|
Post by liriodendron on Jan 27, 2007 13:19:55 GMT -5
Gosh, I always thought there are no stupid questions, except the ones that you don't ask. If you don't know, but want the answer, you should ask the question, right? Absolutely. There are, however, questions that one hesitates to ask so that one does not appear to be stupid. Here is my stupid question for today: Can anyone explain today's "Bliss"? For those of you who do not get it in your newspaper www.comicspage.com/bliss/bliss.html
|
|
|
Post by scotbrit on Jan 27, 2007 13:27:07 GMT -5
Could the reference to hiding a bone be because of the genre "Hard Rock"? Obscure idea, but then, so were Pink Floyd. The problem with being used to cryptic crosswords is that one looks for meanings which are not always there!
|
|
|
Post by hartlikeawheel on Jan 28, 2007 14:17:43 GMT -5
Anyone who can do them cryptic crosswords has got to be pretty erudite, in my book. Useless for much else, as I, but erudite. Are you self-educated, Brit? If so I applaud your teacher. Excusing your sometimes prickly disposition you sure know a lotta stuff.
But don't eff around with Pink Floyd. Ya gotta listen closely. I learned that from The Kids. There is some wisdom to be gleaned from the music. But it can't be read and it can't be listened to. Both gotsta be going on at the same time. It's Gestalt.
Hope it's not too stoopid for me to ask you how that all came about - your obvious innate intelligence. That part of you - your later years of education - I don't know. And here's another stoopid question: Will you please consider that I'm not always being ironic? Sometimes I like to be friendly.
This is private conversation but I am no longer able to connect in any other way.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Here's another stoopid question to all:
Why are we so much like family?
And the answer: Because we can be!
UffDah!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You've all had me sitting with a box of tissues for all the tears of laugher and the snot running down my cheeks. Well the snot doesn't exactly run down my cheeks but it goes places where I prefer to not have it.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ok. Here's a question: Did you know that the idea that that row of buttons on the exterior side of mens' sleeves originated because some Queen of England got tired of the guards wiping their noses on their sleeves?
Made them sort of snotty I guess. Though why she was inspecting their sleeves is a bit beyond me. Think Catherine the Great had better inspecting skills.
Is that why we call the upper class in England "stuffy?"
Now to get down to the point of me answering my own stoopid question and to get down to the point. (And don't come anywhere near me with CocaCola or pencils of any shape, you perverts. Especially groups of pencils.) Here's what I don't get and need to have answered.:
How did those guys manage to wipe their noses on the outer side of their sleeves?
I would have gone directly for the top or maybe even the inside. If anyone were watching I just would have opened my jacket and gave a quick toot in there to keep from looking less than dignified.
Why weren't they issued handkerchiefs?
And I suspect that in that weather there could have been a whole lotta tooting goin' on, though they weren't very nice to Jerry Lee, The Killer, when he made his brief appearance. Still I don't think he was crude enought to wipe his nose on his sleeve.
Coulda been a total waste of buttons in all those years. Killed a lot of clams for their shells and made England the laughingstock of the world, ruined the empire and promoted a lot of gin drinking. Any ideas?
|
|
|
Post by hartlikeawheel on Jan 28, 2007 14:22:44 GMT -5
Roges and lireo, you two are in outrageously fine form, and it does warm the cockles of my hart to see gk waxing silly!
(By the way, those of you who missed this conversation, we have been referring to The Big Kahuna as GK and our smart and sensitive gail as gk.) But I suppose that until she speaks for herself you can call her nearly anything you wish.
Smiling, gk. Just keeps things from getting confusing to my perspective.
|
|
|
Post by joew on Jan 28, 2007 14:33:57 GMT -5
When I was working at the IRS, and one of my duties was employee training, I used to say to my fellow instructors, "There are no stupid questions, just stupid questioners." Of course, I never said that to the trainees.
|
|
|
Post by joew on Jan 28, 2007 14:36:02 GMT -5
Great avatar, Scotbrit!
|
|
|
Post by booklady on Jan 28, 2007 15:33:48 GMT -5
Joe, here is a question for you. Do you know about the courses offered by H & R Block to train people to help out at tax time? Are the courses any good? Can one pick up a few extra dollars between January and April doing part-time work after taking this training class?
OK, that was more than one question, but only one category.
|
|
|
Post by booklady on Jan 28, 2007 15:44:30 GMT -5
....This is private conversation but I am no longer able to connect in any other way.... hart, as moderator of this "Advisory Board" forum and also the "Forum Tips and Tricks" (or whatever it's called), I'm going to jump in here and offer a couple of useful tricks on this message board that I think, based on some things you've written, you may not realize you can do. First, if ever you want to communicate with another poster, but privately, not through a public post, you can send that person a "PM" or Private Message. Just click on their name, which will lead you to their profile, and there you'll find another link to "send private message." Presto! Private conversation connection! Second, if you want to refer to or answer a post that someone has written, say, hours or days ago, you can click on "quote" in the upper right hand corner of their post. You'll get a "Message:" screen that includes the post you're responding to. This can be helpful to readers, if what you're replying to was written back a few posts and isn't immediately obvious. Modified to say, make sure you type your reply either before or after the brackets containing the quoted post, or your own post will end up inside the quote! You can also "Modify" one of your own posts if you find, after you click on "Post Reply," that you've forgotten to say something, or (which happens to me) your spelling or grammar needs correcting, or for whatever reason you need to edit your post. I like these features of ProBoards a lot. I know some of you are still smarting from being kicked off the APHC site, but I don't miss the mechanics of that place at all. Hope this helps. It's meant to be helpful and is not meant as a criticism in any way.
|
|
|
Post by joew on Jan 28, 2007 15:53:41 GMT -5
Joe, here is a question for you. Do you know about the courses offered by H & R Block to train people to help out at tax time? Are the courses any good? Can one pick up a few extra dollars between January and April doing part-time work after taking this training class? OK, that was more than one question, but only one category. I have heard of them, but I don't have any direct knowledge or experience of them. Based on the company's reputation, I would expect the courses to be pretty good. There is an awful lot in tax law, and they'd probably have to keep to the basic and most common elements in the starting course; but I would expect them to present it well. Again, no direct experience, but I think it very likely that one could earn some good pocket change during the filing season after taking the course(s).
|
|
|
Post by booklady on Jan 28, 2007 16:13:43 GMT -5
Thanks, Joe!
|
|
|
Post by slb2 on Jan 28, 2007 18:34:51 GMT -5
Regarding PMs. (Private Message) It's possible to block selected people from sending you a PM at this Board. It's also convient to hold your cursor over the icon underneath your destined PM recipient's avatar. the letters PM will appear. Or the word (e-mail) or AIM or whatever messaging system he/she is using. Under my avatar, you can either PM me or e-mail me. Under Brutus' avatar, there is additionally the Yahoo instant messaging and MSN messaging.
Like that.
|
|
|
Post by rogesgallery on Jan 28, 2007 21:41:55 GMT -5
Q: If Terry Gross really took her clothes off on radio would the censors notice?
|
|
|
Post by rogesgallery on Jan 29, 2007 1:34:11 GMT -5
Addendum to the above stoopid question: Terry Gross and Fresh Air Have been an island in an imbicilic ocean of open mouthed media throughout the onset, escalation, head scratching and vain vacillation of the US intelligence test to be forever known as Iraq.
|
|
|
Post by hartlikeawheel on Jan 29, 2007 2:30:56 GMT -5
I like Terry Gross. Is she the "Speaking of Faith" woman? That program is always good for my spirit.
I learned to play pool from a lapsed Mormon. I also think that's a funny expression. So here sit a few trophies which have made my life full. Of something or other. I've also read the Book of Moroni. Now if my pencil sharpener only worked.
Somehow or other I've also gotten back into the Viagra peddler loop. I've tried it but all I ever got was a wide-on. Nobody seems to notice, Roges, so I think I'm not going to have to sit in quarantine with you. Pity.
|
|
|
Post by hartlikeawheel on Jan 29, 2007 2:41:06 GMT -5
Oops!
And thanks bl for the suggestions.
|
|
|
Post by mike on Jan 29, 2007 4:38:39 GMT -5
Q: If Terry Gross really took her clothes off on radio would the censors notice? Lets move on to someone {taking their cloths off} with more international appeal... e.g. Slb2 or Sophia Loren or perhaps Raquel Welch and of course Terry Garr.
|
|
|
Post by booklady on Jan 29, 2007 5:46:02 GMT -5
Regarding PMs. (Private Message) It's possible to block selected people from sending you a PM at this Board. It's also convient to hold your cursor over the icon underneath your destined PM recipient's avatar. the letters PM will appear. Or the word (e-mail) or AIM or whatever messaging system he/she is using. Under my avatar, you can either PM me or e-mail me. Under Brutus' avatar, there is additionally the Yahoo instant messaging and MSN messaging. Like that. Hey, I forgot all about that way of doing it! Thanks for the reminder. It saves a step or two, doesn't it!
|
|
|
Post by slb2 on Jan 29, 2007 10:30:38 GMT -5
Q: If Terry Gross really took her clothes off on radio would the censors notice? Lets move on to someone {taking their cloths off} with more international appeal... e.g. Slb2 or Sophia Loren or perhaps Raquel Welch and of course Terry Garr. lmao. Oh lawdy, me with my clothes off next to Sophia Loren or Raquel? Don't even think it. Although that admonishment is probably too late for you gents out there.
|
|
|
Post by scotbrit on Jan 29, 2007 16:45:44 GMT -5
I've had no scholastic education since I was 16. Well, if it is innate, that is exactly what it is. I checked my dictionary before I posted this! Any knowledge or intelligence I possess has been gained by observing people. Whether it is their behaviour, their body language, what they say (and very often what they don't say) or their general demeanour, I learn from those things. Hart says "You sure know a lot of things." Well, how can I put this? I might know a lot of things you don't, but that doesn't make me any smarter than you or anybody else. You see, there is a serious quiz programme in the UK called Mastermind and the original presenter explained one day that ALL the questions are easy if you know the answer. There's a whole heap of things I know nothing whatsoever about and simply do not understand. And one of them is wimmin.
|
|
|
Post by joew on Jan 29, 2007 21:41:10 GMT -5
… I've also read the Book of Moroni. … He was a Senator from Montana, wasn't he?
|
|
|
Post by rogesgallery on Jan 30, 2007 1:36:39 GMT -5
Was that the blackfoot elder Pony Maroni
|
|
|
Post by mike on Jan 30, 2007 4:26:05 GMT -5
No roges, not Pony Maroni -- it's "they told Marconi, wireless was a phony".
When did high schools stop teaching Gershwin?
Mike
|
|
|
Post by Trusty on Jan 30, 2007 16:47:31 GMT -5
Was that the blackfoot elder Pony Maroni Didn't Ritchie Valens sing "Bony Maroni"?
|
|
|
Post by Trusty on Jan 30, 2007 16:49:37 GMT -5
Great Scott!! Avabrit! ;D ;D
|
|
|
Post by Trusty on Jan 30, 2007 16:54:27 GMT -5
Under Brutus' avatar, there is additionally the Yahoo instant messaging... Hey, I forgot all about that way of doing it! Uh.. Is there a way of doing it that I haven't heard about? Is it a new posi.... Oh, never mind...
|
|
|
Post by scotbrit on Jan 30, 2007 17:06:21 GMT -5
avabanana
|
|
|
Post by booklady on Jan 30, 2007 18:00:54 GMT -5
Hey, I forgot all about that way of doing it! Uh.. Is there a way of doing it that I haven't heard about? Is it a new posi.... Oh, never mind... You and I can discuss that any time you want.
|
|
|
Post by Trusty on Jan 31, 2007 14:27:44 GMT -5
Uh.. Is there a way of doing it that I haven't heard about? Is it a new posi.... Oh, never mind... You and I can discuss that any time you want. Aw, shucks.
|
|
|
Post by booklady on Jan 31, 2007 17:43:14 GMT -5
You and I can discuss that any time you want. Aw, shucks. What's that mean? You don't want to have a tête-à-tête about this? Never mind. Stupid question of the day. (Tired minds understand so little!)
|
|
|
Post by Trusty on Feb 2, 2007 12:40:39 GMT -5
Aw, shucks. What's that mean? You don't want to have a tête-à-tête about this? Never mind. Stupid question of the day. (Tired minds understand so little!) I had an unusual attack of shyness, and I'm still trying to figure out why. This is weird.
|
|