SS, ya got one on me. I have never knocked out a little kid yet. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Good reminder about our Friend.

Even though there seem to be no lasting ill effects from knocking him out, I would go back and change it if I could. It still bothers me after 20 years. Not that I meant to do it, but I still wish I had been smart enough to avoid it.

Good day today Neak?

SS

SS I think I could have used your skills tonight!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

AW will probably agree with me.

The only night for ages that grumpy has off and he and Aussie sat drinking all night talking a load of bull. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

The only thing which has got them off the hook is that they shelled out for a fantastic chinese dinner - it was so good, we are still full.

The rubbish these men talk when they drink - unbelievable. AW & I just kept replying "Yes Dear" to whoever was talking at the time <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

I have the ultimate song to describe these two yobbos..are you ready ...


I hate the new age guys
I'm a chauvinist
I live on beer and pies
Tried to tell you,
But you look at me,
like maybe I'm an angel underneath
Haven't brushed me teeth.

Yesterday I lied
But all me mates
gave me a real good alibi
Thanks guys
I really went out drinking,
I told you I was at work
Don't ask me for commitment,
'Cause it's something I will shirk

I'm a bloke,
I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers
I'm a labourer by day,
I piss up all me pay
Watching footy on TV
Just feed me more VB
Just pour my beer,
And get my smokes,
And go away

Or take me as I am
This may mean you'll
have to fetch another can
Rest assured,
That if I start to make you breakfast
I'm going to extremes
but tomorrow I'll get [censored],
and today won't mean a thing

I'm a bloke
I'm a yobbo,
and me best mate's name is Robbo
Winfield is me cigarrete
I dress in flanellette
Shearer's singlet that is blue
Throw in a few tattoos,
You know you wouldn't
Want me any other way

When you think
You've got me figured out
The season's already changing

I think it's cool
When I act like a tool
And my mates try to shave me

I'm a bloke,
I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers
I'm a labourer by day,
I piss up all me pay
Watching footy on TV
Just feed me more VB
Just pour my beer,
And get my smokes,
And go away


I'm a bloke
I'm a yobbo,
and me best mate's name is Robbo
Winfield is me cigarrete
I dress in flanellette
Shearer's singlet that is blue
Throw in a few tattoos,
You know you wouldn't
Want me any other way

Yeah that says it all
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That song is so sad...... I don't think (if I was a women) that I could live that way.

My W would probably kick me out and tell me to come back when I was serious about being a good husband.

Actually, I don't know what she would do, because we get along well, and are more in love after 30 years than we were when we were first married.

Still, it's good to know your man, and what works, and what doesn't work.

What do you do when NOTHING works?
We always wanted to help each other, even if we weren't very good at it.

SS

Don't worry about the song SS

its a bit of tongue in cheek - a bit close to the truth SOMETIMES though - like tonight??!!! oh well I have to remember, they are just men <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

we'll have our turn when we cook a nice bacon and sausage breaky for them <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

oh well I have to remember, they are just men

That's important to remember <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I knew it was tounge in cheek, but it is still sad to me.

As in.............. it would be funny if it wasn't so true.

SS

So, I'm off to work. Y'all take care now, ya hear?

Have a good weekend Cinderella - Just remember to be in by midnight.

SS

In a few hours I'll go home for the weekend, and I don't keep in touch very well on weekends.

So - may everyone have good days, lots of happiness, and may God be with you.

It wouldn't hurt to laugh a lot either.

SS

I learned something new at the wild animal show last night.

Mom will kill me for telling you.

Did you know kangaroos have their scrotums in front? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> The scrotal sac hangs down from near the center of their abdomen, about where the penis would be on, say, a dog or a horse. But noooooo! The land down under has to have everything backwards, and the poor kangaroo had its penis all the way at the back, right under its tail.

Neaksis says we shouldn't have notice, but lemme tell you, it was impossible not to!

I was sorry to have missed the part where the monitor lizard licked the Dervish across the top of the head, probably thinking, "Wow, what a stinky little kid" or something like that.

The newspaper was there, so if they actually publish anything about it we'll let you know. Also hopefully Neaksis can share a few of the funnier photos. (I was not impressed with the one of Mrs. Noah.)

AJ is awake so must dash.

Mom will kill me for telling you.

I'm sure she'll make up for it with an extra nice funeral.

I read some of a "Calvin and Hobbs" collection last night, and I thought of the Dervish.

If you haven't read "Calvin and Hobbs" you should, it might give you valueable insight.

I have another story about a boys first pocket knife, and a boys first hatchet. Does Mr computer spend much time outdoors? There are some things you really need to know.

SS

I love C&H! We grew up reading them, I just didn't know it was my life's forecast.

Both little terrors love the outdoors, though I try to keep hatchets and such away from them. (Not always successfully. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />)

Tell the story, please.

I meant to say the other day, even if it is just a little funny about the boy you knocked out, I understand you wish you could do it over. (And not do it.) But God turns everything for good, right?

I love C&H! We grew up reading them, I just didn't know it was my life's forecast.

My mother didn't know either, but she did fine in the end. It's just the middle where she had problems.

Both little terrors love the outdoors, though I try to keep hatchets and such away from them. (Not always successfully. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />)

My mom never understood my need to chop things, but once I showed up with the hatchet, she sent me off into the neighbors yard to play with great regularity. She was really good about it. They did have a big yard, and their mother never wandered into the far reaches.

Tell the story, please.
It's a copyrighted story - so I can't tell it on this public form because I don't own the copyright. I'll see about getting a copy of the book to you.

I meant to say the other day, even if it is just a little funny about the boy you knocked out, I understand you wish you could do it over. (And not do it.) But God turns everything for good, right?

I tell it to other adult scout leaders - it gets a laugh, and they understand about being careful.

God does turn things to good. I am thankful for that. Even these kinds of things can be useful as lessons to others, and to lighten their load with humor.

Does school go all summer for your children?
I was thinking about our own school year - they take more and more of the summer in exchange for longer vacations in the winter and spring. I hate it - my summers were wonderful as a child, I wish my children could have three months off like I did, instead of 9 weeks. I understand they learn more if they don't take so long a time off, but like Calvin says "Who cares? Certanly not Hobbs or I."

Time to leave for the weekend - Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.

SS

hi there all

taking a break from the concrete laying. What a laugh it was. The truck turns up at 6am and I'm ready to go, Aussie already at work, so we have the pump ready the tube all aligned and the spreaders ready to push the wet mud into the corners and hard to get areas.
So off it starts ... about 3 mins later ,,, I'm around the back with the others, we hear a loud CLUNK. The cement stops flowing.
well it stopped flowing out of the pipe anyway.

The truck was busily pouring it all over the front driveway, the driver running frantically around trying to stop it. Apparently he could not stop it. Finally, by the time it was up to his thighs he mananged to thump the right lever with a small ball hammer hard enough to get it to move and stop pouring.

So he's spent 3 hours cleaning up my driveway while another truck arrived to pump the mud for us. The air was a bit blue just ask mum <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

But hey it looks great! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

Bob the builder is just finishing the non slip surface as thats a bugger of a job and I pleaded that I was only a weak woman <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> no he didn't fall for it either but let me go have a smoko and clean up anyway. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />


SS I love Calvin and Hobbes it really is so close to the real darlin's.

I'm really bushed though. Didn't get much sleep but had a lovely night dancing with Aussie around the lounge room lol,
<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> no I really mean dancing, well sort of slow cuddle. So romantic. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
I really don't want him to go away again. No sad thoughts now, whats that song ... you know from Mums era <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
And smile, smile, smile,
While you’ve a lucifer to light your fag,
Smile, girl, that’s the style.
What’s the use of worrying?
It never was worth while

no not working, what about ....

Smile, though your heart is breaking
Smile, even though it's aching

I'd better get back to work before I blubber over the new keyboard.

good night - off to bed for me!

Why am I supposed to care if you tell people about kangaroo testicles? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> Unless I'm supposed to be embarrassed that anyone knows we noticed...but as you said, it was impossible NOT to. (We were sitting in the front row. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />)

Neak is going to be 34 years old tomorrow at 10PM on the button. I'm only 35 myself, so I have NO idea how this happened. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

t&l

I guess that is part of the miracle of childbirth.

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> That must be it, Cinderalla. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Happy Birthday Neak! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Congratulations on the anniversary of <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> t&l! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Thank you!

AW, thank you - everyone is going to crack up when they see it. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />