What I learned today

“in a canoe, on a dirty river, with hardly any scenery, when it's too hot to not swim, with someone who's paddling against you the whole time, with no beer.”

“and don't forget the sunscreen. can you say fried”

“That is soooo crazy! On our canoe trip LeSubtil kept on talking about what he learned today. Mostly it was about how Tarabul didn't paddle enough, lol. (We got off the river Monday)”

“When I saw this thread title I though it was you poking fun!


Today I learned that the guy at the pool store knows more about pools than I do.”

“Josh you better be ready for I.Royal!

8P”

“working on gettin my credit limit increased right now.

hi, my name is josh and i'm a hikeaholic.
(im gettin another name on this trip)”

“I can help you with that!

8P”

“Don't eat the green things in spicy Thai food! =8^0”

“GREEN? naw try the yellow ones :}”

“I learned that if you secretly get the bartender to put water in your shotglass everytime the Saudi businessman order a round of Vodka shooters, you can "outdrink" them by 9PM.”

“Sissy.”

“FG, I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that my liver would have shut down if I had drank as much as they did.”

“what i learned today.

not to yell at a guy next to me in his car for throwing his trash out the window unless my husband is with me.. he got out of his car and throw it into my car.. i havent gotten that pissed at someone in a very long time. i saw red i was that pissed!!!

note to self... find him and kick the living #&%!$ out of him!!!”

“nothing yet”

“You meet the nicest people in the big city... <SMILES>”

“What jmitch said!”

“When you see that big bear in the woods that is keeping his distance, use your zoom or your buddies will call it a picture of an armadillo.”

“Wild Flower, try picking it up and handing it to him with a sweet smile and a gentle "You dropped this sir; you know this is my neighborhood". They just look stunned and take it from you, lol.

The two times I've done this I was fuming on the inside and who knows, maybe they took their trash back because they saw the fire in my eyes or because they were just bewildered? =)”

“wilflower, I was sitting at a red light and this young punk started throwing bags, rappers, cig packages and all other stuff right besidehim at the light.

So I hopped out starting picking everything up while giving him the worst glare.

I went back to my truck through the garbage out, looked back and that son of a gun through more trash out while laughing his ars off!!

Well then I picked up the cell phone, sat through a green arrow, called the police, got out picked up the rest .

I jumped in the truck I saw that the cop was pulling up behind him and then he began looking for more trash and through it out right in front of the cop.

I laughed so hard got out put the trash in his back seat said hay to the cop and drove off!!!

It was awesome!! You should of seen the face on that kid!!!!!!”

“through the garbage out-in my truck”

“Now THAT is a classic.”

“I learned...

Paddle to paddle, and eat one handful of gorp at a time.

Peace and wisdom,
SP”

“Threw! He THREW the garbage! One goes "through" a door. Okay, enough for the English lesson. Sorry, I just couldn't help myself:-/”

“yup, Imnot much on grammer, or spelling unless I try!”

“I LEANED

that i should not tell the guy that the girl he was trying to pick up is really a guy (i work in greenwich village)because he didnt think it was funny

as i laughed my way back to work!!!”

“wow
its all my fingers fault...
i have nothing to do with spelling.”

“You ruined his surprise!”

“I learned there`s some good in everyone.

I found out you can learn something from everyone,... even if it`s only to avoid doing like that person does.

I learned there`s times you have to stand your ground, even if everyone else turns tail and runs away.

I learned no matter how hard you try to run from a thing, you can`t run away from yourself.

I learned to like myself a little better and I found out that the first step in any direction is best started with a smile:)

Mostly I learned it`s best not to think to much about yourself, or worry long on the past and to just be ready to accept change when it happens and move along to the next thing to learn.

I learned life is very short and precious and time not well spent, is time lost.”

“that i turn into a little kid when i know that im going on a backpacking trip......”

“Now, if I could just learn to spell:(”

“Tell me it`s gonna be alright, that everything`s okay
and just in case someone asks me, tell me what to say
`cause my arms must be to short, the solution, I can`t reach `er
I`m just a student of life and hard knocks is, a nasty ol` teacher
at times, I wish I might and I wish I may
but the truth is, I haven` learned jack today”

“I learned that the deepest rivers flow with the least sound.”

“I learned that electric chairs use capacitors to store the electricity that they use. Therefore the lights in a prison do not dim down when the electric chair is activated.

I didn't learn anything happy today.”

“I learned that people who do not resist the urge to fight, wind up fighting!”

“Folks are generally good. Arclite, on the other hand......”

“I learned that you have to place a shim, a spacer, in between the Renishaw probe head shaft and the Apollo low force probe sensor or else the electrical connection will not be good and the darn probe will beat itself to death because it can't sense that it really did touch something. Only cost my employer $150 plus 4 hours of my time, which was wasted, for me to learn that. It was not in the manual for operation but it's in there now by gawd.”

“Before a dayhike today, during which my wife got us lost (ahem), we toured a farm in the Indiana Dunes, because they were having a maple syrup festival. They were collection sap and rendering it into syrup, and showing how the process has evolved since Native Americans first started the process.

A long way around to get to what I learned today. Maple syrup is only made on the North American Continent, because of the nature of the soil. Other continents don't have soil with the right compostition!”

“Cool!!! I considered going to that but Mike wont dayhike and I had to work earlier...oh well, maybe next year. did they give out free samples?”

“I know of a guy who made a beer out of maple sap in place of several pounds of malt. It tasted pretty good, with a woody finish.

I didn't know that about the soil. Cool!”

“I bet that beer was good!”

“hmmm I could use a beer....Ok, going to the fride now!”

“fride?”

“In Scandinavia and Russia they boil sap from the bircg tree to make sugar.”

“Bircg is Norwegian for birch.”

“Any idea what it tastes like?”

“chicken”

“Arg` nate Norsk Gremlin?


Cool.


8)”

“Huh?”

“George Burns used to tell the story of how people in Jack Benny's hometown of Waukeegan, Illinois honored him by naming a junior highschool after him. Jack went back for the ceremony and they had a presentation, planted a tree... the usual hullabaloo.

Unfortunately, a few years later the tree died. When Bob Hope heard about it he allegedly quipped --

"How can a tree live in Waukeegan when the sap is in Hollywood?"

<rimshot>”

“OMG


my washing machine is alive!!!

I came downstairs to put the wash into the dryer
and the washing machine was on the other side of the room


hmm think i put to much laundry in it?”