Posted on 01/28/2005 10:31:35 PM PST by snippy_about_it
LOL. You're momma don't live here!
Good morning Mayor.
:-(
Hi Snippy !
We'll make it up after the thaw ...
Soldiers frequently complain about wrinkled clothing from the LADS.
I heard the most frequent complaint came from the Officers about starch in their underwear . . . or maybe that was just a figure of speech. ;^)
And I gt to work Sunday as well, such a deal!!! At least I will be off next weekend (I hope)
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
After decades of tyranny, Iraqi expatriates have already begun to elect leaders to draft a new constitution. In the photo below, seventy-year-old exile Mehsin Imgoter weeps after casting his vote at a polling place in Southgate, Michigan. Imgoter explained to a reporter that he was crying because his son, who was killed during the 1990-91 Shiite uprising, was not able to vote with him.
Reminded me of a story told to me by a WWII vet in the pacific:
The GI's showered in an open tent and all the local women would come by and laugh at them. The GI's would get so made they would throw their soap at the women which is what the women were after. One poor women was hit on the head and injured and that brought a stop to it.
Howdy ma'am.
That's what I was thinking when the weather guy said we'd have this stuff for the next 3 days.
Yum! That is what we had for breakfast.
Now, it is pretty common knowledge that spider-boy is a picky eater. He won't eat anything sticky, gooey, messy, or non-beige in color.
He really likes pancakes. Today... I put butter and syrup on ALL of the pancakes before he got to them. He picked one up, ate it, and says, "Hey, what did you put on this that tastes so good?" LOL, it was the syrup!
At lunchtime, we were at a birthday party at Planet Pizza. I pulled him aside and gave him "the lecture" about trying the food and being polite. He asked me what it was going to taste like. I told him it would taste like cheese. So he took two bites. He tried pizza for the FIRST time ever, and said it was good.
WooHoo! We have made some mega progrees in the food department today. First syrup on pancakes, then pizza. Tomorrow, maybe a hamburger???
I demand photographic proof of these alleged incidents! ;-)
Thank you, Sam.
BTW, I love, and can relate to, your tag line. :-)
Having helped a friend with his parents' dry-cleaning business during college, commercial extractors are impressive machinery.
Two of these machines running simultaneously would be some serious percussion--an unbalanced condition could imitate a Kennedy floor speech.
Colin Fletcher, The Complete Walker, (1968, now in IV Edition) indicated the importance of clean socks.
The complaints of wrinkling were addressed above with instructions to a) not overload (can't be overemphasized), and b) remove promptly (again, simply common sense).
Laundry is, we all agree, important to morale, and as Iris7 notes, health.
The proper handling of laundering delicates is in the special basket provided by the manufacturer, remove from machine promptly, stretch over al Zarqawi's head, and continue copying the Geneva Convention on large expanses of skin with a Wellertm soldering iron.
A well-laundered army is better equipped to break things and kill people, and that's as it should be.
As for the "public schools"--in my elementary days, a man from Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge would show patriotic films of America's history, and the Pledge of Alegiance began every school day.
My mother during her thirty-year career teaching raged, raged against the dying of this light.
My sister, after only twenty or so years of teaching, simply went to a Catholic academy to teach, finding the standards, discipline, principles and desire to learn classic.
We may safely do a traffic controller action on all robots of the NEA, dismantle the current system, begin again anew using the first names drawn from any phone directory by blindfolded primates.
Example: the highest per-student expenditures still produce illiterates unable to name the country America fought in the War of Independence.
In lieu of a draft, school administrators shall be conscripted, lashed up in bundles of ten with duct tape, and dropped on enemy combatants until the latter holler, "Uncle."
:-)
Sam says they were still starching his clothes in Vietnam but I wonder if that was a figure of speech. LOL.
Goodness, watch out for the food nazis! Imagine, enticing your child to eat syrup, pizza and hamburgers! ;-)
You're welcome. We try to tell it all.
How did the party go?
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