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[Peter Hansen]

I'll drink to that!

Wisdom from Wyoming: Objection from a former sailor
May 6, 2010
tags: Humor, Politics, Sailors
by Todd
A recent letter to the Editor to the Northern Wyoming Daily News in Worland, Wyoming had this to say:

To the Editor:
I object and take exception to everyone saying that Obama and Congress are spending money like a drunken sailor. As a former drunken sailor, I quit when I ran out of money.

Bruce L. Hargraves
USN Retired
Worland

[billyjoe]

Pete,

That was a great quiz but I believe there is another perennial vegetable .In fact, one has been growing in my back yard for at least 30 years. It is horseradish.

--------------billy

[billyjoe]

Without looking it up. What year did Sgt.Pepper teach the band to play?

-----------billy

Time's up. Sgt. Pepper was recorded in early 1967 and released in June 1967. "It was 20 years ago today Sgt.Pepper taught the band to play". Therefore Sgt.Pepper taught the band to play sometime in 1947. If the lyrics were actually written in 1966, 1946 would also be an acceptable answer.

------------billy

[Peter Hansen]

Billie

Time's up. Sgt. Pepper was recorded in early 1967 and released in June 1967. "It was 20 years ago today Sgt.Pepper taught the band to play". Therefore Sgt.Pepper taught the band to play sometime in 1947. If the lyrics were actually written in 1966, 1946 would also be an acceptable answer.

------------billy

Many of us like the Beatles Music ....but NOT necessarily their message. Apparently if you were not some POT Smoking Hippie and had conservative values..........you were perceived to be an AS* Hole by that liberal gang!
Yes I like my women , wine and song , but was NEVER a POTHEAD ,or used Cocaine or LSD . Like Mr Market ,bring me your finest , women meat and cheeses.......but er........ SKIP THE DRUGS!

[billyjoe]

Pete,
Like you I love the music but never was into the drugs and I believe that overall those heavily into them were in the minority depite media coverage to the contrary. Trained as a sociologist ,I enjoyed observing human behavior and also note that the perception of college students as a bunch of rioting crazed hippies in the 60's and 70's was also not quite accurate. Attending Bowling Green State U. in Ohio at the same time as the Kent State Fiasco I counted fewer than 100 students at a so called anti-war protest. Many were actual outsiders and not students. The 100 represented 2/3rds of 1% of the student body of 15,000. And this was at the high point of student activism.

-----------billy

[Peter Hansen]

Vote Obama's Report Card!

Vote and see how Obama is doing ......this should be fun LOL!

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/01/19/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry6116297.shtml?tag

[Peter Hansen]

Do You Remember?

THOUGHT YOU MIGHT ENJOY THIS ...
'Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?'
'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him.
'All the food was slow.'

'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?'


'It was a place called 'at home,'' I explained. !
'Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it..'

By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.
But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it :


Some parents NEVER owned their own house, never wore Levis, never set foot on a golf course, never traveled out of the country or had a credit card. In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears Roebuck . Or maybe it was Sears & Roebuck. Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.


My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow)
We didn't have a television in our house until I was 19.
It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God; it came back on the air at about 6 a.m. and there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people..


I was 21 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called 'pizza pie.'
When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.


I never had a telephone in my room.
The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.


Pizzas were not delivered to our home, but milk was.


All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers -- my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which he got to keep 2 cents. He had to get up at 6 A.M. every morning. On Saturday, he had to collect the 42 cents from his customers. His favorite customers were the ones who gave him 50 cents and told him to keep the change. His least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.



Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.


If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.

Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?

[riverbabe]

Four

6. Three English words beginning with dw: Dwarf, dwell and dwindle...

They forgot Dweeb...

http://www.answers.com/topic/dweeb

[Peter Hansen]

river wow

6. Three English words beginning with dw: Dwarf, dwell and dwindle...

They forgot Dweeb...

http://www.answers.com/topic/dweeb

River the intellects of the people on the Mr Market site never fail to amaze me ......we should put our minds together and RUN the country.....at least we couldn't do worse than the regime we have running it now!

[billyjoe]

If you think the U.S.A. is in bad shape now and going down the toilet, think of the possible ticket of Palin/beauty queen, and Linda McMahon/ World Wide Wrestling. It could happen.

---------------billy

[riverbabe]

Having just got back from a couple of weeks in Alaska, I can personally attest to the fact that VERY FEW people up there like Palin. Afterall, she QUIT! Had lunch in WASILLA and took off in a float plane on Lake Lucille, Palin's family "swimming hole." The road to her house was blocked by security, but I'm pretty sure we taxied right by it. Lucky us?

[Peter Hansen]

Water rafting "russian style"

I don't know if River could see Russia from Alaska , but this sport seems more fun to me than playing with the sled dogs LOL
This is Taken From THE NY POST Weird But True Column. 9/1/2010!


"It sure beats rafts.

More than 450 people rode inflatable sex dolls down rapids on Russia's Vuoksa River in a bizarre, but popular, race.

It was won by Vladislav Pavlenko, who rode his doll, named "Vanilla Pelotki," to the finish line in 2 minutes, 47 seconds"



Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/weird_b...#ixzz0yIo2NvXS

[Peter Hansen]

I want to be TRAILER TRASH!

A new slant to the term ......"Trailer Trash"

Check It Out ......UNBELIEVABLE!

http://www.poolfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&p=32934

[IIC]

Having just got back from a couple of weeks in Alaska, I can personally attest to the fact that VERY FEW people up there like Palin. Afterall, she QUIT! Had lunch in WASILLA and took off in a float plane on Lake Lucille, Palin's family "swimming hole." The road to her house was blocked by security, but I'm pretty sure we taxied right by it. Lucky us?

You went all the way to Alaska just to see Palin's house???

[IIC]

If your doctor has warned you to watch your drinking, find a bar with a mirror