Hey there, a big shout out to O, doctorinthehouse, greggy, and anyone else out there in Europe (mr. riny? are you still in Europe? :o)
What's going on over there on your side of the pond? Everything groovy? I feel like it's been ages since we had any discussions on whatnot. With the election over, I'm wondering how you guys are perceiving things...not to mention just checking in with y'all to see what's up.
Chime in and report for duty, you Knights of the Jacket Table! :)
Equally curious.....anything happening on your side of the Atlantic that we need to know about.
D.
Apart from getting a year older overnight, bugger all is happening Up North.
Due to this I may fabricate something for later.
QuoteApart from getting a year older overnight,
Happy birthday to you :D
hey, everyone say happy birthday to greggy!
on this side of the pond, all is well. looking at a new house tonight in louisville, the wife is progressing nicely towards having a healthy and wonderful daughter, the son just got enrolled in a great technology school, and if I could scrounge a few more bucks a month, I'd just about have perfection.
how are you?
Best wishes greggy on your birthday :)
Enjoy the day....
D.
Happy birthday dude.
Celebrating mine tomorrow (the 7th). Twenty-bloody-three years old. 23!?!?! Getting old.
Well, I'm not actually celebrating tomorrow. The party was last weekend. Or so i'm told. It's all a bit foggy. We tried to play the alaphabet drinking game. I'm really struggling to remember anything after about V.
Yay! Happy Birthday greggy!
John, glad to hear your Mama's doing well. And also glad to hear about your son. Bucks will find their way... somehow...
(I don't actually REALLY know that bucks will come your way, but you seem good, and the Universe takes care of the good ones in it's own special way... I hope.) :)
QuoteI'm really struggling to remember anything after about V.
V!!!
You did well to remember up till then. I'm impressed ;)
Have a cool day tomorrow.
yeah, still in europe.
like said, bugger all is happening.
are you all talking about V,
like in scared the shit out of me when i was a kid V?
Ha ha, that's what I thought, too!
(I guess WE'RE the old ones.)
Quoteyeah, still in europe.
like said, bugger all is happening.
are you all talking about V,
like in scared the shit out of me when i was a kid V?
You mean that weird alien-reptile programme? That
was scary.
Old Billy (23 today, poor soul) played a drinking game at the weekend. He remembers everything up to the letter V - an astonishing feat at any age ;)
Happy birthday Billy :)
And I'm not ignoring your question, John. When something happens I'll let you know. There are rumours here of an election soon.
Hmm, Holland... We're having media telling us that we're in a civil war with muslims, a prime minister who is a dick, was a dick, and will always be a dick and we're sitting here in our stupid little country watching big powerful countries being equally, or even more, stupid. So, that was the Dutch news flash! :)
So I'm becoming less and less interested in politics, also because I'm getting the idea that people aren't even capable of properly organising their own life, let alone an entire world. This idea obiviously came from looking at myself and the people around me. :)
Then what is left for us to do then just keep on screwing around a bit? Nothing, I guess. And well, as long as there is music...
Hey, John, come down to the Creek!
O- I hear there's a big controversy over euthanasia there now. (Not that that's the most fun topic of conversation. Actually, forget I said anything! How's the love life?)
Quoteroll down the windows and open our mouths taste where we are and play the music loud
(hey tundra, where's your quote from?)
Nothing happening in Liverpool, nothing worth talking about anyway.
Happy Birthday Greggy.
tundra, do you mean "knob creek" ? ;)
yo, all you folks over there should get together and party. or at least raise a pint to greggy's birthday (yesterday, but hey)...
Sorry, forgot to wish Greggy a happy birthday--Happy Birthday, Greggy!! I think I'll head down to Bardstown Rd and have a sip or 2 at Cumberland Brews in your honor (at least, that's my excuse!)
EC - quote's from "So Much Beauty in Dirt" by Modest Mouse, one of my absolute favorite songs. Here's a website just for you: http://www.leglamp.com/
Okay. Two weird things.
1) I was sure that your quote was from a book called "The Perks of Being a Wallflower". Instead it's from Modest Mouse that everyone is telling me (for years my brother has been trying to get me) to listen to. Why aren't I? Hell, I don't know.
2) The leg lamp. That is the 2nd time in under 24 hours that I have been introduced to a website that sells leg lamps. How is it possible that I didn't know about it before? I want one. Here's the link to the other one: www.redriderleglamps.com Are you getting one? I kind of think I should.
Maybe santa will bring me a leg lamp! :)
As for Modest Mouse, Lonesome Crowded West and/or Good News for People who Love Bad News may be the best albums to get to introduce yourself to them. But all the albums and EPs are really damn good.
Ahhh leg lamps the furniture item from on of my all time favorite movies--"A Christmas Story" such a timely entry in this here little forum. How about the rest of youse? What's your take on this flick and what is your fav holiday movie (if not that one)?
'Scrooge' the b & w one with Alastair Sim.
'Its a Wonderful Life'
'Where Eagles Dare' (nowt to do with the festive season, but who cares?
"A Christmas Story" is one of my top movies of all time. Certainly in my top ten. It's my favourite holiday movie, too. Every year I have to hold myself back from watching it until December.
Last year was apparently the 20th anniversary, and there's a new spanked up dvd. I think I'm going to get it. Peter Billingsley did a doc and everything.
We have a tradition of watching the National Lampoon Christmas Vacation movie. It's very silly but we all laugh out loud. We usually watch it just after the kids break up for the Christmas holiday.
I also love a good ghost story on Christmas Eve.
QuoteO- I hear there's a big controversy over euthanasia there now. (Not that that's the most fun topic of conversation. Actually, forget I said anything! How's the love life?)
Ehm, is there? I guess I missed that. Riny? ???
The love life's fine, by the way, though a little shakey. As ever, I might say. :)
I think Tundra might be referring to news reports of "euthanasia tourism". We've heard that here in the UK too. Euthanasia is (I think) legal in The Netherlands, and people who have chosen to die are going there for help. Don't know how controversial that is in Holland but it's caused a bit of a stir here.
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Ehm, is there? I guess I missed that. Riny? ???
uhm, guess i must have missed it too.
probably a bigger deal in other countries...
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uhm, guess i must have missed it too.
probably a bigger deal in other countries...
good one. i'm sure farting will soon be outlawed here...
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good one. i'm sure farting will soon be outlawed here...
I believe there's some country that forbids farting in public. not sure where, some scandinavian country, I think. don't fart me if i'm wrong.
I heard this on Canadian radio show "As It Happens":
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/10325794.htm?1c
Euthanasia battle's new focus: Infants
The Dutch were the first to legalize adult cases. But newborns? A hospital stunned critics.
By Toby Sterling
Associated Press
AMSTERDAM - A hospital in the Netherlands, the first nation to legalize euthanasia, recently proposed guidelines for so-called mercy killings of terminally ill newborns and then made a startling revelation: It already had begun carrying out such procedures, which include administering a lethal dose of sedatives.
Aldous Huxley all over again >:(
If anyone thinks this isn't occurring everywhere already (infants to elderly people), I've got news for ya.
It's been a very common practice to put people to sleep with lethal doses of morphine for 100 years. Folks never griped about it as it usually was applied to the very old and very sick-but now that modern medicine has a hangup about keeping people alive regardless of how low their quality of life is, not to mention selish relatives that can't or won't let sick people die, our panties are in a collective bunch over this. "they're just depressed", they would say-no shit! they're dying of a horrible disease that causes them constant agony...but that insurance money keeps coming so long as they're alive, so keep em going!
sorry, i've had terminally ill family members who have had issues with this. dying from cancer? sorry, we can't let you assuage your suffering.
Ehm, yeah, I missed that. Well, I feel I don't know enough about it to give my opinion on this, so I won't.
awwwwwwwww, c'mon O! bring on the heat! ;)
Along the Canadian line anyone remember Aldo Nova....eighties one hit wonder even though if you buy his best of disc it is preety damn good.
D.
QuoteAlong the Canadian line anyone remember Aldo Nova....eighties one hit wonder even though if you buy his best of disc it is preety damn good.
D.
life is just a fantasy, can you live this fantasy life?
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