The Funny Pages - Tickle Me Elbow - The Original

[flourgirl]

Kween Manda...is that the new palace? Verrrry Nice!

We all need to get the funk out of these doldrums....toot sweet. Tis the season for pushing and shoving in the market place, the stress of posting all of those packages and parcels on time, gathering in herds and grazing until you're in a daze. And don't forget those heart-warming carols....lke

Grandma go run over by a reindeer

Coming home from our house Christmas Eve

You can say there's no such thing as Santa

But as for me and grandpa we believe!

[curlyfries]

We all need to get the funk out of these doldrums....toot sweet. Tis the season for pushing and shoving in the market place, the stress of posting all of those packages and parcels on time, gathering in herds and grazing until you're in a daze. And don't forget those heart-warming carols....

GAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!.....Make it stop!

Tu-reigh-suhhhh......this does not help!

[jerseyangel]

Hi all--we were out all day (traffic was unbelieveable!). Just getting back and starting dinner......lots o' sillie today

Gawd Jess--yer holiday spread made me mouth water! I'm Italian, so we always had a meatless Christmas Eve. Meatless, but phar from a "fast": of any sort In the days leading up to Christmas Eve, my aunt and I would make about a dozen pies (literally), and christmas cookies. On the night of, we'd start wif deep fried smelt <drool> (and beer, if you were old enough--in our phamily, this meant about 13 ) and then just tons of phood like baccala (salt cod), linguini wif clams, pasta wif squid (red) sauce, pasta fazool, antipasto, and salads. Me grandpa would make roasted chestnuts, too. We'd sit down to eat around 6 or so and not get up till it was time to get ready for midnight mass.

That was when my whole extended family on my mom's side would get together.

Nowadays, we live away from everyone, and I do pork roast, german potato salad, pistachio salad, brussels sprouts, homemade applesauce and a couple desserts on Christmas--but it's just Mark, the boys, JP's girlfriend and me. I actually like a nice quiet Christmas

Em--hope Sophie and her team did well today!! Glad to hear the guys are on their way home.

Hee! Throbbing tools and zapped packages--and root canals! I've never had one, but Mark's had numerous ones--don't seem to phaze him at all. He's had most of his done (if not all, can't remember) by a regular dentist, but Matt had one last year and it had to be done by an endodontist--sumphin bout the root being crooked......

Christmas doldrums I'm fighting toof and nail (sorry Suz, fer the painphul toof reference ) against it meselph. Good thing we sillies have each other......we're all gonna come through the season phine

Gosh.....what else?? Dinner's actually beginning to smell good......I threw pork chops and an orange acorn squash in the oven and am doing me new favorite thing--garlic mashed potatoes Creamy, garlicky deliciousness

And Bev-----Hazel is just too cute!

[Jestgar]

and Jess - what in HELL is that in yer av - - I do see the word SILLY in the middle

Open Original Shared Link

[elye]

Go, Sophie!

YAAAAYYYYY!!!!! The Wildcats ended Gloucester's record.....they tied them, 2-2! This was so incredible, it's difficult for you guys to imagine - - The Wildcats were HUGE underdogs, not even expected to score against these girls, let alone hold them and get two. Terrific. . . . .

And hey there Co-Poohbah!! Shouldn't it be "try to" instead of "try and"?????!!

....Try not to. . . . ...

OMG... . .Ptaoughmghmn's Blue Googlers and his packaged chip. . . . . . .

I need to be able to eat sugary, chocolatey goodies

Tell me about it. . . . . . . ..

Well, I have the most heinous root canal story.

I'm sure I told you all the story of when Sophie had a horrific accident at her school as a twelve-year old - - the staff was completely libel, it was such unbelievable negligence on the school's part. . . . .anyways, she was very lucky - -did NOT break her jaw, or lose an eye, and her braces kept all four front teeth in, but they were smashed and bent back into her face. In fact, they looked like they were gone.....just a big space there, and then, when the blood cleared a little, I could see the teeth flat against the roof of her mouth :gagface: . . . .. Anyways, long story longer. . . .....this resulted in reconstruction and all four teeth root canalled. We did sue the school board, and it is ongoing. . .. . ..

But Soooozie, if a twelve year-old can can sit through it four times (and she did, silently and patiently ), you absolutely can, too!

Enuff of this horrid pseriousness!

Patti!! Yer phood talk! Mygawd, sounds glorious.....yours too, Jess!

[psawyer]

Congrats to Sophie. A tie is much better than the expected defeat. Gloucester's 16-game winning streak ended. As they sometimes say, "the puck stops here."

[elye]

Good Sunday morning, all!!

The boys are back . . . . . . laundry's happening. . . . ...

[nikki-uk]

Afternoon all !!!!!!!!!!!!<I'm still feeling a little delicate>

How long have I been missing????

Dear gaaaaaawd, slept fitfully ALL day on the settee yesterday, sipping water.....I am BAD

EM's got her men BACK!!!!!!!!!!! (you know, I felt there was something different today )

OMG!! HAZEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just know Hazel and Bev's Dad will get on like a house on fire!!! <I want her!!>

JOOLS!!!!!!!! Open Original Shared Link is a yummy dessert....gluten-free too!!

SOOzhee!!!...please don't make me talk about me root canal & crown (bad experience)....... and I got the cost covered by the NHS so I'm no help ..sorry ......but no pain now though

May try to eat summat today

[Jestgar]

We have snow!

We have snow!!!

We have Snow!!!!

♥♥♥♥

[elye]

We have snow!

We have snow!!!

We have Snow!!!!

♥♥♥♥

Uh, yeah . .. . . . so do we......falling as we speak. . . . . ..another 5 cm. .. . ...

[jerseyangel]

Happy Sunday Sillies!

No snow fer us today--it's sunny (fer a change) and to go up into the high 40's. I'm just glad it phinally stopped raining!

[jerseyangel]

Oh Nik--hope me greeting wasn't too loud fer ya

[Jestgar]

Uh, yeah . .. . . . so do we......falling as we speak. . . . . ..another 5 cm. .. . ...

:D

We must have, like, a whole inch!!

:happystayinginsideandlookingoutdance:

[jerseyangel]

Ok...I just got the "flat stomach" ad ...........yet AGAIN

Jeesh-- they don't gotta rub it in

[jerseyangel]

:D

We must have, like, a whole inch!!

:happystayinginsideandlookingoutdance:

Woo-hoo!! Grab ye a hot beverage and enjoy!!

[psawyer]

Quiet here today, isn't it? No snow in T.O. today. Jess, you can have all of it.

[elye]

We must have, like, a whole inch!!

:happystayinginsideandlookingoutdance:

YES!! I am presently donning the :stayinginsidelookingoutwatchingDSandDHshovelforachangeface:

Yup. Have at 'er, boys - - I've done my share fer the whole wintah!!

Ok...I just got the "flat stomach" ad ...........yet AGAIN

Dear gawd, meant to mention this. . . .. . .I have, in the last few days, not only the flat stomach ad, but a new, HUGE blue ad at the top of my screen, screaming "FLATTER, TIGHTER STOMACH RULES TO OBEY". Have not ever seen advertising of this magnitude before. The Google Guys can see me, I can feel it.

"Jeez, Christmas is around the corner. . . .....lookit her - - baking like that . . ....and did you see all the gravy she put on her chicken? And those gluten-free, sugar free chocolates, gone in an afternoon . . . ...time to put the heat on this one. Pull out the big fontage, there, and the electric blue". . . . .

[elye]

OMG. . . . . . .I just went to change my av, and at the very bottom of my profile page is in perhaps the biggest letters I've seen yet,

WHY IS YOUR STOMACH SO FAT?

Crap, like, tell me what's on your mind, why don'cha???

This is getting quite. . ...I dunno what. . . . . ..

Scary???????

[JNBunnie1]

Hey - where has Bunnie been? haven't seen her since the last blackout, have we?

Bunnie has been sucking at keeping up. Sorry. My life's been FREAKIN hectic lately, but sily as ever!!

[Green12]

Afternoon all !!!!!!!!!!!!<I'm still feeling a little delicate>

How long have I been missing????

JOOLS!!!!!!!! Open Original Shared Link is a yummy dessert....gluten-free too!!

May try to eat summat today

Nikki is delicate!!! Well Nik, you were missing for a day, we were about needing to send out the Dingo search party

Ohhhhhh, so a pavlova is a yummy?!?! I thought it a alcoholic beverage

Hope you can get back to eating today....that was some slimming club end of year blow out!! Was that the strategy, get ya so hungover you can no longer eat, thus dropping weight?!?!

We have snow!

We have snow!!!

We have Snow!!!!

♥♥♥♥

Yay!!!! We do too, tis a winter wonderland A very COLD winter wonderland, it's 0 degrees

Ok...I just got the "flat stomach" ad ...........yet AGAIN

Jeesh-- they don't gotta rub it in

OMG. . . . . . .I just went to change my av, and at the very bottom of my profile page is in perhaps the biggest letters I've seen yet,

WHY IS YOUR STOMACH SO FAT?

Crap, like, tell me what's on your mind, why don'cha???

I'm beginning not to like the blue google ad people.....mine says "#1 Flat Stomach Rule, obey". Read as OBEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They want me to lose 7 lbs of belly fat in one week. Very bossy, as well as unsafe.

And to top it off it is paired with an ad for gluten-free trail Mix. Well, which is it? Do you want me to have a flat stomach or eat??

Hope all Sillies experiencing the holiday duldrums are having a better day

[Green12]

Bunnie has been sucking at keeping up. Sorry. My life's been FREAKIN hectic lately, but sily as ever!!

Hey Bunnie! Glad you popped in, and good to hear your life is silly as ever. We like that around here

Emily, I just LOVE your avatar!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Darn210]

Emily!!! Lurve that av!!! That's Christmas card material!!!

Had to go look . . . Yes, those blue google adds are yelling (large font) now about the stomachs!!!! Get off my back!!! I said after Christmas!!!

Plus . . . one at the top advertising . . . WHEAT Crackers!!!!!! WTH!!!!!!!

Rain here today . . . and wind (<-- italics font to indicate word being blown over )

Good to see ya Bunnie . . . not such a good idea to send the search dogs after a bunnie . . . would they come back wif her??

[elye]

Hiya, Bunnie!! Very good - -you're managing to maintain a personal level of psilliness without us....but c'mon - - ya DO need us. . . .....

Hope you can get back to eating today....that was some slimming club end of year blow out!! Was that the strategy, get ya so hungover you can no longer eat, thus dropping weight?!?!

Yes, very effective! And perhaps the barph factor, as well. . . . .Nik, did you pull a Chocolate Soooozie Special??

I'm beginning not to like the blue google ad people.....mine says "#1 Flat Stomach Rule, obey". Read as OBEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They want me to lose 7 lbs of belly fat in one week. Very bossy, as well as unsafe.

It's so true, a VERRRRRRRY bossy, patronizing voice, to be sure. Kind of making me nuts. . .. .......it sounds remarkably like my MIL.

Holy gawd. . . .....you know, for an older lady, she is extremely computer savvy, and has a great deal of time on her hands .. . . . . . . ..

I think she could well be the Blue Google Guy.

Gaaaaahhh.. . . just like her, to barge on in here, my territory, and start ordering all of us around. . . . . . . ..... . you wait, next I'll be seeing things like, "WHY IS YOUR HOUSE DIRTY???" in her signature blue. . ... .. . ..

Janet!! Phorgot to mention my childhood LOVE of Clifford - -I'm right on board wif Smack. My own kids have never really taken to him, but I had every Clifford book I could get my hands on, and just idolized Emily Elizabeth, dreaming that she was named after me.

[flourgirl]

Hey guys!! Question for the day....Just how does one hoist oneself above and beyond the seasonal doldrums? When people used to ask me if I'm ready for Christmas, I always replied that it would steam roller over me whether I was ready or not

I avoid the shopping craze by picking things up here and there through the year....so that's not it. I've already decorated the house (as much as we're going to) so it's bright and cheery...so that's not it. I'm just not sure how to break out of this particular brown bag!

You all help, though. Thanks for being here!

[JNBunnie1]

Good to see ya Bunnie . . . not such a good idea to send the search dogs after a bunnie . . . would they come back wif her??

Thanks! I run quick, yer dogs'd never catch me. Ha ha!

So I made rockin pumpkin bread for Thanksgiving. And it only used honey, so I though Emily might be interested...........