**Ladies and Gentlemen...IT'S THE FR SINGLES THREAD 2-4 MAY** On Reading...

[GOP_Raider]

Well, it's perhaps a tad early for the thread to be up, but it is Happy Hour on the East Coast, so by the time a few of you have a few pre-weekend beverages, you'll be more than ready for the thread!

So in a few weeks, my nephew will be coming into town. Since his Mom and Dad (my sister and brother in law) thinks the boy will have no use for fancy book learnin', I am the one responsible to read to him.

"But my Uncle did read to me the entire Declaration of Independence when I last saw him. Hopefully he'll do it again since I don't think I'll get that kind of stuff in public schools."

So let's get this party started. What books would be good for a young skull full of mush like my nephew? Did you have any favorites when you were a kid? Did you enjoy reading more when you got to do it on your own as an adult or as a kid?

I'll have the bonus question with the ping...

[ozark hilljilly]

Cookies??!!
Where?!
C’mon...pass them over.

I’m stumbling in late, had a marvelous evening with my kids.
I broke out the old vinyl and let them hear what Mom thought was cool, back in the day. We played some Beatles, Hendrix, Blondie, Elvis Costello, ELO, ELP-my gosh, what a fun nite! AND THEY ACTUALLY ENJOYED IT!! We danced and sang and now they’re both conked out...mommy’s kinda tired too.

[GOP_Raider]

I never used to like asparagus and then my grandmother made some for me with some cheese and I grew to like it...even without the cheese. :)

[Global2010]

In reference to Rush not dwelving into the meat of issues.

Reminds me of what someone said the other day.
We have become a society of bumper sticker sayings.

I have to agree.

[GOP_Raider]

Now that sounds like fun! My Mom still has a substantial vinyl record collection...she had Cheech and Chong on vinyl, and I never bothered to ask her why :)

[ozark hilljilly]

“We have become a society of bumper sticker sayings.”

That would make a good bumper sticker.

(Sorry, couldn’t help myself.)

[Global2010]

Yeah I notice since post Schulzt (sic) they have PCeed Peanuts too.

Lucy is supposed to be a mean lil **tch and it is OK for Charlie Brown to feel SAD!

[ozark hilljilly]

Cheech and Chong, I never had. I just didn’t get into the whole drug culture humor thing back then.

It was a lot of fun tonight. I found out I can’t quite Twist like I usta! (my knees are a bit sore now...) My daughter caught sight of the inner pic on the Woodstock album (the naked hippy couple in the pond) and she freaked out. “Mom!!!! They’re...naked!!!Ewwwwwwww!”

I told her they were hippies, they do that.

[GOP_Raider]

We have become a society of bumper sticker sayings.

Which perfectly explains the B. Hussein Obama candidacy.

That having been said, I think Rush does get into the meat of issues when he really wants to do it. He does this more than Hannity does...the one thing that irritates me about Hannity is that he spends way too much time giving airtime to the kooks and 'seminar callers'. If I wanted to hear that garbage, I'd go read some posts at DU.

[Global2010]

Hey I like that.

[darkangel82]

I have a turntable and some vinyl records that are older than I am.

[ozark hilljilly]

Same here. I even have some 78’s! Fat lot of good they do me. My turntable only has 33 1/2 and 45 rpm.

[darkangel82]

All of mine play on the turntable, so I guess it is a 78. I will play those or my cds over most of what is on the radio.

[radiohead]

From another thread tonight:

“The girl said the shooting occurred in her mother’s bedroom, where Vandeberg was with her boyfriend after she had consumed 10 to 12 beers.”

In this case, the girl’s mother shot her - the mother shot her own daughter with a BB gun - after the boyfriend bet her a $1. I am never surprised when women get up to no good after drinking beer.

[darkangel82]

I read that on CNN a little before it was posted here. Worthless human trash, they are.

[ozark hilljilly]

I was just reading that one, too!
Geez! Never mind finding a cure for cancers...we need a cure for STUPID!!

The article said she had what? like 10 or 13 (!!??) beers when that happened. Or did I misread that?

[ozark hilljilly]

(Oops, nevermind, the amount was in your quote-Doh! I am tired.)

[darkangel82]

I said on an earlier thread that if we could tax stupidity we could pay off the national debt.

[LaineyDee]

I have always wanted to like it so any suggestions will be welcome.

Hefeweizen beer with a slice of lemon. I am not crazy about beer either.... but this stuff was good. There are alot of different brands out there.....but a microbrew I tasted in Oregon was the best.

[GOP_Raider]

Just make sure that the marginal tax rate for stupidity remains somewhat low otherwise the economy could collapse on itself. ;)

[GOP_Raider]

Sunday Afternoon and Evening Singles

(I knew I'd get that spacing right at some point this weekend)

The Sunday ping is going to be a tad eary today, since in a few hours I'm going to be heading to my favorite adult beverage establishment for Game 6 of the Sharks/Stars playoff series.

Before I take off, I've been looking at getting a laptop for a while now, since apparently I'm popular here or something and one of my coworkers wanted to sell me his old one for $200. Good price, seems like it works fine, but I'm suspicious. The only drawback is that it doesn't have enough memory that I'd need--my iPod siphoned most of the memory I have on my current desktop.

So if any of you have anything yea or nay on buying laptops or notebooks and if you like them or not, I would appreciate it.

Hey, speaking of that, have any of you seen this new MacBook Air? It is supposed to be the world's thinnest notebook, or as I once called it "the world's most expensive electronic item that I would drop by accident and would cease to work 10 minutes after I purchased it".

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