tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post5412940582296245197..comments2024-01-31T00:52:30.471-08:00Comments on Waking Ambrose: Two FablesDoug The Unahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04753071669562594194noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-38996426958936201842007-05-03T10:51:00.000-07:002007-05-03T10:51:00.000-07:00you sure you figured?you sure you figured?Minkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04200778533362101678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-40808533960458827862007-05-03T04:56:00.001-07:002007-05-03T04:56:00.001-07:00Quilly, I figured.Quilly, I figured.Doug The Unahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04753071669562594194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-82687278562737570012007-05-03T04:56:00.000-07:002007-05-03T04:56:00.000-07:00Quilly, I figured.Quilly, I figured.Doug The Unahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04753071669562594194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-33533651505939412632007-05-02T21:08:00.000-07:002007-05-02T21:08:00.000-07:00No.No.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-45370191905243294232007-05-02T20:56:00.000-07:002007-05-02T20:56:00.000-07:00TLP, I know every trick of the swinging door.CUJDM...TLP, I know every trick of the swinging door.<BR/><BR/>CUJD<BR/><BR/>Mule, that's a great moral although it was the slide rule is what got him in trouble. If only he'd met fibonacci and a farmer.<BR/><BR/>Quilly, will you be less patronizing when I awake?<BR/><BR/>Indeed, Cooper.<BR/><BR/>Diesel, I'm pretty sure <I>I </I>am out of sync. Maybe that's put us in harmony?Doug The Unahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04753071669562594194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-2827823325988672252007-05-02T19:30:00.000-07:002007-05-02T19:30:00.000-07:00Doug, we must be in sync today. I posted about a ...Doug, we must be in sync today. I posted about a corrupting serpent as well.robkroesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14731849693307953813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-69801978909135165802007-05-02T17:09:00.000-07:002007-05-02T17:09:00.000-07:00ha,haWonderful way to suffer a Wednesday.ha,ha<BR/><BR/>Wonderful way to suffer a Wednesday.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-28589849894372401212007-05-02T15:14:00.000-07:002007-05-02T15:14:00.000-07:00Theoretically, Doug, I'm not blonde, either. You ...Theoretically, Doug, I'm not blonde, either. You however, must be. My comments were a disclaimer -- since I would not do those things, that Sunday School teacher couldn't have possibly been me. Maybe you should take some cold medicine and have a nap.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-86498038978967831042007-05-02T13:54:00.000-07:002007-05-02T13:54:00.000-07:00Old Malthus. Food prices relative to wage increase...Old Malthus. Food prices relative to wage increases where not as he suspected; neither was technology nor the wiliness of the common dude. Sweet hindsight. <BR/><BR/>Moral:<BR/><BR/>Don't do math without a slide rule.The Old Mulehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09469707883604282375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-67527735238692474622007-05-02T13:30:00.000-07:002007-05-02T13:30:00.000-07:00Dug rits gudC ya 2morow:)Dug rits gud<BR/><BR/>C ya 2morow:)Jamie Dawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11036600186909466411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-45604717220233193342007-05-02T12:04:00.000-07:002007-05-02T12:04:00.000-07:00I M nuz cuz i thought mayB God IMed SS teach. u r ...I M nuz cuz i thought mayB God IMed SS teach. u r a scholor but u r <B>very</B> disturbed. <I>Just sayin'.</I><BR/><BR/>Don't let the swinging doors hit you in the @$$.TLPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02837578489728318423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-74503305715530674172007-05-02T12:00:00.000-07:002007-05-02T12:00:00.000-07:00Al, all posible Samuel L Jackson puns are welcome....Al, all posible Samuel L Jackson puns are welcome. Good one, by the way, but bad ones are ok.<BR/><BR/>G, all curmudgeons great and small.<BR/><BR/>Kyah, I've been scared to read what got thrown together this morning. The problem probably isn't yours.<BR/><BR/>Quilly, you think you're the only Sunday School teacher in the world? Maybe this was a different one? Theoretically, she might even not be blond.Doug The Unahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04753071669562594194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-1861433803086708232007-05-02T11:46:00.000-07:002007-05-02T11:46:00.000-07:00I would never tell a snake to get behind me. I wo...I would never tell a snake to get behind me. I would keep him within my sight until I was out of his. And I'll have you know I always check my cell phone messages, and I always answer them -- if I want to.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-56772637427557708132007-05-02T10:19:00.000-07:002007-05-02T10:19:00.000-07:00I don't get it but that's ok. I'm apparently imper...I don't get it but that's ok. I'm apparently impervious to morals. <BR/><BR/>don't you think a butterfly would get squished no matter what way the door swung? how can a snake send a text message? would an armadillo get annoyed at being called an 'old dog'? these questions haunt me.Kyahgirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04496268340516243071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-53161127134292148562007-05-02T09:57:00.000-07:002007-05-02T09:57:00.000-07:00I'm doomed. I'm sitting here thinking and sure en...I'm doomed. I'm sitting here thinking and sure enough - virtually ALL of the doors I use open one way. <BR/><BR/>Your stories were fine last ones to read. On the butterfly - I just thought that armadillo was particularly cranky that he would be bothered by a baby butterfly's wings. I mean would be a stretch for you to write about curmudgeon creatures? ROTFL (I just cringed).Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16075495407192340894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-78806456204962091322007-05-02T09:39:00.000-07:002007-05-02T09:39:00.000-07:00Doug, you've got Snakes on the Brain.Doug, you've got Snakes on the Brain.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-30880777475294506022007-05-02T09:31:00.000-07:002007-05-02T09:31:00.000-07:00Thanks, Minka. I'll try to catch cold and stay up...Thanks, Minka. I'll try to catch cold and stay up late more often, if it helps.<BR/><BR/>Mule, tx<BR/><BR/>Minka, I wish you'd been around when I was writing this.<BR/><BR/>Puppy, Malthus in my mind is the Zeus of curmudgeons. I'd like to have met Ambrose Bierce, but I tremble at the thought of meeting Malthus. All my virtue can be explained by my desire to go to heaven and avoid his audience.<BR/><BR/>Amoeba, I'm a dictionary maker, not an engineer. I'm not from the Rio Grande Valley but my sense of humor did kind of dry out last week when I was there.<BR/><BR/>Jamie Dawn, IM. OK, let's say the shadow fell right over the armadillos eyes and he's one of the dumb ones. Today is a day I'd invent a slow-witted armadillo.<BR/><BR/>Sar, that is funny. (Sure hope no one knows I get lost in them too.)<BR/><BR/>Ariel, I need an IM dictionary. DOOT?Doug The Unahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04753071669562594194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-16647647370023852142007-05-02T09:04:00.000-07:002007-05-02T09:04:00.000-07:00what did I think to come here without my dictionar...what did I think to come here without my dictionaries? DOOT!Ariel the Thiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15097086287609287362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-52833925951627954022007-05-02T08:37:00.000-07:002007-05-02T08:37:00.000-07:00Okay, I totally LOL'd at the armadillo's secret to...Okay, I totally LOL'd at the armadillo's secret to longevity. <BR/><BR/>But I wonder, do revolving doors count? <BR/><BR/>(and a funny aside, my FIL always says that my MIL is the only person who could get lost in a revolving door - you see she is rather, um, directionally challenged.)Sarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00898887379236020609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-51431711278837148882007-05-02T08:16:00.000-07:002007-05-02T08:16:00.000-07:00I was thinking the same thing as amoeba. Just HOW...I was thinking the same thing as amoeba. <BR/>Just HOW BIG WAS that butterfly? That's some wingspan!<BR/>Or maybe the armadillo was very tiny which explains why he was so grouchy towards a newborn.<BR/><BR/>That Sunday School teacher has no faith. She should have picked up that dangerous serpant instead of yelling at it. Anyone's capable of talking to a dang snake. It's those who pick them up who should be awed. <BR/>For the record, I shall never be awed.<BR/><BR/>Dug Ur LocoJamie Dawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11036600186909466411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-90061300243236254872007-05-02T07:26:00.000-07:002007-05-02T07:26:00.000-07:00Are you accusing Quilly of not answering her cell ...Are you accusing Quilly of not answering her cell phone?<BR/><BR/>And that must have been one huge butterfly ...<BR/><BR/>Is the Rio Grande valley where you got your dry humor?<BR/><BR/>Nice work, dawg. But I would have expected you to figure out a way to keep the armadillos from using the doggie door. ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-5118341862025287322007-05-02T07:20:00.000-07:002007-05-02T07:20:00.000-07:00hahaha... well worth the wait, Doug. or Dawg. or D...hahaha... well worth the wait, Doug. or Dawg. or Dg. (can't bring myself to say "lol"... you know i don't use that kind of language in mixed company)<BR/><BR/>too bad no one bothered to read the footnote on Malthus' "progress report", which said: "I'm kidding. I <I>kid</I>".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-2377497415566550952007-05-02T07:16:00.000-07:002007-05-02T07:16:00.000-07:00Where would a rattlesnake keep its cellphone? Is i...Where would a rattlesnake keep its cellphone? Is it a third stone from the left, behind the tree where I shedded my skin last year- kinda thing?<BR/><BR/>Oh and since I don´t get your armadillo "Only use doors that open both ways" implication...I´ll pretend the armadillo said:<BR/>"Don´t worry about it, you could have been a fly!"Minkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04200778533362101678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-60262230615124319192007-05-02T07:06:00.000-07:002007-05-02T07:06:00.000-07:002 kewl strys - cu gr8 pst d2 kewl strys - cu gr8 pst dThe Old Mulehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09469707883604282375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-42040591834914912302007-05-02T07:03:00.000-07:002007-05-02T07:03:00.000-07:00You are late!which made me first.You did well!You are late!<BR/><BR/>which made me first.<BR/><BR/>You did well!Minkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04200778533362101678noreply@blogger.com