P.O.T.C. On Stranger Rides! The Missing Chapter,,Final Thoughts,, Preview Thoughts.

So freaking gross! The fact that you could actually see something on your arm, that it was more than just saliva (gag) made me want to heave when reading it. Sadly I was eating an Edy's coconut fruit bar while reading it and before going on (thanks to your warnings) I stepped away from the computer, ate the bar, then went back and finished the story. Thanks god I did!!

Reminds me of an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond where someone sneezes squared into Raymond's face in an airport restroom. He goes home and tells his wife and starts acting sick. She infers that he's faking and being dramatic and in the very end the doc calls and tells him he has Strep Throat and she feels awful.

Jay
 
Which is odd, 'cause listening to her talk can drive you to drink.

She still has the strangest facial features the way they work together,,, Pixar does a better job of making a face seem realistic then she does when she talks or sings.




Maybe if they have enough CMs put on a show like that people will stop using fastpasses after the time window?

Nah.

I will still take what they give me



:scared1: Who in their right mind needs to go on TSM so badly that they'll wait 2 Hours +?????? I'd hesitate if the line was more than half an hour, let alone two! :sad2:

No idea. I wanted to peek in the regular standby line side to see what it looked like, cuz it wasn't all backed up outside, but I couldn't get that close,,, and the fastpass entrance is all by itself until you join back up, then you can't tell what you aren't seeing.

Dum De Dum Dum.
Dum De Dum Dum Duuuuuuummmmm

Yes, I had to sing it,,,,, C-D-Eflat-C, C-D-Eflat-G, works best.
Yes, I just ran downstairs to verify this on the piano, I
always have to make sure that my facts are well researched before I post them as news.


Sorry, dude. It's like a car accident. You know it ain't gonna be pretty... but you just can't look away. Especially if there's a cop encouraging you to look by chanting his mantra: "Nothing to see here!"

Yep, we know for sure then that there is an uncounscious naked young woman hanging our of her convertible that the cop doesn't want us to see.

It's time for my own "Uh Oh".


Dr. No! Not on my arm!
From My Nose, With Love
Goldfinger Digging in My Nose
Sneezing Loud as a Thunderball
You Only Live Twice... Before You're Sprayed, and After
On Her Majesty's Secret Snot Service
Diamonds are Forever and So Is This Snot on My Arm
Sneeze and Hope to Die
The Kid with the Golden Explosive Nose
The Spy Who Loved Me So Much He Had To Give Me His DNA as a Souvenir
Moonraker, Snotsprayer
For Your Arm Only
Octo-lieber! My Arm!!
A View of My Arm
The Living Daylights Scared Out of Me by a Ten Year Old's Nose
Licence to Kill... If Only I Had One
GoldenEye, RunnyNose
Tomorrow Never Dies, But I Died Inside a Little Today
The World Doesn't Have Enough Kleenex
Sneeze Another Day... and NOT On My Arm!
Casino Royale Facial Tissue
Quantum of Solace That I'll Never See That Kid Again

Wow and wow, and I mean it, I know that took a lot of time to do,, here's why I am saying uh oh.

I didn't want to give it away just yet, and I said I'd get back to it a bit later, and with all the fun I had yesterday, I totally forgot about doing that,,,, but like I said, it was no big deal,,, you went and way surpassed me.

I was just going to maybe name the chapter "Dr. Nose",
( and here's the one you missed that will make you do a self inflicted forehead smack)

by my favorite author, Ian Phlemming. I always look for a reason to have to mention my favorite 007 movie with my favorite Bond girl, Ursula Undress.
"Underneath the mango tree my honey and me, we wait for the moon."

And no, don't mention the name of Goldfinger's pilot again, unless you say "Lotsa Kitties", and you never did explain it to Orangecats2, did you?



Could be worse, could be an O'Leary convention... you (the author) being from Chicago and all.

If I remember right, and it was a long time ago, there was also ANOTHER really big fire at the same time in Wisconsin, pretty sure it was also in '71, and burned up either a lot more ground, or caused a lot more deaths, or a lot more something,, but they didn't have a stupid cow to blame it on so Chicago's Fire got all the press and made for tv specials.



our president? I've got my union president. Is that who you mean? But then he wouldn't be our president either. Hmmm... Nope. Ya lost me already. :rolleyes1

sorry, I meant "precedent" and the bad one I am setting with all the disgusting snot talk.

You weren't kidding when you said you were gonna milk this one... :sad2:

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:lmao: Generally speaking, isn't Randy also a confederate of his?

Stop it

Man, She's been old forever!



I watch too much American TV... but then again, that's where all the good shows are.

:scared1:I can't believe you just said that in public, wow.



No, actually I'm gobsmacked! (like your arm was (I read ahead (that's how I knew about the arm (in case you were wondering (or whatever)))))

For some reason, I've always like the word/phrase, gobsmacked, but I don't think I've ever used it.


Nope... not that old. Do you really remember a show from 1966??

Wow, you are asking me if I remember Stan Mikita, Bobby Hull, who went and played for your Jets, Glenn Hall, Doug Jarret, LOU LOU LOU Angotti,,, believe me, I could go on for a lot longer....

I can't possibly top the Calvin picture that winkers put up. Which was awesome by the way. Does anyone know a better comic strip then Calvin and Hobbes? Of course not... 'cause there isn't one.

(If you said "The Far Side" I'll give you points for trying)

Well, it finally happened, we disagree on something,,, none of the locals papers we get have Calvin and Hobbs, so I really can't talk and give my views on that strip.
I did use to be a fan of the Far Side though,,, but right now my favorite strip is probably "Pearls Before Swine", it's one of the strangest ones out there,,,, well,,, there you have it. I like it when once in a while the cartoonist depicts the kids from Family Circus as pushers or prostitutes. He dows that to a lot of other strips, and I have a feeling he's not too popular at Cartoonist's Conventions. His name is Stephan Pastis.


Sorry, nothing is that short.

I really, really, hate Paris,,, and all the Kardashians,, people that are famous for being famous,,,,, at least Lohan did a few performances that were quite good before she joined the "Look at me" ranks.

Hah! I knew it! Ya gotta be quick in these situations. A quick tap on the shoulder, "But don't turn this way, kid. Actually, your mom wants you to look her in the eye the next time you sneeze... just in case your eyes pop out... it happens sometimes."

You are right, and I wasn't,, quick that is, not then I wasn't. Sometimes there's this little tiny button up there in my brain that says not to look for the worst in people, to "give them a chance".

Right!





Now I'm feeling sick... Look away! Look away! "Nothing to see here, folks." D'oh!



Did you ever read the chapter of our lunch at Columbia Harbour House and the Human Volcano? No, I don't believe you did, it was before you came on duty,,,, oh, you would like it.


Egad!

yes, I just love that,, aghast, agape and agog, again. They work so well together.


de-bugered: To remove nasal discharges from a personal surface while refraining from revisiting lunch.

All told, no, I don't think even your own family member's disgusting bodily fluids are acceptable. I do understand a bit what Buzz was saying if it's your own kids it's not as bad, and that's true although it doesn't make sense to me, but I'm a person that has never found "boogies" to be cute, in the slightest little bit

Awww... Well considering what you just went through (Hereafter referred to as: what no man (or woman) should have to endure.) I'll let it slide...

down your arm...

drip...

great, now I'm making myself sick.


::yes:: I could not for the life of me figure it out. At first I thought, "Well, he knows where the camera is and is mugging for it." But I defy anyone to be able to do that on that ride.



:lmao: That's funny! Wonder what others seeing the picture thought you were doing.

What made me feel really stupid is that I'm sitting next to the girl who made sure I didn't fall on my face getting in the car,,, and now I'm looking like I'm trying to pick up transmission from a Close Encounter of a Weird Kind.

Thanks for the chapter! :goodvibes
yeah,, ditto,,, uh oh, that sounded too much like Ghost, didn't it?

So freaking gross! The fact that you could actually see something on your arm, that it was more than just saliva (gag) made me want to heave when reading it.

See Something? Oh boy, yeah, this wasn't just your little bit of "overspray" , this was the Full Monty, hooked up to the nearest fire hydrant!

Sadly I was eating an Edy's coconut fruit bar while reading it and before going on (thanks to your warnings) I stepped away from the computer, ate the bar, then went back and finished the story. Thanks god I did!!

Sigh, I'm getting soft in my old age,,,
in an earlier report,,,, no WAY would I have given you a pre-emptive warning like that.
Crap, I'm losing it.


Reminds me of an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond where someone sneezes squared into Raymond's face in an airport restroom. He goes home and tells his wife and starts acting sick. She infers that he's faking and being dramatic and in the very end the doc calls and tells him he has Strep Throat and she feels awful.

Jay

Wow, don't think I have EVER seen a Raymond episode where she was actually, portrayed as the BAD one.


By the way,,, congrats on being on the Super Bowl ride once again,,, how cool for a rematch!,,,, yes, I'm jealous,, it should be a rematch from '86,,, with Fryar, and Ray Berry and the rest of them.
 
:sick:eeewwwwwwweeeee!
I feel your pain. Now that I am back in a class room that is pretty much an hourly event. My back surgeon refers to my place of employment as the petri dish.
Sorry about the tooth troubles. Those are just not fun.
Finally was able to catch up. We did go to Disneyland for a few days at the beginning of the year and that was interesting. Lance (DH) ended up needing to go to urgent care for what we thought was a severe groin muscle strain.... (you guys out there know where this is heading) After a chat at Urgent care we went home and made the appointment with the surgeon for his hernia surgery. So it has been a bit busy out here.
Hope you didn't get whatever that little beast child sneezed all over you...
 

OK, its me, Nurse ratchett! I've been pooped on, barfed all over and have seen all sorts of disgusting things you wouldn't even want to THINK about. However, and I admit this with a bit of nurse ratchett shame, phlegm grosses me out. :sick: Its the one thing I just can't really tolerate.... The worst shift of my life was when I had a similar (only grosser, I won't tell you = you'll never eat again) experience to yours and dry heaved off and on for the rest of my shift.... So, I feel your pain!
 
Nebo, just for the record, I do agree with you that bodily fluid contact from our own kids doesn't make sense, but when I think about it, the very journey of parenthood is a little like entering "The Twilight Zone".

Nebo, read the stuff below at your own risk.

Anyway, my first really gross encounter with one of the kids was when DS was about 18 months old. I dropped him off at the sitter's on the way to work and as we entered the house, he threw up grits all over me. I was covered in about a bazillion tiny grit bits and I had no change of clothes, so I had to drive back home covered in grit vomit. The sitter bathed DS and had extra clothes for him so he was good to go, but me? I reeked to high heaven! I had serious trouble not puking myself.

DH had an even worse encounter with DD on her very first trip to Disney. She caught a stomach bug, her first ever, and it was a doozy. Yes, she had already puked on me, in fact, I was in the shower when she got sick again and actually projectile vomited into DH's face, eye, and mouth! :sick:

Wanna guess what happened to DH within 48 hours? :sad2:

And I don't like snot at all, not one little bit. I cringe when kids have snot sicles. It's snot funny, snot at all. But parenthood, it isn't for sissies or the faint hearted.
 
Yes, I had to sing it,,,,, C-D-Eflat-C, C-D-Eflat-G, works best.
Yes, I just ran downstairs to verify this on the piano, I
always have to make sure that my facts are well researched before I post them as news.

Yup. Right notes.
Yup. You went overboard on the research.:rotfl:

I was just going to maybe name the chapter "Dr. Nose",
( and here's the one you missed that will make you do a self inflicted forehead smack)

D'oh! First I thought:
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But then I thought it might be more like:

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Then I thought about it some more.... and why oh why didn't I think of that? So this is more appropriate:

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by my favorite author, Ian Phlemming.

:worship: Now that's good!

I always look for a reason to have to mention my favorite 007 movie with my favorite Bond girl, Ursula Undress.
"Underneath the mango tree my honey and me, we wait for the moon."

And no, don't mention the name of Goldfinger's pilot again, unless you say "Lotsa Kitties", and you never did explain it to Orangecats2, did you?

Well, if the author is Ian Phlemming, then the character's name is Pus - y Galore.

You weren't kidding when you said you were gonna milk this one...

No! Not the cow costume picture again!

My eyes!
My eyes!

I can't believe you just said that in public, wow.

Ask any Canadian. We all know the truth. Simple matter of economics. 10 times the population = 10 times the ad revenue = 100,000 times the budget.
Budget for typical US TV Network show = $1.5million
Budget for typical CDN TV Network show = $10.50

For some reason, I've always like the word/phrase, gobsmacked, but I don't think I've ever used it.

First time for everything... that was mine.

Well, it finally happened, we disagree on something,,, none of the locals papers we get have Calvin and Hobbs, so I really can't talk and give my views on that strip.

I hope not. It stopped in 1995.


I did use to be a fan of the Far Side though,,, but right now my favorite strip is probably "Pearls Before Swine", it's one of the strangest ones out there,,,, well,,, there you have it. I like it when once in a while the cartoonist depicts the kids from Family Circus as pushers or prostitutes. He dows that to a lot of other strips, and I have a feeling he's not too popular at Cartoonist's Conventions. His name is Stephan Pastis.

Yup. I'm familiar with Pearls Before Swine. Great comic. I don't get the paper that it's in though, so I hardly ever see it.

Did you ever read the chapter of our lunch at Columbia Harbour House and the Human Volcano? No, I don't believe you did, it was before you came on duty,,,, oh, you would like it.

Nope. Still saving the old TRs for a rainy day.

What made me feel really stupid is that I'm sitting next to the girl who made sure I didn't fall on my face getting in the car,,, and now I'm looking like I'm trying to pick up transmission from a Close Encounter of a Weird Kind.

To this day, Close Encounters remains the only movie I went to see in a theater twice.
 
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:sick:eeewwwwwwweeeee!
I feel your pain. Now that I am back in a class room that is pretty much an hourly event. My back surgeon refers to my place of employment as the petri dish.
Sorry about the tooth troubles. Those are just not fun.
Finally was able to catch up. We did go to Disneyland for a few days at the beginning of the year and that was interesting. Lance (DH) ended up needing to go to urgent care for what we thought was a severe groin muscle strain.... (you guys out there know where this is heading) After a chat at Urgent care we went home and made the appointment with the surgeon for his hernia surgery. So it has been a bit busy out here.
Hope you didn't get whatever that little beast child sneezed all over you...

Hi QB, gibe your husband my sympathies,, for some cosmic reason, I don't think I have ever enjoyed a hernia, and I didn't catch anything that I know of from the Facial enema I got in the way of.

OK, its me, Nurse ratchett! I've been pooped on, barfed all over and have seen all sorts of disgusting things you wouldn't even want to THINK about. However, and I admit this with a bit of nurse ratchett shame, phlegm grosses me out. :sick: Its the one thing I just can't really tolerate.... The worst shift of my life was when I had a similar (only grosser, I won't tell you = you'll never eat again) experience to yours and dry heaved off and on for the rest of my shift.... So, I feel your pain!

to this day, the worst thing I ever was a part of is still watching the human volcano at Columbia Harbour House,,,, and it really didn't have a thing to do with me, except for my eyes having to see it happen.

Nebo, just for the record, I do agree with you that bodily fluid contact from our own kids doesn't make sense, but when I think about it, the very journey of parenthood is a little like entering "The Twilight Zone".

I know,,,, if you have kids,you've been there.

Nebo, read the stuff below at your own risk.

Anyway, my first really gross encounter with one of the kids was when DS was about 18 months old. I dropped him off at the sitter's on the way to work and as we entered the house, he threw up grits all over me. I was covered in about a bazillion tiny grit bits and I had no change of clothes, so I had to drive back home covered in grit vomit. The sitter bathed DS and had extra clothes for him so he was good to go, but me? I reeked to high heaven! I had serious trouble not puking myself.

DH had an even worse encounter with DD on her very first trip to Disney. She caught a stomach bug, her first ever, and it was a doozy. Yes, she had already puked on me, in fact, I was in the shower when she got sick again and actually projectile vomited into DH's face, eye, and mouth! :sick:

Wanna guess what happened to DH within 48 hours? :sad2:

And I don't like snot at all, not one little bit. I cringe when kids have snot sicles. It's snot funny, snot at all. But parenthood, it isn't for sissies or the faint hearted.

I knew I was going to get disgusting feedback when I posted that chapter,, so I asked for it,,, but to be honest,, I'll be glad when we can get off this topic and back on something a little cheerier, like almost dying on the highway during a tropical storm. Yeah, now those were good times!

Yup. Right notes.
Yup. You went overboard on the research.:rotfl:

Right,,,,,, "Tulee tulee loo, wha wha, wha."



D'oh! First I thought:
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But then I thought it might be more like:

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Then I thought about it some more.... and why oh why didn't I think of that? So this is more appropriate:

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Wow, that was excellent, like the Rod Stewart album, "Every Smiley Tells a Story"



:worship: Now that's good!



you know, I think there is a very small section of the brain that contains all the materials for creating dumb word puns, and I think you'll understand yourself when I say that this "Sea of Stupidity" area of the brain looks forward to the end of the trip report so it can take a break for a while


No! Not the cow costume picture again!

My eyes!
My eyes!

Do you think those udders on the costume got a workout that night? At least I didn't end up like ,,,,
hmmm,,, The Torch???? in Top Secret.


Ask any Canadian. We all know the truth. Simple matter of economics. 10 times the population = 10 times the ad revenue = 100,000 times the budget.
Budget for typical US TV Network show = $1.5million
Budget for typical CDN TV Network show = $10.50

Wait, we have ten times more people than you?
I thought walleye and muskies were granted Citizenship?


First time for everything... that was mine.

Wasnt Gobsmacked a rock/opera that came out in the seventies? Right after JC Superstar?
(see, there's that little part of the brain again that really, really needs a rest)


I hope not. It stopped in 1995.

Oh yeah, now I remember. But Doonesbury was done too, wan't it? And last tiime I was down there, it's running in the Orlando Sentinel,, or are they just that far behind they don't know it yet?

Yup. I'm familiar with Pearls Before Swine. Great comic. I don't get the paper that it's in though, so I hardly ever see it.



Nope. Still saving the old TRs for a rainy day.

Yes, yes, I know, rainy day. You know something we don't know? There's now enough saved to last your 40 days of rainy days,,,,what, you got ressies with Noah on the Wonder? And is Turkey"s Mt. Ararat on the itinerary?
no, I don't know what I'm babbling about,, this tooth,,,, or lack of it, is really bothering me,,ok, this HOLE in my mouth is really bothering me,,and i'm way over the vike limit,,,,, when they say "every 4 hours,", do they mean one handfull or two? :lmao:


To this day, Close Encounters remains the only movie I went to see in a theater twice.

Hmm, believe it or not, I have never seen the movie, I keep meaning to, it just hasn't happened.

I'm not sure, for sure, for sure, sure, but I might have seen Butch Cassidy 8 times in the theater. Yes, I liked it a lot, but back then there was only one or two theatres in walking distance,,, and the better movies stayed there a while,,,, no, way before multi-plexes,,,, so you went again,,, and again,,,,,

I also saw the double feature of Dinosaurus and Gorgo 3 times also, with movie previews,,, a cartoon,,, and a travelogue on the Mosques of Tibet!
Damn, now that's some KIND of good livin'!

ok,,, gotta leave y'all ,,, been promising to post the Mexico review on the Dining Boards Reviews, so I have to go and re read it and I'm sure it needs help before I post it.
great, way I am now, I'll probably just make it worse!
 
Do you think those udders on the costume got a workout that night? At least I didn't end up like ,,,,
hmmm,,, The Torch???? in Top Secret.

I remembered it was Nigel who got... ummm... 'romanced' in the cow suit. Looked it up and he was also called "The Torch". Good memory on that one!

Wait, we have ten times more people than you?
I thought walleye and muskies were granted Citizenship?

No. Of course not. We don't eat our citizens... well, not all of them.

Wasnt Gobsmacked a rock/opera that came out in the seventies? Right after JC Superstar?

Hah! Google "gobsmacked rock opera" and see what the first hit is.

And is Turkey"s Mt. Ararat on the itinerary?

Did they ever officially find anything up there?

Hmm, believe it or not, I have never seen the movie, I keep meaning to, it just hasn't happened.

I don't know how well it would hold up today. Back then the special effects just blew me away, much more so than Star Wars, which came out the same year.

I'm not sure, for sure, for sure, sure, but I might have seen Butch Cassidy 8 times in the theater. Yes, I liked it a lot, but back then there was only one or two theatres in walking distance,,, and the better movies stayed there a while,,,, no, way before multi-plexes,,,, so you went again,,, and again,,,,,

Great movie. Wish the ending could've been different. Re: multiplexes. Lump them in with online streaming, DVDs and 'cheap seats' theaters and I'm thinking we'll never see a "blockbuster" again. Kinda sad. I remember standing outside in a line waiting to get into the theater... but it's been a loooong time.
 
"gobsmacked rock opera"
:rotfl: Nebo is famous!

Have you seen the new discounts that came out? The ones for a percentage off the room? POFQ is not listed but all the other mods are. So we may be switching resorts if that's the only discount they will be offering.
 
You mean he's going to blow up the windmills?!? :scared1:

One of these days I'll have to check the Atlas and see where Fowler is

I remembered it was Nigel who got... ummm... 'romanced' in the cow suit. Looked it up and he was also called "The Torch". Good memory on that one!

i recently saw Val in a movie called the Traveler, I blelieve,,,,, boy oh boy,,, whatever he had when he was younger he ain't got no mo! Omar Shariff in Top Secret looked better than he does now,,,, after the car crushing scene. "Honk Honk!"




Hah! Google "gobsmacked rock opera" and see what the first hit is.

:lmao:Yep, funny,,,, talk about your "self fulfilling googleing prophecy."

Makes me wonder though now,,,, what else could say similar to that? You know what I mean?

Like,,, what if I was to say,,,,oh,,,"ThumperMan, a farm animal's friend or foe?"


Did they ever officially find anything up there?

Don't think they did, just this old Palestinian with a beard who talked funny,,, oh wait,,, that wasn't Ararat,,,,,

I don't know how well it would hold up today. Back then the special effects just blew me away, much more so than Star Wars, which came out the same year.

All I remember from the trailers was a LOT of lights.

Great movie. Wish the ending could've been different.

Actually,, it was. It was originally filmed with the two of them both getting blown away like Bonnie and Clyde, I believe,, but pre showing audiences didn't like that ending,,,

Re: multiplexes. Lump them in with online streaming, DVDs and 'cheap seats' theaters and I'm thinking we'll never see a "blockbuster" again. Kinda sad. I remember standing outside in a line waiting to get into the theater... but it's been a loooong time.

DATELINE: Winter, 1973

Myself and 3 buddies go to the movies.

Back then, the big "MUST SEES" always premiered downtown first,, and they would stay there for MONTHS before they would make it to the local theaters.
ANd then, finally, this one theater on the NW Side of CHicago got the NEW RELEASES, too, this would be the Gateway theater.

We drove in Yogi's Ford Maverick, and got to the show at 6 o'clock that night. Let me put it this way,,, we got in LINE at 6 that 0 degree winter night. We had tried the night before and gave up after waiting for an hour outside,,,but tonight they tell us we MIGHT get in for the next showing,, we did, but had to sit in the very first row, but amazingly, we all got to sit together, not that it mattered since nobody said a word the entire movie.

What was this movie you wonder?
It's still unsurpassed as the scariest horror movie ever made,,,, and that is UN arguable,,,,, The Exorcist.

That was the night I almost died,,, when 4 strapping teenagers climbed into his Maverick,, and I sat behind Yogi, the driver.
Nobody said a word,,, the movie had affected us so,,,,well,,
I finally thought enough was enough,,, and had to goof around.
In my best, Linda Blair/Devil voice, I sumultaneously put my hands around Yogi's throat lightly while saying his name in that voice,,,, "Yooo------Geeee."

His right elbow whipped around past the headrest and gobsmacked me right in the throat. Then, as I was slowly losing consciousness from lack of oxygen and gaslping like a fish out of water, he kept yelling at me while I was dying,, and how I deserved to die after doing that just now.


"gobsmacked rock opera"
:rotfl: Nebo is famous!

Have you seen the new discounts that came out? The ones for a percentage off the room? POFQ is not listed but all the other mods are. So we may be switching resorts if that's the only discount they will be offering.

fthat's not a new code, 2 kits,,, we used that to book our Coronado trip in late April,,,, but it only goes into mid June,, and I think yuou are planning a later trip if I remember right. We used that code in late November,,, unless you are talking about another new one.
 
Geesh,,, can I say that? I haven't in a long time, have I?

Well, I just started tonight working on a "dental" thing chpater,,,, and no,,, it's not going to be anything special I don't believe,,,, but either way,,, it WILL be the truth,,, and why I was acting like a fruitcake last week.

By the way, I/we, are always willing and enjoy talking Disney, and not just through trip reports, if anybody ever wants to talk through a telephone, send me a PM, I'd be glad to exchange phone numbers and make fun of your accents through real time. ;)

Hmm, maybe that's why Lexmelinda and Monymony won't talk to me anymore.


Ok,,, the mental dental story is coming up tomorrow night, it may not be a great chapter,,, but it is to me because I survived it.
 
Don't think they did, just this old Palestinian with a beard who talked funny,,, oh wait,,, that wasn't Ararat,,,

Good one! :thumbsup2 What? I smell ararat.

Actually,, it was. It was originally filmed with the two of them both getting blown away like Bonnie and Clyde, I believe,, but pre showing audiences didn't like that ending,,,

I can believe that. But I think I'd prefer the other one. Hey, it worked for Bonnie and Clyde. And women swooned (I had to use "swooned" in a sentence) for Warren Beatty almost as much as Paul Newman back then.


His right elbow whipped around past the headrest and gobsmacked me right in the throat. Then, as I was slowly losing consciousness from lack of oxygen and gaslping like a fish out of water, he kept yelling at me while I was dying,, and how I deserved to die after doing that just now.

Ya know you lose brain cells when they're deprived of oxygen, right?

That explains so much. :rolleyes1
 
Geesh,,, can I say that? I haven't in a long time, have I?

Well, I just started tonight working on a "dental" thing chpater,,,, and no,,, it's not going to be anything special I don't believe,,,, but either way,,, it WILL be the truth,,, and why I was acting like a fruitcake last week.

By the way, I/we, are always willing and enjoy talking Disney, and not just through trip reports, if anybody ever wants to talk through a telephone, send me a PM, I'd be glad to exchange phone numbers and make fun of your accents through real time. ;)

Hmm, maybe that's why Lexmelinda and Monymony won't talk to me anymore.

You read my mind! I was just the other day pondering what it would be like to talk to you on the phone. No, seriously! I will send you my number. I can't talk Disney to DH so much. :rolleyes: And I'm from NE Ohio, I talk the same as you!


Ok,,, the mental dental story is coming up tomorrow night, it may not be a great chapter,,, but it is to me because I survived it.

Can't wait for the dental story. Especially since you haven't had any accidents on this trip so far.
 
Hey, are we the only ones having a hard time using the Dis? Lately I"m lucky if I can even get ON it at all, and I cringe when I have to change pages. But every thing else seems to work just fine,,, from all the other Disney sites to expedia to whatever I think of,,, but my little wheel spins forever usually trying to move or post on the Dis,, only to end up with "This Page cannot be displayed",,,I'm wondering if it would help to go into internet settings and clear history and cookies,,,,, I just hate doing that, I usually come across a password or two then that I can't remember..
Any thoughts? Or is it happening to everybody?

Anyway, while it appears to be working right now, let's visit our medical profession once more, just don't expect a lot of laughs, I left them in the car.


I'll be totally honest with you, I don't know if this is worth telling or not, I can picture myself writing this little chapter about my life and an hour and half from now, deleting it, I guess we'll see.

Diane and I have had a hard time makin dentists like us in the past, the past being all our lives,,, mainly because we have almost never had a heatlth plan that covered dental, too, dentists don't like people that don't have insurance, we aren't near as much fun.
And people without Dental Insurance don't like Dentists who keep reminding them that they need to take care of their teeth better, yes, we know that.
But the nicest straightest whitest strongest teeth you can possibly have aren't a top priority when they are being used to open 9 Lives Seafood Platter wet food cans for our dinner when we are living in a cardboard box under the Fox River bridge.

I/we, were seeing a guy I liked a lot, whom I met doing karaoke about 14 years ago,,, but lately it seemed like things changed,,,, he went through a nasty divorce,,,,and it seemed to affect his billing policies a tad.

Sometimes you may think that your buddy is going to give you a good deal,,,,( he knows we don't have insurance, so he'll charge us less than Delta Dental,, or whatever plans there are), but after my last visit to him,, I
realized that he was thinking the exact,,,,, same,,,, thing!

"Hey, it's Nebo,,, my pal,,,,, he won't mind paying me more than I could charge a stranger,,,,,so what if he doesn't have insurance and may lose the house,,this is what friends are for, to take care of each other, besides, now my ex is going to want half of all that I have!

Which is plenty.

I actually knew a few people from the Saturday Night karaoke group who also went to him, and almost all of them say,,,, Yeah, I like Dr. Bruce,,,he's good, but he's not cheap. Well I got to thinking that maybe it's possible to have somebody for a dentist who can be Good, and Cheap.

Last March, right after we both quit smoking,,, my crown that sits smack dab right in the front of my mouth, upper, fell out again, so i went back to him to glue it back in, he was the very best at being able to find a glue that would keep it in for at least a couple of years. Most of the post is gone, not much left to really glue the dang thing TO but he's always been really good at it,,, the last glued job held for almost 5 years.

He could not understand though why it didn't really seem to fit there anymore,,, and I suggested that maybe from the quitting smoking my gums were growing back out again a bit, maybe even crowded and pushed the crown right off.

As a matter of fact,,,, I woke up with this thing floating around in my mouth, it came free in my sleep and I can't believe I didn't make it end up where son Jeremy once made Diane's Buffalo Head Nicked end up,,,,,,,you could not even read the date on it anymore,,,,, and the buffalo looked more like a guinea pig when Jeremy was done with it, but I digest:

He gave me a bit of novacaine and trimmed the gum a bit and re-glued it back in and sent me on my merry way...

but not until I handed over a check for 254 dollars at the front desk. Epson Printer's Ink doesn't cost as much as this glue does, I guess.

Sorry, I thought that was ridiculous to just glue a tooth back in, and we went and found a Dental Plan and a new Dentist.

Ok, right before the last trip,, I lost a filling in a tooth but I didn't realize it at first, until the tooth started to break and chip away, this tooth was way, way, in the back,,, I thought it might be a wisdom tooth,,, but even though it was the last tooth,,, it wasn't a wisdom because that was still underneath, hibernating in my gums.

I know, I know, how could I be so stupid when it comes to wisdom? I know, I know, my tongue was blocking my Eye teeth and I couldn't see. My bicuspids went 100% gay. I'm leaving my pointy, "Dracualy Fangs" teeth to both ballplayers, Al Kanine and Jeff Canine,,,,and one last blurt,,
I once was on a bowling league and a team was sposored by a larged dentristry,,,, Yes,,, The Holy Molars were hard to beat.

I made an appointment on a friday to go see the new guy to have that damn thing pulled, we were leaving for Disney a week from Sunday, so If I'm going to do this, it better be soon.

And i couldn't.

New Dentist said this needs to be pulled by an oral surgeon, it's not going to come out easily and they are better equipped with causing a plentifull plethora of pain than he is.
It's nice they think of each other.

He referred me to another new guy, wrote me out a 12 pill prescription for Tylenol 3 and a script for Penny Cyllen.

Yes, to me the Tylenol 3 are like giving Sonny Corleone a band aid and a "kiss kiss make it all better," at the toll booth.

I have seen an oral surgeon once before inmy lifetime, and not way I am going to do this right before a trip, so I hoped it would settle down and my regular vikes would keep it at least in line.

The other time I saw an OS, he put me to sleep,, and I just hated it. First off, I woke up with them all laughing at me,,,,I remember the nurse asking me how long I lived in Algonquin as they were administering the sodium petathol,,,and I got confused for a moment,,, then I said,, oh, sorry,,, 4 and a half years now,, that's what cracked the doctor and two assistants up. ?

Turns out they asked me the question BEFORE I went under,,, they then pulled the tooth and did what they had to do and brought me back out of it,,,,,,but my stupid braind felt the need to still answer the question,,, not knowing it's almost 20 minutes later now.

Then in recovery room, I just hated everything just then,, it was all bothering me, expecially this huge piece of cotten in my mouth, and I tried to pull it out, when Smidgy started yelling,,,, "Steve, Steve, leave your tongue alone! Let go of it."

Anyway, I'm not going to have this done right before a trip,,,hopefully it will settle down,,, the anti biotics should help,,, and I never did call the Oral Surgeon,,,, I'll do it when we get back.

Well,,, that was the one good thing that DID happen on that trip,, I can just imagine what might have happened if I had a bad toothache while we tried to get to Florida with the car falling apart on us in the tropical storm,,,, oy vey


Since then it hasn't really bugged me much,,, until a few weeks ago when my tongue told me I'm missing more of it.

That did it all right,,next morning, boy did it start hurting,( I wish my tongue would keep it's big mouth shut!) once my tongue felt the hole in my mouth getting bigger, then it had to play with another little piece that was sticking up,,,, until it broke that off as well.

I even tried to show it to Smidgy,,, but she had no interest in even looking at it,, she was more interested in saying,,," I told you these things don't go away, they only get worse,,,"

But now I don't want to have it pulled with her cataract surgery around the corner,,, and if they have ot put me under to pull it like my other experience with the oral surgeon,,, then she will have to drive me,, I can't go and do it on my own,,, so I put it off a little longer because she has re-arranged everything to accomodate the surgery,, and subsequent follow up visits.

Finally, I called and made an appointment, but this guy wants me to bring with some x-rays,,, and "why don't you just drive over there and pick them up?"

Ok, ok, fine, and that's exactly what I did.
Next thing I know I'm sitting in a chair as they are sticking big bulky things in my mouth trying to make me throw up,,, taking pictures, the original dentist thought with further breakage, more recent photos would be better.

Then I had to go and stand in this really strange machine that circled around my head and i guess took even more pitures..

I was told to go and sit in the chair again,,,and Dentist number one came back in and now gave me a shot in the jaw for the pain,,,, I couldn't believe this,,,, I just stopped in to pick up the old ex rays they took back in August,,, and now my mouth and lips are numb and I'm practicing my drooling down my chin act, which is always very becoming.

I even told him that this is the " Last time I stop in and say hi", which got a laugh from him and his assistant, then I was finally sent on my way with new tooth pictures and more Penny Cillen and fake painkillers scripts. Yes, he said it was really abcessed, infected, and he's surprised I'm not screaming more than I was about the pain.

But he wouldn't let me go with out saying something I swear I have heard before,,,"I told you these things don't go away on their own, they only get worse."

When I had made the appointment with the oral surgeon,,
of course the only opening was for the next tuesday,,, the day I go for my retinal exam,,, so I had to put that off till thursday,,, 2 pm. They said if they think they can do it under local,, they will pull it then, if not then I'll have to set it up for a time when I have a ride.

Now,,, it's time to get to the problem,, real,, or imagined,,, irrelevant, it was still a problem.

When Doc 1 gave me the shot the other day,,, I noticed on the way home that breathing seemed strange to me,,,in
the sense that breathing was all I could think about,,,

and then I remembered:

I had that tooth filled about 5 or 6 years ago by the other dentist that I stopped seeing recently,,,, and it is the last tooth on the bottom right.

When I was driving home that day after he drilled, cleaned and filled it with plenty of shots of novacaine,,that was when I discovered that mortality can be right around the corner.

I couldNOT breathe.
I had to pull the car over,,, it seemed like my whole throat was closing up and the novacaine hadnot only frozen my gums, lips and tongue, but also parylized my muscles controlling breathing in my throat..

It scared the hell out of me.

I remember even opening the car door, If I need to I may have to just fall out the door and lay on the ground to get some help,,,,I had no idea what else to do and I just sat there on the side of the road,,, in-hal-ing,,,,,, ex-hal-ing,,,still in the driver's seat, but turned sideways with both feet out the door ready to drop,,,,I could then see nothing,,, the whole world went "white" on me,,, I could't see ten feet in front of me.

And that's how I sat for the next 20 minutes,,, nobody pulled over to ask what's up,,,, slowly my vision returned and breathing became an unconscious event again, rather than drawn up as critical plays on a chalkboard and "Ok, we all need to
be on the same page for this to work!"

I had not thought of this since it happened in about 2005 or so. I meant to ask Dr. Bruce about it, but I didn't see hm for another 3 years or so, and forgot all about it.

Ok, flash back now to '94,,We'll end up back with the Troglodytes yet,,even though it's not common for guys,,,, I suffered from MAJOR panic attacks,,, to the point that I was even made to undergo an Angiogram,,, the camera up the groin's artery into the heart for a home video of the four quadrants of the heart. Turned out my heart was ok,,, my brain, wasn't.

My collection of stress was exceeding the room I had to store it, no more room even in the attic so once in a while, some would fall out or show up in a box when I didn't expect it.
Anxiety attacks are bad,,,, but they are nothing,, I repeat, nothing compared to a full blown panic attack.

I don't know if I had a panic attack or not that day I had the tooth filled,, for some reason I never thought of it,,,but I do know I had the worst, absolutely the worst, Panic Attack I EVER had, about a month ago,,, that lasted over 2 hours. In the past,,, in the nineties, they might last as long as ten minutes,,,,, this one was for over 2 hours,,,,, and I had nothing I could take for it,,,,and the Painkillers absolutely made it worse. So here I am, back in the present.

So, was it my mind messing with me back when this tooth was filled 6 years ago? Or was I really suffering from a type of reaction causing anaphylactic shock? Which is your throat swelling and closing up resulting in death by suffocation?

I don't understand how you cannot control these types of thought,,, but uh uh,,,, you know you are going to die,,, and that's it,, nothing at all you can do about it.

I walked into the OS office that was completely empty except for a girl behind a window, who handed me the New York City Yellow Pages to fill out, the book she gave me was blank. Then another woman with a mask on came and put me in a regular type dental room.

After taking my blood pressure, she left and I think she mumbled someting like, "Have a good life."

Although this room is very bright like most dental offices are, and it's got all the trays, spittoons and swing arms it also seems like it's an afterthought room, not the main room, kinda like you were going to be playing "Off Broadway"

I mean there's a small monitor on a cart,,, but it's plugged in, the screen has clouds on it,, but no keyboard in sight, or puter for that matter.

Then there is a Rollaway Craftsman tool chest,,, the five drawer typed that I have seen often n my 35 years as a machinist,,,,, but you know what? I don't think I've ever seen one in a Dental Office before.

McHenry County Oral Surgeons, Dentists and Mufflers and Brakes! All work guaranteed for 90 days or thirty thousand chews.

Thankfully, I brought with, a newspaper, to read.

Uh oh, I'm doing that dangerous talking backward almost that results in dangling participles, you know,,, the " Throw
Momma from the train, a kiss."

But I mostly just sat there and stared, I could not concentrate on the paper, even the orange juice adds.
(Sometimes you can see it coming and you have to head Ponzi off at the pass)

20 minutes later the door burst open and it was the assistant again,,, I jumped and she saw I jumped since there was no way it wouldn't scare the crap out of you the way she did it,,,,and I guess that was her whole mission right then,,, to scare the crap out of me cuz she patted me n the shoulder, said, "We didn't forget about you Steve," and left again.

By now I dont feel like going back to the paper, so I pulled back the paper towels covering up the tray on the 'swing-arm' that is holding all his instruments of pain and torture, and, of course, as I was looking at all these shiny stainless steel hooks, blades, mirrors, scribers, scalpels and Ginseng knives,,,, the door quietly opened up and I could feel him standing over me;

"Hello, what are you doing?"

Leaning over this tray, caught dead to rights I even have my glasses off so I can see these disciples of death better, I just looked up over my shoulder at him without jumping back:

"Oh, hi, I'm just removing the ones I don't like."

He looked at me for a second before he realized I was joking, and it was then that Nebo the Paranoid got to meet
Dentist the Menace. Yeah, right now is the first time I have even seen him at all.

He started going over some of the paperwork I filled out,,,and I really felt I needed to bring up the throat closing thing to him.

This really got his attention,, which I didn't want to see happen.
I just wanted hm to poo poo it,, say there's nothing to worry about and shall we resume?

He did say that if I was allergic to this medicine,, and it was anaphylactic shock then he doubts I would be sitting there right now waiting to have this tooth pulled,,,,,,
if you get my drift.

I tolk him, ok,,,let's say it is just in my mind,,,do you have
anything you can give me,,, like a valium,,, ativan,, xanax,
something that will get rid of the anxiety and take that equation out of this little scenario?

He laughed like it was the dumbest thing he had ever heard.
"No,,I either work with you awake under local,, or asleep,,
one or the other."

Right, fine. He deals with drugs that will knock you out,,
but something that will make you less nervous before he cuts into you? Oh my God no!

Right, fine,,,,my heart was already pounding,, and I felt another panic attack was right around the corner,,, but I was here,,, and I just had to go through with it.

For the record on a side note,,,,, I had not had anxiety problems for over ten years,,,, and it was such a relief to get off that medication,,,,, especially the anti depressants that I never wanted to take,,,, but I had to if i wanted the pills that would keep the panic attacks from coming.

So,,, what do I think has brought them back?
I've got a good idea.

You don't take away something a person has done 50 times a day ever since they were 15 without there being some rebellion from the brain, and it's not just the nicotine, it's the whole mind set.

So he shot me a few times,, then left, saying it will take ten to fifteen minutes for the medicine to numb my jaw,,, or kill me, whichever came first.

I'm sorry,,, I know it may sound that way, but I am not,,not in the slightest, a hypochondriac. Yes,, I joke alot about injuries and stuff for the reports, but that's all just for snorts and giggles.

Sitting there by myself though, I felt like I was waiting to die. Go ahead, try not to think about breathing in a situation like this.

But there was one reason I gave him the green light to go ahead;

I had anticipated his response before I left home, and I stil had 4 Ativans left from an old prescription,,,, I had brought one of them with me,,,, the trick was finding this thing in my pocket,,,,you wouldn't believe how teeny tiny these pills are.

When the door closed, I leapt up and started fishing for the pill,,,got a hold of it and swallowed it and thought, "Ok,
I may still die but at least I hope I won't be as nervous about doing it now.

No, I didn't want him knowing I took it,,, not sure why but you just never know if that might offend him or not.

When he came back in with his delightfull assistant who would have been right at home playing Jason in a Friday the 13th movie, they were both wearing masks, but she didn't have the hockey mask on.

He did.

Ok, I'm kidding, after a few tentative pushes and pulls,, he really went at it.
They pried my left side of my mouth open with a bumper jack, then he told me to raise my left hand if I feel any discomfort.

I raised my left hand.

They both laughed,,, and went back to work while I thought "yeah, right, this'l work."

Alright, let me put this simply,,,
this tooth had no intention of moving out.

He told me in the beginning that he agreed with the regular dentist, it needed tp be pulled and about a quarter of it was already gone, including that filling from 6 years or so ago.

I thought he was pushing with all his might to break it up,,
but later on he told me that what he was actually doing was trying to "pry" it up,,,which meant he had to push down on the sides tp pry up the tooth in the center.

But it kept breaking up.

He would then have to use the grinder and grind in a couple of new "notches" that he could then use the tools I was going to remove from the tray to try and pry up the tooth again.

But the sound effects of the breaking and crunching and all the pressure he was exerting was extremely disconcerting to me,,,,, and it hurt like hell,,,,, but I didn't want to tell him that in case he would then administer the fatal novacaine dose that would lock up my throat for good.

So I sat there while he beat me up.

He did say again to let US know if you need us to stop,,,,by raising , and I chimed right in with him,,,"BLY REVT HAM!"
Apparently I speak good Instruments of Death, because he told me very good, and went back to work.

I keep wondering who he refers to when he keeps saying Us,,,,he's the only one doing anything,,, Baby Jane appears to only be there to suck spit.

This tooth did not want to come out.

He swung me from side to side in the chair, everyonce in a while he would pause just long enought to turn the screw on the vice grips a little more,,, and then he would be pounding me up and down in the chair again.

One time he had me totally suspended about 6 inches in the air abouve the seat before he threw me back down, then it was yank back to him, shove forward, yank back to him, shove forward,,,, I didn't think I could take it anymore, and instead of the Universal sign of distress by holding my left hand up,,, I gave the other Universal sign of distress by screaming in his ear, and he paused and told spit sucker to hang on a moment.

Oh yeah,, now that was important,,, hate to have her waste her valualbe training and resources and try to suck spit for no reason right now,,,, then he yanked out the bumper jack from the left side of my mouth that keeps the whole mouth open,,,, and he's not thinking,,,, he just yanked it out but on this side there was no Novacaine given on this side,,,,,, and wanna take it easy?

Then he asked me what the problem was,,,,
I knew right then I had to finish this today,,, I really was considering stopping this and coming back,,,, but uh uh, it's now or never.

I told him I thought I was going to sneeze,,, nope, not giving him the pleasure and even said to spit sucker, "Resume"

Two minutes later he got the damn thing, quick stitches and gauzing up and I was out the door.

Cost?
278 total,, I guess that's not bad since he's not just a dentist but a step us.

I was shaking like crazy when I filled out the check,, but all the time behind me is now a jam packed waiting room,, and since I don't plan on ever going here again,,,, I had to play it up a bit.

What was cool was I said something that cracked the dentist up before we left the room, just when a girl at the counter came in with all the paperwork, but she was wondering what it was that made him laugh like that.

Unfortunaely for the people in the waiting room,,, they didn't hear that part about laughing,,, all they heard was what was said to me through the little open window again before i settled my bill.

"Wow, I"ve never seen him like that, what did you say to set him off that way?"

I looked around the room that is now giving me its' rapt attention,,,,"Nothing, honest, it's just a mood he's in today, i guess, sorry about that, BOY, Hate TO BE HIS NEXT PATIENT!" And she chuckled a bit,,,,but there was no chuckling in the waiting room.

So, there you have it,,, and at the tme of this writing,,, which is 8 monday night,,,, dang,,,, this thing still hurts!
 
We have also been turned down 'cuz of Fuzzies at Canada because Celine Dion doesn't drink,,

Umm Queen Celine doesn't drink? Have you seen the guy she married?? I'm just sayin' that you gotta be slippin something into your water bottle to hitch up with a guy about 100 years older than you!

Then again, maybe that's when she stopped?? The hangover that won't go away.:confused3

BTW - I am finally caught up. I usually manage a couple of pages a day during my lunch break, but at one point the pages were piling up at least twice as fast as I could read. Talk about popular - you sir, are a master!!

So about the "M" - I have a very distinctive name. If you were to google it you would find - ME! Well and an artist from the 1800's. That's why I don't give my whole name. When I do, I am VERY identifiable.

So the quandry is, what name to use for the "M". I know you need something...

Well, in highschool I had the nickname "MoJo" but only the girls called me that, so it's out for you. I worked as a bartender through college, and one of my managers nicknamed me "Manny" never really liked that either - too European. My niece says that her phone keeps changing my name to "uncle Nimrod" when she texts me. Hmmm - not an "M" but a King from Biblical times and a good military tradition.

I don't really like any of them that much. I'll leave it to you (or the Neboites) to come up with a good nickname. For now, just I'll just keep it "M" - kind of like the head of MI-5 in Ian "Phlemming's" novels.
 


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