Old family expressions--

[Raven]

Originally Posted by Karl F

Or, as Dad would say,
"He plays to an audience, of one."

a little off topic... but your comment reminded me of this .......
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Paul Horn the Flute Player ...who has made recordings in the cheops pyramid in egypt and in the taj mahal too... a long time ago...tho

Anyways, Paul goes walking into the Taj Mahal and gets stopped by the cleric (priest) in there and he says "you can't come in here!"
"this is where we pray to GOD !"

Paul just walked right past him saying....
"i came here: to play to GOD"....and kept on walking.
followed by his recording technician....

[Raven]

we have an Uncle Karl in our family who lives in michigan
on 1000 acres that he farms....

every night just about...my day would tell us about Uncle Karl
and how much food he ate.....
first he starts with a big plate of potatoes...
and my dad would gesture the size of the mound of taters
then he has a huge plate of green beans....gesturing again
then he has a big bowl of squash this big encircling his arms...

going on and on about how uncle Karl was the strongest man in the world and all...

just to get his 6 sons to eat their little amount of veggies

[justplugit]

Originally Posted by Raven

we have an Uncle Karl in our family who lives in michigan
on 1000 acres that he farms....

every night just about...my day would tell us about Uncle Karl
and how much food he ate.....
first he starts with a big plate of potatoes...
and my dad would gesture the size of the mound of taters
then he has a huge plate of green beans....gesturing again
then he has a big bowl of squash this big encircling his arms...

going on and on about how uncle Karl was the strongest man in the world and all...

just to get his 6 sons to eat their little amount of veggies

Smart Dad ya had there Rav.

[Raven]

quote karl: I can't friggin stand heights, or climbing!!!

what about your fondness for booze....
maybe from a different perspective
but there none the less....

[justplugit]

Always at least one wild one in the family, and actually we had quite a few. The one i remember best was Uncle Charles, better known as Pop Kuie. The whole family was over 6'2", but Pop Kuie was about 5'5" and weighted #100lbs soakin wet. He also had buck teeth and in those days if ya had 'em, ya had 'em.

He learned to fight early, as he was teased alot,and would look for trouble wherever he could find it. They say, he fought like a Bantam Rooster. Anyways, the last fight that he had, that i know of, was when he was 81. Some guy made a wise crack about his German Sheperd, he was kinda ugly, and that set him off. Ended up in court, the whole 9 yards.

[justplugit]

When he hit a snag while working-

I'm gettin nowhere fast.

[Raven]

Originally Posted by justplugit

Smart Dad ya had there Rav.

he was Senoir Vice PRESIDENT OF STATE STREET BANK....

HE SOLD OR TRADED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF BONDS EACH DAY

OOPS CAPS SORRY

but he was also the greatest fibber of all time....

because Uncle Karl came to visit us one summer
and he was a skinny as a bean pole
hahahahahaha it was a riot.... the guys real tall
and wasn't as much of a giant as he said he was
thats for sure....
But old uncle karl got a big kick out of it...
just the same...