Trump.

sassygirl3869 comments on Jan 5, 2020:

He is such a fucking moron and ignoramus!!!!!! Announcing his intentions forr 2020!!!!!!!

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 5, 2020:

@sassygirl3869 I only refer to the most creditable sources I can find.

Speaking of war ...

zeuser comments on Jan 5, 2020:

Ah yes, the nostalgic memory of Iran-contra. Where's Ollie North when you need him?

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 5, 2020:

He's working for the National Rifle Association (NRA). See: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/you-cant-keep-a-good-culture-warrior-down-the-return-of-oliver-north/2018/05/09/9891b114-522e-11e8-abd8-265bd07a9859_story.html

IDIOMATIC.

bobwjr comments on Jan 5, 2020:

Knew this

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 5, 2020:

You win a cookie!

IDIOMATIC.

Charlene comments on Jan 5, 2020:

I use a lot colloquial speech patterns daily, it's wicked pissah!😀😂

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 5, 2020:

For regional contrast, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SmHX28NY7c

IDIOMATIC.

LenHazell53 comments on Jan 5, 2020:

as opposed to idiosyncratic which related only to the linguistic peculiarities of a group or individual rather than of a poken language as a whole.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 5, 2020:

There's a "poken language"? Release the typos!

What you are seeing is the first engagements of World War III.

wordywalt comments on Jan 4, 2020:

We WILL see a 2020 election, and the idiot Trump will lose!!!!

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 5, 2020:

@wordywalt >Not here. Never here. 😒😒

Trump.

sassygirl3869 comments on Jan 5, 2020:

He is such a fucking moron and ignoramus!!!!!! Announcing his intentions forr 2020!!!!!!!

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 5, 2020:

@TheGreatShadow Stormy Daniels has assured us he isn't all that wonderful at sex either. Considering how many guys she's had sex with, we got it on good authority.

White House Refuses to Release 20 Emails About Ukraine Aid Freeze [yahoo.com]

rogerbenham comments on Jan 5, 2020:

You can't expect them to admit guilt if they can avoid it. Would the democrats? Would anyone in power?

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 5, 2020:

@rogerbenham We need more dirt to make sure he doesn't rise from the grave.

What you are seeing is the first engagements of World War III.

wordywalt comments on Jan 4, 2020:

We WILL see a 2020 election, and the idiot Trump will lose!!!!

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 4, 2020:

@wordywalt >The military and law enforcement will not back the idiot Trump if he attempts a coup. They will back anyone who pays them. It's that kind of loyalty that keeps all dictators in power.

What you are seeing is the first engagements of World War III.

wordywalt comments on Jan 4, 2020:

We WILL see a 2020 election, and the idiot Trump will lose!!!!

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 4, 2020:

Assuming he loses, the question becomes will he step down.

I don't keep my phone in my bedroom at night ...

glennlab comments on Jan 4, 2020:

The only time I have my phone in the bedroom is if I am expecting a call. and how do you set your phone to DND? Why would the dungeon Master be calling after midnight?

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 4, 2020:

>Why would the dungeon Master be calling after midnight? Because he's figured out how to keep you in the game.

Welp interjection Nonstandard.

t1nick comments on Jan 4, 2020:

Whelp Definition of whelp (Entry 1 of 2) 1: any of the young of various carnivorous mammals and especially of the dog 2: a young boy or girl whelp verb whelped; whelping; whelps Definition of whelp (Entry 2 of 2) transitive verb : to give birth to —used of various carnivores and ...

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 4, 2020:

I knew there was more to it.

Trump is clearly trying to start a war to distract from his impeachment.

moosepucky comments on Jan 3, 2020:

War is good for the economy, just not too many at the same time. 🤪

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 4, 2020:

@whiskywoman You should show him a few episodes, curl his toes, warp his spine.

any singles mingling today?

Silver1wun comments on Jan 4, 2020:

Such discussions ought to begin and expand long before a 'relationship' comes to exist, if I understand the popular meaning of the term. How could it exist without people having that kind of fundamental information about one another's attitudes?

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 4, 2020:

@Soarfeet Or they change for the worse, which is when you'll need a trade in.

Anyone else tired of seeing the useless "Pray for Australia" nonsense on social media?

SenorRotten comments on Jan 4, 2020:

One more reason I have nothing but disdain for social media -

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 4, 2020:

At least they're exponentially more intelligent that the locals in my town, which what I'm doing here. I'm surrounded by Southern Baptists.

Trump is clearly trying to start a war to distract from his impeachment.

moosepucky comments on Jan 3, 2020:

War is good for the economy, just not too many at the same time. 🤪

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 4, 2020:

@whiskywoman You're reminding me of a Ren and Stimpy carton that was introduced with *here's a true story we just made up.* Ren: "It's so clear to me now. I'm the keeper of the Cheese, and you're the Lemon Merchant. You get it? And he knows it! That's why HE's gonna kill us! So we gotta beat it. Yeah. Before he lets loose the marmosets on us!!! Don't worry little missy, I'll save you!" Let's not forget the words of powered toast man: ""Quick, man! Cling tenaciously to my buttocks!" The cartoons of the 1990's were the golden age and will not return. I digress every time I chug eight ounces of steaming expresso in the morning.

Trump is clearly trying to start a war to distract from his impeachment.

WonderWartHog99 comments on Jan 3, 2020:

## My theory is he forgot his promises to bring our middle eastern troops back home.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 4, 2020:

@whiskywoman >I saw this morning 35000 I think it was early and I was half asleep could be wrong It came in a vision with gay Irish elves. I know those elves. They sell cookies.

CHAGRIN.

FrayedBear comments on Dec 30, 2019:

I once challenged a professional bush poet to write a poem containing the word chagrin. He did. IMO it was bloody aweful. I don't think he performs it any more.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 4, 2020:

@FrayedBear We have a decaf Pepsi canoe. 😉😹🤣🤣

CHAGRIN.

FrayedBear comments on Dec 30, 2019:

I once challenged a professional bush poet to write a poem containing the word chagrin. He did. IMO it was bloody aweful. I don't think he performs it any more.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 4, 2020:

@FrayedBear ooohhhhh....In that case Petunia just drove away in our 3 year old bourbon barge SUV.

Don’t lie. You pictured someone.

FrayedBear comments on Jan 4, 2020:

What are "Newports"?

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 4, 2020:

A brand of cigarettes preferred by women.

Anyone use this chatroom?

glennlab comments on Jan 4, 2020:

Just join in it, someone may stop by,it depends on who is awake and who is around. They'll see someone in it if you are there.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 4, 2020:

Significant catch: Often I see one person who "joined" the chat room and walked away from the screen. Once the number has gone up to two, you could wait for hours for it to go up to three and get some action. About the only time I see the real action is after Sassy announces she's in the chat room and four or more people have joined.

Trump is clearly trying to start a war to distract from his impeachment.

moosepucky comments on Jan 3, 2020:

War is good for the economy, just not too many at the same time. 🤪

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 4, 2020:

@whiskywoman Define this phrase "Short time." I remember it went on for years.

Trump is clearly trying to start a war to distract from his impeachment.

WonderWartHog99 comments on Jan 3, 2020:

## My theory is he forgot his promises to bring our middle eastern troops back home.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 4, 2020:

@whiskywoman Read and learn. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/world/middleeast/us-troops-deployments.html

CHAGRIN.

FrayedBear comments on Dec 30, 2019:

I once challenged a professional bush poet to write a poem containing the word chagrin. He did. IMO it was bloody aweful. I don't think he performs it any more.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 3, 2020:

@FrayedBear Those are related to gin, how?

CHAGRIN.

FrayedBear comments on Dec 30, 2019:

I once challenged a professional bush poet to write a poem containing the word chagrin. He did. IMO it was bloody aweful. I don't think he performs it any more.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 3, 2020:

@FrayedBear Most of the boats I see moored at local piers and marinas are small cabin cruisers with a handful of sailboats.

Here's your sign.

Robecology comments on Jan 2, 2020:

I had my vas snipped long ago....no need for those ugly things... https://i0.wp.com/media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Platinum-Trump-condom-02.jpg?w=799=1

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 3, 2020:

@Robecology Those are some big conditions and assumptions.

Trump is clearly trying to start a war to distract from his impeachment.

WonderWartHog99 comments on Jan 3, 2020:

## My theory is he forgot his promises to bring our middle eastern troops back home.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 3, 2020:

@whiskywoman Possibly. What were the numbers of troops in the middle east before and after 2016? He had been pulling them out of Afghanistan. I honestly don't know. Can you cite a source to defend your theory?

Well here I go again.

WonderWartHog99 comments on Jan 1, 2020:

Now it's time to be Debbie Downer. >Do I just give up and spend the rest of my life alone? Yes. Not only do older women become less desirable as they age, they become more demanding what kind of guy they'll put up with. That's a sure fire combination for a romance train wreck. Your ...

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 3, 2020:

@Cinjar Have you tried the block and tackle controlled, gimbal mounted, bottomless love chair?

CHAGRIN.

FrayedBear comments on Dec 30, 2019:

I once challenged a professional bush poet to write a poem containing the word chagrin. He did. IMO it was bloody aweful. I don't think he performs it any more.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 3, 2020:

@FrayedBear >. . . . and that there are probably a 1000 floating gin palaces . . . Anyone living outside of Australia will be unaware of the fleet of privately owned boats in Australia. I'm not all that sure the Australians know. As far as a 1000 floating gin palaces, what? Huh? One heads for the marina in the quest for a stiff drink?

Trump is clearly trying to start a war to distract from his impeachment.

moosepucky comments on Jan 3, 2020:

War is good for the economy, just not too many at the same time. 🤪

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 3, 2020:

I remember bitterly the post Vietnam War recession. Generally when the check comes due, the economy goes bust.

Here in Dixie we have a good luck tradition for New Year's day.

girlwithsmiles comments on Dec 31, 2019:

I’m glad the possums don’t get dropped anymore. I don’t know anything about the NYC traditions, can you explain what either drop represents or achieves?

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 3, 2020:

@girlwithsmiles Your cited source says possums aren't native to Australia. It says it was introduced 1850's on the wild theory it would start a fur industry. Got your possum coat yet? 😉😹 Otherwise, a tip of the hat for setting me straight. Our possums don't have bushy tails and unlike yours eat carrion. When they become road kill, the vultures will eat a small part of them and abandon it. The bird brains will try to eat it until the thought "this is a mistake." Our road kill has built such an large turkey vulture population I can't be outside for more than five minutes without seeing one.

Well here I go again.

WonderWartHog99 comments on Jan 1, 2020:

Now it's time to be Debbie Downer. >Do I just give up and spend the rest of my life alone? Yes. Not only do older women become less desirable as they age, they become more demanding what kind of guy they'll put up with. That's a sure fire combination for a romance train wreck. Your ...

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 3, 2020:

@Cinjar >It's been well over 20 years and I don't miss it one bit. I heard that out of one one self proclaimed asexual. I took her out as my wing woman. One time Jean and I were sitting at a bar when another woman who had been overhearing our conversation and asked "Are you a couple?" Jean said "No. We're both looking for someone better." With that, I got a phone number. I find it ironic that women feel I'm more approachable with a woman than without one. QED, my remark that we should discuss these kind of deep discussions over cocktails. After two years of bar hoping and getting that kind of response out of guilty bystanders, Jean jumped my bones. She decided other women liked me so much she ought to get in on the action. Not just to make up for lost time, she wanted the kinky stuff. There were weekends we didn't leave my bed except for food and bathroom breaks. Lots of bathroom breaks. BTW, I'm uncomfortable with kinky sex but it makes for some interesting tales. That experience has confirmed my old proverb, *There's what they say, there's what they do.* Side story: Petunia doesn't like night clubs because women keep coming up to me and asking if we're a couple. Petunia explains, "I don't share my toys"

New Year... New decade...

GEGR comments on Jan 2, 2020:

I remember that era .

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 3, 2020:

I'm so old I knew God as a pup. Dated His mom.

Let's go camping! See: [gocalaveras.com]

Bioldguy comments on Jan 2, 2020:

I want to go there lol

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 3, 2020:

After reading your profile, I see the bend of your logic. When you get there, send me a postcard. I exchange post cards with people living from afar.

Let's go camping! See: [gocalaveras.com]

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jan 2, 2020:

Going deep on the wild side!

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 3, 2020:

Meh. It's the name of a campground in California that features a swimming "hole" (aka small lake) with an adjoining camp ground. Major deal: it's not snowing there like Canada. You could go swimming.

A little climate joke to give you a laugh followed by mixed feelings of guilt over climate change.

RobertMartin comments on Jan 3, 2020:

The climate does change four times a year: winter, spring, summer and fall

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 3, 2020:

In San Diego, it's eternal spring. When I lived in South Florida (an island community south of St. Petersburg) it was spring, summer, hell and late summer.

Here's your sign.

Robecology comments on Jan 2, 2020:

I had my vas snipped long ago....no need for those ugly things... https://i0.wp.com/media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Platinum-Trump-condom-02.jpg?w=799=1

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 3, 2020:

Dude! Shooting blanks doesn't stop STD.

This seems to be something I've lost through the years.

Marionville comments on Jan 2, 2020:

Greek.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 3, 2020:

After googling it, that's what I got out of it as well. "Parea: (Gr.) A Parea in Greek culture is a group of friends who regularly gather together to share their experiences about life, their philosophies, values and ideas." One definition that amused me is it's Spanish for "ya'all."

CHAGRIN.

FrayedBear comments on Dec 30, 2019:

I once challenged a professional bush poet to write a poem containing the word chagrin. He did. IMO it was bloody aweful. I don't think he performs it any more.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 3, 2020:

@FrayedBear >Oh whatever happened to the spirit of Dunkirk? Almost all of those in the battle are dead. That was 79 years ago. If a solider was 20 years old at the time of the battle, they'd be almost 100 years old now.Here in the states most guys start dropping dead from the ravages of old age after their 80th birthday. In the states, we honor Pearl Harbor Day. The reunion of those **who were there** has been canceled because few are still alive. The actuarial table killed them off. These days the recently retired might be asking "What ever happened to the spirit of the Tet Offensive?" Most of the people **who were there** are getting into their late 60's, early 70's. Now how old does that make you feel?

Here in Dixie we have a good luck tradition for New Year's day.

girlwithsmiles comments on Dec 31, 2019:

I’m glad the possums don’t get dropped anymore. I don’t know anything about the NYC traditions, can you explain what either drop represents or achieves?

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 2, 2020:

@girlwithsmiles >, I’ve never heard of an Aussie eating possum. They're only native to America. They're not popular here.

Well here I go again.

WonderWartHog99 comments on Jan 1, 2020:

Now it's time to be Debbie Downer. >Do I just give up and spend the rest of my life alone? Yes. Not only do older women become less desirable as they age, they become more demanding what kind of guy they'll put up with. That's a sure fire combination for a romance train wreck. Your ...

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 2, 2020:

@Cinjar > think we could argue this issue for quite awhile. I'm up for it if you are. We should do this over cocktails. >trust me, I'm not at all looking for sex. "Trust me" is Donald Trump's clue he's about to tell a lie. "Trust me" is not a phrase I trust. I think you mean "I'm not looking for promiscuous sex or sex with random guys." You're looking for sex with terms and conditions. Often women have no knowledge what those terms and conditions are. That's the ones who roll over and ask "Why did I do that?" What those "terms and conditions" are vary from woman to woman. They commonly are: She likes him a lot. (Top of the list). Her parents like him a lot. He fits in well with family and friends. She likes him a lot and realizes he's about to have sex with someone he also likes. Her parents can't stand him. Everyone is polishing his knob. Let's join the crowd! This works well for celebrities. They don't feel comfortable going out alone, besides 550 channels and nothing is on. He does home cooking and scrubs the pots afterwards? Who ha!

FULMINATE - Verb.

WonderWartHog99 comments on Jan 2, 2020:

It is the custom of the disagreeable cusses on the internet to be fulminated often with excessive vigor. Sometimes on mere reputation alone. Not that I should know, lovable person that I am. 😉😇😇

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 2, 2020:

@Marionville Couple of nights ago I was in a chat room when a member I wasn't including in the chat began her rant about what a horrible person I am. She told another woman to avoid me because I'm just like Sassy's ex-husband. I replied that Cutie Beauty is **such** a charmer. 😉😹

Let's go camping! See:

Sticks48 comments on Jan 2, 2020:

I just made reservations.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 2, 2020:

When you get there, send me a postcard. I exchange postcards. The current ones I'm mailing out are from the Blue Ridge Parkway, which runs the ridges of the Blue Ridge Mountains. One of these day I'm going to use all my postcards from afar as wall paper.

Let's go camping! See:

RoyMillar comments on Jan 2, 2020:

sounds like an interesting place to visit

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 2, 2020:

It's in California. The area has to be warmer than Canada in January. Lake side camping is available. Here in South Carolina it's a little too chilly for the lake side camping spots. They don't have snow at those spots. I want to know if I can get postcards from there.

Lieu. As in: "In lieu of telling you I'm letting you look it up yourself."

Marionville comments on Dec 31, 2019:

I use this word a lot and don’t need to look it up. It’s from the French and it means “in place of”. In lieu of ...shouldn’t be confused with “In the loo”! 😁

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 2, 2020:

@FrayedBear She's in the will to inherit the house. Her dad is unlikely to recover from the last stages of his pending death and dementia. Except for the occasional person trying to be a squatter, nobody lives in the house. The house is in a state of neglect and in need of repairs. However, her brother who has her dad's power of attorney doesn't want her to move in. He lives in Hawaii and the house is in North Carolina. Every time she calls she has a repenting rant about how awful her family is. My broad shoulders keep getting wet from that sob story. 😭😭

CHAGRIN.

FrayedBear comments on Dec 30, 2019:

I once challenged a professional bush poet to write a poem containing the word chagrin. He did. IMO it was bloody aweful. I don't think he performs it any more.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 2, 2020:

@FrayedBear Didn't watch it, except for the "let's shoot the fireworks" segment. If it wasn't for a demanding half naked woman who wanted to kiss me at midnight when the fireworks went off in Times Square, I'd had gone to bed early. Two in the morning, she woke me up in her quest for the anti-acids. What was the high point of your night of frivolity? Had buddies over? Down at the club? Got your tonsils tickled?

Happy New Year, All (and Happy New Decade, too.) 😁 What I think ...

callmedubious comments on Jan 1, 2020:

It is not a new decade. The Arabs started using 0 in math over 1000 yrs ago. Most Americans still haven't grasped that significance.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 2, 2020:

Zero is my hero. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxYsgRsNg2s

Here in Dixie we have a good luck tradition for New Year's day.

SukiSue comments on Jan 1, 2020:

Oh my!

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 2, 2020:

I'll see your "Oh my!" and raise you an "indeedee do!"

Public service announcement

Robecology comments on Jan 2, 2020:

Oh...to make that wish come true! (cute women sitting on my lap...)

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 2, 2020:

Clothing optional, as is the custom of wilder women.

North Carolina voter ID law BLOCKED.

Charlene comments on Jan 1, 2020:

Link isn't working..

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 2, 2020:

Try one of these links instead: https://www.wwaytv3.com/2020/01/01/sordid-history-cited-as-judge-blocks-ncs-voter-id-law/ http://www.startribune.com/sordid-history-cited-as-judge-blocks-nc-s-voter-id-law/566610801/

Well here I go again.

Petter comments on Jan 1, 2020:

Look for friendship, male and female, and if you click, it's a bonus. This site needs patience, but you do find friends - the snag is they are seldom close by. However, one can always arrange to meet. I regard this site as a place for fellowship.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 2, 2020:

@Petter I met an Aussie who circumnavigated the US with that plan. He bought a broken down car in Los Angeles, California, and started visiting people from all over the US. When he hit Pensacola, Florida, a black family kept him for a week. They kept showing him off to the neighbors because he talked with an Aussie accent. They called up out of town relatives. "Hey, come over. We got a guy who talks funny." When he returned to Los Angeles six months later, he sold the car. My ex-biz partner (may the parole board be turning him down now) found a magazine with a classified section for women looking for pen pals in jail. While spending a ten months in a state penitentiary for attempted murder, he spent all his time writing them. He had the grand tour plan and visited them by motorcycle from Pensacola to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis, South Dakota (1,600 miles/ 2,560 kilometers one way). Not all of them wanted a return visit.

Well here I go again.

WonderWartHog99 comments on Jan 1, 2020:

Now it's time to be Debbie Downer. >Do I just give up and spend the rest of my life alone? Yes. Not only do older women become less desirable as they age, they become more demanding what kind of guy they'll put up with. That's a sure fire combination for a romance train wreck. Your ...

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 2, 2020:

@Cinjar I've been 12 years old. I've never sent or taken penis pictures. While **women are looking for sex,** the terms and conditions go on days. They get picky, picky, picky. Once in a great while they'll go "Hell, old ugly will do." While it's a given you **will** find the emotional immature male, assuming that's what you will **always** find means you're not willing to take reasonable risks.

I'm not officially single yet.

Indubitably comments on Jan 1, 2020:

Why be ordained and call yourself a church if you don't believe in a god? That sounds very deceptive to me. I see no sense in that at all.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 1, 2020:

@Seminarian > In New Thought, God is consciousness. Since I previously quoted you saying "I don't believe God is a conscious being." I figure you're getting indecisive on me. In my faith *The Last Temple of the Great Black Cosmic Muffin Mistress" God thinks humans were Her greatest mistake. Therefore She abandoned them and is annoyed when they pray to Her. Prayer is an excuse for Her to piss on them. God is not love; She doesn't even like you. A cruel and fickle God would explain too much about species that go extinct and the seemingly random events of the universe. Unconscious God, okay!

Well here I go again.

Petter comments on Jan 1, 2020:

Look for friendship, male and female, and if you click, it's a bonus. This site needs patience, but you do find friends - the snag is they are seldom close by. However, one can always arrange to meet. I regard this site as a place for fellowship.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 1, 2020:

>the snag is they are seldom close by. However, one can always arrange to meet. If one arranges to meet a lot of them, you can go on a tour after getting them to agree to put you up while you are in town.

Well here I go again.

NoMagicCookie comments on Jan 1, 2020:

As a heterosexual male I reached a similar conclusion "frustrating" (replace men with women for you example) when I was approaching my 40's. In these parts, nearly all women are theists (a behavioral attribute I do not tolerate) so the pool of potentially acceptable lifelong partners was near ...

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 1, 2020:

> I replaced looking for a partner with hobbies. I replaced them with ones who could hold down a job.

Lieu. As in: "In lieu of telling you I'm letting you look it up yourself."

Marionville comments on Dec 31, 2019:

I use this word a lot and don’t need to look it up. It’s from the French and it means “in place of”. In lieu of ...shouldn’t be confused with “In the loo”! 😁

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 1, 2020:

@FrayedBear >You mean that you can find and have live conversations in real time with people still? At times with trepidation people give me a phone call seeking my advice, not that they have any plans to follow it. Just got finished talking to a woman who plans to break into her father's house while he's in the rest home and turn into a squatter to see how long it will take for the police to throw her out. She figured she needed my endorsement. Why, she needed it I don't know.

I'm not officially single yet.

Indubitably comments on Jan 1, 2020:

Why be ordained and call yourself a church if you don't believe in a god? That sounds very deceptive to me. I see no sense in that at all.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 1, 2020:

@Seminarian >I don't believe God is a conscious being. Unconscious being is a theory that sounds attractive.

Crabby crab.

WonderWartHog99 comments on Jan 1, 2020:

## Because we live about 300 miles from the ocean all the crabs we see are imitation. 👎👎 I want knife welding crabs from the hood.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 1, 2020:

@scurry >Might be expensive and frozen but probably obtainable. Frozen seafood I can get. They freeze seafood **after** it doesn't sell at the seafood market on the shore. Before spoilage starts, they ship it inland. Therefore, I'm leery of buying frozen seafood. If I can see the sea, I'll buy the seafood.

Here in Dixie we have a good luck tradition for New Year's day.

FrayedBear comments on Dec 31, 2019:

Ya call that a bear? Here we don't cage 'em just burn, destroy their habitat or shoot them. Haven't you heard of the Australian drop bear a sub species of koala? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_bear

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 1, 2020:

@FrayedBear >Is the possum a tree dweller? No. They will climb trees but, like cats, they don't live in them. They climb trees primarily to escape predators. Popular mythology has them hanging by their tails in trees, taking naps but they don't do that either. Possum hunters have been known to bring the village idiot along to shake the possum out of the tree. They have to get a new village idiot every time. Even idiots learn not to do that.

A new year thought.

BitFlipper comments on Jan 1, 2020:

How did you know you were loved?

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 1, 2020:

Hey, do you **want** to ask questions to an idiot?

CHAGRIN.

FrayedBear comments on Dec 30, 2019:

I once challenged a professional bush poet to write a poem containing the word chagrin. He did. IMO it was bloody aweful. I don't think he performs it any more.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 1, 2020:

@FrayedBear >Here in Australia there are more than half a million New Zealanders living here permanently. Likewise, according to U.S. Census Bureau data, in 2016, Puerto Ricans accounted for 1.7 percent of the total U.S population and 9.5 percent of the nation's Latino population. Does meeting one them in the states (despite what Trump thinks, Puerto Rico is a US territory, not a state or an independent country) the same going to Puerto Rico? Of course not. You'll only meet Puerto Ricans who looked around and said "I'm leaving. Puerto Rico is the pits." Same story for Aussies meeting American ex-pats. **Being there** gives one a more accurate picture of what it's like. All the Aussies don't look like Olivia Newton John.

Lieu. As in: "In lieu of telling you I'm letting you look it up yourself."

Marionville comments on Dec 31, 2019:

I use this word a lot and don’t need to look it up. It’s from the French and it means “in place of”. In lieu of ...shouldn’t be confused with “In the loo”! 😁

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 1, 2020:

@FrayedBear For many people, posting with chiggers is the custom but not for those who get published. Pick up your local news paper and chiggers don't fall out. "Chiggers" is what I call a series of periods place close together between....phrases. For us gringos, chiggers is understood as tiny biting bugs often found in Spanish moss. By the way, Spanish moss is neither Spanish or moss. We are confusing people. Likewise there are a tons of words commonly used but not used frequently by internet posters.

HAPPY 2020!

Marionville comments on Jan 1, 2020:

The word qualtagh is Manx Gaelic (from the Isle of Man, a British island in the Irish Sea). Just like their Celtic neighbours the Scots, they have a tradition of “first-footing” at New Year. Crossing the threshold of neighbours to wish them luck for the year ahead, traditionally they should ...

WonderWartHog99 replies on Jan 1, 2020:

It is not the custom of my people, gringos in Dixie. Here I'm surrounded by Southern Baptist who believe in tea totaling. (Should I explain that phrase next? It may an alien custom of your people). For New Year's day, they're into beans, greens and corn bread instead. Petunia left a can of black eyed peas and greens out on the kitchen counter last night so I wouldn't forget. I'm on my own finding pork chops in the freezer.

Lieu. As in: "In lieu of telling you I'm letting you look it up yourself."

Marionville comments on Dec 31, 2019:

I use this word a lot and don’t need to look it up. It’s from the French and it means “in place of”. In lieu of ...shouldn’t be confused with “In the loo”! 😁

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 31, 2019:

It's a very common word as well.

Here in Dixie we have a good luck tradition for New Year's day.

FrayedBear comments on Dec 31, 2019:

Ya call that a bear? Here we don't cage 'em just burn, destroy their habitat or shoot them. Haven't you heard of the Australian drop bear a sub species of koala? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_bear

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 31, 2019:

>Ya call that a bear? Find me anyone who refers to a possum as a bear.

CHAGRIN.

FrayedBear comments on Dec 30, 2019:

I once challenged a professional bush poet to write a poem containing the word chagrin. He did. IMO it was bloody aweful. I don't think he performs it any more.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 31, 2019:

@FrayedBear You don't know either people or scenery **until you are there.** On line you only know people by what they write. When I'm in the mountains, I know I can't take pictures of vast panoramas and show what they look like in person. Recently one of my friends was charmed out of her panties by a guy in the Great White North. She thought she'd found a guy to live with. She traveled 3,000 miles round trip to find out he was unhygienic and a shut in. He didn't mention that and she returned home after one day. There's a lot to be said for **being there.**

Friends.

azzow2 comments on Dec 31, 2019:

GL hope to see you back soon, your feedback is always genuine.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 31, 2019:

. . . but . . . but . . . he's got "Various reasons."

Friends.

St-Sinner comments on Dec 31, 2019:

Why?

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 31, 2019:

@MrLizard Thank you for your service in the trenches.

Hi everyone hope your Xmas was a happy one mine for the most part was good the gifts the family ...

WonderWartHog99 comments on Dec 28, 2019:

## If you have people who love you, another relationship will be along soon enough unless you're picky kind of guy.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 31, 2019:

@SecularCat65 Glad to hear it. Petunia and I are staying home, eating junk food and getting heartburn. She'll spend the evening watching TV programs I don't want to watch and wanting me to sit next to her. She wants to watch tiny house videos on You Tube, which I call house wife porn. Since tomorrow is a work day, I don't think we'll be seeing the ball drop in Times Square.

Narp! This came to me while frequently finding a group that finds uncommon words in Yiddish.

Mooolah comments on Dec 31, 2019:

Spielberg strikes again.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 31, 2019:

Hellooooo nurse!

Here in Dixie we have a good luck tradition for New Year's day.

girlwithsmiles comments on Dec 31, 2019:

I’m glad the possums don’t get dropped anymore. I don’t know anything about the NYC traditions, can you explain what either drop represents or achieves?

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 31, 2019:

@girlwithsmiles >I’m sure the possums are happy not to have that kind of attention. Here in Dixie, they'll trap possums and eat them but not right away. They're carrion eaters. I call them land vultures. (Mostly they look for bugs, grubs and worms). Therefore, the trapper feeds them a diet of corn for a week to flush out the carrion that may be in its system. Luckily for the possums it's a custom that is dying out because of the time and effort involved.

Hogmanay: a word I'm not even going to try to define.

Marionville comments on Dec 31, 2019:

I already know this word...I introduced you to it! On this side of the Atlantic it is not actually an uncommon word as it comes around every year on this day...so we are all familiar with it.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 31, 2019:

On my side of Atlantic, we're familiar with the word "chiggers." We have enough to share!

Here in Dixie we have a good luck tradition for New Year's day.

chalupacabre comments on Dec 31, 2019:

Pfft. . .kraken. RELEASE THE POSSUM!!

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 31, 2019:

@chalupacabre They could have been best buds. Possums carry their young on their back. When one falls off, mother possum keeps moving on even if the offspring is too young to take care of itself. Bonding with another animal makes too much sense to an immature possum. People keep them as pets until they realize possums dig up the yard looking for grubs and worms. Since they also eat carrion, they've got the world's worse halitosis. Those who eat possums feed them corn for around a week before they're slaughtered to flush out whatever carrion is in their system. If they're over stressed, they faint. Hence the expression "playing possum."

Here in Dixie we have a good luck tradition for New Year's day.

girlwithsmiles comments on Dec 31, 2019:

I’m glad the possums don’t get dropped anymore. I don’t know anything about the NYC traditions, can you explain what either drop represents or achieves?

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 31, 2019:

The last ten seconds of the old year in NYC are represented by a huge lighted crystal ball descending on a skyscraper in Times Square. Everyone in the square can see it and the square is packed with bodies. Once the lighted ball starts to go down, the crowd starts a count down. Once it's the New Year, the lights on the ball goes out and the crowd goes wild. Fireworks and confetti rapidly follow. In contrast, in a few cities in Dixie they used to lower a possum in a cage (not actually dropping one) in the same count down tradition. This has been discontinued.

DROUTHY.

WonderWartHog99 comments on Dec 31, 2019:

## Here in Dixie we have a good luck tradition for New Year's day. We eat black eyed peas and collard greens or turnip greens with corn bread. This dates back to the late 18th century when most people in Dixie were subsistence farmers. Back then, if you had beans and greens you were going to survive...

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 31, 2019:

@Marionville >that menu is about two centuries out of date The description said the feast MAY include classic Scottish dishes such as . . . . Your description went on to include a list of feast foods us gringos (especially in Dixie) avoid on New Year's Day. Beans and greens aren't considered feast foods. Apparently in your country, the feast tradition continues but it's not a US tradition. One US New Year's Eve that died out in the states was alcohol free street parties so parents could get out of the house and bring their kids. As a general rule nightclubs, bars and pubs don't allow children in the door. Our two countries have a radical difference in attitudes toward alcohol consumption. Locally, I'm surrounded by Southern Baptists who aren't **supposed to** drink, dance or play cards. The joke here is they're live in fear of seeing each other in the liquor store. When I run into the liquor store, Petunia urges me to be quick about it while she sits in the car hoping nobody will see her. We have to leave town to go dancing.

Hogmanay: a word I'm not even going to try to define.

t1nick comments on Dec 31, 2019:

You did good. Lol. Happy New Year. Sounds like quite a party.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 31, 2019:

Thank you. I'm planning to have a very boring New Year's Eve because Petunia refuses leave the house. She refuses to join the night of amateur drinkers. She figures if I go out alone, I might not come back. What's wrong with that?

Here in Dixie we have a good luck tradition for New Year's day.

chalupacabre comments on Dec 31, 2019:

Pfft. . .kraken. RELEASE THE POSSUM!!

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 31, 2019:

They're most frequently seen as road kill because at night they like to eat the left over fast food people throw out of their cars.

CHAGRIN.

FrayedBear comments on Dec 30, 2019:

I once challenged a professional bush poet to write a poem containing the word chagrin. He did. IMO it was bloody aweful. I don't think he performs it any more.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 31, 2019:

@FrayedBear Here in the eastern US is it's10:05 am on a Tuesday. There in Sydney it's a Wednesday at 2:05 a.m. > i believe you are in New Zealand at the appropriare hour. I'm in Seneca, South Carolina, USA.

Hogmanay: a word I'm not even going to try to define.

Charlene comments on Dec 31, 2019:

The U.S will have a tradition of hogmanay started as soon as Drump is out of office!😀😀😀

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 31, 2019:

Naw. They're not going to start house cleaning because he's out of office, assuming he ever leaves. "You have elected your **last** president." -- Michael Moore. That being said, it's good to notice that there are a record number of Republicans who plan to retire once their term is over. Politically speaking, a Trump endorsement is a touch of death now.

Obama and Trump tie as the most admired man in 2019

wordywalt comments on Dec 31, 2019:

Something is screwy!

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 31, 2019:

Yea. Wack your spell checker for not catching your typo. Whoa, is "sometjhing" screwy!

CHAGRIN.

FrayedBear comments on Dec 30, 2019:

I once challenged a professional bush poet to write a poem containing the word chagrin. He did. IMO it was bloody aweful. I don't think he performs it any more.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 31, 2019:

@FrayedBear When I checked on the video it was streaming four hours of orientals singing something. Since I don't speak anything oriental . . . . .

CHAGRIN.

FrayedBear comments on Dec 30, 2019:

I once challenged a professional bush poet to write a poem containing the word chagrin. He did. IMO it was bloody aweful. I don't think he performs it any more.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 31, 2019:

@FrayedBear When the three hour New Year's Eve TV extravaganza comes on tonight, they'll show fireworks from all over the planet before the new year reaches NYC, including Sydney, Hong Kong, Paris and London. They'll show those fireworks several times before midnight. No sense in seeing Sydney's fireworks this morning. There is no way I will miss it in the next 24 hours. Because they sell fireworks locally, I could sit outside and watch the fireworks from the neighbors tonight. I'm not going to do it because tonight it's supposed to be near freezing. My Tom cat, Percy, will be in a state of terror tonight. I expect him to go into hiding for hours once the sun goes down. (I'm typing this at 8:11 a.m.) Every year when I see that TV program I can count on them interviewing someone in the square who says something like "Three million of us and they don't have any toilets?"

CHAGRIN.

FrayedBear comments on Dec 30, 2019:

I once challenged a professional bush poet to write a poem containing the word chagrin. He did. IMO it was bloody aweful. I don't think he performs it any more.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 31, 2019:

@FrayedBear For New Year's Eve, we will be working on boredom thinking the annual three hour long TV program from Harold Square (where they have the "ball drop" in NYC) will have something uplifting. They always disappoint. Every year, I want to go out; she wants to stay home. We fall asleep in front of the tube. Many elaborate high fat snacks are consumed followed by the eating of anti-acids at 2 p.m. This year the snacks include a type of sausage and cream cheese stuffed jalapenos dish called armadillo eggs. Additionally, she bought carbonated grape juice that when she isn't looking I'll spike with vodka. New Year's is too tame for me this century. In the previous century, I have many happy memories from night clubs. At the stroke of midnight women I hadn't met before or seen afterward would kiss me, throw streamers . . . ah, those where the days. What wild and lavish plans do you have -- hanging out at the bar with greasers, sucking suds and eating deep fat fried sandwiches until the witching hour?

CHAGRIN.

FrayedBear comments on Dec 30, 2019:

I once challenged a professional bush poet to write a poem containing the word chagrin. He did. IMO it was bloody aweful. I don't think he performs it any more.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 31, 2019:

@FrayedBear >The mentioned poet . . . Not mentioned by name nor title.

CHAGRIN.

FrayedBear comments on Dec 30, 2019:

I once challenged a professional bush poet to write a poem containing the word chagrin. He did. IMO it was bloody aweful. I don't think he performs it any more.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 30, 2019:

@FrayedBear >1.the word that. I used. is "bush" - Australian vernacular for countryside or non urban. As opposed to us gringos who call it boondocks because we're in love with vowels. The more confused call that region "the sticks." >Have an enjoyable new year's eve old hog Petunia and I have other plans.

CHAGRIN.

FrayedBear comments on Dec 30, 2019:

I once challenged a professional bush poet to write a poem containing the word chagrin. He did. IMO it was bloody aweful. I don't think he performs it any more.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 30, 2019:

Took a minute to get my brain to shift on "brush poet." Must be an Aussie. First, I thought of a paint brush and then female masturbation (i.e. beating around the bush). Finally, it hit me: outback. Got to be an Aussie. We're divided by English. That and "pro" poet is an elusive concept here in gringo land. If they're good enough to make money by finding a publisher, they won't make enough money for a living. Therefore our most popular poets often find living wages by getting hired by a university's English department. My university hired an obscure one who was self published. Sold his books on street corners. Whoa! Talk about wandering off topic! As long as I'm full of espresso, my finger are flying and my mind is wandering, I might as well add the local news broadcast said a local Aussie topic was to have fireworks on a bridge in Sydney on New Year's and burn down the rest of the country.

Since my friend Max died ,,, had a day of whisky and projectile vomit .

BitFlipper comments on Dec 28, 2019:

Uncontrolled anger can be expensive.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 30, 2019:

@EyesThatSmile It was fun in the wilder days of my teenage youth. I'd tell you tales about that time but I often wonder when the statue of limitation expires.

Hmmmmm.... Has anyone taken the Myers-Briggs personality test?

WonderWartHog99 comments on Dec 29, 2019:

## Has anyone taken the Myers-Briggs personality test? Worse. I use practice taking them so I get the results I wanted for job interviews.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 30, 2019:

@SukiSue More about the looks than "sensitivity and understanding" once you start looking at the gender of the staff pounding their tiny little fists on the keyboards.

CONTRETEMPS--A minor dispute or disagreement, an unforeseen unfortunate event

thinkwithme comments on Dec 29, 2019:

Thats not even what it means!

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 29, 2019:

@thinkwithme >You could not, Of course I can. I'm amazingly amazing in what I do yet modest about it.

CONTRETEMPS--A minor dispute or disagreement, an unforeseen unfortunate event

thinkwithme comments on Dec 29, 2019:

Thats not even what it means!

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 29, 2019:

As if I could expect you to offer a clarification and a source to cite.

Chuck Todd talking about truth and lies this morning, and how people post 'news' items on social ...

WonderWartHog99 comments on Dec 29, 2019:

## For years on Facebook, I ran across people quoting from Russian Times (RT). I kept saying "RT is *owned* by the Russian goverment. They publish Russian propaganda and Russian lies. You can't trust that source." They ignored me. Maybe they were using a fake Facebook account out of Moscow.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 29, 2019:

@indelible >I just don't understand why folks accept the crap they read at face value. The word you're looking for is "gullible." Once I heard the phrase "It is written" I figured I needed to get published. There are people who will believe anything that's written, said the handsome, dashing, young fellow.

Réchauffé noun a warmed-up dish of food.

HippieChick58 comments on Dec 28, 2019:

Chafing dish comes to mind

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 29, 2019:

@Marionville That'll teach me to marry an American white woman who had to teach me what Black Irish means. I should have seen it coming.

noun: tchotchke 1.

evidentialist comments on Dec 29, 2019:

The word has been part of the Yiddish lexicon for ages. It probably comes from the obsolete Czech dialect word *czaczko*, which had a similar meaning without the cutsie connotations.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 29, 2019:

@evidentialist >“a sexy but brainless broad” Hush your mouth. The broads will chase you down for using the word "broad." When it refers to women, I never know **exactly** what characteristics that word includes. There's a nearby river with the name "French Broad" that always leaves me snickering.

My cousin is an artist on Cape Cod.

azzow2 comments on Dec 29, 2019:

Kind of a Grandma Moses Vincent van Gogh style mix.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 29, 2019:

The second example looks like Van Gogh.

Hmmmmm.... Has anyone taken the Myers-Briggs personality test?

WonderWartHog99 comments on Dec 29, 2019:

## Has anyone taken the Myers-Briggs personality test? Worse. I use practice taking them so I get the results I wanted for job interviews.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 29, 2019:

@SukiSue So you're saying well dressed guys the size of a linebacker don't have "a lot of sensitivity and understanding"? Are most CFOs women?

noun: tchotchke 1.

evidentialist comments on Dec 29, 2019:

The word has been part of the Yiddish lexicon for ages. It probably comes from the obsolete Czech dialect word *czaczko*, which had a similar meaning without the cutsie connotations.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 29, 2019:

I thought it was Yiddish and meant "cute butt on that gal." However, since I wasn't willing to do extensive research to see if I was right, I used what I found on the topic.

Hmmmmm.... Has anyone taken the Myers-Briggs personality test?

WonderWartHog99 comments on Dec 29, 2019:

## Has anyone taken the Myers-Briggs personality test? Worse. I use practice taking them so I get the results I wanted for job interviews.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 29, 2019:

@SukiSue I've discovered sexual discrimination whenever I applied for clerical jobs. > I guess having an INFJ personality type is good for financial administration workers...? It's better if you don't look like a well dressed burly lumberjack that types 60 wpm.

It's my Christmas story and I'm sticking to it.

bookofmorons comments on Dec 29, 2019:

never worked for me

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 29, 2019:

Next time use panty hose.

Chuck Todd talking about truth and lies this morning, and how people post 'news' items on social ...

Haemish1 comments on Dec 29, 2019:

I’m guessing he didn’t mention anything about corporate media and which stories they’re not allowed to report on?

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 29, 2019:

@indelible >and which stories they’re not allowed to report on? One of my favorite jokes: Reporter: Boss, our biggest advertiser has been caught molesting children. Are we going to run the story? Publisher. Yes . . . on page 37.

noun: tchotchke 1.

HippieChick58 comments on Dec 29, 2019:

I'm trying to get rid of all the tchotchkes. They collect dust and my kids don't want them. In a few weeks I'm going to fire up my eBay account and start trying to sell some of the excess.

WonderWartHog99 replies on Dec 29, 2019:

Petunia is a clutter monkey. She buys display cabinets for her tchotchkes. The display cabinets are overflowing and the surplus dust catchers that she can't shove in the cabinets make it impossible to dust.