You are such a good friend that if we were on a sinking ship together and there was only one life jacket. . . I’d miss you heaps and think of you often.

ANONYMOUS

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Only In America

I really do love this country, but...

1. Only in America... can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.

2. Only in America... are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.

3. Only in America... do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

4. Only in America... do people order double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet coke.

5. Only in America... do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.

6. Only in America... do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.

7. Only in America... do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place.

8. Only in America... do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.

9. Only in America... do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.

10. Only in America... do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille.

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These are the best of the best "Out of Office" automatic email replies out there...

I am currently out of the office at a job interview and will reply to you if I fail to get the position. Please be prepared for my mood.

You are receiving this automatic notification, because I am out of the office. If I was in, chances are you wouldn't have received anything at all.

Sorry to have missed you, but I'm at the doctor's having my brain and heart removed so I can be promoted to our management team.

I will be unable to delete all the emails you send me until I return from vacation. Please be patient, and your mail will be deleted in the order it was received.

Thank you for your email. Your credit card has been charged $5.99 for the first 10 words and $1.99 for each additional word in your message.

The email server is unable to verify your server connection. Your message has not been delivered. Please restart your computer and try sending again. (The beauty of this is that when you return, you can see who did this over and over and over....)

Thank you for your message, which has been added to a queuing system. You are currently in 352nd place, and can expect to receive a reply in approximately 19 weeks.

Hi, I'm thinking about what you've just sent me. Please wait by your PC for my response.

I've run away to join a different circus.

I will be out of the office for the next two weeks for medical reasons.

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Oxymoron's

Act naturally

Happily married

Microsoft Works

Holy war

Found missing

Resident alien

Minor Catastrophe

Affordable housing

Near miss

Great depression

Canadian army

Phone sex

United nations

Advanced BASIC

Genuine imitation

Death benefits

Airline Food

Women's rights

Good grief

Same difference

Almost exactly

Sensitive man

Government organization

Everything except

Civil War

Good kid

Sanitary landfill

Alone together

Legally drunk

Silent scream

British fashion

Living dead

Small crowd

Business ethics

Soft rock

Butt Head

Military Intelligence

Software documentation

New York culture

New classic

Sweet sorrow

Childproof

"Now, then"

Synthetic natural gas

Christian Scientists

Passive aggressive

Taped live

Clearly misunderstood

Peace force

Extinct Life

Temporary tax increase

New and improved

Computer jock

Plastic glasses

Terribly pleased

Computer security

Political science

Tight slacks

Definite maybe

Pretty ugly

Twelve-ounce pound cake

Diet ice cream

Rap music

Working vacation

Exact estimate

Religious tolerance

Freezer Burn

Honest Politician

Jumbo Shrimp

Loners Club

Postal Service

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Good morning everyboomie.


It's the weekend part 2.


Sunday is my lazy day.


I spent all day today practicing for it.


I did take the pups to the park, but that's about it.


I did some gaming, and I plan on doing more of that this evening.


I ordered Ken Burns Civil War series, and I got it today, so I've been watching that too. I had it before on VHS, and I have missed watching it. I've loved Civil War history ever since I was a kid.


Have a super Sunday everybody.


joe

I wish the weekend lasted longer than the week.

Hi ya Boomers

Hi Joe Thanks for the openers
you should come up to Yakima, Washing to look for arrowheads
its an old indian Res~ I bet you'd find lots of cool ones!



Hello space how are you doing?


Today my dialysis went good for a change my blood pressure
didn't get too low


L4L The Geese usually fly south at the end of Summer and come
back early spring~ but their all mixed up this year
how are you doing?? how are your doggies??
mine are doing good, their all fat & lazy during winter,
can't wait, only 4 Mondays til Spring Doc :pup:

Rikki's white husky had 5 beautiful pups

Hi all,have a relaxing Sunday.

Good Morning Joe, Space, Karen, Haroula and everyone. Coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready! Wishing you all a happy day!

Good morning everyone, have a Wonderful Sunday. I'm going to the Magic game with Robert today. It would be nice if they won for a change. Danish, Eggs, Bacon, Sausage, Ham, Hash Browns, BB Pancakes, Biscuits and Gravy, French Toast, Waffles, and Toast in the NC.

Super Sunday ya'll

We had a whopper of a storm last night. Lil Soot slept with me...cuddling which is unusual for him. It lasted all night til around 5 this morning. Thank God all the trees stayed up.

Space, I bet you are not alone in that wish.

Doc, I bet it's fun to watch them. My azaleas are all mixed up this year too. I bet the pups are adorable.

Hi ya, Haroula.

Gerry, any plans for the day.

Connie, have fun

morning , all

we got the big winds last evening , but no loss of power and they died

down fairly quickly , thank heaven.

another cold one today. these temps are a bit unusual for us.

nothing planned for today , i'll just see how it rolls.

hope you all have a peaceful , brilliant one !

later on

Good morning boomies! Late night last night but I slept in a bit this morning so that made up for it.

Still trying to get caught up with stuff today and I'll be heading out for a nice walk/run later. I'll get my pups out too hopefully. It's so muddy out but they don't care.
Shadow is still favoring one hind leg but everyday is a little bit less.

Hope you all are safe from the storms!

Joe enjoy your lazy day! Thanks for the chuckles and have a lovely day!

Space enjoy the rest of the weekend and have a lovely day!

Oh Karen.....puppies!!!!!! Glad your dialysis went well! Have a lovely day!

Haroula have a lovely day!

Gerry thanks for the coffee and have a lovely day!

Connie enjoy the game!! Thanks for the Danish and have a lovely day!

L4l glad all went well with the storm by your place! Have a lovely day!

niteowl glad the power remained on for you! Have a lovely day!

Ana have a nice walk/run!! We have rain and or clouds but the temps are staying above freezing and all the ice we got at Christmas is finally slowly melting!!! Have a lovely day!


Nan

I'm BAAACCKKK!

Right in the middle of everything (we were having a series of 3 rain storms with high winds) MY power went out. Well not just mine, about 35,000 homes in my area. Ugh!

So this was FRIDAY 3pm. Yeah, I just got power back last night at 11:25PM. I think that's 32 hours without electricity. There was NOTHING to do, No TV, Radio only had sports and politics, all the neighborhood around me and for several blocks were out out out.

Walmart was out, Costco was out, but they managed to get them back on fairly quickly. With our little area of 1600 homes, it' took 32 long hours. My neighbor and I walked the neighborhood and saw our SDGE gas and electric working on a very very high powered pole about 2 blocks away. That was early Saturday.

I called the SDGE number frequently and got updates on WHEN our power would be restored. It went, 3 am, noon, 3 pm, 6:30pm, 8:30pm, 9pm, 10pm, midnight. Fun. BUT the power suddenly went back on at 11:25pm. I was asleep, and the NOISE that the power cranking up all over the neighborhood was AUDIBLE. Strange. Just a big WHOOMP and Whirrrrr. Wowie!

So now I am trying to salvage stuff in my fridge and freezer. I think most things are OK but I'm on a cooking vent to cook up any perishibles from the fridge before they get a chance to go bad. Threw away a lot of stuff I just didn't want to take a chance on and am 'watching' others like shredded cheese.

So I'm back in the land of the living. Had a mini-apocalypse but didn't see any Zonbies.

Good afternoon Boomers. It is a beautiful day here today.

We are having heavy heavy rains.....it's a good thing as long as it stays on the outside.

Sorta, time seems to drag so much when the power is out. Glad yours is back on. Hope you didn't loose too much to thawing.

Niteowl, glad you survived the winds.

Ana, glad to hear Shadow is still improving!

Nan, hope you guys are ice free soon. Can't imagine the ice is ever fun.

Hi ya Space, will you get out to enjoy the day?

Hi Sorta bet your a happy camper now that your powers back on
camp stoves are great to have when you lose power~

Hi ya Ana how are you doing? how is Shadows leg?? poor guy
h ow old is he now? My Lucy is 16 now and she can't hear a thing
but she's still doing pretty good~ hope your work doesn't
overwhelm you~ got any spring activities coming up??

Hi space you doing anything in your nice weather??

Hello niteowl how hot is it where you are? my sis lives their too
maybe one of these years I'll get to visit her

Hey Nan what are you doing today? is it cold their?
it's raining 51% here good day to play my new game
and read~ I was laughing so hard reading my Fannie Flagg book
L4L you'd love her books she writes about Alabama and the folks
that live their~ it is so funny

have a nice afternoon everyone~Karen

Thank goodness I have an antique gas stove and gas water heater. Things were comfy. Just nothing to do. I even tried to use my 'battery jumper' thingy which has an AC plug-in port to run my TV/DVD 13 inch set. Made it 45 minutes before it ran out of power. I'll have to finish the movie today now that power is restored. Just found out too, that many homes just a block away didn't get power restored until 4 am today. Guess I didn't fair too badly. Food was pretty good. Frozen meat in the bottom drawer didn't even thaw a bit. I should have put everything in the lower half of the fridge/freezer. Next time...

looney,

I'm heading out for trip three with the doggie now.

GO PATS!!!! The game tonight decides who plays in the Super Bowl. I really hope it's the Pats.

Storms comin. Huge rain storm tomorrow. High winds. Talk to you later.

Midgie

Midgie

Hi friends! Just wanted to stop by and reconnect. Hope you are all staying warm, healthy and safe.
Andrea

Good night Boomers.

The Pats won . It's on to the super bowl in 2 weeks.

Now I can go to bed. I have to work in the morning as the other caregiver can't work in the morning. Midgie to the rescue. Night all.
Midgie