Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

Woo Hoo!

Solar --

...bottom of last thread...

From last thread

Ivy,,,,no that's very interesting also,,but not the one,,,lets try this one

http://www.newscientist.com/section/life

Posted by: SolarCrete Author Profile Page | April 13, 2009 2:10 PM

Ivy, you could have at least added an ARRR!!! to your Woo Hoo! :-)

Craig
We have a blue front amazon parrot who by the name of Tootsie. Don't let the name fool you. he is one mean SOB. He wishes to be assured that no parrots were harmed in the creation of this post. And he told me to tell everybody that "I don't need no F#@%ing cracker either, so shove the F@#%ing parrot jokes"
For all of our sakes I assured him that we would respect his wishes.

Jack
Rubbing the notch in his ear, some times I'm a slow learner.

Pat

From last thread--

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/04/biden-gets-burned-in-the-spotl.html#comment-219272

OK Craig,,,going to have to get out my Pirate jokes,,,I hope none of them offends our Pirate Queen,,,,the one eyed Patd,,,:-))

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/04/arrr-the-return-of-pirate-joke.html#comment-219277

Craig, you're right, I missed the boat. But I'll hoist the flag here in honor of the Pirate Queen instead!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_O'Malley

Solar --

Are we now thinking alike? One of us is in trouble. (^_~)

The return of free travel to Cubarrrr

(04-13) 11:25 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --

President Barack Obama directed his administration Monday to allow unlimited travel and money transfers by Cuban Americans to family in Cuba, and to take other steps to ease U.S. restrictions on the island, a senior administration official told The Associated Press.

Where did the Somali Pirates have lunch today? Arrrby's!

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/04/arrr-the-return-of-pirate-joke.html#comment-219281

Not me you are the one in trouble,,,Im just going to get a little smarter hanging around you HA! (~/|\~) but you might have one benefit,,,you will be able to choose the # 2 when U get a message for picking, 1 for Engles,,,and dos para espaniol,,,(^_~) arr-haha-arrrrrrrr-haha

I have to admit, for a man with a parrot on his shoulder I'm not very good at pirate speak. I'll have to leave that up to Craig and Corey.

Jack

To top off the miracles today, my papa owl finally showed up this morning, first time all long weekend that he did. I even sat out watching and waiting. I had resigned myself to thinking that something may have happened.

When the sun finally came out this morning I went out in the boat. I had one of my river rats friends along in case there was any problems on her first workout in years. It was smooth sailing and it was beautiful out there. I was high as a kite.

Then as we were creeping thru one the scenic little back cuts, my cellphone rang. It was my stepfather's work hand. He had to bring him back to the hospital because he was weak and his blood pressure was too low. Damn those Drs. who over medicate their patients. His Shrink has him on enough drugs to kill an old man. Shrinks are famous for that.

That was pretty much the time when the blue corn miracle ran out of steam. Arrrgh!

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/04/arrr-the-return-of-pirate-joke.html#comment-219286

You're already one smARRRt dude. (~/|\~)

(There's got to be a fARRRt joke in there too).

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/04/arrr-the-return-of-pirate-joke.html#comment-219276

Solar --

My friend will appreciate your article even more because she went to Africa to study wildlife. Thanks!

Belay all that, Mateys. Pirate 1st Class CT, that therrre's supposed to be a parrrot on thine shoulderrrr not a damn'ed Owl. ARRRRR.

Must be a Barred Owl, if it's out and about in the daylight.

I hope it all goes well for your stepfather.

ROFL@Corey's Arrrrby's!! Classic

Phillies TV man Kalas dies at 73
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4064793

Harry is outta here.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/04/arrr-the-return-of-pirate-joke.html#comment-219292

XR --

That would be a bARRed owl Carol's got there...

from last thread: " I'll probably end up catching them on dvd since I'm terrible about watching these week to week type shows."

Rez -- same here. and hopefully Ward Churchill was not consulted...:) I do want to see it though.

"Where did the Somali Pirates have lunch today? Arrrby's! -- Posted by: Corey"

good one, corey, but we sure it's not the Golden ARRRches!!!

Or Burrrrgarrrh King

How many hostages do Somali Pirates still have in custody? Two hundred and thiRRRRRty!

"Or Burrrrgarrrh King. -- Posted by: Katherine Graham Cracker"

for a WhARRRppARRR

jack, a parrot joke for you:

Where do pirates find their birds? Parrots Without Partners.

Hey,,is it still Sunday,,,I thought that we only had fun on Sunday,,,

Jack,,,,They say my great grandmother had an that used to say,,,the SOB is drunk again,,the SOB is drunk again,,,when my G F came home drunk,,,he would have gotten shot if he messed with that bird.,,,It also used to swear at him,,and call him,,,,the names that he called the servants,,,they say,,,and it looks like your in the same pirrrrrrrrogue as he was HA!,,,Patsi,,I like that word!,,,,,,,

just got an email submission from David Shuster:

"Funny as hell, crawford. I think that one remaining pirate will be permanantly SCARRRRRED.

Cheers
Shuster "

Jack,,,,My grand mother had a parrot,,,that should read,,sorry

btw that parrot joke should have had quotes and a cite
http://www.piratetreasure.org/pirate-jokes.htm

Yes it is a barred owl/family. Good guess guys.

I did manage to get my useless sister to go up to the hospital to check on my stepfather but not without a lot of bribing, begging and pleading. That was another miracle.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/04/arrr-the-return-of-pirate-joke.html#comment-219283

Only about 50 years late, but at least it has now been done.

For those needing help in talking like a pirate
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/

book coming....
Official talk like a pirate say is 9/19

I'm not going to encourage any of you, but here is an arrrrrrrrrrrrrrtical about newspapers going non profit

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/04/13/nonprofit_journalism/?source=newsletter

good work, jamie, i l want to see those ARRRS in comments, with or without a joke. We're ready to go, we're FARRRed Up!!!

oh my fARRRRking god....

this piRRRRRate talk is hARRRd wARRRRk!

CARRRRRRol..... I have the same sister......

This time, this sister stomped her peg leg down. No more abuse on my last day ARRRF.

alright you scurvy dogs, carry on. i gotta get back to TARRRbo Tax

Actually my sister is on her way over for me to feed her. I better close this site down or I will be forced to walk the plank.

Time for the Sing A Long

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKnIi05XNK4

Will ARRRRegon Democrat show up here today?

Or for you pirates in NYC....will JuliARRR!!! show up?

and where's LARRRd ARRRse when we need him?!?!?!

CARRRRRRey....

the question is..... ARRRRRe you really hARRRRR?

alright you scurvy dogs, carry on. i gotta get back to TARRRbo Tax

Posted by: craigcrawford.myopenid.com Author Profile Page | April 13, 2009 3:53 PM

The tax preparrrrrrrrrrher of Secraaaaaaaataaaaaaaaary Geithner
you might have to walk the plank

I've been musing on the rumor that an appointment of Caroline Kennedy is 'unacceptable' to the Vatican. Of course, this is just rumor mongering, but a few thoughts come to my mind.

1. a. What if, in the years between 1933 and 1990, the soviet union had demanded that we send a dialectical materialist to be our ambassador ?
b. What if Germany1933 - 1941 demanded that our ambassador believe in 'aryan supremecy' ?
c. What if Japan would only accept an ambassador woul believed that the Emperor was a god ?
d. What if the only acceptable ambassador to Saudi Arabia would be a Hanbalite ?
e. What if we sent the Vatican's Ambassador home with the message that in the future we will only accept an ambassador who believes in freedom of speech ?

2. IF the rumor is true, here is a short selection of potential Ambassadors to the Vatican City:
a. Rev. Rick Warren
b. Rev. Matthew Fox
c. Rabbi Stacey Offner

You might have some names to add to this list.

Of course, it is ONLY a rumor.

I bet Tom DARRRRRchsle didn't use TARRRbo Tax.....

I'm watching the Detroit TigARRRRS!!!

Avast ye Lubberrrs, that orrrterrr a-been, 'RRRev. WaRRRen, RRRev. Matthew Fox, and RRRabbi Stacey OffnerrrRRrrrrr'. B'limey, this 'errre pirrrates' cant is a harrrd 'un.

Thanks Xrrrrrrrr it looks like you and me arrrrre the only sane ones hearrrrre,,,,,they even got RRrrrrrrrrrrr to act a lttle crrrrazy,,,Im glad that you and I don't follow the crrrrrowd huh!

Day's getting on and I don't think we've had C-Bob's This Day in History...

We've got to say Happy BARRRthday to Thomas JeffARRRson, third president, 1743.

Ah, Crrraig, yourrr a lucky one to be pying enny taxes this yearrr.

I neverrr knowed therrr'uzz a tax on Turrrbot. I hopes they don't catch me, acuzz I hain't pay no tax on Turrrbot in all me yearrrs aboarrrd this 'errre ship.

SolarrrCrrrete,

Arrrre you accusin' me o' bein' sane ?

Them arrre fightin' Worrds. Arrrgh.

Put up thy Cutlass and die like a Pirrrate, orrr walk that cursed plank !

I meant 'currrsed', o' courrrse. Arrgh.

You should start an Anti-Catholic hate site, xrep. Craig could add it to the blogroll.

I didn't think that they had any pirrrrates in MN.,,,I thought all they had was old Goats,,,,hahaha

Are we going to be able to actually see those benefiting from gov.spending or are we just to know they are out there. Today was good lets see some more.

Too bad it's not Bill Clinton's birthday. He was from ARRRkansas!

Pirate supper time -

Fish and chips at Long John SilvARRR's :)

Hear about the pirate with gas? It was Arrrrrrrgon........

Hear about the the pirate who couldnt communicate with his mateys because he didn't speak the arrrrrrrrgot?

what's a pirate's favorite myth? Jason and the Arrrrrrrgonauts

the lovelorn pirate hooked the girl of his dreams......

oh........what does a pirate's dog say? Arrrrrrrf Arrrrrrrf

In the spirit of the thread, just to let you know, Facebook has a Pirate version, I've been using it for ages. Makes me lARRRRph.

Marilyn Chambers was found dead last night. She was 56.

Mark "The Bird" Fydrich was found dead today. He was 54.

Yikes..that's young..both of 'em...

"Sometimes I get lazy and let the dishes stack up, but they don't stack too high. I've only got four dishes."

---Mark, the Bird

Prior to becoming a porn movie star, Ms. Chambers had a brief career as a model and was featured as the wholesome looking mother on the boxes of Ivory Snow detergent.

http://www.sfsheriff.com/inmates/inmate20.htm

.. another bad guy behind bars

A jury today found Phil Spector guilty of 2nd degree murder in the 2003 shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson.

The jury found that he personally used the gun that killed her.

A judge denied bail and Spector was taken into custody. Sentencing is scheduled for May 29.

Yep, Fidrych was one of a kind. He was found dead under a pick-up truck he was working on at his farm.

If there's a rock and roll prison, I know they'll have a hell of a band........

Oh I missed Pirrrrrate DAAy.

Me duties at the ARRRRT Truck kept me away.

Carry on Mates.

Posted by: lord-bloggington.myopenid.com | April 13, 2009 4:51 PM : "You should start an Anti-Catholic hate site, xrep. Craig could add it to the blogroll."

Ya, I cooked and served Easter Dinner at Saint Peter Claver yesterday. What could be more anti-Catholic than that ?

You may not be allowed to criticise the Church bigshots, but I am a free man.

Harry Kalas died in the booth.

I always knew I'd out live Jerry Garcia, and maybe Marilyn Chambers, but I never thought I'd out live JFK Jr.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/04/arrr-the-return-of-pirate-joke.html#comment-219360

Did you share your views on the Vatican there?

April 13, 2009 2:13 PM PDT
Debate on energy, climate bill to begin next week

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10218083-54.html
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Here we go.

The Pope smokes dope....
God gave him the grass....
The Pope smokes dope....
He does it after mass....

the Pope smokes dope....
he's a groovy head....

the Pope...... smokes dope....

Sixty years ago, as penicillin became generally available, 54 was a respectable age. In the millenia before that, one was considered a senior member of the community at 40.

Saint Peter Claver

The son of a Catalonian farmer, was born at Verdu, in 1581; he died 8 September, 1654. He obtained his first degrees at the University of Barcelona. At the age of twenty he entered the Jesuit novitiate at Tarragona. While he was studying philosophy at Majorca in 1605, Alphonsus Rodriguez, the saintly door-keeper of the college, learned from God the future mission of his young associate, and thenceforth never ceased exhorting him to set out to evangelize the Spanish possessions in America. Peter obeyed, and in 1610 landed at Cartagena, where for forty-four years he was the Apostle of the negro slaves. Early in the seventeenth century the masters of Central and South America afforded the spectacle of one of those social crimes which are entered upon so lightly. They needed labourers to cultivate the soil which they had conquered and to exploit the gold mines. Thenatives being physically incapable of enduring the labours of the mines, it was determined to replace them with negroes brought from Africa. The coasts of Guinea, the Congo, and Angola became the market for slave dealers, to whom native petty kings sold their subjects and their prisoners. By its position in the Caribbean Sea, Cartagena became the chief slave-mart of the New World. A thousand slaves landed there each month. They were bought for two, and sold for 200 écus. Though half the cargo might die, the trade remained profitable. Neither the repeated censures of the pope, nor those of Catholic moralists could prevail against this cupidity. The missionaries could not suppress slavery, but only alleviate it, and no one worked more heroically than Peter Claver.

Trained in the school of Père Alfonso de Sandoval, a wonderful missionary, Peter declared himself "the slave of the negroes forever", and thenceforth his life was one that confounds egotism by its superhuman charity. Although timid and lacking in self-confidence, he became a daring and ingenious organizer. Every month when the arrival of the negroes was signalled, Claver went out to meet them on the pilot's boat, carrying food and delicacies. The negroes, cooped up in the hold, arrived crazed and brutalized by suffering and fear. Claver went to each, cared for him, and showed him kindness, and made him understand that henceforth he was his defender and father. He thus won theirgood will. To instruct so many speaking different dialects, Claver assembled at Cartagena a group of interpreters of various nationalities, of whom he made catechists. While the slaves were penned up at Cartagena waiting to be purchased and dispersed, Claver instructed and baptized them in the Faith. On Sundays during Lent he assembled them, inquired concerning their needs, and defended them against their oppressors. This work caused Claver severe trials, and the slave merchants were not his only enemies. The Apostle was accused of indiscreet zeal, and of having profaned the Sacraments by giving them to creatures who scarcely possessed a soul. Fashionable women of Cartagena refused to enter the churches where Father Claver assembled his negroes. The saint's superiors were often influenced by the many criticisms which reached them. Nevertheless, Claver continued his heroic career, accepting all humiliations and adding rigorouspenances to his works of charity. Lacking the support of men, the strength of God was given him. He became the prophet and miracle worker of New Granada, the oracle of Cartagena, and all were convinced that often God would not have spared the city save for him. During his life he baptized and instructed in the Faith more than 300,000 negroes. He was beatified 16 July, 1850, Pius IX, and canonized 15 January, 1888, by Leo XIII. His feast is celebrated on the ninth of September. On 7 July, 1896, he was proclaimed the special patron of all the Catholic missions among the negroes. Alphonsus Rodriguez was canonized on the same day as Peter Claver.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11763a.htm

Solar -
Nice catch on the drilling in Antarctica story, Sounds like a pretty deep hole. Sounds like these ice shelves melt a lot easier than anybody has ever guessed.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/04/12/rick_warren/index.html

"Rick Warren bails on ABC's "This Week""

"Of course it's hard not to link Warren's sudden disappearance to the firestorm over his claim, on CNN's "Larry King Live," that he had never campaigned for California's Prop. 8, which abolished gay marriage. It wasn't difficult to immediately find press statements and even video featuring Warren touting the measure. I don't know what Warren was thinking. Gay leaders and Christian right leaders pounced on Warren's obvious lie."

Don't know if this has been posted...

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/04/13/obama_to_lift_cuba_travel_rest.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/opinion/13iht-edcohen.html?_r=1

"Realpolitik for Iran"

"For Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, “a combination of ignorance and arrogance” under the Bush administration squandered countless diplomatic opportunities with Iran and so allowed it to forge ahead with its nuclear program."

Oh Max,what say you?

tony, that's Rick WARRRen!!!

CBob, it's AntARRRtica

and surely you know, sturg, it's CatARRlonian

My pals know that I don't kowtow to the heirarchs, so I didn't have to tell them.

I did ask a couple of friends, "What if stalin had demanded that our ambassador be a dialectical materialist ?" That drew a laugh.

in these parts of the sea, rebellious, we call him Pope BenedictARRR!!!

Craig,HA HA, Rick WARRRen!!! it is.....

lord blAARgington, come on now -- that was HARRRy Kalas who died in the booth

CB

I have been following the same stories (most) as you,have,,but this one is a little diff,,,I think that it will be definitive,,,(the findings) and match history with it once and for all,,,if they can see,,past history,,they can help see whats ahead of us,,,I became interested in ice coring cos of evolution,,,it also proved the atmosphere (air quality) during the dinosaur extinction,,,(strike that we still have XR around ) but they can tell a lot of stories (ice cores) about the past,,,as do the dried up oceans-- that are mountains,,and show the evolution of species of fish,,,,and us going back bill,,,of years...I save that article to me doc's,,,lets see where it goes.

Tony.,...about time you showed up,,,I was worrried that you were eaten by one of those florrrida Gatorrrrrrs,,,,Have you seen Chloe arrrrround,,,,,if you did get a picturrrrrre of her.

aye! aye!

Mr. Craig CrawfARRRRRd....

Crrrrraig,,,it's not Sturg,,,it's Sturrrrrrg,,,,got it?

this pirate stuff is really catharrrrrrrrrtic

that's better. ARRRGH!!!

...but Somali pirates don't talk like that.

...though to be fair, Lord Bloggington has never met a Somali pirate, thankfully.

Tony.,...about time you showed up,,,I was worrried that you were eaten by one of those florrrida Gatorrrrrrs,,,,Have you seen Chloe arrrrround,,,,,if you did get a picturrrrrre of her.

Hi SolaRRRR
I'm alive and just returned from an hour on the Stepper...Those damn Gator's, haven't seen one today...If I see Chloe around these parts I will try to get you that picture....Ha Ha,good luck with that.Hope your good...Glad you accompanied Judy to Church!! I smiled when I read that...I no how you feel regarding organized religion, me too but I still attended my nieces Christening or whatever they call it in the Greek Orthodox Church.Sometimes we have to go with the flow, it doesn't mean we compromise are beliefs.....

ar?

Har Har Harrrrdy Harrrr Harrrr......

--Ralph Cramden

CB,,,,,,here is what is diff....the nay sayers that you talk about ,,,won't be able to challenge this imo

Their model of Antarctica's ice sheets includes forces that most other models leave out, such as underside melting by ocean currents and rapid acceleration and thinning of glaciers when ice shelves collapse. In a Nature paper last month, they show that their model successfully reproduces the sequence of ice sheet collapses and expansions seen over the last 5 million years in the Andrill cores (vol 458, p 332).

They'll soon run their model into the future and they expect it to predict more rapid ice loss than previous models have. "I think that the numbers over the next 100 years or so are going to raise a few eyebrows," DeConto warns.

According to the Andrill cores, each collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet happened over 1000 to 3000 years, seemingly placing any crisis far into the future. But even that slow collapse could translate into 10 to 50 centimetres of sea level rise per century. Combine that with increased ice loss from Greenland and the sea level could rise to 50 or 100 centimetres by 2100 - the same amount predicted by another group at a climate change conference in Copenhagen last month.

Professor dude passes out on Glenn Beck show. If I had to listen to him very long I would also.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/13/david-bucker-faints-passe_n_186385.html

Anyone passing thru here today who is not familiar with the occasional hysteria that can sometimes hit this joint might think that C-Bob is mailing out something more than blue cAAARn.

I'm kinda stuck on this site today

Top 10: Steps to a better brain

http://www.newscientist.com/section/life

# 1 is for some of the old fogies

New favorite Quote: Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know "why" I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved.

BBC America news tonight had a wonderful piece about the Smithsonian exhibit of the art produced under the New Deal WPA. Well worth watching.

http://www.bbcamerica.com/content/329/index.jsp

art, arrrrt, you say?
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oops......I go now......lol

Smithsonian has a slideshow of the WPA art on exhibit available on line

http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/1934/index.html

Damn Struge, how long did that take you?

Just under an hour,,ct...I looked up his last post,,,,WOW!!

I copied it......found it by googling "moogle" which led to world of warrrrcraft and internet meme and oscar wildeizms.....

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Oscar_Wilde/classic

damnifiknow......that's some weird stuff......

Now, SolarCrete,

I'm not as old as all that. I can barely remember Wooly Mammoths.

Gotta be real high,,in order to make any sense out of that,,,real high!!!

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/04/arrr-the-return-of-pirate-joke.html#comment-219406

Damn xr,,,that was well hidden,,,,still have pretty good eye sight,LOL

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/04/arrr-the-return-of-pirate-joke.html#comment-219397

Carol,

It is supposed to have significant properties for "approaching the gods" :-)

We better stop here, or the narcs will be knocking on Craig's door.

Mr. Sturgeone,

I'm sure that I know that face and attitude. It's a portrait of former Senate Majority Leader bill frist, right ?

Well Jamie, it pretty much worked for me today. Had the best day today I've had in I can't remember how long. I ended the day dancing and singing karaoke at one of my river rat musician friends camp down the road. Back to reality tomorrow and I hope the corn follows me.

Ooow, maybe not. I just remembered that movie, Children of the Corn.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/04/arrr-the-return-of-pirate-joke.html#comment-219406

Sturgeone

That uncyclopedia is hilarious

April 21 History Channel

LIfe After People

http://www.history.com/content/life_after_people

I guess we watch it now before leaving.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/04/arrr-the-return-of-pirate-joke.html#comment-219411

All we have had today is rain and rain/hail mix. It has now settled down to drizzle. I like rain, but enough already, my gills aren't used to the constant exercise.

Jamie, I can imagine that all that rain could make a person cranky. I guess that is why your area seems to hatch so many serial killers.

It's getting real old, fast , isn't it?

Al Franken won, so now the MN Sec'y of State should Cerrrtify him, the Majorrrity Leaderrr should seat him, and then let Governorrr Potholes Aplenty rant about it until he p.o.s every Indie voterrr in the state - he's up for re-election in 2010.

Franken briefs that will be filed with the MNSC should remind the Justices of norm's '02 arrrguments for disenfranchising absentee voters and seating the new Senatorrrr ASAP.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/04/arrr-the-return-of-pirate-joke.html#comment-219418

I imagine the people who suffer from SAD are having a bad time this year. You couldn't depress me with a sledge hammer, but all the wet does limit activities. I may have to give up and go visit the zoo in the rain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtlUuQw986Q

Just had a nice video chat with our grandson up in Michigan--the one who turned 21-last week. He related a coming of age experience that most of us will relate to.

He and a couple of buddies went to a local restaurant for dinner. Jasper ordered a beer. And, for the first time in his life, he wasn't carded.

He asked the server why. She told him that he looked like the kind of person who wouldn't order something unless he was of legal age.

To make a long story short, Jasper ended up begging her to card him which she finally did, albeit under duress..

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/04/arrr-the-return-of-pirate-joke.html#comment-219413

Carol, it is really great hearing you in such good spirits!!

Today, I'm proud of my Ohlfahrrrt heritage!

Flawed design:

http://tinyurl.com/c59upk

We arrrr lacking in paying tribute to the namesake of the USS Bainbridge, Commodore William Bainbridge, veteran of both Barbary Wars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bainbridge

Time to drop anchor...

ah, Ivy, and as was noted earlier, this is Thomas JeffAARRRson's birthday, our commandARRR in chief for the First BarbARRRy WARRR.., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War

altho we usually play this video on July FARRRth, it seems fitting for TJ's birthday given our rememberances of his leadership in the Barbary War.. http://tinyurl.com/c9tbjl

Three shots, three kills...US Navy Seals on the job . No fault here...what else would have been better?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-vazquez/on-pirates_b_186015.html

I saw Mark Fidrych pitch in Cleveland one fine Saturday afternoon...and he was also the kind of player who was very fan-friendly, always would say "hi!", always the same hard-working working class kid who was shut out from the commercial world for some reason, and made a living hauling asphalt with a small fleet of dump trucks near Northboro. One of my all-time faves, dead at 54 as reported here earlier.
Harry Kalas was a great baseball broadcaster... I finally got to emjoy some of his work last summer on satellite radio games as the Phillies won the championship.

CBob, it's AntARRRtica -

Old man falls out of chair in Texas ........ Film at 11 !

Solar -
2 things about the story ...........

I loved any story about Antarctica since 1958 ............

And I tripped pipe in cold weather. That lab is running 24 hrs a day.
Which means , that rig is running 3 "towers" , you don't stand a shift on a drilling rig. You work the "morning tower", the "day tower", or the "evening tower". Drilling core samples , you drill a little bit ........ you pull the core barrel. You retrieve the sample. You run back in the hole you drill a little bit. You make the trip out of the hole.

Lot's of trippin' pipe.

I used to drive around Wyoming in the dark , looking for drills that weren't making the trip. If they were drillin', if they were makin' hole ....
I rode up on my motorcycle, and sold them T - Shirts.

"Please don't tell Mama I work in the Oil Patch .... She still thinks I Play Piano in a Whore House."

We've got to get some cabinet work for Sturg ..........

Sturg doing frescoes on the threads , bothers me somehow.

It's beautiful ...... But it ain't flying sawdust.

Now, I have to tell all my kin in an email, that my father has skin cancer, on the left temple, where all those years in a truck shined in on his face.

Bless his heart, he is very frail ..... I fear the radiation treatments will kill him.

Blodwyn Pig - Dear Jill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQybZDJiK7Q

Hey Ping -

Your fucking taxes are about to buy my dad's head stone .... You alright with that ????

Sorry Ping _
That was cheap shot .

My Dad in France the summer of 1944 , the best picture he ever took :

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/2126/picture171qx2.png

Build a fantastic contraption. You'll feel better. Sorry to hear about your dad.

What did the pirate do on his vacation to the mountains?
He stood on top of a mountain and said, "Yarrrrghalayyheeeeehooo!!!!"

What do pirate kids in pirate school do that makes the class burst out laughing?
ARRmpit FARRRts!

Those are headlights painted on his helmet ....... From driving in the Red Ball Express.

The Pope, a Rabbi, a Somali Pirate, and Rachel Welch are in a lifeboat ........

Lord -
There is no "better" from here, endurance that is all that comes next.

*L* @ Craig!!

tt

A B-24 ......... Flew over the house today, I found that pretty spooky as well.

All the more reason...

Improved (but uglier) design:
http://tinyurl.com/d2gsnj

It was a very spooky day, all in all... death, impending death, Christ transcending death... things of that nature.

LMAO! @ C-Bob!

"The Pope, a Rabbi, a Somali Pirate, and Rachel Welch are in a lifeboat..."

tt

The Wallflowers and Jordan Zevon - Lawyers Guns and Money

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KdHuZXWxGo

Fleetwood Mac "World Turning"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3_X9m3OMhY

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Jammin' Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCxegqMU17A

Big Audio Dynamite - The Globe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH0pGEpbI5A

The Tragically Hip - New Orleans Is Sinking:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJRA-mU33z4

Savoy Brown (Tell Mama)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlOh4N0rWVg

My friend Tom Mastin wrote this song in 20 minutes, and a bottle of Ripple. Watching a girl walk up the street in San Francisco -

Jefferson Airplane - How Do You Feel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Ngcs4aJ0c

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota court confirmed Monday that Democrat Al Franken won the most votes in his 2008 Senate race against Republican Norm Coleman, who immediately announced plans to appeal the decision.
.......................... After a statewide recount and seven-week trial, Franken stands 312 votes ahead. He gained more votes from the election challenge than Coleman, the candidate who brought the legal action.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gMpTmr96V5hKIfyHT4Av4jsVQgrQD97HUVQO0

Suck on it Norm .

Did max and jax ever come by and mention how happy they were with the successful conclusion of the pirate situation?

interesting article put up by Rezdog on another forum:
(Rez....hoping it's alright to reprint this?)

Rezdog
April 13, 2009 at 9:41 pm

It’s would be hard to agree with the lawlessness of the Somali “pirates”, but my leftest friend emailed this story which happened to be linked with Huffpo.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/you-are-being-lied-to-abo_b_155147.html

If you believe any of it, it seems all this lawless area is ripe for plunder of it’s fish and the dumping of heavy metals and nuclear waste by countries willing to do so. Leaving the fishermen of the area to go broke and hungry and turn to other means plus sickening and killing off the coastal inhabitants. quien sabe?

looks like shuster is in contention for best pirate joke......

shuster was also on top of his game with his "teabagging" puns on last night's Olberman Show........lol.....

What do Wall Street Pirates need when their ship springs a leak? TARRRRRp !