Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[bobyoung53]

Heaving bosoms and bongs, at the least.

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I tried to watch Reefer Madness again a few months ago but couldn't get all the way through it. It used to show at the local drive in when I was a kid, I remember going there with my buddies all buzzed out and laughing at it, it's not as funny when straight.

 

[bobyoung53]

We enjoy Fish and Chips on Fridays. Sometimes I can convince my wife to make them with real lard. Healthy, no, tasty, you betcha...

I love greasy french fries just like the Fish & Chip place made them when I was a kid, they're all antiseptic now.

 

[bobyoung53]

fly lice,

I always thought it was 'Flied Lice'.

 

[bobyoung53]

Here's my thing with jello now. After my surgery in 1974 (a bunch of my GI tract removed at the Madison VA hospital), they put me on a clear diet for a couple of weeks. The first meal had green jello. The second meal had orange jello. Every meal after that for the next two f'ing weeks? Red jello. Gag me with a spoon.

I've not eaten jello since.

In AA terms, I've been sober for 47 years...and counting.

37 here with a little 2 year substitute slip about 12 years ago. So I now only claim 9 1/2 years.

 

[bobyoung53]

I may be the only US GOF that's never seen Seinfeld. I saw the promos and thought, nope.

And you've never played a P bass, you are one ornery ol' GOF .

 

[bobyoung53]

I’m hoping for a sunny weekend, that’s what they who get it wrong predict. It’s was raining for the last couple of days.

Being May 1, there will be Mayday protests. I’m hoping that the cops won’t be rerouting traffic in my neighbourhood. One year I was a couple of hundred feet from the parking entrance but they closed the road and wouldn’t let me turn in. Sometimes protesters get violent, they smash store windows and burn things. Mayday has turned into a day of protesting everything and all the professional agitators come out of their mother’s basements.

I’m hoping to go to BestBuy to check out Samsung TV’s. They have free internet TV channels built in which might be good enough to stop paying for cable. I watch a few shows but otherwise not a lot of TV. I mostly see it as a big screen computer monitor.

With Pizza Friday failed due to rain, it turned into HotDog Friday as a result of all this talk of Lil’ Smokies. I’ll try to make it Pizza Saturday today.

I watch Sling TV on my computer, I think it's 39.00 a month, of course all I watch is the news, I get my entertainment from HBO and Netflix, still all together a lot cheaper than basic cable. I have to use a VPN out here for most American TV. I even had to use it to get to a CVS website the other, this geofencing is getting ridiculous.

 

[bobyoung53]

"Everybody" said I should watch Seinfeld, and I relented when the show was in reruns. Sort of watched one, unimpressed, said so. Oh that episode, you should watch it again because that wasn't one of the good ones, "everybody" said. Some while later at some hotel somewhere, flipped through and stopped for a moment on Seinfeld. It is the same not-so-good episode I saw the first time. Found something better to do.

Seinfeld is one of those shows that has to grow on you, If I had gone by my first impressions of a lot of shows I would have missed out on a lot of funny or riveting stuff including 'Breaking Bad', 'The Sopranos', 'The Wire', 'Better Call Saul', 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and now 'Schitt's Creek', all rank up among the best shows I ever seen in my life, up there with The Honeymooners and I love Lucy.

 

[ZonieBass]

Three years to go to my next intimate date with a few ducolax and Vitamin M (Miralax).

While prepping for my last one, I swear I passed a snickers bar I ate in 6th grade.

 

[bobyoung53]

Nope. You're not the only one. Never saw Cheers, either. Was travelling so much that keeping up with series was impossible. But did visit the Cheers Bar on the Boston Commons. Total waste of time. Pure tourist trap. Nothing like the set in the show. Nor was the crowd. Nothing but a bunch of 30-something wannabes.

I don't even think that bar was named 'Cheer's until after the show and I'm pretty sure it had nothing to do with the show at all.

 

[bobyoung53]

But I do fondly remember All In The Family and MASH nights. Friends and family for both.

One of the first series cause such a fuss? Bonanza! I don't know if it was the first in color or not, but when neighbors bought the first color set around, Sunday night was potluck night at their house. Packed living room, watching a 4:3 color show on a BIG console tube set that already had a bit of a green blotch in the lower right-hand corner. No one cared. That was a real event.

Thanks for reminding me of it!

I never watched Bonanza but loved the theme song. 'Mash' was good, 'All in the Family' was hilarious, another favorite was 'Married with Children', 'Barney Miller' was also another one I really liked.

 

[bobyoung53]

I did make it through the entire Leave it to Beaver series a couple of years ago.

I remember watching that one prime time, 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' was great. 'Star Trek' 'The Flintstones' 'The Jetsons' Not only is my sense of humor refined so is my entertainment index.

 

[bobyoung53]

Reefer Madness is still one of the funniest movies we've seen.

Not unless you're primed for it, then it's really boring, I found out several months ago.

 

[bobyoung53]

The clock is ticking on my next colonoscopy. Three years to go to my next intimate date with a few ducolax and Vitamin M (Miralax). Last time around I took an "incomplete" with the first exam. This was followed by a two day fast before banishment to purge-atory

You mean they didn't make you drink a gallon of laxative? My first time I had to, was not fun.

 

[StereoPlayer]

Mowing the lawn...it getting harder every year.

 

[GwenOnBass]

You mean they didn't make you drink a gallon of laxative? My first time I had too, was not fun.

Oh yes, there is always the cold jug of lemony ... lemony ... vile lemony "stuff" in the icebox. My entire body shudders as I approach the final glasses of stuff.

 

[bobyoung53]

Oh yes, there is always the cold jug of lemony ... lemony ... vile lemony "stuff" in the icebox. My entire body shudders as I approach the final glasses of stuff.

That's it.

 

[SgtHulka]

I may be the only US GOF that's never seen Seinfeld. I saw the promos and thought, nope.

I've never seen a single episode either.

 

[notJaco]

Golytely?

 

[GwenOnBass]

Maybe I'm not old enough yet? At 71 I really don't feel grumpy, and even the aches and pains are tolerable. Maybe next year.

gabba gabba hey

 

[GwenOnBass]

Golytely?

Understanding like not yummy like