Fun Friday (Part 2)

You amaze me with your positive vibes! I always feel like I should grab a bag of popcorn when you’re catching us up with your activities. :joy:

See what I mean? Only you can put your end of life scenario in to this question! :rofl: You crack me up!

Thanks for the link - it looks hilarious!

This all works just fine! :sparkles:

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Awww, that makes me smile :blush: I struggle with staring at an empty page, but good prompts get me going and your Fun Friday questions do that so well :growing_heart:

If life is funny, then what else is death but a punch line? :joy:

Yes~ :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:
And sometimes the contrast helps you see new things that you were missing before. The bad things make you appreciate the good.

It’s the kind of temperature that you can throw a bucket of hot water into the air and it will freeze before it hits the ground, no joke :joy: A fun thing to do in this weather is to run into the snow and roll around in it naked, out of sauna, and then run back and throw a lot of water to raise the temperature :smiling_face: And that’s not even my invention, other crazy people in this country have been doing it for a few hundred years at least :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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:face_with_hand_over_mouth: I guess this all depends on your idea of fun! I’d have to have a glass of wine in me before I ever tried to shock myself like this. Like the people who do that polar bear jump into freezing water then run out. :rofl:

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I’m way too terrified about sliding under the ice to do that, or hypothermia getting me before I can climb out… :sweat_smile:

And I like my water warm… even in the summer it’s often too cold for me! There’s a video of me going into pretty cold water, very slowly, and someone described the noises I was making as “right out of an adult film”… :rofl:

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My gods! If you sneeze and the wind blows wrong, snot can put your eye out! I don’t like that kind of weather. My Dad was from Minnesota, and his parents were from Norway and Sweden, so I know all about rolling in the snow and going into the sauna. That’s one tradition this chick is opting out of! That and lufefisk.

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That’s a new one to me, I’ve never heard of that happening to anyone! :sweat_smile: Wearing a scarf over your mouth and the moisture from your breath freezing on it is a thing though, though way less serious.

Whoever thought of boiling a fish in lye and then eating it sure sounds like a character :joy: Then there are some fermented fish treats like hakarl (shark fin) and surströmming (herring), that are sure to turn your stomach if you’re not used to them, even just being in the same room :flushed_face:

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My gremlin is more of the bridge-burning kind, and then it desperately tries to build a new one out of duct tape and apologies. I try to tell it that it’s easier to not burn the bridge in the first place, but where’s the fun in that? :innocent: :collision:

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It was during the Great Storm of '62 that my uncle hawked a lugee and it flew out and back and hit his wife Gina in the forehead. She had to get it removed - emergency surgery was not what it is today. No meds and they had to use a trained woodpecker.

When I tell people that nowadays, they don’t believe me.

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I haven’t either, but if it could happen to anyone, it would happen to me.

My Dad loved the stuff and couldn’t really get it down here in WV. He liked weird things. I blame it on the Vikings.

:rofl: That’s awesome! I’d tell that to everyone I could, especially little kids. They might believe it.

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:thinking: I’m not sure how one would train a woodpecker for this procedure.

What I am sure of is that I wouldn’t let the bird near me - I’ve seen the size of those beaks! :astonished_face:

I’m also wondering if you’d care to share whatever it is you’ve been smoking. :rofl:

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I tend to get all my facts from absurdist humor.

I stole that from “A Million Ways to Die in the West”. One brief scene had a trained woodpecker in surgery.

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I remember my first experience of -13°F. I was walking to class in college. Sunny day. Not a cloud in the sky, but it was *snowing!* The humidity was freezing right out of the air! I turned around and went back home to get warm. I missed a lot of classes that year, didn’t read much homework, but still aced Greek Philosophy class!?! Found out I deeply enjoyed Socrates and Plato.

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Haven’t heard of that one before. Poor Aunt Gina! Must have given her a headache!

Poor woodpecker! Eeewwww! :joy:

I gotta see that one!

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Approach it with absolutely NO expectations. Seth MacFarlane made it like a long episode of Family Guy with plenty of non sequitur scenes. Big stars, VERY thin plot, absurd situations. Still… the SO wanted to see it again the other day which made my jaw drop (she doesn’t do absurd).

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You know, I just had a feeling it was something like that. :wink:

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This Full Moon is something else… :full_moon_face:

Welcome to Fun Friday, where everything is made up and the facts don’t matter! That’s right, the facts are like your screams when a woodpecker is eating what’s left of your loogie-pierced eyeball! Without anesthesia! What’s that strange word I hear from the back, laudanum? You knew woodpeckers are immune to that, right? No central nervous system, since they’re invertebrates :zany_face:

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I am laughing way too hard at this! We have some woodpeckers around here, and one of them like to go to town on the chimney and the sound echoes through the house. The thought of a woodpecker pecking at your forehead…. LOLOL!!

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Oh wait, was it just forehead? I think my unhinged imagination did its usual thing and made it 1000 times more graphic :joy:

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Happy Friday, beautiful witches! I hope everyone is having a good week! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

Here are the questions for the day:

  1. What is your favorite bridge? How come?

  2. What’s your comfort movie or show?

  3. What are your pet peeves?

  4. Do you dread going to the dentist?

  5. Do you like podcasts? If yes, what do you like?

I’m sensing that this round might be pretty entertaining. :joy: I’ll be back with my answers, we’re heading to the store shortly and it’s getting kinda snowy out there! :face_with_peeking_eye:

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Be safe. Get all you need to last a while. Cozy up.

Most people don’t think of the rainbow as a bridge unless the colors are a slide, all leading from the same spot to the same place, each color touching both locations at the same time; but it may not work that way at all. We are taught to consider colors to be the opposite of the way they act among the stars- red is cool, and blue is hot; infrared is long and slow, and ultraviolet is short and fast. I remember driving through the colors of a rainbow in the mountains of North Carolina soon after my father passed from this world- grey violet to red.

I have a few, depending on my situation and feelings at the time. This time of year, I usually pull out Merlin of the Crystal Cave for a long, winding flow into a deeper magick.

My current one is greedy corporations buying up family friendly pizza places, making them unviable, and then closing them while thinking the shut downs would solve the problem. I miss the old Pizza Hut.

Getting there. They have removed the only form of comfort I wasn’t allergic to. It’s no longer a spa day for me.

I haven’t listened to one in a long time. It’s like listening to an old time radio show. With some, the lack of visual stimulation makes them tiring. Others are good to lull me to sleep. I just don’t seem to have the time for them anymore. I did have one podcast link on my list of internet links- Emerald something. It was philosophy by a guy named Jeff. For a time, I enjoyed him, but lost interest when RL hit before joining here. This is more interactive, friendly, and entertaining.

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  1. My favorite bridge is London Bridge, currently residing in Lake Havasu, Arizona. I love it because they took it apart brick by brick, and reassembled it in another country, to preserve it. It’s beautiful.
  2. Downton Abbey, show and movies is my comfort show. The gilded age just resonates with me.
  3. Poor customer service, no contact phone number is my biggest pet peeve.
  4. I love my dentist. I never mind going. He is cool, and very gentle.
  5. I loathe podcasts. I just don’t have the patience for them. It is just like talk radio. No thanks.
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