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Biloxibelle
Member
12-21-2001
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 7:18 pm
Right now, I am always happy to see Sanfranjoshfan name in the caption picture thread. I know I'll get a chuckle.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 7:30 pm
Right now, YIKES Tabby, I'm shuddering just reading that!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 10:30 pm
Right now I think I might be extremely proud of Tabbyking.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 10:37 pm
right now, i got the biggest laugh. i'm one of the few people who has spent some considerable time with tabby, and let me tell you folks, the rattlesnake didn't have a chance!! oh gawd, the picture in my head of you whacking the cr@p outta that rattlesnake, michaela, ROFLMAO!! okay tabby, my darling, bad news, we're not coming down for clovis. too expensive this year with trying to get my new car. but that doesn't mean we won't be thinking of you. you were one of the pro's on our list of pros and cons about going. hoping, we get to see you this summer, we'll drive the new car down to see the whole bunch!
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 10:49 pm
right now, my second hit sliced the damn thing in half and his head was still rising up ready to bite! i had to pith him with a sharp stick after he was in two pieces. i was not really happy about having to get close to his head, though. i really deserve a raise. i was scared of the snake but it was between the coke machines and the men's bathroom. if i hadn't killed it, i would have always been afraid it would be under the machines or in the ladies' room when i flipped on the lights in the morning, etc. at least this way i knew where he was. or were, since there was more than one piece of him when i was done, i might be in need of using a plural.LOL landi, so sorry you aren't coming through town...i probably will be working anyway, but dh could have given you some smoked salmon and snacks to take along with you. he makes killer neiman marcus chocolate chip cookies....
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 10:55 pm
Right now, Tabby (and all Californians!) local news has been going nuts with warnings of snakes this year. Something about all the rain. There's already been two rattlesnake bite victims here in the past few weeks. Glad you had a club with ya Tabby!
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 10:58 pm
right now, the best part of my snake-killing episode was when the groundskeeper's 9-year-old son, who has a crush on me, called me on his dad's 2-way radio to tell me, "don't worry my baby. it's all okay now." some girl is going to be very happy when this kid gets older! this youngster ferries me back and forth to the cart barn when i am putting carts back. he can barely reach the pedal in the golf cart. but he always tells me cute things such as, "your chariot awaits madame" or "your date's here. fasten your seatbelt." or "when i grow up i am going to have a really cool car. this one's kinda like a flintstone car. mine will be really cool." he is getting glasses next week. he told me he has had headaches and can't see 'real good'. i said, "what if you don't think i'm cute when you can see me?" and he said, "i know you are beautiful even if i was all the way blind." gotta love him!
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 10:59 pm
right now, i gotta remember to take the 7 iron with me to work!
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 11:00 pm
right now, uh, actually i took the club from one of our rental sets in the pro shop. i only had a single dorito with a bite out of it and an ice tea as weapons--well, and the crossword puzzle, but i have never papercutted something to death--when i first spotted the snake. i put the club back in the rental set without looking at the 'weapon' end later!
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 11:07 pm
right now i have to agree w/wargod. the news has given several warnings about the snakes (at least here in southern california). especially since a little girl was bitten by a snake....going out like everyone else to see the beautiful wildflowers (because of all the rain it's gorgeous).
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 11:13 pm
we usually have a few rattlesnake sightings on the golf course each summer, but this is pretty early and we don't usually get them in our breezeway. we have to post signs for people to stay out of the rough and post pictures of the snakes so people can tell the difference between the head shape of a poisonous vs. non-poisonous snake. like anyone wants to get close enough to study the shape of the head! this guy had rattles, so there was no doubt about it.
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 11:14 pm
Right now I agree with landi since I, too, have spend considerable time with Tabbyking....that rattlesnake was doomed!! And may I also say that right now, I'm glad I went to see the gorgeous poppies and wildflowers before hearing this news about rattlesnakes...egads!!
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 11:18 pm
Eggie, one report I heard was just one week after you went to see the poppies...and it happened at that exact same area! (in fact, it made me think of you and your beautiful photos).
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 11:37 pm
Right now Eggie, I was just about to say the same thing Abby has. It happened up here, maybe a week or so after your trip. It's certainly given us something to be cautious about. Sis and bil live kinda outta town (when I was a kid, it was out of town, now not so much.) Lots of bushes, not as many homes or people. The kids love to go out and play because they have lots of room to run around. Now we send the guys out to search around the yard being noisy before sending them out. Haven't seen anything yet but that could be because the kids stick closer to the house rather than further out in the yard.
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 6:07 pm
Right now, I just got home from a trip out to my new university. I am in love. I've been there before, but it was in a car, and we parked right by the building we had to go to, so I never really did see the campus. Today, it was awesome. It's so big. My current school has two buildings, but this new university is the REAL DEAL. It's got a bazillion buildings, and it is all a maze inside each building. SO many nooks and crannies!! I found the two classrooms that I will need to go to on the first day, and then spent an hour just suntanning in one of the courtyards. It was super sunny today, and life is great!! Right now, I can't wait for the first day of school!! 
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Kaykay
Member
01-21-2004
| Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 6:50 am
Right now i am bone tired - must get coffee...
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 8:04 am
Right now, it is Bluebonnet time in Texas and the mixture of those and the Indian Paintbrushes is gorgeous for picture posing which I am no rethinking since reading here. Right now would also be the time to say that I had always thought the shape of a snake's head indicate whether it was poisonous or not, but after a zookeeper in the reptile building heard me telling my son this, he quickly informed me that was not true. Pit vipers do have the triangular head, but many poisonous snakes have the elliptical-shaped head as a non-poisonous snake. An example would be a coral snake, which is actually deadlier than a pit viper.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 8:10 am
Right now I would like to recite the coral snake ditty: Red and yeller, kill a feller. Red and black, throw him back.
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 8:26 am
Right now, Juju, I taught a version of that to my son - Red and black, venom lack. Red and yellow, kill a fellow. Right now, I have to share my dad's opinion of snakes - "The only good snake is a dead snake." And when, as a kid, I told him about the head shape (which I now know to be untrue), he informed me that he would not be sticking around to see what shape the snake's head is. Right now, I did not think Travis would ever learn that not all snakes he saw in the yard were grass snakes and could be played with. Then he saw his first copperhead - about 6 ft. worth. He now understands. Right now, would you believe that there are actually people who go out and participate in "rattlesnake roundups." I don't know about other states, but it's a big "sport" here in Texas. And, now, I have never been to one. (I just got chills thinking about it.)
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 9:06 am
Right Now "The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it." --Lou Holtz, football coach
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Kristylovesbb
Member
09-14-2000
| Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 9:43 am
Right now I just returned from early morning trip to ER. Blood pressure was 223/120. Couldn't find anything wrong. Gave me something to lower it and told me to call my doctor. Scared me half to death, blood pressure cuff kept blowing off!!!
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Suitsmefine
Member
07-29-2002
| Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 10:17 am
(((Kristy))), I hope you are feeling better....You just be sure you see the DR. Right now I think my nerves are settled....DS fell off the monkey bars at school yesterday...I rushed up there and one look I knew...He broke his left arm just above the wrist....If the swelling has gone down tomorrow He gets the cast put on....right now he has a splint and is suppose to have his arm elevated....yea, right an 11 yr. old boy is really gonna keep his arm elevated!
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 11:34 am
Right now my loathing of dentists is still intact. Had to see a new one about a cracked tooth (my old one skipped town when his partner was indicted for fraud...), and in the space of the whopping two minuets she spent with me, she mentioned the words cavities, abcess, and root canal. No explanations of what to expect, how they'll determine if a need a root canal or not, when I will know, what I should do about the cracked tooth in the meantime, nothing. Meanwhile, it's a month until I can get another appointment, and the only instructions I got were, "Don't chew anything hard on that side." Gee, ya think? At least the hygenist was decent. Some of them get on a power trip with those instruments. So right now I'm consoling myself with a pack of strawberry smidgens from Gerturde Hawk...
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 3:28 pm
Right now, very scary Kristy. I just had to post this message to you because I have Oprah on and I heard Cojo talking about his kidney disease. When he told Oprah that the doc told him something is very wrong when his blood pressure was 200 over 100, Oprah about fell off the chair. Apparently, that is almost stroke level. (according to what cojo said his doc told him). Cojo had always had a blood pressure problem though. Hope I'm not scaring you, but I hope you find out what could have caused it. Is your BP usually normal?
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Kristylovesbb
Member
09-14-2000
| Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 3:33 pm
Thanks Abby7 and Suits. I appreciate the info Abby7. Sis called me today because she saw the show today. Going to doc in the morning. I think they were shocked at the hos. that I didn't have a headache. That usually goes with a high reading. I felt great had all kinds of energy for someone not sleeping at all. Some of the reading was fear. When I saw that cuff blow off three times I about you-know-what my pants. They finally had to take it around my wrist to keep it on me and then the nurse had to lay on it. I have to admit I am pretty nervous about this.
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