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

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SO pretty!

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Ok. It's a weird one, but I HAVE to watch this every year. I've seen it every year since it first aired except the three years I was working swingshift and the one year I didn't have a working tv (I only saw part of it that year, standing outside the place where they sell TVs that had it on). On the chance that there's anybody else for whom this officially signals the start of the holiday season...

http://abc.go.com/specials/charliebrown ... mpkin.html

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Mind?? It's great that you feel at home enough to comfortable!

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Okay, I may regret this but what exactly is Ubuntu? I know vaguely and generally what it is but I don't know any specifics.

Are you talking to me, Lau? If so, I learnt the lyrics to Nkosi Sikeleli in Xhosa (well, it was the Venda version, actually) as a child. What has that got to do with speaking Afrikaans?

Hi, Sapphix! I think Lau was talking about the lyrics to the last youtube song he posted. If you click on the lyrics to that last thing(it's a link) in his post, you'll see the lyrics.

Sorry, some cross-posting going on there.

The bold bit in my message is a link to where I had found the lyrics to Rolf Harris' "Slaughter on the Ice" video I posted.

Actually, the lyrics are to a slightly different mix, which is on the Rolf Harris MySpace page (see... I did it again).

Also, via the Wikipedia entry for Rolf Harris, I found a full video of the Richard&Judy show section that he sang it on, which is the source of the YouTube video clip.

OK? Sorry for the confusion. It's just a blisteringly intense bit of perseverance, from me. You can tell that, because my "PS" was garbled. The first "the" in it should have been a "to". My spelling and grammar are always perfect. Sometimes the words are charged to protect the innocuous.

*blush*

That's why I've developed the habit, on this forum, of inserting the persons username into my message. Not something I do in normal conversation, I can assure you. So I am having to irritate myself but I don't see any other way to avoid confusion, apart from inserting quotes and that also becomes a bit cumbersome, after a while.

I'm reading over the old posts in the old cafe since I can't be doing too much else and I found this to be of interest. Written by LAU (do they apply here, too)

The Dino-Aspie Cafe
Rules and Regulations

All posters should be over 40 or be able to prove they can sing "Good King Wenceslas" backwards.

Posts may not be exactly 40 pages, lines, words, syllables, letters or pixels in length.

All posts must be either serious or frivolous.

All posters should be called Bruce.

An IQ of over 140 is required, or the difference must be made up in muffins.

Small arms must be left at the door. (Large arms are OK)

Other than in these rules, use of the words "bladderwort" or "wayzgoose" will constitute grounds for a ban.

Wearing of formal (or indeed, any) attire is discouraged. Especially masks.

Hiding under chairs is acceptable, but not for periods exceeding three weeks.

Yeah I remember those. Now, I just heard of a study done from Senior Lau's home port that stated, swearing a blue streak was actually found to be good for you. I figure at least in this life time. But to actually spend time and probably money to come to that unremarkable consensus? I have a few words to say about that and they would start out with bladderwort and wayzgoose. Most likely end with Mad Duck Tape(TM) and SPAM(TM). I throw muffins in Senior Lau's home port general direction.

Have anything to say in your ports academic defense, Sailor?

Dunno what poor Lau can defend, but your jaw would drop at what goes by my desk as research project write-ups!

Our tax dollars at work. Good gawds. I've just read one titled "Lawyers as Agents of the Devil". Well, DUH!

Signed BubbaBruce

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Oh, I wish!

Wouldn't that be wonderful?! I live on a corner on a street that didn't used to be busy and now there is the sound of traffic at all hours. My van has been hit twice and it's parked a good 150 ft. from the corner so I don't know how stupid someone has to be to hit it there. They don't stop to tell me they hit me so I can't ask them.

The house sits on a hill that keeps the morons who don't know what ice does when you need to stop from hitting my house. They run into the side of the hill. I know it's rude to point and laugh but that's what I do. I go out the door, stand on the step, have a good laugh and go back in the house. Not my fault they're idiots!

My jaw would drop? Think again. I studied under a master, my father. I asked, at an early age, why I couldn't swear and when I could. He said as soon as you learn the words that you can use in place of the cussing. Now that's incentive to read the dictionary.

You ever wonder way when a church burns down they look for real people and not the devil? Ok so maybe you don't. I'll do it for us.

Damn I wish I could find the album the crew as having a ball with on an early project. Almost seems to me it was a rock opera called Bruce.

Keep studying your wordage, pretty soon I'll be pleased to let you in on the fine art of cussin' a blue streak. Or wait, you're from a town that took the door off the hinges at the bar on weekends? Move over Bubba, I haven't listened to a master in a long time.

Remind me I wanted that all when I've finally got my house with the trees and no neighbors, when I'm bored out of my head from watching the grass/garden grow/die.

I shouldn't say anything about drivers, really. But I will anyway. Here everyone drives [assuming traffic will allow] 80mph, with like maybe two car-lengths between, on the freeways. When it rains they slow it down to 75, no change in distance. Scares the hell out of me. (Really.) When there are wrecks out in the rain they are pretty intensive - lotta people involved. I take the surface streets as much as possible and stay off the freeway when it rains. At least on the surface streets if I'm going to get hit, it'll probably only be by one car, not six of 'em and a couple of semi's hauling jet fuel.

When we lived in an older part of town, closer in, I used to have to park on the street. Aside from having the tires slashed and the locks punched, and the odd window broken out now and then, we did get sideswiped a couple of times while it was parked. In the middle of the block. I assume it was a drunk, or a teenage male showing off his lack of driving prowess to his friends/girlfriend.

Me {knocking on wood} the only thing I've ever hit (besides a jackrabbit, once) was a gas station, while doing a U-turn. When I was 19. Long story, involved a pothole, no automatic steering, a huge steering wheel, and having worked a double-shift. Car had good, old-fashioned bumpers and bounced. The station wall took a worse hit. They left it that way for years and years. I was thinking of going back and spray painting a memorial plaque to myself over it. Checked when I was there about three or four years ago. Gas station is out of business. Hole is still in the wall.

How the hell do you remember trivia like that!! !

Everybody does that. Don't they?