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bravissima Kerry on your new cue! Whee!! I was just reading your entry re winning it. I guess you could always share custody with that friend of yours who came in second place... etc. You know.

The trophy depicted above is a definite bummer though. It starts with one widget like this in your place and pretty soon you can't take one step in any direction without knocking your front teeth in some bibelot or other.

Hey! I gave you props on 'shoulda gotta cue' in my blog! :)

That's a pretty nice cup though!

>> Hey! I gave you props on 'shoulda gotta cue' in my blog!

You did mention me ... thanks for your outrage on my behalf. ;) The guy who got it deserved it just as much as I did so it's all good. And I'm glad they gave us shotglasses rather than some trophy or something else of no utility that I'd have to keep around!

>> The trophy depicted above is a definite bummer though.

The first place team got beer glasses. Now *that* I really would use!

(btw, I had to look up 'bibelot' ... good word!)

Thanks Elise! (notice we posted at the exact same time? ha! Great minds and all that...) ;)

I dunno John, it seems to me that you should have received that cue considering all the work you did, even Mike and Russell said so.

Share custody of my cue? No way! He wouldn't even TOUCH it last night! ...literally squirmed away from it... squirmed!

...I guess that's why they only had 3 pool cues instead of the promised 8. They had to buy all that pewter.

squirming from the cue, huh? hmm. let me see here...

No joke, he squirmed AND skrinched his eyes AND stepped back AND said in no uncertain terms "I'm not touching your stick"! LOL :)

squirmed?

huh. next time you see him, purely as a science project it could be interesting to test his reaction by pointing as some random other guy across the room and saying something like, "Earlier I heard that guy say he wouldn't mind trying your cue."

You SO squirmed! It was the most bizarre reaction to a pool cue I've ever seen. :)

Elise, don't give me any ideas. I'm going to start pointing at random ANYTHING and saying that now. lol

alternatively, you could invite him to the next meeting of the knitting group and see how he feels about knitting needles.

oops! ok well in my defense here, i didn't realize we were talking about our host here. although now that i do, what's up with that reaction? and what about chopsticks, any issues with those?

Funny you mention the knitting group. He has actually demonstrated a rather violent aversion to this as well.

maybe its just polished sticks in general he doesn't like? hmmm...

hockey sticks?

OK, I was jealous! I admit it! Couldn't you tell I was fighting back tears? The hurt! The pain!

Thanks very much for forcing me to relive it...

*sniff*

anyhow. i don't wanna break your eharts, guys, but a girlfriend and i are going to swiss chalet after work today. the last time i visited the chalet, i was on my first day at a new job in old montreal (15 years ago) with only half an hour for lunch.

i hear their gravy's amazing. wish me luck!

You mean you were in Montreal and selected a Swish Chalet over St. Huberts? Mon Dieu! ;)

ok ok, you can touch the stick next time. sheesh.

...nice shot of that shot glass, btw. ;)

I always skip the gravy, silly me.

The Yonge St Swiss Chalet by Gerrard?

>> ok ok, you can touch the stick next time. sheesh.

Hey, I don't need any pity touching. ;)

I don't usually have the gravy either actually, but most people say they love it.

pity shmity

oh yes, it's a nice shot. and if you get tired of having it around you can try removing that metallic badge thing and wearing it on your lapel, pass yourself off as an officer of the peace.

i'm not sure which chalet location we're going to. (i wonder if each has a different roof top colour, for variety?)

Kerry, your mention of Saint-Hubert just got me compeltely fixated on THAT gravy. Now that was some serious gravy right there. I can't imagine the Chalet gravy coming anywhere close now.

You say you SKIP the gravy or you SIP the gravy?

LOL

SKIP

Sorry for the confusion. ;)

Frankly I prefer the SH's gravy.

When my mother is in Quebec she pronounces SH's with a french accent, but when she's in Ontario its gone. ...she doesn't speak a word of french.

>> ...nice shot of that shot glass, btw. ;)

Thanks. I think having Fanny Hill in the background adds something special to the shot...

oh i know, that gravy. here in ontario we're fond of our superb coffee? there they have superb gravy.

Oh, do enjoy SC and they're gravy!

'their' not 'they're'

(stupid english language)

(thus the sipping confusion before i suppose.)

but this is profound communication we've gotten into, isn't it. deep, deep secrets being shared here today. i don't know about you but i'm exhausted!

me too, a little. lol

a word on the SC sauce...

After dipping my first fry in there I thought, "What the...!" No BBQ taste that I could detect, in fact, no specialness factor at all! But once I got over that admittedly primitive reaction (by bite number 2) and got back into a more forgiving, "There's a crack in everything that's how the light gets in" spirit, I got a grip. You know, we all have our challenges. And for the Chalet, well, that means finding a way to pack some zip into their mushy brown goo somehow.

And, as inevitably happens whenever you scrutinize a problem closely enough, pretty soon you realize that there are other, more pressing concerns out there.

Sure enough: our waitress showed, up and it was time to choose dessert.

yeah, the gravy is just 'whatever'. Although the rib sauce is good!

I never realized gravy could be such a life affecting experience, wow.

I know! I have a problem identifying what is a big issue and what is a normal size issue. but wasn't it Eisnstein who said, "We must live life as if everything is a miracle or nothing is a miracle"?

in any event, i looked up this Fanny Hill reference, and now I'm determined to find a copy of the sinful journals! It'll be a nice, classic change from my copy of "100 ways to drive a man crazy" which I have made such extensive use of already, you know?

I just finished reading 'A Field Guide to the Urban Hipster' by Josh Aiello.

...fun to read a book about one's self. ;)

>> "100 ways to drive a man crazy"

There have been only 100?

I can swap the books with you. ;)

hooonnnn... never heard of it, will look up!

>> 'A Field Guide to the Urban Hipster'

Aren't 'field' and 'urban' mutually exclusive?

JOSH AIELLO excels at drinking coffee and has been known to read the New York Times Magazine with one hand while processing 401(k) rollover requests with the other.

I think i'm... in love!

The full title, John, is "100 ways to drive a man crazy in bed" (I'm translating loosely as this slim tome is in French.) And you're right; there are certainly millions of ways to please a man. But if my impression is correct, one's memory seems able to retain only something like... 3 of them. So bigger books on the topic would not only serve to ruin one's wrists.

Elise, you are truely a woman of wisdom! ;)

("would serve no other purpose than to ruin one's wrists" is what i mean to say. sorry about the typos. it's the unnervment.)

why, Kerry, thank you darling! shall we take a stroll up Yonge street one of these days and go searching for those delightful cupcakes, while sharing our innerdeepest fears and hopes? Oh, we could so recline in the park under a tree afterwards and together draw a mental portrait of the man of our collective dreams.

(gosh i'm sooooo sorry. i think i've got a really, really bad case of the fanny hills.)

NO man will be able to live up to the collective dreams of two women, heh.

well, huh! what are you tryin' to say? that we should stop searching and be content with, you know, like, YOU or something?

*gasp* ...BURN! lol ;)

That demands a very snappy comeback but ... I got nothing. Where's Jon Stewart when you need him?!

oh come on! you know i'm kidding, right? kerry and i simply adore you. and we'd be happy as all get out with only you in our lives full time. but you know how it is: we will if you will, Mister Modelizer!

Doesn't every guy go through a model phase?

d'you mean when they're like 14? i think that might be true.

Being adolescent lasts well past his 30s for a man so that's about right.

er... i'm not so sure about calculating human phases in dog years...