Since I don't have a prostate anymore ya think 'tis safe for me to throw out that page?

And we wonder why Teachers get headaches?

Teacher: George, go to the map and find North America.
George: Here it is!
Teacher: Correct. Now class, who discovered America?
Class: George!

Teacher: Willy, name one important thing we have today that we didn't have ten years ago.
Willy: Me!

Substitute Teacher: Are you chewing gum?
Billy: No, I'm Billy Anderson.

Teacher: Alfred, how can one person make so many mistakes in one day?
Alfred: I get up early.

Teacher: Didn't you promise to behave?
Student: Yes, sir.
Teacher: And didn't I promise to punish you if you didn't?
Student: Yes, sir, but since I broke my promise, you didn't have to keep yours.

Teacher: Tommy, why do you always get so dirty?
Tommy: Well, I'm a lot closer to the ground then you are.

Harold: Teacher, would you punish me for something I didn't do?
Teacher: Of course not.
Harold: Good, because I didn't do my homework.

Teacher: Why are you late?
Webster: Because of the sign.
Teacher: What sign?
Webster: The one that says, "School Ahead, Go Slow." That's what I did.

Teacher: Bob, I hope I didn't see you looking at Don's paper.
Bob: I hope you didn't either.

Gary: I don't think I deserve a zero on this test.
Teacher: I agree, but it's the lowest mark I can give you.

Mother: Why did you get such a low mark on that test?
Junior: Because of absence.
Mother: You mean you were absent on the day of the test?
Junior: No, but the kid who sits next to me was.

Sylvia: Dad, can you write in the dark?
Father: I think so. What do you want me to write?
Sylvia: Your name on this report card.

Teacher: Well, at least there's one thing I can say about your son.
Father: What's that?
Teacher: With grades like these, he couldn't be cheating.

And a special one for Winston, eh?

As an English teacher, my father would often write little notes on student essays. Often he worked late, and as the hours passed, his handwriting deteriorated. One day a student came to him after class with an essay that had been returned. "Mr. McDonald," he said, "I can't make out this comment you wrote on my paper." My father took the paper and, after studying it, sheepishly replied, "It says that you should write more legibly."

Yup I do, Doc.

Might be soon that I too will be lacking my walnut, and then I can discard that page as well. We been doin' a full 12-sample-biopsy (the clock dial thingy) every year for the past few years. So far it's still diagnosed as BPS, but my pee pee doc says "at its rather rapid growth rate it is more than suspicious..."

joe e

The World Cup...

A German family head out one Saturday to do some shopping.
While in the sports shop the son picks up an England football shirt and says to his sister, "I've decided to be an England supporter and I would like this for my birthday." His big sister is outraged by this and promptly whacks him round the head and says, "Go talk to your mother."

So off goes the little lad with the white and red football shirt in hand and finds his mother. "Mum?" "Yes son?"
"I've decided I'm going to be an England supporter and I would like this shirt for my birthday".
The mother is outraged at this, promptly whacks him around the head twice and says, "Go talk to your father."
Off he goes with the football shirt in hand and finds his father.
"Dad?" "Yes son?"
"I've decided I'm going to be an England supporter and I would like this shirt for my birthday."
The father is outraged and promptly whacks his son around the head 4 times and says: "No son of mine is ever going to be seen in THAT!"

About half an hour later they're all back in the car and heading towards home.

The father turns to his son and says; "Son, I hope you've learned something today?" The son says, "Yes dad I have." "Good son, what is it?"

The son replies,

"I've only been an England supporter for an hour and already I hate you German B*st*rds"

It's finally summer here and it is hot and muggy. I am sitting in my office at work waiting out the last half hour of the day before I catch the late train home.

Joe and Magic did you know Noonan is our cousin by marriage? I don't think he knows himself---I wonder how his campaign is going. I think the realization
came to me in geneology-based dream. I think he is cousins also with the Bing sisters so at least
by marriage we are related--I think he may be closer to the Bing side than the badaba side but I am really not sure. I say if he wins I want him with us. It doesn't hurt to have connections.

Speaking of connections the reason I was thinking about Noonan is because I bought a new 12" MacBook. I dropped mine heavily last week and LCD juice spread several days over the monitor rendering it more expensive to fix than replace. BTW if anyone is thinking about such a purchase I would recommend spending extra for the MacBookPro (replacement for Powerbook) than the MacBook. The MacBook is a lot more limiting--It's ok for me because I use it on the train commute mostly.

Just rambling away here, but I got to move along.

Doc: neighbor caught 4 keepers including a 36" striper for us off Gloucester yesterday so I will be eating pretty for a few days.

Great cartoons and Pictures.

Have I got a pair of shoes (slippers, actually)) for you, Pie! For those times when the lights go out due to a very big storm. You can store these in the closet that holds all your hurricane supplies.....make sure you have replacement batteries for them....

Cool, eh?

School Daze

It was at the end of the school year, and a kindergarten teacher was receiving gifts from her pupils.

The florist's son handed her a gift. She shook it, held it overhead, and said, "I bet I know what it is. Some flowers." "

That's right" the boy said, "but how did you know?"

"Oh, just a wild guess," she said.

The next pupil was the candy shop owner's daughter.

The teacher held her gift overhead, shook it, and said, "I bet I can guess what it is. A box of sweets."

"That's right, but how did you know?" asked the girl.

"Oh, just a wild guess," said the teacher.

The next gift was from the son of the liquor store owner. The teacher held the package overhead, but it was leaking. She touched a drop of the leakage with her finger and touched it to her tongue.

"Is it wine?" she asked.

"No," the boy replied, with some excitement.

The teacher repeated the process, taking a larger drop of the leakage to her tongue.

"Is it champagne?" she asked.

"No," the boy replied, with more excitement.

The teacher took one more taste before declaring, "I give up, what is it?"

With great glee, the boy replied, "It's a puppy!"

See you all later. Time for some much needed rest. 112 degrees, and wife GLOW and I went house shoppin' again.

joe e

A customer at Green's Gourmet Grocery marveled at the proprietor's quick wit and intelligence.

"Tell me, Green, what makes you so smart?"

"I wouldn't share my secret with just anyone," Green replies, lowering his voice so the other shoppers won't hear. "But since you're a good and faithful customer, I'll let you in on my secret: Fish heads. You eat enough of them, you'll be positively brilliant."

"You sell them here?" the customer asks.

"Only $4 apiece," says Green.

The customer buys three. A week later, he's back in the store complaining that the fish heads were disgusting and he isn't any smarter.

"You didn't eat enough of them," says Green. The customer goes home with 20 more fish heads. Two weeks later, he's back and this time he's really angry.

"Hey, Green," he says, "you're selling me fish heads for $4 apiece when I can buy the whole fish for $2. You're ripping me off!"

"You see?" says Green. "You're smarter already."

Stripers and blues have already come up the river here, eh? Saw a report where one guy fishin' for scup and shad off the Main Street bridge in downtown Pawtucket caught a 47 pound striper yesterday. Methinks he had a fun time tryin' to get down to the base of Pawtucket Falls so's he could land it.

"Steven," the teacher said, "I happen to know that the reason you didn't come to school yesterday was that you were out playing football."

"That's a rotten lie!" Steven protested. "And I have the fish to prove it!"

and

One day a young boy arrived to his school class late. His teacher knew that the boy was usually very prompt and asked him if anything was wrong.

The boy replied no, that he was going to go fishing, but that his dad told him that he needed to go to school instead. The teacher was very impressed and asked the boy if his father had explained to him why it was more important to go to school rather than to go fishing.

To which the boy replied, "Yes, ma'am, he did. My dad said that he didn't have enough bait for both of us."

And for the wives here:

A man took weekend fishing trips twice a month. His wife got used to them, and was sure to have all of his things packed when he came home after work on Friday. After some months of the same routine, she became concerned as to whether or not he actually was going fishing, but without any proof she wasn't going to confront him. One Sunday evening after returning from his "fishing" weekend, he confronted his wife. "All I ask from you is that you have my things ready when I get home from work. And this weekend, you forgot to pack me any clean underwear. Do you have any idea how I feel wearing the same underwear for 3 days?" The wife defended herself, "I didn't forget to pack your clean underwear." He snapped back, "Well, I didn't have any when I got to the lake. Where did you pack them, they weren't in my suitcase?" "No, " she replied, "This time I packed them in your tackle box."

My goodness the thunder's rumblin' loudly out there tonight!

Added on edit: I see Pie got #900, eh?

I have the batteries ! Always lots of batteries... now where, where, where do I find the slippers !

QUOTE(Pegatha @ Jun 20 2006, 08:51 PM)

It's a puppy !

QUOTE

Added on edit: I see Pie got #900, eh?

Not again !



Brookie Badabing: Since we are related (let's see with N., that would make us all sextuplets ?),
have to tell you SonPie says he will take your dropped Mac with the leaking screen- he even says he will pay the shipping. Why, you may ask ? ... well, seems that the computer can still be used, even if the monitor is leaking. He is serious but I haven't a clue as to what he is up to... he's getting a bit carried away now with his Apple sales job, and his growing knowledge about the abilities of the diff models. Also says you made a good choice with the new one you bought- something about the diff in price btw it and the Pro is not worth it except in rare cases- better to invest the large diff in cost ????? Anyway, if you want to unload your broken one, let me know and I will send you his email.


Some great jokes here.


Special thanks to skillet:
it was nice to have a chance to vent.

Yup! Methinks you just hook up that old monitor everybody's got layin' 'round collectin' dust. 'Course 'tis still a Mac, eh?

"An abstract noun," the teacher said, "is something you can think of, but you can't touch it. Can you give me an example of one?"

"Sure," a teenage boy replied. "My father's new car."

Yep, that's best thing about it !
(and why it is probably still working at all, eh ?)

Good morning everyone!
(or what ever 'tis where ever you is, eh?)

Another beautiful day dawnin' here! Methinks last night's rain washed all the pollen outa the air, birds are diggin' worms outa the lawn, the cats're chasin' the birds, the dogs're chasin' the cats and life is back to normal, eh?

The principal made it a habit to visit each class once a week. This day she stopped in to see the fourth graders as they were learning geography. When she asked them to name the states they were only able to identify 40 of them, to which she said "In my day we could name all of them". From the back of the room a little voice replied "Yes, but in those days there were only 13".

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

Yeah, but not enough. It got the surface of the ground good and wet but we still have not recovered from last years drought. It'll keep the corn going maybe a couple of weeks

I started building a new chicken house yesterday and when I bored the pier holes 6 inches down the dirt turns to a dry powder. We need to get about a week long rain event with a couple of inches a day to break the effects of this drought.

Pie, quit Bogarting those tropical storms and send them on to Texas, we still need much more rain.

You're probably on a septic system, eh? Ever though of doin' some fancy plumbin' and divertin' your gray water for irrigation, just havin' your black water goin' to the septic tank? Methinks I've seen this done in some plots in southern RI and our Dept of Environmental Management says 'tis not only legal, but encouraged.

Where's everyone else this morning?

We could use some of those storms here too, the normal flooding (3-4 times a year) hasn't happened in almost a decade, ground water is dropping fast.

I watched the flag pass by one day,
It fluttered in the breeze.
A young Marine saluted it,
And then he stood at ease..

I looked at him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud,
With hair cut square and eyes alert
He'd stand out in any crowd.
I thought how many men like him
Had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign soil
How many mothers' tears?
How many pilots' planes shot down?
How many died at sea
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
No, freedom isn't free.
I heard the sound of Taps one night,
When everything was still,
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.
I wondered just how many times
That Taps had meant "Amen,"
When a flag had draped a coffin.
Of a brother or a friend.

I thought of all the children,
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.
I thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea
Of unmarked graves inArlington.
No, freedom isn't free.

Enjoy Your Freedom & God Bless Our Troops

A Navy SEAL was attending some college courses between assignments. He had completed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

One of the courses had a professor who was an avowed atheist and a member of the ACLU. One day he shocked the class when he came in, looked to the ceiling, and flatly stated, "God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I'll give you exactly 15 minutes." The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop. Ten minutes went by and the professor proclaimed, "Here I am God. I'm still waiting."

It got down to the last couple of minutes when the SEAL got out of his chair, went up to the professor, and cold-cocked him; knocking him off the platform. The professor was out cold. The SEAL went back to his seat and sat there, silently. The other students were shocked and stunned and sat there looking on in silence.

The professor eventually came to, noticeably shaken, looked at the SEAL and asked, "What the hell is the matter with you? Why did you do that?" The SEAL calmly replied, "God was too busy today protecting America's soldiers who are protecting your right to say stupid "expletive deleted" and act like an "expletive deleted". So He sent me."

Fine by me, guys. You can take the TSs and the hurricanes, but we still need the
tropical waves, as it is still dry here ! Seems Alberto was not such a big rainmaker here, as was initially projected. In fact, two days after Alberto rolled though, there was a large brush fire
in mid state. And we are still under stringent water restrictions.

"Bogarting" - interesting verb. What's the etymology on that one ? I have never heard it before...
... and I hate to feel like a dumb blond. (I did not just type that!) BTW, saw my best friend last night and she noted that my hair had gotten darker on thelonglong trip and that I had more gray coming in.

Gosh, WS and all our teachers are so busy that they are missing all the teacher jokes. Well, this wanna-be is enjoying them.

I think wife GLOW and I should wait until the bubble actually goes 'POP' before we think about buying a new house... joe e

BOGARTING: Humphrey Bogart. In some of his movies he would keep things all for himself. A common use in the sixties and seventies was: "don't Bogart that joint my friend." Don't keep it all to yourself...

joe e

It is officially hotter 'n hell here. We called Time and Temperature and the recording reported the temp as 109. My car says it's 106.

Come to the Sierra's Pegatha. The summers are what we brave the winters for. Dry heat, a beautiful 75 degrees or so. It hits 90 in July and August. We crumple (yep my word here).

Today is summer equinox..Longest day of the year. Stay cool all of you.

See you in about three days!

If I remember correctly that's pretty unusual where you are. Keep drinking as much water as you can, don't exert yourself in the heat and keep getting to someplace cool long enough to recover and rehydrate.

Anytime Peg. Really anytime...invitation is out to all. Gee that reminds me of a song. Will see if I can locate it. The place is different, (Montana I think.) but..the sentiment rings true.

Stopping by to say hello and goodbye.

I have to do some prep work tonight for an early morning meeting. It's been crazy the last two weeks - everytime there's a full moon, they come out of the woodwork. Must have been a very strong lunar pull this month, because some of the "stuff" I'm working on now is just bizarre.

Joe: agree, good time to wait until the housing bubble bursts before buying.
Prices here are down at least 10% since the first of the year and a lot is just not selling. (caveat: we have insurance problems in FL now which are contributing to the problem).

BTW, thanks for the explanation of Bogarting. Nice verb. Now how is it that the "old hippie"
is not familiar with the term but others are ?


Gosh, -P- and we thought it was hot here at 96 ! Good luck.
Skillet's invite is very tempting.


Sorry about the full moon, C.

Arizona is

Five o'clock in the afternoon and it' 113 on my patio (but it's a dry heat)...

joe e

Ya musta had very sharing friends joe e

A little boy was lost at a large shopping mall. He approached a uniformed policeman and said, "I've lost my dad!" The cop asked, "What's he like?" The little boy replied, "Beer and women with big tits."


So, then we had one of those pop-up storms and the temperature went down 30 degrees! And we needed the rain badly, so all is well.

One just started here, too. Lots of thunder- going to leave computer for awhile and then maybe walk the dog. (doubt we will drop more than 10-15 degrees, tho)

Yee, gads! I didn't know the banter went back and forth so fast and every day! I've just spent a long time catching up. (That's helpful for teachers; builds empathy for our students. )

I have laughed so hard I've cried. The teacher jokes are so funny. Afterglow got me with the teacher and the class picture. I tried to read it to my other half and got to the punch line and absolutely could not read it for trying to catch my breath. He had to come and read it himself! Then there was the puppy one. That almost took me out again. I'm almost afraid to read these things now because of the time it takes to recover. TRUCE! Fly, are you listening?

As to where the teachers are, well, this one spends a good part of summer in my classroom readying for the next year. No pressure, no interruptions. Throw out useless material or ideas that didn't work. At night I troll the teacher chat boards to get new ideas! I love it! Sometimes the new ideas bomb, but I like having my brain shaken up to see things in a new way. I start each year fresh and excited to see if my "best laid plans" actually make a difference.

I've also posted on the CGCS forum a few times since I was last here. Got heavily involved in the PBS show "The Dark Side". Am very preoccupied with that.

Mtn, I think it was you who commented about grammar, etc. and teachers watching. I can't speak for others, but I don't consider the computer a place I have to watch the details, other than my language! (No pun intended) I'll agree to ignore your spelling, grammar, etc. errors if you agree to ignore mine.

I love the exchanges here and think I see a pattern of Fly waking us up every morning while it's still night time! Sure feels like family to me!

I can tell I am out of the loop on some of your lives, but I'll just try to figure it out on my own. (Oh, my, another teacher joke) You guys are making me paranoid!

Here's a musician joke for you from my musician son's favorite website:
How do you make a musician's car more aerodynamic?

(Remove the Dominoes Pizza sign)

Oooh, Pie, I just looked at the radar and your coast is lined with those little storms. It looks really cool!

The Michaels family owned a small farm in Canada, just yards away from the North Dakota border. Their land had been the subject of a minor dispute between the United States and Canada for generations. Mrs. Michaels, who had just celebrated her ninetieth birthday, lived on the farm with her son and three grandchildren.

One day, her son came into her room holding a letter. "I just got some news, Mom," he said. "The government has come to an agreement with the people in Washington. They've decided that our land is really part of the United States. We have the right to approve or disapprove of the agreement. What do you think?"

"What do I think?" his mother said. "Jump at it! Call them right now and tell them we accept! I don't think I could stand another one of those Canadian winters!"

Methinks 'tis 'cause Winter officially began today for Peter in Oz. 'Course you realize what that means for us, eh?



Actually today was a bit cooler and lots drier here than 'tis been in a while, but 'twould seem we'll be gettin' back into the soup the next couple days. Wanted to go fishin' for fluke tomorrow, but methinks the gale force winds and thunderstorms gonna make me rethink that.

What do Winnie the Pooh and Alexander the Great have in common?

The same middle name.

Methinks the Bosun said it more diplomatically than I probably woulda done. The fact some of us were in the service at the time, tho boozed up enough we wasn't always lucid, mighta helped us keep better track of the vernacular of the times.


A lady went to a pet shop.

"I'd like to buy two yellow canaries," she told the owner.

"We don't have any canaries, but we have these," the owner said, as he showed the lady some pale green parakeets.

"That's not what I'm looking for," the lady stated.

But the pet store owner refused to give up. He said, "Just think of them as yellow canaries that aren't quite ripe yet."
Actually all you gotta do is figure out the "secret code", but methinks a workin' knowledge of Klingon and Canadian helps. 'Tis an immersion program here though, we don't do RA as a second language.

Hey TiSC - Don't say I didn't warn you! Gotta laugh when situations seem so grim.

Off to walk the dog through the woods. The wildflowers are blooming. Yes I know it is late, but they are beautiful.

Where is Betty?

Bet she misses winter so much she's probably poutin' 'bout the warm weather, eh? Methinks us Canadians're tough to figure out.

Maybe she'll get drawn out by this:



Two guys from Saskatchewan die and wake up in hell. The next day the devil stops in to check on them and sees them dressed in parkas, mittens and toques warming themselves around the fire. The devil asks them, "What are you doing? Isn't it hot enough for you?" The two guys reply, "Well, you know, we're from Canada, the land of snow and ice and cold. We're just happy for a chance to warm up a little bit, eh?" The devil decides that these two aren't miserable enough and turns up the heat.

The next morning he stops in again and there they are, still dressed in parkas, toques and mittens. The devil asks them again, "It's awfully hot down here, can't you guys feel it?" Again the two guys reply, "Well, like we told ya yesterday, we're from Canada, the land of snow and ice and cold. We're just happy for a chance to warm up a little bit, eh?" This gets the devil a little steamed up and he decides to fix these two guys. He cranks the heat up as high as it will go.

The people are wailing and screaming everywhere. He stops by the room with the two guys from Canada and finds them in light jackets and bucket hats, grilling bacon and drinking beer. The devil is astonished, "Everyone down here is in abject misery, and you two seem to be enjoying yourselves." The two Canadians reply, "Well, ya know, we don't get too much warm weather up there in Regina so we've just got to have a cook-out when the weather's THIS nice." The devil is absolutely furious, he can hardly see straight.

Finally he comes up with the answer. The two guys love the heat because they have been cold all their lives. The devil decides to turn all the heat off in hell. The next morning, the temperature is below zero, icicles are hanging everywhere; people are shivering so bad that they are unable to do anything but wail, moan, and gnash their teeth. The devil smiles and heads for the room with the two Canadians. He gets there and finds them back in their parkas, toques, and mittens.

NOW they are jumping up and down, cheering, yelling and screaming like mad men!!! The devil is dumbfounded, "I don't understand, when I turn up the heat you're happy. Now it's freezing cold and you're still happy. What is up with you two???" The guys from Saskatchewan look at the devil in surprise, "Well, don't you know, eh?. If hell freezes over, it must mean the Roughriders have won the Grey Cup."

Waxing a bit nostalgic here. Just ran across this picture of me, Boatswain's Mate First Class joe e.

I'd be the tall skinny (but good lookin') one on the left. I walked softly and carried a big stick...

joe e

Oh Joe - What a beautiful picture. Thank you for posting it.

The other day, I had to go to the emergency room

Not wanting to just sit there for 4 hours, I went to the Army-Navy store, and bought some OD pants and a shirt.
Then I sewed a couple of patches on, which I grabbed from the internet..

It was amazing how many people left as I walked in.
I guess they suddenly decided they weren't that sick after all..
Here is the patch that you can sew on your clothing if you are in need of quicker emergency service.

That's a hoot, Frenchy!

It was taken aboard the USS Chicago CG-11 in 1964... joe e

Later folks... joe e

Golly, a ton of good jokes and a cool photo to boot !
A pleasant way to return here.

TiSC, yep, sometimes it it so funny around here that you laugh out loud, it's part of what keeps us coming back. My dog, Buddy (who -P thinks looks like a wolf), gives me the strangest looks sometimes when I am howling with laughter and all he can see is me looking at a machine.
BTW, we must get you a new nickname...
(do phonetics on your initials) .

The rain I was all excited about lasted all of ten minutes. The streets were so hot that the rain just sizzled off and they dried right up. But I am sure the bugs and birds and small plants were happy... and the temp did drop a bit.

Wow- Joe, I was watching TV and saw a report on the fires up near Sedona ! I did not know it was so bad right in Oak Creek Canyon and along 89A ! One good thing the reporter had to say- supposedly a lot of specialty fire fighters are volunteering and coming into the area to help because it is such a unique place to fight a fire. But only 5% contained ? Sure hope they can get a handle on it soon.

I see our long lost Sandra has been here... Father's Day is gone and we have our new Independence Day emoticons. Thank you ! :julyfourth:

'Tis really bad. It has burned right to the highway (89A). And yes, they do have a class-one crew on line; they have been here since last night. The are working on building back-fires right now so the fire will run into black and run outa fuel.

It has gotten really close to 'sliding rock' park and swimming hole (the west's most famous swimming hole).

joe e

So sad- it is such a naturally beautiful area- so unique.
For those who have not visited this area on the map, the road goes up the canyon in switchbacks
to Flagstaff from Sedona. It is quite a climb. The drive from Flagstaff to Sedona is rated a Top 5 Scenic Drive in America by Rand McNally




and the Canyon area itself:

.

Good morning everyone!
(or what ever 'tis where ever you is, eh?)

Seems someone had a bit of a problem figurin' how to post the story and pictures this comes from, so I copied the images to my ImageShack pages for them so's they can put 'em where ever they want, eh? Methinks even us Girl Scouts can do a good deed once in a while!

Positive Tiger experiment in zoo


In a zoo in California, a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs.

Unfortunately, due to complications in the pregnancy, the cubs were born pre-maturely and due to their tiny size, they died shortly after birth.

The mother tiger after recovering from the delivery, suddenly started to decline in health, although physically she was fine. The veterinarians felt that the loss of Her litter had caused the tigress to fall into a depression. The doctors decided that if the tigress could surrogate another mother's cubs, perhaps she would improve.

After checking with many other zoos across the country, thedepressing news was that there were no tiger cubs of the right age to introduce to the mourning mother. The veterinarians decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment. Sometimes a mother of one species will take on the care of a different species.

The only "orphans" that could be found quickly, were a litter of wiener pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed t hebabies around the mother tiger. Would they become cubs or pork chops???


This is incredible.






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

Hello Everyone...

Bad penny returns. Apologies to those who are disappointed but I'm old and cantankerous and can't allow my fellow Canuck to even suggest that the RoughRiders might be so lucky as to carry home Lord Grey's illustrious cup!

The teams of Ron Lancaster days might have been qualified to do so, but now ? Not bloody likely !

Sadly the Lancaster, Russ Jackson glory days are history. ( although my favourites were always Ronnie Stewart and Whit Tucker of the OTTAWA RoughRiders who made Jackson look even better than he was.)

I am also cantankerous this morning because I just composed a very well thought out post which in my opinion was one of my better efforts and it disappeared before I could post it for all to consider and perhaps even tell me I was an idiot .. or worse. And I simply don't have the time this morning to repeat that laborious effort. I'm gonna use edit pad in future and cut and paste instead of trusting this forum software in future when the post is one which I consider worthy of consideration and reflection.

Today is a foreordained write off but perhaps this evening I can retry submitting those thoughts although I am certain there will be a few raised hackles if and when I do so. Take a tranquilizer Amy .. you may need it. I know how my posts irritate you at times. I swear I do try to consider your disapproval as seriously as possible to avoid making your tasks more onerous but at times I find my tendency to speak truth does take precedence.

I do promise to maintain civility and perhaps the post may even cause some to consider my points. Miracles do happen, although infrequently these days I admit.

But for now, I have a mountain of chores to take care of before I can even consider doing any posts and better get at them before the morning is over !

Hope everyone is having a good morning and the day only improves as it goes along.

Betty, if you think about it and have time, please pm or e-mail me a link to the post you refer to above. I don't want to miss it, and I'm going to be gone this weekend.

Y'all try to behave yourselves in chat tomorrow night! (yeah, right)