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28 Jan 12 - 09:29 PM (#3298211) Subject: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bobert I love it... I don't get too many chances to get on the scoreboard but... ...I got the bases loaded and I'm loving it... I got a few things back in Virgina that I need to to get so I'm planning on going up in a couple weeks with my truck and trailer and bring them down here to NC... Well, I did this rather large, somewhat heavy (600 pounds) metal sculpture about 5 years ago and left it back in Virgina... The P-Vine was happy to leave it behind as she said she didn't "understand it" but it's purdy decent sculpture... It is set in concrete but I have a couple hillbilly friends who are going to use a cutting torch to get it and I'm gonna bring it home an' it's going to be a major surprise and, yeah, she's gonna yell at me but... ...hey??? Life is good, right??? B~ |
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28 Jan 12 - 09:39 PM (#3298214) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bill D You lead an interesting life, B~... I hope you have enough room to set that out of sight of the house..... |
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28 Jan 12 - 09:50 PM (#3298220) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: frogprince Just looked in to find this combination at the top of the page: This should be an all-time winner for the thread name game! BS: Hey I got a Boner !! BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... |
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28 Jan 12 - 09:52 PM (#3298221) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bobert I do, Bill, but once it is here I can use it as a bargaining chip... "Hey, P-Vine I think it would look real good right here in front of the house... Whaddayathink???"... I'm loving it... I am going to get so-yelled at... Not that I like getting yelled at... Okay, not that I mind it either... Hey, one day it will be right where it belongs and she'll be fine with it... I know that... Am I a sick individual??? Don't answer that one... B~ |
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28 Jan 12 - 09:54 PM (#3298222) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bobert Mine's bigger than Ol'sters, f-prince... Mine measures like 7 feet... Ol'ster??? How about yers??? B~ |
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28 Jan 12 - 10:06 PM (#3298226) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: gnu Pics! Of the sculpture, that is. |
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28 Jan 12 - 10:07 PM (#3298228) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: frogprince Olddudes is round and has ticks. |
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28 Jan 12 - 10:09 PM (#3298230) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bobert I'll work on pics... I got 'um but might need help gettin' them up... Ahhhhh, sorry... Gettin' them posted... B~ |
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28 Jan 12 - 10:43 PM (#3298238) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: JennieG Well, Bobert.....there are surprises, and then there are surprises..... Cheers JennieG |
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28 Jan 12 - 10:44 PM (#3298239) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: GUEST,olddude Well bobster ya win fer sure. My boner watch is only a size 18 in pocket watch terms .... |
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28 Jan 12 - 10:48 PM (#3298241) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bobert Yeah, and this one is gonna be the later... I love it... You have to understand that I loves the girl to pieces but... ...she kinda knows that I have these little things that I do where she goes "What the Hell you thinkin" but then later says "hey, that worked out okay"... Hard to explain... Yes, I am a handful... And I got the mischief... Hey, no one is perfect... B~ |
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28 Jan 12 - 10:50 PM (#3298242) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity Is that the same statue you had made, as a token commemorative, five decades ago, of your last boner?? Wink! GfS |
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28 Jan 12 - 10:52 PM (#3298244) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bobert Sorry, Ol'ster... Stick some Viagra in it and see what pops up??? Either that or it may need to talk things over with a shrink... Man, I'd like to be a fly on the wal; for that session... Boner: "Hey, doc, I'm over an hundred and things ain't like they were when I was a mere 60 or 70..." Doc: "I been feeling the same way, Boner..." And the beat goes on... B~ |
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28 Jan 12 - 11:11 PM (#3298253) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Rapparee Bobert, don't forget that you now have a pond. She might think that sculpture would make a big splash with the fish. |
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28 Jan 12 - 11:37 PM (#3298266) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Ebbie What is the subject of the sculpture, Beaubear? Years ago I dearly wanted a cast concrete/fiberglass lawn sculpture that I ultimately chose not to get. I still today wish I could have gotten it- at the same time that I know that it is good that I never got it. It stood about 3 1/2 feet high, of a pair of male hands cradling the nude form of a woman with flowing hair, eyes closed. There was such serenity and trust in the image that it is still vivid in my mind. |
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29 Jan 12 - 12:26 AM (#3298284) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity An inflatable statue for his inflatable girl.....while Viagra inflates him? No wonder he sings the blues! Wink, again. GfS Geez, Bobert, Methinks you just declared open season on yourself, between 'your surprise', 'your Boner', and 'needing help'! |
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29 Jan 12 - 04:26 AM (#3298323) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: John MacKenzie Ah but the OD keeps his on a chain, so he can pull it out and polish it regular. |
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29 Jan 12 - 07:59 AM (#3298375) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bobert First of all, ain't me that needs the help, GFinS... It' the Ol'ster... Me??? "I'm young and able to buzz all night long so if ya hear me buzzin', baby,,, There;s some stingin' going on"... Okay, Eb... this sculpture ain't all easy to describe... Lets' first say that I guess it would fall into the "post-industrial decay" style... I made it from two 400 pound metal "screens" that came out of 100 ton mulching machine Each piece has hundreds of oblong holes in it in a pattern and the, is curved and and would be like you cut the side out of about 1/8th of a cylinder each about 6 feet X 4 feet... I cut up beer cans to make the mock up so I knew how these two piece could intersect, be cut and welded... The first was set in a 4 foot deep hole with about 18 inches showing the way as I designed it and then concrete poured into the hole... The second was lowered over the first with my tractor bucket while the cuts were slowly made for the two to intersect and then welded together... That's the piece and it looks purdy decent... Guess my second degree (in art) wasn't a complete waste of time as I buddied up with the Joe Siepel, the head of the sculpture department and actually learned some stuff??? B~ |
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29 Jan 12 - 08:18 AM (#3298382) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: jacqui.c Sounds like an interesting piece Bobert. Question - do you have a cellar at this new house? |
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29 Jan 12 - 08:28 AM (#3298390) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: maeve That will be built under the sculpture, Jacqui. |
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29 Jan 12 - 09:00 AM (#3298403) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bobert A cellar, jacqui my dear??? Why, pray tell, are you asking??? B;~( |
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29 Jan 12 - 09:14 AM (#3298411) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: John MacKenzie So the P Vine can send ya there, like Jacqui does the Cap'n of course, Bobby Boy |
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29 Jan 12 - 09:17 AM (#3298413) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: jacqui.c I would suggest that he might head for the cellar BEFORE the love of his life sends him there. Contrition can, occasionally, make a lot of difference to the length of punishment. |
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29 Jan 12 - 09:19 AM (#3298417) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Rapparee Bobert, all the money I collected for the CD? Well, I gotta surprise for ya.... |
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29 Jan 12 - 09:48 AM (#3298429) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: GUEST,Gueest from Sanity Bobert: "First of all, ain't me that needs the help, GFinS... It' the Ol'ster... Me??? "I'm young and able to buzz all night long so if ya hear me buzzin', baby,,, There;s some stingin' going on"..." Are you rehearsing for the pitch-man for 'Acme Vibrator Repair Service'??? GfS |
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29 Jan 12 - 10:29 AM (#3298448) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Mr Happy I'm a UK'er, what's 'P-Vine'? |
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29 Jan 12 - 10:31 AM (#3298449) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: maeve The wise and lovely P-Vine is Bobert's wife, Mr Happy. |
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29 Jan 12 - 10:32 AM (#3298452) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bobert Well, I ain't gonna do no cellar time, ya'll, 'cause I ain't got one... So there... Glad that little subject is out of the way... I mean, rally, what's the girl gonna do once the sculpture is here??? Huh??? As for the job opening at Acme??? I don't need no stenkin' nothin' that requires either batteries or 'tension cords... No sir or mam... "Cause I am able to buzz all night long, sans any mechanical aids... No brag, just fact... B~ |
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29 Jan 12 - 11:28 AM (#3298474) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bill D "I mean, rally, what's the girl gonna do once the sculpture is here??? Stay in a motel/hotel in a nearby town until you see 'reason'? |
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29 Jan 12 - 12:07 PM (#3298493) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: maeve Hmmm...How many runner beans could you plant along the base of that there giant trellis? Melons? Squash? Looking at the question form another perspective; How many hundreds of azaleas can the girl root or buy as a "thank you", Bobert? |
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29 Jan 12 - 12:13 PM (#3298499) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: SINSULL There may be hope. Does that sculpture not belong to the current owner of the house, bobert? They may not want to part with it... Doubtful but a ray of hope for the ever suffering P-Vine. |
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29 Jan 12 - 12:34 PM (#3298511) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity Bobert: "As for the job opening at Acme??? I don't need no stenkin' nothin' that requires either batteries or 'tension cords..." Poor P-Vine..I was thinking of her! GfS |
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29 Jan 12 - 12:35 PM (#3298512) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: GUEST Good choice, Bobert! That's sure to spark a conversation big enough to divert both your minds from live-in offspring. |
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29 Jan 12 - 12:46 PM (#3298522) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Ebbie I agree that it sounds interesting but just for clarification, B-Bear: What is the title of the piece? If you had it displayed publicly, where would it be? Museum of Modern Art? In a statuary garden? At the front of a tractor dealership? Some years ago, before my time here, the city of Juneau, Alaska, commissioned a large piece of art to be set on the district courthouse lawn across from the Capitol building. I have never heard officially but I've been told that the artist (from 'down south') was paid $20,000. It turned out to be something the community wouldn't stand for. It is of shaped steel about 15 feet high by maybe 8 feet wide, colored with baked on turquoise, matte finish. The front of it is shaped vaguely like the prow of a ship but there is no recognizable theme. Anyway there was such an outcry by the community that the city ultimately uprooted it and it languished in pieces behind a metal shed for some years. Eventually our Alaska State Museum said it would put it on its lawn and that is where it stands today. Kind of off to the side and out of the way. Not that I'm suggesting that will happen to your sculpture. |
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29 Jan 12 - 12:58 PM (#3298529) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: GUEST,olddude You big Stoner you ... :-) |
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29 Jan 12 - 01:03 PM (#3298531) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: GUEST And I still go to the ol' oak tree When my heart's been torn ajar... And I sit at the foot of my sculpture of steel, thinkin' "Never knew she could throw that far!" |
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29 Jan 12 - 01:06 PM (#3298533) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: GUEST,KT not logged in- Oops- I have to take the blame-- that last post was mine- logged out. KT |
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29 Jan 12 - 01:46 PM (#3298555) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bobert Haha, ya'll... Let's see... Growing stuff on it??? Mighty fine idea, maeve... I was thinking the hyacinth beans tithe the purple flowers would look great on it... Thanks... A distraction from the live-in-laws??? Great thinking!!! "Hey, P-Vine, I thought we needed something else to fight about... Whaddayathin???" Pure genius... Name of the sculpture??? Well, it known currently as my sculpture... And the folks who bought the farm aren't artsy in any manner and it has been understood that would be coming after it and they're friends and know the deal... Where would it be displayed??? I can see it in the sculpture garden at the Hirshorn in DC... As fir the P-Vine throwin' anything... Other than a fit, not my boney butt or the sculpture which weighs about 700 pounds... The sculpture, that is... My boney butt??? A buck sixty five drippin' wet... Butg thanks for verse, KT... B~ |
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29 Jan 12 - 02:40 PM (#3298578) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Ebbie lol |
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29 Jan 12 - 02:57 PM (#3298584) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bill D Hey....I know... you can 'soften' the blow by showing her this sculpture It was installed in front of the new Wichita Coliseum many years ago, but got so many complaints, it was moved to a lawn at one side. "Gee, honey... mine is small" |
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29 Jan 12 - 03:10 PM (#3298588) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bobert Mine is also much better... IMHO... B~ |
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29 Jan 12 - 04:26 PM (#3298629) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: KT You're welcome, Bobert! It's the next verse of your song over yonder in that other thread.... What Ebbie's talking about |
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29 Jan 12 - 04:44 PM (#3298641) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: gnu "Tripodal (1970-1972) - Wichita, Kansas" I've seen a lot of those in my days. I always wonder, "Why? What a waste of coin." I DO know Art and I'll bet he doesn't like it either. Hey. Fine with me if ya wanna pursue that avenue but shoe the children first with public money, eh? The idea of draping Bobert's sculpture in various vegitation might be even more of an artistic challenget... and it could become a "living" and "changing" sculpture. What a great idea! |
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29 Jan 12 - 05:00 PM (#3298649) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bobert Another highly dated piece of sculpture from the Max Ernst days of Pop Art... Most of that stuff leave me cold... the difference between good ar and bad art is that good art will always be good... Some of the Pop Artists left some decent stuff... BTW, I've been working on the vegetation aspect and it even more genius than I originally thought... The P-Vine just can't conceptualize stuff so lots of times when I come up with stuff she is reactive and negative and then once it is done she goes, "Well, I get it now"... I have two places in mind for it but the one that is slightly ahead of the other will look great with the grape hyacinth vine twisting up thru it... Setting it is going to be tricky as I'm going to have to weld two long anchoring legs to the bottom just right, dig down at least 3 feet with a post hole digger, hold it in place with various wooden braces and mix and pour enough concrete to hold it in place... This is going to be fun... B~ |
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29 Jan 12 - 05:05 PM (#3298652) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: gnu I hope you post a pic series of this project. Sounds exciting. |
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29 Jan 12 - 05:15 PM (#3298659) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bobert Now that I have pudder helpers, I will... Might of fact, I have a pic of the sculpture somewhere and if I find it it might scan... Not that I know how to do that, mind you, but the d-i-l can... B~ |
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29 Jan 12 - 05:35 PM (#3298673) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Sandra in Sydney Bobert, you are living in interesting times! sandra |
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29 Jan 12 - 05:51 PM (#3298680) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bobert Yes, Sandra... Seems to be the story of my life... I realize that I create a lot of it but, hey, in that last moment when Doctor Dark rolls the film of my life I won't be able to say, "Geeeeee, what a boring film"... lol... B~ |
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29 Jan 12 - 06:39 PM (#3298714) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bill D KT & Ebbie's example is just a small version of "Tripodal (1970-1972) - Wichita, Kansas" If you don't TRY to make it look like anything in particular, no one will know if it's 'correct' or not. I like 'some' abstract stuff, especially if it seems to be really thought out, rather than just glued together randomly.... but I am REALLY impressed by Michelangelo's Pietà or Rodin's "Fallen CARYATID" |
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29 Jan 12 - 06:50 PM (#3298727) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Crowhugger Sorry, I just noticed I wasn't logged in when I cracked wise at 12:35 PM today. |
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29 Jan 12 - 07:32 PM (#3298753) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: ranger1 I think you ought to plant morning glories round it. Either that or use it for pole beans. |
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29 Jan 12 - 08:29 PM (#3298797) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bobert Morning glories are nice, too... Gotta find that picture... B~ |
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29 Jan 12 - 08:37 PM (#3298803) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Crowhugger Oh do find the picture, Bobert. Or take a new one before she turns a blow torch on the piece. ;-) |
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29 Jan 12 - 08:58 PM (#3298812) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bobert It will be cut down before I see it again... A couple of my ol hillbilly buddies are taking care of that... B~ |
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29 Jan 12 - 09:25 PM (#3298817) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Crowhugger One of your buds got a camera and e-mail? |
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29 Jan 12 - 09:30 PM (#3298819) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bobert Well, I donno??? I think so... They is hillbillies, after all... Nah, after thinking about it I doubt it... I can find the pic and have d-i-l scan it and send it to you, if you like... PM me yer email addie... It may take a couple days... B~ |
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30 Jan 12 - 04:16 AM (#3298863) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: John MacKenzie C'mon Bobert, we all wants ta see yer skulpchewer. |
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30 Jan 12 - 06:36 AM (#3298892) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: freda underhill She'll be thrilled! |
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30 Jan 12 - 09:14 AM (#3299014) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bobert I found one pic last night that has it in it but it's not really a pic of the sculpture.... Just a snow pic of the farms and the sculpture a smallish part of the pic... If anyone wants to take a crack at scabbing it and posting it, PM me and I'll snail mail the pic to you... Maybe I'll get a pic of it before it gets torched out of the earth, I donno... One hillbilly buddy of mine has a digital camera and he might take one... The other two ain't all that technically advanced... But, hey, they know how to make moonshine and slaughter and butcher a hog... lol... B~ |
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30 Jan 12 - 10:42 AM (#3299078) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Rapparee Bobert, I understand that P-Vine has a surprise for you if you bring it home. Oh, yeah, she said to pick up some 30=30 ammo. |
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30 Jan 12 - 11:31 AM (#3299106) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bobert Hahaha, Rap... The girl won't even even shoot a bb gun... BTW, just spent a couple hours building a saddle contraption that lays over the sides of the pickup bed which will hold said sculpture... I'm always building something so the P-Vine is clueless as to what this thing is going to do... I'm loving this entire episode of the "Bobert 'n The P-Vine Show"... It's going to be a real hoot when I pull in the drive way with the sculpture strapped down over the bed... I can't to see the look on her face and... ...the following butt whup she's gonna put on me... Life is good!!! B~ |
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30 Jan 12 - 11:49 AM (#3299118) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: wysiwyg Perhaps Bobert does not realize that a standing order for TNT can be promptly fulfilled by any of P-Vine's friends at the slightest suggestion of an activation gesture on her part.... :~) ~S~ |
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30 Jan 12 - 01:03 PM (#3299157) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bobert I love fireworks... B;~) |
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30 Jan 12 - 01:19 PM (#3299167) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: John MacKenzie I seem to remember your saying that you have little or no butt to whup. That's not fair on the lovely P-Vine. |
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30 Jan 12 - 01:25 PM (#3299172) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: maeve "One hundred thousand azaleas to plant, One hundred thousand to plant, You'll get one in, and start digging again, One hundred thousand azaleas!" ♪♫ ♫ ♪♫ ♪ ♪ |
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30 Jan 12 - 01:29 PM (#3299173) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bobert Hey, I'm gonna have to plant 'um anyway, so might as well have some fun on the side... As for the butt whup... Yeah, you don't need too much of a whup to pull it off... B;~) |
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30 Jan 12 - 01:44 PM (#3299180) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: John MacKenzie Do you have plenty of ericaceous compost |
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30 Jan 12 - 03:04 PM (#3299228) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Rapparee A sprinkle of a certain powder in his food, the body weighed down with the sculpture and thrown in the pond.... |
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30 Jan 12 - 05:20 PM (#3299281) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bobert Who's gonna throw the sculpture... I'll pay to watch that even if I'm tied to it... B;~) |
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30 Jan 12 - 06:29 PM (#3299317) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: frogprince "Do you have plenty of ericaceous compost" John, haven't them critters been extinct for millions of years? |
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30 Jan 12 - 06:40 PM (#3299328) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bobert I didn't understand that post... What is "ericaceous compost"??? B~ |
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30 Jan 12 - 07:50 PM (#3299369) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: maeve John means compost suitable for plants in the Ericaceae family, such as heather, rhododendrons/azaleas, etc. |
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30 Jan 12 - 08:12 PM (#3299381) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bobert Guess I wasn't in school that day??? B~ |
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30 Jan 12 - 08:47 PM (#3299411) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: maeve You seem to manage fine without such a weighty word hanging from your tongue. The azaleas haven't complained! |
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30 Jan 12 - 10:23 PM (#3299460) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bobert Got over 400 azalea hybrids not available to anyone but hydridizers... Oh, my aching back... B~ |
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31 Jan 12 - 02:27 PM (#3299786) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: gnu WOW! Must be absolutely beautiful at your place, Bobert. |
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31 Jan 12 - 02:51 PM (#3299803) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Rapparee P-Vine's got a surprise fer you, too -- she's pregnant. |
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31 Jan 12 - 05:12 PM (#3299887) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bobert Well, it's about time, Rap... I mean, we been together for 14 years so I figured it would happen when the starts aligned... Happy days... This is going to make bringing home the sculpture just that more fun... I know, pulling up in the driveway with it and little preggie wife so glowing that she won't even notice the sculpture thru the glow... B~ |
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01 Feb 12 - 05:24 AM (#3300141) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: JohnInKansas Ya could'a made somethin' practical, like THIS. I don't recall whether it's quoted as bein' 60 or 90 feet tall. Your description of yours sounds a bit like one made out of two sections of round tin silos, about 12 ft in diameter, each section about 20 ft long, that sits 'long side the old 81 highway down south of here about 30 miles. We've also got at least two "dinosaur museums" in the region, with a variety of prehistoric lookin' things made out of old farm implements. One is a little east of town, and a smaller one is in a tiny town down in the Okla Panhandle, not too far from the windmill museum (where the windmills are real ones). John |
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01 Feb 12 - 08:53 AM (#3300235) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bobert I've seen the exact same "clothes pin" sculpture in Richmond, Va., John... It used to sit in front of one of Richmond's waelthier families that supported the arts... I'd love to see the silo piece... Sound like whoever did it and I would have a few things to talk about... The sculptor, Joe Seipel, who I was friends with at VCU art school (where I got my 2nd degree from in fine art) was into metal sculpture and the bigger and heavier the better... He had one that he did as a joke... It was called the "Enviro-Plug" and it was just this industrial looking thing that if you can imagine a creek bed could be lowered in to make an immediate dam... As part of the piece he entered it in an industrial trade show, accompanied by fake sales people and a glossy brochure... To spice it up he had several of his friends outside the trade show picketing the "Enviro-Plug"... He gives a one hour slide presentation of the entire piece and subsequent experience at the trade show... Well worth the price of admission... lol... B~ |
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05 Feb 12 - 05:03 PM (#3302720) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine... From: Bobert Well, I could have called this but was hopin' that it wouldn't turn out like this but I think I said that one of the two hillbillies who were going to use a cutting torch to cut it out was/is a screw up... Well, he hasn't changed... Just got a call from him and the torch he has ain't up to the task and it's now too late (at least for the planned trip next weekend) to get it so I'll just get the rest of the stuff I have stored up there and so... ...no big surprise for now... I will get it sometime but not this time... Rats!!! B:~( |
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05 Feb 12 - 06:26 PM (#3302770) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine...NOT! From: frogprince Maybe the good Lord is tryin' to tell you somethin' Bobert. : ) |
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05 Feb 12 - 07:35 PM (#3302796) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine...NOT! From: Ebbie Patience is a virtue, they say- and sometimes it could save your life. Just kiddin'- I too look forward to your describing the look on the P-Vine's face. :) |
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05 Feb 12 - 08:13 PM (#3302805) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine...NOT! From: Bobert I will get if for no other reason what Ebbie just said... B~ |
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05 Feb 12 - 09:23 PM (#3302823) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine...NOT! From: Rapparee Just go down to the local junkyard. She'll be just as happy and surprised with a partially buried car. |
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05 Feb 12 - 10:00 PM (#3302841) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine...NOT! From: Bobert I've already done the partially buried car routine, Rap... She wasn't impressed... B~ |
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05 Feb 12 - 11:44 PM (#3302870) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine...NOT! From: Crowhugger I can hardly STAND the suspense! |
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06 Feb 12 - 12:02 AM (#3302873) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine...NOT! From: Melissa If you plant it with something climby that needs harvested, you can keep an ongoing thread to keep us all updated on your toils and strains, Bobert! I'm all for that! |
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06 Feb 12 - 07:59 AM (#3303013) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine...NOT! From: Bobert It ain't about planting stuff on it... At this point it's a matter of finding someone with some decent torches to extricate it and then transporting it 400 miles, welding on new legs and setting it... But I am purdy determined and I'll get it figured out... Just not this trip... Plus, I already have at least 1000 pounds of stuff coming back in my Toyota truck and my homemade closed trailer... BTW, I have two fairly nice antique sofas that just need to be recovered for free if anyone wants 'um 5that are still in Virginia that are staying there until someone steps up to take 'um... B~ |
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06 Feb 12 - 08:52 AM (#3303029) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine...NOT! From: SINSULL When is the unveiling? We are all on pins and needles. |
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06 Feb 12 - 08:58 AM (#3303031) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine...NOT! From: Bobert Well, Sins... As I have just reported a glitch has arisen... One of my hillbilly buddies, who BTW has a Masters Degree from Hillbilly U in "Screw ups" did it again... Showed up with kid's torch for a man torch job... That means that it's gonna take some serious replaning on my part... However, if anyone has the capabilities I can have my step son email a "decent" picture of it to ya and maybe someone can blue clicky it??? B~ |
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06 Feb 12 - 07:18 PM (#3303359) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine...NOT! From: SINSULL Re-planing or Replanning? THere is a huge difference. |
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06 Feb 12 - 07:36 PM (#3303370) Subject: RE: BS: Gotta a Big Surprise for the P-Vine...NOT! From: Bobert Makin' a new plan, Sins... Which one is that??? B~ |
