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Post by BeiNtelligentLater on Feb 16, 2005 12:49:09 GMT -5
Welcome Flipper
Pull up a bean bag, grab some Pink Grapefruit Green Tea iced tea, and enjoy yourself. There are oatmeal cookies on the counter, just be warned that food makes the puppies swarm. Sorry if the floor is a bit sticky but ummm there was a slight mishap with some diet pepsi...huh Geek?? LOL
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Post by BeiNtelligentLater on Feb 16, 2005 12:53:52 GMT -5
Hey Flipper is this you from LR?
Even though the odds are like, oh, 1 in 10,000 I'd agree with Amicus I strongly second that emotion.
As a "late" arriver to the BNL scene, this opportunity to hear them from 94 in a live setting is great!!
Very cool!!
~Flipper~
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Post by Barenaked Flipper on Feb 16, 2005 13:51:21 GMT -5
Now I understand what you were talking about for my "personal thread".
Guilty as charged on the LR post. That's me.
We had a lively debate on statistical probability on the LR board during the BNFTH tour.
The answer really was 1 in 100 BTW...
*runsquicklytonextroomtryingtoescape*
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Post by BeiNtelligentLater on Feb 17, 2005 16:30:27 GMT -5
I will not allow you to drag me back into that discussion. (Just an aside, I think the answer 1 in 100 is the proper answer to the question what are the odds of Mr A getting the green ball...however that was not the question)
Now Dolicket Dude....have I already asked if you are Cincy or somewhere else close?
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Post by Barenaked Flipper on Feb 17, 2005 16:33:14 GMT -5
Dolicket.
Man, we need to put an end to that QUICK....
Crickphin has a better ring to it...
And it absolutely was the question asked, you just chose to answer a different question.
But you're not going to be dragged back into that.
I'm in Lexington, about 90 miles south of Cincy.
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Post by BeiNtelligentLater on Feb 17, 2005 16:37:46 GMT -5
I like Dolicket myself..my word anyway.  If I remember correctly I am the one that posed the question....interesting. I am confident in my knowledge, so I do not care if you are all goofed up!!! Ahhh Lexington KIN TUK E. I did really well on the geography test, and I grew up in Ohio, so I know where that is. So do you have a cool accent? While I am interrogating, what do you do in Lexington for an occupation? |
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Post by Barenaked Flipper on Feb 17, 2005 16:46:13 GMT -5
I do not really have an accent, even though I've lived here all my life. The southern and eastern parts of the state are more "countrified" than the Lexington/Louisville/Cincinnati triangle.
Sometimes the twang comes out a bit if I'm speaking with someone who talks like that though.
Lexington is actually a great little city, centers around the University of Kentucky primarily. Low unemployment, very friendly people, good looking women (UK is 10th I believe on the "hottest coed" list), great basketball, and incredible horse farms. It's reasonably clean, and there are just enough social activities to keep entertained. We're within a 6 hour drive of Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, Cincy, St. Louis, Cleveland, etc. so it's fairly easy to fill the void if there's something you want to do.
And yes. We do wear shoes, and have indoor plumbing. (We're very misunderstood)
If your knowledge and memory are as sharp as you seem to think, you'll know the answer to the question you asked about what I do.....
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Post by LadiByrd on Feb 17, 2005 16:51:02 GMT -5
amazing horse farms around there is an understatement... and the Horse Park is great fun (two summer vacations around the area, and i'm a horse girl)
...never got a chance to do any horse work up there though... but i was on the list of kids to go up there and help train, until our trainer moved to Arizona and became unreachable ::sighs:: that would have been so cool...
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Post by Barenaked Flipper on Feb 17, 2005 16:59:12 GMT -5
The President of the company I used to work for (before the bank said we were closed) owns a training center in a town just outside Lexington. Some of the scenes in Seabiscuit were shot on his farm.
We had a couple of company picnics out there. They train thoroughbreds, and a full track. Very, very cool place. Keeneland is breathtaking, has to be the most beautiful track in the US. It's about 2 miles from my house.
When you've lived here all your life, you don't really appreciate all the beauty. It's kind of taken for granted. I've only been to the Horse Park a handful of times since it opened, and that's been mostly for non-horse types of activities.
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Post by LadiByrd on Feb 17, 2005 17:02:56 GMT -5
that is so cool... not much of a horse person then, flipper? i guess it's more novel to floridians (excluding Ocala) than to kentucians because it's all over your backyard the horse park also has special draw because the American Saddlebred Association office is in their parking lot... we've ended up there both times we were in the area it's fun to go there, get a copy of your horse's papers and then roam through the park looking for the names of relatives but maybe i'm just a dork like that |
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Post by BeiNtelligentLater on Feb 17, 2005 17:08:11 GMT -5
I grew up in central Ohio and went to school in southern Illinois so I have some idea of the geography and the dialects in the area. Kentucky to me has very strange pockets of accents. It is like that in southern Illinois too. Strange occurence really.
I will be nice and not give you my immediate reaction to your dig...but I do not remember your occupation at this time.
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Post by Barenaked Flipper on Feb 17, 2005 17:10:35 GMT -5
I have a casual interest in horses. I've never gotten to ride one, but they are amazing to watch. My wife drives back and forth to Frankfort everyday (about 15 miles thru horse farm country) and is always calling me talking about she has her convertible top down and is watching the foals run around all frisky and such.
If you don't work at a farm, or have a family business associated, the only real connection is the racing side of it. I got to visit Ashford Stud this fall, the money in horses around here is just staggering.
I see BNLater has been busy with my "title".....
I'm touched....
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Post by BeiNtelligentLater on Feb 17, 2005 17:12:24 GMT -5
Tsk tsk tsk perhaps the dolicket ought to relearn what happens when one ASSUMES!!!! |
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Post by Barenaked Flipper on Feb 17, 2005 17:14:44 GMT -5
Well, BNLater...since you just can't remember... (But so much more than that....) Wow, this graphics stuff is downright cool.  |
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Post by LadiByrd on Feb 17, 2005 17:15:17 GMT -5
oh no, flip... that's random's doing
i would love to manage to get a toehold in one of those barns... but i've had to rebuild my reputation with so many people that i'm so sick of it and don't want to do it again...
and the best way is really to get a green horse, train them from the ground up, show them and kick everyone's butt... but i can't do that yet...
...but i'm hoping to take a horse class here at college one of these semesters so i can have some definite proof that i am capable...
:: dreamy look:: i would love that so much... training is so much fun
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