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By: Homer The Brave
Date: 5/9/99 5:03:08 PM
# Replies: 94
...Being The Story Of Homer The Brave's Excruciatingly Long Drive From Seattle, Washington, To Nashville, Tennessee, And Beyond.
Response #1
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 5/9/99 5:24:44 PM
It began as a lazy Sunday morning's ruminations... I had been planning to go to the annual July 4th Mitchum family reunion near Nashville, TN, but I thought that perhaps I would take the train or fly. But as I began adding up the distances, and plotting what was interesting along the way, I realized that driving was the only way to go. I have net.friends all over the country, and I could spend some time with some of them as I made my path ever eastward. In fact, I might be able to convince a few of them to ride along to the next city. The CyberHippie Transit System.
About this time, I was going to auto auctions to find a cheap car, so I just concentrated my efforts on finding a suitable van. The universe conspired with itself, and I ended up with a really good deal on a VW Vanagon. Perfect for cross-country travel. Gas prices went up with the undeclared war, but c'est la vie. Maybe it'll be over by the time I get out on the road.
So if any of you folks out there in internet-land are wanting to ride along, please to let me know. And while I don't think I'll be making it to Texas (though I might anyway), I will probably make it to Atlanta. Other cities I plan to hit: Chicago, Denver, Kansas City, St. Louis, Columbus, OH, and of course Gnashville. Probably not in that order. If anyone has any travel stories/warnings/rants/reccommendations/etc to share about any of these places, or the places in between, please post 'em.
I plan to take the van on a shakedown cruise to San Fransisco and back in early June, to visit a bunch of net.friends there, including one who will be visiting from Singapore. Then a few weeks later, it's The Big Trip. I plan to spend about three weeks on the road and In Your House.
Updates posted here. :-)
Response #2
By: Ralf
Date: 5/10/99 8:04:53 PM
Lemme know when you'll be in town.
*I* will be in Nashville on or about July 7th. That's the National Environmental Health Association's annual show, and we'll be hawking our warez from a booth. Seriously.
I plan to wear a really loud plaid jacket, call everyone "Sport", and rub my hands together constantly, as I try to calculate how much money's in that there wallet.
Response #3
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 5/11/99 2:57:10 AM
Hmm. Maybe our times there will overlap. I'll do a Charles Kuralt, and interview you.
"So, do you think anyone here really gives a shit about the environment?"
Response #4
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 5/11/99 2:25:16 PM
Well Homey, if you DO end up making it anywhere near Texas, please let us know, and in my case, as well in advance as possible. Would really be great to see you again.
Response #5
By: Da Sissop
Date: 5/12/99 6:42:42 AM
Ooh! There's an email hoax floating around at work, and while you're in Columbus maybe you can officially disprove it. In fact, maybe this is your actual purpose for visiting Columbus, your mission from God:
A woman was shopping at the Tuttle Mall in Columbus. She her car and saw she had a flat. She got her jack and spare out of the trunk. A man in a business suit came up and started to help her. When the tire had been replaced, he asked for a ride to his car on the opposite side of the mall. Feeling uncomfortable about doing this, she asked why he was on this side of the Mall if his car was on the other. He claimed he had been talking to friends. Still uncomfortable, she told him that she had just remembered something she had forgotten to pick up in the Mall. She left him and went back inside the Mall. She reported the incident to the mall security and they went out to her car. The man was nowhere in sight. Opening her trunk, she discovered a briefcase the man had set inside her trunk while helping her with the tire. Inside were rope and a butcher knife! When she took the tire to be fixed, the mechanic informed her that there was nothing wrong with her tire, that it was flat because the air had been let out of it!Please be safe and not sorry. Although this happened in Columbus, it could happen anywhere. Just a warning to always be alert. Sometimes that feeling in your gut is the voice of God. Never let your guard down.
Pass this on to all the women you know!! No matter what age the girls in your life...they all need to hear this. Pass it on to a few men who would also pass it on to women they know as well.
Response #6
By: sooz
Date: 5/13/99 9:42:05 AM
www.urbanlegend.com, Fang.
Response #7
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 5/13/99 11:21:43 PM
Actually, the reason I'm going to Columbus (Ohio, that is) is someone I know as Zarabeth. And also, I have a handy dandy web guide to cool things in Columbus.
Response #8
By: sooz
Date: 5/14/99 9:32:08 PM
My brother's in Columbus. His baby's sick and in the hospital. For real, honest. Go visit. Look for Alexander Presley in the baby ward.
Response #9
By: Cleotis
Date: 6/27/99 6:49:45 PM
Cleotis lives in Gnash Vegas, and has a sleeper-sofa. So, if you need me to bail your ass out of jail, or whatever... :)
Response #10
By: The Sorcerer
Date: 6/27/99 6:55:08 PM
Gnash Vagas.... Wasn't that an 80's tv detective show?
Sorc'(Rev)
Response #11
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 6/28/99 7:48:30 AM
strangely, i will be road trippin' to houston from washington (dc, not state) starting on the july 4th. more than likely i'll be passing through atlanta round the 6th or 7th. any possibility of crossing paths?
Response #12
By: Ralf
Date: 6/28/99 9:13:30 PM
Heh... my whole fambly's leaving town.
I'm in Nashville from the 5th thru the 7th, then at Jeckle Island, GA the rest of the week. Tradeshows! (Read all about it at www.webbstarr.com)
Mary (and parasite) will be in HouTx/GalVez the same week, attending to important family matters like shopping and prancing on the beach.
So alas, no. Can you stop by and feed our cats, though? :-)
Response #13
By: sooz
Date: 6/29/99 12:11:24 AM
Fang, please post a calendar immediately of each Nunnery-ite's itenerary, so we can organize our lives more efficiently.
Response #14
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 6/29/99 11:07:02 PM
Anyone heard where Homer is?
Not that I care, but I'm sure SOMEBODY does.
;)
Response #15
By: sooz
Date: 6/29/99 11:38:05 PM
He's off somewhere having nice thoughts of you and me, Gowie.
Response #16
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 6/30/99 11:49:53 PM
to celebrate independence day, homer is trippin' and saluting the main street flag in each town claiming it houses "The largest ball of (fill in the blank)"
Response #17
By: Da Sissop
Date: 7/1/99 7:00:51 AM
Holdasec... newsflash coming over the wire... Homer was observed driving erratically... no, sorry, make that erotically... on a desolate stretch of Alabama highway (oh sheesh that really narrows it down, eh?)... He was pulled over and taken into custody when sherrifs deputies discovered the van contained, as Homer described it, "The World's Largest Ball of Hemp".
Response #18
By: Ralf
Date: 7/1/99 7:37:49 AM
So, he's in jail??!
Response #19
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 7/1/99 12:38:50 PM
Yes, I'm in jail. It's kinda cool, too. I get to live out all my homosexual bondage fantasies here.
Actually, I'm in Nashville, where I get to live out all my I'm-A-Freak-Who-Gets-Stares fantasies.
Response #20
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 7/2/99 10:21:03 AM
you're a freak who gets stares? since when, homer? Based on looks alone, i'd guess you were the long-haired post-hanson wanna-be-teenage-idol/rock-star type. if anything would fit into nashville, it'd be THAT, you'd think.
Response #21
By: rorschach
Date: 7/2/99 9:49:54 PM
What is this about Cleotis being in Gnash Vegas? Is this a play on nashville or has he actually MOVED? man I swear! you get real busy for a month or so and all HELL breaks loose.....
Response #22
By: Cleotis
Date: 7/4/99 6:41:00 PM
Perhaps you've been busy since 1992 when I moved here, Stan?
:-)
Response #23
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 7/5/99 10:29:25 AM
So the deal is that I've been sitting here sleeping and watching TV a *lot*, and I have to say that I'm rather annoyed by the fact that every third TV station in Nashville is Christian evangelism. Two out of every one radio station, too.
I mean, I have no problem with Christianity, really, but if someone from the media pumps the image of the blood of the lamb into my head again, I might just go postal and start speaking in tongues... and shooting in bullets. I've heard doctrines of faith, doctrines of hatred, doctrines of love, doctrines of salvation, doctrines of... well, really freaky things like the cosmological significance of the pyramids in Egypt... I really miss the 'right on's and 'it's all good's of Seattle.... sigh.
I mean, sheesh! I found a Thai restaurant, walked in, and was seated next to a bunch of Christian rock guys having a theological discussion! Maybe they need to change the name of Opryland to TheologyLand ("SEE The 6000-year Old Earth! HEAR The Second Law Of Thermodynamics Misapplied!")
As far as my appearance and getting stares: "I really don't know what people see when they look at me, but all I know is, IT'S CUTE." --Kate Bornstein, author, playwrite, transsexual.
Response #24
By: rorschach
Date: 7/9/99 11:05:06 PM
you touch on a very sore subject with me as well. (as most of you around here know already...) Some "Right Thinking" individual at work gave me this sack of shit called a book titled "The Face of (something or other, I forget what)" that supposedly proved that science and anthropology and paelentology, and all that other stuff was bullshit and it did so, not by pointing to any objective fact that could be repeatably observed, but by quoting various and sundry people about what they THINK instead of what is observable....my response to that individual after reading it was that the author and anyone narrowminded enough to listen to this drivel without pointing up the errors of fact, logic, and reason contained in said publication should be heavily medicated and locked away until the proper dosages are worked out....because they are obviously WHacked out! hey, you want to say the earth is only 6000 years old? you better have something more to rely on than somebodys opinions...and you better have a damned good explanation for all the evidence that would suggest otherwise.....and quoting from a manuscript that was passed down by word of mouth for centuries before people learned to write doesn't strike me as reliable evidence....or you are NOT going to have a snowball's chance in hell of convincing me....
Response #25
By: Cleotis
Date: 7/9/99 11:21:04 PM
There's this thing called "faith" that causes you to believe the unbelievable, Ror.
It's very cool once you try it.
Response #26
By: Ralf
Date: 7/10/99 10:52:30 AM
Sorry, "faith" is not something you can induce in somebody. Either you have it or you don't. Suggesting that he "try it" implies:
(a) that our dear friend Rorschach doesn't believe in anything (a fact neither stated in nor implied by his posting history, and quite easily refuted since it has been demonstrated time and time again he believes in ALL SORTS of weird stuff I'd prefer to leave alone),
(b) you, my dear Devo devotee, are experiencing "faith" (which in and of itself is grand, but telling people about it strikes me as a bit holier-than-thou)
and
(c) something else that I was going to mention, no doubt quite pithy and stunning in its elegance, yet which I have mysteriously forgotten.
Response #27
By: sooz
Date: 7/10/99 4:45:24 PM
Wowzers. DaveRalf, I've never seen you post such.
The only thing I have to say on this topic is that, well, it's not on the topic. Cleo: We'll be in Gnashville towards the end of the month, and would be honored to meet y'all for pie and coffee or something.
Response #28
By: rorschach
Date: 7/10/99 11:09:40 PM
Cleo, lemme backup a bit and apologise to those of you of the christian inclination by stating that what I am trying to say is, every person's belief system is personal and thier own. I seriously doubt in all the miserable planet you will find two individuals that share exactly the same belief system.
This individual that I was talking about came right out and told me repeatedly that I was stupid for thinking the way I do and offered me this drivel of a book to try and prove to me I was wrong. This infuriated me so much I actually accepted the challenge of reading said book if only to get a good laugh out of it, unfortunately the author of the book wouldn't know a scientific method if it came up and bit him on the ass. Needless to say there was little laughing involved.
I am perfectly willing to entertain ideas that differ from my own if there is some reasonable evidence, or even unreasonable evidence (assuming there was at least a healthy dose of logic to go along with it), that would support the theory. But what really rankled me about this person is that, except for being an ass to work with, he is a rather brilliant engineer.
Engineers are essentially applied physicists, and as such must operate in a logical scientific manner, but when we spoke and I pointed out every flaw of his logic that I encountered, (and mind you there were quite a few) his response was always the same... the famous last words.... FAITH.....
Now, Faith and logic generally are on diametrically opposite sides of the spectrum. So far logical thinking has saved my bacon far too many times to be discounted out of hand. Like most humans, I generally stick to what works...until it is evident that it doesn't. So far, logic has worked every time.
Response #29
By: Da Sissop
Date: 7/11/99 8:25:50 AM
Damn you, Spock.
Response #30
By: sooz
Date: 7/12/99 2:41:33 AM
Please explain the logic in loving a baby that spits up, cries incessantly and won't sleep when YOU want to sleep. This happens every day with parents all over the planet, and it's not logical. Yet, it happens. Love. No logic involved.
This leads us to the Christianity thing... it's based on unconditional love going on... God's love for us, our love for Jesus, and our job being to love one another.
Response #31
By: Ralf
Date: 7/13/99 10:45:27 AM
> Please explain the logic in loving a baby that spits up, > cries incessantly and won't sleep when YOU want to sleep. > This happens every day with parents all over the planet, > and it's not logical. Yet, it happens. Love. No logic involved.
That's maternal love. Human beings are wired up that way as a survival mechanism, since if we didn't "love" the little rascals we'd leave them on a rock in the sun.
Every day I am driven by internal desires to find and eat food. Do I love the food? Not really. Same kind of biological drive.
Loving somebody because you don't have to is the most dangerous kind of love, and is why county music is so popular.
> This leads us to the Christianity thing... it's based on > unconditional love going on... God's love for us, our love > for Jesus, and our job being to love one another.
See, I was with ya right up to the god stuff. You can have love, charity, forgiveness, and faith all without religion.
Try an experiment: practice your faith for awhile without thinking or speaking "God", "Jesus" or any of the other dogmatic memes we've been infected with. Strip away all the marketing hoopla and THEN come back and tell me about faith and unconditional love.
Response #32
By: sooz
Date: 7/13/99 10:58:13 PM
Yes, yes. I'm not in the market for religion either, as it gives me the willies.
We all practice faith daily. You have faith that when you sit on that chair in front of your desk, it will hold your butt firmly in place in the air. You have faith that tomorrow morning, the sun will come up in the east. These are based on experience. I have faith that my prayers are reaching an entity, because based on experience, it freakin' works.
But religion, ick. Jesus didn't even like religion.
Response #33
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 7/14/99 2:35:16 PM
Religion is like language... Without language (particularly written language), we wouldn't be able to pass wisdom along to others. Without religion, there'd be no framework in which to understand, appreciate, and flex the muscles of spiritual experience.
But... You've got to choose your spiritual grammarian carefully. :-)
Response #34
By: Iguana
Date: 7/14/99 2:49:26 PM
You know...this is funny because this didn't really start about faith...and Ror isn't upset so much because this guy has these views. It's because this guy keeps pushing his beliefs onto Ror...and apparently has an absolute lack of respect for Ror because he keeps doing it even when Ror is try to nicely tell this person to stfu.
Response #35
By: Cleotis
Date: 7/14/99 9:18:26 PM
Ror, no need for apologies or explanations. One of the byooteemus things about the Nunnery is that we all have about a zillion different beliefs, (or "schools of thought" if you will). A big part of the comeraderie that still exists after so many years is the fact that we can all discuss it over a cold brew and respect each other in the morning...
I incorrectly and indirectly implied, as Ralf so eloquently pointed out, that "if you don't believe in what I do, then you don't believe in anything." I was wrong about that.
I think Iguana is right on track here. The real thing that was wrong was this guy you know who shoved a book in yuor face and called you an idiot for believing something different than him. I get SO pissed off when people start spewing that hate/idiocy shit in the name of God. It makes people who really DO love God look like fools.
Back to the topic, one thing that I find interesting about modern science's acceptance of evolution is that they choose to ignore the fact that Charles Darwin didn't even believe that man evolved. He said that in order for man to have evolved from a more primitive life form, that there would have to be millions - even hundreds of millions of transitional forms of beings in the fossil records. To date, NO transitional fossils have been found. Let alone millions or hundreds of millions.
That aside, I think my biggest issue with the idea of evolution is that in it's most simplistic form, it just doesn't make sense. Evolution would imply that by scattering a bucket of bolts on a hillside that in millions and millions of years, this bucket of bolts would turn into a BMW.
Devo was right. De Evolution. They said their music was "the sound of things falling apart". Backwards progress. Entropy. We're all falling apart from the moment we reach maturity. Evolution is 180 degrees from this observable truth.
And while I'm rambling, I would like to highly recommend the CD by New Radicals. Man, what a great CD!
I'm finished now.
Response #36
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 7/15/99 12:11:26 AM
So, now would be a good time to mention that the New Radicals are breaking up because the lead singer wants to just be a songwriter again?
C'mon, people, I'm waiting for the screams of "GODLESS HEATHEN" and "BRAINWASHED JESUS FREAK" to be bandied about.
Response #37
By: Iguana
Date: 7/15/99 10:12:14 AM
What? My pile of nuts and bolts isn't going to turn into a Jag? Damnit...and I just threw 4 brand new tires on the pile!!! Crap!
Response #38
By: Ralf
Date: 7/15/99 3:33:31 PM
Sigh.
I hereby pull the Religious Discussion Emergency Stop cord. Please remain in your seats until the borad comes to a complete and safe stop.
We will resume our journey just as soon as the Creation-as-Science track blockage is removed and normal, un-beaten-to-death topics are restored.
Thank you.
Response #39
By: sooz
Date: 7/16/99 10:45:55 AM
I love Ralf.
Response #40
By: Cleotis
Date: 7/16/99 7:28:53 PM
Would this be a good time to whip out my nipples?
Response #41
By: Da Sissop
Date: 7/17/99 5:24:41 PM
Only if you brought enough for everybody.
Response #42
By: Iguana
Date: 7/19/99 1:30:17 PM
There's no BGH in those things is there?
Response #43
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 7/20/99 12:15:11 PM
So, where's Homer's big ass now?
Response #44
By: Tess Trueheart
Date: 7/21/99 5:19:38 AM
Ralf..how is Mary doing?
Response #45
By: Ralf
Date: 7/21/99 2:55:29 PM
Fat and getting fatter.
Fat, fat, fat. RO-tund. Like, stuffed fulla fetus. EE-normous.
See, I can say that cuz she's pregnant. Any other time and she'd slap me into next week...
They hooked up a sonar beepie thing to her tum last week, and we actually saw blurry motion pictures of ...something... moving around inside her. Sure looked like a parasite to me. I asked the doc when it was going to awaken and start gnawing Mary's internal organs and doc got this funny look on her face and checked her clipboard and looked like she wasn't sure if I was serious or not before ignoring my heartfelt plea for reassurance.
Jeez, some people.
Oh, and it's a girl.
We're going to name her Jessie "The Baby" Inutera.
Response #46
By: Da Sissop
Date: 7/21/99 5:12:59 PM
You know all of that colic stuff is fake, right? They're all just acting.
How about Pampers Huggies Paulsen? You can just call her "Pam."
Response #47
By: sooz
Date: 7/21/99 7:12:14 PM
And speaking of diapers, forget 'em. They're a secret plot to destroy the world with unfriendly environmental bad things.
Instead, go for the seven day sack that ties at the neck. Then hose her down in the back yard at the end of the week.
Response #48
By: Roxanne
Date: 7/21/99 10:39:39 PM
Homer!! If you ever get near Nashville again, PLEEZE tell me! I live a mere 80 miles from Nashville!!!
*pout*
Response #49
By: Ralf
Date: 7/21/99 11:23:21 PM
Laminated Pampers, check.
Garden hose, check.
Prozac, check.
Oh, I've recently discovered the wonders of gin. Thank GOD I'm not the one carrying the fetus in this relationship...
Rox: an 80 mile radius around Nashville is a large geographic area. Where abouts do you live? We're in Atlanta.
Response #50
By: Tess Trueheart
Date: 7/22/99 5:22:05 AM
Ralf..how cool! I'm excited for you both, and very pleased it's not me starting over again! Muhahahaha...Smooch!
The only man on our team at work, wife, is due any day now. We gave him a baby shower, made him open the gifts, etc. He is a bundle of nerves right now, but we take good care of him. Hehee
Court is starting UNT in the fall and Jen is a Jr this year. Can you believe it?
Response #51
By: Da Sissop
Date: 7/22/99 6:54:14 AM
Jeesh, with a name like Wife I bet he got teased mercilessly as a kid.
Response #52
By: Ralf
Date: 7/22/99 1:17:12 PM
Then I guess "Biatch" is out...
Response #53
By: Roxanne
Date: 7/22/99 4:37:42 PM
Ralf: I'm in Huntsville, AL.
Tess: Courtney still wanting to pursue med school?
Response #54
By: Tess Trueheart
Date: 7/23/99 5:22:24 AM
Yep. They took a field trip to the morgue for a little hands on time. She thought it was the greatest thing, and like a small child back from the petting zoo, told me excitedly about all the things they got to see and feel. She really enjoyed squeezing a gall bladder and feeling what gall stones are like from the external since she already had 1st hand experience with how they feel internal. Shiver...
Response #55
By: Ralf
Date: 7/23/99 7:36:35 AM
"...and this is a human spleen."
"oOoooH! Squishy!"
"Careful! Don't drop--"
"Whoops!"
"Oh, sweet jeezus! Somebody... somebody catch that spleen!"
"Tee hee!"
"It's NOT A HACKYSACK! Return the spleen immediately!"
Response #56
By: Roxanne
Date: 7/23/99 12:14:13 PM
Like mother like daughter?
Dr. Courtney: "We are going to operate on your intestine-thingy. I will ask the nurse to bring me the cutting-thingy. Then, for a month after the operation, you'll have to wear an ostomey-thingy."
;)
Response #57
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 7/23/99 1:39:55 PM
My big ass is in a little bedroom community between Boulder and Denver, Colorado. I'm staying with some net.friends from TinyTIM.
Rox, had I known...
Since I last reported in, I've been to Columbus, Ohio, visiting more Timsters, I've eaten my first Steak 'N Shake which was not the experience I was hoping for, I've ridden my bicycle through downtown St. Louis to visit the big-ass arch which is a sight to behold.. and it has an underground complex right down underneath it where you are indoctrinated into believing that westward expansion was a happy and fun thing for everyone involved, I've stayed a few nights in Kansas City with another Tim person who took me for KC barbeque (mmm), and I've grown faint with delirium brought on by extreme heat in central Kansas.
Boulder is as funky as ever... Lots of rich white hippie wannabees. As the Firesign Theater says: "There's a seeker born every minute."
The next leg of this journey will be US highway 40 through the Rockies. There's gotta be a cybercafe in Steamboat Springs, right?
Response #58
By: Ralf
Date: 7/24/99 11:19:01 AM
I'd use 1st gear thru them Rockies.
I've been to Denver a few times in the past few years, and it always struck me as such a BROWN town. The ground is brown, with little vegetation. The buildings are brown. The AIR is brown from smog.
I always got a really bad vibe whenever I visited... it's the only place I've been where I hated it for irrational reasons before I got off the plane.
What's your psychic take on Denver, Homey? Have all the cool people fled to Boulder?
Response #59
By: Tess Trueheart
Date: 7/25/99 8:32:14 AM
Roxy..she's not much on the thingy issues, but if you wanna see her come unglued just say "same difference." You'll get a ten minute lecture on how things can be the same, or things can be different, but you can't have the same differece! Hehe..it's fun.
Response #60
By: Roxanne
Date: 7/25/99 10:58:00 AM
I always thought that "same difference" meant that the difference between two things stayed constant no matter which way you looked at the difference. Sort of like taking two measurements of the difference and finding that the two measurements were the same.
The one that gets me is "close proximity". To be in proximity to something *means* you are close to it! So to say "close proximity" is redundantly repeating yourself! :)
Or the equally annoying "I could care less". The correct phrase is "I *couldn't* care less" which means you really don't give a damn.
Oh well, same difference.
And how come "fat chance" and "slim chance" both mean the same thing?
Response #61
By: sooz
Date: 7/25/99 11:08:30 AM
And why do people over-use the word "basically"? I know a woman that begins nearly every sentence. Basically, it drives me nuts.
Response #62
By: Da Sissop
Date: 7/25/99 1:25:09 PM
So she goes, "Basically it drives me nuts." And then I go, "You shouldn't let it get to ya."
Response #63
By: Jerichos Burlap
Date: 7/25/99 4:47:04 PM
Roxanne, fat chance and slim chance are pre-PC hang-overs. The proper response these days is Proportionate Chance. Folks are just slow to follow the herd when the grazing is good.
Response #64
By: sooz
Date: 7/25/99 11:38:56 PM
Then there's "ya know what I'm sayin'?" Richie tends to say "Yes, I know what you're saying, so get on with it and say it."
Response #65
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 7/27/99 11:49:48 AM
Hey! I've been censored! I posted a message right i want a senate investigative committee NOW.
Response #66 *I* saw the message. Response #67 Fat chance of that, sooz. It's more likely that you're recalling when Roxanne mentioned the fat chance/slim chance idiosyncrasy.
Gowan, did you actually *see* it posted, or did you just hit "Submit" and then it never returned results?
Otherwise I'm completely baffled. Response #68 Dammit, Fang. I was working on making his conspiracy theories grow. Now you went and ruined things with the TRUTH. Sheesh. We all know where THAT'LL get you in life. Response #69 Fang told me: he deleted the message. Response #70 Arrr, and I would've gotten away with it if not for that meddling kid. Response #71 Denver sucks. Boulder is neurotic. Indeed, all the cool people have fled for Boulder. While I was there, they were having a bit of a flap over vagrants who hawked papers from intersections. On the one hand, they provide a useful service, are employed, and represent the lower- and underclasses who are otherwise unrepresented within the Boulder community (Arapahoe county, where Boulder resides, actually took out ads luring poor people to live there. The More-PC-Than-Thou crowd was concerned about a lack of diversity within the community. It seems everyone's too rich.). On the other hand, they're creepy poor people who make rich people uncomfortable. Also there's some bullshit excuse about how the cops' resources are 'tied up' in dealing with the problems associated with street corner vendors (whatever those problems may be). People say the west coast is flaky...
Response #72 Maybe the Nuns could sponser a bag lady for the City Council - broaden the front, so to speak...
Response #73 Everybody sing with me:
Back in... Seattle... Again...
Response #74 Austin, honest-to-your-particular-god, has an ex-flower-on-the-corner salesman-type-vendor as a City Councilman. Response #75 Queen of the hymen?
Sooz, I never knew!
Response #76 If she's Hymen Queen, I'm Lord of the Pants. Response #77 Arguments?
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Response #79 So, like, here it is May 24, 2000, 11 months after I set out on the last trip, and I'm about to set out on another one. This one will be more direct and to-the-point, but will still entertain near-the-beaten-path excursions. Response #80 Hey! I live in Houston! Response #81 Hey! I'm not so far from Houston! I'd drive there for a beer, if the timing were right. Response #82 But.. but... Zane hasn't joined the militia? Damn. Response #83 Oops. I seem to have posted in the wrong thread. Response #84 Like I said in the other thread... :-) Response #85 So here we are, Homer and I re-united, yes, you once knew me as Meave the Magnificent. But I think I've developed a sense of humor since those days......maybe. Response #86 [Spock's Brain] Response #87 I think by the time she was a regular Nunizen, you were either in Austin or Atlanta. Response #88 "maeve? Maeve? What is Maeve?" Response #89 Nada lot. Mostly work. And I'm driving this. Response #90 Ah. Well that explains it. I was just concerned it was somebody I shoulda recognized but didn't. Response #91 Not too bad. It's got 6300 miles on it now, and only three obnoxious scrapes: Response #92 Looks like a giant yellow-lipsticked 40-foot woman kissed it. Response #93 I was nowhere near the elantra....I swear. Besides, I prefer orange lipstick. Response #94 oh, that explains that mark behind my kneecap.
By: sooz
Date: 7/27/99 3:25:05 PM
By: Da Sissop
Date: 7/27/99 8:06:39 PM
By: sooz
Date: 7/27/99 11:16:14 PM
By: Ralf
Date: 7/28/99 6:35:46 AM
By: Da Sissop
Date: 7/28/99 6:48:30 AM
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 7/29/99 12:46:55 AM
By: Jerichos Burlap
Date: 7/29/99 2:02:13 AM
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 7/29/99 10:03:51 PM
By: sooz
Date: 8/3/99 5:18:00 PM
Susan, queen-of-the-hyphen
By: Cleotis
Date: 10/9/99 5:54:31 PM
By: Ralf
Date: 10/11/99 7:51:24 AM
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 10/12/99 10:26:21 PM
Anyone?
By: Shadow Sprite
Date: 10/13/99 8:32:41 AM
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 5/24/00 9:35:50 PM
I'm travelling from Seattle to Houston, to attend my brother's wedding. After the wedding, my dad and I will be road tripping back to Seattle, so he can do some fly fishing along the continental divide and otherwise generally remove himself from the rigors of his daily existence.
I don't suppose any of the nunz have moved to any of the northern Great American West -type states, eh? I mean, it'd be really cool if, say, Zane had joined a militia outfit in Idaho or something. I'd get the chance to visit and observe, but by no means stay.
By: Da Sissop
Date: 5/25/00 6:57:00 AM
By: sooz
Date: 5/25/00 11:50:12 AM
We've done it before.
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 5/25/00 7:19:43 PM
Ok. Sure. I'll settle for beers with Fang and sooz.
:-)
By: sooz
Date: 5/26/00 10:44:14 AM
Tell me when, for the beer.
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 5/27/00 6:21:07 PM
I dunno.
By: The Same ole Maeve
Date: 6/2/00 9:05:24 PM
Anyway he is now in Houston and I'll be joining him and all you ole Nunners tomorrow. That means you Gowan. Homer is of course presently ridiculing me, so I'll keep this short so he can save some for tomorrow. :)
Anyway...it's good to be a Nun again. see you all soon
She who was once magnificent and is now magnificenter......
TSOM
By: Ralf
Date: 6/3/00 8:48:01 AM
Meave, Meave, what is Meave?
[/Spock's Brain]
By: Da Sissop
Date: 6/3/00 8:55:44 AM
By: The Same ole Maeve
Date: 6/3/00 1:40:41 PM
Been asking myself that for years.
Hey sys, what's up? What are you driving these days?
By: Da Sissop
Date: 6/3/00 3:43:50 PM
By: Ralf
Date: 6/4/00 7:39:43 AM
Howdy, Maeve.
How's that Elantra holding up, Fang?
By: Da Sissop
Date: 6/4/00 9:16:48 AM
The third obnoxious scrape is on the passenger door, but you really need a 3-D image to show that one. I kinda like the touch of yellow. Coincidentally all the parking spaces at my apartment have yellow poles holding up the covering.
By: Ralf
Date: 6/4/00 11:25:04 AM
By: The Same ole Maeve
Date: 6/4/00 11:58:19 AM
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 6/6/00 2:33:05 PM