Non-football related stuff that really makes your day

[Panoptes]

Congratulations to both AE and SB.

Best of health wishes go out to the expectant mother and bun in the oven.

[DanO]

Congrats AE and Sharky.

[Angeleyes]

Congratulations! Is this your first grandchild? November? Another Scorpio in the world! :-)

Yes this will be my first grandchild. Sharkbait has his, so I guess one of my kids thought it was time for me to get with the grandparent stage. :-D

Congratulations! November birthdays are the best!

I know, I have a lot of family members within this month, including mine.

Nice work, Gonz!

And good luck with all your finals & the scrapbook, AE!

Finals are done and aced all of them. Made the Deans list (4.0) again.
The scrapbook got done on time. Looked pretty darn good to me.

[DanO]

Good job AE.

[Marko69]

I found out today, after my daughters doctors appointment, that I am going to become a grandma. Estimated date of arrival is mid November.

AWESOME! Being a grandparent is indeed brilliant. Me and my granddaughter were out feeding the ducks yesterday. Well, I say feeding the ducks,..... The ducks were watching HER eat the bread.

I echo Panoptes words, good health to all.

[Angeleyes]

AWESOME! Being a grandparent is indeed brilliant. Me and my granddaughter were out feeding the ducks yesterday. Well, I say feeding the ducks,..... The ducks were watching HER eat the bread.

I echo Panoptes words, good health to all.

So you let her eat old, stale, expired bread? lol At least that is what I fed the ducks when I did it.

So far the health is pretty good. She does have a small bit of morning sickness. (With all 4 of mine, I never had 1 bit of this morning sickness crap). :-D

[Malto Marko]

Way to go AE!!!!

[Marko69]

So you let her eat old, stale, expired bread? lol At least that is what I fed the ducks when I did it.

So far the health is pretty good. She does have a small bit of morning sickness. (With all 4 of mine, I never had 1 bit of this morning sickness crap). :-D

Not at all. I bought the bread en route to the duck pond. Only the best for these ducks!

My ex wife had no morning sickness with the two boys......, but my daughter killed her with it for easily 5 months. Annoying her mother was something that she restarted in her teenage years!

[LionsFanInJapan]

Good stuff, AE!

[Angeleyes]

Thanks guys. By what I hear, I have at least 1 hard course coming up and then right after that I have the 5 classes (2 or 3 are to be hard ones also; I have no life). Won't get on here at all so I will say everything in advance; congrats, sorry to hear that, happy birthday, etc., etc. Will be back in the future. :/

[Marko69]

You guys will most likely witness some awesome graffiti over there in the States......, On the continent here, Naples etc, some of the graffiti is awesome.

But check this out. I love it.

[Marko69]

I just opened the thread and started typing.... didn't see Angeleyes post. Take care, AE, all the best with those classes.

[DanO]

LOL Marko.

[Tony G]

“Yooper” To Be Added To The Dictionary

March 24, 2014 5:29 PM

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ESCANABA, Mich. (WWJ) – It took more than 10 years to make it happen, but a man from Escanaba in the Upper Peninsula has finally convinced the people from Merriam-Webster to include the word “yooper” in their dictionary.
The new edition of the dictionary will come out in April, with yooper — which is derived from the initials U.P. — defined as “A native or resident of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.”
Steve Parks of Escanaba told WWJ Newradio 950′s Rob Mason how the push began.
“I was playing Scrabble with a friend, and he called me out on the word yooper, and to my amazement he was absolutely correct — it wasn’t in the dictionary,” Parks said. “And so I began this quest to make it happen.”
Through letters and conversations, Parks says he built a relationship with a woman from the dictionary company; and when she started to believe that yooper belonged, Parks began a full-court press to try to prove that it’s not just a local expression.
“Along the way I communicated with her, sent her everything that I could find with yooper on it: chocolate bars, magnets for her refrigerator,” he said. “It was just my yooper way of telling her that I appreciated her work and she was being a proponent of yooper.”
Parks said his decade-long effort can be described in these terms: “Strong work ethic, integrity, resilience — all the things that yoopers are.”
Representatives from Merriam-Webster plan to visit the U.P. August to see what being a yooper is all about.
As for how he should be rewarded for his efforts, Park joked, “When the Upper Peninsula becomes the fifty-first state, I expect that I’m going to be the governor.”

[Malto Marko]

Ha!

I was doing a google search for a cute picture to use with a marketing promotion I am working on. I call it my doghouse delay bouquet.

Look what I found........