"YABBER-LINER" - ALL ABOARD

Hi, Alex, so good to see you.

Your presents, ok, ok! Enough already! I'm sending you a year's virtual gathering of your favorite or desired cooking supplies, be they condiments or spices or vegetables or forbidding fruits or well raised this or that from the sea or land, or wished for utensils. I'll leave out cookbooks (I want them myself).

Be good or Santa will skip your place next year.

Look alex - they were here on Yabber-Liner all the time!

I would like to wish everyone a Happy New year! A little late but was thinking of everyone of you! xxx

The Yabber-Liner's here??? Wheeeee!

May I wish all crew a belated but very happy and healthy New Year…

I know sum of ewe think I suffer from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, but like Schrödinger's cat, this poses the question of when exactly quantum superposition ends and reality collapses into one possibility or the other.

Dear sweet Missy... Fukubukuro!

Meaning "good fortune" or "luck" in Japanese; you will never know unless you try. I may be a practicing Baptist, but practice makes perfect. I will be waiting at the gate: Genesis 38.


Did y’all know, a 10-pack of Wrigley’s chewing gum was the first shop product to have its barcode scanned at checkout. It was sold for 67 cents in Ohio in 1974. Just sayin’.


As y’all may know Angelina Jolie and I were pretty close till Brad Pitt came along, but I’m pleased to see her movie Unbroken opened in the United States on December 25, 2014 across 3,131 theaters and grossed $15.59 million on its opening day (including previews) which is the third-biggest Christmas Day debut ever, behind Les Misérables ($18 million), and Sherlock Holmes ($24 million) and the fifth-biggest Christmas Day gross ever.

The film was among one of the four widely released film on December 25, 2014. The other three being Walt Disney's Into the Woods(2,478 theaters), Paramount Pictures' The Gambler (2,478 theaters) and TWC's Big Eyes (1,307 theaters). It earned $31,748,000 in its traditional three-day opening weekend (including its revenue from Christmas Day it earned $47.3 million) debuting at #2 at the box office behind The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies setting a record for the third-biggest Christmas debut behind Sherlock Holmes ($62 million) and Marley & Me ($36 million) and fourth biggest among World World II theme movies. It was the eighth film that earned $25 million plus in its debut weekend for Universal Pictures.

So Brad, have you finished with Gwyneth Paltrow now. Huh huh!

I don't know, it's a mystery, but does anyone know why sadistic war criminal Mutsuhiro Watanabe was never prosecuted?

(General Douglas MacArthur included Watanabe as number 23 on his list of the 40 most wanted war criminals in Japan.)


You make I smile Beth; it took you all of two minutes to read, find a graphic and post a reply… Amazing! I do hope you keep adancin’ this year.

Izzie, you got it in one; it is the eMail address of Homer, but even he would say, “Doh!” at the Saints F.A. Cup result today!!!

Hi Margo, so good to see you aboard, I wish we had been moored alongside the Sydney Opera House, what a spectacular sight that must have been. Keep well.

May your dreams come true FS.

Wishing you a great 2015 Osso, and the best of health.

Thank you for thinking of everyone Tulip, I hope this year will be kinder to your health; your new dawg will be good medicine.

Missy, thank you for the thong: http://youtu.be/sHAP3CwDYTY

So that just leaves the question as to why the Unicorn is mentioned so many times in the bible.

In addition to Job 39:9–10, the unicorn is mentioned in Numbers 23:22, 24:8; Deuteronomy 33:17; Psalm 22:21, 29:6, 92:10; Isaiah 34:7 and many others.

Why is a single horned creature so revered?

…meow

Happy New Year to you Try, may it be the best year ever...


Which ones?

Foundy how are you coping with the fires over there? Just saw on the news at least 38 homes and 4 businesses lost so far. And looters have apparently targeted homes where people have evacuated. Unbelievable how low some people will sink.

Your weather isn't looking too good either for the next few days, high temps and thunderstorms - not a good combination while the fire danger is high.

Stay safe, and try not to breathe in too much smoke.

So pleased when I saw your name this morning cherrie, Von and I were a tad worried but you know, people take time out...

Thanks for asking x

My Brother's house was amongst it all up in the hills. The hill behind them and all surrounding was burnt at one stage there were 73 fires around. The fire fighters in SA and VIC/NSW all got together largest fire since 1983 I think and they have done wonders.

My Brother is back home and everything is going as good as it can, it was absolutely huge. Being an animal lover, it hurt to see a Boarding house go down, all cats and 1/2 dogs died, the other 1/2 just in time got saved and kangaroos and goodness knows what other wild life animals perished. Not sure how many more homes but as I said, CFS did wonders and still are, pretty much under control as far as I know, now.

I'm up the other end of the World from the fires so we are safe thank you again, so lovely of you.

NOW HOW IS THE GRANDAUGHTER?

I just want to get this off my chest.

I was scheduled to attend a seminar with a gorgeous colleague of mine yesterday. I had guessed that we would probably drive over in my car, so in the a.m. I went to a car wash and gave it an impressive cleaning (the car, not the car wash).

Then, in the afternoon, I contacted her a bit before seminar time as we'd planned, but she'd come down with a cold and couldn't make it.

Now I'm stuck driving around in a clean car like some kinda freak.

Do you mean the grandson?
I do have 4 granddaughters, but I'm guessing you mean the new baby, Isaac. Though he's not so new any more - almost 7 months now. He's going well now, he's had a few problems along the way but seems to be doing much better. And he is absolutely gorgeous.

Good to hear that your brothers house survived and that he has been able to get back there so soon, not everyone will be so lucky.

I saw that about the boarding kennels being burnt, so sad for all those animals, and the untold numbers of wildlife that will have died.

Wow, 7 months. Time really flys. Yes, Issac.. Grandson, my brain works to fast for typing. I'm sure he received a lot of attention of the Festive Season:)

True, my Brother lives in a Township. Those that live surrounding, must have been terribly frightened, 38 homes were destroyed one area is still going at level 3 at the moment.

I couldn't look at the Boarding House I kept thinking that the owners were away and left someone in charge that should have called someone to take them but alas you can't change what's happened.

Glad you are enjoying your Grandson... sorry for the slip

Problem with clean cars, they don't stay clean for long

I give it a week, tops, before it's back to normal.

There is NOTHING worse than a needlessly clean car. Nothing!

Hi, everybody, good to read you/hear what is going on, or not.

I was a dutiful car washer back in Los Angeles, Ms. Spic and Span (an old product name for those who don't know it). Up north in Humboldt County by the shoreline, it drizzled off and on or rained a lot, so even though I had some reason not to drive a dirty car around a town where we had a business and were well known, I think I only took it through a car wash once or twice. Very time freeing, that was.

In Albuquerque, I don't have much urge to wash my old well begotten car (it's a '91 Volvo turbo station wagon, back when they made them strong, with still only 130,000 miles). I've taken it through a car wash once, only once, since I've been here, beginning of 2006. Heh. It's a tad ratty now, but still has oomph. Among the reasons I like it is that the window design is great for me re seeing what is going on around, while using the mirrors.

J. You're too deep to be concerned with the mere appearance of a car.
JL

That made me laugh. I shall require a goat please.



Dr. my eyes is right.



meow indeed.

I am sad to hear about the fire and the animals that died and the homes that were taken by it. So sad.



Glad to hear you are doing well though!

Absolutely

Except for maybe Try in a thong. La.