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"The Gnome" I want to tell you a story About a little man If I can. A gnome named Grimble Grumble. And little gnomes stay in their homes. Eating, sleeping, drinking their wine. He wore a scarlet tunic, A blue green hood, It looked quite good. He had a big adventure Amidst the grass, fresh air at last. Wining, dining, biding his time. And then one day - hooray! Another way for gnomes to say Hoooooooooray. Look at the sky, look at the river Isn't it good? Look at the sky, look at the river Isn't it good? Winding, finding places to go. And then one day - hooray! Another way for gnomes to say Hoooooooooray. Hooooooooooooooray.

i like the early Floyd weirdness. Ummagumma, A Nice Pair, etc. and all of their albums, up thru The Wall, had at least a few songs I reeaally liked. sine then, they've sorta gone downhill, IMHO. well, maybe there were a couple good songs on that first Pink Gilmour album in '87 or whenever that was. wouldn't mind seeing Floyd again....

whether or not you climb n' shit, it's pretty low on the relative-danger-scale, compared to most addictive things. i've talked to a few different doctors about this very topic, thru-out the years. all said that you have to drink a LOT of coffee (like 10+ cups a day) to even begin to approach the level of it being a health risk. I think one said that the rule of thumb was: as long as the level of intake isn't curbing appetite enough to where you could risk anorexia..... you're OK.

i read an article in some magazine a while back (Vanity Fair?) about the Moscow underground... well, it was talking about various old cities and their undergronds, but it sort of focused on Moscow, which is about, what, maybe 1200 years old. sounded hardcore... the torture chambers of Ivan the Terrible and various other Czars.. and later, facilities of the KGB and their ilk... and much later, the strongholds of the modern Russian mafia. plus of course untold miles of old subway tunnels, sewers, other utility stuff, etc etc ... some used and some not. talked about the street gangs, pimps, hoodlums, (plus a few artist/anarchist types) etc who lived down there. I dunno, some of it sounded kinda hyped n' sorta speculative, but I'm sure a lot of it was true. also saw some TV documentary on the Paris underground... pretty much all the same stuff, except not quite as hardcore. French hoodlums and mafia are probably just a little "kinder and gentler" than their Russian counterparts. New York's underground, tho not quite as old and diverse, is nothing to sneeze at either. it was written up in a National Geo article about 5 or 10 yrs ago.

another site, same general schtick .... except that it does the job with text, not graphics. and unfortunately you can't switch websites on the fly.. you have to go here to do so. a tad more juvenile than the one posted above, but what the hell. it's fun.

wow that sucks TLG! over 2 yrs in Ballard & then 1.5 in Wallingford, I saw that shit happen at least twice in each neighborhood. wake up one morning with 5 or 6 cars on the block with rocks or bricks inside. buncha little shithead punks. unbelievable. never did actually happened to me, but I did once get my car stolen, from my apt. building's locked garage in Ballard... it turned up two weeks later, as many stolen cars do, but the stereo & Yakima racks were gone.. window broken ... etc etc.. some camping gear and tools too.

jmace, any chick who makes ya wait more than 2 or 3 dates very likely doesn't-like-sex-very-much. plain and simple. so no matter how many other qualities she may have... move on. why waste your time?

classic.

farthest north I've ever been was car-camping on the Yukon River, near Whitehorse. never will forget how damn big that river was.... we were probably over 1000 miles upstream from the ocean and it still looked like it had the same discharge as the mouth of the Skagit.

a long time ago, I heard it was impossible to sneeze and piss at the same time. for a long long time (months? years?) , I meant to test it, but kept forgetting to schedule the two acts for the same part of my day ... then one eventually day I WAS able to test it, and found that it WAS indeed possible to do both at the same time. what a let-down, huh? i hate it when an urban legend turns out to be just that. a legend. hmmm. how bout a sneeze during orgasm? could be interesting ....

yeah no kidding huh? we could all learn a lot from Japan.. they have to conserve ALL their resources, each and every one, just from having so many millions squeezed onto a country the size of like... Montana I think. one cool thing I've heard they do is that most(?) Japanese bathrooms have pipes which fill up the toilet tanks with the grey water from the sink drain.

seen recently: Drunk Chicks Dig Me

mmmmmmmm........ fried eggs.

yeah, I've seen/heard that saying too. for some reson, it conjures up images of a strict, pious, and persnickety (ugh.. one of those words you love to hate) Catholic school-marm. Or like a big fat recess monitor. back in like 4th or 5th grade, we had this one recess monitor who liked to use the word "No-no" -- as in, something that's not allowed. she'd say: "hey don't do ____, that's a no-no!!". my buddies and I used to think it was the dumbest word in the whole wide universe. PS... never went to Catholic school. just working on stereotypes here.

hopefully nodder lot.

well, check this tho... at work today for the first time, I noticed something odd... the system admins must have been clearing cookies and shit like that, cuz for this one other website which I can usually stay logged into, I kept getting logged off... and with CC.com, i voted on that survey (like I said, w/o having logged in), and then surfed a little and then left CC.com, and IE, then came back to it 1/2 hr later, within same IE session, and it had either reset the IP or cleared cookies on me or someshit, cause I was allowed to vote again. (I didn't tho.) fuckin strange. I voted again tonite tho, so I could check the progress...

it kinda sucks that you can take these surveys twice, once at work and once when you get home .... ya get a new IP address, ya get a new vote. I think it should be tied to login, not IP... or idunno, maybe it is, if you do indeed login. (i haven't logged in from work for about 6+ months) just for the record, this here unmarried male voted twice in this survey ... any other repeat-voters? speaking of um... heh, heh ... repeat voters. go Christine!!!!

jmace. What the fuck are you talking about? Are you just pretending to be a complete moron? Actually, I was hoping the gravity this weekend at Squamish would act on your scrawny form in a bad way. Just run along, pest, before someone drops a house on you. you guys are both fucking morons... the earth's tilt does change... it just takes a reeeeeeaaaaaaaallllllly long time to do so. and now, back to our regularly scheduled programming.

how 'bout movies that make ya think of summer?? BTW ... please excuse the annoying URL plastered on EVERY SINGLE GODDAMN ONE of these pictures...

I used to work at this one food co-op. About 1/3 of the staff were sorta big, middle-aged lesbians. I once overheard this conversation two of them were having about the milk delivery guy. Being a food co-op, some of the milk they sold was un-homogenized. Anyway, so one of them was kinda snippy about how the milk guy was referring to the homogenized milk as "homo" milk... she thought he was making fun of them or something. I hate to say it, but i had to try reeeaaally hard not to at the time. Amazing how some people in this world seem to be just looking for oppression and discrimination to complain about. Not saying that's true of anyone particular post, or poster, on this here thread. But, um.... yeah.

School's Out For the Summer, by Alice Cooper Well we got no choice all the girls and boys Makin' all that noise 'cause they found new toys Well we can't salute ya can't find a flag if that don't suit ya that's a drag School's out for summer .... school's out forever ... school's been blown to pieces No more pencils no more books no more teacher's dirty looks yeah Well we got no class and we got no principals and we got no innocence We can't even think of a word that rhymes School's out for summer ... school's out forever ... my school's been blown to pieces No more pencils no more books no more teacher's dirty looks Out for summer out till fall we might not come back at all School's out forever ... school's out for summer ... School's out with fever ... school's out completely (i wasn't in school this spring... but somehow that song just fits for any Friday, any time of year... )

yep. fa real. other'n that, the only one that comes to mind was the South Sister... and FYI, I'm talking about the mountain in Oregon, I'm not talking about my sister, you sick fuckos.

dood. no shit. but never mind his war crimes... anyone who can't friggin pronounce "nuclear" or "peninsula" shouldn't be allowed to run a country. plain n' simple.

very nice, glacier. speaking of dirt... this song, more than any other, speaks the word "summer" to me. Music Like Dirt, by Desmond Dekker We're having a party I hope you all hearty We're having a party I hope you all hearty Sing it to me children: Rom bomp a loo bomp bomp bomp ballooey Rom bomp a loo bomp bomp .. intensify Rom bomp a loo bomp bomp bomp ballooey Rom bomp a loo bomp bomp Music like dirt for your money's worth Music like dirt for your money's worth Girls like sand* to match every man Girls like sand to match every man Oh, girls can't hide, from intensified guys.. Music that stays on, for exxttrra daaayys! Intensified boys with thoughts full of joy Intensified girls with their fancy curls Sing it to me children: Rom bomp a loo bomp bomp bomp ballooey Rom bomp a loo bomp bomp .. intensify Rom bomp a loo bomp bomp bomp ballooey Rom bomp a loo bomp bomp *(I always thot he was saying "sun", which is why it makes me think of summer) .... and then there's all the times I've listened to it in parking lots of summertime reggae shows.

Former presidents Clinton, Carter, and Nixon are on the Titanic. It strikes an iceberg and starts to sink... all hell and mayhem is breaking loose... people are running all over the place, scrambling for lifeboats, praying, holding their loved ones tight, etc, etc... Carter yells: "Save the women and children first!" Nixon says: "Fuck the women and children!" Clinton says: "... but, but.... do you think we have enuf time?"