Posted on 01/03/2008 6:35:58 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
Mine!
grrrrr
:-p
And I'd be happy to let you drive the Ranger and see if you like a manual. It will be looser than a new car.
Honestly, I'm surprised you'd think you'd like it, since you're nervous making left turns ~anyway~ in traffic, I can't imagine the possibility of slipping up and stalling in the middle of the lane (which happens at some point to everybody) would be something you'd want to add to your driving experience.
Well...yah...you're probably right. I'm know I'm kind of a nervy driver, and adding complexity to the driving experience is probably not a great way to go... Honestly, the one car that has the little buttons for pretend manual shifting is probably more my speed.
I'm just trying to be cheap...but really, I guess with the newer vehicles there isn't even that much of a difference in gas mileage, and automatic transmissions are built better than they used to be. Not as peppy, perhaps...but is peppy really my thing?
So there's that.
Just trying to be think it all out and be practical. ;-)
Fun with my new flower pot on a thread about whether Animal Psychics are real ;~)
http://forum.horse.com/fb.asp?m=627743
The poster who says “drink the Kool-aid” apparently has taken her own advice. Wow.
Yeah - she’s kinda ~bwoop~ out there.
And I don’t think she likes me :~)
Er...that should be “don’t drink the Kool-aid” and “apparently hasn’t taken her own advice”.
But you knew what I meant. ;-)
It read right to me... :~)
I always found it to be a problem putting one foot on the gas, one foot on the brake, one on the clutch, and one to apply the emergency brake. Especially on hills, and when going into reverse by accident. Don't let me discourage you.
Seeing all of the health posts lately it looks like we are turning the HH into a health thread (of course I have a lot of sins in this regard myself). Maybe we should have our next Moot at the Mayo Clinic! (Minnesota is pretty central, and the Jacksonville, FL branch is pretty comfortable in winter)
On FOX news they just said that Hillary is apologizing for Bill! For what he said about Obama in South Carolina.
Hi there LCS!
I’m really supposed to be out cleaning stalls... it’s just really nasty out and I’m trying to put it off.
So you’re posting to me in preference to cleaning out stalls only because the weather is lousy?
HA! No- I didn’t mean it that way at all ;~)
No problem, I am not as pretty as a horse, nor as nimble, allthough I’m easier to clear up after. How do you like my new tagline, it’s kind of appropriate for all occasions, and i’m tired of beating up on the Huck folks?
If it was Ohio, you’d get stuck.
Dang... I actually went back and read that whole thread. There’s all sorts of folks in the world. All sorts.
Why would you have to ever call a pyschic? Shouldn’t they be calling ~you~?
:-)
There’s a lot of Wiccans and Pagans on that forum.
More than I thought still existed! :~)
You show great restraint. I don’t manage so well, sometimes.
It’s probably no coincidence that wiccans and such are into such things. They’ll believe ~anything~. They want so desperately for it all to be real they’re just easy marks for a really good cold-reader. And there are cold readers that are very good at it.
Yeah - I didn't post any quotes from South Park:
John Edward: Look, what I do doesn't hurt anybody. I give people closure and help them cope with life.
Stan: No, you give them false hope and a belief in something that isn't real.
John Edward: But I'm a psychic.
Stan: No dude, you're a douche.
John Edward: I'm not a douche! What if I really believe that dead people talk to me?
Stan: Then you're a stupid douche
But I thought about it ;~)
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