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"Wolfgang" wrote in message
- Tell me about it. I go all the
way down to ****in' Illinesia just to get
some olive oil and a case of Two Buck Chuck. All out of two buck chuck.
All they got is ****in' THREE Buck Chuck! What the **** is with THAT
bull****?! And then.....AND THEN!......Becky locks us out of the car cuz
her stepfather (the pig), whose car we took, has some idiot abortion of a
car that requires one key for the ignition and another for the door locks
and Becky drove and Phil (the pig) doesn't bother to tell anyone that the
doors require a separate key and he doesn't have the key cuz he never
locks
the ****in' doors, so we have to wait three ****in' hours for AAA to send
somebody to open the ****in' doors.

What, you couldn't sweet talk'em open?

Wolfgang
good wine, though.

No doubt!

Op --the other pig--

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On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 18:30:48 -0600, "Wolfgang"
wrote:


"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
gy.com...
Wolfgang wrote:
whose glass of $3 a bottle charles shaw merlot, ...

How come you're paying $3 for Two Buck Chuck ?

Tell me about it. I go all the way down to ****in' Illinesia just to get
some olive oil and a case of Two Buck Chuck. All out of two buck chuck.
All they got is ****in' THREE Buck Chuck! What the **** is with THAT
bull****?! And then.....AND THEN!......Becky locks us out of the car cuz
her stepfather (the pig), whose car we took, has some idiot abortion of a
car that requires one key for the ignition and another for the door locks
and Becky drove and Phil (the pig) doesn't bother to tell anyone that the
doors require a separate key and he doesn't have the key cuz he never locks
the ****in' doors, so we have to wait three ****in' hours for AAA to send
somebody to open the ****in' doors.

Wolfgang
good wine, though.


Next time, borrow foreign

(gotta explain EVERYTHING to some guys)

Peter

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"Wolfgang" wrote in message
...
****! I thought you burned up. :(

What happened?

Wolfgang
whose glass of $3 a bottle charles shaw merlot, it must be admitted
(however
grudgingly), is suddenly vastly improved--not that it's a bad bottle of
wine, mind you--by the arrival of a most welcome guest.


Thanks for the toast, Wolf. I'm still amazed at the 2 Buck Chuck. Cindy
replenished our supply yesterday. Still $1.99 here in Kahleefornyah.

I posted a short version of mi experiencio del fuego a few days ago. My
little story pales against the larger backdrop of my neighbors' losses of
home, hearth, health, and wealth. I'm still the luckiest man on the planet,
as anyone who has seen a before and after of my house and my immediate
neighborhood will attest.

We were awoken at 1:48 AM Sunday morning by the telephone and the dog.
Sitting up in bed, we could see the cause for alarm. A brush fire was
burning about a mile away, directly upwind and downcanyon from us. As
veterans of brush fires at this house (we were treated to a complete
moonscaping due to one seven years and four days before this one) we
guesstimated that we had about an hour to batten down the hatches pack our
things and evacuate. Absolutely no doubt that the fire would come directly
to us as the canyon is steep, full of fuel, and the wind was strongly behind
the firewall. After the last fire we vowed to be prepared and we were. All
the legal docs are in one place as are the photo albums and misc other
trinkets that carry sentimental value. The whole story deserves to be told
over a good bottle of wine and a campfire, but the essence is that the fire
arrived about 45 minutes ahead of schedule, which put us on the evacuee
traveling team much sooner and with far, far less provisions than planned.
We did have the shorts and sandals that we wore and the legal documents that
could prove that the we owned the house that we felt sure was burning to the
ground, but nothing else. Oh except Sarge, the Blunderhundt.

Through a most bizarre set of coincidences and superfluous circumstances, my
nearest neighbor Greg was accidentally left behind, alone with the fire, as
we and his family fled. After the firestorm blew by, Greg noticed my porch
on fire and hastily put the fire out with a garden hose. Without his
interference, the two story wooden house would have been gone in minutes. I
still don't have words for the feelings that I had as I drove back through
my neighborhood two hours later to access the damage. Many of my neighbors
houses were gone, completely gone. Others were still burning infernos. There
were two vehicles in the ditch beside the road, completely burned out. The
wall of fire headed out of the immediate area and towards Paradise Mountain
was a mile wide and hundreds of feet tall. Burning debris blocked my way to
my driveway so I drove to an adjacent hill and there, saw that my house and
Greg's were ok. The rest is maudlin sentamentality about luck and losses.


Oops. Sorry about that. I guess I've still got a lot to say about it, but
not here.

Suffice to say that we are all well and except for a few thousand miles of
drip irritation system that I'm replacing, most of our humble abode will
recover nicely.

Danl

Apologies for the length.....

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"Danl" wrote in message
...


Suffice to say that we are all well and except for a few thousand miles of
drip irritation system that I'm replacing, most of our humble abode will
recover nicely.


Glad everything for the most part worked out for you and the neighbor and
you are whole. I've gone through several hurricanes and can only imagine the
terror of a fire coming right at me. Hope your neighbor's can rebuild their
houses and lives from this.

Danl

Apologies for the length.....


No apology neccessary.

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you holdin a rivet gun?? 'cause that was rivettin. look forward to
hearing it told all proper and such...while drinkin yer wine and brew.
g i've often thought how peculiar the fates serve their purposes...
glad you folks made their goodguy's list. now, um, i've gotta watch
larry king...tom jones is on. g

jeff (wonderin, what were the names of those 3 witches in, what was it,
macbeth?... or, tooties?... this life is just too damn perplexing.)

Danl wrote:

"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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****! I thought you burned up. :(

What happened?

Wolfgang
whose glass of $3 a bottle charles shaw merlot, it must be admitted

(however

grudgingly), is suddenly vastly improved--not that it's a bad bottle of
wine, mind you--by the arrival of a most welcome guest.



Thanks for the toast, Wolf. I'm still amazed at the 2 Buck Chuck. Cindy
replenished our supply yesterday. Still $1.99 here in Kahleefornyah.

I posted a short version of mi experiencio del fuego a few days ago. My
little story pales against the larger backdrop of my neighbors' losses of
home, hearth, health, and wealth. I'm still the luckiest man on the planet,
as anyone who has seen a before and after of my house and my immediate
neighborhood will attest.

We were awoken at 1:48 AM Sunday morning by the telephone and the dog.
Sitting up in bed, we could see the cause for alarm. A brush fire was
burning about a mile away, directly upwind and downcanyon from us. As
veterans of brush fires at this house (we were treated to a complete
moonscaping due to one seven years and four days before this one) we
guesstimated that we had about an hour to batten down the hatches pack our
things and evacuate. Absolutely no doubt that the fire would come directly
to us as the canyon is steep, full of fuel, and the wind was strongly behind
the firewall. After the last fire we vowed to be prepared and we were. All
the legal docs are in one place as are the photo albums and misc other
trinkets that carry sentimental value. The whole story deserves to be told
over a good bottle of wine and a campfire, but the essence is that the fire
arrived about 45 minutes ahead of schedule, which put us on the evacuee
traveling team much sooner and with far, far less provisions than planned.
We did have the shorts and sandals that we wore and the legal documents that
could prove that the we owned the house that we felt sure was burning to the
ground, but nothing else. Oh except Sarge, the Blunderhundt.

Through a most bizarre set of coincidences and superfluous circumstances, my
nearest neighbor Greg was accidentally left behind, alone with the fire, as
we and his family fled. After the firestorm blew by, Greg noticed my porch
on fire and hastily put the fire out with a garden hose. Without his
interference, the two story wooden house would have been gone in minutes. I
still don't have words for the feelings that I had as I drove back through
my neighborhood two hours later to access the damage. Many of my neighbors
houses were gone, completely gone. Others were still burning infernos. There
were two vehicles in the ditch beside the road, completely burned out. The
wall of fire headed out of the immediate area and towards Paradise Mountain
was a mile wide and hundreds of feet tall. Burning debris blocked my way to
my driveway so I drove to an adjacent hill and there, saw that my house and
Greg's were ok. The rest is maudlin sentamentality about luck and losses.


Oops. Sorry about that. I guess I've still got a lot to say about it, but
not here.

Suffice to say that we are all well and except for a few thousand miles of
drip irritation system that I'm replacing, most of our humble abode will
recover nicely.

Danl

Apologies for the length.....

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On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 17:28:01 -0800, "Danl"
wrote:


Through a most bizarre set of coincidences and superfluous circumstances, my
nearest neighbor Greg was accidentally left behind, alone with the fire, as
we and his family fled. After the firestorm blew by, Greg noticed my porch
on fire and hastily put the fire out with a garden hose. Without his
interference, the two story wooden house would have been gone in minutes. I
still don't have words for the feelings that I had as I drove back through
my neighborhood two hours later to access the damage. Many of my neighbors
houses were gone, completely gone. Others were still burning infernos. There
were two vehicles in the ditch beside the road, completely burned out.

Danl



Boggles the mind why the Fates make these choices. We mere mortals
just have to live with the results.

Peter

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"Jeff Miller" wrote

jeff (wonderin, what were the names of those 3 witches in, what was it,
macbeth

lane, lane, and lane.

yfitp
wayno (and i got the ****ing documentation)

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"Danl" wrote in message
...

"Wolfgang" wrote in message
...

Put me down for $20.


You're a putz!

Danl

Easiest $20 I ever made.....

Sweet!

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Send it to Jane c/o Turner Broadcasting, your close enough to just drive it
over.
"Charlie Choc" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 11:17:04 -0600, "Wolfgang"
wrote:

I take it then, that you are soliciting funds to erect a memorial for
the two million or so Vietnamese who died in the service of their
nation. Very noble effort.....I commend you for your zeal and your
humanity.....you can put me down for $20.

According to Google, there already is one in Hanoi:
http://beifanchina.com/hanoi/01-04h.html. I couldn't find an address
to send your donation to, though.
--
Charlie...

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"Danl" wrote in message
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...Suffice to say that we are all well and except for a few thousand miles
of
drip irritation system that I'm replacing, most of our humble abode will
recover nicely.

Danl

Apologies for the length.....

Most excellent news. Good luck with the recovery.

Wolfgang