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Title: 5/20/2016
Post by: CigarBanter on May 20, 2016, 12:00:00 AM
Happy Friday!  Any deals on the various internet sites that are worth talking about?  Join in this discussion and perhaps learn something along the way. Warning: don't proceed if you have thin skin but don't be afraid to post either...  And welcome aboard!
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 06:16:26 AM
Sheesh, not a single post all night!
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 06:17:17 AM
Morning Slackers.  TGIF! 

Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 06:20:20 AM
A couple of decent buys on the Mash, V Lanceros 5/$23 and New World Rbustos 5/$23

Some Laranja Toro's on there not a good buy but would be ok if the cat code works.  5/$35
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Travellin Dave on May 20, 2016, 06:20:27 AM
Morning Tex.  Guess we have to do all the heavy lifting.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Travellin Dave on May 20, 2016, 06:21:50 AM
Today is Friday, May 20, the 141st day of 2016. There are 225 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On May 20, 1916, the Saturday Evening Post published its first Norman Rockwell cover; the illustration shows a scowling boy dressed in his Sunday best, dutifully pushing a baby carriage past a couple of young baseball players, one of whom mockingly doffs his cap.

On this date:

In 1712, the original version of Alexander Pope's satirical mock-heroic poem "The Rape of the Lock" was published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellany.

In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, which was intended to encourage settlements west of the Mississippi River by making federal land available for farming.

In 1902, the United States ended a three-year military presence in Cuba as the Republic of Cuba was established under its first elected president, Tomas Estrada Palma.

In 1925, the newly built headquarters of the United States Chamber of Commerce was formally dedicated in Washington, D.C.

In 1927, Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on his historic solo flight to France.

In 1932, Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. (Because of weather and equipment problems, Earhart set down in Northern Ireland instead of her intended destination, France.)

In 1942, during World War II, the Office of Civilian Defense was established.

In 1956, the United States exploded the first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.

In 1961, a white mob attacked a busload of Freedom Riders in Montgomery, Alabama, prompting the federal government to send in U.S. marshals to restore order.

In 1970, some 100,000 people demonstrated in New York's Wall Street district in support of U.S. policy in Vietnam and Cambodia.

In 1988, Laurie Dann, 30, walked into a Winnetka, Illinois, elementary school classroom, where she shot to death 8-year-old Nicholas Corwin and wounded several other children. After wounding a young man at his home, Dann took her own life.

In 1996, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Romer v. Evans, struck down, 6-3, a Colorado measure banning laws that protected homosexuals from discrimination.

Ten years ago: Iraq's new unity government took office, five months after elections. Federal agents searched the Capitol Hill office of U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., as part of a bribery investigation. (Jefferson was convicted in 2009 of taking bribes; he received a 13-year federal prison sentence.) New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was re-elected. An explosion killed five miners in an eastern Kentucky coal mine. Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro broke three bones in his right hind leg at the start of the Preakness; Bernardini won the race. Barry Bonds tied Babe Ruth for second place on the career list with his 714th home run.

Five years ago: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the idea of using his country's 1967 boundaries as the basis for a neighboring Palestinian state, declaring his objections during a face-to-face meeting with President Barack Obama, who had raised the idea in an effort to revive stalled Mideast peace talks. The former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was released from a New York City jail after spending nearly a week incarcerated on charges of trying to rape a hotel chambermaid. (The charges were later dropped.) Randy "Macho Man" Savage, 58, a larger-than-life personality from professional wrestling's 1980s heyday, died in Pinellas County, Florida.

One year ago: Four of the world's biggest banks - JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup's banking unit Citicorp, Barclays and the Royal Bank of Scotland - agreed to pay more than $5 billion in penalties and plead guilty to rigging the currency markets. Islamic State extremists captured the ancient desert city of Palmyra in central Syria, a stunning triumph for the group only days after it had captured the strategic city of Ramadi in Iraq. Mary Ellen Trainor, 62, a character actress and philanthropist who'd appeared in "The Goonies" and "Lethal Weapon" films, died in Montecito, California.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Travellin Dave on May 20, 2016, 06:22:25 AM
Today's Birthdays: Actor-author James McEachin is 86. Actor Anthony Zerbe is 80. Actor David Proval is 74. Singer-actress Cher is 70. Actor-comedian Dave Thomas is 68. Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, is 65. Rock musician Warren Cann is 64. Former New York Gov. David Paterson is 62. Actor Dean Butler is 60. TV-radio personality Ron Reagan is 58. Rock musician Jane Wiedlin (The Go-Go's) is 58. Actor Bronson Pinchot is 57. Singer Susan Cowsill is 57. Actor John Billingsley is 56. Actor Tony Goldwyn is 56. Singer Nick Heyward is 55. TV personality Ted Allen is 51. Actress Mindy Cohn is 50. Rock musician Tom Gorman (Belly) is 50. Actress Gina Ravera is 50. Actor Timothy Olyphant is 48. Race car driver Tony Stewart is 45. Rapper Busta Rhymes is 44. Actress Daya Vaidya is 43. Rock musician Ryan Martinie is 41. Actor Matt Czuchry is 39. Actress Angela Goethals is 39. Actress-singer Naturi Naughton is 32.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Travellin Dave on May 20, 2016, 06:22:52 AM
Thought for Today: "A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity." - Honore de Balzac, French author (born this date in 1799, died in 1850).
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Travellin Dave on May 20, 2016, 06:25:08 AM
And let us not forget the USAToday top 5:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/05/20/5-things-you-need-to-know-friday/84493346/
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 06:25:33 AM
Egyptair Update:

The Egyptian military said Friday that it had located wreckage from EgyptAir flight 804 in the Mediterranean Sea.

Egyptian army spokesman Brig. Gen. Mohammed Samir said in a statement posted on his Facebook page that Egyptian jets and naval vessels participating in the search for the plane found "personal belongings of the passengers and parts of the plane debris," 180 miles north of the Egyptian port city of Alexandria.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 06:26:16 AM
Morning Tex.  Guess we have to do all the heavy lifting.
Morning Dave, looks that way - AGAIN!
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Travellin Dave on May 20, 2016, 06:40:09 AM
Well we did get to 19 pages yesterday....couple of folks might have pulled a muscle or something.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Travellin Dave on May 20, 2016, 06:40:53 AM
Hopefully Dean got the wood he needed.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 06:41:08 AM
No Rain Today!   Partly cloudy and 80 degrees
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Travellin Dave on May 20, 2016, 06:41:37 AM
Morley Safer passed away at 84.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Travellin Dave on May 20, 2016, 06:42:03 AM
No Rain Today!   Partly cloudy and 80 degrees
Looks like we're getting your rain for the whole weekend.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 06:42:59 AM
Hopefully Dean got the wood he needed.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 06:43:47 AM
No Rain Today!   Partly cloudy and 80 degrees
Looks like we're getting your rain for the whole weekend.
Supposed to have more here Sunday, hope I can get the yard mowed first.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: sfish on May 20, 2016, 06:44:17 AM
Good morning Daves
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 06:45:42 AM
Good morning Daves
Morning Fish
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Travellin Dave on May 20, 2016, 06:50:45 AM
Yikes, real crap clearance on the Sis today.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Travellin Dave on May 20, 2016, 06:51:04 AM
Morning Mr. Biebs.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 06:52:29 AM
Yikes, real crap clearance on the Sis today.
Yep, and that pathetic Jam yesterday was even worse. 
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 06:58:54 AM
Charlotte Observer: School Girls Must Get 'Comfortable' With 'Male Genitalia' in Bathrooms



A recent editorial in North Carolina's leading newspaper says that when it comes to transgender issues, girls must get used to seeing male genitalia in school locker rooms.

Responding to the Obama administration's nationwide directive that public schools must allow transgender students to use the bathroom they feel most comfortable with, The Charlotte Observer's editorial board has likened the issue to civil rights legislation.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: sfish on May 20, 2016, 07:06:36 AM
Any opinions on the Laranja Toro vs Corona Gorda?
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: razgueado on May 20, 2016, 07:11:25 AM
Morning, muchachos. Quick drive-by before I finally go to bed. Been up all night dealing with system issues at work. Fuk me.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: sfish on May 20, 2016, 07:12:48 AM
Any opinions on the Laranja Toro vs Corona Gorda?
Check the Monster, Perdomo Champagne Robusto 5 Pack $21.98 / 10 Pack $49.98...absurd
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: sfish on May 20, 2016, 07:13:32 AM
Morning, muchachos. Quick drive-by before I finally go to bed. Been up all night dealing with system issues at work. Fuk me.
Damn Raz, that's rough
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 07:14:43 AM
Any opinions on the Laranja Toro vs Corona Gorda?
Have only had the Robustos but they are good.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 07:15:09 AM
Morning, muchachos. Quick drive-by before I finally go to bed. Been up all night dealing with system issues at work. Fuk me.
SHEESH, that sux.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: razgueado on May 20, 2016, 07:15:12 AM
Morning, muchachos. Quick drive-by before I finally go to bed. Been up all night dealing with system issues at work. Fuk me.
Damn Raz, that's rough
Yup. I been rid hard and put away wet. I think they transed my gender.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: razgueado on May 20, 2016, 07:16:47 AM
Sokay, though...I'm downing a triple bourbon. That makes everything better.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 07:18:04 AM
Any opinions on the Laranja Toro vs Corona Gorda?
Check the Monster, Perdomo Champagne Robusto 5 Pack $21.98 / 10 Pack $49.98...absurd
And a 5-pak of Undercrown Corona Viva @ $24.98 is another joke.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Threebean on May 20, 2016, 07:18:05 AM
Thought for Today: "A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity." - Honore de Balzac, French author (born this date in 1799, died in 1850).
You postwhores take note, though with that last name he probably is just lashing out in response to all the taunting he got as a kid.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 07:18:50 AM
Morning, muchachos. Quick drive-by before I finally go to bed. Been up all night dealing with system issues at work. Fuk me.
Damn Raz, that's rough
Yup. I been rid hard and put away wet. I think they transed my gender.
Did you show them you penis :o
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 07:20:25 AM
Thought for Today: "A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity." - Honore de Balzac, French author (born this date in 1799, died in 1850).
You postwhores take note, though with that last name he probably is just lashing out in response to all the taunting he got as a kid.
And he is Fuk'n dead so who cares what he thinks anyway.

Keep Whoring!
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: razgueado on May 20, 2016, 07:22:00 AM
Morning, muchachos. Quick drive-by before I finally go to bed. Been up all night dealing with system issues at work. Fuk me.
Damn Raz, that's rough
Yup. I been rid hard and put away wet. I think they transed my gender.
Did you show them you penis :o
They got me from behind. I didn't have a chance.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Threebean on May 20, 2016, 07:23:11 AM
Any opinions on the Laranja Toro vs Corona Gorda?
Check the Monster, Perdomo Champagne Robusto 5 Pack $21.98 / 10 Pack $49.98...absurd
And a 5-pak of Undercrown Corona Viva @ $24.98 is another joke.
Especially since I paid the equivalent of $16.83 shipped.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Travellin Dave on May 20, 2016, 07:23:18 AM
Any opinions on the Laranja Toro vs Corona Gorda?
I would buy either when at a good price although that is a trick question.  There are two toro's...the 6 x 52 and the Caixa at 6.5 x 48.  I like all three, but  would give a slight edge to the to the Corona Gorda.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Threebean on May 20, 2016, 07:24:41 AM
Morning, muchachos. Quick drive-by before I finally go to bed. Been up all night dealing with system issues at work. Fuk me.
Damn Raz, that's rough
Yup. I been rid hard and put away wet. I think they transed my gender.
Did you show them you penis :o
They got me from behind. I didn't have a chance.
Sorry to hear it, DeliveranceRaz.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Travellin Dave on May 20, 2016, 07:25:11 AM
Thought for Today: "A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity." - Honore de Balzac, French author (born this date in 1799, died in 1850).
You postwhores take note, though with that last name he probably is just lashing out in response to all the taunting he got as a kid.
I have no problem with that.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Travellin Dave on May 20, 2016, 07:26:15 AM
Morning AllNighterRaz and EarlyMorningBean.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Travellin Dave on May 20, 2016, 07:26:38 AM
So does this mean you have a three day weekend Raz?
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: razgueado on May 20, 2016, 07:26:45 AM
Morning, muchachos. Quick drive-by before I finally go to bed. Been up all night dealing with system issues at work. Fuk me.
Damn Raz, that's rough
Yup. I been rid hard and put away wet. I think they transed my gender.
Did you show them you penis :o
They got me from behind. I didn't have a chance.
Sorry to hear it, DeliveranceRaz.
Guess it beats unemployment. TWSS, anyway.

A'ight, boys, hate to drink and run, but my eyes are slamming shut. Catch y'all sometime in the daylight.

Oh, wait...there'd the daylight. Sheesh.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: razgueado on May 20, 2016, 07:27:37 AM
So does this mean you have a three day weekend Raz?
Yeah, but I did anyway. Got gigs all weekend. So this means I ended up working on my day off.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 07:33:36 AM
I am done Fuk'n with these famous crooks.  I put about $93 worth in my cart, 2 V's, 1 New World and 1 Corona Viva.  Applied CATSRULE and it worked bringing it down to $77.  Went to pay and got this message:

There was an insufficient quantity in stock of some of the items below. The quantity of these items was reduced.

The insufficient item was they only had 1 V pak so my total was still well over $50.

Then I get this message:

CATSRULE valid for 17% off orders totaling $50.00 or more.
(Excludes gift certificates, event tickets, Frenzy items, Create-a-Sampler, and Name Your Price items)
Code CATSRULE Activated.
To receive this discount you must increase your order by $50.00.

Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 07:36:36 AM
Any opinions on the Laranja Toro vs Corona Gorda?
Check the Monster, Perdomo Champagne Robusto 5 Pack $21.98 / 10 Pack $49.98...absurd
And a 5-pak of Undercrown Corona Viva @ $24.98 is another joke.
Especially since I paid the equivalent of $16.83 shipped.
Yeah but we are not still in the 15th century when you did that, those days are gone.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Threebean on May 20, 2016, 07:38:44 AM
Any opinions on the Laranja Toro vs Corona Gorda?
Check the Monster, Perdomo Champagne Robusto 5 Pack $21.98 / 10 Pack $49.98...absurd
And a 5-pak of Undercrown Corona Viva @ $24.98 is another joke.
Especially since I paid the equivalent of $16.83 shipped.
Yeah but we are not still in the 15th century when you did that, those days are gone.
Three weeks ago, numbnuts.  Sounds like you need some cheapy cheapo deal making advice.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 07:41:20 AM
Seems someone has pee'd in Beans Cherios this morning.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 07:42:13 AM
Any opinions on the Laranja Toro vs Corona Gorda?
Check the Monster, Perdomo Champagne Robusto 5 Pack $21.98 / 10 Pack $49.98...absurd
And a 5-pak of Undercrown Corona Viva @ $24.98 is another joke.
Especially since I paid the equivalent of $16.83 shipped.
Yeah but we are not still in the 15th century when you did that, those days are gone.
Three weeks ago, numbnuts.  Sounds like you need some cheapy cheapo deal making advice.
Well thanks for sharing the deal with us then instead of now.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Threebean on May 20, 2016, 07:50:39 AM
Any opinions on the Laranja Toro vs Corona Gorda?
Check the Monster, Perdomo Champagne Robusto 5 Pack $21.98 / 10 Pack $49.98...absurd
And a 5-pak of Undercrown Corona Viva @ $24.98 is another joke.
Especially since I paid the equivalent of $16.83 shipped.
Yeah but we are not still in the 15th century when you did that, those days are gone.
Three weeks ago, numbnuts.  Sounds like you need some cheapy cheapo deal making advice.
Well thanks for sharing the deal with us then instead of now.
Yeah, right.  From 5/1/16:
Quote
Quote from: Texas Redfish on May 01, 2016, 08:45:09 AM
Quote from: Bob Cigar on May 01, 2016, 08:42:55 AM
If anyone is taking advantage of $1 shipping at the biz promo code "feedback" is good for 20% off.. Good morning, all
Nice!

Morning Bob
Indeed.  Made my box of UC Corona Viva $84.  Cheapy Cheapo Hall of Fame deal.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Travellin Dave on May 20, 2016, 08:03:38 AM
Any opinions on the Laranja Toro vs Corona Gorda?
Check the Monster, Perdomo Champagne Robusto 5 Pack $21.98 / 10 Pack $49.98...absurd
And a 5-pak of Undercrown Corona Viva @ $24.98 is another joke.
Especially since I paid the equivalent of $16.83 shipped.
Yeah but we are not still in the 15th century when you did that, those days are gone.
Three weeks ago, numbnuts.  Sounds like you need some cheapy cheapo deal making advice.
Sounds like there is some Texas style educatin' ahead.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: sfish on May 20, 2016, 08:14:58 AM
Any opinions on the Laranja Toro vs Corona Gorda?
Check the Monster, Perdomo Champagne Robusto 5 Pack $21.98 / 10 Pack $49.98...absurd
And a 5-pak of Undercrown Corona Viva @ $24.98 is another joke.
Especially since I paid the equivalent of $16.83 shipped.
Yeah but we are not still in the 15th century when you did that, those days are gone.
Three weeks ago, numbnuts.  Sounds like you need some cheapy cheapo deal making advice.
Well thanks for sharing the deal with us then instead of now.
Yeah, right.  From 5/1/16:
Quote
Quote from: Texas Redfish on May 01, 2016, 08:45:09 AM
Quote from: Bob Cigar on May 01, 2016, 08:42:55 AM
If anyone is taking advantage of $1 shipping at the biz promo code "feedback" is good for 20% off.. Good morning, all
Nice!

Morning Bob
Indeed.  Made my box of UC Corona Viva $84.  Cheapy Cheapo Hall of Fame deal.
Um...Tex?
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 08:39:45 AM
Any opinions on the Laranja Toro vs Corona Gorda?
Check the Monster, Perdomo Champagne Robusto 5 Pack $21.98 / 10 Pack $49.98...absurd
And a 5-pak of Undercrown Corona Viva @ $24.98 is another joke.
Especially since I paid the equivalent of $16.83 shipped.
Yeah but we are not still in the 15th century when you did that, those days are gone.
Three weeks ago, numbnuts.  Sounds like you need some cheapy cheapo deal making advice.
Well thanks for sharing the deal with us then instead of now.
Yeah, right.  From 5/1/16:
Quote
Quote from: Texas Redfish on May 01, 2016, 08:45:09 AM
Quote from: Bob Cigar on May 01, 2016, 08:42:55 AM
If anyone is taking advantage of $1 shipping at the biz promo code "feedback" is good for 20% off.. Good morning, all
Nice!

Morning Bob
Indeed.  Made my box of UC Corona Viva $84.  Cheapy Cheapo Hall of Fame deal.
Um...Tex?
Slipped that one by me :)

Bob was pretty short lived on the site.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 08:42:08 AM
Any opinions on the Laranja Toro vs Corona Gorda?
Check the Monster, Perdomo Champagne Robusto 5 Pack $21.98 / 10 Pack $49.98...absurd
And a 5-pak of Undercrown Corona Viva @ $24.98 is another joke.
Especially since I paid the equivalent of $16.83 shipped.
Yeah but we are not still in the 15th century when you did that, those days are gone.
Three weeks ago, numbnuts.  Sounds like you need some cheapy cheapo deal making advice.
Sounds like there is some Texas style educatin' ahead.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 08:43:29 AM
Damn, had some teleworkaference. 
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 08:58:50 AM
TGIF Lull?
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on May 20, 2016, 08:59:31 AM
Good morning, everyone.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 09:02:02 AM
Butt load of good cigars on the Page but will take some time to evaluate the Deal/No Deal ratings which is Beans Job.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 09:02:18 AM
Good morning, everyone.
Morning Mayor T
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on May 20, 2016, 09:04:35 AM
Good morning, everyone.
Morning Mayor T
Holding down the fort, I see. Good morning.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 09:06:28 AM
Butt load of good cigars on the Page but will take some time to evaluate the Deal/No Deal ratings which is Beans Job.
Plenty of turds in there too but a quick review of the prime stuff does not reveal any great deals IMHO but a few I did not know if a deal or not. 

And as usual several items GONE at the start.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 09:07:05 AM
Good morning, everyone.
Morning Mayor T
Holding down the fort, I see. Good morning.
Trying to but it is a tough job with no dependable help.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on May 20, 2016, 09:10:16 AM
Good morning, everyone.
Morning Mayor T
Holding down the fort, I see. Good morning.
Trying to but it is a tough job with no dependable help.
I hear ya. Unfortunately, I can't offer much help either.

You teleworking today?
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 09:11:12 AM
Good morning, everyone.
Morning Mayor T
Holding down the fort, I see. Good morning.
Trying to but it is a tough job with no dependable help.
I hear ya. Unfortunately, I can't offer much help either.

You teleworking today?
Yes on teleworking
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 09:13:34 AM
Butt load of good cigars on the Page but will take some time to evaluate the Deal/No Deal ratings which is Beans Job.
Plenty of turds in there too but a quick review of the prime stuff does not reveal any great deals IMHO but a few I did not know if a deal or not. 

And as usual several items GONE at the start.
Just noticed it is a 2-day deal
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 09:14:28 AM
Time for a last cup of Cuban Expresso.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on May 20, 2016, 09:16:14 AM
Time for a last cup of Cuban Expresso.
I could use a cup. Getting ready for next meeting. Hope the boss is leaving soon. I'll tell him how effed up TSA is. Encourage him to get an earlier start.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 09:23:29 AM
Time for a last cup of Cuban Expresso.
I could use a cup. Getting ready for next meeting. Hope the boss is leaving soon. I'll tell him how effed up TSA is. Encourage him to get an earlier start.
I dealt with that TSA abortion in Dallas last week.  Slow season and 7:00 on a Saturday morning at Love Field and took a Fuk'n hour then when I finished the line was at least 50% longer than when I got in it,  was stretched out way beyond the TSA line area. 
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Threebean on May 20, 2016, 09:43:26 AM
Butt load of good cigars on the Page but will take some time to evaluate the Deal/No Deal ratings which is Beans Job.
Plenty of turds in there too but a quick review of the prime stuff does not reveal any great deals IMHO but a few I did not know if a deal or not. 

And as usual several items GONE at the start.
Yeah, nothing there to get worked up about (TWSS)
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: FloridaDean on May 20, 2016, 09:45:19 AM
good morning guys. looking forward to a Do Nothing Friday.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Travellin Dave on May 20, 2016, 09:46:59 AM
Butt load of good cigars on the Page but will take some time to evaluate the Deal/No Deal ratings which is Beans Job.
Based on a quick sampling of Four Kicks, Surrogates and Tats, prices are good (within a couple dollars of some everyday best prices) but definitely not Cheapy-cheapo worthy of consideration.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Travellin Dave on May 20, 2016, 09:47:58 AM
Butt load of good cigars on the Page but will take some time to evaluate the Deal/No Deal ratings which is Beans Job.
Plenty of turds in there too but a quick review of the prime stuff does not reveal any great deals IMHO but a few I did not know if a deal or not. 

And as usual several items GONE at the start.
Just noticed it is a 2-day deal
First half of the alphabet today.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Travellin Dave on May 20, 2016, 09:48:34 AM
Morning Mr. Mayor and NewDeckDean.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 09:50:37 AM
good morning guys. looking forward to a Do Nothing Friday.
Morning Dean, which direction is the woody pointing today?
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: FloridaDean on May 20, 2016, 10:08:36 AM
Sancho Panza Double Maduro Escudero 7.2x54 and coffee. not a fan of anything larger than a toro, the ABC store had them on sale Wednesday for $4.50 each.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: FloridaDean on May 20, 2016, 10:09:14 AM
good morning guys. looking forward to a Do Nothing Friday.
Morning Dean, which direction is the woody pointing today?
north, most always north.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: flip from jersey on May 20, 2016, 10:15:46 AM
Any opinions on the Laranja Toro vs Corona Gorda?
Check the Monster, Perdomo Champagne Robusto 5 Pack $21.98 / 10 Pack $49.98...absurd
either buy four 5 packs for $87.92   or two 10 packs for 99.86  such a bargain....
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: flip from jersey on May 20, 2016, 10:52:27 AM
Damn that Flip, he seems to have killed the banter.
Good morning boys...
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Threebean on May 20, 2016, 10:57:31 AM
Damn that Flip, he seems to have killed the banter.
Good morning boys...
Monster deal confusion lull.  Morning flip.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 10:59:56 AM
Morning Flip the Killer.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: FloridaDean on May 20, 2016, 11:05:27 AM
storm just blew in. high winds heavy rain.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 11:08:13 AM
storm just blew in. high winds heavy rain.
Better take shelter!
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: FloridaDean on May 20, 2016, 11:14:46 AM
storm just blew in. high winds heavy rain.
Better take shelter!
had to shut my windows and door, was raining inside.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: flip from jersey on May 20, 2016, 11:24:01 AM
storm just blew in. high winds heavy rain.
Better take shelter!
had to shut my windows and door, was raining inside.
i'm pretty sure the outside rain, was getting in the house/trailer,
but then again I've been wrong before, hell I got married twice!
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: cigarbreath on May 20, 2016, 11:33:27 AM
storm just blew in. high winds heavy rain.
Better take shelter!
had to shut my windows and door, was raining inside.
Just step outside then.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on May 20, 2016, 11:38:28 AM
storm just blew in. high winds heavy rain.
Better take shelter!
had to shut my windows and door, was raining inside.
Tough crowd.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: FloridaDean on May 20, 2016, 11:38:50 AM
storm just blew in. high winds heavy rain.
Better take shelter!
had to shut my windows and door, was raining inside.
i'm pretty sure the outside rain, was getting in the house/trailer,
but then again I've been wrong before, hell I got married twice!
well, my roof don't leak. calmed down here a bit. weather is interfering with my cigar smoking.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: cigarbreath on May 20, 2016, 11:57:28 AM
storm just blew in. high winds heavy rain.
Better take shelter!
had to shut my windows and door, was raining inside.
i'm pretty sure the outside rain, was getting in the house/trailer,
but then again I've been wrong before, hell I got married twice!
well, my roof don't leak. calmed down here a bit. weather is interfering with my cigar smoking.
Looks like the worst is yet to come.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: FloridaDean on May 20, 2016, 12:12:58 PM
storm just blew in. high winds heavy rain.
Better take shelter!
had to shut my windows and door, was raining inside.
i'm pretty sure the outside rain, was getting in the house/trailer,
but then again I've been wrong before, hell I got married twice!
well, my roof don't leak. calmed down here a bit. weather is interfering with my cigar smoking.
Looks like the worst is yet to come.
going to get oretty ugly in a few hours.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Travellin Dave on May 20, 2016, 12:57:09 PM
Damn that Flip, he seems to have killed the banter.
Good morning boys...
Seems to be doing that a lot lately.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Travellin Dave on May 20, 2016, 12:58:36 PM
storm just blew in. high winds heavy rain.
Better take shelter!
had to shut my windows and door, was raining inside.
i'm pretty sure the outside rain, was getting in the house/trailer,
but then again I've been wrong before, hell I got married twice!
well, my roof don't leak. calmed down here a bit. weather is interfering with my cigar smoking.
Looks like the worst is yet to come.
Are we talking Florida, or in the broader sense?
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Travellin Dave on May 20, 2016, 12:58:49 PM
Good Day CB!
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Travellin Dave on May 20, 2016, 12:59:30 PM
storm just blew in. high winds heavy rain.
Better take shelter!
had to shut my windows and door, was raining inside.
i'm pretty sure the outside rain, was getting in the house/trailer,
but then again I've been wrong before, hell I got married twice!
well, my roof don't leak. calmed down here a bit. weather is interfering with my cigar smoking.
Looks like the worst is yet to come.
going to get oretty ugly in a few hours.
We're still talking about the weather, right?
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: flip from jersey on May 20, 2016, 01:02:37 PM
storm just blew in. high winds heavy rain.
Better take shelter!
had to shut my windows and door, was raining inside.
i'm pretty sure the outside rain, was getting in the house/trailer,
but then again I've been wrong before, hell I got married twice!
well, my roof don't leak. calmed down here a bit. weather is interfering with my cigar smoking.
Looks like the worst is yet to come.
going to get oretty ugly in a few hours.
We're still talking about the weather, right?
They said, "She was pretty & becoming"  - Pretty bad & becoming worse!  8)
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: FloridaDean on May 20, 2016, 01:03:25 PM
storm just blew in. high winds heavy rain.
Better take shelter!
had to shut my windows and door, was raining inside.
i'm pretty sure the outside rain, was getting in the house/trailer,
but then again I've been wrong before, hell I got married twice!
well, my roof don't leak. calmed down here a bit. weather is interfering with my cigar smoking.
Looks like the worst is yet to come.
going to get oretty ugly in a few hours.
We're still talking about the weather, right?
yes.
😏
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: FloridaDean on May 20, 2016, 01:07:57 PM
I have managed to do nothing but need to run to the PO.
hopefully I can load kayaks for a sunrise island hop tomorrow.
later.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Travellin Dave on May 20, 2016, 01:44:55 PM
I have managed to do nothing but need to run to the PO.
hopefully I can load kayaks for a sunrise island hop tomorrow.
later.
I know you've been practicing very hard at that, good to hear it's starting to pay off.
Doing nothing can be hard work.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Travellin Dave on May 20, 2016, 01:54:30 PM
I have managed to do nothing but need to run to the PO.
hopefully I can load kayaks for a sunrise island hop tomorrow.
later.
I know you've been practicing very hard at that, good to hear it's starting to pay off.
Doing nothing can be hard work.
Sometimes it's a little hard to understand for those of us who it comes naturally to.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Travellin Dave on May 20, 2016, 02:13:31 PM
storm just blew in. high winds heavy rain.
Better take shelter!
had to shut my windows and door, was raining inside.
i'm pretty sure the outside rain, was getting in the house/trailer,
but then again I've been wrong before, hell I got married twice!
well, my roof don't leak. calmed down here a bit. weather is interfering with my cigar smoking.
Looks like the worst is yet to come.
going to get oretty ugly in a few hours.
We're still talking about the weather, right?
They said, "She was pretty & becoming"  - Pretty bad & becoming worse!  8)
You should do stand up Flip.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Threebean on May 20, 2016, 02:15:35 PM
storm just blew in. high winds heavy rain.
Better take shelter!
had to shut my windows and door, was raining inside.
i'm pretty sure the outside rain, was getting in the house/trailer,
but then again I've been wrong before, hell I got married twice!
well, my roof don't leak. calmed down here a bit. weather is interfering with my cigar smoking.
Looks like the worst is yet to come.
going to get oretty ugly in a few hours.
We're still talking about the weather, right?
They said, "She was pretty & becoming"  - Pretty bad & becoming worse!  8)
You should do stand up Flip.
Don't encourage him.  He's liable to break into song.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Travellin Dave on May 20, 2016, 02:25:40 PM
storm just blew in. high winds heavy rain.
Better take shelter!
had to shut my windows and door, was raining inside.
i'm pretty sure the outside rain, was getting in the house/trailer,
but then again I've been wrong before, hell I got married twice!
well, my roof don't leak. calmed down here a bit. weather is interfering with my cigar smoking.
Looks like the worst is yet to come.
going to get oretty ugly in a few hours.
We're still talking about the weather, right?
They said, "She was pretty & becoming"  - Pretty bad & becoming worse!  8)
You should do stand up Flip.
Don't encourage him.  He's liable to break into song.
Yea, there's that...
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Travellin Dave on May 20, 2016, 02:26:22 PM
So when are you coming East again Mr. Bean?
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 02:55:06 PM
I have managed to do nothing but need to run to the PO.
hopefully I can load kayaks for a sunrise island hop tomorrow.
later.
I know you've been practicing very hard at that, good to hear it's starting to pay off.
Doing nothing can be hard work.
Sometimes it's a little hard to understand for those of us who it comes naturally to.
No training needed for me, been practicing at work for 2 years 4 months and 20 days.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 02:56:51 PM
Enjoyed some pretty good shrimp scampi for lunch.

Short rest then a Cigar and maybe a cold beer camp selection or two.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: FloridaDean on May 20, 2016, 02:58:03 PM
I have managed to do nothing but need to run to the PO.
hopefully I can load kayaks for a sunrise island hop tomorrow.
later.
I know you've been practicing very hard at that, good to hear it's starting to pay off.
Doing nothing can be hard work.
I need more practice.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Travellin Dave on May 20, 2016, 02:58:19 PM
I have managed to do nothing but need to run to the PO.
hopefully I can load kayaks for a sunrise island hop tomorrow.
later.
I know you've been practicing very hard at that, good to hear it's starting to pay off.
Doing nothing can be hard work.
Sometimes it's a little hard to understand for those of us who it comes naturally to.
No training needed for me, been practicing at work for 2 years 4 months and 20 days.
And that practice is paying off!
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 03:00:07 PM
I have managed to do nothing but need to run to the PO.
hopefully I can load kayaks for a sunrise island hop tomorrow.
later.
I know you've been practicing very hard at that, good to hear it's starting to pay off.
Doing nothing can be hard work.
Sometimes it's a little hard to understand for those of us who it comes naturally to.
No training needed for me, been practicing at work for 2 years 4 months and 20 days.
And that practice is paying off!
Pays quite well, and I still got 8 more months practice before going full time.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Threebean on May 20, 2016, 03:15:58 PM
So when are you coming East again Mr. Bean?
Was supposed to go next week but can't get away from here due stuff needing my attention on other jobs. So who knows. 
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 04:16:21 PM
5:00 in Bermuda!

LA Herencia Core lit with a Lazy Magnolia Hops'pitality
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 04:35:40 PM
SHEESH!
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: FloridaDean on May 20, 2016, 04:46:50 PM
OLDER THAN DIRT
"Hey Dad," one of my kids asked the other day, "What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?"
"We didn't have fast food when I was growing up," I informed him. "All the food was slow."
"C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?"
"It was a place called 'at home,'" I explained. "Grandma cooked every day and when Grandpa got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it."
By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table. But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it:
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levi's, set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card. In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears AND Roebuck. Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.
My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow). We didn't have a television in our house until I was 15, but my grandparents had one before that. It was, of course, black and white, but they bought a piece of colored plastic to cover the screen. The top third was blue, like the sky, and the bottom third was green like grass. The middle third was red. It was perfect for programs that had scenes of fire trucks riding across someone's lawn on a sunny day. Some people had a lens taped to the front of the TV to make the picture look larger.
I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called "pizza pie." When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.
We didn't have a car until I was 15. Before that, the only car in our family was my grandfather's Ford. He called it a "machine."
I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.
Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was.
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers. I delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which I got to keep 2 cents. I had to get up at 4 AM every morning. On Saturday, I had to collect the 42 cents from my customers. My favorite customers were the ones who gave me 50 cents and told me to keep the change. My least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.
Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. Touching someone else's tongue with yours was called French kissing and they didn't do that in movies. I don't know what they did in French movies. French movies were dirty and we weren't allowed to see them.
If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.
Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
MEMORIES from a friend:
My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a saltshaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to "sprinkle" clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.
How many do you remember?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor. Ignition switches in the middle of the dashboard. Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall. Real ice boxes. Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards. Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner. Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom.
1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Chewable Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with table side juke boxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive-6933)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16. Burma-Shave signs
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19 Blue flashbulb
20. Packard's
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers
If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
I might be older than dirt but those memories are the best part of my life.
Don't forget to pass this along!! Especially to all your really OLD friends....
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 04:54:36 PM
I am very familiar with all of them except can't recall #1.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: FloridaDean on May 20, 2016, 04:57:41 PM
I am very familiar with all of them except can't recall #1.
anise flavored.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 04:59:25 PM
I am very familiar with all of them except can't recall #1.
anise flavored.
Too much like anus for me
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: FloridaDean on May 20, 2016, 05:00:21 PM
 
Remember When . . ??
Aahh, the memories!
Let's go back . . . Close our eyes . . .
And go back . . .

Before the Internet or the PC or MAC.
Before the drug war and crack.
Before chronic and ritalin and dysfunctional.
Before SEGA or Super Nintendo.
Before.....

Way back . . .
I'm talkin' bout hide and go seek at dusk.
Sittin' on the porch, HOT fresh from the oven bread or bisquits and butter. A time when mom or grandma would make bread and biscuits from scratch, not just scratch them out of a box of store-bought mix. (And we could snitch pieces of dough, or help push down and knead the bread, or cut the bisquits with a mason jar ring and plop them on the cooking sheet. Didn't it smell good??)

A time when the biggest thrill of the year was when Barnum and Bailey's wagons were unloaded from the train, and the Fireman's Volunteer Band came marching down the street ahead of them, on the way to the vacant lots where we watched the elephants put up the tents.

Remember . . .
Red light, Green light. Chocolate milk, Lunch tickets. Penny candy in a brown paper bag. Hopscotch, butterscotch, doubledutch, jacks, kickball, dodgeball, y'all!??

Mother May I?
Hula Hoops and Sunflower Seeds, Jolly Ranchers, blowpops, Mary Janes, Grape and Watermelon Now-Laters? (What about "Alexander the Grape," "Lemonheads"?)

When the ice cream man came jingling down the street, kids coming running from blocks around, and eatin' a 'super dooper sandwich' for a nickel.

Running through the sprinkler . . . The smell of the sun and lickin' salty lips . . .?

Watchin' Saturday Morning cartoons at the Rialto, all day for 10¢. And if your allowance was a quarter, you had enough left over for 2 bags of popcorn and a soda!!

The National Anthem was played and we all stood, hands on our heart, as the curtains opened before the NewsReel and the first movie, Our Gang, the Bowery Boys, The Three Stooges.

Intermission -- for all the kids to go running for whatever they needed to do most... The best part was the cartoons, Mickey Mouse, Road Runner, Porky Pig, ------ and Bugs.

Then THE REAL DEAL -- Tarzan, Jungle Jim, Tom Mix, Gene Autry, Wild Bill Hickok, Errol Flynn, The Lone Ranger, Sky King, The Invisible Man, Lon Chaney, Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff -- OOOHHH BOY!!!

Lon Chaney in London After Midnight  Lon Chaney in Phantom of the Opera

Bela Lugosi in Count Dracula  Boris Karloff in Frankenstein
Do You Remember That???
And a pocket full of dried peas and a peashooter??
Catchin' lightening bugs in a jar, playin sling shot and crack the whip?
When around the corner seemed far away,
And going downtown seemed like really going somewhere?
Climbing trees and getting sticky fingers, and a million mosquito bites?
Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians. Runnin till you were out of breath, then sittin on the curb and watching the stars? (You could see them then, 'cause the nearest street light was two blocks away at the trolley stop.)
Sitting in an old apple tree and eating as many green apples as you could without worrying about the green apple trots.
Going shoe skating (without real ice skates) with friends on the old slough that froze over in winter.
Bedtime . . . Jumping on the bed, pillow fights, being tickled to death, laughing so hard that your stomach hurt?
Being tired from playin'.... Remember that?
Crowding in a circle around the 'after school fight', then running when the teacher came?
What about the girl that had the big bubbly hand writing??
Do you remember each of the many loves you have had through life?
Eating Kool-aid powder with sugar - didn't that taste good?
Just to go back and say,
Yeah, I remember that!
There's nothing like the good old days! They were good then, and they're good now when we think about them. One can't be serious ALL the time, eh?
Remember . . .
When there were two types of sneakers for girls and boys (Keds & PF Flyers), and the only time you wore them at school, was for "gym?"
When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up? (How about before TV, when almost all families had a radio, usually in the living room? . . . Or tickling the crystal to find the hot spot?)
When nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got there?
When nobody owned a purebred dog?
When a quarter was a decent allowance, and another quarter a huge bonus? When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
When girls neither dated nor kissed until late high school, if then?
When your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
When all of your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done up, everyday?
When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, for free, every time? And, you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot!
When nobody was prettier than Mom. And scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.
When laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box? When flour came in 50lb. and 100lb. printed cotton sacks for Mom to make pretty new dresses and blouses for your sisters? (And your boxer shorts?) {{frown}}
(August 2008 - Mom still has some of those flour sacks saved after all these years, more than half a century later, and she just told me she would make me some new shorts .... ARGGGGGHHHH!!! .... Mom is 95 now!!! (2008) And still beautiful and going dancing three times a week!!! )
When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him, or use him to carry groceries, and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.
When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents.
When they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed . . . and did!
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home? Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of drive by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat!!
When we were taught the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution for United States in school and knew what they meant, and we said the Pledge of Allegiance every day in the first class of the morning.
When a hobo came to your door, you'd open the door and help them, never fearing for your life....you were just helping another who was experiencing rough times.
I want to go back to the time when . . .
Decisions were made by going eeny-meeny-miney-mo and mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do it over!"
"Race issues" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in Monopoly.
Catching lightning bugs could happily occupy an entire evening.
It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
Being old referred to anyone over 20.
The net on a tennis court or the neighbor's fence was the perfect height to play volleyball and rules didn't matter.
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties.
It was magic when Dad would "remove" his thumb.
Remember the  before your eyes and how it made them blink when Dad would thump you on the noggin, just before you went under his thumb? (Lordy, I was under it often enough!)
It was unbelievable that dodgeball wasn't an Olympic event.
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot.
It was a big deal to finally be tall enough to ride the "big people" rides at the amusement park.
Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.
Grampa said "Pull my finger."
Grandma would hide cookies for you.
Abilities you didn't know you had were discovered because of a "double-dog-dare".
Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute ads for action figures.
Do you remember when . . . "Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense?
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?

War was a card game?

Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?

Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?

Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?

Home-made fresh peach or strawberry ice cream from real thick cream skimmed off the top of the bottles was considered a basic food group? (You mean it isn't???!!!?)

Your older siblings were your worst tormentors, but also your fiercest protectors?

Feeling the unrelenting love and warmth that comes from hugging a fuzzy puppy while it happily licks your face away...and all you can do is just giggle.

Being really thankful for all the good things in life that you've experienced, and having the knowledge to know that bad things were secondary and temporary, and they only came along to make you appreciate the good things more.

If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED!!
And We, the Older Generation, have Survived!!!
Consider the changes we have witnessed ---

We were born before television, before penicillin, before polio shots, frozen foods, Xerox, plastic, contact lenses, Frisbees and the Pill.

We were before radar, credit cards, split atoms, lazer beams and ball point pens, before pantyhose, dishwashers, clothes dryers, electric blankets, air conditioners, drip-dry clothes and long before man walked on the moon.

In our time, closets were for clothes, not for "coming out of." Bunnies were small rabbits, or dust balls under the bed, not Volkswagons, or Playboy girls. Designer Jeans were scheming girls named Jean or Jeanne, and having a meaningful relationship meant getting along well with our cousins.

Fast food was what you ate during Lent, and Outer Space was the balcony of the Rialto Theater.

We were before house-husbands, gay rights, computer dating, dual careers, and commuter marriages, day-care centers, group therapy and nursing homes. We never heard of FM radio, tape decks, electric typewriters, artificial hearts, word processors, yogurt, and guys wearing earrings.

For us, time-sharing meant togetherness -- not computers or condominiums, a "chip" meant a piece of wood, hardware meant hardware, and software wasn't even a word.

In our time, "Made in Japan" meant junk, and the term "making out" referred to how you did on your exams. Pizzas, MacDonalds and instant coffee were unheard of.

We hit the scene when there were 5¢ and 10¢ stores, where you bought things for 5¢ and 10¢. BiRite and Tripenys sold ice cream cones for a nickel or a dime, for a single or a double. For one nickel you could ride a bus, make a phone call, buy a Pepsi or a Coke, or enough stamps to mail one letter and two postcards. You could buy a new Chevy Coupe for $600 (but who could afford one?)..and gas was 11¢ a gallon for regular and Ethyl was 13¢ a gallon.

We could recognize the "make and year" of a car from a distance, be it a Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Cadillac, LaSalle, Chevy, Pontiac, Buick, Chrysler, DeSoto, Plymouth, Dodge, Packard, Graham-Paige, Hupmobile, Cord, Auburn, Hudson, Nash, Studebaker, Willys, a host of others now gone, and of course, the Crosley. We could sit on the running boards, fenders or the bumpers. The bumpers could really withstand a bump, and an "air bag" referred to "somebody's mother-in-law," or a congressman or senator.

All the boys wanted a roadster, and if you didn't have a Duece or A-bone, you weren't "in". And the best place to be with your gal was in the rumble seat when you double dated.

You could get a FULL breakfast of coffee, juice, 2 eggs, hash browns, a slab of ham or sausage or four pieces of bacon, toast and jelly for 39¢ !!!

In our day, cigarette smoking was fashionable, GRASS was mowed, Coke was a cold drink and POT was something you cooked in. ROCK MUSIC was Grandma's lullaby and AIDS were helpers in the Principal's office.

We certainly were not before the difference between the sexes was discovered, but we surely were before the sex change, we made do with what we had. And we were probably the last generation that thought you needed a husband to have a baby... We got married first, then lived together! How quaint can you be??

It is no wonder the younger generations are so confused and there is such a generation gap today!!

But WE HAVE SURVIVED !!!!
What Better Reason To Celebrate???
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: FloridaDean on May 20, 2016, 05:01:42 PM
I am very familiar with all of them except can't recall #1.
anise flavored.
Too much like anus for me
licorice then.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 05:04:28 PM
I am very familiar with all of them except can't recall #1.
anise flavored.
Too much like anus for me
licorice then.
LOL
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 05:24:51 PM
5:00 in Bermuda!

LA Herencia Core lit with a Lazy Magnolia Hops'pitality
LA 31 Dark Roasted Ale poured now for the 2nd half of this cigar.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 05:29:22 PM
DOW.   +66 @ 17,501
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 05:31:55 PM
It's American Craft Beer Week, which means it's time to clink pint glasses and sip in celebration.
In honor of the week, Foursquare ranked beer gardens across the nation, coming up with a list of the top 50 in the nation. Texas fared pretty well on the round up, with 14 appearances in the top 50.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 06:11:09 PM
New Label Fallen Angel Corona and another Hops'pitality.

SHEESH, if not for Merle Haggard I would have to drink alone.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: FloridaDean on May 20, 2016, 07:19:17 PM
New Label Fallen Angel Corona and another Hops'pitality.

SHEESH, if not for Merle Haggard I would have to drink alone.
sorry. I have managed to successfully complete a Do Nothing Friday.
rain moved in again so after dinner cigar will be delayed.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on May 20, 2016, 07:48:07 PM
New Label Fallen Angel Corona and another Hops'pitality.

SHEESH, if not for Merle Haggard I would have to drink alone.
sorry. I have managed to successfully complete a Do Nothing Friday.
rain moved in again so after dinner cigar will be delayed.
I long for a do nothing anyday. Glad this week is in the books. Still employed... Yay!
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Short stack on May 20, 2016, 07:50:29 PM
New Label Fallen Angel Corona and another Hops'pitality.

SHEESH, if not for Merle Haggard I would have to drink alone.
//if Merle is drinking with you ,You may want to stop drinking,just saying
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 08:05:46 PM
New Label Fallen Angel Corona and another Hops'pitality.

SHEESH, if not for Merle Haggard I would have to drink alone.
sorry. I have managed to successfully complete a Do Nothing Friday.
rain moved in again so after dinner cigar will be delayed.
I long for a do nothing anyday. Glad this week is in the books. Still employed... Yay!
Evening overworked Mayor
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on May 20, 2016, 08:06:38 PM
New Label Fallen Angel Corona and another Hops'pitality.

SHEESH, if not for Merle Haggard I would have to drink alone.
//if Merle is drinking with you ,You may want to stop drinking,just saying
Nice to see you on, Short stack.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on May 20, 2016, 08:07:29 PM


New Label Fallen Angel Corona and another Hops'pitality.

SHEESH, if not for Merle Haggard I would have to drink alone.
sorry. I have managed to successfully complete a Do Nothing Friday.
rain moved in again so after dinner cigar will be delayed.
I long for a do nothing anyday. Glad this week is in the books. Still employed... Yay!
Evening overworked Mayor

Probably not overworked but definitely overstressed. Chaos is the new normal. Sheesh.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 08:08:08 PM
New Label Fallen Angel Corona and another Hops'pitality.

SHEESH, if not for Merle Haggard I would have to drink alone.
//if Merle is drinking with you ,You may want to stop drinking,just saying
Think so?   ;)

You got plenty of motorcycles there now?  I could not believe how many were already coming in last weekend.

Big thing around the Inlet last week was they don't allow smoking in the Beaver Bar anymore
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 08:08:30 PM
New Label Fallen Angel Corona and another Hops'pitality.

SHEESH, if not for Merle Haggard I would have to drink alone.
//if Merle is drinking with you ,You may want to stop drinking,just saying
Nice to see you on, Short stack.
+1
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 08:09:31 PM


New Label Fallen Angel Corona and another Hops'pitality.

SHEESH, if not for Merle Haggard I would have to drink alone.
sorry. I have managed to successfully complete a Do Nothing Friday.
rain moved in again so after dinner cigar will be delayed.
I long for a do nothing anyday. Glad this week is in the books. Still employed... Yay!
Evening overworked Mayor

Probably not overworked but definitely overstressed. Chaos is the new normal. Sheesh.
Just about exactly what the warden said as she poured a drink when she got home tonight.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on May 20, 2016, 08:09:40 PM
@Tex: Have you heard from Chip at all? I sent him an email a few weeks back and haven't heard back. Hope things are progressing successfully with his ladies.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 08:11:11 PM
Pizza for dinner here tonight.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 08:12:07 PM
@Tex: Have you heard from Chip at all? I sent him an email a few weeks back and haven't heard back. Hope things are progressing successfully with his ladies.
No, sadly I have not, sent him a couple of notes but no replies. 
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on May 20, 2016, 08:15:35 PM
@Tex: Have you heard from Chip at all? I sent him an email a few weeks back and haven't heard back. Hope things are progressing successfully with his ladies.
No, sadly I have not, sent him a couple of notes but no replies.
He doesn't owe me anything, I just hope everyone is doing ok.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on May 20, 2016, 08:16:07 PM
Pizza for dinner here tonight.
The leftover variety for me.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 08:18:16 PM
@Tex: Have you heard from Chip at all? I sent him an email a few weeks back and haven't heard back. Hope things are progressing successfully with his ladies.
No, sadly I have not, sent him a couple of notes but no replies.
He doesn't owe me anything, I just hope everyone is doing ok.
Same here, he not only had his mother and daughter both seriously ill but he had health issues too and job stress up there at your levels.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 08:19:20 PM
Pizza for dinner here tonight.
The leftover variety for me.
Bought mine at the grocery store and cooked it myself, they make great pizzas really reasonably priced.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on May 20, 2016, 08:28:41 PM
@Tex: Have you heard from Chip at all? I sent him an email a few weeks back and haven't heard back. Hope things are progressing successfully with his ladies.
No, sadly I have not, sent him a couple of notes but no replies.
He doesn't owe me anything, I just hope everyone is doing ok.
Same here, he not only had his mother and daughter both seriously ill but he had health issues too and job stress up there at your levels.
Suddenly, I don't feel like I have any reason to bitch.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 08:51:38 PM
Alan Young, who starred as Wilbur Post on the 1960s TV series “Mister Ed,” died Thursday, a spokesperson for the actor told TheWrap. He was 96.

Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on May 20, 2016, 08:54:24 PM
Testing. I've never used the stylus to post a message.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on May 20, 2016, 08:56:03 PM
Testing. I've never used the stylus to post a message.
Guess it worked
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on May 20, 2016, 08:56:36 PM
Testing. I've never used the stylus to post a message.
It's probably easier to type though.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on May 20, 2016, 08:58:22 PM
Ok, time to go heat up that pizza.
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Travellin Dave on May 20, 2016, 10:59:50 PM
New Label Fallen Angel Corona and another Hops'pitality.

SHEESH, if not for Merle Haggard I would have to drink alone.
//if Merle is drinking with you ,You may want to stop drinking,just saying
Kinda like Willie and smoking...
Title: Re: 5/20/2016
Post by: Threebean on May 20, 2016, 11:56:07 PM
Testing. I've never used the stylus to post a message.
Guess it worked
But it doesn't say "Sent from my Galaxy S5 with the stylus thingy" at the bottom of your post.  I call BS.