The Bar 2014 Edition

[fernley1]

Happy birthday MDF.

[Patsh]

Happy Birthday, MyDearFriend!!

You should have the rest of the week off work... I'll write a note for your employer, if you need one. I'll try to be polite, so they'll let you go back next week.

[^Rhino!]

***Rhino parries AntiM's sharpened rib bone, and then skewers it out of her hand with his skewer. He runs to the BBQ, where he carefully washes off the mustard base, replacing it with a brown sugar, molasses, vinegar, and sweet red pepper baste sauce**

Hee, hee! I WIN!

Happy birthday, MDF!

yggy, the best of the best from Missouri make it to Nevada, then to California, then head back east again. I cite Mark Twain as an example.

[FIGJAM]

Happy new year MDF!!!

http://www.jibjab.com/add_ecard_message/336181064

[AntiM]

Silly Rhino, we can all win.

[MyDearFriend]

Thanks, FIGJAM, that JibJab is great! And thanks for all the lovely birthday wishes. Happy Happy Happy Happy day to you (((all))).

[ygmir]

*wanders in, makes CCC*

Happy, Happy Birthday, MDF!! and Bounce530!!

[media]

Here's hoping your day is grand, and surprises abound!!
*pours Bushmills in CCC, sets out for everyone*

yggy, the best of the best from Missouri make it to Nevada, then to California, then head back east again. I cite Mark Twain as an example.

I was thinking Joseph Smith............


*heads for IBBOD*

[Elliot]

***Rhino parries AntiM's sharpened rib bone, and then skewers it out of her hand with his skewer. He runs to the BBQ, where he carefully washes off the mustard base, replacing it with a brown sugar, molasses, vinegar, and sweet red pepper baste sauce**

Hee, hee! I WIN!

Happy birthday, MDF!

yggy, the best of the best from Missouri make it to Nevada, then to California, then head back east again. I cite Mark Twain as an example.

Oooooo... Mark Twain's Roughing It, possibly my favorite book ever!

[trilobyte]

Happy birthday, MDF and Bounce!

[Dr. Pyro]

Happy Happy MDF!!!

[^Rhino!]

***Rhino parries AntiM's sharpened rib bone, and then skewers it out of her hand with his skewer. He runs to the BBQ, where he carefully washes off the mustard base, replacing it with a brown sugar, molasses, vinegar, and sweet red pepper baste sauce**

Hee, hee! I WIN!

Happy birthday, MDF!

yggy, the best of the best from Missouri make it to Nevada, then to California, then head back east again. I cite Mark Twain as an example.

Oooooo... Mark Twain's Roughing It, possibly my favorite book ever!

Absolutely. Ever hear of a wind in Reno called the 'Washoe Zephyr'? Twain characterized it best:

This was all we saw that day, for it was two o'clock, now, and according to custom the daily "Washoe Zephyr" set in; a soaring dust-drift about the size of the United States set up edgewise came with it, and the capital of Nevada Territory disappeared from view. Still, there were sights to be seen which were not wholly uninteresting to newcomers; for the vast dust-cloud was thickly freckled with things strange to the upper air - things living and dead, that flitted hither and thither, going and coming, appearing and disappearing among the rolling billows of dust - hats, chickens, and parasols sailing in the remote heavens; blankets, tin signs, sage-brush, and shingles a shade lower; door-mats and buffalo-robes lower still; shovels and coal-scuttles on the next grade; glass doors, cats, and little children on the next; disrupted lumber yards, light buggies, and wheelbarrows on the next; and down only thirty or forty feet above ground was a scurrying storm of emigrating roofs and vacant lots.

It was something to see that much. I could have seen more, if I could have kept the dust out of my eyes.

But, seriously, a Washoe wind is by no means a trifling matter. It blows flimsy houses down, lifts shingle roofs occasionally, rolls up tin ones like sheet music, now and then blows a stage-coach over and spills the passengers; and tradition says the reason there are so many bald people there is, that the wind blows the hair off their heads while they are looking skyward after their hats. Carson streets seldom look inactive on summer afternoons, because there are so many citizens skipping around their escaping hats, like chambermaids trying to head off a spider.

The "Washoe Zephyr" (Washoe is a pet nickname for Nevada) is a peculiarly Scriptural wind, in that no man knoweth "whence it cometh." That is to say, where it originates. It comes right over the mountains from the West, but when one crosses the ridge he does not find any of it on the other side! It probably is manufactured on the mountaintop for the occasion, and starts from there. It is a pretty regular wind, in the summer-time. Its office-hours are from two in the afternoon till two the next morning; and anybody venturing abroad during those twelve hours needs to allow for the wind or he will bring up a mile or two to leeward of the point he is aiming at. And yet the first complaint a Washoe visitor to San Francisco makes, is that the sea-winds blow so, there! There is a good deal of human nature in that.

Sounds like the playa dust storm we had in '08.

[burner von braun]

I have to admit, at this point every time my smartphone yelps 'incoming', I jump up in my chair thinking that the rabbit has spoken

Good times!

..and a BIG
Happy Birthday MDF and Bounce!!

[fernley1]

I too love the book "Roughing it. My favorite part is when Mark Twain visits Salt Lake City and hears about someone given out whistles to the kids of Brigham Young, so funny.

[theCryptofishist]

Silly Rhino, we can all win.

No, we all go to ttitd so we can replicate all the wonderful stuff from Western Civ, including mass conformity.

[Elliot]

... Roughing It ...
Absolutely. Ever hear of a wind in Reno called the 'Washoe Zephyr'? Twain characterized it best: ...
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Chapter 21.

[Savannah]

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Happy Birthday, MyDearFriend!
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[Aurelia]

Happy Birthday MDF !

xoA.

[Elliot]

[msj2u]

Happy Birthday MDF!

Hope your birthday is as special as you are.

MSJ
huggs

[MyDearFriend]

Thank you so much (((((((((((((((((((everyone))))))))))))))))))))
I am having a really fun birthday here!

Here let me pour a round for everyone, and here's to the 2014 Theme!

[fernley1]

Wow, 126 users on this site.
I wonder whats up

Yes, a toast to the 2014 theme, whatever in my be.

[theCryptofishist]

Happy Birthday, dear.

[Elliot]

Wow, 126 users on this site.
...

I wonder... is that on eplaya.burningman.org, or on the whole burningman.com?

[trilobyte]

That's specific to ePlaya.

[trilobyte]

It's probably also worth adding that the statistic is a little misleading when you compare it to our record for most users online. Back in 2011, we were counting all the people who had visited the site in the last hour. These days, we're only counting the number of users who've visited the site in the last 15 minutes.

[Bounce530]

Thanks Yggy and Trilo!!

[Elliot]

109 now, mostly Guests. A lot of people are actively hunting for info.

[fernley1]

Its out!!!!
The theme is released.

[Elliot]

Maybe I can borrow my brother's camels! (He runs a zoo.)

Generally, there will now be a rush on stuffed camels.

I like Theme.

[fernley1]

Maybe a lot of camel toe
had to say it first.