Random Thoughts VIII: The Ocho

[coolerifyoudid]

My brother gave me the complete collection of Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes as gifts. So much really really good humor.

 

[jcyclonee]

Advice from someone married to a woman that across town (1mile) is still to far away. Move before kids hit school if you think you might. My wife finally realized that living in the same small town you grew up in is basically never leaving HS. When my oldest hit 7-8 grade she said she was ready to move. (I farm 45 minutes away) but at that point it was too late. My elderly mother moved in by us do to poorer health (85) and the kids were settled in and the other options (my old schools) wouldn't have been a good situation at that point. So, I'm effed in a town I hate and wife doesn't care so much for because she couldn't leave her parents.

BTW, for 5 years we lived in the middle of our jobs (I had an in for her to get a job in town) but she went nuts being 20minutes from mom/dad.

You don't like living in Bedrock? Seems pretty idyllic to me.

 

[VeloClone]

Next time I get in an argument with Surly someone please remind me of what Mark Twain said about arguing with stupid people and them dragging you down to their level.

 

[VeloClone]

You don't like living in Bedrock? Seems pretty idyllic to me.

I have a friend who grew up in Bedford, Ia. She always refers to it as "Bedrock".

 

[55dB]

Next time I get in an argument with Surly someone please remind me of what Mark Twain said about arguing with stupid people and them dragging you down to their level.

Something something fishknife and drag him to the murder house.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

Just cuz

 

[jcyclonee]

My brother gave me the complete collection of Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes as gifts. So much really really good humor.

Fantastic gifts. I once received the first two David Letterman Book of Top Ten Lists. Here is the first ever top ten List (drum roll sound):

Top 10 Words that Almost Rhyme With "Peas"


10. Heats
9. Rice
8. Moss
7. ties
6. Needs
5. Lens
4. Ice
3. Nurse
2. Leaks
1. Meats

 

[jcyclonee]

I have a friend who grew up in Bedford, Ia. She always refers to it as "Bedrock".

Growing up in as exciting of a community as I did, we often referred to our hometown as Fort LauderDodge.

 

[GTO]

Something something fishknife and drag him to the murder house.

Agree. Velo is letting us down. A true murder house champion would have posted his previous statement from Surly's account (without comic sans).

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Next time I get in an argument with Surly someone please remind me of what Mark Twain said about arguing with stupid people and them dragging you down to their level.

I could say the same about amishargentclone.

 

[VeloClone]

Agree. Velo is letting us down. A true murder house champion would have posted his previous statement from Surly's account (without comic sans).

<Hangs head> I've failed all of my ghosts.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

I have a friend who grew up in Bedford, Ia. She always refers to it as "Bedrock".

We used to go camping in Bedford every year. That was our big trip, since we lived in very northern Iowa and Bedford was very southern Iowa.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

My brother gave me the complete collection of Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes as gifts. So much really really good humor.

I wonder if I still have a couple of those Calvin and Hobbes collections. Haven't read them in years and years. It would almost be like reading them anew.

 

[VeloClone]

Growing up in as exciting of a community as I did, we often referred to our hometown as Fort LauderDodge.

The towns I grew up in had such inferiority complexes that they compensated by never calling themselves anything but their real name. :shocked:

 

[cyrocksmypants]

I could say the same about amishargentclone.

Yeah, it looks like CG's Amish boyfriend has given way for her anti-Vaxxer boyfriend in the same thread. I really wish we had old CG back right now.

 

[VeloClone]

I wonder if I still have a couple of those Calvin and Hobbes collections. Haven't read them in years and years. It would almost be like reading them anew.

I'm pretty sure I have at least one, but like most of my books, packed away. But hey, we have a children's library of several hundred books all at our fingertips.

A little caustic comment but seriously, getting the kids to read is the most important thing ever.

 

[jcyclonee]

<Hangs head> I've failed all of my ghosts.

Velo, right now:

 

[BCClone]

Growing up in as exciting of a community as I did, we often referred to our hometown as Fort LauderDodge.

Just realized that a couple of my cousins may have went to school around the same time as you possibly. Or was at least supposed to go to school about the same time. When one was called the brains of the group and then I heard he had a 1.7 gpa, I figured they weren't top students.

 

[BCClone]

Velo, right now:

Is the murder house like miss USA, if velo is unable to perform his duties than I get crowned winner?

 

[jcyclonee]

Just realized that a couple of my cousins may have went to school around the same time as you possibly. Or was at least supposed to go to school about the same time. When one was called the brains of the group and then I heard he had a 1.7 gpa, I figured they weren't top students.

I think that was about 90% of my FDSH graduating class.