Mike, you look excellent in yellow, in front of a bar. I hope your wife buys you another yellow shirt for you bday! Get on the blog! The rewards are many and the privations few. Happy 48th~
Michael Joseph Coffey LaVelle In GAP yellow plaid you look swell, Your birthday's so HOT, we'll roast as we drink gin 'n tonics and toast To the Mick from Sioux City who married so well!
We just reached 100 degrees. yahoo. i spend all next week in northfield, mn at st. olaf college. not too excited, but at least the dorm has a.c....come visit if you want.
The advantage of the Italian corn heads is that they're chopper heads, eliminating the need for another pass through the fields. So they take a little more power, a bargain in efficiency recognized by JD when JD introduced their 893 chopper head. It's so crummy they stopped production and will try again next year.JD's 4000 and 5000 tractors are made in Mannheim or Brazil. Even the tractors "Built" in the Quad Cities are bolted together sub-assemblies from overseas with parts (bearings, etc) made in Ukraine or China.
Josh knows Buckethead - his brother says he's one of the best guitarists around right now. I know nothing about him, except supposedly he's pathologically shy
Bucketheads and chopper heads...we've been using the same lawnmower for 20 years and we've NEVER changed the oil and don't empty the gas in the Fall...it simply won't die...it's a Briggs and Straton(?)...for all you mowerheads...someone at my office is selling their John Deere riding mower, bought it new for $7,000 and selling for around $2,000, it's only 3 years old, let me know! They are moving, don't need it. If you buy it I'll ride it to your house!
All Lavelle photos are in bars because Mike thinks if I sit around the house too much, I might want to move again!...Emily invited us to dinner last night with Scott's family and Cathy and Steve...it was at a neat little Italian place, DELICIOUS! Caitlin and her friend watched Jude, they were quite impressed the Gerber Mac'n Cheese!
(We are in bars performing our civic duty, surveillence, I can't talk about it, though!)
Birthday wishes to the best father I've ever had. You taught me so many lessons to live by. The most important being: if nobody depants you, depants yourself.
And yes, all of our family photos are in bars. That's because circular bar tables have five stools and our dining room table only has four. As long as we can sneak Caitlin in, we're golden.
M.E. will you find out the model of the JD mower? We will pay you to ride it to CR. We could do a documentary and call it "The Straub Story" You could donate money raised to orphan chicken ranchers and their kinfolk.
In "The Straight Story" Richard Farnsworth played Alvin Straight as he drove his lawnmower from Laurens, IA to West Bend, WI. His daughter Rose was played by Sissy Spacek. Who would play Mary and the birthday boy Mike? We already know Cusack would play Desmond.
Steven Speilberg should not cast his own movies...remember when he cast his blonde wife in the 2nd INDIANA JONES instead of the girl who was in the first (she was great)...I want to play myself and Johnny Depp can be Mike! hee hee
That's a sure way to get your head beat in. Happy Birthday Uncle Mike. Or Great Mike, which is how you told your great nephew to address you once...
Today in anatomy I dissected a sheep's eyeball. For the first time ever I got a little squeamish during a dissection, maybe because IT WAS WATCHING ME! Oh, and also because preserved sheep's eyeballs are full of stinky fluids and gelatinous wiggly nasty stuff. We dissected brains last week, and they weren't as creepy as eyeballs.
It's really too bad that in the 6th year of the present administration gas prices are cruising to all time highs. The oil companies sheepishly pocketed a gazillion dollars last quarter and I think that's nothing compared to what's coming. We'll see $4-plus gas. Our inept foreign policy has contributed largely to the mideast problems and everytime a camel sneezes over there prices go up. If the instability of supply means higher price you'd think that cost would be passed on and that's fine. But why the hugest profits ever? You'd think that profit would be a fairly constant factor. Ford announces 20-30000 North American jobs gone by 2012, 16 NA plants closing. Oh yeah, the economy is just humming along. How is the recent economic news a "mixed bag"? Tax cuts for the rich are supposed to stimulate the economy when the rich use the savings to make intelligent capital investment decisions which will create good jobs here. It's not working because capital is not being re-invested in NA, and because the people who are making the decisions are not making intelligent ones. Current economic policy amounts to a full-blown assault on the middle class. There's a reason kids don't do paper routes anymore.
At the farm this labor day I challenge all of you to compete in an athalon. croquet, horseshoes, maybe Jarts, Any ideas for events? Each event places first through whatever and the combined lowest score wins. If there's five events it's a quintathalon. If 8 events an octathalon. If there's 6 events we'll just add another and call it a septathalon. Any of you sissies up for this?
I think the events should be things that nobody does on a regular basis. Some golf, some do not so the chipping idea isn't really fair. No one plays horseshoes regularly. Ed has the bocci ball set... maybe a frisbee golf course could be set up.
I support this wholeheartedly. I propose that bocci ball be included in the events. I also propose that the entry fee is a bottle of good alcohol and the winnings get distributed per Tom's note (or as close to it as possible).
Tom - if you need help from your wife to win you are just going to have to lose.
yeah, it was a cross country adventure race. at each leg of the race you had a mental challenge.
started with a 3 mile run. there was a 13 digit number the team had to memorize and repeat at the end of the race. then a 3 mile canoe trip down the sugar river (lots of deadfalls, so lots of dragging the canoe over them). then a logic puzzle quiz. then a 6 mile bike ride back to the start where your team repeated the 13 digit number.
oh, and at one point between physical events they pulled a cover off of a tray of about 30 little plastic toys, and you had 5 seconds to try to memorize as many as you could, the cover went back on, then 2 minutes to write down as many as you could remember.
We have a washer throwing game we can bring, it's fun. Similar to horseshoes, but you have to get the washer to go into one of three holes (worth 1, 3, or 5 points)and you stand 10 feet away. Chess is a good mental challenge.
(1) Horseshoe (2) Bocci (3) Chipping (golf) (4) Frisbee Toss (how many throws to hit a target) (5) Trivia (6) Bike Croquet (how far can you hit the ball while riding a bicycle) (7) Punting challenge (football) (8) Target shooting (if gun is available)
and if there is a tie the person who tells the best joke wins.
We also now have a bocce ball set so there could be two heats (hope that isn't literally heat) running at once. Also, Grace, don't you have access to a hillbilly golf set or am I making it up? That's a game made for this sort of thing. If not, Stevo and I could probably make one without getting into a fight (we like plumbing together) Mary Elizabeth Mastroantonio could play Mary Ellan (remember her as Maid Marian?)and, although I must emphatically state up front that there is no physical resemblance, I think Steve Buschemi could do interesting things with the character of Mike LaVelle. Chess would only work with Rectified Spirits as a componentof the game.
We could have lots of games, but each person chooses to compete in 5 or 7 or whatever the agreed-upon number is. That way people could play to their (perceived) strengths...or one or two of the events could be required and the rest electives?
I got stopped by a cop while showing houses last night! I was crawling through a F'ing subdivision and went thru a stop sign (maybe) 1 mph, my wheels were still turning he said (asshole). So my car...cop car(with lights on)..wife's car...husband's car...all lined up on the street, kids were staring at me from their bikes. While the cop was standing next to my car writing me up, my client drove up to him and said "she's our Realtor, officer!" and then I handed him my card! He was mean...ticket is $145. i might fight it!
For the Straubolympics I would like to throw something at a cop!
Fight it. Stevo sent a written response to a traffic ticket at Midway (this is permitted by Chicago - I don't know how it will end up) He had gone to pick up Joe, and drove past the terminal once without seeing him, and a lady came up behind him honking with lights flashing so he pulled over and she pulled up beside him and said Joe was chasing him and waving for him to stop and he said thanks, she drove away and as he pulled out, a lady cop jumped in front of him and said he was in a no parking zone. He tried to explain once, she was nasty, and he let it go. The ticket said he was "obstructing traffic" to the tune of $170.00! See if your ticket has any procedure short of a trial for fighting it. I think a lot of people get tickets when cops are mad about something else. Or see if there's any way to have it reduced to a different charge- running a stop sign is probably more serious than some other violation. I actually don't know what I'm talking about - talk to a lawyer.
Ed~Yes, I agree and concur that Tom should NOT have me on his team. The only Trivial Pursuit question I can remember answering...correctly...was, "Who is Barbie's husband?" Yikes!
Congratulations, Monica! I could go along with the booze prize, with the stipulation that it be high-quality stuff, but also something unusual or regional. Whaddya think? Nance, I didn't know Barbie and Ken were actually married. I thought they were living in sin, although they couldn't actually sin because Ken...well, you know... I like the coke-mentos idea because the kids would love it.
How about if we all went to ABATE on Vespas? Thus adding foreign-manufacturer insult to tiny motorcycle injury. We could get them in various pastel colors, which would contrast nicely with our scary black leathers.
Tom, That's what I hate about Amazon. You order something, and they don't say if it's in stock or not. I've been waiting on my Jim Campilongo and the 10 Gallon Cats CD for 2 months.... frank
Pat and Ed, can we have a new page, please? Maybe an ad for Irish Fest? We should plan on going next year and combine it with a Brewer's game. We can't go this year. I hear Hasselhoff may be performing at Summerfest this year.
Ah, that must be my lovely wife who is supposed to be packing up our belongings. Actually I was downloading this picture to help show some teenagers the results of many years of heavy drinking. I have already downloaded Desmond's picture as an illustration of seasonal allergies.
Ah... my Jewish friend Joe K..how do the Straub's feel about my invasion of Lebanon? Lucky for me my reservist soldiers were kidnapped (ha ha ha) and I had the perfect opportunity to invade Lebanon. Only 330 civilians have been killed...I feel we've made a dent in Hezbollah's neighborhoods..stupid Lebanon, (good for me those Christians weakened and let me in)...gtg.
I'm all for target shooting - but the moms have to weigh in. Is that really a good event when so many kids are going to be running around? At least there would be plenty of cans to shoot at.
Ironically, just as I typed that sentence, I had to get up from the computer to see why Braden was crying. Ty just shot her in the eye with a toy gun that shoots nerf balls. A clear sign that target shooting is not a good idea for an event on that particular weekend.
I'm with Grace on the no target shooting. There is no way to even pretend to teach 25 or so kids about being responsible around guns with copious amounts of beer being consumed at the same time. But how about nerf target shooting?
I'm in favor of guns and danger. If you shoot someone you lose that event. If you get shot you get bonus points. Self-inflicted wounds also get bonus points, if you're that gung-ho you should be rewarded. Tom-I'm behind Israel on this one. Regardless of politics, etc., someone in a neighboring country started lobbing rockets into Israel, the country's govt won't or can't do anything about it, innocent citizens are dying. If this happened here I would absolutely expect and demand that my government do whatever was necessary, to stop it including shooting and invading. Frankly, I don't see any other valid viewpoint.
After Pat said "no more politics" there were about 125 entries, mostly about politics, so this isn't the first one to pass 100 (I think). In the same contrarian vein, I say fine, shoot whatever you want. Only off-site activities are of necessity going to leave some people out. Someone has to watch the kids and the dogs.
How about a sling shot contest? How about golf cart racing at the course? One time we went so fast Erin toppled off the back of the cart...it was SO FUNNY (I think she was slightly hurt).
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Mike, you look excellent in yellow, in front of a bar. I hope your wife buys you another yellow shirt for you bday!
Get on the blog! The rewards are many and the privations few.
Happy 48th~
Michael Joseph Coffey LaVelle
In GAP yellow plaid you look swell,
Your birthday's so HOT, we'll roast
as we drink gin 'n tonics and toast
To the Mick from Sioux City who married so well!
Happy Birthday, Mike. Don't look so surpirsed, you knew it was coming.
Hey! Look at Mike...NO PANTS! Like Father like Son. :-)
Happy Birthday, Mike! :-)
HEY...
That is reeeaaallly a cool pix of none other....THANKS FOR THE B-DAY WISHES...The b-day boy
We just reached 100 degrees. yahoo. i spend all next week in northfield, mn at st. olaf college. not too excited, but at least the dorm has a.c....come visit if you want.
Mike Lavelle,now there's a fellow
nattily attired in carribean yellow
Always a grin
up for a litle sin
classy, friendly, smart and mellow
Happy Birthday Mike
The advantage of the Italian corn heads is that they're chopper heads, eliminating the need for another pass through the fields. So they take a little more power, a bargain in efficiency recognized by JD when JD introduced their 893 chopper head. It's so crummy they stopped production and will try again next year.JD's 4000 and 5000 tractors are made in Mannheim or Brazil. Even the tractors "Built" in the Quad Cities are bolted together sub-assemblies from overseas with parts (bearings, etc) made in Ukraine or China.
Josh knows Buckethead - his brother says he's one of the best guitarists around right now.
I know nothing about him, except supposedly he's pathologically shy
I meant j. knows of Buckethead.
Why are all pictures of LaVelle's always in bars?
Bucketheads and chopper heads...we've been using the same lawnmower for 20 years and we've NEVER changed the oil and don't empty the gas in the Fall...it simply won't die...it's a Briggs and Straton(?)...for all you mowerheads...someone at my office is selling their John Deere riding mower, bought it new for $7,000 and selling for around $2,000, it's only 3 years old, let me know!
They are moving, don't need it. If you buy it I'll ride it to your house!
All Lavelle photos are in bars because Mike thinks if I sit around the house too much, I might want to move again!...Emily invited us to dinner last night with Scott's family and Cathy and Steve...it was at a neat little Italian place, DELICIOUS! Caitlin and her friend watched Jude, they were quite impressed the Gerber Mac'n Cheese!
(We are in bars performing our civic duty, surveillence, I can't talk about it, though!)
To Omaha Mike,
Birthday wishes to the best father I've ever had. You taught me so many lessons to live by. The most important being: if nobody depants you, depants yourself.
And yes, all of our family photos are in bars. That's because circular bar tables have five stools and our dining room table only has four. As long as we can sneak Caitlin in, we're golden.
Have a great week, Dad!
M.E. will you find out the model of the JD mower? We will pay you to ride it to CR. We could do a documentary and call it "The Straub Story" You could donate money raised to orphan chicken ranchers and their kinfolk.
I might be getting a motorcycle. It's 50ccs, a 1982 HOnda
P
In "The Straight Story" Richard Farnsworth played Alvin Straight as he drove his lawnmower from Laurens, IA to West Bend, WI. His daughter Rose was played by Sissy Spacek. Who would play Mary and the birthday boy Mike? We already know Cusack would play Desmond.
Money magazine just named Naperville the 2nd (behind Fort Collins) best place to live in America.
They recieved quite a bonus from me living here.
P,
I always knew you were just looking for an excuse to wear leather chaps.
F
Who needs an excuse?
you gonna get a biker jacket with lots of fringe? and maybe a big ass eagle on it?
we should all get a bunch of biker gear and show up at the next ABATE Freedom Rally. on mopeds.
Steven Speilberg should not cast his own movies...remember when he cast his blonde wife in the 2nd INDIANA JONES instead of the girl who was in the first (she was great)...I want to play myself and Johnny Depp can be Mike! hee hee
That's a sure way to get your head beat in.
Happy Birthday Uncle Mike. Or Great Mike, which is how you told your great nephew to address you once...
Today in anatomy I dissected a sheep's eyeball. For the first time ever I got a little squeamish during a dissection, maybe because IT WAS WATCHING ME! Oh, and also because preserved sheep's eyeballs are full of stinky fluids and gelatinous wiggly nasty stuff. We dissected brains last week, and they weren't as creepy as eyeballs.
I meant head beat in for going to ABATE on a moped. But they'd probably be very cool to you, really.
I vote for Johnny Depp too.
Pat that game is on Oct.7. Not the 9th.
Sorry, Monica
You should be sorry, how dare you.
What's new? How's the house?
P.Rose
It's really too bad that in the 6th year of the present administration gas prices are cruising to all time highs. The oil companies sheepishly pocketed a gazillion dollars last quarter and I think that's nothing compared to what's coming. We'll see $4-plus gas. Our inept foreign policy has contributed largely to the mideast problems and everytime a camel sneezes over there prices go up. If the instability of supply means higher price you'd think that cost would be passed on and that's fine. But why the hugest profits ever? You'd think that profit would be a fairly constant factor.
Ford announces 20-30000 North American jobs gone by 2012, 16 NA plants closing. Oh yeah, the economy is just humming along. How is the recent economic news a "mixed bag"? Tax cuts for the rich are supposed to stimulate the economy when the rich use the savings to make intelligent capital investment decisions which will create good jobs here. It's not working because capital is not being re-invested in NA, and because the people who are making the decisions are not making intelligent ones. Current economic policy amounts to a full-blown assault on the middle class. There's a reason kids don't do paper routes anymore.
At the farm this labor day I challenge all of you to compete in an athalon. croquet, horseshoes, maybe Jarts, Any ideas for events? Each event places first through whatever and the combined lowest score wins. If there's five events it's a quintathalon. If 8 events an octathalon. If there's 6 events we'll just add another and call it a septathalon. Any of you sissies up for this?
what does the winner get? and what does the loser have to do?
I think the events should be things that nobody does on a regular basis. Some golf, some do not so the chipping idea isn't really fair. No one plays horseshoes regularly. Ed has the bocci ball set... maybe a frisbee golf course could be set up.
How about moped races? Here's the bike I might buy:
http://www.bradsbikes.com/view_photo.aspx?maxWidth=500&photoID=559
I support this wholeheartedly. I propose that bocci ball be included in the events. I also propose that the entry fee is a bottle of good alcohol and the winnings get distributed per Tom's note (or as close to it as possible).
Tom - if you need help from your wife to win you are just going to have to lose.
I am also planning on bringing my bicycle so we could have some sort of contest with that.
Frank did some sort of athalon where you had to memorize something as part of the race.
What was that, Frank. I think you did it with a team?
yeah, it was a cross country adventure race. at each leg of the race you had a mental challenge.
started with a 3 mile run. there was a 13 digit number the team had to memorize and repeat at the end of the race. then a 3 mile canoe trip down the sugar river (lots of deadfalls, so lots of dragging the canoe over them). then a logic puzzle quiz. then a 6 mile bike ride back to the start where your team repeated the 13 digit number.
oh, and at one point between physical events they pulled a cover off of a tray of about 30 little plastic toys, and you had 5 seconds to try to memorize as many as you could, the cover went back on, then 2 minutes to write down as many as you could remember.
We have a washer throwing game we can bring, it's fun. Similar to horseshoes, but you have to get the washer to go into one of three holes (worth 1, 3, or 5 points)and you stand 10 feet away.
Chess is a good mental challenge.
Here is my suggested list of events:
(1) Horseshoe
(2) Bocci
(3) Chipping (golf)
(4) Frisbee Toss (how many throws to hit a target)
(5) Trivia
(6) Bike Croquet (how far can you hit the ball while riding a bicycle)
(7) Punting challenge (football)
(8) Target shooting (if gun is available)
and if there is a tie the person who tells the best joke wins.
How about a fireworks event or setting oneself on fire event?
We also now have a bocce ball set so there could be two heats (hope that isn't literally heat) running at once. Also, Grace, don't you have access to a hillbilly golf set or am I making it up? That's a game made for this sort of thing. If not, Stevo and I could probably make one without getting into a fight (we like plumbing together)
Mary Elizabeth Mastroantonio could play Mary Ellan (remember her as Maid Marian?)and, although I must emphatically state up front that there is no physical resemblance, I think Steve Buschemi could do interesting things with the character of Mike LaVelle.
Chess would only work with Rectified Spirits as a componentof the game.
We could have lots of games, but each person chooses to compete in 5 or 7 or whatever the agreed-upon number is. That way people could play to their (perceived) strengths...or one or two of the events could be required and the rest electives?
Nah - too complicated. Whatever shows up at the farm, that's how many events there are. But also let's have a kickball game.
Go Nuge!
so... let the Straubolympics begin!
The Elvis head would work.
I think the head should stay... we could buy a replicat Elvis 'Takin Care of Business' (TCB)ring, the one with the sweet lightening bolts.
like this:
http://www.shopelvis.com/nshop/product.php?navgroup=0&view=detail&productid=EP-075-7386-9&dept=jewelry&category=&page=&groupName=JEWELRYrings
I got stopped by a cop while showing houses last night! I was crawling through a F'ing subdivision and went thru a stop sign (maybe) 1 mph, my wheels were still turning he said (asshole). So my car...cop car(with lights on)..wife's car...husband's car...all lined up on the street, kids were staring at me from their bikes. While the cop was standing next to my car writing me up, my client drove up to him and said "she's our Realtor, officer!" and then I handed him my card! He was mean...ticket is $145. i might fight it!
For the Straubolympics I would like to throw something at a cop!
Fight it. Stevo sent a written response to a traffic ticket at Midway (this is permitted by Chicago - I don't know how it will end up) He had gone to pick up Joe, and drove past the terminal once without seeing him, and a lady came up behind him honking with lights flashing so he pulled over and she pulled up beside him and said Joe was chasing him and waving for him to stop and he said thanks, she drove away and as he pulled out, a lady cop jumped in front of him and said he was in a no parking zone. He tried to explain once, she was nasty, and he let it go. The ticket said he was "obstructing traffic" to the tune of $170.00! See if your ticket has any procedure short of a trial for fighting it. I think a lot of people get tickets when cops are mad about something else. Or see if there's any way to have it reduced to a different charge- running a stop sign is probably more serious than some other violation. I actually don't know what I'm talking about - talk to a lawyer.
Put Joe3 in charge of the trophy.
We should have a contest to see who can get the diet coke to spurt up the tallest from shoving mentos in the bottle.
I just saw this trick today, so I'm a little behind the times I guess.
Ed~Yes, I agree and concur that Tom should NOT have me on his team. The only Trivial Pursuit question I can remember answering...correctly...was, "Who is Barbie's husband?" Yikes!
We sold our house tonight. Whew!
Monica
Yahoo! That's excellent news!
Hi,Pat.
Congrats Monica.
Even with the trophy I still think we should have hard alcohol be the entrance fee.
I am going to win the Straubcathalon and get my picture on a box of Wheaties.
Congratulations, Monica!
I could go along with the booze prize, with the stipulation that it be high-quality stuff, but also something unusual or regional. Whaddya think?
Nance, I didn't know Barbie and Ken were actually married. I thought they were living in sin, although they couldn't actually sin because Ken...well, you know...
I like the coke-mentos idea because the kids would love it.
How about if we all went to ABATE on Vespas? Thus adding foreign-manufacturer insult to tiny motorcycle injury. We could get them in various pastel colors, which would contrast nicely with our scary black leathers.
Hey everybody!
I searched for Phelan Lavelle and found her picture as the resident artist at that movie-set place in the Berkshires!
We could go on pocket rockets.
Tom,
That's what I hate about Amazon. You order something, and they don't say if it's in stock or not. I've been waiting on my Jim Campilongo and the 10 Gallon Cats CD for 2 months....
frank
Check out the Hoff:
http://www.cornwear.com/forum.html
Desmond,
that was AWESOME!
Hey, the Hoff is as cool as he ever was!
that guy must laugh himself to sleep at night, amazed at how stupid people are. well, in europe anyway.
Pat and Ed, can we have a new page, please? Maybe an ad for Irish Fest? We should plan on going next year and combine it with a Brewer's game. We can't go this year. I hear Hasselhoff may be performing at Summerfest this year.
Joe K., What's wrong with this page. Do you have somthing against Mike? What are you doing on the blog anyway? You are supposed to be working.
Ah, that must be my lovely wife who is supposed to be packing up our belongings. Actually I was downloading this picture to help show some teenagers the results of many years of heavy drinking. I have already downloaded Desmond's picture as an illustration of seasonal allergies.
Seasonal allergies and stunted emotional growth.
Has the STRAUB BLOG ever made it to 100 entries? This may be the one! I noticed that the entries are few. Hmmmm, snort, cough.
Ah... my Jewish friend Joe K..how do the Straub's feel about my invasion of Lebanon? Lucky for me my reservist soldiers were kidnapped (ha ha ha) and I had the perfect opportunity to invade Lebanon. Only 330 civilians have been killed...I feel we've made a dent in Hezbollah's neighborhoods..stupid Lebanon, (good for me those Christians weakened and let me in)...gtg.
I'm all for target shooting - but the moms have to weigh in. Is that really a good event when so many kids are going to be running around?
At least there would be plenty of cans to shoot at.
Ironically, just as I typed that sentence, I had to get up from the computer to see why Braden was crying. Ty just shot her in the eye with a toy gun that shoots nerf balls. A clear sign that target shooting is not a good idea for an event on that particular weekend.
How about a dance contest a la the American Wedding movie dance contest?
Is Ty going to be entered in the contest? What type of alcohol is he bringing?
I'm with Grace on the no target shooting. There is no way to even pretend to teach 25 or so kids about being responsible around guns with copious amounts of beer being consumed at the same time. But how about nerf target shooting?
Grace, great idea. Or perhaps a runway contest like the one between Derek Zoolander and Hansel.
Target contest can take place at the gravel pit too. As long as we are not using a high powered rifle and shooting towards the farm.
Lets just not jump to conclusions on the safety of the games.
Of course we will have to have some kind of food eating contest. Or something w/ a slip n'slide.
Maybe have dog races, or make the dogs pull something and we can makes bets on them. Or, whose ever dog stops to hump the least wins.
I would like there to be high level of excitement and a low element of danger in whatever contest(s) you decide upon. :-)
Howzabout all the wimen have a babysittin' contest while the menfolk go golf 18?
I'm in favor of guns and danger. If you shoot someone you lose that event. If you get shot you get bonus points. Self-inflicted wounds also get bonus points, if you're that gung-ho you should be rewarded.
Tom-I'm behind Israel on this one. Regardless of politics, etc., someone in a neighboring country started lobbing rockets into Israel, the country's govt won't or can't do anything about it, innocent citizens are dying. If this happened here I would absolutely expect and demand that my government do whatever was necessary, to stop it including shooting and invading. Frankly, I don't see any other valid viewpoint.
I agree with me in every respect.
I think Dr. Kennedy should bring his bag! :-<>
Shooting spoiled food is good fun! How about we put beer cans on our heads, plink them with .22's and then see who can drink it the fastest?
Sorry.
This is the 100 comment ain't it grand... and nothing to say...oh well!
How 'bout all the wimmin have a knife-throwing contest whilst the golfers have a contest to see who yelps last when fastened to revolving targets?
After Pat said "no more politics" there were about 125 entries, mostly about politics, so this isn't the first one to pass 100 (I think). In the same contrarian vein, I say fine, shoot whatever you want. Only off-site activities are of necessity going to leave some people out. Someone has to watch the kids and the dogs.
How about a sling shot contest?
How about golf cart racing at the course? One time we went so fast Erin toppled off the back of the cart...it was SO FUNNY (I think she was slightly hurt).
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