Answer the PHONE

[JohnOB58]

Answer the darn phone!

[IRonMaN · Accepted solution]

Sorry, I didn't even hear it ring.

[Just-Lisa-Now-]

Nobody in this board is connected to phone support, you may as well yell that out the window in your house.

[mojocpa_]

Still the smart one, aren't you. 

[dkh]

Must be Ernestine Tomlin running the switchboard today.......

[IRonMaN]

"Still the smart one, aren't you"

What can I say ---- nobody else wanted the job.

Fish aren't biting so you showed up here?

[mojocpa_]

Yep last time on the big western pond was Sept 22.  Waves have been over 10 feet for over a month

[IRonMaN]

If you were in Minnesota, that would sound like a good walleye chop for fishing 😁

[mojocpa_]

That is true.  We are wimpy on the west coast.

[sjrcpa]

Hi Dave!

[IRonMaN]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c5o7lUcun8

Might as well throw in a little musical interlude.

[mojocpa_]

Hello, Susan How are things on the east coast?

[abctax55]

Must be Ernestine Tomlin running the switchboard today.......

"one ringy dingy, two ringy dingy" snort, snort

[abctax55]

@mojocpa_ 

how ARE you???  Long time, no chat.

[sjrcpa]

Busy as usual.

[mojocpa_]

We are doing well, even with hunkering down to stay away from Covid. Also taking many trips to the landfill with the fan mail from the medicare advantage people while I turned 65 in August. Mine has finally subsided, but now it's Cindy's turn as she turns 65 in May. Din-o-mite...

[IRonMaN]

Well, the good news is, you remembered how to get back from the landfill.  People your age sometimes have trouble remembering those things.  Good thing I don't hit that old age milestone for a few more years.  Or was it a few more months ------------ my memory isn't what it used to be 😜

[mojocpa_]

It's a few months,       me remember well

[IRonMaN]

Looks like you passed the memory test.  Now we will check your physical abilities by having you climb to the top of Intuit's Ivory Tower.  Just be careful on those steps.  They tend to spread a lot of manure around so the steps could be slippery.

[abctax55]

@mojocpa_ 

Did it last year myself...relatively painless process.   Have Cindy call me if she's afraid it will hurt 🙂

Any trips south planned?

[mojocpa_]

Will have her call her if she has questions. Our trips are up in the air at this point, but a trip South  is in the plans for the future, maybe in slack time in May

[mdtao31]

do hope the newbes remember SNL 

CLASSIC

regards,LARRY

stay safe

[dkh]

I must be really old, I remember it from Laugh-In

[IRonMaN]

All I can say about that is - sock it to me.

[joshuabarksatlcs]

RE: Or was it a few more months ------------ my memory isn't what it used to be

Yep, @IRonMaN , two things happen when you're old.

First, you lose your memory.

Second.....  Dang,...  I don't remember now.

[Taxprohere]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2nSRHbaEH0

oops, was that you?, didn't see you.  

[mdtao31]

ernistine the phone operataor from saturdat night live

with chevy, bill, and john b

regards, LARRY

stay safe

[IRonMaN]

But Ernistine first started counting ringy dingies on Laugh-In which began a few years before SNL started up.

[abctax55]

And it wasn't Ernestine "Tomlin" (my bad..).  It was LILY Tomlin (the actress portraying Ernestine).  

https://www.lilytomlin.com/lilytomlin/lily-tomlins-characters/ernestine/

I loved Arte Johnson on the tricycle.

Laugh-In was way, way ahead of it's time.

[joshuabarksatlcs]

RE:  And it wasn't Ernestine "Tomlin" (my bad..).  It was LILY Tomlin (the actress portraying Ernestine).

That'd be fine by me.  I've been calling that dude Rick Bogart for quite some time....

[sjrcpa]

You bet your sweet bippy.

[mojocpa_]

Our dear departed Texas buddy used to have a picture of Arte Johnson as Wolfgang, the German soldier as his avatar. very interesting.

[IRonMaN]

Yeah, those were the days that he went with the "Grammar Nazi" title.  I thought about that too when I saw that post.

[abctax55]

RIP, Chuck.