Thank you Stephen, it is good to be back. My offroad expeience is limited to the Nebraska National Forest but I did it in a 4X4 so the biggest surprise was getting within 15 feet of a muledeer.

Aunt Marie is right. That's an award-winning quote. Joey your "round table" is an excellent idea. "Farts and Fire" reminds me that we used to light farts in high school. In the Commons. Back then, lighting farts was much more dangerous due to the populariy of polyester clothing.

Marlena I'm with you. We had chickens and a duck for a while. There's nothing like fresh eggs. And the fowl ate the horse flies that visited us because our neighbor has horses. Alas, our fair city decided that our zoning allowed horses but not fowl. Now we have only the horse flies.

Forget "Club Tai" - one of the best clubs in the country is in Peoria and it is called "Big Al's" (no, NOT "Big Gay Al" for all of you Southpark fans). Next door to "Big Al's" is "Big Al's for the Ladies," where ladies watch the guys (or so I hear).

John, is there a Helen Ipso Loquitur? I nominate:

"We can't have anything nice in this house."

All I can remember is that my radios and associated wiring concerned my father. Somthing about me being the most likely to burn the house down.

For the Vito Ipso Loquitur I also remember:

"Turn off that radio and go to sleep!"

I still do some of my best radio listening late at night.