Big Top by Rob Harrell for May 06, 2010

Good Morning Everyone!

You’ve got the breakfast, LuvH8

Okay, I will try to make breakfast!

Alphabet & Anarchy Pancakes maple syrup, blueberry sauce & whipped cream strawberries, bananas or cantaloup oatmeal with raisins, apples and cinnamon eggs made to order homemade hashbrowns

Doc’s Nuclear Coffee Johanan’s CocoMocha Assorted Floats Assorted Juices

Corn Chips & Salsa Hot Pizza Ice Cream with various toppings

Great breakfast, LuvH8.

I’ll have 2 scrambled, hash browns, Johanan’s CocoMocha(w/spiced rum) and Doc’s Nuclear coffee, please.

Oh I forgot:

Mutilated monkey meat Itsy bitsy birdie feet French fried eye-balls Great green globs of greasy grimy gopher guts All purpose porpoise pus

Chocolate Cake Chocolate Milkshakes Boston Cream Donuts Chocolate Milk

Mountain Dew & Code Red Mountain Dew Pepsi & Cherry Pepsi Dr Pepper & Classic Coke Root Beer & Cream Soda

I’ll add some cinnamon buns and Earl Grey tea to the menu.

Here you go Lonewolf.

Nuclear Coffee and CocoMocha at the same time. You are adventurous. Can I interest you in some french-fried eyeballs?

Thank You Lonewolf

This is only my second breakfast and I kind of blanked out.

Thank you for the order, LuvH8.

‘Morning, Terry! I’ll have some cinnamon buns and Earl Grey tea, thanks.

Your welcome Lonewolf

Do not try to make a Mocha Shake using Nuclear Coffee. It took the hazardous waste people three hours to declare the kitchen safe again. Next week they will be putting in a new ceiling & roof. Until then we just have to make do with a tarp. I liked that shake maker, it was my Great Grandmother’s.

I like this Dusty-bot

You’ve got it, Marg!

Enjoy, dear lady!

Your Welcome Ladywolf!

Thank You Lonewolf for taking care of Marg’s order.

No problemo, chickadee!

I think they are going to like the new Dusty better.

LuvH8, I think Wink is getting suspicious.

Well Dusty is acting rather nice, it will probably give him away.

Sorry about that, I was messin’ with my email system. :^)

That’s okay. I was just:

Bmonk question at FHS for you.

I think I might have added too much raw garlic to my pickle slices!!!!!!

Heheh, a little spicy, dear?

Just a little.

Bedtime For Me. Rest In Peace Everyone!

Good Night Lonewolf!

Lewreader ~ Do not take tranquilizers with Nuclear Coffee………. You do not want to know what it does. Just don’t do it.

Good Night LuvH8 & Everyone!

P&L

Good Morning, Lewreader. Many choices for Breakfast!

Good Morning Doc T

LUVH8 As the song goes, “And I forgot to bring my spoon.” Why do I suspect corn chips and salsa on May 6? A Nuc coffee, shaken , not stirred. I will take your advice on tranquilizers and Nuc coffee. The chamomile tea on my shelf I assume is out of date. When I was a kid I took my Labs pills. Slept for a week. That was before DOC TOON’s discovery. Can’t believe a Vet prescribed them for a dog.

Morning TRIBE! Be nice to me. My shrink is on vacation.

Short nap LuvH8 ?

Morning All

Lewreader ~ Here is your Nuclear Coffee and a lid so you may shake it yourself. I’m certainly not going to shake Nuclear Coffee after The Incident!!! Good Luck! (slowly walks far away)

Good Morning Lewreader & Rac

Rac ~ Just didn’t sleep very well, I finally decided to just get up for a while.

Sorry to hear that LuvH8. Power napping used to be a specialty of mine. Just didn’t work well when I was driving. Durned autopilot wasn’t working.

Lewreader I only found one face @BB today. In Peter’s hairline.

Rac I have noticed that my passengers tend to get cranky if I nap while I am driving.

Tour One shift workers are the best at it, Doc.

Can’t do it anymore since I’ve gotten a CPAP. Slap that puppy on me and I’m out at least 3 hours, or until nature calls, whichever comes first.

LuvH8 - I could never understand that. If I got too far to the right the THUMP THUMP THUMP would wake me up and if I was too far too the left, some courteous fellow traveler would blow their horn at me. What’s the problem??

Yes, I don’t understand the problem, except there is no thump thump thump to my right on most roads here. But they do put them between two lanes now.

Doc T ~ I have such irregular sleep that I am not sure it counts as a power nap when I sleep for an hour.

Good Morning Tribe Good Morning, Doctor Toon, LuvH8 and rac0308! I think I’ll have some scrambled eggs, toast and a Pepsi please, LuvH8

Good Morning Grog ~ Here is your breakfast. You might want an extra Pepsi. Hope your day goes better.

Thank you, LuvH8. I think I’ll need the extra jolt of caffeine.

hey Grog !

Doc T ~ I do that a lot too, I have prescription sleeping pills but usually by the time I realize it would have been a good idea it is too late, or I just don’t feel like taking them. I never seem to take as needed drugs as often as I should.

Good morning, tribe!

What’s that saying? I’d rather die in my sleep like Grandpa, instead of screaming in terror like his passengers.

Good Morning Rmom,

I’ve heard that, it is a popular bumper sticker.

Good Morning, Rmom

Good Morning Tribeandall!

I feel late this morning with y’all yapping before me.

Hello LuvH8, Rmom, Grog, Doc, Rac, & Lewreader

Good morning all. Ambien is about the only way I get good uninterrupted sleep, unless I’ve turned off the alarm instead of just hitting the snooze bar.

Morning, Rmom

Yeah Wink, I think it’s “or something.”

Good Morning!

Hi, LuvH8, Grog, ♠Lonewolf♠, Doc, rac & NOLA!

Good Morning ♠Lonewolf♠ & MisngNOLA.

Hi, Carmy! Did you have a good Cinco de Mayo yesterday?

Good Morning ♠Lonewolf♠ & MisngNOLA.

Morning Lonewolf

I just felt chatty this AM. BUNCHES of downloads today and no meetings until 8. Yay! 3 hours of work done before they bore me to tears.

Hey there, Rmom, Grog, Doc, LuvH8, Rac, MisngNOLA and anyone else I might have missed.

Rac, I took a stab at my memory over at Joe Vanilla.

Okay, I’ve had coffee & my room is now freezing from the open window. Time to try to get a little more sleep.

Lot’s of Luv, Have a Good Day!

I hope you get some rest this time, LuvH8.

Hi Carmy.

Hello Rmom, Doc and Grog! Rmom, Not really, I didn’t get a chance to celebrate and I didn’t even get to eat any Mexican food. I’ll make up for it if I can get to Texas this summer.

Rmom - Very nice pic at PB!

Rest in Peace, LuvH8

Carmy - I guess I figured you’d either cook or find a good Mexican restaurant. It doesn’t seem like it would be that hard to find one in FL, or all the Spanish-speaking from Cuba, Puerto Rico, etc.?

spammers are back!!

Sent my removal request to Tech Support…..

Off to fire my flaggings.

Thanks! I found this old picture in my backups when I went looking for old pictures of my son for his “graduate” table.

I’ve been busy flagging the spammers. rac. I don’t know that it is necessary to also email Tech Support. Maybe one of them will pop in here and tell us if that is helpful, or just makes more work for them.

Same here where the spam artists are concerned. Yep, they are attempting to be sneaky, Doc.

Rmom, I couldn’t cook because I didn’t get a chance to get to the store. Too much was going on so we ended up getting pizza. Actually you could say we celebrated last Sunday. I made beef and chicken tacos, molé, rice, beans, flour and corn tortillas. (I didn’t make the tortillas, they were store bought.)

I caught you at another place. Heheh.

Yum, Carmy! My hubby & I tried to eat at a Mexican restaurant yesterday. But they close between 2 & 5, and it was only 4:15, so we ended up eating pizza instead. I’ve made flour tortillas from Bisquick before, but it is much easier to buy the tortillas ready made.

Good Morning All.

Hi, Cleo! Do you have more rain today, or will it be sunny to dry out the grass?

Good Morning, Cleo.

Carmy, when I spent my winters down in the Rio Grande Valley, I was very disappointed in the Mexican restaurants. We had to cross the border into Mexico to get good food. I did find one gas station that served good breakfast burritos and barbacoa, but that was it. I thought it was amazing that an area that had a 95% hispanic population could not have one decent restaurant. I never did get into Brownsville except to the big flea market north of town, but I got to McAllen and all the little towns surrounding it.

Good Morning Rmom & Terry. It is starting out sunny, so my hopes are high.

Rmom, I can make flour tortillas, but I haven’t in some time. I don’t use Bisquick though, I make it the way my Mom taught me. It’s been so long though, I may have to call her for a refresher course. The last time Mom was visiting, she taught my girls to make pico de gallo and tamales. I usually buy Mission flour tortillas in the small, fajita size. They’re actually not small, they’re a good size. Since we’re a family of six, going out to restaurants is too expensive.

Good Morning, Cleo!

Cleo, you have to go to the “hole in the wall” restaurants to get some good Mexican food in the Valley, or at least that’s my opinion. My Tia was the main cook at one place and while she was there, the food was great. After she left, the food was as yucky as it was before she worked there. You have to be careful in the restaurants in Mexico. For instance, with cabrito, you need to be able to tell if it’s actually a goat or a dog.

Rmom I’m sure they’ll shoot me an email if it’s redundant, but until they do, I’ll continue to shoot them the names via the contact us form.

Doc and Lonewolf Sneaky will be when they can actually form english sentences. Eastern European doesn’t translate well.

Carmy - If my kids liked to eat Mexican, we couldn’t go as often. But since they don’t really like it that well, it isn’t so expensive if we leave them at home, and it is just the two of us. Especially because I get filled up easy, so usually just order a taco or enchilada. My Dad wasn’t crazy about Mexican food, but Mom liked it. So, she didn’t usually cook it. We got a Bisquick cookbook from her when we first got married, so that’s where we learned how to make tortillas, and a good enchilada recipe.

Good morning, cleo

Rmom, yes, I can see how that works well for you all. I found a good enchilada recipe on the back of an Old El Paso enchilada sauce can. It’s an easy recipe, in fact my 14 year old just made some a few night ago. She made some with just cheese and some with beef and cheese.

I’ll catch up with you all later. Housework time.

Good morning, Tribe.

Admin is on the ball this morning, I haven’t seen any spammers.

Good Morning, Saucy

Saucy - They must have arrived at work. I saw at least one spammer post that said it was an hour old. I didn’t check all the spammers’ posts for the time, just happened to notice that one.

Good Morning Doc, Rmom, Carmy, Grog & Saucy.

Carmy, we did find a couple of hole in the wall places that were okay, but they were only open for breakfast. One was in a house in Weslaco.

Good Morning, Tribe!

LOL, LuvH8. Maybe the Big Top has a spare tent-piece we can borrow till the roof is repaired.

I want the:

Great, green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts, Mutilated monkey meat, Itsy-bitsy chicken feet, Two red eyeballs swimming in a pool of pus.

Oops, I lost my spoon!

(That was when I absently tried to stir my Nuclear Coffee…)

Thanks for the heads-up on FHS. Reply posted.

Good morning Cleo, rmom, FELLOW BABY, rac, saucy, doc and sorry I missed you Carmy

Good morning, Dry!

Rmom said, about 1 closed diner ago

“Yum, Carmy! My hubby & I tried to eat at a Mexican restaurant yesterday. But they close between 2 & 5, and it was only 4:15, so we ended up eating pizza instead.”

I know the feeling. Last summer, my Dad and uncle were in town for my Mom’s burial. When we picked them up, my other uncle and I hoped to take them to a local microbrewery. Unfortunately, it had closed, and was being remodeled under a new name–and was due to open the following week! :-( So we went to a local Dairy Barn instead.

Good Morning, Fellowbaby & bmonk!

bmonk, I see you have a strong stomach. It’s like the menu out of Temple of Doom

Good Morning Bmonk ~ Here is your breakfast, and I brought you a spoon.

Good Morning Everyone!

Mmmmmmmm., LuvH8, very–ummmm…errrr–tasty!

A unique melange of flavors and odors.

I think the Habañero chipotle sauce helps–it fries the taste buds, so you can’t sense what you are eating…

Thank you Bmonk, it is so nice when people appreciate my cooking. (giggles) (you don’t have to eat it if you don’t want to)

Gone Again

Had to go for a while–back for a brief visit–but not long.

[See, I’m not here anymore.]

Where are you, bmonk? (loooks left, right, up, down & all around).

Knock Knock Who’s there? Cargo Cargo who? Cargo beep beep!

Knock Knock Who is there? Juicy Juicy who? Juicy the hockey game last night?

Knock Knock Who is there? Little old lady Little old lady who? I didn’t know you could yodel!

Grog said, about 2 quantum dislocations ago

Where are you, bmonk? (looks left, right, up, down & all around).

Now, that’s the question, isn’t it? I can tell you where I am, or where I am going, but not both at once. Or the time or place, but not both. Like Frank & Ernest once discovered…

Hmm, maybe Dry should choose the joke category for next week?

Good Afternoon Bmonk

It is very quiet here today!

Okay Bmonk.

You are in charge of telling her and nagging until she does.

WARNING ~ Little Tim Joke Ahead!

Little Tim was in the garden filling in a hole when his neighbour peered over the fence. Interested in what the cheeky-faced youngster was up to, he politely asked, “What are you up to there, Tim?”

“My goldfish died,” replied Tim tearfully, without looking up, “and I’ve just buried him.”

The neighbour was concerned, “That’s an awfully big hole for a goldfish, isn’t it?”

Tim patted down the last heap of earth then replied, “That’s because he’s inside your cat.”

@LuvH8, that reminds me of the Addams Family movie scene where they are burying the cat…

Edit: the first 10 seconds of this video. Admittedly, I liked the rest too…

I knew you were here, bmonk

Well, I am here now–where was I when I wasn’t here?

You were here to say that you weren’t here.

See? I’m speechless. Since I’m not really here, am I?

Winston Churchill took a 45 minute nap every day even if he had to put off visiting heads of state. I take a 45 minute nap every day. Watch out when I decide to save the world.

LUVH8 I thought we agreed “The Incident” would never be mentioned again.

After this entry, I won’t be here either (seriously)

@Lewreader, was that “The Cat Incident” or “The Noodle Incident”?

Lewreader I was talking about The Incident this morning of trying to make a Nuclear Milkshake. From now on I guess I need to be more specific.

Bmonk I liked the first two Addams Family movies.

Just got back from dropping LilG’s mom off at her house and going to Trader Joe’s the grocer and liquor stores. Beautiful day here.

I think that you might find that Dry is like me, preferring to skip over the jokes.

Knock Knock Who’s there? Althea Althea who? Althea later, alligator!

(vanishes in a puff of red smoke)

D EMET, I do not know how much time you have and which provinces you will visit, but Cochrane, Ontario is where Tim Horton is from, since you are into hockey. Another cool thing is that you can take a daylong train trip North to Moosonee which is at the bottom of Hudson’s Bay. It takes a day to go up explore and return in the evening. No roads lead to this Cree community and you see bear moose and wild territory from your train window.

LUVH8 Please forgive me for misunderstanding. The NUC COFFEE milk shake blew my mind. I mistakenly thought you were talking about “The Incident” I mistakenly revealed under the Big Top last night (did I say mistakenly?). The Incident (mine) will never be discussed again, unless I fall off the wagon The DOC had a conversation with me today on the advantages of acetylene torches and NUC COFFEE. It may be of value to you in your culinary efforts, not that they’re not top notch already.

Greetings TRIBE.

Just a quick fly through as I have to get ready for work soon. I couldn’t let the whole day go by without saying

Hello Lew & serena.

The folks at Big Top are an observant lot, aren’t they? Who needs help from Evil Infiltrators when they’re so, well, not quite operating on all thrusters themselves?

I had a CocoMocha this morning. Now grabbing my spear and seeing what I can go kill for dinner.

EMET you never answered my question, I don’t think. Since you were at the Hockey Hall of Fame, did you go up to the CN Tower right next door? If you didn’t you missed a FANTASTIC trip! I SOOOOO want to do that again, I thought I would freak out up there but my kids wanted to do it, and it was a thrill I will ALWAYS remember!

It’s been snowing here for the last hour and a half, once it got cold enough that it wasn’t melting into rain. Supposed to get a few inches tonight…

Off to a meeting :-P

Cleo You are correct sir! Great minds like ours, think alike!

bmonk 78 degrees here today, sunny, lovely! You need to move out of that state!

Hello TRIBE

“Hee, hee!” I would say so, DDFENCE EMET.

Brown sheep!

Oh EMET You have no idea how scared S H I T faced I was going up to the top of the TOWER! But I overcame the fear when I saw how COOL that was! That was GREAT! And the restaurant, (yea, those that know me, know I LOVE FOOD big time! Still a size 10 though, LOL!) that is up in the tower, the VIEW, the FOOD, the BAR, 5 star place, let me tell ya’!

Doc you mean you haven’t figured that out yet? Of course women are tough! We put up with men, don’t we?

EMET Just caught that, failed the eye exam for the fire dept. but not the police dept.? Yes, to quote you,” Life is Odd sometimes!” Of course, back during WW2, my dad tried to get into the Army and he was turned down because he had flat feet! Does anyone in today’s world even know, or care about FLAT FEET? My how times, they do change, don’t they? ! LOL!

Hello all. Had a great day. Got to spend some time in the SUN and did minimal yard work. :-)

That’s good to hear Cleo

Hello Doc. You are getting ever closer to a new destiny. Do you think that you can handle it. :-)

Doctor Toon in a house full of women. Sounds like a paradise for you my friend.

Yes Doc, moves are no fun, until after they are over with and you can just wallow in your new environment. I wish you luck in your (new) situation. I know that you have been there most of the time for several months now, but I send you good wishes just the same.

Have a good evening Doc.

Movie time.

Ah! Life is good. :-)

Well, it is certainly quiet around here.

Nobody is around so, goodnight all.

See you all at the turnover.