Maya Rudolph turns 38 today.
Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn’t cover in today’s issue. (It’s sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE.
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EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE
“Say ‘Yes!’ Make a commitment to your commitment! Affirm to win, refuse to lose and never give up!” -Willie Jolley, excerpt from the book, A Setback Is a Setup for a Comeback
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
July 27: Comedian Maya Rudolph is 38.
WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
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BLACK HISTORY
July 27, 1847: After departing New York Port in 1820, the first group of freed blacks landed first in Sherbro Island in Sierra Leone and later moved on to Bushrod Island – in what is Monrovia today – and established a state. By 1847, the country declared its independence. (Source: www.BlackFacts.com)
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Today;s CHOCOLATE JAM is “Sexy Mama” by The Moments. R.I.P. Al Goodman
Hello…..,Good morning
Good morning family. What it do?
Fruit tray? Check. Veggies & dip? Check. Fried chicken? Check. Water bottles? Check. Sunscreen? Check. Good book? Check. I’m off to the beach to work on my tan. Make it a great day family.
G’morning.
OJ – I think that’s my song of the day! I love that little song by Puffy. I heard it on the way in to work this morning.
(I also hear Wacka Flocka Flame and I was JAMMING and then paused for a moment to listen to the words and I had to change the station… I feel sorry for today’s kids, they really don’t know what “good” music is.)
Morniiiiiiiiiiiing! Lovely, how is Sugar?
Slenda!!!!!!!!! She’s driving me friggin bananas!! She now has a cast on one of her feet and you can see one huge, pulsating toe sticking out and there’s no toenail… it’s sooooooooo disgusting!
*Dear Lord, please help me take better care of my body than Sugar has with her own body/health. This I beg, in Jesus’ name. Amen.*
The worst part is that she wants sympathy from everybody so she rolls up and traps us in our desks so she can tell us the latest drama with her doggone feet. Uggghhh…
AND, I think her sense of smell is fading because she wears a half bottle of perfume every day and it’s ‘old lady perfume’… it makes my stomach tighten.
Good Morning Everyone!
Lovely, I did not see your comment to me on the Free-4-All yesterday until very late about your brother, but since I am happily married I will have will to decline the offer.
Jacque, shoot
You could just play like you want him. Tell your husband it’s just a joke. I just want him to divorce his skankalicious wife. He has other girlfriends but they’re not enticing enough to make him go ahead and file the papers.
Happy Birthday Mr. Lee Bailey!
Morning fam. What’s hatnin’? Back from my trip. Tired like a mug. Traveling back east across three time zones from Vegas while being bumped from a plane at 1am and having to take said plane the next afternoon and having your connecting flight in the ATL arrive three hours late and drop you in FL at 4am is NOT what’s up!
Don’t know WHY my tail in at work? … well it’s probably because I missed yesterday due to the flight brouhaha…
Love, after hearing that Puffy song at a danceree over the weekend, Puff’s song is kinda growing on me. Kinda like it.
Quote of the day…. (Love) “it makes my stomach tighten.” Girl, you put laughter pains in my stomach.
Morning Fam. Bought the new Rozay…JAMMIN…whoever said the track with Cee-lo on the hook was smokin was dead on…that joint is super tight…a nice smoothe…jazzy…jumpin…11 tight tracks…
Ex – I want you to take a half day and go home and get some rest. You don’t have the babies this week, do you?
and you KNOW you know what a tight tummy feels like. It’s kinda like you’re in the middle of doing a sit-up. You’re not really inhaling or exhaling. You just want the crap to be over.
Sobro I am getting Ross and Sir Lusious at lunch.
Love,
No. Babies come back this weekend for the week.
Yeah, well you go home at lunch and get some rest. We need you on the board full force and energized. You can’t do that when you’re all sleepy…
Sugar just said her wig is making her hot.
No heffa, it’s the sweater you’re wearing in the middle of summer that’s making you hot. It’s the 100 pounds of extra weight that’s making you hot.
I have more real hair than she has on her little wig and I feel just fine.
Anyone watch Eluse Neal’s Life After?
I watched it. I woulda thought that being an industry veteran she would have been more savvy than to get jacked for a million-selling hit without being compensated for it.
Love,
I’m thinking of doing that. The Kid is WIPed! Vegas is mos def on my “not travel to in at least a year” cities. Just saying.
OJ – I missed it but I saw Janet Hubert’s… that chick is BITTER…
EX – awww, I love Vegas.
On a less complainy note, I did meet up with TommyStrong from the board at the Alpha convention. Similar to SoBro it’s always good to meet folks that you know from online and they turn out to be cool in real life. (not sure what I’m thinkin’ he is after all frat)
Anyhoo TommyStrong is a cool dude, wears Alpha well, tall like a mug, but a really good guy. Thanks to YlawdY for making the connection when she observed similar FB posts about both of us being at the convention.
Aw Lovely, that is just so sad. It must make for a very unpleasant work experience. Funny how people like Sugar just can’t see the light and can’t spot it that people don’t like hearing their tales. The only positive I can see is Sugar is still doing the 9 to 5 despite her sugar.
Ohh and TommyStrong says the viruses keep him away. His work computer/network got infected from EUR and he lost use of a home computer due to a virus. *SMH @ Lee Bailey an’em*
Sobro, I am the Rick Ross, Big Meech PR person… I told you Ceelo’s hook had me going to chu’ch…
He has TI, Ceelo, Neyo, Robin Thicke (I think), Diddy, Kanye, heyall I think I heard Mahailia Jackson spitting on a track (lol)… that CD is on point…
I made my crush stop MID SENTENCE this morning while he was talking to a colleague. I walked past him and looked back to catch him staring. I flashed my blingeration and pearly whites. He smiled back and then I heard him say, “sorry, lost my train of thought”.
Today is starting out to be a GREAT damb day!
Slenda – she complains all day so I share it with you all. If I have to hear it, ya’ll have to hear it
She reminds us almost daily that she ‘saw the light’ during her last hospital visit and that we’re lucky the nurse found her in time and revived her.
“I heard Mahailia Jackson spitting on a track”
You just made my great-grandmother roll over in her grave!!!
Lawd is this the IT guy?
Ex, this is my forbidden love in the office. His current position and its influence over my career makes it a huge conflict of interest.
I really wanna say, ” who the cuck fares” but I’ll be patient until I move into a new role.
Until then, I’ll continue to get butterflies in my stomach and moist whenever I see him.
Got folks from the local Tea Party movement on the our ‘urban’ talk radio show right now speaking about their beliefs etc…some black folk callin into the show callin the Tea Party racist etc…them going back and forth etc…i just turned that shiggity off…not up for all that today…trying remain positive with all positive vibes ya know…OAN: I’ve been under the weather here lately…light headed *all the big head jokes…done heard ‘em all* lol anyway my blood pressure’s been up…causing me to not feel like myself…part of the heightened pressure is hereditary(the doc said, so he put me on BP medicine), but I know a good bit of it…is from taking on many responsibilities and stress involved with sustaining that…im usually upbeat and charismatic, but i can honestly say today i dont feel like myself….send up a prayer for me…thanks in advance…SN: a quick boob shot from one of our well endowed sisters on the board might help
LHM – what do you do? Your office is pretty and I like the way you dress.
(sounds like I’m all on your jock…)
Love, I swear EVERYBODY has a cameo on that CD.
Have fun at the beach, cuzzin! Y’all play nice, I’ll peek in later…
Ex- I am glad you met Tommy! I love to read about the cyberfam meeting each other…
SB- I just deleted a few boob pics from my phone…
To my natural sistas out there, has anyone used henna on your hair?
SoBro, you’re too young for them BP meds. I hear they can mess whicha mojo, so be careful.
Sobro you will probably faint if I let you get a look at all this. You are already lightheaded.
lmao @ JB. *places pillow down, waits on Pics* Xman: i know man. I had to sit out football practices in College cuz my BP was up…i know its a family thing(my mom, older bros, gma, uncles) all have it…but also I internalize a lot of things which has its negative effects on me I know….Love: cant you take a few extra ones for me?!? Imagine you’re sending them to ATL…lolol
Word of the Day
July 27
Hobson’s choice
\HAHB-sunz-choyss\
noun
Meaning
*1 : an apparently free choice when there is no real alternative
2 : the necessity of accepting one of two or more equally objectionable alternatives
Example Sentence
Reportedly, Model T manufacturer Henry Ford once gave this Hobson’s choice: “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.”
Hahahaha!!!!!
Good morning Frosted Mini-Wheat’s! *breakfast* Happy Tuesday! Happy Birthday to Maya Rudolph, daughter of Minnie Ripperton. She looks JUST LIKE her daddy! Did y’all know that she was calling her name at the end of “Loving You”? Learned that from watching Minnie’s Unsung on TVOne. That channel, by far, is one of my favorite cable channels. So, what’s the T? *scrolling up*
SoBro….be careful with your blood pressure. I know you have YOUR reasons on why it’s high and blah, blah…but if your doctor gave you medicine for it YOU NEED TO TAKE IT!!! High blood pressure is a silent killer!! My friend that I recently reconnected with..who was in the nursing home for FOUR years…suffered from a stroke from HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE!!!! Don’t make me smack you!! **looking for my blood pressure medicine while I’m fussing at sobro**
Oh yeah and good morning fam!
>lawdhv, I forget, why is the office crush forbidden again? Is her married? >lovely, if you call complimenting lawdhv ‘riding her jock’ then saddle up the horse and gimme some riding boots cuz I’ve been complimenting her a lot! But I don’t consider complimenting someone as ‘riding their jock’. It’s a compliment, it’s how you feel. I know you were just playing, but one of my friends does that and it irritates me. She’ll be staring at someone while we’re at the mall or something and then she’ll say to me, “Her hair is CUTE!” I’d say, “Well why don’t you go tell her?” She’d say, “Girl I ain’t tryna be riding nobody’s jock!” *sigh +
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Welcome back exy!
12- I should have just said “no homo”
Love, or … Pause Grandad … = no homo. Btw, WTH did my emoticons go. I’m noticing that I haven’t seen them the whole morning.
A12, good to be back.
SoBro, gotcha. I internalize a lot too… causes stress, but then starts my asthma actin up. I can always tell when my stress level is high ’cause I’m on the asthma pipe (… inhaler)
Gotta get that under control, environment. Living long and fruitful … that’s what’s up.
Hey all…hope everyone is doing well. I have some time to play because I fried my laptop yesterday, and am completely dead in the water regarding my ability to work!
Quickly scanned the posts so far. Wow, a compliment being viewed as something negative is just um strange.
But I’ll keep reading….
Ex- the emoticons come and go… Sometimes I see them, sometimes I don’t.
This janky site burns my buns.
So, recall I told y’all about my niece who has cancer.
Well, back in March, a former friend chatted me up on FB, and asked about my niece. I told her that niece was not well, and to please keep her in her prayers. She proceeded to ask some deeply personal questions about niece, which I felt were none of her business, but in response to some weird question (that was more like and answer wanting a confirmation so something that was NYOB) I said, “I don’t know, I would not presume to be as nosey and ask that, and if I knew, I would not violate her privacy by sharing that with you…”
Fast forward: A couple of weeks ago, her brother chats me up and FB and wanted to know if I had unfriended his sister. Honestly, I had not noticed that she was not on my friends list, but curiosity got the better of me, so I sent her an email asking if she unfriended me.
More to come
She said that she unfriended me because I had never responded to her chat initiatives. Well that was sort of true, b/c her questions are always deeply personal and serve no purpose for her to know answers to. So often, I would ignore her. But also, a lot of times my PC is open despite the fact I am not at the PC…but I certainly don’t need to justify that to her…but I’m just given y’all the details.
So, since she said I didn’t chat with her, blocked her completely, b/c I think that her reasons were quite petty, and an individual who unfriends me b/c I dont respond to chats is someone I don’t really need in my life.
But when her borther inntiated his chat with me, he told me that she told him that I called her nosey. (That is an important word in this story.)
More to come…or stop me if its too much
Keep it coming Pene. This is kinda interesting.
Now, a couples after me and her brother spoke, I visited my niece, and her family asked if I spoke to this woman and told her about my niece’s condition.
This family is deeply private, and because her condition has drastically altered her appearance, they are chosing to remain to themselves, with the exception of whom they wish to see (and be seen by).
But I told them, as a matter of fact, her brother….blah blah and relayed what had occurred.
They told me that she had made repeated telephone calls to their home, asking to speak to their son, whom she graudated from high school with to notify him of a planned class reunion for…2012!!!
Then she would proceed to inquire about my niece, but since the family did not want to discuss the situation, they very politely shut her down, to which she responded (now my brother is a senior elder in the church, very respectable and kind) “Well I guess asking about her just makes me nosey” and hung up the phone.
More to come
PSA: If you’ve been talking shit on an email and then you want to forward on some ‘peace be with you’ email, make sure you delete all the shit you were talking beforehand. **trying to think of a way to call my sister in law a simple bytch without offending her**
Did I read yesterday’s board right? Is Slenda/Slenderella having a baby? *congratulatory and excited if it’s true*
Work called…will be write back as soon as I am done with it…sorry for the pause
Ex…yes they are!!!! We’re all so excited! The baby will be Slendette
Letmein – don’t try NOT to offend her…
The way I see it, you have 2 options:
1 – reply back and say “you’se a simple b*tch. God bless, Letmein”
2 – don’t reply at all.
LMAO!!!
Slendette? Nice!!! Mw likey!
OH.EM.GEEEE! I need to re-read yesterday’s board, I didn’t know that! Congratulations to King Slenda & Queen Slenderella!!!!
Lovely…I’m kinda feeling option 1! But I’m sure you knew I would!
Girl, go for it. What do you have to lose?
The other thing I do is reply back but don’t type anything. That way the dumb huzzies know they sent it.
A girl who used to work for me forwarded a message complainging about me once and she sent it to our whole team and I guess she had us all lumped into one email group because ut came to me. I ‘replied to all’ but didn’t type anything. She came over apologizing and crying and carrying on. I told her I didn’t care that she was complaining but next time she needs to make sure she does it in the proper forum — complaining to her peers wouldn’t change the process I wanted her to follow because they couldn’t do anything about it.
I think she learned a valuable lesson that day — if you have an issue, take it to the person, not to folks who can’t change the issue.
Thank you brother Exmun and sister asize12. Indeed. It was in the board of 7/7/10. Slightly old news but yep, a most beautifully handsome addition to the human species is on the way.
CRICKETS!
Meeting Slenda. I’m back. Congrats bro. You have the heart of a good father. I wish you so much success on your journey as a parent. Ex.
Pene,
Where you at? We need the end of the story.