BS: Let's Brag

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 08:10 PM

Well, I've been discovering my inner plumber and electrician lately. At our cabin up north, we've been having plumbing problems because particles of rust, probably from the well, have been floating through the pipes and clogging up the faucets. I've been learning how to take faucets apart and flush out the rust. And a couple of weeks ago, I replaced all the light switches—they were the old-fashioned kind that make a loud SNAP when you turn them on or off—with new silent switches. We're trying to get the cabin in shape so we can rent it out occasionally, and make a little money to defray expenses. Maybe this kind of work is commonplace to some people, but it's new to me, and I feel rather proud of myself for what I've accomplished.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 06:19 PM

Joe F didn't say he didn't HAVE a TV...or that he never looks at one. He said he never owned one....

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: jeffp
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 01:50 PM

I make the best barbecued baby back ribs my wife or parents have ever tasted.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: PoppaGator
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 01:14 PM

I think Joe F trumps everyone ~ no TV set in this day and age!

Congratulations; that's really something to brag about.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: mooman
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 12:39 PM

I bet I've had the most ordinary week of anyone here!

Peace

moo

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: MMario
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 12:38 PM

Cape Codders don't brag - We know the rest of the world looks up to us.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Janie
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 12:35 PM

We don't brag in North Carolina either. We don't need to. Every one already knows we are the best, greatest, biggest....etc. We also have got Jesse Helms.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Paul Burke
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 11:15 AM

We in the UK don't brag; it's one reason that we are better than Americans. We are generally less competitive. In fact, I bet I'm less competitive than any three of you.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 10:35 AM

I have never owned a television set.

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

||: Big prizes make many losers. :||

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 06:40 PM

I got a commendation from the judges last weekend at the saltburn write a folksong contest. Could this be the one that catapults me to stardom? I keep asking myself.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Jimmy C
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 06:32 PM

Hey, Kennedy, I thought you were older than that ?.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Jimmy C
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 06:26 PM

Wesley,

She would be only doing one voice, that of Harry Potter. I haven't heard any more about it so it looks like they may have selected soemone else, but still getting to the last 12 out of a thousand was something.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 06:17 PM

not as a speller, I hope

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 03:10 PM

I never need to brag, my reputaition preceedes me....

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: GUEST,Fullerton
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 02:16 PM

I can draw straight lines and accurate circles without a ruler or compass.

I know 10 000 + scales from memory.

I could go on.

But modesty forbids.

Apart from telling you that I can read music upside down.

I also make the best chip butties this side of catbells.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: PoppaGator
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 02:08 PM

Sshould I bother making another round of corrections? ("I suppoSe we all need ouR heads...")

I'd brag about my prowess as a professional proofreader, but that would be pointless now, wouldn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: PoppaGator
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 02:05 PM

...nodded his head, not "needed." I suppoe we all need out heads, of course///

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: PoppaGator
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 02:03 PM

Bobert, attaboy! Excellent bragging!

True story: I once sang onstage with Jeff Beck, Ron Wood, and Mickey Most. It was the winter of 1967-68, during the Jeff Beck Group's first US tour, at the Kinetic Playgound in Chicago, while the band was playing a simple 12-bar-blues jam as their final encore for the evening.

The then-unknown vocalist (Rod Stewart) jumped off the bandstand into the crowd; he huddled up with two fairly unattractive fat chicks, which I didn't understand until a few years later when I saw their pictures in People magazine and learned that they had been none other than the notorious Plaster Casters.

Beck started shouting at him to get back onstage and sing, and Stewart grinned and gave him the finger. I was up front jumping up and down and singing, and Beck called me up: "If he won't sing, you get up here and do it" (or words to that effect). So I did.

Although they were playing in a farily quick shuffle tempo, the first lyric that came to mind was from a favorite Buddy Guy s-l-o-o-o-w blues:

What can a man do when the blues keeps followin him around (2x)
Get hisself a half a pint of likker, sit there and drink 'em on down.

Then I spotted a guitar sitting in a rack and, pushing my luck, took one step towards it. Jeff Beck just needed his head, and two or three roadies immediately grabbed me and tossed me back into the audience. End of story.

Incidentally, I was so loaded at the time that, as time went by, I began to doubt that this incident had actually happened. ("I musta been trippin!") But last month, at a reunion where I met up with some of the friends with whom I attended that show, I learned that several other folks remember the same thing, so it must have really occurred. Oh, to be young again!

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 01:34 PM

Ha! Typical, Bill, just typical. Shane says he will NEVER ride in a truck with you again (eh?).

You should contact Michael Jackson, Liz. He's been paying people a fortune to rearrange his face for years...

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 01:26 PM

My great modesty prevents me from referring to my many other virtues.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 09:08 AM

For composition recording purposes this year I started to learn to play mandolin, guitar and piano. I can now do simple things on all three that at least sound clean.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Sue Wilcock
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 03:46 AM

My 10 year old son has been selected as one of the contestants on the next series of Junior Mastermind- only 20 children get picked from the country so needless to say we're mega proud of him, especially as he's normally really shy and has little self confidence.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 03:15 AM

I haven't wanted to kill anyone for several hours now....

That's pretty good for me.







However, there are a few faces that I could happily rearrange....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 02:58 AM

Wow, Alison, you could knock my melt in anytime!

I was born about 10,000 years ago,
In Belmullet in the County of Mayo,
It was me that chased the vermin
While St. Patrick preached a sermon,
And I'll whup the man that says it isn't so.

Seamus

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: alison
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 02:32 AM

at the ripe old age of 40 ( few months ago) I got my black belt in karate ...... woo hoo!!

good achievement for someone who never liked (or was any good at) sports

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: greg stephens
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 02:15 AM

I was complimented once on how neatly I could tear cling-film, without using that serrated bit down the side of the box.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Amos
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 12:09 AM

"Hi, you've reached 000-0000. I can't come to the phone right now. But you don't need to leave a message. I understand. I know what your message would be, and your answer will come to you in due course. You're in Good Hands with Me! Thanks very much for calling -- I knew you would!" ... click... ... ... hmmmmmmmmmmmm..........


A

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Bobert
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 10:34 PM

Like, who is this Shane person, LH... I don't remember no Shane's comin' 'round with no braggin'???

Oh I mighta figet a couple things... Remember back in the 50's and lots of kids had polio and Doctor Salt was trying desperately to find a vaccine??? Well, I was havin' a little polio of my own an' so he came to me needin' some polioized blood to do his experiements and so I give him a little and that blood led to the Salt Vacine which has saved millions of kids from gettin' polio.... Yeah, firgot all about that one...

Hey, hey, hey... Remember Nina Williams? Oh, she was so hot!!! I mean like makin' the sun look like a big ol' ice cube hot she was... All the boys wanted to, ahhhh, just bump into her in the hall way... Hey, like her mom and my mom was in the same "bridge club" so I figgured that I might do better than just a bump in the hall... Yeah, all you guys eat yer heart out... I'z over at her house and we got to actually kissin' and I almost touched her breast, 'er breast to be... Hey we were like 13...

Ahhh, remind me to tell ya' all about the time that my band led off fir the Chambers Brothers....

(But, Bobert, that actually happened....)

It did???

Or the time me band led off fir Bruce Springsteen's band, Steelmill...

(But, bobert, that actually happened, too...)

It did???

Well, hmpppfffttttt! How about the yellow phone I got rigged up to call God??? Anyone got a yellow phone to Heaven???

Din't think so!!!

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 09:54 PM

Way to go, Shane. You too, Bobert. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Le Scaramouche
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 09:48 PM

I NEVER brag.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Bobert
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 09:46 PM

Hey, Blind, I know that guy! He was my 6th grade teacher... What a dork... Yeah, he was real anal, too... Wore one of them pocket protectors to keep his ink pens in to protect his $2 shirts... Cheap bastard... Like 2 friggin' bucks shirts... He tried to make me mezmorize the Gettysbuur Address and swored that if I din't memorize it that he was gonna keep me back an' I'd have him agin the followin' year??? Like what's that all about??? Ain't their somethin' in the constipation about double jeoprady 'er somethin'??? So I started readin' everything I could about how to off the guy widout it lookin' like I did it and had a plan all cooked up about a month before the end of the year when the guy was told that he weren't gonna have his contract extended... Little does he know that prolly saved his life...

Four score and seven years ago....

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 09:11 PM

Okay. Number ONe: I am the sexiest man in the whole flippin' world. That is sertified, eh? Number Two: People would KIll to have my looks, eh? Number Three: I busted inta 3 beer stores in one night! (Well, tried to, anyway...) Number Five: I can chug 12 beer faster'n anyone else in this town. Number Six: Ozzie Osbourne loves me and would spend time here if he had the time but he don't... but that's okay, I understand, eh?

Number Seven: Where are we? Oh. Well, I have a beauty girlfriend who is a cop. She is flippin' gorgeous. I intend to marry her or Shania Twain, whichever one works out first.

Number Eight: Ummm....

Wait.

Okay.

I flippin' puked on Mick Jagger one time in Toronto. And his bodyguards beat me up. If I meet him again I want a flippin' apology!

That's all that comes to mind right now, eh?

- BDiBR

p.s. I spent 4 days in a flippin' truck with this bolthole once and he musta had a big head, eh? He was one of them intilleschual types I guess. I could tell. He used words like "analisis" a lot, eh? That is somethin' that has to do with your butt, I think. Maybe he is a proctocologist or somethin'. I tried to be nice and, like, come up with interestin' conversations and stuff, but it was not easy. You shoulda seen the weird looks. I ast him if he ever drove a snowmobile acrost the lake when the ice was just an inch thick. He said "No". The things he wanted to, like, talk about could put a mad dog to sleep in like 30 seconds or less, eh? "Have you ever been reamed out by a posthole digger?" I asks. He just stares at me with a funny little smile on his flippin' face. What a flippin' bolthole! I am proud that I did not punch him out. I am learnin' to be more tolarant of major loosers than I used to be.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: harpgirl
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 08:54 PM

How bout this Bobert? Despite my boasts to the contrary...I've never actually had a lawyer when I got divorced. I refuse to do that to another human being....no matter what...guess I'm really just dumb! But I don't have any guilt!

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Bobert
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 08:08 PM

Okay, P-Gator, I invented the innernet and did have sex with that woman and bad news fir yous, P-Gator, I is the best blues singer that ever strapped on a resonator guitar... Might of fact, it weren't Son House that learnt up Robert Johnson. it was me... And whilst Iz at it, did you know that it weren't that Armstrong guy who first walked on the moon... Nope, it was me... Drove there in my 66 Volkswagen back in '68 and I can prove it... I was out drivin' 'round and hit a moon rock and lost a hubcap up there... Mark my words, they'll find that VeeDub hubcap one day an' you'll know it was me... Speakin' of Armstrongs, hey, after the Tour De France victory I challenged him to a 5 mile drag race up Pine Grove holler and beat him pedalin' an ol' girl's Shwinn... Sho nuff did... Ahhhh, did I mention that People magazine clled me up las' year and wanted to make me the "Sexiest Man of the Year" and put me on the cover an' all but I had to turn them down 'cause they only wanted to pay a little over $1,000,000... Heck, I spill that much every night walkin' to teh refrig fir chilly one... Sho nuff do....

But all this stuff ain't nuthin' compared to just how lucky I is to marinated to such a wonderful woman, the infamous, beautiful and multi-taleneted P-Vine... Did I mention that she can cook???

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 07:41 PM

I made an excellent deal on some Krugiodendron ferreum last week, and I have some VERY nice pieces of Pterocarpus indicus hidden away....

but real bragging is when I tell you I survived 4 days in a truck with a nice, but tedious DORK who talked incessantly about random trivia for hours on end, and I did not murder or insult him....*grin* (he would read the signs on passing vehicles with stenatorian intensity and ask weird question out of the blue.."have you ever been shot?")

I am sorta proud of myself for parting on friendly terms...

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: PoppaGator
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 07:24 PM

Hey, alla y'all are being WAY too modest ~ we're supposed to be BRAGGIN' here!

I had hoped to set the tone by making an especially outrageous claim about my own self, but most of the rest of you are restricting yourselves to saying nice things about the younguns in your families. Let's pick up the pace here!

(Not you, Farmer Michelle ~ announcement of one's own actual accomplishments is an entirely appropriate example of braggadocio ~ perhaps even more appropiate than the kind of hyperbole to which I resorted earlier.)

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: LilyFestre
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 05:51 PM

We entered some vegetables and herbs in the local county fair for the first time ever. We placed in 5 of the 7 categories!!!!!!

I'll be making some of the prize winning zucchini for dinner with prize winning tomatoes and peppers in our salad! Salt potatoes with fresh prize winning parsley will accompany the main course, flavored with more prize winning rosemary....

WOOO HOOOOOOO....that was FUN!

Farmer Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Bobert
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 05:25 PM

Got me one purdy wife in the P-Vine herself... And she can cook, too...

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Charmion
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 05:07 PM

I played mandolin in a session for the first time last week. I was bad, but not as bad as I feared I would be.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Amos
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 04:16 PM

Hell, so am I!! LOL!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 04:14 PM

Buddy Tabor, an extraordinary singer/songwriter from Juneau, Alaska, says he is 'one of the World's Living Songwriters.'

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: harpgirl
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 04:12 PM

My son finally passed Business Calculus on the third try, and he got a "C". He is also working full time in a video store and will be paying for his college when he returns to UWF in January!!!! For those of you who know my son, all of this is a great accomplishment! Still no tickets, no accidents, no drugs, no alcohol, or cigarettes and no pregnant girlfriends!!!!

As for me, I made enough money today to get the driveway re-cemented!
Woo hoo!

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 04:12 PM

The rear engine 8 or 9 blade prop Shinden can't be that rare. I have one too but it is expertly painted and assembled with extra photo etched details.

Today I would not take the pediatrician's dismissive "he's just fine" and sheepishly walk away holding a 5 year old boy shrieking in pain.

After being spit out the rear end of the doctor's office I went around front and asked for a second appointment. The clerk said it would be another 3 hour wait and I said we would wait. A different doctor was alerted of our persistence. This Doctor determined there really wasn't any evidence of swimmers ear but instead it was a very sore neck muscle. He is now doing fine with massage heat and motrin.

The first doctor is the same one that claimed 4 years ago that our other son's ear was fine. 5 Hours of shrieking agony later, his ear burst. She always struck me as imposter. Perhaps she is good for serious conditions but is left wanting for the small stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Wesley S
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 04:08 PM

Jimmy - Would your neice be doing one voice in particular - or several voices ?

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Jimmy C
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 03:59 PM

My great-niece is among the last remaining 12 Irish speaking children being considered as the voice-over for the Irish Language version of the latest Harry Potter movie. The Hollywood people interviewed over 1,000 children and are now down to the last 12 (as of a few weeks ago). 8 in the Dublin area and 4 in Belfast. She is one of the 4 from Belfast. Not much else to brag about except that I am happy with my life so far.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 03:37 PM

I also live with a chimpanzee private eye and a baboon security guard. Beat that.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 03:23 PM

I've got great hair. ;-)

I also have 3 (count 'em!), 3 of the old Revell 1/32 scale models of the Japanese early Shiden fighter (WWII fighter plane). Ha! Eat your hearts out! That kit is as rare and hard to find as a palatable Wayne Newton live album.

Well, almost that rare...

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 02:57 PM

I've got 12 inches,
But I don't use it as a rule!

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 02:47 PM

Billy Bragg

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Le Scaramouche
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 02:39 PM

Or are you a hypocrite for singing woooh-ooo-oooh?