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No doubt I would have done it in 73 (at age 18/19) ... in the fall of 73 I was in beautiful downtown Biloxi... back in school... but this time getting paid for it (meager pay as it was... when I first started active duty, starting pay for an E-1 was $307.00 (NOT per week) per MONTH... with room and board added to it). But it didn't snow that year on the Gulf Coast. What did we call skitching? Didn't have a word for it... just called it riding car bumpers on icy/snowy streets with slippery shoes. Skitching was probably dumb, but it beat the heck out of vandalism or fight clubs or whatever else young people do these days!

Make that 4 WEEKS from today. I also just read that the Texas stRangers have offered a minor league contract to Sammy Sosa (who did not play baseball professionally in 2006).

Hey George, my guess is that we were more afraid to tell our parents (or, perhaps afraid to let them find out) than we were of this amazingly dangerous activity (or else we WOULD be dead by now)!!! God forbid our kids did/would do it and WE find out!! hahahahahaha....... I have no doubt my daughter would do it if she were anywhere near snowy streets. Thank God she's in Chandler, AZ (I think... I know it's -- almost -- 10 o'clock, do you know where your children are?).

Oh, yes... and after reading CA_Dreaming's post, I remembered... there in Flagstaff... BEER factored into the equation significantly (by December 1972 I had turned 18 and back then 18 was the magic age for alcohol in AZ). And that probably played a big part in me getting that major cold/bronchitis that year.

Well... I didn't google it... AND I hadn't heard it called that (and I AM over 50)... but I HAVE done it. Before moving to AZ in 1968 (age 13), my brother and I did it a few times on side streets in Rochester NY... He, however, was more adventurous than I but he got me to try it. We had to use what we called back then "pack boots"... nothing else would protect our feet from freezing AND keep them dry. Besides, they did a good job of being slippery when we needed them to be. btw, we did this on the bumpers of cars that did not know we were doing it. THEN... in the fall of 1972, after 4 years away from the snow, I (perhaps foolishly) had decided to attend Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. The first snow that year was around Oct 21. Being away from parental supervision, but waiting until December when there was enough snow on the streets, a few of my fellow college freshmen and I did it a few times. That was also back before the age of emissions testing of cars... so, I got a plentiful dose of CO (carbon monoxide). Luckily, I didn't die, but did end up with a doozy of a cold/bronchitis.... I ended up not returning to NAU for the spring semester (not because of the "skitching"), enlisted in the USAF (even though my draft lottery number was 336) and the rest is history... It took me until 1986 to finish my bachelor's degree (at Arizona State... no snowy/icy streets here). The only times after my enlistment was up that I lived in snowy climes were when the 9th corpse was in first in-res year in Emporia, and 1981-82 I spent a year (WOW) in Fremont OH. It would not have been prudent to skitch in either of those places/times... Good one Sprawled!!! LOL!!

Still pretty chilly here today, even though it only got down to 40F (15 degrees warmer than earlier in the week) at my house... cold and windy. Sounds like it could be time for family Calisthenics at the niKa home in Norman! Hope the kids aren't going bonkers (yet).

again... yes, there HAS been user activity in the politics forum, but since everyone must be logged in, as soon as anyone in there goes to any other forum (or the main index page), they are considered no longer in that forum...

I can't imagine the Bush administration would have any interest in our politics forum... besides, that forum is NOT open to guests (one has to log in to get access)... besides, from their perspective, our petty bickering would probably seem quite mundane.

I started seeing this last night... and was wondering about it myself.

That's easy.... Pursuit of Happyness And I haven't seen the movie... (that quote, I believe, was in trailers for the movie) ... and if that's correct, I yield my turn to the gentleman from South Florida (Raf... returning his favor from the other day) :)

Fellowshipper... is that you in the second pic from the top in the right hand column on the page linked above?

Sorry brethern and sisterns... I guess this game is not my forte... anyway, I just watched Firewall last night, so I don't have any other fresh quotes to think of...

Nope... it's from Firewall

Oh... sorry. Well, I don't see that many movies... so, I'll only occasionally play. Here's my movie quote: "You get your money when I get my family back."

"You get your money when I get my family back." -------- (I just saw this one last night... and I have no idea who said it or from which movie the summer love quote comes)

Countdown is now less than one MONTH! (target date = Feb 15)

Yesterday marked one month left in the countdown! And I think we've got rain coming by Friday! Hey fellowshipper... you're welcome to send that 104F weather here to AZ!... but we still would like the rain. I expect it'll take you a while to send that heat our way... so pls have it delivered by July, tnks

Hey Fellowshipper, I can deal with 104F... we have that for more than half the year... It might freeze here again tonight, but not likely to be quite as cold as it has the past two nights... 25F at my house two nights in a row... They say it hasn't been this cold here since 1990. Hey Simonzelotes... hope you've been stayin warm (of course, you too niKa and TomStrange... as our cold weather is apparently heading your way).

I thought you meant that Oklahoma's been a declared a disaster area BECAUSE Peterson is not going to play there next season! Now THAT'S disaster (not really... but I'm sure there's plenty of disappointed folks). Just be sure to drive safe(ly). :D

I was at WalMart today... checked on crockpots... all but one model they had were under $30. The other, for about $40 has some computer controls on it... like a thermostat and digital timer.

Given the different sizes of the heating elements, using the oven instead of a crockpot might present a significant difference in how much electricity is used... It would seem intuitively to me that the larger oven element, along with the substantially larger space that the oven needs to heat up to the desired temperature, that it would probably cost significantly more to use the oven. The magnitude of the difference -- I don't know. But if you're going to use the slow cooker quite a lot, it might be worth making the investment in a new crockpot... Seems to me that even big ones can be had for less than $30. I have one, but don't use it much. One thing I liked making (and eating) used chicken, carrots, potatoes, barley (or rice, but I like barley much better) along with a cream of (multiple choice here... could use mushroom, celery, broccoli, etc.) something soup, and don't forget the onions and garlic and other spices (like maybe a variety of Mrs. Dash). I never write down the quantities... rather, I just wing it, using however much seems right at the time. ------------ I also got a George Foreman grill recently. You can grill (practically) anything and it seems quicker to me than stove top and oven methods... I've grilled buffalo burgers, turkey burgers, chicken, boneless pork chops, shrimp, scallops, bell peppers/onions and more.... one of the key selling points is that the grill is designed to make the fat in the food run off of the grill (and therefore off/out of the food item) into a drip tray...

Well, it's not even 8pm and already the mercury has dropped into the 30s... maybe next week for the pool party.

A VERY cold one here today toooooooooo.... my outdoor digital thermometer, at 7:40am today (just a couple minutes after sunrise) read 25.5F. Heck, I haven't been in a place that's been that cold since I went to Rochester NY in March 1997. Weather guys on TV are saying it's the coldest it's been here in the Phoenix area in three years... but I think it's been longer than that. And, just getting home from the gym, I'm reading 48.7F. We haven't had a HIGH that low in eons. And here's a big smackeroo to you all... mmmmmmmmmmmwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh! (I guess it would be rude of me to be tossing around French kisses -- moi -- here ;) ).

OH, and here's a link to the page Fellowshipper's tuna should show up on soon... http://www.freedomcharters.com.au/catch_of_the_day.cfm and Fellowshipper... what did you end up doing with that big ol' fish? Was there a good time in the ol' town tonight (or that night)?

Years and years and years ago (B.T., or before TWI), I was taught in high school that the correct spelling of that word is "MOI". Of course, I might have learned it wrong... and maybe that's why people used to tell me that it's not always about ME! ;) OH, and WHAT was the question again?