Your avatar threw me. I just looked at your profile, cute kids. I noticed that they have your eyes, [bet you hear that all the time].
Thanks, hopefully they won't end up with my crooked nose provided they can learn to walk away. ;^).
Quote:
I'm trying to stay on the cool side myself.... (-:<
I'm ready for autumn to get here. Summer in the hot sun is nice when you're a kid...
I could use a little summer down here in Maryland. I'm sitting in a sweatshirt and I ain't sweatin'. I should not complain though. Summer here is usually awful. Weatherman has an easy job though. The usual daily forecast is:
"Hazy hot and humid with a chance of afternoon or evening thunderstorms." It's the only time he gets it right mostly.
I'd love to attend but it's not possible this time. Hopefully I'll be able to the next time around. Please shake hands with everyone and have the obligatory BBQ shirt stain for me. :-)
I'd love to attend but it's not possible this time. Hopefully I'll be able to the next time around. Please shake hands with everyone and have the obligatory BBQ shirt stain for me. :-)
That's a shame. I'm going to really try to make it. Hopefully Kathryn and Chipper and Dan can try to make it too..
..and Buzz and Toxic and Bodley and Kajunfisher and Hev and Captain Avatar..
.. and Chuck and Siran and Dogbytes and..
...we're quite a popular team aren't we!
(sorry if I missed anyone..it was getting silly and I was only looking to see which TFFE members had posted in this thread!)
I'd love to attend but it's not possible this time. Hopefully I'll be able to the next time around. Please shake hands with everyone and have the obligatory BBQ shirt stain for me. :-)
That's a shame. I'm going to really try to make it. Hopefully Kathryn and Chipper and Dan can try to make it too..
..and Buzz and Toxic and Bodley and Kajunfisher and Hev and Captain Avatar..
.. and Chuck and Siran and Dogbytes and..
...we're quite a popular team aren't we!
(sorry if I missed anyone..it was getting silly and I was only looking to see which TFFE members had posted in this thread!)
I'm gonna try. Depends on a) money and b) job (or lack there of)
I could use a little summer down here in Maryland. I'm sitting in a sweatshirt and I ain't sweatin'. I should not complain though. Summer here is usually awful. Weatherman has an easy job though. The usual daily forecast is:
"Hazy hot and humid with a chance of afternoon or evening thunderstorms." It's the only time he gets it right mostly.
Will you be coming to the gathering of the Ears?
Gee do you have to make the Weatherman's job so easy in the Summer.
All I know of MD & DE is don't try to get up US 13 from VA Beach to the Deleware Memorial Bridge at the end of Memorial Day weekend, they close it down for the heave traffic.
One of the British national daily newspapers is asking readers
"What it means to be British."
Some of the emails are hilarious but this is one from a chap in Switzerland...
Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian
beer, then travelling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on
the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese
TV. And the most British thing of all? Suspicion of anything foreign.
Oh and!!!!!
Only in Britain can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.
Only in Britain do supermarkets make sick people walk all the way to the
back of the shop to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy
cigarettes at the front.
Only in Britain do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a
DIET coke.
Only in Britain do banks leave both doors open and chain the pens to the
counters.
Only in Britain do we leave cars worth thousands of pounds on the drive
and lock our junk and cheap lawn mower in the garage.
Only in Britain do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have
call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to
in the first place.
Only in Britain are there disabled parking places in front of a skating rink.
NOT TO MENTION...
3 Brits die each year testing if a 9v battery works on their tongue.
142 Brits were injured in 1999 by not removing all pins from new shirts.
58 Brits are injured each year by using sharp knives instead of
screwdrivers.
31 Brits have died since 1996 by watering their Christmas tree while the
fairy lights were plugged in.
19 Brits have died in the last 3 years believing that Christmas decorations
were chocolate.
British Hospitals reported 4 broken arms last year after cracker pulling
accidents.
101 people since 1999 have had broken parts of plastic toys pulled
out of the soles of their feet.
18 Brits had serious burns in 2000 trying on a new jumper with a
lit cigarette in their mouth.
A massive 543 Brits were admitted to A&E in the last two years
after opening bottles of beer with their teeth.
5 Brits were injured last year in accidents involving out of control
Scalextric cars.
and finally.........!
In 2000 eight Brits cracked their skull whilst throwing up into the
toilet.
When I was living in London, I overheard two chaps talking in the neighborhood pub and one remarked "You treat your wife like a dog." The other replied, "You think so? Thank you very much." Hmmmmm.
One of the British national daily newspapers is asking readers
"What it means to be British."
Some of the emails are hilarious but this is one from a chap in Switzerland...
Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian
beer, then travelling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on
the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese
TV. And the most British thing of all? Suspicion of anything foreign.
Oh and!!!!!
Only in Britain can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.
Only in Britain do supermarkets make sick people walk all the way to the
back of the shop to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy
cigarettes at the front.
Only in Britain do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a
DIET coke.
Only in Britain do banks leave both doors open and chain the pens to the
counters.
Only in Britain do we leave cars worth thousands of pounds on the drive
and lock our junk and cheap lawn mower in the garage.
Only in Britain do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have
call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to
in the first place.
Only in Britain are there disabled parking places in front of a skating rink.
NOT TO MENTION...
3 Brits die each year testing if a 9v battery works on their tongue.
142 Brits were injured in 1999 by not removing all pins from new shirts.
58 Brits are injured each year by using sharp knives instead of
screwdrivers.
31 Brits have died since 1996 by watering their Christmas tree while the
fairy lights were plugged in.
19 Brits have died in the last 3 years believing that Christmas decorations
were chocolate.
British Hospitals reported 4 broken arms last year after cracker pulling
accidents.
101 people since 1999 have had broken parts of plastic toys pulled
out of the soles of their feet.
18 Brits had serious burns in 2000 trying on a new jumper with a
lit cigarette in their mouth.
A massive 543 Brits were admitted to A&E in the last two years
after opening bottles of beer with their teeth.
5 Brits were injured last year in accidents involving out of control
Scalextric cars.
and finally.........!
In 2000 eight Brits cracked their skull whilst throwing up into the
toilet.
I am proud to be British
RULE BRITANNIA!
Funny! I suppose the stats would be proportionately much the same here in the US. Just the human condition to have a certain percentage be howling idiots. After all, where would we be as a race if certain numbers didn't Darwin themselves or near to it?
Jim
Those who don’t build must burn. It’s as old as history and juvenile delinquents.
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
Edit - DVLA stands for Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, a UK Government Dept.......
13 June 2006 BLUES BROTHERS' LICENCE TO CHILL
Jake and Elwood win battle with DVLA over shades snaps
By Paula Murray
THE Blues Brothers are alive and well and living in Britain - and they've got official IDs to prove it.
Singers William Smith-Eccles and Mark Moore changed their names by deed poll in honour of the legendary film duo. And bosses at the DVLA have now given them permission to appear on their driving licences as Joliet Jake and Elwood Jake Blues.
The civil servants even let the boys wear their trademark shades in their photos, despite rules which say the whole of drivers' faces must be visible.
Blues Brothers fans might be surprised that Jake and Elwood got licences at all, since they spent much of the 1980 movie jumping over bridges, taking spins through indoor shopping centres and smashing up most of the police cars in Chicago.
But the boys, now fronting a tribute band called Jake and Elwood in Alfreton, Derbyshire, get on a lot better with the cops these days.
Jake, 56, said yesterday: "A policeman stopped me the other day and asked to see my licence, and when he looked at it, he said, 'You're having a laugh, aren't you?'
But when I explained it all to him he was perfectly happy."
"Most people would be surprised that we managed to get these driving licences but the DVLA told us they were making an exception and we would be the only two people allowed to do it."
Elwood, 27, added: "The Blues Brothers look is how we appear day in day out.
"So when it came to getting our driving licences we thought we should be wearing sunglasses. I don't think anyone would recognise us if we took them off."
The DVLA originally turned down the brothers' photos because their rules insist on "a recent and true likeness, showing the full face, with no hat, helmet or sunglasses".
But they had a change of heart after Jake and Elwood told them they hardly ever took off their shades - and reminded them that they are on a Mission From God.
A DVLA spokeswoman said: "In certain cases, where overall features are not impaired, it is possible to accept images of people wearing sunglasses.
"These two applicants were able to provide proof that the images already appeared on their passports.
"As the DVLA mirrors some of the procedures in place in the Identity and Passport Service, the images were accepted and licences issued."
RE: RE: Your avatar threw
)
I could use a little summer down here in Maryland. I'm sitting in a sweatshirt and I ain't sweatin'. I should not complain though. Summer here is usually awful. Weatherman has an easy job though. The usual daily forecast is:
"Hazy hot and humid with a chance of afternoon or evening thunderstorms." It's the only time he gets it right mostly.
Will you be coming to the gathering of the Ears?
THE MOTHER OF FOOLS IS ALWAYS PREGNANT
RE: Will you be coming to
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I'd love to attend but it's not possible this time. Hopefully I'll be able to the next time around. Please shake hands with everyone and have the obligatory BBQ shirt stain for me. :-)
RE: RE: Will you be
)
That's a shame. I'm going to really try to make it. Hopefully Kathryn and Chipper and Dan can try to make it too..
..and Buzz and Toxic and Bodley and Kajunfisher and Hev and Captain Avatar..
.. and Chuck and Siran and Dogbytes and..
...we're quite a popular team aren't we!
(sorry if I missed anyone..it was getting silly and I was only looking to see which TFFE members had posted in this thread!)
Physics is for gurls!
RE: RE: RE: Will you be
)
I'm gonna try. Depends on a) money and b) job (or lack there of)
Kathryn :o)
Einstein@Home Moderator
RE: RE: RE: Sure is
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I'm just glad Becks was able to shoot a penalty kick in the general vicinity of the goal this time.
RE: I could use a little
)
Gee do you have to make the Weatherman's job so easy in the Summer.
All I know of MD & DE is don't try to get up US 13 from VA Beach to the Deleware Memorial Bridge at the end of Memorial Day weekend, they close it down for the heave traffic.
Try the Pizza@Home project, good crunching.
One of the British national
)
One of the British national daily newspapers is asking readers
"What it means to be British."
Some of the emails are hilarious but this is one from a chap in Switzerland...
Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian
beer, then travelling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on
the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese
TV. And the most British thing of all? Suspicion of anything foreign.
Oh and!!!!!
Only in Britain can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.
Only in Britain do supermarkets make sick people walk all the way to the
back of the shop to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy
cigarettes at the front.
Only in Britain do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a
DIET coke.
Only in Britain do banks leave both doors open and chain the pens to the
counters.
Only in Britain do we leave cars worth thousands of pounds on the drive
and lock our junk and cheap lawn mower in the garage.
Only in Britain do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have
call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to
in the first place.
Only in Britain are there disabled parking places in front of a skating rink.
NOT TO MENTION...
3 Brits die each year testing if a 9v battery works on their tongue.
142 Brits were injured in 1999 by not removing all pins from new shirts.
58 Brits are injured each year by using sharp knives instead of
screwdrivers.
31 Brits have died since 1996 by watering their Christmas tree while the
fairy lights were plugged in.
19 Brits have died in the last 3 years believing that Christmas decorations
were chocolate.
British Hospitals reported 4 broken arms last year after cracker pulling
accidents.
101 people since 1999 have had broken parts of plastic toys pulled
out of the soles of their feet.
18 Brits had serious burns in 2000 trying on a new jumper with a
lit cigarette in their mouth.
A massive 543 Brits were admitted to A&E in the last two years
after opening bottles of beer with their teeth.
5 Brits were injured last year in accidents involving out of control
Scalextric cars.
and finally.........!
In 2000 eight Brits cracked their skull whilst throwing up into the
toilet.
I am proud to be British
RULE BRITANNIA!
"What it means to be
)
"What it means to be British."
When I was living in London, I overheard two chaps talking in the neighborhood pub and one remarked "You treat your wife like a dog." The other replied, "You think so? Thank you very much." Hmmmmm.
"We must be the change we wish to see."
Mahatma Gandhi
RE: One of the British
)
Funny! I suppose the stats would be proportionately much the same here in the US. Just the human condition to have a certain percentage be howling idiots. After all, where would we be as a race if certain numbers didn't Darwin themselves or near to it?
Jim
Those who don’t build must burn. It’s as old as history and juvenile delinquents.
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
Edit - DVLA stands for Driver
)
Edit - DVLA stands for Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, a UK Government Dept.......
13 June 2006
BLUES BROTHERS' LICENCE TO CHILL
Jake and Elwood win battle with DVLA over shades snaps
By Paula Murray
THE Blues Brothers are alive and well and living in Britain - and they've got official IDs to prove it.
Singers William Smith-Eccles and Mark Moore changed their names by deed poll in honour of the legendary film duo. And bosses at the DVLA have now given them permission to appear on their driving licences as Joliet Jake and Elwood Jake Blues.
The civil servants even let the boys wear their trademark shades in their photos, despite rules which say the whole of drivers' faces must be visible.
Blues Brothers fans might be surprised that Jake and Elwood got licences at all, since they spent much of the 1980 movie jumping over bridges, taking spins through indoor shopping centres and smashing up most of the police cars in Chicago.
But the boys, now fronting a tribute band called Jake and Elwood in Alfreton, Derbyshire, get on a lot better with the cops these days.
Jake, 56, said yesterday: "A policeman stopped me the other day and asked to see my licence, and when he looked at it, he said, 'You're having a laugh, aren't you?'
But when I explained it all to him he was perfectly happy."
"Most people would be surprised that we managed to get these driving licences but the DVLA told us they were making an exception and we would be the only two people allowed to do it."
Elwood, 27, added: "The Blues Brothers look is how we appear day in day out.
"So when it came to getting our driving licences we thought we should be wearing sunglasses. I don't think anyone would recognise us if we took them off."
The DVLA originally turned down the brothers' photos because their rules insist on "a recent and true likeness, showing the full face, with no hat, helmet or sunglasses".
But they had a change of heart after Jake and Elwood told them they hardly ever took off their shades - and reminded them that they are on a Mission From God.
A DVLA spokeswoman said: "In certain cases, where overall features are not impaired, it is possible to accept images of people wearing sunglasses.
"These two applicants were able to provide proof that the images already appeared on their passports.
"As the DVLA mirrors some of the procedures in place in the Identity and Passport Service, the images were accepted and licences issued."