Yesterday we had a beautiful, cold, snowy day. We got about two inches and last night it was cold enough that it is still here this morning. Now, as I sat here this morning listening to all the church services that were canceled, I got to wondering. Do ministers, pastors, etc., do like we do when we get a snow day? Do they listen to the cancellations and go "Yea! Snow Day!"?

Wildman, (curious)

-- Anonymous, March 03, 2002

Answers

When I was a kid, our preacher did and showed up at "thrill hill" with a garbage can lid to compete with the kids on downhills. Of course, he also gave a casual Sunday School session between downhills.

-- Anonymous, March 03, 2002

As a child, I remember our dear Lutheran minister enjoying his extra day off when it was a "snow day". But where I grew up, there were very few snow days, up in the Snow Belt along Lake Erie they were prepared for anything!

-- Anonymous, March 03, 2002

Wildman, feel free to start "guy" topics and discussions anytime!!! I know more about that kind of stuff than most of the frilly, foo- foo "girly" things anyway, although with your extensive knowledge of Martha and being on such good trems with her, you do quite well at those topics too:-)!!!

Feel free to "let the testosterone flow" anytime though ;-)!!! A Car Talk type column would be most appreciated, like "I have been having trouble with my 1994 Toyota four cylinder knocking at free way speeds and on steep inclines, the manual says to use 89 octane at least, or expect the engine to knock on accleleration, but it is hard/expensive to use 89 or better octane gas. Usually the octane jumps to 91 after 87, and there lies the big buck for gas. Can you recommend some cheaper alternative than paying for 91 octane gas???"

BTW, the above is a real question, feel free to answer it :-).

-- Anonymous, March 03, 2002

Well Annie, since you asked I'll tell you something I heard a while back. I'm not saying this works or not but I heard about a guy who'd commute to Chicago weekly. Thats about a 300 mile drive. He'd put a coupla moth balls in his gas tank at each fill-up. He said it was an octane booster and he claimed it improved his gas mileage considerably. If you wanna experiment I'd take it slow, like start with a couple and take it from there if you need to ad more. If you put too many in I guess it will burn valves and thats not a good thing.

I'm kinda chemically challenged so maybe someone more knowledgable can explain or refute this.

-- Anonymous, March 03, 2002

Yech! Wouldn't that just be adding the moth ball chemicals to the pollution? :-(

-- Anonymous, March 03, 2002

Joy: Dunno. When combustion occurs lotsa things happen including "incineration".

-- Anonymous, March 03, 2002

Annie, talk about thread drift! I've always been afraid that I was going to post a response under the wrong thread but I'm not afraid anymore.

Like John, I've heard of the mothball solution. Don't know if it works or not, but I have heard of it. That's probably not a lot of help. I'm no master mechanic and don't know a lot about '94 Toyotas except that they shouldn't knock at highway speeds. The first thing a mechanic would do is a tune up. Hey, they recommend that if you take it in for a wheel alignment! They'll probably change the air cleaner too and the fuel filter if it's fuel injected, If it's one of those that's computerized, then you can't even adjust the carburetor without a machine. Gee, it could be a problem with the pollution system, oxygen sensors, overheating, etc. Hundreds of things. Well, probably not hundreds, but a really, really lot of things. If you don't have a timing light, we use to set the timing by putting the car in drive and turning the distributor until it started to lug, then back off a bit and clamp it down. You need two people for this and I wouldn't recommend standing in front of the car while doing it. And you really need to trust your helper, that's why I never let the wife help me. After I canceled the insurance policy, I wasn't nearly as leery.

There are octane boosters out there, but I'm not sure that you save any money by buying them instead of the higher octane gas.

Let the testosterone flow? Hey, I'm kinda like the guy that found the talking frog that told him to kiss it and it would turn into a beautiful woman and fulfill his every desire. He picked it up and put it in his pocket and the frog asked what he was doing and if he had heard her. He told her he had, but at his age he'd rather have a talking frog. The only thing testosterone ever got me was trouble.

For those that answered the original thread, I'm glad to see that preachers are people too.

Wildman, (confused)

-- Anonymous, March 03, 2002

I'm here for ya Wildman!! If your gettin picked on I'm here to back you up. (What do we do now)?.....Confused....Kirk

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2002

I think you're supposed to grunt and posture...wait a minute, I'll go ask Hubs....nope, he doesn't know what you're supposed to do either!

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2002

Well I bet they are glad to have a snow day. They are people too, Hey That reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend, I won't give her name, but she can reviel herself if she wants to. we were talking about discussing sex with our kids, and how much we should or shouldn't tell them, and then we remembered the first time that we were told about sex, and our reaction.

I remembered that my reaction was No way! Really! And both of us, No kidding, typed in at the same time that one of our first thoughts about sex after we found out what it really consisted of, was imagining our preacher and his wife doing it.!!!!!!!

Can you believe it! I guess our minds just had to pick out the most prestigious pure people that we knew, and we thought about how, oh my God, they are married so they do that!

Oh by the way

Polly, can you possibly tell me where that wonderful poem about colors that you put on a conversation we were all having about colors , you wrote the most beautiful little poem about color, and I want to find it and sure can't. Do you have any idea? Where it' s run off to?

Love ya all. Tren

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2002

Kirk, I think what we should do now, is lay low for a few days! If you feel that you have to post, I'd recommend that you agree with everything "they" have to say. Me, I think I'll drop out for a day or two until they calm down. They do calm down, don't they? I don't know who came up with the term PMS but they misnamed it. It should have been PPPMS. The three P's stand for Pre, Present and Post!

Maybe some of the other "guys" will come onboard and help to even the odds. The few of "us" that post aren't a match for all of "them". We're outnumbered and out classed and I'm beginning to think that if we don't start showing some respect, we'll get stomped 'cause, I don't think all of "them" that are on here are ladies! I think some of them would just cyber-slap us for fun.

Wildman, (going silent)

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2002

Heck, Wildman, I think you guys would need TWICE as many men here to be a match for us women :-)!!! But we really do appreciate ya...because you all are loads of fun!!

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2002

Wildman and John, thanks for the Toyota tip, I might just try that, hard to really hurt an old Toyota!!! I did have it tuned up a year ago, didn't help the knock using cheap gas, I guess I'll just have to cough up the money and buy better gas....it doesn't knock if I feed it the correct octane gas after all, I shoudn't be so *frugal* (cheap!!!) and get the gas it needs to run right.

Oh, when *we* get in a bad mood, week, month, year, whatever, throw chocolate in first, then enter the house!!! This tip (lifesaver) from Polly in a previous thread ;-)!!!

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2002

I believe it would work for me, Annie!! Or maybe a hunk of rare steak :-)!

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2002

I always think of Robon Williams stand up..the one where he describes his pregnant wife as some sort of monster foaming at the mouth and then he holds up the carton of "Haagen Daas!!!!" and she retreats gobbling icecream and grunting and giving him the finger. Sort of reminded me of a gorilla. I always found that funny until I became it. boo hoo. I too would rather have the talking frog. That joke kills me. I know for a fact my minister would be yelling "Yeah!! Snow day!!! Cool!" He's the coolest guy. He was/is a farmer before becoming a lay pastor and worked in the woods etc. In other words he had a life before the Lord. Makes him more laid back I find. when we meet up or call one another I don't get the 'hello, Mrs. Proteau and how are you this fine day I hope your family is well.." formality. I get "Hey Buuudddy!" and if we are in person I gets a hug to go with it. There are days I really need that hug!!. LOL Really great guy.

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2002

Thread drift???? That move was under "full power" :>) Ah the beauty of BTS.

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2002

Trennie, I've been trying and trying to think of what you might mean. I don't recall writing anything I would call poetry - you sure it was me? Any other hints about what might have been in the same thread?

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2002

Polly, I found it. And yes it is a poem and it is beauitful, I love it, If you don't mind I am printing it and putting it in my poetry book sos's that I can read it from time to time.

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I wanna be a chameleon. Red like a poisettia in the winter for energy and warmth, Yellow like a daffodill in springtime for joy and rebirth, pink like a hollyhock in summertime for flirting with the sun and breeze, and warm rusty brown in the fall to dance with the falling leaves.

Love T^ren

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2002

Gosh Polly thats beautiful!!!!! Did you write that?...Kirk

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2002