I've never done this before - other than a few names, I have no idea who reads this thing. But I'm laying here in bed, still, so what the Hell?
If you're so inclined, feel free to leave a comment on any topic (or the one in the post's heading) and I'll be sure to jump in whenever the sparks start to fly.
Or more folks show up.
Or somebody die of beaties,...
If I hear one more person call their dog, cat, whatever their "furbaby" I'm going to have to sucker punch somebody...between the eyes...with a hammer.
ReplyDeleteWhich would mean they might die of beaties...at which point I will be in prison...please write a post about me going slowly mad to the point I couldn't take it anymore.
PW
And I also think that IL is going to need something a little stronger than that medical marijuana at this rate:
ReplyDeletehttp://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/07/19/state-rep-maybe-the-police-are-killing-some-of-these-kids/
Of course, because as everyone knows, nobody in Chicago has guns except for the cops...because it's illegal, and therefore the people don't have them.
Yet another theory on why Chicago kids die of beaties (and shooties and stabbies as well)...I'm waiting for space aliens not being ruled out (their bodies do sometimes turn up in our downstate corn fields -- hey, teleportation through a wormhole, jack!).
PW
Mind you, this is the same one who wants Quinn and Emanuel to call out the Nat'l. Guard, but doesn't want them stopping or frisking anyone "like they do in foreign lands".
ReplyDeletehttp://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2013/07/10/ill-rep-requests-national-guard-help-stop-chicago-violence/
Which could explain why the good citizens of IL want to hit the reefer pipe and get self-hammered.
PW
Diabetes is rampant in my family, I got it. But my folks and grandfolks called it "the suger." He got "the sugar." Maybe we should tell this tweeter to use "sugar."
ReplyDeleteYou, mentioning Clyde Stubblefield had it, inspired this post.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, I remember "the sugar" being used back home, too.
I think someone needs to tell that tweeter to back away from the computer,...
Hey, I was just trying to throw things out there, see if somebody would comment...I'll stop.
ReplyDeletePW
I've been away from home so long I forgot "the sugar." Oddly sentimental thing.
ReplyDeleteI love the old, unofficial, English-language disease names, the ones that came from being with disease, "water on the knee," "consumption," "the sugar."
Then we left the country for the city, and we all had to talk like the city does or somebody'd find us out, so we used doctors' Latin names. And half of us understood the words. Now only the experts do.
So everything is just letters. AIDS, OCD, IBS. If you don't use the newest letters, it proves you're a ghost, a country ghost, and people shouldn't listen to you. "VD" is grandpa (racist!), "STD" is Dad (sexist!), "STI" is...OK for now, still...I think.
The world ended somewhere between "VD" and "STD," between "the sugar" and "beaties."
Right around "PMS."
PW,
ReplyDeleteI'm reading you, but mostly stuck answering folks here and here instead of you because there's so many (sorry).
Dude, you don't have to apologize -- I'm just rambling (and hoping you get some comments on this very worthwhile blog)...but mostly just rambling, because...why not?
ReplyDeleteIt beats me actually going crazy and beating somebody -- jail would suck, and I'd rather go there for something more worthwhile if I'd have to go.
I've had a long day -- dealing with dumb mofos from Chicago actually (college is back in session -- it always puts me in a bad mood).
PW
Christ on a bike...Zimmerman case is turning into the song that never ends. Where's that hammer?
ReplyDeletePW
Funny letters.
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ReplyDeleteDie of beaties?
ReplyDeleteMy God, if I were a etacher, I'd hide my head.
Anonymous said...
If I hear one more person call their dog, cat, whatever their "furbaby" I'm going to have to sucker punch somebody...between the eyes...with a hammer.
The phrase "fur children" used for empty nesters who treat their pets like their kids (or better) isn't all that bad.
The Blonde uses it with a laugh, but someone who takes it seriously needs help.
Ed -- it isn't just bad, it's horrible.
ReplyDeleteI work with dogs and horses (and now own one cat, even though I'm not a cat afficianado -- oh well, he's special). Most of the really major problems come from...drum roll...people who are "pet guardians" (not owners) or the proud parents of their furkids/babies/whatever.
They're animals are usually out of control and neurotic as hell to boot -- and then turn around and get into all sorts of trouble, which causes all sorts of problems. And the main complaint heard? "my dog/horse/whatever isn't behaving; I guess they don't love me!".
At which point the trainer (if they are ethical and/or even professional) has to patiently explain that animals do not "love", not like people, and you can't expect them to behave well out of "love"...there's this thing called training (and with animals hopefully this thing called responsible breeding) that takes place to make them behave...in the meantime they are usually expecting a 6 mo. old puppy to not tear the house up/potty in the house/whatever after being cooped up for 23 hours a day in a crate or small room. But they love their furkids so...
PW
Oh, and it isn't just empty nesters engaging in this: a lot of them are young...right now the dog training place is gearing up to deal with this year's batch of college doofuses who have "rescued" their darling little pitbull shelter "furbabies".
ReplyDeleteWhich they will leave locked up for 23 hours a day and then wonder why that <1 yo. dog is out of control...because apparently it doesn't love them after all (at which point little "furkid" will likely be back in the shelter -- we take bets on which one will wind up there first; it never fails to happen...every damn year, although now pitbulls are the hip dog rescue of choice...makes their "parents", their "guardians" feel good about themselves).
It's a sickness I tell you.
PW