Posts made by BigDub

I am thinking of writing a book called “Gullible's Travels”.
I think I have sufficient material now.
It would be the sequel to “The Blonde's Book of Common Sense”

Here is one from the Northwest Coast of California. Photo provided by my son in law.. Redwood National Park, I believe. His goal is to visit every national park he possibly can.

@moshe said in countries / states represented here?:

@BigDub said in countries / states represented here?:

@moshe said in countries / states represented here?:

@BigDub said in countries / states represented here?:

@moshe said in countries / states represented here?:

30 years ago I was interested in Ham radio.
I obtained my Advanced Class license, but never had the money to buy a radio "rig".

Anyway,
a tradition in ham radio was to obtain confirmation of contacts
with as many states and countries a possible.

How many states and countries are represented here ?

I born in California, Missouri.
Raised in Grandview, Missouri, a suburb south of Kansas City.
Moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota,
then Dallas, Texas,
then Bowling Green, Ohio.
Then I moved to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1992 to take a job in the engineering department of a TV station.

I have lived in Kentucky longer than in any other place in my life,
but I will never feel at home here.
I often joke that I am not a low-class Kentuckian,
because I am a high-class Missourian with culture and sophistication, as Harry Truman was famous for.

One woman once complained to Mrs. Truman,
"Your husband is always saying "manure"".
Mrs. Truman replied,
"It took me 30 years to get him to use that word".

Then there was the time that a reporter criticized the concert of Truman's daughter.
Truman threatened to whip his...

See, we Missourians have class...

Morris / moshe

I think we have folks from the Netherlands, Austria, Australia, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Nigeria, Canada? I am not 100% certain of all of these.
Me? Born in Norwegian Lutheran Hospital, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, parents both Norwegian American. Now I live in Hillsborough, NJ.

You would have felt right at home in Minneapolis.
Full of Swedes and Finns and other Scandanavians.
An old woman taught me how to do the "skoni" accent,
which she always laughed at.
The accent of stereotypical Swedes as seen in movies.

As a person of German Baptist ancestry, I too found it amusing.

Morris / moshe

Hold on here, a minute. I see no mention of Norwegians. Just saying.

I wasn't born yesterday.

I did a Google search.

There is no such place as North Weegia...

Morris / moshe

"you can tell if a man is from Norway, when his head cannot fit through the doorway"
that has always been my guide.
There are two kinds of people in this wide big world.
Norwegians, and those who pine away wishing they were.

@barliman2001 said in A little humour:

@BigDub I met that guy when he came home from the African safari - we met at an airport whie we were waiting for our connections. He told me that apart from seeing that elephant,he had a close encounter with a lion that entered his tent. He took off at speed, not wanting to be a lion's breakfast. And so they ran - the guy in front, the lion behind. Until the guy could not run any more. He just stood there and faced the lion, "and suddenly, the lion slipped and fell down". - "And you just stood there? Wow! I would have sh*it my pants." - "Well, what do you think the lion slipped on?"

Ooooooooh, no

@SSmith1226 said in Practice Drones:

@BigDub
And I thought my band had the corner on that market.

Actually, we had a great night. Good attendance by the band, fairly good crowd who truly enjoy our band.
We seemed to be really together and making good music, too.

@moshe said in countries / states represented here?:

@BigDub said in countries / states represented here?:

@moshe said in countries / states represented here?:

30 years ago I was interested in Ham radio.
I obtained my Advanced Class license, but never had the money to buy a radio "rig".

Anyway,
a tradition in ham radio was to obtain confirmation of contacts
with as many states and countries a possible.

How many states and countries are represented here ?

I born in California, Missouri.
Raised in Grandview, Missouri, a suburb south of Kansas City.
Moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota,
then Dallas, Texas,
then Bowling Green, Ohio.
Then I moved to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1992 to take a job in the engineering department of a TV station.

I have lived in Kentucky longer than in any other place in my life,
but I will never feel at home here.
I often joke that I am not a low-class Kentuckian,
because I am a high-class Missourian with culture and sophistication, as Harry Truman was famous for.

One woman once complained to Mrs. Truman,
"Your husband is always saying "manure"".
Mrs. Truman replied,
"It took me 30 years to get him to use that word".

Then there was the time that a reporter criticized the concert of Truman's daughter.
Truman threatened to whip his...

See, we Missourians have class...

Morris / moshe

I think we have folks from the Netherlands, Austria, Australia, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Nigeria, Canada? I am not 100% certain of all of these.
Me? Born in Norwegian Lutheran Hospital, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, parents both Norwegian American. Now I live in Hillsborough, NJ.

You would have felt right at home in Minneapolis.
Full of Swedes and Finns and other Scandanavians.
An old woman taught me how to do the "skoni" accent,
which she always laughed at.
The accent of stereotypical Swedes as seen in movies.

As a person of German Baptist ancestry, I too found it amusing.

Morris / moshe

Hold on here, a minute. I see no mention of Norwegians. Just saying.

@SSmith1226 said in Practice Drones:

@BigDub
It looks like you have the audience marching in formation.

To the exits?

@moshe said in countries / states represented here?:

30 years ago I was interested in Ham radio.
I obtained my Advanced Class license, but never had the money to buy a radio "rig".

Anyway,
a tradition in ham radio was to obtain confirmation of contacts
with as many states and countries a possible.

How many states and countries are represented here ?

I born in California, Missouri.
Raised in Grandview, Missouri, a suburb south of Kansas City.
Moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota,
then Dallas, Texas,
then Bowling Green, Ohio.
Then I moved to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1992 to take a job in the engineering department of a TV station.

I have lived in Kentucky longer than in any other place in my life,
but I will never feel at home here.
I often joke that I am not a low-class Kentuckian,
because I am a high-class Missourian with culture and sophistication, as Harry Truman was famous for.

One woman once complained to Mrs. Truman,
"Your husband is always saying "manure"".
Mrs. Truman replied,
"It took me 30 years to get him to use that word".

Then there was the time that a reporter criticized the concert of Truman's daughter.
Truman threatened to whip his...

See, we Missourians have class...

Morris / moshe

I think we have folks from the Netherlands, Austria, Australia, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Nigeria, Canada? I am not 100% certain of all of these.
Me? Born in Norwegian Lutheran Hospital, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, parents both Norwegian American. Now I live in Hillsborough, NJ.

@moshe said in A little humour:

@BigDub said in A little humour:

@moshe
A friend of mine recently went on a fantastic African safari vacation. One morning Bob was able to get up before everyone else and get a great shot ( photo. PHOTO ) of a bull elephant while still in his pajamas.
How that elephant fit into his pajamas I'll never figure out!

Proof that vaudeville and the Marx Brothers will never die !

"Who are ya gonna believe? Me, or your lying eyes?"

Morris / moshe

Exactly!

@moshe
A friend of mine recently went on a fantastic African safari vacation. One morning Bob was able to get up before everyone else and get a great shot ( photo. PHOTO ) of a bull elephant while still in his pajamas.
How that elephant fit into his pajamas I'll never figure out!

I know this is a different kind of drone, but in case you thought I was telling a tall tale, here are the drone shots of our concert at the Hopewell, NJ train station on Monday 8/5. The person who took them was ironically a mutual friend of one of my FB friends. We, the Blawenburg Band, are in the red shirts sitting in front of the station. It looks like a model train setup, doesn't it?

Things believed by some blondes, ( Maybe, because I tried to convince some of my younger sister's friends of these myths growing up.)

1. If you are driving in thick fog, turn on your high beams and drive faster. The heat generated from your headlights along with the wind created by your higher speed will push away the fog where you need to drive.
2. Pigs are really just shaved sheep.
3. The Moon, of course, is the closest planet to the earth.
4. We ( the US ) own the moon. Our flag is there.
5. New Mexico is part of Mexico.
6. Before 1960, EVERYTHING was black and white. no colors existed.

Sadly, I was only able to convince them for a short time.

@J-Jericho said in Artist on BOARD:

@BigDub said in Artist on BOARD:

Switch email?

I knew you wouldn't need three guesses!

Haha. I may chance sticking with it. Sometimes when a company makes a big blunder like that, they are super careful and diligent afterwards.......

@J-Jericho said in Artist on BOARD:

@BigDub Several years ago Yahoo! lost a number of months of my important e-mail. It took me about a year to transition to gmail, but I'm glad I did. My wife still suffers with Yahoo!, but her account is enormous, and she's been reluctant to change. She started the move to gmail recently; it's going to take awhile.

(There's a hint in this message somewhere; I bet it won't take you long to discover what it is.)

Switch email?

@Kujo20 said in Artist on BOARD:

Bigdub,

I just returned from a 3 week vacation in Oregon and California. My wife and I visited four different National Parks (Redwoods, Shasta Trinity, Yosemite, and Sequoia). We took a little over 1000 photos...if you’re interested, I could email some to you that you could use as reference photos for your painting. We have a lot of landscapes, waterfalls/rivers, wild animals, ocean shots, giant trees...etc...
Sounds great. Yeah, that would be something I would appreciate getting. Just send one or two at a time as I have very slow internet WiFi..haha. My email is, waynemathisen@yahoo.com.
Also, if you use the cloud, there would be a way to share he ones you want to see. I am not exactly sure how that works, but I have done it for my Alaska photos. Has to be Apple, though.

Here's another one for your observation. This is the West Quoddy Head Lighthouse in Maine, done as a commission for a friend in my town to give to her son, who took the reference pictures. They were very good

@moshe said in A little humour:

@BigDub said in A little humour:

@moshe said in A little humour:

@BigDub said in A little humour:

@moshe said in A little humour:

@neal085 said in A little humour:

Friends of mine just got back from a cruise. Said they bought a slice of pie for $3.00 in Jamaica, but paid over $7.00 for the same pie in the Bahamas.

Anyway, those are the pie rates of the Caribbean.

And I thought that my puns were bad

I never saw it coming ...

Morris / moshe

In the world of Puns, bad is good, smelly is swell-ie.
The less sophistication it possesses, the higher the elevation to which it rises.
At least that is what I say to defend my own puns.
And, lastly, if one is easily embarrassed, one had better not enter the arena of puns.

There are arenas of puns?

Pun gladiators?

Pun matadors?

Peanut vendors?

Morris / moshe

Well.......in a manner of speaking......yes.....
And I had already used, "world of puns" so I resisted the lazy approach and came up with another nomenclature (how'd you like that description?) .
And as far as gladiators, maybe more like couch pertaters.
Instead of Matadors, maybe Bull throwers?
Peanut venders? I don’t know, you can’t spell PUN without them letters right there.

For those who are not multi-lingual like I am,

"matador" is French for "I love me"

and "gladitaters" is Arkansas for "happy mountain oysters".

I don't mean to brag,
but I am completely illiterate in 27 languages.

Morris / moshe

Well, I’m 67 but I read at a 70 yr old’s level

@moshe said in A little humour:

@BigDub said in A little humour:

@moshe said in A little humour:

@neal085 said in A little humour:

Friends of mine just got back from a cruise. Said they bought a slice of pie for $3.00 in Jamaica, but paid over $7.00 for the same pie in the Bahamas.

Anyway, those are the pie rates of the Caribbean.

And I thought that my puns were bad

I never saw it coming ...

Morris / moshe

In the world of Puns, bad is good, smelly is swell-ie.
The less sophistication it possesses, the higher the elevation to which it rises.
At least that is what I say to defend my own puns.
And, lastly, if one is easily embarrassed, one had better not enter the arena of puns.

There are arenas of puns?

Pun gladiators?

Pun matadors?

Peanut vendors?

Morris / moshe

Well.......in a manner of speaking......yes.....
And I had already used, "world of puns" so I resisted the lazy approach and came up with another nomenclature (how'd you like that description?) .
And as far as gladiators, maybe more like couch pertaters.
Instead of Matadors, maybe Bull throwers?
Peanut venders? I don’t know, you can’t spell PUN without them letters right there.

@moshe said in A little humour:

@neal085 said in A little humour:

Friends of mine just got back from a cruise. Said they bought a slice of pie for $3.00 in Jamaica, but paid over $7.00 for the same pie in the Bahamas.

Anyway, those are the pie rates of the Caribbean.

And I thought that my puns were bad

I never saw it coming ...

Morris / moshe

In the world of Puns, bad is good, smelly is swell-ie.
The less sophistication it possesses, the higher the elevation to which it rises.
At least that is what I say to defend my own puns.
And, lastly, if one is easily embarrassed, one had better not enter the arena of puns.

I said I would post no more than one a day, but I think that is even a bit much, so here we are two days later. I'll show some of my paintings from photos taken by my son in law on his various travels with his family.