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That's not good enough. I want an explanation and I'm not getting off your lawn until I get one.
I Never refer to my cancer without prefacing it with 'prostate'.
There are millions of folk who will actually Die of cancer.
I will die With prostate cancer.
...We got this...
There are millions of folk who will actually Die of cancer.
I will die With prostate cancer.
...We got this...
I was under the impression that I appeared to ba a suave, sophisticated bon vivant. My mistake.
I read
today, and my Bride and I have a date to go see what Steven Spielberg has done with this wonderful, utterly cool story tomorrow afternoon! 
I recall that book being very popular back when I was 8 or 9, but our library only had one copy. I never got to read it.
Make the time...3 hrs. or so.
I'm betting you'll like it a lot!
That's not likely to happen very soon. I already have a large stack of unread books. Nearly a year ago, I left off somewhere in the middle of A Wild Sheep Chase, by Haruki Murakami. I meant to read all of his novels, but got distracted by life.
Aaaand now I want a peach. I did read that Dahl book.
Sometimes, one gets a little cranky - but not often. Early on, if one happened to be an unstable boat, perhaps with a v-shaped or u-shaped cross-section and a shallow draft, one would quite naturally be described as a cranky vessel - unsound and even dangerous.
Makes sense, especially if your passengers and crew end up in the drink, which they often did because, in even a light blow, with an inattentive skipper, cranky vessels would capsize and turn turtle readily surrendering their passengers and crew to Davey Jones. The word tippy, as in tippy canoe, also comes to mind, if you get my drift. Don't rock the boat, baby.
In more recent times, the term, cranky, was employed to describe the maddeningly foul mood of pioneering Australian shepherds who were being driven insane because they couldn't keep their straggling sheep from falling prey, in scrubby forested areas, to the Australian dingo. At least, that's one story. Cranky serves as a metaphor. Don't you just love maritime metaphors?
Today, the term's used to describe anyone grumpy enough to fanatically patrol even the smallest section of proverbial scrub and lash out like a junkyard dog at even the smallest intrusion. So, now, need I say it? "Get OFF my lawn!"
Makes sense, especially if your passengers and crew end up in the drink, which they often did because, in even a light blow, with an inattentive skipper, cranky vessels would capsize and turn turtle readily surrendering their passengers and crew to Davey Jones. The word tippy, as in tippy canoe, also comes to mind, if you get my drift. Don't rock the boat, baby.
In more recent times, the term, cranky, was employed to describe the maddeningly foul mood of pioneering Australian shepherds who were being driven insane because they couldn't keep their straggling sheep from falling prey, in scrubby forested areas, to the Australian dingo. At least, that's one story. Cranky serves as a metaphor. Don't you just love maritime metaphors?
Today, the term's used to describe anyone grumpy enough to fanatically patrol even the smallest section of proverbial scrub and lash out like a junkyard dog at even the smallest intrusion. So, now, need I say it? "Get OFF my lawn!"
Nope, that would be today since you just gave me the idea. Thanks! Brand new unopened package of slaughterhouse floor scrapins in the fridge right now... headed fer the fryin' pan... YUM!
I could be wrong but I think Fender named the Mustang bass after the region in Nepal where Shangri-La is supposed to be.
o.k....I'm wrong but I'd rather believe that than believe it was named after a horse.
Or maybe they named it after the car.......hell, I don't know....
o.k....I'm wrong but I'd rather believe that than believe it was named after a horse.
Or maybe they named it after the car.......hell, I don't know....
Sometimes checking in with TBOT is like entering the Twilight Zone.
I feel right at home..
I feel right at home..
If you're possessed by demons I'd get a lawyer.....because possession is nine tenths of the law....
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