primitive's getting a refrigerator for Christmas

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=236x81721

Oh my.

In a search for something new and different and exciting, I went to the "North Dakota" and "job-hunting" forums on Skins's island, but there was nothing there but cobwebs, so I went back to the cooking and baking forum.

NMDemDist2  (1000+ posts)        Tue Nov-09-10 06:37 PM
Original message
 
seems i'm getting a fridge for Xmas

I think i've landed on this one, i have a width consideration, so this is about as big as it will go without redoing the breakfast bar top/tile

i want a bottom freezer, and i really like the 'deli drawer' on the bottom under the crispers

http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_04676202000P?p...

Hmmmm.

Now, if hippywife Mrs. Alfred Packer did Christmas, hippyhubby Wild Bill would probably be out right now looking at chest deep-freezers.  But Mrs. Alfred Packer doesn't do Christmas.

Tesha  (1000+ posts)      Tue Nov-09-10 06:46 PM
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1. Pretty nice giftie!
 
All that space where you use it most!  Well done!

NMDemDist2  (1000+ posts)        Tue Nov-09-10 06:49 PM
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2. he got tired of the cussing and screaming from the kitchen when i knocked myself silly (again!!!) on the freezer handle of the current box.

yeah yeah, i should back up further, but i'm down so low digging out veggies, i forget sometimes..... more often now that i've left several knots on my noggin

Lugnut  (1000+ posts)        Thu Nov-11-10 01:46 AM
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6. OMG!

I do that all the time and have knots on my head to prove it.

We're severely limited in avalable height in our kitchen so we've had very few models from which to choose. We had to settle for a traditional top freezer, bottom fridge when we replaced the old harvest gold clunker almost two years ago. I love the new fridge for it's energy savings but I still bean myself on the freezer handle.

I hope you enjoy your new bottom freezer.

Warpy  (1000+ posts)        Tue Nov-09-10 11:35 PM
THE DEFROCKED WARPED PRIMITIVE, #09 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
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5. That looks like the one I'm thinking about as soon as the 1970 side by side POS finally dies. Kenmore is a good brand. I had a looong conversation with the appliance guy at Home Depot a couple of days ago about complaint sites online. He was steering people away from LG and to Lowe's for a brand HD didn't sell if they were looking for a specific design LG had but Maytag didn't. He's probably not going to last long at his job, but he said he's outta there as soon as another repair job opens up, much rather fix em than sell em.

My dream is the bottom freezer and I'd like to get rid of the slime drawers in the bottom of the fridge section. Mostly, I want to get rid of the side by side. It SUCKS.

[Karin]

How often do you have to hit your head on the same place, again and again and again, before you learn to adjust your movements? 

[JohnnyReb]

Winter time...broke DUmmie...power bill due...who needs a fridge?

[LC EFA]

How often do you have to hit your head on the same place, again and again and again, before you learn to adjust your movements? 

This is something probably best determined in a laboratory with a few selected DU test subjects and a mallet.

[Randy]

How often do you have to hit your head on the same place, again and again and again, before you learn to adjust your movements? 

Nope, to stupid to do that. I'm tall and have never been stupid enough to try and stand up while I'm still inside the fridge. In 50+ years I've never ever hit my head on one.

I'm thinking that if they'd like maybe close the door to the freezer before they duck into the fridge it may help somewhat....but I know that's some wildly radical thinking. 

[true_blood]

How often do you have to hit your head on the same place, again and again and again, before you learn to adjust your movements? 

If you're a DUmmie,....never.

[Ballygrl]

Hmmmm.

Now, if hippywife Mrs. Alfred Packer did Christmas, hippyhubby Wild Bill would probably be out right now looking at chest deep-freezers.  But Mrs. Alfred Packer doesn't do Christmas.

They don't do Christmas? is that for Religious reasons? or because they want to make a statement?

[franksolich]

They don't do Christmas? is that for Religious reasons? or because they want to make a statement?

Mrs. Alfred Packer loves Christmas--as it was celebrated in her home in urban Ohio; the Midnight Mass, a large choir, candles and incense, the kindly priest blessing the congregation; the color, the pageantry, the glory of Christmas.

But then she married hippyhubby Wild Bill, who's a real curmudgeon and misanthrope.

I dunno what Wild Bill has against Christmas; maybe it interferes with his still-making business down there in northeastern Oklahoma.

You're going to think I'm kidding, madam, but this was actually posted here last Christmas--Mrs. Alfred Packer and Wild Bill spend Christmas Day listening to a "talking book" from National Public Radio; some gay guy who has a regular show on that network.

Wild Bill must be illiterate, because we know he's not blind, and the only people who listen to "talking books" are either blind or illiterate.

[Tess Anderson]

They don't even celebrate Yule/the Winter Sostice?

I like the OP's choice of refridgerators, btw - side- by-sides are too narrow for me. What the moonbat has there is called a "French" refridgerator. I have one of those, despite that perjorative name, but with two doors on the top. Measuring space before purchasing could help with the hitting of the heads they seem to be prone to experience with appliances.

[franksolich]

They don't even celebrate Yule/the Winter Sostice?

Nope, nope, not at all.

The hippyhubby Wild Bill, being of such a negative temperament, won't have anything to do with any sort of "celebration," or happy occasion.

[true_blood]

You're going to think I'm kidding, madam, but this was actually posted here last Christmas--Mrs. Alfred Packer and Wild Bill spend Christmas Day listening to a "talking book" from National Public Radio; some gay guy who has a regular show on that network.

[Ballygrl]

Mrs. Alfred Packer loves Christmas--as it was celebrated in her home in urban Ohio; the Midnight Mass, a large choir, candles and incense, the kindly priest blessing the congregation; the color, the pageantry, the glory of Christmas.

But then she married hippyhubby Wild Bill, who's a real curmudgeon and misanthrope.

I dunno what Wild Bill has against Christmas; maybe it interferes with his still-making business down there in northeastern Oklahoma.

You're going to think I'm kidding, madam, but this was actually posted here last Christmas--Mrs. Alfred Packer and Wild Bill spend Christmas Day listening to a "talking book" from National Public Radio; some gay guy who has a regular show on that network.

Wild Bill must be illiterate, because we know he's not blind, and the only people who listen to "talking books" are either blind or illiterate.

That's sad when someone infringes upon others happiness.

BTW Frank you're a good storyteller, everytime you go into details I can actually visualize what you're saying and it always holds my interest.

[Ballygrl]

They don't even celebrate Yule/the Winter Sostice?

I like the OP's choice of refridgerators, btw - side- by-sides are too narrow for me. What the moonbat has there is called a "French" refridgerator. I have one of those, despite that perjorative name, but with two doors on the top. Measuring space before purchasing could help with the hitting of the heads they seem to be prone to experience with appliances.

Is there less space though when the freezer is on the bottom? I always look at appliances when we go to Home Depot and for some reason it seems much smaller and harder to organize.

[true_blood]

BTW Frank you're a good storyteller, everytime you go into details I can actually visualize what you're saying and it always holds my interest.

I agree on that. Frank does have a great way of describing people, especially those DUmmies.

[Ballygrl]

I agree on that. Frank does have a great way of describing people, especially those DUmmies.

Yep!

[Tess Anderson]

He (this Wild Bill character) sounds like a keeper to me, if total marital misery is the goal.

Bally, yes, there is less space in a French refridgerator - mine has this pull-out drawer that goes deep, but it's still less space than a side-by-side both with the refridgerator and freezer. Unless you're having problems storing pizza boxes, big casserole pans, or something else bulky, side by sides are better.

I agree on that. Frank does have a great way of describing people, especially those DUmmies.

and giving out those annual awards proves he can make some tough choices.

[franksolich]

BTW Frank you're a good storyteller, everytime you go into details I can actually visualize what you're saying and it always holds my interest.

You overflatter overmuch, madam.

There's a lot of great writing talent right here in the DUmpster, some worthy of literary awards.

I've always said that when I get around to winning the Powerball lottery, I want to produce a Broadway musical comedy about Skins's island, and to do that, I'd hire Freeper as the "idea man," P-J Comix to write the script, and delilahmused to synchronize it.  They all have mountains of talent.

Freeper's description of the primitives wielding torches and pitchforks--one of the very early posts when conservativecave was just getting underway--remains a delightful classic.  He probably forgot he wrote it, but franksolich recalls it with colorful clarity.

On my own part, since Mrs. Alfred Packer seems to have been forbidden by Wild Bill to hang around Skins's island, I've lost interest in writing that War and Peace-length sex novel, and gone on to something else; I'm writing "Mrs. Alfred Packer does Christmas."

The deal is, in between the nominations for the TOP PRIMITIVES OF (year), and the final counting of the votes, it's kind of a dead period for me, just before Christmas, and the creative juices are flowing.....with nowhere to flow.

So this year I'm going to present "Mrs. Alfred Packer does Christmas."  It might sound suspiciously like last year's story, "Christmas at Grandma's" (this was when Mrs. Alfred Packer was still Grandma, rather than Mrs. Alfred Packer), but it's going to be new and different--and there's a Chinaman involved in it.  It will however, as it inevitably must, have the same explosive ending.

[true_blood]

So this year I'm going to present "Mrs. Alfred Packer does Christmas."  It might sound suspiciously like last year's story, "Christmas at Grandma's" (this was when Mrs. Alfred Packer was still Grandma, rather than Mrs. Alfred Packer), but it's going to be new and different--and there's a Chinaman involved in it.  It will however, as it inevitably must, have the same explosive ending.

Sounds interesting.

[Ballygrl]

I've always said that when I get around to winning the Powerball lottery, I want to produce a Broadway musical comedy about Skins's island, and to do that, I'd hire Freeper as the "idea man," P-J Comix to write the script, and delilahmused to synchronize it.  They all have mountains of talent.

OMG! what an awesome idea!

Freeper's description of the primitives wielding torches and pitchforks--one of the very early posts when conservativecave was just getting underway--remains a delightful classic.  He probably forgot he wrote it, but franksolich recalls it with colorful clarity.

On my own part, since Mrs. Alfred Packer seems to have been forbidden by Wild Bill to hang around Skins's island, I've lost interest in writing that War and Peace-length sex novel, and gone on to something else; I'm writing "Mrs. Alfred Packer does Christmas."

The deal is, in between the nominations for the TOP PRIMITIVES OF (year), and the final counting of the votes, it's kind of a dead period for me, just before Christmas, and the creative juices are flowing.....with nowhere to flow.

So this year I'm going to present "Mrs. Alfred Packer does Christmas."  It might sound suspiciously like last year's story, "Christmas at Grandma's" (this was when Mrs. Alfred Packer was still Grandma, rather than Mrs. Alfred Packer), but it's going to be new and different--and there's a Chinaman involved in it.  It will however, as it inevitably must, have the same explosive ending.

[franksolich]

OMG! what an awesome idea!

December's the very best month of the year to be in the DUmpster, madam.

It's great, it's awesome.

First, sometime after Thanksgiving, we have our esteemed colleague Mr. Wiggum and franksolich soliciting nominations for the TOP DUmmies OF (year), during which time much hilarity ensues.

And then after nominations are closed (usually the end of the first week of December), the voting starts.

Voting goes on for about ten days, after which Mr. Wiggum disappears behind the curtain to tally it all up.

While Mr. Wiggum is counting the votes, franksolich has nothing to do but twiddle his fingers--excepting last year, I managed to carry on a platonic romance with Tangerine LaBamba from Skins's island, and jam in a couple of stories about the lives of prominent primitives.

After Mr. Wiggum is done, he "feeds" me the winners, one at a time, beginning with #20 TOP DUmmie OF (year); after I finish one piece, he gives me the next primitive, in ascending order.  This goes all the way until the grand prize, the TOP DUmmie OF (year).

It was just as much a surprise to franksolich, as it was to everybody else, when the "greenbriar" primitive took top honors last year; I had no idea myself who the winner was, until Mr. Wiggum fed it to me ten minutes before it was to be posted.

This happens between Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.

December's a great time to hang around the DUmpster.

[true_blood]

^^HA HA! I love it. I look forward to it.