Nuclear Ootie’riggin’

Oh No ! 

Now I’m really worried about what Chris and Shawn might be doing in that workshop.

 

Clyde

Computer History - 1980

Significant events in computer history during 1980…

On January 3 Hewlett Packard introduces its HP-85. A microcomputer with 16kB of RAM and a 5-inch CRT display. ( It cost $3,280 ) IBM hires Paul Allen and Bill Gates to create an operating system for a new PC. The pair buy the rights to a simple operating system manufactured by Seattle Computer Products and use it as a template. IBM allows the two to keep the marketing rights to the operating system, called DOS. IBM hires Microsoft to develop versions of BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, and Pascal for the PC being developed by IBM. Atari becomes the first company to register a Copyright for two computer games "Asteroids" and "Lunar Lander" on June 17, 1980. Microsoft licenses Unix and starts to develop a PC version, XENIX. The programming language FORTRAN 77 is created.   The first Tandy Color computer is introduced. Quantum is founded. Iomega is established.  Shawn David Coffey is born in Pikeville, KY on June 19, 1980. HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHAWN

BORDEN'S MILKSHAKE

I remember back somewhere around 1961-1963, somewhere before we had to do without the cable line.  There was this commercial I liked.  I was all of the time getting on Google putting "Borden's milkshake, shake, open, and pour."  I couple of weeks ago I looked and there it was!  I remembered it almost perfect, except I thought the blonde headed girl had two ponytails; she didn't.
Clyde would you do me a favor and put the video on the Stalker Clan.  Please.

( Here you go… )

Sherry

Train Up A Child

Proverbs 22:6  Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Erik, Veronica and the rest of us stay busy bringing up Emerson in the CORRECT way.  Last fall they took him to the UK Football Fan Day where he got to meet the football players and get some autographs.  His picture ended up on the Tops in Lexington website.

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This past weekend UK basketball player Demarcus Cousins was signing autographs at the Wal-Mart in Pikeville.  Another chance to instruct Emerson “in the way he should go” could not be missed so Erik, Veronica, and Emerson dutifully made the pilgrimage to Wal-Mart. 

As Demarcus Cousins was signing his basketball, Emerson, in that all grown up way he talks,  said to him, “Thank you for playing for the Wildcats this year.  We really enjoyed watching you play.”
Demarcus looked at him with a ‘Big Cuz’ smile and said, “Thank You, Little Man.”
Sounds to me like the training is going very well so far.

Clyde

JEFFERY HEN - MORE PROBLEMS IN THE HENHOUSE

Weeks passed and the perching rod was getting crowded. Roo took up sleeping in the redwood tree and it seems like every three or four days it would come a rain and he would have to come back inside the henhouse and try to get some sleep.  Sometimes he even tried to sleep in the daytime.
One night he decided he couldn't take it any longer. "I am going to have to take Bear home to my parents' house. They have room on their perching rod for three more surely they won't mind letting him stay," Roo said to himself.
The next morning after his morning crowing he flew out of the tree to join his family as usual. He told Jeffery Hen he was going to have to take Bear to his family's house to live.  He asked Bear did he mine going to live with his grandparents. Bear was excited to get to go.

Roo asked Henry to do his morning crowing while he was gone. “I am going to take him today. I will have to make sure everything is all right before I leave.“
"Come on Bear, we must be going or we won't get there in time before nighttime," said Roo.
Roo and Bear said good-bye to Jeffery Hen, Panda and Crystal Fawn.  "I will be back in three days, cause I am planning on getting some rest to make up for all of the sleep I lost in the past weeks. I hope when I get back Jennie Hen has hatched her egg," said Roo.
So off they went.
Sherry

Lady Overboard !

So Jevon and I took the kids to Disney a couple of weekends ago.  It was a Saturday, it was about 140 degrees out and it was insanely crowded.  There is a huge boat that you have to ride across a small lake to get the actual park itself.  The line just to get on the boat was a mob of hot, sweaty, irritated people wearing Mickey Mouse ears and Tinkerbelle tu-tu's.  We all must have looked like a mob of the living dead, just making our way to the boat moaning, "Disssss-ney.......Dissss-ney.......Mickeeeeey......"

As we were trying to load ourselves and the kids on the boat, we got behind a lady with a stroller and what appeared to be her mother.  They kept holding everybody up and it was getting annoying.  Jevon looked at me, rolled his eyes and began to nudge his way through the crowd to try to get around them.  When the lady's mom realized it, she yelled, "Can't you people see we have a stroller here!  Now make some room and get out of our way!"
I winced, closed my eyes briefly and hoped that the comment had not made it's way to Jevon's red hot ears.  It only took about two seconds to find out the answer, though.  As the lady and her family were quickly being swallowed by the crowd of Disney zombies, I heard him respond in an unusually sarcastic voice, "Oh, I am so sorry!  I didn't realize that pushing a stroller gives people the right to be A-holes.  I guess I  should have brought my stroller today, huh?"

At this point, I can envision the conversation I am having with the kids as we drive away from the park and towards the Orlando jail.  "Yes, kids, I know you really wanted to go to Disney World, but we can't just leave your Daddy in jail.  Daddy, shouldn't have pushed that old lady off the Disney boat, but he did, and now we have to go get him."
Lucky for me, though, there were just too many Mickey ears and tu-tu's between Jevon and the older lady for either of them to hear the other clearly.  But I definitely heard what she said next.  As she glared back at Jevon, she huffed, "What did he say!?!  That guy better not have just said something nasty to me in Spanish!!"

I thought I was going to die.  Jevon was buzzing in my ear, "What did she say?  Did she say something to me?"

I just kept shaking my head frantically "No".  It wasn't until later that day that I told him what she said.  I must say, had he heard her, you might all be able to look up his mug shot online right now.

LOL!

Amber

You Hate Cats, Don’t You?

While I was visiting Road Creek, Dad told Mom to tell me about him being a cat hater.
I said, “Well Mom, are you a cat hater?”
She said she told Carlos that he would make a good husband because she had always heard if you like cats you will be good to your wife. Then she looked over at Dad and said, "You hate cats, don’t you?"
I think that summed up their relationship.

 
Michelle

Animal Lovers Language

I have been writing down some of our unusual language and hope to come up with some ideas for the Clan in the future. While looking over my collection, it struck me that we are real animal lovers.
Of course we use some of the typical sayings "Hold your horses"  and "Like water off a duck's back."
But instead of "When hell freezes over" we say "When hogs fly."
A great meal is "Eating high on the hog."
An awkward moment is "A hog on wheels."
A snug outfit can make us look like "A 10-pound pig in a three-pound poke."

An unwise investment is described as "Throwing your money up a wild boar's ass."
We are aware that there are animals that do not end up on the breakfast table.  (Dumplings for dinner)
If you were in a rush you could be called "A Hen on a hot rock."
If you were full of yourself you were "The blue hen's chick."
"Going to the dogs" somehow is kind of the opposite of "Putting on the dog."
When you try to get out of some situation you have unwittingly created by misspeaking you are "Crawdaddin."
If you couldn't crawdad fast enough someone might end up "Mad as a Hornet" or "Having a cow."  (How much trouble were you in?)
I remember Maw Rachel saying "Gag on a gnat and swallow a camel." I didn't know until recently that that came from the Bible. (Matthew 23:24)
Many of the other sayings are typical Appalachian lingo. I have been able to find the origins of many of them on the internet.  But at least one of these seems to be original. I can't find any mention of it anywhere. Can you guess which one?
Luci