Could somebody say something interesting? Anyone?

[bicentennial_baby]

Please?

:boring:

[sniffa]

1. Sending out the bat signal to your Clique again, I see.

:eyes:

Shame on you.

[RevolutionaryActs]

2. Uhh....

:7 :rofl:

[bicentennial_baby]

4. I heard something funny today

we were watching badminton, and the sportscaster said that the shuttlecock landed "like a butterfly with sore feet"

:wtf: does that even mean?!

:crazy:

[RevolutionaryActs]

7. I would answer you

but I couldn't get past "shuttlecock" without giggling. :rofl:

[Sidney J Mussburger]

43. I don't know what sportscast you were listening to

but everytime I watch they just call it a shuttle. Which is totally bullshit. The shuttlecock is the geniousness of badminton.

[RetroLounge]

3. There's a beautiful woman in my bathroon drying her hair.

*I* find that most interesting.

:hi:

RL

[bicentennial_baby]

5. And wtf are you doing on DU?

Go get some ass, young man!!

:yoiks:

[Redstone]

8. Seconded. There are times when DU can wait.

Redstone

[RetroLounge]

10. Hee

:loveya:

RL

[bicentennial_baby]

24. Oh....maybe you already did

The post-ass getting shower. Got it.

:rofl:

:loveya:

[RetroLounge]

27. uh huh...

:rofl:

RL

[Redstone]

6. How about this, which I think you'll appreciate:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x8024568

Redstone

[bicentennial_baby]

9. Ha! I was just about to reply to that...

You are so right, the Brandywine is a damn fine tomato. I long for the day when I can garden again. I miss it so much.

Enjoy!! The tomato is my favorite fruit. I eat them like apples. :9

[Redstone]

15. When I was a kid, August mornings would always find me in the garden with a saltshaker...

Redstone

[bicentennial_baby]

16. C'est exact!

Mmmm, tomatoes and salt. Bliss.

:thumbsup:

[Dinger]

46. I Kissed A Green Bay Packer Player,

of the Lombardi era, and I have proof!

[Pale Blue Dot]

11. Yes.

nt

[bicentennial_baby]

17. Fail

[fizzgig]

12. something interesting

:P

you feeling better today?

[bicentennial_baby]

18. Not bad!

The midafternoon margaritas may have something to do with that... :D

The food was good too, I swear. ;)

[skygazer]

13. Studies of marital satisfaction reveal that more couples reported their

marriages to be happy in the late 1970's than did so in 1957, while couples in their second marriages believe them to be much happier than their first ones. Some commentators conclude that marriage is becoming less permanent but more satisfying. Others wonder, however, whether there is a vicious circle in our country, where no one even tries to sustain a relationship.


Excerpt from a book I'm reading called "The Way We Wish We Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap."

:hi:

[bicentennial_baby]

19. That is interesting! Thank you!

How do you like the book? :hi:

[skygazer]

23. I find it interesting

:P

I've just begun but I am enjoying it. I think it's always a good thing to kind of temper our automatic assumptions with some research that puts it in a better perspective.

An example of that is the assumption so many people have that there is an epidemic of child abductions when the data shows that the rate hasn't really changed all that much over the years - it's just an increase in media coverage that makes it seem like there's so many more.

[bicentennial_baby]

25. I remember reading about that in The Culture of Fear

That was a good read.

:)

[Writer]

14. Okay, bibaby, here it goes:

If we are to begin fixing the difficulties facing modern American journalism, we first must understand that democracy and capitalism are not compatible systems.


So... does that work?

[bicentennial_baby]

20. A woman after my own heart...

I work for a radical economics magazine. Right up my alley. :D

[graywarrior]

21. I have rocks in my underwear

Series.

[bicentennial_baby]

22. Would you care to share with the rest of the group, graywarrior?

:rofl:

Ok, how'd you pull that off?

[graywarrior]

26. Errr....ummmmm....shit.

:blush:

[bicentennial_baby]

28. I don't want to have to kick you out of the group, gray...

Therapy is good for you. Sharing is caring.


:rofl:

[graywarrior]

29. OK OK OK

We were hiking......no one was around.....we hope.

[bicentennial_baby]

31. !!!

:wow:

You're a dirty bird.

[graywarrior]

62. Yes I am.

[Forkboy]

30. The word "testis" comes from the Latin meaning to bear witness.

In ancient Rome, only men could bear witness or testify in a public forum. In order to show importance to their testimony, they would hold their testicles as they spoke, and an oath was declared while holding another's testicles.

[bicentennial_baby]

34. Series?

If so, you win for most interesting post in the thread thus far, Graywarrior's hiking-sex notwithstanding.

:rofl:

[Forkboy]

37. To quote Casey Stengal..."You could look it up."

:)

[bicentennial_baby]

38. d00d, that requires effort...

Who do you think you're talking to?!

;)

[Forkboy]

39. LOL...ok, I'll do it for you.

I'm clearly bored tonight. :)

The ancient Israelites and Romans knew the significance of testicles. The words testify, testimony and testicle all come from the Latin testis, for testicles. When Roman men gave testimony, they held their testicles in their hand, for they regarded them as sacred. This custom is mentioned in the Old Testament. In the King James translation, the passage reads, "And Abraham said: 'unto his eldest servant of his house... Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh: And I will make thee swear...'"

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080722111105AAu5uth


http://books.google.com/books?id=RJXJyZFPAysC&pg=PA335&lpg=PA335&dq=testis+roman+testify&source=web&ots=22-kebIkBb&sig=UDqR0-CGYMN9gVGbTHFIonk5sns&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result

I can remember stuff like this but forgot a doctors appointment for bloodwork last week. :silly:

[bicentennial_baby]

40. Awesome

One more thing to add to my cornucopia of useless knowledge. :D

No more forgetting appointments!! :spank:

[pokerfan]

41. Explains a lot, actually

"When you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow!"

[Chan790]

32. I think this is interesting...

One of the first political editorial cartoons to ever appear in a US newspaper featured a terrapin named Ograbme! grabbing in its' beak the ass of a man stealing US goods to export to Britain. It was meant to convince the average citizen to support the Embargo Act of 1807 which the US imposed after Britain attempted to use force to stop the United States from trading with France whom the British were at war with, going so far as to attack US merchant ships on the high seas, force American citizens into British naval service and to pay pirates to disrupt trade routes. The US had officially taken a position on neutrality and had open trade relations with both sides prior to the passage of the Embargo Act. This embargo marked the first instance of an nation using fiscal warfare without a supporting military action to affirm its' rights. (It failed miserably, crippled the US economy, and contributed to hostilities in advance of the War of 1812.)

"Ograbme!" is an icon of many trade-protectionist organizations and occasionally still appears in political cartoons. What many people don't notice is "Ograbme!" spells embargo backwards.

I like this story as it reaffirms what I've known for years. Embargos don't work.

[bicentennial_baby]

35. I know a lot about the Embargo Act, but I didn't know that

I took American Economic History last semester. :D

But that is really neat. Thanks! :)

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[skygazer]

36. Doesn't get much more interesting than that

:wow:

[terrya]

49. Oh no....Grovelbot has been drinking again.

Now he's just being silly.

[Gormy Cuss]

63. Look at those bloodshot eyes.

Honestly, I'm surprised Grovvy is still standing.

[skygazer]

42. Here's something interesting - check your PM

:hi:

[bicentennial_baby]

47. Got it!!

:yourock:

Oh, sounds soooo delicious...

[leeroysphitz]

44. Never have, never will. n/t

[pokerfan]

45. It's always the true stories on Snopes that get me

In late 1986 in the small farm town of Council Grove, Kansas (pop. 2300), Corky Woodward rented a camera and a videocassette player from the only rental store in town. Woodward, the sheriff of Morris County, then made an erotic tape of himself and his wife Dannette, but inadvertently left the tape in the VCR when he returned it to the store. The next person to rent the player got the tape as well, and soon hundreds of copies were circulating throughout town.

http://www.snopes.com/risque/porn/video.asp

[bicentennial_baby]

48. Ouch!

National Lampoon's European Vacation, meet real life.

:o

[AlCzervik]

50. i just back from San Francisco and we had a wonderful time as usual.

My daughter, her friend and i went early this morning and now we're back home which kind of sucks.

[bicentennial_baby]

52. Yay!!

Someday, I'll get to CA. Someday...

:hi:

[AlCzervik]

53. you two gotta, you just do.

and hopefully in 5 years we'll be living a lot closer to SF.

[bicentennial_baby]

54. If we *ever* have the $$, we will

But, with both of us in school now, I'm sad to say that it won't be soon. x(

:loveya:

[TK421]

51. I'm down to drinking only one six pack a day....

:D

[Fran Kubelik]

55. Michael Phelps is going for his 8th gold at 10:58

Sigourney Weaver is still HOT.


I love your food threads.




So yeah...not that interesting, but it's all I got.

[bicentennial_baby]

57. Awwww...

You... :blush:

Tomorrow's dinner thread will be good. Skygazer just sent me the *best* recipe. :woohoo:

And yes, Sigourney is hot. Agreed!

And I'm so there. Go Phelps! w00t!

:hi:

[AlCzervik]

56. ok i just let loose one of the best burps i've done in at least a month

right in the middle of talking to my kid and what did i do after i let it loose, i died laughing and said "Did you hear that?"


:rofl: :rofl:

Cause i'm once, twice, three times a lady.

[bicentennial_baby]

58. !!

I do that too, at the most unexpected moments...Sniffa will be talking, and I'll be drinking a beer, and... :rofl:

:D

[AlCzervik]

59. does he say "Nice one Princess", that's usually what my husband says and my

daughter says "Who's a pretty Pricess?"

[Fran Kubelik]

60. I think I would LOVE hanging out with you

:rofl:

[AlCzervik]

61. that's pretty much my one talent, huge burps. You'll enjoy this, a couple of months ago

i take Jr. to baja fresh and it's dead, like 2:00pm so no lunch crowd, we get some food and sit. place is still empty ok? I take a big swig of diet pepsi and i went to say something right after when a huge burp came out, like epic so of course i just die laughing, like crying, nose running, the whole thing. Ok so my daughter says under her breath, "Mom!!! there are other people here!!' and i said i was too far away from the employee's for them to hear me and then she says "Mom!!! look behind you" so i did and the place was half full and there was a women sitting behind me. Well that just made the laughing worse, the more i tried to stifle myself the more i would laugh, anywho, that's my talent.