1894 - 1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (NY World)



And the world has been turning to the funnies ever since!

Good morning Rusty and everyone that will be showing up today. I am very happy to see that the sun still shines on this planet! I NS, it has been pretty much raining for 2 weeks straight (and that adds up to 200mm or roughly 8 inches). I have to go Bonaire.

Have a great one.

Pete

Good morning, Pete! Good to see your smiling face in the morning. You must be getting a lot of this New England weather, too. We've had rain, slush, sleet, snow on and on for close to a week. I dumped out some buckets last week in the backyard and they are almost half full again. That's a lot of wet!



It is good for the earth though and the water supply - coming down slow and steady like this will give the garden a good soaking before the final hard freeze. The Connecticut River is running high and fast - it's the color of mud, too with all the runoff in it.

Hey, Satchmo!

Good Morning Rusty and Pete,
We have had alot of rain as well, in fact yesterday it almost turned into the S word....Today doesn't look much better except it isn't raining. Here is a view for you..
wish I was here!!

Hi there,

Trying to get sunny here this am. Looks like hibernation season is on! No comments Cynde!!

Meeting mid-morning that will have me out of the house -Brrrr. Lurking .............

Hey - What happened to Janeece in NZ? Wasn't she moving?

Have a great day,

Bill

Hi Mr. Bill! Did Mrs. Bill get her yoga black belt? Ommmm? Can she inhale water up her nose? I saw that in a yoga book once. I nearly drowned myself. I think it's safer to be agnostic.

See you in the funny papers, I guess. LOL

It's Hotlips!



Sergeant Major, too!

Here's a pretty picture!

I'M BACK!!!! Man!!! I'm gone a couple of days and I miss EVERYTHING!!!! A Mooner even. You all had way too much fun without me!!

Pinky Wafflehumper! OMG the things that says about you. LOL We missed you, Pinky, really. We thought of you the moment we saw the flasher's bum.

Hi, Rusty! What a wild and whacky weekend here!!Wow......and speaking of wow, has anyone heard from Olaf? or was he just a fair-weather BTer? Maybe Martin or Marc would know.... BTW, can you have wogga on your diet? I'm on a carb restrictive program myself and no wogga. I'll try to find a gif that's just right...not broken, or too big I like this one....Just call me Pinky.

My preciousssss,in search of your Middle Earth name?

~ Celandine Baggins from Frogmorton

Barrow-Downs

.....or you can call me Waffle(?)....but don't anybody ever call me

Ok Rusty I'll bite...let's see.....
Melilot Brown from Bree {thats my Hobbit name}
my Dwarven Name is Norin Coalskull
and my
Orkish Name is Krumdûl the Insane

And in Middle Earth..... Overweight Cavetroll. On the other hand Pinky Wafflehumper is Valiant Snaga...a much nobler name.

Overweight Cavetroll!

Krumdûl the Insane! Sounds like the Black Knight to me, Freddie! You can't escape your Inner Orc!

Hey LURKERS Who's out there just dying to join the fun?? Hmmm?

ok, i will come out of the shadows! you guys sure are a lot of fun! here are my names:

Cowardly Wainrider (don't like that one)
Voramarthien
Mimosa Sandyman from Newbury (like that one, has champagne in it!)
Frór Sandholder
Grimag the Massive

Rain Rain Go Away!

Welcome BT to BT.

Mimosa Sandyman is a great hobbit name. Funny - Celandine is a poppy and Mimosa and Melilots are members of the pea family.

We're having one of those days in Massachusetts - the sun is out one minute, the next the clouds are so thick it looks like dusk. Bonaire is having the same kind of day.

Hi Rusty

I just logged in from the UK. We have perfect weather for the Leonids - Thick Fog :-{ so I will not be up at 3:00 am to see them.

I saw Cynde tempting Cecil to come to BON on Rodales when I surfed there this morning.

Countdown to Bonaire

WHATDOYAMEAN "TEMPTING" Cecil??? I thought we already had a date - Listen, Navyboy - don't you dare back out on Cynde and I. The only thing getting me through winter is my "Bonaire 2004" mantra. That and wondering what color Bill's mascara is this week :-)!

I'm back for a bit this week - 1st quarter is over, all my students are brilliant and cute, the pnuemonia has lost its grip on me, and my new name is "Cheeseball Pizzashorts." I have to confess, though, as a child my nickname was "Poopsie." Travis saw the new Harry Potter flick, and his ten-year-old-review voice says, "AWESOME!"

I would dearly love to take Red Creek School to Bonaire, but, with immunizations, etc., the parents want their kids to stay in the USA. So...we are going to experience San Francisco and drive along the coastline to Monterey Bay. If I can't get them into the water snorkeling, at least we can explore tide pools, observe sea lions, eat fresh crab, and watch the weirdos on the wharf, present company excluded of course.

If any of you have great fund-raising ideas, let me know!

That 12:10 pic was a beauty, Rusty. I can indeed see myself on that sailboat, Cynde wearing her purple hat, Cecil wearing his thong and sipping a Black Velvet. You should join us - Bonaire 2004, Bonaire 2004, Bonaire 2004...

Welcome, bluetang!!!

Are you related to Orange Tang?

Oops sorry Cecil

Hazel 2003 sounds better than 2004.

I better be Orange U Tang.

Have fun

303 Days :-{

You are right, Brian. 2003 sounds good, 2002 sounds better! It beats my OLD count, though, which was something like 3,254 days and a wake up. Cynde and Cecil prompted me to sell my home, my children, my body - but no takers :-( and bump it up to 2004. I still have PBD from March 2001!

2004 it is Hazel. A good mantra if ever I heard one.

Middle Earth Name
Troublesome Druadan

Hobbit name
Togo Grubb from Newbury

Dwarven Name
Kîm Ironboot

Orkish Name
Dûrbalûk the Smasher


Troublesome for short or just troubled.

Hi all,


Rusty wrote:
Hi Mr. Bill! Did Mrs. Bill get her yoga black belt?
Well as a goddess I think it was a white garter belt!!

Ommmm? Can she inhale water up her nose? I saw that in a yoga book once. I nearly drowned myself.
Yikes! I don’t think that is a necessity. Maybe if you get to grand-poo-ba and can levitate, drinking through your nose is no big deal?

I think it's safer to be agnostic.
Who said anything about “believing”? Actually I think it’s safer to be Scorpio!

Hazel wrote:
That and wondering what color Bill's mascara is this week.
Hazel – A WHOLE week with the same colour, never! In celebration of tonight’s best in the century Leonid shower, I’m sporting silver streaks.

According to the Red Book of Westmarch,
In Middle-earth, Bill Rathborne was a
Deceitful Hobbit

Elven Name
Meneiach
Another masculine version is:
Meneiachion

Hobbit lad name
Dodinas Banks from Greenfields

Dwarven Name
Gorin Oakenmail
This name is for both genders.

Orkish Name
Razhthak the Despot
This name is for both genders.

Finally, the cuddly furry names are off - I'm a DESPOT!!!

Ommm & oil - with FEELING!

Would that be KING BILL??
thought I view the sunsets and then get a wogga..any takers???

BILJKE GET BACK IN THE YARD!!!

beautiful

thank you Bonaire for a spectacular sunset!!

Hello everybody, and Welcome Blue Tang, you will have a lot of fun on here. Can't post my alternative names, page cannot be displayed. Annie B.

Hey there Annie, Glad you could make it!!! You should have an e-mail coming your way

Ok, finally got my alternative names, not proud of them though.

Hideous Eagle
Mim Clayear (whatever that means)
Ashlok the Horrible.

Flippin hell, is someone tryin' ta tell me somethin' Annie B.

In additon to being Booger Chucklebrains, I am now also a World-famous Black Rider, Helkaorewen in elvish, Rowan Chubb from Waymeet in Hobbit, Dwalin Bloodle in Dwarvish, Búrztakh the Looter in Orkish. I think I'll be an Ork.

Ok Freddie, I will go look. Annie B.

Middle earth name....Irritating Ranger of Ithilien
Hobbit name.....Rowan Ploughman of Whitfurrows
Elvin name....Bragolfalatheil
Dwaryn name....Rorin Bloodsinger
Oarkin.....Skrakur the Looter


I like this one!

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Deceitful Hobbit AND Razhthak the Despot here.

Hope everyone is in a submissive moooooooood!

Ha!, with my Ommms and sesame oil tanker truck I'll rule the world. Just call me "Power", "Hands of Power". Now lie down and let me help......... It is nearly bed time, relax, focus on the nice music. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Coffee and toast in the morning?

Hah! You guys (gals) are a riot! I PURPOSELY did not do the middle earth, hobbit, elvin name thing because...quite honestly...I cannot even pronounce some of 'em, let alone interpret what they mean! Looks like a buncha cussin' to me, and I get PLENTY of that from NCSD#1's school board members!

I personally like to think of myself as Beautimous maidenophous...although...I DO like Meryl's "elvin" name, whatever it is!