BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: Amos
Date: 09 May 08 - 03:58 PM

Well -- I am not sure what "that shit" consists of, PG, but those I know who participated in The Mankind Project came away from their initial weekend deeply moved and dramatically changed by the experience -- more forthcoming, more honest, less assertive, and more in communication than they had been when they went in.

So whatever they did it must have been some good medicine for 'em. According to those who was there, these changes were typical for over 90% of the attendees, about thirty in number for one weekend retreat. But it wasn't in the woods, it was at a camp site with cabins and bunks.

Dunno about running naked, nobody said anything 'bout that.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: PoppaGator
Date: 09 May 08 - 01:27 PM

BWL, you have my sympathy. I couldn't imagine being even halfway related to anyone who takes that shit seriously. I thought that mycommon-law son-in-law was an asshole, but he's not that insufferable.

I'm in Hornets withdrawal this morning. I suppose it was inevitable that the Spurs win one at home, just as Dallas did in the first round, so I'm not too worried ~ yet.

The plus side is that I put a little more time into my guitar-picking after watching that tough loss than I had been doing of late. Turned the tube off right at the final buzzer instead of obsessively watching every possible post-game show, then SportsCenter and maybe even the wee-wee-hours rebroadcast of the game.

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: topical tom
Date: 09 May 08 - 01:08 PM

Singing that was a very good rhyme;
   Sing me another one, just like the other one,
   Sing me another one, do ooo.

   There once was...

   (What can I say? I love the three s's-singing, suds, and sex, not necessarily in that order).

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 May 08 - 12:57 PM

Kill the pig! Kill the pig!

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 09 May 08 - 12:34 PM

Lox, stalking a deer with a bow and arrow in his hand (ok just indulge the fantasy alright) overhears the sound of LH squealing like a pig ...

... Damn ...

... I told him this was a bad idea ...

... Meanwhile peace just rocked back and forth on the porch, banjo in hand, a slightly creepy smile on his otherwise expressionless face ...

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 08 May 08 - 10:15 PM

My son-in-law is really into the men's movement crap. He's an asshole. If he's a typical men's movement guy, I'll have no truck with it, thank you very much.

Anyway, I've got several acres of my own woods to wander around naked in any time I want.

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: Bobert
Date: 08 May 08 - 09:18 PM

Here's to ya, Rap...

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 May 08 - 09:17 PM

Okay, the gals are gone and guns are locked up. I can have a drink now.

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: Bobert
Date: 08 May 08 - 09:09 PM

Yo, Tweezer... I think it's all that camp fire smoke... Them Canooks fight over the choice seatin' logs downstream from the smoke... I donno myself??? Seems like the safest spot would be on the other end of the fire... And I oughtta know seein' as I've spent a life time knowing which end of the fire to be on....

But nevermind that...

What I wanta know is this....

Ahhhhhhh, danged if I know... See, ya made me loose my consentration.... Now ya feel better???

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 May 08 - 08:10 PM

No, Tweed, they are confused in other ways than me.

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: Tweed
Date: 08 May 08 - 07:40 PM

Hawrgs, all Canadian men ain't confused like you are they??
I listen to the Vinyl Cafe (a thinly disguised ripoff of the great Keillor) on NPR and there's another Canook show they run on Saturdays and all these hosts seem either too nice and decent or just f*cked up somehow.
What the hell is going on up above the borderline??

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: gnu
Date: 08 May 08 - 07:26 PM

Gentlemen?

Well, lets at least fire up the barbie, char some mammal flesh and drink copious quantities eh?

And then watch the big screen At Poppa's with whores devoirs and Dagwoods.

Unless youse really do wanna frolic through the woods in yer... I'm with Spaw.

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: gnu
Date: 08 May 08 - 05:53 PM

Well now. The thread isn't gonna read proper if the posts from the females get deleted. Of course, now that I know they will be deteted, I shall turn my remarks specifically to the gentlemen who have posted... to wit.... Peace... yeah... tits eh!

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 May 08 - 05:35 PM

Sports supports supports sports.

G

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: Peace
Date: 08 May 08 - 05:31 PM

THANK GOD! A woman! Finally get to stop talkin' about jock straps and talk about tits instead. Hell, where I come from, harass is two words.

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: gnu
Date: 08 May 08 - 05:28 PM

I have had periods like that. But, not like that. The third period is the best, of course.

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 08 May 08 - 05:28 PM

Slumping economy: It's a guy thing

Men are losing jobs in this downturn, while women make gains

By Peter Coy
Business Week
updated 1:05 p.m. CT, Thurs., May. 8, 2008

They eat from the same dishes and sleep in the same beds, but they seem to be operating in two different economies. From last November through this April, American women aged 20 and up gained nearly 300,000 jobs, according to the household survey of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. At the same time, American men lost nearly 700,000 jobs. You might even say American men are in recession, and American women are not.
...

So do we know who "the enemy" is now? (probably not without reading the whole article)

John

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: topical tom
Date: 08 May 08 - 05:20 PM

Hey, guys, heard this one:

                        Can you make a u(ewe)turn?
                        No, but I can make her eyes bulge.

   Now, pass the beer and let's sing some limericks!

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: gnu
Date: 08 May 08 - 05:03 PM

He is THE biggest hero. That is a male bonded! Bigger than BillBoy, in my estimation.

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 May 08 - 04:42 PM

Jeezus, Peace! I was nearly blinded when I opened those links to the Don Cherry wardrobe. Did you know that he is Shane's biggest hero?

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: artbrooks
Date: 08 May 08 - 04:41 PM

Save the owl - use the tree. Cacti are good for that, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: Willie-O
Date: 08 May 08 - 04:39 PM

Firewood don't come in megabytes Max. Everybuddy knows you get it by the chord.

Although I would urge that no one take the "firewood" reputation of 70's Gibsons literally....and Ovations don't burn right....

W-O

Apparently I'm batchin it tonight since the wife's got yoga--guess I'll throw a chicken on the fire and open another brown bottle.

Mick I don't know about your multi-coloured belching thar--not your most manly effort and didn't you used to save that code for your references to "The Fair One" as I recall? Distinctly suspect.

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 May 08 - 04:39 PM

Is that a quarter each your lordship sir?


G

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: Peace
Date: 08 May 08 - 04:30 PM

Most people would kill to actually own a jacket like this one . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: Peace
Date: 08 May 08 - 04:24 PM

Don Cherry could teach the world how to dress. Tasteful and elegant.

Mick's a wimp. Toilet paper. Shees. Save a tree. Wipe yer arse on an owl!

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: Max
Date: 08 May 08 - 04:19 PM

OK boys, pony up. You think this fire burns by itself. We need 15 MB/s of firewood and the matches cost a quarter, not to mention the stones for the pit we had to dig with a shovel I bought in the general store, my horse is thirsty and don't get me started on the beans, plus all this time I'm spending and the land that I had to buy to put you all up, and Mick wants toilet paper? What do you think this is the 4 seasons?....

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: gnu
Date: 08 May 08 - 04:00 PM

PG.... you name it and I will bring it. And, I will teach you all about REAL hockey. We'll start off with You Tube videos of Don Cherry, former coach of the Boston Bruins and the biggest mouth you ever loved to KINDA hate BUT love. Sheeee-it. We might just catch the end of a game after watchin "Grapes".

As for beer... you name it and I'll bring it. Of course, and I am goin out on a limb here, but, I drink Canuck Bud myself. It keeps me hydrated (>;-) and my head up when I'm comin over my own blueline eh.

As fer that there roundball, I love watchin it too. 'Cept that there rule about not bein able to check a guy tryin to score on yer net. Not bein able to even block him just ain't right. I mean, if ya can't knock him on his ass, what sport is there in that?

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 May 08 - 02:56 PM

Git it yerself, Mick.

I went to an all-male high school and then almost immediately went into the almost-all-male Army. In high school I was in the band, because it was the ONLY co-ed activity.

Hanging around in stinkin' gym locker rooms or playing with girls? There's a choice there?

I'm gonna go teach women about guns now.

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: PoppaGator
Date: 08 May 08 - 02:44 PM

gnu:

I'm willing to tune in to hockey, and learn all about it, provided yuo bring some good Canadian beer FROM CANADA ~ not that wimpy-ass waterd-down stuff they make for export to the States.

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: Amos
Date: 08 May 08 - 02:35 PM

Well, all right, boys. So answer up. Are you honoring your commitments and being true to your Inner Warrior, Wizard, Child, Spirit Animal, Elder and Higher Self?

A

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: Big Mick
Date: 08 May 08 - 02:25 PM

Women aint allowed.....*****spit*****scratch****......in this thread, so she got herself deleted. She was jes whinin' about some old shit anyway. Would someone pass me that beer? We are out of milk and I need something to wet my Cheerios........***urp***poot

***BRRRRRRAAAAAWWWWWMMMMMMPPPPPPPHHHHHH***

Someone pass me a napkin......and the roll of toilet paper....

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: gnu
Date: 08 May 08 - 02:07 PM

A... what bossy broad?

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 May 08 - 01:57 PM

Yes, those scars just last and last, don't they? ;-) And what would highly paid therapists do without them?

Just wait. There is an only-Chimps thread coming up shortly too.

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: Amos
Date: 08 May 08 - 01:56 PM

Who let that bossy broad into this thread?



A

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: gnu
Date: 08 May 08 - 01:56 PM

Now yer talkin! As long as we can watch hockey too. I AM a Canuck, so, it's, like, required, eh? Ya Know?

BTW... LH... I dunno about you Uppity Canadians, but down home in The Merrytimes, we usually dress up fer the woods. Parka in the winter and a Bug-Me-Not in the summer (with gloves or fly dope).

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: PoppaGator
Date: 08 May 08 - 01:05 PM

Fuck that campfire; you guys can come over to my house to watch sports on TV. Don't forget to bring beer!

The wife is off to the beach this afternoon for a four-day weekend with her girlfriends. Hornets & Spurs tip off at 8:30 Central. I'm open to suggestion for what to watch Friday evening and Saturday afternoon, but I must insist that we watch Game Four of New Orleans at SanAntonio on SAturday night.

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: artbrooks
Date: 08 May 08 - 12:53 PM

Nah, LH...only the ones who ain't vet'rans and REpublicans....

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 May 08 - 12:44 PM

You're kidding, right? Why, I haven't even dared open that other thread... ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 May 08 - 12:12 PM

And that would include, oh, about 99% of the men out there, right?

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: Amos
Date: 08 May 08 - 12:10 PM

In actual male-bonding expeditions, I don't think dirty jokes are part of the ritual. They are symptomatic ofmen who have lost their centers and are still trying to recover their balance within, you see.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: Peace
Date: 08 May 08 - 11:12 AM

Yeah. Heard the one about the French Foreign Legion and the camel?

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: Big Mick
Date: 08 May 08 - 11:05 AM

No sheep, but Bossy the stump trained cow is just around the corner......

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: Peace
Date: 08 May 08 - 10:16 AM

. . . and not ONE mention of sheep?

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 May 08 - 09:02 AM

Well, I gotta go now. Gotta teach a bunch of women about shooting guns this afternoon.




























(Really!)

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 May 08 - 08:54 AM

Boy, this is really heart-warming, isn't it? Such a response since last night. Wow. There's enough material here to keep a men's psychotherapist busy for years. Ooooo-weeee.

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: Bill D
Date: 08 May 08 - 08:46 AM

Hmmm...I see (or rather, I DON'T see) Little Hawk standing on the sidelines, letting everyone else pretend that they know what the heck one does to 'bond'...(other than the super glue idea).

Myself, I don't think I have ever even contemplated putting out a campfire with 'processed' beer.

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 May 08 - 08:32 AM

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Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: artbrooks
Date: 08 May 08 - 08:19 AM

The last time I did any male bonding around a fire was when a group of us were putting out a small brush fire, and finished it off in the traditional manner. Of course, there weren't any "ladies" peekin'...

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 May 08 - 06:18 AM

UhOh! Darn it!

Subject: RE: BS: Male Bonding round the fire - Men only!!
From: John Hardly
Date: 08 May 08 - 05:46 AM

did one of you guys borrow my darning needle?