78 posts away from 10,000! Ask me something!

[bigwillq]

Please-I've been trying so hard to get to 10K. It would really make my day!:hi:

[terrya]

1. How was your weekend?

Hopefully, you and your guy got to spend the weekend together. :-)

:hi:

T

[bigwillq]

3. Weekend was kind of shitty

It snowed yesterday and I had to work yesterday and I'm working again today.

Haven't seen my baby in like a week. I'm off tomm. so hopefully I will be able to go up and see him.:hi:

[terrya]

10. Do you or your guy have any chance of taking some time off?

It sucks knowing that you guys can't spend as much time together as you should.

T

[bigwillq]

15. I have two weeks of vacation a year and some personal

days and sick days.

We're probably going away 2-gether in April.

[terrya]

17. Good.

That gives you something to look forward to...

Plus, the weather HOPEFULLY will be much better. :-)

T

[bigwillq]

20. The weather is awful right now

We got like 15 inches of snow and it's now like -484 degrees out.

I hate the winter. Give me summer or spring any ole day.

[terrya]

25. I'd rather have 90+ and humid instead of this.

I've lived in Illinois almost all of my life and I still can't get used to this crappy winter weather. I was just out a while ago...to the store. Icky snow turning to dirty slushy water...ugh.

[bigwillq]

26. Me too! Hot and humid!

Lay out at the beach all day and see hot guys with no shirts on. Now, that's what I call fun!:evilgrin:

[terrya]

32. YES!

There is a part of Hollywood Beach here in Chicago that is a gay area...LOTS of hot, yummy men in the teeniest of Speedos...eye candy as far as the eye can see. Yet another reason to love summer. :-)

[RevolutionaryActs]

2. Are you eggcited?

:D

[bigwillq]

5. YES!

I really want to hit 10K today!:hi:

[RevolutionaryActs]

8. Yay! I'm eggcited too!

:bounce:

[bigwillq]

13. I'm glad we're eggcited together!

:hug:

[RevolutionaryActs]

16. Awww.

:hug:

Edit: Can you feel the love? :loveya:

[NYC]

4. Now how many?

Didn't we go through this the other day?

[bigwillq]

6. Yes, I've been trying to hit 10K for what seems like

years now.

[NYC]

73. You'll make it today.

How many left now?

[Longgrain]

7. Why is it...

you and I always end up putting these things up at the same time?

Are we both THAT starved for attention?

(Congrats on 10,000 BTW. It's guys like you who inspire guys like me...)

[bigwillq]

11. Well, I'm just trying to be like you!

I'm not at 10K yet but thanks for the early congrats!:hi:

[AwakeAtLast]

9. What are you having for dinner?

I need some ideas!

[bigwillq]

12. Don't know what's for dinner yet

I'm at work. I had a bag of doritos like five minutes ago But I am kind of hungry.

[RevolutionaryActs]

14. You should have pie for dinner, since its national pie day!

:9

[bigwillq]

18. National Pie Day?!

I didn't know that! Thanks for letting me know!:)

[RevolutionaryActs]

21. Heck yeah! Someone told me last night. I'm all eggcited about that too!

Oh so many things to make your eggcited today! :7

[bigwillq]

22. What else are you eggcited about today?

Man, how do you act around Easter time?;-)

[RevolutionaryActs]

30. Bunnies!!

:loveya:

[bigwillq]

33. Aww, how cute!

That pic just got me more eggcited!:bounce:

[AwakeAtLast]

28. Coinkydink - that was me!

Food Network is good for something!

[bigwillq]

29. I love Food Network!

What's your fave show?:hi:

[AwakeAtLast]

36. I really like Paula Deen

She reminds me of the Southern voice professor I had in college. They talk and cook about the same! Ah, I miss those days!

[bigwillq]

40. Me too! I think she's funny!

And she makes some really good things.

I love when she makes Southern Fried Chicken.

[RevolutionaryActs]

34. OMG! You're right! How silly of me!

Sometimes I'm so blond. :dunce:

[AwakeAtLast]

35. No problem - I thought it was funny!

Especially that you remembered something I posted at about 1:00 a.m.

:)

[amber dog democrat]

19. Was the US Navy using wire rope in its stanging rigging

during the Civil War? I am thinking yes if only for stack guys and stays that straddled a smoke stack, say from the main trestle trees at the doubling to a pont near the bulwarks -
This has to do with Unidiila class or 90-day gunboats.

[bigwillq]

23. I would say yes, too!

Although I am very confused about this post.:hi:

[amber dog democrat]

31. Well, I got that from the contract specifications written in 1860.

and its incorporated into my model, but god knows if its correct.

Building a 90 Day Gunboat in 1 8th scale from scratch. I know that wire rigging got more usage through the latter half of the 19th Century - especially with the larg 2000 tonners rigged as 4 masted barques.

[jonnyblitz]

24. "oh please I ive been tryin..."

how are you today bigwill? :P :hug:

[bigwillq]

27. I am o.k. Busy day.

I went to a banquet for work-I had to make a speech and now I am at work. I have a lot of shit to write for tomm but what am I doing-OH, chatting on DU! again!


How are you?:hi:


BTW, don't make fun of my whining!

[jonnyblitz]

38. i am fine. just did some marathon shovelling

and feel all endorphined out and light headed and shit! :crazy:

[bigwillq]

41. Be careful!

Don't get hurt but if you do and you need a nurse...:evilgrin:

[patdem]

37. What do your fingertips look like after 9,972 posts?

are they raw...did you post too many too soon..or are they more like little callosus..over time they became immune to the banging of the keyboard? and your arms...do you have tennis elbow yet...could be renamed keyboard elbow any day. Oh, and do you have cats or dogs or children or a combination of the three... See you can answer each question with a different post!

[bigwillq]

42. Fingertips are fine

Fingernails are bitten down! It's a bad habit!

[bigwillq]

43. They have become immune

:)

[bigwillq]

44. Arms are fine

No tennis elbow.

[bigwillq]

45. No cats, dogs or children

I do have some pets, however.

[Tinoire]

39. Only 61 now!

:woohoo: Can't wait for the party! :party:

[bigwillq]

46. You'll surely be invited

to the party!:party:

[Tinoire]

71. !! Only 26 left to go now!

:woo hoo:!!!

There is a thread in LBN that just made me want to party!

A new leader in Bolivia fighting for his people! He even looks a little like Chavez!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1176811

[NNadir]

47. Do you have any familiarity with the ancient Etruscan tongue?

[bigwillq]

48. That's a negative

:hi:

[motely36]

49. Hey, Bigwill,

Sorry to hear you have to work. What would you be doing if you weren't working? I'm half watching the football game, wondering if I have ingredients to make a pie. :)

[bigwillq]

50. I would be with my man

I am kind of watching the football game too. We have a tv in the conference room.

Hope you get to make that pie. Send me some!

:hi:

[motely36]

55. Will this picture help cheer you up?

[bigwillq]

58. All better!

Thanks for the pic! 50 is so fucking out!:evilgrin:

[tjwmason]

51. Aristotle or Plato?

The two greatest ancient Greek philosophers (I don't include Socrates as we only have what Plato said he wrote).

Which one is the real babe?

[bigwillq]

53. Babe? Do you have any pics?

Haven't seen their pics in awhile. Or to be more honest, I don't know if I could tell who was who.

[tjwmason]

56. Unless you're into older men

I doubt that you would find them physically babes. Their philosophy is great fun, and far easier to read than later stuff (I started on Aristotle at 16).

[bigwillq]

57. Not into that much OLDER men

But I do like Greek men!:evilgrin:

[tjwmason]

59. Don't we all?

Them and Italians.

[bigwillq]

60. Well, thanks for the compliment!

I'm a nice Italian boy!:)

[tjwmason]

61. Ever been to the mother country?

It's my favourite place (apart from Merry England), the scenery, the architecture, the weather (I've only been during the summer).

[bigwillq]

62. Sadly No. Hope to one day!

My parents went 2 years ago. Loved it.:hi:

[tjwmason]

63. Last summer I went to Verona

They have opera in the ancient Roman arena (which only Italians would even attempt).

Which part of Italy are your family from?

[bigwillq]

64. Naples and Marci

What a mix!

[jonnyblitz]

65. I have been to Naples many times on navy ships.

oh the stories.. :P

[bigwillq]

67. I bet there's lots of hot Italian boys!

Just like me!:evilgrin:

Please share some of those stories when you

COME AND SEE ME!!!!!!!:grr:

Which I hope is before 2005 ends!

[jonnyblitz]

69. ummm...boys? shhhh...(don't ask dont tell etc etc)

we'll hang out soon...

[tjwmason]

74. There are lots of hot Italian boys all over Italy

They all seem to be gorgeous, and it sounds like Connecticut has some as well.

How near are you to New Haven?

I had a friend who crossed the pond for a year of post-grad at Yale. He loved it, but found the weather a shock after our temperate climate here in England.

[Tsiyu]

52. What is your dream car?

[bigwillq]

54. That Nissan sports car that came out a few years back

ZSZ, something like that. I'm not sure of the name.

[joeybee12]

66. Ok, anything? Why is the western part of the US having such warm

weather, while the eastern part is getting so cold? Is what happened in "The Day After Tomorrow" happening in real life?

[bigwillq]

68. Yes, the movie is coming true!

Run for your lives!:P

[Parche]

70. question

What is the meaning of LIFE

That should take up at least 1 post

[Solly Mack]

72. Are you there yet?

:hi:

[DODI]

75. What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

[Enquiringkitty]

77. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!

[Donailin]

79. African or European?

[DODI]

80. I don't know -- Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[Enquiringkitty]

76. A republican co-worker sent me this mail.

This would be funny if he didn't believe it with all of his heart. Check out the last para. He states all that he has lost and all that he will continue to loose over the next four years and he thinks he won something. Sad!


In the chic salons of Manhattan and the trendy bistros of Los Angeles
they are saying the same thing. "How could Bush have won," ponder the elitist
vanguard of the left-wing status quo. "I don't know a single person who
voted for him."

On the networks - 12 hours after the rest of us realize John Kerry has
fallen - Dan Rather scribbles permutations on colored Post-It's in an
attempt to prove to himself that his chosen man could still take the
day. Surfing about, I note the talking heads are all agog over how they
missed it. In the aftermath of the election they behave with professorial
demeanor, wondering how their certainty of a Democratic victory went up in flames.

"What we don't realize is that there's a huge segment of the country
that doesn't think like us," states one well-coiffed anchor, his voice
dripping with derision and condescension. "We can never understand the people who
like their guns and their pick-up trucks and their Nascar."

That comment, as much as anything else, serves as explanation as to why
George Bush was re-elected with the largest percentage of popular vote
since 1968. The pretty TV man was stating that those such as he - the elites,
the sophisticates - can never comprehend the lowly mental horsepower of folk
who shop at Wal-Mart, belong to a bowling league, sometimes attend church
and still believe that the United States is far superior to the socialist
enclaves of Europe. To the TV darling, working stiffs and Joe Six-Packs
are the "great unwashed." They don't read the New York Times, utter sly
chuckles at the cartoons in the New Yorker or spend $400 bucks on a pair of
shoes. They like a beer and a steak, read the funny pages on Sunday morning and
think a day of chips and NFL is a dandy ol' time.

Such being the case, they are not worthy of respect.

The election of 2004 was not just a case of Bush versus Kerry. It was a
contest of city versus country, blue collar versus white collar,
arrogant elitist versus good ol' boy. It was class warfare in the deepest of
trenches, but even after being whipped, dipped and hung out to dry, the
high and mighty of the left STILL don't get it. They cannot comprehend how
and why they were whomped by a bunch of hicks.

Thus, allow me to enlighten. You see, the people whom America's Brahmins
view as yokels and slack-jaws didn't just vote against Kerry the man.
They voted against what Kerry stood for. They voted against arrogant,
pseudo-intellectuals who try and mandate how the imbecilic members of
the middle-class caste should live, act and think. They voted against
pompous, urban know-it-alls who feel they have carte blanche to halt farming,
ranching, logging and mining in an attempt to save an endangered species
of toad. They voted against those who want to take their guns...and not
just the ones they hunt with. They voted against the snobs, the egocentric,
the self-righteous.

They voted against the jerks...and they did it brilliantly.

The "average" citizen of American voted against those whom John Kerry
labeled the "heart and soul" of America. They voted against the
traitorou pig Michael Moore and that Whoopity Goldberg woman. They voted against
Bill Maher, Barbra Streisand, Alec Baldwin, Cameron Diaz, Robin Williams,
Cher, Rosie O'Donnell and the whole damn cast of "Friends." They voted against
"celebrities" who were rude and crude, those who profaned George Bush
and his family with the most foul of commentary at each and every
opportunity.

The election wasn't just Bush versus Kerry. It was "Us versus Them."

Oh...there were issues aplenty. And on each one the families from
Flyover Country took a stance diametrically opposed to the upper crust. The
latter view Europe as a Socialist utopia which all should strive to emulate.
The former view it as a place with bad plumbing and body odor. The latter
are enamored with, and desire to appease, anyone who claims a lineage
harboring at least one duke, baron or Third World, French-speaking exporter of bat
guano. The former couldn't give a damn what Europe thinks, wouldn't trust Kofi Annan to wash their truck. Hell, they want to resign from the U.N., boot out the tenants and convert the real estate into a Bass Pro Shop.

When it comes to war the "normal" American believes in big bombs, not
big words. They want country music and armor piercing bullets, whereas the
intelligentsia wants to practice diplomacy, hum Kumbaya and surrender.
The Nascar crowd intrinsically realizes Saddam was a terrorist, understands
Iraq is part of the bigger war on terror. In case you forgot (and judging by
the voting totals, many in the Northeast did just that) they'll remind you
the radical Muslims attacked us...not vice versa.

The residents of our two distinct Americas reside within the confines of
different economies and social strata. It's not that Flyover Folk
disagree with the values of the hoi polloi, it's more that they believe the
pampered and feckless are bereft of values, their ethical compass spinning like a
narcissistic top. They see the elites as merely paying lip service to
that which is convenient and faddish, proving to the neighbors they sup
heartily on the ideological flavor of the week, feeling nothing but a need to
impress.

The commoners? They are more traditional. Quite a lot are religious, but
many are content to make a living, watch the tube and catch a long nap
on Saturday. The "God, guns and guts" contingent is often poor but happy.
The cocktail, Commies and Cadillac club is often rich and in therapy.

And the Limousine Liberals STILL don't get it. They think the Bush
victory is an anomaly, even though they've been humiliated twice in four years.
They will lose again and again, firm in the resolve that good breeding always
wins the day. The clay-eaters, rubes and mouth-breathers of "Flyover
Country" will never surpass them, they think, for they lack class,
culture and social contacts.

As for the aforementioned po' white trash...they are laughing. They
don't have much cash. They don't have health insurance. They don't take
cruises. They don't have designer labels.

All they've got is the Senate, the House, the Oval Office and a grin
that spreads ear to ear.

[Donailin]

78. How many years does it take to get all those posts?

How many hours of your life is that, approximately?