Who ARE you people?

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by phenomshel

I should fit right in here then... do the ones that bite come with signs??

LOL
Shel (another newbie)

Yeah, that's the spirit! Speaking of spirits, I'll offer my traditional, "Can I get you a drink?", and we'll assume the usual rallying cry of denial/affirmation from everyone who has already drunk the Zany Carter Kool-Aid. And so...

Can I get you a drink?

Cheers,
Your Barman

[desertgrandma]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Yeah, that's the spirit! Speaking of spirits, I'll offer my traditional, "Can I get you a drink?", and we'll assume the usual rallying cry of denial/affirmation from everyone who has already drunk the Zany Carter Kool-Aid. And so...

Can I get you a drink?

Cheers,
Your Barman

See what I mean? A classic example here, of the type to stay away from. But he does have a tendency to grow on you......wait.......I didn't say that. (holds up clove of garlic) Be Gone, oh evil monkey boy!

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

The ZCs are fine so long as for your first one or several you are sitting firmly down

[phenomshel]

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

No, they sneak up on you.......especially the monkeys, llamas, dogs cats and penguins....

Weeellll then.... cats I'm used to. The rest could take some adjustment...

Does garlic help?? This is gonna be FUN!

Shel

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

See what I mean? A classic example here, of the type to stay away from. But he does have a tendency to grow on you......wait.......I didn't say that. (holds up clove of garlic) Be Gone, oh evil monkey boy!

Oh, pshaw! (I've always wanted to say "pshaw!")

I have it on good authority from the keyboard of one of our ever-delightful elders, that I'm just a perfectly harmless, little monkey. Besides, do you mean "like a mold?".

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

The ZCs are fine so long as for your first one or several you are sitting firmly down

[Shh, just quietly Am...the sitting down thing, it's purely psychological. One sip of a ZC and you're swimming in gravitational anolom....amonolie..ananomol...you're so totally spaced, that sitting "down" is like trying to get a fish to count its legs.]

Cheers,
Marc

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by phenomshel

Weeellll then.... cats I'm used to. The rest could take some adjustment...

Does garlic help??
...

If you mix it with butter, slather it on a sliced breadstick and chuck it in the oven for a bit, it tastes pretty damn good. I find that helpful.

Otherwise, no.

Cheers,
Marc (I'm not a vampire, though I do employ a legion of them in my legal department)

[desertgrandma]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

I have it on good authority from the keyboard of one of our ever-delightful elders, that I'm just a perfectly harmless, little monkey. EXcuse me? Were you referring to 'moi'?

Besides, do you mean "like a mold?".

Cheers,
Marc

I have just spent the better part of the evening 'massaging' my metadata.

HA! Bet you didn't know I knew all those fancy-dancy geeky words, did you??

[desertgrandma]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Marc (I'm not a vampire, though I do employ a legion of them in my legal department)

And he needs them......

[phenomshel]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

If you mix it with butter, slather it on a sliced breadstick and chuck it in the oven for a bit, it tastes pretty damn good. I find that helpful.

Otherwise, no.

Cheers,
Marc (I'm not a vampire, though I do employ a legion of them in my legal department)

I'm too busy laughing to formulate a coherent response....

Shel

[phenomshel]

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

And he needs them......

Anyone who has their own legal department probably does....

Shel

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

I have just spent the better part of the evening 'massaging' my metadata.

HA! Bet you didn't know I knew all those fancy-dancy geeky words, did you??

I've heard that if you massage your metadata too much you'll grow hair on your palms and go blind.

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

And he needs them......

I know. I wish people had an understanding of the words "at your own risk". I put it in every agreement in really fine print in a colour close to invisible and so it's not as if they didn't already know.

Originally Posted by phenomshel

I'm too busy laughing to formulate a coherent response....

Shel

Don't let that stop you. "Coherence" is not here given the favoured status it enjoys in other places.

Originally Posted by phenomshel

Anyone who has their own legal department probably does....

Very true, though most don't realise it. I just cut out the middle man/vampire/werewolf (There! There wolf! There castle!) and just advertise "Only vampires need apply". (Of course, any critical reference to legal folk excludes those like our own, wonderful Ricky: the crazy cat legal lady).

Cheers,
Marc

[Patrisha]

I am a 74 year old avid reader with a Kindle which I have owned since last May.
I was born and spent the first 30 years of my life in England and have a valid accent to prove it. These days, I live in Vermont where we are now having snow.
Before I retired, I was a lion tamer a.k.a a seventh grade teacher. I taught writing in a rural school in Mississippi for 30 years.

[phenomshel]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

I've heard that if you massage your metadata too much you'll grow hair on your palms and go blind.



I know. I wish people had an understanding of the words "at your own risk". I put it in every agreement in really fine print in a colour close to invisible and so it's not as if they didn't already know.



Don't let that stop you. "Coherence" is not here given the favoured status it enjoys in other places.



Very true, though most don't realise it. I just cut out the middle man/vampire/werewolf (There! There wolf! There castle!) and just advertise "Only vampires need apply". (Of course, any critical reference to legal folk excludes those like our own, wonderful Ricky: the crazy cat legal lady).

Cheers,
Marc

My first impression is now validated. Y'all are just as crazy as I am, and I feel RIGHT at home!!!

Shel

[desertgrandma]

Originally Posted by Patrisha

I am a 74 year old avid reader with a Kindle which I have owned since last May.
I was born and spent the first 30 years of my life in England and have a valid accent to prove it. These days, I live in Vermont where we are now having snow.
Before I retired, I was a lion tamer a.k.a a seventh grade teacher. I taught writing in a rural school in Mississippi for 30 years.

A very warm welcome, Patrisha.

My daughter teaches 2nd grade, my son-in-law teaches 6th grade.
What do you like to read? be sure and check out all our free books available here.
If you have questions or comments, be sure and jump in....the waters fine.......

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by Patrisha

I am a 74 year old avid reader with a Kindle which I have owned since last May.
I was born and spent the first 30 years of my life in England and have a valid accent to prove it. These days, I live in Vermont where we are now having snow.
Before I retired, I was a lion tamer a.k.a a seventh grade teacher. I taught writing in a rural school in Mississippi for 30 years.

G'day, Patrisha. Allow me to say some condescendingly "respectful" catchphrases regarding your collected years until desertgrandma justly thumps me with her big stick [WHACK!]. See? I deserved that. If you didn't bring your own stick, I'm sure desertgrandma has a spare she can lend you.

Welcome aboard. What's your poison? (by which I actually mean, "What do you like to read?" rather than my usual "Can I get you a drink?", though "Can I get you a drink?" is always a given when talking to me ).

Cheers,
Marc