Go, you chicken fat, go away!

You are one mean guy. I do not ever want to make you mad.

So did you ride in the rain?

Auntie McGee, don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

April - Nope. I tried to convince myself to do it, but the clouds look like the kind of clouds that are going to stick around all day.

Lazy. Just plain lazy, Burt.

You sure know how to build my self esteem up KristEn.

You're right to be aggresive toward mother nature. She knows all your plans for outdoors at all times and will not rest until she's foiled them all.

whip thain filkin? at most i think we should put him in the stocks; thain's a nice guy, and my whippin' arm is a bit sore...

Joe - she's a woman scorned.

Nevels - Plus he's best friends with Rattletrap now.

KP - There's no reason we need to be shackled by the strictures of the employee-employer relationship. Unless you're into that sort of thing. In which case, I got some shackles in the back. I'm just kidding. But seriously, I've got 'em.

STINK! I'd like to know where Mother Nature's ovarian cyst is and I'll kick her too!

Probably in her neck RAD. That's where mine is.

burt, the more i learn about you, the more interesting you are

all right then - watch out, she's getting a nice swift kick in the neck!!! I hope her neck doesn't lie in your 'neck' of the woods :)

Nevels - this is going to be more information than you'll want to know, but I'm going to tell you anyway. I had a cyst that grew on my neck a couple of years ago. My friend and I called it my ovarian cyst. So, I went to the doctor to have him remove it. He cut it open and started squeezing away. Oh my gosh, it stunk SO bad!

RAD - thanks for having my back. and my neck.

More information that you want to know, KP edition: I wonder if that is a full time job? "Cyst squeezer," that is. I am constantly picking at things. For example I have a scabbed up hand and elbow from a fall I took while running last week. I pick at it all.day.long. I think I would enjoy that profession.

It takes a special kind of person to be able to do that. My wife loves to squeeze pimples, and my sister-in-law has a fetish with pulling out my ear hair.

Oh, Burt, you crack me up.

We go snow and crazy wind, so quit your whining!

ha ha lol

i had to get the Inimitable Mother to try to cut a cyst off my back once, and even with her digging in my back and me in agony on a bed, she couldn't dig it out, so later i managed to squeeze it out through the hole she had made (she just hadn't made it quite big enough...)

what a fun thread

Why did I just read that whole thread? I think I'll go throw up now.

My goal in life is to make Nan throw up. This should do it. So after the doctor was done squeezing, he didn't sew it back up. He did what was called a reverse suture, I think. Basically, he rolled up a piece of gauze and left it in my neck. After a week I had to pull it out. This way, my neck could continue to weep out pus. So my wife pulled it out, and I went to go squeeze it. It looked like my neck had regurgitated pus. Have you ever squeezed a pimple and the stem of pus shoots out and stops? Magnify that by 100. That was 6 years ago. To this day I can still squeeze it and get small amounts of pus out. It still stinks, too.

I would totally squeeze it for you. Totally.

Go throw up some more, Nan.

sounds like a great stress reliever...

(off to lunch!)

KP, you're my new BFF.