Sent a big red Valentine's Day bear to my army sargeant stepdaughter over in Korea back in late January. Got an email from her this morning saying that she finally received it last week and named him Sabastian.
The image of Dagmaraka bouncing around her apartment on one foot trying to zip up her dress. I had to plug my ears.
TRA-LA-LAAAAAH !!!!
Morning everyone.....Ellpus here !!!.
The sun has got its hat on, hip hip hip hooray,
The sun has got its hat on and is coming out to play !
Toodle pip.
A very happy Ellpus.
Boodles does that, till the headaches start
Reading A2K posts...yes that always puts a smile to my face.
Whoooooooooohooooooo, Princie!
(did you see the wedding announcement I posted about a week ago in here?)
Back on Abuzz I once wrote:
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we have a new statue in our town - down our street - it's a rabbit. or a hare, i think. anastasia calls it a jackrabbit. it sits on a rock, thinking, head in hand, ears perched up in a moody kind of way. ridiculously, the rock again sits on a pedestal, a slab of a smooth column, ill at place in its stern lack of imagination underneath the bigger and in comparison unkempt-looking rock. who puts a rock on a rock to place a statue on? especially if its supposed to be a statue to endear all cityfolk?
there's been much ado about this statue - the city square was supposed to get a real towns' monument, one we would all identify with, but then all proposals by local artists were disapproved, while at the same time the city administration had already made arrangements with a prestigious american artist, and then the opposition cried foul and squander, and then after the elections a referendum - a novelty in city government - was held on the matter, and the american artist's jackrabbit was elected with 80% of the votes, be it that some grumbled that the vote was essentially rigged, because the jackrabbit's rivals - an ugly lady and a postmodern set of metal tubes - were selected by the city's art committee as deliberately weak competitors so that its original choice would get in.
and then they put this playful rabbit on a rock on top of another rock, so noone can actually touch it, let alone be photographed in its arms. but no matter. already on the second night the rabbit's ears had been boxed - two cardboard boxes having been neatly pitched over them from below. on the third day, somebody had climbed up and tied a bunch of carrots around its nose. it's gonna be a hit. <grins>
Well, its easter time, so I guess one should have expected something (we call our easter bunny an "easter hare"). But still I had to do a doubletake, and then grinned, when I passed our hare tonight and saw that someone had tied a napkin round his neck (you know - like how a corpulent man would tuck in one at the dinner table to avoid dropping something or other on his one good shirt) - and, no less, a proper reed basket onto his back, filled with huge "eggs" of colourful paper.
I was at the International Athletics yesterday, handing out medals.
I saw a young athlete walking by, with a twelve foot carbon fibre pole in his hands, and in an attempt to make conversation, I asked "Are you a Pole Vaulter?"
He looked at me quizzically, and replied "Nein, I am German, und how did you know my name was Walter?"
Very strange.
Ellpus.
Lord Ellpus wrote:I was at the International Athletics yesterday, handing out medals.
I saw a young athlete walking by, with a twelve foot carbon fibre pole in his hands, and in an attempt to make conversation, I asked "Are you a Pole Vaulter?"
He looked at me quizzically, and replied "Nein, I am German, und how did you know my name was Walter?"
Very strange.
Ellpus.
Ok...so THAT made me smile today and I certainly needed one of those!
After spending two days to come up with an answer to:
EGG + EGG + EGG + ... + EGG = EASTER
I managed with; 950*577 = 548150
Only to be well beaten by Markr with; 188*557=104716
I mean, come on, you can only smile at a result like that.
On saturday, I found a 15 month old baby that had gotten away from it's mom and was sitting in the road.
She put her child in a carrage in front of her house and then went back inside the house to get her other children, the baby crawled to the street and was sitting there, the mom came out and thought the baby had crawled back inside the house so she was looking inside, meanwhile, the child was sitting in the street.
I drove up (incredible Godincidence brought me there at the right moment) and grabbed the kid.
It hasn't made me smile yet, it just makes me think Woooooooo, close one!
The accidently and completely unintentionly placement of Region Philbis' avatar below Eva's on the collage. Really! You gotta believe....
It is a beautiful day!!!!
A joke I read on A2K...
It's gonna be raining all day here Bella!!
(This from a coupla hours ago:)
Neighbourhood spirit is not something you quickly associate with this corner here, gentle though it may be. But apparently, the odd but harmless older couple upstairs have arranged for the "big garbage" people to come tomorrow to pick up some random stuff that had been left to rot in the halls of the complex of basements (a vaguely piss-stinking sofa, a broken chair, some broken cupboard stuff, boxes). And just now, they rallied a neighbour, who warned another neighbour while a second neighour rang my door and while I came hopping on the students from around the corner had been knocked away from their TV as well and so, within minutes, there were eight of us, and within another minute and a half, everything was on the curb. New record. Unexpectedly enterprising old folks, they can be.
Browsing a catalogue for online training: Introduction to the Internet.
Cartoon novel called Salmon Doubts I was browsing (OK, I read it almost through) in the bookstore tonight. Cute.
