That thread did give us the Comment of the Year, however: ________________________________________________ bgates said... We get it. You're really smart and you don't like Santorum.
I get that she doesn't like Santorum. _________________________________________________
Apologies for quoting from T.O.P., but that was just so well played.
I just read that thread over there, seems that quite a few folks upset with AA over her condescension toward those with faith, well that was my take anyway. I predict she votes for Obama again if Santorum get the nomination, or she and loyal hubby sit out the election.
You just reminded me, Sixty...I know you don't like the grammar and spelling errors...so this will be a nightmare for you, but I laugh out loud sometimes at the typos and stuff that Troop just leaves up. You gotta know that he knows they're there! Even in the headlines. He won't fix them. Kind of a badge of honor, you think?
Back when I used to mention such things the Trooper always said "I dash this (stuff) off, I don't give a bleep about spelling and all that other happy horse (bleep)", or words to that effect.
Who am I to argue with such finely tuned logic, eh?
Faith is faith. It's highly personal. Those who identify as agnostic or atheist are as in the dark as those who profess faith in God. They hope there is no God. We hope there is.
Outside of a personal revelation, they won't believe.
She's still hanging on. She just had a bone marrow transplant and has to make it to 60 days before she can start another treatment. After her transplant, the none of her cells remained, only the donor's. Things actually looked good. Then her cells showed up along with leukemia.
Transplant wasn't the first choice of attack plans, but it was the only possibility at the time. She has to be 60 days out from transplant to start the next line of attack. A few more days and they can attack it again, from another angle.
She's covered with a mysterious rash that the doctors can't explain. It could mean something called GVHD, which is the transplant cells attacking the recipient's cells. But, the doctors can't tell what it is for sure.
So sad. The family is very close to friends of ours. The little girl is adorable. My daughter has taught her in Sunday School when they're up for a visit to the mountains. To imagine the monster that dwells within her, trying to destroy her, is hard to do.
A nurse was watching her the other day, and encouraged the mother to not give up hope yet, seeing how strong Piper's spirit is. I hope it's not false hope.
The husband is a student at UGA, and had to withdraw to be with the family at St. Jude. They have an older daughter. They maintain a blog, but my wife keeps up with her via facebook and is generally a bit ahead of the news. Thanks for remembering her.
Thanks, windbag. Those pix of her are inspiring. It's good to hear that there's some hope.
I hope everyone who reads about her and would like to be able to do something for kids like her will register to be a bone marrow donor. And major props to those who already have.
Graft Versus Host Disease, very serious complication. I hope she pulls through, poor baby. Poor parents, how devastating, I know. My husband died of ALL.
Stories like this--and yours, Allie--are why I get so upset at complaints that we spend too much of gdp on health care. We are the best in the world at treating cancers, and the overwhelming driver of higher medical spending is innovation. Those two facts are not unrelated.
How much would we all willingly pay to cure everyone who is struck by this disease, and others like it?
The fact that most of the rest of the world is content to free-ride off our R&D isn't evidence of the superiority of their health-care systems.
Sorry for the political rant. But it's the #1 issue at stake, and #2 ain't even close.
If they reduced their yammering about capital-gains taxes by 20% and talked about health-care facts the level of political discussion would rise for two reasons.
Windbag, it's OK, doesn't change anything to avoid mention of ALL, this cancer still exists and is still killing people, although huge strides have been made with children.
What a great thread. That is only because I have such great commenters!
Chip is right. That is indeed Barbara Steele. She is one of my all time favorites and I have found a treasure trove of really hot photos of her so get ready to see her a lot in Whose that girl.
I leave typos and misspellings up because I don't give a shit. I have so much to do that I don't have time to go back and edit and retype shit. If I don't catch it the first time I don't give a shit. Just sayn'
I think some of you may be surprised by this article. I was. As I've said on Althouse, I advocate a combination of private and public healthcare, like they do so well in Singapore, rated the best healthcare system in the world.
We have a friend of the family who has been living in Singapore the last two years, they are staunch conservatives. They say the healthcare in Singapore can't compare to the US, far superior.
Well Blake, if the private health insurance industry goes belly up, what then? I think we need a plan. This Aetna CEO sees the handwriting on the wall.
Allie, First of all, I'd like to point out that the Aetna guy's observation is nothing more than what those of us who opposed Obamacare have said all along, only to be told we were morons who didn't understand that ZeroCare did not such thing. So, fuck AlphaIdiot, Robert Schnook, garage sinkhole, and the rest of those fucks who are either terminally stupid or pathological liars.
Making sure that single-payer doesn't happen here is entirely what this election is about. That's why I would crawl on my hands and knees over burning coals to vote that cocksucker Obama out of the White House.
As for Singapore, guess what? It's got the kind of health saving accounts and user fees featured in the Ryan Plan. Also, being Singapore, it regulates a lot of otherwise risky behaviors. When you can do all that, it's easy to pick up most or all of the medical tab for the poor. Yet, Ryan is demonized.
The future of health care under a single-payer system is easy to predict, because the future is now in the UK. There's no better term for a group of bureaucrats who make decisions like that than "death panels", but boy that Sarah Palin sure is an idiot for saying so.
In fact, one of the least-reported news stories in the US is the UK government's moves to get away from the disaster that is single-payer health care.
Chip, I'm not so ideological that I would reject a healthcare system that worked, whether Paul Ryan advocates it or not, there is more to the Singapore model than just health savings accounts that make it so succesful.
We are going to have to face the fact that healthcare costs are out of control and are going to crash whatever system we end up with, whether it be public or private, costs have got to be reigned in.
The really nasty thing to consider is that our government caused a lot of the high cost, Allie. I wish more people understood that (I'm sure you have seen this, though) and maybe felt a little duped at this point.
No, Allie, people like you with open minds are not the problem. The problem is that open-minded, well-informed people do not happen to comprise a majority of the Democratic Party's membership.
Because you're open-minded, I will share some stats with you. Let's talk about breast cancer. In Singapore-Malaysia, the 5-year survival rate for ethnic Chinese women is 76%, while for Indians it's 68%, and 58.5% for Malays. Meanwhile, in the "inferior" US system, the 5-year survival rate for breast cancer is 89%.
So yes, the Singaporeans spend less on health care. But they get the "great" outcomes they get by charging extensive patient fees, and by allowing the better-off to buy better care.
If liberals in the US would allow a similar system to be set up here, we could talk. But they will insist on equal outcomes as some made-up "human right", and we'll get lesser care and go bankrupt to boot.
OK, it's from the NYTs so you may want to gird your loins or something;) and my husband was a Pedatrician, so I understand what the costs incurred by docs to practice in this country are. BUT being a doc is a calling, not a way of getting rich. My opinion only, no hard feelings.
Allie, None of what I'm posting is meant as an attack on you. Believe me, I've stopped wasting my time making fact-based arguments at T.O.P. Our ongoing exchange is my way of showing you a lot of respect.
Here's a major problem with comparing doctor's earnings in places like France vs. the US. (I'm going to refer to France simply b/c I know something about it off the top of my head). In France, med-school students get "free" tuition, courtesy of the government. In turn, the gov't pays them salaries that are low by US standards. This makes it look like US doctors are overpaid or something, but as you well know our docs leave med school with a lot of debt to pay off.
These are two different ways of financing the cost (in actual resources) of training doctors. The French rely on government planning, as they do in many other sectors of their economy. We rely on individual choice by doctors, made in consideration of personal interests and financial rewards.
Why in the world would we want to trade the breast cancer survival rates (or any other superior survival rate) with those of Singapore? What is better about that?
Darcy we don't want to trade our better outcomes for worse ones in order to cut health care costs. I guess I just believe we are CAPABLE of having the best healthcare system in the world, that is sustainable, meaning it won't be in danger of crashing, and costs are reigned in.
Beyond that, I wish, wish, WISH we'd have had a real discussion before we had Obamacare jammed down our throats. "Health care" has become somehow understood by many to mean "what is covered by insurance". We never should have gotten here. Now, we just expect to have everything magically paid for.
But that is just a beginning of a long, necessary conversation that never happened in this country.
I hear that sigh, Darce-a-rama. All we can do is work, vote and hope for the best. Keep our head down and hope not come to the attention of the authorities.
A friend of ours was a piediatoi, pediatrishun, pediatric medisinman....aww, hell, he was a kid's doctor. We made more money than he did, after all his liability insurance and office overhead. I was stunned when he told us his yearly take-home pay.
I hate Chik-Fil-A. We don't have one in our little town. If we happen to go out of town with someone else and have to eat on the way, inevitably, they want to go to Chik-Fil-A. Yuck.
I have been busy cleaning out one of my houses and I just filled up my oldest son's car with toys from his youth. While going through the boxes we found a Gumby, he was plastic.
Also have a cradle I made for him when he was born back in the 70s. Need to get that to Jersey, where my first grandchild is expected in a day or two. I can't find anyone willing to travel to Jersey to deliver it. I'll probably get it there by the time the child has outgrown it.
Congratulations on having your first grandchild, fun times ahead! My oldest granddaughter is 11, she's already as tall as I am, which is 5'6". She pats me on top of my head and calls me her little Nani, lol.
Wow - that comment reads as if I made the cradle for Gumby. Gumby can make his own damn cradle, dammit!
Yeah, we'll see about the grandchild - have no idea when I'll get a chance to see the child, and not too crazy about it being a Y*nkee and all, but I am sure everything will be just fine.
I've only seen one out here. I don't go there much--it's kinda out of the way. I should go out of my way. I put that up out of sympathy because I heard that the anti-religious bigots boycott them. Just like they boycott In-N-Burger.
Hey, let's all boycott people places and things because we don't like their politics--lose/lose.
Whoever she is, she looks fake, plastic and posed.
ReplyDeleteAudrey "I'm not Kate" Hepburn.
ReplyDeleteAt first glance, she really does look like Audrey!
ReplyDeleteBut the more you look, the more her face is...well, I think she's creepy looking!
But I love the dress and shoes. Elegant.
I thought she was a 10 at first glance.
ReplyDeleteNow I thinks she's more an 8 1/2.
Blake says he knows that pose.
ReplyDeleteDarcy said...
ReplyDeleteBlake says he knows that pose
Hey, I know that prose!
Ritmo sez he knows some pros.
ReplyDeleteHit me with your Ritmo Shtick!
ReplyDeleteIan Dury is totally channeling Dean Stockwell in that video.
ReplyDeleteOr should it be vice versa because of chronology?
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ReplyDeleteI'm deleting that. Sorry.
ReplyDeleteI hope it was something naughty. I missed it. :)
ReplyDeleteNopes. Not naughty. But I'm due for a naughty comment or two.
ReplyDeleteWaiting patiently...
ReplyDeletePretty heated and testy today over at the other site.
ReplyDeleteI should have given it up for Lent.
I about gagged when I read what Alex said to Darcy.
ReplyDeleteBut I didn't say much because I don't believe that anyone takes him seriously.
ReplyDeleteI almost posted the same comment as you at that point, chickie.
ReplyDeleteAlex is one of those commenters who think they're being ironic when in reality they're just being pathetic.
Well, I almost said "Fuck you very much!"
ReplyDeleteBut thanks guys. :)
With a smiley!
ReplyDeleteUh...in reply to Alex, I mean.
ReplyDeleteOh, this is just one of those days, isn't it? :)
That thread did give us the Comment of the Year, however:
ReplyDelete________________________________________________
bgates said...
We get it. You're really smart and you don't like Santorum.
I get that she doesn't like Santorum.
_________________________________________________
Apologies for quoting from T.O.P., but that was just so well played.
I loved that. And then someone down the road said something like "Well, that she doesn't like Santorum, anyway."
ReplyDeletelol
Darcy, My formatting sucked, b/c it was the downthread comment I was quoting.
ReplyDeleteI have rarely laughed so well over there.
Oh! I see that now. I laughed out loud too.
ReplyDeleteI just read that thread over there, seems that quite a few folks upset with AA over her condescension toward those with faith, well that was my take anyway. I predict she votes for Obama again if Santorum get the nomination, or she and loyal hubby sit out the election.
ReplyDeleteDarcy, Alex is a jerk.
Darcy, he would have balked at answering that. How anybody can get away with being mean to you is a mystery to me.
ReplyDeleteChip, comments like that from bgates makes it worthwhile.
Y'all are sweet to me.
ReplyDeleteNobody puts Darcy in the corner!
ReplyDeleteSome one is bein' mean to Ms. Darce? Point 'em out, knock 'em out!
ReplyDeleteSeriously, that is one jacked up place over there.
I remember Alex, he was all over the map - a libconservataricommie or something. But he is demented.
Man, it is late - replace "some one" with "someone".
ReplyDeleteAs you were.
You just reminded me, Sixty...I know you don't like the grammar and spelling errors...so this will be a nightmare for you, but I laugh out loud sometimes at the typos and stuff that Troop just leaves up. You gotta know that he knows they're there! Even in the headlines. He won't fix them. Kind of a badge of honor, you think?
ReplyDeleteHilarious.
Darcy, I think it's sweet he leaves up his typos. What I don't get is why MamaM hasn razzed him about it, I guess I'm her usual target.
ReplyDeleteLol, hasn't.
ReplyDeleteBack when I used to mention such things the Trooper always said "I dash this (stuff) off, I don't give a bleep about spelling and all that other happy horse (bleep)", or words to that effect.
ReplyDeleteWho am I to argue with such finely tuned logic, eh?
@Sixty and Allie
ReplyDeleteExactly. :)
I love that Troop isn't concerned about typos. Communication is more important.
ReplyDeleteYour sew wright.
ReplyDeleteAllot 've people rite that whey.
ReplyDeleteWrite on brothres!
ReplyDeleteScru yoo.
ReplyDeleteThat wasn't a very positive sentiment, Allie.
ReplyDeleteDo you need a hug?
Yes I always accept hugs.
ReplyDeleteI hope no one took me seriously, I was just being silly,.
ReplyDeleteI mean about the srcu yoo, not the hug.
ReplyDeleteBut who IS that girl?
ReplyDeleteMy guess is Edith Piaf.
Edith "Rice" Piaf could sing, but dang, she was not attractive at all.
ReplyDeletePlus, I don't think she was in any horror flicks.
Faith is faith. It's highly personal. Those who identify as agnostic or atheist are as in the dark as those who profess faith in God. They hope there is no God. We hope there is.
ReplyDeleteOutside of a personal revelation, they won't believe.
There are few things worse than spiritual pride.
windbag, Any news about that little girl at St. Jude's? I've been thinking about her almost constantly since you posted about her.
ReplyDeleteShe's still hanging on. She just had a bone marrow transplant and has to make it to 60 days before she can start another treatment. After her transplant, the none of her cells remained, only the donor's. Things actually looked good. Then her cells showed up along with leukemia.
ReplyDeleteTransplant wasn't the first choice of attack plans, but it was the only possibility at the time. She has to be 60 days out from transplant to start the next line of attack. A few more days and they can attack it again, from another angle.
She's covered with a mysterious rash that the doctors can't explain. It could mean something called GVHD, which is the transplant cells attacking the recipient's cells. But, the doctors can't tell what it is for sure.
So sad. The family is very close to friends of ours. The little girl is adorable. My daughter has taught her in Sunday School when they're up for a visit to the mountains. To imagine the monster that dwells within her, trying to destroy her, is hard to do.
A nurse was watching her the other day, and encouraged the mother to not give up hope yet, seeing how strong Piper's spirit is. I hope it's not false hope.
The husband is a student at UGA, and had to withdraw to be with the family at St. Jude. They have an older daughter. They maintain a blog, but my wife keeps up with her via facebook and is generally a bit ahead of the news. Thanks for remembering her.
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ReplyDeleteThanks, windbag. Those pix of her are inspiring. It's good to hear that there's some hope.
ReplyDeleteI hope everyone who reads about her and would like to be able to do something for kids like her will register to be a bone marrow donor. And major props to those who already have.
/seriousness
Graft Versus Host Disease, very serious complication. I hope she pulls through, poor baby. Poor parents, how devastating, I know. My husband died of ALL.
ReplyDeleteKeeping them in my thoughts and prayers.
Stories like this--and yours, Allie--are why I get so upset at complaints that we spend too much of gdp on health care. We are the best in the world at treating cancers, and the overwhelming driver of higher medical spending is innovation. Those two facts are not unrelated.
ReplyDeleteHow much would we all willingly pay to cure everyone who is struck by this disease, and others like it?
The fact that most of the rest of the world is content to free-ride off our R&D isn't evidence of the superiority of their health-care systems.
Sorry for the political rant. But it's the #1 issue at stake, and #2 ain't even close.
The fact that most of the rest of the world is content to free-ride off our R&D isn't evidence of the superiority of their health-care systems.
ReplyDeleteWord.
And why don't people on the anti-socialized medicine side know how to explain this? You don't hear this discussed.
Heckuva good question, Darcy.
ReplyDeleteIf they reduced their yammering about capital-gains taxes by 20% and talked about health-care facts the level of political discussion would rise for two reasons.
Getting back to the OT, could that girl possibly be Barbara Steele?
ReplyDeleteDarcy:
ReplyDeleteAre you voting on Tuesday? I'd love to hear your sitch.
While Ruth Anne waits for Darcy's reply, I'll interrupt to answer my own question: Yes, it is her.
ReplyDelete@Chip: the donor was from the UK. Incredible.
ReplyDelete@Allie: I'm sorry you had to endure that. I didn't mean to drudge up old wounds.
Windbag, it's OK, doesn't change anything to avoid mention of ALL, this cancer still exists and is still killing people, although huge strides have been made with children.
ReplyDeleteI hope this child is one of the lucky ones.
What a great thread. That is only because I have such great commenters!
ReplyDeleteChip is right. That is indeed Barbara Steele. She is one of my all time favorites and I have found a treasure trove of really hot photos of her so get ready to see her a lot in Whose that girl.
Hi Ruth Anne. :)
ReplyDeleteI am voting Tuesday and I haven't made up my mind yet! It's torture for me.
I feel like all the choices left are deeply flawed.
I will make a choice though, and I'll be happy to share who and why when I do decide.
I leave typos and misspellings up because I don't give a shit. I have so much to do that I don't have time to go back and edit and retype shit. If I don't catch it the first time I don't give a shit. Just sayn'
ReplyDeleteKind of like the Honey Badger? ;-)
ReplyDeleteTrooper IS the Honey Badger of the blogging world.
ReplyDeleteAnd, c'mon, Troop, it's more than not having to go back: You spell it wrong deliberately. Not everything, but "Whose That Girl?" for sure.
Single Payer Care Coming to America, per CEO of of Aetna, in Forbes
ReplyDeleteI think some of you may be surprised by this article. I was. As I've said on Althouse, I advocate a combination of private and public healthcare, like they do so well in Singapore, rated the best healthcare system in the world.
We have a friend of the family who has been living in Singapore the last two years, they are staunch conservatives. They say the healthcare in Singapore can't compare to the US, far superior.
I know you Big Gov't people don't understand this.
ReplyDeleteIf the government could run healthcare perfectly and for free, I would still be against it.
It's an issue of liberty.
Well Blake, if the private health insurance industry goes belly up, what then? I think we need a plan. This Aetna CEO sees the handwriting on the wall.
ReplyDeleteAllie, First of all, I'd like to point out that the Aetna guy's observation is nothing more than what those of us who opposed Obamacare have said all along, only to be told we were morons who didn't understand that ZeroCare did not such thing. So, fuck AlphaIdiot, Robert Schnook, garage sinkhole, and the rest of those fucks who are either terminally stupid or pathological liars.
ReplyDeleteMaking sure that single-payer doesn't happen here is entirely what this election is about. That's why I would crawl on my hands and knees over burning coals to vote that cocksucker Obama out of the White House.
As for Singapore, guess what? It's got the kind of health saving accounts and user fees featured in the Ryan Plan. Also, being Singapore, it regulates a lot of otherwise risky behaviors. When you can do all that, it's easy to pick up most or all of the medical tab for the poor. Yet, Ryan is demonized.
The future of health care under a single-payer system is easy to predict, because the future is now in the UK.
There's no better term for a group of bureaucrats who make decisions like that than "death panels", but boy that Sarah Palin sure is an idiot for saying so.
In fact, one of the least-reported news stories in the US is the UK government's moves to get away from the disaster that is single-payer health care.
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ReplyDeleteChip, I'm not so ideological that I would reject a healthcare system that worked, whether Paul Ryan advocates it or not, there is more to the Singapore model than just health savings accounts that make it so succesful.
ReplyDeleteWe are going to have to face the fact that healthcare costs are out of control and are going to crash whatever system we end up with, whether it be public or private, costs have got to be reigned in.
The really nasty thing to consider is that our government caused a lot of the high cost, Allie. I wish more people understood that (I'm sure you have seen this, though) and maybe felt a little duped at this point.
ReplyDeleteI hope we can stop this.
No, Allie, people like you with open minds are not the problem. The problem is that open-minded, well-informed people do not happen to comprise a majority of the Democratic Party's membership.
ReplyDeleteBecause you're open-minded, I will share some stats with you. Let's talk about breast cancer. In Singapore-Malaysia, the 5-year survival rate for ethnic Chinese women is 76%, while for Indians it's 68%, and 58.5% for Malays. Meanwhile, in the "inferior" US system, the 5-year survival rate for breast cancer is 89%.
So yes, the Singaporeans spend less on health care. But they get the "great" outcomes they get by charging extensive patient fees, and by allowing the better-off to buy better care.
If liberals in the US would allow a similar system to be set up here, we could talk. But they will insist on equal outcomes as some made-up "human right", and we'll get lesser care and go bankrupt to boot.
don't kill the messenger, remember you like me, right?
ReplyDeleteOK, it's from the NYTs so you may want to gird your loins or something;) and my husband was a Pedatrician, so I understand what the costs incurred by docs to practice in this country are. BUT being a doc is a calling, not a way of getting rich. My opinion only, no hard feelings.
Chip, we are Americans, we can do it BETTER than any other country and have a sustainable health care system.
ReplyDeleteWe need to prepare for this crash, it's coming.
Pediatrician, hiding from MamaM.
ReplyDeleteAllie, None of what I'm posting is meant as an attack on you. Believe me, I've stopped wasting my time making fact-based arguments at T.O.P. Our ongoing exchange is my way of showing you a lot of respect.
ReplyDeleteHere's a major problem with comparing doctor's earnings in places like France vs. the US. (I'm going to refer to France simply b/c I know something about it off the top of my head). In France, med-school students get "free" tuition, courtesy of the government. In turn, the gov't pays them salaries that are low by US standards. This makes it look like US doctors are overpaid or something, but as you well know our docs leave med school with a lot of debt to pay off.
These are two different ways of financing the cost (in actual resources) of training doctors. The French rely on government planning, as they do in many other sectors of their economy. We rely on individual choice by doctors, made in consideration of personal interests and financial rewards.
Hiding costs doesn't make them go away.
Free speech is a right. It costs no one anything.
ReplyDeleteMedical care is a commodity. Making it "free" costs someone, somewhere, something.
Why in the world would we want to trade the breast cancer survival rates (or any other superior survival rate) with those of Singapore? What is better about that?
ReplyDeleteDarcy we don't want to trade our better outcomes for worse ones in order to cut health care costs. I guess I just believe we are CAPABLE of having the best healthcare system in the world, that is sustainable, meaning it won't be in danger of crashing, and costs are reigned in.
ReplyDeleteCall me Pollyanna but I think it's possible.
Sixty, I don't think it should be free.
ReplyDeleteHealthcare that is, not free speech:)
ReplyDeleteWell, first off, the country is bankrupt.
ReplyDeleteSecond, the Supreme Court will decide whether the government can compel citizens to purchase what it says they must.
All the rest is just blather.
Sixty's right.
ReplyDeleteBeyond that, I wish, wish, WISH we'd have had a real discussion before we had Obamacare jammed down our throats. "Health care" has become somehow understood by many to mean "what is covered by insurance". We never should have gotten here. Now, we just expect to have everything magically paid for.
But that is just a beginning of a long, necessary conversation that never happened in this country.
*sigh*
I hear that sigh, Darce-a-rama. All we can do is work, vote and hope for the best. Keep our head down and hope not come to the attention of the authorities.
ReplyDeleteI'm gonna report y'all to God, the one on Althouse, lol.
ReplyDeleteThat guy is cracking me up, Allie.
ReplyDeleteI wanna call Bruce "royal clucker" now.
I know, I saw that, hysterical, little royal clucker!
ReplyDeleteA friend of ours was a piediatoi, pediatrishun, pediatric medisinman....aww, hell, he was a kid's doctor. We made more money than he did, after all his liability insurance and office overhead. I was stunned when he told us his yearly take-home pay.
ReplyDeleteLike I said Windbag, it's a calling. If you want to make big bucks be a plastic surgeon.
ReplyDelete"Little royal clucker" - man, that's harsh!
ReplyDeleteThat God dude seriously pissed me off.
ReplyDeleteYour arms are too short to fight with God.
ReplyDeleteIs that a chicken sandwich of some sort in your avatar?
God loves you, you little royal clucker!
ReplyDeleteIs that a chicken sandwich of some sort in your avatar?
ReplyDeleteIt's a chick a fil sandwich!
If you want to make big bucks be a plastic surgeon.
ReplyDeleteI don't know about anybody else, but I ain't letting Gumby anywhere near me with a scalpel.
Chick-fil-A! Always the best, but never on Sunday.
ReplyDeleteCan't stand this thread hanging at 99 comments.
ReplyDeleteThere, all better.
Very "Monk"-ish.
ReplyDeleteI hate Chik-Fil-A. We don't have one in our little town. If we happen to go out of town with someone else and have to eat on the way, inevitably, they want to go to Chik-Fil-A. Yuck.
ReplyDeleteGumby was rubber.
ReplyDeleteSecond definition of "plastic" from Merriam-Webster:
ReplyDeletecapable of being molded or modeled (plastic clay)
I have been busy cleaning out one of my houses and I just filled up my oldest son's car with toys from his youth. While going through the boxes we found a Gumby, he was plastic.
ReplyDeleteAlso have a cradle I made for him when he was born back in the 70s. Need to get that to Jersey, where my first grandchild is expected in a day or two. I can't find anyone willing to travel to Jersey to deliver it. I'll probably get it there by the time the child has outgrown it.
OK OK, Gumby was plastic.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on having your first grandchild, fun times ahead! My oldest granddaughter is 11, she's already as tall as I am, which is 5'6". She pats me on top of my head and calls me her little Nani, lol.
Wow - that comment reads as if I made the cradle for Gumby. Gumby can make his own damn cradle, dammit!
ReplyDeleteYeah, we'll see about the grandchild - have no idea when I'll get a chance to see the child, and not too crazy about it being a Y*nkee and all, but I am sure everything will be just fine.
@Allie: they don't call you Oma?
ReplyDeleteNo , strange isn't it? My oldest granddaughter started calling me Nani and it stuck, so now I am Nani forever.
ReplyDeletewindbag said...
ReplyDeleteI hate Chik-Fil-A.
I've only seen one out here. I don't go there much--it's kinda out of the way. I should go out of my way.
I put that up out of sympathy because I heard that the anti-religious bigots boycott them. Just like they boycott In-N-Burger.
Hey, let's all boycott people places and things because we don't like their politics--lose/lose.
My kids call their maternal grandmother oma. It's quite convenient. They have a grandma and an oma--not a grandma this and a grandma that.
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