Mad Mutant Manatee Mentors 4--CLOSED (Page 98)

I'm at $259 and change. I have some catching up to do 

$331 for me. That is whole lot at nickle beer night!

Does anyone have nickle beer night anymore????? 

Oboy

Grooooaaaaaan

You know it's going to be stellar when you ask for directions to the place your friends have invited you out to and they say:

"It's the one with the two-storey neon electric bong out front."

I am so going to regret this tomorrow.

But right now it's 1:30 (early!), I'm home, and I'm very happy. I also have a date for next Wednesday night that involves a four-storey slide and an IMAX theater. Also a piglet.

Congrats on the date and for taking time to "unwind" with some friends. You need a break once in a while missy!

Did you see the pedal stroke diagram in TT? Your thoughts?

What is this nickle beer you speak of?

Actually, I think if you buy enough in bulk you could get the unit cost down. Nickles? Not sure but I'd like to try.

Yup. Haven't read all the comments but the diagram itself is kinesiologically correct in terms of recruitment. What it doesn't show (slightly, you can figure it out if you look at it) is the relative forces generated and extent of recruitment.

Shane knows his shyte.

Huh, 2 story eh. I wonder how many people ... ah nevermind.

Slides and movies and piglets, now THAT is a triathlon.

Plus that diagram has a great azz!!!!

No Joke!

You know what kills me? People who ride regularly get amazingly defined calf muscles (which is surprising based on the diagram) but i can't get those! Even DS1 who rides a fraction of what I do has them.

Well, how's you azz? I mean, that's what counts 

Yeah, actually, it takes me an exceptionally long period of time to develop muscle definition. J can go bust out like 5 calf raises and have the best calves EVER. Plus we have 3 flights of stairs in our house so those things are ca-razy!

Hah, better now than for a lot of years, but gravity is a bit@h

Hehehe the @ made that into what I thought was going to be a link to a photo. Not gonna lie, I clicked on it.

Man. I am having a hard time being appropriate enough to go into the other thread ...

You can get plenty of banana beer in Tanzania for a nickel. Do NOT ask what the fermenting agent is.

You can still get a good bit of palm wine here for a nickel, too. You used to be able to get a short pipe (it's served in bamboo tubes), about 1/2L, for a ha'penny and a tall pipe for a penny.

Hmmm when I was in NY I tried this beer called banana bread. It was really good. I thought maybe it would be called that in the way that like, Hoegaarden tastes a bit like bananas but it was actually brewed with bananas. Yum.

Palm wine, makes me think of that book Half of a Yellow Sun

Holy schmyte, a book I haven't read? (that isn't about golf or by Danielle Steel) Any good? I have an e-reader now so far greater access.

Very good book. Read it.

Ummm so it's a really long story but every time I hear the name Danielle Steel I think of this guy in college I dated who's name was ... wait for it ... Steel. 

GO ICE MANATEE!!!
GO TRACY!!!
GO WONDERMOOSE!!!
GO GOODY!!!
GO NyNy!!!
GO HANDS-MARIE!!!

First name?

I dated--kind of long-term several-nights stand lifelong friendship dated--a David Steele. He was everything his name sounds like. He later became a helicopter pilot and specialized (not the right word, but the gist) in black ops. I most recently saw him in Bali when I'd locked myself into my own house and he came and got me.

I get to go hooooome to the Funny Farm and my Hobbit Maaaaiiiiiid for three days starting tomorrow.

Unfortunately, my neighbor has indeed come unhinged. The Hobbit Maid's husband and her kids have been spending the night at my place because they're afraid he'll poison the dogs. They've reported his erratic behavior (many have before, and them too) to the volunteer police and our village head. They can't do anything unless he actually commits a crime, but having a long record of complaints against him is good.

I figure I should just poison him. That way he'll never have to hear barking from anyone's dogs again and none of us will ever have to hear from him again either. Win-win!

Yes first name. 

Not as cool of a character as yours. He was exclusively pretty and I reeled him in by puking on him at a house party. 

Hey, that's my trick!

I'm not sure cool is the word. I think edgy is more like it. He was and is devastatingly handsome though, and a great athlete.

Hm. That all reminds me of you.

Now of course the detail I left out is where we met and how we got together. At summer camp. I'm sure it would have all been fine and dandy had he not been a (18-year-old) counselor and I been (barely) 14 at the time.

Heh. I just remember all of a sudden a blinding flashlight beam in our faces and "YOU GUYS ARE IN BIG TROUBLE."

Good thing they didn't find the Jack Daniels and cigarettes, too.

I suppose one could think of him as awful, being a legal adult, being in a position of "authority" and I barely past tweens. Truth is we were both just young dumb crazy teenagers. I was well on my own Highway to Hell already--it's not like he put me there or even got me any further up the road.

Glad you get to visit the Funny Farm, sorry the neighbor is being a jerk

You've got mad experience in the age-gap escapades. They all seem to be centered around plots that have gone on be make good, uhhh, movies? 

Wait, did I miss that tomorrow is your birthday?? Or is this the first we are hearing about it?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!