I'm looking over a four leaf clover
That I overlooked before.

What the heck does that mean, anyway?

I just got a panicked call from DD2's teacher. Apparently DD2 is teaching the other kids some song about dead animals and a couple of the girls are traumatized. I SWEAR I don't know where these kids get these things. I am going to have a serious talk with DD2.

Yesterday evening the DDs were across the street playing at a friend's house. I went to get them right before 6:00 and told them to come home and do homework. We alked through the garage and I opened the kitchen door, turned around and found DD1 putting on her bicycle helmet and getting out her bike. I asked where she was going. She said riding. I said that she was not because she had homework to do. I closed the garage door. She tried to hit the beam but failed so the door closed. She took the helmet off and told me she hated me and that I was the meanest daddy ever. I responded that I loved her, she was absolutely right that I was the meanest daddy ever and was sorry about that but she was still going to do her homework. As she stormed past me, she said "well, I guess you aren't THAT mean. You aren't really mean at all. I love you daddy" and she got out her homework.

They went to take their showers with no complaints, got in bed with no complaints and went straight to sleep. I got out a DVD to watch with my newly found free time. I may have seen 10 minutes of it. Then I was asleep too. I did wake up the DDs this AM as they asked me too.

ToddAC,

I makes no sense at all but is slightly better than:

I'm looking over a three leafed clover
that I overlooked bethree.

Don't you think?

Honestly, I am lost in the math. Or arithmetic.

Yesterday evening I was sitting at the computer and I asked DD1 to set the table for her and DD2. She did it and then came over and asked me "are we good girls?" and I said "you are the best girls" and she asked "then why does mommy always spank us?". I explained it was because mommy loved them and did not want them to get hurt so was teaching them what the things they should not do.

I have also gotten the question "is Santa Clause real?". We have already covered where babies come from so I'm safe there. I just wonder what's next.

ToddAC,

I think it's calculus. You have to integrate the area under the leaves or something like that. Did you get my email yesterday? Don't go running off on me again.

I think I got the email. Sorry, will look again and try to respond. Assuming I am coherent at that time.

Where is everyone?

Pio- I saw a bumper sticker you would like -

First Iraq, then France.

I'm not sure you need to respond. It was more or less a rhetorical email. I was just asking a favor. Don't read it until the magnetic poles of all your brain cells are properly realigned with the Earth's magnetic field. That MRI probably still has a few of them pointing the wrong way.

I like it but there is no need to invade France. If my DD2's kindergarten class went to visit France, I think France would surrender. Just wouldn't take much effort.

I have never preteneded to understand how MRI's work but I think it lines all the poles together. Poland would be so proud, woudn't they?

It is just a matter of time before they determine that MRI's are bad for you. I must confess, however, that MRI's have their good sorts. For my first one, I hid all of WW's credit cards in the gown. It eraed everything and she wasn't able to charge anything for two weeks. I saved twenty thousand dollar in that time. By then, replacemnt cards had arrived.

Please allow me to correct the order:

Iraq first, then Iran, then France.

ToddAC,

I must ask you to refrain from using the "I" word on this thread. Per US law, I am not allowed to be associated with any discussion of embargoed countries. I could do jail time. If you need to refer to that region, let's pick a euphamism such as "Western Pakistan" or something similarly harmless.

There are two "I" countries. To which do you refer?

Have you ever seen the movie, excuse me, film entitled "Dr. Strangelove"?

That gives you a clue.

IOW, what good are the silos in ND if we don't prove that they work?

Where is everyone?

It is the weekend where you live.

Saturday (at least) where Kiwi and Big K are. and here I am stuck in what, Tuesday am?

The silos are the nuclear equivalent of those plastic bags attached to the dropdown oxygen masks on airplanes. The ones that, if they DON'T inflate, they ARE working properly.

If the silos are NOT working, they ARE performing their function.

yes I have seen the movie. One of Slim Pickins' better roles - well that and Blazing Saddles.

I flew one of Eastern AirLines last flight. It was from ATL to New Orlenas. The plane landed so hard in NO thst most of the oxygen masks fell down from the ceiling. A rather gay flight attendent spoke on the PA system: ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, the captain has done it again. He has managed to find the airport. As if you didn't know, we are on the ground.

I was not amused.

You have to admit that Slim Pickens riding that ICBM was a memorable role.

Best part of the movie - except that it wasn't an ICBM. Remember when he hot-wired the bomb release switch?

Well I also liked the bit where they are sitting around the war room planning the propogation of the species. 50 beautiful women for every one of the men. The looks on their faces was classic. Peter Sellers and George C Scott just crack me up in that scene. All of the sudden, nuclear war didn't seem so bad.