Scantlings

Just heard from a friend in Halifax: so much snow that even the LIQUOR STORES are closed. Given that, what's the point of a snow day?

Funny Tigger. Yeah, I have been wondering how all theScantlingers in way of the storm are doing. Here's hoping the best for all of you.

We got a bit over two feet outside of Boston. It's beautiful. All of our snow removal gear worked well and we never lost power.

So much for Phil the groundhog...

kdh wrote:and we never lost power.

Well fuck you. No offense. Power still out here.... But, I'm not jealous or anything....

Adele & I also had a blast with a snow tube today. We made sort of a luge run with a big bank turn. Great fun. Hope you get power soon a2.

Keith:
What is a snow tube?

Seth: Considering your background I would think you be very comfy without the power. After all you have Scout to keep you warm. When we have a power outage about the time I get the lanterns placed, a fire going and my guitar tuned the power comes back on spoiling everything. I'm lucky that my propane stove allows me to cook.

I don't want to know about a snow anything! Hope all is well with our Northen brethren. Daughter said it was pretty snowy in Poughkeepsie.

What the hell is a Puffkeepsie?
Is that where little gnomes live?
I'd be embarrassed to live in a place with a name like that.
I live in Tulalip. It's hard to say that without looking gay.

That's just down the road from Spee-Bi-Dah, according to the chart. You guys were really big on using native names. I assume they were native names. Maybe the surveyors were ladymen.

bob perry wrote:What the hell is a Puffkeepsie?
Is that where little gnomes live?
I'd be embarrassed to live in a place with a name like that.
I live in Tulalip. It's hard to say that without looking gay.

I don't live there, my daughter goes to school there, IF THAT'S OK WITH YOU!

It happens to be a bit of a dump, but that's neither here nor there, now is it?

Ish wrote:That's just down the road from Spee-Bi-Dah, according to the chart. You guys were really big on using native names. I assume they were native names. Maybe the surveyors were ladymen.

Yeah the surveyors were something else. Those Twisps would Humptulips and then Puyallup all over themselves I am told. I think it's a bunch of Hoqiam though since I have not seen any Concrete evidence. You might ask Dabob what he thinks though. Boom Walla Walla! Boom Walla Walla!

Orestes Munn wrote:

bob perry wrote:What the hell is a Puffkeepsie?
Is that where little gnomes live?
I'd be embarrassed to live in a place with a name like that.
I live in Tulalip. It's hard to say that without looking gay.

I don't live there, my daughter goes to school there, IF THAT'S OK WITH YOU!

It happens to be a bit of a dump, but that's neither here nor there, now is it?

You sent your daughter to a dumpy place with a name like that?

My daughter goes to school in Washington, in one of the few places up there with a really cool sounding name.

Spokane. It's so cool Eric Clapton covered a JJ Cale song about it!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYS732zyYfU[/youtube]
At least, I'm pretty sure that's what they're saying...

As for it being a bit of a dump, I'll defer to Paul on that...

aaaand... I still can't make the youtube thing work.

WTF?

I even went back and cut-and-pasted Paul's (Valis, not Amati) instructions on how to fix the last one I failed on, and tried to edit it to make it work.

Do they teach this stuff in Pooh-Kipsie? Maybe I should go to school there?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYS732zyYfU[/youtube]

You have to remove the "s" at the end of https:/, that indicates a secure site and you apparently can't embed a link to a secure site.
That's my best guess, my link works anyhow...

Thanks, Ish. I took out the "s" and sure enough, there it was.

Now mine works, too

JoeP wrote:

Ish wrote:That's just down the road from Spee-Bi-Dah, according to the chart. You guys were really big on using native names. I assume they were native names. Maybe the surveyors were ladymen.

Yeah the surveyors were something else. Those Twisps would Humptulips and then Puyallup all over themselves I am told. I think it's a bunch of Hoqiam though since I have not seen any Concrete evidence. You might ask Dabob what he thinks though. Boom Walla Walla! Boom Walla Walla!

I'll see you Humptulips and raise you a Useless Inlet.

bob perry wrote:Keith:
What is a snow tube?

I love the native american names of things around here.

GerryH wrote:

Orestes Munn wrote:

bob perry wrote:What the hell is a Puffkeepsie?
Is that where little gnomes live?
I'd be embarrassed to live in a place with a name like that.
I live in Tulalip. It's hard to say that without looking gay.

I don't live there, my daughter goes to school there, IF THAT'S OK WITH YOU!

It happens to be a bit of a dump, but that's neither here nor there, now is it?

You sent your daughter to a dumpy place with a name like that?

My daughter goes to school in Washington, in one of the few places up there with a really cool sounding name.

Spokane. It's so cool Eric Clapton covered a JJ Cale song about it!

At least, I'm pretty sure that's what they're saying...

As for it being a bit of a dump, I'll defer to Paul on that...

I didn't send her there, she chose it all on her little lonesome and I thought it was pronounced Spo-Kan (to rhyme with "sit on it and rotate").

We have mud tubes here:

The funny thing is the sign for Spee-Bi-Da has Spee-Bi-Dah spelled one way on one side of the sign and another way on the other.
My beach is Tulare and there is nothing native american about that.
And to make it worse I live on Port Susan. I don't even know who Susan was.

bob perry wrote:The funny thing is the sign for Spee-Bi-Da has Spee-Bi-Dah spelled one way on one side of the sign and another way on the other.
My beach is Tulare and there is nothing native american about that.
And to make it worse I live on Port Susan. I don't even know who Susan was.

Did you know you have a nasty, tick-borne disease named after your beach (actually the CA county of the same name)? I can't think of any diseases named after Poughkeepsie, NY.

Eric:
I did not know that. The "Tulare Tick"?

bob perry wrote:Eric:
I did not know that. The "Tulare Tick"?

Tularemia, bane of dog owners, rabbit hunters, and fave of bioterror fans.

Tigger wrote:

JoeP wrote:

Ish wrote:That's just down the road from Spee-Bi-Dah, according to the chart. You guys were really big on using native names. I assume they were native names. Maybe the surveyors were ladymen.

Yeah the surveyors were something else. Those Twisps would Humptulips and then Puyallup all over themselves I am told. I think it's a bunch of Hoqiam though since I have not seen any Concrete evidence. You might ask Dabob what he thinks though. Boom Walla Walla! Boom Walla Walla!

I'll see you Humptulips and raise you a Useless Inlet.

I'll go up with Point No Point. Just 'cause I Wauna.

I have dimmmmm and distant memories of a lovely young lady who went to Vassar and some official "good times" that I had in PoooKipSee when visiting her.....

Ah yes, my mis-spent youth!

B

BeauV wrote:I have dimmmmm and distant memories of a lovely young lady who went to Vassar and some official "good times" that I had in PoooKipSee when visiting her.....

Ah yes, my mis-spent youth!

B

Still a pretty dazzling place (I keep walking into trees, tripping over benches, and getting dope slapped by daughter) and even the 11 straight guys there wear scarves in the summer.

How do you know they are straight?

Sounds like Creampuffkeepsie to me.

It's so much simpler out here. "Is that a Sockeye in your pants or are you just happy to see me?"

bob perry wrote:How do you know they are straight?

Because my daughter told me...hey, wait a second...

bob perry wrote:How do you know they are straight?

DOWTON ABBEY SPOILER ALERT

I was surprisingly ok with that scene of Thomas kissing James.



Can't believe they killed off Sybil.