Posts by Angela

1) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year Everyone. (Message 2091419)
Posted 4 Jan 2022 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Happy New Year, friends
2) Message boards : Cafe SETI : COVID support thread............. (Message 2086057)
Posted 11 Oct 2021 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I'm sorry Lori got sick. I'm glad to read she has recovered.
3) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My ongoing adventure with treatment (Message 2086056)
Posted 11 Oct 2021 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Wishing you success with all your treatments and a speedy return to health.

Sending our love - Angela & Eric
4) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Holy Mackerel! I made it to 72 (Message 2082855)
Posted 23 Aug 2021 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Wishing you much happiness on your special day, and always.
5) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Rest in Peace Byron Leigh Hatch, team Carl Sagan founder (Message 2062685)
Posted 1 Dec 2020 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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RIP, friend.

Wishing peace and comfort to his family as they mourn his loss.
6) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #295 (Message 2053392)
Posted 15 Jul 2020 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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You can't win if you don't play...

Winning!!!
7) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Grant Imahara dies aged 49 (Message 2053391)
Posted 15 Jul 2020 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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R.I.P.
8) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Last Day Sadness (Message 2042166)
Posted 1 Apr 2020 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I'm a sad raccoon today.
9) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Rest in Peace, Jim Scott (Message 2042163)
Posted 1 Apr 2020 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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https://www.bjsfunerals.com/obituary/james-scott

Here is a copy of Jim's obituary.
10) Message boards : Cafe SETI : update on Monday (this account) (Message 2042160)
Posted 1 Apr 2020 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I missed this thread, somehow. Eric and I are so very saddened to hear of Jeff's passing.

Vincent, wishing you and your family peace and comfort as you mourn the loss of your father.

Angela & Eric Korpela
11) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Rest in Peace, Jim Scott (Message 2041223)
Posted 29 Mar 2020 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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It is with tremendous sadness that I report the passing of our friend and former moderator, Jim Scott. Jim's wife just shared with us that Jim passed away this morning, suddenly and unexpectedly, of an apparent heart attack.

His devotion to this project, his warm friendship and his wry sense of humor touched many of us and he will be deeply missed.

Rest in peace, dear friend.
12) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 6 years on.... (Message 2037065)
Posted 10 Mar 2020 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Welcome Home!!!
13) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI going away? (Message 2035217)
Posted 2 Mar 2020 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Is that true, SETI is done crunching. Too bad almost no warning. Could not even return last tasks done.

Tasks are still being accepted.
14) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 2033249)
Posted 21 Feb 2020 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Our contractor found evidence of a rat colony where our deck used to meet the house.

I guess all those years of my feeding birds resulted in my simultaneously feeding rats.

Good thing there are lots of small hawks in the area to keep those friends of Mickey in check!
15) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 1 of the last of Hollywood's "Golden Age" actors, Kirk Douglas has passed away. (Message 2031157)
Posted 7 Feb 2020 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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R.I.P.
16) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 2031156)
Posted 7 Feb 2020 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I helped with hauling boards out during the demolition. Purvis must have slipped out when I wasn't looking. We found three of my gardening shoes under there. Raccoon kits like to play with such things. We also found some dusty old garbage that raccoons must have dragged under there when they raided trash bins. The spiders pretty much got out of our way. The most interesting thing we found was a skull of some small animal. Eric thought it was maybe a cat or a skunk.
17) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #291 (Message 2029829)
Posted 30 Jan 2020 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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A winner am I?
18) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 2029828)
Posted 30 Jan 2020 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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We are doing some home remodeling and drainage work... always a joy.

The long boards of our back deck are being taken out this weekend. Besides Purvis, I wonder who is living under there these days.

Guess we'll find out!
19) Message boards : Cafe SETI : R.I.P. Jim Lehrer (Message 2029827)
Posted 30 Jan 2020 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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R.I.P.
20) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hi everyone. Again (Message 2029826)
Posted 30 Jan 2020 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Sounds like you have been through so much.
Glad you are back with us.
21) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #291 (Message 2025976)
Posted 2 Jan 2020 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Happy New Year!
22) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 2025975)
Posted 2 Jan 2020 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Happy New Year readers of the Critter Cafe!!!
23) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What Are You Reading? (Message 2023052)
Posted 14 Dec 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I just finished Richard Russo's Straight Man. If you are part of a department large enough to have internal politics, especially academic internal politics, you will find that novel hilarious.
24) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #290 (Message 2023051)
Posted 14 Dec 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I've got pie. Three pumpkin pies. Want one?

As tempting as pumpkin pie sounds, I will stick with my salad. We have a big family holiday party on Sunday, so I'm trying to be good today.
25) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Oto - Rèmy-Luc Auberjonois dead at 79 (Message 2023049)
Posted 14 Dec 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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R.I.P.
26) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #290 (Message 2023047)
Posted 14 Dec 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I should NOT have looked at that photo of pecan pie, next to some sort of yummy "adult beverage".

Eric is at a dinner meeting tonight and I was planning to have a nice big virtuous salad for dinner, but now I want pie, gosh darn it!!!
27) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #290 (Message 2022580)
Posted 10 Dec 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Happy belated birthday, Carlos.
28) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #290 (Message 2022296)
Posted 8 Dec 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Oh well.

9 grand children want their xmas present. :)


Then I wish Rosi happy shopping! As a grandmother I am guessing she enjoys picking out special toys for the little ones. As an auntie of little ones, I opt out of Xmas madness by contributing to their college (university) savings accounts.
29) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #290 (Message 2021531)
Posted 3 Dec 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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[quote]Survived Black Friday without leaving home!
I saved 100%


LOL!!! Me too.
30) Message boards : Cafe SETI : the furnaces have been switched on... (Message 2020727)
Posted 27 Nov 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Welcome home!
31) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - # 72 (Message 2020726)
Posted 27 Nov 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Raccoon version of the chicken dance?
32) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 2020410)
Posted 24 Nov 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Hmmmm.... I've never tried Cheerios with my little woodland friends
33) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 2019563)
Posted 18 Nov 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Hi back 'atcha Byron!

Vic, "Graham" and "Crackers" are pretty cute names for blond raccoons, as they are very much the same color as those beloved preschool snacks. I'll see what Eric thinks tonight, but I think we may have a winner.

Fuzzball is turning out to be quite the friendly and easily trained raccoon kit. He reminds me of Artemis, so Eric had better watch his toes!!!
34) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #289 (Message 2018759)
Posted 13 Nov 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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We had chicken thighs in a mushroom/herb sauce last week. Eric and I both eat meat, but I cook vegetarian often.
35) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 2018758)
Posted 13 Nov 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Hazelnut Tanuki is now visiting nightly with her one baby, whom we have named Fuzzball. It is unusual for a raccoon as young as Hazelnut to only have one surviving kit in the fall, so something must have happened to the other babies that she undoubtedly conceived. Raccoons are particularly susceptible to distemper (both canine and feline), so sadly the smart money is on disease. On the other hand, I saw a great horned owl on a lamp post behind our backyard last night. Great horned owls prefer rodents, but will eat skunks, cats, baby raccoons etc. This was a particularly large and beautiful owl, and I was really glad I had managed to get both of our indoor/outdoor cats in for the night.

Marilyn has been visiting regularly with two darling little blond babies. We really haven't settled on names for these two kits yet, and so if you would like to name a raccoon baby please offer suggestions.

The best raccoon names tend to be unisex, as we never know if the kits are male or female until I teach them to stand up to request food. Since these are blond babies, we would appreciate name suggestions that imply blondness or redness in their coats. For example, their great grandmother was Snowball, their grandmother was Rusty, their mother is Marilyn, and their uncle is Fabio (Fabio is the raccoon formerly known as Farrah, until he stood up and we realized how inappropriate the name Farrah was.)

Fabio visits every once in a while. He has become a surprisingly large and devastatingly handsome male raccoon. Our blond raccoons don't tend to run large, so I was surprised at how big Fabio had become.

I don't know if litter size is genetically linked to blond/cinnamon colored coats, but our blonds tend to have small litters of 1-2 kits. whether the mama is young or old. Our more typically colored raccoons tend to have surviving litters of 3-5 kits in the fall, unless the mama is getting on in years. Old Threesie, for example, had one surviving baby who we called Fat Baby. The next year Old Threesie didn't return, and we assume she passed over the Raccoon Rainbow Bridge. Fat Baby never had to compete for food with siblings, hence his chubby stature.

Anyway, looking forward to name suggestions for our two blond babies.

Thanks!!!
36) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #289 (Message 2018756)
Posted 13 Nov 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Winner, winner, chicken dinner... well, actually it was a vegetarian pasta dish.
37) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 2018344)
Posted 10 Nov 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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'Ol Pookers is at a football game and I'm spending most of the evening scrubbing floors.

I think I need to get liberated...
38) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #289 (Message 2015910)
Posted 19 Oct 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Did I win?
39) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 2015909)
Posted 19 Oct 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Marilyn has two babies - both blond raccoons. The kits are really skittish so haven't been able to get a decent picture yet.

Fabio, Marilyn's brother, visited last night. He has really gotten big. Part of one of his ears is gone, presumably from a fight.
40) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Dementia Research - Supporting Blurf's Fundraising Efforts (Message 2012337)
Posted 17 Sep 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Blurf, a long time member of our community, a former moderator for this project and a friend of ours for many years, is raising money for Dementia Research.

Eric and I are honored to support Blurf in his efforts to fund dementia research. If you would like to join us, here is a link to Blurf's fundraising page:

http://act.alz.org/site/TR?fr_id=12576&pg=personal&px=16479141
41) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW (The Last Person To Post Here Wins) #288 (Message 2011718)
Posted 12 Sep 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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4 AM Insomnia Win!!! Yay Team Insomnia!!!
42) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW (The Last Person To Post Here Wins) #287 (Message 2010287)
Posted 1 Sep 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Yes, winning is awesome, isn't it?
43) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 2008832)
Posted 22 Aug 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I'd love to know the story behind this.

Some inspectors wanting to inspect a stores pantry for Donut Holes before the public does.


Tale as old as time....

Somebody feeds them!!!

(Guilty as charged.)
44) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW (The Last Person To Post Here Wins) #287 (Message 2008831)
Posted 22 Aug 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Win!
45) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Birthdays (Message 2008830)
Posted 22 Aug 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Hope your special day was a happy one.

Wishing you many more!
46) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Congratulations OzzFan... a married man as of today!!! (Message 2005400)
Posted 2 Aug 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Little known fact about this couple - they were high school sweethearts.

(Insert collective "aaaawwwwwwww" from the seti community here.)
47) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW (The Last Person To Post Here Wins) #287 (Message 2005399)
Posted 2 Aug 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I don't get to the boards often these days, but when I do it is ALWAYS a pleasure to take the win away from Carlos!!!
48) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 2004826)
Posted 29 Jul 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Wow!
49) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Catch 22 in action (Message 2004720)
Posted 29 Jul 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I'm so happy to read that things worked out for you. I hope you enjoy your new job!
50) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW (The Last Person To Post Here Wins) #287 (Message 2004030)
Posted 24 Jul 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Congratulations on your win, Vic!
51) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW (The Last Person To Post Here Wins) #CCLXXXVI (Message 2003697)
Posted 22 Jul 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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How close?
52) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW (The Last Person To Post Here Wins) #CCLXXXVI (Message 2002969)
Posted 17 Jul 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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After a six week vacation, you should not be the least bit grumpy!
53) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW (The Last Person To Post Here Wins) #CCLXXXVI (Message 2002584)
Posted 14 Jul 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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It's a good afternoon to win.
54) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW (The Last Person To Post Here Wins) #CCLXXXVI (Message 2002507)
Posted 14 Jul 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Victory is mine!
55) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW (The Last Person To Post Here Wins) #CCLXXXVI (Message 2002489)
Posted 14 Jul 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I'm winning. Whee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
56) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW (The Last Person To Post Here Wins) #CCLXXXVI (Message 2002311)
Posted 12 Jul 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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but not for long
57) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW (The Last Person To Post Here Wins) #CCLXXXVI (Message 2002304)
Posted 12 Jul 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Surfacing to take Vic's win!
58) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW (The Last Person To Post Here Wins) #CCLXXXVI (Message 2002222)
Posted 12 Jul 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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For all you aspiring guitarists:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_yTG1L8Ck8
59) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Vic!!! (Message 2001382)
Posted 6 Jul 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Best wishes to you on your special day.

Angela & Eric
60) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Eric (Message 2001381)
Posted 6 Jul 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Not sure if he is fishing, in the lab or enjoying some home backed chocolate cake. Where ever he might be.
Happy Birthday Eric


He worked. There was, however, homemade chocolate mousse cake.

Happy belated birthday, Pookers.
61) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Congratulations OzzFan... a married man as of today!!! (Message 2000720)
Posted 3 Jul 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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OzzFan, wishing you and the lovely Mrs. OzzFan a life time of wedded bliss.

Angela & Eric
62) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1998834)
Posted 19 Jun 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Aw! She's a little cutie pie! In the first picture it looks like she might be nursing. Perhaps she'll introduce you to her kits soon?
63) Message boards : Cafe SETI : We lost another Setizen (Message 1998755)
Posted 19 Jun 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Wishing you peace as you mourn the loss of your father.
64) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #285. (Message 1997730)
Posted 11 Jun 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Vic, we're giving you a run for your money today. It is 102 outside!!!
65) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1996702)
Posted 4 Jun 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Here is one for Angela...
Mother Raccoon Rescues Baby (Raccoon) Trapped On Chicago River In Adorable Video
"A mother's job never ends," Urban Rivers wrote when sharing the video.


Glad that story had a happy ending!

We had a Mama Skunk visit about a week ago with six adorable babies!!!
66) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1996701)
Posted 4 Jun 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Mark, we wish you well. You are on our minds and in our hearts.

Angela & Eric
67) Message boards : Cafe SETI : It's Angela's birthday! (Message 1995376)
Posted 26 May 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Thank you for all the kind wishes, great photos and Sue's hilarious song!!!

I tried my best to relax on my birthday. I read a good book and Eric made dinner reservations at a nice restaurant in Berkeley. It was a lovely day.
68) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1994942)
Posted 24 May 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Signals that baffled astronomers for 17 years traced to observatory's microwave oven

I hope we haven't been crunching data from microwaves all these years! ;-)


We frequently find signs of intelligent life when we crunch this project, but so far all the signs of intelligent life we've found have come from our own planet.
69) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #283 (Message 1994649)
Posted 21 May 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Something has to go my way today... did I win?
70) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Farewell and Rest In Peace - Gordon MacKenzie Lowe (Message 1991245)
Posted 24 Apr 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I'm just not ready to see this fall off the first page of the Cafe...

I hope there is a heaven and that it is full of bunny rabbits for Gordon.
71) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 20th Anniversary T-shirts - More in stock (Message 1991132)
Posted 23 Apr 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Came home from work to a lovely surprise - our shirts had arrived!!!

Thanks, Ulibelle!!!
72) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1990333)
Posted 17 Apr 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Since I feed birds, I also inadvertently feed er... uh... "friends of Mickey". I'm fine if the owls keep rodent numbers in check.
73) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1990106)
Posted 15 Apr 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Yesterday morning, very early, Eric saw a great horned owl eating something up high on a lamp post near our backyard. We have lived here almost 20 years and didn't even know we had great horned owls in the area. We have heard barn owls, but never actually seen one. Eric said the great horned owl was pretty spectacular, especially when it flew away.

We try to get our two indoor/outdoor cats in at night because we knew we had coyotes in the area. Now I'm doubly glad we get them inside because, according to our bird book, great horned owls eat mice, rats, porcupines, skunks, small raccoons, a wide variety of birds and occasionally cats and small dogs. I don't want Joker and Riddler to end up as owl pellets!
74) Message boards : Cafe SETI : how many inches of pollen do you have? (Message 1989602)
Posted 11 Apr 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Aaaaaachoo!!!

Count your blessings. Spring starts in January out here!
75) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #282 (Message 1988248)
Posted 1 Apr 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Some times stillness and being is all that you need do.

And other times it is best to beat Carlos!

Winning!!!!!
76) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1988219)
Posted 31 Mar 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Before the picture comes, I'm betting on a Fleur de lis print.
77) Message boards : Cafe SETI : i hate being rational. (Message 1988218)
Posted 31 Mar 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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When one is a realist one is never disappointed but may, occasionally, be pleasantly surprised.
78) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1988203)
Posted 31 Mar 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I'm having almost as much fun imagining the flocked wallpaper you grew up with.

Ah the 70's.....

The staircase and upstairs still has it. I'll get a pic or two when I pop round tomorrow :)


I am a-quiver with anticipation!

(Oh please let it be maroon... or better yet avocado green!!!)
79) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1987926)
Posted 30 Mar 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I had 2 grandma's and that's it.


Well, biologically that is how it works...

Were you lucky enough to know your grandmothers before they passed?
80) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1987923)
Posted 30 Mar 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Wishing you peace as you mourn the passing of your father.

Angela & Eric
81) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1987922)
Posted 30 Mar 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I'm having almost as much fun imagining the flocked wallpaper you grew up with.

Ah the 70's.....
82) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 20th Anniversary T-shirts - More in stock (Message 1987919)
Posted 30 Mar 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Thank you Uli! You are the Queen of T-shirts and a wonderful Seti Ambassador!
83) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 20th Anniversary T-shirts - More in stock (Message 1987043)
Posted 25 Mar 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Two XL in white, please.
84) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1986863)
Posted 24 Mar 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I prefer grandmother.
85) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1986701)
Posted 23 Mar 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Marilyn, one of last season's blond babies, has shown up on our back porch quite regularly lately. She is always hungry. Makes me wonder if she is eating for four... or five. Here's hoping she's going to be a mommy!!!
86) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Kitsch (Message 1986699)
Posted 23 Mar 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I have three Lomonosov raccoons frolicking on the ledge above my kitchen sink.

Value? Next to nothing. Kitsch? Absolutely!

Don't care. I still like them.
87) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1985442)
Posted 16 Mar 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Hello, just popping in for a visit :)

OMG! Don't let Esme see that!!!
88) Message boards : News : Download server glitch (Message 1983535)
Posted 5 Mar 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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The servers always seem to know when I'm going to be away. :(

I think I found and fixed the remaining problem.



It was our 25th wedding anniversary and we only went away for the weekend. You'd think the #$%^&*()_)(*&^%$#$%^&*&^T%$%^&*()(*&^ servers would give us a break!
89) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW # CCLXXVIII Happy New 2019 (Message 1981976)
Posted 24 Feb 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Well, now you're leading from behind!

Bwahahahahahahahaha
90) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1981966)
Posted 24 Feb 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I like it!
91) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Farewell and Rest In Peace - Gordon MacKenzie Lowe (Message 1981722)
Posted 22 Feb 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Gordon was a proud graduate of the University of Louisville in Kentucky. He often referred to his undergraduate studies there as the best four years of his life. After his mother passed away, Gordon began volunteering at a museum on campus. He frequently mentioned how happy he was to be back on the campus he loved so dearly.

In memory of Gordon, Eric and I just made an on-line donation to that university.

If others are able to and inclined to remember Gordon in this way, we encourage you to do so.
92) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Farewell and Rest In Peace - Gordon MacKenzie Lowe (Message 1981608)
Posted 22 Feb 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Gordon was many wonderful things, but he was kind above all else.

Eric and I are deeply saddened by the loss of our friend.
93) Message boards : Number crunching : My Computer Builds And Other Projects (Message 1979783)
Posted 10 Feb 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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In 2015 I was diagnosed with breast cancer. (I'm all better now, so no worries.)

After diagnosis I was faced with having to tell various friends and family members that I would be undergoing some life-altering medical intervention for a very serious medical condition.

Some well-meaning people felt that I would benefit from hearing about all the life-style changes I should have made to have averted my diagnosis in the first place. Did I appreciate their input? I did not.

Some well-meaning people felt that I would benefit from hearing about all the life-style changes that I should make right now to maximize my potential for a positive treatment outcome. Did I appreciate their input? I did not.

Some well-meaning people decided that I would benefit from hearing about all the life-style changes that I should make in the future to reduce my chances of cancer recurrence down the road. Did I appreciate their input? I did not.

When one is undergoing a life-altering event, one reaches out to others for care, concern, understanding and support.

It is difficult to know how to respond to a friend in crisis.

Most people did their best to react to my news in ways that were kind, but frankly only one friend had the perfect response. When I told this friend that I had been diagnosed with breast cancer her only response was, "That sucks. That really sucks." That was all that I really wanted to hear because I had little to no control over the past, the present or the future.

Sometimes all we really want is some space to vent and a touch of human kindness. Please???
94) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1978191)
Posted 2 Feb 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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How about one like this?


That's me, trying to clean up after Eric!
95) Message boards : Cafe SETI : inspiration, joys, sorrows and stories of our lives (Message 1978190)
Posted 2 Feb 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
When I was studying to be a speech pathologist I had one particularly amazing clinical supervisor, Robbie J. She was so good at helping me learn. She knew intuitively when to gently point me in the right direction vs when to jump in and directly assist. She taught me that mistakes are not mistakes if you learn from them and she always managed to make all of her students laugh.

Now, after a long career in direct service provision, I currently work in clinical supervision. I am about to begin clinic with my seventh group of graduate students. I hope to be even half the supervisor that Robbie was to me.

I wrote Robbie a letter a few years ago to let her know how much I appreciated her as a supervisor all those decades ago, and to tell her that I was attempting to follow in her footsteps. I have heard through the grapevine that she is retiring from her university position this year. Those will be some hard shoes to fill!
96) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1977933)
Posted 31 Jan 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
More raccoons. One can never have too many...
97) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1975366)
Posted 16 Jan 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy New Year.

Team Raccoon Lovers is open for business and all are welcome to join.
98) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW # CCLXXVIII Happy New 2019 (Message 1975250)
Posted 15 Jan 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, since we're posting dinner menus ours was rice torta (a vegetarian dish made with eggs, cheese, vegetables and rice), a side of crudite (carrots, fennel and apple slices) and some almonds. For dessert we indulged in some Straus Family Creamery mint chocolate chip ice cream. This ice cream brand is a local company only, so most of you will not be able to find it, but it is absolutely THE BEST ice cream ever!!! If you are a local cruncher, try it and thank me later. Yum!!!
99) Message boards : Number crunching : My Computer Builds And Other Projects (Message 1975138)
Posted 14 Jan 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Public posts are an invitation to public comment, and sometimes that includes public critique.

In the Cafe I post about feeding and training raccoons, knowing full well that feeding and training raccoons is ill-advised and that some people are going to feel obligated to make sure that I know that. For me, the benefits of sharing my love of urban wildlife with forum friends far outweigh the very legitimate posted feedback I get from time to time about why feeding and training urban wildlife is a bad idea.

Balance of feedback is really what keeps me posting about my urban wildlife adventures. Most of the feedback I receive is pleasant. Some of the feedback I receive is negative. Those who give me negative feedback are, quite frankly, 100% correct. Feeding and training raccoons is not a good idea. Raccoons are wild animals. They bite. They carry diseases. They should not be encouraged to interact with people. They should not be demeaned by being taught "tricks". All of these statements are true, and yet I continue to feed and train raccoons.

If I received negative feedback to 90% of my posts about raccoons, I would not stop feeding raccoons. I would just stop posting about feeding raccoons. Perhaps I flatter myself, but I think some might miss my crazy little raccoon-based contributions to our community. I know that personally, I would miss the contributions of most members of our community if they stopped posting because 90% of the feedback they received was critical.

Public posts are an invitation to public comment and sometimes that includes public critique, but if you have shared your legitimate concerns about a topic once or twice, then thank you. You have shared your concerns and they have been noted. On-going critiques only drive the subject matter of a thread further and further off topic.
100) Message boards : Cafe SETI : query (Message 1974967)
Posted 12 Jan 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Seti finds lots of signs of intelligent life... the signals come from Earth! There is a whole lot of radio frequency interference (RFI) that looks, initially, like it might be "interesting". That is why data are processed from different angles and by different crunchers.

Welcome to seti@home!

You will find many friends here.
101) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1974244)
Posted 9 Jan 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hilarious!!!!

DLL, you have a gift for finding the most entertaining videos.
102) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part VII (Message 1974003)
Posted 7 Jan 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Scotch on the rocks please

Neat.
103) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year (Message 1974001)
Posted 7 Jan 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy New Year, friends.
104) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW # CCLXXVIII Happy New 2019 (Message 1974000)
Posted 7 Jan 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've never been tempted to try sweet potato skins.
105) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW # CCLXXVIII Happy New 2019 (Message 1973997)
Posted 7 Jan 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I love sweet potatoes, but Ol Pookers can't stand them. More for me.
106) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP Sister Wendy Beckett (Message 1973923)
Posted 7 Jan 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
107) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1973548)
Posted 5 Jan 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Must be like Chicken Cordon Bleu.

Tomorrow I am going to make French Toast using Brioche. I was able to get a loaf of Brioche in the "Used Bread" stand at Kroger where I often get artisan ryes, pumpernickel and sprouted grain breads at an affordable price. I will revisit Martha Stewart's recipe.



Brioche makes excellent French Toast, as does challah. My in-laws visited for the holidays and I made French Toast one morning. I could find neither brioche or challah and I used ordinary white bread. The outcome was disappointingly soggy.
108) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1973008)
Posted 1 Jan 2019 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy New Year!!!

Wishing everyone a raccoon-filled 2019!!!
109) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW # CCLXXVII Happy Holidays and Merry New Year (Message 1972676)
Posted 30 Dec 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"Winning" the chance to pay for something makes me remember my mom. She used to go to post-holiday sales, come back with bags of stuff and then say to my father, "look at all the money I saved you!" He would generally roll his eyes, but say nothing.
110) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Favorite card games (Message 1972674)
Posted 30 Dec 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Markie had to wear an opposing team's sports jersey to some sort of public event the two of them were scheduled to attend together.

Now that's a rough penalty!


It is, but Markie is a mature young man for his age and I'm sure he pulled it off with class, grace and humor.
111) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Favorite card games (Message 1972669)
Posted 30 Dec 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We play poker with our nieces and nephews down in Fresno. There are lots of poker game versions and Eric knows many of them. We play with pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters - everybody starting out with an equal amount. The biggest winner at the end of the game gets to extract a big, mutually agreed upon prize from each of the losers.

The last time we played our nephew Markie's girlfriend, Meghan, was the big winner. From me she got a box of cookies, which I mailed her about a week after we got home. From "Funcle" Eric she got a check to pay for one of her college applications. (It costs a whole lot more to apply to college now than it did when Eric and I were that age!!!) Markie had to wear an opposing team's sports jersey to some sort of public event the two of them were scheduled to attend together. Kathryn, Markie's sister, made dinner one night and had Meghan over. Markie and Kathryn's mother, my sister-in-law Marleen, had to go to bed one hour earlier than usual for a full week. Marleen is a terrible night owl and she is chronically sleep deprived. Whenever we play with Marleen and win, that is the prize we demand from her.

Our poker tournaments are always all in good fun and we look forward to the next one.
112) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photos of Holiday Decorations - Originals only (Message 1970732)
Posted 16 Dec 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The yeti on the roof is funny.
113) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1970077)
Posted 13 Dec 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Awesome!

Congratulations!!!
114) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1969062)
Posted 7 Dec 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL! Very cute.
115) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1969061)
Posted 7 Dec 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I was in a Bed Bath & Beyond store the other day, and a squirrel was having a field day running inside with many places to hide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K16fG1sDagU]
116) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photos of Holiday Decorations - Originals only (Message 1969060)
Posted 7 Dec 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy Saturnalia!
117) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1968909)
Posted 6 Dec 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations on the new additions to your family.

I love my little woodland creatures, but personally I draw the line at "indoor raccoons".
118) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photos of Holiday Decorations - Originals only (Message 1968720)
Posted 5 Dec 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thanks Sue!
119) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW # 275, Merry Sithmas (Message 1968719)
Posted 5 Dec 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you a speedy recovery, Vic.
120) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW # 275, Merry Sithmas (Message 1968594)
Posted 4 Dec 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You rang?
121) Message boards : Cafe SETI : SETI Contributor, Josef Winsor Segur passed some time ago. (Message 1968593)
Posted 4 Dec 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
He was a member of Team Raccoon Lovers and I know that Eric always thought very highly of him.

R.I.P.
122) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photos of Holiday Decorations - Originals only (Message 1968561)
Posted 3 Dec 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I like the reflection of the lights in the water.

+1
Wow - looks spectacular!
123) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photos of Holiday Decorations - Originals only (Message 1968534)
Posted 3 Dec 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hung some lights in my kitchen, but I didn't put any on the tree. I find it difficult to enjoy ornaments on trees with lights.
124) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1968491)
Posted 3 Dec 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
cRunchy, thanks for the time it took to share this recipe. It looks wonderful, but I think I need something more speedy.

Sue, your recipe also looks great, but it sounds a bit rich for cocktail hour.

Admiral G, I'm going to try the Thanksgiving Jungle Juice. Thanks! We actually have a bottle of fireball in the pantry that my "hipstah" godchild gave me as a gag gift several years ago. Sounds like a good way to use it.
125) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Former president George H.W. Bush has died, family spokesperson confirms (Message 1968488)
Posted 3 Dec 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
126) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW # 275, Merry Sithmas (Message 1968487)
Posted 3 Dec 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations on your win, Vic!

My turn next, right?
127) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photos of Holiday Decorations - Originals only (Message 1968486)
Posted 3 Dec 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you. They were a gift from one of Eric's cousins. Everybody in the family has a set and we always talk about how Jimmy's icicles pull our trees together.
128) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photos of Holiday Decorations - Originals only (Message 1968474)
Posted 3 Dec 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We rarely put up a tree, but this year Eric's parents are visiting us for the holidays so I caved.

If you cannot see this photo, it probably means you do not have a google account. I don't know how to modify the picture so that everyone can see it, but if somebody else can tweak it for me, I'd be very grateful.

Anyway... taa-daa!!! Our tree!

129) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1968244)
Posted 2 Dec 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Anyone have a particularly festive, "tried and true" alcoholic holiday punch or (cocktail recipe that is easily batched) to serve about 20?
130) Message boards : Cafe SETI : You Know It's Coming. (Message 1968242)
Posted 2 Dec 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I love you, Angela! ❤️

Right back 'atcha, sistah!

Happy Holidays to Everyone!!!
131) Message boards : Cafe SETI : You Know It's Coming. (Message 1968031)
Posted 30 Nov 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Who decorates the house? Who organizes the gift list and does the holiday shopping? Who wraps the gifts? Who does the Christmas cards? Who organizes and preps for your holiday parties? Who cooks all the special foods every family looks forward to having this time of the year?

If your answer to any or (gasp!!!) all of the above questions is "my mom", "my grandmother", "my wife", "my sister", "my daughter" or "my girlfriend", then step away from the endless football games on tv, turn to that woman and say, "How can I help?"
132) Message boards : Cafe SETI : You Know It's Coming. (Message 1967676)
Posted 29 Nov 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bah humbug!
133) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1967453)
Posted 28 Nov 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Man Discovers A Family Of Mice Living In His Garden, Builds Them A Miniature Village


So sweet!
134) Message boards : Politics : U.S. voting (Message 1965525)
Posted 16 Nov 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is there something wrong with my glasses? I can't believe my eyes. The O.C. (land of Reagan) went blue??? Holy-moley macaroni!!!
135) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Stan Lee has passed (Message 1965482)
Posted 16 Nov 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
136) Message boards : Cafe SETI : "I love that..." Finish the Sentence (Message 1965481)
Posted 16 Nov 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I love that, now that the holidays are around, the corner I have lots of excuses to bake!

P.S. Happy Birthday to your mom.
137) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXXIV (Message 1965480)
Posted 16 Nov 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning while gasping in the toxic breeze...
138) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXXIV (Message 1964328)
Posted 10 Nov 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm sorry your arm is hurting.

Interesting fact... heat helps with healing long term because it increases blood flow, but short term heat makes you feel better because it raises your pain threshold.
139) Message boards : Politics : U.S. voting (Message 1964326)
Posted 10 Nov 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You reap what you sow...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scott-walker-narrowly-loses-wisconsin-governors-race-and-he-cant-ask-for-a-recount-because-of-a-law-he-put-in-place/
140) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bugs, Insects, and Spiders (Message 1964320)
Posted 10 Nov 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That's beautiful!
141) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXXIV (Message 1964318)
Posted 10 Nov 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And I won, right?
142) Message boards : Cafe SETI : combining two accounts (Message 1964317)
Posted 10 Nov 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I asked. It is possible to do, but it takes a whole lot of work. If 'Ol Pookers does it for one person, he'll have to do it for everybody who asks. It is a precedent he cannot set, given his work load. Sorry.
143) Message boards : Cafe SETI : combining two accounts (Message 1964314)
Posted 10 Nov 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This little raccoon does have a penchant for ice cream...

I will ask 'Ol Pookers if it is possible to do this.
144) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1964310)
Posted 10 Nov 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Before his passing I had discussions with Major Kong regarding relocation to Texas.....that is now a firm possibility for me.

This line made me smile. Eric and I are hoping to retire to Wisconsin someday and add our blue blue votes to that beautiful, most interesting and very divided of states. As you might imagine given Eric's background, we follow Wisconsin politics and we are happy to see Governor Walker find another line of work. We are greatly concerned about the growing wealth gap in this country. Unions, generally, help slow that growing gap. We are sorry to see them in such decline across our nation. I hope you find happiness in Texas. I have a couple of relatives there and I always enjoy visiting that state.
145) Message boards : Cafe SETI : congestive heart failure - signs - symptoms - treatments and disscussion. (Message 1964268)
Posted 10 Nov 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Glad to hear that you are feeling better! Wishing you the best.

Angela & Eric
146) Message boards : Cafe SETI : "I hate that" finish the sentence.... (Message 1963700)
Posted 7 Nov 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hate that... everything on me is saggin', baggin', taggin' or draggin'...
147) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Halloween favorite candies (Message 1962792)
Posted 1 Nov 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We got 29 trick-or-treaters (and three visiting raccoons) this year - a new record for kiddos!
148) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1961893)
Posted 26 Oct 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL!
149) Message boards : Cafe SETI : R.I.P. Paul Allen (Message 1961632)
Posted 24 Oct 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
150) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1961631)
Posted 24 Oct 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Brazilnut Bjorn is a girl, and she had two darling little raccoon kits this year. They were born later than Rusty's two kits. The size difference is incredible.

So excited to be a great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother again!
151) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Halloween favorite candies (Message 1961629)
Posted 24 Oct 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Almond Joys are my guilty pleasure. I buy "fun-size" Almond Joys out of my niece and nephews' trick-or-treat bags for 50 cents apiece. They think it is hilarious that auntie buys things out of their bags. I tell them that I only want locally sourced, sustainably harvested, actual Halloween candy. (No fair buying a bag of Almond Joys at the grocery store and reselling them to auntie one at a time...) So far, they seem to be following the rules.

Last year Eric and I gave out full sized Hershey milk chocolate bars and we will probably do this again.

Nobody else gives out full size bars anymore. I love, love, love Halloween and I want to encourage as many trick-or-treaters as possible to ring our doorbell. Hopefully the word has gotten out in the neighborhood and we will top last year's record of 20 kiddos.
152) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1958335)
Posted 4 Oct 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Check out the current contest over on "beets contest 70"...

Aw shucks. The picture you posted was Joker. He's a good boy, he is. A good boy.
153) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1957848)
Posted 30 Sep 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A bit early but couldn't wait to post it...

LOL!!!

Spooky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
154) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part VI (Message 1957698)
Posted 28 Sep 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Remember to be extremely discriptive about a haircut.

When I tell the salon lady "make me look 19" she says, "I'm a beautician, not a magician".
155) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1957697)
Posted 28 Sep 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What a beautiful bird!!!

Yes it is, and people live on its land, its habitat.

Our species is very successful... too successful for our own good.
156) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1957688)
Posted 28 Sep 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What a beautiful bird!!!
157) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1957573)
Posted 28 Sep 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My neighbor had a target of opportunity walk through his yard a number of years ago. Took aim out the kitchen window and said, "venison".

My father-in-law shot a deer from his back porch a few years ago. I'm glad I didn't see it happen personally.
158) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXXIV (Message 1957571)
Posted 28 Sep 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My turn to win.
159) Message boards : Cafe SETI : College Football 2018 (Message 1957405)
Posted 27 Sep 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We happened to be present in Utah for the Cal vs BYU game. (No alcohol in the stadium, but all the visitors were given free ice cream - so nice!!!) Cal is doing surprisingly well. Eric is a bit more disappointed when it comes to his mighty Badgers.
160) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1957404)
Posted 27 Sep 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Someone was nice on Amazon, I'm at long last getting a toaster,
I think this is what is coming via UPS on Wednesday since I did not order anything.


The best gifts are often surprises. Do you have a registry? How did somebody know you needed a toaster?
161) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXXIV (Message 1957403)
Posted 27 Sep 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I win!
162) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Your first job and career aspirations? (Message 1957350)
Posted 26 Sep 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The Montclairion was a weekly paper. Had it been a daily paper the novelty of precise delivery would probably have worn off quite quickly.
163) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Your first job and career aspirations? (Message 1957215)
Posted 25 Sep 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
They don't make nun names like that no more
164) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1957214)
Posted 25 Sep 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hiya Vic! Welcome home!!!

And Grace says Hi to you too!


Hi to Grace from Spawnie, Stinky Lou, Eva, Riddler and Joker. Meow!!!
165) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Your first job and career aspirations? (Message 1957209)
Posted 25 Sep 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, probably - and by the nuns who taught the CCD classes I attended. Nuns are pretty cool. Never met a nun I didn't like.
166) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1957208)
Posted 25 Sep 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hiya Vic! Welcome home!!!
167) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Your first job and career aspirations? (Message 1957205)
Posted 25 Sep 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I too was a paperboy... er, uh... paper girl... paper person???

I delivered The Montclarion, a small, local paper. For most of the homes on my route I was unable to throw the paper up to the doorway, so I walked a lot of steps and carefully placed a lot of Montclarions on door mats.

Now I am a speech pathologist, but the first job I remember ever wanting to have was nun. I think I liked the "costumes".
168) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1957204)
Posted 25 Sep 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Does anybody cook with tofu? I get it mixed in with stuff occasionally when I go out to an Asian restaurant, and I like the way it's grilled. I've never bought any for home preparation.


Eric does a good tempeh stir fry. It has more body than most forms of tofu so we prefer tempeh to tofu most of the time as a meat substitute.
169) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1957203)
Posted 25 Sep 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
PLEASE don't use glue traps. They catch many things they were not meant to catch. The outcome in this case could have been much, much worse. 😢

Poison is also indiscriminate and will work its way up the food chain as it makes the target animals much easier for prey to catch them and eat them and get poison into their systems. That leaves snap type which cause suffering. Unfortunately there is no 100% safe method. What ever you use, check at least daily.


+1 regarding poisons like Decon. My sister's cat nearly died from rodent intoxication. A "friend of Mickey" ate some Decon. Puddy ate the friend of Mickey. Puddy got really really really sick and nearly died. I know snap traps seem cruel, but the are least likely to cause collateral damage.
170) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1956507)
Posted 20 Sep 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How many times are you going back there Angie????

Countless?


(and have you told Eric yet?)

It has been my experience that, when it comes to the acquisition of new critters, Eric fares better without advance warning...
171) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1956228)
Posted 19 Sep 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Want, want, want, want, want.
172) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXXIII (Message 1956227)
Posted 19 Sep 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Tut!

Locking thread now and our winner will start a new one.
173) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1953794)
Posted 5 Sep 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Charming!
174) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Queen of Soul (Message 1953093)
Posted 31 Aug 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
175) Message boards : Cafe SETI : R.I.P. John McCain (Message 1952376)
Posted 27 Aug 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
176) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Fine dining in your town (Message 1951719)
Posted 24 Aug 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We like Olivetos, rather than some of the more famous places out here.
177) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1951370)
Posted 22 Aug 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Imagine my surprise to find that Rusty is not a boy, but rather a girl... and she has had two babies.

I'll try to get a picture if she comes back soon. Rusty is a blond raccoon who is one of our less frequent visitors.

edit: For a picture of Rusty, go to the first photo in this thread taken in March of 2018.
178) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1948102)
Posted 6 Aug 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Babies... why don't I have any raccoon babies yet this year???!!! What's up with all the mama raccoons these days?
179) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1947420)
Posted 2 Aug 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Can domesticated chickens fly?

Honestly, this is a serious question from somebody who has always lived in a city.
180) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Going back to work landed me in the hospital (Message 1945981)
Posted 23 Jul 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm glad you are home and still have some time to rest before deciding what to do next.

I spent most of my career working with young children in a hospital setting. The first year was exceptionally brutal. I caught everything that came down the pike. After that things improved, but cold viruses mutate very easily and I would still get a cold or two every year, even after 25 years of preschoolers "training" my immune system. In my current job I work with graduate students in a university setting. They know how to cough in another direction and most of them are even smart enough to wash their hands now and again! With my new job, I've had one cold in three years - a "gift" from my niece and two nephews.

Children are definitely walking germ factories!!! Good thing they're so darn cute.

Wishing you well, my friend.
181) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Uli (Message 1945306)
Posted 19 Jul 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday, dear Uli-belle.
Happy birthday to you.

And MANY more!!!!!!

With love from Angela & Eric
182) Message boards : Politics : Major Kong (Message 1945286)
Posted 19 Jul 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
May warm memories of your husband sustain you and your children, now and always.
183) Message boards : Cafe SETI : General Call For Help (Message 1944812)
Posted 16 Jul 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Byron, my Auntie Marilyn was diagnosed with congestive heart failure several years ago. Her cardiologist did not think that a pacemaker would help. He did not suggest any surgery or any intervention outside of the medications she was already taking. He just said that she should enjoy life and not worry too much about it.

She is currently 91 years young. She has good days and bad days, tires easily, but still manages to live at home with my Uncle Al, eat out occasionally, go to family parties etc.

My neighbor Ernie also lived with congestive heart failure for many years. The biggest effect it had on him was that he was frequently tired and had to rest when he was doing things. That made him angry because he always had so many projects that he wanted to do. He was a retired contractor and loved to stay busy working on his home and the homes of his children. Anyway, Ernie was nearly 92 when he passed away.

Wishing you peace and more good days than bad ones.
184) Message boards : Cafe SETI : congestive heart failure - signs - symptoms - treatments and disscussion. (Message 1944192)
Posted 14 Jul 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sending our love - Angela & Eric
185) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1942837)
Posted 6 Jul 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Poor trash panda couldn't open it to get to the delicious goodies inside :(

Our raccoons pose in exactly the same way... between appetizers and entrees, or entrees and desserts!
186) Message boards : Politics : Major Kong (Message 1942666)
Posted 4 Jul 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing peace, love and support to all of the Major's loved ones.
187) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1941893)
Posted 30 Jun 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Really enjoyed the owl and the roof critter!
188) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1940574)
Posted 21 Jun 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Found Angelas uber driver...

LOL!!!

Loved the squirrel pics and the mouse story too!
189) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1938009)
Posted 2 Jun 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A mother skunk and two rather well grown babies stopped by this afternoon to eat seeds that had fallen out of the bird feeder. Usually skunks don't come out during the day, but the mama was obviously nursing and I'm guessing rather hungry. Tonight she came back, but with three babies this evening. Very cute!

Sue, your godson Sampson also stopped by this evening. He is growing rapidly.
190) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Now That it's Spring/Summer, What Are You Doing? (2018) (Message 1937450)
Posted 28 May 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are you allergic to eggs or do you just not care for them?
191) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1937313)
Posted 26 May 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Time for bed :-)


FIVE babies?!! That's quite unusual!


That has been my experience too. We had a mama with five kits one year, but 2-4 has been more typical of our urban raccoons, with fertility declining as the mama ages.
192) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1937198)
Posted 26 May 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow - that's cute :-)

+1
193) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1936503)
Posted 21 May 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We saw a screech owl on a light post above our backyard this evening. It is the first owl I've ever seen from our backyard. Eric has heard barn owls before, but we've never caught a glimpse of one. The screech owl we saw didn't make any noise. It just sat on the light post for a few minutes, and then flew away.
194) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How do you like your caffeine? (Message 1934337)
Posted 8 May 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The hand-crafted cartoon is so cute!!!

Thanks, WR, for sharing that with us.
195) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How do you like your caffeine? (Message 1934078)
Posted 7 May 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Tea for me, please.

I never learned to enjoy coffee.

That mural needs a raccoon.
196) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1932356)
Posted 27 Apr 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
He's so cute! I'm honored.
(It's spelled with a p.)

Whoops! Silly me. Sorry about the spelling error.
Sampson is, indeed, a little cutie.
197) Message boards : Cafe SETI : i've had a heart attack (Message 1932354)
Posted 27 Apr 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Glad to hear you are recovering!
198) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXXI (Message 1932230)
Posted 27 Apr 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Admiral.

Oh look, Carlos. I'm winning!!!
199) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1932229)
Posted 27 Apr 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Possum name: Sampson
HEY! It's a good name for any animal!!!


You know what, Sue? You are absolutely right!
Samson is a good name for any animal, and an especially good name for this little fellow.
Everyone, please say hello to Samson, Sue's latest godchild!



I'll try to get Eric to take a picture of Wilfred... without getting sprayed!
200) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1931977)
Posted 26 Apr 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
All the names are delightful, and thank you, all, for your creativity.

Eric and I discussed it, and our mutual favorite entry is Wilfred. If Wilfred turns out to be a girl, we will change over to Wilfrieda.

We photographed a baby possum last night, so we will need another name.

I'll see if I can get Eric to send me a link to the photo.
201) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1931414)
Posted 22 Apr 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A friend just pm'd me with the suggestion of Wilfred, so I will post it here with the other suggestions.

Hard to tell if skunks are male or female, unless little ones are trailing behind. Skunks don't stand up on their hind legs like raccoons.
202) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1931343)
Posted 22 Apr 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We have a new skunk visitor to our backyard. He/she??? is small, seems young, and has an exceptionally grand tail.
A better looking skunk I cannot imagine.

Name suggestions?
203) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1931342)
Posted 22 Apr 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mark, in celebration of your WONDERFUL year of achievement, Eric and I just made a donation, in your honor, to the Fox Valley Humane Association.


You donated $XXX.XX USD to Fox Valley Humane Association LTD

Donation Details
Date: April 22, 2018 at 12:46:46 AM PDT
Transaction ID: 2237-2114-8767-1392
Purpose: General Fund
Reference: General
Donation to: Fox Valley Humane Association LTD
Donation from: X.XXXXXXX@XXXXXXX.XXX
Donation amount: $XXX.XXX USD

Funding Sources Used (Total)
DISCOVER x-XXXX
$XXX.XX USD
Amount you paid:
$XXX.XX USD
The transaction will appear on your credit card statement as PAYPAL *FOXVALLEYHU.
204) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1931341)
Posted 22 Apr 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations on the anniversary of your first year of sobriety!!!

Wishing you well as you continue to make health-promoting choices by quitting tobacco!!!

Well done, Mark.
205) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1931177)
Posted 21 Apr 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric enjoys drinking Guinness. I enjoy that freaky thing about Guinness in a glass.... the bubbles go down!!!
206) Message boards : Cafe SETI : NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies At 84, After A Lifelong Career On-Air (Message 1930861)
Posted 19 Apr 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There goes my chance to have him record a greeting on our home answering machine...

R.I.P.
207) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVV (Message 1930860)
Posted 19 Apr 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning one for Team Insomnia!!!
208) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1930859)
Posted 19 Apr 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...Then my brain jumped into strange mode and had you disposing of the evidence of some unspeakable act by burying it under the rhubarb patch, which prompted the growth spurt......


I believe all s@h posters, even the most irritating ones (of which, thankfully, there are darn few!), are present and accounted for...
209) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Harry Anderson, ‘Night Court’ Star, Dies at 65 (Message 1930858)
Posted 19 Apr 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The older I get, the younger 65 sounds...

R.I.P.
210) Message boards : Cafe SETI : R.I.P. Barbara Bush (Message 1930856)
Posted 19 Apr 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
211) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1930855)
Posted 19 Apr 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A rescue :)

So happy that the worker figured out how to reunite the babies with their mama! When I started reading the news clip, I had a sinking feeling that the story was going to end with the worker taking the babies to some sort of animal rescue place. Thank goodness he realized that the mama was only off getting food and that she would be back for her kits. Good job, human!!!
212) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1930207)
Posted 16 Apr 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh Martha!

Martha, Martha, Martha.

Ever I saw you as "Her Royal Highness of House-wifery"... my "Majestic Matriarch of Meal Preparation", a veritable "Sultana of Sustenance", an "Empress of All Things Edible".... heck... the very "Dominatrix of Domesticity"!!!

How could she have failed me so? Woe is me!!!

But wait. Could this failure of a recipe been printed as a simple test of my faith?

Oh Martha!!! I should NEVER have doubted you.

Can you find it in your heart to forgive your humble servant?
213) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1930206)
Posted 16 Apr 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You just forgot to factor in the extra rise that you add to things Angela. ;-)

LOL and thank you kindly.
214) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1930195)
Posted 16 Apr 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Darn you, Martha Stewart!!!

The rhubarb in my garden is growing phenomenally well this year, due to the oddly alternating rain showers and periods of warm weather that we've been having out here this spring. I felt like baking this afternoon and decided to surprise Eric with an upside-down rhubarb cake. I found a good sounding recipe by Martha Stewart on-line.

The recipe called for a 9 inch cake pan with 2 inch sides, which I used.

The cake rose well above the pan sides, there is a layer of melted butter now burnt to the bottom of my oven and my kitchen smells like smoke.

I have a 10 inch cake pan with 2 inch sides. Why didn't Martha tell me to use that pan?
215) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1928940)
Posted 9 Apr 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gopher Digging a Hole

Pocket gophers treat my vegetable garden like their own personal Farmers Market.

Is it bad that I don't shed a tear when our cat Joker dines upon a pocket gopher?
216) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1928205)
Posted 5 Apr 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

I swear that is not our bedroom.

Sue, is it yours?
217) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVV (Message 1927643)
Posted 1 Apr 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You may now wipe that irritatingly smug little smile from your face!
218) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1927621)
Posted 1 Apr 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That's a pretty cute vintage throw pillow!
219) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVV (Message 1927620)
Posted 1 Apr 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
#$%^&()_+_)(*&^%$#@#$%^&*()*&^%$%*()_(*&^%$#@#$%^&*()_(*&^%&*(!!!

*puts through raccoonnese translator*
Yo dudes, where is the pineapple on the leftover pizza?

*runs for the bunker* :)


Makes perfect sense, as raccoons are not known for their discriminating palates!
220) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVV (Message 1927354)
Posted 30 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Good morning.
Seems that I upset someone last night. I apologize for being the source of such language.

I didn't come here to lose!
221) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVV (Message 1927262)
Posted 30 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
#$%^&()_+_)(*&^%$#@#$%^&*()*&^%$%*()_(*&^%$#@#$%^&*()_(*&^%&*(!!!
222) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVV (Message 1927227)
Posted 30 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Didn't last long, did it?
223) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVV (Message 1927205)
Posted 30 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning with some pizza.

It has pineapple on it, hehehehe :)


I should hide this post, as it is clearly inflammatory!!!
224) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1927164)
Posted 29 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL!!!

I was scanning the picture and didn't immediately notice the driver.
225) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1927030)
Posted 29 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think the advice to give them something better to chew on is good advice. Make the right thing easy and the wrong thing hard.
226) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Fond Farewell (Message 1927028)
Posted 29 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you well.

Angela & Eric
227) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVV (Message 1926658)
Posted 26 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...fish have gills...

Audiology trivia - our ossicular chains (3 linked-up teeny-tiny bones in our middle ears that connect our eardrums to our inner ears) evolved from fish gill arches.

If you didn't have functioning middle ears, you would still be able to hear via skull bone conduction to the inner ear, but you would have about a 60 decibel loss across all frequencies without those ossicles.

Thank you, fish ancestors!
228) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part VI (Message 1926628)
Posted 25 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am sorry that such a young person died. I am sorry that somebody felt that it was necessary to kill the snake.
229) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photographs by Setizens 2 - Originals only - any subject (Message 1926429)
Posted 24 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How did the lemonade you made with your little one turn out?
230) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1926409)
Posted 24 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thought of you, Mark, the other day as I renewed our membership in the ASPCA.

It is nearly kitten season, but Eric and I really, really, really have to hold at the five cats we already have.
231) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photographs by Setizens 2 - Originals only - any subject (Message 1926367)
Posted 24 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's many years since I seen one of those. live.

We have one living under our deck now. Her name is Blossom. Blossom Possum.
232) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1926206)
Posted 24 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Rusty came by this evening without Snowball. Perhaps she has finally cut him loose.
233) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bugs, Insects, and Spiders (Message 1926205)
Posted 24 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=72753&postid=1899432

Here is a link to the old Bug Thread, which still exists but was auto-locked as the last post in it was several months ago.
234) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bugs, Insects, and Spiders (Message 1926204)
Posted 24 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A new thread because the old one disappeared. I suspect it was closed because it wasn't very active. Darn you moderators!! ;-)


Threads close automatically if nobody posts on them for a couple of months.
235) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photographs by Setizens 2 - Originals only - any subject (Message 1926203)
Posted 24 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My house, this morning...




Our house, this morning...
236) Message boards : Cafe SETI : i've had a heart attack (Message 1926197)
Posted 24 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you a full and speedy recovery.

Angela & Eric
237) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1925104)
Posted 17 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Aw! A raccoon kit. So cute! Thank you, Byron.

Snowball should have weaned Rusty by now. Not sure why she hasn't insisted he strike out on his own. Kids these days!
238) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXV - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1925075)
Posted 17 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

In this picture, taken last night by Eric, Rusty enjoys some grapes on our back porch. Snowball, his mama, hangs back a little. Rusty and Snowball are blond (AKA cinnamon) raccoons. They are not albino raccoons. They have pigment and all the usual raccoon markings, but everything just comes in a lighter color.

Anyway... welcome, friends, to the 25th installment of the Critter Cafe!!!

If you are new to us, this is a place where Critter People come together to talk about anything they want to talk about.

We have two rules here:

1. Nothing is "off topic" in the Critter Cafe (... assuming, of course, that you have followed the forum rules)

2. All are welcome here
239) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1925074)
Posted 17 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A friend and loyal reader recently pointed out to me that this thread is getting a little long in the tooth.

Hope to see everyone in the new Critter Cafe!
240) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Flat (in the) earth?? (Message 1924662)
Posted 15 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Anyone who thinks that the Earth is flat, has never met a cat.

If the Earth were flat, all the cats of the world would be hanging out at the edge, knocking things off.
241) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1924431)
Posted 14 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...lovers of furry backyard denizens.

That's the motto of Team Raccoon Lovers!
242) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP Stephen Hawking (Message 1924429)
Posted 14 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
243) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1924364)
Posted 13 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Guess the number of raccoons and win a prize :)

Is the prize a raccoon?
244) Message boards : Cafe SETI : British Royal Marriages (Message 1922983)
Posted 5 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I imagine that being a pair of public figures can be quite challenging, and that the difficulties associated with being "royal" and always in the public eye can put tremendous strain on a relationship.

I wish the very best for this young couple.
245) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1922982)
Posted 5 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bet you can't just feed one ...

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
246) Message boards : Cafe SETI : British Royal Marriages (Message 1922764)
Posted 4 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I eloped to "Cupid's Chapel of Love" in beautiful downtown Reno, Nevada.

Again I say, it's the marriage, not the wedding!!!
247) Message boards : Cafe SETI : David Ogden Stiers, Major Winchester on ‘MASH,’ Dies at 75 (Message 1922754)
Posted 4 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.

(Nice picture, Carlos. I thought that particular episode of Star Trek Next Gen was particularly interesting, as it explored cultural values in a particularly poignant manner.)
248) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1922752)
Posted 4 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...But wolverines are the meanest are on 4 paws. They will attack a bear, the bear will walk away.


In northern Wisconsin there are these animals called "fishers". A fisher might give a wolverine a run for its money?
249) Message boards : Cafe SETI : British Royal Marriages (Message 1922640)
Posted 4 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If Eric had come at me with a pre-nup 24 years ago, I would have made a very specific suggestion as to where he could file it!

Good grief!!!

I wish the young couple well and I hope they realize that the important thing is the marriage, not the wedding.
250) Message boards : Cafe SETI : British Royal Marriages (Message 1922605)
Posted 4 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll wait for the reality t.v. series "Real Housewives of Buckingham Palace"
251) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1922360)
Posted 3 Mar 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Fishing.


What was that? Some sort of weasel?
252) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1921420)
Posted 26 Feb 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've had children on my caseload with partial extra ears, extra digits, extra rows of teeth etc. Never seen craniofacial deformities in a kitty though. I would guess most kitties like this with special needs don't survive long or are euthanized.
253) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1921221)
Posted 26 Feb 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No trouble understanding the videos.

The FSM makes 'em... and then they find each other!!!

Good grief!
254) Message boards : Cafe SETI : If you are a mamal post here. (Message 1920345)
Posted 22 Feb 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wouldn't it be wild if a DNA test told you you were 100% native Australian. :)

I think it would be wilder if the DNA test revealed that Wiggo is a marsupial!!!
255) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Was your day better tha n mine? (Message 1920259)
Posted 21 Feb 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Monday, please look in the mirror and decide that you are worth fighting for.
256) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Alien Life Form (Message 1920258)
Posted 21 Feb 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome to seti@home! You will find many friends here.
257) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVIV (Message 1920257)
Posted 21 Feb 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric always laughs at me when I think that 35 degrees is cold. He says that in Wisconsin, people start wearing shorts and tank tops when the weather gets up that high.
258) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1920255)
Posted 21 Feb 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
First of all, congratulations on your upcoming anniversary of a full year of sobriety. That is awesome!!!

Wishing you the very best as you continue on your quest for better health.
259) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1920254)
Posted 21 Feb 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
As we know some racoons are into Tiki

Raccoon can haz zombie cocktail and crab rangoons?
260) Message boards : Cafe SETI : If you are a mamal post here. (Message 1920167)
Posted 21 Feb 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoons are mammals, so yep. I'm a mammal.
261) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 68 (Message 1919666)
Posted 18 Feb 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And (as i stated) they are litter-mates, brothers...

Actually, Riddler is a girl and Joker is a boy.
262) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVIII - Happy New Year. Is it 2018 already???!!! (Message 1919661)
Posted 18 Feb 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes. You do!

I decided that when the seti clock read 2/18, the winner would be the poster who was on top when I checked "my stories" in the evening.

Congratulations Admiral Gloval.
263) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 68 (Message 1919460)
Posted 17 Feb 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and Angela's cats....err owners.

Correct. The sniffer is Riddler and the one being sniffed is Joker. Paul is a very gifted photographer!
264) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1919330)
Posted 17 Feb 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
She was nursing! The person with the camera should have fed her. It takes a lot of calories to feed 4-5 babies.
265) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVIII - Happy New Year. Is it 2018 already???!!! (Message 1919328)
Posted 17 Feb 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Tick-tock; tick-tock; tick-tock... there will definitely be a winner this weekend.
266) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1918811)
Posted 14 Feb 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
267) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVIII - Happy New Year. Is it 2018 already???!!! (Message 1918650)
Posted 13 Feb 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Getting closer and closer and closer...
268) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVIII - Happy New Year. Is it 2018 already???!!! (Message 1918209)
Posted 11 Feb 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Why knot? I think it is.

Sorry only Angela knows for sure.

I told the raccoons, but they're very good at keeping secrets, so no worries there.
269) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1918208)
Posted 11 Feb 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
(Not my house.)

Thank you for the reminder to shut my downstairs window!!!
270) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1917619)
Posted 8 Feb 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Canadian geese are a problem in many parks in our area. They never go home! They also poop everywhere.
271) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Going back to work. (Message 1917424)
Posted 7 Feb 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you well in this new adventure!
272) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1917274)
Posted 6 Feb 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
David, when kids have GI issues, pediatricians sometime recommend a short course of the "BRAT" diet (bananas, rice, applesauce, toast). Perhaps it will help you?
273) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1917272)
Posted 6 Feb 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not long to wait my trash panda friends :)

Clearly we are trend setters!
274) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1916983)
Posted 5 Feb 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My mother-in-law loves rice pudding!
275) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Dennis Edwards, Temptations Vocalist, Dies at 74 (Message 1916826)
Posted 4 Feb 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
276) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVIII - Happy New Year. Is it 2018 already???!!! (Message 1916825)
Posted 4 Feb 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Getting closer day by day... Somebody will win within the month.
277) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1916824)
Posted 4 Feb 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hope that show is a Netflix option soon!
278) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1916823)
Posted 4 Feb 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Coincidentally, I made a wild-rice pilaf to go with dinner tonight and Eric had seconds, so he must have liked it. Wild rice is a common staple in Wisconsin - less so in California where I grew up. My mother-in-law cooks wild rice frequently. Eric probably wishes that I would cook it more often.
279) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1916244)
Posted 1 Feb 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


Here is Yits, a little gray fox, enjoying peanuts on the deck. His brother, Yats, didn't visit this evening.

(Yes, yes, I know. I need to sweep up all those empty shells on the deck. It has been a busy week...)
280) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1916224)
Posted 1 Feb 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
One of the foxes came back tonight. Eric tried to get a picture. I'll get him to send me a link if the picture came out.
281) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1916223)
Posted 1 Feb 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dang it. Now I want fries.
282) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1915040)
Posted 25 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Snowball, our blond raccoon, and her well-grown "baby" Rusty - photo by Eric
283) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVIII - Happy New Year. Is it 2018 already???!!! (Message 1915028)
Posted 25 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not yet, my pretties...
284) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Rest in Peace: Ursula K. Le Guin (Message 1915025)
Posted 25 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Those who walk away from Omelas...

R.I.P.
285) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1914550)
Posted 22 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Boy Angela you must one big back yard. :-)

Not at all, actually. We live in a 50's track home and our backyard is small but, I think, reasonably well laid out for its size.

The reason I get urban wildlife every day and every evening is because I feed critters. I feed birds, and the seeds that fall from the feeder attract opossums, skunks, squirrels and probably rats. We have some indoor/outdoor cats and the cat food I leave out for them attracts raccoons, neighbor cats and probably rats. I think a high rat and gopher population is the reason we have raptors like red shouldered hawks and barn owls. The rats may also have been the reason that the foxes decided to check out our backyard.

It doesn't so much matter where you live or how big your backyard is. If you feed 'em, they will come.
286) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Depression (Message 1914375)
Posted 21 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic is taking a break.

I have seen him post in other venues as recently as yesterday. He seems to be doing ok.
287) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1914373)
Posted 21 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No foxes so far tonight. I was hoping they would return. They were so beautiful.

So far this evening we have seen (and fed) Little Stinks (our smallest skunk visitor), Blossom Possum, Walnut Bailey and Brazil-nut Bjorn.
288) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1914180)
Posted 20 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It has been a banner night in our backyard. Two gorgeous young gray foxes came prancing through, ate a little cat food and some peanuts, ran around the backyard exploring and then left. This is the first time I've seen foxes in our backyard. Eric has seen them in the open space behind us and he sees them frequently at the Space Sciences Lab, but tonight was a first for me. They were so lively and graceful. I hope they come again.

In addition to the foxes, Snowball, our blond raccoon, made a rare appearance tonight, along with a chubby and well grown blond baby that she apparently still hasn't weaned. We haven't seen Snowball in nearly a year, so we were very excited to see her. She definitely still knew us. Her baby was quite wary though. Eric named him Rusty.
289) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1914177)
Posted 20 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I saw this today and thought it was cute.

"There's a group of people disputing the veracity of the President's recent medical examination. They're called.... girthers."
290) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1914022)
Posted 19 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That's a very cute pasta portion tool!

+1

Hilarious!!!
291) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Mark (Message 1914021)
Posted 19 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Best wishes to you on your special day!
292) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVIII - Happy New Year. Is it 2018 already???!!! (Message 1913127)
Posted 15 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And through it all, some of us hope that in some way, the short time we are here may make a little difference.

Bill (http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/detroitnews/obituary.aspx?pid=186988918) clearly did... make a difference, that is. There was a funeral in Michigan some time ago, and today a memorial service at SSL. It was very well attended. Clearly he was a good friend to many and he is dearly missed.
293) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVIII - Happy New Year. Is it 2018 already???!!! (Message 1913113)
Posted 15 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What an interesting weekend Ol' Pookers and I have had. We went to a co-ed baby shower yesterday and a memorial service today.

Life is that thing that sort of swirls around you. People are born. People die. And between it all we sit around scratching our heads trying to make sense of it.
294) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1912937)
Posted 14 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That's good, but this one might be better for some, buy Bread and Beer, use bread, drink beer.

LOL!!!
295) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1912675)
Posted 13 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, I'm sorry so many things are going wrong right now. I had car trouble this week too - a flat tire and a dead battery. I noticed both on Sunday, but didn't have enough free time to get anything repaired until Wednesday. Thank goodness for Uber!
296) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1912607)
Posted 12 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Vic! I'm glad your gaming system arrived and I hope you have fun with it.

Eric likes gaming too. After dinner some nights, Eric has been playing this alternate history war game. It is a great form of stress relief for him. Eric has been playing this game for several months now, on and off. I keep asking him if he has won, but apparently that's not really the point with this game. I hear the most amusing music coming out of his den. If an armada is sailing, there is a certain tune that happens. If people are riding elephants, there is another tune that happens. If he pauses the game, there's another tune that will play and play and play until I ask him to cut the sound.

I don't really "get it", but if Eric enjoys playing it, that is good enough for me! I can think of worse hobbies he could have...
297) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1912240)
Posted 10 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
•Oprah vs. The Donald, and The Winner Is…•

[Oprah voice]Look under your chairs!!! Everybody in the audience is getting a voter registration form!!! Yay!!![/Oprah voice]

American citizens need a reality check. Just because our current president proved that "we the people" were willing to elect an individual who had never before held public office and who had no background, training or experience with public service, it does not mean that, going forward, we have to elect ANOTHER person with an equally unsuitable resume.

I'm sure that Oprah is a lovely person, but I do not think that being a celebrity necessarily qualifies one for office.
298) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Star Wars: The Last Jedi -- SPOILERS! (Message 1912067)
Posted 10 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My goodness! You have certainly put a lot of thought into this.

Movies like this one just don't stick well in my brain.
299) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mysterious Miscellaneous Tool Time X (Message 1911988)
Posted 9 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, I'll bite. Outside of hungry panda bears, why would one need to manually split bamboo?
300) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1911811)
Posted 8 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh! Silly me. I just realized you were talking about the sequel.

I've only seen the first one, but I'll have to try to catch the sequel some day, since I found the first movie to be so entertaining.
301) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1911807)
Posted 8 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think you will enjoy the movie. The animation is darling and the dialogue is clever.
302) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1911791)
Posted 8 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I saw that movie. It was cute.
303) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1911663)
Posted 8 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thread is open.

Vic, please remember that public comments are invitations to public responses and public critiques. If you do not want input on a topic, do not post information about that topic in your public thread.

If somebody comments in a fashion that is hostile, threatening, insulting or antagonistic, please red-X that post. DO NOT respond to comments that are hostile, threatening, insulting or antagonistic in a manner that is also hostile, threatening, insulting or antagonistic.

Everybody else, if you feel compelled to comment on something that Vic has posted in his personal journal-style thread, please do so in an objective fashion. Bonus points will be given for kindness.
304) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1911555)
Posted 7 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Locking thread for a few hours so that everyone can take a deep breath.
305) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Tales of the Frozen North (Message 1911256)
Posted 6 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The weather said they think Mt Washington will get down to -100F, Mars average temp might be warmer at -85F, now that is irony...


Vic, I think the -100 was just a "wind chill" estimate. I'm pretty sure it is impossible for the actual air temperature to get that cold on this planet.
306) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1911253)
Posted 6 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am making a pot of split pea soup right now. I enjoy cooking with lentils, split peas and dried beans, but when doing so I always have the same question. These products come with a warning printed on the label that the product should be rinsed and sorted, to ensure there are no small stones in the package. I have cooked with dried lentils, peas and beans many times in my life and I have never found a stone in any package.

Has anyone ever encountered a stone?
307) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVIII - Happy New Year. Is it 2018 already???!!! (Message 1911161)
Posted 6 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.

Here is a repeat of the rules

The rules:
1. Winner of the last thread starts the new one with a post of these rules.
2. Chooses a future event which triggers the winner, e.g. post number, date-time, and records it privately somehow (yellow sticky, etc.)
3. Everyone has fun posting until the target event is reached.
4. When the target is reached, old winner posts declaration of new winner and also PMs them.
5. Shortly after this a Mod will lock the recently won thread. (My preference is for the winner to ask the mods to lock the old thread after the new one is started.)
6. No double posts. Violator buys a round for the house in Rocky's.
7. Additional rule retained from the last round - No posts that APPEAR to be blank - these will be ignored or deleted. (Sig lines do not count as part of a post.)
308) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVII (Message 1911158)
Posted 6 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lucky me!

Closing this thread and starting a new one.
309) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVII (Message 1911075)
Posted 6 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Awesome news, Carlos!
310) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Star Wars: The Last Jedi -- SPOILERS! (Message 1911066)
Posted 6 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Explosion - fireball! Explosion - fireball! Explosion - fireball!

Sigh....

I'm just getting to be too old and cranky to enjoy modern "action" films.
311) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Grant!!!!! (Message 1911062)
Posted 6 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
312) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Relay for Life 2018 (Message 1910370)
Posted 3 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
http://main.acsevents.org/goto/pete2018

Just putting your link into url tags and taking the liberty of making this thread "sticky".

Go Blurf, go!!!
313) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1910232)
Posted 3 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angelia, I must be dead, your calculator said I should be dead at age 66 and I'm 72 and in pretty good health except for arthritis, which really sucks.

It seems that I'm going to out-live Ol' Pookers by more than ten years, but then again don't believe everything you read on the internet! There were no questions on this calculator about family cancer history. My family members on both sides are quite cancer-prone.
314) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1910223)
Posted 3 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hope I don't have either one, I don't want to go down My brothers path, I want to out live Him into My 80's.

Life expectancy calculator
315) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seasonaly Salient.... (Message 1910221)
Posted 3 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We learn as we get older that some thing are learned by not knowing we are learning them.

Beautifully put.

Rob. It sounds like your mate has a good friend in you.

+1
316) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seasonaly Salient.... (Message 1910167)
Posted 2 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I got a haircut on Saturday from a lady who has been cutting my hair for years. This woman works very hard, and with great effort she makes a decent living. She works long hours as a hairdresser in nursing homes Mondays through Thursdays and she works Fridays and Saturdays with clients in her private cosmetology practice. The only day she does not work is Sunday.

While getting my haircut, I could not help but notice that she was wearing a gold ring or a gemstone ring on 8 out of 10 of her fingers. She had four diamond earrings of various sizes in each of her ears. If they were fake, I certainly couldn't tell. She was wearing four thick gold bangle bracelets on one of her arms and she had a thick gold chain wrapped around one of her ankles. She drives a car with gold plating around the holes where the tires go. When she goes on vacation, it typically involves a cruise ship.

In contrast, I showed up for my haircut looking like I was there to paint the building.

Guess which one of us grew up comfortably resourced and which one of us grew up poor?
317) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seasonaly Salient.... (Message 1910163)
Posted 2 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mother Teresa came from a comfortably resourced family. So did Karl Marx.

I suppose it is possible that some people aren't ever turned on by money, no matter what their circumstances, but I think that growing up resourced during your formative years helps take the edge off.
318) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mysterious Miscellaneous Tool Time X (Message 1910161)
Posted 2 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm getting out of breath just reading the comments here.

O 2 funny!!!
319) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Alternatives to cable and satellite tv (Message 1910158)
Posted 2 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You just like rabbits!
320) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seasonaly Salient.... (Message 1910157)
Posted 2 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
People manage money so differently, and so much of it is tied to one's childhood. I don't mean this just in terms of how our parents taught us (or didn't teach us) to become fiscally responsible. I think it is much more complicated than that.

If one grows up in a household in which funds are never scarce, I think it is easier to become an adult who can more easily wait before purchasing "stuff", because as a child that person probably inadvertently "learned" that his or her needs will eventually be met.

If one grows up in a household in which funds are frequently scarce, I think it is easier to become an adult who cannot easily wait before purchasing "stuff". As a child that person probably inadvertently "learned" that it is important to get "stuff" when one can, because an opportunity may not arise again for a long time.

Also, let's be realistic, pragmatic and empathetic here. It is easier to save money when your basic wants and needs are comfortably met. People with incomes that do not allow them to comfortably meet their basic wants and needs are at a decided disadvantage when it comes to saving money.

Please let us never be tempted to think that difficulty managing money, difficulty saving money, or a tendency to live outside of one's means when one's means are meager somehow constitutes some sort of a character flaw.
321) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Tales of the Frozen North (Message 1910154)
Posted 2 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thanks Angela...you'll be happy to know a certain Raccoon in the hood
enjoys honeynut cheerios. or just cheerios...


I've never tried Cheerios with my little woodland friends. Nice to know they are fans.
322) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1910153)
Posted 2 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Anyone else think someone has not left the building? Or is my earworm detector faulty?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKu7TYWNxqA
323) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Tales of the Frozen North (Message 1910131)
Posted 2 Jan 2018 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome home!!!

Congratulations on the newest addition to your family.

Eric and I send our condolences to you. It is so hard to lose a sibling. Wishing you peace.

Glad to hear you were unhurt in the auto accident. Cars can be replaced. People and people parts... not so much.

Sorry to hear about the mold and mildew problem. Wishing you perfect health in 2018!
324) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1908746)
Posted 24 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
SuzieQ - thank you for that link. Message sent.
325) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVII (Message 1908303)
Posted 21 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That is actually very cute.
326) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part VI (Message 1908301)
Posted 21 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
David, if your movie makes it to the theaters, please let us know so we can organize a seti movie night.
327) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1908237)
Posted 21 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is it my imagination or do most stocks not even pay dividends these days?
328) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1908219)
Posted 20 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's because Socialism fails when it runs out of other people's money.

While I certainly lean socialist, I recognize that there are flaws in that system as well.

Giving money to rich people (or to rich corporations) does not tend to stimulate the economy. Giving money to poor people generally does.

Say we have two hypothetical people - Rich Angela and Poor Angela. Neither Angela is Mother Theresa. Both Angelas are pretty normal in their behavior, given their life circumstances.

One day Jaundiced Eye walks up to Rich Angela and hands her a stack of Benjamins that goes from the ground up to Rich Angela's eyeballs.

After she says "thank you", (Angelas in every universe value polite behavior!!!) does Rich Angela put the Benjamins right back into circulation? Well.... Rich Angela already owns three mansions, two summer homes, several shopping centers, a golf course or two, a few luxury hotels and a stock portfolio the size of Texas. There really isn't anything more she wants to buy. Does she double the salary of her yachting staff? Probably not, since she doesn't really know their names and only uses that yacht once a year anyway. Does she double the number of maids in her summer homes? Probably not, since she only visits those homes once a year and feels that the maids are paid well enough for the amount of dirt Rich Angela produces. So what does Rich Angela do? She calls her broker and says "I'm up to my eyeballs in Benjamins. Please do something smart with this money" The Benjamins are wisely invested by Rich Angela's broker and go out of circulation. The stocks her broker purchases are going up-up-up because corporations, having just received a giant tax cut, are busy buying back their own stock (AKA taking money out of circulation). Lucky Rich Angela that she is investing her Benjamins in such a lucrative time in American history.

Jaundiced Eye then walks up to Poor Angela and hands her a stack of Benjamins that goes from the ground up to Poor Angela's eyeballs.

After she says "thank you", Poor Angela puts the Benjamins immediately back into circulation. She buys stuff, because she doesn't have enough good stuff. She buys and buys and buys and buys and in doing so she puts all those lovely Benjamins right back into circulation.

Neither Angela is good. Neither Angela is bad. Both Angelas are simply behaving the way most people (and most corporations) in the same circumstances would behave. The rich take money out of circulation. The poor keep money in circulation. Rich people and rich corporations are a bad investment if you are trying to stimulate the economy. Poor people are a good investment if you are trying to stimulate the economy.

While I may lean socialist, I recognize that human nature dovetails very nicely with capitalism. I want capitalist/self-interest based personal and corporate behavior up to a point, and then I want the government to step in and level the playing field. Then I want more capitalist/self-interest based personal and corporate behavior up to a point, followed by more government intervention.

An alternative to the above scenario might be capitalist/self-interest based personal and corporate behavior up to a point, followed by bloody, bloody revolution.

In not wanting this second scenario, I am looking out for myself, my family, my "tribe" and everybody else.

Just doin' what comes naturally...
329) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1908210)
Posted 20 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now California, New York and the rest of the 'Tax the hell out of me locally States, because I get to deduct it from my Federal taxes' are going to have to swallow their own medicine and learn to live within their means.

Oh my friend, please! Let the loop-hole hunt begin!!! People will be people, and when they are, it ain't pretty.
330) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1908209)
Posted 20 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If the economy really improves and there is more money in the pockets of Non Blue State voters. The 2018 and 2020 elections may be very interesting and shocking to many.

Clyde, I would be delighted if trickle-down economics slowed or even reversed the gap between the wealthy and the poor, and made this country healthy and prosperous. There really isn't historical precedence for this... but then again there is plenty of historical precedence for people not learning from historical precedence!

People tend to place themselves first, their families second, their "tribes" third and everybody else last. I don't blame people for this. It is a natural tendency, probably hard-wired into our DNA.

Corporations tend to mimic this in that they place their bottom lines first, their board members and leaders second, their shareholders third and everybody else last. I similarly do not blame corporations for this. It is a natural tendency, hard-wired into capitalism which is an economic system that is highly compatible with the way people tend to act. I really don't hate business. Really and truly I do not.

To a liberal like me, the purpose of government is to disrupt this natural order of events, for the betterment of most.

I want government re-distribution of wealth, because most people and most corporations are unlikely to do this unprompted.

I want government to protect and provide for those who are "everybody else", because most people and most corporations are unlikely to do this unprompted.
331) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1908198)
Posted 20 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela,
On top of it all, this bill just pulled the eye teeth out of Obama Care.
look at the bright side of that. It may very well save social security and medicare.
How you ask?
The answer is really quite simple. Many of the working people without medical care will die off sooner yet they paid taxes so they will not be around to drain the systems they paid into.


And with the dearth of workers, perhaps this country will chill-out a little on immigration?
332) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1908194)
Posted 20 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
HATERs and LIBERALs Get A FREE RIDE on dA TRUMPTrain.

Stop the train. I want to get off!!!!

I just watched President Trump and his fellow Republicans take their victory lap. Ok. They passed their bill. They are entitled to a victory lap. I hope that all Americans got a good look at those faces up there. Those are the people we need to vote out of office.

Let's look at what Republicans are saying, while taking their victory lap.

Republicans claim that this tax bill will encourage corporations to invest in themselves by hiring more people and paying their workers more money. To illustrate this, President Trump just crowed about the recent ATT bonus. It was just that - a one time bonus, made even sweeter by our President giving ATT some free national advertising. If I were CEO of ATT, I would send President Trump a great big fruit basket and a case of nice wine. Free advertising like that is just lovely for ATT.

Very large corporations give bonuses to workers all the time. Usually they are tied to productivity, but the ATT one does not seem to be. Nevertheless, I would be astonished if corporate bonuses, in general, are not planned well in advance and part of standard operating budgets. Bonuses have psychological benefits on workers. It benefits corporations to give bonuses rather than raise wages or increase benefits.

Want to impress me, ATT ? Give your workers an actual wage hike. I doubt that they will. ATT doesn't need to impress me, any more than it needs to voluntarily pay their workers more than they are currently willing to work for.

Corporations only expand if it is in their own interests. Sure they may spin some of this windfall off to shareholders if the company gives dividends, but not that many companies do that anymore. It is far more likely that large corporations will begin a campaign to buy back their own stock shares on the open market. This has two advantages - reduce shareholder governance of the corporation and allow for price control of the company shares.

Cuts to middle class families sunset in seven years. Corporate tax cuts do not.

At the ripe old age of 54, this may not be a good time for me to age. Speaker Ryan is not stupid. He is worried about the national deficit and what this bill will do to it. This means that he will start going after entitlements - so watch out Social Security and Medicare recipients!

On top of it all, this bill just pulled the eye teeth out of Obama Care.

Oh. And lest we forget, please wave goodbye to redistribution of wealth via the estate tax.

This bill is a fine example of "tinkle-down" economics. Talk about Golden Showers!
333) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1908172)
Posted 20 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Must be really appealing. ;)

EGGzactly!
334) Message boards : Politics : Greatest Best Leader of ALL TIME Yep Dat BeeeZZZ Big BIg BIG Hands Golden Haired Long Black Coat Wearin; WINNING ALWAYS Prez #45 45ers Gots His Back. You, Not So Much.......Yap (Message 1908171)
Posted 20 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...ALL HATERs BELIEVE He is EVIL INCARNATE.

No, I think that you will find that we "haters" tend to be more nuanced than that.

I am not 100% against corporate tax reductions, as the world has been moving in that direction for years and reductions in corporate taxes may make American companies slightly more competitive in the global market. President Obama wanted a reduction in corporate taxes down to 28%, but he didn't get it. As a self-professed "hater", I am appalled that President Trump is getting 21%. It makes me want to vomit.

Of course, it will increase the national debt... something that Republicans and Libertarians are supposed to care about. Republicans claim that they will recoup this loss in revenue through increased worker productivity ultimately resulting in increased tax revenues. Most impartial budget analysts predict 1/3 of the costs of this disgusting holiday gift to corporations will be recouped, and 2/3 will remain as part of the national debt. (Oh goody. I'm suddenly not sad that I never had kids...)

I am pretty darn liberal, but not so blindly liberal that I do not understand the complexities of this issue. I certainly do understand and recognize that business needs a place at the table too.

If we want to make American corporations more competitive in the global market, I think that we are missing something really obvious. Other countries fund healthcare benefits on a national level. Other countries do not make corporations pay for the healthcare benefits of their workers.

If we want to give corporations a great big freakin' Christmas gift, nationalize healthcare and get that expense off the backs of corporations.

But what do I know? I'm just a HATER.
335) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part VI (Message 1908105)
Posted 20 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Without giving too much away, I suspect this will be a straight to tv movie.


Well, people can still gather in homes, if there are people willing to host. Post the details when you have them and we'll set up a thread for organizing local parties/viewings.
336) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part VI (Message 1908101)
Posted 20 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, please let us know when you can. I assume the movie will be released just in the USA.

Maybe we can organize a cross-state movie night and community members can all go see the movie on the same evening. We could organize little groups of local crunchers in various areas to all go out to the movies together.

I like seti group events. I always have a good time meeting up with local crunchers.
337) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part VI (Message 1908097)
Posted 20 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
When is your big debut?
338) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part VI (Message 1908094)
Posted 20 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just got home from acting as an extra in a new film. ...


The son of a former neighbor, an aspiring actor, was cast in an ice tea commercial once. He was a handsome young man, so I'm not surprised that he was chosen to stand by a pool in a bathing suit half a day while shooting this commercial. He never became a movie star, but he was in a few commercials.

You probably can't tell us what you did in the movie, but did you have fun?
339) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Christmas... it's complicated (Message 1908057)
Posted 20 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow!
340) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats Part II (Message 1907980)
Posted 19 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
341) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats Part II (Message 1907978)
Posted 19 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
342) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats Part II (Message 1907977)
Posted 19 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
343) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 68 (Message 1907971)
Posted 19 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey, YOU, get off of my parking space.

Edit: Whoops! Too late.
344) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVII (Message 1907969)
Posted 19 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
345) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Christmas... it's complicated (Message 1907757)
Posted 17 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I know, it is them naughty Raccoons substituting smaller clothes during the night!

A viable possibility that had not occurred to me. Yes. Perhaps the washer and dryer are just fine and the raccoons are to blame. Must be.
346) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Christmas... it's complicated (Message 1907596)
Posted 16 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Merry Christmas, Vic.
347) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Christmas... it's complicated (Message 1907593)
Posted 16 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Going to my fifth holiday party of the month tonight.

Gosh, I wonder why my clothes feel a little tight? I'll have to get our washer and dryer checked out. I'm quite sure they are shrinking my clothing. Any other explanation simply defies logic...
348) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What you hoped for at Xmas Vs what you got? (Message 1907592)
Posted 16 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A question: If you had seven pieces of chocolate and Angela ate the best piece of chocolate how many Angelas would you be left with?

One more Angela than was wanted, needed or invited?
349) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1907591)
Posted 16 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's mainly boiled eggs, omelettes, scrambled eggs etc that need to be that fresh.

That may be true for soft boiled eggs, but it is not the case for hard boiled eggs.

It is very difficult to shell hard boiled eggs that are very fresh. There is naturally a little air gap between an egg white and shell, in every egg. That air gap gets bigger over time, as moisture within an egg evaporates out and air from outside moves in to fill the gap. The bigger the air gap, the easier it is to shell an egg.

If I have to make hard boiled eggs for a party, I buy a carton of eggs early and let them sit in the refrigerator for a week or two. Then, when I boil them, they come right out of the shell.

The eggs taste fine and I don't lose much of the boiled egg white in a losing battle with the shell.
350) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Dance (Message 1907445)
Posted 16 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
... the universe dances around us... even if we don't notice...

So poetic!
351) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVII (Message 1907443)
Posted 16 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Goodnight, friends.
352) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVII (Message 1907433)
Posted 16 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
353) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVII (Message 1907423)
Posted 16 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Somebody has got to win this thing.

How about me?
354) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVII (Message 1907414)
Posted 16 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning the cartoon thread without posting a cartoon.
355) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1907410)
Posted 16 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm not sure how things are elsewhere, but in the USA we like our purchased eggs to look clean.

When an egg is mechanically washed, a protective layer called the cuticle is removed. This makes an egg more susceptible to bacterial invasion. Consequently, it is recommended in this country that eggs be kept in the refrigerator until used.

If we did not wash our eggs until just before we cracked them open, we could keep them un-refrigerated and they would have a longer shelf life.
356) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Christmas... it's complicated (Message 1907404)
Posted 16 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ulibelle, whipped cream should not come out of a can. Danimal is trained in the culinary arts, so I'm pretty sure he owns a whisk. Insist that he use it.
357) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVII (Message 1907159)
Posted 15 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Could Suzie be Angela? ;)

Only if Suzie had already figured out that Calvin was armed and dangerous behind that snowman, and Suzie was ready to retaliate with an even bigger pile of snowballs behind a nearby tree.
358) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1907137)
Posted 15 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This image was just so beautiful, I had to lift it and post it around:

359) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1907136)
Posted 15 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have a niece who would like that Jack Skellington mug. Nightmare Before Christmas is one of her favorite movies.

Well then I have a Free gift for you Angela, here's the link to Amazon, they're $13.99+shipping. Merry Xmas.
https://www.amazon.com/Disney-26816-Jack-Skellington-Mug/dp/B00FHDKECO

Thanks Vic! I will keep it in mind for her birthday next November. I've already sent her Christmas present.
360) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1907131)
Posted 15 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have a niece who would like that Jack Skellington mug. Nightmare Before Christmas is one of her favorite movies.
361) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1906970)
Posted 14 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The place I use doesn't charge for balancing tires if you get a new one there.
362) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1906961)
Posted 14 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
One of my cousins is an Eagle Scout. He was required to do a community service project. He organized work parties to clear an over-grown trail in the Sierra foothills. He and his team worked many days on this project.

The son of a family friend also was required to do a community service project to become an Eagle Scout. He organized the construction of special playground equipment in a park. The equipment was intended to be used by all children, but it was designed to be especially inclusive for children with special physical needs. The Eagle Scout raised funds to pay a contractor to make sure the structures built were safe, but the Eagle Scout did all the planning and project management himself, and he and a team of helpers did much of the construction work.

It is not easy to become an Eagle Scout these days and I am so impressed with both of these young men and the service they have provided to their communities.

I don't know if there is a girl scout equivalent of Eagle Scout, but I sure hope there is!
363) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1906946)
Posted 14 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, you got me curious about current merit badge requirements, so I googled the cooking badge.

Looks like many things have changed since you were 12, and for the better I would say. A merit badge in cooking now requires more than just cooking on a camping trip. There are requirements for food safety knowledge and there is an emphasis placed on health and nutrition, which is certainly important!

I'm pretty impressed with what scouts have to accomplish these days to get this badge.

Scouting merit badge in cooking
364) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1906940)
Posted 14 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cooking My breakfast over a brick stove outdoors at 6000' in altitude.

Wow! High altitude cooking is tricky stuff. Boiling water isn't the same temperature up there and anything baked in an oven needs some adjustments.

Years ago I made a friend's wedding cake in a cabin at Lake Tahoe (also around 6000 ft. of altitude). The cakes all came out fine, but thank goodness for whipped cream frosting! It hides lots of imperfections, and it tastes good too. What you can't hide with frosting, you can always hide with some strategically placed wrapped bundles of spray-free flowers.

I've made 5 wedding cakes in my life - a practice cake which I fed to my family, a cake for my friend Annemarie and her husband Rob, a cake for my friend Louis and his wife Colleen, a cake for my friend Linde and her husband Bob and a cake for my friend Maryellen and her husband Mario. All four couples are still happily married and they all have beautiful children. (I'm sure all that is because of the cakes...)

Vic, did your merit badge requirements include any regular cooking, or were the requirements only for camp-cooking?
365) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1906938)
Posted 14 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wiggo, I had the pleasure of visiting your lovely country once. It was an amazing trip! I didn't see any echidnas though.
366) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1906933)
Posted 14 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My mom taught Me, and I have a merit badge in cooking too, those aren't just handed out, one has to earn that.

Awesome! I think that all young people should learn some basic cooking skills.

Vic, what did you have to master in order to earn your merit badge?
367) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVII (Message 1906932)
Posted 14 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric is too. Me... not so much.
368) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1906931)
Posted 14 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is an Echidna the same thing as a spiny anteater?
369) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVII (Message 1906623)
Posted 12 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh look. I'm winning again!
370) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats Part II (Message 1906616)
Posted 12 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Eric and I received this book yesterday as an early holiday present from a family member. It is hilarious! It is a must-have if you are a Star Trek (TOS) fan who likes cats.
371) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVII (Message 1906580)
Posted 12 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just a reminder, reputable people are welcome at https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=8105 while the outage is on tomorrow.

Ah shucks. I make it a point to be disreputable...
372) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Dance (Message 1906562)
Posted 12 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lovely. Thank you.
373) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVII (Message 1906561)
Posted 12 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Beating Carlos.
374) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1906514)
Posted 11 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
375) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Christmas... it's complicated (Message 1906510)
Posted 11 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
376) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1906381)
Posted 11 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think I saw a red panda at the San Diego Zoo a couple of years ago. They do look like raccoons, but they are not related to them.
377) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 68 (Message 1906373)
Posted 11 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Joe dragged himself off to work that day, even though he was not exactly feeling chipper...
378) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1906148)
Posted 10 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Devin! We are looking forward to having you join our team.

Whispers In The Wind, thank you for providing that link.
379) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1906145)
Posted 10 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Do raccoons maintain everything over at Berkeley? :)

Only on Tuesdays.
380) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1906142)
Posted 10 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
For anyone that wants to see Vic's TV pictures, he also posts them a second time in his other thread computer builds over in Number crunching.

There are community members who tend to read and post primarily in NC and there are community members who tend to read and post primarily in the Cafe. While thread contents may be somewhat similar, the reading/participating audiences are different.
381) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 68 (Message 1906084)
Posted 10 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Very funny captions. Thank you for all the entries. Time to declare a winner.

Third place goes to Carlos with the punny caption: "Marvelious Nursing Home"

Second place goes to Carlos with the obvious inside joke: "Have you seen Stan?"

First place goes to JaundicedEye with: "mmmmmmmmmM, Hulk not regular.........."

BM... er, uh, I mean PM going out to our winner now!
382) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1906011)
Posted 9 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That is a gift fit for a king, I would say.

Well said. (And well done!!!)
383) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Christmas... it's complicated (Message 1906009)
Posted 9 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
When you stop believing in Santa, you start getting underwear for Christmas. (And I don't mean the naughty type!)
384) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1905724)
Posted 8 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Great idea to sign up for the smoking cessation course!

Wishing you rapid healing and wonderful health through the new year.
385) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Christmas... it's complicated (Message 1905695)
Posted 8 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Holiday party with 'Ol Pookers tonight...

My primary job as his loving, supportive spouse???

Keep Eric from drinking so much holiday punch that before the party ends, he offers up his rendition of Cher singing Oh Holy Night.

(As long as I am the one driving home, I am fine with him singing it in the car after the party. Eric really does a very good Cher.)
386) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Christmas... it's complicated (Message 1905690)
Posted 8 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A public service announcement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4GHQkKwHa0

Yikes!!!
387) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Christmas... it's complicated (Message 1905490)
Posted 8 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
388) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 68 (Message 1905489)
Posted 8 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not enough captions to judge this yet.

Bumping the thread.
389) Message boards : News : Special Fundraiser for Parkes Data Store and GPU development system (Message 1905395)
Posted 7 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You gave $100.00

to SETI@home

on December 7, 2017

via Discover
Your confirmation number is 304742



Thank you Hanson family members, Richard Haselgrove and Mr. Kevvy for your generous matching contributions.
390) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Christmas... it's complicated (Message 1905246)
Posted 7 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I may just give that cake recipe a try...
391) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 68 (Message 1905235)
Posted 7 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.

In keeping with the superhero theme, my friends, please caption this:

392) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1905234)
Posted 7 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In the dialect of Italian that my parents spoke there is a saying that roughly translates as "you laid an egg with two yolks". It is a great compliment.

I have cracked quite a few eggs in my day and I've seen double-yolks, but never triple yolks.
393) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Christmas... it's complicated (Message 1905233)
Posted 7 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Rob, your boat is spectacular!
394) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Christmas... it's complicated (Message 1905231)
Posted 7 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Some people make it look so easy... :)

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
395) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Christmas... it's complicated (Message 1905146)
Posted 6 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My favorite thing to do this month is bake lots and lots of cookies.

When I assemble cookie platters, I try to have a mix of very sweet vs not-so-sweet cookies. I tried a new recipe yesterday for tahini cookies which, despite having 1.5 cups of sugar, still do not taste overly sweet because tahini is a very savory ingredient.

Here is the recipe, in case you want to try something new:

2.5 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp. baking powder
0.5 tsp. baking soda
0.5 tsp. table salt
12 Tbsps. unsalted butter
0.75 cups granulated sugar
0.75 cups packed light brown sugar
1 cup tahini
2 large eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract
additional sesame seeds

Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt together.

Cream butter with sugars, 3 mins, scraping bowl as needed.

Beat in tahini, eggs & vanilla

Stir in dry ingredients

Roll cookies into small balls, place on parchment lined baking sheets and flatten very slightly with the bottom of a sugared glass.

Put a pinch of sesame seeds on each cookie and bake at 375 degrees for 12-14 minutes, depending on the size cookies you have made.

Let rest on cookie sheet a few minutes, before removing to a rack to cool.

This recipe makes 32 medium sized cookies. I doubled the recipe and made the cookies small, so I ended up with about 150 tiny cookies.

If you make the cookies smaller, be careful not to over-bake them. They should be pale colored and only a bit brown around the edges, to achieve a crisp outside with a chewy interior.

Enjoy!
396) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1905143)
Posted 6 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
For some recipes in baking, egg size does matter. I use eggs often in baking and egg sizes can range from small to jumbo.
397) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Christmas... it's complicated (Message 1905122)
Posted 6 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That is it, exactly, I think. There are moments of the Christmas season that are simply wonderful, and there are moments that are less so.

It's complicated.
398) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Christmas... it's complicated (Message 1905035)
Posted 6 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
For John.

Elvis - Blue Christmas
399) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Christmas... it's complicated (Message 1905026)
Posted 6 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
400) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 68 (Message 1905002)
Posted 6 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Setting: At Batman's backyard bird feeder

"I can haz robin?"
401) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 68 (Message 1905001)
Posted 6 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Look! Up in the sky.... it's a bird, it's a plane... No! It's Sofa-Shredder!!!
402) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Christmas... it's complicated (Message 1905000)
Posted 6 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If your tree looks like it was decorated by Martha Stewart, this thread is not for you.

If your family sits around a perfectly roasted goose on Christmas day, dressed to the nines and not arguing about politics, this thread is not for you.

If you start shopping for Christmas presents in January and have everything you need purchased by May, this thread is not for you.

This thread is for the rest of us who, five days into this dreadful month, are already over-whelmed. It is a place to laugh, a place to whimper, a place to complain, a place to vent and even a place to post a picture of your Charlie Brown tree.

If Scientists Wrote Christmas Carols
403) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1904996)
Posted 6 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...I know there is no difference but when I have been buying brown eggs the yokes stand up better.

There may be a higher turn-over rate for brown eggs over white eggs at the store where you shop. Yolks stand up better in eggs that are fresher. If the brown eggs sell faster than the white eggs, the brown eggs are probably fresher.
404) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part VI (Message 1904824)
Posted 4 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did we miss your birthday???!!!

Happy belated birthday!
405) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Carlos (Message 1904821)
Posted 4 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Best wishes to you on your special day and always!

Angela & Eric
406) Message boards : Cafe SETI : College Football (Message 1904820)
Posted 4 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am not going to be drawn into a public argument with you no matter how hard you try.

Public posts, especially those of a provocative nature, are an invitation to public response and public critique. It is called push-back.
407) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1904740)
Posted 4 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoons and chickens do not generally mix well.
408) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVII (Message 1904739)
Posted 4 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I feel old just looking at that picture.

Did I at least win?
409) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Whatcha Watching? (Message 1904738)
Posted 4 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yeah, it straddles the line.

I think the comedy in that show is an acquired taste. I think a better title for Orville would be "Frat Boys In Space". Then at least viewers would be warned.
410) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 68 (Message 1904735)
Posted 4 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What do you get when you cross a colonoscopy with a CAT scan?
411) Message boards : Cafe SETI : College Football (Message 1904694)
Posted 4 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Why Angela, your final point seems like the most logical conclusion.

I'm sad the Buckeyes defeated the Badgers.

Yes. Eric was a sad little Badger after that game.

Congratulations to all the loyal Buckeyes out there in seti-land.
412) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1904686)
Posted 3 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I love halva!!! We can sometimes find it at our local farmers market.

Blin. It take hours to make real halvas.
I don't think your local farmers have real halvas for sale.
But then I can be wrong.
Stay Cheeki Breeki:)

Perhaps we are not talking about the same thing? The halva I buy at the farmer's market is a sesame-based candy. We have more than raw produce for sale at our farmer's market. The market includes vendors of baked goods, jams, ethnic cuisines and even arts and crafts.
413) Message boards : Cafe SETI : College Football (Message 1904685)
Posted 3 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I would suggest to you that is 100% hyperbole.

My point was that broad, sweeping statements such as: "But men kicking a football about seems to attract the worst types." are inaccurate and offensive.

With this statement, for example: "I was brought up to treat women as equals, not as a chattel like the Victorians did, or India still does. " you have managed to offend an entire subcontinent of people - population roughly 1,300,000,000.

And with this statement: "Of course gentlemanly behaviour and simple good manners is something you and your ilk wouldn't have the first idea about. But that is typical America.", you have managed to insult roughly another 300,000,000.



Yes I was happier in the last couple of decades of the 20C and I wish I was back there now. Good breeding, manners, common courtesy, respect for women, gentlemanly behaviour, was all taken for granted.

Exactly what part of insulting approximately one fifth of the world's population in the course of typing two public posts constitutes "good breeding, common courtesy, respect for women and gentlemanly behavior"?



And yet is was all so different even just 5 or 6 years ago.
(Channeling my inner Barbara Steisand here: [best shower voice engaged]Can it be that it was all so simple then, or has time re-written every line...)[/best shower voice disengaged])

Has the entire world really changed so dramatically over the last 5 to 6 years, or is it more likely that 1 person has changed quite dramatically over the last 5 to 6 years?

Hmmmmm..... from purely a probability standpoint, which scenario is more likely?
414) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1904496)
Posted 2 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I love halva!!! We can sometimes find it at our local farmers market.
415) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1904495)
Posted 2 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Need some custard recipes? Eric loves vanilla custard for breakfast, and since it is basically milk and eggs with a little sugar, I figure it is better for him than donuts for breakfast.
416) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1904451)
Posted 2 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
One of my nieces has a dairy allergy. I baked her some sugar cookies using something called "vegan buttery sticks". The cookies rolled, cut and baked fine, but I did not care for the taste. My recommendation is to always use butter in sugar cookies, unless there are good medical reasons not to do so.
417) Message boards : Cafe SETI : College Football (Message 1904450)
Posted 2 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sports of all kinds seem to attract the obsessives and the extremists in society. But men kicking a football about seems to attract the worst types.


Well, my family full of "worst types" will be over for dinner tonight and avidly watching the Badgers game with Eric after dinner this evening. A finer group of "worst types" I cannot imagine - an astrophysicist, two speech pathologists, a middle school teacher, a business executive and three adorable children (future Badgers or Bears we hope!!!) ages 7, 5 and almost 2.

Yep. Definitely the "worst types".



Go Badgers!!!
418) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part VI (Message 1904026)
Posted 1 Dec 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
the only thing i can say in canadian is eh


What about poutine, back bacon and toque?

A little seasonal Canadian humor...
419) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Jim Nabors has died at the age of 87. (Message 1903966)
Posted 30 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
420) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1903748)
Posted 30 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Those are a couple of very handsome chickens!
421) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP Dr SETI (Message 1903710)
Posted 30 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P. Richard. Wishing Joanne peace as she mourns the loss of her best friend and brother-in-law.
422) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1903705)
Posted 30 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
60,000 aka SIXTY THOUSANDS Posts...

.... that it is your choice to read or to ignore.

Is it possible that one so very skilled at finding buttons to push is having difficulty finding an ignore button?

Take some yapping responsibility for your own irritation.
423) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1903693)
Posted 29 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
When I go by a cooking gadgets store, or I receive a cooking gadgets catalog in the mail, I like to "window-shop". There are many things in those stores it would be fun to have. In actuality, I wouldn't buy most of them because I don't have the storage space, or I would use them so infrequently that they would not be worth the money. But still, it is fun to "window shop", and I am almost powerless to stop doing it.

Eric never berates me for window-shopping.

Eric never insults me for window-shopping.

Eric never makes snarky comments about my window-shopping.

Eric never derides me for window-shopping.

Eric never belittles me for window-shopping.

Eric never talks over me, as if I were not there, when I am window-shopping.

I am so grateful that Eric is so kind. People like Eric make the world a better place.
424) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1903293)
Posted 28 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Peanut appears to have weaned her babies and the group has split up. This is normal and natural for this time of year.

I miss my little troop of babies. This was a very fun litter and while I may still see an occasional baby in the backyard from time to time, I know that my backyard will be the subject of several territorial disputes before some mama raccoon, perhaps Peanut again, somehow marks it as (mostly) her own next year.
425) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1903285)
Posted 28 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The older I get, the more I misplace things!

Hope you find what you are looking for.
426) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Caring for others - tips and hints, support and strategies, or just plain offloading (Message 1903081)
Posted 27 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you peace.
427) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1903071)
Posted 26 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Embrace your inner trash can tipper



Join Team Raccoon Lovers
428) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1903025)
Posted 26 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ulibelle makes a delicious potato salad! My mouth is watering just thinking about it.
429) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Thanksgiving (Message 1902957)
Posted 26 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Heading into Angelas favorite territory, XMAS, ...

Vic, where did you get that idea? Oh Christmas is nice enough, I suppose, but it is certainly no Halloween!!!


Exactly!!! We basically followed their example. But over here there is much more of a charitable sense to it. All the displays of fruit and food in local churches and schools go to needy people, and specific collections of food are usually held which are then given to local charities which help the homeless and those in need.

Chris, there is a great deal of charity here as well. Thanksgiving is the one day of the year it is difficult to go hungry in the USA because so many churches and social groups serve free dinners. Food and monetary donations to food pantries spike around Thanksgiving, because people tend to be more aware of poverty and homelessness this time of year.
430) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 68 (Message 1902955)
Posted 26 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello all you clever, funny people! Time to declare a winner:

Third Place goes to JaundicedEye with: "Sorry, I'll pass on the TurDucKen.........it gives me hearts burn......"

Second Place goes to Grant Nelson with: "Look what Scotty beamed in! Crab from San Francisco and seaweed."

First Place also goes to Jaundiced Eye with: ""Please pass the gagh and gibblet gravy...."

PM going out to our winner now.
431) Message boards : Politics : Charles Manson, dead at 83 (Message 1902424)
Posted 22 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Don't care 'bout His 'Sickness'; Upbringing; or ANY 'Mitagating' 'Circumstances'.

Well then, if I were an defense attorney I would "thank and excuse" you from serving on a jury. And if I were a prosecuting attorney, I would "thank and excuse" me from serving on that same jury.

As in all things, I suppose the real answer lies in some gray area in between.
432) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 68 (Message 1902286)
Posted 22 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.

My friends, please caption this:

433) Message boards : Politics : Charles Manson, dead at 83 (Message 1902285)
Posted 22 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...or is the best benefit to the taxpayer an early termination

Doing this would require putting a price on human life, and that is something I find abhorrent.

I would never vote for anyone who expressed this sentiment. I would protest the appointment of any judge who expressed this sentiment.
434) Message boards : Politics : Charles Manson, dead at 83 (Message 1902283)
Posted 22 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The whole shebang revolves around punishing the wrongdoer, and a lesson to others not to transgress. How unpleasant do you want to make the punishment, and how strong the deterrent.

In theory, prison is supposed to be a place of reflection, contrition and rehabilitation. The reality of prison life, however, is probably not that in most cases.

Life imprisonment without the possibility of parole is an unfortunate necessity that I think should rarely be exercised. Sentencing someone to this fate is a public reminder of our collective shame because it is essentially saying: "We don't know how to help you, and we do not expect to know how to help you for the remainder of your years. You have lost the right to walk freely among us because, untreated, you are a threat to our safety. You were convicted of terrible things, but we have also failed you."

Peace on Earth.
435) Message boards : Cafe SETI : David Cassidy has finally passed away. (Message 1902280)
Posted 22 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
436) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1902178)
Posted 21 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
When does the market close? Maybe people will have lots more points for you by the closing date.
437) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVII (Message 1902173)
Posted 21 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am impressed by your will power.

Well, if Eric doesn't take those MSG-laden fat bombs into work tomorrow, you will probably be considerably less impressed by my will power tomorrow night!

By the way, there are all kinds of hidden sugars in those things: maltodextrin, lactose, corn syrup solids, sugar, dextrose

But my favorite ingredients are red 40, blue 1 and yellow 5.
438) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1902171)
Posted 21 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congrats Vic. Glad I was able to help.

Oh and Angela, want to buy some points? I like Dew and Doritos.


LOL!!! If a black market for PepsiCo/Frito-Lay points wasn't previously established, I think Carlos and I just started one.

And no, I do not want to buy any points to win a gaming system. The last thing I want in my living room is more electronics!!!
439) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1902170)
Posted 21 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Do you have to pay the shipping charges for the xbox and game you just won, or are shipping charges included in your win?
440) Message boards : Politics : Charles Manson, dead at 83 (Message 1902168)
Posted 21 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gary, I am sorry that you were so personally impacted by this case at such an impressionable age. Wishing you peace.

As you might imagine, I am 100% not in favor of the death penalty, but I suppose that is a topic for Politics and not the Cafe.
441) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1902139)
Posted 21 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have a question.

Was there a black-market somewhere for buying points?

I know that Vic came by all his points honestly, but if somebody was unscrupulous, could points be purchased?
442) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVII (Message 1902138)
Posted 21 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning by only eating 12 Cool Ranch Doritos this evening.

I counted them out. I ate them "mindfully". I resisted the urge to eat any more.

Yay me!!!
443) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1902132)
Posted 21 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations!!!
444) Message boards : Cafe SETI : New Phone Scam. Pretending to be a telemarketer from a resort. (Message 1902125)
Posted 21 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, a security breach you want to do.

LOL!!!
445) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1902122)
Posted 21 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is exciting. I bid for old straight razors on eBay.

Oh my! How very Sweeney Todd-esque!!!
446) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1902116)
Posted 21 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This is way more exciting than watching election results trickle in!
447) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1902114)
Posted 21 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
From the website rules: *Better Together Bonus automatically applies when any Mtn Dew and Doritos Codes are banked at the same time.

Dang! Those advertisers thought of everything!!!

Vic, did you get any "bonus points" by entering my Doritos code in with Ulibelle's Mountain Dew code?
448) Message boards : Politics : Charles Manson, dead at 83 (Message 1902109)
Posted 20 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't believe in either heaven or hell, but if I did I don't think I would ever wish anybody there, even Charles Manson.

He was obviously a very sick man from a very challenging background.

Wishing comfort and peace to the families victimized by his followers.
449) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1902104)
Posted 20 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If you want Doritos, you'd have to come down here Angela,...


My bag says 12 chips = 150 calories. I'm not going anywhere near your giant stockpile of girth expanders!!! I will be hard pressed to stop at 12 chips later this evening.

Nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom!
450) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1902102)
Posted 20 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I got a bag. The outside of the bag said it was worth 200 points.

I opened the bag and dumped the chips into a Tupperware for later enjoyment.

There is some writing inside, so I assume that is the code. I'll pm it to Vic now.

Eric and I often have cocktails and appetizers for dinner on Monday nights. Some couples do this on Friday nights, but we like to start our weeks out right! Eric will be so excited to find that one of our cocktail nibbles for the evening consists of a big Tupperware container full of Cool Ranch Doritos. He likes them almost as much as I do.
451) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1902089)
Posted 20 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I can see the contests from your links. Thanks! Very exciting, but oh no!!! Somebody just outbid Vic.

That does it! If I can manage to get to the grocery store this evening, there's going to be a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos in my cart.

Hang on, Vic!!!

Edit: Oh silly me. The numbers aren't rankings, but rather Auction Numbers. Looks like Vic is still winning. I still want the chips though... Damn those advertising geniuses!!!
452) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1902077)
Posted 20 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There must be a certain strategy to playing this game. Are the other 11 top contenders holding back on their bids until the final hour? Do most contenders keep from emptying their points bank until the last minute? Do contestants know what other players' highest bids have been in other rounds? I can see a strategic advantage to knowing this information.

Vic, I wish you the very best of luck, but even if you win a gaming system today I still think that the three BIGGEST winners are PepsiCo, Frito-Lay and MicroSoft. This is a relatively cheap way to move product. This is a relatively cheap way to attract new customers. This is a relatively cheap way to advertise.
453) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1901999)
Posted 20 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Modern divas are not as big as they used to be.
454) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Thanksgiving (Message 1901972)
Posted 20 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I are going on a four hour, traffic packed road trip, with my 92 year old aunt, to the home of a sister-in-law who thinks that lemon zest is a laundry detergent, Hollandaise is a cruise line and a mandoline should come with sheet music.

But hey, the important thing is that family gets together, right???!!!
455) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 68 (Message 1901966)
Posted 20 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela: "Want, want, want, want, want, want, want, want"
Eric: "NO MORE CATS!!!"
456) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1901965)
Posted 20 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hope that everyone participating in this auction realizes that once a person breaks the seal on those containers of Mountain Dew, they should be kept in the refrigerator until they can be enjoyed.

Sugar solution = bacteria invitation

Refrigeration slows this down quite a bit.
457) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Thanksgiving (Message 1901952)
Posted 19 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:



Whether your family Thanksgiving this year conjures up Norman Rockwell images or Norman Bates images, here's hoping that your turkey is juicy, your football team is victorious and all your autumnal cocktails are industrial strength!
458) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1901949)
Posted 19 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I always wondered if contests of this sort really increased product sales... Well, mission accomplished, apparently. Enthusiasm of this sort makes me wish I had stock in PepsiCo.

There was a carton of Mountain Dew cans in our refrigerator and I ripped apart the box looking for a code for you, but I must have purchased the carton before the contest started. There were no magic numbers there.

Vic, maybe you could invite all your neighbors over for a party and maybe serve some kind of punch made from all that soda?

Anyway, hope you win.
459) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Caring for others - tips and hints, support and strategies, or just plain offloading (Message 1901928)
Posted 19 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Admiral, I hope that you have many warm memories of your grandmother that will sustain you as you mourn her loss.

Wishing you peace and comfort.
460) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1901926)
Posted 19 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The SF Opera is doing Turandot currently and I was lucky enough to be able to attend last night's performance with a neighbor.

Mark, I know you are an opera fan and I totally get why. I go to about one opera a year, budget permitting. Sometimes I drag Eric along. Sometimes, like last night, I just go with a friend. (Eric was having an equally enjoyable evening of video games, football and beer.)

I find that if I spend much time thinking about whether or not an opera plot is believable, it will make me absolutely crazy.

If I spend much time trying to judge an opera in terms of politically correct parameters (especially this particular war horse of an opera!!!) it will also make me crazy.

But if I just sit back in my seat and let the pageantry do its intended job of washing over and around the audience, then a little opera, taken in moderation, makes for one heck of a theatrical experience.
461) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1901654)
Posted 18 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


Peek-a-boo!

Team Raccoon Lovers Wants YOU!!!

Join us.
462) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Depression (Message 1901453)
Posted 17 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Carlos, I'm so sorry that your job ended before you wanted it to end. It is my sincerest hope that you find a really enjoyable job soon.
463) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1901452)
Posted 17 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm just glad there aren't any in Australia.

No, you folks "down under" just have some of the most deadly creatures on the planet, that's all...
464) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVII (Message 1901256)
Posted 15 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Tide

Whoops! Wrong thread.

Did I win anyway?
465) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1901255)
Posted 15 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh well, I'm weird. I like cold chili, too.

Bleh! Next you'll be telling us that you like cold pizza for breakfast.
466) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1901226)
Posted 15 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I agree with you, Sue. Cobbler should be served warm with a dollop of slightly sweetened whipped cream or a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
467) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1901122)
Posted 15 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Have fun

Scamming the scammers, nice. Karma really is a er... uh... female canine.
468) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1901121)
Posted 15 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That looks delicious!
469) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1901094)
Posted 15 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pre-ground nutmeg is rather mild and quickly loses any sharp pungency it may have once had. If you used pre-ground nutmeg that had been in your cupboard awhile, the cobbler will probably be fine. (I'm guessing you did not start with a fresh whole nutmeg that you hand-grated on a microplane grater.)

Blueberry cobbler is delicious, but blueberries are out of season in our area right now. They stop showing up in the farmer's market around late August. I miss them!

Apples, fall plums, some varieties of pears and two kinds of persimmons are more in season in NoCal right now.
470) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVII (Message 1901057)
Posted 14 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did I win?
471) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1901006)
Posted 14 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I can absolutely, 100%, guarantee you that my husband is not playing this game.

Eric is a very common first name and lots of last names begin with K.
472) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part V (Message 1900948)
Posted 13 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I honestly don't know WHAT I would do with six bathrooms. A gal can only tinkle so much!
473) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part V (Message 1900939)
Posted 13 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Location, location, location... a million dollars doesn't buy you what you think it would in the SF Bay Area.

If I had a million dollars
474) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVII (Message 1900924)
Posted 13 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok fuzzball, rub it in, I'm not feeling great, I'm still recovering from being sick.

Vic, I was just being playful and no offense was meant.

I'm sorry you are still feeling unwell and I wish you a speedy recovery.
475) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 68 (Message 1900861)
Posted 13 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, I'll just grab the cheese real quick now, and this helmet should protect me from the snap.
476) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVII (Message 1900860)
Posted 13 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Tauntaun sleeping bag... and you thought they smelled bad on the outside!

477) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVII (Message 1900858)
Posted 13 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yeah, don't let the Bantha's bite.


Bantha


Tauntaun




That Calvin and Hobbes cartoon definitely involved a Tauntaun.

But don't worry, it was just a wookie... er, uh... I mean a rookie mistake.
478) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1900853)
Posted 13 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Chris, you have made your position abundantly clear. I'm sure that if Vic wishes to be the beneficiary of your additional thoughts on this matter, he will contact you directly.
479) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1900794)
Posted 12 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela. Ever have a cool ranch taco at Taco Bell?


I have only eaten at Taco Bell once in my life, and it was before the invention of the cool ranch taco.

My fast food experiences are quite limited, and therefore somewhat memorable. I've eaten at McDonald's twice in my life. I remember the first time. It was on a field trip with the Girl Scouts in the sixth grade. I remember liking the hot apple pie. The second time was several years ago in Arizona with nieces and nephews who were lured by the "contrived collectable" toys in Happy Meals at the time. I ordered a salad. It was ok.

I ate at a Carl's Jr. once, about 25 years ago, on a road trip with a friend to LA. It was the first time I had ever had waffle fries and I remember them as being dangerously tasty, when dunked in ranch dressing.

I had Kentucky Fried Chicken a few times as a child. My parents never bought it, but I had it in the homes of friends. Eric and I took a nephew to KFC when we were on a road trip several years ago. I remember finding the chicken greasy and the mashed potatoes salty.

I put on extra weight very easily. Lucky me for having such an efficient body!!! No calories wasted here!!! When that plane crashes in the Andes, I'm going to outlive everybody on board. In the meanwhile, I try to keep my weight somewhat in check by avoiding fast food. If I am going to down extra calories (and trust me, I do this early and often) I'd rather they be calories from foods I've had a hand in making.


But really, if your care about Vic. How come not one of you have even tried to talk like a friend and stepped up to the plate and say the obvious.

Many of us in this community care deeply about Vic. Certainly Vic has received kind and supportive health information from friends, through both public posts and private pms. What Vic ultimately chooses to do is between Vic and his personal physician.

My friends, stress is a big factor in overall health.

Personal journal style threads can be a form of stress relief, and can therefore be health-promoting.

If I had started a personal journal-style thread about the complexities of my life, I think that I would feel very, very, very stressed if I had to defend myself all the time from accusations that I am a chubby little raccoon and that being a chubby little raccoon increases my health risks. It would defeat the purpose of me having a stress-relief thread if defending myself, again and again, ultimately resulted in increased stress.

Let us all be kind to one another, please.
480) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1899770)
Posted 8 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm glad you are having fun with this contest!

Eric has really cut down on Mountain Dew over the past few years, so I'm sorry I haven't been able to contribute to your point count. I love Cool Ranch Doritos, but I never buy them because I know how weak I am. If I encounter them at parties, I have to force myself to walk away from the bowl.
481) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1899769)
Posted 8 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Baby hedgehogs - sooooooo cute!

Tribble macaroons, yum!!!
482) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photographs by Setizens - Originals only - any subject (Message 1899658)
Posted 7 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow. I'm just lurking away. All our seti photographers are so talented!!! Thank you for sharing your lovely photos.
483) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1899654)
Posted 7 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lovely photo! Where were you traveling that you saw a myna bird in the wild?
484) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1899478)
Posted 6 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There is wiggle room in the words "off topic".

Say I began a thread about widgets. In the original post I state, this is a thread about widgets. If you want to talk about widgets, please do so here. Post unrelated to widgets will be removed.

As the OP, I have the right to red-flag posts about what-it's because they are off topic in my thread about widgets.

Perhaps I will be magnanimous, take the high road and ignore all your what-it's posts in my widget thread. This does not take away my right to red flag your off topic post in my widget thread. It just means that I have chosen not to bother with your what-it post today.
485) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Issues with donations to SETI - who has the same experiences? (Message 1899030)
Posted 4 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Trouble-shooting 101 - on your account page there is this question:

Are all your donations anonymous?

If you answer "yes" you will not see a green star. If you answer "no" you will see a green star if you have donated in the past 12 months.

This probably doesn't cover the original question about donations through the GPUUG, but it may answer questions for people who make donations directly through the forum link and still don't see their green stars.
486) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1898738)
Posted 2 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh they were my dear Sir they were!! I meant nuts as in crackpots, and nutcases, lets face it we have enough in Seti :-))

My good sir, surely you realize that when you point a finger at somebody else, three of your fingers point right back at you.
487) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1898561)
Posted 1 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've never tried brazil nuts. Were the squirrels able to eat them?
488) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1898478)
Posted 1 Nov 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
20 urchins. A tie with last year.

All 20 said "thank you".
489) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1898375)
Posted 31 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I always knew that boy had good tastes.

In women, indubitably.
In candy, not so much.
490) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part V (Message 1898373)
Posted 31 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Author Mark Haddon read his new contemporary ghost story, 'The Bunker'. Set ...

... in the York Cold War Bunker.


What an interesting evening! Thank you for sharing your observations with us.
491) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1898323)
Posted 30 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric likes those bottle candies too.
492) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1898221)
Posted 30 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Maybe there should be a distinction made between carnivores and obligate carnivores? Or maybe the coyotes of the Sonoran desert, over the past few generations, have been feeling the evolutionary pressure of hunger, and adapting (or dying) accordingly?

(Now THIS is what I absolutely LOVE, LOVE, LOVE about a Cafe in the forum of a science project. The place is jam-packed with excellent minds and skeptical thinkers who can take a thread from Almond Joys to coyotes in the blink of an eye!)
493) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1898201)
Posted 30 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Or perhaps we are descended from some other beast that ate a cacao ancestor. Or perhaps the adaptation was the other way for dogs, who may have lost this ability.


This is probably right, and silly, silly me for forgetting that it is easier to lose evolutionary traits than to gain them!!!

Some sort of placental mammal probably developed the ability to tolerate cacao, or tolerate some plant that shared an ancestor and some traits with cacao. Then when carnivores (like cats and dogs) split off from primates (like us), there was no evolutionary pressure for cats and dogs to continue to need to eat something cacao-related. On the other hand, there may have been great evolutionary pressure for primates to consume fruits that were related to cacao.

Thank you, Gary, for reminding me that evolution is not a forward-process, but a zig-zaggy mess, depending on what evolutionary pressures come and go over time!
494) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1898175)
Posted 30 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Alternatively, our ancestors could have developed an enzyme that helped them digest the fruit of a plant that wasn't cacao, but that maybe shared a distant plant ancestor with cacao. Then, when our ancestors encountered cacao by migrating to the Americas, they were more than half way there, "evolutionarily speaking", in terms of tolerating and eventually benefiting from cacao-calories in their diets.

Wikipedia is a fine tool, and I'll admit to using it both early and often, but it is only that - a tool.

When it comes to hypothesizing, theorizing and offering possible explanations for things that are not yet scientifically "known", I vastly prefer to stand on the shoulders of the great thinkers of our species. So in this case, thanks Charles Darwin!!!
495) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1898169)
Posted 30 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Slight problem there with the cacao beans Angela, they're native to the Americas only.


Not a problem at all, Vic. Assume that my hypothetical group of ancestors originated in South or in Central America. Adaptations can happen in any point in history. In fact, they're happening right now, even as we speak!!!
496) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVII (Message 1898159)
Posted 29 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's the MOST wonderful time..... of the year!!!
497) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1898157)
Posted 29 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Why do humans have this enzyme and other animals don't? I don't know.

I don't know either, but if you understand natural selection, you can hazard a pretty decent guess.

A small population of our ancestors probably got really, really, really hungry and tried to eat cacao beans. The ones who died from cacao ingestion did not have any more babies. The ones who merely got sick from it lived to have babies.

This went on for many generations... as did hunger as a driving evolutionary force.

Over time, this small group of our ancestors evolved into a population who did not die from eating cacao, but maybe still got sick from it. We all metabolize things a little differently, so presumably some of our ancestors got really, really, really sick when they ate cacao and some of our ancestors got mildly ill, but were still able to benefit from the calories they ingested. Those with the benefit of greater caloric intake had more babies. Those with worse caloric intake had fewer babies.

This went on for many generations...as did hunger as a driving evolutionary force... as did human migration.

So, over time (...lots and lots and lots of time...) this favorable adaptation for digesting cacao was passed on into larger and larger human populations.

Fast forward to today:

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
498) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1898140)
Posted 29 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Oh - Hello there!

Raccoons, you know.... well, we're everywhere. We're in your storm drains, and under your back porch, and right up there in the team rankings.

(Seti@home team rankings, in case you were curious...)

And we're cute too, so hey, you know... you would fit right in!

We would love to have you join us.
499) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1898130)
Posted 29 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are your masked bandits preferential to any particular candy?

My best guess would be a Payday bar.

That would be a very good guess, since they like peanuts and since Payday bars are without chocolate.
I've never fed Halloween candy to raccoons.
500) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1898036)
Posted 29 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My sister-in-law doesn't let her kids eat much candy. She lets them trick-or-treat, but they only get to eat one tiny piece of candy out of their treat bags every few days, and then ONLY if the kids have been well behaved, eaten all their vegetables, tidied up their toys etc. My sister-in-law ends up throwing away lots of the candy her kids get, because the candy gets stale before the kids can eat it all. This breaks my candy-loving heart.

So, with this in mind, I told my nephew Nico and my niece Claire that I would buy all the Almond Joys they wanted to sell me out of their trick-or-treat bags at 50 cents per fun-sized bar. I told them that I would not buy any Almond Joys that had not come from honest trick-or-treating. No fair getting mommy to buy a giant bag of 100 Almond Joys, and then re-selling them individually to Auntie Angela at a nice little profit! I am trusting the kids to only sell me what I like to refer to as "locally sourced, sustainably harvested ACTUAL trick-or-treat candy".

After school yesterday, Nico's class was invited to pre-trick-or-treat at some businesses near their elementary school.

Today I paid the little seven year old tycoon a whopping $3.50 for 7 squished and partially melted Almond Joys.

(They were delicious. I regret nothing.)
501) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1898030)
Posted 29 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Interesting article. Thanks, Gordon.

I owe the squirrels in my backyard an apology for making fun of them for stashing peanuts under a rhubarb leaf and thinking the nuts were properly buried. It seems that my backyard squirrels are veritable Rhodes Scholars compared to this little fellow...

Enjoy!

Squirrel tries to hide a hazelnut in a dog's fur
502) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1897921)
Posted 28 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mopping up the attention :-)


LOL!!!!!! Sooooooooooooo cute!!!
503) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1897786)
Posted 27 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I actually do not care for candy corns, although I know many people think they are great.

I will admit to using them as a garnish though. One candy corn atop each dark chocolate frosted cupcake on a platter turns your cupcakes instantly Halloween. The display looks festive and each guest can easily remove one candy corn if this candy is not a favorite.
504) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVII (Message 1897770)
Posted 27 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Alton Brown?

Actually it is a line from a children's book that I read ages ago, but Alton Brown may also have used the line on one of his shows.
505) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1897768)
Posted 27 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dark chocolate and candied ginger - yum!!!
506) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1897767)
Posted 27 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Fabulous!!!

Thank you for posting that beautiful picture from your travels.
507) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW CCLXVII (Message 1897706)
Posted 27 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Carlos!

“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;...”

If at first you don't fricassee, fry, fry a hen.
508) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1897704)
Posted 27 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
509) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Fats Domino Dead at 89. :-( (Message 1897510)
Posted 26 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
510) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1897335)
Posted 25 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
511) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 68 (Message 1897332)
Posted 25 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8 seconds!
512) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1897313)
Posted 25 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL!!!

Misfit, some things never get old. I, however, am not one of them.

Welcome home.
513) Message boards : Politics : 100 Dollar Race (Message 1896258)
Posted 20 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
jmercer, I am happy to know that your area of the country is ahead of the game in helping people to overcome barriers and rise from poverty. That is awesome!

You, personally, have backed up your words with your MOST precious commodity, time, (and probably also with your money), in an effort to help equalize the playing field. Not everyone who talks about "choices" and "trying" has done what you have done. So please do not take the following personally. You have my admiration and my respect.

But the words "I will help those that 'try ' to help them selves. I will not support those that do not try." absolutely terrify me.

"Try" is such a loaded word. What constitutes "trying"? Who gets to define what is "trying" and what is "not trying"?

Does graduating from a job training program, but not being able to find work count as trying?

Does working two part time un-benefitted jobs, only to find yourself still falling behind on the rent and being on the verge of eviction count as trying?

Does personally walking your kids to school every day because your neighborhood is unsafe count as trying?

Does some Congress Critter attempting to tie benefits and assistance to "trying" get to define that word for all of us?

Do you get to define it? Do I?

Is any of us qualified to operationally define "trying" in the context of another person's life?

Probably not.

Only John Doe and Jane Doe and George Doe know whether or not they are "trying". I certainly have no personal insight into how many daily challenges and barriers to accessing help and achieving success John, Jane and George attempt to over-come each day.

(I'm sure right now many people are saying, "That darn Angela sure is trying. She is very, very trying indeed!!!")

Peace on Earth, my friend.
514) Message boards : Politics : 100 Dollar Race (Message 1896165)
Posted 19 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
... Maybe they thought that if it was posted on social media - the humiliation and shame wouldn't be theirs, but ours.

Beautifully said.
515) Message boards : Politics : 100 Dollar Race (Message 1896159)
Posted 19 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now for Jane, She has to want to break the cycle. I believe that where there is the will there is a way out.

Let us assume for a moment that nobody actually WANTS to live in poverty.



Here are some obvious challenges Jane faces as she attempts to break the cycle of poverty.

1. Jane probably has a high school diploma. The job she will most likely get is a minimum wage service sector job. Without government assistance it would be very difficult to support a family on a single, service sector income.

2. Who will care for Jane's children when she is at work? At her service sector job, she is unlikely to earn enough money to pay for good quality childcare for her children.

3. How will she handle transportation costs to and from her job? Does she have an old car that is a money-sink in constant need of repair? Is she is going to work via public transit, which costs money and eats up time?

4. How long will Jane be able to keep her job if she has to take time off whenever one of her kids is sick and cannot attend daycare, or whenever there is a plumbing emergency in her home, or whenever her very old car will not start?

5. What happens to Jane and her children if she earns just enough money to lose free healthcare benefits for her family and gets "bumped up" into a level of partially subsidized healthcare benefits? How will she handle those additional costs with all the other demands on her income?

Oh I know some readers of this thread will have many many answers for how Jane will surmount all of these challenges, but I would argue that the cumulative toll from all of these challenges would make breaking the cycle of poverty very, very, very difficult for Jane, or really for any one of us. I am not made of steel. I am not exceptional in any way. Were I in Jane's shoes, I'm pretty darn sure I would not be able to better myself without substantial levels of support.


Example for four years in the early 90s I help put together a 501 (C) 3 organization with United Way agency number. We helped the needy for over four years and then passed it on the next group of volunteers. In that time, I found out that we were one of over 35 organizations just in our county alone. State has 100s. In my area, the help is there but folks have to want to be helped.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
It is wonderful that you have worked so hard to make your community a better place for people who are under-resourced and under-served. I thank you, I salute you and I admire you.

The true answer to Jane's problems is to try and prevent them in the first place - improve public education, financially support families in need, give Jane job opportunities that will excite her and encourage her to defer having a family until she is more independent.

Thank you for the impact you have had on your community, especially in the area of poverty prevention. Thank you for being a social justice warrior!
516) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1896155)
Posted 19 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hehehe, love it. Do Raccoons stash any food away as not having the winters we do I would have thought there was no need?

No. Raccoons do not stash food away. They eat everything in sight right away. Impulse control is not one of their cognitive strengths.
517) Message boards : Politics : 100 Dollar Race (Message 1896083)
Posted 19 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...You sound like my stepfather. ...

I am both humbled and flattered that I sound like someone who must have had a profoundly positive influence on your life. Thank you!!!


I am enjoying this discussion, but I am a tiny bit confused. I think we may be on roughly the same page, but please correct me if I am wrong.

Allow me to recap:

1. I posted a video that was essentially about privilege.

2. You posted a dissenting article that claimed that privilege (or lack there of) all comes down to our choices and/or the choices of our ancestors. You wrote that the article "sums up my feelings better than I can."

To quote from your article:
When I see this video I essentially see someone glossing over all those hard choices and difficult experiences that made it possible for many of those kids to have advantages in life. And yes, it also glosses over the poor choices of the some of the parents who didn’t stick around for their kids.


3. I voiced concern that "choices" are not really choices if there are overwhelming odds that you will go one way and not another, based on your circumstances and opportunities. For example, if there was a 0.00000001% chance of me having a baby at age 16 and a 99.9999999% chance of me going to college, I simply do not get to take credit for making "good choices." The odds were stacked in my favor. These were not "hard choices" or "difficult experiences" for me. These were pretty much inevitable paths, given my life circumstances and opportunities.

While I agree with you that these so called "choices" can "make or break us directly and or indirectly" am I correct in assuming that perhaps we agree more than we disagree, and that perhaps that article you originally posted is now not quite nuanced enough to adequately sum up your feelings about the video?


The reason I am absolutely harping on this is that the statement "it is all about choices" can so easily be used to punish and oppress people.

For example, one might argue that John Doe, a smoker, is undeserving of first class, affordable healthcare because he made a "bad choice" to smoke. But if John Doe grew up in a home with parents who smoked, John was far more likely to become a smoker himself.

In another example, one might argue that Jane Doe, a single mother, is undeserving of aid for her family because she made a "bad choice" to have children she could not afford. But if Jane Doe grew up in an impoverished single parent home, Jane was far more likely to become an impoverished single parent herself. And depriving her family of much needed funds only makes it more likely that her children will continue the cycle of poverty.

In yet another example (see what I mean by "harping"!!!) one might argue that George Doe, a 16 year old gang member convicted of a violent crime, deserves to rot in prison for the rest of his young life because he made the "bad choice" of joining a gang and participating in their violent activities. But if George Doe grew up in poverty, in a community riddled by violence, with an absent father and a drug addicted mother, George was far more likely to idealize gang life, use gang leaders as role models, and not fully understand the impact and ramifications of his violent actions.

If this is what makes you nervous when people start talking about "choices", then we are really both on the same page.
518) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #266 (Message 1896076)
Posted 19 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
ebay promptly refunded My account, I then bought 2 surge protectors from 2 different sellers, and I still have $3.13 left, so I didn't have a really bad day at least.

What happens if that thing you bought shows up in tomorrow's mail?

The local US Post Master said it's unlikely to get here, as did ebay tonight, item never marked as shipped by the seller, seller had no sales after mine, seller was selling a device for the US, yet the seller was supposedly in Australia, ebay time of cancellation is on October 19th 2017, which is what it is there now. Amount fully refunded, I'd tried to contact the seller before this, but with no success, so this is a finished matter to Me.

Ok, but if it shows up, do let us know!

I have lots of faith in people, so it is hard for me to think you were scammed. It takes a long time for things to get to the US from Australia.
519) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #266 (Message 1896069)
Posted 19 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
ebay promptly refunded My account, I then bought 2 surge protectors from 2 different sellers, and I still have $3.13 left, so I didn't have a really bad day at least.

What happens if that thing you bought shows up in tomorrow's mail?
520) Message boards : Politics : 100 Dollar Race (Message 1896064)
Posted 19 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
jmercer, thank you also for your thoughtful feedback, but please don't be "done."

You are welcome Angela.

I am done defending my opinion to antagonist, that’s all.

But to the author of that article I say: if one focuses primarily on choice-making, one is at risk of missing or dismissing social inequities that stack the odds for and against any one of us making choices - good ones or bad ones.

That sounds like uninformed choice making to me. An informed choice would take into account inequities and equities.



Got it! I'm glad you are still in the discussion.

I just get so worried when people start talking about "good" vs "bad" choices, without considering variables that can drive choice-making and without realizing that it is possible for people to sometimes not have any "good" options at all. Sometimes all a person can do is choose between "bad" vs "worse".

I have been fortunate from cradle to present, and my good fortune will probably last me to my grave. My life circumstances and my life opportunities made it overwhelmingly unlikely that I would have "chosen" to have a baby at age 16. That would have been a "bad choice" by most measures and there was about a 0.00000001% chance of me making that "choice". On the other hand, another woman's life circumstances and life opportunities might make it overwhelmingly likely for her to "choose" to have a baby at 16... or at least not do much to actively prevent having a baby, and we ALL know how that ends. I would argue that neither of us has really made a "choice".

Good fortune tends to lead to more good fortune. That doesn't mean there isn't opportunity for the next generation to blow it! It just means the odds are in their favor that they won't.

Bad fortune, without intervention, can lead to more bad fortune. That doesn't mean that people cannot rise from horrible circumstances! It just means that the odds are less likely they will.

That is why I get nervous when people start talking about "choices".
521) Message boards : Politics : 100 Dollar Race (Message 1896043)
Posted 18 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow, Now dAts a MYTH. Supportive Parents. So Miniscule, as to be-NO SUCH THING.

With apologies to my sainted parents, may they rest in peace, I actually agree with you. I would not know how to operationally define the word "supportive" in the context of parenting.

I think that most parents try to do the very best they can for their children, but it generally takes more than that to win $100.
522) Message boards : Politics : 100 Dollar Race (Message 1896041)
Posted 18 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh my! I did not think this video would spark the controversy that it has.

Sirius, I understand your point and I truly hope that these young people gave written consent to their participation in this social experiment and written consent for it to be posted to social media. Thank you for your thoughtful feedback.

jmercer, thank you also for your thoughtful feedback, but please don't be "done."

The author of the article you posted came across, at least to me, as someone who was possibly "done". The author was arguing that choices, whether yours or your parents, "matter". Yes, of course choices "matter". But to the author of that article I say: if one focuses primarily on choice-making, one is at risk of missing or dismissing social inequities that stack the odds for and against any one of us making choices - good ones or bad ones.

Speaking only for myself of course, I try to guard against hyper-focusing on choice-making, especially in the absence of understanding the social factors that drive choice making. I fear that hyper-focusing on choice-making could potentially give me an excuse for being "done" with an individual... or far worse, an excuse for being "done" with a cultural group.

I never-ever-ever-ever-ever want to be "done".
523) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1896019)
Posted 18 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's the time of year when they are burying food for the winter. The little buggers are digging up all our flower boxes and beds on the patio. Last year I made the mistake of buying squirrel food. All they did was dig holes and bury it. Not putting any out this year, unless a foot of snow.


LOL! Our California squirrels are too lazy to dig holes. I pulled out some spent rhubarb leaves the other day and found a squirrel cache of peanuts right underneath one of the leaves. No digging involved - just push the peanuts under a big leaf.
524) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1896018)
Posted 18 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ang, the offer to help with the garage is still open!

On an other matter, I like to pay it forward. After WW2 my family send care packets to Poland. I would like to help with regards to a family in or around Arecibo. Can you or Eric put me in touch with someone? Flat rate shipping via USPS makes this a great deal.



Hi Uli,

What a kind offer! The best way to help, however, it to make a donation to the Red Cross and earmark it for Puerto Rico relief.

Thanks!
525) Message boards : Politics : 100 Dollar Race (Message 1895778)
Posted 17 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I believe the line that offended you was:

"...I guarantee some of these black dudes would smoke all of you."

I do not find that comment, in context of this $100 race, to be offensive. Use of the word "some" vs use of the word "all" keeps it from being a racist comment, in my opinion.

I listened to the words again and did not hear the particular line you quoted, so perhaps it was in another version of this video, perhaps my ears are aging, or perhaps there has simply been a misunderstanding.
526) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67 (Message 1895735)
Posted 16 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
MODS............a new thread if you please.

Locking this thread, per request, so that the current contest winner can start a new one.
527) Message boards : Politics : 100 Dollar Race (Message 1895717)
Posted 16 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If you have not yet seen this video, I think it is well worth watching and I think it deserves a wide audience.

There is some religious commentary at the end of the video, but of course one does not need to practice religion in order to understand and work for social justice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4ISwxxw0bU
528) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1895572)
Posted 15 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This thread is evil and apostasy,...


By PayDay decree,

I ordain all who post in this thread Acolytes of the Candy Faith. You may now all absolve one another.
529) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1895393)
Posted 14 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I also love Butterfingers, but they're murder on your teeth.

Thou shalt not kill.

Your candy sins are absolved. Go forth and spread the word of the Candy God.
530) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1895392)
Posted 14 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hear their Siren Call... :-O

Give strong jelly babies to the one who is perishing, and pumpkin spiced lattes to those in bitter distress...

Your candy sins are absolved.
531) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1895364)
Posted 14 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm gaining weight just by looking at this thread..


Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

Your candy sins are forgiven.
532) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1895362)
Posted 14 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The dark chocolate ones are the best.


And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Go forth rejoicing in the name of the Candy God, for you have been cleansed of your candy sins.
533) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1895361)
Posted 14 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
But I must be strong. Cold turkey it had to be.
sigh.
glucose must remain low.



The Candy God gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.

Your candy sins are forgiven.
534) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1895360)
Posted 14 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I love those.


If we say that we have no candy sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, the Candy God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Go in peace child. Your candy sins are absolved.
535) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1895359)
Posted 14 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1 pack a day & sometimes 2 :-)


He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

And behold, your candy sins have been absolved!
536) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1895235)
Posted 14 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What about peanut butter cups from reese's?


You prepare a table before me in the presence of my fellow alien hunters; You have anointed my head with chocolate and peanut butter; My cup overflows.

Be at peace, child. Your candy sins are absolved.
537) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1895227)
Posted 14 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There's something about the texture that does it for me.


This is the candy which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.

Your candy sins are washed away. Go forth to love and serve the Candy God.
538) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1895218)
Posted 14 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Kit Kat bars. Hmmm yummm!


No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind.

Your candy sins have been absolved.


Crazy Cat Lady gives out Kit Kats for Halloween, of course
539) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1895155)
Posted 13 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The Russell Stover holiday themed things you now find pretty much all year. ... For Halloween they're pumpkins. ...


And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.

Rejoice in the Candy God's blessings, for your candy sins are no more.
540) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1895153)
Posted 13 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


It is written, 'MAN SHALL NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE...'

Your candy sins are forgiven.
541) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1895151)
Posted 13 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The Peach Rings did not make it home.


You will go out in (almond)joy and be led forth in (Reese's) peace(s); the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the (peach)trees of the field will clap their hands.

Your candy sins are absolved.
542) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1895130)
Posted 13 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Snickers and Butterfinger

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. Your candy sins are absolved.
543) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1895129)
Posted 13 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Does this count as junk candy?

If your kids get Toblerone Bars in their trick-or-treat bags, then you must live in a community that wouldn't even let me through the front gate!

Again I tell you, it is easier for an airport-sized Toblerone Bar to go through the eye of a needle than for someone living in a gated community to enter the kingdom of the Candy God.

Go forth and sin no more.
544) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1895128)
Posted 13 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
When I did eat candy, I'd eat Mounds,...

Say three Oh Henry's and be joyful, for your candy sins are forgiven.
545) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Candy Confessional is open... (Message 1895114)
Posted 13 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If you have expensive taste in chocolate and only eat that, don't post here! This thread is not for you.

This is a thread for those of us with deep, dark chocolate secrets. It is our candy confessional, so to speak.

What is the junk-candy you rifle your kids' trick-or-treat bags to find?

What is the junk-candy you dare not give out at Halloween, because you know you would eat half a bag of it before the first costumed child ever rang your doorbell?

What is the junk-candy you have to resist every gosh-diggily-doggone time you are standing in a grocery check out line?

Here is my guilty pleasure:


Post here, for absolution of your sins.
546) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Kicking the habit......smoking. What worked for you? (Message 1895108)
Posted 13 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


Think of how much better the air quality in your home will be for your kitties!
547) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #266 (Message 1894770)
Posted 12 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I wish I could bake that well!
548) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #266 (Message 1894766)
Posted 12 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
549) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67 (Message 1894761)
Posted 12 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Time to declare a winner. Thank you, everyone, for so many funny entries. It was hard to select winners.

In third place, and clearly anticipating Christmas, we have Carlos with: "Grandma was run over by a zucchini"

Second place goes to our resident realist, betreger, with: "One of the better things to do with a zucchini."

First place goes to Grant Nelson for his wonderful pun: "This is what you call a misnomer."

PM going out to our winner now.
550) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Kicking the habit......smoking. What worked for you? (Message 1894665)
Posted 11 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you strength, courage, determination and tenacity.
551) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67 (Message 1894662)
Posted 11 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Fewer entries due, presumably, to yesterday's outage. I will judge tonight.
552) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1894569)
Posted 11 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And when real sugar has only 8 calories in half a teaspoon, why does anybody who isn't diabetic put artificial sweetener in coffee or tea?
553) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67 (Message 1894475)
Posted 10 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win. I owe it all to my biannual visits to northern Wisconsin where, sadly, "snuff 'em 'n stuff 'em" does not refer to zucchini.

Well... I do so love a theme.

My friends, please caption this:
554) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1894455)
Posted 10 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
24 liters of Diet soda? Not for me, thank you. Bleh.
555) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #266 (Message 1894454)
Posted 10 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We can smell it in Castro Valley... unless that is a neighbor's BBQ.
556) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1894437)
Posted 10 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric got the title wrong. It should read "Walnut and Brazil Nut get trained"
https://youtu.be/avd-W5-fqsM


Wow. I can see you in a year or so on America's Got Talent. "Angie and her nuts."


Or "The Raccoon Whisperer"?

Did you hear the snarl at the end of the video? That was Macademia Bobo reminding me that he had not received a peanut recently enough. So, of course, I reinforced his nasty little snarl. Makes you wonder, doesn't it, exactly who is training whom?
557) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67 (Message 1894233)
Posted 9 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow! A 17 point zuck.
558) Message boards : Cafe SETI : College Football (Message 1894207)
Posted 9 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric was a happy badger, but a most unhappy bear this weekend.

(If I had been playing closer attention, I would have started trash-talking a week ago, just to try and draw Scarecrow out of the cornfield.)
559) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1894206)
Posted 9 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric drinks Mountain Dew occasionally. He has cut way back on this over the years. The next time I buy some for him, I'll look for the points.

Cool Ranch Doritos are a guilty junk food pleasure for Ol Pookers and yours truly. I never buy them because we would eat them instantly if I brought them into the house.
560) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1894190)
Posted 8 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric got the title wrong. It should read "Walnut and Brazil Nut get trained"
https://youtu.be/avd-W5-fqsM


Macademia's paws!
https://youtu.be/MDlK4Z7Jpgo
561) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1894161)
Posted 8 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hmmmmmm....LOL.
I wonder what sacrifices our CRL makes to the raccoon gods.


My dignity?
562) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1894144)
Posted 8 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I watched it. It was funny! Thanks.
563) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1894123)
Posted 8 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
MMMM, on my last visit, I happened to see a light on in the Garage. Ang asked me to turn it off. Among Eric's relics, I thought I also saw a car parked there.


Nope. No car. That is all junk under that blue tarp. We did some serious earthquake retro-fitting earlier in the year and Eric had to move his junk under a tarp because we were shoring up a wall in the garage. In the hope of someday using our garage for its intended purpose, I had a handyman later install shelving units from floor to ceiling on the wall we had retrofitted. The junk has not yet come out from under the tarp and found its way onto shelves.

Basically, our garage is one big black widow spider refuge. I should petition the government to have it designated a wildlife preserve.
564) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1893927)
Posted 7 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I use only positive reinforcement to shape behavior.


Does it work on Eric? ;-) ;-)


If it did, I would be able to park at least one car in our two car garage!!! Some subjects are simply untrainable, for a wide variety of cognitive, social and behavioral reasons!
565) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1893753)
Posted 7 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I use only positive reinforcement to shape behavior.

Eric shot some video footage the other night and has promised me that he will figure out how to YouTube it tomorrow.
566) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1893460)
Posted 5 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bernie, lovely pictures!
567) Message boards : Cafe SETI : R.I.P. Tom Petty (Message 1893320)
Posted 5 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
568) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1893319)
Posted 5 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
P.S. My avatar is Bravesy, a raccoon kit from many litters ago. This is what raccoon kits look like when they stand on their hind legs.
569) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1893317)
Posted 5 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have been teaching the raccoon kits to stand on their hind legs on verbal and gestural command. Standing on their hind legs is a behavior raccoons do naturally when they are curious about something or when they are trying to see something that is out of their field of view.

Raccoons do not stand up on their hind legs frequently enough for me to reinforce the entire behavior, so I have had to shape and reinforce the behavior that I want in five steps:

1. nose up on verbal and gestural command, visually following a peanut

2. nose and one paw up on verbal and gestural command, visually following a peanut

3. nose and two paws a little up on verbal and gestural command, visually following a peanut

4. full hind leg stand on verbal and gestural command, visually following a peanut

5. full hind leg stand on verbal and gestural command without seeing a peanut

Walnut Baily is on step 4 and he got there in two nights. He is a boy, by the way. It is pretty easy to tell the sex of a raccoon when a raccoon is standing on hind legs

Brazilnut Bjorn got to step 4 in three nights. He is also a boy.

Peanut, the mama, is barely at step 4, as of tonight.

Hazelnut Tanooki has been keeping her distance. She (I am assuming she is a "she") rarely comes out from under the deck when I am sitting on the back porch step. She is at step - - -1. I am simply reinforcing her for showing herself! Before I can train her to stand on her hind legs, she needs to be comfortable standing close to me on four paws. If she pokes her head out from under the deck, I toss her a peanut.

Macademia Bobo is super shy. So far he has trained me to feed him peanuts under the deck!
570) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #266 (Message 1892907)
Posted 2 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is the pink cowl on your avatar for Breast Cancer Awareness month?
571) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #266 (Message 1892901)
Posted 2 Oct 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning at the start of the Halloween season.
572) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Tricky, tricky Amazon! (Message 1892569)
Posted 30 Sep 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Maybe everybody already knows this, but I just figured this out.

I wanted to buy nine copies of a special book to give as gifts. I went to Amazon and found a bunch of copies, new and used, at outrageous prices, like $970.00. This was outrageous! Last May, I purchased two brand new copies of this same book for $67.50 apiece.

Fortunately, I searched on the author's name and the book title and found the book is still in print - publisher's price $67.50. So I went directly to the publisher and purchased the books.

It turns out that people who have Amazon on-line stores often jack up the price of something that Amazon does not carry directly, assuming that people will not search elsewhere.

Did everybody know this but me?
573) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Kicking the habit......smoking. What worked for you? (Message 1892452)
Posted 29 Sep 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4) If you falter, pick another quit date and try again. Any reduction is better than none, and don't be hard on yourself as it makes it worse. Take each day, hour and minute at a time and be proud of each as your accomplishment.

There was an administrative assistant I used to work with who tried our hospital-based smoking cessation program 3 times. The third time worked and she has been smoke-free for more than five years now.

Prior to quitting tobacco, this employee used all her sick leave and vacation days for illnesses. This poor woman never had any vacation time because illnesses kept eating into her ETO/PTO stash of vacation time.

Several months after quitting tobacco, she was so much more healthy that she was able to accumulate vacation pay. Eventually she took a REAL vacation to Hawaii with her daughter. Everybody on staff was so happy for her!!!!!!

There are so many good reasons for quitting. The support program she used seemed to help for her, even though she fell off-the-wagon a couple of times. Perhaps there is a support program covered under your work health plan?

Wishing you the very best of luck.
574) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1892451)
Posted 29 Sep 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL!!!
575) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner died on Wednesday at the Playboy Mansion. He was 91. (Message 1892230)
Posted 28 Sep 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
From the obituary:
By his own account, Hefner had sex with more than a thousand women, including many pictured in his magazine.

Oh please! If your lifetime total is in double digits, you probably are not as happy as you claim to be.

If your lifetime total is in triple digits, or (good grief!!!) quadruple digits, you have a problem.


Is it really fair for one to claim credit for rights, privileges and freedoms that were a result of the sexual revolution, if one's role in the sexual revolution was the objectification of women?


Honestly, I'm not sure whether to type "RIP" or "good riddance".
576) Message boards : Cafe SETI : NFL 2017 season................ (Message 1891717)
Posted 25 Sep 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It was an exciting finish. Eric's best friend from college is staying with us this weekend and there was a lot of exuberance in our living room this evening when the Packers won the game.
577) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The kittyman has been sober for five months.........and counting!!!! (Message 1891589)
Posted 23 Sep 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations on a double win - 5 months of sobriety and no vacations from the forum!!!
578) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1891174)
Posted 21 Sep 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cute!
579) Message boards : Cafe SETI : College Football (Message 1891014)
Posted 20 Sep 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It was a guest fan experience unlike any other I've ever had. It made me want to move to Utah!
It was supposed to make you want to convert.

Well it nearly worked! I really love ice cream, but I like nice people even more.
580) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I'm back, kinda! (Message 1890853)
Posted 20 Sep 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome home!!!
581) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #266 (Message 1890717)
Posted 19 Sep 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Tomorrow is Talk Like A Pirate Day!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCdNRPmCv9s
582) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP Dr SETI (Message 1890711)
Posted 19 Sep 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing Richard and Joanne peace.
583) Message boards : Cafe SETI : College Football (Message 1890710)
Posted 19 Sep 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We were actually in Provo Utah for the Badgers game. One of my relatives is doing a medical residency in Salt Lake City, so we used the game as an excuse to visit her (... or we used a visit to my relative as an excuse to travel to an away game...)

Anyway, I have to report that BYU fans are the nicest people ever!!! As a visiting fan in other areas of the country, I've been subject to some very impolite gestures and even more impolite words from fans of the home team. In Utah however, smiling BYU fans came up to our little group of Badger fans and said things like, "Welcome to Provo. Can I help you find your seats?" or "Tell your boys to go easy on us today!" or my personal favorite greeting from a BYU fan - "I love cheese curds!!!".

The BYU band graciously played "On Wisconsin", since the Wisconsin band didn't travel to this game.

In the third quarter, BYU staff members passed out free ice cream to all the visitors in Badgers shirts.

It was a guest fan experience unlike any other I've ever had. It made me want to move to Utah!

The Badgers game was not too exciting, but the Cal game was amazing!
584) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Posts (Message 1890709)
Posted 19 Sep 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Vic!

I like your new thread.
585) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1890705)
Posted 19 Sep 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm not a huge fan of kale, but one of my cousins served homemade kale chips at a party this summer. She tossed the kale with olive oil, baked the leaves until dry and crispy and then lightly salted them. The kale was delicious that way!
586) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Caring for others - tips and hints, support and strategies, or just plain offloading (Message 1889666)
Posted 14 Sep 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"be it ever so humble there is no place like home."
So true!

Bernie, I am hoping to read soon that a south London stray kitty cat has found you.
587) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Whatcha Watching? (Message 1889663)
Posted 14 Sep 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Does anybody besides me and 'Ol Pookers watch Episodes? Now that show makes me laugh!


I watched the first season, then totally forgot about it. I would have continued watching if I'd remembered because I did enjoy it. I have no idea what happened to make me quit watching (i.e. to make me forget about it).

I had to Google it to find out what it was. That's how forgotten it was.


There was a long period of time between the first season and the new episodes of Episodes that are just now coming out. That is probably why you forgot it.
588) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1889561)
Posted 13 Sep 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry that is not true. Women started many of them or were the cause of the rest.

QZ

Economist

Wiki

Yahoo answers



Well then, I retract MY statement on the grounds that it was sexist.

How about you?
589) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1889472)
Posted 13 Sep 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Our beloved Lady companions have these little moments.

...but, given the history of wars on planet Earth, not nearly as often as our beloved Male companions.
590) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1889470)
Posted 13 Sep 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you and your new doggie many happy years together.
591) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Whatcha Watching? (Message 1889380)
Posted 12 Sep 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Does anybody besides me and 'Ol Pookers watch Episodes? Now that show makes me laugh!
592) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #266 (Message 1889373)
Posted 12 Sep 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My, the politics forum has last post 10 hours ago. Can you believe it? If this keeps up the mods won't know what to do!

Is there a spa day in my future?
593) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Whatcha Watching? (Message 1889372)
Posted 12 Sep 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...or Seth would be sued by CBS/Paramount...

Parody is protected, so Paramount would probably not have much of a case.
594) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Whatcha Watching? (Message 1889361)
Posted 12 Sep 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The Orville on Fox. I watched the first episode (pilot) and enjoyed it.

Me too, that other ship got the point of the redwood real quick, but then they asked for it.


Eric and I watched it last night. Eric is willing to give it a chance, but I was not impressed. It was billed as a Star Trek spoof comedy, but I felt it failed on all fronts. It lacked the gravitas of Star Trek and as for the comedy aspects, I rarely laughed.

Not everything Seth MacFarlane touches turns to gold. Who knew???!!!
595) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1889289)
Posted 11 Sep 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm sorry that sweet boy did so much damage. I'm glad you relocated him.
596) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part V (Message 1888977)
Posted 10 Sep 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Clean-up complete.

Everybody play nice.
597) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part V (Message 1888975)
Posted 10 Sep 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This thread has taken an unkind turn.

I am locking it for clean-up.

ak
598) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1888063)
Posted 6 Sep 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you fast healing.
599) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1888059)
Posted 6 Sep 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Friends will be Friends........until the End

Tis true!



Ulibelle came to visit this weekend and we had lots of fun.
In this picture taken by Eric, Uli and I spike our coffees with the Bailey's Irish Cream she brought over, in celebration of Uli's raccoon godchild Walnut Bailey.
Spawnie, the cat between us, wisely declined having coffee.
600) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Caring for others - tips and hints, support and strategies, or just plain offloading (Message 1887229)
Posted 1 Sep 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hope that your father's funeral was supportive and helpful, rather than stressful.


A strange and stressful year. I really feel I need to find my place again.

Bernie, you are skilled at joining communities. You are part of your gardening community in your previous home. You are part of the squirrel-watch community in your current home. You are part of the seti community here.

Wishing you comfort and peace in your many communities of friends.
601) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Depression (Message 1887136)
Posted 31 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Good luck to you, Mark! You have people who care about you that are rooting for you.

+1
602) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #266 (Message 1887044)
Posted 31 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations, Mike!

Did I win?
603) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Depression (Message 1886709)
Posted 29 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am dealing with a family bereavement at present.

Wishing you peace as you mourn the loss of a loved one.
604) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 2017 Total Eclipse Plans (Message 1886708)
Posted 29 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Friends! There was a NASA HEAD (high energy astrophysics division) Meeting in Sun Valley Idaho, so Eric and I went there for some absolutely perfect eclipse enjoyment.

Carlos, your pictures are great!
605) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hi! I (Message 1886706)
Posted 29 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome! You will find many friends here.
606) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Caring for others - tips and hints, support and strategies, or just plain offloading (Message 1884647)
Posted 18 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you peace. Sending our love.

Angela & Eric
607) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1884374)
Posted 17 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
but with some Finn Sisu everything goes...

LOL!!! I know all about Finn Sisu!!! Eric is only half Finn, but I think Eric got a Sisu gene from his father and Sisu appears to be autosomal dominant!
608) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1884330)
Posted 17 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow! There were so many excellent entries for raccoon names that I had to give every kit a middle name. Thank you for all the wonderful name suggestions.

I must admit, I do love a "theme". Rob Smith recommended nut names, as these are Peanut's children, and I absolutely loved that idea.

The names of this year's raccoon kits will henceforth be:

Walnut Bailey Korpela (Godparents Rob and Uli)

Hazelnut Tanooki Korpela (Godparents Rob and Valete)

Brazilnut Bjorn Korpela (Godparents Rob and janneseti)

and

Macademia Bobo Korpela (Godparents Rob and David S.)

Thank you, everyone, for playing this game so enthusiastically.
609) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #265 - Jelly Babies For Everyone!!! :-) (Message 1884300)
Posted 16 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I beg to differ...
610) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Elvis Presley passed today 40 years ago. (Message 1884272)
Posted 16 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Fake news.
I saw him in the desert a few weeks ago. Little town call Las Vegas.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CopW4X6svIY
611) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #265 - Jelly Babies For Everyone!!! :-) (Message 1884265)
Posted 16 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How many Jelly Babies are in a pound? If the answer is 616, then I do believe that I have won!
612) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #265 - Jelly Babies For Everyone!!! :-) (Message 1883752)
Posted 14 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning with a backyard full of critters!!!
613) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1883749)
Posted 14 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Peanut and her babies, in a picture taken by Eric.

614) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part V (Message 1883270)
Posted 11 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Help wanted.
Job Title: Chief scientist
Salary $1.2 million US
Requires 20 years experience managing a large-scale radio project

Eric?
Tullio


We have a nephew teaching English in China right now, and he is having a WONDERFUL experience, but he is 20 and we are not. I'm too old to be uprooted, for any amount of money.
615) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1883269)
Posted 11 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Instead of regulating any of it, our government walks in lockstep with them and nothing improves.

Oh silly me. I was under the impression that republicans believed that regulation is bad, bad, bad.
616) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1883208)
Posted 11 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL.....be smarter than the raccoon, you must.

Sometimes, that can be a bit of a challenge!
617) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1883194)
Posted 11 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Last night I was sitting on a porch step feeding Peanut and her babies. Peanut was right at my feet most of the time. Her babies were behind her, except for one exceptionally brave kit who sometimes stood right next to mama.

At one point, Peanut got thirsty and went to the water bowl, which was across from me and slightly behind me. In doing so she inadvertently placed me between herself and her babies. When she realized that I was between her and her babies, Peanut gave me a particularly long,, low, evil warning growl.

It did not matter that I hadn't moved and that SHE was the one who had accidentally placed me between herself and her babies! (Raccoons are not very good at accepting responsibility.)

It also did not matter that she and I were "friends". Well... as much as one can be friends with a wild animal.

At that moment in time, I was a threat to her babies and Peanut made sure I knew that she was keeping an eye on me.

From now on though, I'm going to place the water dish in front of me so that Peanut has no reason to go behind me.

Live and learn...
618) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1883115)
Posted 11 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lots of entries. I might have to have Eric simply draw names, as there are already too many good raccoon names here!
619) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1883114)
Posted 11 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
These names were sent to me via pm from a friend whose RAC is currently below posting level. I am entering them in the contest for her.

Here are a few. Not all unisex

Ray Ban
Tammy Faye
youkai
Tanooki/Tanuki
Sly Cooper
Leroy
Boss
Nufferhead/Nuffinhead
Chanda
Waschbär
Butterfingers
Sly
Slippers


Well. That was fun. ;
620) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1882950)
Posted 10 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
An excellent start to our contest! Thank you, Rob.

Hint: The best raccoon names are unisex. I cannot tell boy babies from girl babies in the first year. After that, the girls become obvious because they have litters.
621) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1882941)
Posted 10 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Greetings Critter People - I have WONDERFUL news!

I'm a great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother!!!!

Peanut just showed up with four darling little raccoon kits.

I didn't want to scare them with a camera on their first visit. I just worked on acclimating the babies to my presence tonight. Raccoon kits are quite trainable and I should be able to take pictures in a week or so.

This "blessed event" means that it is time for one of my favorite summer traditions, a "Name The Raccoon Kits" contest!

Submit baby names by posting in this thread. Next Wednesday evening I will pick the winners. You may submit as many names as you wish, but obviously only four names will be chosen as there are only four babies.

Step right up and submit a name for a chance to be a raccoon godparent!!!

Let the contest begin!
622) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67 (Message 1882900)
Posted 10 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello friends. Time to declare a winner.

For those not in the know, that was Oski Bear, UC Berkeley's mascot. When Oski paces the sidelines at football games, Eric thinks Oski looks like Richard Nixon. But I digress...

Third place goes to KWSN The Holy Hand Grenade! with: "Oski wears gloves?"

Second place goes to Carlos with: "Erick that's not any better."

First place goes to Sirius with: "I'll make do with the bear necessities."

PM going out to our winner now.
623) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part V (Message 1882899)
Posted 10 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Our cats barf often and we recently broke our little spot-wash carpet cleaning machine. Our new one arrived in a big box.

I opened the box.

Step 1 - Locate screw pack attached to handle.

I closed the box.

Another item for Eric's honey-do list.
624) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67 (Message 1882720)
Posted 8 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win. Let's stick with a bear theme, shall we?

My friends, please caption this:
625) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1882579)
Posted 7 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


Don't be alarmed by that snarling sound under your deck. It is only raccoons, gathering for the WOW Event.

Join us!
626) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #265 - Jelly Babies For Everyone!!! :-) (Message 1882571)
Posted 7 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Donald, welcome home!!!!
627) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1882570)
Posted 7 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dinner tonight

1. Started sauteing some thinnly sliced leeks with some salt & thyme, in a bit of butter
2. Added some fresh mushrooms, sliced, and cooked them down
3. Added a tiny hit of garlic - cooked ever so briefly
4. Deglazed the pan with some sherry
5. Made a sauce by adding some heavy cream
6. Tossed it all with some hot fettuccine, cooked al dente
7. Topped it with some Parmigiano Reggiano cheese
8. Enjoyed it with a glass of wine

Gosh., I wonder why I never lose any weight....
628) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1882452)
Posted 6 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
JJ is playing a winery near us in a couple of days. Eric and I are not really fans, so we're not going but I hope she has a fun show.
629) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #265 - Jelly Babies For Everyone!!! :-) (Message 1882285)
Posted 5 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes!
The winner takes it all.

And here I am, to take it all.
630) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #265 - Jelly Babies For Everyone!!! :-) (Message 1882127)
Posted 4 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Taking the win back from Carlos.
631) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67 (Message 1882117)
Posted 4 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric! Get out of that silly costume. I'm sorry I haven't had much time to bake lately.
632) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #265 - Jelly Babies For Everyone!!! :-) (Message 1881983)
Posted 4 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Such language from a lady! Do you kiss your husband with that mouth?

Yes. Passionately.
633) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #265 - Jelly Babies For Everyone!!! :-) (Message 1881974)
Posted 4 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cool, I have not taken the win from Angela for quite some time. It feels so good.

!@#$%^&*()__)(*&^%$#@#$%^&*()_+)(*&^%$#@#$%^&*()_)(*&^%$#@!@#$%^&*()_+_)(*)_)(*&^%$#$%^&*&^%$#@!~@#$%^&^%&*()_)(*&^%$#!!!
634) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #265 - Jelly Babies For Everyone!!! :-) (Message 1881947)
Posted 4 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
For Blurf:
635) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1881717)
Posted 3 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Suzie-Q, so sorry to hear you have just lost a pet. Wishing you peace.
636) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #265 - Jelly Babies For Everyone!!! :-) (Message 1881595)
Posted 2 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did I win?
637) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67 (Message 1881479)
Posted 1 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Olympic try-outs; Canine Water Ballet team.
638) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beer Drinkers Thread Part 27 (Message 1881478)
Posted 1 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Happy 65th Birthday, Jim!
639) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1881468)
Posted 1 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you peace as you mourn Tessie's passing.

Angela & Eric
640) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (106) Server Problems? (Message 1881467)
Posted 1 Aug 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
New thread started. Locking this thread at OP request.
641) Message boards : Cafe SETI : SETI@Home Wow Event 2017 (Message 1881364)
Posted 31 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoon Lovers team members enjoy this annual event.

Watch out, GPUUG.... there are raccoons under your back deck!!!
642) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #265 - Jelly Babies For Everyone!!! :-) (Message 1881354)
Posted 31 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The picture I posted was of Sun Gold cherry tomatoes, which is what I grow in my garden. Their color is bright orange to red-orange, depending on ripeness. They are very sweet and my little nephew Nico is like a tomato vine vacuum cleaner when he visits.

Nico says darling little things like, "Auntie, let's go into your backyard and pick something!" Some days, there is nothing to pick but lemons, but then we make lemonade and he is happy.
643) Message boards : Cafe SETI : SETI@Home Wow Event 2017 (Message 1881305)
Posted 31 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Go Team Raccoon Lovers!!!
644) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #265 - Jelly Babies For Everyone!!! :-) (Message 1881303)
Posted 31 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
645) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1881300)
Posted 31 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Day 100 since I last had a drink.
Day 84 since I started bupropion.
Day 25 since I started escitalopram.



Con-cat-tulations!!!
646) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1881297)
Posted 31 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, please remember that public posts are an invitation to public responses and even, sometimes, public critique.
647) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1881280)
Posted 31 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Every summer, Eric and I invest some time into making pesto sauce.

We wash and strip lots and lots of basil, peel garlic, toast pine nuts, grate cheese and with the help of "Cousin Art" (my Cuisinart) and a blender, we put lots of small containers of pesto in the freezer. It makes for a busy summer day, but in the winter we get to enjoy some easy meals that taste like summer.

Here is our basic recipe:

3 - 4 cloves garlic
4 cups lightly packed, washed basil leaves
1/3 cup grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese
3 - 4 tablespoons pine nuts
1/4 - 1/3 cup olive oil, plus extra for sealing containers

1. Whirl the cloves in a food processor, to give them a "head start"
2. Add the basil, cheese, pine nuts and oil
3. Process until it looks like pesto

(Eric and I do two consecutive batches in the food processor, then blend the two batches in the blender, with a bit more oil, because we prefer a smoother pesto. This step is optional if you don't mind your pesto being a little chunky.)

Place finished pesto in small containers. We generally get 2-3 small containers per recipe. Tap the containers gently on counter to remove air bubbles. Float some oil on top of each container to seal the pesto and keep it a nice bright green.

Store in the refrigerator for absolutely no longer than 4 days (longer and you risk botulism - garlic under oil can be a problem, even under refrigeration!!!).
Alternatively, store your containers of pesto in the freezer for up to 9 months.

To enjoy, thaw the pesto and toss it (extra oil and all) with cooked pasta. If you want to be fancy, cooked green beans and/or roasted potatoes are delicious mixed in with the cooked noodles. Top with more cheese and more toasted pine nuts. Eating vegetarian is good for you, and good for Mother Earth.

P.S. If you must have meat, pesto is also good on baked chicken or fish.

P.P.S. Pesto is also particularly good mixed with homemade mayonnaise to make a dip for crudite. People go nuts for this combination at parties.
648) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1881279)
Posted 31 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So cute, Bernie!

Edit: Not you, the vole!

I think that both Bernie and the vole are cute!
649) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1880730)
Posted 28 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Normally cats and skunks co-exist without problems. It was the perfect storm, a very young skunk and a very stupid cat.

Riddler got between a skunk and a place the skunk wanted to hide. The skunk was too young to realize it could run around the cat. The cat was too dumb to move.

So Riddler spent the morning at the vet, having her eyes flushed and getting a bath.
650) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #265 - Jelly Babies For Everyone!!! :-) (Message 1880095)
Posted 24 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Glad to hear you found an escape from Fresno for a short while. Otherwise there is this cultural pinnacle http://www.undergroundgardens.com/

Seen it. It was kind of freaky.

In fact, I'm pretty sure we've seen just about everything there is to see in the greater Fresno area - the zoo, the air museum, the Fossil Discovery Center (it's worth seeing!), the Big Dog Grill (good pulled pork) etc.
651) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP Dr SETI (Message 1880027)
Posted 24 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sending Richard and Joanne our love.

Angela & Eric
652) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #265 - Jelly Babies For Everyone!!! :-) (Message 1880025)
Posted 24 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I were in Fresno this weekend visiting relatives. Our niece and nephew there, ages 13 and 16 respectively, wanted to see the new Spiderman movie. Although neither Eric nor I had any great desire to see the movie, it was about 106 degrees in Fresno and movie theaters are air conditioned, so we took the kids to see the movie.

Honestly, it was not bad. It was cute and I found myself laughing several times throughout the movie. I would recommend it to anybody who has teenage children, nieces, nephews etc. I would also highly recommend it to anybody who teaches high school. Although the movie does poke a little fun at high school teachers, it does so in a playfully gentle manner.
653) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #265 - Jelly Babies For Everyone!!! :-) (Message 1879182)
Posted 20 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nope. I've never seen any of the Spiderman movies.

You haven't missed a thing.
654) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1879166)
Posted 20 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Glad to hear you are on the mend, Vic!
655) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Caring for others - tips and hints, support and strategies, or just plain offloading (Message 1879049)
Posted 19 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
... but I think about my mother and my dad(who died 35 years ago), and I wonder what I'm supposed to do now. What's my purpose in life, now?

Gordon, even though I never knew your parents, I think that I can say with about 99.99% certainty that when you were born, your parents didn't look down at you in your crib and say, "Gosh, I hope Gordon's sole purpose in life is to take care of us someday. Then he will have fulfilled his destiny."

Rather, I'm betting that your parents looked down at you in your crib, smiled and imagined all the wonderful life experiences you would have, from cradle to grave.

It is still so close to your mother's passing that you may not be able to explore options easily right now.

I just hope that, with the passage of time, you will find it in your heart to give yourself permission to continue to have a life full of experiences, rather than a life full of memories.

Wishing you peace, friend.
656) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday, Uli (Message 1878998)
Posted 19 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


Happy Birthday, Uli!!!
657) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #265 - Jelly Babies For Everyone!!! :-) (Message 1878933)
Posted 18 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, I'll bite. What's a Jelly Baby? Is this the same thing as a gummy bear?
658) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Laser Seti (Message 1878698)
Posted 17 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Suzie, if you would like this thread moved from the Cafe to one of the Science forums, just pm the mod list.

Perhaps we might leave this thread in the Cafe for a week or so, then move it to maximize readership.
659) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1878696)
Posted 17 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:



The kitties want to know if you planted any of this:
660) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Sig File Missing (Message 1878695)
Posted 17 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I recently turned my signature off secondary to photobucket issues that I don't have time to sort out right now.
661) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #265 - Jelly Babies For Everyone!!! :-) (Message 1878624)
Posted 17 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
... cats love you.

Sometimes, I think they do.

Spawnie loves Eric and tolerates me.
Joker loves me and tolerates Eric.
Riddler loves both of us, but nobody outside of the two of us.
Eva loves everybody; she never met a house guest or a visitor to our home that she did not love.
Stinky Lou loves nobody. She will tolerate our presence in "her" home, so long as we keep her food bowl filled, the water in "Lake Coffee Table" fresh, and Her Majesty's box tidily scooped.

Darn cats.
662) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPHW #265 - Jelly Babies For Everyone!!! :-) (Message 1878536)
Posted 16 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Joker wanted out-out-out slightly before 6 this morning, so I join the group that is up too early on a Sunday because of a cat.

Darn cat.
663) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Depression (Message 1878531)
Posted 16 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Annie, wishing you peace... and frequent use of the "ignore" feature!
664) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Depression (Message 1878340)
Posted 15 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I suspect that food has little effect on clinical depression except in specific circumstances.

+1


I have no doubt that food has a real effect in the lives of ALL people regardless of health issues and good food will always benefit the unhealthy.

+1



Trying to pin a specific condition on food consumption is much like trying to nail jelly to a tree. There are soooooooooooooo many variables involved that you never really know if you've actually got something pinned down.

I can think of several physical conditions (scurvy, kwashiokor, rickets) that directly stem from malnutrition, but processed foods are often fortified with vitamins and minerals and processed foods, generally, are calorie rich. The human body can do much to compensate for poor nutrition, if provided with sufficient calories.

Human beings are truly omnivores. I have read that there are specific groups of indigenous people in Alaska who, historically, lived primarily on whale blubber. Talk about a poor/restrictive diet!!!


Do I think that poor/highly restrictive diets are optimal for general health? No.

Do I think that "real food" is better than highly processed foods, for the promotion of general physical and mental health? Yes.

Do I think that consumption of processed foods causes or exacerbates clinical depression. No.

Do I think that the factors that tend to correlate highly with a diet high in processed foods (low socio-economic status, reduced educational attainment, limited economic opportunity) can impact mental health? Yes.


I just don't want to confuse correlation with causality.
665) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What Are You Reading? (Message 1878336)
Posted 15 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How many books about HH did he finally write?

Eleven. I'm just starting the first, but we bought the whole series. When Ol'Pookers and I are done reading the series, we're passing the books along to a niece, age thirteen and a nephew, age 16. After they read them, if they don't want to keep them, they can donate them to a library.
666) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What Are You Reading? (Message 1878200)
Posted 14 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The Horatio Hornblower series... let every buckle be swashed!!!
667) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photographs by Setizens - Originals only - any subject (Message 1877751)
Posted 10 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lovely pictures, all around.
668) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1877563)
Posted 9 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Yay, Mark!!! We're all cheering for you!!!
669) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1877362)
Posted 7 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Aw, shucks!!! Very cute.
670) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Super volcano? (Message 1877239)
Posted 7 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Magma hot spots move. Look at the Hawaiian chain.

In the case of Hawaii, if I recall my geology correctly, the hot spot stayed in the same place but a plate of the Earth slowly moved over it, creating the chain of volcanic islands.
671) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Scott (Message 1877238)
Posted 7 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How did I miss this one???

Happy Belated Birthday, Scott!!!
672) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Victor (Message 1877224)
Posted 7 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Best wishes to you on your special day.

Angela & Eric
673) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1876950)
Posted 5 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


LOL!!! I want to move to that neighborhood!!!
674) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday, Eric (Message 1876624)
Posted 3 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Eric is spending his birthday in the lab instead of on the lake.
Bass everywhere are rejoicing!


Happy Birthday, Eric. There's a chocolate cake in the oven, so do try to get home at a decent hour...
675) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1876398)
Posted 2 Jul 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Friends! June was crazy-busy, but I'm hoping for a quiet July.

Vic, wishing you a full and speedy recovery.
676) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1873033)
Posted 15 Jun 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you a quick clean-up, calm cats and calm weather for the rest of the summer.
677) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - CCLXIV -- Spring time (Message 1872817)
Posted 14 Jun 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
$447.8 Million - WOW! That's a lot of raccoon bucks.


678) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - CCLXIV -- Spring time (Message 1872771)
Posted 14 Jun 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did I win?
679) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1871641)
Posted 7 Jun 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cute, but isn't that first picture not a dog, but rather an Ewok?
680) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1871595)
Posted 7 Jun 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"No three raccoons in a trench coat trying to trick me"
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
681) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The destruction of a garden - questions - handy tips and how they worked out. (Message 1871203)
Posted 5 Jun 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Okay - here is the question: Does anyone know how common it might be for trees to naturally sprout "offspring" from their roots? I know some species only propagate that way and do not produce seeds, but I don't believe there are any like that growing near to where I live.

Poplar trees and their many relatives sprout up from roots. Many varieties of fruit trees also produce suckers from roots.
682) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1871152)
Posted 4 Jun 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...the one that isn't muling and puking in its mother's arms?

LOL!
683) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - CCLXIV -- Spring time (Message 1870845)
Posted 3 Jun 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I *must* get off my butt and do something today, even if it's just to go buy some new underwear.

684) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67 (Message 1870843)
Posted 3 Jun 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hennessy Cognac VSOP - 750 ml for $59.99

Remy Martin Cognac, Louis XIII - 750 ml for $3499.99

Why are we slumming it on my birthday? Gasp!!! Eric must not love me anymore.
685) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1870841)
Posted 3 Jun 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mark, here is a possible use for some of the old tires you took off of your car...
686) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67 (Message 1870673)
Posted 2 Jun 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Very funny captions! Thanks, everyone, for playing. I count more than 10 captions, so it must be time to judge them.

Third place goes to Gary C with his new Italian word: "pinezza"

Second place goes to Admiral Gloval with: "I don't think these new GMO Pineapples are market ready."

But since pineapple on pizza is an abomination, the winner this round simply has to be Admiral Gloval with: "Natures perfect hot pad."

PM going out to our winner now.
687) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - CCLXIV -- Spring time (Message 1870475)
Posted 1 Jun 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gary, your photos are, as always, spectacular!
688) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1870347)
Posted 31 May 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
P.S. For those interested in the topic at hand, please see current picture in the Beet's Give Us A Caption thread.
689) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67 (Message 1870346)
Posted 31 May 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.

My dear friends, please caption this:

690) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1870343)
Posted 31 May 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
PS: It's got pineapple on it :) Hehehehehe :)

My estimation of duckling cognitive capacity has been lowered accordingly.
691) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67 (Message 1870242)
Posted 31 May 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't play often, but when I do play nothing pleases me more than beating Carlos!!!
692) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1870240)
Posted 31 May 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Glad to hear that everything is settled at last.

Wishing you a speedy recovery.
693) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give us a Caption - number 67 (Message 1870186)
Posted 30 May 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did somebody say mice cream?
694) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1870163)
Posted 29 May 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
695) Message boards : Cafe SETI : CRL (Angela) got a new hat for her birthday. (Message 1869994)
Posted 28 May 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You missed your namesakes on the 20th, but there is always Prince Harry if you get an invite :-))

Ok. I'll bite. Who got hitched on the 20th?
696) Message boards : Cafe SETI : CRL (Angela) got a new hat for her birthday. (Message 1869895)
Posted 28 May 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now all you need is a wedding to go to :-) Happy B'day.

Merciful Heavens!!! Do you know something I don't know???!!!
697) Message boards : Cafe SETI : CRL (Angela) got a new hat for her birthday. (Message 1869706)
Posted 27 May 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for all the kind birthday wishes and for the fun fireworks!
698) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A interesting fact about Bitcoins (Message 1869473)
Posted 26 May 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ah, the Couldah-Wouldah-Shoulda club...

Any other charter members?
699) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1869472)
Posted 26 May 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
700) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - CCLXIV -- Spring time (Message 1869471)
Posted 26 May 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv2xBJfqybE
Best commercial ever!
701) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Caring for others - tips and hints, support and strategies, or just plain offloading (Message 1869470)
Posted 26 May 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What is it about our elders and those darn pendant alarms? My mother had one too and she never wore it. One day she fell in her backyard and got stuck in a very large climbing rose. Her gardener, who was only scheduled to come over every two weeks, happened to be there that day and he got her out of the rose. Clearly mom had picked a "lucky" day to fall. She was scratched, but not badly injured. The tangled old climbing rose had broken her fall quite effectively.

My aunt in her early 90's also has a pendant alarm. She never wears her pendant either. Last week my aunt fell in her kitchen and split her elbow open. She is healing well. It could have been much worse.

I truly hope that in my "golden years" I still have enough jellybeans left in my jar to listen to my nieces and nephews and to realize that they have my best interests in mind. I probably won't have the jellybeans, but here's hoping...

Janne, wishing your GF a speedy recovery.
702) Message boards : Cafe SETI : CRL (Angela) got a new hat for her birthday. (Message 1869277)
Posted 25 May 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is that a lamp shade I'm wearing in Eric's picture? Must have been one heck of a party...

You know how diet and exercise books tell you not to reward yourself with food? Well, today I sure didn't follow that advice. For breakfast, as the birthday queen, I consumed See's candy and some left-over brownies.


3) the boss didn't give you a day off

Right. I spent much of today editing student clinic reports. And as a birthday present, none of my students disappointed me. The lowest grade I gave out was a B+.


Eric took me to a fru-fru wood-fired pizza place for dinner tonight. I just love fru-fru pizza! My individual pizza featured smoked fontina cheese, blue cheese crumbles, caramelized onions, roasted pears, chopped walnuts and a sprinkling of fresh arugula on top. Eric ordered an individual pizza with sausage and onions on it. You can take the boy out of Wisconsin, but you can't take the Wisconsin out of the boy.

For dessert, Eric picked up a carton of my favorite ice cream, Swiss milk chocolate, from a local creamery. He put one candle on my serving, as one candle is sufficient for a birthday wish and as 54 candles would have melted the ice cream, the cup containing the ice cream, the plate under the cup containing the ice cream and possibly also our tile kitchen counter top.



Thank you, friends, for all of the kind birthday wishes. I really did have a nice day.
703) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1866555)
Posted 10 May 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Only a handful around you way Angela, you are lucky.

Is the green on the map that you posted indicative of range? If so, per your map, the SF Bay Area is comfortably within opossum/possum territory. Eric and I frequently see adult opossums/possums in our back yard at night, but we had never seen babies before.
704) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1866424)
Posted 10 May 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Here in the lazy USA, I believe that the terms opossum and possum are interchangeable.
705) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1866350)
Posted 9 May 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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This one looks old enough to venture away from Mama's pouch, even if only briefly, if it couldn't, it would still be attached inside Her pouch.

Actually Vic, I got curious enough to look things up. There is about a two month period during which possums are out of the pouch, but still with their mamas. The mama carries her young around on her back for this period of time.

Here is a picture that illustrates this unique period in possum development.

Poor mama!!! That doesn't look fun.

When a baby possum (or "joey") is about four or five months old, he leaves his mama.

Based on this, I'm guessing our two little visitors from the other night were litter-mates and at least 4 - 5 months old.

I like possums.
706) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1866178)
Posted 8 May 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I've been having trouble posting pictures lately. I hate it when things change. Hopefully everybody can see this picture.

We had two baby possums visit the yard a few nights ago. Eric took this picture of one of them.
I don't know how old possums are when they leave their mamas, but our two baby visitors did not come with mom.
707) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Caring for others - tips and hints, support and strategies, or just plain offloading (Message 1865951)
Posted 7 May 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Gordon, wishing you peace as you mourn the loss of your mother.

Angela & Eric
708) Message boards : Cafe SETI : May the 4th be with you... (Message 1865641)
Posted 5 May 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Eric and I just watched all the tracks of Princess Leia's Stolen Death Star Plans.

Just type this into YouTube and watch them in order. If you are a Star Wars fan and a Beatles fan, you may just laugh yourself to the point of incontinence.

May the 4th be with you.
709) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1865303)
Posted 3 May 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Kicks brain cells into gear - is that Jarvis?

I think you mean Purvis.

Purvis, I assume, has gone to skunk heaven as he was always such a good boy.

The skunk in the video is Skunk-a-roo. I think he is beautiful. Eric thinks otherwise.
710) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Spring Garden Pictures 2017 (Message 1865302)
Posted 3 May 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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...I take it you don't eat the flowers so I think you meant palette :-)) ...

LOL!!! Yes I did, although we do eat the nasturtium flowers in salads and sometimes in sandwich spreads.
711) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1865173)
Posted 2 May 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Yes. That is our back yard. We have several skunk visitors each night. Skunk-a-roo came early one evening last weekend when Eric and I happened to be out there. Eric took the video with his phone.
712) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1865165)
Posted 2 May 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Skunk-a-roo enjoys a peanut on the back porch
713) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photographs by Setizens - Originals only - any subject (Message 1865164)
Posted 2 May 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

For anyone opposed to letting ladybugs over-winter inside your home, might I suggest a ladybug house?
714) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Spring Garden Pictures 2017 (Message 1865161)
Posted 2 May 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Ok Chris. I'll see your Merry Old England and I'll raise you one Northern California




Our front yard, in a picture taken by Eric last weekend. Front to back we have hardy geraniums, Santa Barbara daisies, a few blooming Jupiter's beards that escaped the munching jaws of marauding mule deer, society garlic, watsonias, a few day lilies that also escaped voracious deer, and those purple things in the back which are salvia leucantha (Mexican sage).

I've tried to limit our front garden palate to pink, white and purple.



In the back yard, I've tried to limit the color palate to orange, white and yellow.

Here we have sweet allysum, California poppies, nasturtiums, a few spent irises, snapdragons and day lilies.

The cat posterior belongs to Riddler who is probably looking for lizards to play with in that picture.
715) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - CCLXIV -- Spring time (Message 1865150)
Posted 2 May 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
716) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - CCLXIV -- Spring time (Message 1864949)
Posted 1 May 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Blurf, may warm memories of your mother sustain you through this difficult time.

Sending our love.

Angela & Eric
717) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photographs by Setizens - Originals only - any subject (Message 1864708)
Posted 30 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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This is such an amazing place to lurk. I am enjoying everyone's pictures.
718) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Spring Garden Pictures 2017 (Message 1864663)
Posted 30 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I have an orange rose too, but mine is not a rambler. It is a hybrid tea rose called Brandy. Eric likes it for the name. I like it because it is sooooooo Halloween!

Lovely spring garden pictures.
719) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1863592)
Posted 25 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
720) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Well I never (Message 1860658)
Posted 10 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Call me Ishmael!!!
721) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Well I never (Message 1860641)
Posted 9 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Goodness, gracious, heavens to Betsey!!! I've just heard a rumor that our Mrs. Miggins has joined a book club.
722) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1860614)
Posted 9 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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https://gfycat.com/MisguidedSpecificJenny

Oh! Poor raccoon!!! She looks pregnant. I hope she got out of that bin.

You've really got to admire her tool use. I don't know what evolutionary pressure made raccoons, or raccoon ancestors, so darn smart. Makes me wonder....

Given their excellent problem solving abilities, it is no surprise that raccoons tend to do well wherever they live.
723) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photographs by Setizens - Originals only - any subject (Message 1860474)
Posted 9 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Gnu, you are enormously talented!!!
724) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1860473)
Posted 9 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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What is Meuller's Spaghetti?
725) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Spring Garden Pictures 2017 (Message 1860124)
Posted 7 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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The plant you wish to have identified looks like some sort of an azalea to me.
726) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Well I never (Message 1859980)
Posted 7 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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New readers may not know that our dear Mrs. Miggins is known as much for her gardening talents as she is known for her baking.

Why as soon as spring has sprung, you can expect to see Muriel in the arboretum fiddling around with a dibblestick.


Yes indeed, our dear Muriel is always busy in the spring aerating,


dethatching,


staking,


or hardening something off.



And don't even get me started regarding what she can do with tubers...
727) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Well I never (Message 1859680)
Posted 5 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Muriel Miggins is a veritable icon in the hospitality industry.

Very few people know this, but she was into hand-held spiralizing well before it became a culinary trend!

728) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Well I never (Message 1859664)
Posted 5 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Meanwhile, I wonder (perhaps not for the first time, but if so then with eternal hope) if she ever sends her goodies across the pond to my locale.

Merciful heavens! Such is the hope, I fear, of most men on this side of the pond. Heaven forfend that dear Muriel peddle her wares in a satellite shoppe near the Berkeley lab. Eric and his colleagues would be sorely tempted, I am sure. Mrs. Miggins is quite the master baker, don't you know. There is very little she cannot make rise.
729) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Well I never (Message 1859637)
Posted 5 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Merciful heavens! Clearly spring is in the air.

Muriel dear, are you back in business? Why whenever you and your employees open up somewhere, it is everything I can do to keep my poor Eric away from your little tarts!
730) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Spring Garden Pictures 2017 (Message 1859523)
Posted 5 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gee darling, is that Darjeeling?", infused Earl Grey, teasingly...

Tribute simply has to be paid. That is one of Angela's classics, It's a Ten from Len!


Tribute where tribute is due. I did not originate that gem.

Probably about 30 years ago, this line was the winner in the Puns Division of a local Bad Writing contest that was (is still?) hosted each year by San Jose State University.

Unfortunately, I only remember the line and not the name of the author.
731) Message boards : Politics : March For Science - Earth Day 2017 (Message 1859439)
Posted 4 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
732) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Spring Garden Pictures 2017 (Message 1859409)
Posted 4 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Gee darling, is that Darjeeling?", infused Earl Grey, teasingly...

Spoken in very poor taste.

Who, me???!!!
733) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Spring Garden Pictures 2017 (Message 1859390)
Posted 3 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Earl Grey for the Ladies, London Pride for the Gents.

"Gee darling, is that Darjeeling?", infused Earl Grey, teasingly...
734) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1859387)
Posted 3 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Now, not only do we have to worry about why the chicken crossed the road, we apparently also have to worry about why the chicken jumped into the bathtub!
735) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1859386)
Posted 3 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The $65,000 question is, by giving children younger than 2 years old puffed peanut snacks, do you consequently "train" their developing immune systems not to react to peanuts as allergens? Conversely, does withholding peanut products from children younger than 2 years old make their developing immune systems more prone to react adversely to peanuts when the children finally receive exposure? Third option, is there some shared trait common among people currently living in Israel that makes them genetically less likely to have peanut allergies? This last option is less likely, given the short history of Israel as a nation state.


I'll take small, unmarked bills please. :^)


LOL!!! Nice find. I couldn't remember where I had seen a synopsis of this study, but I remember finding it interesting and I appreciate you finding that link. Monopoly money is on its way....
736) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photographs by Setizens - Originals only - any subject (Message 1859237)
Posted 2 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I don't post here often, but I do lurk. You are all so talented!!!

Thank you all for sharing your lovely pictures here.
737) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Spring Garden Pictures 2017 (Message 1859236)
Posted 2 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ah England, where gardening is the National Past-time... you have a lovely garden, Chris.
738) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Caring for others - tips and hints, support and strategies, or just plain offloading (Message 1859145)
Posted 2 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lynn, wishing you, your husband and your children peace as you wrestle with end-of-life challenges. Wishing you joyful times as well.

You would think that joyful times are not possible, but they are.

My brother John was diagnosed in his early 40's with a rare cancer and he lived about a year with that diagnosis before passing away. In watching John deal with his own mortality, I discovered that dying had taught him how to live. For example, one day John and his children were over at our house. It was college football season and John was watching football with Eric. My niece Kathryn, who was quite young at the time, came into the house from the backyard where she had been playing with some puppets. She walked up to her father and said, "Daddy, play puppets with me." My brother walked away from the television, went straight into the backyard, put on a puppet and played with his little girl.

Had John been healthy, he would have put Kathryn off ("Daddy is watching football right now. I'll play with you later.") or he would have passed the buck ("Auntie Angela wants to play puppets with you.") Instead he seized the moment and enjoyed joyful play with his child.

Dying had taught John how to live.
739) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1859143)
Posted 2 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In my experience, the food at higher-end Chinese restaurants tends to be better prepared (fresher, more flavorful, less greasy) than places that are considered to be a bargain. There are always, of course, exceptions to the rule.

Regarding food allergies, I read the results of an interesting study a year or so ago. I don't recall the authors. I think I just read a synopsis in Scientific American or some other publication like that. Anyway, as I recall, peanut allergies are on the rise in the USA, but not in other parts of the world. Diets were compared. In Israel, toddlers are routinely given puffed peanut snacks. Puffed peanut snacks are, culturally, considered to be typical toddler snacks in Israel. Here in the USA, people are terrified of giving young children peanuts in any form. Anyway, turns out that peanut allergies are rare in Israel.

The $65,000 question is, by giving children younger than 2 years old puffed peanut snacks, do you consequently "train" their developing immune systems not to react to peanuts as allergens? Conversely, does withholding peanut products from children younger than 2 years old make their developing immune systems more prone to react adversely to peanuts when the children finally receive exposure? Third option, is there some shared trait common among people currently living in Israel that makes them genetically less likely to have peanut allergies? This last option is less likely, given the short history of Israel as a nation state.
740) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Favorite trees (Message 1859116)
Posted 2 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There were lots and lots and lots of dead pines in Yosemite; far too many for the park service to remove.

Fuel

Sadly, yes. There was obviously serious forest fire potential all over the valley last fall.

We've had a wet winter, fortunately, but when things naturally dry out in August, September and October of this year, Yosemite Valley will be a tinderbox again with all those dead pine trees.
741) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Favorite trees (Message 1859112)
Posted 2 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We just watched an episode of Nature on PBS that talked about how the drought, and lower snowfall range, and increased temperatures are affecting the sequoias in Yosemite National Park. Those trees are survivors, but are having a particularly hard time of it in our time.


We were in Yosemite last November. The sequoias may have been suffering, but it was the pines that were all dead. The pines were weakened by the drought, which made them more susceptible to pine bark beetles. There were lots and lots and lots of dead pines in Yosemite; far too many for the park service to remove.
742) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Favorite trees (Message 1859109)
Posted 2 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL!!! And a happy April Fool's Day to you as well, Mister C!
743) Message boards : News : We're back online (Message 1859103)
Posted 2 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well done!, now could someone bring up the assimilator(s) on Beta, (assuming, of course, that they were off-line for the same problem...) then hang a tape, once the Beta Assimilator(s) have caught up?(disregard if Beta has a different problem...)


Sure, KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade!, provided that you come over this weekend and do our taxes.

Tax preparation is the #1 item on Ol' Pooker's honey-do list for the weekend. Well, that and giving his wife a world class foot massage... Any takers?

744) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part IV (Message 1859100)
Posted 2 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
(wibble wibble)

The poster doth protest too much, methinks...
745) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1859098)
Posted 2 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
B. Car was OK last I drove it. Must be confusing me with Vic. However, send the $600.00........I am always in need somewhere. And if not, it would go to a good kitty shelter.

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=81058&postid=1858638
746) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1859069)
Posted 1 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And the yummy part is that, it's supposedly fattening too.

I try not to think of any one food as "fattening" or as "not fattening". If something is high calorie, I still eat it. I just try to control (not always successfully) how much and how often I consume that food.
747) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1859044)
Posted 1 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, a quick wiki-check seems to reveal that "urushiol" is the problem. Mangoes, poison oak, poison ivy, poison sumac and cashews all produce this irritant.

Dang! What did we ever do before the internet?
748) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1859038)
Posted 1 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's nice to know why citrus fruits and I don't get along, that might also extend to Mangoes...


I have heard that mangoes are botanically related to poison oak. Citrus is not.

I have to wear gloves to peel mangoes because there is something in mango fruit skin that gives me a rash. Once the peel is off, I have no problem devouring mangoes. Yum!
749) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1859019)
Posted 1 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Byron, you are a beautiful person.

I am certainly not free of flashes of anger, fearful reactions or periods of despair.

I hope to live up to your words some day...
750) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1858877)
Posted 1 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Why has it got to go?

Uh, Grandpa Chris, I think there has been a miscommunication.

"got to go", or g2g as the kidz say, simply means a person is signing off on a communication.

g2g was not in reference to Vic's car seat.
751) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 1858830)
Posted 1 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And so, Angela, yes. I am an enigma.

I don't think you are an enigma. In fact, this winter I stepped in puddles deeper than you.
752) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLOTPW - CCLXIII Making Roman numerals great again. (Message 1858810)
Posted 1 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

A narcissistic post...
753) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1858807)
Posted 1 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
754) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1858769)
Posted 1 Apr 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What? A fun-guy like you doesn't care for fungi?!!!

Yes, it is a fairly standard scalloped potato recipe. You could leave the "shrooms" out. You could substitute slices of yellow onion for the "shrooms", provided you precooked the onions well. Onions can over-whelm potatoes if not cooked down some.
755) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1858756)
Posted 31 Mar 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Last year, I started working part time for a local university. Ah, the glamorous life of teaching... 30 hours of actual work for every 10 hours of pay. While I actually LOVE, LOVE, LOVE my new job, our dinners suffer a bit on the days I am scheduled to work. A typical dinner for us on one of my work days is crackers and cheese, or pita and hummus. I round out these "desperation dinners" with crudite, olives, fresh or dried fruit etc. Eric never- ever complains (especially if there is wine), but every once in a while I have to remind Ol Pookers that I actually can cook. Tonight is one of those evenings. I picked up a small pork roast that I will serve with sauteed snap peas and a potato dish. Eric is from the midwest, so he never met a meat and potatoes combination he didn't like. The vegetables are for my benefit. Being a California native, I like lots of green on my plate.

Anyway, if you cook this potato dish, I promise you that your family will devour it, and look around for more.

Potato Mushroom Scallop

4-6 large Yukon Gold potatoes
3 Tbsps butter
10 ounces button mushrooms, cleaned and sliced
a sprinkle of salt
3 Tbsps flour
1.5 cups half and half
1/2 tsp salt
ground black pepper to taste
a generous dash of nutmeg
a generous dash of cayenne pepper
1/2 cup sour cream
2 tsps dry sherry
2-3 sliced scallions
1/4 cup dry breadcrumbs
2 Tbsps grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese (or any other grated hard, dry cheese)
1-2 Tbsps melted butter
1-2 Tbsps chopped fresh parsley

1. Boil the potatoes in their jackets until tender, about 50-60 minutes; remove potatoes from water and let cool a bit, then slice to potatoes - skins and all
2. Saute the mushrooms in the 3 Tbsps. of butter, with a sprinkling of salt to help draw out their moisture
3. When the mushrooms are nearly done, sprinkle in the 3 Tbsps of flour and toast the flour to get rid of the raw taste
4. Stir in the half and half, 1/2 tsps of salt, the ground black pepper, the nutmeg and the cayenne pepper - stir the flour in well. The mixture will look a bit thin, but bring it to a boil and cook 1 minute. It will thicken right up.
5. Remove from heat, let cool a bit, then stir in the sour cream, sherry and scallions
6. Gently fold in the sliced potatoes
7. Place the potato mixture in a flat, buttered baking pan (No high sides, you want the topping to brown)
8. Mix breadcrumbs, cheese, melted butter and fresh parsley together, and sprinkle crumb topping over potatoes
9. At this point you can pop the whole dish into the fridge for a day or two, or bake it off right away
10. Bake uncovered, at 325 degrees, until hot through, and top is crispy (this may take anywhere from 30 to 50 minutes, depending how chilled the whole dish is.
11. Remove from oven and let sit 5-10 minutes before serving.

Serves 6-8, depending on how much your family likes potatoes and mushrooms. The left-overs keep fine in the fridge and can be microwaved.

Caution, this is not a "diet dish", but it is worth every ridiculous calorie.

Enjoy!
756) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1858611)
Posted 31 Mar 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Vic,

As you know, nothing is "off topic" here in the Critter Cafe. I have no problem with any reader using this thread to discuss issues that are of importance to him or to her.

By posting about your challenges accessing medical care in the Critter Cafe, a thread you must know I read with great regularity, you have made our discussion a public one, rather than a private one. I am going to continue our discussion in public, rather than privately via the pm system, as the information I wish to provide to you may help other readers who are faced with transportation challenges.

To begin, here is another possible option for transportation in your area:

http://acemedicaltransportation.com/areas-we-serve/

A forum friend very kindly alerted me to this information, in hopes that it would help you and others. She was pretty sure they take MediCal as a funding source. You would need to call and verify this and you would need to make an appointment, once you know the definite day and time of your medical procedure. The company covers your entire trip area.


Regarding your post:

It's not worth it, since I'd still need to replace the struts, I'd have to spend between $45 and $91 for a one way trip to the Hospital via Uber, and they never assigned Me a time, since surgery was never approved, and the Doc had submitted the application for approval a month back, and still nothing, the 10th is/was a guess on the Docs part.

And the Uber drivers would have to accept a credit card, I don't carry cash.

And then I'd still need to get home afterwards, which means I'd have to wake up from the general anesthesia, and figure out how to get a ride home, if one was available, since the hour of release could be at night.

No, I'd rather use My own car, severe anxiety rules Me at times, I'm more comfortable, if I'm secure or in control.



As many here know, I am significantly visually impaired and I self-limit my driving because of it. Please do not interpret the following information as an advertisement specifically for Uber. There are many ride-share companies. Uber happens to be the one I use regularly. My experience with this company has been uniformly good. Eric has used both Uber and Lyft and has been equally satisfied with both.

1. Not having a specific appointment time for 4/10 is not a problem at this point. For Uber, you don't call for a ride until you need one, so if you don't know the time of your 4/10 appointment until the day before, it is not a problem. If your appointment ends up being another day, that is also not a problem. You call Uber the same day you use Uber, so you just need to know an appointment time an hour or so in advance.

2. I use Uber freuqently. Yes, your account would be linked to a credit card. You have posted many times that you have a pre-paid credit card. Open the Uber account using your pre-paid credit card, send me some proof you have done this via the pm system and I'll send you a check for $200 to cover your round trip costs to and from your medical appointment. The funds would be there well before 4/10, if you open your Uber account today. Alternatively, Eric and I could send you funds via PayPal, which would be faster, but before doing so I would want some sort of assurance that you have downloaded the Uber ap and set up an Uber account with your prepaid credit card. That and your "word" that you would be willing to actually use Uber to get to and from medical appointments are all I need to release funds.

3. There is no cash involved in an Uber ride, unless you choose to give a cash tip to the driver for the service. (I always do, but tipping is entirely optional and not expected by Uber drivers.)

4. Uber runs day and night. If you are awake enough to use your phone, you are awake enough to call an Uber. If you are too groggy to use your phone, then you would be too groggy to drive a car safely and the hospital would not discharge you. After general anesthesia, patients are advised not to drive. Most hospitals will not release you unless somebody is there to drive you home. So if a niece, nephew or sister-in-law is not available to drive you home after your procedure, then a professional medical transport system, a taxi or an Uber/Lyft style ride-sharing service would be your only option anyway. I want to make this perfectly clear. Even if you drove yourself to the hospital, your doctor would not allow you to drive home. If nobody came to get you, your doctor would probably arrange medical transport for you, just to get you discharged. This means that you would be leaving your car at the hospital for a day or two after your procedure. Most hospitals charge for parking. Your parking costs would add up quickly!

5. I understand that anxiety can be a debilitating condition, but not attending to your medical needs will create more anxiety for you in the long run. It will also create more anxiety for those of us in our community who genuinely care about your health and well-being.

6. Vic, I know you would rather have the money to get your car fixed, but old cars are a giant money-sink. (I know this from personal experience!) From what you have posted, it sounds like you do not drive your car daily. I propose to you that using Uber, Lyft, or some other ride-sharing service when you need it to go to the store, go to the doctor, visit relatives etc. might actually be cheaper than insuring, maintaining and gassing a private vehicle that you use infrequently.


Vic, please allow me to remind you, as I have reminded you many times in the past: public posts are an invitation to public comment and, at times, public critique. If you choose to make specific information public, then all members of this community are welcome to comment and even critique what you have posted, provided that they do so kindly, respectfully, and within the posting guidelines of s@h.

If you post here in the Critter Cafe, in a place where people genuinely care about you, then you are going to get advice, support and occasionally even criticism, whether you want it or not.

If you wish to take further discussion of this issue off the boards, then you should respond to my post in private, via the pm system.

If you respond to my post in public, I will continue our discussion in public.

Wishing you all the best.

ang. (& Eric)
757) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1858399)
Posted 30 Mar 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Great news, Vic! I just accessed the Uber site and service is available in your area. The cost of your ride will be under $200, round trip.

Please call your physician's office and tell them that you definitely will be there April 10th.
758) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1858396)
Posted 30 Mar 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok I called the Urologists Office, and told them that I can't drive to St Marys Regional Medical Center in Apple Valley CA cause of car trouble on April 10th, I have had to put off surgery until I can get the car fixed, most likely in May 2017, there is no Medical Transport, and I have no one else, it's just Me, I'm on My own out here.

Vic, download the Uber or Lyft ap to your phone. Uber to your appointment and I will send you a check that reimburses you for the costs of transport.
759) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1858395)
Posted 30 Mar 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I take it that a Condo is a Condominium. Am I right in that the difference between that and an apartment block, is shared communal areas? What we would call a block of flats over here.


A condominium is an apartment that is owned. It does not, typically, involve shared communal areas. An apartment is rented, a condo is owned. That's about the only difference between the two. Houses out here are outrageously expensive, so lots of people buy condos first, build a little equity, and then upgrade to a house if they can.
760) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1858062)
Posted 28 Mar 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My sister was walking through some tall grass and a wasp got in her blouse and was stung 7 times before she could strip it off.

No modesty on this one in front of everyone. LOL


Eric and I used to live in a condo and we had a cat whose food bowl and litter box were on our tiny balcony deck, three floors up from ground level. One morning I went out onto our deck wearing a long nightgown. There was a wasp in the cat food bowl that I hadn't noticed. My nightgown swept over the bowl and the wasp flew up my nightgown. It was not a pleasant experience.
761) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I've got a bun in the oven! (Daphne's Blog) (Message 1857844)
Posted 27 Mar 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
She is so beautiful!!! Thank you for sharing such a lovely picture of your precious little one with us.
762) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1855775)
Posted 16 Mar 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric experimented with water cooling his computer system once. Given the number of algae strains he managed to grow in our garage, I was sad that I didn't know more about botany.

The following picture best expresses my opinion on water cooling:
763) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Tullio joins the Mod team (Message 1855563)
Posted 15 Mar 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome, Tullio! We are happy to have you on our current team.
764) Message boards : Cafe SETI : If I get your goat :) (Message 1855562)
Posted 15 Mar 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is this thread for real, or are you pulling my leg?
765) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mr. Kevvy is now a forum moderator (Message 1855312)
Posted 13 Mar 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Some of you never knew that I was once a mod. For a very short time, I was among the annointed ones.

If I am correctly remembering seti "ancient history", there was a time when seti used an "auto-mods" system. A forum program noted which accounts posted most frequently and automatically gave these very active posters mod-buttons. The thinking behind this system was that those who posted most frequently must care the most about the forums, and would therefore be the best stewards of this sacred place.

Oh sure, you all laugh now!!!

Anyway, mistakes are not mistakes if one learns from them.

Yay Fred!!! Long may he reign.
766) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mr. Kevvy is now a forum moderator (Message 1854467)
Posted 10 Mar 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome Mr. Kevvy!!! We are so happy to have you on our current team!!!
767) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Relay for Life 2017 (Message 1854463)
Posted 10 Mar 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And still lots of time until the event in June...

Go Blurf Go!!!
768) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The oldies fight back! (Message 1853743)
Posted 8 Mar 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just out of curiosity. What phone did you get?

Actually, Eric got it for me, after years of nagging on his part. I use a Nexus 5 and Eric uses a Nexus 6. We're both on Google Fi.
769) Message boards : Politics : A modest proposal (Message 1853678)
Posted 7 Mar 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sigh.... if only their numbers totaled "one".

There are two viable responses to people who appear to be only posting in order to set fire to powder kegs.

Option one is to respond calmly and rationally. Point out fallacies and refrain from name calling.

I'll admit that sometimes, this is difficult to do.

Option two is to not respond at all. We all know the worst offenders... those who seem to post for the pure joy of upsetting others. We have it within us, as a community, to strip these people of power by ignoring them. Few things would upset them more.

I'll admit that sometimes, this is even harder to do than Option One.
770) Message boards : Politics : March For Science - Earth Day 2017 (Message 1853647)
Posted 7 Mar 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
President Donald Trump appears to have little regard for science.

President Trump has stated that he thinks global climate change is a hoax. It is not.
He has stated that vaccines cause autism. They do not.
He has stated that US healthcare workers infected with Ebola should not be let back into the country to be treated. Thank goodness he wasn't president last year.
He has stated that he does not think that public health spending returns a good investment. Smoking cessation education, drunk driving laws, vaccination programs and water fluoridation all indicate otherwise.

Eric and I are planning to participate in the March For Science taking place on April 22nd in Washington DC

If others are planning to attend, please post here or drop me a pm. Perhaps we can march together, or at least meet for coffee?

If you cannot go to Washington DC, but still want to participate in this public demonstration, look for a local march in your area. I know there are several planned in the SF Bay Area and there is probably one near you.
771) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1853593)
Posted 6 Mar 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Baby raccoon loses mother to car accident – elderly dog adopts him as her own

Sweet!
772) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The oldies fight back! (Message 1853331)
Posted 5 Mar 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You're all a load of street cred posers :-))

I finally bit the bullet and got one of those darn smarty-pants phone thingies.

I begrudgingly admit that there are aspects of this technology that I now find very convenient. If that makes me a street cred poser, well... so be it.
773) Message boards : Cafe SETI : OH, Hello again.......I am back for a while. (Message 1852712)
Posted 4 Mar 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Brain chemicals..........check.
Whiskey.........check.
Sanity.............check.


Litter box scooper........check
Plastic bags.......check
Carpet cleaner.......check
Cat carrier.........check
Mod buttons..........check
774) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part IV (Message 1852588)
Posted 3 Mar 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It will be very interesting to see how life evolves on several different planets. Interesting to see if plants, animals, fungus are on other worlds or if it takes an unrecognizable path.

775) Message boards : Cafe SETI : OH, Hello again.......I am back for a while. (Message 1852501)
Posted 3 Mar 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL!

Goodnight, Mark.
776) Message boards : Cafe SETI : OH, Hello again.......I am back for a while. (Message 1852497)
Posted 3 Mar 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Night out at the opera?

777) Message boards : Cafe SETI : OH, Hello again.......I am back for a while. (Message 1852495)
Posted 3 Mar 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Every "gurl's" wardrobe should include a little black cocktail dress...

778) Message boards : Cafe SETI : OH, Hello again.......I am back for a while. (Message 1852493)
Posted 3 Mar 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Here's a little number for you, in case you and Lori decide to "tie the knot"...

779) Message boards : Cafe SETI : OH, Hello again.......I am back for a while. (Message 1852491)
Posted 3 Mar 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did you attend Catholic school as a child?

780) Message boards : Cafe SETI : OH, Hello again.......I am back for a while. (Message 1852489)
Posted 3 Mar 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Be careful what you wish for...

781) Message boards : Cafe SETI : OH, Hello again.......I am back for a while. (Message 1852487)
Posted 3 Mar 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Color me disappointed, as I was rather enjoying the image...

782) Message boards : Politics : Immigrant Migrant Refugee SUPREMACY-Is RACIST DEPLORABLE & TREASONOUS KKKOMMIE KKKryBABY KKKLOWNS with Their Continuing TREASONOUS Behaviours, will LOSE All Elections if They Keep Spouting TREASONOUS Free Speech (Message 1852468)
Posted 3 Mar 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"Party of no" without a sense of irony, too funny.

LOL +2
783) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What Are You Reading? (Message 1852256)
Posted 2 Mar 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Student clinical reports.
I haven't failed anyone, yet...
784) Message boards : Cafe SETI : back momentarily....and i have news too. (Message 1852250)
Posted 2 Mar 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you a speedy recovery and congratulations on all the good things.
785) Message boards : Politics : I am a Christ child, so therefore I shall attempt to save you as well. (Message 1851979)
Posted 28 Feb 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Faith is a gift, they say...

Seems that while faith was being gifted, I was standing in another line getting naturally curly hair.
786) Message boards : Cafe SETI : OH, Hello again.......I am back for a while. (Message 1851959)
Posted 28 Feb 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I said...........going blind. Not there just yet. I can still read your responses/.

Being significantly visually impaired myself, I can answer the legal driving limit question. One needs 20/40 corrected vision in at least one eye to legally drive. My left eye is blind from a congenital anomaly and my right eye is near-sighted but corrects to the legal limit. Because of my visual impairment, the DMV makes me take a road test every two years in order to renew my driver's license. Since they are charged with public safety, I completely understand! I haven't failed yet and I have an impeccable driving record, but I do self-limit my driving quite a bit because I am aware of my limitations. I ride the BART train where I can and take Uber places I cannot BART.

I wonder less, Mark, about your visual status and more about how your weekends impact your job performance. I know you have repeatedly said that you only drink on the weekends, but how do you feel on Monday mornings? Even if you are sober when you go to work on Monday, are you hung-over and does that impact your job performance? Your weekend posting history often demonstrates that you post hour after hour after hour with very few interruptions on the weekend. At the very least, you must report to work sleep-deprived on Monday mornings.

Commenters in this blog are correct. Public posts are public records. Posts do have consequences.
787) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1850348)
Posted 21 Feb 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends, and welcome to the latest installment of the Critter Cafe.

If you are new to us, this is a place where Critter People come together to talk about whatever is on their critter-lovin minds.

All are welcome here. Nothing is "off topic" in the Critter Cafe, but I do ask that people be mindful of forum rules and conventions.

To start us out in our new thread, here is a picture of a couple of our snuggling critters - Joker and his sister Riddler:

788) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1850347)
Posted 21 Feb 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Never mind. Eric had a terrific picture right on tap.

I will lock this thread and start a new one now.
789) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1850346)
Posted 21 Feb 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I guess I should start a new thread.

I like starting new Critter Cafes with a picture and it may take me some time to find one. I'm going to have a crazy work week and we have house guests arriving on Thursday. It may take me a couple of weeks to find a good picture and start a new thread.
790) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Richard Hatch dies Feb. 7 2017 (Message 1849416)
Posted 18 Feb 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
791) Message boards : Politics : Immigrant Migrant Refugee SUPREMACY-Is RACIST DEPLORABLE & TREASONOUS KKKOMMIE KKKryBABY KKKLOWNS with Their Continuing TREASONOUS Behaviours, will LOSE All Elections if They Keep Spouting TREASONOUS Free Speech (Message 1849378)
Posted 17 Feb 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela has the cajones to actually quote my post and then delete it with her mod button.
I do declare, this is the first time ever I have witnessed such arrogance.

Wow.


An oversight. My apologies. I have hidden my post that quoted your post.
792) Message boards : Politics : Immigrant Migrant Refugee SUPREMACY-Is RACIST DEPLORABLE & TREASONOUS KKKOMMIE KKKryBABY KKKLOWNS with Their Continuing TREASONOUS Behaviours, will LOSE All Elections if They Keep Spouting TREASONOUS Free Speech (Message 1849375)
Posted 17 Feb 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You created "us" when you attacked our freedom of speech.

Incorrect. Organizations like the ACLU protect your right to free speech. As a civil libertarian, I defend to the freakin' hilt your legal right to free speech, even though I do not agree with your positions.

What you confuse is your legal right to free speech vs the social repercussions you may face upon spewing hatred. You will not go to jail for spewing hate. You may lose your job for spewing hate if your company feels that you are a detriment to their brand name. You may lose business if you spew hate, if your customers vote with their pocket books. You may lose friends if you spew hate. Free speech is your legal right, but it does not come without a social cost. Please do not confuse legal consequences with social consequences.



You created "us" when you attacked our right to bear arms.

And you created "us" every time you pulled a trigger.




You created "us" when you attacked our Christian beliefs.

And you created "us" when you tried to take away our constitutional rights by elevating Christianity over the beliefs or non-beliefs of others.




You created "us" when you constantly referred to us as racists. You created "us" when you constantly called us xenophobic. You created "us" when you told us to get on board or get out of the way.

Well, if the basket fits...




You created "us" when you attacked our flag.

Symbols should be treated as such, by both sides. Sometimes we revere them. Sometimes we become upset when they do not stand for what they should stand for. And by the by... it is your "peeps" who wear flag undies and bikinis and other unmentionables. That seems like desecration to me.




You created "us" when you took God out of our schools.

God does not belong in public schools. Thomas Jefferson wrote "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State." In the Jeffersonian meaning of the phrase I say, "Build that wall. Build that wall. Build that wall."




You created "us" when you confused women's rights with feminism.

And you created us when you developed a distorted sense of feminism.




You created "us" when you decided to make our children soft.

I think the snowflakes are not as soft as you have judged them to be...




You created "us" when you decided to vote for progressive ideals.

I stand by every progressive vote I have ever cast.




You created "us" when you attacked our way of life.

If your way of life infringes upon the rights of others, then please be prepared to accept the social consequences.




You created "us" when you decided to let our government get out of control.

Control is a subjective term and open to debate.




You created "us" the silent majority.

Might I remind you of a recent popular vote count. And by the way... your people are older and passing away faster.




You created "us" when you began murdering innocent law enforcement officers.

Of course I do not condone murder, but I would like to point out that you created us when systematic abuse by law enforcement officers started showing up regularly on our computers and televisions. We should have worked on better law enforcement training, education and enforcement of the enforcers long ago.



You created "us" when you lied and said we could keep our insurance plans and our doctors.

Oh please. More of you have benefited from health care changes than have been injured!




You created "us" when you allowed our jobs to continue to leave our country.

Your CEOs moved them. I'm sorry you were victimized by the capitalism you so love. By the way, I'm also sorry that so many of your peeps pride themselves in not investing heavily in education. Jobs for the well educated are not in such short supply 'round here...




You created "us" when you took a knee, or stayed seated or didn't remove your hat during our National Anthem.

Nonsense. See above note about symbols.




You created "us" when you forced us to buy health care and then financially penalized us for not participating.

Please see above note about those helped by recent healthcare changes.
793) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Rest in peace Wingdi.. (Message 1849349)
Posted 17 Feb 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.

Julie, may warm memories of Jeroen sustain you as you grieve the loss of a dear friend.
794) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part IV (Message 1848982)
Posted 16 Feb 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you a successful surgery and a speedy recovery.
795) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1848605)
Posted 14 Feb 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
796) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (104) Server Problems? (Message 1847981)
Posted 11 Feb 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The admins listen to me. You should too.

I report what I see, and also have the ear of Eric and Jeff when they are available.


Eric does not preferentially listen to any one poster. Eric does his best to address problems reported by a wide variety of project participants.
797) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1846913)
Posted 5 Feb 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully exercise my duty as President of the United Raccoon States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the right of all Raccoons in America to look cute and receive gifts of food".


LOL!!!
798) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Every Second Counts (Message 1846776)
Posted 5 Feb 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hilarious!!! Eric and I sat and watched it together. Hilarious!!!
799) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The English Cafe (Message 1845599)
Posted 31 Jan 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not a chance, do you propose taking the "i" out of potassium, sodium, and magnesium as well.


You forgot titanium...

Ok W.K.... I will bet you a pile of PLATINUM that, were you plagued with the dreaded BOTULINUM virus in your DUODENUM, or perhaps in your JEJUNUM, and you couldn't be cured by a tincture of MOLYBDENUM or cured by drinking a MAGNUM of champagne, that you would have better things to complain about than my glorious 'Murrican dialectal efficiency!!!

Good day, sir!!!
800) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What do you do with Christmas trees afterwards (Message 1844450)
Posted 26 Jan 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A noble enterprise.


That was a FIRocious pun, Mr. Betreger.

Thank you. I WOOD love to play with YEW. I have been PINEing for a pun war for TREE or four months now. The s@h BRANCH of Jim's old pun room has been abandoned and nobody appears to be around to SPRUCE the place up. Well, I won't bother to CONIFER with my colleague Jim before accepting your invitation. I may, however, send him a pm and NEEDLE him to play along with us.

Your PITCH, good sir.
801) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1844447)
Posted 26 Jan 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Love the police blotter!

The feeder is clearly a kindred spirit to many here.
802) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1844188)
Posted 24 Jan 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I guess I won't post anything like that again, too much emotions come out.

Actually, I think your post resulted in a very interesting discussion. Please post anything you wish here, that is within forum rules. Nothing is considered to be "off topic" in the Critter Cafe!
803) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1844117)
Posted 23 Jan 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What I find most interesting is the exorbitant value that appears to be placed on youth.

I enjoyed being 18. I enjoyed being 25. I enjoyed being 35. I enjoyed being 45. I hope to someday enjoy being 55, or 65, or 75 or maybe even 85. There is something special about each age. Every age has value. 'Ol Pookers and I share generational knowledge and generational experience that strengthen our relationship as a couple, as we dance across the decades together.

I therefore dedicate the following Classic Steely Dan song to all of the lusty livers out there who think that dating a 19 year old would be great, just great...
Gentlemen, be careful what you wish for!
804) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1844104)
Posted 23 Jan 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm 60 years old, and socially accepted or not, my mind never wandered away like I've seen from some other old(er) men here.

Well, you know... "hope springs eternal"

I've actually enjoyed this discussion. Nothing is "off topic" in the Critter Cafe!!!
805) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1844068)
Posted 23 Jan 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...Touché madam, touché :-))) Oh worra swizz!!! Not fair :-(

Here you go, my friend...





...But define "socially acceptable"? Example elderly gentleman arrives at a social bash with some eye candy on his arm. Introduces her as his "Niece". Everybody knows full well that she isn't, but 100% of men think lucky so & so, many women think good luck to her.

The couple has violated social norms. Per your very scenario, all the men and "many" of the women are instantly aware that a social norm has been broken. A male reaction of envy does not invalidate the simultaneous male awareness that a social norm has been violated.

Violation of social norms always comes with a cost. If I sneeze on people while riding a bus, people will direct angry looks in my direction. If I go to dinner at a friend's house, spit out a mouthful of her boeuf bourguignon and exclaim that it tastes like raccoon jerky, I will lose a friend. If I put up a sign in my front yard espousing some hateful and intolerant message, my neighbors will ostracize me and perhaps even protest, vociferously, on the sidewalk in front of my home. Different violations of social norms result in different costs, but all violations incur a social "penalty" of some sort.

Sneezing on people is not illegal. Hating a friend's cooking is not illegal. Espousing hate and intolerance is not illegal. Dating outside of "the forumla" is not illegal (provided, of course, that the "eye candy" is at least 18 years old.) The social penalty that the elderly gentleman and his "niece" incur is being "JUDGED" in some way by more than half the people attending the social bash.

If being judged by others each time they step out into public is a price they are willing to pay, well... good luck to them!
806) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1843943)
Posted 23 Jan 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cute doggie, Wiggo! Thanks for sharing her picture with us.
807) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1843814)
Posted 22 Jan 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
But you haven't factored into the Equation where people, through luck of Mother Nature, could pass for somewhat rather younger than their actual calendar years. In fact one prime example is you is it not?

I look older than my actual chronological age of 53. I believe I have posted enough pictures over the years to make that point abundantly clear. Sometimes there are advantages to looking older. I am happy to embrace these advantages, most of the time.



So by your calculations if a guy is 72 but looks 66, that makes them able to date someone no younger than 40?

No. You cannot change "the formula". Looks are not factored into "the formula" because people are often self-deluded into thinking that they look younger than they actually do. "The formula" is based purely on chronological age. A 72 year old gentleman may date a person age 43 and up. Looks have absolutely nothing to do with it.



But what about for the younger person in this relationship? So women can date a guy that is no more than double their age -14, yes? Example guy 66, woman 40. But then at true ages that gives a woman in her genuine late 40's carte blanche to date a guy no older than real age of 84?

"The formula", as I've stated it, calculates the lower range of dating acceptability; but yes, the math works for the younger person in the relationship to double his or her age and then subtract 14.

So Chris, you are correct. A woman age 49 would not be in a 90 year old man's "formula". So if you are thinking about dating one of your nurses or one of your adult daycare providers, I'm sorry Chris, but she is probably not in your formula!!!
808) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1843715)
Posted 22 Jan 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Half your age + 7

That young hey? :-O

Cheers.


Yes Wiggo. You're a lucky man, you are!!!
809) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1843711)
Posted 22 Jan 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
She's probably too young for the old and wild :-))

Hmmmmmm... I think that I will take Chris' quote to be an opportunity to remind all of the lusty old livers here that there is a "formula" of social appropriateness for dating:

Half your age + 7

If you are, say, 60 years old - half your age is 30 + 7 = 37. You may date people age 37 years and older and it will be considered socially acceptable.

If you are, say, 70 years old - half your age is 35 + 7 = 42. You may date people age 42 and older and it will be considered socially acceptable.

That lovely young lady, and presumably her sister, do not appear to fall within anyone's formula here!!!
810) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLOTPW - 261, the first of 2017 (Message 1843180)
Posted 20 Jan 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy Belated Birthday, Mark.

811) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLOTPW - 261, the first of 2017 (Message 1842511)
Posted 16 Jan 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
812) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1842334)
Posted 15 Jan 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have changed my signature from a friendly raccoon to a ferocious raccoon because my team, the mighty Raccoon Lovers, is currently participating in the GPUUG challenge "Heat Your Home".

Go Team Raccoon Lovers!!!

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
813) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year, From Our Home To Yours (Message 1842333)
Posted 15 Jan 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hope that your life is as fine as the pictures seem to indicate.

No life is free of pain. I buried my mother last year. Life is an interesting mix of happiness and sadness, but at the beginning of a new year it is best, I think, to focus on the happy moments.

Thank you, everyone, for the kind wishes.

Here's to a GREAT 2017 for us all!!!
814) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLOTPW - 261, the first of 2017 (Message 1842201)
Posted 14 Jan 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
815) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLOTPW - 261, the first of 2017 (Message 1842194)
Posted 14 Jan 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Darn, am I too late for a mimosa? Rats. Guess I'll have to mix my own.



Angela's recipe for the BEST mimosas ever, just in time for Sunday brunch tomorrow!

1. In the bottom of a champagne flute, put about a tablespoon of Grand Marnier

2. Fill glass half way with freshly squeezed mandarin juice

(Mandarin juice is darker, richer and more flavorful than navel orange juice. Citrus is in season now in the northern hemisphere, so if you live in this hemisphere there are probably fresh mandarins in a market near you.)

3. Top off glass with sparkling wine.

Enjoy!
816) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday AnnieT (Message 1842189)
Posted 14 Jan 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Best wishes to you on your special day!
817) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year, From Our Home To Yours (Message 1842089)
Posted 14 Jan 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends,

It has become an enjoyable January tradition for me to review photos we took last year and then share a few of them with you,
along with snippets of advice from various members of the Korpela household.


Eric advises that you beware of horny ladies with big brown eyes.





Squirrelie responds, "Aw nuts! I can't believe Eric just said that!!!"





"Funcle" Eric and Auntie Angela suggest that you ham it up a little with your family's biggest Drama Queen.





Riddler, Penguin and Joker suggest you pick a theme and go with it.
Gotham City is in da house... well, at least on the back porch.





For lovers of puns everywhere, I give you "Riddler On The Roof"
(Cat On A Hot Tin Roof would also be an acceptable caption...)





Yosemite in autumn - if you live near someplace pretty, go visit it.





Happy New Year, From Our Home To Yours!
818) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLOTPW - 261, the first of 2017 (Message 1842065)
Posted 14 Jan 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mark, you accidentally posted twice in this thread. I believe you owe everyone a round of drinks at Rocky's.
819) Message boards : Number crunching : My Computer Builds And Other Projects (Message 1841966)
Posted 13 Jan 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends,

It is so nice to read the supportive and encouraging posts here, as Vic deals with new medical issues. I have always found the seti community to be so lovely and supportive.

This is, however, a thread in Number Crunching, so technically we should all be staying (more or less) to technical issues.

Vic has been posting in the Cafe about his medical issues and I would like to encourage people to post their well wishes there, so that this thread will wind its way back towards the interesting technical topic of computer builds.

I am not going to hide or move any posts at this time. I'm just hoping that, going forward, this thread will trend towards being more technical in nature, as is typical of Number Crunching threads.

Angela K.
820) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Relay for Life 2017 (Message 1841350)
Posted 11 Jan 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Your passion for this cause is truly admirable.

Wishing you a successful relay!!!
821) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1840554)
Posted 7 Jan 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I can haz donut?
822) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLOTPW - 261, the first of 2017 (Message 1840553)
Posted 7 Jan 2017 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
823) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1838707)
Posted 30 Dec 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


Who spiked the New Year's bubbly with limoncello???!!!

Join Raccoon Lovers today for an answer to this mystery.
824) Message boards : Cafe SETI : R.I.P Vera Rubin (Message 1838358)
Posted 28 Dec 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin

R.I.P.
825) Message boards : Cafe SETI : R.I.P. Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (Message 1838357)
Posted 28 Dec 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
826) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 260 Amelia? (Message 1838355)
Posted 28 Dec 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Another try for a win in 2016...
827) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 260 Amelia? (Message 1835755)
Posted 13 Dec 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
aged grapes

Ahem. I believe that the p.c. term is "venerable muscadine elders".
828) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #65 (Message 1835706)
Posted 13 Dec 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends. It seems Carlos has been positively on fire in this thread.

Third place goes to Carlos with : "I love this global warming."

Second place goes to Carlos with: "That was sure quick this year. Not many nice kids left."

First place goes to Carlos with: "Aw the Cuban embargo lifted at last."

Take it away, Carlos! PM going out to our winner now.
829) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1835704)
Posted 13 Dec 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mike and Rosi, we are sorry you have lost a beloved pet.

Angela & Eric
830) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thanksgiving Prep and Other Winter Holidays (Message 1835323)
Posted 11 Dec 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow. What a lovely tree.

You will laugh when you see what I put up. I'll see if Eric's camera is working.
831) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1835303)
Posted 10 Dec 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Phud!!! Welcome home!!!
832) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #65 (Message 1835118)
Posted 10 Dec 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.

In keeping with our Santa theme, let's go another round with this:

833) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 260 Amelia? (Message 1834945)
Posted 9 Dec 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?"
834) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #65 (Message 1834944)
Posted 9 Dec 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Santa about to hit "send" in an irate email about the seti boards color changes.
835) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Caring for others - tips and hints, support and strategies, or just plain offloading (Message 1834925)
Posted 9 Dec 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sometimes we can't do more than just enjoy the moment with our loved ones. Gordon, you mother is lucky to have such a loving son.
836) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1834924)
Posted 9 Dec 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My sister-in-law, who is busy with three children 6 years and younger, orders through a meal service once a week. No cooking is involved beyond heat-and-eat. She uses a service called Munchery, but I know there are others like this in other places. I was babysitting for her one day and for lunch she had set aside a Munchery heat-and-eat chickpea stew for me to enjoy. It was packed with all the garnishes in separate little tubs, like a lime wedge, chopped cilantro etc. All the packaging looked like it could be either recycled or composted. The stew was surprisingly good.
837) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Glenn has passed at 95.... (Message 1834922)
Posted 9 Dec 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
838) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Caring for others - tips and hints, support and strategies, or just plain offloading (Message 1834884)
Posted 9 Dec 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bernie, you put your personal life on hold and moved across the country to help your father. There is no possible way that your father does not recognize that you are there to help. Even if you make a little mistake or two along the way in dealing with the complexities of eldercare, I'm sure your father will always know and appreciate the fact that he has a fine son. And as I always tell my students, "mistakes are not mistakes if you learn something from them".

Carry on bravely, soldier!
839) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Caring for others - tips and hints, support and strategies, or just plain offloading (Message 1834714)
Posted 7 Dec 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bernie, wishing you peace as you puzzle out the needs of your father. It is so hard for our elders to admit they need help. It is probably normal for your father to try and hide things from you. The bigger challenge will be to help him "save face" when you figure out what sorts of assistance he needs.
840) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photographs by Setizens - Originals only - any subject (Message 1834702)
Posted 7 Dec 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow!!!
841) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thanksgiving Prep and Other Winter Holidays (Message 1834700)
Posted 7 Dec 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Those ribs look awesome. My sister-in-law took a picture of Eric and your's truly by the turkey, but she hasn't emailed me the picture yet.

Now I'm prepping for a family cookie party Eric and I host each year. I am doing things today like chopping nuts and toasting coconut. It is taking every ounce of willpower I have to not eat up all the toasted coconut on the baking sheet. Gosh, I love the stuff!!!
842) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1834689)
Posted 7 Dec 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL!!! I've been to Helsinki, but not in the winter!!!

This sign reminds me of something a baggage handler said to Eric and to me one Christmas when we were traveling to the midwest.

The baggage handler asked for our final destination and I said Duluth. He asked, "Now why would anybody go to Duluth in December?" and I answered, "because my husband's mother makes really delicious butter cookies for Christmas".

The baggage handler said, "You tell his mama to put some of those butter cookies in the deep freeze, and then go out and see her in July!"
843) Message boards : Cafe SETI : If you won the lottery... (Message 1834433)
Posted 6 Dec 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If I had a million dollars
844) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1834253)
Posted 5 Dec 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bernie, those squirrels are so beautiful!!!
845) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 260 Amelia? (Message 1834238)
Posted 5 Dec 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have been summoned to The Party 2016.

Looking forward to seeing you there!!!

I'll be the one wearing the name tag that reads: "Hello, my name is Trophy Wife".
846) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 260 Amelia? (Message 1834226)
Posted 5 Dec 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy Birthday, Carlos!!!

Winning!
847) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 260 Amelia? (Message 1833598)
Posted 2 Dec 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mike, I am just now reading that you have been ill. I'm sorry you have been unwell. Eric and I wish you a speedy recovery.
848) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photographs by Setizens - Originals only - any subject (Message 1833422)
Posted 1 Dec 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow, Gordon!

You should have a job with the Kentucky Tourism Bureau.
849) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I've got a bun in the oven! (Daphne's Blog) (Message 1833421)
Posted 1 Dec 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Soooooooooooooooooooo cute!!!

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sweet!!!

She is giving Gnu's granddaughter, Miss Scarlett, a run for her money.
850) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I've got a bun in the oven! (Daphne's Blog) (Message 1833279)
Posted 30 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I cried too, when I heard of Ian's passing... and I had been gifted with lots of advance notice.

More pictures of Miss Daphne, please!!! Old ladies like me love baby pictures!!!
851) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1833120)
Posted 29 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not seen that picture before Ang, but really lovely, plus the resident pussy cat. The exact same place that I fed the racoons in 2011. Never to be forgotten ever.

I included that picture of Spawnie in my New Year's post from last January, but you may have missed it.
852) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1833060)
Posted 28 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bernie, your urban wildlife photos are delightful!!!

I know I've posted this picture before, but I wanted to put it here for squirrel comparison. The squirrels who frequent our backyard are Fox Squirrels. They seem to range in color from grayish brown (like this one) to deeply red to very light chestnut. Their bellies are lighter in color, but not white. Also, they do not have the tufts of hair on their little squirrel ears that Bernie's handsome red squirrels have.

The little fellow in this picture, taken over a year ago, is a young squirrel. I can tell he is young because he is still slender. The older squirrels in our yard become "portly" rather quickly, as there are always seeds and peanuts for them to enjoy.

Squirrels are so much fun! Eric calls them "a pound of hell", but I find squirrels to be absolutely charming.

853) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Florence Henderson - "Mrs. Brady" has passed. (Message 1832788)
Posted 27 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I watched her on tv doing some comedian's roast once. She used a "naughty" word in her routine and the crowd over-reacted. In response to this over-reaction she smiled and used a sing-songy voice to proclaim "Mrs. Brady swears!" It was the funniest part of her routine.

R.I.P.
854) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Fidel Castro has died at the age of 90. (Message 1832785)
Posted 27 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
855) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1832756)
Posted 27 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yikes, Sue! Wishing you speedy repairs.
856) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1832594)
Posted 26 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bernie, those are awesome photos!
857) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (103) Server Problems? (Message 1832592)
Posted 26 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thread locked at OP request, as he will be initiating a new thread on this topic.
858) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thanksgiving Prep and Other Winter Holidays (Message 1832461)
Posted 25 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am enjoying catching up on everyone's posts. Yesterday I was crazy busy, but everything turned out fine. Whew!

As for today well.... Dishes - must wash more dishes!!!
859) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thanksgiving Prep and Other Winter Holidays (Message 1832102)
Posted 24 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I made a fruit studded ice ring to float in punch. I used a Kugelhopf pan and put orange slices in each of the rings. The ice is made of blood orange juice and lemonade, so it shouldn't dilute my punch too much. Whenever we have more than four people over, I try to make batch cocktails that can be served from a punch bowl, rather than trying to shake up individual drinks.

I made a marinade for a shrimp salad, compound herb butter for the turkey and a 7 layer smoked salmon spread from the current issue of Bon Appetit - new recipe, so I hope it is as tasty as it looks in the photograph.

I still have to cut up some pineapple for fruit cups for the kids and bake a batch of caramel pecan bars. Ol' Pookers doesn't like pumpkin pie. Go figure.

I also need to map out a time line for when to pop various dishes into the oven and when to take them out tomorrow.

I swapped out the litter in our cat boxes, so hopefully our house will smell like turkey tomorrow instead of like the home of a crazy cat lady. I have other cleaning jobs to do as well.

Wishing everyone a very happy holiday, and wishing all the hosts and hostesses out there a big burst of energy as we round the final turn and view the finish line.

Thanksgiving is the meal that takes days to prepare and only a few hours to enjoy. May we all succeed in making the holiday appear "effortless" to our guests!
860) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1832051)
Posted 23 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lovely pictures of your charming little visitor, Bernie!

Our reddish brown fox squirrels like unsalted peanuts in the shell, if you ever need a less pricey substitute for what appear to be hazelnuts in your feeder.
861) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thanksgiving Prep and Other Winter Holidays (Message 1832048)
Posted 23 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Does anybody use the plastic bag of turkey innards?

My mom used to cook them for the family dog!
862) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thanksgiving Prep and Other Winter Holidays (Message 1831956)
Posted 23 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Today I purchased more groceries, borrowed an extra table from my aunt, borrowed a bunch of my mom's dishes from my sister, washed a bunch of serving platters, picked up the turkey, and made a make-ahead potato dish.

I didn't get to the gravy base last night, so I'll have to do that tonight. Hopefully I'll also get around to making a mushroom base tonight. It is the foundation of the dressing I usually make. Once the mushroom base is done, all I would have to do on Thanksgiving day is add bread, fresh herbs and a little chicken broth, then bake the whole thing off.

Whew!!! I envy those hostesses like Martha Stewart who book a relaxing manicure and pedicure the night before a big party. I can't even imagine being so ahead of schedule tomorrow night that I would have time to do that sort of thing.
863) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thanksgiving Prep and Other Winter Holidays (Message 1831914)
Posted 22 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Will Trump give a turkey a Presidential Pardon next year?

Will the turkey actually WANT to live???!!!
864) Message boards : Number crunching : 16th Anniversary (Message 1831868)
Posted 22 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulation on your 16 year crunching anniversary!!!
865) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thanksgiving Prep and Other Winter Holidays (Message 1831866)
Posted 22 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
you know where the wine bottle opener is and that it is working.

Ours sees extremely regular use, so no worries there !)


Great post, Gary! One of the things I had forgotten to add to my master plan is to wash and dry serving pieces that haven't been used in a while, for example my turkey platter that gets used every other year, along with a "vintage" cut glass bowl given to me by one of my aunts. I only use that bowl for cranberries, and now I have to remember which closet I stuck it in the back of two years ago!

I've added "find and wash serving pieces" to tomorrow's TO DO list, thanks to your wonderful, memory jogging post.
866) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thanksgiving Prep and Other Winter Holidays (Message 1831836)
Posted 22 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
a Manhattan


That's her favorite drink, actually.


Eric's too! I find Manhattans to be too strong for me, but Eric absolutely loves them.
867) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thanksgiving Prep and Other Winter Holidays (Message 1831833)
Posted 22 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Speaking of bourbon, she likes Happy Balls.

OMG - who wouldn't???!!!



What about adding cherry syrup to the cream?

Cherry and pumpkin seems like an odd combination to me, but there really are no "rules" when it comes to taste.

If your mom likes cherry with her bourbon, perhaps you should start the meal by mixing her a Manhattan?

Whee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
868) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thanksgiving Prep and Other Winter Holidays (Message 1831829)
Posted 22 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gordon, heavy cream is not that hard to whip. Take a walk on the wild side!


I suppose I could give it a whirl. And maybe add in some cinnamon and nutmeg?


I wouldn't, as dried spices are not very good in freshly whipped cream.

I recommend 1-2 tbsps of white sugar per cup of cream (most people prefer it sweeter so maybe go for two), a splash of vanilla or, better yet, a tablespoon of brandy!!!

Wait. You and your mom are in Kentucky, right? I suppose you could substitute bourbon for that brandy.

You could use brown sugar instead of white sugar, but personally I don't care for the molasses tones that brown sugar brings to whipped cream. Also, it muddies the color... but then again so does brandy, but the flavor advantages of brandy far out-weigh the mild color distortion, IMHO.
869) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thanksgiving Prep and Other Winter Holidays (Message 1831818)
Posted 21 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


That is a beautiful bird!!!
870) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A heartfelt good by. In memory of Celttooth (Message 1831815)
Posted 21 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Me too. RIP Ian.
871) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thanksgiving Prep and Other Winter Holidays (Message 1831812)
Posted 21 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My mom used to serve canned cranberries with turkey. I know they have a big following.

Those hot brown sandwiches sound delicious! We never seem to have much left-over turkey meat by the time we send "care packages" off with various older relatives who don't cook much these days.

Gordon, heavy cream is not that hard to whip. Take a walk on the wild side!
872) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thanksgiving Prep and Other Winter Holidays (Message 1831782)
Posted 21 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've always been tempted to try to BBQ or smoke a turkey, but I'm too much of a chicken to do that on Thanksgiving when the pressure is on to create the perfect bird. Steve, I salute your bravery!

My cranberry sauce turned out sweet and uni-dimentional, which is exactly what my guests will want. I have learned the hard way not to mess too much with Thanksgiving. Mine is not an "orange zest in the relish" type of family.

Quite a few years ago, I tried to "shake up" Thanksgiving. We still cooked a turkey, and I served all the flavors you would expect to have during the Thanksgiving season, but I shook them up in terms of their placement. For example, I served pumpkin soup instead of pumpkin pie. I made cranberry pie bars instead of cranberry relish. I made sweet potato pie instead of sweet potato casserole. I put apples in the dressing instead of into a pie.

There were quite a few of these little swap-er-roos and my guests were not impressed. Even though each one of my dishes seemed like it would have stood well on its own, they all came together in unexpected ways and that was not what my family members wanted.

Since then, Thanksgiving at our house has been pretty traditional and I limit myself to only one or two extremely mild "twists", just to keep things interesting for me as a cook. For example, this year my twist-dish is a winter slaw that includes some shaved, raw Brussels sprouts, dinosaur kale and red raddicchio, instead of a pan of roasted Brussels sprouts.

I absolutely LOVE Thanksgiving!!!
873) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thanksgiving Prep and Other Winter Holidays (Message 1831766)
Posted 21 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This is a chatting thread for people hosting Thanksgiving Dinner this year, or bringing a homemade dish to somebody else's home.

What are you cooking?

Are you making any special family recipes?

How is your prep work going?

Today I'm making homemade cranberry sauce. I'm also making a gravy base for a largely make-ahead gravy. After "da bird" is cooked on Thursday, I will just pour off the fat, add my pre-made gravy base to the juices and caramelized pan drippings and then whip up some "instant" homemade gravy. It is a neat trick that guarantees you lump-free gravy and also makes the gravy come together lickety-split.

I don't think I can do much else in advance as early as Monday. I've already been to the grocery store to buy all the shelf-stable products needed for cooking. I've pre-ordered a fresh turkey and some shellfish for a special fish dish my mother used to make.

I've also accepted more help from relatives than I typically do. My sister and my sister-in-law are each bringing an appetizer and one of my cousins is baking two pumpkin pies. Usually I try to do everything myself. Must be a sign of my advancing age that this year that I'm letting relatives in on some of the cooking fun.

So, hosts and hostesses - how is your prep work going?
874) Message boards : Politics : Immigrant Migrant Refugee SUPREMACY-Is RACIST DEPLORABLE & TREASONOUS KKKOMMIE KKKryBABY KKKLOWNS with Their Continuing TREASONOUS Behaviours, will LOSE All Elections if They Keep Spouting TREASONOUS Free Speech (Message 1831568)
Posted 20 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My friend, they are the liberal left.
Who's handouts have now been cut short./
I for one taxpayer. am finally going to be vindicated Cut 'em loose and deport the rest.

Goodbye freeloaders.
Back to the never never land you belong in.
Come back when you have a dream you can live in without taking it from others.

I wish you no harm, but supposing that others shall always pay your way.........not gonna happen anymore.

We simply got tired of paying your way............so we elected a president who won't.


My, my, my... I see you are using a broad brush for painting today, instead of your fingers.

Kittyman, do you actually KNOW many liberals personally, and if so are they ACTUALLY as you have just described them?

Out here in the People's Republic of Berkeley, we are the dominant species. You can find us everywhere out here, chomping down on our kale salads, feeding our children dried seaweed snacks, and sipping daintily on our shade grown, pumpkin spiced, soy milk infused Fair Trade coffees.

Kittyman, let me tell you about the liberals I know. They tend to have professions, not jobs. Their incomes range from good to fabulous. Their offspring range from zero to two. They have enough advance degrees to wallpaper a small bathroom. They buy organic foods because they worry about what commercial fertilizers and pesticides do to our water supply and worse yet, what they do to the people who grow and harvest our food. They slap solar panels on their roofs, take public transportation where they can and drive hybrid cars elsewhere, because they worry about their carbon footprints. When disasters strike they do more than sanctimoniously say, "I'll add you to my prayers." Instead, they open their wallets and send real assistance.

When you talk about liberals, please know that you are talking about MY PEEPS!!! So either qualify what you say with a written disclaimer that your hateful words are based on EXTREMELY LIMITED personal experience, or shut your damn mouth.
875) Message boards : Politics : Word of the Year 2016 (Message 1831554)
Posted 20 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
An adequate choice, well justified. And shame.

+1
876) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 260 Amelia? (Message 1831553)
Posted 20 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Look at me win, just by being at the right place at the right time!
877) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part IV (Message 1831550)
Posted 20 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I also found the picture amusing.

Recent First Ladies have taken on an "issue" to publicize. For example, Nancy Reagan encouraged young people to "just say no" to drugs. Laura Bush promoted xeriscaping. Michelle Obama promoted healthy eating and exercise in an attempt to stem rising rates of childhood obesity. Melania Trump is reported to be considering an anti-bullying campaign as her "issue".

Bill Maher had, I think, the best response to this. He said something to the effect of: You have to excuse Melania. She is from a country too small and poor to afford irony.
878) Message boards : Politics : Now What? (Message 1830796)
Posted 16 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends,

I have just returned from being out of town for a few days. I see that in my absence, this thread took a somewhat different path than was my original intent.

I have decided to lock this thread at this time.

Angela K.
879) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1830794)
Posted 16 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
When awake, raccoons are quite industrious!
880) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A heartfelt good by. In memory of Celttooth (Message 1830787)
Posted 16 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Marie and Shawn, may warm memories of Ian sustain you through this most difficult of times. Eric and I send our deepest, most heartfelt condolences. Ian was a good friend and we will truly miss him.
881) Message boards : Politics : Now What? (Message 1829673)
Posted 10 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
BTW Jerry Brown is STILL Governor!?


It's complicated.
882) Message boards : Politics : Now What? (Message 1829550)
Posted 10 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I like Governor Jerry Brown's idea better - build a wall around California!!!
883) Message boards : Politics : Now What? (Message 1829544)
Posted 10 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How about seeing if UC Berkeley has a public lecture slot that Morris Dees or Richard Cohen of SLPC could come and spread the message of tolerance?

I will see if I can figure out who to email with that excellent suggestion.
884) Message boards : Politics : Immigrant Migrant Refugee SUPREMACY-Is RACIST DEPLORABLE & TREASONOUS KKKOMMIE KKKryBABY KKKLOWNS with Their Continuing TREASONOUS Behaviours, will LOSE All Elections if They Keep Spouting TREASONOUS Free Speech (Message 1829543)
Posted 10 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I cannot resist pointing out to PRIMITIVE deplorable that protests of this nature are not unique to the left. I believe the "tea party" (the 2009 one, not the pre-Revolutionary War one) got its protesting start (marching around wearing their silly hats and waving guns) right after President Obama's inauguration.

My father used to say that when you point a finger at somebody else, three fingers are pointing right back at you.
885) Message boards : Politics : Immigrant Migrant Refugee SUPREMACY-Is RACIST DEPLORABLE & TREASONOUS KKKOMMIE KKKryBABY KKKLOWNS with Their Continuing TREASONOUS Behaviours, will LOSE All Elections if They Keep Spouting TREASONOUS Free Speech (Message 1829527)
Posted 10 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If you are arguing that there are more constructive ways to deal with a disappointing outcome than setting garbage on fire and getting hit by a car, then PRIMITIVE deplorable I actually agree with you.
886) Message boards : Politics : Hillary Clinton - the next president of America? (Message 1829498)
Posted 10 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You really think Sanders would've lost Michigan & Wisconsin?

I've only been to the gorgeous upper pennisula of Michigan, but I've been to many places in Wisconsin, many, many, many times.

Northern Wisconsin is home to many descendants of Scandinavian immigrants, and in general they tend to be more politically liberal. Central and Southern Wisconsin are home to many descendants of German immigrants, and in general they tend to be more politically conservative.

Eric and I travel to Wisconsin twice a year and the state seems to become more conservative every time we visit.

There seem to be more and more single issue (guns!) voters up north than there used to be. It is also becoming increasingly difficult to find a radio station that does not involve country music or a Christian religious program.

I'm not saying that there is necessarily a causal link between guns, country music and Jesus, but there sure does seem to be a high correlation.

So no, I am not convinced that Bernie would have won Wisconsin.
887) Message boards : Politics : Now What? (Message 1829475)
Posted 10 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Three down - one to go. I will see nieces and nephews soon.



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888) Message boards : Politics : Now What? (Message 1829471)
Posted 10 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Two down, two to go.


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889) Message boards : Politics : Now What? (Message 1829470)
Posted 9 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
One down, three to go.



Dear Eric and Angela,

Thank you for making a donation to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Your gift will have a profound impact in our fight against hate groups and support our work in classrooms and courtrooms across the nation.

Today, we're facing a new reality – a president-elect who has denigrated people because of their race, their religion, their ethnicity, their gender, and more.

Our mission is to hold Donald Trump to what he is saying now – that he will be a president for all Americans and that he will work to bind the wounds of division, wounds that his own words have caused.

We're already at work.

The day after the election we provided resources to our nation's teachers to help them begin to heal the scars that the campaign has left on their students.

And we've alerted the country to the reaction of white supremacists to Mr. Trump's election in an effort to inoculate the nation against their growing influence.

Tomorrow, and every day in the future, we'll fight for the rights of the most vulnerable people in America – those victimized by bigotry and discrimination.

We hope Mr. Trump truly means what he says about reaching out to all Americans.

We are so grateful to know that there are people like you on our side, people who are so passionate about justice and equality. With your gift, you are there — by our side — when we're fighting hate, teaching tolerance, and seeking justice for those who have no other advocate.

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890) Message boards : Politics : Now What? (Message 1829469)
Posted 9 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I plan to triple my contributions to Convention of States.

I do not agree with this group's platform and I find your suggestion to be unhelpful.

I do not consider dissension to be "flaming", so I will not hide your post.

I will, however, identify it as being nonconstructive.
891) Message boards : Politics : Now What? (Message 1829417)
Posted 9 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In this thread, please post your suggestions for how to advance a progressive agenda.

Flames, even gentle ones, will be hidden.

Here is what I am planning to do in my "first 100 days"

1. Triple my annual contribution to the American Civil Liberties Union
2. Triple my annual contribution to the Southern Poverty Law Center
3. Triple my annual contribution to Americans United For the Separation of Church and State
4. Spend more time babysitting my nieces and nephews, to help shape and guide their young hearts and minds as they grow

I hope to add to this list, based on your suggestions.

Let us look forward with strength, hope and love.

Peace on Earth.
892) Message boards : Politics : Donald Trump for President? (Message 1829407)
Posted 9 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In a democracy, people get the government that they deserve.

Peace on Earth.
893) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW-The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 258 (Message 1828778)
Posted 6 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I just enjoy winning at Carlos' expense...
894) Message boards : Politics : Donald Trump for President? (Message 1828777)
Posted 6 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
However it is very hard for some sectors of the political spectrum to engage in self denial when the plate is fat so there can be a plate when times are lean. They tend to see more and more problems that a few $$ could fix and very soon the debt goes up even in fat times.

Greed is a powerful motivating force that crosses political lines and all sorts of other divides. Taxes, properly applied, can help to mitigate the worst effects of greed.

I am proud to be a "tax and spend" liberal, but I am also a "tax and save" liberal. You no doubt noticed that the national debt has hardly been mentioned this election cycle. That is one of the TRUE crimes of this election cycle!

I think that taxes are a good way to redistribute wealth, even if I do not always like the way my government spends my tax dollars.
895) Message boards : Politics : Donald Trump for President? (Message 1828764)
Posted 6 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have read many comments like this.
"- We need a change. Things are about to derail this country. And of course, he may not be the right person for the job - but we must in any case try something new."
Well, for one thing.
Bringing jobs back home wont happen in decades.
Not in the US or Europe.


Funny you should mention that bit about jobs in the USA and in Europe...

Economic recovery from the 2008 economic crash has been more robust (...not perfect, mind you, but relatively more robust...) than in most European countries. Why, you ask? Well, President Obama opened a national purse and spent from it, while several countries in the European Union instead tried the policy of "fiscal austerity" (or imposed fiscal austerity upon others).

Does this mean that I care not one whit about our National Debt? Absolutely not!!! Our National Debt embarrasses and troubles me deeply, but there are times when heavy government spending is warranted. Economic recession/depression is one of those times.
896) Message boards : Politics : Donald Trump for President? (Message 1828757)
Posted 6 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela, with all due respect, I'm not a progressive because of what those policies have done to inner city America. Detroit, Baltimore and more. Controlled by 'progressive' policies that have not improved their residents situation in 50 years.

Time for a real change, not a promise that's a lie meant to enrich just one family.


JaundicedEye, please know that the respect is mutual.

The last time we had a Progressive Government, FDR was spending us out of a depression (...and ramping up a war effort.)

Urban decay has many causes, racial discrimination being the primary cause. To blame "progressive politics" for urban decay seems a bit simplistic to me, especially since President Obama (who I support and think has done a very good job, given the economy he inherited and the number of global crises facing all of us), did not deliver unto me, upon a silver platter, my much desired socialist utopia.
897) Message boards : Politics : Donald Trump for President? (Message 1828748)
Posted 6 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Damm it Angela you are lucid, that's what being educated can do to you.

How do you know it isn't the wine?
898) Message boards : Politics : Donald Trump for President? (Message 1828744)
Posted 6 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I rarely post in Politics. All I can say to "rationalize" this post is that Eric is at a Cal football game right now (Go Bears!) and I am home self-medicating a cold with several glasses of a nice, crisp Pinot Grigio.

Anyway...

I had the radio on in the car the other day and I heard somebody describe Trump voters as "down-wardly mobile".

It was a phrase that made me go "hmmmmmmm".

Living happily in the liberal bubble, I have to admit that I do not know a whole lot of Trump voters personally. I grew up in a conservative household, but I am pleased and proud to report that many of my Republican relatives are NOT voting for Trump.

If the polls are to be believed though, the term "down-wardly mobile" does make sense. Most polls of likely voters report that probable Trump voters tend to be white males without college degrees, and presumably their family members. Without an investment in higher education, these voters are more likely to have jobs that do not pay well. Or if their jobs involve a skill and actually pay decently (like the absolutely lovely, hard working husband of one of my nieces - he works as a machinist for a paper company in Wisconsin), then those people are probably victims of managerial over-time abuse and their wages, while perhaps relatively good for their geographic area, still lose ground, slowly but steadily, to rises in the cost of living.

Given this, these voters probably DO remember a "great" America in which middle class families could live on a single income (generally dear old dad's) and one parent (mommy dearest) was home to invest time, effort and energy into quality child care and home-making.

(Homemaking and quality child rearing by invested family members are both highly undervalued in our culture, which is a damn shame, but a topic for another thread. Anyway...)

A progressive platform generally involves the following oldies but goodies:

the concept (brace yourselves, non-Canadians and non-Europeans!!!) that healthcare is a right and not a privilege

corporate reform and regulation

doctrine driven by science, not special interests

net neutrality

raising the minimum wage and establishing living wages

higher education without the burden of crushing debt

protection of such "socialista" programs such as Social Security, Medicare and pensions

strengthening of unions, so that workers are treated as human resources instead of exploitable, expendable cogs in a wheel


So here is the question I feel compelled to ask Trump voters:

Why aren't you all raging progressives?

Progressive tenets would clearly help you, and they might even "make America great again."

Why are "dowardly mobile" Trump supporters voting against their own self interests?

YOUR taxes aren't going to go up to pay for all of this... MINE are. And I am voting for Hilary.
899) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1828599)
Posted 5 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Park Police officer accidentally shoots himself while fighting raccoon


The poor animal probably was unwell.

When we have visitors, my little woodland friends prefer to hide and have never attacked any guests we've had. With familiar people, they can be quite friendly.
900) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What's your favorite Sandwich? (Message 1828595)
Posted 5 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In the summer, when tomatoes are ripe and warm on the vines, I like toasted sourdough French bread, mustard, lettuce, tomatoes and some nice sharp cheddar cheese. Yum!
901) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Halloween!!! (Message 1828199)
Posted 3 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thanks Vic. That is very nice.

I'm not sure what you mean by "a thin layer of Crisco", so I'm not sure how your mom made the crust come out right with that. I'm glad you have such nice memories of your family members.

As for the toothpick tip, that is a good one for cakes but not the best way to determine whether a custard pie, such as pumpkin, is done. With custard pies, you actually want to jiggle them a little. The center should still be a little wet, because residual heat will cook the pie through once you remove it from the oven. It is sort of the same idea as removing a roast or poultry from the oven and then letting it rest. In the resting time, the temperature continues to rise due to residual heat in the item being cooked.
902) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Halloween!!! (Message 1828096)
Posted 3 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ang let's be honest... with amount of butter we're putting into these pie crusts there's zero chance of them getting soggy ;)

I find custard pies, even those involving a high butter crust, to be tricky to get right. Custard is easily over-cooked and disgusting when that happens. I generally try to pre-bake the shell some. so that the bottom crust doesn't get too soggy, but then I run the risk of over-baking the shell's outer scalloped edge, no matter how much I try to protect it with aluminum foil or with a pie shield.

If anybody has mastered the perfect pumpkin pie - crisp but not over-baked pie shell, non-burnt edges, softly baked pumpkin custard filling - please let me know. I tried the Cook's Illustrated recipe one Thanksgiving, but my guests were not impressed. C.I. uses brown sugar in the filling and the pie came out more brown than orange. The color was off-putting.
903) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Halloween!!! (Message 1827883)
Posted 2 Nov 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gordon, cute pumpkins!

Alex, I've never baked a pumpkin pie in a cast iron skillet before, but it seems like a very good idea to me. Do you need to pre-bake the crust before you fill it, or is does the cast iron get so hot that the bottom crust crisps through without being soggy?

We had 21 trick-or-treaters last night - the most we've ever had! It was awesome!!!
904) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Halloween!!! (Message 1827666)
Posted 31 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
905) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I've got a bun in the oven! (Daphne's Blog) (Message 1827662)
Posted 31 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Aw!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
906) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photographs by Setizens - Originals only - any subject (Message 1827586)
Posted 30 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes. I took this picture in front of a house around the corner from me. Unfortunately, termites liked it too much.




Wow! The next time we have to take out a tree, I'm going to have to find somebody who can turn the stump into a raccoon for me.
907) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Halloween!!! (Message 1827583)
Posted 30 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
908) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW-The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 258 (Message 1827392)
Posted 29 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela, how did you train them to carve your pumpkins?

LOL!!!

Behavior modification skills are powerful tools to have in one's arsenal...


Blurf, wishing you strength and peace as you deal with your mother's health crisis.
909) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW-The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 258 (Message 1827115)
Posted 28 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
910) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1827112)
Posted 28 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
911) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photographs by Setizens - Originals only - any subject (Message 1826436)
Posted 24 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bernie, what lovely photos!!!
912) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1826402)
Posted 24 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cute bunnies! Thanks for sharing that picture here.
913) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Caring for others - tips and hints, support and strategies, or just plain offloading (Message 1826141)
Posted 22 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you peace, Byron, as you mourn the loss of your beloved brother.
914) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW-The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 258 (Message 1826060)
Posted 22 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Carlos! As the leader of Team Insomnia, you should know better than to give everyone nightmares!!!
915) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Once again.......the kitty portal has opened. (Message 1825959)
Posted 21 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So....I do have an 11AM appointment, but after that, I have an extra day off this week.

Great! Lucky you!!!

Wouldn't it be nice to go over to Lori's this evening and watch a movie, or three?
916) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1825333)
Posted 19 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Byron, welcome home!!!
917) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW-The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 258 (Message 1825150)
Posted 18 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sleep is over-rated.
918) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #65 (Message 1825122)
Posted 18 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gee, is it Thor's Day already?
919) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Dreams (Message 1825120)
Posted 18 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nice dreams are rare for me.

+1 At best, my dreams are neutral. At their worst, I bolt upright and emit bloodcurdling screams.
920) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1824812)
Posted 17 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That suicidal squirrel needs medication and the couch of a good psychiatrist!!!
921) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Caring for others - tips and hints, support and strategies, or just plain offloading (Message 1824494)
Posted 15 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
... Earlier this year it gave up and a friend got him a new one. This of course came with a different remote and a different menu and settings and as his eyesight is really poor he has not been able to get to grips with it. ...

Eric and I had a similar experience with my 92 year old aunt. She needed a new phone. We got her one especially designed for seniors, but it was too complicated for her and we are now on a second, cheaper model. It is working out better for her. Sometimes, with elders, cheaper models of things are better because they have fewer features.
922) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1824487)
Posted 15 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gordon, do you have bears where you live? My mother-in-law has given up trying to feed hummingbirds because the bears in her area rip down the feeders and lick up all the sugar syrup.
923) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1824405)
Posted 15 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I put a little too much white pepper in some soup, and wow! White pepper has a different heat profile than red pepper flakes. The white pepper burns the back of my tongue and makes my head itch, lol.

Yes. White pepper is really different and cannot be used interchangeably with black pepper or with cayenne pepper. I made a similar mistake substituting white pepper for black pepper in a recipe once. The results were not good.
924) Message boards : Cafe SETI : And about time. (Message 1824354)
Posted 15 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...Take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind
Down the foggy ruins of time
Far past the frozen leaves
The haunted frightened trees
Out to the windy bench
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky
With one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea
Circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate
Driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today until tomorrow...
925) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Halloween!!! (Message 1823337)
Posted 10 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cupcakes, devil's food, I presume...
926) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1822874)
Posted 9 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Isn't the den the garage containing all the black widow spiders?

Poor guy just wants to wrap himself up in a nice warm duvet for a bit but instead has to construct a flame thrower and use the "medicine" as fuel :(


Fear not. Eric has an actual room in the house that serves as his man-cave.
927) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW-The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 258 (Message 1822731)
Posted 8 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations on your latest crunching milestone!!!
928) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW-The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 258 (Message 1822424)
Posted 7 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I follow FIRST the teachings of Christ,...

I believe in Capitalism, NOT Socialism.

T.L., dude, I love you like a brother. And like David S, I too am going to try to respect the forum and I will try REALLY hard not to drag the conversation in a political direction, but I simply cannot resist the temptation to state, for the record, that Jesus Christ is my absolute all-time favorite socialist!!!

Goodnight friends!
929) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats Part II (Message 1822417)
Posted 7 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hope that Batman returns to you, my friend.
930) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Halloween!!! (Message 1822413)
Posted 7 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL!!! That entrance is elaborately decorated, but sometimes I lean towards minimalist tendencies. You know, sometimes less is more.

Hence, I give you... my magnificent vulture, surrounded by a couple of friends.
931) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Halloween!!! (Message 1822326)
Posted 6 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL!!!
932) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW-The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 258 (Message 1822308)
Posted 6 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
(I am NOT PC by ANY stretch of the imagination...)

TL, as a friend I know that you will not take issue if I use what you posted to express an opinion. Seems I've been dragging out my soapbox quite a lot lately. Anyway...

Being PC just means that one has extremely good manners.

Why is that so looked down upon these days?

What a shame that our culture has become so polarized that people brag about not even trying to using a filter when they speak or when they write.

(For the record, TL has lovely manners and may actually be more "PC" than even he realizes!!!)
933) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Halloween!!! (Message 1822306)
Posted 6 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That is a beautiful cake, Vic.
934) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Halloween!!! (Message 1822297)
Posted 6 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Let them eat cake.
935) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1822296)
Posted 6 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lock him in his den with a big box of tissues and a bottle of his favourite medicine :-)

LOL!!!

If that doesn't work try warm lemon with honey and his favorite medicine.
http://www.readersdigest.co.uk/health/health-a-z/sore-throat/sore-throats-cures-and-remedies

Eric enjoys his favorite medicine "neat".
936) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1822119)
Posted 6 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lock him in his den with a big box of tissues and a bottle of his favourite medicine :-)

LOL!!!
937) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1822111)
Posted 6 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh my! I would like to clarify, for the record, that Eric is not suffering from G.I. issues.

He has been ill since last Thursday with a very bad cold and cough, probably caused by shaking hands at an international conference with hundreds of scientists from all over the world!

Guadalajara is a modern city with safe water. Eric and I both put ice in our drinks, ate salads, etc while in Guadalajara. Neither one of us developed any G.I. issues while traveling there.
938) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats Part II (Message 1821858)
Posted 5 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Trick or treat!
939) Message boards : Cafe SETI : all the Treks (Message 1821857)
Posted 5 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Something that makes pictures go to our TV is broken and Eric hasn't had time to figure out what, exactly, is broken. We can only get Netflix on TV right now, which is ok with me because we've been watching Next Generation reruns. Much as I'm enjoying them though, I do have to confess that I think that the acting the first season was a little bumpy.
940) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Halloween!!! (Message 1821855)
Posted 5 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's the MOST wonderful time of the year!!!
941) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part IV (Message 1821853)
Posted 5 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Relatives do pass away, sometimes one does get lucky, question is, will lightning strike twice or not? I've no idea.

Vic, please tell us that you didn't mean that the way it sounds!
942) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW-The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 258 (Message 1821775)
Posted 5 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm just grateful that Menudo Monday is over...
943) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photographs by Setizens - Originals only - any subject (Message 1821774)
Posted 5 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow. You live in a beautiful place!
944) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1821772)
Posted 5 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I like to saute mushrooms and used them as omelet fillings.
945) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW-The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 258 (Message 1821665)
Posted 4 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Blurf, may warm memories of your uncle sustain you as you grieve his passing.
946) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1821634)
Posted 4 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela, I do hope you were wearing clothes (at least in public) as it would be so unbecoming to be arrested in foreign country for "indecent exposure"...

What happens in Guadalajara STAYS in Guadalajara!
947) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW-The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 258 (Message 1821455)
Posted 3 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sixteen more crates and I'll be all decorated for Halloween.
948) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photographs by Setizens - Originals only - any subject (Message 1821395)
Posted 2 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow!
949) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1821341)
Posted 2 Oct 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Buenos dias, amigos y amigas.


Eric and I just returned from a trip to Guadalajara. Eric gave a talk at a conference there and I went along to enjoy the beautiful city of Guadalajara. We started with a city tour and later in the week I managed to arrange for myself an excellent private educational tour of the murals of José Clemente Orozco. Eric and I were also both able to tour the very interesting pre-hispanic ruins at Guachimontones. Waiters and Uber drivers all over the city were extremely tolerant with me as I practiced my bad high school Spanish. The citizens of Guadalajara were so warm and welcoming! This was our second trip to Mexico, and Eric and I hope to return to that beautiful country soon. We discovered lots of wonderful new foods, and of course we sampled some tequila!

Despues de dos tequilas, puedo hablar todas las lenguas del mundo. Puedo bailar y puedo cantar... y la ropa??? - Adios!!!
950) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Caring for others - tips and hints, support and strategies, or just plain offloading (Message 1819239)
Posted 23 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Reduced sense of smell should not greatly impact the ability to swallow. Generally it is neurological impairment (i.e. from a stroke, a head injury, progressive neurological disease, dementia etc) that impacts swallowing.

Ask your mother's doctor to refer her for a swallowing evaluation, both bedside and video-fluroscopic. In California these are generally done by speech pathologists. In other states or in other countries, these might be done by occupational therapists or possibly even physical therapists. Licensing laws are different in different places.

Anyway, if you think you mom is at risk for aspiration/aspiration pneumonia, a swallowing evaluation should let you know that and also provide you with guidelines for a modified diet or physical adaptations/maneuvers that may help reduce her risk.
951) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Favorite trees (Message 1819182)
Posted 23 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think I'm going to get one of these:

Ginkgo trees



Gingko trees are lovely and they put on a beautiful autumn display in our area, but make sure you order a male Gingko tree and not a female one. (Yes, some trees have different sexes... who knew, right???!!!)

Anyway, the male trees just drop leaves. The female trees also drop fruit that is inedible, slippery and stinky as it rots.
952) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Caring for others - tips and hints, support and strategies, or just plain offloading (Message 1819180)
Posted 23 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
As difficult as it is to watch loved ones fade, and as difficult as it is to provide and/or manage their care, in the long run, you will never regret the time you spent with aging relatives.
953) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Favorite trees (Message 1819092)
Posted 23 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Carlos, our condolences to you, your ex-wife and your children on the loss of someone who was so loved. May warm memories of your mother-in-law sustain you all as you grieve her passing.

Angela & Eric
954) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1818374)
Posted 20 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Aye, I'll have me a little nip of that.
955) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1818264)
Posted 19 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Captain Angela.


LOL, matey!!! LOL!!!
956) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1818155)
Posted 19 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
957) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1818151)
Posted 19 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Feed???

Yes, I think I'll make a sandwich of that piece of pork loin staring at me when I open the fridge.


Wash it down with some rum, matey!
958) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1818149)
Posted 19 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Arrrrr, good nite to ye, matey!



Talk Like A Pirate Day Song
959) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1818145)
Posted 19 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll make ye walk the plank, I will!

Arrrrrrrrrrr.
960) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #65 (Message 1818144)
Posted 19 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow! Lots of entries - all of them very funny. Tough decision!


Third place goes to JaundicedEye with: "....hmmmm, this Vulcan Mind Meld thing really works!......"

Second place goes to celttooth with: "What cat?"

And the winner is our ever-quirky Anniet with her unexpected caption: "Misty's headcam is always left on"


PM going out to our winner now.....
961) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1818136)
Posted 19 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Celt, ye scurvy dog, mind yer manners. There be wenches about!!!
962) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1818072)
Posted 18 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I sleeps when I'm sleepy, and I wakes when I wakes!

:):)

Beep!




That is how I am when Eric travels. I live like a bear. I eat meals at the oddest of times and don't go to bed until I am sleepy.
963) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Diabetes: Discussion and Recipes (Message 1818071)
Posted 18 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Spawnie is a stray who just showed up one day, and stayed because the food was good. We think he is around ten years old. He has FIV but the vet thinks the diabetes is unrelated to his immune status. Apparently older cats are prone to diabetes and it does not seem to be related to their diets. That being said though, our vet also put Spawnie on a special food, which seems to help. His kitty-diabetes symptoms were the same as human symptoms, excessive thirst and frequent urination.
964) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1818070)
Posted 18 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Man feeds amazing eagles in dutch harbor

Oh my!
965) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Caring for others - tips and hints, support and strategies, or just plain offloading (Message 1818069)
Posted 18 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You're born, then you die. It's what you do between those 2 events that defines a person.

Beautifully put. Annie, Bernie, Pat and Gordon, your loved ones are lucky to be in such good hands.
966) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photographs by Setizens - Originals only - any subject (Message 1818050)
Posted 18 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bernie and Richard, thank you. I enjoyed my "armchair traveling" this morning!
967) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Diabetes: Discussion and Recipes (Message 1817969)
Posted 18 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Our vet just put Spawnie on insulin.
968) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #65 (Message 1817967)
Posted 18 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win. My dad had a Harry Belafonte record that he used to play often.


My friends, please caption this:

969) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #65 (Message 1817770)
Posted 17 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Day-o, day-o...
970) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1817768)
Posted 17 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
THANOS

The Greek root for "death"... not a comment on Vic's health, I hope!!!
971) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #65 (Message 1817479)
Posted 16 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yet another over-reaction to "we need to talk".
972) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #64 (Message 1816701)
Posted 12 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric: "We have enough cats!"
973) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part III (Message 1816600)
Posted 12 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, this is a no-brainer. Go to the nearest ER.
974) Message boards : Cafe SETI : College Football (Message 1816567)
Posted 12 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That's true, but if not on scholarship, a person who wants to play and is accepted on a team sport, does so by choice. The school isn't making the student do anything.

Whether awarded a full scholarship with full living expenses, an academic scholarship only, a partial academic scholarship or no scholarship at all, a student athlete spends a heck of a lot of time representing his or her school, and even more time on the practice field preparing to represent his or her school.

Truth be told Gordon, I'm not worried about the very tippy-top male football or basketball stars who have the red carpets rolled out for them. I'm also not all that worried about daddy's little darling, Ms. Bunny of the junior varsity women's golf team, whose parents are bankrolling her major in ballroom dancing, her room in the sorority house and the gown and shoe shopping bills submitted upon her selection as Daffodil Queen. I'm quite sure that Ms. Bunny will be adequately prepared, upon graduation, for an exciting but short-lived post-collegiate career in Human Resources, before marrying more money.

The kids I am truly worried about are the student athletes who fall somewhere in between the top football stars and Ms. Bunny. They comprise the majority of student athletes.

Much as I enjoy the tradition of college football, I can understand why it might be considered a form of modern slavery. At the very least it smacks of exploitation.
975) Message boards : Cafe SETI : College Football (Message 1816558)
Posted 12 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I consider a scholarship as very good payment.

I used to think that too, until I began to consider all the hours these kids are obligated to put in. Some student athletes come from very impoverished backgrounds. If they are getting an academic scholarship, are they also getting living expenses? They burn tremendous numbers of calories being student athletes. Does a student from an impoverished background even have enough extra cash to adequately cover his or her caloric needs?

Sure, maybe the top athletes at big schools get full academic scholarships, dorm fees and an unlimited campus meal card, but not all athletes are top athletes and not all athletes go to big schools.
976) Message boards : Cafe SETI : College Football (Message 1816550)
Posted 12 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
modern version of slavery


Why do you feel that way? Because of the college scholarships awarded to the student athletes?


Perhaps it is because the student athletes are unpaid and the television revenue that football brings in greatly benefits big schools?

With practice sessions, sessions with their trainers, home games, travel obligations for away games and their own studies, college athletes are very, very, very busy young people.

I think that all college athletes, from Archers to Water Polo-ists, (...that's not a word, is it...) should be paid for their time, just as if they had campus jobs shelving books in the library or filing things in a campus administrator's office.

I know that football is the only sport that really brings in the big bucks, but all campus athletes have jobs if they are good enough to get onto a team.
977) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1816292)
Posted 11 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have been craving some salmon. Eric is a lucky guy, in more ways than one.

I don't know about that... I made him cook the fish when he could have been watching the Cal game!
978) Message boards : Cafe SETI : NFL 2016-2017 Season (Message 1816288)
Posted 11 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What a beautiful response. Go Seahawks!
979) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1816284)
Posted 11 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Salmon in a pesto cream sauce served over mashed potatoes with a side of Brussels sprouts - I was trying to recreate a specialty of a favorite local bistro. Eric cooked the salmon perfectly. He is very good with fish, son of Wisconsin that he is! I made the pesto cream sauce a little stronger than I should have. The potatoes and Brussels sprouts came out fine.
980) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1816275)
Posted 11 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bleh. His followers are going to be missing micro-nutrients, fiber and the joy of eating.

Food is communal. Food is celebratory. Food is delicious. I do not consider eating an obligation. It is a pleasure!
981) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1816270)
Posted 11 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There are very few fruits and vegetables that do not excite me. I go to the Farmer's Market every week I am home to cook. It is one of the highlights of my week. I purchased most of the ingredients for dinner tonight there.
982) Message boards : Cafe SETI : College Football (Message 1816258)
Posted 11 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric enjoyed a Badgers win again today.

(We watch a whole lot of college football around here in the late summer/fall...)
983) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1816252)
Posted 11 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gosh I love the Farmer's Market! I picked up about eight different types of plums and pluots to enjoy this week. There was also a vendor there with a wide variety of dates. Yum!
984) Message boards : Cafe SETI : College Football (Message 1816251)
Posted 11 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric actually attended the Badger's game at Lambeau last weekend. He and his old college buddy were thrilled to see the Badgers win there. They went expecting to see a loss.

Eric and my brother are going to the Cal game next weekend. Go Bears!
985) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1816234)
Posted 10 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, you all know that old saying...

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese!!!
986) Message boards : Cafe SETI : You're driving me buggy! (or, don't post bugs in my thread thread) (Message 1816219)
Posted 10 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mama was very busy last night. She's much thinner this morning. ;-)

You're going to be a grandmother, of about 800 spider babies, right?
987) Message boards : SETI@home Science : new to SETI (Message 1816040)
Posted 10 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome, Katherine! You will find many friends here.

If you have additional questions, you may wish to post them in the Questions and Answers section. Anyone new may post there, even with a RAC of zero.

Welcome aboard!!!
988) Message boards : Cafe SETI : You're driving me buggy! (or, don't post bugs in my thread thread) (Message 1816002)
Posted 9 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh my! Do they sting?
989) Message boards : Cafe SETI : You're driving me buggy! (or, don't post bugs in my thread thread) (Message 1815981)
Posted 9 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
She's a beauty! Congratulations!!!
990) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photographs by Setizens - Originals only - any subject (Message 1815942)
Posted 9 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...We where married on the beach below 2 years before.

Happy Anniversary! Wishing you many, many, many more.
991) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Favorite trees (Message 1815941)
Posted 9 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The trees in this thread are so beautiful!
992) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #64 (Message 1815940)
Posted 9 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
.... and please place our number on your permanent "don't call" list, thank you.
993) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1815809)
Posted 8 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Win?
994) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1815808)
Posted 8 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gosh I hope that her pet raccoon has been vaccinated and is wormed regularly!
995) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1815807)
Posted 8 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Go TL Go!!!
996) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1814566)
Posted 2 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow! One of Eric's cousins was diagnosed with cellulitis just a few weeks ago. I'd never heard of it before then. I hope you heal very quickly, Lynn. Eric's cousin ended up in the hospital, but I think that is because she developed symptoms while on vacation and she resisted doing anything about her symptoms until they got really bad. I'm glad you are getting aggressive medical care!
997) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #64 (Message 1814396)
Posted 1 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Friends,

Thank you for the win, but I will not have access to a computer starting tomorrow about this time, through Tuesday. I must defer to the second place winner, Carlos.

I'll send him a pm.

ang.
998) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1814254)
Posted 1 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
La-la-la-la!!!!!
999) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1814250)
Posted 1 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think this is the winning post...
1000) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1814202)
Posted 1 Sep 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
giggle
1001) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1814045)
Posted 31 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning before a late dinner.
1002) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photographs by Setizens - Originals only - any subject (Message 1814043)
Posted 31 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
OMG, your mom is adorable!!!
1003) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Home Rooftop Solar... (Message 1814041)
Posted 31 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...there are good vendors and bad ones.

That is for darn sure!!! Eric and I were not going to let just anybody run around on our roof installing stuff.
1004) Message boards : News : "Baffling" "signal" "from HD 164595" is probably none of the above. (Message 1813847)
Posted 30 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's a bad habit to doubt things routinely though.

Actually, it is quite a good habit to doubt things routinely. That is how science works.

The very best of scientists have a good idea, and then spend the rest of their careers trying to prove themselves wrong.

I genuinely wish that more people would get into the habit of doubting things routinely.
1005) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photographs by Setizens - Originals only - any subject (Message 1813708)
Posted 30 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I love vanilla ice cream it's my favorite flavor.

My favorite non-homemade dessert is a scoop of Haagen Das vanilla ice cream, served in an over-sized martini glass, with a shot of Kahlua poured over it.

I guess I'd better post a photo, so we don't go too far off topic.

I know I've posted this in other threads before, but I have always loved this picture that Eric took of me a few years ago. (I'm the raccoon, of course...)

1006) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Home Rooftop Solar... (Message 1813704)
Posted 30 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Buying into solar for me is kind of like buying a Prius. The aim is good, but the math just doesn't work out.

I want solar power to progress and be something everyone can use.


Eric and I both drive a Prius. We call them "P-force One" and "P-force Two". Make of that what you will...
1007) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photographs by Setizens - Originals only - any subject (Message 1813661)
Posted 30 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My mother enjoyed ice cream through her "golden years" as well.

May we all enjoy ice cream for a long, long, long time! And you know, the older I get the more I like vanilla. Vanilla is a surprisingly complex flavor.

Thank you for sharing such a heartwarming family photo.
1008) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #64 (Message 1813615)
Posted 29 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sigh... these days, it is so much harder to get a job in web design.
1009) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats Part II (Message 1813612)
Posted 29 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Riddler got a gopher yesterday. I had mixed feelings about this. When she started to eat it, Eric "traded" it for a squeaky toy.
1010) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Home Rooftop Solar... (Message 1813579)
Posted 29 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We are happy solar folks too. We got a federal and state tax credit, our power bill is minimal, Eric and I managed to find a balance between trimming my beautiful trees and maximum solar panel exposure and the panels are not nearly as ugly and noticeable as I thought that they would be. We used a local company and we ended up being very pleased with the whole process.
1011) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP Gene Wilder aka (Willy Wonka, Mock Turtle, Dr. Frankenstein, Jim, Doctor Ross, etc.) (Message 1813574)
Posted 29 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
1012) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1813489)
Posted 29 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hooray for Team Raccoon Lovers - third place winners in the WOW Event for the second year in a row!!! Way to crunch!!!
1013) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1813124)
Posted 28 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I ate reindeer meat on pizza once, in Finland.
1014) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1813036)
Posted 27 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:




Winning by one of these...
1015) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photographs by Setizens - Originals only - any subject (Message 1813035)
Posted 27 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Singing away at the top of my lungs...

And the millennials here sigh and roll their collective eyes as our generation shows our collective age.

(P.S. If you can read this, you are either a millennial or you're using bifocals!)
1016) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1813033)
Posted 27 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Steel knot
1017) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1813021)
Posted 27 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lots of oven-baked mac 'n cheese recipes start with a bechamel sauce, which helps ensure that you get a creamy final product. I find this to be a bit more effort than I want to go through for mac 'n cheese, unless I want a do-ahead dish because nieces and nephews are visiting. For those who subscribe, Cook's Illustrated has an excellent stovetop mac 'n cheese recipe. It is quick, relatively inexpensive and delicious, but not low in calories.
1018) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1813018)
Posted 27 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Very cute!
1019) Message boards : Cafe SETI : SETI@HOME - php web application errors (Message 1813017)
Posted 27 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I emailed Eric a couple of days ago to check this out, but I don't think he has gotten to it yet. Last week was his first week back to work after a two week vacation, so things were pretty crazy for him.
1020) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1812816)
Posted 26 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm cooking from scratch too. I just made two lemon meringue pies to take to a family party celebrating my 91 year old aunt's birthday. We've been celebrating all month. When one is 91, multiple parties should happen!
1021) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Whatcha Watching? (Message 1812807)
Posted 26 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Re-watching Lucifer Season 1 on Blu-ray (with deleted scenes...haven't gotten to the other extras yet...they're on the last disc)

Eric and I also found that series entertaining. It was a unique spin on a classic police show.
1022) Message boards : Cafe SETI : All in all, a pretty darn good day. (Message 1812784)
Posted 26 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Glad that you are ok and that a fire was averted. Thanks for taking the time to remind us to be safe.
1023) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thor is the Designer Cafe! (Message 1812689)
Posted 26 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thor's Day is coming to an end. I'm half asleep and it's a wonder I'm not already thoring.

thzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....

Goodnight friends!
1024) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photographs by Setizens - Originals only - any subject (Message 1812674)
Posted 26 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That photo of Morro Rock is amazing!!! My father-in-law's favorite place in California is Morro Bay. He makes a pilgrimage there every time my in-laws visit California.

The picture of Bunny feeding the squirrel is lovely! Thank you for sharing that beautiful family photo.

One of "my" squirrels is almost that friendly. He comes up to the back door and waits for me to open it and toss him a few peanuts. He could probably be hand-trained, but frankly, I'm the one holding back on that. I've done the pre-rabies vaccination series and I'm up to date on my boosters, so that's not my primary worry. Squirrels have vermin, carry the plague and can be a pound of h*ll when they get upset, so I'm not really anxious to get too close.
1025) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1812604)
Posted 25 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Powerhouse of efficiency win.
1026) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Planet Found in Habitable Zone around Proxima Centauri (Message 1812603)
Posted 25 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Take me to your leader.
1027) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I've got a bun in the oven! (Daphne's Blog) (Message 1812602)
Posted 25 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
She makes Trump hair look good!

Well said!
+1

You have such a beautiful little girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1028) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photographs by Setizens - Originals only - any subject (Message 1812576)
Posted 25 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The squirrels and bunnies are making me smile!
1029) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1811962)
Posted 24 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not enough Bats in your belfry...

Some would argue that there are entirely too many...
1030) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1811961)
Posted 24 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A family unit is a good guess. Poor little things.
1031) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1811936)
Posted 23 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
For the last two years we've had a pair of loggerhead shrikes nesting in some nearby trees. Now we have some juvenile shrikes who enjoy hanging out on our back fence. Boy are they loud! I can't figure out if they are trying to establish territory, or if they are just making noise for the sheer joy of it.
1032) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1811934)
Posted 23 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning here, winning there... hey, I'm winning everywhere!!!
1033) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (103) Server Problems? (Message 1811457)
Posted 22 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for red-xing your own post. I am happy to remove it, at your request, as it does provide a link to an inappropriate profile in a currently banned account.

Per your request, I will leave my response and your subsequent post standing, as I think that the discussion clarifies one of the issues you have raised.

Moderating is an imperfect "art" done with some imperfect software.

We do what we can to make our boards a pleasant place for most.
1034) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (103) Server Problems? (Message 1811416)
Posted 22 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's currently out of the technical reach of the mods (as you can see froma profile that hasn't changed in almost a week)
...so it pretty much gives you "carte-blanche" for even non-'kid friendly' content (until the official antiquated forum rules get a well-deserved update)


The offensive profile you have cited is in a currently banned account.

You are correct in that moderators cannot make changes to or hide profiles. If a profile is inappropriate, the user is asked to modify it. If the user does not comply, the account is banned.

Suggesting that a fellow community member post offensive material in a profile is neither good nor helpful advice.
1035) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1811293)
Posted 22 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Since we are currently engaged in the WOW event, I have changed my signature to my battle raccoon. (Go Team Raccoon Lovers!!!)

I just hope I remember how to change it back....

Do you know any forum experts that could help you? :-)


I believe that I do....
1036) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1811281)
Posted 22 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Even your husband of many years has not trained you yet.

"Trained???!!!"

Given an attitude like that, I predict that you will die alone.
1037) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1811274)
Posted 22 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Since we are currently engaged in the WOW event, I have changed my signature to my battle raccoon. (Go Team Raccoon Lovers!!!)

I just hope I remember how to change it back....
1038) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1811258)
Posted 22 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Back from Wisconsin win!!!

You consider leaving Wisconsin a win???
I guess then, that you were visiting Eric's family again.
Shame on you for considering leaving our fine state a good thing.
May Eric whip you with a thousand noodles.
Virtual noodles, of course.

Meow.



I did not mean to imply that leaving Wisconsin was a win. I was simply posting in the most common format of this thread: State what you have just done (i.e. eaten breakfast, smoked a cigarette, washed the kitchen floor) and then follow it with the word "win".

I actually think that Wisconsin is a lovely state, especially in August when the grass is still green, the wildflowers are still blooming, most of the disease carrying ticks are gone, you don't inhale nearly as many insects when you breathe in, the bears are slightly less aggressive, its idiotic governor is on vacation, it's not deer huntin' season, and one does not have to worry about dying of hypothermia because one's car has just skidded off the icy road right into a ditch filled will several feet of freshly fallen snow.

Wisconsin... where the state motto should be "nine months of snow, three months of bugs".
1039) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1811230)
Posted 22 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Back from Wisconsin win!!!
1040) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Star Trek Beyond (Message 1811223)
Posted 22 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Probably yes. That Next Generation episode about the meta-morph was without phaser fire, if I recall correctly. The Next Generation episode about the culture whose linguistic system was based on metaphors (one of my "favs", of course, as a lover of language) was a great example of the extremely judicious use of violence.

Not sure about the original Star Trek... better experts here than me. Same deal for Deep Space 9 and Voyager and most of the movies.

Anyway, a little phaser fire, used in moderation, can be a good thing. Non-stop phaser fire, explosions and falls from which one could not possibly survive physically intact are completely beyond my ability to appreciate.

If I were 19, perhaps I would think Star Trek Beyond was a great movie.

At 53, I am simply too old for such nonsense.
1041) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Star Trek Beyond (Message 1811199)
Posted 22 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Phaser fire, fireballs, free-falls...

Star Trek movies do not HAVE to be action movies.

I'm too old for movies like this.
1042) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Another loved one crossing the Rainbow Bridge (Message 1810847)
Posted 20 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you peace as you mourn the passing of your beloved pet.

Angela & Eric
1043) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I've got a bun in the oven! (Daphne's Blog) (Message 1809809)
Posted 17 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations on the birth of your lovely daughter!!!
1044) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Newbie - Just arrived (Message 1809533)
Posted 16 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome! You will find many friends here.
1045) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Star Trek Beyond (Message 1809530)
Posted 16 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I just made a "date" to see it on Sunday. I'm excited!!!
1046) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1809528)
Posted 16 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Homemade waffles!!!
1047) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Kenny Baker, Star Wars R2-D2 actor, dies aged 81 (Message 1809526)
Posted 16 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
1048) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Photographs by Setizens - Originals only - any subject (Message 1808438)
Posted 11 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This is a lovely thread. Thank you to all who have posted pictures!
1049) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1808216)
Posted 10 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bernie, thank you for posting those lovely pictures.

(Hi Everybody!!!)
1050) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1808213)
Posted 10 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome!!! What a darling son you have!!!
1051) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A happy monument (Message 1807193)
Posted 5 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'd rather write my own eulogy and obituary. Who knows what my nieces and nephews are planning to say upon my demise!!
1052) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A happy monument (Message 1807184)
Posted 5 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ooooh-laa-laa - Halloween in August!!! Nicely done!!!
1053) Message boards : Politics : Hillary Clinton - the next president of America? (Message 1806921)
Posted 4 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No, no, no! Dull taught me she's a non-hawkish, non-fiscal conservative, liberal/socialist/pink/commie!

Awesome!!! Now I shall vote for her with bells on my toes!!!
1054) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1806914)
Posted 4 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Both.
1055) Message boards : Politics : Hillary Clinton - the next president of America? (Message 1806902)
Posted 3 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My "issues" with Hilary reside in my fears that she might end up a "hawkish" president and that she might be a president who is more of a fiscal conservative than I would want her to be.

She is an attorney, has served the nation as First Lady, has served as a senator and has served as secretary of state.

I will have no difficulty voting for her in November.
1056) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1806899)
Posted 3 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I know this is a terribly unpopular thing to confess to, but I hate the Olympics!!!
1057) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1806860)
Posted 3 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What wonderful news!!! Congratulations!!!
1058) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Train Thread 2 (Message 1806732)
Posted 3 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am really enjoying lurking in this thread. Also, thank you for all of the plane museum recommendations!
1059) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1806709)
Posted 3 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winner, winner, chicken dinner...

(But actually we're having some left-over vegetarian pasta.)
1060) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1806560)
Posted 2 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That dinner is appallingly deficient in vegetation, specifically the green variety!!!
1061) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Train Thread 2 (Message 1806543)
Posted 2 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Question for the train aficionados:

Eric loves vintage planes. Every time we travel to a new city, Eric manages to find an aviation museum for us to visit.

So......... what is your favorite train museum and what keeps you going back there again and again?
1062) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 257 - Marvel's Luke Cage 1x01 Moment of Truth! (Message 1806540)
Posted 2 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Blade and Happy B-day to your brother!!!
1063) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1806408)
Posted 1 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That sounds amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1064) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 256 (Message 1806297)
Posted 1 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Win on both counts - Wisconsin and North Carolina!!!
1065) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Career day (Message 1806278)
Posted 1 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
When I was 12-17 I was the best archer in My boy scout troop, not too bad, I'd
get into the red zone every time, and this was with no practice, I did get close
to the yellow zone in the center, I could have been a contender... Plus I'm
ambidextrous and I was self taught.

So your career goal was to be Robin Hood, right?
1066) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 256 (Message 1806277)
Posted 1 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"One of the most comprehensive studies on the subject found only 31 individual cases of voter impersonation out of more than 1 billion votes cast in the United States since the year 2000. Researchers have found that reports of voter fraud are roughly as common as reports of alien abduction"

And yet... allegations of voter fraud have been used to justify changes in voter registration legislation in multiple states, most notably North Carolina, with the resulting disenfranchisement (...that's a word, right?) of hundreds, possibly thousands of citizens.

I love my country, but we have some problems here that need fixing, pronto.
1067) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What's your favorite conspiracy theory? (Message 1806230)
Posted 1 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, but ET's make the real ones.

Don't we wish!!!
1068) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 256 (Message 1806228)
Posted 1 Aug 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Drool.
1069) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What's your favorite conspiracy theory? (Message 1806199)
Posted 31 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think that crop circles are cool. I saw a documentary once on how people make them.
1070) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Career day (Message 1806175)
Posted 31 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I wanted to be a teacher for most of my childhood. It just took me 25+ years to get there, as now I work part time supervising beginning graduate students in my field, as they amass clinical clock hours working in a university speech pathology clinic.
1071) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1806170)
Posted 31 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
For ice cream lovers who like the flavour to be tropical.

LOL!!! Looks very unappetizing to me. Are those round things supposed to be "Squirtle Eggs?" Bleh! Gotta dispatch 'em all!
1072) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The kitties will still be hangin' around. (Message 1806139)
Posted 31 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gentle Readers,

As the kitties will NOT be "hangin' around" for a couple of weeks, I am taking the liberty of locking this thread at this time.

Angela K.
1073) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1806130)
Posted 31 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is that the raccoon in your sig? Sure looks like it.

If it is, I didn't realize it. My tech skills are appallingly low. One of my teammates graciously made my current sweet raccoon signature for me. Another teammate was kind enough to make my ferocious battle raccoon signature, which I will switch to for the WOW event. (Go Team Raccoon Lovers!!!)
1074) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 256 (Message 1806006)
Posted 31 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1075) Message boards : Politics : Gary Johnson for President (Message 1806004)
Posted 31 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think it would be great for others to stand up and run for president. It's not brainwashing that makes people stick with Democrat or Republican. It's just the lack of knowledge that there are other options, and that also means fewer people try to run independently. It's a catch-22.


Please do not forget that votes for Ralph Nader inadvertently helped George W Bush into the White House. Can you blame some of us for being gun-shy?
1076) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1806003)
Posted 31 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1077) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 256 (Message 1806000)
Posted 31 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Double, double, toil and trouble...
1078) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Jack Lass (Message 1805940)
Posted 30 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
1079) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The kitties will still be hangin' around. (Message 1805921)
Posted 30 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am also entitled, by my extensive history and dedicated work here on the project to have a little more to say than some.

That is entirely untrue.
1080) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1805713)
Posted 29 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Like Ellie Mae, we do have quite a number of "critter lovers" 'round these parts.
1081) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1805710)
Posted 29 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I seem to be in luck. My local grocery store stocks "Fruit Cake" fruits. I can get them fancy and chopped up together or each whole and separate.

Lucky you! They are more seasonal in our area. I did find one small independent grocery store that still had candied fruits, but I'm pretty sure they were the fruits that didn't sell last holiday season. Not that shelf life matters that much with candied fruits though...
1082) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1805707)
Posted 29 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A few of my neighbors have hens, as well. I wouldn't be able to leave the
hens alone in the back yard in some small enclosure. It's just not how I
am with animals.


Plus, your raccoons would do everything in their power to eat your chickens. You would have to put the chickens in a "raccoon proof" enclosure every night.
1083) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1805647)
Posted 29 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's becoming trendy around here to raise chickens in the backyard, but I'll stick with the grocery for my eggs.

Trendy or poor?

It is trendy in our urban neighborhood as well. I don't mind hearing roosters in the morning. The nearest one is down the street a bit, so not nearly as annoying as our neighbor's dogs who want to tear me to bits every time I take out the trash.

I've found that fresh eggs at the Farmer's Market are not always as "fresh" as I'd like them to be. Sometimes they are excellent, and sometimes they are stale with some rotten "surprises".

I can easily go through a couple of dozen eggs in a week when I'm on a baking frenzy. An angel food cake takes a dozen whites. The yolks can go into sponge cake rounds, which I bake and freeze to be frosted later when I need a quick homemade dessert. If I make a couple of Italian tortas (sort of like a crustless vegetable quiche) that's another six to eight eggs per application. Bake a lemon pie and that's another 4 eggs. Make Salad Nicoise and I'm hard boiling more eggs. Before you know it, the cartons are all empty.
1084) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lost in space. (Message 1805642)
Posted 29 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, a long, long, long time ago there was this puddle of chemicals... a primordial goo, as Q on Star Trek would call it, and ...
1085) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Babylon 5 actor Jerry Doyle dies aged 60 (Message 1805641)
Posted 29 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Big fan of the show as well, although it got a little silly at the end...

R.I.P.
1086) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1805428)
Posted 28 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lovely decor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1087) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 256 (Message 1803615)
Posted 20 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The best thing about living in a place so close to a beautiful city like San Francisco is that people want to visit.

The worst thing about living in a place so close to a beautiful city like San Francisco is that people want to visit.
1088) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 256 (Message 1803609)
Posted 20 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh it's so nice to have Angela back again.

I didn't go anywhere!!!

Are you sure?! :)

Quite sure. We had a house guest for a little while, so maybe I didn't post as much as usual. We have another house guest moving in tomorrow and staying for a week, so if I post less, there is no need to send out any search parties.
1089) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 256 (Message 1803583)
Posted 20 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh it's so nice to have Angela back again.

I didn't go anywhere!!!
1090) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 256 (Message 1803569)
Posted 20 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Petulant tirade...
Gimme my win!!! My win!!! My win!!! No, my win!!!
Petulant tirade...
1091) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 256 (Message 1803567)
Posted 20 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angry rant!!!

I am deserving of a win!!!

Angry rant!!!
1092) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Whatcha Watching? (Message 1803565)
Posted 20 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I recently finished that 10 hour OJ documentary. It was very well done.


I got all OJ'd out during the original trial on tv.


So did we, but this documentary provided context, context, context.

The documentary is not at all sensational. Rather, it methodically examines complex race relations in our country.

I highly recommend the viewing of this documentary.
1093) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Whatcha Watching? (Message 1803560)
Posted 19 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I recently finished that 10 hour OJ documentary. It was very well done.
1094) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 256 (Message 1803559)
Posted 19 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wistful sigh...
I feel so entitled to a win.
Another wistful sigh...
1095) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Uli!!!!!!! (Message 1803557)
Posted 19 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What type of pie is that?

It is Quiche Lorraine, one of the few foods that can tempt Ulibelle to the table for breakfast.
1096) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 256 (Message 1803550)
Posted 19 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I regret to inform you that your win has been cancelled.

Please see a gate attendant for assistance with re-scheduling.
1097) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1803531)
Posted 19 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sue - lovely picture!

Ulibelle and company - lovely picture!

Thanks you for sharing these special photos with all of us!!!
1098) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Proper use of Go Fund Me (Message 1803530)
Posted 19 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Awesome van! Congratulations on the new set of wheels!!!
1099) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1803441)
Posted 19 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, I think you mis-understood my question. I certainly wasn't implying that you should post your health report card, especially the more personal stuff (Merciful heavens!!!), but congratulations on being so healthy.

I only asked you whether you thought that the health screenings that your doctor orders for you and the advice that your doctor gives you would be different if your doctor knew your exact weight on the day of an appointment, as opposed to your doctor knowing your approximate, self-reported weight on the day of an appointment.

My argument is that having a scale that records your exact weight would probably not change what your doctor says to you or what health screenings your doctor orders for you.

If (heaven forbid!!!) you had to have surgery, then an exact weight recording would probably be warranted so that you could be properly and safely anesthetized, but for an ordinary doctor's visit I simply cannot imagine any difference your actual weight vs your recorded weight would make in how your doctor manages your care.
1100) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 256 (Message 1803429)
Posted 19 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm winner of this thread.

Indeed, you were the winner... until I came along!!!
1101) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1803428)
Posted 19 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...the office relies on Me to give them a reading of My weight, their
scale goes to 300lbs only, I tried to get one that went higher, the office
ignored the request...


Vic, you have mentioned this scale issue many times before. I've resisted commenting in the past, but truth be told, my curiosity is piqued. This time around I am simply going to ask you... What do you think would be different, in terms of the doctor's medical advice to you, were the doctor to verify your exact weight vs having you simply report to him that you weigh around 400 pounds, give or take 20 pounds on either side of 400?

It does not really make sense for your doctor to invest in a scale that precisely weighs 1% or maybe 2% of his patient caseload, as his advice to this subset of patients is probably going to be the same whether they weigh in at 300 or at 400 pounds.

We all know the medical health risks of obesity - Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, metabolic syndrome, heart disease, stroke, cancer, breathing disorders, gallbladder disease, fertility problems, sexual dysfunction, fatty liver disease and osteoarthritis.

A patient who weighs 300 pounds would probably get the same health checks, and the same medical advice, as a patient who weighs 400 pounds.

Truth be told, I'm with the doctor on this one!

Why buy an expensive special scale when it does not change the things your doctor would check, or the advice your doctor would give you?
1102) Message boards : Cafe SETI : all the Treks (Message 1803420)
Posted 19 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Star Trekkin across the universe; always going forward, cuz we can't find reverse...
1103) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Uli!!!!!!! (Message 1803418)
Posted 19 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
P.S.

I posted a cake picture because it is traditional, but THIS is what Uli probably actually prefers to cake...

1104) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Uli!!!!!!! (Message 1803417)
Posted 19 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Happy Birthday Ulibelle!!!
1105) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1803416)
Posted 19 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think that Uli's real birthday is 7/18, so I will start a thread now!!!
1106) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Nicolas Leslie, UC Berkeley student, victim of Nice attack. (Message 1803338)
Posted 18 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.

My heart breaks for all the victims and for their grieving family members and friends.

Peace on Earth.
1107) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1803336)
Posted 18 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Too cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1108) Message boards : Cafe SETI : State Fairs (Message 1803035)
Posted 16 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My parents took me to the Stanislaus County fair a couple of times when I was a child. Stanislaus County is in the central valley and so that county fair has livestock and things you are less likely to find in counties that incorporate more urban areas. I'd never been to a livestock auction before my parents took me to that fair. It was interesting and educational.

I don't remember trying any foods. My dad was a dentist, and his children were kept on a pretty tight dietary leash when it came to sweets. (This probably accounts for my current love of baking...)

My favorite childhood memory of the Stanislaus County fair is of a fellow who would guess your age and your weight. If he got within a certain range, he kept the money you paid him. If he was off by a certain amount, you got your money back and some of his. If there was a dispute, he would ask for your driver's license to verify your age. He also had a huge public scale on display to verify weights.

I remember my dad teasing my mom that she should try this contest. My mother flatly refused and was not amused at all by the notion of stepping on a giant public scale to verify her weight!!!

I have never been to our local Alameda County fair. I think Carlos is correct. California is too populous and too geographically large for a state fair. If we have a state fair, I've never heard of it and I've lived in California all my life.
1109) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1802445)
Posted 13 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
May you both forever be as happy as you look!
1110) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1802264)
Posted 13 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If you're happy and you know it, be a raccoon!
1111) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 256 (Message 1802258)
Posted 12 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pong.
1112) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1802257)
Posted 12 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Looks like a fun time was had by all! Thank you for sharing these excellent pictures.
1113) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1802035)
Posted 11 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It means they don't have their beliefs challenged, even gently - till I show up anyway :)

May you always show up and may you always be welcome.
1114) Message boards : Politics : Ark park (Message 1801889)
Posted 10 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If I want to see an engineering marvel, I'll go back to Hoover Dam.

All that concrete!!! It's a religious experience for me!!!
1115) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 256 (Message 1801888)
Posted 10 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Presto-change-oh-win-oh!!!
1116) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A reader's corner (Message 1801887)
Posted 10 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
God and the Afterlife, by Jeffrey Long, M.D..

His practice has had him in contact with many people who have had near death experiences, and there are some striking similarities between many of them.


I have no doubt that cerebral hypoxia can cause some interesting hallucinations and that some parallels in the experiences of people who have had anoxic incidents can be found. The question of an afterlife remains one of faith.
1117) Message boards : Politics : Another example of USA Gun Laws (or lack of...)? (Message 1801885)
Posted 10 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Please oh please post about issues and not about one another.

In the interest of an attempt at free speech, moderators try to moderate posts in Politics "lightly", if at all.

Please oh please don't force us to become heavy-handed.

We don't want that. You don't want that.

Everybody play nice, or please don't play at all.
1118) Message boards : Politics : Donald Trump for President? (Message 1801884)
Posted 10 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Please oh please post about issues and not about one another.

In the interest of an attempt at free speech, moderators try to moderate posts in Politics "lightly", if at all.

Please oh please don't force us to become heavy-handed.

We don't want that. You don't want that.

Everybody play nice, or please don't play at all.
1119) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1801873)
Posted 10 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That's just so cool! :)

That's just so logical, from an evolutionary stand point.

Goats are herbivores. Their ancestors were probably a prime food source for some perpetually hungry carnivores. Visual adaptations that let goats see all around them make perfect sense.

Goat ancestors who were LESS able than their goat peers to see well all around them were MORE likely to become some hungry carnivore's dinner.

Goat ancestors with more narrow fields of vision were less likely to have lots of goat babies survive to reproduce themselves. Goat ancestors with a slightly wider field of view were more likely to have their goat babies survive to reproduce themselves.

Over time, lots and lots of time, a wider visual field was favored and became part of the standard operating package for goat ancestors.

No surprise that the goats we've domesticated retain the traits of their ancestors. It is harder to lose an adaptation than one would think. Evolutionary pressures would have to disfavor an adaptation to eliminate it. Neutral evolutionary pressures have little to no impact on a trait. So while domesticated goats are currently protected from predators by their human goatherds, it is not surprising that goats still retain the wide visual fields of their ancestors.

It makes me sooooooooooooooooo crazy when I read about small conclaves of small-minded people who do not want evolution taught in our public schools. Evolution is an excellent template for understanding how the world works, from giraffes with their long and graceful necks down to modern day bacteria that have become resistant to the antibiotics we attempt to use to eradicate them.

Mother Nature, with all of her complicated evolutionary pressures, is pretty darn frickin awesome!!!
1120) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Name your top 3+ music artists (Message 1801661)
Posted 9 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not possible, depends on mood.

+1
1121) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1801468)
Posted 8 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Possums! What's not to love?

Their eyes look like shoe buttons and their ears look like burnt potato chips!

Possums are awesome!!!
1122) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1801462)
Posted 8 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just curious - what was the possum doing that made it a nuisance? All our possums ever do is eat birdseed and look adorable. Our possums are simply too dumb to ever get into any real trouble. I serenade possums with a special song whenever I see one in the backyard. Possums are great!
1123) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Vic! (Message 1801422)
Posted 8 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Terrific, Vic!!! It is good to know that you can drive your car safely again.
1124) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1801395)
Posted 8 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Out a little pile of grapes and/or cat food in a location you can easily view from a window. Put food in the same place each night for about a week. I'm 99.99% sure that within a week or two you will see a raccoon... or several.

If you feed them, they will come.

P.S. Don't do this if you have bears in your area!
1125) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1801386)
Posted 7 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And they wouldn't just try to snuffle up and eat the flour?

Nope. Raccoons show no interest in flour. It is what professional trappers use to make sure that attics are empty before the seal up holes in them.
1126) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Belated Birthday, TimeLord04 (Message 1801385)
Posted 7 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Aw shucks! If I were a Time Lord, this wouldn't be belated at all!!!

Happy Belated Birthday, Scott.
1127) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1801380)
Posted 7 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Do you know about the flour trick?

Sprinkle flour outside the hole, then you can track who is going in and out by the direction (and number) of their tiny paw tracks. This is a good way to know if mama is taking her babies out and about yet.
1128) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1801316)
Posted 7 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm glad that you let her go, but raccoons in one's attic are a bad idea.

Maybe wait until fall or early winter when all the kits should be weaned and gone, then trap her again and release her far away? Make sure you find the hole or holes that allow her into your attic and seal them up after you get her out. Use really strong stuff to seal the hole. Raccoons are good at ripping things apart.
1129) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Vic! (Message 1801205)
Posted 7 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
May your birthday be Cylon free!

Fondly,
Angela & Eric
1130) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1801117)
Posted 6 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A few years back I planted some snap peas. One day the sprouting seedlings were happily leafing out; the next day they had all been nibbled down to the stalk. I suspected the involvement of a wascally wabbit, but I could never prove it. Now we use bird netting to keep hungry critters away from sprouting plants. The netting seems to work pretty well.
1131) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Eric!!! (Message 1800355)
Posted 3 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


The love of my life, moon of my desire and hard-working son of the dessert table is now officially older than 49 and younger than 51...
1132) Message boards : Politics : Donald Trump for President? (Message 1800354)
Posted 3 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
He also knows that if we Europeans where allowed to carry guns the outcome of all the terrorist attacks now happening would be completly different.

Not so - recent cases in point: San Bernadino and Orlando.
1133) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The kitties will still be hangin' around. (Message 1800268)
Posted 3 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations on your crunching milestone.
1134) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The last news from Lake Wobegon (Message 1800182)
Posted 2 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sniff...
1135) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor - Dead at 87. (Message 1800181)
Posted 2 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
He spoke at my high school when I was there... (back when dinosaurs walked the Earth)

R.I.P.
1136) Message boards : Politics : M E T Three (Message 1800040)
Posted 2 Jul 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This thread was locked at the request of the thread originator. Moderators received a request to unlock it, but not from the original poster.

If any wish to continue discussion of this topic, a new thread may be started.
1137) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 256 (Message 1799564)
Posted 30 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You rang?
1138) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1799523)
Posted 30 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Agreed!
1139) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1799486)
Posted 29 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cook's Illustrated has a great fruit crisp recipe. If you have ripe nectarines, nectarines and blueberries make a really terrific fruit crisp.

I don't, personally, care for The Cook's Illustrated blueberry cobbler recipe. I made it once and I didn't like it. Their cobbler topping contains cornmeal, which I find to be unpleasantly gritty in baked goods outside of cornbread, where cornmeal actually belongs.

My opinion on cornmeal, however, is not a popular one at the moment. I've seen lots of recipes lately for all sorts of baked goods that incorporate a bit of cornmeal for texture. Cornmeal seems to have become "trendy".
1140) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 256 (Message 1799481)
Posted 29 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.
1141) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1799479)
Posted 29 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1142) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Diabetes: Discussion and Recipes (Message 1799478)
Posted 29 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gary, your contributions to this thread are high quality!!!

Thank you for so generously sharing your insights and expertise.

My mother was a diabetic who didn't work at things much. She paid for that in her later years. I salute those of you who are working so hard to get a handle on this challenging disorder.
1143) Message boards : Cafe SETI : (Dang im a noob) Well I need help with my account... (Message 1799376)
Posted 29 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome!!!

I can't help you with technical stuff as machines sense my fear and malfunction just to spite me, but I am happy to answer any questions you may have about raccoons.
1144) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1799374)
Posted 29 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm surprised that the reindeer don't eat the potted plants. We have mule deer out here and they are like goats! There is very little they find unappetizing.
1145) Message boards : Cafe SETI : my 1st seti-home milestone (Message 1799373)
Posted 29 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations!!!
1146) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1799283)
Posted 29 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My in-laws in Wisconsin get them in the summer. Maybe the lightening bug population fluctuations you've noticed are based on dry vs wet summers?
1147) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Relay for Life 2016 (Message 1799151)
Posted 28 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations, Blurf, on all these wonderful achievements, and especially on reaching your personal fundraising best!!!
1148) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats Part II (Message 1799036)
Posted 27 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P. beautiful Spitty.

Bernie, wishing you peace and sending love from the Korpela Kitty-Cat Consortium - Eric, Angela, Stinky Lou, Spawnie, Eva, Penguin, Joker and The Riddler.
1149) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1798227)
Posted 23 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yay Vic!!!
1150) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 256 (Message 1798112)
Posted 23 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, please. Nothing like a good zombie!
1151) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 256 (Message 1798107)
Posted 23 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll have a zombie... very Halloween!
1152) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 256 (Message 1797872)
Posted 22 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winner winner left-overs for dinner.
1153) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats Part II (Message 1797810)
Posted 21 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've tried to encourage our Stinky-Lou to eat less and move more, but alas to no avail. She is the kind of kitty who thinks she will find love at the bottom of the food bowl. Still, we love our plus-size kitty.
1154) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1797580)
Posted 20 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In: 155.0 lbs.
1155) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Anton Yelchin - Pavel Chekov Dead at 27 :-( (Message 1797470)
Posted 20 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
1156) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats Part II (Message 1797315)
Posted 19 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cat Wine

Good grief!!!
1157) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 256 (Message 1797284)
Posted 18 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Lynn!!!
1158) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1797282)
Posted 18 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoon Pool Party!!!

All are welcome to take the plunge.
1159) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part III (Message 1797280)
Posted 18 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Morning Ang!
LSM told me to complement you on your
flowers, they look like hers, but they
seem to be taller. She has hers growing
along the front fence.



They are infectious, very good indeed!



edit;
You don't think that the size may be connected to how far south you are eh?



Actually, the pictures are of Gordon's flowers... and they are quite lovely!

My compliments to LSM and her green thumb!!!
1160) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part III (Message 1797148)
Posted 18 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Tiger lilies in my yard today~











Wow!!!

Wow, wow, wow!!!

But I think those are day lilies. Tiger lilies look like this:
1161) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1797026)
Posted 18 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1162) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1797021)
Posted 18 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1163) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Now back to "The Live Performance Thread!" (Message 1797020)
Posted 18 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Daniel, welcome home!!!
1164) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats Part II (Message 1797018)
Posted 18 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Annie, wishing your kitty a speedy recovery... with love from six cousins from across the pond - Stinky Lou, Eva, Spawnie, Penguin, Joker and Riddler.
1165) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 256 (Message 1797016)
Posted 18 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Alert. Awake. Oriented x3... and winning!!!
1166) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Missing Persons Bureau (a.k.a. The Mother Hens Thread) (Message 1796073)
Posted 14 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Jim posted 4 hours ago in the train thread.
1167) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Something kitty this way comes....the kitties are back. (Message 1796031)
Posted 14 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Moderators have the discretion of allowing posters short term cooling-off periods of 6 hours. It is likely that Mark will return in six hours, so at this point I will refrain from hiding posts or locking/closing Mark's personal journal-style thread. If Mark is banned for a longer period of time, the moderating team members will consider locking or hiding this thread.

cRunchy, thank you for the kindness you have shown in your posts.
1168) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 256 (Message 1795998)
Posted 14 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Molten Chocolate!!!
1169) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Scary news, I hope no S@H members afected... (Message 1795988)
Posted 14 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Peace on Earth.
1170) Message boards : News : Arecibo still threatened with closure. (Message 1795987)
Posted 14 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm Embarrassed Every Time I See Arecibo on TV show or Movie.

It Looks Like CRAP. I Don't Care if It Works Magnificently. It is A Dirty, Crappy Looking Machine.

Quit Wasting Tax Dollars for It.

Unfilled Pot-Holes have more interest to me than A Rusted, Dirty, Crappy Dish.

Yap to Da Yap Power.



I've been to Arecibo. It is a beautiful place. There are wild orchids growing under that dish! Yes the facility was built decades ago and she is showing her age, but she still works.
1171) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1795498)
Posted 11 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In 10 days:

Swam ~ 1.159 miles.
Biked 8 miles (first ride today).
Walked ~ 33.64 miles.



In 10 days:

Ate ice cream twice. Hey... for me that's pretty good!!!

(Sarge, you must be in terrific physical shape! Good for you!)
1172) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1794163)
Posted 7 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That means my trip to the scales was not a memorable one. 226 pounds, but
you should see my tan!

Merciful heavens!!! Is it an all-over tan???!!!
1173) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1794019)
Posted 6 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-in: 155.8 lbs
1174) Message boards : Number crunching : vlar data and breakthrough listen (Message 1793741)
Posted 5 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am moving this thread to Number Crunching as I believe that more interested parties will participate in discussion of this topic there.
1175) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1793734)
Posted 5 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We have three neighbor-kittens hanging around our backyard these days (Penguin, Joker and The Riddler). I'll admit, I've grown attached. I provided them with some cat toys recently, which they seem to enjoy. Last night Snowball, our blond raccoon, was playing with a cat toy. Snowball is fully grown. I have seen raccoon kits play with toys before, but never an adult raccoon. Who knew???!!!
1176) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1793618)
Posted 5 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Go Scott Go!!! Awesome news!!! Awesome progress!!!
1177) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1793617)
Posted 5 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Saw a pair of odocoileus hemionus fuliginatus walking bold as day down the sidewalk nibbling on some rosebush.

I can also assert with 100% certainty that they enjoy daylily buds.

If I get any daylily flowers in my front yard, it is only because they have accidentally missed a bud here and there because they were so distracted by other tasty edibles in my garden.

Those #$%&*()(*&^%$^*(*%E$%^&WQ(1!!! things are worse than goats!!!
1178) Message boards : Politics : Boxing should be illegal (Message 1793283)
Posted 4 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Muhammad Ali, R.I.P.

Boxing should be illegal. It is difficult to defend a "sport" in which somebody is declared a "winner" when he has given his opponent a head injury.

There is nothing sporting about brain damage.
1179) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Muhammad Ali, boxing legend, cultural icon dies at 74 (Message 1793280)
Posted 4 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
1180) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 256 (Message 1793181)
Posted 3 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Good Morning - the last one of the working week, which means it is POETS day :-)

Good morning dear friends
I'll keep all this terse
Since it's POETS DAY
Why not talk in verse?
1181) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 256 (Message 1793066)
Posted 3 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodnight Carlos.
1182) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday to Angela! (Message 1792789)
Posted 2 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thanks for all the kind birthday wishes. We were too busy last weekend to celebrate, but Ol' Pookers can't get out of it next weekend.

I'm locking the thread now, but thanks again for all the lovely wishes.
1183) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #64 (Message 1792469)
Posted 1 Jun 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sometimes Santa takes his pride in the north pole a little too literally...
1184) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1792427)
Posted 31 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh. Yay sports.

Congratulations Scott!!!
1185) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1792307)
Posted 30 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The internet is like a gas. It expands to fill whatever you use to try and contain it.
1186) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791991)
Posted 30 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1187) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791904)
Posted 29 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not so fast there, buddy!
1188) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791902)
Posted 29 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Doing my best to advance this thread.
1189) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791878)
Posted 29 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Briefly, very briefly, I believe you did.
1190) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791876)
Posted 29 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is there a record we are going for in this thread?
1191) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791842)
Posted 29 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Time for a win!
1192) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791840)
Posted 29 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What a lovely day for winning...
1193) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791780)
Posted 29 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You rang???
1194) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791764)
Posted 29 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are we there yet?
1195) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791627)
Posted 29 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Too late for me. Goodnight, friends!
1196) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791618)
Posted 29 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Lynn!
1197) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791615)
Posted 29 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Celt!
1198) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791613)
Posted 29 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How high can we drive this thing?
1199) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791611)
Posted 29 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Posting to end this long thread!
1200) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791609)
Posted 29 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So far the only thing out there eating peanuts is a small skunk.
1201) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791600)
Posted 29 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So I hear the raccoons are active tonight.

Actually they are. Eric and I were just outside looking at the stars. We had our porch light off and we were not talking. Something very large came into the backyard, saw us and ran under the deck. It was too dark for us to see it.

I just threw some peanuts out there and came into the house. Raccoons, skunks and opossums all love unsalted peanuts, so when the mystery animal comes out from under the deck I'll be able to figure out what it was we scared this evening. Probably a raccoon.

Stay tuned, animal lovers...
1202) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791591)
Posted 29 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry to interrupt your win with my even better win.
1203) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791581)
Posted 29 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Something is beeping... better charge that phone, while I charge ahead!!!
1204) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791556)
Posted 29 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
<---Angela, your star isn't spinning? For shame :)

Oh and where did my plain old static star go? Or can't I have both?


Yes. I missed that particular fundraiser. I'm sure there will be another one down the road...
1205) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791486)
Posted 28 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A baker's dozen of winning!!!
1206) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791171)
Posted 28 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodnight everybody.
1207) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791169)
Posted 28 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Madam, good evening!

Beep!



Good sir, goodnight!!!
1208) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791162)
Posted 28 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Why are you all still awake???!!!

Go to bed and leave me to my winning!!!
1209) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Help! GoFundMe, why did I bother... Yaks (Message 1791159)
Posted 28 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm glad you are having a good day, Vic.

You look really happy in that picture and blue is a nice color on you.
1210) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791144)
Posted 28 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Skipping over the finish line... whee!!!
1211) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791122)
Posted 28 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Shortest win ever, for you my friend.
1212) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791119)
Posted 28 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry TL, but the win is definitely mine.
1213) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791088)
Posted 28 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I declare this game over. :-)

Not till the fat lady sings


La-la-la-la!!!

I win!!!
1214) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791076)
Posted 28 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1177 was actually the winning post. Sorry, Lynn.
1215) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791068)
Posted 27 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Greetings and salutations!!!
1216) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791058)
Posted 27 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1217) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791055)
Posted 27 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1218) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1791050)
Posted 27 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1219) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1790802)
Posted 27 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am feeling like today just may be my lucky day...
1220) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I've got a bun in the oven! (Daphne's Blog) (Message 1790797)
Posted 27 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What lovely news, all around!!!

Wishing you and your new family much happiness, always!!!

Angela & Eric
1221) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday to Angela! (Message 1790197)
Posted 25 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gee Ang you must be in your early forties by now eh?

I'm 53, but people say I don't look a day over 80!!!
1222) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1790156)
Posted 25 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning on my birthday!!!
1223) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday to Angela! (Message 1790155)
Posted 25 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
However, I don't see Eric's picture.

I can't see it either! I expect Eric will fix that eventually...

Anyway, thank you, everyone, for all of the kind birthday wishes.

Work got in the way of a celebration today for me and also for Eric, but we have a make-up celebration planned for the weekend and I'm not letting Ol' Pookers get off easy!!!
1224) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1789970)
Posted 24 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I do four ten hour shifts.


I did that schedule for more than 10 years and loved it - Fridays off!!!
1225) Message boards : Number crunching : New rig project (Message 1789964)
Posted 24 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thread unlocked at originator's request.
1226) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1789803)
Posted 23 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In: 156.6 lbs.
1227) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #64 (Message 1789683)
Posted 23 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That Game of Thrones guy is really running out of ideas.
1228) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1789662)
Posted 23 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Giants won the game, 1-0!

And Angela has won the thread, 945-1!
1229) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Diabetes: Discussion and Recipes (Message 1788916)
Posted 20 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If you life long enough you will get diabetes. Same with cataracts. It comes with age.

I have three aunts age 80 - 90, one on my mom's side, one on my dad's side and one by marriage. All three access medical care well and have blood draws as recommended by their physicians. None of these three aunts has diabetes. None is even close to developing any sort of insulin resistance. All three have maintained normal weights across their lives.

I would amend what Gary says as follows: "If you live long enough and struggle with weight management, you will get diabetes."
1230) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1788440)
Posted 18 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Julie, your children are beautiful!!!
1231) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Today, I shall be mostly talking about something bizarre (Message 1788095)
Posted 17 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


Sometimes you feel like a nut; sometimes you don't...
1232) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1788090)
Posted 17 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sure, but you can't collect, yet, it's on back order until the end of time. ;)

Rats. I need it by the 12th of never.
1233) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1788083)
Posted 17 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hooray!!!
1234) Message boards : Politics : Donald Trump for President? (Message 1788082)
Posted 17 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I simply believe, that given the choices currently available, he IS the best candidate.

The Republicans in my family are inclined to disagree.

I come from a rather conservative family.
(They claim there was a hospital error when I was born and I was accidentally switched at birth...)

Anyway, this weekend I had the opportunity to ask four staunch conservatives in my family if they would be voting for the Donald in November. Three said they would be voting for Hillary and one said he was planning to abstain.
1235) Message boards : Politics : "Apple, The FBI And iPhone Encryption: A Look At What's At Stake" (Message 1788080)
Posted 17 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Locking this thread at the request of the thread originator.
1236) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1788076)
Posted 17 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Surely I have won this time...
1237) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1787832)
Posted 16 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did I win?
1238) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part III (Message 1787831)
Posted 16 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How smart are the school administration and/or teacher(s)...
Misspellings and all, Texas 2nd grader's note gets her home early


I can absolutely see how this one happened. Over the years I have worked with many children of parents who do not speak English as a first language. Often their literacy skills in their primary language are limited as well, due to the parents having had quite limited access to education in their native countries. A note like the one in this article could easily have been written by an adult with limited English proficiency and/or limited educational exposure.

I have also worked with some children whose parents have severe learning challenges. A note like the one in this article could easily have been written by an adult with limited literacy skills secondary to learning challenges.
1239) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1787829)
Posted 16 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We spent most of the afternoon in the yard today.

Eric and I have been out of town since Thursday, but we got home in time to spend some time in our yard as well.

I saw a shrike chase a crow away. That was pretty impressive as the crow was much bigger than the shrike and probably much smarter. That little shrike was amazingly aggressive.

Eric fixed the drip system to my vegetable garden and we finally put in a row of beans. I had already put in some zucchini, patty-pan squash, tomatoes, jalipeno peppers and a cucumber, but I was waiting to put in the first row of beans until Eric had time to fix our drip system. In a month or so, we will put in a second crop of beans. I like to stagger the rows for continuous production. I still need to put in a patch of basil, so that I can make pesto, but once that is done all that will be left to do is pull weeds and harvest delicious summer vegetables. I can't wait!!!
1240) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Diabetes: Discussion and Recipes (Message 1787808)
Posted 16 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My mother was put on Pioglitazone (AKA Actos) when diagnosed with Type II diabetes. She took it for years and it really seemed to work very well for her.
1241) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1786928)
Posted 12 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bluejays really love unsalted peanuts.
1242) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 17 years to reach 100mil credits! (Message 1786925)
Posted 12 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations!!!

(Carlos is in charge of toaster distribution...)
1243) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1786044)
Posted 9 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Still hurting in My left leg, all I had to do was go outside, spray for weeds at one end of the 60'x13.5' mobile home, then down to the other end, 3 out of 4 sides and I'm about out of weed killer and a $75 fine is ahead.

Are you sure about the fine? The picture you posted didn't look that bad and it looked like the trailer next to you had weeds too.
1244) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I won the WEMO home automation contest (Message 1786037)
Posted 9 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations!!! That is awesome!!!
1245) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Missing Persons Bureau (a.k.a. The Mother Hens Thread) (Message 1785692)
Posted 7 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No word on Scarecrow Dave, eh?
No kitty banner yet either.

Meowsigh.


His computers haven't attached to the project in a long time.. I bet Angela en Eric know more.


Dave's wife posts quite regularly on Facebook. We haven't heard from Dave in a while, which probably means he is busy with a project.
1246) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Whatcha Watching? (Message 1785691)
Posted 7 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I just watched the Kentucky Derby, while eating Kentucky Fried Chicken in My Old Kentucky Home with my mother.

And Kentucky is supposed to be one of the best places to see the total solar eclipse of August 2017!
1247) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1785461)
Posted 7 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This is pretty much how our team rolls...

Raccoon Dance Party!!!

Join us, if you dare...
1248) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A little bit of the kittyman's mind. (Message 1785459)
Posted 7 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Then I notice, I got ten packages of cream cheese.

Ok, I'll bite. Whatcha makin?
1249) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Help! GoFundMe, why did I bother... Yaks (Message 1785423)
Posted 7 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We ordered some Levi's on-line for Ol'Pookers a few months ago and I was shocked at how thin the material was when the jeans arrived. I have certain expectations about denim and these jeans did not meet my expectations. We kept the jeans because Eric needed them, but next time I am going to buy jeans in person and check out the material before we purchase things.
1250) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1785039)
Posted 5 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL!!! You just can't keep a good raccoon down!!!
1251) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Favorite trees (Message 1784891)
Posted 5 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gordon, that pink flowered tree you posted is also known as an Albizia and commonly known as a silk tree.

We planted an Albizia sapling in our front yard about 10 years ago and it is quite large now. They grow fast, they are drought tolerant and they are truly beautiful trees, but they always drop something.

In the spring they drop blossoms... lots and lots of blossoms.

In early winter they drop leaves... lots and lots of leaves.

In late winter they drop seed pods... lots and lots of seed pods, but of course plenty of dried seed pods also remain on the tree making the tree look rather unattractive. When we have that tree pruned every winter, we always ask the pruners to also remove all the residual seed pods, which understandably costs extra money because that is detail-oriented work.

And guess what? About 90% of the seeds in those pods are viable.

Do not plant an Albizia in any place you feel compelled to tidy up.

Also do not plant an Albizia in any place you don't want lots and lots of baby Albizias.

I do not regret adding that tree to our garden, but the darn thing is more work than I ever thought it would be!
1252) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Today, I shall be mostly talking about something bizarre (Message 1784890)
Posted 5 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Were we really that naïve? Did we really think that was all we had to do to keep ourselves safe as we allowed these things to proliferate and start dispensing stuff other than non-essential items?

I'm sorry, but I simply couldn't get past the idea that ANYBODY on the planet would find an Almond Joy to be "non-essential".

Wishing you a better day tomorrow, my friend.
1253) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1784889)
Posted 5 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Beautiful deer!!! Lovely photo!!!

Thanks Lynn.
1254) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1784634)
Posted 4 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We had salad with some tuna in it. It was pretty good.
1255) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1784433)
Posted 3 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Glad to see you survived it.

Not only did I survive it, but I am stronger for it.

Spent most of my day with the Wounded Warrior I have been helping, taking him to the VA clinic and helping him pay bills. Mostly a win.

How kind. The world needs more people like you, Mister J.
1256) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1784430)
Posted 3 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Horrible day win.
1257) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Pizza, beer and ghost stories (Message 1783885)
Posted 1 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Phud, welcome home!!!
1258) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1783884)
Posted 1 May 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations on your success and I hope that you heal from your dental surgery very quickly.
1259) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1783360)
Posted 29 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Daily veggies are VERY important. :-)

I'm not the one who needs convincing of that!!! I had a banana with my breakfast yogurt, a salad for lunch, a fresh fruit cup for afternoon snack and we're having vegetarian pizza for dinner. Ol' Pookers is the one who thinks that gummy bears constitute a fruit course and that potato chips are a vegetable.
1260) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1783346)
Posted 29 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Go Ian Go!!!

On the opposite end of the health spectrum, I asked Ol' Pookers if he had eaten anything all day that might constitute a serving of fruit or vegetables. He replied, "Does a leaf of lettuce on a burger count?"

(I just fixed him a plate of pre-dinner bunny food - carrot sticks and some red pepper slices.
)
1261) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Things That Should Never Have Been! (Message 1783128)
Posted 28 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pineapple on pizza
1262) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part III (Message 1783126)
Posted 28 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you a speedy recovery.
1263) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thor is the Designer Cafe! (Message 1783125)
Posted 28 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thor's Day cannot come soon enough for me!!!
1264) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Relay for Life 2016 (Message 1783124)
Posted 28 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Blurf, that is truly impressive. Congratulations to you on your successful fundraising and best wishes to you in this event.
1265) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1783123)
Posted 28 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, I like your new Avatar. I think it means that you secretly want to join the Raccoon Lovers team!
1266) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1783119)
Posted 28 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Work-a-holic win...
1267) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1782750)
Posted 27 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mister W!!!

It is taking every ounce of strength I can muster to refrain from categorizing your last post as "flame/hate speech", hiding it for the sake of public decency, initiating a ban vote and hoping that my fellow moderators ban your account into perpetuity!!!

I'll have you know that my beautiful, gentle, sweet and charming little woodland friends DO NOT have "filthy little paws"!!! They have frequently washed, perfect little pristine paws!!!



So there!!!


P.S. May 10,000 raccoons invade your attic.

Curse or blessing???

You decide.
1268) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1782571)
Posted 26 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thankfully there are none here.

Thankfully???!!!

Don't you mean "sadly"???
1269) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1782560)
Posted 26 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Version 2.0

Ok, we all know I'm not-so-secretly rooting for the Trash Can Tippers, but for those of you who are REALLY having a problem with raccoons getting into your trash, I will pass along this special little tip:

Strategically placed bungee cords = problem solved
1270) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1782556)
Posted 26 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Version 1.0

Hooray for Rocky Bandit Raccoon!!!
1271) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1782554)
Posted 26 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The war has begun!


Sad. So sad.
1272) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A little bit of the kittyman's mind. (Message 1782548)
Posted 26 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
For readers of this thread who are a bit tired of melodrama, I offer unto you a small giggle today.

The cat came back...
1273) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1782276)
Posted 25 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Go Vic Go!!!
1274) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1781929)
Posted 24 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A raccoon that was raised by humans and that was very tame - domesticated - wouldn't be much different than having a cat or dog, imho.

Super smart, excellent climbers and ridiculously dexterous, raccoons would be able to open most of your closets, drawers and cupboards to rifle the contents. You would have to baby-lock EVERYTHING all of the time, and never slip up. I wouldn't want a bored raccoon trapped in my home, looking for entertainment. Also, they climb up on to things and poop down them, so shelves in your house would pretty much have to be eliminated. So would anything they could climb on. Raccoons do not use litter boxes or puppy pads.
1275) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thor is the Designer Cafe! (Message 1780904)
Posted 21 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hail Thor!!!
1276) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1780903)
Posted 21 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cody is a doll, but Eric is really adamant about not having "indoor raccoons".
1277) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1780902)
Posted 21 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Long day.

Short goodnight.

Even shorter win, I suspect.
1278) Message boards : Cafe SETI : . . . dropping by to say hello to each of you my friends (Message 1780897)
Posted 21 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi to Richard and Joanne from Angela and Eric!!!
1279) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A little bit of the kittyman's mind. (Message 1780305)
Posted 19 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I do not know why the link does not show.
The two ronnies
Something's broken.
Really broken.


Try clicking on it now.

Something's broken, alright. You will get no argument from me.
1280) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1780297)
Posted 19 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did I win? I could really use a win today...
1281) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Help! GoFundMe, why did I bother... Yaks (Message 1780295)
Posted 19 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes. But then again, it is up to Vic to set the rules and the tone of his thread.
1282) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The joke thread Part 4. (Message 1780281)
Posted 19 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It was new for me. Cute!
1283) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Help! GoFundMe, why did I bother... Yaks (Message 1780279)
Posted 19 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If Vic feels that his thread has been hi-jacked, he can hit the magic red button. My guess is that Vic will be willing to share this thread with others in need.
1284) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 255 - We have a winner! (Message 1779838)
Posted 17 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations BladeD!
1285) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1779560)
Posted 16 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This fella might be described an escape artist.

Indeed he is!!!
1286) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Congratulations Paul!!! (Message 1778034)
Posted 11 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Paul is KWSN Holy Hand Grenade

This is the picture that he posted of his lovely fiance.

Paul is in the mirror, taking the picture. (Hi Paul!!!)


TJ 6-19-14 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr
1287) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1778031)
Posted 11 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
*NSFW*

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1288) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Congratulations Paul!!! (Message 1777719)
Posted 10 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This girl is my Fianceé, BTW, although she wasn't that (yet) when the pic was taken...

Congratulations, Paul, on your engagement!!! Eric and I wish you and your lovely fiance much happiness, always!!!
1289) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thor is the Designer Cafe! (Message 1777717)
Posted 10 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pray, puny mortal, that I do not fully display my wrath.

Your raccoon goddess is not amused...
1290) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thor is the Designer Cafe! (Message 1777712)
Posted 10 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pardon me, but did somebody ring for a goddess?

No but now that you are here come sit on my knee and we can discuss the state of the universe.

I am a goddess. I would crush you if I sat upon your knee, peon...
1291) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thor is the Designer Cafe! (Message 1777453)
Posted 9 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pardon me, but did somebody ring for a goddess?
1292) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1777452)
Posted 9 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A special guest :)


Our blonde raccoon, Snowball, has darker fur than the blonde raccoon in this news story.
1293) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1776805)
Posted 7 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The video is much better than the still shot! Thank you.
1294) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1776475)
Posted 6 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1295) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1776472)
Posted 6 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Crunch. Crunch. Crunch. Crunch. Crunch. Crunch.

It's what we do...

All are welcome to join in our fun.
1296) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Tlptphw 253: Celt Wins!! Celt Wins!! (Message 1776470)
Posted 6 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My turn.
1297) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1776318)
Posted 5 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In: 157.8 lbs this morning
1298) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Not much science discussion going on lately (Message 1776111)
Posted 4 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
At least, here is an image to see.

Awesome!
1299) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1776036)
Posted 3 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have seen Swallowtail Butterflies in our garden in the summer. I think there are a couple of types. Not sure which ones we have, but they sure are big and beautiful!
1300) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1775676)
Posted 2 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Poor little raccoon!!! I'm glad he was able to wriggle free.

Little critters got pizza to get to :)



Watch out, little raccoon!!! That pizza has yucky pineapple on it!!!
1301) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1775648)
Posted 1 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Poor little raccoon!!! I'm glad he was able to wriggle free.
1302) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Patty Duke's talent, bravery recalled; actress dies at 69 (Message 1775488)
Posted 1 Apr 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
1303) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1774595)
Posted 28 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Forty pounds is a lot. Congratulations!!!
1304) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1774591)
Posted 28 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lovely photos. Thank you!
1305) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Now back to "The Live Performance Thread!" (Message 1774386)
Posted 27 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I received our CD and we are looking forward to listening to it together on our next road trip when we zip down the state to visit a niece and nephew. Thank you, Miz Julie.
1306) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Tlptphw 253: Celt Wins!! Celt Wins!! (Message 1774385)
Posted 27 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Do I at least get a case of Turtle Wax?
1307) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Tlptphw 253: Celt Wins!! Celt Wins!! (Message 1774378)
Posted 27 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If I didn't win, do I at least get the consolation prize of a year's supply of Eskimo Pies?
1308) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Tlptphw 253: Celt Wins!! Celt Wins!! (Message 1774374)
Posted 27 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yep.
1309) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Tlptphw 253: Celt Wins!! Celt Wins!! (Message 1774372)
Posted 27 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh look!!! I won!!!

Lucky me!!!
1310) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Tlptphw 253: Celt Wins!! Celt Wins!! (Message 1774364)
Posted 27 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think you are a winner TL.

El-Beep-O!


+1


+2
1311) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Tlptphw 253: Celt Wins!! Celt Wins!! (Message 1774307)
Posted 26 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That was a short win for you, TL.
1312) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1774303)
Posted 26 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Join Team Raccoon Lovers... we've got e-snacks!!!
1313) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #63 (Message 1774273)
Posted 26 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The oven mitt hides a cell phone and she is texting "Bwing mo spwinkles"

Darling picture of a darling little girl, Ian!!!
1314) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Tigger has left the building......... (Message 1773972)
Posted 25 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you peace.
1315) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1773814)
Posted 25 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
DLL - How do you find all these raccoon articles???!!!
1316) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1773532)
Posted 23 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh no!!! Raccoonado!!!!!
1317) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1773508)
Posted 23 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Scott, congratulations on your weight loss!!! That is so awesome!!!


I'm glad that everyone else can lose weight.

Vic, I've got great news for you!!! A 400 pound sedentary man has to take in 3618 - 3818 calories per day, just to maintain that body weight. This means that there are accidental errors in your calorie calculations. Your average calorie consumption has to be over 3600 per day in order to be, and stay, in the 400 pound range.

Take in a couple hundred calories less per day and you will lose weight, slowly and sensibly.

The good news is that you do not have to exercise to lose weight.
1318) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Sympathies to the good citizens of Belgium (Message 1773365)
Posted 23 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Peace on Earth.
1319) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1773364)
Posted 23 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Interesting ant photos. Thanks!
1320) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1771125)
Posted 12 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1321) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Tlptphw 253: Celt Wins!! Celt Wins!! (Message 1771039)
Posted 11 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I will accept the fact that I may not have won this thread, but I'm sure hoping that my consolation prize is a year's supply of Eskimo Pies...
1322) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1770906)
Posted 11 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sue, I absolutely love that you let rain soaked raccoons into your bedroom.

Girlfriend, you put the Crazy in Crazy Raccoon Lady!!! Don't ever change.
1323) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1770507)
Posted 9 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you peace, Sue.
1324) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Former First Lady, Nancy Reagan has passed. (Message 1770195)
Posted 7 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
1325) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1770194)
Posted 7 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lose weight with Monday, raccoon edition.

That is an extremely well fed raccoon!
1326) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1769914)
Posted 6 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The only "black" birds around here are Crow. And a lot of them.

Feed them. They like unsalted peanuts quite a bit. They are also fans of sunflower seeds.

Crows are very beautiful and very smart. We have a small flock that frequents our backyard (about 9 crows) and I have grown exceptionally fond of these birds. I know they are a bit noisy, but I don't mind that at all.
1327) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Tlptphw 253: Celt Wins!! Celt Wins!! (Message 1769885)
Posted 5 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Back at the top and beating TL!!!
1328) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1769793)
Posted 5 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This is so much of a WTF? that I can't even think of a title for it.

Raccoons are very good climbers, but I cannot imagine how that raccoon managed to climb up that slippery pole!!! If it were a wooden telephone pole, I would argue that the raccoon got up there and no doubt can get down on its own. A metal pole, however, seems like much more of a challenge to me. What a freaky story.
1329) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1769789)
Posted 5 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Go TL Go!!!
1330) Message boards : Cafe SETI : SETI Fiction: They're Made Out Of Meat (Message 1769637)
Posted 5 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oddly enough, I came across this a couple weeks ago while researching First Contact (or lack thereof) in Science Fiction. One story led to another, somehow I ended up reading about SETI and here I am!

Welcome!!! You will find many friends here.
1331) Message boards : Cafe SETI : SETI Fiction: They're Made Out Of Meat (Message 1769525)
Posted 4 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That dialogue is so funny!!! Thank you for sharing it.
1332) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Tlptphw 253: Celt Wins!! Celt Wins!! (Message 1769419)
Posted 4 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I come from a very long line of peasants and commoners.
1333) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Tlptphw 253: Celt Wins!! Celt Wins!! (Message 1769415)
Posted 4 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The royal blue color is really nice, Vic.
1334) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Tlptphw 253: Celt Wins!! Celt Wins!! (Message 1769143)
Posted 3 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That was a quick trip. Back from Oakland. First time I ever road on the BART. Sort of cool. Winning in SoCal.

Sorry I missed you. Long day at work. Maybe next time?
1335) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1769129)
Posted 3 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sue, wishing you peace.
1336) Message boards : Cafe SETI : New v8 apps, new kittyman thread. (Message 1769127)
Posted 3 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you peace.
1337) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Jim_S needs our help. (GoFundMe Page.) (Message 1768910)
Posted 2 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome home, Richard!
1338) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Tlptphw 253: Celt Wins!! Celt Wins!! (Message 1768788)
Posted 1 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I need some of that luck!!!
1339) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1768777)
Posted 1 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you peace, Grant.
1340) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Tlptphw 253: Celt Wins!! Celt Wins!! (Message 1768776)
Posted 1 Mar 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Vic!
1341) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cooking for real (Message 1768549)
Posted 29 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That mushroom lasagne sounds so good! I'm crazy busy for the next couple of weeks, but when life quiets down a bit I'm going to try that recipe.
1342) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Dumbest thing I've done in a long time (Message 1767879)
Posted 26 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
dumb phone


That's all I've got, and all I need in the cell phone dept., but I'll always have a land line, too. ~I'm just old-fashioned that way.

You are not alone, my friend. I am dinosaur, hear me roar!!!
1343) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1767866)
Posted 26 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
DLL - I expected you to post "Waiting for pizza delivery - heavy on the pineapple!!!"
1344) Message boards : Cafe SETI : This house that Seti built................ (Message 1767845)
Posted 26 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I was shocked to discover how difficult being a moderator is. It is truly a struggle to make the Cafe a pleasant place for most.

A post that is acerbic does not necessarily violate forum policy, even if it is not very polite.

Public posts are an invitation to public comment and even, at times, public critique. There is a very fine line between public critique and a full attack.

When I whack a post, the poster at best becomes irate and, at times, becomes furious. When a post is red-X'd and I don't whack it, the red-Xer at best becomes irate and, at times, becomes furious.

I know that tone and intent are problematic to read into posts, but sometimes they are not. For example, I am pained to the point of tears when I read lines like,
*If you're one can short of a six pack and your day centre has closed, go to Seti, they'll welcome you."

We ALL contribute to the climate of these forums when we post things that are unkind.

I will be the first to admit that my posting history is not without acerbity. It is the rare regular poster who does not flare up from time to time. The quickest "fix" to making the tone of the Cafe more pleasant is for posters to make a concerted effort to be as kind as possible as often as possible.
1345) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The last person to post here wins 252: Workin on the rail road thread (Message 1767726)
Posted 26 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome Back Celt!!!
1346) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1767725)
Posted 26 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1347) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats Part II (Message 1767724)
Posted 26 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1348) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1767056)
Posted 23 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How soon until all the raccoons stupid enough to walk into traps get caught and eliminated from the gene pool, and there are nothing but smart raccoons left in NYC to have babies.

Trapping the dumb ones only makes the population, as a whole, smarter...
1349) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1766893)
Posted 22 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In: 158.4 lbs
1350) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The last person to post here wins 252: Workin on the rail road thread (Message 1766753)
Posted 21 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I ate some pineapple for breakfast, on some plain yogurt, with some chopped unsalted macademia nuts on top... as was intended, sanctioned and ordained by the FSM and Mother Nature herself. If I had found a banana in our fruit bowl, I would have added some banana slices to my breakfast. Same deal for mango or papaya. Even chopped dates would have gone with my breakfast... or maybe a bit of toasted coconut.

I did NOT put my breakfast pineapple on pizza, as that would have been an affront to all things good and normal and natural and right.
1351) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1766745)
Posted 21 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Go Scott Go!!!

I will try to remember to step on the scale tomorrow...
1352) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1766503)
Posted 20 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Love it

+1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1353) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The last person to post here wins 252: Workin on the rail road thread (Message 1766314)
Posted 19 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So who ordered the extra outrage with pineapple?

Bleh...
1354) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1766312)
Posted 19 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1355) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats (Message 1765952)
Posted 18 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think my cat would have done this, and maybe did when she wasn't pushing things onto the floor.



We have a cat who likes to push things onto the floor. Eric calls her "Entropy's little helper".
1356) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1765648)
Posted 17 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'd rather act like a raccoon than discuss something with this person.

If a raccoon is unhappy with another critter, he helps himself to a piece of his adversary's ear.
1357) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The last person to post here wins 252: Workin on the rail road thread (Message 1765550)
Posted 16 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow Friday already, that was a long outrage.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1358) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The last person to post here wins 252: Workin on the rail road thread (Message 1765368)
Posted 16 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well... if all of you insist that I take this win, I guess that I'll shoulder the burden.
1359) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The last person to post here wins 252: Workin on the rail road thread (Message 1765208)
Posted 15 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In the lead having filled my blank stomach with a nice simple omelet

In the "lead"??? That must have been one heavy omelet!!!
1360) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The...'I Had one of those Cars' thread. (Message 1765206)
Posted 15 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Let me guess: yours is One.

Nope.
1361) Message boards : Cafe SETI : New v8 apps, new kittyman thread. (Message 1765205)
Posted 15 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you the best of all possible outcomes.
1362) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The...'I Had one of those Cars' thread. (Message 1764814)
Posted 14 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We name our cars too!!!

When we met, I drove Rhonda Honda and I dubbed Eric's car Joel Renault.

After Rhonda and Joel expired we drove Francis Ford Korpela, Deloris Taurus and eventually Penelope Prius.

Our current Prius Dyad we call "P Force One" and "P Force Two"
1363) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The last person to post here wins 252: Workin on the rail road thread (Message 1764813)
Posted 14 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1364) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats (Message 1764543)
Posted 13 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The cat thinks it is a snake. That response is hard-wired into their DNA. Sadly, YouTube is full of videos of cats jumping away from cucumbers, zucchini, bananas etc. Poor kitties.
1365) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats (Message 1764502)
Posted 12 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

I think Chris S would have the same reaction.
1366) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The...'I Had one of those Cars' thread. (Message 1764494)
Posted 12 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Next I suppose, shall be a Prius owner...LOL.

That's what Eric and I currently drive. His is silver and mine is black.
Beep Beep!
1367) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The last person to post here wins 252: Workin on the rail road thread (Message 1764387)
Posted 12 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Choo choo!!! Chugging ahead for a win.

Congratulations Carlos.
1368) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #251 (Message 1764146)
Posted 11 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Posting fewer for win.
1369) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1764133)
Posted 11 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Valentines day card sorted.

Too cute!!!
1370) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #251 (Message 1763984)
Posted 11 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What? Who's just bought the farm???!!!
1371) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cooking for real (Message 1763361)
Posted 8 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh and don't worry about the misspellings. My eyesight has grown worst too. I think it's intended by nature that way older women still look great.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1372) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1763360)
Posted 8 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Go Scott Go!!!
1373) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1762394)
Posted 5 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've been sucking on Zinc lozenges, which usually shortens the length and intensity of the cold (honestly; buy some and have them on hand the next time you get a cold;start using them at the very first sign).

I tried them once because so many people swear by them. They upset my stomach.
1374) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Earth, Wind & Fire Founder Maurice White Dies at 74 (Message 1762390)
Posted 5 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
1375) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1761175)
Posted 1 Feb 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh hi! I'm just helping clear the table :)

LOL!!!!!!!!!!
1376) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year From Our Home To Yours (Message 1760940)
Posted 31 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sent to us from a friend...

http://animals.mom.me/hawks-screech-9273.html
1377) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1760937)
Posted 31 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I call it very nice Sue :-)

+1
1378) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1760584)
Posted 30 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now you look like Hilary Clinton.
1379) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year From Our Home To Yours (Message 1759533)
Posted 27 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is my understanding that such birds screech like that to literally scare their intended dinner stiff so it won't run off and avoid being dinner.

I did not know that. Thanks!!!
1380) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1759531)
Posted 27 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow! That giraffe is like our blonde raccoon, Snowball.
1381) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Australia day (Message 1759530)
Posted 27 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy Belated Australia Day to Monday and to all our crunchers from "down under"!!!
1382) Message boards : Cafe SETI : R.I.P. Abe Vigoda (for real this time) (Message 1759528)
Posted 27 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
1383) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 250 -- waiting for v8 GPU work (Message 1759158)
Posted 25 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations TL!!!
1384) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year From Our Home To Yours (Message 1759086)
Posted 24 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My guess is that Tae Mussin' Freends means To Missing Friends.

LOL!!! I can't believe I missed that!!! Of course!!!
1385) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year From Our Home To Yours (Message 1759071)
Posted 24 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In that picture I posted of Purvis, he hadn't even noticed me and my camera yet. See? His tail isn't even puffed yet. I probably could have gotten even closer, but I liked the way that the flowers highlighted Purvis' natural beauty.

Who's a good boy???!!! You are Purvis!!! Yes you are!!! Good skunkie!!!
1386) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year From Our Home To Yours (Message 1759068)
Posted 24 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh my!!! Rob, is that haggis... I'm going to guess with mashed potatoes on the left and perhaps mashed turnips (or maybe mashed rutabagas?) on the right? And I'm also going to guess that "Tae mussin'" means "to mutton"???

@Scott, I believe that you and Purvis have already had the pleasure of meeting. You have to admit that he is a handsome fellow. I don't believe that you stayed outside long enough last time to fully appreciate Purvis' full beauty!!!

I'm glad that people are enjoying the pictures. I have enjoyed sharing them.

In case anyone is curious, Dain is a red shouldered hawk. Red shouldered hawks are smaller raptors than the red tailed hawks who are also found in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Red shouldered hawks may be smaller than red tailed hawks, but I can assure you that these small hawks are every bit as loud as their cousins! All of their hawk screeching must be either territorial or mating related, because I can think of absolutely no reason why Dain would want to make all that ruckus while hunting. I mean seriously, Dain!!! What possible good could come from you announcing to your dinner that you are right above him, ready to swoop down and eat him?

Anyway, Mr. and Mrs. Dain were around last spring and I had hoped that they would nest near us, but sadly I didn't see them in the summer or fall. They must have nested elsewhere with some other lucky neighbor. Now though, they seem to be back for the winter. That is probably because by over-feeding my seed eating birds, I am also inadvertently feeding lots and lots of er... uh... "friends of Mickey".

(This is the point where everybody says "Gosh, I sure am glad that Angela doesn't live right next door to me!!!")
1387) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year From Our Home To Yours (Message 1758926)
Posted 24 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You live in a zoo, have fun.

Well... I'm pretty sure that the raccoons refer to Eric and to me as "the house monkeys"?

Anyway, if you feed them, they will come.
1388) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year From Our Home To Yours (Message 1758910)
Posted 24 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It has become an enjoyable January tradition for me to review photos we took last year and then share a few of them with you.

As always, the photos come along with snippets of wisdom from various members of the Korpela family.




Angela advises that wherever you travel, you do your best to converse with the locals.




Dain would like to remind you that it is impolite to look down upon others.
(Unless of course they are mice and you are planning to eat them for dinner.)




Stinky Lou suspects that thinking outside of the box may be over-rated...




...and Eva concurs.




Spawnie suggests that if you are about to get upset about something, lie down and take a nap.
The feeling will pass.





Purvis reminds you to always be grateful to those who welcome you home...
no matter what kind of a stink you've gotten yourself into this time!





Eric says, "They're out there... keep crunching."



Happy New Year, from our home to yours.
1389) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 250 -- waiting for v8 GPU work (Message 1758825)
Posted 23 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My dad was a dentist and he used to have me help him in his office on Saturdays when I was in high school. To this day, I find dental offices to be relaxing and comforting places, although I certainly understand why others may not find them so relaxing.
1390) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The absence of Celttooth (Message 1758739)
Posted 23 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It looks like it misses Celt, Hurry back Celt, everyone misses you and LSM.


+1

Beautifully stated, Vic!
1391) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1758732)
Posted 23 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Secret scrooge

Oh no!!!!!!!!!!!
1392) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1758729)
Posted 23 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I really don't know why people do secret santa, it's so childish and people get embarrassed.

Because, if you genuinely like and are liked by your colleagues, it can be fun...

(And just for the PC record, out here in the People's Republic of Berkeley we prefer the term "Secret Snowflake" over "Secret Santa" to make the game more welcoming and inclusive.)
1393) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #63 (Message 1758292)
Posted 22 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"You don't bring me flowers. You don't sing me love songs."
1394) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 250 -- waiting for v8 GPU work (Message 1758288)
Posted 22 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That is Vic talk for I can't think of anything to say, but I'll post anyway.

And that is Chris talk for:

I am positively determined to present here as a grumpy-bear until

1. ...somebody brings me a nice vintage port, a lovely Stilton and a small bowl of roasted nuts, preferably artfully arranged upon a silver platter

2. ...somebody guides me to a comfortably worn, over-sized leather chair placed strategically by the dying embers of a previously roaring fire, within the confines of my mildly musty, slightly dusty, leather bound tome filled personal library

3. ...whereupon I simply must insist that all of you leave me alone for the remainder of the evening, allowing me to fall peacefully asleep in my chair with a bemused smile playing across my port stained lips, as I dream of the glorious days of yore.
1395) Message boards : News : SETI@home Version 8 for Android and GPU to be released January, 21st (Message 1758066)
Posted 22 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Versions have been released. The main one that is missing is the OpenCL NVIDIA x86_64 linux version which has some problems.

Android versions for ARM and x86 have been released.

I'll see if I can get a cross compile environment for Raspberry PI set up...


Oooooohhhh baby!!! I love it when you talk geek-talk.
1396) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 250 -- waiting for v8 GPU work (Message 1757793)
Posted 21 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations, Carlos.

As always, Ol Pookers has a lot on his plate right now...
1397) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Relay for Life 2016 (Message 1757791)
Posted 21 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Awesome!!!
1398) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1757790)
Posted 21 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Don't do much good to human beings either.

+1000; BUT, they taste SOOOOO good... ;-)

(Now I'm craving French fries... :-O )

Argh!!! Me too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1399) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1757573)
Posted 20 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Our back yard blue jays prefer peanuts in the shell over shelled. They will struggle to get the peanuts in the shell out of a wire ring holder we use, and not go for the shelled peanuts in the nearby tray until the ring is empty. (Not my photo, but that is the kind of ring holder we have.)

My jays prefer peanuts in the shell too, probably because they are better for cached storage. Little do the jays know that the crows watch where they stash the peanuts, and then go raid the stashes!!! I think the crows watch the squirrels cache peanuts too.

Crows are crazy smart!
1400) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1757526)
Posted 20 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Try unsalted peanuts. My squirrels LOVE unsalted peanuts in the shell.
1401) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thank you for the nice wishes on my birthday yesterday. (Message 1757395)
Posted 19 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Happy Birthday, Mark.
1402) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Dogs (Message 1757245)
Posted 18 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Blurf, so sorry to hear about Abigail. Wishing you peace.

Ulibelle, what a wonderful way to remember a beloved pet.
1403) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The absence of Celttooth (Message 1757244)
Posted 18 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Looking forward to Ian returning to us. Wishing you and your family the best.

Angela & Eric
1404) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 250 -- waiting for v8 GPU work (Message 1756809)
Posted 16 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

(Ok, actually we had cream cheese and some smoked salmon on bagels...)
1405) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1756797)
Posted 16 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ulibelle is Spawnie's godmother, and I'm quite sure she will approve.
1406) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1756788)
Posted 16 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends, and welcome to the latest installment of the Critter Cafe.

If you are new to us, this is a place where Critter People come together to talk about whatever is on their critter-lovin minds.

All are welcome here. Nothing has ever been "off topic" in the Critter Cafe, but I do ask that people be mindful of forum rules and conventions.

It is my greatest wish that all who post here try to be kind, not only to critters, but to all members of our own species as well.


To start us out in our new thread, here is a picture of Spawnie.

Those of you who have visited us know him as our "outside cat", but as of today he is our newest "inside cat".



Spawnie is a stray who just wandered into our backyard one day and stayed, presumably because the eats were good. After he showed no signs of moving on, Eric and I took him to the vet for a check-up and we were told, among other things, that he tests positive for the kitty cat equivalent of HIV, which is FIV.

For years Eric and I were hesitant to make Spawnie an indoor cat. Even though Eva and Stinky Lou have been vaccinated against FIV, we were still unsure of how reliable the vaccine was. Besides, Spawnie never seemed particularly unhappy outside.

Well, the years have worn on and Spawnie is getting older. This winter we are expecting El Nino weather (which we need desperately here in California), but Spawnie simply hates rain.

So, a couple of weeks ago Eric and I made plans to bite the bullet.

A week ago we gave Spawnie a worm treatment... just in case. Today he went to the groomer for a very thorough bath and flea treatment (... or "spa day" as Spawnie prefers to call it.) All three kitties are getting their flea treatments tonight and, unless I discover that Spawnie is a sprayer, Eric and I have finally accepted the fact that now we once again have three indoor cats.

Eva and Stinky Lou are adjusting well.

Spawnie has already found our bed and enjoyed taking a nap there.

I think this is going to work out well for all involved.
1407) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1756786)
Posted 16 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh my. With over 1600 posts, we are all over due for a new thread.

I'm locking this one.

Please join me in the new Critter Cafe for a fresh 2016 start.
1408) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1756769)
Posted 16 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey!!! You kids settle down back there!!!
1409) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1756501)
Posted 15 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It does seem that us awesome critter people would like, on occasions, to discuss political matters a little more deeply and in a kind, polite, and respectful manner. We won't get that in Main politics, the usual gang will gatecrash it and ruin it.

Chris, since I joined seti I have had the pleasure of discussing impolite dinner conversation topics (politics, religion and even you-know-what!!!) with a variety of people through the pm system. Perhaps that will work for you?

Perhaps we need a Critter political thread to ourselves?

If you wish to start a thread to discuss political issues in our Raccoon Lovers team forum, I happen to know first hand that your team founder will not stand in your way! Many people who post in the Critter Cafe are also on our team. (Just know that all are welcome on Team Raccoon Lovers. I will never turn anyone away who wishes to join our team.) Still, starting a politics thread in our team forum might work for you.

In addition, you are also free to create as many new accounts as you wish and use one of them to start your own team at seti. Your team would automatically be assigned a team forum. If you made your team "by invitation only" (like the GPUUG does) you could discuss whatever you wish with your invited teammates on your team forum. Being able to create multiple accounts and found multiple teams is a system that might work for you. You could still enjoy the company of your original BT team members with your primary account. You could enjoy the company of your fellow Raccoon Lovers with your second account and you could enjoy the company of your politically active "by invitation only" team members with your third account.

Alternatively, I have known people who have set up private (by invitation only) forums that are completely independent of seti. That is yet another option for you.

Personally, I enjoy the seti Politics area. I don't post there often, primarily because when I do I am instantly reminded that it requires great effort, sucks up all my free time and is intellectually exhausting. Trying to write a thoughtful, well reasoned post defending a position against six people attacking it from different angles is not for the faint of heart!!! Still, I'm not above a good lazy lurk over there, now and again.

If the Politics area isn't working for you (or for anyone frustrated with that area of the seti forums) I hope that you are able to explore one of the above solutions to your problem.
1410) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1756464)
Posted 15 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela is not backward in coming forward, if she is unhappy about the way this thread has drifted, she will soon say so. But yes I agree with the Eye, we should leave the USA States and Federal matters to another thread elsewhere. It should be in politics, but if so I will decline to participate.

LOL!!! "Not backward in coming forward" is a very cute way of putting that, Chris! Thank you for the compliment.

I have, indeed, been quite busy lately and I see that I have arrived late to the party.

Truth be told, I am quite conflicted. On one hand, I just love a messy thread and I feel that nothing should be completely "off topic" here in the Critter Cafe. I have always wanted this to be a place where "Critter People" come together to discuss whatever is on their minds... kindly, politely and respectfully, of course.

That being said, this thread should not be in violation of the general rules of these forums. If a topic being discussed in the Critter Cafe is political in nature, and the discussion moves beyond a few casual comments between participants, then I do ask that, out of courtesy for Cafe readers, the participants move their discussion to the Politics area and continue it there.

My hope is that people will police themselves. Sometimes a discussion turns political, and it is not really anybody's fault. It is just the way some discussions meander. I think that is what has happened here.

I feel no need to move or hide posts. I thank Bernie for handling this thread with a light moderating touch and I completely agree with his advice.

Critter people are awesome!!! If further discussion of a political nature is indicated, I trust that all the participants will display the maturity to move the discussion to another venue.
1411) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats (Message 1755936)
Posted 13 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eva, Spawnie, Stinky Lou, Eric and I wish Tigger II the best of all possible outcomes.
1412) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1755750)
Posted 12 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I saw a nice Star Wars bag the other day that I nearly picked up for him.

The fourth bag is supposed to serve as a deterrent to Eric leaving his lunch bags at work. If a Star Wars bag were his fourth bag, he would deliberately leave bags one, two and three at work!

I know this bag is too dignified to serve as the forth. But it is a nice vinyl lunch bag.



That is a really cute lunch bag!
1413) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1755578)
Posted 11 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Monday Weigh-In: 158.8

Stress - the greatest weight loss tool of them all...
1414) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1755482)
Posted 11 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Go TL Go!!!
1415) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Relay for Life 2016 (Message 1754072)
Posted 5 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Blurf, it is an honor to support you in your fundraising efforts.

Wishing you the very best!
1416) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 250 -- waiting for v8 GPU work (Message 1754023)
Posted 5 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Quick check for a rolling pin!

My rolling pins are used exclusively for pastry.
1417) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 250 -- waiting for v8 GPU work (Message 1754017)
Posted 5 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Lurk, lurk, lurk, lurk, lurk...
1418) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #63 (Message 1753992)
Posted 5 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations to Admiral G and Paul, thank you for this and all of your other lovely wildlife photos. As a big, big, big fan of urban wildlife, I especially appreciate your ability to find such beauty right outside of your own front door.
1419) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The house hunt (Message 1753921)
Posted 4 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We have free-cycle out here too. Eric and I divested ourselves of a bulky entertainment center that way. The recipients were going to re-purpose it into a wardrobe. It was a win-win.

Quicker than free-cycling is just leaving things on the curb with a sign "free". This probably only works in urban areas with high traffic flow. Eric and I upgraded our coffee table a few years ago. We brought the old one out to the curb and it was gone very quickly.

I think it is important not to clutter up landfills with items that may be of use to another person.
1420) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 250 -- waiting for v8 GPU work (Message 1753479)
Posted 3 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Back from the hospital. 6 stiches, but still leaking a little. Took some aspirin so should be fine by the morning.


Aspirin is a blood thinner - not the best idea if you are still leaking.

Switch to Ibuprofen if you continue to need OTC pain relief.
1421) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 250 -- waiting for v8 GPU work (Message 1753461)
Posted 3 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you a speedy recovery, Carlos.
1422) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1753424)
Posted 3 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think I know where Gene Roddenberry got the idea for the model of the USS Enterprise.

I had a turkey carcass and some chicken carcasses cluttering up my freezer, so I am making poultry stock today. I just lifted the lid to skim some fat off the stock and I noticed that part of the keel bone of the turkey was sticking up out of the stock. It looked just like part of the Enterprise.
1423) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part III (Message 1753418)
Posted 3 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Huggs!

+1
1424) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Holiday photographs (Message 1753416)
Posted 3 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A lovely Christmas photo!!! Thank you for sharing this with all of us.
1425) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 250 -- waiting for v8 GPU work (Message 1753306)
Posted 2 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you peace, Blurf, as you mourn the loss of your friend.
1426) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The house hunt (Message 1753305)
Posted 2 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Even so I still buy all my furniture used, simply because around here you get better quality for less money.

You often find that "old fashioned" furniture is made to a much higher quality than modern mass produced stuff, and that good quality second hand items are indeed a better buy.


The only thing that bothers me about used furniture is the cleanliness factor.



Eric and I got a real steal on an extremely well made used dining room set about 15 years ago. The components are SOLID!!! They really don't make furniture like that anymore... at least not in an affordable price range.

Instead of "wear and tear", we prefer to refer to age marks on the finish as "patina". We've had many a happy meal with family and with friends around that table.
1427) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1753297)
Posted 2 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cute, but a bit impractical, I think. His nose would keep running into things.

Covers two people pretty adequately, but I daren't say, I would get banned :-)))))


Mister S.

If you have not made any New Year's resolutions yet, I have a recommendation. Please consider the following:

"If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all."

Sincerely,
Crazy Raccoon Lady, Manager
The Critter Cafe
1428) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 250 -- waiting for v8 GPU work (Message 1753104)
Posted 2 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Perhaps I should mod myself...
1429) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 250 -- waiting for v8 GPU work (Message 1753096)
Posted 2 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
First post over Angela of the year. Feels good.

@#$%^&(__)(*&^%$#@#$%^&*()_(*&^%$#@#$%^%$#$%^&*(*&^%$#@!#$%^&^%$#@!@#!!!
1430) Message boards : News : SETI@home Version 8 has been released. (Message 1753091)
Posted 2 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I must admit that the amount of time I spent working rather than preparing for visitors did cause her some concern. Fortunately her raccoons picked up the slack.

Yes. Snowball, Tiny Timathea, Buddy and Herman Von Vermin all worked their little raccoon fingers to the very bones helping me to prepare for the holiday season. Fortunately, Santa was very, very good to all of them.

(Pookers, when you have a little time, will you please post that Facebook picture that shows just how good Santa was to the raccoons this year...)
1431) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 250 -- waiting for v8 GPU work (Message 1753088)
Posted 2 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm glad that you had a good time.

Happy New Year, Vic!!!

Happy New Year, Everybody!!!
1432) Message boards : Cafe SETI : College Football (Message 1753068)
Posted 2 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes. Eric was a happy Badger and a happy Bear.
1433) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 250 -- waiting for v8 GPU work (Message 1753067)
Posted 2 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, did you like the movie? Did your friend have a good time?
1434) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Natalie Cole dies at 65 (Message 1753022)
Posted 2 Jan 2016 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
1435) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1752757)
Posted 31 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A raccoon stealing pastry. (I hope the video plays for you. I saw
most of it and then got an error message.)

https://youtu.be/A1MkBNoCnfc

Here's a website with the same video:

http://uproxx.com/webculture/relatable-everyraccoon-steals-donut-fills-hearts-with-joy/


My little woodland friends are sooooooooooooooo jealous!!! They never get pastry!
1436) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1752755)
Posted 31 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I was 163.6 this morning, pre-breakfast, post-tinkle and wearing my birthday suit.
1437) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1752559)
Posted 30 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...always a joy to hear from you Angela ;-)

LOL!!!!!

Thank you, kind sir, but I'm afraid that sentiment is not universally held...
1438) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1752357)
Posted 30 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And of course we all got mod notices.

Yeah. Sorry about the extra mail.
1439) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1752345)
Posted 30 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Whew!!! Did I get them all?

Hello Critter Cafe Fans,

If you are missing a post and its topic pertained to Vic's home buying aspirations, your post has been moved to a special thread covering that subject.

AK
1440) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1752340)
Posted 30 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Vic.

I will happily move the posts you would like moved.

Please red-X them and I will move them to your new thread.

ang.
1441) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1752326)
Posted 30 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bernie, those are lovely rainbow pictures!!!
1442) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1752100)
Posted 28 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bernie, lovely pictures!!!

OWM... nice beard!!!
1443) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1752016)
Posted 28 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1444) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 250 -- waiting for v8 GPU work (Message 1752011)
Posted 28 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Good morning, Miz Julie.


Good morning Angela :)


Actually, it is going on midnight here and I'm hitting the hay, so goodnight all...
1445) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 250 -- waiting for v8 GPU work (Message 1752008)
Posted 28 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Good morning, Miz Julie.
1446) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1752005)
Posted 28 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We just went to see the movie "The Big Short" about the US banking crisis, and I swear Brad Pitt based his character on Eric.



Yes. Brad Pitt is truly an Eric Korpela wannabe!!! I'm a lucky gal, I am...
1447) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1751432)
Posted 24 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I never would have seen the leaf birds if you hadn't led me there.

Thank you.
1448) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I'ts boring on the moon. What else bores you to death? (Message 1751006)
Posted 22 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yeah we have a food thief at work...desks...refrigerators


When I worked at AAA, we had that problem, and I always thought it was very odd.


Did you check the break room for raccoons???
1449) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Merry XMAS Grumpy Cat Jingle (Message 1751005)
Posted 22 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Merry Christmas Vic.
1450) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1751004)
Posted 22 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cute!!!
1451) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Star Wars discussion -- with SPOILERS!! (Message 1751003)
Posted 22 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There ARE no new stories...
1452) Message boards : Cafe SETI : New Star Wars movie (Message 1751001)
Posted 22 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We got sucked into the hype. Eric and I decided that we just couldn't wait until after the holidays, so we went and saw Star Wars this evening.

Meh.

I won't give anything major away but... meh.

I think that I'm just too old for modern movies. I miss dialogue. It's almost like Hollywood has returned to silent movies. Wait. I take that back. There was actually nothing silent about this movie. My ears were constantly bombarded by the sounds of weapons firing and stuff exploding.

Call me an old fuddy-duddy, but I prefer plot, intrigue and dialogue in the movies I see.

I have no desire to see this movie again.
1453) Message boards : Cafe SETI : New Star Wars movie (Message 1750658)
Posted 20 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We were going to wait until after the holidays, but the hype is making me want to see it sooner.
1454) Message boards : Cafe SETI : New Star Wars movie (Message 1750623)
Posted 20 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't know if anyone has noticed my sig change and wave to the movie.


I think it is adorable and I like Sue's new "seasonal" signature too. Very clever!!!
1455) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1750619)
Posted 20 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Here it is: https://youtu.be/fKz_dk_O7rQ

We sure are kindred spirits, my friend!!!
1456) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1750470)
Posted 19 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I enjoy feeding the crows. They love peanuts.
1457) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1750346)
Posted 19 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
WE HAVE SKUNKS!!!!! :-O

Feed them!!! The babies are adorable!!!
1458) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 249: Ho Ho Ho! Merry XMAS, David has won!! (Message 1750151)
Posted 18 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What's the name of the condition in which a child is terrified of Santa?

Dare I say Claus-trophobia?


You are correct, Donald. Please post the next holiday riddle.
1459) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1750150)
Posted 18 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, are you sure about the sizes? The link that Chris posted said they have 5X.
1460) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Rob! (Message 1750149)
Posted 18 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Happy Birthday Rob!!!
1461) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 249: Ho Ho Ho! Merry XMAS, David has won!! (Message 1750034)
Posted 18 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What's the name of the condition in which a child is terrified of Santa?
1462) Message boards : Cafe SETI : New Star Wars movie (Message 1750032)
Posted 18 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The Big Bang Theory tonite featured the group going to the premier of the movie with Will Wheaton. It was really funny.

We watched that. It was hilarious!!!
1463) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 249: Ho Ho Ho! Merry XMAS, David has won!! (Message 1750005)
Posted 18 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Why are some of Santa's little helpers on Zoloft?


I've no idea Angela.


Low elf esteem.
1464) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 249: Ho Ho Ho! Merry XMAS, David has won!! (Message 1749978)
Posted 17 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Why are some of Santa's little helpers on Zoloft?
1465) Message boards : Cafe SETI : New Star Wars movie (Message 1749949)
Posted 17 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did anybody go see the movie today?

Ol Pookers and I don't like lines, so we will wait until after the holidays.
1466) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1749948)
Posted 17 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoon shirt 2 9-14-15 by Paul Sullivan, on Flickr

Discuss...


Love it!!! Did you take that picture? Where can I buy one? You look terrific!!!
1467) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Do you Sleep well. (Message 1749788)
Posted 17 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I picked up some valerian root in capsule form this evening. I'm going to pop three of them, smell be darned.

Here's hoping...
1468) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1749786)
Posted 17 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Saw a new ADT Security commercial last night. Daddy tells girl to get in bed. She says first she has to say good night to the house. He hands her a tablet and she uses the ADT app to say good night to the doors (locking them), the outside lights (turning them off), a couple of other things (doing to them whatever needs to be done), and "Good night, Rocky, playing in the garbage." Surveillance camera shows a raccoon on top of the garbage can. Daddy says "Again?"

Can't find it on Youtube.


LOL!!! Gotta love those trash can tippers.
1469) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Do you Sleep well. (Message 1749644)
Posted 16 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2:09 AM here.

Oh melatonin, why did you fail me? Oh Benedryl, why aren't you working yet?
1470) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1749401)
Posted 15 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Must have been thinking of some other cheese.
Cheddar cheese is orange as you say.

Not naturally. Here in the states we "think" that cheddar should be orange (just like we think that butter should be very yellow), so manufacturers color these dairy products with annatto.

We used to think that pistachios should be bright red. I am happy to see that fad has gone out of style here and that natural pistachios are all you see in the grocery store these days.
1471) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1749397)
Posted 15 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Machaca: Shredded beef with sautéed onions, tomatoes, jalapeños, eggs & melted cheddar cheese

I think I was pretty close with my assessment.
1472) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I'ts boring on the moon. What else bores you to death? (Message 1748865)
Posted 13 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Red velvet - cake, cupcakes, cookies, whoopie pies etc...

Red velvet desserts have been done to death. Red velvet is not that tasty, the chocolate flavor is weak and unless you go "old school" and use beets to color your dessert, chances are you have used more than half a bottle of artificial red food coloring.

I am bored to tears with red velvet anything!!!
1473) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1748863)
Posted 13 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It looks like the insides of a couple of steak burritos, topped with cheese, guacamole on the side, minus the two tortillas that would normally wrap-up the insides.
1474) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!!! (Message 1748805)
Posted 12 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Es, that is AWESOME news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am so happy for you and for your family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1475) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Graduate Student Project Questions - SETI@Home (Message 1748804)
Posted 12 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Claire. Eric says "hi".

I will happily participate in your survey, but after the holiday rush.

You can contact me via pm.

Angela Korpela
1476) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1748763)
Posted 12 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
OMG, I just gained 20 pounds instantly from looking at Gary's breakfast!!!
1477) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I'ts boring on the moon. What else bores you to death? (Message 1748733)
Posted 12 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Whenever one of us kids sighed, in the middle of summer vacation, "I'm bored....", my mother would snap back "Intelligent children are NEVER bored!"

We would immediately find something to do, lest our mother think us dullards.
1478) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1748732)
Posted 12 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Go Scott Go!!!

This is such a tough time of year to pass up carbs. I admire your strength.
1479) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 249: Ho Ho Ho! Merry XMAS, David has won!! (Message 1748580)
Posted 12 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Putting down another cookie to wave back at Blurf...
1480) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 249: Ho Ho Ho! Merry XMAS, David has won!! (Message 1748577)
Posted 12 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1481) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 249: Ho Ho Ho! Merry XMAS, David has won!! (Message 1748574)
Posted 12 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Posting before dinner. :-)

Back at the top, and WINNING!!!!! :-)


Your dinners always sound tasty. What's on the menu tonight?

North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State....
What's on YOUR plate?


Cookies, so far...
1482) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 249: Ho Ho Ho! Merry XMAS, David has won!! (Message 1748568)
Posted 12 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Posting before dinner. :-)

Back at the top, and WINNING!!!!! :-)


Your dinners always sound tasty. What's on the menu tonight?
1483) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Another M.A.S.H. 4077th star has died (Message 1748567)
Posted 12 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
1484) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Words travel (Message 1748323)
Posted 11 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My half-Finn husband will proudly tell you that "sauna" is Finnish in origin.
1485) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 249: Ho Ho Ho! Merry XMAS, David has won!! (Message 1748083)
Posted 10 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LSM says: "Thank you Angela, and Marry Christmas!"

LOL!!! Ol' Pookers had the good sense to Marry Christmas as well. Well, somebody has to be organized around here to get through December!!!
1486) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 249: Ho Ho Ho! Merry XMAS, David has won!! (Message 1748072)
Posted 10 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I say your post means that I have a whole
14 days to do just absolutely nothing.

...while LSM does all the work???!!!
1487) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1748056)
Posted 10 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Buddy and Snowball got into a terrible fight in our backyard last night. There were plenty of grapes for both of them, but raccoons will be raccoons.

Who won?

Buddy. When I saw them rolling around, snarling and trying to bite each other, I pounded on the back door and scared them both under the deck. Buddy came out about five minutes later, ate all the grapes and left. I assume Snowball left after I stopped watching. He didn't come out while Buddy was eating.
1488) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 249: Ho Ho Ho! Merry XMAS, David has won!! (Message 1747852)
Posted 9 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

I do!!! I do!!!
1489) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1747850)
Posted 9 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Buddy and Snowball got into a terrible fight in our backyard last night. There were plenty of grapes for both of them, but raccoons will be raccoons.
1490) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 249: Ho Ho Ho! Merry XMAS, David has won!! (Message 1747628)
Posted 8 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1491) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1747471)
Posted 7 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In: 164.2
1492) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Do you Sleep well. (Message 1747379)
Posted 7 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm a card carrying charter member of Team Insomnia, whether there is background noise or dead silence.
1493) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1747150)
Posted 5 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Go Scott Go!!!!!
1494) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 249: Ho Ho Ho! Merry XMAS, David has won!! (Message 1746971)
Posted 5 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations, Blurf!!! That is awesome!!!


And Happy Birthday, Carlos!!!

1495) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1746970)
Posted 5 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lake perch!

Herring and also Lake Superior Whitefish, both served deeply fried to a delicious golden brown - served with cole slaw and homemade rye rolls. Yum!
1496) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1746969)
Posted 5 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1497) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Long time no Post... (Message 1746968)
Posted 5 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome home!!!
1498) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1746449)
Posted 3 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...And the occassional Friday fish-fry.

LOL!!! We managed to go out for dinner Friday night and guess what was the special.
1499) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 249: Ho Ho Ho! Merry XMAS, David has won!! (Message 1746218)
Posted 2 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, did you win this thing again???!!!

Congratulations!!!
1500) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1746217)
Posted 2 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We enjoyed a traditional mid-western Thanksgiving with Eric's parents.

I only know of one family who does something different for Thanksgiving. I worked with a child several years ago whose parents both hated turkey. They told me that they always have spaghetti carbonara for Thanksgiving. Now, whenever I have spaghetti carbonara, I remember that little guy and his lovely family.
1501) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1746215)
Posted 2 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends. I am home after a week in the great state of Wisconsin, and I'm not going anywhere near that scale until I have walked off way too many waffles and way too much homemade pie.

Why oh why does Eric's mother have to be such an excellent cook???!!!!!!!
1502) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Holiday Fruitcake... love it or leave it? (Message 1746214)
Posted 2 Dec 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Go for it LSM :-)

+1!!!!!!! You go, girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1503) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 248 Yours, Yours, Yours (Message 1744409)
Posted 24 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I feel a little win coming on...
1504) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1744369)
Posted 23 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In: 165.0

May I ask, if you consider 165 to be pudgy, what's your target?


138. I'm short. 138 is the high end of "normal" for my height.
1505) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 248 Yours, Yours, Yours (Message 1744364)
Posted 23 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I would think Angela would be good at it.

Thank you, but I am actually appallingly bad at that game!!!

I can never figure those things out.
1506) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1744356)
Posted 23 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lovely pictures... and I see that you are a poet!

Thank you.
1507) Message boards : Politics : It is time..... (Message 1744341)
Posted 23 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I do not want to derail this discussion by hiding posts that include snipes "protected" by topic-related comments.

My hope is that certain posters will connect with their inner grown-ups and cease sniping.

If this is not possible then I ask that, for simplicity of moderation, you snipe in posts without other content, so that I can swoop in on my broom, hide the snipes and send the two of you on holiday - preferably together, to some remote, deserted island... without Friday around to help you survive the ordeal. So there!!!
1508) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 248 Yours, Yours, Yours (Message 1744316)
Posted 23 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winner, winner turkey dinner...
(Trying to be seasonal)
1509) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1744315)
Posted 23 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I fed Buddy a piece of stale pita bread last night. He thought it was the best thing since sliced bread!!! I tried to explain to him that pita bread was around well before sliced bread was, but Buddy was too busy eating to really take that information in...
1510) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1744314)
Posted 23 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In: 165.0
1511) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Holiday Fruitcake... love it or leave it? (Message 1744312)
Posted 23 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Can you find those fruit bits away from the Christmas season?

Not easily!!! They are all over major supermarkets from early November on, but after Christmas they seem to just disappear. Some markets "hide" them in shelves under fresh produce displays and wait for them to eventually sell out. Other markets must pack them up and send them back to companies for refunds.
1512) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I ain't played for anybody in years............... (Message 1744311)
Posted 23 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I know all who are posting here mean well, but I do not think we should have further discussion on this issue when Mark is not here to participate.

I am going to take the liberty of locking this thread at this time.

When Mark returns, he can request that this thread be unlocked or he can begin a new one.
1513) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 248 Yours, Yours, Yours (Message 1744196)
Posted 23 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm glad some is noticing the clues, but you've only considered the last two and reached the wrong conclusion.

Winning while clueless...
1514) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats (Message 1744193)
Posted 23 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh poor kitties!!! They must be genetically programmed to think those cucumbers are snakes. There is no way I'm going to try that with my cats.
1515) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Holiday Fruitcake... love it or leave it? (Message 1744192)
Posted 23 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
All my little babies got sprayed with spirits this evening. I don't want them to dry out...

Hic!!!
1516) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Holiday photographs (Message 1744117)
Posted 22 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Beautiful!!! You sure are an early birdie with that tree up already!!!
1517) Message boards : Cafe SETI : College Football (Message 1744091)
Posted 22 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, the axe remains on the Stanford campus and Cal went home in defeat.

On the plus side, the Cal band has improved tremendously since the first game of their season. The Stanford band tried to do one of those little band skit-stories that are so popular these days. I much prefer traditional band marching stunts.
1518) Message boards : Cafe SETI : College Football (Message 1743716)
Posted 21 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, last weekend Eric and I enjoyed watching Cal beat Oregon State and become bowl eligible. Those aluminum bleachers were mighty cold for a night game, but Eric and I dutifully warmed them.

Tomorrow is Big Game Day (Cal vs Stanford), which is practically a national holiday for my family.

Eric and I will make the pilgrimage down to that Leland Stanford Junior College to enjoy a mighty Golden Bear victory.

Go Bears!!!

1519) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 248 Yours, Yours, Yours (Message 1743253)
Posted 19 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Clear, leaking, won't stop.

You or a pipe?
1520) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Tipping (Message 1743232)
Posted 18 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My experiences in Scandinavia, where tipping is pretty much unknown, is that most service staff makes an effort to make your experience pleasant, or at least not too unpleasant. Sure, you run into the occasional jerk, but they are the exception. They still know that you won't come back if you don't like the service.


While on vacation years ago I took a recreational class at a resort on Hamilton Island, Australia. After the class was over I attempted to tip the instructor and completely embarrassed her. That was how I learned (the hard way) that tipping was not a part of the Australian culture!!!
1521) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 248 Yours, Yours, Yours (Message 1743228)
Posted 18 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'd like to thank the Academy...
1522) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Own a Vizio Smart TV? It's watching you. (Message 1743227)
Posted 18 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Great! Tracked by Google, now my TV.

Don't forget the NSA...
1523) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Own a Vizio Smart TV? It's watching you. (Message 1743031)
Posted 18 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Uh Vic... your tv may be listening to you!!!

Samsung Eavesdropper
1524) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 248 Yours, Yours, Yours (Message 1742762)
Posted 17 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Actually, I drank the wine. Eric made himself an Old Fashioned, which is sort of a Manhattan with some muddled orange in it. I made a batch of brandied cherries this spring and they are finally ready to use in cocktails. It is one of the few ways I can get Ol' Pookers to eat a serving of fruit!!!
1525) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 248 Yours, Yours, Yours (Message 1742757)
Posted 17 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I was too busy today to cook. We had hummus and vegetables, crackers and cheese, a variety of picked vegetables, some pistachios, some grapes, a bit of left-over pumpkin soup and wine... lots and lots of wine. Whee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1526) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Tipping (Message 1742715)
Posted 17 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am also known for giveing big baskets of goodies to the City and County offices I work with. In California as long as the gift is to an office and can be shared with all of the employees, it's allowed.

Yes but I think there is a price cap. Any time our department gave a gift to a physician's office, it had to be ok'd and recorded by somebody who made sure we didn't go over a price cap. We always appreciate referrals, but we can't look like we're giving somebody a "kick-back". Same deal with medical equipment vendors who gifted holiday baskets to our department. We couldn't accept anything that was over-the-top. Not only is it important to avoid impropriety, but it is important to avoid even the APPEARANCE of impropriety.
1527) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1742625)
Posted 16 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cranberries and lingonberries:)
Here is an aperitif with vodka called Vargtass (Wolf Paw).

That is beautiful and it looks like a lovely holiday beverage!!!
1528) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1742590)
Posted 16 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In: 164.4 lbs
1529) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1742442)
Posted 16 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have the chicken, just no fryer, so the chicken stays in the freezer for a while.


Bake 'em!!!

Loosen (but don't fully remove) the chicken skin with your fingers. Poke a little butter mixed with the herbs of your choice under the skin. People who like things salty, instead of buttery, might try soy sauce in place of herb butter. Throw the chicken quarters into a baking pan and bake at 375 degrees until the internal temperature is 165 degrees.

Problem solved.
1530) Message boards : Politics : France CLOSES all borders!!! Terror Attacks in Paris!!! (Message 1742182)
Posted 15 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing peace and comfort for surviving family members and friends.

Peace on Earth.
1531) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1742181)
Posted 15 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Police catch adorable masked bandits

Aw!!!
1532) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Intergalactic Quotes (Message 1741687)
Posted 13 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy Holidays Everyone!!!

Make it so
1533) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1741475)
Posted 12 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That leaf with the raindrops/dew all over it is beautiful.

Thank you for sharing your lovely photos here.
1534) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 248 Yours, Yours, Yours (Message 1741207)
Posted 11 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Looks like we're in need of a winner here.

Ok. I guess I'll do it.
1535) Message boards : Cafe SETI : New Star Wars movie (Message 1741202)
Posted 11 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Michele gets annoyed because she really dislikes the Episodes 1 through 3.

I'm with Michele on that one.
1536) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 248 Yours, Yours, Yours (Message 1741190)
Posted 11 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Posting on the flippant side.
1537) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 11 11 (Message 1741185)
Posted 11 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Peace on Earth.
1538) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What would you like to see for XMAS under the proverbial tree? (Message 1741172)
Posted 10 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I say Amen to that David and She better be good looking too.

Victor!!! Go to your room and stay there until you have figured out why the above quote is so outrageous!!!

Sincerely,
All the women of planet Earth
1539) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What would you like to see for XMAS under the proverbial tree? (Message 1741072)
Posted 10 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, that would be lovely. For all to recognize that, flawed and imperfect though we be, we are still worthy of love, respect, and fair treatment. Christ's 11th Commandment - Love your neighbor as you do yourself, treat others as you would have them treat you. If we could all do that, the world would be a much better place.

Amen, Brother Donald. Amen.
1540) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 248 Yours, Yours, Yours (Message 1741023)
Posted 10 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ring. Ring. Ring. [accent=Jedi] These are not the telemarketers you are looking for.
1541) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #62 (Message 1740984)
Posted 10 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
First, dishonorable mention to both Lynn and Angela for failing to realize that that is a film camera, with texts and watermarks not being a function of the camera. (a 1960's era Olympus Pen FT…)

Paul, I was trying to poke fun at teenagers who have never seen a real camera and perhaps think that cell phone cameras are the only type of cameras in existence. If it takes pictures, it must be some sort of phone.

Sigh. I suppose that if I have to EXPLAIN my joke, then clearly my dishonorable mention is justly awarded and well deserved.

Congratulations, Rob!!!
1542) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1740917)
Posted 9 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In: 165.8 lbs.
1543) Message boards : Number crunching : Multiple tasks for ATI R9 290X (Message 1740719)
Posted 9 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think there was a misunderstanding between friends.

Hoping for a peaceful turn in this thread...
1544) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 248 Yours, Yours, Yours (Message 1740668)
Posted 8 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Amazonite..

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Winning while being 100% convinced that if I do have a "third eye", it functions just about as poorly as the other two.
1545) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1740643)
Posted 8 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dew on a web... BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1546) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #62 (Message 1740540)
Posted 8 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How in the heck do you text on this thing?
1547) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hello (Message 1740532)
Posted 8 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome!!!

You will find many friends here!!!
1548) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What would you like to see for XMAS under the proverbial tree? (Message 1740510)
Posted 8 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Time.

Time Devoted to, what I don't have time for.

...




Time is our most precious commodity.

Peace on earth.
1549) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1740507)
Posted 8 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If that is one of Sue's cats, then the answer is "Yes, of course you may let him in!"
1550) Message boards : Cafe SETI : George Barris passes at 89 (Message 1740319)
Posted 7 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.

I know how much of a fan Vic is of the Batmobile. I know that Vic will be especially sad.
1551) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Holiday Fruitcake... love it or leave it? (Message 1740318)
Posted 7 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes please !

I like my fuit cake heavy, dense, with extra molasses and infused with rum. Rum is pretty much fermented molasses so there is a theme here. I am allergic to pea/tree/nuts so we make the cake ourselves. This affords the opportunity to throw in some extra fruit like figs or apricots not normally found in the commercial stuff.

I've gone and made myself hungry...



Francis Noel, I was so inspired by your post that, in addition to some of my traditional fruitcakes (candied mixed fruit, candied orange peel, glaced pineapple chunks, glaced whole cherries, dried cranberries, almonds and pecans all flavored with brandy), I just popped an experimental batch of fruitcakes into the oven.

Per your WONDERFUL suggestion I decided to build the experimental fruitcakes around apricots and rum. I used dried California Blenheim apricots, which I had in my pantry from our local Farmer's Market. I snipped them into quarters with scissors and soaked them in some Zaya rum. I added lots of candied pineapple, some candied lemon peel, some candied orange peel, and some finely diced candied ginger for heat. Eric and I both love nuts, so I added slivered almonds and whole pecans. All the fruits were yellow or orange and the batter was really evocative of autumn. I used my usual fruitcake recipe, but instead of cinnamon I substituted some powdered ginger. When the cakes are done and cool, I'm going to wrap them in rum soaked cheesecloth.

I can hardly wait until Christmas to see how this experimental batch turns out!!! (Darn. Why does fruitcake involve so much delayed gratification?)

Thank you, Francis Noel, for your excellent fruitcake suggestions!!!
1552) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1740315)
Posted 7 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yay Donald!!! Wonderful work!!!
1553) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1740314)
Posted 7 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Fantastic pictures!!!

Thank you for sharing them with us.
1554) Message boards : Cafe SETI : New Star Wars movie (Message 1740276)
Posted 6 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1555) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 248 Yours, Yours, Yours (Message 1740274)
Posted 6 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Back from the grocery store and ready to take Carlos' win.

Well did you wave as I few over?

Yes. Did you see me? (If you did, then I need to work harder over on the dieting thread!!!)
1556) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Missing Persons Bureau (a.k.a. The Mother Hens Thread) (Message 1740270)
Posted 6 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nah, Angela's fruitcake woke him up...

A healthy slice of my fruitcake should put one in a lovely brandy-induced sleep.
1557) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 248 Yours, Yours, Yours (Message 1740268)
Posted 6 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Back from the grocery store and ready to take Carlos' win.
1558) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1740266)
Posted 6 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Good work, TL!!! I shall have to remember to weigh myself on Monday. I've really been trying to eat a little less and move a little more.
1559) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Holiday Fruitcake... love it or leave it? (Message 1740265)
Posted 6 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now my Grandmother used to make some mean rum balls..

With all due respect to your sainted Grandmother, I believe I could give her a run for her money in the rum ball department. The secret is starting early. Now I know what I'm going to make this weekend!!!


She was also very VERY particular in which Rum she used. Unfortunately that is
one recipe I do not have.


I use Zaya. Some to flavor the rum balls and some to flavor the cook.

Do you want my recipe? It makes a chocolate rum ball, which is not traditional and I'm guessing not much like the one your grandmother made.
1560) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 248 Yours, Yours, Yours (Message 1740228)
Posted 6 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I escaped from work at a strange time - 13:12:11 according to the time stamp when I logged out!

Quick, buy a lotto ticket. Clearly it is your lucky day!!!
1561) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Holiday Fruitcake... love it or leave it? (Message 1740219)
Posted 6 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL! - Or drunken house guests :-))

Toasted house guests are our spécialité de la maison!!!
1562) Message boards : Cafe SETI : New Star Wars movie (Message 1740209)
Posted 6 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Can't wait!!! Can't wait!!! Can't wait!!!
1563) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Holiday Fruitcake... love it or leave it? (Message 1740208)
Posted 6 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm afraid it would bring ants. Sugar from the candied fruit always leaks a little into the cheesecloth. The last thing I need in my kitchen is drunken ants... or drunken aunts for that matter!
1564) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Holiday Fruitcake... love it or leave it? (Message 1740195)
Posted 6 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The art with feeding is to put enough liquor in to keep the cake moist, but not as much as to make it soggy.

'Tis true. I've over-soaked in the past and have learned since to balance things carefully.


And in any case there are more fruitcakes here at Seti than at Harrods Food Hall!

LOL!!! I proudly number myself amongst them! As for the cheesecloth, it goes into the trash. No squiffy raccoons here!!!


I am allergic to pea/tree/nuts so we make the cake ourselves.

Eric doesn't like raisins, so I substitute dried cranberries. I've never tried dried apricots before. What a terrific idea!!!


Sorry, fruitcakes are not for sale. I have far too many relatives waiting for their special holiday treats to ripen and go into the mail.
1565) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Holiday Fruitcake... love it or leave it? (Message 1740054)
Posted 6 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now my Grandmother used to make some mean rum balls..

With all due respect to your sainted Grandmother, I believe I could give her a run for her money in the rum ball department. The secret is starting early. Now I know what I'm going to make this weekend!!!
1566) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Holiday Fruitcake... love it or leave it? (Message 1740028)
Posted 6 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
With enough brandy fruit cake can be quite OK.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1567) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Holiday Fruitcake... love it or leave it? (Message 1740013)
Posted 6 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This thread is devoted to a discussion of holiday fruitcake.



Personally, I love it. I make fruitcakes every year and wrap them in brandy-soaked cheesecloth. Every two weeks, I spray the cheesecloths with more brandy. After a couple of months, those cakes pack a punch.

So.... fruitcake. Do you love it or do you give it a wide berth?
1568) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #62 (Message 1739756)
Posted 4 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lady luck smiled upon the humans that day, as it is the females who do the hunting.
1569) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 248 Yours, Yours, Yours (Message 1739692)
Posted 4 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Where are you going for Thanksgiving, Vic?
1570) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 248 Yours, Yours, Yours (Message 1739498)
Posted 4 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What's going on is that I am currently winning.
1571) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1739487)
Posted 4 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL you are quite the social butterfly.

Why thank you.

If I had any PhotoShop skills I would have responded with a picture of a raccoon head on a butterfly body.

(How is that NOT something one can find in Google Images???!!!)
1572) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 248 Yours, Yours, Yours (Message 1739454)
Posted 4 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No rotten Tomatoes here...

Good, I hate tomatoes.

Eric joins you in that sentiment.
1573) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1739453)
Posted 4 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are there any upcoming seti meets in the future?

This is such a lovely thread. I'm hoping it stays active.

I'll be in Vallejo in March, around St. Pat's Day, for an FRA Regional meeting. Perhaps I could come up on Thursday, and those of us in the Bay Area could have dinner Thursday or Friday evening.


That sounds lovely!!! Eric and I would be delighted to join the other Bay Area crunchers for dinner.
1574) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 248 Yours, Yours, Yours (Message 1739358)
Posted 3 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well... Sigh... Since I'm here I may as well win.
1575) Message boards : Cafe SETI : New Star Trek series!! (Message 1739357)
Posted 3 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
As card carrying geeks, Eric and I will tune in, whatever the title.
1576) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1739267)
Posted 3 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yep. Most of the cool kids are here...



We would be honored if you joined us!
1577) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1739266)
Posted 3 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are there any upcoming seti meets in the future?

This is such a lovely thread. I'm hoping it stays active.
1578) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Days Star Al Molinaro Has Died At the Age of 96 (Message 1739262)
Posted 3 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
1579) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 248 Yours, Yours, Yours (Message 1739261)
Posted 3 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hiya Vic.
1580) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 248 Yours, Yours, Yours (Message 1739259)
Posted 3 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Usurping Vic's win...
1581) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Fred Thompson, former senator and actor, dies at age 73 (Message 1739257)
Posted 3 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
1582) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 248 Yours, Yours, Yours (Message 1739256)
Posted 3 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Usurping TL's win...
1583) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 248 Yours, Yours, Yours (Message 1739248)
Posted 3 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Usurping Blurf's win...
1584) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part III (Message 1738947)
Posted 2 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So sorry to hear that you were burglarized. That is terrible!
1585) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 248 Yours, Yours, Yours (Message 1738946)
Posted 2 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations David!
1586) Message boards : Cafe SETI : LBVCR 2015 (Message 1738908)
Posted 1 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bernie, thank you for sharing this interesting event with all of us.

I enjoyed my armchair traveling!!!
1587) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1738890)
Posted 1 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I thought one of the ways a species was defined was that it cannot breed successfully outside of itself. Does this mean that dogs, wolves and coyotes are all, basically, one species?
1588) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What happened to Halloween??? (Message 1738711)
Posted 1 Nov 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I just returned from trick-or-treating with a nephew and niece in their Walnut Creek neighborhood. Tons of kids out. My brother manned the door of their home and had already gone through more than ten bags of candy when I left.

Saw lots of kids out in our neighborhood on the drive home, but none on our street. I opened some candy and turned on our porch light when I got in, but nothing here so far.
1589) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1738425)
Posted 31 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
One of my sisters and I are on the executive
council of the Canadian procrastinator's institute.

I'm a charter member of our community's procrastinator council!!!
1590) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Wins #247: Big Fire (Message 1738315)
Posted 30 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Unbefrickin'lievable win...
1591) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part III (Message 1738302)
Posted 30 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A portable electric would cost too much to run, My best idea for the moment is getting another PC up and running, that I can do and it will give Me some heat, though I will have to remove a video card, since the fan/radiator for that card is facing the bottom of the case(heat rises), a big, no no, I read and replace the dead cpu cooler.

Are you sure about the cost difference? I would bet that a small space heater, judiciously used, is a much better way of generating heat in a home we know you have already caulked to eliminate drafts - especially if you already qualify for a reduced rate on your electric bill due to your financial situation.
1592) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #62 (Message 1738301)
Posted 30 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Never underestimate the re-sale value of a home with an ocean view.
1593) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Missing Persons Bureau (a.k.a. The Mother Hens Thread) (Message 1738158)
Posted 30 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Janice!!!!!!!!

Welcome home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You have been missed.
1594) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1738132)
Posted 30 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A Word From Critter Cafe Management

Nothing is off topic in the Critter Cafe.

Vic, all posters here do their very, very best to exercise tolerance and patience with you when you wax poetic about specific topics that are of particularly high interest to you.

I ask that you afford the same courtesy to others.
1595) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #62 (Message 1737932)
Posted 29 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
24 hours and lots of very funny entries - Time to declare a winner.

Dis-honorable mention goes to Gary for: "Oh NO! Angela Bought ME!"
Dude!!! You have dined in our home and should know that I would NEVER use Reddiwhip and a packaged pie shell!!! Bleh. And while we're on the subject, who (besides my mother-in-law) buys cinnamon in a container that big???!!! The cinnamon will be tasteless well before you can use it all up, even if you bake like a maniac, as I do.

Third Place goes to Carlos for his clever commentary on my commentary: "Watch out the cook has shears."

Second Place also goes to Gary with his wry comment: "Just realized Pumpkin Pie isn't like Honey Pie."

First Place goes right back to Michael Roberts with his very punny caption: "Reddi or not, I'm outta here!"

PM going out to our winner now...
1596) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The celttooth thread ... Last day. Thanks all! (Message 1737886)
Posted 29 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you well, Ian, and sending some raccoons to distract you.
1597) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Wins #247: Big Fire (Message 1737875)
Posted 29 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, we're already well past 64.

587 Ping!


LOL!!! I thought I heard some fiddling when this thread was young...

Ok, I'll take 1666.
1598) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #62 (Message 1737855)
Posted 28 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If I caption this image, Ang will
mod' me out of here till way after
Halloween...


edit:
I'm not one of them people who needs to told twice....
re-edit:
Congratz on the win Angela....


Don't be silly!!! Caption away.

I laughed aloud when I read your caption: "Hold on to the real big pair, they are Ang's!" Of course you were referring to my poultry shears...
1599) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1737845)
Posted 28 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1600) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1737831)
Posted 28 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1601) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1737800)
Posted 28 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, I think the point that Sue is trying to make is that just because you are not having problems on your end of the sewer system, it does not mean that your litter is not causing problems along the way on the other end of the sewer system.

Eric and I use S'wheat Scoop. We do not flush it. We bag the "presents" and toss them in the trash.

Just because the bag says "World's Best Litter" it doesn't mean it is necessarily so. I was gifted a t-shirt that says "World's Best Aunt". Given the billions of people on the planet, I'm pretty sure that t-shirt is lying to me. (I still like it, though...)
1602) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #62 (Message 1737657)
Posted 28 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Celttooth: you are so in trouble!

True, dat.


Thank you for the win.


My dear friends, please caption this:
1603) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1737561)
Posted 27 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bull is very cute!
1604) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : What space junk?? (Message 1737407)
Posted 27 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is good that stuff is falling out of orbit and burning up. We have a space junk problem and it is getting worse over time. Every time two bits of space junk collide, they break into smaller and smaller pieces. Something the size of a pea, going at orbital velocity, could take out a satellite.

NASA now makes you submit a plan for eventually de-orbiting things you put into orbit, but back in the 60's and 70's they didn't care about this (although they should have!!!) Now there is lots of stuff up there breaking apart and becoming potential hazards to things we want to keep up there.
1605) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1737403)
Posted 27 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is that weird?

Not at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1606) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1737207)
Posted 26 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In: 166.8 lbs.
1607) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #62 (Message 1737117)
Posted 26 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The original fan boys...
1608) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #62 (Message 1737114)
Posted 26 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We must search this venue for the ingénue's menu!
1609) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Wins #247: Big Fire (Message 1737109)
Posted 26 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Watching some "Food Porn". Favorite Foods USA.
The series is about how they make it.
Candy. Boxed chocolates as See's Candy; Schimpff's Confectionery; Jelly Belly; salt-water taffy pullers.

Mmmm.... I always pick the California Brittle (AKA toffee) out of the See's Nuts and Chews first.
It is, hands down, the best candy in the box.
1610) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1737108)
Posted 26 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What an udder development..

I see that the spirit has mooooooooooooved you.
1611) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1737053)
Posted 26 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1612) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1737048)
Posted 25 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I enjoyed the skunk video very much, but a little demystifying is in order.

1. Skunks are very beautiful, but very dumb
2. Baby skunks are dumber than adult skunks
3. Skunks don't see well
4. Skunks see less well when it is light outside
5. That absolutely adorable baby skunk probably thought that the black and white sneakers in the video were its mama, and that was why it was following the people around that field
6. Skunks are more likely to have rabies than raccoons, opossums, squirrels or rats. Rabies affects skunks slowly and it is possible for a mother skunk to be carrying the rabies virus when pregnant and nursing, and still appear asymptomatic. A mama skunk can transmit rabies to her unborn offspring, resulting in baby skunks carrying the rabies virus upon birth.

Those people in the video were very kind, but they should not have picked up or pet that baby skunk. A bite from that skunk could have transmitted rabies.

Never, ever, ever, ever, ever pick up or pet a skunk.

Still, I love that video. Skunks are terribly misunderstood. They can be very enjoyable animals to have around.
1613) Message boards : Cafe SETI : College Football (Message 1736846)
Posted 25 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yep. Ol' Pookers was a sad bear. At least today he got to be a happy Badger.
1614) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Wins #247: Big Fire (Message 1736823)
Posted 25 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eight is the number. Looks like I won.

(Congratulations Carlos.)
1615) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Jumbled word game (Message 1736820)
Posted 25 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thread closed upon request.
1616) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : How does one determine "Intellligent Life"? (Message 1736627)
Posted 24 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I see we have an eruption of flame wars.

I am locking this thread at this time.
1617) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Wins #246 ..Carlos wins! (Message 1736624)
Posted 24 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
476 is my guess...
1618) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #62 (Message 1736580)
Posted 24 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sigh... late again for the Vogon Poetry Slam.
1619) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1736428)
Posted 23 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Season's Greetings!!!
1620) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1736427)
Posted 23 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1621) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Wins #246 ..Carlos wins! (Message 1736336)
Posted 23 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
State of exhaustion win.
1622) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1736335)
Posted 23 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
They are absolutely darling!!!

Now I can go to sleep, knowing I made Angela happy.

How ironic. Eric says the same thing !)
1623) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1736310)
Posted 23 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
They are absolutely darling!!!
1624) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Missing Persons Bureau (a.k.a. The Mother Hens Thread) (Message 1736113)
Posted 22 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I was thinking of Pappa the other day, and Phud. Seems like Blade is AWOL as well.

I believe that Pappa and his lovely wife moved to Mexico... at least that is what I heard.
1625) Message boards : Cafe SETI : College Football (Message 1736110)
Posted 22 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Go Bears!!!
1626) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Wins #246 ..Carlos wins! (Message 1735834)
Posted 21 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
OMG - that is the cutest costume ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1627) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1735797)
Posted 21 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What???!!! You still haven't joined our team???!!!



Come on, you know you want to...
1628) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1735622)
Posted 20 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We have pretty much the same scoop. Works great.

Vic, if it is difficult for you to kneel down and scoop a box, put Grace's litterbox on some boxes to elevate it. She may be able to climb/jump up easier than you are able to kneel down.
1629) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1735616)
Posted 20 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, your litter box situation can be solved more easily (and more cheaply!!!) than buying another mechanical litter box...

1630) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Wins #246 ..Carlos wins! (Message 1735262)
Posted 18 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hoping for the best of all possible outcomes for TL's dental situation. Glad to hear that he is not currently in pain.
1631) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #62 (Message 1735114)
Posted 18 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No. No. No!!! Vegetarian zombies eat "graaaaaaaaaaaains"!!!
1632) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Wins #246 ..Carlos wins! (Message 1735107)
Posted 18 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Back from a family party and ready to win!!!
1633) Message boards : Cafe SETI : College Football (Message 1735105)
Posted 18 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, I wouldn't be too sure of a victory 10/22. Those sturdy golden bears have been doing well this season.
1634) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1734833)
Posted 17 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1635) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Scammer Alert!!! Phone number 99999423575 (Message 1734761)
Posted 16 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, I got the same call, only my accented voice said that he was from the "Windows Department and calling about my computer."

I said, "Oh my goodness! This is a scam. Please remove me from your call list and please stop doing this for a living. It is not nice."

The man actually yelled at me. He said "How do you know? LISTEN TO ME!!!"

At that point I was more insulted than amused and I said, angrily, "Don't shout at me. You called me and I'm the one giving you good advice!!! You are being rude, crude and tatooed." Good day. (Click)

My apologies to readers with skin art...
1636) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1734753)
Posted 16 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hmm, Angela, your "Second Date" menu looks fabulous...

Just one sanity check when you say "heat the oven to 375 degrees" you do mean "375 degrees Fahrenheit" don't you?


May one be so bold as to suggest that it may be of use for other meals?



Yes. 375 degrees Fahrenheit.

And yes, this menu adjusts up and down, and need not be cooked exclusively for dates. I'm just using our young bachelor's requests as an excuse to work on my cookbook:

Godmother Angela's Cooking Advice For The Young, Single and Clueless

This is a working title. My publisher may have other suggestions down the road...
1637) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1734740)
Posted 16 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello food fans!!!

In Episode I of this thread, a young bachelor reader asked me for a simple menu for two, with recipes, that he could cook for a lovely young lady he was trying to impress. I am delighted to report that things went well with the chicken dish and sides I suggested.

A second date is in the works and our young bachelor is in need, once again, of some simple menu and recipe suggestions.

So without further ado, I give you....


A Hearty (but exceedingly simple) Winter Date Menu For Matthew!!!

Beer
Garlic Pork Sausages with mustard
Make Ahead Garlic and Goat Cheese Mashed Potatoes
Sauteed Apples
Brownies From A Bakery

Ok... the first two items on the menu, and the dessert, are super duper easy, secondary to your busy work schedule.

1. A day or two before, buy some garlic pork sausages at the butcher shop and put them in your fridge. (Chicken sausage may be substituted if the lovely lady does not eat pork for religious or political reasons, but pork sausages are more classic.)

2. A day or two before, buy some beer that will go well with sausages. Google "beer that goes with pork sausages" for lots and lots and lots of suggestions. Chill the beer... oh wait - you and your intended come from a culture that doesn't do that!!!! Ok. I am all about respecting cultural differences. Don't chill the beer. (Everybody else should chill the beer.)

3. A day or two before, buy the ingredients you need to make the potatoes and the sauteed apples. Make sure you have pantry staples such as coffee/tea, salt, pepper, mustard, cinnamon, butter, sugar, oil etc.

4. A day or two before, assemble the potato dish. For best results you will need a potato ricer to make light and fluffy potatoes in advance. You can borrow one from your mom, or purchase one at a cooking gadgets store. They are not that expensive and they last forever. You could also use a food mill if mom has one you could borrow, but a ricer is easier for this small amount of potatoes. You will also need a small glass or ceramic baking dish. (Make ahead dishes, if stored in baking dishes that are not glass or ceramic, may discolor or pick up odd tastes. Glass and ceramic clean-up easily, given a short soak in water... Bachelor friendly cookware!!!) Make sure you have two frying pans in your apartment - one to cook sausages in and a small one to cook apples in. If you only own one frying pan, borrow a second from your mom.

5. The day of the date, go to a bakery and buy a couple of fresh brownies. (How easy is that???!!!)



Make Ahead Garlic & Goat Cheese Mashed Potatoes:

oil
1.5 lbs Yukon Gold Potatoes
3 cloves garlic
Salt
4 ounces goat cheese, crumbled
2 Tbsps butter, diced
Dried sage
0.75 cup sour cream
0.25 cup heavy cream
More salt
Pepper
Grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese to taste

Very lightly oil a small glass or ceramic baker.

Peel the potatoes and cut into large chunks. Remove skins from garlic cloves. Put potato chunks and garlic in a pot. Cover with water. Add salt to taste. (I salt rather heavily at this point.) Bring to boil, reduce to simmer and cook until potatoes are fork tender - about 25 minutes.

Drain potatoes and garlic. Put them through a potato ricer or food mill. While still hot, add the goat cheese, butter, dried sage to taste, sour cream & heavy cream. Mix lightly but thoroughly. Taste the mixture. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Place the potato mixture in the ceramic baker. Top with Parmigiano Reggiano, to taste. Cover with plastic wrap and let sit in your fridge for a day to two.

Note to lovers of Thanksgiving - this recipe is easily doubled and baked in a 13 x 9 inch baking pan. Feeds a crowd and is easier than trying to make mashed potatoes from scratch on Thanksgiving Day. You're welcome!!!


Prep Work for Sauteed Apples

The day of the date, peel and slice two large crisp apples and let soak in cold water that you have aciduated with some lemon juice.


Count Down To The Date:

See previous instructions about the importance of decluttering your apartment, cleaning your bathroom and personal hygiene.

Set the table in advance - forks, knives, napkins, beer glasses etc. In the middle, place a little vase of greenery. It is going on winter, so you don't need flowers. A little snipped cypress in a small vase would be lovely, with some scattered votive candles. If you don't have access to a garden where you could snip some greens, buy a small bunch of fresh rosemary and put it in a vase. It will smell terrific and you can use it in your cooking all week.


Cooking Instructions On Date Day

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Uncover potato dish and bake for 25 minutes, or until heated through and a little brown on top. Let rest for 5 minutes before serving. The potatoes will retain plenty of heat!!!

About 20 minutes into baking the potatoes, pan fry the sausages so that they are cooked when the potatoes are done.

While the sausages are frying, drain the apples. Throw some butter into a pan and saute the apples until tender, but not mushy. Season to taste with a bit of salt and a bit of cinnamon. Don't go overboard on the cinnamon. This is a side dish, not a dessert. That being said, when the apples are almost but not quite done, you could sprinkle them with a tiny bit of sugar to promote browning and mild sweetness. (If you don't like sweet side dishes and you want to send the apples in a more savory direction, you could saute them with some fresh minced thyme or maybe some fresh minced sage, instead of using cinnamon and a bit of sugar.)

Extra credit - take the plates off the table and warm them briefly in the turned off oven after you have removed the potato dish. Just be careful to use potholders when you take the plates out of the oven. They will get HOT, even though your oven will be off!!!

Light the candles, dim the lights.

Plate everything nicely for two. Place a generous scoop of the potatoes on each plate (there will be left-overs). Add the sausages. Place a nice dollop of mustard on each plate. Angle the apples attractively on the plates. This is a date, so plating the food for two is required. You must fight your bachelor instincts to eat out of pots, standing up, over the sink...

Follow dinner with coffee (or tea) and the bakery brownies.

Enjoy!!!

P.S.: If you are concerned about eating garlic on a date, don't worry. You are both eating it, so it will be fine!!!

P.P.S.: If you are concerned about having sauteed fruit as a side instead of a green vegetable, sauteed broccoli rabe would make an excellent substitution for the sauteed apples. Clean the broccoli rabe in advance, but don't store it in lemony water. It will discolor. If the stalks are thick, you can pre-steam them a bit and store them in the fridge with the uncooked broccoli rabe tops. Saute everything in olive oil, with salt and crushed red pepper flakes.

P.P.P.S. If you and the lovely lady get married, I think that "Angela" makes a very nice middle name for a baby girl.
1638) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1734712)
Posted 16 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've never seen that. I do love grapefruit and grapefruit juice.

It was new for me too. I was in a specialty foods store and I simply could not resist. I tend to do most of my impulse buying in specialty foods stores. (Lucky for Ol' Pookers, my impulse purchases are in food stores and not in shops specializing in hand-made Italian leather shoes!!! Vinegar is a heck of a lot cheaper!!!)



My only experience with beets has been the crimson, sliced, frozen variety.

I agree with Janne. You are missing out. Fresh beets are delicious and they come in more colors than red. The next time you are in the grocery store produce aisle, look for fresh beets. They generally come in bunches of three or four, just like the picture Janne posted.

I tend to cook beets very simply. I remove the stems and greens. (The greens are edible and delicious, by the way, sauteed in olive oil and finished with a little salt and pepper.) I scrub the beets and roast them whole in a small baking dish, covered with foil. They take 60 - 90 minutes, depending on the size of the beet. When they are cool, I peel them and slice them. I store them in the fridge that way and then toss them with vinaigrettes before adding them to salads.

Alternatively, you could peel them raw, toss them with olive oil, salt, pepper and maybe a little fresh thyme. Roast them uncovered on a sheet pan. They will take less time to roast that way and already be pre-flavored for you.

Even though many people boil fresh beets, I do not recommend preparing them that way. I find that roasting is a much better way to concentrate the beet flavor. Boiling seems to wash away the flavor of fresh beets... although I bet that Janne would take exception to that when it comes to Borscht!!!

Anyway, beets are great!!! Gordon, since your mom loves sweet things, she will probably love fresh beets.
1639) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1734554)
Posted 16 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I recently purchased a tasty grapefruit flavored vinegar. I made a basic vinaigrette using my new vinegar, some olive oil, a slightly sweet mustard, salt and pepper. I tossed it with a mix of peppery greens and some roasted golden beets. I thought it was a perfectly balanced salad. Eric's comments were "too sweet".

Can't please all the people all of the time, I suppose...
1640) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1734553)
Posted 16 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
All the baby names submitted were fabulous, but I love a theme.

The big winner this year is Anniet with: "Clove, Cayenne, Cinnamon and Caraway"!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you to all who participated here and on our private Raccoon Lovers forum. Wonderful names all around!!!
1641) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1734224)
Posted 14 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've been trying to make a crispy thin crust for pizza. The recipes and mixes always turn out chewy, but I discovered soft flour tortillas from the grocery do quite nicely. I actually use a small sauté pan and take a small tortilla and fit it down inside, with the edges sticking up enough to form a sort of bowl for spooning in my pizza ingredients. The tortilla heats up and gets crisp quickly, so I pre-cook whatever filling I want to throw in. The end result is a crispy pizza. :~)

That sounds really good.

Are you starting with standard (flat) flour tortillas or those "artisan style" tortillas that are about a half inch thick?
1642) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1734002)
Posted 13 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yam, Yom, Yum and erm... Yim ? Maybe not :)

Clove, Cayenne, Cinnamon and Caraway?

Dumpling?

I'm sorry... I think I'm a bit hungry...


LOL!!!

Can't use Dumpling, as that is what I call my 5 year old nephew Nicolas. All the other names have been entered in the contest!!!
1643) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1733992)
Posted 13 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wonderful baby names!!!

We may actually have four kits to name. Eric thought he saw four kits. I only saw three.
1644) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1733991)
Posted 13 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Grace is very smart, how smart you ask? I've had to put baby locks on most of the kitchen cabinet doors, not bad, otherwise She'll open them, but then She's a 16lb cat.


I think a couple of my cats are learning how to open kitchen
cabinet doors.


Eva opens our sliding closet doors.
1645) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Ada Lovelace Day (Message 1733898)
Posted 13 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Best wishes to women in the sciences everywhere!!!
1646) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1733888)
Posted 13 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Little Timmy visited tonight with a litter of three raccoon kits. We thought that little Timmy had fallen down a well... at least that is what Lassie kept insisting. Turns out that Little Timmy is a Timothea and she must have been off somewhere nursing this litter. Timothea visited us tonight as a proud mother of three well grown and very beautiful raccoon kits.

Usually the mamas bring their litters to visit us in the summer. Not sure why Timothea waited until mid-October. I don't think these kits were born late because they are about the right size for this time of year.

Anyway, if you have ever wanted to name a raccoon, this is your big chance.

Please submit your raccoon baby names within the next 48 hours. I will select the three names that I feel are most befitting of such beautiful raccoon kits.

No limit on entries, but I only have three raccoon babies to name, so please don't go crazy. A hint to the wise - unisex names work well because I can't tell for sure if raccoons are boys or girls until they visit with a litter. Case in point, Timmy/Timothea.

Contest starts... now!
1647) Message boards : Cafe SETI : College Football (Message 1733851)
Posted 12 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sark Sacked!

I hope he gets the help he needs.
1648) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1733715)
Posted 12 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh dear. Thank you, I think... Poor little witch.
1649) Message boards : Politics : The Racism Quandary (Message 1733702)
Posted 12 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Three out of the last five posts in this thread needed to be hidden.

I am locking this thread at this time.
1650) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #62 (Message 1733590)
Posted 11 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There is never an Ent around when you really need one.
1651) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1733585)
Posted 11 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
the only reinforcement the crow appeared to be getting


I only politely would like to point out that the reward
the bird was getting may have been missed by the person
who took the clip.


edit:
I was just politely pointing it out...


Yes. I suppose that we could be looking at a trained crow who was getting a tasty treat from a human trainer.

But what if we are not???!!! That is the part that makes my brain explode!!!
1652) Message boards : Politics : The Racism Quandary (Message 1733577)
Posted 11 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What people find humorous says a lot about who they are.

Perhaps. But a person's actions say far more about who they are.

I'm sorry Angela. I won't post again.

That was certainly not the intent of my comment. I apologize if it came across that way to you.
1653) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1733576)
Posted 11 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, I am familiar with Skinner's pioneering work in learned behavior. Stimulus - response - consequence. I totally get it. That is how we teach dogs to ride bicycles.

The crow snowboarding just seemed to be quite different to me. As far as I can tell, nobody shaped this behavior in the crow. Even if the crow figured it out totally by accident, the only reinforcement the crow appeared to be getting was pure enjoyment of the "sport", and that appeared to be enough to make it want to snowboard again and again.

You've got to respect the brain-power it takes to hunt, eat, nest, preen, reproduce and still have a neuron or two left over for purely recreational behavior.
1654) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1733571)
Posted 11 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Crow snowboarding

Ok Critter People, what do you think of this?

When raccoon kits play, they appear to be establishing dominance. When my cats play, they appear to be honing their hunting skills. When a trained dog rides a bicycle, it appears to be learned behavior reinforced by doggie treats.

This crow, however, appears to be snowboarding for purely recreational purposes.

I knew that crows and ravens were smart, but dang!!!! I didn't know they were THAT smart!!!
1655) Message boards : Cafe SETI : College Football (Message 1733569)
Posted 11 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, somebody's winning streak had to be broken in that match. Too bad it was Cal's. Go Bears.
1656) Message boards : Politics : The Racism Quandary (Message 1733567)
Posted 11 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What people find humorous says a lot about who they are.

Perhaps. But a person's actions say far more about who they are.
1657) Message boards : Politics : The Racism Quandary (Message 1733563)
Posted 11 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The next time any one of us is in a car, I challenge us to tune into a comedy channel on the radio and listen for ten minutes. I believe we will find that lots and lots and lots of things that fall into the category of racist are part of jokes told on comedy stations. Is it bad if I laugh at some, or maybe even most, of the jokes that I hear in that ten minute period?

Comedy can be a driving force in social change. The classic examples in US television history are "All In The Family" and its spin-off "The Jeffersons", but more recently does anyone remember the t.v. show "Queer Eye For The Straight Guy?" The stars of that show used ridiculous over-the-top stereotyping of two cultural groups (gay men and straight men) to tremendous comedic effect. In doing so, that show also seemed to play a pivotal positive role in the USA gay rights movement.

Comedic superstar Jerry Seinfeld was in the news earlier this year complaining that P.C. college audiences were killing comedy. I am a fan of comedy and I do not want to see it killed. I am a fan of free speech. I am also a fan of good taste. It is not easy to balance all of these things that I value. So yes, context and audience do matter.

I do not have Es's extensive background in social justice and equality issues. I am grateful to serve with her currently as part of the moderating team. I benefit frequently from her insights, but sometimes I am forced to fly solo. For example, about six months ago I whacked a joke that was posted on my private team forum because I deemed that it was racist. I based this judgment solely on my gut feelings. I whacked the joke immediately upon seeing it. I did not give it a second's thought. I did not consult anyone else. I simply whacked it. "Gut feeling" is not necessarily a bad way to go sometimes.
1658) Message boards : Politics : The Racism Quandary (Message 1733555)
Posted 11 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Upon reading the posts of Мишель and Es99, I now see this joke from a different vantage point. My mind has been changed. The joke is racist.

I suppose now the more interesting question is the one that Gary posted.
Does that mean it can't be told?
1659) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Wins #246 ..Carlos wins! (Message 1733545)
Posted 11 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I happen to excel at winning nothing!
1660) Message boards : Cafe SETI : College Football (Message 1733543)
Posted 11 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The Badgers won by the slightest of margins with a very exciting finish.

Best of luck to the Huskers in the remainder of their season.
1661) Message boards : Cafe SETI : College Football (Message 1733492)
Posted 10 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ah yes... the sport of football is very big in Nebraska.
It is second only to sitting on your porch, guessing which ear of corn a crow will land on next.



On Wisconsin!
1662) Message boards : Politics : The Racism Quandary (Message 1733361)
Posted 10 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela, you have just described the dilemma of the Politically Correct :)

Everything has to be analysed to the nth degree to find something to be "offended" about, usually on behalf of a 3rd party who doesn't care a jot about the issue :) ...


I prefer not to call political correctness a "dilemma", but rather a "gift". I certainly HOPE that before I tell a joke, I have the good sense to analyze it to the nth degree and then either tell that joke or not, based on the results of my thorough and extensive analysis.

Why would this be a dilemma???

I believe that the old fashioned terms for such a process might be "good taste" or "good manners".

Let us hope that such things never go completely out of style.
1663) Message boards : Politics : Racist? [yes you are] (Message 1733356)
Posted 10 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Anchor or news writer - doesn't really matter who decided to call these three suspects "drifters" and "lost souls".

Three white kids, who may very well have committed two horrific murders, were described in relatively kind terms on the local news I tuned into this morning. My point is simply that young people of color are not generally shown the same relative kindness.

I do not think that the anchor (or news writer) was even aware that young suspects of color are generally not shown such kindness. I do not think the anchor (or news writer) is a bad person, is an overtly racist person or is guilty of having some subversive financial agenda. I do not think that the anchor (or news writer) tries to get a larger audience by calling young suspects of color less kind terms. People tend to tune into crime stories, especially so if they happen nearby. Perhaps I am naive, but I do not think audience size (at least consciously!!!) has anything to do with what descriptors are applied to various suspects. Local people watch the local news to hear about local crimes. (Probably just one of those evolutionary by-products that assists us in self preservation...) Audience size is probably pretty consistent when a local, violent crime is committed.

The title of this thread is "Racist? [yes you are]", I presume to remind us all that racial bias is deeply ingrained in our culture and that we should recognize it in ourselves so that when it rears its ugly head we see it for what it is and then will ourselves, consciously, not to be be influenced by it or act upon it. I suspect that the anchor (or news writer) was unaware of his (or her???) racial bias this morning.
1664) Message boards : Politics : The Racism Quandary (Message 1733343)
Posted 10 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I will sit on the fence and say that context is everything. (She who sits on the fence HAS made a decision!!!)

If a smaller cultural group has a reasonable amount of power/success within a larger cultural group, and a joke is not outright inflammatory, then I do not think that it is necessarily inappropriate to find humor in a joke such as the one you posted. I will even be so bold as to admit that I laughed. Children of an Asian persuasion were robustly represented in all of the advanced math and science courses that I took in junior high and high school (late 1970's - early 1980's)

If a smaller cultural group has a limited amount of power/success within a larger cultural group, then jokes of any sort, complimentary or otherwise, could be construed as racist.

That being said, "Asian" is a very broad term that includes many cultural groups, including people from the Indian subcontinent. So I suppose that the very use of the term Asian might be construed as racist.

Also, who is telling the joke and in what context is the joke being told?

Context, context, context.

Gosh, the view is great from up here on top of the fence!!!
1665) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Wins #246 ..Carlos wins! (Message 1733336)
Posted 10 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations on your win, Ian!!!
1666) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The celttooth thread ... Last day. Thanks all! (Message 1733330)
Posted 10 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I got my last prescription to-day.
We are gettin' there!

Wishing you well, my friend.
1667) Message boards : Politics : Racist? [yes you are] (Message 1733328)
Posted 10 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Three Caucasian young people (they look to me like they are in their 20's) are currently accused of killing an elderly man who was out walking his dog in a public park in the SF Bay Area. This has been a big news story in our area lately. It was a horrific crime and my heart breaks for the victim's widow and for the victim's family and friends.

The suspects are innocent until proven guilty, of course, but the news media reported some pretty damning evidence linking these three suspects with this murder and, tragically, with another murder of a Canadian citizen who was visiting the area to attend a musical festival a few months ago. It is possible, even probable, that at least one of these three young people will ultimately be convicted of two murders, and that the other two will be convicted of being accomplices to two murders.

As I was turning off the television this morning and sailing out the door, I heard a correspondent on our local news station describe these three youths as "drifters" and "lost souls".

If these three young people had darker skin, I am pretty sure that the same news anchor would have described them as "monsters" and/or "thugs".

Institutionalized racism. Sadly, it is just not all that hard to find in our country.

May our recognition of it lead to its eradication.

Peace on earth.
1668) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Wins #245 (Message 1733324)
Posted 10 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hiya Vic!!!
1669) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Wins #245 (Message 1733319)
Posted 10 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ian, I see that you have started a 21 gun salute in celebration of my win.
1670) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Wins #245 (Message 1733315)
Posted 10 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Whew!!! At last this thread has come to an end, with me as the clear and undisputed winner.
1671) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I'm baaaaaack (Message 1733303)
Posted 10 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome home!!!
1672) Message boards : Cafe SETI : College Football (Message 1733019)
Posted 9 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I just returned from the midwest where Eric and his best friend from college were able to attend and enjoy both the Badger victory over Hawaii and the Packer victory over the Chiefs. It was a very football intensive weekend!!!

Now I am bumping this thread for our annual Badger/Cornhusker rivalry.

I reckin' this will draw Ole Scarecrow out of the cornfield...



On Wisconsin!
1673) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Wins #245 (Message 1733007)
Posted 8 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh darn. I didn't make it to the hairdresser before my win and now I'll just have to accept the award looking all "wash and wear"...
1674) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Wins #245 (Message 1732738)
Posted 8 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.
1675) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (100) Server Problems? (Message 1732733)
Posted 8 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello everybody.

We received a request from arkayn to lock this thread because it is getting long. I assume he will be starting a new one for all to enjoy.
1676) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Wins #245 (Message 1732693)
Posted 8 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You may award me the win now...
1677) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Wins #245 (Message 1732642)
Posted 7 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ta Da!!!!

The winning post is mine.
1678) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1732626)
Posted 7 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have never understood the use of artificial sweeteners in drinks such as coffee or tea. One teaspoon of real sugar is 16 calories. Although I prefer my tea black, if I wanted it sweetened I cannot possibly imagine wanting it sweeter than what you would get by adding a tsp of sugar.
1679) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1732619)
Posted 7 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just catching up a bit. Love the deer and rat photos and the story about Pumpkin. Regarding the car accident, I'm so glad it was not worse. Driving is a privilege, not a right. Hope the teenager year old realizes that as she rides the bus for a few years.
1680) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Missing Persons Bureau (a.k.a. The Mother Hens Thread) (Message 1731973)
Posted 5 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Andy is doing better. He has a new job and he did some traveling to Turkey. I have had a few emails from him lately. Always nice to hear from seti friends.
1681) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Wins #245 (Message 1731972)
Posted 5 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome home TL!

I told people you were probably just fine, but they just kept worrying about you anyway. Nice to have friends, isn't it???!!!
1682) Message boards : Cafe SETI : College Football (Message 1731970)
Posted 5 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What are the Golden Bears doing at 5-0?!

Going to the Rose Bowl???
1683) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Wins #245 (Message 1731716)
Posted 4 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I wore Badger red today, but to no avail. They lost. Cal won though. That was a nice surprise.
1684) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1731365)
Posted 3 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I found a pair of raccoon socks in a little clothing shop recently.
1685) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Wins #245 (Message 1730986)
Posted 2 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The advice from a raccoon post was very funny.

Hi Ian - who's not speaking with you???!!!

Hi everybody. Not 500 posts yet, so I guess I didn't win, again.
1686) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Wins #245 (Message 1730519)
Posted 1 Oct 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This time, surely I have won.
1687) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Wins #245 (Message 1729899)
Posted 28 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did I win?
1688) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1729887)
Posted 28 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Great pictures! Very fun to look at.
1689) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1729886)
Posted 28 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bernie, I hope that Mr. Deer does not eat all the lovely flowers in your community garden!
1690) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #62 (Message 1728718)
Posted 25 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello friends!

Third place goes to Blurf with: "I sat on the couch and it oinked"

Second place goes to Blurf with: "That couch made a real pig of itself"

First place goes to Admiral Gloval with: "I got it for my mother-in-law for her birthday"


PM going out to our winner now.
1691) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1728535)
Posted 24 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Please do. Im only 70+ miles from Blurf.

Does your wife care for puns?
1692) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1728534)
Posted 24 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Really, Ulibelle??? You look adorable in the group shot from Es' party!!!
1693) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1728416)
Posted 24 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Goodnight friends
1694) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Yogi Berra: Gone for a while... (Message 1728414)
Posted 24 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
1695) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1728413)
Posted 24 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
look at the bright side i'm sure his eye rolls around like a marble and you hear a clown horn everytime it rolls

What a coincidence!!! My eye does that too. Beep Beep.
1696) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1728411)
Posted 24 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We were in NY a couple of years ago on a trip with our niece Emily, but we never made it upstate. I'll let you know if we are ever in your area.
1697) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1728380)
Posted 24 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Look at that he even has a lazy eye that is so funny

Aw!!! Just like me!!! My left eye is legally blind and I have ptosis of the lid on that side. This little raccoon is my doppelganger!!!
1698) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1728377)
Posted 24 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lettuce tends to get kind of gross cooked.

Grilled radicchio is delicious. So is grilled escarole.
1699) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1728376)
Posted 24 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sue, check the laws in your area. Out here, raccoons cannot be re-located. If trapped by a company they have to be put down.

If you are doing the re-locating yourself, you can potentially be sued for releasing a problem animal in someone else's area. Make sure you release the raccoon someplace with food and water and no people. This may require considerable driving. Also, if you are doing the re-locating yourself, please make sure that "he" is actually a "he", and not a nursing mother.

A better solution would be to get a litter box for the night use of your cats. Keep them locked in your house at night and find a way to temporarily secure the cat door shut at night.
1700) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1728367)
Posted 24 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are you talking about an external photo editor? Or is there a way I don't know about to tell this site what size to make your pictures?

External. Steve was right. 800 X 600 was perfect.
1701) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1728365)
Posted 24 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wouldn't that be much better on the eyes ladies?

Ozz!!! Where did you find that photo of Eric before his last haircut?
1702) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1728339)
Posted 24 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
David you do not stand alone.

Eric dislikes cooked orange foods such as cooked carrots and cooked sweet potatoes. He will eat raw carrots and raw orange peppers. I think he may be especially sensitive to the taste of beta carotene and the cooking process makes those compounds more detectable. Perhaps there are compounds in some vegetables that you are particularly sensitive to?

Are there any vegetables you like raw that you do not like cooked?
1703) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1728337)
Posted 24 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I pray to FSM that you forget your camera lest my ugly mug break it for you.

FSM says "request denied."

Eric is never without his cell phone and that takes pretty good pictures.
1704) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1728326)
Posted 24 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Everybody be nice in the Critter Cafe, please. All are welcome here.
1705) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1728325)
Posted 24 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
O.o

You're up next, buddy!!! Given the number of times we have dined with you and with the lovely Miz Mickey, I cannot believe that I do not have a post-able picture of you, Mickey, me and Ol' Pookers.

That is going to end soon, my friend... very, very soon!!!
1706) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1728303)
Posted 23 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I trust this is all playful banter between friends...
1707) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1728262)
Posted 23 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh and I do have the benefit of a cooking merit badge, among others, and at least I do know how to cook, unlike My Dad's generation, He even asked Me how to wash dishes.

I use Wax paper so I dont have to clean the owen.
Wax paper is more functional than plastic wrap which will melt at lower temperatures, or aluminium foil which is not safe for use in most microwave ovens.

What you call wax paper may be what we call parchment paper over here. Wax paper, in our country, is thin paper coated with wax. I use it in between layers of baked cookies, for storage. If you put American waxed paper in the oven it will melt and even ignite.
1708) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1728250)
Posted 23 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yay - pictures, at long last, from 2014!!!

Eric and I had the pleasure of a visit from Es last August and a visit from Rob Smith last October.



Homage is paid unto Her Royal Highness Es99, Queen of Seti.




Group Shot of Local Crunchers who were able to attend a party in Esme's honor.
Left to right we have Eric, Angela, Esme, Bruce, TimeLord04 (AKA Scott), Uli, Jeff, Virginia and Carlos,
with KWSN Holy Hand Grenade (AKA Paul) in the front.




A mini-meet of Raccoon Lovers gathered in celebration of Rob's visit.
Left to right we have Rob, Angela, Uli, woohoo (AKA Tony) and TimeLord04 (Scott), with Eric in front.
(Eric is a Raccoon Lover when he crunches Beta.)




In this picture we have me, my magnificent vulture, Rob and Ulibelle.
(Did I mention that I absolutely LOVE Halloween?)





Thank you, Paul, for the first three pictures. Eric took the last one.

While admittedly late, I am not nearly as delinquent in posting these pictures as I could be. In fact, I do believe that in a few weeks Rob Smith is planning to post a Halloween picture in which he and I are er... uh... "out of our heads."

Stay tuned, friends!!!
1709) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1728243)
Posted 23 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I usually use 800 X 600, and that works reasonably well.

Steve


Thanks. I'll give it a whirl. Please stand by.
1710) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1728241)
Posted 23 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I did the very small sweet potato for my mother today at 350 for an hour and it probably could have had a little extra heat to soften it more, but it was fine, and she liked it. :~)

We always use Reynolds wrap, too. ;~)

LOL!!!! Well Gordon, my friend, please consider me on a mission to purge the use of aluminum foil from the baking of tubers everywhere. Tonight I'm going to put on my Sunday best clothes and start ringing doorbells in my neighborhood. I'll hand people pamphlets, push my way inside of their houses and begin the "conversation" with. "Pardon me, but do you have a few minutes to talk about potatoes this evening?" When it comes to food, I have plenty of religious zeal.

Anyway, a very small and skinny sweet potato might roast in an hour. I tend to avoid buying the skinny ones, unless I am going to cube and roast them using the savory approach that I posted.

Really big sweet potatoes can be starchy and skinny little sweet potatoes can be difficult to roast in the skins without over-doing them. Personally, I find that medium sized sweet potatoes work best in all applications.
1711) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1728238)
Posted 23 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Where's the pix?




Almost there. All permissions received, but will somebody please tell me the numbers to put in under "width" and "height" so that the photos show up on the forums the right size. Eric usually does this for me, but it is high time that I learned how to do this myself. I went to a website that recommended 815 and 315, but that made the pictures way too small on my screen.
1712) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #62 (Message 1728233)
Posted 23 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
OMG I am such a colossal computer idiot!!!

I just copied the link instead of the thing in image tags.

Richard, again, thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are a prince among men!!!
1713) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #62 (Message 1728229)
Posted 23 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nope!
No pix.

Seriously???!!! The link doesn't work for you???

I am so sorry. I thought that Richard's link would work for everybody. It worked perfectly for me when he sent it to me in a pm.

I genuinely do not know how to fix this! I will ask Eric to look into this tonight if nobody is able to fix it before then.
1714) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1728228)
Posted 23 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Still the foil and the Sweet Potato or Yam themselves are accurate.

Vic, I vehemently disagree. I would NEVER wrap foil around a sweet potato or a regular potato because that ruins the flavor and texture. It is an old-wives-tale (probably started and perpetuated by The Reynold's Company!!!) that you need to wrap potatoes of any sort in foil. If you want a really good baked Russet potato all you have to do is wash it, pierce it with a fork a couple of times, rub it with vegetable oil, salt it liberally, throw it on a baking sheet and bake it until it is tender through - not wrapped in foil!!!

Oh... I suppose if I were camping I might stick a foil wrapped potato into a campfire, but that is the only context I can imagine in which foil around a potato of ANY sort would be justified.

A yam, by the way, is a starchy root native to the African continent. I know that in North America we sometimes call sweet potatoes "yams", but what we eat here are really sweet potatoes.
1715) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #62 (Message 1728222)
Posted 23 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Richard H was kind enough to fix the picture using his Photobucket. Thank you, Richard!!!

Here is a link to the picture, in case you could not see the first one that I posted.

http://www.foundshit.com/pig-couch-sculpture/
1716) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1728220)
Posted 23 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am roasting some sweet potatoes right now, and the house smells heavenly because of it.

Mom taught Me to bake them, yummy with some margarine and I think some allspice, wrapped in aluminum foil, with the potatoes stuck deeply with a fork, at 350F, for at least 30mins, more time can be added until tender, since the time varies with the size of the potato, then split them like any normal baked potato, then add the margarine, allspice and serve.

The foil keeps the potato from dripping while baking in the oven.

Yams would be the same of course.



Vic, with all due respect to your sainted mother, I think you need to recheck her recipe. A sweet potato doesn't even come close to getting soft in a half hour.

To roast medium sized sweet potatoes I recommend the following. Wash sweet potatoes. Stick a few holes in the skins with a fork so that the sweet potatoes do not explode in your oven. You do not have to pierce them deeply. A quarter of an inch is fine. The idea is just to keep pressure from building up under the skin. Place pierced sweet potatoes on a rimmed baking sheet. (If you want to save time on pan clean-up you could line the baking sheet with foil, but this step is entirely optional. Sweet potato juices are easily removed from a baking pan if you let it soak for an hour or so. They are mostly sugar so they dissolve relatively easily in water.) Anyway, do not wrap foil around your sweet potatoes - you want the sugars in the sweet potatoes to roast and caramelize. You do not want the sweet potato to steam. Steaming will happen if it is wrapped in foil. Steamed sweet potatoes taste wishy-washy. Nobody wants that!

Bake at 375 degrees for an hour and a half (Yes, a full 90 minutes... longer if your sweet potatoes are very, very large.)

You want the sweet potatoes to be tender through and you want to see just a tiny trickle of juices starting to run out of a couple of the holes you put in the skin. If you have lots of sugars running out of every hole you put in your sweet potatoes, you have gone too far. A little bit of runny sugars escaping - good. Lots and lots of runny sugars escaping - bad. The idea is to keep the liquefied/caramelized sugars mostly inside of the sweet potatoes so that you taste the sugars. If you run all the sugars out of Dodge, your sweet potatoes will taste dry and starchy.

Remove sweet potatoes from oven. Let rest 5 minutes. Slice open, sprinkle with salt if desired (I usually don't), and enjoy. If you like rich tasting sweet potatoes, butter them. If you want to experience a "sweet potato gone wild", pour a little real maple syrup over them when you split them.. (Not "pancake syrup" which is basically corn syrup doctored up with artificial flavors and colors... real maple syrup, but only if you happen to keep it in your pantry.)


What???!!! What's that you say? Life is too short to spend 90 minutes roasting sweet potatoes and you'd rather send them in a savory direction anyway??? No problem. Just try this:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Peel the sweet potatoes. Cut into 2 inch chunks. Toss them with olive oil. Salt and pepper them to taste. Line a rimmed baking sheet with foil to save on clean-up (optional step). Spread the sweet potato chunks out in single layer. Roast for 20 minutes. Rotate the pan from back to front. Roast for another 20 minutes. Test with a fork. If they are tender at that point, they are done. If not, give them another 5 minutes or so.

If you want to experience a "savory sweet potato gone wild", toss a sliced onion with some olive oil, salt, pepper and about a tablespoon of fresh thyme leaves, minced. Throw the onion mixture onto the baking pan when you rotate the sweet potatoes (after their first 20 minutes of baking). Toss onions with the sweet potatoes before serving.


Ang is my name and food is my game. And raccoons. And speech pathology. And Halloween.
1717) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #62 (Message 1728184)
Posted 23 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry Angela, but I can't see the pic from here.

Oh dear. I'm sorry Graham.

Is anybody able to see this picture? I can see it just fine from my computer.

Is there anybody out there with tech skills who can fix this picture so that everybody can see it.
1718) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #62 (Message 1728179)
Posted 23 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.


In keeping with our theme porcine, my friends please caption this:
1719) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #62 (Message 1728003)
Posted 23 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
For us in the US with no clue whats going on in UK it's a lil hard plus politics is not my thing

Just google Prime Minister Pig and, sadly, you will find out more than you EVER want to know...
1720) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food II (Message 1728001)
Posted 23 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am roasting some sweet potatoes right now, and the house smells heavenly because of it.
1721) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Wins #245 (Message 1727770)
Posted 22 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I thought the last thread was going for a post number, so I wasn't paying real close attention to the clues. I also thought that the "guess the number" was a side game, but apparently, the goal was either to reach the number, or to guess the number, whichever came first. An interesting variation allowed by the rules.

Oh! I was completely confused. I thought that Vic was giving clues to a four digit number that would be the winning post.

Congratulations again, Donald!!!
1722) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Wins #245 (Message 1727759)
Posted 22 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, please tell us what you were getting at with all those clues.
1723) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Wins #245 (Message 1727754)
Posted 22 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Donald.

Now Vic, will you please connect the dots for us.
1724) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #244. Donald has won and been PMed. (Message 1727749)
Posted 22 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am confused. Donald won, but yet you say there is still a four digit number to be guessed.
1725) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #244. Donald has won and been PMed. (Message 1727730)
Posted 22 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The Me 262 first flew in combat on July 25th, 1944 when it attacked a Mosquito flying a reconnaissance mission over Munich.
1726) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #244. Donald has won and been PMed. (Message 1727725)
Posted 22 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela is warmer.

Eric says I am positively hot.
1727) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #62 (Message 1727723)
Posted 22 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Call me Dave. No, seriously. CALL ME, Dave!!!
1728) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #62 (Message 1727720)
Posted 22 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Before she met Kermit, Miss Piggy dated David.
1729) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #244. Donald has won and been PMed. (Message 1727683)
Posted 22 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I just like beating Carlos.
1730) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #244. Donald has won and been PMed. (Message 1727679)
Posted 22 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Does the me me me me refer to the "Messerschmitt Me" or was Vic just singing in the shower?
1731) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #62 (Message 1727671)
Posted 22 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Do these boots make my posterior look big?
1732) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #244. Donald has won and been PMed. (Message 1727670)
Posted 22 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That is because the number is this one!
1733) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1727669)
Posted 22 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh dear. I shall be reading and viewing videos for hours...
1734) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #62 (Message 1727662)
Posted 22 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Really, I have no idea who ate Paddington's marmalade sandwich!!!
1735) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #62 (Message 1727661)
Posted 22 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Teacup pig awaits invitation to afternoon tea with the Queen.
1736) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #244. Donald has won and been PMed. (Message 1727660)
Posted 22 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning without puzzling things out. I prefer blind luck.
1737) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1727658)
Posted 22 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoons end up in the darnedest places!!!


Won't you join us?
1738) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Carolyn's Clinic Remodel / Rebuild -- Oldest active group (Message 1727656)
Posted 22 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Cactus Bob.

Please inform Nurse Goodbody that there may be an influx of patients in the clinic suffering from raccoon bites.
1739) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #244. Donald has won and been PMed. (Message 1727655)
Posted 22 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Much of life is, if you are lucky...
1740) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #244. Donald has won and been PMed. (Message 1727652)
Posted 21 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.
1741) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1727610)
Posted 21 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, I just remembered that Rob Smith gave me blanket permission to post any picture of him on file (Merciful heavens!!!), so now I'm just waiting to hear from three more people.
1742) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1727480)
Posted 21 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm bumping this wonderful thread.

I finally got four pictures from two seti celebrations last year into post-able form. I need permission from 13 different people to post them, but so far I have 5 ok's.

If you attended a party at our house last year, check your Inbox. There are some pictures there waiting for your approval.
1743) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #244. Donald has won and been PMed. (Message 1727479)
Posted 21 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hmmmmmmmm... Is the number Battlestar Galatica related?
1744) Message boards : Cafe SETI : NFL 2015-2016 Season (Message 1727478)
Posted 21 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric is a very happy Packers fan tonight!!!
1745) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #62 (Message 1727374)
Posted 20 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lots of winners here, but I must identify only three. This is going to be a difficult job as you are all so funny!!!

Third place goes to our perpetual bronze winner, Chris S. with: "Beware Windows 10, it could happen to you!"

A quick aside regarding the bronze medal... It was obvious to me that there were other captions submitted along the same lines. Chris was awarded third place because he played to the judge. He remembered that I know next to nothing about computers and he went with a caption that a non-tech person like me would best understand. Good game strategy, Chris!!!

Second place goes to Admiral Gloval with: "Ok. Now who was watching that Netflix marathon."

First place goes to Richard H with: "It looks like what would happen if you let the raccoons have a barbeque in Eric's shed."


PM going out to our winner now.
1746) Message boards : Cafe SETI : College Football (Message 1727280)
Posted 20 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, Eric is a happy badger and a happy bear today.
1747) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #62 (Message 1727141)
Posted 20 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you, Richard, for working magic on that photo.

Very funny captions so far! Keep 'em coming!!!
1748) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #62 (Message 1727106)
Posted 19 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Actually, if somebody knows how to size that picture for me, I would greatly appreciate it.
1749) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #62 (Message 1727103)
Posted 19 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you, Carlos, for the win and thank you, Gary, for the wonderful picture suggestion.

My friends, please caption this:
Please see Richard's picture as he sized it perfectly.

Thanks Richard.
1750) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thinking of going SOLAR and/or WIND? (Message 1726892)
Posted 18 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've really been thinking about this. When the weather is decent, our yard and roof is sunbathed nicely. Just not sure about investment costs v return


Out here is sunny California, there is solar for every budget. Eric and I bought our panels outright because we are "old and established", but our darling young new neighbors are doing a "rent-to-own" type plan with a different solar company. Our neighbors appear to be in their late 20's or early 30's. They both have steady jobs, but they just sunk all of their spare cash into the down-payment for their home, they have a two year old and the mom is expecting their second child this winter. They just didn't have the cash right now to go solar, but they found a company that will do it for them. The company puts the panels up for them and technically owns the panels and the energy they generate for a while. Not sure what the details of their contract are... Anyway, down the road the neighbors eventually gain possession of the panels.
1751) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1726890)
Posted 18 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I need to take a class: The Science of Bread Baking

I wonder if such a class exists!!


I took such a class in my 20's. It was offered as part of an adult-ed program in a neighboring community, and it was quite affordable. Check the adult-ed programs offered in your area. Another option may be cooking gadget stores in your area. I once took a very interesting class on the science of egg whites and how to create all the different types of meringue. It was offered by a cooking store in Berkeley. The class itself was quite affordable. The key was to escape out of that glorious gadget store without purchasing a bagful of "essential" items!!!
1752) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #62 (Message 1726753)
Posted 18 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Terrorist and hippy team-up to build "clock".
1753) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1726741)
Posted 18 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think the raccoon is using advanced mind control to drive the gator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis !!!

Bleh. I never thought I would read anything that made me feel sorry for an ant, but there you go...
1754) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1726413)
Posted 17 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1755) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1726409)
Posted 17 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You are correct. You need to use quite a lot of white flour if you want to make a decent wheat loaf in a bread machine. Think of the whole wheat as a "flavoring". I would probably use 3 cups white bread flour to 1 cup whole wheat.
1756) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1726329)
Posted 16 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
BONUS tip: To prevent the guacamole from turning brown, leave the avocado pits inside the mixture.

Cook's Illustrated tested this "tip". It does not work. All it does is give you green fingers when you extract the pit.

The acid in the lime juice is what gives you a little bit of time before your guacamole turns brown.
1757) Message boards : Politics : Jesus (Message 1726313)
Posted 16 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This thread is getting a little toasty. Let's all take a break for a little laugh.

1758) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #244. Donald has won and been PMed. (Message 1726064)
Posted 16 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A win???!!! Oh thank you!!! I'd like to thank the Academy, my manager, my hairdresser, my pet sitter and all the wonderful supportive raccoons in my backyard for making this win possible.
1759) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1725979)
Posted 15 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh dear. The raccoon has that woman well trained.

I told you they're smart!!! (The raccoons that is, not the people, like me, that they train to feed them...)
1760) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1725977)
Posted 15 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
..."What's your dill, Pickle."...

giggle!!!
1761) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #244. Donald has won and been PMed. (Message 1725865)
Posted 15 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Posting to beat Z2.

(I can't match your RAC, but I can beat you here!!!)
1762) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1725859)
Posted 15 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dill is not so hard to grow by yourself so try to get som dill seeds since I think it's not so easy to find fresh dill in stores in America.

We are fortunate to live in a "foodie" area and fresh dill is readily available in all grocery stores around here. I just never think to use it much, unless I am cooking some kinds of fish. Your potato recipe made me realize how good dill would be in potatoes.
1763) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #62 (Message 1725767)
Posted 14 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Who is who at the zoo?
1764) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1725752)
Posted 14 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yum. I have to remember to use more dill. It is such a delicious herb, but I think less commonly used here than in your part of the world.
1765) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats (Message 1725750)
Posted 14 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What a beautiful cat you have, Miz Julie.
1766) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1724401)
Posted 10 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This morning I ate my first Comice pear of the season. I sliced it over some Greek yogurt, drizzled it with a touch of maple syrup and scattered some roasted walnuts over the everything. Breakfast heaven!!! I love fall fruits and vegetables, and Eric hates most of them. The poor man doesn't know what he's missing!
1767) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1724380)
Posted 10 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Awww, we just like Angela and Suzie....

And I like you all too!!!
1768) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1724285)
Posted 10 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sometimes I think it would be useful to have a welcome to seti thread so we can explain to newcomers the strange fascination seti@home has with raccoons.

Once raccoons get established in an area, there is not much that can be done about them. You know the old saying, if you can't beat them, join them.
1769) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1724130)
Posted 10 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1770) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1724127)
Posted 10 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
donkey

xote

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1771) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1724121)
Posted 10 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
donkey


monkey
keys
hockey
turkey
donkey
whiskey
monkeys
keyboard
mickey
mikey
smokey
hickey
jockey
pokey
okey
hokey
keyhole
lackey
donkeys
turkeys
keystone
low key
low-key
malarkey
dokey
buckeye
cockey
keynote
turnkey
keyed
keypad
keyword
master key
cockeyed
okey-dokey
markey
shockey
huskey
mickey mouse
trickey
keyes
luckey
rockey
blakey
hawkeye
skeleton key
bakey
hankey
keyless
keynes
rickey
jockeys
pinkeye
keyboards
keywords
lakey
starkey
buckeyes
keying
nickey
hockey stick
key lime
key ring
mackey
cold turkey
dickey
doohickey
key west
key word
mickey finn
sharkey
gilkey
keyser
merkey
monkey wrench
perkey
silkey
stankey
akey
barkey
buckey
keystroke
latchkey
lokey
monkeying
spider monkey
askey
berkey
buckeye state
caskey
disc jockey
grease monkey
hockey puck
ice hockey
ikey
keyholes
keystone state
lackeys
leakey
1772) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #61 (Message 1724098)
Posted 10 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lots of very funny captions - time to declare a winner!!!


Third place goes to Lynn (using her best Gollum voice) with: "My Trust u loses it."

Second place goes to Carlos with the very cute caption: "Tolkitty"

But since I have an inarguably sick sense of humor, first place indisputably goes to KWSN The Holy Hand Grenade with: "Frodo was delicious - thanks for the tip, Smaug..."

PM going out to our winner now.
1773) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1724096)
Posted 10 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There is an "any" key???
1774) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : point of joining a team? (Message 1723737)
Posted 9 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am delighted to report that Gerry joined Team Raccoon Lovers.
1775) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1723730)
Posted 9 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you.

Now I see cartoon Sue in a green shirt.
1776) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1723727)
Posted 9 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, that is what I see. It is a cartoon characterization of Sue, wearing an umbrella shade hat.
1777) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1723724)
Posted 9 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I see the avatar of cartoon-you in the umbrella hat.
1778) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part III (Message 1723661)
Posted 9 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thanks for starting a new thread, Carlos. I really enjoyed the other two.
1779) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1723654)
Posted 9 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


Oh, excuse me. I was just checking your trash bin for any uncrunched work units.

Join Team Raccoon Lovers and see what all the fuss is about.
1780) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What day is it? (Message 1723565)
Posted 8 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Happy Birthday Monday!!!
1781) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #61 (Message 1723564)
Posted 8 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.

My friends, please caption this:

1782) Message boards : Cafe SETI : First Dane in space (Message 1723045)
Posted 7 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome to the project Strange-tailed tyrant.

Yes, welcome! You will find many friends here.
1783) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #61 (Message 1722970)
Posted 7 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
One ring to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them, eh?
1784) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Sleep During The Day Thread AKA The Human Raccoons (Message 1722957)
Posted 6 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have had my days and nights confused since birth. My mother still tells stories of how I napped during the day and wanted to play, play, play at night. When I was down to just writing my thesis in graduate school, I switched to an all night schedule so that I could use the department computers. It was a very comfortable schedule for me.

(I know this will seem alien to those of you who grew up with personal computers, but once upon a time, when dinosaurs walked the earth, people used typewriters. Computers were very new and shared by many people... but I digress.)

I visited the forums last night at around 2:30am. I had fallen asleep, awakened after about three hours, tossed and turned, got up, did a load of laundry and a load of dishes then came downstairs to "check my stories". I used to just have trouble falling asleep. Now I fall asleep better, but I cannot stay asleep. 3am to 5am seems to be a really awake time for me.

Over the years I've tried improved sleep hygiene. I've tried darkening our room. I've tried tryptophan and St. John's wort. I've sucked down more chamomile tea than any sane person should ever take. Benedryl works for me, short term, sometimes.

At this point, I am simply convinced that, much like the raccoons I adore, I am meant to be nocturnal.

There has been a lot of buzz in the news lately about the correlation between lack of sleep and the onset of dementia. If this turns out to be a causal connection, I am doomed!!!
1785) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #244. Donald has won and been PMed. (Message 1722780)
Posted 6 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If only...

Team Insomnia wins again. Sigh.
1786) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Best ever fathers day (Message 1722778)
Posted 6 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy Father's Day!
1787) Message boards : Cafe SETI : College Football (Message 1722777)
Posted 6 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Looks like the Badgers ran into the Tide and drowned.

Yes. Eric was a happy Sturdy Golden Bear today but a very sad Badger.
1788) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #61 (Message 1722743)
Posted 6 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Frickin' Canadians!!!
1789) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #244. Donald has won and been PMed. (Message 1722742)
Posted 6 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just a simple post...

Just a simple win...
1790) Message boards : Cafe SETI : College Football (Message 1722741)
Posted 6 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is that time of the year again!!!

Eric and I attended the first Cal football game of the season today against Grambling State University. Cal won, which was nice. The Grambling State marching band was hands down the best marching band I have ever seen in my life. They had two drum majors and each one had more personality in his pinkie fingernail than the Cal drum major had in his entire body. Also, what's up with the Cal band members having little sheets of music attached to their instruments???!!! The Grambling State band members had their music memorized. It was a beautiful day for a football game. The weather was perfect and the crowd enthusiastic. Eric has season tickets in the alumni section, which happens to be on the shady side of the stadium. Age has its advantages.

Go Bears!!!



This is a thread for college football discussions.

Trash talking is welcome, as that is truly part of the fun of college football.
1791) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1722448)
Posted 5 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Per the request of a young friend here, I am posting a dinner menu that is easy for a bachelor to make, but that will still impress the ladies with our bachelor's ability to be a thoroughly modern man who knows his way around an apartment kitchenette. (Might I add that this menu works both ways and that bachelorettes can use it to impress their dates as well.)


Matthew, this one is for you...


Lemon Tarragon Chicken

3 large boneless, skinless chicken breasts
4 tbsps butter, melted
3 tbsps Dijon mustard
3 tbsps fresh lemon juice (Buy a lemon - a real one... not the plastic kind)
2-3 sprigs of fresh tarragon - leaves stripped off the tough stems and then chopped finely (The leaves that is... discard the stems)
1/2 tsp salt
1/4/ tsp black pepper

12 saltine crackers
1/3 cup grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese


Rinse the chicken pieces, pat them dry with paper towels and place them in a small baking dish

Mix together the melted butter, the mustard, the lemon juice, the minced tarragon, the salt and the pepper - pour this mixture over the chicken

Throw the saltines in a Ziplock bag and smash them with the bottom of a pot until the crackers are crushed. Add the grated cheese to the bag and mix the cheese with the cracker crumbs. Sprinkle the cracker-cheese topping over the chicken.

Bake at 425 degrees for 30 minutes.

To know if the chicken is at a safe temperature, lift up the largest chicken breast carefully with a pair of kitchen tongs. Turn an instant read thermometer sideways and insert it through the chicken, from narrow end to the midpoint of the chicken breast. It should read 160 degrees. Make sure you temp the chicken. Nothing says "no second date for you!!!" like giving a gal food poisoning!!!

Let chicken rest in baking dish for 5 minutes, which will bring the internal temperature of the chicken up to 165 degrees. You don't have to take the chicken's temperature again. This will just magically happen.

To really impress the ladies, serve this chicken dish with a green vegetable. I recommend something simple like sauteed snap peas.


Sauteed Snap Peas

A few large handfuls of snap peas
Olive oil
salt

Wash the snap peas.

Partially cut off the stem end and pull down to remove the string that is on the flatter side of each snap pea.

Throw a splash of olive oil into a fry pan.

Toss in snap peas and sprinkle with salt, to taste.

Saute the snap peas for 3-5 minutes.

Serve with chicken.


Tips for making it a perfect date night.

1. Shower

2. Clean your bathroom. Across the course of the evening she will use it. She will draw conclusions about the state of your personal hygiene based on the cleanliness of your bathroom. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of this step.

3. Clear all your stuff off a table and pre-set it - ladies like napkins and silverware, which you might have to buy, given your bachelor status

4. Go to a thrift store and buy a cheap votive candle for mood lighting in the middle of your table. Make sure it is unscented so that it doesn't interfere with the wonderful aroma of the chicken you have cooked. Dim the lights or turn off half of them if they are not on a dimmer switch. You want enough light to see your food, but you also want it dim enough to be romantic.

5. Do NOT play mood music. A first date is NOT the time to make her a mix-tape!!! It is better to rely on your scintillating conversational skills.

6. Do as much cooking prep work in advance as possible. The chicken and topping can be prepped hours in advance and refrigerated. The crumb topping stays in the bag until the last minute, when you sprinkle it over the chicken. The snap peas can be cleaned and stringed a day in advance, so all you have to do is throw them in the pan and saute them while the chicken is resting.

7. Don't worry about baking a fancy dessert. Try this instead. A few hours before the lovely lady arrives, take two large martini glasses and in each one place a generous scoop of good quality vanilla ice cream. Place them in the freezer until dessert time. When ready to serve, remove the glasses and pour a shot of Kahlua over each ice cream scoop. Serve with a spoon and a napkin. (I know, I know... again with the silverware!!!)

8. If dinner went well, serve dessert on the couch. If dinner dinner didn't go well, serve dessert at the table.

9. The chicken dish serves three, but you should NOT make jokes about having a threesome. The extra baked chicken breast goes into your lunch bag the next morning. Furthermore, if she leans over the pan of chicken and says, "Gee those breasts look good" you should NOT respond "So do yours"

The rest, my young apprentice, is up to you...
1792) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1722433)
Posted 5 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
too lazy for butter

If you leave it out on the counter, it will always be spreadable. If you eat it fast enough, it won't spoil. How is that not a win-win?

When the cats get to it first? :)


1793) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1722432)
Posted 5 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
condiments mask the true flavor of whatever they are applied to

(just attempting to rationalize/justify laziness)


Gasp!!! No ketchup on your French fries???!!!
1794) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1722428)
Posted 5 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
too lazy for butter

If you leave it out on the counter, it will always be spreadable. If you eat it fast enough, it won't spoil. How is that not a win-win?
1795) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1722424)
Posted 5 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A small part of him will always live in your hearts!



edit:
And on your toast it seems....


Oh I assure you that every pat of butter I eat goes straight to my cholesterol choked heart.
1796) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Whatcha Watching? (Message 1722422)
Posted 5 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just about to start watching Angelas favourite film, Guardians of the galaxy :)

Truth be told, my favorite movie is Little Shop of Horrors.
1797) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1722418)
Posted 5 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
As long as Conrad lives on in our memories, he is not really a dead raccoon...
1798) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1722347)
Posted 5 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gases are the byproducts of yeast. It is ultimately air that makes all yeasted breads rise.
1799) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thinking of going SOLAR and/or WIND? (Message 1722297)
Posted 4 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...Even now there is legislation that has been proposed that would require 50% of all Cars registered in CA to be electrict by 2020. Not sure if that will pass but keeping an eye on it.

Again, all power comes at a cost. I am not against electric cars. Eric and I both drive hybrids. But when you say "electric cars" I have to comment that not all electricity is created equal. Would it help to have an electric car, and plug it in all night, if the electricity in one's area was supplied by a coal burning plant??? Hydro-electric power certainly comes at an environmental cost. Nuclear energy comes with environmental risks.

Eric and I pride ourselves in being green. We recycle. We conserve. We eat lots of vegetarian meals. We support environmental causes. We drive hybirds. Our roof now has solar panels all over it. But the greenest thing we have ever done in our lives is not reproduce ourselves.

It is my hope that every measure we take to walk lightly on this earth is made in step with attempts to slow, control and ultimately reduce our species' over-population of planet Earth through efforts to eradicate poverty and educate women.
1800) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1722277)
Posted 4 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoons are opportunists. That is why they do so well in urban areas.
1801) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thinking of going SOLAR and/or WIND? (Message 1722274)
Posted 4 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Noooo, do not throw the pannels away. Almost everything in them can and should be recycled. Some pannels have some nasty suff in them too. The recycling should be included in your purchase agreement. Our pannels (First Solar) all have an 800 number to call and they will be picked up.


I will check our contract.

Frankly, by the time our panels need recylcing I imagine people will be mining our landfills for for all sorts of treasures.

Carlos, some day your grandchildren are going to look you in the eye and say "Grandpa, you BURNT petroleum???!!! You just stuck it in your "car" and burned it all up???!!! We really could have used that now for making plastics. Dang."
1802) Message boards : Politics : existance of god (Message 1722264)
Posted 4 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And I'll tell you thie........................
Do you actually believe that the chemical complexities that enable us to survive and think and breath happened by chance out of the primordial muck?

No, I don't think so................

And neither do you.


Mark, I do not think that you understand evolution and natural selection. Our species is not some pinnacle of evolution. Pinnacles of evolution do not exist!!! Our species and the ancestors of our species simply had the right stuff to match a very, very, very, very, very long string of evolutionary pressures.

And please do not presume to know what any of us thinks.
1803) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thinking of going SOLAR and/or WIND? (Message 1722251)
Posted 4 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Tell me about it. I thought those eggbeaters where neat, then I found out about the cost to wildlife.

I should think that some of the attrition of birds due to wind power generation would be somewhat offset by the benefits of reducing the coal powered electricity generation that they replace. Better air quality has to be better for birds too.

And as usual, those who are making an issue of it do not take into account the benefit side of the equation.


There are costs to everything. The solar panels we put on our house this spring will eventually end up in the landfill when their life expectancy runs out. Energy was expended in their creation as well.

When a common bird, such as a starling, dies in a wind farm accident, the cost, sadly, is not just "one bird". The rotting carcass underneath is an invitation to scavengers, like rats. Rats then attract raptors, who are far less common than starlings. The raptor then dies, the rat population flourishes and the vicious cycle continues.

I am not against wind-farms. I just think that the wild-life costs need to be factored in in determining where and how many wind farms should be built.
1804) Message boards : Cafe SETI : First Dane in space (Message 1722241)
Posted 4 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes. Miz Fuzzy Hollynoodles was Danish, I believe.

Welcome to seti@home www.swtorstrategies.com. You will find many friends here!
1805) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1722238)
Posted 4 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Salt (too much or too little, within a reasonable range) should not have had an impact on the texture of the bread. My guess is that measurement errors were involved. If it was too gummy, you may have added too much liquid, or not enough flour.

On the subject of salt, I once made vanilla buttercream using salted butter instead of unsalted. I didn't realize I had used the wrong box of butter until after the cake was brought to a family party and served. The cake was a three layer, almond flavored, white half-sheet cake, filled with homemade lemon curd. I knew the exact second I tasted the cake that I had used the wrong butter. I confirmed this when I got home by pulling the empty butter box out of our recycling bag. Sure enough - salted, not unsalted and I had used an entire pound of it.

You win some, you lose some...
1806) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1721899)
Posted 4 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You shouldn't let Angela see that. They might be related : )

Grandma!!!
1807) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1721410)
Posted 2 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am having someone draw a raccoon for us. If we like it, we
can use it as a group logo sort of thing. I will create a
personalized version for each member of Raccoon Lovers, if
you like. Again, we have to see if we like it.

Have I gone too far?


Probably not, but we have already had this discussion on our team forum. You may have missed it. Look in the thread entitled Design a Team Battle Flag.

It was my initial thought that team members would agree upon a team signature picture that could be customized for each team member, but then we realized that RACcoon Lovers personalities were as diverse as the personalities of actual raccoons. Some liked ferocious looking raccoons. Some liked cute raccoons. Some liked thoughtful raccoons. So instead we decided to use whatever picture each person liked, or no picture at all. I am probably the most conflicted of the lot as I have decided to use a ferocious raccoon signature during challenges like the WOW event that we just finished, and to use a more neutral appearing raccoon for all other times.

The best thing about Team Raccoon Lovers is that there are really no rules or obligations.
1808) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #244. Donald has won and been PMed. (Message 1721136)
Posted 2 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you. I can really use this win.
1809) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part II You wouldn't believe what they found! (Message 1721132)
Posted 2 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Deer crossing

Oh dear. I think I've met smarter deer than that poor woman.
1810) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1720837)
Posted 1 Sep 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
As far as I'm concerned Angela you may post any picture you have of me.

What about the one in which you are wearing...

I think the one to be concerned about is the one where you aren't wearing...

Oh Gary... I believe that I have a picture of you as well - and raccoons are involved!!!

Unfortunately, you couldn't prove that by me. You never sent me a copy!

One of you is wearing stripes... you or the raccoon, can't exactly remember...
1811) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #244. Donald has won and been PMed. (Message 1720674)
Posted 31 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hate to make you jealous, but 77 degrees here right now in the temperate SF East Bay.
1812) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1720673)
Posted 31 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
As far as I'm concerned Angela you may post any picture you have of me.

What about the one in which you are wearing...

I think the one to be concerned about is the one where you aren't wearing...

Oh Gary... I believe that I have a picture of you as well - and raccoons are involved!!!
1813) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1720647)
Posted 31 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
As far as I'm concerned Angela you may post any picture you have of me.

What about the one in which you are wearing...
1814) Message boards : Politics : existance of god (Message 1720478)
Posted 31 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That series sounds interesting. I will ask Eric to record it.

I have long thought that the tendency to believe in "something" is deeply hardwired in our DNA. I cannot think of a culture, ancient or modern, that did not have a god/goddess/gods. There must be something adaptive about "believing", that evolutionary pressures caused to be a favored trait in our species. Frankly, it was this very line of thinking that first put me on the path to becoming an atheist.

I was raised with religion (Catholicism) and I am thankful for the influence that religion had in my formative years, especially regarding issues of social justice. I often miss that sense of love and security that comes along with a solid sense of religious ideology.

If Eric and I had been so lucky as to have had children, I would have raised them in a religious context, simply because I think it can be incredibly beneficial to one's character to have had a religious background.

Also, a Judaeo-Christian background is absolutely critical to understanding much Western art, music and literature. I would have wanted that background for any children I might have had.
1815) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #61 (Message 1720469)
Posted 31 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
They travel in pairs so that one can be the cock-block.
1816) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1720461)
Posted 31 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This is how some of us feel trying to get a AstroPulse wu.

LOL!!!
1817) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1720460)
Posted 31 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
They're so cute. What do we call those - blonde raccoons?

They are too dark to be blondes. Those raccoons appear to be pets, and clearly they are used to swimming in the pool, so they're cleaner than the average urban raccoon. Also, they are young and romping about in the day time, so their coats appear to be lighter in the sunlight than they might appear to be at night.

Blond/cinnamon raccoons are much lighter.
1818) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1720297)
Posted 30 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yay Raccoon Lovers!!! Third place in the WOW event!!!


Work units are our kibble.

Crunch-crunch-crunch-crunch-crunch!!!
1819) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1720200)
Posted 30 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There was a TV show here about cooking and they invited the viewers to tell who is the best cook.
It turned out to be Your Mother:)

Yikes!!! I don't know about your mom, but mine cooks vegetables to death. I think it is a generational thing.
1820) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1720156)
Posted 30 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mister Sparky, I'd rather swim with raccoons than one of these!!!
1821) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1719911)
Posted 29 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Stinky Lou has a tendency to over eat and then puke. It is not one of her better traits.
1822) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1719895)
Posted 29 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1823) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #244. Donald has won and been PMed. (Message 1719844)
Posted 29 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This is my ferocious raccoon signature, which I will be using through the WOW event to show others that raccoons are not to be over-looked!

I have plans to switch to a kinder, gentler raccoon signature when not involved in team challenges.
1824) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #244. Donald has won and been PMed. (Message 1719839)
Posted 29 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh no, good sir. I believe the win is mine.
1825) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #61 (Message 1719835)
Posted 29 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lots of very funny entries - time to declare a winner.

Third place goes to Graham Middleton with "That shows what smoking will do to an eight-year-old!"

Second place goes to Celttooth with "Oh Ang, gray hair looks good on you!"

First place goes to KWSN The Holy Hand Grenade with: "You say cigarettes will kill me... I say WHEN????"


PM going out to our winner now.
1826) Message boards : News : SETI.German announces fourth Wow! event (Message 1719820)
Posted 28 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Go, Go, Go!!!
Raccoons, raccoons, raccoons!!

+1
1827) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1719807)
Posted 28 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL!!! I got that dress in Tijuana and wore it that evening because homemade margaritas were on the menu. I make a wicked good margarita, if I do say so myself...

This is reminding me that I have a couple of group shots from last year that KWSN Holy Hand Grenade was kind enough to send me when we gathered to celebrate Es's visit and later to celebrate Rob Smith's visit.

Thanks for jogging my faulty memory. I'll try to find those pictures and circulate them for permission to post. Each group shot contains about 10 seti people, and if anyone objects, I won't post them.
1828) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1719801)
Posted 28 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Whoops, yes, two eggs.


ang is my name and food is my game...
1829) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1719798)
Posted 28 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My mother and I like a basic little thing that is a kale & cottage cheese casserole. You just put frozen chopped kale and cottage cheese in a loaf pan and bake. ~Maybe put some parmesan on top. She never added a lot in the spice dept, but you can certainly experiment. ;~)


Do you need to add some eggs to bind it together?
1830) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1719400)
Posted 28 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Aunties always matter!!!
1831) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #244. Donald has won and been PMed. (Message 1719376)
Posted 28 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations on your win, Vic.
1832) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thinking of going SOLAR and/or WIND? (Message 1719143)
Posted 27 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh and anyone had any experience of selling a house with panels all over the roof? I would be very iffy buying one!

We are in the process of adding the cost of our new solar system to our home owners insurance. It has increased the value of our home and if we lost our home in a fire we would want to rebuild it - including the solar system.
1833) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #61 (Message 1719129)
Posted 27 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
OMG!!! Just lock me up in the dementia ward before I become a danger to myself and others...

Rob pm'd me, I replied, I got distracted and I totally forgot!!!

Thank you for the win.

My friends, please caption this...
1834) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cooking for real (Message 1718494)
Posted 26 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Second batch worked. I evened the score.

Goodnight friends!
1835) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1718471)
Posted 26 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And we have cute signature options...
1836) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cooking for real (Message 1718465)
Posted 26 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
ARGH!!! Buttercream fail!!!

I can make buttercream in my sleep, but I was tired and it was late and I tried to take a shortcut, which has turned into a long-cut.

Instead of using a double boiler like I usually do, I tried to heat the eggs, sugar, salt and vanilla mixture to a nice safe 160 degrees by putting the bowl of my mixer right over the pot of simmering water.

I neglected to notice just how hot the bottom of my metal mixing bowl got.

When I went to whip the egg mixture I must not have brought the whole thing down to room temperature with my 5 minutes of whipping, so when I added the butter everything curdled.

Buttercream 1 ; Angela 0
1837) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #243....Ipana! (Message 1718421)
Posted 26 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I feel a little win coming on...
1838) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1718420)
Posted 26 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric also hates to smile on command. In most of the photos we have of him, he looks like he was weaned on an unripe persimmon!!!
1839) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #243....Ipana! (Message 1717892)
Posted 24 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That is so. Joining the team, is the only cure....

Tis true. Resistance is futile.
1840) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Train Thread 2 (Message 1717642)
Posted 24 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Love it!
1841) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #243....Ipana! (Message 1717637)
Posted 24 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Showing off my new signature/battle flag!!!

We members of Team Raccoon Lovers have several different raccoon signature designs from which to choose. I chose a particularly ferocious one designed by Zombu2. Did I scare you???

You may see other, equally clever, designs popping up here and there.

Go Team Raccoon Lovers!!! Currently #6 at seti.
1842) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1717554)
Posted 23 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lovely plant Suzie-Q!

Vic, smile!!!
1843) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #61 (Message 1717527)
Posted 23 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Some women will do anything for naturally curly hair...
1844) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1717516)
Posted 23 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL!!!
1845) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1717399)
Posted 23 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
*add to anniet's handbook of appropriated good idea's*

Another is having a dustbuster beside the bed to vacuum up biscuit crumbs :)

Another is using your tummy button for the salt when eating celery in bed.


Merciful heavens!!!
1846) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1717177)
Posted 23 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Tosca is darling!!!

And for those facing follicular challenges, Ol' Pookers included... Bald Guys
1847) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1716956)
Posted 22 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If you feed them, they will come...
1848) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #243....Ipana! (Message 1716332)
Posted 21 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nice, yeah I just wish I had 6 panels on My roof to lower My bill, so far I'm told it's impossible.

We went solar this spring. You've got to have a roof with lots of life in it to make the investment worthwhile.
1849) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1716294)
Posted 21 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Several of you have posted here and there that you are caring for loved ones who are elderly and/or ill. Often our loved ones are eating poorly and we want to get a little meat on their bones.

Here is a high protein/high fat recipe that will help you feed your loved ones. I have never met a senior citizen who has not enjoyed this dish. It makes a tasty breakfast if you don't want it for dessert.

Baked Vanilla Custard

Ingredients

water
1 tsp vegetable oil
2 egg yolks (I use the left-over whites to make sea foam meringue cookies)
3 whole eggs
1/2 to 2/3 cup sugar (I use a "heaping" half cup)
1/8 tsp table salt
3 cups whole milk
1/2 - 2/3 cup heavy cream
1.5 - 2 tsps vanilla
nutmeg

Steps:

Fill a tea kettle with water and set it to boil

Find a small baking dish with high sides (I use a small souffle pan)

Find a larger baking dish that the small baking dish you are using fits into comfortably. You want a couple of inches around the small baking dish.

Preheat oven to 325 degrees

Lightly oil the inside of the small baking dish, wiping out any excess oil.

Mix the milk and cream together in a small saucepan and scald it. (This means bring it almost to a boil. It should be very hot, but not boiling.)

Blend the whole eggs with the yolks.

Whisk in the sugar and salt.

Temper the eggs with the hot milk/cream. (This means add only tiny bits of milk to the egg mixture at a time, and whisk like crazy while doing it. Once you have tempered in about half the liquid, you can just add the last half and whisk more.)

Whisk in the vanilla.

Strain the custard mix into the small baking dish.

Sprinkle some nutmeg on top.

Place the small baking dish inside the larger one.

Place the whole thing on an oven shelf.

Carefully pour the boiling water into the big baking dish. It should come about half way up to the custard line that is in the small baking dish.

Bake custard in its water bath for an hour.

Carefully remove.

Let cool, then chill it several hours in the fridge.
1850) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #243....Ipana! (Message 1716141)
Posted 20 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Surely a win?

I'm not Shirley.
1851) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part II You wouldn't believe what they found! (Message 1716136)
Posted 20 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Was checking NASA's website for a good picture of the fires in the Western US. I could not find 1 good one that showed it all. But here is a mind blowing number. According to NASA over 7 million acres have burned as of 8/17. That 10 time the annual average. I wonder how much carbon that has released?

Doesn't matter. It isn't human activity carbon like from an electric plant, which is the only kind that warms and acidifies. ;)

Mister Charpentier, are you trolling???!!!

Why perish the thought my dear lady. Just restating the scientific fact, as interpreted by politicians, that only human caused carbon counts, natural carbon is exempt because it can't be regulated. ;)

All the more reason to listen to scientists over politicians.
1852) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #61 (Message 1716125)
Posted 20 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Baby got back.
1853) Message boards : Cafe SETI : misc electronics thread (Message 1716120)
Posted 20 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is a tiny dot.
1854) Message boards : Cafe SETI : misc electronics thread (Message 1716114)
Posted 20 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
.

For those who thought that last post was blank... surprise!!!
1855) Message boards : Politics : The British Royal Family (Message 1716089)
Posted 20 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Whew!!! When you're hot, you're hot!!!

Several mod-list requests have come in to move posts from this thread to the related one, and vice-versa. Additional mod-list requests have come in to hide threads in this post and the related one.

After careful consideration, your moderating staff has agreed that moving posts cannot be done easily or with any semblance of fairness. We have also come to the conclusion that this topic is hot-hot-hot and that it needs a little cooling off period.

I am locking this thread and the related one. If anyone wishes to further discuss the Royal Family, we ask you to do so in a single new thread, started no earlier than Monday 8/24.

To ensure that a cooling-off period is achieved, any new threads started on this topic before 8/24 will be hidden.

Thank you for understanding.
1856) Message boards : Politics : Paparazzi (Message 1716088)
Posted 20 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Whew!!! When you're hot, you're hot!!!

Several mod-list requests have come in to move posts from this thread to the related one, and vice-versa. Additional mod-list requests have come in to hide threads in this post and the related one.

After careful consideration, your moderating staff has agreed that moving posts cannot be done easily or with any semblance of fairness. We have also come to the conclusion that this topic is hot-hot-hot and that it needs a little cooling off period.

I am locking this thread and the related one. If anyone wishes to further discuss the Royal Family, we ask you to do so in a single new thread, started no earlier than Monday 8/24.

To ensure that a cooling-off period is achieved, any new threads started on this topic before 8/24 will be hidden.

Thank you for understanding.
1857) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1716041)
Posted 20 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Arkayn, welcome home!!! Lovely pictures.
1858) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part II You wouldn't believe what they found! (Message 1715751)
Posted 20 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Was checking NASA's website for a good picture of the fires in the Western US. I could not find 1 good one that showed it all. But here is a mind blowing number. According to NASA over 7 million acres have burned as of 8/17. That 10 time the annual average. I wonder how much carbon that has released?

Doesn't matter. It isn't human activity carbon like from an electric plant, which is the only kind that warms and acidifies. ;)

Mister Charpentier, are you trolling???!!!
1859) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1715747)
Posted 20 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It looks like you live in a very beautiful part of the country.
1860) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1715659)
Posted 20 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Kimba(Original lion king/White) vs Simba(the usurper/Yellow)..

How horrible! I'm glad that they changed it.
1861) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1715629)
Posted 20 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, I've had the pleasure of seeing The Lion King in SF with our niece Kathryn and our nephew Mark, followed by the pleasure of seeing it again in NY with our niece Emily.
1862) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1715615)
Posted 19 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
One unwanted(to most) visitor that bird feeders attract indirectly are snakes. Obviously for the 'friends of Mickey' not the seeds.

The circle of life.
1863) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1715558)
Posted 19 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We had a pair of red shouldered hawks around and about here in the spring. I thought they might raise young, but I never saw any fledglings. After a couple of months the hawks moved on.

There was probably not enough rodents for them to hunt..

There should have been! I feed the birds like crazy, and I'm quite sure that in doing so I inadvertently feed the er... uh... friends of Mickey. There are several acres of open land behind us that should have been full of rodents. I'm guessing they were having trouble finding a tree that was exactly to their liking.
1864) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1715551)
Posted 19 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We had a pair of red shouldered hawks around and about here in the spring. I thought they might raise young, but I never saw any fledglings. After a couple of months the hawks moved on.
1865) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1715524)
Posted 19 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow!!! I am mega-jealous!!!

I didn't know we had falcons in our neck of the woods.
1866) Message boards : Cafe SETI : misc electronics thread (Message 1715466)
Posted 19 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This is a picture of the inside of some sort of machine.
It was the most complicated thing I could find to post... and I'm pretty sure that it needs repair.

1867) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1715455)
Posted 19 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...for some will be saved.


Mississippi Squirrel Revival
1868) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #243....Ipana! (Message 1715081)
Posted 19 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did I win?
1869) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1715079)
Posted 19 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Beautiful! And I'm glad that I can't smell it from here.

That's a pretty good way to attract fly pollinators though.
1870) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1714791)
Posted 17 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That video clip is so sweet!!!
1871) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1714745)
Posted 17 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
does anyone have their natural hair color anymore?

Does naturally gray count?
1872) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1714724)
Posted 17 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My "good place" is encouraging everyone, male or female, to ditch the hair dye!!!
1873) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1714685)
Posted 17 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoon Lovers - Currently In 5th Place!!!


Oh Knights Who Say Ni, look behind you...



All are welcome to join the Raccoon Revolution
1874) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1714675)
Posted 17 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1875) Message boards : Cafe SETI : misc electronics thread (Message 1714218)
Posted 17 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, I don't know a thing about electronics and I've never opened a machine in my life, but I've brought you some e-cookies for the thread's Open House!!!
1876) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1714154)
Posted 17 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In the vein of critters and golf.....(unfortunately a commercial).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCCVbClAMtI



Release the kraken!!!
1877) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1713754)
Posted 16 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Good news is..........that last medical I had showed NO signs of my liver failing me.

A biopsy is more likely to indicate the presence of lesions than general numbers in blood work.

But it is fact. I have to get beyond this. I have to.

We are all hoping for your success.
1878) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1713743)
Posted 16 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I agree , I've never been one for that. But Sidney has often suggested that I occasionally try a bump and run.

Well, truth be told, sometimes I worry that I set too rigorous a golfing pace for my dear Eric. He is great on the front nine, but by the time we complete the back nine the poor man is so tired that he has to lean upon the ball washer.
1879) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1713715)
Posted 16 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela, you are indeed lucky that Eric has the control of his club to manage to putt out.

I have found that Sidney, on occasion, has experienced problems when addressing the hole and has developed somewhat of a nervous twitch, which can be somewhat off putting.

Oh dear. Well fortunately my Eric is still quite the Tiger... Woods that is, as his follow-through is excellent. But I absolutely insist that we only golf together. I have no interest in a threesome or a foursome.
1880) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1713703)
Posted 16 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Muriel dear, best wishes to you in your golfing endeavors!

My Eric is so proud of his driver and he generally manages to get a hole... in one, that is.
1881) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #61 (Message 1713694)
Posted 16 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
(but I can’t believe you support animal experimentation)

Of course I do! Medical research would be dead in the water without it. Besides, can you imagine the alternative???
1882) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #243....Ipana! (Message 1713245)
Posted 15 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lovely, Miz Julie!
1883) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #243....Ipana! (Message 1713238)
Posted 15 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing everyone happiness... and a raccoon under every porch!!!
1884) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #243....Ipana! (Message 1713233)
Posted 15 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Depression is a life threatening illness.

R.I.P.
1885) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #243....Ipana! (Message 1713230)
Posted 15 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning while embracing my inner raccoon...
1886) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #243....Ipana! (Message 1713225)
Posted 15 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Good luck with that, oh Captain of Team Insomnia!!!
1887) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1713219)
Posted 15 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That weather forecast is scary. Dena, I hope you have a good air conditioning unit!
1888) Message boards : Cafe SETI : SETI@Home Wow!-Event 2015 (Message 1713214)
Posted 15 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Team Raccoon Lovers is full of some very excited crunchers right now.
1889) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #243....Ipana! (Message 1713213)
Posted 15 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We are supposed to approach 90 degrees tomorrow, which is quite warm for the SF East Bay.
1890) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #243....Ipana! (Message 1713179)
Posted 15 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Posting before dinner - zucchini and shallot omelets with sharp white cheddar cheese and a side of perfectly ripe cherry tomatoes - I love growing produce!!!
1891) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! Part II You wouldn't believe what they found! (Message 1713152)
Posted 15 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
best thread ever part ii

+1

Happy to see it return.
1892) Message boards : Politics : Paparazzi (Message 1713149)
Posted 15 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think it would be very convenient to have a royal person or two around to attend state dinners, entertain foreign dignitaries and attend fundraisers for charitable events. I am sorry that our elected officials have to attend to their legislative duties and also serve as host/hostesses for our nation. It must be both exhausting and fattening. No wonder President Bush II spent so much time on the White House treadmill!!!
1893) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The kittyman music thread...new edition. (Message 1713144)
Posted 14 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Alley Cat
1894) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1713050)
Posted 14 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, clearly it is your lucky day!!!

Quick!!! Buy a lottery ticket!!!
1895) Message boards : Politics : Donald Trump for President? (Message 1713035)
Posted 14 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...I do not dislike immigrants. Only ILLEGAL immigrants. ...




Mark, within the last few days you have made the following public statements:

...By 20, no insurance agency on the planet would ensure me. ...

(Wrong use of insure/ensure, by the way.)

...I drove for couple of years.......no liscense ...

(I believe you meant "license", by the way.)

...I flat outran the cops once about 30 years ago. ...


Given those three very recent posts, I find your sudden self-proclaimed respect for our legal system to be somewhat questionable.
1896) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #243....Ipana! (Message 1712970)
Posted 14 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
To win or not to win. That is the posting.

Shuffling off this mortal coil of losing to win.
1897) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1712965)
Posted 14 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoons curl up in their dens and sleep during the day.

As basically nocturnal animals that is what I also thought. Although Angela and I saw some little heads poking out of a roadside drain/culvert in late afternoon once :-))

Do Skunks do the same?


Young raccoons occasionally come out during the day. You might see one who has been partying all night still nosing around in early morning. Raccoons we've had in the past, who were semi-permanently living under our deck, would generally come out for breakfast around 6:30am when we fed Spawnie. Sick raccoons, sadly, also come out during the day.

Late afternoon can be the start of raccoon feeding time. Those little woodland friends Chris and I saw poking their heads out of the drains were probably just beginning their evening adventures a bit early that day.

It is not unusual for city raccoons to live in drainage culverts.








Skunks also sleep in their dens during the day. Like raccoons, young skunks may venture out earlier than older skunks and sick skunks come out during the day as well.

Like humans, raccoons have a protracted adolescence. My four year old nephew Nico called me very excited a couple of weeks ago to tell me that there was a raccoon in his backyard playing with his soccer ball. I'm guessing that it was a juvenile raccoon. Adult raccoons seem to outgrow playing.
1898) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1712915)
Posted 14 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And in a warmer climate, the blond raccoons might be able to survive a bit better, since their coat you'd think would reflect more sunlight.

Raccoons curl up in their dens and sleep during the day.
1899) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1712900)
Posted 14 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That Snowball is a very fine looking raccoon!

Thank you. We certainly think so.

Snowball visits us infrequently. We are probably on the fringe edge of her natural territory.
1900) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1712897)
Posted 14 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Caraway cheese - YUM!!!
1901) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1712895)
Posted 14 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoon rescue with special guest :)

Actually, that raccoon is a blond raccoon, like our Snowball is. Albino raccoons are completely different from blond or cinnamon raccoons. Albino raccoons are white with pink eyes and no color variations in their coats, unlike that raccoon kit in the link. That darling little blond baby has all the normal raccoon markings, just in a lighter shade than his/her siblings.


Snowball Korpela


Those raccoons may well have been rescued by that poster, but raccoons are phenomenal climbers. They may not have needed rescuing at all. Generally if they can get into a garbage bin, they can get out. But since raccoons are all about the path of least resistance, they will always take an easy way into or out of something if an easy way is provided. Why expend calories unnecessarily??? Climbing out of the bin on the raccoon ladder provided by their little human friend probably made the human's day! I'll bet he fed them his lunch that day!!!



Raccon on a scooter?

Note to self - teach Buddy to jump through a ring of fire.



And Mister Snodgrass, welcome home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1902) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #61 (Message 1712714)
Posted 14 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Light saber clinical trials...
1903) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1712618)
Posted 14 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Chris and Rob, you two are incorrigible!!! (Don't ever change.)
1904) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1712398)
Posted 13 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Z.S., WELCOME BACK!

Your posts have been sorely missed...


+1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1905) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1712172)
Posted 13 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoons - work units are our kibble
Crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch.


Join us!
1906) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #61 (Message 1712057)
Posted 13 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
After we sawed pizza boy deliver flask of poison & radioactive source... we decided we iz not getting into boxes, Professor Schrodinger.
1907) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1712043)
Posted 12 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1908) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #243....Ipana! (Message 1711978)
Posted 12 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No spiders here... (Well, inside the house, anyway.) :-)

Back at the top, and WINNING!!!!! :-)


I once went to an exhibit in a natural history museum that was organized around the theme "You are never more than 2 feet away from a spider."
1909) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #243....Ipana! (Message 1711970)
Posted 12 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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You need more spiders.

You still got black widows in your shed that you diplomatically never told me about?

Probably more than ever, as I haven't cleaned out that shed in a couple of years.
1910) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #243....Ipana! (Message 1711830)
Posted 12 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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You need more spiders.
1911) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1711539)
Posted 12 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Where are you people finding all these expensive t.v.s??? Our t.v. died a few years ago and I though Eric was being extravagant paying $300 for a new replacement.
1912) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #243....Ipana! (Message 1711537)
Posted 12 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Congratulations celttooth on your win.
1913) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1711300)
Posted 11 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Time to brush my teeth and hit the hay. Goodnight friends.
1914) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1711298)
Posted 11 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Where is Lynn? It is time for her to declare me a winner here.
1915) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1711295)
Posted 11 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Really?
1916) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1711293)
Posted 11 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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And now I shall save you the trouble of winning...
1917) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1711288)
Posted 11 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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1918) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1711287)
Posted 11 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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1919) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1711283)
Posted 11 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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1920) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1711276)
Posted 11 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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1921) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1711272)
Posted 11 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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1922) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1711270)
Posted 11 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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1923) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1711265)
Posted 11 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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1924) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1711262)
Posted 11 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I'll admit that I was nervous when Vic decided to open up his new tv.
1925) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1711260)
Posted 11 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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1926) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1711255)
Posted 11 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Oh. You had me worried about my garden frying even more than it has been...
1927) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1711250)
Posted 11 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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it's gonna hit 103 by the end of the week

In our neck of the woods???!!!
1928) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The celttooth thread ... Last day. Thanks all! (Message 1711246)
Posted 11 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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The game may be a foot?

Well, you wouldn't have to strong ARM me into giving you a HAND in organizing a pun war soon. You are not so far aHEAD in wins that I cannot fight BACK. Yes I am sure that I can BUTT in to this winner's circle.
1929) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The celttooth thread ... Last day. Thanks all! (Message 1711244)
Posted 11 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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You have not yet played poker with me...


As good as your pun skills eh?

Your majesty, I never bluff... or do I???
1930) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1711243)
Posted 11 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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How almost is almost there?
1931) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The celttooth thread ... Last day. Thanks all! (Message 1711157)
Posted 10 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Most women I know beat me at scrabble, but I beat them at poker or Chess.

You have not yet played poker with me...
1932) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1711117)
Posted 10 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Upon release, if you are Chris, Carlos, Es or TimeLord, you may blanch, swoon, scream and/or run at this point.

Excuse me Madam, I am called upon at least once a day by 'er indoors, to remove a spidey of some sort from the premises and that is exactly how I do it. But one does not blanch, swoon, or scream at the release, one removes the paper with the glass upright, swings one arm as in a fast bowler, thereby projecting said spidey at a fast rate of knots half way down the garden.

Accompanied with one of two expletives depending upon the outcome.
    1. Tell all your mates to naff off!

    2. Tinkle tinkle, bugger I was supposed to hold onto the glass!


LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1933) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1711098)
Posted 10 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Spider under glass


This is the best way for transporting a spider out of your home without killing it. Place a drinking glass around Spidey. Slide a stiff piece of paper, such as an index card, GENTLY and SLOWLY under Spidey, to ensure that she ends up on top of the paper, undamaged. If on a horizontal surface slide glass with paper under it GENTLY and SLOWLY towards you, until you can hold paper to glass with your hand. If on a vertical surface, slide fingers under paper... a bit more delicate a process, but entirely do-able I assure you. Hold glass with one hand and paper with other. Transfer spidey outside and release.

Upon release, if you are Chris, Carlos, Es or TimeLord, you may blanch, swoon, scream and/or run at this point.

Vic, SuzieQ and the rest of us are contractually obligated to burst out with a rousing chorus of Born Free

Ok, ok... we all know that SuzieQ will release Spidey onto her shoulder, take a quick selfie, allow Spidey to run down her arm into the garden and then post the picture, but that part is entirely optional for the rest of us.

A quick word to the wise, if you are not a fan of things with 6 legs, do not squish things with 8 legs!!! Who do you think eats things with 6 legs???!!!
1934) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1711034)
Posted 10 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Not the reaction I was expecting from the forum's foremost animal lover.

C'mon, I love anything on 4 legs, and I'll fight for them, but I iz not keen on spidys :-((

But if something has 8 legs you should love it twice as much, right?
1935) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mysterious Miscellaneous Tool Time V6 (Message 1711014)
Posted 10 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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That is really funny!
1936) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1711013)
Posted 10 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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E U C H ! !

Not the reaction I was expecting from the forum's foremost animal lover.


But nobody should feel any pressure to crunch so hard, that the blue smoke is released :-)

Yes. Thank you.
1937) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1710952)
Posted 10 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Funny you should mention spiders, Vic. This is the time of year around here when our orb weavers start building huge webs in conspicuous places and then hanging in the center of them waiting for a meal. The spiders get bigger and bigger across the season, then they all disappear, generally by January, presumably to lay eggs and die.

1938) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1710937)
Posted 10 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Btw, when I was in the grocery this morning, I saw some "hot-rize" flour, in addition to the bread flour. Baking sure can be confusing.

I'm not familiar with the term "hot-rize" for flour, but if I had to hazard a guess I'd suspect that it was something like Bisquick, which is a commercial pancake/waffle mix. When baking powders are double acting it means that the first rise comes from interacting with a liquid and the second rise comes from being exposed to heat. That is why, when you bake a cake, you should put it into the oven right away. You don't want to lose the lift from the first rise by letting the batter just sit there on your counter. So if something is labeled a "hot rize" flour it is probably a baking mix that is heavy in single rise (heat activated) baking powder.
1939) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1710933)
Posted 10 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Julie, one of the secretaries in our department quit smoking several times, but I believe it was the third attempt that actually worked. She is much happier and much healthier now that she has finally quit. She has more spending money too!
1940) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1710701)
Posted 10 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Raccoons... we're growing in number and strength.

All are welcome to join in the fun!
1941) Message boards : Politics : Windows 10? (Message 1710688)
Posted 10 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I would be happy to move the post if you wish. Or I could leave the post here because perhaps you were planning to discuss this topic in a particularly political way that would make it best suited for the political area of the forums.

Bob, please pm the mod-list if you would like your post moved.
1942) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1710674)
Posted 10 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Our team is growing fast and we're so competitive that even GPUUG might find one of these under their porch some day...
1943) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1710655)
Posted 10 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Welcome to team Raccoon Lovers!!!
1944) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1710651)
Posted 10 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I went to a birthday party for dinner. The hostess served roast pork in a cherry shallot sauce, steamed green beans and a Brussel's sprout gratin that was very good. I brought the cakes.
1945) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1710598)
Posted 9 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Surely this must be the winning post.
1946) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1710514)
Posted 9 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I feel a little win coming on...
1947) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1710512)
Posted 9 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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bread flour


Is this different than regular flour? I've never bought anything that says "bread flour".

Yes, bread flour is a high gluten flour. You can get it at most grocery stores in the baking aisle. You need the elasticity of gluten to make nice chewy bread. All purpose flour is too soft and cake flour would be way too soft.

Happy baking!!!
1948) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #61 (Message 1710459)
Posted 9 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Do. Or do not. There is no try.
1949) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1710458)
Posted 9 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Are we there yet?
1950) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1710456)
Posted 9 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I don't want to put LSM out of business, but if you want a short-cut, here is the Cook's Illustrated Recipe for English Muffin Bread.

Ingredients

Cornmeal
5 cups (27 1/2 ounces) bread flour
4 1/2 teaspoons instant or rapid-rise yeast
1 tablespoon sugar
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
3 cups whole milk, heated to 120 degrees

Instructions

1. Grease two 8½ by 4½-inch loaf pans and dust with cornmeal. Combine flour, yeast, sugar, salt, and baking soda in large bowl. Stir in hot milk until combined, about 1 minute. Cover dough with greased plastic wrap and let rise in warm place for 30 minutes, or until dough is bubbly and has doubled.

2. Stir dough and divide between prepared loaf pans, pushing into corners with greased rubber spatula. (Pans should be about two-thirds full.) Cover pans with greased plastic and let dough rise in warm place until it reaches edge of pans, about 30 minutes. Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 375 degrees.

3. Discard plastic and transfer pans to oven. Bake until bread is well browned and registers 200 degrees, about 30 minutes, rotating and switching pans halfway through baking. Turn bread out onto wire rack and let cool completely, about 1 hour. Slice, toast, and serve.
1951) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mysterious Miscellaneous Tool Time V6 (Message 1710305)
Posted 9 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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It's some sort of sexy exoskeleton designed to get her noticed at Comic Con.
1952) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1710300)
Posted 9 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Winning while everybody else goes to sleep...
1953) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1710250)
Posted 9 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Winning while baking two types of cakes!
1954) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1710247)
Posted 9 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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The bread machine is on the third baking pan and I don't know if next time I will need another pan or a new machine.


My dad and I got matching Zojirushi's about a year apart. Mine bit the dust after about 15 years of sporadic use. By that time my father had passed away and my mom gave me his Zojirushi when mine stopped working. She didn't know how to use it and she had no desire to learn. It was just taking up space on her counter.
1955) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1710227)
Posted 9 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Power crunching win...
1956) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1710226)
Posted 9 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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For me, that tends to be a new batch of yeast. I buy it a pound at a time and keep the Fax seed and yeast in the refrigerator for freshness.

Wow! I go through about a jar a year. I cannot imagine buying multiple pounds of yeast in a year. You must be a veritable baking machine!!!
1957) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1710093)
Posted 8 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Oh why not...

Win!!!
1958) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1710092)
Posted 8 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I have no children but cannot imagine anyone so self absorbed they would leave their precious child in a hot car for even ONE minute!

I don't have any children (that I know of) either, but I remember how frazzled my Mother would get with 4 of us, and Dad away on a business trip.

The stories I see are of three types:
1) Parent so distracted (not necessarily self-absorbed) they forget the child is in the car.
2) Parents with several small children, who are only going into the store for "just a minute" and think it will take more time to move the baby seat or small children into the cart and back into the car after, than the actual shopping and check-out will take. Usually they are wrong, and with tragic consequences - either a dead child, or a damaged car and a cop waiting for them when they come out of the store.
3) Drunks and druggies who are more concerned about getting to the party than the kid in the car outside. Hard to have sympathy for them, sometimes, but I do.



Actually, I have heard that the main reason children are forgotten is changes in routines, like dad is supposed to bring the kid to daycare that day instead of mom who usually does it. Sleep-deprived dad loads the kid into the car and then goes on auto-pilot to his office. He then gets out of the car and goes to work without noticing/remembering that his sleeping child is still in the car seat in the back seat of the car. It is not until daycare calls mom to say "Where is Johnny today?" that everybody realizes what has just so tragically happened.

Every one of us has done something on auto-pilot, usually to hilarious effect rather than tragic.

In the early 90's Eric and I were living in a condo with an underground parking complex. We had decided to carpool to work, which wasn't typical for us at that time. We went out the door of our condo together and down the elevator together. I went through the condo front doors and stood on the sidewalk in front of the building. Eric took another exit through the parking garage, backed the car out, went through the parking garage gate and left me standing on the sidewalk while he took the nearest exit to work. He got part way down the freeway before he realized that I was still standing on the sidewalk!!! Eric was mortified and I was highly amused.

That was about the time that I started insisting that if we ever had children, Eric was not going to be the stay-at-home parent because clearly he would leave our baby on top of some dusty old computer in his den and promptly forget about the child for the rest of the day.
1959) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1709905)
Posted 8 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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...He was sentenced to death by hanging for 'devouring 70% of the Democrats in Hinsdale County. ...


Comin' back for more...
1960) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1709819)
Posted 7 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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The 509th Operations Group, the one that dropped the A Bombs on Japan at the end of WWII...

Deaths in war are always horrible, civilian casualties especially so. We should remember our own sins whenever we express outrage at terrorists who take civilian lives. I am not saying that terrorists are justified in their actions. Of course their crimes are brutal and should be condemned. I am only saying that terrorists would have a hard time matching the number of civilian lives our country took when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.

Peace on earth.
1961) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1709806)
Posted 7 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Slowing down just enough to win...
1962) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1709805)
Posted 7 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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See what happens when you have a tread where nothing is off topic???

I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1963) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1709556)
Posted 7 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Did you see a puddy tat?

Oh dear.

I've heard that there are people who rip open bags of popcorn and then hang around the Cafe on Friday nights waiting for a cat to show up, but I didn't actually believe the person who told me that.

Guess it was true...
1964) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The kittyman music thread...new edition. (Message 1709549)
Posted 7 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Sorry if I misinterpreted your meaning. An explanation of the artists humor might spring from the fact that she is the daughter of one John Schneider of Saturday Night Live fame, a sometimes controversial comedian.

No offense meant.


None taken. I just wanted to clarify my position.
1965) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1709547)
Posted 7 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Not to sound morbid Angela. But...I have heard reports of "human pork" being sold in the marketplace in N. Korea. I was watching a documentary about N. Korea refugees in S. Korea. The documentor asked the question if that was true or not. The refugees did not answer the question right away but had this "been busted" look.


North Korea was in a state of famine from 1994 to 1998. If my children were dying of starvation, who knows to what lengths I would go to feed them?

What shocks me more is hearing that there are North Korean refugees in South Korea. The demilitarized zone, despite its name, is actually HEAVILY militarized on both sides. My biggest (admittedly irrational) fear when Eric was working in South Korea was that he would go out some weekend looking for a good place to fish and accidentally wander into the demilitarized zone, where he would be promptly shot by one side or the other!!!
1966) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The kittyman music thread...new edition. (Message 1709539)
Posted 7 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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@Angela, come on, lighten up a little. I cannot judge by one song any theme or attitude of the artist. The song is intended to be an ode to 'trailer trash' lifestyle, and the video was just a way of enhancing the theme.

dg, that is not what I did. I did not make any sweeping statements about the artist or about the artist's attitude.

I merely said:
I don't care for videos that are degrading to women and now, having finally seen one, I am actually relieved to report that I also do not care for videos that are degrading to men.


Yes clearly that video was meant to be humorous and some might even call it a strong feminist statement, but it was no more my cup of tea than a video depicting women being used, abused and cast aside would be my cup of tea.
1967) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1709534)
Posted 7 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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or horse

I am very sorry, but I have to disagree. Horses are for riding or breeding, they are NOT for eating. That is non-negotiable in my book, has been for 50 years, and always will be. If I lose friends because of it, then so be it. You either have principles and can look yourself in the mirror, or you don't.

Pigs are every bit as smart, if not smarter, than horses and dogs. I certainly cannot claim that a BLT has never landed on my plate.

Eric spent a great deal of time in South Korea several years ago, working on a project there. Dog was historically eaten in that country. My understanding is that there is a special eating breed of dog there that has been bred to be dumb as a stick. Dog is being phased out as a food in that country. I remember asking one of Eric's colleagues a question about it when he visited us. He seemed embarrassed that I had heard about dog being a food there, and he said that now it was just something that (and I quote) "only old men eat".

Chris, I believe that I have principles and that they are 100% consistent... perhaps more consistent than yours???

My principles dictate that until I give up eating meat and wearing leather shoes, I have absolutely no grounds for criticizing what others eat. Homo sapiens are omnivores and people all over the globe eat things that would not tempt my western palate, but I am in absolutely no position to pass judgment on what other individuals eat, nor am I in any position to pass judgment on what other cultures classify as food.

(Oh I suppose I might draw the line at cannibalism... but then again, under the right circumstances, who knows??? And it is nearly Halloween. Boo!)
1968) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1709523)
Posted 7 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Raccoon win!
1969) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The kittyman music thread...new edition. (Message 1709391)
Posted 6 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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One for the ladies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uLI6BnVh6w


Well, that was different. I don't care for videos that are degrading to women and now, having finally seen one, I am actually relieved to report that I also do not care for videos that are degrading to men.

I do, however, LOVE-LOVE-LOVE that magnificent spiderweb dress that the singer was wearing. Where do you think I can buy one of those???!!!
1970) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1709383)
Posted 6 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Small victory.
1971) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1709382)
Posted 6 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I eat meat and I wear leather shoes. I am not here as a vegan protestor. If people want to eat snake, or armadillo or horse or even raccoon I will not protest.

What I do protest is my brother-in-law's penchant for unnecessary killing. He is not eating the snakes he shoots in the desert. He leaves them there to rot. I suppose he is feeding the scavengers, but they seem to be doing just fine without his "help".
1972) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1709159)
Posted 6 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Goodnight friends!
1973) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1709156)
Posted 6 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Mojave Green Rattlesnake
1974) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1709155)
Posted 6 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Celebrate and protect urban wildlife!!!
1975) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1709151)
Posted 6 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Pawly!!!!!!!!!!!! Welcome home, friend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1976) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1709150)
Posted 6 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I will never understand the desire to shoot at an animal outside of the intent of eating it... which I have come to grips with after seeing that in Northern Wisconsin people do genuinely use deer meat to supplement their diets.

Eric's youngest sister married a er... uh... "complicated" fellow who likes to go out into the Arizona desert with his buddies and shoot rattlesnakes. While I do not actually hope that my brother-in-law gets bitten (he is, after all, the father of three of our precious nieces and one of our precious nephews), I do sincerely hope that some glorious day a great big, really fast snake gives him a bad enough scare that he gives up that awful, horrible, terrible past time.

Rattlesnakes belong in the desert. They are not hurting anybody there. They are beautiful animals and part of the natural order of things. Eric and I simply cannot understand why anybody would want to shoot them!!!

Same goes for armadillos.
1977) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1709137)
Posted 6 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in.
1978) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1709123)
Posted 6 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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When I use my bread machine, I just stick to the recipes provided in the little cookbook that came along with it.
1979) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1709122)
Posted 6 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Chicken tacos with red Jalapenos, other veggies, and cheese and beans and rice. :-)

Yum!!! I have quite a few red, ripened jalapenos on my plants. I like to use them in fajitas.
1980) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1709085)
Posted 6 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Posting before dinner. :-)

Back at the top, and WINNING!!!!! :-)


What's for dinner?
1981) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1709055)
Posted 5 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Come for the cat food...

Stay for the win!!!
1982) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1709050)
Posted 5 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gentlemen, it is far too hot outside for you both to be posting with such vim and vigor.

Might I suggest that you both retire to a shady spot and while you do so, I shall cover all the necessary winning.
1983) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1709047)
Posted 5 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Grace says she needs you in the other room.

My win!!!
1984) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1709045)
Posted 5 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Placing the win under one of three coconut shells.

Watch carefully as I move the shells around with lightening speed.

Now where is the win?

Wrong!!!

I have it right here.
1985) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1709040)
Posted 5 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Plucking the win back from your feeble grasp...
1986) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1709037)
Posted 5 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Usurping your win...
1987) Message boards : Cafe SETI : It is official! The 15th Anni shirt is a Go. (Message 1708938)
Posted 5 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you, Ulibelle, for your tireless work on the 15th Anniversary T-shirts.
1988) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1708937)
Posted 5 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lynn, are you here to declare me the winner?
1989) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 1708935)
Posted 5 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh look!!! A budgie on a skateboard!!!


(This worked for Es once, so I figured I'd give it a whirl...)
1990) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1708789)
Posted 5 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nice try, oh Captain of Team Insomnia.
1991) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1708765)
Posted 5 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You should all sleep now.

I'll cover the winning for a bit...
1992) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1708383)
Posted 4 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, I give up.

Goodnight friends.
1993) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1708381)
Posted 4 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You two are persistent this evening.
1994) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1708375)
Posted 4 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sue, is this one of your indoor raccoons?
1995) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1708373)
Posted 4 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Holy moley macaroni, I think I won!!!
1996) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #61 (Message 1708372)
Posted 4 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
His housekeeper recycles his water bottles...
1997) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1708354)
Posted 4 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In other news My Sister in law thinks I'm having arterial problems of some sort, swollen feet(more on the left than the right) and lack of hair on My legs below the knee, that's what I thought, but then She's a retired RN w/a degree, now if only a Doctor will listen to Me... Hearts fine He said... sigh..

My mother has peripheral artery disease secondary to being overweight (40-50 pounds over ideal) from around age 40 to her current age of nearly 82. My mother required extensive vascular surgery a few years ago in order to avoid an amputation. She probably needs another surgery at this point. One of her ankles resembles a tree trunk... but she has decided not to pursue any further medical intervention at this time due to other medical issues.

Anyway Vic, this is actually a pretty serious thing. I know it is hard for you to get to the doctor, but please, for your health's sake, be as persistent as you can be.
1998) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1708343)
Posted 4 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Me too.
1999) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1708342)
Posted 4 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What kind did you buy?

I like to use mine when Eric's parents visit. It is nice to wake up to freshly baked bread in the morning.
2000) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1708273)
Posted 4 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My turn!!!
2001) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1708266)
Posted 3 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Skunks do tend to like fruit. Mine like plums that fall from our tree and they really like grapes.
2002) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1708142)
Posted 3 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What a kind man! That is awesome.
2003) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1707982)
Posted 3 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2004) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1707981)
Posted 3 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, you know I luv to kid ya...

That is what friends do.
2005) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1707979)
Posted 3 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ah cinders, I lost another phone number, thought I had it on the PC, drat...

Vic!!! Men are supposed to write their special phone numbers in a little black book.
2006) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1707975)
Posted 3 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am overdue for a win. Can't happen soon enough.
2007) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #61 (Message 1707974)
Posted 3 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
When the Mrs accompanies me to the gym, I have to pretend not to notice all those young women doing Pilates.
2008) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1707971)
Posted 3 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
35, but not a day older.
2009) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1707955)
Posted 3 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think that the winning post is Lynn's age - 30.

Did I win?
2010) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1707932)
Posted 3 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?
2011) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1707929)
Posted 3 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2012) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #242, celttooth wins! (Message 1707885)
Posted 2 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's limbo time!!! How low can you go???
2013) Message boards : Cafe SETI : She never promised you a Rose Garden (Message 1707830)
Posted 2 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
2014) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cooking for real (Message 1707779)
Posted 2 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am sorry you did not bring home the gold, but the silver is very admirable!!!
2015) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I ain't played for anybody in years............... (Message 1707778)
Posted 2 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
KittyGurl might have been a fun alter ego, but not somebody I wish to be in real life. I wuz just funnin' about.

We do have transgender members in this community who would probably be willing to reach out with kindness, compassion and support to anyone who is NOT "just funnin' about".

The seti@home community is large, diverse and full of very lovely people.
2016) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1707697)
Posted 2 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Glad to hear that your venture was a success and that you were able to enjoy the company of your sister-in-law for a little while.
2017) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1707595)
Posted 2 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have never used a ceramic knife. Truth be told, most of the knives in my kitchen are shamefully dull.
2018) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1707592)
Posted 2 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I use mine as a basic chef's knife. I find most chef's knives to be too big and unwieldy, but the Santoku knife is a perfect fit in my hand.
2019) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1707584)
Posted 2 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Shun is the brand of my Santoku knife as well. It is a beautiful blade. It was a gift, years ago, from one of my uncles. I've had to have it professionally sharpened only one time and I use it often.
2020) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1707579)
Posted 2 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Anyway... spaghetti squash.
2021) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1707577)
Posted 2 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have an extremely sharp Japanese vegetable knife called a Santoku knife. I can get though butternut squash and acorn squash easily using that knife. Is a spaghetti squash harder than a butternut?

I'll bet that fancy knife of yours cannot get through my thick skull....................just sayin'.

I am not an intrinsically violent person.

Neither am I.
But when I post as such, I happen to get modded.

As god and nature intended.
2022) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1707575)
Posted 2 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have an extremely sharp Japanese vegetable knife called a Santoku knife. I can get though butternut squash and acorn squash easily using that knife. Is a spaghetti squash harder than a butternut?

I'll bet that fancy knife of yours cannot get through my thick skull....................just sayin'.

I am not an intrinsically violent person.
2023) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1707572)
Posted 2 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have an extremely sharp Japanese vegetable knife called a Santoku knife. I can get though butternut squash and acorn squash easily using that knife. Is a spaghetti squash harder than a butternut?
2024) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Whatcha Watching? (Message 1707556)
Posted 2 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh, I love America's Test Kitchen and Cook's Country!!! I have both set up to record automatically. I subscribe to their magazine and to their on-line recipe vault. I use their recipes often. I give that organization an enthusiastic two thumbs up!!!
2025) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1707554)
Posted 2 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ulibelle, is there another way to highlight this information? I'm afraid it will be buried here.
2026) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1707529)
Posted 2 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoons, however, can be positively ferocious.
2027) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1707520)
Posted 2 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
She's here, she's there, she's
every where, so beware!

Words more true were never spoken...
2028) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1707517)
Posted 2 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And I am here as well.
2029) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Whatcha Watching? (Message 1707507)
Posted 2 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
grilled caesar salad, yes romaine on the BBQ

Grilled Romaine is nutty and delicious. Are you watching a cooking show or doing this yourself right now?
2030) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1707506)
Posted 2 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You're also correct, Carlos.
You have not won.


But I can't win. I know the number.


Oh, silly me. Old habits die hard.
2031) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1707505)
Posted 2 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric hates winter squash of all kinds, so I will have to try and bake acorn squash some day when he is away at a conference.
2032) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beer Drinkers Thread part 26 (Message 1707454)
Posted 1 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In celebration of Anniet's return...

Chocolate Stout Cupcakes!!!
2033) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Whatcha Watching? (Message 1707453)
Posted 1 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cupcake Wars
2034) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The celttooth thread ... Last day. Thanks all! (Message 1707452)
Posted 1 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Check your mail....


2035) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1707451)
Posted 1 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think spaghetti squash are in the same family as pumpkins, and I love baking them and serving the innards like pasta.

I've never cooked a spaghetti squash. What does it taste like?
2036) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PTSD 2 (Message 1707418)
Posted 1 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gordon, it sounds like you are making the very best use of the time you have left with your mother. My heart to yours, friend.
2037) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1707417)
Posted 1 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Honestly, I have never seen a raccoon hurt a squirrel, opossum, skunk, bird or cat.

I know they could...

I know sometimes they do...

But in my backyard, this is what I see.
2038) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1707414)
Posted 1 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You're also correct, Carlos.
You have not won.
2039) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1707387)
Posted 1 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That is extremely sad. Yes. It was probably a raccoon.

I am sorry for the squirrel and sorry that your friend is in such pain.
2040) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1707258)
Posted 1 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, you raised enough to buy a new tv, I think. Why not just use the funds to buy something new and have it shipped to you?
2041) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1707248)
Posted 1 Aug 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Always a pleasure to beat you, my friend.
2042) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1707077)
Posted 31 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
DFTST..

LOL, Vic. This is the Critter Cafe. Anything that wanders onto my turf gets fed. Just ask my exasperated neighbors!!!

Even Crocodiles and Alligators? ;) Chomp, chomp.

What else could be done with the stale possums?

Hey!!! My possums are not for eating and I only allow vegan crocodiles and alligators in the backyard.
2043) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1707048)
Posted 31 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
DFTST..

LOL, Vic. This is the Critter Cafe. Anything that wanders onto my turf gets fed. Just ask my exasperated neighbors!!!
2044) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1706899)
Posted 31 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Do you buy "baking pumpkins" or the jack-o-lantern type?

I buy the baking type, generally Sugar Pie pumpkins. They are delicious in soups and in curries. Jack-o-lantern type pumpkins are stringy and not flavorful.
2045) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1706898)
Posted 31 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry, no.
2046) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1706888)
Posted 31 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, I was unable to find your gofundme entry. I typed in your name - nothing.
I typed in where you live - nothing. I typed in television. You did not come up.

I have had this problem with gofundme before with another friend. I can never seem to find the entry unless given a direct link.

Vic, feel free to post a link here.
2047) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1706760)
Posted 30 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome home anniet!!!
2048) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1706759)
Posted 30 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That opossum isn't laughing. As far as I can tell, possums are not smart enough to have a sense of humor.

But raccoons are??? ;-)

Opossums are a very primitive species. It is highly unlikely that opossums have a sense of humor.

I don't know if raccoons have a sense of humor, but they certainly exhibit playfulness and a sense of fun.
2049) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1706750)
Posted 30 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That opossum isn't laughing. As far as I can tell, possums are not smart enough to have a sense of humor.
2050) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1706736)
Posted 30 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2051) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1706729)
Posted 30 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2052) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1706683)
Posted 30 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dreamed I was roasting chestnuts.

I tried doing that once... not, as the song goes, "on an open fire", but rather in a very hot oven using a cast iron pan. I cut X's in the ends of the chestnuts with a very sharp paring knife and then threw the chestnuts into the pan with a bit of vegetable oil. I did not think that the end product was worth the effort. Even having X'd them prior to roasting them, the chestnuts were still very hard to peel and I thought that they tasted rather bland. Salting them lightly didn't improve them that much.

There are some products (very few, mind you) that I think are better canned than fresh. Canned pumpkin for baking is one of these products. Canned pumpkin typically involves a pureed mix of several different varieties of winter squash to optimize color and flavor. I find fresh roasted pumpkin to be too stringy for baking purposes, even when I use a variety like Sugar Pie pumpkins. I do, however, find fresh pumpkin to be vastly superior to canned pumpkin when used in soups and curries.

Canned chestnut puree also works well in baking. I use jarred chestnuts for very occasional tortes and there is a Christmas cookie recipe Eric likes that calls for canned chestnut puree.
2053) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1706453)
Posted 29 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoon Fun!!!
2054) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1706445)
Posted 29 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoon Rescue - Aw!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is so refreshing for me to see videos of people who understand that raccoons are not vermin that need to be exterminated.
2055) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The celttooth thread ... Last day. Thanks all! (Message 1706363)
Posted 29 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I thought it was a play on the word prodigal.
2056) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #61 (Message 1706190)
Posted 29 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
2057) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XXII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1706177)
Posted 29 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends and Welcome to the 22nd chapter of the ever-popular Critter Cafe.

This is a place where Critter People come together to chat. All are welcome here and nothing is "off topic".


To start off our new thread, and to further prove that ALL are welcome, here is a picture that Eric took in our backyard tonight.

Little Stinks enjoys a lovely dinner of millet seeds.
2058) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1706173)
Posted 29 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodness gracious, this thread is long!

I'm going to lock it. Please join me in the new Critter Cafe.
2059) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1706121)
Posted 29 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mister Finkleberry, welcome home!!!

How grows your collection of s@h underwear?
2060) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1705825)
Posted 28 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...avocados shouldn't be black...

If you mean on the outside, that is incorrect. It depends on the species. A Haas avocado, for example, is ripe when it is black. The way to tell if a Haas avocado is over-ripe is to feel it (gently!!!). If it is squishy, pass it up. Also, if the skin has gone from a pebbly texture to a smooth texture then the avocado is rotting on the inside.
2061) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1705785)
Posted 27 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
For dinner last night we had pasta tossed with a pesto sauce that I made from basil that we grew in our garden. I threw in some roasted potatoes. Sometimes I throw in green beans as well, but I didn't have any in the garden or fridge yesterday. I topped each serving with some grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese and some chopped roasted walnuts.

Hmm But why serve your dish with potatoes?
I would serve it with LOTS of pomodors (tomatoes) and some pasta:)

Eric hates tomatoes. The tomatoes I grow in our garden are for me and to share with my neighbors who do not like to garden.

Green beans and roasted potatoes mixed with pesto/pasta is not an atypical mix for US citizens of northern Italian descent. I know it is starch on starch, but it is delicious.
2062) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1705729)
Posted 27 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I make a cheap spaghetti sauce that lasts for days. I'm pretty
sure I've posted the "recipe" here. I eat spaghetti when I don't
have enough money for other types of food - the type that normal
people who have money eat. I'm talking about things like pork
chops and chicken and beef and that sort of thing.

Eric grew up in Wisconsin during a time when dinner was generally over-cooked meat, tired potatoes and some disgusting vegetable that came out of a can. It has been a challenge for me to change Eric's palate, but we eat vegetarian at least twice a week and sometimes up to four times a week. Vegetarian food is not necessarily low calorie if it involves cheese, nuts, whole milk, butter and/or eggs, but vegetarian food is relatively low cost... and delicious.

Tonight, for example, we are having "nibbles" for dinner - roasted nuts (almonds, pecans and walnuts done without added fat or salt), a platter of crudite from our garden and a plate of vegetarian stuffed mushrooms. I filled the mushrooms with a sauteed minced shallot, the sauteed minced stems from the mushrooms I filled, a splash of sherry, some grated Gruyere cheese, salt, pepper, a little minced parsley and thyme from my herb patch, a bit of butter and some breadcrumbs. Baked, they are delicious and Eric will never miss the meat. Add a glass of vino and I'm a happy camper.

For dinner last night we had pasta tossed with a pesto sauce that I made from basil that we grew in our garden. I threw in some roasted potatoes. Sometimes I throw in green beans as well, but I didn't have any in the garden or fridge yesterday. I topped each serving with some grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese and some chopped roasted walnuts. Sometimes I top the dish with roasted pine nuts, but I used the last of them in the pesto and didn't want to go to the store. The walnuts were just as good. Again, Eric never missed the meat.
2063) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #61 (Message 1705718)
Posted 27 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I love cats, but I just can't eat a whole one by myself...
2064) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I ain't played for anybody in years............... (Message 1705163)
Posted 26 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
mO . O JAVE MPT UER FORIEDOT PIT/

And a Happy Arbor Day to you too!!!
2065) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I ain't played for anybody in years............... (Message 1705161)
Posted 26 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
PAhicn moden on

Do not koww what to do.......

Panic attatack..................ourch.

It suddenlyu came on......................this is what I deal with, it is an immediate and sudee3n attck.................I cannot relay the immediacty or sudedeness of it.

I am sorry that you are experiencing this. I think I know the cause.

Upon review of your posting history you have posts logged within the last hour, 1 hour ago, 2 hours ago, 3 hours ago, 4 hours ago, 5 hours ago, 7 hours ago, 10 hours ago, 11 hours ago, 12 hours ago, 13 hours ago, 14 hours ago, 17 hours ago, 18 hours ago, 20 hours ago, 21 hours ago and 22 hours ago.

I suspect your sudden panic attack is caused by sleep deprivation.
2066) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 1705143)
Posted 26 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I myself would include the crew in the 60 on board. But if someone is eight months pregnant, does that count once or twice?

LOL!!! Please don't force me to move that to Politics!!!
2067) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1705141)
Posted 26 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Skunks are not climbers. If you put cat food on a table, for example, your raccoons will find it, your opossums will find it, but a skunk just will not be able to climb that high.

In our backyard the skunks eat birdseed from a ground feeder, birdseed that has fallen from a hanging feeder, grapes that I foolishly throw them and unsalted (animal grade) peanuts in the shell that I also throw them.

I've tried to scale back on the seeds lately to discourage skunks a little. I also have a new rule of feeding. I only throw grapes and peanuts if there is one skunk in our backyard. If I see more than one skunk now, I don't go outside to toss treats.
2068) Message boards : Cafe SETI : You're driving me buggy! (or, don't post bugs in my thread thread) (Message 1705127)
Posted 26 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Those Texas Longhorns are really a sight!!!
2069) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1705122)
Posted 26 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That's pretty darn cute, cowboy.
2070) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1705117)
Posted 26 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL!!!

Love the pic!!!
2071) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1705111)
Posted 26 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Raccoons, silly!!!
2072) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1705095)
Posted 26 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Shredder..

Cheddar shredder?
2073) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1705093)
Posted 26 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Au Contraire
2074) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1705090)
Posted 26 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
TMNR...
2075) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Whatcha Watching? (Message 1705076)
Posted 26 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Currently watching Lon Chaney Jr go batty in "Son of Dracula" on Svengoolie/MeTV's SciFi Saturday Night.

Well, I saw Lon Chaney walking with the Queen
Doing the Werewolves of London
I saw Lon Chaney, Jr. walking with the Queen
Doing the Werewolves of London
I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's
And his hair was perfect

Aaoooooo!
2076) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1705072)
Posted 26 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did you try the infamous garlic ice cream?
2077) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PTSD 2 (Message 1705024)
Posted 25 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
p.s. I don't know if my mother has "Dementia" or not. Whatever it is, it's a weird sort of confusion that sets in and lifts like a fog. Does it make me frustrated and want to run down the street, screaming sometime? Yes.


If she does have dementia, you should know that dementia patients have their good days and their bad days, just like all of us.

If you see the fog setting in, try taking your mother for a little walk, just fast enough to get her blood circulating a bit faster that usual. My first job, at age 16, was as a recreation aid in a retirement home. It is amazing what a little walk can do for elderly patients, both physically and mentally. It is not a long term fix. There really is no long term fix for the aging brain, but short term it might help decrease your frustration level and hers.
2078) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1704975)
Posted 25 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There's a bright golden haze on the cruchers
There's a bright golden haze on the crunchers
Our RACs are as high as an elephant's eye
And it looks like they're climbing clear up to the sky...
2079) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1704967)
Posted 25 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh what a beautiful morning

Oh what a beautiful day

I've got a beautiful feeling

Winning is coming my way...
2080) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The celttooth thread ... Last day. Thanks all! (Message 1704965)
Posted 25 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ian, you have friends all over the globe.

You are in our thoughts and in our hearts.
2081) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I ain't played for anybody in years............... (Message 1704953)
Posted 25 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Chris, you spent several days in our home. If there was not alcohol served at every meal, it was not for lack of trying...
2082) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1704802)
Posted 25 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My bad. I misquoted the lyric.

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
2083) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1704798)
Posted 25 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Speak of the Devil and up She pops..

Pleased to meet you. Won't you guess my name?
2084) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I ain't played for anybody in years............... (Message 1704795)
Posted 25 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome home.
2085) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Slips of tongue (Message 1704769)
Posted 25 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oxford comma - LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Must confess that I'm so American that I tend not to use it, but my eyes have been opened and I now see the light.
2086) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1704723)
Posted 24 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm sorry Blurf, but that was my body-double. I'm way over here... ahead of you.
2087) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Extraterrestrial search gets $100 million from Russian billionaire (Message 1704718)
Posted 24 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome home, Chris.
2088) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1704526)
Posted 24 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I had better quit while I'm ahead.

Goodnight friends!
2089) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1704523)
Posted 24 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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* From the Vortex, materializes the TARDIS. *

* Door opens. *

Did I win??? I seem to have materialized in front of Blurf and Angela... I'm sure I've won. :-)



Angela plugs into the Borg network and summons a cube-ship. She beams onto the Tardis and uses her Borg implant to assimilate Tardis technology. Time Lord himself refuses to be assimilated and in the ultimate of ironies he is exterminated.

We win.
2090) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Slips of tongue (Message 1704521)
Posted 24 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A grammatical error.


Let's eat, Grandma.

Let's eat Grandma.

GRAMMAR SAVES LIVES!!!
2091) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1704516)
Posted 24 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not possible. My chair has tested faster than a Segway. Win by reality (although seeing you swinging on a vine would be interesting).

This was a special Segway... part of a pilot program being beta-tested by the unfortunate fellow from whom I stole it.
2092) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1704508)
Posted 24 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wins by throwing his chair into automatic and rolling it around Angela while flipping over her head and landing perfectly in the seat.

Angela commandeers a nearby Segway, revs it to the max, catches up to Blurf, leaps off the Segway, jumps several feet into the air to grab a nearby dangling vine, does a very Tarzan-esque swing complete with a classic Tarzan yodel/yell to sail over Blurf, comfortably regaining the win.
2093) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 1704504)
Posted 24 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I used my first computer in the mid-80's in a college class on programming in BASIC.

In 1988 I wrote my Master's thesis on a department computer using WordStar, and boy was I glad I did. My thesis chair flew to Chile that year to adopt a baby. Per her request, I had given her several chapters of my thesis to read on the plane. When she got home she called me up and said, "I can't find ANY of your chapters, sweetie!" How incredibly awesome it was to hit a button and print them all out for her again.
2094) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1704502)
Posted 24 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My ping time is very low...

Merciful heavens!!! TMI Vic!!! TMI!!!
2095) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1704500)
Posted 24 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Chases after Blurf and vaults over his chair, for the WIN!!!
2096) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1704495)
Posted 24 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did somebody call for a winner?

Here I am!!!
2097) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 1704494)
Posted 24 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are you are sure I'm not a NERD??


Or......a rare hybrid like a Gerd or Neek.

I'm very much likeable, I'm highly regarded around here by people in the park and I do have social skills, so I can't be either, I don't quite fit.
The definition of Geek...



Uh Vic... we all use computers to look for space aliens.

That sounds pretty geeky to me.
2098) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 1704451)
Posted 23 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
it feels like I've broken a bone in my hand.

Go to the emergency room and find out.
2099) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 1704450)
Posted 23 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
if you spend more money on your car versus your computer does that revoke your geek membership

You sly devil!!! You're converting your car to crunch work units, aren't you!!!!!!
2100) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Skype warning (Message 1704443)
Posted 23 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm going to bump this. It is important.
2101) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 1704441)
Posted 23 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
i have to see that movie now

I don't think any of us really has a choice... it was in the geek contract we all signed.

Sorry but I'm not under any contract, I'll see the movie, though it might be on DVD, theatre seating is uncomfortable for Me.

Ah, but you eventually intend to see it, right? See? Geek contract!
2102) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 1704401)
Posted 23 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
i have to see that movie now

I don't think any of us really has a choice... it was in the geek contract we all signed.
2103) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1704256)
Posted 23 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Purvis moved out. I don't know where he went. Clearly he did not die under our deck, because we DEFINITELY would have noticed that!!!

Anyway, when Purvis moved out, Stripey moved in.

Where the three other skunks who visited us last night (Puffy, Little Stinks and Tiny Stinks) have their dens is a mystery to me.

The neighbors to our right are doing construction in their backyard right now, so it is unlikely that skunks live over there right now. The neighbors to our left have three dogs, so it is even more unlikely that the skunks live there.
2104) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #61 (Message 1704191)
Posted 23 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Darling, you look absolutely smashing in that dress!
2105) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1704186)
Posted 23 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I really need to stop feeding skunks. We had four in the backyard tonight!!! If only they were not so cute...
2106) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1704184)
Posted 23 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
anchovies


Someday I may try those little devils. (But not today)

That puts a quiver in my liver. But not today. +100


Anchovies are delicious little salt-bombs.

Do you like Caesar Salad? Anchovies!

How about Nicoise Salad? Anchovies!

Partial to Bagna cauda? Anchovies!

Do you put Worcestershire sauce in or on anything you cook? Anchovies!

Do you cook with Vietnamese or Thai fish sauces? Anchovies!

Fan of tapenade? Anchovies!

Want to perk up some deviled eggs? Anchovies!

Chefs often add a bit of anchovy paste to dishes in order to kick up the umami (savory) dimension of a dish.

Most people who think they do not like anchovies have enjoyed the taste of anchovies disguised in other foods.
2107) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Extraterrestrial search gets $100 million from Russian billionaire (Message 1704087)
Posted 22 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Uli has got it on triple semi permanent loan to Julie, Es, and of course now Angela.

I only use rolling pins for pastry dough.
2108) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The celttooth thread ... Last day. Thanks all! (Message 1703606)
Posted 21 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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All the crows have come to my backyard. We have a birdbath in front and in back, and I feed them peanuts. They are quite happy here.
2109) Message boards : Cafe SETI : SETI@Home Wow!-Event 2015 (Message 1703566)
Posted 21 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Hello celttooth,you are in the Team Raccoon Lovers:

He most certainly is. Is there any other team worth crunching for??

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2110) Message boards : Number crunching : News Article: http://phys.org/news/2015-07-hawking-extraterrestrial-life.html (Message 1703553)
Posted 20 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thanks, Wiggo, for pointing us all to the other thread.

This is such big news that threads discussing it have popped up here, in the Cafe, on the News page etc. Personally, I think it is nice to have multiple threads in multiple places on this happy happy subject.
2111) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1703406)
Posted 20 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've heard of Nicoise salad, but never known what is, actually.

It is a yummy salad that has oil packed tuna, boiled potatoes, blanched green beans, anchovies, olives and hard boiled eggs in it. The dressing I make has olive oil, champagne vinegar, a tiny touch of honey, salt, pepper and lots for chopped fresh thyme, which is an herb that grows well where we live.



...I think I am going to use some of that cream to make home made ice cream next week...

YUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2112) Message boards : News : Big boost for SETI@home from Yuri Milner's Breakthrough Listen Initiative (Message 1703401)
Posted 20 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wonderful news!!!!!

And all of you who have been crunching for 16 years were REALLY trend-setters!!!
2113) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1703227)
Posted 20 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Anyone eat anything lately?

Last night I made Nicoise Salads for dinner and served them with an unoaked chardonnay.

Tonight we felt like having dessert for dinner so I made crepes filled with Nutella, topped with raspberries that had been tossed in a bit of Chambord. On top of that I put a bit of sweetened whipped cream and some chocolate shavings. Gee, I wonder why I never lose any weight...
2114) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #61 (Message 1703035)
Posted 19 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
All of you were too kind to post the most obvious caption: Angela poses in her new swimwear

Ah well, time to declare a winner!!!

Third place goes to Lynn with: "I want an apology from The Family Feud, for sitting grey hair remarks.!"

Second place goes to Steven Meyer with: "And to think, I was a youngun when Boinc started downloading a task from SETI@Home."

First place goes right back to Michael Roberts with: "Sometimes I sits and thinks and sometimes I just sits"


P.M. going out to our winner now.
2115) Message boards : Politics : Liberal or Conservative? (Message 1702984)
Posted 19 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Мишель, thank you for your thoughtful input to this thread.

Sorry but wealth taxes are extremely difficult to implement and very unfair to everyone. First of all, you would tax people more than once for the same income. Say someone only owns a house and a bank account, a wealth tax would add the value of the house to all the money on the bank and take a certain percentage of that. The next year the IRS comes back, notes that you still have a house and bank account, and taxes it again. A little unfair to be taxed more than once for the same thing. That also makes saving very unattractive because it simply means the government is going to tax your savings over and over again.

In the United States we already do this. Property taxes on a home are assessed annually, year after year, and they only go down if the value of the home goes down. The interest on bank accounts is taxed annually as income. So here, in the United States, we are already used to this.

At least under a "wealth tax" a mortgage counts against the value of a home. Under a property tax it does not.

I agree that wealth taxes are a disincentive to saving. Currently in the USA there is NO incentive to save. We are notorious for our debts, both personal and national. Right now interest paid on bank accounts is typically well under half a percent, which is well under the inflation rate. I doubt a "wealth tax" could disincentivize savings much more. (And our education system is REALLY FAILING if having nothing is considered better than having something.)


Secondly, a wealth tax is rather difficult to implement. Say you rent a house and you don't have a bank account. How will your wealth be determined? Does the IRS have to pay you a visit each year to determine the worth of your possessions? Well that seems rather intrusive no? Not to mention costly. Which makes the system very open for abuse. Simply avoid buying a house and owning a bank account, and try to get paid in cash only and it becomes next to impossible to determine your wealth for tax purposes.

Agreed. But the same is true of income taxes. Cheating happens. That is why we have audits.

Under a wealth tax system, for most people in this country, their net wealth wouldn't be big enough to be worth hiding. Under this same system, for people whose wealth is big enough to be worth hiding, it would be virtually impossible to hide. For example, you cannot hide ownership of large amounts of stock. It is a matter of public record. You cannot hide the value of your home. It's on Zillow.

Since I get to rule this imaginary world, I would have stiff penalties for cheaters. Hide a valuable or large asset, get caught and pay 20% of its value, per year. Hide it for five years, get caught, it's gone. Hide if for longer than that, there is a cell with your name on it. (I am such a b*tch!!!)


Finally, it doesn't eliminate the need for corporate taxes unless you want to miss out on a lot of money. First of all, taxing shareholders for the worth of their part in the company is ridiculously unfair. Say I own 60 dollars worth of shares, and I gotta pay say 6 dollars worth in wealth taxes based on the shares I own, do you think the company is going to compensate me for that?

Playing devil's advocate here, why did you buy shares in a company that doesn't offer a dividend that at least covers your taxes on the shares? If everyone sold their shares in this company, they would start offering a dividend pretty quickly. (Free market to the rescue, once again. Gary will be thrilled!!!)


Taxing like that would mean corporations operate tax free while the shareholders get to pay for their worth. Furthermore, thats unfair because shares do not represent the actual value of the company, only the perceived market value.

Maybe the perceived market value would be closer to the actual value of the company if people had to worry about this.


Ok, ok... it is an imaginary world. I know, you know, Gary knows... ain't gonna happen. But fun to speculate, no?

Ok people, this ends my Political Career.

The rest of the arguments are yours to make and refute.
2116) Message boards : Politics : Liberal or Conservative? (Message 1702978)
Posted 19 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
OMG!!!!!

This is exhausting!!!

How do all you Political Types keep this banter up all day and night???????

I am going to make one final post in this thread, defending the concept of "wealth tax", and then I am passing the torch to any other tax-and-spend liberal out there who wants to argue for me.

Turns out, I simply do not have the time, the energy or the cranial capacity to post regularly in Politics. It was a mistake for me to begin.

Ok.... one more post.

P.S. Just for the record, Gary and I are good friends. We have broken bread together on several occasions. He has been a guest in our home and I even have a picture of him feeding one of my raccoons. I even introduced him to my single sister, in hopes that sparks would fly.

Gary and I will continue to be friends, even though we have some political disagreements.
2117) Message boards : Politics : Liberal or Conservative? (Message 1702976)
Posted 19 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ah, you assume that only the very bottom rung of workers will get a raise when the minimum goes up. That is not true at all. I can assure you, especially in California where the minimum wage rate for exemption to overtime is double the minimum, every worker who is under that double minimum will get some kind of raise. If it is dollar for dollar or if it calculated on a percent basis, there will be some raise.

Good. Anyone who is making less than twice the minimum wage, especially in California, is unlikely to consider themselves rich and will probably appreciate the raise.


You mention fast food. There, yes, most are paid the minimum. Then you mention other places, and everywhere I've ever heard of, labor is the biggest item on the expense sheet. Of course as each company that sells supplies will have to raise prices, the entire universe of costs to a company will go up, except perhaps the rent bill as that may be a long term contract.

What will happen is it will take about a year to settle out. Everyone will start out with an increase in prices and then as they start getting the new higher bills from the other companies they will go through another round of price increases. Eventually it stabilizes. When it does the person at the minimum is just as far behind as they were before the minimum was raised. All you have done is devalue the currency, and the rich get richer when that happens as they don't keep their wealth in a bank account.

Now as to government assistance. Yes the poor get a good bit of help. Here is the thing though. Right after the raise their assistance will go down because they are making more. Some time later the government will have to adjust rates for the price inflation. They will be back to getting the same percent of their income as assistance as basic costs will have gone up.

But it is quite possible that your theory of inflation does not entirely correspond with reality. Inflation does not appear to jump when the minimum wage increases.



Ask Eric how to tax all those computers in his man cave.

LOL!!! Eric knows to the penny exactly what all those computers in his man cave are worth... and "the penny" is the actual worth of many of them.
2118) Message boards : Politics : Liberal or Conservative? (Message 1702969)
Posted 19 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And just who is going to loan the estate that money? Remember the estate owes the tax. Ownership and the ability to earn future profits are things banks take into consideration. You might make for an easy lender like Countrywide.

Gary, I think we've beaten this dead horse enough. If the kids can't get a loan, then there is an "opportunity" out there for somebody to make some money. In your world, the "invisible hand of the free market" has clearly been severed. I'm guessing the kids could get a loan and buy a substantial portion of the business from the estate. Let's stop splitting imaginary hairs on this imaginary scenario.

Maybe not 90 days, but the IRS is rather adamant that the final tax return get filed PDQ, the deadline isn't April 15, there aren't automatic extensions, and there is no extension of the date the payment is due, only the paperwork.

I have some passing familiarity (pun entirely intended) with estates. I know the closing of an estate can stretch out much longer than a reasonable person would think, or a strict reading of the law would allow. Again... dead horse. Let's move on.

You do realize someone may be extremely wealthy and have zero income. e.g. they had income sometime in the past and bought gold and jewels which they hide under their mattress.

Gary, you are saying that people can hide assets easier than they can hide income. In general I don't think that is true, because every asset will be converted to income eventually... and that is when the hiders will go to jail. I will defend my wealth tax further in a separate post, later tonight or tomorrow.

You may also remember the USA used to be funded on consumption taxes, under the assumption that the wealthy spent more.

The wealthy do not spend more as a fraction of their income or, more importantly, as a fraction of their wealth. Fortunately the US grew out of that period of our adolescence.

Ah, the exact same thing is true of the money a corporation earns as income. Eventually it all is paid out to the owners, individuals, and will be grabbed as income tax.

Not it isn't. Corporations hoard money, often overseas, in an effort to prevent it from being taxed. Between 1990 and 2008 (when the market crashed) it was virtually impossible to find dividend paying stocks in growth industries.

And the "double taxation" argument is quite tired at this point. Your employer is taxed on what he pays you. You are taxed on your income. When you buy a new computer the business owner who sold it to you pays taxes on her profits and her employees pay income taxes and then they pay sales taxes on the new guitar they bought with their "fun money". That's septupal taxation!!! Not really....

Under our current system we tax economic activity. And like it or not, a dividend is economic activity. Besides which, I'm pretty sure that corporations get a tax break for giving dividends.

Whew!!!

I'll get to the rest later...
2119) Message boards : Politics : USA Social Security Benefits Crisis and Solutions.... Let's talk. (Message 1702963)
Posted 19 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That wiki page on Social Security (see link in first post in this thread) lists this as one of several possible ways to offset the social security crisis:

Means-test benefits. Phase out of Social Security benefits for those who already have income over $48,000/year ($4,000/month) would eliminate over 20% of the funding gap. This is not very popular, with only 31% of surveyed households favoring it.


This was what I meant, but so poorly described, in another thread.

I did not expect it to be a popular idea. I still think we should do it.

Gary said:
Now I realize you want to means test to see if a person should get any. Just be aware the tax code already has a version of that in place. There is a rather small floor amount of other income you can earn before those SS checks become taxable. Taking away some of the payout via taxes is somewhat the same as not giving it in the first place.


Yes. But I don't think this goes far enough. I think it should be a progressive tax, like the rest of our income taxes... or we could have a wealth tax (see discussion elsewhere) and then just not bother about taxing social security at all.
2120) Message boards : Politics : USA Social Security Benefits Crisis and Solutions.... Let's talk. (Message 1702962)
Posted 19 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If you would like a pretty good idea of what Social Security in the USA is all about, I actually think that the wiki page is a decent place to get general background information.

Social security in the USA is going to be a very big problem very soon. Lots more money is expected to go out of the fund than come into the fund, especially with my generation, the "baby boomers", beginning to retire in great numbers now. And it is only going to get worse...

In another thread Gary deftly pushed me to find ways to generate money to fund my liberal utopia and still pay down our crushing national debt.

I responded with a few ideas including:
5. Ok.... #5... and this one is going to open a HUGE can of worms, especially since it is coming from a silly little addled-brain liberal like me (...and a tail-end baby-boomer, no less!!!) Social security is described as a "benefit". Let's treat it like a "benefit". If, in one's retirement, one does not NEED it, then one should not GET it. (Increase in pie dish diameter)

Yes, yes, yes... I know we all paid into it. I know it is "our" money. I know we all want it back. I know we all think we need it and we all think that we deserve it. I sure don't want to PRIVATIZE it, but I do want it restructured.

If your retirement income/savings is above a reasonable point, you shouldn't get that money back. If your retirement income/savings drops below that point, you may dip into social security again.

I know that I'm going to be up against the firing squad for posting this little suggestion, but look at it this way... I pay my fire insurance every year. I don't feel entitled to get THAT money back if my house doesn't burn down this year.


OzzFan responded with:
I think I can agree with most of this. I would also add that there wouldn't be as big of a problem with Social Security if the gov't would stop taking or cutting from that pool of money for other things.


And Gary responded with:
Angela, about fire insurance, do you feel the same way about your 401(k)? How about your IRA? Your bank account?

Unfortunately Mr. FDR and those that came after him didn't sell the Ponzi scheme of Social Security as insurance. They sold it as a mandatory government run (defined benefits) pension plan. That is the expectation today. I don't think you will be able to change that perception.

However I'm surprised to see you arguing for individualization. Well, 90% anyway. Tracking individuals and their specific contributions with your individual means testing. Individualization is the first step to privatization, or allowing individuals to direct how they want their contributions invested.


Horrified that Gary might think that I was arguing for privatization, I responded with:
Whoa Bessie!!! Whoa I say!!! Bad horsie!!!

Gary, I think you are reading more into what I posted than I meant. I'm not for changing the way we put money into Social Security. I'm just for changing the way we draw it out. If I am lucky enough, at age 65, to not need my social security dollars back, then I think there should be a law in place to keep me from drawing them. Will I want "my" money back in the form of social security payments in my retirement??? Sure!!! As I mentioned in a previous post, self-interest tends to trump altruism. That is why I would like to do the "BIG SELL" to all citizens and change the way we think about social security. After the "BIG SELL" perhaps we can enact a law that changes the way we draw money out.

I don't really understand what you mean by "individualization". I think I need more clarification on what that means before I can argue further on the topic of Social Security.


Meanwhile, Glenn gave an Australian perspective with:
Angela there is even a better way , do it the way we are . Then there is no government involvement and after 30 + years as the system starts to take effect you can get rid of the aged pension all togeather and save 15 % on your social security .
Where you went wrong was letting your gov make laws saving it can only be invested in government bonds .
Our government can't get there greedy little hands on ours yet , although the Liberal Party are trying to change things , pity it will be returnd back to what it was after we get rid off Abbott poor Liberal's


Gary was kind enough to clarify my confusion with:
Clarifying. Today they give you a so called benefits statement. It is actually just a record of your payments and an estimate if the world stays rosy what you might expect to receive. It isn't like say your 401(k) statement that goes on to detail what each of your payments did after the government received it, nor does it tell you the value of your account. If SS were individualized you would get a statement much more like you get for your 401(k). Of course this would fly in the face of your insurance, because the money in the pot would be yours, not the governments, to do with or waste and squander as it sees fit.

You see, once the accounts are individual accounts, so means testing can be accomplished, so called privatization is easy. The only step left is to allow you to decide where to place your money.

Now I realize you want to means test to see if a person should get any. Just be aware the tax code already has a version of that in place. There is a rather small floor amount of other income you can earn before those SS checks become taxable. Taking away some of the payout via taxes is somewhat the same as not giving it in the first place.


Cliff responded to Gary with:
I may be mistaken, but I think that only applies to those who are collecting SS but haven't reached full retirement age during that time. In my case, I was forced into retirement at the age of 66 and started collecting SS, along with my VA disability was/is my only income. With any wages that I did/would have earned above x amount, $1.00 for each $1.00 earned was/would have been deducted from my SS check until I reached the full retirement age of 70. After my birthday, this year, if I find suitable employment that would pay beyond x amount it will not affect my SS check in the negative. In other words, any money that I earn via wages, regardless of the amount is mine and does not affect my SS. Of course I will have to pay taxes on those wages. If I so desire I can even have SS taxes voluntarily taken out, which would then affect how much more my SS benefits will increase.

On the other hand if I made enough wages to decrease my SS benefits to much, I could at the time elect to stop my SS benefits until such time as I am no longer employed, then collect SS benefits again. I could to this only once a year. Regardless of which path I did/may have chose/may have chosen, I still paid SS taxes and those taxes would then be applied to my SS account, therefore increasing my monthly SS benefits.


Now we are all caught up. I hope that I have not missed anybody who gave a different viewpoint from something expressed above.

I'm hoping we can continue this discussion on the Social Security Crisis and Solutions here. I think that this topic needed its own thread and that is why I started one.

Everybody continue to be nice, please.
2121) Message boards : Politics : Liberal or Conservative? (Message 1702883)
Posted 18 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Ah, you missed it. Angela IRS said it was worth $20 million. That isn't the fire sale must be completed in 90 days when the tax is due price it will sell for. Megacorp isn't stupid. They know it has to be sold, a fire sale in fact. They low ball a number of $8 million and hope there are no other bidders. The brothers get nothing and still owe the tax woman $1 million each. So there goes all the family heirlooms on the auction block.

First of all, if it is a 20 million dollar business and the kids can't get a 10 million dollar loan with 20 million in collateral, then Joe didn't imbue them with his excellent business sense.

Second, the IRS would probably not hold them to a 90 day sales period. One year is more typical. The kids just shouldn't close the estate and they should get extensions as necessary.

Third, if the business sells for less than the IRS says it is worth, that is the valuation that would be used in determining the taxes.

But what do I know? I'm just the speech teacher...



Unemployment?! Obvious it has been a very long time since you have had to deal with that. How would you like to live on $180/week?! And now she is older and will face age discrimination when she looks for work.

Sad, I'll admit. I wish unemployment paid a reasonable amount for enough time for this employee to find a job. I wish we had a government that would enforce this. I wish we had a government that would prevent age discrimination. I vote accordingly.



I don't think it is the wealth that hurts, so much as the system allowing so much to be concentrated, which is what raising personal income taxes will help control. Otherwise you end up in a situation where what you own, isn't yours, it is the governments. While your estate tax only takes it upon the event of death, someone will argue that it should be taken upon other events or even every year or even every day. I just not sure about going down that path. And we did start down it with Ad valorem Property Taxes. And lest you forget they tax real estate and they also tax business property, like a laser printer.

Am I hearing you say that income is the only thing that should be taxed? I would argue the contrary, that wealth is the only measure of ability to pay taxes. That is why a progressive income tax was instituted because, in general, high income = high wealth. If there were a way to tax, based on net wealth, I would probably favor that over an income tax. The other advantage of a "wealth tax" on individuals is that it removes all business and corporate taxes because every business and corporation is ultimately owned by individuals (for example, stocks). So maybe we have some common ground here? If you don't want me to increase corporate taxes, then let's just tax wealth.



Well, the toilet paper companies do contribute to global warming by cutting down those forests to make paper, and we know how terrible the energy companies are. I'm sure those special taxes won't be too much.

The costs of global climate change are paid by us all out of the general tax fund, or by individuals in terms of medical bills, or by individuals in terms of unreimbursed property damage. So it is in our interest to stop causing it. Personally I favor a revenue neutral carbon tax where the taxes collected on fossil fuel extraction or import are redistributed in equal portions to citizens of the United States. Tax and spend at its finest!!! People who are poor don't use a lot of energy, because they cannot afford it, so they'll probably get back more than they spend. So will people who get off the grid. Win-win!!! (Al Gore will pay more. Poor baby.)

Welcome to my Liberal Utopia!!!


I've never quite figured out how a raise in wages does not cause a corresponding raise in prices.

The conservative assumption is that people who are poor already have all their needs met by their wages and that consumption by people who are poor is a significant part of the economy. This is not true. People who earn minimum wage often get government aid in addition (paid out of our taxes) because of their exceptionally low wages. Raise their wages. Sure there will be some minor price increases in industries where the dominant labor force is earning minimum wages (i.e. fast food) and labor is a large portion of the costs (i.e. not fast food). Since I cannot think of any industries where that is the case, perhaps the effect is not large?



I'm simply pointing out what should be obvious. Raising corporate taxes on companies that provide the necessities is as regressive as raising the sales tax on necessities. Actually it may be more so. Most sales taxes exempt necessities such as food and medicine from sales taxes. But if you raise corporate taxes you will raise taxes on these necessities.

Ok. You've convinced me. Let's replace corporate, business and income taxes with a tax on WEALTH. (See above)


I will deal with social security in a separate post, after I do some errands this morning and visit my mother this afternoon.
2122) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Some prayers in need!!! (Message 1702865)
Posted 18 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What a beautiful child!!!
2123) Message boards : Politics : Liberal or Conservative? (Message 1702729)
Posted 18 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I was wondering when you would show up.

Would you like a peach?
2124) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The celttooth thread ... Last day. Thanks all! (Message 1702713)
Posted 18 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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We had zuchini-onion-basil omelets.
2125) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Uli!!! (Message 1702690)
Posted 18 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Happy Birthday Ulibelle!!!
2126) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cajon Pass Fire (Message 1702686)
Posted 18 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Vic, that sounds very scary!!!

Wishing you well, friend.
2127) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #61 (Message 1702665)
Posted 18 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win!

Michael's interesting picture choice for the Caption Contest, and the many responses it generated, has set me thinking in new directions.

My friends, please caption this:
2128) Message boards : Politics : Liberal or Conservative? (Message 1702662)
Posted 18 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Ah well, time to start the backup.

Gary, my friend, isn't that really what this forum is really all about?


First of all, Gary, thank you for the time, effort and energy that you put into your post. I shall try to counter it as best I can.


Lets consider this from the perspective of an employee at Joe's Sole Proprietor. Joe started the company with a cash advance on his credit card. Over his lifetime he has expanded. He brought his two kids in the business 20 years ago and they have held every position in the company. Your work place has expanded from just Joe, you were his second employee, to now having 75 employees. For all this time you could just walk into the office and explain your problems to one of the family. Joe paid tax on every dime of his expansion. Joe has a heart attack and dies today. Angela IRS just showed up. She says the company is worth $20 million dollars. She is here to collect $10 million cash in estate tax. Now Joe was always fair, so he paid his two kids the same as any other employee. They don't have $10 million cash. They have no choice but to sell. Now a week later you are working for faceless megacorp. They don't have an onsite HR department, you have to make a phone call to another state and they already terminated the guy who did payroll as redundant. You have heard their bean counter is screaming about how much money the employees are making, way out of line with their other divisions. You know the house cleaning is coming and you are loosing your job.

Yes, by all means raise the estate tax.

Joe's two hard-working children just got five million apiece after Angela IRS showed up. That is certainly substantially more than Joe had when he started his business. Perhaps those kids will use their store of knowledge and their five million apiece to start their own companies now. Maybe, with their insider knowledge of the business, they will even find a way to compete with Faceless Megacorp. Or maybe they'll just move to Baja. Whatever...

Yes, Joe's valued employee has a less enjoyable job with Faceless Megacorp than she had when working for Joe. Perhaps she might even lose her job when Faceless Megacorp cleans house. This is why we have unemployment insurance.

In an attempt to minimize or eliminate entrenched wealth, I cannot think of a scenario in which NOBODY gets hurt, but I think that entrenched wealth hurts all of us more in the long run, so I lean towards eliminating it.



Ah, by all means jack that corporate tax rate on the food companies, the toilet paper companies, the landlords, the electric companies, the natural gas companies, the oil companies. Be absolutely sure in your belief that they wouldn't dream of passing on their higher expenses to their customers. After all they aren't greedy bastards out to milk the people for every dime, they are just wonderful altruistic people who will happily pay more tax.

Well, in my tax-and-spend utopia, fortunately, people have more money to spend on toilet paper, rent, electricity, natural gas and oil because wealth has been better distributed. I also haven't eliminated competition. (I hope!!!) All the toilet paper companies still have to compete with each other. Prices may go up, but there should be some natural competition that keeps them from going too high. I'm a tax-and-spend liberal, dude. That doesn't mean I've entirely eliminated capitalism.



Absolutely. Start with the mortgage interest deduction and the child care deduction and work outward from there. We are in agreement, all loopholes must end.

Ah but you forget, my friend, that in my tax-and-spend utopia such deductions may not even be necessary. Please remember that I am redistributing wealth. The mortgage interest deduction and child care deductions were put into place to help the middle class, but in my happy little world the middle class is doing GREAT now!!!



The USA is not the world's police officer. We can't care how terrible Mr. Dictator treats his loyal subjects anymore. He is free to rape and pillage. He is free to invade his weaker neighbor and engage in empire building and genocide. The USA doesn't care anymore and couldn't stop him even if they wanted to.

Gary please never accuse me, even obliquely, of not caring about raping, pillaging, invading, empire building and/or genocide. I didn't say that the USA should pull out of the United Nations or that we should cease, as a country, to use non-military interventions such as sanctions, investments and humanitarian aid. I just want us to be equal partners with other nations when intervention of a military nature is deemed absolutely necessary.



Angela, about fire insurance, do you feel the same way about your 401(k)? How about your IRA? Your bank account?

Of course not, because retirement accounts and banking accounts are SAVING DEVICES. I would like us to think of social security as an "insurance policy".

Unfortunately Mr. FDR and those that came after him didn't sell the Ponzi scheme of Social Security as insurance. They sold it as a mandatory government run (defined benefits) pension plan. That is the expectation today. I don't think you will be able to change that perception.

Yes. I know that is the expectation today. I also know that I will be unable to change that perception, but I would like to try. That is why I posted that fire insurance analogy.


However I'm surprised to see you arguing for individualization. Well, 90% anyway. Tracking individuals and their specific contributions with your individual means testing. Individualization is the first step to privatization, or allowing individuals to direct how they want their contributions invested.

Whoa Bessie!!! Whoa I say!!! Bad horsie!!!

Gary, I think you are reading more into what I posted than I meant. I'm not for changing the way we put money into Social Security. I'm just for changing the way we draw it out. If I am lucky enough, at age 65, to not need my social security dollars back, then I think there should be a law in place to keep me from drawing them. Will I want "my" money back in the form of social security payments in my retirement??? Sure!!! As I mentioned in a previous post, self-interest tends to trump altruism. That is why I would like to do the "BIG SELL" to all citizens and change the way we think about social security. After the "BIG SELL" perhaps we can enact a law that changes the way we draw money out.

I don't really understand what you mean by "individualization". I think I need more clarification on what that means before I can argue further on the topic of Social Security.
2129) Message boards : Politics : Liberal or Conservative? (Message 1702642)
Posted 17 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Umm. No. Ultruism doesn't exist. The biggest reason most people work their butts off to get so much money is to build a better life for their families, which is a purely selfish reason for sure. Take away that motivation, and you'll find less people interested in producing new ideas, and less production of wealth, which would less to less tax dollars coming in. (Note I did not say zero people).

Actually, there is an extensive psych. literature that shows that altruism does exist and there is evidence of its neurological underpinnings. The problem is that self-interest also exists, and it often trumps altruism. As a tax-and-spend liberal, I want to enact lots and lots of regulations and laws that "help" us to live up to our better natures.

And thank you for saying that one's self interest and the needs of one's family are not the sole driving forces in work-related motivation. Of course I agree with you there! A emergency room physician may work hard because she likes saving lives and stamping out disease. A software engineer may work hard because he enjoys competition. A scientist may work hard because she loves the thrill of discovery. A billionaire may work hard because he enjoys empire-building.

Please note that I did not say "eliminate inheritance and leave all your worthless offspring nothing." I said:
Find a reasonable level of "reward" for lucky birth lotto recipients and tax the living buh-jeebers out of the rest of the money.


I do not want to eliminate anyone's motivation to work, but on the other hand I do want to eliminate entrenched wealth... or at least minimize it.



ZOMG I HATE YOU SO MUCH NOW!!!! :-P ;-)

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I haven't had a chance to read and digest the other posts in this thread that have recently come in, but OzzFan, it sounds like we share some common ground and that we are ready to start changing the world.

Sigh.... If only we mattered. Wait a minute!!! We do. Every time we vote!

I always say that in a democracy, the citizens get the government that they DESERVE. Interpret that as you may...
2130) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cooking for real (Message 1702562)
Posted 17 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Monday, that soup looks delicious!!!

Okra is delicious in Indian curries.
2131) Message boards : Politics : Liberal or Conservative? (Message 1702560)
Posted 17 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Oh, I did learn that I better run my peaches through disinfectant and peal them unless I want some kid snot in my food.


LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I enjoyed ALL the responses to my peach monologue from all the different posters, but THIS line was my very favorite!!!


Ok Gary, bottom line is you want me to shrink the pie (...and possibly also ban children from grocery stores.)

As, apparently quite literally a "pie-in-the-sky" tax-and-spend liberal, you have accurately surmised that I want to shrink that pie as little as possible.

Here are my suggestions for tweaking our pie recipe.

1. Estate tax (AKA "the death tax') - up, up, up! Find a reasonable level of "reward" for lucky birth lotto recipients and tax the living buh-jeebers out of the rest of the money. (Increase in pie dish diameter)

2. Corporate taxes - up, up, up! Find a reasonable level of "reward" for corporations and tax the living buh-jeebers out of the rest of the money (Increase in pie dish diameter)

3. Tax shelters and loop-holes - close, close, close! Let's all try to live by the same rules, shall we? (Increase in pie dish diameter)

4. Defense spending - Please see Carlos' flag-draped world post in the Cafe. The USA is hated/feared all over the globe. Let's scale back some, shall we? (Decrease in pie dish diameter)

5. Ok.... #5... and this one is going to open a HUGE can of worms, especially since it is coming from a silly little addled-brain liberal like me (...and a tail-end baby-boomer, no less!!!) Social security is described as a "benefit". Let's treat it like a "benefit". If, in one's retirement, one does not NEED it, then one should not GET it. (Increase in pie dish diameter)

Yes, yes, yes... I know we all paid into it. I know it is "our" money. I know we all want it back. I know we all think we need it and we all think that we deserve it. I sure don't want to PRIVATIZE it, but I do want it restructured.

If your retirement income/savings is above a reasonable point, you shouldn't get that money back. If your retirement income/savings drops below that point, you may dip into social security again.

I know that I'm going to be up against the firing squad for posting this little suggestion, but look at it this way... I pay my fire insurance every year. I don't feel entitled to get THAT money back if my house doesn't burn down this year.

Sigh...

See what you've done now Gary???!!! You've made me alienate all my friends.
2132) Message boards : Politics : Liberal or Conservative? (Message 1702424)
Posted 17 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Yes, those slices need to be pared back. But to shrink the interest slice, instead of a 15" pie tin, you are going to need an 7" pie tin. That may be a bit abhorrent to a tax and spend liberal.

You bet!

Actually Gary, I share your concerns about the size of our national debt, what it does to us now and what it will do to future generations.

You didn't mention corporate tax rates. You didn't mention tax shelters and loop holes. I know someone who bought a slummy hotel once to avoid paying taxes that year. It was back in the 70's and I don't know if such behavior would still be legal now, but it made an impression on me as a child.

I wish I had an easy answer...
2133) Message boards : Politics : Liberal or Conservative? (Message 1702420)
Posted 17 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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That is an impossibility. Who will pay for the social "issues" when there is a high percentage of those on the dole who will not work or cannot find a job.

Socialism might only work in a homogeneous society where everyone has a work ethic and can find a job.


I am putting my response to this comment in a separate post because I think it needs to stand alone, as a separate issue.

Please define "will not work".

If I am a single mother of two children and the money I would make working full time at McDonald's does not cover the cost of even marginally acceptable daycare for my children, does it place me in the "will not work" category if I pass up a job working at McDonald's.

I do not think that most people who live in poverty are there because they "will not work" or because they lack work ethic. It is very, very, very hard to break out of the cycle of poverty.

If you are born into an impoverished household, the chances are very good that your caregiver(s) is/are under-educated. If your primary caregiver(s) is/are under-educated and under-resourced, you are at tremendous developmental risk.

The playing field is not level, from birth to grave.

Imagine, if you will, an 18 month old child in a shopping cart at the grocery store. We are imagining a cherubic 18 month old child of adequately resourced and adequately educated parents. This child is naturally curious. The child reaches out from the shopping cart seat to touch a peach. Mommy-Comfortably-Educated-And-Comfortably-Resourced simply beams upon observing her child's natural curiosity!!! With great enthusiasm she exclaims "Oh, it's a PEACH!!! It's fuzzy!!! Let's touch it. Feel how fuzzy it is? Let's smell it. It smells good. Let's buy some. One for mommy. One for daddy. One for Junior. We have three peaches in our bag - one for everybody in the family. What else should we buy for dinner?"

Holy-moley-macaroni!!! What just happened there???!!! Junior was rewarded for his curiosity. Junior received adult attention, which, turns out, is really really good for a developing brain. Junior got a really nice language lesson. Junior got a nice little math lesson. Junior even got a lesson in social-pragmatics when mommy showed him how to pick out a peach for everybody in his tiny little 18 month old world.

Now, imagine if you will, another 18 month old child in a shopping cart at the grocery store. This time we are imagining an equally cherubic 18 month old child of inadequately resourced and inadequately educated parents. This child is also naturally curious. The child reaches out from the shopping cart seat to touch a peach. Mommy-Under-Educated-And-Under-Resourced just got off work. She had spent the day cleaning other people's houses. She is physically and emotionally exhausted and she just wants to get home. She is annoyed when her child reaches for the peach. Peaches are just coming into season and they are too expensive to buy right now. Maybe she will buy some in a month, when the prices drop. She pushes her child's hand off the peach and says "Don't touch that!"

Bam! Lesson over. Natural curiosity not only stifled... it was punished!!! Minimal learning accomplished. No language lesson. No math lesson. No lesson in social pragmatics.

Fast forward a few years. Oh boy!!! It's time for pre-school!!!

The adequately educated and adequately resourced parents have just spent four months looking at glossy colored preschool brochures and visiting preschools in the area. They have decided, after much discussion and careful deliberation, to send Junior to Fuzzy Bunny Daycare. It is a lovely environment. The main preschool teacher has a Master's Degree in Child Development. The classroom aides are less educated, but very well trained. The classroom materials are cutting edge. There is a science corner. There is a music corner. There is a library corner. There is a beautiful, park-like, outdoor area. True to its name, Fuzzy Bunny Preschool even has a pet class bunny rabbit who is let out of his palatial cage to hop around the room during "quiet time", pooping here and there and wiggling his cute little bunny rabbit nose as the children pet him. Lucky Junior! Even cleaning up bunny poop is turned into an educational experience.

The child of inadequately resourced and inadequately educated parents goes to Head Start. It is the only affordable preschool option in the area.

Now I don't know if any of you have ever been in an Early Head Start or in a regular Head Start facility, but I have been in both. The materials are not bad, but the learning environment sucks.

Ok, I know that some states do Head Start better than California does. I know that some areas of California do Head Start better than Oakland and Berkeley do, but frankly, based on my first hand observations that were a part of my job as a hospital employee, I would not send my DOG into the Head Start programs I observed in Oakland and Berkeley.

Ok, fast forward again. Now it is time for grade school.

Oh please... need I go on??? The differences between a public school in a resourced area are very different from a public school in an under-resourced area. My eleven year old niece was recently in a play in her lovely resourced public school. It was phenomenal what the drama staff managed to pull off with these kids. Drama staff???!!! No under-resourced school has a "drama staff". There are so many kids desperately needing remedial work in core subjects that teachers in under-resourced schools can't be bothered with things like drama.

Ok, you all get my point (I hope).

The playing field is not level, from birth to grave.

Until the playing field is level, I cannot listen to charges like "will not work" and lacking "work ethic" without having a visceral reaction!!! Such charges nauseate me.

And don't tell me about exceptional individuals who have pulled themselves out of poverty. Of course they exist. These are exceptional people.

Children of resourced and educated parents are not required to be exceptional themselves to end up doing exceptional things in life. It just sort of works out that way. If you have had the encouragement and support to maximize your developmental potential from your time in the womb through college, guess what? You'll probably do fine.
2134) Message boards : Politics : Liberal or Conservative? (Message 1702402)
Posted 17 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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It used to be that Libertarians were more closely associated with Anarchists though.

The few libertarians I know tend to be in my age range (45-65 years). If you are correct and the definition of libertarianism has changed over time, then that is news to me, but thank you for your (as always) thoughtful response. Do we have any young libertarians amongst us to shed light on this issue?


That is an impossibility. Who will pay for the social "issues" when there is a high percentage of those on the dole who will not work or cannot find a job.

As a self-professed "tax and spend liberal", I would suggest that there is room for improvement in the USA tax code to encourage improved distribution of wealth. Also, as a "tax and spend liberal", I would like to look at how my tax dollars are spent. Last time I checked, "defense" got a very large chunk of my tax dollars. Perhaps it is time to revisit that?
2135) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #61 (Message 1702375)
Posted 17 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Spoiler Alert: It was his sled.
2136) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #61 (Message 1702372)
Posted 17 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Roses are red
Sometimes they're pink
I'm thirsty
Won't somebody buy me a drink?
2137) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #61 (Message 1702370)
Posted 17 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Theiss Titillation Theory; Origins
2138) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1702324)
Posted 16 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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L'Alliance Francophone, what's that under your porch???!!!
2139) Message boards : Politics : Liberal or Conservative? (Message 1702281)
Posted 16 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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... No one said the fear center wasn't without value or merit. ...

Point well made.


This quite funny to me, because this is how I see myself. Yet your recent posts to me indicate you believe me to be 100% liberal when in fact I identify more with Libertarianism (with a few notable exceptions).

The few libertarians I know personally are lovely people who, I believe, mistakenly assume that the rest of us are naturally just as lovely as they are themselves.

I'm actually quite serious about this. The libertarians I know donate generously to those in need, treat others with respect and dignity, give freely of their time and talents doing volunteer work and generally work each day to make this world a better place. The error of their ways is that they think that all the rest of us roll that way too.

Wouldn't it be nice if there were no laws requiring the redistribution of wealth, because everyone just gave freely until there were no more people in need?

Wouldn't it be nice if people were so decent to one another in their business relationships that a a free-market economy policed itself perfectly?

Wouldn't it be nice if there were no laws requiring us to behave decently to one another, because everyone was just naturally decent to his fellow man?

You may sign me up for your Libertarian Utopia, but I am not at all sure I would pass the entrance requirements...
2140) Message boards : Politics : Liberal or Conservative? (Message 1702273)
Posted 16 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Now, now gentlemen... where would our species be without a fear center?

Extinct, I believe.


In the words of Dolly Levi, the delightful character from the musical Hello Dolly: "Money, pardon the expression, is like manure. It's not worth a thing unless it's spread around, encouraging young things to grow."
2141) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The next Mod rotation (Message 1702196)
Posted 16 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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And don't ban Eric!!!

If a ban vote on Eric succeeded, it would be more than two weeks before he even noticed!


Though I am fairly certain that Admins cannot be banned, never seen the underside of this forum software.

Except he was once in the distant past. Obviously he also has the root password so ....

LOL!!! Eric shares a once-banned status with somebody else I know...
2142) Message boards : Politics : Liberal or Conservative? (Message 1702165)
Posted 16 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Oh boy!!! I can't wait to tell my conservative family that my liberal lifestyle is not a "choice"!!!
2143) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The next Mod rotation (Message 1702157)
Posted 16 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Now, now Young Lady, just don't be tempted to bring any "marital discord" into your moderation of your husband; on the other hand it could be quite entertaining to be sat on the sidelines of such an event - just give us forewarning so we can book seats ;-)

I am sorry to disappoint, but Eric and I rarely disagree on issues. You may wait a very, very, very long time before seeing any evidence of marital discord...
2144) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Some prayers in need!!! (Message 1701978)
Posted 16 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Welcome home, Baby Luis!!!
2145) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1701954)
Posted 15 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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News Flash!!!

Australia has been over-run by raccoons!!!

Read all about it on the Team Statistics Page






Raccoon Lovers are currently #7.

Look out L'Alliance Francophone.
Raccoons may just be heading in your direction...



All are welcome to join us.
2146) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Pluto will always be a Planet to me (Message 1701809)
Posted 15 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Here's the real scientific analysis of Pluto:

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2147) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1701807)
Posted 15 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Blow baby Luis a big loving kiss from all of us here!
2148) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The celttooth thread ... Last day. Thanks all! (Message 1701806)
Posted 15 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Great news on the medical front and congratulations on the bargains!
2149) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The next Mod rotation (Message 1701805)
Posted 15 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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And don't ban Eric!!!

If a ban vote on Eric succeeded, it would be more than two weeks before he even noticed!
2150) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The next Mod rotation (Message 1701546)
Posted 15 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Thanks are due, not only to the moderators stepping down, but to all of our past moderators. And thank you too to the seasoned moderators who are staying on a bit longer. I appreciate the orientation and support.
2151) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bad Joke Thread (Message 1701513)
Posted 14 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
ANODE whatcha mean, Vic...
2152) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bad Joke Thread (Message 1701510)
Posted 14 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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The Energizer Bunny was arrested: Charged with battery.

Groan!!! That one is a hard CELL...

That's depleting..

And reVOLTing!!!
2153) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bad Joke Thread (Message 1701498)
Posted 14 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The Energizer Bunny was arrested: Charged with battery.

Groan!!! That one is a hard CELL...
2154) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1701312)
Posted 14 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Win...

Really?

Are you quite sure?
2155) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 1701222)
Posted 13 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I have it on good authority (and I am delighted to report) that Mister Sparky is just taking a little break from the internet right now, and that he plans to return here and elsewhere. We all need to unplug from time to time...
2156) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #61 (Message 1700980)
Posted 13 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Buster looks at Fifi through beer goggles...
2157) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats (Message 1700976)
Posted 13 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Eva watches t.v. also. I once saw her take a swipe at Martha Stewart's stirring spoon.
2158) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person to Post Here Wins #241 : The end is here (Message 1700975)
Posted 13 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I was raised Catholic as well.

Why this very Sunday morning I was at Saint Mattress!!!
2159) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The joke thread Part 4. (Message 1700718)
Posted 12 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ghosts rarely participate in sports, but they do like to watch sports.
Yes... they definitely prefer to be spectretaters.
2160) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The joke thread Part 4. (Message 1700673)
Posted 12 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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And it is a well known fact that ghosts always ask if menu items are organic. They like things super natural.
2161) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The joke thread Part 4. (Message 1700672)
Posted 12 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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If they're out of spookhetti, a ghost will alternatively order Hungarian Ghoulash.
2162) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The joke thread Part 4. (Message 1700671)
Posted 12 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ghost entree "Spookhetti"
2163) Message boards : Cafe SETI : SETI@Home Wow!-Event 2015 (Message 1700661)
Posted 12 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoon Lovers are looking forward to this event.
2164) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #83 (Message 1700660)
Posted 12 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Grandma
2165) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #240 - K-9?? - Carlos found him. :-) (Message 1700659)
Posted 12 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Carlos, and I hope that your "kid emergency" was not too serious.
2166) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The joke thread Part 4. (Message 1700657)
Posted 12 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What does a ghost order at a restaurant....???

Spare Ribs!



Really? I would have guessed "boooooooberry pie"
2167) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Omar Sharif has died... (Message 1700386)
Posted 11 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
2168) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #240 - K-9?? - Carlos found him. :-) (Message 1700305)
Posted 10 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow, you could cook a
whole deer in that!

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2169) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #240 - K-9?? - Carlos found him. :-) (Message 1700298)
Posted 10 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
She's a beauty, Vic, but I think you over-estimate the modernity of my kitchen.
2170) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #240 - K-9?? - Carlos found him. :-) (Message 1700290)
Posted 10 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pardon me, good sir, but I believe that win is mine...
2171) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The celttooth thread ... Last day. Thanks all! (Message 1700289)
Posted 10 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I do not know why, but I
feel a little better today..

Wishing you an increasing trend here.
2172) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #240 - K-9?? - Carlos found him. :-) (Message 1700265)
Posted 10 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That picture of Grace in your baking dish is adorable!!!
2173) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Various thoughts and thingys from the kittyman.......volume 2. (Message 1700246)
Posted 10 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I think you should............
For if you know nothing in war and warfare.........
I only arouse your curiosity so you arise your hear above the horizon that I may get a better shot next time.

I seldom ask twice, dear.

GET DOWN.



Mark, a public post is an invitation to public comment.

You bluster and strut and swagger and threaten with appalling regularity. I responded with the very mildest of wry comments. And look!!! It made you stick your lower lip out so far I could use it as a shelf for knick-knacks!!!
2174) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #240 - K-9?? - Carlos found him. :-) (Message 1700083)
Posted 10 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The TARDIS's kitchen is fully stocked; so, those that crave midnight snacks, or want to delve into the art of souffle making - have at it. :-)

Awesome!!! I blew three thermal fuses on my oven and it won't be repaired until the 17th. I'm definitely making souffles in that TARDIS tonight!!!

It's going to take a WEEK to replace those fuses? Did they have to be special-ordered? Or is there more to it than just blown fuses - like a dead convection fan? Oh, how I hated working on the convection ovens on the boats - especially the older ones, with fiberglass-coated asbestos-insulated wires........

Winning without faulty kitchen equipment.


I initially had to wait a week for the first service call. The repair technician told me I had blown three fuses and that he would have to order them for me. He then told me fuse replacement is the most common repair on my model of oven... which made me wonder why in the heck the company I am using doesn't keep a big box full of thermal fuses in every truck in their repair fleet. Anyway, the fuses arrived in today's mail. The next available appointment was not until the 17th. By the time my oven is repaired I will have gone nearly three weeks without baking. It's killing me!!!
2175) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #240 - K-9?? - Carlos found him. :-) (Message 1700079)
Posted 10 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The fuses were all within my ovens - one on the control panel and two from behind the top oven.
2176) Message boards : Politics : Damned hard to be a Christian these days.......... (Message 1700077)
Posted 10 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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The happy medium would not give tax breaks to religions, so that the government never has to decide is a particular practice is a religion and hence tax free, or weigh in on what isn't a religion and hence taxed.

Gary, you have hit upon one of my favorite pet peeves. Religion is big business in our country and until that day of glorious tax reform, all are invited to join me for services in my favorite house of worship - The Church Of Perfect Tax Evasion.

Churches have enjoyed tax free status in the USA for far too long, but I cringe at the thought of untangling it. Most people, for example, would want a soup kitchen run by a church to retain its tax-free status. Sure you could pass a law requiring churches to spin off their charitable work for tax-free status, and tax the church on the rest of its income, but then you would get into having to operationally define exactly what constitutes "charitable work".

Defining "charitable work" is nearly as hard as defining "religion".

What a can of worms!!!
2177) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #240 - K-9?? - Carlos found him. :-) (Message 1700073)
Posted 10 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The TARDIS's kitchen is fully stocked; so, those that crave midnight snacks, or want to delve into the art of souffle making - have at it. :-)

Awesome!!! I blew three thermal fuses on my oven and it won't be repaired until the 17th. I'm definitely making souffles in that TARDIS tonight!!!
2178) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 1700072)
Posted 10 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
May we all be united under one flag one day...

The flag of Earth
2179) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 1700067)
Posted 10 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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An interesting and genuinely disturbing map, Carlos.

In 2013 I would believe it to be quite plausible and I fear minimal change if that question were asked today.

Given recent cyber attacks back and forth, I would expect the flag of China to be draped over the USA in 2015, instead of the flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

And given the current situation in Greece, I would expect to temporarily see a German flag over that country right now, instead of the stars and stripes... at least until the current economic crises there is sporting a new band-aid.

I would expect to see lots of Russian flags popping up now in former Soviet states.

I fear for the survival of our species.

Peace on earth.
2180) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1700060)
Posted 10 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My minions!!!
2181) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Various thoughts and thingys from the kittyman.......volume 2. (Message 1700059)
Posted 10 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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And, if I suddenly disappear................do not immediately panic.

I do not think that "panic" is what most of us would experience.
2182) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The celttooth thread ... Last day. Thanks all! (Message 1700033)
Posted 10 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I used to know the words to "To Anacreon in Heaven", the tune used for the Star-Spangled Banner. But you'll have a tough time getting me drunk enough to actually sing it...

Do let us know when you will next be in the Bay Area. I love a good challenge!!!
2183) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #240 - K-9?? - Carlos found him. :-) (Message 1700026)
Posted 10 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2184) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #61 (Message 1700005)
Posted 10 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric, when he goes to a conference with Carl.
2185) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Eric!!! (Message 1699996)
Posted 10 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Vitamin C via mimosa?

Ol' Pookers hates tomatoes, but for those who don't, a Bloody Mary will also do the trick.
2186) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Eric!!! (Message 1699835)
Posted 9 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Yes I do seem to recall that a slightly alcoholic start to the day is not that unusual in the Bay Area :-)

Thank god!


Brunch is just not brunch without something er... uh... celebratory.
2187) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 1699834)
Posted 9 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now then my Fair lady, and friend, I think we can Doo Little about it:))

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2188) Message boards : Politics : Damned hard to be a Christian these days.......... (Message 1699833)
Posted 9 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I'm not a believer in the "big guy upstairs", but his book still gets a lot of press. In fact, it wasn't difficult at all to find this lovely website:

http://www.openbible.info/topics/social_justice

Wishing you well in your journey, Mark.
2189) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The celttooth thread ... Last day. Thanks all! (Message 1699750)
Posted 9 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I flew to Puerto Rico with Eric once and when the plane landed, people clapped. It was just an ordinary landing. There was nothing tricky or scary about it. Apparently it was just the local custom to applaud landings.

So it would not surprise me if Canadians used to sing after movies.
2190) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #61 (Message 1699668)
Posted 8 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
On patrol for toddlers without swim diapers...
2191) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 1699661)
Posted 8 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A dedication to my friend Chris, and to fuddy-duddies of all stripes!

Henry Higgins' lament
2192) Message boards : Politics : Damned hard to be a Christian these days.......... (Message 1699625)
Posted 8 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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My question is this - If we are guaranteed the freedom of religion, are we not also guaranteed the freedom from religion?

Building (and I would argue maintaining) "a wall of separation between church and state" (Jefferson's words) protects both those who practice religion and those who do not.

All of us who are for the separation of church and state are on the same team, whether we have the gift of faith, or not.
2193) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Eric!!! (Message 1699620)
Posted 8 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Eric finished the last slice for breakfast this morning. I'm sure the rum syrup helped him better enjoy all the meetings on his schedule today.
2194) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 1699618)
Posted 8 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar was a basic prerequisite to use the English language properly. ...


I might have said "correct spelling, punctuation and grammar WERE basic prerequisites to using the English language properly..." (But I hate to be a stickler.)
2195) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1699423)
Posted 8 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Yes. Those are capers. They are the pickled buds of a caper bush.

Eric and I cook with capers frequently. They are great in a wine-lemon-butter pan sauce made after pan-frying petrale sole. They are also an essential ingredient in the classic salad Crab Louie. Capers go very well atop bagels with cream cheese and smoked salmon, as pictured. The acidity of the capers is refreshing in contrast to the fatty luxuriousness of cream cheese and lox. Fried capers make a nice crunchy garnish to fish as well.
2196) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 1699414)
Posted 8 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Why why why did they have to make the your/you're error?

Normally I am not a spelling stickler, but in this case I entirely agree.
2197) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Eric!!! (Message 1699413)
Posted 8 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now there is a cake from a truly loving wife.

LOL!!!

Eric's REAL birthday cake was a triple layer chocolate torte, soaked in rum syrup, layered with lightly sweetened whipped cream and covered all over with milk chocolate curls.
2198) Message boards : Politics : Damned hard to be a Christian these days.......... (Message 1699372)
Posted 7 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2199) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #61 (Message 1699340)
Posted 7 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Twenty four hours and 10+ captions - time to declare a winner...

While never an easy task, this time choosing a winner was positively excruciating because of the super-abundance of really, really, really clever answers.

Honorable Mention goes to rob smith with: "Will I need to wear a mask?"

Tied for third place are Lynn with: "I did the math. We can't afford the Raccoon." and dg6580004 with: 'Smokey' and 'The Bandit'.......

Tied for second place are Carlos with: "Erick and Angela in an altered reality." and Admiral Gloval with: "I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that."

First place, by a raccoon whisker, is Bill Walker with: "He followed me home. Can we keep him? (Could be the dog or the raccoon speaking.)"

PM going out to our winner now...
2200) Message boards : Politics : Damned hard to be a Christian these days.......... (Message 1699335)
Posted 7 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Heres an Idea. Make it a law that all businesses, Must post a sign as to who they will serve.
Lets see how long the ones who will not serve some humans stay in business.
Social media is a powerfull force. ...


You know Jim, getting the word out and then just letting market forces rule was my initial thought on this issue as well... until I began to think about Eric's home town.

I grew up in a bustling urban area - Oakland, CA. Eric grew up in an isolated and sparsely populated rural area - Cornucopia, WI. There are lots of bakeries and there is lots of natural market competition in Oakland. The same just isn't true in Cornucopia.

In Cornucopia there is one coffee shop where the owners bake and serve small goodies, like cookies and scones. They do not make those towering behemoths we call wedding cakes. My sister-in-law Jodi's wedding cake came from a bakery in Lake Nebagamon, almost 50 miles away from her wedding in Cornucopia. My sister-in-law Jessica served "wedding pie" at her reception - partly because good wedding cakes are hard to come by in that area and partly because strawberry pie is DELICIOUS!!! Our oldest niece, Rachel, got married in the area two years ago. Her wedding cake came out of somebody's home kitchen.

With bakeries few and very far between, a bride's choices are pretty limited in rural areas of our country. Social media and natural market forces probably wouldn't have the same impact on a rural bakery that practiced discrimination, compared to the impact that social media and natural market forces might have on an urban bakery located in an already competitive market.

I'm glad we have unifying laws regarding discrimination, rather than relying on social media and natural market forces.
2201) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1699315)
Posted 7 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Yes. It looks like this and it tastes delicious!!!

Although more traditionally a breakfast or brunch dish, Eric and I frequently enjoy bagels with lox (or even more often bagels with smoked salmon) for dinner. Good lox is available in some delicatessens out here. Decent smoked salmon can be found in most supermarkets out here.
2202) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Summer is coming (Message 1699124)
Posted 6 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We have an ice cream truck that frequents our suburban neighborhood. I find it charming.
2203) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How Old are You compared to what this photo website says you are? (Message 1699123)
Posted 6 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
None of my pix worked, but one said "He has returned!"

Methuselah, is that you?
2204) Message boards : Politics : Damned hard to be a Christian these days.......... (Message 1699094)
Posted 6 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I Remember 'SomeOne' posting About a 'Hissy Fit' One Had 'bout Not Getting A CheeseBurger, due to A Coupon Not Honored.

Dat Person, Who Ever Dey Beez, was 'Fighting Mad' and Quite Gave 'it' to The Counter Person.

Yep, Pick DEM Battles. Only The Important Ones.


LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dear troll, I stand justly accused. You may add gluttony to my list of sins.
2205) Message boards : Politics : Damned hard to be a Christian these days.......... (Message 1699067)
Posted 6 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In my opinion, the couple's proper course of action would have been to quietly depart the religious baker's place of business and find another that would serve them. There are plenty of us old heathens out there that would be proud to bake and decorate a cake for them. Their money is just as green as anyone else's.

Would you have said the same to the Woolworth Counter-sitters?

There are those of us who lead and those of us who follow. I wish I were brave enough to lead, but alas I am a sheep.

I, too, probably would have caved and found another bakery. I am just not a fighter. But in the long run I am so grateful that there are people out there who are unafraid of confrontation. They are the true force behind social change and I admire them for their strength of character.
2206) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #61 (Message 1699057)
Posted 6 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.


My dear friends, please caption this:
2207) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Things that make you feel good..... (Message 1698906)
Posted 6 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
New socks. :~)

+1 - the fuzzy kind!!!
2208) Message boards : Cafe SETI : July 6th is Vic's Birthday!!! (Message 1698832)
Posted 6 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY VIC!!!
2209) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #61 (Message 1698831)
Posted 6 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud.
2210) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bad Joke Thread (Message 1698829)
Posted 6 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Do know what they call the undead in railroad terms? A Locomotive...

I don't get it.
2211) Message boards : Politics : Damned hard to be a Christian these days.......... (Message 1698806)
Posted 5 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...Don't PISS OFF Da Left....

My dear troll, please know that we lefties staunchly defend your right to stand up and vomit whatever hateful speech you should happen to spew forth from that orifice you call mouth. In fact, I have a current ACLU card to prove it.

You're welcome.

Just know that we reserve the right to challenge you when your hate exceeds the boundaries of good taste and we reserve the right to prosecute you when your hate exceeds the boundaries of civil liberty. I have a current Southern Poverty Law Center membership and a current Americans United For Separation of Church and State membership to prove that too.
2212) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1698798)
Posted 5 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoons really have had that "it-factor" since that sci-fi movie came out. Nice to be on the leading edge of what is trendy, for once in my life.
2213) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Some prayers in need!!! (Message 1698794)
Posted 5 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sending you our love, Mike, and our very best wishes for your grandson's full and speedy recovery.
2214) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1698745)
Posted 5 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


We're Number 8!!!
2215) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 1698739)
Posted 5 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How do you tall men fit in that tiny plane???!!!
2216) Message boards : Politics : Damned hard to be a Christian these days.......... (Message 1698737)
Posted 5 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I would strongly suspect that the BUSINESS license held by the owners of this bakery prohibits discrimination when it comes to serving the public. The bakery owners appear to have practiced discrimination and they are now paying the penalty for violating the terms of their BUSINESS license.
2217) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Eric!!! (Message 1698582)
Posted 5 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How do YOU get away with it?

I don't take myself so seriously...
2218) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bad Joke Thread (Message 1698563)
Posted 4 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Two pieces of string walk into a bar and the bartender looks at them suspiciously. He says "Sorry, boys, we don't serve your kind here." So the pieces of string walk out again.

They're sitting in the gutter outside and feeling really thirsty when one piece of string says, "Hey! I've got an idea to get me into the bar."

So he starts twisting and turning, wriggling this way and that, pulling out a few threads here and there. His friend, looking at him, thinks he has gone completely nuts.

Then the first piece of string walks back into the bar. The bartender looks at him a little suspiciously again and says "Hey, you're not a bit of string, are you?"

The piece of string replies "Nope, I'm a frayed knot."
2219) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Eric!!! (Message 1698562)
Posted 4 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A little eye candy http://www.fiftyshadesofmen.net/

Bleh. Not really what I was looking for back in my salad days, nor anything I find particularly appealing now.

I like big brains and I cannot lie...
2220) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Eric!!! (Message 1698518)
Posted 4 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh... so Angela is older than he is then.....

Quite the cougar ....


Yes, I am about three years older than Ol' Pookers.
2221) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Eric!!! (Message 1698390)
Posted 4 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...but you taught her how to keep the project running in your 'spare time'?

Oh please. Who do you think taught Eric in the first place???!!!
2222) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Intergalactic Quotes (Message 1698318)
Posted 4 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
“Now I understand,” said the last man.”

Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End
2223) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Eric!!! (Message 1698077)
Posted 3 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Happy Birthday Eric!!!
2224) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 1697801)
Posted 2 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
http://driveinmovie.com/CA.htm
2225) Message boards : Cafe SETI : You're driving me buggy! (or, don't post bugs in my thread thread) (Message 1697500)
Posted 2 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That's the biggest bug I've ever seen and on your finger too.

Well Vic, not everybody shares the antipathy you feel towards members of Class Insecta...
2226) Message boards : Cafe SETI : You're driving me buggy! (or, don't post bugs in my thread thread) (Message 1697495)
Posted 2 Jul 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That truly is a magnificent insect, Sue.
2227) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday TimeLord04!!! (Message 1697142)
Posted 30 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2228) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1697051)
Posted 30 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I was holding my breath!

Me too!!!

The litters I've seen mama raccoons bring into our backyard have ranged from one to five kits, with the most typical litter sizes being three to four kits. I wonder where her other babies are hidden.
2229) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hello Everyone! (Message 1696768)
Posted 29 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2230) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Intergalactic Quotes (Message 1696545)
Posted 28 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"Oh freddled gruntbuggly thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.

Groop I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes.
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
see if I don't!"

(Vogon Poetry)
2231) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Intergalactic Quotes (Message 1695814)
Posted 26 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
These are not the droids you are looking for.
2232) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The celttooth thread ... Last day. Thanks all! (Message 1695758)
Posted 26 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you comfort and peace, friend.
2233) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Intergalactic Quotes (Message 1695720)
Posted 25 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"Life clocks are a lie! Carousel is a lie! THERE IS NO RENEWAL!"
2234) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Intergalactic Quotes (Message 1695652)
Posted 25 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's life Jim, but not as we know it.
2235) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1695651)
Posted 25 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well done Donald.

Thanks. Hope it is actual progress and not just water loss due to 100+F temps lately. And next week, I'll be running the Fireworks sales booth for my American Legion post. Independence Day celebrations, even in this heat......


Wow! How is that even legal??? With this terrible drought and all the dry, dry, dry open spaces in the valley, I am shocked to hear that your county is allowing private fireworks displays. Sounds like a really bad idea to me.
2236) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1695339)
Posted 25 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I refrained from feeding the raccoons in the state park. It wasn't easy though...

WOW, a card carrying member of Raccoons Anonymous.
Your slogan is I will not feed the raccoons today.

LOL!!!

Actually, I'm home now and Tiny Tim will be expecting his dinner this evening. I don't have any grapes for him, but I think he will enjoy a small scoop of catfood.
2237) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Intergalactic Quotes (Message 1695337)
Posted 25 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"Of course it is. For the simple reason that no one else will ever build a place like this. Humans share one unique quality: they build communities. If the Narns or the Centauri or any other race built a station like this, it would be used only by their own people. But everywhere Humans go, they create communities out of diverse, and sometimes hostile, populations. It is a great gift and a terrible responsibility--one that cannot be abandoned."
- Delenn
2238) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Intergalactic Quotes (Message 1695335)
Posted 25 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"The avalanche has begun. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."
Kosh
2239) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1695334)
Posted 25 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I refrained from feeding the raccoons in the state park. It wasn't easy though...
2240) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1694907)
Posted 23 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi from a state park along the Central Coast, where Eric and I are currently attending a family reunion. Last night when Eric and I were walking from one family member's cabin quarters down to ours, we saw two wild raccoons.

Dang! I didn't know that raccoons could be that skinny!!!
2241) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1693767)
Posted 20 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I, too, feel sorry for that drunken raccoon. It is not the fault of the animal that it got a hold of something it should not have had.
2242) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 1693766)
Posted 20 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
All my hair seems to be falling out....


Thinking of you often and wishing you peace and comfort, friend.
2243) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1691094)
Posted 14 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

When we look in mirrors, this is what we see.

Join Raccoon Lovers and find your inner raccoon.
2244) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Relay for Life 2015 (Message 1691059)
Posted 14 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...broke my all-time high fundraising record for Relay

That is really AWESOME Blurf!!!
2245) Message boards : News : Eric Korpela on UFOs and Conspiracy Theories (Message 1691041)
Posted 14 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just waiting for a starring role in "The Seti Wives"...

Spoiler Alert: Just like in "The Stepford Wives", we're all robots!!!
2246) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 1690910)
Posted 13 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hehehehehe

The stupid outfit that I worked for for 25 years went through an ill advised USA expansion phase. We suffered Directors arriving from the red eye from New York, turning up to Board meetings in slacks and open neck shirts, just because the Yanks did. The next "innovation" was "Dress down Fridays".

A total and utter disaster!! USA business ethics just about says it all about the state that America is in today.

Yeah, lets have "Bring your Gerbil to work day", why not? It might have more sense than your boss :-)))



2247) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1690907)
Posted 13 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hehehe :)


That is hilarious! I love the sensible walking shorts!!!
2248) Message boards : News : Eric Korpela on UFOs and Conspiracy Theories (Message 1690712)
Posted 13 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The star of that youtube clip is the cutest thing I've ever seen on the internet... and I watch lots of cute raccoon videos.
2249) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1690706)
Posted 13 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gentlemen/ladies -- Much as I enjoyed the first Pun War, perhaps that
approach won't work when trying to include Chris, Julie, et al.

A suggestion: Split puns into two threads -- Regular puns, and Pun War
types. With the former, folks can add their wit, as their schedules permit,
and catapult their puns, en mass -- each in a camp -- in their own wars.

What sayest, thee?


Sounds like fun to me. Sorry to have arrived so late this evening.

Perhaps we might battle another time...
2250) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 1690581)
Posted 12 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Exit, pursued by a bear...
2251) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Facebook says today is Julie's birthday (Message 1690580)
Posted 12 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Happy belated birthday, Miz Julie!!! I hope you had a wonderful day.
2252) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1688284)
Posted 5 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoons... amongst the Top Ten Invaders... and in the Top Ten at Seti



And YOU are most welcome to join us!!!
2253) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1687891)
Posted 5 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Esme, I am so happy that your little guy is ok.

Wishing you the very best of luck in your search for Sauron.
2254) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1687595)
Posted 4 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh dear. I hope that Sauron comes home soon. Hopefully she is just out having a little kitty adventure.
2255) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1687586)
Posted 4 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Opossums are good.

http://www.inquisitr.com/2106782/opossums-the-unsung-heroes-against-lyme-disease-and-other-tick-borne-diseases/


Awesome!!!
2256) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 1687348)
Posted 3 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The Beauty of Gray Hair (Gray and Proud) :)

Love it!!! Thank you!!!

I don't have a Facebook Account, but I think that I just might create one when I have some time, just to join the Gray and Proud group!!!
2257) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cooking for real (Message 1687234)
Posted 3 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric is out of town at a conference, so tonight I made myself a little dish I shall call "Rummage In The Refrigerator Surprise".

First I went into the backyard and picked a zucchini. I sliced it and sauteed it in olive oil, butter and salt. I covered the pan for a couple of minutes just to soften the slices of zucchini a little. I then uncovered the pan and added a rib of celery, diced, for crunch, and I sauteed that for about 30 seconds. I threw in some left-over cooked wild rice and tossed it around with the vegetables. I threw in some white wine to deglaze the pan and simultaneously steam the rice hot through as the alcohol evaporated out of the pan. I took the pan off heat and tossed the contents with a chiffonade of basil leaves. I topped the dish with grated Parmigianno Reggiano cheese for richness. Let's just say it was sort of a midwestern mock-risotto. The texture was all wrong for risotto because wild rice is not creamy like delicious arborio rice that has been cooked slowly in wine and stock. Still, the flavor combination wasn't bad for left-overs.
2258) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 1687231)
Posted 3 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The host was Steve Harvey.

I wish I could figure out how to complain to the producer of The Family Feud. I googled the show's home page but didn't see a "contact us" link.
2259) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 1687109)
Posted 2 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't know where this goes, but I hope it goes viral.

I was eating lunch in front of the tv today and I happened across what I can only assume is "The 24 Hour A Day Family Feud Channel."

One hundred people surveyed, top seven answers on the board...

Name something about a woman that might cause a man not to recognize his high school sweetheart at their 25 year class reunion.

The contestant said, and I quote, "She done got ugly". When the contestant said that, the judges allowed the #2 answer to be flipped over. The number two answer was "she has gray hair".

As far as I'm concerned, "she done got ugly" and "she has gray hair" are NOT in any way, shape or form equivalent!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How incredibly infuriating!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How incredibly insulting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Family Feud owes every one of us proud gray women an apology.

#The Family Feud is dead to me now
2260) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #239 - ORIGINALITY! (Message 1686836)
Posted 2 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mary Poppins you ain't though..

2261) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #239 - ORIGINALITY! (Message 1686775)
Posted 1 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious win..

Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious win...
2262) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #60 (Message 1686774)
Posted 1 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Earthling puhleeze!!! Back off. My species doesn't have lungs.
2263) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1686448)
Posted 1 Jun 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am bowing out for about six months, but I wish everyone else the best success.
2264) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 1686355)
Posted 31 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No thread is complete without a raccoon...
2265) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #239 - ORIGINALITY! (Message 1686353)
Posted 31 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Purring gently after a decent bit of stake :-)

2266) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Now I've seen everything (Message 1686348)
Posted 31 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Why do old men always smell of Old Spice aftershave? It was introduced in the 1930's and and you can still buy it!

My dad used to use Old Spice aftershave and Eric uses Old Spice deodorant. Perhaps men wear that fragrance because it is pleasant? At least, I find it so... So, I might add, do the cats. Both of our indoor cats like to roll around in Eric's shirts after he has worn them. Fortunately for the cats, Eric appears to be unaware that this invention called "a laundry hamper" exists, so the cats are often able to enjoy shirt-encounters.
2267) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1686347)
Posted 31 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A cute baby and a cute sloth. It doesn't get any better.

Hmmmmmmm... I think that I have a picture or two of Eric holding our youngest niece that could also be entitled "A cute baby and a cute sloth."
2268) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1685942)
Posted 30 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2269) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1685940)
Posted 30 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Knights of the Round Table
2270) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1685938)
Posted 30 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2271) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1685937)
Posted 30 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I also concede.

All hail Celttooth, King of Punlandia.
2272) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1685933)
Posted 30 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It seems that I can do nothing to REIGN you in...
2273) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1685931)
Posted 30 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The pun wave has CRESTED and left me high and dry.
2274) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1685927)
Posted 30 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well... I hate to CAMPAIGN, but this is a narrow topic and I'm nearly out of puns.
2275) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1685925)
Posted 30 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think I need to study more with my punning TUDOR...
2276) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1685921)
Posted 30 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And you could end up being sued in COURT!!!
2277) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1685916)
Posted 30 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hope you have a good health insurance plan for the pun injuries I'll be inflicting. I hope you have HealthNet or Kaiser or maybe blueSHIELD...
2278) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1685913)
Posted 30 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I just enjoy CASTLEing you...
2279) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1685910)
Posted 30 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think that when I'm done with you, you will end up older and VISOR.
2280) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1685906)
Posted 30 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Where are the lady punsters this evening??? There is too strong a MAIL presence here!
2281) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1685904)
Posted 30 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Of CORESELET we are not out of anything this early in the game!!!

edit: I misspelled that... make it CORSELET
2282) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1685902)
Posted 30 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll have you sinking in QUIXOTIC sand before the end of this pun war!!!
2283) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1685900)
Posted 30 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well hark the HERALD angels sing!!!
2284) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1685896)
Posted 30 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Might I inSQUIRE how you came up with this topic?
2285) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1685894)
Posted 30 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
When it comes to punning, we seem to have a co-dependent relationship here... I need you to enNOBLE me...
2286) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1685889)
Posted 30 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Puns like that make me lose my TEMPLAR...
2287) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1685887)
Posted 30 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not if I come up with PAGE after PAGE of puns...
2288) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1685885)
Posted 30 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I can keep this up all KNIGHT.
2289) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1685881)
Posted 30 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh my!!! Surely you JOUST!!!
2290) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1685878)
Posted 30 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I was born ready.
2291) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1685875)
Posted 30 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Greetings your Royal Highness.

I am available after all, but I may have to pop in and out this evening. We are expecting company tomorrow. I just got back from the grocery store. Whew!
2292) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1685841)
Posted 30 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm sorry. Something has come up and I am going to have to miss tonight's festivities.

Congratulations in advance to tonight's winner.
2293) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1685524)
Posted 29 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am fine with His Majesty pre-picking a topic.

Name the time when we gather on Friday. I look forward to rightfully regaining my crown.
2294) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1685522)
Posted 29 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am sure someone with better photoshop skills would do a better job, but here is my interpretation:

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2295) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The kittyman music thread...new edition. (Message 1685494)
Posted 29 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mark, you are ripe for trolling in your present condition and the SF Bay Area is renown for its bridges...

Now do everybody here, and most especially the moderators you have over-worked today, a great big favor and hit the hay.
2296) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The kittyman music thread...new edition. (Message 1685483)
Posted 29 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Promises, promises...
2297) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #239 - ORIGINALITY! (Message 1685482)
Posted 29 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I feel a little win coming on...
2298) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cooking for real (Message 1685459)
Posted 29 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We cooked almost the same thing, Vic. I made Salmon Cesar for dinner, which is essentially fish and vegetables. Eric never saw that salad coming!!! He ate it and appeared to enjoy it. Little did he know it was actually good for him.

Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
2299) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #239 - ORIGINALITY! (Message 1685377)
Posted 29 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Or grab your surfboard!!!
2300) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #239 - ORIGINALITY! (Message 1685373)
Posted 28 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A recommendation...
2301) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #239 - ORIGINALITY! (Message 1685353)
Posted 28 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You forgot the accented


I was unable to recreate it on my computer.
2302) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #239 - ORIGINALITY! (Message 1685338)
Posted 28 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning because not only do I know how to spell "detente", I actually know what it means and therefore I can recognize when the term has been incorrectly applied to a situation.

How's that for "original"?
2303) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1685294)
Posted 28 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
First glance? Levitating raccoon :)

LOL!!! Now that would be a terrific raccoon trick!!!
2304) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #239 - ORIGINALITY! (Message 1685293)
Posted 28 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Unhealthy and self-damaging obsession.

I call them the way I see them, but I doubt many here would disagree with my assessment.

I am sorry that you are unable to see yourself as most others see you.
2305) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1685277)
Posted 28 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
While I'm posting "vintage raccoon" pictures, here is another oldie-but-a-goodie of my little rail dancer.

The kitties indoors were Zsa Zsa and Eva when they were little.
2306) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1685270)
Posted 28 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Could you post a clip of your 'happy dance'?
I think we all really need to see that one.

I will have to see what I can capture through the window panes of our back door. Skunks allow me to observe from inside, but generally run under the deck when I go outside. (Assuming, of course, that they have noticed me... Skunks have no need to be hyper-vigilant, as they have er... uh... "other defenses.")

I have never bothered to get a wildlife cam like SciMan Steve has because, well, what would be the point???!!! I can see my little woodland friends just fine from my kitchen door. I suppose I could try to set Eric's grossly over-priced camera up on a tripod outside, but Ol' Pookers may veto this idea, as Tiny Tim, our most regular visiting raccoon this year, tends to be a curious little fellow.

Still, I may be able to capture the essence of a skunk happy dance through a window pane. I'll give it a try anyway.

To give you an idea of the kitchen door filming challenges, here is a picture, taken years ago, of our back door. As you can see, Izzy (Chris' god-daughter) was up on a handrail, peeking into my kitchen, in an effort to determine why her dinner was late that evening!!!
2307) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1685242)
Posted 28 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Spilled a tub of grapes all over your garden? Who you gonna call? Well, there's no need to call anyone, as the critters will be along shortly to tidy things up :)

Exactly!!! The same goes with a tub of peanuts.

I used to just throw peanuts out to the crows, jays and squirrels in the morning, but I discovered recently that skunks like peanuts too, so now I toss a few handfuls out at night.

You just haven't experienced urban wildlife joy until you've thrown peanuts in the shell to a skunk. A skunk will do a "happy dance" when he encounters a peanut in a shell. Ok, ok... I know this is anthropomorphizing and that it is not really a "happy dance", but when a skunk picks up a good sized-peanut, he grasps it with both paws and this bio-mechanically "forces" him to do a little leap backwards in order to maintain his balance. This balance compensation move is what I call a "skunk happy dance".

I had not observed this behavior in skunks before discovering that they like peanuts, simply because I had never fed skunks something large enough to cause balance challenges. Seeds, cat food kibble and loose grapes skunks eat without having to take both front paws off the ground. Grapes still attached to a stem don't cause skunks to jump backwards because to extract the grapes they generally keep one front paw on the stem and one paw and their jaws on the grape. This keeps all four paws closer to the ground so that they don't have to rear up on their hind paws. It is only with large peanuts in the shell that I notice that skunks have to do a little backwards leap in order to secure the peanut.

As I said previously, urban wildlife teaches, delights and entertains, if one only takes the time to watch, think and study a bit.

If you feed them, they will come...
2308) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #239 - ORIGINALITY! (Message 1685233)
Posted 28 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I blurr the lines a bit at times, for sure.
I think I have earned the right to do so.

Hogwash!

If people are more indulgent with you it is only because they kindly and generously factor in your issues and challenges before interacting with you. Your RAC size has nothing to do with it, nor does your unhealthy and self-damaging obsession with this project.
2309) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1685226)
Posted 28 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
One shepards pie to go please.


From that article I quote, "Prevention is better than cure and I think, for all of these issues, we can help people and wildlife minimize conflicts,” he said.

And I reply that if people insist on confusing wildlife "conflicts" with wildlife "encounters", then my darling raccoons and skunks and opossums and squirrels will continue to be looked upon dis-favorably.

But if people can learn to enjoy their encounters with urban wildlife, these same people just might find that urban wildlife consistently teaches, delights and entertains.
2310) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #239 - ORIGINALITY! (Message 1684979)
Posted 28 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2311) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #239 - ORIGINALITY! (Message 1684861)
Posted 27 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2312) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Khaleesi, Mother of Raccoons! (Message 1684859)
Posted 27 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You're only the 5th woman I've ever known of Angela, who has revealed Her age, the other 4 are related to Me, in one way or another.

Sadly Vic, that speaks volumes about the value that our culture gives to women who are past their reproductive years.

Ladies, "TAKE BACK THE GRAY", I say!!!

Thank you again, dear friends, for all of the kind birthday wishes expressed in this thread.
2313) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1684858)
Posted 27 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dena, wishing you and those you are helping peace.
2314) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Khaleesi, Mother of Raccoons! (Message 1684602)
Posted 27 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There is nothing wrong with being whatever age you are. There is something special about every age... your teens, your fifties, your eighties etc.

Thank you for all the kind birthday wishes and all of the lovely teasing compliments, but I am on a mission to encourage people everywhere, and especially women, to embrace and even celebrate age.
2315) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #239 - ORIGINALITY! (Message 1684500)
Posted 26 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations on your win, David.
2316) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1684499)
Posted 26 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My sister gave me a skull scarf for my birthday. I told her it could do double duty, both as an accessory in my Halloween wardrobe, and as a lovely accent piece to wear on Talk Like A Pirate Day.
2317) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Khaleesi, Mother of Raccoons! (Message 1684394)
Posted 26 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy birthday Angela. You are what 29 years old now:)


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2318) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1684213)
Posted 25 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congrats Angela, you have 10002 posts. :-)

Gee... that's a whole lot of gratuitous posting!!!

I wonder how many involve wins...
2319) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1684205)
Posted 25 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ulibelle... can we get some of these printed up and shipped to Celt???
2320) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1684189)
Posted 25 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I live in a democracy. We don't have a king.

Ping!



In Punlandia, we have a king. And apparently he uses the "royal we".
2321) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1684184)
Posted 25 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I believe I may have won...
2322) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1684132)
Posted 25 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How 'bout now?
2323) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1684127)
Posted 25 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did I win?
2324) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1684117)
Posted 25 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is my birthday weekend. I'm not going anywhere near that scale.
2325) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #60 (Message 1684116)
Posted 25 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
(Alternate entry)

Tequila.
2326) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #60 (Message 1684115)
Posted 25 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In some communities, "The Vogue" never really went out of style.
2327) Message boards : Cafe SETI : U.S. comedian Anne Meara, mother of actor Ben Stiller, dies at 85 (Message 1684113)
Posted 25 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
2328) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Khaleesi, Mother of Raccoons! (Message 1684111)
Posted 25 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you, friends, for the kind birthday wishes. (Eric is a Game of Thrones fan.)

Eric and I had a nice day yesterday celebrating my birthday. We strolled in Filoli Gardens, enjoyed a lovely exhibit of botanical art and then went out for a delicious pasta dinner in Half Moon Bay.
2329) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1683566)
Posted 24 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And have taken Carlos' win, and someday soon I shall usurp His Royal Highness' crown!!!
2330) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Sweet or Savory? (Message 1683563)
Posted 24 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
At the suggestion of a friend I tried a little experiment. I filled 7 glasses with 8 oz of water. I left one alone and added a 1/2 teaspoon of sugar to the next, then 1 teaspoon, then 1.5 etc. Labled them then with the help of the friend blind tested myself. I did not taste the sugar until I got to 1.5 teaspoons. Below that they all tasted sugar free to me.

Sugar does not dissolve well in water, especially in cold water. The sugar solutions that tasted like plain water to you probably didn't have very much sugar actually suspended in the water.

It would be more interesting to use simple syrup. (Bring one part sugar and one part water to boil, cook stirring until all of the sugar has dissolved - it only takes a minute or so, let cool.)

If you repeated the experiment using .5 tsp increments of sugar syrup, my guess is that you will detect sweetness in every glass.
2331) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1683543)
Posted 24 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown...
2332) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1683385)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Good morning your Royal Highness!!!
2333) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683170)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Whistle while you work...

Goodnight friends!!! Thank you for a very enjoyable evening.
2334) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683166)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2335) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683164)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hail the king. But you do know Celt that the crown is made of thorns. Now eveyone will be punning for you to take it:)

Yes... tonight you reign as king, but to quote the good bard, "Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown."
2336) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683161)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2337) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683160)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Coronation Time!!!
2338) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683154)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, this DOMINATRIX OF DOMESTICITY is all out of puns.

I concede defeat.

All hail Celttooth, our new Pun King.
2339) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683151)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
With my win there may be a job for a washing Maid of honour..

Hey, I know her!!! Her name is PRISTINE... er... uh... I mean Christine.
2340) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683149)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is that LYSOL you've got to say for yourself?
2341) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683147)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Celt, face it. You're getting all WISHY-WASHY with your punning.
2342) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683145)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
But who will lift the veil and UNCLUTTER the winner?
2343) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683143)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is getting late, and the truth hurts. Of course, the tooth picks.
So, good night, all! It's been fun. :o)

Goodnight Jim. Thanks for playing. It was a pleasure to pun with you.

Now then Celt, what do I have to do to WHIP YOU INTO SHAPE?
2344) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683140)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Concede defeat, or I'll have to come over there and STRAIGHTEN you out!!!
2345) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683136)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Only one can RULY here...
2346) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683134)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just you and me left, huh?

Well hop in my Hefty bag, cuz I'm TAKING OUT THE TRASH!!!
2347) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683132)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've been GROOMED for the win...
2348) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683130)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You had better SHIP-SHAPE up your technique if you want to win...
2349) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683126)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
One competitor, here, is contemplating hitting the springs.

The IRISH SPRINGS???
2350) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683122)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sigh... I see I am down to just two competitors now... MR CLEAN and SIMPLE GREEN.
2351) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683119)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And shall I ARRANGE THINGS for your concession?
2352) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683114)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think we have MERRY MAID it into the final stages of this game.
2353) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683111)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm too busy ORGANIZING your defeat.
2354) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683108)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
please, no tooth powder on my throne

I know you like a TIDY BOWL...
2355) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683106)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll have an ORDERLY wheel the three of you gentlemen out!!!
2356) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683103)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Conceptualize my win... it will be an IMMACULATE conception.
2357) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683098)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I still have the ZEST when it comes to punning.

But do you still think you can SQUEEGEE out a win?
2358) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683094)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Everyone knows somebody who is a pun war winner, if you count Six DEGREASE of Separation...
2359) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683090)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We are getting flooded out of here..

Dear friend, SPRAY no more!
2360) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683085)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is anyone ready to send up an S.O.S. from his PAD?
2361) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683082)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You are taking a bath I think...

When did that DAWN on you?
2362) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683079)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I shall continue the fight with grim RESOLVE.

(... or "grime" resolve?)
2363) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683076)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh BUCKET!!! I was hoping you were out of puns.
2364) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683074)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Terms?

Are you conceding defeat already? Did we MR. MUSCLE you out?
2365) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683070)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Where is Chris tonight? I thought we might get a visit from OLD ENGLISH.
2366) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683067)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I shall exert every MICROFIBER in my body to winning tonight.
2367) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683065)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well James and Jim got one each all ready.

Oh JOY.
2368) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683063)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is anybody counting points? I think I've made about 409 puns by now.
2369) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683059)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Do I feel a gentle FEBREZE in the air?
2370) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683056)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Like a gangster, I'm gonna EASY OFF you!
2371) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683053)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Buddy, you'll win here about as often as we see Hailey's COMET.
2372) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683051)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And speaking of bleaches, the dog just got in.

OUT DAMN SPOT... out I say!
2373) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683046)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank God for that..


Edit:

I try not to slip up..


Right. That is no LYE.
2374) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683044)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Celt, you know a lot about homemaking. In fact, you sound like a KEMPT man!
2375) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683039)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just being here waxing with the queen is the HY-LA of my life.

And I like hanging with you, my friend. In fact, let's have a drink. How about a little vodka in your orange-SPRUCE?
2376) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683033)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No bathroom breaks in a pun war. I hope you are all wearing adult diapers instead of your TIDY-whities.
2377) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683029)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Im just DYSON to tell a pun.

That just makes me BISSEL all over.
2378) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683026)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
James, I know you're just home from work. Have you NEATEN yet?
2379) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683021)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I feel like a helicopter HOOVERing around up here, waiting for your entries.
2380) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683016)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gentlemen, your technique is SPOTLESS.
2381) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683012)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Friends, Romans, Countrymen... CLEANSE me your ears.
2382) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1683003)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If I lose, I'm sure I will SOAP around the house being very dejected.
2383) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1682999)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Keep it clean boys. This thread has been SANITIZED for your protection.
2384) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1682996)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is there a monetary prize? If so, I shall have to LAUNDER my ill gotten gains.
2385) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1682989)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Looks like we've had a CLEAN break in picking a topic...
2386) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1682986)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You never know, I could SCRUB...
2387) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1682980)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You mean, like, dying of laughter?

If you pick the subject of laughter, my vorpal pun blade will SNICKER snack you.
2388) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1682975)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok. Sorry.
2389) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1682973)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Actually, I liked the way you entered, saying what's the toxic.

How about things that can kill you?
2390) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1682969)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm in -- sorry, for being late. :o(

You are right on time! We're just starting.
2391) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1682966)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok gentlemen, do we have any topic suggestions?
2392) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1682964)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's a pun war night!!!
2393) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1682962)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Closing in on a Pun War win.
2394) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1682959)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Greetings and salutations, my loyal subjects.
2395) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1682944)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok. I'm going to go upstairs and do some dishes.

I'll be back at 9:15 Pacific time... roughly half an hour from now.

If Jim isn't around at that point, we'll pick a topic and I'll clean your clock.
2396) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1682940)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Actually we're in northern California, and we would love some rain!!!

edit:
Do you want to give James a half hour or so and then check back in. I would hate for him to miss the fun.
2397) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1682937)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I went whale watching once. I was sick as a dog. I hate boats.
2398) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1682936)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We put in solar panels and since the day our electric company gave us the go ahead to flip on the system and start feeding into the grid, we have had one really sunny day and a whole bunch of cloudy ones.
2399) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1682933)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning here... and later there.
2400) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats (Message 1682931)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Jake is a beautiful kitty and clearly he is well loved.
2401) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1682930)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Chilly
2402) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1682928)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think we should wait for James before we decide on a topic.
2403) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1682924)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm here, entering regally.
2404) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1682923)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Carlos, our USA air was pretty bad 50 years ago, at least in cities!!! Air quality improved significantly when we started phasing lead out of gasoline from the late 70's through the mid-80's (... not that that wasn't a major environmental battle!!!)

Another major factor is that coal stopped being used for home heating (and to move trains). Yes, a lot of it is still burned in power plants, but the pollution is concentrated around them (and filtered to some extent), not created all over the place with no filters whatsoever.

My grandmother used to wash the living room ceiling every spring. The year after they converted the furnace to gas, she got half way through and stopped to rest. She couldn't tell where she'd stopped, so she didn't finish. And never did it again.

Really bedtime Ping!


A good point and a great family story!
2405) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Memorial Day Weekend (Message 1682922)
Posted 23 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Peace on Earth.
2406) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1682840)
Posted 22 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't belive that any more. My Great Grandfather smoked until the day he died at age 112. But today tobacco is not the same. It has many added chemicals and our air in general is not a clean as it was a hundred years ago. (or evern 50 years ago). Just stop. Eazier said than done, but afer smoking 30 years that is what I did.

Carlos, our USA air was pretty bad 50 years ago, at least in cities!!! Air quality improved significantly when we started phasing lead out of gasoline from the late 70's through the mid-80's (... not that that wasn't a major environmental battle!!!)

Yes, quitting smoking is always advised at any age, but what is more important is that any younger members of our community never start smoking in the first place. My father-in-law had his first cigarette at age 9. (They grow up quick in Wisconsin!) He quit smoking in his 40's and probably figured that his smoking history would not haunt him. He was wrong. He is nearly 80 now and he suffers from emphysema and COPD. A combination of age and any significant history of smoking is often a bad one.

Of course Miz Julie should try to quit, if she can... but it is even more important that her beautiful children and your beautiful children never ever start smoking.
2407) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1682776)
Posted 22 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning as a human animal.

Well... I'm not a vegetable or a mineral.
2408) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1682773)
Posted 22 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
But what a way to go...
2409) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1682771)
Posted 22 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sleep well Celt. May it prepare you all the better to lose.

I am still confuddled about the time.

If Jim is available at 11:30 pm Eastern time and he is three hours ahead of me, then I need to show up at 8:30 pm Pacific time, right? I don't think that is 1930.
2410) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1682770)
Posted 22 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2411) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1682764)
Posted 22 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm still confused. What time (Pacific) do I need to show up... and show off.
2412) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Someone at Blizzard is also a fan of puns. (Message 1682763)
Posted 22 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
edit
2413) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Someone at Blizzard is also a fan of puns. (Message 1682733)
Posted 22 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm in for 11:30, if that works for Jim and Celt.

Just let me know if that is 11:30 Pacific, or if I need to make a time adjustment.


I don't want to get in the way of any mopping.

My friend, you couldn't if you tried, for I fully intend to CLEAN UP this evening. I shall WRING OUT every last pun until I am able to SOAK UP all of your concession speeches. Everyone should watch, as the contest will be highly ABSORBING. You will just have to SUCK IT UP and watch as I expel all of my opponents into the VACUUM of space. Yes, I am anticipating quite a DUST UP...
2414) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1682726)
Posted 22 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2415) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Things I wish that all people who work with the public knew... (Message 1682709)
Posted 22 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That's where rule #8 enters the scene...

...#8 Use the "ignore" button where required. :-)



I try to save the "ignore" button for posters who have entirely exhausted my legendary patience. Chris is a friend. Always has been. Always will be.
2416) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James' Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1682705)
Posted 22 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
For those who are new to Pun Wars, please allow me to explain.

A pun war is a rapid conversation across contestants using puns tied to a specific subject. The subject of the pun war is agreed upon by participants just prior to the pun war, so that nobody has a time advantage. When you are out of new puns, you should bow out gracefully. The last punster standing is generally declared the winner. The last punster standing then empties the remainder of his or her pun bank in an obnoxious victory lap post. After the victory lap, a on-line party occurs during which the Pun King or Queen is crowned and all participants and spectators are welcome to post funny songs, pictures or comedy bits that are related to the pun topic.


Pun War Etiquette

Trash talking prior to the event is not only required, it is encouraged!!!

Try to keep your posts to one or two puns per post. It would be un-fun if somebody swooped in with a post that contained so many puns that it kept other players from participating.

Double posts are discouraged - you should be having a pun conversation with your opponents, not with yourself.

An exception to double posting is made when there are only two or three participants still punning. If one's opponents are taking a ridiculously long time to come up with a response, the leading punster is perfectly within his or her rights to tauntingly point out the lag time with a pun or two designed to "encourage" opponents to concede defeat.

Once a particular word related to the topic has been used in the game, you should try really really really hard not to use that pun again. Now unintentional pun duplications are going to happen from time to time because pun wars move very quickly. There is no penalty for an accidental pun duplication, but all players are strongly encouraged to try their very best to keep track of terms that have already been used.
2417) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mother's Day!! (Message 1682688)
Posted 22 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lovely!!!
2418) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Sweet or Savory? (Message 1682686)
Posted 22 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing your mother a lot of strength Angela.

Thank you. She has it, apparently. Mom consistently passes the "Eye Ball Test", an expression coined by a funny and gifted oncologist. By this, the doctor means that mom looks better in person than she does "on paper" in her medical chart... (which of course is electronic these days!!!)
2419) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Sweet or Savory? (Message 1682680)
Posted 22 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's interesting to me because it makes me wonder how our different brain chemistries process these flavor signals.

Besides individual differences, you mother may also be experiencing some age related changes. I find that when I cook for my mother, I have to punch up the flavor for her quite a bit. She seems to "need" more salt or sugar to carry other flavors. Since my mother is terminally ill, I don't worry much these days about trying to cook things for her that are particularly healthy. My goal when I cook for mom now is to just make her things she will enjoy.
2420) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1682677)
Posted 22 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hear ye, mother hen:))

I am hardly one to talk. Eating ice cream will not necessarily do me in young, but it will complicate my aging tremendously and it puts me at higher risk for all sorts of nasty diseases that I never ever ever want to deal with.

We all have our vices, I suppose...
2421) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1682673)
Posted 22 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ciggie break win

Why in Gods name should I stop smoking?


Because you have children you might wish to see grow up and graduate from University and get married and have children of their own.


Some smokers do get very old, it all depends on how strong your body is I think.


Yes. Smoking will not necessarily do you in young, but it will complicate your aging tremendously and it puts you at higher risk for all sorts of nasty diseases that you never, ever, ever want to deal with.
2422) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Things I wish that all people who work with the public knew... (Message 1682670)
Posted 22 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Uh Chris... did you just call me, everybody in my profession and anyone who has ever worked in a hospital stupid?


Medical profession is of course excepted, that is a calling to help humanity, not the same thing at all as in a retail or service context. You knew that of course.


No, I did not. But now that you have clarified it, are you calling Miz Julie stupid for working in customer service? Are you calling Ulibelle stupid for helping members of the public understand their taxes?

If "New Chris" insists on making incredibly insensitive and hurtful statements, "New Chris" is going to get called on every gosh darn one of them that I happen to so unfortunately stumble upon.
2423) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1682666)
Posted 22 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ciggie break win

Why in Gods name should I stop smoking?


Because you have children you might wish to see grow up and graduate from University and get married and have children of their own.
2424) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Sweet or Savory? (Message 1682664)
Posted 22 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I like both and I also like sweet/savory entrees, but Eric hates a sweet/savory combination, so I never cook that way at home.
2425) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Someone at Blizzard is also a fan of puns. (Message 1682663)
Posted 22 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
WHATS THIS? Do I see a forthcoming pun war happening? I would be delighted in dethroning the Queen. How long since we have had a Friday night pun war? Years I bet.
I wont get home until 11:30 PM. I hope the battle is just Swarming up.


Is that 11:30 pm Pacific time or Eastern time?

I'm willing to wait until 11:30 Pacific if Celt is also willing to stay up that late.
2426) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1682398)
Posted 22 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Stealing the win from you!!!
2427) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1682391)
Posted 22 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not winning. Definitely not winning.
Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo frustrated with not winning.
2428) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Someone at Blizzard is also a fan of puns. (Message 1682277)
Posted 21 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
(What time?)

Choose the time that best pleases you. I shall wipe the floor with you and all other contenders.
2429) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Someone at Blizzard is also a fan of puns. (Message 1682273)
Posted 21 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm proud that you looked pasture fears, took the bull by the horns and didn't kowtow.

Yes, Ozz Fan is certainly no COWard!

(Anyone up for a Pun War tomorrow night?)
2430) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1682241)
Posted 21 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And a spoonful of winning for me!
2431) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Someone at Blizzard is also a fan of puns. (Message 1682236)
Posted 21 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A secret cow level? How very aMOOsing.
2432) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1682232)
Posted 21 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes... a very little bit of winning for you!!!
2433) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1682231)
Posted 21 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yikes - San Mateo is really close to us. I wonder where they relocated the kitty.

I believe they said they took it to Caster Valley, or something like that, and turned it loose.

{hands in pockets, rolling eyes, looking innocent}

There is a whole lot of open space in the hills around here... and lots of deer for them to eat. Hmmmmmmm... what's all that growling I hear coming from the corner of my zucchini patch?
2434) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1682230)
Posted 21 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoon invades Sweden!

LOL!!! Raccoons, coming to porches everywhere.

And soon Finland:)

Raccoons would absolutely LOVE Finland... water everywhere and such a beautiful country.
2435) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Things I wish that all people who work with the public knew... (Message 1682229)
Posted 21 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
First of all, I totally take back that request for "no commentary".

I am absolutely LOVING all the commentary in this thread!!! Keep it coming!!!



Right or wrong, the customer pays your salary. They are allowed to make mistakes, as long as the check clears.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




Anyone with any sense does not work for or with the public.

Uh Chris... did you just call me, everybody in my profession and anyone who has ever worked in a hospital stupid?
2436) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1682225)
Posted 21 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
They have a better approach to mountain lions in California....

Mountain Lion Captured in Backyard

Yikes - San Mateo is really close to us. I wonder where they relocated the kitty.




Loosly related...

Typical trigger happy USA police. Bastards.

One less you have worry about

That is horrible. Wishing her family peace.
2437) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1682224)
Posted 21 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Virgin Media Broadband in the UK are using Raccoons!


Raccoon invades Sweden!


LOL!!! Raccoons, coming to porches everywhere.
2438) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1682223)
Posted 21 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoons need all the friends that they can get :-)

Here's one :)

Sometimes mama raccoons abandon their kits younger than expected, but we've never seen "naturally" abandoned ones that look as young as those in the picture. The article is probably correct in that somebody "relocated them" (probably from an attic).
2439) Message boards : Cafe SETI : OTUS? (Message 1681967)
Posted 21 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
CRL = Crazy Raccoon Lady = me

If you are ever on a plane and you happen to notice that somebody calling herself CRL is handing you your posterior in the In-Flight Trivia Game, please make sure to introduce yourself when we are all at the Baggage Claim.
2440) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Things I wish that all people who work with the public knew... (Message 1681845)
Posted 20 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No commentary please.

Just post your pet peeves in this thread using a numbered rule format.

Maybe somebody will have the good sense to turn this thread into a manual for training grocery clerks, salespeople, wait staff members and yes... (shockingly) even medical doctors!!!!

Rule #1. The terms "sweetie" or "dear" should NEVER be used to address any person older than 14 years of age.
2441) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1681549)
Posted 19 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Hey Angela. Do you think you could get Eric to sneek me in to see the SETI server?

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2442) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1681260)
Posted 18 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
To win or not to win, that is the question.

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous winning,
Or to take arms against a sea of not winning...
2443) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1681250)
Posted 18 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
All hugs gratefully accepted. Here is one in return...
2444) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1681244)
Posted 18 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric talked to David and the two of them must have fiddled with something this morning. The buttons are supposed to update automatically, but I guess something wasn't working. Things seem to be working now. Hopefully they will stay fixed.
2445) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1680925)
Posted 18 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodnight Carlos. Goodnight Vic.

Goodnight everybody.
2446) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1680922)
Posted 18 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yawn!!!
2447) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats (Message 1680916)
Posted 18 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That clip of Jake playing fetch is hilarious and it brought back some fun memories. Our oldest kitty, Stinky Lou, used to play fetch down our long hallway when she was a kitten, but unfortunately she outgrew the game.
2448) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1680915)
Posted 18 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, but that commercial is decidedly lacking in raccoons.



Friends, too



LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2449) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1680914)
Posted 18 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
To win or not to win... that is the question.
2450) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Best Lifetime FRIEND (Message 1680857)
Posted 17 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing your friend a good recovery. Wishing you peace.
2451) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1680856)
Posted 17 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did I win?
2452) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1680855)
Posted 17 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, but that commercial is decidedly lacking in raccoons.
2453) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1680673)
Posted 17 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Heck, there are three people on the form page with
gold buttons who have less RAC than I do!



Gold Button?

edit:
Gee look, I have more RAC than lots of other people
in today who have Gold Buttons, but I do not!


!_+)(*&^%$#$%&*&$#@!@#^&*&~!&*&$#@!@^&*$@!~%^&^%$#@!#$%^#@!~!&*&@!~@^&^#@!@#^&%$#@!#^&^%$#@$%^&^%$#@$&*&^&*(&$#$^&^@!@$%^&^%$#@!#^&*&%$#@!#**&^$#@$&*(&^%$#$&*&^%$#@#^&^$#@#%^&*&^%$#%^&*&^%$#@#$%^&^%$#@!#^&*&^%$#@$^&*&^%$#$%^&*

Ian, I don't know why your medal status has not updated.

I just asked him and off hand, Eric does not know why your medal status has not updated.

I will send an email reminder to Eric asking him to look into the situation ON MONDAY.
2454) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1680669)
Posted 17 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
For heavens sake.
It's a fake.
No animals were harmed in the making of this gif.


Not sure if it is just photo-shopped or actual footage of a taxidermed raccoon, but sadly, either way, I think that raccoon may have been living once.

The cartoon of the raccoon on the rocket garbage can posted by Scarecrow, however, was pretty funny.
2455) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Wins #U-238 (Message 1680509)
Posted 16 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Donald! That was quite an impressive thread to win.
2456) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1680508)
Posted 16 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Finding my passport... packing my bags... getting ready for my eco-trip to that vast frozen tundra that is Canada, so that I can see flying raccoons!!!
2457) Message boards : Cafe SETI : B.B. King has passed on......at 89. (Message 1680506)
Posted 16 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
2458) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #60 (Message 1679804)
Posted 15 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Uh-oh. Looks like grandma had an accident.
2459) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How Old are You compared to what this photo website says you are? (Message 1679803)
Posted 15 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Here is a current picture.
2460) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1679802)
Posted 15 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

And did I mention that our team is back in the Top Ten???!!!

Join Raccoon Lovers and be part of the fun.
2461) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How Old are You compared to what this photo website says you are? (Message 1679799)
Posted 15 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh puh-leeze!!! ANYONE can take a bad picture. I can look like a venerable elder in real life. Now THAT takes talent!
2462) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1679763)
Posted 15 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
May as well give it a try while I am here.

Sorry to steal your win.
2463) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How Old are You compared to what this photo website says you are? (Message 1679762)
Posted 15 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm probably the only person left who doesn't know how to post a picture but i'm 88 and look it.

Dave(The Admiral)Nelson


Don't feel bad. I'm 51 and I look 65.
2464) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1679753)
Posted 15 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


+1
2465) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1679659)
Posted 14 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I like long and unruly threads!
2466) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Rocky's Original Cafe - restocked & opened 22/4/2015 (Message 1679433)
Posted 14 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That's right. Mine was yesterday.

Happy belated birthday, Admiral Gloval!
2467) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1679431)
Posted 14 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just make sure you keep it out of the medical garbage....

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2468) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1679430)
Posted 14 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2469) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1679297)
Posted 13 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not winning. Definitely not winning today.
2470) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1678654)
Posted 12 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How long has it been gone?
2471) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1678652)
Posted 12 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The only problem I can see with this is that when the men in white coats turn up and find out that Eric spends his days searching for Aliens, it might be hit and miss as to which one of you they take away.

LOL!!!!

Actually, I'm not the only one around here who bursts into song about the animals in our backyard. After Mother's Day brunch on Sunday Eric spotted a nice big lizard sunning itself on a retaining wall outside. Eric asked our nephew Nico (age 4) and our niece Claire (age 2) if they wanted to go see the lizard. When both children said "yes" Fun Uncle Eric (...or "Funcle Eric", as we call him...) held hands with the kids and skipped towards the back door singing "We're off to see the Lizard!!!"
2472) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mother's Day!! (Message 1678295)
Posted 11 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Two year olds are pretty darn cute


I guess I'm strange, but I always love dealing
with children during the terrible twos....




(I am just thinking of two of my grand kids
who gave me a whole new appreciation for the
quickness, and fun of the minds of children,)


I actually prefer developmental two to developmental three. Two year olds are honest. What you see is what you get. Three year olds have learned that whining and glorious tantrums can be valuable bargaining chips.
2473) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1678292)
Posted 11 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I did too. I decided not to go anywhere near my scale today.
2474) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1678289)
Posted 11 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Keep your eye on possums.

We have three different opossums who have been frequenting our backyard lately. One of them is smaller than the other two and we call him/her "Tiny Possum". When I see Tiny Possum, I make up silly rhyming songs and I sing them to the tune of that old Don Ho Hawaiian classic, "Tiny Bubbles".

Example

Tiny Possum
In the yard
Has a small brain
Thinking is so hard...

Tiny Possum
Eating seeds all over
Those marsupials are going to last until the end of time...

Now here's to the old raccoon
And to my friend Squirrelie
And don't forget the skunks I feed...
And all those darn birdies

Tiny Possum
Finding seeds all over
Making babies so that possums will last until the end of time


Eric always laughs when I sing songs like this one. I'm pretty sure it is just a polite laugh to hide the fact that he is quietly looking up the addresses of nearby insane asylums on his cell phone.

That man is a keeper.

So are my possums.
2475) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mother's Day!! (Message 1678272)
Posted 11 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A belated Mother's Day song for all mothers.

Dear Mama - Tupac

That was sad :'(


+1
2476) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mother's Day!! (Message 1678266)
Posted 11 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Your daughter had a baby? Congratulations Blade!

Thanks, but he's not a baby now. He's two. He was born the day before my birthday!

Aw!!! Two year olds are pretty darn cute, in those few moments when they are not exerting their autonomy.
2477) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1678054)
Posted 11 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am the very model of a modern major general.

I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral
2478) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mother's Day!! (Message 1678040)
Posted 11 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That is a really nice gift.
2479) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mother's Day!! (Message 1677971)
Posted 11 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy Mother's Day!

(I have some chocolates for my daughter, the mom.)


You're a grandfather!!!!! That is so awesome!!!

Is this the daughter who is a pediatrician?
2480) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1677609)
Posted 10 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodnight all.
2481) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1677604)
Posted 10 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You were saying???
2482) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1677602)
Posted 10 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Watch me win!!!
2483) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1677552)
Posted 10 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Long thread!
2484) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1677483)
Posted 10 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1776..

One of my favorite musicals!
2485) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1677444)
Posted 10 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Woohoo! Winning!

Not any more you're not!!!
2486) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1677426)
Posted 10 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry about the confusion. I thought Mark was talking about Mel Gibson, but actually he was talking about Mel Brooks.
2487) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1677369)
Posted 9 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If Mark is posting here because he loves critters and genuinely wants to discuss Mel Gibson with other critter lovers, then I have no problem with this topic or others Mark may have.

Personally I detect nothing even remotely nuanced about Mel Gibson and the way that man conducts himself. He is obnoxious.

If, on the other hand, Mark is posting here because he wants to yank the chain of everybody on the moderating staff by calling this thread a "safe zone", then I really wish that Mark would stop being Mel Gibsonesque and just go back to posting in the cat box that Fred and his staff have so graciously provided for Mark's weekend excrement.
2488) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mother's Day!! (Message 1677311)
Posted 9 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
... And. Moms are the best cooks in the World:) ...

Tis true! I could dirty every pot in the kitchen and still not make something Eric enjoys as much as his mother's wild rice hot dish and jello salad!
2489) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mother's Day!! (Message 1677276)
Posted 9 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, you can always call your sister-in-law to wish her a happy Mother's Day. Without her, you wouldn't have nieces and a nephew! Eric and I always calls his sisters to wish them a Happy Mother's Day.
2490) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Knights Who Say NI? (Message 1677274)
Posted 9 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am saddened to hear of the passing of another member of our community.

Rest in peace.
2491) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1677195)
Posted 9 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That's what I was thinking as well. You know,
old guy, not much to do every day, we get
fixated on stuff. Sorry if I seem to come
on too strong at times!


If Eric comes up for air, I will ask him how the button system works.
2492) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mother's Day!! (Message 1677194)
Posted 9 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm making brunch for 14 at our house tomorrow. We will have 4 mothers present - my mom, one of my aunts and two of my sister-in-laws.
2493) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1677189)
Posted 9 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is your elevated RAC a recent thing or a long-standing thing?

Maybe the button will get changed when the system re-ranks teams?

I really have no clue how anything seti related works.
2494) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1677183)
Posted 9 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Maybe you just need to refresh something on your computer? I don't really know how these things work.
2495) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1677181)
Posted 9 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ian, please don't make me talk to Eric about buttons when he is already upstairs working on something else... and it is Saturday!
2496) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1677177)
Posted 9 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry about the short win...
2497) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1677170)
Posted 9 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh no, all is lost! LSM and I have
found a new ice cream shop....


I feel your pain!!! Every time I go see a new doctor and have to fill out a patient history, the form always asks if I smoke or drink alcohol. There is never a line on the form asking "How much ice cream do you consume each week?"
2498) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1677168)
Posted 9 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It was the budgie, with the frying pan. In the kitchen.

Cluedo-Animal Edition.


LOL!!!!!!!!!!

I have such fun memories of playing Clue with my cousins when we were all kids.
2499) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1675060)
Posted 8 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There was a cougar who used to sun herself from time to time on a golf course in Oakland. She was not a "problem kitty", as she preferred the taste of deer to the taste of jogger. Deer are quite abundant in the Oakland hills, where I grew up.
2500) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1675055)
Posted 8 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That's about 50 miles from here.

Don't leave your door open, Vic!!!
2501) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1675052)
Posted 8 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_cougar_attacks_in_North_America
This is gruesome, so only click if you are truly interested.
2502) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1675047)
Posted 8 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Meow
2503) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1674959)
Posted 8 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well at one time the moon was a lot closer to Earth, every year the moon is 1" farther away. Yes I know the earth has sustained a good amount of hits, most of this I think was during the late heavy bombardment.


Vic, I am confused by that post and I'm not sure where you are going with it, however if you want to thank any celestial body for being a shield, thank Jupiter.

Jupiter is really really big and massive. Comets heading for the inner solar system can get nudged by Jupiter's gravity into orbits that are less likely to cross the orbit of the earth.

So thank you, Jupiter.
2504) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1674954)
Posted 7 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well as long as the Moon is Earths shield, that will give Humans the time they need to get off planet into space.. The moon has taken quite a few hits in this regard.

Vic, I'm not sure where you got this information, but the moon is not much of a shield. The earth has sustained, proportionally, the same sorts of "hits". They just show up better on the moon.
2505) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1674948)
Posted 7 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mother Nature or Gaia or GOD or Entropy or the theory of Chaos have always managed to control successful 'infestations' (the dinosaurs, etc.)usually in very unexpected ways and mankind will be no exception.

The realist in me knows that no species lasts forever.
The optimist in me hopes that human beings will be an exception to that rule.
The pragmatist in me just rolls up her sleeves and tries to effect small change where she can.
2506) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1674947)
Posted 7 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
🐾🐾


Cute!!!
2507) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1674925)
Posted 7 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Then Humans need a Warp/Space drive, since there are earth type planets out there..

That would be lovely, but in the meanwhile let's educate people world-wide and put policies in place at home and abroad that raise standards of living so that people have more hope and fewer babies.
2508) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1674919)
Posted 7 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think that the best thing we can do to protect wildlife is to find kind, gentle and supportive ways of limiting the population growth, and with time reducing the total population, of our own species. We human beings are far too successful a species. We threaten the existence of wildlife, the health of our planet and ultimately the very survival of ourselves.
2509) Message boards : Politics : We have the results ..... (Message 1674908)
Posted 7 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In a democracy, the people get the government they deserve...
2510) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1674881)
Posted 7 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Typical trigger happy USA police. Bastards.

+100


I agree that it was very unfortunate that the cat had to be destroyed, but Chris please know that mountain lions tend to eat joggers now and again. Would you want your niece jogging in a park if a mountain lion had taken up residence there?
2511) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1674880)
Posted 7 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I see your raccoon and raise you two raccoons!


I'll see your two raccoons...


And call.
2512) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1674853)
Posted 7 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I see the win, and raise with a post.

I'll see your post and raise you a raccoon...

2513) Message boards : Politics : We have the results ..... (Message 1674818)
Posted 7 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sirius my good man, that is the best post I have seen for many a year :-)))))

The sign truly made me laugh as well. Very funny post.
2514) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1674816)
Posted 7 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Can you see me winning?
2515) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1674786)
Posted 7 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
:( But also :)

Aw!!!
2516) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1674745)
Posted 7 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mountain lion killed by police ouside of Omaha business


Poor animal :(

+1
2517) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1674742)
Posted 7 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...There also this Finn. Eric Korpela. ...

Yes, Eric's father's side is from Finland and Eric and I enjoyed a wonderful trip to Finland with Eric's parents a few years ago. Finland is a beautiful country full of lovely people.

Eric's mother's side has been in the USA for more generations, so her side is a mix of many nationalities. The longer a family is in the USA, the less likely that family is to be of a single nationality. Neither Eric nor any of his three sisters happened to marry people of Finnish background.

The same thing happened in my family. All four of my grandparents immigrated here from Italy. Their children all married Italians, but of the eight cousins in my generation, none of us has a spouse whose roots came from Italy.

In the United States, most of us are proud of our multi-ethnic families.
2518) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #60 (Message 1674542)
Posted 7 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Whoops! I'm over-due for picking a winner. Sorry about the delay of game.

Lots of really funny captions. It is always soooooooooooo hard to pick a winner, but still, it must be done.

In third place we have Blurf, who made me laugh so much by posting, "Hey it's a raccoon version of Lucky Charms!"

In second place is Miz Julie with her wry caption, "I'd rather you brought me your garbage bin but this will do for now.."

But first place indisputably belongs to Monday, who really understands how raccoons roll, as evidenced by his hilarious post "Egads...These things aren't edible."


PM going out to our winner now...
2519) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1674540)
Posted 7 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I know some product producers actually pay for shelf space for their product just to block others.

Yes, and that "payment" can come in many interesting ways - coupons, rebates, advertisements, product subsidies and outright "you scratch my back, I'll scratch your back" deals that product producers make with large grocery outlets.

Product producers play hardball, but then again so do large grocery outlets. The product producers want to move product, but the grocery outlets know that product producers have to go through them to get to us, the consumers.

In these Big Leagues, both sides typically know what they've got and what it is worth. As an outsider occasionally peeking in, I find grocery politics to be absolutely FASCINATING!!!
2520) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1674532)
Posted 7 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...Oops perhaps this is off topic or other:)...

Nothing is "off topic" in the Critter Cafe!


We joke about our neigbours Finn stereotypes such as this.
They Think it's very funny.


Racial and ethnic stereotypes certainly have the potential to be very offensive. If the Swedes and Finns both think that the stereotypes you have posted are funny, then perhaps that is because there is not an imbalance of power between the Swedes and the Finns?

In northern Wisconsin, where Eric grew up, it happens to be Norwegians and Finns who make lots of jokes about each other. Neither group appears to be very offended by these jokes and I suspect that it is because both groups of people are relatively equally successful, economically and politically, in that area of the country.

As a species, we human beings are great categorizers. There must be something deeply tribal hardwired in our DNA that makes most human beings see the world as "us" vs "them". Throughout known history our species has classified ourselves by race, religion, sex, nationality, clan, caste, cultural identity etc, etc, etc. It is only when there is an imbalance of power between two groups that stereotypes stop being jokes exchanged in a fun, playful, good-natured fashion between friends, and instead become offensive tools of oppression.
2521) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1674531)
Posted 7 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...Everybody knew they were both made by Frito-Lay. so I thought it was really weird when they came out with ridged Lays, competing with their own sister product Ruffles. ...

I can answer this one for you. It is all about shelf space. By having two ridged potato chip products on the shelves simultaneously, the parent company, Frito-Lay, got more shelf space for its products, which ultimately made the parent company more $$$.

It is the same reason that there are now about a billion types of Coke. Coke wants to fill the soda aisle with their products. They don't really care which of their products we buy, as long as we are buying their products and not the products of their competitors. Every time Coke introduces a new product, it generally results in Coke getting more shelf space for their products, with less shelf space being left for competing products. This is also why large grocery companies often buy smaller companies. It can also be the reason why a company sheds certain lines of products. If they have been edged out of the shelf-space race, it might no longer be profitable to compete with certain products. The profit margin in groceries is not as high as you would think. Companies tend to make their money by moving volume.

My baby brother, Mark, got a business degree from Berkeley years ago and since then he has had an interesting career working for a very large food company. It is an absolute RIOT to go grocery shopping with Mark because he knows so gosh darn much about the politics of shelf space and product location in a grocery store.

I always learn something interesting when I go into a grocery store with my brother.
2522) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1674202)
Posted 5 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Going fishing :)

Looks like lunch was more fun to "catch" than to eat.
2523) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1673900)
Posted 4 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That is definitely where the smart money lies!
2524) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1673898)
Posted 4 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In: 169.2 lbs
2525) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Star Wars day. (Message 1673896)
Posted 4 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...And always remember: Han shot first!;-)

+1

Happy Star Wars Day, dear friends.
2526) Message boards : Cafe SETI : R.I.P. Grace Lee Whitney a/k/a Yoeman Janice Rand (Message 1673894)
Posted 4 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
2527) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1673892)
Posted 4 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Best of luck to our Canadian critters in this time of war! :)

This is very sad to me.
2528) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1673646)
Posted 3 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Little bit of the win.


Now when you're feelin' low
And the fish won't bite
You need a little bit o' soul
To put you right...
2529) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How Old are You compared to what this photo website says you are? (Message 1673644)
Posted 3 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
NOT and NOT

Whoops! Sorry. Wrong website...
2530) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The science of Red Hair (Message 1673642)
Posted 3 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Red heads are supposedly more intelligent, may have a temper, have a lower or higher tolerance for pain..





2531) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The science of Red Hair (Message 1673636)
Posted 3 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Cinnamon raccoon
2532) Message boards : Cafe SETI : New Royal Baby is a girl! (Message 1673633)
Posted 3 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...You should have asked me 9 months ago :-))))))...

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2533) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1673630)
Posted 3 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Back at the bottom, and WINNING, while thinking about the word "Monotony" :-)


Just breaking the tedium...

(Better?)
2534) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1673600)
Posted 3 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just breaking the monotony...
2535) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1673465)
Posted 3 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We have a new skunk living under our deck. I don't know what happened to Purvis. Our new skunk is smaller and his (her?) name is Stripey.

What, didn't like stinky for a name? :-)

We already have a kitty cat named Stinky Lou. I didn't want to confuse our pets.
2536) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1673282)
Posted 3 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We have a new skunk living under our deck. I don't know what happened to Purvis. Our new skunk is smaller and his (her?) name is Stripey.
2537) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1673279)
Posted 3 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2538) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #60 (Message 1673277)
Posted 3 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hint: All the captions are very funny so far, but I think several people missed something obvious. Look very carefully at exactly what is at the bottom of that tub of water....
2539) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1673210)
Posted 3 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Thanks, but I'd rather have an apple...
2540) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1673208)
Posted 3 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The thing what surprised me is the test for rabies. They can only make it after they're dead?

I would guess that it is not the only way, but rather the cheapest way. And it sounds like they were planning to euthanize the raccoon whether or not it was rabid. Raccoons can be rabid, but they are infrequently so. Rabies, at least in our area here in Northern California, is more common in skunks and bats.
2541) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1673207)
Posted 3 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2542) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1673191)
Posted 2 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That was sort of a quick win for you, wasn't it...
2543) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1673190)
Posted 2 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How sad to hear that they had to euthanize the raccoon.

And for those who still wish to have "indoor raccoons", please think again.
2544) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1673187)
Posted 2 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did someone mention raccoons?

You rang?????
2545) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1673174)
Posted 2 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ta Daa!!!!, she responds.
2546) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1673172)
Posted 2 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not for long, friend.
2547) Message boards : Cafe SETI : New Royal Baby is a girl! (Message 1673171)
Posted 2 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Such happy news! Congratulations to the happy couple and to a happy nation.
2548) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #60 (Message 1673169)
Posted 2 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.

My dear friends, please caption this:
2549) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Interesting place to visit in London (Message 1672918)
Posted 2 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
London as that is where I will spend most of the week. Side trip to Windsor Castle, Stongehedge with 1 full day over to Paris via the Eurostar. Probably not as much time as I would like but it's what I could manage.

Work related trip, or purely vacation?
2550) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's give us a caption #60 (Message 1672916)
Posted 2 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ladies and gentlemen, please remain in your seats until the captain has turned off the seat belt light.
2551) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1672915)
Posted 2 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2552) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1672379)
Posted 1 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2553) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Interesting place to visit in London (Message 1672346)
Posted 1 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I agree but Greece was lucky that the Elgin Marbles is now preserved.
Limestone together with "acid" rain has already destroyed lots of the Parthenon.

Yes. I understand the complexities of both sides of this controversy.
2554) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1672337)
Posted 1 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Usurping the crown...
2555) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Interesting place to visit in London (Message 1672336)
Posted 1 May 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I know you asked for off the beaten track recommendations, but if I may put in a plug for one obvious thing, you really should see the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum... (before the British Museum is finally shamed into returning them to Greece)
2556) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1672224)
Posted 30 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2557) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Louie Louie singer Jack Ely dies aged 71 (Message 1672089)
Posted 30 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
2558) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Calvin Peete, winner of 12 PGA Tour events, dies (Message 1672088)
Posted 30 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
2559) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1671845)
Posted 30 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Target destroyed..

Escape pod activated.
2560) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1671841)
Posted 30 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...And of course rats...
The mammal thats have largest population in the World after the humans....

That surprises me. I would have thought that rats out populate humans.
2561) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1671761)
Posted 30 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Closing in on My target..

Encroaching upon and deftly appropriating Vic's target...
2562) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1671705)
Posted 29 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Meals on Wheels... Alaska-style
2563) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1671685)
Posted 29 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sue, perhaps this is the answer to your question?

http://www.ibabuzz.com/garybogue/2012/07/10/what-is-this-light-colored-hummingbird/

This condition may also account for Snowball, my blond raccoon.
2564) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1670948)
Posted 28 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Michael Jordan rookie shoes sell for more than $71K at auction.
Win.

Good grief!!!
2565) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1670932)
Posted 28 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok BD, what's the new number, and
how is it related to Grimm?


LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2566) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1670852)
Posted 27 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In this morning: 170.0 lbs.
2567) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #237 It's a Grimm night! (Message 1670849)
Posted 27 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations on your win, BladeD!!!

My turn next...
2568) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #236 In 793, a Viking raid on Lindisfarne BD wins!! (Message 1670702)
Posted 27 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I like big wins and I cannot lie...
2569) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beer Drinkers thread part 25 (Message 1670695)
Posted 27 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...Raccoons(found one living under the seat of my boat :)...

We're everywhere, you know.
2570) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #236 In 793, a Viking raid on Lindisfarne BD wins!! (Message 1670689)
Posted 27 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Incurable insomniac win!
2571) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1670500)
Posted 26 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gary I am so impressed by this happy bird news! I would have guessed that given their high metabolism, hummers would need to be fed too often for them to be kept easily/successfully in captivity. Your friend must be a very talented and dedicated animal rehab person.
2572) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Man shoots computer in Colorado Springs alley... (Message 1670196)
Posted 26 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"Conquest is easy. Control is not."
- Captain Kirk
2573) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #236 In 793, a Viking raid on Lindisfarne BD wins!! (Message 1670192)
Posted 26 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Excuse me. Is this the line for winners?
2574) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1670188)
Posted 26 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What a sad story. I doubt the wildlife rescue shelter bothered to even try and keep such young raccoons alive. It is a shame that the babies could not be relocated with their mother.
2575) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Another Nepal Quake (Message 1669883)
Posted 25 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A terrible tragedy. My heart breaks.
2576) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Don't forget Goodsearch. (Message 1669586)
Posted 24 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And for those of us who would rather have a colonoscopy than spend the day driving around between brick and mortar stores to buy stuff, Goodshop is a nice fundraising option as well.
2577) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1669021)
Posted 23 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoon's like climbing on things do they? :)

A charming story, but no surprise here.

If you can't beat 'em, feed 'em!!!
2578) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1668959)
Posted 23 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'd want one but then again, I'm not too familiar with their habits and ways of life..

They are very dexterous, both mentally and physically. There is not much that a determined (or a bored) raccoon cannot open. You could easily leave for work in the morning and return home at the end of your work day to find your kitchen in shambles, unless you were very, very, very good at raccoon proofing everything. Even then, your raccoon would still probably surprise you.

On top of that, raccoons are even MORE active at night. Imagine trying to sleep with a raccoon opening doors, opening closets, pulling things out of your cupboards and knocking things off of your shelves all night long.

Additionally, smart as they are, raccoons are generally not potty-trainable. Raccoons like to climb up onto things and then poop. An indoor raccoon would be wormed (I would hope) to prevent the raccoon from pooping out roundworm eggs that can be fatal to humans if accidentally ingested, but I STILL would not want an indoor raccoon climbing the bookshelves in our home every time nature calls.

I love raccoons, but I firmly believe that they belong outside.
2579) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1668942)
Posted 23 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This could be me. Someone posted this on my Facebook page.
You can watch with the sound turned down since all you hear
is the TV in the background.

https://www.facebook.com/GustavsDackelWorld/videos/821430094602996/


Who are all these people with pet raccoons???!!!

Very cute video but I STILL don't want an indoor raccoon!
2580) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1667311)
Posted 19 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Please keep us posted on the little guys progress Gary.

Unless he dies. Then we probably don't want to know...
2581) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #236 In 793, a Viking raid on Lindisfarne BD wins!! (Message 1666912)
Posted 18 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hmmmm.........

When were your kids born and congratulations on your win.
2582) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1666820)
Posted 18 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
With the spring season now in full swing, homeowners have to contend with pesky critters on their property and in their homes.

Hey!!! One person's "pesky critter" is another person's "special little woodland friend"!!!

2583) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #235 - TimeLord Style... :-) (Message 1666709)
Posted 18 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
OMG, you have limits??

Eek!! ;)


Yes... and apparently also the humility to make me publicly admit it.
2584) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #235 - TimeLord Style... :-) (Message 1666704)
Posted 18 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning while admitting that my skill set has limits.

Sigh...........
2585) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cooking for real (Message 1666702)
Posted 18 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


(Don't look, Chris!!!)
2586) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cooking for real (Message 1666696)
Posted 18 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Click on the picture and it advances to another, or click on the gallery link at the bottom.


Help me!!! I can't stop clicking!!!

To paraphrase Potter Stewart, "hard-core (food) pornography is hard to define, but I know it when I see it!!!"
2587) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1666695)
Posted 18 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes it is. And I've now held a wild hummingbird. They weigh next to nothing and seem so extremely fragile.

Awesome!!!

How is your friend feeding the convalescing bird? Eye dropper?
2588) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #235 - TimeLord Style... :-) (Message 1666659)
Posted 18 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's a Tudor night!



Not to be mixed up with a tooting night...
2589) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cooking for real (Message 1666657)
Posted 18 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2590) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1666650)
Posted 18 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Many species of birds may be considered partly or exclusively predatory. However, in ornithology, the term "bird of prey" applies only to birds of the families listed below. Taken literally, the term "bird of prey" has a wide meaning that includes many birds that hunt and feed on animals and also birds that eat very small insects.[2] In ornithology, the definition for "bird of prey" has a narrower meaning: birds that have very good eyesight for finding food, strong feet for holding food, and a strong curved beak for tearing flesh.[3] Most birds of prey also have strong curved talons for catching or killing prey.[3][4] An example of this difference in definition, the narrower definition excludes storks and gulls, which can eat quite large fish, partly because these birds catch and kill prey entirely with their beaks,[2] and similarly bird-eating skuas, fish-eating penguins, and vertebrate-eating kookaburras are excluded. Birds of prey generally prey on vertebrates, which are usually quite large relative to the size of the bird.[2] Most also eat carrion, at least occasionally, and vultures and condors eat carrion as their main food source.[3] Many raptor species are considered apex predators.
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Vic, hummingbirds eat flower nectar. They are definitely NOT raptors!
2591) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cooking for real (Message 1666576)
Posted 17 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did somebody mention food porn???
2592) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1666572)
Posted 17 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sounds good Gary. Glad the raptor is getting some mammalian help.


LOL Vic!!! If hummingbirds have suddenly become raptors, we are all going to be in hot water!!!

Gary, I'm glad to hear that your resident animal lover is going to care for the injured bird.
2593) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Have you been to the library, recently? (Message 1666408)
Posted 17 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Well, I know I sort of sound like a Luddite, but I'm not against progress. It's just passing me by while I'm content to be in the slow lane. ...

You are not alone in that slow lane, my friend. I haven't left the slow lane in decades.
2594) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Create a Meme! (Message 1666283)
Posted 17 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2595) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1666220)
Posted 17 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you.

Last Saturday I walked the entire tidal basin where all the cherry trees are in Washington D.C. They were on day one of their 3 day peak. This was my fourth trip to our nation's capital, but it was the first time I had ever had the good luck to get the timing right for those legendary cherry blossoms. It was spectacular!
2596) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #235 - TimeLord Style... :-) (Message 1666196)
Posted 17 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Back from spraying, 1.25 gallons sprayed out of 1.33 gallons, to complete the job I'd need $14.88 more, plus $5.12 for gasoline for the car, it'll just have to do for the moment.


Vic, stop killing everything in sight!!!
2597) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1666192)
Posted 17 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2598) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1666191)
Posted 17 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Hi Friends! I am back from Washington D.C. where I enjoyed participating in a special program where a relative of mine is enrolled in medical school. I hit peak cherry blossom season while in D.C.!!! It was beautiful!!! I walked quite a bit every day, but I also ate heartily... probably a little too heartily.

Tomorrow, back to dieting... Ugh.
2599) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1663328)
Posted 10 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Of course it is not working, Ulibelle, because I am not curtailing my food intake sufficiently.

I will be parted from my computer, my scale and my husband for about a week. The raccoons I'm not worried about. I just hope Ol' Pookers remembers to feed the cats!!!

Bye friends!
2600) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cooking for real (Message 1663097)
Posted 9 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...a traditional sweet roll made...

Now you've got me wanting pastry!!!
2601) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1663079)
Posted 9 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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The gophers were doing a job on my mom's neatly trimmed lawn and some of the bushes were being worked on as well. Last weekend we found a dead gopher and I believe anything that size that can move dirt the way they did would be a real handful for a cat. Unless you have a monster cat, I wouldn't blame your cat for not catching gophers.


My sister was adopted by a stray cat she calls Puddy. Puddy has rid Andrea's yard of gophers, moles, snakes and a wide variety of birds, including in one instance a very large woodpecker. He is a normal sized cat, but he is the busiest little kitty hunter that I have ever seen.

Our former neighbor, Andy, also had a cat who successfully hunted gophers. That cat rid Andy's yard of gophers and had moved on to hunting mine, which really did not bother me a bit, provided that his kills ended up on Andy's porch and not mine. Unfortunately for me, Andy retired from his job and he and the cat moved away. It did not take the gophers long to re-populate the area.

Perhaps the gophers we have in California are smaller than Arizona gophers? They are certainly impressive earth movers, but the gophers we have do not seem to be a match for cats. I believe the reproductive strategy of California pocket gophers involves making baby gophers early and often so that the population is not significantly affected by cats, hawks, traps or the futile strings of curses I direct their way.


Pocket Gopher
2602) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1662874)
Posted 9 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We will have to have Sci-Man Steve weigh in on whether Mister Slithers is a gopher or a garter snake.

My entire back yard is one giant mass of pocket gopher holes. They think my vegetable garden is their own personal Farmer's Market. Out outside cat is a lover, not a mighty mighty gopher hunter. To thwart the gophers, I plant my vegetables in gopher cages. These are basically chicken wire baskets that you dig into the ground. The chicken wire keeps the gophers from eating the major roots of whatever you plant. The cages come in all sizes and last for years.

I do not want to trap or poison my gophers. They are welcome to eat anything in my yard except the vegetables I grow for personal consumption. The gopher cages allow me to draw that line in the sand... (or in the case of our native soil, the clay).
2603) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1662872)
Posted 9 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I did m;y back exercises. I took a 40 minute walk with Maya up and down the hills in our area. I ate too much - 1963 calories.
2604) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1662821)
Posted 9 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I believe that Mister Slithers was a gopher snake. We have both garter and gopher snakes in our area. Mister Slithers was quite a large one. I am not at all afraid of snakes and I found Mister Slithers to be quite beautiful. That picture was taken in our front yard.

Sadly, gopher snakes are not so named because they eat gophers, which we have in great abundance here. They are called gopher snakes because they like to hang out in gopher holes.

@Vic - You should definitely cook for Mary. Women love men who cook!!! Eric cooked pasta for me for one of our early dates. It was angel hair pasta with smoked salmon, chives, lemon zest and a light cream sauce and it was delicious. On a later date, he made me stir fry... which was really more of a braise, but still good. Little did I know the man was a "two dish wonder!!!"
2605) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1662451)
Posted 8 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I did my back exercises. I took two 10 minute walks and one 20 minute walk. Calorie count was higher than ideal (1752 total).

My goal for tomorrow is to hit 3/3 standing goals.
2606) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1662395)
Posted 8 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Mister Slithers, circa 2012
2607) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #235 - TimeLord Style... :-) (Message 1662179)
Posted 7 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Our only visitor this evening was Tiny Tim and he runs away from people rather than towards them.
2608) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #235 - TimeLord Style... :-) (Message 1662175)
Posted 7 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Eric is a very grumpy badger right now...
2609) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1662174)
Posted 7 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hope Steve sees the snake!
2610) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1662173)
Posted 7 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I did my back exercises. I took a 40 minute walk in hilly terrain. Calorie intake was too high - 1964 total. Tomorrow I will hit all three goals.
2611) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1662044)
Posted 6 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes! Wonderful eagle pictures!!!
2612) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1662043)
Posted 6 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In: 170.0

The last two days I did not exercise and I was busy, busy, busy with baking, a very nice surprise visit from a relative and lots of family events. Good thing I was a mostly good little raccoon before the weekend started. At least the scale seemed to be heading in the right direction with this morning's weigh-in.

My goals for today are to do my back exercises, do some aerobic exercise and try and keep my total calories under 1500, despite a special dinner scheduled for this evening.
2613) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #235 - TimeLord Style... :-) (Message 1661311)
Posted 4 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Winning from Barstow. BARSTOW!, mabey not winning.

Last I checked, Barstow is not all that far from Vegas. Vegas, baby!!!
2614) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1661307)
Posted 4 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
They're just bandages Angela, I'd have those around here, but then I grew up with 'looney tunes', like Tas(manian Devil), Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny, among others...

Bandages, or passive-aggressive little comments on my crazy excuse for a hobby??? Hard to tell, Vic. Hard to tell...
2615) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Sarah Brady, Gun Control Activist, Dies At 73 (Message 1661306)
Posted 4 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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R.I.P.
2616) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #235 - TimeLord Style... :-) (Message 1661304)
Posted 4 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
May the 4th be with U. ;)

Dude!!! You're a month early!!!
2617) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1661302)
Posted 4 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dang Sue. Those things have sharp little needle-like teeth. I'm surprised you were willing to pick up an opossum.

On a related note, Eric and I got our rabies booster shots this morning. The travel doctor we formerly used for such things retired, so today we were new patients at a new practice.

On his history form under "Reason For Visit" Eric wrote "Married to a crazy woman."

When I told the nurse that the reason we were getting rabies booster shots was NOT because we were traveling to some exotic locale like India or Sub-Saharan Africa, but rather because I regularly feed urban wildlife in my suburban backyard, she laughed and said that I would get along great with her mother. It was nice of her to say that, but I could not help but wonder if the Looney Tunes band-aid she put on my arm after the shot was a sign of what she was REALLY thinking...

2618) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1661301)
Posted 4 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I woke up at 3am with pain around my right scapula, so I bagged on the back exercises today. I took two 15 minute walks... close enough. I over-ate (2259 calories). My health goal for tomorrow is to do better than today.
2619) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Scarecrow!!! (Message 1660984)
Posted 3 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Amateur!!!

I started getting offers of a senior discount around age 35!!!
2620) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1660961)
Posted 3 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I did my back exercises. I took a 30 minute walk and pulled weeds in my garden for 20 minutes. Calorie check - close enough (1557).

My goals for tomorrow are to
1. Do back exercises
2. Get some aerobic exercise
3. Keep calories under 1500
2621) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #235 - TimeLord Style... :-) (Message 1660943)
Posted 3 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
*puts lock on lunchbox* Ha! That'll stop 'em.

Not much stops a determined raccoon...
2622) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #235 - TimeLord Style... :-) (Message 1660840)
Posted 2 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I have a crew working on some remodeling. One freaked when he opened his door only to find 3 raccoons enjoying his lunch.

Raccoons do so enjoy being treated to lunch!
2623) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Scarecrow!!! (Message 1660836)
Posted 2 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


I have it on good authority that a certain Stetson wearin' forum cowboy is celebrating a birthday today.

Eric and I hope that all of your birthday wishes come true... EXCEPT for that wish about a Husker victory over the mighty Wisconsin Badgers.

Happy Birthday, dear friend.
2624) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1660597)
Posted 2 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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One of my aunts has a fox that hangs out on her roof. It uses a nearby leaning tree to scamper up to and down from the roof. I haven't managed to catch it in a photo yet but more than one person has seen it.
2625) Message boards : Cafe SETI : On the light side a novel use of a Star Trek technology (Message 1660596)
Posted 2 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Eric and I used to laugh about the "cortical stimulators", but then one day I passed by a physical therapy charting area at work and somebody had an article there about cortical stimulators. I don't think they served the same resuscitative function that they did in the show, but P.T.'s apparently do something with "cortical stimulators". How cool is that???!!!
2626) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #235 - TimeLord Style... :-) (Message 1660594)
Posted 2 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning after the late news.

Lost the heel on one of my heavy garden boots today.
We still have a cobbler shop in town, he says he can resole them for $75 and have them ready by Monday. A new pair will cost me over $150, so.....

Winning.


I recently lost a gardening clog to a naughty raccoon!!! They play with my outside shoes and occasionally drag them someplace. Usually I find the missing shoe someplace in the yard, but once in a blue moon my shoe ends up under our deck. New gardening clogs for me! (Fortunately clogs are MUCH cheeper than your boots, Donald.)
2627) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1660593)
Posted 2 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I did my back exercises. I took a 30 minute walk. I kept my calories in check (1402 total).

My health goals for tomorrow are to replicate today.
2628) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A mooooon suit (Message 1660530)
Posted 1 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I HERD that!!!
2629) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A mooooon suit (Message 1660149)
Posted 1 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I think I will STEER clear of this thread for a bit...
2630) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #235 - TimeLord Style... :-) (Message 1660146)
Posted 1 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I survived a day of elder care...
2631) Message boards : Cafe SETI : On the light side a novel use of a Star Trek technology (Message 1660144)
Posted 1 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In how many episodes of Star Trek did we see women in labor... generally at the most inopportune of times!!!

Ok, fess up. When that happened how many of us screamed at the t.v. "Lock on to coordinates and beam that baby out!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
2632) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #235 - TimeLord Style... :-) (Message 1660140)
Posted 1 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Lilliputians...
2633) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #235 - TimeLord Style... :-) (Message 1660137)
Posted 1 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2634) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #235 - TimeLord Style... :-) (Message 1660134)
Posted 1 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
***
2635) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Anthem Blue Cross hacking update. (US Clients.) (Message 1660131)
Posted 1 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Eric and I were part of the hack and we got a letter notifying us. We signed up for the credit monitoring service they offered. I'm not going to worry about it more than at a monitoring level.
2636) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1660129)
Posted 1 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I did my back exercises. I took a 40 minute walk. I over-ate (1794 calories)

My goal for tomorrow is to get 3/3 things right.
2637) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Last Person To Post Here Wins #235 - TimeLord Style... :-) (Message 1660021)
Posted 1 Apr 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
“A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting.”

Looks like we're in for an interesting thread!

Congratulations Time Lord.
2638) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1659670)
Posted 31 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Janice!!! Welcome home, friend.
2639) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1659669)
Posted 31 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I did my back exercises. I took a 40 minute walk. I over-ate (2282 calories).

My goals for tomorrow are the same as the goals I had for today. Maybe I'll get it right...

(Oh food! Why do you have to be so delicious???!!!)
2640) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1659468)
Posted 30 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Go Monday Go!!!
2641) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1659314)
Posted 30 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2642) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1659290)
Posted 30 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In: 171.6 lbs.
2643) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 234 The number was 708, TL wins! (Message 1659141)
Posted 30 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...a new speedo...



Vic's new speedo???
2644) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1659131)
Posted 30 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3/3 goals met today. Total calories 1196.

My goals for tomorrow are to
1. Do back exercises
2. Keep calories under 1500
3. Take a walk
2645) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 234 The number was 708, TL wins! (Message 1658585)
Posted 29 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In other News, would ya believe I've been asked out? I have, by a lady that is 58, Her name is Mary, She wants to take Me out to a Chinese Restaurant, after the 1st of April.

Vic, that is AWESOME news!!!!!!!!!!! Is this one of your Facebook friends?
2646) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1658584)
Posted 29 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Today got away from me. I achieved only 3/5 goals and my calorie intake was very high - 2262.

My health goals for tomorrow are to
1. Do back exercises
2. Get some exercise by starting to put in my vegetable garden
3. Keep calories under 1500
2647) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1658159)
Posted 28 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5/6 goals for today met. I had a larger piece of birthday cake than I needed to have, but I followed the rest of the plan to the letter, with an estimated intake of 1694 calories today, which isn't bad for a family party day.

My health goals for tomorrow are:

1. Only one mimosa with brunch
2. No seconds on any brunch foods
3. Do back exercises after guests leave
4. Do something aerobic after guests leave
5. Cook something healthy for dinner
2648) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1657561)
Posted 27 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I did my back exercises in the morning, walked our neighbor's dog Maya in hilly terrain for a half hour and kept my calories in check - 1321 total.

Tomorrow is the day this train is likely to come off the rails. There is a family dinner party at my sister-in-law's tomorrow night to celebrate the birthday of her father. I know the birthday cake is going to be spectacular... 'cuz I'm makin' it!!! I am also baking a couple of loaves of bread for the party. To make abandoning any diet even more likely, Saturday morning we are having guests over to our house for brunch.

I need a plan to get through Friday night and Saturday morning. I know I won't have time to exercise again until Saturday afternoon after brunch, so I'm just going to focus on not over-eating tomorrow.

One day at a time...

My health goals for tomorrow are:

1. Keep breakfast in the 300 calorie range and lunch in the 400 calorie range, which should give me some "wiggle room" to enjoy the birthday party
2. At the birthday party, have a mineral water or a club soda instead of a cocktail
3. Don't eat any store bought appetizers. They are not worth the calories!!! If there are homemade appetizers, don't eat more than one of anything that is just too tempting to resist.
4. No seconds on ANY dinner items, especially the bread - only go through the buffet line once
5. Continue to sip mineral water through dinner instead of having a glass of wine
6. Do not eat a big piece of birthday cake - keep it in the small-medium range

I'll worry about getting through Saturday tomorrow night.
2649) Message boards : Politics : Airbus 320 crashed in the French Alps (Message 1657070)
Posted 26 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing surviving friends and family members peace.
2650) Message boards : Cafe SETI : R.I.P. John Stecker. (Message 1657069)
Posted 26 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you peace as you grieve the loss of your uncle, Scott.

With love from Eric and Angela
2651) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1657056)
Posted 26 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I did my back exercises in the morning, I took a 30 minute walk this evening and I kept my calories in check - 1153 total for the day.

My health goals for tomorrow are to replicate today.
2652) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1656596)
Posted 25 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I found this on a Bing search here Angela.

So the answer to my question "Can skunks be housebroken?" is essentially "No, but they might get it right just often enough to keep you hoping they can be housebroken."

I'll stick to outside skunks, thank you!!!
2653) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1656594)
Posted 25 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am going to start posting health goals for the next day here, in hopes that posting them will goad me into doing them. I am going to tackle my total lack of will power one day at a time.

Tomorrow my health goals are to:
1. Do my back stretching exercises
2. Do some aerobic exercise
3. Keep my total caloric intake to no more than 1500 calories
2654) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1656538)
Posted 25 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Am I mistaken, or do I recall descented skunks being kept as pets?

I have heard of this too, despite the fact that skunks are particularly prone to rabies. I'm not sure it is legal in all states. Even with regular rabies shots for the skunk, I still would not want a de-scented skunk as a pet because I do not think they are smart enough to be litter box trained. If any Critter Cafe readers have "indoor skunks", please let me know if this is a correct assumption.
2655) Message boards : Number crunching : Some sad news I need to pass on... (Message 1656282)
Posted 24 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Richard, may warm memories of your mother sustain you during this difficult time. Wishing you peace.

Angela & Eric
2656) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Terry Pratchett of Discworld dies (Message 1656264)
Posted 24 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have never read Tolkien...

Dude, you're missing out!!!
2657) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1656263)
Posted 24 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Be my friend???
2658) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1656261)
Posted 24 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Skunks are misunderstood and much maligned!!!
2659) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1656260)
Posted 24 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My weight can vary up to 4 pounds over the day. Thats why I always do my weigh in first thing in the morning before getting dressed or having a coffee. I think it,s the best time for consistent results.

I usually do too. I just forgot this morning.
2660) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1656194)
Posted 24 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8-Year-Old Girl Gets Gifts From Crows She’s Been Feeding For 4 Years



I feed crows. Lately I have been finding occasional pieces of broken glass on top of the soil in my vegetable garden. This article is making me wonder if my crow friends are bringing me gifts.
2661) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1656193)
Posted 24 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
173.2

I am hoping this is just because I forgot to weigh myself this morning and that I am heavier in the evening from having eaten breakfast and lunch and several cups of tea...
2662) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1656192)
Posted 24 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A new stray just showed up at our house. For now I am calling him/her BUOC (Big Ugly Orange Cat). His ear is clipped, which I hope means he/she is neutered/spayed. "He" has a big head and big paws, but he his skinny. Spawnie is a lover, not a fighter. He vocally complained when I fed BUOC today. BUOC actually let me pet him/her, so I doubt it is feral... perhaps a lost pet? We'll see if he starts coming around every day.

Eric will just be thrilled spitless...
2663) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Informativeness (Message 1654805)
Posted 20 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
When I was a kid, my family used to go up to Lake Tahoe for a vacation every August. On the drive up to the lake we used to pass a restaurant called Pow Wow's. This restaurant also had a gas station on the property. Their sign used to read "Eat At Pow Wow's And Get Gas".

That sign made all four of us kids laugh summer after summer after summer.
2664) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1654803)
Posted 20 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(I am actually a fan of Jerry. He is a dedicated public servant.)
2665) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 234 The number was 708, TL wins! (Message 1654800)
Posted 20 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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LOL!!! I see that I stepped in the middle of age jokes.

Congratulations on your win, Ian.
2666) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Think Green (Message 1654799)
Posted 20 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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It looked closer to your first picture, Vic. The recipe I used also called for peas, but since I don't like cooked peas I left them out.
2667) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1654796)
Posted 20 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Lions and Sabre-tooth cats kill in similar fashions, they both went for the throat though Lions and feline Saber-tooth cats are only related to each other by being Felines.


According to a docent at the La Brea Tar Pits, current thinking on saber toothed cats is that they just stabbed their prey where ever they could get a tooth in, and then waited for the victim to bleed out.

Did you know that the Smilodon Californicus is the California State Fossil?

Meow!
2668) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Think Green (Message 1654606)
Posted 19 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I made pasta primavera for dinner on St Patrick's Day... not at all traditional but it was very green since it included asparagus, snap peas, fresh parsley and a little chiffonade of fresh mint.
2669) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1654354)
Posted 19 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Looked at your recipe - definitely a northern style cornbread.

Cornbread is delicious with both meat and vegetarian types of chili. I also like cornbread with grilled meats or with grilled summer vegetables. Cornbread is generally served with butter and honey.
2670) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cooking for real (Message 1654230)
Posted 18 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Well Chris. My brother is like you when it comes to eggs. Vulcanized. Nothing runny.

Bleh!
2671) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1654218)
Posted 18 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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This morning, after hearing all the Mericans talk about it, I decided to try baking corn bread. I found a Betty Crocker recipe on the web and it is very nice.


Northern or southern cornbread, or something in between???

Southern cornbread has very little sugar and is baked in a skillet.

Northern cornbread is very sweet and has a fluffy cake-like consistency.

Personally, I do not like either extreme. I shoot for something in between with a well browned crust, some sugar in it, but not a lot.
2672) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1653969)
Posted 18 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Raccoon Lovers!!!

The party never stops...
2673) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Think Green (Message 1653951)
Posted 18 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Awesome!!! The green beer is on Vic!
2674) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Think Green (Message 1653949)
Posted 18 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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LOL!!! I see that on this special day, everyone is Irish, even raccoons!!!

HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY!
2675) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cooking for real (Message 1653938)
Posted 18 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Oh dear!!! I should have been more specific!!! Sorry, Umpteenth Snark, for misdirecting you.
2676) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I have been impolite as of late..... (Message 1653908)
Posted 17 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Raccoons are offended by nothing!
2677) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cooking for real (Message 1653886)
Posted 17 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I went, flabbergasted by Umpteenth Snark's experience, to my go-to website for awesome cooking, Cook's Illustrated.

There was an article there called "Troubleshooting Hard Boiled Eggs" which I will copy here for you.

After boiling hundreds of eggs, we stand behind our method: Place eggs (large, extra-large, or jumbo) in a single layer in a saucepan, cover with cold water so that the water level measures 1 inch above the tops of the eggs, and bring to a boil over high heat. Remove the pan from the heat, cover, and let it sit for 10 minutes. Transfer the eggs to an ice bath for five minutes and then peel.

Because the eggs cook via residual heat—an extremely gentle method—the whites should emerge fully set but still tender with yolks that are uniformly opaque but not chalky and without green rings around their edges (a sign of overcooking). This is because the eggs are exposed to the greatest heat for a short time at the beginning of the process when overcooking is not a danger. As time passes, the temperature of the water gradually drops and the cooking process slows and eventually halts after 10 minutes, when the water is too cool to cook the eggs any further. (The ice bath doesn’t stop the cooking; it simply chills the eggs for easier peeling.)

If your eggs turn out underdone, it is either because the saucepan and its contents are not getting hot enough initially or they are not retaining sufficient heat. To reach the proper starting temperature, make sure the water has come to an actual boil (large bubbles rapidly breaking the surface) before removing the saucepan from the heat and covering it. To properly retain heat, be sure to use a saucepan with a snug-fitting lid so the water will not cool too quickly, and use the proper amount of water—too little and the temperature will drop too quickly (leaving your eggs undercooked); too much and the temperature will not drop quickly enough (overcooking the eggs). Finally, it is important that the water be cold initially. Warm water won’t take as long to boil, which will shorten the time that your eggs are exposed to heat.
2678) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cooking for real (Message 1653885)
Posted 17 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I just can't believe that grown up adults can't produce a hard boiled egg without following detailed instructions. God, I could do that at age 7 !!!

Chris, eggs are easy to cook, but very hard to cook well. Over cook the eggs and you end up with a sulfurous ring that is unpleasant. Under cook them and they are not what you want.

I tried this method, but alas, somehow got four eggs resembling very much soft boiled ones. Otherwise fine, but soft boiled eggs thoroughly cooled...

Really????

Did you wait for the pan to come to a full boil, not just a simmer???

Did you remember to put a lid on the pot once you took it off the burner???

Did you wait the full ten minutes before removing the eggs from the hot water???

Do you, perhaps, live at a very high altitude that might result in a lower boiling temperature for your water???

I have never had this method fail.
2679) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cooking for real (Message 1653644)
Posted 16 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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4. The second it reaches a boil (big bubbles coming up and bursting), remove pot from stove, place it on a potholder and cover it with pot lid.
5. Let eggs sit in hot water 10 minutes. Set a timer!

That's also a perfect way to cook fish.
Safe cooking we call it:)


I tried to poach fish once and grossly over-cooked it in the wine broth I was using. Next time I will try the off-the-burner approach.
2680) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cooking for real (Message 1653606)
Posted 16 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Yes, the fresher an egg is the harder it is to peel. Eggs that have been sitting around a couple of weeks have air pockets in them that help you loosen the shells when you are peeling the eggs.


I promise you that this method is foolproof for typically sized chicken eggs.

1. Place eggs that are at least a week old in a single layer in a pot.

2. Cover with one inch of cold water.

3. Bring water to a boil.

4. The second it reaches a boil (big bubbles coming up and bursting), remove pot from stove, place it on a potholder and cover it with pot lid.

5. Let eggs sit in hot water 10 minutes. Set a timer!

6. Remove eggs one by one, using kitchen tongs or a large spoon, and place them in an ice bath. Keep them there until they are cooled through.

Peel eggs.

Perfection.
2681) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 233 My car's good for another year:) (Message 1653257)
Posted 15 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Suck, squeeze, bang, blow.....

Merciful heavens!!!
2682) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1653061)
Posted 15 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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...death roll, baby, death roll!

Merciful heavens!!! Poor Kris!!!
2683) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1652967)
Posted 14 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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That bear cub is adorable!!!
2684) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Pi Day everybody! (Message 1652964)
Posted 14 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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The most precise in 100 years

3/14/15 9:26:53



LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2685) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1652963)
Posted 14 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Chris, I know what respect you have for rules...
2686) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1652937)
Posted 14 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I am pretty sure that if there was a risk of something running out of a ditch and eating me, I'd keep a pretty close eye on the ditches.

Alligators, when resting in ditches, did not appear to me to be at all hungry. For example, an alligator spotted in a specific ditch along a highway in the morning was likely to still be there, in the exact same spot, sunning itself around 4pm when we were returning to our hotel from a day of sightseeing. Actually, I've heard that alligators would do very well at cocktail parties. They prefer foods they can eat in one bite! (If they catch something that is larger than a good-sized alligator bite, they wait for it to rot down to a more reasonable size.)

Do we have any Floridian or Louisianan readers of this thread? Am I painting an accurate picture of American alligators???

Anyway, I've heard that to catch something bigger than a large rat or an iguana who has had the bad luck to fall off a branch into a swamp, alligators have to pull bigger prey into very deep water to drown it, like crocodiles do! We've all seen that National Geographic footage, right, where some poor herd of herbivores is trying to cross some section of a river in Africa and all the crocodiles are just lined up there in the river waiting for the weak, the slow and the young tender ones to cross...

In general there would not be enough water in a ditch in Florida for an alligator to drown me, and most of my alligator spotting was safely from inside a car anyway.

Alligators and crocodiles are very, very, very old species. They are like living fossils!

Who WOULDN'T want to look in a ditch if there was a chance of spotting an alligator???!!!
2687) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1652931)
Posted 14 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Or humans, if Bears get the chance to put one on 'the menu', they aren't picky eaters really, since Bears are Omnivores, like people are.

I have come across occasional bears at Lake Tahoe in California and I have seen occasional bears where my in-laws live in Wisconsin. Bears don't really "want" to eat people, Vic. They would much prefer to eat the blueberries you are picking!!! My impression of bears is that they are much like skunks. If you give them a chance to go the other way, you will probably be just fine.
2688) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1652850)
Posted 14 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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A few days ago we saw two "new" raccoons in our yard and one of them was missing 3/4ths of his tail!!! I assume he lost it in a fight or that he had some sort of horrible accident. He looked to be in perfectly fine shape otherwise. Given the tail situation we pretty much had no choice but to call him "Manxie". The other raccoon who showed up with Manxie was soooooooooo big that he reminded me of Cilantro from many years ago. I decided that this other "new" raccoon had to be named Coriander, in honor of Cilantro's memory.

I put "new" in quotes when referring to these raccoons because Manxie seemed to recognize me. When I went outside to put a few grapes out for them, both raccoons bolted, but Manxie didn't go too far. Also, when I opened the window in a back bedroom to talk with my visiting raccoon friends, Coriander looked nervous and backed off, but Manxie just kept eating all the time I was chatting with him. Generally, raccoons who do not know me go immediately under the deck or entirely out of the yard when I open the back window to chat with them.

I have to assume that Manxie, and possibly also Coriander, are former kits that I had socialized a couple of years ago. Manxie might just have more memories of being here when he was a baby. Since they showed up together and left together, Manxie and Coriander are probably sibling brothers. Raccoons who show up by themselves this time of year might be boys or girls. Herman von Vermin, for example, who ALWAYS shows up alone, may very well be a Hermina von Vermina, just stopping by for a quick bite before getting back to her den to nurse her babies. Tiny Tim, who also ALWAYS shows up alone, may well be a Tiny Timathea. Time will tell. Timmy seems young and if she is a girl, she will doubtless have kits, but none of them may survive for very long given her age and size. If "Timmy" comes back next year with a few kits trailing her, we will certainly have to change her name!

Anyway, if Manxie and Coriander are former kits, then it makes me wonder where they have been or why they suddenly showed up for a visit the other night. A raccoon missing most of his tail is easy to identify, and it didn't look like this was a new injury. You would think that with such a distinguishing physical characteristic I would have noticed him if he had visited me as an adult before!!!

Where Old Manxie went after he stopped being a kit in our yard is unknown to me. How he lost his tail is unknown to me. What I used to call him when he was a baby is unknown to me. They look (and act) quite different as adults, so returning kits are very hard to identify as adults, unless they have some very special distinguishing feature like the scar Herman von Verman has on his shoulder or a white raccoon "uni-brow" like one of my kits years ago had. Snowball, for example, was definitely NEVER a kit in our yard. I can say that with complete confidence, as I would certainly have noticed a blond raccoon kit!!!

So what Old Manxie has accomplished, or not accomplished, across the course of his little raccoon life will never be known to me, his human friend.

Raccoons are just mysterious that way...
2689) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1652819)
Posted 14 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Curious people look everywhere, Chris.

Of course I didn't spend the "whole trip" looking in ditches, but alligators are not hard to spot if you know what you are looking for. I even saw a couple of big ones in ditches at the Kennedy Space Center, and of course I saw other amazing things there.

I have seen Miami, the Florida Keys (pre-Katrina) and Orlando. I was told that there are parts of the Florida Keys where one can see alligators on one side of an island and crocodiles on the other, but sadly I never saw any crocodiles.

I did not see any raccoons in Florida, but I'm pretty sure that they were there...
2690) Message boards : Cafe SETI : If you had a Time Machine (Message 1652756)
Posted 14 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I would go forward about 50 years hoping for a cure to prevent spina bifida and then go back to nine months before I was born and give it to my mother.


Adequate intake of folic acid prior to conception and during pregnancy helps reduce the chances of spina bifida. That is one of the reasons we now fortify many breads with folic acid. Maternity vitamins are often recommended to ensure adequate folic acid intake.
2691) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats (Message 1652753)
Posted 14 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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We have a current cord chewer in our house and some of our former kitty residents were cord chompers as well. We used to use a bad tasting spray that is supposed to deter chewing. It works, but it wears out. Also, it gets in the air when you spray it and inevitably you taste it. Eric would always have some land on his beard and it was not a pleasant experience for him. Anyway, I still use the spray on cords when I wire-up my Halloween village, but for day-to-day use we now use "Critter Cord". It is essentially thick plastic tubing that is sliced down the side. You slip cords into it and critters cannot easily chew through it. It comes on a roll and you just cut off as much as you need. It sure beats having the house burn down!
2692) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1652751)
Posted 14 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I have had the pleasure of spending some time in a couple of parts of Florida. If you look in the ditches on the sides of roads there, sometimes you will see alligators! These ditches collect standing water and alligators just hang out there.
2693) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cooking for real (Message 1652750)
Posted 14 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Rainy day here. So I cooked up a good pot of Butter Beans. Seasoned with salt pork, onion, and garlic powder. A big piece of cornbread on the side baked in a cast iron skillet. Yummm.

That sounds delicious!!!
2694) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Terry Pratchett of Discworld dies (Message 1652150)
Posted 12 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I just counted seven of his books on our shelf.

R.I.P.
2695) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1651687)
Posted 11 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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As an aside, this created a lively discussion in the office as to exactly how many cats you had to own before you officially became a Crazy Cat Lady.


I have heard "four" or more, which we had for a couple of years.

I have also heard "double digits".
2696) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1651686)
Posted 11 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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A San Francisco carpenter performed a wonderful act of kindness by freeing a trapped raccoon — and was fired as a result.


I'm glad he did that, even though it came with tremendous consequences. I am actually sorry to hear that he is seeking legal recourse to being fired. I don't think he has a case and I think that such actions undercut the nobility of what he did.
2697) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1651434)
Posted 10 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Uli, doesn't your work group potluck through the tax season? I would think that your office would be wall-to wall chocolate until April 15th!!!
2698) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1651433)
Posted 10 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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When a bird is stunned, I think our outside cat Spawnie thinks that he has caught something.

Once, a few years ago, we came home to a pile of feathers next to our kitchen window. I think a bird smacked itself out cold on the window and Spawnie finished the poor thing off before the bird could fly away.

Spawnie is not a hunter, but he is an opportunist.
2699) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cooking for real (Message 1651280)
Posted 10 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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So are raptors and no they aren't extinct.

Yes. We have a nesting pair of these raptors hunting regularly in an empty field behind our house.


Red shouldered hawk.


(Probably should have posted this in the Critter Cafe and not the cooking thread. I don't recommend eating hawks.)
2700) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1651277)
Posted 10 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I was thinking. If you don't wash the windows so often maybe the birds will see them.

The last bird strike happened with a very dirty window. I had Eric clean the windows so the decals would stick properly.
It was a male goldfinch smack that prompted my purchase of the decals. I don't know if he was defending his territory or if he just got confused by the reflection off the glass.
Thanks for all the responses!

Trichomonas is a parasite that affects many birds.
One symptom is disoriention and a bird who hits a window are often having this parasite.
Most common infected bird is pigeons and doves. Other birds such as domestic and wild turkeys, chickens, finches, raptors (hawks, golden eagle, etc.) may also become infected. The disease in pigeons is commonly called "canker".

So trying to do something with your windows seems meaningless.
Search Engines are my friend:)



When birds strike windows, sadly, they leave a very recognizable round-ish smudge. Our baseline on the kitchen window is a couple of strikes a year. If I still get a couple of strikes this year, despite the window decals, I will take the silly things down.
2701) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cooking for real (Message 1651276)
Posted 10 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I just wonder why 90% of people here are obsessed with food? OK I eat like a bird, accepted. But at the other extreme ...

If 90% of us are obsessed with food, I'm guessing there is something adaptive about being into food. Probably makes us better foragers. Good thing you're not a caveman, Chris. You would probably starve to death.

P.S. Eating like a bird is not what you do, my friend. Birds are voracious eaters!!!
2702) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1651115)
Posted 9 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I was thinking. If you don't wash the windows so often maybe the birds will see them.

The last bird strike happened with a very dirty window. I had Eric clean the windows so the decals would stick properly.

It was a male goldfinch smack that prompted my purchase of the decals. I don't know if he was defending his territory or if he just got confused by the reflection off the glass.

Thanks for all the responses!
2703) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1651112)
Posted 9 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In: 172.2 lbs.
2704) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1650879)
Posted 9 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Does anyone have any experience, good or bad, with window decals that are supposed to prevent bird strikes?

A few days ago a male goldfinch got a serious head injury from smacking into my window. Fortunately the bird lived, but I don't know if he survived for long after such a bad smack. Spawnie had to be restrained while the bird recovered from being so badly stunned. It took the bird about twenty minutes before he flew away. It was traumatizing for all involved - the bird, the cat and me!!! So today I made 'Ol Pookers wash my kitchen windows (inside and out!!!) and then slap up a couple of hawk decals that, according to the all-wise internet, are supposed to deter the birds from trying to fly through my window.

I doubt very much that the birds interpret the decals as actual hawks, but I am hoping, perhaps in vain, that the birds will see something that makes them think twice about flying towards my kitchen.

We have had occasional bird strikes before. It is never the big birds that hit. We have good sized crows, ravens, doves, bluejays, turkey vultures and even actual hawks that hang out in or near our backyard. Never has one of these larger birds met an unfortunate end at the hand of one of my murderous windows. It tends to be small birds, like finches, that get confused.

So bird people... are my decals going to work or am I just obscuring the view out of my back window for nothing.
2705) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1649473)
Posted 5 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Re: White Castle - vintage raccoon footage circa 2007
2706) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1649010)
Posted 4 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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True... a weasle in coach... they usually fly first class.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I might have known that a discussion of crazed weasels (Merciful Heavens!!!) in the Critter Cafe would draw Scarecrow out of the woodwork.

(Welcome home, Cowboy!)
2707) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Tim Hunt/Captain Avatar (Message 1648721)
Posted 3 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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R.I.P.
2708) Message boards : Cafe SETI : R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy (Message 1648720)
Posted 3 Mar 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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R.I.P.
2709) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #59 (Message 1646760)
Posted 26 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Hello funny people!!! There were so many really funny entries that I had a very hard time deciding who would win. After some consultative services from Eric and much deliberation, I have decided to award medals as follows:

The Bronze Medal goes to Zalster for "And now you know why we call it a pound cake!"

The Silver Medal goes to Es99 for "Martha demonstrates some of the money collecting techniques she picked up while inside."

The Gold Medal goes to Michael Roberts for "Quick - it's running your way"

P.M. going out to our winner now...
2710) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #59 (Message 1645867)
Posted 24 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Thank you, Dr. Zalster, for the win!

Since we have a couple of food and cooking threads in the Cafe now, my friends, please caption this:

2711) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 232 - Julie wins! Yer #786!! (Message 1645813)
Posted 24 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Me too!
2712) Message boards : Politics : Your patience levels? (Message 1645678)
Posted 23 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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...I was never going to be clever enough to go to Uni and I doubt very much my parents could have afforded it anyway.

And yet you have accomplished so much! By your very arguments you are either special in some way, or there are layers upon layers of advantages you have had that have helped you to succeed. Maybe those advantages are not immediately obvious to you. Mine were not immediately obvious to me when around age 17 I started to think about such things.

I am not saying that exceptional people do not exist. I am just saying that most of us are not all that exceptional.


...I object where people that could go out and get employment for £X a week in a job they don't fancy, but prefer to get £X-20 a week staying at home, and doing a few hours cash in hand casual work to top up.

Do you personally know people who are like that or are you presuming people are like that? A question for anyone trying to develop a social justice mindset is to ask him or herself - "If people are gaming a system that is unjust, could my pattern of thinking and my pattern of voting be one of the reasons the system is not a better one?"


Why go and work all those hours just for the same money?

Perhaps because being in the work force leaves nobody home to care for my children or my grandchildren. Perhaps because growing up in poverty I have had the "fight" beaten out of me early and often. Perhaps because I have been forced to attend sub-standard schools that will keep me from ever advancing in any job. Perhaps because I don't "look like" or "sound like" the majority of people the manager is hiring. And I am sure that there are many more reasons than those "starter few".



You try to say look, doesn't your self respect and fair play come into that? I pay my taxes for you. They say, can't afford to have self respect mate, costs too much. Then you hear the 3rd kid is on the way, well, gives the missus a bit more family allowance doesn't it. Another beer Chris? Gotta spare fag? Yet that man would literally give you the shirt off his back if he thought you needed it.

Chris I do not doubt your personal kindness and generosity. I have been the recipient of it many times. I suspect that the reasons a poor person might game an inherently unfair system are many and complex and I sincerely doubt that I would be above gaming such a system were I in an unfortunate position. I further guess that the reasons poor women have babies are even more varied and complex.


The benefits system helps those that genuinely need it, but it also makes it too easy to abuse it as well. Its necessarily a balance.

I do not believe that people who are poor are, as a group, less honest than anybody else. I suspect that they just get their dishonesty exposed more regularly. Chris, you know how much I love raccoons. Part of the reason I do is that raccoons are generally out for number one!!! They are a nasty, biting, self-centered species and raccoons are just smart enough to game any system you throw at them... much like people. When I read articles in the paper about "welfare abuse" I wonder why there is not an article right next to it about "insider trading" or "tax evasion" or "social security double dipping". We are all raccoons.


Its a scandal that the minimum wage is less than the living wage and that many employers pay the lower.

On this, my friend, we clearly agree. The difference between us may only lie in the way we cast our votes to change it.


There was a case last year of a Midlands firm having recruit sandwich makers from Europe because white British people thought that sort of work was beneath them, and none would apply. What sort of job is that for anyone? etc etc To someone living in Eastern Europe on the breadline that would be sheer luxury.

There are stories in the papers here that run along similar lines... only in California it is about who picks our strawberries. Instead of taking in these stories at face value, I try to imagine what variables might keep California citizens from going to the valley to pick strawberries. Could it be logistics? Could it be childcare issues? Could it be that despite legislation to prevent it, strawberry growers still manage to game the system and hire people "under the table", certainly at less than living wages and maybe even at less than minimum wages.


It isn't as simple as that is it. Ask the countries on the Northern shores of the Mediterranean how they feel about all the refugees arriving from North Africa. ASk Italy about the same things, ask English Channel ports about the people trade from Northern Europe. Calais police regularly shut down the camps but they spring up again. On sheer humanitarian grounds we do let them in, but that isn't the type of immigration I was meaning.


Sadly, ask people here in our western states how they feel about immigration from Mexico and you will get the same appalling responses. That does not make them good responses.


Have a read of this Benefits

Instead of becoming upset over people gaming a system, I try to ask what series of difficult life circumstances might result in a person feeling like he or she needed to game a system. Or I try to imagine what series of institutionalized unfairness might result in a person feeling like he or she was entitled to game a system.



Oh and as for Colonialism, while the Brits were there, they weren't war ravaged countries, that was afterwards. Uganda & Idi Amin, Rhodesia & Mugabe etc. Look at womens rights in India. The Brits move out and all the locals take over and ruin everything we worked for.

Oh great FSM give me strength!!! Chris, if you think colonialism was a force of good, then I really do not know where to begin. If you honestly think that pumping the resources out of a country, leaving a power vacuum in your wake and then blaming people in a country for "ruining" things is a fair analysis of history, well then Chris you are well beyond any skill that I may have to change your heart and your mind.


...Those leaning to the left seem to want equal benefits for all irrespective of what you put into it, and stifle any ideas of being better off than your fellow man through capitalism.

Not exactly. In my liberal utopia, people accomplish things because they are intellectually stimulated to explore academic frontiers. They achieve personal fulfillment and the betterment of humanity because the resources are there to support each citizen's intellectual and academic pursuits. Ok, ok... I want to live in Star Trek. In the meanwhile, please know that I do understand (given that we are all raccoons) that some elements of capitalism should probably not be thrown out with the bath water.


Those on the right want a basic minimum standard for all whether you are able to put into it or not, but the opportunities to be even better off if you choose, and encouraged to be. i.e. we will support those who want to get on in life. Left wing and right wing views of the world will always be at odds. I am centre right you are strong left. QED

If I had grown up in a family in which only the minimum standard was provided, I would not be the Angela you know.


Having just said that I have renewed my annual Trade Union Retired Grade Membership. Yep been a Union member since 1975. Why? I support collective bargaining, too many companies pay lip servise to Health & safety issues. They have a £1K death grant, you couldn't buy that life insurance for £2 a month!! Hypocrits R us :-)

I, too, am a fan of collective bargaining.


...certainly no history in my mob of scientists, world leaders, famous engineers etc, I wish!...

All four of my grandparents were peasant immigrants from Italy. My maternal grandfather was a garbageman. My paternal grandfather was a baker. My grandmothers made babies.

But here is the difference - my grandparents immigrated to a country where their children could "pass" for white. They raised their children in an Italian "ghetto" that was not an unsafe place for children to play. They sent their children to "ghetto schools" that were actually not all that bad! They immigrated to an area where the economy was booming and they could get menial jobs even though none of my grandparents spoke English or were formally skilled in any areas of employment. They lived in a time when employed people in menial jobs could support a family on one income, thus freeing both of my grandmothers to invest time, effort and energy into their children. They lived in a time when college was affordable for their children. They valued education and believed in the American dream... because for them it existed.

My grandparents were not confronted with life experience after life experience that beat the hope out of them. Sure they had setbacks and even tragedies, but they could also see the upwards trajectory as one by one they sent their children, my parents' generation, to college.

The circumstances of today are not the circumstances of my grandparents' generation.

I know there is more in your post that I should respond to, but you see Chris, my private jet is waiting and I have to get my driver to take my mink stole to the cleaners and darn it, I haven't had my breakfast caviar yet...

Actually I Do have to go.

TTFN...
2713) Message boards : Politics : Your patience levels? (Message 1645555)
Posted 23 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Working for social justice is an expression of patriotism.
Peace on earth.


Yep, I'll go for that, where do I sign up?


Well Chris, you start by examining these positions you espouse:
We have a benefits culture instead of preferring to work
We have too much immigration
Our NHS is a magnet to health tourists
Europe as in the EU are taking liberties
Mainstean Education has gone down the pan
Too many politicians caught fiddling expenses
Proportional representation for the people? Hah!

Chris, everything I am and everything I have accomplished in this life was made possible by me winning the lucky birth lotto. I was born in a country with a relatively good standard of living for many of her citizens. I was born into a family that was not poor. I was born into a family that values education. Change just one of those variables and my life would change dramatically.

Let's start by changing my family to one that did not value education. Chris, would you still be my friend if I lived in a poor community where jobs were in short supply? Would you be my friend if I found a job, but was not prepared to compete for it? Would you be my friend if I were not suitably prepared to hold a job, even if you got me into a program that gave me a job? If I failed in any of these areas would you simply write me off and tell me that clearly I preferred to receive social benefits than to work. Would you be able to understand that I would prefer to receive social benefits than to starve... or watch my children starve?

Let's change another variable of my life and imagine that I was born in another country. Imagine I was from a place where I was living in abject poverty. Imagine I was living in a country that had been ravaged by colonialism. Imagine I was living in a country in which war raged all around me. Would you really look me in the eyes and say "Go away Angela, you are not wanted here."

Chris, go down your list and imagine somebody you care about in all of the positions you disparage... or better yet, imagine that you yourself were in all of those difficult positions.

Chris, it is so easy for me to look in the mirror, smile at myself and say, "Wow. I have special gifts that have allowed me to accomplish so much. I have worked so hard and now I have justly earned everything that I have. Anybody who has a crumb less just hasn't worked hard enough, because I am sure that opportunities are out there for all." But you know what, Chris? When I do that, I am lying to myself.

It is much harder for me to look in the mirror and say, "I am not special. If I have accomplished anything it is because I had lots of help and support every step of the way. Sure I worked hard, but harder than everybody else??? - definitely not!!! Everything that I have and everything that I have accomplished is due directly or indirectly to the circumstances of my birth. If I have maximized my human potential, it is only because I was born well on my way to maximizing it."

The playing field is not level Chris. Understanding that is the foundation of a social justice mindset. I wish you a successful journey. I am still working on mine...
2714) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #59 (Message 1645525)
Posted 23 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Matt always wondered what Eric and Jeff did when Matt had to go on tour...
2715) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1645496)
Posted 23 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh sure Chris and Angela, rub it in. ...


Sorry Bill.

If it is of any consolation, when I ventured outside I found it to be surprisingly windy, so I had to go back inside and find a light sweater.
2716) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Miggins Magnificent Mouthwatering Mouthfuls (Message 1645476)
Posted 23 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Muriel dear, welcome home.

You would have been so proud of me yesterday. I baked Eric a batch of cupcakes, but then when I posted about them, one rather cheeky fellow actually had the audacity to ask me if "cupcakes" were a euphemism for something.

Of course I haughtily replied that sometimes a cupcake is just a cupcake!!!

All in all though, I suppose I am just grateful that my husband was at home all weekend enjoying my cupcakes, and not out and about trying to procure a little muffin.
2717) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1645382)
Posted 22 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is a soft spring day outside and buds are opening on my plum tree.

I am going to go outside and enjoy their beauty.
2718) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I lost a bet....part II....the rest of the story. (Message 1645379)
Posted 22 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If I were an alien, I am not,...

Thank you, Celt, for clarifying that!!! Had you, too, been from another planet, I think I would have been on the verge of agreeing with a dear friend who said elsewhere, "We have too much immigration".
2719) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I lost a bet....part II....the rest of the story. (Message 1645352)
Posted 22 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Banishment is a tool that moderators use when they need relief from a poster who is taxing their patience unduly. Different moderating teams have different levels of collective patience.

I know that some of you will be up-in-arms because this does not seem "consistent" or "fair" to you. This is, I suspect, because you see banishment as a punishment. Please free yourself from this notion if you can. Banishment is only a tool that our moderators are free to use, or not use, at their discretion.
2720) Message boards : Politics : Your patience levels? (Message 1645349)
Posted 22 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
To suit me I'll have the law changed then. Okaaaay, I iz a Fedual Baron, gotta gun, wanna argue?.

Mr. Schwarzeneger is not nearly as popular in reality as he is in his own mind. I sincerely doubt that we will change our constitution to accommodate his political aspirations. Still, it is important for a democracy to be able to change its rules. We did it to outlaw slavery, for example, and also to allow women to vote. We tend to reserve constitutional amendments for big issues. Mr. Schwarzeneger, despite his history as a body builder, is not a "big issue".



We have a benefits culture instead of preferring to work
We have too much immigration
Our NHS is a magnet to health tourists
Europe as in the EU are taking liberties
Mainstean Education has gone down the pan
Too many politicians caught fiddling expenses
Proportional representation for the people? Hah!!

Wow. I shall leave it to citizens of your own country to debate these issues with you but Chris, as an outsider looking in, your positions do come across as "harsh".

Were I a citizen of the UK, I sincerely doubt that I would share a political party with you.



But I will support my country as a principle and stand up for it, whilst admitting to all it's faults, and I do not see any criticism as insulting, merely informative.

Nobly said and a position, regarding my own country, on which we agree.

And to my fellow countrymen I say that just because I do not fly American flags from a gas-guzzling truck with gun racks on top of it does not mean that I am not a deeply patriotic citizen. Social-conservatives do not have a monopoly on patriotism. They just happen to be good at grabbing the media spotlight for their demonstrations of patriotism.



For a self confessed fairly hard line left winger, to get stirred into a patriotic frame of mind is indeed quite an achievement, wow!

Working for social justice is an expression of patriotism.

Peace on earth.
2721) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Off to bed now...night night and sweet dreams everyone :) #5 (Message 1645201)
Posted 22 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodnight Scott.
2722) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 232 - Julie wins! Yer #786!! (Message 1645197)
Posted 22 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning without racoons tonight.
I think?




Think again...
2723) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1645185)
Posted 22 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just because Angela is a woman, it does not mean she is obliged to enjoy your attentions.

I sincerely believe she does not.

As long as I am a mod here she has the right to post unpestered.


Thank you Es. Your assessment is 100% correct and I greatly appreciate your moderating intervention.
2724) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1645167)
Posted 22 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And another thought Mark...

I would be happy to set up a crowd funding site to fund counseling services for Ms. Lori. Women who remain in relationships with men who treat them disrespectfully often have a history trauma and abuse. If Ms. Lori feels she could benefit from counseling, but finds that funds are a barrier, I would be happy to help.
2725) Message boards : Technical News : Latest Astropulse Status (Message 1645159)
Posted 22 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the update Pookers. You may now have a cupcake.
2726) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1645157)
Posted 22 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mark, I do hope that Ms. Lori regularly reads your seti posts that pertain to her and that pertain to other women. I would hate for Ms. Lori to be ignorant of your feelings in all areas. I would be happy to send her links to your posts.
2727) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #59 (Message 1645039)
Posted 21 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
These are not the droids you are looking for.
2728) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #59 (Message 1645036)
Posted 21 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lord Vader hired scabs when the droids went on strike...
2729) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #59 (Message 1645035)
Posted 21 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Aren't you a little short for a Storm Trooper?
2730) Message boards : Politics : Your patience levels? (Message 1644998)
Posted 21 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, since you asked - changed to eliminate the electoral college altogether, with spending caps in place for ALL political races from school board all the way up to President of these United States.

In fact Gary, since you have made me queen of the country for a day, I think I would like to see government funded elections. (GASP!!!) Now wait a minute, hear me out... Government funded elections would eliminate spending by special interest groups and SIMULTANEOUSLY put a cap on spending for all candidates. It might also result in more candidates who are not independently wealthy seeking public office.

And before I get off of my queenly throne, let's make election days federal holidays to help equalize the ease of voting across citizens.

Gary, regarding your "crazy alternative", what makes you think that special interests would not spend, spend, spend to get "their" people into the electoral college? Sounds like a really good way to end up with 535 corrupt people to me.
2731) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1644990)
Posted 21 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
San Jose is not too far from us at all. We can easily meet folks down there for a meet if Miz Julie has some free weekend time... Eric's schedule permitting and the health of my mother, who is terminally ill, also permitting.
2732) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1644832)
Posted 21 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Are you ready for your close-up?

Join Raccoon Lovers and see what all the fuss is about.
2733) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1644830)
Posted 21 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2734) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 232 - Julie wins! Yer #786!! (Message 1644828)
Posted 21 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Boo!

So predictable...

I but learn at the feet of the master, dear friend.
2735) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Carol Ann Susi has passed away. (Message 1644812)
Posted 21 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
2736) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #59 (Message 1644810)
Posted 21 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You can't blame the poor thing for being thirsty!
2737) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 232 - Julie wins! Yer #786!! (Message 1644805)
Posted 21 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Boo!
2738) Message boards : Politics : Your patience levels? (Message 1644703)
Posted 20 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The president is indirectly elected by the people through the Electoral College.

Problem No.1


True, and a national embarrassment if the popular vote is not consistent with the Electoral College. This system harkens back to our love of states rights and personally, I would like to see it changed... but Problem No. 1??? I think not.
2739) Message boards : Politics : Your patience levels? (Message 1644679)
Posted 20 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You guys don't get a choice, one bolshie State Governor and you all do as you are told. Heck, even "has been" film stars will do at a pinch.

Nonsense!!! In addition to the senators and representatives who represent us in the federal government, we have a state legislature made up of elected representatives. We also have a judiciary branch at the state level. And please do not forget that people elect the governor and can just as easily elect somebody else the next time around. On top of that, counties and cities have local governments to deal with local issues.

Chris, I assure you that there is nothing "fief-ish" about the way we rule ourselves!!!

Sure we have had some "has been" film stars govern our state. One even went on to become president. I always say that in a democracy, the people get the government they deserve. Sometimes the people make silly choices, but they are our choices to make and the people have the ability to change things up, should they grow wiser.

So please stop insulting our form of government or I shall have to point out that you people still have a "House of Lords".

I do declare Chris, you bring out the jingoist in me... and given my political leanings that is not an easy thing for people to do!!!
2740) Message boards : Politics : Your patience levels? (Message 1644586)
Posted 20 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Actually it is statements like this one that make me laugh:

...America is NOT the UNITED States it brags about and hasn't been for centuries. They are just a disparate collection of fiefdoms and Lords of the Manor which we gave up in the Middle ages. But you have to understand that a country as large as theirs simply cannot be controlled by a single central government like ours is. It has to be devolved, but in so doing they lose control over it. The entire UK could fit into the state of Texas nearly 3 times.

Lovely country geography wise, lovely people, crap political system, duff culture.


I have never seen my country as a collection of fiefdoms and Lords of the Manor. We just happen to be a country with a history of states rights, because what works for Iowa may not be right for... say, New Mexico.

I will admit that you will find some conflicting laws. For example, unless posted otherwise, I can turn right on a red light out here in California. (Now other states have something to be jealous of besides our sunny weather.) But Chris should know that we have federal laws that cover the "big stuff".

Sure we are currently immersed in what the media loves to call the "culture wars", but come on!!! Our country survived a civil war. Our current "culture wars" are NOTHING compared that.

To quote our president, "The state of our union is strong."
2741) Message boards : Politics : Your patience levels? (Message 1644548)
Posted 20 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Simple answer, stick two fingers up and ban all imports of goods from those states. When it REALLY hits their pockets then they will learn. Want to give me a list of these States? I'll write to their Governors quite happily. Any reply I get will be sent to the British national press.


LOL Chris!!! No poisoned pen letters are needed. Farmers in other states have a simple choice - sell their eggs to our very populous state by complying with our new law, or don't. There is no egg shortage here, just higher prices.

You have such a draconian view of our country!!! I have traveled extensively in my country and I have never encountered the animosity that you so frequently post about. I assure you that our states are quite united.
2742) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Best womam,Megan, in the world rescued me. (Message 1644545)
Posted 20 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think Facebook is one of the most god awful things ever invented in the modern world, it will go down in history as infamous as the black plague.


Let's see... a pandemic that resulted in the deaths of 100 million people, or Facebook...

Sorry Chris, but I must side with Facebook on this one.
2743) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 232 - Julie wins! Yer #786!! (Message 1644143)
Posted 19 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Time Lord, I saw a really funny t-shirt the other day and immediately thought of you.

The shirt read:

What do we want?
TIME TRAVEL!!!
When do we want it?
IRRELEVANT!!!
2744) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1643905)
Posted 19 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you peace, Suzie-Q.
2745) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1643904)
Posted 19 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Awesome, Monday!!!
2746) Message boards : Politics : Your patience levels? (Message 1643116)
Posted 17 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eggs are "suddenly" more expensive in California because we voters passed legislation to improve the living conditions of chickens. California voters in 2008 approved a law backed by animal rights advocates to get egg-laying hens out of cramped cages and put them, by Jan. 1, 2015, in larger enclosures that give them room to stretch, turn around and flap their wings. So as you can see, this legislation has recently been fully implemented. It now costs more for farmers to have chickens and so the cost of eggs has gone up. You cannot sell eggs in California that come from other states unless these chicken living conditions have been met. You can imagine just how thrilled farmers in other states are with us...

Even with the price increase, eggs are still a relatively inexpensive protein compared to most cuts of beef, lamb and pork, most cuts of poultry and most varieties of fish and shellfish. Beans and lentils are still cheaper and probably better for us, but they don't make good brownies, cakes and cookies.
2747) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1643104)
Posted 17 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A true Gentleman does not disclose where lost ladies undergarments might be found.

Rule 34C
Page 197
Swashbuckler at Large

Errol Flynn
©1938



LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2748) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1643102)
Posted 17 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A completely occluded ear canal is still only a conductive hearing loss and as such it cannot give you more than a 60 decibel hearing loss, maximum. Actually losing as much as 60 decibels just from ear wax would be very unusual and for it to happen in both ears simultaneously would be even more unusual on top of that. Generally it is kiddos with serious middle ear involvement who get those 60 decibel conductive losses. Ear wax is part of your outer ear.

With a conductive hearing loss involving only the outer ear (assuming you don't have infection or something else nasty going on in your middle ears and assuming that your inner ears are working fine) you should still be hearing decently via bone conduction across all the speech frequencies. When you say that you are suddenly "80% deaf in both ears" that is very concerning.

Anyone who experiences a sudden and unexpected hearing loss should seek medical attention.

Chris, get thee to an ENT if you can, or beg the nurse for a sooner appointment. It is not physiologically possible to have a hearing loss as severe as what you describe from ear wax alone.
2749) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1642956)
Posted 16 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You aren't saying you're a micronized Meltrandi(a female Zentradi) are you Angela?

Darn Vic. I was hoping nobody would notice...

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In: 1.73 axe-handles wide
Thank you, Donald, for giving me a new goal...
2750) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 232 - Julie wins! Yer #786!! (Message 1642753)
Posted 16 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Vic!
2751) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1642751)
Posted 16 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
OMG!!! Are you people still talking about my unmentionables??? I should know better than to reference undergarments on Valentine's Day in a forum full of lonely men!!! And Chris, how in the world did you find that picture???!!!
2752) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1642748)
Posted 16 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...We have a lot of rabies cases in this area, and
the skunks are one of the biggest offenders. ...


Yes, skunks are far more likely to be rabid than raccoons. I have read that it takes a while for skunks who are incubating rabies to show signs of it. This means a non-symptomatic but still rabid female can transmit it to her babies before they are born, so lots of skunks are actually born rabid, but without obvious symptoms. As a species, they manage to reproduce themselves before succumbing to the disease, which I guess is one way of "beating" the disease. Skunks are certainly not endangered, at least in our area.

If I see a skunk, I'm leaving the area. ...And, I did just that when I saw a skunk at Angela and Eric's. I quickly got up and went inside the house.

LOL!!! I'm surprised you only saw one skunk!!!
2753) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1642167)
Posted 15 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Listen very carefully, thongs as in plural, one on each foot. Thong,singular. Being a sexy garment,preferably worn by spunky women like Angela. :-)

Oh puh-leeze!!! I wear bleached white granny underwear in size mumbo-jumbo. You could surrender a fort by running my undergarments up a flag pole.
2754) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1642165)
Posted 15 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
To know me is to love me...
2755) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1642160)
Posted 15 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
When a skunk raises his tail and puffs out the fur on his tail...

RUN!!!!!!! :)


No, no, no, no, no!!!!!!!!!

A skunk will first raise and puff out his tail. If you continue to bother him, he will run away. If he has no place to run because you have been stupid enough to corner him, then he will do a little angry dance that involves stepping and stomping in front of you. If you are another skunk, he will scream at you. If you still persist in bothering him, he will turn his little hiney-end towards you and continue his stepping and stomping dance. If, at this point, you continue to act towards the skunk in a manner he considers to be aggressive AND the skunk has absolutely no place to run or hide, THEN AND ONLY THEN will you need a sponge bath using hydrogen-peroxide.

Anybody who gets sprayed by a skunk has done something stupid. Skunks do not instinctively "want" to spray you. That would disarm them. They mostly want to warn you to keep away from them.

Smart people sometimes do stupid things around skunks. We have a friend who has a PH.D. in physics. She is a smart lady. A little skunk wandered into her kitchen through a pet door. What she SHOULD have done was shut the skunk in the kitchen and wait for it to find its way back outside through the pet door. What she did instead was try to shoo the skunk out the pet door by banging on a pot with a large metal spoon.

She got sprayed.

Her kitchen got sprayed.

The skunk spray took the paint off of her dishwasher. It is powerful stuff.

I do not blame the skunk for spraying. I blame our friend for doing something stupid around a skunk.
2756) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1641893)
Posted 14 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
When a skunk raises his tail and puffs out the fur on his tail he is still light years away from wanting to spray you. With tail raised and fur fanned, all a skunk is saying is "Hey you!!! Did you happen to notice that I am a skunk? Perhaps you should give me a wide berth. Now leave me alone, I'm busy doing skunk stuff... like eating or nosing around until I find something to eat."

If I want to take out the garbage and Puffy, Little Stinks or ole Purvis is out on my patio eating birdseed, I have to work hard to get the skunk to even notice me and go under the deck. It is not enough to pound on my back door before I go outside. Most of the time I have to actually go outside, clap my hands loudly and stomp my feet on the wooden deck before one or more skunks will notice me and go under the deck. You've heard of Dances With Wolves? Just call me Dances With Skunks.

I am on a mission to get people to better understand skunks. They are beautiful animals who are terribly misunderstood.

A skunk is far more likely to spray another skunk than he is to spray a person. The males get a little territorial in the spring, and in California our "spring" can start in late January or early February. A couple of weeks ago my in-laws were visiting us. My mother-in-law and I were in the kitchen stacking dinner dishes and it was probably around 8pm. I heard two high pitched screams and I knew that two male skunks were "having words" in my backyard. I immediately ran outside to clap, stomp and give them a piece of my mind. It was just what was needed to distract them. Purvis went immediately under the deck and the invading skunk ran under our fence and out of our yard. When I went inside my mother-in-law was confused. She didn't know what in the world I had done. When I told her that I had gone outside to break up a skunk fight, she looked at me like I was a crazy person that her son should never ever have married.

Anyway, my goal that evening was to keep Purvis and the invader from spraying each other in my backyard. When skunks spray each other in our backyard, we generally smell it indoors for about half a day. I broke up the skunk fight by startling both skunks and it worked exactly as I knew it would work. My mother-in-law should have been impressed, not aghast.

Sometimes I don't get outside fast enough to break up a fight. Uli was visiting one time and a couple of skunks got into it in our backyard. By the time I noticed the screaming, one skunk was already chasing the other skunk and sure enough, eventually one of them must have gotten cornered and he sprayed.

It took me a long time to notice and to be able to consistently identify the sound of male skunks screaming at each other.

Poor Purvis has to work hard to defend his territory. He tolerates visits from Puffy and Little Stinks, and he even lets them run under "his" deck if they are startled, but he does not allow them to live down there. Little Stinks generally enters and exits out of the back of our yard and Puffy usually enters and exits from the left. Purvis knows a good deal when he gets one and he has no intention of letting some other male muscle in on his territory. Purvis has never had babies. That is how we know that "he" is a "he".

So the next time you encounter a skunk, don't freak out. Just be still and enjoy the experience. If the skunk even notices you, he will move one. If he doesn't notice you, you will be treated to a wonderful urban wildlife experience.
2757) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1641712)
Posted 14 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Animal control would have euthanized the skunk in the name of protecting the employee. That is why Eric and I knew we had to free the skunk ourselves. Skunks only spray as a last resort. After years of observation, I feel that Eric and I both know how to "think like a skunk". We were very nervous when trying to free the skunk, but we were successful in releasing it without harm to it or to us.

The strangest thing was that we trapped the darn thing around 2pm on a Sunday. Skunks are not supposed to come out during the day, and generally they do not, but this one had clearly not read the handbook. We knew better than to try trapping feral cats at night, so we only had the trap baited and set open on weekends between 10am and 3pm.

I think the skunk we trapped was a permanent resident under our back deck, as Purvis the skunk is now. When we set up the kitty trap on our deck, I think the little skunk below was just too tempted by the smell of food to remain beneath the deck until nightfall.
2758) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 231 - Vic Wins!!!! (Message 1641654)
Posted 14 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Shoud have expected that.
Will be in your area this weekend. Pt Reyes tomrrow, then Napa for a few days.

Both are lovely places.
2759) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1641653)
Posted 14 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I once trapped a skunk in one of those fix-our-ferals humane live traps. Working together we managed to release the skunk without either one of us getting sprayed, but if you catch something that is black and white and doesn't go "meow", we can give you tips on how to get the darn thing out of your cage.
2760) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1641526)
Posted 13 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Happy Valentine's Day, Critter People!!!
2761) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 231 - Vic Wins!!!! (Message 1641115)
Posted 13 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yep.
2762) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1641095)
Posted 13 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
230 pounds in my Too Too...



What a coincidence... me too!!!
2763) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1641093)
Posted 13 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
91.9kg with shorts and thongs. :-)

Please oh please assure me that when you say "thongs" you are referring to your sandals.
2764) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1641092)
Posted 13 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I love making Cherries Jubilee and other things you get to flambe. I keep chimney matches near my stove because you never know when you might want to ignite your food. Eric always gets nervous when I flambe dishes and he says stuff like, "Did you remember to pay the fire insurance bill?"
2765) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 231 - Vic Wins!!!! (Message 1641027)
Posted 13 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oranges, rum, popcorn, Uli's lasagne and now Fritos... I'm doomed!!!

Win.
2766) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1641025)
Posted 13 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...rum, oranges, popcorn - that's a strange diet young lady - but I think I'd could grow to like it





Second thoughts, I like rum, oranges and popcorn so already do like it :-)



Let's face it. What we both really want is a slice of Uli's lasagne!!!
2767) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats (Message 1640527)
Posted 12 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ulibelle and Anniet, wishing you peace as you mourn the loss of your special friends.
2768) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1640525)
Posted 12 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
ARGH!!!! Now I want popcorn!!!
2769) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 231 - Vic Wins!!!! (Message 1640524)
Posted 12 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yep what?
2770) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1640521)
Posted 12 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You could donate via PayPal. I have an account. My email
there is sme617 (at) gmail.com

I just had Eric transfer funds from us to cover the spaying of two female cats. Happy trapping!!!
2771) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1640520)
Posted 12 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If I saw what is described in this article, I'm pretty
sure I'd puke.

No photos, but there is a video that won't play unless you
use Flash.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/02/10/la-health-department-takes-action-after-local-supermarket-sells-raccoons-as-food/



Humans are omnivores. Different cultures eat different foods. Much as I love my little woodland friends, I do not stand on any moral high ground that would allow me to object to the sale of raccoon meat. I eat a wide variety of farm animals, lots of things that swim and bugs (in my ketchup). I also wear leather shoes.

My only concern about raccoons as food is that they are carriers of a deadly roundworm. If anyone decides to eat raccoons, cook them thoroughly!!!
2772) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The last survivor of the U.S.S. Arizona died. (Message 1640518)
Posted 12 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
2773) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1640517)
Posted 12 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...I don't have a microwave...

You don't have a microwave. I don't have a cell phone. I think we must both be charter members of "Ye Olde Fuddy Duddy" society!!! We could have a convention in a phone booth, if only there still were phone booths!!!
2774) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 231 - Vic Wins!!!! (Message 1640510)
Posted 12 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric had the shingles years ago - very painful. When our pharmacy offered the vaccine we both decided to get it even though we were not yet in the targeted age range. We had to pay for it out of pocket, but felt that it was money well spent.

Winning by not having shingles!!!
2775) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cooking for real (Message 1640509)
Posted 12 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The recipe with the oranges sounds amazingly delicious!!!
2776) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I lost a bet... (Message 1640263)
Posted 11 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Mark and other readers of this thread,

Thank you, Mark, for posting your comments. Despite your kind and gracious words, I have been convinced by the very persuasive arguments of others that this thread is in bad taste.

I will ask that a moderator lock it, but not hide it, as I wish there to be a public record that you were not personally offended by my extremely poor attempt at humor. Once locked, this thread will die a natural death and I promise to at least think twice before posting in such a rude fashion again.

Mark, please know that now, and always, I wish you well.

Angela K.
2777) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1640205)
Posted 11 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Suzie-Q, please set up a funding link. Eric and I would like to pay for the spaying and/or neutering of two cats.
2778) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I lost a bet... (Message 1640201)
Posted 11 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If Mark objects I will immediately pull the plug. It was my impression that Mark was sort of enjoying the attention, but if I have misinterpreted his feelings then this thread will be swiftly closed.

Celt, when you say "Come On Global Warming", I personally find that sentiment to be disgusting, but I have come to accept the fact that my participation in a large international forum comes at the price of being occasionally offended by the words and behavior of others. So after bringing up my discomfort once to you, I now just "deal with it" when you express your opinion about snow in Canada.

Again, the call here is Mark's.

If Mark objects I will lock the thread, ask that the whole fandango be hidden, apologize to Mark and ask for his forgiveness.
2779) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I lost a bet... (Message 1639977)
Posted 11 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends. I am a little late in paying my debt this week. I have been away from home tending to a sick relative who is now doing better.

Mark, I see you survived another week. Good for you!


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2780) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Miggins Magnificent Mouthwatering Mouthfuls (Message 1638802)
Posted 8 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This recipe should be considered as a "single serving", and should not be shared with anyone else...

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2781) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1638801)
Posted 8 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Tahini can be purchased in most large supermarkets, at least in this area of California. It is an ingredient you use to make homemade hummus. Za'atar is not a common supermarket spice blend up here, but it can be found in some specialty markets and it can be purchased on-line. It is a common ingredient in middle eastern style flatbreads. Red kuri squash is not a common supermarket ingredient, nor have I noticed it in the Farmer's Market I frequent, but there must be local sources around this area. I think that red kuri squash is the squash that is commonly used in Thai restaurants when you order "pumpkin curry". If I am correct in that assumption, there have to be local sources because that curry is a very common menu item in local Thai restaurants. Dried chickpeas can be found in health food stores in our area. I have seen only canned chickpeas in my local supermarket.

If I made that soup, I would have to make something else for Ol' Pookers to eat. He won't touch a squash for love or for money.
2782) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cooking for real (Message 1638703)
Posted 7 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
P.P.S. washing up the frying pan isn't easy unless you put boiling water and wash=up liquid into it immediately after serving...

I make things using homemade caramel sauce frequently. The key to cleaning the pan is to let that puppy soak. Fill with water and let sit until everything has dissolved. Time is your friend when it comes to cleaning up caramel/toffee sauces.
2783) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1638699)
Posted 7 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That soup looks and sounds fabulous, Vic.
2784) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1638689)
Posted 7 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We are so sorry for your loss, Uli.
2785) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1638055)
Posted 6 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL Vic!!! If my scale could talk it would say, "One at a time, please."
2786) Message boards : Politics : Hi. I'm Alex and I am an INTJ. (Message 1637915)
Posted 5 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
ugh, not following anymore... Can someone be empirical pleaze?

Ok. How about this? The position of the earth relative to the sun on the day of your birth has a direct effect on the outside temperature of all your future birthday parties.

(Cue spooky music please...)
2787) Message boards : Politics : Hi. I'm Alex and I am an INTJ. (Message 1637808)
Posted 5 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There is a silly little routine that I do whenever friends and I go out for Chinese food. At the end of the meal I turn over everybody's tea cups, spin the cups three times with great dramatic flourish, flip the cups over and then "read" everybody's tea leaves.

I'm sure there is something to this because tea leaf reading has been around for centuries and on top of that I rarely get a "wrong message" when I read the tea leaves. In fact, Chris, I can do this over the internet and I am going to read your virtual tea leaves right now!!!

*turns over e-cup*
*spins e-cup three times*
*affects a facial expression of deep concentration, accented with a mild hint of puzzlement*

Chris, the tea leaves show that some of your digital pictures are better than others. When you are out driving around this week, you will be mildly distracted by cars with interesting features, especially vintage cars. You will be tempted by something in a pastry shop, but once you order it you will not manage to finish the whole thing. In addition, the tea leaves show me that travel is in your future.

OMG, I have such a gift!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2788) Message boards : Politics : Hi. I'm Alex and I am an INTJ. (Message 1637796)
Posted 5 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Chris: What's your sign?

Angela: Neon

2789) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1637595)
Posted 5 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That lasagna looks interesting. As for the double down dog, that's just an odd concept to me.


Bleh. I love vegetables, but vegan raw "lasagne" is 100% wrong.
2790) Message boards : Politics : Hi. I'm Alex and I am an INTJ. (Message 1637507)
Posted 4 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I want a good unbiased 3rd party opinion. My god, the fruit-loops in this world that wont get out of bed unless their personal astrologer says it is ok are legion. I would never go to that degree, but I do think there is something in it.

And that, dear friend, is what they are banking on.


So when mediums take the gullible to the cleaners that's okay, but when i pose as the gasman to pensioners that's a crime?

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2791) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1637216)
Posted 4 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you peace, Julie.
2792) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1636834)
Posted 3 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh shoot... today was Monday, wasn't it.

I'm not weighing in until the Monday after Eric's parents leave, and it is not going to be pretty.
2793) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I lost a bet... (Message 1636830)
Posted 3 Feb 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends!!!

Eric's parents are visiting us this week, so I can't be around much to play here. I just stopped in to settle my gambling bets...

You gave $10.00

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Your confirmation number is 151288


...does Eric know about Angela's gambling habit?

I have vices far worse than this one!!!
2794) Message boards : Politics : I have been slimed.. (Message 1634568)
Posted 29 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
... Delicious, Tasty Slime Made Me WONDERFULLY So ...

Oh Mr. Screaming Again, how lovely of you to drop in!!!

I do not post often in Politics, but I lurk from time to time and in doing so I have stumbled, again and again, upon your charming posts.

As it pertains to the contents of this thread, I am terribly concerned about your health. While I have no doubt that you get plenty of daily exercise stacking chickens and excavating tunnels under bridges, I fear your dietary habits may be negatively impacting your health status. You see, your posts consistently convey to readers a sense of discontent. I suspect that your steady diet of slime may lack sufficient quantities of dietary fiber, for clearly to be as grumpy as you are all the time, you must suffer tremendously from a state of chronic constipation.

Please know, dear Screaming Again, that as a true-blue, Obama voting, healthcare loving, atheist, feminist, destroying America from the inside out, educated elitist, pinko-commie, tax and spend liberal, I would GLADLY suffer the burden of increased taxes if it meant that you, poor dear, had improved access to government subsidized fruits and vegetables.
2795) Message boards : Politics : Your patience levels? (Message 1634566)
Posted 29 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...Of course, being British, i never actually say anything in the last three situations. I just quietly seethe and write a stiffly-worded letter in my head that will never be posted

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
God save the Queen!
2796) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1634461)
Posted 29 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What a beautiful animal!
2797) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats (Message 1634445)
Posted 29 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How Cats end up with 9 Lives

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2798) Message boards : News : Prof. Charles Townes has passed away. (Message 1634442)
Posted 29 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
2799) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #230 - Superbowl Sunday!!! (Message 1634440)
Posted 29 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A win for Charles Townes RIP

Yes. RIP Charlie.

I had the pleasure of meeting him on several occasions. He attended seti parties regularly. Up until about 6 months ago, Eric used to still see him regularly at work. He was a great guy, a fun person, a senior citizen who was not the "rocking chair on the porch" type, and a man who truly deserved his Nobel Prize.
2800) Message boards : Politics : I have been slimed.. (Message 1634421)
Posted 29 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Isn't the problem that a lot of foods that we like are ones that combine fats and sugar, chocolate, ice cream, cookies, sweets or fats and salt, bacon, burgers, sausage, chips and fries.

I read also, but forget where, that although generally the population has moved to reduced fat milk, that we are consuming more cream.


Mmmmmmmmmmm!!!! All of the above items sound delicious. Here's my plate!

Yes, clearly many of us need to eat less and move more, but some things stand out as being especially bad for us. Trans-fats have been shown to be particularly detrimental to health. High fructose corn syrup is metabolized by our bodies in a manner that is particularly detrimental to health. Excess salt consumption can raise blood pressure, which can lead to a variety of health problems.

Good public health intervention might involve some taxes and regulations, all while hammering home the message that all of those yummy substances we want to eat in great abundance need to become special treats we enjoy every now and again, rather than items than are part of our daily diet. We need to change our relationship with food.

I do think that cooking at home more would help curb American obesity, but who can blame the lower-income single parent, exhausted after a long day's work, from taking the family through the McDonald's drive-thru for dinner? Poverty and a poor quality diet go hand and hand. I've seen it time and time again - preschoolers from upper middle class homes have yogurt, apple slices and gluten free crackers put in their snack bags. Preschoolers growing up in poverty show up swinging a bag of chips.

I don't know that there is any one solution that will improve the American diet. I just happen to believe that we owe it to ourselves to try putting some public policies into place, to see if they help. Smoking tobacco is a pretty addictive thing, yet Americans largely kicked the habit. Food is more complicated. We can't kick food, but perhaps we can change our relationship with it.

I recently had the pleasure of looking at some old photographs with my elderly mother. She showed me pictures of my grandparents - all slender people. She showed me pictures of her wedding in 1962. Most of her wedding guests were what I would consider to be of "normal weight", with a few people here and there who might be considered "chubby". My mother had a large wedding. There were 300 people in attendance. I did not see one person in any of her wedding photos who I would consider to be obese. Yet fifty two years later, a quick google of "CDC - obesity" landed me this tidbit taken from the Journal of the American Medical Association:

"More than one-third (34.9% or 78.6 million) of U.S. adults are obese."
2801) Message boards : Politics : I have been slimed.. (Message 1634386)
Posted 29 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Next thing we know there will be a trans-fat tax. ;)

LOL!!! Things are certainly moving in the direction of outlawing trans-fats altogether in our country, and corporations sure do know it!!! Trans-fats are much harder to find in foods than they were ten years ago. Large food corporations saw the writing on the wall for that one and they have gotten out of the trans-fat business fast!!!

I am the grocery shopper in our household. I don't buy a whole lot of prepared foods, but I do walk store aisles and notice trends. Remember those stickers that used to proudly proclaim "No Trans-fats!". They worked short term as a marketing ploy, but now trans-fat use is so reduced, across the board, that even these stickers are harder to find.

I love food and trust me, I have the pudge to prove it. But sadly, we are a very unhealthy nation. We have lost our taste for real foods. We have lost our ability to cook for ourselves. We have munched our way into a public health obesity crisis. Sit outside of any mall in America and just people watch for an hour. Those of us who are chubby sure outnumber those of you who are lucky enough to be slender. And have you noticed that popular food shows on tv are styled to mimic spectator sports. "Cupcake Wars" and "Cut-throat Kitchen" and "Man vs Food" do nothing to teach any of us to be better home cooks.

Our country is ripe for a food revolution and I hope to live long enough to see one.
2802) Message boards : Politics : I have been slimed.. (Message 1634378)
Posted 29 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A sugar tax is a nice idea, but perhaps needed at least as much is a salt tax.

I believe there are some grassroots movements for this.

My baby brother works for a very large food corporation and companies such as his appear to be getting a little nervous regarding the possibility of mandated sodium reductions in processed foods. Smart money is going into R&D to find ways to lower sodium content and still produce cheap tasty things that people will buy.

Large corporations would like the good PR associated with looking like they are voluntarily being mindful of our health. They are also afraid that grassroots movements will turn into larger movements, and that these will lead to more sweeping legislation.

I'm not really sure why corporations fear sweeping legislation for sodium reduction. If lower sodium becomes "the law of the land", it will hit companies relatively equally. Presumably all soup makers will have similar guidelines, all chip makers will have similar guidelines, all frozen entree makers will have similar guidelines and so forth.

Right now, with voluntary sodium reductions, companies run the risk of having their products taste "worse" than their saltier competitors. No company wants to lose customers, or the brand loyalty that goes along with people who purchase prepared foods regularly. If we retrain our national palate to lower levels of sodium, eventually we might even get used to food tasting like food, and not salt! (I have a dear friend who salts every bite of food she takes. It is terrifying to watch her eat. If ever a palate needed retraining, it is hers!!!)

If I were a big food company executive, I think I would favor sweeping salt legislation over pressure to voluntarily lower salt content in processed foods. Level the playing field so that nobody has an unfair advantage, and remind us all that food should not necessarily make you thirsty!!!
2803) Message boards : Politics : I have been slimed.. (Message 1634288)
Posted 28 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ian, the sugar tax is very much "on topic"!!! It is an example of a local government (Berkeley) levying a tax on consumption of a class of foods (high sugar beverages), because heavy consumption of sugary beverages poses public health risk. The money generated from this tax is supposed to be used to educate and support citizens of all ages in the area of making healthier food and beverage choices.

Berkeley was one of the few areas where that measure passed. I hope the idea catches on. I also hope it works!!!

I know there were, and still are, opponents of this measure. I know there will be some inconsistencies in the execution of this tax. I still think it is a step in the right direction.
2804) Message boards : Politics : I have been slimed.. (Message 1634213)
Posted 28 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And if you want me to get REALLY political, I am all for government funded, single payor healthcare... the kind of healthcare we DIDN'T get with the recent reforms.
(Where is my liberal utopia, gosh darn it!!!

If the government is to be involved in health care, single payer is the only viable option. There is no reason to create a additional layer of bureaucrats in private insurance companies, wall street investment bankers wanting their payout, etc.

I agree that we have been saddled with a hybrid that is not optimal. President Clinton attempted a more radical overhaul and was torpedoed. President Obama decided to try a hybrid first. I hope it moves fellow Americans in the direction of a single payor system.
2805) Message boards : Politics : I have been slimed.. (Message 1634183)
Posted 28 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Without education you might choose to live on fast food and drive up my health care costs.

That should make no difference on your health care costs, because you pay for your health care, no one else does and you don't pay for any other person's health care either.

Oh, wait, you do want someone else to pay for your care, which obligates you to pay for others care (insurance); so now we get your point.


Yes. It is called shared risk, and I am all for it. I am unlikely, for example, to get prostate cancer, but I am willing to pay a health care premium that covers that treatment for others.

I altruistically want all my fellow citizens to be as healthy as each one can be, since people who are not in good health tend to be unhappy people.

I also, selfishly, want all my fellow citizens to be as healthy as each one can be because treatment of illness affects my insurance premiums.

And if you want me to get REALLY political, I am all for government funded, single payor healthcare... the kind of healthcare we DIDN'T get with the recent reforms.
(Where is my liberal utopia, gosh darn it!!!)

Like life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, I happen to think that healthcare is also a basic, inalienable, human right.

Sure such a system might come with a layer of bureaucratic inefficiency, but after having worked 25 years in a hospital setting, I have come to firmly believe that keeping people healthy and treating those who are sick should not be a for profit enterprise.

And while I am standing up here on this soapbox, let me just snarkily say that there was a whole lot of talk where I worked about "productivity", "payor mix" and "reimbursement levels" for what, on paper, was a "not for profit" hospital. Don't let a "not for profit" status fool you. Healthcare is appallingly lucrative business in our country.
2806) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #230 - Superbowl Sunday!!! (Message 1633919)
Posted 28 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think Scott went to bed, Vic.

A little bit of yawning win....

Goodnight friends!
2807) Message boards : Politics : I have been slimed.. (Message 1633909)
Posted 28 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Why do YOU need control?

Because another person's lack of control can impact my life.

Without education you might choose to live on fast food and drive up my health care costs.

Without smog requirements for your vehicle, you might decide to muck up the air I breathe.

Without speed limits you might choose to drive unsafely on the freeway and jeopardize my life.

I could go on, obviously, but you get the general gist.

I am not a control freak, but a little government intervention, taken in moderation, can be a good thing.
2808) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #230 - Superbowl Sunday!!! (Message 1633892)
Posted 28 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

A little bit-o-honey win
2809) Message boards : Politics : I have been slimed.. (Message 1633889)
Posted 28 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
People's FREE Choice.

Understand you don't agree.


If "people's free choice" is a fast track to public health problems, then government intervention in the form of education, labeling requirements, marketing restrictions and regulation may be warranted.

Worked for tobacco...
2810) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #230 - Superbowl Sunday!!! (Message 1633888)
Posted 28 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A little bit of soul win
2811) Message boards : Politics : I have been slimed.. (Message 1633873)
Posted 28 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Correct?

WRONG.


With "Ronald McDonald" playing the game of pied piper to the children, the adults follow too...

I'm sorry you did not get the mandatory classroom lessons in California on how to resist marketing claptrap around the fourth or fifth grade. I can't hear an advertisement now without separating out the hype and discarding it.

P.S. I fully support the Ronald MCDonald House having met people they have helped in difficult times.



Gary, not all people enjoy as fine a mind as you have. I, too, attended California public schools, but I find that I still fall victim to advertising on a shockingly regular basis.

McDonald's markets heavily to children. They do that because it pays.

I have no doubt that the charitable arm of McDonalds, the Ronald McDonald house, provides excellent support to families of sick children. I also have no doubt that regular consumption of cheap, poor quality, nutritionally questionable fast food does not promote health in children or in adults.
2812) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #230 - Superbowl Sunday!!! (Message 1633870)
Posted 28 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You were saying???

If that's a reference to Vic's song link, I don't think we want to know why.

Off to bed Ping!


LOL!!! I was actually enjoying beating Carlos and I hadn't actually noticed Vic's song link, but I went back and clicked. Vic, are you into chess or musicals?
2813) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #230 - Superbowl Sunday!!! (Message 1633820)
Posted 28 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You were saying???
2814) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats (Message 1633819)
Posted 28 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Look at those ears!!! That cat is appropriately named. Very cute.
2815) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My first post... (Message 1633697)
Posted 27 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome. You will find many friends here.
2816) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1633411)
Posted 27 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoon Lovers... it's one party after another

Won't you join us?
2817) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Missing Persons Bureau (a.k.a. The Mother Hens Thread) (Message 1633406)
Posted 27 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Michael, wishing you a full and speedy recovery.
2818) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #230 - Superbowl Sunday!!! (Message 1633279)
Posted 26 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Spam, singed by the smoldering passion that is my love for Ol' Pookers

(And with that, dear friends, I must go...)
2819) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #230 - Superbowl Sunday!!! (Message 1633276)
Posted 26 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Spam cooked with marshmallows on an open fire.

Spam cooked with chestnuts roasted on an open fire...
2820) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #230 - Superbowl Sunday!!! (Message 1633270)
Posted 26 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Spam cubed and threaded onto toasting forks, to be later enjoyed s'more style with graham crackers and pieces of chocolate bar by a host of cherubic scouts at Camp Runamuck
2821) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #230 - Superbowl Sunday!!! (Message 1633262)
Posted 26 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Spam wrapped in banana leaves and buried in a roasting pit for 6 hours, next to a whole suckling pig, for serving with poi at your next luau
2822) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #230 - Superbowl Sunday!!! (Message 1633256)
Posted 26 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Spam toasted by supernova remnants in the interstellar medium
2823) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #230 - Superbowl Sunday!!! (Message 1633251)
Posted 26 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Spam cooked on a spit hung over the fires of Mount Doom...
2824) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #230 - Superbowl Sunday!!! (Message 1633245)
Posted 26 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Spam under glass
2825) Message boards : Politics : Hi. I'm Alex and I am an INTJ. (Message 1633243)
Posted 26 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bet none of you can get the test to evenly split on even one of the 4 dimensions.

Maybe you could do that if you just kept every answer in the original/neutral position?
2826) Message boards : Politics : Hi. I'm Alex and I am an INTJ. (Message 1632897)
Posted 26 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
ESFJ
Variant:
Assertive
Role:
Sentinel

You are one of the Sentinels - a reliable and dedicated individual who respects traditions and prizes responsibility. You are known for your enthusiasm, social skills and caring nature.


It seems that I am a good little soldier...
2827) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #230 - Superbowl Sunday!!! (Message 1632894)
Posted 26 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2828) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #59 (Message 1632887)
Posted 26 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Forecast for the week, cloudy with a chance of sharks.
2829) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #230 - Superbowl Sunday!!! (Message 1632885)
Posted 26 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2830) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1632882)
Posted 26 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome home, Gnu!!!

Nice avatar!!!
2831) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1632820)
Posted 26 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sue iz collector of much stuff.

I like dat!!!
2832) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1632818)
Posted 26 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I very helpful!

I clean Sue's kitchen...
2833) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1632814)
Posted 26 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I iz helping Sue clean-up house...

See? Start by sorting trash.
2834) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I lost a bet... (Message 1632805)
Posted 26 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm not really that sad, Vic.
2835) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1632725)
Posted 25 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh... the OTHER Angela!!! Hope she is well.

I hope this isn't going to be like Highlander where you decide there can be only one!

Eric always says that family parties on my side of the family are like an episode of Highlander... people feel compelled to gather, and then lop each other's heads off.
2836) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1632722)
Posted 25 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh... the OTHER Angela!!! Hope she is well.
2837) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1632720)
Posted 25 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm not on Facebook.
2838) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1632711)
Posted 25 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In cold areas raccoons slow down, but they do not actually hibernate. In warm areas such as ours I don't think raccoons notice too much that it is a little colder. Last night Snowball and Aeh-tune visited us. They were pretty active in their search for food.
2839) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I lost a bet... (Message 1632707)
Posted 25 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You gave $10.00

to SETI@home

on January 25, 2015

via Discover
Your confirmation number is 15114
2840) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1632698)
Posted 25 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Sue. While I think that posters here and/or readers of this thread share on-going interest in critters, we don't always have anything new to report.

I guess I could share that the scrub jays I've been feeding now number six and that our chunky little opossum likes stale tortillas.

I'm not sure any of this information is earth shattering, but it's all I've got.
2841) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #230 - Superbowl Sunday!!! (Message 1632135)
Posted 24 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm not energetic at all. Time for me to stop winning and hit the hay.

Goodnight friends!
2842) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #230 - Superbowl Sunday!!! (Message 1632133)
Posted 24 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Vic.
2843) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #230 - Superbowl Sunday!!! (Message 1632131)
Posted 24 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You would be wrong.

Never!

Never say never...
2844) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #230 - Superbowl Sunday!!! (Message 1632128)
Posted 24 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You would be wrong.
2845) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #230 - Superbowl Sunday!!! (Message 1632125)
Posted 24 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Doubt no more.
2846) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #230 - Superbowl Sunday!!! (Message 1632123)
Posted 24 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now is a good time to win.
2847) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #230 - Superbowl Sunday!!! (Message 1632120)
Posted 24 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mornin' Lynn.

Look at me. I'm winning!!!

Are you still winning?


Why yes... yes I am.
2848) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #230 - Superbowl Sunday!!! (Message 1632116)
Posted 24 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mornin' Lynn.

Look at me. I'm winning!!!
2849) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #230 - Superbowl Sunday!!! (Message 1632112)
Posted 24 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
..


I'll see your .. and I'll raise you ..

A challenge by a mere raccoon?


Raise 'em or call me.
2850) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #230 - Superbowl Sunday!!! (Message 1632108)
Posted 24 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
..


I'll see your .. and I'll raise you ..
2851) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #230 - Superbowl Sunday!!! (Message 1632097)
Posted 24 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A belated congratulations, BladeD, on your win.

My turn next!!!
2852) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP Shane. (Message 1632090)
Posted 24 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you peace, Monday.

Wishing Shane's family comfort and peace as they try to understand what simply cannot be understood.
2853) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Man Cave (Message 1632051)
Posted 24 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Well I'm not too modest to post it here!!!

When old boyfriends google my name, THAT is the picture I want coming up each and every gosh darn time!!!

(Unfortunately, what they will REALLY get when they google me is just a bunch of photos of raccoons...)
2854) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Solar Electric Power (Photovoltaic Panels) (Message 1632009)
Posted 24 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
For the time being most small home solar installations have a 20 year payback period. This basically means that allowing for the initial cost up front, and the interest on that capital sum that could have been got if invested, and the savings in energy, it will not save you any "real" money for 20 years.


20 years to repay???!!! Good grief Chris, what kind of return do you get on your investments and PLEASE share with us the name of your broker!!!

All kidding aside, I am not willing to go public with all the details of our financial situation, but I think, dear friend, that you may have over-estimated our installation costs, underestimated our energy costs, underestimated the sun power we have out here in California, and/or GREATLY over-estimated the earning potential of our investment dollars!!!

Chris, I have only been to England once, and sadly our stay was all too short, but I never saw the sun while there and it rained on and off throughout our visit. Perhaps the 20 year payback estimate is one for England?

I am skeptical of the 4.2 year "break even" point estimated for our system, and I will also admit that this estimate does not include lost income on our investment dollars, but your 20 year estimate seems a bit "out there" for our particular situation. I do not think that solar would be quite as popular in our area if people were losing money hand-over-fist.
2855) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Solar Electric Power (Photovoltaic Panels) (Message 1631941)
Posted 23 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...If it is working at 90% you might decide to save the tree, if at 30% then you send out Mr Geek with the loppers....

Mr. Geek does NOT get to climb ladders, loppers in hand. I prefer he not put an eye out, and I know what a power wheelchair costs!!!
2856) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Solar Electric Power (Photovoltaic Panels) (Message 1631777)
Posted 23 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The trees will grow back in time if they don't prune them too hard. You can monitor efficiency to see if and when they might need pruning again.

I'm on the side of the trees, sorry!



I'm on the side of trees as well. Our solar system is supposed to come with a very fancy monitoring system which will tell us which panels are and are not performing at maximum efficiency. (Can you tell I'm married to a geek?)
2857) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Solar Electric Power (Photovoltaic Panels) (Message 1631730)
Posted 23 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We are having our front yard trees trimmed today, in preparation for our solar installation. Eric and I are at odds - aesthetics vs maximum solar efficiency. The poor tree cutters are going to need to be channeling Dr. Phil today!!!

We are also having a half dead pine tree taken out of the backyard today, not for solar purposes but simply because it is at the end of its normal lifespan and I do not want it to come crashing through my kitchen the next time we have a big wind storm. My critters are not going to be happy about removal of that tree, but sadly, it has to be done.
2858) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Amazon Prime (Message 1630493)
Posted 21 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Back to topic.

I don't like a messy garage, but I love messy threads!!!

Tangentially related but still off-topic song...
2859) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1630477)
Posted 21 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are you bringing your famous potato salad to the next potluck?
2860) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #59 (Message 1630353)
Posted 20 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello funny people!!! Time to declare a winner.

Third place goes to Rob Smith with: "My dear, how loverly roses for my birthdy"

Second place goes to Carlos with: "Oh dear. Oh dear."
(Sorry my friend. That one would have taken the gold if you had written "Oh deer. Oh deer." instead of "Oh dear. Oh dear.", but it was still pretty funny as you wrote it.)

First place goes to mrperk, who clearly understood just how dumb herbivores can be when he wrote: "How did you get over there? I don't see a gate."

P.M. going out to our winner now...
2861) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #229: 727 Blade wins!!!! (Message 1630344)
Posted 20 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did I win???
2862) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1629875)
Posted 19 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In: 171.8 lbs.
2863) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Off to bed now...night night and sweet dreams everyone :) #4 (Message 1629669)
Posted 19 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodnight Mr. Sparky. Rest up. I understand that tomorrow might be quite a busy day.
2864) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Man Cave (Message 1629666)
Posted 19 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Maybe Eric is working on an anti-spider computer habitation device and requires the old computers for testing.

If such is the case, and it tests successfully, and Eric patents the device and then makes billions of dollars off of it, you will be the first person I invite to visit us on the private island I will buy with all of Eric's lovely new money!!!
2865) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #229: 727 Blade wins!!!! (Message 1629661)
Posted 19 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
*joins hugg queue* :)

*Stands awkwardly in hug queue wishing people would just stick to firm handshakes or a better yet, a polite nod and a mumbled comment about the weather*

Esme, are you homesick for England?!!!
2866) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Man Cave (Message 1629655)
Posted 19 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is it in the early stages of hoarding? Can it be cured???

No cure is needed, all the stuff in the man cave is there for a reason, and has a purpose.

Right fellas?


In the garage all the stuff appears to be there for the creation of "black widow spider habitat restoration". Black widow spiders really enjoy nesting in old computers.
2867) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats (Message 1629618)
Posted 19 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I visited one of my stranger cousins today. Turns out when two of her favorite kitties passed on she had each of them taxidermed. It was a little creepy.
2868) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #229: 727 Blade wins!!!! (Message 1629617)
Posted 19 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Coffee win.

Shouldn't you be drinking tea?!!! What would Her Majesty say?
2869) Message boards : Cafe SETI : NFL 2014 Season (Message 1629615)
Posted 19 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric is a sad Packer fan tonight...
2870) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Man Cave (Message 1629614)
Posted 19 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Our whole house is a damn man cave. Its full of men and I am a lone female trying to carve a space of nice pretty things amongst a sea of beer cans and dirty socks. :'(

We suffer from "metastatic man cave disease" here. It started with a den full of Eric's junk, then his junk multiplied and metastasized to take over the garage, and now it is creeping into an extra bedroom!!!
2871) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #229: 727 Blade wins!!!! (Message 1629613)
Posted 19 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bedtime Ping!

(As soon as I wipe the cat sneeze off my arm.)


Poor sneezy kitty!!!!
2872) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #229: 727 Blade wins!!!! (Message 1629605)
Posted 19 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome home AnnieT.
2873) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Solar Electric Power (Photovoltaic Panels) (Message 1629599)
Posted 19 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry Vic, I just couldn't let that one... er... uh... "pass". For a moment there I thought our solar energy thread had been converted over to "natural gas".
2874) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Solar Electric Power (Photovoltaic Panels) (Message 1629591)
Posted 19 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh and I do have a very big wind break now, which I didn't used to have.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Vic, my dear friend, you are a national treasure!!!
2875) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1629589)
Posted 19 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hang in there Monday. You are doing great!
2876) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Kittyman (Message 1629585)
Posted 19 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Best wishes to you on your special day.
2877) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #59 (Message 1629399)
Posted 18 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.

My friends, please caption this:

2878) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Just watched the movie "Noah" (Message 1629188)
Posted 18 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Russell Crow...

(Frequently appearing in our backyard are Russell Crow, Sheryl Crow, the politically incorrect Jim Crow, Old Crow, Slow-Joe Crow, Moe-Joe Crow, Heckle and Jeckle. I like crows.)
2879) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #229: 727 Blade wins!!!! (Message 1629167)
Posted 18 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
je suis gagné


LOL!!!
2880) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1629166)
Posted 18 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So cute!!! My sister-in-law would love to have a third baby. (My brother just looks tired all the time...) Anyway, if news of the advent of a new niece or nephew comes our way, I will definitely ask for a link.
2881) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #229: 727 Blade wins!!!! (Message 1628843)
Posted 17 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoon Manga


Goodnight friends!
2882) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #59 (Message 1628837)
Posted 17 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The Exxon Mobile Mars Lander was not on a mission to search for water...
2883) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #229: 727 Blade wins!!!! (Message 1628831)
Posted 17 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Perhaps after she saves all of humanity, grateful people everywhere will buy her outfits that are more seemly.

When you saves all of humanity, you can wear anything you want.

Well maybe, but you cannot underestimate the importance of wearing the correct bra size.

Someone should tell the poor girl to get a proper fitting.

Why is correct bra fitting so important?

Wearing the wrong size bra like she is can lead to all sorts of health problems. How can she save the universe if she has neck pain and headaches?


LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2884) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #229: 727 Blade wins!!!! (Message 1628744)
Posted 17 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Perhaps after she saves all of humanity, grateful people everywhere will buy her outfits that are more seemly.
2885) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #229: 727 Blade wins!!!! (Message 1628739)
Posted 17 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll be darn! She DOES have a job that betters all of humanity!
2886) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #229: 727 Blade wins!!!! (Message 1628734)
Posted 17 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Actually Freezing doesn't involve the clothing at all, but if you'd read the manga at all, you'd know that Angela, but then I don't if you do or not

Vic, I don't know (nor do I particularly care) what a "manga" is. All I know is that this young woman's outfit does not exactly scream "Please notice my brilliant mind, my academic accomplishments, the job I have that betters all of humanity and the fact that I am a scintillating conversationalist..."
2887) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #229: 727 Blade wins!!!! (Message 1628719)
Posted 16 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gosh, I wonder who the target audience is... Could it be adolescent boys and lonely men???
2888) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #229: 727 Blade wins!!!! (Message 1628715)
Posted 16 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

...
...
...


Of course she is freezing. That poor girl is inadequately clothed!!!
2889) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #229: 727 Blade wins!!!! (Message 1628714)
Posted 16 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
They won't let her. Our lot quite like Iams as well, supermarket cat food is total crap .....

Indeed..and it makes our kitten fart quite spectacularly.

You would be surprised that such a terrible smell can come out of something so small.


I would be not at all surprised. That is how our cat Stinky Lou got her name.
2890) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Amazon Prime (Message 1628689)
Posted 16 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...we are on the receiving end of a fairly strong marketing exercise...

And a very clever one at that!!! The cost of Amazon Prime is just high enough for most people to make sure they get their money's worth in a year. While I don't think I particularly spend more money on-line each year because I have Amazon Prime, I do know that I go to Amazon first for my on-line shopping needs because we have spent money getting that "prime" status. I think the truly clever thing about Amazon Prime is not so much that they want you to forget to cancel it. I think the clever thing is that they want you to shop Amazon first... and I do!
2891) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Amazon Prime (Message 1628262)
Posted 16 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am visually impaired and self-limit my driving. It is so nice to be able to shop for things we need from the comfort of my computer chair, and have them show up quickly on my doorstep. We have Amazon Prime and we love it. It more than pays for itself in shipping fees.
2892) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Solar Electric Power (Photovoltaic Panels) (Message 1628214)
Posted 16 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The real question is "Will you now have to do more cooking, to use all this "free" energy?

Oh yes!!!


Reading what she says, that should be what the solar installation produces, not what Angela's household uses.

Yes.
2893) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Solar Electric Power (Photovoltaic Panels) (Message 1627738)
Posted 15 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What will be the expected KW/H output on a good day?

Based on our roof size and orientation our annual energy production is predicted at 6,529kWh. I don't know yet what a "good day" vs a "bad day" will look like. Our array is expected to measure 318 square feet.
2894) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1627634)
Posted 14 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...losing weight isn't always easy...

You will get no argument from me there, dear friend!!!
2895) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Solar Electric Power (Photovoltaic Panels) (Message 1627617)
Posted 14 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I are scheduled for solar installation this coming spring.

If our system breaks even in 5-7 years, I am fine with that.

I would say that you would be doing very well if it did. I assume of course that you have factored in how much interest that you would have earned on the capital sum that you will be paying to have the system installed. But I am quite sure that Eric & you would have carefully researched all this and would not be going ahead unless it costed in within a reasonable timescale.

Californian sunshine is of course quite different from the lukewarm stuff we get here on occasions. I and the raccoons will be interested to to see how things pan out.


We are not going solar with a primary goal of saving money, although of course that is a nice long term benefit! We are going solar because in sunny California it is the right thing to do, if one reasonably can, in order to reduce one's carbon footprint.

A consideration of potential interest earned on capital expended was not part of the calculation that was done by the solar company. They reviewed, with our permission, only our energy bills paid out over a duration of one full year. If Eric and I did not have a primary "green" goal in mind with this installation, we might have taken other factors into consideration.
2896) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1627611)
Posted 14 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, I wish you nothing but success.
2897) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1627546)
Posted 14 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't count calories or weigh My food, I do not do that.

Vic, I understand that you do not want to count your calories or weigh your food, but I can tell you first hand that calories "sneak" in there where you least expect them to be. For breakfast this morning I had oatmeal and tea. You would think that would be a healthy, low calorie breakfast. Such was not the case.

.25 cup of dry oatmeal - 150 calories
1 cup of water - 0 calories
1 tsp brown sugar - 17 calories
ground ginger and cinnamon to taste - negligible calories
1 oz chopped dates - 79 calories
1 oz chopped toasted walnuts - 185 calories
2 tbsps cream - 100 calories

black tea - 0 calories

Guess what Vic? My tiny little bowl of oatmeal was 531 calories!!! Deceptive, I tell you!!! And please note that the lowest calorie thing in my breakfast bowl, besides the water and spices, was the sugar... so PLEASE don't tell me what a difference artificial sugars can make in my life! It was the "yummies" in my bowl, the dates, walnuts and cream, that made my breakfast caloric... (and delicious).

Same deal with the spinach salad I ate for dinner last night. Oh it's salad. It must be good for me. Hardly any calories in spinach salad, right??? Ok, now throw in some diced hard boiled egg, some crumbled bacon, a balsamic vinaigrette and a handful of sauteed shallots and BOOM... my "salad" was over 600 calories.

Vic, analyzing what you typically eat tells you nothing unless you factor in the quantities of the foods you are eating. There is no way to analyze quantities objectively without weighing and/or measuring your food.

A six foot, sedentary, middle aged man weighing 386 pounds takes in 3771 calories a day to maintain weight at that level. Sorry, but math is unavoidable...
2898) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday AnnieT ! (Message 1627516)
Posted 14 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Best wishes to you on your special day!
2899) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #229: 727 Blade wins!!!! (Message 1627248)
Posted 14 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations, Ian, on your win.

Wishing AnnieT a speedy recovery.
2900) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Solar Electric Power (Photovoltaic Panels) (Message 1627240)
Posted 14 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I are scheduled for solar installation this coming spring.

Solar installation is like the wild, wild west out here. The technology is moving fast, there is very high interest in our sunny area and there is not a lot of regulation yet. It took us a while to find two reputable companies to submit estimates. Random contractors call all the time offering to install solar, but if somebody is going to put holes in my roof, I want to make sure they know what they are doing.

The company we are using predicts a break-even point for us in 4.2 years, and yes... I believe our meters will run backwards whenever we produce more energy than we use. This is likely in the summertime, less so in the winter.

I remain mildly skeptical about the 4.2 year break even point. I think the calculations assume that I will have our front yard trees trimmed super aggressively initially and that I will keep them well trimmed all through the growing season. I am not planning to sacrifice all aesthetics in the name of energy efficiency. If our system breaks even in 5-7 years, I am fine with that.
2901) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year From Our Home To Yours (Message 1626960)
Posted 13 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hope you were at least wearing some thigh-highs to keep your legs warm.

Given our temperate weather, California flashers do not bother with such things...
2902) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year From Our Home To Yours (Message 1626875)
Posted 12 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...I just love the mac & hat shot,...

Thank you, but my Halloween costume was supposed to be that of "a flasher", not a private detective.
2903) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1626874)
Posted 12 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh come on, people!!!! I wasn't on vacation that long and when we were in Wisconsin I posted a couple of times from Eric's laptop. Good grief!!!
2904) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1626838)
Posted 12 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We have the same add for farm heroes over here as well... minus the British accent. Poor raccoon!!! He wasn't there to eat vegetables. He was looking for the cat food aisle.
2905) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1626836)
Posted 12 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In: 171.4 lbs

(Whoo-hoo!!! I'm the only person to gain three pounds in 6 months of "dieting". I hope my prize is a cupcake...)
2906) Message boards : Politics : Je suis CHARLIE (Message 1626582)
Posted 11 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I defend free speech, even when it is in bad taste.

Peace on Earth.
2907) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year From Our Home To Yours (Message 1625996)
Posted 10 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It has become an enjoyable January tradition for me to review photos we took last year and then share a few of them with you.

As always, the photos come along with snippets of wisdom from various members of the Korpela family.




To start us out Auntie Angela would argue that while all raccoons are cute, some are cuter than others.




Eva advises that you go places that others do not expect you to go.




Herman Von Vermin (from the comfort of Spawnie's basket) says,
"If you think breakfast in bed is good, you should try dinner in bed!"




Spawnie suggests that you be a lover, not a fighter.




Eric says, "Give us this day our daily play."




Russell Crow says, "Don't be afraid of your own shadow."



Angela suggests that you always be prepared for a FLASH... of inspiration.




Stinky Lou would like you to know that it is no use trying to blend in with your surroundings.




Eva is sorry to report that while it is natural to want to recapture your youth, most of your attempts will fail.




Oh look. A bowl of tangerines. They say that the key to a happy life is making good choices...
Angela thinks that in this particular case, selecting a piece of fruit to nibble on would NOT be a good choice!!!




Happy New Year from our home to yours.
2908) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP Elly May Clampett (Donna Douglas) (Message 1624683)
Posted 7 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP

I wonder if she was a "critter feeder" in real life, or if that was just a character she enjoyed.
2909) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1624680)
Posted 7 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you Vic. I couldn't resist popping in once or twice from a laptop while on vacation, but for the most part I just hung out with family on Eric's side.
2910) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1624671)
Posted 7 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello friends. My scale and I have been parted for a few weeks. We probably should have stayed in closer touch. I stepped on that darn thing this morning and was pretty appalled at what it told me. In my defense though, my mother-in-law's homemade waffles and butter cookies are not to be missed.
2911) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1624670)
Posted 7 Jan 2015 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ang is still recovering from the holidays?

Hello friends! I am recently returned from a couple of weeks in the midwest, where the weather is very cold and the people are very warm.
2912) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1620986)
Posted 31 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Rats???

They aspire to be, but actually just common house mouses... meeses... mice.

We have Norwegian roof rats out here and I'm pretty sure that I inadvertently feed them when I throw birdseed out for my little feathered friends. The only rats we ever see are old, sick, slow ones and even then not very often... but they are out there. They're just stealthy.

Anyway, the "FOM" (Friends of Mickey) have to eat too!!! If we didn't have FOM running around, what would the hawks eat?
2913) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Pizza! (Message 1620984)
Posted 31 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'd have to try that before I could pass judgement, but where's the meat?

Pancetta is Italian bacon.
2914) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Pizza! (Message 1620979)
Posted 31 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cracker thin crust; wood fired pizza oven; bechamel sauce; sauteed pancetta in small dice; caramelized onions; a little goat cheese; sliced ripe fresh figs... when it comes out of the oven, top with a sprinkling of arugula... Heaven!!!!!!!!!!!!
2915) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy B-Day Chris S! (Message 1619166)
Posted 26 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy Birthday Chris!!! Hope you have a day full of celebration and a year full of continued health and happiness.

With love from Angela & Eric
2916) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1618675)
Posted 25 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Merry Christmas, friends.
2917) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1616150)
Posted 19 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There's the Red Devils food cake:


The more common name for the cake you have posted is "Red Velvet Cake". A red velvet cake is minimally chocolate - with recipes for this cake sometimes calling for as few as 2 Tbsps of cocoa powder... which is next to nothing in a batter. That bright red color in your picture typically comes from use of lots of red food dye. Some recipes for a more "natural" red velvet cake might call for the addition of beet juice.

A typical "Devil's Food Cake" is not just a chocolate cake. It is a chocolate cake with a mildly reddish hue, due to the use of cocoa powder interacting with buttermilk (and sometimes baking soda) to make that color. Devil's food cakes are not deeply chocolate, although they taste more "chocolatey" than Red Velvet cakes.

A regular chocolate cake gets its flavor from melted unsweetened chocolate that is incorporated into the batter. (Sometimes cocoa powder is added as well.) Regular chocolate cakes taste more deeply of chocolate than do devil's food cakes and red velvet cakes.
2918) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1616134)
Posted 19 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I didn't know that blond raccoons existed either, until Snowball showed up. In all the years I have been feeding raccoons I had seen only raccoons with typical black/brown/grey/white coloration. A little internet research revealed that I was not hallucinating. Blond raccoons and cinnamon (red) raccoons do exist, as rather rare but normal color variations in raccoons. Blond raccoons are not albino raccoons. As you can see from Snowball's picture, she has the typical markings of a raccoon, just in much lighter shades. An albino raccoon would be white all over with pink eyes.

(And thank you, CC, for the kitten. Eric will be just thrilled.)

As we work on socializing Snowball, I hope to eventually be able to get a picture of Snowball next to Aeh-tune, who is obviously her litter-mate. The two of them have been showing up together lately. Aeh-tune and Snowball are about the same size and each tolerates the other in his/her personal raccoon space, which means they are siblings.

All three of our current "regulars" showed up for dinner tonight. Herman Von Vermin came first and ate all of Spawnie's food. After he left, I put out a little more cat food and I scattered some grapes. (Snowball really loves grapes!!!) Anyway, about 40 minutes after Herman Von Vermin left, Snowball and Aeh-tune showed up.

Aeh-tune was named by our two year old niece, Claire. Eric and I were outside in our backyard one evening with Claire. Aeh-tune had climbed the back of our fence and was peeking over to see if it was safe to come into the yard. Claire pointed at him, lit up like a Christmas tree and exclaimed "Aeh-tune!!!" which is "raccoon" as a two year old would say it. Eric and I decided that was a pretty good name for a raccoon. Claire has excellent raccoon awareness, as I have gifted her with various plush toy raccoons, books featuring raccoons and articles of raccoon-wear.
2919) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats (Message 1616115)
Posted 19 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Poor kitty, I'm not sure how someone did this, but, it makes a great caption...

I don't think anybody actually wrapped that cat up Vic. I think somebody built a clever cat-shaped box with a hole where the head belongs. Then that person waited for his (her?) cat to get into that box. I doubt the tail part of the box is even hollow.

Today I found Eva sleeping in one of Eric's shoe boxes. She had opened a sliding closet door to get in there!

CC, congratulations on the new kitty!
2920) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1616103)
Posted 19 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends and Welcome to the 21st installment of the Critter Cafe.

For anyone who is new to us, this is a place where Critter People come together to chat.

We have two rules for this thread
1. All are welcome
2. Nothing is "off topic"


To start us off, Eric managed to get a picture of Snowball, our blond raccoon, this evening.

Here she is, obviously having more fun!!!
2921) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1616096)
Posted 19 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Friends, Eric has accomplished the nearly impossible task of capturing our lovely Snowball, the blond raccoon, on film. I will begin a new Critter Cafe using the picture of Snowball to start it.

See you all in the new thread!
2922) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1616095)
Posted 19 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Parts of that movie were filmed a couple of hours from here.
2923) Message boards : Cafe SETI : After the end of 2014, I was ready to start a business! ! I wish myself good luck! ! (Message 1616094)
Posted 19 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you great success with your new endeavors.
2924) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1615940)
Posted 18 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My mother made a lime jello salad that used pineapple rings in the the top with cherries in the center of the rings, the lime jello had cream cheese and almonds mixed in, as long as one used premium pineapple it was great, cheap pineapple made for chewy tough rings, yuck.

Canned pineapple is basically cooked pineapple. I suppose that it is possible that the cooking process destroys the enzyme in pineapple (and mangoes???) that causes the denaturing of proteins in gelatin.

Also, it sounds like your mom put the pineapple at the top of the gelatin mold, rather than throughout it, thereby minimizing the contact between the fruit and the gelatin.

Where is our resident chemist, Simon?

Simon, if you happen to come up for air from all of your studies and you know what the deal is with pineapples and mangoes, please educate us on this food science topic.
2925) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1615661)
Posted 18 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Does pineapple make a good pie? Anyone have a recipe for it?

(Just a random thought I had this morning.)

It's considered a citrus fruit, so I doubt it would.


Pineapples are bromeliads. They are not considered to be citrus fruits.

Citrus fruits make excellent pies - lemon meringue, Shaker lemon, key lime etc.

I would not put pineapple pieces in any gelatin based pie fillings. I think that pineapples, like mangoes, have the capacity to denature some proteins. I suspect that pineapple pieces, suspended in a gelatin filling, might turn that filling to soup. I believe that is why pineapple is often used in meat tenderizers and meat marinades.

(Ang. is my name and cooking is my game!!!)
2926) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I'm a little better now (Message 1615112)
Posted 17 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you a speedy recovery.
2927) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Miggins Magnificent Mouthwatering Mouthfuls (Message 1614773)
Posted 16 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Muriel, darling... please know that my beloved Eric is on the strictest of diets and exercise regimes. In fact, he gets his daily exercise working in our orchard, tending to the walnut, almond and pecan trees that grow so well in our temperate California climate.

If my Eric ventures anywhere near your Emporium, do let me know... for then I shall have an excuse to send you some nuts for your holiday fruitcakes.
2928) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1614272)
Posted 15 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bernie, you are the Squirrel Whisperer!!!
2929) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1614269)
Posted 15 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Monday, congratulation on your continued losses!!!

Francis Noel, wishing you a continued recovery and good luck in your upcoming half marathon.

Portly little raccoon weigh-in, after Eric and I were away for a very fun weekend with one of our nephews and one of our nieces: 170.8 lbs.
2930) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1612495)
Posted 11 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2 more minutes of wasted bandwidth on the east end of a west-facing baby possum.

'nother possum



My raccoons are waving to your baby opossum from out here in the west.
2931) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1611864)
Posted 10 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Can we assume you'll be posting photos soon?

Sadly, probably not soon. This raccoon has only visited us twice and she???/he??? is quite shy.
2932) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTGAWUW!!! #0 (Message 1611820)
Posted 10 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations on your win, WezH!!!!!
2933) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1611791)
Posted 10 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Snowball, the blond raccoon, visited us for the second time last night. I couldn't get a picture as she goes under the deck every time I open a window or a door, but I did discover that she really, really, really likes grapes. Last night she ate the grapes I tossed out before the cat food that I scattered for her. Snowball is not a very big raccoon, as adult raccoons go. Perhaps she is still young and will grow a bit more.
2934) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1611533)
Posted 10 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Here's a rarity around here, an XMAS card.

Very pretty card, Vic. Is it from one of your nieces?
2935) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1611532)
Posted 10 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Monday, you are doing great on all counts!!!

Portly little raccoon weigh-in (after a week of extreme baking involving 9 different double batches of homemade cookies and candies for our annual family holiday cookie party yesterday): 170.4 lbs.

Oh dear! Angela I think you need an assistant to do the taste testing on all those goodies. :-)


I have one. His name is Eric. He weighed 135 lbs when we met in 1992. Now he just tries to keep his weight under 200 lbs.
2936) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1611470)
Posted 10 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Zsa Zsa used to love our Boston fern, but alas her love was unrequited.
The fern never loved the cat!
2937) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1610903)
Posted 8 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!
2938) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Merry Christmas and a Happy 2015 Seti@Home Members (Message 1610901)
Posted 8 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lovely. Simply lovely. Thank you.
2939) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1610850)
Posted 8 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Monday, you are doing great on all counts!!!

Portly little raccoon weigh-in (after a week of extreme baking involving 9 different double batches of homemade cookies and candies for our annual family holiday cookie party yesterday): 170.4 lbs.
2940) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A Couple of Thoughts on World Events (Message 1610081)
Posted 6 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm 51 years old. I think it is highly probable that within my lifetime I will see a cure for some of the "easier" progressive neurological conditions, for example Parkinson's Disease. (Of course I want world peace, who wouldn't.. but a cure for Parkinson's is probably quite close and world peace seems light years away.) Ever since we mapped the human genome, amazing things keep happening in medical genetics. Finding the key to a condition that is poly-genetic, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, will probably not happen in my lifetime, but then again - who knows???? Anyway, tackling something like Parkinson's Disease seems realistic in the next 20 to 30 years.

What I REALLY want to see is for our species to have excellent success willingly controlling our population. We are far too successful a species. Whenever somebody comes on tv and tells me to recycle (I do), drive a hybrid (I do) and put in a solar system (we are - this coming March), I want to scream at the tv "...but what about population control?"

Anyway, things I do NOT want to see, but that will probably happen in my life - more detrimental effects of global climate change as coastlines rise, island nations disappear, animals species become extinct and resources become more scare.
2941) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1609670)
Posted 6 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Here's one

Awwww!!!!!

Does Fuzzy want to play with the baby possum or eat the turkey bone?
2942) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1609351)
Posted 5 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Looking for a friend...
2943) Message boards : Politics : Racist? [yes you are] (Message 1609287)
Posted 5 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Criming While White


That link reminded me of what happened to a colleague's son several years ago. The kid was caught shoplifting - a white teenager from a very resourced community. He was not formally prosecuted. He had to go to something called "family court" with his parents. The kid got off with doing some community service.

I think his case was handled correctly.

All teenagers who do stupid things should be treated kindly, respectfully and given a second chance.
2944) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Carlos (Message 1609273)
Posted 5 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Happy Birthday Carlos!!!
2945) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1608931)
Posted 4 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2946) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 225 happy birthday to Ozzy Osbourne, Holly Marie Combs, and Julianne Moore (oh, and me too) (Message 1608930)
Posted 4 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Best wishes to you, David, on your special day!
2947) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1608810)
Posted 3 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My Junior High School music teacher chose this piece for our choral group to perform at a holiday concert back in the mid-70's. Since then I have numbered it amongst my favorite Christmas carols.

Choose Something Like A Star
2948) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTGAWUW!!! #0 (Message 1608786)
Posted 3 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dang! I haven't had a nibble since November 16th!
2949) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1608784)
Posted 3 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Which is just as easily changed to "My very earnest mother just served us noodles on a plate".


On = Oort Cloud???
A = Asteroid Belt???
Plate = Plutoid sized bodies in the Kuiper Belt???

Cute!!!
2950) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1608760)
Posted 3 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That famous fourth grade mnemonic device:

My (Mercury)
Very (Venus)
Earnest (Earth)
Mother (Mars)
Just (Jupiter)
Served (Saturn)
Us (Uranus)
Nine (Neptune)
Peanuts (Pluto)

... is easily changed to "My very earnest mother just served us noodles."
2951) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1608752)
Posted 3 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow!!! Halloween, Thanksgiving and the start of the Christmas baking season and still you are losing weight. Awesome Donald!!! Also awesome Monday!!! Awesome Vic!!! Awesome all of you folks!!!
2952) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1608561)
Posted 3 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is a lovely set of ornaments, Vic. Very pretty, very artistic.
2953) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1608540)
Posted 3 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, is that first ornament supposed to be Mercury or the sun? If it is the sun, it is way too small. If it is mercury then that means the last one is Pluto. Sorry Ulibelle and Rob, but that one has to go!

Oh and thanks for jumping down My throat Angela, I really didn't need that...

Vic, for heavens sake, I wasn't jumping down your throat!!! I was asking a question and gently teasing Uli and Rob.

As for Pluto, I am sorry that so many people are attached to it. Astronomers have determined that it is part of the Kuiper Belt. There are dozens of Pluto-sized things in that belt. Pluto doesn't stand out in that crowd. If you want to call everything Pluto-sized a "planet" then there would be thousands of planets on our solar system. You would have to include Pluto-sized bodies in the Oort Cloud, the Asteroid Belt and the Kuiper Belt. We are much better at detecting things in our solar system now than we were when Pluto was first discovered. Pluto was justifiably "demoted" from planet status after we learned more about what is zipping around in our galactic neighborhood.
2954) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1608447)
Posted 3 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, is that first ornament supposed to be Mercury or the sun? If it is the sun, it is way too small. If it is mercury then that means the last one is Pluto. Sorry Ulibelle and Rob, but that one has to go!
2955) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1608446)
Posted 3 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Guardians of the galaxy
2956) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1608441)
Posted 3 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
@Ang, we will just have to rent that movie for our next slumber party.

That is a great idea! Eric and I never got around to seeing it in the theater.
2957) Message boards : Cafe SETI : November was not my month (Message 1608380)
Posted 3 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you the very best in December.
2958) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #58 (Message 1608026)
Posted 2 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I got cat class and I got cat style
2959) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1608024)
Posted 2 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
President Obama shows his appreciation of Al Green
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6uHR90Sq6k
2960) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1607843)
Posted 1 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoons seem to be a hot commodity right now, especially given that recent movie with a raccoon space hero, but we all know we were way ahead of the trend here in the Critter Cafe!!!
2961) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1607743)
Posted 1 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I love that commercial!!!
2962) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1607742)
Posted 1 Dec 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Post-Thanksgiving Weigh-In: 17 tons, 1171 pounds and 3.2 ounces.
2963) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1607425)
Posted 30 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...cactus fruit taste pretty bad unless you add a bunch of something sweet.



Prickly Pear Cactus Fruit Margaritas

3/4 cup prickly pear cactus fruit juice
(It takes 4-5 fruits, depending on the size - cut ripe fruit open, ream and strain... juice is a little viscous, but it is easily extracted from the fruits)
1/2 cup fresh lime juice
1/4 cup superfine sugar
large pinch of salt

Mix above ingredients and let sit in fridge for a couple of hours

Meanwhile... chill in a pitcher

1 cup tequila - reposado
3/4 cup triple sec
1/4 cup Grand Marnier

When your mother-in-law visits or you have some other occasion to drink, stir juice mixture into tequila mixture.

Ideally, serve in salted margarita glasses over shaved ice. Can also be served in "normal" glasses, on the rocks.

Makes a beautiful magenta colored beverage... and it tastes good too!
2964) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1606834)
Posted 29 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not many raccoon posts around here .....

Sigh...
Please read the posts again!

I think he meant me. I fed a houseful of people yesterday and spend today cleaning up. This little raccoon is tuckered out!!!

Goodnight friends.
2965) Message boards : Cafe SETI : long time member DrFoo pass away (Message 1605881)
Posted 26 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
2966) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1605880)
Posted 26 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How long have you known this raccoon. If it is more than a year and you've seen no babies, then it is a boy. If it is less than a year and you are unsure, pick an androgynous name so that it will work either way when you find out.
2967) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1605879)
Posted 26 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...*No idea how to do this or if it would worth the time

I actually like the texture of peels in a cooked fresh cranberry sauce, but if you wanted it smooth you could simply put the mixture through a food mill.
2968) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1605556)
Posted 26 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh, oh and the future in-laws (just the Mothers) are going to be meeting each other for the first time! Did I say wish me luck?;)

If I were you, I would flip through a Bartender's Guide and find a recipe for a particularly strong house drink. I never have my family over without serving cocktails. Even if they are coming over for brunch, I pour a everybody a round of brunch drinks.
2969) Message boards : Cafe SETI : States (Message 1605554)
Posted 26 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I would eliminate the state of exhaustion. But I am too tired to debate the point.


LOL!!!!!

Well, along those likes I'd like to eliminate the "state of the art". Eric's coffee machine is smarter than I am and don't even get me started on his phone!!!
2970) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1605536)
Posted 26 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mmmmmmm cheese!!!!! Love it!!!
2971) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1605463)
Posted 26 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Tired... so very tired... can barely lift knife to chop some more.

The prep work... oh the prep work....
2972) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1605460)
Posted 26 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Panic Mode On (92) Server Problems? has got nothing on us!!!!!!!!!!!!

They may be upset because there is no crunching work, but over here we're out of chocolate!!!!

Yikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2973) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1604919)
Posted 24 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just a guess, although I've never done it. Put an air hole in the bottom of the can, or just remove both the top and bottom???

Cranberries are just about about the easiest traditional Thanksgiving food to actually cook, so there is really no reason to purchase them in a can. They can be done well in advance. In fact, they are on my "to do" list for today!
2974) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1604917)
Posted 24 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yay Monday!!! Yay Vic!!!

I am "up" again at 169.8 lbs, but I'm not worried about it. I had a bowl of delicious salty popcorn last night. It was air popped, but I did add butter so that all the yummy salt would stick.
2975) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 225 happy birthday to Ozzy Osbourne, Holly Marie Combs, and Julianne Moore (oh, and me too) (Message 1604622)
Posted 23 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dastardly Quasher???
2976) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTGAWUW!!! #0 (Message 1604605)
Posted 23 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
23 Nov 2014, 16:07:02 UTC
2977) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 225 happy birthday to Ozzy Osbourne, Holly Marie Combs, and Julianne Moore (oh, and me too) (Message 1604599)
Posted 23 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Devilishly Queenly?
2978) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To whom it may concern..... (Message 1604596)
Posted 23 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
All are welcome on Team Raccoon Lovers. We just wish we had more to crunch...
2979) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 225 happy birthday to Ozzy Osbourne, Holly Marie Combs, and Julianne Moore (oh, and me too) (Message 1604568)
Posted 23 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How about dramatically quick?
2980) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 225 happy birthday to Ozzy Osbourne, Holly Marie Combs, and Julianne Moore (oh, and me too) (Message 1604565)
Posted 23 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Daringly Quirky???

DisQualified...

I prefer Dangerously Qualified...
2981) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #7 (Message 1604550)
Posted 23 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"Blame it on Misfit!"


LOL!!


+1!!! There is no joke like an inside joke!!!
2982) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 225 happy birthday to Ozzy Osbourne, Holly Marie Combs, and Julianne Moore (oh, and me too) (Message 1604548)
Posted 23 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Daringly Quirky???
2983) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 225 happy birthday to Ozzy Osbourne, Holly Marie Combs, and Julianne Moore (oh, and me too) (Message 1604538)
Posted 23 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela DQ'd for Double Posting... She's not an OP...


Whoops, sorry!

I hope that DQ stands for Dairy Queen...
2984) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 225 happy birthday to Ozzy Osbourne, Holly Marie Combs, and Julianne Moore (oh, and me too) (Message 1604445)
Posted 23 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nevermind :) Raccoons rule!

Well, now that we are all agreed on that, I think I will hit the hay.

Raccoon Yawn!!!!


Goodnight friends.
2985) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 225 happy birthday to Ozzy Osbourne, Holly Marie Combs, and Julianne Moore (oh, and me too) (Message 1604442)
Posted 23 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Has Angela started having a go at the kids that trample her lawn?


Everybody get off of my lawn!!!
2986) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 225 happy birthday to Ozzy Osbourne, Holly Marie Combs, and Julianne Moore (oh, and me too) (Message 1604441)
Posted 23 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok Vic, try these glasses...
2987) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To whom it may concern..... (Message 1604439)
Posted 23 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm a Brit, what team specifically?

You are already on the best team there is... Raccoon Lovers. Football pales in comparison to raccoon crunching.
2988) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 225 happy birthday to Ozzy Osbourne, Holly Marie Combs, and Julianne Moore (oh, and me too) (Message 1604433)
Posted 23 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Here Vic, try my glasses.
Perhaps they will help you see better.

2989) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 225 happy birthday to Ozzy Osbourne, Holly Marie Combs, and Julianne Moore (oh, and me too) (Message 1604430)
Posted 23 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, get off my win!!!
2990) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 225 happy birthday to Ozzy Osbourne, Holly Marie Combs, and Julianne Moore (oh, and me too) (Message 1604428)
Posted 23 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes. See? I'm winning.
2991) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To whom it may concern..... (Message 1604427)
Posted 23 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
As a Raccoon Lover, who should I be supporting? :)

Team Raccoon, of course.


Go Team!!!
2992) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To whom it may concern..... (Message 1604416)
Posted 23 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Badgers' Gordon runs for record 408 yds...

That did last long...

Samaje Perine

The Oklahoma true freshman rewarded those who braved the elements with history. He set a major college record by running for 427 yards, scoring five touchdowns to lead the No. 23 Sooners over Kansas 44-7 Saturday.


Fame is a fleeting thing...
2993) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1604415)
Posted 23 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't do peppers. At all. A little black pepper on potatoes, eggs, and various other things. Beyond that, I don't like the heat OR the taste.

This coming Thursday, well, I have a cheap pizza in the freezer. No better plans so far.

I don't even feel like making some sort of frozen turkey stuff this year.


Black pepper does not come from chili peppers of any sort. Peppercorns are the seeds of an entirely unrelated plant, which may be why you can tolerate them.
2994) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To whom it may concern..... (Message 1604411)
Posted 23 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric thinks that the Capital One Bowl or the Outback Bowl are most likely for the Badgers. (I'm pretty sure Cal didn't play well enough today to get into the ty d bowl...)
2995) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #58 (Message 1604300)
Posted 23 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"Let it snow", they sang... Bah Humbug!!!
2996) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #58 (Message 1604299)
Posted 23 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My kids get a @#$%^&*()(*&^%$#@$%^&*()(* snow day and all I get is cardiac arrest.
2997) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #58 (Message 1604296)
Posted 23 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't know why I'm doing this... I mean it's not like I actually WANT my in-laws to be able to visit.
2998) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To whom it may concern..... (Message 1604292)
Posted 23 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric is looking forward to the bowl invitations to see where Wisconsin may go.
2999) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To whom it may concern..... (Message 1604276)
Posted 22 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL!!! Your cartoon is quite timely as The Big Game between Cal and Stanford is in progress right now. Super Fun Cool Uncle Eric is sitting on those cold wet rainy bleachers right now, along side our thirteen year old nephew Mark.

Today's game is critical as a win could make Cal "bowl eligible". Unfortunately, the last time I peeked at the score, Stanford was winning by quite a lot.

Sigh. Go Bears!
3000) Message boards : Cafe SETI : question for anyone who has been affected by cancer (Message 1604230)
Posted 22 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Every reader of every age and sex should have a discussion with a physician about what screening tests are warranted and when, along with lifestyle factors that might be impacting their cancer risk.


If i had trusted on this my wife wouldn`t be here anymore.
Thats very complicated.


Screenings are not without errors, of course, and yes I suppose one could get a false sense of security from an incorrect result.

Making uniformly "perfect" lifestyle choices does not result in guarantees, of course.

All we can do is stack the odds in our favor as much as we reasonably can.

I don't find that to be complicated, Mike. I find it to be logical.
3001) Message boards : Cafe SETI : question for anyone who has been affected by cancer (Message 1604222)
Posted 22 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've had cancer get near Me 3 times, in 3 relatives(parents and a brother), all from different causes, none were experienced before and none have repeated since then. Otherwise My family is cancer free.

Vic, my family is much like yours, in that it has been touched by cancer several times. I wish you peace, friend. It is difficult enough to lose parents, but losing a sibling is on a whole different level.

My father had melanoma (fortunately caught early) and prostate cancer in his later years. My mother has survived a non-aggressive breast cancer, but she is currently dying of metastatic colon cancer. One grandmother died of a brain tumor. Another grandmother died of what they think was uterine cancer. One of my brothers died of myelofibrosis, which is a rare bone marrow cancer-like disease.

Vic, my primary care physician has a really different take on cancer in my family than you seem to have regarding your family. It doesn't matter to my doctor that all the forms of cancer in my family have been different. My doctor only cares that my family appears to be quite susceptible to cancers of any type. This is why I get screenings left, right and center. If there is a test my doctor can order, by golly he orders it. Sometimes I feel like I am the best assessed person in town, but then I read articles like the one below and I remember why Eric and I really do like our family doctor.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/01/050111171446.htm

Vic, I know you have been really clear about the challenges you face with medical access. Please know I am not posting this to push you or to scare you. I just want other readers out there whose families have been hit hard by cancer NOT to assume that the different diseases of loved ones are necessarily unrelated.

Every reader of every age and sex should have a discussion with a physician about what screening tests are warranted and when, along with lifestyle factors that might be impacting their cancer risk.
3002) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 225 happy birthday to Ozzy Osbourne, Holly Marie Combs, and Julianne Moore (oh, and me too) (Message 1603867)
Posted 22 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Its a hard days night and I'm looking forward to a Turkey...

A chicken salad sandwich will have to due for now.

It's a Grimm night...


Chicken salad, done right, is delicious.
3003) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1603858)
Posted 22 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Whatcha cookin'?


Angela, you're learning to talk Canadian.....




Or fluent Wisconsin-ese...
3004) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1603851)
Posted 22 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My Santoku knife will be flashing and flying through the air next week, as in football fashion I "tackle" Thanksgiving.

Any other cooking enthusiasts having a house full of family this year? Whatcha cookin'? (Besides turkey, of course...)
3005) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Missing Persons Bureau (a.k.a. The Mother Hens Thread) (Message 1603844)
Posted 22 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, R.I.P. Hal and John - two crunchers deeply missed...
3006) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1603744)
Posted 21 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Jalapenos are very HOT... Try a small piece at first, it took time, but My Nephew eventually acquired a taste for them...

Actually Vic, jalapeno peppers are pretty low down on the Scoville Scale, relatively speaking.

Scoville Scale

The heat in any chili pepper lies primarily in the seeds and pepper ribs. If you enjoy the flavor of a particular type of chili but want to go easy on the heat, just remove some or all of the seeds or ribs.
3007) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Dead phone (Message 1603468)
Posted 21 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric worked on a satellite once that got rained on. Somebody forgot to close a dome door. Anyway, it turns out electronics can be "washed". Just don't turn them on until they are dry. The satellite worked fine once it was completely dried.
3008) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1603336)
Posted 21 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, those are hilarious!!!
3009) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1602950)
Posted 20 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Inky, Winky, Blinky and Stinky say, "Don't believe everything you've heard about skunks.
When it comes down to spraying, we're predictable, measured and quite reasonable!!!!"
3010) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1602946)
Posted 20 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

The skunk in the foreground of this picture is even less alarmed by the raccoon. The skunk's tail is only partially puffed and the skunk hasn't even bothered to point his posterior in the direction of the raccoon.
3011) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1602944)
Posted 20 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes. I have regularly observed skunks, raccoons, opossums and our cat to all share food in our back yard without there being any problems.


That's amazing. I never would have guessed.


The only time skunks spray raccoons is when raccoon kits stupidly try to get in a skunk's "personal space".
Even then, I've noticed that raccoon kits have to be VERY persistent in order to get sprayed. Adult raccoons pretty much never get sprayed.

This picture that I found on Google Images shows a skunk giving what looks to be juvenile raccoons (they look a bit too big to be kits) a very mild warning in the form of a puffed tail with the skunk's posterior pointed towards the raccoons. Please notice that the skunk is still eating, as are the raccoons. This skunk is not feeling terribly threatened by the raccoons and these raccoons are not at all concerned about being in close proximity to a skunk. These raccoons are also old enough not to be curious about the skunk. They are all about the food... which tells me that while they look like young raccoons (note the pristine ears), they are old enough to have an "adult raccoon perspective" on skunks.

As far as I can tell, a puffed tail is skunk-ese for "Hey you. Notice me. I'm a skunk." A puffed tail is nothing that worries a raccoon. Based on my observations, adult raccoons seem to understand that a puffed tail is at the very bottom of a skunk's hierarchy of warning behaviors.
3012) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats (Message 1602933)
Posted 20 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
CC Sending you care, concern and cats...

3013) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTGAWUW!!! #0 (Message 1602900)
Posted 20 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
20 Nov 2014, 3:09:39 UTC
3014) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Christmas Wish List (Message 1602347)
Posted 19 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My recollection is that last year, you graciously allowed him to pop over to the lab to kick a frozen server, for which we were ALL extremely thankful. And that's something that won't be necessary again, thanks to the co-lo.

Last year we were in Wisconsin for Thanksgiving. It was the year before that I let him zip into work while I basted the turkey and prepared for our guests. Never again!!!
3015) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTGAWUW!!! #0 (Message 1602346)
Posted 19 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric, Jeff and Matt better spend some time blogging or he won't have a project.
;-)


Did I mention that I can tap dance?
Ta Daa!!!
3016) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1602344)
Posted 19 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes. I have regularly observed skunks, raccoons, opossums and our cat to all share food in our back yard without there being any problems.
3017) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Talk about your profile pic (Message 1602336)
Posted 19 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My profile picture is Runtsy, a wonderful little raccoon kit from years ago, and one of my all time favorite raccoons. My avatar is Bravesy, who was Runtsy's brother.
3018) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTGAWUW!!! #0 (Message 1602016)
Posted 18 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Crunch on!!!

Ok, ok... nibble on.
3019) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTGAWUW!!! #0 (Message 1602008)
Posted 18 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela we are waiting on your ruling and your decision on who the winner is

;)


Zalster


Eric said that there are always a few computers returning invalid results and these get re-sent out to new computers. This means any one of us could still get a work unit. The way I see it, the contest is still on until the project starts sending out new work.
3020) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1601808)
Posted 17 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In: 168.0 lbs

The three pounds from last week must have, in fact, been water. (Whew!!!)

In light of last week's discussion about scales, I tried moving my scale around on our hall bathroom floor. My weight was the same in 4 random spots, so shockingly our bathroom floor must be level. This actually surprised me because we live in a cheaply built, post WWII / 50's-era track house, on a very steep hill in the middle of earthquake country. Nothing in our house is typically level!!! I saw Eric hang a towel rack once. It was perfectly level on his leveling tool, but he had failed to account for the fact that our house was not level. It was hilarious!!! He kept insisting that it was level, but it looked so wonky!!! Now we hire out for most home improvement tasks, in the interest of preserving marital harmony. Anyway, last year we did have new tile put into our hall bathroom and maybe the tile installers somehow made our bathroom floor level before they put the tile down. That is the only explanation I can think of for why it appears that our hall bathroom floor is level, when absolutely nothing else in the house is.

Anyway... nothing really lost, nothing really gained - I am a study in pudgy little raccoon stability, plus or minus a few pounds either way depending on my salt indulgence.

Honestly, I think my only realistic weight goal is to just not gain any extra cookie-pudge through the winter holidays. This is my favorite season for baking and I have more time this year to bake than I have had in previous years. I have no plans to scale back my baking, but I will try to scale back my eating.
3021) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTGAWUW!!! #0 (Message 1601643)
Posted 16 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
16 Nov 2014, 2:35:32 UTC
3022) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cylon Centurion: A Human has died, By Your Command (Message 1601641)
Posted 16 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
3023) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To whom it may concern..... (Message 1601575)
Posted 16 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Final Score
Wisconsin Badgers 59
Nebraska Cornhuskers 24


We are having pasta for dinner tonight, but I do believe that Cowboy Dave will be dining upon crow...
3024) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTGAWUW!!! #0 (Message 1601447)
Posted 15 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did I win?

15 Nov 2014, 10:23:51 UTC
3025) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Christmas Wish List (Message 1601329)
Posted 15 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Some unscheduled days with 'Ol Pookers.

I take it he'll be suitably restrained so he can't nip to the office while the bird is in the oven? :)

Yes. Unlike in previous years, I shall not make that mistake again!!!
3026) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To whom it may concern..... (Message 1601302)
Posted 15 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A Nebraska football player, concerned about being late for practice, asked someone on campus what time it was.

The fellow student looked down at his watch and said, "It's 3:15."



The football player, with a puzzled look on his face replied "You know, it's the weirdest thing...

I have been asking that question all day, and each time I get a different answer."




On Wisconsin!!!
3027) Message boards : Technical News : Taking longer than expected (Nov 13, 2014) (Message 1601293)
Posted 15 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
New game for the Cafe... TLPTGAWUW!!!
(The last person to get a work unit wins)
3028) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To whom it may concern..... (Message 1601290)
Posted 15 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Looks like the Golden Bears tried to make a game of it, but they let the spoiled children get too far ahead in the first quarter.

That was a TERRIBLE game!!! We stopped watching before half time because it was so tragic.
3029) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Christmas Wish List (Message 1601289)
Posted 15 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Some unscheduled days with 'Ol Pookers.
3030) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1600937)
Posted 14 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


My mom has a whole set of those CorningWare dishes. They're great. Hers are the old-school type that can go straight from freezer to oven.


My mom had those casserole baking dishes too. I think she still has several from her set.
3031) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To whom it may concern..... (Message 1600936)
Posted 14 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
After a rough practice session a Nebraska football player goes to see the team doctor.

"Doc", he says, "My body hurts wherever I touch it."

"Really?" questions the doctor. "Show me."

The football player takes his finger, pushes his elbow and screams in agony.

He pushes his knee and screams.

He pushes his ankle and screams and so on it goes.

"Young man" says the doctor, "Your finger is broken."




On Wisconsin!!!
3032) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To whom it may concern..... (Message 1600921)
Posted 14 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just curious, what the bet is this year.

Actually, we haven't made a bet so far this year. In the past I know that one year Eric and I had to pay up a box of homemade cookies and one year Scarecrow had to buy us hats. One year Scarecrow had to sing the Wisconsin fight song, but we ended up excusing that debt because he had a bad cold for much of the winter. (Those midwestern winters are brutal! Eric remembers them well.) For some weird reason I don't think that Wisconsin was scheduled to play Nebraska last year, because I don't remember doing our annual trash talking in 2013. Until you mentioned it, Ulibelle, I think that we just plain forgot about the annual accompanying wager. I don't even know who is favored to win on Saturday and by how much.

Cowboy, would you care to make the game a bit more "interesting"?
3033) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To whom it may concern..... (Message 1600874)
Posted 14 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, it's that time of year again...time to WHACK A BADGER!

I was just terrible at that game! That must mean that it is mighty difficult to whack a badger!




Nom, nom, nom, nom...
3034) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To whom it may concern..... (Message 1600675)
Posted 13 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How do you keep a Nebraska quarterback engaged in classroom material?



Write ‘Please turn over’ on both sides of a piece of paper.




On Wisconsin!!!
3035) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To whom it may concern..... (Message 1600513)
Posted 13 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What happens when all the blond cheerleaders from UW Madison transfer to the University of Nebraska?



Both squads become smarter!!!




On Wisconsin!!!
3036) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1600394)
Posted 12 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Love the squirrel pictures and commentary!

Thank you, Bernie.
3037) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1600378)
Posted 12 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yawn!!!


Vic, your boredom must be contagious...
3038) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To whom it may concern..... (Message 1600337)
Posted 12 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did you hear about the tragic fire in the Husker university library?



All twenty books burned, and fifteen of them hadn't even been colored yet.





On Wisconsin!!!
3039) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1600096)
Posted 12 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not so. Genetics favors dark coats over the rarer lighter ones.

Yes, now. But if more and more blonde and cinnamon raccoons survive to reproduce themselves because "cars" are largely eliminated as their "predators", then it is logical to assume that over time lighter coats on raccoons will become more common.
3040) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1600094)
Posted 12 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think everybody is overlooking a very obvious advantage of being blond. Better visibility in car headlights at night. You see them lots faster than their darker brethren.

Assuming that cars are the biggest killer of raccoons then we can expect to see more and more blond raccoons.

Good point. Yes, being less likely to be hit by a car would definitely be an evolutionary advantage. I would guess that feline and canine distemper take out as many raccoons as cars do, assuming you count "kit mortality" in the figures. Still, cars are definitely a significant threat to urban wildlife.
3041) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1600046)
Posted 12 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoons, being nocturnal, tend to den and sleep during the day so I'm not sure lighter colored fur would be an advantage in a drought.
3042) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1600043)
Posted 12 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And cause of the drought, blond raccoons may have an advantage over their darker relatives, maybe...

How so, Vic?
3043) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To whom it may concern..... (Message 1600037)
Posted 12 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey cowboy, what's the difference between The Nebraska Cornhuskers and Froot Loops cereal?





Froot Loops BELONG IN A BOWL!!!








On Wisconsin!!!
3044) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1600030)
Posted 12 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela, we had a cinnamon raccoon in our back yard last year, a young one. Like you, I had to Google it to convince myself it really was a raccoon. Only saw it the once, which may not mean anything since our raccoons appear to only come out at night, and stay away from man made lights. We might see 2 or 3 a year.

Ah Google, that ever fresh font of cultural knowledge - what did we EVER do without that "series of tubes" what is "da internets"???!!!

In his googling Eric found that besides albino raccoons, blonde raccoons, cinnamon raccoons and typically colored raccoons there are also melanic raccoons which are very dark. Snowball is the first raccoon I have ever encountered who is not typically colored.

So far, no raccoons have visited us this evening, but it is early yet out here.
3045) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #224 Paint It Black! (Message 1599800)
Posted 11 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning because I have encountered my first "blonde raccoon" ever - See Critter Cafe for details. It was all very exciting!!!

If you feed them, they will come.
3046) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1599789)
Posted 11 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Snowball looks like this picture of a "blonde raccoon" that I found in Google Images.



This photo of a raccoon mama and kits shows more typical raccoon coloration.



Albinism can occur in raccoons, but I cannot imagine that these kits do well.
Reflecting moonlight (and street light) would be an evolutionary disadvantage for a nocturnal animal.
Furthermore, having impaired vision secondary to albinism would make it more challenging for an albino raccoon to find food.

3047) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1599787)
Posted 11 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Watch Raccoons Escape Trash Can—Are Urban Animals Getting Smarter?

http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2014/10/15/raccoons-animals-science-suburbs-evolution-intelligence/

I think we're gonna need another bungee cord.

Suzie-Q, you really had me worried for a bit that the trash can tippers, once inside the garbage bin, would not be able to escape. Whew!!! Thank goodness they are so clever and determined. I am relieved that no raccoons were harmed in the filming of that video.

I am happy to announce that we have a new raccoon visitor. First though, let me say that we have had an extraordinarily poor year for raccoons. We have had skunks in super abundance and regular opossum visitors, but very few raccoons.

One lone male, Herman Von Vermin, shows up a few times a week. He is a very healthy and robust male... at least, we think he is a male. A pair of bachelor brothers, Big Guy and Little Guy, show up about once a month. Anyway, that has pretty much been it for raccoon visitors, all spring, summer and fall, but tonight we encountered a new raccoon!!!

Her name is Snowball, because she is the lightest raccoon we have ever seen. She is not an albino, as she does have distinctive coloration variation, but she has super light fur. Eric looked up raccoon coloration on "the internets" and it seems that very light raccoons are normal possible genetic variations. They are referred to as "blonde raccoons" or "cinnamon raccoons", depending on how much red is in their coats. In all the years I have been feeding raccoons, I have NEVER seen a raccoon as light as Snowball before.

Snowball appears to be a "blonde", not a "cinnamon" raccoon, at least as far as we can tell without going outside, which would terrify her. She is definitely NOT one of our former babies, as we most definitely would have noticed a raccoon baby of this distinct coloration. We hope she returns, night after night. We hope she returns next summer with kits. Frankly, we don't even know if she is a girl, but since Snowball sounds like a girl's name, we are hoping that "it" is a "she", and that "she" will bring me raccoon kits that dance around my feet next summer. I really missed that this year.

Snowball is mighty wary of me at this point, and she is light years away from having her picture taken. I shall do my best to socialize her if she returns, but it is much easier to socialize raccoon kits than it is to socialize adult raccoons.

Still, we are happy for ANY raccoons this year!!!
3048) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1599453)
Posted 10 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In: 171.0 lbs

Ok, this one is not fair. I was more good than I was bad this past week, and I was ESPECIALLY good when Eric was out of state from Sunday through Wednesday. I didn't eat any dessert for almost four straight days this week. Ok... I'll admit that when Eric returned Wednesday night I had a homemade raspberry almond cream cake waiting for him and I resumed eating dessert, but I swear I didn't eat that much of it.

There is no freaking way that I gained nearly three pounds during a week that I was relatively good. I am blaming this one on salt, as I made us mussels in a low fat (but salty) wine broth for dinner Saturday night and a low fat (but salty) vegetable soup for dinner last night.

Somebody please assure me that it is IMPOSSIBLE to gain nearly three real pounds in a week in which one was a relatively good raccoon!!!
3049) Message boards : Technical News : What's happening... (Nov 8, 2014) (Message 1599230)
Posted 10 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
P.S. Angela, thanks for forcing him to talk to us. :-)

How dare you make such an outrageous comment. I think you owe Mr & Mrs Korpela a well deserved apology. Eric is his own man and always has been. His good lady wife supports him wholeheartedly in his endeavours and always has done. And Angela is perfectly capable of speaking for herself when needs be. I have the utmost respect for both of them, which clearly you do not.


I apologize from the bottom of my married-for-almost-thirty-one-years heart.

I made the fallacious assumption that Eric, being a real man, always, but always tried to please the goodly wife. I haven't seen many scars on him.


Oh my goodness!!! I certainly did not mean to spark controversy!!!

First of all, congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. tbret on nearly 31 years of marriage. That is awesome!!!

Please know, tbret, that I was not the least bit offended by your comment. Eric and I work as a team. We support each other. Sometimes that does mean that I do little things like gently remind him that a status update would be very nice. Given that there are more than 30 posts in this thread, most of them thanking Eric for writing an update, I am guessing that I was right to nudge him a little. Just because I nudge Ol' Pookers every once in a while does not mean that he is not "his own man". I assure you that a more "manly" geek cannot be found this side of the Mighty Mississip... and possibly on the other side as well!!!

Chris, I appreciate you for the charming chivalrous gentleman that you are, but I absolutely assure you that I was not offended. Furthermore, I am quite sure that if Eric has time to peek in on the follow-up to his post, he will not be offended either.

Crunch on, good friends.
3050) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1599134)
Posted 9 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Go Monday Go!!! Wonderful progress!!!
3051) Message boards : Technical News : What's happening... (Nov 8, 2014) (Message 1599002)
Posted 9 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thanks for the update Eric, and thanks Angela for putting up with Pookers :-)

Let's see, we met in 1992 so that's 22 years and counting...
3052) Message boards : Technical News : What's happening... (Nov 8, 2014) (Message 1598898)
Posted 9 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for doing this update, Pookers.
3053) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My bum's itchy. (Message 1598565)
Posted 8 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think that Wiggo's behind should be named Wiggo-Waggle.
3054) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #58 (Message 1597942)
Posted 7 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well... that's one way to handle leaks.
3055) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1597478)
Posted 6 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wouldn't you rather have a case like this one?

3056) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #224 Paint It Black! (Message 1597476)
Posted 6 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So can we please drop the political discussion out of this thread?

LOL!!! Have you missed out on clicking on BladeD's "..." - style links? If so, you are missing out!!! I assure you that politics have been a part of this thread since it rolled over to a new operator.

Ok, ok... to make everybody happy I guess I have to say "beep", "ping" and "win".

Beep

Ping

Win
3057) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #224 Paint It Black! (Message 1597292)
Posted 5 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I struggle deeply with the abortion issue. On one hand, I was raised by a liberal pro-choice mother and that's where I lean on the politics of it. On the other hand, I simply do not know exactly when life begins or any of the other philosophical (or scientific) questions involved. I do know that I sincerely hope I am never personally involved in one (and I don't expect to be), because it would be a terrible choice for me to have to make... and then it wouldn't even be my final decision. I did once have an acquaintance who had one; I thought it ironic and hypocritical that she probably wouldn't have found herself in that situation if her Catholic faith hadn't kept her from using a preventive type of birth control. So anyway, it may be cowardly of me, but I tend to stay out of the politics of abortion.

Back from lunch, off upstairs soon Ping!



It is unfortunate that the issue of abortion has been represented as a two sided issue - "for" vs "against". I suspect that most reasonable people are not completely "for" and not completely "against" an issue as complex as abortion. My first of five failed pregnancies was a ruptured ectopic pregnancy that damn near killed me. That "baby", very much a WANTED "baby", had the bad sense to implant itself in a place where it could not grow without causing me to bleed out. Had I known this was the case and had I received medical intervention prior to the rupture which landed me in emergency surgery, I would have technically have had an "abortion", because that pregnancy was not viable and death is not something I seek willingly. Fortunately for me, I happened to be at work, feeling just fine, at the time of the rupture. Also, I happened to be working in a hospital setting... lucky me, for here I am!!!

For all women, I vote with the personal hope of eventually making abortions free, safe, legal and EXTREMELY rare.
3058) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #224 Paint It Black! (Message 1597275)
Posted 5 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If they stick to the principals that less government is better then we all win.

Carlos I agree that it is unfair to lump all conservatives in with the socially conservative groups that have co-oped that political party, but I throw my lot in on the blue side precisely BECAUSE I think that the principle of less government is a very bad one. Go ahead and call me a "tax and spend liberal", as I would wear that mantle proudly. In my view, the purpose of government is to redistribute wealth and in a democracy that tends to require government intervention.


...and what in their plans is going to help you? Since you are not a member of the club, I don't think you will be included.

People do not always have to vote in their own self interest. For example, I happen to have come from a resourced family. I would benefit from having inheritance tax rates set very low or even eliminated, yet I consistently vote for the side that does not want that because I think that inheritances should be taxed through the roof. It is a relatively painless way to redistribute wealth.

On the flip side, I genuinely struggle with the concept of abortion, but not for religious reasons. In the course of my career as a speech and language pathologist I have worked with children who were born so prematurely that, had they been born a mere twenty five years ago, they probably would not have lived. In addition I have worked with children, born full term, who are not quite as smart as the cats in my home. The philosophical questions of "what constitutes human life" and "when does human life begin" are exactly that - philosophical. Given my struggles with these two questions, you might think that I would throw my lot in with the side that wishes to eliminate abortion rights. I do not, because I am not a single issue voter.
3059) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1597076)
Posted 5 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Freaky! We should all buy lottery tickets.
3060) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #224 Paint It Black! (Message 1597074)
Posted 5 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Good evening everyone! :-)

WE CONTROL ALL OF CONGRESS!!!! GO REDS GO!!!!! :-)

The Country is going Red!!! WOOOHOOO!!!!! :-)


The country is going to hell in a hand basket. I am nauseated by the election returns.
3061) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1597013)
Posted 5 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Beautiful!!! What lovely scenery.
3062) Message boards : Cafe SETI : You're driving me buggy! (or, don't post bugs in my thread thread) (Message 1596778)
Posted 4 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy Working Song - Enchanted

(The roach in that last picture reminded me of this clip.)
3063) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1596740)
Posted 4 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A very dumb squirrel or a very tolerant cat??? Probably both.
3064) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Miggins Magnificent Mouthwatering Mouthfuls (Message 1596736)
Posted 4 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Fight it, David. Those little tarts come at quite a cost!!!
3065) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1596588)
Posted 3 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well done Angela. November should be even better.

Yes. Here's hoping... Eric and I are hosting family Thanksgiving dinner this month, but other than that we are not planning any other parties. I'm planning to bake fruitcakes this month, but they won't be "ripe" until the holidays, when I will give most of them away as gifts to family members. My mother-in-law loves homemade fruitcake and she was very disappointed that last November I didn't have time to bake fruitcakes.
3066) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1596505)
Posted 3 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In: 168.6 lbs.

(Trying to claw my way back up onto the wagon after a devilishly delicious October...)
3067) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #224 Paint It Black! (Message 1596324)
Posted 3 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpW8W9Yi4u8

Kosh
3068) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #224 Paint It Black! (Message 1596319)
Posted 3 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Paint It Black...

From the refrain: "We got love for ya'll, but y'all don't love us"

Kind of a broadly sweeping brush, don't you think?

Maybe he's speaking from experience.

As am I...
3069) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #224 Paint It Black! (Message 1596310)
Posted 3 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Paint It Black...

From the refrain: "We got love for ya'll, but y'all don't love us"

Kind of a broadly sweeping brush, don't you think?
3070) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1596253)
Posted 3 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yay Monday!!! Go Monday Go!!!
3071) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My bum's itchy. (Message 1596252)
Posted 3 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My first vote goes to Chic Cheeks and my second vote goes to Dimples.
3072) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1596250)
Posted 3 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

LOL!!! That's a pretty clever Halloween costume for a spotted doggie.
3073) Message boards : Cafe SETI : May all your pumpkins... (Message 1595779)
Posted 2 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The first year in the new house I had 70 trick or treaters but the last two years the numbers have been down. I am giving out regular chocolate bars so I stocked up with 3 boxes of 36 to the box. I gave out 47 leaving about 3 months of candy. There were very few older kids so I suspect they are going to some school sponsored event and I am only seeing kids who are to young to attend. On the other hand, I may be building the brand because I seem to be the only one handing out big chocolate bars.


We were giving out full sized chocolate bars. I have 28 left. They are going into work with Eric next week!!!
3074) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1595624)
Posted 1 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Go Vic!!! Awesome news!!!
3075) Message boards : Cafe SETI : May all your pumpkins... (Message 1595623)
Posted 1 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Awesome!!!
3076) Message boards : Cafe SETI : May all your pumpkins... (Message 1595622)
Posted 1 Nov 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I only had two trick-or-treaters this year - a pirate and a sock monkey. Very sad. Wish there could have been more, but we live on a steep hill and the pickings are easier on streets below ours.
3077) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #224 Paint It Black! (Message 1595019)
Posted 31 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3078) Message boards : Cafe SETI : If you're snakesd and you know it clap yuor hands. (Message 1595009)
Posted 31 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
One more generally doffs ones cap as in a mark of respect to others, but it can as a verb mean to generally disrobe. I think Angela may have meant meant divesting?

No. I meant "doff", exactly as I used it. My colleagues, occupational therapists, refer to the donning and the doffing of clothing when they write goals for their patients. For example, after a severe stroke, one might need some therapy and practice in order to learn how to don and to doff one's undergarments using only one hand. (Try it if you think that it would be easy. Brassieres are particularly challenging to don one handed, especially if you are right handed and suddenly forced to use only your left hand.) Similarly, young children with developmental challenges might need therapy and practice to learn how to independently don and doff their shoes. (Thank goodness for Velcro - it has changed lives!!!) The term "doff" does not exclusively refer to caps and I used the term exactly as I intended to use it. When I think of the term "divesting", my mind goes first to things financial, as in the divesting of funds. I probably would not use the verb "divest" to refer to the removal of clothing, unless using the term to refer to a stripper divesting dollar bills while in the process of removing his or her... er... uh... stage clothing.


And Chris, if you wish to question my command of written English, then "payback", I have heard, resembles a female dog, don't you know...

For example you write:
If I was under the influence I don't think I would want to publicly announce it but there you go.

Dear friend, I believe that the above statement called for use of the subjunctive, as in "If I were under the influence..."
3079) Message boards : Cafe SETI : May all your pumpkins... (Message 1594989)
Posted 31 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Boo Kitty is a Scarecrow tradition. Very nice!!!

Giants pumpkins - also very nice.
3080) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1594745)
Posted 31 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

May all your pumpkins attract raccoons... curse or blessing??? YOU decide.
3081) Message boards : Cafe SETI : May all your pumpkins... (Message 1594743)
Posted 31 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

May all your pumpkins attract raccoons...
(Curse or blessing??? YOU decide.)

Happy Halloween, friends!!!
3082) Message boards : Cafe SETI : If you're snakesd and you know it clap yuor hands. (Message 1594742)
Posted 31 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sadly, my drink was not strong enough to result in the doffing of attire.
3083) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #224 Paint It Black! (Message 1594737)
Posted 31 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3084) Message boards : Cafe SETI : If you're snakesd and you know it clap yuor hands. (Message 1594736)
Posted 31 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Monday, are you asking us if we are intoxicated or naked?
I did drink a Pina Ghoulada earlier today...
3085) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Travel Photos (Message 1594733)
Posted 31 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lovely. Thank you for posting these beautiful pictures.
3086) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #224 Paint It Black! (Message 1594387)
Posted 30 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3087) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #224 Paint It Black! (Message 1594231)
Posted 30 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3088) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #224 Paint It Black! (Message 1594221)
Posted 30 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok Vic. If that was a terraformed Mars, then I will post the original...
3089) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #224 Paint It Black! (Message 1594182)
Posted 30 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


And Vic, the earth shot was "Simply marble-lous, dahling!!!"
3090) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1594165)
Posted 30 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I also had the pleasure to meet the Butterfly Embasedor(?). Angela is my witness.

Yes. Ulibelle, Rob and I were in the tropical rainforest Geo-dome at the California Academy of Sciences. We were on the tree canopy level and this gorgeous butterfly fluttered by, circled Uli and then landed on the back of her gracefully outstretched fingers. It was a magical moment.
3091) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #224 Paint It Black! (Message 1594163)
Posted 30 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3092) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1593929)
Posted 29 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Rob, that is a fantastic shot of Squirrelie!!!
3093) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #224 Paint It Black! (Message 1593927)
Posted 29 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3094) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #224 Paint It Black! (Message 1593894)
Posted 29 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3095) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #224 Paint It Black! (Message 1593848)
Posted 29 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yikes, I think I'm losing my marbles!!!
3096) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1593847)
Posted 29 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Jupiter looks like the ocelot we saw the other evening. He is beautiful!
3097) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My bum's itchy. (Message 1593739)
Posted 29 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I propose "chic cheeks"
3098) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #224 Paint It Black! (Message 1593723)
Posted 29 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Anyone for a well marbled steak?
3099) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #224 Paint It Black! (Message 1593718)
Posted 29 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Share them, along with plates full of butter on marble rye
3100) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #224 Paint It Black! (Message 1593713)
Posted 29 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I like marble cake...
3101) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #224 Paint It Black! (Message 1593692)
Posted 29 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I want all the marbles...
3102) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My bum's itchy. (Message 1593658)
Posted 29 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Will Jim's wife be the judge or is this another case of "vote early and often"?
3103) Message boards : Cafe SETI : WHY (Message 1593656)
Posted 29 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've had fantasies about creating a second account - one that could be evil, troll-like, nasty and acerbic beyond belief. Then I realized that those positions had all been filled.

You're welcome.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3104) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1593649)
Posted 29 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
OOPS, well I remembered he was named after a Planet.
OK, since I have a soft spot for rescues and Tinkerbell will need a companion sooner or later, I hope later, I make this commitment.
By the end of this week my spare/storage room should be painted and fit for a get acquainted room. I think Latte the Grouch would be the biggest obsticle.
SO, if he still doesn't have a home after that, I will give him one.
Then we will just have work out how to get him to Stockton.
I can hear the Cookietaster already.............I told you NO!

OH crap, Ang just ask them to slap an adopted sign on his cage and see if they are willing to get him to Stockton.

Please let me know what Rescue, so I can make a donation come Tax time.



Ulibelle, you have a heart the size of Jupiter... the planet that is, not the cat.

We will talk via pm about the logistics.
3105) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My bum's itchy. (Message 1593590)
Posted 28 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How ever if one must satisfy the masses for peace Im gamey.

Does this mean that we are now to name James' gamey behind?
3106) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1593301)
Posted 28 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am having a delightful month of October celebrations. The only cost is that this has become my new theme song...


That's actually a spritely little ditty. :~}


Yes, and if I got up and danced to it, instead of scarfing Halloween candy, I might actually lose some weight.
3107) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1593238)
Posted 28 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mac & Cheese with grilled hot dogs, or bratwurst, or grilled SPAM, or....

And whenever I grill sausage or SPAM, I open the sliding glass door a bit for ventilation, and all the kitties come sit on the step and look hopeful through the screen door....

HHMM, maybe I can get that visitor to show up. Ang still thinking about Pluto.
The more resistance I get, the more inclined I am to give him a home.


Actually the cat's name is Jupiter, but if you adopted him I'm pretty sure he would be grateful to have you call him whatever you wished.

In case others are wondering, Jupiter is a young male cat who is up for adoption in our area. He is being showcased at a pet store where I buy litter and food for our own menagerie. Eric and I really cannot commit to another cat at this time. Jupiter has been on display for several months now and it breaks my heart. He is a beautiful boy and he really does not belong in a cage.
3108) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My bum's itchy. (Message 1593236)
Posted 28 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am disappointed that the winner of this contest does not have to go on to get his own posterior publicly named, sort of in the way that the torch is passed in the Caption Contest and in TLPTPW thread. .
3109) Message boards : Cafe SETI : WHY (Message 1593232)
Posted 28 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've had fantasies about creating a second account - one that could be evil, troll-like, nasty and acerbic beyond belief. Then I realized that those positions had all been filled.
3110) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1593226)
Posted 28 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ang don't be disappointed. Some pounds just drifted down the ceiling. I have been a success everytime.

Whew!!! That's a relief. At least there was not universal weight loss on my watch.
3111) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1593077)
Posted 27 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Step on scales....
No, that can't be right....
Step off scales, make sure they are zero
Step on scales.....
89.9kg.
What, holiday in the USA finishing with a couple of days at Hotel K....
Must be dehydration on the flights home


You LOST weight on my cooking???!!! I'm crushed!
3112) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1593048)
Posted 27 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I understand they have already placed a bid on Celttooth's butt.

LOL!!!
3113) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1593039)
Posted 27 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ian, wishing you the best of all possible outcomes.

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In: 169.8 lbs

My weekend started last Thursday and it will continue until next Monday - lucky me!!! I am having a delightful month of October celebrations. The only cost is that this has become my new theme song...
3114) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My bum's itchy. (Message 1592737)
Posted 27 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I did like the name Krakatoa, but id have spelled it Crackatoa:) HIND sight is allways 20/20 isnt it:)

LOL!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations Jim!!!
3115) Message boards : Cafe SETI : WHY (Message 1592734)
Posted 27 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I believe that my question is a legitimate one. I have absolutely no idea what your complaint is, and apparently I am not alone in my confusion. I fail to see the point in starting a thread for public discussion if people do not know the details that have upset you. If the matter is a personal complaint that you have with a specific poster, wouldn't that be best handled through the pm system?
3116) Message boards : Cafe SETI : WHY (Message 1592727)
Posted 27 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Uli-belle, you are being far too cryptic!!! If you want us to comment on something, please tell us specifically what is bothering you.
3117) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1592724)
Posted 27 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There are actually several Weiner-mobiles, not just one. My baby brother used to have the job of scheduling them. He had to plot their routes and decide where they should go, for maximum publicity per mile. (He now has a much, much, much better job with the same company, but hey... ya gotta start some place... ) Anyway, I used to tease my baby brother because it was up to him to decide whether or not a community event was "Weiner-mobile worthy". None of my personal parties ever made the cut. Geez!!! What good is it to have "connections" if your "connections" actually have scruples?!!!
3118) Message boards : Politics : Society's Role in Education (Message 1592693)
Posted 27 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...But it was the way it was then, everybody was happy with it, and nobody queried it.

Oh Chris, you cannot possibly have meant that...

Eric's mother recently gave me a memory book of Eric's school years. The book was published in 1965. There is a page for every school year, from kindergarten through high school. Parents were to record the names of their child's friends, the activities their child enjoyed, their child's achievements and awards and their child's plans for the future as their child progressed through school.

There are boxes to check under the heading "When I grow up I want to be..."

For boys, suggested professions were
fireman
policeman
cowboy
astronaut
soldier
baseball player
other:_______

For girls, suggested professions were
mother
nurse
school teacher
airline hostess
model
secretary
other:_______


I, for one, am so grateful that the most of the readers of this thread would find this dichotomy as distasteful and disturbing as I do.
3119) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1592678)
Posted 26 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hang in there Monday. Congratulations on not drinking. That is a health victory! My weigh-in tomorrow morning is going to be terrible. You are not alone in the gaining department!!!
3120) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1592636)
Posted 26 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just bumping the thread. I hope to have some pictures from a couple of seti parties at our house to put up soon.
3121) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1592634)
Posted 26 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! Funny cartoon. I can totally relate.
3122) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1592234)
Posted 26 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello there... Guess what our most recent team ranking is???



Join the Raccoon Lovers...

...we've got e-cake!!!
3123) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My bum's itchy. (Message 1592216)
Posted 26 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I vote for "Dimples"
3124) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Iconic Fashion Designer Oscar de la Renta Dies at 82 (Message 1590487)
Posted 23 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
3125) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My bum's itchy. (Message 1590440)
Posted 22 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh, oh, oh, Wow what a great typo!

Oh thank goodness!!! I was concerned that Marie was going to twerk.
3126) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1590277)
Posted 22 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoons can be very persistent. Once they have taken up residence in your attic, the only way to get rid of them is to have them forcibly removed.

The GPUUG members had better get busy putting heavy duty wire screens over any potential openings in their roof, because a rowdy little team of raccoons is moving in their direction!!!


Before...


After!!!
3127) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1590240)
Posted 22 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Raccoon Lovers are Number Nine in the Team Stats right now!!!
3128) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1590238)
Posted 22 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have a little secret...

Ok, I'll tell you.


We're Number Nine!!!
3129) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #223 My, it was the fashion (Message 1590042)
Posted 22 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


Julie and Angela, dancing. (She's the cute one...)
3130) Message boards : Number crunching : The current top cruncher (Message 1590038)
Posted 22 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now that I've had a taste of being in the Top Ten, I want more, more, more!!!

(Just teasing, of course. I would enjoy being a member of Team Raccoon Lovers no matter where our team ranking fell.)
3131) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #223 My, it was the fashion (Message 1590019)
Posted 22 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My Raccoon Lovers team just busted into the Top Ten and I am doing a happy raccoon dance!
3132) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1590014)
Posted 22 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You may have heard that raccoons are very good at breaking into things...


Well, guess what?!!! The Raccoon Lovers just broke into the Top Ten.

Won't you join us?
3133) Message boards : Number crunching : The current top cruncher (Message 1590003)
Posted 22 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Maybe NEZ got a new job?

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know who Charles Long is, but if any of you know him, please invite him to join the Raccoon Lovers team.
3134) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1589926)
Posted 22 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Flu shots, get 'em.



Good choice!




Got mine several weeks ago. Made Ol'Pookers get one too.
3135) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1589564)
Posted 21 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Very cute picture Suzie-Q!
3136) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My bum's itchy. (Message 1589561)
Posted 21 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh for goodness sake. You people have driven me to this and you have nobody to blame but your silly selves!!!
3137) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1589419)
Posted 20 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Love those squirrel pictures!!! Thanks, Bernie.
3138) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1589321)
Posted 20 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I really HATE the concept of Ig Nobels!!! Yes, the awards all sound silly on the surface, but there is more than enough science-bashing in our culture already and frankly I am sick of it. Basic research often sounds funny out of context, but basic research can lead to huge advances in a field of study.

Eric and one of his long-term research partners, Dr. Shauna Sallman, recently submitted an article to a reputable journal that, taken out of context, sounds silly and frivolous. I know exactly how silly it sounds because I had the pleasure of proof-reading one of the drafts. The article is currently being peer reviewed and Eric and Shauna are both fairly sure that it will eventually be published.

For nearly a year now, Eric and Shauna have been laughing about being likely candidates for an Ig Nobel Prize next year. Yes, they are teasing, but the potential for ridicule did make both of them think twice about exploring this idea and eventually submitting their article for publication. It would have been a SHAME not to share this good and interesting idea with other astronomers just out of a fear of ridicule. I am proud of Eric and Shauna for being bigger than that!

As for slipping on a banana peel, yes it sounds like measuring friction in this context is a silly idea, but in figuring out how to do so in a valid and reliable manner, perhaps the researchers advanced their field in some way? I am not a physicist, so I can't judge, and I don't think the rest of us unqualified folks should judge either!!!
3139) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1589314)
Posted 20 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Weigh to go, Monday!!!

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In: 168.6 lbs - going nowhere fast, but having a great time getting there. October is a big celebration month for me. We have some sort of party at our house every weekend and we accept lots of invitations to party with friends and family.
3140) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My bum's itchy. (Message 1589154)
Posted 20 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
OMG!!! Nearly 40 posts discussing Monday's itchy posterior... If that is not a sign of the impending apocalypse I don't know what is.
3141) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1589152)
Posted 20 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Leg traps are not uncommon in northern Wisconsin where, sadly, raccoon pelts are collected and sold and seem to have some value. We are an omnivorous species, and since I eat meat and own some shoes made of leather, I do not feel that I can pass judgement on somebody who eats raccoons and squirrels. I would actually be a bit worried about eating raccoons, just from a roundworm perspective. Cooking raccoon meat thoroughly probably kills the worms and their eggs, but I would guess that there is still a chance of contamination in the butchering process. Seems like a bad idea to me. In this country at least, there are easier ways to get protein than trapping and eating squirrels and raccoons.
3142) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1588954)
Posted 19 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Howdy Miz Julie!
3143) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Favorite candy bars (Message 1588940)
Posted 19 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My father was a dentist and he always thought that Sugar Daddy pops were the worst candies out there in terms of dental hygiene. They last a long time in the mouth and bits and pieces can get stuck in your teeth. In addition, Sugar Daddy pops are both hard and sticky, so they have greater potential to extract loose fillings.
3144) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1588938)
Posted 19 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh no!!! A quick search of Google Images has convinced me that raccoons DO have a great deal to do with credit cards:











Oh dear. I think my little woodland friends may have a bit of a P.R. problem on their adorably dextrous little hands...
3145) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1588935)
Posted 19 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela is pretty laid back about the content of this thread, but I would like to ask do credit cards have anything to do with raccoons?


Nothing is off-topic in the Critter Cafe. This is not and never has been a thread about raccoons. This is a place where critter people come together to talk about whatever is on their minds.

Of course, since raccoons are frequently on my mind, I am prone to posting things like this:


Happy fall!!!
3146) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Being of (reasonably) sound mind and body, I do declare as follows. (Message 1588438)
Posted 17 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Wisconsin is America's Dairy Land, so perhaps some might be familiar with the expression 'til the cows come home'?
3147) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 2014 MLB World Series (Message 1588139)
Posted 17 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm pretty much just interested in the peanuts and Cracker Jacks...
3148) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1588137)
Posted 17 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pie crust should be flaky and taste of butter, unless you are doing a shortbread style cookie crust. Then it should be crumbly and taste of butter. That fake cinnamon roll crust will be puffy and taste of chemical leaveners. Yuck! Disgusting!!!
3149) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #223 My, it was the fashion (Message 1587918)
Posted 16 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have a number and it takes me back to the 1970's....Question, "Did you do this"

Merciful heavens, no!!! The only type of swinging I did was this...
3150) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1587673)
Posted 16 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Wishing all crunchers a Happy Halloween from Team Raccoon Lovers!!!
3151) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1587381)
Posted 15 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am a serial dieter, but I do it rather atypically across long periods of time.

For example, when I was in my mid 20's I was a little pudgy and I put myself on a "gentle diet". It took me about 10 months to lose about 15 pounds. I did not keep the weight off forever. It crept back on slowly, at a rate of about 3 pounds per year, and I put on some weight on top of that until I decided to diet again..

So then, when I was about 40 years old, I found myself to be about as heavy as I am right now. I did the Weight Watchers on-line program for about 9 months, with a few modifications of my own to make it a more "gentle diet". I lost 30 pounds, but I eventually lapsed back into my old love of delicious high fat foods. The weight I had lost crept back on, again at a rate of about 3 pounds a year.

Clearly now that I am 51 years old, it is the time for me to get serious again, and eventually I suppose I will manage to lose some weight. Sigh.... Dieting is so "un-fun", even if you try to do it gently.

I have heard that yo-yo dieting is bad for you - 10 pounds off, 10 pounds on, back and forth year after year. I don't know if serial dieting every 10 to 15 years is quite as bad. The way I figure it, if I had never lost the 15 pounds in my 20's and the 30 pounds in my 40's, I would probably would still have gained about 3 pounds a year, and I would probably be nearing 200 pounds right now if I hadn't gone on those two diets.

To answer the Weight Watchers question, I found their on-line program to be a relatively sensible one. They want you to eat real food, just less of it and lower in fat content. I did Weight Watchers before they went to their current "points" program, so I don't know how it has changed. I found that if I stuck to the plan strictly, I was hungry to the point of grouchiness and headaches all the time, so I modified the plan for me. I found that I needed to eat a couple hundred more calories per day than the plan allowed me, but it was still under what I needed to maintain my weight. I lost weight, but slower than the plan predicted I would lose weight.

I would recommend Weight Watchers, but if you go on it and you find that you need more food to keep from getting headaches, then eat more food. There is no way I would have stuck to ANY diet long term that made me cranky and head-achy.
3152) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1587203)
Posted 15 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A friend I used to work with had surgery of this kind. She had tried everything to lose weight. Her weight had been in the morbidly obese range for years, because food intake had an obsessive/addictive hold over her. The surgery was performed without complications and her post-surgical recovery was quick. Initially she lost tremendous amounts of weight. She also went through counseling to help her develop a more healthy relationship with food. That piece is probably just as important as the surgery itself.

My friend looks like she has gained back a little weight since her lowest weight point, but she only looks slightly stocky now, as opposed to looking very, very, very unhealthy before the surgery. It has been several years since her surgery and the majority of the weight she initially lost has not come back. It seems like her weight is relatively stable.

My friend's health is tremendously improved and the surgery gave her son back his joyful, playful, energetic mother.
3153) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1586890)
Posted 15 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There is no need to shame us, Chris. We are just being honest about how incredibly hard it is to consistently change a lifetime of habits.

(The cartoon, however, was hilarious!!!)
3154) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Thanks giving Day Canada! (Message 1586661)
Posted 14 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Best wishes to our Canadian friends on their Thanksgiving Day.
3155) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1586306)
Posted 13 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just do it like my wife.
Every time she is mad at the scale she buys a new one.

LOL!!! I would end up with a bigger scale collection than Eric's vintage computer collection.
3156) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1586297)
Posted 13 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In: 168.8

My scale must be broken. It seems to be moving in the wrong direction. I'm sure it is the scale and not the family party at our house Friday night, the junk food I ate at the Cal football game Saturday afternoon and the family party at my Cousin Anna's house on Sunday. Yep. It is definitely the scale.
3157) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1586098)
Posted 13 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

I just had to post this update... We're currently Number 11 in Team Stats!!!!

Watch out Team Canada... raccoons are in your backyard and we're looking to bust into the Top 10!!!
3158) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Off to bed now...night night everyone #3 - and may all our moderators have sweet dreams :) (Message 1586095)
Posted 13 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3159) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #222 I applied for a USDA RD Mortgage (Message 1586094)
Posted 13 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Rather a short win for you, TL...
3160) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #222 I applied for a USDA RD Mortgage (Message 1586090)
Posted 13 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...

Are those jumpsuits with bell bottoms and where can I get one for Eric???!!!
3161) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Aids Walk Atlanta (Message 1586063)
Posted 13 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I are happy to support your wife in this effort. Please extend to her our kindest regards and our best wishes for a successful fundraiser.
3162) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1586057)
Posted 13 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have tried... oh how hard I have tried not to ask. Everything my mama ever taught me about being polite tells me not to ask. I tried biting my tongue, but I didn't care for the taste of blood. I tried to distract myself with tasks - that didn't work. I took a vigorous mental shower - no relief. I even tried sitting on my typing hands, but they just kept creeping, inch by inch, towards the keyboard and now curiosity has simply gotten the better of me. Apologies, friends, but simply I have to know...

Vic, if your sister-in-law does pre-decease you, what in the world makes you think she will leave you her house, or even some money, when she has children of her own?
3163) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1584996)
Posted 10 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I like moths. Vic, I am cleaning up all of your spray. Moths are always welcome in the Critter Cafe.
3164) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #57 (Message 1584332)
Posted 10 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Isn't it great that we don't have smart phones?!!!
3165) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1584074)
Posted 9 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yep. I have a terrific vegetarian chili recipe. The problem is that it gets served with toppers like grated cheese and sour cream and served with a side of cornbread.

I have vague memories of this. Did you feed us this in between drinks?

Yes. You liked it, but that may have been the margaritas talking.
3166) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Off to bed now...night night everyone #3 - and may all our moderators have sweet dreams :) (Message 1583811)
Posted 9 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3167) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #222 I applied for a USDA RD Mortgage (Message 1583810)
Posted 9 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Good night-oh
3168) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #222 I applied for a USDA RD Mortgage (Message 1583808)
Posted 9 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A morning post....

Eine kleine Nacht-post

(Sorry Mike and Uli...)
3169) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Can you can you can-can??? (Message 1583804)
Posted 9 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you.
3170) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #222 I applied for a USDA RD Mortgage (Message 1583801)
Posted 9 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
See. I told you.
3171) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #222 I applied for a USDA RD Mortgage (Message 1583798)
Posted 9 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Posting before El beep-oh...
3172) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1583797)
Posted 9 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And I wonder why I never lose any weight...
3173) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #57 (Message 1583795)
Posted 9 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Perhaps Grate America was not the best idea for a theme park...





(Ok, only the locals are going to get my caption. For everyone else, here is an explanation Great America wiki)
3174) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1583785)
Posted 9 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ah yes. Cornbread. Love it! Never thought of it as especially bad for you, but it's a carb, I guess.

My favorite recipe for cornbread involves a cup of sour cream and several tablespoons of melted butter.
3175) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1583781)
Posted 9 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

This is exactly how raccoons eat grapes.

Unlike humans, raccoons are unable to seal their lips when chewing.
A raccoon tilts his head back so that the juice from the grapes goes down his throat instead of slipping out of his mouth.
3176) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1583778)
Posted 9 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yep. I have a terrific vegetarian chili recipe. The problem is that it gets served with toppers like grated cheese and sour cream and served with a side of cornbread.
3177) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1583743)
Posted 9 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela, I just thought you should know, I'm at college right now and it looks like I've given quite a few of the class Eric's cold.

How is it even remotely possible that you are still contagious??? My guess is that the professor is giving a midterm today. AaaaaChooooooo!!!
3178) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1583547)
Posted 8 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gosh that could so easily be somewhere else I know!

LOL!!!
3179) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1583268)
Posted 8 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That is a raccoon kit and they are generally quite playful, like kittens and puppies.
3180) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1582783)
Posted 6 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
that's where I left my grocery shopping list, I think...


Gee, that's what I just found, I'll send it to you.....




Thanks. I'm sure I will remember more stuff if I just take in a little more caffeine. Now where did I leave that coffee mug?
3181) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1582779)
Posted 6 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The missing TV remote next to your office key card.

No, that's where I left my grocery shopping list, I think...
3182) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1582656)
Posted 6 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Car? I'm still looking for my glasses......


They are next to the missing remote.
3183) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What's for breakfast? (Message 1582561)
Posted 6 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
One slice of left-over chocolate mousse cake and black tea. I'm a baaaaaaaaad raccoon.
3184) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1582558)
Posted 6 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...Now where was I???

Right next to my car keys, wherever they are...
3185) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1582557)
Posted 6 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In: 168.6

Not at all surprised. We had house guests this weekend and I indulged in celebratory eating from lunch on Friday through brunch on Sunday. Every weekend in October is going to be filled with fun activities and delicious food. I'm pretty much doomed...
3186) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Favorite candy bars (Message 1582369)
Posted 6 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My personal favorite is the Payday. Not available in Canada, so I look forward to my visits to the US. Yanks, don't let anybody tell you that the US never contributed anything worthwhile to global culture.

I have been meaning to respond to this for a couple of days.

Mr. Walker, clearly you do not understand the American psyche. Even if some silly foreigner were to be foolish enough to tell us that we had never contributed anything worthwhile to global culture, not an American soul would, for even a fraction of a second, believe it. That is part of our charm, you see...

Now then, Payday bars are not difficult to recreate in the kitchen. All you need are caramels and salted peanuts.

1. Unwrap a bunch of caramels
2. Melt them down in a double boiler
3. Put salted peanuts on a plate
4. Drizzle a thick stripe of caramel onto the plate of peanuts
5. Using clean spoons or a small spatula, roll the hot caramel stripe in the peanuts until it is covered with peanuts on all sides
6. Remove to a different plate to cool
7. Repeat until all caramel and peanuts are used, all while singing a rousing version of God Bless America
8. Enjoy







Oh, you're welcome, Canada.
3187) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1582367)
Posted 6 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lovely picture of real seti friends!!! Thank you.
3188) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hey TL, Need To Replace That Screwdriver? (Message 1581371)
Posted 3 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...Only two hours left, but that's only a problem for us, regular people.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3189) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Favorite candy bars (Message 1580978)
Posted 2 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The occasional Heath bar has been known to end up in my shopping cart...
3190) Message boards : Cafe SETI : too much (Message 1580977)
Posted 2 Oct 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3191) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1580287)
Posted 30 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy Anniversary Canadian Space Program!!!

(I'm sure that space is a far more polite because of you.)
3192) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1580060)
Posted 30 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Happy Birthday, Janneseti!!!
3193) Message boards : Cafe SETI : So this is no Joke, and Yes I'm being serious.. (Message 1579767)
Posted 30 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...little knowledge...

My sentiments exactly.
3194) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1579398)
Posted 29 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yay Monday!!!

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In
166.2 pounds
(Not surprised. I indulged in too many treats this week and there was a big family party last night.)
3195) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #221 We have a winner! (Message 1579140)
Posted 28 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
All orders for snow accepted......

Watch out for the yellow variety :-))

LOL!!! Yes, in the immortal words of Frank Zappa, "Watch out where the huskies go and don't you eat that yellow snow."
3196) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #221 We have a winner! (Message 1578941)
Posted 28 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you so much for changing the title of this thread!!!

I'll buy some snow. We are in the middle of a severe drought here.
3197) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1578919)
Posted 28 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This weekend I am baking up a storm for a family party, but the good thing is that tomorrow, everything I've baked goes to another locale. I will have dessert there, and then all of the left-overs stay with my brother and sister-in-law. All the joy of baking and limited caloric damage - yay!!!
3198) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1578917)
Posted 28 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...The one thing all men hate...

LOL!!!

Actually I hate clothes shopping nearly as much as Eric does, so at least we have that in common. Eric does like ONE kind of shopping... electronics surplus shopping. That is what we did on our second date - and I married him anyway!!!
3199) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1578900)
Posted 27 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"Bleh" to both lunch bag suggestions!!!
3200) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1578808)
Posted 27 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
OMG! Is he tired of breathing? We can get away with quite a few "stunts" but that isn't one of them.

He is safe to tease about such things because I know he would never do it.
3201) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What's for breakfast? (Message 1578807)
Posted 27 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cheese sandwich with tomatoes from my garden, green grapes and black tea
3202) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1578806)
Posted 27 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you peace during this time of loss and pain, Chris.
3203) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1578637)
Posted 27 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It was a pretty cool Star Wars bag.

Is there any other type?
3204) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What's for breakfast? (Message 1578634)
Posted 27 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
For breakfast - two slices of toasted raisin bread - no butter, a small apple and black tea. For lunch, tofu and vegie stir fry, a small scoop of brown rice and green tea. So far so good I thought, until I encountered that gelato shop...
3205) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #221 We have a winner! (Message 1578633)
Posted 27 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It wasn't me and I can prove it. Winning is my alibi.
3206) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1578631)
Posted 27 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I saw a nice Star Wars bag the other day that I nearly picked up for him.

The fourth bag is supposed to serve as a deterrent to Eric leaving his lunch bags at work. If a Star Wars bag were his fourth bag, he would deliberately leave bags one, two and three at work!
3207) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Off to bed now...night night everyone #3 - and may all our moderators have sweet dreams :) (Message 1577957)
Posted 26 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Aw shucks. Who can resist a sleeping ball of sweet raccoon?
3208) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What's for breakfast? (Message 1577956)
Posted 26 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric ate two.
3209) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #221 We have a winner! (Message 1577954)
Posted 26 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm watching you watching me win.
3210) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #221 We have a winner! (Message 1577948)
Posted 26 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello everybody!!! Watch me win!!!
3211) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #57 (Message 1577947)
Posted 26 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Be kind to the driving impaired... these are my people you are dis'sing!!!
3212) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What's for breakfast? (Message 1577945)
Posted 26 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I ate a doughnut. Forgive me Monday, for I have sinned.
3213) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1577905)
Posted 26 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have gotten into the habit of making Ol'Pookers a lunch for work every day. The Space Sciences Lab is in a remote hill location on campus and there is no cafeteria or cafe in either building associated with the lab. If I did not make Eric a lunch, he would eat doo-doo out of a vending machine every day, or worse yet, hop in his car and go out for fast food five days a week. Since I do not wish to be a widow, I pack him a reasonably healthy lunch to take in each day.

Anyway, my little Absent Minded Professor has three rotating "manly" vinyl lunch bags that I use for packing his lunch. He needs to have three because he frequently forgets his empty lunch bag at work. The standing threat in our house is that if he forgets his lunch bag at work three days in a row and I am out of dignified lunch bags to use, then on the fourth day I am going to pack him a lunch in the most pink, sparkly, fru-fru gift bag that I can find in our collection of reusable gift bags.



Last night, as I was packing Eric's third and final dignified lunch bag, I warned him, "Bring home those empty bags, or you're getting lunch in that pink gift bag next time!!!" Eric replied, "Go ahead and pack the gift bag. If people comment on it at work, I'll just tell them that my mistress packed my lunch for me!"

Men!!!
3214) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1576838)
Posted 24 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So do you, my friend!
3215) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday II - Double Digits, but no double chins!!! (Message 1576832)
Posted 24 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This thread is dedicated to our good friend Monday, who has been doing an extraordinary job of improving his health.

This thread is for those of us who would like to slim down, eat better or just improve a health habit or two. I see no need to limit discussions to weight loss. If, for example, you are trying to quit smoking or trying to reduce your alcohol consumption, then by all means jump right in. You will find many friends here. I also love a good meandering thread and if things should happen to meander off-topic now and again, that is just fine with me.

This is a place to post health goals and the progress you achieve in attaining them. (In my case, it is a place to post health goals and the utter lack of progress I achieve in attaining them!!!) It is also a place to gripe, a place to commiserate, a place to celebrate one another's successes and a place to be supportive of one another.
3216) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1576827)
Posted 24 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My favorite board bulldozer has been pushing me to start a new thread.

See you all over in the next one!
3217) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1576825)
Posted 24 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm not sure raccoons run real good.

Raccoons run very well, usually on all fours though. They are extraordinary climbers, but poor jumpers as Es's video illustrates.

Those kittens sure are cute, Suzie-Q! Sorry to hear that there are more.
3218) Message boards : Cafe SETI : is it a hoax? (Message 1576722)
Posted 23 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Real or not, I agree with the physician interviewed in that clip. Anyone who would go to such extremes for attention may have some serious undiagnosed psychiatric issues. Frankly I find it difficult to believe that this young woman actually found a plastic surgeon willing to perform this operation, and if she did, that physician's license should come up for some serious review!!!

As a person who has worked for 25 years in a hospital setting I understand that patient confidentiality is highly protected... but I also know that people slip up. Can you imagine how many hospital registration people, orderlies, surgical nurses, surgical techs, recovery room nurses, housekeeping staff members etc would have been involved in this young woman's care? This is such an atypical surgery that surely at least one hospital employee would have "slipped" and told a spouse or trusted friend something general like "a woman had a third boob put in at our hospital today". That spouse or friend would have told two people, who would have told two people, who would have told two people. With this kind of gossip-mill, eventually the hospital where the surgery was performed would be known and the surgeon would at be guessed. Since everything is dipped in mystery and shrouded in intrigue around this surgery, my guess is that we are looking at a clever, elaborate internet hoax.
3219) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1576583)
Posted 23 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh Vic... your last line is going to enrage Blurf, and justifiably so.

Oh prickly pear margaritas... why do you have to taste so good? G-R-O-A-N!!!

Climbing back up onto the diet and exercise wagon now... Brushing off the dirt from the rut where the wagon rolled back and forth over me several times... Dragging myself into the kitchen to prepare a sensible breakfast...

G-R-O-A-N!!!
3220) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1576429)
Posted 23 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think it is wonderful that you are
willing to take the effort provide me with a sober
considered explanation of how you understand this issue.

LOL!!! What a charming way to say "let us agree to disagree". But happily, it does sound like we agree on several things. (And as an aside, whatever makes you think that I am "sober"? I found ripe prickly pear cactus fruits at our Farmers Market last Saturday and tonight I turned them into margaritas to go with dinner.)


I just have a hard time accepting that a diet that humans
evolved with for 90% of our time here on earth or so is
no longer is considered as healthy as one we have had
only recently.

Funny you should mention that. We evolved to eat mostly plants, and that is probably one of the many reasons why farming ultimately "won" over hunting and gathering.

Our species comes out of Africa. Savannas are ecosystems composed of grasses and sedges, spotted with the occasional tree. Savanna grasses do well in hot dry regions because, to take up carbon from the atmosphere, they use a specific pathway called C4. This set of reactions is miserly with carbon and water.

Our species moved into Europe. In wetter ecosystems woody vegetation and trees grow and these plants tend to take up carbon from the atmosphere using a specific pathway called C3, which requires much more water.

Dramatic swings between wet and dry climates, wherever our ancestors lived, killed off some of our early ancestors and provided evolutionary pressures that pushed other ancestors towards modern traits that we still possess today. The most adaptive trait our species has is probably our ability to eat just about anything.

The typical modern American diet of soft drinks, cow meat, Doritos and candy is largely derived from corn, a C4 grass. When you say "90% of our time here on earth" I assume that you are going back to our early ancestors in the genus Homo. Guess what?!!! Early members of our genus were designed to eat everything... generally to the tune of 65% C3 and 35% C4 things. All that matters in the "evolution game" is that you survive long enough to reproduce yourself and ensure the survival of your offspring. Our early ancestors could have done this on a diet of burgers and Doritos. (Now most of us would like to live much longer than 30 or so years, so yes, we have to do things differently.)

We are such an amazing species!!! We don't live in our environments, we eat our environments!!! When you say "a diet that humans evolved with 90% of our time here on earth" you make it sound like we consistently ate a certain way. But actually, we ate whatever we found, hunted or managed to grow, wherever we happened to be. Our species has populated the earth, from our planet's poles down to the equator, probably because we are two things - smart and good eaters.

Don't get me wrong. I am certainly not advocating a diet of burgers and Doritos, even though most of us can digest these foods just fine. We know that for optimal health and longevity we need plant-heavy, balanced diets full of moderation. All I am saying is that genetically we are pretty much adapted to eat whatever is in front of us, whether it comes to us via hunting and gathering or via farming. Hunters and gatherers ate a paleo-diet because that was what was in front of them. Early farmers ate whatever their community could grow because that was what was in front of them.

I suspect that the problem with our modern diet is NOT that we have given up eating spit-roasted game and a handful of unripe berries for breakfast and NOT that we are farming and eating the wrong types of grains. I would guess that the REAL problem is that we are eating too darn much of what is so conveniently in front of us.
3221) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1576319)
Posted 23 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Agriculture is about 12,000 years old and, full disclosure here, I am rather a fan of it.

I can certainly think of several reasons why members of hunter-gatherer societies, historically, might be bigger and stronger, on average, than historically matched members of farming cultures. These reasons cast doubt on a direct causal link between grain consumption and cultural-size.

1. If you are not big and strong as an early hunter-gatherer, you might have a lower status in your culture, and this might impact your ability to find a mate and reproduce yourself. This could lead to a selection bias towards taller, stronger individuals in a hunter-gatherer society.

2. Early farming communities would involve people living in more densely populated areas. This could lead to greater incidence of stature stunting illnesses and diseases amongst early farmers.

3. The vagaries of weather might lead to years of famine in early farming communities, which would impact the stature/strength of the people who had come to rely on farmed foods.

4. Reliance on a smaller set of foods in early farming communities might lead to deficiencies in vitamins, minerals or micro-nutrients, which could stunt the growth of early farmers, compared to historical peers. Early farming communities did not have the knowledge basis in this area that we have today.

Ian, if I am understanding you correctly, you seem to be implying that consumption of grains and starches as a main food staple CAUSES people in a culture to be shorter and weaker. Conversely, you seem to be implying that consumption of a paleo-diet more typical of hunter-gatherer cultures CAUSES people in a culture to be taller and stronger.

I think you are confusing causation with correlation. There may be a correlation showing that early farmers were shorter and weaker than hunter-gatherers of the same time, but it was not necessarily consumption of grains that caused this. There may be a correlation showing that early hunter-gatherers were taller and stronger than farmers of the same time, but again it was not necessarily lack of grains in the diet that caused this. A review of the four reasons listed above should be enough to cast reasonable doubt on there being a direct causal link between grain consumption and stature/strength.

The reason I am being such a pain in the posterior on this topic is that the "whack-a-doos" out there mix up correlation and causality all the gosh-diggily-dog-gone-darn time. They site correlation as "evidence" that their beliefs are scientifically sound when, in fact, the first thing young scientists learn is that correlation does not, necessarily, imply causality.

The reason that I am standing on a soap-box here in The Cafe, rather than in "Science - not seti" or over in the wilds of "Politics", is that this thread has become a place where lots of people interested in diet gather... the perfect audience for this discussion.

I know it is very unpopular to be "pro-gluten" these days, but hey... I just gotta take a stand for logic... (and delicious food!!!)

Pasta, anyone?
3222) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1576271)
Posted 22 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In Europe humans have gotten smaller compared
to their hunter gather Cro Magnon ancestors.....

"Cro Magnon" is sort of a basket term that doesn't tell us much, scientifically. Several hominin species shared the planet in our "recent" past, with possibly as many as four species existing during the time that modern humans made their debut. This makes it more and more difficult to identify direct ancestors of our species!!! We used to think we had it all figured out, but then scientists kept on discovering more fossil evidence of different species.

If you are thinking of Homo Neanderthalensis when you mean "Cro Magnons", then yes, they were big and strong, but they were probably our evolutionary cousins, aunts or uncles rather than our direct ancestors. There is evidence of some small, possible, interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans, but clearly we remained separate species. Our other cousins may have been Homo Heidelbergensis and Homo Floresiensis. There is even some evidence that Homo Erectus may have stayed around on the planet much longer than previously though. At this point there is considerable debate as to who our really-really-great grandparents were.

If you are interested in the subject of Human Evolution, pick up a copy of the September 2014 issue of Scientific American. It is one of their "special topic" issues and it is a really good read.

Anyway, long story short, I don't know of any evidence that agriculture made us smaller. Certainly optimal nutrition, attainable through agricultural practices, can help an individual in a species attain his (or her) maximum genetic potential for growth, just as poor nutrition can stunt the growth of an individual in a species. Change in our overall average species size, to make us larger or smaller, would probably require a bigger evolutionary "pressure" (or combinations of pressures) than something as straightforward and simple as good nutrition.
3223) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1576132)
Posted 22 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It was just that there had to be a reason people
got so small after farming was adopted......



I was unaware that our species has gotten smaller, but if that is true then I would assume that improved nutrition from the steady food supply that comes from adopting agriculture would make it possible for people of all sizes to survive to reproduce themselves. Perhaps hunter-gatherers do better if they are bigger, more powerful and have greater bodily food reserves (fat!!!) to get them through the lean times when game and berries are scarce?
3224) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1576080)
Posted 22 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/

Looks interesting.......



Going gluten free is so trendy these days.

I like wheat. Pasta should not be made without it. Pizza should not be made without it. Most people can digest wheat just fine, but the whack-a-doos are out there in full force trying to convince people otherwise.

Would I lose wheat if I ate one of these paleo-diets where you have roasted meat and berries for every meal... yes. Would I be miserable on a paleo-diet? Yes!!!
3225) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1576070)
Posted 22 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In for 09/22/14: 165.4 pounds

Back on track... the slow track admittedly, but still better than last week's salt fest.
3226) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats (Message 1575866)
Posted 22 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Celt, your beloved Fryja is waiting for you at the RBB. Beautiful kitty.
Awe, Ulrike, Tessie was a beaut, too.
And Ziggy could be a twin to my previous kitty, Marz. An orange spotted mackerel, but he didn't have the pale band across his nose. Cool. (Um, excuse my ignorance, but are Ulrike and Uli the same being, as it appears?)

Ahem. Now Angela. Put the computer down and back away slowly. Those ideas things are addictive. $$$.

If I owned my own house, it would be insanely cat-centric.

http://benzwm021lm.hubpages.com/hub/cattreesthatlooklikerealtrees

Must love cats!

:-)

CC


LOL!!! We had a plumbing emergency at our house this weekend, so after paying that bill I sure won't be spending $900 on cat furniture!!!
3227) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1575863)
Posted 22 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think you are doing brilliantly!
3228) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #221 We have a winner! (Message 1575862)
Posted 22 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...

Those feather fans were being waved awfully close to those torches. How is it that the whole video did not go up in flames?
3229) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1575813)
Posted 22 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ups and downs are par for the course. You are doing great!!!

Go Monday Go!!!
3230) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #57 (Message 1575742)
Posted 21 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Culinary school was cheaper than getting a Ph.D. in paleontology...
3231) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #221 We have a winner! (Message 1575399)
Posted 21 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Ian!
3232) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1575398)
Posted 21 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric knows there is a dieting thread but he does not know that I occasionally pass up ice cream, since I obviously don't pass up ice cream often enough to make a difference.
3233) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1575090)
Posted 20 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not disco, but who can resist Danse Macabre at this time of year?
3234) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1574861)
Posted 20 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoon Dance Party!!!
3235) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1574835)
Posted 20 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I want ice cream. Instead I am eating green grapes. The grapes are good. The grapes are sweet. I am enjoying the grapes... but I still want ice cream.
3236) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1574655)
Posted 19 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3237) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1574650)
Posted 19 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3238) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1574648)
Posted 19 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3239) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1574641)
Posted 19 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Feel that disco beat.
3240) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats (Message 1574639)
Posted 19 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If anyone needs a holiday gift idea for Fluffy...

Good grief!!!
3241) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1574636)
Posted 19 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning disco post?
3242) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1574589)
Posted 19 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We must be nearing some sort of end. People are posting faster than they are dancing.
3243) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1574577)
Posted 19 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...


37 minutes??? Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3244) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1574094)
Posted 18 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Uh... I don't think those critters are sleeping...
3245) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1574093)
Posted 18 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gasp! Can't disco any more. Must rest. Gasp.
3246) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1573947)
Posted 18 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3247) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1573934)
Posted 18 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Topless dancing post.

Put yer shirt back on post ....

Aw shucks.
3248) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #57 (Message 1573685)
Posted 18 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What an aPEELing couple!
3249) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats (Message 1573679)
Posted 18 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry to hear of the loss of your pet, CC. When the time is right, I do hope that another cat will find its special kitty way into your heart and home.
3250) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #57 (Message 1573621)
Posted 18 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lots of captions - all of them funny!

The Liberal Arts Education Award goes to Carlos for borrowing from Jonathan Swift.

Third prize goes to mrperk for: "I think they are going to abandon me at Taco Bell drive thru!"

Second prize is a tie and goes to N9JFE David S and also to N9JFE David S again for: "In about 50 or 60 years, I'm going to dress you like this in your nursing home." and for: ""I'm not too young to start plotting revenge."

But first prize simply has to go to Monday for: "Is the dog tied up?"

PM going out to our winner now...
3251) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1573416)
Posted 17 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Apologies for cluttering your thread Angela, I'll try to be more discerning in future :-)


Don't be silly! This is turning into an interesting discussion. (I could see the second one but not the first attempt.)
3252) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1573258)
Posted 17 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My intent was to post a box of chocolates, I just happen to like See's Candies the best.

Me too!!! Their toffee rocks!!!
3253) Message boards : Cafe SETI : book readers (Message 1573255)
Posted 17 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And a first addition also? Seems like the someone let that slips through the cracks. I take it wasnt signed though?

Not signed... that would have been awesome. It was in reasonable condition, given its age. I did point out to the store clerk (possibly the owner???) that it was a first edition and that perhaps it needed to be repriced before I purchased it. The clerk said I could have it as priced, and to please visit the store again. I certainly will, the next time I am in the lovely, slightly touristy town of Bayfield Wisconsin.


Taken in strictly modern terms, some of Buck's work seems incredibly racist.

Yes. Agreed. And that is exactly why I started with the disclaimer "Don't judge the story outside of the time it was written,..."

It is the bigger themes in Peony that hold up over time - the importance of group identity; the inevitability of cultural assimilation; the interesting interplay between economics and social norms...
3254) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1573249)
Posted 17 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have an upcoming movie date with Ol' Pookers. I sure hope the movie date includes a box of ...


LOL Vic!!! That would be good too, but you didn't click on the dots. I linked people to that dance classic "popcorn".
3255) Message boards : Cafe SETI : book readers (Message 1573078)
Posted 17 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I recently found a first edition of Pearl S. Buck's Peony for an absolute steal in a used book store. Don't judge the story outside of the time it was written, but it is quite the little page turner.
3256) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1573073)
Posted 17 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have an upcoming movie date with Ol' Pookers. I sure hope the movie date includes a box of ...
3257) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Your Epitaph (Message 1573038)
Posted 17 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What will it all be worth in one hundred billion years......

My epitaph is my life.



I was just discussing this with PJ and Veerle!


No matter what I may accomplish with what time I may have left, when the Great Book Of Life is written, I'm not even going to make a footnote!

(Rather freeing, actually...)
3258) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #57 (Message 1572997)
Posted 16 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.

My dear friends, please caption this!
3259) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1572992)
Posted 16 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...

Do people still wave lighters? I thought all the kids these days waved their cell phones in the air at concerts.
3260) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1572480)
Posted 16 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Canadians number amongst the nicest people I have ever met. If Ian says that his friends and neighbors will welcome us with open arms, then I now believe it.
3261) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #57 (Message 1572460)
Posted 16 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are you sure it is ok for me to wear white after Labor Day?
3262) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1572455)
Posted 15 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We will not turn anyone away. How could the world
think we would stand on the frontier in cold disregard
for people in need?

When resources become scarce, people tend not to exercise generosity.
3263) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1572444)
Posted 15 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

I simply have to brag a little.
The Raccoon Lovers Team is currently #1 at Beta and #12 overall at seti.
Whoo hoo!!!
3264) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1572438)
Posted 15 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We have lots of land here, and no one likes
having to pay the high cost of living in our
coastal cities. Every one hates the cold.

How will Canadians feel when other peoples who have lost land and resources to global climate change immigrate to Canada in phenomenal numbers? Are you and your fellow countrymen planning to welcome us with open arms?
3265) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1572340)
Posted 15 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
https://www.facebook.com/eric.korpela
3266) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1572336)
Posted 15 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll still lose weight, so I don't need to follow a diabetic diet and I can still eat ice cream too, when I can afford to that is.

Mmmmmmmmm ice cream!!! What's not to love???!!!

Vic, at your current weight, age, height and activity level you are taking in approximately 3600 calories a day to maintain your weight. At my current weight, age, height and activity level I am taking in about 1830 calories a day to maintain my weight. Monday is probably somewhere between the two of us.

Different people, different challenges...

And with all the disco dancing I've been doing on TLPTPW thread, it is amazing to me that I haven't dropped a dress size!
3267) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1572317)
Posted 15 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have one issue of a diabetic cooking magazine that I bought when my mother was initially diagnosed. There is a roasted pear, onion and butternut squash soup recipe in the issue I have that is outstanding. My mother requests that I make that soup for her a couple of times each fall... and she doesn't even know the soup is actually good for her!!!
3268) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1572313)
Posted 15 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I do not have a Facebook account, but you can be friends with Eric on Facebook.
3269) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1572243)
Posted 15 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...

Preparing for Thanksgiving already???!!!
3270) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1572241)
Posted 15 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lovely pictures Bernie. Thank you.
3271) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1572240)
Posted 15 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In
167.6 lbs

Too depressed to even click on the metric converter.

I am blaming this weigh-in on salt. There is no possible way that I gained two real pounds in seven lousy days. We had a dinner party on Saturday and I cooked a variety of delicious but high salt foods for the party. Then we ate the left-overs for lunch on Sunday. Then Eric cooked a salty dinner for the two of us on Sunday night.

Salt. That's my story and I'm sticking with it.
3272) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1572094)
Posted 15 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3273) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What's for breakfast? (Message 1571617)
Posted 13 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Blueberry muffins, crescent melon and black tea
3274) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1571616)
Posted 13 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
*adjusts giant collar on shirt* It's the seventies dude! :)


Don't forget these.
3275) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1571494)
Posted 13 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...

I was just looking for that! :)


How about this one ...
3276) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1571347)
Posted 13 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4 Raccoons +


4 Raccoons +


3 Raccoons +


1 Raccoon


= 12 Raccoons

Twelve raccoons to symbolize our current team ranking...

We're Number 12!!!


We would love to have you number amongst us.
Join Raccoon Lovers Today
3277) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1571341)
Posted 13 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...

Nice.
3278) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1571308)
Posted 13 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Everybody get up and dance!!!

...
3279) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1571304)
Posted 13 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...
3280) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1571298)
Posted 13 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll dance with you janneseti ...
3281) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1571235)
Posted 12 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Our 70's dance party seems to be missing representation from the country-western genre. Perhaps we can scare up Scarecrow with ...
3282) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1571043)
Posted 12 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL! I know YOU can dance. I've seen it with my own eyes!!!

Oh my word, I keep forgetting that (blush blush) Although it has to be said that I had a rather talented partner :-)

Yes, a certain dancing queen...
3283) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1571020)
Posted 12 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Jeepers I remember bopping to this one ...

Leo Sayer


LOL! I know YOU can dance. I've seen it with my own eyes!!!
3284) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1570829)
Posted 12 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok dear, technically our first date was not "the 21st night of September", but rather the 22nd night of September (1992). Also we didn't so much "dance in the night", but rather sat half the night in a coffee shop, but you get the general gist - Dedicated to my husband. ...
3285) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1570822)
Posted 12 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dedicated to my wife. ...

LOL!!! 36-24-36 in what mathematical base, dear?
3286) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1570791)
Posted 12 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Like that song very much.

Personal taste will vary of course. Sweet Home Alabama has been a rather controversial song in this country, and it has never been one of my favorites.
Best wishes to your daughter though, Lynn.


Yikes not sure how I got the honor.

I have had the pleasure of seeing you dance, Ulibelle!!!


Keep on ...
3287) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1570770)
Posted 12 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ulibelle, welcome to the 70's!!!

I dedicate this one to you, my friend ...
3288) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1570757)
Posted 11 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...

I will see your "fae fae fae fae fae fae fae fae fae" and raise you a "sha la la la la" ...
3289) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1570746)
Posted 11 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh mama shake your tail feathers ...
3290) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1570727)
Posted 11 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lest we forget ...
3291) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1570688)
Posted 11 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nothing is off topic here, Vic. Sounds like a sweet deal!!!
3292) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1570687)
Posted 11 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Anyone need a lift?
3293) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1570683)
Posted 11 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Refreshments, anyone?
3294) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1570680)
Posted 11 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...

Now I get it:) ... is an URL!

LOL!!! Yes. Click on the three little dots!

And while BladeD valiantly tries to show us the best of the 70's, I am hell-bent to trot out the very ...
3295) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1570647)
Posted 11 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3296) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1570634)
Posted 11 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mister Sparky, it seems we have turned your thread into a 70's dance party because ...
3297) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1570620)
Posted 11 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

...

(Caution! This clip shows John Travolta walking around in his unmentionables... and worse yet the clip contains some gratuitous polyester shirt shots!!! How did we all manage to survive the 70's???)
3298) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1570610)
Posted 11 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...

That's a whole lot of feathers!!!

Just when you thought it was safe to exit the 70's ...
3299) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1570476)
Posted 11 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning between the late news and bedtime......
And not falling into Time Tunnels that lead back to the 70s...


Oh Donald, oooooooou ou ou-ou-ou, Do it!!! ...
3300) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1570289)
Posted 11 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Okay...

Oh, I missed the three dots. What is it about the 70's that made men sing in falsetto? Do you think it was all the tight pants?
3301) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1570287)
Posted 11 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I told you the 70's had bad music!!!
3302) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1570285)
Posted 11 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
One good turn deserves another... do unto others etc, etc, etc

For you ...
3303) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1570279)
Posted 11 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just for you...

Merciful heavens!!! I'm pretty sure that once upon a time I slow-danced to that song with one of the geekiest guys in my high school. Thanks for the memories... I think!!!
3304) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1570273)
Posted 11 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...

Ok, this is driving me crazy. Why do you want to turn back the hands of time? I keep clicking on those three dots to see if you have changed the song.

Oh, do you have a request?

...



I am a child of the 70's, a decade universally known for its bad music. I am, therefore, in no position to make either requests or recommendations.
3305) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1570265)
Posted 11 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...

Ok, this is driving me crazy. Why do you want to turn back the hands of time? I keep clicking on those three dots to see if you have changed the song.
3306) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats (Message 1570119)
Posted 10 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I haz snowball! No! I haz snowball!

(Pretty kitties! Cool "m" on right kitty, cool cat on left - yours?)

:-)

CC


Not mine. Just something I saw on google images while looking for something else.
3307) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats (Message 1570024)
Posted 10 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3308) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1570002)
Posted 10 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Kiwi does resemble Eva, from the neck down.

OMG - Kittens!!!!!!!!!!!! Want, want, want, want, want... but know we cannot have. Eric and I hope to live in Wisconsin part of the year when Eric is retirement age. This means we have to go down in the number of cats who have us, not up. Sniff.
3309) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What's for breakfast? (Message 1569893)
Posted 10 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The Little Debbie Oatmeal crème pies, straight from the Vending Machine devil, are my downfall.

I bake. I bake a lot. There is absolutely no reason for my husband to still have "a thing" for that hussy, Little Debbie!!!
Sigh... I suppose a man never really gets over his first love.
3310) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Has the identity of Jack the Ripper been uncovered? (Message 1569892)
Posted 10 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Me too, but I think He was histories 1st serial killer, a modern day one would be the Hillside Stranger or Son of Sam or the Zodiac Killer, the last one took Me a bit to remember, so far He's never been caught.

Maybe recorded history's first serial killer, but I doubt he was actually the first of our species to be so criminally insane. The first time I visited the La Brea tar pits, I saw the fossilized remains of a young prehistoric woman who had been killed and tossed in a tar pit. Man's inhumanity to man goes way back.
3311) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What's for breakfast? (Message 1569889)
Posted 10 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Since I had two margaritas tonight, I expect that tomorrow morning I will want "the hair of the dog that bit me". I will, however, probably have oatmeal.


Oatmeal's probably actually a pretty good choice, but I've never been an eater. The cookies, only.


I absolutely LOVE eating oatmeal-raisin cookies for breakfast!!! I find, however, that when doing so, one needs to "spin it" a little. For example, do not proclaim aloud, "I am eating oatmeal cookies for breakfast." Instead utter, "I am really enjoying the taste and texture of these hand crafted, locally sourced, organic oatmeal breakfast discs."

See? Sounds much healthier that way, doesn't it?

(If anyone is still wondering why I am failing miserably in the Lose Weight With Monday thread, this post should pretty much clear things up for you...)
3312) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1569883)
Posted 10 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I always plan on winning.
Unless Angela is lurking.

Win!!!
3313) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What's for breakfast? (Message 1569882)
Posted 10 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Since I had two margaritas tonight, I expect that tomorrow morning I will want "the hair of the dog that bit me". I will, however, probably have oatmeal.
3314) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I'm going to bed now...night night everyone. 2 (and may all our moderators have sweet dreams :) (Message 1569853)
Posted 10 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Do koala bears bite? If so that sleepy little thing has good reason to take off a couple of her fingers.
3315) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #57 (Message 1569852)
Posted 10 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Do you think this shade of toenail polish goes with my suit?
3316) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1569840)
Posted 10 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok I'll bite. Why do you want to turn back the hands of time? Is it because I am so close to winning?!!!
3317) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1569777)
Posted 9 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Up, up, up we go in the team rankings


Raccoon Lovers - a most impressive team.

Please join us
3318) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I'm going to bed now...night night everyone. 2 (and may all our moderators have sweet dreams :) (Message 1569475)
Posted 9 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yawn...
3319) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #220: 70's Disco dancing music :) (Message 1569472)
Posted 9 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mr Sparky, congratulations on your win!

I'm pretty sure that makes my win next...
3320) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1569410)
Posted 9 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Esme lost weight on my cooking!!! That is horrible!!!!!

We simply must try again...
3321) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1569256)
Posted 8 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My Submarine Veterans Base has a bus trip to the USS Pompanito at Pier 45 scheduled for Saturday 11 October. We'll be there from about 11;00 am until about 4:00 pm. Perhaps something can be arranged....

We went there! I dragged Eric, Angela, Uli and my husband onto the submarine for a tour. It was fascinating and we were very lucky that a veteran who had server on the submarine was touring at the time with his family and was able to talk to us about what is was like.

I took some pictures. I shall have to put them up.



It truly was an excellent tour!
3322) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1569234)
Posted 8 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends and Happy Birthday Monday!!!

Sorry I forgot to weigh in last week. I enjoyed the company of guests through the Labor Day Weekend and I guess I got distracted.

Anyway, returning to the Battle of the Bulge, as they say...

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In for 09/08/14
165.8 lbs (AKA 75 kilograms; 69.5 grams)
3323) Message boards : Number crunching : August-September fundraiser (Message 1568351)
Posted 6 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you, Julie, for continuing this fundraiser. I cannot think of a more kind and gentle soul to continue this effort.
3324) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1568232)
Posted 6 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Go Bears!

Beat those pesky Hornets! Stay undefeated!

Rose Bowl!!! Rose Bowl!!! Rose Bowl!!!!

(What!!!??? Too soon???!!!)

Go Bears!
3325) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Fundraising time again..... (Message 1568099)
Posted 6 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I love a theme!!!
3326) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Fundraising time again..... (Message 1568090)
Posted 6 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dear Angela Korpela,

Thank you for your gift of $150.00 via Visa on 09/05/2014.
Your gift will benefit the following area:

SETI@home - $150.00

Your confirmation number is: 136711

Please print a copy of this confirmation for tax purposes. You will also receive an e-mail confirmation once we have received your gift.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us by e-mail at gifthelp@berkeley.edu or by phone at 1-510-643-9789.

Go Bears

I regret that I was unable to participate in this fundraiser previously because of an allergy I had developed to certain breeds of cat. At this time, however, I seem to be free of my allergy symptoms!!! Consequently I happily add my donation to the others so generously given here.
3327) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1568076)
Posted 6 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dear Angela Korpela,

Thank you for your gift of $100.00 via Discover on 09/05/2014.
Your gift will benefit the following area:

SETI@home - $100.00

Your confirmation number is: 136707

Please print a copy of this confirmation for tax purposes. You will also receive an e-mail confirmation once we have received your gift.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us by e-mail at gifthelp@berkeley.edu or by phone at 1-510-643-9789.

Go Bears!


This donation was made in honor of my level-headed husband and it is not a part of the current private fundraising drive for this project.
3328) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1567671)
Posted 5 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I have lived with seven cats over the years. Eva is the smartest cat to ever grace our abode. She can open all of our sliding doors. She is a darter and a dasher. She can get us to drop whatever we are doing to attend to her needs. She recently put a hole in the bottom of our box spring and now she runs around under our mattress chasing imaginary mice at night. If I do not look well rested, I have Eva to blame...
3329) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1567666)
Posted 5 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


Thanks for sharing.

Es99 and Angela, both very pretty ladies :-)

Thank you, Lyn.

Its probably the handbags that do it.


Yes, never underestimate the power of a flattering handbag...
3330) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1567665)
Posted 5 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't own a scale myself, but did a weigh in at the Hotel/B&B Korpela.
Started at 145.2. left at 148.4 american weight messures.

There are two ways to look skinny. The unpleasant way is via diet and exercise. The other option is to over-feed everyone around you and then try to look thin in comparison.

Ulibelle, if you gained 3 pounds in 5 days, then my evil plan is unfolding per design - Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!
3331) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1567400)
Posted 5 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

The store is called "The Perfect Purse".
Es99 and I shop for handbags - Pier 39, San Francisco 08/30/14
(If you look very carefully, you will notice that Uli is already inside the store shopping!)
3332) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1567375)
Posted 5 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
They may be, Vic... they may just be.
3333) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What does being GREENmean to you? (Message 1567374)
Posted 5 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not intentional and the cause of much heartbreak, but I suspect that by not having had children Eric and I are relatively "green". You really cannot have a discussion about being "green" without mentioning population control.
3334) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Joan Rivers dead at 81. :-( (Message 1567359)
Posted 5 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
3335) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Old member Returning to Seti... (Message 1567358)
Posted 5 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome home.
3336) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1567357)
Posted 5 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Sadly the raccoons did not put in an appearance during my visit. I did see the skunks and a possum though...and the delightful cats. One of which has trained Eric to play with her using the laser pointer whenever she wishes.

Yes, our cat Eva is smart like a raccoon and it is often difficult to tell who is training whom!!!
3337) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What's for breakfast? (Message 1566774)
Posted 4 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Hmmm... This one made me think. I used to eat donuts most frequently, but currently I do not eat any one food item with any regularity. I do, however, always eat SOMETHING for breakfast. I would have a headache by 10am if I skipped breakfast!
3338) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1566772)
Posted 4 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Thanks Angela, however I was informed that they are probably Echinops

Yes, based on the picture you found that is probably correct.

This makes me wonder if alliums are closely related to thistles, or if both species of plant evolved that unique form independently.

Do we have any paleobotanists lurking out there?


I have some across the hall from me. What's the question?


Awesome Carlos!!! Ok, please ask your paleobotanist friends the following questions:

"Are Alliums closely related to Echinops, or did both of these plant species evolve their unique globe shapes independently?"

A follow-up question would be:

"What environmental pressure and/or evolutionary advantage might prompt development of a globe-display of tiny flowers?"

(My guess regarding the answer to this last question is that a globe-display of tiny flowers might have the potential to maximize pollination in an environment that is low in insect pollinators and/or maximize pollination in an environment with limited potential for wind pollination.)
3339) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1566649)
Posted 3 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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You don't want to try to get close to them. If you are very still, they might come investigate. I was taking pictures of one, and it walked up to me and sniffed my shoe laces. It then wandered off when he discovered they were not food.

It has been my experience that skunks are not terribly bright. Also, based on their behavior, they don't seem to see very well but they do seem to get quite a lot of information by smelling things.
3340) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1566644)
Posted 3 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Thanks Angela, however I was informed that they are probably Echinops

Yes, based on the picture you found that is probably correct.

This makes me wonder if alliums are closely related to thistles, or if both species of plant evolved that unique form independently.

Do we have any paleobotanists lurking out there?
3341) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1566552)
Posted 3 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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If Purvis is the smallest one then yes. I thouhgt he was honing in on some petting.
Would I have turned it down NO. Would I still sit in isolation, maybe:)

Our largest skunk is Puffy. The mid-sized skunk is Purvis. The smallest skunk, who wanted pets from Ulibelle, would be Little Stinks.
3342) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1566550)
Posted 3 Sep 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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OK as Angela has always said that nothing is off topic here and I cannot find the gardening thread:
Can any body help identify these:

I have had thistle and teasel suggested by I cannot find a match.
Any suggestions would be most welcome.

It sure looks like Plume thistles
Take a photo of the leaves. I know how they looks like.
If the 'flower' sticks to your clothings then its some kind of thistle.
But does bees like them?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirsium
However I can identify the Digitalis in the background.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitalis

My first reaction is that it is a thistle of some kind.

Or is it some kind of lavender?
On my balcony we have that flower. Same color and shape.
Smell them and if they smell nice it's not Thistles.

I think they might be Aliums, not thistles...
3343) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1564172)
Posted 29 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Clever pumpkin!
3344) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1563568)
Posted 28 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I think Angela might like this.

Think again. Cool Whip, pudding from a box and Oreos??? Bleh.

I make a chocolate trifle that is vastly better than this "lasagne" sounds. I start with homemade sour cream chocolate cake (NOT from a box), cut into cubes. I layer the cake cubes with drizzles of Kahlua, homemade chocolate pudding (NOT from a box), chopped English toffee, and real whipped cream that has been slightly sweetened. The top layer, for best looks, should be whipped cream topped with toffee. Bring trifle to a potluck and you will be the belle of the ball!
3345) Message boards : Politics : The reassertion of whiteness in Canada (Message 1562391)
Posted 25 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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May I thank you for your frankness on the subject?
My own dear father was partially the root of some past beliefs that I held.
And I hope you know you can trust me when I say that although I have gotten beyond them and in real life, and no longer allow them to influence my actions, those deeply embedded perceptions still exist from my youth.

I work with people from all walks of life, and I don't treat any one of them differently than another based on their origin. I simply won't allow myself to go there anymore, because I HAVE learned that it is simply not right.

When I was very young, there were a few instances where such prejudices were directed towards myself. When a few schoolmates learned of my German heritage, I got called 'Nazi', 'Jew Killer', 'Hitler Lover'....etc. I never made an issue of it, and it slowly went away later on in school.

So, yes. I do understand the impact of words.


Every seti@home cruncher is a citizen scientist. When a good scientist has an idea, he or she does not go around trying to prove that the idea is right. The good scientist makes a career of trying to prove that the idea is wrong. It is only after standing up to test after test after test of validity that a scientist can say that an idea has merit.

Fortunately for humanity, intolerant thoughts are not difficult to prove wrong!!! Also, as citizen scientists we are nicely equipped with the tools we need to poke holes in any unjust ideas that may suddenly pop into our brains.

Mark I cannot judge your heart, but I can read your posts. Several of your posts over the years have appeared to me to be intolerant in the areas of race, religion, political affiliation, gender or sexual orientation. When I say that I try to keep untrue and unfair thoughts from influencing my behavior, I include written and spoken words in the category of actions that I call "my behavior".

I wish us all strength and skill as we struggle with intolerance in ourselves and in our society. It has been my personal experience that this struggle is not something one "gets beyond". Personally, I am better at it than I used to be, but I am not "beyond" it. If I deemed myself to be "beyond" untrue, unjust, unfair and unkind beliefs, I think I would be at risk for not recognizing intolerance in myself.
3346) Message boards : Politics : The reassertion of whiteness in Canada (Message 1562312)
Posted 25 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I am happy to see a frank discussion of race on the boards. As a citizen of the USA, I think most of my fellow citizens would agree that our country has come a long way in this area, but that we still have a very long way to go.

I do not think it is possible to discuss race until we all agree that we are, to some degree, all racists. We do not live in a race-free climate. It matters not what your skin color is - we have, each one of us, absorbed racism to some degree, whether we know it or not.

My father, good man though he was, certainly had his "Archie Bunker" moments. My mother, good woman though she is, does not have "Edith Bunker's" compelling kindness and gift of consistently being able to see things from another's vantage point. I grew up in a mostly white neighborhood full of families who tended to be comfortably resourced. The television shows I watched in the 60's and 70's were certainly not race-blind. We are all influenced by the environments of our formative years. I would be lying if I said that a racist thought never ever ever ever popped into my head. When such offensive thoughts occur, I try to recognize them as such. When I examine one of these thoughts I invariably discover the following:

1. The thought was untrue
2. The thought was unfair
3. The thought was a consequence of my living, for 51 years, in a society that is not yet free of racism
4. The thought must NOT be allowed to influence my behavior

And while we are on the subject, I will also admit that I did not grow up in a society free of class-ism, homophobia, sexism and a host of other nasty things. I genuinely believe that the first and most important step to eliminating unfairness in our society is to first recognize and examine unfairness in ourselves.
3347) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 6.0 magnitude earthquake hits northern California (Message 1562254)
Posted 25 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Hope it was a restful, restorative visit for the both of you.

Thank you. It was. (I don't wish to high-jack the thread, but if anyone wishes to see Eric's fish pictures you can "friend him" on Facebook. Eric went camping in Canada for a week with his dad, a cousin and some family friends before he went back to Wisconsin and I flew out to join him there. I believe Eric posted a picture of a big fish he caught in Canada, and also a picture of a fish he caught in Wisconsin. Eric is generally a catch-and-release fisherman, so both of those beauties went right back into the water after their "close-up's".)

Anyway, we returned home late last night to find absolutely no quake damage here. Our home is on the Hayward fault line and while we probably would have felt the Napa quake had we been here, I would not have expected any damage.

I hope life in the areas damaged returns rapidly to normal for all involved.
3348) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1562248)
Posted 25 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Thank you Donald. You are a very nice man.
3349) Message boards : Politics : The reassertion of whiteness in Canada (Message 1562238)
Posted 25 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Some little furry things may well be known as raccoons. but you must also be aware that "coons" is also a derogative name for African-Americans. If you weren't aware of it before, I just pulled your coattail, here endith todays lesson.

I have made this point to Mark several times in pm form, which may be why he feels persecuted regarding his use of this offensive term. Having just spent a week in northern Wisconsin, however, I can tell you that the term "coons" is used there, without racist overtones, to refer to raccoons. It is possible that Mark forgets from time to time that a word that is part of his regional dialect also has come to acquire offensive racial overtones. It is also possible that he remembers this, and every now and again decides to use the term anyway just to see if anyone is paying attention to him.
3350) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 6.0 magnitude earthquake hits northern California (Message 1562224)
Posted 25 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Dang....ya shoulda told me sooner.
I coulda driven up nort and met ya.

That is a very kind offer, but I have to confess that I'm rather protective of Eric's time when he is on vacation. When we go to Wisconsin, it is for him to spend much needed down-time with his parents, his sisters, our beautiful nieces and nephews there and Eric's childhood friends. Come on Mark, you KNOW you two would talk about work if you visited!!!
3351) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Can you can you can-can??? (Message 1562218)
Posted 25 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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BTW,I guess I'll have to make me a ice box lemon pie, since I found cans of sweetened condensed milk.

Any other conclusion would be illogical!!!
3352) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1562143)
Posted 25 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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That raccoon picture is not of a skinny adult raccoon. It is a raccoon kit!!! Please note the little darling's proportions. They are perfect.

Skinny, sick, under-fed adult raccoons have big heads, adult limb lengths and long adult tails on skinny bodies. This baby looks as a baby should... adorable and perfect in every way!!!

And Suzie-Q I have no problem with your request in the Critter Cafe to help fund the medical treatment of the kittens you have found. In fact, I can think of no better venue to post it than a place where Critter People gather. I see that you set the "default" request to $35, and so with that Eric and I were happy to start off your campaign yesterday. Wishing you the best of success!
3353) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1562135)
Posted 25 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Oh! I knew I forgot something. It is Monday, and I have failed again.

I just got back from Wisconsin where for over a week I enjoyed my mother-in-law's blueberry pie, homemade waffles and amazing butter cookies. As you can imagine, it was not a health-forward week. Eric's mother always goes out of her way to make things her son loves to eat whenever we visit. (Unfortunately her daughter-in-law loves to eat these same things!!!)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In
166.2 pounds (AKA 75kg; 387.05 grams)

My health goals for today are to not eat any desserts and to walk Maya.
3354) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1562128)
Posted 25 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Where health is concerned you need to be serious!

Health and addiction challenges are often intertwined and it is my very sincere belief that Monday is being extremely serious.

Eating, smoking, drinking, drug use, sometimes even exercise are all things we do that feel good. Sometimes we do these things to excess in a "self-medicating" manner that is not always health-forward.

Bernie, I am guessing that Monday is not really sharing his personal challenges, successes and failures with us because he seeks either chastisement or accolades. Rather, I suspect the sharing is part of a self-accountability process that helps our friend with struggles he is working on addressing across multiple areas that impact health. By being so open and honest in public, Monday is facing his challenges head on and working in a most serious fashion to address them.

Monday, dear friend, please do not beat yourself up too badly for occasionally failing to meet your own expectations. Please also recognize and celebrate those many times when you resist temptation, be it a drink or a dessert. It is feelings of guilt and self-loathing that often drive addiction behaviors. A tendency towards addictive behavior is part of the human condition. Any of us lucky enough to avoid addiction in its many insidious forms should be grateful NOT for strength of character, but rather for the lucky twist of genetic fate that made us not quite so prone to addictive behaviors as others might be.

Monday, please know that Eric and I send our love and our support. We know that this is a serious place for serious people doing serious work to stay in control of things that can be very, very, very difficult to control at times.
3355) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 6.0 magnitude earthquake hits northern California (Message 1561654)
Posted 24 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Hello from an airport in Wisconsin, just waiting to fly home. Missed all the excitement, it seems.

I hope the cats and the raccoons are safe and sound when you get home.

I am quite sure they will be fine. Sorry to hear there were some injuries.
3356) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 6.0 magnitude earthquake hits northern California (Message 1561652)
Posted 24 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Hello from an airport in Wisconsin, just waiting to fly home. Missed all the excitement, it seems.
3357) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #218: Soon it ends, less than 80 posts to go... Game on! (Message 1557875)
Posted 16 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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To Vic, the winningest poster.

Thanks Carlos, aw shucks I don't know if I have won it more than anyone else, it was just My turn of dumb luck.

Vic, of course you win often! You are here often. Your frequent presence makes you the overall most aggressive player in this thread, and therefore the player to beat.
3358) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #218: Soon it ends, less than 80 posts to go... Game on! (Message 1557764)
Posted 16 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Vic, did you win this thing again???!!! Dang.

Blade - happy birthday to your daughter

Thanks! ( I posted a link on her FB, so she can see it.)


How old is your daughter?

Old enough to finish med school.

Congratulations!!! Where did she study?

UNC Med School, but don't say it too loud (since she went to Duke).

My oldest godchild is about to start her second year of medical school at George Washington University in D.C. Is your daughter doing a residency now?
Kids these days!!! They sure seem to have all their poop in a group, don't they!!!

No, she has finished with that. She's a pediatrician.

That is wonderful!!!!!!! Kudos to you in the parenting department!!!

Well, I had better try to shake off this spectacular fit of insomnia and hit the hay...

Goodnight everyone.
3359) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #218: Soon it ends, less than 80 posts to go... Game on! (Message 1557760)
Posted 16 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Vic, did you win this thing again???!!! Dang.

Blade - happy birthday to your daughter

Thanks! ( I posted a link on her FB, so she can see it.)


How old is your daughter?

Old enough to finish med school.

Congratulations!!! Where did she study?

UNC Med School, but don't say it too loud (since she went to Duke).

My oldest godchild is about to start her second year of medical school at George Washington University in D.C. Is your daughter doing a residency now?
Kids these days!!! They sure seem to have all their poop in a group, don't they!!!
3360) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #218: Soon it ends, less than 80 posts to go... Game on! (Message 1557744)
Posted 16 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, did you win this thing again???!!! Dang.

Blade - happy birthday to your daughter

Thanks! ( I posted a link on her FB, so she can see it.)


How old is your daughter?

Old enough to finish med school.

Congratulations!!! Where did she study?
3361) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #218: Soon it ends, less than 80 posts to go... Game on! (Message 1557738)
Posted 16 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Vic, did you win this thing again???!!! Dang.

Blade - happy birthday to your daughter

Thanks! ( I posted a link on her FB, so she can see it.)


How old is your daughter?
3362) Message boards : Politics : Energy channeling herbalist nut job (Message 1557669)
Posted 16 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Where do you draw the line?
Some would argue that Acupuncture, Homeopathy, and Chiropracty have little scientific evidence going for them, though the anecdotal evidence can be quite convincing.

All in all herbs are making a big comeback, and even if a marijuana doesn't cure your arthritis or anxiety it sure does make you feel better, which is the ultimate goal.


Put 'em to the test! That is how you draw the line.

I think acupuncture has been examined scientifically, in terms of alleviation of chronic lower back pain. Some insurance companies now cover acupuncture for some limited conditions, and I suspect that is because some well designed studies demonstrated that it had some degree of efficacy for some conditions. While clearly the mysterious "chi" that acupuncturists claim they manipulate cannot be measured, quantified, or even observed, patient self-report of pain levels can be reliably measured. The perception of pain is a tricky and most interesting thing. If somebody really believes something works for pain alleviation, the mind is capable of registering less pain. If the mind registers less pain, people use fewer pain medications. I think that biofeedback has been studied in terms of its efficacy for pain control as well. This may also be why so many people love their chiropractors. Pain is weird that way...

Double blind studies are a good way to figure out the medicinal value of herbs. A few years ago news was made in this country when a reputable research firm scientifically tested the efficacy of a variety of herbs commonly used for medicinal purposes. Imagine, if you will, my mother-in-law's dismay when Eric sent her a copy of the study that showed that her beloved echinacea really didn't ward off colds!!!

I'm certainly not against testing plants for possible medicinal qualities. Digitalis, for example, is derived from foxglove plants. Marijuana, I believe, has been scientifically shown to be medicinal for treating glaucoma and for alleviating nausea brought on by chemotherapy. It is medical research that has led to limited legalization of pot in some states in the USA.

Homeopathy seems utterly ridiculous to me, but it certainly would not be difficult to design double-blind studies to test its efficacy.

If there is widespread anecdotal report about the value of a technique or the value of a product, rigorous scientific testing should follow. If government agencies do not fund testing, skeptical societies should, and often do.

I am not wedded to one unchanging belief about any particular technique or any particular product. Naturally I approach non-standard techniques and products with an initial healthy dose of skepticism, but I am certainly not above changing my position if scientific consensus indicates that my original assumption was an incorrect one.
3363) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Can you can you can-can??? (Message 1557664)
Posted 16 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Mine too, until my mama stated making ice box lemon pie. She used the egg whites whipped toppings for both types of lemon pies.

Like a mousse pie? Mmmmm!!! Tell me more.

Here it is...

Canning tips....


Yummy. Thanks.
3364) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #218: Soon it ends, less than 80 posts to go... Game on! (Message 1557663)
Posted 16 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Vic, did you win this thing again???!!! Dang.

Blade - happy birthday to your daughter
3365) Message boards : Politics : Energy channeling herbalist nut job (Message 1557586)
Posted 15 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Both Arm Flapper and SuperMindChick are Scary. And Dangerous Both.

Fair troll, you doth but flatter me!
3366) Message boards : Politics : Energy channeling herbalist nut job (Message 1557495)
Posted 15 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Anniet, I am so sorry to hear of the loss of your friend to breast cancer. I am happy to hear that your friend with colon cancer is doing really well with conventional medical intervention.

Alternative medicine enthusiasts can be the kindest, sweetest, most well-meaning of people, all while being a danger to themselves and to others.
3367) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1557493)
Posted 15 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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OK just had to post this here.

Walkers "Raccoon Crisps"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu6cGrPeJ5M



LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3368) Message boards : Politics : Energy channeling herbalist nut job (Message 1557267)
Posted 15 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Well said and argued :)

All that's left is for me to say that I agree with you. Its hard to play the devils advocate in this case :P

I thank you for doing so, and for doing so exceedingly well.
3369) Message boards : Politics : Energy channeling herbalist nut job (Message 1557193)
Posted 15 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I agree, I too would place my faith in science. But I wonder in how far you can call what these pharmaceutical companies do 'science'. The point of the scientific method is that you accept the findings and if the findings show that you are wrong, you adjust to that data. But these companies have no problem conveniently forgetting about all the data that shows them their medicine doesn't work because at that point they have invested millions into the development of it and want to be able to sell it to as many people as possible.

I agree that the potential for corruption is something to be concerned about. I would hope that there is not widespread fraud in the pharmaceutical industry.


If these companies are falsifying their data, hiding anything inconvenient, they are not scientists, they are frauds just like faith healers and the naturalistic medicine industry.

Yes. I agree with you completely. I just hope that people like that are the exception and not the rule in medical research.


And yes, the public should be skeptical, but in order to be a skeptic, one needs expert knowledge in an extremely complicated field. Normally, we have special organizations with said experts and the necessary authority to check on these companies, but those companies have truckloads of cash, and can you trust the skeptics to be remain all that skeptical when they are getting paid off by these companies to look the other way or review the evidence in a more favorable light?

We certainly have regulatory agencies in the USA, and I hope most FDA employees are honest. We also have the almighty lawsuit to punish companies that do bad things. Alternative medicine is not regulated, to the best of my knowledge.


If the science is perverted to serve the interests of the boardroom executives instead of the honest truth, its really not any better than people selling you bs with a smile.

You are correct, but since b.s. with a smile is 100% fraudulent, I will throw my lot in with western medicine and hope, perhaps naively, that most medical researchers are honest and that most drugs do what the manufacturers claim they do.

I am healthy now, but there have been times in my life when I have not been well. I had a ruptured ectopic pregnancy in my 30's and I would not have lived were it not for emergency surgery and some nice antibiotics afterwards. I've had pneumonia twice in my life and again I am here today thanks to antibiotics. In my forties I developed very severe anemia and I would not be here today without a series of IV iron infusions and a hysterectomy to eliminate the bleeding problem. Thank goodness I never elected to see arm-waving-nut-job for treatment of these medical conditions. Western medicine may not be perfect, and some medical researchers may be prone to corruption, but western medicine is responsible for eradication of many diseases, elimination of much human suffering and phenomenal extension of the human life span.


Also, another argument one might consider, and that is the rather one sided focus of Western medicine. Its for the most part completely focused on keeping people from dying, whatever the cost. Hence we have come up with expensive machines that can keep people alive even when perhaps its best to simply let them go. There are medicine that can absolutely wreck you, keep you alive but in a way that is not exactly pleasant. Is in such cases it perhaps not better to sell people convincing nonsense, so they might live shorter but more fulfilling lives?

I am pro-euthanasia. I am also pro-patients having access to palliative care if they do not wish to spend their last days fighting against a terminal illness. Eric and I both have gone through the legal process involved in preparing advance health directives. Our documents spell out our wishes clearly regarding life support, and in doing so we hope we have freed our doctors and our loved ones from having to prolong "life" when "life" has clearly left us.

But to be fair, I would hardly call end-of-life heroics a "focus of Western Medicine". Rather, I think all those machines are more an accident of Western medicine. Nobody developed life support machines and techniques to keep somebody's 104 year old grandmother alive! Those machines were developed to give people with some life left in them a chance to recover from a catastrophic event. And sometimes it works out exactly as planned!!! A relative of mine required extensive emergency heart surgery in his 70's. After the surgery, he was placed on life support, in a drug induced artificial coma, for about six weeks. His physicians needed him completely immobile in order to give his body a chance to recover from the tremendously extensive surgery he had required. Cousin Bill is 89 years old now. He still gardens, attends family parties and enjoys the company of his wife, his grown children and his bevy of beautiful grandchildren. Thank goodness Cousin Bill's medical practitioner was not arm-waving-nut-job!!!

Is in such cases it perhaps not better to sell people convincing nonsense, so they might live shorter but more fulfilling lives?

I do not believe that it is ever in any person's best interest to sell "convincing nonsense". Give people the choice to battle illness aggressively or not aggressively. Give people the choice of legal euthanasia provided in a compassionate, supportive manner. Do not give people "convincing nonsense" and leave them to die.
3370) Message boards : Politics : Energy channeling herbalist nut job (Message 1556963)
Posted 14 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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So far as i can tell, all these faith-healers, homeopaths, psychics, priests, etc, can be divided into two camps.

1: Those who genuinely believe it works and are trying to help others.
These people are misguided, and relatively harmless. They don't usually try to force it on others.

2: Those who know it's bol-, i mean rubbish, but it makes money.
This group is deeply sinister, and should be stopped. They're the ones more likely to push it onto others, possibly causing more harm in the long run by e.g. telling them to stop taking actual medicine in favour of water that's been near some nettles.



Actually Simon, I think those alternative practitioners who genuinely believe what they are doing works are ALSO quite dangerous. I believe coffee shop nut job was misguided and genuine and sweet and earnest, but definitely NOT harmless. If ever, in her "career" as a healer, or even as an unpaid advice giver to someone who is ill, coffee shop nut job convinced someone (or even herself!!!) to refuse or delay onset of conventional medical intervention for a disease or a medical condition, then nut job has placed a person at medical risk. That is dangerous, even if she has never accepted a penny in exchange for her "gifts".
3371) Message boards : Politics : Energy channeling herbalist nut job (Message 1556950)
Posted 14 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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First of all, thank you for your thoughtful comments in this thread. I was waiting for a legitimate challenge and you have provided one for me.


I dunno, it does seem a bit self righteous to go off against someone like that. I mean, how would you like it if someone like that went up to your table while you were talking about going to the doctor and telling you that instead of leading people astray right into the arms of the devil you advice them to seek help from the local priest for some healing prayer.

Of course, you wouldn't like that, but that is because you believe in science and western medicine, which for the record, I agree with you on. But others clearly do not, and in a free society people are allowed to believe in alternative medicine, even if there is no scientific reason to believe it works. People are free to make stupid decisions for themselves.

I will not contest the charge of "self righteous". In fact, I will go even farther and say that I was being quite rude when I matched nut job's extremely distasteful public display with an extremely distasteful public display of my own. But there is a difference between "talking about going to a doctor" and performing a ridiculous, over-the-top, imaginary virus removal, with a subsequent family training session, smack dab in the middle of a public coffee shop. I matched rude and inappropriate behavior with rude and inappropriate behavior yesterday. Perhaps I alienated more people than I convinced? If so, then it was a poor call to act, on my part. I justified my behavior by self righteously deciding that it was in the public interest to call this woman on her nonsense and to remind listeners that there are some serious risks involved in placing trust in spiritual/alternative healers. I stand justly accused of self righteousness and I call upon public health to speak in my defense. If nut job had been just quietly discussing her beliefs at her table, I, and everyone else in the coffee shop yesterday, certainly would have taken no notice. Having normal social skills most of the time, I certainly would not have intruded upon a quiet conversation, even if I had overheard it in its entirety.


Besides, I think a lot of those people genuinely believe that alternative medicine works better, while you at the same time genuinely believe Western Medicine works better.

Yes, I believe that many people genuinely believe that alternative medicine works better. To them I say, in my best t.v. commercial voice, "Ask your doctor about Placebo. Placebo could be right for you."


Who is more naive, the person who believes in vague spiritual nonsense or the person who blindly trusts in large corporations whose primary concern are profits and not your health and well being? Both sides have a good argument for distrusting the other side, so both sides have a roughly equal standing when telling the other person to stop their nonsense.

A partially valid point in my view... Yes, both sides have a good argument for distrusting the motives of those trying to heal people - spiritual/alternative practitioners vs for-profit drug companies. But western medicine has the benefit of the scientific method on its side. Science is the driving force behind investigation of disease processes and attempts to cure them.

The scientific method is why I can answer your question with confidence - believers in vague spiritual nonsense are vastly more naive than those of us who place our trust in medical researchers, our doctors and for-profit pharmaceutical companies.

Of course there are drugs that have done far more harm than good. Of course you can find scandalous abuses in the history of western medicine, but since science is the ultimate driving force of western medicine, I think it is the best place for human beings to place their trust. Not their blind trust, mind you... Happily, skepticism is what makes science ultimately work and I'm really glad that skepticism plays for "my team".
3372) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #217: Waiting on Two UPS Packages Today (Message 1556588)
Posted 14 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yep...
3373) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #217: Waiting on Two UPS Packages Today (Message 1556577)
Posted 14 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Say what now?
3374) Message boards : Politics : Energy channeling herbalist nut job (Message 1556573)
Posted 14 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Es, I would certainly have interpreted the Peace Garden site as a clever internet joke.

I had a colleague at work once who was whacky in oh-so-many special ways. Most of the time I bit my tongue at her outrageous beliefs and actions, but in the lunchroom I could not refrain from emitting the occasional wry comment. We maintained an adequate working relationship, but I was not sad when her husband's job transferred him out of state and she moved far, far away. We did not keep in touch.
3375) Message boards : Politics : Energy channeling herbalist nut job (Message 1556554)
Posted 14 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am 51 years old.
3376) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #217: Waiting on Two UPS Packages Today (Message 1556536)
Posted 14 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Laughing in Politics win!!!
3377) Message boards : Politics : Energy channeling herbalist nut job (Message 1556535)
Posted 14 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Am I just in the wrong boat here?


Yep, I've seen your hair.


LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What???!!! You don't like the Shredded Wheat that tops my head????!!!
3378) Message boards : Politics : Energy channeling herbalist nut job (Message 1556533)
Posted 14 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Angela, I am surprised you did not erect an S.E.P. field around the nutter.

LOL!!! You know, I usually operate on that level, but today I guess I had just "had it" with crazies and I felt that it was high time one of them got called on it. I suffered no delusion that I would be able to alter the nutter-butter's behavior in the moment, or in the future. I mean... this was clearly not going to happen: "Oh my, angry, middle-aged, gray haired, bespectacled lady. You are soooo right!!! I will STOP being crazy right this minute, enroll in a reputable accredited university, earn an advance degree in biochemistry and another one in molecular biology and then I will start publishing original research in scholarly refereed journals. Thank you sooooo much, angry lady with horribly un-stylish hair, for interrupting my coffee time and showing me the evils of my ways. I shall forever be in your debt."

Don't I wish....

No, I only staged my public-moo-cow-hissy-fit for the benefit of others who might be wondering if they, too, should look into this magical healing nonsense. That is also the reason I decided to share my afternoon adventure here on the Forum... not for those of you who agree with me, but for those lurkers out there who might wish to dabble in magic.

Magical "healing" can kill you if it keeps you from seeking the best medical treatment available for your medical condition.

Magical "healing" will make you lose weight... in your wallet!!!!

People who jeopardize public health by promoting magical "healing" should be confronted and exposed.

Those are my take away points.
3379) Message boards : Politics : Energy channeling herbalist nut job (Message 1556528)
Posted 14 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'd say one escaped from the zoo .....

I don't know about that. I've never had an animal in a zoo try to "cure" me.


Hey Political People, it is a virtual love-fest in this thread!!! Come on!!! The Politics Forum has a reputation to uphold. Where are all the angry people telling me how wrong I am???


On a related note, Ol' Pookers and I have a dear friend who we love, love, love, but who pretty much embodies all the current coo-coo-for-cocoa-puffs stereotypes you can imagine. She is a vegan, Wiccan, gluten-free, scent-sensitive, pot-throwing, self-help book writing, massage therapist. We met her back in the day when she was a largely sane computer engineer and we will always love her dearly, even if we do not really understand her some of the time. Anyway, the type of massage therapy our friend specializes in is called Reiki, which as far as I can tell is some sort of "energy channeling" thing. Actually touching her clients is optional. Our friend can channel energy, it would seem, just by strategically placing her magical hands here and there, slightly above the prostrate forms of her clients. Ol' Pookers and I always ask each other, "Who the heck pays for a hands-off massage???!!!". Isn't the whole point of a massage having somebody touch you???!!! It all just sounds so utterly mysterious to us, but apparently enough people drink that Kool-Aid that our friend is able to support herself doing it. And she does make lovely pots. And I read her book... it was actually pretty good. And when we visit her, she sure does seem a lot less stressed out than we are.

Am I just in the wrong boat here?
3380) Message boards : Politics : Energy channeling herbalist nut job (Message 1556483)
Posted 14 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Well we get a few of those over here also. I think it may be caused by oxygen deprivation.

LOL!!! Sadly, I can't blame our nutter-butters on oxygen deprivation. I live in a shallow valley!


Angela...

I'm just like you.

Actually, I'm not usually terribly confrontational, but as I age I find I am more and more likely to say what I think. Boy, if this trend continues, I'm going to be a really difficult senior citizen some day!!!
3381) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #217: Waiting on Two UPS Packages Today (Message 1556470)
Posted 14 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Went to the stupid Doctor today, cause I needed some input, He wouldn't see Me, not unless I was in pain or was sick, I had a CDR to talk to him about, of course I wrote on the form He was too busy to talk to Me, I may need to find that GP and see if IEHP still has that Doc listed for IEHP. So I wasted about 1.5 gallons of gasoline.


Vic, I am so sorry to read this. That is terrible. If you had an appointment he should have seen you.
3382) Message boards : Cafe SETI : We all haz badges! (Message 1556462)
Posted 14 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Uli told me donations have to wait till September to show.

I think that Uli might have been referring to people donating by check or money order when they were purchasing t-shirts. The t-shirts are being provided at cost + shipping, but many people have generously donated additional funds while purchasing shirts. Thank you!

If donors go through the link at this site, the green stars should show up pretty quickly. I think Matt has been processing the green stars for donors who went through other channels.
3383) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #217: Waiting on Two UPS Packages Today (Message 1556454)
Posted 13 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hope you enjoyed your win!
3384) Message boards : Politics : Energy channeling herbalist nut job (Message 1556450)
Posted 13 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I wandered into a coffee shop this afternoon to enjoy a nice brisk cup of black tea. While sitting in the shop enjoying my beverage I witness a woman from a nearby table go over to a gentleman in a wheelchair who was in the shop with a woman, who I assume was his wife or girlfriend, and his/her/their three beautiful children. I over-heard the first woman say something about "energy fields" and "viruses" and then she proceeded to do this ridiculous arm flapping dance in front of the gentleman, in which she "felt" for his "energy field", "pushed" some imaginary thing in the air downwards and "extracted" what she called a "virus" from the bottom of his wheelchair. The gentleman and his wife/girlfriend were oddly and disturbingly receptive to this and shockingly, they requested some training. Nut job lady was more than happy to oblige, right there in the middle of the tea shop. Imagine, if you will, the girfriend/wife flapping her arms in front of the gentleman while original nut job lady gave her "pointers" on how to do it "correctly".

To say I was angry while witnessing this ridiculous display of chicanery would be an understatement of the highest order of magnitude. I waited until the gentleman and his family left. I certainly did not want to traumatize the man's children, because I knew that a "scene" was coming on.

I walked over to nut job's table and waited for her and her friend to look up at me. My comments were along these lines:

Angela: "Madam, you cannot put on a public display like the one I just witnessed without inviting public comment, and so therefore I feel somewhat justified in interrupting you this afternoon. I believe that you THINK you are helping when you do things like what you just did. I would like to tell you that at best you are giving people false hope and at the very worst you may be delaying people from seeking conventional medical intervention. I have.... pardon me, I HAD, a family friend who saw somebody like you for three months before seeking conventional medical intervention for her metastatic breast cancer."

Nut Job: "What do you mean, like me? I'm not anything"
(Truer words were never spoken, thought I!!!)

Angela: "When I say 'like you' I mean an energy channeling, herbalist, self-styled nutritionist, healer nut job. My friend delayed conventional medical treatment for metastatic breast cancer for three months while being 'treated' by somebody like you. She left three children in her wake when she died."

Nut Job: "You seem very angry right now."
(Angela's Thoughts - Didn't say this one out loud....) "YA THINK???!!!! ANGRY???!!! YOU SURE KNOW HOW TO READ 'EM... GOSH, YOU MUST HAVE 'THE GIFT'"

What I did say was "Yes. Enjoy my negative energy"

One person in the coffee shop applauded. The rest of the people, including the transfixed employees, stood there in stunned silence. I gathered my things and left the shop.

Yes, I had put on a scene, but you know what? I would absolutely do it again!!! I think we ALL should put on scenes whenever we stumble across these well meaning, but undeniably harm-inducing whack-a-doos.

The person who applauded me clearly was like minded, and I appreciate that. The nut job I confronted was certainly NOT convinced that I was right and she will no doubt blithely continue to sail through life doing whatever it is she does. Today was obviously a freebie, but I'm guessing she generally charges for her "services". What I do HOPE that I accomplished today was to make some of those coffee shop patrons and employees think a little bit.

Sure we can all go through life with a "live and let live" attitude. Clearly the nutter-butter had the consent of the gentleman and his wife to perform her crazy dance. Clearly they were receptive to her nonsense. Perhaps the man had already been through a medical wringer... I don't know, nor to I think that is even germane to my public display of wrath. I am here to argue that "live and let live" is a dangerous way to go. Not giving public comment to this woman's public display would have given her my tacit consent to continue in her whack-a-doo ways, and I was unwilling to do that today. I believe that what that woman was "practicing" is dangerous to the general public, and so I did my best to point that out, in a most public way.

Your thoughts?
3385) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #217: Waiting on Two UPS Packages Today (Message 1556363)
Posted 13 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Talk Like A Pirate Day is my second favorite holiday of the year!!!
3386) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #217: Waiting on Two UPS Packages Today (Message 1556303)
Posted 13 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Todays spam e-mail is titled "Booty Alert", since I'm not a pirate I've deleted it.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3387) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1556102)
Posted 13 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
'All are welcome in the Critter Cafe'

I am wondering if...


LOL!!! Touche!
3388) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Pair of new fire trucks (Message 1556099)
Posted 13 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3389) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1556092)
Posted 13 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I am very sorry for the loss of your kittens.

I am deeply sorry for the pain that you feel.

I am wondering if you are, once again, describing that horrible event in such gruesome detail because it somehow helps you process your emotions.

I am wondering if you are, once again, describing that horrible event in such gruesome detail because you enjoy making Cafe readers wince.

Mr. Dead, I give you the benefit of the doubt.

And I wish you peace.
3390) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #217: Waiting on Two UPS Packages Today (Message 1556048)
Posted 13 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3391) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #217: Waiting on Two UPS Packages Today (Message 1556043)
Posted 13 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You rang???

I just knew you were around.

Raccoons are everywhere...
3392) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #217: Waiting on Two UPS Packages Today (Message 1556034)
Posted 13 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You rang???
3393) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Pair of new fire trucks (Message 1556029)
Posted 13 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Quick!!! Check the driver's compartment for kittens!
3394) Message boards : Cafe SETI : R.I.P. Lauren Bacall (Message 1556027)
Posted 13 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
3395) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1555988)
Posted 13 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Our outdoor cat, Spawnie, has co-existed just fine with raccoons for many years.

A raccoon probably COULD do in a cat, and kittens would be vulnerable, but adult cats are probably safe. Cats run fast and they have sharp claws. There are easier things for raccoons to catch and eat.

It has been my experience that raccoons are all about finding the path of least resistance.
3396) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My big fat moustach. (Message 1555986)
Posted 13 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
For Monday...
3397) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1555976)
Posted 13 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The California valley quail or valley quail (Callipepla californica) often gathers in small flocks known as "coveys", and is still around in Canada.




You will be hard pressed to find a quail now where we live, or in the Oakland hills where I grew up. Quail were commonly sighted birds when I was a child. Sadly they have largely disappeared from many SF Bay Area urban and suburban areas due to loss of habitat combined with the stress of predation by feral cats, outdoor pet cats, foxes, coyotes, the very occasional cougar and my beloved raccoons.


And Angela, it has to be said that far too many people get spurious PhD's in esoteric subjects which are not really worthy of the accolade. Medical and Scientific ones are mainline, but there are other off the wall ones.

I certainly hope you did not just "dis" the liberal arts!!! If you are trampled by hordes and masses of English majors, art majors, music majors, history majors, sociologists and psychologists, you have only yourself to blame, my friend. Of course there is a difference between a degree earned at an accredited institution and some mail-ordered certificate hardly worth the paper on which it is printed, but most of the subjects one can study in a mainstream university would not fall under your heading of "esoteric subjects".


I have posted before about my brothers kids. The oldest girl is just finishing her PhD in medical research science, the boy twin is half way through his PhD in Computing science, the twin girl has finished her MSc in Veterinary science and is having a gap year. She may do a PhD we don't know yet. Not bad for three kids!

That is excellent. You have every reason to be a proud uncle!!!


The SCBI is accredited as a serious institution I just think that my initial comments were correct, about the report that I read. We all know that cats are natural predators and kill smaller animals and especially birds. But then again the French are quite good at that as well.

Chris!!! We have discussed this before. It is impolite to bash the residents of an ENTIRE COUNTRY based on the behavior of a few of its citizens... and it is the second time you have done this in a week!!!
3398) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #217: Waiting on Two UPS Packages Today (Message 1555859)
Posted 12 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did I win?

You won first post after the outrage. Inside information?

Ping!


Nope. Pure dumb luck.
3399) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats (Message 1555856)
Posted 12 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3400) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #217: Waiting on Two UPS Packages Today (Message 1555842)
Posted 12 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, indeed, you WERE winning...
3401) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Robin Williams dead at 63. (Message 1555840)
Posted 12 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Depression is a life threatening illness. Poor man.
3402) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Robin Williams dead at 63. (Message 1555793)
Posted 12 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well I believe "asphyxia" means he hung himself

We may use that term differently on this side of the pond. To me it implies breathing in carbon monoxide until gone.
3403) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #217: Waiting on Two UPS Packages Today (Message 1555791)
Posted 12 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did I win?
3404) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1555664)
Posted 12 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I disagree with this report, we know that cats kill some birds, they always have done.

Feral and outdoor pet cats have eliminated the California State Bird, the quail, is our area and in many others in the state. Outdoor cats are a serious threat to song birds in many states. Ground nesting birds, in general, are particularly vulnerable to cats.


Truth be told, I do feel guilty about keeping Spawnie outside, but in his former life as a stray he managed to contract some medical conditions that could put our indoor cats at risk... so outside he stays. Fortunately, Spawnie is a lover not a fighter. He did manage to catch a lizard this summer. I think he must have yawned and the poor lizard accidentally ran into his mouth. No harm ultimately came to the lizard, as far as I know. Spawnie came trotting over to me, lizard dangling from his mouth, and when he meowed to announce to me that dinner had arrived the lizard fell out of his mouth and promptly ran away.



Sounds to me like another PhD graduate with nothing better to do. Why do we bother to educate these people?

Come on Chris! This is an outrageous statement, even for you my dearest of curmudgeon friends. Just because something doesn't feel correct to you does not mean it isn't necessarily so. It is not unusual for members of the media to quote scientists and portray their research in ways they think will get a reaction from their readership. If you wish to disagree with a scientific finding, that is fine... but do it in the correct way. Go back to the original research, review the methodology and suggest ways in which the findings of the study could be incorrect due to methodological concerns.


And Chris "we" do not "bother to educate people". In my experience people with Ph.D.'s tend to have a passion for a subject that drives them to sacrifice much in pursuit of knowledge. Personally I wish more people would pursue advance degrees. I keep looking at my thirteen nieces and nephews wondering if any of them will grow up to change our world by contributing original research to the store of human knowledge. I sure do hope one or two of them will. Nothing would fill me with more pride.
3405) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #217: Waiting on Two UPS Packages Today (Message 1555439)
Posted 12 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, but I can understand how she felt. But she should have waited until she wasn't upset.

Yes. Discipline is a dish best served cold.
3406) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1555432)
Posted 12 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoon Pool Party!!!

Help yourself to a mojito and jump in the pool.

Come on!!! You KNOW you want to be a Raccoon Lover.
3407) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Can you can you can-can??? (Message 1555424)
Posted 12 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I suspected as much. I think she was referring to what we might call "Italian Prune Plums" here in California.
3408) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Robin Williams dead at 63. (Message 1555423)
Posted 12 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Absolutely tragic. R.I.P.
3409) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1555160)
Posted 11 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Angela, Sunday is the 24th; Monday is the 25th. I have tickets to Monday's special Season Premiere of Doctor Who in Dublin on Monday the 25th at 7 PM.

Ok. My next weigh in will be Monday 8/25. Have fun at the show!!!
3410) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1555138)
Posted 11 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
[quote]Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #1
168.2 pounds (AKA 76 kg; 294.23g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #2
167.6 pounds (AKA 76 kg; 22.08 g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #3
166.4 pounds (AKA 75 kg; 477.8 g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #4
165.2 pounds (AKA 74 kg; 933.45 g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #5
167.0 pounds (AKA 75 kg; 749.92 g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #6
166.0 pounds (AKA 75 kg; 296.33g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #7
165.4 pounds (AKA 75 kg; 24.17 g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #8
165.6 (AKA 75 kg; 114.89 g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #9
166.8 pounds (AKA 75 kg; 659.20 g)

My scale and I will be parted next Monday.

My next weigh-in will be Monday August 24th.
3411) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #217: Waiting on Two UPS Packages Today (Message 1554890)
Posted 11 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodnight friends!
3412) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Missing Persons Bureau (a.k.a. The Mother Hens Thread) (Message 1554889)
Posted 11 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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This Mother Hen doesn't fret over just three days. Now a month and no contact to Seti, then I will start checking.
Then after that, I will get serious.
Julie feel free to pipe in.

And believe me, you do NOT want Mother Hen Ulibelle to get serious!!!
3413) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Do people who buy Cadillacs, BMWs, Mercedes etc. watch TV? (Message 1554888)
Posted 11 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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It had nothing to do with government or politics.

Darn. It was MUCH more scandalous in my imagination!!!
3414) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1554882)
Posted 11 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yay Monday!!!

Go Monday Go!!!
3415) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My big fat moustach. (Message 1554655)
Posted 10 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Aw!!! Look at those little sausage legs!!!
3416) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Do people who buy Cadillacs, BMWs, Mercedes etc. watch TV? (Message 1554654)
Posted 10 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I have never owned a Mercedes. I have given them away as gifts.

My birthday is May 24th, but why wait? Christmas is just around the corner!


Good try. There were good financial reasons for the gifts. Let's just say there was a good return on investment.


Merciful heavens!!! Such things can land your posterior in jail, my friend.
3417) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My big fat moustach. (Message 1554641)
Posted 10 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Very nice, but I believe I speak for all here when I say that now you have to post a picture of you at age 13, when that thing started out as a barely perceptible caterpillar.
3418) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Do people who buy Cadillacs, BMWs, Mercedes etc. watch TV? (Message 1554639)
Posted 10 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have never owned a Mercedes. I have given them away as gifts.

My birthday is May 24th, but why wait? Christmas is just around the corner!
3419) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1554626)
Posted 10 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I have professional cookie sheets with raised sides...

Interesting. I prefer side-less sheets for cookies because I find they promote better top browning and I find it easier to remove the cookies when they are done. I do far more dessert baking than bread baking, which is why I am, and probably always shall be, a pudgy little raccoon.


There is one thing worst than a Microwave and that's steaming sourdough bread.

I don't think I would actually steam it, but a loaf of sourdough that is only a little stale can be rejuvenated by sprinkling it with a little cold water and then open baking it until slightly heated through. As you know, sourdough has an extremely short shelf life because it does not have any fat in the dough.


Swapping recipes for me might be a bad deal for you. For many years I only cooked for myself (think crock pot when ever possible). Then I got into Smokers, Grilling meat and cooking for 20 to 30 people in a motor home kitchen. Next came desserts for a diabetic followed by trying to keep weigh on a cancer victim and for the last year and a half I have been shoving food in my face when I'm not hungry just to keep going.

Sounds like you have been nurturing everybody except yourself. Don't forget to be kind to yourself, Dena.


You sound like you have done far more cooking for others and have experimented with far more dishes than I could hope to as a single person.

Single or married, I have always enjoyed cooking for others. For over 20 years Eric has been a handy excuse to experiment with food, but before I ever met him I was really, really good at finding other excuses to cook. In elementary school and junior high, I used to commandeer my mother's kitchen, often with the most disastrous results. In high school, when no boy had the good sense to ask me to junior prom, I invited all the other girls I knew who had been overlooked to my parents' house where we spent a fun evening playing Monopoly and eating desserts I had created. Everyone went home with an additional plate of cookies and unlike the girls who actually went to prom that year, none of my guests got drunk, got hickeys or had to deal with an unwanted pregnancy!!! In college I did frequent baking for charity fund raisers. In graduate school I kept friends well supplied with baked goods when I really should have been working on my thesis. When my friends started getting married I learned how to make wedding cakes. When I finally got out of school and started working in a hospital I ended up in a large department that used to have weekly morning staff meetings with a rotating list of whose turn it was to provide breakfast. My colleagues would stop for donuts or bagels. I would haul in things like chicken and mushroom crepes or Quiche Lorraine with a side of fresh seasonal fruit. A colleague once said, "Oh I CAN'T take vacation THAT week... Ang. is bringing in breakfast." It was the highest of compliments. Even when I was crazy, busy at work, I still managed to take a few weekend or evening cooking classes here and there. I love food and I am always looking for a way for us to be together.


As for my cooking style, I try a recipe and if it has a problem, I figure out what wrong and then duplicate it exactly in the future. I'm not a big one on experimentation because my strong point is my sense of smell. My sense of taste isn't all that good so I might go overboard on seasoning for the average taste.

Outside of the basics (sweet, salty, bitter, sour, umami), your sense of smell largely determines how things taste. I'll bet you are an excellent cook.


As for Eric's Cholesterol fix, have you tried Dry Monterey Jack Cheese . You want the one that's aged 7 to 10 months.

Yes, we have tried dry jack. Yummy!


I was born in Wisconsin and this is every bit as good as the cheese we would get in Wisconsin.

Eric was also born in the great state of Wisconsin - way way way up in the northern woods. He never met a cheese he didn't like.


I live in Laveen and it would be interesting to meet with you but I would have to wait till we get closer to your visit to make sure nothing pops up in my schedule.

The next time we plan an Arizona trip longer than a quick weekend buzz-in to see family, I will send you a pm.
3420) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1554611)
Posted 10 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
When I first met Eric, he was a skeleton with some skin stretched over it. I have done my best to change that!!!
3421) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #217: Waiting on Two UPS Packages Today (Message 1554475)
Posted 10 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did the two UPS packages from the title of this thread arrive?

What'd ya get???!!!
3422) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Do people who buy Cadillacs, BMWs, Mercedes etc. watch TV? (Message 1554474)
Posted 10 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Every one watches TV.

Pre-Eric (circa 1989-1992) I did not own a tv. I was insufferably snotty and holier-than-thou about it too. Eric could not live without television, so when we became a couple television became a part of my life. Now I park my ample behind upon the couch and let my brain rot on a terrifyingly regular basis.
3423) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1554441)
Posted 10 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have a question on this one. With the bread machine, what you put in must be exact or you end up with a door stop instead of a loaf of bread (I have turned out my share of door stops). I have found that 1.5 cup of water and 4 level cups of fluffed up flour (take storage canister and invert it before measuring) produces dough of the right texture. With the Potatoes you may even be adding a bit more moisture. Is your flour not fluffed or are you using heaping cups because you seem to be about a cup short on flour for the amount of moisture you have.

Flatbreads are a little more forgiving than loaf breads. They just don't have to rise that high to be good. You want a dense and chewy texture. Fluffy flatbreads like you get in bad restaurants are disgusting and oh so wrong!!!

I do have a bread machine, but I do not use it when I make foccacia. My foccacia recipe is designed for kneading in a standing mixer and baking in an open pan. When I make loaf breads in my machine, I do follow recipes exactly and I tend to use the recipes provided by the bread machine manufacturer. (I have an older model Zojirushi.)

I do not fluff up my flour by inverting the cannister. I use a dip and sweep style to produce level cupfuls. Potatoes certainly do vary in size, but I have not found that they add that much extra moisture. Unlike loaf breads, flat breads have a super wide baking surface for giving off moisture during the baking process. Additionally that wide surface area helps you judge whether or not a flatbread is done. Golden brown all over, in a flatbread only rising about two inches high, pretty much ensures you have achieved even baking throughout the bread.

Dena, you are coming at this from a loaf bread mentality, which I do appreciate and which I do understand. I am here to free you from those loaf bread fetters. Flatbreads do not require the precision that loaf breads require. Just hush up your inner perfectionist and go nuts!!!


Would potatoes other than yellow potatoes work as long as you consider they might contain more moisture and have you tried a food processor or a grater instead of a ricer. A ricer is something I don't have but I do have a strainer that has been used to drain pasta that might work for something this soft.

I have only used yellow potatoes in this recipe because they tend to be of medium size and of medium starch content. One Russet might work in lieu of two medium yellow potatoes. Instinct tells me to stay away from low starch waxy red potatoes, but again I have not tested them directly.

Use of a food processor would probably make the potatoes gummy and this would probably adversely affect the texture of the finished product. A wide-holed pasta strainer would probably work as a substitute for a potato ricer.


You also mention a pan. How big is it in inches. This sounds like the type of bread you could make a round loaf out of and put it on a cookie sheet.


I use a half sheet pan and yes, they can vary in dimensions. A small half-sheet pan is 15x10. I have seen larger ones that measure 16.5ish by 12ish. Half sheet pans have raised sides all around of about an inch high. I find most jellyroll pans to be a little small for this recipe. A smaller pan makes a higher bread than I like. The bigger your pan, the thinner your flat bread. I prefer it on the thinner side, but thickness does come down to personal preference. A higher foccacia might be good for slicing horizontally to make sandwiches. A shorter, more dense foccacia is great just plain. (Eric likes it with a slice of cheese on top, or maybe a little salami. Just call him "Mr. Cholesterol")

I would absolutely NOT bake this bread on a flat cookie sheet that did not have raised sides. Foccacia is a deliciously oily bread and the oil would run off of a flat cookie sheet and make a colossal mess in your oven. Your smoke alarm would go off and your neighbors would be calling the fire department. Your cursing of my name would increase by several orders of magnitude the longer you desperately ran around your home opening windows and trying to find a step ladder so that you could yank the batteries out of your smoke detector.


As for sourdough, you can buy it all over the place around here, it's just not very good. I started with sourdough before I found a place you could by yeast by the pound and then it was more fun than anything. I could never get that sour bite the bread should have and after I gave up on it, I learned why. The sourdough starter contains two strains of yeast. One produces the sour flavor and the other produces the rise. I was using commercial yeast as a starter which was what the cook books suggested and as the result, I was missing the sour strain of yeast. I have a place where I can order real starter so next time, hopefully I will be able to get the right combination of yeast.

Mmmmmmmm sourdough!!!


And last, I have discovered that even if you mess up on bread, it's always better when it's fresh out of the oven and allowed to cool a little bit before eating than if you give it some time to show it's true colors. I have got rid of many door stops that way and threw out the leftovers the next day.

Again, you are coming at this from a loaf bread perspective. I agree that loaf breads have better texture and taste when allowed to cool. Flatbreads, however, tend to be better warm - not super hot but definitely warm.

Invite lots of friends over when you make this bread, because it is more caloric than a loaf bread and it is really best served up while still rather warm. Flatbreads are oily so they do reheat ok in a conventional oven, but they are never as good on day 2 as they are on day 1. Microwaving all breads changes the texture, as you probably know, so resist any temptation to heat left-over foccacia in the microwave.

I love baking bread. I adore the yeasty smell of rising doughs. It is delightful to find a kindred spirit in this regard!!! Eric and I visit Arizona from time to time because he has a sister who lives in the greater Phoenix area. Perhaps we can swap recipes in person in the future?

Happy baking!!!
3424) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats (Message 1554112)
Posted 9 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We had only had adult cats before we adopted Stinky Lou as a kitten. The first night we had her, we did not want to leave such a small kitten unwatched and unprotected in the presence of our other grown cats, so we put her in our master bathroom for the night with a basket, food and water. We did not have air conditioning at the time and it was hot in that room, so I cracked the window just a tiny bit to give her fresh air. There was a screen over the window, so I figured it was safe.

In the morning Eric and I awoke to find the screen over the window shredded and no sign of that cat!!! We live in a two story home and we did not think that a kitten would survive a fall out of that window. We flew into a combined panic and raced outside, both of us expecting to find a dead cat or a badly wounded one on our driveway. No kitten.

We went looking up and down the street under every bush and in other potential hiding places. No kitten. We were both in tears.

We returned home to make signs to post. I went to close the bathroom window and happened to look down in a tiny nook between the sink and the wall. There she was. Stinkers had never left the bathroom. She was hiding in that nook the whole time we were outside desperately trying to find her.

Maybe Stinky was trying to escape when she shredded the screen, but she either could not fit out of the barely open window or she was just barely smart enough to know that it was too far down for her to jump out, so instead she did what cats do best - she hid.

Eric and I were so relieved. I will never forget that terrible morning. It was so horrible thinking that we had lost her. I am so grateful that it was just a false alarm.
3425) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #217: Waiting on Two UPS Packages Today (Message 1553939)
Posted 8 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations BladeD on your win... I'll take it from here.
3426) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1553929)
Posted 8 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And that was after briefly having in My diet, the following: Ice Cream, some pan cakes and yep two medium thick crust pizzas.

In a week? In a day? In a meal???

Dang Vic! I can look at a pizza and gain weight.
3427) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats (Message 1553875)
Posted 8 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Esme, you know you really want to get TWO of those kittens. They will be much happier if adopted in pairs.
3428) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats (Message 1553859)
Posted 8 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cats and ferns???
Zsa Zsa not only used to eat my Boston fern, she played in it, rolled around in it and slept in it. I miss that naughty little cat.
3429) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1553850)
Posted 8 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
From what I know about Artisan breads, they can take a day before baking. That's way beyond my current skill level but I would like to know more.

Yes, generally you need a sourdough starter. I've never made sourdough at home because it is just too easy here to buy it. I will, however, share my foccacia recipe which should bake up just fine in Arizona.


Rosemary and Onion Foccacia ala Crazy Raccoon Lady

2 medium yellow potatoes - peeled, quartered, boiled to cook through and then put through a ricer

3 tsps dry yeast
1.5 cups warm water (105 to 110 degrees)
pinch or two of sugar
1.5 cups of bread flour
1.5 cups of all purpose flour
2 tbsps olive oil - plus more for the rising bowl and baking pan
1 tsp table salt

2 yellow onions - sliced - (not too thick, not too thin... medium slice)
2 tbsps butter
1 tbsp olive oil
several sprigs of rosemary - washed, stripped and chopped
Sea salt (or another coarse salt) to taste

Directions

Prep the potatoes and let cool

Mix the two kinds of flour together

Proof the yeast in the warm water w/ sugar added, in the mixing bowl of your standing mixer - 10 mins. stirring gently at onset

Add potatoes, 1 cup of flour mixture, two tbsps olive oil and salt to bowl - use paddle attachment to mix until blended

Add remaining flour, 1 cup at a time, until dough comes together and is not super sticky (Depending on your climate, you may need to throw in up to half a cup more all purpose flour here just to get the dough to come together. This is not generally a problem here in CA because our climate is dry. Same deal with AZ, but folks living in a humid climate may need to add more flour.)

Knead dough with dough hook attachment for 10 minutes (or by hand if you like to do things "old school")

Turn dough into an oiled rising bowl, coat and flip dough

Cover and let rise 1.5 hours, or until doubled

Punch down and press out dough into a generously oiled half sheet pan. If the dough fights you, let it rest 10 mins and then continue to press it out. If it doesn't fit perfectly, don't worry. This is a rustic bread.

Let rise 1 hour - ok if it is uncovered

While dough is rising again, saute onions in the two tbsps butter and 1 tbsp oil until onions are softened but not browned. (They will brown some in the oven when you are baking the bread.) Remove from heat, let cool a bit, then add the chopped rosemary.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees and remove all oven racks except bottom rack.

When bread has risen in pan, lay the onions slices on top, drizzling butter/oil rosemary mixture all over.

Dimple dough all over with fingertips, which should help secure the onions and give the flatbread that characteristic bumpy surface.

Sprinkle bread with sea salt to taste.

Bake 20 minutes, rotate pan and bake an additional 10 minutes, or until puffed and golden brown.

Delicious warm, but still pretty darn good cold.
3430) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1553831)
Posted 8 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Go Vic Go!!!
3431) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Dumb things I've done recently. (Message 1553829)
Posted 8 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dumbest things I did recently... let me think... lets look at Wednesday... hooked myself on the doorhandle of the post office so dislodging it from its doorstop and allowing myself to be dragged back out of it backwards. This gave an e-bay seller time to join the already long queue of what had become somewhat bemused people in front of me... which meant my brain atrophied by the time I was served and left me asking to purchase a book of post offices instead of stamps. Got home... washed the kitchen floor in time for the washing machine to discharge dirty water all over it. Cleared up the mess, dried the floor and mended the machine... but forgot to plumb it back in afterwards... finally hung out THAT load of washing and pegged out the last sock... which was the last straw for the line - which snapped... depositing everything in the mud beneath it. Then had to retrieve my son's phone from the couch. It had gone so far inside I had to turn the couch upside down and remove the hessian bottom, staple by staple. Had the good idea to vacuum the inside whilst I was at it and with that job done I went off to find the staple gun, and set to work re-stapling the hessian. Flushed with success I decided to do a bit more vacuuming... and discovered all my nozzles missing. Refused to accept I'd been THAT stupid for about an hour... but eventually had to accept that I had... unstapled the hessian again and found my missing nozzles. Answered the phone... made myself a well deserved coffee... complete with fly... then restapled the couch. Put it back upright, made another coffee... then went to find out where the muffled yowling was coming from and why... and had to upend the couch and unstaple the hessian again to release three cats...


Might I suggest a bit more sleep? Drugs may be required.
3432) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1553530)
Posted 8 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Still using my 30 year old Kenwood Chef A901

My Rival looked much like that machine. It was a good ole work-horse.
3433) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1553529)
Posted 8 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now if I can only turn out sourdough bread as good as Safeway's.

Thank you for reminding me how great it is to live in the land of a zillion artisan bakeries. Safeway sourdough here is simply awful and most stores just stock artisan labels instead of trying to compete.
3434) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1553469)
Posted 8 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Only 15? My Mom used this type of Hamilton Beach mixer for more than 35 years, note the upper part is detachable.

Fifteen years of "Angela use" = forty five years of use by most other people.

My mother-in-law has one of those Hamiltons. I believe it still works!
3435) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1553468)
Posted 8 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I love mine as well but my favorite attachment is the dough hook. It takes the work out of making home made bread. I should get ambitious and play around with sourdough bread again but it's to hot to turn on the oven and with only one eater a loaf last a week.
Maybe when the weather is cooler.


I am looking forward to trying this new mixer on breads. I make a pretty decent onion and rosemary foccacia. My old Rival did a great job with bread doughs, but it made a whole lot of noise. This new mixer is so quiet!
3436) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1553452)
Posted 8 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
After more than fifteen years of good service, I finally smoked my old Rival standing mixer.
That particular brand and model was well out of stock, so I replaced her with something new...


I would like to dedicate this song to my new mixer.
3437) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #216: The end of 216 is nearing... (Message 1553370)
Posted 7 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The win is mine... all mine!!!
3438) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1553272)
Posted 7 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yesterday was full of evil eating. I resolve to be much better today.
3439) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1553271)
Posted 7 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Good grief! ranch raccoon???

https://www.walkers.co.uk/


LOL!!!
3440) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Dumb things I've done recently. (Message 1553270)
Posted 7 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I had some nice small zucchini on a plant. I decided to let them go another day. Three days later, I need to make soup.
3441) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #216: The end of 216 is nearing... (Message 1553163)
Posted 7 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning is on my list!
3442) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #216: The end of 216 is nearing... (Message 1552924)
Posted 6 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Soon...

Now?
3443) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Food safety alert for US consumers. (Message 1552898)
Posted 6 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thanks for the alert, but I think we may want to move discussion to Politics.


I don't consider this a political thing, David. This is a food safety alert. No one is being political here.

Really??? Really??? Well let me start!!!

How is the topic of "food" not ultimately a political topic? If there are any "Ayn Rand reading - Invisible Hand of the Market worshiping - Laissez Faire Libertarians" out there, you folks have absolutely NO grounds for being outraged about this issue.

Food safety is the lesser problem here. I have no doubt that chicken and fish processed in China is processed in a largely food-safe manner. The bigger picture is that we don't have any manufacturing jobs left in the USA. Is anyone here REALLY surprised that now we don't even process our own food?

Come on people! When was the last time you purchased a consumer good that was not made elsewhere? Do me a favor. Walk around your home and look at labels. Look at the labels on your clothes. Look at the labels on your kid's stuffed animals. Look at your electronics. Look at the bottom of your cookie jar. Look at the box surrounding whatever you just bought at Target or Wallmart or Amazon.com. What do all of these things have in common? They were all made elsewhere. In this glorious "global economy", food processing just happens to be the latest in a long line of manufacturing jobs to go overseas.

Instead of collective outrage and ridiculous fear-mongering regarding rat meat and lead, how about instead we have a quiet moment of collective reflection and ask "why".

Why are corporations not taxed up to their corporate eyeballs for exporting jobs?

Why don't we have a living minimum wage in the USA?

Why is the "American Dream" no longer achievable for so many of us?

Why does it take two incomes for so many families to "make it" these days?

Why are we so bad at sharing corporate profits?

Why are we so challenged to open our own wallets?

Why are so many of our citizens paid so poorly that they have no choice but to buy cheap, expendable consumer goods and low quality food?

If you are reading this and you are a US citizen, you have the power to change things. You have an almighty "vote". The next time you are in a polling booth, please tap into your Chinese chicken outrage and vote accordingly. But do be mindful that your vote will come at a cost. Do not for a moment think that social justice comes without a cost!!!

Food will cost more if it is processed by fairly paid US workers.

Your underwear will double... maybe even triple in cost if it is made by fairly paid US workers.

You might, as a consumer, have to think twice about filling your home with "stuff", because "stuff" will cost more if it is made by fairly paid US workers. Of course, as a fairly paid worker you might just have a little more money to spend...

There will also be significant political costs to our country if, by some miracle, we all suddenly stop madly consuming goods made elsewhere. China holds a great deal of US debt.

As the saying goes, "It's complicated"...
3444) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1552822)
Posted 6 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sticking this here as this is where diabetes has been discussed.
Some saturated fats could help protect against type 2 diabetes, study finds

Not all saturated fats increase the chances of developing diabetes and some could help protect against the disease, a study has shown.

The kind of saturated fat found in dairy products such as yoghurt is likely to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, say scientists.


Awesome!!! Makes me feel less guilty about the batch of Madeleine tea cakes I have in the oven right now...
3445) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1552443)
Posted 5 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't like frosting that is sickly sweet.

That is because you have never had my homemade vanilla buttercream frosting!

One of these days, once the dust has settled I may have to come up for a visit then.

Vic, my friend, you would be most welcome!
3446) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James Brady, former Reagan press secretary, gun-control advocate, dies (Message 1552437)
Posted 5 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
3447) Message boards : Cafe SETI : It is official! The 15th Anni shirt is a Go. (Message 1552386)
Posted 4 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you, Ulibelle, for all the time, effort, energy, blood, sweat and tears you have put into this t-shirt project!
3448) Message boards : Number crunching : 15th Anni T-shirt discussions (Message 1552385)
Posted 4 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you, Ulibelle, for all the time, effort, energy, blood, sweat and tears you have put into this t-shirt project!
3449) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1552383)
Posted 4 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't like frosting that is sickly sweet.

That is because you have never had my homemade vanilla buttercream frosting!
3450) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1552277)
Posted 4 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #1
168.2 pounds (AKA 76 kg; 294.23g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #2
167.6 pounds (AKA 76 kg; 22.08 g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #3
166.4 pounds (AKA 75 kg; 477.8 g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #4
165.2 pounds (AKA 74 kg; 933.45 g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #5
167.0 pounds (AKA 75 kg; 749.92 g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #6
166.0 pounds (AKA 75 kg; 296.33g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #7
165.4 pounds (AKA 75 kg; 24.17 g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #8
165.6 (AKA 75 kg; 114.89 g)

Weight stability - thy name is dessert. Sigh...
3451) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1552099)
Posted 4 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Osteoarthritis, I hate that, it means your body is fighting against itself...

Actually Vic, I believe what you are describing is rheumatoid arthritis, which is an autoimmune disorder. Osteoarthritis is the form of arthritis most typically associated with advancing age. It is also associated with carrying too much weight on one's frame.
3452) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1552022)
Posted 4 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
OK Monday morning weigh in...

Last week 90.3 kg

This week 91.3 kg

So 1 kg gain. * hangs head in shame and slinks off*

It's been so cold and painful I have just succumbed to eating more and haven't been able to exercise any where near as much. *sigh*

Will be seeing the doctor in about 2 hours to find out what's wrong with my knee.

Up until yesterday it's been so cold and wet with yesterday morning being the coldest day in 16 years. brrr...


Don't despair! Been there myself. Hang in there, friend.
3453) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1552015)
Posted 4 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'd like to know which one broke into (well, dumped out) my recycling bin the night before last. It's going to be extra messy to clean up.

What makes you think there was only one raccoon involved?

It has been my experience that weaned siblings forage together initially. I suspect this behavior evolved because it increases their chances of survival. A young female raccoon will eventually leave her sibling cohort and have babies, but bachelor brothers might forage together for a year or more. As nasty as they can be to one another, raccoons are surprisingly social with family members. Like cats and primates, I have seen raccoon siblings groom each other and I have some wonderful video footage of Donna, Marcel and Maggie/Magoo wrestling like kittens in the most playful manner imaginable. In fact, here is one of those videos, taken by Eric a few years ago. Too Many Fermented Plums

Don't get me wrong. Your average raccoon is not above disabling a sibling's leg with a bite wound or taking off a part of a sibling's ear if really provoked! But most of the time, when raccoon siblings squabble, there is just a lot of growling, snarling and baring of teeth. Blood shed between siblings is actually unusual, in my experience.

I'm putting my money on a pair of raccoon bachelor brothers, working together to help ensure that the contents of your recycle bin were properly sorted.
3454) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Can you can you can-can??? (Message 1551600)
Posted 2 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mine too, until my mama stated making ice box lemon pie. She used the egg whites whipped toppings for both types of lemon pies.

Like a mousse pie? Mmmmm!!! Tell me more.
3455) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1551597)
Posted 2 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Certainly impressive.

Certainly faked, but fun to watch.

From the wiki
One of the main stunts in the film consisted of stunt driver "Bumps" Willard (as James Bond) driving an AMC Hornet leaping a broken bridge and spinning around 360 degrees in mid-air about the longitudinal axis, doing an "aerial twist"; Willard successfully completed the jump on the first take.

It'd be brown trousers time if I was in the vehicle at the time :)

Good grief! I stand corrected.
3456) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1551563)
Posted 2 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Certainly impressive.

Certainly faked, but fun to watch.
3457) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cats (Message 1551538)
Posted 2 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I just got home from the Farmer's Market and our Eva-kitty went absolutely nuts trying to decide what to eat first - fennel tops or carrot tops. I hope both of these greens are safe for cats, because there was no keeping her out of my market bag.
3458) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1551531)
Posted 2 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I believe the driverless cars being tested right now are a joint project between Nissan and Google. Since this is a new technology, I am not surprised that American automakers are waiting to see how it plays out.
3459) Message boards : Politics : Society's Role in Education (Message 1551526)
Posted 2 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I sent my children to college why should I send other.

If your children attended public universities, I can absolutely assure you that the tuition you paid did not cover the entire cost of educating your children. Their educations were highly subsidized by my tax dollars - money well spent in my view. You're welcome.
3460) Message boards : Cafe SETI : You're driving me buggy! (or, don't post bugs in my thread thread) (Message 1551523)
Posted 2 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Here are a couple of "bugs" I took pictures of in my local park.

Wow!!! Stunning!!! Thank you.
3461) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1551519)
Posted 2 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The laws in the state of CA currently read the a driverless car has to have a licensed driver in the driver's seat and controls that can be used to drive the car in case something goes wrong with the automatic stuff. I would also like to note that not all roads have addresses mapped well enough for a driverless car to actually get there. For example, my parent's house is in a semi rural area (minimum lot size 2.5 acres). All of the mapping software has their house number near the foot of the lane rather than at the end of the land (about 1/4 mile away). Now imagine a driverless car with instructions to go to that address. It would start looking for the driveway about 1/4 mile away, and would find address #1 rather than address #5...

There are always issues that come up with new technology. I am hopeful that by the time the DMV pronounces me too blind to drive all the bugs will have been largely worked out of driverless vehicles and I will be able to file my nails as my magic car zips me along the highway.

And just a reminder - NOTHING is off topic in the Critter Cafe.
3462) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1551499)
Posted 2 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We went to see that movie last night. It was good fun. The talking raccoon did make me think of Angela though. I was wondering she thought her raccoons could be trained to fly space ships and organise prison breaks.

My raccoons do not talk, but they certainly communicate. Of course, often what they communicate is "Feed me, feed me, feed me house monkey!!! Toss out the kibble and keep it coming."

As for flying space ships, well there are driverless cars currently being tested on the roads in our area. Silicon Valley is relatively close to where we live and I cannot wait until driverless cars become affordable!!!! So in answer to your question, yes, in the future raccoons should be able to "pilot" space ships as well as any person does.

And finally, regarding prison breaks, raccoons are better at breaking into things (attics, kitchens, containers of kibble) than they are at breaking out of things. I think my raccoons could be more easily trained as international jewel thieves than as organizers of prison breaks.
3463) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Can you can you can-can??? (Message 1551278)
Posted 2 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lemon meringue pie ala Crazy Raccoon Lady!!!




Add me to the long line (queue???) of people who love this dessert, but also color me curious. This discussion of lemon pies between you two British cooks has absolutely mystified me. I have never used lemon curd in my lemon meringue pies. I make a stove top cooked lemon filling by thickening water and sugar with cornstarch, and then adding lemon peel, lemon juice and butter. The topping is a French Meringue, which is baked rather than broiled. I always thought I made a pretty classic lemon meringue pie, but your discussion now makes me wonder if there is a better way?

I make lemon curd in a double boiler by heating butter with lemon juice, sugar and lemon peels. Then I temper eggs, add them back and cook everything very slowly and gently until thickened. The peels are strained out before the curd fully sets.

Is curd a standard pie filling across the pond?

AnnieT and Esme, how do you two make a curd that is thick enough to slice in a pie??? Talk about sorcery!!!

I use homemade lemon curd at that bottom of fruit tarts, where it can form a thin layer that clings to the crust and simultaneously anchors the fruit topping. I also use it for a thin layer in jelly roll style cakes. If I want to use homemade lemon curd as a layer cake filling, I generally find that I need to thicken it a bit with gelatin when I am making it. Is that your secret? Gelatin???
3464) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Can you can you can-can??? (Message 1550956)
Posted 1 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, commercially jarred curds on this side of the pond also tend to be uni-dimensionally sweet. Homemade is almost always better.
3465) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #216: The end of 216 is nearing... (Message 1550786)
Posted 1 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Guardians of the Galaxy, anyone going to see it?

It looks really stupid, but how often does a raccoon movie come out? I think I might have to go see it.
3466) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Can you can you can-can??? (Message 1550785)
Posted 1 Aug 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I took my second canning class today. The instructor was highly organized and I learned quite a bit of useful information. We made orange-vanilla curd and cantaloupe jam. The jam turned out great. Curd, however, is something I probably will not can in the future. When I make lemon curd at home without canning it, it lasts 2-3 weeks in the fridge. The orange curd we made in class only has a canned shelf life of 2-3 months. Also, putting curd in a boiling water bath for about half an hour probably dulls the taste. I'll know for sure when I open it, but prolonged heat generally destroys taste along with bacteria.
3467) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1550107)
Posted 30 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am!

Can't wait. Can't wait. Can't wait!!!
3468) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1550102)
Posted 30 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It bewilders me that California has not started up their desalination
plants. They were deemed too expensive and were shut down, but
with this drought going on as long as it has, you'd think they'd
reconsider.

They are probably too antiquated to run well. California is going to have to invest in cutting edge desalinization technology, or develop it if it does not exist. We are dry, dry, dry out here.
3469) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1549985)
Posted 30 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Snif! Everybody has raccoon kits this year but me!!!

Suzie Q has babies and Scarecrow and Kris recently told me that one of their raccoon visitors, Early, needs to be renamed Earline because she now visits them with four babies in tow. I'll bet Sci-Man Steve has captured raccoon babies on his wildlife camera.

I saw one of the Interrogatives last night. Not sure if it was Who, What, When, Where or Why. From his size I can tell he is one of last year's litter. Must be a boy. Rats!
3470) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Miggins Magnificent Mouthwatering Mouthfuls (Message 1549965)
Posted 30 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You know, I've always wondered whether Katydid... or didn't.
3471) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Miggins Magnificent Mouthwatering Mouthfuls (Message 1549911)
Posted 30 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ah exercise... Goodness me, it always involves all that effortful lifting and sweating. Why whenever I try an new exercise routine with Ol' Pookers, something always comes up that is so hard!!! I'd much rather get saucy in the kitchen than sweaty in the gymnasium.
3472) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Can you can you can-can??? (Message 1549903)
Posted 30 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A friend gave me a magazine on canning (Better Homes and Gardens Special Interest Publication - Canning - September 2013) and under the FAQ section there was a discussion related to the question of sealing things with wax.

The question was written: "My grandmother did not process her jams and jellies in a water-bath canner - she covered the hot jellies with a thick layer of melted wax or paraffin. Why can't I preserve my jams and jellies the way she did?"

The answer was: "Your grandmother's method was popular for decades, but it is no longer considered safe. The paraffin she used did not form an airtight seal and was easily dislocated when jars were moved. It was also prone to mold and other bacterial growth."
3473) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #216: The end of 216 is nearing... (Message 1549316)
Posted 29 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning before bed time. Need to give Angela the opportunity to enjoy trumping me.

Per your request...
3474) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1549312)
Posted 29 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well Mr. Sattler, since you managed to slip an unsubstantiated and offensive political jab into the Raccoon thread, I may as well come over to this thread and inform readers that your favorite pasta, Barilla, is on the boycott list in our home due to political reasons.


I didn't know about this. Thanks for the heads-up.


We also try not to buy Georgia-Pacific products at our house, although truth be told this makes it challenging to find printer paper. It is easy though to avoid Georgia-Pacific products when it comes to paper towels, facial tissue, toilet paper etc.

Now I guess I had better post a recipe so that I am at least marginally on-topic...

Homemade Lemonade
1 part fresh lemon juice
1 part simple syrup (50% sugar boiled with 50% water then chilled)
1 part sparkling water
1 part liberal outrage
Lots of ice
Garnish of fresh mint

Mix in a tall glass and enjoy, knowing that EVENTUALLY the political pendulum will swing the other way.
3475) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1549207)
Posted 28 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2 words: "Big Sugar"...

That is a problem in most processed foods and much as I would be happy to blame some other entity for my weight issues, alas I cannot. I do most of the cooking here and we rarely eat processed foods. If there is too much sugar in anything I have made, it is only because I have put it there.

Monday - wishing you a speedy recovery!
3476) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1549063)
Posted 28 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am impressed Angela. You are going to be sylph like in no time.

Don't I wish!!! I think I get the award here for the slowest weight loss ever.

Still, the accountability factor combined with the kind support I'm getting from all the lovely posters here is at least keeping me from gaining weight. It has been the slow and steady creep of about a three pound weight gain a year that made me a pudgy little raccoon in the first place.

Why does food have to be so delicious???!!! I subscribe to four magazines - all are about cooking and/or entertaining. The recording device on our tv is full of "Eric shows", "Angela shows" and "Shows we watch together". All the "Angela shows" are about cooking. My favorite weekend activity is going to the Farmer's Market. I'm starting to learn more about canning. Food, food, food, food, food!
3477) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1549011)
Posted 28 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #1
168.2 pounds (AKA 76 kg; 294.23g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #2
167.6 pounds (AKA 76 kg; 22.08 g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #3
166.4 pounds (AKA 75 kg; 477.8 g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #4
165.2 pounds (AKA 74 kg; 933.45 g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #5
167.0 pounds (AKA 75 kg; 749.92 g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #6
166.0 pounds (AKA 75 kg; 296.33g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #7
165.4 pounds (AKA 75 kg; 24.17 g)
3478) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1549007)
Posted 28 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome home, Paul!
3479) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1549002)
Posted 28 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I seem to recall that this is not too far away from you.

Yes. That was a fun day!

I was just at the gardens a few weeks ago with my youngest nephew Nicolas and my youngest niece Claire. Claire especially enjoyed watching the turtles, who went out of their way to put on a good show for us when we visited.
3480) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1548789)
Posted 28 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well Mr. Sattler, since you managed to slip an unsubstantiated and offensive political jab into the Raccoon thread, I may as well come over to this thread and inform readers that your favorite pasta, Barilla, is on the boycott list in our home due to political reasons.
3481) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1548787)
Posted 28 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No rain here today. Its very hot. I made some iced coffee to drink in the garden and took a picture of my "vegetable patch". If anyone can tell me what I have growing there I'd be curious. I'm really a city girl and I do not have a clue. This is the first garden I've ever had.


Hard to tell from the picture, but is it possible that the dried seed heads are wild fennel?
3482) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1548786)
Posted 28 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Weigh-in tomorrow. It is not going to be pretty.

I believe that the incomparable Weird Al best sums up my status over the past week... Inactive
3483) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1548718)
Posted 28 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wisconsin is nice and green in the summer. Send some rain our way, please!
3484) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1548714)
Posted 28 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you, Vic, Esme and Lynn, for the gardening compliments.

Truth be told, our garden looked much better in early June than it does now. We have a severe drought going on here in California. My front yard is bone dry and very brown. My backyard is only marginally greener because I have been using water to grow some vegetables and to keep our fruit trees alive. In early June it was cooler and rain was not a distant memory. Now everything is brown and dying.



... *glances over the overgrown vegetable patch that is now just called The Butterfly Garden in an attempt to justify the total lack of any actual gardening going on*

I have areas like that as well. I prefer to refer to them as "habitat restoration"...
3485) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #216: The end of 216 is nearing... (Message 1548697)
Posted 27 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Very short win.
3486) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1548691)
Posted 27 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh the raccoons would love it if I put in a koi pond, of any size!!!
3487) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1548651)
Posted 27 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends!

Welcome to the 20th Episode of the Critter Cafe. This is a place where critter people come together to discuss whatever they wish. We have only two rules here - all are welcome and nothing is off topic.

To start us off, here is a picture of a friend of many here.

This photo of Spawnie was taken in our backyard in early June.
3488) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1548649)
Posted 27 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends,

It is with some reluctance that I start a new Critter Cafe thread due to the length of this one. Episode #19 has been dedicated to our dear friend John Clark and I guess I was just a bit reluctant to close it. Still, enough of you have asked me to close it and enough of you have been ignored by me, that now I feel the need to be a bit more responsive.

See you all in Critter Cafe #20.

Your Crazy Raccoon Lady
3489) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Miggins Magnificent Mouthwatering Mouthfuls (Message 1548637)
Posted 27 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I did suggest to Muriel once that we tried coq au vin, but she got quite flustered and said it was a hotel room or nothing, so I had to return the hired Ford Transit to the dealers.

Mercy me! That reminds me of the time I suggested to Ol Pookers that we dine al fresco and he replied that eating outdoors might be more comfortable...
3490) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1548239)
Posted 27 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela will like this...


I do!
3491) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Can you can you can-can??? (Message 1548238)
Posted 27 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Leave it the pros.

LOL! Agreed!!!


Especially for Hotel K, er B&B, er Angela.
http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/pages/fdbcottagefood.aspx

LOL! Not planning to go into business. Just trying out what I hope will eventually become a new and fun hobby.



The instructor in today's canning class was SPECTACULARLY disorganized!!! She forgot key ingredients, altered recipes in ways that looked unsafe to me, confused steps, canned things in an inconsistent manner and was completely unable to adequately answer food safety questions posed by class members.

I took the course with another speech pathologist and it was our combined professional opinion that our aging hippie instructor may have taken a few too many mind altering drugs in the 60's.

Even though I am now the proud owner of three jars of things we canned in class today (pickled green beans with dill and garlic, pickled beets with cinnamon and ginger and apple/pear sauce) I have decided not to tempt fate. I left class with such a complete lack of confidence in the food safety skills of our instructor that all three jars of food from class today went into my refrigerator instead of onto a pantry shelf!!! Eric and I will open all the jars and eat the foods within the next couple of weeks to ensure we do not get sick, instead of storing the products longer term. I'm sure they will all taste good. I'm just not sure all were safely canned.

My canning class next week is in a different location and is being taught be a different instructor. I trust it will be a better introduction to canning.
3492) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I'm going to bed now...night night everyone. 2 (and may all our moderators have sweet dreams :) (Message 1547839)
Posted 26 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, time to feed the raccoons and hit the hay.

Goodnight friends.
3493) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The kittyman's home thread. (Message 1547830)
Posted 26 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And YOU have a prime version of it???

Oh, I would hardly call myself an expert on marriage... having only done it once.
3494) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The kittyman's home thread. (Message 1547827)
Posted 26 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We can discuss the sensual shit when Eric can be here.
I won't co-opt his wife in such a discussion.

A "discussion" would involve more participants than yourself, so I think it is safe to say you are well out of danger in this regard.
3495) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The kittyman's home thread. (Message 1547821)
Posted 26 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think you have a distorted view of love, Kittyman.
3496) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Modswap 2014! (Message 1547809)
Posted 26 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am embarrassed to have missed this thread!

Rob and Lynn, thank you so much for giving so generously of your time and talents.

Esme and Julie, thank you for so kindly and generously serving again.
3497) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James Garner passes at age 86... (Message 1547805)
Posted 26 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
3498) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The kittyman's home thread. (Message 1547802)
Posted 26 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Among the most sensual things in the world is a woman who submits every ounce of her being to her man, not matter the cost.

Good grief. Kittyman, I strongly suspect you will die alone.
3499) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Can you can you can-can??? (Message 1547787)
Posted 26 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...maybe I can post later about the Memories I have of my Grand mother canning food in 1910 on the farm in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Please do, but if the memories involve exploding cans of tomatoes, please wait until my confidence in my canning skills improves from "I can't" to "I can!!!"
3500) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Can you can you can-can??? (Message 1547786)
Posted 26 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If I can do it you sure can. A lot of work but worth it for the 'good stuff'. Sterilized, up to temp with sealed lids and you are good to go. And you get to get a whole bunch of neat kitchen gadgets and cool stuff and such. ;^)

What do you can?
3501) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Miggins Magnificent Mouthwatering Mouthfuls (Message 1547692)
Posted 26 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Muriel, darling! You have been missed. I am quite well. Thanks so for asking. As for the bacon, I shall be sure to direct it to Eric's attention. He loves a good, high quality strip in the morning...
3502) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Can you can you can-can??? (Message 1547670)
Posted 25 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
As a self-professed Dominatrix of Domesticity, not much intimidates me in the kitchen. I am not afraid to proof yeast. I know the difference between Swiss, Italian and French Meringues. I can flambe, frappe and brulee with the best of them...

But when I think about putting food into a Mason jar and storing it, unrefrigerated, on a pantry shelf for six months... well frankly my knees get more wobbly than a bowl full of aspic!

I am absolutely terrified by the thought that I could gift a friend or a relative with a ribbon festooned jar full of yummy homemade botulinum toxin.

To this end, I have decided to seek professional help.

I have enrolled in my first canning class tomorrow and I am taking an additional canning class next week. I am very excited about both classes! I hope to learn the basics and then just see what I can safely create.

This is a thread for those who can foods.

Let's talk!
3503) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Miggins Magnificent Mouthwatering Mouthfuls (Message 1547564)
Posted 25 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Merciful heavens!!! I do hope my beloved Eric steers clear of all the little tarts found in Miggins' newly opened shoppe. The poor man does suffer from hardening... of the arteries, don't you know.
3504) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1547152)
Posted 25 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You know thats not a bad idea. My wife loves shrimp cocktails. And when I go to a Japanese steak house, I love fried shrimp.
But how do you BBQ them?

I'm actually not a huge shrimp fan, but I do know a thing or two about cooking. First off, brine the shrimp so they don't turn to rubber on your grill. Then double skewer them so they don't roll around when you flip them over. You could also put them on single skewers alternating heads and tails tightly. The key is you want the skewers to be stable and the food to not roll around when you flip the skewers with tongs. Dry the shrimp well so there is no wetness from the brine on the outside. Salt, pepper and rub w/ oil. Cook over a low-ish fire about 4 minutes on one side and 1 minute on the second side. Shrimp cook fast and they will continue to cook when you remove them from the grill so pull them off before you think they are done. Sauce them when removed from the grill. If you try to barbecue a pre-sauced shrimp it will burn instantly.
3505) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1546697)
Posted 24 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Everyone

Just wanted to let you all know that Raccoon Lovers are now #13 in the Team Rankings.

Watch out GPU Users Group... we're gaining on you!

Join us.
3506) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1546653)
Posted 24 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Friends! Just returning from a fun trip to D.C.

Suzie-Q, congratulations on the babies!!! I haven't seen any raccoon kits yet this year, but I expect some any day now. 'Tis the season!!!
3507) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1546648)
Posted 24 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends!!!

Eric and I just returned from a trip to Washington D.C. with a nephew, in celebration of his 13th birthday. Eric and I have a tradition of taking each one of our nieces and nephews on a trip anywhere each chooses to go in the USA when each one turns 13. This was our eighth trip of this type... (Five more nieces and nephews to go... six if my sister-in-law gets her way and talks my baby brother into another baby!!!) Eric and I are gunning for the position of "fun aunt and uncle of the century".

The good news is that I walked (and walked, and walked, and walked) quite a bit each day. The bad news is that vacation time is not exactly diet time. I will get on the scale Monday as I promised and I will try to get back on the calorie cutting wagon tomorrow.
3508) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Missing Persons Bureau (a.k.a. The Mother Hens Thread) (Message 1540205)
Posted 12 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...In previous communications from her I had believed that she was chaste, and I was a welcome suitor, but I discovered to my dismay that this was not indeed the case. It appeared that her spelling was somewhat bereft of accuracy and that in fact she was chased (by many others), and that my attentions did not suit her....

Wow. Suzie-Q was right. Spelling does matter!
3509) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Missing Persons Bureau (a.k.a. The Mother Hens Thread) (Message 1540046)
Posted 11 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ian, welcome home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3510) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1540045)
Posted 11 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, what happened?

Did old Pukers notice, did any thing, did every one lose
huge amounts of weight? Did I win the contest?



'Ol Pookers hasn't noticed a thing, because there hasn't been a thing to notice. I've lost a grand total of two pounds.
3511) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1539931)
Posted 11 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...You're thinking about what you're eating now - which is a very positive step in the right direction, even if circumstances mean that the best you can hope for for awhile is just to mark time. :)...


Thank you to all for your kind words of support. I should start a thread called "Maintain Your Weight With Angela", since I have not lost anything significant. But hey... I'm not gaining!!!
3512) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1539850)
Posted 11 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #1
168.2 pounds (AKA 76 kg; 294.23g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #2
167.6 pounds (AKA 76 kg; 22.08 g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #3
166.4 pounds (AKA 75 kg; 477.8 g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #4
165.2 pounds (AKA 74 kg; 933.45 g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #5
167.0 pounds (AKA 75 kg; 749.92 g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #6
166.0 pounds (AKA 75 kg; 296.33g)

I know it is not Monday yet, but my bathroom scale and I will be parted for the next couple of weeks, so I thought I would weigh in before that happened. My next weigh in will be Monday July 28th. I feel like I am back on track just in time to blow it again...
3513) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Net Neutrality (Message 1539512)
Posted 11 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I know this is sort of not on topic, but I am amazed at how many people who commented directly on Eric's blog appear to be long time crunchers, first time posters (or people who had written fewer than 10 posts). Fine lurkers abound!
3514) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Missing Persons Bureau (a.k.a. The Mother Hens Thread) (Message 1539507)
Posted 11 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Has anyone heard from Daniel Michel lately?

Also, what ever happened to Jeffery the Ant?

Oh, and where did Beethoven (AKA Beets; AKA Sydney) go?
3515) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1539504)
Posted 11 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Scott, congratulations on your 20 pound weight loss milestone!!!
3516) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1539129)
Posted 10 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I walked Tuesday. I walked Wednesday. I am planning to try to go swimming this evening, so yay exercise. Food intake, however, still needs a lot of adjustment.
3517) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Net Neutrality (Message 1538868)
Posted 10 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela -- Would it be possible to copy Eric's message? I'd like to forward
it to a number of friends, plus family.


Yes! Eric says all should feel free to copy his message and distribute it widely.
3518) Message boards : Politics : Net Neutrality (Message 1538863)
Posted 10 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Please go to the Staff Blog Message Board and read Eric's very important message about Net Neutrality.
3519) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Net Neutrality (Message 1538862)
Posted 10 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Please go to the Staff Blog Message Board and read Eric's very important message about Net Neutrality.
3520) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Net Neutrality (Message 1538861)
Posted 10 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Please go to the Staff Blog Message Board and read Eric's very important message about Net Neutrality.
3521) Message boards : Number crunching : Net Neutrality (Message 1538860)
Posted 10 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Please go to the Staff Blog Message Board and read Eric's very important message about Net Neutrality.
3522) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Net Neutrality (Message 1538859)
Posted 10 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Please go to the Staff Blog Message Board and read Eric's very important message about Net Neutrality.
3523) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #215: 11 Regenerations left... What to do, where to go??? (Message 1538229)
Posted 9 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Good to know... Good to know.
3524) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #215: 11 Regenerations left... What to do, where to go??? (Message 1538219)
Posted 9 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I take perverse delight in beating Carlos!
3525) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1538218)
Posted 9 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That bike looks dangerous to me...
3526) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1538217)
Posted 9 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I always smile at people when I'm out walking... unless, of course, I'm gasping for air.
3527) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1538205)
Posted 9 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I took a long walk today. I will do so again tomorrow.
3528) Message boards : Cafe SETI : An Update (Message 1538136)
Posted 8 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Age is on your side! It will all be better soon.
3529) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Your Epitaph (Message 1538134)
Posted 8 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I want mine to say "Danced with critters, now feeding the worms"
3530) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Vic! (Message 1537375)
Posted 7 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Best wishes to you on your special day, and always!
With love from Angela & Eric
3531) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1537369)
Posted 7 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #1
168.2 pounds (AKA 76 kg; 294.23g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #2
167.6 pounds (AKA 76 kg; 22.08 g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #3
166.4 pounds (AKA 75 kg; 477.8 g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #4
165.2 pounds (AKA 74 kg; 933.45 g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #5
167.0 pounds (AKA 75 kg; 749.92 g)

After four consecutive days of over-indulging in high fat, high salt, deliciously sinful celebration foods, I know I should not be surprised by a weight gain.

Ok, back on the wagon now...


By the way, Monday, you are doing GREAT!!! We are all going to have our little ups and downs, but you have had far more good days than bad ones and you have achieved your initial goal, which is fabulous!!!
3532) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Well Now. Let's See Here (Message 1536703)
Posted 6 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome home.
3533) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Football season (not soccer) (Message 1536234)
Posted 4 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
College football - yay!!!

Go Cal Bears! Go Wisconsin Badgers!
3534) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1536233)
Posted 4 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL That's hilarious. I love that clip , I haven't seen it in yonks.


Did you dance? I'm pretty sure that if I had tried dancing upstairs rather than safely here downstairs on our concrete slab basement flooring, I would have put more cracks in the house than the last earthquake.
3535) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1536161)
Posted 4 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Uhura - Make to starfleet - am about to enter uncharted territory
Spock - analysis
Seti@home is fascinating Captain
Bones - opinion
It's life Jim, but not as we know it
Raise shields
Helm - ahead warp factor 5
Scotty - get us out of here
Engineering to Bridge, she canna take it cap'n


I've heard that all threads eventually lead to Star Trek and it seems as if it is true...

Ok friends, to keep this in line with our thread theme, I want everybody to get up and dance when they click on this link. (Vic, you may dance sitting down. Wave your hands in the air like you just don't care!!!)

Star Trekkin'
3536) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1536117)
Posted 4 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A cookie, broken or not still has calories...


I don't know.... According to molecular gastronomy theory, the energy in a broken cookie is the inverse of the whole, so really calories are lost when you eat a piece.

And the more you eat, the more you lose!!! Awesome. I just love science.
3537) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1536113)
Posted 4 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That is a shame, Chris.



Do the rest of you ever dream about raccoons? I'd be very surprised if
Angela never did.

You would think this would happen often, since I feed critters before bedtime, but actually it is a rare event for me. Very occasionally, when I am very worried about something, a raccoon or two may show up in a bad dream. I don't tend to have happy dreams (or at least I never remember any happy ones), so if a raccoon is in my dreams, at best it is a neutral dream and chances are good it is an unhappy one.
3538) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The pick-me-up of the year. (Message 1536096)
Posted 4 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy belated Birthday to you, James.

(And Ulibelle, you are THE BEST!!!)
3539) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1536094)
Posted 4 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Quite right, of course. I've heard that all the calories leak right out.

But then they use you wifi to leak straight back in. Sneaky little buggers these calories!!

Darn!
3540) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1536065)
Posted 4 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...and a cookie that broke in the package has no calories left. ...

Quite right, of course. I've heard that all the calories leak right out.


Thats a 2 hour walk done.

Go Monday Go!!!
3541) Message boards : Cafe SETI : An Update (Message 1535627)
Posted 3 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you an excellent surgical outcome and a rapid recovery.
3542) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Eric (Message 1535499)
Posted 3 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I begged and pleaded Eric to take a day off of work on his birthday, so that with the Independence Day holiday he would have a nice long four day weekend. Miracle of miracles he agreed. And do you know how he is celebrating his birthday right now? He got up at dawn and left the house around 6-ish to go get one of our cars serviced!!!

That man simply does not know how to take a day off!!!
3543) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1535495)
Posted 3 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nice picture! Glad you two friends were able to meet up.
3544) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1535224)
Posted 3 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hate exercising. I really do. Still, in anticipation of evil eating all weekend, I have now exercised two days in a row. Yesterday I walked home from our local BART station - a 55 minute uphill climb. This evening Maya and I did our usual route. Gosh I hate exercising. What do you exercise people see in it?
3545) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1535175)
Posted 3 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ten Reasons Why I Cannot Walk Maya Right Now

1. My kitchen sink is full of dishes
2. Mount Laundry is threatening to avalanche
3. I've got to do dinner prep
4. Eric's birthday cake isn't going to bake itself
5. Gosh, Spawnie could really use a good brushing
6. The birdbath hasn't been scrubbed out in a long time
7. I really should go put out some peanuts for Laverne (a blue jay) and Squirrelie (a Squirrel)
8. Ooooh!!! A cooking magazine arrived in today's mail!!!
9. With all these channels, there must be something on tv that I want to watch...
10. Maybe I should call my mother

Sigh... Think how history would have been altered if the Alamo had been so well defended.

Ok, ok, ok... I'm lacing up my sneakers. I'm looking around for a poop bag.

Maya is going to get walked, by me, right now.

Bye!
3546) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #7 (Message 1535143)
Posted 2 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...I think people just have to be patient, and realize some of us have a life away from the computer. I don't think the world would end if the winner takes a day or three to post a new picture, or to reply to guesses.

Amen, brother Bill!!!
3547) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1535141)
Posted 2 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for your addition to this lovely thread!
3548) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Canada Day eh? (Message 1534722)
Posted 2 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Best wishes to all you lovely Canadians on your special day!!!
3549) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I have a PC Problem that might get worse (Message 1534684)
Posted 2 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric's attempts at using a water cooling system were disastrous from start to finish. We kept getting algae in the tank. Yech. Also, Eric put holes in the side of the house that I had to have professionally patched.

Eric has completely given up on the idea of water cooling at this point, and I hope he NEVER reconsiders it!!!
3550) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1534584)
Posted 1 Jul 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, were you able to purchase any fresh vegetables or fruits in all of that heat?
3551) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1534188)
Posted 30 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Don't despair, Vic. Just maintaining a weight loss is an accomplishment. You've lost 46 pounds and if you keep those pounds off long term that is a big deal! And dude, don't blame the pancakes too much. You're a tall man and so there is a lot of "wiggle room" in your caloric allotment each day.
3552) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #7 (Message 1534181)
Posted 30 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
May I say I didn't find many "laugh out loud" posts?

Paul, Paul, Paul... Didn't your mama ever tell you that "if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all"?!!!



Dis-honorable mention to Winterknight: the better interpretation of the Tom's action is that he checked the road for cars before allowing his harem (and yes, it is called that, Julie) to cross...

Dude! It is a caption. The picture is not supposed to be an accurate description of animal behavior. It is supposed to be something that makes people laugh, and I maintain that Winterknight's caption was, in fact, "laugh out loud" funny!
3553) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1534177)
Posted 30 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Rob and Scott and Monday on your losses. You guys are really doing well!!!

@Angela. Oh dear! Try and keep your portion sizes down and good luck with the celebrations.

I shall do my very best to try... but I do so love a good birthday cake!
3554) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #57 (Message 1534035)
Posted 30 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Some posters really stand out in a crowd...
3555) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1534031)
Posted 30 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #1
168.2 pounds (AKA 76 kg; 294.23g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #2
167.6 pounds (AKA 76 kg; 22.08 g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #3
166.4 pounds (AKA 75 kg; 477.8 g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #4
165.2 pounds (AKA 74 kg; 933.45 g)

Net weight loss to date 3.0 lbs. (AKA 1 kg; 360.78 grams)

Eric has not noticed any weight loss yet, though to be fair a three pound loss across the course of a month should not be all that noticeable.

This week I will need to pass through a veritable gauntlet of over-eating opportunities. Thursday is Eric's birthday. Friday is our country's Independence Day - a national holiday. Saturday is a family birthday party for one of my nephews. Sunday is an afternoon tea celebration that I host each year honoring my aunts.

My plan is to be a very, very, very good raccoon today, tomorrow and Wednesday and then just hope for the best next Monday.
3556) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #215: 11 Regenerations left... What to do, where to go??? (Message 1533805)
Posted 29 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate.
3557) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1533756)
Posted 29 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wonderful progress, Monday!!! Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3558) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1533713)
Posted 29 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What's the old saw about everything good in life is either immoral, illegal, or fattening?

Ain't it the truth!!!
3559) Message boards : Cafe SETI : ARGH!!! (Message 1533708)
Posted 29 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You ubiquitous gurl, you.
Meows of respect coming your way.

LOL!!!


A spell checker will not catch incorrect word usage.
3560) Message boards : Cafe SETI : ARGH!!! (Message 1533387)
Posted 28 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric is so lucky to have Angela as a kind trooper.
She may or may not understand what she if proofreading.
I know it would probably make MY head spin.

I am only looking for things not caught by spell and grammar checkers. A spell checker will not catch incorrect word usage. A grammar checker might notice a verb tense change mid-sentence, but not across larger passages of text. Also, it still takes a real person to know when a sentence is awkwardly written. I always find lots of little things that need correcting. I also still accidentally over-correct, because scientists have unique ways of expressing themselves at times. I just flag things that I think are "off" and Eric decides what does and does not get changed in the next draft.

I certainly do not understand the technical aspects of Eric's papers. For general proofreading purposes this is actually an advantage. If I fully understood what I was reading, my eyes and my brain would fill in the gaps that a proofreader is tasked with finding. I have a Master's Degree in Speech Pathology, not a Ph.D in physics. I would not be able to spot an error in an equation, a table, a figure or a graph. Learning does occur on my part, but it only goes so far. Proofreading Eric's papers for more than 20 years has given me the ability to read an abstract and understand how the findings of that paper might shed some light on the general research questions involved in the study of interstellar medium. (And even better, now when I go to the obligatory "banquet" dinners at astronomy conferences, I know if I am standing in the buffet line next to somebody who is famous!!!)
3561) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1533377)
Posted 28 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So if you are super seriously counting the calories ditch one serve of cauliflower and eat a whole bowl of jelly.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I do love cauliflower. It is such a wonderful delivery system for cheese sauce...
3562) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1533078)
Posted 28 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Found it!

This is one of the bluejays that would eat peanuts on my balcony in Pacific Grove,
California. They just couldn't figure out why that second peanut was so hard to
get!



I feed peanuts to the bluejays, crows and ravens who visit my backyard. The bluejays tend to fly away with one peanut at a time. The average crow or raven will swallow a whole peanut (in the shell!!!) and then take one or two more in his/her beak before flying away. I suspect all three species of birds cache the nuts to eat them later.
3563) Message boards : Cafe SETI : ARGH!!! (Message 1533043)
Posted 28 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My sister came over for dinner tonight and now she and Eric are watching the final three episodes of Game of Thrones. It sounds very gory. I'm glad I'm not watching. For my delight and amusement this evening Eric handed me a draft of a 40 page journal article he wrote. It needs to be proofread before submission - lucky me!!!

I think SOMEBODY owes SOMEBODY a big bouquet of flowers...
3564) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Relay for Life 2014 (Message 1532944)
Posted 27 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Go Blurf Go!!!
3565) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1532789)
Posted 27 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The incomparable Bette Midler on the subject of excess adipose tissue
3566) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1532785)
Posted 27 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
While you were on the beach did greenpeace warriors try to roll you back into the water? :-)

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Actually I swam laps in a pool. The beaches closest to us are icy cold.)
3567) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #57 (Message 1532627)
Posted 27 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm feeling very conflicted right now...
3568) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1532582)
Posted 27 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I swam today. Unfortunately, it made me hungry...
3569) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1532581)
Posted 27 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh. Sorry. I missed the fine print...
3570) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1532576)
Posted 26 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
... has that to do with Raccoons?

Nothing is off topic in the Critter Cafe...

I like that rule.


Really? You're the one who banned bugs!


I did no such thing!!! I do not recall how it is the Bug Thread became separated from the Critter Cafe, but I am quite sure that I did not ban bug posts.
3571) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Dad is home, now. :-) Surgery went well. (Message 1532228)
Posted 26 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There may be stitches under the glue. The last surgery I had involved dissoluble stitches overlaid with glue.
3572) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1532227)
Posted 26 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I got 4 B's... (the same number of B's that I got in college)

Hello, my name is Angela and I am a stress eater.
3573) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Pinched nerve in my neck (Message 1532138)
Posted 26 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bob, I hope you are on the road to a pain free future.
3574) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I have a PC Problem that might get worse (Message 1532134)
Posted 26 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I believe you only need a RAC of 2 to post, so Vic you've got a long way to go before you need to worry about crunching anything.
3575) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I may be going in for surgery tonight. (Message 1532130)
Posted 26 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you a successful hernia repair and a quick recovery.
3576) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #56 (Message 1532101)
Posted 26 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lots of funny captions - thank you!

Eric and I both decided that his caption "Itsy bitsy spiders should know better than to climb the waterspouts of secret government facilities" should not be in the running, since he is sleeping with the judge. (Although personally I found it to be hilarious!!!)

The medal winners are as follows:

Bronze goes to Lynn with "Hands up now! Who's seen a few logical outcomes lying around."

Silver goes to anniet with "Spider mugged at gunpoint. Shocking picture shows it's no longer safe to walk across the wall."

Gold medal goes to Winterknight with "Spider thought bubble "Whew, I'm safe, I thought he was going to pick up that newspaper."

PM going out to our winner now...
3577) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1532092)
Posted 25 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Went to the doctor yesterday. Was down 4 lbs. from 3 months ago. But I haven't been keeping track, so I may have bounced up and down by 10 during that time.

Dr. is sort of pushing me toward lap band, but I really don't want to do it.

Right now, I am getting a bit hungry. Trying to remind myself not to eat a huge blob of rice or pasta.


David, first off, congratulations on your weight loss!

Surgical intervention is obviously a serious undertaking and I would not presume to advise you one way or another. Whatever you and your doctor decide, I wish you well.
3578) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Dad is home, now. :-) Surgery went well. (Message 1532070)
Posted 25 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Glad to hear your dad is home now, TL. I hope his recovery is short and uneventful.
3579) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1532068)
Posted 25 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
... has that to do with Raccoons?

Nothing is off topic in the Critter Cafe...
3580) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1532064)
Posted 25 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
TimeLord - great job!!!
3581) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 214.....The joys of summer (Message 1531757)
Posted 25 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Posting waiting for Angela to top me.

Merciful heavens!!!
3582) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 214.....The joys of summer (Message 1531472)
Posted 24 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodnight Carlos, and ditto.
3583) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #56 (Message 1531471)
Posted 24 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.

My dear friends, please caption this:
3584) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1531418)
Posted 23 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Head to tail (or snout to tail) cooking is very trendy out here. Very accomplished chefs in famous restaurants out here pride themselves in being able to skillfully cook every part of an animal.
3585) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1531416)
Posted 23 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yep. I can see the Top Ten Teams from here... and we're closing in on them!


Raccoon Lovers Want You!!!
3586) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1531413)
Posted 23 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you Miz Julie. Eric took the photo of me feeding a little friend (I think that is Otis or maybe Rufus) through the window. I took the photo "Marcel climbs a plum tree" which is the shot I used to start this thread. I also took the photo of Izzy hanging out at our rail, next to some orchid plants. All other raccoon photos I snagged off of Google Images.
3587) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Dad is home, now. :-) Surgery went well. (Message 1531394)
Posted 23 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing your father a speedy recovery.
3588) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1531323)
Posted 23 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mherr170, thank you for your thoughtfully written post and congratulations, again, on your fabulous success with life style changes.
3589) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #56 (Message 1531286)
Posted 23 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Waiting for Godot... and a milkbone.
3590) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1531252)
Posted 23 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So, extrapolating forward 6 months to Xmas, what is the expected result assumimg the current progress?

That my weight will plateau well before Christmas and I will still have the perfect body build to play Mrs. Claus in our community holiday pageant.
3591) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1531238)
Posted 23 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #1
168.2 pounds (AKA 76 kg; 294.23g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #2
167.6 pounds (AKA 76 kg; 22.08 g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #3
166.4 pounds (AKA 75 kg; 477.8 g)

Net weight loss to date 1.8 lbs. (816.47 grams)

I am still not certain that this is a statistically significant loss, but I like the direction of the data trend.
3592) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1531134)
Posted 23 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
P.S. Monday - the first thing Eric and I noticed when we went to Australia is that you folks down under have plastic Monopoly money for currency. After the initial shock though, we started wondering why the USA still uses paper money. It wears out quickly and then has to be reprinted. Polyester pink play money is the only way to go.
3593) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1531132)
Posted 23 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Monday - Awesome!!! Excellent!!! Wonderful!!!

mherr170 - A loss of 50 pounds is something to be celebrated. Welcome to the weight loss thread. You are beating all of us so far. Fabulous!!!

It is not Monday here yet so I'm not getting on that darn scale until tomorrow morning!

As for keeping track, we each seem to be keeping track of our own weight losses. (Here's hoping I have a loss to report in the morning...)
3594) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #56 (Message 1531008)
Posted 22 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Arf! Arf! Looks like something out of "Game Of Bones".
3595) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1530953)
Posted 22 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Since the character of Kenzie was smart, fierce, bold, fair, level-headed and the embodiment of kindness in most situations, I can certainly think of worse insults.


Great Definition Above of a Consumate Liar. Loved and Cherished by All.

fO shO


Certainly you could interpret the situation that way, but such an interpretation does not change the nobility of the character that was created. There is nothing wrong with having a fictional/mythical character as a role model. At the risk of having my post whisked away to Politics, I would argue that such is the basis of religion.
3596) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1530937)
Posted 22 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What a happy little raccoon family - love, love, love it!!!
3597) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1530935)
Posted 22 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Great to see you AnnieT, and don't be too worried about being accused of being Kenzie. I was accused of being her long, long before anyone knew she wasn't real.

We're all Kenzie until proven otherwise. ;)

Since the character of Kenzie was smart, fierce, bold, fair, level-headed and the embodiment of kindness in most situations, I can certainly think of worse insults.

Lovely picture of lovely friends - thank you for posting that great shot.
3598) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1530742)
Posted 22 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is the alligator dead? Is it being moved?

What a shame such a magnificent creature is no longer swimming in its ancestral home.
3599) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1530741)
Posted 22 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Glad to hear that LSM is feeling better. Wishing you both good health.
3600) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1530575)
Posted 21 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Considering everything I think you made a very good effort. It's as much an attitude of mind as well as physical restraint. Well done Angela!

I liken losing weight to giving up smoking, in that a public announcement of your intention, gets you peer support, and more of a resolve not to veer from the straight and narrow. If you make your ultimate goal, I pledge $100 to Seti@home.


LOL dear friend! If I make my ultimate goal, I'll post a picture of myself in a swimsuit and high heels!!!
3601) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1530454)
Posted 21 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Marbooka may not have blessed me, but he (she???) didn't smite me either.

I knew in advance that I was going to have dinner in a restaurant, so I shaved calories at breakfast and lunch so that I had a few "in the bank".

I parked the car about a half a mile away from the restaurant and walked to and from it for a total of a one mile walk today. The walk was not as hilly or as long as the walks I take with Maya, but I figure it was better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

Those of you who have met me in person know that my clothing style is loose and flowing. I've always felt that it is better to wear loose clothes and be THOUGHT a pudgy little raccoon than to wear tight clothes and remove all doubt! Still, I do have one or two pairs of uncomfortably tight pants that used to fit me well and I trotted out a pair for the evening. The tight pants served as a constant reminder to me NOT to over-eat in the restaurant.

The menu at The Ice Creamery was filled with of all the usual suspects - burgers, fries, onion rings, milkshakes, sundaes the size of Texas... I ordered a grilled cheese sandwich filled with spinach and grilled mushrooms. I asked the waitress to ask the cook to use half the cheese he normally would on my sandwich. The cook complied.

I said no to French fries, sweet potato fries, onion rings and potato chips as options for the side that came with my sandwich. My side was a small green salad, and for salad dressing I requested a lemon wedge. Again the cook complied.

My beverage was hot black tea. No milkshake.

Eric had to work late and so he was unable to attend dinner out. This provided me with the perfect excuse NOT to have a giant sundae at the restaurant. I told my relatives that I would just get a pint of ice cream "to go" and share that with Eric later. I had the server pack my ice cream in a bag full of ice so that I would have time to walk back to my car without the ice cream melting. I ordered Swiss Milk Chocolate, a flavor both Eric and I enjoy - delicious!!! (I know... I know... one cup of ice cream is a double serving and about a BILLION calories, but I still think I could have fared much worse.)

My total calorie count for the day was a little over 1900. Yes, I need about 1850 to maintain my weight, but I will claim victory in the fact that I didn't blow things as badly as I could have blown them.

Tomorrow is another day and I shall try, try again.
3602) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I feel like a hero! (Message 1530395)
Posted 20 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
and trolls but Dull, I have to ask this. Would you really have walked by a kitten in distress and done nothing?


Nothing I've read by The Hero has related to me any distress. Only a knee jerk reaction and Hero Worship Syndrome initiated by The Sight of a Kitty on A Roof.

Da Crunchin Troll


James writes:
...it looked very scared and appeared to want down,...


And you, dear troll, would have sailed right by. Ooops, dat bad. FO shure.
3603) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1530393)
Posted 20 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Doomed!!! I'm doomed I tell you. A niece and a nephew are up in the Bay Area this week attending Cal camps. This was the reason for the small family gathering yesterday. Tonight we are all supposed to go out to dinner and the kids got to pick the restaurant. It is called "The Ice Creamery".
3604) Message boards : Cafe SETI : You're driving me buggy! (or, don't post bugs in my thread thread) (Message 1530391)
Posted 20 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey bug people. All the tips of my snap pea shoots got eaten off this year. My first thought was earwigs. Am I right to suspect them or is it more likely slugs/snails.
3605) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1530390)
Posted 20 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Not the many different sauces that those in the US call gravy.


When I think of gravy, I really only think of plain old brown, nothing fancy.

When I think of "gravy", my Italian-American heritage makes me think of a meat and mushroom pasta sauce. I really shocked my midwestern husband when he first saw me cooking a batch of something I was calling "gravy". Eric's Wisconsin interpretation of the word "gravy" would be much like yours, Gordon.
3606) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I feel like a hero! (Message 1530386)
Posted 20 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sigh... I know I'm not supposed to feed raccoons, skunks, squirrels, birds and trolls but Dull, I have to ask this. Would you really have walked by a kitten in distress and done nothing?
3607) Message boards : Cafe SETI : T.Stark -> James C (Message 1530375)
Posted 20 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I hear that Europeans can't pronounce "squirrel" very easily.

No, I think you are thinking of people who speak Japanese as a first language. Or perhaps you are thinking of groups of people who speak tonal languages?

The many faces of /r/ and /l/ are particularly challenging if they are not a part of your primary language. The phoneme /r/ in American English is really quite a variety of sounds, not just one sound. There is pre-vocalic /r/ as in "rabbit". There are /r/ colored vowels such as the "ar" in "car", the "ear" in "hear", the "ire" in "fire", the "aur" in "hour", the "air" in "bear", the "or" in "snore", the "oower" in "sure" (That last one is particularly "Californian".) Then there is the dreaded "er" sound which can be stressed as in "early" or unstressed as in "flower". And don't even get me started on how /r/ changes each time it is combined with another consonant in a blend (/br/, /pr/, /vr/, /fr/, /dr/, /tr/, /gr/, /kr/, "shr", "thr" etc)

Ok, now everybody try "The gray girl squirrel and her friend the early bird twirled and whirled around the earth."

Any of you who are parents of children who struggle with /r/, cut your speech pathologist a break if it seems like therapy for that sound is taking a looooooooong time. The phoneme /r/ is deceptively complex.
3608) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1530341)
Posted 20 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I didn't say that I ate more than 1 serving per meal, though for ice cream in a 5qt container, I'd make an eggception... Then it would be whatever fills the bowl. :)



Angela's Ice Cream Bowl

Mmmmmmmmm!!!! Cherries Jubilee!!!!!
3609) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1530333)
Posted 20 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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One thing I don't do is count calories when I eat, I just look at how many calories are per serving on the packaging when I buy the food.

With what I eat ice cream is not a problem, as long as it's not My main type of food of course.

But Vic, if you eat more than one serving in a meal, calories can add up very quickly. Recommended serving sizes have a reputation for being smaller than typical American serving sizes.
3610) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1530318)
Posted 20 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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+ 1 Rob, or a menu diary.

My food log helped me a great deal yesterday when making and frosting a raspberry cream cake for a family party. I would have consumed a couple hundred extra calories "tasting" things as I went along, but because I knew I had to record every mouthful in my food diary, I was mindful and did not "taste". I had a small slice of cake at the party, of course. Life is too short to say "no" to things like that. Still, I kept my calories under 1850 (BARELY!!!) for the day by making sacrifices in other areas and planning in advance for a slice of cake. The food log helped tremendously.
3611) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1530288)
Posted 20 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow Vic, you've lost 46 pounds!!! Awesome!!!

Here are some calorie calculators I found on line.

Calorie Calculator For Men


Calorie Calculator For Women
3612) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1530022)
Posted 19 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Even with an extra 2 PB&SP sandwiches to feel full or for lunch(1 sandwich each), it seems I've lost another pound again, the scale today said 385lbs. SP is for Strawberry Preserves, though I do have some weak grape jelly...


Go Vic Go!!!

At your weight, height and activity level you probably need about 3000 calories per day to maintain your current weight. Drop 500 calories a day and your weight loss will continue.

"Weigh" to go, Vic!
3613) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 214.....The joys of summer (Message 1530008)
Posted 19 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Winning for friendly people:)

You go, girl!!!
3614) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1530007)
Posted 19 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
On a happier note, I saw my first Swallowtail Butterfly of the season in my garden this morning.
3615) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1530005)
Posted 19 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My family ate in restaurants extremely infrequently when I was a kid. There were four children in our family and I think my dad was always weighing the fear of upcoming college costs against "frivolous" things like giving my mom a day off from cooking. Poor mom!!! This is probably why I enjoy eating out so much as an adult. In my mind, eating out is still very much a treat, especially if the restaurant dining experience involves ethnic specialties that I would be hard pressed to recreate well in my own kitchen.

But Gordon, I think you are right about overly processed foods and the proliferation of restaurants contributing significantly to American obesity. In addition, our standard of living has fallen in this country such that it is now a luxury to have one parent stay at home and do all the things that our middle class mothers were able to do for us... cook real foods, provide loving highly invested care for children, cart kids around to activities that keep them healthy, engaged and out of trouble (school sports, drama clubs; music lessons, trips to the library etc).

It is fascinating to me to see how closely intertwined are the topics of food/weight control and politics.
3616) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1529984)
Posted 19 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Angela, for me, it's an actual, physical "click - you're done." It's real sensation. Maybe, as your stomach shrinks, you'll start to recognize it.

By the way, my best friend and I would always split a single meal at a restaurant. That was always perfect. (Bugger became addicted to running, and was so grumpy if a daily run was missed).

CC


Sometimes I try to order a salad at a restaurant, followed by an appetizer as an entree. Mid-price restaurant entrees tend to be larger food portions than are good for me, and since I have so little control once served something delicious, I find that it is better to limit what is placed in front of me.

I feel sorry for men in this regard. Ordering an appetizer as an entree, asking for salad dressing on the side, splitting an entree with a dining companion or sharing a dessert is socially acceptable behavior for women. Restaurants staff members are probably more used to women being "higher maintenance" in this regard. I'll bet it is difficult for men to do similar things, even though it might be better for men to habitually do so.
3617) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1529978)
Posted 19 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I need to figure out when my body is signaling me. Most of the time it seems to be saying "Go ahead, eat a little more."
3618) Message boards : Cafe SETI : T.Stark -> James C (Message 1529976)
Posted 19 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I like "Old James". Sounds venerable.
3619) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1529974)
Posted 19 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Donald, enjoying a salad first before diving into the stuff that is worse seems like a very good plan to me.
3620) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1529973)
Posted 19 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sad indeed.
3621) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I feel like a hero! (Message 1529972)
Posted 19 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Kittens!!! What's not to love? As a chief meddler in the ways of wild life, you are a hero, my friend.
3622) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1529751)
Posted 19 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I only like juice in my mimosas...
3623) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1529728)
Posted 19 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Why are fresh figs so many calories!!! I thought I was being such a good little raccoon by eating fresh figs for a snack today, then I went and looked up the calories so I could record them in my food log. Holy-moley!!! I should have just had a candy bar.


Figs, or fig-newtons? I can definitely see where the cookies would pile up the calories.


[nose haughtily up in the air]We don't eat store bought cookies at our house.[/nose haughtily up in the air]

4 small figs = 118 calories
I also ate a small nectarine and a small peach for an all fruit snack totaling more than 200 calories. Heck! For that I could have had a generous half cup of ice cream.
3624) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1529703)
Posted 19 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So far we have Ol' Pookers noticing weight loss at:

Less than one pound - CeltTooth
1.74 lbs - Ulibelle
2.5 lbs - Vic
5 lbs - Chris S.
7 lbs - Anniet
10 lbs - Time Lord
14 lbs - Esme
15 lbs - John McLeod of the Clan McLeod
35 lbs (...or in other words, NEVER!!!) - Monday
And Wiggo's hilarious guess that Eric will think that SOMETHING has changed, but that he will not know exactly what...



I'm on a diet, so Eric is going to get salad for dinner tonight. I hope he is not under the impression that life is fair...
3625) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1529698)
Posted 19 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Why are fresh figs so many calories!!! I thought I was being such a good little raccoon by eating fresh figs for a snack today, then I went and looked up the calories so I could record them in my food log. Holy-moley!!! I should have just had a candy bar.
3626) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Please welcome Bernie Vine to the Modteam (Message 1529684)
Posted 18 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome Bernie!!! Clearly Fred has chosen wisely.
3627) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1529674)
Posted 18 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Pate can be made from a variety of substances. I have even had vegetarian pate made from mushrooms and brandy. It was delicious. Rob is correct though. As with most things in life there is a range of quality from high to low.
3628) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1529640)
Posted 18 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So far we have Ol' Pookers noticing weight loss at:

Less than one pound - CeltTooth
1.74 lbs - Ulibelle
2.5 lbs - Vic
5 lbs - Chris S.
7 lbs - Anniet
10 lbs - Time Lord
14 lbs - Esme
29 lbs - Julie
35 lbs (...or in other words, NEVER!!!) - Monday
And Wiggo's hilarious guess that Eric will think that SOMETHING has changed, but that he will not know exactly what...
3629) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1529634)
Posted 18 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...There was cake last night. Lots of cake. I don't think the Wednesday morning gruelling work out was sufficient to deal with it. It appears that Angela's 1 lb of weight estimate for cake was pretty accurate :'(

Your husband and I will have to exchange recipes!

There is a small family gathering tomorrow night at my mother's house and I have been charged with bringing cake. I am making a sponge cake filled with raspberries and whipped cream. I thought about making angel food cake, but then I would end up with 12 unused egg yolks, which would be a fun but very fattening challenge for me. Oh the "plus" side (... "plus" being my new dress size if I eat a great deal of this dessert...) the cake will be enjoyed by seven people and the left-overs will stay at the home of the hostess. That should help with damage control... I hope.
3630) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1529517)
Posted 18 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pate...
3631) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1529515)
Posted 18 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
+2 and welcome home!
3632) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Goodsearch - donnation to S@H (Message 1529437)
Posted 18 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thanks for the reminder. Eric and I use it all the time. There are Good-shop and Good-dine features as well for those who are interested.
3633) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1529436)
Posted 18 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Saw the doctor today and got the results of the blood tests. Relatively good news was that I have type 2 diabeties and the level of bad things was in the low range and the immune system things were in the normal range. My insulin levels were also good.
Doctor just said I'm too fat. Dont need any medication at this stage and he was very happy with me losing some weight already. He was also happy with the walking I've done.
Ihave to go back in a month and see the diabetes educator and get put on a special program.


Monday, that is an excellent outcome!

We are all here to support you as you keep up the great work and stave off the need for medication for a long, long, long, long time!!!
3634) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1529312)
Posted 18 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ulibelle, that is hilarious!

Ok, an average frosted chocolate cake has 6078 calories, according to Calorie King. Divide this by 3500 calories and you get 1.736 lbs. I shall add your guess to the list of guesses.

So far we have Ol' Pookers noticing weight loss at:

Less than one pound - CeltTooth
1.74 lbs - Ulibelle
2.5 lbs - Vic
5 lbs - Chris S.
7 lbs - Anniet
10 lbs - Time Lord
14 lbs - Esme
35 lbs (...or in other words, NEVER!!!) - Monday
And Wiggo's hilarious guess that Eric will think that SOMETHING has changed, but that he will not know exactly what...
3635) Message boards : Cafe SETI : World Cup Woes (Message 1529310)
Posted 18 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I know that I am going to get hate mail over this, but I feel the same way every time it is an Olympics year. I simply do not care.
3636) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1529307)
Posted 18 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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13.4 pounds is excellent! Congratulations TL!!!
3637) Message boards : Cafe SETI : False economies and other "oh dear, I wish I hadn't done THAT" moments... (Message 1529260)
Posted 18 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I once bought a beautifully outfitted picnic basket at a charity auction for about four times its retail value. Got the thing home and discovered it is too heavy to actually carry out on picnics.
3638) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1529190)
Posted 17 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow John! Are you trying to lose weight, or is that just what you do to stay fit?

I walked Maya on Sunday and again today. I am going to try and shoot for that magic minimum of 3 exercise sessions per week that was recommended by my personal trainer, Es99.

Maya is about 70 years old in dog years, but she sets a brisk pace for an exercise-avoider such as myself. The route we typically take is a hilly loop of about a mile and a half.
3639) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1528862)
Posted 17 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This one's for the ladies:

http://www.modelmydiet.com

CC

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That was super fun, however in sweatpants my e-model looks about the same at my goal weight as she does at my current weight.

Hey! I don't need to lose weight. I just need to buy more sweat pants.
3640) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1528857)
Posted 17 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"Bike riding is GO."

Go Monday Go!!!


Anniet, I took your wonderful suggestion and started a food diary this morning. According to my careful calculations, I consumed 1614 calories today. (Please note, Monday, this included seven servings of fruits/vegetables.) Then I went to one of those "maintain your weight" calculators, entered my stats, and found out that I need about 1850 calories to maintain my current weight, assuming continuation of my near sedentary life style. Then I went on-line to calculate the number of calories one needs to burn in order to lose a pound of raccoon-pudge. The number is 3500. Assuming today was a typical day, and admittedly my sample size is small (N = 1), it will take me slightly more than 2 weeks to burn one pound of raccoon-pudge. At this rate I should average about two pounds a month, initially. Of course, if/when my weight drops significantly, I'll be allotted fewer calories each day to maintain my dropping weight, and so my rate of weight loss would then slow down from its previous snail pace.

Dang it!!! Not only do I need full and working command of fourth grade math to figure all this out, but it seems that I am going to be at this cursed business a looooong, loooooong, looooooong time!!! Why, it may be YEARS before I am so skinny that I can be unspeakably cruel to men!!!

Miz Esme, tell me more about this mysterious exercise business in which you indulge.
3641) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1528839)
Posted 17 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
On the menue today one hamburger patty , one fried egg and two slices of bread.

Dude... you forgot vegetation!!!
3642) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1528838)
Posted 17 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So far we have Ol' Pookers noticing weight loss at:

Less than one pound - CeltTooth
2.5 lbs - Vic
5 lbs - Chris S.
7 lbs - Anniet
10 lbs - Time Lord
14 lbs - Esme
35 lbs (...or in other words, NEVER!!!) - Monday
And Wiggo's hilarious guess that Eric will think that SOMETHING has changed, but that he will not know exactly what...


@Anniet, wow!!! Way to fancy-up crudites and toast!!!
3643) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1528817)
Posted 17 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
0 lbs... Pookers loves you no matter what...

Zero pounds is a guess already sewn up by Celttooth, Vic. Care to hazard another guess?



I experienced a strange force acting on me on my walk. It was like gravity turned sideways and the French Bakery 4 blocks up the road was trying to pull me off my course and get me to eat a tasty hotdog.

Monday, I have experienced that same bizarre pull of gravity. In this hemisphere it seems to pull from within establishments where ice cream is sold.

Keep fighting, friend.
3644) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1528789)
Posted 17 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So far we have Ol' Pookers noticing weight loss at:

Less than one pound - CeltTooth
5 lbs - Chris S.
10 lbs - Time Lord
14 lbs - Esme
35 lbs (...or in other words, NEVER!!!) - Monday
And Wiggo's hilarious guess that Eric will think that SOMETHING has changed, but that he will not know exactly what...
3645) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1528763)
Posted 16 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I walked about 7km yesterday and I am heading out now for a walk to the waterfront even though it is only 8C brrr...

Have a great walk!

So far we have Ol' Pookers noticing weight loss at:

Less than one pound - CeltTooth
5 lbs - Chris S.
10 lbs - Time Lord
35 lbs (...or in other words, NEVER!!!) - Monday
3646) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1528752)
Posted 16 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Monday, congratulations on the cheesecake control!!! That is awesome!!!

Diabetes is very much a life threatening medical condition. Monday, you are wise to hit this diagnosis with everything you've got!

My mother is a perfect example of why I want to be in better control of my weight. Our family photo album tells a most interesting story. My mom was quite slender when she married. She delivered me and recovered her figure. She delivered my brother John and recovered her figure. She delivered my sister Andrea and nearly recovered her figure. She delivered my brother Mark and her body just never snapped back. Busy chasing four children around, she put her own health needs on the back burner for decades.

My mom has probably been between 30 to 50 pounds over-weight since she was about 40 years old. Now mom is in her early 80's. She has had chronically high blood pressure for decades. She has had surgery for colon cancer. She has had surgery for breast cancer. She has Type II diabetes which has severely complicated every medical procedure she has had to have. She had extensive vascular surgery several years ago which just barely saved her from an amputation and she will most probably need more vascular reconstruction in the near future. She is a cardiac patient. She has had one mild stroke we know of and multiple lacunar infarcts. Her vision is failing. She thinks this is because of cataracts, but her vision loss is also spurred by her diabetes. My mother's quality of life is as good as we who love her can make it, but it is still not very good.

My mother's sister will be 89 in August and unlike my mother, my aunt has maintained a normal weight throughout her life. My aunt is in amazing shape for 89. It is hard to catch her at home because she is always out visiting sick friends, going to the movies, playing golf, gardening, preparing to give dinner parties and luncheons, enjoying museum exhibitions and going to the theater.

I know which way I would prefer to age...
3647) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1528692)
Posted 16 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So far we have Ol' Pookers noticing weight loss at:

Less than one pound - CeltTooth
5 lbs - Chris S.
10 lbs - Time Lord
3648) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1528662)
Posted 16 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I bet that with in the week he may
say something like, "Gee you seem
to be looking better lately, have
you lost weight or what?"


Put a pound estimate on that please, so that I can enter your guess in the contest.

So far we have Ol' Pookers noticing weight loss at:

5 lbs - Chris S.
10 lbs - Time Lord
3649) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1528656)
Posted 16 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you all for your kind words of encouragement. Vic, congratulations on your continuing weight loss!!!


Substitute Light Mayonnaise for Regular Mayonnaise, that will help, stop using sugar in your coffee, use Sweet'n'Low, etc, etc...

Bleh!!! While such substitutions may work for some people, I can say with 100% certainty that these ideas are not for me. I love food too much to eat fake-foods. Sometimes I even make my own mayonnaise, so I certainly cannot imagine eating light mayonnaise. I happen to take my tea black and I don't drink coffee. My dad was a dentist, so I never developed a soda habit. My REAL sugar and fat intake comes in the form of the desserts that I bake. There is a whole lot more sugar and fat in a serving of homemade pie than I could ever possibly put in a hot beverage like coffee or tea. And once there is pie in the house, well... we all know it is eventually going to get consumed. I think I have to channel my cooking enthusiasm into learning how to poach fish perfectly or in finding new and creative ways to make me and Ol' Pookers want to eat salad for dinner.
3650) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1528621)
Posted 16 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I beg to disagree. Any idiot can sire a child.
Being a Father takes intelligence, patience, committment, and love.

Very nicely said!
3651) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1528620)
Posted 16 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #1
168.2 pounds (AKA 76 kg; 294.23g)

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #2
167.6 pounds (AKA 76 kg; 22.08 g)

Net weight loss to date 0.6 lbs. (272.15 grams)

I don't know the range over which my weight would vary normally. I suspect that 0.6 lbs either way would not be statistically significant. Still, I am claiming this weigh-in as a psychological victory and I will use this information to help me keep trying to lose weight.

Per the suggestions posted here, I have started a food-log to help me become better aware of the triggers that prompt me to eat too much.

As a side competition, feel free to post how much weight I will need to lose before Ol' Pookers notices. He rarely reads the forums, especially the Cafe. I have not told him that I am trying to eat less and move more. Please!!! Nobody direct Eric's attention to this thread and interfere with this side contest.

Now then, I would not expect Ol' Pookers to notice a loss of 0.6 lbs, but when WILL he emerge from his Ivory Tower and notice that I have been trying to do one or two things differently? Guess away, dear friends!!!

I will make a donation of 100 US dollars to the charity of choice selected by the poster who correctly guesses (or comes closest to guessing) the number of pounds I will need to lose before Eric notices that I have lost weight.
3652) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 213... hot and steamy all week (Message 1528446)
Posted 16 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Hiya Mister Tooth!
3653) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1528445)
Posted 16 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I'd rather have a scrambled egg and a slice of toast with a side of fresh apple for less money and fewer calories than one of those quesaritos. Disgusting!!!
3654) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 213... hot and steamy all week (Message 1528443)
Posted 16 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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What the heck. I'll give winning a spin.
3655) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1528441)
Posted 16 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Dad of the Year?

Good grief! You need a license to get a $%^*()_(*&^&%$#$%^&*&^%$#$%^&*(&^% dog, but any idiot can father a child.
3656) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Dad's Day ! (Message 1528392)
Posted 15 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Remembering my dad, who was a wonderful father.

Remembering my brother, who loved his children so much and wanted so much to live long enough to see their young lives unfold.

Called my baby brother and wished him a happy day. He roped me into some babysitting. (It was not a hard sell... )

Called Eric's father and wished him a happy day too.

Happy Father's Day to all the seti dads out there. I know there are some extraordinary ones.
3657) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1528385)
Posted 15 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Net loss = 2kg / 4.4 US pounds in 9 days.

Fantastic!!!!! Wonderful!!!!! Excellent!!!!!

That is really, really, really great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Well I've been not able to lose anything lately...

Hey Vic, don't give up the ship. I'm going to step on the scale tomorrow morning and I will probably find myself in the same boat you are in. I neither look nor feel an ounce thinner, but I'm going to keep on trying to change my behavior until something pays off.
3658) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1528284)
Posted 15 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Well dinner last night went according to plan, except that I forgot that sweet/spicy salted nuts come automatically with mojitos (I ate about half an ounce) and I also forgot that fried onions and pumpkin seeds come on top of the salads. It turns out that I love salt.

It is overcast here today, so there really is no weather excuse for denying Maya a little "walkie". Perhaps some brisk uphill climbs will help me atone for the sin of salty fried onions and nuts.

I think the two biggest weight loss hurdles for me are going to be curbing my impulse to bake and reminding myself that eating out is not a free pass to over eat.

Tomorrow is weigh-in day. Sort of dreading it.
3659) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1528282)
Posted 15 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Oh dear. You would think that a Crazy Raccoon Lady would recognize her babies, but I am embarrassed to report that I cannot do it accurately from these pictures. I believe the babies that year were Floyd, Otis, and Logan Frodo, but I really cannot tell who is who and I do not recall which mama raccoon was the dominant (backyard commandeering) mama that year.
3660) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Casey Kasem dies at 82. :-( (Message 1528278)
Posted 15 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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R.I.P. He sure was a big part of my adolescence. I rarely missed "America's Top Forty"
3661) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1528277)
Posted 15 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Eric agrees that Uli has more than earned the title of seti ambassador, but to make the title show up in her avatar Eric said he would have to go into the code and spend about an hour fiddling with things. Sadly, this is an hour he really doesn't have right now. Also, the title would only remain for as long as nobody updated the code... which could be 5 months or 5 minutes - difficult to predict.

Eric says that the signature is the best place to put titles, and I see that Uli has now managed to include her well deserved title in her signature. Excellent!
3662) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1528033)
Posted 14 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Yes Uli. You are definitely a seti ambassador and I think you should add that title to your signature.

Could Eric put it with her Volunteer Tester title? I know he did that when he made me Queen of Seti for the day.

I'll ask him to do so when he wakes up.
3663) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1528031)
Posted 14 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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GO TEAM FRUCTIVOROUS SETIANS!

Does fruit in a coffee cake "count"?
3664) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1527872)
Posted 14 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Yes Uli. You are definitely a seti ambassador and I think you should add that title to your signature.
3665) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1527871)
Posted 14 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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What did you eat for 785 calories that was so good?
3666) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1527838)
Posted 14 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Monday, congratulations on passing up all those temptations! Go Monday Go!!!
3667) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1527833)
Posted 14 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I know what you mean about Saturday, Monday. Tomorrow Eric and I have afternoon theater tickets and we are going out to dinner after the play. I am in charge of getting the dinner reservations.

Restaurant dining is a pleasure that I am unwilling to give up... but in order to still work on weight loss I think I need an advance plan. I have decided to make reservations at a Cuban Tapas restaurant in the area that Eric and I visit a couple of times a year. I know the menu well, which helps in devising a plan.

Angela's Restaurant Plan For Diet-Deadly Saturday Dining

1. Eat a smart but filling lunch, so I won't be super hungry when we get to the restaurant at dinner time.

2. Make the dinner reservation for later than we expect to get to the restaurant, so that we will be forced to take a little walk in the area before dinner.

3. Only one Mojito! Not two. No splitting a second one with Eric. Just one and ask them to deliver it with the food, not before. Sip slowly and enjoy.

4. Order a whole salad, not a half. Eric and I often split a salad before the tapas start arriving, but it would actually be smarter for me to eat a whole salad so that I will (hopefully) have less of an appetite for the higher calorie tapas that will follow.

5. Order tapas carefully.

We both like the steamed mussels, which is a good food choice, but I need to limit myself to one slice of grilled bread for soaking up the delicious garlicky mussel broth that comes with this dish. If I want more broth after that one slice of bread is gone, I will need to use a spoon! Eric and I can easily go through two orders of grilled bread, but I am choosing to not go down that road tomorrow.

We also typically order the Empanadas de ropa vieja... which I think, loosely translated, means "little pies filled with old clothing". Who knew that old clothes could be so delicious???!!! I don't know what is really in those empanadas, but they are one of the best things on the menu... but hey, it's tapas. Only a few come on the plate and I'll be sharing what comes with Eric. Quantity is limited for me.

Sometimes we get a third little something, but if we do that tomorrow I am going to encourage Eric to order something that only he likes, so that I won't be tempted to eat any of it. If Eric orders a whole salad like I do, he may not even want a third small plate anyway...

5. No dessert. This shouldn't be a problem actually. Eric doesn't like most of the desserts on the menu and if Eric is not having dessert, it will be easy for me to not have dessert.

There. Now I have a plan.
3668) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Ruby Dee 1922-2014 (Message 1527816)
Posted 13 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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A breathtakingly beautiful woman and a talented actress as well...
3669) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Ruby Dee 1922-2014 (Message 1527812)
Posted 13 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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R.I.P.

(And "A Raisin In The Sun" is an extremely powerful and moving play. In fact, Eric and I have tickets to see a local production of it tomorrow. For those who have never read or seen the play, I recommend it highly.)
3670) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1527762)
Posted 13 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Went for a 3 mile walk today (about 45 minutes).

Wow! (And welcome.)


...this house needs a bad snack exorcism.

LOL!!! Mine too.
3671) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1527625)
Posted 13 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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A good plan, but fruit just doesn't have the sexy allure of a salty snack.

Ain't it the truth!!!

Well, I'm going to go hit the hay. Tomorrow is always another day.

Goodnight friends.
3672) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1527621)
Posted 13 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Other than the salt, the apps sound pretty ok, but easy to get carried away with...


I think that the next time I am sitting around waiting for Eric to get home, I will eat a piece of fruit so that I am not wildly hungry if we have a very late dinner.
3673) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1527614)
Posted 13 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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What sort of apps did you have? What was for supper?

The apps were cracker nuts from the Philippines and a Japanese rice cracker/wasabi pea mix. Very high salt!

Dinner was individual chicken pot pies from a local bakery near us and oven roasted cauliflower. (I didn't eat the soggy bottom and side crusts of my pie, so at least I saved a few calories there.) The adobo flavored cracker nuts and half a bottle of wine were my undoing tonight.
3674) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1527609)
Posted 13 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I fell off the wagon... and when I fell, I landed in a ditch and the wagon rolled back and forth over me a few times.

Breakfast was totally sensible... lunch even more so. Then Eric got home super late and I was famished by the time we sat down to dinner. My impulse control was gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone... gone with the age of the Mastodon. I drank waaaaaaaaaaaay too much wine, nibbled on some high salt/high calorie appetizers and ate waaaaaay too much dinner.

Sigh...

I shall try to scratch and claw my way back up onto the wagon tomorrow.
3675) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1527602)
Posted 13 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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My oh my where does the time go? I hope all the critters in here have been doing well! It's a hot summer already, and that was to be expected. Time flies, kids grow, more grey hairs pop up, etc etc.

I quit my long time job last year in favor of a similar one for a different company. It was a wise and prudent move, the only downside to that has been the loss of almost all of my free time. Life is finally getting back to normal, settled in the new job with almost one year in already. I hope to participate in the conversations here again once in awhile, instead of just reading in my emails ;-).

hope all the squirrels, raccoons, and kitties around here are doing well!

-Dave


Welcome home, friend!!!
3676) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1527563)
Posted 13 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Yes Scott, you and Vic have both lost the most weight so far. You ARE doing brilliantly!!!

Is anyone besides me feeling hungry right now? I hope Eric gets home from work before I start gnawing on the furniture!!!

I ran some errands this evening and in doing so I parked the car far far far away from my destinations. It was a win-win for me. I drive poorly and I park worse, so the further away I am from potential victims the better... and on top of that I got in a little bit of the dreaded e-word (exercise).
3677) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #7 (Message 1527515)
Posted 12 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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From the Caption Contest:

Number two, only because I think Eric's mistress would have
at least two legs or so:
Oh no!!! Eric has a mistress!!!

My friend, you greatly underestimate my husband's love of fishing!

Get that bass!

(Watch quick, before it gets modded!!!)
3678) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #56 (Message 1527492)
Posted 12 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Do not awaken a sleeping dragon fruit.
3679) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1527432)
Posted 12 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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That seems a lot. Don't put yourself in danger because of a competition. Getting fit is a long haul.


+1

Five pounds in a week is so much!!! No contest is worth jeopardizing your health by crash dieting, Scott.
3680) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1527425)
Posted 12 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Vic - great finds - lovely birds and a cute raccoon too!

Bernie - yes, I believe snails are technically mollusks. Beautiful snail and stunning heron!

Scarecrow Cowboy Dave - How in the world did Eric and I miss the Alpine Inn when we were in Omaha last fall???!!! We will have to return some day - perhaps for a football game involving the Mighty Wisconsin Badgers triumphing over your beloved Corn Huskers.
3681) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark (Message 1527164)
Posted 12 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Thank you Chris:) Wish we could get some Landlords over here, some darn fine beer! RIP John

+1 RIP my dear John


+2


+3


+4

+5
3682) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Meet Bruce - a slightly used dog. (Message 1527163)
Posted 12 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Wishing you and your new friend many, many, many happy years together.
3683) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1527093)
Posted 11 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Well, how about this?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/05/science/young-blood-may-hold-key-to-reversing-aging.html?_r=0

If it truly works, and I think it will, metabolism would revert to a younger age, as well. This news excites me more than anything I've read (biologically) in a long time.

Finished hijacking thread.

CC

And vampires are so "in" now... what's not to like?!!!

I do not see this as a hijack. This is a thread for people who want to improve their health and you have shown us some directions the scientific community is exploring with that very objective in mind. Your articles seem very "on topic" to me.

Although the title involves weight loss, I did state at the beginning that this is a thread for improving health, in general. If someone wanted to try to quit smoking, for example, that person would be welcome to come here and discuss that process.
3684) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1527084)
Posted 11 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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This is interesting:

https://news.usc.edu/63669/fasting-triggers-stem-cell-regeneration-of-damaged-old-immune-system/

CC


Interesting, yes, but I have no desire to sign up for clinical trials!

Along a similar vein, I've read that anti-aging research involving laboratory animals has a long track record of showing that animals just this side of starving live longer, healthier lives. (Probably not happier lives though...)

Until medical science can give me something to trigger the beneficial bodily effects of starvation in an easy to swallow pill form (preferably mashed into my ice cream), I will simply have to settle for a life span of average duration... should I be so lucky!
3685) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1527052)
Posted 11 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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...Sometimes I don't eat for three days...

Wow!!! I would be a Grumposaurus Rex if I didn't eat for three days. Heck, I can even get grumpy if I have a late lunch.
3686) Message boards : Cafe SETI : It's D-Day! Have We Finally Forgotten? (Message 1526883)
Posted 11 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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We who served, we remember. We remember, and honor, those who went before us, who set the standard, who led the way for us to follow. And long after the last of them gets their Final Orders, we will remember. Remember, and pray that if/when the time comes, there will be others like them. like us, who will stand up and fight for what is right, what is good, so that everyone can live in peace and freedom.

Donald, that is eloquently written.

Peace on earth.
3687) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1526879)
Posted 11 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Went to town and didn't get a hotdog at the French bakery like I usually do. Came home via the waterfront. Now I need a nana nap.

Just saw this one. Awesome, friend!!!
3688) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1526878)
Posted 11 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I completely understand why it is necessary for some people to use artificial sweeteners, but real sugar only has 15-16 calories in a teaspoon. For sweetening coffee that doesn't seem too bad to me.
3689) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1526876)
Posted 11 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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That was a fun visit. Thanks for posting this and hurry back, dear friend!
3690) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Recipes and Food (Message 1526649)
Posted 11 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Quick dinner for one when Eric has to work super late - saute up whatever vegetables are in the fridge and serve with a side of cheese melted on toast - glass of wine advised.
3691) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1526648)
Posted 11 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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The pressure is on with 3,000,000 seti crunchers watching my progress.

No, there are 3,000,000 seti crunchers cheering you on to success!
3692) Message boards : Cafe SETI : It's all relative. (Message 1526593)
Posted 10 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Eventually some of them got hungry enough to leave.

What did the peasants do when the goats had gone?


LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3693) Message boards : Cafe SETI : It's all relative. (Message 1526580)
Posted 10 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I come from a long line of peasants who eked out miserable existences trying to farm on rocky hills that support only weeds and goats. Eventually some of them got hungry enough to leave.
3694) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #56 (Message 1526499)
Posted 10 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Oh no!!! Eric has a mistress!!!
3695) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 213... hot and steamy all week (Message 1526498)
Posted 10 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Posting after the Outrage...


Me too :) Hi Angela!


Howdy.
3696) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 213... hot and steamy all week (Message 1526484)
Posted 10 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Posting after the Outrage...
3697) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1526468)
Posted 10 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I've been seeing a lot of Marie Osmond and Sharon Osbourne on tv advertising weight loss plans. I've even seen the girl(Melissa Joan Hart) who played Sabrina, the Teenage Witch advertising one. I guess those meal plans work ok. Anyone ever try one?


One of my co-workers has been getting those meals for a couple of years. Initially she lost substantial amounts of weight, but she appeared to put most of the weight back on within a year of hitting her lowest weight. Ironically, she is still eating those meals. She claims they "help", so she must still be down a few pounds. The food looks TERRIBLE. Also the meal plans instruct the buyer to supplement the frozen/microwave-to-eat meals with fresh salads and fruits, so they are not really cooking free. The meals are costly too, as there are built in costs for processing, packaging and shipping. Lots of money for bad, processed, airplane-style food seems like an AWFUL idea to me. Maybe I would feel differently if I hated cooking.

On a different note, I woke up at 4am this morning H U N G R Y!!! This is atypical for me, as I usually eat such substantial dinners that I never get hungry at night. I have many bad food habits, but eating after dinner does not tend to be one of them.

Initially I told myself that hunger is good. It means that I did not give my body enough calories that day to maintain the status quo. Hunger is a signal from your body that says "Send down some food before we have to take drastic measures and burn some fat reserves." Of course this what we are trying to do here, but the sensation of hunger can be persistent and distracting. At 4:30am I was still awake and feeling hungry, so I tried the posted suggestion of drinking a big glass of water. I was skeptical that it would make a difference. I was under the impression that hunger signals are triggered by blood sugar levels. I figured that water would not up the glucose in my blood and alter that signals my body was sending me.

I was wrong. The GI tract must be involved somehow in the signaling process. As soon as I drank the water, the sensation of hunger went away and I fell asleep again. I awoke at my usual time and ate a sensible breakfast.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

That was a wonderful suggestion!!!
3698) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1526208)
Posted 10 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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It's summer... at least in this hemisphere.

Find yourself a lounge chair, drag it into a shady spot and pour yourself a refreshing beverage.

After you've done that, consider joining Team Raccoon - currently #16 in the Team Rankings.

When the working day is done, raccoons just wanna have fun!
3699) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1526173)
Posted 9 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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...Now I go to the gym 3 times a week and I try to fit a cycle in. I haven't lost a single pound but I have definitely got thinner and more toned. I am really trying to cut down on the cake. I like cake....

Mmmmmm... cake!!! What's not to like?!!!

1 slice of chocolate cake (1/12th of a standard layer cake) with chocolate frosting is 506 calories.

To burn 506 calories, you could do any of the following TWO activities.

140 mins walking
58 mins jogging
42 mins swimming
77 mins cycling

(Numbers, again, courtesy of the website CalorieKing.)

Es, you are clearly one of those people who has exercised enough to turn fat into muscle - a feat to be celebrated and applauded!!! I do not know if CalorieKing includes the effects of increased metabolic rate in its calculations of exercise required in the "burn off" of foods. Probably they do not. The numbers would vary so much from person to person that I think any effect would be impossible to calculate validly for inclusion in a venue like a reference website. I guess my point is that, at least for me, exercise in the absence of actually cutting down on food intake would not result in weight loss.

Again, I am not against exercise! I love swimming and I genuinely enjoy walking our neighbor's dog, Maya, up and down the hills of our hilly SF East Bay suburb. I enjoy gardening as well, which can be vigorous if it involves turning soil or turning compost. All I am saying is that I am surprised at how much exercise is required, over our basic human metabolic requirements, to "burn off" extra foods we may enjoy. The CalorieKing website may not be 100% accurate, but it seems to be largely consistent with other food-exerciser calculators out there. I'm sort of a numbers person and I find the numbers to be educational. Knowledge is power.

And by the way - WELCOME, Es, to what is turning out to be a very fun and popular thread!!!
3700) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1526136)
Posted 9 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Exercise is good for many, many, many physical and mental health reasons. I am, by no means, telling people not to exercise. I do not mean to bash exercise in any way, but OMG... as a weight loss measure alone I have just discovered that it has VERY limited effectiveness!!!

Let's say that I snack on 4 ounces (1/2 cup) of yummy, delicious, high quality vanilla ice cream with a calorie intake of 230 calories. (Now right away I am living in Fantasyland here. 1/2 cup of ice cream is not very much. I typically eat twice that in a sitting. Still, let us just say that I was a very, very, very good little raccoon and I portion controlled my vanilla ice cream to exactly 1/2 a cup.)

To burn off 230 calories I would need to do any TWO of the following.

64 mins walking
26 mins jogging
19 mins swimming
35 mins cycling

(Information courtesy of the "Calorie King" website.)

I am, by nature, a sedentary raccoon. I just don't see me walking for an hour and then getting on a bike for an additional half hour of exercise. I suppose the argument to this would be that by exercising aerobically for 99 minutes a day I would eventually replace some of my fat with muscle, and thereby have a higher metabolism for burning calories each day. Maybe there would be some long term payoff's...

I suppose that the good news is that people who are unable to exercise due to physical limitations can lose weight "just" by cutting caloric intake.

The bad news is that it is virtually impossible to lose substantial amounts of weight just by increasing physical activity.

Cutting caloric intake seems inevitable. Rats!!!
3701) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1526081)
Posted 9 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I've always thought that those BMI charts were skewed so that people would want to lose weight.


I totally agree on that Donald.
"You can`t do this, you can`t eat that and you can`t have this"
I`m tired of it.

Of course for Jeff its a different circumstance.


I am trying to make equally delicious but more health forward food choices. I'm also trying to just eat a little less of those things that I know are not the best food choices.

I'm trying not to think of it as a "you can't" situation and more of a "you can, but not as much as you used to have" situation.
3702) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1526058)
Posted 9 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, it is Monday, so I pulled out our old bathroom scale, blew off all the dust and, with much trepidation, settled my corpulence upon it.

Pudgy Little Raccoon Weigh-In #1

168.2 pounds
(That is 76 kg; 294.23g for those of you smart enough to have the metric system.)

At a height of 5 feet, 3.5 inches (Hey!!! Every half inch counts when you are my height!!!) I currently have a BMI of 29.32, which is in the "over weight" category and bordering on "obese". How flattering...

Well, time to go eat a sensible breakfast full of good food choices!
3703) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1525959)
Posted 9 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I think we should impose a posting limit on the scrawny thin people - It,s obvious that typing is burning way up too many of their calories. :-)

LOL!!!
3704) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1525912)
Posted 8 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I'm going to buy one of those things. I think it would be interesting if we all get one, and report our number of daily steps.

Not for me, thank you. I do plan to walk our neighbor's dog late this afternoon, but I have no desire to count my steps while doing so. I dislike gadgets more than I dislike caloric curtailment!
3705) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Julie (Message 1525903)
Posted 8 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I see there is already cake, so I'll bring the ice cream.

Happy Birthday Julie!!!
3706) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1525762)
Posted 8 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Here's something to get a laugh...

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3707) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1525711)
Posted 7 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We used to have a grape vine in our backyard. Most years we didn't get enough heat to produce sweet table grapes, but the raccoons never seemed to mind the tartness of those grapes. Eventually I pulled the grape out and replaced it with a lime. We like margaritas much more than we like sour table grapes.
3708) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1525710)
Posted 7 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't think any of us are going on crash diets. My goal is is to change to a lower calorie healthier eating style and exercise a bit more. I think the others are doing the same.

Yes, I would like to drop my 30 pounds across a 9 to 12 month period.


After 35 years of smoking I quit cold turkey in April 2009 and haven't smoked since.

Best health move of your life!
3709) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1525709)
Posted 7 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...I decided to walk to the supermarket and get ingredients for chicken and vegetable soup instead take away fish and chips...


Yay Monday!!! Cooking real food instead of take-out is a good way to control calories, fat, sugar and salt. Way to go, friend!
3710) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1525656)
Posted 7 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yesterday was a good day. I ate three sensible, health-promoting meals and my only snack was some dried apricots. This morning though, I failed and ate a giant doughnut for breakfast. Long story... all Eric's fault... Ok, ok, I'll own it. Nobody force fed me a doughnut. I am weak.

After the doughnut slip-up, I went to the Farmer's Market. I easily passed by the kettle corn stand without stopping, but it took incredible strength to pass up the homemade ice cream stand. Still, riding on residual doughnut guilt, I managed to come home from the market today only with fresh fruits and vegetables and some fresh ocean fish to cook for dinner tonight.

When I got home I cut up some strawberries for me and Ol Pookers to snack on. Eric wanted a scoop of vanilla custard on his strawberries so I scooped some for him. I licked the serving spoon, just to make sure the custard was good (yeah... right... that's it... wouldn't want to serve bad custard!!!), but I resisted putting a scoop of custard on my berries.

The old me would have eaten the doughnut, the ice cream and the custard. Baby steps...
3711) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1525626)
Posted 7 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoons enjoy corn and my father-in-law, who lives in Wisconsin, has heavy corn losses in his garden every year thanks to my little woodland friends. I have never had a raccoon bother the tomatoes I grow in my garden. Some years they eat some of my apples.
3712) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1525622)
Posted 7 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Go Monday Go!!! (And all the rest of us too.) I'm sort of dreading getting on the scale Monday...
3713) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1525212)
Posted 6 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Scott and Vic, those are both really significant weight drops. Wow!!! Congratulations!!!

Chris and Sirius, I just so happen to be an expert in GAINING weight. I've done it all my life! Start by cooking tasty foods with lots of butter and then have seconds. For those of us with more er... uh... "efficient" bodies, seconds are out :(

I'm going to go eat a sensible breakfast now. Sensible... yuck!
3714) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lose Weight With Monday (Message 1525040)
Posted 6 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This thread is dedicated to our good friend Monday, who has been very open about his current health situation in his "Big Sook" thread.

In light of the challenges facing our friend, I have started a thread for any of us who would like to slim down, eat better or just improve a health habit or two. This is a place to post health goals and the progress you achieve in attaining them. It is also a place to gripe, a place to commiserate, a place to celebrate one another's successes and a place to be supportive of one another.

In the interest of public humiliation, I will start...

Hello. My name is Crazy Raccoon Lady and much like a raccoon, I absolutely LOVE food!!! I am a very accomplished home cook and my favorite hobby is baking desserts. I cook and bake like a maniac so that food and I can be together. I weigh 30 pounds more than I should.

I pledge to weigh myself every Monday morning and post my weight here in this thread. Hopefully this bit of public accountability will inspire me to eat less and move more.
3715) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Big sook thread.... (Message 1525026)
Posted 6 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes. We will start tomorrow. I'll start a thread tonight.
3716) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Big sook thread.... (Message 1525004)
Posted 6 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Monday, 10 kg is about 20 pounds. I have 30 pounds that I would like to shed. Want a dieting partner? We could start a thread entitled "Lose weight with Monday" where all of us trying to eat less and move more could commiserate together.
3717) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1525003)
Posted 6 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In California, if you have a company come out to trap a non-endangered "pest" the poor thing has to be euthanized. No company will relocate an animal pest here.
3718) Message boards : Cafe SETI : ARGH!!! (Message 1525001)
Posted 6 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Socks?
3719) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Big sook thread.... (Message 1525000)
Posted 6 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dinner



Side dish options... just go easy on those tubers



Snacks

(Not too many now...)


Look!!! A low sugar dessert!!!
3720) Message boards : Cafe SETI : ARGH!!! (Message 1524995)
Posted 6 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Donate 20 grand into George R R Martins favourite charity and get Eric's death written into his next book.


I have no desire to become a widow in real life or in Fantasyland.
3721) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Big sook thread.... (Message 1524993)
Posted 6 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A diagnosis is always difficult initially. I hope that eventually your diagnosis becomes empowering. Wishing you well, friend.
3722) Message boards : Cafe SETI : ARGH!!! (Message 1524864)
Posted 5 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That is terrible news.
3723) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1524546)
Posted 4 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The birdbath I have in my back yard happens to be suspended, so no raccoon tinkle problems up there. I have never seen a raccoon tinkle in Spawnie's water cup or water bowl, but raccoons do drink from both receptacles regularly. I have never seen a raccoon anywhere near my front yard birdbath, which rests on a pedestal that any raccoon could easily scale. This is probably because I don't put cat/bird/squirrel food (AKA skunk/rat/opossum/raccoon food) out in my front yard. Raccoons hang out where the food is. They do not enter my garden to enjoy the scenery or the lovely view. Raccoons are not into aesthetics. Raccoons are into food. It is usually herds of marauding deer that I catch drinking from from my front birdbath. Eating all of my plants must make those goat-wannabes thirsty!

Suzie-Q, before you resort to traps, you might want to try smaller dishes and cups for holding water. Shoot for something with a small enough diameter to discourage "stepping in" behavior.
3724) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #56 (Message 1523890)
Posted 2 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wait, first I'll dip it in chocolate for you!
3725) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Holidays in Sweden (Message 1523709)
Posted 2 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you a happy holiday season!
3726) Message boards : Cafe SETI : ARGH!!! (Message 1523708)
Posted 2 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
An ARGH thread, just what this place needed! Thanx Angela:)


LOL! I forgot the title. Ok... inability to grow sweet oranges and grapefruit - ARGH!!!!
3727) Message boards : Cafe SETI : ARGH!!! (Message 1523705)
Posted 2 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Looks like these are dwarf varieties - trees grown of rootstock bred to be short and compact. I have 5 dwarf citrus in my back yard - Valencia orange, Navel Orange, Grapefruit, and Lemon in a planter my Dad built 50 years ago when we bought the house, and another dwarf grapefruit in a half-barrel that we planted in 2004. That one was supposed to be a red grapefruit, but the red grapefruit graft died, and the white grapefruit rootstock developed instead.

The older trees are about 12 feet high and the crowns are about 8-10 feet in diameter. When I worked summers in the commercial citrus groves, mature trees were topped at 25 feet tall, but the crowns were up to 30 feet in diameter. Some you could walk under, and even set up camp under (as we saw from time to time).

The size of the fruit can be affected by the amount and regularity of watering. In wet years, I've had lemons the size Chris describes. This year, with the water restrictions, I'm only watering my trees once every 3 weeks for about 2 hours. That seems to be enough to minimize stress, but the fruit on all the trees is smaller than usual.


The tree we put in is supposed to be a dwarf modified Meyer. Meyer lemons are typically thin skinned and small, but our lemons tend to be very large. Winter fruits have thinner layers of pith, but in the summer the pith layer is thick. We are careful to cut out any suckers that might come from below the graft line, so I am pretty sure that we are not eating root stock lemons. Water may be a factor in size, but I suspect cross pollination is a bigger factor for us. Most of our neighbors have citrus trees of one kind or another and I suspect the bees pollinate our lemons with other varieties of trees, so we get some strange sort of mix. Tasty though - the lemons are good for baking, they are good on fish, they make good lemonade and they make good Limoncello.

I am jealous of your valley heat! Up here we do not get enough heat to produce tasty oranges and grapefruits. People who grow these fruits in our area grow them largely for ornamental purposes. The fruits of oranges and grapefruits up here are invariably too tart to enjoy. In our area we do bests with lemons, limes and kumquats.
3728) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Ann. B Davis who played Alice on The Brady Bunch dies aged 88 (Message 1523406)
Posted 1 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
3729) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #56 (Message 1523405)
Posted 1 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello funny people!!!

Third place goes to Chris S. with "Sigh .... apparently it has a 72 hour pass from the CEO of the San Fran Wildlife Park."

Second place goes to N9JFE with "Raccoon: You taste like chicken."

First place goes to Chris S. "Mum! it's eaten my supper, now it's pinched my bed!"

Congratulations Chris!!!
3730) Message boards : Cafe SETI : ARGH!!! (Message 1523214)
Posted 1 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I absolutely love Game of Thrones, Angela, but if you don't then you have to get through it the best way possible by playing the HBO drinking game. Every time there are boobies on the screen you take a shot. You'll be drunk in no time and you won't care about the rest.

Pass the Limoncello... wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3731) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Baffling, it is (Message 1523172)
Posted 1 Jun 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
But the killer question is does my butt look fat in this, 1. dress, 2. jeans, Or 3. swimsuite.

OMG Jim, that is the funny typo of the century!!! If I ever need a swim"suite" instead of a swim"suit", Eric had better sign me up for bariatric surgery!!!
3732) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Baffling, it is (Message 1523141)
Posted 31 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Start with "I am blinded by your beauty"...


LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I shall have to direct Eric's attention to this one. Speaking as someone with two X chromosomes, this is the best answer yet!
3733) Message boards : Cafe SETI : ARGH!!! (Message 1523112)
Posted 31 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I brought some snacks into the living room, only to hear somebody on the television tell a child to open his eyes so that they could be eaten. I cleared some plates away and another character was er... uh... tinkling on the ground. Good grief! How does any of this pass for entertainment? Eric and my sister Andrea are on episode 4 of 7. I have been keeping busy doing other things, but in the background I sure do hear a whole lot of swords clanging.
3734) Message boards : Cafe SETI : ARGH!!! (Message 1523068)
Posted 31 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric has about 7 episodes of Game of Thrones taped and he and my sister are binge watching them at our house today. Every time I go into the living room, somebody is lopping somebody else's head off. What do they see in this horrible show???!!!
3735) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1522898)
Posted 31 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If I ever need a new liver I'll know
where not to ask......

I just saw this. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3736) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #56 (Message 1522827)
Posted 30 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4 captions so far. I shall wait another 24 hours.
3737) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1522789)
Posted 30 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Why distilled water?


I think there are two good reasons to use distilled water. Some areas have "hard water" or water that is off in taste. For example, I lived in Santa Barbara for a couple of years and the tap water down there has an oily taste and texture. People drink bottled water or put lemon slices in their water to hide the nasty taste. Distilled water helps produce a clear, not cloudy, finished product with a clean, lemony taste. Also, the use of distilled water would help reduce the levels of bacteria added when the sugar syrup is introduced. When you lower the alcohol down from 100 proof you run a mild risk of bacterial contamination.
3738) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1522749)
Posted 30 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Limoncello di Crazy Raccoon Lady

4 cups 100 proof vodka (Make sure you buy the strong stuff - lesser stuff promotes bacterial growth...)
The peels of 6 - 12 lemons (Yellow zest part only - not the white pith!)

Sterilize a glass container and let the vodka sit on the peels in a cool, dark place for about a month. (I actually let it sit in the refrigerator.) Shake the jar every week or so. When you like the color (deep, rich, yellow... proceed to step 2)

Boil 1 and 2/3 cups of sugar with 2 and 2/3 cups of distilled water - 5 minutes (until sugar dissolves and mixture thickens slightly). Let sugar solution cool. Add sugar solution to jar of vodka and peels. Let sit another 4 to 6 weeks.

Strain limoncello to remove peels and bottle the limoncello in sterilized jars.

Serve icy cold. Wheeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Now, you may be asking what to do with those peeled lemons you have from making Limoncello. Fear not, I have a solution... so to speak!

Slushy di Crazy Raccoon Lady

Juice the peeled lemons
Mix juice with an equal amount of sugar syrup (50/50 sugar and water solution - boiled until sugar dissolves)
Mix in the same amount of white rum as the original amount of juice
Splash in a little vodka just for fun
Throw in some Grand Marnier, to taste.
Toss in a can of gingerale.
Freeze the whole thing - it will get slushy.

To serve, break up the slushy a bit with a big serving spoon and then fill a glass 3/4 full with slushy. Add 1/4 part extra gingerale just to sparkle it up. Stir together, throw in a straw, and drink yourself silly.

Again, I say "wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"!!!!!!!

Enjoy.
3739) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1522748)
Posted 30 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Does it also work with oranges?

Probably it would work. I posted my recipe for Limoncello on the Raccoon Lover's team board, but in a minute or so I will go find it, copy it and re-post it here for all. Making homemade liqueurs is lots of fun and not all that difficult to do.
3740) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1522734)
Posted 30 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I start with 100 proof vodka and let it sit on lemon peels. Then I add a sugar solution and let it ripen. But yes, although I have not tested it in a scientific fashion, I believe my Limoncello would still fall within the 28% to 32% alcohol range. Less scientific testing has proven repeatedly that it packs a wallop!!!
3741) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday, Angela! (Message 1522514)
Posted 29 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Last night Eric made good on his promise of a nice dinner out. Ol' Pookers picked a restaurant with flattering lighting, which at my age becomes increasingly important!

Thanks again for all of your kind birthday wishes.

But did he pick it for that reason, or was it just a coincidence?


It was a restaurant Eric and I both enjoy, but Eric especially enjoys their Manhattans.
3742) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday, Angela! (Message 1522506)
Posted 29 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Last night Eric made good on his promise of a nice dinner out. Ol' Pookers picked a restaurant with flattering lighting, which at my age becomes increasingly important!

Thanks again for all of your kind birthday wishes.
3743) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Legendary author Maya Angelou dies at age 86 (Message 1522477)
Posted 29 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
3744) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #56 (Message 1522475)
Posted 29 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.

My dear friends, please caption this:

3745) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Big sook thread.... (Message 1521594)
Posted 27 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh no!!! What if Monday's doctor tells him to lay off the e-pie???!!! He will have to start a thread entitled "Don't post healthy, low-carb, protein forward meals in my thread".
3746) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Memorial Day (Message 1521339)
Posted 26 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Peace on earth...
3747) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #56 (Message 1521335)
Posted 26 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What do you mean I'm going to be "in the doghouse" for this one?
3748) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Big sook thread.... (Message 1521326)
Posted 26 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thinking good thoughts and sending them your way...

And diabetes, if you have it, is a manageable condition.
3749) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday, Angela! (Message 1521097)
Posted 26 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy birthday Angela. I heard she is 39 again:)

You heard wrong. I am 51.


Thank you, everyone, for all of the happy birthday wishes and thank you for the lovely toast from several of my fellow team-mates on the Raccoon Lovers Team, who happen to be meeting in England right now.

I have been out of town since last Wednesday, but I am home now. Eric and I were not able to celebrate my birthday properly (...and by this I mean candles on everything I eat all day, foot massages on demand, peeled grapes - the works...), but Eric has promised to take me out for a nice romantic candle-lit dinner one night this coming week.
3750) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1518577)
Posted 20 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

I can haz you as member?
3751) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1518572)
Posted 20 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

I haz thumbs (well sort of...)
3752) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Relay for Life 2014 (Message 1518565)
Posted 20 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I see Blurf has now surpassed his goal and there is still a month of fundraising to go. Wow!
3753) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption #56 (Message 1518497)
Posted 20 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Scarecrow finally meets a bronc he couldn't stay on...
3754) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy 15th anniversary! (Message 1518496)
Posted 20 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If I am not a villain, then please explain why I always wear a mask to hide my identity.
3755) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy 15th anniversary! (Message 1518366)
Posted 19 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hope so too Julie. Ang said no to a 15th Anni Picnic, but she didn't say anything about the 20th.


Yep. That's me, the villain of seti...

Happy Anniversary to all!!!
3756) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1518325)
Posted 19 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My Cats are great at herding Mice into the House. I guess they figure Cookietaster and myself need the exercise to get them back outside.

LOL!!!
3757) Message boards : Cafe SETI : California Academy of Science - Astronomy Day (Message 1513865)
Posted 9 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I wish I could, but My Colonial Viper(MkVIII) needs some work and more importantly where would I land it at?

There is a lovely living roof garden at the California Academy of Sciences. Plenty of room up there to land a viper.
3758) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1513864)
Posted 9 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Suzie-Q, Raccoons CAN carry rabies.


Transmission of a fatal (for humans) type of roundworm is the biggest concern when it comes to sharing close quarters with raccoons. In Suzie-Q's case, the quarters are closer than they probably should be... and I say that with the greatest amount of care and concern that one Crazy Raccoon Lady can show for another.

Rabies is a condition that is uncommon (but not completely unheard of) in raccoons, which is actually shocking to me given how often they bite one another. Skunks are far more likely to be rabid than raccoons. Also, if a raccoon bit Suzie-Q, she would know it and have PLENTY of time to get rabies shots. Feline and canine distemper are far more common in raccoons than rabies, but fortunately these diseases are not transmitted to humans. As long as Suzie-Q's pets have all been vaccinated, they are not at risk from these diseases.
3759) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1513842)
Posted 8 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How about one of these Magnetic Cat doors Suzie? The cats wear a collar that allows them entry and the door is magnetic, so critters stay out.


LOL!!! A raccoon used to coming and going freely out of Suzie-Q's home would quickly rip that magnetic door right off its hinges. Save your money, Suzie-Q, and simply retrain your cats to eat during the day.
3760) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #7 (Message 1513841)
Posted 8 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
George, Arthur and Jan could never really come to terms with their playground.

Kudos will descend on anyone who cares to explain the choice of names...

(see this caption thread picture)

They are Escher's children.

Well done Angela! Kudos.


Mr. Roberts, you are hands down THE most cerebral poster in the history of seti@home. You know how diplomas refer to "all the rights and privileges pertaining to this degree"? Well, I was unaware of any privileges until I had the pleasure of encountering your humor!
3761) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Relay for Life 2014 (Message 1513818)
Posted 8 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Blurf! That is awesome!!!
3762) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1513816)
Posted 8 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes to both - strong senses of smell and good cognitive functioning. Raccoons will find food no matter where you hide it. Suzie-Q, you really don't want a raccoon in your bedroom. It should not be too difficult to train your cats to consume enough calories during the day to meet their needs.
3763) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #7 (Message 1513804)
Posted 8 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
George, Arthur and Jan could never really come to terms with their playground.

Kudos will descend on anyone who cares to explain the choice of names...



(see this caption thread picture)



They are Escher's children.
3764) Message boards : Cafe SETI : California Academy of Science - Astronomy Day (Message 1513784)
Posted 8 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric, Dan and Jeff will be hosting the seti booth at the California Academy of Sciences this Saturday 05/10/14. If you are in the neighborhood, stop on by and say "hi"!
3765) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1513014)
Posted 6 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
TL, the absolute BEST Indian restaurant in the East Bay is Ajanta!!!
3766) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1512714)
Posted 6 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And Ang will pay me back on our next visit with some Daisies..

Now we all know, Pics will add 10 LB.


In my case, I'd like to claim about thirty pounds...
3767) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1512699)
Posted 6 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I had the pleasure of visiting Uli yesterday.
Here is a picture of the three of us, taken yesterday evening, in front of one of Ulibelle's lovely rose bushes.



(Lucky me!!! Uli gave me a bouquet of roses from her yard to take home!)
3768) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Star Wars Day (Message 1512538)
Posted 5 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is also Cinco de Mayo so a round of margaritas is in order...
3769) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Star Wars Day (Message 1512389)
Posted 5 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Really? I thought you were wearing your Jabba the Hutt costume.



No jury of my peers would convict me for throwing you in, dear...
3770) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Star Wars Day (Message 1512387)
Posted 5 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That was yesterday. :-D

Cheers.


It is still May 4th here. We have 2.5 hours of 5/4 left.
3771) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Star Wars Day (Message 1512374)
Posted 5 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
May the Fourth be with you...

My gold lame bikini just doesn't fit like it used to, but since Eric's eye sight isn't what it used to be, I decided to wear that bikini all day.
3772) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1512299)
Posted 4 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL Cowboy! I see Fuzzy's guest was there for the early bird special! Our raccoons tend to wait until it is dark before they visit.

If you feed them, they will come...
3773) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1512076)
Posted 4 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry to hear about Thelma, Vic.
3774) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1510874)
Posted 1 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I tried to trap feral cats once. We got one, had him fixed, and released him. The second thing we caught in our humane live-trap was a skunk. Sorry Sue, but we quit trapping after that!


Well that's the risk you take! LOL!

You'd want to learn how to deal with that situation before you went out
trapping. I hope your experience was not too traumatic.

;-)



We managed to release the skunk without getting sprayed. It is a funny story that is best acted out rather than typed. If we are ever in your area of Texas, or if you ever visit the SF Bay Area, perhaps we can meet up and I will re-enact our skunk adventure for you.
3775) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 211 - Care for a jelly baby? Or, perhaps a Jammie Dodger??? (Message 1510626)
Posted 1 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh dear! I seem to have found Time Lord's lost weight...
3776) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1510623)
Posted 1 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I tried to trap feral cats once. We got one, had him fixed, and released him. The second thing we caught in our humane live-trap was a skunk. Sorry Sue, but we quit trapping after that!
3777) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 211 - Care for a jelly baby? Or, perhaps a Jammie Dodger??? (Message 1510539)
Posted 1 May 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Going for that win...
3778) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1509329)
Posted 27 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am so sorry to hear of the loss of those kittens to a family of raccoons. Our outdoor cat, Spawnie, co-exists reasonably well with the raccoons I feed, but Spawnie is full grown, fast and capable of threatening behavior when he feels it is necessary. Kittens would have none of those advantages. Dull, I am so sorry that those kittens were lost and I am so sorry for the pain that raccoons caused you.
3779) Message boards : Politics : MH370 Missing (Message 1506826)
Posted 21 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If you think MY thoughts are outrageous, how far out do yours sound now?

Given that your last two posts paint a picture of a man who is either deeply paranoid and/or who flatters himself greatly in his impressions of his own self-importance, I would say that my thoughts sound pretty darn rational in comparison right now. Shall we take a vote?
3780) Message boards : Politics : MH370 Missing (Message 1506395)
Posted 20 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mark a giant government conspiracy would involve lots of people. It is hard for people to keep secrets short term, and even harder for people to keep secrets long term. I find it highly improbable that there is a giant government cover-up involving this tragic incident simply because I do not think it would be possible to keep the location of that plane, were it known, secret for very long.


And they have no tracking of any cell phone on that plane except a possible cell ping from the copilot's cell phone?

When we visit Eric's parents in the wilds of Wisconsin, we get very poor cell coverage. I imagine it is even worse in the middle of the ocean!
3781) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Nobel prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez dies at 87 (Message 1505612)
Posted 18 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
3782) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1505451)
Posted 18 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela, you have the west coast covered. I do my best to feed the east coast raccoons, but I only see them in infrared, so it is hard to name them.

My job is to keep putting out food, and keep them coming here. Actually, I feed every animal that comes in my yard. Foxes, skunks, porcupines, deer, turkeys, pheasants, bear, and even stray cats.

I feed snakes also, but only pre-frozen food......

Steve


I deliberately feed plants, cats, raccoons, birds, squirrels, opossums and astronomers. I inadvertently feed skunks, but I'll confess to liking them. Skunks are really beautiful animals.
3783) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1505415)
Posted 17 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Marcel, Donna and Magoo all came by last night for a visit. I never see Who, What, When, Where and Why because I was unable to socialize them properly last summer. I did a very good job of socializing the previous year's litter. I am hoping for the best this year.
3784) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1505009)
Posted 17 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Whew!

Ok, Time Lord won the game. 510 is our telephone area code and that was the lucky number.

Zapped Sparky wins the cookies for "Raccoons On A Plane" and other funny posts.

Moderators, please lock this thread.
3785) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1505008)
Posted 17 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winner! TimeLord Post 510!!!
3786) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1505004)
Posted 17 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We are so close I can practically taste the cookies!
3787) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1505000)
Posted 17 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think somebody is going to win this thing soon...
3788) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1504991)
Posted 16 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
499...
3789) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1504721)
Posted 16 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
464... Just setting a place marker
3790) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1504523)
Posted 16 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
*knock knock*

Who's there?

A Setizen.

A Setizen who?

Sorry, didn't know you had a cold I'll come back later.


Zapped Sparky, you are definitely getting points for originality!
3791) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1504390)
Posted 15 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

You know, if you have never done any car maintenance yourself, that would not be an unreasonable assumption...
3792) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1504215)
Posted 15 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The Tomorrow People 1x19 Modus Vivendi

Edit:

A raccoon walks into a bar and asks for some peaches, the bartender says "we don't sell peaches here" so the raccoon leaves. He comes back the next day asking for some peaches the bar tender says "I told you yesterday, we don't sell peaches here" so the raccoon leaves. He comes back the next day, again asking for peaches, the bar tender says "look, Ive told you time and time again that we don't sell peaches. If you ask again I'm going to nail you to that wall". The raccoon leaves. He comes back the next day and asks the ba tender "do you have any nails?" the bar tender says "no", the raccoon says "ok, then I want some peaches."


That is very much like the duck song!
3793) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1504148)
Posted 14 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
409 - posting at the drawing nearer and nearer point.
3794) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To the kitty people.....new edition. (Message 1504137)
Posted 14 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I grew up one of four children in a home where education was highly valued. My parents never paid us for good grades. Good grades were expected and the four of us seldom failed to deliver the goods. My parents did make one exception though when it came to report cards. If any one of us brought home straight A's, my mom made ravioli for dinner for the whole family.

Well, Eva went to the groomers for a bath today. Our groomer gives "report cards" covering things like coat condition, skin condition, evidence of lumps or sores, evidence of parasites and overall general behavior. Eva got the highest marks possible in each category and under general behavior the groomer wrote "was a perfect angel".

Color me a proud kitty-mama! Somebody's getting ravioli!!!!!
3795) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1504094)
Posted 14 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The Crazy Raccoon Lady strongly advises against the kissing of raccoon butts! That would be a very good way to ingest raccoon roundworms, a parasite lethal to human beings.
3796) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1504061)
Posted 14 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Marcel dropped by the backyard for a visit last night. We don't see him too often now that he is all grown up, but we always enjoy seeing him when he does decide to come "home" for a little visit (and a snack). After Marcel polished off Spawnie's kibble, he looked around for his grapes. I was out of grapes... bad Raccoon Mother that I am. I was, however, baking sugar cookies at the time and Marcel found one of these to be an acceptable dessert substitute. He sat around on the back porch for another 40 minutes or so, just grooming himself and being bored and hoping that I would come back outside with another cookie for him. I figured one cookie was more than enough for an already pudgy little raccoon boy. When he finally figured out that he was not going to get another cookie, he ambled off.

Life with raccoons is so much fun!!! I simply cannot understand why so many people dislike them.
3797) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1504059)
Posted 14 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSHr4ubuD64 :)

The perfect musical accompaniment!!!
3798) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1504015)
Posted 14 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

That is a very well trained raccoon! I have seen raccoons nearly bend in half to groom themselves, but I have never seen one of my backyard beasties do a forward roll. Wow!
3799) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1503788)
Posted 14 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
381... just setting a place marker in case I miss something exciting
3800) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1503774)
Posted 14 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Someones idea of a StarWars bathroom, complete with light sabre plunger...

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3801) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1503773)
Posted 14 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
:) mrperk... full marks... except for the spelling of the last two words...
they should read: b i g_ i m p r o v e m e n t s
:)))))))))

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3802) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What are you YouTubing today? (Message 1503682)
Posted 13 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRJ02VB5Evk
3803) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1503677)
Posted 13 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is it my imagination or has the posting rate slowed down lately?
3804) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year From Our Home To Yours (Message 1503666)
Posted 13 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Richard. Welcome home! Angela & Eric
3805) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1503500)
Posted 13 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z_D2IfpF3g

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3806) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1503136)
Posted 12 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am not an iMac user. That was very funny.

Well, at the rate people are posting we should have a couple of contest winners in the next few days. In terms of post count, we are more than half way there. How much more I will not say.

I just re-read all the posts in the thread so far. Some of those funny things hold up very, very, very well on a second read.

The posts that have kept me laughing the most so far are:

Third Place: Misfit's clips of the UFL players "saying" things they definitely did not say

Second Place: Esme's light bulb intervention cartoon

First Place: Zapped Sparky's quip "Raccoons on a plane"

I keep imagining a family of raccoons on a plane. All the overhead bins would be open. Raccoons would be sitting on tray tables grooming one another and lazily sticking their hands into the seat back pockets just to see what was down there. Empty wrappers from bags of honey roasted peanuts would be everywhere! Raccoons on a plane.

Yes folks, so far "Raccoons on a plane" is the post to beat for a box of cookies.

Stay silly, my friends.
3807) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1502519)
Posted 11 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Esme and Misfit are neck in neck with the funny stuff. I may have to mail out 2 boxes of cookies. But hey, there is still plenty of time to knock them both off their high horses. Post away, my funny friends.
3808) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1502437)
Posted 10 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


The UCB VC of TP is a VIP
3809) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1502339)
Posted 10 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok... I couldn't resist. I clicked.

Misfit, please!!! You're going to prompt a letter of outrage from you know who, directed to the UCB Vice Chancellor In Charge Of Toilet Paper. And while I am ALWAYS all for the procurement of high quality toilet paper, I suspect that if the VC of TP receives EVEN ONE MORE letter from our mutual friend, he might be tempted NOT to procure the soft stuff and instead just recycle all the letters of complaint into something that will not be cushy on the posteriors of incoming freshmen.

So please... think of the children!!! Won't somebody please think of the children???!!!
3810) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1502327)
Posted 10 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL!!! I shall be sure not to click on it then. It is far more fun when I don't see it coming...
3811) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1502197)
Posted 10 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mike, have you tried those e-cigarettes?
3812) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1502195)
Posted 10 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
OzzFan, how is it that I can find no picture of you in my files???!!! I know you exist as we have dined together on a couple of occasions. Or perhaps it was all a dream...
3813) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1502164)
Posted 10 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have a pic of Angela, Eric, Uli & I when I visited a few years ago. I can't remember if it's been posted before though, don't think Uli was keen?

Andy, it is ok with me and also with Eric if you post that picture. I think KWSN Holy Hand Grenade was also in that picture, so you will just need to get the permission of two others. If I recall correctly, I have a particularly goofy expression on my face in that photo. I only have one word of explanation for that goofy look... "tequila"!!!
3814) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Meet and Say Hello! (Message 1502025)
Posted 10 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome aboard.
3815) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Dreams with special meaning? (Message 1502016)
Posted 10 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Please don't make jokes here Ian.

Why not, Ulibelle? Dreams are bizarre and often funny. As human beings we seem to be hard-wired to seek meaning, and often we look for meanings in things that are just the nonsensical musings of our minds when they are half off and half on. If we cannot laugh at some of the things our sleepy minds come up with, then it seems to me that we are taking this subject far too seriously.
3816) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1502014)
Posted 10 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A little something for everyone. Literally.

Misfit, that was absolutely delightful!

You know Misfit, I am always a little leery clicking on your links. I live in fear of another surprise viewing of the er... um... uh... "computer enthusiast" you used to post so frequently. But this link was simply beautiful and I enjoyed it immensely. Thank you!
3817) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1501924)
Posted 9 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you all for making me laugh!

I should probably give you a hint, though, regarding the cookie part of this contest. Humor is a very subjective thing and I have a bias towards things that people say themselves that are funny. For example TimeLord wrote "Wearing an eleven foot long, multi-colored scarf year round isn't funny??? I need to work on this... :-(" Now that was funny!!!

So I guess my big hint for you all is to remember Rule 1 of Contest 2... "Be your charming selves"

As for the more conventional part of this contest... we are more than 10% of the way there and less than 90% of the way there.
3818) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1501572)
Posted 9 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoons on a plane!


Now there is a movie I'd pay money to see!!!
3819) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1501562)
Posted 9 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
All this makes me sorry that no one that I personally know participates in the Seti@home project. At least none have told me they do.

Bob, the 20 or so people I've met in person from this project, I have met BECAUSE they crunch seti. None of them were people I knew before I joined the project. I have had the pleasure of making and meeting seti friends from all over the world and it has been an absolute thrill! I plan to meet more in the future.
3820) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1501550)
Posted 9 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, I had previous permission to post these photos at seti, so I'll just re-post them on this excellent thread.


Left to right - Pasi Karonen, me and Eric when we visited Finland in 2011



My mother-in-law Jan, Eric, me and Pasi with a backdrop of beautiful Finland!
3821) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1501404)
Posted 8 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The real NFL

and the other NFL



Very funny. Very silly. Very interesting, given what I do for a living.
3822) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1501401)
Posted 8 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL!!! Great find Chris!
3823) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends (Message 1501400)
Posted 8 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I love this thread!!! I will have to dig though old photos and get permission to post things, but I think this thread will be so much fun!!!
3824) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1501213)
Posted 8 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The last 2 posts are definitely in the running for cookies. Very funny!!!
3825) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1501133)
Posted 7 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You are a very funny group of people!!!

So far, the posts that are making me laugh the most (in no particular order) are:

1.
OMFG! Cookies? S*it just got real.


2.
Congrats Angela, Hope I don't loose my cookies.

(I am assuming you meant to type "lose"... although "loose my cookies", as one might "release the hounds" is funny too!)

3. The cartoon of cookie monster looking distressed over the concept of deleting cookies.

and

4. The hypnotic design, with the presumed subliminal message "send me cookies".


If your post is up here, you are in the running for cookies... but there is still plenty of time for additional competition.
3826) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 210 - Make Me Laugh! (Message 1500831)
Posted 7 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow! Thank you for the win. I have written a number down, but hang on to your hats people... this is going to be a DOUBLE CONTEST.

Rules of the game for Contest #1:

The Last Person To Post Wins thread, general rules:

1. Winner of the last thread starts the new one with a post of these rules.
2. Chooses a future event which triggers the winner, e.g. post number, date-time, and records it privately somehow (yellow sticky, etc.)
3. Everyone has fun posting until the target event is reached.
4. When the target is reached, old winner posts declaration of new winner and also PMs them.
5. Shortly after this a Mod will lock the recently won thread.
6. Go to 1.

Supplemental rules:
A. Multiple posting (the same poster posting two or more posts in succession) is frowned upon, and no element of a multiple posting may trigger the winning event. Thus the first following non multiple post will win.
B. However the winning event is defined, it should probably take less than 600 posts and less than two weeks to achieve.
C. Posting of larger pics is discouraged (Modem users do still exist, sometimes people read the forum via their mobile data, and these threads can get quite long.)
D. Don't post any clearly copyrighted pictures.
E. The post rules listed to the left of your post box are all enforced


Rules of the game for contest #2.

1. Be your charming selves
2. Make me laugh - I don't care how you do it. Tell a joke, draw a cartoon, exchange clever banter with another poster.
3. The person who makes me laugh the most will win a box of homemade cookies, made by me and shipped to your home. (You will have to give me your home address via pm if you win.)

The last time I won TLPTPW the second contest was for "fancy language" and Michael Roberts got a box of cookies shipped to him in Germany.

Where in the world will the next box of cookies go? Make me laugh. The cookies could go to YOU!!!
3827) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 209 - Grimm Is Back, But I Miss Dracula 2013! (Message 1500814)
Posted 7 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A meaningless post, and if anyone can find meaning in this post, I'd like to know where it is...


It is right between the words "find" and "in".

Win!!!
3828) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 209 - Grimm Is Back, But I Miss Dracula 2013! (Message 1500779)
Posted 6 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My win.
3829) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 209 - Grimm Is Back, But I Miss Dracula 2013! (Message 1500699)
Posted 6 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Time Lord, please immediately cease this nasty little habit you have of interfering with my win!!!
3830) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 209 - Grimm Is Back, But I Miss Dracula 2013! (Message 1500525)
Posted 6 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"Should probably" is not a rule. It is a "suggestion".
3831) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 209 - Grimm Is Back, But I Miss Dracula 2013! (Message 1500468)
Posted 6 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LSM probably demanded that he join her for dinner!
3832) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1500467)
Posted 6 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Beautiful!
3833) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 209 - Grimm Is Back, But I Miss Dracula 2013! (Message 1500453)
Posted 6 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are you still at it?
3834) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 209 - Grimm Is Back, But I Miss Dracula 2013! (Message 1500376)
Posted 5 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I just can't compete...
3835) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 209 - Grimm Is Back, But I Miss Dracula 2013! (Message 1500374)
Posted 5 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Stop that!
3836) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 209 - Grimm Is Back, But I Miss Dracula 2013! (Message 1500372)
Posted 5 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!
3837) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 209 - Grimm Is Back, But I Miss Dracula 2013! (Message 1500370)
Posted 5 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
After filling half a green bin with pruned stuff and weeds, and possibly getting a slight sun burn, I can see that this thread still needs a winner... ME!
3838) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 209 - Grimm Is Back, But I Miss Dracula 2013! (Message 1500244)
Posted 5 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sigh. It is just too lovely a day here for me not to be out in the garden pulling weeds. This had better be the winning post!
3839) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 209 - Grimm Is Back, But I Miss Dracula 2013! (Message 1500239)
Posted 5 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Step aside Sarge.
3840) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 209 - Grimm Is Back, But I Miss Dracula 2013! (Message 1500237)
Posted 5 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A short one...
3841) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #7 (Message 1500236)
Posted 5 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Okey doke, I can't remember exactly where this picture came from. I've had it in a random picture file on my computer for ages, but I think this actually is a scene in Kentucky after a tornado. Seriously, this is a real photograph, folks.

Gravity is a harsh mistress. I'm guessing that horse in the tree was added to the photograph after it was taken.
3842) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 209 - Grimm Is Back, But I Miss Dracula 2013! (Message 1500232)
Posted 5 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, somebody has to win this thing. May as well be me!
3843) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Dreams with special meaning? (Message 1500004)
Posted 5 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have a lot of the classic dreams like where you haven't been to class all semester and you realize there's a test today.

Eric and I have both been out of school for a long time, but we both still have something like that dream from time to time. My variation on the school dream, probably because I attended a liberal arts college as an undergrad, involves being enrolled in a class, forgetting to drop it and then finding out that the lengthy term paper is due tomorrow. This never happened to me. I never dropped a class in college and I never forgot to write a term paper. Why are school dreams so common?

I also have recurring dreams that I'm in a large house with many interconnecting rooms and doors(kind of like the Matrix), and I don't know where to go.

I have a similar dream where a house is under construction, I go in to look around and I get trapped in a strange house and I'm unable to get out. Again, not an incident from my actual life, but a recurring nightmare nevertheless...

My dreams are never positive, happy ones. At best they are neutral. I'm a pretty happy person in real life, but my dream life is a mess!
3844) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 209 - Grimm Is Back, But I Miss Dracula 2013! (Message 1500002)
Posted 5 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh dear. I'm afraid you are mistaken...
3845) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 209 - Grimm Is Back, But I Miss Dracula 2013! (Message 1499998)
Posted 5 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ha!
3846) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 209 - Grimm Is Back, But I Miss Dracula 2013! (Message 1499995)
Posted 5 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just how badly do you want that win?
3847) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us A Caption #55 (Message 1499970)
Posted 5 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If he lifts his tail any higher, I'm moving out of the way fast!
3848) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #7 (Message 1499215)
Posted 3 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

The "HUH?" award goes to Graham for

How tribbles came about...


I got it. I thought that one was hilarious!!!
3849) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : sugar the bitter truth (Message 1499189)
Posted 3 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry that my rhubarb has highjacked this thread, but I truly feel that rhubarb is grossly under-appreciated here in the states. It grows well in many places, but most people don't know what to do with it. I put it in coffee cakes, pies, muffins, crisps (a fruit dessert over here, not potato chips!!!), cobblers and chutney. I love it.
3850) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1498953)
Posted 3 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yawn!

Goodnight friends.
3851) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1498947)
Posted 3 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Join Team Raccoon. We've got treats!
3852) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 209 - Grimm Is Back, But I Miss Dracula 2013! (Message 1498943)
Posted 3 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
" Never been married, never will be. I was young and stupid when I met my ex (rather than old and stupid as I am now), but I wasn't stupid enough to marry him."

-- Quote of the day/week/month/year/decade/century/millennium.



Ok, everybody go back and look at your high school year book. How many classmates wrote something idiotic like "Don't ever change" in there? Now aren't you glad that you did? I know I am.
3853) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Scarecrow Birthday Alert (Message 1498888)
Posted 3 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Happy Birthday, Cowboy!

With best wishes from Angela & Eric
3854) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #7 (Message 1498649)
Posted 2 Apr 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
From the Caption Contest
The Huh? award goes to Angie's problem of Who is Fred?


Thank you. Thank you very much. I'd like to thank my publicist, my agent, my fourth grade teacher Miss Michaels, my hairdresser and of course, Fred!
3855) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How's life going for me? (Message 1497730)
Posted 31 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3856) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hello. I've Returned. (Message 1497720)
Posted 31 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome back!
3857) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1497719)
Posted 31 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3858) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1497630)
Posted 30 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


They get everywhere! :)


Yes, and they laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh...
3859) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1497628)
Posted 30 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3860) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us A Caption #55 (Message 1497609)
Posted 30 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

He's Fred.
No, she's Fred
No, he's Fred.
No, she's Fred.
Maybe they're both Fred.
Maybe neither one of them is Fred.
Well I'm not Fred.
Right! Because unlike the two of us, Fred is not a turkey!!!
3861) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 209 - Grimm Is Back, But I Miss Dracula 2013! (Message 1497568)
Posted 30 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry Byron. The win is mine!!!
3862) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1497532)
Posted 30 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3863) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How's life going for me? (Message 1497346)
Posted 30 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The Social Media Sobriety Test Doesn't Let You Post While Drunk

I was expecting an early April Fool's joke...
3864) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How's life going for me? (Message 1497216)
Posted 29 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mark, please get professional help. The things you value are slipping from your grasp and the people who care what happens to you are decreasing in number. This is as close as any of us can get to an intervention for you. Your drinking impacts us, but more significantly it is destroying you mentally, emotionally and physically. Your health plan through work probably has a substance abuse treatment benefit. Please begin the process of getting well. Please let professionals in the field of substance abuse help you acquire better tools than the use of alcohol for battling pain and grief.
3865) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : sugar the bitter truth (Message 1497146)
Posted 29 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. The rhubarb plant in my garden has been putting up the most delicious stalks lately. When Eric wakes up , it will be to the aroma of freshly baked rhubarb coffee cake. But with a nod to the video that I watched last night, I halved the recipe so we don't have a whole lot of extra cake around the house. I also added a third cup of extra rhubarb and I doubled the walnuts in the topping - two changes which should up the fiber content a little bit. Ol' Pookers probably won't even notice those tiny changes.
3866) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : sugar the bitter truth (Message 1497043)
Posted 29 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Watched it with great interest. Ol' Pookers is not going to be happy with me now when I march upstairs and discuss his intake of orange juice and Mountain Dew!!!
3867) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Movie Night (Message 1496998)
Posted 29 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...with the bible stuff that made Noah look like a psychopath...

I believe that in the "original", the role of psychopath was played by the big guy upstairs.
3868) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 209 - Grimm Is Back, But I Miss Dracula 2013! (Message 1496997)
Posted 29 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Glad to hear you are ok, Vic, and that the earthquake only resulted in minor damage.
3869) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Shannon/kenzieb (Message 1496989)
Posted 29 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Even when you died
Oh the posters still hounded you
All the forums had to say
Was that Kenzie was a dude


LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3870) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (Message 1496988)
Posted 29 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think the ultimate goal was to merely engage the younger audience of today like the original did for children of yesteryear.


I agree that the target audience is probably 11 to 17 year olds, but Eric and I have been watching with great interest. We both think the series is well done.
3871) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Relay for Life 2014 (Message 1496850)
Posted 28 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Go Blurf Go!!!
3872) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Autism (Message 1496837)
Posted 28 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you. Autism Spectrum Disorders are an area of my professional expertise. About ten years ago one of the best books I have ever read on the subject was published - The Neurobiology of Autism edited by Margaret Bauman and Thomas Kemper. I have heard there is a new edition out and I look forward to reading it this year. The first edition was one of the best summary works on the probable poly-genetic origin of autism that I have ever read, and I suspect the new edition will be even better. I have heard Dr. Bauman speak at two different conferences. I do not know if she is still doing speaking tours, but if she hits your geographic area, she is worth the price of admission.
3873) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Shannon/kenzieb (Message 1496331)
Posted 27 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Maybe you're a stronger person than I, Angela...

Not stronger, my friend.... just acutely aware of the times in my life when I have been a less than stellar human being, and hoping that people do not calculate the total worth of my character by adding up only my worst moments in life.
3874) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Shannon/kenzieb (Message 1496322)
Posted 27 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Like I said before; everyone who has previously linked their accounts as "Friends" with this sham should cancel the "Friendship".


And I would like to emphasize that this is only one poster's opinion. I advocate the opposite, and by doing so hope to send a message that our "author" is welcome here, whoever he is.
3875) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mondays thread. (Message 1495880)
Posted 27 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I just wandered in looking for this...
3876) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1495687)
Posted 26 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Byron, thank you for all of your kind wishes of goodwill.
3877) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1495575)
Posted 26 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ulibelle, your godchild Donna stopped by for breakfast this morning. She was pretty hungry - ate everything I gave her and then climbed up on the porch table to finish what was left in Spawnie's bowl. I did not see any obvious signs of lactation, and she did not appear to be "with kit". This makes me wonder if perhaps Donna is a Don???

You know, it is darn difficult to tell with raccoons. If they are boys and they stand up on two legs and they are not too furry, then you can tell. That is how we determined that Maggie was actually a Magoo. If they have kits trailing after them, then it is obvious. Other than that, they don't tend to give us any clues.
3878) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1495232)
Posted 25 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've seen some hummingbirds in our SF Bay Area California yard this year as well. Around here they leave late and arrive early, so I'm pretty sure they do not migrate far from us.
3879) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My best buddy is gone. (Message 1494321)
Posted 24 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP Sagan. May fond memories of your best buddy comfort you during this difficult time.
3880) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How's life going for me? (Message 1493853)
Posted 23 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome home.

My advice is that you try to make a point of sleeping on things before you post them...
3881) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1493848)
Posted 23 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've heard that cats paint... can typing be far behind?

And I LOVED that squirrel picture!!!
3882) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Shannon/kenzieb (Message 1493846)
Posted 23 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There must be a lot of Kenzie in him, wouldn't everyone just want Kenzie back even if she now has a beard??

I would!

Esme, I will admit to treating kenzie differently based on gender issues. I was more frank and open with "her" in pm exchanges, thinking that "she" was a 30-something female, than I surely would have been if I had known that "she" was man about my own age. Still, "she" was an excellent, insightful and supportive friend, especially during a period of time when I was dealing with the terminal illness and eventual death of my brother John. So yes, I want my friend to return... bearded or otherwise.


And I just have to throw this out there... There is an old post of kenzie's in which she references a male friend who was diagnosed with stomach cancer. There is always the possibility that the creator of our kenzie character got some of his ideas from his own life. If this man is himself battling cancer, or watching a close friend battle cancer, then how can ANY of us wish him anything less than peace, friendship and support?
3883) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Shannon/kenzieb (Message 1492419)
Posted 21 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
While the picture of "Allie" is gone from the profile; the original profile picture of "Kenzie" is still present. Also, I've canceled my "Friendship" with that account; I suggest that others whom have had a "Friendship" link with that account do the same. Some of you already have. This morning there were 70 "Friends" on the Kenzie/Allie account, at this moment, there are 67.

Make that 66. I know that SciManStev is real as I had Him install a water block on a motherboard and He sent the completed assembly back to Me.

Perhaps we can start a thread were people can vouch for those they know to be real with evidence such as you've provided about SciManStev.


I believe I have met about 20 crunchers personally at this point and all presented in person much as they present on-line. This would mean that about 20 people can vouch that I am real, and not an imaginary wife of Eric. (Anyway, if I were Eric's imaginary wife, he probably would have made me younger and hotter, ala the 24 year old "wife" of aka_Sam, the very beautiful Patrice!!!)

And for the record, I am not removing any friends from my list, nor will I be asking anyone to leave Team Raccoon Lovers, as one person suggested that I might. All are welcome to befriend me. All are welcome to join my team.
3884) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Shannon/kenzieb (Message 1492001)
Posted 20 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes-we got fooled-all of us and I want this to end--trust me, but it sucks when you work for 3 months based on a premise-encourage folks to donate based on that premise, hammer out a speech based on the premise--all based on a misrepresentation. Now I have to hammer out a seriously revised speech *DUE FRIDAY AKA TOMORROW*.

No blackmail would be a demand and my mind is not on revenge--it's on a good faith effort to stop the misrepresentation on these forums in this specific situation.

I am making a good faith request and I have publically laid out a good faith promise in return for all to see. In the least I would request the misrepresented pictures could be removed from both the profiles involved and this thread.

I'm done with this thread-I have WAY too much writing to do.



Blurf in all fairness, the author of kenzie/allie/sam/patrice never specified any place where donations should be sent in kenzie's memory... only you did that. Would you have Fred freeze your account as well and accuse you of fraud?

On the sunny side, it seems that all who donated to your cause in Kenzie's name are happy to still have their donations remain where they were placed. People are basically good. Isn't that great?!!!
3885) Message boards : Politics : Cafe: more harm than good? (Message 1491665)
Posted 20 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Most people who run seti do not visit the forums at all. I suspect any Cafe or Politics "fall out" is negligible.

The Cafe is simply a virtual coffeehouse where friends can meet and discuss events. Personally I love the Cafe!
3886) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Shannon/kenzieb (Message 1491663)
Posted 20 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In the interests of full disclosure, I wish to state that I really am Bill Walker, and I really am the only legitimate heir to the Romanian throne.


Not so fast there, Mister Walker! I am Angela the Hun and by right of inheritance I am Queen Of All Of Europe... and on Fridays I am the REAL Anastasia. If you persist in posting your self-proclaimed delusions of grandeur I shall sic my raccoon minions upon the frozen tundra wasteland that is Canada, and make your home a satellite of my growing empire.
3887) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Shannon/kenzieb (Message 1491659)
Posted 20 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Kenzie was among us for a long time and was much loved by people. Its the same person we are talking about here, fact or fiction, whoever the person was they must have put a lot of themselves into being Kenzie to be able to keep the charade up for so long.

Kenzie is a fat middle aged man who photographs children and then use their pictures for his own sick ends. Do you still love her?


All we really know is that the creator of "kenzie et al" is a professional photographer.

I too am curious as to the motivations behind his creation of so many interesting internet characters, but if he does not wish to share his motivations, then I shall respect his privacy.
3888) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Shannon/kenzieb (Message 1491053)
Posted 19 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I notice you joined in 2007 too. Interesting.

Yes. 2007 was when Eric got bored and invented us all...

I know many people are very, very, very upset about this situation, but the way I see it, we may as well all at least try to laugh at ourselves a bit. This is not the first fictitious person to haunt the internet. This is not the first death faked on the internet. We all got fooled by a very creative author. Authors tend to be undervalued in our culture. I hope this one comes out of hiding because I, for one, wish to compliment him on his work.
3889) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Shannon/kenzieb (Message 1491050)
Posted 19 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The kenzieb character was a good person in public and in private. I do not believe that a truly "bad" person could masquerade as such a kind and noble person for so long, without having some innate kindness and nobleness himself. I hope that person will join us again, and be comfortable being himself.
3890) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1485991)
Posted 8 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
:) Perhaps I otter post a picture of a raccoon now - in case of confusion



Allow me!
3891) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How's life going for me? (Message 1485989)
Posted 8 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In my opinion, you have abused the privilege of starting new threads. Go back and review the history of the Cafe and you will see just how many threads you start, whenever you are not "on holiday".

Thank you, moderating staff, for moving Mark's posts to this, his journal.



Ya know..................

This is really starting to piss me off.

I have the same right as anybody else on this forum to start a new thread of topic.

If ya don't like it, add to the rules about how many threads one user can start in a 24 hour or so many in a week.

Unless you do that, you are just being prissy based objectively on one user.

And I am not going to stand for it anymore.

Thank you very much.
3892) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us A Caption #55 (Message 1483495)
Posted 2 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wait! My mouse is still in there!
3893) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1483434)
Posted 2 Mar 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3894) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 208. I'm British, it's all about the Weather! (Message 1482980)
Posted 28 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks!
You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world!
Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once
That make ingrateful man!

(Just trying to get into the British weather theme here...)
3895) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Another Moment in My Life (Message 1482198)
Posted 27 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Our sincere condolences to you and to your wife on your loss of a cherished brother.

Angela & Eric
3896) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1481127)
Posted 24 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodnight Byron. Sleep well.
3897) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 208. I'm British, it's all about the Weather! (Message 1481040)
Posted 23 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations on your win, Andy. Guess that makes me next...

Win!!!
3898) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Before and After (Message 1480992)
Posted 23 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Then again you could blame it on his mother for not training him properly at an early age.


I know that my mother-in-law did her very best. Some children are simply untrainable!
3899) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti@home beard survey (Message 1480653)
Posted 22 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3900) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Before and After (Message 1480508)
Posted 22 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My husband would drown in garbage, were it not for my occasional life lines. Eric shows no indication of knowing what to do with either a trash can or a recycle bin.
3901) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti@home beard survey (Message 1480489)
Posted 22 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I replied to the survey.
I love my beard.

Steve


Are you Gandalf?
3902) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1480488)
Posted 22 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Squint was a cutie and perfectly named. Wishing you peace.
3903) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1479984)
Posted 21 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I had to have one of mine put down today, so I'm sharing
your pain.

I am so sorry Sue. The price of love is the pain of loss.
3904) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1479457)
Posted 20 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

My favorite shot of Zsa Zsa defying gravity...
3905) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1479456)
Posted 20 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Zsa Zsa and Eva as kittens...
3906) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1479410)
Posted 20 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Zsa Zsa Li Korpela, 2010 - 2014

Rest In Peace, precious kitty
3907) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Before and After (Message 1479006)
Posted 19 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Application submitted...
3908) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Before and After (Message 1479000)
Posted 19 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The funny thing is, we're all saying the same, but at the same time, Eric is so blessed to have a wife like Angela.

I wish I had a wife like Angela who'd come and clean up my office.

This reads a little more creepy than I intended.

Much as I am sure that Angela is a lovely wife, I'm more looking for someone to take on the duties normally associated with "wife" than actually marrying a woman. Even Angela.


Es, I understand that Facebook now has 50 different terms for sexual and gender orientation, and I do have a long track record of liking 'em smart, so if Eric ever leaves me for a younger hotter woman... call me!
3909) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Before and After (Message 1478937)
Posted 19 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric, you should have sent her to a spa instead of taking her to work.

I shall make sure that Eric sees this comment. I like it!!!
3910) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Before and After (Message 1478775)
Posted 18 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric actually asked me to help. There is a visiting scientist, arriving today from another university, who will need to use the second desk in Eric's office for about a month. Eric's office needed to be a bit more er... uh... welcoming!
3911) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Before and After (Message 1478605)
Posted 18 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How I spent the Presidents Day Holiday Weekend...

Eric's office in Berkeley BEFORE my intervention.



Insert loving wife of nearly 20 years, laden with cleaning supplies...



Fourteen hours, x2 people, spread across 2 days, leads to... AFTER!!!



Please note the absence of dust!



Ta-daa!!!

3912) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1478103)
Posted 16 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That is a raccoon kit popping that bubble wrap. The babies are always so playful! The adults tend to be all about the food... when it is arriving and when they will get more.
3913) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1477696)
Posted 15 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hope you all had a good day yesterday.
3914) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Shirley Temple passes away at age 85 (Message 1475947)
Posted 12 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
3915) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Mom (Message 1474436)
Posted 9 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Remembering Kenzie for the wonderfully outrageous character that she was...




I cannot remember if she said this in public or in private, so I am paraphrasing here, forgive me... Kenzie once said to me that when the time of her death came she hoped to experience it, even embrace it, as part of the experience of being human, even though it would be her very last experience of being human.

I hope that is how she passed.
3916) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Mom (Message 1473912)
Posted 7 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My heart breaks to hear this news.

Rest in peace, sister-friend.
3917) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1473907)
Posted 7 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Meet the Western Scrub Jay, the most colorful bird in our garden. I generally get a nesting pair in our pine tree each year. They are feisty, aggressive birds who enjoy cat food.



Very rarely, I get one of these. This is a Stellar's Jay. We often see them if we go hiking in a nearby redwood forest. Occasionally one of them checks out our backyard, but I don't think my yard is woodsy enough for them to feel comfortable and move in.



Meet the California Towhee, my most frequent visitor. These guys can get enormously fat! It is a wonder they can fly at all.


We also get many of these Ravens. They are smart and I have not been very successful at getting them to tolerate my presence when they are outside. They also like cat food!
3918) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1473877)
Posted 7 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
rolling golden hills


Don't you mean your s*** brown hills?


See what I mean???!!! State-snot!
3919) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1473867)
Posted 7 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The USA is very large and the terrain is quite varied. I grew up here in California. Eric grew up in a region of our country that is very, very, very different from California. A state-snot is a person who thinks that his/her state of origin surpasses the other 49 states in every qualitative way.
3920) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1473854)
Posted 7 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sparrows (what particular type they are I do not know) seem to be doing well in my Northern California backyard as well.

I really like birds... not as much as I like raccoons of course! But still, birds do have that dinosaur-decendent-street-cred vibe going on, so what's not to love?

Eric is not at all entranced with California birds. When it comes to birds, he is a total state-snot. Ok, ok, I'll admit that the birds I see in Northern Wisconsin tend to be a whole lot more colorful than the birds that frequent my backyard feeder. Eric likes to sneer, "Oh look, another non-descript brown birdie" when I feed my fine feathered friends. I ignore him. The color of our California birds is perfectly adapted to the color of our rolling golden hills.
3921) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1473167)
Posted 6 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What is doing in the sparrows of London? Cats? Street and garden tree reductions?
3922) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1472909)
Posted 5 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Only if these are European raccoons.

Could be...

I've read that raccoons were imported to Germany a few decades ago to be farmed for their pelts. Turned out not to be a lucrative endeavor and the raccoons were set free. Now they are an invasive exotic wreaking havoc in a country where they most certainly did not evolve.

I have also read that Japan has a raccoon problem as well. Because raccoons look so darn cute, they were imported to Japan as potential pets. Raccoons make really lousy indoor pets. Enough failed pets were loosed into "the wild" that now there are breeding populations on several of the Japanese islands. The raccoons are destroying ancient Japanese wooden temples that are important historic and cultural icons.

Much as I love my "little woodland friends", they can be terrible and destructive little pests and they really should not be imported out of North America.
3923) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1472614)
Posted 4 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Stay away from that half a roast beef sandwich!
You don't want to get mad cow disease!!!
3924) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1472612)
Posted 4 Feb 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoons... we're everywhere, you know. Find us here at seti, on beta, at Enigma, at Einstein@home, at Test 4 Theory and maybe even under your back porch!!!

Come on, join us!!! You know you want to...
3925) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1471033)
Posted 31 Jan 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Why do you think you have mad cow disease?
3926) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1467187)
Posted 22 Jan 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You gotta know when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em...

Thinking about retiring from your current team?

Join us!
3927) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Mark (Message 1465996)
Posted 19 Jan 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Best wishes to you on your special day.

Angela & Eric
3928) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1464890)
Posted 16 Jan 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am simply stunned. That is a ridiculous number of raccoons. The gas station attendants must feed them regularly. I enjoy my little backyard visitors, but I am happy to report that my raccoons have never numbered in the double digits (and I hope they never do!!!!!)
3929) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year From Our Home To Yours (Message 1464765)
Posted 15 Jan 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eva is the family beauty queen, but like most reigning queens she is very aware of her elevated status...
3930) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us A Caption #54 (Message 1463809)
Posted 13 Jan 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Very funny captions all around, but winners must be declared.

Third place goes to Chris S with "Where's my double headed penny when you need it?"

Second place goes to JohnMcLeod VII with his most unique caption "Way up on this upper shelf. If I could only grab before I fall to the floor this time."

But the undisputed winner simply has to be Monday with "What's that green thing?"

PM going out to our winner now...
3931) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1463255)
Posted 11 Jan 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A raccoon superhero... what's not to love?

Given how often raccoons are showing up in commercials, on YouTube, in TV shows, in cartoons and now in the movies these days, I'd say we're all "in with the in crowd". In fact, given the heritage of our Critter Cafe, we just might all be Trend Setters. My next career as a raccoon wrangler is looking up!
3932) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year From Our Home To Yours (Message 1463253)
Posted 11 Jan 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It could be worse.....


LOL, cowboy!!! My deepest most heartfelt sympathy goes out to your new bride!

(And nice job putting whiskers on Mister Fuzzy-Butt...)
3933) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1462822)
Posted 11 Jan 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

I taught Miley Cyrus to twerk...
3934) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us A Caption #54 (Message 1462819)
Posted 11 Jan 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win. I am flattered.

My dear friends, please caption this!
3935) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 205 The year is brand new (Message 1462728)
Posted 10 Jan 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh what have I got to lose...

Win!!!
3936) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us A Caption #54 (Message 1462723)
Posted 10 Jan 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I just love chestnut stuffing!
3937) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Fonz! (Message 1462716)
Posted 10 Jan 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Aaaaaaaaay! Sounds like a great time!

(We used to have a raccoon that we called Arthur/The Fonz.)
3938) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1462451)
Posted 10 Jan 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My latest raccoon video.

http://youtu.be/j62Z7IN2Rls


Sue you put me to shame! Much as I love raccoons, I draw the line at letting them dine on my kitchen counter. I may be the CRL (Crazy Raccoon Lady), but I hereby dub you the Crazier Raccoon Lady.
3939) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hello again - a little about where I've been. (Message 1461711)
Posted 8 Jan 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Our hearts to your heart, dear friend.

Angela & Eric
3940) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Phil Everly dies at the age of 74. (Message 1461691)
Posted 8 Jan 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
3941) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year From Our Home To Yours (Message 1461460)
Posted 7 Jan 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Loved the picture of you and Harrison Ford. :)


Angela I forgot to ask if Eric asked Hans Solo if he could meet Darth Vader?


I told Harrison to smile big, but all I could get from him was that waxy gaze...
3942) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year From Our Home To Yours (Message 1461401)
Posted 7 Jan 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Our Fryja cat was very intrested in the pix of your Zsa Zsa Cat.

LOL! I can certainly see why!!! They do look alike.

Zsa Zsa is a tortie-tabby and my absolute favorite of the lot. Although she is only 3 years old, we noticed this summer that she was losing her vision. She has been seen by three different kitty cat ophthalmologists (Yes, such things exist out here in pet-crazy California!!!) and after countless expensive tests, fungal panels, bacterial cultures, office visits, medications etc, etc, etc the veterinary vision specialists have two different working hypotheses. Either Zsa Zsa has some sort of lymphoma type cancer that initially becomes symptomatic in the eyes and eventually spreads OR Zsa Zsa has some genetic defect that causes progressive blindness. Right now she has one completely blind eye and one nearly blind eye.

One of the three vet specialists wants to remove her blind eye and get a definitive diagnosis. Eric and I have opted not to put Z-cat through that trauma. If Zsa Zsa does have cancer, we have already decided not to treat it aggressively, so we see no point in removing one of her eyes to get a definitive diagnosis. If it is a genetic condition, then we have to assume that Zsa Zsa will eventually learn to use her other senses to get around. She is an indoor only cat, and given that she has whiskers and no evidence of a hearing loss we have to assume that she will adjust.

It is very sad though. She used to be our best jumper and now she hardly jumps on anything at all. She rarely plays now too. I do not know if that is due to the vision impairment or if that is because she is just not feeling well. She also seems to be cold all the time and she has taken to sleeping on our heater vents. In December we started keeping a heating pad plugged in at night for her to lay on if she is cold. So far she is still eating, drinking, finding the litter box, moving around and seeking affection. Eric and I are prepared to do "the right thing" if it seems like she is in pain or if her quality of life takes a significant down turn.


I just can't get used to Eric without the whiskers!

Eric starts growing his beard at the start of college football season here and he shaves each year after the NFL Super Bowl. It takes me a little time to adjust to him both with and without whiskers.
3943) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year From Our Home To Yours (Message 1461040)
Posted 6 Jan 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you Angela for the yearly update. I have to ask did Eric get that desk done without help?

My godchild Danielle helped. I pretty much just took pictures and played with Danielle's dog, Badger. Eric and I were only in Washington D.C. for an extended weekend visit and when we arrived we discovered that Danielle had ordered a desk, a bookshelf, 2 arm chairs and a coffee table - all of which were still in their boxes, unassembled. Danielle owned one screwdriver and it was not electric. I snapped that shot of Eric early on in the weekend. After a few hours of frustration he drove to a hardware store and bought Danielle an electric multi-use tool that probably cost more than all of her new furniture combined. It made everything come together must faster!
3944) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year From Our Home To Yours (Message 1461034)
Posted 6 Jan 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for all the kind comments. I had fun doing that post.
3945) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year From Our Home To Yours (Message 1460961)
Posted 5 Jan 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It has become a January tradition for me to review the photos we took the year before and post a few, along with various bits of advice from members of the Korpela Family.

So here, for your review, are our thoughts from 2013...


Eric advises that you hang out with smart people.



I am delighted to report that Harrison LOVED my screen play!!!



Eva hopes that you are not led into temptation...
(But if temptation should happen to come your way, she COMPLETELY understands!)



Zsa Zsa recommends that if you are not sure how to proceed, just sleep on it...



Stinky Lou wishes to remind you that the devil is in the details!



Spawnie hopes that you always walk proud.



Angela reminds you to celebrate what you do!



Captain Eric instructs you to please make sure that your chair is in its upright and locked position and that your seat belt is securely fastened low and tight across your waist BEFORE you begin your flight...



In this picture Eric assembles a gargantuan, cheap, 600+++ piece press board "desk complex" for my oldest godchild, who had just begun medical school.
When I told Eric that we would be spending the entire weekend screwing, this is NOT what he had in mind...



Of course, it goes without saying that if you feed them, they will come...



Happy New Year, from our home to yours!
3946) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I can't do mathematics. (Message 1459806)
Posted 2 Jan 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A math tutorial for Monday
3947) Message boards : Cafe SETI : James Avery Dead: 'Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air' Actor Dies At 65 (Message 1459785)
Posted 2 Jan 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
3948) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1459456)
Posted 1 Jan 2014 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy New Year Angela!

Thank you. Right back at-cha, buddy!!! Happy 2014!
3949) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1459030)
Posted 31 Dec 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Engineer's Guide to Cats 2.0 - the Sequel

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3950) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us A Caption #54 (Message 1459029)
Posted 31 Dec 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gilding the lily
3951) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Chris S (Message 1457695)
Posted 26 Dec 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy birthday, dear friend!!!!!
3952) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Christmas Thread (Message 1457304)
Posted 25 Dec 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
For John, 1964 to 2010
3953) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Christmas Thread (Message 1456998)
Posted 24 Dec 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/575539
3954) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1456990)
Posted 24 Dec 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3955) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1456538)
Posted 23 Dec 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Team Raccoon wants YOU!!!

Come hang out with a really fun team.

Our STATS are impressive, but they would be even more impressive with YOU on our team...
3956) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Peter O'Toole dies (Message 1455944)
Posted 21 Dec 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
3957) Message boards : Cafe SETI : whatcha reading? (Message 1455811)
Posted 20 Dec 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
3958) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Please include my mother in your prayers. (Message 1454087)
Posted 15 Dec 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wonderful news! Wishing your mother a speedy recovery!
3959) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Holiday entertaining - 2014 (Message 1453723)
Posted 14 Dec 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm half done with my baking for Sunday and the night is young. Got to make sure all the cookie jars are filled to the brim!
3960) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Holiday entertaining - 2014 (Message 1453678)
Posted 14 Dec 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am definitely not going low key this year. We have a ton of relatives coming over Sunday for our annual family cookie party and we also happen to be hosting family Christmas dinner this year. I like being busy, but I may have bitten off a little too much this year.

3961) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Holiday entertaining - 2014 (Message 1453607)
Posted 13 Dec 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...Its not worth being hyper over simple stuff. Beacause in years future Your going to laugh about it any way...

Truer words were never spoken.
3962) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Holiday entertaining - 2014 (Message 1453487)
Posted 13 Dec 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A thread to discuss what we're cooking this year, how we're decorating our homes, how we're handling host and hostessing stress and whatever other holiday entertaining topics you would like to explore...

To start us off, I thought this was particularly amusing.

Holiday Dinner Party

Happy Holidays!!!
3963) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday BRIGADE DU COSMOS ! (Message 1452635)
Posted 11 Dec 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Best wishes to BRIGADE DU COSMOS on their second anniversary!!!
3964) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Christmas Tree (Message 1452539)
Posted 11 Dec 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And i wonder why i'm still single...

But none of us is wondering why it is that chemists (usually organic ones) die young!!! Do be careful, my friend.
3965) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Uli's Rig (Message 1452120)
Posted 10 Dec 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Our Prius up and died suddenly a few weeks ago, right before a trip out of state. We rented a car to meet our immediate needs. Then we looked at our calendars and discovered we had exactly one free weekend to car shop. We ended up with a great little Prius replacement. I am sorry that you have to shop under pressure, but it can be done. The trick is finding a salesperson who is honest and helpful. We lucked out in that department. If you are planning to shop in the Walnut Creek area, let me know and I will get you the name of the excellent salesperson with whom we worked.
3966) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1451513)
Posted 8 Dec 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3967) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1451509)
Posted 8 Dec 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Gingersnap Cream Pie
3968) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1451294)
Posted 8 Dec 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
All the cool kids know which team has the most fun!

Team Raccoon Lovers - now at Beta and Enigma.

Join us!
3969) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1450907)
Posted 7 Dec 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mmmaaaayyybe. That's not bacon on the side, is it?

I suspect that it is a compote of thinly sliced candied kumquats with a few dried cranberries thrown in for color.
3970) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1450681)
Posted 6 Dec 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cranberry Eggnog Tart
3971) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Nelson Mandela dies at age 95 (Message 1450531)
Posted 6 Dec 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
3972) Message boards : Cafe SETI : presents (Message 1450196)
Posted 5 Dec 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Or maybe Angela should get it for Eric.

Eric does not wear scents. He is a physicist, so actually it is a good day if he remembers to put on deodorant...
3973) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Who is "liuyan"??? (Message 1450019)
Posted 4 Dec 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I got one asking about the weather. I answered it, since it seemed innocent enough.


I received a friendship request which I accepted. I had a nice short chat yesterday about our jobs. Seemed like a nice person to me. Probably just a new member who is trying to make friends.
3974) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1449812)
Posted 4 Dec 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

We laugh a whole lot, and crunch like crazy. Join Raccoon Lovers today!
3975) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1449807)
Posted 4 Dec 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3976) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1449457)
Posted 3 Dec 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am impressed Angela. We regularly get black capped chickadees at our feeders, but they are probably the most easily spooked of all the birds we usually get. My wife and I call our chickadees our "dine and dash" birds, because that is what they do.


Dude!!! Way to add to my "mystique"...

Ok Bill. Here is what you need to do to impress the heck out of your wife. Wait until the feeder is empty, then pull up a chair near your feeder. Your chickadees will not come to you if there are easier "pickings" available, so it is absolutely critical that the feeder be empty. Sit down and get comfortable, because day one it will take a little time. Hold out a handful of seeds and be very still. You will probably get lots of flutter-by action initially, but eventually the bravest (stupidest???) chickadee will dive-bomb your hand and make off with a seed. Once his/her flock-mates realize that you are providing food, you will start getting more dive-bombings and eventually some brief landings. After the birds become acclimated to brief landings, they will naturally increase the lengths of their stays. The little fellow Eric caught on camera actually picked up and discarded 4 or 5 seeds before he finally found the perfect one and flew away.

It started out slow, but by the end of the week every bird in the flock outside my mother-in-law's window had been trained to eat out of my hand. (Yes... Wisconsin is EXACTLY that exciting during deer hunting week when it is unsafe to venture far outdoors.)

Anyway, you know my motto. If you feed them, they will come...
3977) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1449259)
Posted 2 Dec 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello friends. As many of you have guessed from the picture Eric posted, Ol' Pookers and I went up to Northern Wisconsin to visit his parents for the Thanksgiving Holiday. We got home very late last night. Eric went into work today, but I was smart enough to take one more vacation day at home... Mount Laundry awaits me.

My mother-in-law feeds a wide variety of wild birds through the winter. I was delighted to discover that chickadees are extremely "trusting." (Eric would argue "dumb.") Either way, it did not take much to train them to land on my hand.

They look like this up close:


Happy Holidays!
3978) Message boards : Cafe SETI : whatcha reading? (Message 1447230)
Posted 27 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Experiencing a good dose of cabin fever out in the wilds of Wisconsin... I just read my father-in-law's AARP magazine, cover to cover.

Help me!!!
3979) Message boards : Politics : Come on. You know it is true!!! (Message 1444920)
Posted 21 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Anyone need a little chuckle today?
3980) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Pythons Reunite! (Message 1444916)
Posted 21 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Crunchy raw unboned real dead frogs!
3981) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Squirrel has passed over the Rainbow Bridge....... (Message 1444910)
Posted 21 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mark, we are so sorry to hear of Squirrel's passing. I know Squirrel was a good friend of yours. Wishing you peace during this difficult time.

Angela & Eric
3982) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Pat (My WIFE) has been sick again (Message 1444337)
Posted 20 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sending our care and concern...

Angela & Eric
3983) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1443634)
Posted 18 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Maple pie
3984) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1443630)
Posted 18 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Leave some popcorn out for them. They like to eat popcorn when they are watching movies.
3985) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Best sounding/favourite business names and cool logos. (Message 1443622)
Posted 18 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There is a newish company in Detroit called Shinola of Detroit. They sell lovely well made watches, leather goods and bicycles, and they are trying to revitalize Detroit. I recently was given one of their watches, which given how well it is crafted, should last my lifetime and a few lifetimes after mine. I also happen to like their name.
3986) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1443606)
Posted 18 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We're cute, we're smart and we're a whole lotta trouble!!!

Be one of us.


Join Team Raccoon today.
3987) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1443604)
Posted 18 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...Still, there is no food in that room, so what was the
raccoon looking for?...

Food. You know there was no food there, but the raccoon did not know that until he/she checked it out. A raccoon's motto is "you never know until you try".
3988) Message boards : Cafe SETI : where have you been? (in the US) (Message 1443533)
Posted 17 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
For Bill...




For Monday...
3989) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1443527)
Posted 17 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I blew up the picture so I could see your face, and it made Adam's face look like a vulture.

Dude, I have enough chins without you adding any!!!


Do you borrow him specially for Halloween?

LOL!!!!!! I do love a theme and "attention to detail" is my middle name, but Adam happens to live year round (even in October) with my cousin Maria. Maria and I went for a little walk and Adam could not be convinced to stay home. Eric and I don't have any dogs, but whenever we want to walk one we can generally find one. Most often we walk our neighbor's dog Maya. Maya is mostly half lab and mostly half Rhodesian Ridgeback, so she loves people and wants to hunt every cat in the neighborhood.
3990) Message boards : Cafe SETI : You're driving me buggy! (or, don't post bugs in my thread thread) (Message 1443296)
Posted 17 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Orbetta and Henrietta send out their love to the flood evacuees.
3991) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIX - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe (Message 1443292)
Posted 17 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome friends to the 19th installment of the Critter Cafe.

If you are new to the Critter Cafe, welcome! We have only two rules here.

1. Nothing is off topic
2. All are welcome

Critter Cafe Installment #19 is dedicated to our recently departed friend, John Clark. John was a frequent poster in the Critter Cafe and I know we are all feeling his loss deeply.

In light of John's love of dogs, here is a recent picture of me with my buddy Adam. Adam is a Transylvanian Hound.
3992) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1443290)
Posted 17 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Where did everyone go?

Things are generally more quiet on the weekends. Also, many people are really feeling the loss of our friend John, and maybe posting a little less because of it.

I was asked several weeks ago to start a new thread for the Critter Cafe. I shall do so tonight and dedicate the next installment to John.

3993) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us A Caption #54 (Message 1442605)
Posted 15 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Some "boxer" you turned out to be!!!
3994) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Philippines (Message 1441852)
Posted 13 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's amazing isn't it! When one half of the world isn't fighting the other half, there are times we can all all pull together to help one another. Why can't we do that ordinarily without needing a storm?


+1
3995) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool 4.0 (Message 1441850)
Posted 13 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is it for scraping avocado flesh out of halved avocados?
3996) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us A Caption #54 (Message 1441847)
Posted 13 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Only four captions, so EVERYBODY is a winner.

The grand winner is Bill Walker with:

Thought bubble above the dog: "This is such fun!"

Thought bubble above the cat: "I hate them. I hate them all."

3997) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Philippines (Message 1441465)
Posted 12 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A terrible event. My heart breaks.
3998) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark (Message 1441454)
Posted 12 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The Cafe will be less merry without our dear friend John. Eric and I send heartfelt condolences to his family. Rest In Peace, dear John.
3999) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TOP 10% & 1/4 of a Million (Message 1441115)
Posted 11 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations!!!
4000) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us A Caption #54 (Message 1441092)
Posted 11 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Rules are as follows.

Winner posts a new picture, waits 24 hours...

After the 24 hours, he/she counts the number of captions, if the sum is less than ten, he/she waits another 24...

After ten captions or NO LATER THAN 48 hours, the winner of the last round declares the winner of the current round - whatever caption strikes him/her as funniest: he/she also picks a second and third place (more on that below)

The winner of the round has 24 hours to post another picture to be captioned; if no picture within the 24 hours, (or notice posted by the winner that he/she is looking...) then second place is up, who also has 24 hours...

During breaks in the action, (between a winner being declared and the next picture posted) general discussion may take place... Moderators should be aware that a picture posting may cross with a "general discussion" type posting.
4001) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1441075)
Posted 10 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4002) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us A Caption #54 (Message 1441074)
Posted 11 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win!

My dear friends, please caption this...
4003) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thank you for all your feedback (Message 1438683)
Posted 6 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Fred, you absolutely rock!!!
4004) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53 (Message 1438675)
Posted 6 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Why buy the bull, when you can get the cr*p for free?
4005) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #7 (Message 1438674)
Posted 6 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gary asked that his thread be locked, so I just had Eric do it.

It is my honor to host Gary's thread until the happy day when he wants it back.

Discuss away, dear friends!
4006) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53 (Message 1438212)
Posted 5 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh dear. With all the good-bye drama going on, I quite forgot to mind the thread. Time to declare a winner.

Honorable "unmentionable" goes to Michael Belanger with:
"If that's how big his mouth is, I wonder if......you know.
(Merciful heavens, Mr. Belanger!!! I do believe I'm blushing.)

Third Place goes to Rob Smith with:
"How the heck does that lady do it? - I'm shovelling as fast as I can and she's prancing around but is now four plates ahead of me...."

Second Place goes to N9JFE with:
"I pity the fool that eats this crap."

And our winner and current champion is the lovely Miz Ulibelle with:
"Martha coming out of a new face lift procedure has to leave the taste test to Mr T."

PM going out to our winner now...
4007) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hello (Message 1438143)
Posted 5 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm pretty happy here. I think I'll stay...
4008) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I got a question (Message 1437656)
Posted 4 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"It is our policy that when a user creates multiple accounts, if one account gets banished they all get banished. To do otherwise would open the doors for people to just create multiple accounts for posting offensive material so their main account isn't at risk."

Does everyone wish to see the Seti War erupt again which will end up costing us the forum itself?

Multiple account holders should receive a lengthy ban.


I think you are misunderstanding my husband. There is nothing wrong with having multiple accounts, but if a user gets into trouble with one of them, all the known accounts will be banned.

Multiple accounts are ok, but expect them all to be hidden if you are banned.
4009) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I got a question (Message 1437252)
Posted 3 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Perma-bans are problematic. Difficult posters just open new accounts... sometimes 30 or 40 new accounts!

Contrary to popular belief, the purpose of a banishment period is not supposed to be "punishment". Rather, banishment is a tool moderators have the option of using to get some relief from posters who are being so problematic that moderating becomes extremely difficult. Moderators are supposed to use a "light hand", but if a poster is being super difficult, no moderator needs to be a hero.

We've all had a post or two hidden, right? You find that irritating, perhaps initially even infuriating, but you rather quickly brush it off and move on because you are an adult with normal cognitive functioning. Folks who are banned again and again and again tend not to be so robustly normal. As annoying as we may find them, our problematic posters are also in need of our understanding and our compassion. Don't get me wrong. We do not need to tolerate offensive behavior. Just try to keep a tiny place in your heart open for those who struggle with mental illness or other types of illnesses.
4010) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Goodbye (Message 1437063)
Posted 2 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think this discussion brings up an interesting point. We all have a beach we are willing to die on. This happens to be WN's.

There is nothing wrong with taking a principled stand. Several years ago the management at the hospital where I work took a position that I felt was not in the best interest of some of the patients in my care. I objected verbally, but the policy remained. I objected in writing, but the policy remained. I then tendered my written resignation with a carefully crafted letter stating why I felt the particular policy was in violation of our hospital's mission statement. I explained that I was unable to continue working for an organization that violated its own mission statement.

Suddenly everything changed. My manager made calls. My manager's manager made calls. I had drinks and dinner with a manager 3 levels above my current manager. I argued persuasively during that off site "meeting" (drank in extreme moderation...) and made sure that I was armed for that meeting with data that supported my stand.

Guess what?!!! I got that policy changed and I will celebrate 25 years of employment with that hospital this coming February. One person can make a difference.

WK, I am sad to see you go, but I completely understand if this issue is your particular "beach".
4011) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Goodbye (Message 1436870)
Posted 2 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't think hunting for "Sasquatch" belongs on the History Channel, but guess what...

I think it is asking a great deal of moderators to expect them to be able to determine what is and what is not science in every conceivable field. While I agree with WK that intelligent design is most certainly not science, I think that moving or hiding nutter-butter posts would be much like battling a hydra on a very slippery slope.

In a large public forum there are bound to be some posters with tenuous grasps on reality. The energetic amongst us battle ignorance with thoughtfully written, helpful information, and I salute these noble individuals. The less energetic amongst us (me, for example...) just change the channel when Sasquatch comes on.

4012) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Halloween Chat Room (Message 1436860)
Posted 2 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Do you let Eric do anything fun?

Not if it involves a high risk of him getting a head injury.
4013) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53 (Message 1436842)
Posted 2 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.

My dear friends, please caption this:

4014) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Halloween Chat Room (Message 1436836)
Posted 2 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes quite steep, but still far enough on the bottom, that even Couch Potato Kids can make it.
May I suggest some out door advertising?


I'm going to look for some battery powered light strings in the after-Halloween sales. Orange lights twisted around the handrails might be nice. We don't have an outside electrical outlet, nor do I want Eric climbing on our roof, so outside "advertising" will be somewhat limited.
4015) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I got a question (Message 1436590)
Posted 1 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Half of Eric's vintage computer collection is mine, just as half of my Halloween decorations are his. Community property, don't cha know...

Welcome, Patrice!!!
4016) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1436546)
Posted 1 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is this one of those alternate universe threads?
4017) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1436503)
Posted 1 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just the opposite of gravity, interesting. ;)

Huh????????!!!!!!!!
4018) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Halloween Chat Room (Message 1436494)
Posted 1 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We had about a dozen visitors last night, which is high for us. We live on a steep hill and typically range 0 to 4. I was delighted, of course. I've always wanted to live in an area where the doorbell rings like crazy all night. When we moved from the city (Oakland) to the suburb where we live now, I was sure our Halloweens would be "spooktacular" and I was disappointed to discover how few kids we average on our particular street.

This year we gave out full sized Hershey chocolate bars (and toothbrushes - an homage to my departed dentist father) to try and drum up a little business. In previous years we've given out pretzel and cheese packs, along with the toothbrushes. I've heard there are "good candy house" maps out there now and I wanted to see if increasing the pay-out would get us more visitors this year and also next year. A pack of seven "tweens" visited last and after collecting their candy bars and toothbrushes, I saw them all sit down on our bottom steps and do something with their phones. I sure hope we got a 5 star candy rating from that crowd!!!

4019) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1436488)
Posted 1 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How are the Halloween arangements working, Ang?

What goes up, must come down...
4020) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool 4.0 (Message 1436486)
Posted 1 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A pie breather thing - to let the steam out of the base of a pie and so stop the "gravy explosion"

Close enough! We have a winner.

On this side of the pond it is most commonly called a "pie bird" and it is placed in the middle of the top crust of a 2 crust pie to let steam escape. (Cutting a few slits in the pie does the same thing and although I own a pie bird (somewhere....) I have never bothered to use it because slits are easier.

I don't know about "gravy explosions", but if there are no openings in a top crust, it will get soggy from the moisture build up below.

PM going out to our winner now.
4021) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Halloween Chat Room (Message 1436373)
Posted 1 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
All other holidays pale in comparison...
4022) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1436370)
Posted 1 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4023) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Halloween Chat Room (Message 1436369)
Posted 1 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy Halloween!!!

I just wanted to share with you a photo of my mantle from this year, before I take it all down this weekend.
As you can see, I collect Halloween teapots.


(Is anyone else here suffering from "post party depression?")
4024) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53 (Message 1436366)
Posted 1 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eating out is over-rated. I enjoy a bag lunch every day!!!
4025) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool 4.0 (Message 1436365)
Posted 1 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pie crust weight. Used when baking an empty pie crust, to stop the crust from buckling or bubbling...


Not a weight. Not for blind baking an empty pie shell.
4026) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool 4.0 (Message 1436328)
Posted 1 Nov 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
something to do with a pie?

Yes, you are correct. This item is used in the baking of pies.

Come up with the correct term and specific use for this and the win is yours.
4027) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool 4.0 (Message 1435897)
Posted 31 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A dispenser?

Nope.
4028) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool 4.0 (Message 1435891)
Posted 31 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Rock Salt Dispenser?

Nope.
4029) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool 4.0 (Message 1435888)
Posted 31 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

What is it called?
What is its culinary function?
4030) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool 4.0 (Message 1435862)
Posted 31 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.

Several summers ago I ate a delicious Moroccan stew, served from a tangine, in London, with ex-pat friends, on the fourth of July. It is my oddest Independence Day memory, but one I shall always treasure.

I'm still at work, but I will post a picture tonight when I get home.
4031) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1435448)
Posted 30 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

I iz "omnivore", but not sure dis iz food...
4032) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool 4.0 (Message 1435440)
Posted 30 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is a Moroccan tangine.
4033) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Marcia Wallace, 70, actress (Message 1434603)
Posted 28 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
4034) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 200 - If you know what I mean :) (Message 1434540)
Posted 27 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations ZP!
4035) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Legendary rocker Lou Reed, dead at 71 (Message 1434539)
Posted 27 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
4036) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1434114)
Posted 26 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Since Cowboy Scarecrow Dave is a cryin' in his beer today over the stunning Husker football loss, I will post for him the obvious response to the comments in this thread.

Cow Patti
4037) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1433879)
Posted 26 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Your kids are really cute, Monday.
4038) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Your Puns O Fun (Message 1433878)
Posted 26 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm just happy that the Pun Room is no longer dead... I suppose that would make it UNDEAD...
4039) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Halloween Chat Room (Message 1433623)
Posted 25 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Never mind the nibbles, what about the main meal?

Beverage choices include hot apple spider, spiked boo-berry punch and a variety of sparkling swamp waters.

The appetizer buffet includes chain rattlin' cheese-chutney spread for crackers, toadstool tartletts, a frightening fresh fruit platter, shrieking shrimp with calamitous cocktail sauce, vampire vineleaves with terrifying tzatziki sauce, bacon wrapped albino spider bites, and pumpkin seeds.

Dessert offerings include cauldron kettle corn, bat entrails and petrifying pumpkin bars.

Party favors are bags of perilous peanut brittle.
4040) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Your Puns O Fun (Message 1433617)
Posted 25 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What is the vampire's favorite fruit?

A blood orange, of course!!!
4041) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Halloween Chat Room (Message 1433609)
Posted 25 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I just finished baking up a double batch of bat entrails.
4042) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1433604)
Posted 25 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Things aren't working right.

Well, at your advanced age things are bound to go awry from time to time...
4043) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1433598)
Posted 25 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Near sunset We have something I think Angela might not have, BATS...


We have bats in our area. The only bat I've ever seen, however, has been a sick bat. I gave it a wide berth.
4044) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Your Puns O Fun (Message 1433594)
Posted 25 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ain't it the tooth...
4045) Message boards : Cafe SETI : You're driving me buggy! (or, don't post bugs in my thread thread) (Message 1432496)
Posted 24 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That is a beautiful insect, Suzie-Q.
4046) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1432495)
Posted 24 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh NO! It's a Giant Oreo cookie with chocolate frosting... ;)

Dude, that is a Boston Cream Pie!!!
4047) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy National Sausage Pizza Day! (Message 1432493)
Posted 24 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I sure am lichen all these puns...
4048) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1432492)
Posted 24 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Mmmmm
4049) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 199 - autumn specifics (Message 1432079)
Posted 23 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Beep - cha cha cha!
4050) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy National Sausage Pizza Day! (Message 1432055)
Posted 23 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Q: Why did the fungus hate living in a condo?

A: ... well, there wasn't MUSHROOM!!!
4051) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1432014)
Posted 22 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela! One of your little friends just knocked over my recycling bin.


Dave, it may have been one of my friends, but it was not one of the "little" ones!
4052) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Life without Laughter (Message 1431741)
Posted 22 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Three years ago my brother John died of a rare bone marrow disorder. We were born 13 months apart. Not a day goes by that I do not miss him, but life if for the living.
4053) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Boo Kitty (2013 version) (Message 1431740)
Posted 22 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Good enough to make Fuzzy hiss!
4054) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Last post for a lonnnnnnnnnnnng time then. (Message 1431198)
Posted 20 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2 hours and 21 minutes.

Ok, who won the poll with a guess that was closest without going over?
4055) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53 (Message 1431170)
Posted 20 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Spider Claus gets an early start wrapping gifts for the holiday season
4056) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Last post for a lonnnnnnnnnnnng time then. (Message 1431126)
Posted 20 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think we all know that your identity is too tied up in this project for that to be true.

So goodbye for now, Kittyman.
4057) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Now I gotta ask this......... (Message 1431102)
Posted 20 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm not even going to ask what the hell this is supposed to mean.

Mark is in the habit of making thinly veiled death threats. He does this with great regularity. He directs these death threats towards people he does not like - politicians, community leaders, even fellow posters in this community. Mark keeps his death threats vague enough to avoid having them hidden. Sometimes he does this by couching his death threats in movie quotes. Sometimes he just leaves names and other specifics off. Hate-radio and hate-television hosts use the same tactics, and then they scramble like crazy to avoid prosecution when of their crazy listeners does something evil.

Personally, I find Mark's death threats to be unacceptable and I am starting a people's revolt against this behavior. From now on, whenever I read one of Mark's death threats, I am going to red-x it. Under the Comments section I am simply going to write "death threat - offensive". It pains me to do this, as I am a big, big, big lover of free speech, but I am also a big, big, big lover of civil behavior.

Dear friends, I'm afraid that my tolerance for the intolerant is at its end. If you feel similarly, please join me in my campaign to eliminate death threats from our forum.
4058) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Your Puns O Fun (Message 1431018)
Posted 20 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Goodnight friends!
4059) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Your Puns O Fun (Message 1431015)
Posted 20 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Whoops... my bad. If I had viewed the post to my POSTERIOR, I would have noticed that you conceded.

Thank you.
4060) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Your Puns O Fun (Message 1431014)
Posted 20 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Jim! Quit stalling!!! Hand over my crown, or at least the KEIster to the city!!!
4061) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Your Puns O Fun (Message 1431012)
Posted 20 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just a quick reminder buoys and gulls you are fishing close to the rod and line

Fear not, good moderator. We have nearly emptied our ARSEnal of puns.
4062) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Your Puns O Fun (Message 1431010)
Posted 20 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well my pundragon wagon is missing a few wheels, So Im ready to call it quits myself. It is 2:17 am EDT here.
So any one who wants to partake in the fun is welcome. This is your thread also.


Well I'm BUMmed to hear you are quitting. You got some really FANNY puns in there. I had to work hard not to end up BEHIND you...

Anglea it was fun trying to stay one CHEEK ahead of you. But id say you bested me by a CRACK.


That is quite a TAIL you tell, my friend, but if you insist on its veracity, I'm afraid I must ASS you for my crown...
4063) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Your Puns O Fun (Message 1431006)
Posted 20 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well my pundragon wagon is missing a few wheels, So Im ready to call it quits myself. It is 2:17 am EDT here.
So any one who wants to partake in the fun is welcome. This is your thread also.


Well I'm BUMmed to hear you are quitting. You got some really FANNY puns in there. I had to work hard not to end up BEHIND you...
4064) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Your Puns O Fun (Message 1431004)
Posted 20 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Jim, I know you are all for pun drift, but at this hour I'm really draggin' my WAGON. If we are done with the first topic, let me know and I'll just take a SEAT on the sidelines BEHIND the cheering squad.
4065) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Your Puns O Fun (Message 1430999)
Posted 20 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, I'm afraid your pun account is being closed... it is in arREARS!!!
4066) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Your Puns O Fun (Message 1430996)
Posted 20 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
BuTT what if one has a CAN OPENER.

That one keeps in a little kitchen NOOK???
4067) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Your Puns O Fun (Message 1430994)
Posted 20 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, I don't think we CAN allow that...
4068) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Your Puns O Fun (Message 1430991)
Posted 20 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think we need to SPACE out these responses a little better...
4069) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Your Puns O Fun (Message 1430987)
Posted 20 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I knew I could COLON you to post something like that...
4070) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Your Puns O Fun (Message 1430985)
Posted 20 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Your post of admiration has a HOLLOW ring to it...
4071) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Your Puns O Fun (Message 1430982)
Posted 20 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, step down now. You know not what you CECUM...

I best leave that one alone to.


Sorry, I just saw an OPENING in the discussion and I simply could not resist...
4072) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Your Puns O Fun (Message 1430980)
Posted 20 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, step down now. You know not what you CECUM...
4073) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Your Puns O Fun (Message 1430977)
Posted 20 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yep, I'm afraid Vic inadvertently hit a HOLE in one...
4074) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Your Puns O Fun (Message 1430972)
Posted 20 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think that is an ABYSMal idea...
4075) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Your Puns O Fun (Message 1430968)
Posted 20 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I welcome all input to make this a world wide SUPPOSITORY of bad puns....

Sweet. So sweet, in fact, I might develop a CAVITY...
4076) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Now I gotta ask this......... (Message 1430965)
Posted 20 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4077) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1430942)
Posted 20 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Tentacle pot pies...

Happy Halloween!!!
4078) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53 (Message 1430899)
Posted 20 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So many captions! Thank you for all of the wonderful laughs!!!

Third place, for pandering to the judge, goes to the lovely Miz Ulibelle for her caption: "The Angela Goddess filled this with Kibble bits."

Second place, for sounding like a voice-over guy from an episode of Nova, goes to the ever-clever Skildude for his caption: "Evidence of Raccoon creativity"

But for truly understanding how raccoons always skip the fluff and get right to the heart of the matter... food, the honor of first place is indisputably awarded to KWSN The Holy Hand Grenade for his entirely appropriate caption: "I hate it when they stick a candle inside..."

Congratulations Paul!!! You have won this game yet again.

PM going out to our winner now...
4079) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Here's one for the Chocoholics (Message 1430898)
Posted 20 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4080) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1430415)
Posted 18 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Small but mighty. Avoid the holiday rush... join Team Raccoon today!

4081) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy National Sausage Pizza Day! (Message 1430348)
Posted 18 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey guys, this ain't the pun thread here ;)


Yes, we should ORGANize a protest!!!
4082) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1430346)
Posted 18 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I enjoyed watching our team stats rise. Thank you for crunching for us.

Angela
4083) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool 4.0 (Message 1430081)
Posted 18 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have always separated eggs with my clean fingers. If an egg is reasonably fresh, it is easy to just pull the yolk away from the white. If you broke a yolk in that separator and yolk ran out of the nose, you would have to scrub the whole separator out completely before you used it to separate another egg.

Two weekends ago I had need of a couple dozen egg yolks for batches of lemon curd and vanilla buttercream. It took me 26 eggs to get 24 yolks separated from 24 whites. The two eggs with broken yolks I simply scrambled for lunch. The 24 left over whites I used the next weekend in angel food cakes.

Cupboard/drawer space would be wasted on an egg separator.
4084) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool 4.0 (Message 1430076)
Posted 18 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That is completely disgusting!!!
4085) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53 (Message 1430075)
Posted 18 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.

My dear friends, please caption this:

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4086) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool 4.0 (Message 1429567)
Posted 17 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is it just a "decorative" crock for holding spatulas and wooden spoons?
4087) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool 4.0 (Message 1429541)
Posted 17 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is it a garlic keeper?
4088) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1429535)
Posted 17 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That is just the name for sprouts, I think.
4089) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy National Sausage Pizza Day! (Message 1429533)
Posted 17 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I happen to know Ulibelle's Achilles heel... (and yes it does involve a bit of meat)
4090) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy National Sausage Pizza Day! (Message 1429531)
Posted 17 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Exotic mushrooms and arugula, anyone?
4091) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Please include my mother in your prayers. (Message 1429529)
Posted 17 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have read each day the updates you post. This must be such a difficult time for you. You remain in our hearts and on our minds.
4092) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #6 (Message 1429528)
Posted 17 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I can't for the life of me see the link between getting older and yet another damn train pic.

Senility???
4093) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Now I gotta ask this......... (Message 1429527)
Posted 17 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've never had Columbus day off either.
4094) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy National Sausage Pizza Day! (Message 1429525)
Posted 17 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Meat is over-rated...
4095) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1429520)
Posted 17 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

I'd rather have micro-greens on a pizza.
4096) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW numero 198...Kitties rule! (Message 1429518)
Posted 17 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning seconds after Mike.
4097) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW numero 198...Kitties rule! (Message 1429094)
Posted 16 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodnight TL.
4098) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool 4.0 (Message 1429093)
Posted 16 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It looks like a cheese grater for grating hard cheeses like Parmigiano Reggiano or Grana Padano.
4099) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Big cat rescue.com (Message 1429089)
Posted 16 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nope. It is our Spawnie cat. He is a good boy... except when he is not.
4100) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53 (Message 1428984)
Posted 15 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The force is strong with this one...
4101) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Big cat rescue.com (Message 1428831)
Posted 15 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Spawnie-boy loves you! I'll give him that scratch tonight.
4102) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1428825)
Posted 15 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh my goodness!!! Is that the Raccoon Lovers Team I see there in the #10 position? Why yes... I do believe that it is.

Mark, aspirin and black coffee are on the house. What a ride!

A few more days and the kitties must be traveling onward.
They have been very happy to contribute to you for a while.


Yes, I understand that tomorrow is the big day that your return to your original team. I have enjoyed watching our Raccoon Lovers team stats rise, but I also look forward to seeing what our little team can accomplish on its own.
4103) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1428752)
Posted 15 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh my goodness!!! Is that the Raccoon Lovers Team I see there in the #10 position? Why yes... I do believe that it is.

Mark, aspirin and black coffee are on the house. What a ride!
4104) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Big cat rescue.com (Message 1428748)
Posted 15 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I have had seven cats together and four are still living. All of them were/are freebie mutt-kitties. Not a beauty queen in the lot, but we love them all. It is so hard for me to pass a cage full of rescue kittens and not take several of them home, but we simply have to hold at four.
4105) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool 4.0 (Message 1428347)
Posted 14 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think it might be a meat tenderizer.
4106) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Challenge. (Message 1428213)
Posted 13 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well isn't that special?!!!

Moderators, please move this thread to the Team Recruitment Center.

4107) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Halloween Chat Room (Message 1428109)
Posted 13 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Herds of goats are for hire in our area as well. I have seen them used for "fire control" on the hillsides. They munch everything down better than weed whackers can do. I don't know if they eat eucalyptus saplings or not. (And as an aside, I've always wanted to put a cool job title down on my tax return such as "Modern Day Goatherd"!)

But, I return you now to the glorious topic at hand...
4108) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW numero 198...Kitties rule! (Message 1427928)
Posted 13 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodnight friends. I'm going to hit the hay as well.
4109) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Halloween Chat Room (Message 1427925)
Posted 13 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nice idea Ian, but I'm afraid that would only compound the problem.
4110) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW numero 198...Kitties rule! (Message 1427921)
Posted 13 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What a coincidence! Me too!!!
4111) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Halloween Chat Room (Message 1427918)
Posted 13 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
before the eucalyptus kicks in!


Man are you lucky I am not a kid in your neighbourhood.....

I lived at a house that was shaded by some really tall eucalyptus trees, sad to say the trees are gone, though the house where I lived still exists, mostly unchanged, the nearby hill a street over, leveled.


I don't know how things are down south, but up here eucalyptus is an "invasive exotic". They are fairly flammable, they drop dangerous slippery leaves all over our winding hilly roads and nothing eats them, including the deer!
4112) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1427911)
Posted 13 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I come from a place far away from this planet.
I hope some day to return there.

LOL!!! When the Mother Ship arrives to retrieve you from your field work duties, I shall gladly escort you aboard, good sir. I may even send you off with a box of homemade cookies for the road.


I think you are intelligent enough to understand what I am saying...

LOL again!!! I think you grossly over-estimate my intellectual capacity. Most of the time I haven't a clue as to what you are saying.


4113) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool 4.0 (Message 1427872)
Posted 13 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is it used to clean out the insides of pumpkins?
4114) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1427871)
Posted 13 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I read what you said, and you cannot dismiss it now.

If I may paraphrase a friend... Kids, I just gotta say what a gotta say. Got to speak the truth. I'm just being truthful. Why would I ever want to dismiss the truth?


I have in the interim, not only donated my considerable computing power, but the raw cash to power them, and the once in a while cash donation to Seti.

I love Halloween. Every year in October, I bring a giant plastic cauldron into work and I fill it with candy for my colleagues. I keep the cauldron full from October 1st through October 31st, simply to share my exuberance for the season. I have been doing this for 25 years. I do not expect to be assigned a lighter patient caseload because I feed people candy. I do not expect to get pay raises because I feed people candy. I don't even expect people to like me because I bring in candy. I just bring candy into work because doing so gives me great pleasure. I had always assumed that you power your kitty farm, crunch night and day, run fundraisers for the project and donate personally to the project because you love looking for aliens as much as I love celebrating Halloween. I am saddened to learn otherwise.
4115) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1427813)
Posted 12 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I do not enjoy seeing double digit threads by ANY poster on page one... or on page two... or on page three for that matter.

Mark, you claim you like truthfulness and straight talk. I would be delighted to indulge you.

When you flood the forum with your threads, I think you are being quite inconsiderate of other readers, other posters and other thread masters. Even when the content of your posts falls within acceptable posting limits, I find your weekend habit of monopolizing page one with your threads to be off-putting at best, and very rude at worst.

I would hope that, out of consideration for others, you would voluntarily consider use of a journal-style thread for collection of your musings.

I would also hope that Fred and his moderators would consider imposing use of a journal-style thread upon you, if your disruptive behavior could not be otherwise minimized.
4116) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1427793)
Posted 12 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Such a thread would give moderators a place to move posts that are not in violation of the rules, but that are so similar in nature that they are related.

Opening the bug thread turned out to be a nice place for many of us, Vic included, to share our interests regarding insects.
4117) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW numero 198...Kitties rule! (Message 1427760)
Posted 12 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Only to be out-pinged by a dark horse...

PING!
4118) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1427752)
Posted 12 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wouldn't it be fun to be so famous that people know who you are just by hearing your first name?
4119) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Halloween Chat Room (Message 1427709)
Posted 12 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A horse is a dangerous animal...
4120) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1427706)
Posted 12 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I know some of the snotty responses I shall get.....but........

Cher is going to appear at the Milwaukee Civic Center next summer.
This is about 100 miles south of the kittyman.
I think I need to dive in for tickets now.

I know some of you consider me an old F///////
And a pitiful few of you don't consider Cher an artist.

I do.



In this thread one is free to discuss anything. I set up the thread with open parameters, so a post about Cher is just fine here.
4121) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy National Sausage Pizza Day! (Message 1427556)
Posted 12 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Does that mean you would order it de-livered? :-P

Good sir, get thee to a Pun Thread!!!
4122) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I happen to like insults....... (Message 1427547)
Posted 12 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just a moderator doing a bit of clean up work.

Thank you Mod Squad!!!
4123) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Astronaut John Carpenter passes at 88. (Message 1427356)
Posted 11 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
4124) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy National Sausage Pizza Day! (Message 1427298)
Posted 11 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I love Round Table's Montague's All Meat Marvel!!! :-)

LOL! When we order from Round Table we get half Montague's All Meat Marvel and half Guinevere's Garden. I guess opposites attract...
4125) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1427284)
Posted 11 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I put an add over in the Recruitment area. I am thrilled with our team's progress and I'm fine with our stats dropping when Mark leaves, but I do think it would be fun to break into the top ten before the kitties return to the GPU Users Group.
4126) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy National Sausage Pizza Day! (Message 1427282)
Posted 11 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Last night I had grilled figs, goat cheese, toasted walnuts and a sprinkling of microgreens on a woodfired pizzetta. Beats sausage ANY day!!!
4127) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Raccoon Lovers Want You (Message 1427280)
Posted 11 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey crunchers - interested in joining the most upwardly mobile team currently crunching this project?

Come walk with us through raccoon territory.

All are welcome.

Angela Korpela & Team Raccoon
4128) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy National Sausage Pizza Day! (Message 1427273)
Posted 11 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ich! The last thing I want on pizza is meat!!!
4129) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Halloween Chat Room (Message 1427215)
Posted 11 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Four more boxes to go through this weekend, and then I'm officially "decorated"!
4130) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53 (Message 1427214)
Posted 11 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's not easy keeping their little webbed feet in shoes!
4131) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1426929)
Posted 11 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have never seen raccoons cooperate like that. They are smart, but not THAT smart. I am guessing this is a darling little photoshop job. Very, very, very cute though!!!
4132) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1426502)
Posted 10 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

The Raccoon Lovers moved into the 13th spot today!

Hey friends - it is not too late to join the most upwardly mobile team crunching this project. All the cool kids are there...

Step right up to the bar and I'll serve you a drink!

4133) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool 4.0 (Message 1426497)
Posted 10 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is it simply a cover to keep a plate of food warm?
4134) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1426496)
Posted 10 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela, How are the 5 W's doing?

The 5 W's, presumably, have gone their separate ways. We never see all 5 together.

We know we still get occasional raccoon visitors because we put some food for Spawnie up high, so Purvis won't eat it all, and the food disappears before Spawnie can eat it all. It has to be a raccoon since skunks are not good climbers and opossums are too dumb to figure out what to climb up to get to the food. One time we did see a raccoon eating Spawnie's elevated food. Which W it was I'll never know.

I will try to snap a picture if I see any of the 5 W's in the next week or so, but it will be a long shot at best. I really did not have the time to socialize this year's litter, so they are pretty wild. I have been very busy with family and work obligations this year, and on top of that Eric and I have done a ridiculous amount of traveling for business and for pleasure. I was never really home consistently enough to train this litter of raccoons during that critical period when Pilar, their mama, was hungry enough to really, really, really want the extra calories at the same time that the 5 W's would have been young enough to be strongly influenced by my behavior modification magic.

If I even see a raccoon long enough to take a picture, the picture will have to be taken through a window, because none of my current raccoon visitors tolerate my presence outside! How sad is that?!!! Yes friends, I'm afraid that this year I have miserably failed in my execution of CRL duties.
4135) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Why my RAC is dropping... (Message 1426488)
Posted 10 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you both a lifetime of love and happiness.

Angela & Eric
4136) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark's family (Message 1426442)
Posted 10 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I send out our heartfelt condolences John. May warm memories of the life of love you shared with Sheila help sustain you during this most difficult of times.
4137) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #5 (Message 1426037)
Posted 9 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4138) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1426035)
Posted 9 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, Purvis seems to still be living under our deck. Because we didn't manage to socialize raccoons into living under there this year, Purvis has pretty much appropriated this prime piece of real estate.

Orbetta and Henrietta are doing just fine. They are getting nice and big, especially Henrietta who had the good spidey sense (or probably just pure spidey dumb luck) to construct her web next to our porch light. She eats more often than Orbetta does, so she is somewhat larger.
4139) Message boards : Cafe SETI : You're driving me buggy! (or, don't post bugs in my thread thread) (Message 1426032)
Posted 9 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric bombs our garage from time to time, because his cluttering habits create fabulous black widow spider habitat. Eric also bombs my potting shed for the same reason. Sometimes desperate times call for desperate measures.
4140) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1426000)
Posted 9 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Maybe black and white cats resemble skunks!
4141) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1425992)
Posted 9 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"Domestic skunks" would have had their scent glands removed... but still I cannot imagine 50 of ANYTHING in one's home!!! While her home may not smell like skunk musk, at the very least it must smell like skunk poop!!!

I do, however, agree with the Crazy Skunk Lady on one point. Skunks are beautiful and terribly misunderstood animals. I am happy to have them frequent my backyard.
4142) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Please include my mother in your prayers. (Message 1425574)
Posted 8 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You have many friends here. It is my hope that posting updates helps you process what you are experiencing. You should feel free to express yourself as needed here. You are in our hearts and on our minds. We send our support and our love.
4143) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1425094)
Posted 7 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoon Lovers are on page 1 of the stats page!!!

Watch out GPUUG... we're eying your lofty #1 position...
4144) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1424420)
Posted 5 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh my!!! Team Raccoon moved up to #24!!! We are almost on page one of the Stats!
4145) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1424418)
Posted 5 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Why are the raccoons in the most recent two photos out in the daytime?


Young raccoons sometimes go out during the day. If you go to YouTube and type in Too Many Fermented Plums, you will see some babies from last year's litter enjoying a little frolic in our backyard. I think it was around 11am when we filmed that. Also if you type in Donna and Marcel have an adventure, you will see young raccoons in our backyard out at cocktail time - 5 pm-ish in the summer when it stays light until 9pm.
4146) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1424189)
Posted 4 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoon Lovers now number 15 members and we are #31 in the Team Stats. What a meteoric rise!!! I see that the auction thread in Number Crunching has been closed because Uli has confirmed all donations. Thank you again to all who gave so generously of their time and resources to participate in this fun fund raiser.

Mark, I shall be sad to see you leave the Raccoon Lovers Team this weekend.
4147) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Red October 2013... Tom Clancy left us for a better world... (Message 1423444)
Posted 3 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
4148) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool 4.0 (Message 1423443)
Posted 3 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is it a mocahete for use in cuisines from south of the border?
4149) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53 (Message 1423441)
Posted 3 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm counting the days until I can stop crunching for raccoons!!!
4150) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1423390)
Posted 3 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow! Raccoon Lovers are the #40 team - page 2 of the stats page!!! Those kitties must be crunching over-time.

Thank you to all who have joined my team, temporarily or permanently.
4151) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1422984)
Posted 2 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Check out the Team Stats!!! Thanks to the awesome crunching power of the kitty farm, the Raccoon Lovers Team is #46.
4152) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Halloween Chat Room (Message 1422981)
Posted 2 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A nice bouquet of flowers for Eric and for WinterKnight...
4153) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Halloween Chat Room (Message 1422941)
Posted 2 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What is your Halloween style? Creepy? Gory? Vintage? I call my style "Halloween Elegance". Eric calls it nuts.
4154) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Halloween Chat Room (Message 1422918)
Posted 2 Oct 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I put up my Halloween village last night. Tonight I'm working on the fireplace mantle.

Boo!
4155) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1422736)
Posted 30 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you to Uli for organizing, thread managing and the issuing of gentle reminders to members of our winning team.

Thank you to the members of non-winning teams who donated anyway.
4156) Message boards : Cafe SETI : tlptpw 197 IRATA rules! (Message 1422734)
Posted 30 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Vic!

My turn next... WIN!!!!!
4157) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1422694)
Posted 30 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4158) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Please include my mother in your prayers. (Message 1422619)
Posted 30 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We send out our heartfelt care and concern. We wish you peace and comfort during this difficult time. We wish the best possible outcome for your mother.

Angela & Eric
4159) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Any Aspergians out there? (Message 1422412)
Posted 30 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am one of those boring "neuro-typicals", but as a hospital based speech and language pathologist I have worked for nearly 25 years with children who have special learning needs. Children who have high functioning forms of autism spectrum disorders have been some of my favorite patients over the years. Children with autism spectrum disorders typically make up about a third of my active caseload. I only have one patient right now with Aspergers Syndrome, but I can assure you that he is an absolute delight!

It has been my clinical impression that some very cherished members of this happy crunching community are most probably adults with autism spectrum disorders. (Sorry Mark, your posts, at least, give me no indication that you have an ASD. Of course we have not met in person...)

Anyway, seti@home is a VERY welcoming place where friends can interact, collaborate and simply enjoy the company of others who share their passions and interests.

And as for Halloween - hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I took today off of work to begin the decorating process. It is my absolute favorite time of the the year.

Obegone, please set up a Halloween thread. Many of us would happily participate there.

4160) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1422398)
Posted 30 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends!!!

Eric and I were out of state this weekend, so we were unable to follow the auction closely. We are home now and I would like to express my heartfelt congratulations to the GPUUG for maintaining kitty crunching privileges. I always enjoy spirited competition and this auction delivered plenty of it!!!

Thank you to ALL the crunchers who participated in this auction and thank you also to ALL seti@home crunchers who give so generously and so tirelessly of their time, talents, efforts and energy to further this project.

You all rock!!!
4161) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1422397)
Posted 30 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends!!!

Eric and I were out of state this weekend, so we were unable to follow the auction closely. We are home now and I would like to express my heartfelt congratulations to the GPUUG for maintaining kitty crunching privileges. I always enjoy spirited competition and this auction delivered plenty of it!!!

Thank you to ALL the crunchers who participated in this auction and thank you also to ALL seti@home crunchers who give so generously and so tirelessly of their time, talents, efforts and energy to further this project.

You all rock!!!
4162) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1421309)
Posted 28 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I have a happy social event to attend tomorrow, so we will not be able to monitor the auction results. I will tune in when I can, to see how this interesting auction turns out.

Goodnight friends!
4163) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1421299)
Posted 28 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Per my calculations we have the following combined bid for the Raccoon Lovers Team.

$300 - Angela
$10 - Danimal
$50 - Chris S (1) & (2)
$60 - {BDC} Thomas Dupont
$51 - Rob
$50 - Mike
$20 - Uli
$50 - Richard H.
$100 - Mark Stevenson
$300 - Josef W. Segur
$50 - Bernie Vine
$20 - Julie
$30 - Eyrie
$25 - James Sotherden
Total $1116.00

I believe this now means we forfeit the $300...

Or does it??? These donations are coming in faster than I can post!!!

Thank you one and all!!!
4164) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1421297)
Posted 28 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Uli, it looks like Eric took your new amount into consideration when he started walking his little math maze.

Per my calculations we have the following combined bid for the Raccoon Lovers Team.

$300 - Angela
$10 - Danimal
$50 - Chris S (1) & (2)
$60 - {BDC} Thomas Dupont
$51 - Rob
$50 - Mike
$20 - Uli
$50 - Richard H.
$100 - Mark Stevenson
$300 - Josef W. Segur
$50 - Bernie Vine
$20 - Julie
$30 - Eyrie
Total $1091.00

4165) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1421290)
Posted 28 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My husband is diabolically clever! By donating the amount he did, it puts the Raccoon Lovers one dollar behind the GPUUG, which means Raccoon Lovers are now in second place, which means we are in line to get the promised $300, which puts us $299 ahead!

Love ya, Pookers!!!!!
4166) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1420972)
Posted 27 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Per my calculations we have the following combined bid for the Raccoon Lovers Team.

$300 - Angela
$10 - Danimal
$50 - Chris S (1) & (2)
$60 - {BDC} Thomas Dupont
$51 - Rob
$50 - Mike
$10 - Uli
$50 - Richard H.
$100 - Mark Stevenson
$300 - Josef W. Segur
$50 - Bernie Vine
$20 - Julie
$30 - Eyrie
Total $1081.00

Wow!!!

My thanks to all who have donated to support my new team. My thanks as well to all the donors on the competing teams.
4167) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1420971)
Posted 27 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Per my calculations we have the following combined bid for the Raccoon Lovers Team.

$300 - Angela
$10 - Danimal
$50 - Chris S (1) & (2)
$60 - {BDC} Thomas Dupont
$51 - Rob
$50 - Mike
$10 - Uli
$50 - Richard H.
$100 - Mark Stevenson
$300 - Josef W. Segur
$50 - Bernie Vine
$20 - Julie
$30 - Eyrie
Total $1081.00

Wow!!!

My thanks to all who have donated to support my new team. My thanks as well to all the donors on the competing teams.
4168) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1420966)
Posted 27 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ang his name is Danimal.


My apologies. It was a typo that I printed from a previous post.
4169) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1420870)
Posted 27 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow!

Scarecrow has brought out his "hover kitties"


Clearly hover kitties are involved in some sort of midwestern pre-wedding ritual...
4170) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Here's one for the Chocoholics (Message 1420869)
Posted 27 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wnat makes you think that, Vic?

4171) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1420867)
Posted 27 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yo, Kittyman... pass the kibble!!!

Num-num-gobble-gobble-munch-munch-CRUNCH!!!
4172) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1420866)
Posted 27 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yoo hoo, Kittyman!!! It looks like you might be sharing your kibble with raccoons for a long, long time.

4173) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1420865)
Posted 27 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Per my calculations we have the following combined bid for the Raccoon Lovers Team.

$300 - Angela
$10 - Daninal
$50 - Chris S (1) & (2)
$60 - {BDC} Thomas Dupont
$51 - Rob
$50 - Mike
$10 - Uli
$50 - Richard H.
$50 - Mark Stevenson
$300 - Josef W. Segur
$50 - Bernie Vine
$20 - Julie

Total $1001.00

I had absolutely no idea that raccoons were so popular and I am touched beyond words.

Thank you, friends.
4174) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1420864)
Posted 27 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Per my calculations we have the following combined bid for the Raccoon Lovers Team.

$300 - Angela
$10 - Daninal
$50 - Chris S (1) & (2)
$60 - {BDC} Thomas Dupont
$51 - Rob
$50 - Mike
$10 - Uli
$50 - Richard H.
$50 - Mark Stevenson
$300 - Josef W. Segur
$50 - Bernie Vine
$20 - Julie

Total $1001.00

I had absolutely no idea that raccoons were so popular and I am touched beyond words.

Thank you, friends.
4175) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1420856)
Posted 27 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh my goodness. It is like Christmas every time I check this thread! Thank you, thank you, thank you to all our donors, including all the new once since I checked the thread yesterday. I am simply stunned.

4176) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1420420)
Posted 26 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Team Raccoon Lovers - 9 members and growing!!! Wow.

Thank you, friends.
4177) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1420418)
Posted 26 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4178) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1420416)
Posted 26 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bump is there Ricotta in the mix?

Couldn't tell you. I was just trolling for pictures and I just grabbed one that looked interesting.

4179) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1420413)
Posted 26 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Per my calculations we have the following combined bid for the Raccoon Lovers Team.

$300 - Angela
$10 - Daninal
$30 - Chris S (2)
$30 - {BDC} Thomas Dupont
$30 - Rob
$50 - Mike
$10 - Uli
$50 - Richard H.
$50 - Mark Stevenson
$300 - Josef W. Segur

This makes an amazing total of $860.00. I am stunned. I am flattered. I am touched. I am amazed.

Thank you, friends, for your kind, thoughtful and generous donations to seti.

ang. (& Eric)
4180) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1420407)
Posted 26 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh my goodness! I just got home from work and all I can say is wow. I am absolutely floored.

Thank you, everyone, for your kind and generous donations.

Angela (and Eric)
4181) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool 4.0 (Message 1420003)
Posted 25 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
r2d2 popcorn bucket

Yep. I want one.
4182) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1419979)
Posted 25 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4183) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool 4.0 (Message 1419975)
Posted 25 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R2D2 Pepper mill and OMG I WANT ONE!!!!
4184) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1419972)
Posted 25 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Speaking of cats, you know how they like to leave dead critters as presents for their humans. Baby left me one the other day, but lacking a bird or mouse, he left me a dead cricket that made the mistake of coming into the house.

And I do hope that you thanked him!

Actually, I once read that people misinterpret kitty offerings as "gifts" and tokens of their affection. The writer of the article theorized that cats leave us dead or half dead offerings because they are appalled at our terrible hunting skills and think that we could benefit from some stalking and pouncing practice.
4185) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1419969)
Posted 25 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
.... and more babies .....

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4186) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1419944)
Posted 25 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Per my calculations we currently have the following combined bid for the Raccoon Lovers Team.

$300 - Angela
$10 - Danimal
$30 - Chris S (2)
$30 - {BDC} Thomas Dupont
$30 - Rob
$50 - Mike
$10 - Uli
$50 - Richard

This makes a current combined bid of $510.00 from the Raccoon Lovers. Thank you one and all!


Raccoon Lovers $510.00
Dutch Power Cows $500.00
GPUUG $500.00


I'm afraid those Power Cows are going to wake up to a great big surprise this morning.
4187) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1419941)
Posted 25 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodness gracious! Team Raccoon now has 8 members and we are on top in the kitty bidding war. Thank you one and all!
4188) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1419889)
Posted 24 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh Power Cows, the Raccoons are nipping at your heels!!!

Per my calculations we have the following combined bid for the Raccoon Lovers Team.

$300 - Angela
$10 - Daninal
$30 - Chris S (2)
$30 - {BDC} Thomas Dupont
$30 - Rob
$50 - Mike
$10 - Uli

This makes a current combined bid of $460.00 from the Raccoon Lovers. (Somebody please check my math and also make sure that I did not miss any pledges!)

We have now surpassed the bid of the GPUUG and we are closing in on those Dutch Power Cows. Go Team Raccoon!!!
4189) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1419790)
Posted 24 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh my goodness! I went to bed last night and there were 3 people crunching for the Raccoon Lovers. I woke up this morning and there were 7!!! I think Team Raccoon might just be the fastest growing team at seti right now.

Dutch Power Cows are now in the lead with a new $500.00 bid!
GPUUG second with $400.00
And the Raccoon Lovers in 3rd spot with $300.00


I also was surprised to see that people are still adding donations to the Raccoon Lovers bid. If my math is correct we now have a bid in at $370 thanks to $10.00 from Danimal, $30.00 from Chris S. (2) and $30.00 from {BDC} Thomas Dupont. Thank you one and all!
4190) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Car I learnt to drive in (Message 1419564)
Posted 24 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I learned how to drive in a red 1981 Honda Accord Hatchback. That car had windows in all the right places. I miss that car!
4191) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1419561)
Posted 24 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have bowed out of the bidding war, but I just started a forum for the team I created. If anyone would like to join Team Raccoon, please know that you are welcome.
4192) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1419547)
Posted 24 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have seen Uli in person many times, and I can tell you that "handsome" in an underestimate. She is lovely!!!
4193) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1419541)
Posted 24 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
$500 is too rich for my blood. I'm afraid I'm out, but I am happy to donate what I pledged. I shall enjoy watching this auction to see where the kitties end up. Thank you, Mark, for such a fun and creative way of raising funds to support this project.

Dear Angela Korpela,

Thank you for your gift of $300.00 via Discover on 09/23/2013.
Your gift will benefit the following area:

SETI@home - $300.00

Your confirmation number is: 117525

Please print a copy of this confirmation for tax purposes. You will also receive an e-mail confirmation once we have received your gift.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us by e-mail at gahelp@berkeley.edu or by phone at 1-510-643-9789.

Go Bears!
4194) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1419108)
Posted 22 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4195) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1419107)
Posted 22 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You'd best get used to working for me, Kittyman!
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4196) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1419099)
Posted 22 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I bid $300 to get the kitties to crunch for Raccoon Lovers.
4197) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1419098)
Posted 22 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela - I've just found a team I feel I can belong to - thanks :-)


LOL! Welcome to Team Raccoon, sir.
4198) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1419013)
Posted 22 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pretty girls are often quite silly

Yes they are in our books, but they are the ones that get given rocks by even sillier men.

Well put, my friend.
4199) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1419012)
Posted 22 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry Chris. I just created a team called "Raccoon Lovers" and over in Number Crunching I just outbid you, in order to get the kitties to crunch for my team.
4200) Message boards : Number crunching : A new kitty auction.......... (Message 1419011)
Posted 22 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I just created a team called "Raccoon Lovers".

I bid $100 to get the kitties to crunch for my team.
4201) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1419009)
Posted 22 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I do like a girl who appreciates good rocks. :-)

Pretty girls do like a man that can afford to buy them!

Pretty girls are often quite silly and there are some very good political reasons for not buying diamonds.
4202) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1418818)
Posted 22 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Really???!!! There are no house cats in Australia???!!! Are you sure?

Cats have been our species' domestic partners for a long, long time. I find it difficult to imagine an entire continent without house cats.
4203) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool four (Message 1418811)
Posted 22 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is that a tool for removing the scales from fish?
4204) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1418806)
Posted 22 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I throw seeds out for the squirrels and our outdoor cat just lazes about, dispassionately watching the squirrels eat.
4205) Message boards : Cafe SETI : You're driving me buggy! (or, don't post bugs in my thread thread) (Message 1418468)
Posted 21 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
One last post before I hit the hay...

Meet Orbetta.

Orbetta's sister, Henrietta, was busy dining upon a moth this evening, but Orbetta had not been so lucky, at least at the time this picture was taken. Those things stuck in her web are leaves. She is not the tidiest of housekeepers...

This picture is a little out of focus because Eric's smartypants camera was having a tough time trying to figure out what the target of this picture was. To my human brain the subject was obvious. $*(*&^%$#@#$%^ machines!!!
4206) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1418458)
Posted 21 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, that raccoon is yawning... and so am I. Goodnight friends.

4207) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1418451)
Posted 21 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4208) Message boards : Politics : Thor is the designer! (Message 1418412)
Posted 21 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
But, I don't WANT to believe that Thor is the designer. If I start thinking that, Santa might not come!
4209) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1418396)
Posted 21 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela, I want Eric to show up for a meeting with Dr. A. wearing these.

I doubt David would notice them...
4210) Message boards : Cafe SETI : You're driving me buggy! (or, don't post bugs in my thread thread) (Message 1418310)
Posted 20 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I only see the green ones here.
Looking forward to Ang's spider pic. I wondering if it an Orb weaver. I just love them.


Her web is rather orb-like, and her name is Orbetta, but I think she is just a yellow garden spider. She's good sized though. She seems to hide in my plants during the day and hang in her web at night. I'll try to snap a shot of her this evening. She is a real beauty.
4211) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The last person to blah blah 196: library edition (Message 1418306)
Posted 20 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow! Yesterday you won the Caption Contest and today you won TLPTPW. Dude, clearly you are on a roll. Quick!!! Buy a Powerball Ticket before your luck runs out!!!


Don't forget, he won LPTPHW in Beta, too!!!


Good gravy!!! Buy two tickets and mail one to me!!!
4212) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The last person to blah blah 196: library edition (Message 1418302)
Posted 20 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow! Yesterday you won the Caption Contest and today you won TLPTPW. Dude, clearly you are on a roll. Quick!!! Buy a Powerball Ticket before your luck runs out!!!
4213) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Challenge to Dyson. Make an electric clothes dryer that doesn' extract lint (Message 1418301)
Posted 20 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There are some very good reasons, not related in any way to being lazy or inconvenienced, why screwcaps are increasingly gaining favour among wine producers as the closure of choice.

Which are?


This website provides an excellent summary of most of them. (Click on each item in the list for a detailed explanation.)

I have a nose that can detect cork taint from 2,4,6-Trichloroanisole in a wine at very low levels. I have encountered very many bottles of corked wine in my time, and had many an argument with ignorant waiters and sommeliers when served tainted wine in restaurants. The advent of the screwcap has greatly reduced the frequency of cork taint. I also think that cork producers have had to clean up their act in the face of the increasingly widespread adoption of the screwcap by the wine industry.



I am pro screwcap, myself. Eric and I have encountered plenty of delicious wines that are bottled that way. Many California wineries are going in that direction.
4214) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1418290)
Posted 20 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh Monday! Don't be so conventional!!! Lots of men wear earrings these days ...

Well I don't Ang, does Eric? And would you be happy if he did?


Eric does not wear earrings. I don't think it would bother me too much if he did, so long as his ear adornment did not involve those ridiculous shower-curtainesque grommet holes that one sees so often these days on otherwise attractive looking young people.
4215) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1417996)
Posted 20 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh Monday! Don't be so conventional!!! Lots of men wear earrings these days...
4216) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1417994)
Posted 20 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I like the bug sigs. I think they're cute.
4217) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53 (Message 1417993)
Posted 20 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello all you clever people! Thank you for so many funny entries. Time to declare a winner...

Third place goes to Celt Tooth with: "The space ship Milagro passes in front of the moon."

Second place goes to Skildude with: "Kepler finds something unexpected"

But for being so delightfully topical, I simply must award the win to N9JFE (AKA Dave) for his delightfully droll entry of "...And here we see a picture from Vic's closet cam."

PM going out to our winner now.
4218) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53 (Message 1417533)
Posted 19 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
10 captions, but not quite 24 hours yet. Keep 'em coming! I'll judge tomorrow night.

4219) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1417532)
Posted 19 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4220) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1417079)
Posted 18 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Uli was correct. My last picture here was of a slice of ice cream pie... as is this!

4221) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53 (Message 1417075)
Posted 18 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.

My dear, dear friends, please caption this!

4222) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1416722)
Posted 17 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4223) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53 (Message 1416721)
Posted 17 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If you think rollin' em is hard, you should try smokin' em!
4224) Message boards : Cafe SETI : You're driving me buggy! (or, don't post bugs in my thread thread) (Message 1416720)
Posted 17 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


This gal was on my car antenna thingie for awhile.

I have had several of these spiders in my back yard
this summer, right outside the back door.


Oh! I have a beautiful yellow garden spider who has chosen to grace our entryway with her lovely web. Her name is Orbetta. I will see if I can get a picture of her up this weekend. She is stunning.
4225) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1415769)
Posted 15 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello friends. You've heard, I'm sure, that old expression "When the cat's away, the mice will play." Well... Eric went to a Cal Football game with my brother today (Go Bears!!!) and I have spent the afternoon cooking foods he hates. First off, I roasted some beets, which I later turned into a tasty salad for dinner. After the beets went into the oven, I picked a bunch of apples and made a double batch of apple-onion chutney. Now all I have to do is air out the kitchen before he gets home...

So, what do YOU do when YOUR cat is away?
4226) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1415733)
Posted 14 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4227) Message boards : Cafe SETI : You're driving me buggy! (or, don't post bugs in my thread thread) (Message 1415468)
Posted 14 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Sniff it doesn't show for me Amg.


Now it doesn't show for me either. I'm like the kiss of posting death tonight...

What I had posted was a picture of Bugs...
4228) Message boards : Cafe SETI : You're driving me buggy! (or, don't post bugs in my thread thread) (Message 1415467)
Posted 14 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, dude, I hate to break it to you, but I think those darn things have a breeding colony in your house. Sealing every last crack won't help you if they are already breeding inside your home.
4229) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1415405)
Posted 14 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4230) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1415399)
Posted 14 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I put grapes outside for the raccoons last night, along with some cat food. They ate the cat food but not the grapes. And they came inside and ate more cat food.

Hmmmmm. Perhaps grapes have become an acquired taste for my raccoons, and I erroneously presumed all raccoons liked them.
4231) Message boards : Cafe SETI : You're driving me buggy! (or, don't post bugs in my thread thread) (Message 1415397)
Posted 14 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4232) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1415198)
Posted 13 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry about the advertising. When I posted the picture it was a Smurf popping out of a pie, which I thought was appropriate for this thread. Then when I came back downstairs a bit later, the picture had turned into advertising. I just red-x'ed it myself.

ang.
4233) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #195 - Flying TARDIS, and away!!! (Message 1414545)
Posted 12 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Scott!
4234) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1414543)
Posted 12 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Boston Cream Pie... "pie" in name only
4235) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1414101)
Posted 11 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4236) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beet's Give Us a Caption # 53 (Message 1414100)
Posted 11 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Taylor Swift in a bridal gown sitting on miniature and meticulously to scale Martha Stewart patio furniture, constructed entirely of Kleenix, cotton balls and Elmers glue, all nestled in a rabbit hutch that is ridiculously over-populated with snowshoe hares.
4237) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1413611)
Posted 10 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Happy Belated Birthday, Monday!
4238) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1413608)
Posted 10 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
For the really scary bugs you have to go to North Ontario. That is where you will find the black fly, the little black fly...

Ugh! They have those in Northern Wisconsin!!! I have had personal experiences with these insects.
4239) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Well, ya know....... (Message 1413151)
Posted 9 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't believe Internet Friendships are Real Friendships.

I completely disagree!

Eric and I have broken bread with many seti crunchers that we initially met on-line. Several have been guests in our home, either for a meal or as overnight house guests. We have had the pleasure of one internet friend's adult daughter and her best friend staying with us for a week, when she and her friend were interviewing for jobs in our area. When we have traveled to other states, we have had the pleasure of sharing meals with internet friends we had not previously met in person. When last we traveled abroad, an internet friend was kind enough to treat us to a lovely meal and show us about a wildlife refuge in his country. In a few weeks, Eric and I will be attending the out of state wedding of an internet friend we have not yet met in person.

I think it is easy to get to know other people on the internet. Sometimes you find out more faster about internet friends than you find out about work friends or neighbors you might consider to be friends.

Internet friends absolutely are real friends, at least to me and Ol' Pookers.
4240) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1412995)
Posted 8 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4241) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1412993)
Posted 8 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoon moth...
4242) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool four (Message 1412949)
Posted 8 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow, I have not seen one
of those for weeks!

LOL! Tough crowd!!!
4243) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1412937)
Posted 8 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nothing is off topic in the Critter Cafe. I have no wish to control the content of this thread. This is simply a place where Critter People gather to talk about whatever they wish. (Readers who are bit squeamish about critters from Class Insecta may wish to use the "Ignore" button.)


Luna Moth



Cecropia Moth



Sphinx Moth

Charles Darwin predicted the existence of this pollinator, based on the shape of the orchid he was studying. This moth species was discovered well after Darwin's death.
4244) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1412929)
Posted 8 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lovin' the Halloween puns!!!
4245) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Well, ya know....... (Message 1412689)
Posted 7 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And I have nothing more to say to most of you here right now.
Or for a long time to come.

Well, let's see now... mayflies live less than a day, so I suppose four or five days would seem to be a very long time indeed, to all of our mayfly crunchers.

Welcome home, Kittyman.
4246) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1412055)
Posted 6 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4247) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Smokers who drink bottled water (Message 1411822)
Posted 5 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
@Uli - but I made an effort to cut it down to 1/2 in the last few month. Hey, well done you :-))


Yay Uli-belle!!![/quote]
4248) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool four (Message 1411694)
Posted 5 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is that one of those "as seen on tv" garlic/onion chopper devices?
4249) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1411691)
Posted 5 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4250) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Smokers who drink bottled water (Message 1411689)
Posted 5 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...Back to my previous point, why do women appear to need more hydration than men?

Ok Chris, I'll weigh in on this one. I think several factors are at play here.

Young women with water bottles are probably drinking water because they do not want the extra calories of soda or sweet tea. They may also be hoping to "fill up" on water in the hopes that they will be able to pass up a pastry or candy bar later on in the day. For more... er... uh... "mature" women such as myself, caloric intake is generally an even bigger concern, along with the fact that water bottlers have convinced us that being ridiculously super-hydrated makes our skin look fuller and younger. (It probably does not, but none of us really wants to believe that more youthful looking skin is irreparably beyond our grasp.)

In our western culture, physical attractiveness is more highly valued in women than in men. I can see why women, myself included, are more likely as a group to fall for the fables of hydration. Frankly, at my age, I really WANT to believe I can do something as simple as sip water to improve my health and bolster my looks. So pass the Kool-aid, but hold the nasty flavor packet!!!
4251) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Smokers who drink bottled water (Message 1411260)
Posted 4 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I know it is horribly un-green, but I too cannot resist the convenience of a bottle of water in the car. I am just too frippin lazy to wash out a bottle every night.
4252) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1411257)
Posted 4 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, when we finally got home tonight, there was just one adventurous little raccoon kit in the yard. I do not know if it was Who, What, When, Where or Why, but he (she???) accepted some cat food and grapes that I tossed from a window. He (she???) was a cute little thing.

Purvis was out there too, and he enjoyed the catfood, but he turned up his snotty little skunk snout at the grapes. Skunks are supposed to LOVE fruit, but I have found that they vastly prefer catfood over fruit.
4253) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1411229)
Posted 4 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
TMI
I grew up with horses. So yes lots of big flies. Next to a river.. Rats check. Good kibble for the Mice.....check.
Raccoons uncheck.
Only seen one once here in Stockton. Now CV is another story.
Ang, any update on the five Ws.


Sadly we do not regularly see darling little Who, What, When, Where and Why, and their mother Pilar. We see them maybe once or twice a week, and rarely all together, which means that the babies are already working on leaving their mama.

I have not had much time to socialize this litter, so the babies are not at all tame this year. Between our travels this summer and our need to work late so often this year, I just keep missing the raccoons. In fact, it is 8pm now and I am still at work. By the time I get home tonight the raccoons will probably have already eaten all of Spawnie's leftover food and left our backyard.

Last year I simply had more time to socialize Marcel, Donna and Magoo and because Gigi weaned them so early, they were very impressionable raccoon kits. It is all about time, timing and effort, I'm afraid... three things I am lacking in the raccoon department this year.
4254) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1410308)
Posted 1 Sep 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
N.B.The mille-feuille (French pronunciation: ​[mil fœj], "thousand leaves"), also known as the Napoleon, is a pastry of French origin.

Just for Ang, as a follow up to our PM's


Mmmmmmm!!!! Napoleons!!!
4255) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1410304)
Posted 31 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sniffle!

Sniffle!

No one is paying attention to me!





And worse yet, no one is feeding me!!!
4256) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1410031)
Posted 31 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cherry cheesecake pie...
4257) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP Bruce Murry (Message 1409868)
Posted 30 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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RIP
4258) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1409858)
Posted 30 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I'm really missing raccoons in this thread ....

4259) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1409856)
Posted 30 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4260) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool four (Message 1409534)
Posted 29 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Sniff not Germany? Belgium? Switzerland? Austria? Finland? Norway?
The list goes on Ang.
BTW Trader Joe has a pretty good Apfelstuddel. All I can say is the price is right.


While I am sure there is excellent pastry in all of those countries, the French have somewhat of a reputation for outstanding pastry...
4261) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #5 (Message 1409169)
Posted 29 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGEYXKl7pMw

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've got to pour Eric one of those beers!!!

Angela, when Eric looks at you he sees you in Binary. The beers (or other beverage of choice) just relaxes him and improves the math.

Oh good grief!!!
4262) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool four (Message 1409120)
Posted 29 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I have only made homemade puff pastry once in my life, years ago when I was enrolled for fun in a bread baking class. In that class, I used a cheese slicer to drop a layer of thin butter slices over half the dough before I folded it, rolled it and then dropped butter on half of it again... and again, and again, and again, and again. Puff pastry is very labor intensive! I have never bothered to make it from scratch again. We are fortunate to have a couple of excellent bakeries in Berkeley. If they ever went out of business, I would whine and whine and whine until Eric took me to France!
4263) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool four (Message 1408980)
Posted 28 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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On the east coast and in the midwest butter tends to come in long, elegant rectangles - 4 to a pound. Here on the west coast we have "western stubbies" (real name - honest!!!). Our rectangles are shorter and fatter than elsewhere in the states, but still 4 to a pound.
4264) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool four (Message 1408973)
Posted 28 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If the device cuts very thin slices of very cold butter very rapidly, it could be a useful tool for making homemade puff pastry. Outside of that, I can imagine no practical use for it.
4265) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #5 (Message 1408686)
Posted 28 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGEYXKl7pMw

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've got to pour Eric one of those beers!!!
4266) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1408685)
Posted 28 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I'm not sure the eggs of clothes moths are easily visible to the naked eye.
4267) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1408682)
Posted 28 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4268) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1408608)
Posted 28 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Vic, she is the ultimate Witch.

Insert cackle here...
4269) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #5 (Message 1408223)
Posted 27 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Gee sounds like guys I sailed with.

They looked more pretty at closing time?
4270) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 193 - the mystery number (Message 1408221)
Posted 27 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Summertime...

...and the living is easy
4271) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us a Caption #52 (Message 1408218)
Posted 27 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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You may be a lumberjack, but this is NOT ok!!!
4272) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 193 - the mystery number (Message 1407956)
Posted 26 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Posting after having gotten that clothes moth, hopefully it's the last too, cause I think there might have only been two of them, one was easy to get and such and the other took a bit to get rid of, quite the chase really, near the ceiling is their usual hiding spot, though they can hide on any vertical surface, the bug finally got caught on the side of a piece of furniture and then I disposed of it and then I washed My hands, literally.


I hate to break it to you Vic, but I believe that it is the caterpillar stage of these moths that eats your wool clothing. Getting the adults will not help if they have already laid eggs.
4273) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1407954)
Posted 26 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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A tad early for Halloween Julie? Then again Ang's display needs a lot of time to plan and put together ;-)


I was BORN ready for Halloween!!!
4274) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1407714)
Posted 25 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I use the Cook's Illustrated recipe for lemon bars. You can get their recipe by subscribing to their website. Since this company sells recipes as their business, it would not be right for me to post their recipes here, but if you like to cook I strongly recommend their magazines, tv shows and website. Cook's Illustrated is my "go to" source for on-line recipes.
4275) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1407708)
Posted 25 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Hello Friends. I just flew in from Washington D.C. (...and boy are my arms tired.)

Eric and I took the red eye from Oakland out to D.C. last Thursday night after work. My oldest godchild, Danielle, got into a medical school in the D.C. area and we flew out to attend her White Coat ceremony on Saturday. We also helped her assemble a bunch of cheap furniture for her new home. (When I told Eric we would be spending the weekend screwing, Ikea furniture was NOT what he had in mind...)

Anyway, early in Danielle's orientation for medical school, each student was given an index card on which to write one or two quirky things each student thought his or her fellow students should know. Apparently the kids were told to emphasize the quirky. They all thought it was some silly ice breaker. They were NOT told that what was on these cards was going to be shared aloud at their White Coat ceremony. (Surprise!!!)

So as each kid walked across the stage to accept his or her white coat, the dean of students would read something like "George Smith has a degree in molecular biology from Yale University, his right thumb is significantly longer than his left thumb and he sleeps in Batman footie pajamas." Since there were about 190 students walking across the stage that day, the quirky announcements made the ceremony fun and lighthearted for all involved.

Far and away though, my favorite quirky announcement was the kid whose card read something like this: "John Smith has a degree in microbiology from Cornell University. He once found an injured raccoon that he nursed back to health. He let the raccoon live in his room until the raccoon had fully recovered."

I think that kid is going to be a GREAT physician some day!!!
4276) Message boards : Cafe SETI : astronaut Gordon Fullerton dies (Message 1406493)
Posted 22 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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RIP
4277) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Gall bladder surgery Thursday AM (Message 1406492)
Posted 22 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Wishing you a speedy and uneventful recovery.

Angela & Eric
4278) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1405815)
Posted 21 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4279) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1405374)
Posted 20 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I want some of those.

Just get in line. I made three batches of them this weekend. I'm sort of on a roll here...
4280) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1404928)
Posted 19 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Dogs rule. Cats drool.

(The opinions expressed in this post are those of the poster, and do not reflect the opinions of the S@H project, or UC Berkley, or any of their crazy cat loving staff.)


As a person with a scientific background, I am astonished that you typed that statement in the face of an irrefutable mountain of data to the contrary. Mr. Walker, how many cats have you actually witnessed drooling? Now how many dogs have you seen drool? I think the evidences speaks for itself.

The opinions expressed in this post are those of a person with a houseful of cats, but who also took her neighbor's dog Maya on a little "walkie" this weekend and who, truth be told, may have some small fondness for Maya and her brethren.
4281) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1404761)
Posted 18 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Meow!
4282) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1404450)
Posted 17 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Lemon bars
4283) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1404447)
Posted 17 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I'm thinking of leaving food in the back yard for the raccoons, and relocating the cat food from the dining room table to somewhere farther from the D-door. If the raccoons decided to come in, would they be able to find the relocated food? Or would they just rummage around until they found something?!


Yes, they would find the relocated food.

Yes, they would just rummage around until they found something. Frankly, I'm surprised they haven't done that already!!! Raccoons are generally quite thorough in all that they undertake.
4284) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON"T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1404304)
Posted 17 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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With apologies to Chris, but not to Monday...

Banana cream pie
4285) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us a Caption #52 (Message 1404301)
Posted 17 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Sigh... another monkey wannabe.
4286) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1404167)
Posted 17 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Angela, How do you feel about trap and relocate? Any evidence to show that it's a bad idea?

I have never tried or even considered trapping and relocating my little woodland friends. We live near a creek, so any raccoons we trapped and relocated would quickly be replaced by new ones. The simplest way to discourage raccoons and skunks is to not have any food available for them. If closing the dog door at night is not an option, you may have to only feed your cats during the day.

If I stopped putting cat food and grapes out, eventually raccoons would stop visiting me. I am sorry to report that they do not visit me because I am a scintillating conversationalist. I am fully aware of what they want. Raccoon friendship is highly conditional. Sigh....


I think I need to get the rabies shots, too. Where do you get those? From a regular doctor?

Most general practitioners do not offer these shots. My husband and I went to a travel doc for our initial series. We go back to see him for booster shots every few years. Travel docs specialize in the shots people need to get before they travel to interesting places. A pre-rabies vaccine series is recommended if one is traveling to a country where one might unknowingly sleep in a room with bats. (Sorry Monday!) Bats are often rabid and because bats have tiny little needle-like teeth, sleeping people don't tend to notice they've been bitten.

To find out where to get a pre-rabies vaccine series in your area, ask a vet. I have never met a vet who has not undergone this vaccine series.

By the way, even if you've had the pre-rabies series, if a wild animal bites you, you should still get rabies shots to make doubly sure you don't die. Even though a pre-rabies series probably offers full protection, one does not monkey around with fatal diseases. Eric and I feel more confident encouraging wildlife, knowing we already have a fair amount of rabies immunity in our bodies, but if one of us ever got bitten, we would get more rabies shots immediately.

And as for the guy in the shower with his pet raccoon, I really have to agree with Dave's take on that one... "nutz". Our three indoor cats get into enough trouble in our house when we are away at work. I shudder to think about what kind of mischief a bored indoor raccoon could cook up in our house while we were out and about. Also, an indoor raccoon would have to be wormed regularly. I hope people who keep raccoons know this. And then there is that other issue... unlike cats, a raccoon would not use a litter box. Natural raccoon pooping behavior is to climb up on something and then let fly. Nobody really wants a pile of raccoon poop at the bottom of their bookshelf.

Much as I pretend to pout and mope when Eric says "No indoor raccoons!", I absolutely agree with him. (Just don't tell him I said so!!!)
4287) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1404069)
Posted 16 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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The raccoons will not confine themselves to the table for long. They like to explore. Our outdoor boy kitty co-exists with raccoons just fine. We've never tried to mix raccoons and dogs. Skunks can go through cat doors too...

Raccoons can carry canine and feline distemper, but your dogs and cats are probably already vaccinated against this. Raccoon poop can contain roundworm eggs, and the roundworm they carry can be fatal to people. Mask and glove up if you have to clean up any raccoon poop, and don't skimp on the bleach if you discover a raccoon latrine. If you haven't already gone through the pre-rabies vaccine series, I would recommend it, especially since you deal with a wide variety of wildlife.

Eric and I have been enjoying the company of raccoons for years and we're still kicking, but we are careful and we error on the side of caution.
4288) Message boards : Cafe SETI : New round of moderation changes (Message 1404063)
Posted 16 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Thank you Jim_S and the other Jim S. for your service to this project.

Lynn and Guy, thank you in advance.
4289) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1403966)
Posted 16 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Key lime pie...
4290) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1403956)
Posted 16 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Eric is quite partial to a toe nibble.

I don't want to know how you know that.

It is not nearly as salacious as it sounds.

We had a rambunctious little raccoon kit named Artemis in a litter from a few summers ago. Artie nipped Eric's boot toe a couple of times when the food did not come fast enough. We decided that Artie's friendly/fearless nature, coupled with my behavior modification training that had taught him to come running over for food, had made Artie a danger to himself. A raccoon who bites people is a raccoon who eventually gets trapped and er... uh... ahem... "discharged to God".

The answer to our problem with that little fellow was rather simple. We just put a new behavior modification plan in place for him. Every time Artie got within one to two feet of one of us, we would stamp loudly and scare him back. He was still a baby, so he was easy to train.

Artemis regained a healthy distrust of humans and he learned to consistently keep his distance from people. Biting problem solved.
4291) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool four (Message 1403953)
Posted 16 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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It looks like a sandwich press to me. (My favorite summer sandwich from our garden is zucchini panini. Tastes good and it is just plain fun to say!!!)
4292) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1403806)
Posted 16 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Suzie-Q, welcome to seti@home and a big "kindred spirit" welcome hug to the Critter Cafe!!!

I loved your videos!!! I am sooooooooooooooooooo jealous. My husband simply will not allow me to have "indoor raccoons".

If you want to treat your little woodland friends to something special, throw some grapes in those bowls. Raccoons love them.
4293) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1403768)
Posted 16 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Points for the most clever response go to The Simonator who queried:
Does it devour your soul if you serve red wine with fish?


@Chris who commented to Miz Julie:
Ooooh Ms Clause, can I sit on your knee, and tell you what I'd really like for Xmas?

Merciful heavens!!!!!

The winner is GalaxyIce who correctly identified that thing as a spoon rest.

PM going out to our winner now.
4294) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1403322)
Posted 15 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Chocolate bourbon pie... (Eric likes his bourbon with the pie on the side.)
4295) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1403320)
Posted 15 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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If the raccoon stayed for 20 minutes, then that is exactly how long it took for all the food to be consumed. The raccoon creed is "Leave no crumbs behind!"
4296) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1403319)
Posted 15 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Thank you for the win.

My dear friends, Please Caption This!!! Whoops, wrong contest...

Happy Halloween. (It is never too early to celebrate.)

It really is a kitchen tool. Now what the heck is it?
4297) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1402917)
Posted 14 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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My mother is a handful. My mother-in-law is all sweetness and light - plus she makes the best darn wild blueberry pie you can imagine.


She even picks the blueberries herself, despite the fact that she often has to contend with one or two of these when she goes blueberry picking...



4298) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1402905)
Posted 14 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I happen to read the Williams Sonoma catalog like a sailor on a very, very long voyage might read a nudie magazine. While I cannot imagine ever needing such a device when my regular all purpose peeler works just fine on tough ends, I do believe we are looking at... an asparagus peeler.
4299) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1402488)
Posted 13 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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LOL!!!

Well enough trash talking for the evening...


Goodnight friends!
4300) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1402485)
Posted 13 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Room 222 for TOO bad you're going TO lose TWO things - the game and your dignity!

4301) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1402483)
Posted 13 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Listen buster, I'm crazy-busy-slammed the rest of the Fridays in August, but come September, I intend you re-educate regarding my royal pun nature.

Edit... Whoops! "... I intend to re-educate you regarding..."
(Must have had a little too much wine this evening.)
4302) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1402481)
Posted 13 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Don't forget "What the...???!!!"
4303) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1402476)
Posted 13 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I can see that my little trash can tippers are in good hands, Jim.
4304) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1402473)
Posted 13 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Well thats AU$33676. More than twice the price of my sportster and way out of my budget. Plus you dont want to risk smashing up a nice classic bike. If I smash the Harley I can easily get another one or get the parts to repair it.


Can you get spare parts if you smash up your brain?

I could get a transplant from a monkey and be better off. :-)


Pish posh!
4305) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1402470)
Posted 13 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Mmmmmmmmmm... cheesecake!!!
4306) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I can haz cheezburger??? (Message 1401905)
Posted 11 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Come January 1 the Golden Bears will kick the stuffing out of the Badgers in Pasadena ...

Eric will be very conflicted...

One of two things will happen ...
He will curl up into a fetal position or
he will say it doesn't matter I get bragging rights no matter what.

You are correct. Eric gets bragging rights AND the right to drown his sorrows in copious quantities of alcohol, no matter the outcome of the game. Don't tell the chancellor, but I think Eric has a slightly bigger spot in his heart for his undergraduate school than for his graduate school.
4307) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I can haz cheezburger??? (Message 1401886)
Posted 11 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Come January 1 the Golden Bears will kick the stuffing out of the Badgers in Pasadena ...

Eric will be very conflicted...
4308) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I can haz cheezburger??? (Message 1401829)
Posted 11 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Of course! Even if you use proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when handling or applying it, always wash up afterward.

As Chris so drolly pointed out, I always do!

(If this were the Pun Thread, I'd be obligated to type "I alwasy doo doo... Ok friends, enough mirth and levity for me this fine morning. Mount Laundry calls me. Bye!)
4309) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I can haz cheezburger??? (Message 1401823)
Posted 11 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I imagine raccoon poop can be removed with a picket...

And picketers can be removed with the judicious application of animal poop.....
And with them gone, we can return to eating our cheezburgers!


But only if you wash your hands well first!
4310) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 192: PLANES x 2 (Message 1401821)
Posted 11 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm baaaack....
Beep

Before being allowed to return, you must pass this test:





(Copyright unknown. The site mcwonderful.com is not found.)


LOL!
4311) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I can haz cheezburger??? (Message 1401818)
Posted 11 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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What if they don't check that box, but write in "I don't like anything else either"?


Those potential employees are taken directly to our psychiatric evaluation facility.
4312) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I can haz cheezburger??? (Message 1401813)
Posted 11 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I imagine raccoon poop can be removed with a picket...
4313) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1401811)
Posted 11 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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That is a beautiful instrument.
4314) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I can haz cheezburger??? (Message 1401808)
Posted 11 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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But of course, as responsible Employers we would expect no less. Don't forget if they don't tick the box marked "Like Wisconsin Badgers" on the application form, they still pass the interview, but don't get a shovel until day 3.


Who ya kiddin? Those who do not like the mighty Wisconsin Badgers don't even get a call back.
4315) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us a Caption #52 (Message 1401802)
Posted 11 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What wonderful entries. You folks are so darn funny!!!

Third place goes to Steven Meyer with: "I know Angela won't mind if I borrow her toothbrush."

Second place goes to Celt Tooth with: "Hey, keep quiet at least he doesn't
drink out of the commode any more."

And the indisputable front runner is Blurf with: ""Korpela Rule #1: Cleanliness is next to fuzziness."

P.M. going out to Blurf now.
4316) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I can haz cheezburger??? (Message 1401798)
Posted 11 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Quite right too, me finks young N9 has some penance to fulfill ;-))

Aha! The California Korpela Wildlife Park Raccoon runs need cleaning and de-pooping, 10 hours community service, off you go.


Given the hazards involved in de-pooping, Eric and I require a certification process, for the health and well-being of our employees and for liability purposes.
4317) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1401794)
Posted 11 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Well thats AU$33676. More than twice the price of my sportster and way out of my budget. Plus you dont want to risk smashing up a nice classic bike. If I smash the Harley I can easily get another one or get the parts to repair it.


Can you get spare parts if you smash up your brain?
4318) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I can haz cheezburger??? (Message 1401793)
Posted 11 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Darn you, Angela. I went out and had a Portillo's bacon cheeseburger and fries last night. And chocolate cake.


Hey!!! I'm the one who walked out on the cheeseburger! In what way am I to blame?
4319) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1401489)
Posted 10 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Sneaky, very sneaky Angela, If there was another name It could be: Wednesday(Adams)...


There was a Wednesday in a previous litter, Vic. In fact, I believe you named her and were therefore her godfather.
4320) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #5 (Message 1401486)
Posted 10 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What is that kitchen gadget?!!! This one is driving me crazy. I keep looking there for an answer. I am completely mystified.
4321) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1401482)
Posted 10 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Thank you, everyone, for all of the wonderful raccoon name suggestions. Five surviving kits is the biggest litter I've seen! At this point I cannot tell any of the babies apart, with the exception of one who has particularly light fur. Pilar waited a very long time to bring her litter by and chances are I will still be confused as to which raccoon is which when the babies are weaned.

I have therefore decided that the names most suitable for this litter are James Sotherden's entry: "Who, What, When, Where, and Why".

The light furred raccoon will be Who, because he's on first... er... uh... I mean he (she???) was identified first.

And of course, now I can pretend that Eric is calling raccoons for me when I head outside with grapes and Eric, with hands raised dramatically to the heavens, exclaims "Why???!!! Why???!!! Why???!!!"
4322) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 192: PLANES x 2 (Message 1401472)
Posted 10 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
somebody poke me shpuld I start snoring.
4 hours of sleep just isnt; enough.


Sleep is over-rated.
4323) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner 2012.................... (Message 1401470)
Posted 10 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
G' luck Kid!
and when in doubt,
Spam spam spam spam,
Wonderful Spaaaaam!


LOL! Fortunately I did not have to resort to this.
4324) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner 2012.................... (Message 1401201)
Posted 9 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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My mother is 80 years old today. (It is a medical miracle!!!)

All of the important people in her life could not gather today for a big party tonight, so she is getting two parties. Her big party will be a restaurant luncheon at the end of the month, and this event is being largely coordinated by my baby brother.

Her little party, to mark this very special day, is tonight and I am in charge of it.

You know in Iron Chef how there is always a crisis point in which many elements of the chef's dishes are in process, but nothing is completed or even close to being plated and the Iron Chef starts to panic because it looks like nothing is going to come together in time?

I am experiencing that exact feeling of panic right now!!!

Bye!!!

4325) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 192: PLANES x 2 (Message 1400955)
Posted 9 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Too bad about that winning part being over...
4326) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1400952)
Posted 9 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What kind of pie are you? - Take the quiz!!!

Hoo hum... it seems that I am boring old apple. I was hoping for something more exotic.
4327) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 192: PLANES x 2 (Message 1400944)
Posted 9 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Too long a day win...
4328) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1400943)
Posted 9 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4329) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us a Caption #52 (Message 1400940)
Posted 9 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, I didn't quite make my midnight goal, but I am waaaaaaay ahead of my 3am deadline.

My dear friends, please caption this:

4330) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Warning.......not suitable for young viewers. (Message 1400938)
Posted 9 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL! Our Kittyman is taking a vacation so I don't know what I'm "plussing", but if Uli-belle is a +7, I'm going to be a +8. Eight is my favorite number anyway...
4331) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us a Caption #52 (Message 1400738)
Posted 8 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just popping in for a minute. Thank you for the win.

I shall look for a picture tonight when I get home, but I work late, late, late on Thursday nights and I also have to go to the grocery store before I get home. I'm hoping to have a picture up by midnight, 3am tops! (Sleep is over-rated.)
4332) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1399989)
Posted 7 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Who, What, When, Why, and finally Where.


LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4333) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 192: PLANES x 2 (Message 1399984)
Posted 7 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Holey-moley, Vic. Did you win this thing again?

Congratulations!!!!
4334) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1399983)
Posted 7 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hmmmm I thought Francis was for boys and Frances was for girls.
4335) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I can haz cheezburger??? (Message 1399981)
Posted 7 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We went the vegetarian route again tonight. I made quesadillas with onions and jalipeno peppers from our garden. I ate some cherry tomatoes, also from our garden, but Eric hates tomatoes so he had his fruit course in the form of wine.
4336) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1399978)
Posted 7 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello friends and welcome to the 18th installment of our Critter Cafe.

For those who are new to us, this is a place where critter people, and anyone else who wishes to visit, converge to talk about whatever they would like to talk about. There is no such thing as "off topic" in the Critter Cafe.



Congratulations are in order. I'm a great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother again!!! Aren't my new grandchildren beautiful???

The raccoon our house sitter saw during our travels finally decided to show herself to us. Last night she came by with two of her kits and tonight she brought all five. We only got three of them in this picture. The other two were up on the hill out of camera range.

I really cannot figure out who this mama raccoon is. She is "window trained" and quite familiar with our backyard, but she is rather skittish. She is not tolerating my presence outside right now, but this should change with a little behavior modification training.

The only distinguishing physical characteristic she has is light, very fine and thin fur on her forearms. She looks like she has been using a depilatory product, so I have decided that her name must be Pilar.

Of course, now we need some baby names, and that is where you all come in. After the Maggie-Magoo sex change surprise last season, I have decided to run the baby naming contest a little differently this year. Over the next 3 days, people should post potential baby names in this thread. Saturday morning I will pick the five names that most amuse me.

Three days should give everyone a little time to come up with good names.

Hint - a good raccoon name is a unisex name, since we find out much later who is a boy raccoon and who is a girl raccoon.

Let the baby naming begin!!!
4337) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1399972)
Posted 7 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello friends. I have been asked to start a new thread, so I shall... and I have some wonderful news!!!

See you all in the Critter Cafe XVIII.

Angela, your CRL
4338) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I can haz cheezburger??? (Message 1399403)
Posted 6 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If the gift certificates were really obtained from corporate, then I completely get why they cannot be used at a franchise.

If, however, the gift certificates were issued by the Berkeley franchise, and those owners are selling and donating stacks of these coupons that cannot be used at their particular location, then I think that is a shady business practice.

The only person who will have the actual answer to this particular question is my co-worker, and I will have to wait another week or two to ask her where she got the gift certificates. Right now she is on marathon charity bike ride supporting research for bone marrow cancers. (My co-worker is a really, really, really nice person.)
4339) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I can haz cheezburger??? (Message 1399380)
Posted 6 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dat's What I figured, but Why Mention It. Facts to a DEM/Lib. R_ee_se Whithering_Spoon Much? ROTFLMAO.


LOL! Troll much?
4340) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I can haz cheezburger??? (Message 1399367)
Posted 6 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I carpool together to work. I got into the car after work tonight and said to Ol' Pookers, "Cheeseburger!!!"

Eric said "ok". (It was not a hard sell.)

I reminded Eric that in the glove compartment of our car we had two gift certificates to Burgermeister that had been languishing there for nearly a year. I had "won" these gift certificates at a charity auction orchestrated by one of my co-workers. The gift certificates had been in the glove compartment for a year because I am rarely in the mood for meat.

Eric said "ok". (You will find, in this story, that Eric says that word a lot.)

We parked in front of Burgermeister, which is only a few blocks from where I work, and we went inside. We placed our orders at the counter and I presented our gift certificates. The employee said, "Our address is not on these so they're not valid here."

Eric said "ok" and dug around in his wallet.

I, however, objected. I pointed out to the employee that there was only space, for advertising purposes, to put a few addresses on the gift certificate. I stated that Burgermeister was a chain and that, in all probability, the gift certificates were valid at all Burgermeisters. I informed her that I had purchased these gift certificates, for twice their face value, at a charity fund raiser held in BERKELEY, for a BERKELEY charity. I highlighted the fact that with our burgers, sides and drinks we would probably be spending more money that evening than the amount on the gift certificates. I argued that, in all probability, the charity auction coordinator, who works with me JUST A FEW BLOCKS UP THE STREET, had gone, one year ago, into THIS VERY BURGERMEISTER to secure these donations for her auction. It was unlikely that a Berkeley employee, who is also a Berkeley resident, went all the way to Alameda or to San Francisco to get these gift certificates donated, even though Alameda and San Francisco addresses happened to be printed on these gift certificates. I suggested that if the employee just take a few minutes to look up the clearly printed serial numbers on the gift certificates, it was highly likely that she would find that both certificates had been issued by the manager of the very exact Burgermeister in which we were now standing.

These arguments and this logical course of action did not impress the employee. She stated again that the certificates were not valid at this locale.

Eric said "ok" and held out a fistful of cash. (Poor man. He really, really, really wanted a cheeseburger and he also wanted to capitalize on the fact that, for once, I wanted one too.)

Poor, poor, poor, poor, poor Eric. I cancelled our dinner order on the spot and left Burgermeister in a huff.

Eric got left-over vegetarian pasta for dinner and now I have to make it up to him somehow... most probably by doing the thing I most loathe and abhor... cooking meat!!!
4341) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us a Caption #52 (Message 1398781)
Posted 5 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Shhh! We haven't told him that he is adopted!!!
4342) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1398780)
Posted 5 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have never seen raccoons work together, even older sibling pairs who travel together.
4343) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Television programming has reached a new low. (Message 1398001)
Posted 2 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is anyone watching The Newsroom? I just stumbled onto this recently and I'm still catching up on back episodes, but dang it - now I'm addicted! It is largely a soap opera with political overtones, but I'm hooked and I want more, more, more!!!


The Newsroom is AWESOME. I have been a fan since day 1! Olivia Munn <3


She is a beautiful woman. Personally, I think the actor who plays Don is really quite talented. The writers have given him a role in which he is the bad guy, then the good guy, then the bad guy, then the good guy again, and I buy it every time. Way to make a statement about the human condition!!! I really don't think most actors could pull that switch off so well.
4344) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beautiful Photo of the ISS Transiting the Moon (Message 1398000)
Posted 2 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I had the same reaction. Scotty, two to beam down.
4345) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Television programming has reached a new low. (Message 1397958)
Posted 2 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is anyone watching The Newsroom? I just stumbled onto this recently and I'm still catching up on back episodes, but dang it - now I'm addicted! It is largely a soap opera with political overtones, but I'm hooked and I want more, more, more!!!
4346) Message boards : Cafe SETI : It must be summer because..... (Message 1397954)
Posted 2 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It must be summer because I WANT ICE CREAM!!!

(Oh, who am I kidding? I ALWAYS want ice cream!!!)
4347) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1397946)
Posted 2 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I do believe that THESE are Chris' slice of pie...
4348) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1397945)
Posted 2 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Some here would say 'Yer a tree hugger' cause you of doing that Julie, Me I'm glad you did that, as trees are important, as they help moderate air temps.

Edit: Oh and trees help give off oxygen and are natural carbon sinks, all that wood is essentially carbon.


Don't get me wrong, I love trees - but they are temporary carbon sinks only. When a tree dies and decays, guess what gets released? The larger concern is net vegetation loss on our planet. We are a species so successful at reproducing ourselves that we threaten our very existence with over-population.

Goodness gracious me!!! I'm going to get myself moved to Politics this morning if I don't watch my step.
4349) Message boards : Cafe SETI : California Academy of Sciences NightLife (Message 1397936)
Posted 2 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
$ 34.95 seems quite expensive to me. The new MUSE Science Museum in Trento charges 9 euros, and was designed by Renzo Piano, who I believe designed also the California Academy of Sciences.
Tullio


Yes Tullio, I agree with you. The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the more costly places to live in our country. Housing costs are outrageous here and the general cost of living is quite high, relative to most of the rest of the nation. For working professionals, salaries in our area tend to be relatively generous. For those without the benefits of higher education or a highly skilled trade, salaries are largely comparable to the rest of the nation. Consequently, it can be particularly difficult for the under-resourced to live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Eric and I try to keep this disparity in mind when we donate to local charities, when we contract with local workers, when we tip service people, when we help those in need and when we vote. Wage disparity, relative to the general cost of living, is a very concerning social justice issue in our area right now.
4350) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 191 (Message 1397800)
Posted 2 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodnight everyone. :-)




Good night TL
see you last week.


LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
4351) Message boards : Cafe SETI : California Academy of Sciences NightLife (Message 1397787)
Posted 2 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What are the costs to get in?


That is a good question! I looked at the website, but found the pricing details to be confusing. The website says $12 for NightLife, but I don't know if that is in addition to the regular entrance fee of $34.95, or if $12 is just what is charged to get into this one event. There are senior and student discounts. Food and drinks are sold separately.

4352) Message boards : Cafe SETI : California Academy of Sciences NightLife (Message 1397679)
Posted 1 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh I wish I would have known about this earlier! Totally would have driven up for the event. I can't believe I didn't know about this :/ Anyways, from your retelling of the environment this seems like a blast!


This event happens every Thursday night. The presenters change every week, so Eric won't be there next Thursday, but the standing science exhibits stay the same. The adults-only party is a weekly event, so if you want to attend, just go on the next Thursday night you are free.
4353) Message boards : Cafe SETI : California Academy of Sciences NightLife (Message 1397658)
Posted 1 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not that I'm local, but how young do you have to be?


To attend this event you must be at least 21 years old, because there are full bars set up on every floor. Security guards card everyone at the door to ensure that no minors are admitted. The food is way above average for museum fare and the ambience is definitely hopping!!! When I went with Eric last time, most of the attendees appeared to be in their mid-20's to mid-30's. About half the crowd seemed to be there on dates and the other half seemed to be looking for dates. For example, we saw many large "gaggles" of young ladies dressed in cocktail dresses, sipping on their diet cokes spiked with that hot cinnamon liquor that folks in that age range seem to like. (I've heard rumors they also put that spicy stuff in beer - gag!!!!) The majority of the young men and young women appeared to be readily mixing, mingling and having fun. I rather suspect that many attendees who arrived in groups left in pairs...

It seems to me that this is a better venue for meeting like-minded others than a bar. Even if one doesn't meet Mr. or Ms. Right that particular evening, one can still have fun, enjoy the exhibits, learn something, hang out with friends, enjoy the food, drinks, ridiculously loud music etc.

I think it is a very smart move on the part of the California Academy of Sciences to market to this age group! I am all for young geeks meeting and mating!!! I think this planet could benefit from a spike in the geek population.
4354) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1397445)
Posted 1 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4355) Message boards : Cafe SETI : California Academy of Sciences NightLife (Message 1397444)
Posted 1 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There is another opportunity for locals to hang out with Eric at the California Academy of Sciences NightLife. Eric will be hosting the Seti table Thursday August 1st. Come on by and say "hi"!

P.S. I attended this event with Eric the last time there was a seti table and it turned out to be a fun and memorable evening. If you're young and single, you really should check out this scene. It is a bit of a "meat market" for science oriented young singles. If I were 30 years younger, single and a lover of really, really, really loud music, I would attend NightLife with great regularity!

Here is a link to the event http://www.calacademy.org/events/nightlife/
4356) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1397443)
Posted 1 Aug 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Has anybody seen the new Walgreens commercial with the family of raccoons trashing a car while the family of people watch in dismay?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEISUToFrGY


Those are trained raccoons. In my next life, I'm coming back as a Hollywood Raccoon Wrangler.
4357) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A warm hello! (Message 1397183)
Posted 31 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome! You will find many friends here. It is a lovely community.
4358) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner 2012.................... (Message 1396520)
Posted 30 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Goodnight Vic
4359) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner 2012.................... (Message 1396514)
Posted 30 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ah hah!!!

"The cake layer of this double-decker creation contains beets, cauliflower, maple syrup, cocoa and flaxseeds. The top layer is tofu."

Vic, I'm pretty sure I am going to have a nightmare tonight and it will be all your fault!!!
4360) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner 2012.................... (Message 1396510)
Posted 30 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I enjoy tofu in vegetarian stir-fry a couple times each month and Eric makes an excellent vegetarian tempeh braise, but I assure you that the ONLY bean products I will ever want in my chocolate desserts are cacao and maybe a little vanilla bean!!!
4361) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner 2012.................... (Message 1396502)
Posted 30 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh gross!!! That's not one of those nasty vegan whipped tofu cakes, is it? Chocolate should never be so sullied!!!
4362) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 191 (Message 1396499)
Posted 30 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Win 3
4363) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner 2012.................... (Message 1396498)
Posted 30 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
marshmallow fluff?
4364) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1396497)
Posted 30 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4365) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner 2012.................... (Message 1396494)
Posted 30 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
mayonnaise?
4366) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Just FYI (Prescott Hotshots Memorial - Large Pictures) (Message 1396492)
Posted 30 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
4367) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Escalators (Message 1396436)
Posted 30 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Amazing photo Ang. Does this mean that raccoon markings have been evolving for millennia in anticipation of the invention of the escalator? Or is this photo an arguement for Intelligent Design?


LOL!!! I'm pretty sure Mr. Darwin is flipping in his grave at the idea of a species evolving "in anticipation" of something. I am also pretty sure that the corpse of Charles Darwin groans in abject agony whenever the words "intelligent design" are uttered anywhere.
4368) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Escalators (Message 1396024)
Posted 29 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Look very carefully...
4369) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1396023)
Posted 29 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Just add helmet... and motorcycle, it would seem.
4370) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Who is the king of Seti? (Message 1396019)
Posted 29 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am the grand daughter of a garbage man (mom's side) and a baker (dad's side). There is not a drop of blue in my veins.
4371) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1395973)
Posted 28 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am sorry that Toaster was being attacked, but I also feel sorry for that raccoon.
4372) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 191 (Message 1395340)
Posted 26 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nice to see you back, Time Lord, and congratulations on the win!
4373) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1395337)
Posted 26 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...Trouble is it only takes a few seconds to be seriously breaking the law and risking death.


It's worse than that. He's dead, Jim!

Death by pie...
4374) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1395331)
Posted 26 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Excuse me, I am late for pie...
4375) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Who is the king of Seti? (Message 1395322)
Posted 26 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mind you, Eric has been "consorting" with a certain Crazy Raccoon Lady for many years now ..... ;-)

Over which, in the interests of decorum, we much draw a veil....


Oh my! I did not realize there was still call for my famed modern interpretation of the Dance of the Seven Veils. Truth be told, I'm a bit out of practice, but if you insist...
4376) Message boards : SETI@home Staff Blog : UC Berkeley SETI @ California Academy of the Sciences NightLife (Message 1395090)
Posted 26 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There is another opportunity for locals to hang out with Eric at the California Academy of Sciences NightLife. Eric will be hosting the Seti table Thursday August 1st. Come on by and say "hi"!
4377) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1395089)
Posted 26 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Strawberry Napoleon, anyone?
4378) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Who is the king of Seti? (Message 1395085)
Posted 26 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There is no king, Eric might be a prince but only because the queen allows it.

Long live Queen Angela.


LOL!!! If I'm the queen, I'm afraid that just makes Ol' Pookers the royal consort.
4379) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What in God’s name has happened to celttooth? (Message 1395028)
Posted 26 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You seem fine to me, dude...
4380) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1393824)
Posted 23 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh Monday... sounds like this might be an annual event.
4381) Message boards : Cafe SETI : WHAT IF ALIENS GOT INTO YOUR HAIR? (Message 1393473)
Posted 22 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

I'm gonna wash ET right out of my hair
I'm gonna wash ET right out of my hair
I'm gonna wash ET right out of my hair
And send him on his way...
4382) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1393371)
Posted 21 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Magoo came by for kibble the night before last and Marcel and Magoo both came by for kibble and grapes last night. It is late in the year for bachelor brothers to still be visiting us. I assume this means that no dominant female has yet fully claimed our backyard.

While we were away, our house/cat sitter said that she twice saw a mama raccoon come in with 5 kits, but Eric and I have not seen this raccoon family since we have been home. It is possible that the mama raccoon is Donna, but having 5 surviving kits would be quite an accomplishment for a very young raccoon mama. I think a large litter size lessens the chances of our mystery mama being Donna.

I do hope this raccoon family stops by soon so that I can try and figure out by body size, by scars and bite marks and primarily by behavioral characteristics just who this mystery mama raccoon really is. A ready rail climber would be Izzy, as she is the most accomplished rail dancer we have ever had. A spare bedroom window beggar, who also tolerates my presence outside, would be Donna. A raccoon with a broken front paw would be Gigi. Our cat sitter didn't mention anything about the mama raccoon limping, so the mystery mama is probably not Gigi. Also, sadly, Gigi's disability would have lessened her chances of living another year. She would have climbing and fighting disadvantages that, in all probability, would catch up with her over time. (Mother Nature is a harsh mistress.) Anyway... a shy and skittish raccoon, one who runs if I open a window and one who absolutely does not tolerate my presence outside, would probably be a new raccoon for us - a raccoon who did not spend her childhood (kithood???) in our backyard.

I know Chris, who named Izzy, and Uli, who named Donna, are really hoping to be grandparents, but the smart money is probably on a new mama raccoon. Time will tell.

In the meanwhile, Purvis has a food rival that I am calling Little Stink. Purvis and Little Stink are clearly not related! They do not like one another one bit and I have to scatter their food widely to discourage spraying. Last night I also had a very large opossum at the back door. Unfortunately I startled him and he ran right under the deck. I did not see him again before I went to bed. Four beautiful ravens now regularly visit our backyard during the day. Since we cannot tell ravens apart, Eric has always called them Edgar, Allan and Poe, but since we now have a regular fourth visitor Eric and I both decided that it was only logical to call that one Usher.
4383) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1392974)
Posted 20 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That is a young raccoon in Vic's video. An older raccoon would typically not give kitty cats a second look and in all probability would not have left the kibble bowl until it was completely empty.
4384) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1392421)
Posted 19 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Taking a cue from Chris, this cocktail is called a "cherry pie"...


...and this cocktail is a "lemon meringue pie martini"!
4385) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1392415)
Posted 19 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I's an interesting cultural thing though because biscuits aren't that big over here, we tend to have them just with mid morning coffee. Whereas cookies in the States are part of your National heritage. You'll very rarely see a biscuit press over here, which is why it caught my eye.

Tis true, Chris. We Americans love cookies and we even have a beloved cookie celebrity on this side of the pond!



British biscuits, in my experience, tend to be crisp and not overly sweet. I think the closest thing we have here to your average British biscuit is some of the more plain Pepperidge Farm Cookie flavors.

On this side of the pond we enjoy cookies across the full texture spectrum from crisp to gloppy and everything in between. Yum!!!!!!!!
4386) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hello From New York City! (Message 1392250)
Posted 19 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL!!! Actually Eric got off the lake at a decent hour that night, so there is no silly picture to post. We returned home from all our travels this evening. Eric has come down with a nasty cough and cold. I am hoping he will have the good sense not to go into work tomorrow.
4387) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1392249)
Posted 19 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is definitely a cookie press, but on the other side of the pond I think cookies are called biscuits, so maybe Chris would call that tool a "biscuit press".
4388) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hello From New York City! (Message 1391628)
Posted 17 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Actually, skunks are quite solitary animals. Most everyone in our area has a skunk living under his or her deck, whether that person knows the skunk is there or not. Eric and I just have good "skunk awareness".

So, Ol' Pookers and I are back in Wisconsin now. Eric spent yesterday fishing with his dad. I hung out with my mother-in-law, which was nice. We went swimming in Lake Superior and, feeling somewhat abandoned by our spouses, we consoled ourselves by opening a bottle of wine and sipping until we were both a little tipsy. Whee!!!! Today Eric is already long up and out of the house on a fishing expedition with his best friend. If he is not home by dinner time, my mother-in-law and I are planning to take photographs of ourselves wearing lampshades while doing the can-can. Then we will send said photo directly to Eric's phone!
4389) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Victor (Message 1390402)
Posted 13 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh dear! I missed an important thread!!!

Belated happy birthday to you, Vic!

Angela & Eric
4390) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hello From New York City! (Message 1390400)
Posted 13 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello friends!

The last two days have been action packed with a wax museum (creepy but fun), the Bronx zoo, eating some iconic New York foods, adventures riding the subway and seeing an off-Broadway percussion piece - Stomp. If Stomp comes to your community, go see it if you can. It is really funny and so far it is the show all three of us have enjoyed the most.

Don't have any funny tidbits to share, but I do have a pet peeve and this seems like as good a soapbox as any, so here goes... Waiters and waitresses all need to be trained to never utter the words "Are you still working on that?" I do not "work on" my food!!! I enjoy food. I savor food. I do not "work on" food!!! A simple "May I take your plate" would more than suffice!!!

Ok, dining rant over. I guess I'm missing being home in my own kitchen with my kitty cats all around, Purvis the skunk under the back deck and a raccoon or two peeking in my back door window. We have a cat/house sitter living in our home right now, so I know all my furry little babies will be fine until we return, but still there really is no place like home...

ang.
4391) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hello From New York City! (Message 1389751)
Posted 11 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello again! Yesterday was an action packed day. We started with breakfast at Rockefeller Center, which in the winter is an ice rink but in the summer is a casual outdoor cafe. We spent the morning mostly window-shopping on Madison Avenue. Eric made a bee line for the "bored husband chair" most stores were kind enough to provide. I must confess that, with the encouragement of a 13 year old, and despite the derision of a certain nameless astronomer, I am now the proud owner of a stylish pair of Italian leather pumps that absolutely kill my feet, but that make my legs look like they go on and on for miles. I have christened the pair my "midlife crisis shoes". In the afternoon we had matinee tickets to see Annie, which was fun because our niece (the family thespian) was the star of Annie a couple of years ago in a community theatre production in her hometown of Washburn Wisconsin. After that we had a horse carriage ride through Central Park. (Do ALL horses smell like that, or was our horse exceptionally flatulent?) After dinner, we went up to the viewing platform on the Empire State Building for a fabulous panoramic view of the city at night.

A few funny moments from our trip....

Emily: (Fiddling with her dinner napkin) "Aren't there napkin rules?"
Auntie Angela: "Yes, napkin etiquette is easy to learn. If you get up mid-meal to powder your nose, you place your napkin on your chair, to spare your dining companion(s) from viewing your soiled napkin. At the end of the meal, when everyone is leaving, you place your soiled napkin on the table casually. Never refold it."
Uncle Eric: "Auntie Angela forgot a few rules."
Auntie Angela: "Hoo boy..."
Uncle Eric: "Never ball up your napkin and throw it at your dining companion... unless your dining companion is Auntie Angela." (Eric then pretends to throw a napkin at me.) "Also, if you are given a paper napkin, never rip up pieces of it to roll tobacco for cigarettes or to roll up other herbaceous products... at least not at the table."
Auntie Angela: "When we get back to Wisconsin, your sister is going to murder you!!!"


In a cab, after perhaps a tad too much wine on my part...

Auntie Angela: (in her best singing voice) "They say the neon lights are bright..."
Uncle Eric: "... on Broadway"
Auntie Angela: "... but looking at them just gives me..."
Uncle Eric: "...the runs"
4392) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hello From New York City! (Message 1389350)
Posted 10 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends,

Eric and I spent some time in Wisconsin visiting with his parents and attending our niece Rachel's wedding. Now we are in New York treating another treasured niece, Emily, to a vacation in celebration of her thirteenth birthday.

Traveling with Eric always brings out the comedian in him, and occasionally I have a moment or two as well...


Standing In Front Of The Statue Of Liberty
Auntie Angela: I used to belong to the Statue of Liberty Club
Emily: What's that?
Auntie Angela: You know... "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" - these were the men I dated before I met Uncle Eric.


Standing On The Torch Side Of The Statue
Uncle Eric: It is a French statue, so you know what's under that toga, right?
Emily: No, what?
Uncle Eric: A hairy armpit!


Standing Behind the Statue:
Uncle Eric: Baby got back!!!


Standing In Line Waiting To Board A Ferry Back To Battery Park:
Below the dock floating in the water there happened to be a er... uh.... um.... used device worn by men to er... uh.... um... prevent unwanted pregnancies.
Uncle Eric: Look, it's the most common fish in the Hudson!


At Dinner, Trying An Amuse Bouche Of Octopus On An Eggplant Puree
Emily: I don't know what it was, but I ate it and it was good.


After Seeing Wicked:
Uncle Eric: The happily ever after ending just ruined it for me.
Auntie Angela: And I love you too, dear.




4393) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP Doug (Message 1387784)
Posted 4 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
4394) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Gardening 2013 Thread (Message 1386735)
Posted 2 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If I may be so bold...
4395) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 189 Da Bulls (Message 1386734)
Posted 2 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bleep...

Self modding, I see...
4396) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1386733)
Posted 2 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
cough, splutter
face planting in Angie's pies is so soo undignified, but oh, so delightful


Merciful heavens!!!
4397) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 189 Da Bulls (Message 1386731)
Posted 2 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
beep
4398) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 189 Da Bulls (Message 1386727)
Posted 2 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yawn...
4399) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1386725)
Posted 2 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Maple pie, in celebration of Canada Day
4400) Message boards : Cafe SETI : It is Canada’s birthday: (Message 1386722)
Posted 2 Jul 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
O Canada!!!


Happy birthday to all of you up there in that frozen tundra...
4401) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1386164)
Posted 30 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Grace is up high...

LOL!!!

So convenient to have a protoplasmic duster for the tops of cupboards.

Double LOL!!!

Julie, I am happy to hear that Happy is back!

John, I can assure you that raccoons have absolutely no difficulty getting up onto our deck!
4402) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1385399)
Posted 28 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

I'd really rather have pie...
4403) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1385032)
Posted 27 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh why not...


Steak and kidney pie
4404) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1385031)
Posted 27 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This afternoon, I saw a typical pedestrian standing at a corner, waiting for traffic to clear, turning her head back and forth to look. After I went by her, she trotted across the road on her four hooved legs. No road-kill venison in Riverside, Illinois tonight.


OMG - all the dumb deer have been killed off in Illinois and the remaining smart deer are surviving to reproduce themselves... Northern Wisconsin is doomed!!!
4405) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1384083)
Posted 24 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm glad to hear no casualties occurred in any species.
4406) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Gardening 2013 Thread (Message 1382930)
Posted 20 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Truth be told, there are definitely areas of our yard so weedy they count as "habitat restoration".
4407) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1382927)
Posted 20 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hmmm... I am going to guess that they are separators for stacking expensive glasses, one within another. If one had, say, cut crystal highball glasses and limited shelf space, one might use these liners to prevent the rim of one glass from chipping when another glass is inserted into it.
4408) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A new addition to our family (Message 1382925)
Posted 20 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations! What beautiful doggies!!!
4409) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1382376)
Posted 18 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A pheasant opened Eric's arm once... badly. I really don't blame the bird. Eric was trying to kill it. Eric goes pheasant hunting every now and again with his father. The only saving grace is that the birds, once dispatched, are actually cooked and eaten. It has taken me some time, but I have come to terms with hunting, provided that it is for food and not solely for sport.
4410) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Father's Day............................. (Message 1382375)
Posted 18 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy belated Father's Day to all the wonderful s@h dads!!!
4411) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 189 Da Bulls (Message 1382374)
Posted 18 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A new winner, I see... Congratulations!
4412) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1381418)
Posted 15 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

We should ALL be so relaxed!!!
4413) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #5 (Message 1381239)
Posted 14 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Quite an imagination you have, Angela:))

Why thank you!
4414) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1381238)
Posted 14 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And now for something different.

Bleeding cupcakes



Wow! Halloween appears to be here early this year!!! I can't wait to tell Eric.
4415) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1380932)
Posted 14 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Some would argue that THIS is the classic combination...
4416) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1380931)
Posted 14 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A kitty's life
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22567526


LOL! The research I read in my own field is not nearly as entertaining!!!
4417) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us a Caption #51 (Message 1380929)
Posted 14 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I just hate it when the ophthalmologist puts those dilating drops in my eyes.
4418) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 188 Let's all go swimming..... (Message 1380928)
Posted 14 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello! I've come to accept my win.
4419) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1380927)
Posted 14 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is it a device that can be soaked in water, then stored in the freezer, then split down the middle for insertion of a bottle of white wine in dire need of rapid chilling?
4420) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1380926)
Posted 14 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I agree completely with you, Vic!

4421) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #5 (Message 1380515)
Posted 13 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Face palm.
4422) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #5 (Message 1380288)
Posted 12 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think she prefers mixed drinks, but you didn't hear that from me.

LOL!!!
4423) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1379681)
Posted 11 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4424) Message boards : Cafe SETI : We lost Isabella last night (Message 1379663)
Posted 11 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I send our thoughts and our love. We are so sorry for your loss.
4425) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1379662)
Posted 11 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Aw!!! Here comes da fuzz!!!
4426) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Julie (Message 1378397)
Posted 8 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy Birthday Julie
4427) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1378392)
Posted 8 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not exactly a pie, but it holds a filling and is triangle shaped, so close enough...

Walnut Palascintas!!!
4428) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1378388)
Posted 8 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela is torturing us again...;)

Looks like it's straigth out of the Bisquik Incredible Pie recipe book. My parents were fans of the Ham & Spinach pie, although sometimes Dad would substitute SPAM or Farmer John's Breakfast sausage for ham. And always diced onions and extra cheese...


Hey!!! This galloping gourmet DID NOT post the Bisquik Pie shot! That would be an entirely different form of torture. I posted the spanakopita shot. Mmmmmmmmmmmm phyllo encrusted yumminess!!!
4429) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1378280)
Posted 7 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Me too!
4430) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1378091)
Posted 7 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have really enjoyed the pictures posted here lately.
4431) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1378089)
Posted 7 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Spinach pie
4432) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 188 Let's all go swimming..... (Message 1377799)
Posted 7 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Ian!
4433) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hello World (Message 1377301)
Posted 6 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome to the forums.
4434) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1377299)
Posted 6 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Deep dish vege-pizza pie
4435) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1376813)
Posted 5 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4436) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us a Caption #51 (Message 1376793)
Posted 5 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Home early from a conference (Whoo-Hoo!!!) and time to declare a winner.

Third place goes to KWSN The Holy Hand Granade! with his punny response: "Hell hath no furry worse than a cat made to look foolish!"

Second place goes to Donald L. Johnson with: "I am not pleased about wearing this silly thing, so don't even THINK about making me wear a whole costume like yours...." (We know the type, Mr J... we know the - Oh heck, who am I trying to kid here? We ARE the type!!!)

First place goes to our resident bat, Monday, with: "Resistance is futile."

P.M. Going out now to Monday.

4437) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cookies (Message 1376338)
Posted 4 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

LOL!!!

I am happy to hear that the cookies made it all the way to Germany without breaking or getting too stale. Everything I know about how to ship a box of cookies I learned from that Dominatrix of Domesticity, Martha Stewart.
4438) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I LOVE SETI@HOME ! (Message 1375473)
Posted 2 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What I like the most about this project is this community of lovely people. We gather to participate in a project, but in doing so we begin to care for and understand one another. Suddenly I have friends all over the globe!
4439) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 187 (Message 1375129)
Posted 2 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bump
4440) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us a Caption #51 (Message 1375126)
Posted 2 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.

Ok friends, please caption this...
4441) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Jean Stapleton, known as Edith Bunker on 'All in the Family,' dies (Message 1375125)
Posted 2 Jun 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
4442) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Angela's Birthday Pun Thread!!! (Message 1373277)
Posted 30 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL! Actually I think I lucked out on the test. Normally I really do drive about as well as my raccoons do.
4443) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I suddenly feel old. (Message 1372897)
Posted 29 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don’t blame you; there is nothing wrong with looking 35.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4444) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I suddenly feel old. (Message 1372874)
Posted 29 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll start feeling old, when I start looking my age.
Currently a wild guess usually is some 5-10 years short. :)


Count your blessings!!! I'd love to look my age. It would be an improvement!!!
4445) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us a Caption #51 (Message 1372872)
Posted 28 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If you can see me, you are at great risk of being banned...
4446) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW # 187 (Message 1372865)
Posted 28 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey!!!
4447) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Angela's Birthday Pun Thread!!! (Message 1372834)
Posted 28 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My birthday weekend lasted a long time. I go back to work tomorrow. Today I had the joyful task of once again taking a driving road test. My friends at the DMV put me behind the wheel for a road test every 1-2 years because my left eye is blind from a congenital defect and my right eye has a couple of progressive conditions that are not too bad yet.

I was so nervous before my test... I was simply a WRECK!!! I just didn't want my driving career to end with a BANG. Still, I was hell BENT on passing the test today, despite the TRAUMA road testing causes me. Good thing I visited the Ladies' Room before my test, because I waited in line so long today I could have had an ACCIDENT! I decided early on that if I passed, I would have to throw myself a party... you know, a big BASH, maybe with a retro-theme so that folks could dance the hustle or do the BUMP. And everyone would be invited - there would be no reason to CRASH the party. My friends, I never did CLAIM to be a good driver, and to add insult to INJURY, Eric is just naturally good behind the wheel. Still I just didn't want to always have to be depenDENT on Eric when I have to go someplace. Well, to make a long story short, I HIT the mark and it seems that the great State of California saw no FATAL flaw in my driving today. Best birthday present ever!!!

(P.S. - I actually got 100% - a perfect score, with no points taken off at all. A passing score is 85 or higher, as long as the driver does not make any "automatic fail" errors. Under the comments section the examiner wrote "Very polite and cautious driver".)
4448) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Prepare for the weeping and wailing of single women everywhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Message 1372329)
Posted 27 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am honored to be able to start this thread.

Congratulations to Scarecrow and Kris on their ENGAGEMENT!!!

Yes friends our legendary forum flirt, Cowboy Dave, has decided to henceforth flirt forever with one lucky lady. Dave recently asked a very special woman for her hand. (There was even jewelry involved!!! Eric and I have seen pictures!!!)

Eric and I wish you two Nebraskan Prairie Lovebirds a life time of love and happiness together.

Dedicated to Kris and Dave
4449) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Angela's Birthday Pun Thread!!! (Message 1372324)
Posted 27 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you again for all the fun posts and kind wishes.
4450) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Arkayn (Message 1371807)
Posted 25 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Arkayn and I happen to share a birthday, although he is significantly younger.

Happy Birthday Arkayn - Hope your special day was filled with fun.

Angela & Eric
4451) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Angela's Birthday Pun Thread!!! (Message 1371805)
Posted 25 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends!!!

Thank you for all the kind birthday wishes. Eric planned a nice little weekend trip for us, but it has not involved any dancing so far. I won't tell you my new age, but it rhymes with nifty and features the digits 0 and 5. Pass the Centrum Silver!

Angela
4452) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1370460)
Posted 22 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Choo Choo!!!
4453) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Moore, Oklahoma!! (Message 1370197)
Posted 21 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Care, comfort and concern. Making a donation to the Red Cross to aid victims.
4454) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1370194)
Posted 21 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is it for cutting decorative steam vents in pastry crusts?
4455) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1370103)
Posted 20 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello friends! Interesting articles about raccoons escaping from and back into zoos. Raccoons are good at investigating their surroundings, so if they want out of someplace they will studiously work to achieve that goal. On the other hand, raccoons will exert the least amount of energy possible to get a good meal, so I can see why zoos may not seem like prisons to some raccoons.

And as for Scarecrow's furry tabby friend, Fuzzy-butt, I am pretty convinced that FB and our Spawnie were twins, separated at birth.
4456) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #186 - Is it Summer yet? (Message 1368748)
Posted 17 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That is the job of second in command...
4457) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #186 - Is it Summer yet? (Message 1368746)
Posted 17 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The captain of Team Insomnia should NOT be caught napping!!!
4458) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us a Caption #51 (Message 1368614)
Posted 16 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

I can't believe this is not on GoodSearch for seti!
4459) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1368608)
Posted 16 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It looks like it has potatoes in it, so I am going to guess that it is a sack for storing potatoes that you hang up in a cool, dark place to discourage your potatoes from sprouting.
4460) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1368606)
Posted 16 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Regarding that last picture, welcome to my life!
4461) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1368191)
Posted 15 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4462) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #186 - Is it Summer yet? (Message 1367714)
Posted 14 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pleasant, temperate and comfortable here in the SF Bay area... as always.
4463) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1367368)
Posted 13 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And a pudgy one too.

No, he's just well-fed. Especially if he is a regular at Chez Korpela......


Hey! My raccoons wanted to tell you all that their fluffy coats make them appear larger than they really are... that and that the camera adds ten pounds to their posteriors.
4464) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Mum's Day!! (Message 1367367)
Posted 13 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy Mother's Day!
4465) Message boards : Cafe SETI : OK, the BACON thread. (Message 1366973)
Posted 12 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I had a bacon and brie croissant for breakfast today, from a small bakery in a local market. It was wonderful.


That kind of lunch would make Eric drool and his cardiologist blanch!!!
4466) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1366656)
Posted 11 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow! Are those half-sheet pre-cut rectangles?


Nope, those are sheet pan size pre-cut rectangles.


They fit the pans just right.


I see. A half sheet is the max most of us home cooks can get into our narrow little ovens. I have never been a fan of commercial style home kitchens, but I do understand why some might be tempted to go in that direction.
4467) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner 2012.................... (Message 1366655)
Posted 11 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Brussels sprouts with garlic powder, My Brother used to prepare them like that, made the sprouts take very good, of course I don't remember how much He used, so I'd say I'd have to experiment. Nope I can't ask Him.




Over the last two years I have become a Brussels sprouts convert. I never used to like them, but I think that is only because my mother cooked them to death.

Then, a few years ago, Brussels sprouts became "trendy" in restaurants and in the cooking magazines that I love to read. Chefs started experimenting with them, even shaving them into thin ribbons, which was all the rage a year or so ago. I kept reading recipe after recipe for Brussels sprouts until I succumbed to temptation, bought some sprouts and decided to cook them differently than somebody of my mother's generation would cook them. Now Eric and I love them!!! They are often our vegetable of choice. They go very well with fish.

I most often prepare them simply, like this:

1. Clean, trim and cut sprouts in half length-wise

2. Put a thin film of salted water with a good splash of olive oil and a few grinds of black pepper in a frying pan that has a tight fitting lid (Vic, you could add garlic powder or garlic salt here, to taste.)

3. Place the sprouts cut side down and cover the pan

4. Bring water to a boil and let the sprouts cook for a minute or two with the lid on - this basically flash steams them

5. Remove the lid, up the heat if not on max & boil off the water - the olive oil will remain

6. Let the sprouts caramelize in the oil on the cut side

Cooked this way, the sprouts will taste both sweet and nutty. Sometimes I serve them with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice for contrast.

Note: If you have a crappy electric stove and warped frying pans like I do, the sprouts will brown unevenly and you will have to remove the fast-cooking ones to a bowl first, using kitchen tongs. Once the browned ones are out of the pan, move the slower cooking ones to the hot spots in your pan to finish cooking.

I can honestly say that I have gone from absolutely hating to absolutely loving Brussels sprouts!
4468) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy 44th Birthday Blurf!!! (Message 1366629)
Posted 11 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I believe I may have heard through the grapevine that this is Blurf's drink of choice...
4469) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1366628)
Posted 11 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow! Are those half-sheet pre-cut rectangles?
4470) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #5 (Message 1366485)
Posted 10 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Chris and I are working on see who can get their post removed first on the caption contest


Now, now gentlemen! I do believe that innuendo is actually allowed, as it is supposed to be beyond the grasp of "the children".

Case in point... Polka-Dot Undies!
4471) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1366461)
Posted 10 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4472) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1366457)
Posted 10 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is this of any help?

Grease proof paper


I have always called it parchment paper. I use it all the time when baking. Besides coming in sheets on a roll, it can be purchased in rounds that fit into the bottom of cake pans. The bleached (white) paper works better for some baked goods and the unbleached (brown) paper works better for other baked goods. It all depends on how much heat you want drawn to or reflected away from the bottom of what you are baking.
4473) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1366452)
Posted 10 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We have a winner. My goodness that was fast!

Congratulations Chris.

PM going out now.
4474) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1366444)
Posted 10 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Please explain what you mean by the term "pastry paper". I call it something different but both you and Chris may be correct.
4475) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy 44th Birthday Blurf!!! (Message 1366439)
Posted 10 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Best wishes to you on your special day!
4476) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1366434)
Posted 10 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Greaseproof paper?

Explain, please, what you mean by that. It is possible that we both call this substance something different.
4477) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1366429)
Posted 10 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Your groupies, dear cowboy, appear to be male... not that there's anything wrong with that!
4478) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1366427)
Posted 10 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.

This is a staple in my kitchen. It comes in white as well.

What is it called? What does one do with it?
4479) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1365954)
Posted 9 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Does the inside look like this diagram?
4480) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #185 has arrived at its destination with most of the rules intact (Message 1365952)
Posted 9 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you. Eric and I were down in Fresno last weekend babysitting a niece and nephew while my sister-in-law went to a conference. Also, this week has been crazy at work. Nice to have a minute to pop in here.
4481) Message boards : Cafe SETI : happy Intergalactic Star Wars Day (Message 1365949)
Posted 9 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoon Wannabe
4482) Message boards : Cafe SETI : happy Intergalactic Star Wars Day (Message 1365948)
Posted 9 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4483) Message boards : Cafe SETI : happy Intergalactic Star Wars Day (Message 1365947)
Posted 9 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4484) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1365943)
Posted 9 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Butter well?
4485) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #185 has arrived at its destination with most of the rules intact (Message 1365942)
Posted 9 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello friends!
4486) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1363820)
Posted 3 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodnight friends...
4487) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1363819)
Posted 3 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now don't make me take my claws out!!!
4488) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1363818)
Posted 3 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I see even the gardeners weigh in on my side...
4489) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #185 has arrived at its destination with most of the rules intact (Message 1363813)
Posted 3 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Boo!
4490) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1363812)
Posted 3 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pink peppermint divinity candy

It would seem that even god thinks peppermint is pink...
4491) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1363805)
Posted 3 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pink peppermint White Russians!
(Clearly there is some international consensus here...)

4492) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1363800)
Posted 3 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A pink peppermint pig.
Now I ask you, what could be more natural?

4493) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1363794)
Posted 3 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Marcel showed up tonight reeking of skunk. Man, that is one stupid raccoon!!!
4494) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1363776)
Posted 3 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is it a spoon rest?
4495) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1363775)
Posted 3 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is well known that our Ang gets a bit mischievous in the Spring when the sap is rising ....

Please do not refer to my husband as a sap.

Now I do believe that The French know a thing or two about food. Gentlemen, I am sorry, but one simply cannot argue with the macaroons...


Pistachio = green


Peppermint = pink


4496) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1363418)
Posted 2 May 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am sorry to have to be the one to break this to you, but green peppermint is an abomination. Peppermint flavored offerings ("flavoured" for those of you who stubbornly insist on being British) should always be artificially dyed a bright and brilliant shade of pink!

Behold!!! Pink peppermint pie, as god and nature intended!

4497) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #5 (Message 1362782)
Posted 30 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
@Chris -
As soon as Gary said Easter? Kerching! But it really was a stab in the dark. I feel a bit guilty pinching it off Gary though because I think he may have got it first. Oh well. I'll go searching and get back.


I suspect Gary plays some games the way I do - to advance the game, rather than to win.

Yes, there is that. And Chris owes us a pic.


That was a little unfair. We on this side of the pond (well me at least) never heard of hot cross buns. Am I wrong that it's brit thing?


Way wrong. We've had them up here (SF Bay Area) around Easter time ever since I can remember. The ones I remember having as a kid had yellow lemon filling in the cross.
4498) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW #185 has arrived at its destination with most of the rules intact (Message 1362779)
Posted 30 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yawn!!! Goodnight...


4499) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1362527)
Posted 29 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I was up a little late last night. I'm sure I shall pay for my sins today.

I shall have to try watermelon with my little beasties this summer!

Having a raccoon (and realistically probably more than one...) live in one's attic, with access to one's kitchen, is far and away a state of existence MORE CRAZY than this resident Crazy Raccoon Lady EVER wants to experience!!! Eric should thank his lucky stars that he married such a rational and stable individual.

Thank you for that reminder that everything is relative!
4500) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1362409)
Posted 29 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
(Sadly, I am afraid that Eric's use of the term "hot" refers only to the temperature of the bath water...)


Oh come on Angela - something has kept you guys together all these years. He picked a good one and he knows it :)

Got some more kitty GIFs that I feel I must share later :)


Even if we didn't still love eachother (and we do!!!) we would probably still stay together, for the raccoons...
4501) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1362286)
Posted 28 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Our Eva is a water baby. She dips her little pink paws into tubs full of water on purpose! We think she is part tiger. Eva also drinks my bath water before I have used any soap or shampoo. When she does this, Eric says she is drinking "hot house-monkey soup". (Sadly, I am afraid that Eric's use of the term "hot" refers only to the temperature of the bath water...)
4502) Message boards : SETI@home Staff Blog : UC Berkeley SETI @ California Academy of the Sciences NightLife (Message 1362048)
Posted 28 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I went. It was fun.
4503) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1362047)
Posted 28 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Biscuit or scone cutter?
4504) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1362044)
Posted 28 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A weight for making chicken under a brick?
4505) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - #184 Of coprolites and rotating blades.... (Message 1361998)
Posted 27 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
According to my computer clock it is 4:27 on 4:27 which means that we have a couple of winners today.

Congratulations to N9JFE - you have won TLPTPW #184!!!
(P.M. going out now...)

Congratulations to Michael Roberts - you have won the Fancy Talk contest - cookie flavor and mailing date to be worked out by P.M., which is also going out now.

Eric, please lock this thread.
4506) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - #184 Of coprolites and rotating blades.... (Message 1361848)
Posted 27 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Posting before peddling

Your bike or your wares?

Hint: It is recommended that all post, post-haste this weekend!!!
4507) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP Dr Sidney Freedman of M.A.S.H. 4077th fame (Message 1361847)
Posted 27 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
4508) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lost another music legend today...George Jones. (Message 1361846)
Posted 27 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
4509) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For those addicted to Chocolate (Message 1361286)
Posted 26 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4510) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - #184 Of coprolites and rotating blades.... (Message 1361281)
Posted 26 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Much as he wanted to keep the cookies, I told Eric he could not consider his own post as an entry.

You are all very funny! Eric and I are laughing so much!!!

The current top three are:

1. Michael Roberts, retaining first place with:
Venio, video, vincendum.



2. For making "the laminator" sound like a triathlon, N9JFE moves into second place with:
Posting after running the laminator. Oh, my back...



3. Carlos bumped Andy the Conquerer with:
non-defeat


So far, Michael Roberts is still the man to beat. Keep posting!!!
4511) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - #184 Of coprolites and rotating blades.... (Message 1361262)
Posted 26 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
<I can haz margarita?>

4512) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - #184 Of coprolites and rotating blades.... (Message 1361251)
Posted 26 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Tuning up my opera voice now...

But, can you shatter a wine glass at 20 paces ....


I'd rather empty a tequila bottle worth 200 pesos...
4513) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - #184 Of coprolites and rotating blades.... (Message 1361164)
Posted 25 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Only the chanting of a bulbous matron can signify completion.


LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(I corrected "on" to "of" for you dear heart.)

Tuning up my opera voice now...
4514) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1360906)
Posted 25 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4515) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1360898)
Posted 25 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4516) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - #184 Of coprolites and rotating blades.... (Message 1360894)
Posted 25 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You folks are hilarious!!!

Ok, according to Eric this post by resident word-smith Michael Roberts is the post to beat so far:
Venio, video, vincendum.


However Donald Johnson, rake in hand, is a very close second with:
Transferred some composted organic material without benefit of mechanical blowers this afternoon.


And Andy the Conqueror is definitely in the running with:
Seems that I have overcome the challenge once again!


Carry on bravely, dear friends.
4517) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1360481)
Posted 24 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4518) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1360479)
Posted 24 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It looks like an Abel Skiver pan to me...
4519) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - #184 Of coprolites and rotating blades.... (Message 1360475)
Posted 24 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.

The Last Person To Post Wins thread, general rules:
1. Winner of the last thread starts the new one with a post of these rules.
2. Chooses a future event which triggers the winner, e.g. post number, date-time, and records it privately somehow (yellow sticky, etc.)
3. Everyone has fun posting until the target event is reached.
4. When the target is reached, old winner posts declaration of new winner and also PMs them.
5. Shortly after this a Mod will lock the recently won thread.
6. Go to 1.

Supplemental rules:
A. Multiple posting (the same poster posting two or more posts in succession) is frowned upon, and no element of a multiple posting may trigger the winning event. Thus the first following nonmultiple post will win.
B. However the winning event is defined, it should probably take less than 600 posts also less than two weeks to achieve.
C. Posting of larger pics is discouraged (Modem users do still exist, and these threads can get quite long.)
D. Don't post any clearly copyrighted pictures.
E. The post rules listed to the left of your post box are all enforced.


I have picked a date and a time when the top post will win. I have written this information down and put it next to my computer.

Please review the official rules posted above.

Since I am Thread Mistress this round, and I happen to LOVE LANGUAGE, I would like to propose a non-binding game to any and all who wish to participate. I encourage you to say whatever you want to say in this thread, but encrypt it in such a way that it will not be immediately obvious to others. For example, instead of "I win!!!", why not say "I have overcome all adversity"? The more cryptic, the better... (See thread title) Your motto should be "make 'em look it up!!!"

There will be two winners in this thread.

Winner #1 will be the person who posts last when the winning date and time come about.

Winner #2, and the recipient of a box of homemade cookies baked and shipped by yours truly, will be the person who types the post that makes Eric laugh the most.
4520) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 183 Angela wins, She was #609 (Message 1360209)
Posted 23 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh heck... one last post.

Goodnight all.
4521) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1360207)
Posted 23 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Brie en croute... skirting the borders of "pie-dom"
4522) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 183 Angela wins, She was #609 (Message 1360204)
Posted 23 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Alas, I must bow out. I can barely keep my eyes open and my schedule for tomorrow looks dreadful.

Goodnight friends.
4523) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 183 Angela wins, She was #609 (Message 1360197)
Posted 23 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
ok.
4524) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 183 Angela wins, She was #609 (Message 1360194)
Posted 23 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Later win.
4525) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 183 Angela wins, She was #609 (Message 1360184)
Posted 23 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yeah, me too...
4526) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1360179)
Posted 23 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is it something used to keep a tablecloth stable on a table?
4527) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 183 Angela wins, She was #609 (Message 1360176)
Posted 23 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And Angela got here last... win!!!
4528) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1360175)
Posted 23 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If I'm going to get modded, I want it to be for something naughty...

Whoopie pies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Merciful heavens... think of the children!!!
4529) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 183 Angela wins, She was #609 (Message 1360170)
Posted 23 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Usurping Blurf's win!!!
4530) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1359977)
Posted 22 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic is correct, it is a carving fork used for meats.

PM going out now.
4531) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1359634)
Posted 22 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win. This one is probably too easy as well...

What is it?
4532) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1358624)
Posted 19 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is a potato ricer. It can be used to make incredibly fluffy mashed potatoes. It can also be used to rice potatoes to make gnocchi. I have one very much like it.
4533) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1358255)
Posted 18 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh my...I think Angela is breaking the rules big time...;)


Pee-wee: There's a lotta things about me you don't know anything about, Dottie. Things you wouldn't understand. Things you couldn't understand. Things you shouldn't understand.

Dottie: I don't understand.

Pee-wee: You don't wanna get mixed up with a guy like me. I'm a loner, Dottie. A rebel. So long, Dott.
4534) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1357964)
Posted 18 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
V is for Vanilla



W is for Watermelon



X is for eXtremely large pie picture... [b]



Y is for Yuzu Fruit



Z is for Zucchini!!!
4535) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1357961)
Posted 18 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
T is for Thimbleberry


U is for Uglifruit
[/b]
4536) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1357956)
Posted 18 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh, sorry Vic! I notice your posts before I finished mine.

Take it home, friend. It is late and I should have been in bed hours ago.
4537) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1357955)
Posted 18 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
O is for olallieberry



P is for Peanut



Q is for Quince



R is for Raspberry



S is for Sugar Maple

4538) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1357952)
Posted 18 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
J is for Jujube Pie!!!



K is for kiwi



L is for lemon meringue



M is for mango



N is for nectarine
4539) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1357944)
Posted 18 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A is for apricot



B is for blueberry



C is for coconut cream



D is for Deep Dish Pizza Pie!!!



E is for Egg Custard



F is for French Silk



G is for Grasshopper


H is for Hazelnut



I is for ice cream



J is for... ought-oh, I'm stumped!
4540) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1357672)
Posted 17 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My initial thought was sugar tongs, but the slotted nature of the tongs makes no sense in picking up a dry sugar cube, so I'm going to go with olive tongs.
4541) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bombing at the Boston Marathon (Message 1357420)
Posted 16 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Peace on earth.
4542) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1357418)
Posted 16 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, it is an asparagus server. Congratulations Chris. PM going out now.
4543) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1357097)
Posted 15 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4544) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1357088)
Posted 15 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If I tell you how to change the title, will you eat Humble Pie?
4545) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1357086)
Posted 15 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No one here has guessed the food???!!!???
If I stumped you, that is good
My droll rhymes I shall not cease
Until someone names this piece




Uli-belle, are you around?
This food grows in her home town
Uli likes hers white not green
Do you know the food I mean?

It is late and to my sorrow
Got to be at work tomorrow
So, goodnight... I've got to scram
"Pleasant dreams!" said Ang I am




4546) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1357056)
Posted 15 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Guess that trip to the outhouse can wait after all ...

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eric and I had routine physicals last Friday and our physician advised Eric to take 15 minutes out of his lunch time and walk vigorously around Tilden Park three days a week. (Tilden Park is right next to the Space Sciences Lab.) Eric responded that he didn't want to do that because a Mountain Lion had been spotted in the area. Our doctor looked at Eric like that was the stupidest excuse he had EVER heard for not exercising!
4547) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1357055)
Posted 15 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Curve's essential to its function
Pay attention to that junction

Fungi server it is not
Prelude IS the pattern lot

Super guesser Mr. Mercer
Found the answer with his cursor

Wrote J. Mercer, with a grin
"Got it, but don't want the win"

So my friends, the dunk please slam
What's the answer?, Ang I am...
4548) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1357040)
Posted 15 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No, it's not for serving crepes
And it's not for serving grapes

What it serves might go INSIDE
Crepes, quiche or frittata pie

So guess again, if you can
Guess all night says Ang I am!

4549) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1356976)
Posted 14 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Could it be pink salmon fillets?
I am sure the kitties might like that in lieu of the Friskies Pate'.


Not salmon fillets, in shades of pink
Although that sounds good, don't you think?

I'm trying hard to keep G-rated
Resisting words that might be hated

One clue I'll give, it's not for yams
Now just keep guessing, Ang I am...

4550) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1356968)
Posted 14 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
(With apologies to Dr. Seuss...)

Not Spam, not Lasagna, not Bacon and Egg Pie
Not Broccoli Cheese Flan, you silly guy

Not anything that's made with ham
So just keep guessing, Ang I am!
4551) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For those addicted to Chocolate (Message 1356851)
Posted 14 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did somebody say breakfast?
4552) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1356849)
Posted 14 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not a pastry server and not a cheese slicer and definitely not an antique Dodge City cowboy fanny whacker. (The originator of that last posted suggestion has been hidden, but Eric and I can guess the author, and now we know what to get him and Kris as a housewarming gift...)

Ok, I guess it is time for a hint. The food one serves with this utensil is savory, not sweet. The food can be served both hot or cold, and to my mind it is quite tasty at any temperature.

Just so you all know, I haven't received any of those inevitable pm's from people who guess correctly but who don't want to win this round. I believe that this means that even the best of the very best guessers is MYSTIFIED!!!
4553) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1356743)
Posted 14 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not a sandwich server, of any sort!!!
4554) Message boards : Number crunching : How low can you go? (Message 1356737)
Posted 14 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Remember that picture of Eric wearing a suit that I posted here? Eric was on his way to a NASA site review for a satellite project he is a part of. (Not a seti thing... sorry friends.) Anyway, it got funded. Yay!!!
4555) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1356735)
Posted 14 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh dear. We didn't mean to offend. Eric was just teasing and I know there are a whole lot of crunchers out there who are fans of Xena and her sidekick Gabrielle. I didn't think anyone would take Eric seriously! And as an aside, I believe that innuendo is generally considered to be be "kid friendly" because it is supposed elude children.

Ok, ok, back on topic...



What is it?
4556) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1356629)
Posted 13 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Merciful heavens!!!
4557) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1356620)
Posted 13 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I consider this nature balancing itself. There were far too many joggers!


Amen to that, friend!!!!!
4558) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1356614)
Posted 13 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh come on Chris! That picture has only been up for 14 hours. It is far too early for hints. I want to make you all squirm for a day or so first, before I indulge you in a game of "animal, vegetable or mineral."
4559) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1356611)
Posted 13 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I know, I know... I'm such a barbarian!!!

You're prettier than Conan!

Quiche server?


Why thank you. You should see my Xena Warrior Princess costume!

... not a quiche server
4560) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1356583)
Posted 13 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Whoops! Sorry. Wrong thread. Well, a long as I'm here, anyone want a slice of pie?
4561) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For those addicted to Chocolate (Message 1356582)
Posted 13 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4562) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1356580)
Posted 13 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I did not know they made a special kitchen tool for serving up slices of Friskies pate'.

LOL! It is NOT for Friskies pate.
4563) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1356579)
Posted 13 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In the SF Bay Area we have pockets of wilderness surrounded by densely populated areas. Some of the larger wild areas still have a few big cats and once a decade or so, a Mountain Lion eats a jogger or a bicyclist. I suppose that to a kitty cat, the fast moving people look like deer. The solution, I believe, is not to exercise. In fact, I am already following my own advice right now by parking my ample behind here in front of this screen. Yep... in this setting I don't look like a deer at all!!! I feel very, very safe.
4564) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1356576)
Posted 13 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Although, I suppose one COULD use this utensil for serving most anything, it's specific design is:

not for serving waffles,

not for serving ice cream slices,

not for serving cake slices,

not for serving toast,

and not for serving petit fours. (Insert gloating smile here!)

This tool is a fussy little thing and in my defense, I did not purchase it myself. It was a gift from an elderly auntie who is a little more formal than your average bear.

I only use this tool if we have company and I have plattered the food it is designed to serve. For everyday occasions, when it is just me, Ol' Pookers and our spoiled cats (some of whom, over the years, have surprisingly been quite fond of the food in question), I just use a simple set of kitchen tongs to plop the intended food onto all of our plates.

I know, I know... I'm such a barbarian!!!
4565) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1356454)
Posted 13 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Unlike WinterKnight, who hoped for a quick picture turn around, I happen to take a perverse delight in attempting to stump you all!!!



Clearly this is a serving utensil, but for what?

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
4566) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For those addicted to Chocolate (Message 1356452)
Posted 13 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4567) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Another good one goes.... (Message 1356448)
Posted 13 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
4568) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1356412)
Posted 13 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win. I have something in mind which I will try and find to photograph tonight.
4569) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Rosie my eldest Shih-Tzu (Message 1356411)
Posted 13 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is so hard to see a beloved pet suffer and pass. Wishing you and Sheila peace.
4570) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1355701)
Posted 11 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Does it contain a corkscrew?
4571) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1355524)
Posted 11 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
One of the major problems facing urban wildlife is traffic. One raccoon has found a solution.


Wonderful footage! I can say with great certainty that my raccoons are far better problem solvers than any of my other backyard visitors - squirrels, skunks, cats and especially opossums.
4572) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lost another TV icon (Message 1355409)
Posted 10 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
4573) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1355181)
Posted 10 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Which way did he go? Which way did he go?
4574) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1355178)
Posted 10 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A message to you all from the mahatma.


LOL!
4575) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Margaret Thatcher : a great lady among the angels (Message 1355177)
Posted 10 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
While my political leanings are in the opposite direction, still I say RIP and wish peace and comfort to those who loved her.
4576) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP Annette Funicello (Message 1355176)
Posted 10 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
4577) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Gardening 2013 Thread (Message 1354551)
Posted 8 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


I am she they call The Weed Slayer, and yea verily do I embrace that moniker.

Vile chickweed, 'tis in vain to conceal thyself amidst my chives and chervil. Prickly sowthistle, thou shalt not shield thyself amidst my salvia. Himalayan blackberry, no safe harbor wilt thou find beneath my heuchera. For I am the Weed Slayer, she who makes the purslane pale, the bermuda grass blanch and the quack grass quake and quail. I allow the lambsquarters no quarter. The mallow finds me not mellow. I spot the spotted spurge. I bind the bindweed and draw shades upon the deadly nightshade.

Burclover, the wild radish, the odoriferous onion grass and the onerous oxalis all beg for leniency - yet each, in turn, feels the merciless hand of death descend upon him. Armed only with my trusty trowel and my willful weeder, I triumph with every taproot torn and rejoice with every runner removed.

Fear me, for I am the Weed Slayer.

4578) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #5 (Message 1354495)
Posted 7 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In the Beet's Thread, Michael Roberts references Shakespeare. It seems to me that there are so many quotes that fit this picture...



"If you prick us do we not bleed?"

"What a piece of work is a man"

"That it should come to this!"

"In my mind's eye"

"I will speak daggers to her, but use none"

"Can one desire too much of a good thing?"

"True is it that we have seen better days"

"O that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek!"

"This is the short and the long of it"

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt"

"The better part of valour is discretion"

"A man can die but once"

"Small things make base men proud"

"We have seen better days"

"Friends, Romans, Countrymen... lend me your ears"

"Men at some time are masters of their fates"

"There 's daggers in men's smiles"

"What 's done is done"

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair"

"Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?"

"This above all: to thine own self be true"
4579) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1354120)
Posted 6 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You sound like you're writing the outline for upcoming episodes of a soap opera.


All My (Raccoon) Children?

The Guiding (Back Porch) Light?

The Young And The Restless (And The Hungry...)?
4580) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1353989)
Posted 6 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello friends!

I figured it was high time I actually posted a raccoon update in the Raccoon Update thread.

Eric took this picture of Magoo tonight.



Like little Izzy from a former litter, both Marcel and Magoo have learned to climb the rail that runs around the window well in our backyard. The part of the rail that runs near our back door gives these little beggars an unobstructed view of my kitchen, so of course that is where they tend to park their lazy behinds. Such a position ensures them dinner, as who could possibly pass by those mournful raccoon eyes and not reach for a scoop of cat food and a cluster or two of grapes?

We see Marcel and Magoo, our bachelor brothers, with great regularity these days... a little too regularly for Eric's taste. Donna is long gone. This is normal and natural for this time of year. We assume she is off somewhere nursing a litter of kits. In all probability we will not see her again. A mama raccoon as young as Donna is unlikely to have the size, strength and cunning to claim and defend our backyard as her own. I also would be surprised if Gigi returns this year, given that at some time after she established her territory last summer, she had the misfortune to break one of her front legs. This would give her a distinct disadvantage this year, assuming of course, that despite her broken leg, she still found enough food and avoided/resisted diseases to live another year. Mother Nature is a harsh mistress.

In all probability, some big, bad, dominant female raccoon from a prior litter of babies will claim our backyard this summer. Perhaps this will be the year that Izzy returns? The first thing that big, bad mama raccoon will do is kick Marcel and Magoo right out!!! No mother raccoon would tolerate bachelor brothers near her babies. The process of "encouraging" those two to leave might take several nights, but eventually some mama raccoon will scare and/or scar Marcel and Magoo so badly that they will not dare to ever return again. Some raccoons are slow learners. As regular readers of this thread may recall, a few years back Interloper Mama had to work long and hard to convince Arthur that he should go away and never ever return! Eventually he got the message.

Marcel and Magoo's days of sloth and lethargy are numbered. They just don't know it yet...
4581) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1353831)
Posted 5 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Still warm, but not the name I am looking for.


Argh!!! There must be thousands of cultures that have dumplings and other filled pastries as part of their food traditions. You are looking for a specific name? Ok my friend, with tongue firmly implanted in cheek, I hereby propose that this mystery kitchen tool is called "The Dumpling Defecator"
4582) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption # 50 (Message 1353544)
Posted 5 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"Well I was born in a small town
And I live in a small town
Prob'ly die in a small town
Oh, those small - communities..."
4583) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1353541)
Posted 5 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't drink alcohol, or at least not since My Sister was married long ago.

You're missing out, my friend...
4584) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For those addicted to Chocolate (Message 1353533)
Posted 5 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4585) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1353528)
Posted 5 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


LOL! We do keep a reasonably well stocked bar at the Hotel Korpela...
4586) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1353526)
Posted 5 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I like toward the background where you can't even see the critter, just the two bright green spots in the blackness.

That was Angs resident patio cat keeping an eye on proceedings .....


LOL! Spawnie, our resident patio cat, has raccoons figured out. Spawnie lives by the following three laws:

1. Don't come between a raccoon and food

2. Don't expect a raccoon to leave you any food

3. Be mean to baby raccoons and when they grow up they will still be afraid of you, even though each one has grown big enough to rip your face off
4587) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1353465)
Posted 5 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A device for making Chinese potstickers?
4588) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1353409)
Posted 4 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Coffee no

Ravioli no

Ang is getting warm :-)


A mold for making and sealing Cornish pasties?
4589) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1353295)
Posted 4 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Holy fur bandits, Angela! Is that at your house?

I like toward the background where you can't even see the critter, just the two bright green spots in the blackness.



Thankfully that is NOT my backyard, nor my front yard for that matter.

A few raccoons, enjoyed in moderation, can be a fine thing, BUT.....
4590) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1353289)
Posted 4 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pierogi (I may have spelled that incorrectly...) maker?
4591) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1353115)
Posted 4 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL! Words more true were never written.

Actually I have a t-shirt that says "Obey The Raccoon". My fashion-ista sister just hates that t-shirt, but I always get comments on it if I wear it to the grocery store or some other public place. It is a great conversation starter.
4592) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The joke thread Part 3. (Message 1353110)
Posted 4 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL...another winner sent to me by my dear Dad.

The paperless future.

ROFLMAO.


+1!!!
4593) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For those addicted to Chocolate (Message 1353107)
Posted 4 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4594) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1353103)
Posted 4 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bump.

Oh Chris...
4595) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1353102)
Posted 4 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This thread doesn't have enough rules...

Or raccoons for that matter...


I can fix that for you Vic.
4596) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST PIES IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1353097)
Posted 4 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This thread doesn't have enough rules...
4597) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 183 Angela wins, She was #609 (Message 1353074)
Posted 4 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, did you go and win this thing again?!!! Congratulations!!!
4598) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Relay for Life 2013 (Message 1353073)
Posted 4 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Go Blurf Go!!!
4599) Message boards : Cafe SETI : SHGb02+14a (Message 1352657)
Posted 1 Apr 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's pretty hard to do all three at once.

Omce you are more than about 6 years old.....

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4600) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1352569)
Posted 31 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, my little woodland friends are justifiably classified as "pests" and I completely understand why sane people really don't want them around.

One of my aunts also had a mama raccoon decide that my aunt's attic made a perfect nursery. My aunt hired a removal company that allegedly specialized in "relocation". A couple of employees came out and somehow managed to catch or trap the mama and her babies, remove them from the attic, and then nail up some sort of sturdy metal grating structure over the place where the mama raccoon had managed to get in.

Well, the "relocation" must not have been farther than the canyon in back of my aunt's house because about two nights later the metal grating was off the hole and the mama raccoon had moved all of her babies right back to where she thought they should be! Raccoon mamas can be very determined creatures.

My aunt hired a different company for round two and I am sorry to report that "relocation" was not in the title of the second company.

Sigh...
4601) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1352332)
Posted 31 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Our cats are hoping for live baby chicks in their Easter baskets.

They will be disappointed...
4602) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1352329)
Posted 31 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That kitty cat does not look amused, Vic!
4603) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For those addicted to Chocolate (Message 1352322)
Posted 31 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Easter chocolates are often wrapped in aluminum. Works for me...
4604) Message boards : Cafe SETI : SHGb02+14a (Message 1352319)
Posted 31 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This thread is for the absurd, cute, and profound.

You rang?
4605) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1352199)
Posted 30 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How do you keep the tiny hole from filling up with pulp?
4606) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For those addicted to Chocolate (Message 1352039)
Posted 30 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4607) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1352038)
Posted 30 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Where's the CRL? We haven't heard from her lately.

Just taking a little break...


Hoppy Easter, friends!
4608) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption # 50 (Message 1349302)
Posted 22 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello all you funny people. Time to declare a winner!

Third place goes to the always funny Michael Roberts with "Swat that now and your curtains will suffer..."

Second place goes to the wry Mr. Gary Charpentier with "What a time for a pollen allergy."

First place goes to Soft Spirit, who clearly played to this pun-lovin' judge with her tremendously clever eye chart reading of "C D B Z B?" (...caption best appreciated if read aloud) Janice, that one was very, very, very well done!!!

PM going out to our winner now.

4609) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1348966)
Posted 21 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Salt pinch dish?
4610) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1348561)
Posted 19 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
ginger?


Yes. It is a fresh ginger grater. Congratulations Julie!

PM going out to our winner now.
4611) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1348496)
Posted 19 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, it is a grater, but not one designed for cheese. It is a grater for _____.
4612) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1348361)
Posted 19 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sure hope this one isn't too easy...
4613) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1348357)
Posted 19 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I just don't like being stumped by you, my friend! I shall go nose about my kitchen now in search of something mystifying.
4614) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1348355)
Posted 19 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A device for stirring natural peanut butter?
4615) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For Ian (Message 1348354)
Posted 19 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome home Ian. Glad you were feeling well enough to post earlier. It is cymbidium orchid season in Northern California right now, so here is one for you, my friend.

4616) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1348352)
Posted 19 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Something for filling sausage casings?
4617) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1348350)
Posted 19 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
An ice cream mixer for making malts or shakes?
4618) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption # 50 (Message 1348349)
Posted 19 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.

Ok friends, please caption this...
4619) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption # 50 (Message 1348303)
Posted 18 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The Mothership FINALLY arrives to take certain posters back home...
4620) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For those addicted to Chocolate (Message 1347902)
Posted 17 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Something seasonal, perhaps?
4621) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1347536)
Posted 17 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Baby skunks are really cute!
4622) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For those addicted to Chocolate (Message 1347535)
Posted 17 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Chocolate French Toast

Merciful heavens!!!
4623) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For those addicted to Chocolate (Message 1347438)
Posted 16 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4624) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1346751)
Posted 15 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Since they appear to say "stop" on them, I'm going to have to assume they are drain stoppers.
4625) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption # 49 (Message 1346547)
Posted 14 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cracking the code of the eagle's genome...
4626) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 181 Beware the Ides of March (Message 1346406)
Posted 14 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric's den was getting ridiculously out of control. My next step would have been to call the Health Department and get the room condemned!
4627) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 181 Beware the Ides of March (Message 1346397)
Posted 14 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Better late than never!

I helped Eric box up the final things in his den this evening, so I'm down here later than usual. We are doing some home improvements and we had to empty his den so that bookshelves can be built in, the room can be painted and new flooring can go in. It is a shame I had to do a major home remodel just to get that man to clean his room!
4628) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For those addicted to Chocolate (Message 1346010)
Posted 13 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There is no such thing as too much chocolate. :D

Amen, sistah!!!


4629) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1345989)
Posted 13 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That's a shameful amount of dust on the blue item, especially its intake grill.


I agree. I could plant potatoes in some areas of Eric's den!!!

I'm pretty sure the lowest levels of detritous are composting even as we speak. A little green, a little brown, some moisture from spilled Mountain Dew cans... sounds like an ideal composting situation to me.
4630) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 181 Beware the Ides of March (Message 1345710)
Posted 12 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
See? I told you!!!

Goodnight friends.
4631) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption # 49 (Message 1345709)
Posted 12 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dang! I guess sleep wasn't over-rated after all...
4632) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 181 Beware the Ides of March (Message 1345706)
Posted 12 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Posting before Carlos.
4633) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1345701)
Posted 12 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow! Welcome to installment #17 of our Critter Cafe. This is a place where critter people come together to discuss anything they wish. There is no such thing as "off topic" in the Critter Cafe (...although we learned in #16 that heated political discussions may be escorted away to a more appropriate venue!)

To start us out, here is a picture of Eva, busy on the job supervising Eric as he cleans his den.
4634) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1345700)
Posted 12 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh dear. I hope the raccoon was eventually freed!

Some time ago I was asked to start a new thread and I have been remiss in doing so. I shall remedy that now. See you all in the next Critter Cafe.

ang.
4635) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption # 49 (Message 1345696)
Posted 12 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh dear! I did not think the content was all THAT adult, but if such is the case I guess I had better just declare a winner and let this photo sift down into the er.. uh... annals of obscurity.

Third place for her incongruously upbeat take on the photo is Miz Julie with: "Someone's been working out..."

Second place with his nod to popular culture is the poster formerly known as Sarge - ["Stupidest (and Shortest) Cruncher/Poster"] (His moniker, not mine!!!) with: "I guess Nutri-System really DID work for Terry Bradshaw!"

First place for telling it like it is and thinking outside of the box is Monday with: "Lucky Blurf..."

(PM going out to our winner now.)
4636) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1345690)
Posted 12 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
While we're all waiting, how about a little cake?

4637) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1345512)
Posted 11 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Clue time, I'd say:)

I think none of you can guess this because nobody here has a checkered past...

For making checkerboard cake? Different flavors of batter in the different rings?


Yes! We have a winner!

Here is the box...



(PM going out now.)
4638) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1345494)
Posted 11 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Clue time, I'd say:)

I think none of you can guess this because nobody here has a checkered past...
4639) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1345409)
Posted 11 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I love that this item has gone 24 hours with only one person 85% sure and not yet hazarding a public guess. For a contest that attracts so many accomplished home cooks, I feel like 24 hours is a pretty good run. If nobody guesses correctly tonight, I will give a clue tomorrow.

Goodnight friends.

ang.

24 hours? Pshaw. Mine went for 8 days.

My first two thoughts were ashtray and sterno holder, but I know those are wrong.

Egg poacher?

[edit] I see that's already been shot down too.



Not an ashtray; not a sterno holder; not an egg poacher... and it looks like this picture is still in the running for a chance to beat your impressive record of 8 days (Nah-nah-nuh-nah-nah!!!)
4640) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 181 Beware the Ides of March (Message 1345204)
Posted 11 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I worked like a dog this weekend, but I still can't sleep.
4641) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption # 49 (Message 1345202)
Posted 11 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win. Yes, a pm was sent.

Ok friends, please caption this...
4642) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1345165)
Posted 11 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Carpe Ichthus


Don't mind if I do!!!
4643) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1345021)
Posted 10 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
OK, last go, is it a Baumkuchen maker?

I had to Google Image Baumkuchen to find out what it was. Wow!!!!!!

No, it is not a Baumkuchen maker. It is more simple than that, but you are moving in the right direction.
4644) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1345004)
Posted 10 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
OK, complete stab in the dark, a swiss roll maker.

Sorry. That is incorrect. All you need for that is a jelly roll pan, or better yet a half sheet pan.

This is a tiny bit more complicated.
4645) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For those addicted to Chocolate (Message 1344981)
Posted 10 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Drool.....
4646) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1344977)
Posted 10 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I do own the set. Dimensions are about 8 or 9 inches in diameter. You do pour something into the containers. The pieces are heated up by putting them into a heat source.

I guess water, then something sits on top, then in an oven. But it seems to have three separate compartments. Some sort of steamer?

Not a steamer. Water does not go in any of the compartments.
4647) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1344976)
Posted 10 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A mould for doing (as in baking rather than cutting) concentric cakes
(its probably got a fancy name)


You are correct about the creation of concentric cakes. Its name is not particularly fancy, but if you can describe what the end product looks like, I will give you the win.
4648) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1344831)
Posted 10 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I love that this item has gone 24 hours with only one person 85% sure and not yet hazarding a public guess. For a contest that attracts so many accomplished home cooks, I feel like 24 hours is a pretty good run. If nobody guesses correctly tonight, I will give a clue tomorrow.

Goodnight friends.

ang.
4649) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1344817)
Posted 10 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Jello mold?

Not a jello mold, although I suppose it could serve as one if needed.
4650) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1344700)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I do own the set. Dimensions are about 8 or 9 inches in diameter. You do pour something into the containers. The pieces are heated up by putting them into a heat source.

It is a silly little set and truth be told, I have never used it. My mother-in-law picked it up at a tag sale in Wisconsin for the glorious price of one dollar. She gave it to me because she thought I might have fun with it. I do intend to use it some day, but I simply have not gotten around to it yet. Maybe when I retire...
4651) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1344665)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not a trivet.

I am so pleased to be stumping such good players!!!
4652) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 180 - Old post win (Message 1344446)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

She who laughs last, friend...
4653) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344429)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


Goodnight friends!
4654) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344428)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This was just too silly not to post!
4655) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344425)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey Vic! Here's a potential litterbox for Grace.
4656) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344423)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank goodness! This pun war was starting to DRAGON and on!!! I was possessed with a GRIMA determination to win this evening. At times you were a real STINKER, my friend, but I thank you for the win.
4657) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344421)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, you seem to have a BUTTERBUR under your saddle tonight. Quit recycling puns and declare me the winner, PRECIOUS.
4658) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344418)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, if I were you I'd be asking, "What will SHELOB at me next?"
4659) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344415)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Your RANGER is greater than I anticipated!
4660) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344413)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, I don't know whether to slap you ORTHANC you for such a fun battle tonight.
4661) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344411)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
BOMBADILs away!
4662) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344409)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm GILGALAD to see you two are both still in the game.
4663) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344405)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, and it should be a BREEze to beat you, my friend.
4664) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344402)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Do I need to BARROW-WIGHT over there and show you that there are more puns?
4665) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344400)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Caution! Punning may be HOBBIT-forming!
4666) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344398)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And I was BEORN to wear that crown!!!

(Vic, are you out?)
4667) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344394)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, are you still PIPPIN up?!!!
4668) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1344393)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It produces heat, but I don't know the name.

It does not produce heat.
4669) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344391)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If you give up now, I'm going to have to give you a stern TOLKIEN to, young man!!! There are plenty of puns left.
4670) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344386)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh please! That didn't even STING!
4671) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344384)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well I have enough puns to beat both of you and still GILDOR the lily a bit.
4672) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344382)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey Vic! What you doing TROLLing around here?
4673) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344380)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm trying my best to take it in STRIDER.
4674) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344378)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh come on!!! Just ORC over my crown and have done with it!
4675) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344375)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, it is quite the MERRY battle we are having.
4676) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344372)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
When I'm done with you, you'll be BALIN!!!
4677) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344371)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh CRAM it!!!
4678) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344369)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hmmmmm I hope I'm not too far out on a LEMBA here...
4679) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344366)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
When this is done, all shall look upon you with disDAIN.
4680) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344363)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Perhaps... there is plenty MORIA where that comes from.
4681) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344361)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I intend to be a THORIN in your side this evening...
4682) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1344359)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not a cake cutter.
4683) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344358)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Feeling a bit SMAUG, are we?
4684) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1344357)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Best Wesley Crusher handling ever

LOL!!!! I'm definitely making Eric watch that one.
4685) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344355)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Good evening, sire. Have you a topic for us?
4686) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1344347)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
TO: Ex (AKA Dave II), Current Reigning Monarch of Punland
FROM: Angela (AKA CRL... Crazy Raccoon Lady), Former Monarch of Punland
RE: Friday Night Pun War

I believe, good sir, that you still have my crown. I trust that you have kept it in good repair. I have a rare Friday night free and I would delight in winning my crown back. Please make your presence known in this Pun Room when you are ready to be defeated.


4687) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark - continued (Message 1344345)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4688) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For Ian (Message 1344344)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4689) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Daylight Saving Time in the U.S. (Message 1344341)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!! I hate "spring forward"!!! This time on Sunday, I will definitely want my hour back.
4690) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1344339)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
With a bit of luck, this might keep you folks guessing for an hour or so...


What is it called?

What does it produce?
4691) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1344322)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win. I shall look for something to post after dinner.
4692) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption # 49 (Message 1344320)
Posted 9 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me.
4693) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 180 - Old post win (Message 1343964)
Posted 8 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Blurf I totally get what you are saying.

My father won the "death lotto". He was busy and active every day of his life until one moment, at age 74, he simply checked out of this earthly hotel. It was a shock at first, but with time I have come to see how lucky he was to go out that way. My mother, who will be 80 in August, has more health issues than any one person should be allowed to walk around with. Watching her slowly but steadily decline is hell-on-wheels for everyone who loves her.

My heart to yours, friend.
4694) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1343957)
Posted 8 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It looks like it might be a tortilla press, but I've never seen a carved one before.
4695) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #5 (Message 1343955)
Posted 8 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
From the Beet's Thread...

<<SMACK!>>

That was the sound of Angela smacking Eric upside the head.


LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4696) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Van Cliburn passed today. (Message 1343649)
Posted 7 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
4697) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 180 - Old post win (Message 1343648)
Posted 7 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry I don't think that there are any Raccoons in WoW...

If you feed them, they will come...
4698) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1343647)
Posted 7 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I posted this in the kitty people thread, but no one seemed to notice.

LOL!!! Our Eva is a toilet paper kitty too. We have to hang our rolls "backwards" to discourage her.
4699) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 180 - Old post win (Message 1343645)
Posted 7 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Posting...

Me too.
4700) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption # 49 (Message 1343644)
Posted 7 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wrong car. It should be the Marquise de Saab!
4701) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Now I gotta ask this......... (Message 1343372)
Posted 6 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Anybody know any sure-fire ways to fatten up a kitty?

Our little Zsa Zsa is not a food driven kitty. She was ill a couple of months ago and she lost some weight. She is better now and she has gained back some weight, but she is still a skinny, skinny cat. We have tried the following:

1. Supplemental meals of high calorie kitten food (even though she is an adult cat)

2. Locking her siblings out of a room when she is eating so that they don't push her away from the bowl and she can take her time eating

3. Re-presenting food offerings up to three times if she turns up her snotty little cat nose

4. Special high calorie wet food purchased from our vet

5. Supplemental all-meat baby food purees (Gerber's Stage 2 chicken, ham & turkey flavors)

6. Extra kitty treats whenever possible

We have had some success in putting her lost weight back on her, but progress has been slow and her weight gain appears to have plateaued lately.

Have we missed anything obvious?

Does anyone have any good tricks that we haven't tried?

Zsa Zsa's energy levels and behavior are normal, so we have no reason to assume she is still ill. (Right now she is chasing Eva up and down the stairs, burning calories she can ill afford to spare!!!) Zsa Zsa's teeth look ok and our vet has not voiced any concerns in that area. Every time I pet that cat, all I feel are bones!
4702) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 180 - Old post win (Message 1343369)
Posted 6 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I expect Carlos will be showing up any minute now...
4703) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Darn it if we didn't go and miss another special birthday... (Message 1342872)
Posted 4 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric does; but I'll start a thread for him then.
4704) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1342604)
Posted 3 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A dangerous position for a raccoon

It looks like the videographer is from the same general area (San Francisco Bay Area) where Eric and I live. I think Eric and I need to meet this guy. He sounds like a kindred spirit.
4705) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1342600)
Posted 3 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Maybe heated bowls for making cotton candy?

(I suppose kettle corn could also be made in a large hot vat...)
4706) Message boards : Cafe SETI : resurrecting Gallileo (Message 1342439)
Posted 2 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ang, I've got a box of loads of Startrek paperbacks and VCR videos, but it would cost a fortune to post them over .....

Chris, thank you for your kind thought, but you have stayed at our house and so you know that we just don't have a whole lot of storage space.



I would really llike Angela to hang around longer than that.

Thank you. Such is my intention.



Is there a chance in Seti Land, that we could get Piccies?

Of course, my friend.

Any other bath robe would be illogical.
4707) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 180 - Old post win (Message 1342324)
Posted 2 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Goodnight friends!
4708) Message boards : Cafe SETI : resurrecting Gallileo (Message 1342316)
Posted 2 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is there a chance in Seti Land, that we could get Piccies?

Heck yes! I'll take one tonight after he emerges from the shower.
4709) Message boards : Cafe SETI : resurrecting Gallileo (Message 1342315)
Posted 2 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I guess we have a penchant for the classics...
4710) Message boards : Cafe SETI : resurrecting Gallileo (Message 1342311)
Posted 2 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric has a Mr. Spock bathrobe. For my birthday, I am expecting a robe... but in command gold.
4711) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Goldfish snacks(no not the living type!!) (Message 1342309)
Posted 2 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm no nutritionist, but I don't think Angela's girl scout cranberry cookie breakfast is going to prolong her life :p

Given my family's genetic history, I fully expect to "check out" between 74 and 76 years, whether or not I eat Girl Scout cookies for breakfast.
4712) Message boards : Cafe SETI : goodbye, Ms. Romano (Message 1342305)
Posted 2 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
4713) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Goldfish snacks(no not the living type!!) (Message 1341858)
Posted 1 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
OK, what did you eat yesterday morning (how many Girl Scout cookies?)?

Three. Cranberry white-chocolate flavor. Normally we do not eat store-bought cookies 'round here, but I made an exception for the darling little sprout who so politely asked me to buy some cookies. So far there has been a box of Tagalongs (chocolate peanut butter), which do not in the slightest tempt me, and this box of cranberry ones. Both flavors were purchased with Eric in mind. I'm not very happy about liking the cranberry ones...
4714) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1341854)
Posted 1 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Little raccoons feeding

Awwww!!! I've never tried graham crackers on my raccoons. They seem pretty happy with cat food and grapes.
4715) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1341851)
Posted 1 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Banjo and Buddy:)

That cat does not look entirely amused, but that was a very, very, very funny video! Thank you.
4716) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Goldfish snacks(no not the living type!!) (Message 1341848)
Posted 1 Mar 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What did you eat for Breakfast Angela?

Ok, since today was NOT the day I actually ate Girl Scout cookies for breakfast, I am not ashamed to tell you what I had this morning... homemade rhubarb coffee cake with a walnut topping and hot black tea.
4717) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Darn it if we didn't go and miss another special birthday... (Message 1341178)
Posted 27 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy Belated Birthday Gary Carpentier!!! We hope that your special day was full of fun!!!

Fondly,
Eric and Angela
4718) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 180 - Old post win (Message 1341172)
Posted 27 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning cuz I beat Carlos again. Starting to like it.
4719) Message boards : Politics : Euthanasia on children (Message 1341171)
Posted 27 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Julie, there are no words I can say that will ever even eclipse what I want to express. My heart to yours, friend.
4720) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Goldfish snacks(no not the living type!!) (Message 1341167)
Posted 27 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There are worse things to eat...

Yes, girl scout cookies... (Please oh please nobody ask me what I ate for breakfast today.)
4721) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For Ian (Message 1340967)
Posted 26 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4722) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption # 49 (Message 1340964)
Posted 26 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's hard to stifle road range when you get cut off by the vet.
4723) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1340954)
Posted 26 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oNkXg0UNdk


I love it!!!!!
4724) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Goldfish snacks(no not the living type!!) (Message 1340114)
Posted 22 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yuck! Yuck! Yuck!!!

The only good thing about goldfish crackers is that they are an edible reinforcer I can keep in my office that I will NEVER be tempted to eat!!!
4725) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen Tool three (Message 1340111)
Posted 22 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Fish flipper for grilling fish on a barbecue?
4726) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 180 - Old post win (Message 1340110)
Posted 22 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Carlos. I trust this is the winning post...
4727) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption # 49 (Message 1340100)
Posted 22 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wrong Way Corrigan takes the shortest route to the nursing home...
4728) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 179 - Carlos Won with the 427 and takes the Checkered Flag! (Message 1339580)
Posted 20 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I prefer my grapes be turned into wine.
4729) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #5 (Message 1339572)
Posted 20 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I like those Maui onion ones too, but Chris does not care for flavored chips. He is a potato purist.
4730) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #5 (Message 1339340)
Posted 18 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lays.
4731) Message boards : Politics : Religion in schools: All or none? (Message 1339330)
Posted 18 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am not for the outright teaching of any religion in public K through 12 schools, but an explanation of religious issues would be critical in most history courses. I cannot think of any cultural group, past or present, in which an understanding of that culture's religious beliefs does not help one better understand that culture's history. In addition, a student's understanding of western art or music would be terribly compromised without at least a passing understanding of the religious themes that come up so often in these areas of study. I imagine the same is true for non-western art and music.
4732) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 179 - Carlos Won with the 427 and takes the Checkered Flag! (Message 1339327)
Posted 18 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If it is still in the box a decade after you moved in, and you have not used it yet, donate it or trash it...


Nothing was still in boxes. It is just stuff we have accumulated since the move. In general, I'm a pretty organized person, but somehow stuff just crept up on me!

I now have two giant moving boxes packed for Goodwill and I am working on my third box. Less is more. Less is more. Less is more.
4733) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 179 - Carlos Won with the 427 and takes the Checkered Flag! (Message 1339316)
Posted 18 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Phew! We are painting various parts of our house and I have spent much of the afternoon and evening cleaning out and boxing up the contents of several closets. I discovered that something from Class Insecta ate one of my coats. I also discovered that we have accumulated a ridiculous amount of useless stuff in the decade or so that we have been in this house. My new mantra is "less is more". I am also utterly convinced at this point that it would just be easier to commit arson and start from scratch!
4734) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1339269)
Posted 17 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A tool to remove a sea scallop from a shell?
4735) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1339265)
Posted 17 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
%^&()(*&^%$#%^&*(*&^%$#@#$%^&*()(*&^%$%^&*&^$#@!!!!!
4736) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1339262)
Posted 17 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh dear. If it is an oyster shucker, it looks like a poorly designed one. There are special knives for such things that would work much, much better.

I think I'm going to go with crab claw cracker.
4737) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1339180)
Posted 17 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Soft boiled egg top remover?
4738) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 179 - Carlos Won with the 427 and takes the Checkered Flag! (Message 1339086)
Posted 17 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodnight friends!
4739) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1339084)
Posted 17 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A slicer for making coins of lemongrass for infusing in stock?

(This one is driving me crazy!!!)
4740) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1338993)
Posted 16 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ginger slicer for making Asian inspired curries???
4741) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 179 - Carlos Won with the 427 and takes the Checkered Flag! (Message 1338931)
Posted 16 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4742) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 179 - Carlos Won with the 427 and takes the Checkered Flag! (Message 1338773)
Posted 16 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Blurf! Hope you are able to enjoy a nice long weekend off of work.

Goodnight friends!
4743) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I know, I always ask these quetions nobody wishes or dares to...... (Message 1338743)
Posted 16 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mark, you have 15 open threads on page one of the Cafe right now and you don't want Blurf to comment in one of them?

I'm with Blurf and Robert. When the great book of life is written, NONE of us is going to even make a footnote.
4744) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Valentines Day (Message 1338348)
Posted 15 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4745) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1338347)
Posted 15 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
For slicing potatoes to make potato chips?
4746) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1338221)
Posted 14 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
@#$(*&^%$@#$%^&*&^%$#@!@#$%^&*(*&^%$#@#$%^&*&^%$#!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just checking this thread on my lunch hour and blast it... Mr. Mercer has won it again!!! Gosh darn it!!! I thought that one would keep you folks guessing for days.

Yes, it is a lemon plate for holding slices of lemon to float in your cup of afternoon tea. And yes, it is Noritake. He found the exact plate.

I host afternoon tea every year in honor of all of my aunties, and my mother-in-law gave me that lemon plate to add to my collection of silly little tea things.

P.M. going out to our uber-guesser now.
4747) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 179 - Carlos Won with the 427 and takes the Checkered Flag! (Message 1338014)
Posted 14 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not quietly enough!
4748) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #5 (Message 1338005)
Posted 14 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, ok... the judge probably won't get the reference, but darn it all, I want Geek Points for my Beet's entry!
4749) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption # 49 (Message 1338004)
Posted 14 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Your Tauntaun will freeze before you reach the first marker!
4750) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1338003)
Posted 14 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.

Ok, friends, I'm pretty sure this one is going to stump you.

This plate could hold a number of food items, but it was actually "designed" to hold one thing in particular. The nickel is there for size. The raccoon, the third and final one I can feature from my Russian Lomonosov porcelain raccoon collection, is there for your amusement.

For what purpose was this plate designed?

Bonus points if you can guess the manufacturer and the year...


4751) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game #2 (Message 1337650)
Posted 13 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Asia?

Missed this one. Yes, it is in Asia.

Hint for the day. It is on an island nation.


The Maldives?



Wait a minute. That was a stupid guess, as you posted mountains.

I'd like to re-guess. How about The Philippines?
4752) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 179 - Carlos Won with the 427 and takes the Checkered Flag! (Message 1337645)
Posted 13 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, I demanded 10 of Eric's points. If he didn't give them to me, I was going to make him sleep outside with the raccoons... and I'm pretty sure that Marcel has fleas.
4753) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game #2 (Message 1337644)
Posted 13 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Asia?

Missed this one. Yes, it is in Asia.

Hint for the day. It is on an island nation.


The Maldives?
4754) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1337642)
Posted 13 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is it a vintage nutmeg grater?
4755) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 179 - Carlos Won with the 427 and takes the Checkered Flag! (Message 1337641)
Posted 13 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Indeed friend. It lost only to my love of puns.
4756) Message boards : Number crunching : How low can you go? (Message 1337639)
Posted 13 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Actually, it IS my fault he didn't fix my computer. I made him go to a family party with my relatives. It pretty much killed the day.

Thank you dear... for everything.



(I thought about making Eric give me 100 RAC points, but then realized that would only give him free license to put off fixing my computer for a long, long, long time. It seemed best to simply ask for 10 right now. I didn't realize he had set me up with another computer!!!)
4757) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 179 - Carlos Won with the 427 and takes the Checkered Flag! (Message 1337637)
Posted 13 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Any night owls in the house? Whooo! Whooo!
4758) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption # 49 (Message 1337636)
Posted 13 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for such funny responses. Time to declare a winner...

Third place goes to KWSN The Holy Hand Grenade with "I'll wash my hands in vodka - that outta get rid of those pesky skunks!"


Second place goes to Shannock 9 with:
"Mirror, mirror, in the well
Who's the fairest one pray tell?

Thou art fair as fair can be
But Angela's more fair than thee."


But the indisputable first place winner simply has to be punster Scarecrow with: "His name is.... RALPH!"


P.M. going out now...
4759) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption # 49 (Message 1337347)
Posted 12 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.

My, my, my... please caption this:

4760) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1337294)
Posted 12 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In graduate school all the speech pathology students dated their way through the engineering department. At parties it seemed like all the boyfriends were either a "Steve" or a "Dave".
4761) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A General Discussion of Phobias (Message 1336993)
Posted 11 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Aren't you suffering from lowRACophobia?

I am indeed. Eric and I needed to attend a family event this afternoon at my great aunt's house. I had forgotten about it until recently. That was the time I had hoped Eric would use to fix my computer. Oh well....
4762) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Battlestar Galactica Prequel "Blood & Chrome" (Message 1336992)
Posted 11 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I sure hope Eric recorded it!!! I'm sorry I missed it.
4763) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 179 - Carlos Won with the 427 and takes the Checkered Flag! (Message 1336940)
Posted 11 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Jim!
4764) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A General Discussion of Phobias (Message 1336939)
Posted 11 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm not too fond of spiders and Eric is not too fond of heights, but I'm not sure either of us have it bad enough to call it a phobia.
4765) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption # 49 (Message 1336738)
Posted 10 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm sorry Elliot, but you are only allowed to submit ONE experiment to the Toddler Science Fair.
4766) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1336727)
Posted 10 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
For all of the Daves I know.

LOL!!!

4767) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1336544)
Posted 10 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


I have been told that this is the "cutest raccoon picture ever". I shall let all of you determine whether or not that is true.
4768) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 178- Upshifting, and We're in the home stretch..... (Message 1336538)
Posted 10 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, you sound ready for the altar!!!
4769) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 178- Upshifting, and We're in the home stretch..... (Message 1336532)
Posted 10 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You don't say...
4770) Message boards : Politics : Be Prepared (Message 1336521)
Posted 10 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh Ms. Esme!!! You are priceless, you are!!!
4771) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 178- Upshifting, and We're in the home stretch..... (Message 1336519)
Posted 10 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It does to me...
4772) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 178- Upshifting, and We're in the home stretch..... (Message 1336506)
Posted 10 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi guys, what's happening?

Well, for starters, I'm winning!!!
4773) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1336469)
Posted 10 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Boa constrictors are beautiful snakes. Post away, friend!
4774) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1336464)
Posted 10 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If this is a place for warm, fuzzy, furry critters, a ferocious badger may not exactly fill the bill.
4775) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1336445)
Posted 10 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you, Zapped Sparky, for moving all of our posts over to Politics. I look forward to continuing that line of discussion with those who are interested.
4776) Message boards : Politics : Be Prepared (Message 1336441)
Posted 10 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you, Zapped Sparky, for moving all of our posts from the Critter Cafe to this new locale.
4777) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1336414)
Posted 9 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Jim,

Start with Msg #1336252 and move everything please. I believe that there is an animal post by Chris that should then be moved back.

Thanks!
4778) Message boards : Politics : Be Prepared (Message 1336397)
Posted 9 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh Bernie! I just saw your post. Ok. I will red-x things and ask a moderator to cut and paste this over in Politics.

Why? Discussion of gay related issues in not PG13?

That is most certainly not the issue in my view! People come to the Critter Cafe to relax. While I find an occasional discussion of current events to be relaxing, not all readers feel that way.

So over to Politics we go! It is the polite thing to do.
4779) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1336394)
Posted 9 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok friends. I have asked the Mod-Squad to move this section of our Critter Cafe over to Politics, under a new thread called "Be Prepared".

See you all on the other side!
4780) Message boards : Politics : Be Prepared (Message 1336390)
Posted 9 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh Bernie! I just saw your post. Ok. I will red-x things and ask a moderator to cut and paste this over in Politics.
4781) Message boards : Politics : Be Prepared (Message 1336388)
Posted 9 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well folks, we are getting quite a way away from the thread title which is Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe.

Perhaps we should discuss whether sexual orientation or religion should be part of scouting or guiding in the politics thread?


I have always maintained that nothing is "off topic" in the Critter Cafe, however if participants and/or silent readers feel this section of the thread is better moved to Politics, then I certainly would not have a problem with a moderator moving things.

I do feel the discussion has been largely pleasant and civil so far. The Cafe is supposed to be a place where you might discuss things over a cup of coffee. Sometimes that coffee break might include a discussion of current events, right? If things start getting out of hand, then a move to Politics would be in order, but I think things are ok right here for now...
4782) Message boards : Politics : Be Prepared (Message 1336374)
Posted 9 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I believe Tom Lehrer said it best...

Be prepared
4783) Message boards : Politics : Be Prepared (Message 1336370)
Posted 9 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cub Scouts (which is where I am a leader currently) have no sexual orientation as they are much too young. However, the adults (parents and leaders) do. There have been cases where leaders and older boys have been ejected from the Boy Scouts over their sexual orientation.


Yes, I know. Tim Curran was one of my neighbors when I was a teenager growing up in Oakland, CA.
4784) Message boards : Politics : Be Prepared (Message 1336365)
Posted 9 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am sorry, but the majority of people are 'normal' hetero men and women, who just might have a problem with having somebody who is gay trying to teach their children anything about ideals.

I think that people who categorically think that people who are gay have nothing to teach are ultimately hurting themselves and their children.
4785) Message boards : Politics : Be Prepared (Message 1336359)
Posted 9 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And such 'tweaking' would involve removing God and what he stands for?

I believe that what a God SHOULD stand for is very well represented in that Girl Scout law. I would remove the part about serving God, but keep in all those other lovely attributes.

Honesty, fairness, friendliness, helpfulness, consideration, caring, courage, strength, responsibility, self-respect, respect for others, respect for authority, the wise use of resources, striving to make the world a better place and a sense of sisterhood are not the exclusive domain of religion, my friend.
4786) Message boards : Politics : Be Prepared (Message 1336351)
Posted 9 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela.......
You and I seldom stand on opposite sides. But I somehow deep inside, feel that God, his teachings, and faith in him to guide our lives is a big part of what has been lost in this country, and said loss of those values contributes greatly to our current woes.


Mark, you and I FREQUENTLY stand on opposite sides. It is my pinko-liberal bias towards TOLERANCE that helps me count you daily as one of my friends.
4787) Message boards : Politics : Be Prepared (Message 1336349)
Posted 9 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I dunno kids......
At some point, you will so dilute the Boy/Girl scouts that the moniker no longer has any more meaning or significance. 'Scout's honor'?


Mark, this is the current Girl Scout pledge and law.

On my honor, I will try:
To serve God and my country,
To help people at all times,
And to live by the Girl Scout Law.

The Girl Scout Law

I will do my best to be
honest and fair,
friendly and helpful,
considerate and caring,
courageous and strong, and
responsible for what I say and do,
and to
respect myself and others,
respect authority,
use resources wisely,
make the world a better place, and
be a sister to every Girl Scout.

Except for the God part, I like the whole darn thing!!! If this is what Girl Scouts currently stand for, I'm pretty much for it. Just needs some minor "tweaking" as far as I'm concerned.
4788) Message boards : Politics : Be Prepared (Message 1336344)
Posted 9 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Many public schools and such will not host them because they are a "religious organization" even though they are multi religious. This is an effect of court rulings against public funds being spent on religious organizations. The troop I grew up with was kicked out of the public schools and is now in a church because of this.

I agree that discrimination based on sexual orientation is wrong, but we have to work on the place that is promulgating this discrimination, which is many churches.


Perhaps the Boy Scouts will ultimately decide to change their religious orientation requirement as well? Has that organization always been multi-religious? Was there a time during which youngsters of other faiths were excluded?

I did not grow up an atheist, but I am one now. I remember regularly pledging to "serve God" as part of my Girl Scout Pledge. I got curious and googled the updated Girl Scout pledge. Sure enough, serving God is still a part of it.

I have absolutely wonderful memories of being a Girl Scout, but I think that if Eric and I had been "blessed" with children, we would have gone the Campfire Girl route for our girls. I do not know if there is an equivalent organization for boys.


4789) Message boards : Politics : Be Prepared (Message 1336316)
Posted 9 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The only problem with that sweeping a change is that many Scout units would be instantly homeless as many are hosted at churches that will not admit gays.


Perhaps there will be other community organizations willing to host the Boy Scouts once their national policies are different?

When I was a Girl Scout (...back when dinosaurs roamed the earth...) our full troop meetings were held in a local public school. On weeks when we were working on badges, we met as small groups in private homes. I have fond memories of my mother hosting 10 girls for several weekends in a row as we worked on our "hospitality badges". I learned useful skills such as how to properly set a table!!! (I imagine the Girl Scouts have updated their badges these days.)

Anyway, even in communities too small to have a public school in "town" (like Eric's extremely rural home town, for example), there might be a town hall where community members meet. In Eric's home town, there is also a nice couple who own a local restaurant/bar. They open space in the back of their restaurant during the day for various clubs to meet. My mother-in-law is retired and she belongs to several social and service organizations that use that restaurant as a meeting place.

I do not think that many, if any, scout troops would be "homeless" for long. My experience with small rural communities (in Wisconsin, at least) is that the folks who live there tend to be community oriented and creative in the way they accommodate the needs of various groups.
4790) Message boards : Number crunching : How low can you go? (Message 1336280)
Posted 9 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You think he'll handle your RAC better than Eric?

LOL!!! You boyz are incorrigible!!! Don't ever change.
4791) Message boards : Politics : Be Prepared (Message 1336269)
Posted 9 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not from this desk.

I should think not!!! Clearly the boy scouts issue merit badges for solid acquisition of grammar and syntax skills. I'm pretty sure that I see one sewn onto your sash.

Whoa, Angela......

Seems that that young boyz might be getting merit badges for being gay now.

What a wonderful thing being a Scout now means.

Ltt us back off a bit and read what is actually happening. Currently the Boy Scouts is like the Military was 30 years ago. No gays period. What is being decided on is whether to allow each chartering organization to decide whether gays are allowed into their units. Many chartering organizations will not allow this because of the beliefs of the chartering organization. Many will allow gays based on the beliefs of the chartering organization.

A brief description of the layout of a Scout unit: Each unit is a part of a district based on geography. Each district is a part of a council, again based on geography. Councils report to national. It also reports to the chartering organization (typically the organization that owns the building where the Scouts meet). The chartering organization is a part of the decision process affecting some aspects of the scouting experience. The decision being made is whether to turn over the decision about allowing gays into the scouting units over to the chartering organizations from national.



Substitute the word "black" for "gay" and I believe many people will realize that discrimination is discrimination. Allowing individual units to call their own shots falls short of the sweeping social change that many, myself included, would like to see happen.

There are many good things about the Boy Scouts of America. We have a couple of young Eagle Scouts in my family, and I am so very proud of the wonderful young men they are becoming. I appreciate the impressive community service projects my young cousins planned and executed in order to earn their Eagle Scout wings. I simply cannot wrap my mind around discrimination.
4792) Message boards : Politics : Be Prepared (Message 1336261)
Posted 9 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Seems that that young boyz might be getting merit badges for being gay now.

What a wonderful thing being a Scout now means.


I have followed that story with interest. I find discrimination in any organization to be distasteful, and I make no exception for "private clubs".
4793) Message boards : Politics : Be Prepared (Message 1336252)
Posted 9 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not from this desk.

I should think not!!! Clearly the boy scouts issue merit badges for solid acquisition of grammar and syntax skills. I'm pretty sure that I see one sewn onto your sash.
4794) Message boards : Number crunching : How low can you go? (Message 1336249)
Posted 9 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I was amazed that I couldn't post on the forum after being away for 2 years because my "credits are too low".

Even my...

Member since: june 4, 1999
Total points: 9,647,261
SETI@home classic workunits: 19,667
SETI@home classic CPU time: 142,133 hours

...wasn't enough to be trusted on this BB?

So... I had a problem getting BOINC running, wanted to post a question about it but couldn't get help... And to get help I need to get my RAC up... But I couldn't get my RAC up because I had a problem... So I had to get my RAC up to post the problem... But...

You get it...

Got it running again but could have used some help... Took my whole evening...

Good to see you're all still here!



Oh dear. Please don't take that personally!!!

The pm system still works when your RAC is nothing, right? If anybody ever needs help getting back in, I would recommend that he or she pm a friend here who might be able to connect you with a cruncher willing to provide some tech support. I got all sorts of kind offers of tech support from people in this community. Crunchers are good people.
4795) Message boards : Number crunching : How low can you go? (Message 1336248)
Posted 9 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Forget the suit!!! I'll take the male super-model wrapped up to go, please!!!

Merciful heavens!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4796) Message boards : Politics : Be Prepared (Message 1336241)
Posted 9 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Tuesday: Complain about people using the wrong form of "too."

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! Allow me, if you please...

Wednesday: You realize that TWO days of the work week are done, but sadly you still have to go TO work and there are just TOO many days until the weekend...

Thursday morning you start making plans for the weekend because you realize that THERE are only two days left until Friday. You call up all of your friends and invite yourself over to all of THEIR houses. Several of your friends do not answer the phone because THEY'RE pretending that they are out for the day.

On Friday you pack YOUR one-night-stand bag because you realize that YOU'RE hot and somebody just might ask you upstairs for a drinkie-poo after the bar closes.

Any questions, class?

4797) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark - continued (Message 1336065)
Posted 9 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome home, friend!!!
4798) Message boards : Politics : When are Christians going to start standing up for God......... (Message 1336061)
Posted 9 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I should rephrase the question to ask what percentage of the US population purports that the ACLU speaks for them?

Card carrying member for decades now, and proud to be one...
4799) Message boards : Cafe SETI : arghhhhhhhhhhh. (Message 1336053)
Posted 9 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...Do you understand me at all, or not at all?


Mark, I believe I understand you very well. When one needs help finding things, use of an external organizing system is a very good compensatory strategy.

You will no longer have difficulty finding your posts about Joan Jett, because they will all be in one location now. The page system will help them seem less over-whelming.

I shall do my very best to alert the moderators of Joan Jett posts that get lost elsewhere, so that they can be moved for you to this central location where they will be easy for you to find and review at your leisure. I'm sure there are others who will assist you in this way as well. You have many friends here.

Goodnight Mark. Sleep well.

ang.
4800) Message boards : Cafe SETI : arghhhhhhhhhhh. (Message 1336046)
Posted 9 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mark, I think it is GREAT that now there is a single thread for all the many things you want to say about Joan Jett!
4801) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #5 (Message 1336042)
Posted 9 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, did I misread, or did you say those trees you posted in the Mystery Landscape thread were NOT redwoods.

Dude, those trees are DEFINITELY redwoods!!!
4802) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 178- Upshifting, and We're in the home stretch..... (Message 1336040)
Posted 9 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh no! If you are getting drowsy, how will you notice that I have won?!!!
4803) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption # 49 (Message 1336038)
Posted 9 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Waiter, I'll have squab under glass... hold the glass.
4804) Message boards : Number crunching : How low can you go? (Message 1336035)
Posted 9 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I see Angela's RAC is down to 1.99. I also see she hasn't posted in several days. Perhaps the answer to her question in the thread title is 2.

Nope. I am still able to post. I just was at work until very, very late last night and today I was in the south bay all day at a conference.



But maybe you forgot no 1 rule for a husband.
Make your wife happy to remain happy your self.

Mike, that is excellent marital advice!!!




Here is a picture I took yesterday of Eric on his way to work in a suit. The last time he had worn a suit to work was about four years ago. And yes, one cannot help but notice that Eric forgot to put on a belt!!! Fortunately he remembered to put one on before he left the house. The NASA review panel members would most certainly have remembered the Berkeley presentation if Eric's pants had fallen off.

Also in this picture you will note that our cat Eva does not seem to recognize Eric in a suit. She needs to smell Eric's hand in order to verify his identity!

Thank you to everyone who has offered solutions to my RAC problem. Two people have offered me remote access to unused computers and one person offered to fix my computer remotely! Wow!!! This sure is a nice community!!! I'm about 90% sure that Eric is planning to fix my computer tomorrow. We'll see...
4805) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 178- Upshifting, and We're in the home stretch..... (Message 1335358)
Posted 7 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dude, it is your anniversary. You should be in bed!

Happy Anniversary!!!
4806) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game #2 (Message 1335083)
Posted 6 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Morro Bay area?
4807) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 178- Upshifting, and We're in the home stretch..... (Message 1335082)
Posted 6 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning just because I enjoy beating Carlos.
4808) Message boards : Number crunching : How low can you go? (Message 1334951)
Posted 5 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just an observation: I haven't downloaded any WU for several days, AND my RAC appears to be frozen. (I know this because I hit the update button several times a day :))

Maybe something is on hold with the servers, while Eric and Co. work on other stuff?


Oh! Actually I am rather relieved to hear that I am not getting special treatment and that other people are similarly frozen in time and space.

Eric and I ended up spending a huge chunk of last Sunday at the Emergency Vet with my distraught sister and our scapy little four-legged nephew "Puddy". Puddy is expected to make a full recovery. Maybe Eric will get to my computer this coming Sunday.

The NASA site review is Thursday and Eric actually has to wear a suit and tie to work!!! (Normally he shows up to work dressed like he is there to paint the building.) I will try to get him to let me snap his picture so you all can see him at his handsome, spiffed-up best. Eric has a couple of big grant proposals due in March, but perhaps he will find a little time between projects to look at my machine.

Anyway, thank you again for all of your kind comments and suggestions.
4809) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1334942)
Posted 5 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
(I will not be happy until "the Santa-fication" is complete!)


LOL. Poor Eric :p

You over feed him and you're willing on the grey (gray!) hair?!


Actually, Eric has lost quite a bit of weight lately. He started out doing it correctly with a rule of "no potatoes at lunch". This eliminated French fries (aka "chips"), chips (aka "crisps") and hash browns when he went out to eat with colleagues or brought in a lunch. He was losing weight slowly and in a healthy fashion until super stress from another project hit, and suddenly he is all skin and bones! It is terrible, and a bad reflection on my cooking, I say!!!
4810) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hi Gang! (Message 1334850)
Posted 5 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The problem with typing is that sarcasm is at risk of being entirely lost...
4811) Message boards : Number crunching : How low can you go? (Message 1334846)
Posted 5 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I take it that Eric has frozen your RAC by now? As us mere mortals can't stay on a RAC of 4 for 9 days, while the coffers are empty and our ships have been forgotten about. ;-)

I really don't know how that is happening. If Eric froze my RAC, he didn't tell me about it. It is possible that Fred did it and that he is just waiting for me to figure it out and thank him. He may have a way of putting some of his own crunching credit into my account. Anyway, whoever is doing this, thank you!
4812) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 178- Upshifting, and We're in the home stretch..... (Message 1334845)
Posted 5 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
She who laughs last...
4813) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1334844)
Posted 5 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That sheep shot struck me as funny in light of Eric's annual big shearing event yesterday. Eric shaves after the Superbowl every year. He goes clean-shaven through the spring and summer. As soon as college football starts, he starts growing his beard again. He claims that each year he is surprised at how much gray has come in, but I still see mostly brown and red in his beard. (I will not be happy until "the Santa-fication" is complete!)
4814) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 178- Upshifting, and We're in the home stretch..... (Message 1334831)
Posted 5 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
She watches for me. No I'm not paranoid. I know she must have a racoons posted that watchs my keyboard ready to report when I make a post here.

Dude, I think we are both creatures of habit who happen to keep the same hours.
4815) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game #2 (Message 1334828)
Posted 5 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think I saw that thing in a mystery photo contest in a different forum. I'll p.m. you, but I'm going to sit out this round.
4816) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1334826)
Posted 5 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How did you know that Eric shaved his beard after the Superbowl yesterday?!!!
4817) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game #2 (Message 1334825)
Posted 5 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Spain?
4818) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 178- Upshifting, and We're in the home stretch..... (Message 1334522)
Posted 4 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My sentiments exactly.
4819) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #5 (Message 1334473)
Posted 4 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't know where that mountain is in the Mystery Landscape Thread, but it sure is beautiful!!!

You could always go over there and hazard some guesses.

Is your use of the word "hazard" a clue, my friend?
4820) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1334472)
Posted 4 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I liked to watch that show too. Too bad it isn't on TV anymore...

Daniel Jackson... my, my, my!!! Makes you want to study archeology, doesn't it?
4821) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 178- Upshifting, and We're in the home stretch..... (Message 1334171)
Posted 3 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ang ...... You are utterly incorrigible ......

I bet Eric put you up to that :-)))))


Of course he did! He is terrified that she will want to live with us in her old age, and I won't have the heart to say no.
4822) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #5 (Message 1334170)
Posted 3 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't know where that mountain is in the Mystery Landscape Thread, but it sure is beautiful!!!
4823) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What are you listening to this morning? (Message 1334168)
Posted 3 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Since this thread seems to be a little country music heavy, I guess I will go with the flow and dedicate this one to Kris...

Hang up and drive, honey!!!
4824) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1334083)
Posted 2 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A candle snuffer?
4825) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 178- Upshifting, and We're in the home stretch..... (Message 1334023)
Posted 2 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
California


For those interested in visa reason #1, please know that I have a sister...
4826) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark - continued (Message 1334001)
Posted 2 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you Chris.
4827) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Now I gotta ask this......... (Message 1333999)
Posted 2 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't know what to do about the kitty-bully problem, but I think I know why Mia doesn't like you, Steve. To a cat, you probably smell like a snake!!!
4828) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1333994)
Posted 2 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That picture is so funny! I'll be sure to show Eric. We both watched the show.
4829) Message boards : Number crunching : How low can you go? (Message 1333865)
Posted 2 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
While you are at it dear, could you ask yer hubby if there is anything he can do by remote to get the upload server working again?
The kitties are starving for kibbles, as are many others.

I am sorry that things are not working as they should, but Eric's priorities need to be the upcoming NASA site review and his upcoming observing rounds.
4830) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 178- Upshifting, and We're in the home stretch..... (Message 1333860)
Posted 2 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That's often my problem too.

LOL!
4831) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1333855)
Posted 2 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is AAAACHOOO, John?
4832) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1333849)
Posted 2 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Perhaps another day then, Kittyman.
4833) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1333846)
Posted 2 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I just heard from Jim and he is up for a battle. Is our reigning King in the house this evening?
4834) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Need some prayers, friends......... (Message 1333845)
Posted 2 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sending our care and concern.
Angela & Eric
4835) Message boards : Number crunching : How low can you go? (Message 1333756)
Posted 2 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
All of these quick-fix solutions are excellent. I will direct Eric to this thread and have him pick one, if he does not have the time on Sunday to spend making full corrections.

Thank you, friends.
4836) Message boards : Number crunching : How low can you go? (Message 1333754)
Posted 2 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...and anyway, can't he work on the computer and watch at the same time?

We only have one tv and it happens to be upstairs. My computer is downstairs.
4837) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #5 (Message 1333752)
Posted 2 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You grind your own grains? I am very impressed!!!
4838) Message boards : Number crunching : How low can you go? (Message 1333600)
Posted 1 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If a wife feels neglected by the husband, she looks around if someone other could help .. ;-D

Merciful heavens!!!


As luck would have it, this is an unholy busy weekend for 'Ol Pookers. There is a NASA site review coming up for a project he is a part of (not a seti thing) so there are many, many, many things he has to prep today and tomorrow. Then he also has a remote Arecibo observing run tonight around midnight, which means he will be in the lab until after 2am. Then poor Eric has another remote observing round on Saturday around noon. I do not believe he is planning to go to the lab on Sunday, but there is that small matter of a Super Bowl, so all in all it is not looking promising.
4839) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #5 (Message 1333594)
Posted 1 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yet another un-necessary device to trim the edges of pies.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

I do not know if that is the correct answer, but if that wonderful Mystery Kitchen Thread has taught me anything, it is that if I buy all of those devices, there will be no actual room in my kitchen for me to cook!
4840) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner 2012.................... (Message 1333591)
Posted 1 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am of the mind that stock should be basic. It is an ingredient for other dishes/soups, and not a meal in itself. Tomato belongs in some dishes, and not in others. When it is done it should be a broth, slightly under-seasoned so that the finished dishes can be seasoned to taste.

Simple is good. Ultimately spice is the variety of life ;)


Yes, but you and I come from the same culture. What is "basic" to us may be quite unusual to another.
4841) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark - continued (Message 1333587)
Posted 1 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sending our love, our care and our concern.

Angela & Eric
4842) Message boards : Number crunching : How low can you go? (Message 1333462)
Posted 1 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We're nerds, geeks, and computer hobbyists, so we can't help but notice TFLOPS.


LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4843) Message boards : Number crunching : How low can you go? (Message 1333461)
Posted 1 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well since your new toy has not connected.. any chance to fire up that old core2 that was last in contact? Set to a 0 share it should just d/l a unit or two and that should crunch out quickly...


Janice, I didn't understand a syllable of what you said, but it sure sounded smart!
4844) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner 2012.................... (Message 1333455)
Posted 1 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Tomatoes are missing, but there could be a reason. I have been know to add cucumbers into the mix.


Cucumbers in chicken stock? That is not typical!
4845) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Trash Talking - Football (Message 1333453)
Posted 1 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I believe Cowboy Dave is on round two of a cold and that there is another er... uh... "distraction" that has presented itself of late. (I moonlight as a "life coach".)
4846) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #5 (Message 1333449)
Posted 1 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
However, Angela loses a geek point for not instantly recognizing R2-Q5.

Demerit notice received, reviewed and acknowledged.
4847) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lost another one.......Patty Andrews. (Message 1333443)
Posted 1 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
4848) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1333439)
Posted 1 Feb 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I look forward to your return visit some day. We have some new drink recipes on file!
4849) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1333286)
Posted 31 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I let my raccoons come up to my feet, but I do not let them eat out of my hand, (although I am sure they would if I allowed it.) My biggest concern with hand-feeding raccoons is that sometimes a finger can look like a Vienna Sausage, in the eyes of a raccoon.

Sorry to disappoint, but I guess that as Crazy Raccoon Ladies go, I am only in the minor leagues.
4850) Message boards : Number crunching : How low can you go? (Message 1333069)
Posted 31 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No need to go to heroics. Eric has promised to carve out some time this weekend to make things right.
4851) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1333066)
Posted 31 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Whatever the heck it is, I'm pretty sure Eric will want one!
4852) Message boards : Number crunching : How low can you go? (Message 1332683)
Posted 30 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I guess that after nearly nineteen years of marriage, my husband is no longer interested in my sagging RAC. Sigh........
4853) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1332650)
Posted 30 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's a salt cellar. It holds salt for service on a formal dining table. You own it because you like both Alton Brown and Martha Stewart. (Do you?)

And we have a winner, with correct answers to all questions.

"Finishing salts" are really trendy right now, so I want to make it clear that I had that salt cellar in my collection before salt became "k3wl".
Alton Brown is very funny and I am a total Martha Wannabe...

P.M. going out ot our winner now.
4854) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 178- Upshifting, and We're in the home stretch..... (Message 1332448)
Posted 29 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is late and I had better go to bed. Goodnight Vic.
4855) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 178- Upshifting, and We're in the home stretch..... (Message 1332446)
Posted 29 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I was busy staging pictures of silly Mystery Kitchen Tools.
4856) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1332445)
Posted 29 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Caviar Dish/bowl & Spoon

A logical guess, but an incorrect one. (The spoon is Mother of Pearl, though...)
4857) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption # 49 (Message 1332437)
Posted 29 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends! Wonderful captions. Thank you for all of the delightful entries.

Third place goes to Carlos with: "Do you think he saw us?"

Second place goes to N9JFE with: "Hey, you're not Angela! Where's our dinner???"

Honorable Mention goes to Scarecrow who first worked in the masked-bandits-in-jail theme with: "As jails go, this one is first rate!"

But first place simply has to go to Bill Walker who took that jail theme to a whole new level of humor with: "We demand to speak to our lawyer!"

(And just so you know, my little woodland friends are not enclosed behind bars at all!!! You are looking at an iron retaining rail that keeps drunk guests from falling off of our patio into the window well below. Eric mixes strong drinks and my family members have a tendency to suck down too many of them. Installing that railing was one of the first "home improvements" Eric and I did when we moved into this place.)

P.M. going out to Bill now...
4858) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 178- Upshifting, and We're in the home stretch..... (Message 1332433)
Posted 29 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lurk!!!
4859) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1332432)
Posted 29 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.
The nickel is there for size.
The raccoon is there for your amusement.
If this were the Beets Thread the winning entry would be "Punch Bowl for Super Models"




Answer for me these questions three...
1. What is this called?
2. What is its use?
3. Why do I own this silly thing anyway???!!!!!
4860) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game #2 (Message 1332429)
Posted 29 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Arizona?
4861) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game #2 (Message 1332402)
Posted 29 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And we have a winner!!!

P.M. going out now to N9JFE.
4862) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1332401)
Posted 29 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I believe I have seen tubes like this advertised as garlic paper removers, so I will guess that it is some sort of garlic peeler.

(Again, why buy it if a knife works just fine?)
4863) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game #2 (Message 1332343)
Posted 28 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have to go back to work now. I'll pop in later if I can.
4864) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game #2 (Message 1332342)
Posted 28 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Iceland is correct. Name the city and the win is yours.
4865) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game #2 (Message 1332338)
Posted 28 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not in Albania.

Remember, my first clue was that the picture was taken in July. I'm pretty sure that limits its locale...

Edit: Actually that was a bad clue. Let's just say that it was very very very light there at "night" in July.
4866) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game #2 (Message 1332333)
Posted 28 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Despite my protest that it's not a landscape, I'll say Xtracold, Amsterdam.

Right. It is not a landscape, but I've seen people post houses and Stephen King's front gate and statues in this thread before, so I thought maybe I could get away with it.

Amsterdam is incorrect.
4867) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game #2 (Message 1332330)
Posted 28 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
in Europe?

If my memory of relatively recent history serves me, the country wherein lies this lovely little ice bar has applied for EU status, but I don't believe it is formally part of the EU yet.

I am going to need the correct city and country to award a win on this one.
4868) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game #2 (Message 1332328)
Posted 28 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Norway Lapland Ice Hotel

Norway is incorrect.
4869) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game #2 (Message 1332181)
Posted 28 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sweden is incorrect.
4870) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #5 (Message 1332175)
Posted 28 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, me!!!
4871) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 178- Upshifting, and We're in the home stretch..... (Message 1332173)
Posted 28 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Duck soup, I hear, is quite easy...
4872) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 178- Upshifting, and We're in the home stretch..... (Message 1332169)
Posted 28 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning after soup and waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much wine.
4873) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption # 49 (Message 1332167)
Posted 28 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This picture of Marcel, Magoo and Donna is fresh out of the camera. Eric took it this evening. My friends, please CAPTION THIS...
4874) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game #2 (Message 1332165)
Posted 28 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Given that you posted a souvenir from the San Juan Islands in the Mystery Kitchen Tool thread, I'm going to hazard a guess that the picture here is from that same locale.


You read my mind. It's uncanny how you do that. Yes it is the San Juan Islands. We have a winner.

She's good at that You know....

LOL! I pride myself in being a keen observer of human behavior. I can read all of you like a book!!! Bwahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!


Ok, Mystery Landscape Fans... this picture was taken by Eric in July of 2004. Name this Mystery Spot!!!
4875) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption # 49 (Message 1332163)
Posted 28 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'd like to thank The Academy, my wonderfully supportive husband, my mother, my hairdresser, my personal shopper...

Ok, ok, ok... I'll quit fooling around and be right back with a picture.

Thank you for the win.
4876) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner 2012.................... (Message 1332060)
Posted 27 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not a lot really.

For a bit more flavour I sling in either a bit of ham bone, or some smoky bacon. The art is to put in just enough to get a "lift" to the flavour without dominating it.


I use left over cheese rinds from wedges of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese. The rind is not tasty eating, but it really adds depth to soup stocks. Don't add more than one or two to a pot though. More will make the cheese flavor too strong. After the stock is done, just lift the rinds out and throw them away. They soften, but they don't melt.
4877) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game #2 (Message 1332055)
Posted 27 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Given that you posted a souvenir from the San Juan Islands in the Mystery Kitchen Tool thread, I'm going to hazard a guess that the picture here is from that same locale.
4878) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1332054)
Posted 27 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm going to go with meat pounder.
4879) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner 2012.................... (Message 1331939)
Posted 27 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The turkey carcass I've had in my freezer since Thanksgiving, along with a frozen chicken carcass sitting next to it, sent out their siren calls to me this evening. Onions in the pantry, leeks, carrots and celery in the fridge, a few herbs in my garden that did not succumb to our mild California winter, all made for a perfect storm of... stock!

Now I ask you, my fellow cooks, is there any other food with such glorious potential?
4880) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 178- Upshifting, and We're in the home stretch..... (Message 1331937)
Posted 27 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
One last win for Team Insomnia!!!
4881) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 178- Upshifting, and We're in the home stretch..... (Message 1331928)
Posted 27 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, Eric is a very easy-going man. Not sure how he ended up with such a volatile wife!
4882) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 178- Upshifting, and We're in the home stretch..... (Message 1331918)
Posted 27 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My only task for the evening is to drive Eric... insane!!!
4883) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Why no English food restaurants in the USA? (Message 1331917)
Posted 27 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL! I am flattered!
4884) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 178- Upshifting, and We're in the home stretch..... (Message 1331915)
Posted 27 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, in a hot toddy the alcohol IS the medication!!!
(And a mighty fine cough suppressant it is!!!)
4885) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 178- Upshifting, and We're in the home stretch..... (Message 1331911)
Posted 27 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Whee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! With a recipe like that, I'm sure to be winning!!!
4886) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 178- Upshifting, and We're in the home stretch..... (Message 1331908)
Posted 27 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you - for the toddy and the win!
4887) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 178- Upshifting, and We're in the home stretch..... (Message 1331905)
Posted 27 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If that is a hot toddy, make one for me too please! I still have the last vestiges of my cold, so I'm pretty sure I could benefit from something spirited.
4888) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1331890)
Posted 27 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is it for a certain fruit and ice cream treat, with 3 scoops, whipped cream and a cherry?

And we have a winner!!! It is, in fact, called a banana split boat, but since I only asked what goes in it, I am giving this win to Carlos.
4889) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #5 (Message 1331858)
Posted 27 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I love knowing that steam is probably coming out of John's ears right now as he tries to guess my mystery kitchen entry!!!!!
4890) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1331857)
Posted 27 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is an individual serving dish that holds a specific food.

(I have to go now, but I'll check back in later...)
4891) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1331854)
Posted 27 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
While candy COULD go into this dish, that is not the primary purpose.

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4892) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1331851)
Posted 27 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry. Artichoke leaves is an incorrect guess.

Eric thought this one would be easy but I thought it might stump people. Tee-hee-hee, giggle-giggle!

I have a more modern set of these dishes and you probably would have guessed its use immediately if I had posted a picture of one of my modern ones. This particular example is "vintage" and, I thought, less obvious.
4893) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #5 (Message 1331841)
Posted 27 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry. I probably should not have speculated aloud. I will try to keep things in my "thought bubble" next time!
4894) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1331839)
Posted 27 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nope. Jams and jellies COULD go in there, but that is not the primary purpose.
4895) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1331835)
Posted 27 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.



Contrary to what my staging of the above picture may indicate, the primary purpose of this vessel is NOT to serve as a container for raccoon kibble.

Although it could be used to hold many things, what is this vessel designed specifically to hold?
4896) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #5 (Message 1331833)
Posted 27 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I was just speculating wildly. I figured somebody else would google Rainbow River and nail the exact location. I believe I was declared the winner prematurely and that the next person who posts "Rainbow River, Columbia" on that thread should get the official win.

On your mark, get set... post!!!
4897) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game #2 (Message 1331826)
Posted 27 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hmmmm is there a rainbow river someplace?

Yup! Tag...you're it! Columbia...I figured you knew that...right?

I was just guessing from your use of the term "spectrum". Whoever guessed Columbia should get this win.
4898) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game #2 (Message 1331820)
Posted 27 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hmmmm is there a rainbow river someplace?
4899) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 178- Upshifting, and We're in the home stretch..... (Message 1331807)
Posted 27 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4900) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game #2 (Message 1331775)
Posted 26 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thanks Vic! Okay, here's one to color up your cheeks! Name it...

Ok, I'm guessing that "color up your cheeks" is a clue. Is this something called the Rouge River or Blushing Falls or something along those lines?

Or perhaps this place has a "naughty name" and that is why you said it would color up our cheeks?
4901) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 178- Upshifting, and We're in the home stretch..... (Message 1331772)
Posted 26 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning in the sun shine. Not feeling well, but just took a 5 mile hike along the beach. Feeling better.

Did you catch the e-cold I got from Vic?
4902) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1331771)
Posted 26 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is for cutting the pit from a mango. I would not buy one Carlos, because mangoes come in such different sizes. I would prefer a knife to dispatch each mango individually.
4903) Message boards : Cafe SETI : It seems we missed a special birthday... (Message 1331639)
Posted 26 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh dear. It seems that Mark's birthday slipped by us so...

Happy Belated 56th Birthday to our Kittyman
4904) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1331637)
Posted 26 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I van only find this one Ang.

Martha Stewart


That was funny! Thank you. I had not heard that one before.
4905) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark - continued (Message 1331634)
Posted 26 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Excellent news! Thank you.
4906) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1331475)
Posted 26 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There is something I've been trying to find on YouTube, but I can't seem to find it. It is a spoof song about Martha Stewart going camping. It is very funny but I cannot seem to find it. If anyone has a copy of that song and can post it here, I would appreciate it very much.

Goodnight friends!
4907) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1331472)
Posted 26 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
John!!! Where were you half an hour ago? With your scouting background you could have given all of us the BOOT!!!
4908) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1331470)
Posted 26 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodnight King Dave!


Goodnight Punsters!!!
4909) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1331468)
Posted 26 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The Campfire Song Song
4910) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1331465)
Posted 26 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Let's get this party started!!!

Nature trail to hell
4911) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1331463)
Posted 26 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think this is my last pun before I'm OUT (of the) HOUSE.

I concede. Congratulations to our new Pun King!
4912) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1331460)
Posted 26 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
CANOE just last one or two more rounds? I'm desperately FISHING around for ideas...
4913) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1331457)
Posted 26 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I just cannot seem to come up with a STREAM of puns tonight...
4914) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1331454)
Posted 26 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So far I'm barbecuing Ang.

Tis true! I'm about ready to BED DOWN for the night. I think you've got this one in the (sleeping) BAG.
4915) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1331452)
Posted 26 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And speaking of missing players, is everybody else out tonight wetting their BIRD WHISTLES at their local CANTEENas?
4916) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1331450)
Posted 26 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gee P.S.
Where's Vic

Sorting out the forest from the trees, I would guess...
4917) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1331447)
Posted 26 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll do my best to send you PACKing first...
4918) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1331444)
Posted 26 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
NATURALLY I will win...
4919) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1331442)
Posted 26 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
FIRE when ready!
4920) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1331438)
Posted 26 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I like to let topics evolve, but I was confused about where this one was going. Ex says he used to camp quite a bit. I am not at all "outdoorsy" but my inTENT is to win, whatever the topic. Let's go with camping...
4921) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1331434)
Posted 26 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Perhaps we can rustle up another player or two...
4922) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption # 49 (Message 1331433)
Posted 26 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The new SEC Chair sends the 22nd Airborne after "hedge" fund managers...
4923) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1331430)
Posted 26 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Do we have any punsters in the house this fine Friday evening?
4924) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hi Gang! (Message 1331422)
Posted 26 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I can't believe you people are still here. It will take me a few weeks to determine whether or not this place is smarter or dumber than when I left it.

Dude! Judge not, lest ye be judged...
4925) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark - continued (Message 1331388)
Posted 26 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Chris, thank you for letting us know that things are proceeding as planned. Please send our love to John and his family.

Angela & Eric
4926) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hi Gang! (Message 1331385)
Posted 26 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Welcome home, friend!!!
4927) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1331382)
Posted 26 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Here's a pic for Angela....

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4928) Message boards : Cafe SETI : First words to a visitng alien? (Message 1331034)
Posted 25 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, ok!!! You can haz cheezburger!!!
4929) Message boards : Number crunching : How low can you go? (Message 1331033)
Posted 25 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll be watching Angela's rac and hoping it doesn't dip under 1.

7.99 and falling...

Thank you all for the technical assistance and suggestions, but I honestly would not know where or how to start. I'm the kind of person who can make the office copy machine light up like a Christmas tree! When the secretaries in our office see me heading towards a machine of any type, they wince, cringe and hope that whatever machine I kill that day at least has a swift and painless death.

When it comes to tech stuff, I am shockingly untalented.
4930) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game #2 (Message 1331030)
Posted 25 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"I'd say "now hoodoo . . .
Hoodoo you think you're fooling?"
4931) Message boards : Cafe SETI : First words to a visitng alien? (Message 1330996)
Posted 25 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Excuse me Mr. Alien, sir, but are you familiar with the original War of the Worlds? Aaaaaaaaaaachoooooooooo!!!!!
4932) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 178- Upshifting, and We're in the home stretch..... (Message 1330979)
Posted 25 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Feeling better?

Possibly, I think RSV is going around and I may have caught it, the virus stays alive on a surface for 5 hours(only outdone by the flu @ 8 hours), it has the same symptoms and unlike the flu, there is no vaccine for RSV, the flu is easy, RSV is weird and might be what Ang and I both have, soon to come to Eric I'd think, as soon as I got sick everything started to hurt from My ankles to My jaw, watery eyes, blood in stools, temp, totally weird, keep hydrated and take Tylenol.



I am sorry to disappoint you Vic, but I think I just have one of the 200 or so different strains of the old fashioned common cold. I do not have any er... uh... exotic symptoms. There are medically fragile children at my job site, so it is critical that I and my colleagues use sick leave whether we have something common or exotic.
4933) Message boards : Number crunching : How low can you go? (Message 1330887)
Posted 24 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have been having some technical problems with my computer and I haven't been able to crunch for quite some time now. Eric assures me that he will fix my computer this weekend. I have heard this same promise from him for many weekends in a row now. In his defense, Eric really is a very busy man and our weekends of late have been absolutely crazy, so I will continue to wait patiently.

I got a pm this morning from a friend with a RAC of 1 who was no longer able to post. I told him that I think you need a RAC of 2 to post. Does anyone know for sure?

How low can you go and still post?

How low can you go and still use the pm system?

How low have you gone?
4934) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 178- Upshifting, and We're in the home stretch..... (Message 1330881)
Posted 24 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaachoooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!

Congratulations on your win, Vic.
4935) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cereal (Message 1330801)
Posted 24 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4936) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption # 49 (Message 1330782)
Posted 24 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm sorry sir. I have checked the ADA legislation and "driving impaired" is not listed as an ACTUAL disabling condition."
4937) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption # 49 (Message 1330740)
Posted 24 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey buddy. I know four year olds who are better than that at staying within the lines.
4938) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner 2012.................... (Message 1330570)
Posted 24 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4939) Message boards : Cafe SETI : New Year, New Moderator rotation for the team (Message 1330569)
Posted 24 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Moderator kitty approves this post.
4940) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Trash Talking - Football (Message 1330562)
Posted 24 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just bumping the thread while we wait for Scarecrow to warm up his singing voice...
4941) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussing the disgusting (Message 1330560)
Posted 24 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Daytime T.V. - it is like crack cocaine to me when I am home with the sniffles. I say that I don't really want to watch, but suddenly I simply HAVE TO KNOW the results of that paternity test!!! And while I may lose valuable time sipping tea on the couch in my jamies, the real losers, I fear, are the children involved. Whether the contested paternity is proved or disproved, most of those beautiful babies will grow up in abject poverty with parent(s) who are grossly under-educated.

Disgusting!
4942) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For Ian (Message 1330420)
Posted 23 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4943) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark - continued (Message 1330414)
Posted 23 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4944) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1330410)
Posted 23 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Brilliant Vic, love it!!!



+1!


+2
4945) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1330409)
Posted 23 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A very moooving picture.


Yes Bill, I too was HEIFER so moved. I cried so hard I got a pain in my CALF. I looked at the picture of that rescue, and I just couldn't help exclaiming, "Talk about your BOVINE intervention!!!" Well, I don't want to MILK this. Stop me if I just start to CATTLE on ceaselessly about it...
4946) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 177- A NEW YEAR HAS STARTED (Message 1328594)
Posted 18 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodnight win.
4947) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game (Message 1328589)
Posted 18 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Only leaves Spain...Barcelona or on that coast somewhere...

Ok. I'm giving you the win for guessing Spain. Actually we were south of Granada in that shot, but I just can't remember the name of the beach. And I'll have you know, I was hard pressed to find a shot I could post in this thread without topless women in it!!!
4948) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game (Message 1328572)
Posted 18 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hotter.
4949) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP Dear Abby (Message 1328570)
Posted 18 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
4950) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game (Message 1328568)
Posted 18 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not Italy, but you're getting warmer...
4951) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game (Message 1328566)
Posted 18 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not Greece. Not Turkey. What are you guys doing up so late?!!!
4952) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game (Message 1328557)
Posted 18 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mediterranean?

Yes! Off the coast of what country?
4953) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #5 (Message 1328281)
Posted 17 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"Car Descending Staircase" by Marcel Duchamp


LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4954) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game (Message 1328278)
Posted 17 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not Australia, Not Mexico, Not the Carribean.
4955) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game (Message 1328277)
Posted 17 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are those net buoys in the distance?

I think they were buoys to designate the "safe swimming" area, but I am not entirely sure.
4956) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game (Message 1328200)
Posted 17 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nope. Nope.
4957) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game (Message 1328190)
Posted 17 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Two men splashing in the water. To the left is Eric. To the right is Steve Fulton, who used to work for SETI@home. Picture taken by me in 2003. Name the body of water and the country off of which this particular stretch lies.

4958) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game (Message 1328067)
Posted 16 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win. I'm working late tonight, followed by an even later pm meeting, but I'll try to get something up late, late, late tonight, if I can.
4959) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I'm having a medical/dental problem, so far the flu, stay tunaed.... (Message 1327955)
Posted 16 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes Victor! No if, ands or BUTTS about it!!!
4960) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Waiting for Godot (Message 1327843)
Posted 16 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Too soon to start the second act - there are still folks who are awake.


LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4961) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game (Message 1327839)
Posted 16 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado. (My best friend's oldest son is an engineering student at a University near there...)
4962) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Waiting for Godot (Message 1327831)
Posted 16 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This thread needs to be done in two acts.
4963) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What are you listening to this morning? (Message 1327826)
Posted 16 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh come on! You knew SOMEBODY would post it sooner or later...
4964) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Waiting for Godot (Message 1327788)
Posted 16 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This thread is absurd.

And you point is?


That we're saved!!!
4965) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I'm having a medical/dental problem, so far the flu, stay tunaed.... (Message 1327786)
Posted 16 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, my friend. Check your Inbox please.
4966) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Waiting for Godot (Message 1327783)
Posted 16 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This thread is absurd.
4967) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Waiting for Godot (Message 1327778)
Posted 16 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4968) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game (Message 1327701)
Posted 14 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And we have a winner!

P.M. going out now.
4969) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1327700)
Posted 14 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
To put honey in your tea.

Julie is correct. It is a honey dripper. Sorry it was so easy.

P.M. going out now.
4970) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 177- A NEW YEAR HAS STARTED (Message 1327601)
Posted 14 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4971) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #5 (Message 1327600)
Posted 14 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am going for a weekend record. I won a pun battle last night. I won the Mystery Kitchen Tool contest and also the Mystery Landscape contest this evening. I think I have a strong bid in this Caption Contest round, and here's hoping for that lucky number in TLPTPW!!!

Perhaps I should buy a lottery ticket too...

4972) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game (Message 1327599)
Posted 14 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

A picture of yours truly and Ol' Pookers in a helicopter in 2002.



And this is what we were flying over. Identify, please.
4973) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1327596)
Posted 14 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The post-it was a delightful holiday surprise from a dear seti-friend and former hotel guest. The dime is to help you with size. What is the wooden gadget called and what is its primary use?

4974) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 177- A NEW YEAR HAS STARTED (Message 1327595)
Posted 14 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela, you always post after me, so, captain's order, you win.

Winning...
4975) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1327592)
Posted 14 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you. I will look through my cupboards as I prepare dinner this evening.

Uh oh. This one is going to be hard.


I wish!!! I consider myself to be a competent home cook, but I just don't have that much specialty equipment. Eric just photographed something for me. I'll have it up in a few minutes.
4976) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game (Message 1327590)
Posted 14 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, ok... It seems I'm going for the Trifecta this evening. I will take this win, if Carlos insists. I also won the Mystery Kitchen Tool contest this evening and I think my entry in the Caption Contest is at least a reasonably strong one. Perhaps I will be a three place winner this evening and then you will all have to work to beat my record! (Did I mention that I have a bit of a competitive streak?)

Landscape photo to follow shortly. Let me get my Kitchen Tool photographed and posted first.
4977) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption # 49 (Message 1327560)
Posted 14 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Talk about pushing the envelope!
4978) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1327559)
Posted 14 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you. I will look through my cupboards as I prepare dinner this evening.
4979) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1327555)
Posted 14 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That is a device for measuring servings of spaghetti and other forms of long thin pastas.
4980) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game (Message 1327553)
Posted 14 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes. I defer to Carlos.
4981) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game (Message 1327536)
Posted 14 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is that the Matterhorn?
4982) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What are you listening to this morning? (Message 1327530)
Posted 14 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, we should totally do a Battlestar Galactica Pun War some night. I am a fan as well and might even be able to give you a run for your money...
4983) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 177- A NEW YEAR HAS STARTED (Message 1327528)
Posted 14 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Wishing you hot soup and plenty of tissues, Bernie.
4984) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday John Clark (Message 1327527)
Posted 14 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Happy Birthday John, and many, many more to follow.
4985) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1327303)
Posted 13 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Han shot first.

If you know what I mean and why this is important, then you should have participated in last night's Pun War, because clearly you would have done well.
4986) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1327214)
Posted 12 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just do the same as the "390,000 self-proclaimed Jedi" in the 2011 UK Census, when you declare your religion.
Census: How religious is the UK?


LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4987) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lypozene (Message 1327211)
Posted 12 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ask your doctor about Placebo. Placebo may be right for you.
4988) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1327157)
Posted 12 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Fruit dehydrator?
4989) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1327026)
Posted 12 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, this time I really mean it...


Goodnight punsters!!!
4990) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1327022)
Posted 12 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yeah, Angela is tough to beet and I've done that twice...

LOL! And you will some day again, my friend. I guarantee it!
4991) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1327020)
Posted 12 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Duke! Use the farce...

Dude, didn't you mean DOOKU! Use the farce...???!!!
4992) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1327019)
Posted 12 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, I can't resist. One last Star Wars story before I hit the hay.

Some years ago I ordered some undergarments on-line. The website was a little unusual because it let me type in any honorific I wished, instead of having one of those standard drop-down bars that force one to pick "Mr", "Mrs.", "Ms", or "Miss". Well, I simply could not resist such temptation. I typed in "Jedi Master". Two weeks later Eric picked up a box off our porch and announced loudly "Jedi Master Angela Korpela, your bras are here!"

Funny thing is, that business must have sold its mailing list because for a couple of years after that I got occasional pieces of junk mail addressed to Jedi Master Angela Korpela. They always made me laugh.
4993) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1327010)
Posted 12 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, it is time for me to go to bed.



Goodnight Punsters!!!
4994) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1327008)
Posted 12 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Perhaps in the future we can do Trek, with that Data I will for sure win!)

I would not be too sUHURA of your victory with that topic, my friend.


One of my favorite Star Wars parodies...
4995) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1326999)
Posted 12 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, let's get this star party started!!!
4996) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1326995)
Posted 12 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yada, Yada...

Vic, don't you mean YODA YODA YODA?
4997) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1326991)
Posted 12 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAQhG59zqZc
A victory video for Angela! May it make you laugh and not offend!


Merciful heavens!!! That video was a bit JAR JARing!!! Still, no offense taken. Let's just let QUI-GONS BE QUI-GONS.

P.S. I'd call you, but I don't have a DROID.
4998) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1326986)
Posted 12 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, we certainly did come up with some inSIDIOUS puns this evening. You are a rising pun star, Ex, but I'm afraid I am a STAR DESTROYER. You never should have agreed to play with this topic because clearly IT'S A TRAP!!! I have to admit, some of my puns tonight were only LUKE warm. Still, it was fun to MAUL you.

Sometimes, these puns, well... DEGOBAH so fast!!! I'll be OWEN you a debt of gratitude for playing before this post is BERU. Right now people are sitting around with their JAWAS wide open wondering if I will ever run out of Star Wars puns. I'll admit, my humor is a bit on the DARK SIDE. Still, you were a real TROOPER tonight. Thanks for playing!
4999) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1326984)
Posted 12 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Where is everyone AT-AT?


DOCKING BAY 94, MOS EISLEY...
5000) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1326982)
Posted 12 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In the LANDO puns, only the strong survive.
5001) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1326980)
Posted 12 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now you are just TUSKEN for it!!!
5002) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1326977)
Posted 12 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Two minutes between puns?!!! Dude, you are giving me enough time to bake a batch of WOOKIES!
5003) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1326974)
Posted 12 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes. It seems there are no other inVADERS...
5004) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1326972)
Posted 12 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
SARLACC of punsters this evening does not bother me.
5005) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1326970)
Posted 12 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm planning to HUTT you down, buddy.
5006) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1326968)
Posted 12 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I sense a great disturbance in the force...
5007) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1326964)
Posted 12 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Think you can beat me, huh? Well... DO OR DO NOT - THERE IS NO TRY.
5008) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 177- A NEW YEAR HAS STARTED (Message 1326956)
Posted 12 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Andy, lovely pictures! You are making me want to return to Finland.


I'd go again in a heart beat!

When did you go Angela?


Year before last. There is an old thread of pictures someplace...


I shall have to have a forum search later!



Found it!
5009) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1326935)
Posted 12 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Awesome! I'll check back in an hour when you are off work!
5010) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 24 (Message 1326929)
Posted 12 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are there any punsters in the house this evening? Eric mixed me two lemon drop cocktails, and now I am simply spoiling for a Pun War!
5011) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 177- A NEW YEAR HAS STARTED (Message 1326928)
Posted 12 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Andy, lovely pictures! You are making me want to return to Finland.


I'd go again in a heart beat!

When did you go Angela?


Year before last. There is an old thread of pictures someplace...
5012) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 177- A NEW YEAR HAS STARTED (Message 1326821)
Posted 11 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Andy, lovely pictures! You are making me want to return to Finland.
5013) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1326807)
Posted 11 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh, my......
What a beautiful coat you have!


LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5014) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 177- A NEW YEAR HAS STARTED (Message 1326625)
Posted 11 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Team, status report please. Team...........team.........


Second in command of Team Insomnia reporting in, sir. Haven't slept well in three nights. Over.


Hi Angela. :)



Hi Andy! Great Lapland pic!!!
5015) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1326608)
Posted 11 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Viruses may be... well... "virulent", but the flexibility provided to species through the genetic code generally results in adaptation to such stresses. Though many may die, the smart money is on ultimate species survival.

I am pretty confident raccoons will not end up on any endangered species lists.
5016) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1326557)
Posted 11 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoon viruses, of course, sadden me, but I doubt the virus is 100% fatal. Eventually raccoons with some natural immunity to this virus will survive to reproduce themselves. Urban raccoon populations may fall drastically for some time, but eventually they will rise again. Natural selection seems harsh, but it is nature's way. Raccoons are survivors. They are a most adaptable species.
5017) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussing the disgusting (Message 1326555)
Posted 11 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just microwave it for 15 seconds.... good as new!


Now THAT is disgusting!!!!!!
5018) Message boards : Cafe SETI : New Year, New Moderator rotation for the team (Message 1326553)
Posted 11 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you Julie and Uli-belle for your service to this project. Uli-belle, especially, has served long and worked so very hard for us all. These forums would not be possible without our wonderful volunteer moderators.

Ex and Clive, welcome aboard and thank you too!
5019) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner 2012.................... (Message 1326169)
Posted 9 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And on a related note, I have noticed that when I provide speech therapy services to my pediatric patients, by golly they grow taller - every last one of them!!!
5020) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 177- A NEW YEAR HAS STARTED (Message 1326081)
Posted 9 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Team, status report please. Team...........team.........


Second in command of Team Insomnia reporting in, sir. Haven't slept well in three nights. Over.
5021) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner 2012.................... (Message 1326079)
Posted 9 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL Janice!!!
5022) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 177- A NEW YEAR HAS STARTED (Message 1325961)
Posted 9 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Me too.
5023) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussing the disgusting (Message 1325960)
Posted 9 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
One winter trip to visit Eric's parents in the great northern woods of Wisconsin, somebody discovered a den where a bear was hibernating. The den became somewhat of a "tourist destination". I could not resist taking a peek. Hibernating bears smell disgusting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5024) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1325959)
Posted 9 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Skunks are more likely to be rabid than raccoons! Hopefully none of you were wearing sandals!!!
5025) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year From Our Home To Yours (Message 1325958)
Posted 9 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Taco Temple is 10 minutes away from you?!!! You lucky dog! Best fish tacos ever!!!

Thank you one and all for your kind new years wishes and your kind words.
5026) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption # 49 (Message 1325697)
Posted 8 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I had no choice. All of them were fashion no's and I didn't want you to end up on "What Not To Wear".
5027) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Huell Howser RIP (Message 1325696)
Posted 8 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That was a fun show. RIP.
5028) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Anti Discussion (Message 1325354)
Posted 6 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yay!!! I love being an auntie!!!
5029) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1325352)
Posted 6 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is a cherry pitter.
5030) Message boards : Cafe SETI : NFL 2012 Season (Message 1325164)
Posted 6 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I asked Eric if he was conflicted. He is not. Go Pack Go!!!
5031) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner 2012.................... (Message 1325080)
Posted 5 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I suspect he is just concerned for the kitties....LOL.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!! Eric does love his cats!
5032) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner 2012.................... (Message 1325078)
Posted 5 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think it is time to go to a mandolin next... and hope I keep my knuckles.

Eric rarely insists on things, but he does insist that I not use my mandolin unsupervised. Same goes for my kitchen blow torch. He either loves me or he is concerned that we do not have sufficient medical and fire insurance to cover me and the house. I'm pretty sure it is that first one. Yeah.
5033) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Anti Discussion (Message 1325075)
Posted 5 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I thought this thread was for discussion of our Aunti's

My aunties all rock... well, as much as octogenarians CAN rock, without breaking a hip and such.
5034) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner 2012.................... (Message 1325074)
Posted 5 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
MMNm still waiting for the Quiche Recipe.


Sigh................


Crust Ingredients:

1 1/4 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 Tbsp sugar
4 Tbsps unsalted butter - chilled & cut into 1/4 inch pieces
3 Tbsps vegetable shortening
4 to 5 Tbsps ice water

Pulse flour, salt and sugar in a food processor.
Scatter butter over flour and cut in w/ 5 one second pulses.
Cut in shortening w/ 4 more one second pulses.
Turn mixture into a bowl.
Sprinkle 4 Tbsps water over flour mixture and press/scrape in with a rubber spatula until you have a dough. Add extra Tbsp. of water only if necessary.
Form into a disk and chill at least 30 minutes and up to 2 days.

Let dough soften a little. Roll dough out on floured board and fit into ceramic quiche pan, crimping or fluting edges. At this point, I typically place an over-sized circle of parchment paper over the inside of the dough, put my pie weights on top of the parchment, over-wrap everything in plastic and let the whole thing rest in the fridge again, over-night.

Quiche Filling:
1/2 to 1 onion, diced and softly caramelized
8 oz thick cut bacon, cut into 1/2 inch pieces, sauteed and then well drained on paper towels
4 oz grated Gruyere cheese (about 1 cup)

2 lg eggs plus 2 lg egg yolks
1 cup whole milk
1 cup heavy cream
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp white pepper
freshly grated nutmeg (or a pinch of pre-ground nutmeg)

Freeze quiche dough for 20 mins. Bake with parchment and pie weights in place, in middle rack of oven, at 375 degrees for about 17 minutes. (In my oven it takes 20 - results may vary). Carefully remove parchment and weights and bake crust 9 to 10 more minutes, until lightly golden brown.

Mix eggs, extra yolks, milk, cream, salt & pepper to form a custard.

Put onion, cooked bacon and grated cheese at the bottom of the partially baked quiche shell.

Carefully pour custard over. Do not over-fill. If you have used a smallish quiche pan, you may have extra custard.

Grate fresh nutmeg over top, to taste (or alternatively just mix a pinch of nutmeg into the custard when you are mixing it up...)

Bake filled quiche at 375 degrees for 32 to 35 minutes. Quiche should look golden brown, a knife blade inserted off center should come out clean, the center should be set, but still soft, like gelatin.

Let sit 5 to 8 minutes before attempting to cut.

Good with roasted potatoes and fresh fruit for breakfast.

Also good with a green salad for lunch.

Enjoy!




5035) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 177- A NEW YEAR HAS STARTED (Message 1325048)
Posted 5 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My goodness, that a was a short win for you!
5036) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year From Our Home To Yours (Message 1324991)
Posted 5 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy new year Angela, Great pictures. Where is that dinosuar park? I want to go there:)

Orlando, Florida. It is pretty cool!
5037) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark - continued (Message 1324986)
Posted 5 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5038) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year From Our Home To Yours (Message 1324985)
Posted 5 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow! Great pictures!!! Thank you for all the lovely wishes.
5039) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Help me with my petition (funding science) (Message 1324781)
Posted 5 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Signed.
5040) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For Ian (Message 1324777)
Posted 5 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5041) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1324766)
Posted 5 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Fort Raccoon!!! I want to move there!!!
5042) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year From Our Home To Yours (Message 1324765)
Posted 5 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you. I had a tough time thinning out the pictures this year.

And Vic, great pictures of the lovely Miss Grace!
5043) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1324764)
Posted 5 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We have plenty of raccoons here... I can let others share in the fun.
5044) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year From Our Home To Yours (Message 1324716)
Posted 4 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It has become somewhat of a January tradition for me to post a few of the pictures we took last year, along with various bits of advice from members of the Korpela family.


For starters, Eric recommends that you think outside of the box.



Zsa Zsa wonders if this is a box...



Angela reminds you to visit your favorite house of worship.



Mr. Lizard advises that you take some time out of each day to be very, very still.



Mr. Slithers is just hoping that Mr. Lizard will stop by for a visit...



Uncle Eric advises that you never overlook a teaching opportunity - Lock and Load, Baby!!!



Eva suggests that you always be on the lookout for an ambush!



Auntie Angela says that if you are forced to attend a sporting event, use it as an opportunity to catch up on some sleep.



If forced to participate in a sporting event, however, you should definitely play to win!!!



Virginia and Andrea would like to remind you of the importance of family.



Marcel and Magoo would like to remind you of the importance of food!



Uncle Eric would like to warn you about the dangers of missing the obvious...



Spawnie says that he wrote the book on meddling!



Stinky Lou just wants these damn paparazzi to get out of her face!



Happy New Year, From Our Home To Yours!
5045) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of discussion threads (Message 1324139)
Posted 3 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric is truly a sad Badger tonight...

Isn't that three times in a row? And this time to those trees across the bay!


It is, in fact, three consecutive invitations to the Rose Bowl in a row for those mighty University of Wisconson @ Madison Badgers (Eric's undergraduate alma mater), with a resulting three consecutive painful defeats. And Gary, you are correct. Given that Eric did his Ph.D. at Berkeley and there is a huge Berkeley/Stanford rivalry, losing to Stanford was exceptionally awful for poor Eric.
5046) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Anti Discussion (Message 1323484)
Posted 2 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5047) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 177- A NEW YEAR HAS STARTED (Message 1323481)
Posted 2 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Too late...
5048) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Anti Discussion (Message 1323479)
Posted 2 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'd disagree with Carlos if I thought it would merit discussion...
5049) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1323471)
Posted 2 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh I sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo want to live in Punkydoodle Corners!!!
5050) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of discussion threads (Message 1323468)
Posted 2 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric is truly a sad Badger tonight...
5051) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Anti Discussion (Message 1323466)
Posted 2 Jan 2013 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If I told you about it, I would have to kill you.
5052) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To the Kitty People........wherever they are......... (Message 1322833)
Posted 31 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I bet the kitties will love looking out as much as the raccoons will love looking in!!

Uli & Chris (and many others) have visited before, so they know the lay-out of my kitchen... We did not change our back door. We just changed the door at the top of the stairwell that leads downstairs and the left door from the entry way into the kitchen. We are simply going to paint the pocket door from the dining area into the kitchen, so that door will not be a "Peek-a-boo" kitty door.
5053) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1322830)
Posted 31 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What a lot of very Happy New Year raccoons we have here! Thank you, friends.
5054) Message boards : Cafe SETI : As I have posted for many years..... (Message 1322381)
Posted 30 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL!!!!!!!!!!! My friend, I think you are approaching this from the wrong angle...

If I knew a deep, dark, government-redacted secret and I thought I'd be killed if I told it, I would tell the entire world quickly, in a really public way. If thousands of people instantly knew the secret, then there would henceforth be no point to killing me! Threat eliminated.

5055) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1322379)
Posted 30 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is it a nutmeg grater?
5056) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1322376)
Posted 30 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Spawnie wouldn't eat one!

You got that one right. Lazy-bones Spawnie just watches the blue jays as they steal his food, kibble-chunk by kibble-chunk. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't know what to do with a mouse if one crawled right up to him in his basket.
5057) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To the Kitty People........wherever they are......... (Message 1321924)
Posted 30 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We recently replaced a couple of solid doors in our kitchen with doors that have glass inserts. For me, this ups the light in my kitchen and makes things seem more airy in there, but upon installation... wow! - our cats can suddenly see through doors! They were initially somewhat puzzled. As the three of them stood in front of a new door sniffing and staring through a glass insert, I'm pretty sure they were also silently thanking Santa for the gift of x-ray vision!!!
5058) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of discussion threads (Message 1321542)
Posted 29 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
OMG!!! Where will it end...? ;)


With the award of the Seti ID Scholarship for Disambiguity.


Hey! No awarding awards without an operational definition of disambiguity being spelled out, in triplicate, with a copy on Eric's desk by 5pm and an additional copy filed with the office of the UC Berkeley Chancellor in Charge of Procurement of Toilet Paper.
5059) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Please pray for the West Webster, NY Firefighters! (Message 1320860)
Posted 28 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My heart breaks.

Peace on Earth.
5060) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1320856)
Posted 28 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There is something about the North American great plains that makes people give towns funny names...


LOL! We just returned from Cornucopia, Wisconsin - and if you envision a cornucopia filled largely with trees (poplar, birch, maple and some pines), then the town is appropriately named.


(It is a beautiful area though - warm, friendly people, great tracts of unspoiled nature... and snow - lots and lots of snow.)
5061) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For Ian (Message 1320695)
Posted 28 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you a full return to health in 2013.
5062) Message boards : Cafe SETI : As you must know.......... (Message 1320008)
Posted 26 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And a Merry Christmas to you too, Mr. Sattler!
5063) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner 2012.................... (Message 1318307)
Posted 21 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I are in the process of some house remodels and some drainage repairs. Sadly, we expect to be out of the hotel business through the spring.

Prime raccoon season is summer though...
5064) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Merry Christmas to All our Friends (Message 1318300)
Posted 21 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric says I should back away from the butter cookies at least long enough to wish you all a Merry Christmas.


Nom... nom... nom... Merry Christmas!!! nom... nom... nom...
5065) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What are you going to do when the world ends? (Message 1318282)
Posted 21 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey!!! I ate waffles and butter cookies for breakfast with the assumption that calories would not matter after today. Now are you actually telling me that I might have to "burn off" those extra calories in some way other than in a fiery apocalyptic way?

Man! I just cannot catch a break...
5066) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1317505)
Posted 20 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Darn that Janice!!! You can blame her for this one.
5067) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner 2012.................... (Message 1317502)
Posted 20 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Homemade potato chips - Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5068) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark - continued (Message 1317440)
Posted 20 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5069) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1317399)
Posted 20 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5070) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Goodsearch for Seti.... (Message 1317387)
Posted 19 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, we really do have Blurf to thank for pointing the staff in this direction.

Thank you, friend.
5071) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 175 End of the World - big fizzle - CLOSED (Message 1316989)
Posted 19 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Peek-a-boo!
5072) Message boards : Cafe SETI : peanut butter sandwiches (Message 1316706)
Posted 18 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Peanut butter on celery??? You aren't in the family way are you?

Chris, celery stuffed with peanut butter is a pretty common snack for children on this side of the pond. If you put raisins on top of the celery, it is called "ants on a log".
5073) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What are you going to do when the world ends? (Message 1316705)
Posted 18 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Making snowballs now... They'll never see them coming until it is too late...
5074) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Let it snow! (But go away promptly!) (Message 1316681)
Posted 18 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric says the best snow is the snow that you visit.
5075) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What are you going to do when the world ends? (Message 1316680)
Posted 18 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hope to be stuffing my face with butter cookies made by my mother-in-law. Eric's mom makes very, very, very good cookies!
5076) Message boards : Cafe SETI : USA School deaths (Message 1316629)
Posted 18 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Horrible. There are no other words. Wishing the families peace.
5077) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1316060)
Posted 16 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
p.s. John did indeed win the last round. Belated pm sent. The other item it grates is walnuts!

This is either a grape or apple press agreed. Its this heated toilet seat on the left that amuses me!.



Actually, I think it can also be used to press olives to make olive oil. I think it is a very old design. It makes me wonder if our species discovered how to make olive oil or wine first...
5078) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1315911)
Posted 16 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No, it is for making wine. It is a wine press. First you crush the grapes, then you put them in that barrel thingie and turn the wheel. A middle panel is lowered with each turn, forcing juice out of the crushed grapes.

(My family makes wine...)
5079) Message boards : Cafe SETI : UC New Logo (Message 1315020)
Posted 14 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We hate it too!
5080) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1315017)
Posted 14 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Beet slicer for making Borscht????

Already tried that.


Whoops! Sorry John.
5081) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1314941)
Posted 14 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Beet slicer for making Borscht????
5082) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 175 End of the World - big fizzle - CLOSED (Message 1314154)
Posted 12 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Woo hoo!
5083) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For Ian (Message 1314152)
Posted 12 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Our thoughts are with you and your lovely wife as you endure these difficult times.
5084) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1313870)
Posted 11 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ang, can we have an update on Donna please?

Donna is doing quite well. She is no longer living under our deck (Yay!!!!). We are not sure where she spends most of her time now. She returns for treats 2-3 times per week with her siblings Marcel and Magoo. Her left hind leg never returned to completely normal size, but it is so much better than it was at the height of her infection. She walks on that limb well and she seems to have full use of that leg. She has no trouble keeping up with her siblings now. She seems to be having a pretty "normal" urban raccoon life at this point, so I'm glad that our vet prescribed the antibiotics.

I will try to snap a picture of our three little beggars the next time they show up. You will be amazed at how large they are now.
5085) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1313137)
Posted 9 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL Chris!
5086) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP Sir Patrick Moore (Message 1313133)
Posted 9 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
5087) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1313132)
Posted 9 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You guys are on a roll in here!!!
5088) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1313131)
Posted 9 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Don't you believe it! Eric and I haven't put up a Christmas tree in years.
5089) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1312925)
Posted 9 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My goodness that was quick! We use ours most often to make homemade hard cider.

Take it away, Janice!
5090) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark - continued (Message 1312924)
Posted 9 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You will never be truly alone, even when you are in the isolation ward. You cannot ditch us friend, now or ever!!!
5091) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1312922)
Posted 9 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.

Ok friends, "de-mystify" this useful little gadget...
5092) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Feelin' dirty (Message 1312862)
Posted 9 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric crunches several projects and doesn't feel the least bit guilty. Enjoy!!!
5093) Message boards : Cafe SETI : seti employment list (Message 1312237)
Posted 7 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
With raccoons, I think it is safe to assume that they manage me...
5094) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1312226)
Posted 7 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If anyone saw the Mythbusters episode where they were investigating "skunk smell cleaning" myths you will know they failed to even get caged skunks to spray them and had to resort to "bottled" skunk!!


Male skunks will spray each other when they are feeling territorial in the spring. Dogs are commonly sprayed because they chase and corner skunks. Baby raccoons sometimes get sprayed because they lack impulse control and do stupid things to skunks.

Our outside cat has never been skunked. No adult raccoon I've ever encountered has ever been skunked. I only know one person who has been personally skunked. A skunk wandered into the kitchen of one of our friends. She panicked and tried to scare it outside by yelling, banging on pots and trying to shoo the poor confused thing out the door. That was a huge mistake. If she had just left the kitchen door open and backed away, Mr. Skunk would have eventually left without incident.
5095) Message boards : Cafe SETI : seti employment list (Message 1312221)
Posted 7 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I thought we already had the Raccoon Manager (unpaid)....


Raccoon love is so valuable, a price cannot be placed on it.
5096) Message boards : Cafe SETI : seti employment list (Message 1312219)
Posted 7 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Or a Raccoon herder for that matter. ;)

I prefer the title Raccoon Wrangler. Raccoon Whisperer will also work.
5097) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1312079)
Posted 7 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Time to earn my sleeping merit badge...


Goodnight friends!
5098) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1312077)
Posted 7 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5099) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1312073)
Posted 7 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5100) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 175 End of the World - big fizzle - CLOSED (Message 1312071)
Posted 7 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5101) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1312068)
Posted 7 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dogs are dumb enough to try and corner skunks, so yes, they get sprayed. If you give a skunk an escape route the skunk will not spray you. You can get pretty darn close to skunks if you know what you are doing.
5102) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 175 End of the World - big fizzle - CLOSED (Message 1312067)
Posted 7 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
She's just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She's gonna get you...
5103) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1312065)
Posted 7 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Skunks spray only as a last resort. Skunks are also pretty dumb. It takes a lot of noise before they even notice you, much less consider you to be a threat. I dance with skunks all the time... never been sprayed... never gonna get sprayed.
5104) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1312061)
Posted 7 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No, the raccoon picture I posted the other night was not one of our "little woodland friends". These, however, are...

5105) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 175 End of the World - big fizzle - CLOSED (Message 1312060)
Posted 7 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello friends!
5106) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy birthday Carlos dec 4 (Message 1312057)
Posted 7 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


Carlos doesn't eat sugar, so I guess cake is out...

Happy Belated Birthday, dude.
5107) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1312031)
Posted 7 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Carlos says to think about chickpeas... think about things fried like donuts... think about pita contents...

Ok, since Carlos has pretty much given it away, it has to be either a tool used to form falafal patties, or perhaps a tool used to keep falafal patties submerged in oil while they fry.
5108) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1311639)
Posted 6 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5109) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark - continued (Message 1311636)
Posted 6 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You are in our thoughts and in our hearts, my friend.
5110) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For Ian (Message 1311635)
Posted 6 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Ian, if you or Marie are able, please let us know how you are doing. You have many friends here and we think of you often.
5111) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1311634)
Posted 6 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Stinky Lou and I sing duets.
5112) Message boards : Cafe SETI : R.I.P Dave (Message 1311633)
Posted 6 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A brilliant composer. One of a kind!

RIP
5113) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 175 End of the World - big fizzle - CLOSED (Message 1311632)
Posted 6 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello friends. I've missed you all!
5114) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Kitchen TOOL TWO (Message 1311631)
Posted 6 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well guess it's time for a hint. Think middle eastern food.


A chickpea masher???

Something to smash pomegranates for the purpose of juice extraction?
5115) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Trash Talking - Football (Message 1311630)
Posted 6 Dec 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Very cute picture!!! Better luck next year, friend.

For those looking forward to Cowboy Dave paying off his gambling loss by posting a recording of him vociferously singing all the verses of the Wisconsin fight song, please know that our esteemed cowboy is currently suffering from a cold. Eric and I definitely want to enjoy this command performance, and so we have instructed Cowboy Dave NOT to record a thing until he is fully recovered from his current illness.

(Eric also says that he expects he will enjoy this musical performance far more than any symphony, opera or musical I've dragged him to in the past 20 years!!!)
5116) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 175 End of the World - big fizzle - CLOSED (Message 1311268)
Posted 29 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning before Carlos arrives.

Goodnight friends!
5117) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Trash Talking - Football (Message 1311267)
Posted 29 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Stocking up on snacks for the game...



Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!
5118) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Trash Talking - Football (Message 1311145)
Posted 28 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This is the best thread in Seti, luv it. :-))


It will get even better on Saturday when there is music to accompany Dave's post.
5119) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 175 End of the World - big fizzle - CLOSED (Message 1310935)
Posted 28 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think we keep the same hours, my friend.
5120) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 175 End of the World - big fizzle - CLOSED (Message 1310928)
Posted 28 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello!
5121) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Trash Talking - Football (Message 1310703)
Posted 27 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5122) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Trash Talking - Football (Message 1310700)
Posted 27 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5123) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The 84 cents a month fundraiser. (Message 1310412)
Posted 26 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you to you and the kitties.
5124) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 174 autumn arrived (Message 1310411)
Posted 26 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello there!
5125) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Funds for SETI@Home (Message 1310410)
Posted 26 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am ready for the 15 yr Anni Party, but not sure Ang and Eric are.

A 20 year party might happen, but a 15 year party is too soon!!!
5126) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Trash Talking - Football (Message 1310409)
Posted 26 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not Football but Sunday Cal plays at Wisconsin in Basket Ball.

Oh dear. Eric will be very conflicted.
5127) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1310407)
Posted 26 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Uli guessed it first. The win is her's.
5128) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Goodsearch for Seti.... (Message 1310386)
Posted 26 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sites like these kinda tick me off when they hide the fine print.

The project just received another check from Goodsearch. It is working out surprisingly well.
5129) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cereal (Message 1310373)
Posted 26 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I smell cereal!!!
5130) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1310372)
Posted 26 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
To do with fishing?

I'll bet you are right, Uli. One side is probably for gutting a fish and the other side is for removing the scales.
5131) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cereal (Message 1310365)
Posted 26 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nine out of ten raccoons prefer Raisin Bran
5132) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1310359)
Posted 26 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5133) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Funds for SETI@Home (Message 1310297)
Posted 25 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gary's idea about the different colored stars may become a reality in the future. I hate to dampen other forms of enthusiasm, but Kickstart is probably not the best fit for this project.

Kickstart works best when there is some "sexy" piece of equipment to buy. General operating costs are the greatest need of this project at this time. This project is extremely lucky to already have some fantastic individual organizers who have in the past, and may well in the future, spearhead drives to purchase equipment. These dedicated people are doing an amazing job, so it does not really make sense to "outsource" this sort of fundraising to Kickstart.

Kickstart works best when there is staff time devoted to making videos, organizing press releases, beating the drums etc. My friends, it is Sunday, and my husband is upstairs in his den right now working on a presentation he is giving tomorrow. Eric simply cannot fit another project into his life! Matt and Jeff are needed to keep things running. (See previous comment about the ball of twine and the roll of Scotch tape.) Please believe me when I tell you that there really is no spare staff time.

Kickstart works best when it attracts new people to a project. Chances are good that many of those who would donate through Kickstart would be users who already know the project and who might have donated through the project's conventional channels in the past. If these people donate for the year through Kickstart, the project loses the part of their donations that the Kickstart people take as their cut, along with the costs of whatever "swag" has been promised to donors. When regular supporters donate through other channels, direct donations decrease. It is unlikely that enough new users/donors would be attracted to offset the loses incurred.

Direct donations through the project are the best way to help. I see many green stars here and I know more are coming when Matt processes the most recent GPUUG donations. You folks rock!
5134) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 174 autumn arrived (Message 1310280)
Posted 25 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm looking at a tree with LED lights, I think once I tell Grace NO, She should behave Herself, I hope.


Yo Vic. Grace says to tell you, "Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-ho-ho-ho and Merry Christmas!"
5135) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Trash Talking - Football (Message 1310279)
Posted 25 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My, my, my... It looks like those mighty Wisconsin Badgers will be playing those pesky little Nebraska Corn Huskers in another game this season. The Big Ten Title Game between these two teams is next Saturday and we have renewed our standing bet with Husker Fan Scarecrow. Should the Badgers reign victorious (and you KNOW they will) you can all look forward to hearing a recording of Cowboy Dave vociferously singing his rendition of "On Wisconsin" - all the verses, posted right here on this very thread. Should the Badgers lose (a remote possibility at best), Cowboy Dave will receive another box of cookies in the flavor of his choice.

While we wait, here is the start of one of my favorite little recipes...

Creamy Corn Pudding

Step One - Pulverize the Corn

(Yes friends, let the trash talking begin!!!)
5136) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Funds for SETI@Home (Message 1309989)
Posted 25 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A good Kickstarter project would NOT be "money for one more year of operation", it would have to be something more sexy.


My friend, you have hit the heart of the problem directly!!!

I have worked for a large not-for-profit hospital for almost 24 years. Donors love to buy equipment!!! If my hospital needs some sort of fancy scanner or whatnot, it is actually easier to have a fundraising drive to purchase that piece of equipment than it is to collect unrestricted donations for general operating costs. I, personally, am a "general operating cost" for my hospital. As a pediatric speech pathologist, I sit on the floor all day long and help teach children with special needs to use language meaningfully and effectively. Even though I am sooooooooooooo good that I can teach a rock to talk, I am not nearly as "sexy" and a big machine that flashes and goes "beeeeeeep"!

The same basic outlook applies to this project. There have been some wonderful funding drives over the years to buy equipment. I have participated in some of them myself. Staff members are grateful for all the fantastic pieces of hardware that have been purchased, but unrestricted funds to cover staff costs are a really big need and the reason you all get those pesky little emails asking for your money. I am sorry to report that Eric, Matt and Jeff are just not as "sexy" as a server.

Since 2001 the staff of seti@home has gone from seven people to three. These are difficult economic times and non-profits everywhere have felt the sting. Please donate to the charities close to your heart, whatever they may be.


5137) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The 84 cents a month fundraiser. (Message 1309978)
Posted 24 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mine will be back shortly after Matts return as I donated through GPUUG and have been told that He has to code it in.

Yeah, sorry about that. I decided that it was "bad form" for the wife of the project scientist to be without a green star for several weeks, so I made a second donation through the link provided on this website. The green star is automatic when you do it that way. I apologize to all the GPU user group folks. Your donations are appreciated and your green stars are coming soon.
5138) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Funds for SETI@Home (Message 1309976)
Posted 24 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
T-shirts, mugs and logo-stuff in general always end up being a bad idea. The profit margin (less than $2.00 per shirt) always ends up "costing" the project more than you can imagine. If somebody buys a t-shirt, they feel like they've donated $20 to s@h, and they frequently consider that to be their donation for the year. Donations to the project always seem to drop off substantially when merchandise is offered for sale. The last time there was a t-shirt sale, it was done entirely at cost (plus Uli-belle's generous volunteer time), and only in celebration of a s@h anniversary.

This project is held together with a ball of twine and a roll of Scotch tape, and it has been for a long, long, time. The best support possible, if you are able to do so, is a donation to offset costs wherever needed. And in return, we all get these nifty little green stars!!!

Thank you to all who donate time, power, hardware and funds. Seti@home would not exist without you.
5139) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1308819)
Posted 22 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No, I agree with Carlos. I had never seen such a big mezzaluna before and so I was quite mystified by its use. Clearly the mezzaluna Carlos posted was never intended for piles of fresh herbs. It makes far more sense to use something that massive to cut pizzas.

You have won fair and square Chris! I look forward to guessing your picture.
5140) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1308544)
Posted 21 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Good luck Jim!

In our first year of marriage, Eric and I bought one lotto ticket each month on the date of our anniversary. We thoroughly enjoyed the entertainment value of mentally spending our millions, but we didn't win a dime.

Jim, lucky for you Eric and I got all that losing out of the way for you...
5141) Message boards : Politics : Can good and evil exist without man? (Message 1308485)
Posted 21 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL! Fan of "Philosophy Talk", Gary? (We are too...)

Don't hold back, people... After all, “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality” (Dante Alighieri)
5142) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1308454)
Posted 21 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hmmmmmmmmmmm.... it looks like a mezzaluna, which is a curved (half moon) knife typically used for mincing large piles of fresh herbs.
5143) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For Ian (Message 1308122)
Posted 20 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thinking of you, friend...
5144) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 174 autumn arrived (Message 1307496)
Posted 18 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning after a long, hot bath...

BATH !!! I have`nt had a bath for years . . . .


And that is why we are all so grateful that our friendships with you are just on-line!)
5145) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What are you listening to this morning? (Message 1307468)
Posted 18 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Kids these days!!!
5146) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1307297)
Posted 18 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Some sort of camping pie-cooker? Put dough on either side and perhaps some cooked fruit between the dough? Press together and "bake" in a campfire?
5147) Message boards : Politics : Pres is bad. Really really bad. We're lost. Time to implode! (Message 1307274)
Posted 18 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm in!!!
5148) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1307273)
Posted 18 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Don't feel bad Monday! I've made the same mistake several times myself.

When much younger, I purchased a bag of such sticks and a pan of heart shaped molds with room at the bottom of each heart for laying sucker sticks. I tried to make chocolate suckers. They were just awful! That was the day I learned the hard way what happens to melted chocolate if it is not tempered properly.
5149) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1307271)
Posted 18 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
People do, indeed, have indoor raccoons. YouTube is full of videos of such pets and I have no doubt that the picture John posted is authentic. I imagine you would have to have an indoor raccoon on a pretty strict worming regimen and I cannot even possibly imagine how one would potty train a raccoon.
5150) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #4 (Message 1307270)
Posted 18 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think a parts thread would be fun. I probably would not know any of the answers, but I might amuse some of you with my really, really, really bad guesses.
5151) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 174 autumn arrived (Message 1307194)
Posted 17 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Drat! I missed posting after our esteemed Captain of Team Insomnia.

Getting slow old friend.



Carlos! You should know better than to call a lady "old"!!!
5152) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1307193)
Posted 17 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


I am sooooooooo showing Eric that picture! Everybody has indoor raccoons but me!!! Sniff.
5153) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #4 (Message 1307189)
Posted 17 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow that Mystery Kitchen Tool Thread had been fun lately!!! I was totally mystified by the last entry and this one is stumping me too. I thought I knew my way around a kitchen, but you guys are really, really good!
5154) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 174 autumn arrived (Message 1306339)
Posted 15 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Drat! I missed posting after our esteemed Captain of Team Insomnia.
5155) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What are you listening to this morning? (Message 1306333)
Posted 15 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
To Ang
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neQ6OYpjWT4&feature=related


Uli-belle, you are hilarious!!! Thank you, I think...

This is either a tremendous ego boost for me or else you think that Eric is a beautiful woman. Either way, I am flattered.
5156) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 174 autumn arrived (Message 1306005)
Posted 14 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

You rang?
5157) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1305699)
Posted 13 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My dog and cat make sleeping a real pain, they both seem to think the bed is theirs.

It never ceases to amaze me how a tiny kitty can take up so much bed space. Eva manages to push both me and Eric into the farthest recesses of the bed!
5158) Message boards : Politics : Paula Broadhips & General GoldPeneTraitorUs (Message 1305628)
Posted 13 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Who is Paula Broadhips?

Paula Broadwell was General Patreaus' biographer.

Eric hopes that some day he will be famous enough to have an attractive female biographer who is half his age. Eric is hoping his biographer will have earned high B's in her highschool science classes and will supplement her publishing income by modeling swimwear. He feels this will uniquely qualify her to be his biographer.

If such a biographer is ever assigned to Eric, I shall attend every interview!!!
5159) Message boards : Politics : Paula Broadhips & General GoldPeneTraitorUs (Message 1305521)
Posted 12 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dave was head of the CIA
Classified stuff would come his way
Through pillow talk one might discover
Who's a spy and who's under cover

I'm not saying he told her stuff
Appearance of impropriety is enough
I think it's fine that he stepped down
Sorry his career has run aground...

Who he sleeps with? It's his life.
Such should interest just his wife,
But folks who hide affairs with lies
Might be bribed by Chinese spies!
5160) Message boards : Politics : Paula Broadhips & General GoldPeneTraitorUs (Message 1305453)
Posted 12 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So an Army guy looked up a blouse,
who happend to not be his spouse.
When democrats grope
nobody says nope,
and republicans get kicked out of the house.


Oh please! Clinton was impeached, remember?
5161) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 11/11 (Message 1305266)
Posted 12 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you to those who have served.

May our species find a time when such service and sacrifice are no longer needed.

Peace on earth.
5162) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 174 autumn arrived (Message 1305265)
Posted 12 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bwahahahahaha!
5163) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1305263)
Posted 12 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Storing hard cheeses?
5164) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Meowsighs, but I must. (Message 1305121)
Posted 11 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There once was a guy who loved his kitten
He was chastised for what he had written
He authored many words
with too many turds
Until finally they'd had enough and he was smitten


Some fellow named "Guy"
Writes verse that is wry
Shields barbs with his poetic flairs

I hope he gets wise
Picks on someone his size
I challenge Sir Guy, if he dares

Cafe over yonder
Where happy folk wander
We happen to "poetry slam"

Some day, when life's stable
I hope to to disable
His pen, and a new place it cram...
5165) Message boards : Politics : I voted. (Message 1305040)
Posted 11 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends,

I am reposting something that was justifiably hidden by a moderator, not because my post was not "kid friendly", but rather because I made the mistake of quoting another poster who used a hate term. I took some time crafting my response and wanted it to stand. I realize by reposting this it is out of order. Please mentally re-insert this post into yesterday's exchanges.

Angela K.



Mark, my friend, you often ask others to understand you in light of the hellish things that life and fate have tossed your way. I do... well at least most of the time I try to. And so now I ask a favor of you.

Try to imagine life as a person who completely and totally feels he (or she) is in the wrong sex body. Imagine the social stigma that might occur from making those feelings public. Imagine how members of the public, and even family and friends who love you dearly might judge and misjudge you. Imagine the years of therapy people would push you to have. Imagine going through decades and decades of social pressure, coupled with decades and decades of still feeling like you are in the wrong body. On top of this, imagine facing years of hormone injections and a surgery that most would not consider to be... uh... "recreational".

Mark, how can you possibly think that a transgender person takes decisions like having a sex change operation lightly or that life as a transgender person is even remotely easy in our culture?

Now then, if you can possibly see this issue from a different vantage point, does it surprise you that this medical procedure might be covered by an insurance plan somewhere? It is not like people are going to be lining up around the block for this surgery. It is a surgery that may be medically warranted for some people some of the time. Such is the stuff ALL insurance plans are made of!!!

I beg you, Mark, to strive to exercise the same compassion for others that you so frequently beg us to exercise for you.
5166) Message boards : Politics : I voted. (Message 1304703)
Posted 10 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela.......yes, I have rather hellish brain chemical imbalances.......every day, almost.
Do I sit here and whine about why the state is not paying to run my crunchers because that is the only thing that gives me satisfaction in this life?

Or, let's go for it.....I really would feel better if I had strap-on tits and my nuts cut off.

You wanna pay for that because some state-paid pschych gets paid, again from tax dollars, to 'say', he dudes, let's get a few million from the state to castrate this guy.

Remember when that used to be a punishment, not a pleasure????

I have endured all that life and the Lord has tossed my way.....bitter as it may have been. I have asked few favors, other than whirrled peas.

Think about it, Angela.........


Mark, my friend, thinking just so happens to be one of my favorite past times!

I have no doubt that crunching is one of the ways you self-medicate from psychological pain. I suppose it is possible that crunching may have even progressed to the point of addiction for you, actually making crunching contra-indicated for you in your pursuit of better mental health. You also self-medicate with kitty-love. You used to self-medicate with tobacco. You have been quite public about your struggles self-medicating with alcohol, and Mark, my heart breaks to know how much pain you must experience day after day after day.

There is a wide body of medical research on the causes of addiction and its treatment. I hope there are programs and medications already available to you as a part of your current medical insurance plan that may be of assistance to you and/or to others who struggle with such pain. I hope you are able to avail yourself of these benefits someday, but even if you never do many people here will still accept and even love you as our project's own treasured Kittyman.

There is a wide body of research on transgender issues. That is why some medical plans are starting to add sex-change operations to the benefits they offer.

I do not believe there is a body of research that supports crunching as an efficacious treatment for your condition. Consequently I am not surprised that your medical insurance does not subsidize your power bill.
5167) Message boards : Politics : I voted. (Message 1304664)
Posted 10 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And before you give me any ####, just remember that about 48% of the US voters agree with ME, you damned, ignorant, snotty liberals.

I may be "damned" and I may be "snotty", but I personally take issue with the charge of "ignorant".
5168) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Meowsighs, but I must. (Message 1304649)
Posted 10 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh, this is sooooooooooo going to get moved to Politics, but still I feel compelled to respond.


People should vote for what's in their best interests,...

I am determined to vote AGAINST what is in my personal best interest, when in comes to securing a better life for others.

Eric and I were never lucky enough to have children. Should I vote AGAINST taxes that might benefit public education? That would benefit me.

The lucky birth lotto happened to place me in a stable and comfortably resourced family. Should I then favor policies and politicians who work to eliminate inheritance taxes? That would benefit me.

I was fortunate to have been born to parents who were highly educated, who valued education and who worked hard to fully finance the college and graduate studies of me and my three siblings. Should I sail blithely though life thinking that people can succeed in this country without the many social, cultural and financial "hands-up" I have enjoyed? Shouldn't I rather put my money and my votes towards trying to level the playing field in this country?

Would you have me change parties, my friend?

As I walk through life, I hope to promote social justice through my words, through my actions and through my votes.
5169) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 174 autumn arrived (Message 1303888)
Posted 9 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not any more!
5170) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1303437)
Posted 8 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is it some sort of device for fixing a stuck garbage disposal?
5171) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 174 autumn arrived (Message 1303432)
Posted 8 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
As card-carrying members of Team Insomnia, Carlos and I appear to keep roughly the same hours. Vic, I'm not sure when you sleep!
5172) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Why no English food restaurants in the USA? (Message 1303431)
Posted 8 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...My lower legs are no longer hairy...

LOL Vic! You realize that now we are all imagining you shaving your legs with a pink plastic razor in a tub full of bubbles.
5173) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 174 autumn arrived (Message 1303424)
Posted 8 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Posting after Carlos, cuz that's just what I do here...
5174) Message boards : Politics : I voted. (Message 1303275)
Posted 7 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So it is pretty close, With Florida to come and some states, like California, haven't counted the postal votes yet. Postal votes are likely to be military personnel and therefore would expect to be Republicans.


Absentee voting has changed quite a bit in California. Years ago, yes, it was the elderly and military personnel who tended to vote absentee, and yes these two groups would tend to lean right. Now absentee ballots tend to include large numbers of crazy-busy people, especially those with nasty work commutes. It has been my experience, at least in the SF Bay area, that crazy-busy people lean left.

Edit: I'm sorry! I didn't realize Janice had already responded to this issue.
5175) Message boards : Politics : I voted. (Message 1303016)
Posted 7 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I voted also. Big deal we lose who ever wins. They both suck bigtime. If anyone thinks the President can do antyhing your wrong. Hes a figure headlike a king or queen. The senate and congress rule the roost. And its not an oversight that I didnt Capitalize the names.

Four more years of nothing gets done because this counrty is so split we hate each other.
Four more years that we have more stinking partisan politics.

I sure as hell hope im wrong. But I doubt it.



I disagree, Jim. Supreme court nominees matter. The president gets to nominate them. Yes the senate still has to approve, but the president gets to send nominees. That is huge. There is a lot to consider when you give a person a powerful job, and let him or her keep it for life!!!

Also, back in high school I vaguely remember something in my history classes about only Congress having the power to declare war. Modern history seems to have bypassed this step. In light of this, I would say that who we elect for president matters quite a bit.
5176) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What are you listening to this morning? (Message 1303004)
Posted 7 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just reflecting this evening on the supreme court decision "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission"
5177) Message boards : Politics : I voted. (Message 1302306)
Posted 4 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I mailed in our absentee ballots last weekend.
5178) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To the Kitty People........wherever they are......... (Message 1302277)
Posted 4 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I saw this, and thought it belonged here.
Most Popular Kitty Names

Steve


Gosh, "Stinky Lou" didn't make the list... go figure.
5179) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 174 autumn arrived (Message 1301972)
Posted 4 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yeah Vic! What he said...
5180) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1301966)
Posted 4 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is it a tool for injecting booze into fruit... say Grand Marnier into a strawberry?
5181) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 174 autumn arrived (Message 1301963)
Posted 4 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm here. I'm there. I'm everywhere... so beware!
5182) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1301957)
Posted 4 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is it used to eat soft boiled eggs? I think I've seen better cutters for that on tv shows.
5183) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 174 autumn arrived (Message 1301956)
Posted 4 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry Carlos.
5184) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #4 (Message 1301954)
Posted 4 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat

Au Contraire!

Which cultivar do you have? I have a Meyer and love it! You can eat them as picked.


I planted the tree the year we moved in. The tag said "Modified Meyer". I didn't know what that meant, but I bought it anyway and stuck it in the ground. It has been a most generous tree. The fruit is sweet, but not so cloyingly sweet that I can't use the fruit for other applications such as fish or chard.


My guess the modified Meyer is a genetically modified lemon.

Someone once again got to play with DNA back at a lab.


Well whatever they did, I approve!!! I cannot imagine a better tree.
5185) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #4 (Message 1301948)
Posted 4 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat

Au Contraire!

Which cultivar do you have? I have a Meyer and love it! You can eat them as picked.


I planted the tree the year we moved in. The tag said "Modified Meyer". I didn't know what that meant, but I bought it anyway and stuck it in the ground. It has been a most generous tree. The fruit is sweet, but not so cloyingly sweet that I can't use the fruit for other applications such as fish or chard.
5186) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1301946)
Posted 4 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Some sort of egg innards siphoning pump?
5187) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 174 autumn arrived (Message 1301568)
Posted 3 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning cuz it's such fun to beat Carlos!
5188) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1301559)
Posted 3 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat


Au Contraire!
5189) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1301548)
Posted 3 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I add lemon to the butter and it is fab. Helps to have a lemon tree :)

Not a problem...
5190) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What are you listening to this morning? (Message 1301543)
Posted 3 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Baby I'm Dead...
5191) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1301521)
Posted 3 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In one hole you put the artichoke and in the other you put a clarified butter dish?

Ok, we have a winner!

I posted a picture of one of my artichoke plates. Here is a picture of an artichoke on a much prettier plate than mine.


Artichokes are commonly grown in California. I had a couple of plants in our backyard for a few years until I decided they were more of an aphid magnet than I cared to have back there. In the center of the plate you place your cooked artichoke. In the little artichoke bud well you place melted butter (I don't bother to clarify it), or mayonnaise or whatever dipping sauce you like. When I want a lower-fat sauce option, I like tomatillo sauce on artichokes. Just a little tip for my California friends.

Anyway, you pull leaves off of the artichoke and dip the meaty end of each leaf into your choice of sauce. You scrape the tasty artichoke meat off each leaf with your teeth, and then you place the scraped leaf on the outer rim of the plate. Eventually you take a spoon, scrape the fuzzy stuff off the artichoke heart and then eat the heart.

Yumm-oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

P.M. going out to our winner now...
5192) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1301485)
Posted 2 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is this used in the annual Californian artichoke frenzy?

Why yes it is! And have you figured out the purpose of the two wells?

Yes, but I don't to win this weekend.

Is there no one who will claim this win?!!!
5193) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What are you listening to this morning? (Message 1301461)
Posted 2 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Was that a "yes"?

Not from me!

(I cannot speak for others, of course... only warn them!)
5194) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1301459)
Posted 2 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is this used in the annual Californian artichoke frenzy?

Why yes it is! And have you figured out the purpose of the two wells?
5195) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1301444)
Posted 2 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gosh some people must not like their thistles. As I've got a set of them I do know. But I don't have a next picture.

Does the outside ring get filled as you eat?


You know that it does, my fellow Californian!!! Gary OBVIOUSLY has won but it seems he does not want to claim his prize. I guess the guessing will go on, then.
5196) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1301423)
Posted 2 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The oval depression is for an egg, but I'm not sure what is round and goes with an egg.

Sorry friend. The oval depression is not for an egg.
5197) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1301356)
Posted 2 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Because I am always up for a good pun, and because I know that the good Kittyman is an opera aficionado, I hereby dedicate this operatic classic to our very own backyard "DONNA IMOBILE"

La donna è mobile
5198) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1301347)
Posted 2 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The time has come for critters to move on.
But, when they do they are missed at dawn.
So, who says an urban raccoon should be fed
in a bard yard, then provided a bed?

'Tis a quandary I must admit,
and not good for a wild one, to make it quit.
However, such a thing is not done here,
as I am too busy with my glass of beer.



Tis' true our Donna SHOULD move out
But food restriction makes me doubt
That such a tactic will result
In backyard-life brought to a halt.

I think that, rather, we might find
That Donna will make up her mind
To simply lose her chubby tummy
And cause great guilt in me, her mum-y.

My Eric CLAIMS to be a hard-liner
But his resolve is not much finer...
This very morn' I caught that guy
Feeding Donna on the sly!!!!!!!

So truly John, you are so right
There's no good answer in my sight
But beer is not my thing, you see
So I'll just have a cup of tea.




5199) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1301337)
Posted 2 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am glad she has a home. Even if she is a Donna, she may not want a suitor. Just keep us posted.
Now you got me thinking. I guess there is no pill for Raccoons, now that you found a great way to dispense Meds.


LOL Ulibelle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First of all, I'm not sure raccoons have a choice about suitors. If Donna is, in fact, a Donna and not a Don, then she will go into heat eventually and babies will be the inevitable result.

As for raccoon birth control, I doubt such a thing exists, but I will ask our vet. He is always up for a good laugh at the expense of his favorite Crazy Raccoon Lady. As long as I keep paying my bills, I'm pretty sure he is all for treating whatever critters I might befriend.
5200) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1301289)
Posted 2 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
One well is to put your cup of tea in and the other one is for the lemon? (or the teabag)

A sweet guess, but that is incorrect.
5201) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 174 autumn arrived (Message 1301177)
Posted 2 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Do not go gentle into that good night...
5202) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1301175)
Posted 2 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am with you on that. She is now vorable(?) to predators. I think she will move on if she is ready. Nothing wrong with a temp Hospital K.
Are there refuges in the Bay Area for Raccoons in similar circumstances?


I'm not too worried about predators getting Donna. Adult raccoons would not be very attractive to predators. I suppose a coyote or a mountain lion could kill a raccoon, but why would a predator bother to hunt such vicious, nasty prey when I'm sure there are equally tasty, easier to catch critters out there. In my experience, urban raccoons are most vulnerable to diseases and cars.

As for refuges, I can see no reason for relocating Donna when she already has a bed at the Korpela Raccoon Sanctuary. I'm still hoping that Donna is a Don. I guess I have a 50/50 chance of that. I really don't want her having babies if she never leaves my yard.
5203) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1301169)
Posted 2 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Uli just reminded me that I am overdue for an update on Donna and her siblings.

Marcel and Magoo each got single courses of antibiotics. Donna required two weeks on drugs. Everyone's legs are much improved.

Marcel and Magoo are just fine. There is no indication of infection in either one of them. They have definitely moved on to new territories, but they still come by for snacks one or two times each week.

The horrible swelling in Donna's hind leg is vastly improved and barely noticeable now. She still limps, but very slightly. She gets around the backyard quickly and well and she really should be moving out soon, but she is showing absolutely no signs of leaving!!! Eric thinks we should cut way back on her food to encourage her to move out. I know this is the right thing to do, but I am having trouble doing this.
5204) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 174 autumn arrived (Message 1301165)
Posted 2 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Donna's leg is much better. I'll meet you in the Critter Cafe and update folks there.
5205) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 174 autumn arrived (Message 1301161)
Posted 2 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, relax. Eric and I are well aware of the concerns about raccoon roundworm.

Let's put this into perspective. Raccoons have probably pooped in every farm field in every continental US state, and yet there have been only a handful of cases of this disease in this country. Most of the cases involve toddlers eating poop. If raccoon roundworms were easy to catch, there would be a whole lot more cases in this country. You pretty much have to eat poop to catch this disease and we have no plans to eat poop any time soon.
5206) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 174 autumn arrived (Message 1301156)
Posted 2 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Don't think so, Captain.
5207) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1301155)
Posted 2 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win. Ok friends, what is the purpose of this plate? What goes in the two wells?
5208) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What are you listening to this morning? (Message 1301153)
Posted 2 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The exponential rise in human population has led to unprecedented levels of habitat encroachment, making the "pickin'" of wildflowers ill advised and possibly even illegal in many areas.

The ladies of s@h are strongly urged to seek legal, medical, financial, psychiatric and spiritual advice before accepting offers of this nature from wayward cowboys.
5209) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1301095)
Posted 1 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A tool to make your pizza dough airy.

Realllly close. Right substance, but not quite right.


If you are trying to make a flat, crisp, cracker-style pizza crust, then you would use this tool to prevent your pizza dough from getting puffy with air.
5210) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Requests for donations from Seti@home (Message 1300904)
Posted 1 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nothing goulish. I just made pasta for dinner. Eric and I both went into work on today's "high holiday".
5211) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Halloween Pics (Message 1300903)
Posted 1 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now you got all the males drooling here.

I'm pretty sure that is not the case...
5212) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How many words do you know? (Message 1300899)
Posted 1 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
37,500

In one of the six languages you speak, right?

Ha! Six is a slight exaggeration. I was relieved to see that my English cannot be getting too rusty after over twenty years in Germany, though.

How high do you rate reasonably structured sentence length when evaluating linguistic abilities?


Depends on the age of the child. There are certain structures in English that are generally mastered within certain age ranges. Between the ages of 2 and 4, syntax tells me more about a child's expressive language skills than vocabulary or grammar mastery tell me.
5213) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Requests for donations from Seti@home (Message 1300894)
Posted 1 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Perhaps I got it wrong. I'm sure Brad will weigh in if my information is incorrect. Thanks for the offer Uli-belle. I will let Eric know.
5214) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Halloween Pics (Message 1300891)
Posted 1 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Remember that charming picture of the gentleman at the computer that Misfit used to prank all of us with all the time? My Lady Godiva "costume" would be much along those lines.

Boo!!!
5215) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Requests for donations from Seti@home (Message 1300889)
Posted 1 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Donations through the GPUUG are not automated. Donations one makes through more conventional channels are.
5216) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Halloween Pics (Message 1300876)
Posted 1 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nope! He says such a picture would be too scary, even for Halloween.
5217) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Halloween Pics (Message 1300874)
Posted 1 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am currently dressed as Lady Godiva, but Eric refuses to take my picture!!!
5218) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Requests for donations from Seti@home (Message 1300872)
Posted 1 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, here's the inside scoop on processing the donations from the GPUUG funding drive. Matt processes them. Matt is on tour... for a looooooooooooooog time. Matt was supposed to show Eric what to do to process the donations before he left on tour. Eric was supposed to remind Matt to do this. They both forgot. Unless Eric figures out how to do it first, Matt will fix everything when he gets back. Sorry friends.
5219) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1300869)
Posted 1 Nov 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think it is a tool for making crackers. When you make crackers you roll a bread dough out really thin and then prick it all over so that there are escape holes for air. You don't want air getting trapped in your dough and making your crackers puffy. This tool would do that efficiently, if you made a whole lot of sheet pans full of crackers.
5220) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #4 (Message 1300784)
Posted 31 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A caption Ang. He just beat me too it, so I had to do some cleanup. Can't comment when a game is in progress.
Are we a bit touchy tonight?


It is always more challenging to interpret intent on-line. Eric and I both interpreted your post as "snarky", and it would seem we both misunderstood you.
5221) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Requests for donations from Seti@home (Message 1300714)
Posted 31 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is being addressed. She is caught up in the GPUUG bug.

I can imagine some events changing the priority of the bug fix :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF4CyF5BbqE


thanks for the straight line uli


LOL!

Uli pointed out to me several weeks ago that my green star had lapsed. Eric said the GPU donations were still being processed. I'm green really. I swear it.
5222) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Navaho Taco's (Message 1300647)
Posted 31 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh nevermind. I was thinking about pooris.

5223) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Navaho Taco's (Message 1300646)
Posted 31 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Navajo / Pueblo fry bread looks like it is more closely related to naan, lubhi or puri than paratha. It is very puffy (and there is a trick to that).

I thought parathas were the puffy ones.
5224) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 174 autumn arrived (Message 1300645)
Posted 31 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela must have had a long day, Me I'm about to head off to bed also, Night all.

I did. I was booked for 10 hours with an end time of 7pm. I left work at 9:45pm and I STILL didn't finish all my paperwork!
5225) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #4 (Message 1300641)
Posted 31 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
She always get's her way, doesn't she?

Ouch Uli-belle. I hope that was your caption and not a slam!
5226) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Requests for donations from Seti@home (Message 1300437)
Posted 30 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Never met a Canadian I did not like...
5227) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How many words do you know? (Message 1300435)
Posted 30 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
37,500

In one of the six languages you speak, right?
5228) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of "Count from X to X" (Message 1300433)
Posted 30 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I enjoy reading comments.
5229) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1300432)
Posted 30 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

I love a theme...
5230) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us A Caption #48 (Message 1300431)
Posted 30 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have notified the gold medalist of his win. He is suffering from eye strain right now, but promises he will hunt for a picture tomorrow. I plan to nag him incessantly until he complies... and I can be quite a terrible nag!!!
5231) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How many words do you know? (Message 1300430)
Posted 30 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
As a 23 year pediatric speech pathologist


Wait. You're only 23 years old?



I wish!!! No, I have been in practice for 23 years. My chronological age is 49.
5232) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #4 (Message 1300429)
Posted 30 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now this is getting extremely weird. Why should a fish fork even if strange be excluded? It belongs in the kitchen and is related to food.

My bad. Service utensils ARE allowed, per Carlos' operational definition.

Sten-Arne, what is the adult beverage of choice in your country? Whatever it is, please uncork a bottle and enjoy a little nip. May the spirit of fun be with you, my friend.
5233) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1300427)
Posted 30 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
For those using cast iron pans, make sure you have a talk with your doctor about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_overload IIRC it affects males more than females and more as you age.


For real? The human gut is rather resistant to absorbing heavy metals... and that is a good thing!!! I suppose one might be able to OD on iron if one regularly swallowed too many oral iron tablets, but I find it hard to believe one could OD from iron from using a cast iron skillet.
5234) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #4 (Message 1300128)
Posted 29 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Explanation please.

Why would anyone want to "core" a grapefruit?
5235) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 174 autumn arrived (Message 1300126)
Posted 29 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I can't stand it when someone steals My Rhubarb...


Be-Bop-A-Rhee-Bop-Rhubarb-Pie!
5236) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us A Caption #48 (Message 1300125)
Posted 29 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric's late entry...

"Tell Big Bird he doesn't have to worry about Romney any more..."
5237) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1300124)
Posted 29 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric spent a lot of time working in South Korea a few years ago. I would get home from work and onto my email about the same time he would be getting back to work after having had lunch with his Korean friends/colleagues. I was always entertained by Eric's descriptions of lunch. Sometimes it would be a spicy ginger-laden chicken soup. Other times it would be octopus so fresh and so "lightly cooked" that the tentacles were still sticking to his plate.
5238) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #4 (Message 1300122)
Posted 29 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the clarification and thank you for the "win".

It is Monday, however, who gets to make that call...
5239) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us A Caption #48 (Message 1300118)
Posted 29 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sesame Street... brought to you today by the letters "O" and "F".
5240) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #4 (Message 1300116)
Posted 29 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Whew! I see the dust is settling now in the cooking thread. Carlos, thank you for your operational definition. You people take your cooking tools very seriously!!!

I am sorry about the dog chains. I really do use them exclusively for cooking, but the nay-sayers are correct - they are not sold as cooking tools.

So, just to clarify, food service items are a "no - no" too? A weird fish fork or something would be out? I did not see a line about food service utensils in Carlos' definition.
5241) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1300077)
Posted 29 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think it was more like reindeer sausage.
5242) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 174 autumn arrived (Message 1300073)
Posted 29 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Me.
5243) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1300072)
Posted 29 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I know what you mean Angela. My Dutch in-laws loved smoked horse meat. Try asking for that in a big chain grocery store.


I ate reindeer on a pizza in Finland. Food is a very cultural thing.
5244) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner 2012.................... (Message 1300071)
Posted 29 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is that Donna guarding the Tomatoes?

No. I just google-imaged "raccoon tomatoes" and this came up. The chutney just came up to a boil. Now it has to cook for 2 or 3 hours. The smell is making Eric gag. He just refused to come into the kitchen and empty the dishwasher for me. Guess I'd better go open up a window...
5245) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner 2012.................... (Message 1300067)
Posted 29 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've never said this in this context before, but hey, lady, nice tomatoes!

LOL!
5246) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #4 (Message 1300060)
Posted 29 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am genuinely enjoying that thread as well, but my-oh-my it moves quickly!!!
5247) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner 2012.................... (Message 1300058)
Posted 29 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

I'm making tomato chutney tonight...
5248) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1299989)
Posted 28 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Antique lemon juicer???
5249) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1299988)
Posted 28 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think that Gary's (I will assume "calf brains"???) picture makes an interesting point about the arbitrary nature of what we deem edible.

In some cultures roasted and salted insects are a crunchy tasty street snack. Mmmmmmm... exoskeleton!!! I've eaten roasted goat abroad, but in the USA it is infrequently consumed. It is part of my Italian heritage to eat rabbit, but I have to go to a specialty meat market to find it in my little corner of the world. I understand in some cultures bats are eaten, but I've never seen bat meat on a menu here. In some cultures, animal flesh is not eaten at all.

People are omnivores, but omnivores with heavy cultural biases. I suspect Gary was trying to make that point. Either that, or he was just getting into the Halloween spirit!
5250) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1299871)
Posted 28 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is a tortilla press/iron, for turning corn masa into corn tortillas.
5251) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1299863)
Posted 28 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5252) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Bet (Message 1299862)
Posted 28 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You lucky dog, you.
Not many have the pleasure of sampling Angela's confectionary skills!

Not true, actually. Eric and I have had the pleasure of entertaining quite a few crunchers in our home over the years.

Go Badgers!
5253) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #4 (Message 1299861)
Posted 28 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The dog chains were not sold as kitchen tools. I purchased them in the pet aisle of our local supermarket. But I do use them exclusively in my kitchen and they are permanently stored in my kitchen with my pastry baking equipment.

When I posted those pictures I was thinking that something that I use exclusively for cooking is a "cooking tool", and thereby permissible.

If I have violated the rules, I apologize. If the majority feel that picture should not have counted, I will be very careful in the future to stick to more traditional kitchen devices.
5254) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1299858)
Posted 28 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
pie crust weights.

And we have a winner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Yes, I use dog chains for pie crust weights when blind baking a pastry shell. (That statement is not NEARLY as kinky as it sounds, if you know your way around a kitchen!!!)

Metal and ceramic pie weights, and also dry beans for that matter, tend to bounce and roll all over the kitchen when one lifts a parchment sling out of a partially baked pastry shell. Metal dog chains work just as well as any pie weights, and they have the good sense to stay together.

I use these chains all the time, when I bake a pie shell or a quiche shell. Uli-belle must not be around this weekend because I think she has actually seen these devices in action. I wish I could say that I thought this kitchen tool up all by myself, but actually I got the idea from Steve Fulton, who used to work for s@h. Steve is a highly accomplished home chef.

Honorable mention goes to the... ahem... "gentleman" (and I use the term liberally!!!) who pm'd me with "I don't know what you do with them, but I sure hope you wear black leather when you use them!" You know who you are, sir, and I'll have you know that the only black leather I own happens to be in the form of Salvatore Ferragamo shoes... and I don't tend to wear those in the kitchen!!!

Merciful heavens!!!

PM going out to our winner John now.


I'd say this game has gone over the hill now, and I'm outta here.

Sorry. I did not mean to offend. I will let our thread initiator clarify the rules, if necessary.
5255) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1299808)
Posted 28 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5256) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #4 (Message 1299805)
Posted 28 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've already stumped nearly half the regular guessers in the Mystery Kitchen Tool contest, and it is only a matter of time before I stump the rest.

Bwahahahahahahahahahah!!!
5257) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1299804)
Posted 28 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5258) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1299802)
Posted 28 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not a kitchen decoration. Those chains serve as functional kitchen tools for me. I use them quite regularly and I will definitely be using them next month.
5259) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game (Message 1299799)
Posted 28 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Continental divide of the Americas??? Is that Bill Gate's house?
5260) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1299795)
Posted 28 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Halloween bondage with Eric? :-))

Merciful heavens!!! No.


Chains to hang up a pot rack?

No.


Hanging jugged Hare?

No.


Keeping the dish washers in the kitchen?

LOL! No.


After a couple more regular guessers weigh in, I will start giving hints. I am so pleased that I have stumped so many of you already!
5261) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1299683)
Posted 28 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nope. Sorry Vic. Another valiant effort, but that is not the use of those chains in my kitchen.
5262) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner 2012.................... (Message 1299668)
Posted 28 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
http://www.delish.com/entertaining-ideas/holidays/halloween/halloween-party-food#slide-1
Have fun Ang.


LOL! Very clever foods! Thank you Uli-belle.
5263) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1299665)
Posted 28 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry Vic. Wrong again.

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5264) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1299663)
Posted 28 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry Vic. That is not the use of those chains in my kitchen.
5265) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 174 autumn arrived (Message 1299658)
Posted 28 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations on your win, Mike!

Looks like I'm next in line for the win...
5266) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1299657)
Posted 28 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win. Ok cooking friends, I'm pretty sure that THIS one is going to stump even the best kitchen gadget guessers out there...


What are these shiny metal objects and how do I use them in the kitchen?
The win goes to the correct answer, but an honorable mention goes to the most kinky response!!!






Hint... Bad kitty! Let go of that kitchen gadget so that I can wash it before I use it next month!!!
5267) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game (Message 1299621)
Posted 28 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
OMG! Bill so deserves to win!!!

Is your background geology?
5268) Message boards : Politics : Push Poll!!! (Message 1299582)
Posted 28 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I answered one push poll and I had to get rude with the caller.

Basically, it was a gun lobby pushing an agenda. The questions were so slanted that by disagreeing with a remark you appear to weak on crime and anti american. I basically told the individual that I couldnt answer his questions the way he wanted. THis threw him off. He told me it was an up or down question. I disagreed insisting that the question was invalid on its face. The call devolved from there.


LOL Skildude!!! You are one tough customer!

I wish I had known more about the young man who called me. If he was a volunteer working for the campaign of the challenger, and willingly using these obnoxious tactics, then I wish I had really chewed him out. If, however, he was just some young person trying to do his job, then I probably shouldn't have tried to make him feel guilty about doing it. A job is a job sometimes.

I imagine most of us have compromised our principles at least a few times in life because we could not handle the consequences of not doing so. With age and some degree of financial security it becomes easier to stand up and consistently trumpet one's core values. It is difficult to judge behavior out of context.
5269) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1299575)
Posted 28 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh please! I've worked with children too long not to recognize Lego stuff when I see it.

That monstrosity looks like a cookie cutter/stamp that makes cookies that look like Lego blocks. Perhaps one would use this for a child's birthday party with a Lego theme to make treats or party favors?

Gary, do you actually have one of these silly things?!!!
5270) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1299488)
Posted 27 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Any kitchen tool that does not work as expected gets weeded from my kitchen! I show no mercy.
5271) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game (Message 1299263)
Posted 27 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, how about an archipelago?
5272) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game (Message 1299258)
Posted 27 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is an atoll.
5273) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1299255)
Posted 27 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you Vic.

Goodnight friends.
5274) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1299235)
Posted 27 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5275) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 173 Rise and Shine! (Message 1299231)
Posted 27 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Darn it Carlos! Where did you come from and why do you always keep my hours??!!!
5276) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 173 Rise and Shine! (Message 1299227)
Posted 27 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yikes! What have I done?!!! I just posted in "Politics". How soon until the thread I started starts showing signs of rabies?

Well, at least I can "win" over here!!!
5277) Message boards : Politics : Push Poll!!! (Message 1299222)
Posted 27 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello political people!

I hardly ever post here and I ask that you please be kind to one another when responding to the topic in this thread.

I answered the phone this afternoon and I experienced something that I had never experienced before. I was the "victim" of a "push poll".

A youngish sounding man identified himself as a pollster and, like a good con man, he first put me entirely at ease. He asked if I would be willing to participate in a poll. He asked how likely I was to vote in the upcoming election. He asked if I or any member of my household worked in politics, for a polling company, in advertising etc, etc, etc. This was all to convince me that I was a participant in a real poll. Following this, he asked me a couple of general political questions to keep me at ease. Then he got into reading me statements about a congressional race. I was supposed to respond to these statements with a designation of how likely or unlikely I was to favor a candidate who might exhibit these stated behaviors or traits.

Now we have a congressional race going on in my district between a highly experienced incumbent and a challenger who is struggling with the basics of name recognition. Full disclosure - I happen to be highly biased towards the incumbent.

The so called "pollster's" first two questions about the congressional race were incredibly biased towards the challenger. After hearing the second statement, I questioned the "pollster" about this obvious bias and asked him who was paying for this so called "poll". He told me that as an employee he was kept blind to this information so that he would be able to conduct the poll in a neutral fashion.

The third congressional race statement he read me just made me laugh. It was something like "If you knew that Congressman So & So spent more time at his home in Maryland than in his home in California, would you be more or less likely to vote for him?"

Well of course Congressman So & So spends the bulk of his home time in Maryland! He's my gosh-diggly-dog-gone congressman!!! Last time I looked at a map, Maryland is pretty darn close to where this guy's freakin' job is!!! We, his constituents, sent him there, so no - it does not surprise and/or bother me that he spends the bulk of his time there!!! In fact, I happen to LIKE that in a congressman!!!

At that point, I insisted that the "pollster" tell me who was paying for this so called "poll". The guy gave me that same line about not knowing because he had to stay neutral when delivering these statements.

I tried to reason with the "pollster"... silly me. I told him that he sounded like a bright young man and that, while I did not blame him for taking this job, he should perhaps THINK about whether or not his current line of work reflected who he was as a person. The poor kid pleaded with me to complete the poll and told me there were only three more questions left. I told him that I was unwilling to respond to even one more statement unless he told me who was paying for this poll.

This concluded our phone interview.

I told Eric about this conversation and he said, "Oh, a push poll! Those things aren't new."

Well it was new to me!!!

I was furious at myself for even participating in this "poll" for as long as I did. I consider myself to be reasonably well educated and reasonably politically informed and it took me three biased statements before I cut the thing off. Imagine the effect this tactic might have on a person who is less skeptical or less of a political junkie? What a dirty trick!!!

My friends, a legitimate pollster will always tell you who is conducting their poll.

I am a big, big, big fan of free speech, so I am certainly not saying "push polls" should be banned. I'm just saying that, as a thinking person and as an extremely regular voter, I am offended by the use of this tactic. Now, and in the future, I would weigh the use of "push polls" strongly against any political candidate who resorted to such methods.
5278) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1299169)
Posted 27 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, we know that it is "very old" and sometimes used in the kitchen or at the market. I was going to guess Angela, but that looks nothing like her picture from what I remember!



Just teasin' Ang!



LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5279) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #4 (Message 1298560)
Posted 25 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I knew that caption was a winner, Janice! It was so funny!!!
5280) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1298559)
Posted 25 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Aw, that little black kitty makes me wonder if we have enough cats...

And Gary, thank you for the link to Raccoon Nation. I saw it some time ago, but may just watch it again!
5281) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What are you listening to this morning? (Message 1298340)
Posted 24 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TLmpL2AzLs

(Fixing Ulibelle's link...)
5282) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1298207)
Posted 23 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
P.S. To Bill: Eric was a size 30 waist when we met and he is a 36 now!!!
5283) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1298206)
Posted 23 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now I can go to bed.

That is a large cake leveler.



And we have a winner!!!

Yes! I posted a picture of a very large cake layer leveler/slicer. Occasionally I make wedding cakes for friends and I use this tool to level and slice 12 inch cake rounds into horizontal layers that can be filled and frosted. (This tool works on smaller diameter cakes as well.) If you look very carefully at the feet of the leveler I posted, you will see that the height of the blade can be adjusted up and down by twisting the feet.

Dang j mercer! Did you go to culinary school or something or are you just a hobby chef like the rest of us lumpers?!!! I thought I'd really found a stumper with that picture...

Over to you, sir.
5284) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1298125)
Posted 23 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That would be one heck of a long carrot!

Not a carrot stick length gauge!


(I love that I have stumped so many good guessers!!!!!)
5285) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For Ian (Message 1298124)
Posted 23 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5286) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark - continued (Message 1298123)
Posted 23 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5287) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1298120)
Posted 23 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Boo!


(Did I scare you?)
5288) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1298119)
Posted 23 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5289) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us A Caption #48 (Message 1298116)
Posted 23 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This zombie apocalypse thing has simply gone too far!
5290) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1298115)
Posted 23 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not a cheese slicer.
5291) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1298112)
Posted 23 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not a bone saw.
5292) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1298110)
Posted 23 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not a pizza cutter.
5293) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1298107)
Posted 23 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is serrated.

Oh but there's a whole story there. The pitch, tooth, hook, set and kerf all tell a little bit about what it's made for.

If nobody guesses correctly in a day or two, I will post a close-up picture as a hint.
5294) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1298106)
Posted 23 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh and I love your gold pumpkin. I have a few that didn't fully ripen in time so I painted them gold also.

Thank you. I wish I could take credit for that, but a family friend brought it to our annual family Halloween party as a hostess gift. She is very clever.
5295) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1298104)
Posted 23 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is serrated.
5296) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1298102)
Posted 23 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My wife made me promise to bury her with her two Cuisinarts. A big one and a mini. One or the other is used several times a week here. Did I mention I need to go on a diet?

@Bill - I am surprised to hear that Ann likes her mini-Cuisinart. I had a mini for a short time and found it to be annoying. Too much washing for simply chopping one onion... I do like my big Cuisinart though. I am on my second one! And as for weight gain, I've put 60 pounds on Eric in the 20 years I've known him. I challenge Ann to top that!!!



I would bequeath my Swiss Army Knife to my son (or Grandson if there is one at that point).

@John - Not to a daughter or to a granddaughter?



Kitchenaid gets its own box when I go.

I'm with you, Janice! I LOVE my standing mixer!!! Very few appliances get to stay out on my kitchen counter top permanently, but that (and my Cuisinart) are there to stay!



Ok cooking friends, I purchased this wicked implement of torture in 1989 and it has served me well over the years.
Sometimes I even travel with it, but never in my carry-on luggage!!!

What is its purpose and how does it work?



5297) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1297955)
Posted 22 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win! I actually do have something in mind that might stump one or two of you. I will try to remember to take a picture of it tonight when I get home. I just don't have all that many single purpose pieces of equipment in my kitchen. For day to day cooking at least, I find I don't need much more than a knife and a wooden spoon!

5298) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1297921)
Posted 22 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You wrap waffle cookies around it to make ice cream cones.

It can also be used in a chinoise (a cone shaped strainer) to push foods through the strainer.
5299) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us A Caption #48 (Message 1297781)
Posted 22 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll grab the nose, you guys eat the rest of the face!
5300) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1297723)
Posted 21 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Monday! You hid your handsome face behind that torch!!! Besides, we all want to know if you still have eyebrows?!!!???????????????
5301) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1297722)
Posted 21 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A blender to make an individual smoothie or iced coffee drink in a thermos to go?
5302) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1297708)
Posted 21 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5303) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery landscape game (Message 1297707)
Posted 21 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A tire track?
5304) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1297690)
Posted 21 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is it a device for brewing beer and/or hard apple cider?
5305) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1297645)
Posted 21 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You threw me with the every fall comment. You only drink win in the fall?

I believe Bill was referring to the canning wrench in that comment.

This has turned into quite a fun thread!
5306) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1297643)
Posted 21 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Big football day at our house... Go Badgers!!! Go Bears!!!

Ouch. Heard the Cardinal won. But Badgers beat Gophers.


Yep. Eric went to the Cal game. It was sad, but Eric actually thought the score discrepancy could have been higher and that Cal did ok, all things considered...
5307) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mornington Crescent (Message 1297370)
Posted 20 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Seven Sisters

Don't you mean Seven Sisters for high tea?
5308) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mornington Crescent (Message 1297364)
Posted 20 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Afternoon tea at King's Cross.
5309) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1297359)
Posted 20 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bill wins! A pm has been sent.
5310) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1297321)
Posted 20 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5311) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1297288)
Posted 20 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It looks like a nut cracker, but why you would want such a cumbersome tool to do something that simple is beyond me.
5312) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1297262)
Posted 20 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Big football day at our house... Go Badgers!!! Go Bears!!!
5313) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What are you listening to this morning? (Message 1297255)
Posted 20 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You'll have to put up with he advert at the beginning, but I defy you to stop your feet tapping ....

Boot Scootin' Boogie



Chris, have you heard the spoof of that song?

Butt Scootin' Doggie
5314) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1297246)
Posted 20 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think it is a cigar slicer. Do you like to smoke when you cook?
5315) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1297105)
Posted 20 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL dear!!! You really should play with us more often.

5316) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1297086)
Posted 20 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh no! It is literally 100 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall!!!


Goodnight Punsters! I'm going to go sleep it off now!!!
5317) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1297085)
Posted 20 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In Heaven There Is No Beer?!!!????
5318) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1297083)
Posted 20 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Let's get Jim's victory party started!!!

The Beer Barrel Polka!!!
5319) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1297081)
Posted 20 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Like a rabid raccoon, I came here FOAMY at the mouth tonight, ready to win. I thought I had a lot of puns BOTTLED up, but now I must take a stand.... a CONCESSION STAND!!!

I hereby concede and i declare Jim our continuing champion!

A TOAST to our reigning king!!!

Thank you, Jim, for a great battle. I enjoyed our OKTOBER(pun)FEST!!!
5320) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1297078)
Posted 20 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm surprised Johnney GUINNESS didn't join the battle tonight, or that lovely BELGIAN gal, Julie...
5321) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1297077)
Posted 20 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No, no my friend! I can barely see the LITE at the end of the tunnel...
5322) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1297075)
Posted 20 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dude, you are giving me enough time between responses to read all the poems of MALT Whitman and all the novels by Gertrude STEIN!!!
5323) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1297073)
Posted 20 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh, just WEIZEN up and declare me the winner, before I hit you upside your HEAD and lay you FLAT out on the ground.
5324) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1297071)
Posted 20 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Listen up PUB! I'm the best punster 'round here, BAR none!!!
5325) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1297069)
Posted 20 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I still think I CAN do it.
5326) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1297067)
Posted 20 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
SUDS could be the CASE...
5327) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1297065)
Posted 20 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes. SCHOONER or later, you will have to declare me queen.
5328) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1297063)
Posted 20 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Why yes, to say the YEAST...
5329) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1297061)
Posted 20 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And I have many puns on TAP...
5330) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1297059)
Posted 20 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, I'm sure your puns will all be a BARREL of laughs...
5331) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1297057)
Posted 20 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll be MUGging for the camera in my victory photo.
5332) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1297055)
Posted 20 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't actually care for beer, so it might take me LAGER than usual to defeat you.
5333) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1297052)
Posted 20 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hear beer is good for whatever ALES you...
5334) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1297050)
Posted 20 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well then, put down the beer and HOP to it!
5335) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1297047)
Posted 20 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yo Jim! Did you bring MY crown?
5336) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1297044)
Posted 20 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Update to potential players. Jim and I have agreed to meet here at 7:30 pm to battle this evening. All gleeful punsters are encouraged to join in the fray!!!

Later friends...
5337) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1297012)
Posted 19 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends!

I have a little errand to run around 6:30 tonight, but I plan to be home by 8pm Pacific to hand Jim his posterior on a platter.

Jim, if this is too late for you, let me know. I will try to get in earlier if there is a problem with 8pm. Also, I hope your knee is feeling much better. I don't want you using distracting pain as an excuse for your crushing defeat this evening.
5338) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1296673)
Posted 18 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Julie, I LOVE that picture of the raccoon on the broom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!
5339) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1296549)
Posted 18 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bottle opener?
5340) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1296548)
Posted 18 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I tried very hard today to befriend a critter, if not to catch him and send him to Angela, at least to get his picture. I was unable to do either, despite him accepting my bribes of apples and oranges. The critter in question was a "hard shelled possum", aka an armadillo. Maybe next time.

You were in possession of apples and oranges?!!!!!

Who are you, and what have you done with the REAL Cowboy Dave?!!!
5341) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1296305)
Posted 17 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oddly, I think that strange device is supposed to be a pancake flipper. I think one of my sister-in-laws has one. I know I've seen something like that before...
5342) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My choice for sexiest woman alive (Message 1296075)
Posted 17 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How does that woman stay so slender with all those cakes around?!!!
5343) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1296074)
Posted 17 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think I'd better turn the win over to Celt. I don't have all that many obscure tools.
5344) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1296073)
Posted 17 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So Donna is living at the Hotel K at the moment?

Permanently, it would seem. See why I am motivated to get her back on all four of her naughty little raccoon feet?
5345) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1295726)
Posted 15 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ah Angela, you brought back memories of dealing with several aging pets over the years, and trying to get them to take their pills. They can be quite clever when it comes to detecting the medicine and spitting it out, while still eating the tasty stuff you surrounded it in....


I was having that problem when I was using meatballs. The raccoons were peeling off the fried parts and not eating the inner medicated cores. They have not figured out how to do this with the bacon grease-cheese balls yet. I use finely grated cheese and roll the balls quite firmly to keep the raccoons from figuring out that there could be a peelable layer.

Cats are easy to pill, compared to dogs. With all the practice I've been getting lately with tricking raccoons into taking their medicine, I figure I'll be an old pro if my mom becomes hopelessly demented, but still needs to take her various medicines. I'm planning to hide her medicines in her ice cream!!!
5346) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #4 (Message 1295469)
Posted 15 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
[sonny]Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain
La de da de de, la de da de da[/sonny]
5347) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1295465)
Posted 15 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh dear. Thank you for the win. I will try to find something tomorrow.
5348) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1295463)
Posted 15 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, what you are describing is a bit more complicated than I think you are getting. I am not worried about creating antibiotic resistant raccoon diseases, or worse yet, diseases that could hop species.

I AM worried that this litter might carry a genetic defect that makes them more prone to infection or less likely to heal from infections. By helping this litter to survive, I may be ultimately supporting the development of a genetic defect in our local raccoon population. I do think about that part of it...
5349) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1295458)
Posted 15 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you. My motivations are not as pure as you might think and I do feel guilty about tampering with nature. This litter was probably not meant to survive, but after losing a raccoon in last year's litter to canine distemper, I was driven to consult our vet and to try and intervene.

Truly my motivations are selfish. I do not want Donna to die under our deck!!! Imagine the smell!!! Eric has buried two raccoons over the years, and both had the good sense to expire out in the open where "we" could find and dispose of the remains. It is unlikely we would be so "lucky" a third time.

I also want Donna to be well enough to find her own territory. Marcel and Magoo have already taken to wandering far afield. This is normal for a litter this time of year. Poor Donna has such a badly infected foot that she does not go farther than the middle of our patio. I want her well enough to move on!!!
5350) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XVI - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1295451)
Posted 15 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Good evening, and welcome to IRON CHEF BERKELEY.

The heat is really on here in kitchen stadium. Today's secret ingredient is...

Ampicillin!!!!!!!!!



Whose cuisine will reign supreme?


My friends, I am sorry to report that Marcel, Donna and Magoo are all on a course of antibiotics for foot and leg infections. Donna is the worst off, but she does seem to be responding to the antibiotics we have been giving her.

Donna's leg was quite swollen and we were afraid we were going to have to trap her and have her put to sleep. Our vet prescribed a course of antibiotics for the whole litter, since all appeared to have some sort of infection. He suggested we put their medicine in meatballs, and initially I tried this. Ground beef splatters when a medicine-laden meatball is thrown from a window. I found I had to fry the meatballs to keep them solid enough to toss to the raccoons. This was a hassle, and also not exactly cheap. In a quest to find something cheaper and easier, I created these ultimate raccoon taste treats:

Recipe for Medicine Laden Raccoon Treats

Put a dab of bacon grease on a plate.

Open a capsule of ampicillin and mix the powder in with the bacon grease.

Mash in finely grated cheese and form a ball.

Put a second layer of unmedicated cheese around the inner cheese core.

Roll again into a tight ball.

Dip in bacon grease.

Toss to raccoons, twice daily.

Yes, friends. I put the "Crazy" in Crazy Raccoon Lady.



For those of you who might be new to us, this is a place where Critter People come and talk about whatever interests them. There is no such thing as "off topic" in the Critter Cafe.

Welcome one and all to the 16th edition of this surprisingly popular thread!
5351) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1295449)
Posted 15 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Friends. I will begin a new Critter Cafe, per Ulibelle's request.

5352) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1294930)
Posted 13 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You know GF. Those pics could have been the star pics in your next Raccoon thread. I don't remember Zsa Zsa being that small.

Do we really need to start new threads now that they load by pages? If so, I will find other pictures. We have far too many pictures of our critters!

Zsa Zsa and Eva are both small cats. Their mama died and these two, plus two brothers, were orphaned "bottle babies" that a few vet techs at our vet's office saved - much the way Esme's younger son is bottle feeding the bunnies. I often wonder if "bottle babies" tend to be smaller cats. Perhaps our Kittyman knows?

I think it was much easier for the vet techs to save these kittens than it will be for Esme's son to save those bunnies. The vet techs rotated the kittens from home to home every few days so that no one of them went for longer than a few days without a good night's sleep. During the day, they took the kittens into work and fed them there. Kittens (and bunnies I presume), like human infants, wake up to feed during the night. My brother and sister-in-law have an infant now and they just look exhausted all the time!

We are very fond of our "twins" Eva and Zsa Zsa and we are so grateful to the vet techs for putting in the time, effort and energy it took to keep this litter of orphaned kittens alive. The boys in the litter were adopted out together as well.
5353) Message boards : Cafe SETI : If your tired of snow? (Message 1294639)
Posted 13 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
GF totally of off topic or maybe not. I have got most of those tools and then some. Does Eric know what a riser is? I can post a pick, because I am sure I mispelled it.


Eric totally knows what a potato ricer is!!! When he was looking for a post doc position he interviewed at Los Alamos. He wanted to bring me back a souvenir of the area and he thought a nice, tasteful piece of turquoise jewelry would be appropriate. After wandering in and out of a few shops in the nearest town, Eric came to the conclusion that there is no such thing as a "nice tasteful piece of turquoise jewelry". So he wandered into a cooking store and bought me a potato ricer. I use it quite often. It has served me well over the years.
5354) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1294638)
Posted 13 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry Ian. I think I beat you by a hair. (No Cowboy Dave, not a HARE!!!)

5355) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery kitchen tool (Message 1294636)
Posted 13 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is an avocado slicer. Duh!!!
5356) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1294634)
Posted 13 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A picture from last weekend. Eva and Zsa Zsa "help" with the Halloween decorating




Eva with what is now HER spider...
5357) Message boards : Cafe SETI : If your tired of snow? (Message 1294263)
Posted 12 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
one or two kitchen tools........

No fair Angela, I was a single father for 12 years, and
there are few kitchen tools I don’t know about.

Good day for a needle day.

That apple peeler looks new. I did not know that they still made those.


I know this is not snow related, but we seem to have a diverging thread here and I have decided to take the road less traveled.

Night before last I took on Uli's challenge to see if I could stump Eric with some mystifying kitchen equipment. Always up for a good game, Eric allowed me three entries. Now Eric routinely sees groceries go into the kitchen and he routinely sees food come out of it. I had always presumed that Ol' Pookers did not pay much attention to what actually went on between those two steps. A little test of three potentially mystifying kitchen objects proved me wrong, wrong, wrong!!!

Just for the record, I immediately ruled out presentation of a few objects that might have stumped other people. A cherry pitter, for example, would have been a good entry, but Eric loves homemade cherry pie and one of my cousins has a sour cherry tree in her yard. To hasten the arrival of pie in the spring, Eric has actually used this device himself a few times!


A bench scraper I also ruled out. I've been on a bread making kick (foccacia!!!) lately, so I figured he might have some sort of associative memory triggers from having seen this tool recently on the counter or in the sink.



This was my first entry:

It is a Krinkle Cutter for making fancy cut vegetables or krinkle cut fries. I have only used it once or twice and I was disappointed that Eric guessed its use so quickly.

My second entry nearly stumped him:

I showed him a melon v-cutter, but one that did not have a melon baller on the end. Without the melon baller, the tool looks like something Norman Bates would use, and it took Ol' Pookers quite some time before he guessed its function... but guess it he did.

My third entry was an apple corer:

He guessed it right away, even though I typically just use a paring knife to process apples. I only use the corer for baked apples, which I rarely make because Eric hates them.

And so Uli-belle, the answer is "no". Eric cannot be stumped!
5358) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1294232)
Posted 12 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"Transistor mine" is one of the labels. "Glass knick knacks" is another....


LOL!!!!!!! The last time we moved, I labeled a box of decorative items "objet d′art". Eric took one look at that box, busted out laughing and said, "You know the difference between you and my mother?" I professed that I did not and Eric replied, "You both have a houseful of junk, but she calls her junk 'knick knacks'!!!"
5359) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1294227)
Posted 12 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have a conflict for this Friday and next Friday, but I'm targeting the 19th for playing again. Jim, I'm hoping you don't have to work that evening. I want my crown back.


Angela, As a favor to you, I asked to have that day off. Angela dont read the next sentance!!( Now dont tell Angela that I have a DR's appointment to get a shot of cortisone in my knee and didnt want to go to work)


Oh dear. Does this mean I should not bring you to your knees in a crushing defeat on the 19th? How about if I just knock you flat on your back?
5360) Message boards : Cafe SETI : If your tired of snow? (Message 1293708)
Posted 11 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You are to funny Ang. I am sure there are a few tools Eric will misjudge.


There might be one or two kitchen tools I have that would mystify him...
5361) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 173 Rise and Shine! (Message 1293703)
Posted 11 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Better late than never...

Congratulations on your win, Julie!
5362) Message boards : Cafe SETI : If your tired of snow? (Message 1293700)
Posted 11 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Do like I did 40 years ago,snow was 4 feet to a motor block. Tie a snow shovel to the front of your car and start driving south until someone asks you what that thing is doing on your car. Lay claim your far enough.


In 1992 a young doctoral student transplanted here from the great state of Wisconsin (Eric), drove up to a condo complex in sunny Oakland, California, to pick up his hot date for the evening (me). I got into Eric's car and this strange tool-like device was on the dashboard. "What's this?" I queried, picking up the odd implement and turning in over a few times.

It was an ice scraper. I had lived in California all of my life and I had never seen one.
5363) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My choice for sexiest woman alive (Message 1293394)
Posted 10 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL dear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5364) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Newbie bearing gifts (Message 1293393)
Posted 10 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome aboard! You will find many friends here.

5365) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How many words do you know? (Message 1293074)
Posted 9 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nope not them


Dios?
5366) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How many words do you know? (Message 1293068)
Posted 9 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
what is the most spoken word said around the world? No trick question here


Mama?
5367) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1292347)
Posted 7 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric came home happy indeed! Go Bears!!!

Haunted house - very cute!

Goodnight friends.
5368) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1292296)
Posted 7 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The Badgers won today, but not as comfortably as Eric would have liked.
5369) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 2012 - The Garden's Revenge (Message 1292294)
Posted 7 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Anybody got anything left from summer? I still am harvesting tomatoes, but my beans are getting stringy and "poddy". My remaining jalipenos are bright red, but I actually like them that way. I had hoped to get a second cutting of basil, but the leaves I'm getting are not of good quality. The squash have basically succumbed to mildew. I don't usually plant fall crops, although many of my gardening friends do. Anybody in this climate put in a fall garden?
5370) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1292292)
Posted 7 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Snif!
5371) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner 2012.................... (Message 1292291)
Posted 7 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Does anyone have particularly good recipes for fresh and delicious make-ahead meals? My brother and sister-in-law recently had a new baby. As I visit them across the course of the next few months, I would like to show up with various "dinners in a box" that they can basically heat and eat. This weekend I am making them some chicken enchiladas, but after this I'm really out of ideas.
5372) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What is "(banished: ID 421968)" (Message 1292278)
Posted 7 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In this case where multiple threads are by the one banished ID, it is (obviously) a prolific poster that has been "banished".

Yes. When said "prolific poster" returns, perhaps he can be encouraged to group his future posts into 2 or 3 longer, journal-style threads. I have seen this work well in other settings.
5373) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1292276)
Posted 7 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5374) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 172 Fall Harvest (Message 1292255)
Posted 6 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Galaxies merging, or proof positive of the Flying Spaghetti Monster?

May you all be touched by his noodley goodness.
5375) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Weekend Fundraising Challenge: Get the Green Bank Data Transport Package (and I'll pay half!) (Message 1291834)
Posted 6 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You just made a payment of
$100.00 USD
Paid to
GPU Users Group, Inc.
gpuugmain@gmail.com

(People, when you post your donation tags, please be kind and delete Brad's phone number!!!)
5376) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1291821)
Posted 5 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I guess football is, to you guys, the same as soccer is to us, a big deal!!


Perhaps. I was in southern Spain one time when a big soccer game ended in the favorite local team winning. The fans went nuts!!!!! I'd never seen such public displays of enthusiasm. I've never seen anything even remotely like that here, but then again I may just not be in the right places at the right times. Fans are fans, I suppose.

In our home we are actually much bigger college football fans than professional football fans, although Eric will watch the Packers play when he can.
5377) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1291632)
Posted 5 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I wonder if the streak is going to continue and the team wearing the Blue and Gold will win this Saturday? :) It has been a while since the visitors have trounced the home team. Then there is that national ranking hanging out. But the smell of upset is in the air. Care to prognosticate, Bears or Bruins?



My heart says Bears, but sadly my mind says Bruins. Eric will be in the stadium cheering for those Sturdy Golden Bears. I suspect some form of "drowning of sorrows" will occur after the game.

Still... GO BEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5378) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1291631)
Posted 5 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We are in the process of moving and the internet will not be on at the new place until Monday. So in a few hours my internet and home network is going offline. I'll catch all of you in a few days, or from my phone if time allows.

Take 'er easy folks, see y'all soon.



Ugh! Moving!!! What a pain. See you in a few days.
5379) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 172 Fall Harvest (Message 1291508)
Posted 5 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not so fast there, buddy.
5380) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1291495)
Posted 5 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
... and don't even get me started on those freakishly friendly Canadians to the north of us!!!!!


Thank you for remembering us Angela. That was very kind of you. Excuse me for interrupting this thread. Bye now.


LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5381) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us A Caption #48 (Message 1291493)
Posted 5 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now where did I put that number for the Raccoon Removal Service?
5382) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hello!! (Message 1291358)
Posted 4 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome. You will find many friends here!
5383) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A new addition to our family (Message 1291356)
Posted 4 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am so glad you found your kitty and that your new puppy is bring you both such joy.

Zsa Zsa is our best, most sneaky, hiding kitty. We have accidentally locked her in the bathroom and in closets before. Now, whenever we leave the house we do a "cat count". If we don't count three, we start shaking the kitty treat bag and opening closets.
5384) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 172 Fall Harvest (Message 1291354)
Posted 4 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lunching...
5385) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1291353)
Posted 4 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I trust Mr Scarecrow that you will be suitably 'umble in your temporary status as winner, and, are as we speak, saving diligently for your gift next year?


Oh Chris, have you learned nothing from your daily dealings with my countrymen and from your travels within our realm?!!!!! Eric and I were not in the least bit "suitably 'umble" last year. Obnoxious victory dances are an American specialty, my friend, and an expected part of the game!!!

You Brits are far too kind, generous and polite... and don't even get me started on those freakishly friendly Canadians to the north of us!!!!!
5386) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 172 Fall Harvest (Message 1291051)
Posted 4 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Posting before Angela notices.

Too late.
5387) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us A Caption #48 (Message 1291049)
Posted 4 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If you feed them, they will come.
5388) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 172 Fall Harvest (Message 1290575)
Posted 3 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodnight friends. My day started out tough and got worse from there. I think it is bubble bath time.
5389) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark - continued (Message 1290573)
Posted 3 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5390) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1290570)
Posted 3 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have a conflict for this Friday and next Friday, but I'm targeting the 19th for playing again. Jim, I'm hoping you don't have to work that evening. I want my crown back.
5391) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 172 Fall Harvest (Message 1290569)
Posted 3 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You can be confident of your loss.

Even after such flattery! Cold and heartless.


I never succumb to flattery when a win is at stake.
5392) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For Ian (Message 1290565)
Posted 3 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5393) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 172 Fall Harvest (Message 1290563)
Posted 3 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You can be confident of your loss.
5394) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 172 Fall Harvest (Message 1290561)
Posted 3 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are you sure about that?
5395) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #4 (Message 1290560)
Posted 3 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Word Link...

Ulibelle, you didn't follow "potato" with "salad"?????!!!!!!!!! (Uli's potato salad is legendary!!!)
5396) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link # 35 (Message 1290558)
Posted 3 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
sour cream
5397) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 172 Fall Harvest (Message 1290557)
Posted 3 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Last one until I win, you mean...
5398) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1290555)
Posted 3 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


ummmmm.... "meow"?

LOL on the picture.



So are you picking up the cookies or is Ang shipping them?

I am shipping the cookies. I have been graciously granted a reprieve of a couple of weeks, given my crazy work schedule and my even more crazy upcoming weekend schedules. October is my "busy season"... <insert witch cackle here>. I hope to have the cookies in the mail within a couple of weeks. Eric and I even more fervently hope to win this now annual bet next year!!!
5399) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1290302)
Posted 2 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pardon me. I just stepped in here for a moment to blame Misfit.
5400) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Remember the Nez Controversy? (Message 1290301)
Posted 2 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've misfiled documents, forgotten to do laundry, left dirty dishes in the sink, eaten too many cookies, never run a marathon, said things I should not have said, didn't say things I should have said, and failed to acquire any indoor raccoons.

All of these things, and more, I blame on Misfit.
5401) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 172 Fall Harvest (Message 1290297)
Posted 2 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, I bow at the feet of the master. I will NEVER be able to beat you in a posting contest!!!
5402) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1290293)
Posted 2 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Those are 'ferals' though, what if you adopted a baby and raised it?


Eric and I leave the house at 7am and return at 8pm... on a good night. We couldn't even handle a dog, much less an indoor raccoon! Cats are about the most we can handle.
5403) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 172 Fall Harvest (Message 1290292)
Posted 2 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
461 - All I really want to do is beat Carlos.
5404) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Michael O'Hare has gone beyond the rim. (Message 1289948)
Posted 1 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
5405) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1289943)
Posted 1 Oct 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm afraid that Eric absolutely insists that all my little woodland friends remain outside, all of the time.
5406) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1289837)
Posted 30 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=292ovz576cA

LOL!!! Our raccoons are so deprived!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5407) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1289756)
Posted 30 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Badger, badger, badger, badger. LOL Janice, but I'm afraid that yesterday was trash-talking day. Today humble pie is on the menu.
5408) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1289752)
Posted 30 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did somebody say critters in the kitchen?!!!







5409) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What are you listening to this morning? (Message 1289592)
Posted 30 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You knew it was coming, didn't you?

I am eating humble pie while listening to this tune.
5410) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 172 Fall Harvest (Message 1289589)
Posted 30 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
377
I guess it's football season. Anyone hit a homerun?


LOL! Unfortunately, given the amount of "talking smack" I indulged in today, I'm pretty sure I smacked something clear out of the park.
5411) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1289588)
Posted 30 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
30 to 27 - Nebraska wins.

Eric and I extend our heartfelt (and humble) congratulations to Cowboy Dave and to any other Nebraskan Crunchers out there.

Name your flavor, cowboy.


Thanks, guys! But that was a nail biter right down to the end! It sure could have easily gone the other way. I already had a couple sheet music sites bookmarked.

But as it turns out, those mighty Huskers pulled it off!

And anything that contains chocolate would be wonderful!!


Chocolate it is! Congratulations again, cowboy.
5412) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1289577)
Posted 30 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
30 to 27 - Nebraska wins.

Eric and I extend our heartfelt (and humble) congratulations to Cowboy Dave and to any other Nebraskan Crunchers out there.

Name your flavor, cowboy.
5413) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1289567)
Posted 30 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hmmmmm.......... the score is tied now. It's an exciting game, but a Badger win is inevitable.
5414) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1289550)
Posted 30 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wisconsin is up by 17 points.

Eric and I sure hope that cowboy is warming up his singing voice!



Edit: 20 to 10 at half time, but we're still feeling confident.
5415) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1289538)
Posted 29 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Darn! The Cal bears lost, and unfortunately they lost badly!!!

Guess I'd better make sure we have plenty of snacks for the next game...
5416) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 172 Fall Harvest (Message 1289537)
Posted 29 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gary, what happened to those sturdy golden bears today?!!!!
5417) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1289466)
Posted 29 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5418) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1289463)
Posted 29 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5419) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1289461)
Posted 29 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


For those of you unfamiliar with my little penchant for gambling, let me fill you in....

Two years ago Karen and I had a little bet riding on the Wisconsin Packers vs the Pittsburgh Steelers Superbowl Game. I won a lovely Packers jersey for Eric, along with a box full of delicious Pittsburgh-related food items. Last year Cowboy Dave and I had a little bet riding on the Wisconsin Badgers vs the Nebraska Cornhuskers game. I won a delightful cowgirl hat for me and a nifty personalized baseball cap for Eric.

Well, I'm afraid that foolish cowboy has decided to try his luck again. If the Cornhuskers win today (which is highly unlikely), I will be sending Cowboy Dave a box of cookies. If the mighty Badgers win, Cowboy Dave will be posting a recording of him vociferously singing the "On Wisconsin" Badgers fight song.

You can all look forward to hearing Dave sing.
5420) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1289446)
Posted 29 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, and the Badgers in the our midwest will be feasting upon Cornhuskers today.
5421) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1289437)
Posted 29 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
With some advance notice, I could have made the trip.

Shucks Uli-bell, you already do enough thankless jobs 'round here without having to wrestle my cats and wire a village!
5422) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1289436)
Posted 29 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

I believe these are European Badgers, but still... they do appear to be eating CORN FLAKES!!!!!!!!!!!
5423) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1289430)
Posted 29 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Its that time of year again! WooHoo!

I know where I wish I was right now ........


I wish you were here too! Eric is taking one of our nephews to a Cal football game today and there is nobody around to help me wire up my Halloween Village!

Sorry I'd be of limited help Angela... Good Luck.


I think I'll just wait until next weekend. I have to spray all the cords with something the cats find distasteful anyway, so I've got plenty of work to keep me busy.
5424) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What are you listening to this morning? (Message 1289427)
Posted 29 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Go Bears!!!

On Wisconsin!!!
5425) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1289423)
Posted 29 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Its that time of year again! WooHoo!

I know where I wish I was right now ........


I wish you were here too! Eric is taking one of our nephews to a Cal football game today and there is nobody around to help me wire up my Halloween Village!
5426) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1289414)
Posted 29 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5427) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 172 Fall Harvest (Message 1289411)
Posted 29 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Go Bears!!! Beat those Sun Devils!!!



Go Badgers!!! Beat those Corn Huskers!!!

5428) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1289149)
Posted 29 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you, everyone, for all the good wishes! Eric and I went to see the baby this afternoon. We think she is BEAUTIFUL!!!
5429) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1288910)
Posted 28 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We have a new niece!!! Claire Marie - 9 lbs 15 oz, born about an hour ago. Mother and baby are doing well. My brother sounded punchy on the phone. Whee!!!!!!!
5430) Message boards : Politics : Death, do you fear it? (Message 1288719)
Posted 28 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't fear death because I am not expecting it to come soon. I hope I feel the same way when my time comes.
5431) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 172 Fall Harvest (Message 1288717)
Posted 28 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning one for Team Insomnia!!!
5432) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1288715)
Posted 28 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A horse is a dangerous animal...


A horse is a horse, of course...


A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!!!
5433) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mornington Crescent (Message 1288324)
Posted 27 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I believe this move frees our friend from the Speaker's Corner.

West Ruislip
5434) Message boards : Politics : Lack of Tolerance (Message 1288323)
Posted 27 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nicely put.
5435) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1288319)
Posted 27 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A horse is a dangerous animal...
5436) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #4 (Message 1288316)
Posted 27 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"Look at the rack on that ass!"


LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hate it when a caption that funny comes up so early in a round. It demoralizes me. Very funny Pete!!!
5437) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 172 Fall Harvest (Message 1288315)
Posted 27 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Insomniac win #210.

Yah Team Insomnia!!! Go Team Go!!!


Getting sleepy but I have been up since 4.
win #215


Sleep is over-rated...
5438) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 172 Fall Harvest (Message 1288311)
Posted 27 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Insomniac win #210.

Yah Team Insomnia!!! Go Team Go!!!
5439) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP Andy Williams (Message 1288310)
Posted 27 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
5440) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1288309)
Posted 27 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There aren't enough pictures of cats jumping in boxes in this thread.

Truer words were never spoken.
5441) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 172 Fall Harvest (Message 1288201)
Posted 26 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
To the optimist, the glass is half full.
To the pessimist, the glass is half empty.
To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
To the entrepreneur the world is full of empty glasses.

To the accountant it should be 1/3 the size and made of plastic.


Pessimists are optimists compared to Ol' Pookers. Eric would say, "The glass contains toxic waste and look, the glass is cracked... see how the toxic waste is dripping down onto my new leather shoes? Must be Wednesday." Ol' Pookers claims he is neither a pessimist nor an optimist, but rather a "realist". Top that one!!!
5442) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1288057)
Posted 26 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In an earlier post when Angela said they both like fossils I thought she meant each other. LOL.
*the bat runs for his life*

(LOL!!!)

Now you listen up, bat!!! I seem to recall that a certain nocturnal flying mammal recently celebrated a "momentous" birthday... the big 5-Oh, if I correctly recollect. I'll have you know that neither Eric nor I have reached that venerable age (although I'll admit that I am close...)
5443) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 172 Fall Harvest (Message 1287604)
Posted 25 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Posting before I hit the hay.

Goodnight Vic!
5444) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1287594)
Posted 25 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think satire is exempt from copy right laws, but I suppose I should ask one of the many legal eagles around here. Hey Brad? Can I use this picture?
5445) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 172 Fall Harvest (Message 1287591)
Posted 25 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Blurf!!!
5446) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For Ian (Message 1287590)
Posted 25 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

You are not alone, my friend...
5447) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Another feline passing (Message 1287589)
Posted 25 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you peace and well knowing the pain you feel...
5448) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1287588)
Posted 25 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So, you were finally able to give them back to the parents and return to beardom at home?

Parent. We were babysitting for my brother's widow. But yes, we did return the children. Of course, I was scheduled to see nine different children at work today so I'm not feeling all that "child deprived".



For Angela & Eric's next raccoon video....

LOL! With your permission, I will have Eric use that picture the next time he posts a video of "my" raccoons on YouTube.



Suz and I saw the prettiest Tri-Color Cavalier today...

Forgive my ignorance, but what in the world is a "Tri-Color Cavalier"???
5449) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1287476)
Posted 24 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends! Just carving a few moments out of my lunch hour to catch up on my favorite "stories"... I see it was an all cat weekend!!! Our four kittehs give that a big meow of approval.

From last Thursday to Sunday evening, Eric and I were surrogate parents. One of my sister-in-laws went out of state on a short trip, so Eric and I zipped down to Fresno to babysit our niece and nephew. This is not the first time we have had the pleasure of having the kids for an extended weekend, but every time we do this, I am filled with enormous respect and awe for those of you who parent around the clock. Eric and I are EXHAUSTED!!!

Since we don't have children of our own, Eric and I tend to live like bears. We eat when we're hungry, we sleep when we're tired, we wash clothes when Mt Laundry looks like she is going to blow her top... Being responsible for the care and feeding of little people changes that dramatically and always makes us realize that no matter how "busy" we think we are, compared to full time parents we have all the time in the world! So our hats are off to you parents. You guys rock.

Because I like to cook, I did a whole lot of simple cooking projects with the kids, including having them make dinner for their mom when she got home Sunday night. We also played basketball and hot lava moster in the Fresno heat - thank goodness we also had access to a swimming pool there! Since Eric and I both like fossils, we took the kids to to the Fossil Discovery Center of Madera. It turns out that a 3rd grader and a 6th grader are NOT too young to discuss natural vs artificial selection and to understand, in simple terms, how fossils form, but I think the kids most enjoyed seeing fossils and replicas of animals of the Pleistocene.
5450) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us A Caption #47 (Message 1286159)
Posted 21 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello friends. Quick post before my laptop dies...

Third place Julie

Second place Uli

Third place Celt Tooth.

PM going out now...
5451) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us A Caption #47 (Message 1285841)
Posted 20 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh dear - only a handful of responses... It seems that I posted an uninspiring picture. I will pick a winner tonight. Last call for captions.
5452) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1285749)
Posted 20 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5453) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Talk like a pirate day (Message 1285747)
Posted 20 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodnight scurvy dogs everywhere!!!

Talk like a pirate day song
5454) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Talk like a pirate day (Message 1285745)
Posted 20 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hittin'? I be drinkin' lassie.


Arrrrrr, it'll be mutiny I'll be plannin' if ye don't put down yer cup.
5455) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Talk like a pirate day (Message 1285730)
Posted 20 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Argh! Captain Eric be hittin the grog mighty hard tonight, mateys!
5456) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Talk like a pirate day (Message 1285619)
Posted 19 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Shiver me timbers!!! Me raccoons be runnin all over the poop deck!
5457) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 171 Let's have a beer!! (Message 1285613)
Posted 19 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ar... make the puppy walk the plank, matey!
5458) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1285351)
Posted 19 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Egregious Eggplants!!!


(Goodnight Vic!)
5459) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1285348)
Posted 19 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, we have no bananas. We have no bananas today.
5460) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 171 Let's have a beer!! (Message 1285345)
Posted 19 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
111 minutes until I can talk like a pirate!!!
5461) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1285342)
Posted 19 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Okra for everyone!!!
5462) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1285337)
Posted 19 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gratuitous persimmon shot...
5463) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A new addition to our family (Message 1285335)
Posted 19 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Charlie and Michele!!!

Angela & Eric
5464) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us A Caption #47 (Message 1285333)
Posted 19 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win. (Skilldude, my friend, you were robbed on this one. I thought your caption was exceedingly clever.)

Ok friends, caption this!
5465) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark - continued (Message 1285065)
Posted 18 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5466) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 171 Let's have a beer!! (Message 1285064)
Posted 18 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wednesday is Talk Like A Pirate Day!!!
5467) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 171 Let's have a beer!! (Message 1285062)
Posted 18 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Team captain just checking in. Is anyone sleeping?

Sleep is over-rated. (That's our team motto, right?)
5468) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For Ian (Message 1285058)
Posted 18 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5469) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1285055)
Posted 18 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Maggie is a boy. She/he stood up on her/his hind legs this weekend and it was abundantly clear that she is a he. We have renamed her Magoo (as in Mister...)
5470) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us A Caption #47 (Message 1285052)
Posted 18 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That's not what I meant by a cup of Flower."
5471) Message boards : Cafe SETI : NFL 2012 Season (Message 1284646)
Posted 16 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric says to tell you all "Go Pack Go!"
5472) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1284644)
Posted 16 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think I missed talk like a pirate day this year. Blimey.

Arrrrrr, shiver me timbers... September 19th 'tis the day, matey. Ye haven't missed a thing.


And on another note, thank you friends for all the charming seasonal posts!!!
5473) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1283924)
Posted 15 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Rats! I know at least two of you were spoiling for a Pun War this evening, but it looks like I got home too late and with the time differences between the west coast, the midwest and the east coast, it looks like I missed my window to beat people. Perhaps some other week...

5474) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1283921)
Posted 15 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I know it is late everywhere but here, still I have to ask... are there any punsters in the house this evening?
5475) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lori's chemo story continues......... (Message 1283693)
Posted 14 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You and Lori are in our thoughts and in our hearts.

Angela & Eric
5476) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1283692)
Posted 14 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Autumn


WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5477) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1283475)
Posted 14 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy Halloween, Vic!
5478) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1283473)
Posted 14 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

In raccoons we trust.
5479) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1283472)
Posted 14 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thought I'd get some Google pics of live Opossoms having fun -

Aw!!!!!! (Opossums are, I am sorry to report, quite stupid. I enjoy having them around though. They like birdseed, in case you were wondering...)
5480) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1283471)
Posted 14 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This is for Angela and others who love cats and Halloween...

Thank you, Vic.
5481) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1283470)
Posted 14 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
been there done that, survived and became electronics engineer


I am hoping to have one of our nieces or nephews grow up to be an electronics engineer. We have bought a whole lot of snap circuits as gifts. Hope springs eternal...
5482) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1283469)
Posted 14 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This guy came up and sniffed my shoe laces before wandering off again.

Baby skunks are adorable!!!
5483) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1283067)
Posted 13 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's so hard to find something for a nine year old!


Snap circuits!!!
5484) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mornington Crescent (Message 1283052)
Posted 13 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you! Sorry I missed this earlier. Jim just sent me a pm (Thanks!)

Ok... Strawberry Canyon Rules, opposites attract, one eyed jacks are wild, if you are a lumberjack then you're ok...

Hatton Cross

5485) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1282754)
Posted 12 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Call 1 800 C-R-I-T-T-E-R today!

5486) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1282753)
Posted 12 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No order is too big...


...or too small
5487) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1282751)
Posted 12 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, there is something for everyone. Browse our on-line catalog today!!!
5488) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1282750)
Posted 12 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
As you can see, we have seasonal merchandise. Happy Early Halloween!!!


Happy Earlier Thanksgiving!!!
5489) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1282748)
Posted 12 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hope you don't think I've forgotten Grace!!!
5490) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1282746)
Posted 12 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, are you relaxed and happy?
5491) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I learned something new (game) (Message 1282743)
Posted 12 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Does it involve elephant doo-doo?
5492) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1282739)
Posted 12 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm terribly tense and having no fun at all.....

Will my package be coming in the mail or via Fed-Ex???



Here at the Korpela Critter Shipping Company, we reserve the right to make substitutions, based on our inventory and the vagaries of supply and demand.

Your shipment will be Fed-Ex'd and your order should arrive by the start of the holiday season...

5493) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1282720)
Posted 12 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Any poster who is unable to relax and have fun here is going to receive a special package from me!!!
5494) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Something different to discuss (Message 1282523)
Posted 11 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think it is a brilliant piece of music as well!
5495) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1282521)
Posted 11 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I agree Julie. But humans are fallible, we have to allow for that, with forgiveness and tolerance on occasions.




BS



Wow Mike. If you are NEVER able to forgive or to act with tolerance, your blood pressure must be through the roof, dude!!! Seek medical attention before you stroke out, my friend.
5496) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1282357)
Posted 10 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I see the speculatron is working...


LOL Vic! Words more true were never spoken.

On a different topic, my sister has a pet deer! Apparently she has been feeding a doe over her back fence for a number of years now. My sister calls this deer, and it comes running out of the back canyon right up to my sister's back fence! Each year the doe brings a fawn or two, but the mama is the only deer who consistently comes back. The doe has a torn left ear, so she is easy to identify. My sister feeds the deer dead-headed roses, old apples that have become mushy, stale bread and other "treats" like that. I'll try to snap a picture the next time I visit.

I can't believe my sister, who teases me incessantly about feeding raccoons, has kept this secret from me for so long!!! I also don't know why she finally decided to let me meet this deer last weekend.

Critter feeding - nature or nurture?
5497) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I learned something new (game) (Message 1282354)
Posted 10 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
John, that is exactly right! And you even scored bonus points.

(Lunch hour pm going out to John now...)
5498) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1282108)
Posted 10 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5499) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1282100)
Posted 10 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
<Good voice mode ON>

So that's what it's all about .... the good and the bad, but all I can say is ...

<Bad voice mode OFF>



No, no Sir John! This is what it is all about!!!
5500) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1282092)
Posted 10 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh my. Is it my imagination, or is this thread inhabited by an awful lot of incorrigible boys?

(Don't you ever change now!)
5501) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What are you listening to this morning? (Message 1282090)
Posted 10 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not only am I listening to it, I also dedicate it to all of us doing this here outlaw bit.


LOL! Yee-haw, cowboy!
5502) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us A Caption #47 (Message 1282085)
Posted 10 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've had it with all your cheeky responses!!!
5503) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I learned something new (game) (Message 1282053)
Posted 9 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.

A male raccoon is called a _________, a female raccoon is called a ___________ and a baby raccoon is called a ______________.

(You all knew I would post something raccoon related, didn't you?!!!)
5504) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1282040)
Posted 9 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've been a bad, bad girl!!!

Mark Sattler, you must have been laughing to the point of near incontinence!!!

I would like to say here and now that moderation is a very, very, very difficult task. We don't all see things the same way and that is perfectly ok. What is inappropriate to one person is permissible to another, and that is why seti has a team of moderators. Bottom line is, the system works and NOBODY gets special considerations based on her marital status!!!

Thank you, ALL moderators, for the work that you do every day. I appreciate your efforts very much. You are ALL very special, gifted and talented individuals. Thank you for your on-going service to this project.
5505) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1281920)
Posted 9 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My friends, I need to step away for a while.
5506) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XV - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe (Message 1281919)
Posted 9 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Truth be told Rob, I found the hamsters on the wheel to be rather upsetting. I was unsure they were able to get off, until I saw one hop off at the end. It seemed ok when it got off the wheel, so maybe hamsters react differently to spinning than people do.

The comments about eating hamsters and children, however, were hilarious! I also loved the dog in grandma's car, the dog with the skunk, the dog who ate the cat treats and the dog in the pink wig! The LOL cat with the caption forming was a scream.

I'm not sure at what point it was perceived that things were "insane".
5507) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Oweeeeeeez....bees? Not BEES!?!?!? (Message 1281793)
Posted 9 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Working Bee


They are beautiful, aren't they?
5508) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 2012 - The Garden's Revenge (Message 1281768)
Posted 9 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
When Mom and I grew a garden We grew zucchini and yellow crook neck squash, on the squash I had to scrub them with a potato brush to get rid of the prickly little hairs, then they were sliced thinly and cooked in some tap water and then She or I added butter and pepper to them, as to the zucchini I think We did the same, except I think We omitted the pepper and the butter and instead used tomato sauce or something, but it's been so long, only the squash comes through clearly as I cooked that a lot.

It sounds like you have some nice memories of gardening and cooking with your mom, Vic. My dad always had a beautiful vegetable garden and I learned a lot from watching him work in it. Every spring when I plant my vegetables I hear my father's voice in my head telling me how to plant things. Whenever my nieces and nephews come over, I try to involve them in gardening when I can. My little nephew Nicolas, age 22 months, "helped" me pick string beans last weekend.
5509) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 2012 - The Garden's Revenge (Message 1281764)
Posted 9 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mystery zucchini - please help me identify...


Mystery solved!

I saw a bin of these squash at the farmer's market today and I asked the vendor what it was. She said it was a Crostata Romanesco Zucchini.

These zucchini make great savory baked dishes and they are fantastic thinly sliced and sauteed.
5510) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I learned something new (game) (Message 1281758)
Posted 9 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok Simonator, I'll take your use of the words "gassing around" to be a clue.

Bananas are picked very green and very unripe because in that state they can be shipped long distances more easily without bruising. They are kept in very carefully controlled environments and eventually ethylene gas is used to ripen them.

(I read a really interesting book this year entitled Banana: The Fate Of The Fruit That Changed The World. If you are interested in botany, geo-political issues and human nature, this book is for you!)
5511) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Oweeeeeeez....bees? Not BEES!?!?!? (Message 1281727)
Posted 9 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think yellow jackets eat other insects. Not exactly sure. If they eat mosquitoes and flies, then they are welcome in my garden.

Yellow jackets are pests at picnics and barbecues, but I've found that giving them their own small piece of meat (a tablespoon or so) off to the side of the backyard party sometimes helps to keep them off of the foods I'm trying to serve to my guests. I often serve the yellow jackets their meat on a big yellow paper plate. I've heard that flies are attracted to yellow, so I gamble that wasps might be too. Not sure if they are though.
5512) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Oweeeeeeez....bees? Not BEES!?!?!? (Message 1281707)
Posted 8 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bees are fuzzy, I think, and wasps are smooth.

I swooped over an outdoor pet dish once, years ago, wearing a long nightgown. I did not realize that there was a carnivorous little yellow jacket in that pet dish enjoying some tasty cat food. I somehow managed to get a yellow jacket caught in my nightgown. It seems they can sting more than once. Not pleasant!

Once the welts stopped hurting and just started itching, I found that a poultice of baking soda helped a little.

Hope you feel better real soon.
5513) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I learned something new (game) (Message 1281692)
Posted 8 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The Cavendish is a genetic clone? They are all exactly the same.
5514) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Oweeeeeeez....bees? Not BEES!?!?!? (Message 1281691)
Posted 8 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I posted this one a few weeks ago when our Pun War involved Class Insecta, but given Mark's unfortunate accident, I thought I'd repost it for appreciation by a larger audience.

Buzz Buzz Buzz
5515) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For Ian (Message 1281679)
Posted 8 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5516) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Oweeeeeeez....bees? Not BEES!?!?!? (Message 1281630)
Posted 8 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Perhaps some on and off applications of ice will reduce the swelling?

Sorry to hear you got stung. Fascinated to hear that honeybees have underground hives in Wisconsin! I wonder if that is because it is so much more cold up there than out here. In our area we have wasps that nest underground (and everywhere else), but the honeybees seem to build their hives in trees (or in structures provided by beekeepers.)
5517) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 2012 - The Garden's Revenge (Message 1281491)
Posted 8 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is that your garden?!!! It is beautiful!!!
5518) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1281475)
Posted 8 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The couple hit it off after that first dinner date...

5519) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1281303)
Posted 8 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5520) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 171 Let's have a beer!! (Message 1281245)
Posted 8 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning! And I've this to say
Five more hours of Poet's Day!!!
5521) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Monday!!! (Message 1281214)
Posted 7 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Eric and I wish you a very happy birthday!!!
5522) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 171 Let's have a beer!! (Message 1281111)
Posted 7 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
ganar انتصر gewinnen выиграть


Translate, please!!!
LOL
I´m winning!


win Win WIN WINNING
Spanish Arabic dutch Russian


I'mway inningway
(Pig Latin)
5523) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1280153)
Posted 5 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5524) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1280151)
Posted 5 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bird Eats Butterfly


Raccoon Eats Bird
5525) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1280140)
Posted 5 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Raccoons could eat meer cats for lunch, and then look around for more!
5526) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mornington Crescent (Message 1280138)
Posted 5 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mudchute

Oooooooooooooooh that means I get the steal!!!

Charing Cross
5527) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 170 – Let’s all cheer for needle day! (Message 1280137)
Posted 5 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning before Bed.
Angela, if post after me, watch your fingers.

And the esteemed Captain of Team Insomnia is down for the count.
(I typed that as softly as I could.)
5528) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1279533)
Posted 3 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5529) Message boards : Politics : Free speech (Message 1279505)
Posted 3 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gray, gray... I see only gray.

Yes here in the USA we have free speech, but I rarely post my views in Politics because I fear repercussion. Eric makes his living off of publicly funded grants, especially for his non-seti projects. In the current rabid political climate we have in this country, it would not take much for me to offend some people. This is a very public place. I fear some idiot senator on some powerful committee getting wind of my social, religious or political leanings and somehow being biased against my husband.

I know this sounds silly, but I fear it none the less. Yes I may legally have free speech, but if you want to know what I REALLY think, you will have to get to know me on a more personal level.
5530) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1279386)
Posted 2 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, don't want to come across one of these...



Go Bears!
5531) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1279114)
Posted 2 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The irrational critter-lovin' person in me is thinking "Aaaaawwwwwwwwww"!

(A teeny, tiny, slightly more rational part of me is thinking, "Yikes! You have mice at work?!!! Can you say Hantavirus?!!!"
5532) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What are you listening to this morning? (Message 1279002)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Intergalatic

Intergalactic Planetary WHAT???!!!!!!!!!!!

"Intergalactic" and "planetary" are both adjectives. Adjectives are traditionally followed by nouns.

I have half a mind to write those Beastie Boys a strongly worded letter!
5533) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What are you listening to this morning? (Message 1278914)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The hip hop station on the radio - the perfect musical complement to a baking marathon!
5534) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1278717)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


It was a great battle and I sure had fun tonight!

Goodnight Punsters!!!!!
5535) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1278715)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
All HAIL to the WAREWOLF...

(Psssst Vic! Don't you mean the DIRE WOLF?)





Oooooooooooooh a slow song! Now where did Ol' Pookers go?!!!

Darwin's Revolution - Evolution
5536) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1278712)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gentlemen, it is time we got this coronation party started!

Gitarzan
5537) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1278708)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well my friends, as Paul the ApFOSSIL once said, "Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind."

You boys have forced me to renew my mind again and again and again this evening to keep up with you. Alas, I am out of puns.

Sorry Vic, but I have to call it....

I hereby declare James our new Pun King. Congratulations Jim!!!

5538) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1278701)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You know, if one of you boys beats me, I'm going to be a MEGALOSAURUS loser!!!

If I loose Ill be a suarass.

I can't CERATOPS that!
5539) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1278699)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You know, if one of you boys beats me, I'm going to be a MEGALOSAUR loser!!!
5540) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1278693)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sigh... end of an ERA.
5541) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1278691)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, but please know that I will fight you with whatever I've got... SABER TOOTH and nail.

Well We can't let You FLAKE out any...

Oh please! I haven't flaked out in AGES.
5542) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1278687)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, but please know that I will fight you with whatever I've got... SABER TOOTH and nail.
5543) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1278684)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
O please get a LIFE.


You are making a MAMMOTH mistake trying to beat me.
5544) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1278682)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This KINGDOM will never be yours!!! It will always be my DOMAIN.
5545) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1278679)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, I ORDER you to stand down!
5546) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1278677)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Jim, you are a punning GENUS!!!


I didnt fall far from the TREE.


Yes, you must come from an impressive FAMILY.
5547) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1278673)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Jim, you are a punning GENUS!!!
5548) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1278670)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So are Ya going to devolve into HEIDELBERG Man?

No, nothing that PRIMITIVE.

Well as a certain character said UNGA BUNGA...


Dude, that pun was so bad it was EPOCH!
5549) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1278665)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
As long as we dont MUTATE from the topic.

Yeah, I hate when that happens. It is worse than stepping in SPECIES!
5550) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1278663)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So are Ya going to devolve into HEIDELBERG Man?

No, nothing that PRIMITIVE.
5551) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1278661)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
turning into a butterfly are we.

No, just struggling with the GENERATION of puns for this topic...
5552) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1278658)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've No idea, maybe their EXTINCT for tonight...

Great! I'll take all their puns. MORPH for me!!!
5553) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1278655)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Where are Dave I and Dave II tonight? Out taking a LEAKEY?
5554) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1278653)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gorilla warfare is fine, just know that I will NATURAL(ly) be SELECTED as the winner.
5555) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1278649)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Perhaps so, but in the end DA(r)WIN will be mine!!!
5556) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1278646)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think you will find that at punning, I am the FITTEST... there for I shall SURVIVE!
5557) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1278643)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL! Then they shouldn't SCOPES out this thread!
5558) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1278639)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Let's just let a topic evolve.
5559) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Sigh... (Message 1278637)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
For Ulibelle!
5560) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I learned something new (game) (Message 1278636)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh! Oh! Oh! It has to be this:

Worcestershire sauce!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I think it is made from fermented anchovies...)
5561) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1278634)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Excellent. Prepare to lose.
5562) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1278627)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, Jim may have fallen asleep...

I will check back in about half an hour to see if anybody is up for some pun-times.
5563) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I learned something new (game) (Message 1278624)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Salami or some other kind of sausage?

I don't think I can rest until I know the answer!!!!
(Oh who am I kidding? As a member of Team Insomnia, I never rest.)
5564) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I learned something new (game) (Message 1278622)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cured ham?

I had that in mind too Ang, but salt does a nasty number on anything.
I bet you, Eric will know the answer.

Maybe, but he is already asleep!
5565) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I learned something new (game) (Message 1278620)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mincemeat?

Argh!!!! This game is making me crazy!!!
(I LOVE IT!!!)
5566) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1278616)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I heard a rumor that Jim does not have to work tonight...

Are there any punsters in the house this evening?
5567) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I learned something new (game) (Message 1278613)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cured ham?
5568) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Are followers of Fahion Crazy (Message 1278551)
Posted 1 Sep 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If any of them are reading, i have for sale the Simonator branded wooden spoon.



Very limited edition, unique and stylish wooden spoon, bring a touch of fashion to the otherwise mundane job of stirring food.

Yours for a very reasonable £225, don't delay, numbers are limited and could sell out very fast.

Until i get some more spoons and another Sharpie!



LOL! I shall keep this in mind if I ever re-do my kitchen!!!
5569) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I learned something new (game) (Message 1278364)
Posted 31 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Kimchi?
5570) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1278359)
Posted 31 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy POETS day people:)



Hello Julie, Queen of Poets
You have skill and all here know it
My rhymes, well they're just for laughs
Your poems grace a different path.
5571) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 170 – Let’s all cheer for needle day! (Message 1278317)
Posted 31 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Can't let go!


You can't let go? Oh what a crime!
And me? I cannot give up rhyme...
Can't keep these verses from my head
I want to rhyme on EVERY thread!
5572) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1278314)
Posted 31 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy POETS Day to all out here.
But, I need a beer here, to sit and stare.
It looks like Angela is in rhyming mood,
which, for me, is far too good.



I'm ALWAYS in a rhyming mood!
I eat up word games like they're food
I'll pop in here throughout the day
And see if Poets want to play...
5573) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1278262)
Posted 31 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That little vid was Oh, so cute!
Just like our smallest dog a while ago.
Now, we are on POETS Day, and I cannot keep up,
without the aid of a glass or tree of the good stuff.


Hi there John, come join the fray
See what you've done with "Poet's Day"?!!!
I should be busy doing stuff,
Instead I'm penning rhymes so rough!
I'm REALLY going upstairs now,
But I'll be back, if fates allow.

Happy Poet's Day everyone!!!!!!!!!!!
5574) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1278254)
Posted 31 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now then Ang
I know the score
Up all night, and game for more
But wildlife Wardens
Need their snooze
Can't be doing with the booze

Raccoons always need to be fed
Kitties need a pat on the head
A busy life you do so lead
But you is a winner
That I do concede!



I'll admit I'm feeling punchy
Sure I'll fall asleep by lunchy...
I assure you I'm cold sober
But Benadryl could win me over...
All raccoons here are well fed
I've patted all the kitty heads
I guess I'll eat some breakfast now
And rhyme some later, after chow...



5575) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1278244)
Posted 31 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry to hear you cannot stay
I most enjoy our Poet's Day
"Hi" to Joanne, I hope you both find
Some time this week to just unwind.
5576) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1278238)
Posted 31 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy Poet's Day back atcha!!!

Gosh you iz an early bird, after being up in the small hours!


Come on Chris, you know the game
Insomnia's my FAVORITE game!!!
Last night I barely slept a wink
My brain kept buzzing - think, think, think
I tossed and turned then shouted, "Rats!"
This afternoon I'll nap with cats...


Edit: Whoops! That first line was supposed to be
"Come on Chris, you know the name"

I must be tired...
5577) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1278232)
Posted 31 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


. . . happy poEt's day

'ello to each of you my friends - joanne & i saying 'ello

from JL [R.I.P.]

http://youtu.be/EqP3wT5lpa4





Hi there Richard, welcome back!!!
We've missed your smile along this track
We hope you are around to stay
And play a while on Poet's Day.
5578) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Wanna buy a 36yo computer for only $126,000? (Message 1278225)
Posted 31 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL! Whenever we go to garage sales, Eric always laughingly says he's looking for an Apple I for his collection.
5579) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1278217)
Posted 31 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm almost loaded and ready now
With delicious food, if you're a cow
I'm off to Kansas, yes it's true
To a place where God lost His overshoes

Happy Poet's Day!

____________
Living the dream, another day in paradise!



Mornin' cowboy - Live that dream!
No job's as good as it may seem
Is that the milk cows I hear say,
"Bring us our food without delay!!!"?

Happy Poet's Day back atcha!!!
5580) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1278029)
Posted 31 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Do you think Monday will notice that I've been here?
Don't tell him, ok?


Goodnight friends!
5581) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 170 – Let’s all cheer for needle day! (Message 1278026)
Posted 31 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5582) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1278023)
Posted 31 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5583) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1278014)
Posted 31 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5584) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1278010)
Posted 31 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5585) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Have a go at me............OK. (Message 1278001)
Posted 31 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Go to bed



Go directly to bed



Do not pass go



Do not collect $200
5586) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1277992)
Posted 31 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5587) Message boards : Cafe SETI : First words to a visitng alien? (Message 1277989)
Posted 31 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

At last!!! The mother ship has arrived to take me home!!!
5588) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Have a go at me............OK. (Message 1277988)
Posted 31 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Kitty hint...
5589) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 170 – Let’s all cheer for needle day! (Message 1277983)
Posted 31 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hectic Monday at work. Found a new Owl, Bio team has to survey new area, some trees need to come down, My Paleontologists is late and I have a crew that want to trench, purchasing and transportation coordinator are MIA. Happy Monday!


LOL!!!!!! Was it a spotted owl?!!! Was it a naturally occurring owl, or do you suspect "eco-terrorism"? Should I paint a sign and come picket your development right now? Strap myself to a tree perhaps, dressed as a raccoon?

Where are you developing that there might be fossiliferous remains? Are you near Madeira on this project? I've heard the paleontology inspectors are practically busy around the clock in that area!!! Eric and I stopped at the fossil museum in there earlier in the year and we had a wonderful time.
5590) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1277979)
Posted 31 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy wake up


YouTube claims that 116 people didn't "like" that?!!!! I am saddened to hear that there are 116 people in the world who cannot be charmed by a puppy. What a shame!
5591) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1275970)
Posted 26 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5592) Message boards : Cafe SETI : First words to a visitng alien? (Message 1275967)
Posted 26 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How did you get here?

Now THAT is a very good question!!!
5593) Message boards : Cafe SETI : US astronaut Neil Armstrong dies (Message 1275966)
Posted 26 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
5594) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1275552)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Tell him the last preseason game in next Thursday at 6:00pm CST.
Or link him to Cheesehead Central.., Packers.com


I know for certain Eric will miss that game, but thank you for the link. I'll make sure he knows about it.
5595) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1275419)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Good story...
I happen to know he be a Packer cheesehead type too.
Any chance you have a picture of him wearing the appropriate headgear?

(His fellow Wisconsinite wants to know....LOL.)


[northern Wisconsin woods accent]Golly gosh der Mark, Eric did usta have wunnah dem der cheese hats, dontchaknow...[/northern Wisconsin woods accent]

I think Eric gave his cheese hat to my brother Mark when Mark started working for Kraft. I told Eric that the stuff Mark would be peddling would only be "cheese" in the loosest definition of that word, but Eric insisted that Mark had to have a cheese hat.

I'll try to get Ol' Pookers to buy another hat the next time we are in Wisconsin, or else I'll just order one on-line and surprise him with it. Eric tries to watch all the Packer, Badger and Cal Bears football games that he can. He was sad to learn that he missed a Packer pre-season game last Thursday.

Go Pack Go!
Go Badgers!
Go Bears!
5596) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1275204)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Genetically Modified Raccoon!!!
5597) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1275199)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Shine Little Glow Worm, Glimmer, Glimmer...

Goodnight Punsters!!!
5598) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1275189)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Or would you prefer dancing to

...a song with a tempo that is more slow?
5599) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1275185)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric my love, may I have this dance?

Flight of the Bumblebee
5600) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1275184)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you dear... you can watch your reruns of FIREFLY now. I know that missing that show tonight made you mad as a..... (Nah! Too easy!!!!)


So darling, we usually end a pun war with a coronation party complete with a little theme related music, but after the celebration is over I promise I'll HOPPER right into bed and check it out for NIGHT CRAWLERS!

My loyal subjects, let the celebration begin...
5601) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1275181)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, I MAYFLY upstairs and drop some hints for you, just to keep you in the game.
5602) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1275179)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Darn! I was hoping you would DRONE on and on for another hour or so.
5603) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1275177)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I taught here everything I know about puns. I'm her teacher and she's my best PUPA.

Oh please! I was an accomplished punster well before you were even old enough to read LARVAL Comics!!!
5604) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1275174)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dear, your COCOONS are out the the back yard looking for grapes.

Ok. I'll go feed them. And while I'm gone I'll leave you all with this interesting bit of celebrity pun trivia...

Tom Cruise never won a pun war, but KATYDID!!!
5605) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1275171)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh please! What are you smoking from that ROACH clip?!!!!!
5606) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1275169)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Don't finish that beer dear! It MILLIPEDE your ability to play.
5607) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1275167)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh sweetie, when you get all riled up like this you look so dashing! I wish everyone could see how ZAPPER you look right now in your YELLOWJACKET.
5608) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1275163)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I do intend to SQUASH you all...
5609) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1275160)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh HONEYBEE serious! I'm not even a TSETSE bit worried about losing.
5610) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1275158)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Where are our British friends tonight? Out playing CRICKET?
5611) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1275153)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Doesn't matter. When the month is over I will be MONARCH of this realm.

We live in a democracy dear, and your TERMITE be over soon!
5612) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1275150)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ah yes, It's caterpillar vs caterpillar tonight...

Hey Vic, give me a HIVE five!!!
5613) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1275148)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Doesn't matter. I've got so many puns I could keep this up all MOTH!
5614) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1275146)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think WEEVIL just have to see about that.
5615) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1275143)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, I just MITE let you think that...
5616) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1275140)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I shall fly away while you GRUB for puns...
5617) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1275138)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I see you as no threat to my crown, little PEST!
5618) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1275135)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well you won't BEE doing that any time soon.
5619) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1275133)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Perhaps you would prefer to CRAWL home to your mama?
5620) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1275131)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think I'll stick around and BUG you...
5621) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1275126)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, tonight while you are losing, you might have a LOUSY time...
5622) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1275124)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Time to contact your Nitpicker's Anonymous sponsor, dear?
5623) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1275119)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I let you demonstrate humility on a daily basis. I think that's all I need to know.


Oh no he di'int!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5624) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1275118)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So have Ya ever said to Him "Whats up Doc"? ;) A line straight out of Bugs Bunny...

No, but one day a few years ago Eric went to a Cal football game with one of my brothers and another friend - all proud Berkeley graduates. Those three "geniuses", a scientist, a medical doctor and an attorney, sat their sorry behinds on stadium bleachers through 4 quarters of pouring rain - only to see Cal lose. On that day I suggested that ALL THREE OF THEM return their diplomas to the university, because clearly their actions proved that they were unworthy of "all the rights and privileges appertaining thereto.”
5625) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1275108)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Setizens of Pun Land, it is my honor to announce that we will have a distinguished visitor playing with us this evening. Ol' Pookers had deigned to join me in my pun revels for the evening.

In my quest to share my love of the English language with all, I shall be delighted to first teach my husband the full meaning of humility!!!!!

Eric and I will both log on a little after 8pm PST and we hope that many players will join us this evening.

Eric, my love, prepare to die.
5626) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1275105)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What threw Me wasn't the icon, It was Wisconsin and Berkeley paired together. But what do I know?


Eric grew up in northern Wisconsin. He earned his bachelor's degree at UW Madison with a double major in physics and astronomy, and then he moved out to Berkeley for graduate work. Lucky for me, we ended up in a social group together! Ol' Pookers ended up finding himself a wife and a little bit later he earned his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in Astronomy. Best to have your priorities straight, don't you think? When I first met Eric's thesis chair the man snarled at me and said, "So YOU'RE the reason he hasn't been getting any work done lately." I'd never been so flattered in my life!!!

Anyway, Eric is a fan of both football teams, but I think he is more partial to the Badgers than to the Bears.
5627) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1275085)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lovely spider. Very Halloween!!! Cute canoe shot.

Eric is on Facebook, but I have decided not to be. Feel free to friend him if you wish. Just reference Seti if you think he might not know who you are. For the most part, Eric's Facebook posts are hilarious!!!
5628) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Tony Scott dead (Message 1273871)
Posted 22 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
5629) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us A Caption #47 (Message 1273869)
Posted 22 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

What part of MAMA'S BOY do you not understand?
5630) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Eric's Latest Blog... (Message 1273865)
Posted 22 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I thought it something todo with the Compost Bins.


LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5631) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Eric's Latest Blog... (Message 1273857)
Posted 22 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ahhh... so this is were you guys have been hiding! I was all alone over at the Seti blog posts:)

OK, so I hit the Huffington link and read the comments... Now I'm totally confused about Eric's take on the whole "extinction" thing:)

But really, I'm dying to know: why is the earthworm on that list?



The earthworm is on the list to highlight the human fetal heartbeat fact.

Whether or not something has a discernible heartbeat at any age is besides the point in the philosophical argument regarding whether human life "begins" at conception or at some point later in development.
5632) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1273853)
Posted 22 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The last three pictures are "very Halloween"!!! Do you think that if I show them to Eric he will let me decorate early this year?
5633) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I gots me a lemon drop......... (Message 1273606)
Posted 21 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have no idea what this thread is about. I just heard something about lemon drops possibly being served...

5634) Message boards : Cafe SETI : William Windom(StarTrek Fame) is dead @ 88 (Message 1273603)
Posted 21 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
5635) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Phyllis Diller dead at 95 (Message 1273488)
Posted 20 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
5636) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1273486)
Posted 20 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL Chris! I am flattered!!!
5637) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 2012 - The Garden's Revenge (Message 1273134)
Posted 20 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I make a decent zucchini cake, but sometimes to get my nieces or nephews to try it I have to call it "Auntie Angela's Cake Of Green Mystery".

Once they decide they like it, then I tell them what is in it. It is all in how you spin it...
5638) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 2012 - The Garden's Revenge (Message 1273132)
Posted 20 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That's a mighty fine looking garden! But I'm afraid that I'm only able to identify zucchini after it's been battered and fried.


Or baked into a cake?
5639) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1273129)
Posted 19 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The majestic, but timid, Nebraska Hickory Moose camouflages itself to look like a downed tree.


LOL!
5640) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1273123)
Posted 19 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My new garden sign...
5641) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 2012 - The Garden's Revenge (Message 1273121)
Posted 19 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mystery zucchini - please help me identify...

This zucchini started as a tiny nursery plant and I threw away the tag.
It grows the most delicious zucchini I've every planted!
The leaves are huge. The squash are ridged. Is it some sort of heirloom?
Can anyone identify this one for me?
I want to plant the same variety next year.




Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!!!



Make sure you eat all your vegetables!!!
5642) Message boards : Cafe SETI : First words to a visitng alien? (Message 1273079)
Posted 19 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Good one Vic!!! Very funny!!!
5643) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1273071)
Posted 19 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Then here's a picture for Ya Angela...


Ok, I'll admit to being a shameless critter-feeder, but I draw the line at feeding Little Red to the Big Bad Wolf!!! Besides, I'm more of a cat person...
5644) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1273039)
Posted 19 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just catching up on lambs and bears and gorillas, oh my!

Thank you for all the charming posts.
5645) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Eric's Latest Blog... (Message 1272330)
Posted 17 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric's Latest Huff-Post Blog

I am enormously proud of 'Ol Pookers and I think his latest blog is excellent, but my friends if this one upsets you, please don't kill the messenger!!!!!!
5646) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW 169 - Dog Days of August (Message 1271362)
Posted 14 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Belated (very belated) congratulations on your win, Donald!
5647) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us A Caption #47 (Message 1271027)
Posted 13 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Make peace with your maker, Mickey.
5648) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1270953)
Posted 12 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Raccoon Fanciers

Marcel, Donna and Maggie came out mid-day to play... and play... and play... and play... and play some more. Around noon they presumably took a little raccoon nap under the deck, then they came out around 2pm and played some more.

Caution: This link contains explicit video footage of raccoon babies "wrasslin' & rollin' & bitin' & chewin' " on one another, and altogether having a grand time. They play just like kittens, except that kittens don't tear up my ground cover that much. Eric has accused me of planting "raccoon nip" in our backyard.

Enjoy!

Eric calls this video Too Many Fermented Plums!!!
5649) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #4 (Message 1270248)
Posted 11 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5650) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark - continued (Message 1270050)
Posted 10 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Don't worry about the grass, it will keep growing even when you leave it alone. Take good care and don't push too hard.


Got that, and vacuum cleaning/dusting the house covered - each Wednesday a high speed lawn mowing guy cuts the front and rear lawns (just leaves me minor tidying), and Thursday's we have a lady come around for thee rest. Place looks better, and would improve more if we can persuade a carpet deep cleaner to visit. That will be soon, we hope.

As posted a few times - POETS Day will be celebrated at noon with a white wine or Landlord and a good bar meal.



Our John will be eating a scone*
Whilst somebody else does the lawn
His back won't be busting
With cleaning and dusting
He's resting from dusk until dawn!

Happy POETS Day, dear friend!!!


*scone: A note to my fellow Americans. In that funny English they speak across the pond, "scone" actually rhymes with "lawn" and "dawn", so I think my limerick does work.

*scone: A note to my English friends - over here "scone" rhymes with "stone", which is about how heavy our pastries feel. Truth be told, I like your style better. Shhhhhhhhhhhh! Don't tell my fellow countrymen.
5651) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1269340)
Posted 9 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You still got your skunk?

We have three regular skunk visitors these days.
5652) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1269087)
Posted 8 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I wouldn't know for I have seen no pictures from when they were little.

It is difficult to judge growth patterns from pictures. The earliest pictures I posted were taken from inside the house, as Gigi and the babies were all too afraid of us to get close back then. (As you can see from the video, proximity to great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandma is no longer a problem for the babies.) The babies are much bigger though.

We haven't seen Gigi since we got back from our trip, although she may still spend the day under our deck. We assume she has weaned the babies - earlier than we have seen other raccoon mothers do, but the babies seem to be healthy and growing well despite this.
5653) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1268920)
Posted 8 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If you feed them, they will come...

Dinner-time at the Hotel Korpela
5654) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1268918)
Posted 8 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
See how my babies have grown?


Left to right - Marcel, Donna and Maggie


Donna and Maggie enjoy a little "girl talk". Some may call it "gossip", but they prefer to call it "news". It is all in how you spin it, right?
5655) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I miss Pluto! (Message 1268914)
Posted 8 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm glad that it is gone!!! Let this be a lesson to all the other "planets"!!!
5656) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Sir Bernard Lovell Dies aged 98 (Message 1268905)
Posted 8 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
5657) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mornington Crescent (Message 1268903)
Posted 8 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Remember please that a mis-spelling gives the 13th poster after the incident a chance to steal. Ooooooooh!!! I wonder who that will be???!!!
5658) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Marvin Hamlisch Dead at 67 (Message 1268901)
Posted 8 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
5659) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1268899)
Posted 8 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nice Grace series, Vic.
5660) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1268610)
Posted 7 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


At our house, you really can't tell which critter might be saying this...
5661) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mornington Crescent (Message 1267680)
Posted 4 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
John, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

Don't you see that such a play puts leads directly to the QE II, which means that I am forced to play the following...

The Chunnel to St Pancras

(Thanks a lot John. Now things are back on THEIR side of the pond!!!)
5662) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mornington Crescent (Message 1267637)
Posted 4 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The yanks are playing a mean hand here...

Palm Bay


Thank you. I'm afraid that I am working off an old rule book my mother-in-law's neighbor's sister's husband gave her one year for a birthday present. Family history has it that the rule book came from a garage sale the heirs of the elderly Widow Manchester held upon their mum's demise. Turns out the widow's mother was half British on her father's side. I should have known by the amazing gardening skills the widow had. Her yard was always ablaze in the most amazing blooms and she would wander about it deadheading things and humming the melodies to "God Save The Queen" and "Rule Britannia". Of course at three pm on the dot, she always stopped to put up the kettle for a spot of tea. I'm afraid her scones left much to be desired, as did the widow's cooking in general. I'm sorry, but there are other ways to season food besides a bit of salt and some dusty old cracked pepper. Liked to boil her meats, she did. Had three daughters, you know. A doctor, a lawyer and an Indian chief. Of course the Indian Chief part was by marriage. Anyhoo... the rule book publication date is altogether illegible on those yellowed old leaves of paper, but the leather is green and looks to be of good quality. You know the edition, right? The green one.

Central Park
5663) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1267418)
Posted 4 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodnight punsters. Maybe next week...
5664) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mornington Crescent (Message 1267416)
Posted 4 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Brilliant move! You have forced my hand...

Cocoa Beach!
5665) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Kitty song..... (Message 1267414)
Posted 4 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The kitty called, and I was there.
Their kitty call I could not dare.

Been too long since rodeo.........
\Been far too many places I should not go.


Thank you. I forgot it was Poet's Day...

Ahem...

The Kittyman is up too late
The moderators are irate

I think it's time that someone said,
"Put down the glass and go to bed!!!"

5666) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Funny Answering Machine Messages (Message 1267412)
Posted 4 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


Dave 2, you really need to use that first one!!!
5667) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Top Ten Reasons... (Message 1267407)
Posted 4 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am sooooo happy to have a boy and not a girl. :-)

You have about a 50/50 chance of having a daughter next time around. Here's hoping!!!
5668) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1267401)
Posted 4 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hiya Mark. Sorry to hear that you are not in a good place tonight. I wish you well, my friend.
5669) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1267396)
Posted 4 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Do we have any punsters in the house tonight?
5670) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1267366)
Posted 4 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Friends,

I need to help a neighbor with something right now and I will be gone for 30 to 40 minutes. Start without me if you want. I'll be back when I can.

Angela
5671) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Top Ten Reasons... (Message 1267113)
Posted 3 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hear they have some of those in Arizona and New Mexico, too. Lots of options for exploring that may not involve horses.


Hey! I don't want my sweet and innocent nieces exploring "dudes" at a dude ranch either!!!
5672) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us A Caption #47 (Message 1267111)
Posted 3 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Subtle hint about the chromosome make-up of some of our "female" gold medalists?
5673) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For Ian (Message 1266918)
Posted 3 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5674) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1266916)
Posted 3 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Home at last...


Who is wearing my crown. I intend to regain it tomorrow evening.
5675) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark - continued (Message 1266914)
Posted 3 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'd like to add a "Woohoo" for everyone's health improving :)


+1
5676) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Top Ten Reasons... (Message 1266913)
Posted 3 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If it had been me at thirteen, we would probably have gone on a long walk. 7 days at 10+ miles a day.



LOL! I live in fear of a trip like that.

Actually, I most fear some niece picking a Dude Ranch in the middle of Montana. I have had some very bad horse experiences and I have no intention of ever getting on one of those unruly beasts again!!!
5677) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Top Ten Reasons... (Message 1266867)
Posted 2 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have always thought of Dizknee land/world/park to be a rather childish sort of place and knot some where i would choose to go,
But with this kind of view. it may be bear able.
Though i will not say which of the bears.
Or what could be done.


Disney is, in fact, for the young. I was taken to Disneyland in Los Angeles as a child and it was a great trip. Disney as an adult is a little less exciting.

Eric and I were unable to have children of our own. While this situation has its inherent sad aspects, it does result in us having the time and a little extra cash to spoil our nieces and nephews rotten. When each niece or nephew turns 13, we send him or her a guide book covering the USA and associated territories. We let the child choose a trip anywhere he or she wants to go and do whatever activities he or she would like to do. The 13 year old is basically in charge of planning all the activities. We just make the reservations and pay the bills.

Our only rules for the trip are:

1. The niece or nephew cannot pick the same place an older one has gone before. (Hey, it's a big country - this is hardly as limiting as it might sound!!!!)
2. We reserve the right to veto any activity we feel might be dangerous or that might not be appropriate for a 13 year old (Yes, Auntie Angela is an over-protective worry-wart.)
3. We reserve the right to insert educational activities into the trip, should they arise ...and surprise, surprise... they ALWAYS do! (Yes, Auntie Angela is basically an educator and frankly so is Uncle Eric. There really is no getting around that aspect of both of our personalities.)
4. No "Daisy Duke shorts" or exposed navels unless one is poolside or beach-side (Ok, ok... so Auntie Angela is also a prude. Now you all know.)

This was our sixth trip in this series of adventures. We have 12 nieces and nephews right now and #13 is due to be born in September, so we will be taking a few more of these trips in the next decade or so.

Truth be told, these trips are often a bit of a stretch for us. They often involve places and activities we probably would not choose on our own, but we want to share in whatever the niece or nephew is passionate about at 13. We always end up learning quite a bit about unfamiliar subjects from our 13 year old "family experts".

Our oldest niece (now in college) was (still is) a country music fan. When she turned 13 she picked Nashville and Gatlinburg Tennessee for her trip, and Eric and I learned a whole lot about country music.

The second oldest (now studying to be an auto mechanic) was (still is) a NASCAR fan. He picked seeing a NASCAR race at night at a track called "Bristol", so back we went the next year to Tennessee!!! We ended up doing additional things in the Knoxville area, and Eric and I learned a whole lot about racing from our little family expert.

We were a little worried for a while that we might never get to see anything outside of Tennessee, but the next year we were in for a surprise. The third oldest (now a senior in high school) was (still is) a budding little marine biologist, and she picked Miami and the Florida Keys. That trip has been my personal favorite so far.

Number four and number five, a pair of cousins, (both still in high school now) happened to turn 13 in the same year. We offered them separate one week trips to separate places if they chose, or a two week trip if they emailed each other and coordinated a single trip for us. Not being stupid, they went for the two week deal. They decided they wanted to go to Hawaii. Our niece (#4) liked the idea of beach life and shopping, so she chose a week on Oahu. Our nephew (#5) was (still is) interested in volcanoes, so after Oahu we spent a week on the big island of Hawaii.

Number 6, as you know, is a Disney fan, but she was also interested in space exploration. Consequently she chose Orlando and also to the Space Coast for her trip.

Number 7 turns 13 next summer. She is already an accomplished thespian and even though we haven't sent her the USA guidebook yet, she has already told us that she wants to go to New York and see Broadway plays. I am actually quite excited about that possibility... (Eric is considerably less excited.) Of course our niece may change her mind. A year is a long time when you are that young. We try not to influence the kids in their choices, one way or the other. We really want the choice of our destination to be theirs and theirs alone.

Anyway, long story short, that is why at ages 46 and 49, Eric and I ended up twirling around in over-sized teacups at Disney World. A fun time was had by all, but my friends, there is no place like home!

5678) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1266781)
Posted 2 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Friends!

We just got back from our trip. Eric ran right into work and from the sound of it, his day is going to be pretty awful.

I am home doing laundry and listening to the ravens in our backyard squawk at one another. Some time ago Eric named three of the ravens who frequent our backyard "Edgar", "Allan" and "Poe". I can't really tell them apart, but whenever one of them does something naughty like steal Spawnie's food or poop in his water dish, I tend to blame Poe.

Eric sent me this cartoon, which I thought was funny enough to share.

5679) Message boards : Cafe SETI : First words to a visitng alien? (Message 1266458)
Posted 1 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't happen to be edible, but here is a list of people who are.
5680) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Sally Ride (Message 1266452)
Posted 1 Aug 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
An inspiration to us all...

RIP
5681) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Top Ten Reasons... (Message 1265411)
Posted 29 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi friends. We moved on to the Space Coast and spent yesterday at the Kennedy Space Center. They put on a heck of a show there. Totally worth it!!!

We've been throwing our niece in the ocean whenever we get the chance. She loves it. Turns out she was probably a mermaid in a prior life. Too bad the kid lives in Phoenix!!!
5682) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Where have you been?! (Message 1264727)
Posted 27 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Andy - so sorry to hear about your recent health difficulties. Heart attacks in young people are often not diagnosed right away. I know two women, both skinny little things, who had mild heart attacks quite young. I wish you a speedy recovery and a long and happy life, my friend.
5683) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Top Ten Reasons... (Message 1264173)
Posted 25 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My favorite show at Disney is the The Enchanted Tiki Room

Eric (singing gleefully in line): "In the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki bar..."
Miranda: "No Uncle Eric! It's the Tiki ROOM!!!"
Eric (indignantly): "I've been misled!!!"



We also went on the carousel last night...

Auntie Angela: "A horse is a dangerous animal! I want the kindest, gentlest, most docile nag in the barn."
Uncle Eric: "I certainly didn't end up with that!!!"


(He's a funny man, that Eric. If he gets any funnier, he's going to die alone!)
5684) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1263946)
Posted 24 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In the immortal words of Barbie, "Math is hard!"
5685) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Top Ten Reasons... (Message 1263941)
Posted 24 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello from Orlando!

Eric and I are taking a treasured niece on a trip, which happens to include "the Dreaded Disney". For those of you unfamiliar with the Disney Industrial Complex, Disney World is very, very, very family oriented. After a couple days of twirling around in tea cups and waving at princesses, Eric and I got a little silly tonight and well... after our niece went to bed, with all due apologies to David Letterman, we created our very own list of:

Top Ten Ways To Get Banished From The Magic Kingdom

Number 10: Schizophrenic Monologue on the Monorail
Number 9: Flashing From a Flying Carpet
Number 8: Flinging Poo at Pooh
Number 7: Asking Snow White if she would like to meet Winky, the eighth dwarf
Number 6: Offering to give people crabs on the Pirates of the Caribbean
Number 5: Tinkling in a Tea Cup
Number 4: Trying to ring Tinkerbell
Number 3: Jostling Jasmine's Jello Jigglers
Number 2: Space Mounting

And the Number One Way to Get Banished From The Magic Kingdom...

Seeping Booty


Goodnight friends!
5686) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What happened to Beets? (Message 1261547)
Posted 17 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have not heard from Sidney privately in a long time, nor have I seen one of his posts in ages. I hope that our dear funster and accomplished gourmand is alright.

Sidney, if you are out there, send us a sign!!!

Fondly,
Angela (& Eric)
5687) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1261396)
Posted 17 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Holey moley!!!
5688) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Give us a caption #46 (Message 1261381)
Posted 17 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The second most important ingredient in tuna catserole...
5689) Message boards : Cafe SETI : R.I.P Jon Lord (Message 1261379)
Posted 17 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
R.I.P.
5690) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1261358)
Posted 17 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL! Thank you for all the lovely compliments. Eric did some file recovery work for a law firm a few years ago and the over-paid attorneys were so grateful that they rewarded Eric handsomely. With some of these generous funds, Eric bought himself a really, really, really good camera. I find that if I take a lot of random shots with Eric's camera, eventually I get lucky and end up with a good picture. That is what happened with Marcel in the plum tree. I do like the picture, but it was just a lucky shot.
5691) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1260981)
Posted 16 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Here is my favorite picture from the ones I took yesterday.


Marcel climbs a plum tree
5692) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1260771)
Posted 15 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hehe, the Korpelas almost do you know :-)) It's also the grin of sheer delight on Ang's face that I like as well, as cute as the babies !!


Thank you, my friend. I really do enjoy being a great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother! Also, I've been working hard to acclimate the babies to our presence and clearly it is working.

This video was taken in the evening, but it was still light out as you can see. Our raccoons are most likely to romp around at night, but we do sometimes also see them in the early morning and in early evening.
5693) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1260566)
Posted 15 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you. We got some nice still shots of them climbing trees. I'll try to post a few of those tomorrow.
5694) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1260561)
Posted 15 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I were enjoying cocktails in the backyard this evening and Eric had the opportunity to capture some cute video footage of Marcel and Donna eating plums which had fallen from our tree.

Those two baby raccoons are getting quite tame now, as you can see. Maggie is still rather timid and Gigi would never get that close to us.

Marcel and Donna have an adventure
5695) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1260332)
Posted 14 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Jim. Looks like Vic abdicated and we have a new king.
5696) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1260080)
Posted 14 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have a prior commitment this evening and will not be home to play, but I look forward to congratulating the winner tomorrow.

ang.
5697) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1259693)
Posted 13 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am happy to report that raccoon baby training is coming along at a nice clip. I sat outside with a bag of grapes tonight and after a short wait, out popped the babies! Eventually Gigi even came out. Gigi doesn't trust us worth a darn, and the babies are just skittish at this point. Eric came outside and joined me in feeding them and the babies tolerated his presence as well. I will try to get a nice picture or two this weekend.
5698) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Welcome my friend..... (Message 1259692)
Posted 13 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome to a really fun place!
5699) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Give us a caption #46 (Message 1258776)
Posted 11 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How dare you!!! I'll have you know that I'm a gift horse!!!
5700) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #3 (Message 1258775)
Posted 11 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Uli, I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Please explain in a way that a tired and tipsy speech pathologist can understand.

Sorry Ang, but the link is nto working. Sniff.


Whatever, girlfriend. My alarm clock will be ringing all too soon.

Goodnight friends.
5701) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - LadyL wins! (Message 1258772)
Posted 11 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations on your win, Vic.
5702) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #3 (Message 1258770)
Posted 11 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Uli, I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Please explain in a way that a tired and tipsy speech pathologist can understand.
5703) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #3 (Message 1258765)
Posted 11 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sigh Purvis won.

Uli-belle, did one of your doggies get skunked?!!!
5704) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1257905)
Posted 9 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Purvis lives permanently under our deck right now.
This skunk and her baby are regular visitors, but they come into our yard from someplace else.

Skunk litters usually come in threes or fours. This baby is too old to still be hanging out with mama!

I call this dyad Virginia and Andrea.
5705) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1257726)
Posted 8 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So who is the Lady with Eric then????

She is a friend of ours who is a physics professor at a university in another state. She is staying with us for a couple of weeks while she and Eric work on a paper they are writing.
5706) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For Ian (Message 1257717)
Posted 8 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sending you good thoughts. Wishing you peace and a pain-free day.
5707) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIV - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1257711)
Posted 8 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends and Welcome to the 14th installment of our Critter Cafe!

To those who might be new to us, this is a place where people who appreciate critters gather to discuss whatever interests them.
There is no such thing as "off topic" in the Critter Cafe.

To start us off, here are a couple of pictures for your amusement.



Here are two of the three raccoon babies in a picture Eric took from inside our house last night.
(Gigi and the babies are too shy to tolerate us being outside with them right now.)




Here is another picture that Eric took last night of Gigi and Purvis.



And here is a rare wildlife photo I managed to capture the other evening of "space astrophysicists in their natural state".
5708) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1257703)
Posted 8 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have been instructed by my favorite moderator (Hi Uli!!!) that this thread is getting a little long and that I should start a new Critter Cafe.

See you all over on the next one!

Bye.
5709) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Weather Thread II (Message 1257181)
Posted 7 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just to make you all jealous...

72 degrees, clear and sunny
5710) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1256817)
Posted 7 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
want to start one?

Sorry Jim. I am briefly borrowing Eric's laptop and he wants it back soon. I will have to take a rain check (or a REIGN check, as the case may be...)
5711) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1256812)
Posted 7 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Magnus is and excellent alternative.
5712) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1256811)
Posted 7 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Looks like there wasn't a battle tonight. Does Jim win by default or is Vic still our reigning monarch?
5713) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Give us a caption #46 (Message 1256807)
Posted 7 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela's Entry: It's life, Jim, but not as we know it.



Eric's Entry: Even Ambassador Spock doesn't think that peaceful coexistence with this species is possible.
5714) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1256741)
Posted 7 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi friends!

Just checking in from Eric's laptop. We are still enjoying the company of a house guest and we have plans for this evening, so I cannot play... but I also cannot bear to see Vic remain on my glorious Pun Throne, unchallenged, for another week!!!!!!! I am looking forward to congratulating this week's new king or queen.

Bye!
5715) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #3 (Message 1256737)
Posted 7 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey, I want half a point for cortical stimulators over in the fabulous new game thread "I learned something new today". Cortical stimulators do exist and are used for brain mapping and experimentally in carefully controlled medial physiology studies. Ok, they don't revive dead brains like they did on Star Trek, but hey - worthy of half a point, right?
5716) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1256526)
Posted 6 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
AWW how sweet. Three babies. Great news Ang!

What will you do if/when they prove their sexes don't match their names? :-)


That is always a problem and so gender-neutral names do make the best baby names. Marcel works either way, as I have known both male and female Marcels. Donna can easily be shortened to "Don" if necessary. Do you have a preference for changing Maggie's name, if need be?
5717) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1256479)
Posted 6 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How is my buddy Spawnie?

Spoiled and imperious as always. He "got" a bird the other day. From what we can tell from the circular smack mark on one of my windows and the brown and grey feathers all over the deck, a bird must have flown into the window glass, became unconscious and fallen right at Spawnie's feet. There is no other way that fat, lazy kitty-boy could have caught it.
5718) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Give us a caption #46 (Message 1256474)
Posted 6 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hate it when herbivores embrace technology!
5719) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark - continued (Message 1256472)
Posted 6 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Home Health Nurse here to check your lungs, sir.
5720) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I learned something new (game) (Message 1256466)
Posted 6 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I love this new game!!!!!!!!

Ok, Eric says it can't be the transporter because only half your particles would be transported at once. I really wish it could be WARP speed, but I think that is unlikely.

My guess is something from the Sick Bay... apply the Cortical Stimulators!!!!!!
5721) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Vic! (Message 1256251)
Posted 6 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Best wishes to you on your special day!
Fondly, Angela & Eric
5722) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Goodsearch for Seti.... (Message 1256232)
Posted 6 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If you shop on-line, if you would be doing it anyway, earns even more for the project.
5723) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1256228)
Posted 6 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ouch, well I think Eric is better off with You Angela...

LOL! Thanks Vic, I hope so! I've met Donna. She is quite nice and she is very smart. She worked on the Human Genome Project, so she has sure got my respect and admiration!!!

So, enough about ex-girlfriends! Raccoons are more interesting. I went outside with my little cup of cat food to entice babies. I put some food where "little paws" could reach it, but only Gigi's undamaged paw came out to accept my offering. She did a fair amount of growling at her babies while chewing on the cat food! Anyway, I talked and sang to the babies to sort of get them used to my presence. Then I went inside. Best not to be too forward too fast.
5724) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1256213)
Posted 6 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, I was worried that Gigi might have lost all her babies this year due to her leg injury, but all that worry was for nothing.

Please welcome to the world "Marcel" (thank you Dave I), "Maggie" (thank you Dave II) and Donna (thank you Uli-belle). We were unable to get a picture. They're really skittish and Gigi trusts us even less when her babies are scampering around.

By the way Uli, it is a stretch for me to use "Donna" as that was the name of Eric's girlfriend before he met me!!!!!!!
5725) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1256167)
Posted 6 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


We found this swan sitting on its nest just a few feet from a busy walkway in Ironbridge England. I suppose it thought the place was good since there were all sorts of food handouts lying around.


John, that is lovely!!! Were you out of the country for Independence Day? One of my most memorable Fourth of Julys was enjoying Moroccan food with an ex-pat friend in London. No fireworks, imagine that!!!
5726) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For Ian (Message 1256165)
Posted 6 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thinking of you, my friend.
5727) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark - continued (Message 1256164)
Posted 6 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thinking of you, my friend.
5728) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I learned something new (game) (Message 1256162)
Posted 6 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, I'm going to toss in a wild guess. Is there some fancy kung fu way of pressing on one of the laryngeal cartilages or perhaps on the hyoid bone that somehow pinches the vagal nerve and affects one's heartbeat?
5729) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Give us a caption #46 (Message 1255701)
Posted 4 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
An early indicator that Tom and Katie were not going to work out...
5730) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy 4th of July!!!! (Message 1255692)
Posted 4 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5731) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Better late than never (Message 1255683)
Posted 4 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Whoops! Just saw this. Thank you Al and Janice. Thank you Rob and Zapped Sparky. These forums would not exist without the generous gifts of our moderators, past and present.

Angela (& Eric)
5732) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Eric!!! (Message 1255292)
Posted 4 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm sure the people behind us were honking out "She is very cautious" in Morse code.


Exactly. And remember that unfortunate one fingered gentleman who passed me, waving furiously and shouting something so vociferously within the confines of his car that all the veins popped out in his neck? Well, I'm pretty sure he was shouting "Happy Birthday To Your Husband!!!!!!" Right dear?
5733) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Eric!!! (Message 1255286)
Posted 4 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"What does green mean again?"

Cautious. I was being cautious, dear! In downtown Berkeley at night, you never know when a suicidal bicyclist without a light, entirely clad in black, will pull out right in front of you!!!
5734) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Eric!!! (Message 1255149)
Posted 3 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
'Ol Pookers is having a birthday today. In order to maximize his birthday wishes, he had cake and ice cream for breakfast and I put a candle on it (not his typical breakfast!!!)

On Tuesdays we try to meet for "date day lunch", and while Eric does not generally order a dessert with his lunch, the waiter overheard us discussing his birthday and he surprised us after our sandwiches by bringing Eric a complimentary scoop of ice cream with a lit candle atop it.

Angela: I hope you remembered to make a wish before you blew out that candle...
Eric: What if my birthday wish involved Jessica Alba needing assistance taking off her tight leather pants?
Angela: Well then, dear, your birthday wish will have been in vain!

Happy birthday, my beloved.
5735) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 23 (Message 1254009)
Posted 1 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, it is APOLLOing that while I'm busy with friends at STARBUCKs you are still our reigning king! You would think that I would not give ADAMA, but I do.

(Will somebody please beat this guy for me next weekend!!!! Really, I would consider it a huge favor!!! I have a prior commitment and am unable to play.)
5736) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1253980)
Posted 1 Jul 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Friends!

Just popping in for a minute while Eric pan-fries some fish for a late dinner here. He's much better at cooking fish than I am.

We have a house guest here for a couple of weeks. One of Eric's colleagues from another university is staying with us so that she and Eric can write up a paper together (non-seti stuff). I won't be around much in July at all, actually, but I'll pop in and say "hi" when I can.

Great raccoon videos, Steve! I showed Eric and he was really impressed.

Bye friends...

ang.
5737) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cafe Games 3 - How off topic can you be. (Message 1251100)
Posted 25 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Uli & Ang my dears
Your words are music to my ears
But these words I have to bellow
Can I have some more Limoncello?


I am quite over-do, dear friend, to make another batch
Once I start one then it takes a couple months to hatch
I always say I'm gonna start, but my brain's like a sieve
And on the weekends seems I simply lack initiative.
But next time you come visit, before we all shout "BRIDGE!!!!!"
That homemade limoncello will be chilling in the fridge.

5738) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Let Them Eat Cake! (Message 1250906)
Posted 24 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Tea cakes
5739) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cafe Games 3 - How off topic can you be. (Message 1250859)
Posted 24 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That woman! Hijacks the thread and then leaves us wanting More.


Hi there Uli, here I am, you say you want more rhyme?
I'll type a little verse for you, but I don't have much time.
I don't intend to hijack, raid, extort or charge high fees
I only want to play around, cuz I'm a poetry tease!!!
5740) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cafe Games 3 - How off topic can you be. (Message 1250707)
Posted 24 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hope you enjoy the store
and that my rhymes weren't a bore.
I think you won this round, my dear
I shall now return to my beer (already in progress)


My friend I have enjoyed myself
You're more fun than a grocery shelf
But if I do not leave my station
Poor Eric may die of cruel starvation!

Bye friends!!!
Everybody rhyme here as a great big surprise for Carlos when he returns, ok?

5741) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cafe Games 3 - How off topic can you be. (Message 1250699)
Posted 24 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That just shows how wrong you can be
Most of those women want to pay me!


My, my, my! Good gracious me!
What can I say but, "Well!!!"
Oh yeah, here's just one more response...
A hearty LOL!
5742) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cafe Games 3 - How off topic can you be. (Message 1250696)
Posted 24 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now Carlos said, "No rhyming!"
And look at what we do!!!!
We sit around and rhyme all day
And half the evening too.

I think he will be angry
When he returns to here
To make amends I think I'll have
To buy that man a beer!

My friends I have to go now
And buy some groceries
But I'll be back to rhyme real soon
As long as words are free!!!
5743) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cafe Games 3 - How off topic can you be. (Message 1250693)
Posted 24 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cowboys come and cowboys go
This causes ladies a bit of pain
But just when they're finally over him
That damn old cowboy shows up again


Cowboys come and cowboys go
No doubt all that is true
But once she's cleaned up all your cash
She'll leave YOU feeling blue!!!
5744) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cafe Games 3 - How off topic can you be. (Message 1250688)
Posted 24 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I wonder if the young ones know
that just because my beard is white as snow
that I would surely wear them out
then leave them while they sit and pout


I suspect most women know,
Regarding cowboys, "Just Say No!"
They're fun for laughs until the day
The prairie wind blows them away...

5745) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cafe Games 3 - How off topic can you be. (Message 1250686)
Posted 23 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This fellow I knew from Nebraska
Said, "Listen folks I have to ask ya...
How come when I hit
On some gal she just flits
Screaming 'I'd rather eat Baked Alaska!!!'"

5746) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cafe Games 3 - How off topic can you be. (Message 1250679)
Posted 23 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Carlos decreed to the mass,
"Please give poetry a big pass...
Tis not place or time
To regale folks with rhyme!"
May I please kick this guy in the _____?

(Hmmmmmmmm I cannot seem to find the right rhyming word here to complete my limerick...)
5747) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Let Them Eat Cake! (Message 1250673)
Posted 23 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No fair! Post a topless Woman and it could vanish...


Hey Vic, who ever told you life was fair?
5748) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Let Them Eat Cake! (Message 1250603)
Posted 23 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

And let's not for get to appreciate beefcake!!!
5749) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Let Them Eat Cake! (Message 1250553)
Posted 23 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

One of MY favorite cakes...
5750) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Es (Message 1250531)
Posted 23 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think the best bit was the look on the other half's face when he discovered that beer is only $2 a bottle in Fremont street.

Want to see quite a different look on his face? Tell him you booked a bus tour covering the most outrageous wedding chapels in the area!



Glad to hear you are having a fun birthday weekend!
5751) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Let Them Eat Cake! (Message 1250522)
Posted 23 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Yum!!! I love food porn!!!
5752) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Who will get an Olympic win? (Message 1250166)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Some advice for those of you
who want to be a cowboy too
If you're going to rhyme while you wrangle
Try not to let your participle dangle.


LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!


I can't top that, I have to say
You've beaten me this Poet's Day.
Whether atop a horse or foal
Cowboy Dave is mighty droll!

(I concede to our resident Poet Laureate, Cowboy Dave. Gotta go now. Bye friends!)
5753) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Who will get an Olympic win? (Message 1250162)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I guess I do rhyme from time to time
it helps to relieve stress, of course.
Sometimes the prose come out all wrong
It's hard to rhyme and ride a horse


In my poet's mind's eye, horsie whinnies and neighs
As you ride in the warm prairie air...
Would you care to dismount ere you're down for the count?
Cuz I'm gonna kick your derriere!!!
5754) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Who will get an Olympic win? (Message 1250158)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Posting with as few words as possible, not...

Vic, Vic, he's our man
Come and join our Poetry Slam!!!
5755) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Who will get an Olympic win? (Message 1250154)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Talking takes a lot of thought
one wrong word and it's all for naught
For the proper word I often hunt
When it's not found I just grin and grunt


Oh yes, I have heard, cowboys utter few words;
They say cowboys tend to be terse.
Are you and exception to rules, Mr. Crow,
You seem to be speaking in verse!!!

(Poetry Slam!!! You're on, dude!!!!!!!)
5756) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1250146)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Can't do it, Vic. I concede.
5757) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Who will get an Olympic win? (Message 1250144)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If all that we say
in a single day
with never a word left out
were printed each night
in plain black and white
it would make strange reading no doubt
And then just suppose
before our eyes close
we have to read the whole record through
then wouldn't we sigh
wouldn't we try
a great deal less talking to do
And I more than half think
that many a kink
would be smoother in life's tangled thread
if half what I say
in a single day
were to be left forever unsaid


Oh Misfit, you rogue, you fill me with dread;
I'm gasping and turning sheet white.
I don't want all said to have to be read,
Ere each of us turns off his light.

For Misfit you see, I'm a speech path and we
Find all that you say simply shocking.
I'd be dressed like a slob and quite out of a job
If everyone just gave up talking!!!

(Happy Poet's Day, friend.)


5758) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1250135)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Ladies, doesn't Daniel Jackson inspire you to study archeology?
5759) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1250132)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Carlos, those Daleks are adorable, but they look like cakes to me. Stick to the topic, buddy!


Sci-Fi Pie In The Sky
5760) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Who will get an Olympic win? (Message 1249998)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome back, dear friend. You have been missed.
5761) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1249966)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Friends. Eric and I have been invited to a cocktail party this evening (Eric's favorite kind of party!!!), so I'm going to be missing the pun-fest tonight. Then we have a house guest arriving next week who will be staying a couple of weeks in the room where my computer lives. The week she leaves we have another commitment for that Friday night and after that we have some travel plans. I am amazed at how quickly the summer got scheduled out.

August, however, is looking good for punning, at least at this point.

I'll try to pop in late tonight to congratulate whoever wrests the crown from Good King Victor this evening.

Love you guys!!!
5762) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I was told it was a herbal remedy (Message 1249960)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL! A glorious find!!!

And along those lines (so to speak) cocaine must be good for you too. After all, it is an all natural product made from leaves and twigs.
5763) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Es (Message 1249951)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Happy Birthday Esme!!!
5764) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1249947)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela, please be kind to Vic, he deserves it ;-)

Vic and I were just having some fun playing a game last night. I apologize to anyone whose feelings were hurt in any way.
5765) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1249825)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Why oh why oh why did I drink that caffeinated tea with dinner?
5766) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1249823)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Minted Oreo Cream Pie... and better!!!!!
5767) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For Ian (Message 1249819)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This thread is for Ian, to cheer him and strengthen him as he deals with health issues. Ian, we all love you very much.


You wants cookie, Ian?
5768) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Who will get an Olympic win? (Message 1249818)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
G'nite all, another hospital day tomorrow, I am so scared.
Beep beep

We are all there in spirit with you, dear friend. You are not alone.
5769) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Who will get an Olympic win? (Message 1249815)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodnight Vic. Sleep well.
5770) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1249814)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Blue Meanie Pie
5771) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1249812)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A Beatle Yer not, nor a blue meanie either. But then I do have a hole in My pocket, must be from the sea of holes...



Beetle Pie!
5772) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1249810)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yeah can't help it, I'm stuck with what I can find.



Sticky Toffee Pie

(Goodnight gentlemen!)
5773) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1249806)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

I get by with a little help from my friends...
5774) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1249803)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Hungry, hungry hippos
5775) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Who will get an Olympic win? (Message 1249801)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, my friend, I wish I had your problem...
5776) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1249799)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Better Chocolate Fudge Pie
5777) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Who will get an Olympic win? (Message 1249793)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Race? Oh I do so love a little competition...
5778) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1249792)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Better Rocky Road Sundae Pie
5779) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Give us a caption #46 (Message 1249791)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It may not look like much now, but when the seas rise I'm ooooooh so outta here!!!
5780) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Who will get an Olympic win? (Message 1249787)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Belated congratulations on your win, Chris.
5781) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1249781)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Pistachio Pie
5782) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1249779)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Apple p... whoops! Sorry, wrong thread.
5783) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1249777)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Chocolate Kahlua Pie
5784) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What are you listening to this morning? (Message 1249776)
Posted 22 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5785) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1249083)
Posted 21 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That sounds delicious!

Goodnight friends. I can't keep my eyes open a minute longer.
5786) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1249079)
Posted 21 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Can't say I'm a fan of Wonderbread either...
5787) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1249076)
Posted 21 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You may end up with a whole family of raccoons knocking on your back door!

Suppose need to prepare then. Let me see... coons like cat food, right?

Any particular preferences or will any cat do?


Hey! I just saw this!!! Pasi, I think we are experiencing a "language barrier".

(LOL friend. Funny as always!)
5788) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1249070)
Posted 21 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well if Ya are, Ya must have like Wonder Woman when Ya were Younger...

Buddy, I don't even have a Wonder Bra.
5789) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1249066)
Posted 21 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Donald. I'm afraid I was breaking the rules again and commenting on moderation. I'm a trouble-maker, you know. Don't worry... this and my last post will be gone by morning. I'm just that bad!!!
5790) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1249062)
Posted 21 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And I can't post the Imperial Walkers because????????!!!!!!!
5791) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1249061)
Posted 21 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Birthday cake is so over-rated...
5792) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Kenzie (Message 1249059)
Posted 21 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Happy Birthday Kenzie, with love from Angela & Eric
5793) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1248611)
Posted 20 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Apricot Tarts
5794) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1248540)
Posted 20 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Originally, there weren't raccoons in Europe, but those were imported, and the Helsinki Zoo news release says that in Germany and Poland, there already is a fairly robust population. I seem to recall Angela once said so to me, but I was unbelieving. Now I wonder, if might someday find a ringtail looking for a snack in my backyard, too... but perhaps the winters here continue too harsh.

Well my friend, raccoons seem to do just fine in Northern Wisconsin and the winters there are not exactly "balmy". You may end up with a whole family of raccoons knocking on your back door!
5795) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1248221)
Posted 19 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Fine Uli-belle! You want seasonal? I'll give you seasonal!!!


Ice Cream Pie
5796) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1248217)
Posted 19 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is, isn't it.
5797) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1248216)
Posted 19 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think Ang is getting ahead of her self.

Well, I guess that is kinder than saying "Ang is a little behind."

I considered saying something, but I decided it was much better not to go there.

Good move John.

LOL! And I thank you too!
5798) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1248206)
Posted 19 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am much maligned... much maligned I tell you!!!

(Nobody had better post those booze-cruise photos here!!!)
5799) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1248201)
Posted 19 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think Ang is getting ahead of her self.

Well, I guess that is kinder than saying "Ang is a little behind."
5800) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1248199)
Posted 19 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Summer vacation


Anybody here under 30? I like to live vicariously...

Ang, no you don't.


Merciful heavens, girlfriend!!!
5801) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1248197)
Posted 19 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Honey Mango Pie
5802) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1248196)
Posted 19 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Summer vacation


Anybody here under 30? I like to live vicariously...
5803) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1247809)
Posted 18 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Kumquat Pie
5804) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1247803)
Posted 18 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
@ Celt - Thank you. I am well aware of the dangers associated with raccoons. Eric is in charge of doo-doo removal, when there is need, and it has happened a few times. Fortunately, most of the time they poop someplace besides my backyard. I don't know where they go and I don't want to know where they go!!!

@ Scarecrow - LOL!
5805) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1247603)
Posted 17 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Lemon Blueberry Pie
5806) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - The buttons are too small......... (Message 1247595)
Posted 17 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
For example I had one friend who had a first TD at 9.75 at 120% LTV. He thought there was nothing he could do. He still had good credit. I was able to negotiate a short pay and a new loan. The new loan is at 2.75% and 80% LTV. His payment is nearly $1,200 less per month now. I have him putting that savings into an ING account that is paying 4%. So I took him from a negative net worth to a six figure positive position in about a week and a half.


LOL! Carlos, you forget your audience. I have absolutely no idea what all of those letters and numbers mean!!!

I happen to ascribe to the 1950's model of financial management. I "don't worry my pretty little head over it..."
5807) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Father's Day!!! (Message 1247289)
Posted 17 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy Father's Day
5808) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets: Give us a caption 45 (Message 1247285)
Posted 17 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not only is this bear bipolar, it's bi-curious!!!
5809) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - The buttons are too small......... (Message 1247283)
Posted 17 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I manage her investments and have made a couple of million for her over the years.


Carlos, I think my net worth is about seventeen dollars. What can you do for me?
5810) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1247278)
Posted 17 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Raspberry Chiffon Pie
5811) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1246963)
Posted 16 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Monday and Magenta, Eric and I had the pleasure of visiting a small part of your amazing country several years ago. Looking forward to seeing the pictures of your new critters!

Monday and Magenta's Potential Pets
5812) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1246809)
Posted 16 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Goodnight punsters!
5813) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1246807)
Posted 16 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Drums of Thunder
5814) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1246790)
Posted 16 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations King Victor!!!

Hey Mr. Custer...
5815) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1246781)
Posted 16 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"Where the HEKAWI?"


I thought I came, I SQUAW, and I conquered, but Vic, that one is funny!


I agree. I tried to CHIPEWYAN win tonight, but I have to admit that was a really good one! INNU it was going to be a difficult topic for me. I concede to Vic and to Cowboy Dave. May the best punster win
5816) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1246778)
Posted 16 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey, where is that cowboy from OMAHA? Did his APACHE server go down?
5817) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1246773)
Posted 16 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"Where the HEKAWI?"


LOL Vic!!! You are CHOCKTAW full of puns tonight!!!
5818) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1246770)
Posted 16 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No, the KIOWA to winning is simply to have one more pun than the next guy...
5819) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1246766)
Posted 16 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think UTE better prepare to be crowned, cowboy, cuz I'm just about out of puns.
5820) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1246762)
Posted 16 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The HEKAWI might have to call for help from F Troop, as their getting SCALPED...

Vic, I just don't know how to respond to that, so to quote SENECA, "It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence."
5821) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1246758)
Posted 16 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That requires some WAMPUM and an unupset stomach.

Gosh Vic. Sorry to hear about your upset stomach. I sure hope you don't HO-CHUNKs!!!
5822) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1246755)
Posted 16 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I always wondered what a drunk Raccoon looks like.

Here's lookin at you, kid!
5823) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1246753)
Posted 16 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
TMI cowboy!!! And we don't want to hear if you KICKAPOO either!!!
5824) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1246749)
Posted 16 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is the port a part of the sauce or supposed to go in the guest? (good either way, just different).

Yes and yes!
5825) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1246746)
Posted 16 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You've got plenty of time... I'll just wait here feeling like the Last of the MOHICANS...
5826) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1246744)
Posted 16 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My CREEdo this evening will be to get out while I can...
5827) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1246740)
Posted 16 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are you having RESERVATIONS?

BOW out early, that's my plan for the evening...
5828) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1246737)
Posted 16 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You may as well start CROWing now, cowboy. I don't think I can best you at this topic.
5829) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - The buttons are too small......... (Message 1246734)
Posted 16 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A nice thing about living
Out here on the west coast
Is Poet's Day does end so late...
Far later here than most

In England it is over
So too on the east coast
Our midwest poets have 3 minutes...
Better make the most!!!

But I have lots of time here
I've two hours left to rhyme
I'll bet that all of you do wish
I'd just run out of time!

(Winning!)
5830) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1246731)
Posted 16 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm really late. I HOPI you won't hold it against me.
5831) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1246714)
Posted 16 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We'll be INDIAN the house tonight!

Hello friends. I just got home and we haven't had dinner yet, so I'm going to be either very late or a "no show" tonight... so SIOUX me!

(I'll check back in about an hour to see if anyone is still playing.)
5832) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1246463)
Posted 15 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Nutella Puff Pastry Pie
5833) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - The buttons are too small......... (Message 1246462)
Posted 15 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's Friday and it's Poet's Day
Unfurl the Poet's flag
Don't worry friends, I'll rhyme for you
I've got this in the bag!

5834) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1246433)
Posted 15 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Pecan Pie
5835) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1245737)
Posted 14 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Roasted duck breast with port wine & blackberry sauce...
5836) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark - continued (Message 1245734)
Posted 14 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey John, glad to hear things are moving in the right direction!

Anemia is something I know well. A few years ago I was diagnosed with severe anemia. I was prescribed IV iron infusions - many across many months, along with yucky oral iron. Worked like a charm and I'm good as new these days.

Wishing you a full recovery as well!
5837) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1245725)
Posted 14 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Caramel Candied Almond Pie
5838) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1244619)
Posted 11 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, friends tease one another. That is a key point of friendship - license to playfully tease a bit.

Angela I was teased a lot when I was a Young kid, I didn't understand it then, so please don't, just don't tease Me ok?

Ok, friend.
5839) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1244606)
Posted 11 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, friends tease one another. That is a key point of friendship - license to playfully tease a bit.
5840) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1244572)
Posted 11 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You're the apple of my eye Vic, and that's just plum true.


Can you feel the love tonight?



Thank you Esme. This certainly clarifies why Vic declined my invitation to dance over in the Pun Thread last Friday night.

And here all weekend I thought it was because I have two left feet!
5841) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1244371)
Posted 10 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You all need to move to California! We have mosquitoes, but because we are so dry here, the mosquitos are few in number, relative to places like Wisconsin. Eric and I dined alfresco last night and we didn't see a one. In Wisconsin, we would have had to have been sitting in that regional favorite... "a screen porch". I had never seen or heard of a "screen porch" before I met Eric, but after my first May vacation to the great state of Wisconsin, I totally understood why people build them!!!
5842) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1244365)
Posted 10 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Plum Crostata
5843) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link # 29 (Message 1244187)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Apocalypse!!!
5844) Message boards : Cafe SETI : List your plans for the Summer (Message 1244165)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
House guest in June and early July. Taking a niece to Orlando in July, in celebration of her 13th birthday. More house guests in August. We like having company...
5845) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1244147)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
@Rob - I don't know what is in it. It is just a picture that came up on Google Images when I typed in Shepherd's Pie.

@Dave Two - Boston Cream Pie is actually a cake. I don't know why it is called a "pie". I was just trying to post things that obliquely fit in with the topic of pi/pie.

I shall return you all now to the real deal...


(Don't look, Chris...)




Banana Cream Pie


(Aw Chris! I TOLD you not to look!!!)

Clean up - STAT - on the pi thread. Thanks.
5846) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1244143)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You had to make a research project of it??


LOL Kittyman! That is just the way I roll...
5847) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1244092)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It took me some time, but after many visits I have come to understand deer hunting in Northern Wisconsin. Deer meat is a very important part of the local diet. Not much gets wasted. If somebody doesn't want the meat from a deer he/she has shot, that person generally donates the deer to the local food shelter up there. Bears are hunted there too and the meat is made into sausage.

Natural predators (wolves, cougars) for deer are generally gone from that area. The main deer predators now seem to be cars, diseases and hunters. I don't have to like it. I don't have to directly participate. But I do understand.
5848) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1244037)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is very difficult when a bear is no longer afraid of humans. When they move such bears around here, they need to be moved hundreds of miles away from humans. They will travel great distances for food. I wonder how far away from Steve's area you have to go to be hundreds of miles away from humans?


I know what you mean. We are such a "successful" species that it is hard to find open spaces to relocate animals anymore. (Why is human over-population not a bigger world-wide concern?)

Anyway, Eric comes from a (by California standards) sparsely populated and extremely rural place. Imagine how happy the residents of this area would be if everybody in Wisconsin and neighboring states dumped their problem bears and wolves up there?!!!

In California, every once in a while some cougar develops a "taste" for jogger. The poor kitty is generally treed and shot immediately, which I totally understand. It is a sad, but necessary evil.

RIP Steve's bear.
5849) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1244029)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


For some inexplicable reason, I have this compelling drive to go to the Farmer's Market this morning...
5850) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243835)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Goodnight punsters!
5851) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243833)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ulibelle, my dear friend, uber-gardener, and resplendent queen, this one is for you. A salute to the pollinators of our fruit trees! Long may they buzz in our California gardens and everywhere!

Flight of the Bumblebee!
5852) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243828)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, my friend, may I have this dance?

Tangerine
5853) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243827)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I know Ang, but he seems to like Lemoms.

Uli, I conSEED! You have SET your mind on winning, and I hearby YIELD to your superior punning.

All hail Queen Uli!!!

(If you missed this pun war, you can catch it later on PODcast...)

Now then, let's get Uli's coronation party started!!!!
5854) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243822)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I should Beery that in mimd.

You know, girlfriend, some day some gal with a real ZEST for life is going to PICK up that cowboy and REAM him a new one...
5855) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243820)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And where did Mark go? Did he return for a late shift at his PLANT?
5856) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243819)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I would say, that is a RIPE assesment.

LOL, girlfriend! You know his approach will never BEAR FRUIT...
5857) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243816)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now where did that cowboy go? Did he go back to CLINGing to some PEACHy little FRUIT TART?
5858) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243814)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If Ya want Yer crown, ya can keep it, I don't want it...

There's no beating around the BUSH... of course I want my crown!!!
5859) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243813)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No Vic. The only constezt left is Cherry pits distance oontest. Only Nuts like me are allowedFi
Fiyi apples are rocking.

Well, I see Ulibelle wants to let this thread RIPEN...
5860) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243810)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Five minutes without a pun... are you all done SHAKING MY TREE now?
5861) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243809)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
DEW I have to CASHEW now?

VINE! Do what you must...
5862) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243805)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ya better VITAMIN C My last post, I changed that to NUTS.

Vic, please concede now before I SKIN you alive and RIND up the remains to put in my compost bin...
5863) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243802)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh PRUNElla...

Why Vic, what an aPEELing nickname!

I'm not too PERSIMMON about this topic...

Yes, you seem to be in a bit of a JAM. Best to PRESERVE your reputation and bow out now, friend.
5864) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243799)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh PRUNElla...

Why Vic, what an aPEELing nickname!
5865) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243797)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
MIRABELLEN win.

I will have to MULLBERRY carefully over that one...
5866) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243795)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4 beers, and I have to PITH.

I have no doubt you will be able to PRODUCE an ample sample...
5867) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243792)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
FERMENT there I thought I was winning.

Oh, don't WINE now.

It's JUICE because I'm so sensitive.

If you broaden this topic, cowboy, I'll beat you to a PULP!
5868) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243789)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
FERMENT there I thought I was winning.

That is so funny, cowboy. It made me laugh, giggle and HUCKLEBERRY much!
5869) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243786)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry to Grapw your journey.

QUINCE when do you think I'll be giving up so easily!!!
5870) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243781)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't think we can CRANBERRY many more fruit puns into this thread!

(Unless we BRANCH out...)
5871) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243778)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok I'm SQUASHED out..

Sorry you had to SLOE down, Vic.
5872) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243774)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am trying to LIGON.

Sorry, I can get a bit LOQUATacious
5873) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243771)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
IM going to concede seems my fruit knowledge is not very TANGERINEable.

If you insist, Jim. (I'm trying to be respectful to my ELDERBERRIES....)
5874) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243767)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cowboy, how do you know that all these wild women are not just looking for a sugar daddy? You know, they might just be gold digging little LYCHEES!
5875) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243765)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh Scarecrow is back! (No doubt he was out chasing some little passion flower and he ended up sampling some PASSION FRUIT...)

I am sort of a SMOOTHIE that way.

You'll end up an unwed PAPAYA if you don't watch out!!!
5876) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243764)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Who are you sPEARing?

Not the one who just tried to GOOSEBERRY me!!!!
5877) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243759)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Do I have to ask for PERSIMMON to use the restroom, or can I just go?


Do you have to drop a POMGRANITE?



I'm going to POMELO the two of you if you take this thread in another direction!!!
5878) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243757)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh Scarecrow is back! (No doubt he was out chasing some little passion flower and he ended up sampling some PASSION FRUIT...)
5879) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243751)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Too bad our British friends are all asleep. This seems like a good topic for the LIMEys...
5880) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243745)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome Carlos.

What a happy, friendly, CHERRY greeting!!!
5881) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243742)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We cantaloupe since your married to him.

Carlos, welcome!!! Nice of you to DRUPE by!!!
5882) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243739)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela I heard you have a new perfume. Is it MUSK mellon?

Yes, it makes Eric GUAVA at my feet...


... and did I mention that it motivates Eric to get through his HONEYDEW list?!!!


Does he CURRY thru them?


Yes, so that he can get straight to DATE night!!!
5883) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243735)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela I heard you have a new perfume. Is it MUSK mellon?

Yes, it makes Eric GUAVA at my feet...


... and did I mention that it motivates Eric to get through his HONEYDEW list?!!!
5884) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243731)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela I heard you have a new perfume. Is it MUSK mellon?

Yes, it makes Eric GUAVA at my feet...
5885) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243727)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eeek! A vegetable!!! Scarecrow, don't upset the APPLEcart!!!
5886) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243723)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey KIWI all just get along?
5887) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243719)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mark, it is certainly not difficult to FIGure out where you are going with this!
5888) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243716)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry Uli, but I think it is better when we PRUNE the topic back a bit...
5889) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243711)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wide topics make me MELONcholy...
5890) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243706)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Food is a rather wide topic, but fruit as a topic would be just PEACHy...
5891) Message boards : Cafe SETI : May God rest the troubled soul of Bob Welch. (Message 1243702)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
5892) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243697)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I know BERRY well how quickly that can get out of control...
5893) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243690)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
ORANGE you glad I'm tired?
5894) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243686)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I couldn't PEAR to have you go without lemons!
5895) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243682)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did somebody say food?
5896) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243664)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have to do one quick thing. I'll be back in 10 minutes.
5897) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243662)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am here! Who is JANICE?

Ulibelle! Great!!! I don't feel so outnumbered now.
5898) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243661)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My favorite part was beer and nachos at half time.

That was her favorite part too.
5899) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lori's chemo battle......update. (Message 1243657)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing Lori relief and healing.
5900) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243654)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Let's give Charlie a little longer to show up - at least until 8:15.
5901) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243647)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I see we are having a boy-fest here... Where is Janice when I need her?
5902) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1243638)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh my, Stinky Lou has been putting on a little weight lately, but she pales in comparison to Garfield! (Poor kitty probably will get diabetes though, if he doesn't already have the condition.)
5903) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243636)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If ever you had a fighting chance, friend, tonight is your night. Where is our reigning King this evening?
5904) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 22 (Message 1243634)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am here, but I slept poorly last night and if we pun, I will not last long.
5905) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - good health to all 05-06-12 (Message 1243573)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I took Misfit's quiz and got:

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.



Me too, darn it all! I was hoping for something edgier...
5906) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1243562)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Shepherd's Pie
5907) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1243546)
Posted 8 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Man overboard!!!
5908) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1243534)
Posted 8 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Boston Cream Pie
5909) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets: Give us a caption 45 (Message 1243532)
Posted 8 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Time to declare a winner, and a tough choice it is, you clever people you!!!

Third place goes to a frequent placer and winner in this game, Steven Meyer, for his caption "Son, when the little ones are born, you're going to have to find homes for all of them." (Loved the link!)

Second place goes to the always witty Ms. Esme with her caption "Hold on a moment..aren't those the droids they're looking for?"

But for best capturing the pathos of this picture, first place simply has to go to the ever-silly Soft Spirit who posts "*whine* when is Deathstar coming home?"

P.M. to our winner going out now.
5910) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Julie (Message 1243524)
Posted 8 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Happy belated birthday - with love from Angela & Eric
5911) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - good health to all 05-06-12 (Message 1243021)
Posted 7 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
More hugs from me, Julie.
5912) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1243014)
Posted 7 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bandits at 6 o-clock...

No, my raccoons generally stop by around 8 o-clock, although Gigi did stop by for an early breakfast this morning.
5913) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1242791)
Posted 7 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, you DO know everybody is actually kidding about stuffing their pets, right?
5914) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1242627)
Posted 7 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hmmmmm Eric may never have to bury another dead raccoon again...
5915) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets: Give us a caption 45 (Message 1242623)
Posted 7 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh my, what a pleasant surprise.

Ok friends, please caption this!
5916) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1242619)
Posted 7 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Shhhhhhhhh! The cat traps are working!
5917) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP Ray Bradbury (Message 1242618)
Posted 7 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP

5918) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark - continued (Message 1242010)
Posted 6 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Great title!!!
5919) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1242009)
Posted 6 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5920) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets: Give us a caption 45 (Message 1242007)
Posted 6 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Be healed!
5921) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1241588)
Posted 5 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey cowboy-

[tail raised]Phfphfphfphfphfphfphfphf[/tail lowered]
5922) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark (Message 1241586)
Posted 5 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We love you John and we are all pulling for you.
5923) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1241267)
Posted 4 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
To start us off, here is a shot Eric took this afternoon.

Did the cat survive?


Worried

PK



LOL, friend! Despite being from the hunter-friendly, gun-loving, tree-filled state of Wisconsin, Eric cannot shoot off firearms in our urban California backyard.

Eric and Spawnie are pretty good friends, actually. If Eric did decide to take a shot at something, I'm afraid it would probably be the squirrel. The only thing that might give him pause is that he would NEVER hear the end of it from his wife, and well... I believe my husband places a premium on quiet time.
5924) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #3 (Message 1241262)
Posted 4 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
NAOW I can has Cheezburgerz??


Janice, don't you mean "Butler can brings me Cheezburger!"
5925) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1241023)
Posted 4 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Simple Simon met...


... The Amazing Pie Man!!!
5926) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1241021)
Posted 4 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello friends, and welcome to the thirteenth installment of our Critter Cafe.

If you are new to us, this is a place where Critter People gather and talk about anything and everything.
All are welcome here and there is no such thing as "off topic" in the Critter Cafe.

To start us off, here is a shot Eric took this afternoon.


Eric calls this shot "Stalking Fail"
5927) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1241019)
Posted 4 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well my friends, this thread is getting a bit long. I think it is time to start a new one.

To end our thread, here is a shot Eric took this evening.


Gigi and her little skunk friend, Purvis.

See you all in Critter Cafe #13...
5928) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1240695)
Posted 3 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Message intercepted - yummy, yum yum ;-)

LOL! Uli is not going to be pleased! She doesn't eat breakfast, but she will make an exception for some things...
5929) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets: Give us a caption 45 (Message 1240693)
Posted 3 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Golly I love being an only child...
5930) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1240685)
Posted 3 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Paging Uli

5931) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW – 161 Fringe Season 5 is on!!! (Message 1240499)
Posted 3 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not not not
5932) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1240497)
Posted 3 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Be sure to finish all your vegetables!

5933) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1240457)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


I do so love a good challenge...
5934) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Song Dedication Thread (Message 1240401)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dedicated to this week's new exulted and resplendent Pun King, and his lovely life partner...

Your Majesty, get Michelle to play next week - she can probably beat us all!!!

Congratulations, friend!
5935) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1240392)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Looks good. Key Lime pie is also great this time of year.


Ok


(There are two ways to look thin - one is that dreaded diet and exercise route, the other is simply to make those around you fatter! You can all guess which route I prefer...)
5936) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1240387)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5937) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1240381)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5938) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1240284)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No pictures, but an exciting chipmunk story today....

Feed it!!!! Oh feed it, feed it, feed it, feed it, feed it!!!!!!!!!! (please)
5939) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link # 29 (Message 1240067)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
bitter
5940) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1240065)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think it might be illegal to keep ferrets as pets in California. Nature centers often have them for educational purposes, but I don't know any Californian who actually has one as a pet.
5941) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner 2012.................... (Message 1240063)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did someone say ice cream?
5942) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Song Dedication Thread (Message 1240062)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dedicated to Eric, who spent the whole day working and who now is working half the night. You must be asking this question...

Why me? - the extended version, like your day dear....
5943) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239962)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Goodnight Punsters!
5944) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239951)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ground control to Major Tom...
5945) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239943)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Pun King Charlie!!! Here is some mood music that I think suits you, in honor of your coronation...

Planet P Project - Tranquility Base
5946) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239936)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Charlie, I think you have won it!
5947) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239913)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Time for dessert!


Gentlemen, I am all out of puns. I concede to you all.
May he with the biggest space balls win!
5948) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239907)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
But the SOJOURNER can be a lonely road.

That pun was simply APOLLOing!!!

You can be so MERCURYic.

I see myself more as a VENUS figure...
5949) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239904)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
But the SOJOURNER can be a lonely road.

That pun was simply APOLLOing!!!
5950) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239901)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
With a little spirit and opportunity, anyone can win!

Now listen up SUN! I can pun on INFINITELY...
5951) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239893)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The topic of SPACE SUITS everyone here, I see...
5952) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239889)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry Im late what have I MISSLED.

Just a quick FLIGHT of fancy, that's all...
5953) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239886)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sometimes REENTRY can be a pain...

Yes, it can make one HUBBLE...

You're better off to just keep going, don't STAR and stop.

And for goodness sake, don't OZONE out!!!
5954) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239880)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sometimes REENTRY can be a pain...

Yes, it can make one HUBBLE...
5955) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239876)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No failure to LAUNCH here whatsoever.

Merciful HEAVENS!!!
5956) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239874)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I know it Ang. Scare can be .....................

...done in by a six pack of CORONAS?
5957) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239869)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If its any CONSTELLATION, I plan on giving you a run for your money

I completely understand the GRAVITY of the situation.
5958) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239865)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I thought this would be on the delivery schecule.

Girlfriend, you watch out for that cowboy. He's got a ROCKET in his pocket...
5959) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239864)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hope we have a clear winner tonight and that things are not NEBULOUS...
5960) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239860)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
When are you going to pick me up

Lol, girlfriend. When you get a PLASMA tv!
5961) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239859)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm gonna run RINGS around you guys all night, and then kick you in the ASTEROIDS when I'm done! :)

I'll be writing your ORBITuary before long...
5962) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239856)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hate to STAR BURST your bubble, but I'm gonna win tonight.

Nah, like that waitress, before long you will want to attain ESCAPE VELOCITY.
5963) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239851)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
But she was a cute GAL,AXY anybody.

Poor cowboy. Friday night and nobody to BIG BANG...
5964) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239850)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mind if I be the STAR of the show tonight? I can't promise I'll be the SOL one!

Go for it friend. I have to VACUUM tonight anyway...
5965) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239845)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Guess I should have had a MOON pie instead of berry.

You still wouldn't be enjoying any CELESTIAL BODIES...
5966) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239843)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, it is 8pm Pacific. We've given Jim an hour. Let's pun.

Dave Two suggested "space" and I could not PLANET a better topic if I tried...
5967) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239837)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is it a bad thing that I would rather be with Eric during the Astropulse observation thingy? That dude has got to have fun with what he does!

Eric has spent the day reviewing NASA proposals and he will spend the night observing. It is not as much fun as it sounds.


Then we'll just have to make it fun! Would he mind watching a bootlegged copy of The Avengers? :-D

What he would like is for you to do the work so he can get a good night's sleep!
5968) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239833)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Who is this Dave one anyways???
If I had a topic here I could pun it up a little while I make small talk.

Dave One is Scarecrow and he has just arrived. Now we are just waiting for Jim.
5969) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239830)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...wait for Dave One to come to the harsh realization that all that the cute waitress really wants from him is a generous gratuity.


Hey, I got a free piece of triple berry pie out of the deal!

So I take it, cowboy, triple berry is the only piece you will be enjoying this evening?
5970) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239825)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is it a bad thing that I would rather be with Eric during the Astropulse observation thingy? That dude has got to have fun with what he does!

Eric has spent the day reviewing NASA proposals and he will spend the night observing. It is not as much fun as it sounds.
5971) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239821)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Does anyone have a preferred topic? I would like to either have a topic evolve naturally or have somebody else suggest a topic.
5972) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cafe Game - (2) How off topic can you be? (Message 1239807)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I ate some (sum) pie...
5973) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239802)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Funky Fanfare

A little mood music while we wait for Jim to wake up from his slumbers and while we wait for Dave One to come to the harsh realization that all that the cute waitress really wants from him is a generous gratuity.
5974) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239796)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5975) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239794)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am happy to let the topic evolve.
5976) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239784)
Posted 2 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Fanfare please. Your queen has arrived.
5977) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1239708)
Posted 1 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Attention, loyal pun subjects!!!


Eric has an Astropulse observing run that he is doing from home tonight. Our computer downstairs is in a much cooler room than his computer is in upstairs. Eric will probably want me off the computer down here at least by 10pm Pacific time, unless the temperature really drops off today and he can tolerate working half the night upstairs. (For all young people considering a career in astronomy, change your major now, before it is too late!!!)

Anyway, I will be around to defend my crown from 7pm until 9:30pm pacific time.
5978) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1239584)
Posted 1 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

TWEET!
5979) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1239575)
Posted 1 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5980) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Welcome Back ALL (Message 1239320)
Posted 1 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
BYOB Potluck but there is Uli's potato salad ... ;)

Food of the gods, I tell you!!!
5981) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1239319)
Posted 1 Jun 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
@ Ms. Julie, welcome, oh kindred spirit! Thank you for sharing!!!


@ Steve-oh...
...He was a hairy bear,
He was a scary bear,
We beat a hasty retreat from his lair...
(You're the right age for Schoolhouse Rock, right?)
5982) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cafe Game - (2) How off topic can you be? (Message 1238554)
Posted 28 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
*shares peppermint bon bon ice cream with everyone*


Oh thank you!!! I love, love, love pink peppermint ice cream!
5983) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Memorial Day! Thank you's only please (Message 1238544)
Posted 28 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you.
5984) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1238375)
Posted 28 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thanks. Eric has been working all weekend, so I've had to keep myself amused with cooking projects.
5985) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1238367)
Posted 28 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL! It has been cold and overcast here all weekend! Wherever you live, send some sunshine out here please. Instead of a barbecue tomorrow, I'm making hot soup!
5986) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1238364)
Posted 28 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just fine thanks, Dave Two. Nice weather we're having in this thread.
5987) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1238362)
Posted 28 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh look. All the k3wl kidz are here.
5988) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 2012 - The Garden's Revenge (Message 1238275)
Posted 27 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've also planted some catnip for kitty, but she doesn't seem to know what to do with it.

Eva, Zsa Zsa, Stinky Lou and Spawnie would be happy to give your kitty some pointers. We brought home a little fresh catnip for the four of them yesterday and an orgy ensued.
5989) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Wannabe Rocket Scientists (Message 1238115)
Posted 27 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Great find, Mark! Thank you.
5990) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1238111)
Posted 27 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL, Mr. Crow!
5991) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Wannabe Rocket Scientists (Message 1238073)
Posted 27 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey, young geeky kids, let me be the first to tell you...

...it gets better.
5992) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets: Give us a caption 45 (Message 1237790)
Posted 27 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Shur... you laff now, house monkey, but I be FERRocious some day!
5993) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mad Scientists Hall of Fame (Message 1237632)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow, we just watched Dr. Horrible last weekend. You have excellent taste Skildude!
5994) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mad Scientists Hall of Fame (Message 1237617)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Rats! When this thread was called "Mad Scientists" I was hoping that it was a place for angry scientists to rant about the deplorable lack of analytical thinking seen in so many places these days. But now I see this thread is for something else entirely. Sigh. Oh well, when in Rome...



I give you Milton and his creator, Professor Montgomery Weirdo

(Wishing us all a tincture of tenderness to balance out our essences of terror, mingled with sinister sauce...)
5995) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Do you know where your towel is? (Message 1237150)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wapped awound my winky./

Kittyman, I didn't know you had a cat named Winky!

5996) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1237102)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Thank you all for a wonderful evening. Goodnight punsters, everywhere!!!
5997) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1237095)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We welcome new players! Our last Pun King is a relatively new player. Volunteer Tester, please come back next week and play with us again.

Got your nose!!!
5998) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1237081)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, my loyal subjects... let's get this party started!

Dead Skunk In The Middle Of The Road
5999) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1237075)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, WART do you expect?!!!

Thank you, all, for the win.
6000) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1237069)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello "Volunteer Tester" and welcome to the game. We try to avoid pun repeats, if we can, and a quick review of this battle will show you that we've used most of your puns already.

Have I played enough to garner everyone's satisOLFACTION?
6001) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1237065)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Don't force me to take a victory lap around this RESPIRATORY TRACT!
6002) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1237062)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Best be Running away Vic. She knows nose.

Yes, I'm still waiting for Vic's NASAL EMISSION of defeat...
6003) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1237053)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, Jim our resident New Yorker just SNUFFLED off to Buffalo...
6004) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1237050)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Let me just climb up here on this ROSTRUM... anyone but me still standing?
6005) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1237043)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
what Inhale did you do to 'em Angela??

I've nearly beaten them, Janice. Vic might still be SPOUTing off...
6006) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1237039)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is hard to HOLD NOSE puns up to the light of day, cowboy.

Thank you for your concession.
6007) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1237037)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Isn't there a Greek myth about ODORIFEROUS?

I'm positively INCENSEd that you would bring that up!

Well maybe Ya need to be DESENSITIZED...

Vic, you certainly have a bad case of RHINORRHEA this evening!
6008) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1237032)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Isn't there a Greek myth about ODORIFEROUS?

I'm positively INCENSEd that you would bring that up!
6009) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1237027)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh give me a home where the buffalo AROMA....

Don't get too close to that buffalo, you BROWN NOSER!
6010) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1237023)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh, wipe that grin off your PUG face!!!
6011) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1237018)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'd have to be all STUFFED up to do that.

Vic, I'll have you so confused you'll be saying "WHIFF way did she go?"
6012) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1237012)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gentlemen, you really should all concede. Given my ROMAN ancestry, I'm sort of a NOSE RINGer here...
6013) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1237008)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela may rightfully wear the crown this sneezening because I cannot hanger around.

Well heaven NOSE that I won't be getting such an easy concession from the other boys here tonight!
6014) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1237004)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pardon me while I go POWDER MY NOSE.
6015) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1237001)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Women are just too PICKy.

Sometimes it's hard to get with the FLOW...

Vic, let me let you in on a little SECRETION... you are going to be taking a NOSEDIVE soon!
6016) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1236996)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nah, the young ones are into SNOT ROCKET scientists.

Not true! I know lots of women who fall for men working at the OLFACTORY...

That STINKY place?

Yep! And they only pay SCENTS on the dollar there!!!
6017) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1236986)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nah, the young ones are into SNOT ROCKET scientists.

Not true! I know lots of women who fall for men working at the OLFACTORY...
6018) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1236980)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I told 3 girls "I'm gonna TISSUE", but they all BLEW me off and RAN away.

I'm sure they will all regret burning that BRIDGE...

Heck, all I wanted to do is rub my nose in it.

I thought all the girls wanted their own RHINALstone cowboy...
6019) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1236976)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I told 3 girls "I'm gonna TISSUE", but they all BLEW me off and RAN away.

Poor cowboy, you should just stick to HOOKers...
6020) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1236975)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I told 3 girls "I'm gonna TISSUE", but they all BLEW me off and RAN away.

I'm sure they will all regret burning that BRIDGE...
6021) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1236971)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So cowboy, how were things at the HONKER-tonk this evening?
6022) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1236969)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I havENT even begun to pun...
6023) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1236966)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cowboy, play us a little punning music on your trusty CATARRH!
6024) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1236965)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
AHCHOO something else...

Puns like that leave me COLD...
6025) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1236962)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nothing could keep me away SEPTUM women and beer.

You are DEViated.

Well at least he wasn't out getting a BLOW job...
6026) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1236958)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cowboy, I figured you had CONKed out!
6027) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1236957)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey Mark, I'm dishing it out until you all shout e-SNUFF!
6028) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1236953)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
AH MUCUS to dance by.

And I shall provide the HONKING of the HORNS!
6029) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1236951)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, I swear I will WIPE the floor with you!
6030) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1236949)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, on Friday nights I do enjoy a little BOOGIE...
6031) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1236942)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You both should fear the STUFFY I'm made of...
6032) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1236938)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yeah, you'd BLOODY well explain yourself, sir!!!
6033) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1236934)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yikes! Somebody fit that punster with a NUZZLE!
6034) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1236932)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I just hope the thread doesn't get all STOPPED UP...
6035) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1236929)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yeah, there is no SENSE in that...
6036) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1236926)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hope more people play tonight. Sometimes a small group can be a little SNOOTY...
6037) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1236923)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Looks like we're missing Dave Two and Dave One. I'm guessing Dave One took a little SNORT and now he is UPTURNED...
6038) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1236918)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
]I know what you meant.
All good barbs among friends.


Yes, nothing can BEAK my ire...
6039) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1236912)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh, he IS capable...LOL.
No offense, Vic.

No Mark. I meant it
6040) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1236900)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My nose has arrived. The rest of me will be here in about ten minutes.

I read the Klinger remark. At least he didnt say Klingon.

Vic and I have an understanding. There is nothing he is capable of saying or doing that would truly offend me. We are friends.
6041) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1236897)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My nose has arrived. The rest of me will be here in about ten minutes.
6042) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday CRL (aka Angela aka Pun Queen)! (Message 1236865)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Btw, I have it on good authority there is nothing worn underneath that jacket. My imagination is overworked. (Or is that overwhelmed?)

I believe the accurate term is overactive.
6043) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 21 (Message 1236838)
Posted 26 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hear ye, hear ye, good citizens of Punland!

I have consulted my calendar and its revelations indicate that I have an unscheduled evening at hand...

It is my full and most fervent intention to severely PUNish the vile interloper who has so wrongfully possessed my royal crown for lo these many weeks.

All are welcome to take part in his BEATing, and/or to bear witness unto his humiliation and pain.

I shall arrive to commence the battle no earlier than 8 and no later than 9pm, Pacific time (after I have fed my royal consort and laundered some of his regal unmentionables.)

I shall not rest until I rightfully wrest my glorious crown from the interloper's most unworthy head.
6044) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday CRL (aka Angela aka Pun Queen)! (Message 1236811)
Posted 25 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL!!!


I've tried EVERYTHING to hide my big nose...
6045) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday CRL (aka Angela aka Pun Queen)! (Message 1236808)
Posted 25 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mainly in the nose, no where else. Sorry. :o

Not helping Vic! Not helping!!!
6046) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday CRL (aka Angela aka Pun Queen)! (Message 1236801)
Posted 25 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey that reminds Me of Klinger from Mash...

My picture reminds you of Klinger from Mash?!!!????

LOL!!! Thanks Vic. That's just what a girl wants to hear...
6047) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday CRL (aka Angela aka Pun Queen)! (Message 1236735)
Posted 25 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is that the one?


Thank you dear. When old boyfriends do drunk and melancholic searches for me on the internet, THAT'S the picture I want coming up on top!!!
6048) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark (Message 1236670)
Posted 25 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome home John!!!
6049) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday CRL (aka Angela aka Pun Queen)! (Message 1236631)
Posted 25 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
the answer is 49!

Just a thought, all the images you have put up of yourself seem to have been taken some years ago; they are certainly images of a much younger person and we would be honored to get an up to date pitcher of you.


LOL Ian, you ole flatterer you!!! No wonder Long Suffering Marie never strays far from your side!!!!!

I awoke to many more birthday wishes today. Thank you, friends.
6050) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Do you know where your towel is? (Message 1236626)
Posted 25 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I shall be bringing my towel to a Vogon Poetry Reading today...

RIP Douglas Adams
6051) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday CRL (aka Angela aka Pun Queen)! (Message 1236295)
Posted 25 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy Birthday Arkayn!

Well 'Ol Pookers saw to it that our waiter brought me a dessert with a lit candle on top of it. I can't say exactly what I wished for, as that would make my wish null and void, but some of you would not be too far off to speculate that my birthday wish may have had something to do with the status of Eric's den...

So if any of you were wondering about the picture Eric posted to start this thread, that is former First Lady Grace (Mrs. Calvin) Coolidge. The Coolidge family had a pet raccoon and it lived at the White House.

Goodnight friends, and thank you again.
6052) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday CRL (aka Angela aka Pun Queen)! (Message 1236247)
Posted 25 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Friends! Leaving work now and heading out to dinner. Thank you again for all your kind wishes and birthday greetings. For those of you who were wondering, but too polite to ask, the answer is 49!
6053) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday CRL (aka Angela aka Pun Queen)! (Message 1236065)
Posted 24 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for all the darling raccoons and for all the lovely birthday wishes. One can never have too many of either one of these things!

I am at work today, and sadly my lunch break is just about to end, but 'Ol Pookers has promised me a nice dinner out this evening and this morning he put a candle on my breakfast donut!
6054) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets: Give us a caption 45 (Message 1234935)
Posted 22 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Prince Charming, it would seem, is not a fan of marriage equality...
6055) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1234672)
Posted 21 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Great names! Gigi has come the past two nights without her babies, so perhaps Wednesday was a fluke. They must be very, very young. I will try to use as many names as possible, but I have to say that I have a slight preference for "Boomer". That is just simply a GREAT raccoon name!!!
6056) Message boards : Cafe SETI : No mention of Donna Summer?????????/ (Message 1234671)
Posted 21 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
6057) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Robin Gibb has passed on at 62. (Message 1234670)
Posted 21 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
6058) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1234304)
Posted 21 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Esme, the kitty-art is great! Thank you.

Well raccoon fanciers, on Wednesday night I heard chittering and so I went upstairs to check it out. We have raccoon babies. Eric thinks he saw two babies, but they went under the deck and I didn't see them.

It appears that we have a new dominant female. Oddly, she has a broken or badly hurt right front leg and she gets around on three paws. She is small too, so I think she is young. She is probably one of our former babies, but I can't for the life of me figure out who she is. She seems to know us, but she really keeps her distance. She goes under the deck if we go outside, but she will come out if we are watching through a fully open window. I have started calling her GiGi. She is quite a tough customer though, so I can see why she gets to bring her babies here. Wednesday night, while she was eating and her babies were under the deck, another raccoon came into our yard. Eric and I watched GiGi spring up four tall concrete steps, teeth bared and snarling like a hell-hound, as she chased the other raccoon out. It was probably Logan who got chased out, but I didn't really get a good look. I've watched GiGi and Logan eat side by side before this event. They snarl at each other occasionally and try to bite, but for the most part they co-exist ok. I had never seen GiGi chase another raccoon so aggressively. Without doubt it was because she had her babies with her that evening.

This is the earliest we've ever seen babies. Old Threesie used to bring them by much later and Interloper Mama was the same. I don't know if there will be an issue when Interloper Mama comes by with this year's brood. We haven't seen her in quite a few weeks, so I assume she is busy with babies.

Anyway, now we need baby names. As usual, I will select one name from each person's list of possible names, until all the babies have been named. We will need at least two names, possibly more.

On your mark.... get set... Name The Babies!!!!!!!
6059) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Earthquake hits N Italy (Message 1234297)
Posted 21 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing peace and healing.
6060) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1234293)
Posted 21 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I was just WINGING my way through and thought I'd offer up a TURKEY or two.
6061) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1234288)
Posted 21 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dave Two!!! Welcome back! We are busy SNIPEing at one another here.
6062) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1234284)
Posted 21 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Once I got a GANDER at the lady tow truck driver I was glad it broke.

I have no doubt that made you COCK-eyed!

She didn't look too clean... I haven't had my ROOSTER shot, so I abstained.

Well I hope you had a PHEASANT day anyway.
6063) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1234281)
Posted 21 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Once I got a GANDER at the lady tow truck driver I was glad it broke.

I have no doubt that made you COCK-eyed!
6064) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1234280)
Posted 21 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hiya Vic! HEN did you arrive?
6065) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1234276)
Posted 21 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A POULTRY offering at best, I would guess...
6066) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1234271)
Posted 21 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cowboy! Why aren't you out chasing CHICKS?
6067) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1234268)
Posted 21 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are you having a Grouse?

Perhaps... I like to keep you GEESEing!
6068) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark (Message 1234264)
Posted 20 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You are in our thoughts and in our hearts, John.

Angela & Eric
6069) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1234262)
Posted 20 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh ye punsters so FOWL!!!
6070) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1234255)
Posted 20 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I go batty just trying to follow this thread.


I know what you mean, and I wish you good DUCK!
6071) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1234225)
Posted 20 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Give punsters a topic and they always GOPHER it...
6072) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1234097)
Posted 20 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh my goodness! I see everybody has been HORSING around in here...
6073) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark (Message 1233766)
Posted 20 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
John! Great to see you up and about... and running!!!
6074) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1232347)
Posted 15 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric took this picture of a little visitor we had in our garden this weekend.


It is a gopher snake, about 3 feet long. This must have been a young one, because Eric said they can get up to 8 feet long. We have a lot of lizards around, so I'm pretty sure that is what this little guy eats. Sadly gopher snakes did not get that name from eating pocket gophers (of which I have PLENTY!!!!!) They are called gopher snakes because they like to hang out in gopher tunnels. Rats! Looks like my pocket gophers will have another summer of treating my garden like their own personal farmers market.

Yo Steve-oh! Do I get my herpetology badge now?
6075) Message boards : Cafe SETI : HAPPY STARWARS DAY (Message 1231301)
Posted 12 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I believe good Star Wars parodies should come in three's, don't you?

And yes Vic, my midi-chlorians levels are higher than most; although like everything else that is part of my body, they've come down with age...
6076) Message boards : Cafe SETI : HAPPY STARWARS DAY (Message 1231241)
Posted 12 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Star Wars Cantina!
6077) Message boards : Cafe SETI : HAPPY STARWARS DAY (Message 1231064)
Posted 12 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh my goodness!!!
6078) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1231006)
Posted 12 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
As the raining chump, You still have to defend your crown. And belive me Angela wants it back big time.

You got that right!!!
6079) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Rocky's Original Cafe - Est. Sep 2005 - All welcome (Message 1231003)
Posted 12 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A rare post from Hostipal, and thanks to Jeff in hosting this thread.

Just got over 1 month Renal failure, and now on a Haemmatology ward preparing for Myeloma chemo treatment from next week.

All very sudden after a no weight fracture of my left upper arm. At least treatment starts soon, with a trial using chemo and stemcells.

Keep up the competition, and I shouuld be back in a few months.


John, we are all pulling for you!
6080) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1230999)
Posted 12 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have a problem when applying pi to the crust on pies - the former is a constant, and latter is a time dependant function, reducing to zero...


I find that the LATTICE is a time dependent function, reducing to zero my time to fuss with OTHER desserts!


Taa Daa!
6081) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1230834)
Posted 12 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have to take a rain check on pun wars tonight. Too wiped out tonight.

Goodnight friends.
6082) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1230833)
Posted 12 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Do you have any idea how hard it is in these modern times to find Shakers to put into one's Shaker Lemon Pie?
6083) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Number Fourty-Four (Message 1230768)
Posted 12 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is amazing how many people reconnect on Facebook!
6084) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #3 (Message 1230444)
Posted 11 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
celttooth is sick and will be back on friday we hope.

Ian, you are in our thoughts and in our hearts.
6085) Message boards : Politics : Hypocritical tendencies (Message 1230435)
Posted 11 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That's my hypocritical tendency. What's yours?

Posting after a flounce. I hate it when people do that.


OMG!!!!!! Look what the cat dragged in!!!

After over a year of having no one to blame, it looks like relief is FINALLY in sight.

Welcome home, friend.
6086) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1230430)
Posted 11 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

We use only the finest, freshest, hand picked organic grasshoppers in our grasshopper pie...
6087) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Blurf! (Message 1230427)
Posted 11 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Best wishes to you on your special day!

Fondly,
Angela & Eric
6088) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1229894)
Posted 10 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
6089) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1229445)
Posted 9 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pie chart...

6090) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1229443)
Posted 9 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
BTW, are We driving the CRL nuts yet? ;)



Guilty as charged!
6091) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1229440)
Posted 9 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Be-bop a re-bop a rhubarb pie!!!

6092) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1229430)
Posted 9 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In Tennessee once, I ate a regional delicacy called "fried pie". It was pretty much a peach turn-over that had spent some time in a deep fat fryer. It was delicious.
6093) Message boards : Cafe SETI : PI! (Message 1229428)
Posted 9 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Now THIS is a thread I can relate to!!!
6094) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1229422)
Posted 9 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
P.S. Sorry to hear about the chickens. Please don't blame the raccoons. They are just being raccoons. To them, "tastes like chicken" is the highest compliment they can bestow on a food!
6095) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1229420)
Posted 9 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You never tried a twinkie? They're delicious. ;-)

I meant that I have never tried feeding a twinkie to a raccoon, but now that you mention it, I've never actually eaten one myself either. My dad was a dentist, so we pretty much didn't have sweet junk in the house when I was a kid. On the plus side, this is probably why I don't care for soda pop to this day. On the minus side, this is also probably why I'm a plump little fanatic baker as an adult. You win some, you lose some...

Regarding Steve's question on how to feed grapes to raccoons, just throw a cluster out there in front of your camera. There is no need to bother with a plate or bowl or grape shears or serviettes or a fish fork or iced tea spoons or hot towels or a floral centerpiece or whatever. Raccoons are not luxury minded. In general they are also not much into social niceties, so make sure you throw a couple clusters of grapes out there, widely spaced so that nobody has to "share". Raccoons would all flunk kindergarten. They simply do not share well. If your raccoons are relaxed, they will eat the grapes right where you throw them. If your raccoons do not feel secure, they will grab the grapes and go eat them in a more secluded place, whether the grapes started off on a plate or not.

This weekend I will try to remember to buy a package of twinkies. I'll see if Logan likes them and report back to you all. Which reminds me... Uli and Karen (Yes Karen, I know you're out there even if you're not posting right now) - will you two ladies please have a talk with your godson, Logan Frodo?!!! I'm sorry to report that he has been fighting. A few weeks ago he showed up with a large and nasty looking gash on his back. You will all be happy to know that it is healing quite nicely. Raccoons seem to have the ability to heal quickly and well from wounds, at least when they are young and healthy. I'm sure it is an adaptive genetic trait. Given how much they fight, raccoons would quickly become extinct if they didn't heal easily and well. Anyway, my guess is that dopey little Logan Frodo got a little too close to some mama raccoon's brood and she let him have it. I love him, but I'm sorry to report that Logan Frodo is not the smartest raccoon I've ever had the pleasure of feeding. So godmothers, please talks some sense into that goofy godson of yours!!!

Thanks.
6096) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1229009)
Posted 8 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Fake jello. I never tried a Twinkie.
6097) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1228766)
Posted 7 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Don't mind me, I'm just having a snooze.

Aw!!!
6098) Message boards : Cafe SETI : edible arrangements (Message 1228514)
Posted 7 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What?!!! Nobody posted this link???!!!!
6099) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1228510)
Posted 7 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My first raccoon in the yard!
Raccoon

Steve


Is that SNOW??? I live in one of the snowiest areas of the US, and we haven't had any to speak of in months.


LOL! I had the same question!!!

Steve, congratulations on the raccoon. Feed him and he'll come right up to your door... inside too if you let him. And he'll invite a bunch of friends and before you know it, you'll have your own personal perpetual raccoon party!
6100) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1227455)
Posted 4 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Was it this one, Bill?

"Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again."
- W.C. Fields
6101) Message boards : Cafe SETI : HAPPY STARWARS DAY (Message 1227316)
Posted 4 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We're bringing Empire to over to watch with a niece and nephew this weekend.
6102) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1227312)
Posted 4 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
For all the cat lovers out there. Here's a new type of treat your cat may enjoy.


Lions! Who knew?!!! And all this time I thought babies only had to worry about dingos...

(You're twisted and sick, my love. Please don't ever change!!!)
6103) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark (Message 1227279)
Posted 4 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Tis Poet's Day, at least out here
Alas our Leader's nowhere near
In hospital, you know, I fear
Our John will be denied all beer.

We hope for sponge baths, slightly naughty,
Given by some nursing hottie
We hope that foods NOT bland and gray
Are sent up on his dinner tray

We hope his room has free Wi-Fi
And someone brings a laptop by...
It's not the same in Seti-club
When John cannot frequent a pub!

To John, we send our very best
We hope for healing and for rest
We hope that by next Poet's Fest
He's back, imbued with vim and zest!!!
6104) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1226815)
Posted 3 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And with their nice hands, I bet the little buggers could easily get into a poorly secured coop.

Guess it's a safe assumption those chickens won't be turning up.


LOL! Your assumption is correct.

Urban homesteading is a big trend out here in the San Francisco Bay Area. While it used to be a sign of poverty to keep chickens, it is now a sign of having way too much money and way too much time. Urban homesteading is so big out here that Williams Sonoma just unveiled a line of designer chicken coops and other silly things. Urban raccoons are a BIG problem for people trying to keep chickens. With their clever little hands, raccoons tend to be quite good at dismantling coops. If particularly frustrated by a coop, they will just reach in and dispatch the chicken without bothering to open the coop, pulling and eating the poor bird as they go along.

Raccoons are also a big problem for nesting water fowl and for people who like to keep Koi in their ponds. Raccoons are also unwelcome if you want to have a nice lawn. They pull up patches of lawn to find worms and grubs.

Pretty much everybody hates raccoons, except me!
6105) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1226711)
Posted 3 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoons definitely kill and eat chickens.
6106) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark (Message 1226529)
Posted 3 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
For John...

6107) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #2 (Message 1226527)
Posted 3 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Down the road when I look back at the ladies' posts in the "favorite women of sci-fi thread", I'm still going to laugh as hard as I did tonight.

RFLMAO I'm laughing so hard it hurts.


I had fun posting those pictures.
6108) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Favorite women of Sci-fi thread (Message 1226093)
Posted 2 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok ladies, I get your point...



Well, bless your pointed little head!!!
6109) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Favorite women of Sci-fi thread (Message 1226087)
Posted 2 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Female Salt Vampire from planet M-113!!!
6110) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Favorite women of Sci-fi thread (Message 1226081)
Posted 2 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Jeriba Shigan!!!
6111) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Favorite women of Sci-fi thread (Message 1226077)
Posted 2 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Na'toth!!!
6112) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Favorite women of Sci-fi thread (Message 1226068)
Posted 2 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Shelob!!!
6113) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti@Home Diamond Jubilee Tree (Message 1226065)
Posted 2 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Chris, that is lovely! Thank you.
6114) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Favorite women of Sci-fi thread (Message 1226061)
Posted 2 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

A lady Vogon all dressed up for a poetry reading...
6115) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Favorite women of Sci-fi thread (Message 1226056)
Posted 2 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Lursa and B'etor!!!
6116) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Favorite women of Sci-fi thread (Message 1226055)
Posted 2 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

T'Lar!!!
6117) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1226053)
Posted 2 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It doesn't take much METALLURGing to get me to post here.
6118) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Favorite women of Sci-fi thread (Message 1226050)
Posted 2 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Zira!!!
6119) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What's with the age gap around here? (Message 1226040)
Posted 2 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ian, I found your glasses! Look! They're right here next to my dentures!!!
6120) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark (Message 1226038)
Posted 2 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Chicken soup, no bananas!
6121) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Number Fourty-Four (Message 1226037)
Posted 2 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Don worry... I works off food by climbing curtains!
6122) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Magenta (Message 1226034)
Posted 2 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Happy Birthday Magenta!
6123) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Kenzie! (Message 1226033)
Posted 2 May 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Well, I'm sure it is somebody's birthday today... Who wants cake?
6124) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What's with the age gap around here? (Message 1224704)
Posted 29 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
On my last visit to the Korpela family, I only took one small detour.

Ulibelle, I prefer to call what we had an "adventure".
Besides, I'm pretty sure we stopped in at that dance studio to inquire about lessons, not to figure out where the heck we were.

One, two, cha-cha-cha! Three, four, cha-cha-cha!


(It is ALL in how you spin it, girlfriend.)
6125) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark (Message 1224599)
Posted 28 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Fridays are just not the same without our Poet In Residence.

Looking forward to the day John returns to us, feeling 100% well!
6126) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Meet Flash (my new kitty). (Message 1224595)
Posted 28 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Andy, congratulations on the new baby!!!
6127) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Favorite women of Sci-fi thread (Message 1224592)
Posted 28 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ah Mrs. Miggins, I was hoping your would grace us with your presence. Welcome home, friend!

With you posting here, it is only a matter of time before Mr. Sidney Snodgrass pops up...
6128) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Favorite women of Sci-fi thread (Message 1224481)
Posted 28 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I dedicate this picture of a "Woman of Sci-fi" to Muriel Miggins.

Muriel, darling, I got so much out of your Hands on Botany class!
Eric was very impressed with how you taught me to be a lady in the drawing room
and a horticulturist in the bedroom!



Audrey Two
6129) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 160 Long and winding road that leads ........... (Message 1224426)
Posted 28 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?

No, but I've been kissed on the veranda...
6130) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Favorite women of Sci-fi thread (Message 1224398)
Posted 28 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey there, all you scruffy looking nerf herders... I'd rather kiss a Wookie!

6131) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What's with the age gap around here? (Message 1224389)
Posted 28 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm so old I don't even have one of those cellular thingies all you kidz rely on these days. Like Gnu and Chris I use tin cans and strings, as god and nature intended! And when I want an app, I pick one off a tree, by golly. Then I turn it into applesauce because my crumbling teeth can't handle anything that crunchy.
6132) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The joke thread Part 3. (Message 1224261)
Posted 28 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My mother-in-law sent me this joke. (Her birthday is not until December and she is nowhere near 95.) I hope this joke has not been posted here before. Please forgive me if it has.


Four brothers left home for college, and they became successful doctors and lawyers and CEO's. One evening, they chatted after having dinner together and they discussed the 95th birthday gifts they had been able to give their elderly mother.

The first brother said, "You know I had a big house built for Mama."

The second brother said, "And I had a large theater built in the house."

The third brother said, "And I had my Mercedes dealer deliver an SL600 to her."

The fourth brother said, "You know how Mama loved reading the Bible and you know she can't read anymore because she can't see very well. I met this preacher who told me about a parrot who could recite the entire Bible. It took ten preachers almost 8 years to teach him. I had to pledge to contribute $50,000 a year for five years to his church, but it was worth it! Mama only has to name the chapter and verse, and the parrot will recite it."

The other brothers were impressed.

After her birthday Mama sent out her "thank you" notes.

She wrote: "Dear Milton, The house you had built for me is so huge that I live in only one room, but I have to clean the whole house. Thanks anyway."

"Dear Michael, You gave me an expensive theater with Dolby sound and it can hold 50 people, but all of my friends are dead, I've lost my hearing, and I'm nearly blind. I'll never use it. Thank you for the thought anyway."

"Dear Marvin, I am too old to travel. I stay home; I have my groceries delivered, so I never use the Mercedes. The thought was good. Thanks."

"Dearest Melvin, you were the only son to have the good sense to put a little thought into your gift. The chicken was delicious. Thank you so much...

Love mama"
6133) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1224130)
Posted 28 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Friends! I had hoped to be available for a pun war this evening, but life's circumstances conspired against me and I will have to miss the all the fun tonight. I also have a prior commitment for next Friday. I shall look in when I can to see who (if anyone?!!!) is able to knock that young upstart, good King Dave II, off his pun throne.
6134) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1223846)
Posted 27 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well seeing as you are just a young lad:) Back in my day we had June Lockhart from Lost in Space. Nurse Chapple, and the variouse other beautys from the first Star Trek. Why even the original Battlestar Galatica had many babes, June Lockharts daughter Anne was on that show for a bit also.



I told Eric when we married that if an Orion Slave Girl ever moved in, I would move right out!!!
6135) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #2 (Message 1223845)
Posted 27 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4th John McCloud VII with "See what you can do with photoshop."

3rd John McCloud VII with "Stop throwing the BLEEEEP chainsaws at me."

2nd John McCloud VII with "I told you not to light these things."

1st John McCloud VII with "Let's learn a few tricks he said. I thought he meant roll over and shake."

And a special A for effort goes to (yes you guessed it) John McCloud VII.


Wow, what a sweep!!! I don't remember anything like this ever happening before in the Beet's Thread.

Congratulations, John, on a game well played!
6136) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1223451)
Posted 26 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh yes, as a book lover, I admire her top shelf.

Seems rather full to me...and all originals I suspect.


Regarding her er... uh... original volumes, well, truth be told I am somewhat skeptical. If, however, you are a true believer, well then might I be able to interest you in the purchase of some swampland and/or a lovely bridge?

(And frankly, holding all that up looks like an amazing feat of engineering to me!)
6137) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #28 (Message 1223448)
Posted 26 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
goofball
6138) Message boards : Cafe SETI : England calling in (Message 1223253)
Posted 25 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome!
6139) Message boards : Cafe SETI : John Clark (Message 1223252)
Posted 25 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
John, we miss you! Come back to us soon. Sending our love.

Angela & Eric
6140) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1223043)
Posted 25 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I pay more attention to 7 of 9!

Eric refers to her as 37 of D...
6141) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1222673)
Posted 24 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh Uli. We are so sorry to hear of Oreo's passing. We know how special he was to you and to your boys. Our hearts to yours.

Angela & Eric
6142) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1221648)
Posted 22 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, it is part of our mystery and allure...
6143) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 160 Long and winding road that leads ........... (Message 1221646)
Posted 22 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning for Team Insomnia! Go Team Go!!!
6144) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1221645)
Posted 22 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3:30 am post, lest anyone come to think I'm predictable...
6145) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1221574)
Posted 22 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eeeek! A stalker!!!
6146) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1221571)
Posted 22 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I believe a special exception will be made in my case.
6147) Message boards : Cafe SETI : R.I.P Bert Weedon (Message 1221566)
Posted 22 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
6148) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1221092)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Goodnight Punsters!
6149) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1221091)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That is hilarious!!! Thank you!
6150) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1221081)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Let's get this party started, shall we?
6151) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1221079)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Scarecrow's name is Dave and xclusive585 is also Dave. That is why we are calling xclusive 585 "New Dave".
6152) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1221075)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
All hail New Dave, the reigning Pun King!!!
6153) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1221059)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We can't all concede! Somebody count the puns and declare a winner, while I nap, ok?
6154) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1221050)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm out of pot puns and there's not MUSHROOM left in this thread for other drugs, so I think I'm out.

(I concede.)
6155) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1221044)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, you are all CRACK punsters, but I digress...
6156) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1221041)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wild horses could not have DRUG me away from this thread tonight...
6157) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1221035)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sweet Leaf does sound good now that Im thinking about it......

Well before you go LOCO WEED better declare a winner...
6158) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1221031)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Drink some Mountain Dew or some MELLOW Yellow and get back in the game.
6159) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1221027)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I SENS some people might be slowing down...
6160) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1221022)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I certainly DOPE it does not come to that!
6161) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1221018)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Really? I'm just BUZZING right along...
6162) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1221014)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We need more women in here tonight! Where are all the DONNAs and MARY JANEs?
6163) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1221010)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This thread is moving along at quite a CLIP!
6164) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1221007)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If I asSESS the situation correctly, it looks like we have a new player tonight. Welcome friend!
6165) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1221003)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How will you GAGE when they are done, Jim?
6166) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1220998)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yeah, leave no STONER unturned!
6167) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1220993)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Me too. I spent most of my day just POTtering around...
6168) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1220989)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hate to ROACH the subject, but did anyone actually celebrate 420 today?
6169) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1220983)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just what are you REEFERing to, sir?
6170) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1220979)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This little raccoon will SKUNK you all tonight!
6171) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1220976)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I guess Jim doesn't want to use this thread as a GATEWAY to another topic...
6172) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1220967)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Come on, it's 420... no moderator would dare be such a pain in the GRASS!
6173) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1220963)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dave Two!!! Welcome!!! This JOINT is really hopping tonight!
6174) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1220953)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Jim, pick a topic before I SMOKE all the competition.
6175) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1220946)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
John, welcome!!! I hate to be BLUNT, but you're in for the game tonight, right?
6176) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1220944)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Don't you mean "If I thought I wouldn't have to TOKE an impromptu whiz quiz..."
6177) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1220938)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hiya Vic!

Well, well, well... and what have we here? Cowboy, the date is 4/20 - National Cannabis Day! Why aren't you out harvesting your Nebraska ditch weed?

Is Jim around? He is our reigning King.
6178) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 20 (Message 1220932)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Do we have any Punsters in the house this evening?
6179) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Levon Helm, singer of The Band, dead at 71. (Message 1220858)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
6180) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cafe Game - How off topic can you be? (Message 1220857)
Posted 21 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You ever find someone you know in a porn clip?

I told Eric not to put those films on line!!!
6181) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP Greg Ham - Flautist with Men at work (Message 1220508)
Posted 20 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
6182) Message boards : Cafe SETI : More light (Message 1220163)
Posted 19 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pasi, thank you for that memory... waiting for the sun to set, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting!
6183) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP Dick Clark (Message 1220162)
Posted 19 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
6184) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What's with the age gap around here? (Message 1220149)
Posted 19 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
WordStar anyone?

Ah the '80's... It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Aw man! Who am I kidding?!!! It was definitely the worst!!!

6185) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lori is winning (small setback). (Message 1220148)
Posted 19 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We are happy to hear this good news!

Angela & Eric
6186) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What's with the age gap around here? (Message 1219818)
Posted 18 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The best of both worlds...

6187) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cafe Game - How off topic can you be? (Message 1219813)
Posted 18 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
6188) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1219810)
Posted 18 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think I recall something about Tuesday's child being full of grace. That must mean that Tuesday's rules allow for posting during a rather protracted grace period. Any other explanation defies logic...
6189) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What's with the age gap around here? (Message 1219805)
Posted 18 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I would rather take a walkabout than have a walker.


Not me!
6190) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What's with the age gap around here? (Message 1219792)
Posted 18 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh boy! It's BINGO night!!!
6191) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 160 Long and winding road that leads ........... (Message 1219507)
Posted 17 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hmmm... can you help me? I'm old and confused and I just wandered in from another thread.
6192) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What's with the age gap around here? (Message 1219504)
Posted 17 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You'll have to pardon my wife, her Alzheimer's medications make her easily agitated.

Say hey sailor. You wanna get lucky?
6193) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What's with the age gap around here? (Message 1219495)
Posted 17 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Listen up you whippersnapper, I've got t-shirts older than you! Now help me get up out of this chair before I bop you over the head with my quad cane!
6194) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What's with the age gap around here? (Message 1219491)
Posted 17 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What that you said, sonny? I think I need to change my hearing aid batteries.
6195) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What's with the age gap around here? (Message 1219485)
Posted 17 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Honey, at my age I don't even buy green bananas!
6196) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What's with the age gap around here? (Message 1219478)
Posted 17 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pass that Centrum Silver over, will ya?
6197) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #2 (Message 1218852)
Posted 15 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I accidentally skipped 100 numbers when it was my turn to start the "Count To" thread! Laugh it off, and carry on bravely, soldier.
6198) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Number Fourty-Four (Message 1218848)
Posted 15 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Salvadore Dali's day job...
6199) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To the Kitty People........wherever they are......... (Message 1218783)
Posted 15 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
6200) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1218774)
Posted 15 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
6201) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1218733)
Posted 15 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ang, I know that family, that got hit by the Tornado. The damage is worse than the news posted.

Uli, I'm so sorry.
6202) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Number Fourty-Four (Message 1218313)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"Hello, Triple A? My car stopped working. Maybe I've run out of gas..."
6203) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1218304)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just thought I'd share this picture with Angela & the gang.

Yes, thank you Andy! It was a spectacular storm and I loved every thrilling minute of it!!! We tend not to get thunder and lightening storms out here due to our close proximity to so much cold water.

That very morning there was also another unusual weather occurrence. A tornado touched down not far from Uli-belle! It was a small twister and no one was hurt, but I heard that it took out somebody's shed and overturned a tractor.

After we heard that nobody was hurt in either event, my husband, the Wisconsin weather snot, said...

Eric: You know what we call lightening storms in the midwest?
Angela: What?
Eric: "Tuesday", and do you know what we call F-1 tornadoes in the midwest?
Angela: What?
Eric: "Did you hear something?"
6204) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1218106)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Congratulations again, Jim. Goodnight Punsters!!!
6205) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1218103)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Time for the Roto Rooter victory song....

Congrats, Jim.



Great minds think alike, Mark... Singing Drips
6206) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1218094)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Celebration Music...
6207) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1218093)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, with Vic CUT OFF, it looks like we have a winner! All hail Jim, the new Pun King!!!!!!!!

(Tonight, you boys had those plumbing puns flying so fast I thought a police officer would come by and give one of you a speeding SPIGOT!)
6208) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1218086)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow Jim, you are the Cassius CLAY PIPE pun king. Vic, I think you need to call it...
6209) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1218082)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am enjoying watching you guys do this. Jim and Mark, especially, have been giving each other quite a BRASS-kicking!
6210) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1218065)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just so you know, I'm still here TAPping my foot waiting for a winner to be declared...
6211) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1218037)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I concede! I'm out of puns, but I shall sit back and watch you boys TRADE blows. May the best punster win.
6212) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1218023)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well with a topic this off-putting, at least I won't be tempted to raid Eric's Easter GASKET tonight!
6213) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1218018)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, either PUMP it up, or hit the SHOWERS!
6214) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1218015)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So much for sleep, huh Mark? I can see URINAL the way!!!
6215) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1218012)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You wont get RID-X of me that easy.

Of course not! You're a FIXTURE in this thread!
6216) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1218006)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh dear. I just WRENCHed my back laughing at those puns...
6217) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1218000)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh STOP!!!
6218) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1217997)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You two SEWER put up a tough fight...
6219) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1217994)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sure I can. Im the COMMODEr in here.

You only think you CONDUIT...
6220) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1217991)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh no! Two against one. Now I have a SINKing feeling...
6221) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1217990)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The button will be pressed and then raccoons will rule the world...
6222) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1217988)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm not sure you CAN do that...
6223) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1217984)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll do what I can to BLOCK you...
6224) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1217982)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm pretty sure you won't knock me off this THRONE.
6225) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1217979)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How about plumbing?

Oh PIPE down!

6226) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1217973)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, fair warning. If there are any other punsters in the house, show yourselves!

Jim, it might just be me and you tonight. Would you like me to put you out of your misery quickly, or draw this thing out?

I like pain, please slowly PUNish me.


Fair enough. To give you a sporting chance, please pick a topic.
6227) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1217968)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, fair warning. If there are any other punsters in the house, show yourselves!

Jim, it might just be me and you tonight. Would you like me to put you out of your misery quickly, or draw this thing out?
6228) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1217966)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh sir, how you do go on.
6229) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1217962)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Mark, Finally we have a break from madatory overtime. Man I needed the break.

A few departments are on mandatory in our shop, my OT was voluntary.

Work can sometimes be a good thing when one has many things on one's mind...
6230) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1217960)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodnight Mark! Sleep well, friend.

Well, where is that new guy?!!! Yo Dave #2, you in?

I heard from Dave #1 earlier and I think he was planning to play, but he may have gone out for something malted. Ice cream or an adult beverage??? Your guess is as good as mine.

Janice, step away from the cooling loaves and come play with us!!!

Vic, you in?


6231) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 160 Long and winding road that leads ........... (Message 1217954)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Celt. May your winning streak continue!
6232) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1217950)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
On the way down the stairs Eric shouted out to me "Ka Plaa!!!" which I believe is a Klingon greeting which basically wishes one victory in battle.

Life with a geek, you know...

Let's chat a bit so that others have a chance to show up.
6233) Message boards : Cafe SETI : DON'T POST IN MY THREAD THREAD (Message 1217924)
Posted 14 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
6234) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 159 Celt Wins! (56K warning, long thread) (Message 1217531)
Posted 13 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The winning post!!!
6235) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 159 Celt Wins! (56K warning, long thread) (Message 1217155)
Posted 12 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Duh winnah!!!
6236) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cafe Game - How off topic can you be? (Message 1217142)
Posted 12 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bill = $25, refund = $3 Waiter $2 total $30.


The chance to karaoke John Denver's "Grandma's Feather Bed" au naturel while surrounded by a troop of lip syncing raccoons... priceless.
6237) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1216729)
Posted 11 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Monorail cat... LOL!!!!!

6238) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1215788)
Posted 8 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Hippity Hop!
6239) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Easter (Message 1215753)
Posted 8 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

What's not to love?
6240) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1215421)
Posted 8 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Glad to hear she seems to be on the mend, Blurf.
6241) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Do you sometimes think you are different? (Message 1215420)
Posted 8 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
6242) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Free kibble...for cats and dogs. (Message 1215224)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I got today's freekibble question wrong, and the first thing I thought when I saw the answer was "holy crap" :)

LOL! I went with the lowest number too. Who knew?!!!
6243) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 159 Celt Wins! (56K warning, long thread) (Message 1215213)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Baking frenzy win!
6244) Message boards : Cafe SETI : He's brilliant, I tell you!!! (Message 1215210)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If only I were less desirable, Angela would live a less tortured life. Since I've always been this awesome, I'm accustomed to it. Angela's the one who has to put up with it on a daily basis. She deserves our sympathy.

LOL dear! The perfect response!
6245) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Tim bits (Message 1215208)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If the shampoo and conditioner are not already in the Tim bits, well that is one too many beauty steps for me!!!
6246) Message boards : Cafe SETI : He's brilliant, I tell you!!! (Message 1215179)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry Chris. Esme got it exactly right.

He obviously has the same problems that this poor guy has.


Esme, I can see that you understand completely what my poor persecuted and besieged husband is faced with every day. And girlfriend, let me tell you it is not just about the unwanted female attention lavished on him by waitresses, store clerks and baristas. The women professionals are just as bad! I mean, does the sexy woman veterinarian REALLY want or need to know all the details of Eric's last trip to Korea?!!! And then there was the time poor Eric got pneumonia and the sexy woman pulmonologist was so very impressed with the size of his... lungs. And girlfriend, don't even get me started about the sexy woman dentist who just wants my husband to relax in her chair!!!!!!!!!

They're everywhere, I tell you, and all of them want him.... Poor Eric.
6247) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1215002)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Goodnight Punsters!!!
6248) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1215000)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So I guess I lost to the TULE FOG?

Yes Vic, I'm afraid there were FAVORABLE CONDITIONS for my win this evening...
6249) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214999)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You knew this was coming... Stormy Weather
6250) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214997)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A little Heat Wave going out to my friends!
6251) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214996)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win. For a first time player, you had quite a METEOROLOGICAL rise! This was quite a NASTY WEATHER battle! We hope you will return and not be a FAIR WEATHER friend. This is a really fun thread... a great place to relax and CHILLY out. So do come back and sit a SPELL. Once you've made it through a battle or two, you'll find them to be a SNAP!
6252) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214990)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'd have to BECALMED to do that tonight.

This topic is ELEMENTary, isn't it my dear Watson...
6253) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214987)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dude, you really had a HOT SPELL going there. Does this mean that you concede defeat?
6254) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214984)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I tried to ride out the storm, but I'm dissipated.

Does that mean you are hitting the SHOWERS?
6255) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214981)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well I am going to pack my weather staion up and go to bed. I have to LEAF early in the morn. Good night all. May the better punster win.

Goodnight friend. We'll let you know who WIND!
6256) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214980)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll try not to SOAK Ya then.

If you do, I'll squawk and SQUALL!!!
6257) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214977)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The key to winning a pun war is to just blindly jump in... you know, exercise PRECIPITATION!
6258) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214973)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Im having a MELT down of lack of puns.

Relax! It will all be over MONSOON...
6259) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214970)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A veritable AVALANCHE even.

You can say that again, SUNNY!
6260) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214968)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, we've had a veritable FLOOD of puns this evening...
6261) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214965)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You're quite good at forecasting.

Well, sometimes my crystal ball comes up CLOUDY.
6262) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214964)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now if I can only get the CRL to DRIP Her crown into My hands.

Sorry Vic, there is a CYCLONE fence around my crown.
6263) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214961)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My mind is already dry.

You know, I actually THAW that one coming...
6264) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214959)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You're doing a great job WETting your feet!
6265) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214957)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There's no way I can keep up with this flurry of wits.

It is CLEAR that you can!
6266) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214954)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Scarecrow is going to be sorry that he MIST this battle...
6267) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214952)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That would FROST me:)

Now Jim, try to remain CALM.
6268) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214951)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sounds all Occluded up then.

Yes, all ICE are on the new guy!
6269) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214948)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The competition is way too hot, there's no way

We tend to run both hot and COLD...
6270) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214945)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Jim, what if this new guy just BREEZES in here and wins!!!!
6271) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214942)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh there's no way I'll be able to compete on this front.

Don't worry about winning. Just relax and have fun with all the boys and GALES.
6272) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214937)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well I'm not used to WINDing hard in the pun thread.

Vic, you're so humble tonight... what's with all the HUMIDITY?
6273) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214935)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wheres scarecrow? getting a SLEET full at some BARometer, I bet

Oh, he'll probably STORM in here later on...
6274) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214933)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just so you SNOW, the only rules are to try to keep on topic and to try to refrain from repeating puns. The last punster standing is the week's winner. It really is that simple.
6275) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214931)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hiya Vic! HAIL, HAIL, the gang's all here!!!
6276) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214928)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
New dude, you don't seem the least bit FOGGY on the rules!!! Welcome aboard!
6277) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214926)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't know if I should cold post when I don't know rules.


Nothing to worry about... just jump in and join the CLOUD!
6278) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214923)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And I'm FORECASTING my win!
6279) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214921)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela I think you are the raining butt kicker of puns

Hmmmm I don't know WEATHER that is a typo or the first shot...
6280) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214918)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't even remember who the standing winner is. I haven't played in quite a few weeks.
6281) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214916)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You're right. Before a pun war begins, people tend to gather and chat a bit.
6282) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1214913)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey good lookin', what you got cookin'?
6283) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Tim bits (Message 1214873)
Posted 7 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My sister, Andrea, is a physical education (gym) teacher. She gets nearly every kid in middle school mainstreamed into her classes. At the beginning of each year there is always a day the kids don't put on their gym clothes because Andrea spends time assigning locks. To keep the little darlings busy one year while they waited in line, she passed out clipboards, pencils and pieces of paper that said, "The world would be a better place if _____________________."

Now most other gym teachers would have junked these essays without reading them. I mean, the reason they became middle school gym teachers instead of middle school history teachers is that they didn't want to read hundreds of bad essays. That, however, is not my sister's style. Andrea actually took the time to read every essay and comment on the contents. Most of the kids waxed poetic about ending racism and/or achieving world peace. These are worthy and noble goals, of course, but the essays were pretty much all the same. But in the middle of the stack of essays was one submitted by one of the special day class kids mainstreamed into gym class. His entire essay read "The world would be a better place if everybody had donuts." Andrea gave him an A+ and commended him for his original thinking.
6284) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 159 Celt Wins! (56K warning, long thread) (Message 1214774)
Posted 6 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Friday at last, the day we await
The weekend is nigh, now isn't that great?
I see our Poet King is here
Hello there John, enjoy your beer!
6285) Message boards : Cafe SETI : He's brilliant, I tell you!!! (Message 1214771)
Posted 6 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nope, thanks to jokers my bias is to never click a shortened link.

I absolutely promise you that this one is safe and that it will make you laugh.
6286) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Tim bits (Message 1214770)
Posted 6 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

It is embarrassing how many days a week we stop for breakfast here...
6287) Message boards : Cafe SETI : He's brilliant, I tell you!!! (Message 1214760)
Posted 6 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...has he considered it to be withdrawal symptoms from your wonderful home cooking?

Perhaps, but it is equally possible that the "experimental pasta" I served him last weekend was the inspiration for his comment about evidence based cooking.



Sooo, what's with the barista that hits on him every morning? :P

You mean the one from his dreams? I've met her. She's lovely.



...But I bet he could not sort his own laundry!

I'm a damn good behaviorist, and I can't even train him to pick his laundry up off the floor. I fear a four-part sort is beyond his cognitive capacity.



Did any one click on the random link?

Yes. Best part of the blog!!!
6288) Message boards : Cafe SETI : He's brilliant, I tell you!!! (Message 1214721)
Posted 6 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Another wonderful blog by 'Ol Pookers...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-korpela/selection-bias_b_1407419.html?ref=science

It is not confirmation bias to say the my husband writes an entertaining science blog. I've been taking careful notes for months now! I'm sure an "N" of 3 is a big enough sample...

Enjoy, friends!

6289) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hello... (Message 1214705)
Posted 6 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome home, friend.
6290) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1214441)
Posted 6 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Her Majesty the Red Pun Queen will not be pleased when She hears of a challenger to Her Throne... ;)

Au contraire. I welcome challenges!
6291) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption #43 (Message 1213826)
Posted 4 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No, YOU hang up first.
6292) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday To Nebraska's Cowboy Dave!!! (Message 1213133)
Posted 2 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

However you celebrate, don't forget your Stetson, cowboy!!!

Best wishes to you on your special day!

Angela & Eric


6293) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1213127)
Posted 2 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL, Es! Actually I think somebody posted that wonderful shot a few years ago and changed the destination on the bus to the Hotel Korpela.
6294) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 159 Celt Wins! (56K warning, long thread) (Message 1213125)
Posted 2 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dang, weekend is almost gone.


My sentiments exactly! Youth may be wasted on the young, but retirement is wasted on the old!
6295) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Just a hello (Message 1212888)
Posted 1 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome home. As you will see, all us "k3wl kidz" are still here...
6296) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 159 Celt Wins! (56K warning, long thread) (Message 1212887)
Posted 1 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Like in Yer thread Angela, to Me this thread is an off topic thread, it always has been, as I see nothing in the rules that would exile the thread, yet I understand the nervousness, as some don't read the rules and are quick to be judge, jury and executioner...


LOL Vic! I try not to go to Politics, but sometimes Politics comes to me...
6297) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 159 Celt Wins! (56K warning, long thread) (Message 1212836)
Posted 1 Apr 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What I was thinking was if they can use their minds to create objects then women could do the same thing. If Batman could have a Batwoman, then the Green Lantern could be a female easy.
I got it, Hillary Clinton instead of being president she could go even higher: Free health care for all!


(Must resist urge to make comment about Clinton or government-run healthcare)

Be very careful when you invoke Hilary Clinton, Ian, you'll get this thread moved to politics!

That would NOT be a win for any of us.



Donald, my friend, I just HAVE TO respond. At the risk of getting this moved to Politics, I am simply dying to know if your experience with military insurance (AKA "government run healthcare") has not been a good one?

I am a 23 year hospital employee and the children I serve whose families have military insurance seem to have excellent medical coverage!!! If I recommend speech therapy for a child, it gets funded pretty much every time. I have NOT had that experience with the vast majorities of private PPO's and HMO's I encounter. As an added bonus, there is significantly less worthless paperwork required, at least in my field, for children who are covered by military insurance.

On the opposite end of the age spectrum, I have had several friends who have spent some time working as speech pathologists for the Martinez VA out here. Their experience with military healthcare has been similar to mine. They have no problem getting whatever they need for the vets they serve who have had strokes or head injuries or who develop progressive neurological diseases.

Forgive my curiosity, but I would love to hear about your personal experience with healthcare across your lifespan, as a career military professional. I am sorry if your personal experience has been less than positive and supportive.
6298) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Do you remember? (Message 1212425)
Posted 31 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL Simonator! I knew you weren't talking about a woman, but as I read your post I figured you would show us a picture of a dog. I laughed so much when I saw the picture of your car. Very funny!!!
6299) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 159 Celt Wins! (56K warning, long thread) (Message 1212419)
Posted 31 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Star Trekkin Across The Universe

Well, somebody had to post it!!!!!!!
6300) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 159 Celt Wins! (56K warning, long thread) (Message 1212228)
Posted 31 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's not my style to be quiet and meek
when it's victory that I seek
Pretty soon you will learn
I'm the champ, it's my turn turn turn


Hello cowboy, my old friend
Been nice to spar with you again
But a husband softly creeping
Strongly suggests that I start sleeping
And that idea that was planted in my brain, still remains
So I declare you... WINNER!

Congratulations Dave!

6301) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 159 Celt Wins! (56K warning, long thread) (Message 1212225)
Posted 31 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I won't quit, I won't cry "uncle"
if I have to I'll quote Art Garfunkel!


And I will not step back from violence
Until you know The Sound of Silence!
6302) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 159 Celt Wins! (56K warning, long thread) (Message 1212224)
Posted 31 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Some Raccoon missed something, but then geniuses their knot.


Victor, did I miss you? Forget to say "hello"?
Sorry buddy, this raccoon is moving kind of slow...
So hello to you, Victor. I hope you've come to play.
There nearly is an hour left within this Poet's Day.
6303) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 159 Celt Wins! (56K warning, long thread) (Message 1212222)
Posted 31 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Donald's poems really add some class
But I'll still kick that raccoon.... outta the tree.



I agree that Donald sure has a poet's soul
You and I spew doggerel and tell ourselves we're droll
But cowboy, you're forgetting that raccoons can be tough
It's my intent to rhyme all night until you shout "enough!!!"
6304) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 159 Celt Wins! (56K warning, long thread) (Message 1212219)
Posted 31 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoons are noisy with all that chatter
but all that racket just doesn't matter
They will quickly quiet down
when they see I'm the best poet in this town


Raccoons are smart, raccoons are clever
When do they give up? That would be NEVER!!!!


(P.S. Goodnight Donald, sleep well friend.)
6305) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 159 Celt Wins! (56K warning, long thread) (Message 1212214)
Posted 31 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sure, I bark and bury bones
but I use Charmin, not pine cones


Good thing there is a canopy of tree tops over head
I'll poop upon a puppy in his little collar red
From tree to tree I'll climb around until I'm well away
While you just sit beneath one tree and bark and whine and sway

But some night when you're sleeping, I'll crack your doggie door
And walk into your house to eat your dog food from the store
Your mistress will awaken... when she sees me she'll scream
Because she's well aware that a raccoon can sure be mean!

So move along now, puppy. Begone! Go chew a shoe.
Before this raccoon beats the living daylights outta you!


6306) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 159 Celt Wins! (56K warning, long thread) (Message 1212209)
Posted 31 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I might go down but I'll pop back up
I no old dog, I'm still a pup
I'll be the winner here, as you will see
I'll chase that raccoon right up a tree


Oh look, I see a puppy beneath my old pine tree
He's yapping and he's jumping, a fact I'd not foreseen...
Poor little puppy, he runs and barks with glee
He doesn't know that raccoons use the trees as their latrines!
6307) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 159 Celt Wins! (56K warning, long thread) (Message 1212205)
Posted 31 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoons are cute, that's for sure
All dressed up in that fuzzy fur
But cute and fuzzy have no place here
cuz I gots rhymes and I gots beer


Yes raccoons are furry
Sure raccoons are cute
But they also have sharp teeth,
A fact you can't refute!

So listen up now, cowboy
Attend and mull this over
You are going down, beer boy,
Because I'm stone cold sober!!!
6308) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 159 Celt Wins! (56K warning, long thread) (Message 1212204)
Posted 31 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Donald, welcome! I can see you've really had a day.
Come recharge a bit with us. Please sir, won't you stay?
6309) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 159 Celt Wins! (56K warning, long thread) (Message 1212201)
Posted 31 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cowboy, you can't beat me
Although you try like hell...
You haven't got the rhymes to beat
This little CRL.
6310) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 159 Celt Wins! (56K warning, long thread) (Message 1212199)
Posted 31 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Roses are red
Violets are blue
You silly cowboy,
I'm sure I'll beat you!
6311) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 159 Celt Wins! (56K warning, long thread) (Message 1212196)
Posted 31 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello fellow crunchers, is it still Poet's Day?
If it's not midnight where you live, won't you come out and play?
6312) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Do you remember? (Message 1212195)
Posted 31 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric was skinny. Really, really skinny. I'm pretty sure I could have bench pressed him at the time. Faded jeans, a silly t-shirt, hair falling into his eyes, or what you could see of his eyes behind his glasses... He looked like he hadn't had a good meal in a long time... so I fed him. The way to a man's heart really is through his stomach!
6313) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 159 Celt Wins! (56K warning, long thread) (Message 1212088)
Posted 30 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello dear friends I'm back now; yes I'm back where I belong
But it's a busy day here and I cannot tarry long...
I'd love to stay and linger on this Poets' Day and yet
I've got to take two kitties for their shots now at the vet

And then again tomorrow, although I risk his wrath
'Ol Spawnie's going to the vet and then getting a bath!!!
The only cat at our house who's not "shot over-due"
Is tubby tortie-tabby, yes you guessed it, Stinky Lou

I know she will be gleeful when I grab her sisters two
And whisk them right off to the vet, where mayhem will ensue!
And then again tomorrow, you know Stinky's gonna crow
When I grab poor old Spawnie and say, "Dude, it's time to go..."

And so, my friends, I leave you with that question asked for ages
"How DOES one get two naughty cats into their travel cages?!!!"

6314) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 159 Celt Wins! (56K warning, long thread) (Message 1212029)
Posted 30 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello there friends, just popping in...
'Tis Poets' Day I see!
Alas, alack I cannot stay,
There's somewhere I must be.

But I'll check in when-'ere I can
And let me make this clear...
I'll drop on by before night's end,
So please save me some beer!
6315) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cafe Game - How off topic can you be? (Message 1210878)
Posted 28 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bill has a one man show?!!!
6316) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 159 Celt Wins! (56K warning, long thread) (Message 1210877)
Posted 28 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm the shadow for this thread.

Me and my shadow
6317) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 159 Celt Wins! (56K warning, long thread) (Message 1210868)
Posted 28 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You are sunshine on a cloudy day...
6318) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 159 Celt Wins! (56K warning, long thread) (Message 1210865)
Posted 28 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Vic!

Bye Vic...
6319) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption #43 (Message 1210862)
Posted 28 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Jazz hands!
6320) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cafe Game - How off topic can you be? (Message 1210857)
Posted 28 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
All my toes are much bigger now than they were when I started out. Is that evolution?

Holy Moley! Your wife's good cooking put weight on your toes?!!! Clearly I am waaaaaaay behind on Eric. I bow at the feet of the master!
6321) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 159 Celt Wins! (56K warning, long thread) (Message 1210855)
Posted 28 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning with the shear joy of beating Carlos!
6322) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cafe Game - How off topic can you be? (Message 1210199)
Posted 26 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Maybe... it all depends.
6323) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1210150)
Posted 25 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Blurf, those are GREAT pictures!!! Thank you for sharing them!
6324) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cafe Game - How off topic can you be? (Message 1210138)
Posted 25 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Topical drinks, anyone?
6325) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cafe Game - How off topic can you be? (Message 1210112)
Posted 25 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pies! Strawberry Pies!!!

Oh no... not the lemon....
6326) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How many secrets....... (Message 1209888)
Posted 25 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm getting a double chin !!

Ha! Nothing could be further from the truth!!! You are skin stretched over bones. Now go eat something before you fall over!!!
6327) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cafe Game - How off topic can you be? (Message 1209885)
Posted 25 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Take it outside, Ralph!
6328) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1209884)
Posted 25 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh, you guys quack me up!


No, duck jokes are just ducky.


Exactly! I would never cry FOWL.
6329) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1209801)
Posted 24 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ducks are so cute... and so tasty when properly prepared!!!
6330) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Song Dedication Thread (Message 1209770)
Posted 24 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, this thread and the "What are you listening to now" thread seems to currently be set to the Country Music station and hey, when in Rome (Rome - Wisconsin, that is!!!), I say do as the Romans...

So just when I was beginnin' to think that all country music songs were about truckin', drinkin', shootin', philanderin' and/or somebody's mama, I went and found one that wasn't!!!

I dedicate this song to my friend John Clark and his extended family. Caution! This link contains preschool level vocabulary!!!!!!!!!
6331) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 159 Celt Wins! (56K warning, long thread) (Message 1209161)
Posted 23 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Vic!
6332) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cafe Game - How off topic can you be? (Message 1209160)
Posted 23 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Win!
6333) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To the Kitty People........wherever they are......... (Message 1208365)
Posted 21 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What kind of cat are you?
6334) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cafe Game - How off topic can you be? (Message 1208364)
Posted 21 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If they make tin whistles out of tin, what do they make fog horns out of?

Does your chewing gum lose its flavor (AKA flavour) on the bed post over night?
6335) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1208363)
Posted 21 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Laughing only encourages him, but I must admit I'm laughing too.
6336) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1208266)
Posted 20 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I can tell some of my raccoons by physical markings. The black mask band around the eyes, for example, is often "scoopy" or "straight". Logan's is particularly "scoopy" if you look at him straight on. His littermate Otis had a particularly straight mask band. Raccoons also differ in size, and sometimes I distinguish them that way.

Most often, however, I identify them by behaviors they consistently exhibit. Of the three raccoons who visit now, Logan runs right up to my feet, Interloper Mama hangs back but will "beg" by standing on her hind legs, and the raccoon we think might be Izzy is an accomplished rail dancer. Logan and IM tend to rest in different parts of the yard when food is not immediately present. Logan stretches out on our patio and IM hunkers down near the deck opening.

I find personality traits and behaviors to be the easiest, most reliable way to identify my visitors, but no method is foolproof. Eric and I do have pretty good inter-rater reliability, though...
6337) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Song Dedication Thread (Message 1208161)
Posted 20 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dedicated to Scarecrow from Eric and Angela

Truck Drivin' Song...

Keep the shiny side up and the rusty side down, driver...
6338) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 158 Crunch, crunch, crunch (Message 1208156)
Posted 20 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
'Tis true...
6339) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 158 Crunch, crunch, crunch (Message 1208148)
Posted 20 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Too bad it is so short lived, Dan...
6340) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1208145)
Posted 20 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello friends, and welcome to the twelfth installment of our Critter Cafe. If you are new to us, this is a place where Critter People gather and talk about anything and everything.

All are welcome here and there is no such thing as "off topic" in the Critter Cafe.

To start us off, here is a picture of Logan Frodo that Eric took this evening. This handsome young male raccoon is enjoying his last days of sloth and lethargy before some mean Mama Raccoon kicks him out of our yard in July, because she perceives him to be a threat to her babies.



A toast to sloth and lethargy, my friends!!!
6341) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1208144)
Posted 20 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm going to ask Eric to close this thread now, so that I can start a new one.
6342) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1207743)
Posted 19 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I received a request to start a new Critter Cafe, as this thread is getting a little long for dial up users. I thought I would snap a picture of Logan to start off the new thread, but by the time I remembered to do that, it was too late. Logan had already "moved along" for the evening.

So I'll try to post a current picture and start a new thread some time this week.

Goodnight friends.
6343) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 158 Crunch, crunch, crunch (Message 1207706)
Posted 19 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We were in the greater Fresno area this weekend and got caught in a hailstorm!!!
6344) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 158 Crunch, crunch, crunch (Message 1207701)
Posted 19 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Carlos, you really should take something for that cough. Now move aside while I win...
6345) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cafe Game - How off topic can you be? (Message 1207699)
Posted 19 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Markie took third at county!!!
6346) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1207698)
Posted 19 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My wife, Rose found this link and thought of Angela.
http://animaltracks.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/16/10722048-the-mystery-of-gizmo-the-bald-raccoon

Steve


Oh! Poor little raccoon!!!
6347) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Lori is winning (small setback). (Message 1207690)
Posted 19 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Our thoughts are with you and Lori.

Angela & Eric
6348) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 158 Crunch, crunch, crunch (Message 1206860)
Posted 17 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My day, in part was filled with play
And part with travel far away
But still I'm sad and have to say
I'm sorry I missed Poet's Day.

6349) Message boards : Cafe SETI : This might be an interesting subject (Message 1206633)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I love to cook. I have taken classes covering various ethnic cuisines as well as specialty classes on subjects like bread baking. Once I even took a three hour course just on egg whites. I watch cooking shows. I read cooking magazines. I try to surprise and delight my husband with all manner of tasty treats. And guess what?!!! When we go to his parents' home in Wisconsin Eric is just as happy as a boy can be, because yes... in our case I fear it is true. Although he would probably never admit it, my husband prefers his mama's cooking to his wife's!
6350) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #26 (Message 1206515)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hostage situation!!! (Goodnight all!)
6351) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #26 (Message 1206506)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
carnage
6352) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #26 (Message 1206504)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
battle
6353) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #26 (Message 1206502)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
war
6354) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #26 (Message 1206500)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
general
6355) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #26 (Message 1206495)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
skein
6356) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #26 (Message 1206492)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
drudge
6357) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #26 (Message 1206488)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
palm
6358) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #26 (Message 1206483)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
legal
6359) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #26 (Message 1206480)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
arbitration
6360) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #26 (Message 1206475)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
free
6361) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #26 (Message 1206470)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
fetter
6362) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #26 (Message 1206466)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
tie
6363) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #26 (Message 1206462)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
addicted
6364) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #26 (Message 1206458)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
habit
6365) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #26 (Message 1206455)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
programs....
6366) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #26 (Message 1206453)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
dance
6367) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #26 (Message 1206450)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
head
6368) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #26 (Message 1206448)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
cider
6369) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #26 (Message 1206443)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
pasture
6370) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #26 (Message 1206440)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mother!
6371) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #26 (Message 1206433)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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harness
6372) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #26 (Message 1206431)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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seatbelt
6373) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #26 (Message 1206429)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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stunt
6374) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #26 (Message 1206427)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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mature
6375) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #26 (Message 1206424)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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adult film
6376) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #26 (Message 1206422)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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visiting
6377) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #26 (Message 1206420)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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coffee klatch
6378) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #26 (Message 1206416)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Torte
6379) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Word Link #26 (Message 1206413)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, Uli's last post was "delicious", to which I reply....

Pie!
6380) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own word link #25 (Message 1206411)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
tasty
6381) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own word link #25 (Message 1206408)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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campfire
6382) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own word link #25 (Message 1206406)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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signal
6383) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own word link #25 (Message 1206404)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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SOS!
6384) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own word link #25 (Message 1206402)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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HMS?
6385) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own word link #25 (Message 1206400)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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dress
6386) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own word link #25 (Message 1206398)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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girls
6387) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own word link #25 (Message 1206396)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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age
6388) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1206394)
Posted 16 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Why do cats curl their paws when they sleep ???

I don't know, but I'll hazard a guess. Heat conservation?
6389) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Encyclopaedia Britannica to end print editions....... (Message 1206025)
Posted 15 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I just had to chime in. I hate on-line newspapers. Is this a generational thing?

Well if you really want a set of Britannica, look at thrift stores. I find older sets all the time. Usually under $20 US I still have the set my parents bought me when I was a kid, 1962 edition. And I do enjoy looking at them from time to time. They have become a "talking point for ones dinner guests" because the information is so dated.

I am the proud possessor of "Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette - A Guide to Gracious Living" published in 1955. It is hilarious!!!
6390) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own word link #25 (Message 1205665)
Posted 14 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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stormy
6391) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 158 Crunch, crunch, crunch (Message 1205233)
Posted 12 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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A short win for Gary! (Ha Ha!!!)
6392) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1205022)
Posted 11 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
6393) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1205017)
Posted 11 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Oh Vic, can't she have just a little lick or two of ice cream?
6394) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Rocky's Original Cafe @ 19/02/12 - Baileys & tea cakes (Message 1205014)
Posted 11 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I wonder if I can find a copy of Lady Chatterley's Lovers - I've never read it :D


For guilt-inducing reading, I recommend Anna Karenina and/or Madame Bovary.

The library lady has spoken...
6395) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1205009)
Posted 11 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
AW that would be really great, I always wondered whatever happened to my little Izzy :-))


Eric was pretty sure he spotted her with a litter on the side of our house once last year. She was probably just not powerful enough to push her way into the backyard with Interloper Mama still being in charge. The balance of power may just tip this year though...
6396) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1204983)
Posted 11 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's so hard to take a good pic of a Black and White Cat...

Grace is beautiful, Vic!
6397) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1204982)
Posted 11 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh! Oh! And speaking of Isabella, Chris you will be happy to know that we think Izzy is back and that she has her second litter of kits hidden someplace.

We have three semi-regular visitors in the evenings right now. Logan Frodo is definitely a boy, and a big fat lazy one at that!!! He has never taken a break from the Korpela dining hall. Interloper Mama is our second visitor. She comes back now and again and we think she has a litter hidden, probably down in a storm sewer. She is getting old now for a mama raccoon and it is likely that any kits she has who survive long enough to visit us in July or August will be few in number, if any survive at all. And we have a third visitor who we suspect is Izzy, due to her rail climbing behavior. (When they are grown up and out of the context of their litter mates, it is difficult to tell for sure, unless there are distinguishing physical features. Anyway, let's assume it is Izzy. She doesn't come every night, so we're pretty sure she is a girl. She is also looking rather thin, so we suspect she might have a rather large litter hidden and that they are taking a lot out of her.

It will be interesting to see who the dominant mama raccoon is this year. It may just be that Interloper Mama tolerates (barely!!!) Izzy and her litter being around this summer, just as Old Threesie tolerated a young Interloper Mama and her litter (barely!!!) being around a few years ago. Or it could be that Izzy drives IM out in a few months. Our it could be that IM drives Izzy out!

Either way, I think Logan Frodo's days of sloth are numbered. I highly doubt ANY mama raccoon with a litter of kits trailing her will tolerate his male presence.

Stay tuned, raccoon fanciers!!! It is like a soap opera, I tell you!!!
6398) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1204972)
Posted 11 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Isabella... Abigail

Blurf, your girls are beautiful!!!
6399) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1204970)
Posted 11 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And it is absolutely darling, Monday!!!

Thanks Angela. I took this photo just for you. :)

Did Magenta sew up those little critters?
6400) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 158 Crunch, crunch, crunch (Message 1204969)
Posted 11 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Tambourines and elephants are playing in the band.
Won't you take a ride on the flyin' spoon?
Doo, doo doo.
Wond'rous apparition provided by magician....doo doo doo...lookin' out my back door...

(j fogerty)


Raccoons and opossums are playing everywhere
Won't you throw some seeds out for squirrels too?
Dooin doo doo
Don't forget my skunks, three
And my stray cat Spawnie
Doo, doo, doo... lookin' out my back door.
6401) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Free kibble...for cats and dogs. (Message 1204966)
Posted 11 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Me too!
6402) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1204811)
Posted 11 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And it is absolutely darling, Monday!!!
6403) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Free kibble...for cats and dogs. (Message 1204731)
Posted 10 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I played. I guessed incorrectly each time. Nice link, thanks.
6404) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My Hibiscus has gone bananas! (Message 1204730)
Posted 10 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Beautiful flower... but Chris, you HATE bananas!!!!!!
6405) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1204669)
Posted 10 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Andy, you are in excellent company. Last weekend I posted a picture of me feeding imaginary food to a taxidermed raccoon (see Central Coast thread).

On our recent vacation Eric and I visited a natural history museum that was designed to teach children the importance of water sheds and wetlands to the general ecosystem of the area. The museum was full of taxidermed animals, up and down the entire food chain. While it is my most fervent hope that all the "specimens" in that museum died of natural causes before their bodies were "donated to science", the skeptic in me thinks that scenario is highly unlikely!!! Not only did Eric and I pay money to visit that museum full of dead animals, we also made a support donation after our visit because we both felt that the mission of the museum was a worthy one. And then I went and posted a disrespectful picture of me feeding a dead raccoon!

As I said earlier, I would NEVER pass judgement. It would be too hypocritical! In the case of selling raccoon pelts to support a family or mounting a dead one in a natural history museum, I am unable to proclaim either act "right" or "wrong". As with many other complicated issues, I see only shades of gray. And I hope that is what the better threads in the Cafe and over in my favorite lurking grounds of Politics do - help us all to see shades of gray.

And by the way, I totally understand how you would think that those animals were alive and just hanging out there! Your only direct experience with raccoons has been in my own backyard!!! And Eric and I look forward to your next visit, my friend.
6406) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 158 Crunch, crunch, crunch (Message 1204468)
Posted 10 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dear I think it's time
I headed off to bed.
If you want to discuss your boobs
then bring them there instead.


Sounds like a plan, you frisky man,
I'm running upstairs as fast as I can!!!

(Goodnight crunchers! Happy Poet's Day everyone!!!)
6407) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 158 Crunch, crunch, crunch (Message 1204465)
Posted 10 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Really, dear, I'm sure
A boob job would be less.
You could donate the extra
To a needy blonde actress.

Think of all the money
We'd save on titanium and kevlar.
If your boobs were somewhat
farther north and moderately smaller.



Eric darling, please don't think I'd spend our hard earned cash
On a boob job to correct what nature on me stashed
We shouldn't squander all our dough on boob jobs or a Lexus
It's surgery YOU'LL need the day your prostate's big as Texas!
6408) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 158 Crunch, crunch, crunch (Message 1204456)
Posted 10 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, dear, this we all know
And that is why eyesight
is the first thing to go.



But Eric dear, have you not heard, of Lasik surgery?
It fixes eyes up really fast, before the count of three!
When eyesight is restored, dear man, do you know what you'll see?
Why you'll see ME, just standing there, a boob upon each knee!

6409) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 158 Crunch, crunch, crunch (Message 1204449)
Posted 10 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You two are a hoot!

Uh... don't you mean we're a pair of hooters?
6410) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 158 Crunch, crunch, crunch (Message 1204444)
Posted 10 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dear, I think you should be knowing,
That my moobs, I won't be showing.
About your flirting I worry not,
Because even you have surely thought,
About the path our breasts are taking
O'er this course our planet's making.
Even though you I do adore,
your boobs are heading for the floor.


With that point I can't argue
Alas, alack... it ALL is true
I fear my cleavage cavity
Is not immune to gravity!

But my dear, the joke's on you
Some years ago you said "I do!"
So while you sit there smug and smart
You'll view them until death we part!!!
6411) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 158 Crunch, crunch, crunch (Message 1204435)
Posted 10 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela dear I don't want to fight,
I'm all afright of your rhyming might.
At you I might shout and bellow,
but of late I've become to mellow.
Lets just trade some words of mirth,
and hope Eric doesn't care if we flirt.


My husband, though he loves me true,
Does not much care what I may do
Why I could flirt all day and night
And he would say, "Well, that's alright."

As a scientist he's not miffed
If I sometimes run adrift
Just as long as we all know
Eric's moobs are "best in show"!!!


6412) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 158 Crunch, crunch, crunch (Message 1204432)
Posted 10 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Our Angie on Vic she picks,
Cos he's filled himself up with fish sticks.
She cagoules him to spar,
To take her on.."ha-ha"
Angie is up to her tricks...



I would NEVER pick on Vic,
To me he's like a brother!!!
Of all the cruchers in these woods
He's surely like no other.

I must explain my poem, you see
It made more sense before...
Vic edited his post a bit
And changed the meaning more!

I swear to you, he talked of gas!
I saw it with my eyes
After I did my limerick
It changed, to my surprise.

I guess I should have copied it
It was a funny post...
Hey Victor, won't you change it back?
I liked the first post most!!!

6413) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 158 Crunch, crunch, crunch (Message 1204425)
Posted 10 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If I found a dime,
would it truely be mine.
Would it be a mark of time,
to make me think all is fine.
This story has a funny line,
of sailors and the salty brine.
Just don't make me try to rhyme,
some things are pure crime.


When you sail upon seas that are salty
It MUST give you logic that's faulty...
If you found a dime
It would SURELY be thine
To spend on some beer that is malty!
6414) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 158 Crunch, crunch, crunch (Message 1204417)
Posted 10 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Our Vic had a dinner first class
Of French fries and maybe fried bass
He does not care to rhyme
About moobs at this time
And his dinner did NOT give him gas!

6415) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 158 Crunch, crunch, crunch (Message 1204412)
Posted 10 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Our Nick yawns and says he's sleepy.
He can't stay and rhyme on with me.
I suppose he knows best
When his moobs need a rest,
And so from this battle he'll flee.

6416) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 158 Crunch, crunch, crunch (Message 1204409)
Posted 10 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Our Seahawk, you know, is all navy
He's sailed over seas calm and wavy
He knows moobs don't conform
To his dress uniform,
So he says "no" to butter and gravy!

6417) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 158 Crunch, crunch, crunch (Message 1204401)
Posted 10 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A fellow named Blurf said with glee,
"You mooby guys should look at me.
Exercise has effects,
Why just look at my pecs!
Unlike John's they don't flop and hang free!!!"
6418) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 158 Crunch, crunch, crunch (Message 1204391)
Posted 10 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A fellow named John Clark did say,
"My moobs always get in the way!
When I try to flirt
They show right through my shirt
And the girlies all just run away..."

(Hey, it's still Poet's Day out here!!!)
6419) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1204377)
Posted 10 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela & Eric have been spotted shopping at Walmart.

Oh dear. I know they're not endangered, but I simply will never understand trapping raccoons. One of my brother-in-laws in Wisconsin does this. His work is largely seasonal and during the winter selling raccoon pelts is a source of income. I would never pass judgement, it would be too hypocritical. I know all the arguments - this is no different from eating meat or wearing leather shoes. Raccoons are so smart, but then again so are pigs and I've certainly been known to enjoy bacon. Nevertheless, seeing all those dead raccoons is a sad thing for me.
6420) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Oh, Amazon (Message 1204070)
Posted 9 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I would expect nothing less from my arch enemy!
6421) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Oh, Amazon (Message 1204068)
Posted 9 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Save it for the pun room, you heel!
6422) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Oh, Amazon (Message 1204066)
Posted 9 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bet that's a killer at the pump...
6423) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 158 Crunch, crunch, crunch (Message 1204065)
Posted 9 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
But Vic, the night is young!
6424) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Our Trip To California's Central Coast (Message 1204064)
Posted 9 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sounds like he may of got Earth years and Saturn years mixed up. Is there something you need to tell us?

LOL! I always did suspect there was something a little alien about Eric. 'Ol Pookers should get a Nobel Prize for finding himself!


So I was just wondering if Eric - ( being a Scientist ) - was Eric able to collect some fossils or interesting Rocks ??

There was nothing of interest in that particular road cut.
6425) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1203606)
Posted 8 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cute!
6426) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Aurora over the Pole 2012 (Message 1203605)
Posted 8 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Those pictures are beautiful!!!
6427) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption #43 (Message 1203603)
Posted 8 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Fortified with eight essential vitamins and shamrocks...
6428) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Sheesh, more high tech criminals..... (Message 1203602)
Posted 8 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
At my age, I never bare my arms.
6429) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 158 Crunch, crunch, crunch (Message 1203601)
Posted 8 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations on your win, Jim!
6430) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own word link #25 (Message 1203260)
Posted 7 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dead Sea Scrolls
6431) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP Skildude (Message 1203257)
Posted 7 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you a speedy recovery, so that you can continue to rest in peace!
6432) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Oh, Amazon (Message 1203252)
Posted 7 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My dear, get thee to a podiatrist before there is permanent damage!!!
6433) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own word link #25 (Message 1203247)
Posted 7 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Speech therapy
6434) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Our Trip To California's Central Coast (Message 1203242)
Posted 7 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela, are you sure there's no Tongan in your genes?

They believe it is a wife's duty to ensure that her husband develops, and maintains, a "full figure"....


Tongan... Italian, there is very little difference it seems.
6435) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Our Trip To California's Central Coast (Message 1202530)
Posted 5 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We have a ring story too. Our rings are still both the originals, but Eric tried to lose his ring twice on our honeymoon!!!

'Ol Pookers was pretty skinny when we married and his ring was a little loose at the time. Eric was drying his hands in the men's room of a restaurant and I guess the thing just slipped off into a paper towel. (Or so he says!!!) I noticed it was missing when he came back to the table and Eric did manage to retrieve it without too much shuffling through the trash. Then, gosh darn it, about a day later he tried to lose that ring again. We were parked at a trail head and he was sitting in the open hatchback of our car. While he was putting on his hiking boots, that ring pretty much just flew off his finger and went bouncity-bounce-bounce right across the parking lot.

It was then and there that I decided that my husband needed some serious fattening up and that I had better get right on that. After about 10 years of marriage he had to have his ring enlarged. I am very good at following through on my plans.
6436) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Our Trip To California's Central Coast (Message 1202451)
Posted 4 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congrats to both of you. The pictures brought back good memories of our 3rd (or was it the 4th?) anniversary trip to the same area, many many moons ago.


Oh you men and your little year jokes!!!

So... Eric and I went into a winery in Paso Robles to do a little tasting. The charming woman behind the bar started chatting us up, in hopes that we would leave with many, many bottles I am sure. Anyway...

Wine Server: Are you from around here?
Angela: No, we're from up north.
Wine Server: And are we celebrating a special event today?
Angela: Yes! Our wedding anniversary.
Wine Server: Oh, that's wonderful!!! How many years?
Eric: 700.


And since I'm telling Eric stories, I may as well regale you all with another one that happened on our vacation. Allow me, please, to set the scene. Eric and Angela walk into a poorly lit hotel room. It is a little difficult to tell how clean or well maintained the place is with the lighting so low.

Angela (looking nervously around): There sure have been a lot of stories in the paper lately about bed bug infestations in hotel rooms.
Eric: Don't worry. They keep this room well stocked with spiders in order to keep the bed bugs from being a big problem.
Angela: What?!!!
Eric: And then, of course, they encourage mice to keep the spider population in check.
Angela: Huh?!!!
Eric: But naturally the venomous lizards native to the area keep the mice from over-populating.
Angela: Eric!!!
Eric: Fortunately all the poisonous snakes around here keep the lizards from taking over.
Angela: And I love you too, dear.

Yep, eighteen years of bliss and counting...
6437) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Anniversary Robert Waite (Message 1202386)
Posted 4 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
March 3rd, 1984, I believe this makes 28 years!!! (Don't tell your wife that you got the math wrong....)

6438) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Our Trip To California's Central Coast (Message 1202379)
Posted 4 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations on hitting the 18 year marker Angela.
We celebrated our 27th anniversary today.

Congratulations to you, my friend, and to your lovely wife!
(And a little birdie told me it is 28, not 27 years!!!)
6439) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For Lori............a dedication. (Message 1202265)
Posted 4 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing Lori the very best possible outcome.
6440) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Our Trip To California's Central Coast (Message 1202263)
Posted 4 Mar 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In celebration of our 18th wedding anniversary, Eric and I drove a few hours down the state for a short vacation in the central coast area of California.



I am LICHEN Paso Robles!



Look! Up on that road cut... it's a bird; it's a plane. No, it's fossil man!



Oh DEER!



The grape vines haven't started to leaf out yet...



This flag, with a palm tree in the picture background, just struck me as funny.



The hills are alive...



Old habits die hard...



Still handsome after all these years. (Morro Rock in the background.)



On a hike through an old growth oak forest.



Of course, it just wouldn't be a hike with 'Ol Pookers if he didn't have me wandering through another type of oak...
6441) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption #43 (Message 1200798)
Posted 29 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yet another reason why bus drivers hate "Bring your pet to school day".
6442) Message boards : Cafe SETI : . . . Dr. C.E.T.I. RETURNS (Message 1200794)
Posted 29 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hiya Richard - Welcome home!
6443) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption #43 (Message 1200213)
Posted 27 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
But officer, most men like fast women!
6444) Message boards : Cafe SETI : OMG He's Done It Again!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Message 1200200)
Posted 27 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yeah, but when she carries groceries, I hear it is like a samba!
6445) Message boards : Cafe SETI : OMG He's Done It Again!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Message 1200197)
Posted 27 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I should co-co, you'd have a better chance getting fixed up with
the girl from Ipanema....


Yikes! Don't tell Eric she exists!!! It is hard to compete with "tall and tan and young and lovely"!!!!!
6446) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption #43 (Message 1200007)
Posted 26 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Good morning funny people! Time to declare a winner...

Third place goes to Rob with: "I like children, and I can eat a whole one ;-)"

Second place goes to Scarecrow with: "Tastes just like children"

First place goes to Chris with: "Zoo Junior Vet Training - Ok, right left molar needs a filling, left wisdom tooth requires descaling, Halitosis needs treating. Other than that, he's good to go!"

PM to Chris on the way...
6447) Message boards : Cafe SETI : OMG He's Done It Again!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Message 1199764)
Posted 25 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
'Ol Pookers got a second science blog accepted at the Huff Post. His first blog was great and he's getting even better!

(I am a little disturbed about that grocery comment though...)

Here's the link. Hope you enjoy!


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-korpela/this-is-my-brain-on-science_b_1297489.html
6448) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199738)
Posted 25 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela's rumble with different players was magnificant. But, I wonder whether she got so involved in rhyming that she missed the birthday party and Eric attended only?

Nope! I did it all. We left for the party around 5:15pm and we were home around 10pm. The guest of honor is expecting a baby (Yay!!!!! I'm going to be an auntie again!!!) and it was a family party with attendees ranging in age from about 16 months up to 86 years, so it was not a drink-'til-the-wee-hours-of-the-morning kind of party. With the west coast time advantage, I had two hours left of Poet's Day when we returned home. I tried to make good use of them.
6449) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199606)
Posted 25 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh poor cowboy! Mercy me!
You really do not have to flee
The fight was good, my cage did rattle
Got too caught up within the battle...

Please forgive my lousy manners
And alert the city planners
In my realm build several castles
One for each soul I have hassled

One for Chris and one for Vic
One for cowboy, one for Nick
You guys have really made my day
But now I must just fade away...

(Goodnight Poets everywhere!!!)
6450) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199603)
Posted 25 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Free the horses from the stable
Hop on one, if you're still able
Get outta Dodge, begone now, shoo!
For I have had enough of you.

This battle went on far too long
It's time for you mosey on
Isn't that what cowboys do
When someone beats them through and through?




6451) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199600)
Posted 25 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Silly cowboy, ditch the dress
And save yourself from this distress
Cease being contradictory
And just declare my victory!

Buddy, you're down for the count
Try as you may you won't amount
To half a hill of rhyming beans
When I smash you to smithereens!
6452) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199597)
Posted 25 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well... I've see you wear a crown
In Pun-land you parade around
With scepter, cape and pun-tiara
Strutting like there's no "tomorrah"
6453) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199592)
Posted 25 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Words I love and rhymes I spin
Competition makes me grin
I shall rhyme until I win
You'll end up like Anne Boleyn!
6454) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199589)
Posted 25 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Come on cowboy, give it up
I'm a Great Dane, you're a pup.
In you're heart you know I'm right
I can keep this up all night!
6455) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199586)
Posted 25 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Give up, cowboy, do it now!
Don't you have to rope a cow...
Ride a bull or some wild bronc
Guzzle in a honky-tonk?

6456) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199584)
Posted 25 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cowboy it is simply folly
Standing up to my rhyme volley
You simply cannot beat this shooter
(Unless Zsa Zsa turns off my computer!!!)
6457) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199581)
Posted 25 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sit up cowboy, are you listening?
Soon your brow will be a-glistening.
You will sweat because, you see,
You can't keep ahead of me!


6458) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199578)
Posted 25 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cowboy you should think this through
You say I'm no match for you...
I'm so glad you want to rumble,
But your ego just may crumble!
6459) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199576)
Posted 25 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My, my, my! What have we here?
It's a cowboy, soaked in beer!
I am NOT awash in fear
I shall be his puppeteer!!!
6460) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199572)
Posted 25 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Like a cannon that is loose
I am back to cook your goose
Two more hours to Poet's Day
Who wants to be blown away?
6461) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199496)
Posted 25 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
(Ok, ok... just one more before I shower...)

Well Mary was actually having fun.
In front of the judge she wasn't done.
She said "My Lord you look so big"
Upon your head is that a woolly wig?


Clip-clip, snip-snip, her scissors flew
The judge did look a fright
And that is why our Mary is
In jail this very night!

(Ok, this time I'm really leaving... bye!)
6462) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199491)
Posted 25 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My friends I must bid you adieu
Twas fun to play with all of you
But we are going out tonight
And as it is, I look a fright!

We're going to a birthday bash
So for the shower I must dash
The bash is all arranged for one
Whose birthday on this day has come.

My husband is concerned that we
Will not arrive in time to see
The guest of honor, in whose eyes,
We must emerge and shout "SURPRISE!!!"


Bye friends!!!


6463) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199486)
Posted 25 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I wonder about you people at times,
with your word war of rhymes.


Hi Seahawk, welcome to the fray
I'm glad you happened by to play
Jump right in and strike a pose
I'll line my victims up in rows!!!!
6464) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199480)
Posted 25 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Said Mary, "You're all silly fops!
Who wants a plate of grilled lamb chops?"
Then waved a platter way up high
Upon which there was shepherd's pie!!!


Shepherd's pie up in the sky.
I did not know that you could fly.
Come down now for it's getting late.
And land upon my dinner plate.


For punishment she was a glutton
She served the judge a stew of mutton
She boiled him up a side of yam
Then served the judge a rack of lamb!
6465) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199478)
Posted 25 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ang is up for a game or two.
Too see what battle she can do.
Rockets, canons, bombs galore.
To see what points now she can score.


I am not worried for, you see,
I love to go on rhyming sprees!
Sir Nick this Mary stuff is fun
Respond, please, til the story's done...
6466) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199474)
Posted 25 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"What have you done?", they asked of her
"Where is your gentle lamb?"
She raised her shears and said to them
"I can't change who I am!"


That's not the point, replied the judge.
Against poor Mary he now held a grudge.
That poor little lamb has lost it's coat
And all you do is stand there and gloat.


Said Mary, "You're all silly fops!
Who wants a plate of grilled lamb chops?"
Then waved a platter way up high
Upon which there was shepherd's pie!!!
6467) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199472)
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Chris is doing battle royal
Against Ang who's really on the boil
Who'll win this battle
I really can't say
But nothing unusual on poets day.


Sir Nick, I'm glad you're here to play
I'll take you on most any day
Along with any other clown
Who wants to see me knock him down!
6468) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199468)
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mary had a little lamb
She kept it in a box
With a pair of shears, oh dear - oh dear,
T'is now a pair of woolly socks.


She wore those socks upon her feet
Her toes were nice and warm
Until those folks from PETA
Around Mary formed a swarm

"What have you done?", they asked of her
"Where is your gentle lamb?"
She raised her shears and said to them
"I can't change who I am!"
6469) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199464)
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Looks like I met my match
Although I really tried
This Raccoon Lady is too good
Her lunch and me she fried!

But then again I'll bounce back
And it's my pleasure to drop by
You might have me on the rack
But I'll give you a good tie!



My dear friend Chris, I'd like to see
You try to have a tie with me
So rhyme away, if rhyme you must
I'll leave you choking on my dust!
6470) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199462)
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Calling 311, no answer...


By 311, I think he means a band from Omaha
Vic's tried to raise a dude of whose word skills I am in awe
But I don't care who rhymes today, your sis, your ma, your pa
I'm not afraid of Englishmen or cowboys with quick draws!

6471) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199454)
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Incey wincey spider
Wasn't very bright
Got himself washed away
Serves him flipping right!


Incey wincey spider
Wasn't such a winner
Poor little spider...
He was froggy's dinner!




Angela is much more glam
That we definitely know
Looking for a poetry slam
Go girl go!


Poetry is far more fun
Than washing Eric's smalls
I issued out a challenge and
I'm so glad you have called!!!

I'll slam you here and slam you there
If you get off the mat
I'll rhyme a little... just enough
To knock you back down flat!


6472) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To the Kitty People........wherever they are......... (Message 1199441)
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
6473) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199431)
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Threw an onion in a pan
Fried some peppers had on hand
Found some cheese and a tortilla
Made myself a quesadilla.

Now I'm back and I've got time
Who here wants to rock and rhyme?
Wham, bam, thank you ma'am...
Ready for a poetry slam?
6474) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199405)
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nah I just reminded Yer brain that Yer battery was drained.


Jest you may, or perhaps scoff
At how I spend my one day off.
As I sit here in a quandary...
Dishes first or just do laundry?
6475) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199401)
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi there Blurf,
You won't prevail.
I'll just post this
On your tail!
6476) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199400)
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, I see you've made spaghetti
Looks like you've got dinner ready!
Took a peek and thanks a bunch,
Now you've got me starved for lunch!!!
6477) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199395)
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Greetings my dear Lady
Glad you dropped in
Expect you're you busy
Making Eric's din?

This is of course
A guess in the dark
If he's forgiven for
His beer black mark!


Hello Chris, I rarely grouse
'bout my ever-lovin spouse.
His remark I have forgiven,
since to work each day I'm driven!
Eric likes to kid around,
as do I, I'm sure you've found.
But no need to make his din;
we're going out tonight with kin!
6478) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199388)
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It must be the noontime repast
for the Raccoon day dash
as it seems We have Simon
acting as the Pieman... ;)


Hi there Vic, it's nice to see ya
I just hanging out this dia
I'm off work and glad to be a
Lazy gal with time so free - ah!
6479) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199385)
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Said the woman most red and abashed
"I'm sorry that your car I crashed
Here's a cheque for your trouble
Or my insurance will double"
"No worries" said Simon, and cashed.


But there's more, aye there's the rub...
Simon spent all at the pub.
He said, "I don't need a light,
If I drink right here all night!"
6480) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption #43 (Message 1199383)
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win. I must confess that my caption was stolen shamelessly from a novelty song I vaguely remembered hearing years ago on the Dr. Demento show. Since other people have used lines from songs in this contest before, I figured I would just run with it. Feeling the need to give credit where credit is due, however, I just googled it and found that the title of the song is "Thomas Cat" and the group responsible for this masterpiece is called Alien Folklife.

Ok friends, please caption this!


6481) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199345)
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Simon drove his car to the tip,
T'was not an uneventful trip.
A woman driver, she was a scamp,
backed into his shiny front fog lamp.


Simon looked upon that rude dent
And he knew he simply "coouldn't"
Be so brash and so imprudent
To do repairs on "budget-student"
6482) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1199325)
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's Poet's Day, unfurl the flag!
Allow your rhymes to zig and zag
Don't let your rhyming droop and sag,
Just say "I've got this in the bag!"
6483) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1199322)
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My friends, I should not have won last week. I forgot that I will be at a surprise birthday party this evening for one of my sister-in-laws and that we have another event the following Friday as well.

And so I leave my beautiful crown here in the Pun Room. May the best punster tonight wear her with pride and keep my crown safe for my return in a couple of weeks.

6484) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP Skildude (Message 1199321)
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
skildude is still dead...details at 10.

...film at 11.

Post mortem at 12.....

Donation of the remains to science at 1.

Organ donations denied at 2.

Reading of the will at 3.

Loud outcry from the kinfolk at 4.

Jubilant outcry from the board members of the Fund For Underfunded Funsters at 5.

And the lawyers take over at 6, 7, 8, and 9.

Still no work units at 10...
6485) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP Skildude (Message 1199318)
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
skildude is still dead...details at 10.

...film at 11.

Post mortem at 12.....

Donation of the remains to science at 1.

Organ donations denied at 2.

Reading of the will at 3.

Loud outcry from the kinfolk at 4.

Jubilant outcry from the board members of the Fund For Underfunded Funsters at 5.
6486) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP Skildude (Message 1199312)
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
skildude is still dead...details at 10.

...film at 11.

Post mortem at 12.....

Donation of the remains to science at 1.

Organ donations denied at 2.

Reading of the will at 3.
6487) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP Skildude (Message 1199308)
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
skildude is still dead...details at 10.

...film at 11.

Post mortem at 12.....

Donation of the remains to science at 1.
6488) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1199305)
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hope you will share some more pictures with us when you have time. Eric and I are big fans of your work!
6489) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP Skildude (Message 1199303)
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
skildude is still dead...details at 10.

...film at 11.
6490) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption #43 (Message 1199157)
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Let me out, no let me in; let me out. Let me in...
Let me out, no let me in; let me out... Let me in!
Open up and stand aside. Yours in not to reason why. When I'm ready I'll decide.
Or maybe not.
6491) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP Skildude (Message 1199153)
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Skildude, not to praise him...
6492) Message boards : Cafe SETI : OK Girls, we're back .... (Message 1199152)
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I take exception to that.
WE ARE NOT DIVAS.

Uli is too slender to be a diva. I, however, am a fat lady who likes to sing. You may draw your own conclusions...
6493) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1199151)
Posted 24 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nope, he's trying to impress the ladies...

Impresses the heck outta me!!! Nice shot, Paul.
6494) Message boards : Cafe SETI : OK Girls, we're back .... (Message 1198720)
Posted 23 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yeah! Makes it easier to chase raccoons that way!
6495) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption #42 (Message 1198036)
Posted 20 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow - lots of captions and all very funny!

Third place goes to John with: "Dinner seems to be a bit less risky at the Korpela's. Maybe it is time to go there."

And second place also goes to John with: "Honest, I was just down here washing some food."

But first place is indisputably awarded to my pun-buddy Jim with: "I love Swansong dinners."

P.M going out now...
6496) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #2 (Message 1197962)
Posted 20 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
... A pilsner? With seafood?

I hope you have the number of our local pizza parlor on speed dial, because I suspect you will not SEE FOOD made by my hand in the foreseeable future, dear.
6497) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #2 (Message 1197835)
Posted 20 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am certain he can think of other reasons for keeping you around.

Good point. I do an exceptionally good job of laundering his unmentionables!


But, who else would decorate the house at Halloween?



Yes, and somebody has to train his raccoons...
6498) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #2 (Message 1197581)
Posted 20 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am certain he can think of other reasons for keeping you around.

Good point. I do an exceptionally good job of laundering his unmentionables!
6499) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #2 (Message 1197571)
Posted 20 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Try the test again. You have be be able to out score that concomitant of yours.


LOL - only if I cheated! I watched Eric take the test. He really knew everything he said he knew. I called him on a few items I thought he might be bluffing. He knew every answer I called him on.

I pride myself in being a left-hemisphere forward kinda gal. At first I thought I was a good complement to Eric's right-hemisphere approach to life, but over the years I've come to appreciate that he is a pretty darn remarkable guy on both fronts. Good thing I can cook or I'm pretty sure he would have no use for me whatsoever!!!
6500) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games #2 (Message 1197360)
Posted 19 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If I can only get past momma to the chicks.


LOL, but as a shamefully low scorer on the vocabulary thread, I feel the need to redeem myself. A baby swan is called a "cygnet". (Thank you EB White's "Trumpet of the Swan")
6501) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption #42 (Message 1197355)
Posted 19 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry for the delay. Eric and I were visiting my mother last night. Thank you for the win.

Ok friends, caption this.

6502) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1197086)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Look at what the Hoarse dragged in...

That's odd. Over on Skildude's thread they're saying "Look what the hearse dragged in..."
6503) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How many words do you know? (Message 1197069)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Very impressive. I've always been amazed at how quickly 4 year olds can train a grandparent.

LOL!!!
6504) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How many words do you know? (Message 1196929)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
As a 23 year pediatric speech pathologist, I can tell you first hand that expressive vocabulary is not such a great measure of real expressive language skills, from about 19 months well through the preschool and early elementary school years. Expressive vocabulary is a huge indicator of socio-economic background in these children. In children about 8 years old and up, I think all expressive vocabulary measures do is identify who likes to read for pleasure and who does not.

If I want to know something about a preschool child's expressive language system, I look at syntax variety and complexity. If I want to know something about an older child's expressive language system, I analyze discourse cohesion.

I love words, as you all know, but they do not impress me all that much. Think about it - we go from "wah-wah-wah" at birth to something like "When grandma comes to our house she brings me the green Popsicles, cuz she remembers I like the green ones." (Actual quote from a smart little girl I saw once for some articulation work. She was about four and a half years old at the time.) Now that, my friends, is impressive!
6505) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Not sure (Message 1196876)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am three years old than Eric. We get along great! I love LOVE and I hope you find it some day, Vic.
6506) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP Skildude (Message 1196749)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Alas, poor Skildude! I knew him, Esme, a fellow of infinite jest...
6507) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196740)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Goodnight Punsters!
6508) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196738)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
As was this one...
6509) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196736)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This post was a no brainer...
6510) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196735)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I declare Angela the winner, and still champion, in the pun arena! I surrender to her relentless attacks!

Catch me! I think I'm feeling FEINT!

Well I certainly enjoyed our BATTLE ROYAL. What a SLUG-FEST!!!

Thank you for the win.
6511) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How many words do you know? (Message 1196729)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL! Not until California gets decent rodeos!!!

Hey, I'll enter Salinas right now if you promise to help change my bandages after the fact!

That better have been directed at Uli-belle, cowboy. I'm a happily married woman!
6512) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196727)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm pretty sure I won't win two weeks in a ROW. (British English puns count, right?)
6513) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How many words do you know? (Message 1196724)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL! Not until California gets decent rodeos!!!
6514) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How many words do you know? (Message 1196720)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Uli-belle, I'm sure you have "veys" of making him talk!
6515) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196718)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It has been a RIOT!!!
6516) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196716)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ang, just give it up. Mr Cowboy got you. Now invite him for some Leimoncello and I think he might just BOWL OVER.

MELEE that order!
6517) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196715)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes You've been quite SMASHING tonight and this is it fur Me, I'm egghausted, night all.

Goodnight, oh SOLDIER OF FORTUNE! Sleep well, Vic.
6518) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196710)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ballistically speaking, it's true you may have the upper hand.

Yes cowboy. While you may make some Lady Crunchers drool, not all of us are CLOBBERING all over you!
6519) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How many words do you know? (Message 1196708)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
26,900 not bad for a German Chick.

I only require you to know 3..... "yes", "go" and "ahead".

Uli-belle, before you proceed, make sure that cowboy knows two words... "I" and "Do"!
6520) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196703)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Perhaps I should exPOUND on why I'm the winner.

I STRUGGLE to see how that could be possible...
6521) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196701)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh quit JABbering on and just declare me the winner.
6522) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196699)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, I'm trying to keep a HEADBUTT you sure aren't making it easy for me!
6523) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196696)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I SLAMMED down some noodles.

And a fifth of BANDY, I'm guessing...
6524) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196694)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did you eat dinner tonight cowboy? I hope you filled your BELLICOSE it looks like it is going to be a long, long night...
6525) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196690)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I thought you were trying to KICK the habit?
6526) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196687)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You HIT that right on the head!

And that is why you are feeling a bit PUNCHY, right?
6527) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196683)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are you sure he is not just cuffing?

No, I'm pretty sure he JOUST wants to win...
6528) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196681)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll say this about Angela, she GLOVES a good battle!

I see our kinky cowboy has returned with a pair of FISTICUFFS!
6529) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196674)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh Vic, come on! You were BATTERING 1000 there for awhile...
6530) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196670)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is it just me John, or do her puns seem SLUGgish tonight?

I'm just trying not to hit BLOW the belt...
6531) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196668)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I guess that will be some BOTTLE then.

VIE just don't know what to say in response to that...
6532) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196664)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I wonder what beat her beady eyed followers dance to?

They do come across as CONFLICTed, don't they...
6533) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196659)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm quite sure You'll STOMP them here.


Yes, not a soul will be SPARRED!
6534) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196654)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I CONTEND that they will show up eventually.

And when they do, I shall send them spinning like a troop of whirling SKIRMISHES!
6535) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption #42 (Message 1196650)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The biggest risk of singing in the rain is that you just might step in a poodle...
6536) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196647)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What? There aren't enough to wordsmiths to CHOP up.

Well, it's not just a BOUT quantity...
6537) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196643)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, but I thought we might have more players tonight, especially given the fact that the pun thread is FREE FOR ALL.
6538) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196640)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome back Vic! As you can see, we're still on the CAMPAIGN trail here...
6539) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196632)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL cowboy! Go to the head of your CLASH!
6540) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196629)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, I do get a little worked up on THRASH night...
6541) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196625)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No, no, cowboy. When I'm done with you I'll just TUSSLE your hair, and send you off to school with all the other children.
6542) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196622)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cowboy, I'll see to it that you SCUFFLE off to Buffalo!
6543) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196618)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm not AFFRAY of either one of you!

What Yer not afraid of the GOULASH?


Why Vic? Is your stomach going to RUMBLE?
6544) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196616)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm not AFFRAY of either one of you!
6545) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196611)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
5 minute warning! I'm simply spoiling for a fight!!!
6546) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196609)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Let's give people a bit longer to show up. The vocabulary thread (AKA "the giant tinkling battle thread") might result in some new players joining us this evening.
6547) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196608)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
John, welcome!
6548) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196603)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I suspect somebody has been tippling this evening...
6549) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196600)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You must have a vocabulary of at least 140 words to play. Looks like you're in, cowboy!
6550) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 19 (Message 1196598)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hiya Vic! Michael, welcome! Do we have any other punsters in da house this evening?
6551) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How many words do you know? (Message 1196543)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've heard that some men name their er... uh... Netherlands.
6552) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 157 spring is waiting (Message 1196535)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Mike!
6553) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How many words do you know? (Message 1196534)
Posted 18 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


I can haz diploma?


Something tells me that one of those 148 words you know is "sandbagging"!!!
6554) Message boards : Cafe SETI : How many words do you know? (Message 1196487)
Posted 17 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
32,200, but as the Reigning Pun Queen I have to say that it is not the words you know, but how you use them!
6555) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 156 - Rising Sun Thread (Message 1196222)
Posted 17 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
6556) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1196219)
Posted 17 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
6557) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1195898)
Posted 16 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok girlfriend. You piqued my curiosity and I watched last night's episode. Yes, raccoons are well aware that panda bears find them attractive, and that is why raccoons are not found in bamboo forests... yet.
6558) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Valentines Day (Message 1195867)
Posted 16 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hiya Lili - Welcome home!!!
6559) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1195754)
Posted 15 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hope Angela isn't too traumatised after tonight's episode of The Daily Show!

I haven't seen it yet. We do often watch. Should I do laundry instead tonight?
6560) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP Skildude (Message 1195372)
Posted 15 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
News of Whitney Houston's death travelled with such speed. When I heard I couldn't help but crack up with emotion. She was a real heroin. It's such a blow. She made a real hash of things though. Her life just went to pot. Someone should have kept tabs on her!


Mr. Simonator, get thee to a Pun Thread!!!


The headline of this article, thread if you wish, might it not be seen as representative of "black humour"?

Yes! I gasped the first time I saw it and was relieved to find Skilldude alive and well within the thread. Perhaps the thread master might want to change the title to Skilldude - not dead yet!
6561) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 156 - Rising Sun Thread (Message 1195149)
Posted 14 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, I have never claimed to be very bright. :P

Those who are don't generally proclaim it. Your wit and wisdom come screaming through.
6562) Message boards : Cafe SETI : May The Force Be With You... (Message 1195148)
Posted 14 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I know. It's shocking.

Nerds such as you and Eric should at least 4.



LOL!!!!!
6563) Message boards : Cafe SETI : May The Force Be With You... (Message 1194891)
Posted 13 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hehehe hate to think what the light sabres cost .... but I bet you had fun!


The light sabers are just cheap plastic ones that we've had for years. I held two together to simulate Darth Maul's saber and Eric just colorized the blades red. Eric added a green irridescent glow to the shot I took of him and a blue irridescent glow to Eva's shot. I'm not at all embarrassed about posting colorized pictures. What embarrasses me is that we have TWO lightsabers in our home!!!
6564) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1194704)
Posted 13 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Don't you just hate it when raccoons turn to the dark side?
6565) Message boards : Cafe SETI : May The Force Be With You... (Message 1194702)
Posted 13 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Padawan Kitty says, I can haz light saber?
6566) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 156 - Rising Sun Thread (Message 1194687)
Posted 13 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

LOL!
6567) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1194675)
Posted 13 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Here is a picture of a flock of turkeys in Oakland that Eric took using his cell phone.
6568) Message boards : Cafe SETI : May The Force Be With You... (Message 1194670)
Posted 13 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Being card carrying members of the Geek Consortium, Eric and I were contractually obligated to go see Star Wars Episode I in 3-D today...



Unfortunately, some Jedi Knights are more laid back than others...



Logan Frodo just wishes we would quit messing around and feed him.
6569) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1194453)
Posted 12 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We had a flock in our area for about a day a few years back, but it seems they were just passing through. Eric took some pictures, but I never posted them.

There are several permanent flocks in the area of Oakland where my mom lives, so I get to enjoy turkey encounters quite often. The toms can be quite aggressive. One particularly riled up fellow once chased my car and tried to attack a front wheel after I parked. The car played dead and the tom eventually moved his flock on to wherever it was they were going.
6570) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Valentines Day (Message 1194444)
Posted 12 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Happy Valentine's Day, friends!
6571) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1194439)
Posted 12 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Flocks of turkeys are not uncommon sights in the SF Bay Area. I think my raccoons would find the turkey chicks to be quite tasty!
6572) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1194220)
Posted 12 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
She is very afraid of getting DENgivitus.


Angela going into Eric's lair would sudDENly cause a gnashing of teeth.


And I might gnash them so hard they would need to be replaced with DENtures...
6573) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 156 - Rising Sun Thread (Message 1194219)
Posted 12 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning because I only have ONE family event tomorrow instead of two like today.

Family... free to a good home. Take my mom, PLEASE!
6574) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP Whitney Houston (Message 1194218)
Posted 12 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
6575) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Count to 7000 - Part 69, the final journey!!! (Message 1194156)
Posted 12 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh good grief! Clearly I cannot count. Good thing I'm not an accountant.

Moderators, please lock this thread.

Carlos, please start a new one beginning with the correct number.

6576) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1194132)
Posted 12 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela is a lot of fun! It's only fitting that I let her win once in a while.





I think she lets us win to keep us in the game. But Eric is even better. The few times hes punned with us he was unbeatable. The man has a way with words.

Ahem! Eric is quite good, but he is NOT, I repeat NOT unbeatable! It all depends on the topic...
6577) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1194090)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I welcome any and all challenges to my crown. Smacking you down amuses me.
6578) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption #42 (Message 1194089)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Have you driven a Fjord lately?
6579) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1194084)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I look forward to a rematch, Jim!
6580) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1194077)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

This iz not pinata, just box.
6581) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1194072)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I see no-one was a MATCH for our Racoon Lady, and she's gone and FLAMING won it again. You are most KINDling to her, and I expect she is very GRATEful.

Pah! Greatful my foot! I take no prisoners; I show no mercy!
6582) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Count to 7000 - Part 69, the final journey!!! (Message 1194069)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Have at it, people!

6583) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193763)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Goodnight Punsters!
6584) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193761)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Who's up for something retro?
6585) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193759)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nah, you did a good job FIGHTING FIRE WITH FIRE...
6586) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193757)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, since it seems I'm FIREPROOF this evening, let's get this victory celebration started!
6587) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193756)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, after that barrage, there's nothing left to do but SWEEP OUT THE ASHES in the morning! I hereby declare Angela the winner and pun queen.

Cowboy, I'm afraid you PERISHED IN THE FLAMES far too quickly. And to think that all this time I thought you loved me TINDER...
6588) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193754)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So you're letting me give you the AXE? You will henceforth SCREEN your calls? You're letting me SLASH AND BURN? I can hold a FIRE SALE on your crown, cape and scepter? You are letting this PYROMANIAC get away with not having everything up to CODE?

Cowboy, are you going to stand there and FIDDLE WHILE ROME BURNS?
6589) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193751)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So you've got your key in the IGNITION and you're gettin outta Dodge, cowboy?
6590) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193748)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
]No BAKED Nebraska?

LOL! How could I have missed something so obvious?!!!

But you know what they say, cowboy... if you can't take the HEAT stay out of the kitchen!
6591) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193745)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cowboy, I intend to finish you off like lobster FLAMBE with a side of Swiss CHARD and a dessert of creme BRULEE!
6592) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193742)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well cowboy, you'd better start doing STATIONS of the cross, because your end is near!
6593) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193739)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodnight Vic! You did a GRATE job playing tonight!!!
6594) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193736)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did someone Yell PYRE?

BURN BABY BURN!!!

(Oh darn, I should have saved that one for Scarecrow's... er... uh.... condition.)
6595) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193732)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I did not go to the LAVAtory.

Poor cowboy! I hear that is hard to do when you have GREAT BALLS OF... (nah, again too easy!!!)
6596) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193727)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nah, I just ate something a little too CALIENTE.

I see... so it was FRIENDLY FIRE!
6597) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193726)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just taking a little HEARTBURN medicine.

Next time, go easy on the spaghetti CARBONara.
6598) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193722)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just taking a little HEARTBURN medicine.

I can imagine that is an occupational hazard for a RED HOT lover such as yourself...
6599) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193717)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nah, that cowboy will be back. He's probably just dropping a LOG.
6600) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193712)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well cowboy? Are you too FIRED to carry on?
6601) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193711)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Tanks CHIEF.

LOL! You're quite the little SPITFIRE tonight, Vic!
6602) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193709)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, only two left now for me to STOP DROP AND ROLL over...

Or to STOMP out...

You know Vic, you've been one heck of a FIREFIGHTER tonight!
6603) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193706)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, only two left now for me to STOP DROP AND ROLL over...
6604) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193704)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, we're down one now in our BRIGADE...
6605) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193701)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL This has been fun. But it is 2:00 am here and I need to hit sack.
Well played every one.

Good game Jim. I'll try to keep the HOME FIRES LIT for you...
6606) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193700)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh, I'll win sooner or LADDER.

Buddy, I will eat you up and SPIT out the PIT!
6607) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193696)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
maybe You'll be in the hall of FLAME.

Only if I can put you in your FIREPLACE!
6608) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193694)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Forgive me, for I have SINGED.

Ok, I'll try not to ENGINEer your defeat...
6609) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193690)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm almost all FLAMED aught...

Too bad, cuz I can keep this up all IGNITE!!!
6610) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193689)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sounds like HAUTE topic.

Or as the French would say, BON-FIRE!
6611) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193687)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, come on... you know the DRILL.
6612) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193685)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm not TORCHING that one with a 10 foot POLE.

Yeah, I figured you would BRUSH that off...
6613) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193682)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Guys, this is so fun! I'm totally STOKED!
6614) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193679)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That's getting close to a hell and DALMATIAN sermon.

Oh, look who thinks he the BEACON of the church!
6615) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193677)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
sparking of that,anyone eat CREAMATION of wheat?

Nah. I eat doughnuts so I can have a double CHIMNEY...
6616) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193671)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I certainly didn't intend to SPARK a riot.

Well, this has been a pretty CONSUMING topic...
6617) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193668)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh, I wouldn't want to PUT YOU OUT.

Well then, Ready, Aim... (Nah! Again too easy...)
6618) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193663)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It appears you're been raking me over the COALS pretty well already.

Well, when you no-showed, we got FLAMING mad!
6619) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193660)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are you ready for us to GRILL you?

Yeah, are you ready to face the FIRING SQUAD?
6620) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193656)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It was much classier than that, it was at an EMBERS only club.

Yeah cowboy, and they threw you out quick as LIGHTENING!
6621) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193651)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
More like she was BOILED silly and reading a comic book.

Yeah, he probably doesn't know a thing about WARMING gals up!
6622) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193647)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My meeting with an EXTINGUISHED colleague lasted much longer than I anticipated.

so did you put her fire out?

Jim, don't encourage him! He will only go on and on about how he was able to POKER like a well BROILED machine!!!
6623) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193644)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello our ESTEAMED guest.

I'm pretty sure he'll have some story about picking up HOSE...
6624) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193641)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I tried to hurry, I didn't want you THREE ALARMed by my absence. But things got a little OUT OF CONTROL, thus my tardiness.

He always BELLOWS on like this...
6625) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193639)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
One to many MOLOTOV COCKTAILS maybe.

BLAST it Jim, you are on.... nah, too easy.
6626) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193638)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If I delete a show she wants to see I get my BUNSEN in a BURNER>

That image is quite ALARMING!!!
6627) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193636)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I cant MATCH that.

LOL! How the BLAZES did I let that one ESCAPE me?!!!
6628) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193629)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My wife watches fringe, To me I rather watch the TV set self combust.

I prefer LIGHTER fare myself...
6629) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193626)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Can you see me flicking my BIC at you?

Don't make me give you a WITHERING glance!!!
6630) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193625)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yo, Vic! Watch out for the CROSSFIRE!!!

Well as long as I don't get SLIed, I just got done watching Fringe on TV.

Well get with the topic dude before you STIR UP FIRE...
6631) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193623)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
YEP you are the WW of Words:)

Why thank you. When are you going to give up so that we can CEASE FIRE? We need to put an end to all this childish FLICKERING!
6632) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193620)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yo, Vic! Watch out for the CROSSFIRE!!!
6633) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193617)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Then hed give us the COALED shoulder.

No, he would give us the COALED SMOULDER!!!
6634) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193613)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think he took the BARBIE home

I suppose it would be too impolite to ASH him directly...

Yeah we would look FUELish.

And then he would have to just SCUTTLE away...
6635) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193610)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think he took the BARBIE home

I suppose it would be too impolite to ASH him directly...
6636) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193608)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Perhaps he worked late installing a client's FIREWALL, and then he stopped for some BARBECUE on the way home...
6637) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193606)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Perhaps he is just somewhere reading poetry by Elizabeth Barret BROWNING on his KINDLE...

on his kindling

(LOL! It works either way, Jim!)

Perhaps he got tired of the cold weather in Nebraska and he flew to Hawaii. Right now he is probably BAKING in the HEAT, sipping a pina colada under a NAPALM tree...
6638) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193604)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Perhaps he is just somewhere reading poetry by Elizabeth Barret BROWNING on his KINDLE...
6639) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193601)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Perhaps he has had trouble with the law... the FIRE MARSHAL might have had him thrown in the CLINKER!
6640) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193599)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did Scarecrow ever box under the name GASEOUS HAY?

Yeah, but he never got good enough to quit his day job selling FIRESTONE tires...
6641) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193597)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL I just cant say what i want id have to mod myself:)

And that would certainly BACKFIRE!
6642) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193595)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Do you think he gets invited to many Candle light partys?

Given how many Lady Crunchers carry a TORCH for that man, I would guess that he does...
6643) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193592)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I heard he cant watch a fantastic 4 movie. When ever he hears FLAME ON he runs screaming out of the theatre.

I hear he has a similar problem with anything done by Martin SCORCHsese...
6644) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193589)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
He does seem to do things with a FLARE...
6645) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193586)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
maybe his ears are burning. I can see the barmaid now throwing a stale beer on his ears.


Darn that man and his legendary CHARisma!
6646) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193585)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well when he shows up, I want to be the first to condescendingly say, "Why there you ARSON."
6647) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193582)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wherever he is, his ears must be BURNING!
6648) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193579)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That cowboy is probably busy watching BLAZING saddles.
6649) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193578)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I wonder if Scarecrow goes to the burning man festival?

Well, if he takes in too much FIREWATER he might not remEMBER to go...
6650) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193572)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You mean he sets their pants on fire?

So several of them have thus confided... but I would never SMOKE them out!
6651) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193570)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We better be careful or the BYRDS will tear Him apart...

Yeah! That would PHOENIX him off!!!
6652) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193568)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok whats the subject? Torching Scarecrow?

I don't know about that... According to several lady crunchers he already comes across as quite the HOTTIE.
6653) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193565)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL, without a doubt! Let's pun!!!
6654) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti´s own word link #24 (Message 1193562)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

new leaf
6655) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193561)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey Vic. What can you do? One punster probably got distracted by some pretty girl and the other probably fell asleep waiting...
6656) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti´s own word link #24 (Message 1193557)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
pastry!!!
6657) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193555)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh dear. It looks like we lost Jim! It is after midnight where he lives... Perhaps punning tonight was just not meant to be.
6658) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193549)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hate to REIGN on our Pun King's rule, but I think his crown is forfeit.

What say we pun without him?
6659) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193532)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yo, Jim and Vic. What say we make this interesting and work in Teams. When Dave arrives, how about me and Vic against Jim and Dave?
6660) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193517)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I look forward to PUNishing you!
6661) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193504)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Jim! I am home, but let's wait for a few others. I'll check back in a bit.
6662) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1193487)
Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What time are we gathering this evening? I have the west coast time advantage, so I can easily work around whatever works best for other players.
6663) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - 156 - Rising Sun Thread (Message 1193122)
Posted 10 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

California Sunshine Post...
6664) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1193115)
Posted 10 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Techno Raccoon I recommend turning down your speakers a bit first :)

I'm sorry to say that what you are observing is not normal raccoon behavior.

This one here(Raccon Molly picking food out of a bottle)'s even better, but not as loud...


Now THAT is normal raccoon behavior. Stick your paw into a hole; pull stuff out; if it is edible, eat it; repeat!
6665) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1193106)
Posted 10 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Techno Raccoon I recommend turning down your speakers a bit first :)

I'm sorry to say that what you are observing is not normal raccoon behavior.
6666) Message boards : SETI@home Staff Blog : Can Alec Baldwin Crash a Plane With a Cell Phone? (Message 1192750)
Posted 9 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Has anyone noticed that the discussion here is much better than what's happening on HP?

Shocker.
6667) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 18 (Message 1192746)
Posted 9 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...The Wicked Witch of words...

I've always wanted a cool nickname! Thanks!!!!
6668) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1192360)
Posted 8 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Best of luck Dave, I an see Ang rubbing her hands.


LOL, Ulibelle! I do love LOVE, but alas I was not the matchmaker in this case.
6669) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Eric Korpela, Science Blogger! (Message 1192358)
Posted 8 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey Friends, guess what?!!! A few months ago Eric got asked to be one of the science bloggers on the Huffington Post. It took him a while before he had time to write his first blog, and it took the Huff Post a really long time to put it up, but yesterday it got "published". It is smart and funny, just like Ol Pookers himself. Here it is, if you want to read it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-korpela/airplanes-cell-phones-crash_b_1257291.html?ref=science
6670) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1191617)
Posted 4 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If you did, you would be TOAST...
6671) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1191584)
Posted 4 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You boys have a RICE day!
6672) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1191520)
Posted 4 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just as long as you don't USHER in a new topic...
6673) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Heartland version (Message 1191516)
Posted 4 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
6674) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1191500)
Posted 4 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm staying out of this one .......

Me too! I'm not going GOWN that road!!!
6675) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1191344)
Posted 4 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I believe I may have a prior engagement (that word may come back to haunt me) tonight...


Tell Senorita Maria she should prepare to console you next Saturday, because I hereby AVOW to beat you next Friday night!!!


...I hope it's BOUQUET with you if I don't show any mercy next week


AISLE be sure to let you know if anything bothers me...
6676) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1191263)
Posted 3 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I are going to see Matt's band play tonight in SF. We are very excited!!! I look forward regaining my crown next week.



I believe I may have a prior engagement (that word may come back to haunt me) tonight...

LOL cowboy! Tell Senorita Maria she should prepare to console you next Saturday, because I hereby AVOW to beat you next Friday night!!!
6677) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Heartland version (Message 1191229)
Posted 3 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In keeping with the spirit of things, the number has something to do with Kansas.


Oh no!!!

Is it the number of Kansas legislators who routinely attend campaign events that involve giving speeches under banners emblazoned with the words "Join the revolution against evolution"?!!!!
6678) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Welcome to Britain. (Message 1190869)
Posted 2 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Rowdy raccoon win.
6679) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1190867)
Posted 2 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Shouldn't either you or Eric be fanning Logan Frodo with a palm frond while the other offers up the grapes?


I can haz palm frond?
6680) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Welcome to Britain. (Message 1190865)
Posted 2 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Taking the win back from Carlos with great glee.
6681) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Welcome to Britain. (Message 1190861)
Posted 2 Feb 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok British people, how come when you say it "scone" rhymes with "lawn"?
6682) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Welcome to Britain. (Message 1190277)
Posted 31 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
honor = honour
6683) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Welcome to Britain. (Message 1190271)
Posted 31 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Stiff upper lip and all that.


Probably the Botox ...

USA/UK Setipedia

Color = Colour
Tire = Tyre
Agonize - Agonise
Center - Centre
Check - Check
Plow - Plough
Draft - Draught



Chris, you forgot theater = theatre


And Andy... more British associations:

With her head tucked underneath her arm...
6684) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1190267)
Posted 31 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am amazed that the opossum noticed anything. They really are not very bright.
6685) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 28 (Message 1189975)
Posted 30 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yum, one of our neighbors used to give us Ling cod. It is a surprisingly delicious fish!
6686) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Welcome to Britain. (Message 1189969)
Posted 30 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
To our friends across the pond - post a pic of what you associate with Britain or being British.





Ok, ok... I guess when I think of jolly old England I really think of this...

...then Andy comes for a visit and I find out he drinks coffee!!!
6687) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Pappa (Message 1189967)
Posted 30 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


With love from Angela & Eric
6688) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1189820)
Posted 29 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A friend stumbled upon this youtube clip and thought I should post it. I am humbled. Clearly this woman is the TRUE CRL!!!

Baby raccoon eating grapes... in the house!!!!!!!!!!!!!
6689) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1189615)
Posted 29 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...just don't get too close, their still wild animals.

LOL Vic! They're my special little woodland friends and they would eat right out of my hands if I didn't mind losing a finger every now and again...
6690) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1189587)
Posted 29 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Critter from the deep :)


Critter from the backyard!

(Eric took this video of Logan Frodo last weekend. As you can seen, Logan has grown into a rather big boy!)
6691) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Welcome to Britain. (Message 1189574)
Posted 29 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hail Britannica. God save the Queen. Pip Pip Cheerio.

It would seem that I have prevailed, good sirs.

(Congratulations Andy!)
6692) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189328)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Goodnight Punsters!
6693) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189325)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey, look!!! The Pun King is dancing!!!
6694) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189321)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A little something for you boyz to ANALyze...
6695) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189314)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you Angela! To finish aHEAD of you is TENDON to make me want to strut around.

I shall attempt to provide you with some strutting music, your highness.
6696) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189312)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Adrenal Jeannie with the light brown hair.......

Kittyman, you gotta be KIDNEY!

No, I got STONES.

WASTE not, want not...

(or as a final gasp before the king... WAIST not, want not)
6697) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189310)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I can't STOMACH losing, but I think I have to call Scarecrow the winner tonight.

ANKLE believe I won!!

HAIR HAIR now, EAR what I have to say... Scarecrow is our new Pun King! Congratulations, your majesty!
6698) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189308)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Adrenal Jeannie with the light brown hair.......

Kittyman, you gotta be KIDNEY!
6699) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189305)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You NOSE how hard I tried.

Yeah, and it's a BOOGER when you fail, eh?

SNOT as bad as you might think.

No, no, no!!!! Not another battle? Where's my sign, I want to PICKET!!!
6700) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189303)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I can't STOMACH losing, but I think I have to call Scarecrow the winner tonight.
6701) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189299)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
EYE yay yay!
6702) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189296)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodnight Jim! I'll do my best to land these remaining punsters flat on their BACKSIDES...
6703) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189289)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
THIGH beg to differ.

Cowboys are known for the tall TAILs they tell...

Yeah, BUTT their TAILS look good in tight GENES.

ASS an expert on the subject, I will have to take your word for it, cowboy...


Does that mean we have GLUTEOUS MAXIMIZED this topic?
6704) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189280)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
THIGH beg to differ.

Cowboys are known for the tall TAILs they tell...

Yeah, BUTT their TAILS look good in tight GENES.

ASS an expert on the subject, I will have to take your word for it, cowboy...
6705) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189273)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eventually you will all admit that I am the superior punster and the rest of you are somewhat POSTERIOR to my position in the hierarchy...


So you saying you like being the top dog?

No, I just look for an OPENING, then take it...
6706) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189269)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
THIGH beg to differ.

Cowboys are known for the tall TAILs they tell...
6707) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189266)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eventually you will all admit that I am the superior punster and the rest of you are somewhat POSTERIOR to my position in the hierarchy...
6708) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189261)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I see plenty of skid marks but nobody has landed a victory yet.

I have a HAUNCH it will be me...
6709) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189257)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm afraid Scarecrow is busy turning the other CHEEK...

Oh, you CRACK me up!

Scarecrow, go to the REAR of the line!

I'll put on my hiking BOOTYs and HEAD BACK there post haste.

Let me know when you get tired of being a LITTLE BEHIND!!!

Your onslaught is just a RUMP in the road, I'll win anyway.

Not likely. You'll see in the END that I was the kind of gal who took men's hopes of winning a pun war, then RECTUM.
6710) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189251)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm afraid Scarecrow is busy turning the other CHEEK...

Oh, you CRACK me up!

Scarecrow, go to the REAR of the line!

I'll put on my hiking BOOTYs and HEAD BACK there post haste.

Let me know when you get tired of being a LITTLE BEHIND!!!
6711) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189248)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm afraid Scarecrow is busy turning the other CHEEK...

Oh, you CRACK me up!

Scarecrow, go to the REAR of the line!
6712) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189243)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm afraid Scarecrow is busy turning the other CHEEK...
6713) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189239)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
But he's not on the BOTTOM.

BUTT are you sure?

ASs sure as I can be.

<cringing>


Like Alice, I probably shouldn't go down this HOLE...
6714) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189235)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yeah and you guys are giving me an aching one to. Im out of practice and cant carry the load.

No GUTS, no glory... or so they say.
6715) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189230)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
But he's not on the BOTTOM.

BUTT are you sure?
6716) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189227)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey look, Jim is BACK!
6717) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189223)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm already FINGERing the crown...
6718) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189219)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm not ready to BROW down just yet.

HIP HIP hooray!
6719) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189214)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Need a SHOULDER to cry on?
6720) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189211)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No you're not, she said THUMBING her NOSE...
6721) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189198)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
(But I have had spontaneous hickies caused by posesión demoníaca.)


Oh cowboy, how you do BONE on...
6722) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189192)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well as long as Scarecrow doesn't get BITTEN...

Well Vic, I am armed to the TEETH....
6723) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189191)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well you should just SPREAD OPEN the field then.

My, my, my! What is it about boys that they always want to NAIL everything in sight?
6724) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189184)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hate to keep ELBOWing in, but all you naughty boys keep narrowing the field!
6725) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189179)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey, if Angela leaves, I could RACK up a win!

Nah, you'll just get distracted when your new girlfriend comes over to NECK.
6726) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189172)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh no! I see where this is going! If you don't clean this up I'm going to have to say TAA TAA, boys!!!
6727) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189166)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
CHEST a minute here... have we finally found a topic?
6728) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189163)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, no matter the topic, I'm ARMED and dangerous!



If you were a zombie , youd be disarmed and gangri.enus



Well then, I'll be sure to TOE the line...
6729) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189158)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, no matter the topic, I'm ARMED and dangerous!
6730) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189153)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Why look who just BRIEzed in here... Hiya Vic!!!
6731) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189149)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lettuce not get to carried away.


I'll do my best not to CHOP your head off.
6732) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189143)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I can tell all ready im going to get spit roasted.

You are all going to get SHREDDED.
6733) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189139)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dunno no Spanish, but I have been known to use a little French.

Hiya Mark!!!! Looks like we have a quorum, let's vote!!!
6734) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189134)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well lets just take it on the FRY then. How about a free form night?

Well you know what they say... If at first you don't FRICASSEE, FRY FRY A HEN.
6735) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189130)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello to both of you my friends. what is the topic? if its spanish im going to get burritoed.


We actually did Mexican food a couple of weeks ago. Why don't you pick the topic Jim, since you have the rare evening off.
6736) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189128)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pobrecito vaquero solitario!

i don't know what you said but I sure like the way that you said it.

I was trying to say "poor lonely cowboy", but I may have said it wrong.

Let's pun!!!
6737) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189124)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry ,wife had me doing some multi tasking seeing Im at home .

Hooray! The Punster is in!!!
6738) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189123)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
... the neighbors saw us and told us to get a house.

Merciful heavens!!!

Where is Jim? We need to get this pun war going!
6739) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189121)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mantener el fuego del hogar me parece

Pobrecito vaquero solitario!
6740) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189115)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Y donde esta la Senorita Maria esta noche?
6741) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189113)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hola vaquero, como estas?
6742) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1189111)
Posted 28 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Great news Jim! I'm in!!!!
6743) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1188466)
Posted 26 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm not a zoologist or anything, but I'm pretty sure those aren't rats.


LOL! Eric would probably disagree with you!
6744) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption #42 (Message 1188461)
Posted 26 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not all raccoon babies are cute...
6745) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1188202)
Posted 25 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


Rats! Where were these goblets 18 years ago when we were picking out wedding crystal?!!!
6746) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest XI (Message 1188200)
Posted 25 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ahem... it's not the length but how you sail it!!!
6747) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Carlos!!!! (Message 1188193)
Posted 25 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy Belated Birthday to the Captain of Team Insomnia



Wishing you a year of more restful sleep!

Angela & Eric
6748) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1187949)
Posted 24 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, I promise you that if we ever have occasion to be in Yermo, we will knock on your door.
6749) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What Are You Listening Too...... (Message 1187946)
Posted 24 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Listening to my wife rant about something she has completely no control over and she's totally irrational about it. Just nodding head and saying ok until she comes to her senses.

I'm sending Eric over to participate in Blurf-Boot-Camp. As a scientist Eric sometimes tries to find logical solutions to my irrational problems. Not helpful!
6750) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption #41 (Message 1187944)
Posted 24 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I told Eric not to post any of our fantasy role playing pictures on the internet!!!!!
6751) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy 55th Birthday Msattler (Message 1187593)
Posted 23 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Best wishes to you on your special day!

Angela & Eric
6752) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1187592)
Posted 23 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Darn, I was hoping Sandra Bullock would play the CRL...
6753) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1186912)
Posted 20 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is Eric going to try out for the 300 Club?



Ah yes, the 300 Club, or as they call it in Northern Wisconsin, just another Tuesday night in July...
6754) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP Etta James (Message 1186878)
Posted 20 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Rest in peace.
6755) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TL"C"TPW(TLPTW) - Welcome to the Galactica (Message 1186868)
Posted 20 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello there John, our leader true;
I'm here to say "how do you do"
Because it's Friday I'll find time
To say "hello" to you in rhyme.
6756) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1186844)
Posted 20 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
With temperatures struggling to make it out of the teens (Fahrenheit, son, I say Fahrenheit) the last few days, in addition to this scarf, those of us on the wind swept plains of Nebraska also recommend this hat.


Hey there, wind-swept-plains-of-Nebraska boy! Eric says to tell you that when the weather in the frozen tundra that is Northern Wisconsin gets as balmy as it is right now in Nebraska, Wisconsonites put on shorts and tank tops, set up hammocks on their front porches and sit out there enjoying ice cream cones and working on their tans.
6757) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest XI (Message 1186842)
Posted 20 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1981
6758) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1186734)
Posted 20 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cutest scarf ever!!! Makes me wish the SF Bay Area had more "interesting" weather...

6759) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Oh, Amazon (Message 1186733)
Posted 20 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sensible shoes!!!

6760) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest XI (Message 1186732)
Posted 20 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
26
6761) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TL"C"TPW(TLPTW) - Welcome to the Galactica (Message 1186731)
Posted 20 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Work, like a gas, expands to fill the space you give it. Sigh...
6762) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest XI (Message 1186417)
Posted 19 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
17
6763) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The most unusual place you have logged onto the cafe (Message 1186414)
Posted 19 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We were up in the Tahoe area on vacation the summer before last. The whole idea was to get away from civilization for a few days. I missed "my stories" so desperately that I found a coffee shop with free Wi-Fi and commandeered Eric's lap top. Hello, Seti-aholics anonymous?
6764) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own word link #23 (Message 1186102)
Posted 18 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Comment
6765) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own word link #23 (Message 1186100)
Posted 18 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
harmony
6766) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own word link #23 (Message 1186098)
Posted 18 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
music
6767) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TL"C"TPW(TLPTW) - Welcome to the Galactica (Message 1186094)
Posted 18 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Vic!
6768) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 2011 NFL Season (Message 1185877)
Posted 17 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

I took this picture of Eric in his Snuggie at the start of yesterday's sad sad game.
(In his defense, you have to admit that a Packer Snuggie is the manliest of all possible Snuggies...)
6769) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption #41 (Message 1185811)
Posted 16 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm not even hungry... I'm just eating for sport.
6770) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 2011 NFL Season (Message 1185621)
Posted 16 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric was sad...
6771) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1185374)
Posted 15 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ask your doctor about...
6772) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday John Clark (Message 1185259)
Posted 14 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


Best wishes to you on your special day and congratulations on the new doggies!

Fondly,
Angela & Eric
6773) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1185181)
Posted 14 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


Goodnight Punsters!
6774) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1185180)
Posted 14 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This one is just too cute not to post...
6775) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1185178)
Posted 14 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dedicated to Scarecrow and his latest acquaintance...
6776) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1185176)
Posted 14 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's ASADA day indeed when I win a CORNy little pun war so quickly.

Ask not for whom the TACO BELL tolls... it tolls for thee, cowboy.

Well, have a RICE day!
6777) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1185173)
Posted 14 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Holy MOLE cowboy! We wouldn't want that!!!
6778) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1185171)
Posted 14 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Perhaps I need to WRAP you upside the head?
6779) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1185168)
Posted 14 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LARDy LARDy LARDy cowboy, I do believe I have...
6780) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1185166)
Posted 14 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh cowboy, when the CHIPS are down, I can always count on you to pun well...
6781) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1185163)
Posted 14 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I QUESO that was good thinking on your part...
6782) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1185158)
Posted 14 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Where have you BEAN, cowboy?
6783) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1185154)
Posted 14 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Guess our cowboy decided to TACO a little break...
6784) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1185150)
Posted 14 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My, my, my... what have we here?
6785) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 17 (Message 1185142)
Posted 14 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are there any punsters in the house this evening? Jim, are you off work?
6786) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1185123)
Posted 14 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are there laws about giving the canine distemper vaccine shot to wild animals in your state?

No, but to vaccinate the raccoons I would first have to trap and sedate them. To properly vaccinate them against the "big three" (feline distemper, canine distemper and rabies) the raccoons would have to undergo a variety of shots and regular boosters. That would be a lot of trapping and sedating! Raccoons are pretty smart. If I trapped and released one, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't get another chance later on to trap it again for a booster shot. Also, given that the babies each year eventually wander off and find their own territories, the only raccoons fully vaccinated would be those that come back year after year, which is a very small number of the total raccoons I've encountered over the years. On top of that, I would have to tag them because I do not necessarily recognize the babies when they come back as adults. Some have identifying features, for example Arthur has an unusually shaped head and Cilantro has a particularly large head. Most of the raccoons, however, I identify by behavioral traits seen in the context of their litter mates. When they come back as adults, they tend to come back alone and there is not that behavioral contrast to help me with identification. Bottom line is, they are wild animals and not pets. In the case of disease, there is not much I can realistically do.

People do not catch canine and feline distemper and Eric and I have both undergone the pre-rabies vaccination series. We even got our scheduled boosters last year. Since it is just not possible to vaccinate all the raccoons I feed, it is safer and easier to just vaccinate ourselves!


Um, so it is Otis on the International Space Station?

Without a doubt!
6787) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1185058)
Posted 13 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Otis appears to have found his own territory, which is normal and natural for this time of the year. Logan Frodo still stops by most evenings for dinner, along with an older and less people oriented raccoon, probably one of Logan's uncles. Logan is really good sized now. I will have to snap a picture this weekend.

Unfortunately I have some sad news about little Floyd that is long overdue in the telling. I didn't want to ruin everybody's winter holidays with sadness. Floyd passed away several weeks ago. Judging by his symptoms, we believe he had canine distemper. I am sad, of course, but in my heart I know that it is "nature's way" that not every raccoon baby survive. This is not the first raccoon that I have asked Eric to bury for me. Poor Eric!

Rest in Peace, shy little Floyd.
6788) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption #41 (Message 1184716)
Posted 12 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ten captions! All very funny. Time to call it...

Honorable mention goes to Scarecrow with: "After the loud raspy voice told Vader who his father was things changed drastically."

Third place goes to James Sotherden (AKA Jim) with: "Angela, Do not call me Darth Hubby, Ever again in public."

Second place goes to Simonator with: "Don't fail me again, Dawkins, the ability to formulate scientific theory is insignificant next to the power of the church!"

But first place has absolutely got to go to Chris with his hysterically funny caption: "I find your lack of faith disturbing, this is not a tablecloth ....."

PM going out to Chris now.
6789) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Feral Black Puddings Under Curfew (Message 1184713)
Posted 12 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Valentine's Day just makes me want to pepper spray soppy couples!


Winning while keeping well away from Simonator!!! Eric and I meet for lunch on Tuesdays. Last Tuesday he bought me a rose.
6790) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Feral Black Puddings Under Curfew (Message 1184470)
Posted 11 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Woah! Carlos has been winning for an hour? That's not right!!! Somebody should do something about that...
6791) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1184467)
Posted 11 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoon Vatican Invasion, step 3
6792) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption #41 (Message 1184466)
Posted 11 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.

Ok friends, please caption this:

6793) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's Own Word-Link #22 (Message 1184250)
Posted 10 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
patina
6794) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's Own Word-Link #22 (Message 1184243)
Posted 10 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
brain
6795) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 2011 NFL Season (Message 1183930)
Posted 9 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Karen, Eric and I send our heartfelt sympathies out to you regarding your beloved Steelers.
6796) Message boards : Cafe SETI : taking expired 2 yr old pills... (Message 1183882)
Posted 8 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
AAAAAAAA-CHOOOOOOO!!! (I'd better have allergies and not your cold, Vic!)
6797) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption #41 (Message 1183814)
Posted 8 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
S'cuse me, I looking for fabled factory dat also processes nuts 'n tree nuts...
6798) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year From Our Home To Yours (Message 1183617)
Posted 7 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you Angela! Those are excellent pictures! I love the one with you leaning out of the window with racoon food! Happy New Year to your entire family as well!

Steve


LOL! As those who have earned raccoon feeding badges at our house know (Uli, Scott, Paul, Andy, Gary, Janice, Chris - did I forget any s@h badge recipients?) I usually go outside and let the raccoons dance around my feet. That evening, however, I was just being lazy so I leaned out the window. Eric thought it was funny and so he went outside to snap a picture.

Thank you all for the kind New Year wishes.
6799) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year From Our Home To Yours (Message 1183390)
Posted 7 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It has become a January tradition for me to post a few pictures from the year that has passed, along with bits of advice from the members of the Korpela family. I hope you enjoy what I selected from 2011.


Eva says, "Don't hate me cuz I'm beautiful!"



Spawnie says, "Consider installing a bed in your backyard."



Stinky Lou, PCP (Professional Chair Warmer) says, "Hold out for a job you love!!!"



Zsa Zsa says, "If anybody asks you if you really belong up there, the answer is a resounding YES!!!"



Otis says, "Work it baby, work it!"



Auntie Angela says, "Sometimes you just have to go in there with guns a-blazing..."



Eric, on the other hand, advises that you, "Nap with cats."



The Crazy Raccoon Lady says "Don't try this at home!"



The Crazy Raccoon Lady also says, "2012 looks good from here!"


Happy New Year, from our home to yours.
6800) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Feral Black Puddings Under Curfew (Message 1183335)
Posted 6 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Dear Angela
I hope you will tell
That you and your fellah
Are exceedingly well

'tis Friday again
Another week gone
Where does it go ...
But then it is done

Puddings abound
That we can see
but I have found
A special for thee

Pudding



Hello Chris, I'm well and so is my honey
The weather today? Well it's cool, clear and sunny
I laughed at that link; I sure thought it was funny...
The puddings I make do not cost so much money!!!

6801) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Feral Black Puddings Under Curfew (Message 1183288)
Posted 6 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello dear friends, 'tis Friday at last
Another week has flown right past
There's talk of puddings, both black and vaniller
But try persimmons for a real taste thriller!!!

6802) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Feral Black Puddings Under Curfew (Message 1182545)
Posted 3 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Rose Bowl score:

Oregon Ducks      45
Wisconsin Badgers 38



Eric is crying in his beer.
6803) Message boards : Number crunching : Scarecrow's Graphs no longer being updated? (Message 1182334)
Posted 2 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Number Crunchers! I just saw your thread here and figured I should repost something that I posted over at the Cafe earlier today:

Despite their well known football rivalries, Ole Cowboy Scarecrow Dave has become good friends with Eric, and with me as well. As sad as Scarecrow is to be missing fights to the death in the Pun Room, he is determined to take a little crunching and forum break for a short time. He is ridiculously busy with a number of projects right now. We heard from him quite recently and I can assure you all that he is alive and kicking all over the place, just like the nasty broncs he used to ride!
6804) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 2011 NFL Season (Message 1182299)
Posted 2 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Go Pack Go!!! We had two friends from Wisconsin over this morning to watch the game with us. Every time there was an exciting play, Eric and his Wisconsonite buddies screamed and/or cheered in unison. Our cats were terrified!!! What an exciting game though.
6805) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Scarecrow missing.... (Message 1182290)
Posted 2 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm sorry about the information delay. I only just saw this thread. I was so busy around the holidays that I must have missed the MIA update that Mark put out on 12/23.
6806) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Scarecrow missing.... (Message 1182285)
Posted 2 Jan 2012 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Despite their well known football rivalries, Ole Cowboy Scarecrow Dave has become good friends with Eric, and with me as well. As sad as Scarecrow is to be missing fights to the death in the Pun Room, he is determined to take a little crunching and forum break for a short time. He is ridiculously busy with a number of projects right now. We heard from him quite recently and I can assure you all that he is alive and kicking all over the place, just like the nasty broncs he used to ride!
6807) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1181842)
Posted 31 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So sorry to hear of your loses. We feel your pain.

Angela & Eric
6808) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Chris_S won - don't blame me? (Message 1181288)
Posted 29 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Kitties are cuties but raccoons are cuter!
6809) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1181283)
Posted 29 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In general I'm ok at crossword puzzles - not as good as my mother-in-law, but competitive enough... but Vic, I don't have the cultural background necessary to do this one. I don't even know what they are referencing!

Thanks anyway, though.
6810) Message boards : Cafe SETI : New Year's resolutions.......... (Message 1181107)
Posted 28 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't smoke, but a friend I work with used to smoke quite heavily. My friend had to "quit" three times before it stuck. Each time she participated in a formal smoking cessation support program which she said helped. With addiction, sometimes the first attempt to stop does not fully work. The important thing is to keep trying until it does work.

My friend has been tobacco free for about five years. She has saved a ton of money, her persistent cough is gone and she no longer gets migraine headaches. She misses work a whole lot less too because overall her health has improved so much. We have a PTO system at work and my friend has so much more vacation time now because she is not blowing her paid time off on sick days!

My friend has so much to live for - a loving husband, grown children and a few smart and really beautiful grandchildren. I am so glad she kept trying to quit and that she was ultimately successful.
6811) Message boards : Cafe SETI : New Year's resolutions.......... (Message 1180776)
Posted 26 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We had my mom's side of the family over for dinner last night and all I see this morning are dirty dishes and kitty cats getting into trouble. Eric wants me to make a resolution to entertain less often in 2012, but I know that is a resolution I simply cannot keep!!!
6812) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Christmas Wishes (Message 1180459)
Posted 24 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Merry Christmas!


Angela and Eric
6813) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Chris_S won - don't blame me? (Message 1180128)
Posted 23 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh boy!!! Six minutes until Poet's Day!!!
6814) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Chris_S won - don't blame me? (Message 1179918)
Posted 22 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Taking win away from Carlos...

(...these are a few of my favorite things...)
6815) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption #41 (Message 1179378)
Posted 19 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Time to declare a winner.

Third place goes to skildude with "I don't care if you'll work for food... the sleigh requires Reindeer to fly."

Second place goes to msattler with "Such a fine lad....and your list just says kitty food?"

First place goes KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade! with "I'll take your list, but you haven't been all that good..."

Congratulations Paul! PM going out now.
6816) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Chris_S won - don't blame me? (Message 1179198)
Posted 19 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Merry Christmas, Vic.
6817) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Chris_S won - don't blame me? (Message 1179196)
Posted 19 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
John has a thick mustache... ;)

Miggins calls that a pastry duster...
6818) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Chris_S won - don't blame me? (Message 1179176)
Posted 19 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Jim, you're on vacation... and I say it's high time!
Jim, you're on vacation... I hope you'll stay and rhyme.
There's something I must tell you... of this you must beware
No matter how John is attired, for goodness sake don't stare!!!
6819) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Chris_S won - don't blame me? (Message 1179173)
Posted 19 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank goodness our John isn't quite feeling jaunty
Instead of Full English, we could get the Full Monty!!!
6820) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Chris_S won - don't blame me? (Message 1179164)
Posted 19 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello, here I am
At our poetry slam
I see Jim, I see Chris, I see Dan

Carlos is here
And Vic's always near
Oh my gosh, John is dressed like a man!!!

Hello there, Sir John
How this thread's come along!
I am loving this poesy whim...

Now Sir John, I'm no prude
I don't want to be rude,
BUT WEAR CLOTHES PLEASE, OR GO TO THE GYM!!!
6821) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Chris_S won - don't blame me? (Message 1179006)
Posted 18 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gosh, I nearly missed Poet's Day!

Sorry Dan, you didn't get it quite right. Please, allow me...

There was old John
Dressed as a baby
Just at the moment it's born

He was thinking about
A tub full of bubbles
As he shed all the clothes he had worn

When out of the blue
From out on the street
He heard Chris leaning hard on his horn!

I'm sorry, John said,
I can't come out right now.
My neighbors are not into porn!




6822) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption #41 (Message 1178916)
Posted 17 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello friends and welcome to Beets Thread #41.

Please caption this...

6823) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption #40 (Message 1178913)
Posted 17 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win. Jim pm'd me and asked me to open a new thread, so I will do so. See you all on the next one.
6824) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption #40 (Message 1178431)
Posted 16 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Shhhh!!!! He doesn't know he's adopted!
6825) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Ouchie wawa! (Message 1178428)
Posted 16 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, if you cannot bend your toes, they may be broken! You may need to seek medical attention, my friend.
6826) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mum has gone away...... (Message 1178419)
Posted 16 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
May the happy memories you have of your mother sustain you in this difficult time.

We are so sorry for your loss.

Angela & Eric
6827) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1177681)
Posted 13 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

I hate Monday!!!!

(The day, that is... not the bat. Actually, I'm quite fond of the bat.)
6828) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Chris_S won - don't blame me? (Message 1177676)
Posted 13 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations John!
6829) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Insomniac's Dream (Message 1177128)
Posted 10 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Seven varieties of cookies done, two left to make win!
6830) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Sloe Gin Time (Message 1176978)
Posted 10 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Do they taste like plums? Are they sweet or tart?
6831) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Sloe Gin Time (Message 1176959)
Posted 10 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Mr. Simonator, you are the proud owner of the new cooking thread!!!

Uh... what's a "sloe"?
6832) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Insomniac's Dream (Message 1176920)
Posted 9 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh Christopher...

I see that my friend wants a "poetry slam"
Well, words are the way I define who I am!
I strongly advise you don't challenge this poet
Cuz I like to win, and all here better know it!!!
6833) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Insomniac's Dream (Message 1176890)
Posted 9 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vics Home, but the temps are cool out and I have nowhere to Roam.


"There's no place like home", that chick Dorothy said
Metallica sang it's where you lay your head

Robert Frost swore that they MUST take you in
Thomas Wolfe claimed you can't go there "agin"

A hot cup of tea and an interesting tome
Are all that I need to exclaim, "Home Sweet Home!"
6834) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1176879)
Posted 9 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And on the subject of nomnomnomnomnomnomnom...
6835) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Insomniac's Dream (Message 1176854)
Posted 9 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Carlos can't rhyme; Lady L is unwell
Sparky is searching the heavens, that's swell!

Vic is at home and Mike is at work
Chris has a beer, so this thread he will shirk...

Celt's looking up... an eclipse of the moon
Will be in his sights, I am sure, very soon

Dan wrote a poem about tragedy veiled
Uli and Jim tried to win, but they failed

Nic has been busy out flying a kite
Jeremy's busy all day and all night

On Fridays John leads us with poems and his pups
Will not get a walk if he takes to his cups...

All hope to win, but my friends you shall see
The winner of this thread this time will be me!!!!!!!
6836) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Insomniac's Dream (Message 1176813)
Posted 9 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And at the Behest of a mutual friend, He's baaack too, sort of. Purple...


Our Vic has searched both near and far
To find his former avatar

Uli's my friend, so you know I can jest...
Because she is German, "request" is "behest"!!!!
6837) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Batman cartoonist Jerry Robinson dies (Message 1176811)
Posted 9 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Rest in peace.
6838) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Insomniac's Dream (Message 1176802)
Posted 9 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
She's back...


Hello there Vic, my friend so dear
I didn't know I wasn't here!
6839) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Insomniac's Dream (Message 1176796)
Posted 9 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A grand, sweeping win for Team Insomnia!!!!

Go Team Go!!!


Glad to see that not everyone is sleeping on the job.



'Tis Friday at last, and as all here can see
This raccoon's not sleepy, oh no friends, not me!

It's not that the mattress is lumpy or hated
It's simply that raccoon's feel sleep's over-rated!
6840) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Insomniac's Dream (Message 1176711)
Posted 9 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A grand, sweeping win for Team Insomnia!!!!

Go Team Go!!!
6841) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Test your colour vision (Message 1176710)
Posted 9 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Miz Kenzie, only you and your unique ability to find the most interesting little games could have me up at midnight dragging and dropping squares (and cursing like a sailor!!!)

My score was 20.
6842) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thank you for the laughs, Colonel Potter! (Message 1176426)
Posted 8 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP
6843) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Insomniac's Dream (Message 1176218)
Posted 7 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow! Everybody in here is higher than a kite this evening!
6844) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 23 things every adult knows (Message 1176215)
Posted 7 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
On all the mornings you don't have time to stop for a donut, there is ample parking right outside the shop.
6845) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption #40 (Message 1176214)
Posted 7 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pipe down back there!
6846) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Song Dedication Thread (Message 1176037)
Posted 6 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, I'm totally revealing my age with this one, as well as my simple taste in music, but it does express how I feel about you, my love.

For Eric, with love.
6847) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Song Dedication Thread (Message 1176025)
Posted 6 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This one is dedicated to Angela. What I want to say is in there somewhere.


Yes, yes... it's all a complex tapestry. I'll see your Four Chords and raise you a confusing polka.
6848) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Insomniac's Dream (Message 1175731)
Posted 4 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A win by one of us is a win for us all, Captain Carlos.
6849) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Insomniac's Dream (Message 1175686)
Posted 4 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Insomniac's Dream? Dang, I've GOT to win this one!!!

Congratulations Gary!
6850) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Song Dedication Thread (Message 1175554)
Posted 4 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My friends, if you thought Rambunctious Raccoons were trouble, try living with a Boisterous Badger running around upstairs!!!

To Ol' Pookers, with love! On Wisconsin! Beat those Ducks!!!
6851) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 23 things every adult knows (Message 1175406)
Posted 3 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
#25 No matter how much you detest her cookies, you have to buy at least one box from the Girl Scout who rings your doorbell.
6852) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 23 things every adult knows (Message 1175305)
Posted 3 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Regarding #18, I prefer to say that I am "eating for sport"
6853) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Song Dedication Thread (Message 1175286)
Posted 3 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Where Have All the Posters in this Thread Gone?


Busy with holiday preparations, no doubt...

Dedicated to Ol Pookers... Oh no!!!! It's December already!!!!
6854) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Oh, Amazon (Message 1174835)
Posted 1 Dec 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You guys are not making my addiction issues easier.

:P



Allow me to assist, Miz Kenzie... think plantar fasciitis and chronic back pain. Now you go slip on a sensible pair of Orthopedic Oxfords with built in arch supports and leave those TMDAFM shoes to the 20-somethings.
6855) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption #40 (Message 1174483)
Posted 29 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Unfortunately, he knows when you are sleeping...
6856) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption #40 (Message 1173967)
Posted 26 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We can haz back brushie?
6857) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption #40 (Message 1173776)
Posted 26 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's not often you see a heiney like that!
6858) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest X (Message 1173775)
Posted 26 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
22
6859) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Thanksgiving to all!!! (Message 1173562)
Posted 24 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy Thanksgiving, friends.
6860) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption #40 (Message 1173107)
Posted 23 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gosh darn it! Eric warned me about leaving the back door open!
6861) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What Are You Listening Too...... (Message 1172406)
Posted 20 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Metallica's The Unforgiven, The Unforgiven 2, and The Unforgiven III.

Why are you so unforgiving this evening?
6862) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Kitty tested tunes.......... (Message 1172398)
Posted 20 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Please ponder very carefully if you should choose to offer your own.

Kittyman, what drops me to my knees will not necessarily have that effect on anyone else. What is amazing, though, is how our species responds to music, in general. That sort of visceral reaction appears to be universal across cultures. Responding like that must be heavily encoded in our DNA.
6863) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW- Seti at the speed of Flight (Message 1172112)
Posted 19 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
iRule, iWin


iDon't Think So...
6864) Message boards : Politics : Pizza is a Vegetable? No it is not. Pizza is a Fruit. (Message 1172087)
Posted 19 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Try imagining your Pizza as vegetable, and your beer as fruit.

Beer is a grain.
I've been meaning to eat more grains...
6865) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a Caption #40 (Message 1172062)
Posted 19 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


And then this big, mean raccoon came into my yard and... and... and ... oh it is too terrible to tell!
6866) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Celt Tooth (Message 1171858)
Posted 18 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy Belated Birthday!


Angela & Eric
6867) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest X (Message 1171337)
Posted 16 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
212
6868) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW- Seti at the speed of Flight (Message 1171334)
Posted 16 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Celt. I'll take that win now, thank you very much!
6869) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What Are You Listening Too...... (Message 1170823)
Posted 13 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And apparently, I can't always get what I want.


But you can always get what you need :)


...but if you try some time, you just might find you get what you need.

Hmmmmm, call me a glass-half-empty kinda gal, but that does NOT sound like a guarantee to me!
6870) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To the Kitty People........wherever they are......... (Message 1170566)
Posted 12 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Who knew apples were so terrifying?!!!
6871) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest X (Message 1170433)
Posted 12 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The 24 hour Elvis station? (Channel 19)
6872) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1170430)
Posted 12 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You just keep dreamin' cowboy!

Goodnight punsters!
6873) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1170426)
Posted 12 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodnight Jim. Glad you were able to play tonight. Sleep well, friend.
6874) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1170423)
Posted 12 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gentlemen, I enjoyed the competition on this hot topic!
6875) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1170420)
Posted 12 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.

I'll just climb up here on top of this throne way up high at the apex...

Why gentlemen, I believe that gives you all a view acroscopic!!!

6876) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1170416)
Posted 12 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This game has made me thirsty... I'm feeling hydroscopic
I think I'll map my win using something spectroscopic
I really want to be queen of this esoteric topic
I'm glad that you agree, sir, that my win is macroscopic!
6877) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1170414)
Posted 12 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Damn Scarecrow! After that interval I thought I had blown you out of the water. I was about to search for survivors using something periscopic...
6878) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1170412)
Posted 12 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well I know first hand that astronomers get things telescopic...
6879) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1170410)
Posted 12 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Do policemen that live in the woods get copticks?

Not sure, but I think they get glasses that are steroscopic...
6880) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1170407)
Posted 12 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We can thank those young ones for teaching me the meaning of arthroscopic.

..... and ectopic, but they re-situated normally after a week of bed rest.

Eeek! You're giving me flashbacks to my surgery laparoscopic!
6881) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1170400)
Posted 12 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry, I guess I'm a little overly gonadotropic.

I think your motives are apocryphal...
6882) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1170397)
Posted 12 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I say go for the younger ones, they're much more gyroscopic.

(do NOT ask)



Oh gag me, cowboy! Now I need a procedure larngoscopic!
6883) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1170390)
Posted 12 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Do you wish you could send them a package full of something radioisotopic?
6884) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1170385)
Posted 12 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Do your alimony checks make you feel philanthropic?
6885) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1170379)
Posted 12 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ex wives. now there is an inetresting sub topic.


I would think you boys would rather have a procedure that is gastro-endoscopic rather that discuss that topic!!!
6886) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1170374)
Posted 12 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hail hail the gang's all here!!! It seems nobody is being misanthropic regarding this topic...
6887) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1170371)
Posted 12 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now that winter is here I wish I was on a topical island.

While we wait, I think I'll fix myself a gin and topic...
6888) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1170369)
Posted 12 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Topic, topic.... Now where'd I put that topic?


Don't bait me, kittyman!
6889) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1170362)
Posted 12 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Here kitty, kitty, kitty!
6890) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1170360)
Posted 12 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I see Jim is here and spoiling for a fight...
6891) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What Functions Do You Use On Your Cell Phone ? (Message 1170353)
Posted 12 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric's phone is smarter than I am. It intimidates the heck out of me. Eric does have one app though, that even I have to admit is cool. I believe it is called "google sky" and no matter where you are, it tells you what constellations are above you.

Never tell him that I like it!!!!!
6892) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What Functions Do You Use On Your Cell Phone ? (Message 1170300)
Posted 12 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't own a cell. Nor will I. So I guess I don't use any function on a cell phone

I too am a cell phone conscientious objector, standing strong and proud with Skildude. Those of us who don't have cell phones are planning to hold a convention in a phone booth. Darn it though, all the public phones have been removed from my neck of the woods!
6893) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a caption #39 (Message 1170167)
Posted 11 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just another horny guy in cyberspace...
6894) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest X (Message 1169344)
Posted 9 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
135
6895) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a caption #39 (Message 1169342)
Posted 9 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Initiation ritual at Beta Kappa Meow.
6896) Message boards : Politics : Boxing... why is it legal? (Message 1169341)
Posted 9 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I cannot understand why boxing is legal in the US. The purpose of this sport is to give one's opponent a head injury!
6897) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Thanks for the memories Joe (Message 1169340)
Posted 9 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Rest in peace.
6898) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a caption #39 (Message 1168833)
Posted 7 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Whoops! Somebody forgot to wear his saucer.
6899) Message boards : Cafe SETI : 1919-2011, goodbye Andy Rooney (Message 1168792)
Posted 6 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Rest in peace.
6900) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Seti Fireworks (Message 1168483)
Posted 6 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Chris!
6901) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1168122)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations again, Mark.


Goodnight Punsters!!!
6902) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1168119)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Mark!

Cattle Call

I guess I should have turned the volume down a bit. I now have 7 cows in the living room.

Oh my! Maybe you will have to move from Nebraska to New Guernsey!

I am cow
6903) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1168116)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Mark!

Cattle Call
6904) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1168093)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, I did my DAIRY best to win tonight, but I must concede defeat.

I look forward to watching the rest of the battle and seeing who wins!
6905) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1168087)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Aw, you're just a YEARLING, tacking on an ol' COWPOKE.

Mr Sattler, please!!! Enough about your LONGHORN!!!
6906) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1168083)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I can't believe I lost the HOLSTEIN!!!

CHUTE, you've done pretty good for a city girl.

I'm ready to hide in the chute, cowboy. Is there RUMINANT for me?
6907) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1168076)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I can't believe I lost the HOLSTEIN!!!
6908) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1168069)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll try not to cry like a baby when I lose. The MANURE thing for me to do would simply be to congratulate the winner and walk away...
6909) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1168064)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well I'm nearly DUNG for...

'Bout ready to MOSEY on then?

Well, if it is beer o'clock I'll have a HEIFERwiezen...
6910) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1168061)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well I'm nearly DUNG for...
6911) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1168059)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We sure did ROUND UP a whole lot of punsters this evening, didn't we?
6912) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1168055)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Why .. thank you kind lady. And I love that brand of perfume you are wearing! So, what's the beef all about in here?

Those darn boys are busy BARN storming.

(Help!!! I grew up in the city!!!)
6913) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1168050)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Karen!!! Welcome friend!!! What a lovely CORRAL necklace you are wearing tonight.
6914) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1168047)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am nearly out of puns. In pun wars and in poker, I rarely BOEUF.
6915) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1168043)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am playing tonight against a cowboy and somebody from America's Dairyland. This is going to be a TROUGH battle for me to win tonight...

CHEESE, I feel so sorry for you.....

Thanks! I don't know how long I can MILK this...
6916) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1168039)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am playing tonight against a cowboy and somebody from America's Dairyland. This is going to be a TROUGH battle for me to win tonight...
6917) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1168035)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My husband will be jealous that I'm up half the night punning with you big BEEFY men...

If it beHOOVES you, tell him our intentions are honorable.

He would CREAM you if they were not...
6918) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1168033)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My husband will be jealous that I'm up half the night punning with you big BEEFY men...
6919) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1168030)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yeah, I guess I'd BUTTER not...
6920) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1168028)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm not used to high STEAKS games like this one...
6921) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1168025)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This is a hard topic for me. I expect a bullet or two will GRAZE me this evening...
6922) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1168023)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Darn, with Janice leaving who is going to help me STOCK the YARD with puns?
6923) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1168021)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I CUD do much better.

I HERD that!!!
6924) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1168016)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Still it was UDDERLY acceptable.
6925) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1168013)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How do I know that's not just a pile of BULL?
6926) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1168010)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm just glad Janice is here so we gals can RUSTLE our skirts.

When I wuz younger I always like to round up a few skirts.

How soon until all the local ladies learned to STEER clear of you?
6927) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1168004)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm just glad Janice is here so we gals can RUSTLE our skirts.
6928) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1168001)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Janice, welcome!!!!
6929) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1167994)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I tried to edit my mistake, but apparently I was not fast enough...

If we're going to drop letters, I request I lose the second "r".... all fear the mighty Scarecow!

What a MOOOOving speech, cowboy.
6930) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1167992)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not one to miss a trick, eh?

Now Mark, let's not get too personal...
6931) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1167989)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I tried to edit my mistake, but apparently I was not fast enough...
6932) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1167987)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Janice, I know you are out there!!! Come play with us!!!
6933) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1167984)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hubby give you a hug and a smooch tonight before he rushed off to the computer den to try to resuscitate the Seti servers?
I caught him on the ride home with the bad news.

So YOU'RE the reason my weekend is going to bite. Ok Mr. Sattler, prepare for the beating of your life!!!!!
6934) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1167976)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My, my, my... what have we here?
6935) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1167972)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hiya Mark! If you are not up for a protracted battle, I would be happy to beat you quickly.
6936) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1167970)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I know it is late, but are there any Punsters in the house this evening?
6937) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's Own Word-Link #20 (Message 1167924)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Louise
6938) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's Own Word-Link #20 (Message 1167920)
Posted 5 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
turner
6939) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Scarecrow missing.... (Message 1167899)
Posted 4 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
6940) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1167788)
Posted 4 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The second clip in is especially for Angela
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/15586104

(We might let Eric see it as well....)


Very funny! Tubby time for Mr. Raccoon!
6941) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a caption #39 (Message 1167395)
Posted 3 Nov 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Rango casting call, round one.
6942) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a caption #39 (Message 1165656)
Posted 27 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's the MOST wonderful time of the year!!!
6943) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Return to the fun (Message 1164943)
Posted 24 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll take the lead, then...
6944) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1164613)
Posted 22 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL Mike! Looks like it is best to stay on their good side!!!
6945) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest X (Message 1164611)
Posted 22 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
23
6946) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Heard this on the TV News Today about Berkeley (Message 1164610)
Posted 22 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yeah, She did snag a good one, I guess Angela knows how to fish.

What makes you think I was the one doing the fishing?
6947) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Heard this on the TV News Today about Berkeley (Message 1164267)
Posted 21 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Shake, rattle and roll
6948) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 16 (Message 1164244)
Posted 21 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My friends, I should not have won last week. Eric and I have a prior commitment for this evening that I had forgotten about when I played last week. I will not be around to defend my title tonight and I will not be around to play next weekend either.

And so I will leave my crown right here, in the pun room, for tonight's winner to claim! I look forward to eventually regaining it.

6949) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Best commercials ever........... (Message 1164240)
Posted 21 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Britney Spears Pepsi commercial always tripped my trigger......


Mr. Sattler, I insist on a little equal time for the ladies!

Diet Coke Commercial

(Why yes, Eric DOES bear a striking resemblance to this actor. Yeah... right... sure...)
6950) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1164143)
Posted 21 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am quite fond of skunks. They are much maligned and it is simply not fair. They are beautiful animals and when they do spray, it is usually justified. I encourage my little skunk visitors to pay me visits. Eric even built a skunk ladder in our window well because once we had a pair of skunks go down there only to discover that they were not smart enough to figure out how to get out on their own. (I'll admit that was a rather odoriferous day...)

I have observed skunks extensively for years and in my opinion they are very, very stupid compared to raccoons. Compared to opossums, however, skunks look like Nobel Laureates!
6951) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Heard this on the TV News Today about Berkeley (Message 1164135)
Posted 21 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Rock and roll baby!!!

The first quake was centered quite close to my job site and I felt it for sure! Eric worked from home this afternoon and he did not notice the first one, but our home is 40 minutes out of Berkeley and quite frankly when Eric is busy writing grant proposals he doesn't notice much - overflowing laundry hampers, stacks of dirty dishes, cat boxes in need of changing, his wife parading around in unmentionables, you know... that sort of thing.

I was riding our public train system (BART) home from work during the second quake. I was in a transfer station in Oakland when the second quake occurred. I did not notice it. I probably wrote off anything I felt to the rumble of a BART train. Nevertheless, whenever there is a quake on the BART line there are huge delays because they have to make sure all the tracks are still intact. Not a good day for me to be taking public transit, it would seem. Eric felt the second quake in our home. Apparently a few things came off of shelves in a spare bedroom today, but in our home one can never be sure if that is due to earthquakes or to rambunctious cats.

6952) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1164133)
Posted 21 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Uh oh....
Would not be a pretty thing if there were reports of a Skunk/Raccoon cat food war.

Skunks and raccoons eat cat food side by side quite peacefully in my backyard with great regularity. My skunks enjoy cat food, but they seem to prefer seeds and grapes.
6953) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner (Message 1163817)
Posted 20 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
6954) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday to Donald (sorry a little late) and Dune (Message 1163814)
Posted 20 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Best wishes to you both on your special days!

Fondly,
Angela & Eric
6955) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner (Message 1163760)
Posted 19 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"Angela, you have been Chopped..." ;-D

"For the dessert round your mystery ingredients are: Sweet Breads, Candy Corn, Rootbeer, and Marmite! You have 20 minutes..."

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
6956) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Best commercials ever........... (Message 1163604)
Posted 19 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
For obvious reasons, I just never get tired of this one...

Sear's Optical Raccoon Commercial
6957) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1163393)
Posted 18 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh. RIP, little mystery raccoon.
6958) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Best commercials ever........... (Message 1163392)
Posted 18 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That commercial bugs the heck out of Eric as well. He tried to explain to me why landing on a truck would be so much worse for everybody aboard than just landing without wheels. I nodded and smiled sweetly because I didn't understand a syllable of his explanation.
6959) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IX (Message 1163387)
Posted 18 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
12
6960) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Return to the fun (Message 1163386)
Posted 18 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
TMI, my friend. TMI!!!
6961) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1163385)
Posted 18 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, did you feed the raccoon you saw? If so, he or she will return.
6962) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Return to the fun (Message 1163381)
Posted 18 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sleep is over-rated.
6963) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1163380)
Posted 18 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ulibelle - Latte is such a cutie!

Carlos - If you feed them, they will come.
6964) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a caption #39 (Message 1163377)
Posted 18 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow, you are all so funny! I really, really, really had a hard time deciding a winner.

Honorable mention goes to Chris with "Eric misunderstood Angela's request for a special Halloween delivery."

Third place goes to Gary with "What kind of sauce is on that pizza?"

Second place is a tie between Scarecrow ("Is it hand tossed?") and Jim ("10" pizza, Hand delivered only $1.99")

And Jim places again, as first place goes to him with "Three meat pizza, Sausage, Pepperoni, and Crabs."

P.M. on the way to our winner. Thank you for all the great laughs tonight!

6965) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1163027)
Posted 16 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL friends! Very cute and very funny.

Actually, we have roving bands of these little "trick-or-treaters" at our door EVERY night! They even wear masks, in honor of Halloween I am sure...
6966) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a caption #39 (Message 1162914)
Posted 16 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win!

Ok friends, Happy Halloween - caption this...

6967) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Return to the fun (Message 1162735)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow! Watch me win!!! Who knew the thread would be so short!!!
6968) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a caption #39 (Message 1162646)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Seasonal seismic retrofitting...
6969) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1162555)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cowboy, that drunk chick is too young for you! You'll be jailed for CACCIATORE rape!

Ok, ok... this time I'm really going to bed.

Goodnight punsters!
6970) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1162551)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A really good victory lap! And even though I was severely beaten tonight I'm not sad because...



Mmmmmmm... coq au vin!
6971) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1162547)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Do I have FREE RANGE to post this?

The Immortal Julia Child!!!

Goodnight punsters!!!
6972) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1162545)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In The Mood!
6973) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1162544)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well it sure is nice to have my crown and CAPON again. For a while there you had me running around like a... nah, too easy!!!

Classical Chickens, anyone?
6974) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1162541)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you cowboy. You had some real NUGGETS there! Thanks for a BUCKET of laughs!!!
6975) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1162536)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm just waiting for that drum roll announcing my win, but I believe Scarecrow may have misplaced a DRUMSTICK.
6976) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1162533)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh no. I am shy and retiring... the BEAK shall inherit the earth, they say.
6977) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1162531)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We're really STUFFING the puns in here tonight...
6978) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1162528)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nice Vic! Put a FEATHER in your pun cap!
6979) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1162526)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll try not to be too cruel and GALLUS, cowboy.
6980) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1162525)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yeah Mark. You rest and take care of yourself and remember, none of us are SPRING CHICKENS anymore.
6981) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1162522)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodnight Mark. I wish you sweet dreams and pleasant weather... you know - no days that are BROILERS and no snowy GIZZARDS.
6982) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1162519)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What can I say? I'm just a POLLO little pun queen trying to win her crown back.
6983) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1162517)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, all I can say is "If at first you don't FRICASSE, FRY FRY aHEN..."
6984) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1162515)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A victory for me would be FINGER LICKING GOOD!
6985) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1162512)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mr. Sattler, you are in the middle of a battlefield.

Don't you have something better to COCKADOODLE DOO?
6986) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1162508)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've been meaning to reCOOP my pun war losses...
6987) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1162506)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Then you will just have to BIDDY that crown goodbye.
6988) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1162503)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, your CLUCK is about to run out, cowboy!
6989) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1162500)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What?!!! No alcohol on a FRYERday night?
6990) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1162498)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You call that a pun? What you been throwing down the HATCH tonight, cowboy?
6991) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1162495)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, my pun gun is loaded and COCKed!
6992) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1162490)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I grew up in the city, so the best I can muster is POULTRY offerings...
6993) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1162488)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Already? I'm just WINGing it...
6994) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1162484)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
As am I, in weather fair or FOWL...
6995) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1162481)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Don't EGG me on cowboy!
6996) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1162479)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Perhaps a topic will arise from idle banter?
6997) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1162477)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I shall stand on the backs of trained raccoons.

Do you have a topic for us, Your Majesty?
6998) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1162470)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Friday night, and time to smack a crown off that usurper's arrogant head...
6999) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IX (Message 1162463)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...my mom and dad did not feel it was an important holiday, and realistically, it's not.

Blasphemy!!!
7000) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Return to the fun (Message 1162461)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Friday night, and hopefully the sounds of a pun war brewing...
7001) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1162460)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think the crocodiles in Florida are in saltier waters than the Everglades. I only saw alligators in the Everglades. I never saw any crocodiles at all.
7002) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IX (Message 1162432)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, pumpkins are crawlers and they take up a lot of space. I know you have a big yard, but one can only use so many pumpkins. Also you don't want more than 2 fruits per plant because, per that picture you posted of one of your carving efforts, you go for quality, not quantity.

I'll guess you harvested 16 good sized pumpkins.

(But then again I am becoming known for my spectacularly wrong answers...)
7003) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1162425)
Posted 15 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ignatious is lovely! I had the pleasure of spending some time in the Everglades a few years ago and there were iguanas all over the place! I don't believe they are native to Florida. Do you think they are the descendants of abandoned pets?
7004) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1162394)
Posted 14 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eva and Zsa Zsa like beetles, flies, and hornets... preferably on the wing.
7005) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1162385)
Posted 14 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I appreciate the "reptile exception" Thank you Angela!


Just keep your snakes well away from my beautiful praying mantis, friend!
7006) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XI - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1162324)
Posted 14 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello friends, and welcome to the eleventh installment of our Critter Cafe. If you are new to us, this is a place where Critter People gather and talk about anything and everything.

All are welcome here and there is no such thing as "off topic" in the Critter Cafe.

To start us off, I'd like to share a picture Eric took last weekend of a little fellow I spotted hanging out on a wall of our house above my front garden hose. Actually "little fellow" does not do him justice. This critter was about 4 inches long!!!


When we think of critters, I suspect many of us (Steve excepted, of course) have a mammalian bias. We tend to think of furry little cuties like kitties and puppies and... well... raccoons! As spectacular as mammals are, we all need to step back once in a while and appreciate Class Insecta. Talk about adaptability, intrigue and diversity!!! Insects tend to be grossly under appreciated by those of us who do not eat them. (Well... do not knowingly eat them!) And yet life as we know it would be impossible without them. So put down that can of Raid and let's instead raise our cups and toast the insects of our planet. Long may they swarm!

(P.S. To my dear friend Mark Sattler - you see, praying DOES occur out here in the Korpela House of Heathens!!!)
7007) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1162318)
Posted 14 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok friends, I'm starting another thread. Hope to see you all there.

Angela
7008) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Death Star Pumpkin (Message 1161986)
Posted 13 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
... but you are not a Jedi yet.
7009) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1161964)
Posted 13 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
BTW, shouldn't we be starting a "Raccoon Update XI"? This thread is taking 30 seconds to load on broadband...


I generally start a new thread when we get somewhere in the neighborhood of 350ish posts, but sometimes I forget how picture-heavy this thread tends to be.

There is a nice shot of a very lovely critter in Eric's camera at home. I will try to start a new Critter Cafe using that shot before this coming weekend is over.

I am really so very flattered that this thread is always so popular!
7010) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Death Star Pumpkin (Message 1161963)
Posted 13 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
[Darth Vader voice]Impressive. Most impressive.[/Darth Vader voice]
7011) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's Own Word-Link #19 (Message 1161779)
Posted 13 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Queen
7012) Message boards : Politics : Vic's Notes 02: Anyone need a 650w Tt psu? (Message 1161771)
Posted 13 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Today is Art Clokey's 90th Birthday! He created the TV series known as Gumby,
Does anyone here remember this besides Google and Me?


Ooooh! Ooooh! I do!!! I do!!!

There is a coffee shop in our area that offers any customer a free cup of java if he or she can answer a trivia challenge. One day the challenge was "Sing the Gumby and Pokey song all the way through without any errors." I won!!! I don't care for coffee, but the owners were nice enough to give me a free cup of tea instead.
7013) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IX (Message 1161766)
Posted 13 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3757.13 Miles

How close is Ang?

Angela is wrong by more than a factor of 1000


LOL! When I'm wrong, I like to be spectacularly wrong!
7014) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Death Star Pumpkin (Message 1161699)
Posted 13 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bigger fish, girlfriend... bigger fish.
7015) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IX (Message 1161686)
Posted 12 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3 miles
7016) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Death Star Pumpkin (Message 1161682)
Posted 12 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Didn't see it yesterday, but I see it now... LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
7017) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - Return to the fun (Message 1161152)
Posted 11 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Mike!
7018) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - the new (Message 1160857)
Posted 10 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodnight win, although I see it is technically morning here...
7019) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - the new (Message 1160848)
Posted 10 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Watch and learn, grasshopper.
7020) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - the new (Message 1160843)
Posted 10 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is done quickly. Like this!
7021) Message boards : Number crunching : Seti@Home Newsletter , Donations (Message 1160678)
Posted 9 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for your gift of $100.00 via Visa on 10/09/2011.
Your gift was assigned to the following areas:

SETI@home - $100.00

Your confirmation number is:
79330
7022) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IX (Message 1160654)
Posted 9 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oooh! Ooooh! Queen Uli!!!! How about letting a troop of trained raccoons perform tricks at your coronation?
7023) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games (Message 1160633)
Posted 9 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I lurk the Mystery Photo thread too and really enjoy seeing all the exotic places posted... great armchair traveling with no passport and shots required. Thanks friends!
7024) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IX (Message 1160579)
Posted 9 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
An invitation to tea with the Queen?!!!
7025) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160488)
Posted 9 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ladies and gentlemen, Scarecrow has left the building.
7026) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160486)
Posted 9 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well bless my soul, what's wrong with me?
I'm itching like a man on a fuzzy tree...
7027) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160483)
Posted 9 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Although hunka hunka burnin' love fits too.

Mr. Crow, that is far too much information!

(And I strongly suggest that you seek medical advice regarding that burning sensation.)
7028) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IX (Message 1160463)
Posted 9 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A picture of someone wearing only a cowboy hat, laying on the fender of a red Dodge pickup spraying water out of his mouth like a fountain??

( That's not a love letter, just plain old advertising. )



Mental shower!!! Mental shower!!! Mental shower!!!

Whew! That's better!
7029) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160375)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, but they ate all their green stars...
7030) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IX (Message 1160374)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A love letter from Scarecrow?


I dun'o James, where do you get them from...I had a good laugh though.


Michael, James and Uli got one too?!!! I swear that cowboy sends out more love letters than my husband sends out donation requests!!!
7031) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160361)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Harrumph! So there! Grumble, grumble, grumble...


Mumble, can't get the staff these days, grumble, dunno what the worlds coming too, wasn't like this in my day, mumble, can't lend nuffin round here, grumble .....


Exactly! I completely concur.
7032) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160353)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Looks like I missed another fun punfilled night.

When ever I look at Canis Major I will see Scarecrows crown:)


Hey!!! That is NOT Scarecrow's crown!!! It is MY crown and I just so happen to be letting Scarecrow "borrow" it right now, because I am a kind, thoughtful, generous and not at all competitive lady!!!

I'll have you know that I fully intend to wrest that crown back the very next time I happen to have an open Friday evening. Harrumph! So there! Grumble, grumble, grumble...
7033) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160228)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nah, it was all in good fun.

Like illusionists we were just playing around with SMOKEY and mirrors...
7034) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160101)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Enjoy the crown, Your Highness. I shall retrieve it soon!
7035) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160098)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Goodnight Punsters!
7036) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160097)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

I would like to dispel the myth...
7037) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160095)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


Cowboy, you have won today, but I intend to win toSNARL
7038) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160093)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well Scarecrow, it was a HAIRY, SCARY battle, but I am out of puns and you have won.

All hail our new Pun King!
7039) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160091)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'd be a LAIR if I didn't agree with you, cowboy...
7040) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160089)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now where did that cowboy go? He must be off in the woods foraging for BEARries...
7041) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160088)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eight minutes cowboy... Come on now, don't keep us BAITING!
7042) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160086)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Janice, how was your soup tonight? Is your stomach GROWLING?
7043) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160084)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome, Janice, to some of the worst punning I've ev-URSINE!!!
7044) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160081)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Violence like that is a CINNAMON sins, cowboy!
7045) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160079)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
They do get overBEARing sometimes, don't they?
7046) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160077)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll try not to get too FURRYous...
7047) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160075)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll PAW around and see what comes up...
7048) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160073)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That's not what my YOGI teacher says...
7049) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160071)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, I am ready to CLAW my way to the top!
7050) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160069)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dude, don't BRUIN the moment...
7051) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160067)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Afraid I might be too hot for your KODIAK camera to take in?
7052) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160065)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ha! All I need to do to distract you is to slip into this TEDDY...
7053) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160061)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No, you will miss the BLACK eye I give that cowboy!!!
7054) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160059)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh come on! We're not against PANDAing...
7055) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's Own Word-Link #19 (Message 1160055)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
yet...
7056) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160053)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
John! Welcome!!!

Shall we all just chat a bit and see if a topic evolves?
7057) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160050)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My, my, my! What have we here?
7058) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1160048)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends! Do we have any punsters amongst us this evening?
7059) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IX (Message 1160030)
Posted 8 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A cat... from Kittyman in Wisconsin!
7060) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a caption #38 (Message 1159991)
Posted 7 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Welcome to the University of Nebraska campus. Go Huskers.
7061) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Something to chew on. (Message 1159825)
Posted 7 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Have a big bowl of vegetables for diner today,...


LOL Michael! Only an Englishman would say that vegetables are soft and easy to chew!!! Out here in the wilds of California, we like our vegies very lightly cooked so that they retain a little snap and crunch!
7062) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Something to chew on. (Message 1159816)
Posted 7 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Regarding your speech clarity and your chewing difficulties, give yourself a little more time to adjust. Your brain and tongue are working together to figure out where all your new oral landmarks are. I am not trying to minimize your pain, but I work as a speech therapist in a hospital and our department gets a lot of oral cancer patient referrals. I have seen people adjust and compensate to far more radical physical changes. Janice, I know how excellent your brain is and I know it is only a matter of time before you sound exactly like yourself!
7063) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1159305)
Posted 6 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Paul, that is a beautiful picture! Thank you for posting it.
7064) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Steve Jobs has passed away... (Message 1159302)
Posted 6 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Rest in peace.
7065) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1157925)
Posted 1 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Darn! You caught me. (And the station's garbage is delicious!!!)
7066) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1157903)
Posted 1 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And the Badgers be lookin' for popcorn tonight.....

Yeah baby!!!

And "hi" Vic!
7067) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1157894)
Posted 1 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The "AAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!" factor is high in here this morning! Greetings fellow critter lovers!
7068) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1157893)
Posted 1 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you Chris. That was unBEARably cute!

(Cowboy, with 20/20 hindsight I see we both missed the most obvious pun of all!!!)
7069) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1157789)
Posted 1 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winnie the Pooh sing along!!!

Goodnight punsters!
7070) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1157784)
Posted 1 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
7071) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1157782)
Posted 1 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
7072) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1157781)
Posted 1 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you, you SILLY OLD BEAR!
7073) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1157779)
Posted 1 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the WINNIE!
7074) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1157777)
Posted 1 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Watch out Uli. I'm going to POOH CORNER this pun market!
7075) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1157774)
Posted 1 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not fair?!!! COTTLESTON PIE not?
7076) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1157771)
Posted 1 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The topic is Winnie the Pooh. It takes us all back to WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG!
7077) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1157768)
Posted 1 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The topic of POOH STICKS with you, doesn't it!
7078) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1157764)
Posted 1 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Don't make me call a lawyer and POOH you, cowboy!
7079) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1157761)
Posted 1 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cowboy, I don't recall any gopher in those books!!! I think you are inebriated! Somebody call a BOUNCEr!!!
7080) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1157758)
Posted 1 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cowboy, I hope you are wearing a Saint CHRISTOPHER's medal this evening, because you are going to need protection!!!
7081) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1157756)
Posted 1 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No worries. It will take VERY LITTLE BRAIN to beat you this evening.
7082) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1157754)
Posted 1 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cowboy, you are giving me enough time between puns to check and see how my pottery is drying in the MILNE!
7083) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1157751)
Posted 1 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Don't let it BOTHER you, cowboy...
7084) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1157749)
Posted 1 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You seem to be punning slowly. Are you overly STUFFED from your dinner?
7085) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1157747)
Posted 1 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll be ROBIN you of your title before the night is through...
7086) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1157745)
Posted 1 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Why I'll learn ya to take your HEFFALUMPS, cowboy!!!
7087) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1157742)
Posted 1 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cowboy, you will ROO the day you tried to tango with me!!!
7088) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1157740)
Posted 1 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
OWL bet it does!
7089) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1157738)
Posted 1 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did somebody say something about Winnie the Pooh? I think EEYORE on to a topic there...
7090) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1157736)
Posted 1 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Why look what the cat dragged in!
7091) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1157734)
Posted 1 Oct 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I know it is late, but are there any late night punsters in the house?
7092) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Song Dedication Thread (Message 1157480)
Posted 30 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dedicated to someone who is facing the possibility of experimenting with sobriety on a Friday night - All My Favorite Drunks Have Given Up Drinkin'

Keep laughing, friend. I hear it has medicinal properties...
7093) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - the new (Message 1157373)
Posted 30 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela may have gotten here first, but I will be here last

Guess again, insomnia guy!
7094) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - the new (Message 1157200)
Posted 29 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hiya Chris! I have 2 minutes left on my lunch break, so I can't chat for long...
7095) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own word link # 18 (Message 1157197)
Posted 29 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
NIMBYism
7096) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - the new (Message 1157196)
Posted 29 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi John!
7097) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - the new (Message 1157183)
Posted 29 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not if I get there first!!!
7098) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Can you draw a stick-man? (Message 1156755)
Posted 28 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi, you've reached Uli's telephone.
If you're rich and handsome please leave your name and number.
If you're not please hang up.
If it's about yesterday, sorry about that.
Otherwise you have a wrong number.

Byeeeee



I'm sorry Chris. You didn't get it quite right. I believe her message goes as follows:

Hi, you've reached Uli!
If you are calling to drop off a stray cat, please press one.
If you are calling to drop off a stray dog, please press two.
If you are calling to drop off a stray cat and a stray dog, please press three.
If you are calling to drop off an ailing plant, please press four.
If this is ET calling, please know that seti@home is currently out of anniversary t-shirts, but if you leave your name and celestial address I will ship you a shirt from our next printing.
Beeeeeeeeeep.
7099) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1156753)
Posted 28 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hiya Spitty! Nice to see your lovely kitty face again!
7100) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1156534)
Posted 27 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Whilst I hail from a country that does not really celebrate Halloween is a"Halloween Village" a normal thing?


My Halloween village is like a miniature Christmas village, only creepy. Eric posted a picture of it last year in a previous Critter Cafe. And no, it is not "normal" to have a Halloween village.

I celebrate Halloween for the entire month of October. I have a wall-sized cabinet in our garage dedicated to my Halloween stuff. I have to weed things out of my collection every year just to keep it from expanding beyond the garage area dedicated to it.

I have a good sized collection of Halloween tops and vests and scarves that I wear to work EVERY work day in October. And don't even get me started on the Halloween jewelry I own. Not many people own candy corn necklaces or enchanting pieces from the "bewitching bones" collection. On the weekends I don "casual wear" - Halloween t-shirts and Halloween socks. I have a Halloween cardigan in case it gets chilly.

I send out more Halloween cards than Christmas cards. I generally have several Halloween celebrations across the month. For nearly 23 years I have been responsible for making my co-workers gain weight in October by keeping a giant cauldron in a charting area filled with all kinds of candy treats. (I put peanuts and little boxes of raisins in the cauldron too because one gal I work with is diabetic. The peanuts and raisins are rarely popular.)

As a surprise gift one year, Eric worked with a local artist and commissioned a very large bat for me made of paper mache and wire. I have that bat hanging in my den year round. It is a beautiful work of art.

I tend to give normal dinner entrees creepy names in October. No matter what I serve Eric, I guarantee I will name it something that makes it seem a whole lot less appealing than it actually is. And I make my poor husband drink his coffee out of a pumpkin mug for 31 consecutive days. He hates this because my pumpkin mugs (I have a set of several dozen) are so large that if he fills the mug completely his coffee stays hot for far too long and if he half fills the mug his coffee cools off far too quickly.

None of this is "normal" and I have an extremely tolerant husband.
7101) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a caption #38 (Message 1156528)
Posted 27 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello! Clearly this picture was a bust. I can see where one might think this is a fox, given the tail, but if you look at the hands and feet they are definitely raccoonish.

The winner is Miz Ulibelle with: "Is this what it takes to be able to nibble on Eric's toe?"

P.M. on the way...
7102) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games (Message 1156493)
Posted 27 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Funny, she does not look like a raccoon. Is she the one that keep biting Eric's shoes?

No, she is the one who keeps nibbling on his ear!!!
7103) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IX (Message 1156280)
Posted 26 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
six
7104) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games (Message 1156278)
Posted 26 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
She is a raccoon, people!!! A raccoon!!!
7105) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a caption #38 (Message 1156196)
Posted 26 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.

Well, now that the Alien Thread has been locked, there is a decided lack of women falling out of their underwear in this Cafe! To make up for that lack I challenge you to...

...caption this!!!
7106) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW (Message 1156150)
Posted 26 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I tried pear cider for the first time recently and thought it was quite tasty.
7107) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1156147)
Posted 26 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And the Badgers won over South Dakota yesterday too.....

Yes, and they are going to roll right over those Huskers next weekend, too!
7108) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own word link # 18 (Message 1156142)
Posted 26 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Me!!!!

(Well, at my age I'm either hot or cold... sometimes within the same minute!)
7109) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1156133)
Posted 26 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Your Lou looks like our Eva! Welcome to the Critter Cafe!!!
7110) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1156111)
Posted 25 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's not easy living with the Queen of Halloween.

Well to paraphrase Kermit, "It's not easy being Queen." I hired a teenager from down the street to help me haul boxes and wire up my Halloween Village. We both worked like dogs for 4.5 hours today and I'm only about a quarter decorated. Whew!
7111) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Song Dedication Thread (Message 1155972)
Posted 25 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dedicated to Eric who is going bass fishing today!

Get that bass!
7112) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Song Dedication Thread (Message 1155969)
Posted 25 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ah a seasonal favorite... Thank you, my love, and Happy Halloween to you too!
7113) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a caption #38 (Message 1155868)
Posted 25 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Squirrels on horseback eating pizza? Dude, I am soooo outta here!
7114) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Song Dedication Thread (Message 1155851)
Posted 25 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Elvis Presley - Love Me Tender

Dedicated to Eric.
7115) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1155844)
Posted 25 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Actually, I do put bourbon or brandy in a spray bottle once a year and I find it really doesn't slow Eric down. When I make fruitcakes in big batches (really big batches - like 9 at a time!!!) I wrap them all in cheesecloth and I use booze in a spray bottle to moisten the cheesecloth wrappings as each fruitcake slowly ripens across a month or two. Ripening fruitcakes just get better with age. Yum!
7116) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1155810)
Posted 25 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Psst.. Angela.. someone really impatient that likes to sleep in might try a spray bottle....

LOL friend! I can wait for Mother Nature to bejewel all the webs. Water in a spray bottle will not be necessary.
7117) Message boards : Cafe SETI : UARS satellite came back to earth. (Message 1155739)
Posted 24 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gosh, I sure hope it isn't one of Eric's previous projects. If it is, let me be the first to apologize in advance to anyone it might bean.
7118) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1155738)
Posted 24 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's that time of year again. Angela has started to name the orb weavers in our back yard. We have Orbie 6, and Roy Orbie-son. It's not easy living with the Queen of Halloween.


I just finished doing a little gardening and I'm delighted to report that we have far more orb weavers about this year than I could possibly name. I'm afraid "Roy" was a poorly chosen name though. As is common in the spidey community, female orb weavers tend to eat their mates rather quickly after the er... um... uh... exchange of genetic material. Roy is most certainly female.

In our neck of the words this time of year, female orb weavers spin large and luxurious webs and then they just hang there getting bigger and bigger and bigger from consuming anything that might stumble into their webs... moths, flies, raccoons, small children.

Ok, ok - just kidding about those last two. When Obie 6 and Roy Orbie-son get a little bigger, I'll try to snap a photo or two. Their webs look particularly nice when they are wet with dew. In the meanwhile, I found this drawing that I think is particularly nice.



Happy Halloween everyone!!!
7119) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW (Message 1155714)
Posted 24 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you friend. A post or two a day keeps the doctor away!
7120) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW (Message 1155661)
Posted 24 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are we there yet? Are we there yet? How many more miles to go? Now are we there? How 'bout now?
7121) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Can you draw a stick-man? (Message 1155543)
Posted 24 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
See what I mean?
7122) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Can you draw a stick-man? (Message 1155541)
Posted 24 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Girlfriend, I believe there are a number of crunchers 'round here who would gladly help you fill your days!!!
7123) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a caption #38 (Message 1155433)
Posted 23 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Most of the paparazzi thought that Paris Hilton's new outfit made the capture of indiscreet shot far too easy.
7124) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1155344)
Posted 23 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL dear! It is possible, however, that there are readers of this thread who are not huge fans of the very Halloweenish movie "Heathers". (If you love sick and disturbed high school revenge movies, watch "Heathers" - you are in for a treat!!!)

Anyway, for those not in the know, the Heather with the blue tongue really loves corn nuts and she has just been poisoned. Her last words before crashing into a glass coffee table are "Corn Nuts!"
7125) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Alien characters pictures. (Message 1155151)
Posted 23 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
UFO Song
7126) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Can you draw a stick-man? (Message 1155148)
Posted 23 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Kenzie, that was really fun! What a great find!!! Thank you!
7127) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1154895)
Posted 22 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This is fun! Anyone keeping score?


I'm afraid Mr. Crow is beating us in the quality department, but I agree that this has been fun!
7128) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW (Message 1154817)
Posted 22 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning two for the Team...
But I'm about to succumb.


Lucky you! Sleep well, friend.
7129) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW (Message 1154808)
Posted 22 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning one for Team Insomnia! Go Team Go!!!
7130) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1154791)
Posted 22 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What do you call a beautiful woman on the arm of a Cornhusker fan?

A Tattoo.
7131) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1154788)
Posted 22 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What’s the best thing to come out of Nebraska?

I-80
7132) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Alien characters pictures. (Message 1154379)
Posted 21 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Boys will be boys, I suppose... but frankly that old BOTD thread pales in comparison to this one...
7133) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW (Message 1154378)
Posted 21 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Belated congratulations on your win, Ulibelle!

My turn next!!!
7134) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Argh Mateys! (Message 1154117)
Posted 20 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Me Jolly Roger be fadin in the distance...
Sleep well, mateys.
7135) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Argh Mateys! (Message 1154113)
Posted 20 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Aye! And I best be joining him soon.

Goodnight mateys!
7136) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Argh Mateys! (Message 1154111)
Posted 20 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Captn' Eric already be in his bunk. (And FYI, he sleeps with a software patch over his eye...)
7137) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Argh Mateys! (Message 1154109)
Posted 20 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There be no marital squalls here matey. Neither of us be weighing anchor.
7138) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Argh Mateys! (Message 1154106)
Posted 20 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If I had me druthers I'd pillage his den and scuppper its contents!
7139) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Argh Mateys! (Message 1154104)
Posted 20 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Aye! He be sloshed on rum!
7140) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Argh Mateys! (Message 1154099)
Posted 20 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Captn' Eric, when will ye den be shipshape?
7141) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Argh Mateys! (Message 1154095)
Posted 20 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Avast, I see the sail of Captn Eric draw nigh!
7142) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Argh Mateys! (Message 1154091)
Posted 20 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Aye, there be some pretty pieces of eight there, matey!
7143) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Argh Mateys! (Message 1154087)
Posted 20 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Put yer spyglass to rest ye poxy old salt! She not be for ye!
7144) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Argh Mateys! (Message 1154085)
Posted 20 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sink me! There be a pretty lass aboard!!! Welcome Miz Kenzie!!!
7145) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Argh Mateys! (Message 1154081)
Posted 20 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well me hearties, come out to this coast. There be plenty of plunder here.
7146) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Argh Mateys! (Message 1154078)
Posted 20 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Be gad Jim! Watch who ye be offerin yer grog to... ye don't know how that bilge rat can drink!
7147) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Argh Mateys! (Message 1154073)
Posted 20 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Aye, I thought ye was lost in the briny deep.
7148) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Argh Mateys! (Message 1154070)
Posted 20 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Arrr, hands off me grog matey!
7149) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Argh Mateys! (Message 1154067)
Posted 20 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Jim, ye scurvy dog, ye have me permission to board.
7150) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Argh Mateys! (Message 1154066)
Posted 20 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Blimey, it be Captn Scarecrow!!!
7151) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Argh Mateys! (Message 1154062)
Posted 20 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Where be the Kittyman and his cat o' nine tails?
7152) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Argh Mateys! (Message 1154045)
Posted 20 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The sun be settin and I be sailin for me home at last!
7153) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Argh Mateys! (Message 1154021)
Posted 19 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
'Tis Talk Like A Pirate Day and I still be at work. I'd rather be out plundering...
7154) Message boards : Cafe SETI : September 15th is my birthday!!! (Message 1152315)
Posted 15 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Best wishes to you on your special day.

Eric and Angela
7155) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1152001)
Posted 14 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I thought it was cookies vs a cowboy hat?

That too...
7156) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1151970)
Posted 14 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cute Vic. But there is kind of a running joke I think you might have missed. "Badger" is the name of my new computer.


Also to confuse things, Eric and Scarecrow have a good natured rivalry going on right now because Eric is a proud Wisconsin Badgers fan and Scarecrow is a proud Nebraska Corn Huskers fan and these two teams have an upcoming game. The two teams are very closely matched, so it should be an exciting game. Anyway Vic and any other Critter Cafe readers who may be confused about what is going on in this thread, that rivalry accounts for at least some of the badger-bashing you will see going on in this thread at least until early October.
7157) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1151688)
Posted 13 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Whee Janice!!! Cute story and I know EXACTLY what you mean by "happy space". Eric and I didn't get home until around 9pm tonight. Dinner was a path of least resistance - bread, cheese, olives, grapes and a bottle of vino. Not sure there is much left in that bottle right now. I did share some grapes with IM, Logan Frodo, Otis and Floyd. Logan has learned how to scratch on the back door to announce his presence. If I were not in a "happy space" right now, I would probably not find that to be so charming!
7158) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IX (Message 1151517)
Posted 12 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
where do you live?

LOL! Knowing about where Carlos lives does not help that much. There are lots of good surfing beaches close to his home.

Ok Carlos, my first guess is Leadbetter Point. I am guessing this because:

1. It is close to where you live
2. It does not involve a huge hike in (assuming you are carrying your daughter's board and yours)
3. It is typically filled with bodacious co-eds for you to oogle

Of course, MANY beaches in the greater Santa Barbara area do meet those three criteria...

Good contest, dude!
7159) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Alien characters pictures. (Message 1151299)
Posted 12 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Sorry, I can't chat right now. I'm on my way to a poetry reading.
7160) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti Gardners Thread 2011 (Message 1150615)
Posted 9 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dear, you've scared me since the day we met.

Hey, how did all my Dan Simmons novels end up in the Goodwill box?!!!
7161) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti Gardners Thread 2011 (Message 1150601)
Posted 9 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Today I feel the gardening blood lust come upon me. It roots, it quickens, it courses through my veins driving all other thoughts from my head. I dream of death. I take no prisoners; I show no mercy. I plunge my pruning hand into tangles of black widow webs, daring the spiders to bite me. I scream triumphant as they scurry for cover. Crabgrass, quack grass, bermuda grass... all shall feel my icy fingers entwine their necks. The mallow, the bindweed, the spotted spurge... all tremble as I bend and pull. The burclover, the Himalayan blackberry, the nettleleaf goosefoot... they think they are safe from my murderous rampage. Insufferable fools! Their spines and thorns do not deter me. I don a glove and take their lives.

(Do I scare you?)
7162) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy birthday Monday (Message 1150332)
Posted 9 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy Birthday Monday! Best wishes to you on your special day!!!

Angela & Eric
7163) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Rocky's Original Cafe @ 05-08-11 - CLOSED (Message 1150331)
Posted 9 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Heres a better pic...

Greetings from a fellow Pastafarian!
7164) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1149622)
Posted 7 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yeah! You tell him, honey! Corn Huskers SHUCK!!!
7165) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: Finding the magic number...... (Message 1149437)
Posted 6 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am sorry that you have to go to so many funerals of friends, Donald. My neighbor Ernie has experienced the same thing. He is a WW2 navy vet and his ship used to hold annual reunions, until there were so few of them left who could still travel that they gave up this annual event. One of my aunts, who is in excellent shape for 86, has also experienced the mixed blessing of living a long and active life. One by one her friends have been giving up driving, giving up traveling, giving up entertaining, moving out of their homes into assisted living situations and sometimes, as we say at the hospital where I work, being "discharged to God". I know how hard it must be for you to watch as friends and loved ones leave you. I wish you peace, friend.
7166) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: Finding the magic number...... (Message 1149433)
Posted 6 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Kebabs on the barbie!
7167) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1149432)
Posted 6 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That's a pretty funny mailbox!
7168) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1149414)
Posted 6 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Aw! A mama and three kits, very sweet. Those are some mighty well fed baby raccoons!!!
7169) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: Finding the magic number...... (Message 1149259)
Posted 5 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I prefer sunny California...
7170) Message boards : Cafe SETI : New Watercooled Server Rig (pic) (Message 1149257)
Posted 5 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Only when dry

We could dry him out by the fire.


How about a little fire, Scarecrow?
7171) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: Finding the magic number...... (Message 1149252)
Posted 5 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Or this one...
7172) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 23 (Message 1148985)
Posted 4 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hmmm.... looks Lompoc-ish. Is it a launch pad at Vandenberg Airforce Base?
7173) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Alien characters pictures. (Message 1148979)
Posted 4 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Several years ago somebody hacked the s@h website and managed to put up a picture of this guy. Eric was both annoyed and amused.
7174) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest VIII (Message 1148972)
Posted 4 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1 - I'm guessing you moved in down the street from your elderly parents to better assist them. It is the boy scout way...
7175) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1148939)
Posted 4 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Jim, Eric and I wish you peace and we are so sorry for your loss.

(And I'm glad the squirrel wasn't really stuck.)
7176) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 17 (Message 1148799)
Posted 4 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Glass
7177) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 17 (Message 1148797)
Posted 4 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Valance
7178) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 17 (Message 1148794)
Posted 4 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Jesse (as in James)

( Raccoons come to mind)

You rang?!!!
7179) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: Finding the magic number...... (Message 1148791)
Posted 4 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Go Bears!

Rose Bowl - Rose Bowl - Rose Bowl....
7180) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a caption #37 (Message 1148748)
Posted 4 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Aida casting call
7181) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 17 (Message 1148733)
Posted 4 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
singing
7182) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1148712)
Posted 3 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Achilles, you left your tent!!! Welcome home, Vic.
7183) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a caption #37 (Message 1148353)
Posted 2 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hmmmmmm I don't think they're looking at her butt.
7184) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1148323)
Posted 2 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Interesting, how different personalities there can be in one litter. I might imagine, that this is one way of adaptation: depending on the circumstances, this or that strategy works best. And in the long run, having different strategies is the best strategy.

Yes, I have long speculated the same thing. A wide range of temperament/ personality differences across siblings would probably be adaptive and beneficial. Such variation seems to imply a higher probability that at least one raccoon from each litter might survive to reproduce itself, despite the demands of the environment.



Otis! You have to approach 'em head on, I say head on, son!

I only sent Otis the one email honest, and when he said I fancy Angela, I said oh yes? pull the other one ...

Merciful heavens! Gentlemen, please let me remind you that I love my husband. In the future, should that ever change, you will be duly informed.
7185) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: Finding the magic number...... (Message 1148159)
Posted 2 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodnight now Mark, I wish you well
In Sleepyland, may you soon dwell
May Michael, Gabe and Raphael
Watch o'er you til alarm bells knell

Angela is trying to get some sleep

Don't I wish!!!
7186) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: Finding the magic number...... (Message 1148155)
Posted 2 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Alas dear friend, I know that score
I've drunk hot milk, I've paced the floor
Tried teas and herbs and pills galore
While counting sheep to Eric's snores...
7187) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: Finding the magic number...... (Message 1148150)
Posted 2 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mark, my friend, I feel your pain
Insomnia can be a drain
Upon unyielding beds I've lain
Elusive sleep, thou art my bane!
7188) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest VIII (Message 1148143)
Posted 2 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, the answer is 45. (46 if you count the step up from the street to the sidewalk.)

Our winner is Rob Smith with a very close guess of 40! PM going out to our winner now...
7189) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: Finding the magic number...... (Message 1148140)
Posted 2 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's Poet's Day upon this coast
And I too am insomnia's host
Sorry to hear of things diagnosed
Love and peace to all who post
7190) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1148132)
Posted 2 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well Pasi, since you asked, let me pull out a picture from Grandma's Brag Book!


Eric took this shot of the three babies tonight.

Logan Frodo is the raccoon with his mouth open, complaining that there were not enough grapes on the menu this evening. Logan Frodo is the tamest of the bunch. He is smart and good looking, just like his Godmothers Uli and Karen. He really, really, really likes grapes!

Otis is the raccoon next to Logan Frodo. In this shot he is quite busy eating cat food. I'm afraid that Otis is Trouble with a capital "T" that rhymes with "D" that stands for his Godfather Dave. Depending on what I am wearing in the evening, Otis loves to hang out under the deck and then make a grab for my bathrobe strings, my pant legs or my shoe laces. He is the first raccoon I have ever had who consistently tries to disrobe me!!!

Floyd is very shy and reserved, just like his Godfather John. The paw coming out from under the deck is Floyd. Floyd refuses to come out from under the deck if I am outside. He will only let me view him from behind a closed window, and if I make any sudden moves in the house he immediately goes below deck.

So as you can see, the babies are happy, healthy and doing quite well.
7191) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest VIII (Message 1148043)
Posted 1 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Scarecrow - 69
James - 56
Rob - 40
Celt Tooth - 32
Gary - 30
Chris - 27
John - 23
Ulibelle - 18

I will let at least 24 hours from the first post pass before I declare a winner. One guess is quite close, but no one has guessed exactly yet.

Perhaps a few new people will play before the evening is up here in the VERY HILLY San Francisco East Bay. If not, I will award the win to the closest guesser.
7192) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest VIII (Message 1147946)
Posted 1 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok we have five guesses so far.

Scarecrow (...everyone's favorite one trick pony, nice graphic though...) - 69
James - 56
Celt Tooth - 32
John - 23
Ulibelle - 18

Hint - some of you are closer than others!

Better Hint - throw out the outlying data points
7193) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest VIII (Message 1147816)
Posted 1 Sep 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh my, lucky me!

Ok, how many steps to do we have on our property - inside and outside, total. One guess per player, please.
7194) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest VIII (Message 1147366)
Posted 31 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
11
7195) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: Finding the magic number...... (Message 1147363)
Posted 31 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Short win...
7196) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Post your age, if you dare. (Message 1147015)
Posted 29 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wives don't age faster than their husbands Angela, perhaps you just need a style change. Get hubby to treat you to one of those beauty saloons, could easily turn you into a "new woman"....your romantic evenings out could easily become even "more" romantic !... nudge-nudge wink-wink as they say.


Oh Mr. Hind! Thank you for giving me the opportunity to make my position more clear.

[Angela's soap box] Ahem! Mr. Hind, I certainly COULD spend ooodles of money and oodles of time going to a salon for "treatments". I COULD get my hair dyed and then drive myself to distraction covering up my gray roots every two weeks. I COULD spend time and money shopping for new clothes, an activity I detest, instead of my once again donning my wardrobe of functional classics. In the interest of shedding a few pounds, I COULD stop cooking delicious foods and baking delicious desserts to enjoy with my husband. I COULD even waste time and money on a gym membership to tone up a bit.

Would I look like a "new woman"? Well sure, at least a little. Would I look like "me"? Absolutely not!!! But why should I spend time and effort becoming a "new woman", when I rather like the old one? My husband seems to love me as I am. Seems good enough for me! And my good sir, what makes you think my romantic evenings need improvement?!!!

Don't get me wrong. I am pro health! I think it is important to maintain a reasonably healthy weight in order to prevent potential health problems. I think it is important to move and stay active, to promote health and discourage disease. But "moving" does not necessarily mean lifting weights in a gym or running on a treadmill. I can get plenty of exercise walking the neighbor's dog, working in my garden or scrubbing up my kitchen after one of my cooking marathons.

I strongly believe that the battle against aging is both futile and pointless. I would like to see more women (and men!!!) accept the outer shell for what it is, provided that it is a reasonably healthy shell for one's age.

Life is all about choices and I am happy to make them. I would rather visit my elderly mother on the weekends than go clothes shopping. I would rather babysit my darling new nephew than spend those hours in a salon getting my roots done. I would rather do something kind for a neighbor than sit around the house with rejuvenating goo slathered all over my face. I would rather have my kitchen smell like freshly baked blueberry muffins than sweaty laudry in an old gym bag. And I would rather spend money on flights to Wisconsin a couple times a year to visit my inlaws, nieces and nephews there than spend money having a plastic surgeon "take a few years off".

Sure it is fun to "be a girl" and slap on some make-up for a special occasion like a wedding or a class reunion. I do that about twice a year. Sure it is fun to buy a new dress once in a while. On a daily basis, however, I prefer to let nature take its course and not waste the time, effort, money and energy making myself look like somebody who is not me.[/Angela's soapbox]
7197) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Post your age, if you dare. (Message 1146861)
Posted 29 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think there all lovely ladies on the threads and I bet they all
look younger than their ages suggest.

Thank you, but I happen to know that I look significantly older than my chronological age!

When I take my nieces and nephews to a park, people smile and ask me how old those lovely "grandchildren" of mine are. So far I have been offered the senior discount at a nail salon, a card shop and at far more restaurants than I can remember. When I take public transportation, young people pop out of their seats on crowded buses and BART trains just to offer me a place to sit. When Eric and I go out for a romantic dinner, people at the other tables wonder why that strange young man is holding hands with his mother!

All in all, I think it is pretty funny. I mean, somebody has to be at the far end of that bell curve!!! May as well be me...
7198) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 17 (Message 1146602)
Posted 29 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Waldorf Astoria
7199) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: Thread Abandoned (Message 1146600)
Posted 29 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Flood away. Raccoons like water!
7200) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 17 (Message 1146598)
Posted 29 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...wedge salad!
7201) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: Thread Abandoned (Message 1146595)
Posted 29 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you. Raccoons like trees.
7202) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: Thread Abandoned (Message 1146592)
Posted 29 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
whoa nellie

wins are my territory


Yo Gary, get offa my lawn!

Yo Angela, the lawn needs mowing. A raccoon could get lost.


Gary, Gary quite contrary... how does that winning go?
7203) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: Thread Abandoned (Message 1146584)
Posted 29 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
whoa nellie

wins are my territory


Yo Gary, get offa my lawn!
7204) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Alien characters pictures. (Message 1146572)
Posted 29 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I never do. That's why you get first dibs.

Well, it IS more fun to play with you than to play with your action figures...
7205) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Alien characters pictures. (Message 1146568)
Posted 29 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Never forget dear, so do I!!!
7206) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Alien characters pictures. (Message 1146565)
Posted 29 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes... Eric has an Orion Slave Girl in his action figure collection. Ask me if I am amused...
7207) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1146560)
Posted 29 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
They are indoor only (and both spayed!)
7208) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1146555)
Posted 29 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Such a cute couple o' kittens.....

Kittens no longer, Kittyman. They are a year old now. Time to arrange for their dowries and get them situated...
7209) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Alien characters pictures. (Message 1146552)
Posted 29 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Isn't space filled with buxom slave chicks?


They must be some where.




Grumble, grumble, grumble.... ok fine. I suppose somebody had to post her eventually. May as well be me.

7210) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a caption #37 (Message 1146467)
Posted 28 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hahaha, Mr. Bond! We assure you that none of your puny triceratops weapons will make it past our orbital defense platform!
7211) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update X - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1146460)
Posted 28 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends and Welcome to the Critter Cafe!

This is a place where friends gather to enjoy the company of other "critter people". All are welcome here and there is no such thing as "off topic" in the Critter Cafe.

To start off this fresh thread, here are some pictures from...


Laundry Day at the Korpela's


Ah! Laundry Day! There are few things Zsa Zsa enjoys more than a dryer warmed basket of Eric's tighty-whities...




Dis sock wuz tryin to get away!




Sneak attack on Stinky Lou! Stinky is not amused.
7212) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1146448)
Posted 28 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This thread is getting a little long and picture heavy for dial-up users. Time for a new Critter Cafe. Hope to see you all on the new thread.
7213) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: Thread Abandoned (Message 1146408)
Posted 28 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oooooh... Point Counterpoint!
7214) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: Thread Abandoned (Message 1146403)
Posted 28 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I guess sometimes you have to be blunt to make a point....

Bless your pointy little head.
7215) Message boards : Politics : how do you expect to spend eternity? (Message 1146397)
Posted 28 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry about that blank post. I'm not sure why it is not showing up, so I'll just take the path of least resistance. All I posted was a t-shirt that read:

Heaven is where...

The police are British
The cooks are Italian
The lovers are French
The mechanics are German
And it's all organized by the Swiss

Hell is where...

The cooks are British
The mechanics are French
The lovers are Swiss
The police are German
And it's all organized by the Italians
7216) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: Thread Abandoned (Message 1146392)
Posted 28 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That's because she was trying to be blunt....

Thanks for pointing that out...
7217) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: Thread Abandoned (Message 1146383)
Posted 28 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Point noted...


Are your trying to make a point?


No, I am trying to take one...
7218) Message boards : Politics : how do you expect to spend eternity? (Message 1146377)
Posted 28 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
7219) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest VIII (Message 1146371)
Posted 28 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
70588
7220) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1146369)
Posted 28 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
John Clark basicly nailed it

Congratulations John!
7221) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: Thread Abandoned (Message 1146367)
Posted 28 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Point noted...
7222) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1146198)
Posted 28 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Aw! Pretty kitty!
7223) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Alien characters pictures. (Message 1146141)
Posted 27 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In that case, you might like this one....

Wow! Gray is the new black!!! I do so love being at the front of a trend!
7224) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a caption #37 (Message 1146138)
Posted 27 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If the limo's a rockin, don't come a knocking!
7225) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Alien characters pictures. (Message 1146136)
Posted 27 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow! She's pretty...

I like her hair color.
7226) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1146135)
Posted 27 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Of course which one is Eric and which is Angela is another thing. :D

I'm the bright one.
7227) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Alien characters pictures. (Message 1146133)
Posted 27 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Thank you!

Up until that point this thread was getting a little top heavy, if you know what I mean...
(My, my, my there certainly are a lot of lonely men out there in the universe!!!)
7228) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1146131)
Posted 27 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
CRL5385...

Hmmmm... I think this implies there are at least 5385 known Crazy Raccoon Ladies out there in the galaxy! Keep crunching people... it seems we are not alone!!!
7229) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1145936)
Posted 27 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So did old Pookers, Pucker up?

Prodigally!!!
7230) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1145935)
Posted 27 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In all things woodland, you've just got to go with what the Boy Scout says!!!
7231) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1145896)
Posted 27 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow, I have no idea what that is, but owl pellet does sound logical. WHOOOO know? Maybe it was a really, really, really big owl!
7232) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 15 (Message 1145893)
Posted 27 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Have not seen the Raccoon Lady about tonight to start a war of words.....

And that's not punny.



Sorry to miss all the fun, but Eric returned last night from two consecutive business trips, a GALFA meeting in Madison followed by a conference in San Diego where he gave a paper. I decided that I wanted to spend the evening with Ol Pookers instead of punning. I'm just crazy that way!
7233) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 17 (Message 1145294)
Posted 26 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
clown
7234) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a caption #37 (Message 1144826)
Posted 25 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Someday, the world will understand our love...

7235) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1144816)
Posted 25 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Better yet, Mr. Crow, put a toy that makes noise outside. When you hear the noise, quietly go to the window and see who is playing with the toy.

If you feed them, they will come...

CRL
7236) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1144545)
Posted 24 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have a technical question for our resident Crazy Raccoon Lady.

Do raccoons ever play with toys like a dog or cat would?

I ask this because a week or so ago, while doing some weed trimming, I came across a tennis ball that once belonged to the late, great Sammi the Super Spaniel. So as not to hit it with the mower, I tossed it up on the deck and forgot about it. The other morning the tennis ball was laying conspicuously in the middle of the deck. I figured the wind from storms likely blew it around. But now this morning, the tennis ball was found floating in one of the water dishes I keep out there for the nocturnal critters that happen by. The ball doesn't appear to be chewed up or otherwise mangled, just neatly placed in the water dish.

If you think I should, I'll put a net and a couple rackets out there for their future enjoyment.



Baby raccoons will play with toys, but they are pretty careless with them. Eric has put cat toys will bells in them out for various litters of raccoons in the past. The babies play with the toys for a few nights, then promptly lose them under the deck or who knows where. If the ball has sentimental value, I would substitute something else for your baby raccoons' amusement. I have never observed an adult raccoon play. And in case you are wondering baby raccoons, like cats, will chase the "red bug" that comes from a laser pointer! That is pretty fun to do!

Thanks for asking!

Your resident CRL
7237) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: Thread Abandoned (Message 1144479)
Posted 24 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We just had a nice little 3.6-er here in the SF Bay Area about 10 minutes ago.

Winning because my house hasn't collapsed yet...
7238) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 16 (Message 1144468)
Posted 24 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
life...
7239) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: Thread Abandoned (Message 1144459)
Posted 24 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You are allergic to cats!!!
7240) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 16 (Message 1144432)
Posted 24 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...king
7241) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To the Kitty People........wherever they are......... (Message 1144425)
Posted 24 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am afraid we pamper her far too much.

Our cats tell me that is not actually physically possible...

...and Kenzie, "AAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
7242) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Post your age, if you dare. (Message 1144383)
Posted 23 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My name is Connor MacLoud and I was born in the village of Glen Shield in the year 1518.

There can be only one!
7243) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games (Message 1143670)
Posted 22 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Long Sufferin' Marie and I have formed a support group...

Next, we're going to form a Political Action Committee!!!!!
7244) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games (Message 1143621)
Posted 21 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...not once did I receive any flowers, chocolates, singing telegrams, Porsches or any of the usual courting items.

Dang girlfriend - you get Porsches????!!!!!! It would seem that I let Eric get away with murder!
7245) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a caption #37 (Message 1143578)
Posted 21 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
From the Bible to the popular song,
There's one theme that we find right along.
Of all ideals they hail as good,
The most sublime is... Motherhood.
7246) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I soooo want one of these! (Message 1143543)
Posted 21 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL.A few minutes with a proper cat..... And pop goes the weasel.



You rang, Kittyman?
7247) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: Thread Abandoned (Message 1143465)
Posted 21 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm worried for Vic - if he continues contributing to this thread at his current rate there's a fair chance he might win.....


Bah, that will not happen, I know the rules, I mean I could post a lot in this thread, but to be fair I don't.


LOL Vic! You post a lot in MANY threads! Most people don't a have posting history of >25000 entries!!!
7248) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 16 (Message 1143307)
Posted 21 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
-ier
7249) Message boards : Cafe SETI : In case you were wondering... (Message 1143293)
Posted 21 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sad, but true...
7250) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti Gardners Thread 2011 (Message 1143241)
Posted 20 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We are having a colder than usual summer and my garden has been weird too. My zucchini and patty pans are producing well, but my jalipenos and cucumbers are just pouting. I have plenty of cherry tomatoes (at last) but my Early Girls are nothing but leaves and green orbs. I put up a couple of batches of pesto last weekend from my first crop of basil, but my second crop is flowering before truly leafing out well. My beans have been a disappointment this year too.
7251) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: Thread Abandoned (Message 1142523)
Posted 19 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Vic!
7252) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: the funny old man spot! (Message 1141957)
Posted 18 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Buzzing the tower buzzer...
7253) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A hard goodbye (Message 1141955)
Posted 18 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Uli is a moderator, Fred is an admin. Different jobs, both done really well by the people filling those positions.
7254) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a caption #36 (Message 1141939)
Posted 18 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Epic sick!!!
7255) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A hard goodbye (Message 1141845)
Posted 17 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Three Cheers For Fred - Best Forum Admin EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
7256) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A hard goodbye (Message 1141373)
Posted 17 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you Phud and welcome Jim!!!
7257) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games (Message 1141100)
Posted 16 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I like being able to discuss games without "polluting" the thread. Thanks Janice!
7258) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a caption #36 (Message 1141098)
Posted 16 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Trust us hoomun... just let go and flap... bwaahahahahahah!
7259) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Post your age, if you dare. (Message 1141073)
Posted 16 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well at least Yer not the Spinx...

Puhleeze! This is the internet. I can be anyone or anything I want at any time!!! (And I do like riddles...)
7260) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Post your age, if you dare. (Message 1141064)
Posted 16 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am 54 years 9 months and 9 days short of my 103rd birthday...


I don't have to guess how old Angela is, I already happen to know. Along with her neice.


Which niece? I am the proud auntie of 7 nieces and 5 nephews!
7261) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Post your age, if you dare. (Message 1140930)
Posted 15 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm not silly, I know my next move.

But Chris... what if I like 'em silly?
7262) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Post your age, if you dare. (Message 1140862)
Posted 15 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am 54 years 9 months and 9 days short of my 103rd birthday...
7263) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1140428)
Posted 14 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Was pointed at this. Enjoy:

Cute video


[edit] fixed the link.


I have long thought that skunks are completely beautiful and much misunderstood. Thank you, John.
7264) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1140133)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the Living Canonization. Oooooh! I just thought of another miracle... every week clean underwear simply materializes in Eric's dresser drawers. He can think of no rational, scientific reason for its regular appearance. It must be a miracle!!! Any other explanation defies logic...

And Vic, Gracie is so beautiful! Zsa Zsa, Eva, Stinky Lou and Spawnie send their love.
7265) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: the funny old man spot! (Message 1140035)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A glorious win for Team Insomnia!
7266) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139954)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela, I award Ya the You tuber award...

Because I'm such a hot potato?
7267) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139945)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Too obvious???
7268) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139943)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Anybody here mad about saffron?
7269) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139938)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
FROZEN CUSTARD'S last stand...
7270) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139936)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
ICE CREAM out whenever there is a new topic!
7271) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139913)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think Mark has won it... so SESAME!
7272) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139900)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Who knew you all had such PEPPERCORNY senses of humor!
7273) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139894)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sneaking up from behind and making a MRS. DASH for the finish line....
7274) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139871)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just don't take a tumbler.

Fear not, I'm totally worth my CELERY...
7275) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139868)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It's like a slice of life.

Just don't SPREAD yourself too thin!
7276) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139862)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh dear, we seem to be taking a little DIP.
7277) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139859)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I can MINT these puns like there is no tomorrow...
7278) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139855)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yo SOY the SAUCE maker!!!!
7279) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139849)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh, is somebody getting SQUASHED?

No but you're getting a good HOISIN!
7280) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139844)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yeah it's reel cool in here, I wonder is Angela whipped yet?

Nope. But your defeat will be a HARD SAUCE for you to swallow...
7281) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139841)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh please! I have both a nephew and ANISE who can pun better than that!
7282) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139837)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You can GARLIC your wounds now...

I won't be LICORICEing my wounds any time soon...
7283) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139828)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am LOVAGING every minute of this battle!
7284) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139826)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Any one with a bitter taste yet?

I can fix that by stabbing you with my SPEARMINT...
7285) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139819)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey, if you're FILLETING froggy, you had better jump.

Or cut GINGERLY!
7286) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139816)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll MOLE right over all of you!
7287) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139812)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We should try to soup this up a bit.

You are making me BROTH at the mouth!
7288) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139807)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You will all RUE the day you challenged me to a flavoring pun war!!!
7289) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139802)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
psssst.... check out the SPICE RACK on the raccoon!

Pssst cowboy! Brush that WOODRUFF off your shoulders!
7290) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139795)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Didn't your mama ever tell you that you DONUT mess with a chemically enhanced cowboy?!

I've got the strength to keep you at BAY.
7291) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139787)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You cannot beat Queen ANGELICA!
7292) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139783)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
BEAN there, done that...
7293) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139777)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
SHAKE it up, baby!
7294) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139771)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RYE on, brother!

Don't listen to him, he's full of BOUILLON!
7295) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139767)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I trust the winner will be declared by MARJORAM vote...
7296) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139763)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Whee!!!! Best crowd ever! Everybody throw your last CARAWAY and pun like there is no tomorrow!!!!
7297) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139760)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My victory will be both SWEET and SOUR...
7298) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139756)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Somebody's been smoking something HERBY!!!
7299) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139752)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Someone could be gettin' creamed.

You bet your sweet SASSAFRAS!
7300) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139748)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
OIL beat you all!
7301) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139744)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well golly MSG willikers!
7302) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139740)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I won't leave DILL you're all DONE!
7303) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139735)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I won't stop punning until I EXTRACT a concession from each of you...
7304) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139730)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
well orange juice smart

Thanks SHALLOT!!!
7305) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139725)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It seems the talk is getting spicy in here.

Yes, I have to CURRY up and think of more puns...
7306) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139721)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh, Mark is ONION a roll!

He'll need to work on FENNELing that anger somewhere else!
7307) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139717)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Enough of your CHIVE talking, Mark!
7308) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139714)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
She can do the SALSA too

Only when I have the THYME...
7309) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139710)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm a SEASONED punster, that's who!!!
7310) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139707)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now cowboy remember, no SALTY language!!!
7311) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139704)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You may have me at an advantage tonight Mark. I've been into the SAUCE.
7312) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 14 (Message 1139702)
Posted 13 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't think you can cut the MUSTARD...
7313) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 16 (Message 1139513)
Posted 12 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
hottie!
7314) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1139509)
Posted 12 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I believe canonization involves confirmation of miracles.

Which usually must occur after death.
In life, you have to "settle" for Role-Model or Hero status.
I so move - do I hear a Second?

I can teach a rock to talk. Does that count?
7315) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: the funny old man spot! (Message 1139506)
Posted 12 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Carlos and Chris, I wish you peace during these difficult times and always.
7316) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1139504)
Posted 12 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I believe canonization involves confirmation of miracles.
7317) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1139501)
Posted 12 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Richard, I am so sorry to hear the sad news about your beautiful cats. I wish you peace, my friend.
7318) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1139500)
Posted 12 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think I'm in love!!!!!

Is Eric aware of this?

Painfully aware... (His toe is more aware than the rest of him is!!!)



I do hope he is the object of your passions...

Fear not. Eric is everything to me. The raccoons are a distant second.
7319) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: the funny old man spot! (Message 1139350)
Posted 12 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, let's keep it that way!
7320) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: the funny old man spot! (Message 1139344)
Posted 12 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Quick win for you, Mike.
7321) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games (Message 1139336)
Posted 12 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hear they have a hard time parting with old paint... their garages must be filled to the rafters!

I have a bunch of old paint in the shape of a house.

LOL!
7322) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1139334)
Posted 12 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Has anyone seen the TV commercial that Sears Optical is running?
Lady opens her back door to call her kitty in, and a raccoon comes in instead.

Seen it. Love it!!!
7323) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games (Message 1139328)
Posted 12 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hear they have a hard time parting with old paint... their garages must be filled to the rafters!
7324) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games (Message 1139324)
Posted 12 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Don't know much about cowboys, other than the fact that I'm pretty sure they don't want to be buried "on the lone prairie"...
7325) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games (Message 1139320)
Posted 12 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I thought cowboys wanted to walk the streets of Laredo or return to their old Kentucky homes.
7326) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games (Message 1139316)
Posted 12 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, I'll bite. What's in Twodot Montana?
7327) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1139309)
Posted 12 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Uli I would happily send you a picture, but first I have to figure out which raccoon baby is Logan!!! All of the babies were quite shy tonight so I don't know who is who yet. I'll make sure that Logan Frodo is the most handsome one of the bunch, just as soon as the babies let me get close enough to get a really good look at them.
7328) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1139306)
Posted 12 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Please, oh please step away from the Kleenex! Logan Frodo Korpela it is!
7329) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1139302)
Posted 12 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How about if Logan's middle name is Frodo? Logan Frodo Korpela. Has a nice ring to it...
7330) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1139298)
Posted 12 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
OMG ULI!!!! I totally misread my own thread and forgot that you had dibs on the first name.

I stand corrected regarding the names of the babies. Their names are Logan, Otis and Floyd. (Sorry Karen, my bad!)
7331) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1139296)
Posted 12 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I can hear the babies chirping and cooing outside of the window where I am typing. It is a beautiful sound.
7332) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1139294)
Posted 12 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm a great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother tonight! I am so happy!!!!!
7333) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1139290)
Posted 12 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think I'm in love!!!!!
7334) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1139288)
Posted 12 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
At last the blessed event has occurred! Please congratulate Interloper Mama on the arrival of Otis, Floyd and Frodo.

Thank you Scarecrow, John and Karen for the great names!

Edit to this post: In my excitement this evening, I misread the thread and got the names wrong. The actual names of the raccoon babies this year will be Logan (thank you Uli), Otis (thank you Scarecrow) and Floyd (thank you John). Sorry Karen. If another baby shows up it will definitely be Frodo!
7335) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games (Message 1139274)
Posted 12 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I just received a pm wondering about this...
7336) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a caption #36 (Message 1139268)
Posted 12 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh we're going to a hukilau...
7337) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Stunned at a call I just took (Message 1139111)
Posted 12 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Back in the days of the dinosaurs when fax machines were particularly expensive and worthy of theft, one of our secretaries was confronted by "a man in overalls" who claimed he was "here to fix the fax machine". She said, "Oh! I didn't know it was broken", and then used her key to let him into the correct office. Mr. Overalls left with the fax machine so he could take it to his "shop" and "fix it". You have already guessed the rest.
7338) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1139106)
Posted 11 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
One of the cats Eric and I used to have was excessively sensitive to vaccines. In one of her early vet visits she received two or three shots and the next day she had such a bad vaccine reaction that she developed severe hypothermia and had to go to the pet hospital. After that, our vet always separated her vaccines across multiple visits. He also stopped vaccinating her for things he felt she was at low risk of contracting, given her indoor-only status. For that cat, the risk of a bad vaccine reaction was greater than the risk of contracting some diseases.

Other cats we have had have been "punky" after their vaccinations, but ok after a day or two. I think being a little "punky" is normal for kitties after some vaccinations. We have found that a heating pad, set on low and wrapped in an old towel, seems to provide some relief when a kitty is sore and not feeling well. Sometimes we have to trick a "punky" kitty into laying down on the heating pad, but once she gets the idea she is generally good to go!

We do so love our little kitty friends!
7339) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hello People (Message 1138976)
Posted 11 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome! You will find many friends here.
7340) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Message 1138759)
Posted 11 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
7341) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 16 (Message 1138751)
Posted 11 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Secret!
7342) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The Lawless Streets of London (Message 1137898)
Posted 9 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hope you are able to stay safe. It looks and sounds terrible.
7343) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: the funny old man spot! (Message 1137897)
Posted 9 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations! My turn to win is just around the corner, I'm sure.
7344) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 16 (Message 1137518)
Posted 8 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
saint
7345) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 16 (Message 1137515)
Posted 8 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
house
7346) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: IT's OPEN (Message 1137511)
Posted 8 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela will just post chocolate pics if you say that ...


You rang?
7347) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1137510)
Posted 8 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Maybe somebody has a rather large dog. Or then the local wolves have come closer to the town.

Wow!
7348) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner (Message 1137484)
Posted 8 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Help me, cooking enthusiasts!

I like to watch some of those reality chef shows and Eric sometimes watches them with me. Today Eric and I made zucchini panini together for dinner and because Eric is better at working the panini press than I am, he got to be the Chef de Cuisine and I had to be the Sous-chef... in my own kitchen, no less!!!

Eric: Plate!!!
Angela: Right here chef.
Eric: Did you finish the basil prep?
Angela: Yes chef.
Eric: This is completely unacceptable. I wanted Thai basil and you have brought me Italian basil.
Angela: I'm sorry chef. It is what we had in the garden.
Eric: It is entirely unacceptable. I will have to completely rework the menu!
Angela: Yes chef.

Argh!!! I am NEVER going to watch a reality chef show again!

(Hey, do you think that was what Eric was going for???!!!!!)
7349) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What are PARAPROSDOKIANS? (Message 1137448)
Posted 8 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"Men,can't live with them, can't kill them and bury them under the patio."

Yeah. Cuz then where would the skunks live?!!!
7350) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1137316)
Posted 7 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What do you buy raccoons for christening presents?

Cat food! It also works for Christmas presents. They never get tired of it.
7351) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I took a walk around the world (Message 1137314)
Posted 7 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ah, to be 20 again...
7352) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1137181)
Posted 7 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian .
7353) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1137177)
Posted 7 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Babies!!! Eric saw babies!!! Unfortunately they were not Interloper Mama's babies and they didn't come into our backyard.

It is about 5 am here and about 40 minutes ago I was awakened by the magical sounds of cooing, chirping and scratching on the fence outside of our bedroom window. Half asleep, it took me some time to recognize those special sounds of summer. Few sounds are sweeter to your CRL's ears than the high pitched cooing and chirping sounds baby raccoons make as they communicate with their mama. I jumped out of bed thinking that I.M.'s litter was FINALLY up and about. I tossed some food out of a window facing our backyard and I waited, excited and anxious. In doing so, I managed to miss all the action. Eric watched out of our bedroom windows as a smallish mama raccoon got her four kits off our fence, down our driveway and up the street. It was some other mama raccoon and she did not venture into our backyard. Darn.

Interloper Mama tends to deliver her litters a little later than other raccoons, but this year is some sort of record for her. She still comes by every evening for food. Each night I ask her "Where are your babies?", but she never tells me and so far she has not brought them by. I was beginning to worry that none of her babies had survived this year. I.M. is getting up there in age and raccoon fertility appears to drop off as the mamas age. A smaller litter size at delivery would certainly mean less likelihood of babies surviving to the adorable "age of exploration". Eric seems to think I should be more optimistic about a litter this year. I.M. certainly looks and acts as if she is still nursing. She has a habit of late deliveries and this year we had a cold spring, so who knows when she conceived a litter.

As a side note, I don't want to give the impression that any mother raccoon consciously brings her babies to visit us. It is far more likely that the kits simply get too big and rambunctious to stay quietly in the den, and so the poor mama has no choice but to bring them around. Raccoon babies, like the babies of so many species, do seem to be a whole lot of "trouble" for their mamas!

Anyway, each night I wait and hope that Interloper Mama's babies will pay us a social call. As I wait, it sure is nice to know that there are litters around in the neighborhood. Who knows? Maybe that little mama raccoon that Eric saw tonight was Izzy with her first litter? Hey Chris, you just might be a grandfather!!!
7354) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti Gardners Thread 2011 (Message 1137080)
Posted 7 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Looks great Uli!
7355) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give us a caption #36 (Message 1136458)
Posted 5 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I have plans to go fishing tomorrow, so this picture really gave me the giggles...

My entries are:

1. Best day of fishing EVER!
2. Ever have a day when everything goes your way?
3. Damn, I should have used "wife" instead of "powerbait"
7356) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: IT's OPEN (Message 1136392)
Posted 5 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
On Poet's Day we are all friends, nobody displays animus
We spit up verse without a fear, nobody's pusillanimous

We sit around and throw out words in form so miscellaneous
The end result is doggerel that sounds extemporaneous
7357) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: IT's OPEN (Message 1136337)
Posted 5 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Angela does rhyme so fine
for me it always takes some time.


Mike, with you I'm quite impressed
You rhyme as well as all the rest
T'would take from Lunes to Domingo
For me to rhyme in another lingo!
7358) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: IT's OPEN (Message 1136275)
Posted 5 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Friday's here and don't I know it...
Tis this day belongs to Poets!!!!
Sure hope that I do not blow it
Write a verse and sign below it...

by: The Crazy Raccoon Lady
7359) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: IT's OPEN (Message 1136171)
Posted 5 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Good night Vic. Sleep well.
7360) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1136170)
Posted 5 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What are you spouting off about now? I've had enough time between posts to re-read the Humpback of Notre Dame! It is no fluke that my puns are killer...

Nite Vic!
7361) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: IT's OPEN (Message 1136167)
Posted 5 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I find you in contempt of court!
7362) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1136163)
Posted 5 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Whale, whale, whale... look who is trying to start a pun war!

Is there a Wright way to do that?

Well, you have to use your gray matter...
7363) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: IT's OPEN (Message 1136159)
Posted 5 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Remove your tongue from my courtroom or I will have the bailiff assist you in its removal.
7364) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1136157)
Posted 5 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Whale, whale, whale... look who is trying to start a pun war!
7365) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: IT's OPEN (Message 1136154)
Posted 5 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No appeals!
7366) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: IT's OPEN (Message 1136152)
Posted 5 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
License rescinded!
7367) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: IT's OPEN (Message 1136149)
Posted 5 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nite Jim... I'll watch the thread for you.
7368) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: IT's OPEN (Message 1136145)
Posted 5 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Several hours to go before I sleep.

...and miles to go, as well?
7369) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1136141)
Posted 5 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Whale of a good video KLC. Makes me blubber.

Yes, it gave me quite a krill...
7370) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 15 (Message 1135790)
Posted 4 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
hemorrhoids
7371) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1135390)
Posted 3 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If you're bored with nowhere to go, play some Raccoon Tic-Tac-Toe!
If you think Tic-Tac-Toe's too tame, try the Raccoon Memory Game!


Very fun games! Thank you!!!
7372) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Our Trip To Finland (Message 1134880)
Posted 1 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
@ Bill - I love to eat locally when traveling. That is one of the best parts of a trip for me! The reindeer pizza was a weak moment. Unlike in the states where one can get pretty much any kind of food at any time of the day, in Finland the lunch service generally ends at 3pm and restaurants do not accept customers after 3 until they start their dinner service in the evening. On the pizza day we had been busy site-seeing through lunch and suddenly we all got hungry. Eric's cousin said "All roads lead to pizza", so away we went...

@Pasi - Please post anything you wish here, pictures included!!! We would love to see whatever you would like to post!

@Chris - Darn! We missed that one...
7373) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner (Message 1134720)
Posted 1 Aug 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Musings on Grasshopper Pie and Motor Learning...

Hello fellow cooking enthusiasts!

Today I enjoyed a cooking marathon and I was struck by a couple of simple observations when I cooked one dish that was very familiar, followed by another that was not.

The familiar food I cooked was a half batch of cream biscuits - Eric's favorite breakfast treat. Because I wanted to surprise Eric, I slipped out of bed a little early this morning. Half asleep I distractedly watched as my hands mixed the dough, kneaded it lightly and cut out the biscuits. My "hands" (really my brain) knew exactly how much to mix the dough, exactly how to knead the dough and exactly how to cut the biscuits - all for maximum height and "fluffiness". I have made these biscuits for Eric so many times that my "hands" just seemed to know what to do. For me, making those cream biscuits is an example of motor learning mastery... like tying shoes, shooting free throws or riding a bicycle.

Later in the morning I cooked a less familiar food. I made three grasshopper pies, one after another, to bring to a family party later in the evening. Now I don't often make gelatin based mousse recipes. As I made the first pie, I watched as my "hands" (again, really my brain) fumbled to hold a candy thermometer while I heated the gelatin base to that perfect sweet zone of around 175 degrees. When the mousse base had chilled, I watched as my "hands" tried to fold thickened boozy gelatin into whipped egg whites and whipped cream. My hands looked really awkward as I worked on that first pie.

Then I made the second pie and I immediately noticed how much better my "hands" had become at juggling my candy thermometer and folding the mousse base. Shortly after that I made the third pie and my "hands" looked even more capable!

Was that true motor learning? Had my brain organized a "grasshopper pie" region already?!!! Probably not. I think the difference I saw in my "hands" across the three pies was nothing more than a simple practice effect.

They don't know how and and they don't know why, but scientists who study motor learning have found that sleep solidifies motor patterns into true motor learning mastery. So when I am in an insomnia phase and I glibly say "sleep is over-rated", I am wrong, wrong, wrong! Now if I got a good night's sleep and got up tomorrow to make three more grasshopper pies, slept 8 hours and made some more pies, my guess is that my brain would start to organize a motor learning area specifically for "grasshopper pie". Who knows? After 25 pies or so, with some nice neuro-solidifying sleep in between, my hands might even look graceful making grasshopper pie. (Right now, sleep is unlikely. I am hopped up on pie!!!)

Whether I am feeding raccoons, making pies or simply spending a day at the beach, I find that stepping back from life once in a while to form a hypothesis or two can be rather fun... especially if I follow this up with more observations and a little reading that might help me substantiate, solidify or even completely discard my original hypothesis.

Science is an attitude and an approach to life. You don't need an advanced degree to have this kind of fun. You just need to be a keen observer and a logical thinker. Gregor Mendel probably started out simply musing about the pea plants in his garden, so I think I'll just sit right here and muse about pies...

How big a piece do you want?
7374) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW: IT's OPEN (Message 1134593)
Posted 31 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello friends... watch me win!!!
7375) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games (Message 1134519)
Posted 31 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
[quote]In the Main Beet's Thread, KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade! wrote:

In a between the pictures aside, I'll be away from the computers for at least 2-2½ months, starting Sunday the 7th of August, so if you miss my contributions, that's why. I'm going to be taking a job as a long-haul trucker...


Hiya Paul! Take lots of pictures of wildlife along the way. Eric and I are BIG fans of your photography... especially the shots you took of our cats! Stay safe, friend, and rejoin us soon...
7376) Message boards : Cafe SETI : hallo I'm new here. (Message 1134516)
Posted 31 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome! This is a fun place to be!
7377) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 15 (Message 1134384)
Posted 31 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
times...
7378) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 15 (Message 1134381)
Posted 31 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wurst
7379) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 15 (Message 1134378)
Posted 31 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
French toast!
7380) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 15 (Message 1134375)
Posted 31 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
cafes
7381) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 15 (Message 1134327)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Verjus
7382) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Anyone care to walk around Australia? (Message 1134135)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think they really wanted that bottle of Scotch.

LOL! Perhaps that is right... it was one heck of a vacation!!!
7383) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133996)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoon eating a French Fry...
7384) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133991)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Merci beaucoup.
7385) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133989)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A little mood music for all the lovers out there...
7386) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133984)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, all hail the new pun king! He gave me a ROIal bashing this evening!
7387) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133981)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes Mark, you kicked my DERRIERE... but next time don't be so FRAICHE!!!
7388) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133977)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, you have delivered the COUP DE GRACE...
7389) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133974)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Though it causes me MALAISE, I must concede to that ENFANT TERRIBLE, Mark Sattler. I guess I never should have ENTREEd the Pun Room tonight...
7390) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133971)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mark, I think I have to declare you the winner... you are HAUTE tonight!
7391) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133969)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Merciful heavens! I'm turning a bright CHEZ of pink!
7392) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133964)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
'S ok, my PETITE, getting by me would be a RITE DE PASSAGE for you.

QUELLE HORREUR!!!!!!!!!!
7393) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133961)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
These boys don't know a BRIOCHE off when they see one!
7394) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133958)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
J'ACCUSE me of impropriety? MAIS NON.

Sattler, I wouldn't TOUCHE you with a 10 foot pole!
7395) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133955)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I just might have to hitch up a wagon and A LA CARTE the two of you off!

That would be a MENAGE A TROIS, no?


I see no LIAISON to even dignify that with a comment...
7396) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133951)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Karen, welcome back to the seti FLAMBE!!!
7397) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133946)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I just might have to hitch up a wagon and A LA CARTE the two of you off!
7398) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133943)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You have to go ELAN way to beat me...
7399) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133940)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You are taking quite a RISQUE challenging me this evening...
7400) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133937)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh please! Strap on AU PAIR!
7401) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133935)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I know what you meant, and so I felt entitled to kick you in the CUL-DE-SAC!
7402) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133933)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok Jim, take it ICI...

Au revoir!

7403) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133930)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My friends, you all will ROUX the day you challenged me to a pun war...
7404) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133927)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ah... my rival, my enemy... my FAUX returns!!!
7405) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133924)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
ADIEU so love to win...
7406) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133921)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Does that mean you ECLAIR this CHIC the winner?
7407) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133919)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
More than 5 minutes without a pun? Gentlemen, are we at an IMPASSE?
7408) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133915)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I couldn't help myself, Mark was being such a CREPE!
7409) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133913)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I intend to be the BELLE of the ball...

Well, if Eric did not mind, you could be MA BICHETTE.


PARDON MY FRENCH but %^&*()_)^%$#$%&*&%$#@$^&*%$#@#$^&*&$#W@!
7410) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133907)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Jim, hand over your chips. I think you should CACHET out now!
7411) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133904)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I intend to be the BELLE of the ball...
7412) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133899)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You guys chase her this way.... I'll catch her in my BEIGNET.


AU CONTRAIRE, MON AMI!
7413) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133892)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ehhh...Your simple pun attemps are just LASSAIZE FAIRE.


Oh FRENCH KISS OFF, Kittyman!
7414) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133889)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll upbraid... er uh... UP-FRENCH BRAID you all!
7415) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133885)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll reduce you all to a FRENCH POODLE of goo!
7416) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133879)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
When I'm done with you, you will all be FRENCH TOAST!
7417) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133876)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Don't make me BERET you!
7418) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133871)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Merciful heavens! Where is the mod squad when you need it?
7419) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133868)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...wieners and moaners...

Settle down boys! X-rated pun wars are not allowed here!
7420) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133862)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And spoiling for a fight!
7421) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1133860)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Evening friend...
7422) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us A Caption #35 (Message 1133854)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are you still chatting on-line? Why even have children!!!
7423) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What do you look like? (Message 1133819)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"Silly" is my middle name, sir!
7424) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What do you look like? (Message 1133817)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
One looks happy and one looks sad, Ang.

Nah... I reserve the raccoon face for when I play cards. Never play poker with a raccoon. Those critters will out-bluff you every time!


Nice animated pic Angela.

Wish I could take credit for it, but my tech skills are just not that good. It was a gift from a friend.
7425) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Anyone care to walk around Australia? (Message 1133815)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There is never a cat around when you really need one...


7426) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What do you look like? (Message 1133804)
Posted 30 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I look like this...

7427) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Anyone care to walk around Australia? (Message 1133734)
Posted 29 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I had the pleasure of visiting your lovely country in 2002. We spent a large part of that trip on Hamilton Island right off your Great Barrier Reef. It was a wonderful trip!!!

Funny thing though... there were signs up everywhere not to feed the birds, but your darn cockatoos pretty much helped themselves to food. I watched one snatch a piece of pizza right off of somebody's plate in an outdoor restaurant. I saw another cockatoo fly in, snag a bag of potato chips from a pool-side bar, fly a short distance away where he/she independently ripped open the sealed bag and devoured the contents. At one point Eric and I had a bowl of cashew nuts sitting on a window ledge. Cockatoos noticed this and lined up, trying to break through the window to get the nuts. We moved the bowl, but I am convinced that given enough time, those darn birds would have found a way to get through the window. I'll try to find an old picture of that, if I can. I vaguely remember Eric snapping a photo of that feathery scene.

Anyway, lovely country but watch out for those birds - they are way too smart!!!
7428) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Our Trip To Finland (Message 1133355)
Posted 29 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Uli wrote:
What are the flst things on the right?

The flat things? Don't know. Didn't try them.



Slavac wrote:
2. Finnish people are without a doubt some of the nicest people in the world.

Agreed!


4. Finnish cider is brilliant, just brilliant. Light, delicious, cold and .... why is there a giant swan looking at us?

Agreed! I tried a pear cider that was delicious... Oh look, the Russian border - let's try to cross it when the guards aren't looking!


6. During the brief spring/summer they have, the entire country is impossibly green. You'll see shades of green you've never even imagined existed.

Agreed! Finland in the summer is the greenest place I've ever seen!


8. Finnish food is typically horrendous save for a few moments of brilliance. 3" spongy crust pizza with tomato sauce, tuna fish, cheese then cucumber was not one of these moments.

I found the higher-end stuff to be delicious and the more pedestrian stuff less so. At the recommendation of Eric's cousin Mikko, I tried reindeer pizza. I didn't think it "worked" with a whole wheat crust. Also Finns eat pizza with a knife and fork! What's up with that?!!! And yeah, cucumber goes with or on everything there. I saw cucumbers served for breakfast, lunch and dinner.


13. Almost every Fin I ran across spoke at least conversational English.

Everyone under 55 or so speaks English... the older folks - not so much.




Soft^Spirit wrote:
Psst... Eric's Donald Trump Hairdo needs work

Neither one of us had a chance to get haircuts before we left and Eric's hairline is receding, but not in any organized, symmetric fashion... So yes, I'm afraid at times he does resemble "the Donald".
7429) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1133351)
Posted 29 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow, it was busy in here today.

Have you guys ever heard the story of Randy Raccoon?

Very cute! Thank you.

Can not forget Rocky Raccoon

Very funny animation!!! Thank you.

Two dogs arguing (with subtitles)

OMG that was so funny! Thank you.

And Slavac, you are making me want more cats!!!
7430) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Our Trip To Finland (Message 1132859)
Posted 28 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My father-in-law, Ernie, is proudly Finnish. His father was an immigrant from Finland and his mother was first generation Finnish American. Ernie grew up in a primary Finnish speaking home. He still speaks some Finnish and he has managed to keep in contact with several relatives who still live in Finland. Ernie and my mother-in-law Jan visited Finland 19 years ago. Eric and I always said that if Ernie and Jan ever wanted to take another trip to Finland, we should drop everything and just go with them. Well, this was the summer we did just that! Finland is a beautiful country full of lakes and forests and farmland. It is every shade of green you can imagine, and then some. The pictures that follow do not do justice to all that green. They will only give you the tiniest hint at how very verdant Finland is in the summertime.


Now as far as I can tell, the Finns are a straightforward people. They do not appear to indulge in a whole lot of senseless romanticism.
The English translation of the name of this beautiful lake is "Water Lake". Gets right to the point, doesn't it?


(Eric took this shot with his cell phone... not bad, huh?)


Young trees sprouting in a forest in Kuopio.



Finland is full of wildflowers in the summer.





Moss growing on rocks in a graveyard in Kuortane.



Lichen on a tree in that same graveyard.



Farmland in Kuortane.



If you want to take a picture of a sunset in Finland in the summertime, you have to be willing to wait... and wait... and wait... and wait... and wait...
My mother-in-law took this picture. She has far more patience than I do!




Early in our trip, I learned two Finnish words - "kissa" which means "cat" and "kiitos" which means "thank you".
Initially I was afraid to use my new vocabulary words for fear I would mix them up.
I didn't want somebody to hand me a cup of coffee, only to hear me respond "cat".
In this picture Eric plays with a couple of barn kittens he discovered when we visited the home of his cousin Pekka.




This is a picture of Eric and his father outside of their ancestral home in Kuortane.
The house was moved by a relative, board by board, from a site across the road.
Nobody has lived there in decades, except barn cats.


Please note the grin on my father-in-law's face. He was like that the whole trip!!!
My father-in-law ran all over Finland telling life's story to just anybody who would listen - tour guides, store clerks, customs officers.
(Finns are VERY polite and patient people!)



We spent a couple of days at the beach by the Bothnian Sea.



Angela: "Honey, come down to the beach with me!
Eric: "Grumble, grumble, grumble"
Angela: "I hear the Swedish Bikini Team is in town working on their tans..."
Eric: "Let me get my suit!"




We are fortunate to find Seti friends in many of the places we travel!
Pasi Karonen was kind enough to treat us to a fabulous lunch in Kuopio and to show us around a nature preserve in that area.




Left to right - my mother-in-law Jan, Eric, me and Pasi.
In the background - beautiful Finnish scenery!!!




"Sauna" is the only Finnish word that has made it into the English language.
One cannot go to Finland and not at least try a sauna.
(Tip for first timers... try NOT to think about all the sweaty behinds that have rested on that wood before you!)




"Kahvi", which means "coffee", is another Finnish word I learned early in our trip.
Finns drink a lot of coffee... and I truly mean a LOT of coffee!!!!!!!
There are intricate social rules for "taking coffee" and I'm pretty sure I inadvertently violated quite a few of them.




One cannot "take coffee" without a little pastry to go with it!

Finnish donuts are delightfully chewy and laced with cardamon.
Finnish cinnamon rolls are more "bready" and less sweet than typical American cinnamon rolls.
Finnish pastries are delicious!!!!!

I hope these photos give you all a little taste of Finland. If you ever have a chance to visit Finland, I know you will enjoy it!

7431) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Pics of my Van! (Message 1132795)
Posted 28 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nice!
7432) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 15 (Message 1132608)
Posted 27 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Inference
7433) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Female explorer wanted for companionship. (Message 1132538)
Posted 27 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
7434) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest VII (Message 1132023)
Posted 26 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
14
7435) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 15 (Message 1132009)
Posted 25 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
happen
7436) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1131643)
Posted 25 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have been enjoying your pictures as well, John.
7437) Message boards : Number crunching : So What Happened?? (Message 1131619)
Posted 25 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, ok... here is what REALLY happened. Our cat sitter switched cat food brands and in protest all the raccoons went out on strike.
7438) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1131609)
Posted 25 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Very nice pictures! Thank you.
7439) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Norway shooting and bomb attack (Message 1130978)
Posted 23 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A horrible tragedy - love and peace to those in mourning. Peace on earth... some day... let us hope.
7440) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1130529)
Posted 21 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well friends, I'm just laying here on a couch in Finland, waiting from some of my ARC rivals to challenge me in a PROTRACTORed Pun War. Sadly, the laptop is running out of juice, so I guess I'd better get my little fanny PERPENDICULAR and toddle off to bed. I was hoping to be SCALENE Mount Pun by now, but nobody seems to have the RIGHT ANGLE. Even my friend Sir William has disappeared... maybe he sprained a thumb or broke his RADIUS? Well... time to don my night-time aPARALLEL and hit the hay.

Goodnight punsters!
7441) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1130523)
Posted 21 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Do you really think you are in good enough SHAPE to take me on in a pun war?????
7442) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1130514)
Posted 21 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Feeling a bit sick is an INTEGRAL part of punning...
7443) Message boards : Cafe SETI : . . . Happy Birthday kenzieB - July 21, 2011 (Message 1130505)
Posted 21 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You having another birthday?!!! Happy birthday to you!!!

Ang. & Eric
7444) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1130503)
Posted 21 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Chris, I can barely hear you... good thing I know SINE language!
7445) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1130500)
Posted 21 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You people are giving me an ACUTE case of appundicitis, stop being so darn OBTUSE!!!!
7446) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Uli (Message 1129935)
Posted 20 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy Birthday Ulibelle, with love from Ang. & Eric


P.S. - A note to anyone who saw anything other than a Black Forest Cake posted on this thread by me yesterday. I don't know what happened, but it was a Black Forest Cake when I posted it. Thank you moderators for hiding the other picture. It was not what I thought I was posting on this thread. Eric and I are traveling now and I'm afraid to post another picture from Google Images until we are home!
7447) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1129764)
Posted 19 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Where is Angela hiding?

In Finland. I'll post some pictures when we get home.
7448) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1126999)
Posted 12 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just for Angela showing little blind Stevie not being scared of anything.


Also, clearly Angela has lost one of Mamma's kittens to the neighbour.



Thank you John. Eric says I can't have any INDOOR raccoons... darn.
7449) Message boards : Cafe SETI : RIP: Betty Ford dead at 93 (Message 1126262)
Posted 9 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
RIP, Mrs. Ford.
7450) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 13 (Message 1126168)
Posted 9 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry friends, but we are expecting the arrival of a house guest tomorrow and my "to do" list is 112 items and counting. I am unable to pun this evening. Please pun away using the topic of your choice. I'll try to pop in once or twice tonight if I can.
7451) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner (Message 1125925)
Posted 8 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I rely heavily on Cook's Illustrated recipes. I have found them to be uniformly excellent! Thank's Vic.
7452) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/22/11 (Message 1125753)
Posted 8 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
softly scrambled eggs


I'm not a great fan of eggs. If they are fried then they need to be done double sided, if boiled at least 5 minutes, if scrambled a bit of brown omelette wise. My dad eats eggs half raw with the white part half cooked and runny .... UGH :-)


Eric likes his eggs cooked that way. Way to ruin eggs, say I...
7453) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A lovely cat named Nora (Message 1125751)
Posted 8 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Your eulogy was beautiful. May your happy memories of Nora help see you through this difficult time. RIP kitty.

Angela & Eric
7454) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/22/11 (Message 1125596)
Posted 7 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning with cold cereal. Dang time zones not time for steak.

Ever treat yourself to steak and eggs for breakfast?
Great way to start a weekend.

Yes, on a weekend, not a work day.
Kind of partial to the LOUISIANA CRAB OMELETTE but you can't go wrong no matter what you order.

Pan fried trout and softly scrambled eggs - yummy for breakfast!!!!!!!!!
7455) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Victor! (Message 1124975)
Posted 6 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Best wishes to you on your special day!
7456) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1124970)
Posted 6 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Great stuff Angela! Is the Den under the decking? That would explain Eric's famous Ewoks comment :-))


No, we think IM has her den somewhere close to a nearby creek. Her den is definitely not under our deck, although we probably have a skunk den down there. Most people in our area have skunk dens under their decks, they just don't know it!!! IM comes into our yard each night from the left side, which is creek-side.
7457) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Song Dedication Thread (Message 1124795)
Posted 5 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A song for my new friend, Florence Nightingale!

Girlfriend, even in my salad days I would not have had the moxy to wear a pair of these!

You go, girl!!!
7458) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/22/11 (Message 1124774)
Posted 5 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

A Sparkler win for the CRL!
7459) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1124772)
Posted 5 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
As promised, here is a picture of our "adopted" dog, Maya. She belongs to a neighbor who is a widow in her 80's. Eric and I try to take Maya for long walks on the weekends.

Eric snapped this picture of Maya after a very long walk today. Please note the panting. We were trying to tire Maya out. Thankfully Eric did not take a picture of me, as I was panting more!!!

I'm afraid Maya tires us out more that we tire her out.






Here is a video clip Eric took last weekend of Interloper Mama being coy. She has babies at home in her den, but she has not brought them out to visit us yet.

Sure hope it happens soon. I just love being a great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother!!!


Interloper Mama Video Clip
7460) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/22/11 (Message 1124709)
Posted 4 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If You see the 6lbs I'd stay away, as I hear it wants a body again. ;)


LOL, friend! Universal conservation of mass????
7461) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Films that make you go hmmmm (Message 1124698)
Posted 4 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I was watching "1776" (the musical!) on tv until TIVO switched me over to something Eric wanted recorded. (#$%^&^%$%^&*(*&^$%^& Clone Wars!!!!!!!)
7462) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest VII (Message 1124697)
Posted 4 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll guess low with 311. Canadians seem like reasonable, law-abiding folks to me... at least those I've met so far...
7463) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/22/11 (Message 1124689)
Posted 4 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning after a 60 minute walk with the neighbor's dog...
7464) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy 4th America! (Message 1124654)
Posted 4 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Karen, that was beautiful!

Happy Independence Day, friends.
7465) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/22/11 (Message 1124651)
Posted 4 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning after pulling 60 weeds.
7466) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us A Caption #34 (Message 1124649)
Posted 4 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There are several theories about what killed off the dinosaurs...
7467) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/22/11 (Message 1124618)
Posted 4 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mmmmmm birthday cake - the breakfast of champions! See? I'm winning right now!
7468) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Question for Kenzie. (Message 1124479)
Posted 4 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My raccoons say, "Mmmmm!!!! Three day old mackerel on a compost pile!!!"
7469) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Sunday July 3rd is Eric's Birthday! (Message 1124354)
Posted 3 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You wouldn't want those girls riding an unsafe rocket, would you?

LOL! Ever the altruist, aren't you dear!
7470) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Question for Kenzie. (Message 1124341)
Posted 3 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

A pair of these might be more Ms. Kenzie's taste...
7471) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Sunday July 3rd is Eric's Birthday! (Message 1124333)
Posted 3 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are you sure it wasn't the sorority sky rocket project he left to work on?

Mr Charpentier! I am shocked, simply shocked!!!!!

(And if Eric DID participate in such a project, even on a consultative basis, I assure you that I would not be serving him cake on a platter this evening. Oh no, there would be something else altogether being offered up on Grandmama's vintage cake plate tonight...)
7472) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Sunday July 3rd is Eric's Birthday! (Message 1124271)
Posted 3 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela got me up and sent me off to work.

Well, SOMEBODY has to support me in the manner to which I've become accustomed!



At least that means she gets to change the cat boxes this week.

And would you like the cat-box fairy to attend to her duties before or after she finishes baking you a cake?




Sadly Eric did, indeed, leave for work early this morning and he is not coming home until late tonight. He had several remote observing runs to attend to last week and more are scheduled for this upcoming week. In addition he is right in the middle of working on a giant review article for some journal and he needs to submit it by this weekend.

In celebration of his birthday I made Eric a special breakfast before he left this morning and I am making him a special dinner when he comes home tonight. And there just might be some birthday cake in his future!
7473) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/22/11 (Message 1124235)
Posted 3 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Team Insomnia! Team Insomnia! Rah! Rah! Rah!!!!!
7474) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Sunday July 3rd is Eric's Birthday! (Message 1124234)
Posted 3 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy Birthday Eric! May it be an excellent day free from toe nibbles....

Steve



LOL Steve! What if Eric WANTS me to nibble on his toes???!!!!!!!
7475) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Sunday July 3rd is Eric's Birthday! (Message 1124050)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL! Eric will be 45 tomorrow. I'm not planning to put 45 candles on the cake that I make him - just one symbolic candle.
7476) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Sunday July 3rd is Eric's Birthday! (Message 1123945)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ol Pookers is having another birthday!



Happy Birthday to the love of my life!
7477) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti Gardners Thread 2011 (Message 1123910)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ingrid.... WOW!!!!! WOW, WOW, WOW, WOW, WOW!!!!! Oh, and did I mention WOW?!!!!

You live in a spectacularly beautiful part of this world!!!

Thank you for posting that gorgeous shot!
7478) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123794)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well I sure did enjoy SHOOTING the breeze with you peeps tonight


Chicks rule!

Goodnight punsters!
7479) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123793)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Thank you, cowboy.
7480) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123789)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Never underestimate girls, gentlemen
7481) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123785)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you. Vic and Scarecrow, I've enjoyed your DUEL attack. You are both real SHARPSHOOTERS, but I have been missing my crown.

Thank you for the win.
7482) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123780)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cowboy, don't just GO OFF like that. Declare me the clear winner here!
7483) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123778)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't know, Victor, my AMMO box is empty and my GUN BELT ain't got no more shine on it. I think that PISTOL PACKIN' MAMA has done me in!

Damn, cowboy. I'm just HEATERing up!
7484) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123774)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, wouldn't you rather be watching the FLINTstones, than playing this game?
7485) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123770)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Arr Ya ready to SURRENDER yet Angela?

Nope! I've already got MARKSMAN Sattler out of the game and you're next, Vic!
7486) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123767)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry, I had a teleconference about cleaning my GUN.

Well I figured you weren't reading Elizabeth Barrett BROWNING or listening to Pachelbel's CANNON...
7487) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123764)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now where did that cowboy go? Is he off watching reruns of BERETTA or maybe ARSENAL Hall?
7488) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123762)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh please, I can beat you SQUIRTs with one hand tied behind my back!
7489) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123760)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Maybe cause Angela likes to have a BLAST.

Well, I do enjoy KICKing butt now and again...
7490) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123758)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My, my, my... just look at the GLOCK! It's getting late out there in Nebraska...
7491) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123753)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm gonna PISTOL WHIP both you boys, just BB-cuz I can!
7492) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123749)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, those puns were such dogs I want to MUZZLE them!
7493) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123746)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Where did Uli go? Blessed are the PEACEKEEPERS!

She's a smart girl! Didn't want to get caught in the CROSSFIRE.

Doesn't matter. Everything REVOLVERS around me anyway...
7494) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123740)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Where did Uli go? Blessed are the PEACEKEEPERS!
7495) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123737)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
BLAST it cowboy, aren't you dead yet?

Girl, I'm BULLET PROOF!

Buddy, I am like a MACHINE.
7496) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123733)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
BLAST it cowboy, aren't you dead yet?
7497) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123730)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A five minute break? You boys doing SHOOTERS?
7498) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123726)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is Mark off to see if one of his cats brought in a MAUSER?
7499) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123723)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Back down Vic, unless you want a PIECE of this!
7500) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123720)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Really? Tell me that again in FORTY FIVE minutes...

As TANKed as I am, I would think that would be a HOLLOW point victory for you.

Would you like to simply confer upon me an AUTOMATIC win?
7501) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123719)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh SHOOT Vic, I can't help it if I'm on FIRE...
7502) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123716)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Watch out boys. I can be both charming and DISARMING!

The CALIBER of your puns seem to be getting smaller.

Really? Tell me that again in FORTY FIVE minutes...
7503) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123715)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You're feeling FRISKy tonight, Vic!
7504) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123712)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Watch out boys. I can be both charming and DISARMING!
7505) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123709)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gee I hope Yer not counting on a WINCHESTER...

Nope, but I may get sued for BATTERY...
7506) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123707)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Why? I have more than TWENTY TWO puns lined up already!

Just .22? You'll be going, going, GUN in no time!


Cowboy, screw you and the COLT you rode in on!
7507) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123704)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yeah, I've got everything COVERed.
7508) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123702)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoon Lady, you'd better hope the rest of the women-folk come to your GRENADE.

Why? I have more than TWENTY TWO puns lined up already!
7509) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123698)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, you have GAT to do better to beat me!
7510) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123696)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think we can all really CACHE in on this subject.
7511) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123693)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll beat the two of you and still have time to read a MAGAZINE...
7512) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123690)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Don't RIFLE my feathers, cowboy!
7513) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123687)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It won't. You're too LOADED to win.
7514) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123685)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Let's hope he pulls those pistols, cuz I AIM ready for a fight tonight...
7515) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/22/11 (Message 1123682)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And you have many friends here as well, Vic.
7516) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/22/11 (Message 1123678)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Byron, you are never alone. You have many friends here.
7517) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1123675)
Posted 2 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ulibelle, you are not alone.
7518) Message boards : Cafe SETI : HAPPY BIRTHDAY CANADA! (Message 1123262)
Posted 1 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So that explains this urge I have to belt out "Oh Canada".

Happy Canada Day, neighbors!
7519) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/22/11 (Message 1123259)
Posted 1 Jul 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nooooooo!!!! The Captain of Team Insomnia DOES NOT retire to his chambers at 10pm!!!!
7520) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/22/11 (Message 1122915)
Posted 30 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh dear... now I've stepped in it.
7521) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us A Caption #34 (Message 1122914)
Posted 30 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Why that's enough to make Michelle Bachmann support gay marriage!
7522) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1122912)
Posted 30 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow, this thread has really gone to the DOGS!!!! There seems to be a super abundance of PUPPY love around here. Once the doggie people start WAGGING their tongues about their animals, it becomes hard for them to CURb their enthusiasm. So go ahead dog lovers, get your FIX... no need to FLEA this thread.

But seriously folks, those are some beautiful doggies! Thank you for posting the pictures. Eric and I are not home enough to have a dog, but we hope to get one someday in that fantasy land of retirement. For now, we have to content ourselves with walking an elderly neighbor's dog on the weekends. Her name is Maya (the dog that is, not the neighbor) and I'll try to snap a photo of her this weekend.
7523) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Song Dedication Thread (Message 1122909)
Posted 30 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dedicated to Sas from the twins...

The Blue Danube Waltz
7524) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Song Dedication Thread (Message 1122362)
Posted 28 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
For John.
The Rainbow Connection
7525) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1122353)
Posted 28 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Steve, that was incredible! Thank you!

Sas, love the crazed weasel!!!
7526) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Gay Pride Week! (Message 1121742)
Posted 26 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Best wishes to all in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community!



Angela & Eric
7527) Message boards : Cafe SETI : your very own solar energy project (Message 1121588)
Posted 25 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
But a good foot massage, well that's going to be hard to replace.

Damn it girls, he's figured out our Achilles heel!


You're not ANKLing for another pun-war are you? ;-p


LOL! I wasn't, but it seems that after all the practice I get around here, I'm starting to think in puns without even being aware of it.

(I think Kenzie would not be TOE happy with me if I commandeered another thread!)
7528) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/22/11 (Message 1121419)
Posted 25 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You are not.
7529) Message boards : Cafe SETI : your very own solar energy project (Message 1121417)
Posted 25 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
But a good foot massage, well that's going to be hard to replace.

Damn it girls, he's figured out our Achilles heel!
7530) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/22/11 (Message 1121131)
Posted 24 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Beer is lovely, port is nice
Wine would surely be my vice
Bourbon, that Kentucky whiskey,
Sure can make my husband frisky
You chaps might be right, you know
Friendship is the status quo!
So I'll listen when you say
There's no need for pot today.
7531) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Barny Frank, Ron Paul: legalize Pot (Message 1121114)
Posted 24 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I confess to being guilty of a errant pun or two... but let he who is without pun-sins cast the first STONER!
7532) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Barny Frank, Ron Paul: legalize Pot (Message 1121109)
Posted 24 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ozz, who knew you were such a pun-wizard? I think you might take the GOLD tonight!!!
7533) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/22/11 (Message 1121106)
Posted 24 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Chris, my friend, I too declare
Add weed unto your bill of fare
A little after dinner toke
Might mellow each and every bloke...
7534) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Barny Frank, Ron Paul: legalize Pot (Message 1121101)
Posted 24 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Second hand pot is one of the pluses
Of riding Berkeley city buses...
7535) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Barny Frank, Ron Paul: legalize Pot (Message 1121097)
Posted 24 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow, look at all the punsters we've SMOKED out with this thread!
7536) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Barny Frank, Ron Paul: legalize Pot (Message 1121087)
Posted 24 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did somebody say dessert?
7537) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Barny Frank, Ron Paul: legalize Pot (Message 1121084)
Posted 24 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Kenzie, I hear that place has ROACHES!
7538) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/22/11 (Message 1121078)
Posted 24 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
After you blokes are done with your beer
And all are grinning from ear to ear
The "legalization" thread proclaims
"Go have a round of Mary Janes!!!!"
7539) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Barny Frank, Ron Paul: legalize Pot (Message 1121072)
Posted 24 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Normally I would jump right into a pun battle like this one and try to SKUNK you all, but it seems that there is something about this thread that makes me want to do nothing more than simply lay down right here in the GRASS with a goofy grin on my face, while I exercise quiet bemusement...
7540) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Barny Frank, Ron Paul: legalize Pot (Message 1121000)
Posted 24 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela, you certainly fired up the joint, didn't ya?

Fire, did you say? Guess I'd better stop, drop and ROLL...
7541) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Barny Frank, Ron Paul: legalize Pot (Message 1120988)
Posted 24 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
WEED just have to nip that in the BUD then, wouldn't we?

It is HIGH time somebody did...
7542) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Barny Frank, Ron Paul: legalize Pot (Message 1120937)
Posted 24 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hopfully that would require a JOINT decision.

Yes WEED all be really upset if that were required.
7543) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti Gardners Thread 2011 (Message 1120896)
Posted 24 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My lack of knowledge about the origin of Loganberries might be the only thing I have in common with somebody who is under 25...

Thanks for the background information!
7544) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Barny Frank, Ron Paul: legalize Pot (Message 1120894)
Posted 24 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm so glad nobody TOKE this thread over to Politics last night...
7545) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Barny Frank, Ron Paul: legalize Pot (Message 1120783)
Posted 24 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I cannot imagine what you are REEFERING to!
7546) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 13 (Message 1120763)
Posted 24 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
spin
7547) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 13 (Message 1120759)
Posted 24 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
G
7548) Message boards : Cafe SETI : your very own solar energy project (Message 1120740)
Posted 24 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And cat boxes? Who would empty the cat boxes?!!!
7549) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Barny Frank, Ron Paul: legalize Pot (Message 1120728)
Posted 24 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am all for legalizing pot. The societal hit from pot smokers is nothing compared to the damaging effects of alcohol.
7550) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti Gardners Thread 2011 (Message 1120724)
Posted 24 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL Gary! I am the world's laziest composter. I worry not about layers of brown and green. I just throw things willy-nilly in there and let them rot. If I wait long enough, I get compost. Also, our bins are super ventilated. Trust me, my compost bins never get hot enough to do any damage.
7551) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/22/11 (Message 1120103)
Posted 22 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Carlos!
7552) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday ES99 (Message 1120102)
Posted 22 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My bf bought me a new blouse and skirt and he says he'll give me my real pressie at the restaurant.


Oooooh, dare we even think ......



I'm thinking it!!! I'm thinking it!!! Keep us posted Esme!!!
7553) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday ES99 (Message 1119911)
Posted 22 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Happy Birthday Esme!!!
7554) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1119605)
Posted 21 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oooooooh baby!!! I love it when you talk geek talk! I'm coming upstairs right now!!!
7555) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1119602)
Posted 21 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I recognize that Apple IIGS under Zsa Zsa's back legs.
Is it still in use? Mine is.


I don't know, but I suspect that Eric does not own any machines he cannot get into working order. There are few things he enjoys more than finding a dumpster discard, cleaning in up, getting it humming and then finding ways to maximize it up to what was historically possible at the time of the machine's release. It is a very strange hobby to have and one I do not fully understand; but I have to admit that I find it charming. I will ask Eric to answer your question if he has a free minute tomorrow.
7556) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cataract surgery (Message 1119595)
Posted 21 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


Wishing you a speedy recovery, dear friend.
7557) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday KenzieB (Message 1119594)
Posted 21 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Happy Birthday, sistah!
7558) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1119247)
Posted 20 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Here is a picture of Eric enjoying Father's Day further by drinking a mint julep and spending some quality time with our son Spawnie.

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7559) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1119199)
Posted 19 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric spends a quiet Father's Day in his messy den, accompanied by our daughters...



Zsa Zsa is on top of the rack, Stinky Lou is below and Eva is to the left of the printer.
7560) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti Gardners Thread 2011 (Message 1119186)
Posted 19 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric took this shot of a part of our backyard yesterday. It illustrates my Darwinian approach to gardening - put in cheap, common, aggressive, low maintenance flowering plants, then let them fight it out!



The "structure" in this picture is a three sided barrier which "hides" my compost bins. Directly to the right of the apple tree are California poppies, our state flower. Nasturtiums attempt to choke out hardy day lilies. Here and there are patches of sweet alyssum which appear (temporarily) to be losing the battle, but don't count them out yet! They seed prolifically! To the right of the compost bin barrier are some Shasta daisies. They had become quite overgrown so I removed most of them this spring and just left a small clump. The clump is doing quite well and will probably need to be dug out again in about three years.

Of course the "dark horse" in this race is something that does not show up well in this shot. Against the long side of the barrier is some mint which I think simply seeded itself naturally from a pot of mint I had around last year. The mint is quite happy there and I suspect it will eventually take over the entire planting area if I don't pull it out once a year or so.

Mint juleps anyone?
7561) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us A Caption #34 (Message 1119157)
Posted 19 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Those are the only other set of boobies I'm willing to let my husband see!
7562) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Films that make you go hmmmm (Message 1119119)
Posted 19 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've had no luck finding the complete versions of Harold and Maude and Wizards.
While I don't think I've ever seen H&M I did see Wizards in the theatre when it came out.
I quite enjoyed it, so if I find the film somewhere later I will create a link to it.

I'm also having trouble finding another favorite of mine... Quest for Fire.
Who doesn't appreciate a good caveman movie?


I just tore through our movie collection thinking that we must have a copy of Harold and Maude someplace. Alas, I could not find it. I did, however, find all sorts of stupid movies that I never want to see again. Hot Tub Time Machine, anyone?
7563) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Father's Day!!! (Message 1119113)
Posted 19 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
7564) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday to Mike! (Message 1119111)
Posted 19 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Best wishes to you on your special day!

Fondly,
Angela & Eric
7565) Message boards : Cafe SETI : celttooth is learning to see again............. (Message 1118750)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Depth perception is back!

Depth perception! Wow!!! I've got to get me some of that some day!!!

So glad to hear that the surgery was a success and that you are recovering well.
7566) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118610)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodnight punsters!


7567) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118608)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


Congratulations Kittyman!
7568) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118604)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mark, just stay off the CROOKED path and you'll be fine! Congratulations on your win, friend.

You all knew this one was coming, didn't you?
7569) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118599)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The knowledge that the winner is not me is making me pale... yes, I'm definitely WHITENING...

But I agree, Mark wins!
7570) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118597)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Please sit in the WAITING ROOM for a minute, Mr. Sattler.
7571) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118593)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I AIM nearly out of puns...
7572) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118590)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You came out of the COLGATE running, my friend!
7573) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118588)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
These puns are really coming fast. You boys should relax. What's the big THRUSH?
7574) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118585)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How the HALITOSIS this thread still going?

I got a really big RETAINER to work here...
7575) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118582)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Anglea, get a POLYGRIP please:)

Sorry, I'm just really PARTIAL to winning...
7576) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118580)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Stick around... Play ORAL win!
7577) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118578)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
(Mr. Frost is spinning like a top)

Oh BITE me, cowboy!
7578) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118574)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have come to the same MALOCCLUSION...
7579) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118571)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
VENEER, done that...
7580) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118567)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This may be the BLEACH I die on...
7581) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118563)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cut me some PLAQUE, will ya?
7582) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118561)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm still ABSCESSed with winning!
7583) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118557)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think you would all CANKER that I am winning.

And I'm feeling like a SORE loser!
7584) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118553)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Don't get too CARIES away!
7585) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118549)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ouch! You are making me RINSE!
7586) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118547)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll beat you all to a PULP!
7587) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118541)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm getting SPITTING mad now!!!
7588) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118537)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You're always MOUTHING off like that...
7589) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118534)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You boys are getting rather CHEEKY!
7590) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118530)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm playing for BROKE.
7591) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118527)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm on brink... the verge... the very BICUSPID of a win here...
7592) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118524)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, I've got my GUMS a-blazing!
7593) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118521)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am hell bent on CLEANING up here.
7594) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118515)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
But after this fine meal of puns, who will pick the CHECK UP?
7595) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118510)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well I think it's a GAS!
7596) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118508)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are you saying we PICKed the wrong topic.

I'm saying it with TONGUE IN CHEEK!
7597) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118504)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes Mark, I get the IMPRESSION that it is...
7598) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118502)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am just ACHING for a win tonight...
7599) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118498)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In the interest of full disclosure boys, my dad was a dentist. You may want to choose another topic before I BRUSH up on my vocabulary...
7600) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 12 (Message 1118488)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, I'm here and I think I know the DRILL...
7601) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1118483)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoon kits sure grow up fast
They're gone before a year has passed
But every year I am in awe
To be a great great great grandma!
7602) Message boards : Cafe SETI : You aren't going to believe This (Message 1118481)
Posted 18 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I would send a letter as well. Such behavior should not be tolerated.
7603) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1118191)
Posted 17 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow! Great names everybody. I promise to post "baby pictures" just as soon as Interloper Mama decides that her babies are ready to follow her around.
7604) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/11/11 (Message 1118190)
Posted 17 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Carlos, I hear ya! I walked out of our house at 7am this morning and I walked in tonight around 11pm.
7605) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/11/11 (Message 1117743)
Posted 16 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You may have bested me for now, CRL! I'll see you Friday!

Well cowboy, it seems that you POCKED the exact wrong person with whom to pun this evening. I'm glad you finally put that PUSTULE back in your holster. For a while there you had me punning as fast as I could TYPHUS!

Well, sorry for this intERUPTION of the usual "winning" that goes on here.

We return you now to your regularly scheduled program.

Good night punsters and other friends!
7606) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/11/11 (Message 1117738)
Posted 16 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll be there... just remember, you'll be working without a NETTLE.

ZITS ok. I'm not afraid.
7607) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/11/11 (Message 1117733)
Posted 16 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cowboy, I'll be retrieving my pun crown, donning my Pun Queen sash and accepting a big bouquet of ROSEOLAs come Friday night!!!
7608) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/11/11 (Message 1117730)
Posted 16 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, I'll admit that you are SPOT on tonight...
7609) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/11/11 (Message 1117728)
Posted 16 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If you can't take the PRICKLY HEAT, cowboy, stay out of the Pun Room!
7610) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/11/11 (Message 1117725)
Posted 16 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I expect you to TENDER your resignation as Pun King!
7611) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/11/11 (Message 1117723)
Posted 16 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You are making my blood BOIL over!!!
7612) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/11/11 (Message 1117721)
Posted 16 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You certainly have a lot of GALL, cowboy!
7613) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/11/11 (Message 1117719)
Posted 16 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You'll go down INFLAMEs!!!
7614) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/11/11 (Message 1117717)
Posted 16 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Don't make me go scientific on you and start explaining STING THEORY.

Hmmm.... I might have to FESTER you into explaining that on Friday...
7615) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/11/11 (Message 1117714)
Posted 16 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I would hope that you would be more SENSITIVE!
7616) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/11/11 (Message 1117711)
Posted 16 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hope you won't be a SORE loser on Friday!
7617) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/11/11 (Message 1117709)
Posted 16 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Looks like you're trying to FLEA. You can run, but you can't hide!

HIVE got to save some puns for Friday!
7618) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/11/11 (Message 1117707)
Posted 16 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Because sometimes you RUB me the wrong way.

That was a SHEEP DIP shot, even for you!

Sorry. Next time I'll try not to be so RASH...
7619) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/11/11 (Message 1117705)
Posted 16 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cowboy, sometimes I find you highly IRRITATING!

Why must you always be PICKING AT ME?


Because sometimes you RUB me the wrong way.
7620) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/11/11 (Message 1117700)
Posted 16 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've seen this before.... the heartbreak of rhinoceros.


Cowboy, sometimes I find you highly IRRITATING!
7621) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/11/11 (Message 1117696)
Posted 16 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...and I'm itching...

Yo, Yo... that itch could be telling you something.


You can trash talk all you want, cowboy. It don't amount to SCRATCH!
7622) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/11/11 (Message 1117691)
Posted 16 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Maybe I'll peek in if I've time. :)

Please do! I intend to make that cowboy cry in his beer!
7623) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1117687)
Posted 16 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lovely pictures Karen and Miep. Thank you!

Well raccoon fanciers, it's that time again... Time to submit raccoon baby names. Uli already personally requested that one baby be named Logan, so that is a done deal.

Looks like Interloper Mama has kicked out Fraidy Lady Raccoon and I am 100% sure I.M. has a litter hidden someplace. She's getting up there in age now, so I'm not sure how many babies she will bring around.

Post as many names as you wish, but I'll only choose one name from each poster. Names needed will be selected in the order posted, with Uli's name being #1.

On your mark.... get set.... post!!!!
7624) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/11/11 (Message 1117686)
Posted 16 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So do eye.


Ohhhh, you should have saved that one for pun night. (Do you guys still do Friday Night Pun?)


Alas, Eric and I have been out of town for three weekends in a row, but it looks like we're home this Friday and I'm itching to retrieve my pun crown!
7625) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Started 6/11/11 (Message 1117681)
Posted 16 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing you a speedy recovery!
7626) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us A Caption #33 (Message 1117219)
Posted 15 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This ain't NATO - we're both supposed to be playing here...
7627) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Films that make you go hmmmm (Message 1117211)
Posted 15 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The Gods Must Be Crazy

This is one of those offbeat films that everyone must see.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO8RdA446Uc&feature=related


Agreed!
7628) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti Gardners Thread 2011 (Message 1116927)
Posted 14 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nope! I washed them and we ate some with dinner. Then I put the bowl in the fridge. Delicious! Thank you!!!

7629) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1116137)
Posted 12 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ants war with other species of ants and even with other colonies if they are not related.

I think meer cats have wars as well, but I am not entirely sure on that one...
7630) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW started 110527 (Message 1115336)
Posted 10 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Donald, please join us on Team Insomnia!
7631) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW started 110527 (Message 1114926)
Posted 9 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I want to win. I always want to win!
7632) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Julie (Message 1114923)
Posted 9 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Best wishes to you on your special day!
Fondly,
Angela & Eric
7633) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To the Kitty People........wherever they are......... (Message 1114464)
Posted 8 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What Eric & I saw at 7 am as we left the house for work this morning: A bowl of cherries on the kitchen counter

What Eric and I saw at 8:30 pm this evening when we returned home: Cherries all over the house - a frightful mess.

What Zsa Zsa, Eva and possibly also Stinky Lou must have seen across the course of the day: A bowl full of cat toys - complete with little mousie-tail stems that were clearly useful for shaking and dragging those wonderful, round, rolling, carpet staining cat toys!

Bad Bad Bad Bad Kitties!

7634) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW started 110527 (Message 1113741)
Posted 6 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning at the end of a very nice weekend.
7635) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1113730)
Posted 6 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not a guess, just a snide comment... I am proud to be a charter member of the Couch Potatoes Club!
7636) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1112766)
Posted 3 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


Risk of round worms, scabies, rabies
Worth it - to see raccoon babies!!!
Yes, I am your C-R-L
Come to my yard and sit a spell...
There you will such wonders see
That soon you will agree with me
There's no need for deep explaining,
My raccoons are entertaining!!!


7637) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW started 110527 (Message 1112261)
Posted 2 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Good night friends!
7638) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti Gardners Thread 2011 (Message 1111923)
Posted 1 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My 89 year old neighbor is a bee keeper. Man, I sure hope I can still climb a ladder at that age!
7639) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Films that make you go hmmmm (Message 1111916)
Posted 1 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Anybody out there a Harold and Maude fan?


Yes. Loved the hearse.


What's not to love?!!!
7640) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW started 110527 (Message 1111915)
Posted 1 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are we there yet?
7641) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti Gardners Thread 2011 (Message 1111906)
Posted 1 Jun 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oooer, so what did Ulibell do in her garden today? :-)

signed
Agog from UK


By practicing Latin I meant "Weedus Egregious - Begoneus!!!"
7642) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Films that make you go hmmmm (Message 1111639)
Posted 31 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Anybody out there a Harold and Maude fan?
7643) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us A Caption #33 (Message 1111637)
Posted 31 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes... I'll have you with a side of gopher and a catnip salad.
7644) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti Gardners Thread 2011 (Message 1111636)
Posted 31 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Long Suffering Marie has a lovely warm smile. She does not appear to be suffering too much?

Ulibelle, did you practice Latin in your garden today?
7645) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 12 (Message 1111635)
Posted 31 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
rain
7646) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 12 (Message 1111596)
Posted 31 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
lacunar
7647) Message boards : Number crunching : May/June Fund Drive (Message 1110968)
Posted 29 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dear Angela Korpela,

Thank you for your gift of $100.00 via Visa on 05/28/2011.
Your gift was assigned to the following areas:

SETI@home - $100.00

Your confirmation number is:
74870

7648) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW started 110527 (Message 1110519)
Posted 27 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Carlos!
7649) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A new host. (Message 1110307)
Posted 27 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No, I was doing paperwork in my office in Berkeley until midnight! I've been home for about 20 minutes now and I'm trying to unwind before I hit the hay.
7650) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A new host. (Message 1110305)
Posted 27 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Donald??? Carlos??? Uli???? What are my fellow Californians doing up so late?
7651) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1110218)
Posted 27 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
As a scouting enthusiast, the person before me is always prepared!
7652) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1110214)
Posted 27 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The person before me is a great dad!
7653) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beets Give Us A Caption #33 (Message 1110181)
Posted 27 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Step left, kick right, then jazz hands!
7654) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games (Message 1110123)
Posted 26 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ulibelle, thank you so much for honoring me with that special raccoon picture in the Caption Contest!
7655) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A birthday raccoon for Angela (Message 1109731)
Posted 25 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Shouldn't you be working? I can lurk in the cafe all day because it's my job.


I do get the occasional break, you know!
7656) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A birthday raccoon for Angela (Message 1109687)
Posted 25 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Long Sufferin' Marie warned me that it is bad form to ask the exact year.

Why, the year is 2011!!!
7657) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A birthday raccoon for Angela (Message 1109546)
Posted 25 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends!

Thank you for all the kind birthday wishes and for all the fun birthday pictures. I had quite a nice day today despite the fact that I was scheduled to work 10 hours, and even with an hour out for lunch, still managed to clock 11 hours.

My sister-in-law and my handsome "new" (6 month old) nephew took me out to lunch today at one of my favorite close-to-work haunts and I just got home from a nice dinner out in Berkeley with Eric.

Eric took me out to a place I really enjoy. The food is tasty, the lighting is flattering and it is a quiet enough restaurant that one can enjoy conversation with one's dinner companion(s) there. The older I get, the more I appreciate quiet restaurants. I don't know if that is a bad sign because it indicates that I have become a grumpy old intolerant woman or if it is a good sign because it indicates that despite my advancing years, I haven't lost my hearing yet!

Anyway, it is nice to come home to so many lovely wishes from so many lovely people.

Fondly,
Angela
7658) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A new host. (Message 1109287)
Posted 24 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nope. 266.
7659) Message boards : Cafe SETI : So, what do you have planned for the end of the world? (Message 1109282)
Posted 24 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Darn! That is the height of the high holy season for me...
7660) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A new host. (Message 1109277)
Posted 24 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Temporarily...
7661) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1109274)
Posted 24 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A local golf course was evacuated ...

Giggle!

In the Oakland Hills several years ago there was a mountain lion who liked to sun herself with some regularity on the Montclair Golf Course.

Here kitty kitty!
7662) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A new host. (Message 1109270)
Posted 24 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hiya friends!
7663) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Dan's Poetry Corner II (Message 1109266)
Posted 24 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Daniel, very vivid. Thank you.
7664) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET'S Give us a Caption #32 (Message 1109265)
Posted 24 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok funny folk, time to declare a winner!

Third place goes to Chris S with: "Ummmm, I got a good excuse for being here, but I can't remember it just at the moment ......."

Second place goes to Skildude with: "Dude, smell my finger."

Winner is a late entry and I cannot stop laughing! Congratulations to John McLeod VII with his entry: "Resist the temptation to wash the sugar cube.
Resist the temptation to wash the sugar cube..."

PM on the way...
7665) Message boards : Cafe SETI : So, what do you have planned for the end of the world? (Message 1109158)
Posted 23 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, fess up. How many of you were tempted to go to Goodwill, buy a bunch of cheap used clothes, and strew said articles of clothing all over the street?
7666) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 11 (Message 1108955)
Posted 23 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Looney-tunes
7667) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 11 (Message 1108950)
Posted 23 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
trousers
7668) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 11 (Message 1108946)
Posted 23 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Give
7669) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1108945)
Posted 23 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The person before me is fond of squirrels.
7670) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1108941)
Posted 23 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The person before me likes Mustang cars.
7671) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 11 (Message 1108939)
Posted 23 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
paddy
7672) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 11 (Message 1108937)
Posted 23 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
nick
7673) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1108924)
Posted 23 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The person before me has an insatiable appetite for news!
7674) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1108920)
Posted 23 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Last year's babies are gone. They have all found territories of their own, I suppose. One large mama raccoon now visits us somewhat regularly. She probably has a litter hidden someplace, but presumably the babies are too young to travel with her yet. She may be (probably is) one of our babies-of-old from a couple litters back, but we don't recognize her as an adult, either by markings or by behavior. Clearly she "knows" our backyard, but she is also rather skittish to have ever been one of our bolder babies. We don't really have a name for her now that she is an adult, but we are open to suggestions.

Eric thought he saw Arthur the other night. Arthur has a distinct head shape that makes him easy to recognize.

Two of our skunk regulars, Spotty and Smheloise, spent some time last week screaming at each other. No spraying occurred, but they made quite a lot of noise.

Other than that, things are rather quiet out here on the "western front".
7675) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET'S Give us a Caption #32 (Message 1108785)
Posted 22 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you Vic! Ok friends, please caption this:


7676) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET'S Give us a Caption #32 (Message 1108562)
Posted 22 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Please! Tell me!!! What do YOU do when your codpiece rides up?
7677) Message boards : Cafe SETI : So, what do you have planned for the end of the world? (Message 1108559)
Posted 22 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What you and Eric do and how you achieve "heaven" is between the two of you. But honestly Angela, I never thought you were the type to ask everyone to join in!



LOL, friend!!!
7678) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1108554)
Posted 22 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Uli and Karen, what happened girlfriends!!!?????!!!!!!!!

Sigh. If only I had been free last night, perhaps I could have helped the two of you resist that man's legendary ANIMAL MAGNETISM.

Eric and I have another commitment for next Friday night, so you will have to regain the Pun Crown without me. Ladies, I look forward to congratulating you on next week's victory.

Oh and I suppose good manners dictate that I extend congratulations to the ruling Pun King... Well done Scarecrow, may your reign be short and sweet!
7679) Message boards : Cafe SETI : So, what do you have planned for the end of the world? (Message 1108547)
Posted 22 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow I was just raptured!!!!! Sure is nice up here in heaven...

Where the heck are the rest of you?
7680) Message boards : Cafe SETI : So, what do you have planned for the end of the world? (Message 1108108)
Posted 21 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hmmmm, I do have some paperwork to catch up on this weekend, but I think I'll put that off until Sunday... just in case.
7681) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1108104)
Posted 21 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sas! Welcome aboard, friend!!!

Fondly,
Mrs. K.
7682) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A new host. (Message 1107877)
Posted 20 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning for the pure joy of winning...
7683) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A new host. (Message 1107556)
Posted 19 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Howdy Jim. Howdy Vic. Good night friends.
7684) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A new host. (Message 1107552)
Posted 19 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What a coincidence Jim! I'm winning too.
7685) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 10 (Message 1107210)
Posted 18 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
back
7686) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 10 (Message 1107208)
Posted 18 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
off
7687) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 10 (Message 1107206)
Posted 18 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
down
7688) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 10 (Message 1107199)
Posted 18 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Drain
7689) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 10 (Message 1107189)
Posted 18 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Calc
7690) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti Gardners Thread 2011 (Message 1107184)
Posted 18 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nah, glads do that no matter how well you plant them. They are especially prone to falling if heavy with rain. The best thing to do with glads is to cut them just as the bottom flowers are opening and enjoy them inside. Marie has the absolute right idea.
7691) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti Gardners Thread 2011 (Message 1107176)
Posted 18 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
While it does look much like my bearded irises, I think I have some gladiolas out back that are that thick as well. So Uli, I'm betting it is a glad! Only time will tell...
7692) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A new host. (Message 1106958)
Posted 17 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Short thread! Yeah!!! It won't take long at all for me to win, win, win!!!
7693) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti Gardners Thread 2011 (Message 1106956)
Posted 17 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow!

Why thank you. Only the strong survive in my garden. Note the Watsonia in front that has nearly been eaten by a clump of Santa Barbara Daisies. Yikes! Plant on plant violence!
7694) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update IX - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1106955)
Posted 17 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends and welcome to the Ninth Critter Cafe Thread. This is a place where Critter-People gather and have fun.

There is no such thing as "off topic" in the Critter Cafe.

To start out our new thread, here are a couple of our indoor critters

In her best Pterri Pterodactyl voice Zsa Zsa whines, "I want to be da baby!"





I had just washed and dried this fruit bowl containing the lovely Miss Eva!!!
7695) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1106950)
Posted 17 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hiya friends!

I am starting another Critter Cafe thread as this one has become a little picture heavy for dial-up users.




See you all soon on the next thread.
7696) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti Gardners Thread 2011 (Message 1106711)
Posted 16 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Regrettably, I never seem to manage to get in much gardening time.
Out of necessity my "strategy" has been to sink a bunch of really aggressive flowering plants together and then ruthlessly let them fight it out.

Eric took this shot of our front yard yesterday. As you can see, things are proceeding exactly as planned...

7697) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A new host. (Message 1106707)
Posted 16 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Bernie!
7698) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1106697)
Posted 16 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you PT. I believed Robert shared that piece previously. It is great! Thanks! Your link didn't let me view it, being outside of Canada, but I'm pretty sure I've seen it already. Enjoyable stuff!
7699) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1106403)
Posted 15 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The person before me also spreads cheer all over the world!!!
7700) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW, Bernie Vine Wins!! (Message 1106401)
Posted 15 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Every year I host afternoon tea for my aunties. I just turned an angel food cake out and finished baking a batch of almond-lemon shortbread cookies. Next I will work on some fillings for tea sandwiches. I hope to be in bed by 2am.
7701) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW, Bernie Vine Wins!! (Message 1106395)
Posted 15 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Can't sleep... must bake (and win!).
7702) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW, Bernie Vine Wins!! (Message 1106391)
Posted 15 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Good morning Mike! Hope you enjoyed your brief win.
7703) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1106388)
Posted 15 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The person before me is a good friend!
7704) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW, Bernie Vine Wins!! (Message 1106342)
Posted 15 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My, my, my! Hasn't one of you won yet? Oh well. Guess I'll have to do it for you.
7705) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1106284)
Posted 15 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
While of course that is not the real me in that video, growing up I did have raccoon encounters. I grew up in the Oakland hills and my dad used to feed a raccoon who frequented our backyard. The raccoon's name was Bandit. Every evening my dad would put a pie plate full of table scraps out for Bandit. I would stand with my nose pressed to the sliding glass door of our family room with my brother John, my sister Andrea and my baby brother Mark. We would all watch Bandit enjoy his dinner. Bandit was quite tame, but my dad still never allowed any of us kids outside in the backyard when it was Bandit's dinner time. Looking back, Bandit probably was a male, as there were never any babies. Bandit came nightly for a few years, then we never saw him again. There never was a raccoon replacement when he, presumably, passed away so I guess he was just a lone male.

Raccoon feeding... nature or nurture?
7706) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1106200)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Great videos all! Thank you!

The pink one, I suppose.....LOL.

Nope, my hair is curly. I am one of the raccoons, of course.
7707) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW, Bernie Vine Wins!! (Message 1106024)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
7708) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1106021)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


Good night punsters!
7709) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1106020)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You've got a fast car...
7710) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1106017)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Beep Beep Beep Beep Yeah!
7711) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1106013)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well of COURSE we could just PULL OVER to the WAYSIDE and REFLECT a bit...

Nah! Who am I kidding? It is time to TURN OFF the computer and TURN IN.

Congratulations Queen Karen!
7712) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1106008)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well folks, I have enjoyed CROSSING swords with you. It was a STEADY CLIMB all evening, but my vote for winner goes to the Pennsylvania SKID, Ms. Karen!
7713) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW, Bernie Vine Wins!! (Message 1106005)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
YOU RANG?
7714) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1106003)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm losing TRACTION here... starting to see a few SIGNS that it is time for a REST STOP.
7715) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1105995)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And Karen, with you so far aCROSSCOUNTRY, you definitely have a time ZONE disadvantage this evening.
7716) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1105988)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You can BANK on it!
7717) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1105985)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I was just YIELDing to you Ladies. I am Steering in the right the direction on that one, but you can't STOP ON A DIME.

Well just give me the SIGNAL and I'll help in any way I can.
7718) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1105977)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ulibelle, are you still around? How is the smoking cessation going? Is it hard to STOPLIGHTing up?
7719) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1105975)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There is only ONE WAY out, and that is declare the ladies victors this evening.
7720) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1105972)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, without your team mates Jim and Scarecrow around, this pun war is destined to become an example of VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER!
7721) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1105965)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh no!!! Another HIT AND RUN?!!!
7722) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1105962)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Another seti party? Ulibelle, give me a gosh darn BRAKE!!!
7723) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1105958)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are you gonna sit there and idle, are you gonna stall-out, or are you gonna double clutch it and haul a**?


I'm gonna CREEP up and pass ya!
7724) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1105956)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Uh... BACKUP just a moment there. I see some SIGNS that indicate you may not win...
7725) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1105951)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just be careful you don't CHOKE!
7726) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1105949)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Watch out for my ROAD RAGE! I'll have your head on a PIKE!
7727) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I may be silenced, but I never am gone. (Message 1105946)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hon, i am not so punny when you get my gall..........

Fine! Stay over on this thread and BLADDER away to yourself then...
7728) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1105942)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You said it, sister! Make him rupture a major ARTERY if he wants to TRAFFIC BEAT you!
7729) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW, Bernie Vine Wins!! (Message 1105936)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Calling who?
7730) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1105934)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, are you suggesting we RAMP it up?
7731) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW, Bernie Vine Wins!! (Message 1105932)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Rein it in, pony boy!
7732) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1105930)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yeah Karen & Ulibelle, if we gals go BUMPER TO BUMPER, I'm pretty sure Vic will be the one to CRAWL out of here...
7733) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I may be silenced, but I never am gone. (Message 1105924)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Come over to the pun thread and play for a while...
7734) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1105923)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Having four players pretty much INSURES that a winner will eMERGE.
7735) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1105918)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm so excited I can barely CONEtain myself!!!
7736) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1105912)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey, I just noticed Vic is here! That just VEHICLES me pink!!!
7737) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1105909)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow Karen, you sure EXPRESSWAY too much in your posts for me to BYPASS...

And Ulibelle, what do you wanna bet Scarecrow is busy oggling some barmaid's FRONTAGE about now?
7738) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 10 (Message 1105902)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gracie
7739) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1105900)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't know, Ulibelle... the information SUPERHIGHWAY is full of other distractions.
7740) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 10 (Message 1105898)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Queen (pun... me!)
7741) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I may be silenced, but I never am gone. (Message 1105895)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Rumor had it you had quit in a huff. I'm glad to see that was untrue.
7742) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1105893)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm INCLINEd to agree.
7743) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I may be silenced, but I never am gone. (Message 1105890)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't want a pickle... just wanna ride on my motorcycle.

Well look what the cat dragged in! Welcome home, Kittyman.
7744) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1105887)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Jim had to work and Scarecrow (that DRUNK BUMP) is probably in bar. Janice is probably busy TRAFFICking some smuggled rum. Not sure where Vic is...
7745) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW, Bernie Vine Wins!! (Message 1105885)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And the winner is....
7746) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1105884)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not at all! I'm happy to go ROUND-ABOUT with you!
7747) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1105882)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Karen!!! Come JAM with us!!!
7748) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1105878)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hear ya, sister. Makes me want to take out a LICENSE to kill!
7749) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1105872)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The folks at the DMV DRIVE most people crazy...
7750) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1105868)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
(Any punsters in da house???)

I had to go to the DMV today and boy was I a nervous WRECK...
7751) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW, Bernie Vine Wins!! (Message 1105867)
Posted 14 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have posted and lost
Than never to have won at all.

Happy Poet's Day, friends!!!
7752) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW, Bernie Vine Wins!! (Message 1105627)
Posted 13 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Good night Vic. Pleasant dreams to you.
7753) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1105346)
Posted 12 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey It's Me, Angela, I've been transformed into a Raccoon... HELP!!

You say that like it is a bad thing...
7754) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1105234)
Posted 11 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
There is no such thing as "off topic" in the Critter Cafe!
7755) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Aurora over the pole......... (Message 1105096)
Posted 11 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What a light show! I'm ready for some popcorn now.
7756) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1105094)
Posted 11 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That snake tries to attack me every chance she gets.

Might I recommend raccoon whispering? It is far safer, Steve.
7757) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW, Bernie Vine Wins!! (Message 1104869)
Posted 10 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Posting to beat Carlos' posterior!
7758) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1104865)
Posted 10 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
John, I am so sorry that you have lost a pet.

Friends, thank you for all the fun posts!

Is this unbearably cute, or what?!!!
7759) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games (Message 1104541)
Posted 8 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the invitation Rob, but I have already filled my "man quota" for this lifetime.
7760) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games (Message 1104495)
Posted 8 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL! I used strawberry ice cream on the outside, raspberry sorbet in the middle and vanilla bean inside. I drizzled the whole bombe with a chocolate chambord sauce and served each slice in a "puddle" of additional sauce. Cookies were on the side. We celebrated Mother's Day a day early here.
7761) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games (Message 1104485)
Posted 8 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Does left-over vanilla berry bombe count? I'm thinking about having a slice of that for lunch.
7762) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti Gardners Thread 2011 (Message 1104464)
Posted 8 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy Mother's Day, Uli-belle!


I hope Daniel made you a gourmet breakfast in bed and Gabe is outside right now weeding your beautiful garden!!!
7763) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games (Message 1104460)
Posted 8 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Here come the Berkeley Hilbillies

Angela - I told you eating all those lemon meringue pies would pay off one day.

Eric - Shh woman, put a couple more raccoons in the ballast bag, SSL Lab is another 3 blocks yet.


LOL!!!!! Thank you Chris! Is it a bad thing that Eric had cookies for breakfast?
7764) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW, Bernie Vine Wins!! (Message 1104456)
Posted 8 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
John and Sheila, we are so sorry to hear of your loss.

Angela & Eric
7765) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Aurora over the pole......... (Message 1104455)
Posted 8 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Breath taking! Thank you for posting those pictures!
7766) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW, Bernie Vine Wins!! (Message 1104210)
Posted 7 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Do I recall being promised a short thread?
7767) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW, Bernie Vine Wins!! (Message 1103811)
Posted 6 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning and really, really, really hating Thursdays.
7768) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest V - At last the winner has stepped forward... (Message 1103810)
Posted 6 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
300 channels
7769) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET'S Give us a Caption #32 (Message 1103654)
Posted 5 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Some people take "talk like a pirate day" a little too seriously...
7770) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest V - At last the winner has stepped forward... (Message 1103460)
Posted 5 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well Angela, I'll have to pass on this one as I have no idea what a TIVO or season pass is, lest of all any knowlege of USA TV shows ;-)


+1 :(


Chris and John, I am so sorry. I completely overlooked the fact that this thread has several regular players who are not in the USA. I am deeply sorry. I will end this silly contest now and declare a winner tonight.

The winner is Bill Walker with 2 points!

My list of the Dreaded Ten, not in any particular order, includes:

1. Stargate Universe - point to Bill!!!
(Ok, ok... I'll admit that initially I enjoyed Stargate, but now they are just getting silly. If I were not a happily married woman though, I would be out looking for somebody like Daniel Jackson, the universe's most hunky archaeologist! Are you with me on this one lady-crunchers?)

2. Futurama - please, oh please, somebody make that show go away!!! I loathe it!!!

3. The Venture Brothers - I believe that one must be extremely intoxicated to best appreciate that show. I really cannot afford to get that drunk on a work night.

4. Smallville - Hmmm, did all that happen in the REAL Superman? I super hate that show!

5. Warehouse 13 - point to Jim! Good guess, buddy!

6. An Idiot Abroad - England, you should be ashamed of yourself!!!

7. Onion Sports Dome - I don't watch a lot of sports, so a sports spoof show does nothing for me...

8. River Monsters - point to Bill who referenced fishing shows

9. Star Wars - The Clone Wars - Hate it! Hate it! Hate it!

10. Game of Thrones - I don't remember what it is. I just remember that I don't like it.

Sending Bill a pm now.

Again, sorry for my nationalistic blinders. I'll be far more careful if I ever win again.
7771) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest V - At last the winner has stepped forward... (Message 1103194)
Posted 4 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm sorry, you must be more specific than "the bass channel". I'm trolling for shows, not channels.
7772) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest V - At last the winner has stepped forward... (Message 1103189)
Posted 4 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Would Eric watch Project Runway?

Only if Project Runway were a show about airplanes...
7773) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1103179)
Posted 4 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have it on good authority that squirrels also enjoy French fries...
7774) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1103175)
Posted 4 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello little squirrel! Come to my house. I have birdseed with peanuts in it just for you. There are also some tasty pine cones in our yard, should you be so inclined.
7775) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest V - At last the winner has stepped forward... (Message 1103171)
Posted 4 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends. Here is your new contest.

Eric and I currently have 58 season passes on our TIVO (...a number which, I must sheepishly admit, is way too much tv time for two people who claim to have a "life of the mind.") Some of the season passes for tv shows are mine, some are Eric's and some we enjoy together. After reviewing our season passes, I noticed that Eric has 10 passes to currently running shows that I simply will not watch, EVER! I would rather fold laundry, wash dishes and/or scoop the cat boxes than watch even 5 minutes of these television shows.

Name those ten shows.
7776) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IV The winner, please step forward. (Message 1103160)
Posted 4 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, ok, settle down people! I'm here, at last. My goodness, it hasn't even been 24 hours!!! Give a busy lady a break, will ya? I was at work until 7pm, I have a 40 minute commute home, I had to go grocery shopping this evening and then I threw together a little dinner for my poor neglected hubster. Sorry for the "delay of game."

If anyone would like to subsidize my early retirement, I will be happy to start contests much more quickly in the future.

Uli-belle, I will happily start a new thread. See you all over there with a brand spanking new contest! John, thank you for the win.

7777) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IV The winner, please step forward. (Message 1102970)
Posted 3 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've made chutneys from tomatoes...
7778) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti Gardners Thread 2011 (Message 1102967)
Posted 3 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
GF, I love Rhubarb. Does that mean, I should book a room sometime in the fall of 2012?

Coffee cakes, crisps and ice cream sauces primarily... occasionally with strawberries in a pie. I think rhubarb is under-appreciated in this country. I love it too!
7779) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 9 (Message 1102964)
Posted 3 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Stormy
7780) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW, Bernie Vine Wins!! (Message 1102963)
Posted 3 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning for the pure joy of it!
7781) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti Gardners Thread 2011 (Message 1102960)
Posted 3 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sniff, nobody is putting in a Garden or you are also to busy weeding?

Sorry Uli-belle. I was so busy gardening yesterday that I forgot to take pictures. We put in two tomatoes, a couple rows of beans, a cucumber, two jalipenos, two zucchini and a patty-pan squash. We will put in some patches of basil next week. In the fall I will have to replace my rhubarbs. They got accidentally dug up when we had some work done in the back yard.
7782) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IV The winner, please step forward. (Message 1102957)
Posted 3 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Peach, lemon, gooseberry, tomato
7783) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1102956)
Posted 3 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have heard that if you arrange the rolls that are in use so that the paper comes off the side nearer the wall that most cats have extreme difficulty actually getting anything off of the roll.


Tis true! Eva loves toilet paper, but if you hang the roll incorrectly she is thwarted.
7784) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1102627)
Posted 2 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Blurf, those are GREAT pictures!!! Thank you to you and Suz for taking/posting them.

Uli, our cats have "nibbling habits" too - my houseplants (may the vast majority of them rest in peace...)
7785) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET'S Give us a Caption #32 (Message 1102554)
Posted 1 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Summer in Wisconsin.
7786) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IV The winner, please step forward. (Message 1102492)
Posted 1 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Channel Islands?

Right Park, now name which island.


Anacapa?

Carlos, you are making me want to return to Santa Barbara. I lived there for a couple of years and it is just beautiful!
7787) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1102489)
Posted 1 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The person before me has a naughty kitty cat!
7788) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1102488)
Posted 1 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yeah! The prodigal daughter has returned! What happy news Uli-belle!!!
7789) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1102360)
Posted 1 May 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hopefully she is just having a little kitty adventure and she will be home soon, Uli-belle.
7790) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IV The winner, please step forward. (Message 1102194)
Posted 30 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lassen?
7791) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1102193)
Posted 30 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Chris! You didn't do a "clean up" post! I noticed last night nobody used "act" or "jay walking"!
7792) Message boards : Cafe SETI : No, this was not Elvis. (Message 1102022)
Posted 30 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hmmmm... it would seem that Elvis has just left the building.
7793) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1102019)
Posted 30 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Another king...

Goodnight Punsters! It was fun, as always.
7794) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1102015)
Posted 30 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, ok... I've just returned from the GREEN ROOM where I had an AUDIENCE with our new pun king. I've had a PRIME TIME punning here tonight, but it is time for me to drink a little hot apple SNYDER, brush my teeth so I don't get CAVETTies, and then go to bed. I therefore concede defeat and declare Scarecrow, that punster from Dismal Seepage Nebraska, our new Pun King.

Congratulations SMALL TOWN NEWS!
7795) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1102013)
Posted 30 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, watch your language! Puns that bad could KILBORN again Christians!
7796) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1102011)
Posted 30 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, we could go BACKSTAGE and negotiate some sort of truce...
7797) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1102007)
Posted 30 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sure, and your prize is a platter full of potatoes O'BRIEN!
7798) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1102001)
Posted 30 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Uh... this is where Vic should chime in with "What's up DOC?"
7799) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1101998)
Posted 30 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My goodness, there really are a VARIETY of ways to go about this topic!
7800) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1101995)
Posted 30 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh SKIT out of town!
7801) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1101993)
Posted 30 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Your threats are FALLON on deaf ears.

Really? Well friends, Romans and Countrymen, LENO me your ears!
7802) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1101988)
Posted 30 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm going to go outside and smoke a pack of KIMMELS - then I'll come back here and see if there is anything worth responding to...
7803) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1101986)
Posted 30 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Scarecrow, it would be SHAFFER for you to stay away tonight...
7804) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1101982)
Posted 30 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I see you're well versed in the CARNACular...
7805) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1101980)
Posted 30 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That would be about PARR for the course...
7806) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1101977)
Posted 30 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A little LATE at NIGHT for that, isn't it?
7807) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1101975)
Posted 30 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Scarecrow, get with the PROGRAM!
7808) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1101973)
Posted 30 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
TONIGHT SHOW me the money, honey!!!
7809) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1101971)
Posted 30 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, I GUEST we could charge something...
7810) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1101963)
Posted 30 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If you don't like that topic I have a HOST of others...
7811) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1101960)
Posted 30 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are there any punsters in "da house" tonight?
7812) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Sigh.......more prayers are needed. (Message 1101819)
Posted 29 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sending our care and concern for you and those you love.

Angela & Eric
7813) Message boards : SETI@home Staff Blog : Q&A about the ATA shutdown. (Message 1101361)
Posted 28 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Assuming I didn't blow it all on ninja supermodel robots first.

Hoo-boy... Eric, I thought you signed all those papers agreeing not to blow my cover!

Then get back to hiding in the shadows!

My people don't hide dear. We lurk.
7814) Message boards : SETI@home Staff Blog : Q&A about the ATA shutdown. (Message 1101271)
Posted 28 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Assuming I didn't blow it all on ninja supermodel robots first.

Hoo-boy... Eric, I thought you signed all those papers agreeing not to blow my cover!
7815) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW, Bernie Vine Wins!! (Message 1100961)
Posted 27 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Didn't Frank Sinatra sing the song though?
7816) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW, Bernie Vine Wins!! (Message 1100957)
Posted 27 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry... Hamlet, not Frank Sinatra.
7817) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW, Bernie Vine Wins!! (Message 1100953)
Posted 27 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
winning before bed

To sleep... perchance to dream... ay, there's the rub!
7818) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IV The winner, please step forward. (Message 1100952)
Posted 27 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
65
7819) Message boards : Cafe SETI : SETIzens' got talent! (Message 1100750)
Posted 26 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I won a few talent contests in college with a fairly unique "talent". I am really, really, really good at reciting tongue twisters. I will not be posting any videos of me reciting tongue twisters because my best material results in some pretty profane language if one messes up. I never mess up, of course. Nevertheless, the best, most wicked tongue twisters should be recited only by trained professionals. No amateur linguists should EVER attempt such feats of daring unsupervised, especially if there are children present.

Think of the children! Will nobody think of the children???!!!
7820) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Please pray for my wife Suzette (Message 1100733)
Posted 26 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wishing Suz the speediest of recoveries.

Angela & Eric
7821) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner (Message 1100429)
Posted 25 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Behold, Mr Bunny!
7822) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1100427)
Posted 25 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The person above me taught me that a little minced borage mixed with fresh green beans is delicious!
7823) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 9 (Message 1100418)
Posted 25 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
moon
7824) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1100414)
Posted 25 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The person before me really loves his wife!
7825) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 9 (Message 1100411)
Posted 25 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
wine
7826) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 9 (Message 1100408)
Posted 25 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
husband
7827) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW, Bernie Vine Wins!! (Message 1100404)
Posted 25 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ian, Eric cooked for me on one of our early dates - also a pasta dish. Turns out the man is a "One Dish Wonder!"
7828) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games (Message 1100401)
Posted 25 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Family, Life, then games.


Family First?!!! Yikes!!!
7829) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti Gardners Thread 2011 (Message 1100376)
Posted 25 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And tada, Ziggy will get his catnip. Since it is part of the mint family, I guess I should grow it in pots.


Yes, but prepare to have that pot rolled in by every tawdry tabby in your neighborhood!
7830) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1100259)
Posted 24 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL friends! Thank you all for the lovely wishes.
7831) Message boards : Cafe SETI : SETIzens' got talent! (Message 1100258)
Posted 24 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Shhh....I have heard that my good friend Sidney is quite skilled at polishing his Aspidistra.

But don't let on that I told you.


Merciful heavens!!! This information fairly frosts my viburnum plicatum plicatum!
7832) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1100196)
Posted 24 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Hoppy Easter, Critter People!
7833) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner (Message 1100187)
Posted 24 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am, actually, making the bunny out of carrot cake.
7834) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner (Message 1100185)
Posted 24 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Anybody making a bunny cake tonight besides me?
7835) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti Gardners Thread 2011 (Message 1100184)
Posted 24 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I thought I had given you a scoop of crocosmia bulbs. The ones I have make orange flowers.
7836) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti Gardners Thread 2011 (Message 1100168)
Posted 24 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Do you hate me yet Ang?


Your garden is lovely, as always Uli-belle. Alas, the borage you gave me is being besieged by oregano! Now are you hating me because my crocosmias and Shasta daisies are running rampant all over your place?

I hope to start putting in my vegetables next weekend. I'm waiting for my soil to dry out a little more before I turn it. Thanks for starting another gardening thread. I love to garden too.
7837) Message boards : Cafe SETI : SETIzens' got talent! (Message 1100122)
Posted 23 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Must be the refrigeration of the egg whites..........


As a matter of fact, quite the opposite is true. Room temperature egg whites beat up far higher than chilled ones.
7838) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1099907)
Posted 23 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, ok... I'm sorry I keep LYMPHing back in here, but I really exCELL in games of this sort and I feel compelled to give you all a few POINTERS. (BeSIDES, I'm a little high on CALFfeine right now...)

Oh sure I could keep myself busy learning to play the CLAVICLE, or DIAPHRAGMing sentences, or building a beach stand out of ELBOW macaroni so that I could eventually use the place to sell COCKles and MUSCLES! Heck, I could even spend my time becoming an expert at growing BEARDed IRISes, but if I did that none of you would ever NAIL the art of a pun war.

Oh never MIND!!! Chris will show you. He NOSE a thing or two about pun wars.

(I know, I know... BRAIN BRAIN, go away! Come again some other day...)

Goodnight punsters!
7839) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1099905)
Posted 23 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've got to HAND it to you guys - you played until there wasn't a SOLE survivor. Of course if I had been able to play this evening I would have SKINned you alive. I'd be so far aHEAD you wouldn't have even wanted to WAIST your time playing. Well with 20/20 HINDsight, I now realize that I should have rearranged my schedule in order to attend this HUMERUS event, BUTT the BOTTOM line is that we've been a little short STAFFed at work lately and I got a little BEHIND. Oh well... when Chris arrives I'm sure HEEL be able show you all the puns you have missed. Chris is one of my ARCH punning rivals!
7840) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1099904)
Posted 23 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
HAIR HAIR now, what have we EAR? It seems like Uli, Vic and Jim are NECK and NECK in this race. One of them will have to SHOULDER the burden of winning, BUTT who will it be? I cannot FINGER the winner at this point. Oh well... no ARM done. Off TOE bed now. Tomorrow Chris S. (that self-proclaimed "CHEEKy little monkey") will come BACK in here and CHEST show everyBODY how to FACE deFEET!

HIP, HIP hooray!
7841) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1099866)
Posted 23 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No fun war tonight. You are legging.

Ooooh body parts! What a great topic! I know you all KNEEd to get started this evening. Thanks Uli for firing the first shot!

Unfortunately, dear friends, I am unable to play right now, but I'll do my best to pop by later and view the carnage. In the meanwhile, I place my crown on the table for somebody to claim. Enjoy!)

7842) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW, Bernie Vine Wins!! (Message 1099821)
Posted 22 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sneaking in a little raccoon win...


Oi! we saw that
Now do behave you girly
Else we'll get Eric
To frizz your hair all curly!



Oh Chris, that is an idle threat
It doesn't make me fume or fret
Cuz when you visit, you will see
That I was born with locks curly!
7843) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Cataract surgery (Message 1099819)
Posted 22 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Jim, I am sorry to hear that you need surgery, but I am sure the outcome will be excellent. I'm already running scared of what your punning ability will be when your vision is fully restored!
7844) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IV The winner, please step forward. (Message 1099603)
Posted 22 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Uli's Easter Bonnet
7845) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The joke thread Part 3. (Message 1099602)
Posted 22 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We have clearance, Clarence. Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?

(Cockpit crew in the movie 'Airplane.')
7846) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW, Bernie Vine Wins!! (Message 1099601)
Posted 22 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sneaking in a little raccoon win...
7847) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1099599)
Posted 22 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The person before me is a night owl!
7848) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1099598)
Posted 22 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you perryjay! Keep those kitty pictures coming!
7849) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IV The winner, please step forward. (Message 1099347)
Posted 21 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Uli gets way more heat than I do. The only citrus fruits that are uniformly successful in my area are lemons, limes and kumquats. Lots of people try to grow oranges in my area and they look nice on the trees, but the fruit never gets enough consistent heat to get very sweet.
7850) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET'S Give us a Caption #31 (Message 1099344)
Posted 21 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well it looks like it is winner time...

Third place goes to Vic with his wry political comment: "Lets see If I can pull an Elephant out of My hat, Nope It's a Rabbit..."

Second place goes to the ever-cerebral Skildude with: "Mr. Smith introduced Harvey to the nation"

But first place most definitely goes to funny man Steven Meyer with: "Why is it that the questions are always about the ears?"

(P.M. on the way...)
7851) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IV The winner, please step forward. (Message 1099342)
Posted 21 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lemons, limes, cherries, grapes, peaches, nectarines, plums, apples and currants
5 1/2 correct?


This sounds fun. Ok Lemons and Limes require a much warmer climate than Cherries and Apples. As far as I am aware only one strain of Cherry that will grow with less than a 30 day chill period. Lemons and Limes will not grow with a prolonged chill period. So those two are mutually exclusive. Since she is in northern California I am going to favor the cherries and apples. Now which is half correct. Nectarines are half plum and peach so that means she grown either plums or peaches but not both and not nectarines. Again, climate would favor plums over peaches although both would be possible.

So my guess is:

Cherries, grapes, plums, apples and currants.



Uli lives in a micro-climate that gets unholy hot! She has the POTENTIAL to grow any of the fruits I listed previously. Lemons and limes do not need a protracted chill period. I grow both quite successfully in my backyard, as do most of my neighbors.
7852) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Muriel Miggins! (Message 1099340)
Posted 21 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

A little birdie told me that our beloved Mrs. Miggins is a birthday girl today!!! Muriel, my dear, best wishes to you on your special day.
7853) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IV The winner, please step forward. (Message 1099048)
Posted 20 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lemons, limes, cherries, grapes, peaches, nectarines, plums, apples and currants
7854) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1099047)
Posted 20 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Punny...
7855) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET'S Give us a Caption #31 (Message 1099046)
Posted 20 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win. Ok friends, caption this:

7856) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1098870)
Posted 19 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hehehe but would Eric have an Apple .... ? ;-))

Good point... maybe a vintage collectible one?

Cute posts Karen & S^S! Thank you.
7857) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1098790)
Posted 18 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you Scarecrow. I am always on the look out for a nice family photo to use for our holiday cards.
7858) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET'S Give us a Caption #31 (Message 1098788)
Posted 18 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
ALL are welcome in the Critter Cafe!
7859) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bring me your LOL cats and other funny pics (Message 1098631)
Posted 18 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
7860) Message boards : Cafe SETI : What's YOUR hobby!? (Message 1098629)
Posted 18 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, now two people have referenced it. What the heck is "SF"?
7861) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1098618)
Posted 18 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
7862) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To the Kitty People........wherever they are......... (Message 1098571)
Posted 18 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bad kitty!
7863) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1098543)
Posted 17 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The person before me has a beautiful child.
7864) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The next moderation swap (Message 1098498)
Posted 17 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Everybody is really enjoying your new work schedule, Mark!!!
7865) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1098325)
Posted 17 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Or the chef from the Alpine Inn!!!
7866) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1098323)
Posted 17 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The chickens live across the street.

Why did they cross the road???

To get away from the raccoon, of course!
7867) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW, Bernie Vine Wins!! (Message 1098314)
Posted 17 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll second that yum! I love Eggplant Parmesan and Eric hates it, so I haven't made it in forever.
7868) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To the Kitty People........wherever they are......... (Message 1098302)
Posted 17 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mark I am so sorry to hear about Callie.
7869) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1098301)
Posted 17 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
aka_Sam - Loved the penguins!
Vic - thanks
Steve - Nice chickens but, oh no, now I can't get that hamster song out of my head!

7870) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1097964)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Poet's Day will soon end here
I gotta wait a week, I fear,
Before I once more pen a verse
To let out thoughts that are so terse.
7871) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 11 (Message 1097963)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I always look forward to Chris S. reviewing the thread and finding all the puns we missed. I love it when he CHIMES in!!!
7872) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW, Bernie Vine Wins!! (Message 1097959)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Vic! My turn next!!!
7873) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097955)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
7874) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097954)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A little mood music for Janice and her oboe!
7875) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097952)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
William Tell Overture - Backwards!!!
7876) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097948)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You had doubts? ETUDE Brute?
7877) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097945)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok Angela You have beat me fair and square, you remain The champ.

Well you put up one heck of a MUSICAL PERFORMANCE. It was really a TRILL to PLAY you this evening. I'm sorry some of our usual players decided to take the FIFTH. Hope everybody will TUNE in next week for an ENCORE.
7878) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097940)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think that pun was already used. CHOIR you repeating it?
7879) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097938)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
SUITE!!!!
7880) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097935)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Im afraid Im A FLAT out of puns.

You mean you FINALE give up?
7881) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097932)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Don't worry Vic. We won't CHORALE you!
7882) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097929)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey Jim! Throw me another PITCH!
7883) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097926)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, don't mind HYMN.
7884) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097924)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No need to be SHARP here. Such an attitude would leave me FLAT.
7885) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097920)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, do you need to see the judge in his CHAMBER?
7886) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097917)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is easy to get off TRACK...
7887) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097915)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
With this salacious topic, my heart has started racing! Oh my!!! I think I have SYNCOPATIONs!
7888) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097911)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh!!! If something has happened to Janice I just know I CANTO go on...
7889) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097909)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Maybe a lack of SAX was making her a little HORNy...

You dont think she is out on the street picking up an OBOE ? I sure hope she dosent get a little FLUTE.


My oh my! That's a good way to get a case of the CLAP.
7890) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097908)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Maybe He's a BLUE MEANIE?

On the subject of BLUES, I thought Jim S. might play tonight, since he is from the BLUEGRASS state...
7891) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097905)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is Jim a gonner? Is it time to close the lid and read a little GOSPEL?
7892) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097902)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Maybe a lack of SAX was making her a little HORNy...
7893) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097899)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh PIPE down, you!!!
7894) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097896)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Where did Janice go? We were supposed to BAND together...
7895) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097894)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What?!!! Oh excuse me, I was busy REEDing...
7896) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097891)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh I'm all a-flutter... why look at me here just losing my COMPOSER!
7897) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097889)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry dude... didn't mean to RAG on you.
7898) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097885)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did Vic give up? He is usually more VOCAL...
7899) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097883)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And Eric will tell you I'm a real HARPy!!!
7900) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097881)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
But I love our little chit chat! We are having such an interesting PERCUSSION!
7901) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097879)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hmmm! I'm making a CONCERTed effort to beat you, and still you will not die...
7902) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097876)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey, I just figured out where Karen is! She lives near Hershey, Pennsylvania and we all know she loves chocolate, so she is probably off somewhere nibbling on a SYMPHONY bar!
7903) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097873)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well we're glad you're making an OVERTURE.
7904) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097871)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, is music your FORTE?
7905) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097869)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well Scarecrow probably hit a few BARS on his way home. Now he's probably locked out of his house because he left his HOME KEY in some pub...
7906) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097867)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I do try... Hey, where are Dave and Karen HAYDN tonight?
7907) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097865)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Good one Vic! How many ROUNDS do you intend to go?
7908) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097863)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I will BOP you from here to KEY LARGO!
7909) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097861)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
After I DOO-WOP you, buddy!
7910) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097859)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No, only a MINOR one...

I think there's someone here to KABONG us.


Or POLKA our eyes out?
7911) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097856)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That sounds like a MAJOR pain.

No, only a MINOR one...
7912) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097852)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And I'll POP you right back!
7913) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097850)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm just trying to give everybody their MARCHing orders!
7914) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097848)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yeah! The JIVE is jumping!!!
7915) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097845)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, we're glad you HIP-HOPped in HEAR to let us know that!
7916) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097843)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This topic is so wide open we certainly will not end in RECORD time this evening...
7917) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097839)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
SWELL!!!
7918) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097836)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes friend, please make a NOTE of it...
7919) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097833)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Whoops! To error is SCHUMANN...
7920) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097831)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey! How can you go fishing without a JIG?
7921) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097827)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Puleeze, Jim! It is just not that hard to SET you back...
7922) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097825)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well you can STOP and take my TEMPOture, cuz I'm feeling hot tonight!
7923) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097822)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Vic! Wanna keep SCORE?
7924) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097819)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And I'm just TUNING you out until you give up!
7925) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097817)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
But what could be your MOTIF for such behavior?
7926) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097814)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Don't slip a DISC!
7927) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097812)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I will REFRAIN from telling you what I really think...
7928) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097810)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hope both of you are PACING yourselves...
7929) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097808)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh my! SCATs a good one!
7930) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097805)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How dare you take that TONE with me!
7931) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097802)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is that some kind of a JUKE?
7932) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097799)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll try not to AIR any grievances...
7933) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097795)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yep, that is my KEY objective.
7934) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097792)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yeah, I'll try not to BEAT anyone senseless tonight...
7935) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097789)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That seems like a good ARRANGEMENT!
7936) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097787)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes people, lets try to keep it CHORDial!
7937) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097784)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hear you Janice! Sometimes it sounds like a CANON goes off in this thread!
7938) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097781)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And I will SCALE you down to size!
7939) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097777)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm pretty sure I can HANDEL most anything you throw at me...
7940) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097774)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm so excited I'm TREBLING!
7941) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097770)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL! Looks like you guys started on beer, so let's HOP to it!

(Or if you prefer musical puns, I'm pretty sure I could COMPOSE one or two...)
7942) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 10 (Message 1097762)
Posted 16 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am open to requests...
7943) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1097585)
Posted 15 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, my friend, they say for starts
That there are many kinds of "smarts"
Some of us are good at math
Others take a different path
Some are social
Some athletic
Some are artists
Some poetic
But listen Vic, I swear it's true,
We like you just because you're you!!!
7944) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1097569)
Posted 15 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, my friend, I understand...
Life sure can be a "no man's land"
I'm glad you choose to join us here
You've many friends, both far and near.
7945) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1097557)
Posted 15 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
'Tis Poet's Day - I need not feign
There's sanity about my brain
I'll rhyme with you - No "if, ands, buts"
Because, you see, I'm mostly nuts!!!
7946) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1097390)
Posted 15 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The Alpine Inn - Omaha, NE

LOL! I just saw this! I'm sure Eric will be relieved to know that I do not have the monopoly on crazy!!!
7947) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW You are getting close (Message 1096427)
Posted 12 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't pump gas. That is a "boy job" and an affront to my femininity.

(Ok, ok... so nobody was buying that one. $4.16 for regular unleaded last time we filled up, but I think it is up to $4.20 right now.)
7948) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1095967)
Posted 11 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I get attached to skunks! We had a really cute one named Spotty last season. Spotty was really a striped skunk, but his stripes converged in a way that he had a little black spot on his neck. We also had a particularly charming little skunk a few years ago named Petite Le Pew. Skunks are really quite beautiful.

7949) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IV The winner, please step forward. (Message 1095965)
Posted 11 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dang! I guess I did. Ok Uli, I guess you win.
7950) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW You are getting close (Message 1095964)
Posted 11 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Alice B Toklas?


Debbi J. Fields



McCain's running mate?


LOL! No, the cookie magnate!!!
7951) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IV The winner, please step forward. (Message 1095923)
Posted 11 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gosh, I don't play on this thread often. Are there rules regarding "winners in absentia?"
7952) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW You are getting close (Message 1095920)
Posted 11 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Alice B Toklas?


Debbi J. Fields
7953) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW You are getting close (Message 1095892)
Posted 10 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now raccoons are a different matter.

We are, aren't we!
7954) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bring me your LOL cats and other funny pics (Message 1095869)
Posted 10 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
7955) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IV The winner, please step forward. (Message 1095733)
Posted 10 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
OMG!!! You guys are killing me!!!!
7956) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner (Message 1095729)
Posted 10 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sure you can cook a squirrel, but you gotta catch him first!!!
7957) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IV The winner, please step forward. (Message 1095567)
Posted 10 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela how about this, Toshiba Tacos.

Better still Toshiba Tostadas...
7958) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IV The winner, please step forward. (Message 1095542)
Posted 10 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Or Compaq Kumquats.

Remember to add the right Csonings.


LOL!!!
7959) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW You are getting close (Message 1095492)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Too much competition for me! It is an affront to my naturally demure nature...
7960) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 8 (Message 1095483)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
pneumonia
7961) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW You are getting close (Message 1095482)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning before Carlos swoops in!

Shh!! He'll hear Ya. ;)

I know!!! He's everywhere today!
7962) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW You are getting close (Message 1095477)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning before Carlos swoops in!
7963) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IV The winner, please step forward. (Message 1095475)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
giggle! You guys are great!
7964) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IV The winner, please step forward. (Message 1095470)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
good one!
7965) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IV The winner, please step forward. (Message 1095467)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What? Apple gets two plugs?

I am open to more ideas. I never met a homemade dessert that I did not like...
7966) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner (Message 1095460)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Can you substitute other furry creatures, like maybe larger ones with masked eyes?

No! You cannot. I am 100% certain that the recipe would not work out if any of the primary ingredients were substituted.
7967) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1095325)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Plays possum...
7968) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IV The winner, please step forward. (Message 1095324)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well Uli-belle, if you wish to concede that is ok. I will pm John and let him know he is the winner.

And for the punsters out there, here are a few items I've placed on my er... uh... GROANING board.

Cocktails:
COMMODORES
APPLE brandy coolers
ROM Collins
SUNny Screwdrivers

Appetizers:
Sausage BYTES (pretty much any tidbit on a toothpick works with the BYTES pun)
Computer BUGS in the grass (pickled celery sticks & green beans with black olives)
CHIPS and dip

Entrees and Sides:
BASIC roast chicken
MAC 'n cheese
Sauteed greens with bacon BITS

Dessert:
APPLE pie, of course!!!
7969) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1095322)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Well, you were being kind of squirrelly...
7970) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1095309)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

You rang?
7971) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IV The winner, please step forward. (Message 1095306)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, we need to use the tie breaker. Eric's made-up holiday of National Computer Month is in March UNLESS Easter falls in March. In any year that Easter falls in March, we celebrate National Computer Month in April.

The tie breaker will be between John Neale who guessed March and Uli-belle who guessed April. I will pm both of them shortly. John and Uli will have until 5pm-ish Sunday (Pacific Time) to post computer food puns. The person who comes up with the most pun dishes that I've actually served at a National Computer Month dinner party will be the winner. Little hint - I have puns across many food categories - beverages, appetizers, entrees, sides, desserts etc. And Jim, I enjoyed your puns but I have not served any of those dishes at parties.
7972) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Commodore 64 Lives!!!! (Message 1095199)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, ok... fans of old computers!
7973) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 14 (Message 1095197)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You are all invited to our house to celebrate National Computer Month!

(I just can't tell you WHEN that is right now, but tomorrow that little tidbit will be revealed in the Contest Thread.)
7974) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 14 (Message 1095192)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And we have a winner!!!!!

Congratulations Scarecrow! P.M. to the winner is on the way.
7975) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 14 (Message 1095190)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Intelligent Systems Corp

No Vic, that is the third fill-in and Scarecrow got that one right on his first guess. It is the second fill-in that is still not what I want.
7976) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 14 (Message 1095188)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The second fill-in is still not exactly what I was going for.

A boot-leg copy of MS BASIC that whizzed Billy boy off big time?

LOL, but that is not the correct feature...
7977) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 14 (Message 1095184)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes Vic, 1977 is technically correct, but I said "circa" which means "approximately", so I was going to give Scarecrow a point on that one. The second fill-in is still not exactly what I was going for.
7978) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 14 (Message 1095179)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Three out of four fill-in's are correct. It does have a disk, but that is not the answer I am going for. The CompuColor I had the 8 track.
7979) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IV The winner, please step forward. (Message 1095175)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I will give hints or declare a winner tomorrow.
7980) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IV The winner, please step forward. (Message 1095172)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Here's what we have so far...

March: John Neale
April: Uli-belle
May: Miep
June: Carlos, Mike
July: Chris
August: Blurf
September: Jim S.

Any other guesses?
7981) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Commodore 64 Lives!!!! (Message 1095168)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok all you old computer fans, hie thee over to the Mystery Photo game and guess my picture!
7982) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW You are getting close (Message 1095149)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm sharing the wealth and taking the victory from Vic now. My kindergarten teacher would be proud of my ability to share.
7983) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 14 (Message 1095146)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Alright friends, are you ready to get your geek on?



Please fill in the blanks:

Any fool can plainly see that this is a ______________ with the _____________

built by ______________ circa _______________.
7984) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1095123)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
7985) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1095120)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
7986) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1095116)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Poison Ivy!
7987) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1095112)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well my friend, it was fun to put on the gloves and SPORE with you this evening. Too bad others didn't show this evening. I would have enjoyed kicking more GRASSES.

Goodnight punsters!
7988) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1095108)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gee, I thought WEED see more players tonight...
Are you conceding defeat?
7989) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1095102)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh yes! I hear she has great bedside manner... such amazing SENSITIVITY!
7990) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1095098)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yeah, yeah... been there, done that... I know the benaDRYL.
7991) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1095095)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Jim, my friend, when they made you they broke the MOLD!!!
7992) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 14 (Message 1095092)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Too easy Carlos:
"Bill Gates' house is a large mansion in the side of a hill overlooking Lake Washington in Medina, Washington. The 66,000 sq ft (6,100 m2) house is noted for its design and the technology it incorporates. It is nicknamed Xanadu 2.0.[2]"
7993) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1095087)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
But I don't want to be SHELLFISH!!!
7994) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1095080)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Janice! Are you ready to play, or are you just POLLEN my leg?
7995) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1095075)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm already humming a second musical option...

"Ain't nothing gonna break my STRIDOR!"
7996) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1095070)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't think it will be much trouble to BUMP you off this evening.
7997) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1095062)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Don't be so RASH, my friend...
7998) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1095060)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yikes! Feeding raccoons is a lot safer!
7999) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1095056)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
For my obnoxious victory dance this evening, I think I'll play something by WEEZER...
8000) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1095050)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm just ITCHING to win again.
8001) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1095045)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well then I DUST MITE be able to beat you tonight...
8002) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1095040)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If Scarecrow comes by, I might suffer from HAY FEVER...
8003) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1095036)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
HIVE got an idea... how about allergic reactions?
8004) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1095035)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Steve, do you keep a snakebite kit in your home?
8005) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1095032)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am at a loss for them...
8006) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner (Message 1095024)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Uli-belle hon, I think you're going to need this...

GRANDPA'S FAVORITE SQUIRREL & GRAVY

1 squirrel, clean & cook
4 c. cold water
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. pepper

Soak squirrel overnight in salt water. Put squirrel in large kettle, cover well with cold water. Add salt and pepper. Cook until tender. (Save about 2 cups of the water (broth) squirrel was cooked in to make the gravy.)

GRAVY:

3 tbsp. flour
2 c. squirrel broth
2 tbsp. grease
3 c. sweet milk
8007) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IV The winner, please step forward. (Message 1094556)
Posted 8 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I won? Wow! Lucky me!!!

Ok... as many of you know, I celebrate Halloween with irrational exuberance. Several years ago Eric decided that he needed equal time to celebrate one of his personal obsessions - old computers. So Eric arbitrarily made up a "holiday" that he calls "National Computer Month". During this month Eric gets to "decorate" our humble abode by setting up his old computers everywhere.

In what month do the Korpelas traditionally celebrate "National Computer Month"?

In the event of a tie - name some "punny" dishes that Angela has served to dinner guests in the past who have come over to our house to celebrate National Computer Month with us.
8008) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Please pray for my wife Suzette (Message 1094046)
Posted 6 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sending you our love, care and concern. Wishing Suz a positive outcome and a speedy return to good health.

Angela & Eric
8009) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW You are getting close (Message 1093802)
Posted 6 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You nearly missed my triumphal march to the top of this thread!
8010) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IV The winner, please step forward. (Message 1093544)
Posted 5 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
96
8011) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW You are getting close (Message 1093543)
Posted 5 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Uli-belle!!!
8012) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bring me your LOL cats and other funny pics (Message 1093542)
Posted 5 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8013) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bring me your LOL cats and other funny pics (Message 1093241)
Posted 4 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8014) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - speeding up... (Message 1093239)
Posted 4 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Four!


play


Oh wait a minute!!! This isn't the Word Link game!!!



Don't get any ideas. My daughter would hate you.

And my husband would not exactly be thrilled with you, my friend.
8015) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - speeding up... (Message 1093175)
Posted 4 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Four!


play


Oh wait a minute!!! This isn't the Word Link game!!!
8016) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - speeding up... (Message 1093170)
Posted 4 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dead solid perfect... that's me!

I would not use Dead to describe yourself. Otherwise, ok.

"Dead solid perfect" is from a movie about a golfer.
8017) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - speeding up... (Message 1093150)
Posted 4 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dead solid perfect... that's me!
8018) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - speeding up... (Message 1093104)
Posted 3 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not so fast there gentlemen!
8019) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - speeding up... (Message 1093033)
Posted 3 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thanks Mike, Turns out strawberries are very high in anti-oxidants, Which could account for My complete lack of grey hair and My brothers almost complete lack of grey too.

If I were a betting woman, I'd put my money on genetics...
8020) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - speeding up... (Message 1092903)
Posted 3 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Quite sure, Uli-belle!
8021) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - speeding up... (Message 1092899)
Posted 3 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nope!
8022) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - speeding up... (Message 1092895)
Posted 3 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Who (or what) is Megatron?
8023) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bring me your LOL cats and other funny pics (Message 1092760)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh come now Esme, NOTHING is impossible if you set your mind to it!
8024) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - speeding up... (Message 1092758)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now that is what I call a proper buffet!!! KNowing your good taste, I assume automatically that there will be the chilled Chardonnay to accompany it?


No, no my friend - I believe that Champagne goes best with afternoon tea. And since Champagne would clash with Earl Grey, I suggest we all switch to Darjeeling!

And just for the record, my all time favorite pun is:

"Gee Darling, is that Darjeeling?", infused Earl Grey, teasingly.

Wish I had written that, but alas I did not. That quote was a contest winner more than 20 years ago in a local "bad writing" contest that is held here every year in the SF East Bay. The author escapes me, but the quote is indelibly written in my brain.
8025) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IV The winner, please step forward. (Message 1092755)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hungarian, German, English, French and a little Polish - 5
8026) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - speeding up... (Message 1092712)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are there any nibbles, snacks, to go with it?


8027) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - speeding up... (Message 1092660)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Tea drinkers win!
8028) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bring me your LOL cats and other funny pics (Message 1092654)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mark, if you fell for that one, go check out Esme's Raccoons in Space thread!
8029) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - speeding up... (Message 1092651)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have more hair...
8030) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bring me your LOL cats and other funny pics (Message 1092646)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And a Happy Belated April Fools Day to you all too!!!
8031) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - speeding up... (Message 1092640)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Tea, Earl Grey, Hot.
8032) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092543)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Sleep well, friends.
8033) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092541)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The Java Jive!
8034) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092532)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The Coffee Song by the Arrogant Worms!
8035) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092529)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
OK Uli, I give up! The last thing I want right now is coffee!!!

I think I'll go eat an ice cream KONA.

Goodnight punsters!
8036) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092527)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh, go whine to your TIA MARIA!
8037) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092524)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It sure is getting late. IRISH COFFEE didn't have so many pun options...
8038) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092521)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Throw a TURKISH towel over your head if you don't want to watch.
8039) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092519)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, I see you are determined to play to the BITTER FINISH!
8040) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092515)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, I am the Pun Queen. Now hand over my CAFE ROYALE crown!!!
8041) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092512)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Buddy, I'm gonna MACCHIATO you regret ever starting this little battle...
8042) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092510)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Excuse me. I've got to go open a window. It is ROASTING in here!
8043) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092508)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think you will find that I am GOOD TO THE LAST DROP!
8044) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092506)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
COFFEE CAN certainly be a stimulating pun topic! Will Vic take the COFFEE CAKE tonight, or will he be the first to take a COFFEE BREAK?
8045) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092504)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You will be so exhausted after I beat you, you won't even be able to sit through an Al CAPPUCCINO movie!
8046) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092501)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
After I'm done TAMPING you down Vic, the only words you'll be able to utter will be old nursery rhymes... you know - "Hickory, CHICORY Dock" and that sort of thing!
8047) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092499)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
When I'm done beating you, you won't just feel shoulder and knee pain. You'll feel a pain in DECAF as well!
8048) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092497)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
When I'm done knocking you out of this game, you'll be seeing stars... like MRS OLSEN, JUAN VALDEZ and MR. COFFEE!!!
8049) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092495)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You couldn't boil My BREW.

Why, I'll DEMITASSE you out like yesterday's garbage!!!
8050) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092490)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Buddy, I'm gonna have you FREEZE-DRIED in an INSTANT!
8051) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092488)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What gives you the GROUNDS to make such an accusation?
8052) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092485)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm not clicking out of NESCAFE until you all declare me the winner tonight!
8053) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092482)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
JOE mama bean there!
8054) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092479)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, I'm gonna POSTUM until you give up!
8055) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092477)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gotta work tomorrow, I SANKAhm goin' to bed.

Hiya Mark! Have some coffee, it will PERC you right up!
8056) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092475)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Khave a cup

Girlfriend, I hope Vic is wearing a CUP, 'cuz I'm so buzzed on caffeine that I could kick!
8057) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092470)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ugh! That pun was so bad I felt like I was getting MUGged!
8058) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092468)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Watch out Vic. Puns that bad will get YUBANned from Seti!
8059) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092466)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh for PEET'S sake!!!
8060) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092464)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If Pun Queen Karen shows up, we'll all have to head for the HILLS BROTHERS and sisters!!!
8061) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092461)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If I post a bad pun, will you all TIRAMISUe me?
8062) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092456)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Aw Janice! If you leave, this thread won't be CHOCK FULL o'NUTS.
8063) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092453)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm unable to FILTER the good puns from the bad!
8064) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092451)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You MOCHA really good point there...
8065) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092448)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry Eric can't join us this evening. He's upstairs watching KLATCH Of The Titans. After that he's watching Battlestar Galactica, 'cuz he likes looking at STARBUCK'S... oh never mind.
8066) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092444)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Uli, Welcome!!! There are just a few of us MILLing around in here...
8067) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092438)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not sure who MJB is, but Scarecrow probably stopped at a pub to have a BREWskie or two... maybe he got ILLY or even BLACKed out!
8068) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092434)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Perhaps they're all doing their grocery shopping for the weekend. I hear that even the ESPRESSO lanes are backed up tonight!
8069) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092431)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Where is everybody tonight? How come they're all CAFE AU LATE?!!!
8070) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092427)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm gonna make you URN it tonight, girlfriend!
8071) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092425)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just keep playin, SUGAR...
8072) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092423)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, let me give you a little KAHLUA... (the topic is "coffee").
8073) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092421)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Studying JAVA...
8074) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET'S Give us a Caption #30 (Message 1092417)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I remember both.
8075) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092409)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll try to COFFEE one up for you.
8076) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1092401)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is the pun room OPUN for business this evening?
8077) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bring me your LOL cats and other funny pics (Message 1092398)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8078) Message boards : Cafe SETI : First raccoon in space, congratulations Eric and Angela! (Message 1092392)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Do you mind if one of my raccoons brings an apprentice?
8079) Message boards : Cafe SETI : First raccoon in space, congratulations Eric and Angela! (Message 1092387)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No need to worry about the cost. Raccoons work for peanuts, preferably in butter form.
8080) Message boards : Cafe SETI : First raccoon in space, congratulations Eric and Angela! (Message 1092383)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'd be happy to send a team of trained raccoons out to Yermo to take a look at that cooling system, Vic.
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8081) Message boards : Cafe SETI : First raccoon in space, congratulations Eric and Angela! (Message 1092373)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did We just have a hiccup?

Yes. A raccoon fixed it. A good raccoon will do that.
8082) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - speeding up... (Message 1092339)
Posted 2 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Keep the faith, Vic. Turns out you CAN wash electronics. Eric was part of an international satellite program a number of years ago. Their instrument was being built in Spain and somebody there accidentally left a dome open. Rain happened and the instrument got pretty wet. They dried it out and it worked just fine. Also Eric has washed lint out of the air vents of blow dryers a few times over the years. As long as I wait a week or so to use one of the dryers, everything works fine.
8083) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - speeding up... (Message 1092335)
Posted 1 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Knees and backs - proof positive that there is no "Intelligent Design"!!!
8084) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner (Message 1092322)
Posted 1 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hmmm. Perhaps I let it ripen too long then. It did not taste fermented, just really dull and sweet. Maybe I'll buy another one and eat it green. There must be some exact moment in space and time when the darn thing is still green, but also a little bit soft.
8085) Message boards : Cafe SETI : First raccoon in space, congratulations Eric and Angela! (Message 1092317)
Posted 1 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you, but Esme you forgot about our other international partners. Three cheers for the wonderful staff at KASI (the South Korean equivalent of NASA) and also a giant thank you to our Russian partners for their assistance with the launch.
8086) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner (Message 1092282)
Posted 1 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A couple magazines I subscribe to had articles on cherimoyas last month. I had never tried one and I was intrugued, so I went out and bought one. When it appeared ripe (green skin had morphed into a light brown and the fruit was soft to the touch) I cut it open. I gave half to Eric and I tried the other half myself. After taking two bites Eric's reaction was "I don't dislike it, but I'm not enjoying it, so I'm not going to eat any more." I ate all of my half, but I was equally unimpressed. The taste was sweet and dull. Despite the fact that it seemed to have slight lemon notes, the fruit seemed to have absolutely no acidity to balance the dull sweetness.

Did I let it over-ripen and consequetnly sample it after its flavor peak?

Does anybody out there like these things?
8087) Message boards : Cafe SETI : April 2nd is Scarecrow's Birthday!!! (Message 1092164)
Posted 1 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Howdy partners! A little prairie dog told me that Saturday, April 2nd is Scarecrow's birthday.

Cowboy, best wishes to you on your special day!

8088) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1092159)
Posted 1 Apr 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Funny pictures! Thank you. So, I'm thinking about quitting my job to devote more time to writing my best selling Do-It-Yourself book on how to potty train a raccoon...

What? What's that you say?

Don't quit my day job?
8089) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest IV The winner, please step forward. (Message 1091834)
Posted 31 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
280 (with 150 from Oma)
8090) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - speeding up... (Message 1091820)
Posted 31 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Friends!
8091) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1091819)
Posted 31 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Half way to Halloween! I can't wait!!!
8092) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bring me your LOL cats and other funny pics (Message 1091546)
Posted 30 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8093) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Song Dedication Thread (Message 1091545)
Posted 30 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
For a friend who is sad and in pain.
Carole King - You've Got A Friend
8094) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1091399)
Posted 29 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey Vic, just what did you mean by that quack?
8095) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1091396)
Posted 29 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just peeping in...
8096) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - speeding up... (Message 1091395)
Posted 29 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Good evening winners!
8097) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1091101)
Posted 28 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8098) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest III (Message 1091026)
Posted 27 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8500 units.



@ Ang - I wish they were all Crown Derby. You obviously have excellent taste :-)

Alas, I only have one Royal Crown Derby kitty, but one of my aunts has a whole set with darling little crowns on their heads. Very cute!!! And Chris, I even know that "Derby" is NOT pronounced "Derby" as in "Kentucky", but is actually pronounced "Darby" over there on your side of the pond!!! Now how's that for cosmopolitan?!!!
8099) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest III (Message 1089559)
Posted 23 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
22 teapots and a lovely selection of Crown Derby kittens... let's say 30 of those.
8100) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - speeding up... (Message 1089558)
Posted 23 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning another battle for Team Insomnia...
8101) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1089525)
Posted 23 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The person before me likes powdered eggs.
8102) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET'S Give us a Caption #30 (Message 1089524)
Posted 23 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow! Lots of giggles here!!!

Third place is Vic with: "What this isn't the Seti@Home Costume Party?"

Second place is Steven Meyer with: "The Farce is Strong."

And the grand winner in first place is skildude with: "Liberace - The musical"

Take it away skildude!!! PM on the way.
8103) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - speeding up... (Message 1089067)
Posted 21 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am sure the Raccoons would love it, which makes me wonder why there are no native raccoons.

If you feed them, they will come...
8104) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - speeding up... (Message 1089021)
Posted 21 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yo Carlos! Anytime you wanna switch houses, you just let me know!!! My raccoons would really enjoy your place.

What? Angela and Eric move to Los Angeles? ;) I'm shocked... ;)


LA, no. Carlos lives a bit out of Santa Barbara, I believe. I went to school in that area for a couple of years. It is a drop dead gorgeous area of California. And since Carlos' lawn is bigger than the entire footprint of our current home, I would not at all mind swapping houses with him. Only problem might be paying his property taxes... ouch!!!
8105) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - speeding up... (Message 1088989)
Posted 21 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yo Carlos! Anytime you wanna switch houses, you just let me know!!! My raccoons would really enjoy your place.
8106) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET'S Give us a Caption #30 (Message 1088979)
Posted 21 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win.

Ok friends, Caption This!
8107) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Just check that Ph.D. at the door... (Message 1088976)
Posted 21 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The Science Song!
8108) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Just check that Ph.D. at the door... (Message 1088743)
Posted 20 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If you add more participants, I know of ONE subject you will certainly lose through attrition!!!
8109) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Just check that Ph.D. at the door... (Message 1088739)
Posted 20 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"Performance" implies that it's an art. In fact, it's a science.

Oh ladies, bet you're all so sad he is off the market.
8110) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Anniversary Bill and Ann Walker (Message 1088729)
Posted 20 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Monday March 21st marks the 37th wedding anniversary of Bill Walker and his lovely wife Ann.

Bill and Ann - may your wine cellar always hold tasty vintages, may your larder always be filled with homemade fruitcake, may your home reverberate with good music and may your children continue to exceed your expectations.

Happy Anniversary!!!

8111) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET'S Give us a Caption #30 (Message 1088724)
Posted 20 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is just no fun being hen pecked!
8112) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Just check that Ph.D. at the door... (Message 1088721)
Posted 20 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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This evening Eric and I took a niece and a nephew to an arcade. Now I am not exactly an arcade aficionado, but we were celebrating a special event and so I put on my happy face and went along. And guess what? I am married to a veritable Arcade Renaissance Man!!! Eric can shoot a light gun, toss a football, roll a ski-ball and beat everyone hands down in trivia games. When it comes to Deal or No Deal, he is a master strategist. His hands over-flowed with prize tickets. Our niece and nephew were tremendously impressed. I was beaming with pride and delight, right up to the point when Mr. Sciatica climbed into a bumper car, effectively ending our sex life for the rest of the decade.
8113) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET'S Give us a Caption #30 (Message 1088005)
Posted 18 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm gonna wash that dirt right out of my hare...

(Too obvious??? Ok, how about "Not tonight dear, I've got to wash my hare.")
8114) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1088000)
Posted 18 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you all for the cute pictures and the most excellent laughs!!!
8115) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1087704)
Posted 17 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Why thank you, kind sir!
8116) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1087693)
Posted 17 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The person before me likes oatmeal raisin cookies.
8117) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - speeding up... (Message 1087682)
Posted 17 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You want fries with that?

Yeh once a month or so.

Hope you don't mean with your horseradish and ice cream.


If Uli started eating fries, horseradish and ice cream, some er... uh... rumors would start flying about this place pretty darn fast!
8118) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET'S Give us a Caption #30 (Message 1087678)
Posted 17 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Some days, you know, Joe just phones it in...
8119) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - speeding up... (Message 1087675)
Posted 17 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You want fries with that?
8120) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - speeding up... (Message 1087300)
Posted 15 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Friends! Did I win?
8121) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1087299)
Posted 15 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
OMG that Raccoon Squad picture made me laugh so much!!! Thanks Vic!
8122) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1086998)
Posted 14 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The person before me freely admits to being a (and I quote) "cheeky little monkey"!!!
8123) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest III (Message 1086924)
Posted 14 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
98
8124) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - speeding up... (Message 1086917)
Posted 14 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm bi-winning

It is ok to come out of the closet here. This is a very accepting thread!
8125) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - speeding up... (Message 1086915)
Posted 14 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Your right I don't have a fixed income. I have no income. But I just looked at a property for $1.6 million. I should be able to fix it up for a couple of hundred thousand and flip it for over 4 mill. After paying investors I could end up making a little on the deal.


...and then putting a little green star by your name.
8126) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET'S Give us a Caption #29 (Message 1086913)
Posted 14 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still...
8127) Message boards : Cafe SETI : My 'post whatever I darn well feel like' thread. (Message 1086904)
Posted 14 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Imagine
8128) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To the Kitty People........wherever they are......... (Message 1086843)
Posted 13 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Seems like a bad choice of places to have your litter of kittens...
8129) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1086811)
Posted 13 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8130) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy International Women's Day! :) (Message 1086810)
Posted 13 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I loves to recycle!
8131) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1086769)
Posted 13 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
In light of his comments on another thread, the person before me would appreciate this song.
8132) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy International Women's Day! :) (Message 1086766)
Posted 13 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
He doesn't leave his cans all over the place on purpose. He simply moves through life in a mildly distracted state.


[Eric support on]
He has a PhD Ang, he has earned the right to!!
[Eric Support off]


Oooooohhhhhhh! So THAT is what is meant by "...with all the rights and privileges pertaining thereto..."
I had always wondered what that line on diplomas meant. Thank you for that clarification, Chris!!!
8133) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy International Women's Day! :) (Message 1086658)
Posted 13 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I didn't realise agreeing with me was such a crime!

LOL friend! You and I agree about many things, as you well know. I always enjoy chatting with you both in public and privately.



I am wary of marriage because I think that it can mean that people stop making the effort they need to do to stay together and they start taking each other for granted.

I'm hardly an expert on marriage, having only done it once, but it is my experience that marriage makes it EASIER for a person to accept his or her partner's little short-comings.

In our dating days, I used to have a visceral reaction each time I came upon a soda can that Eric had abandoned. My mental response went something like "I do NOT have to put up with this! I am NOT that man's mother! OMG he left a can on the table and now there is another %^&*()^%$#%&*()^%$#$%^&*()*^%$ ring!!!!! Do they not have coasters in Wisconsin? Why can't that man remember to rinse and recycle these cans? And why does he drink so much soda anyway???!!!"

Now I know this is going to sound insane, but after we got married my whole attitude started to change. Now when I happen upon a soda can, it simply reminds me that Eric's absent-minded nature is part of what I love about him. He doesn't leave his cans all over the place on purpose. He simply moves through life in a mildly distracted state. I prefer to believe it is because he is busy thinking deep thoughts, but who knows? He could just be re-running an episode of "Eek the Cat" in his head! Nevertheless, now when I encounter an abandoned soda can my mental response is more along the lines of "Oh goody! An Easter egg hunt!!! Look, a green one! (Mountain Dew) Ooooooh I found a red one! (Coke) Hey! A clear bottle! Yeah!!! He substituted a bottle of that unsweetened iced tea I got him in place of one of his sodas!"

Now I'll admit that I've given you a rather extreme example. I can't claim that I don't still get a little annoyed by things... (Eric's den, for example!!!) Eric is not perfect, but hey... newsflash... neither am I!

Esme, I do not think you should assume the power that love and marriage has to excuse partners from working on their relationship is necessarily a bad thing. Frankly it can be rather freeing. Most of the time I take Eric's love for granted. I hope he takes my love for granted as well.
8134) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy International Women's Day! :) (Message 1086593)
Posted 13 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well dear, even though you just agreed with Esme, I still LOVE you!!! (I suppose you physicists have got to stick together...)

Alright, I will throw you both a bone. In most cases respect and appreciation are necessary for love, but I do not believe they are sufficient to constitute love. I think "love" is bigger than the sum of its parts.

Don't get me wrong. I am not a silly person who believes that there is one person and one person alone for each of us. The human species would die out pretty quickly if each of us had to traverse the globe searching for our "one". To be completely unromantic about it, I suppose that "love" is a mental shift that makes it impossible for you to be with anyone but the one you love.

I have a friend who calls herself a "serial monogamer". She has had many long term, happy relationships. She has a son with her current partner. The poor man appears to love my friend and he has wanted to marry her for years. My friend respects her current partner. She appreciates her current partner. She is still living with her current partner and their darling little boy is in kindergarten already. My friend simply will not marry her current partner because she knows that with time she will move on to somebody else and she does not want the hassle of untangling a marriage. I hope, someday, she finds love.
8135) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy International Women's Day! :) (Message 1086576)
Posted 13 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You're such a romantic. LOL.
I think love soon dies without respect and appreciation of each other.


Perhaps I am a romantic, but I believe that love can see you through pain and despair and torment and temptation. I am 100% sure that Eric is incapable of any words or actions that would ever make me stop loving him. Sure I respect him. Sure I appreciate him. Respect and appreciation are not enough. I love him.
8136) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy International Women's Day! :) (Message 1086525)
Posted 12 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm glad you appreciate what he does, that's probably why you've been together so long.

We have been together so long because we love each other. No other reason than that is necessary.
8137) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET'S Give us a Caption #29 (Message 1086465)
Posted 12 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey, what happened to the aft 2/3rds of the ship?
8138) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1086340)
Posted 12 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey Vic, I was hoping to beat THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS out of you, but I'm getting sleepy. I'm going to go get some GOLDEN (shut)EYE now. Goodnight friend.
8139) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1086338)
Posted 12 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok Vic... then I guess these puns are FOR YOUR EYES ONLY.
8140) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1086334)
Posted 12 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Where is everybody tonight? I thought they would all Q up for this topic.

Where is Sotherden... James Sotherden?
8141) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1086330)
Posted 12 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't know much about these movies... sure hope I don't make a SPECTREcle out of myself!
8142) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1086327)
Posted 12 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Scarecrow will probably be late. I'm guessing he is still at the bar having one more Bourbon and 007...
8143) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1086320)
Posted 12 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hear Vic wants us to play little BONDage games tonight...
8144) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Earthquake and Tsunami hits Japan. (Message 1086088)
Posted 11 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What a horrible quake. My thoughts are for those who were and continue to be in harm's way.
8145) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - speeding up... (Message 1085637)
Posted 10 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning one for Team Insomnia again...
8146) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy International Women's Day! :) (Message 1085636)
Posted 10 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am quite happy to carry out DIY, service the car, mow the lawn, put the vacuum around, get up in the attic, paint or wallpaper etc.

Merciful heavens Chris! That is quite a litany of manly undertakings! I think I have palpitations!!! I'm not sure I would let Ole Pookers hang wallpaper. I mean, I've seen the poor man try to put up a towel rack! That wasn't a happy day for either one of us... But yes, when it comes down to nasty little tasks like networking our home computers, can you blame me for preferring to bake cookies rather than wriggling through the crawl spaces of our home battling spiders and breathing in rat feces? It is times like these that I do so enjoy being a girl!!!

The man was 3 or 4 years older than the woman, the balance of personality strength was about equal, and they shared the partnership tasks leaning towards the traditional way.

Hmmm... we're doomed! I'm 3 years older than Eric. Also, I'm 100% Italian and he is half Finn. Now who do you think has a "stronger" personality?
8147) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1085606)
Posted 10 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The spark of life, Renaissance style...



The spark of life, CRL style...
8148) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy International Women's Day! :) (Message 1085588)
Posted 10 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Interesting fact: Although women now make up almost 50% of the workforce, they still do 90% of the housework.

I hope Eric does his fair share!


Well now Esme, I suppose the answer to that depends on your operational definition of "housework". Eric and I have a very sexist division of labor, but it plays to our individual strengths and it works quite well for the two of us.

If your definition of "housework" is a middle-class 1950's definition (cooking, cleaning, shopping, gardening etc), then you would say that I do most of the housework. If, however, you broaden your definition of "housework" to include car maintenance, chauffeuring services, financial planning and tech support, then I have to admit that I do none of these things well and I defer them ALL to 'Ole Pookers.

Modern women AND modern men can typically do all the things in both the traditional and the broadened definitions of housework. Men should be given credit for doing "housework" every time they gas the darn car, yet I suspect that studies in which it is found that women do 90% of the housework define housework in a narrow and traditional manner.

I go though much of my day largely oblivious of all the things that Eric does for the two of us, just as Eric goes much of his day probably thinking that the Blessed Virgin of Guadalupe descends each week from heaven to place clean underwear in his dresser drawers and recycle his Mountain Dew cans. It is only when Eric travels for a couple of weeks that I am painfully reminded of how very, very helpful he is with the "housework".

Am I a bad feminist because I prefer to do the "girl jobs" and I prefer to let Eric do the "boy jobs"? Perhaps... but I prefer to think that Eric and I have divided up the housework fairly evenly based upon our likes and dislikes and our individual strengths and weaknesses. Our division of labor happens to fall down a fairly traditional sexist divide, but this does not mean that one or the other of us is a less important (or a more important) contributor to the "marital team".
8149) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1085238)
Posted 9 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I guess this is the wrong form for this pix.

Your cat is lovely! Thank you for posting the picture and welcome to the Critter Cafe!
8150) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy International Women's Day! :) (Message 1085217)
Posted 9 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hmmmmmm.... I started work at 8:00am this morning. It is now 8:30pm and I about to leave my office for home.

It is days like these that I wish I were not so emancipated, liberated and self-actualized!
8151) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bring me your LOL cats and other funny pics (Message 1084899)
Posted 8 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8152) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1084887)
Posted 8 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8153) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To the Kitty People........wherever they are......... (Message 1084884)
Posted 8 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Kitty People!

I am trying to figure out whether something is normal cat behavior or not. When Zsa Zsa, who is about 6 months old, happens upon "prey" (say a tasty looking bug or a spider out of reach) she meows at it while she tries to stalk and catch it. It seems to me that this is a bad move for a predator. Announcing one's presence to one's intended victim before one "does it in" gives the intended prey a warning and ups the odds that your snack will successfully get away.

We've never had a cat who has vocalized while hunting before, and we've had about 7 cats over the years. Something tells me that if Zsa Zsa were a feral kitty, without the benefit of a food bowl that is filled daily by her dutiful house monkeys, she would hunt so poorly that she would pretty much starve to death.

So is vocally announcing your presence during a hunt in the realm of normal cat behavior? Is Zsa Zsa so sure of her success that she is emiting a victory cry, or does she simply lack kitty cat impulse control?
8154) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1084868)
Posted 8 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You can run but you can't hide....Muwa a harr!

Yeppers! Ole Monday really caught up with me today!!! Ugh! And Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday are not looking any better...
8155) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday to my wife! (Message 1084866)
Posted 8 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Best wishes to you on your special day!
Angela & Eric
8156) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1084578)
Posted 7 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If I hidez in here Monday never find me!!!
8157) Message boards : Politics : No "Death Panels" huh ? (Message 1084575)
Posted 7 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am sorry to say that we already have unofficial "death panels" in this country. We have a health care accessibility problem, big time. Those who are less resourced have a difficult time finding health care providers who will take Medicaid and so they end up accessing medical prevention services, diagnostic services and treatment services at lower rates than those who are more resourced. When a condition becomes unbearable, the less resourced end up in emergency care. Because of our accessibility problem, people with fewer financial resources die younger of most medical conditions than people with more financial resources. Sounds like institutionalized death paneling to me!

Lawyers are required to provide pro bono work in order to continue practicing. If we insist on not going the single-payer health route in this country, all medical practitioners and allied health professionals should be required to do some pro bono work (or prove that they work for an organization that takes a fair percentage of Medicaid patients), in order to renew their licenses each year.
8158) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Belated Anniversary Robert Waite (Message 1084471)
Posted 6 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy Anniversary! Ten more years under your belts than we have. Wow. I think in 10 years I'll be 4 feet tall and have a walker. But if Angela knows what's good for her, my profile picture will be me sitting in a boat running an outboard motor.


Not to hijack Robert's thread or anything, but if Eric is getting a boat then MY profile picture 10 years hence will be a shot of me with Anton, my personal hunky Swedish professional foot masseuse.

Isn't love grand?
8159) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A gift for Angela (Message 1084355)
Posted 6 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I forgot to mention that when I "send in an expert", it adds a whole new level of meaning to the "Honey, DOO!!!" list...
8160) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Anniversary Angela & Eric (Message 1084351)
Posted 6 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you so much for all the sweet wishes (and for all the funny ones too)! What a great wake-up surprise this morning to find so many more lovely posts on this thread. As soon as Ole Pooker's wakes up, I'll make sure he reads through all your kind greetings.
8161) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Belated Anniversary Robert Waite (Message 1084349)
Posted 6 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thursday March 3rd marked the 27th Wedding Anniversary of Robert Waite and his wife, with even longer together (35 years!!!) as a couple.

Robert, Eric and I think we know your secret to a long and happy relationship... liberals make GREAT lovers!!!!
Happy Anniversary, friend! Wishing you and your wife many, many, many more happy years together!

8162) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Anniversary Angela & Eric (Message 1084237)
Posted 6 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you all for such lovely thoughts and wishes.
8163) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1084223)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I employ a local urchin to "exercise" our cats. Miss Miranda is 6 years old and she earns $5.00 a visit every couple of weeks for wielding a cat dancer and throwing some toy mice around. This generally works out well for all involved. We enjoy the company of a charming child, the kittens get tired out, Miss Miranda has fun and Miss Miranda's mother doesn't have her underfoot for a few hours.

Unfortunately, there was an "incident" during today's visit. Zsa Zsa lunged for a toy and got Miss Miranda's left knee instead. After I cleaned and dressed the "wound" and provided some unlicensed trauma counseling for the victim, I taught Miss Miranda to say "I got injured on the job. I need Worker's Comp!" After a few practice trials I marched her over to Eric for a command performance, complete with dramatic pointing to her bandaged knee.

Eric nearly died laughing. When sufficiently recovered he led Miss Miranda to the "Worker's Comp" basket (his personal stash of candy) and settled her claim for compensation.

It cost the CEO of Korpela Industries one package of blue raspberry sour punch straws. Let this be a warning to CEOs everywhere!

(Oh no!!! This story is gonna get moved to "Politics", isn't it?!!!)
8164) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A gift for Angela (Message 1084183)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Most of the time they poop elsewhere, but if we have a "problem" I send in an expert... (Poor Eric!!!)
8165) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Anniversary Angela & Eric (Message 1084182)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you friends.
8166) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1084150)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Well, I should certainly Hope So!
How long they been married?

We celebrated our 17th wedding anniversary last Sunday.
8167) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET'S Give us a Caption #29 (Message 1084145)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Never underestimate the importance of good dental hygiene.
8168) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A gift for Angela (Message 1084143)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Who knew the little beggers were as intelligent as that?

Oh I knew!!! I used to keep spare birdseed outside in a really thick glass jar with a very wide mouth and a very tight lid. Their hands didn't seem wide enough to unscrew that jar in any traditional way, so I figured it was safe to put seed in it. I have no idea how they learned to unscrew that jar, dump out all the birdseed and pick out all the dried corn. The first night I thought it was a fluke. I figured maybe I hadn't screwed the lid on tightly enough. Maybe they just got lucky. The second night I no longer blamed myself.
8169) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1084112)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The person before me appears to have his tongue firmly planted within his cheek!
8170) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A gift for Angela (Message 1084107)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Robert, that was FANTASTIC!!! I watched it right away and I loved every minute of it!!! When Eric wakes up, I will watch it again with him.

Just for the record, I'm doing my best to slow down this trend of increasing cognitive capacity in raccoons. I provide absolutely no challenges for my "little woodland friends". All they have to do is scale my backyard fence to get a treat. So when the Raccoon Overlords rule over us all, please blame those who resisted the raccoons, not those of us who succumbed early to their many charms.

Robert, my friend, thank you for such an excellent treat.

CRL
8171) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 9 (Message 1084099)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ugh!!! Too early to think about next week's topic. I'm still hung-over from last night's BOTTLE... er... uh... I mean battle. Nevertheless, I have to say that there are few things I enjoy more than an evening WASTED with punsters...

Now pass me the aspirin and pipe down in here!
8172) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1084038)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, congratulations again on your VICtory!!! Goodnight friends. See you all over on the next thread.
8173) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1084035)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Another King...
8174) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1084028)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And a little variation for all of us language lovers here...
8175) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1084021)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Show me the way to go home!
8176) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1084017)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, you are a punster beyond COMPARI. It was a pleasure to ride in your SIDECAR this evening. Up here in the Bay Area I'll try not to be a FRISCO SOUR loser. Congratulations friend!
8177) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1084015)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic has put my posterior in a SINGAPORE SLING!
8178) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1084008)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, you have quite a KICK tonight. All in favor of calling Victor the winner this evening say "aye yay yay!"
8179) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1084004)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, I'm turning WHITE RUSSIAN around trying to think of more puns.
8180) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1084000)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
MAI TAIm here is nearly at an end...
8181) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083995)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Isn't it time we had a NICE FINISH?
8182) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083991)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gauge at Maximum, Boulder exploding.

Didn't you mean gauge at MAGNUM, Vic?
8183) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083985)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm working on my own little MANHATTAN project...
8184) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083980)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Janice, I thing we HAMMERed the lid down on those boyz. Pass me a SCREWDRIVER so I can make sure the lid stays on tight.
8185) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083976)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yeah, I'm the deCIDER...
8186) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083972)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
He sez Yer on the ROOKS, and in CHEK, Mate.

The PROOF is in the pudding, they say...
8187) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083969)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
...pay not attention to the moose relieving itself there.

VODKA talkin about, Scarecrow?
8188) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083964)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I can't take much more. I'm getting fat... yes - positively STOUT!
8189) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083961)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If I lose, I'll sit around and BREWED for days.

Prepare for that, as the girlz will eventually MOJITO you right over...
8190) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083954)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Those boyz sure do pack a PUNCH!
8191) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083951)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
All these extra alcohol calories this evening are making me PORTly!
8192) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083946)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, your last 3 posts have shown such dry humor... yep - TRIPLE SEC!
8193) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083943)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have tried Brand A, Brand B, and Brand C. But I prefer Brand-D.

Nice one! That should knock a boy or two off of his GLASS!
8194) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083938)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Scarecrow, don't make me take a FLIGHT out there!!!
8195) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083934)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now your drinking swill from the bar towel.


Keep POURing it on, buddy...
8196) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083929)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The boyz are going BELLY UP - BAR none!
8197) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083926)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Let me CHERRY a little secret with you... we girlz are unstoppable...
8198) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083918)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Clearly those boys are headed DOWN THE HATCH...
8199) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083913)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You know what boyz say about girlz right? If you can't beat her, LIQUOR!!!
8200) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083909)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The girlz are WHISKEYing the boyz away to Loserville!
8201) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083905)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Stop trying to bust our beers.

Or CRUSH your GRAPES?
8202) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083900)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Whether you low ball or HIGH BALL the numbers, it is obvious that the girlz are winning!
8203) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083898)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey Cowboy Scarecrow - just PONY up, will ya?
8204) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083893)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And I'm getting close to getting CHAMBORD the sleep train...
8205) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083889)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If the ocean was whiskey, and I was a duck, I'd swim to the bottom, and drink my way up.

Well, you are the master of the slam DRUNK!
8206) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083882)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think James TAPPED out.

He was just showing the Grim Creeper out.

{yeah, I know, that was a stretch}


As Halloween queen, I have a certain fondness for ZOMBIES...
8207) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083878)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think James TAPPED out.

Is he really gone? That is the question... or the query, if you will... Yes, who will answer DAIQUIRI???
8208) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083873)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gary can really get into the SPIRIT of things...
8209) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083868)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gary!!!! You got DRAFTed!!!!
8210) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083866)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think you girls are half a jigger shot of winning.

I CAN BEERlieve that...
8211) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083860)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
next time you take a break, remember to Jigger the handle.

Aw SHOOTers! I knew I forgot something...
8212) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083857)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think you girls will get shaken and stirred.

But you boyz will end up ON ICE.
8213) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083853)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Boyz, give up now! Janice and I... well we're like Lucy and ETHYL...
8214) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083850)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Will you COLLINS your markers?
8215) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083845)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yo Jim! Did you TODDY off to bed?
8216) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083840)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Not to worry James... those shemales will feel the chamPAIN soon.

Not before you are NIGHT TRAINed, I suspect.
8217) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083834)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
we could just going till the SUNRISE

Why that is the HAPPIEST of HOURS!!!
8218) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083830)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
we can WEDGE 'em out

Yeah, I've heard this COCKTAIL of woe before...
8219) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083825)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey Janice, ready for a good OLD FASHIONed win?
8220) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083823)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sam Adams, Jack Daniels, and (my personal favorite) Jim Beam will have something to say 'bout that!

Don't forget Mr. JOHNNY WALKER!
8221) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083820)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You're so funny! You TEQUILA me!!!!
8222) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083817)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The girlz will win 'cuz we've got players like SHERRY, BRANDY and MARGARITA!
8223) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083813)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Victor, James, and Scarecrow.... the three MUSCATELS.

You three should put on your NIGHTCAPS and go to bed! The girls will clean up here.
8224) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083808)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Why us guys will Mop the dive up with ya.



To do so you will need the help of a genie... or a GIN!
8225) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083805)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm just sitting around ready while you all HOPS to it...
8226) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083802)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, that one goes against the GRAIN...
8227) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083799)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This thread keeps getting LAGER and LAGER.
8228) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083797)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh no! This is more competition than I can BEER...
8229) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083795)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Jim!!!! It is so NEAT that you don't have to work tonight!!!
8230) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083790)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Victor! Let me give it to you STRAIGHT. I'm regaining my title tonight.
8231) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083787)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes! Put a CORK in it!!!
8232) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083783)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I would never judge 'til I walked a mile in your BOOZE...
8233) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083781)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh wipe that RYE grin off your face!
8234) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083779)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think I may still have a SHOT or two left...
8235) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083776)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Janice, we know you will RUM right over us!
8236) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1083773)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The person before me appears to be a Treker.
8237) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083772)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Janice will win, BAR none...
8238) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083768)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yep, your punning career is ON THE ROCKS now!
8239) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083766)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Janice! See how CORDIAL I can be?!!!
8240) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083763)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My dear masked friend, I have puns BOTTLEd up, the like you have never seen.

Darn! It is times like this I wish I were more COSMOPOLITAN...
8241) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083761)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You are not one FIFTH the punster I am.
8242) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083758)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Prepare to BOOZE er... uh... I mean prepare to lose.
8243) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1083749)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is obvious you are both in love.

Aw shucks! Accused by an eye witness, no less...
8244) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1083723)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
ET has him blinded and under mind control. ET was even able to get him to clean out his den! I think ET calls this control LOVE!


Eric started to clean his den. He worked on it one day a couple weekends ago and he hasn't touched it since.

I'm afraid ET needs to find stronger stuff than "LOVE!" to motivate that man!!! (I do love him, though...)
8245) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1083638)
Posted 4 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The person before me used to be in a band!
8246) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1083626)
Posted 4 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That is NOT me!!!!!!!! My elbows are MUCH sexier than that!!!


Are they both the same colour? ;-))


Only if you want them to be...
8247) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Ever GOOGLEd your 'ALIAS' ? (Message 1083568)
Posted 4 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ever GOOGLEd your 'ALIAS' ?

Is THAT what the kids are calling it these days?!!!
8248) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - speeding up... (Message 1083438)
Posted 4 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes Blurf! Wishing Suz a speedy recovery!
8249) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1083300)
Posted 3 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh sure, 'Doubting Thomas'... I suppose you're going to tell me this one is also....


That is NOT me!!!!!!!! My elbows are MUCH sexier than that!!!
8250) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - speeding up... (Message 1083233)
Posted 3 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations on the win, Mike!
8251) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bring me your LOL cats and other funny pics (Message 1083232)
Posted 3 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8252) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner (Message 1083223)
Posted 3 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"God makes 'em and they find each other."


Dio li fa e poi li accoppia.



LOL, my friend!!!
8253) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner (Message 1083127)
Posted 3 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We flew home from Wisconsin late Monday night, and in celebration of our 17th wedding anniversary Eric and I are enjoying a "stay-cation" at home for the rest of this week. We promised one another that we would do fun stuff every day and go out to eat every night. Turns out, all we both really want to do is laze around the house napping and reading. Neither one of us has really felt like going out at all! I've heard it said that "God makes 'em and they find each other." Seems as good an explanation as any, I suppose...

I was way too lazy to go to the grocery store today and when we decided to eat at home tonight, I decided to create a pasta dish for dinner out of whatever I could find around the house. In my garden, all that is really good right now are fresh herbs and lemons. Because I like to cook, I typically keep kitchen staples around like whipping cream, a variety of onions, butter, dried pasta and good cheese.

So....

First I went outside and picked a lemon, a lot of parsley, some oregano, a lot of thyme and a lot of chives. I had about 2 cups of whole fresh herbs, which I figured would wash up and strip down to about 1 cup of chopped herbs.

I washed, dried and stripped the herbs and I zested the lemon.

Then I sauteed a minced shallot in some butter

To the shallot I added the remainder of a carton of heavy cream (probably about a cup or so) several tablespoons of unsalted butter, 1/2 tsp of kosher salt, a bit of nutmeg and a bit of cayenne pepper.

I let the cream and butter mixture simmer on a low burner for about 20 minutes until it was reasonably reduced. Meanwhile I started boiling water for pasta.

When the cream mixture was reduced, I added about 1/3 a cup of grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese and all of the fresh herbs, chopped together at the last minute. So basically what I made was a heavily herbed homemade Alfredo sauce.

Once the herbs and cheese were in, I cooked the Alfredo sauce about 4 minutes, which was just enough time to cook half a box of angel hair pasta - broken in half.

I tossed the cooked, drained pasta with the Alfredo sauce and at the very last minute I added the zest of one lemon. Next time, I think I would add the zest of two lemons. One lemon got sort of lost, given how herby the sauce was and given how cream dulls acids.

I served the pasta with extra grated cheese and we opened a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc.

Dinner was pretty tasty, if I do say so myself. A cardiologist would probably not approve of my liberal use of butter, cream and cheese, but an economist might give this dinner the thumbs up as the whole meal was pretty light on the pocket book, compared to dining out.

Best of all, neither of us had to bother getting cleaned up or leaving the house. Sloth can be heavenly! I recommend it highly.
8254) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1083082)
Posted 2 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8255) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1083049)
Posted 2 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The person before me has many friends here who love her and who wish to support her in any way we can.
8256) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - it's all a gas (Message 1082894)
Posted 2 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodnight win...
8257) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bring me your LOL cats and other funny pics (Message 1082891)
Posted 2 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8258) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bring me your LOL cats and other funny pics (Message 1082890)
Posted 2 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8259) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET'S Give us a Caption #29 (Message 1082836)
Posted 2 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've heard of "dog and pony shows", but THIS is ridiculous!
8260) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 8 (Message 1082788)
Posted 2 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Instead of going to the gym, I browsed a paint store hoping I could get thinner there...
8261) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - it's all a gas (Message 1082784)
Posted 2 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are we up, or down, or sideways?

Inside-out, I'm afraid...
8262) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET'S Give us a Caption #29 (Message 1082783)
Posted 2 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4pm here, so it must be winner time!!!

Third place goes to Blurf for his rousing rendition of: "(sung in Ernie's voice) "Washcloth ducky, you're the one...you make bathtime so much fun. Washcloth ducky-I'm awfully fond of you." (Thanks Blurf! Now I can't get that song out of my head!!!!!)

Second place goes to Gary Charpentier for: "The NoTell's attempt to get another star." (Oh Gary - nudge, nudge... wink, wink... say no more!!!)

And first place goes, once again, to our ever-clever Scarecrow with: "Lambchop after a hard night of partying."

Well played, friends.

Sending a pm now...
8263) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - it's all a gas (Message 1082611)
Posted 1 Mar 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just came back from Wisconsin - land of chocolate pudding on the salad bar and deep fried dinner rolls. What's not to love about the midwest!!!???!!!
8264) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - it's all a gas (Message 1082486)
Posted 28 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Layover win!
8265) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET'S Give us a Caption #29 (Message 1082485)
Posted 28 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win. Here is your next picture...

8266) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - it's all a gas (Message 1082455)
Posted 28 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Boarding a plane win!!! Bye for now friends! Seven hours 'til I see my cats! meow...
8267) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET'S Give us a Caption #29 (Message 1082376)
Posted 28 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
COLD WAR! - The Musical
8268) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Our niece is a rising star! (Message 1081920)
Posted 27 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Our niece Emily as Annie!

A more proud Auntie and Uncle you will never find!
8269) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1081575)
Posted 26 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The person before me used to smoke!
8270) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET'S Give us a Caption #29 (Message 1081256)
Posted 25 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh you funny people, you!!! Thank you for all the wonderful laughs!!!

Third place goes to Karen with: "Give the gift of life: CHOCOLATE!"

Second place goes to Kadaitcha-Man with: "Oh! Thankyou Hannibal. I was wondering why you invited me over for dinner."

And the winner is.... envelope please.... Scarecrow with: "It melts in your chest, not in your hand."

Sending PM now.
8271) Message boards : Cafe SETI : New Weather Thread (Message 1080878)
Posted 24 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8272) Message boards : Cafe SETI : New Weather Thread (Message 1080874)
Posted 24 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now you've done it!!! Izzy wants to be a ballerina for Halloween and I have no idea how to sew a tu-tu...
8273) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - it's all a gas (Message 1080871)
Posted 24 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gary, don't you recognize me without my glasses?!!!
8274) Message boards : Cafe SETI : New Weather Thread (Message 1080862)
Posted 24 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I grew up in the Oakland hills. We occasionally got very light dustings of snow there in especially cold winters. The raccoons will know what to to.
8275) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - it's all a gas (Message 1080849)
Posted 24 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! it's Superman.....


Do I LOOK like a man, Chris????!!!???!!!!!!!!!
8276) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET'S Give us a Caption #29 (Message 1080822)
Posted 24 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok friends, Valentine's Day has passed but it is still February, so caption this...
8277) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET'S Give us a Caption XXVIII (Message 1080820)
Posted 24 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win! I have been asked to start a new thread. I will ask Eric to lock this one.

8278) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET'S Give us a Caption XXVIII (Message 1080567)
Posted 23 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Most popular video: "Holy Trinity - the original threesome!"
8279) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1080560)
Posted 23 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
dEar ZSa zsA,

heRe"s sumpIn to tRy wHen yUr HooMans isn"t lOOking...

Aw man!!! I was hoping we had left those darn spiders behind in the last Critter Cafe thread!!!
8280) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1080559)
Posted 23 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You're aren't serious about the box pic are Ya Angela?


No Vic. I was just trying to make a photo-joke. Eva and Zsa Zsa have systematically done in most of my houseplants. When I caught Zsa Zsa sitting in the Boston fern this evening, I decided to stage the subsequent box shot. Hope it gave you a giggle.

We're keeping Zsa Zsa and Eva, and Stinky Lou and Spawnie too! Plants can be replaced but kitty-love is too precious to ever give away.
8281) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe! (Message 1080553)
Posted 23 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends and welcome to the eighth installment of our Critter Cafe!
For anyone new here, this is a place where people who like Critters gather to talk about whatever they wish.
There is no such thing as "off topic" in the Critter Cafe.




To start us out on the new thread, here are a couple pictures of Zsa Zsa that I took this evening.





8282) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1080550)
Posted 23 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My friends, this thread is so wonderfully picture-heavy that out of courtesy to our dial-up users I think is time to start a new thread.

See you all in the next installment of the Critter Cafe!

Fondly,
ang.
8283) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1080549)
Posted 23 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8284) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1080548)
Posted 23 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Itsy-Bitsy my foot!!!
8285) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner (Message 1080278)
Posted 22 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I've never tried the white ones.
8286) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner (Message 1080255)
Posted 22 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mmmmmmmm! Asparagus season out here!!! I like the big fat ones. I find them to be far more flavorful and less fibrous than those nasty easily over-cooked pencil thin ones. We had some giant asparagus with dinner tonight. Delish!!!

So... let's talk asparagus! Do you like them thick or thin and why?
8287) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1080224)
Posted 22 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:



Do you have Black Widow Spiders in your area Vic? We definitely have them up here...

Several years ago I thought I saw a Black Widow in my tool shed so I called upon Eric, the mighty-mighty spider hunter, to dispatch her for me. Well Eric went outside with a can of Raid and pretty soon I heard a big whoosh as he sprayed the spider with Raid. Then Eric moved a flower pot in the shed and I heard another mighty whoosh. Then he moved a broom and whoosh went that Raid can again. After several more "whooshes" Eric finally threw up his hands in disgust, got in the car and drove to a local hardware store. He came home with a flea bomb, set that baby off, threw it in my shed, slammed the door shut and said to me (totally deadpan) "Don't open the door for a few days."

My husband is a paragon of efficiency.
8288) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1080182)
Posted 21 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Spiders are arachnids, not insects, but I imagine I will find a few of them in Eric's den as well. I'm hoping all the Black Widow spiders I find will be dead ones.
8289) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1080142)
Posted 21 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eeek! Representatives from Class Insecta do not tend to be amongst my favorite critters.
8290) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1080129)
Posted 21 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is a Presidents Day miracle!!! Eric started cleaning his den and he is letting me "help". Think I'll find any critters in there?
8291) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - it's all a gas (Message 1080111)
Posted 21 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How about giving her a "walk" while you are riding a bicycle?

Eeek! First roller blades, now a bicycle... you, Vic and Maya are all conspiring to give me a head injury!!!

But seriously, we live in a very hilly area. I'm afraid the safest way for me to walk that dog is with both of my feet on the ground.
8292) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For All The Baby-Boomers (Message 1080109)
Posted 21 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
As the old joke goes...

I have the body of a nineteen year old. The police would really like to know where!
8293) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - it's all a gas (Message 1079930)
Posted 21 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Roller blades... now there's an idea!

My neighbor's dog is named Maya and she's half Rhodesian Ridge Back and half Lab. This means she loves everyone except cats. She is not at all leash trained and she is surprisingly strong. I have a hard time controlling her!
8294) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The joke thread Part 3. (Message 1079929)
Posted 21 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hopefully this hasn't been posted before. I only lurk here from time to time...

HOW TO IMPRESS A WOMAN
Wine her,
Dine her,
Call her,
Hug her,
Hold her,
Surprise her,
Compliment her,
Smile at her,
Laugh with her,
Cry with her,
Cuddle with her,
Shop with her,
Give her jewelry,
Buy her flowers,
Hold her hand,
Write love letters to her,
Go the end of the earth and back again for her.

HOW TO IMPRESS A MAN
Show up naked,
Bring beer.
8295) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The joke thread Part 3. (Message 1079926)
Posted 21 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The Female Demerit System


I didn't want to laugh, but I couldn't help myself!
8296) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - it's all a gas (Message 1079925)
Posted 21 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Tired win. My neighbor's dog took me for too long a walk today. Tomorrow I will try to be more in control.
8297) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bring me your LOL cats and other funny pics (Message 1079805)
Posted 20 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8298) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1079803)
Posted 20 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8299) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET'S Give us a Caption XXVIII (Message 1079631)
Posted 20 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric could have sworn that SETI@home retired sagan years ago...
8300) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079360)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Time for bed... Good night punsters! It was a really fun battle tonight.
8301) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079354)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, last one... I promise! Last Chance Texaco
8302) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079352)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8303) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079348)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Fast Car
8304) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079342)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Beep Beep

Dang girl! I was just about to post that!
8305) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079339)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Woah! Queen Janice just sped by in her Hot Rod Lincoln!
8306) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079333)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
All hail Janice! She is officially the pun KINGPIN... er... uh... Queenpin this evening!
8307) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079329)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thanks to you gals, we've rolled right over those two DRUNK BUMPS, Eric and Scarecrow.

While I just got POSTed out.


Sorry Vic, but you seem to be at least SEMI sober. I didn't want to lump you in with those bums.
8308) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079325)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If you are conceding defeat Scarecrow, I think the crown should go to our most valuable player this evening, Janice. She never HAULED back, not even for one SECOND!
8309) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079323)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thanks to you gals, we've rolled right over those two DRUNK BUMPS, Eric and Scarecrow.
8310) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079316)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Soft^spirit, I so jealous of your amazing car vocabulary... yes, I'm green with DMV!
8311) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079314)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is it time to strut our stuff?

Only if you let me see your PINK SLIP.

Not without dinner and some sweet talk!


Yeah! Scr*w you and the horse you ROAD in on!
8312) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079301)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
not sure how much more of a MAVERICK I could be.

Oh SHIMMY a break! You're doing great!
8313) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079296)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm STEERING at a nearly empty pun basket...
8314) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079288)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Girls, I'm not sure how much longer I can ROLL with these punches.
8315) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079285)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric is definitely out. He was getting so sleepy that I told him to go to bed RIGHT OF-WAY!
8316) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079281)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm afraid I'm nearly ready to surrender... LOCK, stock and barrel.
8317) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079274)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Janice, Karen, my pun cache is RUNNING ON EMPTY. Yep, I'm nearly out of CAR-GO...
8318) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079270)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dang! You can't BLINKER you miss stuff in this game...
8319) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079268)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yep, I need to stop punning so I can FUEL up. And feed your starving cats... the PUMA, the COUGAR, and the JAGUAR.

Don't forget to feed my horse, you know... my MUSTANG.
8320) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079264)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry, I had to stop to call Eric a CAB...
8321) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079257)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric, are you so TANKed that you are out of puns? Do we have one down on the boy's side?
8322) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079252)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Crap.... I gotta few bent PARTS now that I look.

Oh SPARE me...
8323) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079242)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This pun war is enough to really get a BODY WORKed up!!!
8324) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079237)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think those boys are nearly VANquished...
8325) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079233)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Boys, do we need to COACH you in how to admit defeat?
8326) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079230)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Darn it if he doesn't keep filling that punch cup up to the RIM!
8327) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079226)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, for the next drink, I think about 10% ETHANOL will be about right.

If you drink any more I'll come up there and CHASSIE-tize you!
8328) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079216)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You didn't miss much dear, except that the girls' glorious victory appears to be WAXing, not waning...
8329) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079209)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Come on girls... PACER yourselves....


we have more up our SLEEVE


Yeah, we're singing our obnoxious victory song and we're not ready to give that TUNE UP yet...
8330) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079202)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey Eric, ready for that THIRD drink, or is the room SPINNING OUT and about too much already?
8331) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079196)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
DUI really have to continue? Us males have BLOWN you away!

Really? I don't RECALL PARTing with a chance at victory...
8332) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079189)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ha! Our victory is nearly a FIAT de complet...
8333) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079183)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Shoot, dude, them yucky ol' girls are ROAD KILL.

Nonsense! I am the very MODEL of a modern major GENERAL motors...
8334) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079174)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, just keep COOLANT we'll win, girls...
8335) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079164)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, you do have nice JUNK in your TRUNK, dear...


And don't even get me started on his HOT ROD...
8336) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079160)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
But after all those CADDIES at the club, and all that time at Betty FORD, you know that I'm still best for you, right?

Well, you do have nice JUNK in your TRUNK, dear...
8337) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079159)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I just love this PING pong match tonight...
8338) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079152)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You just like the LOW RIDERS.

Can't help it if I'm a HOT WIRE!
8339) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079145)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dear, you know I like you best with FOUR ON THE FLOOR.

Whatever you say, Mr. SPEEDY!
8340) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079140)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
a NEWER MODEL is always an option.

I had better be Eric's FIRST and only option!
8341) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079135)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We will BOLT right on by

Yes, I can see there is plenty of VROOM for us to do that...
8342) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079125)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
]Women! Always driving in REVERSE!

Oh come on! You know you would never TRADE us IN...
8343) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079118)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, girls... time to distract them. Has everybody STRIPPED?
8344) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079108)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Rally about girls and we'll seal their PHAETON!
8345) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079102)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric I think you are having fun tonight! See what happens when you RUNABOUT with the punsters?
8346) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079094)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
JEEPers Creepers, we're not doing badly. Things could be HEARSE...
8347) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079088)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Fahrvergnügen!!!!

Thunderbirds, Sunbirds, Firebirds!

DAMN THE TORENADOS, FULL SPEED AHEAD!


You go girl! Send them home WAGON their tails behind them!
8348) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079082)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I agree. It's no surprise that we're WIPER them out.

Not so fast there. I think we girls areFINishing you off!
8349) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079079)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think the reasons the guys have won are MANIFOLD.

I'm not nearly done HACKing up puns yet...
8350) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079076)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh dear. Did all those drinks WRECK you for the evening?

Look again, he doesn't have a DENT in him.

He is a bit DINGy though...
8351) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079072)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm EXHAUSTED. I may have to quit soon after Angela BOTTOMS OUT.

Oh dear. Did all those drinks WRECK you for the evening?
8352) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079065)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Vic! We're playing in teams and we're really GUNning for each other tonight.
8353) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079061)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
One thing's for sure with this topic... nobody will be RUNNING BOARD!
8354) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079057)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I think Angela's going to BRAKE soon.

I am feeling a little HORNy...
8355) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079056)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
They seem to be SHIFTING their strategy.

Not at all. There is no need for WHEELing and dealing...
8356) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079048)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Naturally. There is no need to REVERSE our position...
8357) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079044)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are you sure you're not TIREing of this, dear?

Not at all. Who will win? I love the SUSPENSION!
8358) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079040)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You know dear, sometimes it's a SHOCK how well you play.

That's a common RACKandPinnon shared by all the pun warriors.


Dear, he's commenting on my rack! Defend my honor and give him the BOOT.
8359) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079036)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We just don't want to come in SECOND!
8360) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079033)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Stop trying to THROTTLE me, dear.


It's not just me, you know. It's boys against the GRILLEs...
8361) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079029)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It will not take much to ENGINEer our victory...
8362) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079024)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Scarecrow will have a hard time deFENDERing that title tonight.
8363) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079022)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Boys! They are such AIR BAGS...
8364) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079018)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
just do not CHOKE

Yes, if you do we'll deal the COUPE de grace...
8365) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079011)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela's Mai Tai recipe:


Whatever it takes to win, dear.

Unfortunately, you have a team-mate who puns better when intoxicated...
8366) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079008)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Just a quick note to my team-mates. I just got blocked from sending any more private messages for the next hour! Guess I sent out 5 (or else Eric just did something to block me from communicating with you guys.) I can read your pm's but I cannot respond.

Scarecrow, we await your topic.
8367) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079002)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8368) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1079000)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8369) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1078997)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8370) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1078995)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Care for a third mai tai, dear? I'd be happy to bring you one.
8371) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1078992)
Posted 19 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
As current crown bearer, Scarecrow has the option of setting the topic.

And yes dear, you will not be the only intoxicated player on the boy's team.
8372) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1078902)
Posted 18 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A little ditty in honor of Poet's Day...

Smugly, I peruse the forum,
Girls v Boys - let's get this war on!
Sure hope that we have a quorum...
Hope the battle thrills, not bores-um!

Calling Janice!
Calling Karen!
Yes our harem
Sure will scare-um!

Scarecrow, Victor, maybe Eric
Make one team, "The Boys Barbaric"
Pretty sure they'll need a cleric
To perform rites esoteric

As the girls deprive the guys
Of their shirts and shoes and ties
Cut them down to proper size
And make them eat some humble pies

Yes the girls will knock them down,
Make each one feel like a clown
And proclaim to all Pun Town -
"Girls now get the Pun War Crown!"

8373) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1078892)
Posted 18 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Please do not feed the Oompa-Loompas!
8374) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1078813)
Posted 18 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Excellent Karen!

I think we're shooting for a battle of the sexes around 8pm pacific time, which should give Mr. Scarecrow ample bar time.

So... Karen, Angela and Janice vs. Scarecrow, Eric and Vic??? Be there, or be rectangular!!!

(Actually, I can't promise Eric will play. He has a big work project today that may well spill over into the evening, but I'll try to encourage him to show up.)
8375) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1078799)
Posted 18 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Please do not feed the wampas!
8376) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1078699)
Posted 18 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

And please, do not feed the punsters either!
8377) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1078696)
Posted 18 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
OMG!!!!!!!! Do Not Feed The Weasel!!!
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8378) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1078692)
Posted 18 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8379) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1078689)
Posted 18 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Do Not Feed The Flesh Eating Bacteria!!!
8380) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1078685)
Posted 18 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Good advice all around...
8381) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1078684)
Posted 18 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Now this one is sooooooo wrong!!!
8382) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1078683)
Posted 18 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

People, please! Do not feed Oprah!
8383) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1078680)
Posted 18 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8384) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1078673)
Posted 18 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

There's not much that is "wild" about this little beggar!"
8385) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 7 (Message 1078448)
Posted 17 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey, with Janice and Karen on my side there is no way the girls will lose!!!
8386) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To the Kitty People........wherever they are......... (Message 1078216)
Posted 17 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Don't mess with the kitty...
8387) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bring me your LOL cats and other funny pics (Message 1078215)
Posted 17 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8388) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - it's all a gas (Message 1078214)
Posted 17 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Me too!
8389) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To the Kitty People........wherever they are......... (Message 1077802)
Posted 16 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bad kitty!
8390) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Valentine's Day! (Message 1077796)
Posted 16 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends,

Looks like there was quite a lot of activity on this thread yesterday. Sorry I missed it. Now I have to do a little catch-up...



...gave the BF a really tacky, yet strangely appealing teddy that makes kissing noises when you squeeze it.

Yo, Esme! On this side of the pond "teddy" has more than one meaning. Your post is really funny when you use the other meaning!!!



I don't have anyone to say Happy Valentines Day to anymore, But then I don't get out much anymore.

Yo, Vic - you have lots of friends here.



Could I get a lil' hug?

Yo, Mark! I'm Italian. I do hugs, but here is a hug you will enjoy more than one from me:



To all the lovely women of SETI, HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

Yo, Scarecrow... SMACK! (Peck on the cheek or a face slap???? You decide!)

You guys are a riot!!! I wish you all love and and a lifetime of happiness.
8391) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest III (Message 1076704)
Posted 13 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, if raccoons have access to your koi pond my guess is zero.
8392) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET'S Give us a Caption XXVIII (Message 1076453)
Posted 12 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Scaramouche scaramouche will you do the fandango?
8393) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1076413)
Posted 12 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What's the deal with Raccoons? When they cant get catfood what do they eat? Our closest equivilent are the ubiquidous possums.

Raccoons are omnivores and will eat most anything. I am only a supplemental food source for the raccoons who frequent my backyard. I try to keep them hungry enough to eat any snails and slugs they might find. I think it is working. I appear to have significantly fewer snails in the backyard than in the front yard.
8394) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games (Message 1076321)
Posted 12 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Has he figured out it was a threat yet? ;)


Tee-hee-hee!!!
8395) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Valentine's Day! (Message 1076320)
Posted 12 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Happy Valentine's Day, Friends!!!
8396) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games (Message 1076317)
Posted 12 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
He seems a good lad. Assuming he has passed the initiation test, I expect you're keeping him? ;-))))

'Til death do us part, my good man!
8397) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1076057)
Posted 11 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Magenta likes to make lemon flavored desserts!
8398) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1076044)
Posted 11 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Blurf likes vanilla coke.
8399) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest III (Message 1076043)
Posted 11 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
3000 K.
8400) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games (Message 1076041)
Posted 11 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I was sort of hoping that Angela would throw her two cents in. She understands my sense of humor and is pretty good with the occasional pun


Carlos, I just saw this. Thank you for the lovely compliment! I've been crazy-busy-slammed at work lately and this has left me with insufficient time for fun. In fact, it is sbout 10:30pm out here in California and I'm sitting in front of my computer at work. I JUST finished everything that absolutely, positively had to be done at work tonight and I decided to reward myself with some Cafe time for a few minutes while I wait for Eric to come down the hill and pick me up. (Yes, the poor man works my crazy hours, plus additional ones of his own!) Anyway, sorry I missed your picture.
8401) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1075822)
Posted 10 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow Vic! A house with such a wonderful added bonus... And unspayed/un-neutered kittens are the "gift that keeps on giving."

Meow!
8402) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - John Clark Wins! (Message 1075746)
Posted 10 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You may take my win, but you'll never take my freeeedooom!!!


You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. ~Robert Frost
8403) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - John Clark Wins! (Message 1075733)
Posted 10 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Stealing Carlos' win. Thank you for making my day!
8404) Message boards : Number crunching : Super Bowl Donation Drive for S@H (Message 1075717)
Posted 10 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dear Angela Korpela,

Thank you for your gift of $100.00 via Visa on 02/09/2011.
Your gift was assigned to the following areas:

SETI@home - $100.00

Your confirmation number is:
71856
8405) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The next moderation swap (Message 1075570)
Posted 9 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you Kenzie! Welcome Soft^Spirit!
8406) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - John Clark Wins! (Message 1075440)
Posted 9 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Win while Angela is not watching.

Hey! I see you now!!!
8407) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - John Clark Wins! (Message 1075431)
Posted 9 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Friends!
8408) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Steelheads V.Cheeseheads, who wins? (Message 1074981)
Posted 7 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Karen, it was a good game. Much as I enjoyed seeing Eric's beloved Packers win, I am sorry that your beloved Steelers had to lose.

And girlfriend, luv the hair!!!!!
8409) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Cook's Corner (Message 1074851)
Posted 6 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Let's see... game snacks.
Hot verdant green spinach balls with golden honey-mustard dip - check!
Green and gold vegetable tray (blanched broccoli, celery, snap peas, gold bell peppers) with homemade ranch dressing - check!
Green hot artichoke and chili pepper dip with golden tortilla chips - check!
Green and gold fruit kebabs - kiwis, grapes, pineapple - check!
Green wasabi peas mixed with golden rice crackers - check!

Dinner
bratwurst with mustard and onions(If Wisconsin were a country, that would be its national dish.)
chips
green salad
golden curried vegetable salad

Dessert
lemon curd cake roll served on green dessert plates

Oh, and beer. Lots and lots of beer. That's golden!!! Gosh I love a theme...


8410) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Steelheads V.Cheeseheads, who wins? (Message 1074843)
Posted 6 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8411) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Steelheads V.Cheeseheads, who wins? (Message 1074687)
Posted 6 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8412) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - John Clark Wins! (Message 1074682)
Posted 6 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The night is young, oh Captain of Team Insomnia. What's this nonsense I hear about bed time?
8413) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bring me your LOL cats and other funny pics (Message 1074497)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
2 Choir Boys Singing "Meow"
8414) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest II (Message 1074467)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If I had to make a second guess, I'd say 1984!
8415) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - When the chips are down, post like crazy!!! (Message 1074466)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Cute cake Karen, but I'm more of a green and gold person... perhaps some sort of mint bar interspersed with Butterfingers?

Congratulations Jeremy!!! You are the winner of TLPTPW! The number was 288.

Eric please lock this thread.
8416) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - When the chips are down, post like crazy!!! (Message 1074456)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I guess no one wants to win, so I will.

Not tonight dear. I've got a headache...
8417) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1074427)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The person before me is going to be soooooo sad after the Super Bowl tomorrow.
8418) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest II (Message 1074424)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Duh people! The answer is OBVIOUSLY 451!!!
8419) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - When the chips are down, post like crazy!!! (Message 1074423)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Time for a title change... (and a Big Hint!)


When the chips are down, post like crazy!!!
8420) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest II (Message 1074287)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, time to declare a winner.

The first Nobel Prize winner I met was Czeslaw Milosz, who won a Nobel Prize for literature. I was in high school when I met him. One of my aunts worked at UC Berkeley and she took me to a talk given by Czeslaw Milosz. After the talk I stood in a long line with the other Nobel Prize groupies to meet him and to get him to sign my copy of Bells In Winter.

The second winner I met was Glenn Seaborg, who won a Nobel Prize in chemistry. Eric and I were with Eric's thesis chair and his wife on a tail-gating picnic before a Cal football game. Dr. Seaborg was friends with Eric's thesis chair and he came over to our tail-gate to visit.

The third winner I met was Charles Townes, who won a Nobel Prize in physics (He pretty much invented the laser) Charlie comes to Seti parties from time to time. He is in his 90's and he still does research! He is amazing.

The final winner I met was Owen Chamberlain, who also won a Nobel Prize in physics. Eric and I were seated at the same table as Dr. Chamberlain when we attended Eric's Cousin Nikka's Bat Mitzvah.

This makes James S. the winner with his guess of three.

Honorable mention goes to everybody's favorite naughty boy, Scarecrow, with his wicked little guess of 69!
8421) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1074276)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

All Hail King Dave!
8422) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1074273)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Check out the lyrics! Clearly our friend Dave was meant to win this evening.
8423) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1074268)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I agree. He laid us all to WASTE. Scarecrow is the winner.
8424) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1074264)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Isn't it about time we declared a winner? I'm ready for a little NAPPY.
8425) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1074262)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Will nobody call this thread to ORDURE?
8426) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1074260)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No, I am not the winner. I don't know if Scarecrow will be the King of Pun-land tonight, but he certainly deserves to be an earl or a DUKIE.
8427) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1074255)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Scarecrow, quit distracting me with BM's... uh... I mean pm's!
8428) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1074253)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, when the CHIPS are down, Scarecrow usually comes up a winner...
8429) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1074251)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh Janice, I fear that I just don't have enough puns to MAKE WATER into wine this evening...
8430) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1074248)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Scarecrow, are you posting again? Shoo! Go away! SKAT!
8431) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1074245)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't know how many more rounds I can PIDDLE around here...
8432) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1074243)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Janice, I'm so glad URINE tonight. I'm playing poorly, but with you here there's still a chance a girl will win!
8433) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1074241)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh woe is me! If you win tonight, I will have to surrender my lands, my crown and all of my wealth... you know all my FECES of eight.
8434) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1074237)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sort of sad seeing your pun kingdom go BOOM BOOM, eh?

Yes, and I was so hoping I'd be going WEE WEE WEE all the way home...
8435) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1074234)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are you guys DUNG beating me yet?
8436) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1074230)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I hate it when I don't have any sucCESS-POOLing my own pun weight.
8437) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1074227)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I should have shown up WASTED like Scarecrow.
8438) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1074223)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm getting so nervous I'm starting to stutter... Jim, DOO DOO you think there's any hope for me?
8439) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1074220)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
So much competition is making me nervous. You see, I am positively ANAL about winning.
8440) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1074214)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm concerned I may be upSEATed this evening...
8441) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1074210)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, this is quite the COMMODIOUS topic.
8442) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1074201)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
you are a bowl flush with laughs tonight!


Why yes, and it is going to get even more silly later. You see, I am PRIVY to some inside information that Karen is planning to stop by.
8443) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1074196)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And where is Karen? I do hope Karen CAN make it this evening...
8444) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1074192)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Jim, your thread is very popular tonight. Soon we'll have every JOHN, Dick and Harry here...
8445) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1074189)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You could have Loo Tinkle with it

Welcome Janice! I expected you to come in quoting W.C. Fields...
8446) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1074185)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
No thank you. And try as you may, I'll be aHEAD of both you and Jim in no time at all...
8447) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1074181)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You look a little FLUSHED, Mrs. K.... you feelin' ok?


Scarecrow! It is nearly morning where you live. Should I just bid you good BIDET?

Heck no... but you'd better pull up a STOOL and get comfortable.


No thanks. I'd rather stroll around and tour the FACILITIES...
8448) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1074178)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You look a little FLUSHED, Mrs. K.... you feelin' ok?


Scarecrow! It is nearly morning where you live. Should I just bid you good BIDET?
8449) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1074174)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela are you ready to be dethroned?

[Beavis voice] heh heh...he said "throne" [/Beavis voice]


Ah yes, here's the one who always goes POTTY (in the British sense of the word...)
8450) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1074171)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela are you ready to be dethroned?


No, I do hate to REIGN on your parade Jim...
8451) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - When the chips are down, post like crazy!!! (Message 1074166)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

One really big cake, right here! Enjoy!
8452) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games (Message 1074102)
Posted 5 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Much more interesting than "Win!" ;)

That is what I used to think, until I figured out that TLPTPW is just a fun place for friends to hang out and chat.
8453) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest II (Message 1074080)
Posted 4 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Any last guesses? I think I should put this contest out of its misery soon.
8454) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1074078)
Posted 4 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The person before me was recently "father of the groom"!!!
8455) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - When the chips are down, post like crazy!!! (Message 1074056)
Posted 4 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8456) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - When the chips are down, post like crazy!!! (Message 1074035)
Posted 4 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Time for a title change...




Let them eat cake...
8457) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1073728)
Posted 3 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
ES is at her piano preparing to sing

Lord help us all!!!



Oh, and the person before me really likes Poets' Day!
8458) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1073725)
Posted 3 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are you sure it's a "he"? "She" may be eating for 5!
8459) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - When the chips are down, post like crazy!!! (Message 1073723)
Posted 3 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Vic!

And we're long over due for a title change on this thread...




Edible flowers?!!! Do you think I'm a *&^%^#@#$%^ goat?!!!???!!!
8460) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET'S Give us a Caption XXVIII (Message 1073722)
Posted 3 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Quick! Take a picture before Blurf misses his toupee!
8461) Message boards : Cafe SETI : For All The Baby-Boomers (Message 1073549)
Posted 2 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What years are Baby Boomer years? Oh no!!! Given my work ethic, I think I am one!!!!! 1963 anyone?
8462) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Attn: Eric (Message 1073548)
Posted 2 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pittsburg sounds nice, but too bad they have such a poor football team...

Go Pack Go!
8463) Message boards : Number crunching : Super Bowl Donation Drive for S@H (Message 1073547)
Posted 2 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm in with the Packers. Go Pack Go!
8464) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1073327)
Posted 2 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Uli is a master gardener. She can get a rock to bear fruit!
8465) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1073321)
Posted 2 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Karen's gonna mail me a shirt!
8466) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Much has been said about work units. (Message 1073320)
Posted 2 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Work unit, work unit crunching bright
In the MoBos of the night...
8467) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Steelheads V.Cheeseheads, who wins? (Message 1073297)
Posted 2 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I was wondering, since Mr. Eric is such a finicky eater, thus amending our original wager, may I request a change regarding my impending win?
I thought turnabout is fair play and I could really use a new Steelers' jersey. (All mine are on the verge of rag bind city).

Have you any objections? :o)


None whatsoever! A jersey exchange it shall be. Eric is looking forward to his new jersey.
8468) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - When the chips are down, post like crazy!!! (Message 1073098)
Posted 1 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Another day... another title change!

I'm making popcorn. You want some?
8469) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest II (Message 1073096)
Posted 1 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, "met" as in actually having talked with him/her.
8470) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Song Dedication Thread (Message 1073037)
Posted 1 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Somehow I had always pictured

Except Angela would be have a raccoon perched on her wrist, not a cockatoo. Otherwise it would be just like that.

How uncanny! It is like you are right here with me...
(Izzy, stop scratching my arm!)
8471) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1073010)
Posted 1 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Izzy loves to dance on our rails. She is our most consistent rail dancer.

And John... puns and raccoons... These are a few of my favorite things!!!

Thanks friends, for all your fun posts here.
8472) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - When the chips are down, post like crazy!!! (Message 1073006)
Posted 1 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8473) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Song Dedication Thread (Message 1073001)
Posted 1 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A typical night out for Eric and Angela.


How charming, Esme. Eric told me to tell you that he is not very good at bowling and I want you to know that I am ever so much like Cher in ever so many ways!!!

And so, Esme dahling, with our tongues firmly implanted in our cheeks, here's a little Meatloaf number we are dedicating to you and the BF!
8474) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Attn: Eric (Message 1072986)
Posted 1 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
no, but i'm having to replace my windshield wipers alot!

Darn bat guano!
8475) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest II (Message 1072973)
Posted 1 Feb 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh my! Lucky me!!! Ok, new contest...

I recently posted in another thread that I am a life long geek chaser. (I like Big Brains and I cannot lie!!!) So... how many Nobel Prize winners have I met in my life, who are they and for what major accomplishment or body of work was each winner awarded a Nobel Prize?

I will award 10 points to anyone who gets the number right. If nobody guesses on the nose, 10 points will be awarded to the person coming closest to the right answer without going over.

I will award 10 points for each Nobel prize winner correctly identified, along with his/her award winning accomplishment(s). To keep people from simply posting links to every Nobel Prize winner he or she can think of, I will subtract 5 points for each incorrect guess a contestant ventures.

The person with the highest cumulative score wins. And yes, I know that the "highest" score may end up being a negative number. <giggle>

Enjoy!
8476) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - When the chips are down, post like crazy!!! (Message 1072687)
Posted 31 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends! Just popped in for a title change...

Who wants ice cream?
8477) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - When the chips are down, post like crazy!!! (Message 1072618)
Posted 31 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That is really cute!
8478) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - When the chips are down, post like crazy!!! (Message 1072615)
Posted 31 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

They say everything tastes better with a little bacon added to it, but I think that may be a stretch...
8479) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games (Message 1072614)
Posted 31 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Beets is short for Beethoven, the user name of a really nice guy named Sydney. Sydney has not crunched in a while. He is missed deeply by me and by others here.
8480) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1072612)
Posted 31 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Carlos frequently suffers from insomnia.
8481) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Much has been said about work units. (Message 1072611)
Posted 31 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Crunch or crunch not... there is no try.
8482) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Discussion of Cafe games (Message 1072606)
Posted 31 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I love that thread! I think people really shine there. I never cease to be amazed at how clever Beets players can be.
8483) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - When the chips are down, post like crazy!!! (Message 1072603)
Posted 31 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did somebody say baking?!!!???!!!!
8484) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - When the chips are down, post like crazy!!! (Message 1072573)
Posted 31 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It seems that I am known for hosting short threads, but this one may well be an exception...
8485) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - When the chips are down, post like crazy!!! (Message 1072568)
Posted 31 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You never know, Esme... you just never know. It only takes one post to win.
8486) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 11 (Message 1072565)
Posted 31 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Italy? The Dolomites?
8487) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - When the chips are down, post like crazy!!! (Message 1072563)
Posted 31 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning while cooking dinner. Congrats Angela. You made the captain proud last night.

Yeah Angela laid waste to everyone last night.


Why thank you Carlos and Vic. Why play if you don't play to win?
8488) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1072562)
Posted 31 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My raccoons get treats, but never belly rubs because I would like to keep all of my fingers...
8489) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET'S Give us a Caption XXVIII (Message 1072561)
Posted 31 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Blurf gets his own mod-mobile???!!! Sweet.
8490) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1072546)
Posted 31 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Uli-belle likes chocolate!!!
8491) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1072543)
Posted 31 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello to all of my critter-loving friends!!!

Surprise! Surprise! Rufus showed up quite early this evening, along with Izzy. I would not be surprised if Artemus shows up later tonight and Izzy comes back with him for a second meal. Anyway, I took these two pictures before sunset today.




I went outside to take this one. Izzy is in front and Rufus is in back.




I took this one of Izzy from inside the house.
8492) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1072532)
Posted 31 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bill is a gentleman and a scholar.
8493) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - When the chips are down, post like crazy!!! (Message 1072519)
Posted 31 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8494) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - When the chips are down, post like crazy!!! (Message 1072511)
Posted 31 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, I knew what you meant. I was just teasing you a little bit, my friend.
8495) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - When the chips are down, post like crazy!!! (Message 1072477)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Angela is one tough cookie maker...

Hey! I don't bake tough cookies!!!
8496) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1072429)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gary has a competitive streak!
8497) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1072372)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Balveda has an excellent sense of humor and she wins the Caption Contest often, when she is around to play a round.
8498) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Pappa!!! (Message 1072366)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
A little birdie told me that today is Pappa's birthday...

Happy Birthday Al!!!
With love from Angela & Eric
8499) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Say Something About The Person Before You (Message 1072340)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have played this game on another Forum and found it to be quite fun.

To post on this thread you have to say something, neutral or nice, about the person who posted before you.

If you want to post, but you simply don't know anything about the person who posted just before you, I guess you'll just have to send that person a pm and make yourself a new friend!!!
8500) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - When the chips are down, post like crazy!!! (Message 1072336)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

Thank you Bernie! I just love being Thread Mistress!!!

Well, I usually play the day date & time variation, but that last contest convinced me that it is ok for the Thread Minder not to be present at the moment of victory. People still have fun posting anyway... at least I know I did. So this time I have picked a random number.

Post away, winners!
8501) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072253)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sneaking back from doing laundry for a final victory!!!

Take that, Gary!!!
8502) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072247)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Goodnight Vic, sleep well.
8503) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072244)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Good night Angela.

Goodnight probable Thread Master...
8504) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072243)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have no gray hair.

You don't know what you're missing!!!
8505) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072240)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My husband is not a bug!
8506) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072237)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, this time I'm really going. Now don't say anything that will make me come back!
8507) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072233)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Age and treachery beat youth and skill.

Dude, we've met... I've got more gray hair than you do!!!
8508) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072230)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You aren't even in the game!



Clever... diabolically clever!!!
8509) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072225)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gary, what will it cost me to get you to step down?
8510) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072223)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Way to goad me back into the game, dude!
8511) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072218)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Well, I'm going to assume that there is already a winner and that it is me.

Goodnight gentlemen.
8512) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072211)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Look Carlos!!! Land to develop! Quick!!! Grab your hat, coat and checkbook and head out the door before you miss it!
8513) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072207)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Look Gary... Wildlife to photograph!!! Quick, grab your hat, coat and camera and head out the door before you miss it!!!
8514) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072204)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eating pasta.

I'm embarrassed to say that I made a rather "mid-westernish" casserole this evening...
8515) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072199)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Then watch out for the Spaniard. We have been known to tussle with Italian women.

Oh my! Where is my husband to defend my honor?
8516) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072195)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Italian women have a reputation for being rather competitive, and I am 100% Italian...
8517) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072192)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
giggle
8518) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072190)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Look at what you have done with your force. Now you got Martians after you.

Eek! I hear they want women!



Is there a problem with that?


Oh no! Some of my best friends are Martians!
8519) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072186)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gentlemen the winner, most surely, has already been decided. Now toddle off to bed!
8520) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072183)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Look at what you have done with your force. Now you got Martians after you.

Eek! I hear they want women!
8521) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072178)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I don't need to see it. I'll just use the force. This is not the win you are looking for.
8522) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072176)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You are getting Grumpy, Dopey, and Doc. (I assume we're rehashing the White-Charming divorce.)
8523) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072174)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm Co-captain of Team Insomnia. Just ask Carlos.
8524) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072172)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Probably. And you should be too. Say goodnight Gary.
8525) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072170)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yet.
8526) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072168)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Winning while seeing about it.
8527) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072166)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Can't lose!
8528) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072164)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Don't think! It hurts the team!
8529) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072161)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Again, don't think so Gary!
8530) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 5 (Message 1072157)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
bicycle
8531) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072156)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Peanut butter and pineapple???
8532) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072153)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Don't think so!
8533) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072150)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, get off of my win!!!
8534) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Seti's own WORD LINK! 5 (Message 1072147)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Bipedal
8535) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072142)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is your daughter a fairly grounded teenager?

I believe so.


You know John, the odds are overwhelmingly in her favor that she will be just fine. I'm guessing she is smart and disciplined, like her daddy.

I know that there is nothing I can say that will help you and your wife sleep at night, but seriously, I'd put money on your daughter graduating from college, picking up a graduate degree or two, getting a great job, finding a wonderful husband and even, some day, bringing the joyful noise of several grandchildren into your home for regular visits!
8536) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1072141)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It sounds like Artemus and Izzy have claimed your back yard as their territory.

To do that they would have to have their dens under our deck, and I have seen no evidence of that. I've watched both come in over our back fence too many nights to think that they have dens in our yard. It could simply be that their territories are so close by that it is simply no bother for them to drop by great great great great great great great great great great grandma's for dinner most nights.
8537) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072139)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Exactly!
8538) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1072129)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That's probably cause of Your Magnetic Personality Angela.

Aw! Why thank you, Vic!
8539) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072123)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is your daughter a fairly grounded teenager?
8540) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1072121)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
My backyard has had a major makeover and there was not a single raccoon hiding out there.

Monday, Eric would like to send you Artemus and Izzy. These two are hanging around here much longer than any raccoons from any litter we've ever had before. Usually by the end of January we are in a raccoon "dry spell" because all our "guests" have found their own territories. Spirit is gone. Rufus is mostly gone. He pops by only about once a week these days. Interloper Mama is pretty much gone, although we did see her once two or three weeks ago. We still see Artemus and Izzy at least 5 out of 7 nights a week, which does not exactly thrill Eric.
8541) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072118)
Posted 30 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh look! I'm winning.

And John, it must be completely terrifying for a parent to let a child learn how to drive!
8542) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1072011)
Posted 29 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sounds like a great idea, Gary!
8543) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest II (Message 1072009)
Posted 29 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
An even 10?
8544) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Much has been said about work units. (Message 1071993)
Posted 29 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Is this a work unit which I see before me, The header toward my hand? Come, let me crunch thee.
8545) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Much has been said about work units. (Message 1071963)
Posted 29 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If I had a work unit, I'd crunch it in the morning,
I'd crunch it in the evening, all over this land...
8546) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1071879)
Posted 29 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

I know, I know... no fair hitting below the BELT!!!
8547) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1071878)
Posted 29 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, I accept your win. By the way dear, I have quite the Honey-Do List for you tomorrow:

1. Take out the THRASH
2. Bait the garden for snails and SLUGs
3. Pick some PUMMELos

etc. etc. etc.
8548) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1071876)
Posted 29 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Much as I love getting STONED with you dear, you must first declare me the winner. So, did I BAT one thousand?
8549) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1071873)
Posted 29 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh SPAR me the llama-drama! I dare you to BOP on down here and let me kiss your FAT LIP.
8550) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1071871)
Posted 29 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have no trouble BEATing you or anybody else. Remember, dear, you married a KNOCK OUT!
8551) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1071869)
Posted 29 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Guess I'd better go upstairs now and LICK your WOUNDs...
8552) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1071867)
Posted 29 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric, sweetie, let us review... I say "I am the Pun Queen" and you say "Yes MAIM!"
8553) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1071865)
Posted 29 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Darling, I am the Pun Queen. You may think you can win, but if you POP downstairs for a minute I will disABUSE you of that notion...
8554) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1071863)
Posted 29 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did you come up with that one off the CUFF?
8555) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1071861)
Posted 29 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey! I insist that you STRIKE that from the record!
8556) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1071859)
Posted 29 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Are you talking SMACK dear?
8557) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Much has been said about work units. (Message 1071853)
Posted 29 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Two work units diverged in a splitter, and I—
I took the one less crunched,
And that has made all the difference.
8558) Message boards : Cafe SETI : UOTD SciManStev (Message 1071852)
Posted 29 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Steve!
8559) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1071851)
Posted 29 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you Captain, Admiral Angela will take the helm now.
8560) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The next moderation swap (Message 1071829)
Posted 29 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Dirk, thank you! Carola, welcome!
8561) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1071828)
Posted 29 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And You really need to have one of us spank you bad:)

HIT will never happen...
8562) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Much has been said about work units. (Message 1071827)
Posted 29 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
If work units be the food of love, crunch on...
8563) Message boards : Politics : Non-Specific Discussion on Board Moderation (Message 1071427)
Posted 28 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Friends,

Let me start off by saying that typically, I studiously avoid posting in Politics. It never ends well for me when I post here. I'm sure this time will be no exception. Oh well... Time to throw caution to the wind!

So you're deciding on an entirely subjective manner who gets rotated out and when? Even out of respect to the current mods there should be an organized plan based on time served or something as to who gets rotated out and when.

Blurf, surely you do not suffer from the delusion that life is, or even should be, "fair"... (whatever "fair" means)???!!!

While there is a general plan, it is in the best interest of us all that it not be an "organized" or strictly adhered to plan. Each moderator brings special gifts, talents, skills and abilities. Our Forum Administrator has been charged with putting together insightful and balanced moderating teams. At times some moderators are willing to give generously of their time and talents for longer than a one year period, and those gifts of time and talents are gratefully accepted!!!


Why is she receiving special treatment? Is it because she's personal friends with Eric and Angela? If she is due to be rotated out, please say when it will occur so we can know special treatment is not occuring.


Uli brings special gifts and abilities to the moderating team. She is highly dedicated to this project and we are lucky to have her on the current Moderating Team. Uli will step down when she is tired of moderating or when Fred feels he wishes to balance his team differently. If Fred asks for my advice, I generally give it. The same is true, I believe, of Eric. But only Fred knows how he wants to balance a team and Fred gets the final say regarding who-what-where-when-why and how. Uli is not getting "special treatment". She is on our current Moderating Team because the Forum Administrator wants her there and because Uli is so graciously willing to serve.

In my opinion Fred has done an excellent job of entering and exiting moderators, balancing experience with fresh insight and keeping these Forums a fun place to chat. And while I do not typically speak for my husband, I feel compelled to let you all know that Eric has never been happier with a Forum Administrator. So three Cheers for Fred!!! Long may he/she reign!!!

Fondly,
Angela Korpela
8564) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest II (Message 1071414)
Posted 28 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll take lucky number 7.
8565) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1071374)
Posted 28 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Punsters! I never should have won last week. I just remembered that I will be out of town at a conference all day tomorrow and I do not anticipate being home until late. Will somebody else please see that a topic gets chosen and that a Pun War gets rolling on Friday night? I am sorry to miss tomorrow's Pun War, but I look forward to beating you all in the future. Thanks!
8566) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1071050)
Posted 27 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Sorry about that short win for you, Mike.
8567) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Much has been said about work units. (Message 1071047)
Posted 27 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
"O Work Unit, Work Unit! wherefore art thou Work Unit?"
8568) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Much has been said about work units. (Message 1071041)
Posted 27 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a work unit.
8569) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Much has been said about work units. (Message 1070981)
Posted 27 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now witness the firepower of this fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL work unit!
8570) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Steelheads V.Cheeseheads, who wins? (Message 1070703)
Posted 26 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I have an idea for Eric and Angela and KLC53.

If the Packers win, klc buys a Packers jersey and sends it to Eric and a bottle of Heinz Ketchup for you Ang?

I think Heinz also makes Bar-B-Q sauce too-will Eric chow that?


Eric won't touch BBQ sauce, but the jersey idea is a great one - easy to order online and ship! Thanks Blurf! What do you think, Karen?
8571) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1070702)
Posted 26 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Raccoon win!
8572) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest II (Message 1070701)
Posted 26 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll guess an even dozen.
8573) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1070525)
Posted 25 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Friends...

Magenta - great dress! Karen - I agree! John - nice pictures!
8574) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1070203)
Posted 24 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I want to sleep, but I'm off to work...
8575) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Steelheads V.Cheeseheads, who wins? (Message 1070202)
Posted 24 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The litany of things Eric won't eat is lengthy. What are our other options?
8576) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Song Dedication Thread (Message 1070134)
Posted 24 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
LOL dear!

And here is one for you, Pookers.
8577) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET's Give us a Caption XXVII (Message 1070116)
Posted 24 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
After dining on water fowl from the family pond, Fluffy is now a Duck Filled Fatty Puss.
8578) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Steelheads V.Cheeseheads, who wins? (Message 1070114)
Posted 24 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ketchup is just fine! Eric won't touch it though. More for me!
8579) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Star Trek........some favorite moments....... (Message 1070055)
Posted 24 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Star Trekkin Across the Universe
8580) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Steelheads V.Cheeseheads, who wins? (Message 1070051)
Posted 24 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Angela, what are you gonna do with a ton of scrap iron? :-)


LOL!!!
8581) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - A New Start (Message 1070047)
Posted 24 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Bernie!!! Way to be a winner!!!
8582) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Steelheads V.Cheeseheads, who wins? (Message 1070046)
Posted 24 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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* If the Packers meet the Steelers in two weeks,
I will no longer be able to cheer on the Packers.
I hope you'll understand.


Karen, not only do I understand... I think we should make it "interesting."

If (heaven forfend) the Steelers beat the Packers in the Superbowl, I'll order a box of fine Wisconsin cheeses and have them shipped to you.

If (as God and nature intended) the Packers beat the Steelers in the Superbowl, you ship us something that is quintessentially Pennsylvania-ish.

What do you say, girlfriend?
8583) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - final run (Message 1069977)
Posted 23 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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7 - zip. Looks like I'm not the only one winning today.
8584) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest II (Message 1069957)
Posted 23 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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888
8585) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - final run (Message 1069956)
Posted 23 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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A short win for you, my friend.
8586) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Steelheads V.Cheeseheads, who wins? (Message 1069950)
Posted 23 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Why doesn't Iowa have a professional football team?

... because then Minnesota would want one!!!


(Yuk, yuk, yuk, yuk...)


Go Packers!!!
8587) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - final run (Message 1069876)
Posted 23 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Yes, Go Pack Go! Eric is very excited!!!
8588) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - final run (Message 1069871)
Posted 23 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Sunny California Day Win!!!
8589) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - final run (Message 1069799)
Posted 23 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I would hope she doesn't resemble a 707. I mean, what a comment on waist line. :)

Just saw this. Thank you, John, for coming to a lady's defense!!! (LOL!)
8590) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - final run (Message 1069648)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Alright already! Declare me the winner and be done with it!
8591) Message boards : Cafe SETI : duct tape and vicious cats (Message 1069596)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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What I noticed is that she appears to be drinking a Zombie Cocktail!!!
8592) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - final run (Message 1069594)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Hasn't this thing been won yet?!!!
8593) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET's Give us a Caption XXVII (Message 1069508)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Wow!!! The Hokey-Pokey really IS what it's all about!!!
8594) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069488)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Chris, you always manage to come in here Saturday morning and clean up everything we missed! If we lived in the same timezone you would probably wipe the floor with me every Friday night.

You, sir, are a Master Punster!
8595) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - final run (Message 1069394)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Why yes, thank you for noticing! I am winning!!!
8596) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069391)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I can haz one fone call?
8597) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069389)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I must confess, I have the west-coast advantage in these games. By the time a good pun war gets going it is (as "FELONIOUS" Monk might put it) Round About Midnight in the midwest, and even later on the east coast.

Sleep well, Jim and Scarecrow.
8598) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069388)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Jim and Scarecrow, you guys rock!

Jailhouse Rock!
8599) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069385)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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So Angela you pick the next topic. Any hints so we can study up?

Jim, I like the way you just let a topic emerge. I will try it that way next week.
8600) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069384)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I have PROBABLE CAUSE to declare Angela the winner.

Thank you. It seems that no good deed goes unPUNished.
8601) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069381)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Well, if you think I'm winning ALIBI(de) by your decision.
8602) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069379)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Well you, my friend, are quite the PARTNER IN CRIME!
8603) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069376)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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LOL! Surrender and I'll have a good TREASON to stop...
8604) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069373)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Oh don't give up now! You've put on a CAPITAL OFFENSE...
8605) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069370)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Thank you Jim. One down, one to go!

Scarecrow, I intend to win tonight by hook or by CROOK!
8606) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069368)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Sorry Scarecrow, but men are simply not as good at puns as women are. It is a simple MALEFACTOR.
8607) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069364)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Oh please! In Pun Wars, one woman can out-pun two men any day. You see, we love a good MANHUNT...
8608) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069362)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Oh why won't you two give up? You are both so SUBORN!
8609) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069360)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Well, I hope you will manage to stay up long enough to see my obnoxious victory dance. It is quite a CAPER...
8610) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069356)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Wow! Scarecrow actually thinks he can win tonight. Well LAW-de-da!!!
8611) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069352)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Honestly Jim! You should OUTLAW puns that bad...
8612) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069350)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Hi Scarecrow! Hi Jim! Like my CRIME WAVE?
8613) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069349)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Fortunately when I fell I didn't INFRACTION anything...
8614) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069347)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Oh my, I just FELON my face laughing!
8615) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069345)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Ok, time to get comfortable. I'm taking off my shoes and ACCESSORIES...
8616) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069342)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Oh honestly Jim, for that one you should be COMMITTED!
8617) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069339)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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You guys both have a lot of GAOL making puns like these!
8618) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069334)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I stole some soap once... made a clean get-a-way!
8619) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069331)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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If you steal a calendar, do you get twelve months?
8620) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069329)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Can you plead to drink the 5TH.

CRIM(E)INY Jim! I don't know.
8621) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069325)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Yeah Jim, try as you may, you will not win this evening. I intend to LOCK DOWN this topic and be the last punster standing. When I'm done, there will be no choice for you but to LOCK UP your thread and go home.
8622) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069322)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Let me REMAND you sir - the wife is always right!
8623) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069318)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Nice one buddy! I raise my glass to you... CLINK!
8624) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069315)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Even if we CONFINE ourselves to this topic, we could still be here all night...
8625) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069312)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Well post away and don't HOLD back!
8626) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069310)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Scarecrow, what are you doing here on a Friday night? Aren't you usually BEHIND BARS?
8627) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069304)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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So you say. Well, you do seem to be a man of your CONVICTions
8628) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069301)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Yes, winter TIME is clearly here...
8629) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069298)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Aw Jim, give me a BREAK!
8630) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069296)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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That cowboy Scarecrow is late because he was busy sorting cattle. In Nebraska it is important to know HOOSGOW is whose.
8631) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069292)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Yes, post away and don't be POKEY about it!
8632) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069290)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Oh I'm in buddy! I'm so excited about this topic that I'm jumping up and down. Yes I simply cannot BASTILLE!
8633) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069288)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Regarding jail, I don't think there are as many pros as there are CONS.
8634) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - final run (Message 1069285)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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675
8635) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069284)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Maybe we can GANG up on you tonight.

I can SLAMMER you on any topic.
8636) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069280)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Hey Jim and Mark, I don't know WEATHER you're playing or not. Am I the only one CHAINED to the computer tonight?
8637) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069278)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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SNOW way!!! That is just too funny Jim.
8638) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1069274)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I'm up! I really DIG pun-wars.
8639) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest II (Message 1069272)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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14
8640) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - final run (Message 1069269)
Posted 22 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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674
8641) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Dan's Poetry Corner II (Message 1069101)
Posted 21 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Klaatu barada nikto, Dan. And Happy New Year!
8642) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - final run (Message 1069077)
Posted 21 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Now?
8643) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET's Give us a Caption XXVII (Message 1069040)
Posted 21 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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How marshmallow fluff is made...
8644) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - final run (Message 1068449)
Posted 20 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Happy Birthday Kittyman!


8645) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest II (Message 1068148)
Posted 19 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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14
8646) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - final run (Message 1068136)
Posted 19 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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You do realize that all electronics works on magic smoke? If you let the magic smoke out, the electronics suddenly stops working.

Thank you!!! This explains so much!!!
8647) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET's Give us a Caption XXVII (Message 1068135)
Posted 19 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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It's lonely out on the range...
8648) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1067904)
Posted 18 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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There comes a point, when deer cross a certain line, that they need to be taken down.


Oh my!!! Never mind the deer. Those socks should NEVER be paired with those shoes!!!!!!!!!
8649) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest II (Message 1067739)
Posted 17 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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36
8650) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - final run (Message 1067621)
Posted 17 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Swoosh! A 3 am win for Team Insomnia!!!!
8651) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest II (Message 1067620)
Posted 17 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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376
8652) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1067521)
Posted 17 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Score one for Bambi.

Much as I like deer, I have spent enough time in Northern Wisconsin to understand how vital deer hunting can be to a rural community. Deer are plentiful in that area and they are an important part of the community diet. I may love my critters, but I'll confess to eating meat and wearing leather shoes. It's "complicated".
8653) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest II (Message 1067353)
Posted 16 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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196
8654) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1067352)
Posted 16 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I love "off topic"!!! Clearly our conversations were meant to go wherever they end up.
8655) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - final run (Message 1067319)
Posted 16 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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BTW: I dont like dentists.


Hey guys, my father was a dentist!!!

And dental hygiene is very important for.... WINNERS!!!!
8656) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest II (Message 1067252)
Posted 16 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I'll take an even 100.
8657) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Steelheads V.Cheeseheads, who wins? (Message 1067249)
Posted 16 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Eric is down with a touch of Superbowl Fever!
8658) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1067248)
Posted 16 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I am a fan of deer. Thanks for posting!
8659) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1067163)
Posted 16 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Mr. Crow, is that a recent picture of you?
8660) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1067131)
Posted 15 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Nice, John! Thank you for posting these pictures.
8661) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1066995)
Posted 15 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Yes Janice, I've FETA up with coffee drinkers... I vastly prefer tea.
8662) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1066993)
Posted 15 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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I could pun on this topic 'til I'm BLEU in the face, but I've got to go EDAM my breakfast now.
8663) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 6 (Message 1066990)
Posted 15 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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You boys don't know JACK about cheese puns...
8664) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - final run (Message 1066989)
Posted 15 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Good morning friends! Did I win?
8665) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest II (Message 1066583)
Posted 14 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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89?
8666) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - final run (Message 1066484)
Posted 14 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Winning while still at %$^&$@#$%^&&^% work at 8:45 pm! The way I see it, only about 9 more hours of paperwork until I'm caught up for the week...
8667) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET's Give us a Caption XXVII (Message 1065822)
Posted 12 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Looks like we've got enough captions to call it. You folks are very, very funny! It was a hard decision.

Third place goes to the perpetually clever Steven Meyer with "Would you like some CATsup on that?"

Coming in second again (...always a bridesmaid, never a bride...) is Scarecrow with "Introducing the new P.E.T.A. Platter!"

And finally, in first place is our very own super silly soft^spirit with the caption "I iz cheezburgerz"

Congratulations Janice, you have done it again!!!

PM to the winner on the way...
8668) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest II (Message 1065470)
Posted 11 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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13
8669) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET's Give us a Caption XXVII (Message 1065469)
Posted 11 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Thank you for the win.

Ok friends, caption this...

8670) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET's Give us a Caption XXVII (Message 1065165)
Posted 10 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Unit one to base commander, I have located grandma and she is DEFINITELY off her medications. Please advise how best to proceed...
8671) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest (Message 1065157)
Posted 10 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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My guess is that there is one in each bedroom, including your bedroom Esme. The final gaming system is in the living room.

8672) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Steelheads V.Cheeseheads, who wins? (Message 1065100)
Posted 9 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Go Pack Go!
8673) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year - From Our Home To Yours (Message 1065068)
Posted 9 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Oddly enough I had a dream last night that we were deciding which pub would be best to meet up with you and Eric for a drink. I wonder what it means?

I certainly hope that it means we will meet in person some day soon, my friend!
8674) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year - From Our Home To Yours (Message 1064865)
Posted 9 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
As has been my habit for the last few years, in celebration of the new year I would like to share with you a few photos taken over the past year, along with a little advice from the various members of the Korpela Family.


Stinky Lou says, "Don't forget to celebrate life's little milestones."




Uncle Eric says, "For stimulating conversation and the most delightful of all dinner companions,
make a point of sitting at the Kids' Table!"





Uncle Eric also says, "Give a kid a fish and he will boycott dinner.
Teach a kid to fish and you'll be filleting bony little blue gills for the rest of the afternoon!"





"Talk less, smooch more!!!"




Angela says, "Halloween - it's not a day on the calendar, it's a state of mind..."




Eva and Zsa Zsa advise that you "Eat, play, love."




Your Crazy Raccoon Lady says, "In the face of injustice, consider civil disobedience!

Photo Credit - Uli!!!



Izzy says, "If somebody closes a door on all of your hopes and dreams, check out the windows!
You never know..."





Zsa-Zsa says, "Don't let a little thing like gravity hold you down."




And finally, in case of emergency, make sure that you have enough cats!!!




Happy New Year, friends, from our home to yours!
8675) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest (Message 1064779)
Posted 8 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What it must be like at Ms. Esme's house when everybody's gaming systems are turned off...
8676) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest (Message 1064773)
Posted 8 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
4 gaming thingies and 11 copies of Halo.

My deepest, most heartfelt sympathies go out to you, Esme. I'm sure it is a well known scientific fact that the average male of our species exhibits arrested cognitive development around age 8 years.
8677) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1064765)
Posted 8 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8678) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1064569)
Posted 8 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Alas, alack, again I've missed
Our Poet's Day... and I am pissed!
I was away all day this time
I wasn't here with John to rhyme.
I'm sorry friend, next week, I say,
I'll hang around the thread and play.



8679) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET's Give us a Caption XXVII (Message 1064564)
Posted 8 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Their offspring would be a feather boa.
8680) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET's Give us a Caption XXVII (Message 1064171)
Posted 7 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wow! Great entries in terms of both quality and quantity.

Third place goes to DJStarfox with his disconcerting caption - "McDonalds: Food so cheap that you have to kill it first."

Second place goes to Scarecrow with his creepy cavalier entry - "Would you like a glass of ants with that?"

But first place belongs to Balveda who quips "Ok saucy let's cut a rug!"

Sending a pm to Balveda now.

(And welcome home Balveda. You have been missed! It is great to see you back in the cafe!)
8681) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest (Message 1063897)
Posted 6 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
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Zero
8682) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Please do not click this link..... (Message 1063893)
Posted 6 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I clicked, Dune.

Am I a "bad girl" now?
8683) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW - final run (Message 1063892)
Posted 6 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Congratulations Mike!

Oooooohhhh lookie!!! I beat Carlos again!
8684) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET's Give us a Caption XXVII (Message 1063891)
Posted 6 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Thank you for the win!

Here is your next picture.

8685) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest (Message 1063605)
Posted 5 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
1400
8686) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET's Give us a Caption XXVII (Message 1063359)
Posted 4 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
We iz plaiing wii.
8687) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Who's the next Winner? (Message 1063357)
Posted 4 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I live to beat Carlos!
8688) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Message 1062781)
Posted 2 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Tequila Christmas Cake


LOL!!!!! That was hysterical!!! Loved it!
8689) Message boards : Politics : Religious Thread [14] (Message 1062450)
Posted 1 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hello Religious Friends and Happy New Year to you all!

I never post here, but I lurk from time to time and I appreciate how deeply you have made me think through your posts and through private conversations that I enjoyed with some of you last year.

I do not think I am the only silent lurker on your religion thread. I just wanted to gift you with this Silent Monks Singing The Hallelujah Chorus. I hope that it starts you off giggling in the new calendar year.

Peace on Earth, friends.
8690) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Message 1062408)
Posted 1 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
*cheers, drains her glass, and hurls it into the fireplace*


Nooooo!!! Not the vintage tiki mug circa 1933! Did it break?
8691) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Song Dedication Thread (Message 1062252)
Posted 1 Jan 2011 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Margaret Mead is credited with saying that every woman needs three husbands: one for youthful sex, one for security as she raises her children and one for the joyful companionship of old age.

Happy New Year to Eric. You are my hat-trick.
8692) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest (Message 1062165)
Posted 31 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm going to guess that by the time Dune gets home, he will be in no condition to remember! My guess, therefore, is "unknown/unable to determine".
8693) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Who's the next Winner? (Message 1062090)
Posted 31 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mr. Finkleberry, if you are planning on having your lovely evening out with Mrs. Finkleberry end with a midnight smooch, I strongly recommend that you do not refer to her as "the old girl"... EVER!!!!!!!!!
8694) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Who's the next Winner? (Message 1061840)
Posted 31 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I can't sleep, so I may as well win.
8695) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Who's the next Winner? (Message 1061820)
Posted 31 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Seems like it, doesn't it...
8696) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy New Year To All!!! (Message 1061806)
Posted 31 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:

8697) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Song Dedication Thread (Message 1061762)
Posted 31 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Pre-Rose Bowl Fever!!! To Eric and all the other Badger Crunchers out there...

On Wisconsin!
8698) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Post your age, if you dare. (Message 1061619)
Posted 30 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I love Old Spice! My dad used to wear it. Eric does not wear aftershave. Frankly it is a good month when I can even get him to shave!!! (It's all about picking your battles, people...)
8699) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest (Message 1060661)
Posted 28 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
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8700) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Message 1060089)
Posted 27 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh no! Please don't mention howling!!! When Ms. Alba serenades Eric outside of our bedroom window she sounds just like a cat in heat. It's bad enough she can't act... she really should NEVER EVER sing!
8701) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Message 1060068)
Posted 27 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
To be honest, I'm not sure that Ms. Alba actually wears ANY undergarments under her skin-tight leather pants! I really do wish she would stop showing up on our doorstep wearing those darn leather pants and offering to give Eric a "birthday surprise". I keep telling her that his birthday is not until July. She seems to think his birthday should be celebrated EVERY month!!!
8702) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Message 1060009)
Posted 26 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The problem with raffling off the panties Ms. Alba sends to Eric is that they cannot possibly be worth much... I mean there there is hardly any material in them at all! I mean honestly, why even bother?!!!
8703) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Message 1059952)
Posted 26 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh, the pile of restraining orders is not nearly as high as the pile of underpants she has sent him!
8704) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Message 1059894)
Posted 26 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I could wallpaper a small bathroom with the restraining orders Eric has filed. She just ignores them. Poor Eric!
8705) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Message 1059885)
Posted 26 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I pick up the phone and there is silence. I just KNOW that it is Ms. Alba again hoping that Eric will answer the phone instead of me. He tells her again and again that he is not interested, but she simply will not take "no" for an answer! That woman drives us to distraction!!!
8706) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1059881)
Posted 26 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Welcome, Eagle, to the Critter Cafe. I am delighted you have joined us. You will find many friends and kindred spirits on this thread.
8707) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest (Message 1059880)
Posted 26 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
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8708) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Message 1059722)
Posted 26 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
That's because the little trollop has been busy all day stalking my husband!!! Don't even get me started on Jessica Alba!!!
8709) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Merry Christmas Seti Friends :-) (Message 1059721)
Posted 26 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Merry Christmas!
8710) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET's give us a Caption XXVI (Message 1059513)
Posted 25 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
On line, I'm hot!
8711) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1059271)
Posted 24 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hi Terri! I'm so delighted that you decided to join us here. Welcome to the Critter Cafe!!!
8712) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET's give us a Caption XXVI (Message 1059002)
Posted 23 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
The only thing that gets me through the holiday season is knowing that all those brats are going straight to hell!
8713) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest (Message 1058998)
Posted 23 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
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8714) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest (Message 1058620)
Posted 22 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This is one of those trick questions that involves the splitting of Virginia, isn't it, Uli-belle?
8715) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Post your age, if you dare. (Message 1058618)
Posted 22 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
About 960 in raccoon years.
8716) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1058319)
Posted 21 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I can haz snow cone?
8717) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest (Message 1057993)
Posted 20 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
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8718) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Merry Christmas to all who celebrate the season (Message 1057658)
Posted 19 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, that is a very nice family photo!
8719) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Merry Christmas to all who celebrate the season (Message 1057618)
Posted 18 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Peace on Earth.

Love to all,
Angela & Eric
8720) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Musical links OK in the Cafe???? (Message 1057402)
Posted 18 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, I'm probably going to get drummed out of my own Critter Cafe for admitting to this, but Poisoning Pigeons In The Park has always been one of my favorite songs by Tom Lehrer.
8721) Questions and Answers : Web site : Donations to SETI (Message 1057398)
Posted 18 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
HEY! I thought you were banned!


I was framed by the CRL! So they let me off with a warning.


And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids!
8722) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest (Message 1056564)
Posted 16 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I am going for 64.
8723) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Vic's Journal #01: Replacement PC/DVR is coming along slowly (Message 1056559)
Posted 16 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic, you have been searching for a home for a year now, without luck. It is an awfully big gamble to assume that you will find one, for sure, within the next 90 days. Maybe it is just a personality difference with you having more tolerance for risk than I do, but personally I could not do what you are about to do.
8724) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Vic's Journal #01: Replacement PC/DVR is coming along slowly (Message 1056548)
Posted 16 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm with Jeremy on this one! Don't sign anything until you are 110% sure you've got another place secured.
8725) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Holiday Edition (Message 1056531)
Posted 16 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
And of all the people here I thought you would come up with some interesting alteratives.

Sorry to disappoint, Oh Captain! My Captain!
8726) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Vic's Journal #01: Replacement PC/DVR is coming along slowly (Message 1056528)
Posted 16 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yer forgiven. Sorry the sale is final or they won't do the sale I was told, My mobile home is considered Personal Property in California and so escrow will not happen, I have forms to do I'm told and then I'll get the check, In any case I face a potential obstacle if I were to need to rent again beyond the 90 Days, income or the lack of enough income. Like I said the Park wants this place and the offer will not go higher, I tried selling It for 1 year and I got nothing.


Vic, I'm sorry to keep pestering you with questions. I just don't understand financial stuff too well. I read your post above. Does it mean that you can still get out of this deal that involves giving up your current home?

Being without anyplace to live and having to give Grace to your sister-in-law was never part of your original plan, nor was slowly losing the $6500 from your trailer sale in rent-back payments to your trailer park managers.
8727) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Holiday Edition (Message 1056523)
Posted 16 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Did I just see you use the W word?

Yes, I am feeling more compliant this evening...
8728) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Holiday Edition (Message 1056508)
Posted 16 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Nancy wins!
8729) Message boards : Cafe SETI : **WAVE** (Message 1056505)
Posted 16 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
8730) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Vic's Journal #01: Replacement PC/DVR is coming along slowly (Message 1056503)
Posted 16 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Vic forgive me, but I am confused! I thought you were selling your mobile home with one of those "contingency thingies" - you know, no sale is final unless you get into the place you're going for? Maybe I missed something. Did you sell your home already? Has it already gone through escrow?
8731) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Holiday Edition (Message 1056212)
Posted 15 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'll watch the moon wax and WANE. I'll chat with WYNE, WAYNE and JUAN. I'll WHINE and look weak and WAN. I'll WEAN myself off of WINE. I'll look at ONE more hay WAIN, but WHEN it comes to saying that particular requested word well... I guess I'm just feeling a bit contrary tonight!
8732) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Song Dedication Thread (Message 1056206)
Posted 15 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh no Uli! Now that you have posted that picture I feel obligated to dedicate a song to "7 of 9" - or as Eric calls her "37 of D"... Brick House
8733) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Song Dedication Thread (Message 1056199)
Posted 15 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
To Eric with Love!
8734) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPW Holiday Edition (Message 1056197)
Posted 15 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I simply refuse to use the word "win" in any of my posts here. Whoops!
8735) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1056171)
Posted 15 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la...
8736) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest (Message 1055862)
Posted 14 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I guess 23.
8737) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest (Message 1055284)
Posted 12 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
First of all, I am now entirely certain that the shoe industry is well on its way to economic recovery thanks to Ms. Kenzie, the walking (and running) economic stimulus package for that industry!!!

Now then...

Questions:

1. How many of the 7 deadly species live in the New Forest? - 4

2. How many species of mushroom and fungus have I photographed in the last 10 years? - 486
8738) Message boards : Cafe SETI : S@H Song Dedication Thread (Message 1055195)
Posted 11 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
This is a thread for all of us to dedicate songs to loved ones.

I would like to start by dedicating Blue Christmas to my brother John, who passed away this summer. John used to enjoy impersonating Elvis at work and at family parties. I miss John every day.

Elvis Presley - Blue Christmas

8739) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1054913)
Posted 11 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh man... 12:01 here and it looks like I totally missed Poet's Day.

Rats!
8740) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birthday Labbie!!!! (Message 1054195)
Posted 9 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Best wishes to you on your special day.
8741) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1053825)
Posted 8 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok, I just pointed this out to Eric. He laughed and thought that David must be "doing something" to the code again. He will get it fixed. Meanwhile, enjoy Eric's banishment... I know I will!!!
8742) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPT 130th Edition (Message 1053815)
Posted 8 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Walls or no walls, I never sleep. Sleep is over-rated.
8743) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1053813)
Posted 8 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Eric and I are alive and well and un-banished as far as I can tell.
8744) Message boards : Technical News : Up (Dec 07 2010) (Message 1053794)
Posted 8 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hooray!
8745) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest (Message 1053766)
Posted 8 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
$670.00
8746) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1053511)
Posted 7 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Behold, goat stew!!!
8747) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1053509)
Posted 7 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Look! Eric bought this for Angela! He is so thoughtful sometimes!


Mr. Finkleberry, that is awful, simply awful!!!
8748) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1053241)
Posted 5 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh Chris and Karen, get your checkbooks out - you both owe hefty sums of SYN-TAX for those last two posts!
8749) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1053202)
Posted 5 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
How about leaving your own key with the manager and then just picking up the key from him/her when you return from your trip?
8750) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1053194)
Posted 5 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Hey Vic, why don't you give a neighbor an extra key and ask him or her to look in on Grace now and again in your absence?
8751) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update VII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe (Message 1053090)
Posted 5 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I'm loving these pictures and videos! Thanks everybody.
8752) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPT 130th Edition (Message 1053086)
Posted 5 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Happy Birthday Carlos!
8753) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1052949)
Posted 4 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh dear. I don't want to get sandwiched in between you two punsters!
8754) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1052941)
Posted 4 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ah... now we're ROLLing out the bread puns...
8755) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1052934)
Posted 4 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You two had better shape up!
8756) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1052926)
Posted 4 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Oh no! I'm not going to poach in these waters...
8757) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1052922)
Posted 4 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Gee, I was COUNTing on Chocula to be the guilty party...
8758) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1052918)
Posted 4 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I guess that is better than becoming a CEREAL killer because you're obsessed with Lucky Charms...
8759) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1052907)
Posted 4 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Yes, but Karen he is tough to beat. This puts us in quite a pickle.
8760) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1052901)
Posted 4 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
why look who just blew in! Scarecrow, where do you ale from?
8761) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 8 (Message 1052893)
Posted 4 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Close enough!

Most people in China circa 1850 would have considered that plate to be in VERY BAD TASTE!!!

Congratulations John, you have won again!
8762) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 8 (Message 1052888)
Posted 4 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
John, your answers to questions 1-4 are correct. This plate from my collection is an example of "Chinese Export Pottery". Because there are people on alternate panels, it is an example of true "Rose Medallion". It was made in China. Plates with no markings on the back were produced before 1850 and are considered to be "best quality" in this category. Plates made after 1891 are marked "China" on the back and plates made after 1920 are marked "Made in China".


Your answer to question number 5 is incorrect. This gives somebody a chance to steal your win, correct?
8763) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1052885)
Posted 4 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Why Miz Karen, I do eclair, you are making me blush so.
8764) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 8 (Message 1052877)
Posted 4 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
You HAVE seen it before. Fortunately this particular piece was not broken by the Gabor sisters. I have tucked it away for now until the Gabor sisters learn to behave themselves.

It was not made in Japan.
8765) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1052874)
Posted 4 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
I know what a tough cookie Karen is, so I'd better shut my cakehole tonight!
8766) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 8 (Message 1052871)
Posted 4 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:


Ok friends, fill in all the blanks correctly to win.

1. This plate is a fairly typical example of the broad general porcelain category called _____________.

2. Because alternate panels of this plate contain depictions of people, it can be classified as an example of true ______________.

3. The plate's country of origin is ________.

4. There are absolutely no markings on the back of this plate, therefore one can determine that this plate was produced circa ___________.

5. When it was made, this plate would not have sold well in its country of origin because ________________________.
8767) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 8 (Message 1052861)
Posted 4 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
BTW, what did you have to threaten everyone else with to get them to not participate in this round?

That picture was darn hard to place, buddy! Was it from your personal collection?

People may well have been participating, but coming up with blanks. Nice find.

I shall search for a picture now.
8768) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 8 (Message 1052845)
Posted 4 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Darn it John, if this is not it, I'm going to turn to the drink!!!

8769) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 8 (Message 1052844)
Posted 4 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado!!!
8770) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Puns O Fun 5 (Message 1052843)
Posted 4 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Lettuce rest, I'm feeling kind of beet.
8771) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 8 (Message 1052836)
Posted 4 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
AAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!! This photo is driving me nuts!!! When I close my eyes, I see it!!!

I suppose that is the point of the game. Well chosen, John.
8772) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 8 (Message 1052827)
Posted 4 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico???
8773) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 8 (Message 1052720)
Posted 3 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Now I see why you don't normally play this game. You're just too good at it :-)

I don't know, my friend. The reason I posted this answer publicly is that I was not sure that I got it right...

Wake up John; I need feedback!
8774) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 8 (Message 1052664)
Posted 3 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Wupatki National Monument, Flagstaff AZ?
8775) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BEET's give us a Caption XXVI (Message 1052648)
Posted 3 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Very funny captions - it was tough to decide.

Third place goes to the helpful kitty who says "I can fix it." (Thank you DJStarfox)

Second place goes to the non-compliant kitty who says "NO! I'm NOT going to the vet! You can't make me!" (Thank you Blurf)

First place goes to the exasperated kitty who says "I know I need the exercise, but this is a ridiculous place to put my food." (Thank you Luigi Naruszewicz)

A PM has been sent to our winner.
8776) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Contest (Message 1052482)
Posted 2 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Tuesday 12/07/10 - 4pm in Berkeley
8777) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Dan's Poetry Corner II (Message 1052407)
Posted 2 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
What amazing imagery! Dan, you are so gifted!
8778) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The joke thread Part 3. (Message 1052406)
Posted 2 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Ok friends, let me try another joke. Forgive me please if this has been posted previously. I received it today and had not heard it before. And yes, I do have a background in liberal arts...


The graduate with a science degree asks, "Why does it work?" The graduate with an engineering degree asks, "How does it work?" The graduate with an accounting degree asks, "How much will it cost?" The graduate with an arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with that?"
8779) Message boards : Cafe SETI : TLPTPT 130th Edition (Message 1052281)
Posted 1 Dec 2010 by Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Post:
Widdid with a code id by node...


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