Free Republic Smokers' Lounge

Puff List ^ | 3/14/03 | francisandbeans

[Just another Joe]

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Welcome Friends, foes and associates to the completely remodeled Free Republic...

Smoker's Lounge

Here you will find a comfy place to smoke, drink, joke or whatever. We always have a great time, so sit back, relax and...

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[Ramius]

Hi there barkeep! Haven't been in for a while... but since I'm now in a non-virtual bar with my laptop and wireless, with a *non-virtual* fine double Wild Turkey and a Red Hook in front of me... I'll settle for a picture of same... :-) How's everybody?

Any chance we can designate the lounge as a no-liz-smart zone?? Last night I had way more of that than I can take... :-p

[Just another Joe]

Couple of Miller Lites and an ashtray, comin' right up.

Sorry to hear about your near call. Told ya ya should have taken that money and done what you wanted to with it.

[Just another Joe]

I don't have any Red Hook on tap for pitchers but I'll keep your glass full.
Not one mention of Liz Smart until YOU showed up. ;^)

[Gabz]

I do what I can - when and how I can!!!!

We found a place in Virginia and this place has been sold - I've got less than 5 weeks to get out of here - YIKES!!!!

[Ramius]

Thanks! That'll do nicely. Liz who?

I hear there's maybe a war on... at least it would get the damn media out of Utah.

[Texan5]

I did, Joe. I bought my truck a new carbureator with part of it, too, but hubby and I were in a hurry when we installed it. We just need to adjust it some and make sure that the choke wire has good contact. I bought my car new brakes, too-rotors, calipers the works, which will be finished Monday, but I can't take it to a lot of job sites-it sits too low on the ground, so I need my truck. Thanks for the beers, yum.......

[Texan5]

I'm in the middle of moving to our new house-I share your trauma, big time. Very unsettling experience (but the alternative is staying in the old house, and I suspect that is not acceptable to either of us, hmmmmm..)

[Gabz]

(but the alternative is staying in the old house, and I suspect that is not acceptable to either of us, hmmmmm..)

How correct you are.

The new house is probably only half the size of this place, but it is out in the country and away from the damned drug dealers I've been forced to live with for the past 2 years.

On the other hand, we're moving from a townhouse with a 35x150 lot to 1.75 acres. The house has major potentials for expansions.

[Ramius]

Ah, yes... Lord, it's good clean fun to smack the French around.

"Now go away... or I shall taunt you a second time!!!!"

I must admit that I utterly failed to boycott last week, on a trip to the Bay Area. Stayed in the Sofitel (not my fault! It's the only thing close enough to the office where we have a corporate rate! That, and the bartender in the lounge is cute and she knows me by name now. I've stayed there every two weeks for the last two years.)

But: No french flags out front anymore. This, even in SF. You've got to know that things are getting lousy for the French when they don't even have any friends in San Francisco. :-)

[Just another Joe]

10 more useless facts.

11. A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.
12. The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500's.
13. The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
14. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
15. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
16. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
17. The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
18. In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
19. Every person has a unique tongue print.
20. Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.

[Gabz]

I have a major problem with all the French bashing - NOT....

Even though my name is Gabrielle, my daughter's name is Jacqueline and our last name is so French init's spelling, that most people can't pronouce it when they read it.

I don't give a hoot what the French say about us. My husband's last name may be French, but his great (x5) grandfather was Major James Hale - the brother of Nathan.

The French last name in this household does not keep us from despising what that country is doing right now.

[Gabz]

Here's a picture of our little house and the out building at the far end of the property.

[Ramius]

13. The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

Whether it worked as a contraceptive or not, I don't know, but the collection of same was likely a good population control mechanism one way or the other...

[Gabz]

11. A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.

And the antis worry about a bit of SHS??? Cut me a flipping break.

[SeaDragon]

That is very close..... I am out of here, Joe, I will do my best to touch base from the ship. They actually have computer access for guests now.

Have fun and party on. I plan too............

[Ramius]

...as long as your last name isn't "Maginot". :-)

I keep wondering why Chirac is willing to expend so much political capital to save a despot. It's going to be just plain entertaining to overturn chemical shells in Baghdad and see the "made in france" label. I almost feel sorry for them.

[Just another Joe]

Have a good time, Sea.

[Gabz]

You gotit all right!!!!!

[Texan5]

That house and property are beautiful, Gabz! I love the picture of the barn sitting in the winter grass. Interesting similarities in the moving thing-We also are moving from a 80x120 city lot to just under an acre in the country. Our new house, however is bigger than the old one. I will post some pictures when I have the computer moved and all the peripherals hooked up, I promise. My husband has a French surname, too, and almost exclusively Canadian French ancestry on both sides of his family. He is fond of saying that the first smart thing his family did was leave France, and the second was to leave Canada for the US.

[Texan5]

That "made in France" will be on everything from the poison gas to the cheese, I am willing to bet.