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Re: The Big Blue End of Year Clearance Challenge - ocalicreek - 10-29-2010
tetters Wrote:I have a decoder install I've been putting off for a while... but I'm going to put off until a couple weeks after Nov. 1
Don't even get me started as to when I'll get my thread started either...
Attaboy, tetters! That's the spirit!
Galen
Re: The Big Blue End of Year Clearance Challenge - P5se Camelback - 10-29-2010
When I clicked on "View New Posts" and saw this thread, I thought, "Oh, Cool! I wonder what this is all about?"
After reading through it and discovering I had already posted on it a couple times, I vaguely remember thinking to myself, "Aw, there's plenty of time ... I'll think about it later."
Yep! I think that's a good idea ... I'll think about it later.
Is it nap time yet?
Re: The Big Blue End of Year Clearance Challenge - rrinker - 11-01-2010
Well so much for my idea for an entry. I was at the Timonium show over the weekend and I picked up the decoder I needed. With regard to this loco, I fail at procrastination.
--Randy
Re: The Big Blue End of Year Clearance Challenge - RRManiac - 11-01-2010
MasonJar Wrote:ezdays Wrote:... this is a challenge of procrastinators...tetters Wrote:I'll continue to work on it until then.
You obviously did not read the rules...!
Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow...
Andrew
Can you say Popeye the Sailor Man *toot, toot*?
"I'll gladly work on a project tomorrow for some sleep today!" lol
Re: The Big Blue End of Year Clearance Challenge - P5se Camelback - 11-01-2010
I think it was the character Wimpy that always said, "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today."
Re: The Big Blue End of Year Clearance Challenge - RRManiac - 11-02-2010
Yeah that's it! lol
I had just mentioned Popeye as being the name of the show lol
It was "I'll gladly pay you a dollar for a hamburger today."
Re: The Big Blue End of Year Clearance Challenge - rrinker - 11-02-2010
I'd gladly pay you a dollar for a hamburger today too - since other than rotgut Mickey D's that's less than they cost msot places. Back when those cartoons where made, a burger cost a nickle. The first version is right - it's "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today"
Hey wait, today IS Tuesday....drat!
--Randy
Re: The Big Blue End of Year Clearance Challenge - P5se Camelback - 11-02-2010
Thanks, Randy ... I thought I was right.
My Mom used to refer to "Wimpy" and that phrase ... she was referring to reading the Popeye cartoon strip on the "Comics" page of the newspaper ... long before the cartoons we watched as kids or that now play on the Cartoon Network.
(She was a big Dick Tracy fan!)
Re: The Big Blue End of Year Clearance Challenge - BR60103 - 11-02-2010
Because of the character J. Wellington Wimpy, the Wellington aircraft in WW2 were ncknamed Wimpys.
There was also a restaurant chain in England called Wimpy (usually as "the Wimpy Bar").
Re: The Big Blue End of Year Clearance Challenge - tetters - 11-03-2010
Like true procrastinators, the subject of this thread has been completely thrown off topic in an effort to distract everyone from the contest goals. We've gone to talking about getting projects completed that we have all put off, to talking about Popeye The Sailor Man, to WWII aircraft and a restaurant chain about a supporting character from said cartoon!
I salute you all with a rubber mallet to da head!
Re: The Big Blue End of Year Clearance Challenge - ezdays - 11-03-2010
tetters Wrote:Like true procrastinators, the subject of this thread has been completely thrown off topic in an effort to distract everyone from the contest goals. We've gone to talking about getting projects completed that we have all put off, to talking about Popeye The Sailor Man, to WWII aircraft and a restaurant chain about a supporting character from said cartoon!It may seem as much, but you have to remember, distraction is a procrastinators best friend.
I salute you all with a rubber mallet to da head!
With that in mind, it would appear that those discussions are indeed "on topic"... 
What we need here is a wake-up call:
HEY, GET BUSY PEOPLE, THE CHALLENGE IS NOW IN PROCESS
How's that?????
Re: The Big Blue End of Year Clearance Challenge - tetters - 11-03-2010
Sorry Don... what was that? I wasn't listening. I'm currently distracted by some bright shiny object located a way off in the distance... :?
Re: The Big Blue End of Year Clearance Challenge - ezdays - 11-03-2010
tetters Wrote:Sorry Don... what was that? I wasn't listening. I'm currently distracted by some bright shiny object located a way off in the distance... :?Were those the same ones that I saw being investigated on one of those paranormal, "fact or fiction?" shows? I think they definitely proved that what you saw was just a kid's mylar balloon that got away. Ya gotta stop walking around with your head up in the sky, you can see how it affects your hearing. :o Beside, it takes your attention away from that project you started to working on again a few days ago. Uh, you did start a project for this challenge, didn't you...
Re: The Big Blue End of Year Clearance Challenge - tetters - 11-03-2010
ezdays Wrote:Beside, it takes your attention away from that project you started to working on again a few days ago. Uh, you did start a project for this challenge, didn't you...
Huh? Wha? What challenge?
Re: The Big Blue End of Year Clearance Challenge - nachoman - 12-31-2010
Hmm, does the challenge close midnight tonight, or midnight tomorrow?
