Well... this is it.

Real life, once again, has called and my time here is all but over. Of course I'll be stopping in from time to time to read a bit, but for the most part... it's been a long, fun road!

So, I've got 2 more riddles and that'll be it... then its off to the retirement farm!

I do want to thank everyone who has made this place such a fun part of our virtual world... LL, DS, Cros, Fluff, CG, Rimmy, Faustus, Jack, Balz, Larry, Abs1900, Spongey, Peeps (wherever you are), DG, Smutty (if you're still around)

I know there's a lot more of you...

So anyway.

It's time to Ramble On.

WHAT IS IT THAT YOU SAID?!

It's about 3:00pm EST!... you just get home and you turn it on.

You know the time, you know the channel... thank God for cable TV!

The anticipation rises... I love NY!

Here we go... today I think I just may pick up the phone!

And now... the finale farewell riddle.

The GRAND PRIZE... the big one!!!

For this one you may have to be a bit stretchy and creative!

Here goes...

(Spongey and Gertz... fear not, your prize is heading your way!)

The book "DaVinci Code" talks a lot of the Knights Templar...

How can you connect the Knights Templar to Absinthe?

Remember... creative and 'stretchy'.

Good luck all!

I've got two guesses ....

1. The knights adopted the red cross on the the white robes, much like the swiss emblem you see on absinthe suisse labels?

2. The Knights Templar Eye Foundation, Inc and the La Fee eye?

DG

Or better yet .....

Artemesia arborescens is a morphologically highly variable species (or mixture of species) with gray-green to silver leaves. It is native to the various habitats of the Mediterranean region, where it occurs as a shrub to one meter in height. According to popular folklore, the plant was spread by Moorish invaders and Knights Templar during the times leading up to the Crusades. THUJONE!!!-this stuff has nothing to do w/the buzz from absinthe, NOTHING!!!!-this stuff has nothing to do w/the buzz from absinthe, NOTHING! was prominent, however the chromatogram was different from A. absinthium (wormwood).

Did I win, did I?

DG

You know Googling your answer is cheating don't you?

Fuck.
Fluffy, Peeps, 1888, Rimmy, Doc.
Fuckin' Real Life.
Well, I fucked up one of them pretty
good, but, fuck.
Digit Boy, you better plan on attending
LF04, I've got peat, and a hug, and a lot
of commas saved for you.

... sounds good Louchie!

And DG...




YOU WIN!!! YOU WIN!!! YOU WIN!!!





1 riddle down 1 to go!

Its thought that the Templars helped to give rise to the country of Switzerland (and without Val de Travers... where would we be?!)

1. The founding of the embryonic Switzerland conforms exactly to the period when the Templars were being persecuted in France.

2. Switzerland is just to the east of France and would have been particularly easy for fleeing Templar brothers from the whole region of France to get to.

3. In the history of the first Swiss Cantons there are tales of white coated knights mysteriously appearing and helping the locals to gain their independence against foreign domination.

4. The Templars were big in banking, farming and engineering (of an early type). These same aspects can be seen as inimical to the commencement and gradual evolution of the separate states that would eventually be Switzerland.

5. Even the Swiss don't really know the ins and outs of their earliest history (or suggest that they don't.) They are famous for being secretive and we don't have to tell interested readers that this is something they share absolutely with the Templars.
6. The famous Templar Cross is incorporated into the flags of many of the Swiss Cantons. As are other emblems, such as keys and lambs, that were particularly important to the Knights Templar.

7. The Swiss were and are famous for their religious tolerance - and so were the Templars.

Hooray for me!

Um, just so I'm clear ... which answer won?


Bob, it's not cheating .... it's called researching the question.

DG

Digit, are you really leaving again?

That's so sad.

could it be................

PIX!!!!

Hey...I'm still here!!!!

Someone say sumpin'?

BASTARDO!!!!

Rimmy...




YOU WIN!!! YOU WIN!!! YOU WIN!!!





PIXPIXPIXPIXPIXPIXPIXPIXPIX!!!

(You didn't really think it was paint chips that caused all those problems did'ja?!)

Congrats again Rimmy! I think I still have your info.

So that's it... well not really. I want to see if this Oxy thing is going anywhere first.

Then, I'll be away (in the loonie-bin) for a while.

Hey! I was in NJ not too long ago and passed a sign that said 'JOCKEY HOLLOW'... I laughed and thought "what a great place for a LF"!

Fuckin' fuck.
We lose 2 pillars of the Lounge all at once.
The bestest Mod and his pupil.
Fuckin' fuck.

Too bad Rimmy's been gone for so long
too.

You know, real life really sucks sometimes.
I'm totally open to change, but I hate seeing friends leave.

DG

pix?

Yep.

which is......

Real life just called me.

and his name is Digits.


All is well, he's been busier than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking competition. He was actually in his semi truck when he called, so I made him toot the horn for me. I still get a kick out of that xit..... that ruled, man.

On the cool-cool front, his baby girl is turning 2 in two weeks, so he's psyched and busy.

He said to say HI to everybody and told me how he found out recently that he had a lot of from the Land of Bogs ancestry he didn't know about.

Louchie - he also told me your response to that...funny xit!



We made plans to make plans to go out to lunch when he gets a free minute...which doesn't sound too promising with his new 6 day work schedule. But hopefully we'll get together soon & I can talk at him for another hour or so.

Punch him in the crotch for me.

And let him know that I'm a little worried about this emerald empress thing -- I mean, what if she came back. I don't think I could hack-it by myself. I mean, I'm just one man, and I have a cow licking my but, and peeps is gone, and I just don't know what would happen if she made it to detroit, and ...

That fuckin' puppet is dead.
Got it?

Puppet's suck! Real, live, horny wimmin' making their way to Detroit, now that's a different story!

Digits - all roads lead to the Lounge.

Eat here - get some

We'll miss you Digits....

did I win win anything for Double Plus Fun!

Hope you come back here soon.

The Numbers has left the Lounge.
Buh, bye now great friend.

how can he stay away with all of us witty, intelligent, and altogether wonderful folks always posting.


oh wait.......





don't go digits!!!


ok, how much money will you newbies get together to pay ME to leave?

I too will miss him.

However, I hope he remembers to send out my prize.

DG

i hope he sends you a bomb, you cunt.

Digits is the best! Long live Digitboy!!!!

Thats it ? Too bad . He was nice.

He was nice, and I got my present today. Man of his word, that one.

Come back soon, Dige. You are missed.

DG

I got a couple of packages today. One from Digits and the other from the Monkey.

The DG package deserves its own thread so I'll only talk about the Digits prize right now.

First the picture:

Well I can tell you I was a bit surprised at the nature of the prize.

Now anytime I get urine in the mail I generally open it and take a big whiff. This particular urine had an unexpected pungent tanginess quite unlike other urine I've received in the past.

The donor must have had liver and kidney problems, because there was also a strong odor of alcohol in the sample.

I'm not in the general habit of tasting strange urine samples, but I just had to give it a try. I took a little nip from the bottle and was quite pleasantly surprised. The urine tasted remarkably of HG, and a pretty decent one judging from the quick nip I took from the bottle.

Anyway, thank you Digits for your generous gift.