Elegsabiff Blog Comments (9,358)

RE: Watered down Characters

Hey, quick change of subject, has anyone heard from Eks? I hear bits of the Cape are snowed in and this is being a scary bad winter?

RE: Watered down Characters

My nails have been known to have honest garden grime beneath and they are only ever perfectly clean when I have washed my hair which I do once or twice a week



Do I get any points at all for very rarely wearing stick-on nails (which pop off at the most inconvenient times anyway) and never to hide dirt?

RE: Animal Farm...The Trump Era

Must say I would have gone for his '1984' and Big Brother as a better example of our modern times. But hey, Stephen King is Stephen King.

Cracked as a pot, mind "Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win."

RE: Animal Farm...The Trump Era

(Not because of the 10 minutes, but because I suddenly remembered the whole story clearly and no WAY could I go through that again with Boxer)

RE: Animal Farm...The Trump Era

Lou have you read it since schooldays? I got it as a CD for the car, a few years ago when I had a long drive coming up, and within 10 minutes I was so uncomfortable I couldn't listen any more. Horrible bloody book, far too powerful for its own good

RE: Animal Farm...The Trump Era

George Orwell will be spinning in his grave - Animal Farm is a direct and satirical attack on Communism.

However it cheers me up more than you can believe, that he too completely failed to get his point across at times

RE: Mid 90's matriarch soon to leave us.

Vier -

"They say such nice things about people at funerals

Deedee, says it all - except who was conquered. Assuming that's still a work in progress

"They say such nice things about people at funerals

Viking, another day another dollar you must be back and relaxing by now

"They say such nice things about people at funerals

Bloody, it would be one of the most visited tombstones in the cemetery

RE: Burt Reynolds

That running joke he and Tom Selleck had about him being Selleck's father - I was a bit shocked to see Selleck is already 73 himself.

Burt Reynolds will always be the Bandit to me, he was so incredibly supercool in that.

RE: Blogging about not blogging

Oh aye that bit where you're free to do what you want and you're not yet decrepit, these are the best years of all and because most people have already settled down and are waiting expectantly to get old, there's not a lot of advice on it.

Don't sit it out, don't waste it watching TV. Do whatever you want or ever wanted because chances are once this chunk ends you won't have nearly as many choices. Paint, sing, write music, climb a mountain, go white-water rafting, learn to fly a fighting kite, start going to a keep-fit dance class, do a cheap tour to somewhere you never heard of, TAKE a nap (call it a siesta ) and do something in the evening you would otherwise have been too sleepy for. Do a tourist tour in your own town, or the nearest city. Explore odd areas, stop for coffee, watch people walking by. Learn plumbing or brick-laying. Etc!

I'm no believer in forcing myself to do something I don't want to (try Bingo, very social - no thanks) but this is a great age and stage to look at lots of different things and when you spot something and think ooh? DO it. Yes you can and no you are not too old. You don't have to master it or be a natural, just willing to give it a try. You hated it? So. Tick it off the list, blog about it, on to the next.

The day will come when you can't and when you will be too old but the more you do now, the longer that day will take to dawn - and the more interesting stuff you will have done when it does.

You never know where you'll end up ...

RE: What makes a RELATIONship last long?

One day followed by another day followed by another day still enjoying being together and suddenly realizing days have turned into years

I'm not good at planning ahead. I like thinking of options and possibilities and what-ifs but ...

"They say such nice things about people at funerals

No you numpty the trick is to look at the dates

Sleep well

RE: "Crazytown" - "Trump off the rails". from Bob Woodward's new book, 'Fear', out in a week or so

Jim, that's genuinely interesting.

How then are the trumpeters so completely convinced he's the best thing that ever happened to the US? I didn't realize there is absolutely nothing to show.

Pity that trumpeters and non-trumpeters refuse to appear on each other's blogs because that could really be a debate question to watch.

RE: "Crazytown" - "Trump off the rails". from Bob Woodward's new book, 'Fear', out in a week or so

Yes he did (answering my own question) write books about the others. Not many reviews but they are all bouncing up the charts now, and Fear's pre-sales on Amazon are #1 in print and #5 in eBook.

RE: "Crazytown" - "Trump off the rails". from Bob Woodward's new book, 'Fear', out in a week or so

He's a bit long in the tooth by now I would think - did he do one about Obama? I suppose I should go looking instead of asking!

I'd really like to read a book about the first year or so by somebody truly impartial - someone who isn't out to cook sales for himself, because in theory it's an incredible story and power-struggle - the first complete amateur in the White House in what, a century? I'd love to know what's really going on but as it is everyone is either saying 'wonderful fantastic total success never put a foot wrong' or 'total disaster from day one not a single thing of any kind achieved' which is also a lie.

"They say such nice things about people at funerals

Molly, we have to start working on our epitaphs. The bar is VERY high.

"They say such nice things about people at funerals

Oh, right, huge funerals, yes for sure.

I'm told by my sister that funerals in her village in Spain turn into a street party, she's very much hoping she will die here and has money put aside for the beer and food if she does. Either they don't do that in my town or no-one has died in the past year.

"They say such nice things about people at funerals

Wow Merc I've never been to a funeral like that! Mind you I don't like going to them so have only ever been to a few, and where I felt I had to because I was friends with someone in the family.

Possibly they also go to be completely sure the hated one is definitely gone for good? And of course the beer.

RE: Loneliness Vs. Being Alone

Actually my dream is to have a man around, right here in the house, one reason I got such a big one plenty of room for a man cave / separate suite and we can look after each other and keep company and also shut our doors firmly and be comfortably alone.

I keep explaining this to men but just like when I blog, they don't get what I am talking about. Such a good solution all round, though.

"They say such nice things about people at funerals

M4, I'm writing you a cheque to put in your casket now, just tell me the amount and it's yours.

RE: Loneliness Vs. Being Alone

Ah Z if every vote counted Hillary Clinton would be POTUS and oh my word that would have been a disaster.

The mind actually boggles at what damage the trumpeters would have done if she'd got in. she'd have been assassinated by now for sure for starters.

RE: Loneliness Vs. Being Alone

I'm not that surprised men wanted full-time, though, I suppose. We all find cooking and cleaning and laundry a bind, after all, and if it was a case of sharing chores it makes sense to join forces.

Sometimes, though, men do see cohabiting as a chance to shed most of the load and women see it as doubling their workload?

I only ever lived full-time with 2 men and I was for sure expected to be the bustling little homemaker (and co-breadwinner) and apparently I'm not terribly good at my side of the deal.

RE: Loneliness Vs. Being Alone

I think the longer we are single, the more we want someone part-time on tap. The trick is not finding someone else who wants that - because so many of us do! - but getting in sync so that we want to be together at the same time and want alone-time at the same time.

Anyone managed to pull that one off yet?

"They say such nice things about people at funerals

Viking. Valhalla sounds such a riot I doubt they'll be bothering to glance back very often

Molly, that tombstone quote is Irish, by the way

Bedtime.

RE: Three frauds ginned up by Democrats at the Kavanaugh hearing

Talking to me, LJ, with the BS comment?

You know full well I don't go off about Trump.

I am talking about Trumpeters. I am talking about those who are so angry and resentful and determined to find fault that they twist or ignore facts to get even angrier and more resentful.

It is a bit frightening to watch.

So I shan't watch.

"They say such nice things about people at funerals

Mic, Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde gave us some excellent quotes - no trouble anyone remembering them, eh? I have a whole chunk of Yogi Berra quotes, he was hilarious but not, unlike the other two, on purpose

LJ, please update your instructions to your children that CS must be notified as well. If there's any afterlife you can peer down from your cloud and have a good last laugh at us as we celebrate your CS life.

Oldie, why not ask if the Veterans hospital needs your discard? They might be almost hysterical with gratitude but if not, the civilians will be

"They say such nice things about people at funerals

Viking just looked at your profile, no worries there. You wouldn't mind being remembered like this -

.cind of "been there, done that" guy. Strugling through life, making the best out of what I have...


matches is for lighting fires. my match, is the one who light my fire....and keeps it burning....

"They say such nice things about people at funerals

Emmy and Molly, don't forget plastic hips and knees and a deathly grin forever for those with dentures