September Silliness and Frivolity. Fun stuff.

[wyntrout]

Just looking around and I noticed that on October 8th, we have 100 members with birthdays. That was one busy day at the maternity ward I gotta tell ya.

Wowza.

Jocko, your in charge of the birthday cards this year weren't ya. Might want to get a head start for the 8th. Just wishin.

That's probably one of those 'bot things... with all of the ages being the same. That was one of my "discoveries". There's one with 293 or so birthdays... all but a couple 32 years old... BS! The one you're talking about... all of the ages are 27! it's some kind of 'bot scam... not real birthdays. Click on it an you'll see the ages.

Wynn

[Bawanna]

You trying to say I been virused? Damn scammers and their bots anyhow.

[Planedude]

Hey Jimbar.... is that antenna sticking up for the Helo-Fyler remote control?

Ummmm... If you have not seen this...

http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/30/l...s-military-co/

Look mom, no pilot!

Next, your airliner.

[jimbar]

Hey Jimbar.... is that antenna sticking up for the Helo-Fyler remote control?

Ha! It coulda been, let me tell ya , that's one small flying machine.

[pm9fan]

How do you starve an Obama supporter?

Easy.

Just hide the food stamps under the work shoes .........

[muggsy]

Ummmm... If you have not seen this...

http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/30/l...s-military-co/

Look mom, no pilot!

Next, your airliner.

When I worked for USAir the airline came up with a fully automated plane. I was aboard her for the maiden flight. Just before take off a recorded voice informed us that the plane was totally automated and had no pilot. The recorded voice went on to say that we would be flying at ten thousand feet at a speed of 2000 mph. and that we would arrive at our destination in less than an hour. It assured us that an automated plane was totally safe. We were instructed to sit back an relax and enjoy the flight, because nothing could possibly go wrong, go wrong, go wrong, go wrong.

[JFootin]

[DeaconKC]

This has probably been around a while, but I got a chuckle out of it!

got it off another forum
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Yup, some people can’t handle the truth!

My Favorite Animal


Our teacher asked what my favorite animal was, and I said, "Fried chicken."
She said I wasn't funny, but she couldn't have been right, because everyone else laughed.

My parents told me to always tell the truth. I did. Fried chicken is my favorite animal.
I told my dad what happened, and he said my teacher was probably a member of PETA.
He said they love animals very much.

I do, too. Especially chicken, pork and beef. Anyway, my teacher sent me to the principal's office.
I told him what happened, and he laughed, too. Then he told me not to do it again.

The next day in class my teacher asked me what my favorite live animal was.
I told her it was chicken. She asked me why, so I told her it was because you could make them into fried chicken.

She sent me back to the principal's office. He laughed, and told me not to do it again.

I don't understand. My parents taught me to be honest, but my teacher doesn't like it when I am.

Today, my teacher asked me to tell her what famous person I admired most. I told her, "Colonel Sanders."

Guess where I am now...

[yqtszhj]

Now that's FUNNY!

[Barth]

Having lived much of my life in snow and mountain country where 4wd is a natural, I'm just curious why it would be useful in Florida?

Always trying to learn new things.

I live on the coast in Tampa.
Heavy rain and flooding is common through the summer.
Not to mention the prospect of hurricanes and tropical storms.
Sand, mud, deep water, fallen trees are standard fare.

Like some girls, when Florida is nice she's extra sweet.
But when she's bad, she's very bad.

[wyntrout]

I lived in Tampa until I was about 7 and then we moved to MS and lived near the tiny town of D'Lo. There were two grades to a classroom. I started in the 3rd grade there and I remember being taken up to the seniors' classroom and reading for them! The FL schools were a bit better and I loved to read.

I remember a lot of fishing along the Skyway(?) in my teens when I would visit my dad for the summer.

I remember Ibor City and and Cuban sandwiches and the things we called deviled crabs... kind of a hotdog-shaped cornbread-coated and deep-fried moist inside crabcake thingy with crab and peppers and who knows what, but good!

That was around 1950 or so and up until 1964 when I visited my Dad. I joined the Air Force after graduation then.

I don't remember the weather much there... just a lot of time at the beaches and fishing.

Wynn

[Barth]

I lived in Tampa until I was about 7 and then we moved to MS and lived near the tiny town of D'Lo. There were two grades to a classroom. I started in the 3rd grade there and I remember being taken up to the seniors' classroom and reading for them! The FL schools were a bit better and I loved to read.

I remember a lot of fishing along the Skyway(?) in my teens when I would visit my dad for the summer.

I remember Ibor City and and Cuban sandwiches and the things we called deviled crabs... kind of a hotdog-shaped cornbread-coated and deep-fried moist inside crabcake thingy with crab and peppers and who knows what, but good!

That was around 1950 or so and up until 1964 when I visited my Dad. I joined the Air Force after graduation then.

I don't remember the weather much there... just a lot of time at the beaches and fishing.

Wynn

One year we had four hurricanes.
I was actually in the eye as one passed right over.
That's an experience I'll never forget.
Punta Gorda after Hurricane Charlie

[MW surveyor]

Go ahead count em

See if you can do this

[megamanfan]

[jimbar]

Boy, ain't it the truth! My son can't believe some of the things I tell him about "the good 'ol days"


Being Green...

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days."

The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment f
or future generations."

She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.

Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were truly recycled.

But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.

But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.

We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.

But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.

But that young lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then.

We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.

But we didn't have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.

But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?