<p>Typical guys’ thread- no conversation for days, except by women. Come on guys, we want to lurk…</p>
<p>OK, men. We’ve been called out by the women folk for not posting recently. Somebody has had to do some manly thing over the past few days. Hunting, fishing, building another addition to the house, single-handedly saving a child from a burning building; something!</p>
<p>OK, I admit it, not much going on here either, it’s been a slow Summer. Besides keeping up with the yard work, nothing much manly going on.</p>
<p>But I do make the call out again – Anyone interested in forming a Fantasy Football league?</p>
<p>Oh, yeah. Before I forget. another round of whiskey over here, barkeep.</p>
<p>Here’s to the men who spent the better part of the past month fighting the wrath of Mother Nature in the California forests. Dirt, grime, heat, thirst, exhaustion; all a days work when you’re putting out wild fires. This round is on me…</p>
<p>mom23, I can back a trailer, even with the boat on it!! I do find it incredibly easier to do it when I can look over my shoulder, don’t even have to think about how to make adjustments. When I cannot see out the rearview mirror and have to face forward I get kinda dyslexic about which way to turn the wheel to make the trailer go where I want! Sometimes I need to turn around for just a sec, looking over my shoulder, even when I cannot see, just so I can instinctively turn the right way- guess i am a girly backer upper 
But I can do it, even with other boats on the ramp.</p>
<p>I’m up for the fantasy football league! In my family league last year, I had the insane result of having the most total points, but not going to the playoffs. (All girls in my division, and we were definitely the class of the league - just killed each other off). </p>
<p>I can back a big trailer - horse trailer, camping trailer, whatever, but for the life of me cannot back the tiny little trailer on the back of the garden tractor. I just put the darn thing in neutral and push it backwards. My H just laughs. He can back the stupid thing wherever he wants.</p>
<p>Hmm… manly stuff. I built the boys a play fort (sort of a manly clubhouse on stilts) about 8 years ago. I built it out of Western Red Cedar so that it wouldn’t rot, and the kids wouldn’t be playing on pressure-treated lumber. This last weekend, I disassembled the fort so that I can recycle the cedar into a table, benches and planters for the new decks. This means that instead of hacking it into bits with the Sawzall, I had to carefully remove every screw and nail, and extract about 50 1/2-inch galvanized bolts. (I have no idea why I used 1/2-inch instead of 3/8, but I now have about 20 pounds of slightly-rusty galvanized fasteners.) </p>
<p>I don’t know if carefully disassembling it and recycling the lumber is manly, or if it would have been MORE manly to hack it to bits and then take it to the landfill. Or, preferably, save it for three months and then burn it in the fall?</p>
<p>My H killed a big disgusting bug for me the other night, without sighing or rolling his eyes. That was pretty manly, I think.</p>
<p>I think taking it apart and then reusing it to make something useful is very manly!!</p>
<p>I must be a man in disguise based on what constitutes being one here. Sigh, I consider my H much more of a man for all of his other, unlisted qualities (and I don’t mean s…). Still want an opinion on the Python lumberjack.</p>
<p>I’m thinking that the Monty Python lumberjacks, men who cut down trees and press wild flowers, would not fit too well in the Man Cave. </p>
<p>However, their movies (“Monty Python and the Holy Grail”, “Lfe of Brian”, and “The Meaning of Life”) are ones we play all the time in the Cave (along with the list of movies mentioned pages ago). In fact, most guys I know are able to quote tons of lines from the movies (“Wafer thin mint?” “We are the Nights who say, “Nee””, “I’m Brian, and so is my wife”), if not entire scenes word for word.</p>
<p>Hey all - it’s time to raise the glasses of 1995 Krug Clos Ambonnay Champagne to toast the life of wonderful CC’er “LATE TO SCHOOL” who lost her valiant battle.</p>
<p>{{{Here…here!!}}}</p>
<p>Always willing to turn the lights back on in the Cave to toast someone who has shown bravery in the face of something terrible for over a year.</p>
<p>Barkeep, break out the Lagavulin. Champagne won’t do, this calls for the Single Malt. </p>
<p>To LTS, Godspeed on the next journey…</p>
<p>Hello (looo…, loo…, lo)</p>
<p>Just passin’ through, remembering good times…</p>
<p>Place seems dusty. Need to get the cobwebs off of the Moose-head-on-the-wall’s antlers.</p>
<p>Anyone interested in hoisting a few again? I promise, the Cave will remain a politics-discussion-free zone (except for Tuesday night, where we’ll all toast the winner (whomever it is) and wish him the best. </p>
<p>Any manly stories out there???</p>
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<p>How about Deer Park? The only difference is the plastic bottle.</p>
<p>It’s a mile-long bar. You name it, either we got it on one of the hundreds of taps here, all we’ll order it…</p>
<p>I have a guy’s perfect week set up. </p>
<p>Today: college football served with beer
Monday Night: Steelers-Redskins w/no work Tuesday served w/beer
Work Wednesday
Thursday: Off. Going to Md-Va. Tech game Thursday night (beer again)
Friday: Off
Saturday: Tennessee-Wyoming game (more beer)</p>
<p>Wharfrat, an auspious week. Totally forgot that I can stay up to watch the entire game on Monday and do it the proper way (with a beer in one hand, the Tivo remote in the other (for my own version of instant replay; they never instant-replay the cheer-leaders, and in super slo-mo. Thank goodness for modern technology), and a big plate of wings in the table next to me.)</p>
<p>BTW, who you rooting for Thursday night (say’s this Terp grad and die-hard fan…)</p>
<p>Bullet. I’m a Terp grad and season ticket holder. Never a question as to who I’m rooting for. </p>
<p>“The only cure for Fridge Fever is a trip to Garyland.”</p>
<p>Just moved back to the area, and eldest son just started his freshmen year there got on camera in the student section during the Cal game). Proudest moment of the last few weeks was when he started calling me in the middle of the game (just like I still do with My Dad over Giants and Yankee games). Father / son bonding at it’s finest, outside of dressing a deer or changing the oil on the car…</p>
<p>My son just started at Md. this semester too although he has an AA from our local community college. He landed himself a job as a manager for the football team. He’s having a blast needless to say.</p>
<p>Now, if can get a helmet for the Cave, his first round is free for a year (if he’s 21, of course. We believe in responsible drinking here in the Cave. Just lots of reponsible drinking…)</p>