The Listeners' Lounge™ - Snow Day Edition
March 21, 2008 11:25 AM EDT
(Updated: March 21, 2008 02:20 PM EDT)
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Ah, the glorious snow day! Probably the happiest mornings of any northern state childhood, these were days when we would hop out of bed early in order to glue our ears to good old 'CCO radio, listening raptly as the monotone announcer rambled through a seemingly interminable list of school closings. Pajama-clad, waiting, waiting with bated breath (seemingly for hours) through the crunch of Coco Puffs and slurping of milk, to finally hear those beautiful words you've been longing to hear...
Schooldistrict622NorthSt.PaulMaplewoodpublicandparochial...
Got memories of "snow days"? Put 'em here
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It's coming down
Snow pains on the motor veins
Keeps your business on the ground
It's coming down
Slow day for the teacher
And her wheels are spinning now
On account of winter, Mrs. Braintree
All the roads are closed
And the stores are loot for vagabonds
It's coming down
Go home!
It's coming down
Snow lays on the chainfields
There's a blessing on the ground
It's coming down
If your lanes are crammed with children
There's a blessing on your town
On a lucky Monday, Mrs. Braintree
All your lanes are waxen silver
And the stores are loot for vagabonds
It's coming down
Go home! Go home and take a snow day, Mrs. Braintree!
Mrs. Braintree, you're a chilly northern woman
Go home from yonder bus stop
Because there's a blessing on the ground
Mrs. Braintree, it is written
When the snows come over Dixie
All the roads are closed and the stores are loot for vagabonds.
It's coming down
Snow lays on the chainfields
There's a blessing on the ground
It's coming down
If your road's patrolled by children
There's no order to be found
On account of winter, Mrs. Braintree
All the roads are closed
And the stores are loot for vagabonds
It's coming down
Go home!
You know, as much as I loved "snow days" as a kid, I think the college ones were even better! My first two years were at St. Kate's, and my Sophomore year we had a terrific ice storm. Everything was coated in a 1/4 " thick sheath of ice, including the sidewalks and roads. My roommates and I just sat in our 4th floor dorm room overlooking the central square of campus, drank hot chocolate & peppermint schnapps, and watched the people slipping and sliding on the sidewalks below. Good times.
I swear, our schools hardly EVER closed. He'd name off school after school, then skip over mine. It was awful. I can count on one hand how many times my school closed on account of snow.
It wasn't fair!
*stomps foot, sticks out lower lip
Sadly, as an adult they don't have the same magic. Anyone having hot chocolate right now?
I have to sit down today and write about what happened at the wildlife center last night. I'm still laughing a little. That's the best part of working with animals - you never know what you're gonna find when you open the door to a ward. Always expect the unexpected.
Luxury.
YOU had a car...we had to walk everywhere, uphill, both ways.
Anyone having hot chocolate right now?
Diet Sierra Mist here - Vietnamese food at 12:30 though...chicken curry FTW!
Onie, I like the Trip Shakespeare!
A 2-foot snowfall won't prevent a determined group of male college students, however, from making it to the neighborhood liquor store (about 6 blocks away) on foot. We had one heck of a party that afternoon!
Putting a CA native in Illinois was a bad idea as far as the weather was concerned. I'd spend the first ten years of my life in an area where the high temperatures ranged from the mid 40s in the depth of winter to an occasional sweltering day in the low 80s in midsummer. I'd never seen ice that didn't come from a refrigerator. :)
Hi Jack! Hi Nippy! Hi Bug! So nice of you to join me in the lounge today. [sips chai]. I just got out of my p.j.s and into comfy clothes a little while ago.
Bug, snow days aren't meant to cramp your style. They're meant to be enjoyed! On the other hand, I guess I can see how they might have a negative impact on a music-loving dung beetle's day.
Just do it. If anyone questions you, tell them to "get bent."
Yeah, I'm at work too...PLUS, Spring break started today for my District...
[SOMEONE has to mine the salt]
i was looking forward to allergies
Onie, salt is overrated. (Except on eggs)
/plops down to sit crosslegged
Yes, Bug. That much is certain. I mean, they wouldn't be dung balls if they were made out of strawberry jam, now would they?
Glad to see you, Auntie. You deserve more snow days.
Sea salt rules.
*shuddered* Whew, glad you're outta that.
Heyy...I just woke up. We have a U holiday today so no work for me! I call it "Not Good Friday" because they usually give us GOod Friday off, but can't call it that because of PC, but I'll take it anyway.
Any why is it called "Good Friday" when Jeebus died on the cross in agony? Doesn't seem like he had a very Good Friday.
UofM Duluth doesn't close and UofM TC doesn't close come hell or high water. Dammit
"Dung balls!
He likes to roll dung balls
Turning crap to works of a art
Roll them
From feces and not phlegm
Push on till you form that orb!"
When class finally let out, we discovered we were locked in the building. The university had declared a snow emergency and closed, but no one thought to look for us in the basement. We wandered around 'til we (thankfully) found a janitor, who let us out. I was RILLY irritated to have wasted part of a Snow Day listening to that doofus lecture us.
I trudged home (uphill, of course) and my roomie and I threw a chili and beer party that evening. Good times, good times!
Civilization is SF, Oakland, and Berkeley with some enclaves in Palo Alto. I wish I lived in a more civilized area but it's cheaper here. We also have an amazing assortment of Really Big Big Box Stores close at hand. :)
"I have eight different bosses right now...So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled; that, and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired."
The February I moved to Maryland from Wisconsin there occurred one of those two inch "blizzards" that I later learned completely paralyze most urban areas south of the Mason-Dixon line. People were out in the snow taking pictures as though it was a tourist attraction. I could not relate.
Frick, HOW many times have I asked you not to do that? Um, nice "Curious George" jammies [snicker]. But please go find the top and put it on. After all, the lounge is a public place!
Hi Melinda! Good to see you! Hi Lyndon! Thanks for stopping by the lounge with your memories. You know, we had a huge blizzard here in MN that same year, might have been the same mega-storm. My parents have photos of us kids in the back yard with my dad, several shovels, 4-foot drifts and an ginormous 6-foot snowman we constructed.
( Boy, it's pretty bad driving out there.)
Oink, oink oink oink...
I LOVE SNOW! In July, in September, in November in March, I LOVE snow! Ha!
I've shoveled twice and smiled like a maniac both times.
I was even present at MTU when they canceled school due to snow for the second time in 78 years.
No hooky here, strict vacation day. So far spent goofing off doing things like soldering my own gee-tar patch cables instead of spend $ on them. :-D
I thought that was "Escaped prisoner and the warden's wife?"
Hey guys! Look who I ran into on the way over here...
And Bumbles BOUNCE!
( I can do a pretty mean Hermey imitation...as well as other various cartoon/Muppet voices)
It's not fair!
*stomps foot, juts out lower lip
Stevie shows everyone a spy shot of Zelda & Onie from last night on the Lounge sofa.......
The secret is the Teamsters (tm). They are the union our factory people are represented by. So, when they negotiate a contract even the nerds like me occasionally benefit.
Even weirder fact. The MN locations are one of the very few that get it off. The only other ones I know of are the Florida plants. I think they've got the Teamsters (tm) too.
As Bart would say, "I didn't do it."
On another note, did anyone see "Joanie" on Celebrity fit club? I'd say she looks like trailer trash, but I don't want to offend the trailer trash by lumping them in with her.
Geez...
Now, stop that snorgling, you two! This is a family thread!
(mostly)
My usual Lounge "attire":
My goodness, it's chilly in here. You guys really should be wearing shirts.
Tee hee hee hee!
Someone entertain me! I command it!
Someone entertain me! I command it!
How about some tunes?
Godless = Tenola™!!
Or else!
Zelda, I'm working on a wonderfully entertaining animal tale just for you (well, Julia, too), but you must have patience! Genius cannot be rushed!
Ah, Ann Coulter's theme song...
Girls, kept you real to me goin, whom you received me
Therefore white I not that which kept doin in the
Yeah, you real to me now you me thus received, tilt I sleep
Yeah received at night you me really, now, whom you received me
Therefore white I not that which kept
OH- in real doin, now yeah, you me now you me thus received
Tilt I sleep you received at night me
Whom real you kept me
You me kept real really seeing you
Do not release you me at all
Who would like to always be I by your lateral
Girl you received me really , now you me received
Therefore I tilt sleep
*autoharp solo*
and Jazz Hands!!!
Zelda (Veruca Salt) Pie
*claps hands
Auggie! Yay!!!
[Holds hands behind back]
The Bad Waitress
"Genius cannot be rushed!" Alllllllllll-right. *nudges toe into carpet*
Miracle Bread was Wonder Bread
Don't spend it all in one place, kid. Now scram, and do that homework like auntie says, or you'll get what for!
Apparently a FOX News morning anchor walked off the stage due to his cohort's "Obama-bashing"
Apparently some of the folks over at Faux News can't stomach the crap they face everyday...good on them.
The times they are a changing.
/Threadjack
That boy never DID appreciate me!
Now where's my fruit roll-up?