I AM THE GREATEST THREAD ENDER OF ALL TIME!!!

[TUSooner]

OUinFla, making up for lost time I see.

On a side note, I was supposed to take my wife to the airport this morning for her trip to New York, and leave the house aroung 6:15am. She kisses me on the cheek, says don't worry about taking her to the airport, or waking up the kids to get them ready, and says that she'll pay for the parking at the airport because she'll get reimbursed from the U.

Anyway, I walk downstairs half awake, to give her a proper good bye. I kiss her, wish her a safe trip, and help her load her suitcase into my Tundra and she's off. So, I walk to the coffee pot to hit the on switch and there is a little post it note, with a love poem on it. So, I read it, smile, walk to the bathroom, and there is another note. So, I wash my hands, look in the pantry for some toast, and there is another note.

Finally, I sit at the computer and there is another note, all of them which are very nice and make me feel like the luckiest man on earth! Which I probably am, but fail to realize most of the time because I'm an idiot.

Then, I go to get the babies food ready for when he wakes up. Low and behold, the wife had gone to the grocery store late last nite after her meeting, to restock me for the trip, so I wouldn't have to do the shopping with two kiddies.

Needless to say, I'm a bit WOWED at the moment.

My wife is the greatest.

Sorry to ramble but I feel good ....

WOW. You might want to hold on to her!

[Jason White's Third Knee]

First off, I want to say to TUSooner that the catsup (why are there 2 spellings?) post was awesome, but is it true? That was the most worthless/interesting bit of trivia yet and I commend you for that. you have raised the bar.

TigerGirl, I nominate you as the official cheerleader for the ender thread.

Thunder, you'd better do something to deserve that kind of treatment. If you haven't yet, I suggest you start.

[Jason White's Third Knee]

KETCHUP: Also catchup, Catsup. A condiment consisting of a thick,
smooth-textured, spicy sauce usually made from tomatoes.[Probably
Malay kechap, fish sauce possibly from Chinese (Cantonese) ke-tsiap]

Notes: The word ketchup exemplifies the types of modifications that
can take place in the borrowing process, both in the borrowing of a
word and in the borrowing of a substance. The source of our word
ketchup may be the Malay word kechap, possibly taken into Malay from
the Cantonese dialect of Chinese. Kechap, like our word, referred to
a kind of sauce, but a sauce without tomatoes; rather, it contained
fish brine, herbs, and spices. The sauce seems to have emigrated to
Europe by way of sailors, where it was made with locally available
ingredients such as the juice of mushrooms or walnuts. At some point,
when the juice of tomatoes was first used, ketchup as we know it was
born. However, it is important to realize that in the 18th and 19th
centuries ketchup was a generic term for sauces whose only common
ingredient was vinegar. The word is first recorded in English in 1690
in the form catchup, in 1711 in the form ketchup, and in 1730 in the
form catsup. These three spelling variants of a foreign borrowing
remain current.

Source: American Heritage Dictionary, Third Edition 1992 MM by Dorothy
Flatman 1997 From: Dorothy Flatman Date: 06 Mar 97



Yep. Referenced.

[Jason White's Third Knee]

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[OUthunder]

What's the closer is that she's pretty damn hot as well! Just ask OUinFla.

[Jason White's Third Knee]

KETCHUP: Also catchup, Catsup

See! 3 spellings. Just another reason that we should switch to my new alphabet.

Ketsup

[OUthunder]

Heinz is sooo much better than Hunts though.

[TUSooner]

KETCHUP: Also catchup, Catsup. A condiment consisting of a thick,
smooth-textured, spicy sauce usually made from tomatoes.[Probably
Malay kechap, fish sauce possibly from Chinese (Cantonese) ke-tsiap] etc. etc. etc.

That is some darn fine useless stuff. I'm saving your excellent summary in my bulging file of inane trivia. <removes hat; replaces hat>

[Jason White's Third Knee]

That is some darn fine useless stuff. I'm saving your excellent summary in my bulging file of inane trivia. <removes hat; replaces hat>

I just copied that off of a website. I can take no credit. I was just cross referencing your post to bolster credibility.

[OUinFLA]

................. because I'm an idiot............ but I feel good ....

I see we have moved this thread into the "confessional"



Seriously, You Idiot!

[OUthunder]

I see we have moved this thread into the "confessional"



Seriously, You Idiot!

Thanks pal.

damn old geezer.

[OUinFLA]

What's the closer is that she's pretty damn hot as well! Just ask OUinFla.

I agree she is HOT.
The question is..........Does Thunder really deserve such a Hottie????

[TUSooner]

I agree she is HOT.
The question is..........Does Thunder really deserve such a Hottie????

And how does she feel about ketchup?

[Crusader]

They weren't kidding about not feeding your pets "people food."


RACINE, Minn. -- It's a variation on "the dog ate my homework." In southern Minnesota, the dog started the fire.

Mower County authorities say a dog is being blamed for starting a fire at a home in Minnesota over the weekend.

Chad Thomason told authorities his dog apparently tried to get at pizza left on his stove Saturday afternoon and turned on a gas burner that set the pizza box on fire.

Thomason was able to extinguish the blaze before firefighters could get to his house.

The fire caused about $200 in damage.

It's a good thing that fire wasn't in stillwater, because $200 worth of damage would have been pretty much the entire house.

[OUinFLA]

[TUSooner]

Good morning. Here's an excuse to bump the thread up again:
On May 13, 1940, as the French army crumbled under German invasion, Winston Churchill, Britain's new Prime Minister, gave his "blood, sweat and tears" speech, his first speech as PM to the House of Commons. He actually said, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." He also said that Britain's aim was "Victory, however long and hard the road may be." The full text of his short speech may be found at
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/churchill-blood.html

[OUthunder]

All of you are my bitches!

[TUSooner]

All of you are my bitches!

Gee, thanks.......

[OUthunder]

Gee, thanks.......

Its a rainy day. Cut me some slack.

On a side note, it is pouring down rain outside and the guy next door is mowing his lawn.

Rainman?

[colleyvillesooner]

yeah...yeah...gotta watch wopner