| Author | Message | ||
     virgilian Citizen Username: Virgilian Post Number: 195 Registered: 7-2001 |
Thanks Kevin. Just a reminder Kevin: If you have a nice house, and you replace your windows, don't buy cheap plastic ones. Buy nice ones that correspond with the other good details of your house. Don't be afraid to invest wisely, Kevin. | ||
| tjohn Citizen Username: Tjohn Post Number: 2066 Registered: 12-2001  |
Folks: Here are some useful websites: http://www.home-improvement-options.com/cheap_replacement_windows.html And for Virgilian's neighbors, here are some articles on pink garden flamingoes. http://msucares.com/news/print/sgnews/sg00/sg000623.htm http://www.houseyardgarden.com/p17-20510-pink-lawn-flamingos-flamingoes-flamingo .html | ||
| harold Citizen Username: Harold Post Number: 171 Registered: 5-2001 |
Oh, Good Lord, I wish I could move next to Virgilian and slap vinyl siding and windows on my house,park a hoopdee on the front lawn, take the mufflers off my bike, have LOUD barbeques all week-end long, stick pink flamingoes on, etc........ [oh wait, I do that now!]. | ||
| virgilian Citizen Username: Virgilian Post Number: 196 Registered: 7-2001 |
Harold: I am a crack addict running a crystal meth lab in my basement. I have a loud '82 Monte Carlo, on blocks. I have bright red mulch. Don't think you can out-trash me buddy. Remember to buy nice windows if you expand your home someday. | ||
| Dr. Winston O'Boogie Citizen Username: Casey Post Number: 450 Registered: 8-2003  |
how can the Monte Carlo be loud if it's on blocks? must be some paint job.  | ||
| Habanero2 Citizen Username: Habanero2 Post Number: 19 Registered: 12-2003 |
Virgil, Does your roof have wood shingles or slate? "You kids today have it easy. When I was a kid everything was HUGE. My dad was nearly four times bigger than me. You couldn't even see the tops of counters.... Then gradually everything became smaller until it was the manageable size it is today." | ||
| Lizziecat Citizen Username: Lizziecat Post Number: 128 Registered: 5-2003 |
Kevin has defined "anal" to perfection. Perhaps if Virgilian had a life, he/she wouldn't be so concerned with his/her neighbors' windows and siding. | ||
| ML1 Citizen Username: Ml1 Post Number: 1461 Registered: 5-2002  |
I'm keeping my old fashioned, wooden, double hung windows, but I'm going to have a vinyl and aluminum house built around them. | ||
| virgilian Citizen Username: Virgilian Post Number: 201 Registered: 7-2001 |
Lizziecat, I still don't know what you mean by calling me "anal." I'm sorry, I dont' understand--"anal retentive" is a term I think Freudian in origins, but to call a neighbor "anal" is confusing and if taken literally, un-civil. I hope you are neighborly in other arenas: for example, you might want to have a carpenter in to loosen up an old stuck window and get it working well again rather than going to Home Depot and trying to replace it. This act of care for your grounds will benefit your neighborhood and may redeem any slurs you may have committed there by throwing anotomical terms around toward your immediate neighbors in a haphazard manner. | ||
| virgilian Citizen Username: Virgilian Post Number: 202 Registered: 7-2001 |
Habanero2- slate. | ||
| themp Citizen Username: Themp Post Number: 380 Registered: 12-2001 |
Provocative for it's own sake lasts for two posts maybe. | ||
| virgilian Citizen Username: Virgilian Post Number: 207 Registered: 7-2001 |
themp, I may get dragged into pettiness by embarrassed and provoked neighbors who disagree with me and feel insulted, but I do have this real reason, love for Maplewood and the wise care of its physical body, for posting here. | ||
| SoOrLady Citizen Username: Soorlady Post Number: 279 Registered: 9-2003 |
Agree or disagree - at least Virgilian has given us a topic other than the political babble that dominates the Soapbox these days. | ||
| themp Citizen Username: Themp Post Number: 383 Registered: 12-2001 |
Yeah, but the Edwardian Dandy is so played out. He stinks of lavender. | ||
| themp Citizen Username: Themp Post Number: 384 Registered: 12-2001 |
I'll level with everyone - I know who Virgilian is. He lives right behind me. He goes out to feed the squirrels wearing velveteen Eddie Munster pants, which is very creepy, and he always wants to talk about the "turret" on his "victorian" house, which is actually a dormer on a 1940's cape. He came around carolling in earmuffs this year and he was singing with his eyes closed and his mouth opened really wide like he was in the westminister choir, with his music book clasped flat on his chest, which freaked me out. I didn't know what to do. he kept talking about "Happy Christmas!" like the British say. In fact, he was using a british accent. I had no "figgy pudding" to give him and I was really at a loss, but you can actually get away with a lot because he has that Blanche Dubrois willingness to be fooled. So I gave him a box of raisins and he curtsied and left. He's not a bad person really, but he rakes leaves wearing an old-time one piece wool tank bathing suit, he uses mustache wax, and wears a pith helmet and says "lot of sun, what?" everytime it hits 80 degrees. Aside from that, and the "model T" (actually a 65 dodge judging by the tailights) that he's "restoring" (seems to be mostly polishing) and the tube radio, cape, tins of soda crackers, and weird porcelain baby dolls in old purple silk strollers, he's alright. And the cat urine and lavender scents which signal his approach. I'm just sick of him i guess. | ||
| Dave Ross Citizen Username: Dave Post Number: 6110 Registered: 4-1998  |
LOL | ||
| bobk Supporter Username: Bobk Post Number: 4291 Registered: 5-2001 |
Actually Virg is the chairperson of the Maplewood Historic Preservation Committee | ||
| ffof Citizen Username: Ffof Post Number: 1811 Registered: 5-2001  |
Are you sure it's not the Maplewood Hysterical Preservation Society? | ||
| tjohn Citizen Username: Tjohn Post Number: 2070 Registered: 12-2001 |
I'm picturing Higgins from Magnum, P.I. | ||
| themp Citizen Username: Themp Post Number: 385 Registered: 12-2001 |
I didn't want to go into this, but last summer when we had a thunderstorm he showed up in a full Dickens nightshirt and funnel shaped cap. He had a sputtering homemade candle that he had to keep relighting with bigass wooden matches. He said "with all this weather" he wanted to "hunker down" with us since there is "safety in numbers." He kept saying it was like riding out a hurricane in one of those grand old florida hotels with the shutters battened, like Ronald Coleman, and we should play mahjong all night and get drunk on cooking rum from the servants' pantry and tell stories. We really wanted to go to bed, and we don't have any mahjong tiles or anything, but I did find an old bottle of rum and let him have some. He started getting sentimental about the J Peterman Catalog going out of business, and how he couldn't get good "galluses" or shaving soap anymore, then he started going around touching all our stuff and telling us what was a "real" antique and what wasn't. He thought a lot of the Ikea stuff was "Sotheby's quality" for some reason. It was a weird night. I finally called a cab and payed the guy thirty bucks to drive him around until he fell asleep and then take him home. The next day we discovered that a snowman paperweight was missing from our mantlepiece but we really didn't care. It was only from Mikasa. |
