The Funny Pages - Tickle Me Elbow - The Original

[elye]

Morning, Sillies!!

Nice to get back into the post-holiday swing of things... no more hushed wilderness, beautiful, quaint alpine villages, hottub, absinthe and stellar company...got my job, my laundry, my dirty house, my bored children....yes!!!

But I missed YOU GUYS! I'm back wif my silly clan.

Ah, but every single post you have ever made, all of them, are showing this avatar. Updates to your custom title, avatar and signature are retroactive. The board only keeps the current copy, and anyone looking at any post you have ever made sees the current one.

Omygaaaawwwwdd....

So my past posts full of sympathy and sound, gentle advice to that terrified newbie, offering serious direction and help, could be revisited by some poor sick member...looked at and quickly abandoned with the parting thought, "Elye. Gonna remember that name. Unconscious beside a toilet...Drunken slattern...why isn't Scott filtering the membership base?"

So, I guess it is a good thing that you are showing your good side to the camera.

...In a new pair of jeans, yet....

Piste is an English word, borrowed from the francais. Check your dictionaries.

Bain, oui. We saw all sorts of pistes of different creatures, mostly deer, as we snowshoed around Lac Dufour, the little waterway we sat on. Was looking for some yeti markings, or scat. Don't think he followed us up there, but I kept thinking about how it was such a yeti-ish place, and how happy he would be there. As I lay absinthed in the hottub one evening, I mumbled something about missing our yeti, and where could he be, and how great he is in a parade situation. Now that is how splendid my family is--NO ONE stared at me, let alone scrambled out of the water and into the cabin.

[Ridgewalker]

...In a new pair of jeans, yet....

Actually, the first thing I thought to myself when I saw your new av was, "Ooh, I like those jeans." The second thing was, "Wow, that bathroom is really clean."

[blueeyedmanda]

Morning Sillies!

Em--it's nice to see my other morning poster back, I was lonely!

[Jestgar]

******WARNING***** NON SILLY INTERJECTION

Hi all,

I read through the source article for the link you posted Tom. It's total crap on a bunch of different levels.

I can go through a point by point evaluation if anyone really wants, but the main point is that they put gliadin mixed with a soap onto antibodies already fixed on a slide and claimed a biological interaction.

No antibody tests in situ or in a biological solution. No tests on normals using the same method (it could just randomly stick about a third of the time under those very contrived conditions). Only 17 people.

It's about as valid as ordering a pizza in a snowstorm and concluding that all pizza delivery services take an hour, no matter what.

*******RETURN TO HILARITY********

[jerseyangel]

******WARNING***** NON SILLY INTERJECTION

Hi all,

I read through the source article for the link you posted Tom. It's total crap on a bunch of different levels.

I can go through a point by point evaluation if anyone really wants, but the main point is that they put gliadin mixed with a soap onto antibodies already fixed on a slide and claimed a biological interaction.

No antibody tests in situ or in a biological solution. No tests on normals using the same method (it could just randomly stick about a third of the time under those very contrived conditions). Only 17 people.

It's about as valid as ordering a pizza in a snowstorm and concluding that all pizza delivery services take an hour, no matter what.

I had no idea what to make of it--thanks, I knew you could put it all into perspective.

[DingoGirl]

[Edit: I see a Dingo!!! Bring on tales of glorious mountains, curmudgeonly hill-people, and hopefully only near-Destruction, Absinthetically speaking]

Dingy here, reporting for duty. It was a VERY rough couple of days....we have what is a nearly 30-year friendship coming to possible end...... I love her girls so much and they me - - this is too complicated and sad to go into so we'll just leave it at taht and get back to silly - - though I am in no way quite there yet........

mygawd - part of the problem is SLEEP DEPRIVATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For several nights in a row - strange environs, mainly - I got about three hours of sleep a night....and BTW - -

One of those nights was on absinthe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We opened the bottle of Kubler when we arrived at our VERY remote (very cool) destination in the Santa Cruz Mountains..........what a wondrous spot. Anywho, I was, um, still a bit hungover from the Southern Demonism Comfort.......but since darkness would be falling, we started w/ the stuff early afternoon.......sugar cubes, fork, water, ice...all of it. Um, it's not green.... and didn't particularly louche too well........AND TASTED LIKE EVERCLEAR!!!!!!!!!????? Actually, I believe David's quote was - "tastes like a$$"

We each drank a small glass - maybe two ounces each, w/ water adn sugar.....ummmmmmmmm.......no discernible buzz or magic thinking or hallucinations or anything like that.......no collapsing in outhouses........so we switched to wine. Very little of it, though, I was wiped out from night before. But get this - - I had the most WIRED insomnia - - absolutely WIDE AWAKE until about 3 a.m. - HEINOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (cold in that unheated cabin, also)

So........that is my disappointing story of the phaerie!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Will try it again - we have more than 3/4 of the bottle left (or - as David said - "send it to Ptaum!")

Something strange happened to me today. A friend/roommate of my mom's when she was in university called me today and wants to meet me for lunch on Wednesday . I guess she got my phone number from my dad. My mom stayed in some contact with her throughout the years but not really close I don't think. I only met her a couple of times. She was kind of vague about why she wanted to see me. I'm very intrigued and confused. (not really sure what that emoticon means and not really sure how I feel!)

Alex! what can this be?

oh - this is for Alex and others who think we all live like this - esp on 4th of July:

<we've seen this before but it always cracks me up>

Susie, I'm sorry to hear that you are having a mixed feeling day. I'm so glad you had a stellar weekend with David, but I'm sad that things went sour after your return to Phrezzno. I'm confident that things will continue to get better in your life.

thanks Peter.

David and I are more in love by the day.........my parents met him Monday night.....it was mutual - my mom is out of her mind over him.........he's the EASIEST KISSEY to be around!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mygawd, just realized something. There is no bloody way I can make an appearance on any other thread, for any reason, with this avatar in place.

oh you most certainly CAN, and you WILL - I insist

Actually, the first thing I thought to myself when I saw your new av was, "Ooh, I like those jeans." The second thing was, "Wow, that bathroom is really clean."

*snort* exactly

Amanda - so sorry about your excitement, then disappointment.....harrumphhfffff!

Tom - I can feel your frustration over that article - and it sounds like our brilliant scientist blasted the theory!!!!!

Forgot everything else. Still very tired. But Kissey and I had sooooooooooooooo much fun.......hard to even believe it or imagine. I look at him every day and say, you are a MIRACLE.........................

more later........

[Judyin Philly]

Susie........thrilled to see you posting.

I say a THANK YOU to the guy upstairs everynite you found David.

love and hugs

Judy

[elye]

Actually, the first thing I thought to myself when I saw your new av was, "Ooh, I like those jeans." The second thing was, "Wow, that bathroom is really clean."

Susie! So happy you had a wonderful time away on your sojourn, as I did. My absinthe experience (and that of brother, sister and DH) was very....nice. Our stuff was quite sweet, so I couldn't have much...don't like having to bolus like that with cane sugar. I will repeat that I'm just ecstatic that you've got David right now.

Thank you for the scientificness, Jess. Knew you'd shed some needed light.

It's kind of crazy here....will go into detail later, as not much is yet known. My dad went into emergency yesterday with pneumonia, but they believe it is compromising his heart, so he's being shipped to our Heart Institute. We'll see....my mom is now also sick, possibly pneumonia as well. She's still at home and her doctor has phoned in an antibiotic for her. Must get the pills and groceries for her, take stuff to my dad (hope he's not currently some sumo wrestler, or Britney Spears, or I'll never find him in the hospital).....

More later......Keep sillyin'!

[Darn210]

Prayers and Hugs for ye dad an' mum, Emily.

[nikki-uk]

Superb av Emily!!!!!.....the cabin sounds magical

Also ( I think we all agree girls?) Great jeans, & really clean bathroom noted ...wait ...is the seat down?????

....hope your Mum + Dad get better soon

Hubby has made the most delicious rhubarb crumble and I can only salivate as after yet another disastrous 'weigh-in' at slimming club ..... I MUST knuckle down......I've done loads of diets (successfully) over the yrs.......but this is the first time i've tried while being gluten-free AND IT'S IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!

Love Bev's road signs ...(boo on the blood pressure )

Susie nay impressed by the phaerie???? ..........tastes like a$$????? ...........EW ....another brand MUST be tried toot sweet!!!!!!

Got nowt phunny really....must try harder

[DingoGirl]

Susie........thrilled to see you posting.

I say a THANK YOU to the guy upstairs everynite you found David.

love and hugs

Judy

he is my miracle.....thank you, dear lady

Hubby has made the most delicious rhubarb crumble and I can only salivate as after yet another disastrous 'weigh-in' at slimming club ..... I MUST knuckle down......I've done loads of diets (successfully) over the yrs.......but this is the first time i've tried while being gluten-free AND IT'S IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!

'tis heinous, is it not?

Here's my advice....fall madly in love wif Terry again, get all giddy n' stuff and stay up late, making out - - I"ve lost four pounds!

Emily - prayers for your dad!

[nikki-uk]

Ooooo Alex is posting...any news on the mysterious lady wanting to meet????

TOM - ALSO GREAT AV imitating our oracle's.......but WHO is that small child with no legs?????

[nikki-uk]

Here's my advice....fall madly in love wif Terry again, get all giddy n' stuff and stay up late, making out - - I"ve lost four pounds!

<SPLUTTER> ......<CHOKING ON TEA>

NO CHANCE MATEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[~alex~]

Emily, I hope both of your parents get better speedily. They're very fortunate to have you to help them out.

So I met with my mom's university friend. She had accidentally taken a box of my mom's stuff when they've moved out of the place they shared and thankfully she is a bit of a pack rat so she had kept it all these years and discovered the box in her basement a little while ago. We're talking a totally amazing treasure trove of my mom's stuff. Photos of my mom in her early 20's, pictures and paintings she did, some poetry she wrote, a little piano piece that she composed. It's so amazing! I'm over the moon!

I'm not sure why she was so cryptic and vague about why she wanted to meet with me but she just seemed a little awkward. Motherless children tend to make people awkward, I find. But she relaxed once we had been talking for awhile and told me some great stories. I think we're going to get together again next time she is in town.

[jerseyangel]

:It's kind of crazy here....

Emily, many prayers for your dear mom and dad Keep us posted when you can and take care

<SPLUTTER> ......<CHOKING ON TEA>

NO CHANCE MATEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ah the differences betwix the long-marrieds and the newly in love

Susie--David said "tastes like a$$"

[jerseyangel]

So I met with my mom's university friend. She had accidentally taken a box of my mom's stuff when they've moved out of the place they shared and thankfully she is a bit of a pack rat so she had kept it all these years and discovered the box in her basement a little while ago. We're talking a totally amazing treasure trove of my mom's stuff. Photos of my mom in her early 20's, pictures and paintings she did, some poetry she wrote, a little piano piece that she composed. It's so amazing! I'm over the moon!

I'm not sure why she was so cryptic and vague about why she wanted to meet with me but she just seemed a little awkward. Motherless children tend to make people awkward, I find. But she relaxed once we had been talking for awhile and told me some great stories. I think we're going to get together again next time she is in town.

What a happy reason to want to meet! I agree she did make it sound a bit more....mysterious

How lucky that she did keep the box all these years--enjoy going through your mom's things, what a wonderful find

[nikki-uk]

So I met with my mom's university friend. She had accidentally taken a box of my mom's stuff when they've moved out of the place they shared and thankfully she is a bit of a pack rat so she had kept it all these years and discovered the box in her basement a little while ago. We're talking a totally amazing treasure trove of my mom's stuff. Photos of my mom in her early 20's, pictures and paintings she did, some poetry she wrote, a little piano piece that she composed. It's so amazing! I'm over the moon!

ALEX!!!!!!!!

That is FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!

Another 'piece' of your Mum for you + your brother to hold onto

[DingoGirl]

TOM - ALSO GREAT AV imitating our oracle's.......but WHO is that small child with no legs?????

been wondering same. WHAT IN HELL is that?

<SPLUTTER> ......<CHOKING ON TEA>

NO CHANCE MATEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hmmmmmmm........... absinthe, maybe? we've got a nearly-full bottle I can ship over.........

(BTW not a HINT of sweet - I put not less than FIVE sugar cubes in mine - blech )

So I met with my mom's university friend. She had accidentally taken a box of my mom's stuff when they've moved out of the place they shared and thankfully she is a bit of a pack rat so she had kept it all these years and discovered the box in her basement a little while ago. We're talking a totally amazing treasure trove of my mom's stuff. Photos of my mom in her early 20's, pictures and paintings she did, some poetry she wrote, a little piano piece that she composed. It's so amazing! I'm over the moon!

this is just about the most EXCITING thing ever!!!!!!!! a box of memories and treasures!!!!!! wow!

OMG - today is the 20th anniversary of my dad's death! so long ago. um.....I'm not sad - - people will ask my mom and me if we want him back - we look askance at one another and say - well, only if he was in that gentle and weakened condition of his illness - - <he was scary smart and rather.......difficult........mighta been a gluten-brain >

[nikki-uk]

hmmmmmmm........... absinthe, maybe? we've got a nearly-full bottle I can ship over.........

(BTW not a HINT of sweet - I put not less than FIVE sugar cubes in mine - blech )

OMG!!! You NUT!!!!!!!!!

5 SUGAR CUBES????

Not even the phaerie can encourage me into all nighters that ARE in fact illegal after 20 years of marriage.

<he was scary smart and rather.......difficult........mighta been a gluten-brain >

20 years IS a long time - your Dad must have been young???

...NO need at ALL to tell ME how difficult the 'gluten brained' can be

(BTW ..also love your kissey² av )

[tom]

[Emoti-limited aGAIN!!!]

Aaaaaagh too much catching up to do already - more the posting than reading, but had it on hold hoping slow brain would speed up to at least 0.4Mach Silly.

(Gonna delve in cuz it always disturbs me to post 10hrs after-the-fact - feels irrelevant by then & I miss out on any possible back&forth)

Em!! Sugar already in the bottle! I hadn't heard of any like that.

Maybe my taste buds are weird for liking the taste just fine w/out sugar.

". .. ....Drunken slattern...why isn't Scott filtering the membership base?"

As I lay absinthed in the hottub one evening, I mumbled something about missing our yeti, and where could he be, and how great he is in a parade situation. Now that is how splendid my family is--NO ONE stared at me, let alone scrambled out of the water and into the cabin.

I read through the source article for the link you posted Tom. It's total crap on a bunch of different levels.

Oh THANK you Jess!!!

I thought the article had some grand overstatements, but your review certainly puts a stop to all the crazy, mentally unhealthy thoughts I couldn't rid myself of.

AND now I don't have to look up agarose gel, M-component etc!!!!

Dingy here, reporting for duty. It was a VERY rough couple of days....we have what is a nearly 30-year friendship coming to possible end...... I love her girls so much and they me - - this is too complicated and sad to go into so we'll just leave it at taht and get back to silly - - though I am in no way quite there yet........

This is so saddening to me I'm torn whether to quote it at all.

Not that you can get it out of your thoughts anyway I'm sure.

The kid side of it never came to mind. Imagining a fallout w/ Teresa wherein Nic&Nat are ripped out of my life creates an emoti-physical cocktail of my heart ripped out, an empty pit in my gut and genuine fear.

(I am NOT used to extreme feeeeeeeelings!!!!)

<why fear? Makes no real sense & I almost neeeeeeeed things to make sense>

Before they moved from SJ, my Mom had spent time w/ us all & imagined I'd walk them down the aisle for their weddings.

(Gahhhhh!!! Stupid feelings!)

One of those nights was on absinthe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

. . . . and didn't particularly louche too well........AND TASTED LIKE EVERCLEAR!!!!!!!!!????? Actually, I believe David's quote was - "tastes like a$$"

WTH??? I let it sit for maybe 15min & it gets way past cloudy - opaque as milk even.

By then the entire room is olfactorally absinthated.

Pre-louche tho does taste overly alcohol-y.

I like the incredible mix of flavors once it's ready!!!

How about next time making it an experiment w/ extra glasses prepped differently, incl one sugarless?

We each drank a small glass - maybe two ounces each, w/ water adn sugar.....ummmmmmmmm.......no discernible buzz or magic thinking or hallucinations or anything like that.......no collapsing in outhouses........so we switched to wine. Very little of it, though, I was wiped out from night before. . . .

. ... So........that is my disappointing story of the phaerie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:o

Not enough?? An intrusion into The Land of The Phaerie by that Discomfort of The South??

Maybe mountains are Nymph territory & Phaeries have rules. Perhaps moonshine suits the locale better. Keep an eye out during extended hikes for stills.

David and I are more in love by the day.........my parents met him Monday night.....it was mutual - my mom is out of her mind over him........

Em - hoping for the best for Dad & Mom.

Has every heard the saga of Gilligan's Mary-Ann?? Busted for pot but her story is a crackup.

When asked about a marijuana smell, Wells said she'd just given a ride to three hitchhikers and had dropped them off when they began smoking something.

Always blame hitchhikers!!!!!!

[jerseyangel]

Has every heard the saga of Gilligan's Mary-Ann?? Busted for pot but her story is a crackup.

When asked about a marijuana smell, Wells said she'd just given a ride to three hitchhikers and had dropped them off when they began smoking something.

Always blame hitchhikers!!!!!!

Hee Hee! I read about it last night....did you see her mug-shot?

[tom]

Yes Susie, another great av.

"At Last Chance"??? The compound has a NAME!?

Here's my advice....fall madly in love wif Terry again, get all giddy n' stuff and stay up late, making out - - I"ve lost four pounds!

TOM - ALSO GREAT AV imitating our oracle's.......but WHO is that small child with no legs?????

'Twas about time I'd used it.

It's from Christmas & the tyke is the younger nephew there.

So I met with my mom's university friend.

. .. .

What a wonderful fantabulous surprise!!!!

hmmmmmmm........... absinthe, maybe? we've got a nearly-full bottle I can ship over.........

(BTW not a HINT of sweet - I put not less than FIVE sugar cubes in mine - blech )

<shudder> FIVE!!!!! Blech is right!

[blueeyedmanda]

Em- I have you parents in my prayers (((HUGS)))

Alex-that is so cool, what a great reason to meet. SO SO Cool!

Susie- sooo nice to see you happy and in love!

Hi all other sillies!

[elye]

Wow...a busy day in Sillyville. I HATE it when I have so much to do and my hectic day does not correspond with any one else's. Too much to catch up on!

hmmmmmmm........... absinthe, maybe? we've got a nearly-full bottle I can ship over.........

(BTW not a HINT of sweet - I put not less than FIVE sugar cubes in mine - blech

Funny how our stuff has cane sugar added, which makes it taste very much like Ouzo or Sambuka. Ours got cloudy after we added ice, and more so as it sat. A lovely, deep green. I was injecting quite a bit more regular insulin at suppertime, and hoping for a severe insulin reaction which would require me to have several glasses.

Hee Hee! I read about it last night....did you see her mug-shot?

Mygawd....and she was the cute, wholesome one, as I recall.....

Alex, that is a terrific treasure for you to pour through...you may find some truly wonderful, magical things in this special box.

Going to see Dad tonight. He's doing a lot of sleeping. Getting an angiogram tomorrow, and perhaps another angioplasy afterwards. Pneumonia is holding steady, certainly no worse. Man, I just keep forgetting that this man is eighty-three... He is SO very young at heart and in mind....this episode has rudely reminded me of the way things really are, and that he is an old man. A funny, special, loving old man.

[tom]

Patti - yes .. .. mug shot .. .. .ayeeee . ....sure wouldn't guess Dawn Wells if I only saw THAT.

Funny how our stuff has cane sugar added, which makes it taste very much like Ouzo or Sambuka. Ours got cloudy after we added ice, and more so as it sat. A lovely, deep green.

Did you say what brand it was?

Do you still remember?????

. .. . A funny, special, loving old man.

Yes indeed .. . .<must call my Dad>