Five Ruthless Demonstrations of Efficiency
Righty-ho people, another week draws to a close and by Christ have I been productive. The only person suffering this week has once again been the unimaginably tolerant Mrs. Toad, who has been criminally neglected at the expense of early conference calls a Proper Job, gigs attended, Meursault singles recorded, vinyl packaging finalised, and the pulling together of the final details of the Jesus H. Foxx EP for the launch on Saturday. Last night we finished packing and folding and stamping the last of the run at about one in the morning, and it’s looking bloody lovely. The whole thing is a really nice deep turquoise colour, and I am bloody chuffed with it. Saturday is going to be a fine, fine party, I suspect. There may just be hangovers on Sunday, just maybe.
The Honeytrap Toad Session will be up next weekend as well, which is exciting. It’s taken a while, but it was a genuinely mental session, so I reckon it’ll make for fine entertainment. The podcast might be a little garbled though, because there were four of them and everyone was pished, so trying to stop everyone talking at once was something of a challenge.
I’ve even managed to be extremely efficient at proper job during all of this, possibly related to the fact that the only drinking I have done all week was two beers last night to celebrate the completion of the EP. But there has been a lot of tricky diplomacy to negotiate and slightly panicky clients to deal with and for some reason people have been asking me a lot of advice recently, which seems to be somewhat over-estimating my talents, but hey-ho, it’s nice to feel important I suppose.
On a thread during the week Michael asked which Richmond Fontaine album to start with, and I answered him the best I could – I prefer The Fitzgerald, but it might be a little too quiet, inwhich case the rockier Post to Wire or the more Calexico-esque Thirteen Cities might be better choices. Well, to help him make his decisions I have chosen five Richmond Fontaine songs for this week’s five because they are a criminally underrated band and everyone should like them more than they do. Any fan of Smog’s gorgeous A River Ain’t Too Much to Love is highly likely to love The Fitzgerald as well, so bugger off and start listening.
De-lurking is of course the theme of the day on Friday. I know that the likes of myself and the more regular commenters talk too much and can seem a little bit like a closed shop at times, but I really appreciate it when new people take the time to come out of the woodwork and say Hi. There are more readers on this site every day than commenters by at least an order of magnitude, so it would be nice to get an idea of who some of you are. Just fill in your (stolen from GUT) Friday Five and then join in the festival of pish-talking which tends to ensue. Have fun people, hopefully see some of you on Saturday at the Bowery.
P.S.: I seem to have acquired an excellent troll – go back to some of the old podcasts and check out some comedy remarks. Pictish Session, Ruthcast and Funkcast would be good suggested places to start…
1. How long did you read Song, by Toad before making your first comment?
2. Your Friday lunch.
3. Proportion of pointless admin to time wasting to actual work in your real job, as a percentage (eg: 40:27:33).
4. Suggest a funny website for people to waste their time on this afternoon.
5. What’s the earliest you’ve ever sneaked out of work without permission?
Richmond Fontaine – Harold’s Club (from Obliteration by Time)
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Richmond Fontaine – Polaroid (from Post to Wire)
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Richmond Fontaine – Warehouse Life (from The Fitzgerald)
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Richmond Fontaine – Incident at Conklin Creek (from The Fitzgerald)
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Richmond Fontaine – Moving Back Home #2 (from Thirteen Cities)
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Richmond Fontaine – $87 and a Guilty Conscience That Gets Worse the Longer I Go (from Thirteen Cities)
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1. I can’t remember when I found SbT, so it’s difficult to say. Ages.
2. Fluffy white rolls with onion & gherkin cream cheese. All the nutrition of cardboard, none of the flavour.
3. 0:75:25 I can’t believe I haven’t been fired yet.
4. http://www.catandgirl.com
5. Quarter to four. Everyone else had buggered off to the pub to celebrate something, leaving me and another temp to hold the fort. Which we did, for about ten minutes.
1. Months and months, and I think my first comment might’ve been on the first Friday Five actually.
2. Today it was leftover mushroom and bacon risotto from last night’s tea. Scrumptious.
3. Now that I’m not a classroom teacher, but am employed to work with a handful of students who need extra support, I actually get to teach instead of collecting data and completing pointless paperwork. Imagine being able to actually do the work you were trained for! Amazing. Ratio would be about 05:05:90.
4. Ummm I quite like http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com
5. It’s a little hard to do that when you’re a teacher. I did leave about 20 mins before I’m meant to this afternoon, but it’s Friday and I don’t care.
Before I post my 5 I’d say The Fitzgerald as the place to start with Richmond Fontaine. I LOVE that album. They just played Stereo the other night as well. Gutted I did not know about that. However, Damien Jurado is playing there in November so that eased my disappointment. Anyways.
1. A couple of weeks at least. Needed to suss out what it was all about.
2. Today it was a can of coke and a chicke, chilli and mayo panini.
3. 20:20:60
4. http://www.bored.com
5. I shouldn’t say this but in my job we go out on site a lot so it’s easy enough if you choose to pencil in site visits for a Friday afternoon and then just head home and crack open a beer. But then we finish at 3.15 on a Friday anyways so not that bad to be honest.
To be fair, Matthew, you do look like a rapist.
1. About a month. It feels like such a long long time ago (as my life has been in permanent decline ever since).
2. Soup, and pasta.
3. It’s a fairly even split.
4. I don’t mean to be a geek, but the cancel the astronauts website/blog is hilarious. This is one of my favorites:
http://canceltheastronauts.blogspot.com/2009/07/live-from-studio-kay-episode-1.html
5. I’ve never done that. Though at a previous job, I once showed up three and a half hours late. it was a Saturday, so there was only an hour of the shift left. So they just told me to go home. That was a good day.
That troll sounds familiar. What possessed you to teach the cat to type?
1. I started reading this when you did the broken records session but didn’t put in my 2 cents till quite a lot later, around the time Ed 17secs was being royally shafted by the glasvegas lot.
2. Bloody meal deal or some other tat.
3. 10:20:70, busy bloody day.
4. http://picktheperp.com
Match the criminal to the crime, enjoy!
5. I’m usually the last to leave and stay late most nights. BOOOOO.
1. I came on the site when Broken Records did their Toadcast and remained silent until about October last year…
2. Not sure yet, thinking soup…
3. 50/20/30 I am the one nominated to do the filing and order the coffee cos i am the only girl…
4. Agnes, i love awkward family photos! hilarious. Particularly the knitted nude suits, is that still there?
5. I have done it a couple of times, but only manage 10-15 minutes early. Did it on Wednesday to make it to a pub in time for the Scotland game.
I second Bart on the Cancel the Astronauts site. Good shout. They are funny. Not very good at badminton. But funny.
Shonagh – it’s a pisser isn’t it! Haven’t seen the nude knitted one, I searched for it on the site just then but couldn’t find it. This is my current favourite:
http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/2009/07/07/twilight-zone/#comments
Spooky stuff!
1. About a week.
2. Scotch pie, chips and mushy peas.
3. 10:70:20.
4. Daily Reckless: http://www.dailyreckless.com How can you resist David Bowie farting and a song about Twin Peaks?
5. I’m on flexi. I have no need of sneakery.
1. How long did you read Song, by Toad before making your first comment?
2. Your Friday lunch.
3. Proportion of pointless admin to time wasting to actual work in your real job, as a percentage (eg: 40:27:33).
4. Suggest a funny website for people to waste their time on this afternoon.
5. What’s the earliest you’ve ever sneaked out of work without permission?
1. Hmm, not too long, really. About a month. A friday five came up which I had lots to say about and I thought, fuck it. Actually, it’s still probably the best post I’ve ever made on the site (not that it was particularly witty or insightful…)
2. Had pancakes and sausages today. I don’t work on Fridays, only four days a week. Life is good.
3. Oh God, best not to think about it. Probably 10/60/30
4. theinternetisterrible.com/
5. I work from home, so sneaking is unnecessary.
1. Don’t know, couple of weeks maybe..
2. My own special recipe mock dressed crab* on a brown sub roll with salad and thousand island dressing.
3. My job is mainly: wait ages for a screen to load, a few seconds of activity, wait ages for screen to submit. Rinse and repeat.
4. FHM 100 best online games is the FHM’s only redeaming characteristic. Another entertaining wheeze is to go on one of those websites that list all the free promotional samples currently available, and get loads of free shit sent to your mate at the next desk in work. Endless fun.
5. Tuesday.
* Shippam’s crab paste topped with shredded crabsticks. Yum
Well…here I am, de-lurked…and feeling rather exposed…with nothing but an electronic leaf dangling over my private thoughts. I do appologise for creeping in the shadows…I will say this: I’m am looking forward to the Foxx EP…you can bet that I will dip my boney fingers into that dusty piggy bank, to claim myself a copy…:)
T-Shirt!
Have you checked out the Smiley Frowns website? The opening section is fun in itself.
That really is rather stylish, isn’t it?
And, Mr. Smiley Frown, you have already broken the rules, for shame. Five before talking pish please. Tsk tsk tsk.
1. It was ages actually, because I had to wait for someone else to comment first, which was a long and most frustrating wait.
2. King’s Wark for lamb chunks in a garlic, pearl barley and game broth. Fucking lovely.
3. 6:32:62 on average. I am inconsistent though – sometimes manically efficient, sometimes totally useless.
4. http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/ Stupid things said by people on message boards and comment threads.
5. I think I hate all you flexi-time people. But then, in penance for your freedom you are denied the pleasure of the sneaky exit. I have managed about two and a half hours early on a couple of occasions, but that’s probably my record.
Although, scandalous disregard for the Friday Five rules notwithstanding, I can highly recommend the Smiles & Frowns music. You’ve all been paid recently, so you know what to do…
Oh I just figured out those numbers!
If I can interpret ‘pointless admin’ as waiting for screens to load then it might be something like 50:40:10
1. I’m pretty sure I commented early on, and I’ve been reading the blog since late 2006/early 2007 ‘cos I met you at the camera Obscura gig in March 2007…but no idea exactly when.
2. Cheese sandwich. Actually that’s my lunch most days if I’m having ti by myself…
3. 40:15:45 -way too much time trying to chase up stuff and people and getting frustrated when I actually went into teaching, to, y’know, teach?!
4. http://www.myspace.com/17secondsrecords – be nice if a few more people wanted to waste time there…
5. A couple of years ago I sneaked out of then teaching job-ostensibly to go home and work -when actually I was going off to Glasgow to interview Emma Pollock.
So Dylan, even though 50% of your day is taken up with daunting task of waiting for your screen to load you still spend almost that amount of time again fannying about, you’re an insperation.
A good friend of mine once told me to stick it to the man by working at half speed.
1. I don’t recall. I found S,bT by total accident — A very long time ago (probably very early on in the S,bT career) I was looking for a picture of a frog for a TWR promo flyer &, having poo-poo’d the ones I did find through Google, I started looking for toads. I was this far away from nicking the then Toad logo/drawing when I started to read the then posted article. No idea when I started commenting after that, but I think it was a month or so.
2. Because I am in the middle of a shit storm & arranging a meeting & a series of overseas trips I am unable to eat out today. So, I am having Monster Munch (Pickled Shit flavour) & a can of Dr. Pepper.
3. There’s very little pointless admin, unfortunately, in this place. We turn over admin assistants at a rate of 1 every 3 months because they can’t hack the amount of work they have to do. I am supposed to have an assistant, but I gave up that notion ages ago & do all the paperwork & data input & general admin myself now; quicker & far more efficiently done (if debilitating to the speed of completion of everything else I do). Time wasting only happens when I get hacked off, so the ratio, genuinely, looks something like 05:20:75. That’s not a reflection of salary gimp, just someone overly fucking busy.
4. http://www.listopia.co.uk/ — brought to you by a guy called Log, who invented/wrote the Law Of The Playground, disappointment.com & a whole host of other very funny pre-Charlie Brooker acerbic websites.
5. I once booked a trip to the States a week ahead of me actually needing to be there & bummed around going to bars & seeing bands live along the West coast while my office thought I was in a series of meetings. When it came to eventually do the work I was there for I rescheduled everything for two days rather than across a week & had my first morning meetings over in 15-30mins (scheduled for an hour), the afternoon meetings I diverted all to a bar for a prolonged lunch & beers, & the following day I canceled outright as we were all going to be in the same room in a months time in London anyway. For the rest of the week I took a ferry to Vancouver Island, Canada & Lorded it up smoking seriously good BC grass in a friend’s apartment, which overlooked the construction of Pamela Anderson’s newest high security shag pad (on land left to her Aunt). Does that count?
Although, scandalous disregard for the Friday Five rules notwithstanding, I can highly recommend the Smiles & Frowns music. You’ve all been paid recently, so you know what to do…
Good to see they have crept into your consciousness – I noticed you’d Twittered up with them
1. Hmmmm – about a month, six weeks, something like that? it was only after I’d told Matthew to his face that I was a lurker that I felt shamed into actually commenting …
2. Toasted ciabatta with mozzarella, tomato and home-grown basil. Get me.
3. I am newly redundant so I have ALL DAY to arse about! I have to admit I’m really enjoying it, in a guilt-stricken kind of a way.
4. http://mabelmoments.tumblr.com/post/184508118/absolutely-most-revolting-thing-of-the-day
I haven’t actually looked at any of the rest of the site, but got sent this today and thought it was fecking fantastic. Probably not for the squeamish …
5. I’ve been guilty of the site visit skive on occasion, but I’ve also phoned my boss more than once and said, “it’s half past four and I really can’t be arsed with any more of this today; I’m off for a gin. That OK with you?” It always was, too.
I guess I’m a rebel? In all fairness it was around 5am when I posted and I’m bound to a donut truck and an iPhone…just thought I would quickly show myself…thank you for the kind words
1. I think three or four weeks.
2. Soup and an apple. I had a mid-morning cheese scone that made me glad to be alive though.
3. 15:65:20 (last minute panic productivity gives the impression I actually do stuff)
4. Not technically a website but i do enjoy reading this guy on twitter http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays
5. I’m on flexi too. It is a far superior system of working.
1. About a month, I think.
2. Chicken and coleslaw sandwich. And some blueberries.
3. I don’t have a proper job. I’m a dedicated useless cunt(ie. student).
4. http://catsinsinks.com/
5. I don’t have a job! Somebody give me a job! Actually, don’t. Just the money will do.
So Dylan, even though 50% of your day is taken up with daunting task of waiting for your screen to load you still spend almost that amount of time again fannying about
No, no. Don’t be silly. I also fanny about while I’m waiting for screens to load.
Toasted ciabatta with mozzarella, tomato and home-grown basil. Get me.
Adolph Crosby’s going to love you, Cori!
I hope this works…
Bastarding youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9f-6jygRJk
This is possibly the funniest thing I’ve seen in my entire life.
Toad, I think you should ask Adolph Crosby to do a Sunday supplement.
He’s clearly a comic genius.
1. I think it was the first post I read, which included a men they couldn’t hang song, probably ghosts of cable street. It was a fairly early one, certainly before all of the redesign and personal url nonsense.
2. Cheese and pickle sandwich. Unless I was trying to be posy in which case it was a Keens cheddar and onion marmalade sandwich.
3. I’ve come to a worrying conclusion that a lot of the admin I have to do is actually quite useful. I know this is not the sort of thing you’re supposed to say, (perhaps especially as a teacher) but there you go. In the past I reckon the ratio would have been 20:60:20. Today it’s been 0:10:90.
4. http://www.thisiswhyyourefat.com
5. I once came into work fairly early, about 7.30am, decided I frankly couldn’t be arsed and left and went home again except I didn’t go home, I just generally hid places all day (the library, museum, cafe) to avoid the ‘just more work but different kinds’ that going home would have involved.
Now THAT, Bart, would be genius!
Adam – that site isn’t funny. That’s disturbing. Urgh. Though I am tempted to try a few of those things.
The Rubix Cubewich on page 5 is a work of complete genius.
Adam, I think you might be just about the oldest commenter still active, actually. I’m not sure when C&B started chipping in though.
Yes, only when it’s solved can it be eaten.
The Magical Rainbow Tower Of Dreams on page 8 is just a work of art.
I liked the look of the scrambled eggs served in a martini glass made of bacon!
1) well after a day sitting getting pissed at homegame 2008, some posh looking twat give me his card….with Song, by Toad written on it, my mate Bart goes ‘he is actually an all right guy you should check out the blog’ now Bart is seldom wrong so i checked it out and i think i commented on the first thing i read about a month later, i’ve just tried to find it, but the archive thing on here isn’t working!
2) Chicken salad, bottle of coke, strong coffee
3) 33-33-34
4) http://tinyurl.com/lw4f5a
5) Monday
Bart – Cancel the fucking what?
Coriander – i think i may be about to hurl
That’s frikin gross…
And Agnes – so funny! i could spend all day on that site!! But i can’t find the nudists…
I take it all back.
I was too scared to click to another page on Coriander’s site.
Sorry Shonagh – the clue was kind of in the title though! Did you read the commentary? It ends up replacing the fish’s tongue! And it works! And it looks soooooo pleased with itself …
Sorry, I’ll stop now.
1. I’ve never read Song, by Toad.
2. A pita filled with grilled veggies, hummus, and melted cheese. Dolmades on the side. Washed down with a V-8 Fusion.
3. 20:20:60. I’m conscientious to a fault, y’see.
4. FU Penguin. Hilarity. I’d include a link, but it might get caught up in the spam filter. Just google “FU Penguin.”
5. Once, when I was feeling very naughty, I went to the bathroom 5 minutes before quitting time and then left straight from there. That was awesome.
Actually, I think my first comment related to a post about some German censorship law.
1. Quite a while, 3 or 4 months maybe? I couldn’t resist the mouse brain foetus spoon post, but you have to check your audience before releasing that kind of info.
2. A really dry tune mayo sandwich from the WVRS in the hospital. Awful. I should never be too lazy to make lunch.
3. Depends on the day’s experimenting, but something like…10 (stupid radiation records):5:85
4. I can’t believe no one has mentioned this:
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
5. The joy of “writing” a PhD is sometime you don’t even have to turn up, because you’re “writing at home.” Yes.
wow! it’s been a busy day on the Toad!
1. Roughly about 9 months now, started reading after someone mentioned Meursault (I think they claimed they were “the electro Frightened Rabbit” or some pish like that) was really glad I stumbled upon here though.
2. Chicken & Sweetcorn baguette, it was pretty pretty good
3.It all feels like a waste to me
4. Gotta love the Brooker http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/charliebrooker
5. A rather impressive nine am, when I started at eight
EVERYONE has to watch this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp_PIjc2ga4
I’m sorry to interrupt but one of the wee radges I work with just turned round and said:
“The only thing about ma hangovers is ah get healthy bogies up mah nose”
Sorry for sharing.
Well, while we’re all wasting time…
All this dividing up our work time into categories reminded me of this:
http://graphjam.com/2008/06/11/song-chart-memes-reasons-to-whip-it/#more-1617
And here’s my favourite waste of time video (and it’s only 5 seconds long, so actually very efficient):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTO5yiN1b-I&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.feministe.us%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F01%2F10%2Fmonkey%2F&feature=player_embedded
Peenko, you Skive Guru!
I also very much like Fuck You, Penguin – good call C&B.
I’ve never seen Adolph spelt that way before.
I’m going to go and cry to a soundtrack of AJJ singing about low self esteem and lack of self worth now, because I thought ’spelt’ was a legitimate word, until the computer pointed out I was wrong.
1. About 5 minutes. I bookmarked it because the swearing was a novelty.
2. 3 fried eggs and 4 rashers of bacon all smished together and covered with copious amounts of ketchup. Mmmm.
3. 54:3 (I don’t remember how ratio’s work.)
4. Akinator? Euphemism generator (rubbish, but ‘waxing the snake’ made me laugh.
5. An hour or two?
Is spelt not an English spelling of spelled – a bit like learnt instead of learned. I’ve no idea if it’s legit or just slang though. Beware your computer’s predilection for the American dialect.
Dan – that monkey video is fucking genius.
I’m genuinely looking forward to Adolph’s thoughts on this week’s podcast. I am sorely tempted to get rip-roaringly drunk before recording it.
Did you see those links I left on the Ruthcast thread? Hang on, I’ll go get them…
Right, I’m back!
Here we go… There’s this one, this one and this one.
Phew!
This one doesn’t seem to have worked.
Let’s try This one instead.
Fuck it.
Five post mentalism – whoah…
I saw them. What on earth are you on about, you nutter?
Dylan what are you on about? What about those links?
No, no. That’s actually two perfectly normal posts followed by a barely significant little TPM.
Nothing to see here. Move along, move along.
1. about a week.
2. have not gotten to lunch time yet
3. 2:23:75
4. This one is not so much funny as it is fun to look at.
http://abduzeedo.com/
5. 11am to go play some golf
The only time golf rocks in the slightest is when someone has bunked off work that early for a sneaky game.
And Dylan, five-post mentalism is five-post mentalism whatever way you cut it. That is borderline mental illness – go home man, you’re a danger to yourself.
golf is just as good as going out for an evening and in some ways better. Behold golf’s virtues…Both pubs and golf encourage drinking but in golf you can byob. There is never a line for the bathroom since the whole course qualifies as a urinal and if your a decent player you can win money from your friends and talk smack.
1. instantaneously and no, we’re not to speak of it again. NO, shut it. it’s OVER now. move on.
2. banana and disgusting snack bar with diet coke, i eat while working, no time for fussing about when there’s dogs in hand.
3. real job? hmm…. well, that’s complicated… so i’d say 99/1 but it’s inching up towards 98/2 lately
4. FU penguin has got to be it or else cute overload, that always helps on a bad day. of course the porn bloopers over on redtube go down easy after 5 as well.
5. gawd, i’m drawing a complete blank….
Becky, i’m so glad you delurked for that mouse fetus spoon thing
xoxo
And for fuck’s sake! The Smiles and Frowns are awesome, yay!!!
4. have fun with the vocal track from runnin with the devil
http://www.thetyser.com/
…and if you like awkward family photos try look at this fucking hipster
http://www.latfh.com/
Andrew has actually managed to make golf look seriously fucking cool. That’s a miracle in line with raising the bloody Titanic!
Tart, are you seriously saying that you’ve never ever sneaked away from work early? I find that almost impossible to believe. But yes, the mouse foetus brain spoon is possibly one of my proudest ever moments on the site. Becky, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Well only because I’ve ever only had two types of jobs: the kind where you literally clock I’m and out and are watched over as if you would steal every last sugar packet and stuff them in yer bra and sneak them home (thank goodness I was always blessedly bosoomed, even when poor and starving) or the kind where there’s no differentaition between work and non-work hours other than dismissing class before the bell rang, wheeee! or not reading those 400 pages tonight and watching Star Trek instead. See, you didn’t really want to know, did you?
1. It has been sidling into my conciousness for a good 6 months now, and my first comment was earlier this week.
2. I was on a train for thirteen hours today, so I had a range of chicken sandwiches and cheese and onion crisps every few hours.
3. 15:35:50 – substantially less this week, as next friday will be my last day.
4. Is the Pornolizer still going strong?
5. Probably 12:30. When I’ve left earlier I’ve had to suffer guilt pangs and have come back after a few hours.
i was in a band called the blessed bosoomed. tart needs a date.
YESS! At last, Smiley Boy!
Tart – Star Trek? Yesss!
“they are a criminally underrated band and everyone should like them more than they do”
amen to that! willy vlautin manages to write songs which are like carveresque ’short stories’
(see eg. the janitor, casino lights, incident at conklin creek) – just a wonderfully consistent, authentic band which gives the impression they well know the ‘true gritty americana’ of their songs
Why yes, Matthew, but only the original series.
Chris, indeed. If only because I’m currently standing up against the sound booth, waiting between sets, alone at a great club, on a Friday night of semi-decent live music, writing on Songly Toadstool!! And all this after being declared a free agent again too, pffft.
Are you in the Midwest, Chris, darlin? xoxo
<I.I’m currently standing up against the sound booth
Is that the same as sitting on the washing machine during the spin cycle?
Sorry, Tart declared a free agent? De-Chutnified?
Cough
Exactly. I wonder if she could perform that trick for us, too.
Yeah please!
OK, I just ordered a copy of The Fitzgerald. Willy Vlautin owes you big time.
Yes Tart, I am in the Midwest. And if you ever want to go to a tea-party rally or harass Democrats at town hall meetings give me a call darlin’- xoxo
Ohhh! Will do.
And no, boys, you have to have your back to the speakers for the washing machine effect. Have you never been to a concert before? Haha
and someone please give Tom something for that throat of his!
still m.chuffed, just not required to drag the prey back to the den anymore