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

[jakeybake]

Merry Christmas to all my friends here! I hope everyone had a nice, relaxing day!

Jay

 

[Sandy Mouse]

Well it's over for another year. My family all had a great Christmas, except those who were tazed.
I hope all my Nebo-ite friends had a wonderful holiday.


Sandy

 

[dwheatl]

My family all had a great Christmas, except those who were tazed.
Sandy

I have to admit, that's a gift I hadn't thought of.

 

[nebo]

Well it's over for another year. My family all had a great Christmas, except those who were tazed.

Sandy

I can't wait to hear what happens New Year's!

 

[cp'ersmom]

Hope everyone enjoyed their holiday. I just want to thank Nebo for the wonderful gift of laughter that you have given me over the past few months! So excited I just decided to take a quickie to the World!! Going on the 7th for just a few nights but I'm happy to enjoy a little R&R no matter how short.

 

[pkondz]

Our wedding anniversary is next Thursday , so I guess 27 years is the rubber anniversary? No untoward comments, please

So excited I just decided to take a quickie to the World!!

You people are killing me! Family board, family board, family board... keep it clean... family board, family board, family board, family ....

BTW, haven't forgotten the last chapter. Work in progress, stay tuned.

 

[Sandy Mouse]

I can't wait to hear what happens New Year's!

In videos of the incident(s) you can hear my daughter saying "No, you can't do the dogs."

 

[pkondz]

Tell me, am I the only one scared to death to touch a light switch with wet hands?

Two things.
1. Go ahead. Don't worry about it. You'll be fine.
"Mommy, I really like Grandma and Grandpa's Christmas tree. It's so bright and shiny!"
"No dear, that is Grandpa. He just turned on the disposal with wet hands again. He'll stop glowing when the fuse blows."

2. My DDad has worked all his life as a carpenter/contractor/renovater/you name iter. He took his old bungalow and made it into a two story with attached garage and sun room. Anyway, on the 'new' second floor he also built a bathroom with shower. Very nice. All dark woods and white tiles in the shower... with a dome light in the shower on the ceiling. For real excitement, I encourage you to touch that light fixture while you're showering. Not recommended for people who have pacemakers or a will to live. Yes I've been zapped. Not a fun feeling.

In 1978, a famous actor appeard in a low budget horror movie that turned out to be a huge franchise hit. His name
is William Shatner, world famous Canadian.

Never heard of him.

The movie is Halloween.

I want to know what role he played in the movie.

Go for it.

So GrandBob's already answered. But I had no idea.

We took a table, then she opened up the dreaded Yahtzee.
I've told you she always beats me, right?

I read this and at first I thought that I should encourage you to file a police report. But then I thought some more and decided you probably need a good beating every now and then… or more frequently as required.

I don't get it, the game is a combination of a little skill with math and odds and numbers, and a lot of luck.

But Diane doesn't need the skill part, she doesn't even need the top half bonus, heck, she barely needs to keep her own score, she'l usually still win by throwing Yahtzees.

Some people seem to be more lucky than others. Apparently Diane is one of those people… at least when it comes to Yahtzee. I used up all mine in grade 4. We were playing bingo. The prize was a piece of a chocolate bar. We played until the bar was all gone. I think I won 4 out of 6 times. If only I’d kept that luck for later. Lotto anyone?

However, I knew my skill with numbers and grasp of the odds would pay off eventually, right? Tonight I was determined. I was the little Nebo that could!

If you flip a coin 50 times and it lands on heads 50 times in a row, what are the odds that on the 51st flip it will be heads again? (think carefully about this, it’s not what it seems)

Holy cow, this doesn't happen to me, ,, I couldn't write that big 5-0 in there fast enough.

Please, no more reminders of the cow costume picture!

Smidgy was morose.

More or less a rose… check.

I wasn't quite sold yet, I still played with a cautious reserve. I also played with my Canadian Reserve, but that's ....something else, again.

What a fool I am.

Nice to see you finally accepting what we all knew all along.

I told her if I were you, I'd take a five on the ones, "That's how I'd play," but she wasn't buying it.

Funny how people won’t take good advice when it suits you, isn’t it?

By now I had mentally given up,

I’m sorry, what do you mean by “By now”?


Ooh. I’m just super snarky today, aren’t I? Must be from lack of sleep and total exhaustion. Yeah, that’s my excuse.

But I still needed my large straight:
I also needed two fingers, straight, but that I could take car of.
( see above, Canadian Reserve)

Check.

I GOT IT! Got the large straight. This could be close, really close, her turn;

One roll, 5 fours otherwise known as Yahtzee.

I can just picture your face when she rolled it and the look you must’ve given her!

Again.

Alas and alack, I was aghast, agape and agog!
Again.

Agreed.

I gave up. Actually it was over for me anyway.
That was also when we really wern't sure how this worked with multiple Yahtzee scoring:
by putting the numbers in the extra Yahtzee boxes she now has empty boxes on top that never got filled up.
I think we assumed that with each extra Yahtzee you would get a turn to go for what you are still missing.

It’s probably never come up before.
Creator of Yahtzee, “So, what happens if somebody keeps throwing Yahtzees?”
Co-creator, “Nah, don’t worry about it. Nobody’s ever going to throw more than one in a game.”

Obviously they’ve yet to meet Smidgy.

This is no photoshop, she is standing on the top of the water!

I could just cry now. I so want my Photoshop back up and running. Cute pic of Smidgy though.

She then said the funniest thing;

"Do you want to play again?"

Funny! Kind of like when Hitler asked, “Hey! Anyone want to go to Poland?”

Don’t mention the war!!

Will you stop talking about the war?
Me! You started it!
We did not start it!
Yes you did — you invaded Poland.

"Actually, I'd prefer to find somebody here at the pool to give me a shot in the eye instead."

Ah! So that’s how it started. Shots in the eye are like chips, betcha can’t have just one!

I had left my bionic ears up in the room cuz we were probably going to swim and I don't need hearing aids to hear Diane scream out, "Yahtzee",

Sort of like salt in the wound, no?

but she had heard something from the folks sitting at the, our, table that may or may not have come into play the next morning.
(yes, sometimes I specialize in convoluted run-on sentances.)

Oh, no, not at all. I think, or should I say, I know that what you mean to say or intimate or otherwise indicate in a verbal or non-verbal way, may or may not have a bearing on actual events real or otherwise that may or may not occur at a time that is either near or distant depending on your cosmological outlook pertaining to the time continuum in which we may or may not currently or historically or sometime in the future reside.

Makes perfect sense to me.

It got dark,

Some day, some visitor is going to trip and fall in the evening and sue Disney for allowing it to get dark at night. Don’t believe me? Surely you’ve heard/read about visitors complaining about Disney letting it rain in MK?

And don’t call me Shirley.

I thought about going to the pool bar and buying her a fancy drink, she had been so good all day, going along with everything, but luckily, something distracted me and it looked like it was closed when I looked again.

So how long did you have to distract yourself until the pool bar finally closed? You didn’t have to play Yahtzee again, did you?

But first, apparently another huge mass murder/suicide took place with the love bugs on our balcony today, and we had to sweep them all over to our neighbor's again.

I kind of glanced underneath, and our old pile was still there, maybe the room is vacant?

Or maybe, a more squeamish tenant took one look out on the balcony and screamed, “I’m not going out there! Look at the huge pile of dead bugs! KEEP THAT DOOR CLOSED!!! Maybe if they’re gone tomorrow, I’ll go out, but not until they’re all gone.”

I'm going to get to more of that a bit later, but in the meantime, while we are enjoying our drinks before we go down to have dinner at Mara,

Mara? Did you say ‘Mara’?? Do you know what they sell at Mara???

I want to get to something
that I can tell has many of you disappointed, and that's me.

Well, that’s true. You do disappoint.

Mainly, the fact I haven't been bleeding yet.

Oh yeah. That too.

Or vomitting, squeezing cheeks, lying unconscious, rolling in pain, holding my crotch, arm, head, ,,, foot, back,,,whatever body pary you wish,,,I have been relatively
unscathed so far this trip.

What the heck does ‘squeezing cheeks’ mean? No! Wait! I take it back! I don’t want to know!

And I know it saddens many of you.

Well, yeah, actually it kinda does.

I know, before there was Tebowing, there was Nebo-ing, which unfortunately always involved pain, that only I could feel. There have beeb others whos backs have gone out and said they were "Neboing", but the pain is usually all mine.
(well, unless you were Japanese, like an old man or a little girl, again, really sorry about that.)

Hmmm… trying to find the pun here. I’m trying to think of ‘Neboing’ with a Japanese accent but it’s just not happening.

Anyway, so here we are heading into the home stretch of this trip,

No!

well, ok, I over exaggerated that, not really the home stretch yet,,,

Phew!

I apologize for that, but what can I do, I'm just the reporter? I can't just make stuff up to please the Colliseum!

So basically you’re waiting for a thumbs down from the readers (and yes I know about the thumbs up vs down controversy)

Although, with some of you hungry vultures waiting for blood, I think the Romans treated the Christians with more courtesy before feeding time.

Why do I have this vision of Nebo stumbling around a dark gladiatorial floor, blindly just missing pitfalls and traps. The crowd grows restless. “Release the lions from AK!”

But really, I would think that surviving the trip down in the tropical storm and outrunning tornados would have "sated" the beasts in all of you.

But I can tell not.

Michael Corleone: “Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in”

"American Vitals"
or

"Survivor: DisneyWorld
or

"CSI: room 5436,

or

"Mending Nebo"

or even ,

"Dancing with the Scars",

Mike and Folly
Modern Family Injuries
24… cuts
Lost … and stumbling in the dark
The Big Bruise Theory
How I Met Your ER (two for one there)
Broken Bones
American Horror Story (funny, I didn’t have to change that one at all to make it fit)
Nebo’s Anatomy
Charmed… NOT!

And just for you… M*A*S*H*E*D

Back down at Mara,

Where?

Can I donate my eyes to Newt Gingrich?

I think Newts and other nocturnal reptiles can already see better than you.

Any reall smoker will tell you, that half way through the best meal in the world, they are already thinking about having a smoke, and maybe that's why I never finished my fries before, in too much a hurry to go out and smoke.

Are you still thinking of having a smoke mid-way through a meal?

By the way, I was on the menu there yesterday, and saying that it was updated in November, the cheeseburger and fries meal I love there is listed at 11.95, both lunch and dinner. WHAT??????

It was up to 15.95 when we went there, that's why I didn't get it.

Hmmm… maybe some bright boy figured out that when you raise the price to an obscene level, people stop buying it!!!!

BTW, I heard T-Rex is now part of the dining plan. If you do it and have kids, OMG, take them over there, they will love it.

Define ‘kids’ my youngest will be 12 when we’re down next.

With that, Friday, September 16th came to a conclusion.

And here we were all hoping that it would come to a concussion.

I like nothing days, I feel like I'm getting my money's worth out of the resort then.
That's the best thing about being a DW veteran, you don't get all panicky feeling like you're missing stuff in the parks.

I wouldn’t know.

“C’mon guys! The sun’s almost up! We’ve gotta move if we’re going to make first in line to rope drop! Go! Go! Go!”
“Daddy! Mommy’s falling behind!”
“Leave her! She’ll catch up at Pizza Planet. It’s every man for himself!”

She is good at that, even when I inadvertently make it difficult for her, like going to the piano pool instead of the calypso, or, remember she had a hard time finding me at the Jamaica pool? One time at WL I said I'd meet her at the pool, and changed my mind and sat in lungers on the beach to look at the lake.

She still found me.

Lucky in Yahtzee, lucky in tracking.

This is day 3 at AKL, and after 6 days at BLT,,,,
I am sick of inside corridors!

Even though I like to sample all that Disney has to offer,
in my heart I am really a moderate, or even value, resort guy.

I hear you! We live in a climate that has snow on the ground for half the year. We live indoors all that time. It’s nice out. I want an outside corridor. Besides, I’ve read that the sound proofing for Moderates and Values is better because of the exterior hallways.

Down at the pool, first thing I notice is a big group of teenagers in the water. Turns out they were lifeguards in training.

From what I saw that morning, if you are ever in distress
in a Disney pool and need assistance:
work really, really hard on seeing how long you can hold your breath!
Or wait until you sink to the bottom of the pool, and then run, really fast to the side!

I drowned once when I was a little kid (somewhere in the neighbourhood of 3-5yrs). I shudder to think what would’ve happened if there hadn’t been a real live honest to goodness trained lifeguard there.

Sitting on the table is a solid metal, folded placard in bright red with white lettering on it, saying;

"Reserved", and I think the other side said, "For Dining".

So this is what's scaring everybody away.

I looked at it, looked around at the lack of other tables, then I looked at it again, read it again, turned it around and read the back side again, then I dropped it into the bushes next to the table.

I never would have done that. At the most I would have gone off to find a CM and asked if the table was still being reserved. If I’d tried your little stunt, DW would’ve made me fish it back out and put it back on the table.

As I was settling in, a cast member was making the rounds and walked right up to me: Uh oh, I'm in trouble I thought,

Yup. At this point DW would be, “See! I told you!” Followed by the obligatory storming off to the room. Followed by the also obligatory purchasing of zebra domes as peace offering.


Zebra domes….

When the unsynchronized swim team left I had a good 45 minutes of peace and quiet before Smidgy came down.

Hmm, maybe that didn't come out quite like it should.

Yeah, I'm still, still, not sure they fixed that valve stem, but it looked ok to me. No, I still didn't have the quizzicals to use the tire gauge on it, I should have, but I didn't.
(I know, I know, what can I say?)

I’m sure driving on the tire will be the true teste.

"Huh?" "Well, geez, of course it was left here still from last night, I heard that family talking about trying to order their dinner for here."
Then she went and put the placard on top of a garbage can that was in the second ring from the pool.

And I went to punish myself like a good, stupid Dobby should.

aka “What sound does a balloon make when deflating.”

What would really be entertaining to me now would be if she got too close to the water with a high powered WIRED microphone. I'd like to see Illuminations during the day.

How many movies can you think of that included a scene that involved a toaster or other electrical appliance and a bathtub?

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[nebo]

Hope everyone enjoyed their holiday. I just want to thank Nebo for the wonderful gift of laughter that you have given me over the past few months! So excited I just decided to take a quickie to the World!! Going on the 7th for just a few nights but I'm happy to enjoy a little R&R no matter how short.

Well thank you, nebo like compliments.
But you cant tell me you are going there without tellin where you are staying, I always want to know that, and if you liked it. Hope the weather stays as nice as it has been for you.

In videos of the incident(s) you can hear my daughter saying "No, you can't do the dogs."

Sandy, if you're not kidding, we want to hear the details, and trust me, I speak for everyone here. GIVE! You are fully knighted to give an honorary chapter about the family.
I have nothing anyway.

 

[nebo]

Ok, many thanks to Ponzi and his breakdown. I wasn't sure what was going on with my eye cuz it took a turn for the worse,,,so after being told I had to come in and see eye guy, it turned out to be nothing major. I turned out to be the boy who cried wolf, and from now on I'm not saying anything unless my eye is hanging on the side of my cheek.
Bottom line, it was too soon to do anothe injection anyway,
but I'm still all dialected, j
yes, I not only see funny, but now I talk funny too.

Two things.
1. Go ahead. Don't worry about it. You'll be fine.
"Mommy, I really like Grandma and Grandpa's Christmas tree. It's so bright and shiny!"
"No dear, that is Grandpa. He just turned on the disposal with wet hands again. He'll stop glowing when the fuse blows."

2. My DDad has worked all his life as a carpenter/contractor/renovater/you name iter. He took his old bungalow and made it into a two story with attached garage and sun room. Anyway, on the 'new' second floor he also built a bathroom with shower. Very nice. All dark woods and white tiles in the shower... with a dome light in the shower on the ceiling. For real excitement, I encourage you to touch that light fixture while you're showering. Not recommended for people who have pacemakers or a will to live. Yes I've been zapped. Not a fun feeling.


I've been zapped a couple times myself, and no, it didn't give me the power to unbutton girls blouses from a distance, but it did succeed in scaring the hell out of me.


So GrandBob's already answered. But I had no idea.

I didn't know either, I got it from Uncle John.




Some people seem to be more lucky than others. Apparently Diane is one of those people… at least when it comes to Yahtzee. I used up all mine in grade 4. We were playing bingo. The prize was a piece of a chocolate bar. We played until the bar was all gone. I think I won 4 out of 6 times. If only I’d kept that luck for later. Lotto anyone?

I'm right with you on that. I think the most I have ever won at one time is 150 dollars from a slot machine on our honeymoon cruise ship back in '78.
And even that I had to fight for with the guy running the "casino" to get my money that he tried to rip off from me. GRRR,, just thinking about it again,,, it was like the car care center thing.

If you flip a coin 50 times and it lands on heads 50 times in a row, what are the odds that on the 51st flip it will be heads again? (think carefully about this, it’s not what it seems)

Thanks a lot. This is the kind of thing where my brain collides with the side of my cranium...it hates these questions...... logic says that "it has to come up tails eventually", but mathematics says that it's still a
50- 50 possibility every time you flip the coing,,,, NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE.

or did I just walk into a trap with a "catch " punchline?



Please, no more reminders of the cow costume picture!

Yes, that was udder nonsense.



Funny how people won’t take good advice when it suits you, isn’t it?

Yes it is, I don't understand it. I've been talkinig to my bank to increase the interest rate on my checking account with interest, but they don't seem to get how it would benefit them.
Wow, what a joke that became:
I was getting 3 percent interest on my balance every month, now it's ,,, and I"m not making this up,,,
.01 percent, I think. Every other month they add a penny to our account in interest, just enough to screw up the balancing process.


I can just picture your face when she rolled it and the look you must’ve given her!

The look was probably not as flamboyant as you imagine because by now I'm used to these things happening from her.

Agreed.
Oh good.



It’s probably never come up before.
Creator of Yahtzee, “So, what happens if somebody keeps throwing Yahtzees?”
Co-creator, “Nah, don’t worry about it. Nobody’s ever going to throw more than one in a game.”

Obviously they’ve yet to meet Smidgy.

Ain't it the truth, Ain't it the truth.



I could just cry now. I so want my Photoshop back up and running. Cute pic of Smidgy though.

Still no P shop huh? But that picture almost didn't need it. I know wading pools need to be shallow, but GEEZ, that thing was barely three inches deep!
Which of course makes you think what the real constitution of the liquid really was.
I'm guessing,, one third well water, one third rain water, and one third feral pre-schoolers.



Don’t mention the war!!

Will you stop talking about the war?
Me! You started it!
We did not start it!
Yes you did — you invaded Poland.

Excellent! I didn't know you were also a Faulty fan yourself.



Ah! So that’s how it started. Shots in the eye are like chips, betcha can’t have just one!

You would appear to be correct, I'm up to six so far this year.
I'm thinking of switching to Bugles.

Oh, no, not at all. I think, or should I say, I know that what you mean to say or intimate or otherwise indicate in a verbal or non-verbal way, may or may not have a bearing on actual events real or otherwise that may or may not occur at a time that is either near or distant depending on your cosmological outlook pertaining to the time continuum in which we may or may not currently or historically or sometime in the future reside.

Makes perfect sense to me.

YES! I knew you'd understand.

Some day, some visitor is going to trip and fall in the evening and sue Disney for allowing it to get dark at night. Don’t believe me? Surely you’ve heard/read about visitors complaining about Disney letting it rain in MK?

You heard about that huh? Yeah, don't know what I was thinking.

Whoops, I just erased your "and don't call me Shirley" line, and I wanted to just say that Leslie Nielson was another famous Canadian you never heard of like Shatner.


So how long did you have to distract yourself until the pool bar finally closed? You didn’t have to play Yahtzee again, did you?

It wasn't me so much that needed the distracting, but her.
I think I asked her to compute to the last digit the value of Pi.
Mara? Did you say ‘Mara’?? Do you know what they sell at Mara???

"When the Dome's in your eye, like a big pizza pie, that's a Mara."




What the heck does ‘squeezing cheeks’ mean? No! Wait! I take it back! I don’t want to know!

Believe me, you dunt want to ask that here, Winkers migh just tell you about how it is really "Squenching", a combination of clenching,,,oh, never mind.

:



Michael Corleone: “Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in”

Wow, is that what he meant? I thought he was talking about the exit through the gift shops at POTC.

Mike and Folly
Modern Family Injuries
24… cuts
Lost … and stumbling in the dark
The Big Bruise Theory
How I Met Your ER (two for one there)
Broken Bones
American Horror Story (funny, I didn’t have to change that one at all to make it fit)
Nebo’s Anatomy
Charmed… NOT!

And just for you… M*A*S*H*E*D

Like that. One show I wanted to watch up there is American Horror Story but never got to it, I'm thinking of Netflixing it.



Are you still thinking of having a smoke mid-way through a meal?

Umm, not always to be honest, but I always did when we were at Disney, due to the smoking limitations. So yeah now, even at counter service restaurants habit takes control of my brain for a moment or two, I have been well trained.



Hmmm… maybe some bright boy figured out that when you raise the price to an obscene level, people stop buying it!!!!

You know, I read the "Nebo quote" part first, and thought, "Uh oh, I'm doomed." Another obvious dangler I left open, suppose I ;should go and find it now,, hang on,,,Ok, got it...my quote
,By the way, I was on the menu there yesterday,

No, I didn't come with a salad! You couldn't afford me anyway.

Define ‘kids’ my youngest will be 12 when we’re down next.

Ok, I still think it's a great age.
She may make some snarky comments at the time cuz that's what 12 year olds do, but back at home they won't be able to wait to talk all about eating in a meteor shower.
I think you have both daughters,, your 16 year old will get a kick out of it too.

And here we were all hoping that it would come to a concussion.

Take it easy there little ambulence chaser, remember what Marie said concerning yourself doing a report. You could be the little duck going back and forth yourself.


“C’mon guys! The sun’s almost up! We’ve gotta move if we’re going to make first in line to rope drop! Go! Go! Go!”
“Daddy! Mommy’s falling behind!”
“Leave her! She’ll catch up at Pizza Planet. It’s every man for himself!”

We were that way with our first two trips with the boys, then we had a 8 year hiatus and when it was just her and I, we were still that way, I once rode Splash Mountain in the car behind Smidgy because she couldn't wait for me.




I hear you! We live in a climate that has snow on the ground for half the year. We live indoors all that time. It’s nice out. I want an outside corridor. Besides, I’ve read that the sound proofing for Moderates and Values is better because of the exterior hallways.

Ok, no joke here. Absolutely true.
Outside corridors mean they need weatherproofing as well.
Inside corridors mean just,,,, plain old doors.
To this day the loudest room we've had was at Wilderness lodge, we heard everything.

I drowned once when I was a little kid (somewhere in the neighbourhood of 3-5yrs). I shudder to think what would’ve happened if there hadn’t been a real live honest to goodness trained lifeguard there.

That's somehing you neverf really think of, I suppose I might if I was there with little ones, though. Oh, do you remember it?

I never would have done that. At the most I would have gone off to find a CM and asked if the table was still being reserved. If I’d tried your little stunt, DW would’ve made me fish it back out and put it back on the table.

I almost did just that, then I figured I shoujld make them the agressor first, instead of looking for trouble. I've found out in life that if you give a person a chance to cover their butt first, they will TAKE it, even if they have no idea what you are talking about.

Yup. At this point DW would be, “See! I told you!” Followed by the obligatory storming off to the room. Followed by the also obligatory purchasing of zebra domes as peace offering.


Zebra domes….

You know, I can't believe you haven't been able to get your wife on this thread, I would think she would have fun,,,,, but I know it doesn't work that way.

I’m sure driving on the tire will be the true teste.

That was a case where I gave my self a straight line,,,, no matter what the consequences were, no way I wasn't using that line, and I know you'd agree.!

aka “What sound does a balloon make when deflating.”

Ask Smidgy, I wasn't wearing the hearing aids.

How many movies can you think of that included a scene that involved a toaster or other electrical appliance and a bathtub?

You know,,, I thought about it, and I'm afraid, and embarassed to say that the only one that pops into mind is an old Russ Meyer movie, maybe called "Supervixens?" It was an early '70's adult movie that came after he made "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls." No, I don't think even I was old enough to see it when it came out.





Ok, I know it's been hectic and busy for everybody, I just didn't want to go and post another chapter until you all had a chance to read this last one, so you should see a new chapter up tomorrow night.
Oh, for those that don't want to wait, there's a hunk of it over in the "dining reviews " section, you know how good I am at giving in depth reviews of our table experiences.

Thanks for the chapter!

Welcome, thanks for responding.

 

[Sandy Mouse]

Sandy, if you're not kidding, we want to hear the details, and trust me, I speak for everyone here. GIVE! You are fully knighted to give an honorary chapter about the family.

Yes, the family that tazes together, stayses together.
My all-time favorite son-in-law gave my charming eldest a tazer for Christmas. Pink! So feminine! Naturally, he wanted to be tazed, and my youngest has always wanted to see him scream like a little girl and wet his pants, so she obliged. He did not wet his pants but the there were screams. He and his old army buddy sat on the couch and tazed each other several times, then looked around for likely targets. They didn't consider me, thinking I'm too old to handle it, and I quickly decided not to correct them (at this point, I'll probably outlive them). They did consider the dogs for a moment, but my daughter quashed that thought before it had time to really form. My youngest grandson (7 years old and a lot like his father) tried to sneak it onto the trampoline with all of his cousins, but luckily we caught him ("Brody, what's that pink thing sticking out of your pocket?").
And a good time was had by all.
It could have been so much worse, but we distracted them with Wii tournaments.

 

[pkondz]

Yes, the family that tazes together, stayses together.
My all-time favorite son-in-law gave my charming eldest a tazer for Christmas. Pink! So feminine! Naturally, he wanted to be tazed, and my youngest has always wanted to see him scream like a little girl and wet his pants, so she obliged. He did not wet his pants but the there were screams. He and his old army buddy sat on the couch and tazed each other several times, then looked around for likely targets. They didn't consider me, thinking I'm too old to handle it, and I quickly decided not to correct them (at this point, I'll probably outlive them). They did consider the dogs for a moment, but my daughter quashed that thought before it had time to really form. My youngest grandson (7 years old and a lot like his father) tried to sneak it onto the trampoline with all of his cousins, but luckily we caught him ("Brody, what's that pink thing sticking out of your pocket?").
And a good time was had by all.
It could have been so much worse, but we distracted them with Wii tournaments.

Especially the bolded part!

 

[pkondz]

Thanks a lot. This is the kind of thing where my brain collides with the side of my cranium...it hates these questions...... logic says that "it has to come up tails eventually", but mathematics says that it's still a
50- 50 possibility every time you flip the coing,,,, NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE.

or did I just walk into a trap with a "catch " punchline?

Ha! Gotcha! Ever since you were a kid you've probably heard that it's 50/50 for the next flip. While it's true that flipping a coin once will give you a 50/50 chance at either side (I read somewhere that it's 1/6000 for it to land on edge), if you flip a coin and it lands heads 50 times in a row, then either the coin is rigged or there's something wrong with it or it's two headed. So if a coin lands 50 times heads up. 1. keep that coin! and 2. bet money on it coming up heads again. I did see a bit of a tv show where it was shown that the U.S. penny is slightly heavier on the 'heads' side which makes it land on one side more often than the other (sorry, don't remember the side) the tv show flipped 10,000 coins and one side was obviously more than the other (sorry don't recall the ratio either, but it was something like 65/35).

Yes it is, I don't understand it. I've been talkinig to my bank to increase the interest rate on my checking account with interest, but they don't seem to get how it would benefit them.
Wow, what a joke that became:
I was getting 3 percent interest on my balance every month, now it's ,,, and I"m not making this up,,,
.01 percent, I think. Every other month they add a penny to our account in interest, just enough to screw up the balancing process.

I did the exact same thing! I got some %$!#@ solicitor phone call for some credit card a while back. I was in a weird mood so I let her prattle on about how I could get a 6 month introductory interest rate of 3%. I asked what happened after 6 months...
Solicitor:"After 6 months you get 8%"
Me:"Wow! 8%! That's great! So you're going to give me 8% interest?"
S:"Yessir! But the first 6 months is 3."
Me:"Yeah, but can I get the 8% right away? Do I have to wait the 6 months?"
S:"Umm.. No, but 3% is better than 8%."
Me:"Well I guess if I have to wait for you to give me more money, I'll have to. But I would much prefer you give me the 8% now. BTW, does it go higher after a year?"
S: "Yes sir, after 12 months, regular interest of (whatever she said, 20%?) will apply to all outsanding balances."
Me:"Holy cow! 20%! That's awesome! So if I put in $10,000 and keep it in there for a year, you'll give me 3% and then 8% after 6 months and then I'll be making $2000 per year. Wait, is that compound interest? And is it monthly or annually?"
S: "Ummm... what?"
Me: "I'm just so excited that you're going to be paying me 20% of everything I put in. Is there a limit? 'Cause I want to put in as much as I can if you're going to pay me 20% interest.
S: "Ummm... No, you pay us."
Me: "No, you said you were going to give me 20%."
S: "Yes but it's only 3% at first."
Me: "Can't I get the 20% right away? What if I put in the max amount? I could really use the cash."

It went on for a little while longer before I got bored and hung up. To this day, I still think she had no idea I was playing with her.

I usually can't keep 'em on the line that long.

Still no P shop huh? But that picture almost didn't need it. I know wading pools need to be shallow, but GEEZ, that thing was barely three inches deep!
Which of course makes you think what the real constitution of the liquid really was.
I'm guessing,, one third well water, one third rain water, and one third feral pre-schoolers.

Ew.

Excellent! I didn't know you were also a Faulty fan yourself.

I had a trainee a long time ago who visited the house. There had been a fire in it not too much earlier so they couldn't go inside. Still cool though. And yes, I'm a fan.

Whoops, I just erased your "and don't call me Shirley" line, and I wanted to just say that Leslie Nielson was another famous Canadian you never heard of like Shatner.

Who?

I can't think of a way to quote the "Beaver" scene from Naked Gun without incurring the censor's wrath.

"When the Dome's in your eye, like a big pizza pie, that's a Mara."

That's very good!

Believe me, you dunt want to ask that here, Winkers migh just tell you about how it is really "Squenching", a combination of clenching,,,oh, never mind.

TMI!!!

You know, I read the "Nebo quote" part first, and thought, "Uh oh, I'm doomed." Another obvious dangler I left open, suppose I ;should go and find it now,, hang on,,,Ok, got it...my quote
,By the way, I was on the menu there yesterday,

No, I didn't come with a salad! You couldn't afford me anyway.

D'oh! I was obviously too tired yesterday and completely missed that. I wouldn't've ordered you anyway... too much gristle.

Ok, I still think it's a great age.
She may make some snarky comments at the time cuz that's what 12 year olds do, but back at home they won't be able to wait to talk all about eating in a meteor shower.
I think you have both daughters,, your 16 year old will get a kick out of it too.

Thanks for the info.

Take it easy there little ambulence chaser, remember what Marie said concerning yourself doing a report. You could be the little duck going back and forth yourself.

So that's how you see yourself.

I drowned once when I was a little kid (somewhere in the neighbourhood of 3-5yrs). I shudder to think what would’ve happened if there hadn’t been a real live honest to goodness trained lifeguard there.

That's somehing you neverf really think of, I suppose I might if I was there with little ones, though. Oh, do you remember it?

Oh, yes. I remember it quite well... at least the parts I was conscious/alive for.

 

[Sandy Mouse]

Nebo, I'm so glad this week's eye problem turned out ok.

 

[jakeybake]

Great back and forth Steve and Pkondz!

Some of your best work!!

Jay

 

[nebo]

Yes, the family that tazes together, stayses together.

Let me write that down.


My all-time favorite son-in-law gave my charming eldest a tazer for Christmas. Pink! So feminine! Naturally, he wanted to be tazed, and my youngest has always wanted to see him scream like a little girl and wet his pants, so she obliged. He did not wet his pants but the there were screams. He and his old army buddy sat on the couch and tazed each other several times, then looked around for likely targets. They didn't consider me, thinking I'm too old to handle it, and I quickly decided not to correct them (at this point, I'll probably outlive them).

Yep,no doubt, that was the funniest part of your story!

They did consider the dogs for a moment, but my daughter quashed that thought before it had time to really form. My youngest grandson (7 years old and a lot like his father) tried to sneak it onto the trampoline with all of his cousins, but luckily we caught him ("Brody, what's that pink thing sticking out of your pocket?").
And a good time was had by all.
It could have been so much worse, but we distracted them with Wii tournaments.

Oh of course, I'm sure the same dilemma was going on in living rooms across the nation, Wii tournament or tazing each other?
Sandy, we're not going to be able to make it for easter after all.

Ha! Gotcha! Ever since you were a kid you've probably heard that it's 50/50 for the next flip. While it's true that flipping a coin once will give you a 50/50 chance at either side (I read somewhere that it's 1/6000 for it to land on edge), if you flip a coin and it lands heads 50 times in a row, then either the coin is rigged or there's something wrong with it or it's two headed. So if a coin lands 50 times heads up. 1. keep that coin! and 2. bet money on it coming up heads again. I did see a bit of a tv show where it was shown that the U.S. penny is slightly heavier on the 'heads' side which makes it land on one side more often than the other (sorry, don't remember the side) the tv show flipped 10,000 coins and one side was obviously more than the other (sorry don't recall the ratio either, but it was something like 65/35).

yeah, I knew It was a gotcha, I should have thoght longer on it.

I did the exact same thing! I got some %$!#@ solicitor phone call for some credit card a while back. I was in a weird mood so I let her prattle on about how I could get a 6 month introductory interest rate of 3%. I asked what happened after 6 months...
Solicitor:"After 6 months you get 8%"
Me:"Wow! 8%! That's great! So you're going to give me 8% interest?"
S:"Yessir! But the first 6 months is 3."
Me:"Yeah, but can I get the 8% right away? Do I have to wait the 6 months?"
S:"Umm.. No, but 3% is better than 8%."
Me:"Well I guess if I have to wait for you to give me more money, I'll have to. But I would much prefer you give me the 8% now. BTW, does it go higher after a year?"
S: "Yes sir, after 12 months, regular interest of (whatever she said, 20%?) will apply to all outsanding balances."
Me:"Holy cow! 20%! That's awesome! So if I put in $10,000 and keep it in there for a year, you'll give me 3% and then 8% after 6 months and then I'll be making $2000 per year. Wait, is that compound interest? And is it monthly or annually?"
S: "Ummm... what?"
Me: "I'm just so excited that you're going to be paying me 20% of everything I put in. Is there a limit? 'Cause I want to put in as much as I can if you're going to pay me 20% interest.
S: "Ummm... No, you pay us."
Me: "No, you said you were going to give me 20%."
S: "Yes but it's only 3% at first."
Me: "Can't I get the 20% right away? What if I put in the max amount? I could really use the cash."

It went on for a little while longer before I got bored and hung up. To this day, I still think she had no idea I was playing with her.

I usually can't keep 'em on the line that long.



I have often taken the "woe is me approach when I get those calls,,"How are you today mr Nebo?"
"Oh, sniff, thankd you so much for asking. My wife left me two days ago for another woman, took the checkbook and closed the accounts so now I have no money and I can't pay the bills she was supposed to be paying and the hospital said they won't give me any more chemo treatments until they get paid, but that's not the worst of it by the3 way again thank you so much for asking and maybe you can help me out since i don't have a car anymore and I need a ride over....."



I can't think of a way to quote the "Beaver" scene from Naked Gun without incurring the censor's wrath.

Ah, but I can give the proper response;
"thank you, I just had it stuffed."

D'oh! I was obviously too tired yesterday and completely missed that. I wouldn't've ordered you anyway... too much gristle.

What if I came with garlic mashed potatoes and zebra domes,,,,, no, hold it, don't answer this, I don't like the feel of where this is going either.

Thanks for the info.



So that's how you see yourself.

"Be vewy, vewy quiet, we are hunting Nebos here."

Oh, yes. I remember it quite well... at least the parts I was conscious/alive for.

Yeah, I only remember the bad things from when i was little,,,, Dang I've got a lot of memories from being little!


Ok, the main holiday is over, tomorrow we get back to business and i'll have a chapter up early evening. This will mark the return of that famed chef and restaurant critic, "The Tripping Gourmet" as he gives his hard hitting, no holds barred critique of Saana.

 

[smidgy]

Merry Christmas to all my friends here! I hope everyone had a nice, relaxing day!

Jay

well, not relaxing.. had a great christmas eve.. the first one NOT working in 4 years.. had the boys and their families over!! YAY!
then after working friday night, and setting up most of the buffet, on christmas day I set up the rest of the buffet and waited tables the whole day,and refilling the buffet constantly., then broke down the whole buffet, cleaned up the mess, then came home to see if Nebo was still awake and maybe watch the disney christmas Parade with me (that I taped) thought that might not be the case, (since the bears played the packers that night) but he DID say he didn't care any more about the bears, but didn't care about the parade either, so.....
my back killing me from moving tables around, carrying a gazillion bus pans with heavy dishes, I just collapsed, watched a bit of Rio Bravo I thought Nebo might like.

hope you all have a happy new years!

 

[cp'ersmom]

I am staying at the Boardwalk because I am only going for 3 nights and I want to be near Epcot. Just found out I may have a gluten problem and I want to stuff my face around the world before I tackle this issue. When the Dr told me the results of the test my first thought was "but I've never had school bread!"

 

[nebo]

I am staying at the Boardwalk because I am only going for 3 nights and I want to be near Epcot. Just found out I may have a gluten problem and I want to stuff my face around the world before I tackle this issue. When the Dr told me the results of the test my first thought was "but I've never had school bread!"

Boardwalk, huh? Great choice. We've only stayed at the villas there, in a studio but I'd love to try it again, only with a boardwalk view. It's too bad they won't be still doing the holiday tag at teh end of Illuminations then, that is the best. By the way, let us know if you hear what and when they are going to replace Captain EIEIO with, they have to be working on a new 3-D movie, right?
Believe it or not, I have no idea what in the world gluten is, or even what happens to you if you're allergic to it so good luck with that.

Yes, still plan on getting a new chapter up tonight and I think it will be pretty entertaining, but what the heck do I know.

 

[jakeybake]

well, not relaxing.. had a great christmas eve.. the first one NOT working in 4 years.. had the boys and their families over!! YAY!
then after working friday night, and setting up most of the buffet, on christmas day I set up the rest of the buffet and waited tables the whole day,and refilling the buffet constantly., then broke down the whole buffet, cleaned up the mess, then came home to see if Nebo was still awake and maybe watch the disney christmas Parade with me (that I taped) thought that might not be the case, (since the bears played the packers that night) but he DID say he didn't care any more about the bears, but didn't care about the parade either, so.....
my back killing me from moving tables around, carrying a gazillion bus pans with heavy dishes, I just collapsed, watched a bit of Rio Bravo I thought Nebo might like.

hope you all have a happy new years!

I'm sorry Smidgy! We had Christmas Day here with our merry band of dysfunctionals so my day wasn't exactly a day by the Beach Club pool either!

Every year when it's over I tell my wife that there is no way in hell we are hosting again next year and every December we get roped right back in!

Hopefully all of our New Years are quiet!!

Happy New Year to you and Steve! I have a great feeling that 2012 will be the best year ever!!

Jay