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Greg Anos · 05-08-2009, 02:43 PM

Just got in from hand pollinating Amaryllises. The hardy ones grow outside here and are stupid easy to grow from seed....(but it takes 3 years for them to get big enough to bloom.)

Next year....Roses!

ShortNCuddlyAm · 05-08-2009, 03:28 PM

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Recuperating from a visit to the dentist - where it wasn't the pain of the TREATMENT that got to me, but the pain of the projected $$$ BILL $$$ he thinks I'm going to pay for it!

What's really funny is I'd told him I am being downsized at the end of the summer, so please keep in mind I won't be able to make any long-term commitments, and he smiles and nods and says "Sure, I understand" - then hands me a treatment proposal for cosmetic work that I don't really need, where I'd have to pay almost $5,000 bucks out of my own pocket!

Thanks, I think I'll just go for the "Big Book of British Smiles" look instead ... ;-)

HOW much???

And, as a Brit, what's wrong with British smiles?

krisk · 05-08-2009, 03:33 PM

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Right now I'm debating making Scotch Pancakes/Drop Scones/Pikelets (depending on where in the world you are), and writing a Hugo & Lefty story. On paper (for the first draft). With a fountain pen dating back to 1935.

(The link has some of my favourite recipe instructions ever:

wait wait just WAIT a GOL'DARN MINUTE!!!!

y'all let Am start cooking fairy pancakes in her girdle and didn't find that just a WEE BIT ODD!!!!?????

Bilbo1967 · 05-08-2009, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

HOW much???

And, as a Brit, what's wrong with British smiles?

I think the reference to 'The Big Book of British Smiles' is from a Simpsons episode (getting Lisa to accept a brace I think).

For some reason it seems to be an accepted fact in some parts that we Brits have bad teeth.

ShortNCuddlyAm · 05-08-2009, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

I think the reference to 'The Big Book of British Smiles' is from a Simpsons episode (getting Lisa to accept a brace I think).

For some reason it seems to be an accepted fact in some parts that we Brits have bad teeth.

Ahhh - not seen all that much of The Simpsons, so I must've missed that one!

*peers at teeth* OK - mine are a little crooked, and they're not brilliant white, but they're all intact - no fillings, no holes

And the only work I've ever had to have done was having an impacted wisdom tooth removed. :sowhere'sthesmugsmileygone?:

Bilbo1967 · 05-08-2009, 03:56 PM

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Ahhh - not seen all that much of The Simpsons, so I must've missed that one!

*peers at teeth* OK - mine are a little crooked, and they're not brilliant white, but they're all intact - no fillings, no holes

And the only work I've ever had to have done was having an impacted wisdom tooth removed. :sowhere'sthesmugsmileygone?:

Personally, I find the uniformly perfect (in colour and shape etc) teeth on show on US TV shows to be a little unnerving!

ShortNCuddlyAm · 05-08-2009, 03:57 PM

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wait wait just WAIT a GOL'DARN MINUTE!!!!

y'all let Am start cooking fairy pancakes in her girdle and didn't find that just a WEE BIT ODD!!!!?????

Seems perfectly normal to me... the yeti appreciated it, too

ShortNCuddlyAm · 05-08-2009, 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

Personally, I find the uniformly perfect (in colour and shape etc) teeth on show on US TV shows to be a little unnerving!

I have to admit I've only really noticed it when the teeth have been accompanied by a fixed-grimace type smile that doesn't make it up into the eyes - which either look bored or manic. That look can be rather scary! (I don't actually watch that much by way of TV or films, though, and most of the TV I watch is British.)

RickyMaveety · 05-08-2009, 04:51 PM

Trying not to melt. It's 93 degrees and 50% humidity out there today. You can't step outside for thirty seconds without breaking into a sweat.

RickyMaveety · 05-08-2009, 04:53 PM

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Personally, I find the uniformly perfect (in colour and shape etc) teeth on show on US TV shows to be a little unnerving!

Well, they have all been straightened and bleached. Either that, or they've had veneers put on. However, since I've had the exact same procedures done myself, I guess it would be remiss of me to toss stones in their direction.

ShortNCuddlyAm · 05-08-2009, 04:55 PM

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Trying not to melt. It's 93 degrees and 50% humidity out there today. You can't step outside for thirty seconds without breaking into a sweat.

Urgh! Fill up a pool and try and get in before the pups do!

LazyScot · 05-08-2009, 05:40 PM

Trying to work out if Jonathan Woss is actually our friendly uncle as he is claiming it is national donught week, whilst eating a donought. I really must change channels.

Moejoe · 05-08-2009, 05:45 PM

Editing - Magic in the Wind (Suggested by Dreams) and listening to Frank Black again

From Magic in the Wind -

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In the garage, collected along with a weightlifting set he’d never lifted, a rowing machine he’d never rowed was a bicycle he’d never ridden.

badgoodDeb · 05-08-2009, 06:32 PM

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wait wait just WAIT a GOL'DARN MINUTE!!!!

y'all let Am start cooking fairy pancakes in her girdle and didn't find that just a WEE BIT ODD!!!!?????

As long as the fairies don't mind how (or WHERE) she cooks their pancakes, who are we to object?

GeoffC · 05-09-2009, 06:46 AM

someone keeps telling me i've posted too much this week, so i must take some time out ?

pfffft ....

05-08-2009, 02:43 PM	#4636
Greg Anos Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,531 Karma: 37057604 Join Date: Jan 2008 Device: Pocketbook	Just got in from hand pollinating Amaryllises. The hardy ones grow outside here and are stupid easy to grow from seed....(but it takes 3 years for them to get big enough to bloom.) Next year....Roses!

05-08-2009, 04:51 PM	#4644
RickyMaveety Holy S**T!!! Posts: 5,213 Karma: 108401 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: San Diego, California!! Device: Kindle and iPad	Trying not to melt. It's 93 degrees and 50% humidity out there today. You can't step outside for thirty seconds without breaking into a sweat.

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LazyScot DSil Posts: 3,201 Karma: 6895096 Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Hants, UK Device: Kindle, Cybook	Trying to work out if Jonathan Woss is actually our friendly uncle as he is claiming it is national donught week, whilst eating a donought. I really must change channels.

05-09-2009, 06:46 AM	#4650
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	someone keeps telling me i've posted too much this week, so i must take some time out ? pfffft ....