DIS Dads DDC XVIII - Spring Fever!

[wasnotafan]

Morning Folks...

Today is my and DW's 13th anniversary....

Congratulations to you and the Mrs.!

 

[scott2997]

I liked wishes and Hallo wishes from TOTWL.

Yeah - I don't think we'll be able to get up there since we're renting points. I think you have to be the actual member right?

 

[DisDadDoc]

Lake View Studio - 3 adults and 2 kids!

I wouldn't worry about the crowding. You adults will probably sit on the balcony at night anyway to enjoy the view of Bay Lake while the kids sleep. Have a great time! Love BLT!!!

Morning Folks...

Today is my and DW's 13th anniversary....

Happy anniversary, Brian! The Traditional Gift by Year would be "Lace", the Modern Gift by Year would be "Furry textiles". Tough choice, pal.

Good morning guys. Another fog-filled morning here, can barely make out the lights in the building across the way. Good news is by noon it'll burn away to another beauty day.

Funny incident yesterday taking Amelia to school. She started talking about a ghost, and told me that the school had a ghost. This caught my attention naturally (I am quite into this subject, I have well over 100 books on the subject from over the years )

Can we tell ghost stories now? I've got several. Hospitals are usually crawling with them. My hospital now is a relatively new one (only 16 years old), so there aren't many stories here, but the old Northwestern Hospital in Chicago was over 100 years old and in the building of a former orphanage. Lots of ghost stories there.

My most memorable was something that happened to me in the middle of the night on-call. The hospital had 8 inpatient floors, but a 9th floor that led to the helicopter pad and was used just for storage (you needed a special key to get up there). The ICU was on the 2nd floor and the staff elevator that went all the way up to 9th floor was just outside the ICU. One night, sometime around 2-3am, one of the older security guards got off the elevator and stumbled into the ICU white as a sheet. He told me that he was doing his night rounds, checking on the floors. He took the elevator up to the 9th floor and was going to work his way down. When the elevator opened on 9, there was a young woman at the door. He nodded to her, thought it was somewhat strange that someone was up there (but people did occassionally go there to get supplies), but didn't think much of it. She entered the elevator and he stepped out. He stepped out of the elevator only a few feet to take a quick look around. He saw that there was no one up there, and turned back to the still open elevator door. The young woman was gone. Just disappeared. He got in the elevator and forced it to go down all the way to the ICU. ICUs are typically the most bright, well-lit, and active parts of the hospital at night. The guy was a mess. I would be surprised if he ever went back up there.

 

[twokids0204]

Happy Anniversary you two!

Matt

Congrats!!

congratulations.

Congratulations Nemesis!

So are you going to Tim Horton's for dinner??

Congrats.

Congrats Brian. Have a great evening celebrating.

Congratulations Brian!

Congratulations!
I hope y’all have a great day and a fine evening.

Congratulations to you and the Mrs.!

Thank's everyone...

As for the Congratulation's, she really deserves it for putting up with me...

But then again, she gets Disney trips out of it, so it kinda evens itself out.

 

[that's nice]

Thank's everyone...

As for the Congratulation's, she really deserves it for putting up with me...

But then again, she gets Disney trips out of it, so it kinda evens itself out.

I'll jump on the bandwagon...

Happy Anniversary!

 

[that's nice]

I'm a Certified Master Bull S***er. True Story.

We know....

That reminds me - we haven't seen this beauty in a while:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGgS5oh2gfo

LOL...

You think we shutdown a thread quickly? Don's daughter will be opening new threads every day and a half if I let Madison on here.

Those pictures are just awesome, Andy! But what's that I see? A red tractor? I thought you guys were into the fancy green ones.

Now can you explain the differences between tractor colors?

 

[RodBelding]

Thank's everyone...

As for the Congratulation's, she really deserves it for putting up with me...

But then again, she gets Disney trips out of it, so it kinda evens itself out.

Happy Anniversary!

 

[GoofyIsAsGoofyDoes]

Thank's everyone...

As for the Congratulation's, she really deserves it for putting up with me...

Well of course she does…
all our wives can make pretty much make that clam.

But then again, she gets Disney trips out of it, so it kinda evens itself out.

 

[twokids0204]

Happy anniversary, Brian! The Traditional Gift by Year would be "Lace", the Modern Gift by Year would be "Furry textiles". Tough choice, pal.

Thanks Doc. I wonder if I'll be able to find a furry lace

 

[twokids0204]

I'll jump on the bandwagon...

Happy Anniversary!

Thank you Tim

 

[twokids0204]

Happy Anniversary!

Thank you sir!!!

 

[RodBelding]

I liked wishes and Hallo wishes from TOTWL.

Hate to admit this, but still haven't made our way up to totwl yet... This year for sure!

 

[GoofyIsAsGoofyDoes]

Now can you explain the differences between tractor colors?

Even I can pull that off.

Green = John Deere
Red = International Harvester (or in some cases: Allis Chalmers)

 

[FreezinRafiki]

Now can you explain the differences between tractor colors?

Even I can pull that off.

Green = John Deere
Red = International Harvester (or in some cases: Alison Chalmers)

Pretty close. They haven't been called International Harvester in few years. Back in the 80s they merged with J.I. Case to become Case IH, who then merged with New Holland a few years back to become CNH. But he classic red tractor has remained through all of it.

Massey Fuergson also has red tractors, but being from Racine (home of the J.I. Case company) red tractors only mean Case around here.

Allis Chalmers has an interesting story behind it. It was founded in Milwaukee and quickly outgrew it's manufacturing plant. It built a new factory out west of the city a little bit, which became knows as the West Allis plant. As more and more people started working out there, a new suburb was formed and named itself - wait for it - West Allis, Wisconsin! (Although their tractors were more of an orange than red)

 

[ClearScreen]

Good Morning Gentlemen And anyone else that does not fit in the category of gentlemen.

To quote Groucho Marx:

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

 

[ClearScreen]

We now have 11 owners. Still need one more. The draft is Monday at 9:30pm EDT. Everything is online through Yahoo. Please PM me if you are interested.

Also, I have not heard from a few of last year's owners who have not responded to invites. I will be deleting their teams so I can invite new owners who have expressed an interest.

Finally, only rule which I am compelled to enforce - your team must have a Disney-related name. The more clever the better.

 

[thheaton]

We now have 11 owners. Still need one more. The draft is Monday at 9:30pm EDT. Everything is online through Yahoo. Please PM me if you are interested.

Also, I have not heard from a few of last year's owners who have not responded to invites. I will be deleting their teams so I can invite new owners who have expressed an interest.

Finally, only rule which I am compelled to enforce - your team must have a Disney-related name. The more clever the better.

oops I will have to go change that.

 

[GoofyIsAsGoofyDoes]

Pretty close. They haven't been called International Harvester in few years. Back in the 80s they merged with J.I. Case to become Case IH, who then merged with New Holland a few years back to become CNH. But he classic red tractor has remained through all of it.

Massey Fuergson also has red tractors, but being from Racine (home of the J.I. Case company) red tractors only mean Case around here.

Allis Chalmers has an interesting story behind it. It was founded in Milwaukee and quickly outgrew it's manufacturing plant. It built a new factory out west of the city a little bit, which became knows as the West Allis plant. As more and more people started working out there, a new suburb was formed and named itself - wait for it - West Allis, Wisconsin! (Although their tractors were more of an orange than red)

Obviously, I’ve been in the city too long (but I got most of it right). All the AC tractors that I’ve run across were pretty faded so they looked kind’a red to me. Now I know (and that’s half the battle).

 

[katoot]

okay... all caught up. time to go to bed and fall behind again.

Had a good day today. In the afternoon, took the kids to the park. While we were there, a young woman was having a tough time with her bratty kid and she had to forcefully remove him from the playground. She took him off a ways and sat him down. I only paid attention because the kid had been playing with DD. Then I heard a group of moms talking about her saying she was going to spank him if he didn't behave. Well, sure enough, I one of those other moms let out a gasp and everyone looked and the young woman had bared his backside and gave him a good spanking over on a bench about 50 yards away. The mom who gasped was furious and raced off to put a stop to it. the rest of the group trailed after, mostly encouraging her and only one of them trying to get her to stop. I admit I was really interested to see what happened. It didn't come to blows, but the older mom actually picked up the kid and was consoling him while she and the younger woman went at it verbally. I couldn't hear what was said, but eventually they separated and the older mom came back. Then I heard her and her group discussing whether or not they should call the cops.

I think that is when I got a little disgusted. Are we so quick to call the police on someone these days, for spanking their child?? It's not like they hit someone else's kid. It wasn't punching in the face, or using a weapon. It was open hand on a bare butt like my mom used to do to me. It stings for a bit and you think twice after that.

I know things have changed. I got spanked, I faced the wall for an hour or more, and I wore my food if i didn't eat it. My kids get timeouts that last just a couple of minutes. Right now the timeouts are working for us, but we do occasionally give DD a smack on her hand or butt if she's way out of line.

Yeah, the younger woman could have kept her cool and saved the spanking for home use. But the mob mentality of that group and the way they were all chomping at the bit, saying "i hope she raises her hand to him again so I can hit her myself" and talking about calling the police, well that made me dislike that group very much.

It was shortly after that we packed up our things and headed home. It kind of reminded me of the way people act on the main part of the boards (or out on other boards) It would have been one thing to walk over and say, maybe you shouldn't do that here...

well... you get the picture. I'll stop rambling.

rest of the day was okay. DW came home cranky from work. I went to work and it was just another day.

time to go to bed.

Good evening to anyone still up... Good morning to those who get up in a few hours.

I was half expecting to hear about a second group that came up to yell at the first group for leaving their kids unattended for a whole minute or two.

Unfortunately, with the advancement of technology and the internet, people worry too much about what others are doing, especially if it is something they wouldn't do themselves. Not only that, but just too much worrying in general. I don't believe that society is more dangerous today than it was when I was growing up 10-20 years ago. We just hear about the bad things more, because that's what gets viewers/readers/ratings, and information is more accessible.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's good to worry about the safety and what not of others, but it seems like its being taken too far more often than not. *steps off soapbox*

Ahem.

 

[that's nice]

Even I can pull that off.

Green = John Deere
Red = International Harvester (or in some cases: Allis Chalmers)

Pretty close. They haven't been called International Harvester in few years. Back in the 80s they merged with J.I. Case to become Case IH, who then merged with New Holland a few years back to become CNH. But he classic red tractor has remained through all of it.

Massey Fuergson also has red tractors, but being from Racine (home of the J.I. Case company) red tractors only mean Case around here.

Allis Chalmers has an interesting story behind it. It was founded in Milwaukee and quickly outgrew it's manufacturing plant. It built a new factory out west of the city a little bit, which became knows as the West Allis plant. As more and more people started working out there, a new suburb was formed and named itself - wait for it - West Allis, Wisconsin! (Although their tractors were more of an orange than red)

Thanks... (i think)

I thought that what was going on. I knew John Deere was green- I have a John Deere LAWN tractor.

The only thing I know about International Harvester is that it is a country song.