richie
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26 Jan 2009, 5:05 pm
Don't mess with someone who eats that stuff for breakfast......
26 Jan 2009, 7:01 pm
you can find haggis at highland games, you know. they toss them over a bar that looks like goalposts in a football game....
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26 Jan 2009, 7:16 pm
Ought we to be calling you "Doc Manhattan"?
26 Jan 2009, 11:30 pm
HEY! Go Me!
I have been looking through archives, records, etc., for any trace of a possible brother to my grandfather, for about 10 years now.
Just found him, and a ton about him. 
Once I had the birthdate, which I was just able to pry from a database the Irish govmt finally got online, I could confirm all the other stuff (he has a very common Irish name, there were a kazillion with the same name on the ships' registers, the immigration stuff, the directories, the censuses....).
SO, an Irish cop in Harlem in 1942.
Bet THAT was interesting.
28th precinct. Wonder if they have any archival material I could get my paws on....?
With four daughters. That would mean I probably have a TON of cousins living in the Bronx, where his census records for 1930 place them.
Eeee, eee! 
Sorry, nevermind. Just one of my little obsessions.
A long way from knowing my grandmother's first name only, and my grandfather's full name, and that "they came from Ireland somewhere" it is, yeppers, it is.
Now I've got his and gramps' parents names, including their mother's maiden name. But nothing further back. Keep hitting that stone wall (the great hunger) and lack of records in Ireland (so many burnt in 1922 during the Civil War). How to get past... have found online photos of the graveyard in the area in which they lived, with many with the same last names. But who, precisely, are/were they to us?
Puzzles. Perpetual puzzles to be solved. Sounds like an excuse for a heck of a road trip someday, too!
27 Jan 2009, 6:05 pm
But not immediately, are you. Stand before the bathroom mirror at night, switch off the lights. Or put your camera on a timer.
That reminds me. I didn't change my milk intake after Chernobyl. Was supposed to be safe. I wondered about this a year later, when I did an experiment involving a Geiger counter, and the thing went off when I came near it. Do you think that could explain, you know, things?
Tennant
Is. In most of his roles he needs an English accent, but in interviews he goes back to Scottish, and here, too. Voted sexiest man alive (in some or other poll, don't ask me, a bloke in a pub told me), he is not afraid to show his female side
Tardis
The appearance of the haggis is disputed. The Realist school claims it looks like this:
The Vitalist school offers images like this
and this
Decide for yourself, but choose carefully. Religious wars have been fought over the subject. The Empiricists suggest looking for evidence, but they are heretics, to be burned at the stake. Only after a fair trial, of course, but burn they will. That's how you know the trial was fair. There are also those who say the question is not important. Ignore them. They do not know what they say.
I remember where I was when Chernobyl happened.Outdoor in the rain,oblivious to the
potentially radioactive drops blowing in from the Ukraine.It didn't help when I learned that
in the Book Of Revelations it states that 'A Star Called Wormwood shall fall to Earth'
Guess what the Ukrainian name Chernobyl means in English - Wormwood !
David Tennant. Oh yes,big Davie McDonald,the minister's son from Paisley.
As they might say in these parts 'Ah kent his faither' (I didn't personally but it's a phrase
used to keep the stars' feet on the ground) . A kind of inverted praise to counteract the
innate British/Scottish reluctance to openly embrace superstardom.
As for the haggis,the truth is that nowadays slightly more is sold per head in England than in Scotland.You can even get vegetarian versions. (Pause while Rabbie Burns turns in grave).
Should old and quaint aunts be forgot ? Sorry,I'm suffering from terrible Burns ....
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27 Jan 2009, 10:29 pm
used to keep the stars' feet on the ground) . A kind of inverted praise to counteract the
innate British/Scottish reluctance to openly embrace superstardom.
Or, as I once read, "Oi, it's only fawking Guy Ritchie, innit, jeez?"
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27 Jan 2009, 11:54 pm
28 Jan 2009, 1:59 pm
Looks like you had a fun /interesting/chilly/ itinerary-packed trip Nan! I have never wanted to travel, but will eventually, perhaps at gunpoint, as my sister insists that she will drag me around the world one day. Perhaps you will see us. I will be the old bald man bound, gagged, and pulled behind a woman who has the energy of a Jack Russell terrier on amphetamines, who insists on reading every snippet of information in every courthouse book in every town, and every epitaph on every tombstone in every graveyard, and who examines every tool in every workshop, and explores every barn, and every architecturally interesting facet of every building, and every bit of art in every museum, shop, and atelier, and every pebble, shell, and grain of sand on every beach, and every flower in every garden...
...all without stopping once for food, water, sleep, or air. For weeks.
Disregarding, of course, whether or not we should actually be on the property she happens to want to explore. My job is to pay fines, run interference, make apologies, and be the pack mule.
Oh yes. She's one of us. Definitely one of us.
(You will recognize her by this phrase: "Oh, stop your whining. ...Look at this! ...and this! ...and this! ...and this! ...and this! ...and this! ...and this! ....and this! ...and this! ...and this! ...and this! ...and this! ...and this! ...and this! ...and this! ..." If you see us, take the gun from her and shoot me. I prefer a quick death. 
)
28 Jan 2009, 3:21 pm
)Isn't she the woman with the ping pong gun? I can actually work out a way for a ping pong ball to kill, but it wouldn't be quick. Or it might be. Compared to the alternative...
Anyway here is the solution: Travel in style. This style:
A hot air balloon will keep her far enough from pebbles, and the style of this balloon will at least warn innocent bystanders what to expect. Of course, some people can't take a warning, but on their heads be it.
richie
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28 Jan 2009, 4:31 pm
Lurking....
...and stimming...
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28 Jan 2009, 5:14 pm
Merle
I get different ads. This is what I see:
The "Sydney" part is not far off, but the terms "buddy" and "crush" are little used round here.
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28 Jan 2009, 7:40 pm
Odd, the only ad I get is a recruitment poster for the thought police. I won't go, but it says they know where I live.
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28 Jan 2009, 7:43 pm
Master Vader as a blow up doll? The concept confuses me. I must retire to the comfort of my bed and contemplate this.
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28 Jan 2009, 8:13 pm
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28 Jan 2009, 8:33 pm
i'm kind of at a low myself. they let the kid go from her job yesterday - last friday it was all smiles and "we'll work together to see that you're successful" and yesterday they started pressuring her to resign. when she would not (no unemployment pay if you quit), she was handed a check and shown the door.
she says she still doesn't know why, but is soooo happy to be out of there away from dracula. i've avoided the "i've been trying to tell you's" and the "she's been dropping hints for weeks that this was coming." the kid is happy to be out of there, and will get unemployment pay. how she'll explain this to her future employers, i don't know. the only good thing she can use is that dracula said they were not going to fill her position again because of budget cuts. so she can use that. four days before she would have become a "career" employee (permanent), too. oh, well. another aspie bites the dust.... but at least she played it smart enough to get unemployment pay.
Well, at first I thought the damage was minimal so I didn't bother to report it to the authorities. A few days later, I noticed the fiberglass (yep, the whole body is fiberglass) was cracked. I had to open the back hatch to for the groceries and when I did I realized that the impact had cracked and accordianed all the fiberglass on the inside of the door. Now I have a van with a back door that I managed to get most of the way closed, latched but will no longer open. I really wonder what that van did in it's past life, Merle.
If the Kid's anything like her mom she'll learn and move on. I heard the words "budget cuts" on two occasions and it really didn't make me feel any better.
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