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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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G-Dog said:
:roflmao: She always was very impatient. Never understood why doctors couldn't seem to meet appointment times, even though she had absolutely nothing else to do. "Making rounds at hospital" didn't cut any ice with her! Although, she could strike up a conversation with a total stranger anywhere she went, there was no patience in any kinda waiting room for any kinda appointment. She'd leave, then we'd have to reschedule and try again! No time to wait, but reschedule and reschedule 'til they get close to the appointment time. And it always had to be the first appointment of the day, "before they get busy". Oh, and they better not call someone else to the back before her "first appointment of the day"!

Yes, I would say she couldn't wait to get to heaven!
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Hmm. Better hope there's not a line.;)
 
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And the difference between industrial grade oxygen and medical grade oxygen? Profit margins is the difference.

My maternal grandmother's hearing was rather poor until (so my father observed) her name was mentioned. She took no alcohol and was a fearsome bridge player. And speaking of floods, when her place flooded we found a bottle of grandfather's good scotch she kept as a keepsake since his death in 1946. That was in 72. My father took one look and said, simply, this is mine. None of us saw that bottle again.
 
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GwenOnBass said:
And the difference between industrial grade oxygen and medical grade oxygen? Profit margins is the difference.

My maternal grandmother's hearing was rather poor until (so my father observed) her name was mentioned. She took no alcohol and was a fearsome bridge player. And speaking of floods, when her place flooded we found a bottle of grandfather's good scotch she kept as a keepsake since his death in 1946. That was in 72. My father took one look and said, simply, this is mine. None of us saw that bottle again.
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$60,000 a bottle for 72 year old Macallan. Long time ago I bought a bottle of 25 year old. Very smooth. I don’t really drink anymore other than booze in cooking as a flavor component.

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Absolutely no whiskies for this gal. In the movie Mr. Rogers I think I recall the ship's doctor said scotch always reminds him of the taste of iodine. I'm firmly in that camp who agrees. And with a fair idea about doctored torpedo juice, I am gracious enough to all others to partake freely as I sit this one out.

Never was much a one for hard alcohol, myself. However raised a couple eyebrows last time my closest friend and I visited a nearby lemonade stand. For a gentleman admirer bought us a round. Actually he bought two rounds. Had to decide on the spot what to choose. It's a proletariat lemonade stand, not going to find a B&B in my coffee. Which I wholly recommend. Chose from what I could plainly see was available and said, tequila. Not driving, and there's a joke told about tequila and ladies. I politely decline to embarrass myself telling it. This night I am not the punchline to the tequila joke.

Raki is interesting in the same way aguardiente is interesting but generally I'll pass. In Italy after work and before dinner (that four or five hour window when dinner begins after 22:00) a Campari and a plate of olives is a good bet. After dinner, a limoncello insures a good night's sleep.

That all said, right now I drink very little. But in writing this recall there is an unopened bottle of limoncello in the freezer right now :angel:
 
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GwenOnBass said:
Absolutely no whiskies for this gal. In the movie Mr. Rogers I think I recall the ship's doctor said scotch always reminds him of the taste of iodine. I'm firmly in that camp who agrees. And with a fair idea about doctored torpedo juice, I am gracious enough to all others to partake freely as I sit this one out.

Never was much a one for hard alcohol, myself. However raised a couple eyebrows last time my closest friend and I visited a nearby lemonade stand. For a gentleman admirer bought us a round. Actually he bought two rounds. Had to decide on the spot what to choose. It's a proletariat lemonade stand, not going to find a B&B in my coffee. Which I wholly recommend. Chose from what I could plainly see was available and said, tequila. Not driving, and there's a joke told about tequila and ladies. I politely decline to embarrass myself telling it. This night I am not the punchline to the tequila joke.

Raki is interesting in the same way aguardiente is interesting but generally I'll pass. In Italy after work and before dinner (that four or five hour window when dinner begins after 22:00) a Campari and a plate of olives is a good bet. After dinner, a limoncello insures a good night's sleep.

That all said, right now I drink very little. But in writing this recall there is an unopened bottle of limoncello in the freezer right now :angel:
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How'd that get there?
 
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G-Dog said:
Flooding was slow to run off, but the sun shone bright on Saturday. So we used official State Highway Map websites to avoid closed roads and made our way to see my mother-in-law. I missed the Bluegrass Jam but, hey, ... priorities. Too late, she passed just before we got there. So, with the rest of her family, we set about planning the celebration of her life. She had, herself, already selected, and paid for, most of the arrangements! We cried, we laughed, we hugged and cried some more, and laughed much more. Of course, she was a dedicated and loving mother. But, she was also an equally loving mother-in-law who put all those jokes to shame.

Today's church gig held an extra meaning for me. My MIL was a lifelong Sunday School teacher and choir member at her church. Today I felt she visited mine, again. This time, though, she didn't leave a hearing aid in the pew, as she did last time. ;)
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Man...
I hope my son-in-law writes something like that about me.
 
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GonePlaid said:
How'd that get there?
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Some good soul remembered I enjoy a limoncello and put a new bottle in the freezerino where I might find it. :wideyed: Should have slept well but Odin got me up at 1 for no reason I could see. While I got back to sleep, there's vital stuff to do today. So here we are on Blues Monday

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12BitSlab said:
I am kinda back from my health issues induced hiatus. ...
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That's on the positive side of the ledger!
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12BitSlab said:
... ... I’m still not 100%, but, like Sir Paul said, “I have to admit it’s getting better, a little better, all the time. ... ...
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(And working class John echoes, "It can't get no worse.") But, of course, it can always get worse! So it's worth celebrating when it doesn't!
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... ... It’s great to be back here.
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It's great to have you back, 12bit!

[Grumpiness] Now, Get Off My Lawn!! [/Grumpiness] ;)
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alaskaleftybass said:
New pictures of Jimi Hendrix discovered taken the day before he died.
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There's a lot of stuff out that supports the likelihood he was murdered. At the time the newspapers said there were four people in the ambulance; Jimi (still alive), Monika, the driver and his co-worker. The reported/accepted cause of death was suffocation due to inhalation of vomit, supposedly because they had Jimi on his back in the ambulance and he vomited and suffocated. Decades later it was discovered that Jimi was found dead and ALONE by the ambulance people when they got to Monika's hotel room. Monika was nowhere to be seen, and Monika was not in the ambulance. The phone call to the ambulance was made after 11AM when Jimi was "still alive" (not), and the autopsy put the time of death around 5:30-6:30AM, due to undigested food. So Jimi had been dead about 5 hours before the ER was called.
 
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