Fun Stuff...Off Topic(O/T)

[riverbabe]

I looked up notable births on my birthday and year . There were none. Also very little ever happened on that day in history although a space shuttle was launced on that date a few years ago.

--------------billyjoe

Is this your way of telling us that you have just had a birthday? Space shuttle Discovery launched on October 11, 2000. There are quite a few years here with "missing notables."

http://www.slipyourmind.com/famous-bdays.html?m=10&d=11

billyjoe, if your birthday was yesterday, I hope it was spectacular and you had a great time. Happy Birthday billyjoe and many more! Riverbabe

[Peter Hansen]

Billie And Riverbabe

This site will graph your Biorhythm......Interesting and Free! ENJOY

http://www.whitestranger.com/downloads.htm

[Websman]

Country music...straight from Switzerland...jejeje

Next Beer 10 miles????

http://www.masonjar.ch/videoclips/next-beer-ten-miles.html

[MEA_1956]

What a bumber

Last winter, during the first snow of the year, the wife wanted me to walk to the store & get some bread & milk. Made it three blocks and turned around and headed for home. The beer store or bread store was only four more blocks, but that adds up to eight more blocks in three feet of snow going into the wind on the way home. Just wasn't that thursty, watch the gasme drinking water. Marlin

[billyjoe]

Country music...straight from Switzerland...jejeje

Next Beer 10 miles????

http://www.masonjar.ch/videoclips/ne...ten-miles.html

Webs,
Those guys are great! Tex-Mex from Bern. We could make a fortune setting them up in Branson Mo. if they have enough material. The lead singer is awesome. If I went to Switzerland I would have to see them.

-----------billyjoe

[Websman]

Webs,
Those guys are great! Tex-Mex from Bern. We could make a fortune setting them up in Branson Mo. if they have enough material. The lead singer is awesome. If I went to Switzerland I would have to see them.

-----------billyjoe

I'm thinking of heading over there this Spring....I may just have to go see them.

[IIC]

College Degrees

The graduate with a Science degree asks, "Why does it work?"

The graduate with an Engineering degree asks, "How does it work?"

The graduate with an Accounting degree asks, "How much will it cost?"

The graduate with a Liberal Arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with that?"

[billyjoe]

IIC--3
Billyjoe-1

[Peter Hansen]

Another Exciting Date!

Oh yes another excitng date.........I do remember those days !

guy took his blonde girlfriend to her first football game. They had great seats right behind their team's bench. After the game, he asked her how she liked the experience.

"Oh, I really liked it," she replied, "especially the tight pants and all the big muscles, but I just couldn't understand why they were killing each other over 25 cents."

Dumbfounded, her date asked, "What do you mean?"

"Well, they started by flipping the coin, one team got it and then for the rest of the game, all they kept screaming was: 'Get the quarterback! Get the quarterback!'
I'm like...Helloooooo? It's only 25 cents!!!!

[MEA_1956]

Blondes

I once knew a girl who tried to exchange her menstruum cycle in on a Honda.

[IIC]

Thinking about changing my avatar

[Peter Hansen]

A Salute To Our Finest In Iraq

Although you may not agree with the war .........We are still in the best country in the world!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRb7XxuxH_o&mode=related&search=

[riverbabe]

It’s a Day Off in the A.L., Where the Wild Things Are

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/sports/baseball/18bugs.html?th&emc=th

It’s a Day Off in the A.L., Where the Wild Things Are
Richard Perry / The New York Times
Joba Chamberlain was surrounded by bugs in Cleveland. Check out the picture in the link!


By TEDDY KIDER
Published: October 18, 2007
The unusual nature of the 2007 baseball season — the Mets’ historic collapse, the Colorado Rockies’ historic run, the squirrel and the bugs that intruded on the Yankees and the Byrd that seems to be propelling the Cleveland Indians — almost defies explanation.

A squirrel foretold the demise of the Yankees.
But not quite. Yesterday, in Cleveland, where the Indians are one game from the World Series, which they have not won since 1948, Joe Keiper, the chief entomologist at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, tried to make more sense of the tiny midges that have become the Indians’ M.V.B. (most valuable bugs).

It was the midges, residing on Lake Erie, who took advantage of an unusually warm Oct. 5 evening to reproduce before the cold Cleveland winter. Drawn to the bright lights of Jacobs Field they gathered on the field in the eighth inning of Game 2, with the Yankees holding a 1-0 lead.

As is their custom, Keiper said, the midges searched the field for the highest possible meeting point for centralized mating, which happened to be the 6-foot-2 Joba Chamberlain, perched atop the pitcher’s mound.

And then, Keiper added, the midges had an “extra burst of adult activity” that distracted the usually unhittable Chamberlain into a procession of walks and wild pitches that allowed the Indians to tie the score, win the game innings later and take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five first-round series.

“They didn’t know it was a pitcher,” Keiper said of the midges, and Chamberlain. “They didn’t know he was a Yankee. They just saw a high point where they could swarm together to mate.”

That is the scientific explanation for the pivotal moment in the Yankees’ first-round demise. Meanwhile, there is still that squirrel, the one that made his entrance in the baseball season during a Yankees-Boston game in the Bronx on Aug. 28, scurrying up and down the right-field foul pole.

When last we met Roberta Frank, the Bronx native and professor of Old Norse and Old English at Yale University, she carefully and regretfully noted that the squirrel foretold the demise of the Yankees in 2007, even though they were in the process of sweeping three games from the Red Sox.

The squirrel, she said at the time, resembled Ratatosk, a creature in Norse mythology that precipitated the destruction of the world (including the eagle, or the Yankees, who, after all, have made an eagle part of their on-field ceremonies) by the evil dragon (or the Red Sox). As it turned out, Frank was correct. The Red Sox held on to win the American League East for the first time in a dozen years, and they are alive in the postseason, if barely, while the Yankees spend their days debating the fate of Joe Torre.

Frank said yesterday that her August entry into baseball had, well, changed her life. “After 30 or 40 years of careful scholarship, that squirrel and my name are connected forever,” she said.

And while she was at it yesterday, she weighed in on the midges, explaining that in Norse mythology, wizards often surrounded people with swarms of insects and fog in scenes not that dissimilar to the disaster that befell Chamberlain. There is a lake in Iceland called Myvatn, or midge lake, she said.

Unfortunately for vengeful Yankees fans, Frank could not say which wizards could have visited the Game 2 plague upon the Yankees. But she did provide some hope for next season. The 13th-century Ratatosk tale states that after the destruction of the world, good rises again.

From a New York point of view, that means the Yankees will return to fight another day, albeit in different form, Frank said. Odin and Thor, the two leading Gods of the old world (think George Steinbrenner and Joe Torre) are succeeded by a new generation, maybe Hank Steinbrenner and Don Mattingly. So stay tuned.

And then there is the Byrd, as in Paul, the veteran Cleveland right-hander of modest reputation who, to a considerable amount of surprise, has shut down the Yankees and Red Sox in successive postseason starts. There is no scientific or mythological explanation necessary for Byrd; he is pitching well. And unlike the squirrel or the midges, he is probably headed to the World Series.

[riverbabe]

The William Tell Overture With Lyrics

Even without kids at home, you will be able to relate to this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxT5NwQUtVM

[billyjoe]

Am I a Cheapskate?

Mrs. Billyjoe sometimes hints that I might be a cheapskate but she's too nice to come right out and call me one. You be the judge.

-----------Today I woke up in my 100 year old house bought for a pittance in 1982 because interest rates were 19% and I had a wad of cash at the time. Should have bought a couple more and sold them 10 years later. Kohl's is having a great sale today and who can pass that up? Jumping into my Honda Civic bought at half price because of a salvage title, I drive to the Marathon gas station. They have the cheapest gas in town, will sell you a $50 gas card for $48 and take 5 cents off extra on Sunday. All the $1 bills are burning a hole in my wallet. This spring I bought flats of tomatoes for $1.25 at an Amish auction. You can't grow them for that especially when you include the flat and plastic inserts. From those plants I've sold $250 of tomatoes at $1 per quart at my self serve stand. That's where all the dollar bills came from. Driving to Kohl's I get in a traffic jam and it bothers me as my normal 38MPG drops as I sit in traffic. Finally at the store. Everything is 40-70% off. Buying $35 worth of underwear, socks, and a bathing suit, I pay with 35 dollar bills . Had I spent $15 more they would have given me a $10 shopping card. My shopping spree was so successful I might do it again next year. Some may call me a cheapskate, but I'm just living within my means.

----------------billyjoe