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The Funny Pages - Tickle Me Elbow - The Original

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jerseyangel Proficient
jerseyangel
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Alex!!!!!!!

Welcome back :D So very happy that you enjoyed your wedding so much--we were all thinking about you.

Much happiness to you and Ryan. :)

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elye Community Regular
elye
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Congratulations, Alex!!!!

How'd your first dance go? :):)

Darn210 Enthusiast
Darn210
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YaY Alex and Congrats!!!! Now don't you be telling us too much about the wedding night . . . you know how easily we're shocked and don't like to share information about ourselves!!!!

I'll be the first 'merican to ask . . . What is May 2-4? Some sort of drinking holiday? Get drunk then set off fireworks?? Sounds like a grand plan.

tom Contributor
tom
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Mrs. Alex somethin' is back!!!!!!!! :) :)

Glad your day was that great. :)

Congrats!

So . . . I'm a righty with straight hair and I do like math. Spelling on the other hand has always been my nemesis.

Oh sure .. . .as she correctly spells nemisis nemesis.

One more in the Math column!! :D

And if I'm not back before the weekend, happy May 2-4 to my fellow Canadian sillies. Since we're all diabetic I guess none of us will be drinking a 2-4. Either of you doing fireworks?

Now THIS I gotta hear more about!!

It's a drink? A day? Not the 2nd thru the 4th? The 24th? No .. .that's not this wkend .. ... :confuzzledface:

jerseyangel Proficient
jerseyangel
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. . . you know how easily we're shocked and don't like to share information about ourselves!!!!

:lol::lol:

Perish the thought!

elye Community Regular
elye
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I'll be the first 'merican to ask . . . What is May 2-4? Some sort of drinking holiday? Get drunk then set off fireworks?? Sounds like a grand plan.

Every holiday up here is a drinking holiday! The grandest of plans, to be sure..... :lol:B)

We celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday on the third Monday In May, and it makes up a three-day weekend. We call our cases of 24 beers a two-four, and this weekend is May two-four, even though there is no connection to beer, and it rarely falls on May 24th. Yeah I know.....Only in Canada...... :rolleyes::lol:

curlyfries Contributor
curlyfries
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Royal proclamation:

Lisa (curlyfries) has been enthusiastically participating, so I will waive the usual admission tests and welcome her as well.

Welcome to Sillyville. :)

=^..^=

Peter

WOOHOO!!! (oops, I digress)

(clears throat)

I humbly bow before your royal presence -_-

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DingoGirl Enthusiast
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Every holiday up here is a drinking holiday! The grandest of plans, to be sure..... :lol:B)

We celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday on the third Monday In May, and it makes up a three-day weekend. We call our cases of 24 beers a two-four, and this weekend is May two-four, even though there is no connection to beer, and it rarely falls on May 24th. Yeah I know.....Only in Canada...... :rolleyes::lol:

:blink:

what?

guess I"ll drink to that.

Laura, happy to see you, hope your yuckiness on new med passes. :)

ALEX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! congratulations and glad you enjoyed it so much! I imagine that if I had a wedding day, I would find it very traumatic (center of attention and all that)...... :huh: Welcome back!

curlyfries Contributor
curlyfries
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Jack's next query is most interesting: He wants to know who the most interesting character is when you google your own name.

Nothing too exciting when I google my name....a realtor, an author, an employee suing Pepsi. When I google my birth name I get a musician and an artist who does mostly silly cats. Now those are people I can relate to :D

When my mom was choosing a name for me before I was born, she liked the name of the Playboy centerfold :P for January of the year I was born. She had never before seen the name LISA. The only Lisa's I have met have been younger than me.

(wondering how old I am aren'tcha?)

elye Community Regular
elye
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Lisa!! You were named after a Playboy Centrefold Girl?! Wow...what a claim to fame!! ;)B):D

curlyfries Contributor
curlyfries
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Lisa!! You were named after a Playboy Centrefold Girl?! Wow...what a claim to fame!! ;)B):D

Yup :rolleyes:

Can anyone top that?

jerseyangel Proficient
jerseyangel
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Eve'nin' all :D

I hope tomorrow is a much better day for Susie, Taughm and Laura :) I'm saying an extra prayer tonight for all of you. ;)

I Googled my name, and came up empty :huh:

It's a beautiful, warm evening here...Mark and I ran to Wal Mart a little while ago and drove through the country a little before heading home. :)

Green12 Enthusiast
Green12
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Eve'nin' all :D

:lol: I was going to say the exact same thing Patti!

So many funnies over the last few pages I have missed..I wanted to reply to it all, but was busted for too many quote blocks and then lost it all, POOP :(

Congratulations to Alex, sounds like you had a lovely day!

Tom and Susie sorry about your struggles and Laura on the new med, you guys must feel better soon!!!! And no Bev sighting?? I am afraid that means she isn't feeling so good either :(

I just got my allergy test results back and I'll have to totally change up my Edna :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Oh, and I googled my name, the most exciting thing that came up was a character in a mystery novel :lol:

tom Contributor
tom
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I Googled my name, and came up empty :huh:

Well, you & Janet & Julie can have a few of mine.

(Dibs on the Medal of Honor one & the Chicago DJ!!)

You'd think I was John Smith or something!

So many funnies over the last few pages I have missed..I wanted to reply to it all, but was busted for too many quote blocks and then lost it all, POOP :(

No Magic Triangle???? :angry:

I wonder if Scott is aware of how often this happens.

For the computing world, I think it's a LOT!

Oh, and I googled my name, the most exciting thing that came up was a character in a mystery novel :lol:

Ooooh!! Didja check to see if you're a killer or a victim or a detective or ... .. . .

Thx all for the wellwishes. Felt good today and DO expect tomorrow to be better. :)

curlyfries Contributor
curlyfries
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on a serious note.............Sillies, I don't think my Effexor is working at all. :( wondering if I should switch.......

I know I'm new around here, but how long have you been on Effexor? My DD used to be on that....and several others at different times. Many of the ones she tried worked at first, but after a while became ineffective. She hated to keep changing and was sure nothing would ever work. She's been doing really well for over a year, but I don't know what it is she's been on. I'll have to ask.

BTW, what kind of jewelry do you make?

blueeyedmanda Community Regular
blueeyedmanda
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Morning Sillies....boy did the board have some spam last night!

Alex welcome back!!! details please!!!! I love weddings!!!!

I googled my name...eventually my work information comes up...

elye Community Regular
elye
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Morning, Sillies!

I went walking in a big, overgrown expanse of field near our house last night, and there is an active train track at one end. Trains rarely come by - - it's usually at night and we'll hear it's long, plaintive whistle (there is nothing like that sound) and the engine rumbling quietly....Anyways, last night I heard it coming in the distance. Well, you should have seen Elsie! I thought she would be terrified, as she is shy and gentle, but the train began to chug by in the distance and her ears perked up, she stared, and was gone! Racing full kilter after it like it was a huge metal rabbit. After I stopped laughing, and regarded Gus who was trotting happily in her wake, saying to himself, "for Gawd's sake...it's a bloody train! Save this for a groundhog", I yelled at her to come back, which she did. Promptly. Too phunny.... :D

I Googled my name, and came up empty :huh:

Patti! I'm so disappointed for you! By all means, take one of Ptaoughmn's...did he have any circus performers in his list? :lol:

Darn210 Enthusiast
Darn210
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I yelled at her to come back, which she did.

WoW!! . . . I don't think my dog would.

Need to vent about my childrens for just a minute . . . my son gave me his cold . . . and do we have any Kleenex in the house?? Well, I thought we did!!! Instead, all the little stuffed animals, have beds, pillows, covers, capes, scarves, tents, you name it, they've got it and its made out of Kleenex!!!

jerseyangel Proficient
jerseyangel
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Hi Sillies :D

Amanda--Yes, I did notice the spam from last night, there has actually been quite a bit the last few days.

Ha Emily.....I think I shall choose one of Ptaumn's for meself! I will peruse his and pick a good'un, I mean, since I can actually pick mine..... :lol:

Aw Janet, a spring cold...heinous :angry: Hope is a quickie :P Or maybe one would help... :unsure::lol:

Darn210 Enthusiast
Darn210
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Hope is a quickie :P Or maybe one would help... :unsure::lol:

:o:o Patti!!!!!

Nope, didn't help . . . :lol:

jerseyangel Proficient
jerseyangel
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Nope, didn't help . . . :lol:

:lol:

blueeyedmanda Community Regular
blueeyedmanda
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You guys I look terrible....I have these two blotchy patches of red rashed skin on both of my cheeks.....looks like sunburn but its not....my cheeks are red hot too.....I tried cream but it burned them.....ouch!

Ridgewalker Contributor
Ridgewalker
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on a serious note.............Sillies, I don't think my Effexor is working at all. :( wondering if I should switch.......but you know something? I loathe the idea of going to dr. to ask for something else, admitting defeat, thereby admitting that the gluten-free diet is NOT the complete cure for depression, as I have declared it is.....

but my thoughts and brain are so awful and dark, and I feel completely hollowed-out and dull beyond belief. :(

Susie, what dose are you on now? I was on 75 mg daily, and as you know I recently had to increase it. I'm at 150 mg daily now, and feeling much better. I had been on 150 before, and eventually dropped it down. I had been at 75 for about a year and a half.

I definitely think these things have to be adjusted every so often, whether it be dosage or trying something new!!!

Gotta run for now, but I'm going to Google myself later. (That almost sounds dirty.)

elye Community Regular
elye
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Need to vent about my childrens for just a minute . . . my son gave me his cold . . . and do we have any Kleenex in the house?? Well, I thought we did!!! Instead, all the little stuffed animals, have beds, pillows, covers, capes, scarves, tents, you name it, they've got it and its made out of Kleenex!!!

:lol::lol:

Janet.....this calls for some heartless but necessary action. You're gonna have to use one of the capes....

You guys I look terrible....I have these two blotchy patches of red rashed skin on both of my cheeks.....looks like sunburn but its not....my cheeks are red hot too.....I tried cream but it burned them.....ouch!

Amanda! You are about to make what perhaps could be judged a big flipover (4500)....Perhaps we get skin irritations at the smaller flipovers once we get high enough, and the fluid deluges at the thousand-marks. Susie, did you hit a 500-flipover when you went to the cabin? These rules could change throughout the duration of this thread, so we must be ready. Perhaps King Peter has been briefed on such matters....

:lol:

nikki-uk Enthusiast
nikki-uk
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Hi all! I hope everyone's been well. The wedding went off without a hitch!

:D So glad you and Ryan had a fab day!!!!!!!

We celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday on the third Monday In May,

You do?? :huh:

How quaint

I'm going to Google myself later. (That almost sounds dirty.)

OMG!!!!!

Sarah's googling herself!!!

STOP THAT!!!!!!!!!

:lol:

Amanda!!! What a beautiful pic of your niece!

Phartoughimnnnn's scared of Madame Jestgar :lol:

Good evening all sillies!!! :D regulars, newbies AND occasional pooper-iners

T'is raining with a vengeance here :angry: ....the price we must pay for 10 days of summer...BAHHHHH!!!!!!!!

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