The Sphere
General Garbage => Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits => Topic started by: Bernie AKA on Aug 26, 2008, 03:55:22 PM
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Oil prices are already on the rise - fill up now! :scared: Time for the Spam and Bottled Water Destruction Derby in Houston stores!
This damn thing best not land on Monday. If I'm going to have to stay late every day afterwards handling claims, I'd better get a day off out of the deal. >:(
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for some reason, when I hear gustav, i think 'mahler' and not 'hurricane'
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Wish they had named it Gustavus, as in the Baron Munchausen movie character that blew everything down. ;D
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hahaha. what will become of the baron?
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He's not coming here? Boooo.
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Not according to the Cone of Uncertainty. :joe:
I think Baskin-Robbins shoud do a hurricane special called the Cone of Uncertainty whenever a storm gets into U.S. territory waters - for a dollar, the ice cream grunt closes his/her eyes and dives into the case with a scoop.
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I'd buy that for a dollar!
People in the Meridian area have already bought up all the gas cans and bottled water, and all the hotels are "no vacancy" since we're a regular evac route for coasters.
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Oil prices are already on the rise - fill up now! :scared: Time for the Spam and Bottled Water Destruction Derby in Houston stores!
I did! $32 to fill up my Neon.
*Had a brief bout of dyslexia
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Gas was $3.299 early this week...now at the same place it's $3.599. Plus, Labor Day weekend's always a bitch when it comes to gas prices, so this is like a double whammy.
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I've been opening my window and blowing really hard to push this bad boy away. It can't rain on Saturday. Gustav, keep back! Shit, rain like hell on Tuesday and give me an extra day's vacation.
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yeah...ohio's pretty boring. we had the remnants of fay yesterday, but that didn't amount to much more than a drizzle.
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Normally we get out at 3 PM on a holiday weekend Friday, but today we have to stay and wrap everything up in plastic like that Twin Peaks chick. :razz:
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You guys need to send that damn hurricane this way. Until today we've been in the middle of a drought so bad, that the pond in front of my mom's trailer park, that used to be 6 feet deep, is now less than 6 inches deep. And I've NEVER seen the pond shrink that much! It sometimes goes down a foot, but never enough so you can see nearly the entire bottom.
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Gustav narrowly missed where I live, but it's supposed to be heading northeast at some point.
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Gustav gave me a delightful afternoon of cool temperatures and rain. I was able to open the windows and turn the AC off. It was nice.
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HERE COMES HANNA! That fucking storm is dancing around Haiti. Oh, Ike and Josephine are coming too. I guess putting 2 in the pink and 1 in the stink really does offend God.
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I think it was the total stranger on public transportation part that was frowned upon. :)
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Hey, the metrorail is packed with Latinas who are drunk beyond consent.
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Gustav gave me a delightful afternoon of cool temperatures and rain. I was able to open the windows and turn the AC off. It was nice.
Here too. The weather ushered in by Gustav gave me the best night's sleep I've had in months. I love you, Gustav.
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Don't know who's responsible for it today (Gustav, Ike, etc), but it was gorgeous and comparatively cool here at noon. :)
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Gustav gave me a delightful afternoon of cool temperatures and rain. I was able to open the windows and turn the AC off. It was nice.
Here too. The weather ushered in by Gustav gave me the best night's sleep I've had in months. I love you, Gustav.
Yesterday was great to clean, steam clean and reorganize a living room. It sure felt nice walking outside to cool off. Today has been rainy and gross though.
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The most we got was spittle and some clouds. They were talking about how it was going to rain but the rain never happened. Not where I live.
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Forget Gustav! Ike is coming to wipe the foreign hordes out!!
The wrath of the thunder god descends upon this berg of shiftless unbelievers! Lightning, rain, and wind shall grind this city's bones to dust!
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Flordia can pull and Atlantis for all I care, as long as the price per gallon doesn't go up.
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Forget Gustav! Ike is coming to wipe the foreign hordes out!!
The wrath of the thunder god descends upon this berg of shiftless unbelievers! Lightning, rain, and wind shall grind this city's bones to dust!
Get rid of all dem sinners!
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Forget Gustav! Ike is coming to wipe the foreign hordes out!!
The wrath of the thunder god descends upon this berg of shiftless unbelievers! Lightning, rain, and wind shall grind this city's bones to dust!
Actually Ike's going to Cuba.
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...where it will send the hordes floating to Florida or, as it has been renamed, New Cuba.
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:vaderno:
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I suggest playing some Miami Sound Machine on a loop so you can better learn the native ways.
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Watch the new episode of Dexter, leaked on the internet. Me and Kary agree that Dexter gets Miami right.
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I've heard burn notice does too.
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Fer fuck's sake - here we go again. :goddammit: SCREW YOU IKE!!!
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Fer fuck's sake - here we go again. :goddammit: SCREW YOU IKE!!!
(http://tcritic.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/ike.jpg)
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Ike don't know me vewwy well in hurricanes - very organized, active, controlled terror about covers it, because I know when it's over I can go :tantrum:
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Ike doesn't take any back talk. You best watch yourself.
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The hurricane's in the middle of Texas and the damn thing's still a Cat 1.
For some reason when hurricanes come through the Gulf, we get a lot of rain too. It's raining like mad. Last time I checked the pond near my mother's house was completely dry... I wonder what it will look like tomorrow.
My mother called yesterday saying gas prices were going up to $6 due to the hurricane. I doubted that, but went out to get gas anyway because my car was almost at E and I'd have to get gas this weekend anyway. Out of paranoia, gas has gone up to $4.50 in some places, and the cheapest I saw was $3.89, with short lines at those gas stations. Cheaper Detroit stations had even longer lines. I bet most of those people heard the $6 rumor and went to get gas even though their cars have over a half tank.
Edit: I can't even joke about this shit. The fucker's coming straight for us! :keelover:
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Glad I bought gas on Thursday.
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Ike may have devastated parts of east Texas but there wasn't so much as a hiccup here. Swing and a miss!
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We are expecting rain from Ike the next couple days...cause after the bad boy took a major dump on Houston he headed directly north.
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When I saw where it was going, I laughed. I still wanted some rain though.
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Yeah well we don't need anymore so come up here and drag it back down there. And give us back Jessie James' bones while you're at it.
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Minor flooding, high winds, powet outages, and a tornado took out part of Plymouth! And the pond only has 6 inches in it right now!
And hurricane bears (http://), as well.
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Those are OUR bones now! Deal with it.
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The hell they are!
:: Gets his shovel and a road map. ::
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You'll never find him. Never.
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I'll just have to dig up all the bodies in the state till I do.
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So it'll be a normal Saturday night for you then?
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Pretty much.
That's how I got Walt Disney back from California.
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What did you do with all the Nazi paraphernalia?
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eBay.
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Oh dear.
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http://news.aol.com/article/as-ike-hit-victims-made-their-final/200418?icid=100214839x1210921296x1200662273 (http://news.aol.com/article/as-ike-hit-victims-made-their-final/200418?icid=100214839x1210921296x1200662273)
People that stayed for this hurricane and died fill me with irrational fury. Especially old codgers that think they know what's best. Who knows what's best now grandma? You're fucking dead! Good Job!
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No hurricane is like another hurricane. People on the coast who think, "Well, it held up fine during _____!" are idiots. The majority of the damage was from storm surge, and even though Ike was technically a Cat 2 for wind speed, the height & powet of the surge was a Cat 4. Run from water, hide from wind - hell, we had flood damage and we're 70 miles inland.
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Jesus, the more I read about Ike, the happier I am that it completely missed over here.
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How about a good story? Eddie found a gorgeous border collie (in heat, no less) after the hurricane. No way we could keep her - ads on Petfinder & craigslist to no avail. Got all her shots and a friend offered to keep her - she wiggled under the fence (friend neglected to mention that she'd be outside). I drove around and was about to give up when something told me to go down one more street, and there she was! Got her spayed and she's been adopted by a friend who has a border collie and wanted our foundling for his mom, but his dog is having too much fun with her. Since his dog is named Xena, her new name just had to be Gabrielle. Gay guys....
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:lol:
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Gabrielle was hot... especially in the early outfit. Series kinda lost me though when they started killing the Gods.
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I thought you were gonna say the series lost you when they started getting uber-gay. Ha. I forget exactly when I started tuning out.... which doesn't matter because I've seen every episode anyway.
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Gabrielle was like a hobbit. an ugly hobbit
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Well, Xena started attacking her, so her name is Molly again and she's living in our spare bedroom. Eddie wants to keep her, so we'll try for a couple of weeks. Working her in with our other dogs will take a while. So far, he's getting up at 5 AM to walk her - border collies need a lot more exercise than our 4 lugs, so we'll see how long this devotion to duty lasts.
Oh, and we're telling Comcast to fuck off 10/31 for U-Verse. The soonest they could come to the house to see why our HD isn't working is after Thanksgiving. Can get some channels on the non-HD box, and still no internet. But do they want our $140 on time? YOU BETCHA!! :poo: NO credits issued until they have all the outages fixed!
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What's U-Verse? And was I supposed to picture one dog hitting the other with a chakram?
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AT&T's IP TV/internet package. Phone too, but we're keeping the regular landline. Instead of paying $140 for digital cable & internet and $55 for phone, we'll be paying $129 for everything. :)
Close - Xena started going for the throat & belly, which wasn't too good considering Molly still had her spay stitches. Dog conflicts are more common between two females. We have all boys, but they've never been very friendly with dogs outside their little pack, so it has to go slowly. It's obvious she's more attached to Eddie, so "his" dogs aren't as accepting - then again, Sean & Killian are pointer & rat terrier respectively; not the calmest of breeds. Maki & Rowan are Eskie & Lab/shepherd and "my" dogs - they were fine after a few days.