Froggy Bottom Cafe ~ Happy Hour
George Is Your Bartender ~ FM Is Napping
Newcomers welcome and join the fun.
Your first drink is on us!
Your first drink is on us!
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Rude, Crude and Lewd language is encouraged.
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Please recommend
(and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier) |
May the 4’s be with you
All you newcomers and lurkers. Come on in and join the fun.
I’ll take 593.23 of those Sam Adams up there, please.
You got it, and more.
as soon as I get home in another hour or so. Little t-bone shaped play-dohy-meat flavored bits our dogs will dance for!
If it’s any kind of food George will love ya. Such a special treat might get him to wanting to come home with you.
Have a lot of them on hand. 🙂
(or flattened fauna, I’m not sure which)
Giddy is a dog after my on heart.
Gee, that’s a familiar pose, seen often around our house too. When I had Coco (previous dog), one of my old students used to say that her best trick was very similar to this… he called it “an imitation of a sack of potatoes.”
That’s also George most of the time. I think he has a yap meter though. If he’s not yapping at something throughout the day…
fortunately ours are not yappers, even though Pepa is a terrier. They do bark, however, but usually only for a good reason, such as not being paid attention to, a plane flying overhead, a rattly trailer going down the street, a noisy UPS truck, firecrackers, bugs farting … you know, all the really serious stuff we need to be warned about!
I lived in a place one time where I was more than happy for George’s barking. I wake up one night and George and Henry, his half brother, were barking. I get up and someone is turning the handle to the door where I live. It’s locked of course, but I get to the side of the door and start yelling, “I got and gd shotgun and I’m going to blow your gd head off.” Of course I don’t own a gun, but it stopped. Stay up the rest of the night after that.
At that time I was happy for the barking. Once I moved to a better place, he would start up for nothing at all. Now it’s hard to be in a recliner, slacking when out of nowhere, George start. Sort of breaks the mood. 🙂
Never got him out of the habit.
I’ve got to start sticking to one or two word replies, or as I told Chris earlier, read what I write before I post.
Or you can just consider the typos as contributing to your suthun hillbilly misteek!
Enlightened suthun hillbilly. 😛
her imitation of a dog that got flattened by a steamroller.
you agreeing with my parenthetical remark or ignoring it?
You know me – when there’s a picture I ignore the writing. The picture does look oddly flat.
of Slackmeister Giddy.
Hello Omir. Still working at home?
Nope, I’m in the office today. I try not to abuse the work-from-home privilege because FSM knows I need it enough, what with various doctors and dentists I have to go see on a regular basis.
It just seems somewhere between silly and impossible to spend four hours commuting on a doctor day when I can just work from home and get all the stuff I need to do done. And anyone who looks at my email thread yesterday knows that once I got back from the doctor, I wasn’t slackin’. (Even less so than usual — I had a bunch of “exciting” stuff happen yesterday that I had to fix from home.)
The commuting/home work makes sense to me on doctor’s days. A wise man as I knew.
Now that is some piece of acting!
Hi MM. I want an Oscar. I can do that.
How’s the day so far?
… the lifetime achievement award! LOL
Day so far better than yesterday, though only two hours sleep due to fretting about disagreement with friend.
Et toi, mon cher?
of method acting.
Where did she go to school, I wonder?
(she’s not allowed out on the road) but she’s very good at self-guided study.
Self-taught, ay! So much the better,
for Best Canine Actor Doing An Imitation Of Roadkill goes to . . . “
Ah, I can just hear the acceptance speech now. “Arf arf arf arf arf arf arf arf arf ARF!!! wag wag”
You like me! You really LIKE me!
Over and over again, with a lot of jumping up and down.
Worked for Sally Fields!
that she did do some research.
I thought she resembled one of the ever-popular pressed fairies.
The truth comes out!
Hey, that self-guided study had to be based on something — and what she especially likes about this research is that after she’s finished her lessons, she can eat them?
The cafe management would like to add, please recommend this cafe and unrecommend the last.
Now to the Beer.
Or, rather, he prefers that YOU prefer milk.
If I were you, I’d do what he says. You don’t want to fuck with Dick.
Do you have like a million pics loaded up?
Dude, you have no idea.
I’ve got a basement full of servers just for my Nixon collection.
if Nixon endorsed it. For two reasons:
Dog blog is up. Mornin’ all.
Morning keres.
where everybody knows your name.
Here’s to good people and good times.
And Nixon is singing
Laugh. Out. Loud.
Funny thing is, I took a semester of Mandarin in college mumbledy-mumble years ago and other than counting to 10, that pretty much sums up what I remember about the language. Which is why I laughed out loud when I first heard the song.
I used to know how to count to ten in Mandarin.
But I could never figure out those damn tones.
Surprisingly, tones weren’t all that difficult. We had a teacher who explained them in terms of English — after all, we use a rising tone when we’re asking a question, for instance.
Perhaps my favorite tone story comes from the early days of the USSR. Stalin held a public forum where he made a great show of reading a telegram he had received from Trotsky:
Stalin was very happy with this until a little old Jewish guy worked his way to the front of the crowd. “Excuse me, comrade, but I don’t think you read that correctly.”
“What do you mean?” Stalin asked. “That’s what it says. Read it for yourself.”
“Here, let me show you,” the little old man said, and stretching up to his full height, he boomed into the microphone:
Omir did you ever see and old movie with Cliff Roberson in it called charly?
I don’t think I’ve ever seen the movie, but if I remember right it’s based on a story called Flowers for Algernon that I was mightily impressed with in high school.
I just saw it the other day, and what I was refering to was his teacher wrote a paragraph and told him to punctuate it. He did all correctly. He then wrote a sentence and asked the teacher what it meant. She said it was gibberish. He punctuates and it makes perfect sense.
Ya had to be there I guess. 🙂
Plus me talking about punctuation. Hah.
Cool . . . in the story he had a diary entry with punctuation sprinkled all over the place that ended with “Punctuation; is? Fun!”
I should catch up with Charly someday, it’s supposed to be a very good movie.
Discrimination!
We’ve been keeping it chilled just for you!
…goes down easy!
Don’t let anybody else know MM, but I kept the best just for you. 🙂
Good idea. No sharing!
6:29 PM
That’s really surreal SN. Helping the drought thought.
Very mystical! Makes me wish I were there….
Nice moody shot. Is it cool enough that you can open the windows and listen to the rain?
I think with the rain it’s down to 88 degrees. Ah, a nice break from the high of 90. The rain lasted about 5 minutes with wind of over 40 mph and hail, and then it just stopped and got sunny again. Weird. But Ben and I did try to step out onto the front stoop and we promptly got swamped by horizontal rain. My idea of fun!
We’re getting ours in waves. Two so far and now it looks like number 3 is about 15 minutes away.
I’ve got to run an errand and will be right back.
I’m back. Anybody miss me?
Hell no, that’s just more beer for us!
Speaking of which, Dick is good and buzzed right about now.
It looks like he’s making his move.
Never got to go to one of those places. Not that I would of course, being pure of heart and of high character.
Yea Sure.
Oh, I don’t do that either!
It’s shameful. I mean, what will we tell the children?
🙂
Thanks SN, I knew I could count on you. Just like when I asked for the cafe to be recommended. Not that I would mention, ahem, any absent names. 🙂
Yes I am. Another space/time thing hit me. 🙂
You’re home and how’s the garden?
LOL!
Here’s how the garden is this evening … It’s not turtles though …
I had just gotten through looking at the who recommended. Only one person. 🙁
So that stuck me in time cause I was in a hurry and space becasue I’m so spacey.
Sorry Olivia, the rose is staring me right in the face.
Your garden looks like it has a lot of, er, things going on, and the picture is great.
Are we or aren’t we?
I’m shocked FM — you in a hurry?! Say it ain’t so!
The garden is a happening place FM … 😉
Actually Mary got me into the reminding people to recommend and unrecommend. It sort of just made sense.
The hurry. It seems like George, Cat and my Mom know when I’m in the cafe and when to ask for something while I’m trying to concentrate.
I’m glad I see the garden through your eyes. Everytime I look at ours, it looks like work.
Speaking of George he whinning. I’ll be right back.
This made me feel guilty because I haven’t recommended. You’d be proud of me, I fell asleep. I’d recommend now but it’s too close to the unrecommend point.
No need to feel guilty about a thing Mary. I’d much rather you get the sleep you probably need.
I didn’t because I wasn’t here. But I’m glad you’re back anyway.
Hellooooooo Mary. I just don’t get to talk to you that much anymore.
How’s you day been so far?
I know, I miss talking to you. It seems like I’m hardly here when you are 🙁
My work day was pretty crappy, in fact the whole week has been so far, in fact the last two weeks have been.
I’m skipping what I was supposed to do tonight because I just needed to leave.
Sorry you asked?
I glad I did. How many times have I come into the cafe and said what a crappy day I’ve had. Lost count really. We’re here and I’m glad you’re here.
Now relax and slack.
I suppose my day would have been better if it had involved more naps.
You need to save your nap wisdom FM and do a page a day nap calender next year.
Well I’ll just send all the nap karma I can to you.
that you’re going to stick around while FM and I are awake?
as long as you don’t raise your voices too much, I’ll stick around. Any raised voices and I’m outta here. I’ve had enough of those today.
upthread, I believe we’ve quite genteel and well-behaved.
I’ll even send George to the kitchen so you won’t hear him barking.
He’ll like that anyway, it’s closer to the beer taps. 🙂
Good enough for me. Now my inner slackdom is one again. 🙂
That’s what we all were waiting for, O Wise One!
I am one, so I am slack.
Be of good cheer little one, your day will come. 🙂
I was just telling Mr. Nature how much I missed Family Man. I’m watching Bush and Blair. I swear their noses are growing.
I hope you’re talking about bush and blair. I’ve got a nose the size of RI to begin with.
Dick, that is NOT cool! Can’t you wait in line for the bathroom like everyone else?
Aw, hey! Watch it… you’re gonna… shit, GROSS DUDE!
Dick you are so NOT COOL!
I will admit, once you get on a picture thread you stick with it.
Got any Twlight Zone stuff. That seems the way things are going, at least in my case. 🙂
Not yet, but that’s a good idea.
Here, have some fun with this. It’s worth it. Trust me.
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