THE WAR ON TERROR

It requires sacrifice.

(Thanks to Mr. Tom Shroder)

Comments

[Eleanor]

judi, am I FIRST to ask if this is the Mr. Tom Shroeder of the Wash. Post?

[almne]

Go cabbie!

[Meditrina]

Flaming groin kick WBAGNFA shot.

[Siouxie]

"He didn't even flinch. I couldn't believe he didn't go down.

Perhaps the terrorist was a bit preoccupied, being burned to a crisp and all.

[SW]

Now that's putting the pedal to the mettle!

[Siouxie]

wowsa...a quad simul FIRST!!!

[Siouxie]

oops...5 way!

[Edgar Greenberg]

Something about this story seems rather fishy.

[ubetcha]

Alex McIlveen, 45, kicked the man, whose body was in flames, so hard that he tore a tendon in his foot.

His body was in FLAMES? I would think that alone should have stopped him. Somebody's gonna sue somebody.

[AFKAT]

Kind of off topic (well like that's a first for this blog)but I felt compelled to share this this amazing video

You just KNOW it was built by a guy...

Oh and...nice shot, cabbie...

[The blog reader formerly known as Matt]

Med, I swear I did that shot back in my drinking days.

[GungaDan]

God bless ya Alex McIlveen! Kick him again!

[ubetcha]

Amen, GungaDan.

[ubetcha]

Might I add I just saw the Thunder from Downunder and I'm wet speechless.

[Siouxie]

LOL cool video, AFKAT!

See, a woman cabbie would have just shoved a couple of chopsticks in his eyes. DOWN like a baby!

He did good though.

*cheers*

kick him again..harder harder!

[The blog reader formerly known as Matt]

It was a nice try, but it sounds like the terrorist was prepared

[Siouxie]

*throws bucket of ice water at ubetcha*

yummilicious, huh??

*off till later*

[ubetcha]

*lights cigarette* Crikey!

[SW]

God bless you Alex McIlveen,
Let nothing you dismay,
For your left footed tendon
Was torn upon this day,
To save us all from Khalid’s power
When he went up in flames.

O tidings of comfort and joy,
For Alex's left tendon was torn this July day.

[AFKAT]

Well, you know what they say in soccer...

"If it moves, kick it. If it doesn't, kick it till it moves..."

[GungaDan]

lol, that was awesome SW.

[Recovering 24 Addict]

I will buy him a pint (as they say) any day to help with the pain.

[GungaDan]

I got next round!

[Annie Where-but-here]

Blatant off-topic bloggal hijacking -
Urgent news update -
My son just called me at work to tell me we were out of Cheetos.

When does summer vacation end?

This concludes (perhaps) this off-topic bloggal hijacking.

[The blog reader formerly known as Matt]

Here's you go Alex, courtesy R24A and Gungadan.

[Meditrina]

Annie, it is a crisis! Chester is at your house for a playdate.

[GungaDan]

LOL Annie

[Meditrina]

Flaming nut buster, anyone?

[GungaDan]

Awesome Mat! cheers!

[Meditrina]

Goes great with cheetos.

[The blog reader formerly known as Matt]

Med, take the above recipe and add 30 ml of Ol' Janx Spirit, It'll spontaneously combust.

[DeskDiva]

Hiya Med, Danny, Annie, XMatt! How's the evening shaping up?

[The blog reader formerly known as Matt]

So, this mean the bar is open? Ready to open a bottle of the good stuff?

[DeskDiva]

Annie - your blog hijack? CLASSIC.

Beautiful, AFKAT! Some chicks do dig this kinda blatant foolishness ingenuity.

Med - how was the food today?

XMatt - I dare you to walk into a bar and order a "Kick in the Balls." LOL

[DeskDiva]

Matt - no s3x for you tonight. Tell your wife I said so.

[DeskDiva]

After that link you SHOULD walk into a bar. Hard. AND get a kick in the balls. >:(

[Annie Where-but-here]

Blatant off-topic yet somehow amusing bloggal hijacking #2 (I pray there is no 3):
Yet another urgent news update -
My other son just called me at work to tell me Jake the dog had his foot stuck in his ear. I confirmed - Jake's foot, Jake's ear. Jake is expected to survive.
This concludes (perhaps) this off-topic bloggal hijacking. (No Scotties were harmed in the making of this update.)

[DeskDiva]

*snork*

Annie, it's chaos - CHAOS - at your house, I tell ya!

[GungaDan]

((((DIVA))))

[DeskDiva]

{{{{Danny}}}}

[Annie Where-but-here]

*burrrrp* @ exMatt.

[Doc Rick]

Jeez Annie! That's nothing. My kids/dogs/cats all do that kind of stuff before 9am. Not sure why I'm bragging about that. Still......

[GungaDan]

forgive me Annie, I just in no way can figure out how a dog can get his foot stuck in his own ear. LOL. even did a Google. Need details.

[tropichunt.com guy™]

Eleanor: To answer your question, yes, it is that Tom Shroder.

[DeskDiva]

HI DOC!!! Haven't seen you in a coupla days. Howzit?

[The blog reader formerly known as Matt]

I'd hesitate to risk somebody getting hurt if they actually did it.

[DeskDiva]

Annie - this sounds like a blogpost waiting to happen.

[GungaDan]

LOL Doc

[Doc Rick]

Busy Diva. Whoever decided vacation would mean rest was obviously not married or had kids. The whole thing is a hoax I tell ya!

[Annie Where-but-here]

Doc - I had a cellular moment at work. You know the kind where cell reception is so bad that you yell into your phone and move around aimlessly to find better reception, in essence appearing like a deranged homeless person talking to himself....
"His foot got stuck where?...his REAR?! What? Oh, his ear....ok....is he ok? Yes, I already heard we're out of Cheetos."

[DeskDiva]

Annie, you make me laugh more than any ten other folks out here. KUDOS to you.

[Annie Where-but-here]

Gunga - He's a cocker mutt - long tresses. He was scratching his ear and got his foot tangled in his ear fur. Oh yes, and we're out of Cheetos.

[ubetcha]

*Snork* way back up there at Stevie's carol. I have to worry about his mind, but I love it just the same.

[Big and Buckeye]

Dave,
Come in Dave.
You're over there now. Take some time from that tennis foolishness and go buy that man a pint!!

[Bethie]

Bravo, man! I wonder if those damned doctors took some kind of painkillers beforehand so they didn't feel any pain and were high. Sorry bastards. I wish I could have been there to see him get kicked in the balls. That guy deserves some kind of award!

[Doc Rick]

*laughing uncontrollably* Annie, I can't even begin to wonder how that all looked to your co-workers. Wish I had been there to witness it. hehe

[Annie Where-but-here]

Doc - oh, I know. Nothing like the whole office overhearing you trying to figure out a cellular charades game of appendage Twister. For a while I wasn't sure who's foot was stuck in who's whatever.

[DeskDiva]

Annie - careful! Some of these boys are going tot be apoplectic trying to picture that. :-)

[DeskDiva]

*extracts spare t*

[Annie Where-but-here]

I'll bet every parent has been there -
"You put what where?!"

[DeskDiva]

So, Doc - what are you doing for vacation?

[The blog reader formerly known as Matt]

Annie, how old are they? "You put what where?" is a phrase that often shows up in conversations with teenage boys.

And girls...

*Remember's how "Pickle" got her nickname*

[DeskDiva]

A friend of mine once told me, "Never, never, EVER let a man use a pickle on you. It burns!"

[The blog reader formerly known as Matt]

Two words....Truth....Dare

[Just Ducky]

*flaps in, waves at everybody*

Wow, SW, that was terrific! And inspirational:

Chest hairs roasting; terrorist on fire
Alex kicking with his toes
Khalid burning like a funeral pyre
One brave man taking on our foes

Everybody knows these turkeys want to cause us woe
Spawning mayhem’s their delight
But what Khalid and his friends did not know:
That cabbie was prepared to fight

So McIlveen ran in pursuit
He kicked that bad guy in the privates with his boot
But though that mother’s balls were hit so hard
He would not fall; no, he just stood while he charred

And so I’m offering this simple praise
For Alex McIlveen’s brave act
Although your foot’s hurt, and your blow didn’t faze
You’re a hero; that’s fact.

[Annie Where-but-here]

exMatt - they're 8 &10. I was referring more to pencil erasers up the nose, but thanks for the tip (har).
-off to basketball practice - season begins next week.

[DeskDiva]

EXCELLENT, Ducky!!

[Just Ducky]

Thanks, Diva! How's the new computer?

[crossgirl]

I'll bet every parent has been there -
"You put what where?!"

Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | 08:27 PM on July 5, 2007

it was a paperclip through the ear. during school. i had to fax over consent for them to remove it. the kid has a lovely dimple on his lobe and a fascination with body art.

[casey]

My son, 4 at the time, picked a bead up off of the floor of an arts/crafts store and carefully stuffed it up his nose. My daughter, 6, tugs at my sleeve to show me. The look of horror on my face when I turned to see this huge bulge in my son's nostril promptly flipped him out and he started screaming. So I'm trying to calm him and sorta push the bead downward, but it won't move. I got him to blow, but it still didn't move. He had it in there just right so that the hole in the bead was allowing his air to go right thru it. In the meantime, quite a crowd starts gathering and I hear a woman yell "stand back, everybody stand back, I'm a nurse!". Now, both kids are crying, I'm pissed cuz I was the next person in line at the check out and I REALLY wanted whatever it was I was there to buy, a crowd is standing around, and a crazed nurse is screaming like she just happened upon a heart attack victim and attempting to set up a perimter (DRINK). Long story short, I got the hysterical kids to the doctor's office, but the doctor couldn't get it out with one of those three foot long tong things they use. He finally manuevered the bead around so the hole in the bead was no longer facing straight down and got the kid to blow really hard. Stupid bead shot out of his nose, hit the wall and bounced back where the doctor neatly caught it in his hand like the whole thing had been carefully orchestrated by a clever comedy troupe.

It's times like these that make parents grateful that the kids are only out of cheetos.

[GungaDan]

To this day, Moms really amaze me. As a child I was watching my Mother washing dishes at the sink with her back turned to me. Was only 3 or 4 and not sure what I was pondering, but was trying hard to get the pea out of my nostril as I watched her.(was well entrenched and was having a hard time removing it) With out turning to look, she said; "stop picking your nose" scared the hell out of me. Moms are amazing people

[OtheU(manity) (who is older than Dave)]

AFKAT ... that wuz supERB! Rube Goldberg would be PROUD of these guys ...

and ... as to Annie's kidlets insertin' various stuff in varied locales ... my youngest brother-in-law once hadda go to the ER 'cuz he'd put a ... um ... I fergit if it wuz a bean or a pea ... in his nose (or ear? I fergit a lot ... I'm old, BTW) ...

So ... they did, and came home, AND HE DID IT AGAIN!!!

FIL wuz NOT pleased ... BIL wuz only about seven @ the time ... he's now nearer to 50 than 40, so I guess he learnt somethin' ... eventually ...

[GungaDan]

LOL casey!

[Just Ducky]

cg and casey, my son had an itch down in his ear when he was young, and took a small part of some toy (looked like a really fat pencil lead, about 1/4" long), then stuck it into his ear to scratch. It wouldn't come out, so we went to minor emergency, where they flooded his ear with water, to no avail, and used the giant tweezers, also to no avail. By then he was crying and quite upset. There was some talk of transferring him to the hospital for surgery, but they decided to try the tweezers one more time. I guess my son was more scared of surgery than the tweezers, so he held still long enough for the dr. to finally remove that little plastic piece from his ear.

It's a wonder any of us survive.

[SW]

My dog is out of Cheez-its.

[CTProf]

I don't know what y'all are talking about. My kids NEVER do stuff like that.

*nervous cough*

[CJrun]

Ooohhh, just a bunch o' *snorks*!

[GungaDan]

I am going to name my next dog "Roof" and train him to bark when you ask his name. That way if he wanders off he can tell folks his name. (and more importantly, win bar bets for beers)

[Eleanor]

Great story, casey. LOL (now, right?)

Thanks Tropic, I love the way Weingarten talks about him in his (Gene's) online ch@t. Tom the Butcher! VF!

[Eleanor]

Also, apologies to Mr. Shroder if he's reading this and sees that I misspelled his name. :(

[Thom Schroeder]

I am extremely offended.

[Mr. Gene Weingarten]

Oh, you just behave.

[DeskDiva]

Ducky - if you're there, computer is working DANDY fine!

casey - full snorks.

Prof!! HI!!!

[Eleanor]

I've always wondered how you pronounced "Thom", Thom. Does it sound like "Thumb"? (but without the 'b' of course.

[DeskDiva]

My buddy Thom pronounced it "Tom."

[The blog reader formerly known as Matt]

Kinda like "Thom"as?

Good night all.

[Siouxie]

*pin drop*

wow...even the flies have left the building...

*closes down blog bar & tucks in sleepy bloglits*

nitey nite

[Siouxie]

*sneaks back in and gets another glass of vino*

[CTProf]

*grabs bar keys from Siouxie*

And just where do you think you're going with those??

[Siouxie]

gee...where IS everyone tonight?? still hungover from the 4th?

[Siouxie]

Prof!! HEY!!!! where the heck have you been???

I was just..um...putting them in my pocket a safe place. yep!

[CTProf]

I'm "on vacation"... if that's what you want to call it. It's more like being on work release to home.

[Siouxie]

Are you still on vaca??? no wonder you've been MIA. Lucky you!

[CTProf]

I've just been kinda worn out from all the "to do's" and trying to keep the kids happy this week. It's funny... I go to bed earlier when I'm on vacation ;)

How was your 4th Siouxie?

[Siouxie]

hmm I hear ya...that's why *I* get away on vacation. IF I stay here...I end up working more. Kids driving you nuts yet?? LOL

[Siouxie]

I was great! I spent the day at the Biltmore pool with friends and got to see super cool fireworks right from my back deck. You???

[Siouxie]

uh...IT was great...I was great too...but ;-)

[Siouxie]

dang..where are my manners?? whatcha drinking tonight, Prof???

[CTProf]

Yeah yeah... you're always "great" LOL

Our 4th was pretty cool... spent the day with the family over at my sister's then took the kids to see the fireworks... good day all the way around.

[CTProf]

Aww see I knew you'd have a drink with me if I caught you in time. The usual :)