Lost discussion thread revisited or what????

[westgrandboulevard]

Let's not go there, Jerry....

If Arr&bee opts to be an organ donor, ever goes on life support, and has someone describe him as a cabbage, at least the vegetarians will be eager for parts of him....

[arr&bee]

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa a...that's it i'm out after that one...you guys are classic...a cabbage..haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! !!

[Jerry Oz]

I LOLed at that. Excellent jest, indeed.

[144man]

They could have an R&BLT.

[westgrandboulevard]

..yes and, if they're really strict about it, probably no butter on the bread. No fun in that...

[Jerry Oz]

I can't imagine a sandwich that numbs your lips and makes you drunk after eating it. Having as much hooch as bread and bacon, I'm sure that's what you'd find. But that would be a great selling point for the R&BLT.

[arr&bee]

Aww you guys,a tribute sandwich...i'm misting up over here...i gotta do something nice for you,so the next items you buy wil be marked down[999%]above factory invoice.

[westgrandboulevard]

You're all heart, Arr&bee. Cabbage Heart......

[arr&bee]

Are you trying to butter me up west??

[westgrandboulevard]

You think I've been stalking you?

[arr&bee]

You can stalk me,if you got the cabbage.

[westgrandboulevard]

Me and the others in the identity parade will certainly look very suspicious characters.....

[arr&bee]

Others???ok but they pay extra.

[westgrandboulevard]

The idea is that you correctly identify the stalker from several people dressed alike, looking alike, and all carrying cabbages......

[arr&bee]

Why can't those lazy cabbages walk like everybody else.

[westgrandboulevard]

They've had just about enough of being carted around in crates. Or maybe crated around in carts.

[Jerry Oz]

Who wouldn't? You don't want to provoke the cabbage or they'll turn green with envy, pack up their stuff, and leaf.

[arr&bee]

The tomatoes hate em so much they've turned red.

[westgrandboulevard]

First they're green, then they're red. Those tomatoes sound like traffic lights....

[arr&bee]

Oh,what sound do traffic lights make???

[Jerry Oz]

The same as regular and menthol, I'd suppose. Although most people that I know smoke Kool Lights, which are relatively silent.

[westgrandboulevard]

I've not smoked for 25 years. I have heard that a lot of people enjoy Kool Lights, but often wondered if that's just a lot of puff.

I wish my relatives could be as relatively silent.....

[Jerry Oz]

After years of learning to expect it, you should be able to tune it out by now. Just occasionally toss in a 'really?' or a 'yep' and they'll think that you're the best confidante they've found.

[westgrandboulevard]

They actually do seem to think I'm one of the best confidantes they have....but most of them do it by text or email, not in person.

I try to give the best response I can, as soon as I can, in the time available....that is, of course, when I'm not fully engaged in communications on this very forum...LOL

[Jerry Oz]

Imagine that... I once worked as a grocery cashier and I think I was a good listener for a lot of customers. My line was often much longer than my peers' lines for some of my 'regular' customers wanting to stop and chat. It was cool at first because I'm a people person. But at some point, they started sharing with me a lot of personal things that made me realize that I was more than just 'Jerry the Grocery Clerk' to them. Things like problems at home and the deaths of people they'd told me about over the years of our associations. My heart was broken for them, not just because of their situations but because I didn't see them in the same way that they saw me.

To this day, I try to hold back just a little with people in professional relationships although I'm still the one from whom they seek honest advice. Sometimes hard or seemingly cold, I'm compelled to offer it when asked and for some reason, they're compelled to request it. Perhaps the thing that I miss the least since leaving my job last year is being involved in personal situations that at times appeared overwhelming. On the flip side, I miss it as much as the joy I got from being able to help someone, so perhaps I should change my screen name to 'Janus Oz'.

[destruction]

or B Oz.

9 10 [[stung by the dreaded character shortage)

[westgrandboulevard]

No shortage of characters around here....although a few might be dreaded at times.....

[Jerry Oz]

'Dreaded'? Are we talking about Rastafarian characters?

[westgrandboulevard]

These anonymous onscreen words of ours are an effective disguise of who we are, how we really feel...and, keeping it absolutely real, how we actually look at the exact time we post our comments.

Rasta dreads will very likely feature, but would be no use for me. First I need some hair, and those good hair extensions are expensive......

[Jerry Oz]

My cousin Jodie wears her hair that way [[and looks quite beautiful, if I should proudly say). When I asked her why she chose dreadlocks, her face twisted and she told me that they were 'locks, not dreadlocks'. I was going to argue that since the people who named them were proud of the 'dread' part of the name, she was elitist and full of crap but chose not to go there that day. Was I wrong to hold that opinion?

[westgrandboulevard]

No, and you were also right to say nothing.

It just seems to be a rule that once a name is given to something, someone will either rename it a generation later, or dismiss its very existence.

[Jerry Oz]

I'm cool if the originator renames his discovery or creation. But for someone else to adopt and suggest that he didn't know what he was talking about is the height of hubris.

[westgrandboulevard]

As an example, 'cool' appears to have the same meaning as it did in the 60s. It is now back in regular use, after several decades of being considered passe. It may well be that it virtually skipped the vocabulary of a generation, and anyone very young now using it is unaware it is not so original.

'Fab' is still in use, but 'groovy' has yet to regain its former popularity.

I'm sure there are many examples of words used in the 60s by my own peers - and also well known by those slightly younger, such as yourself - which have been refashioned by much younger people...but can't think of them just at the moment. In my own defence, after all those years, those original words will be much easier for me to swiftly recall to mind, than the new ones...!

[Jerry Oz]

It got trickier in the last couple of decades. 'Alright' - pronounced 'a-ight', became the word to use when saying both hello and goodbye. Often have I seen a guy walk into the room and announce 'a'ight' to a chorus of similar replies. When somebody in the room had to leave, he'd simply stand up and say 'a'ight' before heading for the door. I'm not sure if it's funny or sad...

[westgrandboulevard]

Some birds, when flocking, have more variation to their calls than that...

[Jerry Oz]

Sadly, you are correct. Although in honesty, if you put some of that crowd's brains into said birds, the unfortunate recipients would fly backwards.

[westgrandboulevard]

Or fly upside down, and mess themselves.....

[arr&bee]

I know some of those birds.

[westgrandboulevard]

Let's hope you're not of the same feather.....

[arr&bee]

I fly alone.

[westgrandboulevard]

You, and Peter Pan.....

[arr&bee]

Nope,ol pete got those two kids...[i worry about pete sometimes]he likes flyin with those kids,it's just me and my flask.

[westgrandboulevard]

That flask must make you feel like flying.

[Jerry Oz]

Not exactly. But he gets really high from what's in the flask.

[westgrandboulevard]

It's never been proved that there is anything at all in that flask. All he has, is a feeling......

[Jerry Oz]

Better high on life than smack, I suppose. Or hooch, even. Too bad more don't realize that to be true.

[westgrandboulevard]

They want to be high on life, but don't want to look up high enough to see it.

[Jerry Oz]

I'll pass on being in an altered state. I've seen too many who tried to escape but wound up in harder, faster chains than they had at the start.

[westgrandboulevard]

Yes, indeed.

Unhappiness, fear, fatigue, despair, poverty : all encourage some people to do harm to themselves, instead of attempting to help themselves, or allow anyone else to help them.

[Jerry Oz]

As such is life. We cope the best way that we can, even if it's the worst way that we can. Who can say that anybody is wrong in how they choose to do it?