Potential Republican Crack-Up

[fanfan]

Lots of people being stuck by lighting up here lately.

Make sure he goes with someone taller, and stands at least 10 feet away during strikes.

[Monkey Face]

And don't shelter under a tree...

[fanfan]

And Diet Coke.

That's the stuff that removes the calories from the ice cream, right?

When we were expecting our first, we went to one (1) child birth prep. class........About half way through, one lady asked if the placenta was the thing that filtered out the junk food she ate so that it wouldn't hurt the baby. At that moment, we realized the class was for people like her, and not people like us. LOL.

[Dead Corpse]

Seraphim Shock- Some Sick Dream

Beneath the Willow tree
She beckons me. Deep inside
An Autum's chill, a Witches Spell
By candlelight, legends cry
So sad the Ghost
Behind her precious smile
So sad her haunted head
Blood covers time
On and on it goes
The Devils play
Drift away
Alone
She's alone again
Scarlet rain
Alone
She's alone again
Roses fade

Stare into my eyes forever
Let me take you in my arms
Dance with me out in the Garden,
where tomorrow never comes
Follow me into the darkness
Where the nightmares never fade
Whisper dreams my Fallen Angle
From which you will never wake
Please stay

[Dead Corpse]

Eh... something like that. As I get older, my temper isn't as volitile as it used to be.

[Tax-chick]

You must have been there during a flood cycle. When Dad and I went to the Big Bend, it hadn't rained in Marathon for 10 months, and in Fort Stockton for 7 months. We fixed that!

[Tax-chick]

That's funny! I've steadfastly avoided childbirth classes - but managed to have babies anyway!

[Monkey Face]

Did you know that the Coca-Cola company uses coke to clean it's truck engines? And that highway patrol troopers usually carry a couple gallons in their trunks to clean the blood off highways after an accident? It will also dissolve raw hamburger and even nails...

[fanfan]

Now thats just not true.

[Monkey Face]

Nah...I just went there and it began to rain...just like it did here when I made my plans to move here...I was stalled in TX for three days, waiting for the rain to stop here, so I could make the drive.

[Monkey Face]

Yes ma'am...I have an entire list of the things that coke can do, and none of them are "good" to the internal human organs...

[Tax-chick]

Amazing!

[Monkey Face]

Yep...and I will not drink coke...I won't even drink Pepsi unless there is nothing else available.

I'll find that list and post it...it's SCARY!

[HKMk23]

Just back from bee-YOU-teeful Yosemite with the missus and all the little Mk23's (Tac45's??). Pitched the BIG tent [9-man Ridgeway by Kelty, roughly 15ft x 18ft] in a campsite at Crane Flat (at 6,200ft elev, 8 mi from the park entrance on hwy 120).

Sat for an hour with Mrs. HKMk23 one night and watched a bat swooping through the light of our two tiki torches over and over again. Coyotes making a ruckus woke us up a couple of times. I grew up in the hills and had coyotes around, but I never realized how etheral is their howling until I heard it echoing through those Sierra woods; makes the blood run cold. Only wolves would have been more, uh, "exciting."

As always in the Sierra, the night sky was utterly majestic. [My God! It's full of stars!] A sky like that is almost enough to make you wish for fewer trees so as to see it better. Just a tad on the cool side to leave the rainfly off the tent or we could have watched the skies from our beds at night (the tent has a fine mesh top that allows an open sky view if you leave the rainfly off). It's really too bad, as we're just entering the Perseid Meteor shower and might well have seen some early arrivals.

Went on the short hikes to Bridalveil and Lower Yosemite falls. This time of year the water level is low enoug that you can boulder right up the creek to the falls themselves in both locations. Climbed with my #2 son right to the face of Lower Yosemite Falls and stood in the cool mist on a 100+ degree day thinking, "99.99% of the people who visit here, never experience this." Spent a couple of afternoons relaxing on the shores of the Merced river at Cathedral beach; wading, skipping stones and playing "Duck on a Rock" (on a log, actually).

Only saw one bear, which was sort of a disappointment, but the encounter was cool. On the walk to Lower Yosemite Falls, I was playing caboose with #3 son and #1 son was about 200ft ahead of us on the walking trail along the road. A mid-sized brown bear crossed the road about 40ft behind him; just loafing along with warm sunshine and fresh grubs on it's mind and paying no mind to either man or machine. I hollered to #1 son to turn around so he could get an eyeful, but he was just out of earshot. In retrospect, that might have been for the best, however. If he HAD seen the bear, I'm not certain that he wouldn't have panicked and bolted and, had he done that, the bear was close enough to him to make the urge to chase him a very real enticement.

Alas, 'twas past all too soon and I now have returned to the land of plastic and pavement; drawn inexorably to a more tedious reality by economic ties that bind. BTW, 'Face, my real name's no shorter tha my screen name, but you can call me "D" if it'll make your life easier.

[fanfan]

Well, being scientifically minded, (Spock was my hero), I tried it.

Coke can't clean a penny, or dissolve a nail.

It can however look very undrinkable after 2 days with a penny or nail sitting in the bottom of the glass. LOL.

[Chode]

yup, i'm lovin it... Must see TV!!!

ya wanna see Five??? http://www.madcomics.de/tripping/18/money02.jpg

[Dawsonville_Doc]

It'll take pine sap off a car... ;)

[Darksheare]

Yuppers, I kinda helped drag her back from lurking.

[Monkey Face]

OK...I'm going to have to transcribe this list, but when I do, I'll post it. It takes coke about four days to dissolve a nail...

[Monkey Face]

And clean the corrosion around the battery terminals...