The Funny Pages - Tickle Me Elbow - The Original

[DingoGirl]

Hmmmmmm please do . .. .. .tom's all too curious . .. ...doubting it's the Carson McCullers' bit, but did love some of her work.

No - 'tis not. I tried to read a book of hers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter? don't think I finished it......during the malnutrition/exhaustion/pre-dx years........

the piano analogy is simply this - - (dear gawd, pour yerselves a tall glass o' the phaerie to get through this lengthy dribble drivel? rambling.....

we had an ancient family piano in our home, a great uncle's. It was a HUGE dinosaur - a reproducing player piano - worth a little bit of $$. I studied classical piano for many, many years - started at age 5 - tried so hard - could never read notes. EVER. Can't make the hand-eye-brain connection.......intensely frustrating for me......

I started again with a virtuoso teacher in my early twenties - practiced DAMN hard - up to five hours a day for about five years. I am not a naturally gifted pianist.....

BUT I DIGRESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <imagine that>

Well, in my mid-twenties, I wanted a piano at my apartment.....wanted to sell the Dinosaur and get a small, lovely, black satin upright.

I must have played - during a one-year period - about 100 pianos. Tested them everywhere - the ones in our price range, our of our range, in stores, homes, colleges, everywhere. Nothing felt.......exactly right.

Until one day.........I walked in - again - to a local music store......and walked over to the most beautiful black satin upright - somehow had missed it before (love at second sight!!!!!!!!!). Sat down and slaughtered played a Scarlatti sonata.........and I was instantly, magically, head-over-heels in LOVE. I had found.......The One, and I knew it the instant I caressed the keys.

alas, this piano was nearly $4000, and we hadn't even sold OUR piano yet.

So......my dad was quite sick w/ cancer, but we took our old dinosaur to this music store. Unbeknownst to me, the piano sold for nearly 10k, and my parents got - I think? - at least half of that money. But they didn't tell me it had sold, and my heart was breaking, aching, DYING for my Everett piano (w/ Yamaha inner workings).

On my birhtday, on December 9th, 1987, guess what showed up at my house. Don't think I even need to tell you how I sobbed and wept and rejoiced.

My dad died three months later - March 12 - this year will be 20 years.

Years later, when I first lived in Monterey, my friend Sophie's husband, a phenomenal pianist/musician with a doctorate in musicology from Rutger's - rented my piano for one year. He fell in love with it also, as did eveyrone who played it.

Two years ago, in a state of pure poverty, I sold that piano - which was MOCKING me from the den - to my dear friend and college roommate in San Jose. I needed money, and she wanted the piano. Which means - - I get to have it back someday. I will see it this weekend.

So......................the moral of this story is - - sometimes you just KNOW THINGS.

Susie, you and David are in my thoughts. I do hope this all works out. Check your PMs for another thought that I don't want to expose here.

Thank you, Peter. I read your sweet pm.

good thing about the delivery today! uneventful is good.

[tom]

I DID head out for a band AND lucked out on a pkg spot!!!!! (Breaktime now)

Time flies.....Wow, I've been here for 615 pages. Ptaum, you joined in only 17 pages earlier than I? I thought you were established here from the beginning...Ya just seemed to know your way around, an' all....

Hehehehhe

17 pages but almost SIX WEEKS!!!!!

No - 'tis not. I tried to read a book of hers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter?

I read that and another and found them both intriguing/interesting & .. . .<gah just had the words> . .... ..strangely/grotesquely enchanting. (More the one w/ the midget for the grotesquely)

BUT I DIGRESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <imagine that>

<no phaerie spewed thank god>

My dad died three months later - March 12 - this year will be 20 years.

Oh wowwwwww 20 yrs is a long-ass time ain't it ... ...

So......................the moral of this story is - - sometimes you just KNOW THINGS.

I'm looking fwd to it

[Darn210]

Okay, so Nikki has recruited me over here from a technical thread. How do I ease myself into such frenzied madness that is the Tickle Me thread?

Frenzied Madness back at page 117 . . . what should we call it now? Tornadic Insanity?

I remember when you arrived. Page 120??? I would've guessed 140-150.

I came in at 154 . . . in mid-September . . . WOW!!! You guys talk a lot!!! You do realize that we are producing more pages/day than OMG. Why, in a mere 2 years, 3 months and 16 days, we will overcome them!!!

I just have to say that Indiana is pretty much in the middle.

Tom tinkled . . . Wait!! What!?! . . . Detinkeld?? . . . How in the hell do you do that??

[~alex~]

Arrrrgggg, stupid insomnia! Fourth night in a row that I've been awake since 2:00am even though I went to bed before 11 . I decided to get up tonight instead of just lying awake in bed. Here's a little something funny for everyone that I found:

Two doctors opened an office in a small town and put up a sign reading: "Dr. Smith and Dr. Jones, Psychiatry and Proctology."

The town council was not happy with the sign, so the doctors changed it to "Hysterias and Posteriors."

This was not acceptable either, so in an effort to satisfy the council they changed the sign to "Schizoids and Hemorrhoids." No go.

Next, they tried "Catatonics and High Colonics." Thumbs down again.

Then came "Manic Depressives and Anal Retentives." Still not good.

Another attempt resulted in "Minds and Behinds." Unacceptable again.

So they tried "Lost Souls and A$$ Holes." No way.

"Analysis and Anal Cysts?" Nope.

"Nuts and Butts?" Uh uh.

"Freaks and Cheeks?" Still no go.

"Loons and Moons?" Forget it.

Almost at their wit's end, the doctors finally came up with: "Dr. Smith and Dr. Jones, Odds and Ends."

[tom]

Oh gawd I'd fallen asleep watching tv, then when I woke up something was on where someone asked someone what to do & I thought the response should be "just %$#@ do it", so I naturally thought of this! :lol:

and oh Ptaum, Oracle of Absinthe - we're passing briefly through Willow GleN on Friday...........what in hell should be do about absinthe?

Uhhhhhhhh .. . .. . . #@!*&#! buy some?????

It seeming more than a little ruuuuuuuuude launched the Phaerie Tale. :lol: <chuckle chuckle>

(Gah!!! Now I've got the 3am giggles)

[tom]

Frenzied Madness back at page 117 . . . what should we call it now? Tornadic Insanity?

Tornadic!! Love it!!

And to think I thought tornadoey was the right form. I'll defer to the current midwesterner.

Holy Crap someone found a Open Original Shared Link

I always thought they were just in the upper midwest .. . ..U of Mich Wolverines an' all.

That's one badass lil beastie.

I came in at 154 . . . in mid-September . . . WOW!!! You guys talk a lot!!! You do realize that we are producing more pages/day than OMG.

Who realizes this? I didn't realize this. If you didn't come across as trustworthy I wouldn't even believe it NOW!!

Why, in a mere 2 years, 3 months and 16 days, we will overcome them!!!

ROFL (I need to get back to sleep)

Can we ramp up production so it's only 2yrs and 2 months? I'm busy in June of 2010 and don't wanna miss the parade!!

I just have to say that Indiana is pretty much in the middle.

Thank God there aren't more Brits [edit: Hi Nik!! No offense!!!] or we might have to meet on a BOAT!!

Arrrrgggg, stupid insomnia! Fourth night in a row that I've been awake since 2:00am even though I went to bed before 11 . I decided to get up tonight instead of just lying awake in bed.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I used to hate that. Hour after hour lying awake . .. .

Here's a little something funny for everyone that I found:

Two doctors opened an office in a small town .. . .. . .. ..

:lol:

[Darn210]

Holy Crap Tom!!!! I see that you're still here . . . Go Back to Bed!!! I would if I didn't have a couple of munchkins to load onto a bus in about 45 minutes.

Can we ramp up production so it's only 2yrs and 2 months? I'm busy in June of 2010 and don't wanna miss the parade!!

Yes, but it will require overtime.

[Darn210]

"Nuts and Butts?" Uh uh.

"Freaks and Cheeks?" Still no go.

"Loons and Moons?" Forget it.

Alex, you're quite silly when you're sleep-deprived!!!

Re: meeting up in the middle . . . it would only require half as many phrequent phlyer miles to bring Nikki to the US as it would to take to get Kissey² to England.

[blueeyedmanda]

Morning Sillies!!! We are almost to the weekend! Yea! Work has been so busy that the days seem to slip by quickly. John wants to take me on a surprise trip this weekend. We have been fighting quite a bit lately and it turns out it was due to his meds he takes for his neuropathy. He talked to his Dr about everything going on and she is going to take him off the meds. He kept telling her he didn't feel anything was different but I was telling him how mean and different he was acting. She told him the meds were doing it and he probably never realized he was acting that way. So we are going to take a small trip and start to get to know each other again.

I came in at 154 . . . in mid-September . . . WOW!!! You guys talk a lot!!! You do realize that we are producing more pages/day than OMG. Why, in a mere 2 years, 3 months and 16 days, we will overcome them!!!

I came in August or September. When we were planning the parade I stumbled in. I haven't found a reason to leave yet....or maybe I cannot overcome the vortex to get out....

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I used to hate that. Hour after hour lying awake . .. .

I know that feeling....lying awake trying to get to sleep....that was my problem, seems to be getting better though.

[elye]

Morning, All.....!!

Alex, I had an uncharacteristic poor night's sleep, as well. Not FOUR NIGHTS like you, however....you must feel crappy. Good to see you on here, tryin' fer silly......

Love your piano story, Susie.

You will be playing for us when we all meet...this narrows down our rendezvous location--must house a black satin upright...

I've called several LCBOs in my mad search for absinthe...the locations that I couldn't get through to by phone are the ones I struggled to yesterday, spinning tires, pushing stuck seniors' station wagons out of snowbanks, sliding precariously toward light standards....

Will try one more today. We leave tomorrow, so once we are there I will check out the nearby depanneur....

Hi, Amanda! You're on a trip this weekend, as well! Come up to the Laurentians with your ski gear....I'll have hot drinks ready by our big stone fireplace!

[nikki-uk]

Good Morning Sillies!!!!!

Tis a phine morn in our cyber hamlet of hilarity ( Tom)

Nikki- Head still in the clouds? So excited for you!

Yes.

....wait they have clouds in Florida?????

What could I DO but de-tinkle the other?

Yes...Wee Willy (optional Wedgie) needs to be de-tinkled soon.

I"ll ask him tonight........oh and ALSO? he has some relative - SIL? Sister? <susie in perpetual state of delirium/exhaustion/confusion> who works for United, maybe? yay!!!!!!!!! he did mention getting free stand-by flights but...in the same sentence told me I had to get dressed up to get on said flights......... Um, what in hell - I asked if I had to wear a suit and pantyhose er sumfin' and said - if that is the case, we are DRIVING..... ('tis not the case, I just can't be a total scrounge)

WHAT????

No idea where the heck that sentence was going <Delirium & confusion abound>

.....pantyhose????? ......GAD!!!!!!!....I prefer to call them tights madam

Just a nip of the phaerie, I drank it w/ Gail and we were so sad to not be hallucinating, she looked at me and said - gawd, you're still here and you still look the same.

How disappointing

When I see the word Absinthian....I think of those cats - Abyssinians....do you think they are drunk on the phaerie?

Can you imagine the singing???? the caterwauling

BTW - If I ever were to get a pedigree cat it would be an Abyssinian (I decided this when I was a little girl and knew every breed of cat)

"Phlughue"

I'm a walkin' mucus factory The worst is finally over I think, but the heinous cough is still hanging on..... I'll live

Patti! Get better soon!!!

Yes, I think Terry has the Phlughue (is it another virus or the old one never went away? ) ...and the cough is driving ME insane!!!!!!!

I do have to poke phun at Terry.

Pre celiac disease dx he had NEVER had a cold....I swear!!!.........he alway's moaned *I* was so sickly

Revenge is sweet <insert evil demonic laugh>

Busted by the phorum on so many levels....HARUMPHFFFFFF!!!!!!!

Part deux to follow.........

[nikki-uk]

Part deux.....

I just haven't had the time to post something worthwhile. I still don't, but I'm posting anyway.

Worthwhile????

Peter - please!!...just blather on with the rest of us .....

Whenever a laughing suggestion is made for a Silly get-together somewhere, I feel a splendid chill run up and down my spine....truly a dream come true for me. One day we will do this!! We should figure out the geographic "middle" point for us all, and file it away for some day when we can all seriously consider it. Nikki, you need air miles!

I feel the same Em, ....got NO air miles though.......how do you get them??

Holy Crap someone found a wolveRINE in Cali-f*****-fornia!!!

Oh no Ptaum!!... you're not fooling me!!

Everyone knows that Wolverine is just a character in the X Men films

Thank God there aren't more Brits [edit: Hi Nik!! No offense!!!] or we might have to meet on a BOAT!!

Oh gawd!! I get terrible sea sickness (green guy)

Re: meeting up in the middle . . . it would only require half as many phrequent phlyer miles to bring Nikki to the US as it would to take to get Kissey2 to England.

BUT I haven't got any (phrequent phlyer miles)

as I don't (phly phrequently)

[Darn210]

BUT I haven't got any (phrequent phlyer miles)

as I don't (phly phrequently)

Oh No . . . you missed the point . . . I'm suggesting that Kissey use his phrequent phlyer miles to bring you to the States . . . Would you be willing to come alone and leave your poor children and sickly husband to fend for themselves for awhile? . . . I know I would.

[Mtndog]

Susie- I LOVE LOVE LOVE your piano story!!!!!!!! :wub: You will get it back!

Holy Shiite- Phe-freakin-nominal- a WOLVERINE!!!!!!!!!! This past fall Kurt and I saw a fisher cat in NH (related to wolverines and badgers and a very badass creature). It was so cool! Scary but cool. I tried to pet it but ended up looking like Amy Winehouse with a badger in her behind beehive!

GRR!!!!!!!! BOO!!!!!!!!!!!! HISS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is RIGHT!!!!

So how IS it lookin' today Bevvy-wevvy??

Well, I'll hear today. In the meanwhile Open Original Shared Link

...Imagine what others were thinking as they read my post in your thread, Tom. "What kind of a yahoo is this? Doesn't even get this poor guy's name right, and he's been so good about posting that informative article. Elye equals loser, man".

At least you didn't advocate absinthe as a cure for celiac!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The exploratory career-change meeting went very well, thank you.

She was even kind of a hoot.

What the heck kind of job do YOU have?? I thought full-time w/ near full-autonomy.

Sadly, one of my elfin slippers lost its bell & the auditory asymmetry would've driven me MAD!!!!!

What could I DO but de-tinkle the other?

Detinkle

So if I travel to any of my sillies areas we should try to grab lunch

But if we grab it, won't we get in trouble? Don't you, like, have to pay for it?

I'm a walkin' mucus factory The worst is finally over I think, but the heinous cough is still hanging on..... I'll live

Patti said walking mucus factory I hope you feel better soon!!!!!!

Hello, sillies, I haven't been ignoring you, I just haven't had the time to post something worthwhile. I still don't, but I'm posting anyway.

Susie, you and David are in my thoughts. I do hope this all works out. Check your PMs for another thought that I don't want to expose here.

Post away- EVERYthing here is worthwhile. What is this secret PM that peter will not expose himself here?

Cannot speak too much about my Ottawa Senators....just get too sad. They are playing like a different team lately....like rank amateurs. San Jose should have no trouble wif them...Alfie's hurt, and he's essentially the whole team right now. THEY NEED ABSINTHE! Yes....how can I get them some?....

OMGAWD- hockey players on absinthe- in my 20's I woulda' been in HEAVEN!!!!!!!!

Wait- I had something to tell you guys but I dingo'd it Oh well- I'll get bev'd anyway.

Alex- most excellent insomniac humoUr :lol:

[DingoGirl]

Frenzied Madness back at page 117 . . . what should we call it now? Tornadic Insanity?

or......Absinthian Delirium?

Alex - sorry about your insomnia but - you're quite phunny

It seeming more than a little ruuuuuuuuude launched the Phaerie Tale.

uh - what?

Re: meeting up in the middle . . . it would only require half as many phrequent phlyer miles to bring Nikki to the US as it would to take to get Kissey² to England.

yes - precisely - LET"S GET HER HERE!!!!!!!!!!

I've called several LCBOs in my mad search for absinthe...the locations that I couldn't get through to by phone are the ones I struggled to yesterday, spinning tires, pushing stuck seniors' station wagons out of snowbanks, sliding precariously toward light standards....

:lol: dear gawd......Absinthian Destruction eveyrwhere

Can you imagine the singing???? the caterwauling

BTW - If I ever were to get a pedigree cat it would be an Abyssinian (I decided this when I was a little girl and knew every breed of cat)

she said caterwauling........OMG! Nicola - I, also, knew EVERY breed of cat when I was little....begged and BEGGED my parents for an Ocelot.... Also did want an Abysinnian. Quite rare, not sure if I've ever actually SEEN on in real life.....

Oh No . . . you missed the point . . . I'm suggesting that Kissey use his phrequent phlyer miles to bring you to the States . . . Would you be willing to come alone and leave your poor children and sickly husband to fend for themselves for awhile? . . . I know I would.

*snort*

OMGAWD- hockey players on absinthe- in my 20's I woulda' been in HEAVEN!!!!!!!!

indeed

OMG - I am tooooooooo tired to be silly. and delirious............ got nuttin' to say.......

[blueeyedmanda]

Susie- please find something to say all my other sillies have abandoned me in the vortex today....

[elye]

Oh No . . . you missed the point . . . I'm suggesting that Kissey use his phrequent phlyer miles to bring you to the States . . . Would you be willing to come alone and leave your poor children and sickly husband to fend for themselves for awhile? . . . I know I would.

Ah! In a New York minute.....

Holy Shiite- Phe-freakin-nominal- a WOLVERINE!!!!!!!!!!

Um....Did you guys really LOOK at that photo of said wolverine?....Pretty large....and lightish brown....I'm wondering....

This time I'm fairly certain that it is not my dad. No one, however, seems to know where the yeti is....

Well, I'll hear today. In the meanwhile Open Original Shared Link

OMG....

Okay...this is a GREAT addition to the list of things I must take on our trip tomorrow. Me, outside snowshoeing with a cowbell in my pouch, for any kind of reason...Me, trying to wake up snoozing children for the beckoning ski hill...Me, somewhat inebriated, throwing on loud, pounding dance CDs and needing that final element to make me an unforgettable dancing, party chick....

Oh gawd....first the frantic search for absinthe, and now I must find me a cowbell and thingy to hit it with.....

Patti said walking mucus factory! I hope you feel better soon!!!!!!

Patti! You are a veritable Mucousorium...Take care....

Wait- I had something to tell you guys but I dingo'd it. Oh well- I'll get bev'd anyway.

Hey!! I wanna be a verb, too!! Can we Em something?...And what on earth would Emming involve?! Gad..........Never mind.......

[tom]

Wait- I had something to tell you guys but I dingo'd it Oh well- I'll get bev'd anyway.

Heehee I hear ya!

I had something TOtally Emmable & imho, unBevvable, but 'twere dingo'd.

Hey!! I wanna be a verb, too!! Can we Em something?...And what on earth would Emming involve?! Gad..........Never mind.......

lmao

(I swear I wrote the above before seeing p734!!)

[Darn210]

Hey!! I wanna be a verb, too!! Can we Em something?...And what on earth would Emming involve?! Gad..........Never mind.......

Well, we lost another newbie . . . must have been Em'd.

[Jestgar]

Computer geeks might find this amusing.

I was debating with our IT guy on what to name the new computer. It's designed to run a lot of statistical processes.

He suggested Einstein, Socrates, Plato

I countered with Montalcini, Nightingale

He thought those would be hard to say so he suggested Artemis (because we're hunting for associations).

I responded with Hypatia and there it stayed for a couple days.

Well, the machine came in and the tower is a rich glossy black and it does calculations like you wouldn't believe. So he decided it should be a black goddess. And now we have Nefertiti. And she is amazing.

[nikki-uk]

Did I comment on the Susie's piano tale???....wasn't it fab????

I'm suggesting that Kissey use his phrequent phlyer miles to bring you to the States . . . Would you be willing to come alone and leave your poor children and sickly husband to fend for themselves for awhile? . . .

WHAT ???? <waving goodbye to 'em all without a backward glance >

Of course *I* would be willing silly!! (are you supposed to ask your husband first?? )

Ah! In a New York minute.....

Oh great!!!! Is that where we're rendezvousing

At least you didn't advocate absinthe as a cure for celiac!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's not?? .......better wrestle that loaf of bread off of Terry then

How IS Bev?? - did she say??......I think she's avoiding the silly thread lest she larph too much & her blood pressure goes up

No one, however, seems to know where the yeti is....

OMG yes!!! ...ok, he's grown the fur a bit - & has clearly been using the straighteners..(gotta look your best in CA you know )

Patti! You are a veritable Mucousorium...

Sounds like somewhere you'd go on a school trip....

Mum!, can you sign this form?,....my class is going to 'The Mucousorium' tomorrow

Well, we lost another newbie . . . must have been Em'd.

Perfect!!

[tom]

John wants to take me on a surprise trip this weekend.

where where where?????

Oh you don't know yet .. . .. .

<phone .. .brb>

It was YOUR John!!!!!! Ooooooo yer gonna like it!!!!

.....pantyhose????? ......GAD!!!!!!!....I prefer to call them tights madam

Then . . .. .what do you call what WE call tights??

Stretchies?

I tried to pet it but ended up looking like Amy Winehouse with a badger in her behind beehive!

Post away- EVERYthing here is worthwhile. What is this secret PM that peter will not expose himself here?

(Careful .. . ... I believe an exposed peter IS grounds for cancellation of acct)

****Royal Edict #2****

~~~No secrets in Sillyville!!!!!!!~~~

~~~<or at least just keep their very exISTence a secret, ferpete'ssake!!!>~~~

Patti! You are a veritable Mucousorium...Take care....

Mucousorium...!!!

uh - what?

gimme a break - it made purrrrrrrphekt sense at 3 in the morning!!

OMG - I am tooooooooo tired to be silly. and delirious............ got nuttin' to say.......

<she's not saying "gitcher minds out da guttah" anymo'>

Oh gawd....first the frantic search for absinthe, and now I must find me a cowbell and thingy to hit it with.....

OK, we have two Sillies in AbsintheQuest.

Em's depan-something hopefully has some.

Pseuzee? Does PhrezMo BevMo even stock it? I think it's at least 50/50 you end up at the Lincoln Ave one after all.

[elye]

Heehee I hear ya!

I had something TOtally Emmable & imho, unBevvable, but 'twere dingo'd.

(I swear I wrote the above before seeing p734!!)

Too phuneeee!!!

Well, we lost another newbie . . . must have been Em'd.

Gaaaahhh! Yyyyesssss!!

And now we have Nefertiti. And she is amazing.

[blueeyedmanda]

Tom- thanks for the insight!!! I always love a surprise trip!!! Yea!!!!

[elye]

Oh great!!!! Is that where we're rendezvousing

YES!! New York City!! Where we can be top of the heap, Kings of the hill, A-number ones....

We can make a brand new start of it....

...and I've got me some vagabond shoes, as well......

Sounds like somewhere you'd go on a school trip....

Mum!, can you sign this form?,....my class is going to 'The Mucousorium' tomorrow

...Gad...I'd love to be a volunteer parent on that one....