Big Top by Rob Harrell

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Shikamoo said, 4 months ago

FIRST!
Shikamoo said, 4 months ago

In honour of the Fourth of July, I’m making a few dishes- grits, biscuits and gravy, eggs any way you want, back bacon, pancakes and elderberry or syrup of your choice, juice, orange or grapefruit, and toast and honey,( just for Quaby!)
Shikamoo said, 4 months ago

Wink, Dusty said he googled you, not olgled you! That’s Doc’s job!
Shikamoo said, 4 months ago

cleo You did that on purpose.

(Thanks for the company.)

Well, you behaved yourself, so have a good breakfast and enjoy your holiday!

See you all later- told you so!
Shikamoo said, 4 months ago

For red white and blue, I have blue berries, raspberries and whip cream on waffles.

I blame tabby’s video for waking me up again. Yawn!
Margueritem said, 4 months ago

Morning, Shika! What a wonderful breakfast! I’ll have the red, white, and blue special.
Margueritem said, 4 months ago

Shika, thank you for the nice comment. :-D
Margueritem said, 4 months ago

Whizzzzzzz BOOM!!! Happy 4th of July!
Shikamoo said, 4 months ago

Hey Marg- You’re welcome. I was just touring toonville, making some first comments! A first for me!

Like your fireworks.
Shikamoo said, 4 months ago

No doubt you are back on rounds or something. I’m going to bed for real.

BBML
Margueritem said, 4 months ago

Goodnight, sleep well.
JFri said, 4 months ago

Hi, everybody!
Josh 1360 said, 4 months ago

Happy 4th, everyone!. As I’m posting this, the 40th annual Peachtree Road Race is underway. Any one reading this in and around the ATL area wish the runners good luck.
Deborah16 said, 4 months ago

Happy 4th everyone and please be safe when using those fun things like, fireworks :)
Akenta said, 4 months ago

Good morning and Happy Fourth of July (for those in Canada, Happy Saturday)!!

I’m watching the Peachtree Road Race on TV. Still don’t see anyone I know but looks like everyone is having a good time.
Doctor Toon said, 4 months ago

Shikamoo - Congratulations on first!
I don’t ogle bears, but I am not against ogling bare women.

Marg - Great fireworks!

OOH! AAH! WOW!

HI JFRI!

Good Morning Josh, Deborah & Akenta.
cleokaya said, 4 months ago

HAPPY JULY 4th EVERYONE.
cleokaya said, 4 months ago

Another beautiful day on the lake. We are doing a typical picnic fare today and I will be doing a chicken on the grill with a dry rub & mop.

Anybody have special plans for the day?
Rmom said, 4 months ago

We’re having some friends over today. BBQ brisket, bacon explosion, brats, & burgers. I’ll make some chocolate chip cookies, but our guests will bring some food too.
Hopefully it will be good weather tonight to shoot off our fireworks - it has been raining this morning, but looks like it is moving out of the area. At least that should cut down the risk of grassfires! Since everyone has at least 5 acres out here, a lot of our neighbors also shoot off fireworks, so it is quite the show around here. We’re also going to do some target practice with one family before the rest of the guests show up, since it is legal to fire guns out here, too. I’ve not been able to spend much time on-line this week - for several days our internet service was down, and I’ve had to spend time cleaning and rearranging furniture so there would be room for everyone to eat indoors. (Figured it would be too hot, too windy or too buggy for people to want to eat outdoors.) We do have a nice big deck, but not any shade in the afternoon.

Happy Independence Day!
(back to cleaning & cooking now…)
serenasakitty said, 4 months ago

Good morning everyone and happy July 4 to all our American friends. I brought some homemade donuts to share.
i’m a little miffed. I had planned to stay awake long enough today to watch the Calgary Stampede Parade but it was yesterday. AND i MISSED IT!!!!!!! I dont seem to be having good luck catching the few things I meant to watch on tv this year. I also missed all three races of the triple crown. I guess I’ll just go back to watching my movies.
Shikamoo said, 4 months ago

Morning again everyone. Just a pop in and out again.

Doc- That doesn’t surprise me! ☺

Hi JFri! Nice to see you. Happy 4th of July!

Hi Akenta, enjoy your day too.

serenasakitty RL has a sneaky habit of slipping by sometimes, and other times it wallops you in the face. At least you can catch the highlights on T.V.

Hi Josh!

Hi RRAmom: I miss seeing you around here. I’m glad you dropped in. Enjoy the holiday, once you finish cleaning and cooking.

Hi to everyone who shows up. Enjoy the breakfast. I may pop in later tonight.

BBML
Doctor Toon said, 4 months ago

cleo - regarding your comment from last night:
We are much alike!

:)

Morning RRAmom

serena - I gave up cable TV when I realized how little I really wanted to watch and how rarely I got to watch it.

Shikamoo - I gotta be me, no one else wants to be.
Breakfast was nummy, thanky.
serenasakitty said, 4 months ago

I usually don’t watch tv except for my dvds, but sometimes I like to catch the odd special, like the parade. Oh well, I guess the world won’t end just because I miss something on the tube, but it does bug me. Ok, I promise, no more about the tv.

I’ll just have a large glass of juice please and then I think I’ll head for bed for awhile. I’m spending nearly as much time correcting mistakes as I am trying to write this. I’ll try to pop back in later before I go to work. Peace, love and joy to all.
Doctor Toon said, 4 months ago

serena - I have that problem with my last posts, too.
About noon my eyelids are so heavy I can barely see the keyboard.
Thank God for spell check.
Sleep well.
Radical-Knight said, 4 months ago

Celebrating Independance Day with Bar-B-Que and Beer.

Happy July 4th everyone!
Quaby said, 4 months ago

HAPPY 4TH TO EVERYONE IN THE USA!!!!

Shikamoo Thanks for the toast and honey! It has been ages since I had any…Lordy, I think I was still in Houston when I last had it!

Tabbylynn That video you posted yesterday was wonderful!! Cats are something else when they get in a playful mood.

Not many plans today, feeling better, a bit more energy. Making sloppy joes for lunch/supper, it’ll be on the table in about 45 minutes with toasted buns, cheese and chips. Enjoy!

I’ve been cleaning out the pantry. I found some boxes and cans that expired in 2006!! I’m trying to arrange things so I have better visibility and access. But 2006/2007 was a year of little energy, my left knee was on it’s last scrap of cartilage and grinding down (ended up losing about 1” of bone) Started recovering in 2008 then got blood septacemia from a bladder infection. It’s hard to bounce back from a double whammy like that but I’m finally feeling like I might be getting back to a more normal activity level. At least the knee is fixed and my right knee is improving now that the stress is off of it.

Gotta scoot. I’ll try to check in here and there. Ya’ll take care and have fun!
Owlsly Whistlepig said, 4 months ago

I read this story,laughed so hard,I just had to share….

A guy who purchased his lovely wife a pocket Tazer for their anniversary submitted this:

Last weekend I saw something at Larry’s Pistol & Pawn Shop that sparked my interest. The occasion was our 15th anniversary and I was looking for
A little something extra for my wife Julie. What I came across was a 100,000-volt, pocket/purse- sized tazer. The effects of the tazer
Were supposed to be short lived, with no long-term adverse affect on your assailant, allowing her adequate time to retreat to safety….??

WAY TOO COOL!

Long story short, I bought the device and brought it home. I loaded two AAA batteries in the bleeep thing and pushed the button. Nothing! I was disappointed. I learned, however, that if I pushed the button and pressed it against a metal surface at the same time;

I’d get the blue arc of electricity darting back and forth between the prongs.

AWESOME!!!

Unfortunately, I have yet to explain to Julie what that burn spot is on the face of her microwave.

Okay, so I was home alone with this new toy, thinking to myself that it couldn’t be all that bad
With only two triple-A batteries, right? There I sat in my recliner, my cat Gracie looking on intently (trusting little soul) while I was reading the
Directions and thinking that I really needed to try this thing out on a flesh & blood moving target. I must admit I thought about zapping
Gracie (for a fraction of a second) and thought better of it. She is such a sweet cat. But, if I was going to give this thing to my wife to protect
Herself against a mugger, I did want some assurance that it would work as advertised. Am I wrong?

So, there I sat in a pair of shorts and a tank top with my reading glasses perched delicately y on the bridge of my nose, directions in one hand, and tazer in another. The directions said that a one-second burst would shock and disorient your assailant; a two-second burst was supposed to cause muscle spasms and a major loss of bodily control; a three-second burst would purportedly make your assailant flop on the ground like a fish out of water. Any burst longer
Than three seconds would be wasting the batteries.

All the while I’m looking at this little device measuring about 5” long, less than 3/4 inch in circumference; pretty cute really and (loaded with two itsy, bitsy triple-A batteries) thinking to myself, ‘no possible way!’ What happened next is almost beyond description, but I’ll do my best. .?

I’m sitting there alone, Gracie looking on with her head cocked to one side as to say, ‘don’t do it dipshit,’ reasoning that a one second burst from such a tiny little ole thing couldn’t hurt all that bad. I decided to give myself a one second burst just for heck of it.. I touched the prongs to my naked thigh, pushed the button, and…..HOLY MOTHER OF GOD. .
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION … WHAT THE HELL!!!

I’m pretty sure Jessie Ventura ran in through the side door, picked me up in the recliner, then body slammed us both on the carpet, over and over and over again. I vaguely recall waking up on my side in the fetal position, with tears in my eyes, body soaking wet, both nipples on fire, testicles nowhere to be found, with my left arm tucked under my body in the oddest position, and tingling in my legs? The cat was making meowing sounds I had never heard before, clinging to a picture frame hanging above the fireplace, obviously in an attempt to avoid getting slammed by my body flopping all over the living room.

Note: If you ever feel compelled to ‘mug’ yourself with a tazer, one note of caution: there is no such thing as a one second burst when you zap yourself! You will not let go of that thing until it is dislodged from your hand by a violent thrashing about on the floor… A three second burst would be considered conservative?

IT HURT LIKE HELL!!!

A minute or so later (I can’t be sure, as time was a relative thing at that point), I collected my wits (what little I had left), sat up and surveyed the landscape. My bent reading glasses were on the mantel of the fireplace. The recliner was upside down and about 8 feet or so from where it originally was. My triceps, right thigh and both nipples were still twitching. My face felt like it had been shot up with Novocain, and my bottom lip weighed 88 lbs. I had no control over the drooling.

Apparently I pooped on myself, but was too numb to know for sure and my sense of smell was gone. I saw a faint smoke cloud above my head which I believe came from my hair. I’m still looking for my nuts and I’m offering a significant reward for their safe return!
StradMan37 said, 4 months ago

DAAAAAAAHH Strip:

“Googling” is actually kind of boring…..highly addictive, yet VERY boring.

A Very Merry Un-Birthday to you all……Oh, and a HAPPY JULY 4th to all those in the US of A!

An idea - quaint, but *still a GOOD idea - for something to do, to celebrate:

http://tinyurl.com/666u9p
Dry said, 4 months ago

doc, Left you a message at Red Meat and the Dinette Set.

Hi Rad and Owlsly!

Hi Quaby!
Dry said, 4 months ago

Risistas, Thanks for the blast from the past!!
Dawn said, 4 months ago

Owlsey Thanks for the great laugh! It sounds so plausible!

Thanks for the breakfast, Shika.

Quaby glad you’re feeling better

Happy Independence Day

to all our American friends!
Doctor Toon said, 4 months ago

Rad - Happy 4th to you too, and to everyone else.

Quaby - Sounds like you have had a rough time. Hoping Karma brings you balance. Tribal Bank accounts are in good shape, help yourself.

Owlsley - Hilarious story.

Risitas - Sometimes I google myself, but i always lock the door first.

Dry - I answered you at both.

Good Morning Dawn!
Dry said, 4 months ago

Tabby, thanks for the laugh! That video was great!

doc, if you didn’t check out Tabby’s cat video link from yesterday, do, It’s hilarious! It’s on page 4, I think.
Dry said, 4 months ago

Good morning dawn!
Doctor Toon said, 4 months ago

Dry - I just watched the video
I’m so glad to know Boots and Titten aren’t the only ones.
I loved the cat chasing the bear.
That would be Titten.
Dawn said, 4 months ago

Googling? Who has time for Googling? I spend all my computer time trying to catch up on what the Yappy Nuts from the Tribe have said!
Doctor Toon said, 4 months ago

Got to go do some more of that RL stuff.
BBL
JFri said, 4 months ago

MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU ALL!

Going kayaking & trout fishing on Mt Hood today.
JFri said, 4 months ago

Well, FINE! I show up & eveeyone leaves!

:-(
cleokaya said, 4 months ago

I am going to be scarce for much of the day. Just to d@rn much stuff to do and we have company coming over again today.

Everyone be safe and sane. Don’t take that with to much thought. After all the Tribe is made of NUTS.
Shikamoo said, 4 months ago

Hi Y’ALL! In honour of those from the deep south.

FJri You showed up earlier and then disappeared. What did you expect?

Hi RAD- Happy 4th to you. Barbeque and beer sounds great. I’ll have to go out and see if I can crash someone’s barbeque party today. Shouldn’t be too hard.

cleo- I left a comment at 2 cows for you.

I may have left comments for others here and there, I was too tired to take note last night.
Dry said, 4 months ago

Dang, missed him again!!! :-(
Shikamoo said, 4 months ago

I saved the cat video- too funny! My cat sleeps like that on too. But he’d never fit in a fish bowl, although he would try to I’m sure.

That story about the Tazar was funny too. It does sound plausable, although unlikely. I wouldn’t want a gift like that. Someone sold me a personal alarm with flashing lights and a siren. I forgot it was hanging next to my bed. The cat jumped off the bed one night and hit it- I awoke to red and blue flashing lights and a really loud siren- and now idea how to turn it off! I threw it under two pillows to muffle it and then wondered how I would sleep while the batteries ran down. Then I firured out that it had a pin like a grenade, and so I had to find that and re-install it- under the pillow so as not to wake up my neighbours………………

not a fun night!
Shikamoo said, 4 months ago

Sounds like everyone is busy celebrating the longweekend, so I will say bye for now, and

BBL
Doctor Toon said, 4 months ago

I’m back from the real world, it’s scary out there.
I’m up way past bedtime but I did sleep for a couple of hours last night.
Think I’ll scrounge around here for something to eat before I grab some Zs
Dry said, 4 months ago

Have a good rest

doc!
serenasakitty said, 4 months ago

I just woke up to take the dog out so I thought I wouldpop in to say hi until I got sleepy again.
You’re right Doc, it is scary out there. I find I’m spending a lot of time just trying to keep up with the Yappy Nuts Tribe. Wouldn’t have it any other way.
I watched Tabby’s video. My cat used to do many of those things when she was a kitten. I sure miss her even after all this time.
Saucy1121 said, 4 months ago

Happy 4th all. I celebrated this morning by vanquishing the grass.
Steaks on the grill and baked taters for all. Ice cream to follow.
Doctor Toon said, 4 months ago

Dry

I will

serena - Those of us who work nights have to try a little harder for entertainment sometimes.
I don’t know about where you are, but there is precious little nightlife around here after about 2AM
Boots is a year old and Titten is 6.
I’m wishing I had video of their epic battles, people would love them on Youtube.

Morning Saucy

I’m finally going to bed.

Peace and Love tribe!
Josh 1360 said, 4 months ago

Hi everyone again. For those of you who saw the women match at Wimbleton on TV, Serena beat her little sister Venus today.