Subj : Re: Computer Failure Haik To : Daryl Stout From : George Pope Date : Mon Feb 08 2021 06:02:34 > George, > GP> How many Daryls ran a Thunderbolt BBS & had a love for meteorology, do > GP> you figure? > Offhand, I don't know. The thing is, I wasn't running a BBS until 1990... > and didn't even know what one was until 1985. This would've been in the early to mid 1990s. > GP> I wasn't paying attent8ion to news in those days, & even less to that > GP> from so far away. . . > The oranges and grapefruits I don't worry about, as I don't eat them. > In winter weather, around here, they run out of bread, milk, beer, and > toilet paper faster than you can get to the store!! I rarely drink milk > anymore, never have cared for beer...but if I'm doing lunch meat > sandwiches, I need bread...and of course, everyone needs toilet paper. > However, I've wondered if toilet paper was reading material in the > bathroom. You're off the beaten path & not close to a city? Crummy. . .that can get expensive! Can you order from Amazon & have stuff you need delivered? We do a lot of that now, using up our various covid relief cheques. > GP> Here they dump it onto the curb cuts (every corner has a ramp built in > GP> for wheelchairs & others) > Sounds about right. First time I saw this, I'd come home by bus. Got dropped off across the street, as usual, then wen to wheel across at the corner & nope -- mound of snow ditrectly on the curb cut, so I tried to knock out a path. Luckily a motorist saw me & took pity, using his trunk shovel to clear the way for me. On the other side, I stayed on the road & wheeled up to the mall driveway. > GP> I don't see the problem; if you're driving & conditions are anything > GP> other than ideal, SLOW THE FLEEP DOWN! > They drive around here like there are no speed limits, no matter what > the weather. Sounds all too familiar. . . > GP> My fave cake-y bread is one my wifew makes in the breadmaker: African > GP> Samosa Bread (contains cooked hamburger & onions, with spices) > OK, we need 3 minutes to pause for drooling. > GP> I had my wisdoms out in '91 &, yup, I'm a bleeder, too -- gross as > GP> anything, as it keeps gushing coppery mouthfuls > GP> I need to drink lots of water daily, as I get 5-30 kidney stones a year > GP> even doing so; If I don't, I get even more & bigger ones! (biggest to > GP> date is 25mm) > A kidney stone is the closest thing a man can get pain wise to childbirth. > I knew a woman who said she'd rather have quintuplets in hard labor, with no > epidural, than one kidney stone. That pretty much sums it up. I've met these women, too, & all say kidney stones is a worse pain. My explanation: both involve something larger going through a smaller passage. BUT: in child birth the passage is designed to do this & will dilate some. (the placement of the G-Spot does a lot to help this), & at the end you get a eautiful human baby. For me, with stones, it's a jagged rock tearing its way through a hair-sized tube with no built-i flexibility. At the end I get a spiky chunk of rock. I suggest kidney stones could be compared to giving birth to a dead porcupine, breach. Ain't nobody got time for t hat! (apparently, I'll make the time! *sigh* ObFunny: A guy in an alley tried to sell me his kidney stones. I said that's a hard pass for me. It's obviously worse to pass a kidney stone than giving birth to a baby. Because people always say they want another baby but no one's ever said they want another kidney stone. (ok, this one is too true to be properly considered funny by me & other victims of kidney stones) Chuck Norris passed 6 kidney stones... Thanos used them in his Infinity Gauntlet. Q: What did the kidney stone say to the man? A: Urine trouble. Q: What happens when a kidney smokes weed? A: It gets kidney stoned. > Another woman said "If us women can pass a kid, you men can pass a > stone"... to which I replied "Unlike the female cervix, the male penis can > not dialate". > GP> One summer I was passing 10+ pea-sized stones every week! > Ouch!! > GP> I love puns! I'm trying to collect & save them all! (& making up new > GP> ones here & there) > Several years ago in Austin, Texas, around early May, they had "The World > Championship Pun Off". I went to a few of them many years ago, and the humor > is drier than the Sahara. But, all the proceeds benefited the O. Henry > Museum down there. > Daryl > ... W-E-H-T-H-U-R: Worst spell of weather in months!! > === MultiMail/Win v0.52 > --- SBBSecho 3.11-Win32 > * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - tbolt.synchro.net (1:19/33) Your friend, <+]:{)} Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM --- SBBSecho 3.12-Linux * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757.2) .