CSE-- Pg. 74 SATAN'S HAMMER, Ch.18, pg.160 "Goodnight Sweetheart" epilogue

[cp'ersmom]

Well whatever happened sure hasn't effected your writing ability or your sense of humor. Great chapter once again!

 

[nebo]

Our last time at Pop we were in 60s building 4 on the wing that jutted out toward the lake, first floor in the last room. The lake was right outside our door. It was quiet and peaceful and the view was lovely. If I could remember the room number, I would ask for it every time.

Nice chapter, but once again, Dunh, Dunh, Dunh.....

That's sright where we were Sandy, but the opposite side of the lake view,,, we were facinag the courtyard/laundry turnabout.

Up until this morning, I was thinking, "How bad could the Hammer be? Nebo's still able to write a TR." Then I saw those last 2 posts, and I think, "Gosh, he's in bad shape. Maybe I should send flowers!"

I hkave no idea what possessed me to post when I just woke up, but chemicals in the middle of the night can make things interesting.

So I noticed you didn't say anything about lunch in your last two updates. Are you not eating, or did you forget what you did?

Well, actually I did mention bringing down a bunch of snacks, but you are right, lunch is not a meal I usually take mpart in.

Off-topic: would anyone like me to send them a postcard from WDW? We leave this Saturday morning. 5 days!!!

Thanks for admitting that.. I know I'm not the only one that did that..
Mr. Nebo sure knows how to put on a cliff hanger.. reels us in for the long haul!! LOL

Great pictures from AKL.. we've never stayed there, never even been to it... might have to put that one on the "todo" list!

Frank, you mean you are not like us and have to stay at least once in every Disney resort? I would definately put it down on you list for maybe a 3 day stay.

 

[nebo]

Nebo, that was a really funny chapter! I laughed out loud a few times, attracting the attention of the family who swarmed over to see why I was laughing so hard.

First off, I have to tell you that DS LOVED your "Poop de doo doo" comment. So we now have confirmation that your sense of humor is endorsed and approved by a seven year old!

DH fully understands your Doritos razor blade pain. He has suffered the same fate quite a few times. In that vein, have you by chance tried the Frito Lay Munchies Cheese Fix Snack Mix? It has Cheetos, Doritos, pretzels, and cheese sun chips in a mix and let me tell you .......it is SNACK MIX CRACK!!! Seriously, this stuff it addictive, I don't know what it is about the combo of flavors but it is really tasty. The ingredients by themselves I can be "meh" on, but together......let's just say we rarely have this in the Buzz household because it is entirely too tempting!





I'll be back "oftenly"........

Thanks Double D, I well definat ely look out for it.

weeelllll, since you asked.....I can't decide which to share ...having a premie at a teaching hospital which meant that EVERY intern was crowded into the room staring directly "ground zero".... My husband and doctor watching Regis and Kathy Lee in the middle of me getting my water broke , because Styx was playing.....or the x-rated birthing pictures my aunt took and I unknowing took them to the 1 hour photo.......







Did you guys stumble upon an "offical" private party or just a bunch of hooligans?

Oh, it was official I guess.
Smidgy used to work in a photo lab, you wouldn't believe the pictures people would bring in to be developed.

I'm a little worried about the connecting vs. adjoining rooms....it could have caused several sorts of embarassing moments...

I wish I had looked the situation over a bit more closely, could have saved us all some time and trouble.

Nebo, The Nurse, THIS Nurse, needs to know what happens next. The dizziness doesn't Sit well with me and I keep thinking of worst case scenarios.

Anyway- I feel like you're giving us "clues" to the Hammer situation... I keep reading and thinking... "I wonder if that's supposed to be foreshadowing?"

Ah, paying attention are we you two?

Good chapter, but I will admit that I skimmed through to the end to see if "it" happened in this chapter. When I realized it did not, I settled in and read the chapter at a more leisurely pace.

Kath, aren't you a nurse too?

 

[nebo]

Wow, I didn't do this yet?
Or did I?
Help

<AHOOO-GA> <AHOOO-GA>
"Ooh ga jaga, ooga, ooga, Ooh ga jaga, oogo, ooga." "C'mon, join me, "I can't stop this feelin', deep inside of me".


Dive! Dive! Dive! Man the battle stations!

Whoops! Gotta quit, the cliche police are coming.



Wow. You got some balls to write that.

I mean, that's nuts! I know this trip was supposed to be about family, but I didn't know you were going to mention the jewels too.

Going for all the marbles there, huh?

done?



Okay, okay... no need to get testes.

You know if a moderator was to go'n ad these all up you might get in trouble.



Vegging is just not my style. I get antsy too quickly...

Without fa good book, you're doomed.

"Aaaahhh... this is the life. Nothing to do but sit and relax. Life is good... I'm bored."

Just shut up and read.
That is the appropriate thing to do... but it just about killed you that you didn't do something to 'fix' it, right?

Totally right. or at least go over and explain it all to him now, just why I started singing, no, didn't see him,,,, yado yoda yeti.

It was raining? Don't you need to be in DHS to sing that?

Nope, I can make' em laugh even over here.



According to Smidgy you've got a pretty good singing voice... so who am I to talk?

Na, what does Smdgy know, she proba bly bought Kung Foo Fighting.

So am I the only person to notice that you called Smidgy "really strange"?

Yes



I have no idea if you're kidding or not here. I had no idea Hank Aaron's brother also played in the Majors.

Yeah he did, but not for too long. Jose Canseco had a brother in the bigs too. Billy? was that it?



You amaze me... You can't see, you have a bad back, a bad foot, a bad eye and God knows what else... but you'll still go down the slide.

kudos.

It's not like this is an extreme slide or anything.
I did. She sure sounded gleeful.
Sometimes you scare me how much we think alike.



Holy smokes! Is that loud! Some architect somewhere didn't plan for that!

Told ya

Don't tell her what you're talking about, just say, "Diane, who's fault is it."


Even in Hawaii they're not necessarily that great either. I read in a tour book that if you really want to experience what a good luau is, find someone who's having some friends and/or family over for one and get yourself invited.

No fire dancer, but at least you're not suffering with mediocre food and dull talent for 2 hours.

That would have been better.

And that's pretty true of every luau out there, IMHO.



Weeeee're off to see the lewow!
The crappy lewow of Disney!

Don't worry. Husbands love that. Then we can use "Remember when you made us do ______? Now it's my turn to pick something!"







Nah. Besides, giving birth is not that big a deal for us guys. Remember that we have experienced pain that's worse... (And I can prove it.)



Are you going to bring out your kidney stone again?

 

[fsmith2845]

Frank, you mean you are not like us and have to stay at least once in every Disney resort? I would definately put it down on you list for maybe a 3 day stay.

Nope the way it works out for us, we take what ends up being available.. like this summer.. we couldn't trade our RCI points to get to disney in the blazing sun, so we chose the Smokey Mountains and Dollywood instead.. Definitely no comparison, but the weather was cooler and it was a good time. Did bring back some Tennessee Moonshine.. don't worry it was legal moonshine!

 

[kath1210]

Kath, aren't you a nurse too?

Not me, although I used to be a medical technologist in a hospital microbiology lab. I work in local government now.

 

[nebo]

Nope the way it works out for us, we take what ends up being available.. like this summer.. we couldn't trade our RCI points to get to disney in the blazing sun, so we chose the Smokey Mountains and Dollywood instead.. Definitely no comparison, but the weather was cooler and it was a good time. Did bring back some Tennessee Moonshine.. don't worry it was legal moonshine!

You know, Im more an interstate guy, but in olden days, when we went on driving trips with my mom and dad, he was the driver and you never knew WHAT kind of road he was going to get on. And often enough, we'd end up in the Ozarks or Smokies on some barely a paved road and he'd find a place selling moonshine.
You know, in a Mason Jar.
Or worse.

Last time we did this together, I was 15 or 16, and he let me try it.

Purt near killed my sorry butt.

Kath, aren't you a nurse too?

Not me, although I used to be a medical technologist in a hospital microbiology lab. I work in local government now.

Oh, ok, that was my mistake, sorry.
But it's good to see you're in the same field of work yet, you've just worked your way up to proctology.

(put the knife down, only kidding)
ok, ok, if it means keeping peace,, "tee hee."

 

[fsmith2845]

You know, Im more an interstate guy, but in olden days, when we went on driving trips with my mom and dad, he was the driver and you never knew WHAT kind of road he was going to get on. And often enough, we'd end up in the Ozarks or Smokies on some barely a paved road and he'd find a place selling moonshine.
You know, in a Mason Jar.
Or worse.

Last time we did this together, I was 15 or 16, and he let me try it.

Purt near killed my sorry butt.

You know the funny thing... they had moonshine tastings at the distillery.. 12 different "flavors".. So i pony up to the bar and give it a try.. The "cups" they use are the little communion cups they use in church.. They started me off with grain alcohol, then white lightening.. (OMG, knocked my socks off.. killed all the taste buds in my mouth) then the lower octane "flavored" ones were next.. capped off with a mason jar of cherries soaking in moonshine..

Bought 2 Mason Jars to bring home.. looked over my shoulder expecting to get stopped by the revenuers!! i was ready to go into my NASCAR roots mode to escape!!!

Disney (with a likely stop to Harry Potter Land) will be in store for the next trip most likely!!!

 

[jakeybake]

I'm finally caught up and happy to say that I didn't miss out on the big REVEAL!!

Work has been crazy so I've been on and off sporadically lately.

Looking forward to reading on now that things have eased up a bit here at work.

I loved Smidgy's "Chair Walker" line. I laughed out loud when I read it. Funny thing is that I saw the same thing happen at the Beach Club in August. It was like the CM was trying to get exercise for himself. It was totally whacked.

Glad to be back on the DIS with all my fellow Nebo and Smidgy fans!

Jay

 

[pkondz]

Thanks for the reminder Nebs about my lack of attention to your trip report. If I have to give up anymore of my sleep, I will, so as not to worry you anymore. I woke up early on my day off just to come over here and read and post so not to make you think I am AWOL. All is good, I have posted, you can rest easy now. Thanks for the love!

Ok, that's it. I'm done being nice and trying to protect you.
Ponzi!

Sic her!

Grrrr. Bark! Bark, bark, bark! Grrrrrr...

Uh... is that what you wanted?

Gestating Buzz?
Cool.
Can I stick with Jestating Nebo?

Sure, and I'll be Justsayin' pkondz

THe scientists likened the situation to a hot fudge sundae , with the earth the basis.
Friday morning, August 3rd.

Good job on the 'Hot Fudge Sundae' synopsis. But I have to correct this one point. The Earth wasn't the basis of the Sundae, the comet's structure was the Sundae. It was a Hot Fudge Sundae that would impact the earth.

Also, just as an fyi. In the book, the nucleus misses the Earth. It's some of the 'nuts' that impact. Otherwise there wouldn't have been a book after impact, just "the end".

After the disappointing Luau we have nothing planned at all on this day, only thing we want to do is spend some early quiet time by the Kidani Pool.

We headed over there about 8:3o in the morning

I wonder if there's anyone reading this TR that's thinking, "8:30??? Who gets up that early? Especially on vacation?"

We do.

we were told there'd be about a 10 minute wait for the internal shuttle, so we said heck with it, and drove ourselves over and parked.

I've said this before. There's got to be a better and more effiicient way to move the guests back and forth instead of the infernal shuttle.

And for the record, I/we, much prefer the Kidani pool area to Jambo, but I would not want to be way down there in a Kidani room, you'd never go into Jambo House, and that is what makes the resort so special, and believe me, it's a long walk from Kidani.

That's an interesting observation. Here's an idea. Anyone staying at Kidani or Jambo is eligible for free segway lessons. There will be segways based both at Jambo and Kidani. Whenever you want to commute between the two, just hop on a segway. And for those less steady folks, they have three wheelers. Van available on request for the disabled and unadventurous. I'm betting it would only see a fraction of it's current mileage.

The segways would almost always come back to their origin, because they're only used by guests after check in. At the end of the day, you take the van on it's last trip of the day and throw a few CMs in to corral loose segways.

Disney should pay me money, don't you think?

Was that running around like an ostrich with its head cut off?

Oh, before we go any further, I was remiss in my last chapter and left something out.

Smidgy is a miss and you're remiss.

Check.

...we heard this God-awful scraping sound that kept getting louder, and we both looked up.

From our left, here comes a young, strapping cast member dragging a lounge chair past us until he disappeared in the distance to our right....

...20 minutes later, now, from our right, same, young strapping cast member has now herded up a new lounge chair, and is half carrying, half dragging said lounger back to the original starting position, somewhere off to our left, and disappeared again.

"Wonder what a good "chair walker" makes exercising chairs at Disney?"

Right on Smidgy! To me that's a scene straight out of a good comedy film. I can see it like I was there watching with you guys.

I know what it reminds me of now. The scene in the first MIB with Will Smith and a bunch of 'candidates' sitting in these egg shaped chairs trying to fill in some forms. Will Smith gets up and drags (with much associated screeching) a small table over. He looks up at everyone staring at him and says something like, "You guys wanna get in on this?"

And now, while we are at it, one other thing I left out from last report:

Again?? No wonder you never get to the juicy part.

While we were sitting at the Lou-ough, Diane suggested I at least take Some pictures, like of the hunky guy in the black shirt on stage.
Well, I tried, but I guess my aim was off a little bit.

Yes, these new cameras these days don't seem to be able to be aimed as accurately as the old ones. I've noticed that too. :

Did I mention you should stick to Hoop de doo? Even if it gives you Poop de doo doo?

You've officially sunk to a whole new level of the outhouse, dude.

Although apparently you've gotten the 'thumbs-up' from the prepubescent male demographic.

This is where the last time I "accidentally" blasted a fully dressed Diane in her summer dress with a water blaster canon, who, amazingly, didn't see the humor in it.

Really? But it was an accident!

Ah, well. That's okay. The rest of us saw the humor in it.

And so, once again we are sloths laying by a pool.

Huh. Nebo's only got three toes. Maybe that's why he's always tripping over things.

As we just settle into our lounge chairs, not 2 minutes later, I hear a "Tsk, tsk".
Yep, no doubt, Smidgy is unhappy about something.

I can try and ignore it, which means it will now persist until the end of time or the Cubs win the pennant, whichever comes first, or I can get it over and ask,,,,,,,

Well of course you have to ask. If there wasn't any 'tsk' noise then she doesn't want to talk. Here's a handy synonym list for you.

tsk (Male): Shoot, darn, shucks, oh well, whatever.

tsk (Female): I am annoyed at something and now I'm also annoyed at you for not knowing that I'm annoyed. And furthermore I'm annoyed that I actually have to make a sound to draw your attention to the fact that I'm annoyed. So I'm making this tsk sound and you should, no, you must ask what is wrong even though you really ought to already know. And if after telling you what the tsk is for, and I take care of the problem myself, I will be immensely satisfied with myself and annoyed at you for not helping even if the job can and/or should be done by one person. But if I am unable to take care of it then it's your fault for not helping me. And if you take care of if and you are proud of yourself for heading all of this off at the pass, I'll treat it like it's no big deal and I really could've lived with it anyway.

"What's the matter, pratell?"

Well, there it is. This is (I think) the first typo that really threw me. I started off thinking along the lines of 'Later Gator', but pratell doesn't rhyme with matter.

Ok that's not it.

Typo? Did he mean "What's the matter, Patel?" Hmmm... I google it and come up with "'"Paradise Lost:" A Revival of the Spirit' by Saif Patel". They're in Disney by a nice pool... paradise... something like that? Boy, that's really reaching.

Or is it Pratell after all? Hmmm... nothing jumping out in Google.

Does he mean prattle? "What's the matter, I prattle?

After the the third reading, as you say; the nickel dropped.

What makes it more annoying is that I actually use that phrase from time to time.

"Well what do you think is the matter?"
Uh oh, gonna have to maybe work at this one.

Well, of course you do. Where'd the fun in that be, if you didn't?

but right in front of us, ritht over there on the right, is a garbage can!"

And all I can think is, "Well, that's convenient."

Not ten minutes later I heard this terrible scraping sound, and almost jumped out of my lounger.

See folks? It's a good book. Nebo got so engrossed in it that he didn't even notice Smidgy get up and go over there.

looking around, you got it, there's Smidgy dragging the whole square container through the opening, around the corner where it was now just out of sight.
She came back with a big smile on her face.

Well, looky loo, she has once again taken one more picture of me with my back turned lying in a lawn chair reading,, hmm, why do I feel like I'm being set up for something later in life with all these pictures of me doing nothing?
"Your honor, as you can plainly see, my husband is totally useless, all he does as the dates clearly show is lie around day after day, doing absolutely nothing, if this isn't mental cruelty...."

Yup. You're definitely being set up. Sorry. Nothing you can do about it, either.

Stormalong Bay slide
Kidani Pool
Maya Dig Site Pool at Coronado
Luna Pool at Boardwalk
Hard Rock Pool slide at Universal Orlando

Interesting. I haven't tried any of those... have you tried the POR one? (The only one I've tried) If so, where would it rank... just so I can get some perspective.

We then settled into a period of total slothdom,
alternating between the table, loungers and pool when we got too hot.

You already mentioned the toes shortage.

We had brought some snacks from the room, and they have an outdoor mug refill station, so even though we were nowhere near our room it was no problem.

Self serve? Or was there someone there to take your mug and fill it for you?

Trying to get out of the lounger was no easy feat, and I got to use one of my favorite lines again,
"Ok, who turned up the gravity?"

A classic.

When I finally did get to an upright position, all of a suddent it was like the whole pool deck was spun like in "Wheel of Fortune." I very quickly went from getting out of the lounger to standing, to a quick collapse into a chair next to me by the table.

Hmmm.... a little foreshadowing there? Or just a simple 'got up too fast' blip. I'll never forget the first time that happened to me. I was still just a kid but had some knee surgery that put me in a bed in the hospital for a week. Ironic that nowadays, the same surgery would require a local anesthetic and you'd be in and out of the hospital in a few hours.

Anyway after being flat on my back for about a week, the nurse comes in to 'help me get up'. Oh, come on. I'm young! In the prime of my youth! I'm indestructible! All I'm doing is sitting up. How hard can that be? Done it all my life.

The nurse says, "Now just take it slow in case you get dizzy."

Oh, brother. Gimme a break.

I quickly sit up and the next thing I remember is waking up flat on my back again. I had fainted.

I tried it again, and took it a wee bit slower the second time.

When it got dark out, I wanted to go spend some time looking around the lobby at all the artifacts and relics and whatnot, thinking that without the light coming in that giant full wall window, it might be easier to see in there with artificial light, But I was wrong again, the displays and exhibits didn't have their own lights.
Even Smidgy couldn't see anything, much less read the descriptions most of them come with.

That's really odd, isn't it? You'd think that they'd at least have those little display lights.

Guy walks up to us looking at our chests and tells us to keep walking , nothing to see here, keep walking, this is a private party. I realized he was looking for name tags.

I wonder if he just got so sick and tired of always smiling and being a "CM" that he just wasn't in the mood now that he was off the clock?

His "private party" almost cost him his "private parts" when he was just about to put his hand on my shoulder to help me on my way, you know, to show me he means business, but at the last second he thought better of it and dropped his arm. Fine, we left.

Geez, don't mess with the guy from Chicago or you'll be sleeping with the fishes.

this time it was Doritos, which I don't care for near as much.

Not a fan of Doritos. Much, much prefer Arriba Nacho cheese chips from Old Dutch. Better taste, less razor blades.

I'm always surprised that I don't cut myself eating them, it's like chewing on razor blades to me.
(oh, my mind just did way to good a job picturing that, and I got a chill up my back)

Niven also wrote a short story with a bunch of ideas thrown out. One of them was a skating rink with razor blades set on edge arranged in an oval. Skaters would strap blocks of ice to their feet.

Don't fall down.

Saturday morning, Augustus Ceasar's 4th day
didactic indeed!

I think the word you're looking for here is: pretentious


Ha! Look who's talking!

don't ask

Don't tell


Does Smidgy know?

That morning I cheated;

Of course. The day before you lioned down in the lounger all day.


AKL. I get it.

I hate having to change into a suit at a pool restroom, so in case our room is not ready, it won't matter to me because I am already wearing it in place of underwear.

You're getting ready to reveal your 'incident' aren't you. "Mother always said to wear clean underwear in case you're ever in an accident."

Right?

From Osceola Parkway we made a left on Victory Way, and a right into what has seemed like home to us oftenly.

"oftenly?"

lotsish

the problem is, if we don't like our assigned room and switch it to something better, that doesn't mean the other room is coming with!

I can't stand poorly trained rooms that can't even heel.

Did not get fifties, instead, we were put in the sixties, and area that was still "preferred".
We asked for second floor, and we got it.
We asked for adjoining, and instead, even got 'connecting'.

...Boy, if we'd only known more on the importance of the defintion difference between "connecting" and "adjoining".

Well..... I was going to say "Way to go!" on scoring the room(s)... but now it sounds like that might not be such a great thing?

Let me put it this way, that evening, things did not go well.

Hmmm... there's an alternate reason why you mentioned the swimsuit/underwear thing.... Which could come into play here. We'll see if I'm right soon, I guess.

Thanks for the chapter, dude!

 

[pkondz]

Of course I'd still have to convince dh, who doesn't want to stay at AKL because he "doesn't want the animals looking at him"

There's nothing worse than perverted animals.

Great chapter nebo. Until the end. I mean come on. Another cliffhanger? Ahh well.

I'm guessing that Nebo read a lot of Charles Dickens.

First off, I have to tell you that DS LOVED your "Poop de doo doo" comment. So we now have confirmation that your sense of humor is endorsed and approved by a seven year old!

Well I do believe that is the demographic that he was aiming for. At least, I assume it is.

and shortly there after, the first of about 5 dif. "pairs" of people started playing ping pong. one duo even brought over a radio with some rap music playing. I started singing "la la la dee de di de do to the tune of the african music in the background.. loudly!!!! "gee, steve, don't you just LOVE the african music in the background?" they got the not-so-subtle hint and turned ther "music" off.
I know, I know, I'm an old crabby lady... but I knew later on we would be deluged with yellow jacket music, and I wanted to enjoy the "theme" music while I could!

and, oh.. the garbage can, it was about 45 minutes when a janitor type CM walked by, looked at the garbage can in the new place, tsk tsked, shook his head, and moved it back to block out view. harrumph!!

Nice one with the "music"! It's amazing what a well placed sarcastic remark can do, isn't it?

As for the garbage can... March back over there and explain to the teenage CM that the guest is always right... then get him to drag it back.

Also-- I had an odd dream that I was with Nebo & Smidgy in an airport, waiting for a plane. A plane to where? I'm not sure. But, we were all sitting there- and I don't know that I ever said anything-- and the two of them were talking up a storm and would randomly get up and change seats- on either side of me. What's that about?

It's your subconscious warring with you. On the one hand it's a pleasant dream where you get to enjoy Smidgy's company. On the other hand...

However, I'm a little freaked out about the crazy dizzy spell. Is it just me or did you mean to kind of gloss over it quickly?

I got that too. "Hmmm... he sure stopped talking about that in a hurry." Of course now I'm reading into it. "Is he going to have another dizzy spell and faint... and maybe hit his head, hard. Or something?"

Hold it, wait, can I post under Ponzi's name? That would be a lot more fun, and maybe then I can sue him for stealing my Iditarod. I mean Dentalty. Ok, give me back my Identalty,,, NOW,,, and I mean it. Good night.

Ideally, you could deal yourself into a dental package including a trip to the Iditarod.

I can obfuscate too, ya know.

It was raining? Don't you need to be in DHS to sing that?

Nope, I can make' em laugh even over here.

Don't you mean 'attempt to' make 'em laugh?? Hey! Now that I think of it... I'm guessing it's your fault that we have yellow jackets now.

Nebo, bored while lounging by the pool, attempts to inject some humor into the day.

The sound of nothing but a few crickets is deafening.

Quickly, Yellow Jackets swoop in to preserve the ambiance.

Nah. Besides, giving birth is not that big a deal for us guys. Remember that we have experienced pain that's worse... (And I can prove it.)

Are you going to bring out your kidney stone again?

Nope.

 

[yellowtink]

I'm guessing that Nebo read a lot of Charles Dickens.

Maybe, but nebo's stories aren't as boring as Dickens' are.

 

[Thumper_Man]

Who's ready for another T_Man song?

Well alrighty then. I had a good one in mind with all this waiting around.

Hammer to Fall. T_Man style of course.
(Parody of the song "Hammer To Fall" originally performed by Queen).

Yeah

Here we wait, one and all
Waiting for Nebo to tell us all
Let’s get ready, pour some wine
Lady Smidgy hurry home tonight.

Yeah
(Nebo don’t waste no time at all)
Don’t you hear us yelling, answer our call
(It comes to you as to us all)
Yeah, we're just waiting
For the hammer to fall - yeah

Oh every night, and every day
We keep wondering if today is the day.
Pick up your pace, type away
Building our hopes up day after day.

Yeah
(it’s nothing new it’s all the same)
Yeah, don’t be afraid to tell us at all
(We’ll stand by you even what’s his name)
Nebo it's time for the hammer to fall

You know you’re famous
Your truth it's all the same
(oh no - oh no)
Oh don’t know what you’re waiting for
We know you had some pain (oh no) yeah
Nebo now you’re driving us all insane.

Oooh
oooh

It’s time to stand up tall and proud
To all the Dis’ers who have gathered around
I know you might find this to be absurd
When we say “we’re sorry” louder and louder and louder

(What the hell is he waiting for?)
Ah, just surrender and it won't hurt at all
(You just got time to say your prayers)
Eh, while we're waiting for the hammer to hammer to fall
Hey, yes, it's starting to fall eh, hammer, you know
Yeah, hammer to fall, wooh, ah, hey, eh woowoo, ha eh hammer
Waiting for the hammer to fall Nebo.
Yeah Nebo, while you're waiting for the hammer to fall
We understand if you need more time

 

[nebo]

Who's ready for another T_Man song?

Well alrighty then. I had a good one in mind with all this waiting around.

Hammer to Fall. T_Man style of course.
(Parody of the song "Hammer To Fall" originally performed by Queen).

Yeah

Here we wait, one and all
Waiting for Nebo to tell us all
Let’s get ready, pour some wine
Lady Smidgy hurry home tonight.

Yeah
(Nebo don’t waste no time at all)
Don’t you hear us yelling, answer our call
(It comes to you as to us all)
Yeah, we're just waiting
For the hammer to fall - yeah

Oh every night, and every day
We keep wondering if today is the day.
Pick up your pace, type away
Building our hopes up day after day.

Yeah
(it’s nothing new it’s all the same)
Yeah, don’t be afraid to tell us at all
(We’ll stand by you even what’s his name)
Nebo it's time for the hammer to fall

You know you’re famous
Your truth it's all the same
(oh no - oh no)
Oh don’t know what you’re waiting for
We know you had some pain (oh no) yeah
Nebo now you’re driving us all insane.

Oooh
oooh

It’s time to stand up tall and proud
To all the Dis’ers who have gathered around
I know you might find this to be absurd
When we say “we’re sorry” louder and louder and louder

(What the hell is he waiting for?)
Ah, just surrender and it won't hurt at all
(You just got time to say your prayers)
Eh, while we're waiting for the hammer to hammer to fall
Hey, yes, it's starting to fall eh, hammer, you know
Yeah, hammer to fall, wooh, ah, hey, eh woowoo, ha eh hammer
Waiting for the hammer to fall Nebo.
Yeah Nebo, while you're waiting for the hammer to fall
We understand if you need more time

Mike, I'm not familiar with that song, but wow, those lydrics are really cool, dude. Nice going. As far as "tool time" is coming, yeah, we are just about upon it. All we need it Tim Allen to narrate Hammer Time.

Maybe, but nebo's stories aren't as boring as Dickens' are.

Well thank you YT, but I should have started this report out, "It was the best of times, it was the hurts of times."

Grrrr. Bark! Bark, bark, bark! Grrrrrr...

Uh... is that what you wanted?

Guess that will have to do.

Sure, and I'll be Justsayin' pkondz

you see, gestating for her, JESTATING, as in jester, you know , funny, court jester,,, oh, never mind.

Good job on the 'Hot Fudge Sundae' synopsis. But I have to correct this one point. The Earth wasn't the basis of the Sundae, the comet's structure was the Sundae. It was a Hot Fudge Sundae that would impact the earth.

Also, just as an fyi. In the book, the nucleus misses the Earth. It's some of the 'nuts' that impact. Otherwise there wouldn't have been a book after impact, just "the end".

Yes, you are correct on both counts, I was in a hurry in my synopsis and mixed it up a bit.

I wonder if there's anyone reading this TR that's thinking, "8:30??? Who gets up that early? Especially on vacation?"

We do.

I can never understand people who sleep their vacations away.

I've said this before. There's got to be a better and more effiicient way to move the guests back and forth instead of the infernal shuttle.

There is: "Beam me over, Scotty."

That's an interesting observation. Here's an idea. Anyone staying at Kidani or Jambo is eligible for free segway lessons. There will be segways based both at Jambo and Kidani. Whenever you want to commute between the two, just hop on a segway. And for those less steady folks, they have three wheelers. Van available on request for the disabled and unadventurous. I'm betting it would only see a fraction of it's current mileage.

The segways would almost always come back to their origin, because they're only used by guests after check in. At the end of the day, you take the van on it's last trip of the day and throw a few CMs in to corral loose segways.

Disney should pay me money, don't you think?

I'm sorry, did you say something?

Was that running around like an ostrich with its head cut off?

You see, that was there to validate the upcoming picture that also had been aimed poorly, where I wasted the shot on this emaciated, half nekked girl.

Smidgy is a miss and you're remiss.

Check.

Or check my mate.

Right on Smidgy! To me that's a scene straight out of a good comedy film. I can see it like I was there watching with you guys.

I know what it reminds me of now. The scene in the first MIB with Will Smith and a bunch of 'candidates' sitting in these egg shaped chairs trying to fill in some forms. Will Smith gets up and drags (with much associated screeching) a small table over. He looks up at everyone staring at him and says something like, "You guys wanna get in on this?"

To be the "best of the best, of the best."

Again?? No wonder you never get to the juicy part.

Understand, I have a monday morning quarterback living with me.


Although apparently you've gotten the 'thumbs-up' from the prepubescent male demographic.

Actually, it's the 8-12 advertising demographic group I'm aiming for, her son is just advanced.

Well of course you have to ask. If there wasn't any 'tsk' noise then she doesn't want to talk. Here's a handy synonym list for you.

tsk (Male): Shoot, darn, shucks, oh well, whatever.

tsk (Female): I am annoyed at something and now I'm also annoyed at you for not knowing that I'm annoyed. And furthermore I'm annoyed that I actually have to make a sound to draw your attention to the fact that I'm annoyed. So I'm making this tsk sound and you should, no, you must ask what is wrong even though you really ought to already know. And if after telling you what the tsk is for, and I take care of the problem myself, I will be immensely satisfied with myself and annoyed at you for not helping even if the job can and/or should be done by one person. But if I am unable to take care of it then it's your fault for not helping me. And if you take care of if and you are proud of yourself for heading all of this off at the pass, I'll treat it like it's no big deal and I really could've lived with it anyway.

One word for your definition:


Well, there it is. This is (I think) the first typo that really threw me. I started off thinking along the lines of 'Later Gator', but pratell doesn't rhyme with matter.

Ok that's not it.

Typo? Did he mean "What's the matter, Patel?" Hmmm... I google it and come up with "'"Paradise Lost:" A Revival of the Spirit' by Saif Patel". They're in Disney by a nice pool... paradise... something like that? Boy, that's really reaching.

Or is it Pratell after all? Hmmm... nothing jumping out in Google.

Does he mean prattle? "What's the matter, I prattle?

After the the third reading, as you say; the nickel dropped.

What makes it more annoying is that I actually use that phrase from time to time.

Are you finished? And you talk about me going on and delaying getting to the juicy parts?
Ok, but honestly, as I as typiing "pratell" , I had no idea how it should be spelled,not even sure where it comes from, my mind thinks King Arthur's time period, but "Pray-tell didn't look right either.
And no, King Arthur didn't have a period , so to speak, I meant his place in the time line of history, know what I mean? But if he did have a ,,,, oh forget it, now I'm getting like you again.

See folks? It's a good book. Nebo got so engrossed in it that he didn't even notice Smidgy get up and go over there.



you know, I thought I would have gotten and coerced at least one person by now to go and pick up that book.



Interesting. I haven't tried any of those... have you tried the POR one? (The only one I've tried) If so, where would it rank... just so I can get some perspective.

Many times, and the POR slide is near the bottom of the list. About the only real slide worse than it is at French Quarter. Some others are better as far as height and speed goes, but the connecting section "ribs" can really do a number on the back. (BLT, Vero Beach, Contemporary)





Self serve? Or was there someone there to take your mug and fill it for you?

nope, totally self serve


Hmmm.... a little foreshadowing there? Or just a simple 'got up too fast' blip. I'll never forget the first time that happened to me. I was still just a kid but had some knee surgery that put me in a bed in the hospital for a week. Ironic that nowadays, the same surgery would require a local anesthetic and you'd be in and out of the hospital in a few hours.

Isn't it amazing how they don't want you to stay in the hospitals anymore? Outpatient triple bypass surgery, "Make sure you have somebody that can drive you home."

Anyway after being flat on my back for about a week, the nurse comes in to 'help me get up'. Oh, come on. I'm young! In the prime of my youth! I'm indestructible! All I'm doing is sitting up. How hard can that be? Done it all my life.

The nurse says, "Now just take it slow in case you get dizzy."

Oh, brother. Gimme a break.

I quickly sit up and the next thing I remember is waking up flat on my back again. I had fainted.

I tried it again, and took it a wee bit slower the second time.

I might have mentioned this before; I fainted one time in my life, I had a (and I can't spell this), "pilonidal cyst" removed from my tailbone, more like it was lanced. Our sadistic family doctor didn't really believe in locals, he honest to goodness, gave me a rag to bite down on.

It hurt so bad that I thought I was going to throw up, and told them when he was done get out of my way, hand over mouth, need the bathroom, NOW.
I got two steps away from the table, next thing I know I'm flat on my back and people slapping me in the face, I had passed out from the pain. I was 19 years old and never went back to him again.


Geez, don't mess with the guy from Chicago or you'll be sleeping with the fishes.

You want to act like a bigshot, fine, but if you touch, all bets are off. And he wasn't a cast member from what I could see, more like a "party planner/enforcer".



Not a fan of Doritos. Much, much prefer Arriba Nacho cheese chips from Old Dutch. Better taste, less razor blades.

I shall look for them.

Niven also wrote a short story with a bunch of ideas thrown out. One of them was a skating rink with razor blades set on edge arranged in an oval. Skaters would strap blocks of ice to their feet.

Don't fall down.

Gee, that sounds cheery.


Of course. The day before you lioned down in the lounger all day.


lions, cheated, that wasn't half bad.



You're getting ready to reveal your 'incident' aren't you. "Mother always said to wear clean underwear in case you're ever in an accident."

I can't reveal my "incident" here, Monica will start yelling at me again.


I can't stand poorly trained rooms that can't even heel.



Well..... I was going to say "Way to go!" on scoring the room(s)... but now it sounds like that might not be such a great thing?

You learn fast.

Hmmm... there's an alternate reason why you mentioned the swimsuit/underwear thing.... Which could come into play here. We'll see if I'm right soon, I guess.

Thanks for the chapter, dude!

And thank you for your continued support.

You know the funny thing... they had moonshine tastings at the distillery.. 12 different "flavors".. So i pony up to the bar and give it a try.. The "cups" they use are the little communion cups they use in church.. They started me off with grain alcohol, then white lightening.. (OMG, knocked my socks off.. killed all the taste buds in my mouth) then the lower octane "flavored" ones were next.. capped off with a mason jar of cherries soaking in moonshine..

Bought 2 Mason Jars to bring home.. looked over my shoulder expecting to get stopped by the revenuers!! i was ready to go into my NASCAR roots mode to escape!!!

Disney (with a likely stop to Harry Potter Land) will be in store for the next trip most likely!!!

Yep, you just desribed our next trip, finally going to see Harry. So, are you a Smokey and the Bandit guy or Dukes of Hazzard?


Ok, should have the next chapter up and running on friday night.

 

[GrandBob]

Disney should pay me money, don't you think?

Bribe you to keep your ideas to yourself? Good idea.

Well of course you have to ask. If there wasn't any 'tsk' noise then she doesn't want to talk. Here's a handy synonym list for you.

tsk (Male): Shoot, darn, shucks, oh well, whatever.

tsk (Female): I am annoyed at something and now I'm also annoyed at you for not knowing that I'm annoyed. And furthermore I'm annoyed that I actually have to make a sound to draw your attention to the fact that I'm annoyed. So I'm making this tsk sound and you should, no, you must ask what is wrong even though you really ought to already know. And if after telling you what the tsk is for, and I take care of the problem myself, I will be immensely satisfied with myself and annoyed at you for not helping even if the job can and/or should be done by one person. But if I am unable to take care of it then it's your fault for not helping me. And if you take care of if and you are proud of yourself for heading all of this off at the pass, I'll treat it like it's no big deal and I really could've lived with it anyway.

I'm impressed! Look everyone, Ponzi speaks female. He's bilingual! Or is that... nah, not gonna go there.

Well thank you YT, but I should have started this report out, "It was the best of times, it was the hurts of times."

you know, I thought I would have gotten and coerced at least one person by now to go and pick up that book.

Hey dude, you managed to get me to walk over to the bookshelf to dig it out. Actually, you've pretty much convinced me to re-read it. Right after I finish the 850 page book that she-who-must-be-obeyed got me started on. I'm getting there! Page 700...

-Bob

 

[Heluvsme]

Awesome Thumper Man!!

~Dawn

 

[smidgy]

I wonder if there's anyone reading this TR that's thinking, "8:30??? Who gets up that early? Especially on vacation?"

We do.

and, amazingly, I do!!! night person that I am, I only get up early for grandkids, medical appointments, vacation. there are just WAY TOO MANY benefits to getting up early on vacation.(getting in the most rides befoe the lines get long, getting the best loungers at the pool (unless turtle lady and her reincarnation bet you) etc etc. even when I KNEW there was no rush, nebo was getting us seats, no where to go until later on, I just couldn't fall back asleep, tired as I was ! (disney is out there!!! I have a bed at home!)













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Well of course you have to ask. If there wasn't any 'tsk' noise then she doesn't want to talk. Here's a handy synonym list for you.

tsk (Male): Shoot, darn, shucks, oh well, whatever.

tsk (Female): I am annoyed at something and now I'm also annoyed at you for not knowing that I'm annoyed. And furthermore I'm annoyed that I actually have to make a sound to draw your attention to the fact that I'm annoyed. So I'm making this tsk sound and you should, no, you must ask what is wrong even though you really ought to already know. And if after telling you what the tsk is for, and I take care of the problem myself, I will be immensely satisfied with myself and annoyed at you for not helping even if the job can and/or should be done by one person. But if I am unable to take care of it then it's your fault for not helping me. And if you take care of if and you are proud of yourself for heading all of this off at the pass, I'll treat it like it's no big deal and I really could've lived with it anyway.


Well, there it is. This is (I think) the first typo that really threw me. I started off thinking along the lines of 'Later Gator', but pratell doesn't rhyme with matter.

Ok that's not it.

Typo? Did he mean "What's the matter, Patel?" Hmmm... I google it and come up with "'"Paradise Lost:" A Revival of the Spirit' by Saif Patel". They're in Disney by a nice pool... paradise... something like that? Boy, that's really reaching.

Or is it Pratell after all? Hmmm... nothing jumping out in Google.

Does he mean prattle? "What's the matter, I prattle?

After the the third reading, as you say; the nickel dropped.

What makes it more annoying is that I actually use that phrase from time to time.

I think, subconsciously , he meant that I was prattling!! harrummph!!!




And all I can think is, "Well, that's convenient."

ah, you silly novice fool.. it's all about the view. (not to mention the constant barrage of people using said trash can. ther is a thin line between "convenient" and "obtrusive" (men just don't get this.....




Interesting. I haven't tried any of those... have you tried the POR one? (The only one I've tried) If so, where would it rank... just so I can get some perspective.

I'd say the POR one falls after these. poly and CBR have tube slides, which are pretty cool, but are about equal with POR

Self serve? Or was there someone there to take your mug and fill it for you?

it was a refill station, very small, with about 6 choices. do it your self. with a strange "wind tunnel" blowing out at you as soon as you entered the "refilling zone". no idea why?

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Does Smidgy know?

well, I think I posted earlier, Todd was the one that really didn't want connecting rooms. that's why what happened was even funnier (in retrospect.... not at the time)

 

[kath1210]

Oh, ok, that was my mistake, sorry.
But it's good to see you're in the same field of work yet, you've just worked your way up to proctology.

(put the knife down, only kidding)
ok, ok, if it means keeping peace,, "tee hee."

That is too funny, Nebo!!

 

[dwheatl]

Smidgy, I think the wind tunnels are to keep the flies and other insects away. Something I appreciate, since I got stung on my lip at a picnic last year. They had refillable cups and a yellow jacket (not the Dis kind) got into my cup, I guess from the soda fountain, since I had put a lid on it before I drank it. It wasn't fun.<swollen lips

 

[MHSweb79]

tsk (Female): I am annoyed at something and now I'm also annoyed at you for not knowing that I'm annoyed. And furthermore I'm annoyed that I actually have to make a sound to draw your attention to the fact that I'm annoyed. So I'm making this tsk sound and you should, no, you must ask what is wrong even though you really ought to already know. And if after telling you what the tsk is for, and I take care of the problem myself, I will be immensely satisfied with myself and annoyed at you for not helping even if the job can and/or should be done by one person. But if I am unable to take care of it then it's your fault for not helping me. And if you take care of if and you are proud of yourself for heading all of this off at the pass, I'll treat it like it's no big deal and I really could've lived with it anyway.

SOMEone's been hiding in the back of the room during "Wife 101" class! But someone wasn't "quite" paying attention. While the first two sentences get an A, the rest of the analysis is a bit off the mark.

I'll give you a hint: It has NOTHING to do with resolving the problem. I can't say much more than that without risking my membership in Wives Anonymous.