THERE IS NOTHING WORSE

...than a giant snake behind.

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[Meanie the Blue]

*God Save The Kid!*

('Cause I won't...)

[southerngirl with the pink hair]

Was that a daisymae streaking by?

[Adonis Rotten]

Well sg, its a common affliction. You see, many men with ED need guidance of some sort.

RUN!!

[southerngirl with the pink hair]

*grabs Ado by the hand and pulls him outta Blue's reach*

[sharon share-alike]

*gets out notebook and adjusts glasses*

Now then, Blue...you say you are experiencing some difficulties in the "thing" department...

...so how does that make you feel?

[Meanie the Blue]

Hey - was that a Daisymae flashing through here? Where ya been, Daisy? Welcome back to the SIKoes thread. Leave them once-a-weeklings behind, and stay over here at the dark side.

We treat new and returning guests very nicely, don't we, kids?

[Meanie the Blue]

Like this.

*Reaches*

[southerngirl with the pink hair]

ok, I said that before Ado's second comment, so now I think I need to change that to say, "grabs Ado Rotten and RUNS out of Blue's reach!"

[southerngirl with the pink hair]

daisymae is now streaking and flashing? this is turning into quite a party.

*snork* @ Blue!

[Adonis Rotten]

(I think he's trying to sucker me back so he can hurt me. Oh well.)

Hello daisy! What up? Wanna party with sgwtph and me? (That is, if you don't mind babe)

[Meanie the Blue]

I'd say there's a bit of dysfunction if you've got a pocketful of twenties and a hot pinkhaired chick trying to drag you off to a bar, and all you're interested in is what your dad is up t.....doi....worki....experiencing.

[sharon share-alike]

Hmmmm, yes, I see. Now go with that feeling...really explore it. Undress it and examine the naked truth---

Whoops! My mistake. That was just daisymae streaking through.

[southerngirl with the pink hair]

damn it's gettin' warm in here...maybe daisy's got the right idea!

[Adonis]

Man, I was just trying to give you a hard time! I am totally ready to punk out with the lovely with the pink hair!

I am an anarchist!

(I forget what the music tags are sg.)

[Adonis Rotten]

Oops! Forgot my real name.

[southerngirl with the pink hair]

Ado, if your e-mail was real, I'd tell ya! ;)

[Adonis]

Only once. It's that pink hair ...

[Meanie the Blue]

I have to say, this is quite an alternative guidance setup you have going here. So many shadows, and very active ones at that. All kinds of people streaking through, popping in from nowhere, popping out again.

It's spooky.

When is my next appointment?

[sharon share-alike]

I can fit you in anytime. ;)b

[Adonis Rotten]

Look! SSA has a mustache!

[sharon share-alike]

Actually, I'm drinking from a very tiny saucepan.

[Sarah J]

That saucepan is about as big as a spoon!

[KDF]

Hi kids! Why is sg's hair pink? Guess I better catch up.

[Adonis Rotten]

Looks like you spilled some in your right eye.

[Adonis Rotten]

Dad's getting guidance mom. He says it's for you though. SG and I are going to a punk rock club.

[sharon share-alike]

{{{KDF!!}}} I was wondering where you'd gotten to. Blue is having "issues" and I'm trying to help him "work them out."

Wanna help?

*grins*

[southerngirl with the pink hair]

Only once, what?

*hands KDF the orange hair dye*

[Adonis Rotten]

What up Sarah! I've got some purple hair dye here! Washes out! Wanna come with sg and me? We're going to a place like

[Meanie the Blue]

Hey, babe! Missed you terribly this evening, didn't we son?

[Adonis Rotten]

Only once with the addy. Party all night!

[southerngirl with the pink hair]

Ado - never mind! ;)

[Sarah J]

I like my hair blonde, just like it already is naturally. But thanks for the offer!

[Adonis Rotten]

Sure, whatever.

*ouch*

I mean oh yes mother. Especially since we got the car seized by the cops.

*ouch*

I mean, I really did miss you. Let's par-tay!

Actually, I need to go now. I will keep the spirit of partying alive, but little Ado needs to leave the blog now. Nightol!

[Adonis Rotten]

Especially the always anarchistic sg! Later.

[Meanie the Blue]

*Slams and locks*

[southerngirl with the pink hair]

Nite, Ado - nite all!

[sharon share-alike]

'Night Adonis and sg...see you later!

Here Blue and KDF...I'm drinking cider out of a very small saucepan. Help yourselves.

[ASK]

As usual, I get here in time to say goodnight.

[Meanie the Blue]

*Cracks door to wave at pink-haired babe*

[Meanie the Blue]

Hey, stop pushing, will ya, KDF? Alright.....*waves to Ado*

[ASK]

I'm far too tired (and yes, SSA, I am typing left handed, for completely different reasons this time) to read through all of that.

Other than the saucepan thing, anything I need to be aware of?

[Meanie the Blue]

Jeez, ASK, how many nights a week do you work late?

[sharon share-alike]

Hey, looks like ASK slipped in when Blue cracked the door. Howdy, my friend!

[ASK]

I have three kids, and tonight involved a choir concert and my parents' cars both breaking down. After last Friday (which I am well aware I haven't explained), my right hand is in no shape to fix cars, and I am not a great mechanic under the best conditions.

I think the point was that every night is a late night.

[sharon share-alike]

Well, ASK, Blue was having some "issues" with "things" and we were trying to "work them out."

But we kept getting distracted by young folks with brightly colored hair and didn't get very far with the counseling.

[sharon share-alike]

And, you may have noticed, I never actually "asked" you about the whole hand thing (make of that what you will!). I can come to my own conclusions, as it were.

[Meanie the Blue]

Yeah, that's how it seems. Hope you can catch a break soon. Here, have one of these.

[ASK]

Deon says I am ancient, and I have very little hair at the moment, so I guess I am not a threat.

[sharon share-alike]

Well, thank (deity or non-denominal being of your choice)--pull up a chair and tell us how you are in the grand scheme of things.

And...ancient? Dude, I've seen your picture, and I'd hardly call you venerable at this point.

[Meanie the Blue]

No law that says you have to listen to anyone, ASK. *Sprays ASK's scalp with purple dye left by Sarah* There, lookin' younger already.

[Meanie the Blue]

*Sees that the slightly worn but definitely not historic ASK is in good hands, as it were, and makes for the sheets and covers*

Take care, all.

[sharon share-alike]

'Night, Blue!

*smooch*

[Sarah J]

I think I might head to bed too, friends and neighbors. Otherwise I might fall asleep on my bedroom floor (YAY! there's enough room to stretch out on the floor!!)

[sharon share-alike]

'Night Sarah--glad you are happy in your new home.

[ASK]

Sorry - caught up in the past. 'Night Blue and Sarah.

[ASK]

crickets?

[cyn]

♪chirp♪

*tumbleweeds roll by*

*sigh*

[Meanie the Blue]

*Picks up tumbleweed, sniffs*

D@mn.

[wolfie]

*peeks head in*
Is it safe? Has Blue stopped kickin me and slammin doors on me?
*is skerrid*

[Meanie the Blue]

Kickin' and slammin', at you? - silly, paranoid Wolfie. No way.

Those were all meant for one particularly rotten youngster, who's got a major whoopin' coming to him as soon as he gets home. Probably be an hour or two before he even figures out where he is, whose mailbox he's barfed in, and why there's blood all over his clothes.

Please, sit down and relax. I don't bite.

Unless asked.

[ASK]

Why does the morning have to get here so early?

[wolfie]

Cause if it got here any later, we would lose some afternoon?

[ASK]

We can steal some from the west coast - they have plenty.

[CoastRaven]

Sorry to start so early but...
Todays Rant!
I am SOOOO sick of people forwarding me stoopit stories with made up krap about everything from "stopping a heart attack by coughing" to the little freakin munchkin that will appear on your screen if you send to 10 people to the d@mn termite infested mulch from LA!! I have made it my personal mission that whenever I get one of those freaking pieces of sh!t I take a moment to do some research, find out how to tell the person who forwarded it to me that they are a moron for believing whatever they read just because a friend "swears they know the guy this happened to" and reply to ALL on their mailing list exposing them for being an idiot by showing them proof that "there really isnt a litter of yellow lab pups in Washington State that will be euthanized if someone doesnt adopt them!" There really wasn’t a guy having his picture taken on the WTC when the plane struck!! Microsoft is NOT gonna send you money, and I will NOT go to H&ll if I don’t forward this to ten people!! If a few people would do the same thing, we would get a lot less of these stoopit emails clogging up our inboxes. I know a few of the people have stopped sending me mail altogether and that’s fine… the people here at work are actually thankful because I tell them when BS is BS, and when they really SHOULD worry about what they are reading (yes… Maryland energy prices ARE going up 72% soon, but if you live in this state and didn’t know that you have been stuck under a rock!)
OK – I have sed enuff
/Rant
OK - THAT was a rambling mess, but I think you get the point.
*deeeeep breath*

[Meanie the Blue]

The West Coast grabbed a whole bunch from Asia and Australia, who filched some from central Europe, who pocketed a stack from the East Coast when we weren't looking. It's no wonder we're missing some.

Does that help any?

[CoastRaven]

Nature abhors (I sed hors) a vacuum. It'll all come back to us in the end.

[BS]

My stepmother is one of those idiots who always sends me that stuff. Some of the other teachers do too. I get about 200 e-mails a day, of which I read about 30 (of course I read all the ones from everyone here). That doesn't include bulks and known spam.

Pretty much anything that says FWD:FWD:FWD in front is a goner.

BS is always BS.

[wolfie]

*Stops mid forward*

*watching ginormous nekkid tatas dancing across her screen*
Too bad really cause this one really did work.

And it was my cousins sisters husbands stepfathers uncle that was working in the emergency room when Richard Gere was brought in with the you-know-what up his you-know-where.

[Meanie the Blue]

Coast - You probably know this already, but I make it a policy to check Snopes.com, the Urban Legends website, about any of that kind of stuff. It almost always gives me the ammo I need to inform the people who pass that junk along that they're misguided (to put it politely).

A number of people have thanked me for it, and no one, to my knowledge, has resented me for doing so. The amount of such stuff that I receive is considerably reduced, also.

My wife learned this lesson the hard way one time, when she discovered herself that something she had passed along to a huge number of people was bogus. That's when she also made it her business to check stuff out before accepting it as true. She did right and e-mailed a followup to everyone she had sent that to, with recommendations for everyone else to be aware of how this happens and what can be done to check stuff out.

[BS]

I check Snopes every few days as well - most of the stuff is hilarious.

[CoastRaven]

Snopes is a good friend of mine for ammo as well, but I also like to go deeper a good number of the times (at least check ou ttheir refs in a given article). I kind of feel that if I stop at Snopes (even though they have done the research for me), then in some cases I am as bad as the sender, and just believe what I am reading... "It MUST be true if it is on Snopes" feels sort of hypocritical to me. MBLOP has gotten mad at me in the past and sez "I dont care, it's still a good story"... yes it may be a GOOD story, but it aint a TRUE story. And the folks at work have come to expect me to have a pithy comment about whatever idiocy they present. The best was the lab puppies, when I showed them the exact same pictures they sent me along with the article.

[Meanie the Blue]

BTW, Snopes is also full of just plain hilarious stuff, some true, some not true but really funny.

I know Judi uses it to check out some kinds of stuff that comes her way before posting it at the blog, and has rejected more than a few would-be posts on that basis.

The people who work at Snopes are sharp. I've had a few e-mail exchanges with them, and they know how to do a good check-out and will straightforwardly call BS BS.

[Meanie the Blue]

Well, I will go deeper (heh, heh) if an item strikes my curiosity for some particular reason, but I trust the Snopes folks enough to go with their conclusions in most cases. They will tell you the depth of their research, and say outright if they are unable to make a convincing case of an item's truthfulness or falsity. If I feel they have left some available avenue out or overlooked some consideration that I thought was merited, I have e-mailed them and they satisfied my concerns every time. In a couple of cases they revised their posts to reflect concerns I had raised.

I rarely have reasons to doubt them, and, I don't want to spend precious blogging time chasing stuff down that I trust is in good hands.

[KDF]

Good morning, SIKoes. Missed you last night!

[southerngirl]

Good mornin' guys and gals!

Hey ASK, cool purple head.

*knows wolfie loves purple, and leaves that comment anyway*

and btw, you definitely ain't old. I can say this cuz you're younger than me and I sure as hell ain't old. :)

Coast, I agree w/your rant. I've had the same conversation with a few people, some more than once.

*is very very glad she has never sent e-mail to the Raven*

[Meanie the Blue]

Mutual missinghoodshipness, KDF. Could have used your help in disciplining that satanic being we call a child last night. And the floor just wasn't the same without you.

[southerngirl]

*waves to KDF who was hiding when I hit post*

[KDF]

Coast, I have the same peeve. I have one friend who sometimes will forward four or five e-mails at a time. Sometimes jokes, sometimes "please help this poor candy shop owner in Paris who recently lost his child to parvovirus and desperately needs a new umbrella" messages. I'm proud to admit here that I delete all of those before even opening them, if I can tell ahead of time that they are of that variety (fwd:fw: fw:) Just don't care to spend my time that way. I would always rather read an original thought.

[southerngirl]

*waves to KDF who was hiding when I hit post*

*is having trouble sending, and knows this will post twice, if at all*

[CoastRaven]

Point taken Meanie, and I DO trust their conclusions as well, just like to check their sources once in awhile... I also like to look in on The Straight Dope - it isnt as easy to search, but Cecil has his stuff together.

[KDF]

Hi sg!

Blue, the floor has been cleaned and is ready for a new day full of SIK, perverted, thoroughly enjoyable messes.

[southerngirl]

See?

*sigh*

[mathmom]

GEEK ALERT

Not only are those chain letters annoying, they can actually clog up the internet. It doesn't take much math to understand that if you send an email to 10 people, and each of them passes it to 10 more people, before long you can generate enough spam to actually cause problems.

I was especially upset when I got one of those letters from a science teacher in the midwest, purporting to be a science project. I tracked him down and called him on the phone and let him know how irresponsible that was.

So please! Break the chain! And tell everyone you know to do so as well. But NOT by sending them an email...

/end rant

[BS]

*She's on to my plan to take over the world!*

[Meanie the Blue]

Mathmom? Mathmom! You're new to this blog dimension, aren't you? At least (and don't take this the wrong way), I haven't noticed you before in the hammocks or laying about the floor. And I do tend to take careful notes for the book I'm.......oops, scratch, I mean, er nevermind that.

[ASK]

*and mine too*

[KDF, who tries not to change her name too often, cause she always forgets to change it back]

*is onto ASK's name-changing hijinx*

[Meanie the Blue]

KDFWTNTCHNTOCSAFTCIB,....er, what was I gonna say now?

[southerngirl who remembered to change her name last nite, but might not today]

me, too, KDF. Nothin' gets by us, huh?

[southerngirl who remembered to change her name last nite, but might not today]

*snork* @ Blue the Confused!

[KDF]

Too wordy, you think?

[Meanie the Guy Who's Used to Long Names But Sheesh!]

Wordy? I dunno, you make the call.

[mathmom]

Blue,

I am a regular blurker, sometime poster, often sender-of-silliness-to-judi.

I am too busy to participate in this groups antics, but I like watching.

[mathmom]

Blue,

I am a regular blurker, sometime poster, often sender-of-silliness-to-judi.

I am too busy to participate in this group's antics, but I like watching.

[KDF]

Too busy?

GAH!

*winks at mathmom*

[ASK]

"jumbo shrimp"

"army intelligence"

"regular blurker"

[WhereTheWaterMeetsTheSandLargeBlackBirdoftheGenusCorvusAlsoFamousPoemByPoe]

I dunno - I could get into this.

[w]

I like "watching" too.

*adjusts hidden cameras and pops in new tapes*

[WhereTheWaterMeetsTheSandLargeBlackBirdoftheGenusCorvus AlsoFamousPoemByPoe]

Lets try it that way

[Meanie the Blue]

There are blurkers here? Aside from the usual shadow-dwelling suspects?

*Gulp*