The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 09

[Rustyoznail]

Duleigh, glad it was an easy fix. The old saying about assuming something comes to mind.

It actually looks like spring has made a determined effort to hang around. Coffee, then try and get some veges planted before watching the grand final this afternoon with some friends. Beer and hot dogs will be on the menu.

 

[Bubo_bubo]

You were right Millie! I was totally, utterly wrong, and I apologize. There was actually a note, after all that editing the gross stuff out, I found the note. I used the expression "Innocent as a six-year-old" and guess what they thought. I apologize again.

Oh well, two clicks and the gross stuff is back in! I love Microsoft Word, it's my favorite computer game!

Remove... words... like... toddler... and... six-year old... from... vocabulary...
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[Duleigh]

Duleigh, glad it was an easy fix. The old saying about assuming something comes to mind.

I heard so many stories on the forums that said there's no message when a story was returned, and I didn't see anything but then when I started clicking on things that usually are better left unclicked, there it is, a big old form letter about as warm and as personal as a tax audit.

 

[TxRad]

That nap was carrying a club.

Sorry for your loss Mr P.

Duleigh, we can now teach you the writers salute. Stick out a finger and point it at your temple. No, not that finger, your pointing finger. close the rest of the fingers and stick your thumb straight up. Move your thumb toward your pointing finger quickly six times while making a clicking sound. Then mutter the words, "I seemed to have forgotten something."

 

[NotWise]

Dinner was a ground chuck "steak" in green chile sauce, with potatoes and spicy greens on the side. I'm full and my mouth is warm.

 

[Bubo_bubo]

Dinner was a ground chuck "steak" in green chile sauce, with potatoes and spicy greens on the side. I'm full and my mouth is warm.

*serves some milk*

 

[AloneTooLong]

The kid had the day off and cooked: pork chop for the 12 yr old, steak for the wife; Parmesan asparagus, mashed sweet 'taters, MahiMahi grilled and in a Cajun type shrimp sauce (for me, the kid and the 7 yr old). His wife won't eat seafood; the 12 yr old is really picky about which seafood she will eat and lost her interest in steak after she had Covid. The rest of us will eat most anything. No need for dessert after all that.

He (my grandson) is becoming quite good at grilling (he has three different pits!) and normally is the cook on his days off (he is a K9 officer). Truthfully, he is a better cook than his wife (I have taught him a few cooking secrets).

 

[TxRad]

Well, it looks like the place is settling in nicely. Some of our insomniacs are missing but I figure they will be around later tonight.

I'll make the midnight coffee for those in need.

Supper ended up being leftovers. A good meal to clean out the icebox.

 

[DarkRaven13]

Have a good night all...or day if yours has begun.

 

[Rustyoznail]

Enjoy your renfair, DR!

 

[Omenainen]

All these foods make me hungry. Unluckily, there’s no food unless I make it, and I doubt it’ll be anything as good as what others are having.

Fortunately, there’s coffee. Have a great weekend everyone!

 

[Rustyoznail]

Well, that was a drubbing. Geelong 133 beat Sydney 52. What an embarrassing game. It was pretty much all over after the first quarter.

Our friends who barrack for Geelong were ecstatic.

 

[TxRad]

Okay, not to sound uninformed, what game were they playing? I thing the score rules out soccer.

The morning coffee is ready.

I'm halfway through with my second tie it all together book. Anyone got any of the good rope? More loose ends than a broken flogger butt.... Both books are going to need a second book and maybe more.

 

[Duleigh]

Okay, not to sound uninformed, what game were they playing? I thing the score rules out soccer.

It is probably Australian rules football. The best description I've ever heard is "The game is a large bar fight with a ball added to keep the police from hauling everyone off to jail"

There's four goal posts and 23 ways of scoring a point, they actually get a point for catching the ball, that's called "marking the ball" and I believe that has to do with the fact that the receivers' hands are covered with blood. After that it starts to get weird.

*Grabs a piece of coffee* Thanks for the java Tx. now it's time to see if they plan to return my poem. I accidentally wrote a clean limerick and was so stunned that I submitted it.

 

[DarkRaven13]

Good morning. I am packed and almost ready.

 

[MrPixel]

Got up way too early this morning. D? The coffee isn't that chunky any more since Tx got us the big new machine. I'm on my second cup and it's fine. So far, that is. You sure what's in your cup is from the carafe and not the filter basket?

It was a sleepless night, constantly waking up to the silence. Surprised by how much of my peace was in hearing paws click on floors and treading in a circle mashing his bed next to ours. He'd snore sometimes, too. Thank you to everybody for your condolences. He was special, and had quite the personality.

Need to get back to work. My big story is in the middle of going live. I'm getting a chuckle out of the unobomber - maybe two - who are stalking it to screw the scoring. What did I do to them?

 

[ElectricBlue]

It is probably Australian rules football. The best description I've ever heard is "The game is a large bar fight with a ball added to keep the police from hauling everyone off to jail"

Sometimes called fairies in the meadow, or walking backwards to Christmas. I am not a fan: the game gives me the shits the way it gets front page in the paper. As well as the bloody back page. Why it takes twenty-two in a side (or whatever the fuck) to catch a ball and kick it between very high posts is beyond me.

Rusty will look at me and shake his head with disbelief, but there you are. Someone who doesn't like Aussie Rules.

 

[Duleigh]

Good morning. I am packed and almost ready.

I love Rennfaires, as a history nut I find it odd that people celebrate an era that marked a true low point in western civilization - brutal feudal regimes, constant wars, economic and racial slavery, even the climate was oppressive, once lush farms on Greenland had to close due to the encroaching cold and vineyards in England became a thing of the past for the same reason.

The Rennaissance itself was caused by the final collapse of the last remains of the Roman Empire - what western historians falsely and recently titled "The Byzantine Empire" where the spice routes to the east were cut off by the Ottoman Empire and the west started a race to find alternate routes to India and Chine - the spice must flow! The remaining wisdom of the Roman empire was no longer kept secret as the Roman elite sought refuge from the Ottoman empire and landed in Greece and Italy sparking the Rennaissance.

On the other hand, the Rennfaires show a lot of creativity and are great fun and I'm entirely jealous!

 

[Rustyoznail]

Sometimes called fairies in the meadow, or walking backwards to Christmas. I am not a fan: the game gives me the shits the way it gets front page in the paper. As well as the bloody back page. Why it takes twenty-two in a side (or whatever the fuck) to catch a ball and kick it between very high posts is beyond me.

Rusty will look at me and shake his head with disbelief, but there you are. Someone who doesn't like Aussie Rules.

Yeah, well... I believe you mentioned that you came over from Pommy land, so that probably explains that. Oh, and you live in a state that loves a sport where sticking a finger up someone's arse is considered a good tactic.

 

[Bubo_bubo]

Yeah, well... I believe you mentioned that you came over from Pommy land, so that probably explains that. Oh, and you live in a state that loves a sport where sticking a finger up someone's arse is considered a good tactic.

Now you got me curious. What sport is that?

 

[NotWise]

Australian rules Football.

Rodeo is still popular here, so I'm not going to complain about someone else's games. One of the events in local rodeos is the "chicken pull" where the challenge is to ride horseback past a chicken that's buried in the ground with it's head sticking out, and jerk it out of the ground without snapping its head off.

 

[Rustyoznail]

Australian Rules Football had the Grand Final today.

Rugby League is where chewing an ear or giving someone a Hopoate is ok.
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[ElectricBlue]

Yeah, well... I believe you mentioned that you came over from Pommy land, so that probably explains that. Oh, and you live in a state that loves a sport where sticking a finger up someone's arse is considered a good tactic.

I'm pretty sure I don't live in that state/those states, and I'm not from Tasmania, either. Although it's not a bad place to visit, and I had a long ago girlfriend from there, once upon a time.

 

[DarkRaven13]

I love Rennfaires, as a history nut I find it odd that people celebrate an era that marked a true low point in western civilization - brutal feudal regimes, constant wars, economic and racial slavery, even the climate was oppressive, once lush farms on Greenland had to close due to the encroaching cold and vineyards in England became a thing of the past for the same reason.

The Rennaissance itself was caused by the final collapse of the last remains of the Roman Empire - what western historians falsely and recently titled "The Byzantine Empire" where the spice routes to the east were cut off by the Ottoman Empire and the west started a race to find alternate routes to India and Chine - the spice must flow! The remaining wisdom of the Roman empire was no longer kept secret as the Roman elite sought refuge from the Ottoman empire and landed in Greece and Italy sparking the Rennaissance.

On the other hand, the Rennfaires show a lot of creativity and are great fun and I'm entirely jealous!

On the plus side I'll.be able to yell out "A pox on you" as I watch one of the performances lol

 

[Duleigh]

giving someone a Hopoate is ok.

a Hopoate? *Hopoate is not found in the Aussie --> English Dictionary*