LOL soooooo funny Crystal...Maybe we can have a Captain America glass instead of the umbrella..

Well, it kinda needs to be in an Aunt Boo's cup...how 'bout a Cap America coffee cup?

That idea wouldnt work either...remember Mr Monk and the Bird and Bees...he had the picture of the guy on a coffee cup...but we could still use Captain America coffee cup because he said that he made it up for the jury...

Okay, Captain America Shield Shaped Ice Cubes? I'm getting desperate here.

how about a guitar shaped straw....

Guitar shaped Crazy Straw? I love it!!!

What could we put in Natalie's drink...basketball???

I love these drinks!! They are so creative!! I'm ordering one of each kind you made up!! Big ones!! That's all I can have now because I want to have a clear head for Friday at 9!!

But what would it be called: The Natalie Teeger Tigress?

<Bflogal walks in, takes a stool at the bar, and absentmindedly eats the whole bowl of cashews while guzzling Shirley Temples>

Got a call from my dad this morning -- Mom had a chest x-ray yesterday, to try to determine the cause of her inability to breathe.

Chest x-ray came out fine -- but that is not good news.

It means, most likely, that the cause is that her Lou Gehrig's disease is now affecting her lungs. The lungs, or more specifically the diaphragm which controls the motion of the lungs, is the last muscle to be affected -- leading to death. She has declined ventilation.

She is now not expected to make it past the end of the year.

Do we have any more cashews?

Just home from work, Kees drops by for a cherry cola...seeing BfloGal drowning herself in Shirley Temples she puts her arms around her and pulls her head down to her shoulder and gives her a huge hug.

"That's pretty rough news BfloGal, I know how hard it is to learn you are losing a parent. I was pretty lost too when my mom and dad were given their new time schedules. Life can be so hard sometimes and hurt so much."

Feeling at a loss for further words, Kees digs around in her big canvas bag and finally finds her Hersey Kisses Box and passes it over to BfloGal.

"Robo Tender, give my friend another Shirley Temple and fill that bowl back up with cashews. Think I'll just sit here for awhile..."

<Bflogal downs entire box of Hershey's Kisses, and feels... a little better that someone thought to give her chocolate>

Thanks, Kees_lady...

I just woke up. Oh my God. I don't know what to say. I'm sitting here shocked, not knowing what to say. This has been a pretty bad year for people getting bad news and having to go through stuff like this. It's a wonder this bar isn't packed wall to wall. I just have no idea what to say.

Hey, dear friend

I have some chocolate with myself and a big hug.

Mi

Thanks Yvette, Thanks Mi --

Hugs and kisses may not be a cure-all, but they certainly don't hurt.

Thanks again!
Barb

Sad news you have, Bflogal... There are all the time sad news around here...

Big hug for you, and when you like chocolate, I baked just a very chocolaty cake.
Good with coffee!

Mari

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It is kinda quiet here at our favorite watering hole. Some of our very special friends have been dealing with bad news lately.
Meme sidles in, wipes the trail dust from her jeans, and spies her friend BfloGal, who is drowning herself in Shirley Temples. Meme plops herself down at Bflo's side, gives her a huge hug, and orders up another round of "brewskis" for both of them. Meme will not speak, just sit there and let BfloGal feel the love and know she has a friend, in case she wants to talk.

Welcome back! Yes, Bflo's having a tough time of it right now.

Meme!!!!

Great to see you!!

Look! Adrianna made me cake and everything -- come on everybody, let's cut this thing and dish it out. It really helps to have you guys around...

Seriously -- I do feel so much better -- thanks guys...

Let's eat cake.

So sorry to hear your news of your mother...I will give you a big hug and will start passing out that big chocolate cake that Adrianna made for you....I think I may just step over to the store and get some ice cream and whipped cream...goes good with cake.

Keep a smilin'...

I am so sorry to hear about your Mother. Do you want me to make you another Shirley Temple? You can have all of the chocolate you want.

Ola, dears!

Anyone want's to share a T S with me??
there are some smooth jazz playing in the background, the atmosphere is dim and easy, and I am thinking Natalie should have said "Brace yourself, Mr Monk" instead of "We should kiss", right, BfloGal??

Hope you're feeling better today!

well...at least Billie Hollyday is here, making me company....

Mi

Ok Mi I will share a TS with you...as long as I can have some cashews...Feel like chillin' out...weather outside is getting cloudy and no real energy to do anything....I was thinking of a great game we can start....

It's like pin the tail on the donkey but instead of a donkey it's Linda Fusco...I think Meme may enjoy this game...

Ok anyone up for this one???

I'm on it!
and we can add a picture of Karen too!


Mi

I had a feeling there would be a lot of takers for this game...now what can we give as a prize for winning??? Well, lets see...we can give the Captain away...but he may resist or not...would like to put him in his cuffs...ha ha

How about having the ability to redecorate a section of the bar any way they want to??? How would that be as a prize if the Captain doesnt want to be it???

Anyone feel like sharing a pitcher of Shirley Temples and just hanging out eating virtual cashews and having some fun?

Just took this quiz online:

Which muppet are you?

And this is what I got... not sure about a few of these -- anyone else want to try?


Which Muppet Character Are You?
You scored 32...

You are ELMO
You are cute and everyone loves you. You are a best friend that no one takes the chance of losing. You never hurt feelings and seldom have your own feelings hurt. Life is a breeze. You are witty and calm most of the time. Just keep clear of backstabbers, and you are worry free.

ooooouuuughhhhh....I will share a ST with you, and I will bring some Brazilian cashews, but I cannot look at the muppet above....nor take the quiz, though I agree with the result, BfloGal!
I am traumatized by them...really. I don't know why, but I am.

Don't laugh, guys, I am serious!

I cannot see anyone wearing an animal costume, I literally freak out! I cannot watch Muppets Show, I am scared about the Bananarama Bears and I definetely closed my eyes during The Ball Game, when that giant something jumped on Monk! I do not know what that animal was and do not want to know! oooooouuhgghh......

....brrrr...I feel shivers down my spine only imagining The Muppets.....

I guess I would never, ever, no, nah, never go to Disneyland. I would not stand seeing Mickey or Gooffy or the troupe walking around....

ok, I guess I need a triple Tony Shalhoub and bring me some Ted Levine also....on rock!


Mi

It has been a long day! I need a double Tony Shalhoub...and keep them coming!

One Tony Shalhoub for me, too! Just for fun... and some cashews, thanks. I love them.
Oh, there are some Brazilian cashews, interesting. I´ll try them...


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Oh, don't tell me no one else is interested in finding their inner Muppet?

http://www.savethegoldfish.co.uk/fun/muppet.php

Except Mi! -- she's exempt. We're sensitive to phobias around here.

Okay -- there's an A-team quiz at the same site -- and here's how I did with that: (Although I tend to agree with the A-Team results a little more.)

http://www.savethegoldfish.co.uk/fun/ateam.php

You are Captain "Howling Mad" MURDOCK
You're a raving looney for gods sake, what more can I say? Ok you're not completely mad but you'd rather talk to yourself or your hand than speak to real people and you have impulses to do the strangest things. You have a penchant for the dramatic, erratic and chaotic but you're reliable even if unpredictable and you can manage to come up with some of the most brilliant if wacky ideas. You're more than likely a bit of a party animal and you find it easy to make friends although most of them are just the voices in your head. Some people can find you a bit much to handle but don't worry they're the nurses and they get paid for it. Watch out there's a huge penguin behind you! Congratulations, you're part of The A-Team.

I never watched A-Team -- how bad is this?

I took the Muppet quiz....Said I got 31, and am Elmo.

Which I find reeeeeeally funny....Elmo IMO is the most annoying thing on Earth. Oh hmmmmm..Maybe I am Elmo. I always thought I was more like Grover.


Meme

Just a couple of Elmo's, are we? I will resist the impulse to tickle you, if you promise to do the same.


I had a problem with the line -- "you're the best friend no on wants to take a chance losing" since I've known a lot of people who were really anxious to do just that -- maybe they're the back-stabbers it warns about.

OMG!!!

BfloGal, We must be "soul sisters". I got the Murdock answer, too. I wanted to be "Face"---the good looking one. Hubby and I used to watch A-Team all the time----other than Mr T, who annoyed the heck out of me, I loved all the characters in that show. The fact that I had a Huuuuuuuuuuge crush on George Peppard was probably the reason for my intense interest in it.

Meme

Oh, you poor thing!

Ironic, considering apparently you and I were also the only ones who found the quizzes amusing...

<singing badly>

Sisters, sisters --
There were never such devoted sisters...

I think this thing is rigged. I took the quiz, and I'm Elmo too. I got a 33. I guess deep down inside, everyone is Elmo. I kind of wanted to be Burt.

*gives BfloGal a spliced video clip of "We should kiss" followed by the kissage scene, followed by Monk's jig*

Happy Tuesday, BfloGal!

QUOTE

Sisters, sisters --
There were never such devoted sisters...

Can I be Bing? Where's Og? He can be Danny.

On the Muppet quiz I'm just another "ELMO"

From the A-Team I'm HANNIBAL Who's Hannibal, never watched the show.

I call Rosemary Clooney -- um...would it be too forward to say I've always been partial to Bing. (blush)

Thanks for the video clip Foxtrot -- I watched them a couple hundred times this morning.

I'm wondering if Monk fans just tend to be more Elmo-ish. I found the link on another message board, and people were posting all different kinds of characters. Odd, huh?

Hannibal is the leader of the group, more or less. Played by my favorite George Peppard. But, if I remember correctly, he smoked a big, fat cigar most of the time. Hope you smoke Tiparillos.


Meme

I thought you might like that.

Nite, evr'body!

any one has a pill for headache?



well, a couple of scenes with TS in any film/video/whatever plus a extra large ST should work as well....

Mi

I'm catching up! So sorry about your mom, Bflogal- I didn't know.

And... I'm Elmo, too! But actually first time I took it I was Beaker and when I refreshed the page I had to retake the quiz so now I'm Elmo. Beaker???? REALLY?

Anyway, those drinks sound like a riot. I skimmed the posts and all I can remember is that we are not making virgin TSs. Can I have an Adrian with cranberry juice?

Just when you thought life was interesting enough --

Just got the heads up that a couple of wackos might be planning to stage a protest (think - picket lines) outside of our little rural country church.

Not over anything going on at the church -- but because one of our members sided with her son in a custody dispute.

I mean -- how could she do that? Side with her own son?

<sarcastic rant>

I mean, how could the courts take her babies away, after all, all their mother did was:

- drop them off at Dad's house saying, 'They're all yours.'
- drive to another state to marry a known felon she met over the internet.
- bring him back to NY in violation of his parole.
- expose the children to him -- in violation of a court order.
- pump the oldest child for information on when the father and his family left for work, kept their money, etc.

After all, it was her husband and not her who broke into the father's house, and, when surprised there, held the step-mother at knifepoint.

And now the 'poor lad' is in jail -- and she doesn't understand why the court order allows no visitation -- so they're picketing. The wacko and her mother.

They've picketed the father's house, and his mother's house, and now we hear they are probably going to be coming to church tomorrow. In our small community where everybody knows everybody else's business...

Happy, happy, joy, joy --

Hey Mandeville -- you have any of those people hunting permits left?

That's the single most dysfunctional thing I've heard in a very long time. I would counter-picket. I'd put everything you typed here--in other words, HER personal business--on huge picket signs and pull them out as soon they pulled up. I'm flamboyant like that. Yep.

Hey, let's have a round of shirley temples - quick! A double for my friend Barb.
Sorry about the wackos BfloGal - it seems they are every where.

Here's something to cheer you up:Anything Goes!

LOL -- I don't know whether to laugh or cry -- I mean it's almost comical -- in a tragic sense. I know the kids, and it's the hardest on them.

I wish I could watch the vids, Kathy, but my internet -- arrghh!

<guzzles her Shirley Temple>

Aaahh that's better.

Cheers!

I'd hold church outside and give a sermon abour respecting the house of the lord. About how church should be a safe place and we all need to forgive the ravenous vultures and haters who would come there to make trouble.

And i would send some of the biggest, toughest boys out with cameras to take pictures of all the protestors liscense plates and pictures of them in line. Especially the angry ones who want to really get in your face.

You see, I've had practice and I used to box, so I could get one of them to hit me and take a punch.

Oh, and once it's on, it's on. A bunch of religious zelots versus some intrusive busy-bodies? No question. Crusifictions by days end.

Okay, so you want to avoid the violence, but everything else up to the camera thing is good.

Even if you just do the camera thing. If anyone asks what's going on - just say "Hey, if someone at this little travesty gets out of line and pulls something stupid I want a record of who was here!" Then you tell them "You better hope no one acts up!" And take thier picture too.

There's nothing like the mounting of evidence to make even an innocent man feel guilty.

And anyone picketing a church would have to feel just a little guilty anyway, right? You could shame them out of there with that camera.

-Mandeville

LOL -- I think it's funny because the first thing my husband did after we got the call was check the camera batteries. The camera is now sitting on top of his Bible -- ready to go.

I just hope it's not a slow news day...

So far so good -- no protesters showed up this morning. Have one more service to get through, so we'll see what happens -- if anything.

I had to laugh though, when the first hymn picked this morning coincidentally was "Sound the Battle Cry."

Funny!

Here's something to smile about: Click here

Oh good. Maybe God gave them all flat tires on the way to church. rofl