stoney wrote:

On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 07:41:59 -0800, Mimi Cohen <mimiNOSPAMgal@cox.net>
wrote:

stoney wrote:

On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 19:53:38 -0800, Mimi Cohen <mimiNOSPAMgal@cox.net>
wrote:

I live in the 6th largest city in the country
all the crawling (and slithering) critters moved east to the deserts.

Disagree, unless S.D. got rid of politicians,
and 'screetchers' (clergy).

I'm sure you've heard lately about SD's problems with (republican)
politicians. Air America has been having a field day with them. I doubt
clergy here is any different than elsewhere :)

Rethugnican snakes are quite brainless, cowardly, and venomous. I've
never listened to Air America, but it wouldn't surprise me. The
snakes don't care as they're getting big bucks to terminally screw
things up.

I always find it amusing when ERWBDCs talk about California being a
"liberal" state. ALL of the major cities (SF is only a "major city" when
you're talking tourism) are predominantly CONservative. After being
fucked over by REPUGNANTcons as often as the CONservatives are, you'd
think they'd learn their lesson, but noooo.

Rattlesnakes *USED* to live here, wild critters aren't real fond of
asphalt and cement, there are a few places in the county but no where
near the city where you ocassionally run across a Coyote or Puma, but
those ocassions are becoming more and more rare. I was born and raised
here and my grandmother had a horse ranch out in the country, she used
to feed the wild critters so they'd leave the horses alone. I can
remember small black bears, Coyotes, Pumas, Jack Rabbits, quail, Gila
Monsters, deer, wolves and foxes. For the most part they're all gone now.

Now there's all sorts of "lettle monsters." (chuckling)

Very few outside the zoo, they've got a pair of Komodo Dragons. I'd sure
hate to run into one of those whilst gardening :)

"Lettle Monsters" are children. :))

they've got them everywhere :)

On 28 Nov 2005 20:59:15 -0600, The Chief Instigator <patrick@io.com>
wrote:

"Kate O'Flaherty" <2.8.1855@safe-mail.net> writes:

The Chief Instigator wrote:

"Kate O'Flaherty" <2.8.1855@safe-mail.net> writes:

The Chief Instigator wrote:

Dale's already put in her tuppence: Lily Rose, which would include her
oldest sister...if it's a boy, I've proposed Donald, in memory of Dale's
late middle brother.

Equally lovely names! My children's names are a bit odd; one is spelt a
littly differently from the common spelling and the other is not
uncommon, but not as widely used.

Dale got hers thanks to her two older sisters, who thought that Roy Rogers
was the greatest thing since sliced bread, at the time...of course, these
days, no one remembers his wife's name, thus the occasional raised eyebrow
at her name.

;-) I know!

Evidently, enough people remember that I don't have to worry much about
e-mails from others who think I'm married to a man. (I got a few of those,
when I first waded out into Usenet all those years ago.)

I'm surprised not a soul knows how I managed to come into my name,
given that I'm about a hundred and fifty years old, and at five, my
father died and that's when my literary hell broke loose! <chuckles>

Double ;-))'s

You're not looking bad for fifteen...decades. ;-)

(I wouldn't mind Patrick Lee, but that would stick out like the
proverbial sore thumb in South Dakota. :-)

Oh, Lord! Did you cause trouble over there, too, Mr. Instigator? ;-)))
<triples winks, for you and Mrs. Instigator, there!>

Having been the spouse of a South Dakota farmer's daughter for going on
eighteen years, they're used to it up there, by now. ;-)

They're all instigators, too. There must be some kind of a secret
society, not so secret, up there. ;-))

<Fargo>oh, HECK no!</Fargo> ;-)

Been there. Was on a USAF flight west from Mich when the aircraft
developed engine trouble over Lake Michigan and the aircraft returned
to Selfridge for repairs. One guy stayed behind to fix it while the
rest of us hopped aboard a larger USAF aircraft which was returning to
base at Fargo. The aircraft being repaired would catch up with us
that, Sunday, evening.

At Fargo we were bummed to find you couldn't buy beer. So, we grabbed
a USAF staff car and went north into Minnesota to find that town
wouldn't sell beer on Sunday-in response to a Fargo request we were
told. So we headed west to the next town at a bar and filled the
trunk with beer.

Once back at the Fargo base it was beer and poker to while the time
away. Late that evening the aircraft showed up, the guy had to
rebuild the carburetor of the C-131 prop job. The next morning we
all, bowling team, boarded the aircraft and returned to our west coast
base.

"Kate O'Flaherty" <2.8.1855@safe-mail.net> writes:

The Chief Instigator wrote:

"Kate O'Flaherty" <2.8.1855@safe-mail.net> writes:

The Chief Instigator wrote:

Dale's already put in her tuppence: Lily Rose, which would include her
oldest sister...if it's a boy, I've proposed Donald, in memory of Dale's
late middle brother.

Equally lovely names! My children's names are a bit odd; one is spelt a
littly differently from the common spelling and the other is not
uncommon, but not as widely used.

Dale got hers thanks to her two older sisters, who thought that Roy Rogers
was the greatest thing since sliced bread, at the time...of course, these
days, no one remembers his wife's name, thus the occasional raised eyebrow
at her name.

;-) I know!

Evidently, enough people remember that I don't have to worry much about
e-mails from others who think I'm married to a man. (I got a few of those,
when I first waded out into Usenet all those years ago.)

I'm surprised not a soul knows how I managed to come into my name,
given that I'm about a hundred and fifty years old, and at five, my
father died and that's when my literary hell broke loose! <chuckles>

Double ;-))'s

You're not looking bad for fifteen...decades. ;-)

"Kate O'Flaherty" <2.8.1855@safe-mail.net> writes:

The Chief Instigator wrote:

"Kate O'Flaherty" <2.8.1855@safe-mail.net> writes:

The Chief Instigator wrote:

Dale's already put in her tuppence: Lily Rose, which would include her
oldest sister...if it's a boy, I've proposed Donald, in memory of Dale's
late middle brother.

Equally lovely names! My children's names are a bit odd; one is spelt a
littly differently from the common spelling and the other is not
uncommon, but not as widely used.

Dale got hers thanks to her two older sisters, who thought that Roy Rogers
was the greatest thing since sliced bread, at the time...of course, these
days, no one remembers his wife's name, thus the occasional raised eyebrow
at her name.

;-) I know!

Evidently, enough people remember that I don't have to worry much about
e-mails from others who think I'm married to a man. (I got a few of those,
when I first waded out into Usenet all those years ago.)

I'm surprised not a soul knows how I managed to come into my name,
given that I'm about a hundred and fifty years old, and at five, my
father died and that's when my literary hell broke loose! <chuckles>

Double ;-))'s

You're not looking bad for fifteen...decades. ;-)

"Kate O'Flaherty" <2.8.1855@safe-mail.net> writes:

The Chief Instigator wrote:

"Kate O'Flaherty" <2.8.1855@safe-mail.net> writes:

The Chief Instigator wrote:

Dale's already put in her tuppence: Lily Rose, which would include her
oldest sister...if it's a boy, I've proposed Donald, in memory of Dale's
late middle brother.

Equally lovely names! My children's names are a bit odd; one is spelt a
littly differently from the common spelling and the other is not
uncommon, but not as widely used.

Dale got hers thanks to her two older sisters, who thought that Roy Rogers
was the greatest thing since sliced bread, at the time...of course, these
days, no one remembers his wife's name, thus the occasional raised eyebrow
at her name.

;-) I know!

Evidently, enough people remember that I don't have to worry much about
e-mails from others who think I'm married to a man. (I got a few of those,
when I first waded out into Usenet all those years ago.)

I'm surprised not a soul knows how I managed to come into my name,
given that I'm about a hundred and fifty years old, and at five, my
father died and that's when my literary hell broke loose! <chuckles>

Double ;-))'s

You're not looking bad for fifteen...decades. ;-)

I'm surprised not a soul knows how I managed to come into my name,
given that I'm about a hundred and fifty years old, and at five, my
father died and that's when my literary hell broke loose! <chuckles>
Double ;-))'s

You're not looking bad for fifteen...decades. ;-)

They're all instigators, too. There must be some kind of a secret
society, not so secret, up there. ;-))

<Fargo>oh, HECK no!</Fargo> ;-)

Gaia <starchaser@inorbit.com> writes:

On 27 Nov 2005 02:31:53 -0800, "Kate O'Flaherty"
<2.8.1855@safe-mail.net> wrote:

Mimi Cohen wrote:

Sounds like a plan to me :)

:-)

I see that osprey's been his bastardly self, overnight.

Of course.

In that case, I'll throw in this little tidbit: apparently, Dale and I are
going to be grandparents for a third time - and possibly on our anniversary,
to boot: we just got the call from South Dakota this morning...

Gaia <starchaser@inorbit.com> writes:

On 27 Nov 2005 02:31:53 -0800, "Kate O'Flaherty"
<2.8.1855@safe-mail.net> wrote:

Mimi Cohen wrote:

Sounds like a plan to me :)

:-)

I see that osprey's been his bastardly self, overnight.

Of course.

In that case, I'll throw in this little tidbit: apparently, Dale and I are
going to be grandparents for a third time - and possibly on our anniversary,
to boot: we just got the call from South Dakota this morning...