BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 08 May 10 - 07:02 PM

Well, poking, a give and take?...hmmm, sounds like fun! Sense of humor helps! The late Paul Harvey, radio newscaster and commentator, of whom I'm sure you've heard, had a segment on his show called 'The Tournament of Roses', which he'd read various couple's names, that were celebrating their anniversaries. Usually, they were couples married for at least 50-60 plus years. He decided to write a book, with the same title, where he interviewed these couples(at least the ones who were still alive..duh), and asked them to give their reasons, they thought their marriages lasted so long. He compiled the list from all of them, and the top two answers that came up, by a long shot, outnumbering all the others, were, their relationship with God, and a sense of humor!...For what its worth!

The only time we can't laugh at ourselves, is when we're dead!..of course, when we're dead, we ain't to healthy in other departments, as well...so, what the poke!

Wishing you the Best,...in spite of your silly political bent,

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Bobert
Date: 08 May 10 - 09:39 AM

Well, GfS... I glad it was good fir you, as well... That's why I start these little "womenz" threads... Fir the most part they are harmless and gives the womenz an opportunity to do a little pokin' back of their own... Not that womenz need more opportunities, mind you... lol...

B;~)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 07 May 10 - 10:19 PM

Bobert, To tell you the truth, I had a blast writing that post!..I was laughing my ass off..and hoping you'd find both the humor and the truth in it!

All said and done, warmest regards, to both of you!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Bobert
Date: 07 May 10 - 10:12 PM

In the words of Vinnie Barbarino, "I'm so confused!!!"

Nah, not really...

I mean, I loves the P-Vine "cause I do and I loves Eb 'cause she's my buddy...

But that little rant by GfS kinda hit on some stuff... Yeah, maybe being a good husband is bein' "a pussy" when it's time to be "a pussy"... Guilty... But then there are areas where I kinda, and the P-Vine doesn't expect me to, be be "a pussy"... I reckon, if anything I have learnt about womenz is that you pick yer battles... I don't go to battle with the P-Vine all that often so I reckon that she understands that if I do then I've given it alot of thought and she then, fir the most part, respects my opinion... The rest??? Details... That, IMHO, is the way you "get along" (from a blues song) with womenz... Other than just loves 'um... Which I do... I loves all the womenz... No, not that way, gol danged it...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 07 May 10 - 09:24 PM

What now???...Has Ebbie I'mmed the resident homosexuals to come to her rescue....again???....(its always someone)!

Look, I don't particularly WANT to come down on Ebbers,...not even a little bit....but she starts in on her little stupid snipes, and so I return the favor....except mine might be a bit more brutal.....but then, hers were uncalled for, when I was just yakking at Bobert...and in satirical fun. My advice: If you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen!

So there, Ebbers, take the 'olive branch'...and lighten up on the attacks....and enjoy the ride.

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: gnu
Date: 07 May 10 - 01:48 PM

GfS... your posts are akin to those of a troll.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: frogprince
Date: 07 May 10 - 12:50 PM

And characterizing Ebbie as a femi-nazi makes every bit as much sense as another brilliant poster's characterization of Little Hawk, one of our resident more-or-less pantheists-or-something, as a fundamentalist Christian.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: frogprince
Date: 07 May 10 - 12:45 PM

"quasi femi-nazi": (1) a woman who believes that she has more right to make her own decisions than a man has to make decisions for her.
(2)a woman who has been seen out of doors without her burka.

For my own part, I am inclined to think of a very small percentage of alleged feminists I've known as "femi-nazis", more motivated by hostility toward men than by a desire to see fairness. But I've seen just as many women who have serious issues with men but do not consider themselves feminists.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 07 May 10 - 12:11 PM

Ebbers: "Laura Schlesinger? What a joke."

...and you're not??!!!

How would you know?..you never read it, but as I posted, which is true, and you just proved it, "You might learn something!!!!...that is, if you already don't like her, because of one of your already preconceived notions of your self-absorbed, 'tragically hip' dumb OPINIONS, based on your stupid blathering!!"

Now go back to having glazed eyes, with a vacant stare over the water, and bake whole wheat muffins!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Ebbie
Date: 07 May 10 - 11:38 AM

Laura Schlesinger? What a joke.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 07 May 10 - 11:26 AM

grandghildren...typo...grandchildren..(fourth line of my post)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 07 May 10 - 11:23 AM

Ebbtide: "See?"

"See????!!!!????!!!" Half the time you're trying to figure out if I'm a male or female,...when you think I'm a male, you couple it with 'I'm so mean'..when I'm sensitive to the needs of children, then you decide I'm female. Gosh, is that your inbred bigotry coming out, or what???? Bet you're just a bowl to fun to live with!!! If you read my posts, and even had the ability to comprehend them, you'd have remembered that my spouse and I are married...with 16 grandghildren!!!!!,so maybe through life's experience, I have a clue of what I'm talking about...PLUS, I've spent part of my life as a marriage and family counselor! What I posted to Bobert, was meant as humor.....and do you know WHY it is humorous???..Because its a lot truer and cuts close to the bone(remember them?)...than your re-hashed, hung over, quasi femi-nazi delusion of reality!~!!!!
Suggested reading for you, seriously, Dr. Laura Schlessinger's 'The Care and Prpoer Feeding of Husbands'...written by a WOMAN certified marriage counselor, with a PhD in physiology, national radio talk show host, on the subject, who made it through menopause!!!!!! You might learn something!!!!...that is, if you already don't like her, because of one of your already preconceived notions of your self-absorbed, 'tragically hip' dumb OPINIONS, based on your stupid blathering!!

Get the point?
Now you can get back to irritating everyone, who have been just too polite, to point that out to you!
Seriously, get the book...it could change your life!

Still Smiling!,
GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Ebbie
Date: 07 May 10 - 10:56 AM

See?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 07 May 10 - 09:42 AM

"Thank God YOU are not married."

Shut up!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Ebbie
Date: 07 May 10 - 09:29 AM

Thank God YOU are not married.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 07 May 10 - 09:14 AM

leeneia, You're welcome.......gasp, (looks around furtively), I actually posted something that didn't generate a lynch mob!

Bobert, oh my poor Bobert, what is the world going to do with you???

Men marry women, hoping they'll NEVER change, but, alas, they do!
Women marry men, figuring that they'll CHANGE them....but they don't!

But you, Dear Sir, have been 'potty trained' and now you're doing the yard 'picking up'....Jeez!...Didn't you have kids?????
I hope she, at least, cleans up the house....or are you putting enough bleach, in the laundry??..(Bad for septic tanks..so I hear).

What next??? Listening to her for hours, go on about every nano-second of the emotional impact on her of EVERYTHING of EVERY moment, that happened to her during the day????...and what do you do??...sit there BORED to death, PRETENDING to either listen, or act interested???....while your mind is off, trying to escape, into your own thoughts???????!!!!????....and off and away. YOU ACTOR YOU!...what??...then she asks you if are you listening, and paying attention, and you fumble out some lie, and to prove it, repeat, some part of some trivia shit, she said, hoping it was close enough,(time and context wise), to get you by???...when actually you fight just to keep from dozing off...but she won't shut up long enough, for a moment, to give you peace of mind????....YOU PUSSY!!!
Tell her to get a girlfriend so prattle to...they love that shit....(its a form of bonding for women)....and can actually give you a moments peace..."Oh good, she's busy talking to 'Miss So and So'.now I have a moment to think......speaking of thinking....I wonder if I can remember the last time I got a hard on for her....if only she'd just shut up!


Now I'm picking up her damn crap, out of the yard, so I can mow it! Rather be practicing my axe, at least it attracts women, but jeez, look what happened to me with her.......I don't feel like playing, anymore! ....................................................
wonder if there is any good porn on the 'puter'......shit, I might get caught...let's see what's on Mudcat....wonder what GfS has for me.....SHIT, I DON'T KNOW WHY...YOU AIN'T LISTENING!......but I hope you at least got a smile on your face.........but then, she'll take care of that!!!!!

Oh, so loving,

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Janie
Date: 06 May 10 - 10:31 PM

Or just let a few of the acres naturally transition back to whatever they were originally, and document the process with wonder?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Bobert
Date: 06 May 10 - 08:12 PM

Bad counting, leadster... Hope you do better when we play again... lol...

As fir the 6 acres??? I was kinda thinking more like, ahhhhh, 2 acres (tops) in actual garden beds and 4 mowed... The P-Vine, however, sees it more like 4 acres in beds and 2 mowed... Maybe we'll end up at 3 'n 3...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Leadfingers
Date: 06 May 10 - 07:20 PM

100

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Rowan
Date: 06 May 10 - 07:16 PM

Now that you've got it all worked out, Bobert, the two of you'll be much better placed to do the whole 6 acres as garden. Don't laugh; several people I know have done 5 acres and some have done 30 acres. In Oz the ABC televises "Gardening Australia" (a half hour program, viewable on-line) and they regularly feature the efforts of people who've tackled such areas as yours.

You'll never need to mow again.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 06 May 10 - 07:01 PM

put super glue on the handles. then she can't put them down.

VERY BAD IDEA!!

- cause she can put super glue on Boberts tractor seat.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: gnu
Date: 06 May 10 - 04:15 PM

Oh yeah... the chatter. I always have my air miles card or whatever ready. When that crap goes on, as soon as they close the register, I reach out and swipe my card in front of the scanner. Menbership cards get the beep and so does the chatter. The air miles card doesnt register because they gotta press a key first so I ask, "WHY won't it work?" They get the hint.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 May 10 - 01:19 PM

Jacqui and I have the opposite problem - a checkout clerk with verbal diarrhea. She admires every item (this is a grocery store!)and asks how the customer plans to cook, use or save it. Thirty recipes later I am ready to kill her or simply shout "Shut the F*&*&$%@!^&*(K up and check her out!"
She always has the shortest line because everyone moves to another line.
Infuriating.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Ebbie
Date: 06 May 10 - 01:02 PM

Life gets tejus, don't it. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Bobert
Date: 06 May 10 - 12:32 PM

Wish you hadn't brought that one up, KT... Yesterday, I stopped into the Martin's and got behind a woman and her pathetic hubby and in this case, sad as it may sound, neither had a clue that they had to actually, ahhhhhhhh, pay for their stuff... I mean, I was there for at least 5 minutes while they discussed stuff with each other and then the checker and when I thought all was solved their kid, who was in one of those shopping carts that looks like a car, reached up with a pack of gum that he/she (never did see the child) had picked off the shelf and then mom had to re-decide how to pay for the gum.... Grrrrrrrr....

Meanwhile, people behind me were bailing to other lines but I was stuck....

I donno???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: KT
Date: 06 May 10 - 11:39 AM

Good man, Bobert. Now you can make TWO scarecrows for your garden - his & hers- using her tools and YOUR clothes. ( Hey, at least you'd know where to find everything when you next need it.)
KT

PS. I still think of you every time I go through a checkout line and someone doesn't have their card ready!) Love your little pearls of wisdom that you share with all of us here ~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Ebbie
Date: 06 May 10 - 11:38 AM

Bobert, as Sins said and others implied, you are a wise man. And if the P-vine ever happens upon this thread, you have made up for quite a bit. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 06 May 10 - 11:20 AM

Guest from Sanity, thanks for the links to the videos on brains.

Maybe, someday, if they can see a video (and not have to actually read anything) retail and restaurant management will accept it that blasting loud ugly music at me while I try to shop is not in their own best interest.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 May 10 - 07:38 AM

Good man, Bobert. Very wise.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Bobert
Date: 06 May 10 - 07:18 AM

Lol, GfS... As all of Bobert's nuggets of wisdom this one was hard but I enl;isted to fight in the Toidy War... Got a good butt whup fir my efforts but that "change you can believe in" sunk in real good 'cause I know where the toidy seat is supposed to be when I'm done playin' bathroom... Sho nuff do... Down, baby, down...

Thanks, Janie, fir them kind words... Yeah, me and the P-Vine are a purdy good duo... No, make that a great duo... I mean, we both came into this thing with old tapes and baggage (like most folks who have been thru a life) but we just get stronger and stronger... And as a result of this thread I have made a Bobert Executive Decision and that is:

((((drum roll))))

I'm just gonna continue pickin' the stuff up before and as I mow and be darned happy to have the P-Vine in my life... Sniff... I'd hate to go thru the rest of my life having to mow and wondering why the stuff ain't all over the place... I mean, if that's the price I have to pay, then so be it...

Sniff...

(That was purdy lame and weepy, Boberdz...)

Well, yeah... She went up to a nursery yesterday in Maryland to select azaleas for this weekends garden shoe at the the Virginia State Arboritum and stayed with her sister in NoVa last night and *now* I gotta cook my own breakfast!!! No, that ain't it... I miss her...

Sniff...

BTW, Janie, you'd love this garden show... Almost a hundred vendors... We practically sold out last year and made over $2500 for the azalea chapter....

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 06 May 10 - 02:46 AM

Bobert: "But I digress... Today was a good day... The P-Vine didn't leave one single tool out to be runned over by Mr. Mower... Of course, she was gone for the day but, hey..."

Oh! Oh yeah...Don't forget to lift the seat!!!!...and close it when your done. Maybe then she'll let you eat at the table, instead of over the sink!


Wink,
GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Janie
Date: 06 May 10 - 01:00 AM

Well, darlin' Bobertz,

It is what it is, which seems to be the conclusion at which you have also arrived. You understand what you and P-Vine have going for you as a couple. You not only adore her and she, you, you share that love of the natural world, of digging in the dirt, of fostering nature in a planned way in some spaces, and letting nature run it's course in others. Complainin' here is a useful outlet to deal with the the bumps and rough places where the duo ain't so dynamic, but you clearly know and respect the many more ways ya'll mesh, and cherish that all-in-all, when it comes to dirt, plants, garden, nature, you are over-all a very effective and dynamic duo. You ain't about to upset that apple-cart by keeping serious score or letting that little eden ya'll are creating suffer for the sake of behavioral modification, and I don't blame you. It is a rare enough thing for both of a couple to love the land the way the two of you do. That is worth putting up with one another.

Hugs to both of you.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Bobert
Date: 05 May 10 - 10:34 PM

Okay, GfS... I get this guy... Hey, I could almost do his lecture... I got a PhD in "womenz"... I been studyin' them fir a long time... Yeah, okay, I likes to play but I do understand the situation and that is that womenz is nutz... It's a DNA thing so I don't get all judegmental about it... It's kinda like some folks is born left handed and others right handed... Womenz can't help it and more importantly womenz didn't pick the cromozones either... I think that purdy much sums it up with out having to get all personal, an stuff...

But it's too bad... Makes me sad... I mean, there is nuthin' more satisfyin' than goin' outside to pee... Not NASCAR... Not Budweiser... Not TV wrerstling... Not scratchin' 'er fallin' out drunk on the kitchen floor... I mean, nuthin'... And womenz never got to experiance that God's gift to man...

But I digress... Today was a good day... The P-Vine didn't leave one single tool out to be runned over by Mr. Mower... Of course, she was gone for the day but, hey...

Happy mowin' out there...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: gnu
Date: 05 May 10 - 04:02 PM

I am about ready to shoot the squirrels that throw pine cones on my lawn and don't pick them up. But, I suppose that might not be an acceptable solution in your case, Bobert.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 05 May 10 - 02:51 PM

put super glue on the handles. then she can't put them down.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 May 10 - 01:02 PM

It's true, Bill! Take it from a Sagittarian. :)

(Actually, I have never put much stock in most zodiac assertions. However, I do know that I feel that I understand the reasoning and responses of Saggies. And once I met the husband of my co-worker and discovered that he reminded me very much of one of my brothers. Turned out that he had the same birthday as that brother, several years apart. So there. )

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Bill D
Date: 05 May 10 - 11:41 AM

Aries characteristics?? We Taurians don't believe in stuff like that...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Bobert
Date: 05 May 10 - 07:53 AM

GfS,

I'll download them tonight when I have time to wait on my slow pudder...

John,

Great piece of writin'...

B;~)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 05 May 10 - 02:19 AM

and this too..put it all together

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 05 May 10 - 02:16 AM

and this


GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: GUEST
Date: 05 May 10 - 02:14 AM

Bobert , refresh with this, more than just 'humor'

and this....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwBKIQ__q7Q&feature=related

and add this to it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ccJeRh_UzI&feature=channel

put it together!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 May 10 - 02:14 AM

JohninKansas...not ALL Aries are like that!:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Bert
Date: 05 May 10 - 12:12 AM

'course you could just go out and help her when she is working in the garden. Then when your done you could help her pick up the tools.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 04 May 10 - 05:55 PM

VT -

In my experience the "convenient tool carrier" idea has been only marginally successful.

A certain person of persuasion similar to the suspect here was provided several years ago with a "carrier" with wheels, a convenient carrying handle, and a padded seat, stocked with a carefully selected set of "quality tools" appropriate to her tasks. In addition, raised beds were constructed and plantings assisted in them so that bending and lifting requirements would be minimal.

Since getting up off the seat was required in order to open the lid to get a tool, the subject preferred getting up off the seat, walking back to the garage or shed where my tools were stored, returning the sit on the seat yell for me to come and use the tools for her - "because my tool was too big for her."

Of course when I had completed "using the tools" she insisted they be left with her "in case she wanted to do more." She would then sit on her toolbox, and usually read a book, until she got done with sitting on her tool box, got up, dragged her tool box back to put it away, and left my tools laying in the grass beside the garden beds.

I suspect it must be some sort of evolved characteristic that permitted her to navigate from the garden beds to the tool shed with her hands empty, to get from the shed back to the garden only with tools in her hands, yet left her completely incapable of navigating from the garden to the shed with tools in hand or from shed to garden without some tools. (Something to do with "instinctive migration?)

My suggestion to the local U Psychology Department that this would be a suitable topic for a student research project got a "what's unusual about that," leading me to believe it must be so common a trait as to be "uninteresting" as a psychological quirk, so it has to be(?) inbred - unless it's just been too frequently studied in the recent past.

Quite incidentally, I've noted that similar traits have been exhibited by "relatives" of both persuasion, but only by those who are horological "Aries." Unfortunately the offender currently part of my household is not only "one of them wimmin" but IS ALSO AN ARIES.

What one cannot change must be accepted, and accomodated by whatever means causes the least pain to the more fragile participant - I suppose.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Bobert
Date: 04 May 10 - 05:41 PM

Well, I'be bought her just about everything that comes on the market to help her out... I bought her this cool wagon with slots for all her tools... That was 5 years ago and it's sitting in the barn where is has been fro 5 years... I've bhought her tool belts, t5otes, bags, folding thingies with zipper pouches... She won't use them... I end up using them...

But I have finally found something that she will use... About a onth ago I gotta an offer from the Kawasaki dealer for 3.9% finacing on a 4WD Polaris so I took yer down there and she liked and promised she'd use it and she does... She drives it all over the farm with her stuff in the back... Still hasn't cut down on the lawn clutter but at least she seems very happy to be able to load it up with all her planting mediums and dig up a plant and move it elsewhere without having to move everything in a wheelbarrow...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: Amos
Date: 04 May 10 - 04:47 PM

Especially if you tie a huge helium-filled duck's head to it.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 04 May 10 - 04:17 PM

how about something like this to carry them around in

http://www.runnerduck.com/images/garden_carrier.jpg

Would she be inclined to put the hand tool back in the carrier? It is a bit more visible if it gets left behind, then you know there maybe smaller items lurking nearby.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 04 May 10 - 01:31 PM

I spray paint my tool handles fluorescent orange red or else wrap red vinyl tape around them. That helps me find them. (I'm sure P-vine understands the need to keep tools out of the mower.)

Bobert, there's hope. I believe that we humans have become hormone-driven when it comes to gardening. In April and May, we have to be out there, life is beautiful, and one project after another sends its tendrils towards us, luring us on.

Come August, we prefer to admire the garden from inside the house.

For now just pick up the stuff and say to yourself, "This too shall pass."

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: KT
Date: 04 May 10 - 02:34 AM

Hey Bobert, you know, you're going to have to do a quick scan anyway, so pick 'em all up with a smile and then tie them all up into a scarecrow in the middle of the garden. The folks on the tour will love it!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudwomenz... Is this a good idea???
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 04 May 10 - 01:23 AM

ADD is another word for BOREDOM!