Thought it might be fun to make a list of things that render an active, fun-loving thread... well, Dead.

I was reading the other day and I saw for the ka-zillionth time or so where some well meaning newbie jumped into a lively discussion to ask the question. You know the one... "What is a PB?"

Don't get me wrong, I am sure I did it too. Well maybe, I sure hope not.

What can someone post that will make you shut it down and walk away?

Did you hear about the new digital mammogram? Really, it was on the news tonight.

Yes, I had one!! No more squash-a-grams...yay. Gentle as can be. Now if they could just invent that for the pentulum thingy for paps...yay|!!! (i finally got my doc to warm it---threatened to use it on him...LOL

You damn CHEESERS!!!

Telly...

Just Cheese it... OK??!?!?!?!?!:heh:

no but you can axe me one.

:help: I hear that ALL of the time here! What the heck is up with that?

I have decided to rail road this thread into some of my musings on life... because I can.

#1: Inevitable Head Injury Day

So as many of you may know, I am legally blind. I can't see much of anything and will walk straight into people because, for me, they don't exist. This leads to many problems but my least favorite one is the inevitale head injury day.

That cat is whining at me. I assume he wants food or water. I'm wary of going out to check because we recently moved his food and water outside and I am certain when I bend over to check the bowls I will impale my head on something.

I put it off as long as I can but the cat's continual whining is driving me batty so I decide I'll take one for the team and go check the bowls. I wander outside, check the bowls and.... NO HEAD INJURY!! YAY.

I then wander back inside (the bowls were both full, stupid cat) and decide to open all the windows in the house because it's wonderfully cool outside. I open the boy's bathroom window, turn around and smash my face firmly into the door which has swung around without warning.

I KNEW I wasn't going to escape that damn head injury.

#2 Animals

Why on earth do I want animals? Sure I love that little cat but... what the hell does "waaa waaaa waaaa waaaa waaaa waaa waaa waaa waaaa waaaa waaaa waaaa waaaa waaaa waaaa waaaa waaa waaa waaa *breath* waaa waaa waaa waaa waaa waaa waaa waaa...." MEAN??

There's food. There's water. I've petted the little bastard (I am sure he has no clue who his father was). I've played toss the cat (fun game. He runs and jumps on the bathroom counter, I hurl him the fifteen feet or so to the bed, he runs back and jumps back up on the counter to be thrown again). I have catered to all his needs. "... waaa waaa waaa...".

And what was it he wanted?? Water from the sink instead of his bowl.

That concludes my rantings for now. More will surely follow.

no but you can axe me one.

Oy, yep - we have that here too. And maybe it's a midwest thing, I really don't know - it certainly wasn't this way when I grew up on the west coast - but people here pluralize everything, and turn entire sentences into one word. Example:

Yawntgo Walmarts wiffem?

Aight, but kinwego Sonics too?

Ok, something that secretly bugs me, just a bit. You "lose" weight, you don't "loose" weight. We're "losers", not "loosers" (umm... some of us might be though...) On a board I used to belong to there was one lady who would always exclaim, "I wanna be looser!" I don't think she knew what she was saying.

no but you can axe me one.

Oy, yep - we have that here too. And maybe it's a midwest thing, I really don't know - it certainly wasn't this way when I grew up on the west coast - but people here pluralize everything, and turn entire sentences into one word. Example:

Yawntgo Walmarts wiffem?

Aight, but kinwego Sonics too?

Ok, something that secretly bugs me, just a bit. We're "losers", not "loosers" (umm... some of us might be though...) On a board I used to belong to there was one lady who would always exclaim, "I wanna be looser!" I don't think she knew what she was saying.

"axe" is a southern thing too.

I hate it.

"Jeetyet?" and the proper and answers are "fixinto" or "nop-yant-to" to that question

For those of you that dont speak NC - red neck, that is "Did you eat yet?" and the answers are " I'm fixing to" or "No, do you want to?"

#3 Defying the law of Physics

Why is it that if I weigh, then use the bathroom, and weigh again.... I weigh MORE? How is THAT possible.

axe, and the misspellings that wheets has talked about are my big pet peeves. So is "eXpresso"....no X in esspresso people!!!

I also hated the putting an "r" into words where they don't belong. "Go warsh your hands" "My granddaughter lives in warshington"

The southern accents don't bother me though. I understand my husband's family better than he does. And after every visit I leave sounding like them as well. Its weird, but he grew up in Georgia, with parents from NC and TN, and he has no accent. makes me sad.

Dawg, as for the cat...i don't know what to tell you. Elwood speaks to me all the time too. I'll check the food and water, check the litter box (he won't go if it is the slightest bit dirty) and make sure he has his toys. he just likes to talk. So I like to think he is telling me how much he loves me.

We have a "Sonics" here also...

"Welcome to Sonics, may I take your order?" YIKES!!!

Lemme axe him to come too... Must be something from the South.

Wheets~ Same here about the LOOSERS! :0) pet peeve of mine... you guys feel free to point out my typos and spelling errors... I hate that stuff. I try really hard to make sense most of the time.

#3 Defying the law of Physics

Why is it that if I weigh, then use the bathroom, and weigh again.... I weigh MORE? How is THAT possible.

oh our scale is possessed. I can get on it. Step off, get back on and I have gained 20 pounds.

There is a particular person around the forum that drives me insane with his misspellings.

There is a particular person around the forum that drives me insane with his misspellings.

Pick me! Pick me!!

Some of the posts are SO hard to decipher...