What made you smile today?

Next year?

Sozlet's little friend (age 4) telling everyone at the softball game that she was sozlet's sister. ("Your little sister is so cute!" "My what?")

Just noticed your new signature, George. Another good one.

A gorgeous morning with the pack down at the off-leash. The girl dog dipped and swished. The boy dog visited with other dogs and climbed on the rocks.

Later we went and sat on a bench in the shade and watched the world go by. The dogs fell asleep.

Sounds like a painting -



You might have to futz with that to get it to show. Otherwise, it's Paul Wonner's
"In the Park II" (2002)

add sand and canoes ...

the mood of the painting is very much the mood of post swim resting period

it was lovely

next meet. next week.

Ok, go to it.

i will!!!

Power. Noise. Destruction. I've seen fairground stalls that provide the facility. Quite popular they were too.

My vague mental residues are of Doris Day blazing away with two six-guns. I presume it wasn't at people. She displayed a forward thrusting pelvis didn't she? I've seen posters of it I'm sure.

Don't shooters go to all the trouble of owning guns in order to blaze away at various objects that make a satisfying noise when hit?

But I was talking about usernames being chosen in order to align the poster with a certain image in all our minds. Take "reasoning logic" for example. That makes me smile. So does "Calamity Jane". Or it did until she changed her avvie to an image of an old biddy whose husband lies on the sofa all day watching the sports channels drinking beer and dropping ash all over the place.

I might say though that usernames in general display a remarkable degree of anti-intellectualism. I can't believe that hingehead is anything like what such a name conjures up for me. He seems too stiff for such a name.

I was half-way to becoming a guru before I bottled up to respond to a "shewolfn" post.

The most boring U/N of all is "blatham". I conjectured once that it represented Mr Bernard Latham and it wasn't denied so I began addressing him as Bernie in the interests of bonhomie and good fellowship.

In fact Dave there is a psychiatric connection in my mind between shooters and good fellowship. It's not very complicated but it is for you lot.

"Lola" attracted my attention as soon as I became a member.

A sociologist with a literary, psychiatric bent and a research thesis to get done might not find many more interesting subjects than usernames. And avatars. Measuring the direction of witlessness under the expert guidance of mass media.

Names and symbols are very interesting subjects. Place names. Trade names. Implement names. All names.

"djjd22" for example might mean that the poster is called Denis John Joseph Drysdale and he's 22 years of age. And think what he might have said with "Valmont" or "Caligula" or "Kinch".

"Mame" combined with those red lips made me think of a sucker on an octopus's tentacle.

That's a memorable post, she says sardonically.

I've a friend who has tried all her life (or at least quite a few early years) to not be a Doris Day clone.

Well- osso--Doris Day refused the part of Mrs Robinson. She said it was "too naive".

I saw about ten minutes tonight of one of those "Aren't Americans wonderful" movies. Even the dogs were wonderful.

I don't know what it was called but the hero was a blond haired Adonis type having a mid-life crisis about his column boring him. His editor was wonderfully sympathetic.

Yesterday I was in the corner shop and this little blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl about four or five years old said, 'Mummy, I can have TWO sweets because 5 plus 5 is 8 and I have 10 pence.'

What a cutie. Luckily - if she had 10p she COULD have two sweets - even if 5 plus 5 isn't really 8.

Speaking of sweets, they've begun selling Hershey kisses, both plain and with almonds, over here in ASDA.
That is the one sweet I can't resist, and I didn't have to try to resist it here as they hadn't previously sold it here.
This will call for more willpower on my point (grimace) but now I can make my favorite Christmas cookie without having to have someone spend ten bucks to mail me a supply (smile).

A great blue heron is an exotic-looking bird, all he more so when it's
standing at the edge of a Massachusetts river. Rhys, Nigel and I saw
two of them while we were canoeing on the Concord, one standing
as still as a lawn ornament, the other in full flight.

It's my daughter's birthday today (19), and she loved the presents my son and I bought her. We're just about to go to a Mexican restaurant. I've put a bottle of sparkling wine in the fridge for when we get back. I always make a point of not drinking anything if I'm driving but that won't stop her.

John Lennon on American Masters in 1972, when the Nixon tried to have him deported from the United States. "I love New York, that's why I'm fighting so hard to stay here. Can't they just ban me from Ohio or something? (Nothing against Ohio.)" Well put.

I met "Lola" at the time she was using that little avatar pic. I asked if she didn't have a run in her stockings (like in the avatar) and she politely leaned slightly sideways and checked. Nice, especially she wasn't wearing anything of the sort.

I went down to get some supplies and ran into Sophie, the minature Schnauzer that lives in my building. We're bonding. This makes me smile.

ok. i got:
50 freestyle zone cut
100 butterfly zone cut (and got #1 in the meet!!!!)
and 200 freestyle zone cut.
the 1500 is next!
I am grinning like a fool.