From: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org (good-noise-digest) To: good-noise-digest@smoe.org Subject: good-noise-digest V4 #68 Reply-To: good-noise@smoe.org Sender: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk good-noise-digest Wednesday, April 4 2001 Volume 04 : Number 068 Today's Subjects: ----------------- A 1" crack [Togg4@gateway.net] Re: A 1" crack [SMOKEY596@aol.com] Re: A 1" crack [Togg4@gateway.net] Re: A 1" crack ["cycle12345" ] "Ignoranimous" ["cycle12345" ] Re: A 1" crack [Togg4@gateway.net] Re: "Ignoranimous" [Togg4@gateway.net] Re: "Ignoranimous" ["cycle12345" ] Re: "Ignoranimous" [Togg4@gateway.net] Questions [Togg4@gateway.net] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 19:51:12 EDT From: Togg4@gateway.net Subject: A 1" crack I was having one of "those" days today. I finally made it to the post office, after a ridiculous run around over nothing. I had my car window cracked about 1" as I was pulling into a spot. All of a sudden a bee flew in that 1" space and landed on the dash board. I thought of Smokey immediately as I squawked in terror. But, I pulled myself together, parked the car and escorted the bee out on the end of an envelope. I thought that it would just fly away when it felt the air, but noooooooo. So, I panicked again and put the envelope down on the top of someone else's car. I waited for it to take flight, but noooooo. After about 5 minutes of waiting and feeling a bit foolish, I gave the envelop a little shake and it flew off. Now I know that this isn't the most exciting story, but I thought that Smokey, our Queen B, would appreciate it and truly understand the courage that I exhibited on this ordinary day at the post office. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 20:45:49 EDT From: SMOKEY596@aol.com Subject: Re: A 1" crack Oh my gosh! Gina, you are so brave! I would have been out of the car with all of the doors open, hoping it would fly out on its own! Contrary to popular BEElief, I am not fond of these creatures at all! I'm glad that you made it out alive. Hey, I went to the post office today too! Luckily, it was a bee free trip. :-) SMOKEY "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"bG.W. Bush Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000B ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 21:08:25 EDT From: Togg4@gateway.net Subject: Re: A 1" crack Well Smokey, my first inclination was to get out of the car, which I did rather quickly after I parked. But, I thought through the opening all the windows and doors. I thought that if I lost track of the little guy, then I would be in fear of going back in the car. So, that is why I did the envelope thing. Fortunately it was a very calm bee and he just stepped right onto the envelope. I know someone who will not drive with her windows open because she is afraid that a bee will fly in. This is fine now, but she used to have a VW bug with no A/C. It is so hot here in L.A. and the car is always MUCH hotter. I don't know how she did it. We were also in an outside wedding together. She was obsessed about having to run away from a bee during the ceremony. We did okay though - no bees. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 21:26:52 -0400 From: "cycle12345" Subject: Re: A 1" crack Gina, your and SMOKEY's comments reminded me of my own "bee" story from many, many years ago . . . At age 17, I was a little late getting my driver's license and secured it then only in order to be "legal" to ride my first motorcycle. So, with very little initial interest in cars, I didn't learn to drive them very well. One day in the summer of 1967 I was driving my father's fairly new '65 Plymouth Belvedere through a residential area of Roanoke, Virginia when I noticed that there were a couple of yellow jackets walking along the car's dashboard directly in front of me. I rolled the windows all the way down, hoping that the moving air would carry the bees out, but it didn't work. Then I came up with a "brilliant" idea - turn on the car's defroster and get rid of them that way. So I turned the heater fan on high, then slid the lever over from heat to defrost, and those bees were blown . . . directly into my face just as I was approaching a turn in the road! I flinched and threw up my hand to swat away the bees, and the car continued going straight . . . into and over the curbing, knocking down three trees and returning to the road and striking the rear of a parked car before I could get it stopped. I was unhurt, but the car was not, and my father was quite angry, especially when I told him how the accident happened, a story which he did not believe. But my brother searched the car and found two dead yellow jackets in the back floorboard of it, at least corraborating my story. Regardless, it was quite a while before I was allowed to drive anything other than my little Yamaha Twin-Jet 100 motorcycle, which sort of sounded like a bee buzzing . . . Thanks, ladies! SteveB - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 8:45 PM Subject: Re: A 1" crack > Oh my gosh! Gina, you are so brave! I would have been out of the car with > all of the doors open, hoping it would fly out on its own! Contrary to > popular BEElief, I am not fond of these creatures at all! I'm glad that you > made it out alive. Hey, I went to the post office today too! Luckily, it > was a bee free trip. :-) > > SMOKEY > "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"bG.W. Bush > Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000B ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 21:48:18 -0400 From: "cycle12345" Subject: "Ignoranimous" That's me, especially when I spelled "corroborating" incorrectly in my little "bee" story . . . Alas; I still lack perfection after all these years! Spellchecker ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 22:40:48 EDT From: Togg4@gateway.net Subject: Re: A 1" crack Wow Steve, that's a traumatic bee story. It must have stung that your dad didn't believe you. When I was a little girl I leaned back onto a bee that was sitting on the seat back. It was not pleasant. And then once I stepped on one in my carpet when I was staggering to the bathroom early one morning. Talk about your rude awakenings! Gina ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 22:42:17 EDT From: Togg4@gateway.net Subject: Re: "Ignoranimous" In a message dated 4/3/01 8:49:39 PM Central Daylight Time, cycle12345@email.msn.com writes: << That's me, especially when I spelled "corroborating" incorrectly in my little "bee" story . . . >> You need a spelling bee :-) Gina ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 23:27:36 -0400 From: "cycle12345" Subject: Re: "Ignoranimous" Spelling Bbee?! Stung?! Very good, Gina! However, we've got to Bbee very careful with all these onlist Bbut offtopic discussions Bbeecause, when Sam-U-Am and I did this late at night a few weeks ago, we really got Bburned for it, right Sammy?! Bboy, did we ever learn our lesson the hard way. Of course, anyone who would play with BbumBbleBbees or go around poking sticks down yellow jacket nests is Bbound to get . . . into trouBle for it! SteveB > << That's me, especially when I spelled "corroborating" incorrectly in my > little "bee" story . . . > You need a spelling bee :-) > Gina ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 23:56:40 EDT From: Togg4@gateway.net Subject: Re: "Ignoranimous" In a message dated 4/3/01 10:31:32 PM Central Daylight Time, cycle12345@email.msn.com writes: << Bbeecause, when Sam-U-Am and I did this late at night a few weeks ago, we really got Bburned for it, right Sammy?! >> Honey, I have no idea what you're talking about. But, it sounds so terrible it's about to give me hives. And, all of these puns are making me drone, ummm, I mean groan. Gina ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 01:01:08 EDT From: Togg4@gateway.net Subject: Questions Is it true that the Christine Lavin song "Bumblebees" is about her relationship with John Gorka? What about "Waiting for the B Train?" Inquiring minds want to know. Gina ------------------------------ End of good-noise-digest V4 #68 *******************************