The not so serious thread V

[Camino Chrissy]

And this is 1,400

Kudos Turga!...you are s l o w, but arrived at the right moment. Here is your virtual gift , a set of new camino boots for your next adventure.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Kudos Turga!...you are s l o w, but arrived at the right moment. Here is your virtual gift , a set of new camino boots for your next adventure.

Chris gave you all lefts.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Good question, Rick. I'll bet you were good at discovering problems on the job before reirement, and solving them with glue.

Never use glue
when duct tape will do.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Never use glue
when duct tape will do.

101 duct tape uses for dummies.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Chris gave you all lefts.

No, I gave Turga all rights.

 

[nycwalking]

And this is 1,400

Congratulations!

 

[nycwalking]

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Did you say Russian?

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Did you say Russian?

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Well, of course the Russian wasn't happy, he was almost arrested for traveling without a valid passport.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Well, of course the Russian wasn't happy, he was almost arrested for traveling without a valid passport.

And he had no QR code to prove he was vaccinated...ooops, it was pre-covid: how foolish of me to assume it was 2021.

 

[Turga]

Whoo-hoo! I just found out that I won 2nd price in the weekly lottery on Saturday! I had 6 out of 7 numbers right on a by-chance ticket. I'm rich! I won 1,900 Kr. (approx. 255 Euros ).

Drinks are on me!

(Just one more number right and the prize could have been 7,000,000 kr. - approx. 940,000 Euros, argggh )

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Whoo-hoo! I just found out that I won 2nd price in the weekly lottery on Saturday! I had 6 out of 7 numbers right on a by-chance ticket. I'm rich! I won 1,900 Kr. (approx. 255 Euros ).

Drinks are on me!

(Just one more number right and the prize could have been 7,000,000 kr. - approx. 940,000 Euros, argggh )

Wonderful for you, Turga! Your winnings even surpass the win you received on the #1400 post...can't remember what we all gave you though.
Btw, this is one thing I appreciate about the Not...it's a place for us to stay connected and occasionally share something personal about our lives. I recall you once share about being a new grandpa a couple of years ago(I think)...I have no grandkids.

 

[Bristle Boy]

Whoo-hoo! I just found out that I won 2nd price in the weekly lottery on Saturday! I had 6 out of 7 numbers right on a by-chance ticket. I'm rich! I won 1,900 Kr. (approx. 255 Euros ).

Drinks are on me!

(Just one more number right and the prize could have been 7,000,000 kr. - approx. 940,000 Euros, argggh )

My son (when he was a young boy) joked that my mothers numbers were rubbish. He gave her six numbers (which she wrote down but didn't do anything else).
After the draw she asked if I had bought him a ticket as 5 of the six had come up.
I said I knew nothing about it and he would have won £2000.
Oh well...you've got to buy a ticket.
I'm just happy to get one

 

[Turga]

Your winnings even surpass the win you received on the #1400 post.

The winnings on this thread are priceless - can't be measured in money!

I recall you once share about being a new grandpa a couple of years ago

Yes, little Nora, she is a sweetheart, but I guess that goes for all grandchildren

 

[Bristle Boy]

The winnings on this thread are priceless - can't be measured in money!



Yes, little Nora, she is a sweetheart, but I guess that goes for all grandchildren

And that son made me a Grandfather as well.....priceless.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Oh well...you've got to buy a ticket.
I'm just happy to get one

Get "one" what?
I've never bought a lottery ticket, but I once received one in a Christmas gift exchange. It was the gift that ended up being an UNgift...just like the 100th post gifts we give to the lucky winners on the Not.

 

[Bristle Boy]

Get "one" what?
I've never bought a lottery ticket, but I once received one in a Christmas gift exchange. It was the gift that ended up being an UNgift...just like the 100th post gifts we give to the lucky winners on the Not.

One number.....

 

[Camino Chrissy]

And that son made me a Grandfather as well.....priceless.

I happen to know that you and Turga are the only ones of the six of us that are grandparents...the rest of us are still too young.
Gotta run now..., later Peeps.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Whoo-hoo! I just found out that I won 2nd price in the weekly lottery on Saturday! I had 6 out of 7 numbers right on a by-chance ticket. I'm rich! I won 1,900 Kr. (approx. 255 Euros ).

Drinks are on me!

(Just one more number right and the prize could have been 7,000,000 kr. - approx. 940,000 Euros, argggh )

I hope this story is true. I read that a man had the winning numbers for both the Massachusetts and Rhode Island lotteries at the same time BUT the Rhode Island number was on the Massachusetts ticket and the MA number was on the RI ticket.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

I have no grandkids.

But you've got time. We'd have to adopt a single mom.

 

[Turga]

I hope this story is true. I read that a man had the winning numbers for both the Massachusetts and Rhode Island lotteries at the same time. BUT the Rhode Island number was on the Massachusetts ticket and the MA number was on the RI ticket.

This is when you do not want to have a loaded hand gun around the house!....

 

[Camino Chrissy]

You boys all take a your turn at being hilarious!

 

[Camino Chrissy]

For the two old grandpas on the Not...enjoy.

 

[Turga]

As a lottery winner I have been out looking for some serious real estate and I found this. It's slightly over budget, but I believe there is some wiggle room (I mean, 255 Euros should be quite a juicy bait, right?). What do you think...?

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[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Bid on this.

$535 million villa with world's only Caravaggio ceiling mural fails to sell

The Rome villa, which will require more than $10 million in repairs, failed to attract any bidders at auction.

www.cnn.com

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Bid on this.

$535 million villa with world's only Caravaggio ceiling mural fails to sell

The Rome villa, which will require more than $10 million in repairs, failed to attract any bidders at auction.

www.cnn.com

Turga would need more than twice as much as he won to buy it...
255 + 255 + 37= 547.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Turga would need more than twice as much as he won to buy it...
255 + 255 + 37= 547.

Unless no one else bids. It really hurt to compare what my small house on a quarter acre cost in 1985 to what this nearby place cost in 1994 (I later worked in one of the buildings).

The sprawling corporate headquarters complex of Wang Laboratories Inc. in Lowell, built at a cost of $50 million to $60 million, was sold at auction on Tuesday for $525,000.

An accountant, Louis Pellegrine, submitted the winning bid for the property, which includes three 12-story towers, two lower buildings, an auditorium that seats 500, two cafeterias, dining rooms and a parking lot with spaces for 600 cars. The headquarters complex, built in stages since 1980, is on 15 acres in Lowell, about 25 miles northwest of Boston.

BTW, I read today that the median price for a house in the US has just risen past $400,000.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Unless no one else bids. It really hurt to compare what my small house on a quarter acre cost in 1985 to what this nearby place cost in 1994 (I later worked in one of the buildings).

BTW, I read today that the median price for a house in the US has just risen past $400,000.

Then I must live in poverty in my 1400 sq.ft. home all paid for in a small town 100 miles from Chicago on 1/2 acre...glad I live where I do...more money for travel when I am ready. No noose around my neck.

 

[JabbaPapa]

 

[Bristle Boy]

Unless no one else bids. It really hurt to compare what my small house on a quarter acre cost in 1985 to what this nearby place cost in 1994 (I later worked in one of the buildings).

BTW, I read today that the median price for a house in the US has just risen past $400,000.

I've just come back from my multi million pound second home on the Kent coast.
In my part of the world they call it a "Premier Inn".
Our houses are an obscene price and we would kill for what you pay for your petrol (gas). When I was in Richmond (Virginia) I asked whether the price advertised was per litre and was told it was for a gallon....I nearly fainted.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

I've just come back from my multi million pound second home on the Kent coast.
In my part of the world they call it a "Premier Inn".
Our houses are an obscene price and we would kill for what you pay for your petrol (gas). When I was in Richmond (Virginia) I asked whether the price advertised was per litre and was told it was for a gallon....I nearly fainted.

Bummer, BB. And Rick on the east coast I think he has it worse than me here in the semi-boring Midwest...cuz he on the hoity toity east coast of the USA...aren't ya, Rick? And so does NYC in Los Angeles, Cali....it's all a fortune to live there, too.

P.S. Hose who live in Massachusetts have a funny accent, but Rick was determined to get rid of his...I can verify he accomplished it by Oct. 2019...Cali has no accent...It's Hollywood. They all talk like me...they must love the Midwest.

 

[nycwalking]

Bummer, BB. And Rick on the east coast I think he has it worse than me here in the semi-boring Midwest...cuz he on the hoity toity east coast of the USA...aren't ya, Rick? And so does NYC in Los Angeles, Cali....it's all a fortune to live there, too.

P.S. Hose who live in Massachusetts have a funny accent, but Rick was determined to get rid of his...I can verify he accomplished it by Oct. 2019...Cali has no accent...It's Hollywood. They all talk like me...they must love the Midwest.

House across street from my mom’s sold for 1.2million.

In the sixties houses were going for $20-30 thousand dollars.

Folks must be printing money in backyards and basements.

 

[Bristle Boy]

House across street from my mom’s sold for 1.2million.

In the sixties houses we’re going for $20-30 thousand dollars.

Folks must be printing money in backyards and basements.

I'm printing my £30.00 notes.
Edit.....only another 40,000 to go.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

House across street from my mom’s sold for 1.2million.

In the sixties houses we’re going for $20-30 thousand dollars.

Folks must be printing money in backyards and basements.

I hear ya, girlfriend...it's been what I've been hearing in your neck of the woods the past few years..crazy!
One day you will walk many a camino and not stop unless you so desire.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

I'm printing my £30.00 notes.

£30 notes may raise an eyebrow where you live. I'd stick with £20's if I were you. I saw online recently someone in the UK paid for something with a £100 coin and he was arrested until he proved he was Innocent. Weird...poor guy.

 

[Bristle Boy]

I see that a man in Spain has been charged with selling a meteorite. The charge was wrongful possession.

Apparently the alien wants it back.

Man charged for trying to sell a 4,500 year-old meteorite fragment

The suspect was arrested after the rock was put up for sale online

www.independent.co.uk

 

[nycwalking]

I'm printing my £30.00 notes.
Edit.....only another 40,000 to go.

I’ve been printing lavender 1.000 dollar bills.

Cannot pass them. Maybe I am constipated.

 

[Bristle Boy]

I’ve been printing lavender 1.000 dollar bills.

Cannot pass them. Maybe I am constipated.

I would use a laxative ink.

 

[nycwalking]

I hear ya, girlfriend...it's been what I've been hearing in your neck of the woods the past few years..crazy!
One day you will walk many a camino and not stop unless you so desire.

Next time I am on flight to camino no kicking seat backs.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

I’ve been printing lavender 1.000 dollar bills.

Cannot pass them. Maybe I am constipated.

Lavendar? love the fragrance! I'll pay whatever it takes to get a whiff of that! (That's a nose, btw...nothing else.)

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Next time I am on flight to camino no kicking seat backs.
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I actually had someone do this to me on my last overses flight...the nerve! Every time I tried to relax, he pushed my seat back up to a sitting position...made me so mad, but I'm a laydee and said nothing, but I was angry.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

I would use a laxative ink.

Is there such a thing?

 

[nycwalking]

Is there such a thing?

Yes.

Peg’s got it.

BB bought it from her.

Don’t tell Rick. He doesn’t yet know.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

When I was in Richmond (Virginia) I asked whether the price advertised was per litre and was told it was for a gallon....I nearly fainted.

Prices for regular gas varies by location in US now from about $3.00 to $4.60 per gallon (OK, CA). Google says about 0.67 pounds, 0.80€ per liter.

Prices here according to AAA auto club: CA $4.579 (highest), IL $3.573, MA $3.369, OK $3.022 One place in CA is about $8.50.

 

[nycwalking]

Prices for regular gas varies by location in US now from about $3.00 to $4.60 per gallon (OK, CA). Google says about 0.67 pounds, 0.80€ per liter.

Prices here according to AAA auto club: CA $4.579 (highest), IL $3.573, MA $3.369, OK $3.022 One place in CA is about $8.50.

We’re paying $4.19-$4.50 in Los Angeles.

Last March/April had prices dropped to mid $2’s.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Stupidity contest.

hi do you still have the PS4

Yes, I still do.

are you willing to negotiate? 260

It's listed for 240 though

yes i know I can pay 260

That's a higher price

fine, 250

 

[nycwalking]

Stupidity contest.

hi do you still have the PS4

Yes, I still do.

are you willing to negotiate? 260

It's listed for 240 though

yes i know I can pay 260

That's a higher price

fine, 250

Exactly!

When will sanity return?

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

£30 notes may raise an eyebrow where you live. I'd stick with £20's if I were you.

Trouble is that the overhead is higher; the costs go up by 50%.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

I see that a man in Spain has been charged with selling a meteorite.

Some guys in India just got arrested for trying to sell whale vomit. They might have gotten a million. They might have gotten away with it if they had advertised it as porpoise poop.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Cannot pass them. Maybe I am constipated.

Maybe, but wait a bit. Change takes time.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Lavendar? love the fragrance! I'll pay whatever it takes to get a whiff of that! (That's a nose, btw...nothing else.)

First wait to see if NYC is really constipated or not.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Yes.

Peg’s got it.

BB bought it from her.

Don’t tell Rick. He doesn’t yet know.

I thought it was the plums.

 

[Bristle Boy]

Maybe, but wait a bit. Change takes time.

You'll know when change comes....it rattles in the pan.

 

[nycwalking]

First wait to see if NYC is really constipated or not.

To be in or to be out.

That is the ?

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Exactly!

When will sanity return?

When people stop playing video games.(I had to google ps4).

Trouble is that the overhead is higher; the costs go up by 50%.

What overhead?

Some guys in India just got arrested for trying to sell whale vomit. They might have gotten a million. They might have gotten away with it if they had advertised it as porpoise poop.

That's a whale of a tale.

Maybe, but wait a bit. Change takes time.

I've warmed a few toilet seats in my life, waiting.

First wait to see if NYC is really constipated or not.

I've waited four hours...that's long enough.

I thought it was the plums.

Apparently it's prunes Barbara needs.

You'll know when change comes....it rattles in the pan.

My change rattles in my piggybank.

To be in or to be out.

That is the ?

Well, NYC...is it still in or did it come out?

 

[nycwalking]

 

[Bristle Boy]

News from the UK.

There was an interesting discussion this morning on BBC "Breakfast".
Penny Lancaster (Rod Stewart's wife) and Mariela Frostrop were interviewed concerning the issues that women face with regard to the menopause.
At the end of the of the interview it transpired that a pressure group were going to march and lobby Parliament to discuss and raise the issues and.....to demand change.

 

[Bristle Boy]

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When I've played Patience there has been nobody there.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

discuss and raise the issues and.....to demand change.

I stopped having issues after I had "the change". No further discussion was needed from me...a miracle.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

When I've played Patience there has been nobody there.

Brilliant reply, BB! I had to google this...It's interesting what one simple capital letter can do for a definition.
"pa·tience /ˈpāSHəns/ noun
(Definition #2)
BRITISH
Any of various forms of a card game for one player."

I have been impatiently waiting my whole adult life to acquire more patience...I'd say all that waiting has required a lot of patience.

 

[nycwalking]

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

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That's scary (and I like licorice).

Edit: The worst wurst would be to add pumpkin spice too.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Happy Cat Day Chris. Skip the app. It's a dog.

 

[Bristle Boy]

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There are a few variations of this product.

There is a fatty version....Tallowweiners.
A sweet version for toasting over an open fire....Mallowweiners.
And finally a version lightly dipped in liquorice.....Shallowwieners.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Happy Cat Day Chris. Skip the app. It's a dog.

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Rick, that's old news cuz Cat Day was yesterday. I dress up for it and have posted my photos all over google...take a look.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

There are a few variations of this product.

There is a fatty version....Tallowweiners.
A sweet version for toasting over an open fire....Mallowweiners.
And finally a version lightly dipped in liquorice.....Shallowwieners.

I'll take the Malloweiners. I need to be sweetened up a bit.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Rick, that's old news cuz Cat Day was yesterday.

Sorry. The dating app that I have is a real dog too. Every few years it indicates that February has 29 days!

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Sorry. The dating app that I have is a real dog too. Every few years it indicates that February has 29 days!

I always wished my birthday was on February 29th...no fake UNbirthdays would be needed to roll back the years. I'd officially only be...17. Yay!
EDIT...I can't find the song, so deleted the title.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

I always wished my birthday was on February 29th...no fake UNbirthdays would be needed to roll back the years.

Or you could start celebrating your birthday like this:

 

[Turga]

Or you could start celebrating your birthday like this:
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In Celsius I'd prefer to be around 37 - at 18 I'd be 'a stiff'

 

[Camino Chrissy]

In Celsius I'd prefer to be around 37 - at 18 I'd be 'a stiff'

I had to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit... 98.6 is the perfect internal temperature. Very funny, Turga! At 18 years old you were probably often stiff.

 

[nycwalking]

I had to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit... 98.6 is the perfect internal temperature. Very funny, Turga! At 18 years old you were probably often stiff.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Fun with googly eyes

 

[Camino Chrissy]

A quirky Woody, Rick...is it your creation?

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

Stupidity contest.

hi do you still have the PS4

Yes, I still do.

are you willing to negotiate? 260

It's listed for 240 though

yes i know I can pay 260

That's a higher price

fine, 250

Stupidity , what do you think about this one.

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

Happy Halloween for those who celebrate it.

 

[Bristle Boy]

Stupidity , what do you think about this one.
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That's for the parents to celebrate the end of home schooling Peter.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

That's for the parents to celebrate the end of home schooling Peter.

That makes total sense...looks like about a month's worth.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Happy Halloween for those who celebrate it.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

A quirky Woody, Rick...is it your creation?

Nope. I'm not creative enough. This googly is for you Chris.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Stupidity , what do you think about this one.
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A back to school student special. Normally 3 for 8.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Nope. I'm not creative enough. This googly is for you Chris.
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I thought I had a bad case of acne...what a relief it's only all of my alter egos staring back at me in the mirror.

 

[Bristle Boy]

A back to school student special. Normally 3 for 8.

That what 2 years home schooling does.
I can never resist a good deal and always snap up the two for the price of three offers.

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

That's for the parents to celebrate the end of home schooling Peter.

That could be the reason.

 

[JabbaPapa]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1454226515177185290

 

[nycwalking]

 

[Turga]

That what 2 years home schooling does.

Did you attend school for two full years?! No wonder you are so smart!

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Seriously, that dog spider was funny. Also seriously, I was watching this video collection of pet costumes when I paused for spidey.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Seriously, that dog spider was funny. Also seriously, I was watching this video collection of pet costumes when I paused for spidey.

Hilarious! What will they think of next!

BTW... has anyone else noticed that the video "length" on Youtubes are not showing up on the forum? I wonder why? It no longer shows it on my phone...is it just happening to me?

 

[Bristle Boy]

Did you attend school for two full years?! No wonder you are so smart!

I split it up a bit. I attended for two whole years out of the eleven they insisted I went.
Sometimes you can get too much of a good thing.

 

[Turga]

Sometimes you can get too much of a good thing.

So true!

 

[Camino Chrissy]

So true!

Turga, I think you refer to this...

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

BTW... has anyone else noticed that the video "length" on Youtubes are not showing up on the forum?

Since when? I can't remember ever seeing the run times.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Since when? I can't remember ever seeing the run times.

Well if you touch the red line at the bottom you can see the time length normally. Such as when someone says what they are referring to is at the time frame 2:12 mintue mark, for example. Now I see nothing but the red line even when I move the curser farther over, but what do I know...I'm just a curious cat, not a clever cat.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Well if you touch the red line at the bottom you can see the time length normally. Such as when someone says what they are referring to is at the time frame 2:12 mintue mark, for example. Now I see nothing but the red line even when I move the curser farther over, but what do I know...I'm just a curious cat, not a clever cat.

That time over the red line as I slide I do see. I thought you wanted to see the time shown before even starting the video so you could decide if your inner kitty was interested.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

That time over the red line as I slide I do see. I thought you wanted to see the time shown before even starting the video so you could decide if your inner kitty was interested.

Well, I tease anout my short attention span, but if videos are too long (or boring)lol, I can go forward a bit faster. I checked your cute post again and I do not see any times on my Android smartphone, which is the only computer I use. Maybe I need to update my apps or possibly install a newer version of Youtube. I can ask a question on google if need be. My inner kitty is confused, but will get it sorted out before long, I'm sure.

 

[nycwalking]

 

[nycwalking]

 

[nycwalking]

 

[nycwalking]