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08 May 2007, 1:29 pm

Zanne would prefer Coffee Dude to swish a large palm leaf over each of us.
She's funny that way ...


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08 May 2007, 1:50 pm

Hide me!! I just stirred a hornet's nest in the Adult forum and they will be searching for me!! It was very out of character for me but I don't tolerate whiny children well at all. I think I will sit behind the plant in the corner!!



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08 May 2007, 2:01 pm

Blessed, stop going there ! !! You and Serious keep getting into trouble on that forum.
I can't tolerate any of the whining there.


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08 May 2007, 2:16 pm

Serious gets in trouble in the parenting forum. I generally keep my strong opinions to myself. My comment in the adult forum today is out of character but needed to be said. Apparently the young pups feel that an oral sex thread was far more important than a forum for older people, who by the way are outnumbered on WP! I felt that needed to be addressed for some reason.



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08 May 2007, 2:36 pm

So far, it doesn't look like anybody responded yet - I tried a little defusing action, we'll see if it works, or if some brat decides to take offense (again).

Don't worry, Blessed, we've got your six!

(Incidentally, why does a thread supposedly devoted to adult issues include such threads as, "Do you like your own snot?", "[Poll] Virgin yes or no?", or "Yahoo can kiss my white ass"? Whole thing doesn't sound all that fracking adult to me...)


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08 May 2007, 2:42 pm

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So far, it doesn't look like anybody responded yet - I tried a little defusing action, we'll see if it works, or if some brat decides to take offense (again).

Don't worry, Blessed, we've got your six!

(Incidentally, why does a thread supposedly devoted to adult issues include such threads as, "Do you like your own snot?", "[Poll] Virgin yes or no?", or "Yahoo can kiss my white ass"? Whole thing doesn't sound all that fracking adult to me...)



Those threads are the reason I thought I needed to speak up! There was a whole deal about "Mental Age" on the state your age thread. I think the threads in the Adult Forum say everything about mental age. This of course does not include a select few under 30.



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08 May 2007, 2:43 pm

I'm resisting the urge to have a peek.


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08 May 2007, 3:28 pm

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Hilo also has the greatest health food store--best deli food ever. Veggie lasagna to die for. It's the one over by Prince Kuhio Mall.


Your memory is astounding, but then I'm not used to aspies, I guess. I usually go to a different health food store but I'll have to go check that one out! So glad you got to see the lava. The first time I saw it, it was a spiritual experience (I don't have many of those).

Here's a Kilauea lava update: http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/update/a ... -TRO_L.jpg

I"m posting a link to a picture that's very large (I know not everybody has high-speed connection). It's a picture, taken a little over a month ago, of a large field of lava encroaching upon an abandoned subdivision. It's an aerial shot. You can see the streets. The smoke is from trees burning as the lava hits them, so wherever you see smoke, that's where the flowing lava is. The ocean is the brightness in the background. As you can see from the picture, the lava is taking over an enormous amount of land. It's really amazing.



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08 May 2007, 3:46 pm

So MS and I went to Honolulu last weekend so I could see a specialist to repair my damaged shoulder. We decided to make a mini-vacation out of it, and stayed at a hotel at the very end of Waikiki Beach, right on the beach, with a view of the ocean from our room. Lovely. The next morning we go to the cafe on the beach in the hotel for buffet breakfast. It's open air, several feet from the waves breaking slowly on the sand, it smells good, perfect temperature, and a whole breakfast spread to choose from.

I look up, and the ceiling has about 20 palm fans, all connected by one belt, that was turning them all in unison. Looked to be original, maybe 100 years old. I was mesmerized - I could have watched the fans turning gently in unison, and the belt running continuously, for hours.

Cut to reality -
MS and I go get our food. He comes back, all pissed off, because a mourning dove has landed on his plate, and when he went to shoo it away, his food went all over the table! Luckily it was a buffet...

We're eating, and there are doves everywhere. The waiters have squirt bottles in their aprons that they were using every 2 minutes to try to scare these birds away. It was like a scene from "The Birds". All the diners were shooing birds away, if you got up from the table you had to cover your plate, other diners were getting up to protect food on other tables, it was a weird situation.

So MS is pissed because his first plate of food was taken. So he takes a rolled-up newspaper and starts swatting the birds - reaching over me to swat at them. I was more annoyed by him than the birds, and asked him to please stop, after he actually made contact with one poor dove who limped away. I got to eat in peace for 5 more minutes, then "WHAP" he slams the newspaper down again.
I said "That's it" and got up and walked away from my breakfast.

So much for a quiet, peaceful breakfast on Waikiki Beach with my mellow boyfriend. HAH!



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08 May 2007, 3:49 pm

The utter cruelty ! !! When I go out to start my car in the morning, I always check to see if there are any bunnies eating the birdseed we put out. If there are, I tiptoe out the back to go 'round to the garage.

Swatting gentle little doves ! !! The beast ! !!


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08 May 2007, 4:04 pm

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So not only do I have the Wife telling me to eat, I now have Muffin bringing me food.


Cute.
Mauka is a yogurt fanatic. Open a container of yogurt and she comes running. She's polite about, sits on the bar above the kitchen counter. Occasionally her tail makes it down to touch the kitchen counter, but I give her the five-second rule.
Ku'uipo and Hokulele are sisters and hunters. They catch and kill, but do not eat: geckos (I think reptiles aren't all that tasty, myself), moths, cockroaches (I bet they tried one once and had dyspepsia for a week), mice and rats.
The only thing I know they eat that they kill is birds.
Oh and they've learned to stay far away from the chickens.

In a fight between a kitten and a large dog, a kitten can win.
In a fight between a chicken and a large cat, the chicken will win.
Does that mean the chicken will beat the dog?



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08 May 2007, 4:09 pm

Prof_Pretorius wrote:
I'm resisting the urge to have a peek.

I restarted the "forum name" thread as a place where we can talk about the forum changes etc., so as not to muck up this thread.



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08 May 2007, 5:02 pm

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Ok let me see if I can change the tone a little. After not getting that rant above in the right a spot. leave a few straight lines around or move an eye or two to something pleasent.

Bandit or as she is now called Muffin (muffin bandit, I like the combo) is one of my new kitties. She has decided I'm ok and I can be her pet. We have bonded. She is taking care of me. Yup she's been nailing house mice and bringing them to me. Oh how nice. Problem is they aren't dead. First one I got away from her and well had to do the nasty work. Second one she got smarter and when I went to take it away, she knew what I was going to do. Now unfortunately she let it get a way. So, if I have an odd odor in my cave, I'm going to have to move furniture. if I don't get a bad smell, I'm going to have to come up with name for my new guest. The third one, which was this evening was a bigger one, I think she just got to the root of the problem. This one she didn't even come in the cave with, she took that one behind the secratariet in the living room and that would be a major pain to move. Luckily I came back into my cave later and found her offering at the foot of my chair. So not only do I have the Wife telling me to eat, I now have Muffin bringing me food.



I lived in a garden level apt and used to leave the window up, just enough to let the cats come and go at will.I would often come home and spend the next few hours chasing down the chipmunks that the kids had found during the night.Once,while moving a dresser,I accidentally moved it onto ones tail...he pulled away,his tail did not.A bit gruesome but I captured and released him and several others(or maybe it was the same few the cats were recapturing.I tryed to keep a few as pets to try and keep the cats from bringing more....but evidently suffer from ToM of cats and chipmonks,the latter refused to eat and had to be released and the former kept bringing me more.

I thought the funniest thing is when the kitten would capture "blowing leaves"...bounce,put in mouth and proudly bring them into the house and pile in the middle of the living room,easier to clean up after then the few "bits" of chipmunk that I did occasionally find(I guess some bits aren't as tasty?or perhaps they were saving the best for me?)


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08 May 2007, 5:56 pm

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Serious gets in trouble in the parenting forum. I generally keep my strong opinions to myself. My comment in the adult forum today is out of character but needed to be said. Apparently the young pups feel that an oral sex thread was far more important than a forum for older people, who by the way are outnumbered on WP! I felt that needed to be addressed for some reason.


The oral sex? You going to make me go into quotes from the Montys over here? Well I wouldn't quote them, I just steal from them. If'n you don't know about that one, hang on :wink:


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08 May 2007, 6:01 pm

I had my fingers slapped for bringing that in here so it is now VERBOTEN!!

I am feeling rather smug about it, though.



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08 May 2007, 6:04 pm

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........snipped______not to be confused with sniped_____------.........

I look up, and the ceiling has about 20 palm fans, all connected by one belt, that was turning them all in unison. Looked to be original, maybe 100 years old. I was mesmerized - I could have watched the fans turning gently in unison, and the belt running continuously, for hours.

Cut to reality -
HAH!


I thought that's the way everybody on the islands had to look, with eyes turned skyward. The coconuts must be lethal. I think that's why some tourists never come back, they get all worried and agog looking at the valcano and don't see the sparrows dropping the holy coconuts.


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