No kidding!

Now, how cool is that, I ask you? You just know that I've got to try that first thing tomorrow!

Did you guys know this?

"The meter is defined as the distance traveled by light in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.

The standard for the kilogram is a platinum-iridium cylinder kept at the International Bureau of Weights and Standards in Sèvres, France."

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=measurement

That's got to be good for the company and its stock. Nice job, shmolton, on the DD.

This is truly amazing. Here, take this cruiser and we'll keep the oil changed and the tires rotated.

...a $543.9 million U.S. Navy contract to support and maintain ships transferred to foreign navies...

Man, you drive a hard bargain. Ok KKDs, but they still have to be cake donuts.

Well, it worked for Grandma and Grandpa. I don't see why it wouldn't work for the kiddies. Although Gramps was good at spitting out the gag along with his false teeth.



j/k

not really.

(If my brother or sister is reading this, I'm really kidding.)

Cake donuts? And will you make that two dozen? And would you get them from Dunkin Donuts instead of Krispy Kreme?

Also a car wash, a free massage, and 3 days off work with pay?

I appreciate your fiscal concerns for your state. I'd feel the same in your shoes because Dell has a big facility in my state over in Nashville. But after the way I was treated, I'm almost ready to throw the Dell I'm typing on right now out the window.

You have handcuffs to fit your husband?

Here's why I love living in the mountains: My lilac bushes are in full bloom, the weeping cherry is just past full blossom, the hardwoods are already fully leafed out, the softwoods not far behind, the lawn is thick and green..... and it's snowing like crazy!! I mean it is snowing so hard you can barely see across the road.

I guess this situation escalated past a simple time out....

SPX intra-day chart, 10 days, 15-minute slides.

Is this not a market to be cautious in, or what? Nice recovery right there at the end of the day on Friday, I find slight encouragement in that. Very slight.

Today's vocabluary builder: Intimate as a verb. That's a long A at the end. Accent on the first syllable.

It means to suggest or imply. Also to hint.

He intimated that he would like to be alone with Miss Piggy.

My wife and I looked at each other about half way through Spanglish and both said at the same time, "Hit the fast forward".

On our DVD player you can go at twice the normal speed and still get the closed captioning at the bottom of the screen, so that's how we watched the rest of the movie. You don't get any audio, just the dialog. But in the case of this movie, that was probably a blessing.

I can only give it 2 quarts of popcorn oil out of 5.

Voiceover: Hello, this is Dominoes pizza. Can I take your order please?

Caller: Yes, I'd like a large thin crust pork sausage pizza please.

Voiceover: Sorry, sir, our pizzas are on backorder right now. Could I interest you in a nice cheeseburger? You want fries with that?

We enjoyed the last ½ of Sideways a lot. The first ½ was pretty slow and it took the director a long time to build the story line and the character definitions.

Some parts of the movie were absolutely hilarious. We gave it 4 Hershey bars out of 5.

File this under the category of "things good to know". Last year I was complaining to my regular Doctor that, among my other aches and pains, I had had some low back pain for the past couple of weeks.

He showed me how to stretch my calf muscles and told me that would make the low back pain go away.

Following his advice, I stretched away that evening, and when I got up the next morning my lower back pain was gone!

Whoa now. How can that be? Nevertheless, I stretch my calf muscles every day now, and I have not had any lower back pain since then.

He told me it makes you walk with a more upright posture. Incorrect posture, both sitting and walking, are usually the causes of lower back pain, he said.

Now do the other side of your desk with the other forearm. Repeat as required. Rinse.

You can get a pizza at Staples?

...and the Domino's Pizza, I will probably go out today and buy one at Staples!!!

Carolyn who? And yes, she does look hot, whoever she is.

I always liked that movie, for some perverse reason. Especially the last 30 minutes.

I had 100,000 at .024 that I sold at .035 on Tuesday. So I feel a little of your pain. Actually I feel 5% of your pain. But that really does suck.

Why can't I stop looking over my shoulder and watching what a stock does after I sell it? I never learn anything from it, I'm too busy kicking myself! *&#@$()#@*_)&*

Speaking of bad movies... we were speaking of bad movies, weren't we?

Stay away from Corn. Avoid it like the plague.

A pregnant woman is afraid of the field of genetically modified corn growning in a field next to her farm house. Her sheep are sticking their heads through the fence to eat the weeds growing along the ends of the cornrows, and then it makes them agressive.

But it takes 1 and ½ hours to get there, and the ending is so flat and boring that I wanted to take the DVD out and smash it with a hammer. Too bad it was a rental, or I would've done it.

I'll show you agressive, by golly!

I would like to share you an example of the WORST customer service I've ever experienced:

We have a Small Business Account with Dell Computers. My boss insists that the way we buy computers from Dell is to get an order total from them, then we overnight them a check, then they ship the equipment.

Up 'till now this hasn't caused anyone at Dell any heartburn, as a matter of fact I even have a contact to call at Dell that handles this unusual situation for us. At least he did the last time.

I got my order together, a new desktop PC and some other things, called my contact, and he gave me the name and number of a Small Business Sales guy I could contact to place the order with.

So I call the sales guy, he's on the phone, I leave him a voice mail message and follow that up with an email message. He must've fallen off the face of the earth, because he never called me back nor did he respond to my email.

So I call the origninal contact back, left him a voice mail message and followed that up with an email, and this poor guy vanished, too, because he never responded to me either.

I tried both of them again two days later, but I got nada. Not one damn word or email from either of them.

I called PC Connection and had my new (IBM) desktop two days later. So much for ever buying anything else from Dell. Ever.

BRIG, LOL. Laughing at you will probably get me banned, but it was worth it.

Isn't that the truth! When I was programming, I wrote an OR scheduling program for a large hospital in Memphis.

I got to know the OR nurses pretty well. I also learned how the pecking order goes between the scrub nurses and the circulating nurses. And what they say about the anesthesiaolgists behind their backs.

LOL, some anesthesiaolgists themselves use more of their drugs than they give to the patients.

What in the world does that have to do with getting a splinter out of your hand?

Speaking of laughing out loud, last night we had a birthday supper for my oldest daughter.

It's always my job to pick out the birthday card, since I have the wacky sense of humor.

So I got her one that said "TO MY FAVORITE GOD-SON ON HIS DAY OF CONFIRMATION".

So Jennifer is sitting there opening her cards and presents, and she gets to that one, and reads it out loud, and everyone in the family, all 10 of us, fell to the floor laughing.

Then on the inside I signed it, "What?" then, "Who", then "Oh, crap!"

I love doing stuff like that.

Turns out I have tendonitis in the muscle that is connected to my hip and raises the leg. Can't remember what it's called now. Anyway, it has begun to feel better and physical therapy starts tomorrow at 10:00am sharp.

I think the muscle name is iliopsoas.

The doctor had a terrific sense of humor. He laughed out loud at my CD label, then while I was having some X-rays taken of my lower back, went around and showed it to almost everyone else in the building.

Oh, I had sent them an email the day before my appointment asking that they have a parking place right in front reserved for me, fresh fruit and coffee in the lobby, and immediate call to the exam room when I finished breakfast.

The administrator is the guy who reads the emails, and he ran off about 4 copies of it, posted it in the employee lounge, and in general made it as humorous as it was supposed to be.

So everyone knew who I was before I even arrived, and when I signed in all the people at the front desk pointed and laughed.

But all that worked to my advantage. I was treated exceptionally well and my doctor's nurse gave me the phone number direct into her office in case I had any questions.

It pays to make people laugh.

That's from scooting around on this board too much.

So Spillway goes to Crutchfield and buys a Delphi XM satellite radio. I love it, period. Non stop tunes on about 55 different music stations, plus CNN & CNN Headline News, and ESPN radio.

Oh, cool, he says. I can put up to 20 stocks in the thing and it will give me a ticker across the bottom of the display with 20-minute delayed quotes.

Well, that lasted about 3 days. I got so depressed I had to turn the ticker off. I was supposed to ENJOY the radio, not want to slit my wrists because of it.

This market is brutal. Brutal, I tell you. Caution is the keyword these days.

*places an order for 3 shares of GM*

You mean there really will be a Fear Factor Miss USA? Hunter S. Thompson, where are you when we need you. Talk about fear and loathing.

Keyword to remember... tweezers.

*a HOT needle? oh, well, if you're digging with a needle, might as well up the fun quotient and make it hot, too, I guess*

You may take a position in the corner next to Susie. And don't come out until I say you can.

OK, you can come out now.

*I'm so easy*

Wait.. wait! You have to have a splinter in your hand first. Susie, what are we going to do with you?

*don't try this at home. professional splinter on a closed course*

Elmer's glue... soon to be banned by the EPA. j/k

Wow, what a beautiful day here in the mountains of East Tennessee. The dogwoods are showing off, tulips are blooming, and all my maple trees are filling up the rain gutters with their little helipopters.

The lawn is thick and lush from the recent rains, and it's sunny outside right now with a temp of 68 degrees, a high of 74 is forecast, so the grass should grow about an inch today, especially since I mowed yesterday.
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Tomorrow I go see the orthopedic surgeon about my hip, the one with synovial cycts in it that have been causing me so much pain for the last 8 weeks. Maybe then this thing will finally get taken care of.

I have to take my MRI images with me to the ortho guy, and they came on CD, so I burned a copy and used my label maker software to create MY OWN label on the CD. My MRI is rated "R" for full frontal nudity. It stars parts of Spillway, and is a 2-day rental only!! You get the idea.

We'll see if the doc has a sense of humor. If he doesn't, I'll go somewhere else. I can do that because of my insurance. Don't like this guy? Well, you don't need a referral, just go somewhere ehse.

Just for the record, I'm still holding 500,000 shares with an average pps of .0053. Due to the fall in pps, I'm now going to start accumulating again until I have 5,000,000. I had sold some during the last run.

That's all, you may now return to your regularly scheduled postings.

If there was ever a stock you wanted to hope would fill its gaps... I'd buy a boatload if I just though it would fill that 14-12 dollar gap. But the fundamentals look pretty sad. Lots of built in risk here, too much for me.

I haven't tried this yet, but it looks like it would make sense. Thought I would copy and paste to this board, since everyone knows OU's boards have splinters....

Smart splinter remover: just pour a drop of Elmer's Glue all over the splinter, let dry, and peel the dried glue off the skin. The splinter sticks to the dried glue.