Chit Chat Thread for the week of August 8th, 2011

It has been so hot that my nuvi is untouchable...I hope its not the batts....it needs a sunshade of its own....Have a Great Week.

Have a great week everyone.

So hot and dry here that they closed all back roads to ATV traffic for fear of fires.

St. Louis getting somewhat of a break
in the upper 80s instead of upper 90s much better..

for now!

later

Have a nice day.

It is nice here in Utah 11:30 and only 78 degrees. I just spent the last three hours trying to find out why my mh won't start with out a booast. I think I found the culpret. Loose battery connection.

... not nearly as hot and humid

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it's the dog's fault

Made it to the middle of the week.

for the week

Grab the Diners DriveIns, Dives POI and take in some BBQ joints while you're there.

no mapsource?!? =(

I had a fun weekend at my 30th high school reunion back east. Even though my GPS unit was on the fritz, I didn't get lost...Now I just need to figure out why the touch screen doesn't work unless it has been plugged in for a while...

Ouch, I know what that feels like. Oh, well hope nothing was broken.

... sunny CA

We are going to get to leave the Texas heat for a couple of weeks as we go north.

Time to cut the grass.

What wacky weather lately. First, the usual hot/humid then a mess of thunderstorms. Now, it's nice and cool. Too bad I decided to mow the lawn last week.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Cooler than Houston or Dallas.

It won't be long and summer will be gone and old man winter will be here. GLAD I LIVE IN FLORIDA Cliff

I would rather mow grass than shovel snow Cliff

I mowed today. Yeah, I sweat my brains out & I'm pooped tonight, but I would still rather do that than shovel snow!

I'm going to wash my car. That will bring the rain.

to Ennis, Montana

Dang, it's finally Friday or is that "It's Friday already?"

That is a really nice area. I liked visiting there while I lived in Butte in the 90s.

I was working as a volunteer with the BLM and traveled on their dime.

Football is back .

Game on tonight!

DON'T LOOK BELOW FOR THE ANSWERS UNTIL YOU HAVE TRIED IT OUT!

A TEST FOR OLD KIDS
I was picky who I sent this too. It had to be those who might actually remember. So have some fun my sharp-witted friends. This is a test for us 'old kids'! The answers are printed below, but don't cheat.

01.After the Lone Ranger saved the day and rode off into the sunset, the grateful citizens would ask, Who was that masked man? Invariably, someone would answer, I don't know, but he left this behind. What did he leave behind?________________.

02.When the Beatles first came to the U.S. .In early 1964, we all watched them on The _______________ Show.

03'Get your kicks, __________________.'

04.'The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to ___________________.'

05.'In the jungle, the mighty jungle, ________________.'

06. After the Twist, The Mashed Potato, and the Watusi, we 'danced' under a stick that was lowered as low as we could go in a dance called the '_____________.'

07.Nestle's makes the very best . .. . . _______________.'

08.Satchmo was America 's 'Ambassador of Goodwill.' Our parents shared this great jazz trumpet player with us. His name was _________________.

09.What takes a licking and keeps on ticking? _______________.

10. Red Skeleton's hobo character was named __________________ and Red always ended his television show by saying, 'Good Night, and '________ ________. '

11.Some Americans who protested the Vietnam War did so by burning their______________.

12. The cute little car with the engine in the back and the trunk in the front was called the VW. What other names did it go by? ____________ &_______________.

13.In 1971, singer Don MacLean sang a song about, 'the day the music died.' This was a tribute to ___________________.

14.We can remember the first satellite placed into orbit.. The Russians did it. It was called ___________________.

15. One of the big fads of the late 50's and 60's was a large plastic ring that we twirled around our waist.. It was called the __ ______________.

ANSWERS :
01.The Lone Ranger left behind a silver bullet.
02.The Ed Sullivan Show
03.On Route 66
04.To protect the innocent.
05.The Lion Sleeps Tonight
06.The limbo
07.Chocolate
08.Louis Armstrong
09.The Timex watch
10.Freddy, The Freeloader and 'Good Night and God Bless.'
11.Draft cards (Bras were also burned. Not flags, as some have guessed)
12.Beetle or Bug
13.Buddy Holly
14.Sputnik
15.Hoola-hoop

Send this to your 'old' friends, (better known as Seniors.) It will drive them crazy ! And keep them busy and let them forget their aches and pains for a few minutes

I'm still a decade plus away from 60 and I knew most of those.... does that mean I'm "senior" prematurely?

Awesome picture and story...

http://www.startribune.com/local/127347018.html

Might cause a screen to blur...

Almost done with another week.

It could be or you were around alot of senior's

I knew all of them.

Course I am over 70 so that may give me an edge.

I was in Germany when the two Sputniks went up and our squadron was put on alert status each time. There was much concern about the occasions.

I finally made it to this site....

Whoopie, the weekend is upon us. We're getting ready to travel to Kansas. Never been there before, thus would certainly use the GPS to get us to our various destinations.

The venue where the event referenced in this is in my hometown...

N 43.139575, W93.389711

Buddy Holly and ..., died in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Ia, on the way to Fargo, ND, for a concert in Moorehead, MN.

16. Who else got killed in that plane crash?
17. What was the pilot's name?
18. What popular CW singer gave up his seat in the plane, else he'd been killed?

RT

Ritchie Valens, JP Richardson (aka The Big Bopper), Pilot Roger Peterson & Waylon Jennings....

So glad the stock market isn't open today. I know it'll come back, but some folks don't have the years left to wait.

Wish our representatives were all back in D.C. working.

Do you think if there were a problem of this magnitude at Microsoft, Apple,etc. their CEO's would be taking time off? Probably not.

Would like to see Jack Welsh,Bill Gates,Steve Jobs run for president.

But if they're not in DC, they can't be screwing anything up more than it is...

A nice Saturday, a rainy Sunday here in Delawhere.

Good morning.

All the best this weekend, looks like it's going to be a hot one!

Just cut the lawn. Nice today but windy. They say a storm is comming in tonight and tomorrow We could use a little rain. 11:00 and it is only 75 degrees. Have a nice weekend.

We went on a trip to northern MI and it was such a treat to get away from redlight and speed cameras. Instead of getting rid of them here, they are adding them.

I don't know how they pulled it off.

I hear the east coast is due for another.

Windmill Post

nice sunny and warm here in california

More Snow, Oh send me some nice warm sunshine.