Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[GonePlaid]

I apologize to anyone from Alabama.....................

 

[5StringBlues]

Quick, throw me your NR T-Bird! I'll save it...............uh, l mean, you..............

 

[beans-on-toast]

Bang is a considerably better word for ! than "exclamation point".

The Definitive Ranking Of Robin's 359 Exclamations From 'Batman'

 

[5StringBlues]

Quick, throw me your NR T-Bird! I'll save it...............uh, l mean, you..............

@GonePlaid

Holy carp. I guess I should sleep. I coulda sworn you quoted the Bugs sawing off Florida gif.

 

[G-Dog]

The Definitive Ranking Of Robin's 359 Exclamations From 'Batman'

"Holy . . . . " - "Oh, shut up, already!"

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[5StringBlues]

The Definitive Ranking Of Robin's 359 Exclamations From 'Batman'

My God, what did we ever do before the internet?

 

[GwenOnBass]

My God, what did we ever do before the internet?

A card index and actual bound books. Weird, innit? Weird like dial telephones.

 

[GwenOnBass]

 

[5StringBlues]

Not to rant, but..........




These knuckleheads want to sell you a new phone every couple of years. We had the same damn phones for 18 years growing up in my house. My last flip ( yes I said flip ) lasted 10 years and I was pissed when it broke.



It's all aboot that mindless consumerism my friends.

 

[steve_rolfeca]

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This just made me smile.

Back in the day, I used to work in a 'phone company central office.

There were handsets with long curly cods all over the place, as well as an ample supply of small tie wraps and side cutters.

Our favourite prank was to tie the handset end of the cord to the other end, about an inch from the body of the phone.

If you arranged the cord just right, the tie wrap was invisible. All that remained was to hide around the corner, and wait for the fun to start.

If the next guy to grab a call at that station was in a hurry, he could quite easily get the body of the phone a foot off the desk before he realized what was happening. The look on their faces never got old...

 

[the harp unstrung]

Seems to me when I got this body new there was a lifetime warranty included. Except what I believed "lifetime warranty" to be wasn't exactly as imagined. Sounds good on paper ....

 

[the harp unstrung]

A card index and actual bound books. Weird, innit?

 

[LBS-bass]

RIP Mr. Douglas. You were one of my childhood heroes. There aren't many real Hollywood heroes anymore.

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Fabulous actor, and man, what a run! We should all be so lucky to hit 103. RIP, Kirk Douglas.

 

[LBS-bass]

And in the proper spirit of a Thursday - a day too lame to be a Friday and too indistinct to be a Monday - off to the vascular unit at the horse pistol this morning. They're measuring the blood flow in my foot for that surgery later this month. Kind of easier to see here in the fuzzy slippers (that Odin enjoys stealing) how that part of the ankle is just collapsed. No wonder it hurts

Seems to me when I got this body new there was a lifetime warranty included. Except what I believed "lifetime warranty" to be wasn't exactly as imagined. Sounds good on paper ....

Hoping the surgery works out well for you. Yeah, I had a lifetime warranty but I think that only covers basic functions like breathing, heartbeat, etc., and nowhere in the fine print does it say these functions are warranted to peak performance. I'm still achy from my fall three days ago but I guess I should just shut up and be glad it wasn't worse!

 

[Jeff Scott]

Trouble is, we're outliving our lifetimes......

There is truth in that.

 

[LBS-bass]

Roy saved Deckard's life because they were friends. Deckard's memories are truly lost, like tears...in the rain. Humanity = Memory: ... By saving a witness of his life in Deckard, he saves some of his memories, and therefore some of his humanity from death.

So very true, and poignant. It's one of those late life realizations that when we lose someone we shared a part of our life with, some part of us dies with them. All those little inside jokes and things only known to us and them, gone. Who else would understand those things? Only the last one left standing.

 

[Jeff Scott]

A card index and actual bound books. Weird, innit? Weird like dial telephones.

Hey, we proudly used our wall-mount dial phone that was in the studio! (Oh wait, we're not supposed to use exclamation marks anymore, right?)

I recently order several hardbound books! Oops, I did it, again. (that pesky exclamation mark thingy)

 

[beans-on-toast]

This just made me smile.

Back in the day, I used to work in a 'phone company central office.

There were handsets with long curly cods all over the place, as well as an ample supply of small tie wraps and side cutters.

Our favourite prank was to tie the handset end of the cord to the other end, about an inch from the body of the phone.

If you arranged the cord just right, the tie wrap was invisible. All that remained was to hide around the corner, and wait for the fun to start.

If the next guy to grab a call at that station was in a hurry, he could quite easily get the body of the phone a foot off the desk before he realized what was happening. The look on their faces never got old...

I have an old corded landline phone. It serves as the standard that I use to judge all cell phones by.

 

[the harp unstrung]

And in the proper spirit of a Thursday -

 

[5StringBlues]

I'm in.





This was the first song they played at the only show I ever got to go to. (1985) I had never heard it before and thought it was just beautiful. A week later I was given a bootleg cassette and played it till it wore out.

Still in my top 3 Dead songs.



EDIT: After checking the archives, it seems we missed the first set! The show still seemed pretty long but...................uh. Maybe it was me.