Scarlet Pimpernel

Bobby Knight waanabe!

Merry Christmas to all!!! PSU...Nice tree and setup! I hope a couple of those gifts are a -NAO and +PNA!!! Is there also a Red Ryder BB gun hiding somewhere behind the tree?!?!

This pretty well sums it up what I was thinking, too...thanks! I sure hope you are still collecting royalties for all the spinoffs! Gotta fund that retirement somehow...

I know where you're coming from concerning the frustration. But my post was really only meant to add levity and some humor (since you mentioned the Panic Room). What good did that thread do? Who knows...I just found it amusing to laugh at my own and other's despair/frustration when there was a lack of snow or an otherwise sh*tty winter. I'm sure most everyone who posted in there had the same idea. Does that change anything? Of course not! But screw it, I like to keep a sense of humor regardless and I have a lot more concerns than whether it will be 60 degrees on Christmas. We obviously have no control over any of this except how we deal with it personally. Though to be sure, that doesn't necessarily make it any easier. If it's going to be a warm (and relatively snowless) winter, it would at least be nice to get rid of all the remaining gnats/mosquitos that I still see flying around here!

Sadly, the venerable Reaper, @WxWatcher007, has retired and the Panic Room is no more. A relic of history. A savior of despairing snow weenie souls from a bygone era...

Yeesh! Dafuq is going on in there? I can't even follow any of the lines. What, is it bouncing back and forth in Phase 7-8? (Maybe not a bad thing?)

Well, if it dies you can just say "hosta" la vista, baby! (exiting stage right, avoiding the tomatoes thrown by the crowd!)

Happy belated anniversary, Mappy!! I hope you are all well and having a good Holiday season!

For some reason, I read this as JB!!!

Congrats, WxWatcher!! All the best to you in your new life journey together. I'm very sorry to hear about your dad. Very frightening and stressful for sure; I remember when my dad had a heart attack and also underwent bypass surgery some years later. I hope your father will be OK and recover well.

LOL!!! I guess you sparked a little business for him back then!

Discussion of the 240 hour 12Z GFS (on a warm, sunny day out on the deck)...

How things have fallen. We go from the Panic Room to...warmed over used memes!! @WxWatcher007 must wonder why he went into retirement!

You sure it's not just tinnitus?

Don't we usually get the "Watch List" first, and then the "Reaper Call"??

Long range pants-tent!

Ha! Try being from Cleveland! Surely you remember the play "Red Right 88", in the final moments of the 1981 playoff game, Raiders vs. Browns. It was frigid for that game, the Raiders had a 14-12 lead. Brian Sipe threw an interception in the endzone and the Raiders won, and also won the Super Bowl that year. There was criticism that Cleveland should have gone for the field goal (they were inside the 15 yard line at the time). But their kicker, Don Cockroft, was having a horrible game (missed a couple of field goals and an extra point), plus the weather was brutal. I still recall that entire season, people were talking about the Browns going to the "Siper" Bowl!! LOL! But I still think the most painful playoff losses were "The Drive" and "The Fumble" against Denver (in 1987 and 1988), when Cleveland had an awesome team (and one of the favorites for the Super Bowl). I was actually at the playoff game in Cleveland right before the infamous "Drive" game, when the Browns came back to beat the Jets in OT to advance to the AFC finals. First NFL game I ever attended, and it was quite cold out! A friend of mine and I got up at 4AM the first day tickets went on sale days before that game, went downtown to the stadium, and waited in line! Bleacher seats, of course (the old Dawg Pound at the old Municipal Stadium).

Definitely! One of my favorites!

Why, are we expecting another cicada emergence?

You should do the same to "-PNA" or "La Nina". Or heck, even anything with Stormchaserchuck!

Radio show!

Here's the European version:

"Man shall not live by bread alone!"

The "F" word? Fringed??