BS: Let's Brag

Subject: BS: Let's Brag
From: Wesley S
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 02:08 PM

Let's brag a little bit. My wife's nephew Hoby is playing in the junior little league world series. He threw a three hit shut-out, had three RBI's and his team won the game at 10-0. At 14 he's throwing a baseball at 80 to 85 miles per hour. And he's a pretty cool kid too.

So - who do you want to brag about ? Don't be shy.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Kim C
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 02:09 PM

I finished my 3rd graduate class with an A-, which means I have a 4.0 GPA in my first year of grad school! :-)

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

I'm afraid I have nothing to brag about. But in spite of that, I am pretty happy with the pieces of my life at present. I have a wonderful wife, a smart and pretty daughter who is going somewhere, a decent house, a paid-for old car, a great guitar, and a good computer with broadband 24-7 service on line.

Sounds pretty good to me!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: PoppaGator
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 02:34 PM

I am the world's bluest white singer.

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?

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

Billy Bragg

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Amos
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 04:16 PM

Hell, so am I!! LOL!!


A

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Le Scaramouche
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 09:48 PM

I NEVER brag.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 02:08 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: 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: Bunnahabhain
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 03:10 PM

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: bobad
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 08:56 PM

Well jeffp let's have that recipe.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 09:12 PM

I have a body that some would kill for.

Well, not many, mind you, but some...

Okay, a few...

Well...at least one or two people I can think of...

And you know how I got it? Avoidance of marriage and several decades of very little physical exercise, that's how! I oughta write a book, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Bobert
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 09:22 PM

Well, seems that the braggin' has fallen off into, "Hey, my kid made the Honor Roll" so reckon it's time to turn up the heat a little...

Ahhhh, I weren't gonna bring this one up but before I came upon the Wes Ginny Slide Rule it had once been owned by a guiy named Pathagerous and it, not him, developed tyhe Pathagoriam Theory about that A2+B2=C2... Yup, that was the Wes Ginny Slide Rule... That lazy Pathagerous din't do jack... All he wanted to do was drink wine and chase women...

Yeah, almost forgot about that one...

Now, this ol' hillbilly is happy as punch that yer kids is makin' honor rolls so please, not hate PM's, thank you...

...but can we please get the braggin' past honor rolls???

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Janie
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 09:30 PM

I once had a dog so smart that he pretty near house-trained himself. The first time he messed in the floor, I rubbed his nose in it and tossed him out the screen door. I never had to do it again. From then on he'd mess in the floor, rub his own nose in it, and then jump on out the door all by himself.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 09:33 PM

Ha! I thought only chimpanzees did that.

Did I mention my left-handed crocodile wrench?

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: bobad
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 09:37 PM

"Well, seems that the braggin' has fallen off into, "Hey, my kid made the Honor Roll" so reckon it's time to turn up the heat a little".

Have a friend whose bumper is plastered with "Proud Parent of a **** ****** Honor Roll Student"

Keep telling him it should say "Proud Parent of a Product of the Self Esteem Industry".

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 09:43 PM

My cousin had a bumper sticker that said, "Love Animals, Don't Eat Them". She was a very militant vegetarian.

Her sister carefully painted black over the middle part one night, so it said instead, "Love Animals ---- Eat Them".

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: bobad
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 09:47 PM

Some people hold to the the tenet that that is the ultimate expression of love.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Janie
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 09:51 PM

When I was kid I was a really fast runner--fastest kid in the neighborhood.   

    One evening we were playing 'Whistle an' Holler and the Hounds Will Foller,' a combination tag/hide-and-seek game. I was on the deer team. We had whistled and hollered. The hounds had spotted me and I was running as hard as I could for 'base' through the neighborhood back yards. It was nearly dark and I didn't see the clothesline stretching across my path.

    I think I already said I was running hard. Well, that clothes-line caught me right under the chin....And I was running SO fast, that when they found me the next morning I was still spinning 'round and 'round that line by my chin!

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 11:14 PM

Queen Victoria, she fell in love with me
We were married in Milwaukee secretly
But I got tired and shook her
And went off with General Hooker
Swattin' skeeters down in Tennessee.

But enough about myself. Lemme tell ya about my blood kin.

My brother Tony's had more heart bypasses than anybody else I've ever heard of. Nine of 'em. And if you doubt that, I'll rip his heart out and show ya, dammit!

Now, nephew Tony (my other brother's oldest boy) is into either experimental or theoretical physics. He's goin' to a high-power science school that's got like a million Nobel laureates on the faculty. He kin do seven-dimensional Fourier series in his head while playing chess with Stravinsky or something, and he once won a genuine personal pan pizza for memorizing the value of pi to three HUNDRED decimal places. Over the summer, his dad had to reformat and reload all the stuff on the kid's computer 'cuz the kid had downloaded so many games offen the Internet.

Neice Marian is 14 and runs 12 danged MILES every day forecause she wants to run in a marathon and there ain't nobody chasin' her, either. She also gets straight A's in school and was honored by her class for making them the class with the highest GPA. Worse, she's a knockout of a blonde.

I'm just a lonesome traveler, a great historical bum
Highly educated, through history I have come
I built that rock of ages, it was in the year of one
And that's about the greatest thing that man has ever done.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 19 Aug 05 - 01:51 AM

be rumbustious and grateful

Subject: Baby Back Ribs Recipe
From: jeffp
Date: 19 Aug 05 - 09:11 AM

Bobad asked for my baby back ribs recipe. Here it is.

First, pull the membrane off the underside of the rack of ribs. This can be done by working the tip of a butter knife under the membrane and carefully working it loose. Then use a paper towel for traction and slowly, but firmly, pull it off. Then rub the ribs (both sides) with the following rub.

Pork Rub

3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/8 cup sweet paprika
1/8 cup hot paprika
3 tablespoons black pepper
2 tablespoons coarse salt
2 teaspoons garlic powder
2 teaspoons onion powder
2 teaspoons celery seeds
1 teaspoon ancho chile powder

Mix with your hands until thoroughly combined.

Rub it in nicely until the ribs are nicely covered. Wrap the ribs and refrigerate for 1-4 hours.

Prepare the smoker. You will want to maintain a temperature of 225-250 degrees Fahrenheit for a 4-hour period. This will take a fair amount of charcoal. You also want several chunks of hardwood for smoke. I prefer fruitwoods for ribs. My favorite is a combination of apple and plum. Pecan and apple makes a nice combo also. Mesquite is too harsh for my taste and hickory can be tricky also.

Smoke the ribs at 225-250 for 2 hours. Then wrap them in aluminum foil and cook at the same temperature for 1 hour. Unwrap them and cook for another 1/2 – 1 hour until done. You may add more smoke during this period if you wish. They are done when there is about 1/2 – 3/4 inch of bone ends sticking out and the rack flexes easily when picked up with tongs.

If you like, you may baste with the barbecue sauce of your choice during the last period of unwrapped cooking. I don't, because I like dry Memphis-style ribs. Follow your own instincts. It's barbecue, not rocket surgery.

ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: bobad
Date: 19 Aug 05 - 09:31 AM

Thanks for that jeffp, sounds delicious though a little labor intensive - but that's what makes them so good I'd guess.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: jeffp
Date: 19 Aug 05 - 09:34 AM

It's not that bad, really. I only have to stoke the fire about once an hour. You could cook the ribs in the oven, but you would miss that smoky flavor.

BTW, you can do the same thing for spare ribs, but adjust the cooking time as follows: 2 hours unwrapped, 2 hours wrapped, 2 hours unwrapped. Should be just as delicious.


You should see when I do pulled pork. 2 Boston Butts will take anywhere from 10-12 hours to cook.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: bobad
Date: 19 Aug 05 - 09:41 AM

jeff

What kind of smoker do you use?

Pardon my thread drift.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: jeffp
Date: 19 Aug 05 - 09:49 AM

This is the one. Actually I have last year's model. It's been improved a bit with some internal redesigning since then. I love it for grilling and smoking. I can do 6 Boston Butts at once on this puppy.

Jeff

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: PoppaGator
Date: 19 Aug 05 - 11:07 AM

My kid can beat up your honor student.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Aug 05 - 11:48 AM

My honor student will downsize your bully.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Aug 05 - 11:58 AM

My dachshund can beat up your weimaraner.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Aug 05 - 11:59 AM

I don't HAVE a weimer...what you said.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: PoppaGator
Date: 19 Aug 05 - 12:12 PM

You don't have a weiner??!?! And you're bragging about it??!?!

"My honor student will downsize your bully"

Reminds me of a famous football cheer at Benjamin Franklin High School in New Orleans, an academically elite "magnet" school and my kids' alma mater. The school actually has a very good overall won-loss record in most sports (especially, for some reason, in girls' athletics, where they've won state championships in several different sports), but they never seem to have enough big tough boys to field a competitive football team.

Anyway, after each of the many losses, this rousing chant could always be heard:

"That's alright, that's OK, you're gonna work for us someday!"

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Aug 05 - 12:13 PM

Ha! Great chant.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 20 Aug 05 - 10:03 AM

Bill D: In fact, I have never had a borrowed or stolen TV either. I have occasionally glanced at one in a bar. Also, I have lived in buildings (dormitories) that had TVs in public places, and I even watched them on ceremonial occasions (election night, Times Square on New Year's Eve, President Kennedy's funeral). But that is the limit.

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

||: I know there are things I know nothing about, but I can't actually think of any. :||

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 20 Aug 05 - 11:36 PM

big round and green

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Metchosin
Date: 21 Aug 05 - 01:13 AM

uh, buttercup squash?

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Hrothgar
Date: 21 Aug 05 - 04:52 AM

Hey, Janie, I thought North Carolinans were able to boast of having shot Stonewall Jackson???

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 21 Aug 05 - 07:45 AM

I'm going to brag about me now.... because I did a good thing and got crapped on at the end of it and I want some sympathy.

My mate with the broken leg has been doing a computer course. He was on his way home from the course when he had his accident and the following fortnight was the final module exam. He asked for, and was granted an extension and did the exam 2 weeks later, on this Friday (4 weeks after the accident). Limpit and I drove 30 miles to his house, picked him and his wheelchair up, drove them 10 miles into London to the venue, sat with him until the examiner turned up, waited until the exam was over, bundled him and his wheelchair back into the car, drove them the 10 miles back to his house, stopping for a very welcome late lunch on the way. We don't know if he passed or not, but the examiner was very positive. Limpit and I were looking forward to a bit of a sitdown and a chat with him, before our 30 mile drive home durinf rush hour. His Ex (remember that *EX*... they split up over a year ago) girlfriend turned up just as we arrived back at his place. Limpit and I carried his pillows in, his bags, his wheelchair, she stood chatting to his parents. I helped him into the house, got him settled comfortably. He'd had a stressful day and was starting to hurt, he just wanted to lie back and rest. When I came in with the last bag, she was sitting on his bed, practically on top of him and made it very clear that I was not welcome to stay and chat even for a few minutes. She didn't offer to help with any of his stuff, she didn't say thank you for helping him, or seem to want him to speak directly to me.... she sat so close to him that she knocked his bedside table over... she staked out her territory with her bags and blocked half the room against Limpit and I. I swear if she was a tomcat, she would have sprayed him.....

I had a lovely day, spending time with my friend, helping him to do something that he otherwise would have fretted over and would have wasted a 14 week course. I offered to do it, with no thought of reward (although he did buy lunch), because he needed help and I could provide it. I did a good thing and it got spoiled through no fault of his....

So I'm blowing my own trumpet cos I did a good thing.... but I'm also blowing off steam because I got the flick off at the end of it.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 21 Aug 05 - 09:43 AM

"(remember that *EX*... they split up over a year ago)"

Of all the components of love, jealousy has the longest decay time.

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

||: To feel guilty is to be afraid of being punished. To feel ashamed is to be afraid of doing it again. :||

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Amos
Date: 21 Aug 05 - 10:20 AM

I just finished a marathon redesign of our front entrance; I was up until 1 AM finishing it off as it is a surprise for BBW who returns this morning after a weekend at Mum's.

It dramatically changes the way the house looks, and it was a pure bear involving tearing out a large beam and related parts, replastering and joing a new beam in at the front corner.   

I am well pleased!!

BBW will be stunned.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: rumanci
Date: 21 Aug 05 - 10:24 AM

WAHEY !!!!!!!!!!
congratulations Amos

Now .......aincha just glad you had all that sterling advice thrown by an enthusiastic audience at you .....huh ?? huh ??
The last cut is the deepest !
LOLOL

rum x

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Amos
Date: 21 Aug 05 - 11:02 AM

I couldna done it without all that help!!! LOL

A

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Aug 05 - 11:34 AM

Janie....I had smart dog once, myself...

If you said "sit up, or won't you?", he either sat up or he didn't!

...and I had a Grandfather clock SO old that the shadow of the pendulum swinging back & forth wore a hole in the back of the case!

on a serious note....as far as I know, I have no enemies, and can't remember ever knowing anyone who seriously disliked me. That can mean I'm a nice guy, or just to dull to care about..*grin*...but I'll take it.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 21 Aug 05 - 05:36 PM

I used to brag a lot but I'm perfect now!

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Janie
Date: 21 Aug 05 - 06:31 PM

Hrothgar--I gotta confess-- I'm a transplant from West Virginia (makes me a tarheel-billy) And didn't know we had braggin' rights on that one.

Bill D.--do you suppose our dogs were from the same litter?

I am such a good psychotherapist that I cure most people on their first visit.....leastwise, that's my theory about why they never come back!!!

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Aug 05 - 06:55 PM

Janie...no doubt they were! Yours was always doing those smart things whether you wanted him to or not, I assume? Like always being ready for dinner, 'cause he never left the kitchen?

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: GUEST,Peter Woodruff
Date: 21 Aug 05 - 07:07 PM

I live in America and we have the worst president ever!

Peter

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: JennyO
Date: 22 Aug 05 - 09:20 AM

I can top that, Peter. I live in Australia, and we have the worst Prime Minister ever.

Not much to brag about though, is it :-(

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Aug 05 - 09:50 AM

...and some in the UK think they have the worst PM ever there. Anyone notice a trend?

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Aug 05 - 09:59 AM

We in Canada have down our level best to have the WORST political chief executive ever! But we have not quite succeeded. We came close, though. Still, we haven't quite managed it... (sigh)

We DID once have the worst-sounding leader ever! Jean Chretien. But he retired. (sigh)

We now have a prime minister who is just really, really mediocre and uninspiring....but he's not the worst. (sigh)

DAMN THOSE FRIGGIN' AMERICANS!!!!! AND DAMN TEXAS!!!

They think they are soooo smart.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: GUEST,wld
Date: 22 Aug 05 - 12:47 PM

are any states claiming a double whammy - the wprst governor and the worst president?

in england it it could be the worst mp coupled with the worst local council?

democracy sometimes throws up these anomalies

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Aug 05 - 12:58 PM

California has a wonderful choice right now...a former bodybuilding womanizer as governor.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Aug 05 - 01:33 PM

And he could yet become president, with just one little amendment to the Constitution....

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 22 Aug 05 - 02:09 PM

I want to brag about getting the 100th post!

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 22 Aug 05 - 02:09 PM

Not yet though

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 22 Aug 05 - 02:10 PM

But almost!

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 22 Aug 05 - 02:10 PM

100!

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Aug 05 - 03:21 PM

It's not the Shinden, Donuel, it's the Shiden. The Shiden is a conventional fighter which was developed from the Kawanishi floatplane "Rex". It's a midwing monoplane, conventional arrangement, was used in '44-'45 by the Japanese Navy. Revell made a 1/32 scale kit of it in the early 70's, and it's become very rare. There are, however, plenty of Shidens in 1/48 scale, including Tamiya's and the new Hasegawa rendition, both excellent kits.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 22 Aug 05 - 03:23 PM

In the UK we have the greatest Prime Minister that ever was....the problem is...nobody has worked out who it is yet! So He or she is not in office.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Aug 05 - 03:54 PM

It's not the Shinden, Donuel, it's the Shiden. The Shiden is a conventional fighter which was developed from the Kawanishi floatplane "Rex". It's a midwing monoplane, conventional arrangement, was used in '44-'45 by the Japanese Navy. Revell made a 1/32 scale kit of it in the early 70's, and it's become very rare. There are, however, plenty of Shidens in 1/48 scale, including Tamiya's and the new Hasegawa rendition, both excellent kits.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's Brag
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Aug 05 - 03:58 PM

Oops.

Well, it is a very nice airplane.