Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for January 24, 2017

We can all dream of being John Wayne (or insert your hero here) in a movie instead of real life.

Cleo, you fit right in!

Can anyone assure me that I have not been banned? Over some comments on 10 cats re: Bbear’s colonoscopy?

OK, the caption says “his” cowboy picture….

but has anyone asked Troy whether it’s a cowboy picture he chose, and bought for himself…. or a picture of him, presumably in somewhat younger days?

In the latter case, it was probably taken by one of those photographers who provide a trunkful of vintage costumes for clients to wear….

cos Troy didn’t have a lot of time for riding the range or roping cattle during his 37 years at the Ballard Second National Waffle Emporium, Bank and Trust.

In any case, Laurabelle still looks a bit uncertain about whether she should have relented, and let him hang the huge thing where the sedate painting of day-lilies once occupied a much smaller section of wall.

But this picture is wide enough to also cover the damage from that minor TNT incident, without the expense of a carpenter or a plasterer.

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(sigh) They grow up so fast.

Dennis… in spite of x_Tech pulling your leg….

of course we can tell you haven’t been banned… cos we wouldn’t see your question if you were…

In any case…. bans don’t happen that fast… and almost never over one incident, unless it’s really vile. But I even went and checked your comments… they seem totally innocent to me.

( though it’s true some people disappeared while still unaware they’d allegedly committed prior offenses.)

And if you log out, you can check it yourself… if you’ve been banned, you won’t see your own comments unless you log back in.

The one thing to watch…EVERYBODY needs to know this….

is that they HAVE banned people for repeatedly posting “unacceptable” language….

If a word is recognisably scatological or profane, it makes no difference if you replace some letters with asterisks or other symbols… it’s not allowed.

Though funny how, it was maddening when they banned someone we know, a few years ago, over substituting an A and two @ signs (which to me, reads A-A-A) for a word meaning posterior.

And after saying all that…. you’ll understand, I hope, why I won’t say what I want to say,

in reply to Dogsniff…..

Even though I’m dying to point out that I thought they had more of a fear of not… well….never mind.

Liverlips… and Dry, if you stop by….

I’m working on it… thanks for noticing.

(Dry noticed the other night.)

I hope I get old enough to drive soon … the Tiki needs groceries, and so do i.

♫♪♫

I ride an old paint, I lead an old dan

I’m goin’ to Montana to throw the hoolihan

They feed in the coulees, they water in the draw

Their tails are all matted, their backs are all raw.

Ride around, little dogie, ride around them slow,

Fiery and snuffy and raring to go.

He still looks like a sod buster to me.

I hope that pipe’s not lit. Laurabelle could be worried about the possibility of hot ashes getting on her recently recovered sofa. I understand it took her a long time to find a color that was an acceptable offset to the color of the wall.

There’s a hundred years of history and a hundred before that

All gathered in the thinkin’ goin’ on beneath his hat.

And back behind his eyeballs and pumpin’ through his veins

Is the ghost of every cowboy that ever held the reins.

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Every coil in his lasso’s been thrown a million times

His quiet concentration’s been distilled through ancient minds.

It’s evolution workin’ when the silver scratches hide

And a ghostly cowboy chorus fills his head and says, “Let’s ride.”

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From: Legacy of the Rodeo Man

by Baxter Black

Cowboy baby……with the top rolled back and the sunshine shining!Kid Rock-for the more urban cowboys.Roll me over and turn me around Let me keep spinning till I hit the ground Roll me over and set me freeThe cowboys life is the life for me.Thin Lizzy

They don’t have a rec room so that’s their rec-less room.

It looks to me like Laurabelle is eyeing them there spurs.