Sure is quiet here

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 20:35:09 -0600, "jjs" > wrote:

>Sure is quiet here, or maybe it's my news server. Y'all okay out there?
>

Sure. We could always talk about election results...

*begins backing away from crowd slowly towards door*


--

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite,
and furthermore always carry a small snake.
- W.C. Fields

Silance says a lot sometimes. I'm here reading everyday. John, you
lookin' at your vehicles and your wrenches yet? The brakes on my bus
are in need of attention so I might be back on the creeper soon with
questions. Dennis

href="http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=4025706&a=30209382&vt=vp">Den's
1977 Puma</a>

"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
et> wrote in message
news
> jjs wrote:
>> Sure is quiet here,
>
> Yes. Too quiet.

It was deadly quiet at work - election hang-overs for both sides. The only
people smiling were the bliss-ninnies. Even the stores were nearly empty. It
is downright spooky.

Tim Rogers wrote:
> "Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
> et> wrote in message
> news >
>>jjs wrote:
>>
>>>Sure is quiet here,
>>
>>Yes. Too quiet.
>>
>>
>
>
> ..............So what would you like?
>
> .......An enlightening thread about world affairs? A repeat flame-fest about
> hard-start relays?
>
> ................Oh wait! I know.........how about me getting some help
> disabling the #$@^&^*^%!!! theft deterrent system on my wife's Lexus? I went
> to get back in it today at the gas station and when I opened the door, the
> horn started blowing and the ignition was disabled. I called the dealership
> on my cellphone and they told me to put the key in the door lock to reset it
> but they had no idea how I'd triggered it in the first place. The horn is
> really LOUD on a LS400.
>

I feel much better.

How about a rant about car horns blatting whenever someone locks their
doors in parking lots? Makes me jump or crane my neck crazily to see who
I'm backing into every time. I was brought up to recognize a tap on a
horn as a warning. Not the sign that some Soccer Mom is dashing into the
Starschmucks for a coffee-flavored milk shake.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR
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To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.
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"Shaggie" > wrote in message
...
> On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 20:35:09 -0600, "jjs" > wrote:
>
> >Sure is quiet here, or maybe it's my news server. Y'all okay out there?
> >
>
> Sure. We could always talk about election results...
>
> *begins backing away from crowd slowly towards door*
>
>


...................Now that this election is over, it would be OK with me if
I didn't have to think or hear about politics for a little while.

Tim Rogers wrote:
> "Shaggie" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>>On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 20:35:09 -0600, "jjs" > wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Sure is quiet here, or maybe it's my news server. Y'all okay out there?
>>>
>>
>>Sure. We could always talk about election results...
>>
>>*begins backing away from crowd slowly towards door*
>>
> ..................Now that this election is over, it would be OK with me if
> I didn't have to think or hear about politics for a little while.

I'll second that emotion. Some lackwit over on the Vanagon mailing list
decided to fire off a post-election diatribe. Most ignored it . . . but
a few similarly challenged dunces engaged him. Despite calls from others
to refrain from off-topic posts, the flames continue. DON'T LET THIS
HAPPEN TO US!

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR
-=-=-
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-- Albert Einstein
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"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
et> wrote in message
...
>
> I'll second that emotion. Some lackwit over on the Vanagon mailing list
> decided to fire off a post-election diatribe.
>
>
.................The people who live and breath nothing but their own
sectarian ideology are full of religious fervor and it's really just like a
religion for them. One of my brothers used to be caught up in a far
right-wing sect called the missionary alliance and he used to answer the
phone with the phrase: 'Praise Jesus my lord and savior' or something like
that. When I blasphemed by marrying a Catholic and having my kids brought up
in the Catholic Church, He gave up on getting me into heaven..........lol

Dunno about the rest of you, but this election took more of my energy than
any before. I'm tired. My mate Molly is tired. But we are not giving up on
the system, our community, or our friends of different persuasions. Friends
is what it is about. We will work it out.

Peace - I'm happy to know all of you. Even our neutralist friend Jan.

John

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 19:18:26 -0500, "Tim Rogers" >
wrote:

>"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
><j.michael.elliottAT@REMOVETHEOBVIOUSadelphiaDOT. net> wrote in message
...
>>
>> I'll second that emotion. Some lackwit over on the Vanagon mailing list
>> decided to fire off a post-election diatribe.
>>
>>
>................The people who live and breath nothing but their own
>sectarian ideology are full of religious fervor and it's really just like a
>religion for them. One of my brothers used to be caught up in a far
>right-wing sect called the missionary alliance and he used to answer the
>phone with the phrase: 'Praise Jesus my lord and savior' or something like
>that. When I blasphemed by marrying a Catholic and having my kids brought up
>in the Catholic Church, He gave up on getting me into heaven..........lol
>

You misspelled "breathe." Hey, it's slow in here. :-) Speaking of
answering the phone, the phone message that me and my college roommate
used to have was: (sing to the song of Beverly Hillbillies)
"Come and listen to my story 'bout 2 single dudes,
Missin' phone messages gave them the blues.
So they bought the machine that is talkin' to you now....
And if you leave your name and number we'll get back to you somehow!
*pause* UNLESS YOU'RE FAT!"

It's true, I'm the one who came up with it. *grins proudly*

--

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite,
and furthermore always carry a small snake.
- W.C. Fields

"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott" et> wrote in message >...
> Tim Rogers wrote:
> > "Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
> > et> wrote in message
> > news > >
> >>jjs wrote:
> >>
> >>>Sure is quiet here,
> >>
> >>Yes. Too quiet.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > ..............So what would you like?
> >
> > .......An enlightening thread about world affairs? A repeat flame-fest about
> > hard-start relays?
> >
> > ................Oh wait! I know.........how about me getting some help
> > disabling the #$@^&^*^%!!! theft deterrent system on my wife's Lexus? I went
> > to get back in it today at the gas station and when I opened the door, the
> > horn started blowing and the ignition was disabled. I called the dealership
> > on my cellphone and they told me to put the key in the door lock to reset it
> > but they had no idea how I'd triggered it in the first place. The horn is
> > really LOUD on a LS400.
> >
>
> I feel much better.
>
> How about a rant about car horns blatting whenever someone locks their
> doors in parking lots? Makes me jump or crane my neck crazily to see who
> I'm backing into every time. I was brought up to recognize a tap on a
> horn as a warning. Not the sign that some Soccer Mom is dashing into the
> Starschmucks for a coffee-flavored milk shake.


Good, there's somebody else in the world who hates that feature. Are
people really in such a hurry all the damn time that they need to be
dashing away as they lock their doors and the car can "tell" them it's
locked with the horn? Scares the daylights outa me everytime I'm
walking through a parking lot and some car right behind me goes
"BEEP!" or "BOOP BOOP!" I always think I'm about to get run over.

~Anthony