Last one to post wins

[firecat1]

Firecat, That is a weapon... not a tool...

It's multi-purpose, depending on the need.

[CaptOldTimer]

First of all you are up late young lady!

That is a nice frying pan. Did you ever use it on Rick?

How about some great food fixed in it?

[firecat1]

Up late? YOUNG lady?!?!

I almost used my skillet on my ex but that would've been a waste of time and energy. Rick will NEVER need a frying pan upside the head. {Even if I ever tried, my poor skillet would probably crack!}

Oh wow... so many things I've cooked in that skillet! Rustic-style loaves of bread, fruit crisps, breakfasts {including camping-type brekkies}, all-in-one meals in the oven {like shepherd's pie}, meat of all kinds and, most important, grilled cheese sandwiches!!! I love my cast iron!

I keep looking in junk/"antique" shops for one of those old cast iron dutch ovens with the lid. I want to try in/near-the-fire cookery like what my great granny made.

I don't like what most stores carry now because it seems like it's all made in China and "feels" sort of brittle. I like Lodge(tm) cast iron and I know its quality is backed by generations of users.

[PaladinKnight]

I like Lodge(tm) cast iron and I know its quality is backed by generations of users.

Yes... My head has been laid into many a Lodge.


She tried the cheap spinoffs... they broke after a couple of uses. Now they are doggie bowls.

[firecat1]

Yes... My head has been laid into many a Lodge.


She tried the cheap spinoffs... they broke after a couple of uses. Now they are doggie bowls.

And just what did you do to deserve a skillet upside your head?

[Miller337]

And just what did you do to deserve a skillet upside your head?

OK it would appear that Mr Knight is not going to answer that question. Can't say I blame him.

How about we all get on the BIG YELLOW BUS AND GO ?.
A. To school.
B. Find a fire.
C. Go see Chief Woods.
D. ?????????.

I'll even drive since I'm already in the front.

[notfruitybutloopy]

The rotators on the bus go round and round....

[CaptOldTimer]

Firecat1, I have never had a skillet use on my head or any other part of my body. There has never been any reason to do such!!

[PaladinKnight]

Sorry for late reply...

And just what did you do to deserve a skillet upside your head?

It always seemed that somehow my head struck the skillet.... not the other way around.

I was told, it was my own fault and I should watch where I let my Head go...

Funny, I never saw that damn thing before I ran into it.



Life has become easier since I acknowledged everything is my fault and I am never right.

[MalahatTwo7]

Waiting for the enemy to blink

By Wesley Pruden

What we’ve got is war—a war between the taxpayers and the tax-eaters. The tax-eaters can’t understand why the taxpayers won’t shovel out the swag, salute as usual, and shut up. This time the taxpayers are fed up and they’re not going to take it any more.

President Obama, the swag man for the tax-eaters, can’t understand why the Republicans won’t join his crusade to add trillions of dollars—that’s trillions with a ‘t’, not even billions with a ‘b’—to the burden of the taxpayers.

Mr. Obama has never met a tax he didn’t want to kiss and cuddle, and can’t give up his itch to cuddle these new trillions. He pouts that it’s the Republicans, not him, who hold the “my way or the highway” attitude. He won’t sign “a 30-day, or a 60-day or 90-day extension” of the debt limit, even to keep the economy from a crash.

Adding trillions of dollars in new taxes, an Associated Press analysis reveals, will fall hardest on small-business owners and low- and middle-income families trying to reach for more prosperity. The president does not speak of this, focusing instead on the very few of the very rich.

In his frantic push for more taxes—his latest attempt to apply his medicine to an economy with an unemployment rate of 9.2 percent and rising—the president channels Marie Antoinette. He berates “tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, oil companies, hedge-fund managers and corporate jet owners.” Like Mzz Antoinette puzzling over why poor Frenchmen hungry for bread couldn’t eat cake, the president can’t understand why a baron of Wall Street would settle for a little Grumman or Falcon, even with a tax credit. The president has a Boeing 747, equipped with all the gadgets Silicon Valley can dream up, standing ready to take him and Michelle to Gotham to shed tears for the poor over a $400 dinner.

He won’t talk about “taxes”. He speaks fluent euphemy. “What we need to do is to have a balanced approach where everything is on the table.” Hear this: “We need to take on spending in the tax code.” Or try this: “You can’t reduce the deficit to the levels that it needs to be reduced without having some revenue in the mix.” Who said anything about raising taxes? Who doesn’t like “balance” and “revenue”?

Mr. Obama, with his trillions-dollar “grand bargain”, is flailing about in frustration because the Republicans refuse to speak euphemy, the preferred tongue of Capitol Hill, and doggedly talk in the Harry Truman English the Tea Party irregulars employ to call a tax by its right name. (This has the added benefit of being kind to the language.) Mr. Obama came to Washington as the master of pulpit rhetoric and he’s choking on mixed metaphors: “Pull off the Band-Aid. Eat our peas. Now’s the time to do it.” But who wants icky peas that have spent several days under someone’s Band-Aid? Not even Maxim’s of Paris could make a tasty dish of “Petits Pois sous Band-Aid.”

Euphemism, however vague, cute or inexact, won’t work this time if the Republicans can resist the urge, preserved deep within their DNA, to fold in the clutch. Taxes are an affliction that everyone understands; a CBS News poll finds that more than 60 percent of all Americans think Congress should not raise the debt ceiling. This obviously doesn’t mean the 60 percent think we should become deadbeats, like certain Europeans. The 60 percent understands that the prospect of default is all that can persuade Democrats drunk on spending that ruinous, reckless and irresponsible profligacy is an addiction with limits.

Maggie Thatcher years ago diagnosed the terminal ailment of socialists. “They always run out of other people’s money.” Sarah Palin, who sets liberal teeth on edge with her gift of cutting colorfully to the chase, observes that “the Sugar Daddy has run out of money.” We haven’t run out of money, not quite yet, but we take the ladies’ point.

The Democrats cry that the Republicans must agree to these tax increases or risk default because Democrats are incapable of making the cuts in spending to prevent default. Naturally the Republicans could understand this if they weren’t so pathologically dumb and willfully unable to learn from their betters. David Brooks of the New York Times, the most eloquent media voice for this view, says Republicans no longer have a “sense of moral decency” and can’t accept the “legitimacy” of “intellectual authorities.” What he means is that the taxpayers have finally got the tax-eaters’ number, and the “intellectual authorities” might as well get used to it.


(posted purely for satirical purposes)

[Miller337]

That pretty well says it alright. Hey by the way Malahat can I borrow a couple hundred?.

[BULL321]

Well I've let you guys and gals run with it for long enough. Time to take my rightful place up front!

[pasobuff]

Thanks for holding my spot Bull...I'll take over now!

[BULL321]

Thanks for holding my spot Bull...I'll take over now!

Fair enough, I've got to mow the yard before heading in to work tonight anyway.

[CaptOldTimer]

Fair enough, I've got to mow the yard before heading in to work tonight anyway.

Ha, I beat you to it. I mowed the lawn earlier before it got too hot for me to be out.



Be careful working!!

[notfruitybutloopy]

Ha, I beat you to it. I mowed the lawn earlier before it got too hot for me to be out.



Be careful working!!

No one told me it was going to rain.

[CaptOldTimer]

No one told me it was going to rain.

Hasn't summer school started for you? Why aren't you in school? You need to get your education.

[BULL321]

Ha, I beat you to it. I mowed the lawn earlier before it got too hot for me to be out.



Be careful working!!

Yesterday was Hooootttt!!!! The weather service had put out a heat advisory stating that due to the high heat and humidity, people could have a hard time sweating and possible over heat. Let me tell you Brother, I did not have that problem at all. You could've rung a gal. of sweat out of my drawers!

This heat is driving people nuts! If we had one domestic last night. we had 8. Which made for a long night, with only three men working. One of my guys is on vacation and the other down on his back. Oh well, it is what it is.

[CaptOldTimer]

Yesterday was Hooootttt!!!! The weather service had put out a heat advisory stating that due to the high heat and humidity, people could have a hard time sweating and possible over heat. Let me tell you Brother, I did not have that problem at all. You could've rung a gal. of sweat out of my drawers! NOT ME MAN!!!!

This heat is driving people nuts! If we had one domestic last night. we had 8. Which made for a long night, with only three men working. One of my guys is on vacation and the other down on his back. Oh well, it is what it is.

Yeah all the nuts come out when its gets hot, as it too hot hot to hang inside, so they drink and get into it with the old lady.

[BULL321]

Figure of Speech, Brother, Figure of speech. (I know I walked right into that one! )

It's a little cooler today, so lets cross our fingers and hope for the best.