Random Drunken Thoughts Thread

[doug293cz]

Anybody else enjoy lightning bugs or fireflies or whatever you call them? I think it’s a special spring show!!

I was a kid in Minnesota, and used to catch fireflies. Moved to Washington before 6th grade, and there are no fireflies out here. My wife grew up in Washington, but we moved to upstate NY for work after college. I still remember one summer evening when I brought my wife out to the backyard to show her the fireflies. She was absolutely amazed and enthralled. We lived in NY for 36 yrs, and up to the time we left, she loved going out to see the fireflies. Moved back to WA to retire, and the only thing she misses more than the fireflies are the friends back there.

Brew on

 

[lumpher]

Heathens!! Not only do they tell you who is still in business, but who's actually serious about staying in business!
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What for is these things called "telephone books"? Haven't seen 1 since i lost my pager...

 

[BongoYodeler]

I was a kid in Minnesota, and used to catch fireflies. Moved to Washington before 6th grade, and there are no fireflies out here. My wife grew up in Washington, but we moved to upstate NY for work after college. I still remember one summer evening when I brought my wife out to the backyard to show her the fireflies. She was absolutely amazed and enthralled. We lived in NY for 36 yrs, and up to the time we left, she loved going out to see the fireflies. Moved back to WA to retire, and the only thing she misses more than the fireflies are the friends back there.

Brew on

I can relate.

 

[Agent]

What for is these things called "telephone books"? Haven't seen 1 since i lost my pager...

I got one to spare if you still need it...

 

[balrog]

Lawdy those were the days...

 

[balrog]

My nascent ocd has never caused me to think about this.

But now I will.

 

[balrog]

 

[Mr. Vern]

Hide your cheese dip... Groo is coming!
Some childhood memories live forever.

 

[Pkrd]

Subway sandwiches are not a foot long. They are a footlong.

If you find a hair in one it’s a furlong.

I’m somewhere more enlightened today.

 

[balrog]

I’m somewhere more enlightened today.
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Seeing ads for a 30cm Subway makes my poor 'murican brain hurt.
Imma get a chicken schawarma instead.

 

[HBT_Admin]

I've been told chicken schawarma is very good eating, so that may be a new favorite sandwich.

 

[Skeeter686]

I’m somewhere more enlightened today.
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"Thirty-Centimeter-Long" just rolls off the tongue. (I won't point out to you that Americans are getting a couple millimeters more in ours. )

 

[Pkrd]

Seeing ads for a 30cm Subway makes my poor 'murican brain hurt.
Imma get a chicken schawarma instead.

Well they’re getting ripped off by at least 4mm.
And what the heck is going on with the sticky outy bits? Next time I’m going to ask for my 15cm sub to be the middle bit. Chop 7.5cm off each end and sell that to some radical lefty or righty.

 

[balrog]

I've been told chicken schawarma is very good eating, so that may be a new favorite sandwich.

Be careful.
Once you've gone down the chicken schawarma path, there is no return...

 

[day_trippr]

Down in northern Jersey for the weekend, visiting oldest sons family for their youngest sons birthday today, and we decided to take the celebration to the kart track.

It's been 30 years since I last folded my 6' 5" frame into a kart, but it was totally worth the pain afterward, just to rip around the track and smoke the field 2 out of 3 heats Such a blast, highly recommended if you have a venue nearby, the e-karts are much more aggressive than the classic gassers with oodles of torque. The last heat I was on my sons bumper for a lap before I scootched by in the last hundred feet ftw

Cheers!

 

[day_trippr]

A loan at a bank can take 30 YEARS to pay off.
If you rob a bank, you're out in 10 YEARS.

Follow me for more financial advice.

 

[Broothru]

My nascent ocd has never caused me to think about this.

But now I will.

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But you left one of the lights on. And don't forget to reset the rheostat.

(Takes one to know one! )

 

[seatazzz]

Not drunk (yet) (okay maybe tipsy) but sitting here reflecting on things. On this forum we connect with people all over the world, who we will never meet in real life. But they have the same struggles, thoughts, and reflections that we all do. Politics, beliefs, faith, all that aside but we are all human with human emotions and feelings. Back in the day we had no idea what someone in, say, Croatia or Finland, or somewhere even more remote like Macao, thought about the world and goings on. Now, with a simple click, we can. And, for the most part, they have the same sense of humor or joie d'vivre that all of us do. We're alive, we're here, and shenanigans (which is my word of the day, BTW), happen. It's a beautiful thing. Oh look, beer!!!

 

[BongoYodeler]

Not drunk (yet) (okay maybe tipsy) but sitting here reflecting on things. On this forum we connect with people all over the world, who we will never meet in real life. But they have the same struggles, thoughts, and reflections that we all do. Politics, beliefs, faith, all that aside but we are all human with human emotions and feelings. Back in the day we had no idea what someone in, say, Croatia or Finland, or somewhere even more remote like Macao, thought about the world and goings on. Now, with a simple click, we can. And, for the most part, they have the same sense of humor or joie d'vivre that all of us do. We're alive, we're here, and shenanigans (which is my word of the day, BTW), happen. It's a beautiful thing. Oh look, beer!!!

Post of the year, so far.

 

[GrogNerd]

one can forgive one's wife for not getting anything, not even a card, for her husband on their 20th anniversary, it just makes his weak efforts look grandiose in comparison

our official wedding bobbleheads

 

[Snuffy]

one can forgive one's wife for not getting anything, not even a card, for her husband on their 20th anniversary, it just makes his weak efforts look grandiose in comparison

our official wedding bobbleheads

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20 is kind of a big deal. The wife and I agreed long ago that instead of cards and gifts, we would just go out to dinner and see what develops. Getting old enough now that sometimes it's a rain check. I think this year will be 42. Congrats on 20, BTW.

 

[day_trippr]

fwiw, today is the Spousal Unit and my 48th anniversary. We're waaay past gifts and cards at this point and prefer celebrating with dinner out at nice place...

Cheers!

 

[balrog]

Congrats on 48. She clearly must be a saint.

 

[day_trippr]

What's the next higher level? She's that

 

[seatazzz]

I think they call that a martyr....

*scoots to corner of room to hide behind large piece of furniture*

 

[day_trippr]

"Next higher level without going over" then

(although some might agree with the martyr thing )

 

[balrog]

Here's one my feeble 2am brain came up with last night, as the wind buffeted the house, and the clock ticked extra loudly:

If he really wanted to "Take It Easy" and already had 7 women on his mind, why on earth would he choose to take up with some new women in a flat bed Ford while standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona? Is 8 women on his mind somehow better because it's a multiple of 2? Does it have something to do with binary math and computers? And why would the sound of your own wheels in any way drive you crazy?

 

[Agent]

And why would the sound of your own wheels in any way drive you crazy?

Horribly cupped tires in conjunction with a bad U-Joint have made me question reality before.

 

[mac_1103]

If he really wanted to "Take It Easy" and already had 7 women on his mind, why on earth would he choose to take up with some new women in a flat bed Ford while standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona?

To take his mind off of the other seven.

 

[Broken Crow]

Here's one my feeble 2am brain came up with last night, as the wind buffeted the house, and the clock ticked extra loudly:

If he really wanted to "Take It Easy" and already had 7 women on his mind, why on earth would he choose to take up with some new women in a flat bed Ford while standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona? Is 8 women on his mind somehow better because it's a multiple of 2? Does it have something to do with binary math and computers? And why would the sound of your own wheels in any way drive you crazy?

Funny you should ask that.... I was actually in a similar position when I was much younger. Though I was not in Arizona, and the sudden new woman was a pedestrian, there was the sound of my own wheels driving me crazy: Perhaps to complete the coincidence Glen Frey had a leak in a tire which he plugged but it was in a bad spot right near the edge and so made a constant ptlptlptlptlpltptlptlptlptlpltptlptlptlptlpltptlptlptlptlpltptlptlptlptlplt while going down the road.
I changed out the wheel for my spare a few days later and life slowly got better.

 

[BongoYodeler]

Here's one my feeble 2am brain came up with last night, as the wind buffeted the house, and the clock ticked extra loudly:

If he really wanted to "Take It Easy" and already had 7 women on his mind, why on earth would he choose to take up with some new women in a flat bed Ford while standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona? Is 8 women on his mind somehow better because it's a multiple of 2? Does it have something to do with binary math and computers? And why would the sound of your own wheels in any way drive you crazy?

You just need to flip it to get you in the mood.

 

[doug293cz]

You just need to flip it to get you in the mood.

I see what you did there...

Brew on

 

[seatazzz]

Ya gotta admit though, Take It Easy is one of THE best songs to belt out at the top of your lungs to embarrass your teenage kids with you in the car.

I can still hear my daughter muttering MOM STOP as I drove through town....

 

[GrogNerd]

my 13th birthday I got a guitar, the brand new (released just the previous month) album "Eagles Greatest Hits: 1971 - 1975" and it's accompanying songbook.

I put on the record, turned to the first song in the book, picked up my guitar & 49 years later, we have the mediocre rhythm player before you today

I like to say Glen Frey taught me to play guitar

 

[Snuffy]

my 13th birthday I got a guitar, the brand new (released just the previous month) album "Eagles Greatest Hits: 1971 - 1975" and it's accompanying songbook.
I put on the record, turned to the first song in the book, picked up my guitar & 49 years later, we have the mediocre rhythm player before you today
I like to say Glen Frey taught me to play guitar

Kinda the same thing here - only sadder. I got a Yamaha acoustic guitar for Christmas one year along with a classic rock songbook full of guitar tabs. 45 years later, I can, with some trial and error, complete most of Bob Seeger's "Night Moves" and "Against the Wind", part of Floyd's "Wish You Were Here", some of "Lyin' Eyes" and "Free Fallin'". On an electric I can get parts of "Smoke on the Water", "The Rover", and some CCR. Never completed a song from start to finish flawlessly in my life. I'm hell on C-F-G tho... Traded the mexi-strat and amp for a Kahr .45 years ago .

 

[GrogNerd]

having arthritis issues, it's easier to play the keyboard, so I'm learning piano.

& drums on keyboards

 

[BongoYodeler]

Went the whole day without a nap. Pulled an all-dayer.

 

[balrog]

One day you wake up, a million generations removed from expectations of being who you really want to be, but then you remember, you can make beer.

 

[Snuffy]

Skating away...

 

[Snuffy]

I finally got around to swapping out my generic sticky tap with the Perlick I bought like last Black Friday. Wow. It's like moving from 3-on-the-tree to a pistol grip 4 speed. I wanna drink beer just so I can pull the tap.