The_Kansan Forum Posts (3,395)

RE: Do you have good advice for the world......share it.

'Mornin' Pat!


(oh, and yep, this "old fart" is a redhead! )

RE: Do you have good advice for the world......share it.

Lead, follow or get the hell out of the way!

RE: Do you have good advice for the world......share it.

Most of the stuff that people worry about ain’t ever gonna’ happen anyway.

Timin’ has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

Words that soak into your ears are whispered… not yelled.

The biggest troublemaker you’ll prob’ly ever have to deal with watches you from the mirror every mornin’.

…And don’t interfere with somethin’ that ain’t botherin’ you none!

RE: Morning or Night??

Always been a morning person. Would much rather get up before the chickens and get things done early, then have the afternoon/evening to relax or read.

RE: Whats Your Astrological Sign......?

Hi Babs!

Good to see you back!

RE: Whats Your Astrological Sign......?

One more Aquarius here. And also (I think) a Rat.

RE: New from NorCal

Welcome to the asylum! I met my lovely wife, Jackson, here and several others have found their matches here as well. We stick around because of the friends we've made.



It ain't the only place, but it's certainly a place!

RE: Hey, I booked a flight, and the stewardess said...

True story!

RE: Do you have good advice for the world......share it.

If you get to thinkin` you`re a person of some influence, try orderin` somebody else`s dog around.

Never smack a man who`s chewin` tobacco.

Never ask a barber if he thinks you need a haircut.

Always drink upstream from the herd.

If you`re ridin` ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it`s still there.

RE: Approximately, what date was the latest picture in your profile taken?

The most recent was taken in the past year or so. But it doesn't really matter in my case - except for a little more white in the whiskers, I haven't changed much at all in the past 10 years.

RE: Do you have good advice for the world......share it.

Don't corner anything that's meaner than you.

Never kick a fresh cowpie!

RE: Hey, I booked a flight, and the stewardess said...

I remember flying when they still served good meals on airlines - and when I was still very naive'.

Due to a heavy meal just before takeoff, I couldn't eat everything and - being Scots Irish and therefore somewhat frugal - I thought "I paid for it, I might as well save it for later!" I thought about wrapping the un-eaten portion in a newspaper, but then I noticed the neat little bag on the back of the seat in front of me !! "Eureka! I'll just put it in the little bag!"

It worked quite well, but when I exited the plane upon landing - with my tightly sealed bag in hand - the Stewardess, gesturing towards the bag, said "Oh, here. I'll take that for you, Sir!" And I received a look of pure disgust when I (naively!) replied "That's alright - it was supper - I'll finish eating it later."

(It was only after I told someone about it later, that I finally learned the intended purpose of the bag!)

RE: Court Rules In Favor Of 2nd Amendment Gun Right

How many people assault or kill people with baseball bats and cars? But nobody's trying to ban us from driving to the ballpark!

And my main handgun is used for sport - Hunting as well as competition shooting - and I've come to value it as much as anything else I own.

It just torques me, that of all the stuff I have that most folks wouldn't know anything about, it seems the one thing they don't want me to have is that one item that they know least about.


Ok, rant off.

RE: What's Eating You?

And YOU, my friend, are also a SAINT.

RE: What's Eating You?

Too sick to work, not sick enough to justify going to the ER, can't get in to see the gastro-enterologist until Monday at the earliest and maybe not until the end of July!

I'm tired of feeling like crap and I'm impatient because I'm getting better but it's taking too damn long. We've got beautiful weather and I'm so damned puny I can barely walk out to the gardens.

My lovely wife is a SAINT and is taking very good care of me, but I feel like I'm letting her down by not being able to do anything.

That's what's bugging me!

RE: New Thread! Original Idea! Question you can ALL answer (except for Flower,who hasn´t got one)

At home, for the PC, we have.... KITTENS!

When I'm using my laptop with the wireless mouse, my "pad" is usually my jeans.

RE: The Suggest a Thread Thread

Aw, c'mon Bob! I'm already fighting nausea and severe abdominal pain - then you gotta' go and mention this?

RE: What would make your day?.. what would be the BEST thing to hear right now.

Yeah, that'd work for me, too!

RE: The Suggest a Thread Thread

I'd like to see a thread that discusses the relative merits of bellybutton lint versus dryer lint for starting fires and making sweaters for small animals.

Barring that, I'd just like to see a thread that doesn't make me think "Why the heck did I click on this?"

RE: What would make your day?.. what would be the BEST thing to hear right now.

That the gastro-enterologist could see me first thing this morning (instead of "maybe Monday" or "the end of July"), they'd take my gallbladder out tomorrow and I'd be back to work next week and not have to suffer or worry about pancreatitus anymore.

RE: Court Rules In Favor Of 2nd Amendment Gun Right

'Bout darn time! With our rights being eroded on an almost daily basis, it's a breath of fresh air to actually see some restored!

RE: Resizing pictures... anyone know how to make one smaller?

Dowse it with icewater! Guaranteed to make any p... Oh wait, you were talking about pictures. Uhhh... Nevermind.

RE: I flippin hate Sundays..

crap! happy to do all those things

darn fingers!

RE: I flippin hate Sundays..

Awwww... Come on over an' we'll loan you our backyard, the garden hose and our over grown puppy, Spartacus. I'm sure he'd be happy to all those things with you, plus, he's a great kisser!

RE: Do you have one?

Those are the lyrics. They were sung very slowly in a very deep voice at the end of each broadcast. And you'll know that it fits me because I've been wishin' for several weeks that I could go fishing and this morning I just decided to go ahead and do it. I'll be loading the canoe on top of the Ramcharger as soon as it gets light enough to see.

Good enough?

RE: Something for the guys :)

Weeeell, b'lieve I'll stick with the real thing!

And while there's been a few times that I've kissed my ol' Ramcharger, "Sadie," somehow I just can't feature gettin' it on with a machine...

'Mornin' you two! When you gonna' come up and go fishin'/campin' with me?

RE: Do you have one?

In about an hour, the song that best describes me will be the theme song from the old "Harold Ensely, The Sportsman's Friend" television show:

Gone fiiiiiiiiishin'...
Insteeeeeeeead
Of just
A wiiiiiishin'....

RE: Do you have one?

Not a song, really, but a poem:


The Men That Don't Fit In
(by Robert W. Service)

There's a race of men that don't fit in,
A race that can't stay still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin,
And they roam the world at will.

They range the field and they rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain's crest;
Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don't know how to rest.

If they just went straight they might go far;
They are strong and brave and true;
But they're always tired of the things that are,
And they want the strange and new.

They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
What a deep mark I would make!"
So they chop and change, and each fresh move
Is only a fresh mistake.

And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones
Who win in the lifelong race.

And each forgets that his youth has fled,
Forgets that his prime is past,
Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,
In the glare of the truth at last.

He has failed, he has failed; he has missed his chance;
He has just done things by half.
Life's been a jolly good joke on him,
And now is the time to laugh.

Ha, ha! He is one of the Legion Lost;
He was never meant to win;
He's a rolling stone, and it's bred in the bone;
He's a man who won't fit in.

Should threads with a gajillion pictures have a warning...

Hi Dana!

Since the corn is recovering well from the storms last week and the okra is starting to come up... Maybe I'll post a couple of pics tomorrow.

I'll post a "before" pic of what the hillside looked like before I started carving out the gardens, one more of what things looked liked after I was more or less done with the basic landscaping and a couple more of how things look now... How's that?

RE: Are you more of a city or country person?

Country or city?

Uhhhh... I'll give you three guesses! (And the first two don't count!)