Open Mic Sunday

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Open micHere’s your chance to talk about anything you like.  Or you can paste a link to something you found funny somewhere else.

We’re off on a ride to Waverly IL to visit some high school friends we haven’t seen in almost 40 years.

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Waverly is just Southwest of Springfield IL.  By car it’s about 2 hours from my house.  On motorcycles it’ll be about 2.5 hours.  We stop every hour or so for a butt break.

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291 thoughts on “Open Mic Sunday”

  3. I agree Richard, they have way too many here. When drunks start wiping out whole families with their foolishness, something has to be done. Not like the good ole days when you used to ride in the back of a pick-up with 6 people, 4 dogs and a cooler of beer.

  8. Jonco’s visiting high school friends he hasn’t seen in 40 years.
    I tried that, ended up walking around the cemetery for a day.

  16. Gotta go, Randy the snowblower guy is coming to pick up the mess (carpet, underlay, drywall, etc) from the carport to the dump. Will catch up with you later guys and have a great day!!!

  22. Damn, look what I’ve been missing, 217 comments. Oh well, got to watch the Braves play a good game.

  23. DJ AND KLAW, read the second to last sentence of your link DJ. Might want to rethink that, buddy.
    Just covering your back, so to speak.

  24. Bella – EEEUUUWWW! I missed that! Thanks for the tip heads up information.
    I also just noticed a little problem with the age requirement…we’re going to have to dress young. Hey Klaw, break out the white shoes and bell bottoms!

  25. Hahaha, I somehow just had this vision of DJ and KLAW as John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever.
    Now that’s worth a laugh.

  28. anything I want really? Ok how about this. If you are over 50 you should have to take a senior driving test. On this test you will be required to drive on multiple lanes highways at the speed limit, make multiple lane changes, and demonstrate that you know how to speed to avoid danger. Also, on this test the 50 year old will be required to drive in downtown area of a major city during rush hour. The un-roadworthy need to be removed from the Amerikan highways.

  29. Isiah – First off, where have you been? Second, the roads in South Florida would be empty, given your requirments. H-m-m-m, maybe not bad after all. Third, have you moved to Germany? What’s with “Amerikan”?

  31. isiah…if I gotta drive the speed limit, I’m gonna have to slow down a LOT. And other than the speeding thing, I’ll put my safety record and common-sense driving skills up against any under-30 on the road, in the city or on the open road.
    (BTW – Could you bump that age requirement up to 60??)

  32. I pay for the roads that I drive on and have for a very long time.

    I live 10 hrs away from any highway/freeway that you talk of isiah,
    do I have to go down there for my driver’s test???

  33. Hey, wait a minute. I’m 63. Up the age to 70. And yeah, here in Atlanta, the speed limit is considered to be the slowest that you are allowed to drive.

  35. Atlanta. Now that’s a driving test!!
    I-285 / Friday afternoon rush hour / severe t-storms w/lightning & monsoon rain / accidents in construction zones –pulling a 53 footer with 40,000 lbs of hazardous cargo. While in training. Been there – Done that.
    Bring it Isiah!! You’re gonna need a bigger test!

  38. Ok, driving a 5 ton during a white-out at goat river. Triple switch bach. Tractor-trailer in front of you but coming down the hill at you. A white out (snow) is no see except for tail lights.
    Bottom line is that I do somewhat agree with you isiah because I would rather drive in a blizzard than in the middle of city folk. I don’t think people lose their skills at 50 though, some people were born with no common sense.

  40. Get mad at me all you want. However, I am not that old geezer in the left lane with his blinker on going 10 below the limit and cant see over the wheel. I am also not that guy crashing through farmer markets. Airline pilots lose there license when they hit 60. All I ask for is that the demographic over 50 which have slower reflexes prove that they are capable of driving properly. Driving has become an elderly heaven and a young man’s hell.

  42. Look I dont see what is so hard about this. If you are old enough that the government says you dont need to work anymore because its too hard for you, what makes you think you can handle a nice 65 mph, multiple lane highway? To drive especially on the freeways you need fast reflexes not just experience.

    I am sure being elderly does help in some way. For example you can be self-rightoes a lot more. However, being self-rightoes wont improve your reaction time.

  44. You’re pissing me off you young whippersnapper and I’m backing out.
    One day you will be there. Don’t prejudge. Your age group (and younger)
    cause more accidents because of stupidity and speed. The ball is in your court.

  45. Actually I agree with isiah, too. At some point there should be a mandatory driving test, but 50 seems low.
    My mother, who is about 90% deaf, 4’11”, and 87 next month, was given a 6 year license last year based on only a questionnaire and an easy eye test and a hearing test (which I’m convinced she faked). She’s just told me she’s been diagnosed with the beginnings of degenerative eye disease.
    She says she’ll drive herself from the funeral home to the gravesite.

  46. Here is the Washington Post’s Mensa invitational – which once again
    asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding,
    subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.
    Here are the winners:
    1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the
    subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time
    2. Ignoranus (n.): A person who’s both stupid and an asshole
    3. Intaxication (n.): Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts
    until you realize it was your money to start with.
    4. Reintarnation (n.): Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
    5. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops
    bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately,
    shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
    6. Foreploy (n.): Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose
    of getting laid.
    7. Giraffiti (n.): Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
    8. Sarchasm (n.): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the
    person who doesn’t get it.
    9. Inoculatte (v.): To take coffee intravenously when you are running
    late.
    10. Osteopornosis (n.): A degenerate disease. (This one got extra
    credit.)
    11. Karmageddon (n.): It’s like, when everybody is sending off all
    these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and
    it’s like, a serious bummer.
    12. Decafalon (n.): The gruelling event of getting through the day
    consuming only things that are good for you.
    13. Glibido (n.): All talk and no action.
    14. Dopeler effect (n.): The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter
    when they come at you rapidly.
    15. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after
    you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web.
    16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into
    your bedroom at two or three in the morning and cannot be cast
    out.
    17. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in
    the fruit you’re eating.
    The winning submissions to the Washington Posts yearly contest, in
    which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common
    words.
    And the winners are:
    1. Coffee, n. The person upon whom one coughs.
    2. Flabbergasted, adj. Appalled by discovering how much weight one
    has gained.
    3. Abdicate, v. To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
    4. Esplanade, v. To attempt an explanation while drunk.
    5. Willy-nilly, adj. Impotent.
    6. Negligent, adj. Absentmindedly answering the door when wearing
    only a nightgown.
    7. Lymph, v. To walk with a lisp.
    8. Gargoyle, n. Olive-flavored mouthwash.
    9. Flatulence, n. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has
    been run over by a steamroller.
    10. Balderdash, n. A rapidly receding hairline.
    11. Testicle, n. A humorous question on an exam.
    12. Rectitude, n. The formal, dignified bearing adopted by
    proctologists.
    13. Pokemon, n. A Rastafarian proctologist.
    14. Oyster, n. A person who sprinkles his conversation with
    yiddishisms.
    15. Frisbeetarianism, n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up
    onto the roof and gets stuck there.
    16. Circumvent, n. An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by
    Jewish men.

  48. Mike F –
    Assaholic. I haven’t settled on a definition yet, but it’s either very good or very bad.

  49. i missed to much doing yard work today. so to get up to speed i will be the DD at the BBQ. hi bits. by bits. hi Bella. by Bella. hi again Bella. infidel is a great name and Isiah try a semi with double trailers 110k worth of lumber from Canada blizzard rear trailer passing me with a sharp corner ahead and the Columbia river on the other side of the guardrail. still not sure how i made it around that corner. serious pucker power.

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