OK. Maybe three locked threads in 24 hour period on the DU is too much...

[Radio_Lady]

I didn't start the threads, so I guess it doesn't count. I don't want to get banned, so I'm scooting in here for cover.

FYI, I will not be discussing these things for a LONG while:

In alphabetical order: Politics, religion, sex, Skinner, smoking, worst city to drive in, etc.

Add to that: I will post my review of "Apocalypto" on Thursday 12/7 at around 9 PM Pacific Time. You are WELCOME TO READ IT if you want to. This movie is already making big waves. There are definitely two camps on this movie: Those who feel it is the "WORST MOVIE THIS YEAR" and those who are extolling it to the sky.

I don't plan to argue my position on this website. I plan to do what most of the REGULARLY accepted contributors do here... and what most reviewers do... CUT and RUN.

So......


Um.....

How's the weather where you are?


Pretty fall picture from Massachusetts

[Aristus]

1. Cold, mostly cloudy.

That's December in the Pacific Northwest for you, Radio Lady. :hi:

[Radio_Lady]

3. Hi Aristus. Puyallup, huh? I do know how to say it! We lived just up the road from you in

Milton, Washington -- August 31, 2000 to December 31, 2000. My husband had a contract job for Harland International on Enchanted Parkway -- do you know that company?

We even went to the Puyallup Fair that year and ate corn dogs! Nice memories!



Pretty picture from Massachusetts where we lived for decades!

[Aristus]

7. If you've been to the Puyallup Fair AND had a corn dog, well then, Radio Lady

you HAVE done it all! B-)

[Radio_Lady]

9. Thanks, Aristus! We've had a pretty good run. Had to cancel a

trip to Chicago this week. But we're now rescheduled to go to San Francisco next August-September. That will be OK.

What do you do in Puyallup? I remember going to a Radio Shack there; still have the travel alarm clock I purchased for $11.00. Funny what you remember -- people were very nice. Lots of antique shops, where I browsed but didn't buy anything.

[Aristus]

14. What do I do in Puyallup? I try not to get run off the road by Hummers

and cowboy wanna-bes in their aircraft-carrier-sized pickup trucks.

The Radio Shack on River Road closed for good a few months ago. Was that the one you shopped at?

Since you left the area, we got an Olive Garden, a Famous Pete's Barbecue Rib Shack, a TGIFriday's, and two, count 'em TWO Wal-Mart SuperCenters.

Seattle is cosmopolitan, Tacoma is blue-collar, but Puyallup, try as it might, will only ever be provincial.

Still...I have a nice home here, and I'm happy... :-)

[Radio_Lady]

18. Gulp! YOU HAVE AN OLIVE GARDEN? Please... don't get me started down THAT road!

Yeah, the Radio Shack on River Road. I remember that name.

Have a very nice holiday, Aristus!

(Is that a name for somebody I should know from history?)

Nice to meet you on the DU!

Radio_Lady in Oregon

(Born in Pittsburgh, but kidnapped by my parents to Miami, Florida at age 3, escaped to New York City and then Boston, and finally followed a daughter to Oregon. I think I'll croak in San Diego!)

[Radio_Lady]

19. Is this your link?

http://dowser.sourceforge.net/

[rug]

2. The sky is perfect for lying on the grass, having slow sex, smoking and talking politics after.

[Radio_Lady]

4. Oh, you devil, you... in Milford, Pennsylvania. Is that near my hometown? Pittsburgh?

But you left out the part about the lousy drivers in.....(FILL IN A CITY and BE PREPARED TO ARGUE YOUR FILL-IN)

So, is that a rug on your HEAD or under your FEET?

And your hobby is SPADES? Is that a card game? I've heard of HEARTS.

Warm regards,

Radio_Lady in Oregon

[rug]

13. No, it's the Poconos.

Spades is a killer card game.

And at the moment it's really snowing.

:hi:

[Radio_Lady]

20. We drove the Poconos -- but I can't remember which husband took me.

Damn, getting older is hard to do!

Make a snowball for me, will you!

This is the extent of the snow here this year (March 2006). Oh, sorry. We had about another inch for a day in November.

[cwydro]

5. Nice here,

but then, it's always nice here.B-)

[Radio_Lady]

6. You're not the DUer who has a FLYING PALMETTO BUG today?

I won't argue about your weather. After 28 years, I escaped Miami, Florida before I melted into a little puddle.

But hubby likes it and we own a timeshare in Orlando. Suffice it to say it's nice in winter -- west coast is great.

I love palm trees.

Nice to meet you (again) CWYDRO, on the DU.

What does your screen name mean?

Wishing you a happy holiday season, from a gal who used to spread Ivory Snow (soap) on the palm fronds!

Radio_Lady in Oregon

[cwydro]

11. Wow, Radio Lady

you must have been in Miami when it was a very different place. I'm in the Keys and yes, there are a LOT of palmetto bugs. Thankfully, they are not one of my many phobias. Lol. My screen name is Welsh. My mom is Welsh and my dad is English; they came here just before I was born in the late 50's. It means "wanderer" or "I wander". I am kind of a wandering type so it fit. You seem to have got around a lot too. You're lucky. Nice to see you as well. I enjoy your posts. Especially how you respond to the snarks on board.;-)

Gotta ask..what is up with the Ivory soap thing?

[Radio_Lady]

15. Around Chrismastime, in the 1940s and 1950s (before plastic foam, etc.)

we whipped up a mixture of Ivory Snowflakes and water, and coated the mixture on the palm trees (y'know, to imitate snow?) It didn't work very well, but it was all we had for Christmas memories!

I think we used cotton from a medicine bottle once... that was not great, either.

But then we kids used to tell people, "Where Christ was born, in Bethlehem, it's sandy and it doesn't snow... just like in Miami!" Some kind of superiority complex, I guess.



I was going to ask if your name was Celtic! Almost right!

Hey, thanks for the compliments. I needed them!

Wishing you a happy holiday season,

Radio_Lady in Oregon

[cwydro]

16. Ivory for snow.

I love it! It must have been very different in south Fla in the 50's...

[Radio_Lady]

22. Yeah, It was really rural. My parents bought a house on NE 131st Street in

North Miami. There was nothing north of that until you got to Hollywood, Florida. We used to run the dog at Haulover Beach. I rode bareback on a horse I took care of on a huge piece of land with a stable. Nothing like that anymore.

We just had our 50th High School Reunion in Orlando in October. Got to see many of the old fogies I went to school with -- but a lot of them are gone now.

Here's a picture of me and my first boyfriend on Sanibel Island in 1955. We had to drive across the old Tamiami Trail and take a ferry boat to the island. He's still alive -- and living in Miami -- he's 70 years old now! I talked to him last summer, but didn't get to see him (they moved the reunion from Miami to Orlando -- because of its proximity to Disney World.)

[wildhorses]

35. OMG i love that pic

you are a good looking lady R_L and now i know why :wow:

i love that dress:appaluse:

[Ptah]

8. Just right.

Thanks for asking.

:hi:

[Radio_Lady]

12. Hi, Ptah. Thanks for crusing by. "I loves me some Tucson in the winter."

Last winter, that is. This winter, we're headed to Las Vegas in February. We had to dump our trip to Chicago Dec. 9 to 15th -- we were going to the Egypt/King Tut exhibit, but hubby contracted bronchitis and laryngitis. So far, I'm fine.

Thanks for the wave.

You're a nice person (well, maybe you're a serial killer, how the heck would I know?????)

:sarcasm:

[Radio_Lady]

23. I wish I was there on horseback right now -- well, in the morning!

I know you've seen this before. I just picked up a magazine called Southwest Art or something like that. What beautiful pictures!

[Haole Girl]

10. I love that photo R_L!

It's freezing cold in N. Texas tonight. Low of 22F, they say. brrr

:(

[Radio_Lady]

25. Hi, KC2! Thanks.... purrrrrfect weather for cuddling!

Here's a couple of Texas cowpokes for a day... San Antonio area -- in the hill country!

[Haole Girl]

27. Oh Wow! Thanks!!

You look like a natural Cowgirl!! ;-)

[Radio_Lady]

28. Riiiight.... I still have the saddle sores to prove it.

Here's my secret: Hubby and I do trail riding. A couple of times, we did a run across a field near the Parker Ranch or down in the Waipio gorge and across a river on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Then I cuddle up and watch those hunky bull riders and ropers on the rodeo circuit -- on TV.

Yeah, all balls and no brains... that's how I like 'em! The bulls, I mean...

But don't tell a soul! Here's the little cowboy I never had...

[SeattleGirl]

17. Oh my, Radio_Lady! That photo is stunning!

:hi:

[Radio_Lady]

26. Hi Seattle Girl! Thanks for joining in!

Here's the gorgeous couple today, after almost 34 years of married life!

Still goin'... like the Energizer bunnies!

October 2006 at the Luau in Florida -- 50th High School Reunion

[Az]

21. I had no idea!

:hide:

[Radio_Lady]

24. Hi, AZ. Thanks... you got my PM?

I didn't ask you about the religious debates. I try never to get into those.

We're both born Reform Jewish, I have three stepkids -- and two bio kids -- so our five kids who married:
1)Italian Catholic (divorced, then married) Southern Methodist
2)Irish Catholic
3)German Protestant
4)Conservative Jewish
5)Mormon

I go to the Unitarian fellowship -- a "lay-led" group -- and love Christmas carols...

"Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh!"

[GalleryGod]

29. Hey, Sweetie! Could you post that picture of you as the Cap'n's Mate?

From your early T.V. Career days?:bounce:

[Radio_Lady]

32. Sure. I was a First Mate, just for accuracy. Here it is:

Twins Day at the Popeye Playhouse, WTVJ, CBS -- Channel 4 -- Miami, Florida cast photo -- 1957
Skipper Chuck, First Mate Ellen, Spingy Me Hearty (the parrot), Glumbo Despair, the clown

Um, I just realized this. I'm the only member of that cast who's alive now, I think...

[Guava Jelly]

30. I locked three in less than an hour one time

I kept the the very adorable sparosnare quite busy.
Thank god she didn't hand my ass to me :7

[Radio_Lady]

33. Thanks. Glad to know I'm not alone...

She locked one of my threads, too. That was a long time ago.

[wildhorses]

31. i think i got about 5 locked in 5 minutes one day and a PM

warning from the admin :hide:




































but damnation it was fun :evilgrin:

[Radio_Lady]

34. Well, I guess we all have some verbal skeletons in our DU closet.

Early on, I got pissed, but Midlodemocrat straightened me out.

Now, I'm tamed and know where the boundaries are -- I think!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wildhorses]

36. see there---you have me

i am the wildhorses...never to be tamed and i know no bounds :rofl:


don't fence me in:kick:

[buddhamama]

37. Locking...

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Sincerely,
buddhamama- DU Mod