The_Kansan Forum Posts (3,395)

The Perfect Dress...

Yep, I kinda' liked it!

RE: name 3 things

A word called happiness.

Kittens.

The fact that cows don't fly.

RE: Name One Thing That You Do For Yourself Everyday That Is Healthy...

I breath. (I've found NOT breathing to be singularly un-healthy.)

RE: What Was Your Highest Weight? What Was Your Lowest Weight?

Highest: 215 pounds of crippled up layabout.

Lowest: 135 skinny pounds of spring steel and rawhide.

Current: 195 pounds of contentment.

RE: Obama/Biden or McCain/Palin/Who ever

For once, Dude, you and I are in total agreement!

Not only should he GO, he should take you and the Clintons with him!

The Perfect Dress...

Her mother had found the PERFECT dress to wear and would be the best Dressed Mother-of-the-bride ever!

A week later, Jennifer was horrified to learn that her father's new, young wife had bought the exact same dress! Jennifer asked her to exchange it, but she refused. 'Absolutely not, I look like a million bucks in this dress And I'm wearing it,' she replied.

Jennifer told her mother who graciously said, 'Never mind sweetheart. I'll get another dress. After all, it's your special day.' A few Days Later, they went shopping and did find another gorgeous dress. When they stopped for lunch, Jennifer asked her mother, 'Aren't you going to return the other dress? You really don't have another occasion where you could wear it.' Her mother just smiled and replied, 'Of course I do, dear. I'm wearing it to the rehearsal dinner the night before the wedding!'

RE: do u like men with long hair?

I don't have a problem with it. Guess I'd be a bit of a hypocrite if I did since mine now reaches below my shoulder blades when it's in a pony tail.

And I'm 48 and don't anticipate ever having it cut again... (And the earring stays, too.)

RE: What's ur birthdate?

Birthdate: January 30, 1961. Sign: No parking

RE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY CARDSFAN!!!

From Jackson.

Big ol' sloppy wet kiss from me!

Happy birthday, Stewie!

RE: THE 1800s Wild West

But what about the "always running from posse's, hiding from lawmen, always checking your backtrail, never being able to trust anyone, escaping from mexican husbands, seldom getting a good night's sleep until you wind up in prison or at the end of a rope" part?

RE: What is the very 1st thing you do when you open your eyes in the morning???

Squint at the led display on the clock and yearn for the days when I had neither clock nor need to squint...

RE: Romantism does not survive!

I know someone who should take a few pages from yours and Jackson's notebook, Bev.

Before I met Jackson, I lived with a gal for a couple of years. When I moved in she had one of the ugliest yards in town. Very plain with nothing in the way of landscaping except a beat-up doghouse with a 40' chain to corral her german shephard and a pitifully small vegetable garden overgrown with weeds. By the time I left she had a rather well made enclosed dog run, a magnificent vegetable garden, a flower and herb garden that reached the length of the back yard, a beautiful rustic arbor made from a discarded split rail fence and extensive paving/fencing done with nearly 9,000 pounds of native limestone brought up from my place 60 miles away.

One evening, shortly before I moved out, as we were sitting on the 2nd floor sun porch (in full view of the gardens, which were absolutely lovely) and I was listening - yet again - to the growing list of my faults, she said "And you never, ever even bring me flowers!" (It was pissy of me, I'll admit, but the next day while she was at work, I went out and cut nearly all the flowers in the flower garden and left them in several bunches on the kitchen table with a note that said, "Here are your flowers. Personally, I liked them better in the garden." ...I started packing the next morning.)

Romanticism does survive, but it must be tempered by reality and recognized for what it is...

RE: Quit shaking the etch-a-sketch!!!!!

I'm sorry! All those lines and non-sensical zig zags were starting to take on meanings that I didn't agree with. It might have just been me or it might have been the political analyzer that I enlisted to help me decipher it.

How was I to know that all the meaningless meandering was exactly that?

Sorry...

RE: THE 1800s Wild West

Take your pick...

If one were to check my resume' they would find that I was an Irish immigrant making my way through the Carolinas, Tennessee and Kentucky before settling in Illinois in the early part of the century, a mountainman and free trapper during the late 20's, 30's and into the 40's, a guide and wagontrain scout for a while after that and a civilian Cavalry Scout during the Western Indian wars after having fought on both sides during the Civil War. After that, I homesteaded in Alaska. I wore the badge of a U.S. Marshall and upheld the law and I used a "running iron" to brand cattle that didn't belong to me because I wanted a few dollars to spend on a spree in town.

As a living historian/historical site docent and experimental archeologist, I've portrayed everything I mentioned in the above paragraph and a few other things besides. And drawing upon my own personal family history, I might have been any one of or, at different times, even several of the characters I mentioned.

RE: THE 1800s Wild West

Oh boy... You really don't want me to answer that...

RE: Today's Thought

And because they were strong enough to bend. This also applies to men.

RE: DO YOU LOVE ALL THINGS OZ ??? The Wizard Of OZ rules???

Coming from Kansas - and having traveled extensively - I used to absolutely detest the Wizard of Oz because it created a sterotypical problem that has lasted for YEARS, i.,e., tornados, "You're not in Kansas anymore, Dorothy!" (something told to me by a Cop in Rhode Island), etc...

In the past few years, though, I've come to really appreciate and enjoy the lessons taught. And there are a few other things that makes it near and dear to me, but I won't go into them here.

RE: Today's Thought

Damn, can't argue with any of that! Wise words indeed!

RE: If you just got busted, who would your one phone call go to & why?

Hmmm... The only jail time I ever had was sleeping it off after a Rodeo about 26 years ago and the cell door was never even closed, plus when I woke up they gave me a cup of coffee and a ride back to the arena. I've pretty much kept my nose clean ever since.

I guess, it'd depend on what I was "busted" for. Anything but maybe littering or speeding would have to be trumped up and preposterous, so I guess the first call would be to my wife to tell her to get the best lawyer she could find who wanted to win a wrongful imprisonment lawsuit!

RE: Words are like leaves.The more leaves a tree has,less fruit it gives...(Write your oppositions.)

The more you tear me down, the less you build yourself up.

RE: I need some advice on this

Oh, trust me Guy - She likes you! Big time! (I'd like you better if you used a little punctation, but I'll live with it. )

I'm not a lady, but it's obvious even to me that this gal likes you! Just, for God's sake, don't be a typical guy and over do things. Keep it sweet and simple and be yourself - that's who she likes! - and have fun! That's what it's really all about.

Oh, and it's okay to be honest here and admit that you wouldn't mind getting laid, but that it IS completely secondary.

Good luck, my young friend!

RE: For your own sake.

Ahhh dear Leo...

You raise some points, but once again, fail to give the entire picture. Sure more people are dying via war. But there are also more people living to old age. True there are more poor people, but there are also more rich people. (As an aside, Leo, did you know that most "poor" people today live better than than most "Royalty" did 150-200 years ago? It's true - you can do the research and discover it for yourself if you ever come down off your dais long enough to garner the facts.) There are more sick people today - just there are more who are not sick or who's lives have been saved by modern medicine. I could go on, but it there's no need to...

The simple fact is that the reason more people are dying in wars, being saved, living in squalor, living in splendor, etc... is that there are simply more people in the world today! Do the research and I'd wager that you'd find that the RATIOS haven't changed much at all as regards the POPULATION. For example: If a typhoon hit... I don't know, uh... Upper East Southwest Peterbiltville in 1819 and killed 10 out of 40 residents, that would mean 25% of the population, right? But if one hit today and killed 1,000 out of 4,000 then the ratio is still... 25%!

I'll make you a deal, Leo! I'll "WAKE UP" if you'll stop looking only at what you perceive the negatives to be and start getting "the whole picture."

RE: Dow down 500 pts

Yeah, well, if you're gonna' make threats like that then come on over! But you'd better bring a ladder! (Plus a bit of common sense, a polite manner and an apology - we still have our guns!)

RE: Say Something...Names Are Changed To Protect The Innocent

Not sure WW, but they're pretty good in Claxton, Tn.!

How's everything in U.P.?

RE: Nature! If all the elephants in the world began....

No, Mr. Bush has gotten enough flak for stuff like that in the past. And besides, under the new, upcoming regime we'll probably have a national "Elephants are our friends and greatest benefactors" day.

All hail the elephants of change! And then elephants will be taken over as the new emblem for the Democratic party in order to further confuse and dis-hearten the die-hard Conservative enemies of the nation.

RE: Say Something...Names Are Changed To Protect The Innocent

Wow! Good for you Bev! Good for you!

RE: Nature! If all the elephants in the world began....

Unfortunately these jobs would be rapidly filled by other "non-natives" who would send the vast majority of their wages back to their country or origin with the result that the only economy that would be kick started would be that of their homeland.

RE: Nature! If all the elephants in the world began....

It would probably be requested but not really required, based upon the fact that they can't read, write, or speak our language. (And the fact that if they were given one, they'd just eat it!)

RE: Write a word beginning with the last letter of the previous one.

Calamitous

RE: Nature! If all the elephants in the world began....

Given the way things have been going - with elephants being large, potentially destructive and non-indigenous to the U.S. - they'd probably be given full diplomatic immunity, freedom from taxes, free health care and an apology from our political leaders for any offense, real or imagined, that the rest of the scum otherwise known as U.S. Citizens might have inadvertantly caused by daring to question why they are afforded more rights and priviledges than we are.