Apple Day festivities....the photographic proof!

there are so many new people living here, that I often worry it's the natives that are in the minority.

I am considered a native of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, even though I was born in DC. Basically, the family was kicked out of Scotland and stayed where the boat landed. I can do the accent perfectly, and honestly, my relatives that still live on the Eastern Shore were studied by people from Oxford that were documenting "Old English". They joked that my relatives understood Shakespeare better than the average student at their fine school of higher learning. "Fall" and "Mad" changed meaning over the years in the UK, but not where my relatives live!

Oh, if you pump breaks, or your horse gets sick, it's the native of NH or Vermont that will come over and fix things for you. People may move here as it is a wonderful area to live, but it makes the natives feel good that THEY really run things. What they don't like is that their kids can't afford to buy a house here, because house prices have rocketed since so many flatlanders have discovered it is a great place to live.


Hey people, check with Skeptic Scott...seems he has something in the works...so if you missed Apple Days you won't want to miss the next get together.

I'm trying to make a Sylvia Browne pinata. Will Scott mind us swinging a large club in his house? I think not.
 
kittynh said:
What they don't like is that their kids can't afford to buy a house here, because house prices have rocketed since so many flatlanders have discovered it is a great place to live.
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There's a lot of truth in this. Our house has just about doubled in price in the 12 years we've lived in it. We couldn't afford to buy it, today.

I'm trying to make a Sylvia Browne pinata. Will Scott mind us swinging a large club in his house? I think not.
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I watch a lot of America's Funniest Home Videos, and have learned that pinata games should be avoided by people and animals with low pain threshholds.
 
Beady said:
I watch a lot of America's Funniest Home Videos, and have learned that pinata games should be avoided by people and animals with low pain threshholds.
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I've seen a fair number of serious near-misses with Pinatas, including times when a baseball bat was being used. :eek:

I hate the things.
 
RSLancastr said:
I've seen a fair number of serious near-misses with Pinatas, including times when a baseball bat was being used. :eek:

I hate the things.
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Swinging a bat around Scott's apt. within city limits sounds like trouble to me too. Maybe we should all be blindfolded and shoot at it with paint-ball guns? Whoever hits it the most times with the paint balls gets to take off the blindfold and go at it with an ax.
 
SkepticScott said:
No swinging axes or baseball bats, or shooting paintball guns in my house! I'm strange that way. Outside would be OK, but it will be December and cold.
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For a skeptic you appear to lack any sort of experimental nature or drive that leads to investigating the many possibile outcomes of swinging baseball bats, axes, firing paint guns and various other methods that can be employed to open a pinata indoors.


Coward.:D



Boo
 
Boo said:
For a skeptic you appear to lack any sort of experimental nature or drive that leads to investigating the many possibile outcomes of swinging baseball bats, axes, firing paint guns and various other methods that can be employed to open a pinata indoors.
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Only if I can get a grant to cover the cost of cleaning and repairing, and my time.

Coward.:D
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"Coward" yourself. I noticed you didn't offer to host said experiments.:p
 
Boo said:
You merely beat me to the punch.......
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Punching pinatas? I don't think that's ever been done.

Beady said:
Since Newtonmas is going to be at your place, did you ever get the dirty sock out of your garbage disposal?
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What an interesting question! Since I don't have a garbage disposal, it's akin to "Have you stopped beating your wife". I've read "Godel, Escher, Bach" so I am able to answer "mu"! :)
 
look, we are going to use the RAndi blindfold driving method with the pinata.

They do sell pinatas that have stings you pull (boring).

This is Sylvia Browne. We are going to HIT HER. yeah!!!!

So, we just need to find a way to do this without destroying Scotts house.

Scott, you are going to need to build a new house, but Larry can help.

Do you have a garage?

Randi blindfolds, and a garage. I'm making the thing. I can see me now, doing a little paper mache cigarette hanging out of her mouth. And what am I going to fill a Sylvia pinata with? Well the obvious answer of "male cow poop" is not really fair to Scott. But it's going to have to be Sylvia sized, which means a lotta candy or something!

I'm making it, someone can bring Randi blindfolds, and for goodness sake people, COATS and GLOVES are made for going OUTSIDE in the winter.
 
>look, we are going to use the RAndi blindfold driving method with the pinata.

This I want to see! Oh wait, I'll be blindfolded too. I want to hear that, then!

>This is Sylvia Browne. We are going to HIT HER. yeah!!!!
>So, we just need to find a way to do this without destroying Scotts house.

Please don't destroy my house!

>Scott, you are going to need to build a new house, but Larry can help.

I don't want a log cabin in the woods! :)

>Do you have a garage?

Yes, but the ceiling is low.

>And what am I going to fill a Sylvia pinata with? Well the obvious answer of
>"male cow poop" is not really fair to Scott.

At last, somebody's thinking of me! Thank you!

>COATS and GLOVES are made for going OUTSIDE in the winter.

Yes, outside. I have trees that we can hang the Slyviata from and people can hit it as hard as they want. They can even use my sledgehammer.:hit:
 
A chance to sledgehammer Sylvia Browne!

If there is even the smallest grain of truth in psychic woo stuff this will KILL HER!!!!

At the very least she will get a terrific headache!

No wait, she already has 2 terrific headaches called Randi and www.stopsylviabrowne.com!!!!
 
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Make a small hole in the cap to start. That's what we did, hence the vertical stream, but I couldn't tighten the cap fast enough to prevent leakage around it.
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Yup. (Nimble on the feet, huh?)
 

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What's amazing is how calm Mercutio was as people fired play arrows at his head.
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He got to sit there with his eyes shut while people...couldn't hit the side of a house...?

OK, here's a question: Can you chuck a schrod on the barbie in New England?
 
Zep said:
He got to sit there with his eyes shut while people...couldn't hit the side of a house...?
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My eyes were open the whole time. You don't close your eyes when someone is shooting arrows at you.
 
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