The Good Banter Thread

[j.w]

Every day is a holiday now for us

 

[HARO]

A DANCING BANANA WITH A 'FRO? Where do you FIND these things???
John

 

[addy1]

look here
http://www.freesmileys.org

 

[CountryEscape]

Yep, JW, someday I will be all holidays, too, but not for a while yet Want to work until my house is paid for, and since I just bought it 4.5 years ago, it will be tough but I plan to get it paid off in 15 years or less ... pushing for 12 years. My incentive to retire earlier! Woohoo, my dancing banana!!!

 

[Big Lou]

An excellent day!

 

[j.w]

You can do it CE, just be really frugal but still have fun and you will get it paid off in no time. Yes, you have da banana you have da banana today

 

[koiguy1969]

 

[HARO]

OOOOOHH, that's BAD!
John

 

[koiguy1969]

share this story with every young person who has to blame every thing on the past generations!!!

READ IT!!!

Being Green

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic b...ags weren't good for the environment.
The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days."
The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment f or
future generations."
She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were truely recycled.
But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.
But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.
But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.
But that young lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.
But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.
But we didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?
Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smartass young person.

 

[HARO]

Couldn't agree more!
John

 

[sissy]

I did the same thing ce frugal and paid off my first house in 10 years and paid 30 thousand and sold it for 139.900 and almost paid off the second house after 10 years but kept a little on it for taxes at the end of the year.

 

[Big Lou]

Happened today........A lady goes to our city center and parks her car on the "street" directly in front of the main entrance. She goes inside and pays her numerous outstanding traffic ticket fines. When she goes back to her car that is parked in the "street" there is a new ticket on her windshield for illegal parking. She then goes back inside and pays for that ticket! Too bad the police can't give tickets for being dumb.

 

[koiguy1969]

 

[koiguy1969]

ANYBODY ELSE?

 

[sissy]

made stuffed peppers and mine is a veggie and rice stuffed pepper smells yummy good