Chit Chat Thread for the week of July 28th 2008

Class of 59
Serra High
Gardena Calif

THE LAST OF THE 50's

Its a wacky day in the Tampa Bay area:

1. The Rays take a 2 game lead in the AL East and this guy from Denver, of all places, offers free pizza to the world if the Rays win the World Series.

http://www.tampabay.com/sports/baseball/rays/article747409.e...

2. The Bucs already have the salary cap space to deal for Favre. But now, Dallas is interested in backup QB Chris Simms. If they reach a deal, the Bucs will have even more money to throw at Favre and the Packers.

http://blogs.tampabay.com/bucs/2008/07/cowboys-bucs-ha.html

3. Criss Angel is set to try and escape the implosion of the Spyglass Resort Hotel on Clearwater Beach tonight at 10 pm.

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/jul/29/angel-says-clearwate...

I'll just have to get on my moped an drive up there to watch it....haha

Thanks for the link.

I found several more links there of the same genre.
Thought all of us "NOT SO" Old Timers would also enjoy.

Do You Remember These
http://oldfortyfives.com/DYRT.htm

When Life Was Black And White
http://oldfortyfives.com/WhenLifewasInBlack&White.htm

Take Me Back To The Sixties
http://cruzintheavenue.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm

http:Growing Up In The Fifties
http://thefiftiesandsixties.com/growingupinthefifties.htm

The Cars We Drove In The 50's & 60's
http://thefiftiesandsixties.com/CarsWeDrove.htm

We are NOT "Old Timers"
We are "Chronologically Advanced" !

I guess my problem is I am enjoying being as old as I am. I am having the time of my life. It doesn't bother me to be and "O'l Timer" with the memories I have.

My passport is like a world tour guide. Been completely around the world 5 times. And untold half way arounds from both directions.

Now a days I don't travel overseas at all but I take the train and visit Canada and the USA from coast to coast and border to border.

I can do this now because I am OLDER and have the time.

How does one get contributor status? When I look at my account, I don't see any of the files I have uploaded to the site.

Thanks

Alan

I have just removed your files from the moderation queue and have attached your contributor badge to your profile;) Great job on those files, they are a fantastic addition to the site.

Miss POI

Thanks Miss POI. I really enjoyed working on them. I plan on doing some updates to them in the future, but I think I need to relax for a few and figure out what else to work on.

Thanks again.

Alan

As long as it isn't Minnesota or Chicago, I don't care where he goes. I actually grew up in the Green bay area (De Pere to be exact), and I remember the packer players riding my bike during summer camp.

There was a story called "Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" way way back, and I adopted the term to mean anyone who hangs in there regardless.

To update it to a more recent generation, I'd say "Running On Empty" with these gas prices.

Olympics mode? Well, my hubby tells me that China is trying to overnight rid themselves of air pollution, and it ain't working. I wonder what they expected to do the trick.

I note your icon shows a refueling operation....we have hopes for the contract to build the new babies down in Mobile AL.

I can remember a couple of years ago when I was appalled that I was paying $2.05 a gallon one Saturday morning. Now I would be driving all over the place if it were that 'low'...

Joe left the 49er's and played for KC for a couple of years. I think that the 49er's resigned him just long enough so he could retire from their team after that.

Emmitt Smith did the same with the Cowboys. Rather than retire he played for Phoenix another year or 2 and then signed a contract with the Cowboys so he could retire as a Cowboy during training camp.

Last year it was "illegal" immigration & this year it is gas prices. I wonder what the topic will be next year?

My batch of pickled eggs is almost ready, another couple of days to go! Sometimes, it's a good thing to be a batchelor...

Ditto

Haven't heard of many people doing pickled eggs for years. If they are good then I need your receipt.

Here I am now what do I do. Stan

At my age I'm a harmless, quiiet, clean little old man with an RV fetish, yep, I hate paying the price of diesel!!!!

Stan

Isn't nostalgia great

Welcome Start by reading the FAQ's and the post that draw your interest. Then look at the POI list and then ask questions to anything that isn't clear.

Injuries caused by falling off your chair and hitting your head during a seizure watching RetiredTechnician's new avatar are not the responsibility of the POI Factory staff..

Just thought I needed some protection after having a wavering moment myself.

Miss POI

The old "disclaimer" in action. Its a good thing my chair has arms to hang on to. Thanks for waking me up RT.

I feel so young on this thread! I was fertilized in '56... the youngest of 3.

One of my hobbies while working on the road is collecting CD's at pawn shops. I have loads of jazz, blues, 50's & 60's rock music. I have every single song that ever charted from '55 to '79.

If you thought music died with disco, they dug it up and stomped on it with punk and then put it out of its misery again with rap music.

Ain't nothin' like riding down the Interstate with a little Beach Boys blaring from the speakers!

AJ

Can't remember wasn't born yet. Hey have you guy's thought about doing a POI file on retirement homes??? I have not checked there be one already.

Sorry, the guy on my left shoulder made me do it.

PS-Put you on some Ozzy & Aerosmith that will perk you up.

Looks like the same thing Drudge uses for "really big" stories....

4 days ago I dropped my nuvi 360 on the floor and it slide across the room. I mean a hard tile floor. I picked it up figuring that's the end of that. I turned it on and it work. I went to use it yesterday and it would not find or play my mp3s. I was already making plans to buy a 700 series when I reloaded all the files from Garmins updater site and low and behold it worked. I now call my nuvi Timex because it took a licking and it kept on working.

Takes a licking and keeps on ticking. I know, a nuvi doesn't make a ticking sound.

Takes a licking and keeps on ticking. I know, a nuvi doesn't make a ticking sound.

If it does, I'd suggest clearing the area !!!!!!

Now there's an idea for a new audio alert file:

tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, etc.

Been trying to get one to work but cant get the animation to do what it is suppose to do, Tried then in the jpeg,gif format but nadda, what is the secret to doing them.

How to create animated avitars....

Go Cubbies!

Thanks for the Good sites very good i enjoyed them all and remember everything just like the site got

Three game lead in the AL East!!

And tonight, ahead of Detroit 6-2, in the bottom of the 4th - YEAH!!

I don't feel too well. . .

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Congrats on good games played well.

See 'ya later, of course

GregPaul

today! That's a good thing! Hope all are well!

N

Here's an interesting article I ran across today. Hope on the horizon?

http://www.valcent.net/i/misc/Vertigro/index.html

Be sure to listen for the last statement the gentleman makes.......

Joel

Pre-season football starts today Redskins and Colts 8:00 pm Eastern time.Good times here again.

Looks like that avatar is saying,"Hitting the books." What else is it supposed to do?

Look out Texas, you got a storm headed your way, only a tropical storm not. but going to be a small huricane soon.

Shouldn't develop into cane.
NHC forecast indicates max of 69 mph winds.
None of the various computer models I can find indicate Eduardo getting to cane strength either !

And So Little Time!
Catching up on a lot after being out of the conveniences of civilization over the past week, plus. . .

So many threads, and little time to catch up!

Bacardi to close Bahamas Factory next year! I recently came back from my 'Time Share' vacation in Nassau. The talk-of-the-town was the closing of Bacardi's long time and first distillery outside of Cuba. Now we'll all have to drink the clorine-tasting stuff from Puerto Rico. Yuck! Can you really have a party, without Bacardi?

I guess this means you have to change over to dem
DEE-lishus MARGARITAS. Ahhh, so easy going down.
Take the enamel clear off your teeth.

Aaaaaahh! You might have somthin' there.

And there was no rejoicing.

and it's hot!!!

Gas prices down .25/gal in the past 2 weeks in my town.

Went over towards Orlando this weekend and filled up at 3.689/gal

Just making sure my windmill keeps spinning !

Lets Go Mets !!!