good heavens, don't do that! (what do I look like, the Inquisition?)

I assure you my shadow is firmly attached... unlike Peter Pan, mine is carefully sewn on.

There ARE a lot of Scots/Creek mixed people in that area.... must have been my long lost cousin. Go listen to the "Apollo" thread and relax.

I'm pretty generic... my son looks just like me (male version of course...), and his friends all described him as a "blender"............ you never remember his face LOL. In the movie *Fame* they described my type as "Irish Jewish Paranoid" and that's about right.

Basic Scots. I mean, if you believe in genealogy, Ewan McGregor is a super distant cousin of mine.

Scariest thing ever was someone telling me I sounded like Dore the fish in *Finding Nemo* She has a memory as long as a minute, literally. Then others told me I looked and acted like Roseanne's sister in some show I never watched... never was sure if it was flattering or not. I guess I make a good back up or filler in the background...

OK went over and actually got a few laughs out of the old Roseanne show on youtube. I don't feel insulted now. I'm much nicer than her tho. I always liked John Goodman.

You don't say stupid things. You do yell some tho.... I don't do well with yelling. Post Traumatic Stress I think........ my parents were both screamers and they fought a lot.

I only pity wounded things (like when a hummingbird smacks into my window), and you don't seem wounded to me....

Ah........... pitiful eyes alert...........

Back on topic.... I feel like Graeme waiting for eggs to hatch (one wag commented "sit on them, Gray!") but I would very much love to know all about the Justin solo tour allegedly coming up. It's going to be an early winter methinks, and not at all conducive to travel.......

Speaking of sisters..... remembering that men are dogs, but dogs make better pets... well do they?

heheh nice to hear from you! yes agreed I think people are making too much out of the ticket sales. People have been saying "they're winding down!" since I first got into the fan thing in 1991. Here we still are. Summer is like that, yes many people show up on the spur of the moment. Likewise, I was shocked we had three days of horrible downpours here, in the middle of July, and it was COLD too. I was forced up on the roof to clean the gutters.

Nicest way to be prepared for downpours at concerts, take a large trash bag (clean one of course) and fold it tightly, tuck it about yourself somewhere. If it rains whip it out, and poke holes in it for head and legs. Voila, a rain poncho. This trick also works for water landings or sudden snow storms, if you crawl into a bag, it will retain body heat.

Thought you'd enjoy the crack about the dogs.........

eheheh well women are cats!

YEAH you caught me at my finest, half asleep and making up my own idioms. "Head and arms"............ but I would enjoy watching someone try to do that too! I guess I still had "dog" on my mind. Our family enjoyed 100 lb dogs in the living room as opposed to 100 ton elephants. Dogs take up a lot of thought around here.

I learned the trash bag trick for survival in air crew training school. I'm so paranoid that even now, when I fly over water, I tend to keep a rolled up trash bag in my pocket.

Musher, my dog is really old and stinky, and he doesn't take well to baths. I don't suppose you have any suggestions to make him smell better? It's not just a breath thing, he needs a bath! You seem pretty good with dogs! (we should start a dog thread)

I agree on training men! I was only married for five years*, and thinking back I was pretty lucky, my Ex was if nothing else, a pretty clean dude. (Bath time was fun time at our house!!! ) Some men NEED women around to nag and keep them cleaned up, alas. I took care of my Dad for two years as he went steadily down hill, and "old gnarly dog" doesn't even come close. Dad was the sort of "country boy" who thought if you'd been swimming that day, that took care of any bath issues. No mention of soap ......... or exfoliation .... or what you'd been swimming in.

I personally am a real bath monster.... spend an hour there each day with a good book. One of life's simple pleasures.

*PS my Ex nagged worse than any woman thought of, so that's why he's an Ex. We just didn't get along.

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