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Jello, anyone?

no thanks, peabee touched it. ick.

Ooooo, pretty shiny colored thing!

I've just returned from the grocery store where I had an interesting experience.

While browsing the magazine rack, I was joined by an older gentleman who began to enthusiastically whistle along with the song playing on the store's speakers. I think it was the Beach Boys.

When "Everlasting Love" (Carl Carlton version) started to play, the man began singing out loud. He turned to me and said, almost conspiratorially, "Every gay black man should know the words to this song!" Then he shuffled away.

LOL! Hey, gay's original definition works here too! I wish more people were openly happy and expressive publicly, rather than walking around with poker faces!

>1 JPB: Fruit? :)

I got to see a minor league manager freak out!

He looks like he expects to be Knighted!

After he finished "sweeping" the plate, he got a bag of balls from the dugout and threw them onto the field.

I got my $5 worth today!

*Scuse ignorance*

The manager is the guy in blue? Why was he freaking out? What's a dug-out? Why is the player kneeling?

*wants to get situation*

I thought the manager was the kneeling guy and the blue guy is the umpire telling him to get the xxxx of the pitch. Red guy definitely looks more like he's spitting the dummy.

What precipitated that one? A bad call?

Manager is the kneeling guy, umpire is in blue. The player is in red, holding a bat. He said he got hit by a pitch, the umpire disagreed. Manager got very mad, then what you can see there happened.

random?

I just can't get past the dog incident in order to read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Also the reason the manager is sweeping the plate is to clear dirt off of it. This is meant to infuriate the umpire, since the umpire normally cleans the plate, and this is a message to the umpire that he is not doing his job! He can't tell balls and strikes properly because the plate is dirty! It's an insult, pure and simple.

#14 - Wow, sounds like a fascinating book!

Ah.

Thanks!

Er...why does the umpire normally clear the plate?

Helps the pitcher target the pitch, helps him determine whether a pitch is a proper strike or misses the plate and is a "ball."

Ok! Thanks. My yanky husband is no use at all. NONE!

I think he's a fraud. I think he's from Botswana and isn't telling me.

Hey, Botswana has a kick-ass baseball team!

Oddly enough, when I actually googled my joke...

http://www.internationalbaseball.org/botswana.htm

http://virtualglobetrotting.com/countries/BW

Hm, well he has no excuse then!

*stares suspiciously at husband*

Omg. He's a vampire! Thats what it is! HELP!

Here you go!



Good luck!

A friend of mine expects to be joining the Foreign Service sometime in the next six months. He was joking about going to Botswana; he'll feel ever so much better if I tell him they have baseball!

16> it's a really good book groo! Well worth a read :-)

In a weird combo of thoughts on this thread, one of my friends actually did some work in Botswana (she works for a government contractor), but her grandmother simply couldn't remember the name of the country and kept telling people she was in Botsylvania.

Well, I hear Botsylvania is where Botswana imports their batboys from!

Batboy!

Omg, Groo, nooooooooooo you can't say batboy.

It's what hubby and I used to say to each other for some long ago, forgotten reason. He really is a vampire then!

Compsi - I'll be taking that stake. Sorry hubby.

(husbands snorts from his computer)

By the way, that's a great job photoshopping your profile pic to make it appear to have been taken in daylight! You've got to get out of denial, Severn my dear, if Hubby is a vampire, then those hickeys you've been getting mean you are, now, too!

Boy: What are you most afraid of?

Me: Tornadoes. What about you?

Boy: Nothing really.

pause

Boy: When I grow up, it might be my wife.

*snicker* Be afraid, be very afraid! :D

Back to baseball: The manager is trying to say, "If you'd just clean off the plate (and your coke-bottle-thick eyeglasses) you could see the @#$$%* pitch was 'way inside." The umpire is getting ready to kick him out for over-theatrical posturing. The players and fans are spellbound.

Back to Botsylvania: I thought that was where Bullwinkle came from. Oh, that was Spotsylvania. Or was it? I remember he graduated from Whotssamatta U.

Back to the rainbow shiny thing: What is it really?

oooohhhh, shiny.... *stands transfixed*

mmm jello

I just called the police for the first time ever in my life.

The boy and I were down the block at the shore of the lake I live near. We go down every day to take pictures. Today there was a rowboat in the water but no people or vehicles around. Then my son saw a big fur coat in the water near the shore. I had him walk away in case there was something icky there with it, but looking around I didn't see anything 'human'. Still, those things weren't there yesterday. People often fish in rowboats on this lake but there's usually a vehicle that has transported the boat there. No people, no cars. And a big fur coat is just weird.

So we came home and I phoned the police dept. They'll take a look I suppose. I feel a little panicky now, like I overreacted and am being foolish.

Keep us updated, fleela.

A patrol car and a firetruck just pulled away from the shore area, so it looks like nothing to worry about.

whew

#37 - It would be GREAT if you did "overreact" but you did EXACTLY the right thing.

I agree with MrGrooism - I think you did the right thing calling in the experts.

I had to call the fire dept one evening for what looked like a scrub fire, it turned out to be a bonfire in someone's backyard, but from where my house is, it didn't look safe. The fireman who came to my place to see where the fire was (Wellington is a city of hills and wiggly roads which can make life interesting at times, particularly when trying to identify where a fire on another hill is) said that I did the right thing calling them - they would rather know when there was something small and odd before being called before things got totally out of hand.

Keep us posted if there is any further news

SONG: "old furcoats never die~~~they just float away"

and because Empire Strikes Back is on TV tonight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5blbv4WFriM

(caution title may be offensive to some)