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The Funny Pages - Tickle Me Elbow - The Original


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Green12 Enthusiast

Count me in Lisa, I have no idea where it is, but I'll go anywhere at this point. I was going to go to Phoenix in the middle of summer just to be able to get away :lol:


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Lisa Mentor
Lisa - did you miss the question? . . . or are you trying to avoid me? :unsure: . . . are you anywhere near Asheville? (Perhaps organizing psilly ashevilly summit?)

Oops, question. Asheville is all the way across the state from me. Way far away B). It would be fun to meet in Asheville. It's beautiful country.

Lisa Mentor
Count me in Lisa, I have no idea where it is, but I'll go anywhere at this point. I was going to go to Phoenix in the middle of summer just to be able to get away :lol:

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Great, the more the merrier!

blueeyedmanda Community Regular

Morning Sillies!

Another hot day. I am here at work. I have had trouble getting to sleep the last 3 nights so I am dragging, and I am having a hard time breathing. I take Allegra as needed and I notice if I dont take it for a few days I get this way. The trouble is in my chest not stuffiness.....it is very uncomfortable.

Off to start some work....not overly excited about that though.

Darn210 Enthusiast

*sigh*

I've decided to invite Edna over for a while . . . even though she's annoying and no fun at all.

*sigh*

Hey, do you think I can lose 20 pounds before I leave for vacation?? a week from Friday?? :lol:

Jestgar Rising Star
*sigh*

I've decided to invite Edna over for a while . . . even though she's annoying and no fun at all.

*sigh*

Hey, do you think I can lose 20 pounds before I leave for vacation?? a week from Friday?? :lol:

Easily. Just tuck the scale into the cupboard and start telling everyone that you've lost 20 pounds. By the time Friday rolls around everyone will believe you, and what every believes must be true....right?

jerseyangel Proficient

Hydee ho all :D

I couldn't get onto the phorum all morning until about 10 minutes ago.....I thought the board was down, but I see that's not the case. M-m-m--m :huh:


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Hydee ho all :D

I couldn't get onto the phorum all morning until about 10 minutes ago.....I thought the board was down, but I see that's not the case. M-m-m--m :huh:

Well, something is going on . . . this site is slower than dirt today. What's Pscaught up to today? He's not going to change the coloUr again, is he??!!!??

Well, I've spent four hours with Edna so far . . . do I sound thinner??

Jestgar Rising Star
Well, I've spent four hours with Edna so far . . . do I sound thinner??

And younger! :P

nikki-uk Enthusiast

Evening psillies!!

Good to see Soozle checked in on her thread - poor love, much thought of....

Quick drive by - chaos reigns here....Tel (day2) putting laminate wooden flooring down in Al's room.......requiring my help every now and again <hold the wood while he cuts it and stuff :blink: >

Dust, dust, saw bloomin' dust

Hideous wet weather....Al still ill (not eating) AND a incredibly boring 'Annual Educational review' of devil child :rolleyes:blah,blah,blah.....

GADS!!...those 'professionals' don't 'alf waffle on.......I could of said what was needed in 2 minutes flat :rolleyes:

Devil childs teacher is in fact a New Yorker,....maybe I should have asked her to pull my finger to lighten the mood?? :unsure::lol:

Boris is the new squeaky toy of Will, the pecking order battle IS ON!!

MEOW

I've decided to invite Edna over for a while . . . even though she's annoying and no fun at all.

Like a vampire, Edna has to be invited in - but she ain't no barrel of laughs....it's all about denial with her!! :angry:

I couldn't get onto the phorum all morning until about 10 minutes ago.....I thought the board was down, but I see that's not the case. M-m-m--m :huh:

I felt (as Queen) your post count is excessively high and so blocked your entry to this site

I am LOVING the power B)

;)

JANET!!!!......slower the dirt??? :unsure: ......WTH does that mean?????? :lol: ....you nut!!!

Green12 Enthusiast

I am having trouble with the phorum too, phunny things are happening when I click on all the buttons and such.

Patti said hydee ho :lol:

I am here at work. I have had trouble getting to sleep the last 3 nights so I am dragging, and I am having a hard time breathing. I take Allegra as needed and I notice if I dont take it for a few days I get this way. The trouble is in my chest not stuffiness.....it is very uncomfortable.

:( Amanda, did you have the asthma checked into?

Well, I've spent four hours with Edna so far . . . do I sound thinner??

:lol: Why Janet you sound like you've lost a good 5 lbs!!! That Edna works miracles!

Green12 Enthusiast
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Great, the more the merrier!

Looks like a really great place!

Like a vampire, Edna has to be invited in - but she ain't no barrel of laughs....it's all about denial with her!! :angry:

:lol::lol: Nikki

I can't believe you are knee deep in a fabulous decorating project and I'm not there to help! Sorry about Al being sick still, I hope he feels better soon :)

Phorgot to comment on yer new avatar of wee Boris, what a cutie. It looks like he's all paws, might just be the angle of the picture?

curlyfries Contributor
*sigh*

I've decided to invite Edna over for a while . . . even though she's annoying and no fun at all.

*sigh*

Hey, do you think I can lose 20 pounds before I leave for vacation?? a week from Friday?? :lol:

Edna's been busy at my house....don't know if I can spare her at the moment.....(gotta warn ya, though...she works awefully slow)

Sven is here too, pulling up all the carpet......(Yeti never showed up)

Hydee ho all :D

I couldn't get onto the phorum all morning until about 10 minutes ago.....I thought the board was down, but I see that's not the case. M-m-m--m :huh:

It took a while before I could get on, also <_<

blueeyedmanda Community Regular

The Phorum is acting up for me too....terrribly unphunny! My pages wont load half the time. Its crazy, where are all the other sillies?

elye Community Regular
Its crazy, where are all the other sillies?

I'm HERE, I'm HERE!!

Gawd, I leave the phorum and head to lands unseen, and just look what happens.... . everyone's connections become tenuous, keys and commands do not respond correctly....and I am no longer even Psilly Regeant!

Everyone, please relax. I will be back in Ottawa on Saturday, and the fine celestial balances will reconnect.

OH! Speaking of Edna, she has been with me throughout NYC and Philly. It is impossible to keep her happy, fully present and accounted for. I keep losing her.....a couple of glasses of wine here, a high-fat gluten-free muffin there..... :angry: Grrrrrrr.......

But Sven and I continue to rendezvous and maintain our strong, lasting love affair. Two great hotel gyms so far, two great runs through Central Park and up the Rocky Museum steps.....

No wonder I'm tired. <_<:huh:

Patti!!!!! Twenty-four hours or so.......

I wonder if we'll really surprise one another? Physically and/or psychologically...

Trying to come up with all the disclaimers and warnings I should be giving to someone about to meet me, face to face, for the first time..... :huh:

I promise... .. .I only scare people away in print...... . .never (well, all right, rarely) in person. :lol:;)

jerseyangel Proficient
I've decided to invite Edna over for a while . . . even though she's annoying and no fun at all.

Yes...please invite her over...I'm getting sick of her <_<

Well, I've spent four hours with Edna so far . . . do I sound thinner??

Positively svelt! B)

I felt (as Queen) your post count is excessively high and so blocked your entry to this site

I am LOVING the power B)

Nik!! I thought you were me mate! :o:o I can't believe it twas you who locked me out! :lol:

The Phorum is acting up for me too....terrribly unphunny! My pages wont load half the time.

Unphunny fer sure....my "quote" function is still not working right. Every time I hit it, it shoots me back to the top of the page :angry: Pain in the arse :P

I'm HERE, I'm HERE!!

Gawd, I leave the phorum and head to lands unseen, and just look what happens.... . everyone's connections become tenuous, keys and commands do not respond correctly....and I am no longer even Psilly Regeant!

Everyone, please relax. I will be back in Ottawa on Saturday, and the fine celestial balances will reconnect.

OH! Speaking of Edna, she has been with me throughout NYC and Philly. It is impossible to keep her happy, fully present and accounted for. I keep losing her.....a couple of glasses of wine here, a high-fat gluten-free muffin there..... :angry: Grrrrrrr.......

But Sven and I continue to rendezvous and maintain our strong, lasting love affair. Two great hotel gyms so far, two great runs through Central Park and up the Rocky Museum steps.....

No wonder I'm tired. <_<:huh:

Patti!!!!! Twenty-four hours or so.......

I wonder if we'll really surprise one another? Physically and/or psychologically...

Trying to come up with all the disclaimers and warnings I should be giving to someone about to meet me, face to face, for the first time..... :huh:

I promise... .. .I only scare people away in print...... . .never (well, all right, rarely) in person. :lol:;)

Gawd Em, you gotta get home so all will be right with the world again.....of course not till after tomorrow :D

Ah--the disclaimers :lol: Glad I'm not the only one thinking this way! I'm afraid you'll be thinking "what am I doing here with this old hag" :lol::lol:

I tell ya, this is a first for me--knowing someone a couple 2-3 years and then meeting face to face. Do you think we'll just sit there like this-- :huh:

Hee hee--you ran up the "Rocky Steps"!! Did you go inside the museum? Love that place!

Mtndog Collaborator

Uncle Ray says hello!!!!!!!!!

Recent studies had demonstrated that beer contains female hormones. If you want to keep being a man, read carefully the article published last year in Scientific American by Dr. Flower.

To prove their theory, 100 men where given 12 pints of beer each and observed the following:

* 95% started talking nonsense.

* 100% couldn't drive.

* 75% found themselves prettier than their friends.

* 25 % felt the ugliest persons in the world.

* El 90% had tendency of gaining weight.

* 100% had Paranoia and thought others where talking about them.

* 80% started crying without reason.

* 80% wanted to spend their money in nonsense.

* 100% wanted to pee every 20 minutes.

* 75% felt uncomprehended.

* 85% thought they knew it all.

* 100 % experimented lack of coordination.

* 85% couldn't recognize their own errors.

* 75% told their miseries to strangers.

* 80% started calling their ex girlfriends at 3:00 a.m.

* 75% lost all sense of reasoning.

Definitely there are female hormones in beer.....

:lol: :lol: :lol:

blueeyedmanda Community Regular

Emily you are too much for the states!!!!!

Darn210 Enthusiast
Easily. Just tuck the scale into the cupboard and start telling everyone that you've lost 20 pounds. By the time Friday rolls around everyone will believe you, and what every believes must be true....right?

While I like this idea, unfortunately, it doesn't help my clothes fit any better. Edna's been here for 8 hours!!! That's the longest she's stuck around in a year (not counting the Stomach Flu Edna at Christmas).

Nikki . . . Edna is a vampire . . . :lol::lol: . . . and "slower than dirt?". . . well, what do you think dirt's top speed is? . . . exactly!!

BeveRAY . . . :lol::lol::lol:

jerseyangel Proficient
(not counting the Stomach Flu Edna at Christmas).

(((Shudder))) :o That's one heinous Edna!

Jestgar Rising Star

sooo, this may just be a female thing, but:

Ya know how sometimes you go into a multi-stalled bathroom, and there's someone in a different stall, and you start doing whatever you came in there for, and from the next stall there's either dead silence for the duration of your visit, or else there's some gratuitous rattling of toilet paper and blowing of nose, but nothing else?

Just what is it they're doing in there that they think other people don't do in a bathroom?? Reading subversive material? Playing ping pong? What?

If I had more time I'd be tempted to just hang out in my stall and see if anything substantial ever happened next door.

Mtndog Collaborator
Emily you are too much for the states!!!!!

Well- we knew that!!!!!!!!! :lol: :lol:

While I like this idea, unfortunately, it doesn't help my clothes fit any better. Edna's been here for 8 hours!!! That's the longest she's stuck around in a year (not counting the Stomach Flu Edna at Christmas).

BeveRAY . . . :lol::lol::lol:

EGADS- BeveRAY :lol: :lol:

Edna Schmedna.......I started a garden club called WAW (as in whaaaaa....Women against Weeding) :P I think I shall start an anti-Edna club. Hmmm.... what shall we call it?

WAD ( :lol: :lol: Women against dieting?)

The Sven talk is cracking me up because we have Kurt's cousin and fiance visiting from Sweden. His cousin has informed me that Sven is a OLD guy's name in Sweden. :lol: That's about the speed of my Svenning this year!!!!!!!!!

Mtndog Collaborator

Jess :lol: :lol: What would women's subversive reading material in a bathroom stall consist of? :lol:<_<

More BeveRAY:

A farmer named Seamus had a car accident. In court, the lorry company's hot-shot solicitor was questioning Seamus. "Didn't you say to the Police at the scene of the accident, "I'm fine?" asked the solicitor. Seamus responded: "Well, I'll tell you what happened. I had just loaded my favourite cow, Bessie, into the..." "I didn't ask for any details", the solicitor interrupted, "just answer the question - did you say, at the scene of the accident, "I'm fine!"? Seamus said, "Well,I had just got Bessie into the trailer and I was driving down theroad...."

The solicitor interrupted again and said, "Your Honour, I am trying to establish the fact that at the scene of the accident, this man told the police on the scene that he was fine. Now several weeks after the accident, he is trying to sue my client. I believe he is a fraud. Please tell him to simply answer the que stion." By this time, theJudge was fairly interested in Seamus' answer and said to the solicitor: "I'd like to hear what he has to say about his favourite cow,Bessie".

Seamus thanked theJudge and proceeded. "Well as I was saying, I had just loaded Bessie, my favourite cow, into the trailer and was driving her down the road when this huge lorry and trailer came through a stop sign and hit my trailer right in the side. I was thrown into one ditch and Bessie was thrown into the oth er. I was hurt, very bad like, and didn't want to move. However, I could hear old Bessie moaning and groaning. I knew she was in terrible shape just by her groans. Shortly after the accident, a policeman on a motorbike turned up. He could hear Bessie moaning and

groaning so he went over to her. After he looked at her, and saw her condition, he took out his gun and shot her between the eyes. Then the policeman came across the road, gun still in hand, looked at me, and said, "How are you feeling?"

"Now what the Hell would you say?"

DingoGirl Enthusiast
Ya know how sometimes you go into a multi-stalled bathroom, and there's someone in a different stall, and you start doing whatever you came in there for, and from the next stall there's either dead silence for the duration of your visit, or else there's some gratuitous rattling of toilet paper and blowing of nose, but nothing else?

Just what is it they're doing in there that they think other people don't do in a bathroom?? Reading subversive material? Playing ping pong? What?

If I had more time I'd be tempted to just hang out in my stall and see if anything substantial ever happened next door.

a nano-second poop-in and this is what I saw. :lol:

Jess, clearly you have too much time alone w/ your dingo thoughts in those stalls. Why don't you get one of those fake/joke pigtail-like piles of rubbery poop - or a flattened heap of plastic vomit - and......just plop it on the floor, within visible range of your stall neighbor?

that could be fun..................

exhausted........going to nap now.......................

:weaksmile:

Jestgar Rising Star
Jess, clearly you have too much time alone w/ your dingo thoughts in those stalls.

:lol: :lol:

Spending lots of time in the potty. Havin' a bad fibroid week. Was waiting for my boss to do his evening check in yesterday so I could send him to the store to get some tampons. Fortunately (unfortunately?) he didn't come by. Would have loved to see his expression :P

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