Thats my mothers family.
They really did not live up to their names. hehehe
New Wassail!! All join in!!
It is Coffman , I do know that some of my family came from Belgian and my mom's mom came from Denmark and I have two Native American in there and the rest is a puzzle.
I think my Pagan tendencies come from my long line of Celts.
Hey, nobody answered if being a good fit for Berkeley is an insult or not.
Gee if you joined you could be Jolly-Coffins!
I'm into fens...
LOL
You wouldn't think it to be....lol well, maybe a little -it's pagan in a different, hippy kinda way.
huh?
To you know that Amazon.com carries books about family names by Ancestry.com I think I am going to order the one on my family.
Yeah, I heard it was sort of hippie. I don't think I'm hippie. But I am into the environment and recycling and sustainability and all that jazz. And I read Mother Earth and I'm a Sierra Club member. Does that make me a prime Berkeley candidate?
Let's have our winter solstice celebration in a fen then. Oh, wait, we haven't got one around here. Where is Dahlianut? Maybe she has a peat bog.
We have peat bogs here--they catch fire in the summer and burn for eons. But it really isn't very Pagan in the Central Valley.
As for Berkeley--as an Alumni I would be insulting you if I said you would fit in well there. You are not dour and self-righteous enough. And it is very, very congested. I think we should take a trip to Yorkshire and reestablish the fens instead.
Oh, I didn't know you went there! Dour and self-righteous? No, that is not me. I don't like congested. I thought it was sort of provincial and lovely and everybody wore Birkenstocks and chatted with strangers on the corner. Although i would love to eat at Chez Panisse, just once.
uhh....uhh....
Laying Eggs, laying Eggs, Laying eggs all day,
oh what fun it is to see all the eggs they've laid for me-EE!
Laying eggs, laying Eggs, Laying eggs all day,
oh what fun it is to see all the eggs they've laid for me-EE!
Going to the barn,
to find some cozy hay,
fluff my little feathers,
a nest I'll make today!
There'll be no pokey pieces,
no rude old roster-oos,
just me inside the barn alone
with my nest of many eggs,
HEY,
Laying Eggs, laying Eggs, Laying eggs all day,
oh what fun it is to see all the eggs they've laid for me-EE!
Laying eggs, laying Eggs, Laying eggs all day,
oh what fun it is to see all the eggs they've laid for me-EE!
I did, just once. It was nice--endive salad with goat cheese.
The homeless people can be pretty chatty...I was once chased across campus by one. He had long dirty hair, a matted beard, wore an old ripped flannel shirt and smelled awful. I'm still not entirely sure if he was homeless or a tenured professor.
I love Advisrian's carol!
Well done Advisrian. Just jump right in and hope they do not run over you.
Oh Advisrian! An excellent contribution indeed! Keep it up! We are always in need of good lyricists!
Catscan, yer crackin' me up. Tenured professors.....oh they can be a handful. What kind of goat milk did they use for the cheese I wonder. Hmmmmm
wonderful rendition Advisarian!!! Love it!
Commendable Advisrian!!Love it, not sure I can stay on track though!!
Sounds a bit like the Harvard of the West -had pizza just off campus (Harvard) there once and a homeless cum professor sort came begging for the last piece. I went to school in Eugene, Or. (the resident wannabe nudist that moved in to my co-op was a Harvard professor by-product) It's hippier and dippier than Berkley. Good science schools though. You could check out the Fighting Banana Slugs if you want to get really hippy and dippy....
I love Banana Slugs! They were the Golden Chalice of my childhood.
Some one make up a song about Banana Slugs! Please!
No way Grownut! Really - all of you have resided in these places I have contemplated. I was told I would be a good fit in Eugene too, but I am not a nudist. At all. Invitrogen is there. At least I think that was the job. I'm not a hippy but I might be dippy.
You might really enjoy it. As I said, the sciences were really good as I recall -(banana slugs are UC Santa Cruz, btw -Eugene was the Ducks, much more auspicious.) Harvard Byproduct Man (HBM) merely didn't believe in taking clothes to and from the shower when he didn't need them in it. He neglected to take into consideration the traumatic affect he had on others, parading around in all his gory, and I DO mean gory. Very much like the first humanids in Anthropology 101... like this guy but with a little less facial hair and a little more belly....
Cats -surely there's a fight song for UC Santa Cruz?
Sorry Forgot to add HBM!
You just made me snort....I never snort, it's not ladylike....HBM....snort!
You would have snorted in self defense had you seen it live...He really was very like the above pic.
We had the Naked Guy in Berkeley...he was a student that walked all over campus dressed only in a backpack. I saw him several times--once in the underground parking garage. Actually he looked pretty good--short, fit and tan all over. I
So was the University OK with that or was he repeatedly in trouble?
And what exactly do you mean by "short" ? (ROTFLMBO)
Oh, man. We just had the proud Neanderthal(HBM)...encouraging chastity as frequently as he showered which wasn't daily!
Ok, all I found the perfect Christmas song for us -but really!! Do you think it needs any modification?!
I broke my bat on Johnny's head;
Somebody snitched on me.
I hid a frog in sister's bed;
Somebody snitched on me.
I spilled some ink on Mommy's rug;
I made Tommy eat a bug;
Bought some gum with a penny slug;
Somebody snitched on me.
Oh, I'm gettin' nuttin' for Christmas
Mommy and Daddy are mad.
I'm getting nuttin' for Christmas
'Cause I ain't been nuttin' but bad.
I put a tack on teacher's chair
somebody snitched on me.
I tied a knot in Susie's hair
somebody snitched on me.
I did a dance on Mommy's plants
climbed a tree and tore my pants
Filled the sugar bowl with ants
somebody snitched on me.
So, I'm gettin' nuttin' for Christmas
Mommy and Daddy are mad.
I'm gettin' nuttin' for Christmas
'Cause I ain't been nuttin' but bad.
I won't be seeing Santa Claus;
Somebody snitched on me.
He won't come visit me because
Somebody snitched on me.
Next year I'll be going straight;
Next year I'll be good, just wait
I'd start now, but it's too late;
Somebody snitched on me.
So you better be good whatever you do
'Cause if you're bad, I'm warning you,
You'll get nuttin' for Christmas.
It's perfect as is!!
LOVE it! Perhaps we could throw a chicken or two at it!
But its great either way. hehehe
I remember that one!
Does any one know the classic "Never Hit Your Granny with a Shovel?"
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No, mine got ran over by a reindeer.
Rough crowd yer runnin' with Cats, but I'll look it up...
This it?
Never hit your granny with a shovel,
It leaves a bad impression on her mind,
In some other way impart, all the love that's in your heart,
And remember that she may retort in kind.
--It is rather singularly lacking in Christmas spirit...but it's not all bad, I guess
(accidentally posted this on Fla_chiks thread woooops!)
♪♪♪ Chicken poop roasting on an open fire
Makes good compost for the beds
Yuletide hooch going down like iced tea
and Jack Frost nipping at your head.
Everybody knows speckled eggs and mistletoe
Help to make the season bright
Tiny peepers with their eyes all aglow
Will find it hard to nestle tonight.
They know that a hatching is on the way
To pipp and peep and swarm another day
And every hatcher's bater soon is going to show
A fluffy new born baby don't you know.
And so I'm offering this simple phrase
For hatchlings, yearlings and roos too
Although its been said many times, many ways
Happy Fluffer Days to you.
Catscan your granny got nailed with a snow shovel too? What a koinkidink!
My granny is tougher than your granny, sewincircle:
"Never hit your granny with a shovel.
You never know if she'll reply in kind.
Never hit your granny with a shovel.
Take better aim and use a rock next time."
There must be more verses. Does anyone know them?
And then there is the superlative (and more relevant) Tom Lehrer's "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" which I learned as a lisping 4 year old.
(It is a parody--so don't worry about how awful it is)
Spring is here, a-suh-puh-ring is here.
Life is skittles and life is beer.
I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring.
I do, don't you? 'Course you do.
But there's one thing that makes spring complete for me,
And makes ev'ry Sunday a treat for me.
All the world seems in tune
On a spring afternoon,
When we're poisoning pigeons in the park.
Ev'ry Sunday you'll see
My sweetheart and me,
As we poison the pigeons in the park.
When they see us coming, the birdies all try an' hide,
But they still go for peanuts when coated with cyanide.
The sun's shining bright,
Ev'rything seems all right,
When we're poisoning pigeons in the park.
Lalaalaalalaladoodiedieedoodoodoo
We've gained notoriety,
And caused much anxiety
In the Audubon Society
With our games.
They call it impiety,
And lack of propriety,
And quite a variety
Of unpleasant names.
But it's not against any religion
To want to dispose of a pigeon.
So if Sunday you're free,
Why don't you come with me,
And we'll poison the pigeons in the park.
And maybe we'll do
In a squirrel or two,
While we're poisoning pigeons in the park.
We'll murder them{ all }amid laughter and merriment.
Except for the few we take home to experiment.
My pulse will be quickenin'
With each drop of strychnine
We feed to a pigeon.
It just takes a smidgen!
To poison a pigeon in the park.
Now a lovelier, fluffier thought there never was...I feel even less inclined to wait for February to start hatching...
I'll have a blue(wooOoOooOo)Christmas(wooOoOooOo)
Without youuuuuu
I'll be so blue(wooOoOooOo)thinking(wooOoOooOo)
About youuuuuu
Eggs of green, pink and brown
In a cozy 'bator warm
Pipping. And Zipping
While I'm here all alone
I'll have a blue(wooOoOooOo)Christmas(wooOoOooOo)
That's certain.
And when that ol'(wooOoOooOo)hatch fever(wooOoOooOo)
Starts hurtin'
You'll be doin' alright
-Chickies fluffy and bright-
But I'll have a blue, blu-uuuuue Christmas
Well isn't that totally heart warming? (snort). Where is wildbird officer Wren? LMBO ^_^ ps I really like the doing the squirrels part. Will it work on Spawn of Satan Tree Rats?