I was doing a search for something else and "greenspun etc" poped up and since it was a dark, dreary, cold night, I though I'd read some of the old stuff. Lo, and behold, (I've never actually used 'lo' before now)what appears to be a more or less live forum with a bunch of names I recognize.

Well, the Greybears are alive and doing well in the frozen subarctic. We moved to Alaska this year and are doing as well as could be expected.

If anyone remembers (or cares) It'd be fun to catch up on old news.

Mr. and Mrs. Greybear

-- Got memory? (nostalgia just ain't what it used to be)

-- greybear (greybears2@yahoo.com), December 16, 2004

Answers

Hello Mr & Mrs. Greybear. I hope you don't mind if I bump you to the new answers page. Wouldn't want any of your old buddies to miss seeing your post.

Wow Alaska. That'd be even colder that Tricia's place. Brrr.

Carol from sunny Australia.

-- Carol (c@oz.com), December 16, 2004.

Hi, GB! Just can't get rid of some of us old 'uns. Still here, still having the inmates run the assylum. Welcome back to our ward :-)

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), December 16, 2004.

G'day Carol, nice to meet you. If you're looney enough to hang around with this crowd then you must be just my kinda gal.

T the C !!!! Great to hear from you !

Who's still around? I saw the wizzard of the red socks floating there somewhere.

Is this the primary hangout?

The little I read of the latest humor tells me that things haven't changed all that much.

Well, guess I better go get stocked up on fruitcakes for holiday season and the long winter ahead.

Hope to hear from y'all.

- greybear

-- got grub?

-- greybear (greybears2@yahoo.com), December 17, 2004.

yo!

-- helen (mule@says.hey.haw), December 17, 2004.

The Bears are in Alaska... somehow that seems fitting. LOL

*Gayla waves to Greybear*

Got heat? *wink

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), December 17, 2004.

GreyBear! Good to hear from ya. Guess that dinner I owe ya will be either fresh Wild Salmon or Alaskan King crab. Keep in touch.

Got nostalia?

-- (thesonofdust@yahoo.com), December 18, 2004.

~waves..Hi Greybear..!

-- kritter (k@a.n), December 18, 2004.

Ugh.

Hear?

Here what?

Where else?

Why else?

Whine!

Who else?

Huh? Ugh.

-- Robert & Jean Cook (somwherein@GA.com), December 19, 2004.

When the moon hits your eye, Like a big pizza pie, That's amore.

When an eel bites your hand, And that's not what you planned, That's a moray.

When our habits are strange, And our customs deranged, That's our mores.

When your horse munches straw, And the bales total four, That's some more hay.

When Othello's poor wife, Becomes stabbed with a knife, That's a Moor, eh?

When a Japanese knight, Uses his sword in a fight, That's Samurai.

When your sheep go to graze, In a damp marshy place, That's a moor, eh?

When your boat comes home fine, And you tie up her line, That's a moor, eh?

When you ace your last tests, Like you did all the rest, That's some more "A"s!

When on Mt. Cook you see, An aborigine, That's a Maori.

Alley Oop's homeland has, A space gun with pizzazz, That's a Moo ray...

A comedian ham, With the name Amsterdam, That's a Morey.

When your chocolate graham, Is with marshmallows crammed, That s'more, eh.

When you've had quite enough, Of this dumb rhyming stuff, That's "No more!", eh?

-- Robert & Jean Cook (somwherein@GA.com), December 19, 2004.

WOW! Robert found a Canuckian song just for me, eh? :-)

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@canuck.net), December 19, 2004.

When Roberts been gone, He comes back with a song, We chime 'ooray.

-- Carol (poetic@licence.com), December 19, 2004.

Huge grins on the old bears snout !

This a-more of the stuff I love and have missed a-more than I knew.

Where in this known (and unknown for that matter) universe can one find that many puns in one pile?

'Tis really nice to hear from all you guys !!!

Sorry I can't get back to the net real often. Work keeps me pretty occupied. And then the lady bear keeps me pretty busy too. Then there is all the snow shoveling, the windshield scraping, the nose thawing and all the really fun stuff of the Northland.

I've gotten pretty involved in a movement here in Alaska - the PGW.

That's Promote Global Warming.

We're starting off small. Just leaving all our car engines running every chance we get. We hope to get a nation wide movement going. If we can jut get everyone to run an engine an extra 2 hours per day, we think we can raise the average temperature here by 2-3 degrees.

The more hopefull and optimistic amongst us have already ordered some palm trees to plant next summer.

Remember and Alaskan - Run that engine !!

- Greybear

-- got gas?

-- greybear (greybears2@yahoo.com), December 23, 2004.