I have no less than 300 lighters in my home.

[LeftyFingerPop]

200 of them have no lighter fluid in them.

50 of them have gone to their special "lighter hiding spot".

50 of them are downstairs buried in some goddamn drawer.

Thank God for kitchen matches.

[Bennyboy]

1. So that's where they go!

Goddamn it!

[Kutjara]

2. And if each of them is wrapped in a single...

...unpaired sock, that little mystery would be cleared up too.

[LeftyFingerPop]

3. Benny....

It has been a long time, and I am missing the shows tonight.

How are you? :hi: :hug:

[Bennyboy]

5. I'm still in the circle of hell......

But it's all good.

Did you catch any of the Mountain jam Webcast? Sick shit, Levon, Gov't Mule, Bobby's band. great weekend to be home watching live music if you can't be there.

This weekend is another webcast festie with Phil Lesh's band one night. www.iclips.net....

How are you doing?

[Bennyboy]

7. Wakarusa i the fest this week....

No Phil but great lineup anyways http://www.wakarusa.com/2008/lineup.asp

[LeftyFingerPop]

8. Thanks for the link Benny....

I'm doing ok, thanks for asking....

Been a tough week...but doing ok.

For some reason, today I was thinking about ....

Grateful dead...Rochester War Memorial...1980...the jam into a SLOWWWW Iko....on the Jerry side...this sultry thing was one of the most intense pieces of music I have ever heard live.

If you look it up on the archives, it might be the tail end of the piece before Iko.... :hi:

It was in the fall...1980.

[Bennyboy]

11. That was the first Iko I heard........

Got it on tape.....and I had that tape for a long time. Very nice.....Just builds and builds.....

[Bennyboy]

12. 9-02-80

War Memorial Auditorium, Rochester, NY (9/2/80)

New Minglewood Blues
Sugaree
El Paso
Friend of the Devil
It's All Over Now
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Lost Sailor
Saint of Circumstance
Don't Ease Me In

Althea
C.C. Rider
Ship of Fools
Estimated Prophet
Terrapin Station
Playin' in the Band
drums
Iko Iko
Morning Dew
Sugar Magnolia

Alabama Getaway
Transport to the show here:http://www.archive.org/details/gd80-09-02.sbd.miller.27752.sbeok.flacf


BTW< RatDog played the complete Terrapin last night. Pure sickness.

[Lil Missy]

4. I get a free lighter for every carton of smokes.

And since I hate to run errands, I buy 10 cartons at a time. It probably takes one lighter to get through the whole 10 cartons.

I can't possibly use them all, so I often give them away.

:hi:

[LeftyFingerPop]

9. Lil Missy....

I just read in the paper tonight that cigarettes in New York State are going up tomorrow by $1.25 a pack.

Ok, so we have gas at over $4.00, and now this.

Everything is slowly being taken away from us.

People will not be able to afford cigarettes. That means they will go bug fuck crazy and start killing each other. I can picture it now....some guy gets looked at sideways in a bar, and he murders the guy who looked at him...because he couldn't afford cigarettes, and he had no money to drive home.

Fuck it...I'm going to sit on my roof with a shotgun. I will shoot any son of a bitch who tries to steal my cigarettes. :rofl:

Hi Lil Missy :hi:

[Lil Missy]

13. They did the same thing in Iowa last year. Put an additional $10 tax on every carton.

Needless to say, those who live on the border come to Omaha to buy their smokes; business is booming here in Omaha.

And you can pry my smokes outta my cold dead hands.

[LeftyFingerPop]

15. God, I have to quit...

but I don't want the state to make me quit. Do you know what I mean?

[Lil Missy]

23. Yes, I know what you mean.

I tried Chantix for about 3 weeks to quit smoking.

The first week you take one a day, then go up to two a day. I puked about 20 minutes every time after I took it by then, and was constantly so nauseous I lost 10 pounds that month.

And it also causes VIVID dreams! In technicolor! Bout' wore my ass out!

[Ptah]

6. Have you seen my socks?

[LeftyFingerPop]

10. Ptah...I enjoy your pics so much...

And your posts too :hi: :thumbsup:

[texanwitch]

14. I will match my missing pens with your lighters.

I can buy a package of pens and they are just gone.

I have no idea where they go.

[Kool Kitty]

16. And teaspoons?

What the fuck happens to all the teaspoons in my house? I think the cats are hiding them, just to hear me yell.

[texanwitch]

17. I had a cat that would steal plastic forks and spoons.

Just plastic ones and hide them.

No plastic fork or spoon was safe, the damn cat would steal them right off the table.

[Kool Kitty]

18. One of my cats steals straws out of drinks.

I can't explain it, and I am always coming across chewed-up straws under the furniture. Silly cats.

[texanwitch]

20. I am sure the cats have good reasons for doing this.

Maybe they think they are hunting or just have a sense of humor.

Or they just like to drive us crazy.

[newmajority]

21. They steal spoons and straws?? Uh-oh

Better count your mirrors and razor blades. I suspect kitteh's on coke. :(

[Kool Kitty]

22. Good God, I never thought of that.

:wow:

[Angel]

19. The Lighter Gnomes take the lighters

to burn the lost socks to keep warm..yup...that is what happens.