Isaiah Washington turns 47 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
Holding anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” — The Buddha
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Aug. 3: Singer Beverly Lee of The Shirelles is 69. Bassist B.B. Dickerson of War is 61. Actress JoMarie Payton (“Family Matters”) is 60. Actor Isaiah Washington is 47. Musician Spinderella of Salt-N-Pepa is 39.
WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
This site recognizes the great black architects who helped build the US while facing enormous social and economic barriers: http://tinyurl.com/r5glk5
Submit your favorite website to us along with a 15-20 word (or less) description via www.eurweb.com/?page_id=17.
BLACK HISTORY
Aug. 3, 1928: Founded on this day by William A. Scott, III, the Atlanta Daily World was the first black daily newspaper in modern times. (Source: www.BlackFacts.com)
Today’s CHOCOLATE JAM is “Happy Being Me” by Angie Stone & Pauletta Washington
Morning fam! Me no-likey McD’s smoothies! YUCK!!!
Morning. Aw shoot. Letmein they ate nit any good.
Good news. I shaved 2 minutes off my mile run. It still sucks but it sucks less.
I’m proud of myself. This is the motivation I needed because I was thinking about not tripping next month.
Good job, OJ!
G’morning Dr. Burke (with your hot chocolaty self…)
Letmein – dang, are they nasty? I have 3 free coupons and I was going to go by one day this week. I won’t waste my gas, time or taste buds if they’re nasty.
I’ono Lovely, you might want to try it for yourself. I had the mixed berry a week or so ago and I really didn’t like it. Then hubby got a free coupon and I used it this morning on the strawberry banana (that my bff swears by)and it’s just alright. Not as nasty as the other but I sure won’t be buying them!
They ain’t got shat on my strawberry real fruit slush from Sonics!! Mmmm…hmmm..
Hmmm, I guess I’ll stop and try it. I love a good smoothie. I’m trying to cut back on sugary drinks and get back to just drinking water… I slipped up last night and had gin & cran-grape juice…
Suga update: She’s out this week on FMLA… her festering feet have flared up again.
Poor Sugar. She needs to go on disability.
She also needs to stop eating crappy food and drinking soda all day, every day. AND, she needs her enablers to stop bringing fried chicken and fried fish to her every evening. AND, she needs to try a salad every once in a while. AND, she needs to let go of the peach cobbler and trying to say it’s fruit.
Lol @ Love…maybe she should just try death? jk *lord know i play around* Morning Fam. Hope all is well with each of you….
You are do right but she ain’t gon do none of that. If riding around in a hoveround all day and impending amputation doesn’t shake her, nothing will. I mean she has seen the white light once already.
You fake and fraud…and part time broad…
SB – she’s definitely flirting with the idea of it! Like OJ said, she’s seen the proverbial light but she must not think fat meat is greasy!
(btw, until a few years ago, I was saying “you must not think fat MEANS greasy”… my grandmother finally corrected me)
lmao….granny stopped you from lookin silly…lol fat means…
random: Yall have heard that Lawrence Fishburnes daughter has gotten into porno right? Welp I dont agree with that and i know he’s very embarrased saddened etc…BUT she gotta fat azz lolol appearing in the porno takes her off the market for me tho…
SB – what if she only does one or two flicks and then gets out? What’s the difference in that and her screwing a couple dudes from the club?
Here I am nodding ITA w/ SoulBro UNTIL he wrote “she gotta fat azz– appearing in the porno takes her off the market for me tho” Riiiiight. Sure it does! SMH
WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH YOU!???!!??
Morning Happy People!!
*ROTFL @ ‘Fat means greasy’*
lmao @ HK. It doesnt change much actually…@ Love…but its the fact that she could bring herself to bang on tape for the world to see…I mean I’ll film u but that’s between us…lmao HK: you know you love me with all your heart…and if you ever come to Tupelo…I’d show you my gratitude for that very fact
SB – what’s it matter? you’re not trying to marry her. You know you would still ‘hit it’.
Hi HK, I said that for YEARS and nobody ever corrected me. I coulda sworn that was the saying.
Love: i wouldnt touch her or any other ‘porn star’ with a ten foot pole…just because the cat’s made available to me dont mean i’d hit…
The thought of a ten foot pole made me smile (although I wouldn’t touch a 10 foot pole WITH a 10 foot pole).
Our Congressman Travis Childers is on the line of our local talk show radio…talking bout politics etc…anyway one of the hosts asked him if you had a chance to sit down with the president what would you tell or ask of him…he started off his statement with…”Son when you get right down to it…its about Jobs….” blah blah blah…SON?!? This is the President of the United States right?!? They didnt say anything to him about it but it immediately jumped out at me…am I being hypersensitive?!?
Lovely…my cousin bought me a vodka and cranberry juice at the Power and Light Sunday. I told hubby they must have thought we were broke or something because I wouldn’t buy a drink but hell it was TOO HOT to be freakin’ drinking. Hubby had one beer and he looked up and they had gotten him another. He said he threw it away on the sly.
SB: isn’t that how the good ol’ boys talk down there in M’sip?
Sidenote: the thumbs down bandit is apparently awake earlier than normal today. Welcome, you snaggle-tooth meth whore.
Letmein – it’s definitely too hot to be drinking outside! Alcohol warms you from the inside and then the sun & Lucifer’s breath is on the outside… it’s just pure torture.
I only drank because I keep it freezing cold at home.
Word of the Day
August 3
eisteddfod
\eye-STETH-vawd\
noun
Meaning
: a usually Welsh competitive festival of the arts especially in poetry and singing
Example Sentence
This year’s eisteddfod featured some exceptional recorder and guitar playing, but as in past years it was the bards who were the highlight of the festival.
Good Morning Lambs! Happy Tuesday! My mini vaca was so awesome! Me and my girls, PD & momma, had a FABULOUS time! Atlanta’s downtown is beautiful! A few questions about ATL…1. They don’t believe in street signs! If they have ‘em, they’re somewhere low where you can’t see em. 2. Every commute is 40+ min.! I ain’t used to that! In St. Louis you can get everywhere in 15-20 min. or less! If it wasn’t for the gps, we would’ve been some lost sistas! LOL Other than those things, we truly had a wonderful time and I will cherish our little ‘momma/daughter’ trip forever…well, at least until the next one.
So, what’chall been up to? What’s the T? *scrolling up*
Love: you make a point. I just dont know if that was a son(just downsouth lingo/he’s older than the pres) or son(negro/boy)…all I know is i dont remember bush being son…
12 – did you bring me anything?
(and I also DETEST the traffic in The A… that’s 1 of the many reasons I never go visit Cruella).
LoveTrain– LOL @ your friends letting you say fat means greasy. Brahahaahah!! Just silly.
Soons as she said it, we burst out laughing then corrected her.Her family is wrong for not telling her the deal.
I had friend that used to refer to cul-de-sac as “culture sack”
lmao @ Culture Sack…i guess when you think you’re saying it right…you’re not in the wrong…
SoulBro– I’m quite certain you’d show your appreciation.
My friend (and she’s on FB so don’t repost this LOL) had this fine b/f and we teased her saying his vision must be off if he’s with you. She’d proudly say, “His vision is perfect: 50-50.”
I need my people to do better.
I once had a fellow say a pigment of your imagination. He was angered that I corrected. Under my breath I said you should want to speak correctly and defy stereotypes especially since you have a gold tooth.
Good morning happy people and not so happy people. What it do?
Juicy….WAY TO GO! 2 minutes off is excellent.
YLAWDY!!! PSF and boyfriend were visiting and looking at old pics, laughing at the styles of the 80′s. Boyfriend asked “Did you have a gold tooth too?” I gave him the sideeye and said “Hell no!” That’s some ghetto shit.” He looks at me and says “I just wondered cause my mom had one.” Ooops.
LOL @ all of ya’ll and the sayings!!
oh yeah i meant to say JB: *piggy backing off Ylawd* two mins cut from your mile is great…regardless of the total time…it shows you’re really pushing yourself. great job. Ylawd: how are you ma’am?
YLY – I made the same flub last week on the elevator. I was saying how tacky I thought tattoos are on girls and especially on their arms and the chick standing to the side of me got off and had a huge tat on her arm.
O-well…
CTFU @ ‘fat means greasy, pigment of your imagination, & my favorite, CULTURE SACK!!!
*wild applause* Congrats JB!
LOL @ YLY!! Now that you let him know his momma is ghetto…..
Hey folks…
I won’t go into misquoting phrases and shat because y’all know how my daddy is…
I sent something to each of you on FB about Vegas… I hope you can joins us! *in my Don Corny lius voice* It is gonna be a STONE GAS, honey!
Juice/Love, Sir Lucious Left Foot is off the chizzle!!!!
Thxs Sobro and Yly. I think this was the incentive I needed to push myself further. I am so not a runner. But if classified I am a short distance sprinter. I can fo those easily.
GO SOROR!!! OO-OOP!!
Osun- I am having trouble giving thumb ups from my phone, but that is AWESOME! I thought long and hard about signing up for my company’s half marathon next year… it would have been a great way to build my endurance. Then, I came to my damb senses and realized that is 13 miles! LOL
LHM– I’m having trouble with the thumbs up too!! I think it’s EUR. I refuse to believe it is my droid.
letemin…..By the end of the evening, he conceded that his mama was ghetto. He was amazed that we never use the phrase “shut up” other than in just, that no one cusses at the kids and that I read to PSF everyday until she no longer wanted me to do it. I actually feel kinda sorry for him….not enough to want him to be PSF’s bf though. LOL
FB Status: If I died and went straight to hell, it would be at least a week before I realized I wasn’t at work.
YLY….I think PPP finally shook that nut of hers! I hope! She did go to the movies last night with a different guy. I told her I was surprised that she even gave someone else the time of day.
Air Gordon ya in….Air Gordon ya out….lolol Love: where’d this come from?
bro, that’s the one where Marty Mar challenged Gina and she showed up with Lobo, Lisa Leslie and what’s her face.
We do Air Gordon ya in, Air Gordan ya out at least once a week.
Man, I’m an expert at this!!
BTW, “Not you Junk!! I’m talkin bout Sheeba baby” was on last night. We kept rewinding that part!!
letmein, I might have to steal that status!! that is is hilarious! (and so friggin true… I’m supposed to be testing this new computer system for my boss and I’m bored to tears!)
Good afternoon, all!
Love: i saw that one…cried laughing…*the player of the year…is in it to win it…and Imma take the crown in just about a minute*….NYE: whats up bro? been a while…hope all is well with you…
Hey everybody!! Hope you all are doing ok! What’s happening?
SB – mannn, my bff called while it was on and I kept telling her to “shhhh” because he kept telling me to ‘take it in another room’. She was like ‘ya’ll n*ggas act like you haven’t seen that one 300 times already’.
(she’s the same way about Golden Girls though)
Hi Pen, Hi NYE — long time no see.
Can you send me some Junior’s for lunch today?
Hey NYE.. Long time!!!
I’m meeting a friend for lunch. I checked the menu for the place that was selected and here’s what they are offering…
Forest mushroom and onion soup (its a hunnid degrees outside)
Ham steak topped with Dijon raisin sauce, served with wild rice pilaf and glazed carrots
Hamburg chicken stew simmered with carrots, onion, celery root. Served with potato cheese dumplings
Marinated strip loin with papaya chutney, blaxkbean jicama corn relish and roasted cumin potatos
Tofu carbonara tossed with peppers onion,
gaqrlic, parmesan, eggs, and whole wheat pasta
Fhat the wuck ever happened to chicken fingers and burgers!?
LHM – yeah, big boi has been in heavy rotation in the car!! I even made my grandma listen to it when she was in the car.
LHM, I would get the marinated strip loin with papaya chutney, blaxkbean jicama corn relish and roasted cumin potatos if I were you… Jicama was one of the secret ingredients on “Chopped” one day and I wondered what it tastes like. You should try it out and let me know
I am well; just working hard and taking care of family. Lovely, if I could send you Juniors, I would — stat pronto. Well, back to the grind. Oh and what happened to the freakiness on the board?
LHM…where you going to lunch, the White House? WTF?!?!
NYE…the board and all it’s bitchassness made all our special places dry up!!
LOL @ letmein! >lovely & babybro, it’s a shame that I know every quote from Martin too and could tell you exactly which episode it was. I need to give tv a break! >lawdhv, that menu sounds delish! *waving hard* Hey nye!!!
Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SCREAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMM!!!
thanks… I needed to release that energy.
Feel better?
Had a interesting lunch today. I learned from my daddy that work is a place of business not to make friends but I also learned from mama, she had me read “The Spook Who Sat By The Door”, about how to play the game, learn the secrets and keep your gig. Anyway, the brother who was here before me allegedly had a rep of chasing this particular white woman around the office, they may or may not have spooged. Today I finally run into this woman. Damn. The way she dresses is clearly not professional. I mean, you can see thong strings and shat. So my boss is talking to me and another guy in our department about the guy, his other offenses and he pauses like I am supposed to reply back, I kept quiet and changed the subject, kept it work related. But I can see how a younger cat could lose his mind and want to go for it. Damn.
YLY – oddly enough, I do. I get so annoyed with people trying to tell me how I should feel. If I don’t give a sh*t, I just don’t give a sh*t… Nobody can f’ing tell me how to act.
I’m sitting here literally rubbing my forehead, trying to rub the frown from my face.
You would think that after someone chastises me for the same thing more than 3 times they would realize I am who I am. Accept it or move the F on.
On another note, I do not know who in this room is from Chicago but I have passes to see Takers August 10th 8pm. Just need your email to send you the passes. TI will be there at this screening.
I want to see Takers… Idris and his fine self is going to be in it.
Regarding your new boss — you were right to not encourage or play in to that type of convo. What you do now will set the tone for you and how they interact with you.
I have a very strict ‘business only’ policy when I work. I rarely divulge any personal info and I stay away from gossip (even though I still hear it all and usually tell you all about these numb-nuts here in my office).
WISCONSIN DELLS, Wis. — The father of a 12-year-old girl who fell 100 feet at a Wisconsin Dells amusement park says his daughter is awake and stable, but likely will suffer some paralysis.
Dr. Alex Marti says he thought his daughter, Teagan, had not survived the fall from the Terminal Velocity ride at Extreme World on Friday.
“I assumed she was dead. It’s a miracle,” Dr. Alex Marti said at a news conference today at American Family Children’s Hospital.
“She’s awake, communicating to us through her eye movements,” Marti said. “She has … no major injury to her brain.”
Family attorney Stuart Grossman said the Martis will be pursuing legal action against Extreme World.
“She’ll probably be in therapy for year,” Grossman said at today’s press conference.
Police say operators of the free fall ride failed to raise a catch net 40 feet above ground, causing the girl to fall 100 feet and hit the ground.
“Yes, it was definitely … operator error,” Extreme World owner Bill Anderson said Monday. “All I can say is there was certain protocol that was not followed and it happened.”
I’ve been to the Wisconsin Dells twice. Once on the way from Minneapolis to Milwaukee and then again on the way back. If I never, ever go there again, it’ll be too soon. We were the only ninja’s there and everybody looked like pale lumberjacks — the men, the women, the babies, the grandparents…
I had to learn that lesson the hard way. So from then on, my lips are closed to gossip. I listen but never respond back. Nothing but trouble.
An company with whom we contract (10 miles from here) was involved in a rampage shooting this morning. The shooter (black) complained of race bias to supervisors (hanging nooses, slurs, etc) but they in turn did nothing. 9 people, including the shooter, were killed.
LOL Lovely, I do that too….try to rub the frown off my face!
HK – I was just reading about that on cnn… it’s always so sad to me when stuff like that happens. It also makes me fearful of any nuts that might want to come in here and cause me harm.
Did they say if the shooter targeted those who he felt discriminated against him?
WOW HK!!
Letmein – The only time I can have a poker face is when I’m sad. When I’m upset, my forehead, eyes & eyebrows tell it ALL!! It helps to rub it and make it all relax a little.
Where is Ex? Is he still recovering from Vegas?
Love/Letmein–
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The stories are so conflicted. It’s just tragic. Folks better start activing civil/nice to everybody LETMEIN b/c you never know what can trigger a person to go nuts (throwing tools out of moving car windows
Then again, there are those innocent bystanders who have nothing to do w/ it and still fall victim.
*Note to self: Stop giving the albino douche the vulcan death-gaze every time I see him…
Good afternoon folks!
These people I work with aren’t nice. Before I started here and for some time after that, someone brought in burritos on Friday mornings and sent out a blast email on arrival . Then a new employee, on her first Friday here sent out this email, her first communication with most of the people here, in response “Did you know that those tasty burritos have 320 calories EACH and 20 grams of fat? Good thing they show up in the break room only once a week
”. That was the end of burritos, more than 3 yrs ago, on to kolaches and donuts. Email responder was into organics & healthy eating – not a good fit in this company. She was subsequently fired less tha 1 yr later for other issues. This morning the burritos reappeared with an email referencing their disappearance because of the ‘incident’. Someone then went into the archives and pulled up the email and sent it out with the circumstances surrounding it. Now for the newer employees & those you had forgotten, her legacy lives on.
ooohhh, I’m not a fan of kolaches but my man is. There’s a place kinda close to us and he’ll eat those things in the car and funk the car up.
what the heck is a kolaches? **going to google**
HK…you wouldn’t believe how hard I try to work on my disposition. Some people just take you there!
HK, I have been trying to follow that Ct shooting and the one in Indianapolis. Only just realized the guy in Ct is black. The union was quick to say that he had not complained to them, neither to any state or federal agency about discrimination.
A kolache: essentially a roll or bun filled with various breakfast meats like eggs, sausage, ham or combination of those. We usually have the sausage ones.
Let– I know. I just want you safe and available to harass lil man and PPP for years to come!! Plus who would give us comic relief??
Indebiz— HEY!!! GIANT SMOOCHEZ!! How are you? Re: the shooting- You KNOW they are going to deny that tidbit of info. I bet they wish they had treated him a little differently now. Still doesn’t justify what the shooter did though.
FB post from our resident Player-Player: Aye. If you got loose ends, leave me alone til you tie them up. Please and thank u. Smh!!!!
I am ROTFL over here!
Inde – he has the egg & ham one. I don’t eat eggs OR ham so the smell of both of them coming out of some steaming bread is YUCKY to my olfactory system!
Oh! Speaking of breakfast, he thinks I’m the bomb in the kitchen because I made this Jimmy Dean stuff that comes in a bag and I added some extra seasoning to it. Every time I make it, he gets excited.
LOL @ Lovely’s man!!! Men are so gullible sometimes. CTFU!!!
HK…I saw his status!! Fun-nay, Fun-nay.
I’m with you on the smell, Lovely. That’s why I don’t eat the burritos either, Mickey D’s eggy/cheesey thing. I’m kinda funny when it comes to eggs, how & who cooking
HK, I’m holding it down. Needing some vaca right now. How are you and Lil Man doing? He’s enjoying his summer, no doubt
Letmein – I think he thinks I’m a blossoming chef!! I need to find some more stuff in the freezer section that comes in bags!!
Inde – you’re right. I think it’s more the eggs than the ham. I even get sick whenever I make easter eggs… I just can’t get past the smell of eggs.
Eggs belong in cake and as part of the batter for fried chicken… that’s it.
Lovely….that reminds me of my non-cooking cousin. Her husbad said he called from work one day and asked her what was for dinner and she said she didn’t know. He said he got home about 30-40 minutes later and when he hit the door she was all excited saying ‘I bbq’d'! Her ass had put some riblet mess in the MICROWAVE!! Too funny!!
Hahahahaha!!!!!!!!!! I love it!!
That’s the way to go!!
I want to try some of that ‘fajita in a bag’ crap and see how it tastes…
SMH @ Lovely. Chile, fajitas is the easiest thing you can make. Don’t you do that bag mess! LOL!!!
It just seems like a whole lot of trouble to go through for something that will be gobbled up in 15 minutes.
When I bake cakes, it might take an hour or two to mix, bake and frost it but the cake will last all week. That makes it WORTH my time
LOL @ Jimmy Dean stuff. Think I’ll go to the market and ask for some.
How do you make fajitas?
YLY..maybe I’m not doing it right but I cut up chicken breast into strips, saute them with cut up peppers and onions, throw in some of that McCormick’s fajita seasoning and BAM!! Warm the tortilias and there you go…
I still make mine like tacos though….lettuce, cheese, sour cream and taco sauce.
YLY – it’s in the freezer section by the breakfast crap… ego’s & pancakes…
it comes in a few flavors: sausage, bacon or ham. The peppers & onions are already in the bag and you’re supposed to add eggs (but I never do since they stink and make my stomach turn).
That’s some good eating after you add some onion powder & seasoning salt!
Jimmy Dean Silletz
*tell em I sent you!!
Oh, and I get the sausage — never had the bacon and I don’t eat ham.