around in the country where my mom grew up. Exploring the woods, playing in the hay fields, thing like that. Man, those were the good ol’ days.

I spent my summers on my grandpa’s farm in Alberta. 640 acres of area to explore. We had horses to ride and pastures and fields to explore. I always lived in a town or city, except for summer, three months of country living. I’ll never forget it.

Cleo - I’m sure you’ve seen teh trailers, It’s great. There are some changes from TOS, but the changes consist of time, space, changes to history and stuff like that. The main characters: Spock, Kirk, Uhura, Scotty, Bones are practically identical to the originals. And there are some really hilarious scenes.

That sounds like a lot of fun Cleo. Me and my brothers didn’t actually experienced a farm. Is that the movie you are talking about Rad?