| The Diner |
Aug 20, 2008 8:22 am
Mood: thoughtful, 50 Views | Charlotte County Homeless Coalition has a place that supplies the homeless with hot meals on a nightly basis. There are some of us who use it call it the Diner. So if I ever refer to the Diner in my blogs, you will know what I am talking about.  | |
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| Would Sam had done it. |
Aug 20, 2008 8:18 am
Mood: contemplative, 54 Views | | I was at the entrance of the local Walmart when I heard a peron complaining about a carnival game there he had been playing. It is the one where you have a metal device that goes down and grabs a stuffed animal. He had said that he should have had the prize but the machine cheated him. That got me to wondering would Samuel Walton, the founder of Walmart, have had such machines in his stores while he was alive? | |
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| Turning over in thier graves |
Aug 20, 2008 8:14 am
Mood: contemplative, 46 Views | MILWAUKEE — August Busch IV, chief executive of Anheuser-Busch Cos. (BUD) will be paid nearly $10.4 million after the brewer is sold to InBev and $120,000 a month to consult for the new company through the end of 2013.
Terms of the consulting deal are currently being negotiated, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission made Friday.
Busch, a member of the St. Louis-based brewer's founding family, will also be eligible for an additional payment of $13.3 million on various change in control payments and benefits, the filing said.
Last month, the brewer of Bud Light and Budweiser announced it had agreed to be sold to InBev, the Belgium-based maker of Stella Artois, Beck's and Bass. The deal is worth $52 billion.
The two companies will combine to create Anheuser-Busch-InBev. The combined company's North American headquarters will remain in St. Louis.
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Now August Busch IV, father and grandfather would be turning over in their graves to see what is going on. They would never have sold out to anyone but August Busch IV is a different story. How sad.
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| If you do it they will come |
Aug 15, 2008 8:24 am
Mood: adventurous, 83 Views | | Today I was thinking that there are a lot of people here that don't blog and if they did there would be more chances of them making new friends. | |
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| Flip a coin |
Aug 15, 2008 8:04 am
Mood: thoughtful, 84 Views | Not a Depression, But Still Causing Trouble.
Despite this low pressure not yet being classified a depression, thunderstorms capable of heavy downpours and deadly flash flooding, along with locally gusty winds will spread from Puerto Rico into Hispaniola today and across parts of eastern Cuba, The Turks, Caicos, and the southeast Bahamas on Saturday.
Given the current upper-level wind pattern and computer model forecasts there are several possible forecast scenarios regarding this systems eventual track. Given this, residents from the Bahamas, to Florida, to the Southeastern U.S. Coast should continue to monitor the progression of this system through the weekend and into early next week.
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They will know more about it latter today when they send out their plane to check it out. It may not hit here or it may. If it does hopefully it will just be a rain storm, but one never knows what will happen. I already have some can goods in my camp as well as 4 gallons of water. If the worst comes there is an emergency shelter that I will head for and ride it out there. | |
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| Callin' all trucks |
Aug 15, 2008 7:52 am
Mood: adventurous, 86 Views | Mothman in his post, What is Cool Now
[post 1019687] is asking the question about what is cool now. A long time ago CB radios were the cool thing. At that time C. W. McCall came out with the song Convoy. Now far all of you new timers that never heard it. Here it is.
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Uh, Breaker One-Nine, this here's the Rubber Duck
You got a copy on me Pig-Pen? C'mon
Uh, yeah 10-4 Pig Pen, fer sure, fer sure
By golly it's clean clear to Flag-Town, C'mon
Uh, yeah, that's a big 10-4 Pig-Pen,
Yeah, we definitely got us the front door good buddy,
Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy
Was the dark of the moon, on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth, pullin' logs
Cabover Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs
We 'as headin' fer bear on I-One-Oh
'Bout a mile outta Shaky-Town
I sez Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck
An' I'm about to put the hammer on down
Cause we gotta little ol' convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta little ol' convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...
Uh, breaker Pig-Pen, this here's The Duck
Uh, you wanna back off them hogs
10-4, 'bout five mile or so, 10-roger
Them hogs is gittin' in-tense up here
By the time we got into Tulsa-Town
We had eighty-five trucks in all
But they's a road block up on the clover leaf
An' them bears 'as wall to wall
Yeah them smokies 'as thick as bugs on a bumper
They even had a bear-in-the-air
I sez callin' all trucks, this here's The Duck
We about to go a huntin' bear
Cause we gotta great big convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta great big convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...
Uh, you wanna give me a 10-9 on that Pig-Pen?
Uh, negatory Pig-Pen, yer still too close
Yeah, them hogs is startin' close up my sinuses
Mercy sakes, you better back off another ten
Well we rolled up interstate fourty-four
Like a rocket sled on rails
We tore up all a our swindle sheets
An' left 'em settin' on the scales
By the time we hit that Chi-Town
Them bears was a gittin' smart
They'd brought up some reinforcements
From the Illinois National Guard
There 'as armored cars, and tanks, and Jeeps
An' rigs of every size
Yeah them chicken coops 'as full a bears
An' choppers filled the skies
Well we shot the line, an' we went for broke
With a thousand screamin' trucks
And eleven long-haired friends of Jesus
In a chartreusse microbus
Hey Sod Buster, listen
You wanna put that microbus in behind the suicide jockey?
Yeah, he's haulin dynamite
He needs all the help he can git
Well we laid a strip fer the Jersey Shore
An' prepared to cross the line
I could see the bridge 'as lined with bears
But I didn't have a doggone dime
I sez Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck
We just ain't a gonna pay no toll
So we crashed the gate doin' ninety-eight
I sez, let them truckers roll, 10-4
Cause we gotta mighty convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta mighty convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...
Uh, 10-4 Pig-Pen, what's yer 20?
Omaha?!
Well they oughta know what to do with them hogs out there fer sure
Well mercy sakes alive good buddy
We gonna back on outta here
So keep the bugs off yer glass
An' the bears off yer... tail
We gonna catch ya on the flip-flop
This here's the Rubber Duck on the side
We gone
Bye, Bye... | |
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| They are coming in November |
Aug 14, 2008 10:37 am
Mood: cheerful, 77 Views | To a movie theater near you.
Quantum of Solace (November 7) Now can you say, "Bond, James Bond"
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. (November 21) | |
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| Wish I could them all |
Aug 14, 2008 9:54 am
Mood: annoyed, 72 Views | Dragon Flies that is. This week I saw a lot near the major road ways but none in the area where my camp is. There are a lot of misquotes around camp and dragon flies eat misquotes.  | |
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| Chiquitita |
Aug 9, 2008 10:05 am
Mood: cheerful, 86 Views | The following is a song by ABBA. On the cassette that I had it was not sung in English. After seeing the movie I now know what the words are.
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Chiquitita, tell me what's wrong
You're enchained by your own sorrow
In your eyes there is no hope for tomorrow
How i hate to see you like this
There is no way you can deny it
I can see that you're oh so sad, so quiet
Chiquitita, tell me the truth
I'm a shoulder you can cry on
Your best friend, i'm the one you must rely on
You were always sure of yourself
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> Now i see you've broken a feather
I hope we can patch it up together
Chiquitita, you and i know
How the heartaches come and they go and the scars they're leaving
You'll be dancing once again and the pain will end
You will have no time for grieving
Chiquitita, you and i cry
But the sun is still in the sky and shining above you
Let me hear you sing once more like you did before
Sing a new song, chiquitita
Try once more like you did before
Sing a new song, chiquitita
So the walls came tumbling down
And your love's a blown out candle
All is gone and it seems too hard to handle
Chiquitita, tell me the truth
There is no way you can deny it
I see that you're oh so sad, so quiet
Chiquitita, you and i know
How the heartaches come and they go and the scars they're leaving
You'll be dancing once again and the pain will end
You will have no time for grieving
Chiquitita, you and i cry
But the sun is still in the sky and shining above you
Let me hear you sing once more like you did before
Sing a new song, chiquitita
Try once more like you did before
Sing a new song, chiquitita
Try once more like you did before
Sing a new song, chiquitita
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Now that I have shared the English version with you I hope that it has brightened someones heart here.  | |
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