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"Friends in Old Places"
Posted by jbug on 09-07-16 at 05:38 PM
Seeing PsychoKitty emerge over in FB world made me find my way back over to this old play place.
It's like remembering an old tree house or play house and going back in just to check out some good memories; looking around for any leftover or forgotten trinkets that trigger those memories.

So, Here's to spending some time with old friends in old places. Or low places...



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"RE: Friends in Old Places"
Posted by kingfish on 09-07-16 at 08:53 PM
Nice to see both of you. Fooner and I have been trying to entertain each other, and he's been introducing me to Cali cuisine.
"RE: Friends in Old Places"
Posted by PsychoKitty on 09-07-16 at 11:48 PM
Hi there!!! It's nice to be remembered : ) We have had SO much fun on these boards! We should use our siggies on FB ; ) I did reach out to Pepe and Estee last night through this site's email asking them to join us : )


Not that I have an opinion one way or another ;)
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"RE: Friends in Old Places"
Posted by kingfish on 09-08-16 at 10:22 AM
Pepe shows up occasionally, apparently he's temporarily relocated to the states and is having to relearn the language. The old Labor/Labour etc. thing.

And Estee abruptly stopped posting a little over a year ago. There's been some concern about her fate. If you hear something please let us know.



Crabman


"RE: Friends in Old Places"
Posted by PepeLePew13 on 09-08-16 at 06:23 PM
Ah, email? I have newer emails and haven't updated my email on this site in years.

Facebook... what's that? I don't even have an account on there, social media really isn't my thing, other than to snoop around on there for potential spoilers for 'Survivor' or to stay on top of traffic issues while commuting.

Kingfish - I probably have missed something along the way but why might there be concern over Estee's fate?

"RE: Friends in Old Places"
Posted by kingfish on 09-08-16 at 08:32 PM
Maybe it's nothing, but it was the abrupt cessation of her posts. She had been posting regularly, then one day, I think it was in June of last year, the posts just stopped. No tailing off, just an abrupt halt. Seemed odd and not like her.


"RE: Friends in Old Places"
Posted by PepeLePew13 on 09-08-16 at 10:17 PM
Interesting. That's the worst part of an online community - people can just disappear from a site and we'd never know what might have happened. Probably nothing, but yeah...
"RE: Friends in Old Places"
Posted by greenmachine on 04-20-17 at 03:23 PM
what am I, chopped liver? current post for purposes of a slightly veiled bump.

"just passing by...."
Posted by jbug on 04-23-17 at 09:34 PM

"greenmachine"
Posted by foonermints on 04-24-17 at 02:37 PM
Certainly NOT chopped liver. Nor a Potted Plant..

hmm, I will have to work on a foonerpoem

"RE: Friends in Old Places"
Posted by jbug on 09-08-16 at 09:22 PM
I miss this place.
FB is ok and it keeps us in touch, but this place was better for talking about and debating current news topics and having fun with the reality tv stuff!

"RE: Friends in Old Places"
Posted by kingfish on 09-09-16 at 09:33 AM
LAST EDITED ON 09-09-16 AT 11:58 AM (EST)

IMO interacting is easier here. And I don't like the narrow column that you have to use in FB. Confining. I sometimes like to post little quick fictions, and those are just lost on FB.

Also, here you know all or most of the people, you can more easily anticipate who is sensitive to what, and have the opportunity to craft your remarks to account for that.

On FB usually you often have no idea who some or most of the posters are, they are friends of people you know but are from other parts of their lives, and that to me feels restricting. I don't want to unnecessarily antagonize somebody's Estonian Aunt because I might make a remark that unintentionally steps on her belief that one should worship bats, or something.

Here, I know where the bats are, and most have learned that although I can be occasionally disagreeable (actually, misunderstood), that I have respect and affection for all. And associations here are longer lasting, long enough that we can read between the lines to discern sensitivities and sorrows.

Here it is, to me, just more intimate and human.

"RE: Friends in Old Places"
Posted by cahaya on 09-09-16 at 11:00 PM
Ya know, this thread should be retitled to "Old Friends in Places".


Sherlocked by agman.

"RE: Friends in Old Places"
Posted by kingfish on 09-09-16 at 11:39 PM
Another suggestion, "Odd Friends in Old Places".

We must respect the Foon.

"Or"
Posted by kingfish on 09-14-16 at 08:15 PM
Moldy friends in moldier places?
"RE: Friends in Old Places"
Posted by greenmachine on 03-24-17 at 03:13 PM
bump

"RE: Friends in Old Places"
Posted by Dakota on 09-10-16 at 00:25 AM
Hi. It is kind of fun over here. Especially since there are so few left and I figure if we post enough, the people who don't like us will roll their eyes and leave. FB is cool, but there's so much going on and so many people that it's tough to keep track of stuff. Does anyone really have 400 friends? I feel so inferior having less than 100, some of whom I barely know. A few of them have died.

Agman's Spring Fling '12

"RE: Friends in Old Places"
Posted by Dakota on 09-10-16 at 00:31 AM
Pepe, if you're having trouble adapting, we're here for you. It's so easy to make fun of us from the other side of the border, but now that you're here, it may be traumatizing. Ice made the transition once, IIRC. Then he left. Have we had any other trans-border success stories?

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"RE: Friends in Old Places"
Posted by cahaya on 09-10-16 at 07:30 PM
I suppose I'd count as a trans-border success story, living in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for 20 years where my son was born and my daughter was adopted.

Indeed, it was a bit of a culture shock moving from my Midwest college-town hometown to a large city in SE Asia. Fortunately, with Malaysia having been a British colony in its past, most people there spoke English (in addition to Malay, various Chinese dialects and/or Tamil). Even adapting to the food was initially a challenge, although now I've got a real appetite for Asian food after living there for so many years.

It was a bit of a culture shock in reverse to move back to my hometown with my family after living abroad for 20 years. A lot had changed in the U.S. during that time.

When it comes to answering the question whether I'm happier here or there, I have a saying: Happiness is where your heart is, not where your feet stand.


Wayang kulit puppet show by tribe

"RE: Friends in Old Places"
Posted by Dakota on 09-10-16 at 10:38 PM
I recently read Bill Bryson's 'Notes from a Big Country'. His story of growing up in midwestern USA, living in the UK for 20 years and then coming back. Great way to get some perspective on our culture, along with being entertaining and funny.

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"Notes from a Small Island"
Posted by cahaya on 09-11-16 at 02:43 AM
I checked online to see what was in the local library (which is pretty well stocked) and found The road to Little Dribbling : adventures of an American in Britain / Bill Bryson

"Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, a true classic and one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Now he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot, to see what has changed--and what hasn't. Following a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis in the south to Cape Wrath in the north, by way of places few travelers ever get to at all, Bryson rediscovers the wondrously beautiful, magnificently eccentric, endearingly singular country that he both celebrates and, when called for, twits. With his matchless instinct for the funniest and quirkiest and his unerring eye for the idiotic, the bewildering, the appealing, and the ridiculous, he offers acute and perceptive insights into all that is best and worst about Britain today."

I also found I'm a stranger here myself : notes on returning to America after twenty years away / Bill Bryson. I've got to read this to see if the culture shock in reverse that I experienced mirrors what he experienced. He wrote that in 1999 and I returned to the U.S. not long afterward in 2004, so the timing is almost the same.

"RE: Notes from a Small Island"
Posted by Dakota on 09-12-16 at 05:30 AM
Thank you! Love his humor and observations and I haven't read "Little Dribbling".

Agman's Spring Fling '12

"RE: Notes from a Small Island"
Posted by kingfish on 09-12-16 at 05:25 PM
I've read his book about a walk around Britain, another about a walk across Australia, and another about his hiking the Appalachian trail.

All were great. He is an entertaining writer.

"RE: Friends in Old Places"
Posted by PepeLePew13 on 09-13-16 at 01:00 AM
No trouble adapting at all as I've made numerous trips to D.C. over the years and I already knew the city so well. There's also three friends that I grew up with in the Toronto area and funnily enough, all three moved to the D.C. area at different times on their own, so we've all got something in common.

The biggest adjustment has been being on my own with the family back home. We decided that we weren't going to uproot the whole family since the terms of my agreement end in May and there's no guarantee of anything beyond then.

"Possibly"
Posted by foonermints on 09-20-16 at 05:10 PM
Donald Trump will give you a new contract.
"RE: Possibly"
Posted by Dakota on 09-21-16 at 01:40 AM
I didn't think Pepe was in the US on a government contract.

Although he seems to have had little trouble assimilating, I don't think he wants to become a citizen. I hope he's happy and safe here. He's in a good place too -- if he lifts that tail and sprays, everyone will think it's Congress. Or the WH. So he should be fine.

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"I think we are the reason Pepe will adapt."
Posted by kingfish on 09-21-16 at 09:51 AM
If so, and if he has our habits, I pity the people in DC.

(apologize for speaking of you in the third person, Pep.)

"RE: I think we are the reason Pepe will adapt."
Posted by Dakota on 09-21-16 at 11:37 AM
Have we arranged an outing with Pepe and Senator Cruz? If not, you're slackers!

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"RE: I think we are the reason Pepe will adapt."
Posted by kingfish on 09-21-16 at 12:08 PM
So, you really hate hate hate Pepe.
"RE: I think we are the reason Pepe will adapt."
Posted by Dakota on 09-25-16 at 07:09 PM
No no no. I know Cruz isn't considered likeable by some, but they're both from Canada and have temporary homes in the D.C. area. I'm trying to be friendly!

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"RE: I think we are the reason Pepe will adapt."
Posted by PepeLePew13 on 09-25-16 at 10:37 PM
I'll pass on meeting Ted Cruz!

Obama, on the other hand... I certainly wouldn't mind meeting him before his term ends.

"RE: I think we are the reason Pepe will adapt."
Posted by Dakota on 09-28-16 at 05:48 PM
I only wish I had the contacts to arrange that, Pepe. If I did, I'd ask for a trade - Justin Trudeau for Barack Obama. I'd love to meet your PM.


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"RE: I think we are the reason Pepe will adapt."
Posted by Dakota on 09-28-16 at 05:53 PM
Hope this link pulls up the save the skunk video that was uploaded to FB.
Coke can v. Skunk and a brave man
"RE: I think we are the reason Pepe will adapt."
Posted by kingfish on 09-28-16 at 06:55 PM
I've heard that you can meet the Pres. by climbing the wall around his house and running up and ringing the doorbell.
"RE: I think we are the reason Pepe will adapt."
Posted by cahaya on 09-30-16 at 03:55 PM
Otherwise known as the "Trick-or-treat" tactic.
"RE: I think we are the reason Pepe will adapt."
Posted by kingfish on 09-30-16 at 07:08 PM
Yes, also the "Introduction to the Secret Service" technique.

Probably no candy involved.

"RE: I think we are the reason Pepe will adapt."
Posted by greenmachine on 05-01-17 at 10:46 AM
what caused the demise the this place?

"RE: Friends in Old Places"
Posted by foonermints on 03-06-17 at 02:48 PM
*bump* Hi Sweetie!