The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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Joe Bonomo My mother's guru and personal trainer

More about Joe Once at the site, you can click on each if his books for pictures and text. A truly amazing man. Oddly, he bears a striking resemblance to my son.

I would SO not have done well in the 40s and 50s!! !

That Joe guy, he has creepy eyes. And not happy ones, in those photos.

Is your avi your mom, CC?

Does anyone remember ?
bonomo's turkish taffy These were always my favorite Halloween treats. You whacked them on the table to crack them before opening the wrappers. Delicious.

No, the woman in my avatar is not my mother. My mother didn't live long enough to acquire wrinkles. But she had flawless skin up until she died at sixty-eight. Her face cream was always being stolen by attendants when she was hospitalized and then lived out the last year of her life in a vegetative state in a nursing home. She was still very beautiful but was not aware of her appearance anymore.

I don't know who the woman in my avatar is, but I fell in love with her face.

I can't hear the music, so I don't know what it sounds like. I can only see the visuals.



[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ervaMPt4Ha0[/youtube]




Got to pick another batch. Maybe women this time. Easier to shop for.

They should be in the airplanes by now, I guess.

http://www.mcbh.usmc.mil/3mar/1dbn/Sep% ... letter.pdf

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She looks like quite the character.

Turkish taffy... hmmm. Was it long and flat, and thin, and you had to whack it very hard? Kind of a waxy-paper-like wrapping? Long like a ruler and not a lot thicker? If so, I can vaguely remember that, as I was intrigued with the whacking part, though I didn't like the taffy. We used to go to Atlantic City every year for some conference my father was required to attend, and we always bought salt-water taffy for my teachers, neighbors, etc. Vile stuff. Have never cared for taffy.


Well, duh, it'd help if I clicked the link to see the taffy. That package looks very familiar, but I think I'm thinking of something else as this package looks wider than what I remember.

Hmmm. Wait. My sister used to eat that stuff. Bananna.
TIME WARP! Woooo. That goes back about 45 years!

Very moving video, Nan. Thanks

*gives Lemon a direct eye-contact look*

Hi folks,

Just observing the halloween chat. Nothing to contribute. We don't have it here, never have. Then again, there were the distant days of my childhood when the previous apartheid government ruled. Everyday was halloween, I guess.

Er...just to qualify that. I know you'll understand my sense of humour, but some reading it might not.

It was a horror story, not fun!

(Just remembered the literal Aspie thing and figured I should explain).

Hi folks....just abusing my work days off by surfin(to put off cleaning,sorting and being the "decider" about what to keep,toss,donate,sell......I can NOT do this(very easily)

found a site I think is kinda fun....(I'm a catchy slogans kinda girl),anyone not familiar with it might enjoy some of the geek t-shirts.
http://www.cafepress.com/buy/humor/internet/-/pg_2/go_0

I found a really cool aspie t-shirt...I think designed by one of our members,that I had never seen before.....

It spells out aspie,using the PI symbol between the s and e.I thought it very clever.

Great site, krex. I saw the aspie "pi" design. Very cool. Did you notice there is only one woman on the design with all of the genius men? That should be remedied. I should go back and take a look, enlarge it to find out who she is. But I'm too tired. I've been on the site for over an hour. I'm thinking she may be Madam Curie, or perhaps Emily Dickenson or Virginia Wolfe.

Ah jeezus you're bringing a tear to my eye. A true mentor, I miss him too. ( )

Strange how that works isn't it. But I'm always of the opionon if you remember them that strongly, they aren't really gone.

BAH!! It's never my fault.

What's the matter Sailor? Got something against fire, scaring children, candy, masks, and nudity?
So start it already. Or do it in the privacy of your won aviary.
Just don't mix the scaring children and sky clad together, they frown on that here too.
Threaten to burn the little buggers instead.

Not a problem, Sapphix. Those of us who were around and paying attention at that time would probably have gotten it. Not a lot of treats....

I bet if we ask Swampblossom she'd tell us the truth about that.

I wonder how many of the old time Halloween stories are some kind of rural or urban myth. Some I don't think are. The story's of outhouse tipping I'm sure are real. But the ones that actually had someone in them when they did them? I dunno maybe. I'm pretty sure the ones of taking the guys wagon apart and putting it together on his roof are real, but not common. Those are a couple from this area. I can't say as we ever got that inventive with it. It was always more fun to do the pranks if the person was actually there and didn't want you to. Would chase you. I mean we would soap every window in town, practically had a list. Hell now if we get the car windows soaped I cheer. What the hell is wrong with kids today?


I was pulling guard duty one night. Got cold and trucked my butt up to the barracks to get out of the wind. (colder then hell in the winter, even in the desert) I'm watching the gate I was suppose to be in front of and I see this road runner running through the light. I mean that bird was in overdrive. He went out of lights view and just as he did, the coyote came through, hot on it's trail. Funny as hell.

Probably only a month a go I had to go some place at night (about the only time I go out alone in the car). Got back to the house and was going in and I hear a really strange sound off on a distant hill. At first I was sure it was an owl, but I had never heard that type's call. I probably haven't heard all of their calls, but it would have to be a pretty rare type for me not to have. I think it might have been a coyote doing a call I had never heard before. They're bringing them into the area, I don't know why. I mean we have wild dogs (coy). I don't know what a coyote would do that they already don't.

I think I could have learned to like the desert more, if it had been a better setting. It really did have a beauty of it's own. I did love the way the mountains, well I guess they were, they were easy to climb, came down and just blended so well into the desert floor. I liked the way the desert there wasn't really flat, it had those little dunes every where. Easy to get lost if you kept your nose to the ground and at night, yikes. I already was use to snake country so that didn't bother me. The sky at night was really something, much better then here. But damn could it get cold, it was that damn dry cold, you know like that dry heat, the kind that isn't suppose to be hot. Yeah right, sure it wasn't.
(but you really could smell the rain coming)