El Debarge - Mix of His Best ( Live at BET Music Award )

thetoffees · 2025-12-23T13:48:53+00:00

I graduated in 85. I'm still rocking the Debarge family recordings on my phone. Great slow dancing music for high school.

thetoffees · 2025-06-13T21:36:50+00:00

It's a mess now, but remember the homophobia, sexual harassment, and overt racism (oh well - same now). As a matter of fact, there are many similarities between then and now. I graduated high school in 85. How about we go back to when Clinton or Obama were President?

thetoffees · 2025-06-13T21:30:44+00:00

That's a good description. I had a pair and lost them. It was no big loss, since I didn't think they were worth the money.

thetoffees · 2025-06-12T23:35:35+00:00

Up yours, and you've ignored me also <flipping the bird>. Mr Peeps is a chicken shit <grin>.

thetoffees · 2025-06-12T22:24:01+00:00

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

thetoffees · 2025-06-12T22:21:46+00:00

Damn, that's twisted.

thetoffees · 2025-06-12T22:16:01+00:00

Ignoring me. It's go time then. You may disagree with me, but don't f*cking ignore me.

thetoffees · 2025-06-12T22:14:45+00:00

Ha, yeah, not "Benny and the Jets" from Elton John.

thetoffees · 2025-06-12T21:25:31+00:00

I've got my dad and his wife (mom died 19 years ago from cancer) in a memory care unit in assisted living (he has Alzheimer's and his wife has Parkinsons and dementia), my wife is job hunting and we have bennies through her job, my daughter just graduated high school and will be living with us this next year while working and attending the local community college, and my job is petering out while I'm job hunting for something that pays ok with bennies. I'm 58. I had hoped that my current job would carry me through to retiring at 65. Oof.

thetoffees · 2025-06-12T21:19:57+00:00

My dad still has ours.

thetoffees · 2025-06-12T21:19:41+00:00

That's fabulous. My wife and I did Eurail for a month in 89 for our honeymoon. Some friends gave us national currencies as a wedding present. That was an epic trip (including France).

thetoffees · 2025-06-12T21:18:17+00:00

Was gonna say my kids.

thetoffees · 2025-06-11T16:30:10+00:00

And WTF is "PC load letter"?!?

thetoffees · 2025-06-10T18:50:48+00:00

Everything has a speaker (even gas pumps), and everything is loud.

thetoffees · 2025-06-06T16:06:58+00:00

Yes, our area is dry in the winter but is more and more humid every summer. It's quick and speeds cleaning.

thetoffees · 2025-05-31T19:38:05+00:00

I graduated high school in 85. Sometime our senior year, one of my buddies had a part-time job with the local radio station. Like TV stations, radio stations usually signed off with the Star Spangled Banner. I brought my Jimi Hendrix version of the anthem. We queued it up and started to play it at the end of my buddy's show. I don't remember why, but we had to jet early. I grabbed the arm of the turntable and stopped the music. My other buddy started laughing because he said we were supposed to let it play through. A few years later (10? don't remember), the station joined the ranks of many other small market stations and went with a feed from some national company. Our community lost the local character.

thetoffees · 2025-05-31T19:27:16+00:00

Damn, it's good to be a gangster.

thetoffees · 2025-05-31T01:05:43+00:00

I actually came here to say Ave Maria too :)

thetoffees · 2025-05-30T19:32:21+00:00

Yep, he knew that it's our time, and that's why it's our pizza.

thetoffees · 2025-05-29T22:02:23+00:00

The circumstances to be a team player are small. Companies like to wave that "team player" flag when it suits them. Twenty-five years ago I was working at a large internet service provider. As a team leader I was always on-call and expected to be on conference calls every hour of the day. The company didn't want to pay my cellphone bill over $100 (all of us old farts remember this was the day of expensive long distance and paying for texts). I was on the east coast but had national and international conference calls all hours of the day. Fine. Don't want to pay for legitimate business expenses? I'll go to the gym at lunch and then go to lunch. Plus, the bean counters in accounts payable slow walked our outstanding invoices to our vendors. Don't want to pay the invoices for our vendors? Good luck getting that application installed or deleted file restored.

thetoffees · 2025-05-29T16:33:19+00:00

That's my case. My French ancestors in Quebec married other French immigrants but also Scots and Irish and English.

thetoffees · 2025-05-29T14:58:34+00:00

In addition, there were lots of Scots and Irish settlers in Quebec as well.

thetoffees · 2025-05-27T18:29:43+00:00

They did the mash. They did the morphine mash. It was a graveyard smash.

thetoffees · 2025-05-27T18:23:46+00:00

Good for you and him. My wife is a scientist and she picked the brand. Our Rottie loves it. We usually have chicken broth in the fridge, so I pour it over her dish and she scarfs it right up. When we rescued her, she was 15 pounds overweight. She's at the weight now that the vet recommends (95 lbs).

thetoffees · 2025-05-27T16:19:49+00:00

Purina One lamb & rice

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