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Thanks, Jazzie! I won the Early Bird Badge, too, and that one I've been trying for since God was a baby, I think.

Another hourly game I play just purely to humiliate myself completely is Fill Me In. It's not pretty.

Reply #1221. Apr 04 11, 12:10 AM

Hey, you win some (you've seen an exploding sheep*), you lose some (FMI). :)

(*Or so you say... :P)

Reply #1222. Apr 04 11, 1:18 AM

I know, Loch, I know -- I really need to get "The Day The Ewe Blew Up All Over You" story down on paper, or at least on MB, but it's going to potentially be LONG!

RJ, I want your permission, just one more time, to really hijack your blog to tell my tale of tails and woe and a lotta lanolin and wool flying through the air.

And since you're the only one I am certain who will actually believe me when I say that sheep really and truly do explode, I not only want your permission to tell my story in here, I want you to back me up when everyone says, "Oh, no way, you made that up!" You just cannot make up stuff like this! Trust me. Truth -- always stranger than fiction.

P.S. Loch, I also won The Crystal Ball with a truly winning word... um... oh hell, I mean heck, I forgot the word! But it won! My first and possibly only other winning word was "caesarean". That one required some thought. The one I won earlier was... um... hmmmm...

Reply #1223. Apr 04 11, 10:21 AM

"Windfall"! It was "windfall"! That was my winning word worth 1,000 points, but not another badge. I love the Crystal Ball Badge, though. It's so shiny and new, and you can play with it!

I also just resurrected the "make a story from a song title" thread, too, or whatever it's called. That one was deader than a sheep bloating in the sun, but I'm trying to breathe new life into it. Just the idea of it appeals to me, but it might be because I desperately need sleep. Or! It may be that it's a fun thread!

Let's resurrect it and find out!

Who's with me? Raise those paws, hooves, hands and glasses high!

Reply #1224. Apr 04 11, 10:24 AM

Elle, I believe that sheep can explode, and that popes can, as well. Anything's possible, and all's for the best in the best of possible worlds, and hitch your wagon to a star and you'll not fail.

*Brushing my mother off my shoulder*

I've won the Crystal Ball only once, with the word "swoosh." You know how the award announcement comes swooshing right at you? Scared the livin' lanolin outta me!

Reply #1225. Apr 04 11, 10:45 AM

Loch, great word! And I LOVE how the announcement that you have won comes swooshing up at you! The only thing missing are fireworks and a marching band!

I do think it's funny, though, that if you try to post that announcement anywhere, like, to your team on your Team MB because it's a fun win, you can't use all the exclamation points the site uses to congratulate you as the winner!

Some players haven't won that one yet, so I tried to "show" them how exciting it really is when you win, but it wouldn't allow me to copy it exactly because of all the exclamation points! Too funny!

Reply #1226. Apr 04 11, 11:25 AM

RJ, I don't know what you're eating in that photo, but I want to go to dinner with you, just based on the ambiance alone! "I'll have what he's having..."

Reply #1227. Apr 04 11, 11:30 AM

Oops sorry Blackie. I haven't been checking here as often as I should. That pic was taken in New Orleans. I'm finishing up a bowl of Gumbo which was preceded by the best Blackened Catfish in the world. I'm washing it all down with a draft of Abita Gold not as good as Abita Purple Haze but they didn't carry it.

Reply #1228. Apr 04 11, 4:19 PM

RJ, do you recall the name of the restaurant? It's familiar enough that I think I may have eaten there, too. Oh, how I love New Orleans. The food alone makes it worth the trip! And we tried to eat everywhere at least once in the time allowed, so we did a LOT of eating.

I went with a group of friends, and we made it a point to have cafe au lait and beignets three times a day at the Cafe Du Monde. Sometimes four, but always at least three times a day. I loved all the spilled powdered sugar, and the little line of ants marching along those sugar trails!

I wanted to go back and rent a little house in the French Quarter and stay for a month. Rent was ridiculously inexpensive, the food was indescribable, the music and nighttime activities were all just too much fun, and we rented mountain bikes for $1.00 a day to do a little more 'sploring than we could do on foot, when we wanted to do a little branching out.

The Spanish Quarter in St. Augustine, Florida, is fascinating, too, but I think of New Orleans as another world entirely, not just a city.

And gumbo! And jambalaya! And crawfish etouffee`! And oysters on the half-shell, shucked right in front of you and eaten raw! And piles and piles of crawfish until you were ready to burst! And frog legs! And alligator balls! And softshell crabs!

And for the faint of heart, "alligator balls" are little chunks of alligator meat, sort of scooped out with a melon ball scooper, and then battered and fried.

The frog legs I had were enormous, and they tasted not unlike the swamp they came from. I wasn't wild about the alligator balls, either, and the raw oysters were an adventure I probably wouldn't try again just from a health and safety standpoint, but at the time, I was up for anything! And since I could see the water from where I sat eating the little darlings, and since they were so fresh, and kept on ice and so cold, I took a big old walk on the wild side. But unlike everyone else who was "shooting" them, I cut them into tiny, bite-sized pieces and actually ate them with a fork and chewed them, which made the rest of my group moan and almost gag! Go figure! If you're going to eat something, don't you kind of think tasting it is part of the experience? I wanted to taste them, so I cut them up and chewed. They were really tasty, too, but I do prefer oysters battered and fried, and I ate a lot of those while I was there, too. And besides, it was kind of fun, in a mildly sadistic kind of way, to make all the "shooters" almost gag watching someone else actually "eating" them.

"Spending A Month In New Orleans" is on my Top Ten List Of Things I Want To Do Before I Die. It didn't make the Top Five, but it's definitely on the Top 10, coming in at #6.

But I digress... do you recall the name of that restaurant?

Reply #1229. Apr 06 11, 12:36 AM

I love Bull Durham, I love Crash Davis, and I DO believe you can breathe through your eyelids like the Lava Lizards of the Galapagos Islands. But do you also believe in this? You left it out, so I have to ask? "... and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days."

Reply #1230. Apr 06 11, 12:47 AM

Approximately, yes.

Reply #1231. Apr 06 11, 4:19 PM

"Approximately"??

Reply #1232. Apr 08 11, 1:09 AM

One day, two days, whatever it takes!

Reply #1233. Apr 08 11, 1:22 PM

I don't think it's a matter of the race to the swiftest. Kisses (of the right kind) should be extended for as long as possible, and then some.

I should know. I've won the title "World's Best Kisser" innumerable times....

Reply #1234. Apr 08 11, 1:36 PM

(Kisses (of the right kind) should be extended for as long as possible, and then some.)

Wouldn't that leave the kissers unconscious?

The idea of marathon kisses kind of leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Reply #1235. Apr 08 11, 2:18 PM

I'm not speaking of one long kiss, but of a series of them! Done well, it's seamless and paradisaical.

Reply #1236. Apr 08 11, 2:42 PM

Don't the UKers call kissing snogging? I'm trying to imagine Crash Davis speech on what he believes in with snogging in place of kissing. I don't know. It loses a bit of romance "and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet snoggs that last three days."
Kind of gives me the creeps actually.

Reply #1237. Apr 09 11, 4:46 PM

sian19

Well, lets hope the man will shave very, very often during the three days of wet snogging. three hours would be enough for me.

Imagine it. if you were kissing a man with a stubble or a beard, the woman's chin would be raw.

no thank you very much.

Reply #1238. Apr 09 11, 5:04 PM

Jazmee27

I couldn't agree more

Reply #1239. Apr 09 11, 8:03 PM