What might be making you a tad apprehensive, but might not, as it's too soon to tell

[Glinda]

HA!! Craig's quite proud of his cock. Lovely plumage.

There's some banananana stuff going on in the backyard . . .

[xoxoxoBruce]

Eek, tarantulas.

[Glinda]

Stupid YouTube tags not working . . . please go here.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yes dear...

[Undertoad]

Sorry G.... unlike every other forum, the youtube tags here only take the bit after the "v=".

[Glinda]

Thank you, Bruce!

Today I learned . . . .

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Sorry G.... unlike every other forum, the youtube tags here only take the bit after the "v=".

[Glinda]

Heh. (Sorry for the crap quality.)




Typical street in Sosua

[Gravdigr]

Lot of motorcycles, I take it?

[xoxoxoBruce]

"receive 10% of your food order".
So if you want a hamburger, order 10.

[Glinda]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Lot of motorcycles, I take it?

Yep. Scooters and motos. Everywhere. And they're all traveling in every direction at once. Driving a vehicle here is like being a great white cruising a narrow, twisted river, surrounded by thousands of swarming pilot fish. It definitely takes some getting used to.

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

"receive 10% of your food order".
So if you want a hamburger, order 10.

That is correct, sir. Great deal, eh?

I confess, the awesome change in meaning didn't occur to me until I'd had plenty of time to mentally correct the broken mechanics of spelling and hyphenage ( <-- that is now a word, sez me). The upside-down discount offer was just the icing on the cake.









And now, once again, especially for those in the back:

People: Words (and punctuation) mean things! Mind yer shit!!

[xoxoxoBruce]

Then again, if you are bursting and got to let it out with vigor, might be better if people can't understand what you're spewing.

[Glinda]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Then again, if you are bursting and got to let it out with vigor, might be better if people can't understand what you're spewing.

Indeed.





Unfortunately, the transcription doesn't clarify things at all:

"Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart—you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you're a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us."

[xoxoxoBruce]

He's taking a page from the Cassius Clay playbook.

[Glinda]

If you can''t dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bullshit?

[Glinda]

Landed in Portland late last night. Luggage did not. Yay.

Airline told me it would be delivered to my house "tomorrow." Given that they didn't know where on the planet it was at 1:30 a.m., I find it hard to believe they're gonna get it to my front door this afternoon.