Thursday, April 24, 2008

The Bar - 8th Round (Thursday)

Come in and practice those pickup lines.

122 comments:

Julie Weathers said...

I'm starting to wonder about all this moving about. We aren't doing anything illegal are we?

Kiersten White said...

Cute puppy! And beautiful home, as well. I like the paint.

GutterBall said...

Legality is a matter of taste, Julie. *snerk*

I'm personally moving around because I can't stand still. Adult ADHD is a huge pain in the patoot.

Phoenix Sullivan said...

How can you tell which number is which?

Well, after all you've had to drink, maybe you can't.

Kiersten White said...

(Not really here, just popping in. Kids to get ready for bed, husband to pay attention to...)

Anonymous said...

Blogger overload. In honor of the newly titled round, "Ril, huh? Whadya do with the T and the H?"

Kiersten White said...

Oh man, and I just realized I may have made a fatal mistake by referring to the weredingo as a puppy. I mean, wow, looks ferocious and I'll bet it could kill me.

Anonymous said...

Oh, and the other L?

A. said...

Just hide the beer under your shirt, Julie :)

Robin S. said...

Where are the guys????

Gutterball, I'm so glad to see ya!

GutterBall said...

Dave said: There's too much anger in DragonBall-Z

I know. 'S why I like it. *wink* I've been accused of being too easy-going, so sometimes you just gotta watch some uber-powerful cartoon hotties blow something up.

Oops. There I go with the explosions again. And after I told myself I wouldn't throw a grenade. *sigh*

Robin S. said...

Ril, Wood, Dave, where the hell are you all?

Julie Weathers said...

Legality is a matter of taste, Julie. *snerk*

I guess, anything that tastes good is usually illegal, immoral or fattening.

Phoenix Sullivan said...

Call it a werepuppy, Kiersten.

ril said...

Sorry. Just had to go inspect the fixtures.

Wonderwood said...

I'm here, watching... waiting...

A. said...

Yeah, Robin, where ARE the guys... someone should be buying us drinks :)

Dave Fragments said...

That room filled up fast.

GutterBall said...

Back atcha, Robin! I was gonna say something in the other bar thread, but it moved on. *sigh* These threads are like a river in a poem -- always moving on faster than anyone can keep up with, and always changing in both tone and content.

Julie Weathers said...
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Wonderwood said...

LOL RIL, too much.

Phoenix Sullivan said...

Maybe the guys got lost on the way over. You know men and directions...

GutterBall said...

I guess, anything that tastes good is usually illegal, immoral or fattening.

And everything else causes cancer in lab rats.

Julie Weathers said...

You know all those bars that advertise ladies drink free? I figured out how they do it. Most of them don't get many ladies.

Anonymous said...

I apologize if I'm wrong about this, but I thought RIL was a dame.

Robin S. said...

hee hee

I love you all. I don't even care that the thread is windy and weird.

ril said...

Only in pantomime season.

GutterBall said...

Whaddup, S&M?

...

Wait...that didn't come out right....

Sandra Cormier said...

Kiersten, send me your address as soon as you have the kids to bed.

A. said...

Love you, too, Robin!

Julie Weathers said...

Let's try this again. A. remind me to tell you about the time I hid the elves between my knees sometime.

It's been a long time since I hid the beer in my shirt.

Sandra Cormier said...

My eyes are crossing.

Anonymous said...

Hiya GB! Just hangin' like a cobweb. You?

Robin S. said...

RIL - a dame? Ha! I say agin, HA!

Please, dear God, let me be right. I AM, right, right???

ril said...

You saw the picture, didn't you?

Julie Weathers said...

Whaddup, S&M?~

Well, as Martha would say, sticks and stones may break my bones, but whips and chains excite me.

A. said...

Um, Julie, I'm reminding you to tell me about the elves... I'd love to hear that story :)

Dave Fragments said...

I'll be back in about an hour. I have a few chores to do.

Robin S. said...

Oh, thanks Ashley, sweetie!

What time zones do we have?

I know Wood and I are Eastern. Dave is Eastern, right? Phoenix is Central. Ril is Tokyo- whatever that is.

How about everybody else?

Anonymous said...

The contractors were like 60 year old Lenny and Sqiggy.

GutterBall said...

Me? I'm gellin' like a felon. Kicked back, drinkin a beer. True. True.

A. said...

Eastern

Robin S. said...

What picture, ril?

GutterBall said...

I'm in Central time. And I don't have to get up so frackin early tomorrow morning because I put in a ton of overtime working for the secretary last night. Woot!

ril said...

Well I ain't gonna tell you. You have to find it. But it's out there.

Phoenix Sullivan said...

Some of you need to be writing poetry! We have 3 entries for the non-limerick on writing contest -- and one of those is Pete's and doesn't count. It's $20 up for grabs! When's the last time you made $20 for 10 minutes work. Well, okay, some of you ladies may not want to answer that, so when's the last time you've done it legally?

ril said...

No worries, S&M. I get that a lot.

Anonymous said...

I don't buy the Hat, ril.

GutterBall said...

It's all right if people think you're a girl, Ril. I do my best to keep a gender-neutral affect on-line. Saves me from a lot of really raunchy behavior. Heh.

Scott from Oregon said...

Oregon is California time

ril said...

Don't have to. You can rent 'em by the day.

Anonymous said...

Now that was masculine and funny, RIL. I'm still laughing, dude.

A. said...

Scott: I've never been to Oregon, but I've always wanted to live there....

In fact, I have subscribed to the Travel Oregon emails :)

Phoenix Sullivan said...

I used to think Gutterball was a guy. I fondly remember her telling me once she loved me after I used an explosion in a Continuation. Guy or gal, didn't matter -- I loved that someone loved me for blowing things up.

ril said...
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ril said...

Score one for testosterone; with clams.

Sandra Cormier said...

I figured he was a guy all along.

ril said...

It's a special day -- ah, two days -- right?

GutterBall said...

Aw, Phoenix. I may not swing that way, but I can love you for blowing things up anyway. That kind of love knows no gender.

Robin S. said...

I'm with you, phoenix. If someone loves my work, I love them!

Scott from Oregon said...

a- I prefer Northern Cal to Oregon.

But if you want to live on land you own, Oregon still has its land...

Julie Weathers said...

I, and some people at physical therapy decided we should all go see the Garth Brooks concert together.

After taking turns having someone sit in mostly vacant lawn chairs for two days, we finally got the call to appear to get tickets. I was wearing a calf-length leather coat and my Resistol hat. The day was miserable and raining solid, but there we all stood like idiots.

My $450 Resistol was starting to droop. The one umbrella we had between eight of us was being passed around. I brought a box of Keebler elf cookies for us to munch on and we were passing those around, too.

Two guys, who did nothing but travel around the country to Garth concerts, were standing next to us. I think both of them were feeling no pain and hadn't for a long time.

So, someone asks where the elves are. My hands were cold, so I stuck them in my pockets and I stuck the box of cookies between my knees where they would be dry.

Now, the two Garth groupies are kind of like Wayne and Garth, but one reminds me more of the character John Aston used to play on Night Court. Harry's crazy father.

I say, "Between my knees," in response to someone asking where the cookies were.

Garth groupies look at each other and then me in amazement.

Both of them together, "She has an elf between her knees."

The crazy father groupie grin at me and reaches down tenatively to open my coat. "Whoa, can I see your elf?"

Yeah, they were feeling no pain.

McKoala said...

Hi all! Family free and ready to party. I'll flit about a bit to catch up.

GutterBall said...

Julie, you wild woman! And here I thought playing "hide the monkey" at an office party was crazy.

Wonderwood said...

Great story, Julie. Truth can be funnier than fiction.

A. said...

So Julie really DID have an elf story :)

Robin S. said...

Hey McK!

I owe you a story part - it will be with you tonight. (My time).

I'll email.

Sandra Cormier said...

Great story, Julie!

GutterBall said...

McK! Whaddup?

ril said...

Nice story!

You know, I only found out about the Keebler elves last month when I saw a commercial on US TV.

Phoenix Sullivan said...

Don't go near the contests, Mck! There's a horrifying creature lurking there. Almost as horrifying as EE's werepuppy.

Robin S. said...

ril- what about two days?

McKoala said...

I'm good, thanks all! Have laryngitis, so the keyboard is the best place for me.

I was the seconder of the Elf pack in Brownies, while talking elves.

Julie Weathers said...

phffft, of course I had an elf story.

Yeah, physical therapy was fun.

Thanks Gball, Chumplet and WW.

ril said...

The EE anniversary party, of course!! Two days of getting to know each other.

Xenith said...

Ril = he & Gutterball = she? Oh dear :\

McKoala said...

OK, let's get some more tabs open, so I can check out more than one place... I've a feeling I know the horror you are referring to Phoenix.

Love the puppy! What was pic #3?

ril said...

Ril = he & Gutterball = she? Oh dear :\

Yeah, but net it all balances out.

Phoenix Sullivan said...

#3 was a skin shot. Too bad you missed it.

A. said...

Just teasing you, Julie!

Robin S. said...

Oh hell - I thought you were about to announce you were posting your pic, ril.

Robin S. said...

I'm gonna stop over at the pickup lines thing. Back in a few...

Anonymous said...

Robin, you are a female, correct?

McKoala said...

Phoenix, that's just cruel...

Am I allowed to enter the competition for my own cow?

Anonymous said...

#3 was a rosy palm, perfectly dry I might add.

GutterBall said...

Heheh, Xenith, you crack me up.

McKoala said...

Ril, I'd be so curious to see your picture. I've been posting with you forever, it seems, and the people I've known longest are the ones I'm most curious about!

ril said...

Man, look at the time already...

McKoala said...

Ah, anonymous, sweaty palms. I remember dancing at my end of school party and realising to my joy that the next guy I was going to hold hands with in the progressive dance we were doing was the guy I'd had a crush on for two years. And I had sweaty palms... Oh, no, what to do? I wiped my hands on my dress (nice), but to no avail, it was a hot night and the sweat kept coming. Then the moment came...my tiny hand slipped into his...and his palms were sweatier than mine. Sigh.

Never snogged him though. One of my friends did. She said he was 'average'. I never got over it. Hey, I'd still snog him now if he asked. Some teen passions never leave you...

Anonymous said...

LOL "Can I feel your elf?"

Now that's a pickup line?!

Julie Weathers said...

I ought to take a more recent picture one of these days. The only one I have is fourteen years old.

Phoenix Sullivan said...

Having separation anxiety, Mck? Sure you can enter since someone else is judging.

GutterBall said...

Heh, I don't do pictures. I get accused of being "cute", and it cheeses me off.

*scowl*

ril said...

As in "uh, yeah, you look, uh, cute"?

Phoenix Sullivan said...

Posted Pic # 3 in the sidebar for you Mck.

BTW all, EE will be back in the bar in about 10 minutes.

GutterBall said...

No, Ril, as in, "Awwww! Isn't she kyewt!!"

Insert scowls at will. Ugh.

Julie Weathers said...

EE's hand looks like he is getting ready to strangle someone or shooting a commercial for the creeping flesh.

Anonymous said...

McK! I have a sweaty palm story myself! (lest we forget that the actual palm in question was dry as a, a, bone?)It was the 6th grade last-day-of-school-roller-skating-party. Jeff was still kind of a shrimpy guy then and I was average size (on wheels, of course). Your description of the initial contact was so mind's eye, it was exactly as I experienced it, except we both just kept drying our hands on our jeans and then the rejoining was nice. I never dated or slogged him! But we did have a blast the next year in 7th grade English.

ME

McKoala said...

I'm looking at the zombie cow right now. I've perched him next to the computer. He's hideously cute. Overnight he moved into attack position, which is very scary.

That's a very pink palm. Looks small. Short fingers. Hmmm.

Robin S. said...

I may have actually seen a picture of you, Ril.

What do you think about that?

ril said...

I live in the land of cute right now. Regular cute just fades into the background.

Wonderwood said...

It's hard to gauge the size of the hand, there's nothing in the picture for scale.

Julie Weathers said...

I think the fingers are curved so they look shorter, but they are nice stout fingers aren't they?

Robin S. said...

Yes, stick, I'm a girl. Always have been. Got an innie, not an outie, babycakes.

McKoala said...

Ah, you're ME anon.

I remember every detail of the joining of the sweaty palms. Exactly where we were in the school hall, the mixed smells of sweat and dust, the echoing music. His little smile as our sweat blended...

Then he snogged my friend.

ril said...

I may have actually seen a picture of you, Ril.

It depends if it was on a blog, or on America's Most Wanted.

Blogless Troll said...

Hola

Anonymous said...

Robin, thanks, just checking. I question everything now.

Anonymous said...

Yes, the zombie cow is way cuter than that weredingo!

GutterBall said...

*crosses arms*

I don't think I'm cute. Never pretty or anything, but definitely not CUTE.

ril said...

Hola

"Innie" sounds more genteel, but I know what you mean.

Chris Eldin said...

I guess I'm here late. Missed half of the The Bar chat.
But I'd like to see a picture of Ril too.
:-)

Anonymous said...

BT! Hey, thanks for choosing my simile. It was nice to win the contest, but it meant even more with you as the judge.

Chris Eldin said...

Did EE ever post his shopping list? I waded through a few hundred comments but didn't find it?

GutterBall said...

Whaddup, BT? Welcome to the drunk tank! Er...the party!

Robin S. said...

Oh, hey Chris and BT!

What shopping list?

McKoala said...

Hola BT and RTB! I've just arrived too. Ssssh, don't tell anyone, bu I think they've been drinking.

Julie Weathers said...

When is the poetry contest over?

Phoenix Sullivan said...

Ready. Set. Move! 9th Round, please, for faster download and scroll time.

I'm going now to take the hand off the side bar. It's just scary over there all out of context. *shudder*

McKoala said...

Looks like I placed second twice yesterday. Must try harder...

Blogless Troll said...

No thank you Stick. You made it much easier.

Anonymous said...

Actually, there's something about your story that reminds me of the guy I had a crush on at youthgroup. At a retreat the 2nd day (when just about everyone except me was hungover) I realized I was sitting exactly behind this guy that I'd been fascinated with for at least a year. Somehow I ended up standing up exactly at the same time he did and his soup went all over his David Cassidy-like shirt of patterns and I was horrified! Needless to say, no opportunity for a slogg there!!

ME