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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (59720)	4/18/2001 2:37:38 PM
From: Justin C	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I was a cheerleader My only claim to fame in high school was being a white guy who could dunk a basketball, a rarity 40 years ago. I was a late bloomer with the girls, but when it finally happened, my first girlfriend was a former cheerleader. My bloom peaked and faded early, sadly, and no more cheerleaders have come my way. I saw the movie "Someone Like You" recently and was reminded by Ashley Judd's cheerleader-renactment scene that there are of course more important and appealing qualifications that ladies possess other than "ex-cheerleader". But Ashley did look rather nice while doing the scene ........ We had a severe wind and hail storm Monday afternoon, leaving my neighbor looking like my portfolio -- all green, with spring leaves torn from the trees now covering the street, sidewalks, driveways and roofs (or rooves to some folks). With the leaves drying out today, the leaf-blower brigade has gone to work, adding a whirring accompaniment to the celebration of today's market. The storm knocked my electricity off for 11 hours, and I felt so-o-o California there for awhile. And to add insult to the situation, my 10-year-old TV refused to be resuscitated when the power was finally restored. I've always been a one-TV kinda guy, so I'm missing the happy market action on CNBC today. It's rather pleasant, actually.

To: Rambi who wrote (59720)	4/19/2001 9:35:56 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I bet you weren't a dollplayer. I hated dolls. I did bad things to them. Nope. Not a dollplayer at all. I didn't destroy them, but I always felt that playing with them had serious limitations. I mean, what are you gonna do with a doll anyhow? And that whole "baby doll needing to be fed and changed" thing...?? Ewwwwwwww........ Phoooeeeeyy on that!!! :-P Best toys that I had the most fun with were... lemme see... *** edit... I see by this list that I was a spoiled little brat! * A red see-thru plastic rocket that you put water inside of and then pumped to build up pressure until it took off. (That was a GOOD toy and I wouldn't mind having one of those again). * Some kind of little handle thing with a string attached to it that you pulled an this big whirling propeller thing shot up into the air. LOVED THAT TOY!.... but my DAD finally hid it because he got sick of having to go up on the garage roof to bring the propeller things back down a couple of times a day. * Plastic dart bombs that you put cap-gun caps inside of and threw at the ground or a wall to make a big bang. * A tiny plastic submarine that you filled with baking soda and it dived up and down in a sink full of water. I think we got it from the baking soda company. My brother flushed it down the toilet to be mean to me... (still haven't forgiven him for that). * Some real "working models" of construction equipment which which were given to my Dad when he bought the real full-size ones for his company. From old photos of me in our backyard, I see that I had a bulldozer, a back-hoe and one of those large shovels like they use in the gravel pits. * A "Whistler" Yo-Yo. * My harmonicas...had 2 or 3 in different keys. * My sheriff's outfit which consisted of a cowboy hat, a gun belt with a couple of pearl-handled 6-guns and a sheriff's star badge that had "Dodge City" stamped into it. * A Johnny West action figure guy and his horse, Thunderbolt. I got Jane West and her horse... can't remember its name (Shadow?), but I didn't like them nearly as much. Like Johnny West because he was sort of craggy and tough-looking, and he came with a strong box and some bags of gold. * A big castle that my Dad made out of a boot box... You opened it up and there was all of this "castle" inside of it...made out of cardboard and round cardboard tubes out of wrapping papers rolls, etc... It was REALLY NICE!! WOW!! He made the whole thing, then painted it grey and painted brick designs onto the walls....it was cool...it had parapets and a courtyard. You just opened the box and THERE IT WAS!! And there was a bag of plastic knights and guys in armor to go with it. That was the coolest damned present I can remember. * The dump truck load of beach sand that my Mom had delivered to the beach at our cottage each summer (we had a rocky beach). We would spend dozens of hours building castles out of that. * Tree forts in the forest at the cottage. I don't know what we actually did once we got them built. I think it got boring after that. I once had one... a really well-hidden one off in a part of the forest away from any trail that I made a skull and crossbones sign for and called it "The Jolly Roger Club". Arrrrgggh... Ahoy Matie... I was quite the pirate in my youth!! * An old rowboat with a 3 hp. motor that I was allowed to go all over the river in..and the Ottawa River is a BIG river. I used to go about 3 miles upriver to an island and have little cook-outs on the beach when I was about 12. You could do that kind of thing back then, but now... no way... * Kites--kites--kites-- I STILL love 'em. I have a few. In fact, I have been making some this spring. Like unusual ones that look really cool when they are flying around... star shaped, or box kites or modified box kites. We've got the land for flying them too. Have a 10 acre field beside the barn...wide open with no trees or hydro lines... Can really put a kite up high in the air out there. So, yah... how can a Barbie doll compare with any of THAT stuff, eh? Maybe if I hung her up from a kite by her hair??? ;-}>

To: Rambi who wrote (59720)	4/23/2001 5:39:54 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 71178

Testing, testing.... Eureka! It lives!! I have been without my computer for three days and I have lived to tell about it, but only barely. a;erojghkejgnaejgn3ijngksjdbpiwu4el43n6lkjgknv ,x/.khjdskjnb (warming up stiff fingers) Returned from San Angelo Sat. from the regional one-act competition (which they won and now advance to State) to get AMmo home for prom. He was gorgeous in his tails and his date looked like a young Grace Kelly. They were gone all night and I discovered while unable to sleep (I HATE prom and graduation nights) that my computer was down- it was terrible. I played 1300 games of FreeCell. Sunday, we discovered that a dead tree had blown down during the weekend windstorm and landed right on the cable wires. When i called they told me that it would take several days to get out here, but I wept and carried on about how I made my livelihood on the net and HAD to have it. I think he thought I was insane and he managed to schedule me for today, fearing I would disintegrate further and go postal at the cable offices- and he might have been right. Then I called a tree company to come take the tree down (Dan is in Acapulco-- he is ALWAYS out of town when things go wrong- and he calls it working, hoho--.) I waited all day and at 2 pm they all arrived at once. It was like a party! Four young men and me. I served drinks and was a scintillating hostess. Jp will be so jealous-- I had a young Denzel Washington and one who was a cross between Charlie Sheen and Greg Louganis. Enterntainment was provided by a rabid squirrel that leaped out at one of the men and chased him around the yard. I think I know now what might have happened to Tesh.