**~~~> The OFFICIAL "Question of the Day" THREAD <~~~**

[glynndah]

Well....if that's how you truly feel, then you really gonna hate this post!

But....for today, anyway....'My beach, My waves!' You are more than welcome to OWN it....at 12:01am....tomorrow.

(plus....if you could be inconvenienced maybe, to bother *TO* read any of my submissions....you will discover VERY quickly; that whilst I may work-in some similar type things, sometimes, I hardly have a published writing style that MIRRORS the posting one! ymmv tho )

~~~> My answer to the question is:



Hope planet, country, state, region, city, neighborhood, et al, specific answers be okie~dokie!

.....Pluto: I may act like a hermit at times....but I aint THAT much of one!

.....France: Of the countries I have been to, it HAS TO BE France. Once you been to Versaille & The Riviera....the country sucks as far as *I* am concerned.

.....Mississippi and/or Alabama: I may have grown up on the West-by-gawd-Virginny border, in just as rural and sometimes, AS backwards, SE Ohio; and may call the bulls eye center of the 'Redneck Riviera' home; BUT....Pensacola (even with it being the 'East LA~east lower alabammer' that it is) is about the MOST "good ol southern boy"; whacho-christian magnet; "what time *IS* da Klan meetin' tonite, Billy-Joe-Jim-Bob?"; hate-flag-wavin' collection of 1960s style homophobic, freakaziods *I* can handle; when it comes to states in the USA....thankie very much for the casinos, but NO, to even staying overnite there!!!

.....the DEEP South and/or MOST of the south: the big cities are one thing, (Hotlanta, the Big Squeezy, Mayberry, NC was actually pretty cool, and most of the Atlantic coast touristy towns are ok, BUT....once you get beyond the GREAT people with some real southern belle & gentleman charm....the confederate flag wavini', beer guzzllin', High Grand Wizad, cast of 'Deliverance', faithful members of the 'First Last Third Congregation of the Upmost Rightous Baptist Church & Pot Luck Hall'....missing links that live there....screw it ALL up!!!

.....PARIS!!! Hands-the-frog-breath-down, it SURE wouldn't be Paris! Might have the rep of 'beautiful & romantic' but once you have been UP the Eiffel Tower and THRU the hallways of the Louvre....again....the ruddest-azzed people on the earth & the literal FILTH of the city detroyed any charm the fantasy had held for me!

.....Any McMansion laced; upitty~crusty; ostentacious house & car rich, but FILLED with class and breeding poverty cases for "neighbors"....typically saturated with hard-core-GOP-types, and/or rich or wannabes, 'people next door'....and 'next door' looks good from the curb but is "we really be *POOR*AS*HELL*" inside, people & their rude lil spoiled brat sperms they created....type of SUBDIVISIONS! YA~UUUCK!! NO THANKS! Most of those clowns have more credit rating, than they do either income OR brains, anyway....and make "livin' da good life, high on the flashy hog"....A REAL PIG FARM for anyone else living around them....hell....neighbors to them, usually only means: someone they can borrow $50 from quick....to cover the bill AND THE TIP....for the $49.88 pile of pizza & wings & $2.89 per two-liter Cokes that are on the way; and their VISA card was rejected cuz its maxed! NO WAY I'M LIVING IN THOSE PLACES!


No way....Gimme my trailer park trash neighbors & the 35++ year old tin cans we live in....ANY freakin' day of the week....YEAH!

OH HELL YEAH!!! And every day *OF* the week too....please God!

Yeah....The ones that are always willing to help each other out (physically OR with the last $2 they have till payday); watch each other's 'stuff' and their kids' when they are out playing too; make sure the older, single & loney guy down the street, with all the cats but no friends or family close by it appears, has a PLATEFUL (or TWO!) of their Thanksgiving dinner, instead of Mac & Cheese and a bologna sandwich; ones that just takes their mower and goes over and just does it, so the the old widow across the street doesn't have to mow her own grass in the killer heat of the summer; or gives the guy that's been unemployed for a year and lost his car, rides to the grocery store when he needs to restock the empty cabinets.....and their mostest, bestest quality and character trait of all is.......

.....KNOWS THAT *WE* ARE ALL, SOMEWHERE NEAR THE TOP OF THE POVERTY LEVEL (just barely) AT THE BEST....AND STILL LAUGH AT BEING CALLED 'TRAILER TRASH'....CUZ....

....we may INDEED *look* like it; but we are most likely, the LAST example of anything BEING 'Mayberry' or "LeaveIttoBeaverville' LEFT in most cities of 50,000 ~ 75,000 or more people!

Yeah, yeah....I know....YOUR city of 88,000 or 121,369 *IS* different.

OK....maybe....but I am also willing to bet, that "your lil unique corner of the world example" is more like: 'BradyBunchTown' at the driveway; and 'Married-With-Children-Insane-City' inside the closed doors. It just GOES with 'homes without wheels' and 'real' neighborhoods with 'real' houses....for some reason.

SORRY....just MnotSHO after living it both ways.

I live just outside a village of 550 people. Up a road a little ways is Mayberry.

 

[carlieplum]

Really couldn't live?

Anywhere that requires a burka or where women can't drive a car.

Heat? Humidity? Snowbirds? McMansions? #firstworldproblem

 

[sr71plt]

Really couldn't live?

Anywhere that requires a burka or where women can't drive a car.

Heat? Humidity? Snowbirds? McMansions? #firstworldproblem

Well, OK, of all the places I've been? Madras, India.

 

[pizzaboyatdoor]

Everyone watch out for the post from JohnT87st his links are flagged as malicious by my virus software

I reported the TWO posts that *I* caught earlier as "LIVE HOT LINK SPAM ALERT" as soon as I saw them!

Wasn't sure what else TO put in the report box??

 

[lance gt]

So what's the next question?

 

[pizzaboyatdoor]

I live just outside a village of 550 people. Up a road a little ways is Mayberry.

As in...Mayberry...,MT. AIRY, NC....Mayberry????

For real???

That is such a C L town!

 

[pizzaboyatdoor]

So what's the next question?

wellllllll Lance-erino...if it's after 12:01am where YOU are...post one and let us ALL know!

Whoever jumps the hottest babe at the frat party, usually gets her FIRST in bed too....don't he?

 

[pizzaboyatdoor]

QotD for MAY 4, 2012

(okay! i will take day#2 in the barrel too....but one of you other cowboiz or cowgirlz, or rodeo clowns, gotta take over this cattle drive, tomorrow! )

~~~~~>The QotD for Friday, May 4, 2012, is....

(the appetizer: ) "If you could invite any 3 people; from the past or the present; over for a nice dinner, stimulating conversation, and then to finally just relax with, for a few hours and watch a DvD of YOUR most favorite movie of all time....what would the movie be; AND, who would be the three guests joining you that evening?

(plus the MAIN COURSE: ) AND....what meat would you serve; and what would dessert be??? )

 

[nomoretears00]

*glares at pizza boi* Hey! I'm from Mississippi!


I couldn't live up north. I'll take the 110 heat over several feet of snow any day of the week.

 

[PennLady]

I was thinking more along the lines of a circus midway.

On a different note:

I love the way all you Yankees yell about the heat and humidity here in the south. I also love the millions, and millions and millions of dollars you snow birds dump on the Gulf coast every winter trying to get your toes warm after leaving your great Yankee winters behind.

This Yankee doesn't. My mom would move south in a heartbeat if she could, I think, but it won't fly at the moment. I think the Yankees who complain about the heat and humidity are not the ones who run south during the winter.

Really couldn't live?

Anywhere that requires a burka or where women can't drive a car.

Heat? Humidity? Snowbirds? McMansions? #firstworldproblem

Well, very true. I kind of figured that stuff was a given and was keeping it lighter.

 

[annanova]

France: Of the countries I have been to, it HAS TO BE France. Once you been to Versaille & The Riviera....the country sucks as far as *I* am concerned.

.....the DEEP South and/or MOST of the south: the big cities are one thing, (Hotlanta, the Big Squeezy, Mayberry, NC was actually pretty cool, and most of the Atlantic coast touristy towns are ok, BUT....once you get beyond the GREAT people with some real southern belle & gentleman charm....the confederate flag wavini', beer guzzllin', High Grand Wizad, cast of 'Deliverance', faithful members of the 'First Last Third Congregation of the Upmost Rightous Baptist Church & Pot Luck Hall'....missing links that live there....screw it ALL up!!!

.....PARIS!!! Hands-the-frog-breath-down, it SURE wouldn't be Paris! Might have the rep of 'beautiful & romantic' but once you have been UP the Eiffel Tower and THRU the hallways of the Louvre....again....the ruddest-azzed people on the earth & the literal FILTH of the city detroyed any charm the fantasy had held for me!

Realizing, of course, that this is all driven by personal opinion, I find it quite amusing that you rag on Paris and all of France. In my experience, what you say about the US South is nearly the exact opposite in France. (Disclosure: My SO is French, although from a very small town near the western coast.) I've found that once you get out of the big cities in France, THAT'S when you meet the people who are great to be around.

I've lived in Hotlanta and would return for a visit, although probably in February. The three seasons drove me nuts.

Other than that, I'd have to agree with carlieplum and sr71plt. Even though I don't drive (much) here, I wouldn't want to live in a place that discriminated against me, or in a place that was so insanely crowded and humid.

Okay, three dinner guests, what would I serve and what would we watch? Assuming he could now make it through the evening without a carton of cigarettes, I'd invite my paternal grandparents (both deceased) and the mister's father (very much living). My late grandfather would get the biggest kick out of this guy and the conversation would be so fantastic we wouldn't bother with the movie. Of course, he'd probably share all manner of embarrassing stories about my toddlerhood, but I'll live.

I'd serve shepherd's pie and salad with a simple chocolate cake and cherries for dessert.

 

[The_Young_Swell]

I do believe annanova is correct.

Americans seem almost proud about the rudeness of New Yorkers, but then complain about the French when Parisians turn out to be just as rude as New Yorkers.

As for my three guests:

I would invite Oscar Wilde, Orson Welles and Alexander King. When they arrived, I would inform them that my DVD was broken, and then slowly serve them a twelve course meal.

If you don’t understand why, let me add that all three gentlemen were noted raconteurs.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

(okay! i will take day#2 in the barrel too....but one of you other cowboiz or cowgirlz, or rodeo clowns, gotta take over this cattle drive, tomorrow! )

~~~~~>The QotD for Friday, May 4, 2012, is....

(the appetizer: ) "If you could invite any 3 people; from the past or the present; over for a nice dinner, stimulating conversation, and then to finally just relax with, for a few hours and watch a DvD of YOUR most favorite movie of all time....what would the movie be; AND, who would be the three guests joining you that evening?

(plus the MAIN COURSE: ) AND....what meat would you serve; and what would dessert be??? )

You do know about the Encino man principal, right?

Watch this, and you will.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=185xezCPk4I

 

[oggbashan]

... "If you could invite any 3 people; from the past or the present; over for a nice dinner, stimulating conversation, and then to finally just relax with, for a few hours and watch a DvD of YOUR most favorite movie of all time....what would the movie be; AND, who would be the three guests joining you that evening?

(plus the MAIN COURSE: ) AND....what meat would you serve; and what would dessert be??? )

Forget the movie. The food doesn't matter either.

Any three guests with stimulating conversation would be much more interesting than a DVD and the food would be soon forgotten.

Sample threesomes:
Dr Johnson, Marie Stopes, Germaine Greer.
William Shakespeare, Ovid, Sappho.
Oscar Wilde, Mary Shelley, Queen Victoria.
George Bernard Shaw (on his own).

 

[PayDay]

(okay! i will take day#2 in the barrel too....but one of you other cowboiz or cowgirlz, or rodeo clowns, gotta take over this cattle drive, tomorrow! )

You zealot'd @ 1AM forum time. You have to allow others to participate should your intention be for participation.

(the appetizer: ) "If you could invite any 3 people; from the past or the present; over for a nice dinner, stimulating conversation, and then to finally just relax with, for a few hours and watch a DvD of YOUR most favorite movie of all time....what would the movie be; AND, who would be the three guests joining you that evening?

Movie: Big Trouble In Little China.

Guest group (1st choice): Groucho Marx, Benjamin Franklin, and Alan Moore

or (2nd)

Yoda, Susan B. Anthony, and Genghis Khan

or (3rd)

Karl Marx, Douglas Adams, and Thomas Jefferson

or (4th)

Graham Chapman, Jesus, and Ron Paul

(Minus language barriers, and following Og's path for stimulating conversations with a small hint of madness.)

(plus the MAIN COURSE: ) AND....what meat would you serve; and what would dessert be??? )

Main course: Beer and cigars.
Dessert: Scotch served neat with beer and cigars on the side.

 

[pizzaboyatdoor]

imma in REAL twoobble i theenk....thats MAW!

*glares at pizza boi* Hey! I'm from Mississippi!

utttt~ohhh!

Sowweeee maaaaw!

NOT time out agin maw? i pwaahMISE i be good next time!!!

pweeeze not time maw! i nevr say dat agin!!!

i wuv u maw!!!

pweeze???

 

[lance gt]

Sir Isaac Newton, Thomas A. Edison and Leonardo DaVinci

Wine with buffet

No movie, Edison would scream copyright infringement and Leo would say he invented it. Isaac would study the physics of it.

I'd love to sit with them and gain their insight to discovery.

 

[pizzaboyatdoor]

You zealot'd @ 1AM forum time. You have to allow others to participate should your intention be for participation.

HUH????

*I* waited until 4:30am CENTRAL time to post QotD #2....and that is what the time stamp shows?

Where are you getting 1am from?

Please?

( and trust me....i do *NOT* want to be doing the question much more often than maybe, once every two or three WEEKS....at best! )

 

[lance gt]

HUH????

*I* waited until 4:30am CENTRAL time to post QotD #2....and that is what the time stamp shows?

Where are you getting 1am from?

Please?

( and trust me....i do *NOT* want to be doing the question much more often than maybe, once every two or three WEEKS....at best! )

I believe it was me who prompted Boy to post another question sometime around midnight EST. Times are shown in the time zone you choose, not what the poster posted at. I had that same question years back.

 

[oggbashan]

My selections would not have a language problem except possibly Shakespeare with Ovid and Sappho. Shakespeare understood Latin and probably Greek because they were standard subjects at Grammar Schools in his time. Ovid understood Greek. Sappho WAS Greek.

Whether Shakespeare's Greek was enough to understand Sappho? If not, Ovid could translate into Latin.

PS. This was posted at 20:24 hours British Summer Time 19:24 Greenwich Mean Time.

 

[pizzaboyatdoor]

Realizing, of course, that this is all driven by personal opinion, I find it quite amusing that you rag on Paris and all of France. In my experience, what you say about the US South is nearly the exact opposite in France. (Disclosure: My SO is French, although from a very small town near the western coast.) I've found that once you get out of the big cities in France, THAT'S when you meet the people who are great to be around.

WHOA! Was not attempting to come across as wanting to overthrow France and sell the Eiffel Tower for scrap! Just expressing (as you wedged in) *MY*PERSONAL*OPINION of the country, as compared to the other countries I have been fortunate enough to be able to spend at least 3,4,5...6 days in.

Of all of them I have visited so far (11 + 2, if counting PR & the Bahamas) France is unfortuately at the BOTTOM of those 13, of the places I would return to list! Not "hatin' on the entire country"....juz sayin'.

PLUS....you see what I bolded in your comment when I quoted it! 101% complete agreement with you there! Prolly two of the best memories of the last trip to various countries of Europe, were 3 days & nights in a second floor walk B&B, at the edge of the semi-Red Light District in Copenhagen; and similar 3 days & nights with a couple in a small sleeper village, 10-12 miles or so, outside Amsterdam....snd *I* LUVZ ME SUM AMSTERDAM!!! But the best parts of the 3+ days (well...after the "kawfee" shops anyway ) was the LIVING as the Dutch do....not just "being a tourist!"

Same as the 9 days in San Juan....the majority of the 'tourist world' stays out at Condado Beach....I was fortunate to be staying with a 7th or 8th generation family, up in the neighborhoods, prolly 8 to 10 miles FROM Condado....during Christmas & New Years, to boot!

Just as you implied and said: THAT is how you "experience" the country, city, region....whatever....that you are visiting! Everything else, is pretty much relegated to 'typical tourist trappings' and the Am/Ex card receipts you pile up to take home!

Just my, NOT so humble opinions....YOUR mileage may vary!

 

[Tio_Narratore]

No film, please.

Pulque, Chica, and Xocolotl to drink.
Maize, potato, and amaranth for veggies.
Turkey, guinea pig, and venison for meat.

and, most importantly,

Malintzin, Atahualpa, and Pocahontas for conversation.

And let's call that the first of a year of Sunday Dinners...

 

[Handley_Page]

1. James Clarke Maxwell, Michael Faraday, Oliver Lodge
Roast Beef and all the trimmings, Raspberry trifle to follow.

I'd love to show them a modern film on DVD, just to illustrate what their work accomplished.

2. Shakespeare, Marlowe, Wilde
Roast Pork & Apple sauce.

Just listen to the wit. . . .

 

[nomoretears00]

utttt~ohhh!

Sowweeee maaaaw!

NOT time out agin maw? i pwaahMISE i be good next time!!!

pweeeze not time maw! i nevr say dat agin!!!

i wuv u maw!!!

pweeze???

*Laugh* good thing I like you so much.

 

[glynndah]

As in...Mayberry...,MT. AIRY, NC....Mayberry????

For real???

That is such a C L town!

No, another Mayberry, possibly in an alternate universe.