The_Kansan Forum Posts (3,395)

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

Howdy Harry!

RE: Hey...do you make your beds in the morning?

I neglected to mention (this is in reference and deference to the thread title) that - while I sometimes make my beds in the morning - I also make them in the afternoon and sometimes even in the evening. There are even times when I'll start making them in the morning and work at it the whole day through and into the evening (with, of course, the requisite bathroom, lunch and smoke breaks).

RE: Lovers of the English language.................unite lol...................

No, but I've seen them suspended from his ceiling and qued in his cooler, not to mention sliced by his cutter and cut with his knife!

RE: Hey...do you make your beds in the morning?

Yes it is... Something about literally lying in a bed of my own making that is infinitely more satisfying than simply using the metaphor.

RE: Lovers of the English language.................unite lol...................

Mr. Shott and Mr. Knot decided to fight a duel: Knot was shot and Shott was not, so it's better for Shott than Knot. Shott and not Knot shot the shot that shot Knot. However, had Shott's shot missed Knot and Knot's shot hit Shott, then we would be saying that Knot shot Shott, not Shott shot Knot!

RE: Hey...do you make your beds in the morning?

Actually, I make a bed about every 3-4 years or so, as I don't have the time, resources or inclination to make one every day. Some are old fashioned "rope beds" and some are made from aged and peeled saplings/logs. I made one earlier this year from 1X12 rough finished white pine lumber. It now resides in our bedroom.

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

______, I still find that you're the kind of friend that everyone wishes they had!

RE: Lovers of the English language.................unite lol...................

Dyslexics of the world - Untie!

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

Naw, we was just out doin' manly things like scratchin' ourselves in public and spittin' on the sidewalk and stuff!

RE: Lovers of the English language.................unite lol...................

And finally, part two. (Or is that part, too?) Was afraid you'd only found part one - In which case it'd also be part one, won.

While we're at it, Jenny, can you tell us why 2 wrongs don't make a right, but 3 rights make a left?

RE: Lovers of the English language.................unite lol...................

Hmmm... I posted this quite some time ago (more than a year) and it's good to see it again! Thank you!

From my perspective - that of a lover and student of American English as well as American History - I quite enjoy the way our language works! Keeps things interesting and yet it's still easy to say exactly what you mean. For example, "I know you believe you understood what you think I said, I'm just not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." makes perfect sense to me and is easily understood, though I realize that most reader's initial response is "Huh?"

It's like anything else; You can look at it as an unpleasant chore or a job and be frustrated to distraction, or you can look at it as an enjoyable challenge that needs to be met and actually have some fun with it!

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

Wow! That was slick! No wonder you're voting for Obama - You handled that exactly the same way he would have; If you don't know the answers - or the answers you want to give aren't the truth, but you don't want to get caught in a lie, or you can't be bothered to do a little research - you simply pretend they were never asked.

Damn, you're good! You should be a politician! Especially with that part about "thinking about how to answer them while" <you're on an expensive vacation>. Very cool! (But hasn't anybody told you that you've got too much money to make a really good Democrat?)

Just kiddin' (almost!) Have fun and ignore the bubbles!

Oh, and please don't wink at me - It's for your own good! (Folks might take it wrong and think you're queer for my gear and it'd ruin your stud muffin standing. )

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

Hey Sparks! How's it going?

The "slip" (that wasn't really a slip) was because it was a two part question and I didn't feel the need for superfluous ? thingies.

And thanks! I get a little better each day and I'm trying to be patient (no pun intended!) but it's a little frustrating when you're used to doing/going/lifting whatever needs done/gone/lifted and suddenly reduced to nearly invalid status. (I had to have Jackson help me put my shoes on the other day and it nearly broke my heart! )

Good to see you!


...Don...

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

Hey, ______! You're the kind of friend everyone wishes they had!

RE: Do you have any regrets about things you've done?

"Do you have any regrets about things you've done?"

Yeah, the other day I tripped over a tree root and spilled my coffee while walking in the back yard and I wish I hadn't done that - It was really good coffee!!

Otherwise, not really. Everything I've ever done - "good" or "bad" - has gone into making me who I am right now and I kinda' like me!

Crying over spilt milk has never been a productive pastime and - while it's a good thing to learn from our mistakes - it's almost never a good thing to dwell upon them. You can't change the past or see into the future and it seems to me that too much is wasted wishing otherwise, when it would be far more profitable to look at what's happening NOW.

RE: Ever have an original thought ?

Point well made, taken and, happily, conceded!

(But I believe we've gone waaaaaay beyond the scope of Leo's original sermon - does that make us original, or do I only think we are? )

RE: Whitney Houston-I Will Always Love You vs Foreigner-I Want To Know What Love Is

Bingo! We have a winner! I have heard it and I agree wholeheartedly. And, using that as an example, I believe that "I Will Always Love You" should never have been re-made.

RE: Ever have an original thought ?

I'd accept that, but only to a very limited point.

If I think to choose a particular route up the ridge behind our home that no-one else has ever taken, that makes it "original" - i.,e., something no-one else has ever thought of. I don't see that as a "quantum leap." (And the fact that no-one else had any need to think of it is a moot point.) But, while the route has always been available, I doubt that the idea to take it has whirled around much of anywhere, let alone the atmosphere.

RE: Whitney Houston-I Will Always Love You vs Foreigner-I Want To Know What Love Is

Foreigner - Not so much because of the song, but because of the singer; Whitney simply doesn't have the pipes to do this song justice If you disagree then I suggest that you listen to someone who DOES have the pipes for it - the person who originally recorded it, Dolly Parton.

RE: Ever have an original thought ?

Awww geez, Leo! While I know what you hope our answers will be, so that you can pidgeon-hole everyone in the world but yourself, it just doesn't quite hold up for many of us.

First of all, your O.P. is full of blanket statements and generalities - And you, I'm sure, would be the first one to declaim those who make blanket statements. (I've seen you do it in the past.)

But, to answer your questions - and refute a few of your generalities:

"Why do you drink Pepsi or Coke ? Because you've been told to."
When I enjoy a soft drink, it is usually Sierra Mist - but not because someone told me to. It's because I prefer the taste of it over other, comparable soft drinks. I'm guessing that you've never tried the "original carbonated soft drink" which consisted of mineral water from a spring with raw sugar added to it? I have. Believe me, Sierra Mist is infinitely preferable, not to mention that it mixes better with Canadian Whiskey.

"We all have a brain, which has for the most part simply become a Xerox copier."
You're correct, we do indeed all have a brain - Why is it that you assume that the rest of us don't use ours?

"If your parents were Baptists or Catholics, then you likely are too."
My folks were fundamentalist Christians - My religion is that of mountains, rivers and sky because nature is God's cathedral.

"If your dad drove a Ford, you likely do too."
I don't believe my dad ever evidenced a preference for one brand of vehicle over another, but I do because I've had the good fortune of having exceptional experience with this particular brand. (Dodge!)

"If you saw it on TV, then it must be true."
As an experimental archeologist/historian who has not only "talked the talk," but "walked the walk," I've learned not to accept even the so-called "documentaries" on T.V. as being true.

"Think. Please think. At the time of Christopher Columbus, people thought that the world was flat."

No... YOU think! The idea that people in Cristo Colombo's time thought the world was flat is simply erroneous - You accept it as fact because you were told that as a youngster (I was told the same thing!) and you've never bothered to learn otherwise - The truth is that Vikings, Celts, and Phoenicians had ALL made much longer and more dangerous voyages than 'Columbus' attempted and much was already known about seafaring and the general shape and/or curvature of the earth.

"Way too many flat-earth thinkers still exist in so many aspects of this age of media defined consciousness."
This actually happens to be true. But, sadly, my friend, I've come to believe that you are one them. You've just spent entirely too much time preaching from the popular bandwagon... And not nearly enough time practicing.

In fairness to Leo, I'll state that I understand that this post wasn't directed at me in particular. And I shouldn't have taken it personally, but I did and chose to respond in that manner. It's just that I'm getting kinda' tired of people telling me how to live or how to think or how I should conduct my affairs without bothering to clean up their own yard first. I'm not perfect and never claimed to be, but I've had my fill of folks telling me how imperfect I am without first looking in the mirror.

One last thing - and this applies to all of us, myself included, but especially the O.P.:


...Judge not, lest ye be also judged...

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

Ok... Here's a hint: Anytime a sentence has a little thingy at the end of it that looks like this ? . Well, that means it's a question. Sometimes you have to look for them because they might be stuck in with several other sentences in what is called a paragraph.

Then again, sometimes questions can be in the form of statements which are made in the hopes that another person will respond to them point by point with their own statements, called replies - these don't usually have the little ? thingy, but a response is generally expected nonetheless.

Sometimes, even when a ? or series of ?'s is asked and then answered by the person doing the talking (or typing, in this case), it is still hoped that the person being talked (or typed) to will go ahead and give his/her own answers to refute or confirm the other person's answers. Of course, this is not always the case, but it is in this particular case.

There are also things called rhetorical questions, i.,e., "What if there were no rhetorical questions? or, If your knees bent the other way, what would a chair look like?, etc..." which usually cannot be answered, but are instead designed simply to make someone think. But I don't ask many of those and simply mentioned them so that you would know that they do indeed exist.

But, to keep things simple for you, I'll only ask for answers to the sentences with the little ? thingy at the end. Okay?

Here's one now: Do you understand, now, what a question is? (That's not rhetorical - I really do want an honest, polite answer.)

And another one - this is a two parter: Exactly what box is it that you keep trying to think outside of - and has it ever occured to you that some of us might have made a habit of thinking so far "outside the box" that it never occured to us that there might actually be a box to think inside of? (I would also like an honest, polite and thoughtful answer to this - just trying to understand your mindset.)

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

Weeeellll... I hate to make more work for you, but you might go back and take a look at the questions I asked of you earlier today.

Seems to me that so far - though you've made several responses to me - the only question you've actually answered is the one I asked about why you're always on the offensive.

Soooo, take your time and do it point by point - I seldom ask questions that I don't want straight, honest answers to - and I'll happily read your answers in the tomorrow a.m.. (In the mean time, my body is trying to tell me that I'm still recuperating from surgery and should probably rack out soon.)

Looking forward to some good, intelligent reading in the morning!

RE: Witty quotes, cute and clever bumper stickers and interesting thoughts, funnies...........

"Why hell no, I ain't never been lost! ...Been a mite confused fer a month or two... But I ain't never been lost!!!" ~ Brian Keith as Henry Frapp in the movie, "The Mountain Men" (also starring Charleton Heston)

RE: Political correct word. Not senior, Elderly, Old.....Geezer... No no!....Youth challenged...

Chronologically enhanced...

RE: CS Invitation

Ok, you guys - I gotta' get a little more leather-work done, then take a nap or I'll never be in shape for the party!

Later!

RE: CS Invitation

Well, hell - Don't come to ME for 'em, Ray, I'm kinda' shy in that department myself!

RE: Do you play an instrument?.........sing?..........Jodel?

You asked if we "could" - not if we were as good as, or better than the twelve year old you allude to.

Guess I'll keep my yodeling to myself.

RE: CS Invitation

Not at all, my dear Sir! A good Scotch, like good books, should be shared! (As well as enjoyed and commented upon with friends!)

RE: Book Reports Are Due!

Yeah, GB, I didn't think you'd much care for the turkey book either, but it is the most recent one I've read and I felt obligated to be truthful.

I believe that "A River Runs Through It" is out of print, although you might find one at the public library. Be warned though--if it grips you a 10th as much as it gripped me, then you'll probably want to own it. (As much as anyone can truly "own" a book.) If that's the case, you'll be better off checking out the Alibris website - It's where I purchased the copy I possess now (or that possesses me), as well as the two or three I had earlier which were given away to friends - A simple search on that site should put you onto nearly any book your heart desires!

Much luck, Tracey. I think you will genuinely enjoy Mr. Mccleans' writing!

RE: CS Invitation

I do have a life, but it seems to've been put on hold recently owing to certain obligations to the well being and comfort of my recently perforated abdomen. Still, don't know if I'll be there - might have to do something important like sit on the couch and hold hands with my sweetie while watching the tube.

1) Hell, I'll invite everyone! Anyone that ticks me off or causes offense to other partiers can (and will) summarily and without warning be started on the way to the bottom of the ridge aided by the toe of my boot. (Doc says I can't LIFT more than 10 pounds - didn't say anything at all about a "kicking limit." )

2) Not particular about what I drink, although a good, well aged, single malt Scotch would be greatly appreciated.

3) Seems like that would be obvious to pretty much everyone on here by now. INDYFELLA! Just kidding, of course. It'd be my lovely and thoughtful, private nurse, soulmate and wife, Jackson.