Cellar News Update Thread
 

Post what you feel are highlights of the current cellar events in this thread.

Birthday Announcements. Personal victories. Links to funny cellar threads. Fights, Fund raising, Farm reports. Weather Alerts, Lost and Found. Party Announcements. Official Complaints. Letters to the Editor. Et....cetera.






This could keep the occaisional users up to speed, make finding interesting events easier, serve as a place to make a minor announcement without having to start a whole thread over it.

I know there's a little reporter in all of you. Use the topic line as a "headline" for your article.

Don't clutter the thread with tangental discussions about the articles posted. Use a link to a seperate thread for that stuff, if there's something you want to talk about.

Jinx, I am begging you...take his computer away and let his boss know about his activities while at work...for the good of everyone.

why i oughta

shut the fuck up? Yes.

Tshirts Being designed
 

In case you missed it, we're gonna make Cellar t-shirts, and sell 'em. Details to be determined, but check here for updates.

Book Club Starting
 

Get registered to choose a book for the class to read. Share opinions, read new books. link

Another Player in the Staceyv Soap opera surfaces
 

Apparently, we are not staceyv's sole source of advice for her marital problems. She has also been getting advice from a more international set. justme has joined our group, and shared a little about that

My head feels nasty; from past experience, I'm pretty sure it's a sinus infection. I'm going in to my dr's office at 1:15PM. I'll try to get a scan of the prescription for posting before I take it in.

(Oh, wait..... this wasn't the kind of news update you wanted, was it??)

there is no editor, steve. hope you feel better.

Steve, hope you get the Zithromax ... new dosing two pills a day for three days, rather than the old two pills first day, one for four days following.

Same amount of meds, intimidates the germies, you feel better by end of day two.

There's a "thing" going around. Everyone in my dept has had it ... the doctor infected us all, then nicely wrote us scripts to take care of it.

Did Max approve this new dosing?

Neat. Never saw that before.

I will now have to pester my Pfizer rep for Zebra stuff. He will find that a refreshing change from demands for Viagra merchandise.

Yeah, I've had Zithromax. It's good. But no antibiotics this time... it's apparently not an actual infection, but I got stuff anyway that should improve things quickly.

Be sure to pick your nose a lot, it seems to help.

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose...but you can't pick your friend's nose.

NEWS FLASH! Jimbo needs your help...don't let Jinx wind up an internet widow!

What do they give out as Viagra merchandise? Battery-operated vibrators? Rafael Palmeiro love dolls?

I hope TW reads this.:haha:

Is that (another) challenge?:p

[tw]I just read about this in last month's Economist. Only our MBA mental midget president and the dichead Sharon would allow this to happen![/tw]

just trying to convey my vision of this thread......don;t mind me. chatter all you want. I've learned by now that this place is like trying to hold sand in your hand. the harder you squeeze, the faster it escapes......

i promise not to post a bitch thread about how disillusioned i am by your rebellious nature.

and you'd better stop heckling me sycamore, ya bastard. don't think i won't bitch slap you just because you dye your hair, Nancy.

:D

Why James?

Why do you even bother attempting to make threats, knowing Goddamned good and well I (and every other Cellar Dwellar in Philadelphia) have a very easy way to exact revenge?

You don't know when to quit, do you? :)

Ahem, I'd like to point out the significant growth in membership, of late. They can't all be Slang. :)

That's just because the Cellar got connected to Ampland somehow...

does anyone else see the irony here? the great big gobs of dripping irony?

welcome back, old boy.

i thinkit's all of the people searching for whale penises

I merely push the envelope...I don't go ripping through it, rendering it useless.

*bows* Thank you, thank you...I'll be playing here until a time of my choosing. :)

welcome wagon
 

here are this week's new registrants. some are lurkers, some are not. welcome aboard, I say. try not to step on the whale penises.

noodles

fireman

mutating string

godwulf

Random Guy

mamcg

eastepp

Electrophile

purple muffs

justme

yellowbolt

Tornado

penelope_z

Al Shiney

h20boy

Zenchou

silentrain

Clodfobble

Michael D

Hasan21

post count milestones
 

blue58 - 200posts

hot pastrami - 700 posts

radar and beestie - 500


wolf - will hit 3500 with 6 posts

Griff screwing around with radical politics.... details at eleven.

Coming up...sycamore learns about septic systems and composting toilets, even though he will probably never deal with either in his life.

Learning kicks ass!

Update.... Sycamore so impressed with composting technology he goes hillbilly, buys a shotgun, and moves to a state which doesn't have as many silly septic laws... NEW YORK?!!!!!!!

BLUE58 has gone loco
 

The linked thread contains graphic images of wildlife not suitable for all audiences. If you have a weak stomach, please make sure you have a plastic bag near to hand. http://cellar.org/attachment.php?s=&postid=86299

What a relief. For a minute, there, I thought you'd sunk to posting bestiality sites...

lumberjim wins the bet
 

Jim starts laying political lumber.

The Tshirt sale is over.

all orders are in. we sold 87 shirts. nice going people. you have done well. of those 87 shirts, 20 were ordered as spares.

tony ordered 5 each of med, large, XL, and XXL black short sleeve tees. contact him after may 10th if you missed this and you'd like to purchase one. first come, first served

Heh! Chreeeist, I wish to GOD I could convince him to move to NYC..or did you mean away from the big city? :D

Jim goes over 24 hours between posts...shock, awe, glee and indifference ensues. :)

I kinda got freaked out... had this image of wolf and an industrial sized butterfly net.

tee hee he......whaddya gonna do when I go on vacation? aside from party like it's 1999.

Conspire. :)

You're going to be spending a lot of time in internet cafes, aren't you jim? or have you made sure to book into a hotel with high speed access, and you'll get yourself a special present for the trip ... new laptop? Hey, it's really cheaper than getting the kids one of those DVD things to hang from the back of the car seat, and you all can enjoy it ... really.

Jinx, don't believe a freakin' word of it.

hah. last time we went, i took an old laptop that a friend had given me, and one of those "free" aol disks.

We're doing OBX in september, and I'm probably not going to bother with the computer this time unless shelby wants to. she'll probably exhibit stonger withdrawal symptoms from being out of contact with her buddies. I'll try to keep her busy tho, ifa ya know what ah mean ;) ;)

What the hell is OBX?

outer banks, NC. have you seen the little white oval stickers on the cars?

I thought it stood for "Obnoxious".

Most of the people I've seen with those stickers are.

I'll bet you have one, Jim.

:hugsandkisses:

i used to, but it came off. and i'm afraid i have to agree. i am obnoxious. i made my own sticker:

Those little OBX stickers have always amused me.

I first saw the little white stickers (not OBX ones) on cars in Europe. They were used to indicate the country of origin there, so when cars went from one country to another, officials could tell where they were from. Well, that's how it was explained to me anyway. Don't know if it's actually true. I just know that you could tell where a car was from by the sticker.

When Americans traveled to Europe, they would buy these stickers as souveniers and slap them on their cars when they got home. That in itself was kind of funny to me, because it misses the whole point of the sticker. There were always a lot of "D" stickers on Volkswagens, because sometimes people would order a volkswagen, fly to Germany to take delivery of it, travel around a bit in Europe with it, and then have Volkswagen ship the car to the US dealership near them. The "D" was applied in Germany, but usually never removed by the owner upon return to the US, because, hey, they went to Europe.

So I always imagined that people who put those stickers on their cars thought they had class or something, because they had been to Europe.

Fast forward to North Carolina several years later. Now, North Carolina is a perfectly fine state, but it's not one that I would associate with the idea of culture, class or sophistication. Although they do have cheap discount furniture. Some PR guy gets the idea that if they use one of these European style stickers, they can slap the OBX abbreviation on it and they will seem classy. Or somehow part of a secret club who's members know what OBX is. It's crazy.

Meanwhile, back in Europe, they don't use the stickers as much anymore, because with the advent of the EU, the license plate tells you where a car is from.

Originally posted by glatt Exactly. Its like putting a sticker on your car to let everyone know that you ate at Red Lobster yesterday.

Interesting perspective glatt, you seem a little bitter though. Were you excluded from classy, secret clubs as a child? Do you vacation somewhere where they have chintzy or self evident souveniers?



Here's our place. For the same price we could stay in a crappy hotel in AV or OC - but those stickers just aren't as cool.:cool:

Both glatt and I live in the same neck of the woods (the Virginia suburbs of DC) and it seems that every third car has an OBX sticker on it. I lived here for several years before someone finally told me what the hell OBX meant. At first, I thought it was the airport abbreviation for an airport in the Outer Banks area but it isn't - its completely made up - a pretentious idea that glatt characterized perfectly - an imitation European sticker that some PR guy dreamt up to confer a sense of exclusivity.

I have to admit that ever since I learned what it meant, I roll my eyes whenever I see one. That's not a knock on North Carolina - I spend time there myself - its a knock on the sticker itself.

I'm not sure they have high-speed access there, tho :)

**ducks**

There are also similar stickers that read OCM--Ocean City, Maryland. The first time I saw one, it threw me off b/c I happened to work for a company called OCM (On Campus Marketing) at the time.

Jinx, what's AV?

Nice...you might also want to try a C, a T or an M.

Well, OBS doesn't have the same appeal, don't you think?
Those stickers are everywhere. Every beach town in NJ and MD (and probably elsewhere, but those are the ones I commonly see) have their own made up abbreviation sticker, I don't think the outer banks was the first.

I also remember seeing DUCK ones down there, but none of the other towns. Guess their names were too long or didn't have a good abbreviation.

Avalon, NJ

Not yet anyway. After all, Northern Virginia is civilized and upscale.

Perhaps, but we don't print NVA stickers to make everyone think we're cool either. But while we're on the subject, those "Virginia is for Lovers" stickers are enough to make me want to set my hair on fire.

Bitter? I may come across that way, but I'm not bitter. More amused at the sillyness behind the stickers. They have their origins as beaurocratic red tape, and people use them for souveniers.

I've got nothing against the Outer Banks. I've been there before and it was perfectly nice. I had a good time. It's just not a region that I would consider remarkable.

The souveniers I get are usually t-shirts. And they are t-shirts that have pretty/interesting pictures or designs. If you get close, you may see a word identifying the location, but for the most part, the t-shirts are nice to look at for people who aren't familiar with the location, and they also remind me of my trip to the location. So they are not self evident, but that doesn't matter, because they are nice to look at, so no-one is challenged by them.