I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

jancie

I need a triple drink - don't care what it is just make it strong.

jancie

Can I just say that I hate being a stepmother!

3monstmama

hey janice, from one step mom to another, what gives?

ps the muslim women have their forum back.  May not have anyone ever post in it but its there. Per T.H White in last volume of the saga of the Once and Future King, some of the drops sparkle......now THATS in code!

AnnNYC

BarbaraA, congratulations on the presentation!  Fingers crossed for the answer next week!

suzieq60

Jancie - what was the outcome of the procedure? You haven't said if everything was OK.

Well, I'm on holidays!!!! Got some last minute work to do, like at 3pm, and tried to do it but couldn't get it to work. Also got some more to do this morning and got that working, so that was good. Had to pack up my desk as we're moving floors while I'm gone.

Put some big bucks on my cash passports ready for the trip and got some pound notes at lunchtime, so we're set.

The busker dude's mouth organ had broken so he couldn't give me his usual rendition of my favourite Neil Young songs today. He did play a new one though which was nice. Now he's got 6 weeks to concentrate on learning more Still the best way to spend a lunch hour, sitting in the sun, listening to music.

See you all in your morning.

Sue

BarbaraA

Sue, have a really great time.

Jancie, I hated being a stepmother sometimes, too. I like it now that my stepdaughter is 41 and she thinks I am wonderful and wise.

Thanks for all the well wishes. I am *kinda* hoping we don't make the cut because these people are really weird and the way they want me to demo is via a script. Scripted demos are stressful because they do not flow well and the people don't gete to see all the cool stuff the software does. Oh well. Imagine a 200 line spreadsheet with line after line and I open one screen, then another then back to the first screen on so on. I like to open a screen and explain it. Much nicer flow. Whatever.

Having some coffee then off to the airport in an hour. Long day ahead.

1Athena1

Barbara, I hope you get the outcome that is best for you - I'm sure everyone was impressed. I bet you have missed your pool, to say nothing of DH.

Blue - E - I will take your code talk under advisement, as they say in the CIA.

Coffee. 6:30am.

Those are your instructions, Cherryl. And it's not "Roger" - it's "blueberry yoghurt." 

Susie, I was hoping that Tim the busker would give you a great serenade, I'm glad you got something. I'm sure he will miss you while you are gone. :-)

(((Jancie))) 

suzieq60

Dinner tonight was lovely porterhouse steaks with chips, peas and corn and pepper sauce!!! DH loved it - he cooked the steaks, I just pick really good ones.

Athena - LOL - you should see him. Not my type and too young anyway.

I'll check back in later - time for my favourite TV show - Escape to the Country - an English real estate show - love the countryside views.

One question for you all. Are you planning on doing the Niagara thing every year or just this once. DH said I could come if you have one next year.

Sue

BarbaraA

Thanks, Athena. Maybe I am just exhausted but I mieed all the code stuff. Oh well, off to Alpha Quadrant.

Blue I am a HUGE Next Generation fan. Jean-Luc...well what can I say.

BarbaraA

Oh Susie! You can have a grand American/Canadian tour!. You could come visit all of us! How fun!

RetiredLibby

Sometimes an eggplant is just an eggplant. Sometimes it is ratatouille. And sometimes it is downright subversive.



Congrats on your presentation, Barbara. Fingers crossed for a good outcome.



Susie, fingers crossed that you can come next year!



Jancie, hugs for your predicament. It is one I never had - I didn't even have stepcats, although DH got some when he married me. I am sorry that it is so difficult right now ... ((((Jancie)))))



Off to another doctor appointment!



L

1Athena1

Good luck, HL!

Dilly

Sorry to interrupt, and I'll step back out, but your code talk made me smile. 

Are you aware of the original meaning of "Roger that"? 

In the 1600s & 1700s it meant "to lie with a woman." or "F&#* that"

BarbaraA

L_C, ROFLMAO!

Anonymous

Lewing - fantastic!  A person goes to sleep early, and look what she misses.  Someone forgot to say:"I can tell you what it means, but then I'd have to..."  For all the DC women, who KNOW. I think WR should be the Offishul Kode Holder - she can put it where we can sing, and drink that stuff, on GL really knows about ( hint: the song!) I want the one that makes  you taller.

Such a good group.  

Enjoyful

Lost_Creek -

Welcome!  Glad you enjoyed the Offishul Kode Tahlk.  Please join in!

E

Enjoyful

C-S

You snooze, you booze.  You know what I'm sayin?

Dilly

Thanks E---

"That's gross" came from Captain Francis Grose, who collected "vulgarisms" and created a dictionary in the 1790s or so; it's still in print.  We now use it for our own code talk.  There are hundreds of descriptions for copulation, and body parts...I'd found "Roger" in an old 1700s lecher's diary, then later got the dictionary... Roger that is my go-to swear word...

The book got me through the last week of driving an hour to rads - DH drove that week, and I read, and laughed my "blind cheeks" off...

A girl pg out of wedlock is said "to have sprained her ankle" --- 

Enjoyful

I love etymology.  Thanks for sharing!  Can you use "roger" as an adjective, as in, "stupid rogering Congress?"

BarbaraA

E, I so agree. Their approval rating is now 82%. I want to know who the clueless 18% are.

Off to the airport. Bye!

rosemary-b

Before we got married 40 years ago I sprained my ankle...or is that kode tahlk.

Off to work for my first individual meeting with the new boss, which was postponed yesteray. Made me feel so special. NOT! He has been there over a month and wants to see everybody but you had to set up the meeting and he never told anybody that. I think that's strange but maybe he wanted to see who was proactive enough to make the appt. He can make me nuts. Twice during our staff meeting he said"I do this but it's not an arrogance thng". Wanna bet ? Off I go, can't be late.(For a very important date-WR).

Enjoyful

I thought it was the reverse - their approval rating is 18%?

Enjoyful

Good luck, rosemary!  He'll probably show up late, but don't take that as an arrogance thing.

suzieq60

Rosemary - good luck with the meeting.

If you are going to NOL next year, I'm in!!! I just loved that place. Maybe I can bring DH and we can park him in a pub I went on that trip to Canada by myself, so he's never been. I only saw Toronto, Hanover (a couple of hours out of T), Vancouver, Vancouver Is. Sqaumish (spelling?) and the Okanagan Valley. I did the day trip to Niagara from Toronto and you wouldn't believe it but the bus driver was from the Gold Coast here in Oz.

I should go to bed after being exhausted for most of the day, but now I seem to have woken up a bit.

Sue

Anonymous

E - youse guys tawhk funny, be's you from Baahhston.

Old enuf to remember? "Be's you got bugs, sure I are, everybody do."

IronJawedBCAngel

Rosemary, good luck with the arrogant one!  A great learning experience on how many times can you count to 10!

Psssssstt!  Mousaka and lots of Metaxa = lobotomy.  Wink...Secret handshake....

Don't forget the password.

suzieq60

Hey girls - BlackCat has posted a tribute to thenewme on the Comp forum - very nice!!! With a link to my fave Neil Young!!!

Time for bed. See you tonight.

Sue

Ellie1959

I don't know if this is appropo but my Dad used to say a woman who had a baby out of wedlock was called having a "brush colt"- anyone know how this originated?

IronJawedBCAngel

Wonder if brush colt would have anything to do with the Mustang stallions coming in and stealing pedigreed mares to add to their herd. The Mustangs were an abomination as far as many ranchers were concerned.

Welcome Lost Creek!

bluedahlia

Ellie, I'm sure its in the code book somewhere.  Gotta get my coffee first, if you know what I mean.