Big Top by Rob Harrell for December 27, 2010

The Tabloids sure do love Dusty Poodle.

TODAYS BREAKFAST MENU:

Top Sirloin Steak (Cooked any way you want it) Barbecue Ribs with potato wedges Mac and Cheese Fish N’ Chips meal Bacon & Eggs (eggs made the way you want them) Sausage, biscuit and gravy Pancakes, or Belgium Waffles (covered in rich maple Syrup, with toast on the side) Shrimp and Fries Combo Meal Oven Fresh Pizza (Any topping) Chicken, steak, or beef burritos covered in Enchilada sauce and cheese (Comes with a side of refried beans and rice) Fried potatoes with onion and bell peppers in it. (Good stuff) Burgers to order - Turkey Burger, Double Delux Cheese burger, Mushroom Swiss burger, Angus burger, Smoked bacon cheddar burger, Tofu veggie Burger (All burgers come with a side order of Fries, onion rings, chicken tenders or spicy buffalo wings Hot dogs or corn dogs

QUICK MEAL FIXES:

Poptarts, toaster Strudels, granola bars,cereal bars (For those on the go) Winchell’s warm and fresh donuts Salad bar is open Animal Platter: Kitty’s breakfast meal all ready for him Katrina’s Rare steak and a bowl of milk Lucky’s leftovers

Beverages:

Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee Starbright’s Divine Cocoa Mocha (Courtesy of Chris Alan & Johanan Rakkav) My Big Sister’s Berry Delicious Breakfast Smoothies bmonks cup of cheap Mocha Mint Regular coffee, with creamer on request Chardonnay, Zinfandel, or Merlot sparkling wine (perfect for any occasion) Fountain Drinks or Ice Cream Floats American premium or Imported Beers Assorted Fruit Drinks or Teas Plain Milk or Chocolate Milk Ice Water V8 Vegetable juice Pepsi, Cherry Pepsi, Cocoa Cola, Mountain Dew, 7up in a can etc.

Special Dessert: Ice cream, chocolate cake, and cheese cake

Wow1 I didn’t think anyone else liked turkey burger with swiss. No mayo please…

Thanks Lil Sis

Good Morning, Tribesters!

Another great menu, Li’l Sister!

Enjoy the meal WoodEye, my West Coast Brother. :-)

Yes you may big Brother Here you go. :-)

Li’l Sis, may I have some of Doc’s WFNC for now please?

What the……..!

Why do the comments switch places when we refresh.

Good Morning ♥Little Sister♥, WoodEye and ♠Lonewolf♠!

I’ll have the Barbecue Ribs with potato wedges please.

Good morning, Sojo & Woodeye.

That has been happening a lot lately, Li’l Sister.

Thank you very much, Li’l Sister.

Here you go Sojo Enjoy the meal. :-)

Thank you ♥Little Sister♥! Looks great. :-)

bmonk said the switching has occured before. The time on the different servers gets out of sinc and may get worse as the time between them gets worse until they syncronize them. Why they don’t automaically sinc to the same time I don’t know.

Well I’m done toon touring for the night.

Breakfast is now a serve yourself buffet.

Good night everyone. :-)

Good Night ♥Little Sister♥.

I too, am headed to the horizontal position now.

Good Night Sojo, Li’l Sister & everyone.

P&L

Time for my zzzzzz’s.

♪ P&L ♪ ≡≡ POOF! ≡≡

Good Night ♠Lonewolf♠.

Good Morning, ♥Little Sister♥, WoodEye, ♠Lonewolf♠ & Sojourner

I’ll grab some scrambled eggs & bacon.

Good morning, Tribe!

Time for me to get my day going.

Have a good one, ♠Lonewolf♠

Good Morning, Doctor Toon.

Time for me to get ready for my trip to Galveston.

Good Morning ♣Lonewolf♣, ♥Little Sister♥, LuvH8/BBS,Grog,Doctor Toon, RwB, Doc Toon, MontanaLady, Woodeye, hopeandjoy2, Johanan Rakkav, Rmom , Digital Frog, The Sojourner,Bmonk, serenasakitty,Ladyhawk, Saskfan

Doctor Toon you will be off for your weeks of vacation and before new years I will be older. I am on count down. I don’t plan to be out late at night.

Hi, tribe! Whew! It took me a little while to catch up on all the comments since I didn’t have time to read any yesterday. I thought I might change the avatar being in FL, but it is almost as cold here as it is in KS. I’m glad I brought my earmuffs!

Hello Rmom gald to see you. I hope all is well in FL now the long trip back.

Hello, Kab & Rmom

Well I must be going. Be back much later.

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡ ♪ Good Morning TRIBE! ♪

Hello to all those here!

I have been currently going over past test class is over, not so rushed for time see what I did wrong. Too bad professor would not do this with other class. Have no idea who else will take either class I had. They could be smarter then I and show me up.

Good Morning ♥♣Kab♥♥!

Good Morning Doctor Toon!

Have a good sleep Doctor Toon

Good afternoon (12:04pm) **Sojo, Doc Toon (peacefully sleeping..fun new avatar), ♥♣KAB♥, Grog (glad you like my avatar)Rmom, (sorry for the cool weather you had) ♥Little Sis♥, Lonewolf and all others on board or waiting**

I think I will chow down on an Angus burger and have some onion rings for lunch with a glass of milk. Yummm!

Good Afternoon HopeandJoy!

Good Morning!

Kab, I missed it, when will you be older?

Good Morning Ooops!!

What’s with Dusty and ChapStik™, anyway?

Hello Johanan - Good question.

Since Kab’s been treating us with (♥)s, I thought I’d treat you with (♫♪)s. But though I’m a musician among other things, I like the idea of using the Ace of Spades better. (Yes, Lonewolf uses aces too, but if he doesn’t mind then I don’t.)

So let it be written, so let it be done. :)

Hello Ooops, good to see you. You too, Johanan ♠ Johanan, would you mind if I referred to you as JR?

Wait. I forgot all about this one, which I used to use a lot:

I guess I could insert a music note in my name ♪ for fun, since I sing and am involved with music in other ways.

Hey, I like it! Add a space, though… :)

With a little help from Word, Acrobat and Paint Shop Pro, I just came up with this… it’s from Arabic, the beginning of something called Rub el Hizb, and one of the Times New Roman symbols on Word…

Hm, all things considered maybe I should reconsider!

Johanan Very focused symbol.

Indeed. But focused on what? (Yes, I know, symbols usually mean what people take them to mean.)

Here we go. A nice, unpretentious Hebrew letter aleph.

I like it. A nice connectedness.

I hope everyone is recovered from the holiday excesses, if any?

Looks like Dusty needs an intervention.

And then maybe a guest-appearance on Oprah?

Hello bmonk - Hope your falling frost has stopped.

Yeah, the skies are clear today. We did have some serious fog from Friday morning through Sunday early morning, but it lifted by mid-morning.

There were some bad accidents on the glaze, maybe made worse by the fog. Luckily, most people had the sense to seatbelt-up. Some even slowed down a bit…

Good afternoon Tribe!

Good Afternoon Sojo, HopeandJoy, Johanan, Bmonk and Lonewolf

Hello ♠Lonewolf♠ and awake Ooops!

Yes–Hi, Sojo, ♠Lonewolf♠, & Ooops!

Ooops!, I suppose it’s not your fault!??

Sneaking a peek while at work! How’s everyone doing today?

♠Lonewolf♠ - There is a lot of sunshine here today!

Hi, LuvH8 & Sojo!

I am awake Too! Good afternoon, Ooops!, bmonk, Lonewolf, Sojo, Johanan Our trees were pretty with frost this morning but I think it caused accidents in the city when it glazed the roads like where you live, bmonk

If Grog lives in the Houston area, (seems like he does), I have a funny paragraph to send his way later.

Well must get in a walk since it is 30° or so. Brrrr!

  Bmonk, it was an accident.

Hi ♪Hopeandjoy♫!!

Hope you don’t mind if I balanced your notes…

@Ooops!, I thought so!

ROFLMBO! You almost look innocent in that gif…

        So are any of you Snow Bahs playing in the snow? Snowball fights? Making snow creatures? Sledding? Burying items for people to find? (or not)

Made an account at Photo bucket for these pics. Hope it works and you can see the snow we had. It was the 3rd worst snow EVER (since records started in 1890s) for this area. http://s1185.photobucket.com/albums/z357/Saucy1121/?start=all

Actually, today it’s almost nice enough to go out to play.

Except that after several days of the wind playing with the snow, it’s mostly in nice, solid drifts…

Wow! Saucy, your dog is beautiful. That is some pretty impressive snow, be careful.

Bmonk, would today be a good day to borrow someone else’s car? Play King Of the Drift?

Hello Saucy - Thank you. I don’t think your dog knows what to think about the snow!

Lots of snow, Saucy and a lovely dog asking, “What happened to the ground?”.

bmonk I appreciate your balancing act…you are pretty good. I did have a note at the beginning but thought it was too pretentious or something but maybe I will reconsider. Do I have to use the character map? or can I find it on the numbered board as well like I did ♪?

Ooops, What would we do without you? ( I seem to be full of questions today!!!!!)

Well…… ummm….. I am still waiting for my rocks for Christmas, I guess since there are 17 days starting on the 21st of December, Santa technically has until the 6th of January. But, what if I wasn’t good enough for rocks! And I did ask for quite a few.

I just yesterday learned that on…… okay like blonde learned… Dec 7th (I tink) is find a chocolate Santa in your sock day. Does anyone know what you are supposed to do for each of the original twelve days of Christmas? If it is too religious, you could answer on For Heaven’s Sake (or blame me)

Hmmm….. maybe the 37 days of Christmas.

Ooops!I have heard something about a partridge in a pear tree…but seriously, I think there are gifts other than dancing ladies and leaping Lords but I don’t know….I will think on it during supper…or google???

Day 1 - Pin Day 2 - Pair of gloves Day 3 - Picture of the grandkids (three) Day 4 - Food pack of four items (like jelly) Day 5 - Family picture Day 6 - Reese’s christmas trees (six pack) Day 7 - Lucky 7 lottery tickets Day 8 - 8 oz soap bath & body works Day 9 - Cafe vienna cooffee (9 oz) Day 10 - ten of anything Day 11 - Eleven of anything Day 12 - Calendar

There was also “Gramma’s 12 days of Christmas” that could be used by anyone, but I can’t get the http:// to transfer.

Hello everyone

Oh! those I have some of those…..

But way back in the pre electricity and all that day, did they actually do something different for each of the twelve days of Christmas? Bmonk should know or…… hmmm…. maybe I should post the question over there. (Just don’t tell them I am using it as a basis for the 17 Days of Christmas Celebration) I really am curious.

There is a lot of beautiful sunlight left so I will go out and enjoy it.

Hello ♥Little Sister♥!

Great pictures of your dog in the snow Saucy. :-)

Hey! It matches!

My favorite 12 Days song is A Terrorist Christmas by James & Kling if I got the link right.

Glad you guys like the pictures. I think she’s decided she likes the snow, mostly. She’s only 3 so it’s the 2nd time she’s seen much snow. We had 6” back in January.

Okay! It did the old switcheroo!

Greetings Little Sister! Enjoy the Sun!

Hello all I finished a small meal. Hint my day is coming in a few days. New Years its over. Now I need to see where those music notes Hopeandjoy has. I sadly received a small bit of bad news and I’m not happy. Dept I work at only full time workers good or bad received a small 2% raise people like me pt forget it not good enough.

Saucy what type of dog is boy or girl. Our daughter and fellow have older golden retriver deep in red color and male 7 months old lighter in color. Male golden has one bad habit likes to eat females leavings. I instructed let female go first clean up then male can’t get it.

Moxie came from the SPCA as a chow mix. I highly doubt that. She’s a golden retreiver mostly, mixed with something else. Given how high she can jump, she probably has some kangaroo in her lineage.

She has a couple of black spots on her tongue, that’s probably why the SPCA thought chow. When they saw her a year or so later at a dog expo, they revised her breed to golden mix. Everyone who sees her, including the vet, thinks golden.

Kab the single music note is 269 with Alt held.

The double eighth notes can be found on the Character map Garamond on the bottom row, highlight to select and copy so you can paste somewhere else. (the single note is also there.)

Someone probably knows how to get the double notes on our keyboards but I haven’t found it yet.

Ooops! Have you noticed our avatars are antagonists? *: ) Now you’re talking about terrorist Christmas and I am getting scared….I’m a woose (who can’t spell) or wimpy maybe.

Gone for now. bbl?

Ah ♪Hopeandjoy♪ I wanted to give you a little more music since you like to sign. More notes more music. I don’t read sheet music.

♪ = alt+13 ♫ = alt+14

Alt 14 is double note. This is most fun I have had. You all are teaching something different.

The song is cute…..

Fiend apparently doesn’t do symbols (or I haven’t figured it out).

Kab, do you share a birthday with Monkey 2 or Lonewolf?

♣Johanan Rakkav♣ how is this for you? Saucy1121 you beat me to music notes.

♠Johanan Rakkav ♠ or this.

HopeandJoy the song title is a little intimidating, but it is a fun list if toys. My avatar …… it was an accident. I didn’t mean to do it, and I do not know if it is radioactive.

Hymenoxis or Hy (if I spelled the first wrong) I hope you and your wife and a lovely Christmas.

Whewwww What a relief Ooops! Now I remember about the accident.

Kab You don’t have to do the music notes when you comment or acknowledge me…Johanan got me started with the music note idea and then bmonk gave it an extra dash by adding the double note…this has been a group effort.

Thanks Saucy for the info. Glad you got your furry friend from the SPCA. I support them with a few $$ each year if I can and do some supplies for our local shelters.

Golferman calling….

Big Sister what is are the two on. ♠Lonewolf♠ and Monkey 2 because mine is coming fast.

♫Hopeandjoy♫ this is fun. The symbols not commentors name. Besides I always thought your name you use is musical and like shows hopefull.

Good Evening Tribe

Kab, you may not like a 2% increase, but I can asure you that there isn’t much more in our 2011 budget for our April increases. You may consider yourself lucky to get one at all. I know for the first time in many years I went without a couple of years ago. Usually big incresases are indicatations of higher inflation anyway. You never really come out ahead in the end.

Good Evening Grog!

From the reactions I seen very positive from workers in dept I work at. Last year when evan pt got the raise some as you say were not happy due medical insurance went up and they didn’t see increases. I have no medical insurance coming at all from my paycheck. All workers received a letter letting them know they will see 2% increase and I was informed pt will not and I did not receive such a letter. Head guy of dept made a statement only full time would be considered only I was hoping beyond hope this wouldn’t happen.:(

Kab, medical insurance is always going up. Unfortunately, premiums always seem to outpace inflation. I don’t see that trend changing.

Good evening, Sojuorner

Grog all workers including pt had to work on evaluation then pt were told pt time evaluats would be treated only medicore not that worthy whereas full time empolyees high esteem workers.

I am going to say bye for now. Soon be time to clean up and I want to do some reading. Before I know it spring class will start. I hope Little Sister has passed her subjects to move on. I wonder though to impress employers students suppose to have higher grades then C on some subjects.

Good Night ♥♣Kab♥♥.

Kab, that person should be fired for making such a statement. I can’t possibly believe that that’s the company line that’s been adopted. Either that or he/she was trying to make you feel good that you weren’t the only one in that boat. Increases should be based on merit, alone. There are those who are not worthy of an increase and some of those are full-time workers. Other than keeping a job, where is the motivation to do better?

Hi and Bye Doctor Toon - Have a good of night as possibe.

Sojourner, I suppose that explains a lot. I couldn’t bring myself to work for any Government. Just goes agains my grain.

Hi & Bye, Doc

Awfully quiet tonight.

Grog I received a book for C’mas called The Soul of Baseball after attending a charity function where the author spoke. I think you live in the Houston area and might like to remember how summer heat feels. (?) *: )

Joe Posnanski opens, ” We were in Houston in springtime. We sat in a ballpark under a sun so hot the seats melted beneath us. There is something honest about Houston heat–it comes at you straight. It does not drain you like the Washington humidity or try and trick you like dry heat in Phoenix. In Houston, the heat punches you in the gut again and again. Buck O’Neil was wilting.

Kab♥ Thank you. It *IS* fun learning all this crazy stuff. I need to get brave enough to see if I can learn some more. Hope you get a good rest and the reading comes easily to you.

Let us know your birthday, now.

Time for my zzzzzz’s.

♪ P&L ♪ ≡≡ POOF! ≡≡

HopeandJoy, Springtime in Houston is a picnic. I’ll take it over the summer heat any time. And there aren’t many times when humdidity isn’t a factor. Now the summer heat punches you in the gut and keeps hitting you after you are down.

Oh the Joy of Air Conditioning!! Your summer heat line is funny.

Goodnight Sojourner

(Yawn) Now I’M sleepy….

Hang in there, DOC TOON in case you have a chance to check in. I surely don’t envy you those nights but rest is coming.

I usually have my windows open in the spring while the rest of the wimps around here are cowering in A/C. If they lived in Montreal for 40 years, like I did, they may be happy to be here.

Good night, Sojourner

Well now that the Saints have secured a playoff spot against the Falcons, I too, can call it a night.

Gunite, Tribeandall

Good evening everyone :-)

Little Sister!

Lonewolf’s birthday is December 30, 1943, when is Sister Kab’s???