I Know You're on Vacation, But...

Amy Austin | September 6, 2006
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AARON!!! ;-D

Amy Austin | September 6, 2006
And I think -- if I'm not wrong -- I just missed saying "Happy Birthday" to Erik Bates, too... Happy Belated, yo!

Lori Lancaster | September 6, 2006
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Dave Stoppenhagen | September 8, 2006
Happy Birthday Addison!!!!

Lori Lancaster | September 8, 2006
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Erik Bates | September 8, 2006
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Aaron Shurtleff | September 18, 2006
Aw! You guys are sweet! :)

Even though I had to share a topic!! ;)

Michael Paul Cote | September 19, 2006
Happy Belated Aaron, how was your trip?

Michael Paul Cote | September 19, 2006
Happy belated to you too Erik.

Aaron Shurtleff | September 19, 2006
Pretty good. I'm trying to put it in blog form...but time is tight. :(

Jackie Mason | September 19, 2006
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Amy Austin | September 26, 2006
Sorry, Aaron... just realized it mid-post that I hadn't said it to Erik -- and that just wouldn't be fair... (sniff) ;-P

Aaron Shurtleff | September 26, 2006
I joke...because I'm an ass. It's fine! ;)

Amy Austin | September 26, 2006
I know -- me, too... it's okay with me, though. ;-)

John E Gunter | September 26, 2006
I joke...because I'm an ass. It's fine! ;)

I know -- me, too... it's okay with me, though. ;-)

Well, knowing is half the battle and I believe admitting it is the other half! ;-P

Amy Austin | September 26, 2006
Cool -- does that mean "I win"?!

Aaron Shurtleff | September 26, 2006
No way! Anyone who puts a nose on a smiley is a loser! :P

John E Gunter | September 26, 2006
Naw, we're just anal.

Amy Austin | September 26, 2006
Aaron: YOU'RE are... you smush-face smiley poster!
John: Thank you -- nice to be understood! ;-D

Aaron Shurtleff | September 27, 2006
Amy: In your neck of the woods, what does "you're are" mean? In my neck, you're is a contraction of you are, so "you're are" would be redundant... :P

Good thing my smiley has no nose because your grammar STINKS!!! ;)

Scott Hardie | September 29, 2006
We ain't got good grammar down this neck a'da woods.

Amy Austin | September 29, 2006
Heh... it was an intentional juvenile reference, meant and thought to be understood by the equally juvenile.

When you were a kid, didn't you ever have moments of starting to say one thing and suddenly/inexplicably changing your mind mid-sentence*??? I found that this was a common one among children, and it became a joke with someone else when I was in the Navy -- her little nephew said this quite frequently, and it always made her laugh. She would say it often, and it always made me laugh, because I always knew exactly what she was talking about. It quickly became joke-speak for when we were throwing kid-shots and acting in a generally picayune manner.

*(Actually, I sometimes still do this... though I don't like admitting it. I'll never forget cutting up in the back seat of the car with my sister... to the end of my mother's last nerve, when she would turn around and yell at us... to "STUT IT OUT!!!" How sheepish she must have felt when, after a moment's pause, we began laughing like hyenas and telling each other to "Stut it out!" -- fortunately for us, she did laugh, too... and I think, in retrospect, that moment's pause was probably a quick summing up on our behalf of my mother's potential for real explosiveness, followed by the big gamble on our part that she'd actually find it quite funny as well! ;-p ;-D)

John E Gunter | September 29, 2006
I got it Amy! Guess I'm just juvenile enough to catch it!

Course I always thought it was 'We ain't got no good grammar down this neck a'da woods!'

LOL!

Don't forget, Aaron isn't a hick, just a Luddite! :-D

Amy Austin | September 29, 2006
I believe that is the proper expression, as well, John.

And, of course -- lest any of you scholars missed it -- the double negative renders it to mean that we *do*, in fact, got good grammar (and milk!) down this neck a'da woods!

;-D

John, do Luddites have noses???