<p>Note that P2N and LWFB are laying low, probably in filthy clothes, wondering if Thanksgiving might have something to do with the lunar calendar…</p>
<p>LOL on the polyester!!</p>
<p>Yeah. I lucked out. Old, venerable washer so deep I can only retrieve laundry in my Manolos. DH got sick of lost socks; now does all laundry. Of course we gave up on clothes that needed to be separated years ago; likewise for clothes needing ironing.</p>
<p>You can find us all in overalls sucking on pieces of straw.</p>
<p>Okay, I don’t have a bot. So I went hunting with my own two fingers and a few left-clicks.</p>
<p>P2N is very busy over on the FSU forum. I’m sure I don’t know how he can stay that close to the Alley without coming over, especially as his ears ought to be burning. LFWB, well… he’s been scarce since the summer. Maybe he joined LFWBson on the high seas.</p>
<p>You want more guys, turn this into a sports bar. Or paintball emporium. Or car customizer.</p>
<p>Oh, Red Sox pregame just starting!</p>
<p>I’ll be watching from the treadmill…</p>
<p>Jmmom,</p>
<p>Us guys check in here often but only speak when spoken to. “Still water run deep” and all.</p>
<p>And by the way, I can iron and cook some too.</p>
<p>LOL on the lunar calendar.</p>
<p>Sounds like we need to have a hoedown in our overalls.</p>
<p>Given the peanut shells and the laundry a-washin’ in the hot tub.</p>
<p>We really don’t have a treadmill in the Alley. We engineered the environment so that drinking virtual alcohol raises the pulse rate optimally.</p>
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You only need to tell us once, m&s. We’re that good.</p>
<p>btw, Pittsburgh is part of Red Sox Nation?</p>
<p>All right.</p>
<p>I have figured out how to refer to the dreaded c-word. From now on, they are theme parks.</p>
<p>Aluson and I visited Rice World in Houston this weekend. He liked it very much and it is up there with Six Flags over Penn and Princetonland in his list of favorite theme parks.</p>
<p>He liked the way everyone mixed it up - no self-segregation to be seen. Lack of a great roller coaster (basketball team) is true for all of the above theme parks. And the food at the Rice World theme park was great. Love the barbecue and upscale Mexican at Hugo’s. </p>
<p>In this kind of theme park the food court is as big as a city:).</p>
<p>Any way you look at it, Mom is up for a ride. Will it be bumper cars? The Drop Zone? Whirling Teacups?</p>
<p>Stay tuned.</p>
<p>And now, back to the hoedown. Are hoedowns allowed in Red Sox Nation? Did I ever tell you all I was born in Cambridge, Mass? Can I be an honorary member?</p>
<p>Jmmom,</p>
<p>Spent from 1967 (the Impossible Dream year) through my teen years on the No’th Showa of Boston. Then my early college years at Northeastern, until my parents realized they only saved enough for a year and a half of college, then again post college. </p>
<p>Was only after we were married that we moved to the 'burgh, for cost of living reasons. I have no regrets, except for 15 losing seasons with the Pirates. Beatiful stadium though…no poles.</p>
<p>Alum,</p>
<p>I would take the red line through Cambridge, “our fair city” to the Car Talk guys, every weekday from Somerville to work on one of the Wharfs near the North End (pre Big Dig). </p>
<p>Also, I think Red Sox fans dance to 60’s garage bands (a la “Dirty Water”) and Niel Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline”</p>
<p>I won’t say what age <em>I</em> was during the Impossible Dream season. Just that I had a little tiny eensy weensy crush on Jim Lonborg. Funny-car-talk-guy Tom (or was it Ray?) was on NPR this a.m. lamenting how Hahvahd Sq. just ain’t what it used to be. Well, duh. The apt. building I lived in on Mt. Auburn St. doesn’t even exist anymore. I doubt I could find my way around the New Harvard Square with GPS.</p>
<p>Anyway, we are all one, Alu… whatever decade you graced Harvard Square, then that is good enough for Red Sox Nation.</p>
<p>Alumother, you made me laugh out loud with your discussion of theme parks. Loud!</p>
<p>Speaking of theme parks, my son is on the baseball ride becoming a Red Sox Fan. Sure, bail on Yankees now that they’re in real trouble. I wonder if I can talk to him this weekend. Hmmm.</p>
<p>How about microbeer for the boys? Maybe they’ll come over then. Wearing overalls.</p>
<p>Are you seeing what I’m seeing?
Becket puts down three hitters, then the Red Sox goes for a home run and a double!</p>
<p>edit:</p>
<p>AND ANOTHER RUN! Red Sox- 2 to nuttin.</p>
<p>A blow out for BoSox.</p>
<p>Last blow out I remember was in favor of the Yankees in game 1 of the 2004 World Series, and all Red Sox Nation remembers how that series turned out (Mythmom too, sadly.)</p>
<p>RSN be humble. It is still just one game.</p>
<p>Don’t forget Joan Jett, they definitely dance to Pat Benatar and Joan Jett!</p>
<p>867-5309</p>
<p>m&sdad: Thanks for the sympathy. Have a beer on me.</p>
<p>JMmom said: “I won’t say what age <em>I</em> was during the Impossible Dream season.”</p>
<p>I will. I was six for most of it. We moved here from England that summer. Just celebrated my birthday in the past couple of days. No angst. Maybe it’s because the AARP years are still a few away. </p>
<p>I am in better shape now than any time in the past five years, maybe in all my fourties. I splurged: had a cupcake with a heap of buttercream frosting.</p>
<p>W and S got me a card with an Ogden Nash quote along the lines of “you may not be young forever, but you can be immature for your whole life.” D called from school. All in all, a good birthday.</p>
<p>Happy Belated Birthday m&sdad!!</p>
<p>Marmots come out and sing you on your way.</p>
<p>Lovin’ the Alley’s incarnation as a sports bar:).</p>
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<p>needs a few big screens and a bucket of greasy buffalo wings</p>
<p>^^^
Onion rings, too!</p>
<p>Yes more buckets, so Sybbie can have hers back.</p>
<p>m&s, happpy bd from sb!</p>