It’s Like Open Mic Only Different
Here’s how it works.
It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME.
The rules are simple — be nice.
There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it.
Liz Is Away — Time to Play
You know that they’re going to encourage:
- misbehavior and rowdiness
- tree climbing and jumping on the beds
- eating Klondike Bars instead of healthy food — Oh wait, we do that anyway . . .
- and flamenco dancing with a code-writing donkey and a drunken moose.
And, whatever else comes up, including THE EVER POPULAR, Basil the code-writing donkey . . . and flamenco dancing (because we always get off topic, anyway.)
Oh, and bring links about misbehaving to share!
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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What is Tuesday Open Comment Night?
Hey you two! What great hosts we have this evening!
Is everyone getting into mischief in Vegas at BlogWorld?
Hey guys! I haven’t been to an open mic in a while – but I wanted to see what everyone has been up to!
I have kids in time-outs (baaaaaaad behavior) so I am whooping it up for 5 minutes!
Good evening! Nice to see you – Lisa, Phil, Char and Brooke!
Thanks for mentioning me in your post today! Hop[e this finds all of you well.
It looks like there is a bit of confusion. The party is going on at the announcement post and this one. Like being in two rooms!
Brrrr…it’s cold here…how ’bout where y’all are?
Hey All,
Nice to see you all tonight.
Char, it isn’t the first time that people were chatting in both posts. Phil and or Lisa have to make a big announcement on the intro post to come over here or else everyone will continue where they are. 😉
Marti, Brooke, Char – Helloooo. We’ve had snow. (Just a few flakes. But hey.)
Like oh no. We were trapped in the announcement post and a big monster came and then my mom made spaghetti.
Yep, it is definitely colder here! May be too cold for a Klondike. Might need some hot apple cider instead.
Hello friends! We’re playing here now.
We took our ball and came here!
Hey, who you calling a flake Rick? I resemble that remark!
Ahhhh – I am stressed…should I be here?
It is cold here this week. We had snow flakes yesterday.
Aww the big kids came. Now they’re gonna take over the ball field and we’ll have to go play in the back yard again.
Brooke – we are GLAD you’re here. We were lost, but now we’re found, and you are here with us. Thank you!
Hooray!
I was telling Phil that we had pink sheepy clouds here in santa barbara tonight.
Baaaaaaa.
Rick,
I always had more fun in the backyard. Or wherever we could play, it never really mattered. 😉
Riiiii iiiccccck! Where’s the ice cream, errr klondikes?
That’s rough Lisa! We had overcast and clouds. And cold! Fun for us!!!!
Lisa made me eat a Klondike WHOLE earlier, today.
Marti – I went snipe hunting many times when I was growing up. The snipe got big in my neck of the woods, but yet I never caught one.
What kind of wool do relationsheep produce? I’m thinking some sort of karmic velcro…
HEY EVERYBODY!!
Oh no – a whole Klondike Rick…Boo hoo for you.
Hi Brooke, I know, hard life. But we’d love some cold and weather around here.
I’m thinking Rick has a massive ice cream headache Boo hoo for you.
Ooh boy Marti – we almost had snow here today.
Mike – you’re BAAAACK!
My very bad answer to your question, mike, was that realation sheep create a close knit. Lots of pearling.
Rick – do you sell ice cream at your theatre? What’s playing this week?
Hi Lisa,
I thought firestorms constituted weather in those parts this time of year! 😉
Mike
Hi Joe! Did you see Phil getting flakey?
They say we had snipes too, but you had to have a left-handed sky hook to catch ’em. I could never find the sky hook.
That’s what I love about MN – the seasons and weather. But warm is great too. Especially after 9 months of deep freeze!!
Mike, yes. It was ash for days and days. My house is a different color.
Hey Phil!!
Marti’s here? Might as well call the cops now with this gang! LOL
Mike
Hey Joe! Thanks for playing in our game tonight. What is OUR game anyway?
That’s what I love about MN Lisa – the seasons and weather. But warm is great too. Especially after 9 months of deep freeze!!
Lisa,
Nice one on the close knit. 😉
Mike
Wait, I just have to ask, what is a snipe? And can he be “it” for tag?
No. No ice cream at the theatre, Phil. Candy, chocolate, popcorn, and soft drinks are our limit.
This week’s show is Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
PHil,
I think the game is While the Cats Away, the Mice Will Play. 😉
Ooh Rick! I want to see that one.
But no ice cream huh? I could be persuaded to enjoy a movie without ice cream, as long as there is hot popcorn.
Rick, that was very good. You’re very mature for your age.
Great game Joe. I’m in.
Nice one, Rick!
Lisa, snipe hunting is a classic hazing ritual. There is no such thing as a snipe, but the insiders convince the newcomer that he/she needs to catch one to join the group. They equip the newcomer with appropriate gear (ahem), and send them off, usually into the dark of night.
For the insiders, hilarity ensues. Not so much for the newcomer.
The game: isn’t that what you all do every week? Play?
I have to go read some bedtime stories with the kids – back in a few…
Keep playing…
Brooke, yes, I think so.
Phil, I just told my son I thought it was a real animal. Jeeez.
Brooke – Yep, I get to play all week.
See you in a few Char. Happy reading 🙂
Lisa, if you look in the dictionary a snipe is a kind of sandpiper that is very difficult to hit and even more difficult to see. So difficult to see, in fact, that in the mid-west where Phil and I grew up you never saw one, even though they were traditional hunting fare at all young boys’ camping events.
I, too, spent many hours hunting snipe, with such a paucity of results that until this very evening, after a trip to the dictionary, I thought they were totally fictional.
Brooke,
Of course that’s what we do! It’s Improv every Tuesday night!
Mike
Good explanation Mike.
Snipe are fake. I didn’t learn that until I was 18 though. There are folks who have pictures of the things.
Ever heard of a jackelope? Those are crosses between jack rabbits and antelope. Those are as real as snipe.
🙂
You are a true scholar, Rick. I love that you looked it up.
Wow Rick, I thought there were real too, which is why I played along. I was quite an egghead as a kid.
Heck, who am I kidding. I’m quite an egghead now 🙂
Phil: all week? That is great!!!
Mike: I love it! You all are funny to read!
Okay – apparantly I am the newcomer so you all can have a great laugh at me. I thought snipes and jackalopes were real…
My son, Cole, just asked me what relation sheep are. I told him they were like snipe only cuddly.
Brooke – Liz let me inside her blog. I can play all YEAR if I want to.
I won’t be here playing all week though. I’ll be at here on Thursday, and Saturday at a retreat. Still I get to play. Whoo-hoo!
Hey Phil,
Arizona is big-time jackelope country! I’ve got postcards to prove it!! LOL
Mike
Hey Phil, trivia man, wasn’t egghead from charlie brown?
Check out http://relationsheep.com for more on that. VERY strange.
My hillbilly relatives actually have mounted jackalope heads on their walls (It’s a fakey thing where they glue little antlers onto a rabbit head and mount it on a plaque like a deer head trophy)
Not sure Lisa. That could be. Sounds right 😉
Marti – we had those darn things mounted on our wall at the bar too. And a fish-n-whacker to club fish to death. And I’m from nordern Wisconsin, near da UP-eh!
Relationsheep ARE like snipe, and they are cuddly, but don’t forget that they’re really good at improv!
If you don’t believe me on faith, Roll tape!
OMG PHil I just took the bait and it’s a real site!! Not a snipe at all. You have to go there, everyone.
Brooke – we’ll see about all week. I am inside the blog now, and if I don’t crawl out in time, it might be forever. 🙂
Mike – you’re hilarious! Thanks for the linky and the laugh. Ooh boy! Good one!
Of course it’s real Lisa. Would I give you a bum link?
Marti,
I could get you a dragon’s head.
See this: Boundin
The Relationsheep site scares the bejeezus out of me! Five kids and decades of memories have all been a lie? Aw, nuts!
See this: Boundin
Hi all… How are the dynamic duo tonight?
Does anyone else here sell on eBay? I’m helping grandma reduce her collection of collectibles (that’s a bit redundant, huh?) It’s a trip spending all day every day with a woman in her 80’s and teaching her how to use this magic machine we call a computer
darlin peoples, air kisses all around. No mud pies.
Phil,
I laughed out loud and my officemates thought I was crazy when I listened to that the first time.
Since when did Rick become a dragon head vendor?
Mike
Let’s go relationsheep link hunting…
Sorry for the double post guys… 🙁
Hi Tim,
I figured you for a BlogWorldExpoSecondComingOfSomeBody person!
Welcome!!
Mike
Thanks Rick, but I’ve seen enough weird stuff in the last few weeks to last me several lifetimes – LOL
So… Phil… Lisa… how goes the party? Am I too late for nachos and Klondikes?
Hi Tim! How are you!
Hey thar Susan! how are ya!
Mike – glad you enjoyed that. It was fun for Lisa and I. She’s a great straight to my completely nuts.
No worries Brooke. Post away. More comments the merrier! 🙂
Hi Susan! (and greetings to all I was amiss in saying hi to earlier)
Marti,
From what I know about you, I have to ask: “And that would differ from previous weeks exactly how?”
Mike
My brother-in-law has it, Mike. I think he has one of everything. Two if he like’s it.
Hey Susan!
By way of saying Hi, Susan, check out this link:
http://surat.olx.in/looking-for-best-relationsheep-forever-iid-2014039
Someone please teach me how to basil-code a link…
Nice Lisa. VERY nice.
I wasn’t seeing too many relationsheep links you would want to bring to a party.
Rick,
I’ll keep that in mind if I need something unusual…
Not a kids party anyway. X-rated relationsheep are naughty!
While on the topic of blogospheric relationships, my link for tonight came from my blog a couple of days ago… some metaphors get interesting attention…
http://carpefactum.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/11/sniffing-butts.html
LOL Mike! That’s true!
OooooKkk – relationships can be scary.
But not those with ppl in _this_ room. These are priceless.
Tim – I read you sniffing some butts. You are the kind of the fun metaphor. Thank you for the ongoing laughs. I read it at work, and I half expected to see a picture of you sniffing someone’s butt, as I know you like to be part of the action.
I was disappointed to see a dog to be honest 🙂
I was only trying to broaden our perspective…
Hey Tim!
Hi Susan. Hi Timothy. Have a Klondike (if Lisa doesn’t make you eat it whole).
Nachos are around here somewhere. Here we go!
ROTF here – daughter just came out of her room and I think she is wearing every piece of clothing she owns. She looks like a female version of the Michelin Man. Think she’s trying to tell me she is cold?
I gave up cubicle-ville, Phil, so since I no longer have to kiss them, I don’t have to sniff them either
Susan – so glad you’re here. You’re a new relationsheep to me. Welcome to the fun. Pleasure to meetcha.
psss – the last time Liz was gone didn’t we break her blog comments?
Yes we did. I had 1 comment swallowed up already, but I’m on the inside tonight 🙂
Tim – you are a lucky man. I’m only 19 months from that.
Hi Phil – always a pleasure to meet one of Liz’s folks. I think we are friends of many friends in the blog world 🙂
I love my blog friends.
🙂
Tim–sniffing butts post was great, but the writer in me loved, no, LOVED, the Poe piece. You rock.
Marti, my son and his friends did the same thing. Every t-shirt they had went on their bodies all at once.
Hey Tim,
I read your butt sniffing post the other day and snickered all day every time I thought of it. 🙂
Lisa,
You can create an inline link with the standard HTML code. The old left-caret a href=[your url in doublequotes]right-caret archor words left-caret slash a right-caret.
I’m sure that made sense to you. LOL
Mike
Mike, That was a bit complicated and I know what you said. 😉
They just used “plasmopheresis” on House (TV doctor show). I love big words – LOL
Thanks Susan. We are friends of friends, and now we’re just friends 🙂
Love to you too Marti!
You all broke the comments? Now that’s priceless!
So how is the ebay store working out, Marti? Will grandma be able to retire to a life of leisure soon ( or at least let you go out every once in a while)?
Daughter 2.0 did something similar once Marti, at least according to her.
he thought her dad was going to spank her for some infraction only SHE knew about . . .so she wore ALL her underpants.
The kicker was – she wore them to school & sat around all day like that and the man never got home before 6:30 at that point. But she turned out ok – I even have photos of her with grandchild 2.0 in oven to share.
Never say I came to OCN without something fresh from the oven 🙂 http://tinyurl.com/2sx92x
Hello gang! I can only stop by for a quick hello, so…
Hello!
Phil, you rock. If anyone wants to know where to get some great Sangria, Phil will hook you up. (Plus, he’s a dang good mini-bowler, too!)
Have a great night everyone — I’m off to watch some shows with my better half.
I am aching to write again. I miss blogging more than I ever dreeamed I would. The old “you don’t know what you’ve got until someone else takes up every minute of every day and you don’t get to do it”
Hi and by J! Thanks for stopping in!
Lisa – that is high praise coming from you… all of us aspiring writers have Lisa Gates shrines that we worship at daily… but thanks for the Poe compliment… my wife, the English teacher, actually gave it a thumbs up.
Mike, did you forget I am a sheep? I followed everything you said.
What’s holding you back Marti? Anything we can help you with?
Speaking of breaking the comments – I think I just broke snitter. Argh. We can’t have open mic night without tweeting about it
OMG!!! Susan thtat’s so funny! First of all I LOVE daughter 2.0 – that’s so funny. But the story….the story is great.
What’s snitter?
Hi Jason! Bye Jason!
awesome photos Susan. Thanks for sharing them.
Thanks for asking Rick (like I wasn’t so horribly blatantly plugging it – LOL) Grandma needed the money because she is in the Medicare “donut hole”. Kind of complicated, but they will pay for medicine to a point, then you are on your own for thousands of dollars until you have spent yourself into the poorhouse and qualify for “catastrophic” coverage.
Marti, ouch! You still feel very present to me. I’m wondering what I missed?
Mr. Johnson, may I remind you that you have two published books? And a highly developed wit…
Phil, you bowl, make great sangrias AND your from WI? Man – you are heaven sent!
I can find great sangrias, but I do love mini-bowling, and I am from WI. 🙂
And thanks. I’m here to share and smile with everyone I can.
Ahh, geez. I must a bin under a rock r sompin.
What’s mini bowling? Do I need a life? Marti, can I join you?
Do ya wanta hear something funny?
I was just sitting here thinking Phil and Lisa went to Liz’s house in Chicago and are actually sitting at her computer helping her out for the night.
I know better, but the thought just occured. 🙂
I know all too much about the donut hole from my day job, Marti. Tell Grandma to get her income to under 14,000 per year and move to Pennsylvania. The state will take care of her. PA’s the place to live if you’re old.
Oh I’m just being whiney – LOL
I go over to grandma;s all day and come home to the house where everyone is used to having a stay at home mom so they don’t know how to do anything – LOL SO I have to do all that stuff when I get home and I am simply too exhausted to think of funny stuff to write.
And not too well off.
Seriously…what’s mini-bowling?
Great sangria’s are VERY important!!
Lisa – click the link Jason shared and you can see pictures of mini-bowling. I went with him.
Joe – I could drive down to Liz’s house and play, but blogging and driving down the highway are NOT good things. Not to respond to comments anyway. Spotty wireless is all 🙂
Um, Lisa… “Mr. Johnson”? Since when did we become so formal? I don’t even let me students call me that… YIKES.
(But thanks for the kind words)
And, Joe, I’m glad I could give you a day-long chuckle. Given your poetic prowess, that’s a major “carpe factum” to tickle your funny bone.
Brooke, agree on the comment re: Phil
Marti, you gotta give Carol Moseley Braun a call and ask her how she made her Grandma virtually indigent! 😉
Mike
snitter is a way to read twitter Phil. I have it open along side my firefox windows so I can multitask 🙂
Mini-bowling is bowling with half the size everything.
Balls are half the size and weight.
Pins are half the size and weight.
Lane is half the length.
And still I can’t bowl a 300 game.
*sniff*
Marti, yes. One of my recent past jobs was as Educ. Dir. for the Alzheimer’s Association. PA is it! But it’s a crime what we require to be eligible for “help.”
where does one find this mini-bowling?
LOL and thank you for the remarks about the donut hole and indigent grandparents. “Donut hole” sounds so pleasant for such a nasty way to treat our elderly. But I shouldn’t complain, so no more griping from me I promise (hand on heart)
LOL to Susan on the underpants comment way back
Joe, I wish I were in Chicago right now. How are you sir?
Great sangrias are wonderful! Come to Milwaukee, and we can do sangrias and mini-bowling!
Mister Johnson? Hey Marti, remember that old bit on the original Red Foxx show where the guy came out and said “You can call me Ray, or you could call me Ray Jay…and then went on for five minutes of variations of Raymond J. Johnson Jr…and always ended with “but don’t you dare call me Mr. Johnson!” LOL
Mike, I DO remember that skit! LOL
Mike… you’re dating yourself… late 70’s humor
Fun mini-bowling can be found at Koz’s Mini Bowl. Jason shared pictures of the last time we went mini-bowling. It’s WAY fun!
Mini-bowling is a favorite activity at “Wizard of Oz” little people reunions. I saw that at one of Lisa’s x-rated links! 😉
I’m here for the bed jumping…
Yikes Mike! You’re going to break the comments if you keep talking like that sir.
🙂
Hi Ann.
Boing! Boing!! Boing!!!
We can all try elf-bowling
I have lots o friends in Mileewaukay. I went to school in Madison. I will be calling you when I am there again. 🙂
Hi Ann! Bed hopping mini-bowling – now that’d be somethin’ to see – LOL
Mike… I supressed the worst. Count your stars. It’s just…sniff…I’ve never been in the in crowd and…sniff…I just know everything is an in joke and…sniff…
scratch.
Sorry, Phil!
Mea culpa! Mea culpa!! Mea maxima culpa!!!
Mike
Oh Phil, I’ll suggest Mini bowling in MN to my son to see what his reaction is.
He’s driving through later this month – going to see an old girl friend on his way home on leave from Minot Air base. Oh – I’ll add the sangria too and he’ll roll his eyes for sure.
I once caused a little person to get hurled from a golf cart head first into a snow bank… I don’t know if that counts as dwarf tossing or elf bowling… either way, it’s a long and traumatic story
Fun stuff Brooke. My number is on my main blog (http://makeitgreat.typepad.com) Call next time you’re here.
Mike – no worries. I forgive you. 🙂
Susan – yeah, your son might not dig it. It’s fun for us though!
Mike, Oberamus Domine – ora pronobis
Good grief I probably should have looked to see who was in here before I started bouncing around on beds!
No Ann… go right ahead… just watch out for broken springs
Elf bowling is fun. Tim – you are naughty!
Yeah Ann, you should have looked. But now…
I’M FLYING 🙂
Brooke,
There are very few ‘in’ jokes here. The Klondikes are a running gag Chris Cree introduced. Other than that, everything is found in the current thread. That’s why I said this is improv. All the jokes are relevant to tonight’s conversation (okay, maybe a couple of my comments to Marti require a trip to the archive, but you’ll get them in situ). Make yourself at home and have fun!
Mike
Please..don’t step on my utterz..k?
Ann great to see you. You broke away from playing with Utterz to come jump on beds while Liz is away? Sweet!
So Ann says she should have looked…now we have voyeuristic bed hopping mini bowling *giggle*
I love these nights with you crazy people.
Okay, truth serum: I had to look up oberamus domine and google failed me. Susan you smarty pants what was that?
And yay, Ann! Watch out, there are serious monsters under the bed!
Phil and Ann… just be careful for the ceiling fan… remember, it’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye… then it’s hilarious
Don’t step on my utterz? I’m from Wisconsin, where cow utters grow BIG!
Thank you, Susan!
Tim, I think you’ve got a script for a Travelocity commercial, there!
Lisa..the monsters will be in the fetal position by the end of the night..AnnOhio can be treacherous
Travelocity….oh Lordie, now we’ve got gnomes and elves and little people bed hopping in between the mini bowling lanes while eating Klondike bars and stepping on utterz…what a world, what a world!
Uncle Phil,
Why was my comment censored when Marti’s “voyeuristic bed hopping mini bowling” comment wasn’t? Unless you’re into that sort of thing…
If’n ya never bin ta californeee, and up ta the far north countree, the cows in Ferndale are serious backyard mini bowlers.
Quick someone google ferndale californee.
Marti..let us pray
well, Mike, there is a writers strike in Hollywood… maybe we bloggers should take over… you could write the script for “Chuck”… I could do “The Office”… Phil and Lisa could tackle a reality show or two…. imagine what would happen if bloggers became script-scabs.
Hi Ann!
Uh oh. Susan’s talking Latin.
Pillow fight!
(in deep voice)
What a wonderful world!
(end deep voice)
Beds are made for bouncing. So are Tiggers. And I’m a Tigger. Boing!
Boing!
There is serenading in here tonight…is there a cover charge?
And Rick… what is wrong with Latin (i.e., carpe factum)?
[Pummels Rick from behind a firm down pillow]
Will a ceiling fan support the weight of a voyeuristic elf who is trying to spy on bed hopping Ann?
Hey hey hey. Writers strike is serious bed bouncing material. My husband is about to be jobless…boing, boing…
Don’t forget someone for Heroes, Timothy. I’ve gotten hooked on a tv show again.
OK, Rick, Heroes is yours. Who would be a good blogger for Desperate Housewives? Any takers?
Mike – there are pictures of me doing what you spoke of. I had to let the comment go, else the pictures would get out.
Phil-reality TV. Be afraid. Be VERY afraid.
Seriously, if your comment got snarfed up, I don’t see it. Sorry 🙁
ok I man be spelling it wrong – Latin class was a long time ago.
After Mike’s mea culpa string, it was a Catholic thing.
Raising my hand for DH..pick me..pick me…I’m a Susan for sure..possibly and Edie
Oh dear, wait a minute. That’s not at all what I meant to say. It’s a case of fingers being faster than brain.
We may have to relocate to the cornfields and have a JimBob instead of a Carlos..
Alright, Ann, you can be the writer for Desperate Housewives. What’s the next show that needs a writer?
So do we want to switch to TV shows we could write for?
I’d work on a show called Attitude Vitamins, where I’d go around and interview folks on how they’ve overcome difficulties in their life, and encourage us all.
Thought I’m not sure about the Desperate Housewives show. Not a fan, sorry 🙁
Phil you will love the AnnOhio spin…there will be tractors, pick up trucks and Uncle daddies
Phil… hmmm, I was thinking more existing shows… we’ll put you in charge of the morning crew on the Weather Channel… that’s close enough. 🙂
Ow. Ow.
Nothing, nothing at all, Timothy.
Except I’m with Mike. I don’t know what Oberamus Domine means. Something god?
AnnOhio – that sounds fun. I’m for that spin.
🙂
Tim – the weather channel, where it’s sunny every day, right?
Oberamus has an ignoramus ring to me. Suuuuuuussaaaaaaan?
Thanks Mike!!
Well… if I were to choose one person to put in charge of the weather on a daily basis, it would be you, Phil.
There are fewer bloggers than TV writers, so we may have to do mashups. Ann, can you cover Desperate Housewives and throw in Big Love so you have uncle daddies and sister wives? LOL
Oh this could be fun…what other shows could we mashup together?
Marti you know that anything that involves the name Big Love I am all over…
This thread has gotten seriously out of control!
Liz is gonna be hoppin’ mad, but I LOVE IT!
I better go watch a couple web episodes of Chuck if I’m going to write the next few…
Marti, great idea. How about Bachelor and Are you smarter than a fifth grader?
I’ll take the reality shows Cops and A&E SWAT series and just to make it interesting, mash it up with the Golf Network. Let’s see those neatly groomed golfers try to get through a round of flash bang devices… 🙂
I know I am definitely not smarter than a 5th grader…those latin words..also explains why I am getting trampled on Scrabbulous
Would House work with General Hospital?
For those without HBO or not into shows about polygamy, Big Love is a program about a Mormon with multiple wives. The women refer to one another as “sister wife”
Ooh, I wanna star in Chuck! I’m part of the Nerd Herd. Actually, part of the (Relationship) Geek Squad 🙂
When we wer kids Oberamus Domine turned into “over on a stormy day”
Probably God be with us or Lord be with us
That’s OK Ann… neither are any of the Bachelors
Speaking of writers, did anyone else see ZeFrank take on this?
LOL Lisa! I thought they were already the same show! *grin*
Have to admit that Latin rally helps with root words Ann 🙂 but I’m less than 50/50 at scrabulous so it’s not helping me that much.
Rick… great thinking… we forgot the day-time dramas…!!! I’m thinking we hire the “performers” from professional wrestling to tackle the scripts… they could only make them better.
I’m really out of the tv loop aren’t I? Where do you get the time?
I’m back and I just couldn’t help noticing that Marti is trying out for hostess of Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader. I brought you a link so you can practice…
Are you smarter than a 5th grader quizzes
Oh good, Char, I’m glad you’re back… we needed someone for the nightly news.
I can see it now…cue wrassling music…Days of Our Lives on steroids…
On the upside . . my football games should go on as usual. Woot!
Oh Phil I love Chuck! The whole NBC Monday night lineup is awesome.
Awww, Dancing with the Stars kicked Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (Jane Seymour) off. A moment of silence…OK ’nuff of that LOL
(Can you tell I’m a TV freak? [one of many freaks] – lol)
Thanks, Susan. My non-Catholic upbringing is showing.
Another word game you may like is the free rice game. Guess word meanings to donate rice through the United Nations.
Timothy, that’s a great mashup!
The nightly news… can I be one of those newscasters that covers the off-beat news?
Marti – I am an IT guy by day (management now, not true geek) but I can totally relate to the personalities on the show. I don’t watch much TV, but I caught it the other night. It’s pretty good.
[Aside to Phil and Lisa – I’m sorry for throwing the conversation into a tail spin about television writers. It will never happen again. I’ll write this 100 times on a PowerPoint presentation.]
OK, well I do tivo dancing With the Stars :/
It’s not a question if Marti is smarter than a fifth grader. This is a perfect example of the idiom: “Youth and enthusiasm are no match for old age and trickery”!
Char – you can be like Amanda on Rocketboom. I could see it. Char does the Mashed Up News. Coolio!
THERE ARE GEEKS IN HERE?
Marti, you’re right. I actually started flipping channels last night and got completely sucked in to bachelor. It’s the stubble, I think.
Nice try Professor. Let’s go back to Gilligan’s Island and get lost! Who’s with me?
Sorry – on the phone with a long-time friend. So…what’d I miss?
on thinking abut it though – – I think any of us could do the job of most of the sportscasters too. Do they have writers writing that stuff they say?
MARTI!!!!!!!!
Us Pacific Time Zoners just started taping Dancing with the Stars! You nasty spoiler, you!
Now who can I call locally and strike up a friendly wager… 😉
Mike
Nothing, Brooke… not a thing
Brooke – we discovered the cure for cancer, world peace, AND fixed the writers’ strike. Which show will you be doing?
Phil, will there be cabana boys there? Drinks with little umbrellas? Hammocks?
Oh geez, my bad! SO sorry for the dancing spoiler!
Ann – geeks among us? Oh, yes! But geeks are cool you know. Let your inner geek come out to play…
Ann – I’ll be there, and I’m sure I can convince some of the Wisconsin cabana boys and girls to join me.
Watch out for the bright white skin. 🙂
Not only are there geeks in here, there are geek sports nuts who tape Dancing With the Stars (but only for my daughters, mind you).
Tim, you’re channeling Susan’s Latin. Stop it. No apologies allowed. All relevant. And irreverant.
Relevant and Irreverent… that’s the story of my adult life, Lisa.
Geeks and freaks and cabana boys..oh my…
I am cold and tired – please forgive me! I won’t even mention The Sixth Sense, The Crying Game or Harry Potter’s demise {{zipping lips}}
Mike – I’m speaking at a conference with Emmitt Smith in March. I wonder if he’ll bring up Dancing with the Stars? I’d rather he talk about that than the Cowboys though. Yuck!
Really…hmmmm….I am looking for a fat tire beer sign…does anyone have any good thoughtd about where to get one?
Oh we’re also speaking latin, Brooke.
Et ex corde diligamus nos sincero.
🙂
Ann – I’m writing for that show. Goes to pilot February, in the middle of winter. Freaks, Geeks, Weirdos and Cabana Boys: The dog days of winter!
Fat Tire Beer? I have friends in Denver. What size do you need/want?
Phil, I have a coconut you can try to make a radio out of….
Ah better than that, I have video of Ann dancing with a coconut bra 🙂
Make a radio out of a coconut? I’ve been wearing it as a swim suit. I never thought to use it as a radio.
Marti! Next you’ll tell us Dumbledore is gay.
Marti, the radio coconut has already been done… I’m waiting for the PDA made from real blackberries
The coconuts make good batteries, too, Phil. Ask the Professor.
Jeez you guys! Latin too!
I will be writing for Heroes.
I don’t speak latin at all.
Phil – how have we not run into each other? I have friends there too and lived there for 7 years. But to get the beer sign…I don’t think they could.
Wow. Can I just tell you all we have gone from Mother May I to Fat Tire Ale in on fell swoop? Boy, did we age fast.
Hey Brooke, what kind of sign do you need? They sell that swill here in Phoenix and I could probably find one for you. (Swill is an affectionate term; I greatly appreciate many of New Belgium’s other offerings)
Good thinking Rick. I bet I could watch a movie on them too 🙂
I think Fat Tire is better than Mother May I…
Lisa, we’re all going to H E double hockey sticks.
Sorry grandma’s a teetotaler, so we have no liquor collectibles
🙂
I *love* Fat Tire Beer. I go to Colorado Springs every year for a conference, and we fly into Denver.
How have we not met before? Did you mean Denver of MKE?
But Mother May I mixed with Guiness…mmm!
Mmmm…Guinness.
H E Double Hockey sticks!! My favorite Will Friedel movie!
Actually, Will Friedel would be the perfect person to play Phil in his autobiographical movie…
Such language I may need to cover my eyes
Denver of MKE? Whas that?
Brooke, you are going to have to label a beer called “Mother May I.” And you’re going to have to hire Marti as your taster.
…or Phil could play Will in HIS autobiographical movie! Or Both!! KISMET!!!
HA!
DOH! Denver or Milwaukee? You said you were surprised we haven’t bumped into each other before. Perhaps you meant blogosphere?
Here, Ann I have a blindfold made of coconuts (since Phil didn’t want it for a radio)
🙂
I could play an actor? That would be interesting.
So which one does Marti replace, Laverne or Shirley?
It’s been fun. 🙂
I’m off for another week. Bye all.
Lisa, Phil – thanks for the evening with the relationsheep!
Marti that’s great it can double as earmuffs for this chilly Ohio weather
Bye Rick! Thanks for playing and sharing your fun!
Phil, have you seen any of Will’s work?
Either place – and I meant in real world. I used to live in Co Springs too…Smaaaallllll world!
Rick, wool, like, I’m going to miss you!
Night, Rick! Always good talking to you!
I’m hoping last Sunday was profitable with the Steelers on MNF.
Night Rick, it was wonderful to meet you.
much fun as usual, guys, but must say my goodnights. Thanks for the hospitality Phil and Lisa!
Mike – I had to Google Will, but now I see him. I remember him from Boy Meets World. I could do that show 🙂
Brooke – I’m surprised too. Please do look me up next time you’re here in MKE. Coffee at Alterra on the Lake on me.
G’night Rick… I want that script on my desk first thing in the morning!
Bye Rick! Charming as always!
Night, Susan. Thanks for the Latin lesson!
‘Night Susan! Thanks for stopping by!
Later Susan… have a great week
Well Phil – aren’t you the nicest! I am glad that you and Lisa hosted so I could get to know you better.
Sweet dreams, Susan!
Phil,
If you haven’t seen H E Double Hockey Sticks you should find it. Fun movie for all ages.
You’d be great as Will.
Liz was right to choose
Lisa and Phil
Because between the two
Boy, do they know the drill
Confuse us all
At each and every step
So at the nights end
We have lost all our pep
Jumping on beds
And eating Klondikes
Throwing Dwarfs
And beer signs one likes
I have no idea
How to end this poem
So I’ll just say see ya
And head off to home.
Berma Shave
Nite Phil
Nite Lisa
Nite All
(Say Hi to Liz when you talk to her for me)
It was wonderful fun as always..glad that I popped in. Night!
Oh, I’m so sad. All the writers are leaving. i’m going to melt.
Thanks Brooke. I’m glad to meet you too. How nice and karmic of Liz to connect us up.
Joe – you are quite a poet. Thanks friend! G’night!
Classy, Joe… keep sniffing those butts! The blogosphere will be better for it.
Thanks Ann! G’night!
Great meeting you, Ann
Adios, Joe! Great poem as always!
Night, Ann!
Lisa, you can’t melt while Marti’s in the house!
Great poem (as always) Joe!
I should be taking my leave as well. Busy day again tomorrow. Thank you all for a lovely evening. Phil and Lia, you did an outstanding job hosting (but of course I miss our charming Liz).
Peace and joy to all of you!
Are there enough Sumo Lounge chairs to go around? This is nice and a new thing for me – comment conversation.
Cheers !
Okay – I may not be a writer – but I am super fun!
Lisa, please don’t melt….
Good night, Mr. John- er, goodnight Marti Jay!
Bye Marti. Nice to meet you.
Brooke – I’m not much of a writer either, just a typer who has a lot to say.
Hi Shashi. Thanks for stopping in!
Plenty of chairs for all!
I usually just listed to you all – everyone here is very witty…It’s fun to read.
Hey, Shashib!
Pull up whatever fits you, and welcome!
Mike
May I say what profound respect I have for our sandbox leader and her great beauty to let us play while she’s away? What a privilege to be with you all!
Thanks Brooke. You’re quite fun yourself!
Brooke,
It’s always more fun when everyone participates! The variety of voices make the interaction so much richer.
Okay, I’m going back to bufoonery mode now…
Thank you Lisa and Phil for doing a GREAT job! Have a great nite all. Early day tomorrow!
This is quite cool. Amazing that Liz let’s us play while she’s away. It’s early in Vegas. We may see her yet. 🙂
Bye Brooke! Thanks for playing. SO GLAD you joined us.
Well… in the defense of the recently departed, you all have taken a lot out of me tonight as well… this has been a blast. Phil and Lisa, you two are magnificent and are a worthy replacement of the grande dame herself.
Lisa,
I’ll lift a glass of Fat Tire to that sentiment!
By the way, 300 comments is a pretty good night here. Way to go, Lisa and Phil!!
Mike
Thanks Tim. Have a GREAT night. Thanks for being such a fun contributor.
Now take your coconut powered blackberry and head to bed! Night friend! 🙂
Bottom line… I’m pooped… and I’m outta here
Good hearts, all. Thanks Tim.
Love
Thanks Mike. I feel like you’re a co-host tonight. Thanks for sticking with us and helping respond to all the fun folks and contributing HUGE to the conversation!
Night, Tim! Night, Brooke!
[We’ll let Tim’s last comment slide. Wouldn’t want to give our esteemed hostess a complex or something!]
Hi Phil,
Usually I do the west coast mop-up, but now with DST being over I’m only an hour off Central Time. I get to participate in Prime Time!
Plus, I had to see how you’d do tonight. Morbid curiousity and all! LOL
You guys were perfect hosts; you did Liz proud.
Thanks,
Mike
I’m going to call it a night. A few chores and then I have to publish my first internet video (don’t get too excited; it’s about business process transformation). 😉
Check back at closing time…
Why thanks Mike. I’m super glad to be here and give back to Liz and her readers. Folks come over and visit me all the time from here, and I’ve made some good friends.
Thanks for being one of them!
And g’night!
In the sandbox. Love you Phil. And Liz!
Whoo-hoo! Love you too Lisa! This was fun. We’ve got a few minutes left.
Anyone out there besides us? What are we playing now? Find the black jelly beans?
You’re an energizer bunny, Phil. The last black jelly bean is hidden under the seventh moon in the western sky…
Too funny Lisa. Thanks.
I think we’re out for now. Over 300 comments. WOOT!
I found a black jelly bean in on of those custom Klondike bars the local Russian mafia guys sells. I think it was a Jelly Belly, too. Isn’t that ironic?
Funny Mike. That’s definitely ironic!
Phil,
I forgot to mention that I love the work you and David are doing at SlackerManager. Keep up the good work!
Mike
Thanks Mike. I appreciate that. Please keep stopping by. We enjoy your comments greatly!
You know I will!
Thanks to Phil and Lisa for doing such a fantastic job! I had a delightful evening, and appreciated chatting with everyone. Missed you, Liz! Best wishes to everyone for a wonderful day!