Scattelogical ramblings and desultory humor - SB Edition

Last one getting long. Coming from here:

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/802875/#new

Same old - any old nonsense.

" SB Edition " ???

Super Bowl. Or anything else you may care to insert.

Actually it is my initials. Gee thanks, Victor. Just what I needed.

Great! This thread is dedicated to Sharon!

Here's to you Sharran Bowl!

Al, you are such a treat!

I happen to know that SB has a bad case of the flu bug so she does need some cheer.

Ooh. Feel better soon, Sharon!

I think most of you know I have a handicapped son, I got this in an email today and it touched my heart in more ways than words can describe. I just wanted to share it with you, hope you enjoy it as well, we could all learn a lesson from Johnny.
http://www.stservicemovie.com/

My thought for the day:


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Very nice, Celeste. Thanks.

And thank you Victor, for the new thread. Even Comcast was taking a long time to load.
x, C

I liked it too Celeste. Thank you.

Excellent and touching message, Pixie. Thank you.

Heart warming message. Thanks, Pixie.

I always say that everyone has a gift to offer - if not many.

Nice saying Victor! Glad you all liked it...me for obvious reasons.

Well I just spent the last 2 hours playing TV trivia type games with Mallory. We did Jeopardy, Cash Cab, Weakest Link, and not trivia line but fun..Chain Reaction. I go up against the 19 & 20 yr. olds to keep it (my brain) active and fresh, they are better in the 'now' and I am great in the 'then'! LOL I even surprise them once in awhile!!

Good - remember you're representing us thirty-teen somethings!

I keep telling them there is great wisdom with age....im just still searching for the wisdom, found the age!

Ha ha!

Hi all!

I am not lost any longer. Victor found me.

Hi Candyce!

I think the wisdom found with age is that you should have taken better care of your self when you were younger.

Ha Ha! Good one Gloria!!!!!

There was a famous quote from a baseball player, to the effect that:

'If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of my self.'

Yesterday was antismoking day on daytime TV. Dr. Phil offered a man and his wife help if they would take it to undertake a no smoking program.

The man said, Don't waste your resources on me. Im not quitting. His wife also declined the offer.

'Live Fast, Die Young and Have a Good Lucking Corpse'. seems to be a prevalent attitude of the young.

Even amonst those who are not that good-looking.

gloria

I thought that was Woody Allen's quote.

Good looking corpse - Heath Ledger - he's just one of so many.

I'm being cremated because I don't trust anyone else with doing my hair or makeup.

Funny Pirl!

Live Fast, Die Young is from the story of Nick Romano, a novel made into a movie starring John Derek. Its a story about growing up fast on the streets of NYC. Woody Allen may have plagerized it.

Yesterday I received an e mail from a sick friend. she said she felt so bad she thought about putting on her make up, doing her hair, and dressing in her new red outfit -- in case she didn't make it through the night.

Nothing like dressing to the Nth for the undertaker!

Yeah. It is kind of bad that after learning how to do your own make up for 50 some years, in the end you have to trust someone else not to screw it up for the final presentation.

pirl...if you just make a video of your hair/make-up process, and leave all the necessary supplies in a box (this would include: application trowels, mixing bowls, putty knives, scrapers, primers, fillers and waxes) someone should be able to make you look pretty good for your swan song. Please reconsider.

oh it's so sad that he died! so sad that every day there is a new bad story about Brittany...

Pirl, I am with you... I am going to be cremated too... it's creepy to think that people will be looking at me and I won't be able to say anything!!!!! lol...

and since I don't wear makeup I would really look weird!

JD - I'd need a mortician who was also a general contractor.

Too spooky, Kassia, to have everyone saying how good we look at the end. Bill Cosby once did a great skit on the subject that was hysterical.

I always thought that whole idea is freaky!

it IS !

It's a big business. Took a religion class in college on death and we had a funeral director come and talk. What a load of crap he gave us about how necessary it is to view the body.

I, personally, don't care for wakes and funerals - I'm just not sentimental that way. Will only go if it's family-obligatory.

I think, under my body in the coffin, I'd have some electrical devices that make my torso sit up, head turn, eyes open, and say "Whatch you lookin' at, Willis?"!!!

I didn't go see my Dad after he died. My mother couldn't understand me not giving a hoot about what he was wearing or how nice he looked. I still cry when I think about him living and I was afraid of seeing a stillness that he never had while even sleeping. He was my rock. But I think I understood my mother wanting me to see him. It is what was done. An outward show of emotion for all to see. He wanted to be cremated, but she refused, saying "funerals are for the living". I found that mean and her just wanting to get in the last word. She always did, and still does, accept with me. I am just like her, I guess, but I will bury her as that is what she wants, even though I would rather cremate her. So I guess she wins. I don't get embalming. I like pickles, but I don't want to be one. Patti

QUOTED: I like pickles, but I don't want to be one. Patti


It's so funny. But its not funny. The death business I mean.

Here in Alabama there was a crematorium that didn't process the bodies, just left them laying around the property and gave the families a vase of dirt.

Several years ago I heard the Grand Matron of the Town telling someone exactly how she had planned her funeral. Where everyone would sit in her church for the viewing and what jewelry she would wear.

Her family had a closed coffin, grave side funeral.

So much for all her plans.

Despite my search I couldn't find any trace of the Cosby skit.

His plan was to have a recorder so when a dear friend said, "He looks just like himself", the recorder would reply in Cosby's own voice, "Hey man, I didn't look dead in life!".

You know I really don't usually think "humor" is funny.

Cosby is really funny. The NE forum is really funny also.

Sometimes when I come here - its a good thing I am not drinking something and swallowing.