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34 minutes ago, ChipStrokes said:

butterfly skank

 

i've honestly been called worse. 

 

With that name you're a Punk rocker no doubt. No pun intended. 😅

 

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1 hour ago, DLeightonReid said:

Shangri-La Wetwipe.....:(

 

 

Wetwipe? Oh for crying out loud, why did they put that silly name for the R's? 

Edited February 8, 2023 by touch

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23 hours ago, j.b.newton said:

 

This should be the caption competition for the group.....

 

 

I haven't forgotton j.b. 

Today sometime I will have a closer look and see what I come up with. 😉

[scomac2002]

1 hour ago, touch said:

 

Wetwipe? Oh for crying out loud, why did they put that silly name for the R's? 

 

Well...  they did  come up with cowpat for the M's... 🤷‍♂️

[scomac2002]

On 2/7/2023 at 10:39 AM, j.b.newton said:

 

This should be the caption competition for the group.....

 

I don't have any clever captions, but it sure does bring back memories.  Call them the Fun Bunch; beaucoup cuties!

[Petethreeput]

On 2/7/2023 at 8:39 AM, j.b.newton said:

 

This should be the caption competition for the group.....

11/27/1965, it wasn't even 1 hour later and Suzy realized the Merry Pranksters had much different ideas for her birthday party.

[chisag]

... Thought I would share my favorite piece of art. My son is very into art and "convinced" me to buy this painting. He said "Dad, you are in the movie so you are buying this!" 

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1 hour ago, chisag said:

... Thought I would share my favorite piece of art. My son is very into art and "convinced" me to buy this painting. He said "Dad, you are in the movie so you are buying this!" 

 

Asking for all of us. What role chisag?  Any video clip of your part in the movie that you could share?  And how's the golf game? 

 

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8  is my lucky number. I was born on the 8th. I have 8 letters in my first and last name. Eight has always been my favorite number and many interesting occurrences have happened to me on the 8th of the month. Today is February 8th and already some fun and unique things have taken place (golf and food related). I will be sharing some of it with the group later today. 

 

Happy one week Anniversary! 

 

 I opened the doors to TLL last Wednesday around 5 pm. Since the first day there has been spirited activity in the thread. The joint is jumping and that makes me smile big. 

 

In our first week 

248 posts

3.6 k views

9 pages

18 WRX'rs so far that are enjoying the place with me. 

 

Petethreeputt

DleightonReid

NCLancer

ChipStrokes 

NJBigFish22

TiScape

braincramp52

Qqq123xx

Hickory4ever

scomac2002

miamistomp

j.b.newton

Bob Cat

Nard_S

Ghin n Juice

doctoro

chisag

bscinstnct 

 

 

Gentlemen I want to thank all of you for your contributions and participation. The energy of this new group is fantastic. 

 

 

Have a fine remainder of your Wednesday,

LP 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 8, 2023 by touch

[NCLancer]

Golf (if you call it that) recap from yesterday 2-7-23

 

Umstead Pines, Durham, NC

Mix tees approx 5900 yards

49/55= 104

12-14 fwys hit

20/21 = 41 putts (ugh)

2 penalty strokes for balls in the water

 

Mrs NCLancer and I teed off as a twosome but had a single join us on 2 and another single join us on 3.  One of the guys was a member who lives on the course, and he was fantastic to play with.  Very friendly, telling stories, reading putts when we asked.  He's a scratch handicap and shot 2 under even with missing a few makeable putts.  The other gent was a solid striker but had more than a few wayward shots and he lost probably 2 sleeves of balls.  In the parking lot after the round, he drove past us with a big wave with the top down on his silver newer generation Corvette so losing a few balls probably wasn't affecting his bottom line.  He's heading to St. Andrews next month and he planned to practice a bit more before he plays The Old Course (among others).  He dropped a major compliment on Tanya as she was crushing her driver all day.  On the 15th, after another nice strike down the fairway he said "Man, she is money off the tee".  Made Tanya's day...so much so she now wants to be referred to as "T-Money"!

My putting was woeful, but it was still a nice 60-degree day to be outside playing the game we love.     

[DLeightonReid]

41 minutes ago, NCLancer said:

Golf (if you call it that) recap from yesterday 2-7-23

 

Umstead Pines, Durham, NC

Mix tees approx 5900 yards

49/55= 104

12-14 fwys hit

20/21 = 41 putts (ugh)

2 penalty strokes for balls in the water

 

Mrs NCLancer and I teed off as a twosome but had a single join us on 2 and another single join us on 3.  One of the guys was a member who lives on the course, and he was fantastic to play with.  Very friendly, telling stories, reading putts when we asked.  He's a scratch handicap and shot 2 under even with missing a few makeable putts.  The other gent was a solid striker but had more than a few wayward shots and he lost probably 2 sleeves of balls.  In the parking lot after the round, he drove past us with a big wave with the top down on his silver newer generation Corvette so losing a few balls probably wasn't affecting his bottom line.  He's heading to St. Andrews next month and he planned to practice a bit more before he plays The Old Course (among others).  He dropped a major compliment on Tanya as she was crushing her driver all day.  On the 15th, after another nice strike down the fairway he said "Man, she is money off the tee".  Made Tanya's day...so much so she now wants to be referred to as "T-Money"!

My putting was woeful, but it was still a nice 60-degree day to be outside playing the game we love.     

Hello to T-Money....Smasher of the golf ball!

[DLeightonReid]

Good news fellow Lounge Lizards (for me anyway!).  I am 12 weeks post shoulder surgery and my doctor has released me.  No more twice a week visits to see Physical Therapist Ms. Ratchet or Ms. Helga the Hungarian wrestler.  My doctor said it is okay to start chipping and slowly work toward an easy swing.  Hopefully, by early March I will be back to playing 18 holes again.  Life is good.

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On 2/5/2023 at 6:25 PM, miamistomp said:

 

 

Care to make a prediction Mr. South Florida?

 

Super Bowl   Lines for Picks 

 

Kansas City   v.   Philadelphia -1 1/2                       49 1/2

 

Instructions 

There are three picks remaining for the season.

 

Pick the side AND the over or under. Two Picks.

Predict the final total points scored in the game and the one closest to the actual total points scored wins one "W".

[miamistomp]

Eagles by 3

 

Hard to tell if Mahomes and Kelce are really hurt or playing possum

Edited February 8, 2023 by miamistomp

[miamistomp]

 

[Petethreeput]

5 hours ago, Petethreeput said:

11/27/1965, it wasn't even 1 hour later and Suzy realized the Merry Pranksters had much different ideas for her birthday party.

It's not often I get to quote myself, but I realize my esoteric references might not be recognized by the assembled players.

 

This is the first day of Ken Kesey's Acid tests and the beginning of a little band out of San Francisco.

[miamistomp]

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3 hours ago, Petethreeput said:

It's not often I get to quote myself, but I realize my esoteric references might not be recognized by the assembled players.

 

This is the first day of Ken Kesey's Acid tests and the beginning of a little band out of San Francisco.

 

Thanks P3P.  I had to look him up. Good stuff. 

 

 

   

 

 

Ken Elton Kesey^[5] (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American novelist, essayist and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s.

 

While attending the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication in neighboring Eugene in 1956, Kesey eloped with his high-school sweetheart, Oregon State College student Norma "Faye" Haxby, whom he had met in seventh grade.^[3] According to Kesey, "Without Faye, I would have been swept overboard by notoriety and weird, dope-fueled ideas and flower-child girls with beamy eyes and bulbous breasts."^[11] Married until his death, they had three children: Jed, Zane and Shannon.^[12] Additionally, with Faye's approval, Ken fathered a daughter, Sunshine Kesey, with fellow Merry Prankster Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Adams. Born in 1966, Sunshine was raised by Adams and her stepfather, Jerry Garcia.^[13]

Experimentation with psychedelic drugs[edit]

At the invitation of Perry Lane neighbor and Stanford psychology graduate student Vic Lovell, Kesey volunteered to take part in what turned out to be a CIA-financed study under the aegis of Project MKULTRA, a highly secret military program, at the Menlo Park Veterans' Hospital,^[25] where he worked as a night aide.^[26] The project studied the effects of psychedelic drugs, particularly LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, cocaine, aMT, and DMT.^[3] Kesey wrote many detailed accounts of his experiences with these drugs, both during the study and in the years of private drug use that followed.

 

 

His inspiration for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest came while Kesey was working the night shift with Gordon Lish at the Menlo Park Veterans' Hospital. There, Kesey often spent time talking to the patients, sometimes under the influence of the hallucinogenic drugs he had volunteered to experiment with. He did not believe these patients were insane, but rather that society had pushed them out because they did not fit conventional ideas of how people were supposed to act and behave. Published under Cowley's guidance in 1962, the novel was an immediate success; in 1963, it was adapted into a successful stage play by Dale Wasserman, and in 1975, Miloš Forman directed a screen adaptation, which won the "Big Five" Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actor (Jack Nicholson), Best Actress (Louise Fletcher), Best Director (Forman) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman).^[3  

 

 

^{And the band was the Grateful Dead?} 

 

 

Edited February 9, 2023 by touch

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1 hour ago, miamistomp said:

Eagles by 3

 

Hard to tell if Mahomes and Kelce are really hurt or playing possum

 

 

 Thanks, and please what is your guess as to the final score MIA?

Edited February 8, 2023 by touch

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Super Bowl Predictions

 

ChipStrks                Phila 27       KC     20

Reid                         KC    27       Phila  24

touch                       KC    24      Phla    23

NJBF                       Phila 34      KC       27

Bob C                      Phila 24      KC       20

BC                           Phila  35      KC      17

Nard                       Phila   31      KC      27

NCL                        KC      34     Phila   24

MIA                        Phila   ? 

 

 

 

Anyone else? 

 

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1 hour ago, DLeightonReid said:

Good news fellow Lounge Lizards (for me anyway!).  I am 12 weeks post shoulder surgery and my doctor has released me.  No more twice a week visits to see Physical Therapist Ms. Ratchet or Ms. Helga the Hungarian wrestler.  My doctor said it is okay to start chipping and slowly work toward an easy swing.  Hopefully, by early March I will be back to playing 18 holes again.  Life is good.

 

 

[Petethreeput]

16 minutes ago, miamistomp said:

I just returned from a fun fueled trip to Cancun to see Dead & Co.  I hadn't seen the primary players since the '80's.  I was always a Jerry guy, but I was convinced Mayer and Oteil did a nice job filling in for their respective instruments, and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised.

 

I will say, the "Get off my lawn!" moment was about 20 minutes before the last show.  The group of youngsters in front of me dropped and at one point in my life I would have thought, "They must be having the time of their life."  Instead I was making sure they had non-tripping friends available and were in a suitably safe place.  Many other moments have cemented my aging, but this is the most recent.

 

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[miamistomp]

11 minutes ago, touch said:

 

 

 Thanks, and please what is your guess as to the final score MIA?

Iggles 27-24

 

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Super Bowl Predictions

 

ChipStrks                Phila 27       KC     20

Reid                         KC    27       Phila  24

touch                       KC    24      Phla    23

NJBF                       Phila 34      KC       27

Bob C                      Phila 24      KC       20

BC                           Phila  35      KC      17

Nard                       Phila   31      KC      27

NCL                        KC      34     Phila   24

MIA                        Phila   27     KC       24

 

 

 

Anyone else? 

 

[miamistomp]

8 minutes ago, Petethreeput said:

I just returned from a fun fueled trip to Cancun to see Dead & Co.  I hadn't seen the primary players since the '80's.  I was always a Jerry guy, but I was convinced Mayer and Oteil did a nice job filling in for their respective instruments, and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised.

 

I will say, the "Get off my lawn!" moment was about 20 minutes before the last show.  The group of youngsters in front of me dropped and at one point in my life I would have thought, "They must be having the time of their life."  Instead I was making sure they had non-tripping friends available and were in a suitably safe place.  Many other moments have cemented my aging, but this is the most recent.

 

 I am a big Jerry fan

 

Really had no interest in the band since his passing

 

 

 

[Petethreeput]

3 minutes ago, miamistomp said:

 I am a big Jerry fan

 

Really had no interest in the band since his passing

 

 

 

Me too, but like I said, another more purist said he was convinced to see the new iteration and was really impressed.  They were good.  Not quite as wandering as the old days, but really quite good.  I was glad I did it since they are done, and frankly I think I am as well.  I won't be traveling all over the US to see this iteration.  It was my first, and will be my last.

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On 2/8/2023 at 3:50 PM, NCLancer said:

Golf (if you call it that) recap from yesterday 2-7-23

 

Umstead Pines, Durham, NC

Mix tees approx 5900 yards

49/55= 104

12-14 fwys hit

20/21 = 41 putts (ugh)

2 penalty strokes for balls in the water

 

Mrs NCLancer and I teed off as a twosome but had a single join us on 2 and another single join us on 3.  One of the guys was a member who lives on the course, and he was fantastic to play with.  Very friendly, telling stories, reading putts when we asked.  He's a scratch handicap and shot 2 under even with missing a few makeable putts.  The other gent was a solid striker but had more than a few wayward shots and he lost probably 2 sleeves of balls.  In the parking lot after the round, he drove past us with a big wave with the top down on his silver newer generation Corvette so losing a few balls probably wasn't affecting his bottom line.  He's heading to St. Andrews next month and he planned to practice a bit more before he plays The Old Course (among others).  He dropped a major compliment on Tanya as she was crushing her driver all day.  On the 15th, after another nice strike down the fairway he said "Man, she is money off the tee".  Made Tanya's day...so much so she now wants to be referred to as "T-Money"!

My putting was woeful, but it was still a nice 60-degree day to be outside playing the game we love.     

 

Thanks for the recap and glad you guys took advantage of our warmer than average weather that we've been having here in NC. Again you nailed a bunch of fairways Lance!  NCL puts a bunch in the short grass boys. Oh and I can attest that Mrs. NCL does wallop the big stick well as I have seen it in person. Your wife will wear the "T-Money" nickname just fine. NCLancer and his wife drove across the state in June of last year to play a couple of rounds with me here in Asheville. We had a fantastic time and we will be doing it again later this spring. I am looking forward to teeing it up again pretty soon my WRX good friend.  

 

The Upstate New Yorker on the left and the kid from Detroit on the right. 

 

 

Edited March 4, 2023 by touch

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Oh my gosh, the emoji's are finally fixed! ⭐ 😁🍾

[huskydawg]

KC 17

Phi 13