You would't recognize 371 today. Its a divided 4 lane highway all the way from St. Cloud to Nisswa.

Nice dog pic. -

I forgot. Yes, he has a desktop and I have 2 laptops.

Wow! Nothin' what 'twas like when I traveled it. Must be for all the Audubon Society members goin' to watch the loons dance, eh? Methinks this one's even better, eh?

Uh oh here comes the skillet

Happy birthday. Magic!

Hope you don't get a new skillet Happy B-Day!

Almost forgot, here's the world's largest skillet for our skillet.

Pie,
Did you find one?

So very glad Skillet is out celebrating !!! And two nights in a row, too ! Wonderful !

The Burma Shave research was great, -P. Weren't their commercials on TV, too ?

I only vaguely remember Burma Shave signs. Odd, as I got dragged from NY state to Mexico and many points in between from age 4 until 9. I do remember a contest we played about who spotted the first Stuckey's sign...




Cardinal has TWO laptops ! Wow ! I am hoping to inherit TeenPie's now that new Mac somethings with the new Intel (?) chips are out. He was all in a frenzy of excitement about the new ones when Jobs did his presentation a week or two ago. MrPie is a sucker, so I expect that Teen will be getting one before the year is out. "My old one is sooooo slow !", he whines. I ask "Why do you need more speed for writing college papers?"

Those of you who have laptops- can you fiddle with the pad thingy easily- or do you plug in a mouse ? I am such a klutz that I have trouble using my finger on the pad thingy to move the cursor. Is it a steep learning curve to learn to pad rather than mouse ?

Too cool a picture for skillet's birthday by Redbird !
With the "magic" - did you make it, Cardinal ?

Marine seemed to enjoy chat last night. Who, who, who said it was like a Lady's tea party ?
It takes a few visits to get the hang of it and we were missing some regulars last night
like Des (who was multi-tasking and not too involved) and Winston. Ya just never know what will come up in chat- do you, "Pop" ???

I am such a sucker- ya got me Joe- looked at my hand !

And Marine's post about A.A.A.D. was too true ! Now what else was I going to say....?????

Poor Doc- too much on his mind- he's gett'in grumpy again. *sigh*
Here's something to cheer you:

Yes. MrLooneyTunes is now all happy.

Thanks Pie. If I had known that this thing called a "mid-life crisis" was this bizzare I swear I would have...well....I don't know what I would have done but at least I would have seen it coming or something.

Fly: Give my favorite hero a hug!

I can't believe it's been a whole year Marie.....you and I are both January girls. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Good to see you're around and sounding a bit more chipper (at least in this post). Please come back in about 35 more posts if not sooner

I never heard of Stuckeys - but then I've led a sheltered life.

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Cardinal has TWO laptops !

One for work - we have a very very tight policy on what we can and can't use work computers for and CGCS didn't qualify.

No, I don't like using the pad at all so I plug in the mouse. I have a docking station so I can use the bigger monitor also - easier on the eyes.

No, I don't have the software for that yet but when I retire. . . . . I found it in google - magic birthday (I think)

That was Vet - I've never been to a tea party so I don't know. We'll have to get Doc in there next week.

I did too but I you wouldn't believe what I saw - Joe.

Doc? grumpy? just incorrigible (sp?)



And what did you find?


Hey lady, I missed your birthday so I'll have to find something for you. How are you doing?

hey cardinal seen this thought of you spring around the corner

Pie -

I use a laptop at work, and I plug a mouse into it, as well. Much easier.

Did he buy a travel trailer?

Stuckeys: known for their world famous pecan logs!

Never heard of Stuckey's ? Amazing- they were tacky roadside places full of souvenirs and junky food. And they had really big, obnoxious signs for miles before the stores/restaurants. (Not bad to be be sheltered from )


Doc in chat- oh, my- what a hoot that would be. If he doesn't come, I will blame Des this week. I have never been to tea party either- last night we got off on talking kids for awhile and all the gals were chat-chat-chat and the guys had a hard time getting in a word edgewise. But Marine managed to join in- I learned that his daughter plays the cello (since age 8)and now teaches strings.

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And what did you find?

I found nothing. LooneyTunes dragged his cousin & her hubby and I over to a big show and he found a travel trailer, with their sage advice (they have had several). It has been his dream since I first met him 36 years ago. Teen called me while we were over there and said "Mom, just let him get the damn thing. It will make him happy and keep him out of the hospital !" And so it is... and I sure hope it is as much fun as portrayed. Another learning curve ahead but I may swing around the whole darn country and visit all of you ! UP side for me: I now have a great way to escape the hurricanes.

Great of heart to stop by and say hello.

I think our spring is going to come a little later up here. But this probably be the warmest January we have had on record.

I haven't seen any cardinals this winter at all so thanks Vet.

that was my daughter that play the cello + a long list of others she has a music major

Saturday's College Basketball

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: January 21, 2006
Filed at 10:45 p.m. ET

EAST

ugh!
Bates 74, Williams 56


Glad I didn't go to Maine this weekend.

Does anyone know this guy??? joe e


Kilroy Was Here... During the World War II, the phrase 'Kilroy was here' began to appear wherever US troops were. It was often accompanied with the image of a face with a long nose and two big round eyes with small dot eyeballs peeking over a wall or a line representing a wall. Everything else, except sometimes his fingers gripping the top of the wall, was hidden behind the wall itself.
Kilroy is a familiar image, whose origin is something of a mystery. In 1946, the American Transit Association had a radio programme called Speak to America. This programme sponsored a nationwide contest in an attempt to solve the mystery behind the origins of the mystical Kilroy. Speak to America found James J Kilroy of Massachusetts as a result of their search. That James J Kilroy was the originator of 'Kilroy was here' is currently the most commonly believed explanation for the phenomenon.

James J Kilroy was a ship inspector at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA. It was his responsibility to check on how many holes a riveter had filled in a shift on any given day. In order to prevent double counting by dishonest riveters and to prove to his supervisors that he'd been doing his work, he began marking 'Kilroy was here' inside the hulls of the ships being built. He used yellow crayon so it would be easily visible; this way the off-shift inspectors wouldn't count the rivets more than once and pay the riveter for work he hadn't done.

Once the ship became operative, carrying military troops that were headed overseas and bound for the war, the phrase was a complete mystery. Why it was there and being found in such out of the way places made it all the more mysterious. All they could be certain of was that Kilroy, whoever he was, had 'been there first'. As a joke, troops began placing the graffiti wherever the US forces landed and claimed it had already been there when they'd arrived.

Whoever originated it, Kilroy quickly became the United States super GI who had always already been wherever men were sent by the military. The game quickly became a challenge to put the picture and slogan in the most unlikely places imaginable first.

According to author Charles Panati, it's supposed to be atop Mount Everest, on the torch of the Statue of Liberty, on the underside of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, on the Marco Polo Bridge in China, on huts in Polynesia, on a girder on the George Washington Bridge in New York and scrawled in the dust on the moon. Panati also wrote that an outhouse was built, during the Potsdam Conference in July of 1945, for use exclusively by Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill. The first of the three to utilize the facility was Stalin. Upon emerging he inquired of his nearby aide, 'Who is Kilroy?' This was supposedly overheard by a translator and is where the story comes from.

Kilroy and Hitler - The Rumour

Near the end of World War II, Adolf Hitler was absolutely and completely paranoid regarding one insurgent in particular. This individual seemed able to get into everything and anything that was thought to be secure in Nazi, Germany. He (Hitler) ordered his best men to begin actively searching for this super-spy and all troops were commanded to shoot and kill this menace.

The 'spy' Hitler was looking for was none other than Kilroy! GIs in occupied territory and spies in the German Army were vandalizing Nazi bases and equipment with the Kilroy logo and its well-known slogan. It wasn't intended as anything more than graffiti and a prank, but by the final year of Hitler's reign, he was convinced Kilroy could penetrate into any secure area and feared for his own safety thinking Kilroy was certain to kill him.

Origins

Oddly enough, as widespread as the Kilroy phenomenon was there is no concrete evidence to verify either when or where it began, nor who began it in each country (USA, England and Canada). In England, the Kilroy logo was known as Chad and his slogan consisted of 'Wot no...?' The blank was usually filled in with whatever there was a shortage of or whatever was being rationed at the time. The Oxford English Dictionary states that Chad's origin is obscure, but that British Cartoonist George Edward Chatterton may have created it. Though the James J Kilroy story seems to be the most likely point of origin for the 'Kilroy was here' legend, there is possible evidence of occurrences of the Kilroy logo much earlier than World War II.

Though Chad was popular in England, just as Kilroy was in the US military, still nobody (other than James J Kilroy) has stepped forward to claim him as their own invention, even though there were 26 men named Kilroy in the military during WW2. There was also a Canadian version known as Clem and in the late 1960s there was a version in Los Angeles, California that went by the name of Overby. Perhaps the theory of Kilroy being an unknown super soldier wasn't so far off after all...

I know that dude!

I always fantasized that if I ever got a tattoo on my butt, "Killroy" would be there!

-P

A very good place for ol' Kilroy, I would say...

joe e

I plead A.A.A.D.D.


Nice history on Kilroy.


Sorry, Snuff- but Williams has a darn good record going for b-ball !
A 14-4 season is great !
MrPie told me that all the undefeated teams lost tonight (not sure if he was
including smaller schools, though).

thanks Pie for the update. Was wondering if Amherst lost today. Williams lost to them three weeks ago and we are playing them a second time on February 3rd - a game I'm going to. This will be followed by the post season playoffs for the Conference rankings. I'm hoping Williams will get ranked for the D3 NCAAs. My son told me that the team just wasn't up to par today - pretty tired from yesterday's win over Tufts. He called me when they got back from Bates tonight. If what Mr. Pie said is true, that would mean that Duke lost to Georgetown tonight, but I haven't heard that score yet, and it wasn't posted in the NYT yet.

OUCH!

I was going to get a tattoo while I was going through communication school in San Diego. One of the other guys in my class beat me to it and when I saw the pain he was going through I chickened out.

Good morning everyone!
(or what ever 'tis where ever you is, eh?)
Methinks Stuckey's was somethin' only seen in the south and southwest, eh? Not somethin' ye'd be likely to see in the realm of Oly and Sven.Mice or trackball with a USB connector methinks should work just fine, eh? Me 'n' mine all prefer trackballs, and 'twould seem they're easier on the wrist to boot. Nah, not grumpy, just havin' a bit of fun after goin' where I wasn't supposed to and seein' what I wasn't supposed to see. 'Course some of it only became evident after doin' a bit of googling and findin' some cached pages tucked neatly away.

Oh btw, Tripod hosted pics don't post too well, but if y'all are curious the one blanked out looks like this, eh? From what I've seen a "mid-life crisis" often follows someone else enterin' their second childhood, eh? 'Twould seem it can be a reaction to someone else actin' stupid, but as long as you keep actin' like a grown up everybody survives and eventually you get over it. For a glimpse of the alternative watch "War Of The Roses" again.Done, and she says "Back atcha!", eh?Spring come late to Minnesota? When, August perhaps?"Tango" "Mike" "India", eh? (I know, 'tis secret code to keep them monitorin' this secret place 'cause they like to be bothered by it off kilter, but you know, gotta do my part)

BTW, congratulations on nailin' Post #673, eh?

Here's hopin' the weather's good where ever y'all are at! Enjoy the day, be safe, stay well and remember to play nice!

And not play'in so nice this morning with a whale of a tale ? Personally, I am willing to blame just about anything on Bushco.

For The Snuff: http://www.thesportsking.com

Georgetown stuns No. 1 Duke 87-84, Blue Devils fail in bid for 18-0 start despite Redick's 41
Tennessee ends the best start in school history for No. 2 Florida with 80-76 win

Williams scores 15 and No. 3 UConn tops Louisville 71-58, may move to No. 1

St. John's deals No. 9 Pitt first loss, 55-50, its second straight upset of Top 25 team

North Dakota State shocks No. 15 Wisconsin 62-55 in Madison

Gansey scores 24 points to help No. 12 West Virginia hold off No. 18 UCLA 60-56

Ray scores 22, No. 8 Villanova survives second-half surge by No. 20 Syracuse in 80-65 win

Knight's 3-pointer with 8 seconds left lifts No. 6 Gonzaga to 64-63 win over San Diego

Washington scores 20 as No. 4 Memphis wins sixth straight 85-68 over Southern Mississippi

Gibson scores career-high 37 to lift No. 5 Texas over Baylor 66-47

http://www.amherst.edu/sports/current/m-bball/0121_conn.html
NEW LONDON, CT – Senior co-captain John Casnocha (San Francisco, CA) posted a season-high 17 points on the strength of five three-pointers to lead the 12th-ranked Amherst men's basketball team to an 83-52 NESCAC victory at Connecticut College on Saturday. The Jeffs improved to 13-2 (2-1 NESCAC) with the victory, while Conn. dropped to 10-7 overall and 1-3 in conference play.

Great Cover on the New York Times Magazine: Reminds me of some of my cohorts in crime from RA:

[quote=Pie,Jan 22 2006, 04:22 PM]
And not play'in so nice this morning with a whale of a tale ? Personally, I am willing to blame just about anything on Bushco.

For The Snuff: http://www.thesportsking.com

Georgetown stuns No. 1 Duke 87-84, Blue Devils fail in bid for 18-0 start despite Redick's 41
Tennessee ends the best start in school history for No. 2 Florida with 80-76 win



Williams scores 15 and No. 3 UConn tops Louisville 71-58, may move to No. 1

Pie - Thank you for the link. I'm adding that site to my favorite places. Going to send my son some of the clips. This morning's Washington Post Sports pages has a photo from the Duke/Georgetown game - with Ron Hebbert being flanked by the crowd. Brought back memories of highschool basketball when my son's varsity team beat his team for the IAC Conference Championship three years ago.

Why, thank you!




We all resemble that remark!

I happen to be a History Channel nut...
and after watching programs on
Civil War Prisons and Cotton...
I stayed to watch "Lincoln" last night.

Seeing the trials of the man,
learning more of his personal life,
and viewing the War of Rebellion from
his point of view were enlightening.

I know of additional facits of the period,
but walking in his moccasins for a couple
of hours, was very informative and heart-rending.
He became more of a man, an individual, to me.
And he certainly was a meloncholy man of
striking humanity...thrust upon the stage during
the most challenging time in American history.

I often think that Reconstruction would have
been much different under President Lincoln,
and that Booth's bullet struck The South as well
as Father Abraham.

For The Snuff: http://www.thesportsking.com [/color]

Georgetown stuns No. 1 Duke 87-84, Blue Devils fail in bid for 18-0 start despite Redick's 41
Tennessee ends the best start in school history for No. 2 Florida with 80-76 win



Williams scores 15 and No. 3 UConn tops Louisville 71-58, may move to No. 1

Pie - Thank you for the link. I'm adding that site to my favorite places. Going to send my son some of the clips. This morning's Washington Post Sports pages has a photo from the Duke/Georgetown game - with Ron Hebbert being flanked by the crowd. Brought back memories of highschool basketball when my son's varsity team beat his team for the IAC Conference Championship three years ago.

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January 21, 2006
Georgetown 87, Duke 84
The Duke Express Runs Into a Pothole
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
John Thompson III got an embrace from his Hall of Fame father yesterday as fans stormed the court, madly celebrating the first Georgetown victory over a No. 1 team in 21 years.

"After all he's had to go through, he deserves this," the elder Thompson said.

The Hoyas finally have a signature victory in the new Thompson era, an 87-84 upset of top-ranked Duke in Washington.

Backdoor layups and stubborn defense produced a 16-point second-half lead, and the Hoyas withstood a furious late rally.

"We've come close, we've been there, we've been at the other end of some lopsided defeats," said Thompson III, in his second season since replacing Craig Esherick as the Hoyas' coach.

The Blue Devils (17-1) had matched their best start, but their bid to extend it was thwarted by a Hoyas team that shot 61 percent and held Shelden Williams to a season-low 4 points.

"We've been in the penthouse all season, having room service," Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski said. "Somebody jammed up the elevator today."

With Duke going down, No. 9 Pittsburgh losing to St. John's and No. 2 Florida falling at Tennessee, a day that began with three unbeaten Division I teams ended with none.

J. J. Redick matched his career high with 41 points, but he was mostly a one-man show.

"When we don't match another team's intensity - that doesn't happen very often - then all of a sudden we do 'J. J.-watching,' where we're watching J. J. play," Krzyzewski said. "We might as well get tickets and sit behind the bench. No one is doing anything out there."

Brandon Bowman scored 23 points, and Jeff Green had 18 for the Hoyas (12-4), who had not beaten a No. 1 team since the Sweater Game against St. John's on Feb. 27, 1985. The elder Thompson wore a striped sweater to match the lucky sweater worn by Lou Carnesecca, the St. John's coach, and the Hoyas won, 85-69.

The younger Thompson was at that game, "second-guessing his father," according to the elder Thompson.

But Thompson III got all the credit for this one.

"Coach Thompson has been preaching since he got the job that with hard work, anything can happen," said Darrel Owens, who scored 13 points on 6-for-8 shooting. "And I think today you saw that hard work pay off."



Copyright 2006The New York Times Company

Hi all - How ya doing...I'm a tired skillet today. Two late nights in a row, but I had a good time. Gee just might be on the verge of (gasp) getting a life! As my boy's and a few of my friends around here have said..."well, it's about time!"

And Des...this really is all your fault

Good one - you must have been thinking of Noonan.


You're a history buff too. That's about all papabird watches - I think he's seen every WWII documentary at least 25 times and could produce a program if he had to. #1 son-in-law is a Civil War buff.

You have often talked very passionately about the South and the Civil War. I'd really like to hear more about that from your perspective. If I can make a generalization here, for most Northerners I know (and that's limited), its a topic that very seldom comes up with the passion that I see from those who grew up in the South. I'm not sure why though so maybe you can help me understand. I assume you grew up in the South (duh huh?).

Getting back to your orginal post though - it is a wonder that this country survived when you think about it. How did people ever put these events behind them and move on. Guess I'm thinking about this more today because of the tremendous polarization among politicians and people in general.
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new topic
I hear the U.S.S. Winston seized a pirate ship off the coast of Somilia. How bizarre sounding.

Here's a little something to bring the sparkle back.

Oh, I don't know. She sounds pretty sparkily to me!

They know Noonan and I are already beaten to a pulp. It takes a week

RW =

Congrats Redbird, that was sure a fast 100 posts for this group.

Looks like two blowouts on route to the Super Bowl.

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Two late nights in a row, but I had a good time. Gee just might be on the verge of (gasp) getting a life! As my boy's and a few of my friends around here have said..."well, it's about time!"

................

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I hear the U.S.S. Winston seized a pirate ship ...

Is that our Winston ?

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Guess I'm thinking about this more today because of the tremendous polarization among politicians and people in general.

Me, too. (and MrPie is glued to the History Channel whenever football or Basketball is not on. (For his birthday I got him a book on Lincoln and a book on Teddy R.) I wonder if men make sense out of the here and now by studying history more....


Note to Snuff: to find the Amherst score, I had to go to their edu website.
And there was a bit of joy around here today about Duke's loss- even tho they are in the ACC with Fl State. They always whoop us in b-ball and we whoop them in f-ball.

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It takes a week

Yep- this is Des' week, all right. Noonan is now off the hook.

That is a true report but it was the Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Winston S Churchill who nabbed the pirates.

I think it was about 4 months ago a Royal Carribean cruise ship had to outrun a pirate ship off the Horn of Africa and sustained at least one hit from a RPG. There have been a number of ships way laid in the area and held for ransom.

Since modern warships don't have yardarms I wonder where they will hang these pirates from?



http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationwor...-home-headlines

Somewhere around here I posted the story as it broke over BBC. I don't think anyone noticed, it wasn't in the Online Café. Must be Des' fault.

Looks like a Royal Carribean cruise ship
is a little easier to deal with than a
Arleigh Burke class destroyer.

I see a little bird nailed Post #700, eh? Huh, "not play'in so nice"? Seein's no one else'd mentioned it just thought somebody should. What would animal lovers think if it kept gettin' ignored on CGCS, eh?Kinda made me think of me, on a good day. Methinks it proves folks with no life can have even less intelligence if they can't even distinguish between libertarianism and radical conservatism, eh? 'Course 'twould seem that one source I know of mistakes radical radicalism with liberalism. In fact methinks it really just proves radical stupidity is alive and well, and actively bein' demonstrated somewhere, eh? (That, Pie, probably wasn't nice, but methinks true all the same) Nah! Methinks this one's the fault of the Bush administration, eh?

Gee, whatta surprise, eh? Snow on tap for tomorrow!

Looks like Des managed to get into my post and erase Chruchill from my post.

Winter's back.....ice and snow for us tomorrow.....the snow's okay...the ice...NOT




The last time we had sleet I fell on the driveway...the next day, it felt like my body had been stretched on the "rack"....

Noonan is so glad to be off the hook that he is already into the swing of things.

Only where is Des ? Probably watching football- but no fair to hide all week, Pop!

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Looks like Des managed to get into my post and erase Chruchill from my post.

Yeah, but I am sure there are some pirates that our Winston would love to take out.

QUOTE

That, Pie, probably wasn't nice, but methinks true all the same

That, Fly, is probably a truism. And who am I to judge- I am about to put a prolific poster on "ignore" again- I am just finding it all too demoralizing...


On a lighter note, it was another beaut of a day here in sunny FloriDUH !

Wish I could say I took the pic, Sandra. But alas, I googled Florida and sunshine and had to go back about 8 pages to find it. And yet it is quite representative of why we live in the land of hanging chads, Jeb, and all the other nonsense here.