Knowledge is Power

18 Comments!

1. DougM (Progophobe)
   Posted January 1, 2013 at 7:33 am |

   [swings legs over edge of bed, rubs eyes, blows nose, pops cold pill]
   Wad dat lad night? Oh …
   *cough*hack*sniff*
   Hab-by Dew Year!
   *cough*sniff*
   [shuffles over to coffee maker]

2. Colonel Jerry USMC
   Posted January 1, 2013 at 8:22 am |

   Two things:

   1. Approaching 7 hours into 2013 and, so far, OBoBo hasn`t told a lie…….

   2. DougM`s head cold: For some reason I do not get a cold. My lifelong average is about one cold every 10-15 yrs; give or take. When those rare colds arrive, I naturally have no tolerance built up. Sooooo, I developed my own *remedy*, which I will pass on to good Porch buddy Doug (…and any readers on this thread…)

   It is simple and has proven to be 100% effective for this child. As soon as I detect a cold (..like when waking up in a morning…) I go to the kitchen and select an ice tea glass. I fill it up with Evan Williams Kaintuck Sour Mash, 1783 (,,,also works w Wild Turkey…). I drink the contents to the last drop.

   Two results from this *cure*, both positive!!!!!
   1. It creates such a “hostile environment” that the critters pack their trash and bug out asa/fuckin/p !
   2. If they don`t——– I. DON`T, GIVE. A. SHIT!

   Has always worked for me. (…however there is a caution; in my case I limit my use of all transportation, except for an aircraft!…your`s may vary…)

3. Mr. Death
   Posted January 1, 2013 at 8:32 am |

   I woke up! yay!

4. DougM (Progophobe)
   Posted January 1, 2013 at 8:34 am |

   ColJ, *heh*
   The only time I ever get a cold is right after an annual physical.
   Ever.
   I suspect it’s vector involves the prostate.

5. mech
   Posted January 1, 2013 at 8:43 am |

   I’m awake and the kittehs are demanding to be fed. There appears to be sunlight on the other side of the window. Let’s see how things look after the hot shower.

6. Claire: rebellious pink pig with car keys - and a *cause*
   Posted January 1, 2013 at 8:50 am |

   You too, Doug?
   urrrrrgh…

   With 8 grams of Vit. C a day, I thought I’d managed to avoid catching it from The Mister. I thought.

   But it is much less severe. I merely feel like crap: he feels like hammered crap.

7. Colonel Jerry USMC
   Posted January 1, 2013 at 9:13 am |

   Claire,

   See item two of my cold cure. No vitamin C pill can do that, dearest…..

8. Stick
   Posted January 1, 2013 at 9:16 am |

   Glad to hear that with his no vote, Marco Rubio has tied up the Republican nomination for President in 2016. Everyone else can go home now.

9. dick, not quite dead white guy
   Posted January 1, 2013 at 10:15 am |

   Refused to watch any MSM airheads and coifs commenting on people jostling or ‘entertaining’. Instead, watched George Burns and Gracie Allen Show. Laughed a lot. Watched digital clock go to 12:00. Kissed wife, wished her Happy New Year, went to bed.

10. Maria Edi
    Posted January 1, 2013 at 10:48 am |

    Went to Mass (Latin Mass, I mean), had a great lunch avec mum, sis and younger niece, now I’m soaking into classical music – Mozart, Haendel and so on.

    Habby Dew Year for y’all!!! (no, I haven’t got a cold.)

11. Hog Whitman
    Posted January 1, 2013 at 10:59 am |

    It snowed here outside of Portland this early AM. Just about an inch. First this year. Possibly the last, but seeing as I already own a mounted pair of studded snow tires, I may have to go to Les Schwabs tomorrow and have them affixed. It’s free. One of the nicer things about Les Schwabs.

12. PeggyU
    Posted January 1, 2013 at 11:55 am |

    Well, someone plugged up a toilet and won’t confess. I noticed it after midnight last night, grabbed the plunger and went to town on it – no success. Gave up in disgust, told everyone not to use that bathroom, and gave it priority on the “to do” list this morning. I did manage to splash a bunch of toilet water on myself before I again gave up. Husband promptly went and got it unstuck. I have NO idea how he did that, since there’s only so many ways you can use a goddamn plunger, but as long as it’s working … and as long as it’s not some sort of foreshadowing ominous toilet oracle …

    Welcome (?) 2013. So long 2012: Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

13. Fat Baxter
    Posted January 1, 2013 at 12:30 pm |

    I went for my annual, 1st of January regardless-of-the-weather motorcycle ride. 55 degrees, 60% chance of rain. Encountered some misting rain toward the end of my ride. Not a bad ride, bundled up as I was under my riding suit.

    Oh, and the cats want fed/attention/played with/etc.

14. geezerette
    Posted January 1, 2013 at 12:58 pm |

    Christmas is packed up and put away ’till next year. The Mr. knows where everything is— never know what the year will bring. I think of that every year whilst I put it away. Ya know I might not even be here next year. Anyhoo my nose is tired from wiggling it and my eyes from blinking there was a lot to do so it takes much wiggling and blinking. It’s tough being magic. It’s freezing cold out but the sun is shining. It’s a football kind a day gotta watch Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl. NO MORE cliff diving. NO NO NO!!! Never want to hear those words again.

15. Hog Whitman
    Posted January 1, 2013 at 1:01 pm |

    Forget the plunger. Get a closet auger. Should be less than $10 bucks at your local hardware store. Fast, easy and it would take a solid concrete crap to defeat it. Even then it should handle it.

16. rickn8or
    Posted January 1, 2013 at 9:21 pm |

    In Dickensian terms I was “going over my accounts” this morning when, according to my bank, my Social Security Disability claim has not only been approved, but will be paid tomorrow.

    So why am I just now reporting this? Because it’s taken me from then to now to stop giggling like a schoolgirl!!

    2012 was a looong year, spent mostly with a pegged Suckage meter. 2013 is off to a roaring start. Just thought I’d share the good news with my Porch Minkee friends.

17. LLoyd
    Posted January 1, 2013 at 11:16 pm |

    Happy 2013 to All! I’m looking forward to having all the bastards in both parties thrown the f**k out of DC no later than Jan 2nd.

    Bastards.Bastards.Bastards.BastardsBastards.BastardsBastards.
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    Bastards.Bastards.Bastards.BastardsBastards.BastardsBastards

    

18. Desert Cat
    Posted January 2, 2013 at 9:53 pm |

    So how’s it going so far?

    See your next post above.