The Old Folks Home

[LindaB220]

A lot of people discount Stephen King, but his stuff can be very thought-provoking. Unfortunately, I picked up "The Stand" to read one night in college when a cold with drippy nose was keeping me awake.... Needless to say, I didn't sleep a wink and just kept reading for a day and a half.

(For those of you that don't remember or didn't read it, it's an apocalyptic story whose vector starts with the sniffles)


I agree about modern horror movies being about the gore quotient, but I still watch them. Thought "Hostel" probably wrecked the tourism industry for Slovakia. One of the silliest I saw (and darned if I can remember the title) was a foreign film about killer mutant sheep. It was just hokey through and through when it could've been so much fun (like "End of the World" about a bad pub crawl which really was kind of amusing in the long run)

Pretty good. Over 800 pages. That's because they MADE him cut almost 400 more pages before they would publish. After 25 years or so, he published the whole thing. Still his best.

 

[Sylviaanne]

How is that kind of scenario formed in kid's minds? It seems common and independently formulated...........

I don't know but it might have something to do with older brothers and sisters. Although who scared them?

 

[Sylviaanne]

The monster under my bed didn't have any elbows. It's arms could reach up from the floor, but couldn't make the turn over the edge of the bed to reach any one on top of the mattress. As long as no part of me hung over the edge, I was safe. I could not, however, lean over and look under the bed, I was terribly afraid of what would be looking back at me. I wonder what the shrinks would say that means...........

I didn't realize it but it didn't did it? No elbows. Ha! I just knew that if even a toe or tip of a finger was over the edge, I'd be pulled down.

 

[ozexpat]

A few pics from the garden

 

[Cynthia12]

Tropical Paradise!

 

[ozexpat]

Tropical Paradise!

We have had atleast 18 inches of rain this July.

Thank goodness the new roof is on

 

[vehve]

 


 
Can anyone say, "practicing medicine"?

Veterinary medicine is an educated guess at best, especially since the patient cannot *tell* you what's going on.....

(I realize the above post is not about vet med, btw.  But people med is just a step removed...)

(added edit...)

That being said, I had one vet adventure with caponizing chickens.  I wanted to do it, but didn't want the roo-let to feel it and so asked my vet (a close friend) for some anesthesia.  Well, he was a large animal vet (always out for my stud farm) and so I'm in his office and he pulls out the Mercks manual, starts reading about avian anesthesia and asks "So these chickens, are they about the size of a pigeon?"   Even the vet book didn't have sufficient poultry information....

Haha, but that's not even that far off. And a bird is a bird, probaby okay to start with pidgeon dose.

 

[chickadoodles]

Oz I love the pic's and especially the playhouse!

 

[Bunnylady]

Well, Old Folks, ya done it again. TOFH has been the most active thread on the forum for 2 days straight! Quite a way to celebrate a 2 years' anniversary, and we didn't even have a party (or did we have one, and I slept through it?)

Oz, one of the benefits of all that rain is that things get so lush and green, eh? Love the pics, as always.

 

[Peep_Show]

Some old folks are a party unto themselves.....

Congrats!