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ulysses5019 · #51 Post by **ulysses5019** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 11:48 am

kayrharris wrote:We could just make this the longest thread ever. It's got a good start anyway with the important stuff about Hermillion being safe and sound being the only non-gratuitous post in the thread.

Yeah, she's being quite the slacker. She could contribute some gratuitousness instead of making us do all the heavy gratuiting.

christie1111 · #52 Post by **christie1111** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 1:44 pm

I will join in on all the gratuitiosity.

silvercamaro · #53 Post by **silvercamaro** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 2:47 pm

I am rather shocked and horrified that all of you would waste electrons and pixels in such a pointless and gratuitous way!

That may turn out to be the major cause of global warming. What then, huh? Huh?

kayrharris · #54 Post by **kayrharris** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 3:01 pm

I just want to know why I misspell gratuitous every time I type it the first time.

You'd think I'd have it right by now.

silvercamaro · #55 Post by **silvercamaro** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 3:06 pm

kayrharris wrote:I just want to know why I misspell gratuitous every time I type it the first time.

You'd think I'd have it right by now.

Just keep practicing!

Bored Plumber · #56 Post by **Bored Plumber** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 3:14 pm

silvercamaro wrote:
Rocky Top? Oh, Uly, I'm so pleased to discover that you are the clogger among us.

Hey...how about some props for the unclogger among us??

Huh?

Huh???

ulysses5019 · #57 Post by **ulysses5019** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 3:54 pm

Bored Plumber wrote:
silvercamaro wrote:
Rocky Top? Oh, Uly, I'm so pleased to discover that you are the clogger among us.
Hey...how about some props for the unclogger among us??

Huh?

Huh???

Why don't you talk to the real clogger out there in Soonerland.

silvercamaro · #58 Post by **silvercamaro** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 4:28 pm

ulysses5019 wrote:
Why don't you talk to the real clogger out there in Soonerland.

What? I can't quite hear you. Somebody is singing too loudly....

ONCE TWO STRANGERS CLIMBED ON ROCKY TOP,
LOOKIN' FOR A MOONSHINE STILL.
STRANGERS AIN'T COME BACK FROM ROCKY TOP,
GUESS THEY NEVER WILL.

CORN WON'T GROW AT ALL ON ROCKY TOP,
DIRT'S TOO ROCKY BY FAR.
THAT'S WHY ALL THE FOLKS ON ROCKY TOP
GET THEIR CORN FROM A JAR.........

Note that Calvin and Hobbes, left, clearly are clogging.

hermillion · #59 Post by **hermillion** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 5:07 pm

ulysses5019 wrote:
kayrharris wrote:We could just make this the longest thread ever. It's got a good start anyway with the important stuff about Hermillion being safe and sound being the only non-gratuitous post in the thread.
Yeah, she's being quite the slacker. She could contribute some gratuitousness instead of making us do all the heavy gratuiting.

Well, dang! If I'd known this thread was going to take on a life of its own, I'd have checked in more often.

Just consider this my contribution to the gratuitousity, and whatnot.

Ritterskoop · #60 Post by **Ritterskoop** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 5:41 pm

That was A Good Nap.

I just added it up, and realized I worked 10 days straight. Not so much, but then class today was in the only un-airconditioned building in the quad.

Now I get to order Chinese food and watch a movie, like a real person.

Possibly this was not properly gratuitous, but it was clearly not worth its own thread.

Yahoo Groups Plumber · #61 Post by **Yahoo Groups Plumber** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 6:27 pm

Bored Plumber wrote:
silvercamaro wrote:
Rocky Top? Oh, Uly, I'm so pleased to discover that you are the clogger among us.
Hey...how about some props for the unclogger among us??

Huh?

Huh???

Hey! I'm the plumber around here!!! Who is this imposter? Are you a member of the plumber's union? If you were, you'd know we get the entire months of June, July and August off.....

ulysses5019 · #62 Post by **ulysses5019** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 6:59 pm

Yahoo Groups Plumber wrote:
Bored Plumber wrote:
silvercamaro wrote:
Rocky Top? Oh, Uly, I'm so pleased to discover that you are the clogger among us.
Hey...how about some props for the unclogger among us??

Huh?

Huh???
Hey! I'm the plumber around here!!! Who is this imposter? Are you a member of the plumber's union? If you were, you'd know

we get the entire months of June, July and August off.....

Ummm, is this a yahoo board?

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #63 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 9:08 pm

I wish that I could be gratuitous, but I just don't feel like it.

My mother is coming down for a visit so that she can see Emma promote.

ulysses5019 · #64 Post by **ulysses5019** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 9:13 pm

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:I wish that I could be gratuitous, but I just don't feel like it.

My mother is coming down for a visit so that she can see Emma promote.

You could have Emma gratuitously promote here on the bored.

kayrharris · #65 Post by **kayrharris** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 9:23 pm

What is Emma promoting?

kayrharris · #66 Post by **kayrharris** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 9:24 pm

How long is your mother staying?

disclaimer:

this is not a gratiuitious post!

kayrharris · #67 Post by **kayrharris** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 9:29 pm

I typed it wrong again!!

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Chicken Little · #68 Post by **Chicken Little** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 9:59 am

Hey Al!

I got your DSCC letter today and I must say I'm (once again) scared to death. I already knew that that mean old Mr. Bush was guilty of stampeding our country to war with Iraq on fabricated evidence and that George Bush, Dick Cheney and their backers in the Senate have .... increased our dependence on foreign oil and dirty coal.”

But I didn't know but had already suspected "The undeniable reality of global warming—the most serious threat to human existence in history.”

Holy Crap that's scary, as soon as I can scratch something up I'll send it right on to you.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #69 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:26 am

ulysses5019 wrote:
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:I wish that I could be gratuitous, but I just don't feel like it.

My mother is coming down for a visit so that she can see Emma promote.
You could have Emma gratuitously promote here on the bored.

I could, then I can take you all out to a gratuitous lunch of Greek food and then you could gratuitiously come back to the house for cake.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #70 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:31 am

kayrharris wrote:What is Emma promoting?

She is promoting out of 6th grade and into middle school.

It's not a graduation, it's a promotion, as we on the 6th grade committee are so often reminded.

My friend and I were in charge of the big year-end shindig for Emma's class. We got individual group pictures of each class and put them on photocakes from Sam's Club ($19.97 for a half sheet photo cake) for the party on Friday. (We rented out the Student Union at Cal State Fullerton, so the kids got to bowl, play video games and shoot pool for free.) So that we didn't have to deal Promotion vs Graduation statement, we just out the word "Congratulations" on each cake.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #71 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:43 am

kayrharris wrote:How long is your mother staying?

disclaimer:

this is not a gratuitous post!

Too long. Eight days. I figure that the first four days won't be so bad because I have so much volunteering to do and I don't plan on being around the house too much. It will be next weekend that's an issue.

When she stays with us, she wakes us all up at 4:00 a.m. because rather than using the shower downstairs next to the guest room, she takes one in the girls' bathroom. On Father's Day, she didn't do this, she just got up and left without a note. Last year I prepared a huge breakfast for Jeff and we waited for her and finally just ate. She came home dramatically around lunch and told me that she didn't want to ruin Father's Day for us, so she went to the cemetery, where my sister is buried.

silvercamaro · #72 Post by **silvercamaro** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:46 am

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:
My friend and I were in charge of the big year-end shindig for Emma's class. We got individual group pictures of each class and put them on photocakes from Sam's Club ($19.97 for a half sheet photo cake) for the party on Friday. (We rented out the Student Union at Cal State Fullerton, so the kids got to bowl, play video games and shoot pool for free.) So that we didn't have to deal Promotion vs Graduation statement, we just out the word "Congratulations" on each cake.

Oh, sure. Set the bar higher for the poor parents of next year's 6th graders. They will have to charter jets to fly their children to Vegas for a special production of Cirque du Soleil's "Promoting," and a night of chocolate-dipped strawberries and mock champagne at the Bellagio. They won't be able to do that through Sam's Club, I'm telling you.

And just think of the responsibilities for the parents of the year after that....

Sounds like fun. I bet every single kid in Emma's class can bowl better than Obama.

MarleysGh0st · #73 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:56 am

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote: When she stays with us, she wakes us all up at 4:00 a.m. because rather than using the shower downstairs next to the guest room, she takes one in the girls' bathroom.

What does she have against the shower in the guest bedroom? Or does she just have something against all of you, waking you at 4 am?

Why does she get up at that hour, anyway?

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:On Father's Day, she didn't do this, she just got up and left without a note. Last year I prepared a huge breakfast for Jeff and we waited for her and finally just ate. She came home dramatically around lunch and told me that she didn't want to ruin Father's Day for us, so she went to the cemetery, where my sister is buried.

Doesn't want to "ruin" Father's Day, huh, by sending the message that she'd rather spend the day at the cemetery than with the family?

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #74 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 12:12 pm

silvercamaro wrote:
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:
My friend and I were in charge of the big year-end shindig for Emma's class. We got individual group pictures of each class and put them on photocakes from Sam's Club ($19.97 for a half sheet photo cake) for the party on Friday. (We rented out the Student Union at Cal State Fullerton, so the kids got to bowl, play video games and shoot pool for free.) So that we didn't have to deal Promotion vs Graduation statement, we just out the word "Congratulations" on each cake.
Oh, sure. Set the bar higher for the poor parents of next year's 6th graders. They will have to charter jets to fly their children to Vegas for a special production of Cirque du Soleil's "Promoting," and a night of chocolate-dipped strawberries and mock champagne at the Bellagio. They won't be able to do that through Sam's Club, I'm telling you.

And just think of the responsibilities for the parents of the year after that....

Sounds like fun. I bet every single kid in Emma's class can bowl better than Obama.

So many of us had kids that are in Maddie's class, that we did the same party, so all of the kids would have the same opportunity.

Maddie's year, we had a raffle every ten minutes and every child walked out of the party with a prize. The prizes ran the gamut from $5 Borders gift cards to an iPod. We were told to scale it back, so we didn't do a raffle this year. Instead we filled a bag with candy as they were getting on the bus. I don't think that any of the kids noticed that they didn't get a prize.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #75 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 12:36 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote: When she stays with us, she wakes us all up at 4:00 a.m. because rather than using the shower downstairs next to the guest room, she takes one in the girls' bathroom.

What does she have against the shower in the guest bedroom? Or does she just have something against all of you, waking you at 4 am?

Why does she get up at that hour, anyway?

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:On Father's Day, she didn't do this, she just got up and left without a note. Last year I prepared a huge breakfast for Jeff and we waited for her and finally just ate. She came home dramatically around lunch and told me that she didn't want to ruin Father's Day for us, so she went to the cemetery, where my sister is buried.
Doesn't want to "ruin" Father's Day, huh, by sending the message that she'd rather spend the day at the cemetery than with the family?

I don't know what my mother's problem is. I try as best as I can to be patient with her because she is my mother. It drives me crazy when she idealizes my childhood or her parenting, but I have learned not to call her on her distorted views because she starts crying.

The kids started feeling bad for me every time my mother would say "oh you and your sister would never fight that way" which is total BS, my sister and I had knock down physical fights, that they are perfect angels to each other when she is here, just so she can't find fault with my parenting.

The sad thing is that I don't care that my girls argue with each other. I raised them to be strong-willed and I raised them to fight for what they believe in. There are four strong-willed people living in my house, there are bound to be disagreements, but it never gets to the point where somebody is punching another person.

We are going to start a pool amongst the four of us for when the following events happen in the next few days.

1. My mother goes to the cemetery. Bonus points for going to the cemetery when we are celebrating a milestone so that she can announce it to everyone. (i.e. she went to the cemetery during my wedding reception and announced it to everyone.)

2. My mother wants to know what we are having for dinner at 2:30 and offers to go to Souplantation instead. (She never cooked when I was growing up and still eats almost every meal from some fast food place. I cook for my family and I always have relatively healthy food for snacks in my house.)

3. My mother says that I am lucky to have Jeff as a husband and that she wishes that she would have chosen a better husband than my dad. Bonus points for her saying that she could have gotten married again, but didn't want us to have a stepfather who might molest us.

4. My mother says, "you and your sister never fought like Maddie and Emma."

5. My mother cries because she doesn't get her way.

6. My mother says that she has to visit with somebody when we offer to include her when we do some family activity, but she never leaves the house because she is watching television.

7. My mother wakes us all up at 4:00 a.m. because she goes into the girls' bathroom to take a shower, rather than taking one downstairs.

8. My mother buys something and wants to take it back to the store, but is afraid to, so she asks me to do it for her.