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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: Ralph Wiggum on August 24, 2008, 02:15:25 AM

Title: Frank Solich, your attention please
Post by: Ralph Wiggum on August 24, 2008, 02:15:25 AM
Sent you a PM a few weeks ago, but no response.

I'll be in your area Labor Day weekend.  I'm looking forward to meeting the mysterious Mr. Solich.  I'll even bring cigarettes, since you usually have to drive to town to get them.  :-) :-)
Title: Re: Frank Solich, your attention please
Post by: asdf2231 on August 24, 2008, 05:41:15 PM
You guys could wack some balls off of the William Rivers Pitt.

You will have to bring your own of course because as everyone knows the William Rivers Pitt has no balls of it's own.  :-)
Title: Re: Frank Solich, your attention please
Post by: franksolich on August 24, 2008, 06:23:14 PM
Sent you a PM a few weeks ago, but no response.

I'll be in your area Labor Day weekend.  I'm looking forward to meeting the mysterious Mr. Solich.  I'll even bring cigarettes, since you usually have to drive to town to get them.  :-) :-)

I just found it, Mr. Wiggum, sir.

It appears you sent it on "one of those days," and got overlooked.

I'll respond via personal message, because I don't want Fat Che to get any ideas about doing a double, offing two birds with one stone.

As for BadCat's comment, according to the weather map, within a hundred-mile radius of the big city, where Mr. Wiggum's going to be, there's 17 golf courses.  I know this counters the usual image of Nebraskans, but apparently Nebraskans play golf, per capita, more than most other states.  I have no idea why.
Title: Re: Frank Solich, your attention please
Post by: Chris_ on August 24, 2008, 06:26:31 PM
Sent you a PM a few weeks ago, but no response.

I'll be in your area Labor Day weekend.  I'm looking forward to meeting the mysterious Mr. Solich.  I'll even bring cigarettes, since you usually have to drive to town to get them.  :-) :-)

I just found it, Mr. Wiggum, sir.

It appears you sent it on "one of those days," and got overlooked.

I'll respond via personal message, because I don't want Fat Che to get any ideas about doing a double, offing two birds with one stone.

As for BadCat's comment, according to the weather map, within a hundred-mile radius of the big city, where Mr. Wiggum's going to be, there's 17 golf courses.  I know this counters the usual image of Nebraskans, but apparently Nebraskans play golf, per capita, more than most other states.  I have no idea why.

What the hell else is there to do? ;)

Wow Frank -- I get one PM a month, if that.  If you are overlooking PMs in the clatter/chatter, you are a rich man indeed... :)

ps: Do you golf?  I would think a deaf person would be a great golfer.
Title: Re: Frank Solich, your attention please
Post by: franksolich on August 24, 2008, 07:01:13 PM
What the hell else is there to do?

Well, I think the penetration of the William Rivers Pitt the week of July 15 was a spectacle for about a dozen people, better than a television show or a movie or rock concert, and that observations and accounts of it are going to warm many a fireside during the bleak winter, and for years to come, from Maryland (the soil scientist) and upstate New York (the prairie archaeologist) to southern California (the old guy's daughter and her sons, his grandsons), and possibly even to India, if the Hindu professor ever goes back there to visit.

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Wow Frank -- I get one PM a month, if that.  If you are overlooking PMs in the clatter/chatter, you are a rich man indeed...

It wasn't really any "volume," just that it was a bad day.

If it's a bad day, I figure, oh, okay, I'll look at it later.  No reflection, absolutely no reflection on the sender, because all messages are as if gold and diamonds to me, but sometimes one just has one of those days.

It was however a very good thing--thank God--that on Thursday-Friday of last week, I received a personal message from someone who's never sent me one before, and as it was a good day, I read it.

Excresence happens, and this is no reflection on our esteemed and valued colleague Mr. Wiggum, and I'm very sorry I didn't get back to him right away.

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ps: Do you golf?

No; the only time in my life I've ever trod on a golf course was when I was in college, and some roommates insisted I had to go along.  I didn't swing any clubs or anything, I just went along.  I lasted all 18 holes, but I was already drunk by the fifth hole. 

This isn't the way I am now, but in my salad days when I was green in judgement, a shallow callow youth, this was my standard operating procedure when having to go along with other people to do things I didn't want to do; getting blitzed (although not really causing problems for other people; I was what one calls a "mellow drunk"). 

I used to do that on fishing trips too, but fortunately such invitations stopped coming not because I drank, but because others finally understood, hey, franksolich never learned how to swim.....

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I would think a deaf person would be a great golfer.

Not really, because deafness also means a lack of balance, a lack of equilibrium, which is controlled by the inner ears of hearing people.

The sense of balance is purely intellectual, not instinctive.

The only time I ever shot a gun--an Italian pistol which professional firearms-owners consider "lousy," but it fitted my grip comfortably--hitting the target 26 out of 30 times--it demanded so much intense concentration on "balance" that I was, mentally, wiped out for a couple of days thereafter; the "I'm at here, but I'm not here" condition.
Title: Re: Frank Solich, your attention please
Post by: Chris_ on August 24, 2008, 07:11:39 PM
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I didn't swing any clubs or anything, I just went along.  I lasted all 18 holes, but I was already drunk by the fifth hole.

Frank, you are a golfer.

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This isn't the way I am now, but in my salad days when I was green in judgement, a shallow callow youth, this was my standard operating procedure when having to go along with other people to do things I didn't want to do; getting blitzed (although not really causing problems for other people; I was what one calls a "mellow drunk").
Frank you were a BORN golfer.

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The only time I ever shot a gun--an Italian pistol which professional firearms-owners consider "lousy," but it fitted my grip comfortably--hitting the target 26 out of 30 times--it demanded so much intense concentration on "balance" that I was, mentally, wiped out for a couple of days thereafter; the "I'm at here, but I'm not here" condition.

Frank, you are an INSTINCTIVE golfer!!!

But I am sure you and RW will have a great time. Quaff a beer for me my friends.
Title: Re: Frank Solich, your attention please
Post by: Schadenfreude on August 24, 2008, 07:12:41 PM
This is a party I would love to crash! Have fun guys.
Title: Re: Frank Solich, your attention please
Post by: Thor on August 24, 2008, 10:55:14 PM
If I recall my stats properly, MN has the most golf courses per capita than any other state. Go figure, they're frozen for half the year