you haven't seen much of me on the boards or on MSN because i've had server problems

it happens that from time to time. The last few days I've had trouble getting online

and the only internet cafe in my town went out of business.

I will show up when I can

If you like nice cars you have to check out LadyInque's blog.

she not only talks knowledgabley about expensiveautomobiles she is familiar

with them being from a family who drives a Bentley and has

an Aston Martin as a 'second car'

I did quit smoking for eight years but now have maybe one cigarette a week.

it was never health issues - I was once congrulated by a doctor for being a

non smoker. He said he could always tell by the lungs. WELL at the time

I had been puffing away for years and was up to three packs a day for quite

awhile. I did quit because of a a girl - started again because of another.

and on and on it goes

I like to occasionally have a smoke and a cup of tea or coffee in the

evening when I enjoy the night air.

But only when I can have a really good smoke and I won't have one if I can't

have something I enjoy.

The good ones(those I prefer) are getting hard to find. i.e.:

Park Drive or Woodbine or Player's Navy Cut.

Not those girly 100cm tipped things in the black box...I mean REAL Players

if anyone knows where I can find a packet of Willie Woodbine

or untipped Park Drive give me a holler.

there is one shop in the UK with both Woodbine and Park Drive

products that no longer ships to the USA.

Iranian women's team was prevented from playing because of their uniforms.

The team was disqualified when their uniform was rejected by FIFA officials

because of a specially designed head coverings worn by the players. Initially,

FIFA defended the ban by citing the fourth article of the FIFA constitution, which

stipulates that clothing must be devoid of political or religious signs.

However hejab-compliant game uniforms had been approved by FIFA last

summer after long negotiations.

thus the uniform had been approved by FIFA, and the only subsequent change

involved the shirts, which were given a higher collar to cover the necks of the

players. Bizarrely, FIFA officials then cited concerns regarding the health and

safety of the players in a clear attempt to detract from allegations of

discriminatory behavior.

number 18 is wearing the rejected uniform while number 17 has on the

previously approved version.

Can't you see the huge difference that caused FIFA to fofeit their games?

Why did FIFA, which has spent millionof dollars to promote multiculturalism,

find it unacceptable for a Muslim woman to play soccer while covering her head?

Certainly the safety risks are minimal - of equal or greater danger are the headbands

and long hairworn bymany top male players. In the eyes of FIFA the hijab, unlike

the Vuvuzela, represents a form of difference that is unassimilable and unmarketable.

If FIFA is speaking in the name of a unified global culture, the message is that certain

Muslims, even those women who are fighting for empowerment, fall outside the fold.

In a sport that claims to forge global understanding through the shared language of

football, wearing the hijab still gets a red card.

13 Rajab, 1390 - 17 July 2011 - 15 Sha'ban

is the celebration of the birth of the Imam Mahdi (a.s.)

According to Hadeeth after the 12th Imam appears the Hadhrat Isa(a.s.)

will appear during his lifetime and be able to face and defeat the Dajjal.

Mahdi is a title meaning The Guided one.

Lengthy. Reliable. Talented. Influential. Tremendous.

Elevator for lift.

Wrench for spanner

Guy is no longer the hero of 5 November and:

as Americanisms take over it will become known as 11/5

All of these words we use without a second thought were never part

of the English language until the establishment of the United States.

The Americans imported English wholesale, forged it to meet their own needs,

then exported their own words back across the Atlantic to be incorporated in the

way everyone speaks back there.

Those seemingly innocuous words caused fury at the time.

The poet Coleridge denounced "talented" as a barbarous word in 1832, though a

few years later it was being used by William Gladstone.

A letter to the Times a few years later described "reliable" as vile.

My grandparents came to America and learned English as a second language

and their descendants have blended into the country. That has happened

countless times in nations with English as the primary language and it you

see it in the words that have been added here and there along the way.

English has become a Global medium of communication where Latin, French,

Spanish and Esperanto failed because they don't change as fast.

We use words we don't really understand all the time.

in sports for instance there are commentators who are always saying someone

is going to 'take it to the house' which is a curling term.

People in Britain use

'out in left field', 'Three strikes and you're out' which are from baseball

and Americans use 'stickey wicket' from cricket.

and from a business meeting in California:

the leader wanted everyon to speak frankly and declared the meeting to be:

'open kimono'

what a reference to imagine

and don't forget Canada and the USA with a few differences.

rainbow jelly or rainbow jello

all the English speaking countries are distinct from each other.

not worse or better just different.

we have our own subtley nuanced versions of English.

statistics are hard to gather for this but it is estimated by various sources

that anywhere from one sixth to one seventh of the worlds population

speaks English as either their first, second or third language.

this is a reason why so many languages with a small number of native

speakers go extinct. English is required to active in the global community.

especially when probably 40% of the worlds books are printed in English.

AND while researching languages I discovered that Marsian is extinct

that means after my astronaut license is approve and I am the first man

on the Red Planet I won't be able to talk to any live Marsians

I have a feeling I'm not as popular as I thought.

I've been put in goal for my darts team.

oops

So, earlier today, I was watching my cat hitting a cord hanging from our blinds

for about 10 minutes or so, and I started thinking"the ****ing stupid animal

is so damn easily amused'..............And then I realised that I'd been staring

at a cat playing with a string for ten minutes.

Sky News: "Emergency services were afraid they could be

swamped by a torrent of melted ice."

I believe the technical term is "water".

A policeman knocked on my door

but I just locked it and sat there in complete silence.
After 20 seconds he knocked again, but I just continued to ignore it.
The knocks got louder and more frequent but I was determined not to move in

the hope that he would just go away.
Then he decided to look through the window.
He shouted, "Do you think I'm stupid? I can see you in there, sir.

Open the door." I said, "You're not coming in mate!"

He said, "I don't want to come in, I just want you to step out of the car."

a sick joke, sorta.

A man is walking home late one foggynight, when behind him he hears:

BUMP...

BUMP...

BUMP...

Walking faster, he looks back and through the fog he makes out the image

of an upright casket banging its way down the middle of the street toward him.

BUMP...

BUMP...

BUMP...

Terrified, the man begins to run toward his home, the casket bouncing

quickly behind him.

FASTER...

FASTER..

BUMP...

BUMP...

BUMP......

He runs up to his door, fumbles with his keys, opens the door, rushes in,

slams and locks the door behind him. However, the casket crashes through

his door, with the lid of the casket clapping.

clappity-BUMP...

clappity-BUMP....

clappity-BUMP...

on his heels, as the terrified man runs.

Rushing upstairs to the bathroom, he locks himself in. His heart is pounding;

his head is reeling; his breath is coming in sobbing gasps.

With a loud CRASH the casket breaks down the door.

Bumping and clapping toward him.

The man screams and reaches for something, anything, but all he can find is a

bottle of cough syrup! Desperate, he throws the cough syrup at the casket...

and,


The coffin stops

PLAN FOR TODAY.

Have a bit of breakfast.
Sleep till dinner time.
Have some dinner.
Sleep till tea time.
Have some tea.
Spend a few hours with her, cuddling on the sofa, watching tv.
Then go out until its dark, shagging and killing.
Back home in time for breakfast.


Its a hard life being a Cat.

My girlfriend recently recommended

that I start using a toilet brush in the loo -

she said it had done wonders for her.

Well I got one and I've been using it for about a week,

but I hate it. It's so clumsy and awkward to use -

I'm switching back to paper next week.

From the Past

Whilst I agree with the 15 days in jail for the Teddy Bear teacher in Sudan,

for Insulting Mohammed was just.

I thought that deportation to Liverpool was a bit harsh....!

The Welsh language:

There to confuse tourists while the Welsh just read the English underneath.

Wales

I went to Cardiff last week and had a run in with the Taffia,

the Welsh contingent of the Mafia;

They made me an offer I couldn't understand...

A great day in sports. I saw three awesome sports related things today.

two in footy and one in baseball.

Japan and Germany in Women's World Cup Quaterfinals on ESPN.

a scoreless draw that went into a 30 minute extra period. I think the official

was influenced by the German home crowd. Two corner kicks were given that

should have been goal kicks and a couple questionable yellow cards but that

is par for the course in footy. in the 109th minute was the only goal of the

game by the Japanese. Their sub on a great pass by the Captain who a

few minutes later left the pitch in agony after taking a heel to the groin.

Japan over German 1-0 in 120 minutes.

Paraguay and Brazil played to a 2-2 draw in Copa America Group B action.

since America is not taking part you have to catch the matches on

Telefutura but theyhave a lot of football action with the Mexican Premier

League games. If you check the tables ... so far all matches played

in group B have ended in a draw

BASEBALL

Derek Jeter garnered his 3.000 career hit in styIe today when he his

2nd hit of the game and 237thHome Run of hiscareer made him the

28th player to join the 3,000 hit club and joins Wade Boggs as the only

two to hit Home Runs for the magic number.

Congratulations to Derek Jeter and the Women of the Japanese world

cup team which has reached to semi-finals for the first time and gives

their country something to cheer about, which they have not had much

of recently.

lets not forget our good friend Kinetic Core who is in Japan and has been

for some time.

I love my burgers and hot dogs like any good Yank.

But if you like beef, pork and chicken there is no reason why you should not

enjoy mutton and goat.

lamb if it is a less than a year old, hogget if juvenileat least one year old.

and mutton is the meat of an adult.

as far as i know goat is just goat or chiva - Mexican Spanish at least norteno.

and is especially good in barbecue but due to the similarity between

goat and sheep I would suspect you could use mutton or goat in the same

recipes.

There have been rumours of hybrids but few proven instances of offspring

from a male goat, female sheep. The infamous geep chimera.

I thought of this title as I cooked some hogget(young lamb)

for dinner tonight and it was delicious.

when i was younger I drank and ate just about everything. Most especially

beer and HOT food.

after a few birthdays why not partake of the things that have preservatives

can't do any harm and it might just help

If formaldehyde came in Lime Coke or Coke Zero I woulddrink it by the case

I would say to check Sofia's blog. she did a good Canada day

CANADA DAY

America is more Canadian than many realize.

What harm is there in Canadians running Hollywood, you ask? They're only

doing the work Americans won't, you say. In one three year stretch, the best actress category of the Oscars went to Canadians.

back in the day Mary Pickford, Norma Shearer and Marie Dressler all took the Oscar up north in consecutive years.

Canadians have been in Hollywood since its birth, defining and exporting a Canadian-constructed view of the USA whilst funneling profits back across the border to spend on waffle production, flannel shirts and the healthcare system.

No really how many knew that Ruby Keeler, Florence Lawrence, Beatrice Lillie, Glenn Ford, Walter Huston, Mary Pickford, Douglas Shearer, Norma Shearer, Jay Silverheels, Fay Wray and Marie Dressler were all Canadian and behind the cameras were fellow Canucks Louis B. Mayer, Mack Sennet, Jack Warner, Edward Dmytryk and Arthur Hiller.

in modern times also are James Cameron, Paul Haggis, Norman Jewison, Lorne Michaels and Ivan Reitman.

Walter Pidgeon, Deanna Durbin, Fifi D'Orsay, Margot Kidder, Erica Durance and Kristen Kreuk. Jack Pickford, Peter Jennings, Ryan Reynolds, Sandra Bullock. and Alan Thicke. and Jennifer & Meg Tilly.

Woodrow Wilson (who ended up in an asylum) had an out of wedlock child with Canadian Florence La Badie ..if that was a scheme to take over the White House I wish they had succeeded. Nobody could have done worse than than what we've had attempting to run the place

there arethe humurous Cunucks:

John Candy, Dan Akroyd, Michael J. Fox, Mike Myers, Eugene Levy, Tom Green, Phil Hartman, Michael Cera, Tommy Chong, Hume Cronyn, Jim Carey, James Doohan, Dave Foley, Matt Frewer, Robert Goulet, Will Arnett, Gene Lockhart, Norm MacDonald, Howie Mandel, Rick Moranis, Catherine O'Hara, Matthew Perry, Seth Rogen, Will Sasso, Martin Short.

don't forget our G4 heroinne Morgan Webb who is all Canadian.

and the Good Looking Canadians:

Sarah Polley, Adam Beach, Raymond Burr, Neve Campbell, Kim Cattrall, Hayden Christensen, Rae Dawn Chong, Elisha Cuthbert, Brendan Fraser, Ryan Gosling, Grace Park, Lorne Greene, Graham Greene, Corey Haim, Michael Ironside, Elias Koteas, Mia Kirschner, Sandra Oh, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page, Christopher Plummer, Jason Priestly, Keanu Reeves, William Shatner, Donald & Kiefer Sutherland

Personally I loved the movie Canadian Bacon it was hilarious and one of the best gimmicks was having Americans play the Canadians and vice versa. It was not the first show to have the gag of invading Canada which is good for a laugh.

Canadian Michael J. Fox used it on his television show more than once.

A quickie please

A man goes into a restaurant and is seated. All the

waitresses are lovely. A particularly pretty waitress

wearing a very short skirt comes to his table and asks,

"What would you like, sir?" He looks at the menu and

then scans her beautiful frame and answers, "A quickie."

The waitress turns and walks away in disgust. After she

regains her composure she returns and asks again,

"What would you like, sir?" Again the man thoroughly

checks her out and says "A quickie, please." This time

her anger takes over and slaps him across the face with

a resounding "SMACK!" and storms away.

A man sitting at the next table leans over and

whispers, "Um, Pal, I think it's pronounced 'quiche'."

A love story

I shall seek and find you.

I shall take you to bed and control you.

I will make you ache, shake and sweat

until you grunt and groan.

I will make you beg for mercy.

I will exhaust you to the point that you will be

relieved when I leave you.

And you will be weak for days.

All my love,

The Flu

Smoking habits

Two girls were discussing their heavy smoking habits.

"I get such a yen for a cigarette," said one, "that the

only effective countermeasure is to pop a Life Saver

into my mouth and suck hard." "That's fine for you,"

huffed her friend, "but I don't happen to live in a

house that's right on the beach!"

Dorm Rules

On the first day of college, the Dean addressed the

students, pointing out some of the rules:

"The female dormitory will be out-of-bounds for all male

students, and the male dormitory to the female students.

Anybody caught breaking this rule will be fined $20 the

first time." He continued, "Anybody caught breaking this

rule the second time will be fined $60. Being caught a

third time will cost you a fine of $180. Are there any

questions?"

At this point, a male student in the crowd inquired:

"How much for a season pass?"

The House Special

A man travels to Spain and goes to a Madrid restaurant for a late dinner. He

orders the house special and he is brought a plate with potatoes, corn, and two

large meaty objects. "What's this?" he asks. "Cojones, senor," the waiter replies.

"What are cojones?" the man asks. "Cojones," the waiter explains, "are the

testicles of the bull who lost at the arena this afternoon."

At first the man is disgusted, but being the adventurous type, he decides to try

this local delicacy. To his amazement, it is quite delicious. In fact, it is so

good that he decides to come back again the next night and order it again.

After dinner the man informed the waiter that these were better than the

pair he had the previous afternoon but the portion was much smaller.

"Senor," the waiter explains, "the bull does not lose every time."

The Frog Prince

Once upon a time in a land far away, a beautiful, independent, self-assured

princess happened upon a frog as she sat contemplating ecological issues on

the shores of an unpolluted pond in a verdant meadow near her castle.

The frog hopped into the princess' lap and said: Elegant Lady, I was once a

handsome prince, until an evil witch cast a spell upon me. One kiss from you,

however, and I will turn back into the dapper young prince that I am, and then,

my sweet, we can marry and set up housekeeping in your castle with my mother,

where you can prepare my meals clean my clothes, bear my children, and feel

forever grateful doing so.

That night, as the princess dined on a repast of lightly sauteed frog legs in

seasoned cream sauce she chuckles to herself and thought:

I don't ****ing think so.

description of photos if you can't see them.

Nr.1 shows two girls and it reads.

So dumb guys go for dumb girls

and smart guys go for dumb girls,

what do the smart girls get?

Cats mostly.

Nr2 Dad posts to Facebook

Hi I am fairly new to Facebook.

Mind accepting my friend request?

You made a Facebook?

WTF!

What does "WTF" mean?

Oh it means Welcome to Facebook.

Nr.3 is a game called.

Accordion Hero and says Let's Rock.

I finally started some PS3 games and have a couple more I'll get

around to pretty soon.

Little Big Planet is interesting and quite a bit of fun.

Lilo and Stitch is from the original Playstation and intended for the kids

who watch that cartoon they were and will be disappointed at the irregular

gameplay and terrible camera angles. Some times it is easy and at

other times it is easy to die doing the same things that were a breeze

just seconds before. And saves are hard to come by. Remember how

they used to rare?

Family Feud is modeled closely after the game show but is much too

easy to win. And just any gameshow you will want to turn the music

off very fast.

Babel, the King of Blocks is a rather unimaginative mini game that

...you guessed it. Stacks blocks, circles and triangles. The further

along you get the harder it is to keep the stacks from falling over but

never impossible.

Magic, the Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers. it is a card game.

I am not really one for cards games so I haven't started this yet but

I have played Yu Gi Oh Duelists of the Roses.

Streets of Rage 2 another I haven't started yet but it also looks good

Sonic the Hedgehog supposedly the original game but it just is not

quite the same on the PS3. Still it is great to be able to run around

with Sonic, Silver and Blaze once again

Our own Karla aka LadyInque out on the town with her best girl Juliet

They are in their lovely city of Buenos Aires and only the best clubs of course.

They encounter the one and only Det. Horation Caine.

yeppers it is David Caruso in Argentina and being huge CSI fans ...

go to her blog for the story first hand

but I forgot what it was so I'll just wish everyone a good summer.

I hope your football teams do well.

I hope your favourite baseball team does better than mine is doing

(darn Dodgers)

I hope you enjoy those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy days of Summer.

Iappreciate the sentiment but that is my mom's kind of music

I prefer HotFun in the Summertime

The ultimate song for this time of year isIn the Summertime

when partying on the beach all week during the summer

Sandman and others byAmerica

or songs by The Eagles were what we playedonour 8 track and later on our

cassette players. We opened our car doors and and trunks and

cranked the sound up. usually just left it all the way up we usually drove

around town with the windows down and Black Sabbath or another fave turned

all the way up.

I would alternate hard rock and hillbilly at high volume

Germany has over 100, mostly right-wing, student duelling clubs or

Burschenschaften, which claim an almost exclusively male membership of

around 10,000. Members wear 19th-century uniforms and take part in ritual-

ised fencing and beer-drinking competitions.

But the normally secretive workings of the Burschenschaften received

embarrassing publicity yesterday after disclosures that the umbrella

organisation was threatening to expel one club for admitting a German

citizen with Chinese parents.

the normally secretive workings of the Burschenschaften received embarrassing

publicity yesterday after disclosures that the umbrella organisation was

threatening to expel one club for admitting a German citizen with Chinese

parents.

Der Spiegel said the motion was accompanied by legal documents drawn up

for the umbrella group by the Alte Breslauer duelling club in Bonn and apparently

approved by a majority. The documents stipulated that prospective members

with "non-European facial and bodily characteristics" did not qualify as

Germans. The documents, written in part by a right-wing member of the

Bavarian conservative party, also said: "Especially in times of rising

immigration, it is not acceptable that people who are not from the German

family tree should be admitted to the Burschenschaften."

The race code row was threatening to split the Burschenschaften. Several

delegates at the Eisenach meeting were said to be highly critical of the

expulsion motion. One described it as "like introducing an Aryan identity card".

All this overthe right to earn a scar on the cheek.

Doesthat really have the value it did in the 18th century when sword play

still meant something? Now it is really like a big tree house club

and they are bemoaning the loss of the right to keep their old signs up.

"No Stinky Girls" "Whites Only" Sorry Fellas the times they are a changin'

Das Dritte Reich is being haunted by the ghost of Der Feuhrer.

this is btw from stories in recent "Der Spiegel" and "BBC"

I have a lot of marigolds in my flower garden.

Just love the scent when I pick the dead blossoms to make room

for a new flower to grow. after a couple of them the smell is loverly.

Smell my fingers

WHAT where you thinking anyway

I admit there was a girl who pulled that trick on me a few times.

I kinda liked her and she got away with it more often than

she should have. Like Lucy with the 'really I'm not fooling this time'

Take all the politicians out and shoot them and I will run a committee of

Gamespotters to set the rules for the world.

Beneviolent dictators don't you know.

(btw - I do have spell checker and preview)

actually the title of this blog is about my constant troubles with disconnecting

in games and from gamespot and other internet sites I have been getting

kicked from the internet with alarming frequency the last month or two.

I was about to give up on some games and thought 'maybe they are not

compatible with wireless' then when my PC once again could not 'solve the

problem' and told me to check the cables..FINALLY I SAW THE PROBLEM.

the outlet my pc was plugged into is the one that in the house that is loosey

goosey and it kept slipping out.

I moved it to the power strip on the ground and have one less worry.

After I lead the Gamespot/trilateral commision junta that takes over

the governments of the world everything will run as smooth as castor oil.

No worries about extremists of any sort.

Shriners and Freemasons have been in control from behind the scenes for

years now but we have decided the time isripe to make our move.

The Magic Conch Shell has spoken

In the world of hi-tech gadgetry, I've noticed that more and
more people who send text messages and emails have long
forgotten the "art" of capitalization.

Those of you who fall into this world, please take note of the
statement below.

I cannot put stress enough onhow important grammar is.

"Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack
off his horse and helping your uncle jack off his horse."

Is everybody clear on this?