Mixed Nuts

[KevinM]

To those who still remember me...

My competition was this past weekend. I placed first in my age and weight class in Bench Press and Squat. I came in second in the Deadlift. I thought being in the 35 + group would make it easier, but these guys were strong. Plus I was carrying more weight than I normally do (I'm 229 now) because I was on a high protein/carb diet while I prepared. Now I have 3 weeks to drop the 20 pounds I gained while training for this (gotta look good for the beach....).

Wow, that was a boring paragraph.

Anyway, I have been icing down my shoulders since.

Hope you all are doing well. This old man has gotta hit the hot tub.

Oh and Nursey, I have a joke for YOU, but I can't post it here.

 

[Tiffer]

To those who still remember me...

My competition was this past weekend. I placed first in my age and weight class in Bench Press and Squat. I came in second in the Deadlift. I thought being in the 35 + group would make it easier, but these guys were strong. Plus I was carrying more weight than I normally do (I'm 229 now) because I was on a high protein/carb diet while I prepared. Now I have 3 weeks to drop the 20 pounds I gained while training for this (gotta look good for the beach....).

Wow, that was a boring paragraph.

Anyway, I have been icing down my shoulders since.

Hope you all are doing well. This old man has gotta hit the hot tub.

Oh and Nursey, I have a joke for YOU, but I can't post it here.

Congratulations! Quite an accomplishment.

 

[LBelle]

To those who still remember me...

My competition was this past weekend. I placed first in my age and weight class in Bench Press and Squat. I came in second in the Deadlift. I thought being in the 35 + group would make it easier, but these guys were strong. Plus I was carrying more weight than I normally do (I'm 229 now) because I was on a high protein/carb diet while I prepared. Now I have 3 weeks to drop the 20 pounds I gained while training for this (gotta look good for the beach....).

Wow, that was a boring paragraph.

Anyway, I have been icing down my shoulders since.

Hope you all are doing well. This old man has gotta hit the hot tub.

Oh and Nursey, I have a joke for YOU, but I can't post it here.

Hi Kev!!!

Awwwww....we remember you, don't worry!!!!

Great job at the competition!! Now................get that wife of yours to give you a massage!!

 

[paigevz]

Most people *think* they don't like lawyers. But most people don't really know too many lawyers. It's mostly perception. Simliar to perceptions of Polish people or Jewish people or any other "stereotype" of a particular group.

I only KNOW one lawyer. And I love the snot out of her!!!!!!!!

I know several nurses and I love all of them too.

I don't know any architects.

I know two engineers, one male, one female and LOVE them........and they are not at all nerdy..........great senses of humor and very cool.

I know LOTS of teachers and LOTS of men and LOTS of women.........so with them, some I love, some I like, some I just can't stand.

I don't know any sprinkler systems but I sure don't like the one that attacked my Gothic Rose.

Hi JT!

 

[GoofyDad869]

I only KNOW one lawyer. And I love the snot out of her!!!!!!!!

I know several nurses and I love all of them too.

I don't know any architects.

I know two engineers, one male, one female and LOVE them........and they are not at all nerdy..........great senses of humor and very cool.

I know LOTS of teachers and LOTS of men and LOTS of women.........so with them, some I love, some I like, some I just can't stand.

I don't know any sprinkler systems but I sure don't like the one that attacked my Gothic Rose.

Hi JT!

I know a few nurses - and all of them, to a person, are great to be around.

I know LOTS of architects (well, duh) - most are good people, but there are some that are haughty and/or hard to get along with (egotistical). Sometimes that attitude comes with the talent to back up the attitude, sometimes not. These are the types that give the rest a bad name, in my opinion.

I know LOTS of engineers - most are good people, and some are geeky types (for the record, I veer sharply toward the geeky type too). Some are both - in my opinion, so the term 'geeky' doesn't necessarily have the negative connotations it might have for other, more urbane folks. I'm not an artsy-fartsy architect-type, and so my designs tend toward the functional, and the cheaper/easy-to-build/maintain - so I identify strongly with the engineering mindset. We have one local engineer here who's originally from the Louisiana area (he's been here 15+ years) - by his own admission he's as geeky as the day is long - but dayum, can he make a mean batch of jambalaya!!!

I know lots of teachers / school administrator-types - and most are good people too.

I know lots of lawyers too - most are good people, but some are too full of themselves, in my opinion. I don't know enough about the profession or some of the niches within the profession to have a real opinion about if that personality type is necessary. Anyway, the blowhard-types are the types I mentally picture in the 'lawyer' jokes.

I know lots of accountant / finance-types - heck, I'm married to one. Most are good people, but some can combine the worst personality traits of engineers & lawyers... Those are the ones who are never invited to parties.

I'm sure somewhere there's a "sanitation engineer" (PC term for a garbage man) who's full of himself too.

My point is there's all kinds of people in all kinds of careers.

I'm definitely not a gregarious person. I'm usually reserved and I tend to not follow any given trend. I'm usually not shy about pointing out 'sheep-ple' tendencies in other people, so I'm somewhat of a sarcastic smart-aleck. I'm too geeky to be considered really 'cool' - so sometimes when we throw a concert-night party here at our office I do feel sooooo out of my league / comfort zone. I'm sure there's the ultra-chic, trendy-types in attendance at our parties who are going "Who's that opinionated geek over there in the corner? How'd HE get in here?" Easy to answer - I own part of the place. Y'all are drinking some of MY beer. No, I don't want to hear about your brand-spankin'-new ultra-greenie-weenie hybrid Lexus SUV (...that STILL gets worse gas mileage than my V8-powered apparent "gas-guzzler"). Or how you've got your kid enrolled in "the" hoighty-toighty private school (And how many drug confiscations were there last month? Oh really?). Now scoot over and shut up - let me hear the band. Maybe I don't actually SAY that out loud, but I do think it.

P.S.
I know lots of fried chicken - they're all good people. To paraphrase Will Rogers - "I never met a fried chicken breast I didn't like".

 

[Squidrific]

I don't hear any of you singing the praises of HR people. Why is that?

 

[GoofyDad869]

I don't hear any of you singing the praises of HR people. Why is that?

Because y'all control our fates - what with the insurance and employee benefits packages. Don't rock the boat - know what I mean?

One of the funniest people I've ever had the pleasure of knowing was an HR manager. She was so full of life.

 

[Squidrific]

Because y'all control our fates - what with the insurance and employee benefits packages. Don't rock the boat - know what I mean?

One of the funniest people I've ever had the pleasure of knowing was an HR manager. She was so full of life.

Why thanks GoDaddy! That is one of the nicest compliments I have received on the DIS.

 

[Tiffer]

I know a few nurses - and all of them, to a person, are great to be around.

I know LOTS of architects (well, duh) - most are good people, but there are some that are haughty and/or hard to get along with (egotistical). Sometimes that attitude comes with the talent to back up the attitude, sometimes not. These are the types that give the rest a bad name, in my opinion.

I know LOTS of engineers - most are good people, and some are geeky types (for the record, I veer sharply toward the geeky type too). Some are both - in my opinion, so the term 'geeky' doesn't necessarily have the negative connotations it might have for other, more urbane folks. I'm not an artsy-fartsy architect-type, and so my designs tend toward the functional, and the cheaper/easy-to-build/maintain - so I identify strongly with the engineering mindset. We have one local engineer here who's originally from the Louisiana area (he's been here 15+ years) - by his own admission he's as geeky as the day is long - but dayum, can he make a mean batch of jambalaya!!!

I know lots of teachers / school administrator-types - and most are good people too.

I know lots of lawyers too - most are good people, but some are too full of themselves, in my opinion. I don't know enough about the profession or some of the niches within the profession to have a real opinion about if that personality type is necessary. Anyway, the blowhard-types are the types I mentally picture in the 'lawyer' jokes.

I know lots of accountant / finance-types - heck, I'm married to one. Most are good people, but some can combine the worst personality traits of engineers & lawyers... Those are the ones who are never invited to parties.

I'm sure somewhere there's a "sanitation engineer" (PC term for a garbage man) who's full of himself too.

My point is there's all kinds of people in all kinds of careers.

I'm definitely not a gregarious person. I'm usually reserved and I tend to not follow any given trend. I'm usually not shy about pointing out 'sheep-ple' tendencies in other people, so I'm somewhat of a sarcastic smart-aleck. I'm too geeky to be considered really 'cool' - so sometimes when we throw a concert-night party here at our office I do feel sooooo out of my league / comfort zone. I'm sure there's the ultra-chic, trendy-types in attendance at our parties who are going "Who's that opinionated geek over there in the corner? How'd HE get in here?" Easy to answer - I own part of the place. Y'all are drinking some of MY beer. No, I don't want to hear about your brand-spankin'-new ultra-greenie-weenie hybrid Lexus SUV (...that STILL gets worse gas mileage than my V8-powered apparent "gas-guzzler"). Or how you've got your kid enrolled in "the" hoighty-toighty private school (And how many drug confiscations were there last month? Oh really?). Now scoot over and shut up - let me hear the band. Maybe I don't actually SAY that out loud, but I do think it.

P.S.
I know lots of fried chicken - they're all good people. To paraphrase Will Rogers - "I never met a fried chicken breast I didn't like".

You are absolutely right. And I am sure the same can be said for every profession. And I get it.

But my point is that I know alot of teachers and a few are really great, but some are lazy clock-punchers, who only want to do the bare minumum.

Ther are a tons of blow-hard college professors who's main goals in life are to publish papers to make tenure and get pay raises who couldn't practically apply half of the crap they teach.

Ok, I am moving on now.

So how is everyone today?


See my point?

 

[GoofyDad869]

Why thanks GoDaddy! That is one of the nicest compliments I have received on the DIS.

You're welcome...

Actually, the HR person I was thinking of passed on now to another place. So unless you're posting from Heaven, I doubt you are/were the same person.

You're quite funny too, but I was describing people I know IRL. Sorry... Maybe we could meet up IRL someday and then I'd be able to say I know you and you're awesome, a great dancer, an excellent cook, a tall cool drink of water, etc.

 

[GoofyDad869]

You are absolutely right. And I am sure the same can be said for every profession. And I get it.

But my point is that I know alot of teachers and a few are really great, but some are lazy clock-punchers, who only want to do the bare minumum.

Ther are a tons of blow-hard college professors who's main goals in life are to publish papers to make tenure and get pay raises who couldn't practically apply half of the crap they teach.

Ok, I am moving on now.

So how is everyone today?


See my point?

Preach it, sistah!

 

[Squidrific]

You're welcome...

Actually, the HR person I was thinking of passed on now to another place. So unless you're posting from Heaven, I doubt you are/were the same person.

You're quite funny too, but I was describing people I know IRL. Sorry... Maybe we could meet up IRL someday and then I'd be able to say I know you and you're awesome, a great dancer, an excellent cook, a tall cool drink of water, etc.

That could be arranged. How about meeting at the lodge someday DVC neighbor?

P.S. I prefer to describe myself as a short shot of whiskey!

 

[Squidrific]

You are absolutely right. And I am sure the same can be said for every profession. And I get it.

But my point is that I know alot of teachers and a few are really great, but some are lazy clock-punchers, who only want to do the bare minumum.

Ther are a tons of blow-hard college professors who's main goals in life are to publish papers to make tenure and get pay raises who couldn't practically apply half of the crap they teach.

Ok, I am moving on now.

So how is everyone today?


See my point?

Didn't your mom ever tell you that it isn't nice to point? If this were the offensive thread, I would be offended.

 

[Tiffer]

Preach it, sistah!

Your a good egg.

Didn't your mom ever tell you that it isn't nice to point? If this were the offensive thread, I would be offended.

Oh thank heavens it's notthe offensive thread!

 

[GoofyDad869]

That could be arranged. How about meeting at the lodge someday DVC neighbor?

P.S. I prefer to describe myself as a short shot of whiskey!

Groovy-cool! We have AKV reservations confirmed for our October trip. I can't wait. We're on the "early June & mid October" trip routine every year - hopefully we can add a consistent March visit too. And then once we kick the kids out of the house (10 years or so away) we can go down for long weekends and such.

 

[GoofyDad869]

Your a good egg.



Oh thank heavens it's notthe offensive thread!

Should I find this offensive?!? Attached is a snippet from a Michael Quinion article (an English grammar editorialist).
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"...What caused my eyebrows to move rapidly ceiling-wards was that the same report claimed conference members had told the minister that the police were also instructed not to use the phrase 'good egg', because it was too closely linked with 'egg and spoon', rhyming slang for 'coon', an offensive racial slur.

While sensitivity over language is not inherently bad, sometimes political correctness passes from needful consideration into a parallel world of misunderstanding and mealy-mouthedness. These days, it seems even PCs have to be PC. The chances of a British policeman using the phrase 'good egg' in conversation with a member of the public is roughly the same as his pursuing an outfangthief or enforcing the rules on the right to turbary.

That’s because the phrase is an excellent example of dated slang — still to be found, but only as a self-conscious archaism that reeks of a kind of old-fashioned, class-ridden Britishness that is long extinct. It first appeared about 1900 as slang of the public school and university for somebody pleasant, agreeable, or trustworthy (and also as “an exclamation of enthusiastic approbation”, as the big Oxford English Dictionary puts it).

If you associate it with the late P G Wodehouse, that’s because he did much to popularise it, having presumably picked it up during his school days at Dulwich in the last years of the nineteenth century. He seems to have used it first in Something Fresh in 1915: “‘She isn’t going to sue me for breach?‘ ‘She never had any intention of doing so.’ The Hon. Frederick sank back on the pillows. ‘Good egg!’ he said with fervour.” But Wodehouse was pipped to the post in the literary immortality stakes by Rudyard Kipling, in his book Traffics and Discoveries of 1904.

'Good egg' was at first just a humorous inversion of 'bad egg', which is also public-school slang, but from half a century previously. A 'bad egg' was as thoroughly nasty a person as the literal bad egg was unpleasant to encounter.

The matter became more convoluted the following morning, when John Denham wrote to the Guardian saying that he had checked most carefully and had established that there was no list of banned words in the police force. The Guardian report hadn’t said there was, but that officers could face a charge of breaching the codes on tolerance if anyone complained, a more subtle form of control that requires officers to self-censor every word (and yet still leaves them open to frivolous or malicious complaints)..."

 

[GoofyDad869]

Public service announcement:

Eat a good chicken cordon bleu sandwich in the near future. Your tummy will thank you.

Peace, out
G-dawg

 

[GoofyDad869]

Yes, I am bored.

 

[Squidrific]

Groovy-cool! We have AKV reservations confirmed for our October trip. I can't wait. We're on the "early June & mid October" trip routine every year - hopefully we can add a consistent March visit too. And then once we kick the kids out of the house (10 years or so away) we can go down for long weekends and such.

We will be there for the 19th only of Oct., but will return Feb 5-10.

 

[GoofyDad869]

We will be there for the 19th only of Oct., but will return Feb 5-10.

One day trip? What is THAT madness?! We'll be there the week before.