trinacriabob

LEED = granola. I cringe every time I hear "green building." Sure, all of that stuff is important, but some of is a bit much. I got off the plane at Portland International and went to take a leak in one of the stalls. The flush valve had 2 directions: one for liquid waste and the other for solid waste. It rains nonstop in Oregon, as if a little bit of extra water use matters THAT much in that area. Probably specified by a Subaru driving architect with a Thule "coffin" on top and sporting a turtleneck with little round glasses

Sciguy, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, though we haven't seen you around as much!

tunnel

one-story home

always

Hey, Happy Birthday, Scarlet Swordfish. ocnblu was sleeping on the job....

Whichever kind Tonya Harding wouldn't buy....but then I don't use them anyway.

"ring around the collar"

$1.669 BEFORE a 3 cent card discount at Safeway, but I currently have a 10 cent discount to be used by 12-31-08. For some reason, OR/WA are about 10 cents more than Northern Calif. at this time. I don't know why. Are you really thinking something is seriously wrong or some economic mechanism isn't working....that gas is $ 3.00 a gallon less than it was 6 months ago?

dingo (that scavenger type-wild dog)

Marionberry (it's like a raspberry that is grown in Marion Co., OR)

Oh, I totally know where you're coming from. My parents taught me the same thing. In my initial post, I was noting the slight "startle" one experiences when there isn't "enough" time to prepare. It's how "unfair" it is that startles us, I think. I think that some people so afflicted are, deep down, stronger than we are, on many levels.

Wang Chung

electrical problems

Sean Connery

"Disco Inferno"

fire as in "St. Elmo's Fire"

French Onion

This time, I wasn't trying to be funny.

cup of soup

Nah...you wouldn't want me to be obnoxious. At my hotel immediately south of the Canadian border on Thanksgiving Friday night, I found a whole bunch of You Tube "goodbye to the QE2" stuff. I know I have hammered you guys with this QM2 and QE2 stuff in the past, so I'll pass. Plus, I know it would make P-C-S unhappy.

cupola

Ok, you are in a supermarket or at Costco or in a large office building. You are walking around a corner or going down the aisle and you almost run into / come face-to-face with a person who has a disease which has disfigured them, have been severely burned or subjected to some other tragedy that has markedly altered their appearance. Because of the fact that you were taken off guard and you were hurrying about, you would have ordinarily tried to be very composed, but I think that what happens is that you may make eye contact and then look away a little TOO quickly. You wind up feeling real bad. But you also know that others, in similar circumstances, may have reacted in a similar manner. I continue to do my shopping or run my errand. I almost wish I had never set foot in the store at the same time. I will usually say a quick prayer once I get into my car....for them, for me, for whomever. Have you had this happen to you?

Abso-f@#kin-lutely. I'm expecting it to roughly double by next summer, just by the time everybody WANTS to go somewhere.

You people from the Northeast get it! My response to thread: guilt