Big Top by Rob Harrell for November 03, 2009

Good Morning Tribe!

For your dining pleasure: →→→→→→→→→→→

1) Steak and eggs(your choice of eggs). 2) Belgian Waffles. 3) Buttermilk pamcakes w/choice of syrup. 4) Choice of suasage patties/links, bacon or ham. 5) Hash browns. 6) Asst flavored teas. 7) Asst juices. 8) Regular/Decaf coffee. 9) Doc’s nuclear coffee. 10)Rolaids or Tums

Enjoy all.

Good Morning Big G

Help yourself sir!

I am tired so I’ll say Good Night now dear lady!

I will do the toon run in the AM.

Good Night All

I know he is around somewhere so……………………………

Good Morning & Good Night JFri!

Good night Owls. Good morning Larks.

Alas. A bowl of raisen bran, please.

Goodnight, Terry, sleep well. Thanks for breakfast, I’ll have pancakes with two eggs over easy, and make that steak rare.

‘Morning, big G.

They were talking about needing a guard dog yesterday. What did they think my avatar is?????

Hiking tomorrow, so I’ll say ‘goodnight’ to All.

MORNING, AKENTA!!!

Good morning and Happy Tuesday. lonewolf thanks for breakfast. Hi JFri and MoPar

Eggs, bacon and hash browns please! Morning all! And yes Dusty no diet works without exercise!

Good Morning Akenta & Mopar Hope you both have a good day!

Good Morning Dry

Off on my toonland merry-go-round!

Good Morning Lonewolf, big G, Marg, JFri, MoParMitch, Akenta and Dry!* I have an early dr. appt so I’ll BBL. Have a great day, ya’ll!

Good Morning Carmy!

Hope your day goes well!

(((((((Carmy)))))))

Doc

Check this out

They’re going to find out out what is secretly being produced in that plant!

Morning all!

I used to work at a coke bottler, you’d be surprised how fast they can go through a ton of sugar

Good Morning Digital Frog

Good Morning all. It never fails to amaze when you see some very obese person that has their grocery cart crammed with potato chips, donuts and other fatty foods, yet their beverage is Diet Coke. LOL

I guess it makes all the difference to them! Good morning all.

Good Morning johnnyd. It is a quiet morning around here.

Good Morning Johnny & Cleo!

Good to “see” you all this fine morning!

And a Good Morning to you Doc!

I am setting up a new router for my wireless network so I’ll probbably be out of the AO here until this afternoon. Hope I catch you before you leave later Doc.

Terry & Doc - Hope you two are well. If you are at Wildcheetah’s Doc, then I presume that you are more than fine.

Nice to SEE YOU CLEO! WOW! Some avatar!

Cleo, I am doing surprisingly well considering how I felt last night when I went to sleep. Maybe the rest helped. Howa re you doing my friend?

(It’s always “some avatar”. Hee-hee)

Getting ready to switch routers…………….BBL

Hi Terry & Doc!

I am doing great Terry. Sunny day here, but cool. I am so thrilled to see the sun again.

Dry - Just a photo of me and my sweetie. LOL Actually, neither one of us has tattoos.

Good afternoon/morning Doc, Dry, Cleo, and Terry It would appear that I have come down with a nasty cold of some sort. Figures that I would get sick today, our first football game is tonight at 9:30. If I feel at all decent, I am going. I wouldn’t be sick if the so and sos would cover their bleeep mouths when they cough or sneeze!

Hey johnny take care of yourself and feel better soon. Do you have any Zicam? Unfortunately, they took the nose swabs off the market, they worked miracles, but the mouth spray or tablets work alright, just not as good as the swabs. It will cut your cold duration in half, and also cut down on the severity of the symptoms.

I don’t like taking medicine. Only if I absolutely have to. Plus, I feel better now that I have eaten something, and took a bit of a nap. What bugs me is that I have to miss all my classes so that I don’t infect anyone else.

howdy Tribe just a quick flyby to say hi and make a deposit in the karma bank for them that needs it. sorry i’ve been away. i’ve missed you guys, but RL has been a bit busy lately. hopefully it settles down enough to allow me to come visiting again.

johnny I don’t like to take medicine either, but I do take cold medicine. Zicam is zinc. Well then I wil offer another remedy, chicken broth with garlic, mushrooms, onions or whatever tossed in anything high in vitamins, or of course, good ole chicken soup, really works! For me anyway.

Hi yyyguy Hope all is well for you. BBL

hi Dry & Johnny all is well, i’ve just been unable to visit, lately, and i’ve missed it. hopefully i’m back a bit more regularly, now. and Johnny, listen to Dry when she’s right, dang it. time for me to go, now. if anyone sees Owsly, ask about the song title for the lyric about the “497 and a half feet of rope,” please and thank you.

yyyguy - Missed you man. Glad to see you pop in.

The chicken soup should make a nice lunch, thank you, Dry. Yyyguy, being a student in the medical field, I don’t like taking advice, but I recognize good advice when I hear it.

as long as you do better at taking it than i do! RL calls and i must answer. back tonight, i hope. gone

wow slow day or what?

i have nine mins. and i need them to go by fast so i figured hey you have time go to bt and then i get here and its been 25 mins since doc posted. whats going on here.

i sware dogs can read.

every time my dog sees the mail truck no matter which one it is. he barks at it. they all have mail writen on it somwheres. and most dogs bark at mail trucks. he wont bark at anyother car or truck when it passes just the mail one or the gocarts and 4whealers. but thats diffrent

im freezing

about to leave again. i have about 2 mins to go. must get on at 2 sharp to get it done and b4 it freezes up when they all start putting in the classes and b4 the seats are taken. bbl peace and love all

well that sucks its not today its tomorrow. UGH ALL THIS STRESS FOR NOTHING. AHHHHH ITS BEEN A LONG DAY I SWARE

well then ill do my hw. yuck

doc im still here. ill just be on and off

how are you doing.

well then sleep good. i guess ill just pop in every so offten to see whats going on here if anyone is here or not. bye doc night

oh lol what you eatting

now i want some cookies. lol

you made my brain hurt :)

sweets make my headaches go bye bye is all i know

if we had something sweet i would be all over it right now. my head has been killing me for the past couple of weeks

night doc

I’m back. What a mess that was changing the router! Pain in the tush!

Hello Yguy, Tabby, Johnny,Doc, Cleo & Dry!

Johnny, take care of yourself son. Don’t need another one down and out!

Good Night Doc! Busy & late day.

I haven’t read much of the posts. How are you, Tabby?

terry the computer router? that is hard as h e c k. h e c k trying to reconect to the wireless is hard also.

Tabby, I am good with the computers, but I have one with Windows 7 and I needed to fool it into thinking it was Vista like the rest of my computers in the house! LOL

You would think just a router upgrade would be simple. NOT!

I need to start getting ready to pickup James and get him to practice. I’ll try to check back before we leave.

Terry i am okay. just have a headache and frustrated and anoyed. but other then that i am okay

Sorry to hear that Kiddo. I hate headaches!

See you later (((Tabby)))!

i found some choclate. it helped the head a little but my bro being in contorl of the tv does not help the head any.

i HATE sneezing!

i just sneezed for about 20 mins straight. that is crazy.

Hi Tabby

I’m here for about 10 minutes longer before we need to leave.

A sneezing fit. huh?

I hope it wasn’t with chocolate in your mouth! That could get a little messy! LOL

Pirate sighting!

http://news.yahoo.com/comics/reality-check

Dry, it says article not found!

Well Tabby it looks like you have been the only one consistently hear this afternoon. I have stained my staircase down to the lake, been on a bike ride and had an hour long talk with a cousin who is more like my sister. It has been a beautiful, sunny day here.

no terry there was no choclate in my mouth. lol

Hello Dry

Hello Cleo

Whazzup?

Been to any Balloon Dances lately?

Hey * Terry & Dry*, you guys snuck in during the time it took me to catch up on the day.

I have not done much exciting at all lately.

I see you fixed the link Dry!

Boy you’re quick! I mistyped reality the first time! LOL

Wolfangil says I’m always sneaking around somewhere. lol

Hi Tabby and Cleo!

cleo this is helping keep my sane… scary i know

You usually have some good links, so I check them out quickly!

Question, I looked all over FF website and could find no answers. And don’t snowball me! :-) Why is Nov 4 beside all the players names with a W in front?

Everybody must have had a busy day.

That is a pretty picture for your avatar, Tabby

Dry, I will go look.

Oh yeah, they will not be eligible to come off waivers until Nov 4(tomorrow for the date challenged!). LOL

thanks Terry it was on the computer when i got it.

If two or more people attempt to get the same player, the team with the lower waiver number gets the player.

Cleo, if you’re bored, you should do what Terry suggested, go to a *Balloon Dance**! SNERK!

Hello Dry, did you get that?

Luv ya Dry!! LOL

Alright, we gotta go now. See ya’all when I get back!

okay…what is a balloon dance? I know that I have seen pictures of strippers in the olden days wearing balloons. Is that what is meant here? If so, I’ll go. :-)

Terry don’t go I have more questions! C R A P!

Cleo check your e!

merrrr! (Standard I feel like bleeep greeting.) Internal thermostat is almost in sync. I think that I will play football tonight anyhow. We might need another man, and I have been looking forward to this for weeks now! Curse the fates! Good news, I appear to have clinched the playoffs, I’ll see you there!

Dry LOL. But, I like to think that one can make someone’s Christmas, or every day of the week for that matter. Good one Terry.

i quit my head is still hurting to bad to try to think and do the reast of my hw. i am going to waite till my friend gets home and looks over this with me then ill do the rest of it.

Johnny perhaps you can answer my waiver ?’s*

As your tribal adopted mom, I hope you are sure about playing tonight, you don’t want to get sicker! (I’ll stop nagging now, LOL!)

Or make the rest of the team sick.

Good point, Cleo! We keep this up we’ll ruin poor johnyy’s evening! We don’t want to do that, either!

Fair points. Dry, waivers are those things that determine the order of who can pick up which players.

Nope, you are right.

okay i am going take a shower and get away form homework and stress of it. ill be back some time later. not sure what time im going to go to the friends house for help. she is a great person letting me go and bug her with this. i love you guys and gals of the tribe. peace and love all.

Jdoc if you are sick get well soon big bro

Tabby - Take care and have a great evening.

johnny Check your e’s later on this evening.

Unfortunately, I have made the decision not to go to the game tonight, and tomorrow, I may be going to the doctor. I have never had a cold/flu this bad before.

Oh doc, you have no idea JUST HOW LOUD A DRYER DOOR BEING SLAMMED CAN BE, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE A FHIG!! LOL!

johnnyd - I am sorry that you have to miss your game. When you are feeling bad it is best to stay home. Cold air and unnecessary activity can just make everything worse. I was a party animal in art school and I had a cold that lasted for 6 weeks because I wouldn’t stop. WSU had over a thousand students sick with the swine flu. There is a lot of crud going around right now. Get well my friend. I have put a deposit in the bank for you and others not at the top of their game.

I meant to post that last comment about an hour ago! lol

hello all

Johnny, do you have any Airborne, it is a vitamin supplement, not a med. It will boost your immunity. Take it if you have it. If you have chicken broth, soup or bouilon cubes drink some. And if you remember my previous suggestions for additions to the soup/broth do it. And parsley is good also. Lots of water, warm tea, saltine crackers,Kind of hard to mother you over the internet! But if nothing else, lay down and try to sleep and keep hydrated!

Thanks Cleo, it’s not the football game that bothers me anymore, I’ve got two science papers and an evolution exam that will take time, and I can’t really do anything worthwhile right now.

sorry

I didn’t mean to go on and on!

doc its okay i still loveya

Hi again Tabby!

Meant to post that one earlier too, lol. Dry, I do not, but if I feel like this tomorrow, I will go to the doctor. Thanks though for all the advice. I did have some chicken noodle soup, and I had two glasses of my old standby orange juice. We’ll see if that gets me going again tomorrow.

It’s fine Dry. I am having one of my “up” phases right now. I think I’ll take a cup of tea and try to get some homework done. bbl

this game is great!!! go to red remover it is amazing.

johnyy ornage juice is a good choice! I always felt bad when my oldest would call home sick, 4 hours away! I’m a mom, what can I say? FEEL BETTER SOON KID! If you ever want a list of what to have on hand to help with flu and colds, you know how to reach me! It does work, no miracle cures, but it eases the symptoms and duration.

Tabby, what are you talking about?

go google it Dry im telling u you will love it.

Oh so now the kid IS TELLING ME TO GOOGLE! YES, MISS TABBY, I SHALL DO SO! ROFLMAO!

LOL yes i put the shoe on the other foot. :D lol its me telling you to google something haha love you mom

Doc lol

ducks awating hit from dry

Doc THERE IS ALWAYS TOMORROW! AND IF I HAVE A NIGHT TO SLEEP ON MY DESTRUCTION, WELL BWWAAAHHHH! Enjoy your night, Doc, for tomorrow awaits!

Tabby, been away playing the GAME!

bye doc.

see its cool isnt it? im on level 36 its kicking my butt now.

37 ugh.

mopar i am curious

Disarming me, MoPar? explain please.

bbl

MoPar depends on what it is. Even Barry White can’t take care of some things! FHIG can beat out Barry depending on the situation! :-P

MoPar yes but I must reiterate, the H is for hot as in “don’t tread on me or I’ll kick your butt to the curb”! ROFLMAO!

So start picking the tunes! Maybe we can a party going, though I doubt it! This is like Mayberry at 10PM! (Though I LOVED the Andy Griffith Show!)

MoPAr not sure, what post?

Careful with that MoPar, lurkers lurk, ya know!

Having said that, I think that I will head to bed. Good night all, and peace and love!

MoPar 4:30AM until DARK. Cripes almighty man. That is cruel and unusual punishment.

going to bed as well. yes its 9 here but so what. peace and love all

Goodnight Tabby!

Hello Tribe. We’re back.

Anything good happening?

I see I missed Doc.

Hey there Mopar!

Oh well, Good Night Mopar

Just barely caught ya, Bro’.

Good Night Tabby & Johnny!

Hello Cleo & Dry

It wouldn’t surprise anybody if it is catching up with you!

(sweep, sweep)

(empties ashtrays, wipes up rings on coffee table)

Well Hello Hymenoxis!

Good to see you again sir!

We haven’t had any crazy parties lately!

Howdy, Lonewolf.

I’ve run a broom through the place on occasion, but that is all.

A brief note- if you haven’t dusted off your copy of “The Addams Family”, do so. Raul Julia and the magnificent Anjelica Huston…a bit of earlyChristina Ricci…good writing, and Christopher Lloyd…worth the hour and a half.

Thanks, Lone.

The trick is knowing where these guys hide un-eaten donuts and their other guilty pleasure refuse. Snickers wrappers are under the couch cushions, and beer cans are behind the oleander bush and the fence out by the swimming pool.

Also, use a dosimeter before you dump coffee cups. Doc’s stuff will get you cited by the Nuclear Regulatory Agency if you just pour it down the drain….it needs to go into the holding tanks. Each tank is numbered and dated with predicted half-life decay ages. I’ve got two empties if you need them.

I’ve got all that here. I have a pipeline installed and found through trial and error what extras I was required to obtain!

Thank you for telling me where to look when I do a sweep through!

Also, the urinals in the men’s room are showing signs of corrosion at the brass fittings, and the bidets in the girl’s room need polishing. The girls get annoyed if the bidets are not shiny.

Sorry…my wife, the Dark Eyed Beauty and I are going on vacation….what have I forgotten….

Oh…the litter boxes. Don’t forget the litter boxes.

Howdy, Dry.

Geez Louise.

Oh…and the breakfast dishes….if you don’t rinse them off quickly, the eggy-bits tend to congeal and you have to wash them twice…what am I forgetting?

hymenoxis- So where are you going on vacation and what makes you think that we will allow your absence?

Haylo Cleo

Yes friend, where are you going?

Ah…the herpitarium. I have a glass box out behind the observitory with crickets in it…take a handful once a day and feed the lizards.

Terry - We can’t possibly allow someone as valuable as *hy to disappear without our approval.

We’re taking something of a “stay-cation”…a couple of days in Austin, then a couple of days in San Antonio. Rather like the New Yorkers who’ve never visited the Statue of Liberty…things we’ve grown up with, but never done.

Cleo, I don’t know that we can refuse. With all the nasty cleanup he does, I think he deserves it.

And I was SOOOOOO close when I was in Round Rock last month!

Hymenoxis, how I wish I could go for a couple of weeks back in The Lone Star State!

JFri…I’ll let you know if you missed anything.

Ah yes, I know Round Rock!! Very well!

By Golly, I thought that I heard someone say that they wanted to get Fried.

Well I go there once or twice a year.

hymenoxis, with my aim, I doubt I missed anything!

Our usual trip is to Port Aransas for fresh shrimp and tourist watching, but vacation came late this year. We’re doing the 6th Street Shuffle and a tour of the SA River Walk this year…gotta keep up with the tourists…

I’ve done both of those things. What were you doing in Round Rock, Terry?

Nighty-night. Y’all be careful.

JFri, I was in the Army at Fort Hood and one of my Army buddies was from Round Rock. He introduced me to a girl and uh, well, the rest is for a later story.

Oh Hy I so want to do that River Walk someday. Some have said it’s a let down, but the pictures I’ve seen, I would love to do it! Just to see it.

hymenoxis - Thanks for the cleanup. We missed your attention to detail.

Good Night Hymenoxis!

Have fun sir!

It is a fun time on the River Walk. Too much tourist bleeep, but still a good time. Some can only take it once others like me can go once a year if given the opportunity.

This will be year number 2 of not spending my winter in Texas.

hymenoxis, I’ll watch the Austin Police blotter to see if you get in any trouble on the 6th St. TOUR (like at Coyote Ugly)!!!

Terry, did he show you the round rock?

The image of the River Walk in my mind’s eye based on descriptions from a friend did not match the reality of it.

JFri, the one that the city was named after? Yes.

Was the River Walk less than you expected or more?

Last time I was at the River Walk was in 1995, so it’s been quite a while.

Yes, I just thought it was a name. Then one day we were crossing the river and the guy I was riding with pointed it out.

*Well my philosphy is, even if it’s a let down, it was still an experience you never had! * You know :-)

Going at night with all the lights is a must. During the day does not do it any justice.

I had a pretty good image in my mind so the actual River Walk didn’t quite measure up.

But then, I thought the Alamo would have been outside the city, not right downtown!

I get your point, Dry!

If the economy didn’t suck I would be in Texas right now.

Yes, the Alamo being downtown was strange first time I was there.

Well you three, I am not going to make the turnover tonight.

I’ll see you all in the morrow.

Good Night Cleo, Dry & JFri

Good Night All

Geez, I knew it was downtown and I’ve never been there. (sigh)

Good night, Terry.

How did you know that, Dry??

Just a quick pop in & out for me. Our internet has been down more than up, and with the penguins here, I’m a couple days behind reading comics. (Skipping reading the comments except for BT.) Busy, busy week, but so far, no major problems. Oh, Serena - congrats! My folks were married 58 years, and later this month, it will be 25 years for my hubby & myself.

So JFri & Dry how are you guys familiar with San Antonio?

Geez, JFri, I do know how to read, ya’ know!!!!

As I said earlier, cleo, I go to Round Rock once or twice a year!!

I never read anything about San Antonio…..I just showed up there!!

Cleo I know by reading about the places I want to see someday like “San Antone” or places I’m just interested in. Or places I have actually been to, a few states, and Canada and Mexico.

Texas is an unusual state. It defies logic. It is still almost like the wild west, with in some areas not even any building codes.

Texas was a place that I never had much of a thought of spending any time in and ended up spending 3 winters there.

Cleo I was in Dallas for a brief flight layover so I saw only what was there as we flew in. I would like to visit all 50 states, but doubt that will happen in my lifetime. I’ve been to 18 states so far where I actually spent some time.So I have 32 more to go!

”Texas. It’s a whole ‘nother country!”

JFri, so is West Virginia!

Dry- I have been to every state but Alaska. My wife lived up there for years in Ketchikan and I really want to go, but she is not really enthused to return at the moment. Her kids fish in Alaska with their dad every summer. I love the diversity of the US. Each state is very different from the one next to it.

I have been to every state except Hawaii!! I always go to the Caribbean instead!

Cleo Yes that is true for the most past, but Northern PA and Southern NY for example, tend to meld together until you get more into the middle of NY state. And VA and Md tend to be the same, but when you get into the area around Bethesda and head back into PA almost as soon as you cross the state line, you can see the PA mountains in the distance. But yes, the USA is one great land!

JFri - I love the Caribbean. I also love Hawaii. Of the places In the Caribbean that I have been, I really like Barbados and St. John.

Cleo and JFri, :-P :-P :-P To quote some famous Italian, “You guys makka me sick!

I like it ALL, cleo!! The Bahamas, St. John, Sint Maarten, St. Thomas, Grand Cayman…..

JFri- There she goes again, making these unwarranted attacks. I think the Tribe should see about getting the poor girl commited. I am thinking of Napoleon’s Elba. Poor Dry, just to unstable to allow unfettered access to the real world.

Yep JFri, the Caribbean is pretty nice. I love snorkeling in the waters down there.

I’m a certified diver!

So do you dive a lot in the Caribbean? Also, do you dive a lot in your neck of the woods?

Cleo he’s a diver in his own mind! (Whoa, I better be careful, you may commit me!) Just make sure it’s somewhere warm, and the sun doesn’t set until like 8 o’clock, ‘kay guys?!