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Posted on 04/20/2006 2:10:46 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
New verse:
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You killed the thread.
Just took this picture of Pippin...
Dang, that's just cuteness overload!
The Great Stalker!
He may look cute, but he's got toads in his pockets :~D
I wouldn't want that stalking me!
Hehehe....Jungle Cat.
Got faucets!!! LSA
Woo Hoo! And they fit and work okay? Now you have to do something about the paint. :)
Yup, they look good. I got the paint Tuesday but I've had all my household chores to catch up on, hopefully, I can paint tomorrow.
Plumber is now tearing into the wall upstairs to replace those faucets too. Much more extensive work has to be done, and then I get to replace and re-grout two rows of tile. Luckily, OB, who never throws away anything, saved a small box of the old tile, so we're not faced with the problem of trying to match the pattern.
Ack! The plumbing stooge killed the thread!
It's been dead all day. I'm bored.
"No wonder there's no water. These pipes are full of wires!"
I've at least got the beds near the door, if you wanna come get 'em in half an hour or so.
I'll finish drying sheets later tonight and bring 'em over first thing in the morning - wanna wait until it cools down slightly before I run the dryer.
Ah - fair enough :~D
Hey y'all! ^_^ Sorry I haven't posted in... uh... a wicked long time. But when I saw this forward I just had to show it to you guys:
"Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of teachers across the country. Here are last year's winners.....
1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.
5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.
6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.
8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine.
9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.
10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.
11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.
12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.
14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.
16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East River.
18. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.
19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.
21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.
22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools."
And now I've gotta go move some books around for Mum. Bye folks~!
:-D
Those are really good :~D
Hehehe. Those are good... think I've seen a lot of 'em before but they're great anyway.
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