OT Senile Old Fool

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On 21-Apr-2007, "Wolfgang" wrote:

Many things. I'm doing several of them even as we speak. For example,
I'm
doing laundry, scanning Becky's old photos.....and I just finished
washing

my car windows and applying a nice coat of Rain-X to the windows, mirrors
and headlights in anticipation of an upcoming road trip. Later today,
I'm

going to change the oil in my car, install new windshield wipers, and
make
a
trip to Mercado El Rey to get supplies to make enchiladas for dinner
guests
this evening. In the interstices, I go out on the deck in the back yard
to
smoke a cigarette, sip some coffee (which will be replaced around
mid-afternoon by a nice cold beer or perhaps a glass of Black Box
cabernet)
and enjoy the splendid (if long overdue) weather, and then I come in and
sit
at the computer for a few moments, while the spin cycle finishes, and
slap

you around a bit.

You?

Well since you ask
I went out and split big some wood w my new electric DR log splitter
and then I am going for a trail ride on my 150 cc Honda w my son in law -
on
his quad

and now I am ready to slap you back - bitch!

This is an awful lot of punishment in one day.....even for me.

This missive took about 12 seconds

You're a liar.

Fred

Then -- just to keep on the fishing topic - I am going to catch a rainbow
trout "out back".

Well.....gosh.

Wolfgang

"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
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wrote:
"Wolfgang" wrote:
... In the interstices, I go out on the deck in the back yard
to smoke a cigarette, sip some coffee (which will be replaced
around mid-afternoon by a nice cold beer or perhaps a glass of
Black Box cabernet) and enjoy the splendid (if long overdue) weather,
and then I come in and sit at the computer for a few
moments, while the spin cycle finishes, and slap you around a bit.

...
and now I am ready to slap you back - bitch!

Calm down, Fred. You can't really slap Little Wolfie. If you
ever meet Little Wolfie you'll discover that he's a runt who's
too little to slap. All this bluster about slapping folks around
is just the chest thumping of a nasty little squirt in the only
place he could ever hope to get away with it, that is from behind
the safety of his keyboard.

And "interstices", LOL !! At least the pipsqueak is still good for
the occasional laugh. ;-)

BOO!

Hee, hee, hee.

Wolfgang
who would offer an observation about irony......but, who needs it.....right?

On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:06:20 -0600, "Wolfgang"
wrote:



I am disgusted and outraged by gravity, aging, sleet, ticks, mosquitoes,
black flies, Donald Trump, deer flies, Paris Hilton, horse flies, clogged
drains, crime, poverty, Adam Sandler, illiteracy, hunger, flat tires,
neckties, pollen, sulfur dioxide, Adam Sandler, hangnails, zits,
post-modernism, Jerry Lewis, papal infallibility, surveillance cameras,
zebra mussells, Adam Sandler, purple loosestrife, athlete's foot, cats,
cubism, Jack Black, short selling, mumus, line dancing, Jello®, string
theory, tanning beds, ill-mannered children, Brangelina, ill-mannered
adults, ill-mannered dogs, lutefisk, rattan furniture, Adam Sandler, Will
Ferrell, drywall dust, liposuction, Whitworth threads, racism, lawn litter
(except for the bending over grandma.....that one just slays me!), misogyny,
tulips, dressage, Maya Angelou, homophobia, swearing oaths, soy milk, ADM,
protein enriched shampoo, astrology, theosophy, homeopathy, telepathy,
communism, capitalism, libertarianism, monarchy, oligarchy, Platonism,
Aristotelianism, Peeps®, Pop-Tarts®, Adam Sandler, platitudes, mildew,
George Plimpton, Andy Warhol, Andy Gibb, Andy Rooney, intelligent design
(sic), Rosie O'Donnell, Harold Bloom, Richard Dawkins, text messaging,
thermonuclear devices, macramé, Walter Keane, grandfather clocks, cuckoo
clocks, lychee nuts, iceberg lettuce, concrete patios, topiary, David Lee
Roth, video games (except Pong.....of course), exterior house painting,
internal cumbustion engines, methylene chloride, and....yes.....Norman
Mailer AND Gore Vidal.

Personally, gravity only offends and disgusts me when I make a mistake
with / about it. Line dancing keeps people active and way out of my
way, so I can't be offended by it. Concrete patios are excellent for
some people. My house has one. I don't use it and don't understand
the people who use theirs when they have a perfectly good deck right
above them. But I'm not offended by them. Andy Rooney is okay
sometimes. Used to be okay more often. Video games and computer
games are excellent for me and mine. Gore Vidal was occasionally
amusing. Internal combustion engines are a cool idea. Over reliance
on them isn't. I'm pretty neutral on macrame and don't know enough
about string theory to offer an opinion (I know that's unusual here,
but I've got my own standards).

A few additions. I didn't notice hip hop and bad rap in there (some
rap is pretty good, but it's very rare).

Otherwise, it's looking like a fine list. If I knew who / what (I'm
presuming a who there) Adam Sandler is / was, I might agree on that
one, too.
--

r.bc: vixen
Minnow goddess, Speaker to squirrels, willow watcher.
Almost entirely harmless. Really.

http://www.visi.com/~cyli

"Cyli" wrote in message
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On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:06:20 -0600, "Wolfgang"
wrote:



I am disgusted and outraged by gravity, aging, sleet, ticks, mosquitoes,
black flies, Donald Trump, deer flies, Paris Hilton, horse flies, clogged
drains, crime, poverty, Adam Sandler, illiteracy, hunger, flat tires,
neckties, pollen, sulfur dioxide, Adam Sandler, hangnails, zits,
post-modernism, Jerry Lewis, papal infallibility, surveillance cameras,
zebra mussells, Adam Sandler, purple loosestrife, athlete's foot, cats,
cubism, Jack Black, short selling, mumus, line dancing, Jello®, string
theory, tanning beds, ill-mannered children, Brangelina, ill-mannered
adults, ill-mannered dogs, lutefisk, rattan furniture, Adam Sandler, Will
Ferrell, drywall dust, liposuction, Whitworth threads, racism, lawn litter
(except for the bending over grandma.....that one just slays me!),
misogyny,
tulips, dressage, Maya Angelou, homophobia, swearing oaths, soy milk, ADM,
protein enriched shampoo, astrology, theosophy, homeopathy, telepathy,
communism, capitalism, libertarianism, monarchy, oligarchy, Platonism,
Aristotelianism, Peeps®, Pop-Tarts®, Adam Sandler, platitudes, mildew,
George Plimpton, Andy Warhol, Andy Gibb, Andy Rooney, intelligent design
(sic), Rosie O'Donnell, Harold Bloom, Richard Dawkins, text messaging,
thermonuclear devices, macramé, Walter Keane, grandfather clocks, cuckoo
clocks, lychee nuts, iceberg lettuce, concrete patios, topiary, David Lee
Roth, video games (except Pong.....of course), exterior house painting,
internal cumbustion engines, methylene chloride, and....yes.....Norman
Mailer AND Gore Vidal.

Personally, gravity only offends and disgusts me when I make a mistake
with / about it. Line dancing keeps people active and way out of my
way, so I can't be offended by it. Concrete patios are excellent for
some people. My house has one. I don't use it and don't understand
the people who use theirs when they have a perfectly good deck right
above them. But I'm not offended by them. Andy Rooney is okay
sometimes. Used to be okay more often. Video games and computer
games are excellent for me and mine. Gore Vidal was occasionally
amusing. Internal combustion engines are a cool idea. Over reliance
on them isn't. I'm pretty neutral on macrame and don't know enough
about string theory to offer an opinion (I know that's unusual here,
but I've got my own standards).

A few additions. I didn't notice hip hop and bad rap in there (some
rap is pretty good, but it's very rare).

Otherwise, it's looking like a fine list. If I knew who / what (I'm
presuming a who there) Adam Sandler is / was, I might agree on that
one, too.
--

r.bc: vixen

I'm not to happy with the extinction of the dinosaurs and the random and
unavoidable circumstances of the cosmic universe. I mean, ****, humans
weren't even given a chance to drive dinosaurs into extinction. What's that
all about?

Op

Wolfgang wrote:



I am disgusted and outraged by ...

That makes you even with the rest of the world.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

"Wolfgang" wrote in message
By the way, I'm always surprised by how long an application lasts. I
typically get at least two months out of it.

Well then, let me ask this - when the application expires/wears
off/whatever, are you no worse off than you were before? That is, I assume
this is not a permanent commitment that you *must* renew?

Joe F.

"rw" wrote in message
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Wolfgang wrote:



I am disgusted and outraged by ...

That makes you even with the rest of the world.

Something for you to aspire to.

Wolfgang
who supposes a goal forever out of reach is reason enough to live......for
some.

On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 14:07:21 GMT, "rb608"
wrote:

"Wolfgang" wrote in message
By the way, I'm always surprised by how long an application lasts. I
typically get at least two months out of it.

Well then, let me ask this - when the application expires/wears
off/whatever, are you no worse off than you were before? That is, I assume
this is not a permanent commitment that you *must* renew?

Nah - it's not a commitment in perpetuity. If you stop adding the stuff the
windshield might appear a bit hazy in time but you can just buff the
windshield to get what's left to shine again. Eventually you'll be back to
where you began...

/daytripper

"Cyli" wrote in message
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Personally, gravity only offends and disgusts me when I make a mistake
with / about it.

It's not so much the occasional realization as the constant anticipation
that haunts me.

Line dancing keeps people active and way out of my
way, so I can't be offended by it.

This is probably a good place to point out that my little list (yes, it
could have been MUCH longer) was the result of a minor indulgence in stream
of consciousness. Some of the individual items might not have survived a
close and considered scrutiny. Line dancing, viewed in isolation, may not be
all that offensive.....I guess. It's just that it is emblematic of the sort
of herd mentality which, in it's least virulent manifestations anyway, leads
people to do things like.....well, line dancing, for example.

Concrete patios are excellent for
some people. My house has one. I don't use it and don't understand
the people who use theirs when they have a perfectly good deck right
above them. But I'm not offended by them.

Nothing personal on this one, concrete patios are just a stench in the
nostrils of God. I've had occassion to sit and broil on a couple of them on
hot sunny days. Um.....well, o.k., maybe just a wee bit personal.

Andy Rooney is okay sometimes. Used to be okay more often.

Crotchety gets tedious after a while. Crotchety coupled with an unvaried
schtick.....two thumbs down.

Video games and computer games are excellent for me and mine.

Very seductive stuff.....like television. Nuff said.

Gore Vidal was occasionally amusing.

"Myra Breckenridge" was a good read. Vidal should have shown the good grace
(and sense) to die immediately after its publication.

Internal combustion engines are a cool idea.

Stinky, inefficient, noisy, unnecessarily complicated, unreliable, and prone
to catch fire and/or explode.

Over reliance on them isn't.

The worst thing about these abominations is that they have insinuated
themselves into modern culture to such an extent that life without them is,
if not quite inconceivable in most places where they are prevalent, then at
least highly problematic for the majority.

I'm pretty neutral on macrame

This one is simply a matter of principle......sort of like leisure suits,
"Jonathan Livingston Seagull," Gordon Lightfoot.....well, let's just be
frank about it, the 70s. NOT being offended feels vaguely dirty.

and don't know enough about string theory to offer an opinion

Don't remember exactly where or when (probably NPR, in the last couple of
months) I heard a "prominent physicist" quoted as saying something like,
string theory has been an absolute disaster to modern physics. Wouldn't
know about that, but it makes my head feel funny.

(I know that's unusual here,
but I've got my own standards).

Puts you ahead of the pack. Most people make do with a gross
misunderstanding and misapplication of somebody else's indefensible
standards.

A few additions. I didn't notice hip hop and bad rap in there (some
rap is pretty good, but it's very rare).

One has to draw a line somewhere. I could still be adding to the
list.....for a long time. Yeah, that should be there.

Otherwise, it's looking like a fine list. If I knew who / what (I'm
presuming a who there) Adam Sandler is / was, I might agree on that
one, too.

An actor, or so we must reluctantly concede by virtue of the fact that he
appears in movies.

Wolfgang

"rb608" wrote in message
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"Wolfgang" wrote in message
By the way, I'm always surprised by how long an application lasts. I
typically get at least two months out of it.

Well then, let me ask this - when the application expires/wears
off/whatever, are you no worse off than you were before? That is, I
assume this is not a permanent commitment that you *must* renew?

I'm not prepared to state that it can't happen, but I've never seen so much
as a hint of the hazing that Tripper mentioned. My own experience has been
that you just notice after a while that the water no longer beads up and
blows off as well as it did. Given enough time, the effect disappears
entirely. Not surprisingly, the duration is affected by dust, washing, and
even how frequently the windshield wipers are used......but it's always long
enough to justify the half hour or so it takes to treat the windows, mirrors
and headlights (assuming they are glass.....I don't recall what the
directions say, but I never apply it to plastics).

Bottom line: the desired results will probably make it a lifetime
commitment......unwanted consequences won't.

Wolfgang