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ORIGINAL: bipolarber

Yeee ha! You put on your gingham dress, I'll get out my dark suit, hitch up the buggy, and we'll have a grand time at the barn raising!

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ORIGINAL: Aneirin

Oh barn raising as in building the things, I was thinking barn raising as burning the things down.

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ORIGINAL: Aneirin

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ORIGINAL: LookieNoNookie

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ORIGINAL: fearghus

Hey,

I know folks are talking doom and gloom about the economy - and let's face it.  It's bad.

But unless you have over $100,000 squirreled away in various accounts and investments, then you're probably going to be more or less alright so long as you are still working.

Except for one silly little aspect of the whole process;

Whether you have 100k or 1k...if the whole world goes in the shitter, to accommodate all those folks who have 100k (and those that have 1k), they're going to print money to pay off those folks.

Which means that your 100k (or 1k) will be worth something less than 100k (or 1k).

Which means...you're in it just as deep.

Party on Wayne.

How many enjoyable things can you think of doing that does not cost money ? Entertainment, accoustic costs nothing , singing costs nothing, dancing costs nothing, just chatting with friends costs nothing.

Have we evolved so far that we have forgotten how to enjoy ourselves for free and the fun of it ?

Times in the past, folk enjoyed themselves without all our modern crap, they just got together and made their own entertainment.

If you need booze, brew it yourself, that also costs nothing.

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ORIGINAL: christine1

barn raising?  i'm in!  i'll be the one in front of the barbque with a beer in one hand, a spatula in the other, tending to all the meat!

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ORIGINAL: Aneirin

True, it would, but razing does'nt cost much

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ORIGINAL: JewAndCelt

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ORIGINAL: bipolarber

A good sentiment... even though the price of gas, and now the banks falling like dominoes means that everything will probably be going up 20% (except your salary, of course.)

Yeah, find fun ways to enjoy life that don't cost much.

We, as Americans, have a great park system (until they strip it out to build condos, or an industrial park or more "drill, baby, drill!")

...and we have some great beaches you can visit... (at least, until the offshore drilling mucks them up with spills. Give it ten years, on the outside.)

There's always going to the library... (unless McCain gets in, croaks, and Palin begins her jihad against freedom of speech)

Maybe a block party? (Except, according to the new PATRIOT II legislation, local authority has the right to shut down any "un-approved gathering."

Don't figure on being able to vist friends too much, if you've run afoul of the law, or ended up on some governmental "watch list." Most traffic and civic CCTV cameras will be equiped with retinal ID scan by the end of the decade. (Hint: wear sunglasses, even at night.)

No, just stay at home. Turn on the TV... watch government approved and supported channels like FOX NEWS...

...and try to remember what life was like before you voted another term for Bush, via Proxy.

I think someone could use a hug :)

_her

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ORIGINAL: bipolarber

Beer butt chicken? You mean like chicken on the throne? (One of the few southern ways of BBQ that I actually have gotten to work for me.) Delicious!

Oh, and actually, the cost of barn razing has gone up... you usually use gas to start it off. (I actually went to one about a year ago, which was used as a training excersize for one of the local fire departments... I tagged along to video tape it... I try to make stock footage libraries of such things that I can use in low budget productions.)

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ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster

Guinness IS a lesser beer.

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ORIGINAL: fearghus

Beer Butt chicken ...

Take a beer can ... now, this next bit is REALLY important ... open the can.
Then (also important) drink 1/2 the beer.  (but not more than that).