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I have to admit that I only knew about the Zamboni because my GF manages an ice rink & 3 of my brothers used to play ice hockey (only 1 still does - expensive sport to play here, lots of equipment + ice time is dear).

Obligatory funny pic...

haha love it!

[align=center]This one is for all of us contemplating becoming chronologically challenged, and especially for those of us who already are.[/align]



CRANK IT UP!

Calling someone a cranky old codger could be a compliment: the most disagreeable people over 60 also seem to be the smartest. After studying 381 adults aged 19-89, researchers at Morgan State University in Baltimore found the relationship between personality and intelligence changes as we age.

Young people who scored high on tests of general knowledge and vocabulary tended to be more open to new experience and less extroverted, says Dr Jacqueline Bichsel, the study's co-author. In the older group, intelligence and disagreeableness were linked. "This could be because disagreeable people tend to question things more," says Bichsel. "This may serve to maintain cognitive vitality in old age."

(Source - "Australian Reader's Digest", November 2006)




[align=center]There you go, now you've got an excuse for being grumpy old buggers! [/align]

Thanks Jaymie - I think

hehehe

Following on to that, I am a member of the A.O.O.B (Australasian Order of Old Bastards), here are the qualification rules:

1) Marital state of parent irrelevant

2) It is sufficient to have been acclaimed at least once by friends as an O.B.

3) Drinking habits must be hearty and jovial

4) On encountering other O.B.'s in a bar one must administer a hearty slap on the back accompanied with the cheerful salutation, "hello, your old bastard!"

5) Membership card must be carried at all times. Failure to produce same when challenged by fellow O.B. incurs a penalty of one round of drinks

This order is dedicated to joviality and good fellowship

The archbastard at the time of my membership was Lt Comd Bacchus and I became a member around..... oh sorry, having a senior moment.......

TRUE JOKE ---
Adelaide now has Level 2 water restrictions, imposed last month, for the first time in decades. Our October water usage went UP by 20% over the water usage for Oct '05 when there were no water restrictions - everybody's panicking !!
Good thinking, SA government !

but how can that be? (he says, feining disbelief..............)

Maybe becasue the domestic water sector consumes less than 10% and agriculture is around the 75% mark. Sorry guys, i know i've said this before, the "every drop counts" ads here are really annoying.

HOW TO SING THE BLUES

by Lame Mango Washington
(attributed to Memphis Earlene Gray with help from Uncle Plunky, revisions by Little Blind Patti D. and Dr. Stevie Franklin)

1. Most Blues begin, "Woke up this morning."

2. "I got a good woman" is a bad way to begin the Blues, 'less you stick something nasty in the next line, like " I got a good woman, with the meanest face in town."

3. The Blues is simple. After you get the first line right, repeat it. Then find something that rhymes ... sort of: "Got a good woman - with the meanest face in town. Got teeth like Margaret Thatcher - and she weigh 500 pound."

4. The Blues are not about choice. You stuck in a ditch, you stuck in a ditch; ain't no way out.

5. Blues cars: Chevys and Cadillacs and broken-down trucks. Blues don't travel in Volvos, BMWs, or Sport Utility Vehicles. Most Blues transportation is a Greyhound bus or a southbound train. Jet aircraft an' state-sponsored motor pools ain't even in the running. Walkin' plays a major part in the blues lifestyle. So does fixin' to die.

6. Teenagers can't sing the Blues. They ain't fixin' to die yet. Adults sing the Blues. In Blues, " adulthood" means being old enough to get the electric chair if you shoot a man in Memphis.

7. Blues can take place in New York City but not in Hawaii or any place in Canada. Hard times in St. Paul or Tucson is just depression. Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas City still the best places to have the Blues. You cannot have the blues in any place that don't get rain.

8. A man with male pattern baldness ain't the blues. A woman with male pattern baldness is. Breaking your leg cuz you skiing is not the blues. Breaking your leg cuz an alligator be chomping on it is.

9. You can't have no Blues in an office or a shopping mall. The lighting is wrong. Go outside to the parking lot or sit by the dumpster.

10. Good places for the Blues:

a. highway
b. jailhouse
c. empty bed
d. bottom of a whiskey glass

Bad places:

a. Ashrams
b. gallery openings
c. Ivy League institutions
d. golf courses

11. No one will believe it's the Blues if you wear a suit, 'less you happen to be an old ethnic person, and you slept in it.

12. Do you have the right to sing the Blues? Yes, if:

a. you're older than dirt
b. you're blind
c. you shot a man in Memphis
d. you can't be satisfied

No, if:

a. you have all your teeth
b. you were once blind but now can see
c. the man in Memphis lived.
d. you have a retirement plan or trust fund.

13. Blues is not a matter of color. It's a matter of bad luck. Tiger Woods cannot sing the blues. Gary Coleman could. Ugly white people also got a leg up on the blues.

14. If you ask for water and Baby give you gasoline, it's the Blues.

Other acceptable Blues beverages are:

a. wine
b. whiskey or bourbon
c. muddy water
d. black coffee

The following are NOT Blues beverages:

a. mixed drinks
b. kosher wine
c. Snapple
d. sparkling water

15. If it occurs in a cheap motel or a shotgun shack, it's a Blues death. Stabbed in the back by a jealous lover is another Blues way to die. So is the electric chair, substance abuse, and dying lonely on a broken down cot. You can't have a Blues death if you die during a tennis match or getting liposuction.

16. Some Blues names for women:

a. Sadie
b. Big Mama
c. Bessie
d. Fat River Dumpling

17. Some Blues names for men:

a. Joe
b. Willie
c. Little Willie
d. Big Willie

18. Persons with names like Sierra, Sequoia, Auburn, and Rainbow can't sing the Blues no matter how many men they shoot in Memphis.

19. Make your own Blues name (starter kit):

a. name of physical infirmity (Blind, Cripple, Lame, etc.)
b. first name (see above) plus name of fruit (Lemon, Lime, Kiwi,etc.)
c. last name of President (Jefferson, Johnson, Fillmore, etc.)

For example, Blind Lime Jefferson, or Cripple Kiwi Fillmore, etc.

(Well, maybe not "Kiwi.")

20. I don't care how tragic your life: you own a computer, you cannot sing the blues. You best destroy it. Fire, a spilled bottle of Mad Dog, or get out a shotgun. I don't care.

" I got a good woman",
"but she stuck on a computer"
"I got a good woman",
"but she stuck on a computer"
"if she don't get off soon"
"I'm gonna have to shoot her"

Is this bluesy enough?
(Broke banana clinton)

See you changed to something more comfortable Axl

"An' my wife run off with my best friend and my truck and my dawg--"

no no he done run over my dawwwg!

a seasonal wish, more appropriate to here than to the heartfelt thread from C1

I need to add Fish to the list too...

hahahahahahahhahahahaha...
OKOK I will see what I can do