The bedroom suite arrived today. That means the guest bedroom now has furniture too (my old set -- the historic one). I've got dining room furniture too.
In fact, I only have one room that's still sort of bare, and that's got the Christmas tree in it. I'd like to make it into a music room. But I have to steal the musical equipment because I can't actually afford it.
Caleb, you using your piano??? (j/k -- I would never deprive your friends and neighbors of your beautiful playing!!!)
Anyway, the Treadwell house (as it is known in these parts) is now open for visitors and tours. Ample parking. Informative video plays every fifteen minutes in the "den."
Entrance fees are waved for Hatrackers and those willing to take on jobs from the "honey-do" list.
Call ahead for priority seating and to let us know your dietary requirements.
You can bring a dog too!
Posted by Boon (Member # 4646) on :
Oh, I'd bring a dog if I had one, but do you really want my children in your home?
Edit for punctuation.
[ December 26, 2003, 02:12 PM: Message edited by: Boon ]
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote: Entrance fees are waved
In a little cloth bag? Or do you just hold 'em in your fist?
Congrats on the furniture! May you use it in good health. Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Boon,
Your kids are great!!! I'd even let you take them off the leashes once they settled down.
Seriously, bring the kids.
And why don't you have a dog???!!! What kind of parent are you????
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Rivka... LOL.
Thanks for the good wishes. The new bed is so HIGH!!! My old bed was really old and I'd transformed it into a platform bed, so it was low. This thing!!! Wow! The mattress is like 4' off the ground.
It makes me want to jump up and down on it!
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Bob, I refuse to believe that you are in a new place and getting new furniture until you CHANGE your Hatrack profile to read your new state...
.... unless this is to throw off the unsuspecting, of course...
FG
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
I don't want the Cards to find me. They keep putting out restraining orders against me. It's just not fair!!!
I wasn't going to REALLY do anything. Honestly!
You'd think there was something wrong with leaving myself in a basket on their doorstep. Or writing to suggest ways that Scott (friends call him "Scott") could use the character "Bob" in his various books. I'm only trying to help!
I will admit that stealing their old toothbrushes might've been over the line. And it really isn't my fault that I had to sell them on e-bay. I needed some cash to get away from the cops that THEY sic'd on me, for crying out loud!!!
Anyway, Kristine and Scott, y'all are welcome here at the Treadwell house anytime. It's in Bryan, TX. And why haven't you done a book signing in Bryan/College Station? We even have a Barnes & Noble, you know!!!
And before you ask...yes, I DID register with the police just like your last court order demands!!!
PS: I still maintain that once your trash makes it to the landfill, it's fair game!
Posted by Mr.Funny (Member # 4467) on :
LOL Bob
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Yeah...If you don't want people claiming your old underwear, you should shred it first before tossing it out. That's my motto anyway.
<Turns to personal display of OSC items>
My precious!
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
Hmm.... what was it that Terry Pratchett said about multiple exclamation marks?
*eyes Bob suspiciously*
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
I think he said only use them when you really really really want to.
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Okay, just for added enticement, I just got a lift-top coffee table. That way we can sit comfortably on the couch and have our drinks levitate towards us with a mere flexing of the arm and wrist.
Oh wait, I guess that's how one drinks normally.
Okay, look the whole top of the table lifts up on hinges. It's really cool. Trust me on this.
Cool I tell you!!! Very cool!!!
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
Bob. You're not encouraging people when you're behaving like this. Cut down on the exclamation marks. Trust me.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
I will trade you my 88-key keyboard for your lifty table thing.
Wait. No, if the keyboard doesn't fit in my room, another table probably won't, either.
-pH
[ December 27, 2003, 05:31 PM: Message edited by: pH ]
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
Hey Bob, now that you’re in a Big 12 college town, you and Kayla and I should all go to the basketball tournament. We could set an example of inter-collegiate harmony by sitting together peacefully wearing sweatshirts from our respective colleges.
Or we could beat each other over the head with pennants and try to throw each other off the bleachers, starting a Kansas-Iowa State-Texas A&M riot!
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
I'm game.
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
I prefer death-by-giant-foam-finger, but the concept is essentially the same.
I even LIKE basketball, so this could be fun. Which ones are the guys from A&M?
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Kama, people who accept my invitation will just have to realize that I'm an abuser of exclamation points. It's a free country, and until the US Government passes a law against it, it is my God-given right as an American to overuse whatever punctuation I feel so inclined towards.
Democracy has its ugly moments, and this is one of them. I don't really expect you to understand, having so recently emerged from a socialist system. But one of the things our boys in Iraq are fighting for is my freedom to abuse exclamation points.
In fact, I'd like to show my support for them right now!!!
And again!!!!!
Join me, wont you????? (just a little variety there to show just how far our freedoms extend!!!)
Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :
Heh? Bob, you're the greatest? How's life in Texas treating you. I'll need to stop by there during my bike trip, if I have enough cash to extend it an extra month or so...!
I love living in a free country? Where we can abuse our punctuation as much as we wish? And when I become a princeling, I get to screw with my grammatarization, too, right!
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Or just screw.
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
*shrug*
!!!!!!!!!!
there.
i live in afreecountrytoo, you know
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Kama! That's it! Now you're catching on!
The former Soviet-influenced countries are finally figuring out the true benefits of democracy and laissez-faire capitalism. No, it isn't having a mafia to keep the news media focused elsewhere. Nope, it's not rampant unemployment and unmet healthcare needs.
It's the ability to use language whenever and however one wishes. If I choose to punc,tuate in the middle of a word, who is there to stop me? No-one! I, can, use, marks, between, every, word, or not, and who will even raise an eyebrow. Except the fascists -- grammar nazis, dare I say it -- in our midst. And they are dinosaurs from another era!
So, welcome to the United States of the Universe, Kama. We're happy to have you with us!!!
Lalo, it's the house on the corner. You can't miss it. Breakfast is at 6:00 am, sharp on weekdays. Or whenever we damn well feel like it on the weekends.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Sharp breakfast? That's what, toast points? Cold cereal without milk? Grape-nuts and granola?
Cutting remarks delivered between bites?
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
!
Ha
!!! ha ha ha
! !! ! ha !!!!!! ha hahahahaha
Posted by ginette (Member # 852) on :
hihihihihihihihihi
LOL Bob
(btw Can't we have a look into your house? Some nice pictures of the furniture perhaps? And the view from the window? Or the garden? And how is the kitchen?)
Posted by Danzig (Member # 4704) on :
Do Europeans really go hihihi instead of hahaha? Posted by ginette (Member # 852) on :
Ohohohoh Danzig!!!!
Kama is European as well!!!!
So no. Only when they laugh.
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
heehee
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
yes, yes, I noticed.
Yes, I noticed that dkw only mentioned Kayla to represent Kansas in the Big-12 tourney fandom. No mention of me, or screechowl, or the other faithful Kansas fans here. I guess we outnumber those poor IOWA fans.
Go ahead-- have your little clique..
j/k
Farmgirl
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
Bob, I have missed your hilarity! The foam finger thing was classic.
I still would like to motion that there should be spot in the archives for Bob's Classic Lines.
Thanks, I needed that [that meaning the constant snorting from post to post]. I even smirked, and I've been a miserable bastard lately!
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
I haven't been feeling myself lately either.
(And no, this is not an onanism thread!)
rivka, I used to make toast points and then I realized that I wasn't the Anti-Crust afterall. So I quit.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Memo to self: Do not read any post of Bob's while consuming ice cream (or any other substance that might be particularly hazardous if choked on).
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
::hangs head in shame::
Sorry Farmgirl. It's just that I remembered that Kayla is a basketball fan, from a conversation when the Big 8 went to Big 12. I knew you were from Kansas, but didn't connect you with basketball.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
DKW
Not only do I love basketball, but I attended KU! (for awhile, at least). We miss coach Roy......
Farmgirl
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
If you get a shirt from your alma mater, is it a KU-Tee?
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Farmgirl, when did you go to KU? Where did you live while you were in Lawrence?
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
you're so cute, Bob..
Noemon, I went to KU eons ago -- 1981-82, to be exact. Only went there one year, but was a member of the Marching Jayhawks (marching band) and that was the coolest part of the whole year. We were the "high class low brass".
Finished all my college days at Friends University here closer to home, due to family issues at the time.
Pulling from a bad memory -- I lived off campus while at KU -- on a street about two or so blocks east of the main drag -- Massachucetts? (sp). Oh I don't remember. Just an off-campus duplex.
And freshman initiation at that time (two bottles of Mad Dog 20/20) nearly killed me.
Farmgirl
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Two bottles of Mad Dog???!!!
What would those sadists do if they DIDN'T like you?
I have it on good authority that Generalissimo Noriega finally surrendered when he discovered that no matter what he ordered, he was served MD 20/20 in a paper sack.
Psychological warfare at its finest.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Wow, that's a lot of Mad Dog. Did you have your choice of flavors, or did they make you go with Orange? In Jr. High we were big fans of Grape, ourselves. Can't say I've tried Mad Dog since Jr. High.
In any case, Mass. is the main street in Lawrence, as far as the downtown goes. I never lived on Mass, but I did live in the college slums just west of it for a few years, both as an undergraduate and as a graduate student. That was a lot later though--early to mid '90s.
[ December 29, 2003, 01:26 PM: Message edited by: Noemon ]
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
I don't remember the flavor. Don't remember much of anything about that episode I'm was a very cheap drunk so I doubt I made it through more than half a bottle before I was passed out.
FG
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
let's see...half a bottle of Mad Dog, the cheapest wine in the world, in 1981 dollars...I think they actually had to pay you about 17 cents to carry to bottle out of the store.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
I don't know -- but in high school (prior to that KU episode) all of us kids used to drink "Boone's Farm" when we would sneak out during lunch hour. Do they still make that stuff? Taste like grape juice, but was supposed to be cheap wine.
FG (sorry for derailing your thread Bob)
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I remember that stuff*. Wasn't there also some kind of cheap wine called "HotShot" or something like that? Definitely two syllables, definitely beginning with the word "Hot".
*contrary to what you might think from reading this thread, I wasn't a Jr. High lush. It's just when all of my friends and I were first discovering alcohol, and the cheap stuff was all we could afford to have the homeless people buy us. First time I got drunk wasn't until I was 16. It was the last time too. I didn't care for it. I have a little wine or beer now and then, but never enough to get tipsy. I just hate the sensation of drunkeness.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
::isn't really sorry to be brutally derailing Bob's thread::
::would happily follow the direction of the thread back onto its rails if that were to happen, but is enjoying the mutating nature of the thread (and, has to admit, has always had a penchant for thread derailment)::
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill can still be purchased at fine stores everywhere. Last I saw it was at Disney's Pleasure Island Jazz Company. They actually do serve it to you in a paper sack.
Not familiar with the wine beginning with the word "Hot."
The big favorites were "fortified" wines like Mogen David (Mad Dog) and Night Train.
My friends and I thought we were very classy when we switched to Blue Nun (Liebfraumilch). If I happen to see a bottle of this stuff today, I go into flashbacks, have an acne attack, and wake up wearing bell bottoms.
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I'm was a very cheap drunk so I doubt I made it through more than half a bottle before I was passed out.