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[The Troll]

I put out a few of those solar garden lights around the flower bed this summer. Does anyone know if you are supposed to put them up in the winter or can I leave them out?

  Lester, are they completly water proof.  In other words if they were covered with a snow drift and would let water and snow into the electronics.  If  you don't know and you like them take them up and put them in a dry place.  It really depends on how well you like them and how much they cost.

[The Troll]

No, not my mom. My mom passed. She's the mom of one of the kid's on my daughter's team.

Yeah, I had a very religious person in my family who actually said that I'm evil. Not because of a temper and I like the color black, but I didn't walk around in it all the time...it was because I perspire over my top lip when I get hot. I guess that's a sign or something. There's also the time that she took me to church, I had bronchitis and got overheated and started coughing. Rather than interupt the service, I got up to get a sip of water to sooth the cough. She said the devil was trying to come out of me and I ruined it.

It's amazing that I turned out fairly normal.

  Well, if she not your mom and a religious pain in the ass.  I would take her to the side and tell her that you're an atheist and you don't care to hear all of that religious  stupid bullshit.  And when she around you to keep her damn mouth shut about it.

  Also tell her at that time that if she says anything about you being an atheist you will deign it and you will sue her for slander.  Also remind her, "oh, you know how much a lawyer cost to defend yourself.  I have over the year worked with a lot of religious nuts and I do not suffer them to well.  I will tell them off and they think the devil is alive and well.   I could get by with it because I was a union member and didn't fear losing my job or a soccer team mother and did not have to worry what the other mother would have to say. 

[Lester Sasquatch]

  Lester, are they completly water proof.  In other words if they were covered with a snow drift and would let water and snow into the electronics.  If  you don't know and you like them take them up and put them in a dry place.  It really depends on how well you like them and how much they cost.

Thanks Troll, I think I will leave them out. They were cheap, $2.50 each on close out sale.

[Sandy Eggo]

Maybe running and then standing on my feet for 6 hous was a bad idea? Owwwwwwwww !

[The Troll]

Maybe running and then standing on my feet for 6 hous was a bad idea? Owwwwwwwww !

  I think I know how you feel.  I still remember that first 8 mile hike with rifle and field pack 8 miles in ill fiitting combats boots.  When I first went in to the Army.  As I remember I lost the skin of the heel of my right foot.   Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!

[Palehorse]

Some days you step in it, some days its a mudslide that engulfs you. . .

[Sandy Eggo]

  I think I know how you feel.  I still remember that first 8 mile hike with rifle and field pack 8 miles in ill fiitting combats boots.  When I first went in to the Army.  As I remember I lost the skin of the heel of my right foot.   Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!

No, Troll buddy, I think you have me beat on that one. When I was a teen, the green army jackets and combat boots were a fashion statement w/our ripped jeans I never thought the boots were comfortable and I've wondered how anyone hikes long distances in them or does PT.  Sometimes I go down to the beach to watch the seals workout and they have them running into the water and then jogging down the beach in their boots. I don't think I could ever do that. Anyway, hats-off! Mine was just a little muscle soreness from standing so long.

[me]

I think the sorest my feet ever were was when I did one of those 20 mile March Of Dimes walks a few years ago.  I've always been fairly active but that was a bit over the top.  It was just slightly worse than when we went to 3 State parks one weekend and walked almost all of the trails in each one for a total of 15 miles some of which were up and down hills and steps. 

[The Troll]

I think the sorest my feet ever were was when I did one of those 20 mile March Of Dimes walks a few years ago.  I've always been fairly active but that was a bit over the top.  It was just slightly worse than when we went to 3 State parks one weekend and walked almost all of the trails in each one for a total of 15 miles some of which were up and down hills and steps.

  I was in pretty good shape when I was a kid.  But one day at the Shade State Park on the it's longest trails and up down those steep hills.  It was all  you wanted.   Sleep all the way home.

[me]

That was one of them we did that weekend and Turkey Run too.  I was thinking there were 3 but it was only those two.  We camped at Shades the first night and did all those trails and then broke camp and headed for Turkey run, spent the next night there and did those trails.  My legs were like jello by Sunday evening.  The kids were still rarin' to go though...ugh.

  I was in pretty good shape when I was a kid.  But one day at the Shade State Park on the it's longest trails and up down those steep hills.  It was all  you wanted.   Sleep all the way home.

[Palehorse]

The definition of religion is: the shelter from fear. It is a shelter built upon a foundation of words and text against the fears of the unknown, of death or ceasing to exist, and of perceived hopelessness. Its roof is the very antitheses of the acquisition of knowledge or the limited scientific truths that would rain in. Its walls have been, and remain, a prison of cruelty, injustice, death and suffering to the entire human race. . .Mitch Snider

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." -Voltaire

"If there were not a Devil, we would have to invent him." -Oscar Wilde

[~vxn~]

well, the first 2 walks since stress fracturing my femur went... uh... not as well as i had hoped they would.  grr.... 

[Sandy Eggo]

Today's word challenge: use "nepenthe" in a sentence.

[Bo D]

Today's word challenge: use "nepenthe" in a sentence.

I had a colonoscopy on Thursday and thank goodness the doctor administers a nepenthe so that you don't remember the humiliation of having a six-foot rubber hose rammed up your arse. 

[followsthewolf]

If you remember the experience, the drug wasn't nepenthe. 

Probably the most famous reference to nepenthe was used by the character in Poe's "The Raven," who begged for it in order to forget his "lost Lenore."