RumRunner

My laptop must be lame then - went to edit profile and it still had birthday followed by URL followed by various chat fields. Tried the F5 refresh for Firefox to no avail. Guess I'll try IE and see if it is different. Thanks for removing the minimum GreasyTech.

I tried that snot once. Who could possibly drink that... well I guess we know one person.

Single malt scotch wins every time....

Ego mixed with fear. I've been to a few communist countries - hard core ones - not France (bad humor I know). Going to Russia this December. They have a "political" structure that is like the way tree. You have a political officer in the military - at the company level. He is the twig coordinator. The civilian counterpart is the political officer in the factory or in the store. The job is to regularly indoctrinate in organized meetings and spend the rest of their time taking notes on a) screw ups (fear) and b) potential new candiates for their exclusive little club (ego). Why do this? Very nice perks that the common folk never see. Now this person reports to someone higher up. Guess what his/her job is? To regularly indoctrinate the low level political officers and a) look for screw ups (fear) and b) look for promising young candidates to get more deeply involved (ego). We would have called these - yep youi got it branch or area coordinators. And so on up it goes until you have a SMALL elite group at the top - with more power and wealth than the "legal" leader of the country and finally you have ONE yep ONE at the very pinnacle who has all of the power clenched tightly - willing to have even his BOT executed as traitors if necessary to maintain his control...Side note: I swtiched to him from his/her because I've never seen a woman at that top position in any communist - hard core communist that is - country. Check out Josef Stalin - middle 20th century USSR. Check out North Korea today. Check out China in the 60's-80's - although they actually lightened up a bit in recent years. There's your way tree laid out just beautifully with corps; as senior officers and the clergy as the secret police...(yep I was clergy once so I can speak about this secret police comparison from experience) Fun huh?!?! edited for typos

Well done Dooj....I got plenty of good laughs over that version. Better than the original maybe for an ex TWIt.

God was probably more like ROTFL - or as Dooj would point out - his just heavenly floor

Polar Bear I agree with you on both counts; being careful about running and the bikini..... I have to chime in a little on running. I am not down on running but yes indeed you do have to be careful. I was a competitive runner for many years (no that's not where RumRunner came from). I ran cross and competiive track events. I ran 20 miles a day (on the dirt shoulders of country roads) and then 45 minutes of wind sprints and then an hour in a weight room. The end result is that I wore things out period. I was in chronic pain 24/7 for many years starting in my late 30's. I now (at 50) have a pair of titanium and ceramic hips and the knees are next on the list. They're cool BTW. Now in all honesty everyone is different. That was my experience and certainly is not the experience of most people...I am not trying to breed fear of running. Running is cool. But in early discussions with the surgeon, when I related my past, he simply said you wore your joints out - and even a novice could see it in the x-rays. Anyway long story short - things are well for me with the latest medical technology but I sure wouldn't wish the previous pain on anyone - well I lied - I can think of a few. Oh and I definitely second the single malt scotch - no water no ice - just sip a little at a time. One last cool thought for any of you with a sick sense of humor. Hips and knees made of titanium and ceramic....when I die and the flesh starts to decay I am gonna look like the terminator from Terminator 1 after he is down to mostly metal....oh well it was funny to me anyway

Well done T-Bone...can't wait to hear what Ron_g, Bowtwi and Belle chime in with......it'll be either caustic, funny, or both

I cant stop spewing over here Potato...thanks for posting. I haven't heard that snot in so long it is like reading Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" Oh I am so blessed..., Oh it was so inspiring...Oh the impact it had.... I'm so glad I'm not a delta...I'm so glad I'm not a beta...I'm so glad I'm an Alpha...ya gotta have read the book -

I just cant help it....Yes I know I am evil. In the 20 years I've been out I've never been witnessed to by an innie - and hope it never happens BUT Don't you think it would be funny to have a GSC red card (opposite of green). Instead of all that name address stuff on one side we just have the URL to GSC and blocks to fill in your requested screen name. On the back we can have ONE benefit - You'll be out of TWI!!! Wouldnt that be fun to hand to an innie who witnessed to you? Or...if you wanted to be "detail minded" you could add more than one benefit - lets see - I cant remember for than two of them...Financial Freedom - You'll be able to buy a house....Harmony in the home - You wont beat your kids with a wooden spoon any more" Belle will take this one step farther I am sure - retemory packs - but posts from GSC classics. We can even organize them by topic. Get the best of Groucho, Bowtwi, Ron_G, Bell, T-bone and some others.... and turn them into little cards - no verse references though just POST references...like Bowtwi 10 Jan 2007, post 12:56 PM.....Word Wolf gets his own retemory pack and it only has 1 card in it but it unfolds into a table cloth sized litany. Sorry (well no I'm not really - but for form's sake) just had to...

Geeze - I shouldn't even post mine for all the grief I'm gonna get but here goes Gentleman Rocket, Marvelous Snake, Wild Volcano... flame on... I didnt choose 'em

Good thought Tom - we could call the new holiday Mahdi Gras

What's with the proliferation of sites with quizzes about possessive vs plural nouns/pronouns? Maybe if it catches on enough we can start Word Study Group...The Words Intentionally Chosen Especially for Subtlety - TWI/CES. Since TheEvan never announced his score that makes him an unknown - so we must immediately cast him out of TWI/CES as possessed...or was that possessive. And since in the new little Word Study Group anything less than 100% shows lack of comittment and believing Belle gets yelled at every day and put on kitchen duty.... Oh wait I am not possessed either - I got 100. Sorry I couldn't resist another poke. My humor gets mildly twisted every now and then. It's TheEvan's fault.

Can't help but to inject some inflammatory humor here CoolChef. I figured out the whole wow burger scam. For 7 days a week you eat this regimented food, a menu repeated evry two weeks like clockwork except when Doc Drambuoie was around wanting brats. About as regimented as a prison. You show up too late - no meal. You show up too early - get yelled at for leaving work early - no meal. So you're nice and programmed around those meals. BUT - those wow burgers after the SNS seemed like the exception to the regimentation...and EXTRA meal. All you had to do was show up for SNS and sit through another droll teaching on abundant sharng and how you owe more than 15%. BUT there's more (Ginzu knives coming). If you didnt come to SNS you didn't get a burger - cause we had to walk out the back door and get in line - at least in the 70's. You tried to sneak around - no burger. So that burger was really part of the programming all the time - it just FELT like it was an exception to the normal regimen - it wasn't - it was just another part of the regimen and programming to STAY involved with every prescribed activity. And the ultimate scam of all? Why do you think they tasted like sawdust? They probably were....

Can't comment Potato - never had Burgerville - although this is starting to sound like the infamous pizza wars. All I know is that when I moved to San Diego every one bragged bout INN-N-OUT. I never cared for them. But a nice big juicey Carl's Jr six dollar burger heart attack pill...nice. Besides they have the most politcally incorrect commercials I have ever heard aired on TV and radio - so they get bonus points for that.

Only one recipe for a martini 4 martini glasses - and three good friends Dry Vermouth (if you use sweet you are commie infiltrator from TWI) Good vodka - Belvedere or Grey Goose or your pick - but none of the Skyy nonsense Lemon twist (thin slice of skin of lemon) Olives or Onioins - I am not religious about either and in fact like both at the same time - Jalapeno or garlic stuffed olives preferred Shaker and bar strainer Ice Prechill glasses with ice for 5 minutes or so - meanwhile spear your olives and/or onions with toothpicks Pour ice out of glasses and pour a tiny bit of DRY Vermouth into them - just enough so that when you swish the glass around it just coats the inside of the glass - pour the rest out or into the next glass. Squeeze each lemon twist to get the oil out then rub the rim of each glass with the lemon rind Put ice in the shaker - about 1/4 full - add Vodka and shake till chilled Pour into glasses through a bar strainer Add the tiniest bit of juice from the olive/onion jar - I just take a couple of drops of each out with a toothpick Add onions/olives - serve with good friends and an expensive cigar

Look up "Cajun Microwave" Much easier to use and more even cooking than in a pit. It's actuslly a pretty ingenious idea. I've used on a lot over the years.

If you'r ever in SOCAL look up Ston Brewing Company. They have a whoel line of great beers. My two favoites are their double hopped IPA (qud hopped for their holiday bew) and Arrogant Bastard Ale, a strong bitter with gret flavor and you'll have a fine buzz from a single bottle. Two bottles and you'll be asleep.

Naw Notta I'eve never been all that impressed with INN-N-OUT. Now Carl's Jr......that's another story.

Beautiful... just beautful.... sorry I cant help but laugh and spew all over the keyboard...Anyone who knows JAL sent that to him? Or sheesh maybe to Rivenshark?

Funny that this comes up in 2006/7. I was in a coed dorm in the early 70's. It was qute amazing how "cordial" things were. Yes there was some sexual activity; but for the most part it was just kids who got along well, did homework togehter, smoked a few things togther and hung out. It was not the scene most parents would expect or fear

Mustard is an evil counterfeit unless it meets two requrements a) HOT and b) mixed with horsereadish - everything else belongs on some TWIt or CES thread

Thanks Kit... copied it for the kids.

Groucho - XMAS 1972 - remember kicking that pound under a car while the cops were waiting? And eating anchovies we boosted from the cafeteria for three days because we had no other food? And getting wasted with Sam the cat? Great memories old friend... Merry Christmas too all

Great minds think alike or some such snot. Same here but no Hollandaise sauce and no fresh baked bread. Got a nice baguette from the store for dipping in the juice, a 4 bone roast, asparagus will be served with a vinagerette...sweet potatos will be served with LOTS of butter - I believe the word slathered comes to mind....