[01-19-12 @ 7:43am] Huh... mayhem in the streets. Is anyone really enjoying it?
  :: PurpleHaze - VH2 is growing

[01-19-12 @ 10:10pm] That left only the ill-tempered and the goofy to stay at home, and call their favorite magazine and scream about not getting next month's issue yet.
  :: Dad

[01-19-12 @ 10:44pm] That's not true. I'm ill-tempered and goofy and stay at home but I have no magazine subscriptions. I guess I saw it coming. (And I actually do have a nice stockpile of bottled water in the closet... just in case.)
  :: Steve Ellen

[01-20-12 @ 5:28am] Well, it better be hidden behind a secret door or something, because if TEOTW ever happens, bigger people with bigger guns will come and take it.
  :: Ravenwand, Rising Star!

[01-20-12 @ 7:44am] I was going to write about TEOTW but decided to go into the weekend with a better face. Babble is back up. It's a game of refrigerator-magnet words cobbled together into sentences or phrases. People from all over the world play. http://www.mutantdog.com.
  :: PurpleHaze - VH2 is growing

[01-20-12 @ 12:23pm] The stores will be open, shoppers will be pushing their snot-nosed, crying kids in carts, and the highways will be packed with people going about their business--because few listen, few believe. Fear hides the rest. But Washington will be on recess.
  :: Suze spreading GPs for reviews

[01-20-12 @ 12:25pm]
  :: Suze spreading GPs for reviews

[01-20-12 @ 12:28pm] HEY, where are all the readers? All of sudden, no one reading around here. I have stories that remain untouched....do I have couties?
  :: Suze spreading GPs for reviews

[01-20-12 @ 9:11pm] Now you know what TEOTW feels like. The buildings are there... but they are empty. The bodies once alert and wet are now just lifeless husks tossed down the streets by the wind.
  :: Steve Ellen

[01-20-12 @ 10:39pm] And they're the lucky one. ... And, yes, Suze, you do have couties.
  :: Dad

[01-21-12 @ 9:45am] Where I grew up, it was called COOTIES, no "u". I, for one, am too busy writing VH2 for any reading, but I will sometime soon, I promise, Suze. So, in my case, you do not have cooties.
  :: PurpleHaze - VH2 is growing

[01-21-12 @ 9:43pm] Sure ya do,. Whether they are couties or cooties (obviously, my spelling abilities continue to be glaringly noticeable) your lack of time for reading doesn't mean you don't have cooties. Just less time to do anything about them.
  :: Dad

[01-22-12 @ 9:58am] "Couties" is the French spelling. Les couties de la tête.
  :: Steve Ellen

[01-22-12 @ 4:13pm] Oh, Steav, Yu doant hav tu dephend meye obveeus lak uv speling abillutee. Ai kann doo taht onn meye oan jst find.
  :: Dad

[01-22-12 @ 7:48pm] Yo southin accent iz gettin ta be too much!
  :: Steve Ellen

[01-23-12 @ 6:03am] Wut choo tockin bout, Willis? Dis ain't no southin axent, it's south-Central, homes. Taint no big thing to wait for the bell to ring. I'm gonna git you, sucka.
  :: PurpleHaze - VH2 is growing

[01-23-12 @ 8:04pm] By jove, you Americans are jolly good at accents.Oim 'enery the eighth, I am!
  :: Steve Ellen

[01-23-12 @ 10:03pm] You got married to the widow next door! She's been married seven times before, and every one was an 'Enery! (When you were in school, did you need a Tudor?)
  :: Dad

[01-24-12 @ 6:06am] He didn't need a Tudor, because they had a four-door with a rear hatch for their boot. Colour My Wourld!
  :: PurpleHaze - VH2 is growing

[01-24-12 @ 9:15pm] Harry Potter never could get the cars he preferred. He wanted Mordor's.
  :: Steve Ellen

[01-25-12 @ 4:49am] Harry who?
  :: Mr. Chowda Head

[01-25-12 @ 7:51am] You're mixing genres again, Steve. Just like taking Johnre Lennon and comparing him to Karl Marxre.
  :: PurpleHaze - VH2 is growing

[01-25-12 @ 7:52am] Wasn't Steve's post sponsored by Genrel Motors?
  :: Ravenwand, Rising Star!

[01-25-12 @ 9:36am] PH-you are right, it is cooties--I started the misspelling that led into these crazy posts with mis-typings. I started the fire-- of which I am not ashamed.
  :: Suze spreading GPs for reviews

[01-25-12 @ 9:09pm] You didn't start the fire, Suze. It's always been burning since the world's been turning.
  :: Singular Scribbler

[01-25-12 @ 9:25pm] Someday we'll build a time machine and go back and thank that first caveman fire user. He was a giant! ... What's wrong with "Harry Potter"? That's his name, ain't it?
  :: Steve Ellen

[01-25-12 @ 9:52pm] At least his name isn't Harry Palmer.
  :: Dad

[01-26-12 @ 7:51am] Speaking of names.... Steve has his place, Purp has his bar, I have my nest... When is Dad going to get a place? Like Dad's Den or something!
  :: Ravenwand, Rising Star!

[01-26-12 @ 7:53am] Dad's Den of Inequity. I'm sorry, Iniquity. Ichabod's Iniquity Istablishment. Nahh. If Dad's willing, I'll be the DJ at HIS place! Shen's Den.
  :: PurpleHaze - VH2 is growing

[01-26-12 @ 8:42pm] Dad's Den. No other name will sound as good.
  :: Steve Ellen

[01-26-12 @ 10:10pm] I've thought about opening up Dad's Bar and Grille, but I didn't want to compete with PurpleHaze's Apertifs. Then I realized I'm not upgraded. So I'll just haunt your places.
  :: Dad

[01-27-12 @ 7:50am] And the angel came out with her wand and magically turned him into an upgraded Dad.
  :: PurpleHaze - VH2 is growing

[01-27-12 @ 12:53pm] upgrade? What is an upgraded Dad called? What does one look like? I feel scared.
  :: Suze spreading GPs for reviews

[01-27-12 @ 6:19pm] Upgraded dads shower and shave every day and like to wear a fresh T-shirt. They don't spit on the floor or scratch themselves in public. They never fart and if you ask them for directions they don't try to send you the wrong way.
  :: Steve Ellen

[01-27-12 @ 9:45pm] But what the hell fun is that?
  :: Dad

[01-28-12 @ 5:51pm] Hey, I am warning you against upgrading. I have to change my socks every day now. It's like every day is Sunday.
  :: Steve Ellen

[01-28-12 @ 5:52pm] NEW IN&OUT! ... "The Editing Room"  ... Post in it!
  :: Steve Ellen

[01-29-12 @ 11:38am] Vampires are NOT overdone, they are just often done incorrectly.
  :: Singular Scribbler

[01-29-12 @ 9:27pm] Whoever heard of a vampire named Thad?
  :: Dad

[01-29-12 @ 9:32pm] I don't care how vampires are done - I don't like them.
  :: Steve Ellen

[01-30-12 @ 1:40am] Not overdone, Scribbler. Overused. Overdone makes it sound like they spent too long in the oven.
  :: Mr Zaborskii

[01-30-12 @ 5:49am] Exactly, MrZ... Overdone Vampire, in a creamy wine sauce? Don't get me started. Or even one of those baked-in-a-pie vampire dishes. I LOVE those. Crispy on the outside... But I digress.
  :: PurpleHaze - VH2 is growing

[01-30-12 @ 5:37pm] I think we evolved from Vampires, much like apes--only Darwin had it all wrong. That's why they can't find the missing link--they should look in Transylvania. I know there are a lot of blood suckers in my family
  :: Suze spreading GPs for reviews

[01-30-12 @ 5:47pm] I guess it's because I don't like the sight of blood. So naturally I am opposed to all things vampirish. What puzzles me is why anybody is actually attracted to vampirism. *shudder*
  :: Steve Ellen

[01-30-12 @ 5:58pm] well, women like their necks nuzzled but can only acknowledge that lust by inferring a monster taking them by force...wait, is it getting hot in here? Anyway, as I was saying...women like neck nuzzles--
  :: Suze spreading GPs for reviews

[01-30-12 @ 10:36pm] *pointedly ignores Suze's last post, and returns to her previous post* Lotta bloodsuckers in your family, Suze? Exactly how many lawyers are you related to?
  :: Dad

[01-30-12 @ 11:39pm] I don't know about the neck nuzzling thing. Most creatures would end in a puddle of blood if they tried to nuzzle anything on me without my permission. I'm not going to argue with you all. I can deal with a lack of interest. It's better than Twi-tards.
  :: Singular Scribbler

[01-31-12 @ 6:04am] One thing about vampires - they have no blood. Right? They crave it? Then, after the neck-nuzzling, how do they engorge their... well, you know. They can't!!!!!!! (sorry ravey, too many exclamation points?)
  :: PurpleHaze - VH2 is growing

[01-31-12 @ 4:28pm] Oh Dad, you are so silly and so smart too....
  :: Suze spreading GPs for reviews

[01-31-12 @ 6:24pm] I have discovered an incredible hidden WDC writing ML secret! Press the control key and then i. Or press the ctrl key and then u. See how that works? Wow! And don't tell me you knew about it all along!
  :: Steve Ellen

[01-31-12 @ 11:01pm] i u I get nothing. Yes, I did know that.
  :: Dad

[01-31-12 @ 11:39pm] Okay, then. I won't tell you. But I may use excessive subtlety to imply something.
  :: Singular Scribbler

[02-01-12 @ 5:35am] Are you trying to subvert the system again, Steve? Big WDC Brother is watching you. Be careful. I'd hate to lose such a quality place to hang out and shoot the breeze.
  :: PurpleHaze - VH2 is growing

[02-01-12 @ 6:29pm] Oh no. This is not another one of those deals where only my computer will do it, is it? What do I have? A Twilight Zone model?
  :: Steve Ellen

[02-01-12 @ 10:28pm] *listens to spooky music and sees a dead guy with no lower lip talking about the sign post ahead*
  :: Dad

[02-02-12 @ 11:06am] That CTRL key of yours is very special Steve. Mine did nothing except giggle uncontrollably when I pushed it.
  :: PurpleHaze - VH2 is growing

[02-02-12 @ 11:07am] Well, I didn't know that! I think that is cool! I'm glad you go to the meetings, Steve and then pass this information along to us. Poor Dad, he should never have upgraded. We tried to tell him. So many things do not work for him as it is.
  :: Suze spreading GPs for reviews

[02-02-12 @ 6:39pm] Yeah, upgrading Dad was like putting hubcaps on a cow.
  :: Steve Ellen

[02-02-12 @ 9:16pm] BUT I HAVEN'T BEEN UPGRADED!! It didn't work. But that can't crush the good mood I'm in. LIFE IS WONDERFUL!!!
  :: Dad

[02-03-12 @ 7:07pm] It sure is! Except when it stinks. But otherwise... it's great!
  :: Steve Ellen

[02-04-12 @ 12:55pm] Things that are 52... Dad. A deck of cards. A pickup. A bottle of wine. A bottle of 60-year-old scotch from 1952. What? Okay, forget that last one. It's been sold already.
  :: PurpleHaze - VH2 is growing

[02-04-12 @ 5:46pm] On the news last night: 52 is the largest age group in the country, followed by 53 and 51. Next largest? 21!
  :: Steve Ellen

[02-04-12 @ 8:51pm] Researchers were surprised to find that most 21 year old men still have a favorite number. They were amazed to discover it's 77. Then they learned that it's a lot like 69, but you get 8 more.
  :: Dad

[02-05-12 @ 7:19am] Oh? Is it silly joke time?
  :: PurpleHaze - VH2 is growing

[02-05-12 @ 7:20am] I went to the movies alone. I heard a strange sound. After the movie, I waited outside and sure enough, saw a lady walking her dog on a leash. I stepped up to her and said, "I'm not mad and I'm not going to turn you in."
  :: PurpleHaze - VH2 is growing

[02-05-12 @ 7:22am] She smiled. I said,"But I found it odd that your dog and I laughed at the same parts and - even cried at some of the parts. Don't you find that unusual?" She said, "Yes... He hated the book!"
  :: PurpleHaze - VH2 is growing

[02-05-12 @ 6:30pm] Do you ever look at the line of ML boxes above the submit box and wish you knew what "drop" & "pop" were? Doesn't it sound like a gym teacher's command? Drop and pop!
  :: Steve Ellen

[02-05-12 @ 7:21pm] No, I never did before. But, now that you've pointed it out to me, I'm gonna have to spend five or ten minutes wondering about it before saying the hell with it and moving on to something equally unimportant.
  :: Dad

[02-05-12 @ 7:22pm] And when is it not silly joke time?
  :: Dad

[02-05-12 @ 11:29pm] Dropnote

Dropnotes are very useful! You can add other links inside the dropnote area, as well.

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[02-05-12 @ 11:30pm] PopNote

Popnotes are cool too!

[02-06-12 @ 5:44am] Shyte. So a Dropnote can be used for Shameless Plugs... And PopNotes are silly but useful in a way. Thanks SS.
  :: PurpleHaze - VH2 is growing

[02-06-12 @ 5:49am] Singular

[02-06-12 @ 7:09am] LINK TEXT HERE

[02-06-12 @ 7:17am] uh, so this is how it works! ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Steve.

[02-06-12 @ 8:49am] So...

[02-06-12 @ 2:01pm] Everyone is fading away into some sort of text limbo! Where did everyone go? I'm afraid
  :: Suze spreading GPs for reviews

[02-06-12 @ 8:46pm] My fault. I tossed a toy into the cage. They'll get bored with it soon. VERY short attention spans.
  :: Steve Ellen

[02-06-12 @ 10:38pm] shiny!
  :: Dad

[02-07-12 @ 6:53am] I'm waiting for the doggy treats.
  :: Ravenwand, Rising Star!

[02-07-12 @ 9:51am] We'll be back right after this brief message from our sponsors:

ID: 1839877   (Rated: E) New Again Short Story Contest   Pull the stories from the closet and make them New Again by Suze spreading GPs for reviews

[02-07-12 @ 7:46pm] New Again? Is this like Trash and Treasure thrift stores? How about Dusty Retreads? Or Recycled Rejects?
  :: Steve Ellen

[02-07-12 @ 10:36pm] Why does Dusty Retreads sound like a Dusty Springfield tribute band? We have a Jethro Tull tribute band here. They call themselves Aqualung!
  :: Dad

[02-08-12 @ 2:59pm] I liked Dusty Springfield, not jethro---I was Motown, Al Green was the best, now I like country. My sister-in-law is an ELvis freak. The velvet makes me puke.
  :: Suze spreading GPs for reviews

[02-08-12 @ 7:44pm] You're putting too much of it into your mouth. Just lick it, don't swallow it. (Now watch somebody try to turn that into something vulgar. )
  :: Steve Ellen

[02-08-12 @ 8:50pm] Stewve! Appaently, your mind is in the gutter. Remind it to say hi to mine!
  :: Dad

[02-09-12 @ 12:40pm] Thanks Steve! Once again your advice proves invaluable. The chaffing went away as soon as I switched from the steel cuffs to the muff ones...you have so much expierence and you give and give and give...a saint, pure and simple, a saint.
  :: Suze spreading GPs for reviews

[02-09-12 @ 8:42pm] Thanks. Not many people notice my "I am a saint" button. I wanted the 3 inch size but all they had was this. Do you really like country music? I only like it when it's more like folk music, like Johnny Cash or Willie Nelson or really oldtime singers.
  :: Steve Ellen

[02-09-12 @ 10:25pm] I like the older country, too - you know, from the 50's to the early-to-mid 80's. What they call country today is, by and large, just a different form of pop. *waits for Mom to smack him in the head*
  :: Dad

[02-10-12 @ 3:14pm] country before country was cool...
  :: Suze spreading GPs for reviews

[02-10-12 @ 8:30pm] Although in our opinion that's when it was cool and now it's not.
  :: Steve Ellen

[02-10-12 @ 9:45pm] Strangely enough, that's the era for all music that I like. Regardless of what label you put on it, if it was recorded between 1950 & 1990, chances are I like it. Bobby Bare's "Singin' in the Kitchen" being the exception that proves the rule.
  :: Dad

[02-11-12 @ 5:20pm] Don't forget Bobby Goldsboro's "Honey", a song no one was able to destroy quickly enough before it became a hit.
  :: Steve Ellen

[02-11-12 @ 6:23pm] I like the 50s, but I think I've got a thing for the 20s and 30s too. I just can't decide. I sometimes walk down the hall, snapping while I pretend I'm wearing a zoot suit and fedora and there's jazzy music in the background .
  :: Singular Scribbler

[02-11-12 @ 8:39pm] I like some music even older. Glenn Miller, the Dorsey Brothers, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw. "Rhapsody in Blue" as recorded by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra is awesome!
  :: Dad

[02-12-12 @ 7:45pm] I like all that too. I even like jug band music.
  :: Steve Ellen

[02-12-12 @ 8:30pm] OK. Now you've reached the limit. Bands I like. Music I like. Jugs I like. Jug band music I do not like.
  :: Dad

[02-13-12 @ 7:42am] Bluegrass is awesome... Gimme some bluegrass!
  :: Ravenwand, Rising Star!

[02-13-12 @ 7:42am] Hoo Hoooooo - I'm playing a jug right now. In fact, I think I'll ask my favorite DJ to play some jug band music in my bar.
  :: PurpleHaze - VH2 is growing

[02-13-12 @ 11:07am] not familiar with jug band music ????? I really must have led a sheltered life, not that I was in the pound or anything--just well protected.
  :: Suze spreading GPs for reviews

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