@be_the_rain - happy anniversaurus! not that you’re ever around here any more :
Very nice!
@kachino - i’m trying to remain unattached to your kind words. WITH LIMITED SUCCESS.
thank you, sweetheart, for the profile pic! it’s still as beautiful to my eyes as ever.
and you, thrasher.
witty comment with sexual overtones leading to reference to COAL!
@godfatherofgreenbay - sheesh. it’s always the coal with you. coal, and back door comments.
the whole purpose of a vacuum cleaner is to suck.
@I_once_was - see my first reply to writing_the_tides
well all that is on my mind lately is how to exploit natural disasters and freaky sex…god, I’m becoming a republican
hahahahaha
i used to have a vacuum cleaner that you could run in reverse..in that case, you could even say it blows…
i gots me a buddhist vaccum cleaner, it doesn’t suck, has no attachments, and it just hums a lot and tells me that the dust has a right to be there as a part of it’s civil rights
@At_Sixes_And_Sevens - haha. that sounds like a standard. i can’t say i was the first to come up with this joke, only that i came up with it.
My favorite is the crevice tool.
@storyslut - i think i once saw a video explaining how to use those.
This made me giggle.
Was it from Martha Stewart?
@complicatedlight - heh yeah, we need people like us to make up funny jokes, i mean who else is gonna do it, right?
I really like that picture of a vacuum. Taoist stuff talks about detachment as a way, but I find that it lead me to feeling detached.
@throughthinking - i googled vacuum cleaner and knew immediately this was our boy.
So cynical…yet the attachments are all that matter…
Funny you should bring it up. Just bought a new vacuum cleaner last week. $300.00. Lots of attachments. Most of them unnecessary. They’re in a box in the basement. Now the vacuum is lighter. Just sayin’.
phil..it is such a beautiful morning here in dallas…it’s cold. and by cold i don’t mean 22 below. how long that lasts is not relative. to anything in particular. but at least it aint swampy yet. good morning, love.
@be_the_rain - good morning to you too, lea. it’s nice here as well. 33 and sunny. going to take l-bear birthday shopping!
@complicatedlight - *jumping up and down jumping up and down* you are a good p-bear, to do that. please extend happy birthday greetings to an aries i’ve grown quite fond of. <3<3
@be_the_rain - will do! whew… we were both bushed after 6 hours of nonstop bop, but we had a totally great time! hey i dig your spring colors! <3
@complicatedlight - you noticed! the spring colors, i mean. i was thinking of the birthday girl, so naturally these colors came to mind. : ) glad y’all had a great time, being bushed in a good kind of way can be nice. <3
When you say, “My vacuum really sucks!”, are you complaining or bragging? Ahaha!
> good question. perhaps we should endeavor to put aside
> the attachments in order to better appreciate the unadorned suction.
Right — so in other words, it’s not really the attachments that suck,
it’s Life itself. The attachments just help you direct the suction to
where it’s really needed, i.e., the really dirty places.
And then there’s the whole “suck up the dirt and internalize it, eventually
becoming so stuffed that you can’t suck anymore until someone empties
your dust bag” angle… There’s gotta be some kind of workable metaphors
in there.
The attachments on my vacuum cleaner, I can remove by just clicking
a little button on the side.
My grandfather used to collect old vacuum cleaners.
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haha at least it reminds you spring is coming
Very good thought Phil…….::HUGS::
@MichellelyNg - yeah, but i fixed that. i changed the picture to something more obviously sucky.
lol one way of looking at it!
Lol.
Sometimes, but what good is it without them?
@Writing_the_Tides - good question. perhaps we should endeavor to put aside the attachments in order to better appreciate the unadorned suction.
and thanks for the rec.
Sad, but true
especially if you lose one or two.
today’s my anniversary at xanga – five years, baby.
@complicatedlight - Vacuum cleaners can be unpredictable. It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt. ;-p
Heh
@Writing_the_Tides - lol you’re terrible. i think.
@be_the_rain - happy anniversaurus! not that you’re ever around here any more :
Very nice!
@kachino - i’m trying to remain unattached to your kind words. WITH LIMITED SUCCESS.
thank you, sweetheart, for the profile pic! it’s still as beautiful to my eyes as ever.
and you, thrasher.
witty comment with sexual overtones leading to reference to COAL!
@godfatherofgreenbay - sheesh. it’s always the coal with you. coal, and back door comments.
the whole purpose of a vacuum cleaner is to suck.
@I_once_was - see my first reply to writing_the_tides
well all that is on my mind lately is how to exploit natural disasters and freaky sex…god, I’m becoming a republican
hahahahaha
i used to have a vacuum cleaner that you could run in reverse..in that case, you could even say it blows…
i gots me a buddhist vaccum cleaner, it doesn’t suck, has no attachments, and it just hums a lot and tells me that the dust has a right to be there as a part of it’s civil rights
@At_Sixes_And_Sevens - haha. that sounds like a standard. i can’t say i was the first to come up with this joke, only that i came up with it.
My favorite is the crevice tool.
@storyslut - i think i once saw a video explaining how to use those.
This made me giggle.
Was it from Martha Stewart?
@complicatedlight - heh yeah, we need people like us to make up funny jokes, i mean who else is gonna do it, right?
I really like that picture of a vacuum. Taoist stuff talks about detachment as a way, but I find that it lead me to feeling detached.
@throughthinking - i googled vacuum cleaner and knew immediately this was our boy.
@storyslut - i…
yeah.
So cynical…yet the attachments are all that matter…
Funny you should bring it up. Just bought a new vacuum cleaner last week. $300.00. Lots of attachments. Most of them unnecessary. They’re in a box in the basement. Now the vacuum is lighter. Just sayin’.
@nurseynursey - it’s funny because it’s true.
@complicatedlight - lol
ref: The Missing Piece, by Shel Silverstein.
@LeftWristTwist - is this in there? i was telling tony i’m sure i’m not the first to come up with this little gem…
well ain’t that true
hahahaha. I’m beginning to come around to that point of view. But don’t tell anyone.
@ordinarybutloud - your secret is safe with me.
phil..it is such a beautiful morning here in dallas…it’s cold. and by cold i don’t mean 22 below. how long that lasts is not relative. to anything in particular. but at least it aint swampy yet. good morning, love.
@be_the_rain - good morning to you too, lea. it’s nice here as well. 33 and sunny. going to take l-bear birthday shopping!
@complicatedlight - *jumping up and down jumping up and down* you are a good p-bear, to do that. please extend happy birthday greetings to an aries i’ve grown quite fond of. <3<3
@be_the_rain - will do! whew… we were both bushed after 6 hours of nonstop bop, but we had a totally great time! hey i dig your spring colors!
<3
@complicatedlight - you noticed! the spring colors, i mean. i was thinking of the birthday girl, so naturally these colors came to mind. : ) glad y’all had a great time, being bushed in a good kind of way can be nice. <3
When you say, “My vacuum really sucks!”, are you complaining or bragging? Ahaha!
> good question. perhaps we should endeavor to put aside
> the attachments in order to better appreciate the unadorned suction.
Right — so in other words, it’s not really the attachments that suck,
it’s Life itself. The attachments just help you direct the suction to
where it’s really needed, i.e., the really dirty places.
And then there’s the whole “suck up the dirt and internalize it, eventually
becoming so stuffed that you can’t suck anymore until someone empties
your dust bag” angle… There’s gotta be some kind of workable metaphors
in there.
The attachments on my vacuum cleaner, I can remove by just clicking
a little button on the side.
My grandfather used to collect old vacuum cleaners.