Happy Birthday, Mike. Hope you're not having to do too much work today. By the way - you and Mary Ellen are more than welcome to use my truck if needed during your move.
Side note - how come Pepperloin only gets 3 exclmation points after his birthday salutation, Cathy gets 6 and Mike gets 5? What formula is used to determine the level of exclamatory excitement and the requisite excamation points? ....just wondering.
Happy Birthday to Laveela, Mike Such a mischievous,cute little tyke, And hot, sure as shootin', Like a laid-back Rasputin in college - what was not to like?
But now he has silvery hair And a dashing but distinguished air. Algona will have two new faces! Hope you guys can sell lots of places But for now, Michel, bon anniversaire.
Well I got 6 with a 1 after them, which means I should stick to 1 language. And Don got ten, and Ryan and Peter got five but they had to share. I think it has to do with how many times P had to go up and down the stairs the day before. Or how lazy she's feeling, substituting exclamation points for meaningful or witty text.
Hi, Although Brooke's story was very tragic, in one sense there was a happy ending. Brooke never had any religious training or affiliation and was never baptized. A couple of months before she died she began reading the Bible and just a few days before she went into the hospital she asked Aunt Doris to take her to Mass. After she had been resuscitated to the extent that there was breathing and a heartbeat and before she died, Aunt Doris baptized her and a little while later a priest gave her the last rites. Reading the Bible and asking to go to Mass indicated faith, so Doris was certainly justified in baptizing her. In fact, during the funeral homily Uncle Bob referred to it as a very sound theological act. As you know, when a person is baptized all prior sins are forgiven. Since shew never regained consciousness after the baptism and anointing, I'd say her future looks real bright. Keep the faith! Dad
That's awesome...she deserves a bright future...I wonder what her thoughts were...about Mass, at that point in her life.
Caitlin and I missed Sunday Mass (I know) so we went today to Creighton at noon...it was packed, little chapel, we were 12 inches from the altar, maybe 20, but it was so nice and intimate...I really prefer the small masses...we're keeping the Faith!
Oh...I have an hour... Happy Birthday Mick You missed your flight, My plans didn't stick reservations were tight, I think you're 56... am I right? maybe when you're 57 you'll be on time for the 757! Happy Birthday!
Tom...Thanks so much for the offer of your truck..we will take you up on it...and leave you a car!!! A black hyundai or an old white volvo...or as Mike always yells.."Where's the keys keys to my vulva!" yikes!
As far as the coolest name for a terrorist type group, I have a few observations. "Khmer Rouge" sounds sort of romantic and dashing, something made up for a mid 30's movie. Of course, it can't win because of the killing fields. They blew it.
The "Klu Klux Klan" sounds sorta like the "38th Street Boys" or something and is just too silly. But "The Invisible Empire" is really a cool tag. THey shoulda stuck with that. "____________ Guerillas", such as Sandanista Guerillas, is too common to retain any cachet. The same goes for "___________ Liberation Army".
I don't know how to evaluate Taliban, Al-Quaeda, Hezbollah, Al-Fatah, Hamas. Too foreign sounding. Also, I generally prefer names that identify the region the group concerns. I will give "The Taliban" marks for sounding oppressive and relentless, like "The Continuum" or "The Borg".
As "Viet Cong/Viet Minh" fades from memory, you have to salute the name. "The Cong is in that village" was once enough to inspire dread and excite the blood of those calling in artillery.
"Tamil Tigers" sounds like a club soccer team. Go Team Go!
"Baeder-Meinhoff Gang" sounds kinda cool, techno violence from "Die Hard" like villains. If they made a movie, the lead would have to be that guy who played the lead synth in "Bladerunner". Who is that guy? He did once play a terrorist in a Stallone movie.
"Black Panthers", though now an anachronism, is pretty cool, you gotta admit. Sort of a sinewy athletic image. Violence in repose.
You also must admire "Basque Separatists" as classic and old-world, like Corinthian Leather or Toledo Steel.
Much the same goes for "Irish Republican Army". Having stood the test of time, the name is traditional and identifies the group's purpose. It's solid. It's like saying "I bought some IBM" or having a Rolex. Top quality and durable, sort of a gold standard of group names.
The winner, however, must go to those savage ideological Maoists from Peru, the Shining Path Guerillas. Nasties for sure, but the name is infused with a Carlos Castanedaish mysticism.
That's my list. I apologize to any groups I've left out and want to emphasize that I don't mean to criticize any group directly. Gosh fellas, I didn't mean anything, you don't have to do this. I've got kids.
Joe, The guy from Blade Runner is Rutger Hauer (thanks Ed, for the directors cut dvd), and the movie with Sly Stallone called Nighthawks has been playing endlessly on Showtime. I gotta get rid of my cable.
and what about the Shining Path? the peoples front of judea? the judean peoples front?
Jude has his own movement already? Boy, that kid's a mover and a shaker.
Here's how bad it sucks to be me. I suffered thru the busiest weekend of the year with only myself and another cook on hand. My other cook had broke his collar bone. I was shorthanded for 2 weeks.
I got one week of semi-civlized hours for myself - that was last week when the broken collarbone guy came back.
Now to start this week I get a call from the formerly healthy cook. He hurt his back really, really bad helping a neighbor move a hospital bed into his house.
Now it's 90 plus degrees today with humidity and a wicked dewpoint. Which means it is unbearable in the kitchen and I'm short a cook AGAIN.
Tom-I've often thought it would suck to be you. I couldn't agree more.
FARC sounds/looks too much like FART.
Shining Path is covered. They win the prize.
Zapatistas sounds like an LA shoe store.
Carlos Castanada was a south american writer who wrote books of what he learned from a mystic/shaman named Don Juan about reaching the other existing reality with the use of peyote. Hippies loved his stuff.
I disqualify as too numerous any group with the word "People's" in the name unless the acronym ends up being funny like the People's Organization to Overthrow Priviledge (POOP, for short).
Don't get me wrong, Joe - I would never want to be in your shoes. While at times it may suck to be me, all I need do is look to you and say to myself, "Well...it could be worse".
What about the Serb Black Hand or its South Amercian counterpart the Mano Blanco?
And as much as you have to hate them you have to give credit to the Catholic Reaction Froce for being specific.
And you have to admire a group of terroists run by twin 12 year old boys like God's Army.
Also - the "Weathermen". They managed to help Timothy Leary escape from jail. The coolest thing is that they are named from a Bob Dylan song - "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."
What I always wondered about the Zapatistas was, why SUBcomandante Marcos? Who was the Comandante? Wasn't he (Marcos) in charge? Shining Path has the advantage of the sinister combination of radical and ruthless violence with a name that sounds spiritual and enlightened. Like Andy Griffith as a bad guy. How come in the 60's and 70's, the black guys were Black Panthers and the white guys were Yippies? That doesn't sound cool at all. We had all 5 grandchildren the other night and let them watch movies in the basement until most of them fell asleep. Stevo carried Ty up and almost had a heart attack, Zane and Catie walked up to bed and I didn't want to leave Braden asleep alone down there, so I dragged her to her feet and sleepwalked her along to the stairs. Unfortunately, she didn't sleepwalk up stairs, so I was lifting her up one step at a time, breathlessly encouraging her to walk, stand, whatever, and then she would either stand on the step or her knees would give way and she would start to collapse. No biggie, except that Mia, who was wide awake, was preceeding us up the steps, blowing on a little plastic horn, which was making me laugh so hard that I couldn't hold Braden up. When she reached the bend at the top of the stairs, she turned and yelled to me and Braden, "Go, Team!! You can do it!" Later, when I was lying down with her, trying to coax her to sleep, she confided that Braden wasn't a very good football player. We took all five to Mass on Sunday and ended up in the front row and the four oldest were very good, and Mia kept the people behind us, the choir and the deacon entertained. The family behind us asked if we would bring her next week.
Hi Everyone. Just thought I"d let you know...we're expecting baby #2 and Jude should have a sibling sometime around the end of January. I just had a check up today and everything seems fine. No ultrasound today, but we listened to the baby's heartbeat. My dr, Dr. Hsu, said it sounded really good. I've been pretty sick, and it's always fun puking with a two year old climbing on your back, imitating the sounds you make,but hopefully I'm past the rough part. That's our news!
Wow! Congratulations! Start training Jude to walk instead of being carried (I was still carrying Joe around when I was pregnant with Ellen - not because he didn't want to walk, but because I was too impatient to go at toddler pace) On the news tonight, a guy doing a story about Mo Valley carrying on with their fair after the floods said at least 3 times that various things "needed replaced" "needed repaired" and "needed fixed" and as I was griping to myself about that, a bright, supposedly well-educated anchorwoman said that someone had "busted" through a guardrail and she said it a couple times too. WTH? These are prime-time anchors on a metropolitan TV station. Geez.
I know this is not so different from any other sports management degree, but something about it seems so wrong...
Winston-Salem State University is starting a bachelor of science degree in motorsport management.The academic program will be linked to internships in the NASCAR industry.
Oh bugging the pregnant about the name is so much fun... Lester Hortense (that was what I told people I was going to name Emma) Danica could be cute, she'd just have to be sure to go to Winston-Salem for her degree.
Congratulations Emily and Scott. That is really fun news. Jude will be so lucky to have a little brother or sister.
As mentioned by Cathy earlier re: carrying Joe because she didn't want to wait on toddler timeing, you will be surprised that you are becoming less patient about some things. (Don't worry, you'll be more so about others)>
Congratulations Emily and Scott. Name it Fried Chicken. Everyone likes fried chicken. You'll be so hip. Gweneth Paltrow named hers Apple. Coulrtney Cox named hers Coco. You'll be so Hollywood.
Happy Birthday Mike!!! Congratulations Em and Scott and Jude!!!!! How 'bout Lucy? Michelle? Eleanor? Rigby? Lizzy? Madonna? Sally? Maggie Mae? Martha? Maxwell? Rita? Sadie? Penny? Rocky? Abbey? Pepper? I think that about covers it for the Beatles selections. Rocky is my fav. Does Jude know yet? What does he think?
Ah, Grace, good post. I want a theme to my tribe if&when I finally start to build one. I was thinking the villans from Die Hard: Hans, Karl, Uli, Heinrich and Fritz.
I don't know about girls. Maybe I'll name them after the actresses who starred in Coyote Ugly: Piper, Maria, Izabella, Tyra and Bridget. You know, so they have role models.
Ah...KISS right? when we lived in Lake View we let the neighbors take Desmond to a KISS concert...I think he was 4...he turned out just fine, so I've been a Gene Simmons fan since that time.
pronounce the whole prospective name and you'll see that a double G name wouldn't work. "Gary Guilliatt" sounds like a dog trying to choke down a dazed but still combative bunny while "Garth Guilliatt" sounds like a cat hacking up a hairball.
Great idea, Grace, except you left out Desmond and Molly. You could even name a pair of twins Obladee and Obladah. We're going to the farm this weekend, meeting Grace and Ryan there to hand off the Ortega kids. I doubt if we'll get much painting done, but we'll try to get a few of the lower places done (front porch, pantry, back door area, etc) I really would like to hear if anyone plans to come August 11/12 (or 18/19 if that's better) before I ask to borrow the ladders again. I know everyone's got stuff to do - I just need to plan how and when to get this finished up. Mia told me she's a person now.
If you're ever stuck in some thick undergrowth, in your underwear, don't stop and start thinking of what other words have "under" in them, because that's probably the first sign of jungle madness.
Sad death here...a 6 year old boy playing hide n seek with his sister, climbed inside an old microwave (they had just bought a new one, and this one was outside by the garbage) somehow the door latched and he couldn't get out! After a 2hour search by rescue workers, they found him...he's SOOO cute, Jimmy Cook, looks like the boy from HOME ALONE:-(
I've never seen a microwave you couldn't open with a little force. I assume he beat his little sister or are they still looking for her? Did they find him when they took a lunch break? Where did this happen or is it an urban legend? I suppose if he'd hidden in a conventional oven it would have taken 4 hours to find him.
It's not urban legend, it's all over the news. If a six-year-old, no matter how small, folded himself up small enough to fit inside even an old, big microwave, he very likely didn't have the leverage to push the door open against the catch. Also he was probably running out of oxygen almost immediately. A kid playing hide-and-seek can shoehorn himself into a sock drawer.
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Happy Birthday, Mike. Hope you're not having to do too much work today. By the way - you and Mary Ellen are more than welcome to use my truck if needed during your move.
Side note - how come Pepperloin only gets 3 exclmation points after his birthday salutation, Cathy gets 6 and Mike gets 5? What formula is used to determine the level of exclamatory excitement and the requisite excamation points? ....just wondering.
Tom
PS- Mike and Mary, if you do need my truck I would need you to leave one of your vehicles with me.
Tom
Happy Birthday to Laveela, Mike
Such a mischievous,cute little tyke,
And hot, sure as shootin',
Like a laid-back Rasputin
in college - what was not to like?
But now he has silvery hair
And a dashing but distinguished air.
Algona will have two new faces!
Hope you guys can sell lots of places
But for now, Michel, bon anniversaire.
Well I got 6 with a 1 after them, which means I should stick to 1 language. And Don got ten, and Ryan and Peter got five but they had to share. I think it has to do with how many times P had to go up and down the stairs the day before. Or how lazy she's feeling, substituting exclamation points for meaningful or witty text.
We should all send pictures to Pat so she can put them up for our birthdays. Dibs on Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Happy Birthday Mick! Take a break from packing to celebrate.
Happy Birthday Mike! Have a cigar and a shot of Powers. You earned it.
Hi, Although Brooke's story was very tragic, in one sense there was a happy ending. Brooke never had any religious training or affiliation and was never baptized. A couple of months before she died she began reading the Bible and just a few days before she went into the hospital she asked Aunt Doris to take her to Mass. After she had been resuscitated to the extent that there was breathing and a heartbeat and before she died, Aunt Doris baptized her and a little while later a priest gave her the last rites. Reading the Bible and asking to go to Mass indicated faith, so Doris was certainly justified in baptizing her. In fact, during the funeral homily Uncle Bob referred to it as a very sound theological act. As you know, when a person is baptized all prior sins are forgiven. Since shew never regained consciousness after the baptism and anointing, I'd say her future looks real bright.
Keep the faith!
Dad
That's awesome...she deserves a bright future...I wonder what her thoughts were...about Mass, at that point in her life.
Caitlin and I missed Sunday Mass (I know) so we went today to Creighton at noon...it was packed, little chapel, we were 12 inches from the altar, maybe 20, but it was so nice and intimate...I really prefer the small masses...we're keeping the Faith!
Oh...I have an hour...
Happy Birthday Mick
You missed your flight,
My plans didn't stick
reservations were tight,
I think you're 56...
am I right?
maybe when you're 57
you'll be on time for the 757!
Happy Birthday!
Tom...Thanks so much for the offer of your truck..we will take you up on it...and leave you a car!!! A black hyundai or an old white volvo...or as Mike always yells.."Where's the keys keys to my vulva!" yikes!
As far as the coolest name for a terrorist type group, I have a few observations.
"Khmer Rouge" sounds sort of romantic and dashing, something made up for a mid 30's movie. Of course, it can't win because of the killing fields. They blew it.
The "Klu Klux Klan" sounds sorta like the "38th Street Boys" or something and is just too silly. But "The Invisible Empire" is really a cool tag. THey shoulda stuck with that.
"____________ Guerillas", such as Sandanista Guerillas, is too common to retain any cachet. The same goes for "___________ Liberation Army".
I don't know how to evaluate Taliban, Al-Quaeda, Hezbollah, Al-Fatah, Hamas. Too foreign sounding. Also, I generally prefer names that identify the region the group concerns. I will give "The Taliban" marks for sounding oppressive and relentless, like "The Continuum" or "The Borg".
As "Viet Cong/Viet Minh" fades from memory, you have to salute the name. "The Cong is in that village" was once enough to inspire dread and excite the blood of those calling in artillery.
"Tamil Tigers" sounds like a club soccer team. Go Team Go!
"Baeder-Meinhoff Gang" sounds kinda cool, techno violence from "Die Hard" like villains. If they made a movie, the lead would have to be that guy who played the lead synth in "Bladerunner". Who is that guy? He did once play a terrorist in a Stallone movie.
"Black Panthers", though now an anachronism, is pretty cool, you gotta admit. Sort of a sinewy athletic image. Violence in repose.
You also must admire "Basque Separatists" as classic and old-world, like Corinthian Leather or Toledo Steel.
Much the same goes for "Irish Republican Army". Having stood the test of time, the name is traditional and identifies the group's purpose. It's solid. It's like saying "I bought some IBM" or having a Rolex. Top quality and durable, sort of a gold standard of group names.
The winner, however, must go to those savage ideological Maoists from Peru, the Shining Path Guerillas. Nasties for sure, but the name is infused with a Carlos Castanedaish mysticism.
That's my list. I apologize to any groups I've left out and want to emphasize that I don't mean to criticize any group directly. Gosh fellas, I didn't mean anything, you don't have to do this. I've got kids.
That's impressive Joe. What about the zapatistas?
p
Happy Birthday Mike! You're my favorite Godfather.
Happy Birthday Mike! Sounds like
Chicago was a fun place to celebrate it. Did you get a Nebraska tatoo also?
On a side note- why do sump pumps quit working on the stormiest rainest night in months?
WHo is Carlos Castaneda?
The Zapitistas sound cool until you start thinking about those blue outdoor bug zappers.
Cathy and Mike!
Happy birthday to two beautiful people. Wishing you a grand year. Or a brilliant year. Fun and success!
Gotta go figure out what to write to people who have stopped paying on their capital campaign pledges.
What about the FARC?
Joe,
The guy from Blade Runner is Rutger Hauer (thanks Ed, for the directors cut dvd), and the movie with Sly Stallone called Nighthawks has been playing endlessly on Showtime. I gotta get rid of my cable.
and what about the Shining Path?
the peoples front of judea?
the judean peoples front?
Jude has his own movement already? Boy, that kid's a mover and a shaker.
Here's how bad it sucks to be me. I suffered thru the busiest weekend of the year with only myself and another cook on hand. My other cook had broke his collar bone. I was shorthanded for 2 weeks.
I got one week of semi-civlized hours for myself - that was last week when the broken collarbone guy came back.
Now to start this week I get a call from the formerly healthy cook. He hurt his back really, really bad helping a neighbor move a hospital bed into his house.
Now it's 90 plus degrees today with humidity and a wicked dewpoint. Which means it is unbearable in the kitchen and I'm short a cook AGAIN.
It really, really sucks to be me.
Tom
Tom-I've often thought it would suck to be you. I couldn't agree more.
FARC sounds/looks too much like FART.
Shining Path is covered. They win the prize.
Zapatistas sounds like an LA shoe store.
Carlos Castanada was a south american writer who wrote books of what he learned from a mystic/shaman named Don Juan about reaching the other existing reality with the use of peyote. Hippies loved his stuff.
I disqualify as too numerous any group with the word "People's" in the name unless the acronym ends up being funny like the People's Organization to Overthrow Priviledge (POOP, for short).
Don't get me wrong, Joe - I would never want to be in your shoes. While at times it may suck to be me, all I need do is look to you and say to myself, "Well...it could be worse".
Thanks for being there, Bro.
Tom
Suck2BU That sounds lke a tough group! Right before you shoot someone between the eyes you shout "suck2BU" bang!
Happy Birthday Mike. See you in Algona.
What about the Serb Black Hand or its South Amercian counterpart the Mano Blanco?
And as much as you have to hate them you have to give credit to the Catholic Reaction Froce for being specific.
And you have to admire a group of terroists run by twin 12 year old boys like God's Army.
Also - the "Weathermen". They managed to help Timothy Leary escape from jail. The coolest thing is that they are named from a Bob Dylan song - "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."
i'm gonna start a group called Allah's Avenging Angels. watch your back.
Allahs Avenging Angels Reactionary Group or AARG.
What I always wondered about the Zapatistas was, why SUBcomandante Marcos? Who was the Comandante? Wasn't he (Marcos) in charge?
Shining Path has the advantage of the sinister combination of radical and ruthless violence with a name that sounds spiritual and enlightened. Like Andy Griffith as a bad guy.
How come in the 60's and 70's, the black guys were Black Panthers and the white guys were Yippies? That doesn't sound cool at all.
We had all 5 grandchildren the other night and let them watch movies in the basement until most of them fell asleep. Stevo carried Ty up and almost had a heart attack, Zane and Catie walked up to bed and I didn't want to leave Braden asleep alone down there, so I dragged her to her feet and sleepwalked her along to the stairs. Unfortunately, she didn't sleepwalk up stairs, so I was lifting her up one step at a time, breathlessly encouraging her to walk, stand, whatever, and then she would either stand on the step or her knees would give way and she would start to collapse. No biggie, except that Mia, who was wide awake, was preceeding us up the steps, blowing on a little plastic horn, which was making me laugh so hard that I couldn't hold Braden up. When she reached the bend at the top of the stairs, she turned and yelled to me and Braden, "Go, Team!! You can do it!" Later, when I was lying down with her, trying to coax her to sleep, she confided that Braden wasn't a very good football player. We took all five to Mass on
Sunday and ended up in the front row and the four oldest were very good, and Mia kept the people behind us, the choir and the deacon entertained. The family behind us asked if we would bring her next week.
Monica, did you have occasion to wish you had your shop vac? Did anything flood?
Is anyone else gonna grab a 12-pack and watcy the fillibuster tonight in CSpan? You're all invited over. BYOB
Tom
Hi Everyone. Just thought I"d let you know...we're expecting baby #2 and Jude should have a sibling sometime around the end of January. I just had a check up today and everything seems fine. No ultrasound today, but we listened to the baby's heartbeat. My dr, Dr. Hsu, said it sounded really good. I've been pretty sick, and it's always fun puking with a two year old climbing on your back, imitating the sounds you make,but hopefully I'm past the rough part. That's our news!
congratulations to Scott and Emily. let the name ideas commence....
Wow! Congratulations! Start training Jude to walk instead of being carried (I was still carrying Joe around when I was pregnant with Ellen - not because he didn't want to walk, but because I was too impatient to go at toddler pace)
On the news tonight, a guy doing a story about Mo Valley carrying on with their fair after the floods said at least 3 times that various things "needed replaced" "needed repaired" and "needed fixed" and as I was griping to myself about that, a bright, supposedly well-educated anchorwoman said that someone had "busted" through a guardrail and she said it a couple times too. WTH? These are prime-time anchors on a metropolitan TV station. Geez.
Is your doc's name pronounced Sue? Is he a boy?
It's pronounced like "shoe", and she's a girl. A super sweet girl. I really like her.
Man, it's so exciting. Any names discussed?
cONGRATULATION eMILY AND sCOTT!!!
aRE YOU GOING TO FIND OUT THE SEX??
wHAT HAVE YOU TOLD jUDE?
I know this is not so different from any other sports management degree, but something about it seems so wrong...
Winston-Salem State University is starting a bachelor of science degree in motorsport management.The academic program will be linked to internships in the NASCAR industry.
P
Congratulations Emily and Scott - you don't need to ask...Yes, I would be honored when you name your second child Thomas.
Tom
Of course you are thinking, "What if it's a girl?"
Simply put a feminine ending on the name. Such as Dan = Danica. So Tom would be Tomica...I'll let Monica horn in on my honors.
Oh bugging the pregnant about the name is so much fun...
Lester
Hortense (that was what I told people I was going to name Emma)
Danica could be cute, she'd just have to be sure to go to Winston-Salem for her degree.
Congratulations Emily and Scott. That is really fun news. Jude will be so lucky to have a little brother or sister.
As mentioned by Cathy earlier re: carrying Joe because she didn't want to wait on toddler timeing, you will be surprised that you are becoming less patient about some things. (Don't worry, you'll be more so about others)>
Congratulations Emily and Scott.
Name it Fried Chicken. Everyone likes fried chicken. You'll be so hip. Gweneth Paltrow named hers Apple. Coulrtney Cox named hers Coco. You'll be so Hollywood.
Condoleezza or Vladimir sound exotic.
Congratulations to Emily and Scott!!!
Thanks to all for the birthday salutations...I can't wait to be a year older so you can do it again!
M
Happy Birthday Mike!!!
Congratulations Em and Scott and Jude!!!!!
How 'bout Lucy? Michelle? Eleanor? Rigby? Lizzy? Madonna? Sally? Maggie Mae? Martha? Maxwell? Rita? Sadie? Penny? Rocky? Abbey? Pepper?
I think that about covers it for the Beatles selections. Rocky is my fav.
Does Jude know yet? What does he think?
Ah, Grace, good post. I want a theme to my tribe if&when I finally start to build one. I was thinking the villans from Die Hard: Hans, Karl, Uli, Heinrich and Fritz.
I don't know about girls. Maybe I'll name them after the actresses who starred in Coyote Ugly: Piper, Maria, Izabella, Tyra and Bridget. You know, so they have role models.
I think you should go with Gene, Paul, Ace and Peter.
Ah...KISS right? when we lived in Lake View we let the neighbors take Desmond to a KISS concert...I think he was 4...he turned out just fine, so I've been a Gene Simmons fan since that time.
Here in Omaha I know of 2 new baby girls named Piper (among our friends kids)...was there a snowskier named Piper?
The skier's name was Peekaboo.
pronounce the whole prospective name and you'll see that a double G name wouldn't work. "Gary Guilliatt" sounds like a dog trying to choke down a dazed but still combative bunny while "Garth Guilliatt" sounds like a cat hacking up a hairball.
Personaly, I like Maxwell.
Great idea, Grace, except you left out Desmond and Molly. You could even name a pair of twins Obladee and Obladah.
We're going to the farm this weekend, meeting Grace and Ryan there to hand off the Ortega kids. I doubt if we'll get much painting done, but we'll try to get a few of the lower places done (front porch, pantry, back door area, etc) I really would like to hear if anyone plans to come August 11/12 (or 18/19 if that's better) before I ask to borrow the ladders again. I know everyone's got stuff to do - I just need to plan how and when to get this finished up.
Mia told me she's a person now.
Obladi Guilliatt.
Try to guess this theme: Jakob, Norah, Ricky, Sean....
Tom's Tasty Tip of the Week:
If you're ever stuck in some thick undergrowth, in your underwear, don't stop and start thinking of what other words have "under" in them, because that's probably the first sign of jungle madness.
Tom
not to be confused with Jungle Fever.
C- all musicians with the last name Jones?
Sad death here...a 6 year old boy playing hide n seek with his sister, climbed inside an old microwave (they had just bought a new one, and this one was outside by the garbage) somehow the door latched and he couldn't get out! After a 2hour search by rescue workers, they found him...he's SOOO cute, Jimmy Cook, looks like the boy from HOME ALONE:-(
Dad, will you call me, please. Thanks.
Frank - all musicians whose parents are/were musicians (or at least entertainers)
If you name your child Fried Chicken, he (or she) will already have his own T-shirt.
I've never seen a microwave you couldn't open with a little force. I assume he beat his little sister or are they still looking for her? Did they find him when they took a lunch break? Where did this happen or is it an urban legend? I suppose if he'd hidden in a conventional oven it would have taken 4 hours to find him.
It's not urban legend, it's all over the news. If a six-year-old, no matter how small, folded himself up small enough to fit inside even an old, big microwave, he very likely didn't have the leverage to push the door open against the catch. Also he was probably running out of oxygen almost immediately. A kid playing hide-and-seek can shoehorn himself into a sock drawer.
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