Big Top by Rob Harrell for January 01, 2010

Our New Years breakfast consists of hoppin’ John. Enjoy.

I will offer Doc’s coffee and teas along with grits fruit and toast and jelly, but hoppin’ John is our good luck New Years dish. :-)

It is a bit early here but #HAPPY NEW YEAR TRIBE. THANK YOU FOR A GOOD YEAR

Happy New Years Dcguys, Cleo and all others out there!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

HAPPY NEW YEARS MOPAR AND FAMILY

Be safe coming home, Bro!

Cleo

I’ve got all kinds of chips and home made onion/garlic dips to add to the festivities. Just keep the drinks coming!

*Morning Cleo and Terry! And here, it is Pork and Saurerkraut, but that’s a bit heavy for breakfast, so we’ll save that for the noon meal! And then on to FOOTBALL! “Are you ready for some football?”*

My bar is just waiting for patrons. Hey, the drinks are on me.

Good Morning Dry

Yes, foooooooooooootball it is!!

GOOD MORNING MARG!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR MARG!!

Hey Cleo, you’ve got to look OVER the bar…………….I’m on the floor!!

Aah Terry what a nice bar matt that you make sir.

Happy new years all!

i am tired my second act of the new year was running up and down the muddy yard with the dog. i am feeling old, my wii age is 48 so not good. lol i feel it lately. :0(

Doc any news????

Dry happy new years mom!

HI MARG, JFRI, CARMY AND TRIBE.

That’s alright Cleo, my Wranglers can take it!

Happy New Year to you too, Tabby!

HAPPY NEW YEAR, TRIBE!!! Good Morning Cleo Terry, Dry and Tabby. I brought pickled herring for good luck in the new year. I’ll have some of that Hoppin’ John, Cleo.

I Love your avatar Marg!!

A big helping of Hoppin’ John for Marg.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TRIBE. I LOVE YOU ALL

Doc hope you have a new member for the Tribe. Hang in their my friend.

To Doc and everyone…………………………

Thanks, terry. It’s the Pig-On-Wheels from Dick Tracy.

Goodnight and a happy New year, all!

Good Night Dear Marg!

Rest well.

just read a shirt that said “I handle wild aninmals for a living, if i am running, Keep up” that is greatness

Someone left a whole chocolate cake on my kitchen counter. Would it be a sin at 3AM?

Good Morning TRIBE and as of 2010, all breakfasts are calorie free under the Big Top.

I don’t think my diet officially starts til 6 AM.

That’s the nice thing about virtual food, Lewreader.

night all its 2:38am im wipped out

G’Night All, I’m outta here my own self!

Peace & Love to all my friends!

Happy New Year, Sleepyheads!

Now they got Wink all bent out of shape. Watch your back, Zippy!

(sweep, sweep)

(vacuums confetti)

(empties ashtrays)

(loads dishwasher with highball glasses)

(wipes tables)

“Sniff, sniff”. Umm, roast pork & sauerkraut!

Wait, this isn’t my house, I must be still drunk, sorry.

Good morning and

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

Good Morning Akenta

Happy New Year!!!!!!

Good Morning AddADadaAdDad

Doc,

Good Morning and Happy New Year!!

I know that waiting game all too well, sir!!

Welcome back Hymenoxis, you can see you were surely missed. Oh, there’s some “stuff” under Cleo behind the bar you may want to call hazmat before touching.

I brought some Texas Caviar for anyone who wants some.

And how can Winky get past the go-pher as an “undesirable?”

Hang in there Doc, you know it takes patients……

A positive outlook for 2010 all!

In the words of the late Mr. Harrison,

“Here comes the sun, here comes the sun, and I say It’s all right…”

To you and yours, let him be right.

Happy New Year

What isTexas caviar?

My offering to New Year’s Brunch is orange cinnamon pull- a-part rolls (in other parts of the country, aka monkey bread).

However, I’ll have the pork chops and sauerkraut.

no matter how relieved you’ll be, Doc, imagine the her relief when that baby finally comes Here’s hoping that today’sthe day.

Good Morning Hymenoxis & Goodquestion!

Happy New Year to you both!!!!

celecca…I live in Texas, and am curious as well…

What is Texas caviar?

Good Morning all and Happy New Year, once again. Good job on cleanup hymenoxis.

Good Morning Celecca

Happy New Year!!

Good Morning Cleo

Like Hoppin’ John, Texas Caviar is made with black eyed peas.

Ah…thanks.

We here in Texas call it….black eyed peas.

Funny you mention black eyed peas and I think of Fergie. Such a pleasant vision for the new year. :-)

Thanks Cleo, it is BEPeas, mashed and mixed with jalapenos, tomatos and cilantro (fyi: recipes on Google). Hymenoxis you can usually find it at HEB this time of year.

Peas be with you in 2010!

Life, and the loving thereof, beats the alternative by miles.

Let us give thanks for chocolate chip waffles, and, in my case, cheladas.

Doc, you are being a big help to them, besides, you’d probably pass out if you were at the hospital! LOL!

Hi HY Happy New Year to you!

Texas Caviar sounds DELISH!

Hi Dry, I know you would like it, just stay away from the mountain oysters….HNY☼

Good morning all and

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Goodquestion, if mountain oysters are what I think, I’ll pass! LOL!

HAPPY NEW YEAR TRIBE!!!

Doc, hoping things go well with the delivery and the child is hale and healthy.

Hymenoxis the Big Top looks wonderful! Can you come clean my place?????

Still watching Dr Who We’re on ‘The Runaway Bride**.

Happy New Year Everyone!

Good Morning Serena, Quaby & Dry

Doc, You are helping and you are a fantastic person!

It is an unusual situation when a person is about to give birth and the Doctor is sent home.

:-P

Good Morning DFrog and Happy New Year back at you!!

Thanks for info on Texas caviar. Sounds delish.

Cleo - great line!

Here’s a drinking game for watching the Rose Parade on HGTV - every time they mention dendrobium orchids. take a shot!

I can barely say dendrobium orchids sober!

Okay doc whats funny is that im all nervous for you all. lol keep us posted. we may have to have a party after the birth.

Carmy yes i am a sleppy head. i went to bed at 2 something and didnt get up till almost 11. :D it was great. dad even let me sleep late praise God! dad dosent belive in sleeping late. bummer for me all my life.

How is the new year treating all of you so far? i am about to get on the wii again while dad watches some strange show on tv. its making me sick so im out of there now. well ill bbl may be leaving soon and the wii is calling my name. Peace and Love all

Good one Cleo!

Doc, I think they were trying to tell you something, but since Wildcheetah loves you so much, she didn’t want to be blunt! LOL!

HAPPY NEW YEAR! TRIBE!

Can’t stop now- flying out the door to see my cousin!

(I like Hopping John and Texas Caviar-)

I hope everyone is feeling chipper this first day of the New Year. Except for Doc who is probably operating on an adrenaline rush about now.

(mop, mop)

Congratulations, you old fart. May the new one know only love, and have a life without waiting on hold for tech support.

CONGRATULATIONS TO DOC AND WILDCHEETAH AND EVERYONE! PEACE AND PROSPERITY!

Uh Doc, boy or girl?

Woof…a girl.

Boys can be sent to war….girls will call you in the middle of the night because their other phone doesn’t work.

Congratulations.

Life is good only so long as you don’t have to wipe the baby’s butt.

Congratulations Doc. It is also very easy to remember a birthday when it is the first day of each year. Give my best to Wildcheetah & her daughter.

Time for some sleep?

Congratulations Doc, Wildcheetah, daughter and family!

Happy New Year Everyone!

Go Gators!

Hook ‘em Horns!

Wah, I miss H.E.B!!

CONGRATULATIONS Doc, Wildcheetah, and all the rest!! May she be happy and healthy!

Does she have a name yet?

Northwestern was tied the last time I heard. Go Wildcats!

hymenoxis, I wish you would hang out here more often. I love your dry sense of humor.

Doc, Wildcheetah, daughter and family

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

congrats DocT, pink wrapped Cohiba cubanos for all who would like and a side shot of Daniels or Bookers, your pref.

Yes, Dry, but rooster fries taste like chicken ;-D

OOOH!!! I would love a Cohiba and a Booker’s neat in a brandy snifter. Thank you Goodquestion.

Congratulations Doc & Wild Cheetah and family!

Cleo left a comment about you at Birdbrains!

Good Night Doc.

You need the rest!

Dry I answered you at BB.

Woo Hoo

Penn State won!!! Pitt Won!!!!

Northwestern lost……………….:^(

Can’t win em all!

Still got them Longhorns to go!!!

Hello Cleo!

How are you doing so far this new year? lol

Terry I am doing just fine. Not much happening on my end. I take it you have been watching a wee bit of football. LOL

Congrats Doc and ladies!!! so happy for all of you. get some sleep now.

okay on to the ice cream stage bbl

Cleo, only a little bit. I had to go to my mother’s condo and fix her electric garage door. I was keeping tabs on my Blackberry though. Other than that just taking it easy and trying to stay inside. So far the temp has only reached 10F for a high. Brrrrrr!

Happy New Year, tribe.

Well, the tree is down and the dog is wondering what happened. Can’t get the outside stuff down until it dries off a bit.

Hello Saucy!

And a Happy New Year to you too!

Our outside decor is iced over here in Chi-town!

Congrats Doc and Wildcheetah!!! May your family continue to increase.

Just a fly by to say:

Congrats, DocT & family!!!! Happy New Year, Tribe!!

Tribe Toon Daily Post News Flash DocT Becomes A Grandpa Again!! Dateline Jan. 1, 2010 After a long waiting game and several false alarms, Wildcheetah’s #2 daughter gave birth to a bouncing baby girl!! Coming in at 6 pounds 13 ounces and 19 in long DocT was heard to say it was worth the wait. When asked what his contribution to the event was he said, “I stayed OUT OF THE WAY!! Well done, DocT!! We knew you could do it!!! (Stay out of the way, that is!!)**

Well done, Editor Fri!

Go Buckeyes!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Doc!

Go Buckeyes, celecca?

Maybe instead of Doc, I should say “Grand PaPa!

tabby

where ya been girl?

dry been gone all day and now im home and poutting. lol

Yep. I still harbor a fondness for my native team, who just won the Rose Bowl.

Doesn’t mean I don’t root for others.

DOC TOO LATE!!!!!!!!!

HINEY PINCH! TWO FOR ME AND TWO FOR CARMY!

GRABBY GIRLS? LOL!

Dry

i am here, kind of.

doc congrats. sleep is over rated.

got all my classes redy and i have payed for them so now im done done done

YEAH TABBY! ;-D

doc you outted yourself. lol good job

okay all i am going to get off of bt for a while. i may be in and out, who knows. kind of in the dumps but im fine. I am very happy for doc

Aw, he enjoys it!

Hey Doc!

CONGRATULATIONS GRANPAPPY!!!

Carmy i have a song for you, remind me latter when you get here and ill post it for you.

out of here

for shika

along with the move. :D yet again

Have fun Doc!

Hope you see this later!

BABIES

Babies are Angels that fly to the earth, their wings disappear at the time of their birth one look in their eyes and we’re never the same They’re part of us now and that part has a name That part is your heart and a bond that won’t sever our Babies are Angels, we love them forever.

~Unknown~

Dry, thanks for getting some hiney pinches on Grandpappy for me! Tabby, you still around?

carmy kind of. You?

For Carmy enjoy

Hi, Carmy!!

Hello Carmy.

Hello JFri

Congratulations, Doc and Wildcheetah!!

HiTerry

Hi JFri

Hi

TRIBE!

Hi, Terry

SHIKA!! Back to stay?

Where’d everyone go?

Hello Shika

Welcome back!

Howdy all. A brief stop in between dinner and a movie. Hope you all had a good day and that your teams won. JFri I see that you survived the relatives in Anacortes.

Hello Mr Cleo

Cleo

I’m watching Cinn/Florida FB and a replay of the Bos/Philly Hockey game.

Hello Terry. It sounds like you had a mixed day with football, some won, some lost. I take it that pool is finished. What is next?

Cleo, tomorrow is the final day of Saturday regular session pool league. Next week starts our playoffs. Tomorrow I find out if I win the MVP trophy. We’ve already made the playoffs. Hooah!

Cleo, Two of my main football teams have won. Now I wait on the Championship Game on the 7th.

Does this feel like a Sunday to anybody but me?

Good luck with the pool tournament Terry. So who are you pulling for in the Championship Game? I am guessing Alabama. I bet that I am right.

Cleo just checked your new avatar! That is SO YOU! LOL!

Good Morning, Tribe! and Happy New Year! err–Good Afternoon? err, umm…Good evening?

@cleo–remember: the best cookbooks are the ones with the most stains! So don’t worry too much about the white wine–as long at you can separate the pages with recipes you like!

I am off to watch a movie. Am I right Terry?

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU TOO, BMONK!

Uh, BTW, it’s 11:19 PM where I am! You boys get into the wine too much last night?! ROFLMAO!

Bmomk no meaness intended, you know I’m Catholic! :-)

bmonk my wife has that down. She never met a cookbook that she couldn’t mess up. I always kept mine pristine, now I am in her ballpark. She adds comments to recipes, what to add, how good they were, etc.

No meanness taken, Dry–just a busy day for a poor country pastor. Let’s see–three Masses yesterday, two being in the afternoon/evening for the feast today, plus two more this morning. Then cantor for Vespers (monastic), with a funeral vigil on the night off. Tomorrow I have the regular morning mass, then a funeral mass, then the weekend four masses start…

But, to answer your question, Yesterday went from Thursday to Friday (briefly, in morning), then Saturday Afternoon; today is Sunday, Tomorrow will be Monday, then back to Saturday…

One of these days I may even get some sleep…

So, of course, I’m catching up on comics…

Hello Bmonk!!

Happy New Year!!

Hi JFri

I’m back to stay- sort of. You know my short attention span.

Here today, gone again.

Happy New Year bmonk!

Hi Dry

I know fellow Catholic people that have a mean streak. Some deny it though. :-)

Bmonk I was pretty close to our last priest, unfortunately he was transferred. After 6 years in one parish, they like to move them. He was so loved by everybody, he was always in demand! His method of relaxation was his motorcycle and the community band! And when he sang at Mass, WOW! I feel for you guys, I really do! It takes a lot of faith and devotion to hang in there like you do! I know it isn’t easy!

Cleo

THE LONGHORNS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did I tell anyone that I left yesterday in - 31 0C weather to arrive home to + 2 o C….over-dressed, sweating like a, well, not a happy camper.

But it was New Year’s Eve, so everyone was in a good mood on the plane and buses, so all is well.

Terry you surely aren’t referring to me I hope!

I don’t blame you for not speaking to me. I disappear so much, you must think this is a mirage………

Shika in US terms, what degrees? It was 45 here today until the wind kicked up. Funny how 45 in winter seems warm! :-D

Really, Terry? Which Catholics do you know with a mean streak??

SHIKA, HELLO GIRL! YOU OUT THERE LADY?

DRY That WAS in US terms. :-D

In YOU terms, that would be about - 1000 o F LOL!

PRETTY bleeep COLD GIRL!!!

2 o C is about 38 o F, in American.

SHIIIIIIIIIKAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

Where did you go, you little mirage, you?

HELLOOOOOOOO, DRY!!!!

No Religion!

JFri I’m still bouncing up and down, unpacking here, cleaning there, eating here, unpacking some more, you know, usual Shika moves.

2C is 35.6F

SHIKA

31 0C weather to arrive home to + 2 o C….o does not transfer into Farenheit, it does but don’t ask me what the equivalent is!!! LOL!

Dry, no! If I had referred that comment to someone that is on here right now, that act would have put myself in the same boat as the group of religious people I complained about yesterday or the day before!

JFri

You would not know them. Why do you ask?

It’s late again, and I should be in bed, bounce, bounce, but I think I’m overwound now, bounce, bounce, bonk!

Oh, JFri, I’ve met more than a few mean Catholics. In every faith, there are some who just don’t get it…

As for relative temps, I just remember that -40F = -40C, so there is only one -40 degrees. Fahrenheit degrees are roughly one half Celsius, so -31C would be about -20F. And +2C is just above freezing, about 36F.

35 degrees, h e l l that’s warm here!

-31C is -23.8F or………

BRRRRRRRRRR degrees!!

That’s the official scientific term!!

Terry cuz we all know the Easter and Christmas Catholics!

Bmonk

The Nun I had for a teacher in Catholic school had a real good mean streak come to think of it!

Gee, my off-the-cuff guesses were pretty accurate, I’d say…

JFri Thanks!

bmonk Thank you too. I just know that when you go from 31 degrees below freezing to 2 degrees above freezing in two hours, you are way over dressed.

JFri, your voice is changing. :-)

@JFri, that last Brrrr comment reminds me of a cartoon my dad had in his office/lab:

“Smith, when we get you the latest technology in thermocouples and measuring equipment, we expect a little more accuracy than ‘Pretty d a m n hot’!”

Please don’t get me going on that one Dry.

JFri and Bmonk I think you guys got the picture. from BRRR to AHH, this is nice and mild, and why am I wearing two sweaters, two coats, a scarf and a hat for?

9/5 X C + 32 = F unless negative C, then you subtract the 32

Gee Dry Are Christmas and Easter Catholics like Christmas and Easter Anglicans? We have those too!

Tim Tebow has 533 total yards passing and rushing so far in the game. six minutes plus are left still to go!

@Lonewolf, do you mean the fellow who complains to the pastor that they need different music at the services:

“What do you mean? We have a wide variety of music here.”

“I really don’t think so. Every time I come, it’s either Silent Night or Jesus Christ Is Risen Today!”

But I’d best stop there, if that isn’t too much…

JFri I just realized you and Terry have the same avatar, in a manner of speaking. But It is midnight here, so that should be 9 Lords a-leaping.

Now we lost Dry!! Women!! Ya just can’t keep track of ‘em all!!

HEY I SAID 35 degrees here was warm in winter! GEEZ!!! FORGIVE ME! I don’t need the conversion degrees yet! I’m just grateful for every day of snow I don’t get, and my nice lacy, warm Cuddle Duds long johns! You try sitting in front of a glass door and glass windows in the dead of winter when everybody and their mother walks through the door letting in the cold air! ROFLMAO!

LOL JFr8 I’ve heard that one before. I guess that somethings never change.

Hey Dry Now YOU disappeared.

I’m about to sign off now. As mentioned, it is midnight, and I should be trying to unwind. BT is too busy for that.

AND I’M TALKING FLOOR TO CEILING FREAKING GLASS WINDOWS!

Heh heh, Bmonk, no that’s not what I was referring to sir.

GEE DRY Those windows sound nice for summer…………..

@Dry, I don’t have to worry about people using the front door nearest my room–it still has three feet of snow drifted against it!

WHERE YOU ALL BEEN? DISAPPEARED ON ME, GEEZ!

ROFLMAO!!

What do you mean Dry? I’m here. I haven’t said good night yet. I’m just talking about it.

bmonk That snow is good insulation against the cold.

Tabby, El Shaddai

Hello Cleo, Dry, Terry, JFri, Shika and bmonk! I watched the youtube video that Tabby posted and then I got lost in youtube land looking for one to post for her. I was looking for a decent video of “The Holy City” and I couldn’t find one. Had to settle for Amy Grant.

BOO!

Here I am, Dry!!

“El Shaddai” is a good song…

Hello Carmy

JFri!!

I think you made a BOO-BOO!

LOL!

Good spot, Shika!! You are the only one to catch that!! My, what sharp little eyes you have!!

Glad you liked it bmonk. I think she does a fine job with it. Do you know “The Holy City”?

Shika–especially when the outer wall doesn’t have much insulation, and the wind shifts to blow against it. That’s when a few feet of snowdrift is nice.

PS……it’s only 9:15 here!!

I saw it too, JFri, you were really fast!

Hi Carmy!

Shika, are you home now, or still visiting family?

Carmy, never heard of it…

Yes, I like “El Shaddai”.

And on that note,

GOOD NIGHT my friends.

Pisa and Louvre

Another excellent catch, Shika!! I deleted that second post within seconds of it’s appearance! Can’t get NOTHING by you!!

Carmy, I need to watch it around you, too, eh??

Good Night Shika!

bmonk, The Holy City

Fla 51-24!!

At least CINN can’t say thsy should have played for the Championship.

Carmy I am home. Hence, the Shika moves.

JFri My eyes aren’t that great, but sometimes they catch things no one else sees.

Oh dear. I did say Good Night, didn’t I.

Carmy I visited my mom and sister for Christmas, and then my Aunt and cousin and her family and returned last night, all in one peice, more or less.

bmonk I am glad that you have snow insulation rather than no insulation.

bmonk How could you not know the Holy City?

Night again!

Missed you all!

Yeah, Shika, you missed me!! Glad you don’t spend more time at the shooting range!!!

Shika, I hope you had a great time. I’m glad you got home safe. Terry, 51 to 24? WOW! That was Tebow’s last game as a Gator, right?

JFri, I’m watching you!

Shika, remember, we don’t get all the new music, especially from the evangelical strains…

Well, must go. Thanks for all!

Remember: this has been the warmest day all year so far!

ALRIGHT WHAT DID I MISS? YOU ALL ARE MAKING FUN OF ME FOR SOME REASON! :-P :-P :-P!

AND I’LL HAVE YOU ALL KNOW, MY DAD USED TO CALL ME “BOO-BOO” WHEN I WAS LITTLE BECAUSE I LOVED BOO BOO BEAR FROM THE YOGI BEAR CARTOONS AND CARRIED MY BOO BOO BEAR STUFFED ANIMAL EVERYWHERE WITH ME, SO THERE! :-P :-P :-P!!!

Dry, where did you go? I bet you got all cozy in your jammies and went sleepers!

I spoke too soon!

Yes, Carmy, his last game as a Gator. Wonder how he’ll do in the NFL. Some don’t think he’ll do very well.

Good Night Bmonk

See you in the morrow!

Sweet dreams bmonk! I always enjoy seeing you here!

Terry, I wish Tebow well, but Pro Football is a whole other ballgame and the pressure for him to succeed will be on him like a ton of bricks.

Carmy, NOW I’m worried!! If you’re watching me I can’t get away with ANYTHING!!!!

Goodnight bmonk!

Dry, I had a stuffed Snoopy that I carried everywhere.

I just carried a shrunken head around with me!! On retrospect, it should have been my brother’s!!! Hey, wonder just whose head that was???

JFri, don’t worry, sometimes I have to blink. ;)

Carmy, I never had a Snoopy, but I have a bunch of the Peanuts books!

And I still have my Odie, he’s on the headboard of my bed, sitting beside Eeyore! LOL! Oh and Jacques from “Lady and the Tramp”!

JFri, I don’t know whose head it was, but I guess they weren’t missing it.

Carmy–I had GI Joe to carry around. Go figure, huh?!

Ah, the first day of the New Year comes to a close and the way time passes, I will wake up tomorrow and it will be 2011.

Carmy, tell it to The Headless Horseman!! SNERK!!!

Dry, I also had Schroder with his piano. I love Eeyore! Which one was Jacques?

Dry, do they ever talk all night & keep you up at night???

I hear you Cleo, it’ll be gone quick, just like 2009!

Carmy Jacques was the Scottish Terrier! Always wanted one, never got it, and now I read “Raising Duncan” on comics.com! LOL!

Hey!! Where did 2010 go?? Geez, cleo! You scared me for a minute there!

JFri NO they just make me happy! I still have a lot of kid in me! THANK GOD!

The Headless Horseman lost his head and doesn’t know where to find it!

Terry, I wanted a GI Joe for my Barbie to date and I never got one, waah!

Hi Cleo!

Okay, I remember Jacques. I liked him in the movie, I wanted a pooch just like him, waah, I never got one!

Just checking,

Dry!

Are you all talking about your stuffed animals etc. If so, I carried around two stuffed bears who, like Calvin and Darin, were my imaginary friends. It was me and Dirty & Bear.

Well, Carmy, I guess we know what happened to his head NOW!! LOL!!

I did have a stuffed Huckleberry Hound! I liked blue back then!

Cleo, Dirty bear? JFri, sure ‘nuff!

No Carmy, Dirty & Bear, but nowadays it would be Dirty & Bare. nyuk, nyuk.

cleo, not Dirty & Mind? That MIGHT explain a few things!! SNERK!!

JFri

2010 is gone already??!!!