Idle Chat Thread

precipitate · Post by **precipitate** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 5:35 pm

> He said to take bread and soak it in whiskey and leave it out for the little
> critters to party on

Sounds like a waste of good whiskey to me.

PJ · Post by PJ » Thu Sep 25, 2003 6:14 pm

precipitate wrote:He said to take bread and soak it in whiskey and leave it out for the little critters to party on

Sounds like a waste of good whiskey to me.

Not necessarily--the meat gets a start on the marinade process.

Henry, the old guy that lived in a house on the north end of our farm, liked to trap squirrels in his home-made live trap. Baited it with corn. He'd get one or two a day, more than enough meat to keep Henry fed. Henry would hold a burlap sack over the end of the trap to retrieve the squirrels; they'd scamper out of the trap into his sack, and he'd step on their heads and butcher 'em.

When Henry died, my Mom found him face-down in his driveway with about a half-inch of fresh powder snow covering him. Clutched tightly in his dead hand was a burlap sack with two squirrels in it. She stepped on their heads and butchered 'em, then called the sherrif to report Henry's death.

We ate them for dinner that night, toasting Henry.

RebA! · Post by **RebA!** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 11:47 pm

OK.. found this...via fark. Um.. Thats all. Thought it was amusing.

http://www.worldbeardchampionships.com/index.html

be sure to check out Categories, and the gallery section. My oh my

nipples · Post by **nipples** » Sat Sep 27, 2003 12:04 am

two weeks ago there was a large puddle of soy-sauce in my refridgerator door.

a bottle of soy-sauce had tipped over, & the top was not fastenened down tightly (at all).

i used it once again this past week & made sure to tighten the top in case it should tip int he door with the salad dressings, right? because it was a pain in the butt to clean all the bottoms of jars & surfaces in the refridgerator.

now tonight there was a puddle of soy-sauce in the side rack of the refridgerator underneath the soy-sauce bottle but the bottle was upright & the top was not fastened tightly (at all).

i threw the nearly spent bottle of soy-sauce away, & would have even if it were nearly full, i think. yes, i am sure i would have even if it were nearly full. if it were worchestershire sauce, i might have given it another go. had a nasty problem with a jar of marashino cherries (of all things, please, no cherry or italian jokes) two years ago. still have red crap in the crevices.

Lydia Love · Post by **Lydia Love** » Sat Sep 27, 2003 12:07 am

How the fuck do you people find these gems? I obviously spend too much time on the eplaya and not enough time surfing for weird crap on the net.

Then again y'all bring the best of it here so...

Last Real Burner · Post by **Last Real Burner** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 8:58 am

DAMN PILOTS

After every flight, pilots fill out a form called a gripe sheet, which conveys to the mechanics problems encountered with the aircraft during the flight that need repair or correction. The mechanics read and correct the problem, and then respond in writing on the lower half of the form what remedial action was taken, and the pilot reviews the gripe sheets before the next flight.

Here are some actual logged maintenance complaints and problems as
submitted by Qantas pilots and the solution recorded by maintenance
engineers.

(P = The problem logged by the pilot.)
(S = The solution and action taken by the mechanics.)

P: Left inside main tire almost needs replacement.
S: Almost replaced left inside main tire.

P: Test flight OK, except auto-land very rough.
S: Auto-land not installed on this aircraft.

P: Something loose in cockpit.
S: Something tightened in cockpit.

P: Dead bugs on windshield.
S: Live bugs on back-order.

P: Autopilot in altitude-hold mode produces a 200 feet per minute descent.
S: Cannot reproduce problem on ground.

P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear.
S: Evidence removed.

P: DME volume unbelievably loud.
S: DME volume set to more believable level.

P: Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick.
S: That's what they're there for.

P: IFF inoperative.
S: IFF always inoperative in OFF mode.

P: Suspected crack in windshield.
S: Suspect you're right.

P: Number 3 engine missing.
S: Engine found on right wing after brief search.

P: Aircraft handles funny.
S: Aircraft warned to straighten up, fly right, and be serious.

P: Target radar hums.
S: Reprogrammed target radar with lyrics.

P: Mouse in cockpit.
S: Cat installed.

P: Noise coming from under instrument panel. Sounds like a midget pounding on something with a hammer.
S: Took hammer away from midget.

"What's good sex like? A stick of wood, two screws, and a good pair of nuts."
mr smith

Last Real Burner · Post by **Last Real Burner** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 9:03 am

BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH THREAD DRIFT BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH...

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzly
mr smith

Tiara · Post by **Tiara** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 2:28 pm

No one can cry "thread drift" here! It's my thread, and I said so!!

Thought maybe we could consider it to be thread drift if Idle Chat stayed true to topic for more than 10 posts!

Alpha · Post by **Alpha** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 11:27 am

It's quiet around here... too quiet....

Niacin · Post by **Niacin** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 11:40 am

Ssh...they'll HEAR you.

Max

Alpha · Post by **Alpha** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 11:42 am

and I forgot my foil hat, dammit

Niacin · Post by **Niacin** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 11:42 am

You forgot your hat? Will you bring the damnation on us for your mistake!

Max

III · Post by **III** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 12:44 pm

was at a birthday party yesterday, and one of our instigators brought a bigg assed rool of aluminium foil so everyone could make their own party hat.

mine was very nice.

Alpha · Post by **Alpha** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 1:08 pm

Taunting us with his hat-making skills, III wrote:mine was very nice.

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Last Real Burner · Post by **Last Real Burner** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 6:04 pm

Last Real Burner wrote:BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH THREAD DRIFT BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH...

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzly
mr smith

BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH THREAD DRIFT BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH...

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxly
mr smith

I can drift and you can't stop me...Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
does this qualify as a digital echo

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 6:47 pm

holy shit this BBS sucks

I only just now found the General Discussion folder.

fuckin a

I was wondering where all the dialogue was. I was getting my fix by lobbing bombs in the rediculous 'war....' thread over in beyond belief.

Kinetic · Post by **Kinetic** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 6:49 pm

Ya gotta scroll down and explore a bit, I missed General Discussion for almost a week, and even being one of the Top 4 posters there are still areas I haven't explored yet. This place is huge compared to what we had.

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 7:02 pm

shoot, I thought I was a punter with only 100+ posts. JUST WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW! Now that I have found the 'general discussion' I can truly compete.

see ya tomorrow

Niacin · Post by **Niacin** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 7:50 am

Slacker.

Max

Tiara · Post by **Tiara** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 9:17 am

This is not a posting quantity contest!

III · Post by **III** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 10:26 am

>This place is huge compared to what we had

huge is an akward concept for cyberspace.

i'll give you "more difficult to navigate".

and i'll give you "more threads with less content".

but i think on an actual content/day basis, it's not going to keep up with the other one. the post event rush seems to have finally died down, and it's pretty slow...

Rabbi Dali Rick · Post by **Rabbi Dali Rick** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 6:46 pm

Read on a car window sign today:

Vote for that Hummer
driving Son of a Bitch
for Governor

politicallly,
the rebbi

JonoVision · Post by **JonoVision** » Sun Oct 05, 2003 11:53 am

Heading off for Baja in about 4 days... I've gotta get out of Texas while I still have some measurable liver function... and the eplaya now feels like a totally foreign environment, sad sad sad... went out to some trendoid bars on lower Greenville in Dallas last night, I'd forgotten how many overly made-up, empty headed debutante types there are in this town... and forgotten how widely embraced the Texas national sport of drunken driving is... haha, Siegfried & Roy mauled by a tiger, score one for the felines... trying to keep my new blue heeler puppy from gnawing friend's furniture is a full-time job... shooting at squirrels on the back porch with a Daisy BB gun (design classic, that one, immortalized in ads in the back pages of innumerable comic books from my youth) is a fine passtime... but it's time to load up the VW and go go GO!

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Badger · Post by **Badger** » Sun Oct 05, 2003 5:01 pm

Siegfried & Roy mauled by a tiger

.jpg?

Dusty Balls · Post by **Dusty Balls** » Sun Oct 05, 2003 5:22 pm

LURK!!!!!!

JonoVision · Post by **JonoVision** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 10:31 am

The moment before it all went wrong....

<img src=http://www.itourlove.com/tour/usa/img/l ... _tiger.jpg>

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 10:46 am

The moment before it all went wrong....

No. It went wrong a long time ago.

I'm waiting for the first tiger v. Roy jokes to start rolling in any day now....

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 10:48 am

Personally, I'm of the opinon that the attack had more to do with the poor, captive animal having to look at Roy's hairdo day in and day out for the last decade.

Kinetic · Post by **Kinetic** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 10:52 am

Tiara wrote:This is not a posting quantity contest!

Contest? I must have missed something, what contest?

Seriously I don't care that much about posting counts...there is a bit of an ego thing yeah, but it's about so much more. There is a treasure trove of info on here, and a very good group of people to know. Where else can I talk to people from Mass to SF in one day? Where else can I get tips on how to make dragonfly wings? I love e-playa, and it's just a wonderful place to spend time. It's also been a very good stress reliever and drama avoidance system. That last reason is why the post count is so high...I get online and hide from the mess over here.

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 11:06 am

Yeah, but a good number of your posts are probably more appropriate being sent PM as they're more often than not comments specific to a particular writer rather than the eplaya as a whole. Without intending to rag on you your 860+ posts have generated a high enough noise to signal ratio that I find myself skipping pretty much every message you've been spitting out as of late. At other times (and in other folders) it seems like your comments punctuate every other post to the point that it seems like you're...stalking.

Now having said all of that I hold no illusions that there aren't folks out there that harbor the very same sentiments towards yours truly and perhaps the words 'kettle' and 'black' might correctly be tossed my way. I will say that except for certain occasions I do try to put my words out there for the general e-playa body which I think is the intent of the board v e-mail.

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