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Re: the evil twin knows
« Reply #50 on: August 01, 2013, 08:37:12 PM »
We play the genteel game here.

I'll bet we play it better attired and more skillfully than they do in Connecticut.
Not when you're nine years old you don't.  :whistling:
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Re: the evil twin knows
« Reply #51 on: August 01, 2013, 08:39:47 PM »
Not when you're nine years old you don't.  :whistling:
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We used to play that game all the time in the garden...and we didn't show any mercy either, as we were a harsh bunch. a piece of advice, never play croquet barefoot!! :thatsright:
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Re: the evil twin knows
« Reply #52 on: August 01, 2013, 08:40:38 PM »
We used to play that game all the time in the garden...and we didn't show any mercy either, as we were a harsh bunch. a piece of advice, never play croquet barefoot!! :thatsright:

<<<when franksolich plays croquet, franksolich even wears the appropriate socks.
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Re: the evil twin knows
« Reply #53 on: August 01, 2013, 08:45:37 PM »
Swiped off of google; this is not franksolich.


Essentially, that's the proper attire for croquet (males), but usually I've worn just a plain all-cotton white shirt, no tie.

Lemme go and look for the proper croquet attire for femmes, so I can see how it compares with what women wear around here.
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Milo Yiannopoulos "It has been obvious since 2016 that Trump carries an anointing of some kind. My American friends, are you so blind to reason, and deaf to Heaven? Can he do all this, and cannot get a crown? This man is your King. Coronate him, and watch every devil shriek, and every demon howl."

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Re: the evil twin knows
« Reply #54 on: August 01, 2013, 08:50:03 PM »
We used to play that game all the time in the garden...and we didn't show any mercy either, as we were a harsh bunch. a piece of advice, never play croquet barefoot!! :thatsright:
I didn't know you from Nebraska.  :fuelfire:
Swiped off of google; this is not franksolich.


Essentially, that's the proper attire for croquet (males), but usually I've worn just a plain all-cotton white shirt, no tie.

Lemme go and look for the proper croquet attire for femmes, so I can see how it compares with what women wear around here.
That was for the "well off" sods that lived upwind of the feed lot.
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Re: the evil twin knows
« Reply #55 on: August 01, 2013, 08:55:34 PM »
Swiped off of google; this is not franksolich.


Essentially, that's the proper attire for croquet (males), but usually I've worn just a plain all-cotton white shirt, no tie.

Lemme go and look for the proper croquet attire for femmes, so I can see how it compares with what women wear around here.

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Re: the evil twin knows
« Reply #56 on: August 01, 2013, 09:00:28 PM »
google images aren't as good as I thought they'd be; the selections, I mean.



^^^no self-respecting woman playing croquet in Nebraska would be caught dead dressed like that



^^^a little bit too too much; would be okay in Nebraska, but considered a little bit too too much



^^^still a little bit too much, but generally women in Nebraska wear something like this when playing croquet, although the more radical ones wear white shorts, not white skirts



^^^what the wife of the retired banker looks like playing croquet, excepting she's thinner and richer, and wears a floppy white hat

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Re: the evil twin knows
« Reply #57 on: August 01, 2013, 09:01:43 PM »
Where is your straw boater? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

Hey, I found some great photographs of your Country Club over there on the other side of the Sandhills.

I may want to see it this September, when I go home.
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Re: the evil twin knows
« Reply #58 on: August 01, 2013, 09:03:50 PM »
We play the genteel game here.

I'll bet we play it better attired and more skillfully than they do in Connecticut.
The dense swarms of screeching democrats would make croquet very difficult in Connecticut. Some loud, rude neighbor's foot would always be obstructing the next wicket.

In the East Coast hellhole, croquet, like golf, is reserved to the country clubs of the elite, where a smattering of decent and civilized people may be found.




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Re: the evil twin knows
« Reply #59 on: August 01, 2013, 09:12:03 PM »
This is dutch508's County Club, on the other side of the Sandhills from me:


I kid you not; yes it really is.


This is the sixteenth hole; it's an eighteen hole course.
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Re: the evil twin knows
« Reply #60 on: August 02, 2013, 07:28:41 AM »
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is reserved to the country clubs of the elite, where a smattering of decent and civilized people may be found.


Or maybe not.  You'd have to look pretty hard.  For example, Greenwich CT contains some of the biggest assholes, jerks, self-important blowhards, and abusive snobs that you've ever seen. 

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Re: the evil twin knows
« Reply #61 on: August 02, 2013, 07:36:56 AM »
Or maybe not.  You'd have to look pretty hard.  For example, Greenwich CT contains some of the biggest assholes, jerks, self-important blowhards, and abusive snobs that you've ever seen.  

Hmmmm.

Things must've changed.

When Henry R. and Clare Boothe Luce lived in Greenwich, no way would they've tolerated such conduct.

I'm guessing the calibre of people there went steeply downhill as the area changed from red to blue.
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Re: the evil twin knows
« Reply #62 on: August 02, 2013, 07:49:14 AM »
This is from a never-posted short story of mine, about my adventures living in Pennsylvania and New Jersey; it's an excerpt only.

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One day that same early autumn [this was 1981], Aunt Jay announced we were going to Maine, with the ancient physician and his wife.  I did not want to go to Maine, but as it seemed important to Aunt Jay, who was more frail than ever, I agreed, but hoped I could weasel out of it somehow.

I did, too.  The Italianate physician owned a seaside home near Old Saybrook, Connecticut; I’d been there a few times by then.  It had shelves and shelves of bound copies of old Journals of the American Medical Association; not for reference, but for appearance.  There was a lot of history in these old magazines, and I’d always wanted to read them.

There were going to be renovations made on this place while the owners were in Maine.

They, really, should have somebody around, to keep an eye on things.

It was an eminently practical solution--I could get Aunt Jay to Springfield--and then could stay there.

And so I spent eleven days in that seaside home, blissfully alone most of the time.  I did find that those solitary Rose Kennedy-like strolls on foggy mornings on the beach, while probably therapeutic for many, did nothing for me.  There were of course television, radio, stereo, whatnot, but those were of no use for me.  I spent mostly all my time reading the old Journals.

The one weekend I was there, however, I got introduced to the New England prep-school yuppie crowd, when some children and grandchildren of the physician came down to use the place.  They were from Boston, Cambridge, Andover, and many were at or near my own age.

They were perfect guests; they knew why I was there, and tried not to intrude.

They did however one time insist I join them sailing, which I did for a whole afternoon.  It was okay.  And then another time, they insisted I join them in a cookout, which I did.  It was okay.  Being from Nebraska, I was a specimen of humanity they’d never seen before, and I was responsible for giving them a good impression of us.

They were all very nice people, but I thought somewhat shallow and hedonistic.
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Re: the evil twin knows
« Reply #63 on: August 02, 2013, 09:43:22 AM »
They were all very nice people, but I thought somewhat shallow and hedonistic.

But then of course, most people on vacation exhibit more of that side of themselves than one sees from them in their everyday lives.
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Re: the evil twin knows
« Reply #64 on: August 02, 2013, 08:11:40 PM »
<<<when franksolich plays croquet, franksolich even wears the appropriate socks.

Croquet was often played when I was growing up. That is when kids had fun outside with friends and family, rather then playing video games in their bedrooms all day.

I'm no city kid.

We also played yard jarts, the original versions with the sharp pointy tips. No one lost an eye.


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Re: the evil twin knows
« Reply #65 on: August 03, 2013, 11:38:06 AM »
Croquet was often played when I was growing up. That is when kids had fun outside with friends and family, rather then playing video games in their bedrooms all day.

I'm no city kid.

We also played yard jarts, the original versions with the sharp pointy tips. No one lost an eye.



When I sold my first camper back in the late '70s I let the Jarts set go with it.  And have regretted it ever since.    :hammer:  Who knew they would ban them?

And yes, once upon a time kids played all sort of games out doors.  Without adult supervision or referees or anything for protective gear.  How did we ever survive?   :rotf:  Sandlot football without pads.  Pick up base ball without batting helmets or catcher's mask.  Hockey ?  Ok, so maybe someone lost a tooth or two or got frostbite.
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Re: the evil twin knows
« Reply #66 on: August 03, 2013, 08:01:25 PM »
I played all those crazy games, rode bicycles without helmets, and I turned out ok.


























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Re: the evil twin knows
« Reply #67 on: August 03, 2013, 08:19:28 PM »
I played all those crazy games, rode bicycles without helmets, and I turned out ok.
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Re: the evil twin knows
« Reply #68 on: August 03, 2013, 08:30:54 PM »
I am not a registered libtard, so there ya go!!
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« Reply #69 on: August 04, 2013, 01:54:11 AM »
When I sold my first camper back in the late '70s I let the Jarts set go with it.  And have regretted it ever since.    :hammer:  Who knew they would ban them?

And yes, once upon a time kids played all sort of games out doors.  Without adult supervision or referees or anything for protective gear.  How did we ever survive?   :rotf:  Sandlot football without pads.  Pick up base ball without batting helmets or catcher's mask.  Hockey ?  Ok, so maybe someone lost a tooth or two or got frostbite.

I think one set of our yard jarts came with the pop up camper my parents purchased in 1975. We used to take the camper to WI on weekends and once in a while the Wisconsin Dells. I remember a Jellystone Campground. I was young.

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Re: the evil twin knows
« Reply #70 on: August 04, 2013, 05:11:50 AM »
One of my cousins managed to nail his sister with a Jart, in the foot, about 30-35 years ago.  He's now a libertarian; she's now a raving moonbat.
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« Reply #71 on: August 06, 2013, 08:21:09 AM »
When I sold my first camper back in the late '70s I let the Jarts set go with it.  And have regretted it ever since.    :hammer:  Who knew they would ban them?

And yes, once upon a time kids played all sort of games out doors.  Without adult supervision or referees or anything for protective gear.  How did we ever survive?   :rotf:  Sandlot football without pads.  Pick up base ball without batting helmets or catcher's mask.  Hockey ?  Ok, so maybe someone lost a tooth or two or got frostbite.

All that and then some. Rode horses and cows, hunted snakes, went rambling through the countryside, went fishing up and down the creeks, frog gigging around ponds .....when younger, a rock, a stick, some blocks of wood, some dirt and we were happy outside.

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Re: the evil twin knows
« Reply #72 on: August 06, 2013, 08:30:19 AM »
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Re: the evil twin knows
« Reply #73 on: August 06, 2013, 08:36:46 AM »
One of my cousins managed to nail his sister with a Jart, in the foot, about 30-35 years ago.  He's now a libertarian; she's now a raving moonbat.

I guess there's an amusingly twisted logic to that!

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« Reply #74 on: August 06, 2013, 11:46:41 AM »
I'm sure Wal Mart is watching DU to get the latest in advice from some ass that can't even run his own life let alone a multi billion dollar business.
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