Fresh Undies for 2015

[tawnyfrog]

Happiest of New Year to all Undies and visiting Ovaries - may the new year bring you much joy and buckets of happiness.

Undies, just to let you know, my presence here will now be somewhat sporadic. I'm having a good look at my overall lifestyle and I'm aware that I have a major issue with innernet dependance - another habit which needs attention. So ... if you don't see me on a regular basis, may I just say thank you for your friendship, your thoughts, your wisdom but MOST of all, your superb, unrivaled sense of humour.

I throb you all.

[Glass Half Empty]

Awww Reggie - you know we all think you're a sweetheart too. :heartbeat:

Looking forward to many more conversations with you this year, 'specially once I have my LRB adventures to share.

Also, I read your post about MWO the other day before you deleted it and totally agree with a lot of what you said. I haven't responded yet, because I need to think through what I want to say, but I did want to let you know that you're not alone in your thoughts.

[Guitarista]

Happy new year y'all!

Frog, know that you are appreciated and a bloody gem. Look forward to hearing what you're up to when you pop in.

Onya Reggie baby. I wish for you an absolute corker of a year mate.

Glassy you spunk. Have a pearler of a year, and safe happy travels to you.

Edit: P.S. Where are ya Jonesy? I've tried the usual forums like Twirler, Tumblr, Rumblr, Fumblr, Tootsi, Footsi, Chooka's and Twitter but to no avail! Bejos to you. X

Take care everyone. Follow your fuckin bliss. Ooroo.

[techie]

Happy 2015 Undies. Froggy I do hope you check in often but I do understand how you feel. While I have not been as active as in the past, I do benefit greatly by interacting here with friends. I love you and will miss you tremendously. Be well and know we are here for you always. John xoxo

[morrison_is_back]

I remember tawny frog. Please change your avatar. It' scary.

[satz123]

:upsidedown: Reginald
It's awfully small (the avatar)
Positively puny in fact (the avatar)
Can we see a big picture of it (again the avatar)

[Rags]

And a happy 2015 to all Undies.
Missy, Nicey, Cakes, are we having lunch on the 10th or 17th or did it fizzle out?

[tawnyfrog]

G'day Undies ... here's one for any of you old enough to know the epic 'Clancy of the Overflow' - here it's brought up to date. Sad, but funny, eh?

Clancy@theoverflow

I had written him a text
Which I'd sent, hoping the next
Time he came in mobile coverage
He'd have time to say hello.
But I'd heard he'd lost his iPhone,
So I emailed him from my phone,
Just addressed, on spec, as follows:
clancy@theoverflow

And the answer redirected
Wasn't quite what I'd expected
And it wasn't from the shearing mate
Who'd answered once before.
His ISP provider wrote it
And verbatim I will quote it:
'This account has been suspended:
You won't hear from him no more.'

In my wild erratic fancy
Visions come to me of Clancy:
Out of reach of mobile coverage
Where the Western rivers flow.
Instead of tapping on the small screen,
He'd be camping by the tall green
River gums a pleasure
That the town folk never know.

Well, the bush has friends to meet him
But the rest of us can't greet him:
Out there, even Telstra's network
Doesn't give you any bars.
He can't blog the vision splendid
Of the sunlit plains extended
Or tweet the wondrous glory
Of the everlasting stars.

I am sitting at the keyboard
And I'm too stressed out to be bored
As I answer all the emails
By the deadlines they contain
While my screen fills with promotions
For 'V1aggra' and strange potions
And announcements of the million-dollar
Prizes I can claim.

But the looming deadlines haunt me
And their harrying senders taunt me
That they need response this evening
For tomorrow is too late!
But their texts, too quickly ended,
Often can't be comprehended
For their writers have no time to think
They have no time to wait.

And I sometimes rather fancy
That I'd like to trade with Clancy:
Just set up an email bouncer
Saying 'Sorry, had to go.'
While he faced in an inbox jamming
Up with deadlines and with spamming
As he signed off every message:
clancy@theoverflow

[byebyebridgetjones]

Not quite as romantic as a thumbnail dipped in tar......but pmsl anyway....

[nicelife]

Reggie 💞💖

[Rags]

I was just this second on my computer looking up the Master and Servants Act 1846
and the 4 mile billabong near Kynuna referred to in this book
when I thought I'd take a look to see if much was happening on the Undies thread.
Blow me down.... just finished reading this and am returning it to the library later this arvo.

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[Rags]

Umm, so I guess I make other arrangements for Saturday lunch.

[Guitarista]

Arvo roo's,

I'd have lunch with ya Rags if i was in the vicin....vichi.....visin.......vicinity.

An absolute pearler of a day here bayside. Hairy blokes with beer bellies in g-strings, sheila's jogging, dogs galavanting about, and me, emerging from the water as the tour guides now describe like a cross between Daniel Craig and Crocodile Dundee. Can't see the resemblance meself.

It is good to be free. Lot's on this year. Noice.

Take it easy.

[Miss Behaving]

Happy new year Undies!!

Just got back from Melbourne this morning - we really enjoyed catching up with a few friends and rellies. Melbournians all ....... I was going to get in touch before I went, but I rather suspected we would be caught up with family stuff most of the time (family christening on my side and Mr B's boy spending time with his older brother) and so it came to pass.

I've pretty much been mostly unplugged from the internet for the last 2 weeks and have really enjoyed it. Tawny - I know exactly what you mean about internet dependence!! I find myself thinking that I'll just go and have a quick look at something and 3 hours later I'm still there!!! I'm going to dramatically cut back my use as well - I have to stay linked in for work reasons, but I'm going to ration my time on the net for other purposes.

Rags (and Nicey and Cakes) sorry about the lunch arrangements - Mr B's boy is still here this Saturday and we plan a trip to the zoo, and the week after that I have friends staying from NZ.

Loving the weather!!

[nicelife]

Salute to Mr G!!!!

Shout out to all.

Rags - so sorry! Very rude of me. I've bern out of action. Grandson broke his leg and had a house full of humans who disturbed my equilibrium. Now dad is in ICU after having a significant heart attack. He had quadruple bypass in 2008. Very worrying.