Big Top by Rob Harrell for April 16, 2011

But if you eat and drive you will fall asleep at the wheel?

TODAYS BREAKFAST MENU:

Top Sirloin Steak (Cooked any way you want it) Barbecue Ribs Fish N’ Chips meal Bacon & Eggs (eggs made the way you want them) Sausage, biscuit and gravy Pancakes, or Belgium Waffles (covered in rich maple Syrup, with toast on the side) Shrimp and Fries Combo Meal Oven Fresh Pizza (Any topping) Chicken, steak, or beef burritos covered in Enchilada sauce and cheese (Comes with a side of refried beans and rice) Fried potatoes with onion and bell peppers in it. (Good stuff) Burgers to order - Turkey Burger, Double Delux Cheese burger, Mushroom Swiss burger, Angus burger, Smoked bacon cheddar burger, Tofu veggie Burger (All burgers come with a side order of Fries, onion rings, chicken tenders or spicy buffalo wings Hot dogs or corn dogs

QUICK MEAL FIXES:

Poptarts, toaster Strudels, granola bars,cereal bars (For those on the go) Winchell’s warm and fresh donuts Salad bar is open

Beverages:

Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee Starbright’s Divine Cocoa Mocha (Courtesy of Chris Alan & Johanan Rakkav) My Big Sister’s Berry Delicious Breakfast Smoothies Regular coffee, with creamer on request Chardonnay, Zinfandel, or Merlot sparkling wine (perfect for any occasion) Fountain Drinks or Ice Cream Floats American premium or Imported Beers Assorted Fruit Drinks or Teas Plain Milk or Chocolate Milk Ice Water V8 Vegetable juice Pepsi, Cherry Pepsi, Cocoa Cola, Mountain Dew, 7up

Special Dessert: Ice cream, chocolate cake, and cheese cake

Okay, exactly how long is this race that Dusty needs his snacky treats?

I assume its a 500 miles or 200 laps kind of race.

Good Morning Little Sister!

May I have the Fish, shrimp & chips with a Cherry Pepsi, please?

Yes you may Big Sister Here you go. :-)

Thank you Little Sister. Maybe they should have let the mime-clown drive?

That would have been an improvement.

Stucco could have caused everyone to laugh and crash making him the big winner.

Turning on the virtual serving machine and off to bed I go.

Good night everyone :-)

Hi, LuvH8 & Lil’ Sister.

Great menu.

I’ll just grab a quick glazed donut and a cup of Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee. Thank you.

Good Morning, Tribe

LITTLE SISTERIt takes a fine woman to feed a man after a hard 8 hours of sleeping. I’ll take your Sirloin (there is a joke there but I just woke up) cooked the way I want it, away from my smoke detector. If I want that annoying noise in the morning, I’ll plug in my toaster. A LARGE cup of DOCTOR TOON’S WORLD FAMOUS NUCLEAR COFFEE would be appreciated too. Make sure the steak has a bone as HER dog is looking at me with big hungry eyes. I’ll give you a tip, don’t bet on Broken Hooves in the 2nd.

Good Morning, ♥Little Sister♥, Ooops! ♠Lonewolf♠ & Lewreader.

I think I’ll have the bacon & eggs (Over easy) and a couple of Pepsi’s.

Gooood Morning everyone!

Good Morning ♠Lonewolf♠,♥♥ Little Sister♥♥,Wolfbyte LuvH8/BBS,Grog,Doctor Toon, PlodswSoCo, Doc Toon, MontanaLady, ♪Hopeandjoy♫Serenasakitty,, SmileyRmom,Bmon,Ladyhawk,,lakesnake ,Lewreader;MisngNOLA,Josh, Yukoneric, The Sojourner, Only Tink, pseudo,Digital Frog,Ponytail56 ♪Hopeandjoy♫ I’m sorry I missed wishing you well from yesterday.

Good Morning, Tribeandall

Good Morning, Doctor Toon, ♥Kab♥ & ♠Lonewolf♠. With my errands already done I’m taking a breakfast break before heading down to the garage for the morning. It’s going to be a great day out there today.

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡ ♪ Good Morning TRIBE! ♪

Hello to all those here!

Those Snacky Treats must be really good!

I’ll have a mushroom Swiss burger and onion rings, Thank you ♥Little Sister♥.

Good Saturday Morning Tribe!

I love a good mushroom burger. May I have mine with Colby? :-)

Good Morning, Sojo & MoParMitch

Doctor Toon, I’ve got thick curtains, too, but they only really come in handy on days when I’m sick - which is rather rare. I prefer to make the most of the daylight hours in the vertical position.

Anyone here using IE 9? I thought I’ve heard some people complain about it, so I haven’t intalled it yet - and won’t if I think it’ll give me problems. All feedback is welcome - positive or negative.

Good Morning MoParMitch, Doctor Toon and Grog!

We had a horrible storm here in the southeast last night. I had to drive about 200 miles thru it and some times the rain was so intense everbody just stopped on the highway. Thankfully, everyone is safe and today looks to bring beautiful blue skies with just enough wind to dry things out. :-)

Grog - I’m using IE9 all the time now. I installed it a week or so before the offical release and I think the teaching videos didn’t explain much. They may be the same as I haven’t had time to check them again. My favorites bar at the top didn’t show by default and I thought they did away with it. I finally figured out how to turn it on. It’s supposed to be a lot more secure. As everything there are some pluses and minuses but all together I like it. Any questions or problems just contact me. (Still haveing intermitant internet outages in case I’m off for a bit or don’t answer.)

Doc, I started my day with some coffee you would be proud of. Dark roast piled deep in the brewer basket. Life is too short to drink weak coffee.

Thanks, Sojo. Maybe I’ll install it during the week when I’ve got a bit more time for it - maybe Monday while I’m waiting for the a/c man to show.

Down to the garage I go now. BBL.

Grog - If you do install it and don’t like it, it lets you revert back to IE8 automatically. That’s what I did to write down all the links I had on my favorites bar. For most messages a pop-up appears at the bottom with choices. It may take some getting used to. Most command bars etc. are turned off by default but can be turned on if you want. That way it shows more of the web page for viewing.

Good Morning, Doc, Mopar, Sojo & Grog.

Had to step away for a while. Coffee and all the Saturday morning things. Most will know what I am referring to! :^)

Good Morning! (esp: Sojo, MoParMitch, DocT, Grog, & ♠Lonewolf♠

I’ll take some Fish and Chips–as long as they come in authentic newsprint. If not, I’ll have some sausage and mushroom pizza.

Good Morning ♠Lonewolf♠ and bmonk!

Looks like it’s already time to go…Time flies when there isn’t much of it…

Have a good day bmonk.

Have a good snooze Doctor Toon.

Another beautiful day. The sky is blue with no clouds in sight. So I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. :-)

Hope you have one also ♥Little Sister♥!

Why did little Tommy throw the clock out the window?

damp, cold, rain, gloomy, gray….. all these people going on about light and sun and warm Phooey On Them!!!

Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening Peoples!

My pet rock Frankie looked bored so I bought him three fish to keep him entertained. Only two of the fish were bigger and hung out together, the smaller fish was much more active. I decided the fish might be happier separated, but alas I was too late. Hmmm….. maybe I should get a male beta to keep them company?

Hello Ooops! - Tried to leave you a comment when you first came on. My internet is flakey today, don’t know if my modum is going out or if the lines were messed up by the high wind we had. It may be iffy to stay on line. Have another appointment to get things checked out Monday.

OOOPS I’ll agree about the rain, sleet and gloom of nigh (that phrase was drilled in in 30 years with USPS). I have 3 four footed friends here who blame me on weather. I bet some treats might make them see me as a foolish sucker. Here girls, here boy!

Peoples are having connection problems We can’t change our avatars I can’t get to my photos They hacked my Gma’s bank’s secondary provider

Hello Sir Lew!

Bright, sunny and calm wind here now, just not to warm yet.

Hello Sojo & Sir Lew

Sir Lew, you are friends with the puppy? You know this is going to ruin your status as a cranky guy? We are all going to think you have a marshmallow heart. Want two murdering fish? Your cats can play with them…. I will just mail them UPS. Oh, there might be a rule against that so shhhh!

Good afternoon everyone.

I read about ♪HopeandJoy♫ on cancer I hope all goes well. Sorry to hear it is spreading. Some of you were talking about darker rooms for sleeping. We put darker screens on windows and other windows we put sunscreen filters on. Neighbors wondered what we were doing. We did this to two other houses.

I didn’t know anyone would be on here. Sojourner with that powerful wind yesterday did havic on an old wooden fence.

Good afternoon, Tribe!

I guess I by myself. Oh well. My mom will never see this so I can get away with something cute. Tomorrow she turns a year older and both of us are taking her out. We can’t afford this she can. Anyway.

I sleep better when dark. We have these windows treated to help keep house a little cooler.

Da Bulls Win!!

Looks like we got swtiched. I wish I could change icon. Like the rest tired of seeing old one. Though I very much like long gone Red Skelton. He was the best comedy actor.

How are you Big Sister. These gas prices makes it hard to do anything. I wish I could ride a bike like my much younger days.

Or was it ….. oh it was her health insurance company’s secondary provider.

Hello Kab Sister. I have no problem sleeping during the day in the light. I think that often the sunlight helps me sleep more restfully. It is kind of sad, we don’t get much sun and that is when I get my best sleep.

Well, the sunshine lasted for about 12 minutes. :-(

I guess Easter weekend is next week. Our anniversay day after. And I have to work.

After a rainy and windy day yesterday the sun is out. Fence needs removed and replaced.

Hi, ♥Kab♥, Mopar & LuvH8.

That photo I chose closly remembles the tears being shed at OK City, OK from the results of the bombing 15 years to 16 years ago and the lives shater from that horriable day.

Very quiet here I’m going to go outside for awhile. Oh and I still don’t understand how to reduce the size of someone’s photo on photobucket can it be done? I’ll check back later. ♠Lonewolf♠ you off work rest of day?

Lewreader, I thought about “Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these courageous couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” a few weeks back when the snow was flying and the mail did not go through. I wondered if they had changed it in the last 2500 years…

HI, ♥Kab♥, ♠Lonewolf♠, Ooops!, MoParMitch, Sojo, & bmonk!

Hello ♥Kab♥!

Good Afternoon Tribe.

Wow a lot more comments to catch up on than I thought there would be.

Thanks for the info, Sojo. I’m nopt too crazy about the fact that I’ll have to set up my favorites all over again. I don’t think it’s worth going to IE 9 in all honesty. I realy don’t believe it’s going to to make my exploring any better - if not worse.

Did anyone see today’s Garfield? It’s especially ironic, since the group here this weekend is–scrapbookers. I wonder how many of them will make a page for us in their book, and include this comic… .

We haven’t upgraded recently–I’m still on Firefox 3.5.1 or so. But we are shifting over to a new domain, which makes accessing printers and such iffy. At least while the process is in process.

Well, I worked on my car in the garage until about noon and then lazed (& almost fell asleep) for about an hour & a half before deciding to finally assemble my new pressure washer I bought in December. I had to assemble outside because there really wasn’t enough room in the garage. :-) It ended up at least feeling a lot warmer out than I thought it would be. I should have had some sun block on.

Now that the new gadget is assembled, It gives me a make work project for some time in the week. Not tomorrow though. Not tomorrow though. I miss my chile Fridays, so I’m making a batch tomorrow while watching a couple classic football games on DVD (the only way to make chile).

Right now I’m having myself an ice cream soda while I catch up on comments. Then I’ll need to take a shower before I fire up the DVD player for the preparation & consumption of supper.

I can’t play in my photobucket account because the ninnyheads are being ninnies! So…. not trying to explain how to shrink animated pictures without losing animation. Sorry

Monkey 2 is here and I am supposed to be getting ready to be chauffeur and debit card.

The favorites bar is in IE9 just like you had it in IE8. You just have to turn it on. Right click the top of the window and check Favorites Bar to do that.

Yeah, what Sojo said ; P

Hello Tribe

Weather’s iffy here, but my hubby and I celebrated 34 years of wedded something today. We saw The Conspiritor and had dinner (ok lunch) at Breck’s, a steak place that cuts its own meats. Sirloin for 2 + tater and veggie and salad and soda $30.00. The steaks were about 25 oz each, and we each have a large chunk waiting in the fridge.

Right now I”m on hold for some bleep collection agency. Wal-Mart and I worked out a hardship plan and I made my first payment on time 3/31. On 4/13 I got a letter from the bleep collection agency. I’ve been on hold 18 minutes….and keep getting told my call is really important every 10 seconds. They also play the same loop of classic music over and over and over. AAARRRRGGGG!!! And I love classical music.

I also checked out the computers at Best Buy, my hubby’s $370 computer now sells for $299. If I could of I might have gone ahead and got it…we get our bonus the first week of May. We also got raises….about $50 a month for me….not much but it’s more than other people at other companies are getting. And we move our office in 2 weeks.

Back to toon tour.

btw Kab lovely picture of an Easter cross. Thanks.

Hello Quaby!

I just got done with some New York Cherry ice cream. And I haven’t had supper yet! (Sneaky me)

Hi, Bmonk & Quaby

Thanks for the Anniversary well wishes. Hard to believe it is 34 years. Seems like last century……

HopeandJoy…………what a positive and beautiful lady you are!!! I wish you well with your sickness. I know you will do fine with your positive attitudes! We will add you to our prayers and keep you in our hearts! Please check in from time to time to let us know how you are!

Hello Montana Lady!

Hi, Montana Lady. You’re pretty special too.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY QUABY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY tomorrow Kab’s Mom.

Hello to anyone here.

Hi and Bye Doctor Toon.

Hello serena!

Hi, Doc & Serena.

Hello, ♠Lonewolf♠, Sojourner & serena!

I hope you feel like I told my hubby, for our years together seems just like yesterday where did time go. For my mom’s birthday taking her to Golden Correl. They have done a lot of changes. Though I’m not a senior I can get in as one. 5 more years I will be 60. Hubby can and our mom can. So a little savings. Been a delightful quiet day. Though strange thing happen just found out on news a bomb went off near downtown ICT under Kellogg bridge. Local officer heard but couldn’t see anything then later checked found shrapel from bomb. We are not east so don’t know why whoever did this.

I know Big Sister you aimed your grape jelly gun and did it. (*snicker)

Hi, Everyone!

Lonewolf……………awwwwwwwwwwwww shucks! (she blushes smartly). I thought of you when we were at the Little Bighorn Battlefield last week!

And many more! (you spring chickens!)

And to Kab Happy Birthday to your MOM!

Happy Birthday to your mom, ♥Kab♥. Here’s wishing her a grand day tomorrow!

Good evening, ♥Kab♥. Hope your Mom has a great Birthday tomorrow!

Good evening, Montana Lady!

I’m watching The Greatest Game Ever Played, right now on DVD, an ESPN production about the 1958 Championship game between the hated (by me) New York Giants and the Baltimore Colts.

I’m seeing in action for the first time players like Johnny Unitis, Pat Summerall, Raymond Berry and Rosy Grier with Vince Lombardi coaching the Giants and Tom Landry as his assistant. Wow!!!

I forgot Frank Gifford for the Giants, a former Monday Night Football broadcaster and one of the best next to Summerall.

Grog - That sounds like it would be interesting to watch.

There’s a lot of yap Sojo, but it’s a lot of good insight into the game. It’s not the complete, game but it’s still got a lot of good footage (colorized) on all the key and even some of the not so key plays. I’m glad I bought it.

It’s no small woder why NFN Films doesn’t sell many DVD’s with games from the 70’s and no games from the 60’s. There’s not enough salvagable tape to come up with a near complete game to sell.

Montana Lady, I would like to go back there someday.

That’s one game I’d enjoy seeing with all the talk from back then, Grog. Cool!

♠Lonewolf♠, I missed it when it was on ESPN one night, but Amazon.com’s recommendation system recommended it to me. I never knew it was on DVD.

It was the only NFC Championship game to ever go into overtime.

I have to admit, what a game….and I’ve seen some awesome games.

A lot of footage from the 4th quarter and the overtime period.

Just kidding - scratch out moderately!

Is it done by ESPN films, Grog?

Send me some info on that one, Grog. I will try to find it. Thanks in advance.

I just sent you an e-mail with the info, ♠Lonewolf♠

Got it Grog. Thanks, man!

♠Lonewolf♠, the review I gave you reflects my own views of the DVD and ovbiously do not reflect the views of the masses. But I don’t give a flying you know what because I am a fan of the game and I am very much interested in understanding what makes it the game it is today, before it came out of virtual obscurity. I think that’s the game that changed the future of the NFL.

Good evening Terry!

Grog, I’m not concerned with the reviews of the masses. I, too, am a fan of the game and as such know that it will be entertaining in my opinion. I am a sports nut, for sure!

Good, ♠Lonewolf♠. I think you’ll enjoy it.

I’d love to see the entire game, but I’ll take what I can get….and what I got was very entertaining and informative.

Well, other than our chit-chat, ♠Lonewolf♠, things are really dead around here and it’s well past time to see what the back of my eyelids look like again

Will the next entertainer please step forward. BATTER UP!

Gunite, Tribeandall

Looks like I’m the Lone Stranger out here