The Funny Pages - Tickle Me Elbow - The Original

[elye]

GAD..exhausted.....WHAT'S WRONG with me ......weakly moving to couch to watch

Nikki! Hope you're okay....

...Janet, could you Fedex some Tamiflu over to Kent, ASAP?

[psawyer]

Just dropping by, fellow sillies. No silliness to come from me tonight. Just more good vibes for John and Amanda. No hedgehogs in sight here. Another early start Saturday; I'll catch up with the sillies when I can. Sarah is still missing--where has our queen gone?

[Ridgewalker]

Sorry, sorry, oh lordy I am one sorry chick lately. DUAL sinus infections-- both kids have sinus infections now. How many days left till Spring?!?!??!

I just watched Bridget Jones' Diary for the tenth time... Colin Firth... suddenly becomes god-like toward the end... I melted into a puddle on the floor, and immediately thought of you guys. Had to share!

Hope everyone's doing ok... I'm going to go try to catch up.

[Green12]

Nothing silly related from me tonight either.....

I'm addicted to House Hunters, too

I like that one and Property Virgins and Hidden Potential.

I pretty much like all the shows on HGTV

It sounds like fun all the remodling/decorating projects you and your husband do Patti, I remember the stories you shared about your adventures in your previous house

I'm having my dad, brother and my grandpa over for supper tonight!!! Me and my four favoUrite guys in the world - I couldn't ask for a better evening. We're going to play Nintendo Wii after supper and maybe watch a movie. Good times.

This does sound like good times Hope you are having a good evening.

OH MY GAWD!!!!!!!!! I am the LAST person you want to paint. I love to decorate (fancy myself an amateur interior decorator) and play with colors but the last time I painted, my parents banned me from ever painting again because it was so messy! Picking out furniture? I'm your lady. Decorating with antiques? Oh, pick me pick me! Deciding on luxury bedding? You betcha! Arranging flowers? OH YEAH.....but I will never paint again

Julie- Hold me, I'm askeert. Does someone here have a life? If so, WHO is it?

Tisn't me for sure. No my life has been misplaced, I can't seem to find it.

You have officially been removed from painting duties, but I have a feeling you would be do fine if we all got together and had a Silly painting party....

Maybe something like this:

So here is how you paint . . . silly thread style:

Obtain one yeti.

Hose him down with paint in the coloUr of your choice.

Take him to room to be painted.

Let him "shake like a dog" flinging paint everywhere.

Repeat until satisfied.

(tarps are recommended for furniture and carpeting)

OMG!!!! ...so much to comment on all the painting talk....but have NO ENERGY ...suffice to say *I* always choose the coloUrs in my home and know instantly what shades goes with what (well I think so anyway )

GAD..exhausted.....WHAT'S WRONG with me ......weakly moving to couch to watch American Idol

Carry on sillies........

Oh Nikki, sorry you aren't feeling well.

Get better soon

I am in a sticky wicket and I need hair tips from my hair twin

[psawyer]

Good morning, all. No fresh snow this morning, just what's left from the past few days. Today is another day of commercial endeavoUr. I'll be back this evening.

[jerseyangel]

Sorry, sorry, oh lordy I am one sorry chick lately.

Hi Sarah! I kinda thought you were still dealing with your sinus infection Glad to see you back, though.

Nothing silly related from me tonight either.....

I like that one and Property Virgins and Hidden Potential.

I pretty much like all the shows on HGTV

You said "sticky wicket"

OMG Julie--last night, I watched House Hunters, Spice Up Your Kitchen and the bathroom fixer-upper show (can't remember the name). Even Mark half-watched the kitchen re-do

Hi Peter--have a good day at the store!

[elye]

Morning, early Sillies!

Grrrrrr....nicely coiffed, professionally-styled hair lasts until the following morning. Mine now looks...bah.....like Em's normal, average hair. Poop. Had a wonderful dinner at a lovely Indian place last night. The owner likes us because DH settled a large commercial property claim for him, much to his financial advantage. He immediately cried as he came to our table, "OH!! Look at these beeee-oootiful hairs on your head!"

Sorry, sorry, oh lordy I am one sorry chick lately. DUAL sinus infections-- both kids have sinus infections now. How many days left till Spring?!?!??!

Finally, Sarah! So sorry, my Liege, to hear of your family sinus probs. I hear they can really hang around...take care of thyself and brood!

[Darn210]

Sorry, sorry, oh lordy I am one sorry chick lately. DUAL sinus infections-- both kids have sinus infections now. How many days left till Spring?!?!??!

I just watched Bridget Jones' Diary for the tenth time... Colin Firth... suddenly becomes god-like toward the end... I melted into a puddle on the floor, and immediately thought of you guys. Had to share!

Hope everyone's doing ok... I'm going to go try to catch up.

Sarah!!! You're the Queen!!!! Don't you have people that can take care of that for you???!! Run to the drug store. Wipe snotty noses. Dispense medications. Feel foreheads. . . Where are your plebes??? Oh wait, that's us . . . never mind.

Hope we ALL are feeling better soom!!! I'm going to blame it on the up and down temps this winter. Pure Craziness!!

[jerseyangel]

"OH!! Look at these beeee-oootiful hairs on your head!"

Did you get a table right under a big light?

[jerseyangel]

Where are your plebes???

plebes

I'm easily amused this morning

[blueeyedmanda]

Morning Sillies, woke up to a snow covered ground this morning...looks pretty though. Gotta get some much needed cleaning done. see ya all later.

[nikki-uk]

The Plebes....are they even like 'Plebs'???

Does our Queen Sarah have plebs???

I would like some plebs to do housework chores.....I might ask the little people under the stairs to help out ....while I am suffering from 'exhausted all the time' sickness

I am in a sticky wicket and I need hair tips from my hair twin

What's happened????....did Amy get to you??? .....have you been.... .... bee-hived????

[elye]

Did you get a table right under a big light?

It was a dim, romantic place, so no. Shows how smashing it must have looked, if an almost complete stranger noticed it in candlelight! Hoglets will be back by tomorrow....

Why can't I ever get my hair to look as nice as the pros do? I'm an artist, I've bought their scads of ridiculously-priced product, got the tools, and the tenacity of a bulldog. Nope, never looks nearly as nice. Big harrumph.

I would like some plebs to do housework chores.....I might ask the little people under the stairs to help out ....while I am suffering from 'exhausted all the time' sickness

Nikki!! Are you celiac?! What's with all these IBS references you make to yourself, when you've got this additional "exhausted all the time sickness"? That sickness IS GLUTEN INTOLERANCE, girl!

[nikki-uk]

Nikki!! Are you celiac?! What's with all these IBS references you make to yourself, when you've got this additional "exhausted all the time sickness"? That sickness IS GLUTEN INTOLERANCE, girl!

....been gluten-free for 2 yrs or more...

...Emily?....are you one of those rare people who actually likes the way the stylist does your hair????...I thought everyone redone it when they got home.

[elye]

....been gluten-free for 2 yrs or more...

You have? And you still have irritable bowels, and exhaustion? I thought those symptoms ALWAYS went away when gluten was abandoned.....

Gluten isn't the only destructive life-changer out there?!

[DingoGirl]

GOOD SATURDAY AFTERNOON SILLIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I took the Weasel to the dog park today....it had been months and months (poor old Stinker would have been knocked off her unsteady feet by the canine raucousness there, toward the end ) and my little girl was simply OUT OF HER MIND!!!!!!!!!!!! 'Tis the only place she - not kidding - actually FOAMS at the mouth. Sniffing butts, heavy flirting, lots of biffing and chasing, licking, romping......oh, and Annie had a good time, too!!!!!!!!!! :lol: (cracking self up)

OMG - apparently I have got my mojo back, and with a vengeance (though one never knows - can be fleeting and fickle, as we all know). Went out last night w/ my dear friend and her psychologist husbnad - what an absolute hoot. [His commentary and wry observations on men are a scream: "that one's shallow. That one - flat affect. That one over there? You can tell by the lines in his face he has rage disorder." ] No less than three guys asked me out. Alas, all too young, but quite nice, and I'll see them again at the pub.

Today, at the dog park, I was chatting w/ a BEE-YOO-TIFUL 30-year-old FIREFIGHTER with a black lab. V. attractive and very nice (the man-child, not the dog). So, I inquired as to his age/interests/stats - was thinking of a setup for my young Jenn, who is 29. Was not a match - he wants no more children and no marriage, etc. I asked if he knew any hot 50-ish firefighters.....and he said - "what's wrong with 30? I'd really like to take you out." Could have knocked me over w/ a feather. I got his digits but again.......too young. Plus - he told he he gave his other lab to the POUND because it was destroying his yard...........OMG - many points knocked off for that. (also - not sure of brain power - - telling you this so you don't all go SCREAMING at me to go out w/ him, for God's sake, just settle the hell down).

Anywho, the point of all this rambling is I am pleased to report that my mojo is, for the moment, back with me.

When I do buy a new place...I will need help painting, shall we have a paint party?

YES! YES! After Patti's and after mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And they answer "She's sleeping and we can't wake her up". Talk about movin' fast . . . I raced down the stairs and there was mom . . . she was indeed sleeping (Thank God) and she was indeed hard to wake up. Had to threaten to fire her at that point.

oh good Lord.......not funny but also kinda funny at the same time!!!!!!!!

So sorry about yoru girl and.....are you any better today? What's going on there? Hope the flu eases up soon and doesn't hit everyone too hard....or maybe it's better if they all get sick at once? get it over with?

flu shots - quite worthless in my opinion. <insert snarky face>

SARAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG - so nice to see you, albeit a fleeting appearance......feel better soon!!!!!!!!! Sending hugs - you've had a rough go of it lately adn we miss you......

Susie, just curious......do you use the same number of exclamation points when speaking to guys that you do when writing to us? Could be something there...

Oh no. I use farrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr more explanation marksssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm having my dad, brother and my grandpa over for supper tonight!!!

OMG - you are not serving them w/ f- f- f- f- f- fava beans and a nice chianti, are you? (sorry, couldn't resist)

Alex - what a lovely evening. Um - was that last night, or tonight? can't remember. Yes, the wainscoting and crown moUlding - one has truly arrived. There was alreayd very old wainscoting in that Monterey house....w/ the oldest lead varnish that I sanded off w/ an electric sander. good lord.......oh well. I"m still here.

No crown moUldings in these new houses, unless one pays a VERY steep price.

Julie- Hold me, I'm askeert. Does someone here have a life? If so, WHO is it?

exactly

I love having my dad over for lunch/dinner because no matter what I make, he claims it's the best hee's ever eaten. I could make the man a paper bag sandwich with sandpaper on the side and he's love it. You know, the way to a man's heart and all that!

I LOVE your dad! (smiley face)

Nicola! Why so tired, dear one? More sleep....more chocolate.....more wine is the answer!!!!!!!!!!!!! hope you feel better soon, surely American Idol is the cure...... ha ha

Good morning, all. No fresh snow this morning, just what's left from the past few days. Today is another day of commercial endeavoUr. I'll be back this evening.

hi Peter! Hope the endeavoUr goes quite well today and you are madly besieged w/ pet supply buyers........

Sarah!!! You're the Queen!!!! Don't you have people that can take care of that for you???!! Run to the drug store. Wipe snotty noses. Dispense medications. Feel foreheads. . . Where are your plebes??? Oh wait, that's us . . . never mind.

(cackling face) oh yes, it IS us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was a dim, romantic place, so no. Shows how smashing it must have looked, if an almost complete stranger noticed it in candlelight! Hoglets will be back by tomorrow....

Why can't I ever get my hair to look as nice as the pros do? I'm an artist, I've bought their scads of ridiculously-priced product, got the tools, and the tenacity of a bulldog. Nope, never looks nearly as nice. Big harrumph.

'tis the bane of all women........Nicola - depends on teh stylist one has, whether one's hair looks better or must be restyled.....my current gal does such a good blow-dry and straighten that I practically look like a supermodel upon emerging....but damn, so fleeting, gone w/ the next day's washing. harrumph................

OMG- - - - now time for the MOST EGREGIOUS THING OF ALL - - can you guess? That's right........I've rented the carpet shampooer............so so so heinous.......let the shampooing begin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

see you silly cats later!!!!!!!!!!

p.s. OMG - saw Atonement yesterday - - - quite good.......but a warning - sad.

[~alex~]

Oh!! What fun, Alex! You and the guys. I am dying to try a Wii game. They sound like great fun. Which one are you playing?

We have Wii Sport which has baseball, bowling, tennis, golf, and boxing, and Wii Play which has ping-pong, target shooting, fishing and a few other weird but fun games. My dad got us Big Brain Academy for Christmas but we haven't got around to playing that much. We mostly did bowling and baseball (home run derby style!) last night and my arm is sore this morning. My grandpa was surprisingly good once he got the hang of it. I was telling my grandpa about how I've heard they are putting the Wii in some nursing homes to get the residents active and involved and he was joking that that was almost a good enough reason for him to move out of this apartment into a nursing home!

I love having my dad over for lunch/dinner because no matter what I make, he claims it's the best hee's ever eaten. I could make the man a paper bag sandwich with sandpaper on the side and he's love it. You know, the way to a man's heart and all that!

Yeah my dad is like that too. Very sweet! The first time I had him over for a meal after I was diagnosed he kept saying "This is so good; who needs gluten! Really, I don't miss the gluten at all!" It was very sweet and much appreciated.

[dlp252]

OMG- - - - now time for the MOST EGREGIOUS THING OF ALL - - can you guess? That's right........I've rented the carpet shampooer............so so so heinous.......let the shampooing begin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We have Wii Sport which has baseball, bowling, tennis, golf, and boxing, and Wii Play which has ping-pong, target shooting, fishing and a few other weird but fun games.

Ha, just finished Wii Bowling with my aunt and mother (both in their 70s), lol! Quite fun! Donna wants one!

[elye]

My grandpa was surprisingly good once he got the hang of it. I was telling my grandpa about how I've heard they are putting the Wii in some nursing homes to get the residents active and involved and he was joking that that was almost a good enough reason for him to move out of this apartment into a nursing home!

I was just telling my dad this yesterday...how they should get a Wii at their retirement home, and they could have competitions/tourneys in the games room. I'm going to press my mom to bring it up at their next council meeting, of which she is the no-farting-around, if-you're senile-you-have-no-place-here president.

I'm sad about my dad....anyone see the thread I started in testing/symptoms? It's so frustrating, my dad not easily able to start the gluten-free diet, due to his living situation....

Ah! Back to silly.....

Susie!! Wow, is your mojo back! Lots of sniffing, foaming and licking! Splendid! Sounds like a gathering I might be interested in....

Any of this happen with the young firefighter?

[elye]

Opps....double-dee-doo....

[jerseyangel]

Ha, just finished Wii Bowling with my aunt and mother (both in their 70s), lol! Quite fun! Donna wants one!

Wii Bowling--such fun! My son has this at his house, and I must say, I'm quite good

Well friends, if I can impart but one bit of wisdom to you all, it would be this: never, and I mean NEVER, tell people how good you feel. I was here, waxing practically poetic last Saturday about how great I was, and something hit my stomach on Sunday (!) and is not over yet.

I had to be somewhere (floor consult ) today--and just about made it through. I have intestinal cramping and spasming that would floor a lesser woman I am trying to trace this heinousness to something....I'm kind of at a loss.

I think I got cocky, and tried some questionable (not gluten) things. I think what finally did me in was the sheep's milk cheese/legume mixture at dinner last night. Stupid other intolerances

[jerseyangel]

I'm sad about my dad....anyone see the thread I started in testing/symptoms? It's so frustrating, my dad not easily able to start the gluten-free diet, due to his living situation....

Ah! Back to silly.....

I didn't see this, Emily--we just got home and I came on to complain

I'll go read it now.

[nikki-uk]

Wii sport - - I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!! ....great fun!!!!!!

You have? And you still have irritable bowels, and exhaustion? I thought those symptoms ALWAYS went away when gluten was abandoned.....

Gluten isn't the only destructive life-changer out there?!

Scarily no.

I think I actually have a bona fida case of IBS!!!!!!!

...but I think the sleeping malaise is a combination of the unruly guts, menses AND a weight loss diet which is KILLING ME!!!!!!!!....dear gawd, my blood sugar level was on the floor surely ........<can you tell I've finally caved in and had a chocolate bar??? OMG I've woken up!!!!>

........wait..... ....doesn't that constitute a TRIFECTA??????????

Went out last night w/ my dear friend and her psychologist husbnad - what an absolute hoot. [His commentary and wry observations on men are a scream: "that one's shallow. That one - flat affect. That one over there? You can tell by the lines in his face he has rage disorder." ]

Excellent observations!!!!!!!!.............but what's a flat effect

(also - not sure of brain power - - telling you this so you don't all go SCREAMING at me to go out w/ him, for God's sake, just settle the hell down).

Now hear me MISS!!!...will NOT settle down and am MOST excited.....DAMN!!...you simply cannot meet a handsome man/child err hello!!! FIREMANFIGHTER WITH black lab & expect us married peeps to not get excited!!!!!!!!!!

....and I DON'T care if he barely has 2 brain cells to rub together!!!!.. .....I ORDER you to have dinner or meet him again just to have some fun WHILST Miss Mojo is back in town (and because I want to live vicariously through you)

I'm sad about my dad....anyone see the thread I started in testing/symptoms? It's so frustrating, my dad not easily able to start the gluten-free diet, due to his living situation....

Sorry Em, no answers to your dilemma......but I understand having worries about parents getting older and frailer & not being in the best of health

Susie!! Wow, is your mojo back! Lots of sniffing, foaming and licking! Splendid! Sounds like a gathering I might be interested in...

I know!!

Don't forget the butt sniffing

I have intestinal cramping and spasming that would floor a lesser woman I am trying to trace this heinousness to something....I'm kind of at a loss.

Patti sorry on the dickey tum ......but lesser women ...this sentence made me giggle

[DingoGirl]

MINIONS!!!!!!!!!!! get OVER here!!!!!!!!!!! I need help w/ this hay-hay-HAYNOUS task!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

stupid carpets.

DONNA! You're looking more gorgeous in every av!!!!!!!! I think I have to join your cult thread now.........

and speaking of avs...................Janet - - some of your best work yet :lol:

I'm sad about my dad....anyone see the thread I started in testing/symptoms? It's so frustrating, my dad not easily able to start the gluten-free diet, due to his living situation....

Ah! Back to silly.....

so sorry about your Da, it is really hard watching our parents age......mygawd, my own dad died at 56, colon cancer - so very young. Gee.....do ya think he was CELIAC? I told my mom she has to stay alive until she's at least 100, but NO senility allowed and no diapers, no walkers, she MUST stay here w/ all her wits about her.

Anywho, I will read your dad's thread on my next break from this heinosity.

Well friends, if I can impart but one bit of wisdom to you all, it would be this: never, and I mean NEVER, tell people how good you feel. I was here, waxing practically poetic last Saturday about how great I was, and something hit my stomach on Sunday (!) and is not over yet.

oh Patti - - so sorry about this. Yes, we must never say how fabulous we feel. 'tis a curse. Hope you are MUCH better soon, adn this is quick.

Lesser woman. I always say, I have a headache that would kill a lesser human, or a small farm animal, yet, I persevere. It's quite funny to be overdramatic.

Now hear me MISS!!!...will NOT settle down and am MOST excited.....DAMN!!...you simply cannot meet a handsome man/child err hello!!! FIREMANFIGHTER WITH black lab & expect us married peeps to not get excited!!!!!!!!!!

....and I DON'T care if he barely has 2 brain cells to rub together!!!!.. .....I ORDER you to have dinner or meet him again just to have some fun WHILST Miss Mojo is back in town (and because I want to live vicariously through you)

BARELY TWO BRAIN CELLS TO RUB TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! gahhhhhhhhhh Well, that may be the case. So......I should go anyway? What in hell for? Can I bring a book, just to keep my brain occupied with something? or a crossword puzzle?

I am quite sure he does not know these words:

heinous (such an easy one)

egregious

malfeasance

miscreant

perspicacious

odious

and don't forget

sprueziacal eclecticism

I figured this would be the case, you and Bev would be screaming the loudest for me to go out with these man-children. Would rather stay home w/ a good book, honestly. But....if you insist.......

Nicola - a trifecta?????????????? mon dieu.......I see that chocolate has helped, quite a bit, as it always does.

OMG - my new greatest love!!!!!!!!!!!! James McAvoy, from Atonement (and also - Last King of Scotland - fabulous movie).......... Sooooooooooooooo sexy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Flat ( or Blunted) Affect: (pronounced AY-fect)

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I read about this condition a lot in these parole reports. Usually, those w/ said diagnosis have no conscience - sociopathic type thing.

[dlp252]

and spasming that would floor a lesser woman

So sorry for the spasming, but thankfully you are NOT a lesser woman!!

DONNA! You're looking more gorgeous in every av!!!!!!!! I think I have to join your cult thread now.........

Thank you! YES, we're waiting for you to come back to the cult for your review of PureLuxe!!!!

BARELY TWO BRAIN CELLS TO RUB TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! gahhhhhhhhhh Well, that may be the case. So......I should go anyway? What in hell for? Can I bring a book, just to keep my brain occupied with something? or a crossword puzzle?

A spreadsheet?